THIS WEEKS HITS – WEEK MIDDLING 7th MARCH 2007

On Monday, I was wondering quite what to put on this weeks list. And then I came across a whole host of new and old things more than worthy of the nod...


NEW STUFF

Sparks have apparently been around for years, but i knew nothing of them until 3 days ago. Check out their blinding, BBC banned (free country my arse!) single Dick Around. Three cheers for Sparks and a punch in the face for me for being slow to catch on..

Playing in something approaching the same ballpark, Louie Austen is a right smooth mover on a down tempo lounge house tip. What's more he looks like Geoffrey Boycott!

Meanwhile Senor Coconut is worthy of a mention here even though he's more of a staple than a new thing on the Giovanni deck of late. Think Afro Latin Electronic House...Smooth and groovylicious!

Marcelo Radulovich is a quite different bag altogether.Part garage rock, part ambient, part found sound, part electronica and part drone, all of which are seamlessly bleneded into a very pleasing mix indeed ..If you can pigeonhole this you've got very strange pigeons..Highly Recomended!


LABELS

Brainlove Records have a whole bunch of fresh sounds. Go see what they have and subscribe to this blog for future full features, live reviews and interviews on their many delights...

My other fave this week is PMP Records Given that much electronica has got terribly serious of late, mixing the blips and bloops with squeaks of laughter is something long overdue. My personal favourite here is himguysounds What's yours??


STAPLES

The Trojan Box Sets. In particular: Soulful Reggae& Skinhead Reggae (Trojan must have more classic tracks in it's archives than all the worlds railways museums)
Of Montreal (Top Drawer)
Herbie Hancock (Genius)
Various Aphex Twin (Evreythign all ovre teh plcae)
Octave One (Glorious deep thumpingly good techno)
Now 10 (A period when pop still had some fluster and pomp)
P J Harvey (Grity, angry, driving girl balls rock)


LIVE

I caught up with Junk planet 2 last week in a rather astonishing rooftop bar in Camden. The bar is basically a huge marquee on a roof. It contains a number of life size plastic horses and a load of blown up front pages of The Sun. Junk planet 2, will feature on this blog again soon, together with their spritiual and actual home Brainlove records (see above)...


MIXES

One of the many reaons I love broadband is because you can donwload full mixes in minutes. This week I found 2 gems..

The first is a rather wonderful electronica one composed by Solariumface and can be downloaded from his myspace page

The second is almost impossible to categorise and is by Kid Twist
It's called Nights are Cold and can also be downloaded from his myspace page

OK. So, that's it for now...have a good week
:+)

Currently listening : Trojan Soulful Reggae By Various Artists Release date: By 25 June, 2002

19:07 - 6 Comments - 6 Kudos - Add Comment - Edit - Remove

	Marcelo Radulovich	Flattered by your words my friend... glad you like the sum of all parts! Lots more to come. Cheers Posted by Marcelo Radulovich on Thursday, March 08, 2007 at 00:09 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	PAUL GIOVANNI 3RD : AKA : PIOUS THE UNPOPULAR	Looking forward to hearing this...Appreciate the subscription. Keep me posted on what's new..PG Posted by PAUL GIOVANNI 3RD : AKA : PIOUS THE UNPOPULAR on Thursday, March 08, 2007 at 00:14 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	John Brainlove.	I'd just like to say yes, Junkplanet 2 are wonderful in my opinion everyone should definitely check them out ;) Posted by John Brainlove. on Thursday, March 08, 2007 at 16:32 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	PAUL GIOVANNI 3RD : AKA : PIOUS THE UNPOPULAR	You heard the man...Go take a look.... Posted by PAUL GIOVANNI 3RD : AKA : PIOUS THE UNPOPULAR on Thursday, March 08, 2007 at 18:10 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	PMP Records	woohoo! we would give you a million kudos's' if we could. and himguy's sounds do indeed rule. thanks. Posted by PMP Records on Friday, March 09, 2007 at 01:21 [Remove] [Reply to this]

Kid Twist

Thanks Paul, Glad you liked the mix. Cheers, Kid. Posted by Kid Twist on Friday, March 09, 2007 at 12:49 [Remove] [Reply to this]