16 posts tagged “music”

This music is totally ace. It's called Exodus Honey by Honeycut. (Computer's not bad either.)

You're the DJ: what are the next five songs coming up after the break?

1. Richard Hawley: Lady Solitude

2. Arctic Monkeys: Flourescent Adolescent

Then I'd give it three seconds of silence, turn the volume up and move into:

3. Vector Lovers: A Field (Noctambular Mix)

4. Mr Oizo: Patrick 122

5. Luke Vibert: Breakbeat Metal Music

All of which are available to buy at bleep.com (except the Richard Hawley track).

This is most excellent. It demands to be played at an antisocial volume to extract full value from the squelchy acid noises.

Luke Vibert - Chicago, Detroit, Redruth

I was going to upload some tracks but then I discovered something very stupid. On the back of the CD, the tracks are listed 1-12, but 1 (Comfycozy) is at the bottom of the label and 12 (Swet) is at the top. However, I've loaded it into iTunes and all the tracks are back to front. Thus track 1 in iTunes is labelled Swet, but if you play it, it actually plays Comfycozy, which is track 1 on the disc. This carries on all the way through. So track 4 in iTunes is given the title Comphex, which is 8 on the disc, but actually plays the real track 4, Breakbeat Metal Music. It's giving me a headache thinking about it.

I suspect iTunes is responsible for this fuck-up. Actually, no, it's more likely to be the Gracenote database or whatever it's called - the thing that names the CD when you load it on to your computer. Either way, someone should be stoned to death for the error. It's only right.

I'm gonna have to figure out a way to rename all the tracks, and then burn it on to my iPod again. Why, Lord, why?

Later... I notice the iTunes store has the proper titles. Thus it must be some thicko at Gracenote who can't work out that a number 1 next to a track title means it's the first track and a number 12 means it's the 12th.

11 Chicago, Detroit, Redruth

I'm enjoying watching Hot Chip playing at Glastonbury. (On TV, obviously, via the magical Red Button.) They are a great band. I like the way they don't have a drummer, just bongos and a bloke twiddling the knobs on some kind of sequencer... and a disshevelled, under-rehearsed sort of charm.

This is a clip of them playing Over and Over live at a festival last year.

Which band or artist which is no longer performing or alive would you have loved to have seen?
Submitted by Rev Stan.

What a dull and pathetic question. (Just kidding.)

The Smiths (no longer performing) and Joy Division (Ian Curtis no longer alive) would have to be top of the list. I've seen Morrissey several times live, and I also saw New Order a few years ago, and they are both excellent. I suppose that's as close as it's ever going to get.

The Smiths

I'm watching the Eurovision song contest, while Emma strips the last bit of wallpaper off the dining room wall.

Terry Wogan is bemoaning "block voting from the Balkan countries distorting the voting in recent years". Talk about the mother of conspiracy theories...

My money's on the Ukraine entry. Basically a weird Christopher Biggins lookalike dressed in drag (tin foil) with the number 69 on his back. The locals don't like it, apparently.

Hi, I'm the baby sitter! What do you mean you're not going out any more?

Update 11.05pm: Serbia won. Ukraine came second. Tel is going on about block voting (the UK came next to last). I've just helped out with the wallpaper.