back : one for Glasgow

I will not dwell on the long silence... My focus always go through phases. You should see very soon here and there the result of work in touching spheres: the Battant album, a remix for Crosstown Rebels, some IAFL stuff, a new Colette CD etc...

But then I played with Optimo in Glasgow last weekend and this is always... inspiring, even if in a tangent way. This one was pretty chaotic but as ever, in a good way.

This is not an Optimo classic, I'll leave these to them but in my mind, it is the place where it could work.

So this one goes to Jonnie, Keith and Teamy...

To Chris and all @ Electric Frog

To the gurner who handed me a fiver for a beer whilst I playing and then asked for his twenty quid back (???)...

To the lass who wanted her money back because 'a speaker was broken'...

To the sound engineer who nearly crushed my laptop about five times jumping in the DJ booth...

But not to that big cocky guy who nearly spoiled the last record by thinking so much of himself... He'll know...

UPPERCUT FROM DOWN UNDER (ISE8 REWRAP)

cuddles...

just a bit of love and despair before going to bed... simple things...

I DO NOT NEED MUCH BUT YOU (IS LIGHT DUB)

C60 PT 1

A dear friend of mine reminded me just the other day, through pointing at another possible edit, of a certain serie of Cassette Compilations.

I had almost totally forgotten about them but, with a bit of digging, they may well provide quite a few of my next posts.

I agree this may sound very cryptic, and only mildly fascinating. But out of respect for this true friend (meaning one who breaks the 'finders keepers' obscure music dogma-if you wanna do the same, feel free) and out of my own selfishness (a very adaptive dogma it is), that is all I can tell you about this dirty oddity


A SHORTIE FOR GABY (ISE8 EXT)

northern fury (NOW DOWNLOADABLE)

I am not sure the original version was ever released. My minor tweaks are hopefully faithful to the noisy anger of this secret weapon of mine.

The meeting of these two is more of a collision, the closest thing to Kevin Shields in speed disco mode. A daring record, produced by an underrated technical wizard who also happens be a very funny and nice chap.

I HAVE CHECKED WITH THE ORIGINAL SCOUNDRELS AND THEY KINDLY ALLOWED DOWNLOAD ON THIS ONE. YOU CAN BE A FIERCE FIGHTER, A SCHOLAR AND A GENTLEMAN. BUT WE KNEW THAT... THE BEST WAY TO THANK THEM IS POSITIVE FEEDBACK IN THE COMMENTS.

ILS SONT DEUX, BEAUX ET RAPIDES (ISE8 DUB)

toddler stuff

very quickly, one of the first edits I did years ago... Always intended it to polish it but never did. Really rough but may be better like this...

it has been posted here and there so some of you may have it.

consider it an appetizer...

ELRIC THE VICTORIAN (ISE8 LOST EDIT)

cheese scoop

as said in my previous post, I'm pretty drowned in work. but I am starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
The production of Battant's second album, As I Ride With No Horse is close to be finished, the second volume of the A Few Things... CDs is on its way (watch this space for copies to be won)... I am nearly breathing again... I should get my stride back, well, when I do...

In the meantime, something, let's say, more practical than the usual antiques posted here. This is a very simple edit I did to play out but i keep getting people asking me 'what the hell is that'? I already posted the link in some old comments after a request but some may have missed it...

I did not technically do much to it (lowered its cheese percentage but, yes, it is borderline), but, once again, on paper, this is typically the kind of track that would be overlooked by most. When the good comes from the bad, is it not even better?

MON ONCLE, MON PRINCE, VOS GUEULES (ISE8 INSTRU)

time is the essence..

The ones who know me, and the other may well have figured it out, are used to my 'leave of absence for undetermined duration', part of this character/mon caractere.

Really bad habit. And I rarely justify myself afterwards. Even worse.

The image may indicate that I've had a lot of work, from producing Battant's second album to preparing a second CD of edits, KTDJ stuff including the release with Roman Fluegel. And going away. always going away...

These are no excuses though, and I solely take the blame for this short interruption, thanking those who woke me up from my torpor.

I can not promise it will not happen again. And I will not dwell on it too much : neither 'come backs' nor 'thinking yourself as essential' are poses I wanna convey.

So precisely, 'back to the essential':

A fave edit of mine, that I had possibly saved for vinyl release after Twitch expressed his enthusiasm about it... I am equally, if not more, it being posted here...

IT'S COLD EAST (ISE8 EDIT)

PS: sorry for the Megaupload but the edit was recognized by Soundcloud and its algorithms...