October 2010
1 post
An Audio Feast
If music be the food of love, then it’s time to get loved-up on this audio feast… Back when my old blog, The White Noise Revisited, was going strong, I conceived a series of themed podcasts with my good friend Feedle. Unfortunately, we only got as far as actually knocking out the first one (a collection of songs featuring white noise – still available on iTunes, I think, if you’re...
September 2010
1 post
All killer, no filler...
Blimey, this is the longest I’ve ever gone without posting something… Anyway, to try and make EiSM feel more like home below is another ten track old school hip-hop mixtape like I used to post over on The White Noise Revisited back in the day. I‘ve gone off the beaten track a bit for some less well-known tracks, but it’s all killer no filler. Word. Heh heh.
1. Original Concept - Pump That Bass
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July 2010
1 post
Endless Summer Mixtape
Minotaur Shock - Rockpoolin’
Super Furry Animals - Smokin’
Pavement - Summer Baby (7” Version)
Ultra Vivid Scene - Staring At The Sun
Ducktails - Beach Point Pleasant
Future Loop Foundation - The Sea and the Sky (Ashley Beedle’s Earth Mix)
National Trust - Brownsea Island Waves Lapping
Nathan Fake - Sky Was Pink
Delorean - Endless Sunset
Campag Velocet -...
June 2010
1 post
Intergalactic funk transmissions...
Tusken Raiders - Sexy Sandpeople
If ever a record label was created with me in mind, it was Clear Records. Formed in London in 1995, Clear - named after the seminal proto-techno tune from Cybotron - peddled a quality line in funk-fuelled nu-school electro (but with nods to the old school), graffiti-influenced typography, a Star Wars obsession (initially) and vinyl pressed on gorgeous, clear...
May 2010
2 posts
The air we breathe...
Depeche Mode - Ice Machine
Anyone wanting to dismiss Vince Clarke solely as a purveyor of synth-pop cheese during his brief reign as the chief songwriter for Depeche Mode should listen to Ice Machine first. The B-side to the band’s debut single Dreaming of Me (released in 1981), Ice Machine is a brooding slither of melodic, electronic minimalism a la Kraftwerk that manages to be hugely...
Life-Affirming Fuzz from Above
Flying Saucer Attack - Wish
Flying Saucer Attack - Popol Vuh 1
Flying Saucer Attack inspire the sort of devotion from their fans that makes them more of a cult than a band. It’s rare that I meet anybody who’s heard of them but whenever I do, we speak about them with reverence. They are a truly special band. I first encountered them while nursing a broken heart and living in a flat...
April 2010
3 posts
Nothing burns like time...
January - Eyes All Mine
January - All Time
Alan McGee’s A&R radar had gone properly on the blink by the time he started Poptones - his post-Creation venture - in the first throes of the Noughties. His ears were more shot than those of a First World War veteran, and his signing policy as erratic as a cat on crack (El Vez? Ping Pong Bitches?). Luckily, he surrounded himself with people...
Self-Explanatory Opening Post
Spacemen 3 - Ecstasy In Slow Motion
In the near on four years I was posting at The White Noise Revisited I never properly wrote about Spacemen 3, which is utterly ridiculous as they are my favourite band in the whole wide world. Actually, maybe I didn’t want to spoil it by trying to write about them… Words cannot express how much they mean to me so instead I’m naming my new...
Is this thing on...?
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Long live Ecstasy in Slow Motion!
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