Track Of The Day: Reedale Rise - Littoral Zone (Delsin)

 

While I’m readjusting to normal life after Sheffield, here’s a lovely piece of sublime profundity from Reedale Rise. Simon Kent, aka Mr Rise, is from Liverpool and early in his career produced some lovely pieces of deep electro and mid-nineties UK IDM-inspired goodness, like this. It’s one of those releases that I forgot I owned, and am obviously very glad I do. Saying the unsaid in such an eloquent, electronic way, it’s one of those tracks that sounds like the machines are in communion with themselves, producing a sophisticated language that no one really understands, while communicating with each other through melancholic, melodic vibes. A great one to open or close a set with. Or, should you so desire, to accompany for sitting in the library of Babel, surrounded by ancient tomes and sipping a strong, smoky Armagnac. 

Track Of The Day: Gazelle Twin - Belly Of The Beast (Anti-Ghost Moon Ray Records)

 

Last night I was in Sheffield to see Cabaret Voltaire’s final UK gig. And while it was great, emotional, all those things you would expect, I remember the performance of the support act, Gazelle Twin, just as much. And I’[m annoyed because I didn’t catch all of her set. Just the final twenty minutes or so. Still it was more than enough to elect a lot of interest. In the short time she was on stage I was completely transfixed. A compelling, sonically unique performer.

Tracks Of The Weekend: Cabaret Voltaire - Spread The Virus (Rough Trade) & Sandoz - Dark Continent (Touch)

 

 

  

A nice double bill here. As myself and the missus are tracking up to Sheffield later today for Cabaret Voltaire’s last ever gig, (so they say), here are two tracks that won’t be played. The first is a classic from ‘Red Mecca’, highlighting Steven Mallinder’s growling vocals and Richard Kirk’s sax. The other is A Kirk solo effort. The former engenders a sense of latent paranoia in spite of the beats and momentum. The second couldn’t be more different in tone, and is dreamlike in parallel with grooviness. Both works of genius, both incredibly influential and moving. We shall never see their like again.

Track Of The Day: Thomas Melchior - Feel Sensual (Perlon)

 

One from the early days of Perlon. Minimal before minimal. Having said that there’s plenty going on here. Of course it’s the eponymous vocal sample that grabs the attention first, but closer listening reveal a myriad of sonic activity. The percussion is what most stands out, but under the hi-hats you’ve got a guitar that sounds like a sitar, a laid-back sub bass and an undulating, indefinable floater. It sounds like the sound a short wave radio might make when overheating. It skips along a bit too quickly for me, so I’d pitch it down a tadge. 

Track Of The Day: LFO - Psycodelik (Warp)

 

Keeping it Yorkshire innit. LFO are from Sheffield and they are worth a comparison with Cabaret Voltaire not just for geographical reasons. So much of their output goes under the radar.’Psycodelik’, for their second album ‘Advance’ being a case in point. I bought this album pretty much on its day of release. However, it’s been so long since I listened to it that I’ve forgotten any specifics. ‘Psycodelik’ sounds like dance floor techno composed by a hybrid of The BBC Radiophonic Workshop and Jean-Michel Jarre. What it lacks in bass it more than makes up for in self-consciously affected space age high end effects and a sense of the euphoric. A great track from an album that I shall be revisiting before travelling up to Sheffield on Sunday.

Track Of The Day: Cabaret Voltaire - Sluggin' Fer Jesus Pt 1 & 2 (Les Disques Du Crépuscule)

 

Two for the price of one. One of Cabaret Voltaire’s finest earlier moments (by that I mean before the got groovier). Described as industrial in some quarters, when it sounds the opposite. Very primitive and organic. It can’t have been easy to get the machines to discover their inner organisms. This is a piece of tribal electronica which probably wrote most of 23 Skidoo’s nascent output for them. It’s a sampling masterclass that in turns reeks of cold war espionage and tribal funk. I’m off to Sheffield on Sunday for what is supposed to be their last ever gig. I don’t think they’ll perform this. It’ll probably be ‘Voice Of America’. Two sides of the same coin.

Track Of The Day: Giorgio Moroder - Paul's Theme (Jogging Chase) (UMG Recordings)

 

Feeling a little lazy today, so here’s something from ‘Cat People’ that sort of fits the bill. That is to say my name’s Paul and I’m about to go out running. Not jogging, that seventies/eighties fad invented by the target of Bill Hicks’ ire, Jim Fixx. I don’t have the leg warmers or head band. And is there a more eighties actress than Nastassia Kinski? She came and went. Where is she now I wonder? She’s still with us and she’s ]older than me! That feels odd. I’ve only ever viewed her through the prism of that decade and ‘Paris Texas’, ‘Tess’ and this film. Giorgio Moroder pulls out another one of his inimitable electric sagas. Has this ever been edited or extended? I’m a bit too lazy to look. The time is now though.

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