This Track Is Fire!

While I was on PTO last week my friend Jeff, the same guy that suggested the band Chalk to me back in February , asked me if I had ever heard of the ground Paranoid London. I hadn't, and told him I would check them out. Last Thursday and Friday were busy with vacationing, so I finally had a chance to check them out this weekend, starting with track one of their album Arseholes, Liars, and Electronic Pioneers . My first impression was that this was some chill, electronic music that might be a slow burn for me. Mind you, that was after playing the first track. Then the second track, "Love One Self," came on and I was immediately blown away. Is this acid house? It is Nitzer Ebb? Front 242? No, it was none of these, but also, kind of all of these things, and my audio heart swooned. This is what I sent to Jeff: First song, ok, this is chill, I can throw it on in the background. Second song: FUCK YES. I had pretty much the same reaction to all of the following tracks. Me being ...

Today's vibe. Where were you when I was lonesome? Locked away with freezing cold Someone flying only stolen I can't tell this light so old I don't wanna swim the ocean I don't wanna fight the tide I don't wanna swim forever When it's cold I'd like to die Is it comforting or terribly depressing? Maybe both. You tell me. All that I know with certainty is that it is very moving. Welcome to Friday. Enjoy!

I know I posted another EBM tune on Monday , but sometimes that's just my mood (when I'm not obsessing over Joey Valence and Brae , that is). What do I know about the artist "i'm loam?" Nothing, other than this short track is a banger that I keep listening to and wiggling/dancing in my chair as I do so. A coworker/friend sent it along a few weeks ago, and yeah, I love it, it's fire. That's it. It makes you want to dance and it's really fucking good. I'll definitely be grabbing this during Bandcamp Friday this week. 'Nuff said! Enjoy! I'm loam - stay here don't go by CLUBR

After a nice week of waking up and drinking coffee while overlooking a lake I had to get up today and go back to work. I was not ready for that. So instead, why not take a moment to immerse yourself into the sublime repetittion of really good dance music? I know that the happy vibes of last week won't carry over for very long into this week, but with a track like this you can pretend for a little while as the bass washes over you. Happy Monday, enjoy!

At over seven minutes, this is not a short song, but that's OK, because it builds along its sampled vocals, folding in the synth-bass line, incorporating more sounds and the track fills out, beats and synths dancing around each other before the vocals finally flow in.  Hot Chip invite the listener in to hear their music, feel it, and then, when the time is right, let it sway you to dance. It's several minutes of pure, electronic bliss, and really, who doesn't want to postpone Monday for as long as one can? Welcome to the beginning of your week. Enjoy!

Update:   As you may have gleaned from the post that follows, I am much more of a Leftfield fan than I am an Afrika Bambaataa fan. I had some passing knowledge of his importance in the rap and electronic music spheres, but what I was not aware of ( until someone commented on Threads ) was the sexual abuse accuastions made against him . I would never intentially laud such a person; this fault is on me for not doing a more in-depth internet search before I posted. I'm leaving it up because I don't want to hide my mistake; it happened and I own it, but also, as I noted in the post that follows, my interest was more in Leftfield than Bambaataa. The acccusations don't change the quality of the track, but it does greatly diminish my perception of one of the artists involved with said song. My apologies. Leftfield are a fantastic outfit who crafted one of my favorite electronic records of the 90s, Rhythm and Stealth . So why am I bringing up an album that's nearly 27 years old...