Jansky Noise - Past Present & Future Star Music

Definitely one of the best Portishead tracks ever! The combination of 808 delivered raw with simple vocal. The addition here combined with Tetsueo - Iron Man visual works, although I expect this is not the official film for the track, nevertheless the combination is worthy.

So dense, so creamy, so full, so rich, so much more than your average, really really, no end to this. You just have to believe it. All and more under your nose, smell the cream and lap it up, baby!x

Yeh, this is real special, you should probably play this one from time to time. I love it, a gesture and a mashed gift with a message for someone young but really for all of us! Dont let them kill your imagination. Dance just like a tornado, spin the world right out, till you filled your cup! Cherish every single day..

Amazing how music sometimes just gets lost. This is the best example of a relatively recent cover version which saw no light of day. Nothing, just came out and got lost in the endless wave of new musics. This is a shame for Mechanical Bride as I am sure that millions would indeed enjoy this cover version. Well, while it rains in Madrid myself and Rebecca have enjoyed this track today. ARRGh. X

Dont get too many lyrics of this nature in the charts!!!

Green Porno indeed! I put a link to Isabella Rossellini's hilarious interpretation of sex from the natural world, a long time ago on this blog, but that link got pulled, so here she is again exploring the mating habits of snails. Top job!

It's amazing what you can do with a loop, here this vocal took on a new dimension. Bringing a poor soul with faith, Tom Waits and a certain Gavin Bryars together. Once you have heard this song it should never leave you. Nice to see that at least some of you are lending an ear as this video currently has more than 47,000 views.

It's time for the Magician. An empty sky, a violent sea. When I was a lad in Manchester the 12'' version could be located within my Fathers record collection. This song without doubt is one of my all time desert island disks, an inspiration, in my tender years and even now. Real treasure..

Plenty of Gypsy Music this way in Spain, however Parno Graszt or the White Horse in Romani language play with purity and freedom. Authentic Hungarian Gypsy music, a wonderful source. I love their instruments and the spirit, so humbled and real. This particular song is cheerful, vigorous and beaming with vocal splendour. Certainly caught my ear. Try it, then try deny it. You wont be disappointed.

The prolific James Leyland Kirby has several videos up online via Youtube. Most of which I see and hear with some frequency. This track in particular was one which caught my ear. Seems that this has not only caught my ear but it has also caught many others. Take a listen and walk it's gentle path. Have a good weekend, I know I will try.

There I was thinking my dancing times are over, having just spent the best part of 6 weeks on crutches after a recent knee operation, only to discover this wonderful visual crutch dance.

An excerpt from my forthcoming album exploring new music and old romance. The full piece will be available soon. The base of the album evolves around - 80's sythn classic. It's a slow momentous ride, slowed electronics, coupled with romance. A blown fuse point where an end arrived and those epic structural harmonics and old masters before go off the edge. Fluidity get´s lost and melts into contrast, while color collides and swaps itself into expression. In the struggle of sound a blurred new form attempts to emerge, uncertain and without direction. Modulated music, both diminished and expanded. More about this forthcoming release which will be available in several parts on different platforms very soon.

My long standing friend, vocalist and collaborator T.T or 10/10, has just sent me this wonderful link. Real nice to wake up with Lana Del Rey. The production here is stunning, love the mix, yeh, it's commercial, but it's my idea of fun, the effects on the vocals, the harp, the percussion and the slices of video injected into the mix. Heaven is a place on earth with you. Lana Del Rey - Video Games and Blue Jeans. Much better than I ever knew. They say the world was built for two, play and enjoy. Loving you...x. Yew, you it's all for you!!!

Looking into what constitutes a - lullaby and stumbled across this hallardu, designed for children of India and speakers of Gujarati worldwide. The slower percussion and melody are pleasing, not sure how much I could sleep listening too this but it's certainly sweet.

After looking around on line for Petra Jean Philipson, I could not find a song from her new album titled - Notes on Death. I therefore decided that it was time to upload a taster for you to hear. Petra is touching on a raw nerve with her experiments. This Tubeophany track actually runs at over 13min on the album. I have uploaded a reduced version for you. The album is a mixed canvas of experiments which could well help her land other more theatrical works. Not quite as dark as the new tracks from Passing Yew, but interesting nevertheless.

The legendary Glagsow/Manchester based DJ and Father to myself and James Leyland Kirby Acid Alan used the term 'space cadet', to describe many a person more than I care to ever remember. I like to think of this song as perhaps the music equivalent of what he was referring to. Take advice from Acid Alan and the Space Cadet - be a space cadet, escape reality, move inside walls, go out and eat a meal on Mars, let Robots do the work, live amongst the stars!!! Remember kids the future is to escape reality or at least that's what the Space Cadet believe. Too stupid and too good!

Eager To Tear Apart The Stars by LEYLAND KIRBY - CD - Boomkat - Your independent music specialist My, my, yes, the brilliant creative talent, my V/Vm right hand man and long standing whisky drinking companion - James Leyland Kirby has just released another wonderful set of lucidly, slow, haunting musics. Sure to be fine in company or alone with a good bottle. Get it while you can, it's available in your region as it has proper distribution however like all good things, it shall not be available for long. Check, listen adore, buy.

I was never a fan of Andrea Parker, but my old mate Marco P. from Italy - has highlighted this one for me again, time and time again. It has a darkness which strikes a chord, simplicity in electronics. I will also put some old stuff to the Nature Records myself and James used to buy many moons ago when shopping in London, when electronic music was exciting, way back in 1999 and before!!

Yeh, this has a future! We need more of this!

Yeh, this is stupid but I agree - The World is full of cables. Without them we would be in a real mess, we should thanks Los Samplers for the reminder... Hasta pronto!!!

Under an Old Oak.. Under an old tree? I am loving trees at the moment, but the tree I am interested in is actually the Yew. Soon, something will appear with a Yew in the title which may or may not put a shiver in you...Mmmh..