Weekend Playlist: Blog House

Photo: Robert Adams; Colorado Springs, Colarado 1968

I don't really follow Blog House happenings because I find a lot of the music to be very disposable or vapid. Music that is called "Blog House" now was interesting 7 years ago when DJs like Diplo (he used to go by Diplodocus) were doing "mash-ups" at parties in Ukrainian community halls in Philly, Baltimore and NYC, before mp3 blogs and Girl Talk became household speak. But really, how far can remixes of remixes, spawned in bedrooms on laptops with pirated software, be taken? All the same, you sometimes do come across some noteworthy tracks amid the flavour-of-the-week stuff.

1. Throbbing Gristle - Hot On The Heels Of Love (Ratcliffe Remix) [NovaMute]
2. Thriller/Unknown - Genie [thought to be Actress of the Werks label]
3. Thriller/Unknown - Freak For You [" "]
4. Floating Points - Love Me Like This (Nonsense Dub) [R2 Records]
5. Animal Collective - Daily Routine (Phaseone remix)
6. Arthur Russel - In The Light (Alan Abrahams Edit) [Scape]
7. Grizzly Bear - Owner Of A Lonely Heart (Yes cover)
8. Bottin - No Static [Italians Do It Better]
9. Le Loup - We Are Gods! We Are Wolves! [Hardly Art]
10. Daniel Rossen (Of Grizzly Bear/Dept. Of Eagles) - Waterfall [Warp/4AD]

Happy Weekend

If you're in the States, you're probably about to get really drunk and blow things up. Have fun with that.
So I redesigned the web log a bit and have added a bunch of links consisting of independent labels, independent online retailers, review sites, recommended reading, and music magazines, as well as some other web logs and friends which I believe to be somewhat aligned with Clocks & Daggers, or, at the very least, those with great design and content. I'm still new to this, but with a more focused direction I plan to cover music, both old and new, that I think deserves attention; culled from an ADD assortment of genres, but always attached by umbilical cord to experimental, avant-garde, electronic assortments.
In the meantime, enjoy this:

Warp 20 Boxset + Fly Lo EP

Newest installment of Flying Lotus' LA EP series, LA EP 3x3, has been pushed back to an August 18th release date, now including a bonus digital cut. I really enjoyed the 1x3 and 2x3 EPs, so I'm very much looking forward to the new material.
A friend of mine who introduced me to Flying Lotus two years ago, calls his music "cerebral hip-hop," and it certainly is an apt description for the uninitiated (but funny in that Fly Lo and the whole LA beat scene is pretty much synonymous with a hazy hue of blue blunt smoke).

Tracklisting:

01 - Infinitum (Dimlite’s Re-finitum)
02 - Comet - MatthewDavid
03 - Endless White
04 - Parisian Goldfish (Take Remix)
05 - Spin Cycles
06 - Testament (Breakage’s Bill’s Suit Mix)
07 - Auntie’s Harp (Rebekah Raff Remix)

Digital Bonus Track - Riot (Take Rmx)

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Also, IDM/Experimental Electronic nerds rejoice: the Warp 20 Box Set comes out on September 25th. It will definitely slake the indulgences of hardcore fans, but also serve as a great, albeit pervasive introduction to those curious about the last 20 years of the pioneering label.

Includes:

Warp20 (1989-2009) The Complete Catalogue: 192 page book
10” square, 192 page full-colour, perfect-bound book. The complete-ist’s dream – a catalogue of artwork of every Warp release from its inception in 1989 to August 2009.

Warp20 (Chosen): Double CD album
The definitive best of Warp on 2 x CDs. Ten songs chosen by you (Warp20.net), ten songs chosen by Warp co-founder Steve Beckett. Packaged in deluxe case-bound 10” folder, exclusive to this box set.

Warp20 (Unheard): Triple 10” Vinyl
Secret treasures newly rediscovered from the Warp vaults. Unheard and rare tracks by Boards of Canada, Autechre, Broadcast, Elecktroids and others cut to 3 x 10” vinyl.

...and more.

Old Music: Black Devil (1978)

Download: [MP3] Black Devil - "Follow Me"

(download the entire album here since it's best heard end to end)

If you like weirdness, Italo disco, and stuff that is, or was, "ahead of its time," then you may enjoy the highly addictive oddball grooves of Black Devil. All the usual disco tropes are here: open-hi's, 120 BPM tempos, hand percussion, meandering synths and affected singing. But this record is so fucking great because it is actually good, and, er, "cool." It avoids the camp aesthetic of past disco hounds who would have gotten lots of radio/club burn, sacrificing appeal for artistic freedom, and losing nothing in the process. Apparently it was recorded in a Paris suburb by Bernard Fevre using a synthesizer, tape loops, and a live drummer. Disco Club stands up against any of the best underground New York disco you've heard, and fetches upwards of $500 for the original LP.

Bernard Fevre, of Black Devil: