guiding lights (edition one)
music
There’s so much music around. All these amazing music blogs, myspace pages filled with original tracks and edits. It’s a great time to be passionate about music.
In recognition of this sea change in the way we find and consume music, we are starting a new feature “guiding lights”. Every couple of weeks or so we will be putting together a 30 minute mix of the best of what is available from our favourite blogs. Hopefully it will lead you to discover new places and help deal with the overwhelming quantity of music that’s out there.
tracklisting after the jump…..
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Rare Groove
edits
So here’s a monster of a track, whichever way you look at it. Fresh from ULYSSES82, I know that the purists in the glass half-empty camp will be all ‘That’s SO obvious Man.. Wow’.
However, the glass half-full camp will already be on the D-Floor, with their shades on and their light-up LED T-Shirts in full song, wondering what all the fuss is about.
I love all the tracks pilfered for this edit, but rarely play them out on their own because they seem too much most of the time, too easy perhaps, too.. -too obvious. But that doesn’t change the fact that they’re still stone cold classics, which brings me back to that difficult question, when DO you play those tracks which are so great, they’re actually too big for their own good?
I dunno. To be honest, it’s Thursday night, I’ve had me tea and my head’s full of potential Pro-Evo formations and little else. I’m in full on Mongsville, it’s Friday tomorrow and I can smell the weekend already.
So it’s with great pleasure that I present to you a remix that’s proud of it’s roots, certainly doesn’t take itself too seriously, and flicks all my weekend switches to ‘on’. Enjoy.
Daft Punk – Around The World (ULYSSES82 Mix)
To the place where your horses run free
music_third floor classics
So wednesday’s Prince gig was great.
It was so good being with so many people that I didn’t know but with whom I had all these shared memories and, as much as you don’t want it just to be about nostalgia, it’s the past that draws you and the the past that will always be Prince’s worst enemy. I guess it’s a good problem to have, a peerless back catalogue, the greatest live act around for the best part of a decade, how do you compete with that ?
Well you don’t really and that’s just gonna have to be fine.
When I was growing up Prince was barely even human. He was this other being, someone to whom the normal rules didn’t apply- the man who feel to earth. He didn’t do interviews, he put freaky record out after freaky record all sounding like nothing you’d ever heard, all drawn from a magical place, Paisley Park, that no-one else could go, like sly stone and willy wonka had some secret love child.
And maybe sly stone is a good a reference point as any, there is something unforgiving about music-the nowness of things seem so massively important.
So he played some hits, he did his thing in a way that, even now, no-one else could dream. It helped us remember all the good times (and bad) to which his songs have provided the soundtrack and, more importantly, it was obvious to us all that he is entirely human, (the guitar solos whilst performing spilts/ the crazy dance moves are long gone) and, strangely, that was a relief. That I could let go of this semi-religious awe and enjoy him for what he is-a supremely talented individual.
Prince-Climax (Ulysses82 redub)
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