Om Nama Sivaya And My Future

Some brand new chuggy electronic psychedelic goodies today, heavy grooves and trippy sounds as standard, courtesy of Dan Wainwright, Rude Audio and Stash Magnetic. Dan’s new e.p. Om Nama Shivaya is out on Oddball Records. If you order it at QRates you can help crowdfund the vinyl release. Rude Audio’s remix of the title track is a dubby, slow motion, psyched out beast, acidic squiggles, chanting and sitars. Very nice indeed.

 

Dan has remixed My Future by Stash Magnetic, an experimental Darkwave/ electro/ art rock duo based in London. Dan’s dub remix is one of four on the new release, out on Field Of Dreams and also including an excellent remix by Richard Sen. The remix is a very slowed down take, lurching along with voices whooshing around in the mix, a crashing drumbeat, cavernous space and a spine tingling piano/vocal breakdown. The digital e.p. is at Bandcamp.

 

Isolation Mix Eight

An hour and five minutes of lockdown vibes and an attempt to lift the spirits and up the tempo a bit this week. This one is a global trawl of tunes taking in Dubwood Allstars and their splicing together of King Tubby, Dylan Thomas and Richard Burton, a classic 70s Lee Perry production from the Black Ark in Kingston, Jamaica, Moon Duo doing Black Sabbath in very laid back style, groove- based melodic noise from Scotland (Mogwai) and Norway (Mythologen), some funky 80s crossover dance pop from NYC, Natasha Khan and Toy as Sexwitch, Paris duo Acid Arab and South London’s Rude Audio, all on a Middle Eastern tip, and early 90s Balearic dub house majesty from Sheer Taft (Glasgow) and Underworld (Essex). Bank holiday weekend. Take it easy. Stay safe.

Dubwood Allstars: Under Dubwood

Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry and Zap- Pow: Riverstone

Moon Duo: Planet Caravan

Mogwai: The Sun Smells Too Loud

Mythologen: Trust

Tom Tom Club: Wordy Rappinghood

Sexwitch: Ha Howa Ha Howa

Acid Arab: Club DZ

Rude Audio: Rumble On Arab Street

Sheer Taft: Cascades (Hypnotone Mix)

Underworld: M.E.

Miss Lonely Hearts

I was sent a link to this earlier this week, a technicolour riot of samples, surf guitar, synths, repetitive beats and sounds from 1950 science fiction films (something of a theme this week). The source material is Miss Lonely Hearts by The Pink Diamond Revue, an electro- punk duo from Reading, guitars and drums with vocals piped in from samples and a mannequin centre stage when performing live. This remix is five minutes forty five seconds of fun from the hands of South London’s Rude Audio who have graced these pages before. Out soon on 10″ vinyl, the forgotten child of the vinyl revival.

A Street Light Cavort

A long mix for Sunday from Rude Audio, South London’s finest purveyors of dubby, cosmic Balearic disco. This is three hours of excellence taking in some of their own work alongside tracks from the likes of Bedford Falls Players, Lord Of The Isles, LCD Soundsystem, Jono Ma, Silver Apples, Rich Lane and someone called Andrew Weatherall. Press play and enjoy the groove, ‘a cavort with the wrong sort, uptown’. Tracklist can be found here.

Rude Audio have got an eight track release out soon, hot on the heels of their Rude Redux e.p. in October last year. Street Light Interference has four new ones and four remixes. The lead track is here, Repeat Offender, bouncy bass and beat, dub echo pinging around, and some keyboard lines wandering in from a John Carpenter film. After four minutes things start to get quite fizzy and more urgent. This can only improve your day, your weekend and your summer.

Rumble

More music with a non-US/European sensibility, today from South London chug collective Rude Audio and a track from their winning e.p. from last year. Rumble On Arab Street dubbed out by Valtow, the eastern melodies and snatches of phased vocals bleeding through the FX haze. Plenty of bass too.

The picture above (and the two below) come from a photo essay published in Life Magazine in July 1966, pictures taken in Watts, Los Angeles, a year after rioting. There was deep discontent in black neighbourhoods and a feeling that the civil rights movement had ground to a halt. Poverty, unemployment, discrimination and police harassment. ‘Watts: Still Seething’ ran the strapline on the cover. Still seething but very well dressed.

Rude Redux

Rude Audio,a South London collective, have an e.p. out shortly. The five tracks on Rude Redux have been providing the soundtrack to my autumn commute on and off for the last few weeks. The trio take the open minded, anything goes, Balearic spirit of the late 80s/early 90s as their starting point and layer North African and Middle Eastern melodies over the top of their chuggy, dancefloor rhythms, dubby basslines bouncing about. In places woozy and light, in others more direct and 4/4. The opening track is this one, a shuffler with timbales borrowed from Sabres of Paradise, a nagging keyboard riff and a title that points the way…

You can buy it at Bandcamp (and get the rest of the e.p. when it comes out next week).

To The Half Moon combines chanting and Kraftwerk and glides off from there in an ambient house direction.

Two more tracks, Rumble On Arab St and Pipeline Screaming, flesh the sound out further before we get to the Rich Lane remix at the end. Rich has been mining gold recently with his remixes. Here he finds some additional space, adds a pulsing heartbeat rhythm and lets the synths do their thing…

August’s Not For Everyone

The latest Music’s Not For Everyone has arrived, Andrew Weatherall’s monthly exploration of ‘yesterday’s and tomorrow’s music today’. The chief talking point about this one is a preview of 5 new Woodleigh Research Facility songs he’s been working on with Nina Walsh- although disappointingly it looks like the vinyl release will be 100 copies only, sold through a car boot sale in London in mid- September. Which would be quite irritating for completists. I imagine. It also includes two songs from London’s Rude Audio, who I’ve featured here before. Good work Mark! The full tracklist is here.

Rude Can’t Fail

Mark from Rude Audio, a South London based acid house outfit featured before here with their own tracks and here dubbing out The Charlatans versus Chris and Cosey, are preparing a new e.p. to be released in late summer/early autumn. As a foretaste of what’s to come Mark has put together this rather excellent mix, a two hour forty minute marathon, where ‘dub, chug and house meet Arab vibes uptown for a bit of a cavort’. I can’t do much more than recommend you press play and enjoy.

Tracklist

Rude Audio – To The Sun
Timothy Clerkin – Akama
Bedford Falls Players – Off The Drop (Rude Audio Remix)
Steady State – Steady State (Rich Lane Remix)
Lisa Germano – Lovesick (Underdog Remix)
Leftfield – Release The Pressure (Adrian Sherwood Remix)
Dub Trees – King Of The Faeries (Outer Space Chug Mix)
Bedford Falls Players – Story Of House (BFP Remix)
Shara Nelson – One In Ten (Underdog Remix)
Field Of Dreams – Nothing Is Perfect (Original – Instrumental)
Bedford Falls Players – Synthetic
Danielle Baldelli and Darlo – Infinity Machine
Rude Audio – Athens 91 (Are Killing Me)
Jagwar Ma – Give Me A Reason (Weatherall No.1 Remix)
Foals – Lonely Hunter (Bedford Falls Players Remix)
De Gama – Mantekilla
2CV – Sally Up Sally Down
Rude Audio – To The Half Moon (Rich Lane Remix)
Rude Audio – Rumble On Arab St
Mehmet Aslan – Gazel
Mixhell/Joe Goddard/Mutado Pintado – Crocodile Boots (Mixhell Remix)
Kalabrese – Desperate Man (Matthew Herbert Instrumental Remix)
Lauer – ESC (Prins Thomas Diskomix)
Rude Audio – Pipeline Screaming
Munk and Rebolledo – Surf Smurf (Munk Version)
Carter Tutti – Dancing On Your Grave
Time and Space Machine – Good Morning (St Etienne Remix)
Alien Stadium – Titanic

Hurling Their Own Powers Against Them

One of this year’s treats has been a remix by Chris and Cosey of Different Days, the title track of The Charlatans latest album. Rude Audio, a London based collective, have done a completely unofficial re-edit of Chris and Cosey’s already rather gorgeous, Balearic remix. Rude Audio have pared the vocals back, dubbed it up and let the lovely, bubbling synths take centre stage.

In the picture the Fantastic Four’s own powers have been combined by this set of magic gloves and this will enable them to be totally defeated–now– and forever!! By hurling their own powers– magnified many times– against them!!

Rude Audio

I  got an email on Friday, unsolicited music submission, from a man called Mark. The tone of the email kept me reading as did the sentence ‘Andrew Weatherall and Don  Letts have been playing them’. Four links provided and I replied saying I’d listen. And I’m glad did.

This isn’t really Monday morning music, it’s Saturday night stuff. It’s my Dad’s birthday today and he wouldn’t get these either. But there”s some rather excellent acid house going on here. Rude Audio are a south London and Geordie concoction, based in Peckham and Herne Hill. The first one I listened to was this, Crystal Pylons, a dancefloor stomper.

Knockemdub has been spun by Don Letts on BBC6, spaced out and dubby…

This one, User, was Weatherall’s pick, played on Music’s Not For Everyone back in April- a stuttering reggae style beat and echoey vocals, not too far from The Orb’s Ultrabass remixes.

Half Moon Lane Glitter takes us back to the dark back room of a club, some slo-mo action…

Rude Audio’s website asks the question ‘where are all those chunky, dubby, riffy, mind-melting, epic, progressive, Balearic tunes when you need them?’ Right here.