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February 8, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 122: The Shamen – “En-Tact”
Barriers of entry. You just need to dive in – mostly. But sometimes it helps if you’re there at the right time. And with anything dance-music related I feel that’s most certainly the case, for the most part anyway. I love a lot of Daft Punk’s music because I hear it always thinking about how I heard […]Archive
February 22, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Sebastien Tellier: A Girl Is A Gun (Music From The Original Series)
Sebastien Tellier A Girl Is A Gun (Music From The Original Series) Record Makers I have no idea about the TV series – but I’ll give it a chance now that I’ve heard its soundtrack. I’d listen to any movie or TV soundtrack by the prolific and multi-talented Sebastien Tellier. He sings in English, French and Italian, […]Archive
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