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June 9, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 547
Daft Punk, Homework (1997) I’ve loved this album since it was released. It arrived on the scene just as I had started my first job in music retail; we had an advance copy of it – back in the days when that was still a thing. And we’d play it over and again on the […]Archive
May 11, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Re-Wired For (New) Sound(s): Ten Important Electronica Albums In My Life
I recently posted this – a list of “Ten important metal albums”. And I started it off by linking to this – “Ten important hip-hop albums”. I mentioned then that I would be doing a series of these, across genres, and I repeated the opening paragraph from the hip-hop post. So now I’m going to […]Archive
July 25, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Paul Williams (July 22, Las Vegas)
Paul Williams South Point Showroom at South Point Hotel Casino, Las Vegas; NV Friday, July 22 In the 1970s Paul Williams was suddenly a giant superstar – as he’d stacked all he could up against his diminutive stature. If it seemed like overnight success it was hard fought, a failed film career and then one […]Archive
March 22, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Daft Punk – Unchained: DVD
Daft Punk – Unchained Director: Herve Martin-Delpierre BBC Worldwide Productions An interesting, and worthy documentary that traces Daft Punk’s music and antics back to the start, in fact back to the pre-robot days when, in an early review of their shoegazer-ish group, they were written off as making “daft punk”. So, Guy-Manuel de Homen-Christo and […]Archive
September 2, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Giorgio Moroder: Déjà Vu
Giorgio Moroder Déjà Vu RCA It’d be nice I reckon if this actually was a case of genuine déjà vu; reminder of what the great Giorgio Moroder once was and sounded like. Instead this is anything else – on its quest to be everything else. This is one of those grotesque and totally unnecessary reputation-sullying […]Archive
March 9, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Giorgio Moroder: One NZ Show (March, 2015)
Frontier Touring has just announced a headline show by Giorgio Moroder. The pioneering musician made his name across the disco and electronic music genres, as producer, songwriter, arranger and as soundtrack composer and collaborator. Moroder produced the huge hits for Donna Summer, created the enduring soundtracks for Scarface, Flashdance and American Gigolo and, er, The […]Archive
September 10, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Chromeo: White Women
Chromeo White Women Big Beat/Wea David Macklovitch (Dave 1) and Patrick Gemayel (P-Thugg) are back with album number four as Chromeo and the deconstructed disco and playful yacht-rock tropes are still happening. This is chic – and sometimes very nearly with a capital ‘c’ – particularly on the Daft Punk-aping Over Your Shoulder; actually it’s […]Archive
April 9, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Shackleton: Freezing Opening Thawing
Shackleton Freezing Opening Thawing (ep) Woe To The Septic Heart Sam Shackleton returns with this three-track EP and the opener, the title track, bursts into life with darting lines. This is his first EP in nearly two years. And he seems to have found a bunch of new sounds to play with – but still […]Archive
March 30, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Nathan East: Nathan East
Nathan East Nathan East Yamaha Entertainment Group When I was 13 years old I saw an Eric Clapton concert, my first big-name international gig; it was certainly a formative experience. The band was phenomenal, ex-members of The Average White Band and people who had recorded with Michael Jackson and toured with Stevie Wonder and the […]Archive
March 4, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Pharrell Williams: G I R L
Pharrell Williams G I R L Columbia There is nothing on Pharrell Williams’ new album G I R L that you can’t hear more convincingly, slicker, sharper, better on anything that Jamie Lidell has pulled out of the bag in recent years (take his most recent album, for starters and work back from there). But […]Archive
July 12, 2013 by Simon Sweetman