nurblecast episode 15
Three months? Pshaw. This one’s dedicated to my 7 Twitter followers. I love you all.
Disko Partizani – Shantel
After buying a series of increasingly downtempo releases from this guy, I was very surprised to see Shantel’s name pop up in the Shazam UI in a bar one night. This is festive music, and it makes me want to carry somebody around on a chair or coax a cobra out of a basket, but it’s very good and it makes me very happy. From the album of the same name.
Hairy Bumpercress – Mr. Scruff
The bulk of this episode was composed around the time when I saw Mr. Scruff and Turntables on the Hudson play at Club Love in New York. I would have stolen a lot more of their setlists via the aforementioned Shazam, but I was too busy jumping around like an epileptic with a rock in his shoe. This is from a mix CD released recently called Ninja Tuna. Dig that stand-up bass sample!
Bakara – Hans Zimmer
A bridge tune, but one that tends to hang around in my “20 most played iTunes tracks” list more than I’d expect it to, given the fact that it’s from a war movie. That movie is Black Hawk Down, by the way.
Mass Appeal – Gang Starr
It’s unlikely that I could tell you anything about this track that you’d find useful, apart from the fact that you can locate it on Mass Appeal: The Best of Gang Starr. Oh what I would have given to be present at the meeting where Gang Starr decided to release a Best Of compilation.
Swing Me Like A Hip Hop Song – Deadbeats
From an album I found thanks to Apple’s diabolical Genius feature, wherein they tell you five dozen other songs you might like based on one track in your playlist. I’m equally surprised at the volume of material suggested and the accuracy of the suggestions. At any rate, the album is Nightmares On Wax Presents Wax On Records.
Music Takes Me Up – Mr. Scruff feat. Alice Russell
Also from Ninja Tuna.
Coste – Peter Kruder
I should really see if he’s going to be DJing New York anytime soon [note: no]. Dude rocks. This is from a single, and a pre-release one at that. I hope there’s more Kruder goodness in the pipeline if only so I can make more dumb jokes based on my idiotic and worn-out Band Math premise. I like this track because it starts off as though it’s going to be a stripped-down version of Personal Jesus, then gets kinda jazzy, then kinda samba-y, all without grinding any gears. Very smooth, Peter.
Love Tempo – Quando Quango
I don’t know if I’ve made it clear what Shazam does, exactly, or if you care at all, but basically it tells you what song is playing by listening through your iPhone, phoning home, and then cross-referencing the results with iTunes. It’s fucking awesome. Anyway. I found this song while sitting at a bar near my house on the day after Thanksgiving. Just held the phone up over my head and waited for it to tell me. Turns out its an old tune from an album called Pigs and Battleships. Never would have been able to get that information otherwise. We truly live in the future. This is a bit long, but stick with it, it’s worth it. Go make a cup of coffee or something.
Step Off – Boca 45
I feel no need to justify my love of Boca 45. Every song is pure funk joy. This is from Vertigo Sounds.
Lava Lava – Boys Noize
Boys Noize is a little more complicated. I swear my girlfriend’s nose wrinkles up every time I put any of their music on. This song sounds like Autechre is being raped by Felix da Housecat. Who cares, they’re weird enough to stand out from a crowd of very boring and very homogenous dance music producers. I first heard of them when they did the Car Alarm remix of Feist’s My Moon My Man (it’s not actually called that, of course), and I’ve been consistently impressed with their musical bravery. This is from their full length album Oi Oi Oi.
World of a Thousand Suns – Chunking
It’s been a while since I played anything associated with Tim Love Lee. I love his mix cds. Love them. His solo albums are a bit weird to put on with any regularity, but (for example) this compilation of music from Lee’s Tummy Touch label, called Sounds Good in the Nude and mixed by him and Tom Findlay from Groove Armada, is filled with equal parts funk, quirk, and solid grooves. Can’t miss party tunes if you ask me, and if you’re reading this still, you basically have asked me. This album isn’t on iTunes anymore, but that link there is to an Amazon digital download which, while more expensive, is completely unprotected by DRM.
Temptation – New Order
Heard this in a club this very week and bought it just today. It really does take me months to put these things together, you know. Yes, they sit idle for long periods of time, but they’re a lot like musical kimchi. At a certain point you just have to bury it in the yard and wait, you know? You’ve heard of New Order already, so I’ll just say that I got this off of the Singles collection on iTunes, which is not exactly priced to move…
thanks as always. See you in March!
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