last year Dead Can Dance gave away EPs of live recordings titled Live Happenings Part I and Part II. now Part III is available, and like the others it’s also free. the EP opens with Saltarello, a 13th century Italian piece that DCD made their own in 1990 on their album Aion, and Brendan Perry introduces thusly, “this next instrumental rocketed to the top of the charts in the summer of 1461″. the other three tracks are The Wind That Shakes The Barley, How Fortunate The Man With None and Dreams Made Flesh. just click here to get Live Happenings (Part III)
below is Toward The Within, a recording of a performance at the Mayfair Theatre in Santa Monica, California from 1993
twenty five years ago today, Coldcut picked up their first ever white label 12″ record, Say Kids What Time Is It? to sell in record stores! celebrate 25 years of Coldcut with a free download of the track on Soundcloud. just click on the down arrow on the right of the box below
just ahead of the release of his new album, The Search Engine, DJ Food (a solo Strictly Kev this time round) has been interviewed for Solid Steel Radio to give some insights into the making of his album (which you can hear in the background), the collaborators involved (The The’s Matt Johnson, J.G. ‘Foetus’ Thirlwell, 2econd Class Citizen, DK and Natural Self) and the artwork created by Henry Flint and Strictly Kev himself. he also discusses his own work as a designer (possibly his most famous piece being the iconic Ninja Tune logo) and you can hear a few of the tracks that have influenced him over the years which range from Adam & the Ants to Boards of Canada
also, the limited CD album itself (i received mine this morning having ordered early but it’ll be generally available from Monday) is a truly beautifully packaged item. a gorgeous, full colour, 48 page comic sized booklet packed with artwork, photos and more to hold the disc itself and inside that you’ll find an extra tack housed on a truly scrumptious flexi disc (you may well need to be over 40 to know what one of those is). the loveliest piece of plastic i’ve seen in a long time, a clear 7″ single with a high shine silver ‘label’ on the front side that is gold on the reverse. and you can buy that right here
also, check out this exhibition in Londonif you can
HerFavoriteLetters is another idiosyncratic mix from DJ PWC. it’s odd yet accesible, smoothly erratic and curious. clearly hip hop yet unlike the majority, which in the genres current musical climate is a very good thing. and if only for the way PWC drops Portishead’s It Could Be Sweet into this mix and then rolls into the Wu-Tang’s Hollow Bones looped sample of Syl Johnson’s Is It Because I’m Black? then HerFavoriteLetters is already more than worth a listen or three . . .
also, get DJ PWC’s mix Dedicated To Those That Know It Is here
ooh look, a new Solid Steel logo and a mix from Bonobo to help ease in the new year. Bonobo, who in 2003 contributed to the Solid Steel CD mix series with Bonobo Presents Solid Steel: It Came From The Sea, delivers a mix of new tracks and highlights from 2011 that includes Seams, Nufrequency the Ramadanman refix for Jamie Woon, Juk Juk, Fourtet, Falty DL, Koreless, Ifan Dafydd and Sepalcure
as for Bonobo himself, look out for the remix version of his excellent Black Sands album that’s to be released next month
as i’m suffering with achy balls, fucked feet and am so very very tired to boot i’m gonna be super lazy with this post and let the Beat Bee people tell you about all about The Beat Bee Sessions Volume 37
“Happy 2nd Birfday to the muthafuckin funkyass Beat Bee Sessions!!! This episode: getting out of the X-Mas coma, the most overly-sensitive shoe fanatic ever, Municipal Waste in Miami, getting bored doing nothing, the Otter’s incredible X-Mas cookies, “the talk” with young Katie, Mahfood Bros. (that’s a clip of them below) drunken Santa Clause stylee, the Jane Dope foosball table incident, secret breaktime conversations, Huddleston appreciation, angry dads who hate Body Count, the death of “def”, Ice-T is everywhere, plus so much more! Instrumentals by the amazing Marc Mac.“
kidkanevil of electronic alternative rock band Stateless fame, as well as being a music maker and producer in his own right, dropped a sweet little EP last Sunday. and freebeatsnbleeps is exactly what it says; random beats and bleeps for free
keep your eyes peeled and ears pinned back for updates as we’ve been promised more freebies to come
additionally, here’s something from Stateless. it’s the video for I’m On Fire (feat Shara Worden) from their 2011 album Matilda
Marcin Cichy from Skalpel and plug audio mastering ran a project through the whole of 2011. every day (time limited to 15 minutes for each loop) they composed, produced and uploaded one drum break in CD quality format for anyone to do with what they will. Break 365 was provided by the legendary Steinski and made from some of the breaks on the site. all loops will be available throughout this year so go here to have a listen, download and perhaps tinker with them yourself and come up with something new. here’s Steinski’s track STEINSKI SPACE / TIME MIX
i wasn’t sure what to start the year off with here on my humble little blog and then i stumbled into this on Facebook, posted by Ninjamixdump (a great place to find odds and sods). it’s a 145 minute mix (yep that’s right, it’s well over 2 hours long) that chronicles the musical talents of a Mr Liam Howlett, better known as The Prodigy. it contains over 50 Prodigy originals and remixes. the mix has three section that are defined by tempo and are titled as Part 1: The Poison, Part 2: The Rhythm and Part 3: The Energy. click here to get it
here are a couple of videos. firstly No Good (Start the Dance) from Music for the Jilted Generation, the album that really made me sit up and pay attention to The Prodigy in 1994, and then Breathe from the 1997 album The Fat of the Land
here are a few words from King Cannibal on what you’re about to hear, “As we’re reaching the end of the year and i’m looking towards developing my set in to my newer productions in 2012 i thought it timely to take a glance back at the kind of sets i was playing out this year, for those who didn’t get a chance to see me or want to re-live one of the shows they caught me at. This was recorded for a show on 27th Aug at l’Usine in Geneva, Switzerland as it was to feature a big AV hook up and the crew needed to familiarize themselves with what i would be playing on the night. It’s somewhat of an expansion of The Way Of The Ninja mix cd released at the end of last year, but goes way beyond that.“
last year Dead Can Dance gave away EPs of live recordings titled Live Happenings Part I and Part II. now Part III is available, and like the others it’s also free. the EP opens with Saltarello, a 13th century Italian piece that DCD made their own in 1990 on their album Aion, and Brendan Perry introduces thusly, “this next instrumental rocketed to the top of the charts in the summer of 1461″. the other three tracks are The Wind That Shakes The Barley, How Fortunate The Man With None and Dreams Made Flesh. just click here to get Live Happenings (Part III)
