Track Of The Day: Miles Davis - Interlude (CBS)

It’s been a while since I posted anything by Miles. How did that happen? Anyway it’s Monday, I’m resting up after some minor surgery and out of action, so how about an interlude that lasts over twenty minutes and is a completely immersive piece of fusion. And I think the world is starting to catch Miles up as far as this era of his artistry is concerned. The album on which this features, ‘Agharta’ divided a lot of listeners at the time. Which I imagine was part of the motivation for making it in the first place. I guess that’s easy to understand when comparing stuff like it, recorded in an afternoon in 1975 at a concert in Osaka, to what came before ‘In A Silent Way’. There’s such a minimalist approach, particularly to Davis’ own input, compared to what was previously expected of jazz musicians. So without wanting to overstate anything, this is as out there as it gets, at any period in the evolution of music.

004.15-BARDO-IVAN+VLADIMIR

 

Vladimir · 004.15-BARDO-IVAN+VLADIMIR

Sound Metaphors Mix Series 48 : DJ Sundae

 

Sound Metaphors · Sound Metaphors Mix Series 48 : DJ Sundae

Track Of The Day: Connective Zone - Dude (Delsin)

 

Originally released just as this century was starting on Emoticon, Connective Zone’s ‘Qwerty’ EP badly needed a rerelease to prevent it from becoming a “lost classic” and to defang the Discogs sharks. And it’s aged very well. ‘Dude’ is a wonderfully lush break beat banger, which bangs as much as it can while under a metaphysical headlock. So it sounds blissful as it’s twatting your head against a brick wall.

Rhadoo @ SUPER DOMMUNE - 27.03.2026

 

Track Of The Day: The Black Dog - Parallel (General Production Recordings)

 

First released in 1991, and then later in 1995 as part of a compilation, ‘Parallel’ is a great example of the incredible sound that The black Dog were producing at that time. The design and density of this track is as good, if not better, than anything that came before and has been released since. It’s wonderful when hearing music like this for the first time and trying to imagine what inspired it. Your head really starts spinning at the thought of the multiple concepts that are involved in the imagination necessary to put this tune together. So apart from the music, the mystical dimension to this composition really comes through. And once the grey matter has grasped the calibration of transcendence, you are in the right place to be taken somewhere else.

Track Of The Day: Mood ll Swing - I See You Dancing (Groove On)

 

If we all hang around long enough every Mood ll Swing release will make it onto these pages. It’s as inevitable as Tom Cruise winning an Oscar in his dotage. Anyway, as far as I can see this gen hasn’t been posted yet. Iy has the hallmark groove of a classic Mood ll Swing track with added drum rolls, but what sets it apart is its synth work, which up close sounds like a wildly flanging guitar. One to raise the hairs on the back of your neck on the dance floor when all else is lost to inebriation me thinks.

Track Of Yesterday: Galaxian - Forget About It (Foul-Up)

This is one of Galaxian’s best, even though it might sound a bit earnest for some. Atmospheric and, as a result of some sterling work with disembodied voice transfiguration, sinister and poignant simultaneously. (Read that last bit in the exaggerated accent of a hippy Californian futurist). A set ender if ever I’ve heard one, leaving the crowd to disperse to their early morning food for thought.

Trommel.241 - Carl H [recorded live at Evasion Festival 2025]

 

trommel · Trommel.241 - Carl H [recorded live at Evasion Festival 2025]

Track Of The Day: Sten - Eccentric (Dial)

 

File this under “one of those tracks I’d forgotten I’d bought but I’m glad I did”. Sten, aka Lawrence is the label head of Dial, along with Carsten Jost and Turner. And this piece of gothic flavoured, cinematic deep house sounds like it emerged straight from the watery, boggy steppes with its menacing credentials intact. It’s a wall of sound tune, immersive, sinister and uncanny which has the power to sweep you away on the dance floor or, equally, take you to another dimension while sitting in your metaphysical drawing room wrapped up in your thoughts and insulated from the outside world.

Track Of The Day: Morgan Geist - Lullaby (Environ)

 

A quarter century since this was released. That makes you think innit. I can remember going into Black Market Records in Soho to buy this. And when ‘Miura’ came out shortly after 9/11 I repeated the process. This is such a great, understated track though. Three parts electro and three parts disco, lifted from the lino onto the dance floor. I used to play ‘24K’ out a lot more, but would throw this on if the crowd needed a Kraftwerk fix. Bloody marvellous.