Posts by Peter Darlington
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New Nicolas Jaar tune Mud is sounding pretty great!
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Jeez, how's a man meant to get any work done if you keep lobbing this sort of stuff at us! :-)
Well done to all!
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The new Truento is the bomb. Seems to be that rare musician that graze across styles and always keep it interesting, never boring or cheesy.
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Hard News: Shots Fired, in reply to Russell Brown,
An excellent point. In my defence, there were a lot of claims that needed addressing in 11 minutes.
Oh for sure, I was pointing out my surprise that neither Chloe or Corin jumped in & hit him up about it during the broadcast. Seemed to be one gaping hole (of many) in McCoskrie's logic.
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Was surprised the other 2 didn't pick up on McCoskrie's continuing referral to successful anti-smoking campaigns as providing a guide as to how we might tackle lowering drug demand and use. He seemed to be missing the logic that anti-smoking campaigns only work because smoking is legal so companies and the product can be targeted around tax, plain packaging etc...
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Dām Funk and a Nightmares on Wax DJ set sounds pretty good to me!
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I'd regularly buy NME in the 1980s and dive straight in for the Swells features, reviews and general shit talking. His hate reviews and winding up of the current coolest bands fans was always fabulously entertaining. Even in the 2000s, not long before his death he was still funny. From an article in Village Voice pushing the wonders of er... Sigue Sigue Sputnik..
"Unfortunately, back in the ’80s, the S.S.S. we-bring-rock-from-the-future shtick went down like a cup of cold sick with a generation of British pop kids dressed up in thrift-store dead-man suits and skanking to the fossilized ska pop of 2 Tone. An entire generation turned their back on Sputnik’s future rock and embraced instead the defeatist, introspective, monocultural meanderings of passive-aggressive ponces the Smiths."
Word.
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And 3 Pharaoh Sanders classics get a re-release both individually and as a 3 x LP set on Anthology Recordings.
https://thevinylfactory.com/news/three-iconic-pharoah-sanders-albums-reissued/
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Hard News: Friday Music: Five Songs in a…, in reply to Russell Brown,
...one of the few sources for non-major-label reggae releases in New Zealand for a while was Hoghton Hughes' Music World label...
You still see them occasionally in charity shops and garage sales as well.
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...but what I’m most excited about is Tall Black Guy and John Morales at the DJ Stage.
Gutted to be missing Tall Black Guy at Moon in Newtown, Wellington because I literally get into Newtown from Nelson about an hour too late. Doh!
The just in: Underworld are playing at a new festival on April 8. It's called Oro and it's to be held in Woodhill Forest.
If you like your electro dark and bassy, can highly recommend Underworld's Twenty Three Blue, an out-take from their last album, Barbara Barbara...We Face a Shining Future.