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Archive for the '2000s' Category
18th February, 2010 | 18 views
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A not too inconsiderable break to the blog posts but back on the musical train of all things good. This smooth jackin’ slab of deepness has been marinating as a draft, time to give it the space it deserves. Don’t know much about Anonym but the name kind of suggests a wish to remain in the background and let the material speak for itself.
A kind soul has also put it up on YouTube:
15th September, 2009 | 70 views
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In an effort to blog more new releases closer to the actual date they are released, thereby giving people a greater chance of actually purchasing them; here is a track that previously appeared on the Planet Delsin sampler. Whilst that particular release has become very sought after and consequently quite hard to find at a reasonable price, this is a welcome re-pressing on vinyl for Floatation Tank. Don’t hesitate too long to decide whether to click ‘Buy’ though; as with all pressings today, one thing you can be sure of is that the runs they do at the pressing plants are very small compared to say, a decade earlier. This is a fine piece of polished techno that’s fittingly titled, I doubt it’s piped into any real floatation tanks but it’s a testament to it’s smoothness that despite the techno tempo, it probably wouldn’t sound that out of place. A release by John Harvey that is up to the consistent high standard of his other productions.
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14th September, 2009 | 21 views
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I like a bit of dancehall ‘cept that I have about three records that could be described as such and I don’t tend to hear an great deal going about my day-to-day life but I heard this at a night out in Brixton, a likely place as any to hear it. Simple track, driven by the relentless half-rapped/half-sung delivery over the basic track in the background.
13th August, 2009 | 28 views
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Despite my gushing praise of a mix that I bought back in ‘92 and owning quite a few of the drum’n'bass releases by him and others on the Good Looking band of labels (sadly mostly lost to water damage in an incident); I paid no attention to any of his releases after I went to live abroad at the end of the nineties or even after I returned. It wasn’t until Jenifa Mayanja played this track on one of her early shows on MotionFM.com that I was enjoying via the archives they keep and KERRR-POW!!! I was knocked over by the polished ethereal-ness for which Bukem is reknowned. Listen, close your eyes and dream dreams of sunrises over utopian dancefloors in woodlands of elation… which sounds quite wanky but we all deserve a moment of blissful rapture though some can articulate it better than others.
3rd August, 2009 | 36 views
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Quite a leftfield sound from this Swedish band with a Japanese vocalist – a haunting, ethereal song. Simple arrangement with basically only two main parts: the vocals and a repeated piano melody, plus some strings and sound effects. Unusual and affecting.
