Monday, 28 December 2009

Friday, 6 November 2009

Delia Derbyshire track from 1963

Discovered on a cassette hidden in her attic after her death in 2001.

Thursday, 5 November 2009

Erik Satie's Gnossienne No 1 for Modular Synthesizer



Brilliant because it leaves me completely and utterly cold. This captures a particular feeling of science fiction angst and dystopian paranoia better than anything else i can remember.

Here's the original for comparision.

Sunday, 11 October 2009

Derrick May

Make more bloody music.

Wednesday, 16 September 2009

Wednesday, 9 September 2009

Sunday, 17 May 2009

Lee 'Scratch' Perry vs Kode9 - Yellow Tongue (dub)

Kode9 continues the 'dystopian funky' paradox with this new cut featuring Lee Scratch Perry. A combination of carefree caribbean percussion and dark bass stabs simultaneously recall images of a summertime barbeque in the Bahamas and any one of a number of 20th century dystopian visions of the future.



If you want a picture of the future, imagine a jolly, fat Jamaican lady playing a steel drum - forever.