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Posts Tagged Instrumentals

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March 8, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 156

The Shadows, Jigsaw (1967) I fucking love The Shadows. On a level where I actually can’t understand it if you don’t. To me, if a person does not think The Shadows are super-fucking-great I’m forced to contemplate whether that person is even real. I mean – they breathe. Eat. Sleep. Shit. Sure. But are they […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1967, Cliff Richard, Guitar, Hank Marvin, Instrumentals, Jigsaw, LP, Mono, Record, Sixties, surf-rock, Tennessee Waltz, The Shadows, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 156, Vinyl ·

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May 10, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Kody Nielson: Birthday Suite

Kody Nielson Birthday Suite Flying Nun Ruban and Kody Nielson – together, or alone – the work is always interesting, always worth hearing. I’ve loved all of the Unknown Mortal Orchestra material and the thought of them reunited to perform live is terrific of course. The other great thing is that the work is all […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Azure's Birthday, Bic Runga, Bic's Birthday, Birthday, Birthday Suite, Bubba's Birthday, Cherhys's Birthday, Christopher's Birthday, Confection, Darien's Birthday, David Axelrod, Dee Dee's Birthday, Drums, Flying Nun, Frida’s Birthday, Instrumental, Instrumentals, James's Birthday, Jo Jo's Birthday, John Carpenter, Kody Nielson, Kody Nielson: Birthday Suite, Mint Chicks, Po Po's Birthday, Ruban Nielson, Ruban's Birthday, Sebastien Tellier, Suite, UMO, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Wendy Carlos, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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October 25, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Cave Circles: Apricity (ep)

Cave Circles Apricity (ep) Wonderful Noise Japan Here’s Riki Gooch working (again) under his Cave Circle alias – it’s been a busy time for releases just recently with Cave Circles’ 12”, My Heart Is A Beating Drum and then the recent cassette tape release under another of his working aliases, DJ OBOE.
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Apricity, Apricity (ep), Beatmaker, Black Rainbow, Cave Circles, Cave Circles: Apricity, Dilla, DJ OBOE, EP, Garden, Housekeeping, Instrumental, Instrumentalist, Instrumentals, John Carpenter, Kiva, Leila Adu, Mirrors, My Heart Is A Beating Drum, Parks, Producer, Riki Gooch, Rocks, Seven Davis Jr, Vocal, Waves, Wonderful Noise Japan ·

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September 3, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 504

Ian Stewart, Piano for Dancing [EP] (1958) The world of second-hand stores is full of these sorts of things – wee curios – old EPs and singles and 78s and 45s and things…and it’s dime a dozen (and often it’s pretty much exactly that, price-wise). Dashed hopes, daunted dreams, forgotten magic. Or just junk. One […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged [45], 1958, EP, Ian Stewart, Instrumentals, LP, Oscar, Piano, Piano For Dancing, Second Hand Store, Single, The Vinyl Countdown # 504, Vinyl ·

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July 23, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Los Straitjackets: What’s So Funny About Peace, Love and Los Straitjackets

Los Straitjackets What’s So Funny About Peace, Love and Los Straitjackets Yep Roc Records Los Straitjackets (originally The Straitjackets in the 80s, but after a bust-up they’ve been at it as Los Straitjackets for over 20 years now) is back with another set of surf-pop-meets-rockabilly instrumentals. The catch, this time, the album’s title being a […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Cover, Covers, Guitar, Instrumental, Instrumentals, Los Straitjackets, Love and Los Straitjackets, Nick Lowe, The Straitjackets, Tribute, What's So Funny About Peace, What's So Funny About Peace Love and Los Straitjackets, Yep Roc ·

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August 16, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Heinali: A Wave Crashes

Heinali A Wave Crashes Fluttery Records We know – on some level, now – what to expect from Fluttery Records. Certainly quality – that’s for sure. But also leftfield sound/art/music amalgams, traces of electronica or artists who have dabbled and them moved on through versions of audio-collage and sound-design. So it is with A Wave […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged A Cloud Withdrew From A Sky, A Wave Crashes, A Wave Crashes I, A Wave Crashes II, A Wave Crashes III, Album Review, Ambient, Collage, Electronica, Fluttery Records, Heinali, Improvisations, Installation, Instrumental, Instrumentals, Noise, Oleg Shpudeiko, Sound, Uneasy Listening ·

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July 19, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

William Tyler: Modern Country

William Tyler Modern Country Merge Following on from the record where people started to really take notice and particularly from the more recent EP here William Tyler has made another set of recordings that take on such a road-trip feel as to seem like they were recorded from the passenger seat of a moving vehicle, […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Bill Frisell, Country, Grizzly Man, Guitar, Guitarist, Harry Partch, Impossible Truth, Instrumental, Instrumentals, Jazz, Lost Colony, Mark Knopfler, Merge, Modern Country, Richard Thompson, Stefan Grossman, Steve Gunn, William Tyler ·

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March 22, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

J Dilla: Dillatronic

J Dilla Dillatronic Vintage Vibes Yes, yes, it’s starting to feel like Hendrix, or Jeff Buckley…and it’s felt that way a while, in fact, as we have just passed the 10th Anniversary of J Dilla’s death (he was just 32). But at least Dillatronic contains some actual magic – and more than that it’s reminders, […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Beatmaker, Beats, Dilla, Dillatronic, Hip-Hop, Instrumentals, J Dilla, posthumous, Producer ·

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