Some trax 4 u bbs

[petronia]

Ricardo Villalobos - Enfants (Chants): if anyone feels like IDing some obscure minimal techno for my benefit, this dude uploaded a whole bunch of minute-long clips from Nuit Electronik (start here). No? XD I couldn't recognize anything apart from the "Sinnerman" remix, oh-hey-that-was-on-Fabric-36, and "MDMA" (on YTube), whereupon I was the only one who totally freaked out. Not that there's any point in trying to trainspot Villalobos. The crowd swung too far in the other direction from techno fanboi-ism, though, it was really... mainstream... for lack of a better word. XD; Lots of normal-seeming girls dressed for normal 3AM clubbing with high heels and shit, lots of beer and hooking up. And the vibe was completely mellowed-out. Suspect the latter could pretty much be laid at Villalobos' feet as over the course of the night he smoked, like, half a dozen spliffs' worth of premium-grade Canadian hydro - every hour, on the hour, switching varietals, like a wine-tasting party. OTZ I hate the smell of weed but even I could tell the difference. How dude remained upright is a whole other question. But he and Dandy Jack played some lovely stuff, float-y and expansive, more head than body, not at all dark.

I hadn't heard this track before, in fact, but I knew of its existence and there wasn't much else it could be. As per title it's mostly children chanting nursery rhymes, which is a sublime thing to hear bubbling up under and around one at 4AM. Downside is it's 24MB.

The Indelicates - We Hate The Kids: representative single, references Joy Division to better effect than that Wombats song, contains lyrics such as Pop had a beginning, it grew and was tended / Now it is rotten, let it be ended. Other song titles are "If Jeff Buckley Had Lived" (the thesis is exactly what you think it is) and "Waiting for Pete Doherty to Die" (the thesis isn't). And that's just how they feel about indie; they've also got songs about, like, actual life.

Julia Indelicate was a founding member of the Pipettes but quit to do this instead (the other unavoidable bio blurb fact but cool nonetheless). The album is out soonish and I'm rather looking forward to it. Pretty indiepop channels rage more often than one'd expect, but it's usually not my rage. XD

Martha Wainwright - Dis, quand reviendras-tu?: Martha does Barbara. It never ceases to amuse me how her French is magnitudes better than Rufus's. XD Suspect the short sibling age gap encapsulates the watershed moment where one Montreal Anglo generation turned into the next - or maybe Martha spent less time in NYC when younger (I think this is true).

The Streets - Weak Become Heroes (Röyksopp's Memory Lane Remix): Rave 1.0, lyrical content mirrored by aural semiotics i.e. Röyksopp going "you know what would actually be RILLY KEWL", hauntology(?). It's bizarre to me that I literally had never heard of this remix before I randomly ran across it on the internet. You would think, etc.

The overall effect is WAFFy to the point of cheesiness (the callouts at the end! no I've never heard the original either) but I have to smile. XD

Comments

[analyse.livejournal.com]

oh my god, you are alive! \\\o///

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Hangin' on by a thread, but hangin' on nonetheless. XD

[bladderwrack.livejournal.com]

god, I have the original of that The Streets song on CD from when I was, like, 13. Here: Weak Become Heroes (http://www.sendspace.com/file/59ne9v) Also: Has It Come To This? (http://www.sendspace.com/file/aoqj9w) Mr Mike Skinner is generally a bit of a twat but I like the above song still for the piano loop.


Hahaha. Got an Indefinites song (bitterly sarcastic, about the failings of third-wave feminism) off someone the other day. I -- ^^♥~

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Hey, awesome, thanks! Yeah, I haven't really heard much of M. Skinner, was an article way back when that really reified a certain quality of twattiness (as you say) for me... but some good tracks extant nonetheless.