L&N12
But of course we had to have some Ladytron! One of the best things I have always enjoyed about the G is his love of female voca;l electronica. Ladytron are supreme exponents of this, and this remix version hits all the right spots in retaining the best of the original track with a brilliant remix twist.
CSS have had Jarvis on stage with them. Guess what? That makes then cool in my books but this track is especially frothy and fun and just makes ya want to dance. Great!
The art of the cover version should usually be to add something to the original, something different, unexpected, even confusing. Visualise the Polyphonics singing THIS particular track and you hit the nail for a fantastic cover song!
60s-ish girl pop. Divine (rather like their outfits!) and always gets me singing along. Still treasure "I Like a Boy in Uniform" though...
A long-time favourite track, much loved from when it was first played by Peel. Given new breath by Four Tet who have turned their hand to several bands for remixing that you would not normally expect.
What I also love about these kind of collations is the unexpectedness of them, but also how they gell together. Moving from the Four Tet remix to these buzzing hip-hop beats somehow works brilliantly.
And then you get the completely unexpected! Perfectly indefinable! It HAD to come via MySpace...!
Another gem from the CSS collective, and of course a true statement!
Some would say it isn't a proper collection without The Fall. Music comes and goes but the ever (un)changing/changing of The Fall is forever. Consistently interesting.
Further excellence from these mistresses of the keyboard. Pounding synths to get your limbs moving.
It's always good to find out that you've been introduced to a band you would have followed up on from a review or comment elsewhere. It's a nice reminder that the music sharing is in sync. And it is exactly what we would pick up and trial. All-female Japanese experimental beats. Well of course we love it!
From the cracking 'Real Gone collection, Waits at his usual greatness.
Thumping hip-hop beats and scratches. Cracking.
One of the best sound connections on the collection as Kids in Tracksuits effortlessly seagues into this before becoming a thrilling revisioning of the sounds of Propaganda: expansive and dramatic. It sounds like a lost soundtrack score/vocal track. A knockout.
Disturbing! In a good way! Like a previously passed on gem, the incredible House Husbands track "Do you?" ('My name is Brad...'), not to be read as a statement on how to actually treat women. The soundtrack is somehow made even more terrifying by that monotone dictation. Shiver. Sickly hysterical and not for the faint-hearted.
Singing like he's borrowed one of Thomas Truax's vocal distortion gizmos, it's a grand and grinding track.
More synth brilliance, familiar forms yet new in tone. "Please do"...
Atmospheric doesn't touch this. It has the same kind of swooping sounds that I so love on "Start-Up Chime" (one of my absolute favs of this band). And is that a flute in there?
Scratching and reverbing and screeching. Love it!
Yes, they really do sing what you think they are singing (see G's review here!)
'Cos you need to top the bewildering excess of CSS somehow, so more Waits is the obvious answer. Fabulous ending!
Phew, that's L&N12 done. It's been on heavy rotation since acquisition - much like L&N13 and all the previous material shared. Anyway, look forward to further summaries and reviews.
3 comments:
WOW! What a write-up! Thanks Lisa and you're welcome as always. I love sitting there compiling these cackling to myself something like 'Well, this'll throw them' and 'They'll love this', in exactly the same way I expect you to!! And of course you're right about the ordering; getting the tracks is only half the work - making them fit as a collective is a whole other game!!
TTFN
G
Ha, happy to oblige. Although it may take a while to work through all of the volumes, I will try and get L&N13 done soon! And following a burning desire to relisten to that House Husbands track again, I've just worked through the end of LN: Strange Music.
Hey, fuck the people! Joyous!
I've heard the Polyphonics doing Lithium, it is utterly bizarre but actually works quite well.
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