evening tune #1 Psychic TV - Just Drifting (midnight instrumental)

I'm gonna start posting a track a day.
(a homage to lovefingers and bumrocks perhaps?)
To start,  here is Just Drifting (in it's midnight instrumental form)
from PSYCHIC TV - a MAJOR band for me.

So much in fact, that i wrote my degree dissertation on the band - the cunning angle (you ALWAYS needed an angle when doing an art degree.), being that i had been following this band and it's mighty, mighty shaman/leader GENESIS P-ORRIDGE,

since they had emerged from the dying embers of THROBBING GRISTLE. Not knowing that everything i had heard, witnessed, danced to and taken part in was infact.. ART :)
Here's a brilliant overview from fantastic killyourpetpuppy blog, where you can also check the original vocal version, with the gentle spoke/sung voice of Genesis, oddly cold and emotional at the same time laying these words over maybe some of the most fantastic downtempo orchestartion.. ever.
but for you here is the rarer midnight instrumental.
please enjoy!

these funks saved my sunday

there are times when a return to the funks
and the slow cleanliness of a groove
can begin the long hard graft
of the rearrangment of my mind

this selection is for PeechykKeen aka miss 300 to me :)
mz kween has it bad for the sadly missed (by it seems the whole world??) JAY DILLA.
My lack of detailed hiphop passion means that i tend to
see the late James Dewitt Yancey as a supreme listener of records from all corners of the disco.
PeechyKween is a team member of the super slick and generally
all round lovely looking IHEARTDILLA blog and general deposit for all things HIPHOP.. get involved!
She was directed my way, for no other reason than family ties :)
by the ever fragrent Amelia I RUN TINGS from the very mighty
PUTMEONIT... i salute thee ladies! X



tokimonsta - glaring lights
loose ends - feel the vibe
emantive - we travel the spacebeats
mckay - rising tide
undisputed truth - show time
stereolab - soop groove #1
fila brazilla - airlock holmes
nat adderley - quit it
leos sunship - im back for more
the roots - melting pot

texture of en(n)ui

Recently via the wonderful, wierd world of twitter i connected with
Tracie Stefansson aka traiskin, you can check her graceful multi
layered tunage here.
Last week Tracie tweeted that she needed a theme for a series she
was doing and i sugested "the texture of ennui".
I'd remembered this phrase from an interview with arch capitalist and
commercial artist damien hirst that id seen years ago.. it had always
stuck with me - how we immerse ourselves in boredom sometimes,
we explore and even celebrate the minutae of inactivity.
When our days are not taken up by tasks, we tend to drift, wander,
observe the macro closeups of the everyday.
here is a selection blended to reflect those sixteen images with an
introduction from the mighty leonard cohen.
you can also check her photographs in all their individual beauty
here.

neil ardley - soft stillness and the light
gabriel roth and the mirrors - aquifier
dj food -the dawn
love & rockets - saudade
chari chari - aurora
david sylvian - a bird of prey vanishes into a bright blue cloudless sky
dan lissvik - 7 trxintermission
frankie valentine - tears from the maidens tower
john martyn - glistening glyndebourne
deodato - pavane for a dead princess
robert fripp - cathedral of tears
delta saxophone quartet - floating world
daniel lanois - telco
 ... and you will know us by the trail of the dead
      - it was there that i saw you
telefon tel aviv - i lied
alice coltrane - om supreme

endless sea

oooooooh been a crazy coupla months...
but here is a selection to bring us back to earth
chilled and mildly psychedelic, with a chewy, heavy bit
somewhere on the other side of the middle.
featuring the stylings of kaki king, john grant & midlake
iggy pop, can, steve reich, dif juz, chic, rene & angela
key matic, kreidler, bix, irresistable force
matias aguayo, robert hood, bobby konders, man parrish
wagon christ, super numeri, ronny & renzo, bella vista
sunbear, santana, working week & the very mighty
yellow magic orchestra.
was thinking about venturing back to soundcloud with their
groovy wave form player, but this selection checks in at over
2 hours and i don't want to edit it down and i have 4
different soundcloud accounts (???) and will definately
get confused..im gonna stick with my little player and link
setup for a while longer.. hope thats ok?

silence part 2 prelude to some music

silence part 1

unexpected travel suggestions are like dancing lessons from god

download here

kurt vonnegut quotes always stick with me.
this quote made me think about a life,
where we have not stopped travelling
where time for us, has been defined
by the roads we have walked upon.
a life full of stops and starts
and a life full of colour, texture
and made even fuller by children.
as i type this we are waiting for
the arrival of the latest member
of our travelling family,
so this is our life on pause..
and when this newest member is settled,
we will continue on with our journey.
i dont believe in god but i do believe
that life must be cherished and nurtured.

this journey selection contains music from tarwater,
o rang, alice coltrane, fila brazilla, man jumping,
bud alzir, fridge, porn sword tobacco, zhou, hunee,
dj food, ragnarok & sufjan stevens.

chuck it on the pod and point yourself in any
direction, then start moving.