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Monday, March 22, 2010

a hero now / a hero then

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.

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