Get in those pants
Apparently, in tribute to Rhianna and the 'slightly damp weather' we've been having, the latest 'clubland craze' is for people to wave their umbrellas in the air on the dancefloor.
Well Hattie Collins. Please give credit where credit's due. I believe that I am the true underground instigator of this fad - in an Edinburgh club on my 30th birthday a couple of years ago, whilst armed with a fetching tartan brolly and a considerable quantity of booze. Perhaps the bouncers would have been more understanding if they realised I was making musical history.
Obviously the flooding is pretty high in my thoughts at the moment. It's quite astonishing though how everyone affected appears to be taking it in their stride so much. I suppose there's not a lot you can do when everything you own is ruined except have a beer & a game of pool.
So i'll resist the temptation to post up some water-related tracks. Not when i've got some new South Central in my CD player.
A-side 'Machine' is supposedly based on the theory of philosopher G. I. Gurdjieff (No, me neither!) that 'the ordinary man is a machine who is only capable of reacting to what acts upon him'.
South Central have interpreted this by sampling 808 State's 'In Yer Face' (?) and turning it into a typically blistering piece of dancefloor rock & roll. Dance like a machine indeed. It's out as part of the Regal Singles Club on 6th August, but limited to just 500 7" vinyls.
SOUTH CENTRAL - MACHINE
I was also sent a new South Central remix - of the snappily titled 'We Are The Birds and The Bees We Are The The Telephone Trees' by Manchester rockers Kill The Young. I've become rather partial to the original version though, which whist uncharacteristically RAWK for this blog, has an infectous beat which would work well for dancing i'd say. Plus it has an excellent whistling breakdown, and I can't think of any bad records that feature whistling.
KILL THE YOUNG - WE ARE THE BIRDS AND THE BEES WE ARE THE TELEPHONE TREES
I know this has been on a few blogs already, but I don't seem to get the time to look at other blogs any more, so i'll pretend it hasn't. It's kind of exactly what you'd expect if you heard a MSTRKRFT remix of Chromeo - 80's hairspray pop with a distorted guitar riff backing. Does that sound like it's a bad thing though?
CHROMEO - TENDERONI (MSTRKRFT REMIX)
Well Hattie Collins. Please give credit where credit's due. I believe that I am the true underground instigator of this fad - in an Edinburgh club on my 30th birthday a couple of years ago, whilst armed with a fetching tartan brolly and a considerable quantity of booze. Perhaps the bouncers would have been more understanding if they realised I was making musical history.
Obviously the flooding is pretty high in my thoughts at the moment. It's quite astonishing though how everyone affected appears to be taking it in their stride so much. I suppose there's not a lot you can do when everything you own is ruined except have a beer & a game of pool.
So i'll resist the temptation to post up some water-related tracks. Not when i've got some new South Central in my CD player.
A-side 'Machine' is supposedly based on the theory of philosopher G. I. Gurdjieff (No, me neither!) that 'the ordinary man is a machine who is only capable of reacting to what acts upon him'.
South Central have interpreted this by sampling 808 State's 'In Yer Face' (?) and turning it into a typically blistering piece of dancefloor rock & roll. Dance like a machine indeed. It's out as part of the Regal Singles Club on 6th August, but limited to just 500 7" vinyls.
SOUTH CENTRAL - MACHINE
I was also sent a new South Central remix - of the snappily titled 'We Are The Birds and The Bees We Are The The Telephone Trees' by Manchester rockers Kill The Young. I've become rather partial to the original version though, which whist uncharacteristically RAWK for this blog, has an infectous beat which would work well for dancing i'd say. Plus it has an excellent whistling breakdown, and I can't think of any bad records that feature whistling.
KILL THE YOUNG - WE ARE THE BIRDS AND THE BEES WE ARE THE TELEPHONE TREES
I know this has been on a few blogs already, but I don't seem to get the time to look at other blogs any more, so i'll pretend it hasn't. It's kind of exactly what you'd expect if you heard a MSTRKRFT remix of Chromeo - 80's hairspray pop with a distorted guitar riff backing. Does that sound like it's a bad thing though?
CHROMEO - TENDERONI (MSTRKRFT REMIX)
posted by headphonesex @ 11:33 PM
