A Current Collection...

Ladies and gentlemen, the time is nigh. Time for my (imaginary) mixtape of the moment.
I know it's been hard without me. I understand that. I really do.

1. Q-Tip- 'Won't Trade' (This is such a big tune. The album is full of them, too)
2. Rjd2- 'Ghostwriter'
3. Roy Orbison- 'Crying'
4. Bombay Bicycle Club- 'Morning After' (I found this on a blog; it's not on the tracklist for 'I Had The Blues But Shook Them Loose', but is really really good. Listen here)
5. Skream- 'Oskilatah'
6. MED- 'Can't Hold On'
7. Radiohead- 'Myxomatosis (Judge, Jury & Exectutioner)'
8. Vivian Girls- 'Where Do You Run To' (I love the garage-y sound to this song. Nice and rugged)
9. Wild Beasts- 'Hooting And Howling'
10. The Downs- 'Please Mind Your Head' (They were pretty good, weren't they?)

It seems I always resort to putting Bombay Bicycle Club or Wild Beasts in my selections. Call me boring etc, but there is definitely a reason why this happens, which I think speaks for itself.

I'm on the look out for more new artists in the quest of musical satisfaction, so hopefully I'll be back soon with some big ones. As for now, me and Dan are getting started on some of that so aspired musical satisfaction. Let the good times roll.

Huw

xxx

Honey, I'm home!

Yes, honey. I'm home.
It's been a while, but it's nice to be back.
Now I'm home, I can while away endless hours indulging in internet-based interests and musical frivolities. Oh how English I have become on my return.

Here's something pretty cool:



It reminds me of New York, of which I was there only a few days ago, which is a nice thing.
The recorded version with David Byrne is where it's at though:



I'm getting stuck into 'Bitte Orca' at the moment, it's quite a listen.

Huw
xxx

Picky and finickity, in an instant of a flicker he

Picked a parody, that promise me,

I'd rather be seen dead than be.

Dylan Hypermix

1. 'Drifter's Escape'
2. 'Visions of Johanna'
3. 'Isis'
4. 'One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later)'
5. 'It's All Over Now, Baby Blue'
6. The Whole Of Side Two "Blonde On Blonde", beginning with 'I Want You'
7. 'As I Went Out One Morning'
8. 'Simple Twist Of Fate'
9. 'You're A Big Girl Now'
10. 'Highway 61 Revisited'

Danimation

A couple of screen-shots from my masif project. Matches nicely with the blog too.

Your Wish Is My Commad

We're nearly at the end of a decade, I realised today.

Apart from the obvious problems of what to call the the last ten years we've just witnessed (the Noughties just sounds slutty) I also wonder who'll be remembered as the big musical icons of he time.

In my opinion, noboby. This is not to state that I think there has been no music made unworthy of legend, oh no. I just think we've got a proper music scene back, one where you whisper the names of bands every other week, inadvertantly stumble across a remix of "And It Rained All Night" to find the following week everybody else knew about it as well, discover that you weren't the only one who thought "Limbo, Panto" had a touch of "Transformer" to it.

With such a wealth of music to be had, the best stuff is widely adored through private obsevations, exchanges between friends, internet pathways. There is no "Definately, Maybe" of the 2000's, and thank goodness for that. It is but a curse that we still have to sit through conversations about the genius of Oasis.

I think this decade has been about computers. I'm not speaking of Klaxons' production or DJ sets on the beach in Brighton. Par example - the opening 40 seconds of "Amnesiac", Four Tet's simply heartbreaking "Rounds".

The wonderful thing about computers is that they act as recievers. For whatever you want to create. The birth of Ableton and it's likes does not spell the end of guitar music, it just makes it more exciting.

So, if you are a genie, and happen to be reading this, my three wishes for the next decade are:

1. A Name For The First Two Decades of The New Century.
2. Another Great Decade For Pop Music
3. A Coma Emposed Upon Oasis Long Enough That When They Are Rewoken Music Listeners Are Not Blinded By Nostalgia, Have A Listen, And Put Them Back To Sleep.

Declan xxxx

Dan's Tunes of Today

Here are some tunes I am currently indulging in:

'Photobooth' - Exlovers
'Girl From The BBC' - Official Secrets Act
'Roses' - Outkast
'Red & Blue' - Post War Years
'You're A Million' - The Raincoats
'Tell Her Tonight' - Franz Ferdinand
'Help Me Somebody' - Brian Eno/David Byrne
'Assembly' - Wild Beasts
'Cross The Breeze' -Sonic Youth
'Don't Look That Way At It' - White Denim
'Explosions' - Devo
'Rollerskater' - Young Knives

And lots of QOTSA of course.
Lots of love to you all, Dan xxx