A new, slightly squelchy, completely swinging mix from Leftside Wobble – a gent introduced to us via his ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ edit played by Greg Wilson at the last Mister Saturday Night at Market Hotel back in March. Heat!
[mix via the Leftside Wobble Blog]
With a Womack and Womack track fresh in memory from the Twitter feed of Floating Points (who so generously hosted me at his apartment in London earlier this week), I saw the Family Spirit album in the bins on the street in front of a record shop in Berlin today, and I immediately took it over to the record player in the store to give it a spin. I couldn’t take the needle off of ‘My Dear (The Letter)’ until it had faded it out. What a song. The video above is weird, and I think it’s a different version than the one on the LP, but it’ll give you the idea. Expect to hear this at the end of a Mister Saturday Night loft party soon.
The report from Horse Meat Disco is that we drank too much whiskey, played disco and gospel house, and people took their clothes off. Most of the nudity was courtesy of a gent called Sleazy Michael. (That is a very NSFW link, by the way.) We were told that he wasn’t the original naked guy of the party, but we were happy all the same. Justin also got flashed by one of two women in the club, and the other nice young lady didn’t need to bother flashing, because her top was off pretty much from the moment she hit the dancefloor. Tasteful pictures and videos from the night are on the way. For now, we’re headed to the British Museum to try to pull our minds out of the gutter.
School of Seven Bells! What a show last night. The Deheza twins’ voices were in sync and cathedral-fit, Ben Curtis’ guitar playing was perfectly jagged, and the beats – partially provided by machine and partially by a drummer – were giant. We love SVIIB’s records, but in the flesh there’s a visceral energy that takes it to a higher plane.
Kudos to Ghostly for pushing culture where it needs to go by releasing their albums (while still putting out stuff like Mux Mool). It’s so refreshing to see an “electronic-music” label releasing genre-transcending music like this. It seems their ambition is being paid back with success, too. Last night’s show was very sold out. More photos below the fold. Continue reading “School of Seven Bells Last Night”