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September 10, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Vince Mendoza & Temple University Studio Orchestra: Constant Renaissance
Vince Mendoza & Temple University Studio Orchestra Constant Renaissance BCM&D Records Award-winning multi-discipline arranger/producer/composer Vince Mendoza was here commissioned to create a new work for the Temple University Studio Orchestra as part of a week-long residency. The man that has worked with almost every name in pop and jazz created this three-track, EP-length album-suite for […]Archive
August 25, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Missy Elliott: ICONOLOGY (ep)
Missy Elliott ICONOLOGY (ep) Goldmind / Atlantic The problem with disappearing in this age is someone arrives to take your place. Much as I’ve missed Missy over the last decade and a bit (nearly 15 years since her last full album, only a handful of singles and collaborations to satiate) I’ve seen Azealia Banks come […]Archive
August 22, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Lukid: Drip (ep)
Lukid Drip (ep) Arcola Luke Blair’s day-job is being the boss at Glum Records. By night – or on weekends – he is Lukid. And his Drip EP is a weird and wonderful blip-bop loop-fest of tape-stretching, static-hiss boogie-down ambient-crawl techno that has been released on Arcola, one of Warp’s sub-labels. Warp of course is spiritual home to this type of […]Archive
August 4, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 270
Shihad, Flaming Soul / Gates of Steel [Single] (1997) In which, way back, Shihad has a hoon on the Flesh D-Vice song Flaming Soul and then the Devo song Gates of Steel. A tribute double A-side-type thing. Which, I have to say, I was unaware of until very recently. Well, I’d heard the Gates of Steel cover and I rate it. I think maybe […]Archive
August 2, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 271
Elvis Costello & The Attractions, Accidents Will Happen /Alison [Single] (1979) I used to have a bootleg recording of the whole Live At Hollywood High concert. It’s a ripper. Peak-of-powers stuff. So I guess I wanted this little peek of the peak-of-powers-stuff, a double A-Side+B-Side single, almost an EP...three live tracks, big songs – and huge energy here from […]Archive
July 28, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Lucinda Chua: Antidotes 1
Lucinda Chua Antidotes 1 (ep) 秀燕 As a jobbing cellist (Stars of the Lid, FKA Twigs) and vocalist (Felix) Lucinda Chua has already helped to create many magical musical moments – but her debut solo EP is a gorgeous harnessing of fragility; these aren’t songs as much as aural photographs – everything frozen, framed correctly and the […]Archive
July 23, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Yu Su: Roll With The Punches (ep)
Yu Su Roll With The Punches (ep) / 泉出通川为谷 Second Circle Vancouver-based composer Yu Su returns with her first full EP under her name since 2016 – there had been a split release in-between. Here she teams with fellow Vancouver musician Michelle Helene Mackenzie Little Birds, Moonbath – the opening track. It’s also the standout. Weird and wonderful bubbles of ambient house sit beneath Mackenzie’s indecipherable vocals […]Archive
June 23, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Koizilla: Warped (ep)
Koizilla Warped (ep) trace / untrace Though I’m not really a gamer, I was a fan of Crash Bandicoot. (Wasn’t everyone?) Now I’m sure you could dig Koizilla’s latest EP anyway, but being a Crash fan (past or present) will provide extra special memories, for this is a reimagining/re-arranging of six of the pieces of music from Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped – a Sony […]Archive
June 21, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 289
Run-DMC, Walk This Way [Single] (1986) I’m pretty sure I knew this version and knew about Run-DMC before I knew the Aerosmith version and maybe even before I (really) knew about Aerosmith. I certainly got into Aerosmith (for a while) on the back of this. I remember that much. Then it was to Beastie Boys and Public Enemy and all sorts of things on the […]Archive
May 31, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 297
Dean Martin, The Early Hits of Dean Martin [EP] (1966) I’ve talked about this before – the Greatest Hits EP. No one would dare do it now – too insulting, too embarrassing but these mega-single-styled EPs from the 60s were so great. I love Dean Martin – my introduction to him was seeing him shit on The Rolling […]Archive
May 19, 2019 by Simon Sweetman