October 23, 2005
Flogging A Dead Horse
Posted by Budgie at
05:28 PM
The return of Cassetteboy...
It may have taken 7 years for them to deliver their cut & paste masterpiece "The Parker Tapes", but now Cassetteboy is back 3 years later with with the proper follow up. Their mix albums "Inside A Whales Cock" and "Mick's Tape" were just fillers. "Dead Horse" is the real deal. A whole new 60 minutes of pure, unadulterated Cassetteboy nonsense.
The Da Vinci Code, Jim Davidson, David Attenborough, Jeremy Clarkson, Harry Potter, Bill Cosby, Blair and Bush are just some of the things and people tackled and reworded for this CD.
It's your usual Cassetteboy fare. Not that that is a bad thing. "Dead Horse" is a worthy follow up to "The Parker Tapes". I've spent most of this week listening to its funny, surreal, musical waywardness and it still has the abilty to make me laugh.
Well worth picking up. And check out the Spymania page for an interview with the boys...
Track : CASSETTEBOY - "SALTGRAIN"
Oh, they don't like The Streets... My favourite bit in this is where they have Bono singing, "I want to see The Streets being blown by a tramp..."
Track : CASSETTEBOY - "DUCK BREATH"
The Crazy Frog Challenge. Can they make it any worse?
Track : CASSETTEBOY - "BACK IN BLACK"
I didn't think Richard And Judy were allowed to talk about this at teatime?
Track : CASSETTEBOY - "APPLE CAK (SHITBOX)"
An obvious Michael Jackson skit, but still funny all the same. Especially the latter part of the track...
Go Visit : Cassetteboy @ Spymania
Go Visit : Cassetteboy @ Paradroid.Com for some old Cassetteboy tracks.
Go Buy : Cassetteboy - Dead Horse
Go Buy : Cassetteboy - The Parker Tapes
Go Buy : Cassetteboy - Festive Christmas
Go Buy : Cassetteboy - Mick's Tape
Go Buy : Cassetteboy / DJ Rubbish - Inside A Whale's Cock Vol.1
Feel free to leave a comment about these tracks in The Pipe section of the forum.
Ta,
Budgie
October 19, 2005
Have Beat. Have Head. Will Nod.
Posted by Budgie at
06:50 PM
Two tracks to make you look like a nodding dog...
Firstly, I have to thank Jimmy The Flid for giving me the heads up on this Modeselektor track and secondly, I have to give a mention to the excellent blog Moebius Rex for having this track up just now, thus enabling me to get my mits on the full version.
I've mentioned before about the soundsystem in The Flid's car. He doesn't have some pimped up buggy with huge woofers and bassbins in the back, just some factory staple CD player and speakers in his Ford whatever-it-is. But boy, every now and then you hear something in that car that rumbles your ribcage, has you grinning like a loon and nodding your head like your neck is made of springs.
The track below is one of those tracks...
Track : MODESELEKTOR ft. TTC - "DANCING BOX"
He's been namedropping Modeselektor around me for ages. I hadn't heard much from them other than their head messing remix of Jahcoozie's "Black Barbie" which he got onto this years edition of the "Church Of Chutney Hymnbook", compiled for the regulars over on Chutney.
Then over the past couple of weeks their name has been cropping up a bit on the odd blog, namely on Music For Robots and the aforementioned Moebius Rex. Alas, I never downloaded those tracks that they had put up. Well, not until today...
Last night The Flid handed me a sampler for the recently released Modeselektor debut album, "Hello Mum!". The sampler has snippets of all the tracks from the album but mixed in with a fake and funny New York radio station, kinda like a GTA style thing.
The first track on the sampler, and it's the opener on the proper album, is their collaboration with the French hip hop crew, TTC. When it kicked in it practically ripped the roof of his vehicle. I was grinning and laughing at just how heavy and beautifully fucked up the track, "Dancing Box", is.
I just love the way that the beat constantly flips between a Hip Hop tempo and then a balls out 4/4 one. But being Modeselektor things are not as simple as that as they like to glitch, flip and twist most of the components of the tune, and that goes for the guest vocals from TTC too. So it doesn't matter if you passed your French O' grade as their words get chopped up and stretched so as they soon become totally incomprehensible. All in all, it fair works a treat and with those beats, you're head should be bouncing up and down by the end of the tracks 4 minute length.
The rest of the album, from what I can gather from the sampler, definitely sounds as though it's a good 'un. They swing from Electro to Techno to Minimal House and even have a few more collaborations too, including the girl from Jahcoozie, who I mentioned they had remixed above.
Should be well worth checking out.
You can hear their "Hasir" track - another head nodder with a glitched up Sitar (?) all over it - on the above "Music For Robots" link...
Track : TTC - "COFFEE SHOP (INSTRUMENTAL)"
As a wee bonus, as TTC were involved in the above track, I thought I'd put up a track by them from back in 2001.
"Coffee Shop" appears on their "Elementaire EP" and again was introduced to me via The Flid as it was frequently played whenever he was let loose on my turntables. The beats and atmosphere of the record were great and thankfully TTC put an instumental on the 12" as I wasn't that much of a fan of the vocals.
This record was always a staple if the dub version of Roots Manuva's "Witness" was ever brought out onto the decks. They complimented each other so well, and if the truth be told, they were both quite easy to mix with...
It's just a great wee instrumental with it's freaky, spacey sound effects over a DJ Shadow-esque beat and with a tiny snippet of some female Indian singer.
Oh, and it should make you nod your head aswell...
Go Buy : Modeselektor - Hello Mum!
Go Visit : Modeselektor
Go Visit : TTC @ Big Dada
Feel free to leave a comment about these tracks in The Pipe section of the forum.
Ta,
Budgie
October 13, 2005
October 06, 2005
No. Not him...
Posted by Budgie at
05:45 PM
...I said, "Timmy Thomas", not "Terry Thomas".
I'm a sucker for a good old slice of 70's funk and soul and recently I have been filling my boots with a CD crammed full of edits of some mighty fine tunes from that era.
"OST / Original Block Party Breaks" came out at the end of August and features some old gems given the re-edit treatment by some well known producers and DJ's. Nothing fancy, just some plain re-arranging to either extend the originals, cut out a lot of the filler or just beefing up the backing track with the inclusion of some new bits of production. But still managing to retain the original flavour.
I have been spoiled for choice as to what track to pick...
Do I go for the Black Science Orchestra extended edit of Patti Jo's stunning cover of Curtis Mayfield's "Make Me Believe In You"? Or Fug's extension of Minnie Ripperton's classic "Les Fleurs". Do I plump for Touche (from The Wiseguys) superb chopping up of Banbarra's infamous "Shack Up"? or try and make your jaw drop, like mine did, when you hear Wood, Brass & Steel's "Funkanova" and suddenly realise that Ashley Beadle had pretty much scavenged the record for his legendary UK House track "New Jersey Deep"? Decisions, Decisions...
Track : TIMMY THOMAS - "WHY CAN'T WE LIVE TOGETHER (PRESSURE DROP)"
In the end, it was this track that always pulled me back. Timmy Thomas' soulful track has been kicking about since 1972 but it was when the Balearic Beat scene picked up on it and then latterly the Rave scene, where it became a bit of an end of night / sunrise anthem by loved up clubbers, that it drifted past my ears. Heck, even famous London Rave DJ "Evil" Eddie Richards covered it under his guise Jolly Roger back in the day...
Here the original is beefed up by Pressure Drop, a group who have been on the fringes of the UK dance scene for quite some time now. Timmy Thomas' original had a sort of under produced vibe to it. The beat and rhythm sounded like the inside of a Grandfather Clock, the organ sounded as if it was being played by someone who had never played one before and recorded their best take onto a dodgy old tape recorder and then there were the trademark "Psycho" style strings. Well, Pressure Drop keep the lot, rejig it a bit and just add a big sub rattling beat and some extra percussion. They keep it simple and the jobs a good 'un.
The soul of the song was always in the vocals and here they remain untouched and sound as great as ever. The message, well, it's still loud and clear...
Go Visit : Pressure Drop
Go Buy : Various Artists - OST / Original Block Party Edits
Feel free to leave a comment about this track in The Pipe section of the forum.
Ta,
Budgie.
