A Brighton based music blog and radio series by a Philosophy student called Peter Lanceley. I broadcast every Saturday evening at 6.30pm on Resonance FM and document my writing here. I also release music with the Alcohol Label and make music with Kinnie The Explorer. If you'd like to contact me, for whatever reason, please do so on...
Ikue Mori, a formative influence in the No Wave act DNA in the 70s and influential character in contemporary avant-garde, is streaming this wonderful piece of audible art via Sound And Music’s Soundcloud page, the same London-based, Arts Council-funded organisation who are currently co-promoting her short UK tour. As this post goes out, two dates remain, the first at London’s Ashwin Street Resonance-affiliated venue Cafe Oto (details), and tomorrow at Belfast’s Black Box (details).
Swansea Recreation Centre - First Time European (Video)
I tried to get to the bottom of why I love Swansea Recreation Centre in my post on the band last month. I also promised to bring you their new video for ‘First Time European’ when I found it. Here I proclaim, is the best song and video you’ll find in a long time; a desolate blend of grainy video footage cut and pasted from independent films ‘F For Fake’ by Orson Welles and Stranger Than Paradise by Jim Jarmusch. Watching the video leaves me even more confused, confused being, in my eyes, the pinnacle of feeling which all music and art should aim to evoke.
This week, the king of choral RnB, Active Child, plays a one-off show at St. Pancras Old Church, Philadelphia’s Sun Airway showcase at Hoxton Square and Male Bonding headline a night at The Garage with Gross Magic and The History of Apple Pie. Also in the city for the coming week are Spectrals, Babeshadow, Julian Cope, Real Estate, Spotlight Kid, Bear Driver, Bon Iver and Architecture In Helsinki. Full list below.
Dirty Beaches + Ela Orleans @ Bush Hall, London (Monday)
A rare live date for brazened post-punk star Alexander Zhang Hungtai, but surely one of many more to come. I championed his track ‘Lone Runner’ back in August for its influence ‘squeezed from modern lo-fi, a smattering of 40s and 50s swing and pop…[and] bleak colourless imagery’. Support comes from Ela Orleans, purveyor of the other half of Dirty Beaches’ split 12” ‘Double Feature’.
Nadja + Petrels @ Cafe Oto, London (Wednesday)
Nadja are an experimental drone/noise metal act going strong since 2003. In support comes Petrels, a fascinating ritualistic choir act whose most recent album ‘Haeligewielle’, came out on Tartaruga Records in June.
Binnacle Festival 2011 @ The Old Blue Last, London (Sat + Sun)
A self-proclaimed ‘micro-festival’ at The Old Blue Last pub in Shoreditch, which might be practically very small-scale but is packed full back-to-back with new, electronic talent. For many of the artists playing, this will be their first show. Favourites on these pages who will be in attendance include Acid Glasses (making their UK debut), Seams (who just released his Binnacle 2011 mix) and Conifers. You can read the full line-up over at Safe Concerts. Not to be missed for any London-based fans of experimental electronics and blissful lo-fi dance music. Grab MP3s from international debut-makers Sun Glitters and MOTHS below. Tickets here.
Live: Four Tet FabricLive 59 Launch @ Fabric, London 23/9/2011
Accompanied for the iconic London club-night by three Fabric-size rooms worth of highly innovative forces in contemporary dance music, Kieran Hebden, in launching his FabricLive 59 Mix, distinguished himself further as a leader in the field he arguably played a leading role in creating. Supposedly his latest mix 12” is not simply a collection of notable tracks, but a study in the culture surrounding dance music, centring on forgotten early 90s productions and abstract experimental electronics which otherwise might have been passed by. But such extreme variance in sound and style is bound together with an idiosyncratic expertise in manipulation, coloured over by a smooth, monochrome knack for euphoric arrangement and distinctly Four Tet jazz vibe.
“This mix is not about my DJing. It’s about London and Fabric and nights out and my take on all that. The memories and the influences. I used old and new music, I used recordings of Fabric, and I made new tracks of my own for it. I hope people play it fucking loud and lose their minds in it and remember or imagine what it’s all about.”- Four Tet
Joined by Caribou, Trevor Jackson, Jacques Greene and RocketNumberNine in Room 1, Four Tet might have surprised some of his more recent acquaintances; FabricLive 59 marks a return to his experimentalist roots, reverberant echoes of deep-house and jazz percussion winding eerily onwards with an increasingly dehumanized feel. His previous LP ‘There Is Love In You’, was an organic masterpiece, touching in its snippets of manipulated acoustic guitar and human voices - dance-floor ready only insofar as the extended sections of ‘Love Cry’ indicated perhaps a preview of what this recent FabricLive mix was to contain. Below, find Locked, a TEXT (Four Tet’s own label) release from the new 12”, available to buy now on this link.
01 Intro 02 Michel Redolfi - Immersion Partielle [INA-GRM] 03 Crazy Bald Heads - First Born [On-Tick] 04 Persian - Feel Da Vibe [Same People] 05 KH - 101112 [unreleased] 06 Youngstar (Musical Mob) - Pulse X [Inspired Sounds] 07 Crazy Bald Heads - First Born (Four Tet Remix) [unreleased] 08 Floating Points - Sais (Dub) [Eglo] 09 Apple - Mr Bean [Appsolute] 10 Manitoba (Caribou) - Webers [Leaf] 11 Big Bird - Flav (Urban Myths Remix) [Nice n Ripe] 12 Genius - Waiting [Kronik] 13 Four Tet - Fabric [unreleased] 14 David Borden - The Continuing Story Of Counterpoint, Part Nine [David Borden] 15 STL - Dark Energy [Something] 16 Percussions - Percussions One [unreleased] 17 C++ - Angie’s Fucked [Music For Freaks] 18 Burial - Street Halo [Hyperdub] 19 KMA - Cape Fear [KMA] 20 WK7 - Higher Power [Power House] 21 Ricardo Villalobos - Sieso [Cadenza] 22 Four Tet - Pyramid [Text] 23 Red Rack’em - How I Program [Bergerac] 24 Active Minds - Hobson’s Choice (Tune For Da Man Dem) [white] 25 Armando Gallop & Steve Poindexter - Blackholes [Muzique] 26 Outro 27 Four Tet - Locked [Text]
![London / Brighton Live (Oct. 10 - Oct. 16)
Dirty Beaches + Ela Orleans @ Bush Hall, London (Monday)
A rare live date for brazened post-punk star Alexander Zhang Hungtai, but surely one of many more to come. I championed his track ‘Lone Runner’ back in August for its influence ‘squeezed from modern lo-fi, a smattering of 40s and 50s swing and pop…[and] bleak colourless imagery’. Support comes from Ela Orleans, purveyor of the other half of Dirty Beaches’ split 12” ‘Double Feature’.
Nadja + Petrels @ Cafe Oto, London (Wednesday)
Nadja are an experimental drone/noise metal act going strong since 2003. In support comes Petrels, a fascinating ritualistic choir act whose most recent album ‘Haeligewielle’, came out on Tartaruga Records in June.
Binnacle Festival 2011 @ The Old Blue Last, London (Sat + Sun)
A self-proclaimed ‘micro-festival’ at The Old Blue Last pub in Shoreditch, which might be practically very small-scale but is packed full back-to-back with new, electronic talent. For many of the artists playing, this will be their first show. Favourites on these pages who will be in attendance include Acid Glasses (making their UK debut), Seams (who just released his Binnacle 2011 mix) and Conifers. You can read the full line-up over at Safe Concerts. Not to be missed for any London-based fans of experimental electronics and blissful lo-fi dance music. Grab MP3s from international debut-makers Sun Glitters and MOTHS below. Tickets here.
Dirty Beaches - The Singer (Johnny Cash Cover) (MP3)
Ela Orleans - Something Higher (MP3)
Petrels - Concrete (MP3)
Sun Glitters - e v e r y t h i n g c o u l d b e f i n e (MP3)
MOTHS - Blisters (MP3)
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Monday
Still Corners @ Cafe Oto, London (Tickets)
Dirty Beaches + Ela Orleans @ Bush Hall, London (Tickets)
Mother Mother, Younghusband, Birdy Hunt @ The Lexington, London (Tickets)
Iron & Wine + Fujiya & Miyagi @ Shephard’s Bush Empire, London (Tickets)
Tuesday
Spiritualized @ Royal Albert Hall, London (Tickets)
Fanzine @ Madame Jojo’s, London (Tickets)
Still Corners @ Rough Trade East, London (In-store)
Wednesday
Cloud Control + Born Blonde @ Scala, London (Tickets)
Nadja + Petrels + The Plurals @ Cafe Oto, London (Tickets)
Thursday
Mazes + Milk Maid @ The Lexington, London (Tickets)
Friday
Mazes + Fear Of Men @ The Hope, Brighton (Tickets)
The Kills @ Concorde 2, Brighton (Tickets)
Saturday
James Vincent McMorrow + The Staves @ St. Bartholemew’s Church, Brighton (Tickets)
Binnacle 2011 Festival (Day 1) @ The Old Blue Last, London (Tickets)
Joy Orbison + Julio Bashmore @ Digital, Brighton (Tickets)
Drums Of Death, Solar Bears + More @ The Macbeth, London (Tickets)
Sunday
Apparat @ The Haunt, Brighton (Tickets)
Binnacle Festival 2011 (Day 2) @ The Old Blue Last, London (Tickets)
What have I missed? Contact me via @thismusicwins / the comment box below, or on peter@thismusicwins.com](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lskdahvdpJ1qa0h5lo1_r1_1280.jpg)
![Live: Four Tet FabricLive 59 Launch @ Fabric, London 23/9/2011
Accompanied for the iconic London club-night by three Fabric-size rooms worth of highly innovative forces in contemporary dance music, Kieran Hebden, in launching his FabricLive 59 Mix, distinguished himself further as a leader in the field he arguably played a leading role in creating. Supposedly his latest mix 12” is not simply a collection of notable tracks, but a study in the culture surrounding dance music, centring on forgotten early 90s productions and abstract experimental electronics which otherwise might have been passed by. But such extreme variance in sound and style is bound together with an idiosyncratic expertise in manipulation, coloured over by a smooth, monochrome knack for euphoric arrangement and distinctly Four Tet jazz vibe.
“This mix is not about my DJing. It’s about London and Fabric and nights out and my take on all that. The memories and the influences. I used old and new music, I used recordings of Fabric, and I made new tracks of my own for it. I hope people play it fucking loud and lose their minds in it and remember or imagine what it’s all about.”- Four Tet
Joined by Caribou, Trevor Jackson, Jacques Greene and RocketNumberNine in Room 1, Four Tet might have surprised some of his more recent acquaintances; FabricLive 59 marks a return to his experimentalist roots, reverberant echoes of deep-house and jazz percussion winding eerily onwards with an increasingly dehumanized feel. His previous LP ‘There Is Love In You’, was an organic masterpiece, touching in its snippets of manipulated acoustic guitar and human voices - dance-floor ready only insofar as the extended sections of ‘Love Cry’ indicated perhaps a preview of what this recent FabricLive mix was to contain. Below, find Locked, a TEXT (Four Tet’s own label) release from the new 12”, available to buy now on this link.
01 Intro02 Michel Redolfi - Immersion Partielle [INA-GRM]03 Crazy Bald Heads - First Born [On-Tick]04 Persian - Feel Da Vibe [Same People]05 KH - 101112 [unreleased]06 Youngstar (Musical Mob) - Pulse X [Inspired Sounds]07 Crazy Bald Heads - First Born (Four Tet Remix) [unreleased]08 Floating Points - Sais (Dub) [Eglo]09 Apple - Mr Bean [Appsolute]10 Manitoba (Caribou) - Webers [Leaf]11 Big Bird - Flav (Urban Myths Remix) [Nice n Ripe]12 Genius - Waiting [Kronik]13 Four Tet - Fabric [unreleased]14 David Borden - The Continuing Story Of Counterpoint, Part Nine [David Borden]15 STL - Dark Energy [Something]16 Percussions - Percussions One [unreleased]17 C++ - Angie’s Fucked [Music For Freaks]18 Burial - Street Halo [Hyperdub]19 KMA - Cape Fear [KMA]20 WK7 - Higher Power [Power House]21 Ricardo Villalobos - Sieso [Cadenza]22 Four Tet - Pyramid [Text]23 Red Rack’em - How I Program [Bergerac]24 Active Minds - Hobson’s Choice (Tune For Da Man Dem) [white]25 Armando Gallop & Steve Poindexter - Blackholes [Muzique]26 Outro27 Four Tet - Locked [Text]
Locked (TEXT011) by Four Tet](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ls19zyVGnA1qa0h5lo1_1280.jpg)
