Posts by Peter Darlington
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There's a great saturated dub version of this by Althea & Donna on there as well.
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Quick props to the new Lee Scratch Perry joint, Roaring Lion out on the reliably clever and quality producing Pressure Sounds label.
Amazing how new treasure just keeps getting unearthed out of the Black Ark vaults. Here's a sample;
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Hard News: Aiming for the feet, in reply to Juha Saarinen,
Not sure that either party, Labour or National, are in favour of Internet freedom. The guilty until proven innocent anti-file sharing law, the "voluntary" Internet filter, the online bullying moral panic legislation, TICS, you name it: not much in that soup of silliness that promotes and protects the rights of Internet users.
We need, like, some kind of Internet Party or something.
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Hard News: Aiming for the feet, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
But what's even harder to explain is why this happened in your first major set-piece speech of an election year
Even little things like the scheduling clash with the Grammy's where surely a large part of the electorate they'd like to be engaged only had eyes for the Staples Centre.
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Jealous.
Mount Kimbie (& Jamie XX) at Laneways.
Ragga Twins (+ Shadow, Orb etc...) at Splore.
*wanders off and sulks*
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Hard News: Friday Music: Whine Festival, in reply to Alan Perrott,
two words: LEE FIELDS.
as you were...
Would love to have got to this. Having to settle for Charles Bradley at the NZ Festival in Wellington next month. :)
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This is Lana Del Rey's Ride remixed by Paul Woolford aka Special Request, in a proper early 90s jungliest hardcore style. It's a banger!
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Hard News: Friday Music: Some Year, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
Anyway, this year I listened a lot to Yeezus by Kanye Kardashian-West. A lot of people h8 it - and the production is something of an acquired taste - but it's full of good songs with clever lyrics, though I had to top listening to it for a while because it is a very dark album.
I <3 this, and your Miley Web. My 18 year old has been hammering the new Drake album Nothing Was the Same at me for weeks telling me how brilliant it is and damnit his Fu is working and I'm starting to like it. Some lovely bits on it, especially the drifts and transitions, really top work but I have needed a push. Here he is with Sampha doing Too Much for a starter;
And if that ain't your bag, how about Charles Bradley bringing the soul to Black Sabbath?
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Twerk/Twerking *shudders*
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... profile of the band for which he is best-known: Trinity Roots. There's some lovely stuff there, too: photos and clips of an unplugged performance of 'Little Things' and a lovely pre-show warm-up session from 2011.
This reminds me of seeing Trinity Roots in the early 2000s at Jubilee Park in Richmond as part of a council summer festival. Grant Smithies was playing a warm up DJ set when they arrived and started setting up gear. Warren Maxwell did a little tuning on his guitar then plugged in. Smithies was playing some big extended Gil Scott Heron soul/funk mix as Warren just started quietly strumming along, slowly but surely adding melody and then building it up into an absolutely gorgeous full on workout. All off the cuff and absolutely magical. Grant had a big shit eating grin on his face so was obviously pretty chuffed.
Just a shame it was in the days before smartphones made it easy to record these things.