De nummers van de week column bestaat uit een willekeurige greep van nieuw nummers die mijn oren hebben gevonden. Bijvoorbeeld nieuwe nummers live gespeeld, remixes, nieuwe singles, of willekeurige tracks van nieuwe of aankomende albums. Dit laatste wordt bepaald via de shuffle knop, dus compleet random. Is het representatief? Niet altijd, indicatief al misschien iets meer. Een snel, willekeurig kijkje in wat nieuw is of wat er aankomt.
Via de hypem links kan je de nummers meteen beluisteren. Soms werkt de grote play knop niet, maar probeer dan de play knop rechtsonder. Die werkt als het goed is sowieso! De techniek staat voor niets!
In het Engels dit keer dat deze column ook verschijnt op een Engelse site en ik de tijd momenteel niet heb om het in twee talen te doen. Sorry!
Track of the week
‘Le Livre Rose’ by Sport Hit Paradise feat. Gavin Russom
I don’t know Sport Hit Paradise to be honest, but Gavin Russom is from the DFA label so there are worse people to be affiliated with really. And to be honest, I really love this. Very understated, right mixture of beats and melancholy without too blatantly aping the obvious, and the voice is precisely right for this music. As in, it is dreamy and incorporated into the music, rather than it being up front. It has a slight catchiness to it which makes it easy to listen to while still keeping that “at night” vibe. And I love that “at night” vibe, I just love when a song adds to walking outside around 1 AM with the streets empty and only city lights out there. I’ll be keeping an eye on these lads, especially considering another track was done with Munk, so again, there are worse people to be affiliated with.
http://this.bigstereo.net/2009/12/02/sport-hit-paradise/
‘Dead Disco Dancer’ by O Children (Golden Filter remix)
I love the solo stuff by The Golden Filter, really is dreamy disco with a bit of a beat done right. I also liked this track by the after Nick Cave titled O Children. The mix, I wasn’t really envisioning it at first. Lovely is that The Golden Filter adds its own vocals to it, and the original vocals then come booming over the top, perhaps even with a bit of extra cleanness to it which really makes it a contrast, perhaps even too much so. But after the initial adaption period it mixes rather well actually. The additional instrumentals are really nice as well, and where in the beginning of the year the remixes by The Golden Filter were all slightly alike, this adds whole new dimensions to their range. So this and the recently released. ‘Thunderbird’ really see them expanding their range. I’m still waiting to hear some new stuff from O Children, I interviewed the band at the end of last year, and I hope they come out of the gates in 2010 building on the positive word they garnered at the beginning of this year.
http://hypem.com/track/972496/O+Children+-+Dead+Disco+Dancer+The+Golden+Filter+Remix+
‘The Fire Below’ by Runaway
I love Jacques Renault. I love his edits, I love his DJ sets with the lads from Holy Ghost!, so this track from Runaway (where he is one half of a duo), well, I’m looking forward to it. The track has a rather long build-up, but that is part of its charm, as little additions and changes are constantly made to this seven minute track (although, really, the build-up concerning the beginning beat is perhaps testing everyone’s attention span a tad). After almost four minutes of nuances the track gets a bit more lively, but it keeps the middle ground between nuanced layers and a disco tune. I constantly felt the track was ready to just explode, but instead it shows a constant restraint, and I don’t know it is restraint or just an inability to make it explode. Perhaps letting it go off was too easy. Then again, perhaps this is an example of what you call an aptly named track. It is a nice piece of work, yet somehow I constantly had the feeling I wanted something more out of it.
http://hypem.com/track/973005/Runaway+-+A1+The+Fire+Below
‘Colours Fade’ by Blood Red Shoes
Well, colour me surprised seeing that this track’s running time is seven minutes. Blood Red Shoes was a nice bit of fresh air in their early goings, but the album kind of labelled them as one dimensional, and at one point they seemed to fade a bit. So new things have to come from them. This is longer, for sure, and they do add some new elements to the song, like the sort of “backing vocals” adding another instrumental line. They also seem to put a bit of reverb on the guitar. But for a track of seven minutes, in the song itself, regardless of their oeuvre, there is just a bit too much repetition. At the five minute mark it seems as if they are ending the song, which they do, and it lasts two minutes, going on in a sort of heartthrob way which is reminiscent of when a bonus track is put at the end of an album and you need to get through fifteen minutes of noise or nothing to get there. Not really fancying that one.
http://hypem.com/track/965283/Blood+Red+Shoes+-+Colours+Fade
‘Warm in the Shadows’ by Music Go Music (Villa remix)
Yes, the problem is, Fred Falke already did this one, and perhaps that is a cue for the rest to just stop and find something else to do really, isn’t it? Well, not really, but the Fred Falke remix is the definite one in my eyes. Villa does a nice job though. The original is of course a proper tune, very catchy, so you’ve got something to work with. And Villa do a nice job of making it different yet keeping it dancey and catchy, which is what you want from a remix of course. Sometimes a new spin on a track can make it live that bit longer on DJs’ setlists. It takes almost three minutes for some sort of vocals to set in, and even then it is just “oh-ho-ho-oh”, for the rest this remix is instrumental until halfway, but even sans vocals it is interesting. And if you keep it interesting for so long and then add such an important and influential dimension to it then you’re already halfway of not boring people. And actually, it keeps on entertaining. So forget about this remix automatically being a minor addition, it is a really enjoyable one from a cracking tune.
http://hypem.com/track/965012/Music+Go+Music+-+Warm+in+The+Shadow+Villa+Remix+
‘The Splendour’ by Pantha du Prince
Oh isn’t he the Fact Magazine darling. The Fact crew does everything to hype this German based artist, but unlike several other websites, when Fact does a thing like that, usually they have a point. This is delightful hypnotic minimalist electro. Perhaps he got a bit trigger happy with the windpipes (are they windpipes? They sound rather like them to me), but oh well. It is not as “I’m watching the scenery” like as Sven Weisemann’s outing this year (Xine), it has a bit more of a constant beat to it keeping it a bit more hypnotic. Yet it is not as captivating and it doesn’t pull me in as much as other tracks have done this year. But it is a nice prelude to his upcoming album.
http://hypem.com/search/pantha%20du%20prince/1/
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