Wednesday, June 17, 2026
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
Monday, June 15, 2026
Track Of The Day: Ron Trent - Seduction (Subwoofer)
If there’s one track that typifies Ron Trent’s sound, then for me it has to be this one. It’s not my favourite from him, but it is unforgettable. It manages to be deep, driving, soulful and woozy at the same time. And the percussion, that sounds like a slick, air-dampened batacuda barrage. One of the great deep house tracks and long enough to support two or three lesser tunes on the mix.
Sunday, June 14, 2026
Track Of The Day: Metamatics - Bodypop (Shipwrec)
A great track of weighty, slo-mo electro from Metamatics, aka Lee Norris, who has been releasing stuff from the mid nineties, but nowt since 2024. ‘Bodypop’ is electro suspended in amber. A track to gauge the retro in vitro. Cryogenically frozen beats inhabiting a strange funk hinterland where B-boys breakdance on elevated Persian rugs, levitating above their dreams to decompose and then regenerate, their body parts taking on new meanings and motions in the process.
Tracks Of Yesterday: Erik Satie - Gymnopedies 1, 2, 3
In the nineteenth century ambience with rhythm was being produced. Erik Satie’s ‘Gymnopedies’ are almost certainly the precursor of the type. The first time I heard this was probably while watching ‘Diva’, when ‘No. 1’ is used in the scene in, I think, Le Jardin des Tuileries. Lovely stuff.
Saturday, June 13, 2026
Friday, June 12, 2026
Track Of The Day: Defunkt - In The Good Times (Hannibal)
‘In The Good Times’ comes from Defunkt’s eponymously titled debut album and is, not surprisingly, inspired by Chic’s more famous track of nearly the same name. It’s a documentation of singer Joe Bowie’s drug addiction at the time and is a great piece of bass-driven heavy avant funk. The guitar work and effects burst out all over the place, kept in check by the vocals, bass and horns. It’s another one that takes me back to the smoke-filled bedrooms of my youth and hearing it now brings on a Proustian rush. Defunkt’s first two albums are brilliant, and I was lucky enough to see them at the New Morning in Paris in the mid nineties. And I think I touched Joe’s trombone.
Thursday, June 11, 2026
Track Of The Day: Idealist - Immersion (Mojuba)
This is from the just released ‘Hidden World’ EP from Swiss artist Idealist on Mojuba. And it’s a nice slice of dub techno which, while eponymous its intentions, isn’t as obvious as you might think. It has a dusty, organic feel and feels like an updated take on ‘outsider house’, whatever that was, or is. It’s as laid back as piece was you could wish for, with a dreamy feel that sets it apart and gives it an extra dimension. Very nice, and on red vinyl too.
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