The Smiths
wrap her up in the news of the world
It's been a while since I put anything on here but was prompted by the singer of Toyota War mentioning this site to me the other night without knowing I ran it. Most of these have been running around my head lately for different reasons, mainly because I've acquired a few different compilations that I eventually filter out - this song comes from the kings of compilation albums, The Smiths, taken from 1987's Louder Than Bombs.
Raymond Scott
the name of the game / is lightworks
I first came across this innovator of electronic music on J Dilla's album Donuts, where he's sampled on the song Lightworks, but then I found out he's written a whole bunch of stuff - most notably the Looney Tunes theme - but also a great back catalogue of advertisements and other instrumentals called the Manhattan Project.
The History Boys
one fucking thing / after another
I walked around with the original 20 or so songs which seemed pencilled in for MGS' August Production of The History Boys but a few weeks ago I went through my entire library and threw up a few more possibilities. If you're familiar with the play this song below (which I found on Art Decade two or three years ago) is a possibility for something like Irwin's TV theme (from 0.39 onwards for less than a minute or so).
DJ Shadow
and here's a story about / being free
I realize the irony of riding a bike while listening to Organ Donor but still continue to play the best songs from DJ Shadows two first albums on the way to and from uni every day; these two come from The Private Press.
Big L
ducks better scat / when the gat goes click clack
George put me onto Big L's first album Lifestylez Ov Da Poor & Dangerous a while back and its hard-hitting power restored my faith in non-instrumental hip-hop.
Caribou
sun / sun / sun
Finally, some recently-released breakbeat magic from Caribou's latest album Swim, which I highly recommend.
In a day or two we're going to record about four demos of the songs that we've been working on over the past month or so - Birthday Ballot EP? - so I might throw those up on here then if the quality's alright.
