Resurgence

Sooooo my feeling is that the blog has somewhat maneuvered away from its primary purpose of spreading the word on tunes which give you that momentum on the trek to the tube/train/bus, that adrenaline before leaving the house for a night out or that deep sense of contentment when kicking back to enjoy a cold beer. Articles, videos and thoughts that spark the imagination are welcome supplements of course. 

To really make this blog a resource again I think we should endeavor to put a bit of meat on the bones for future links, bring out the reasons why you feel it worthy of mentioning, express to the forum, and to the world, your happiness/love/interest/confusion about a tune/link.

Here is my attempt to take it bring the blog back from the brink...

I picked up Burial's "Untrue" recently, which I first stuck on the ipod a couple weeks ago. I first went through the tunes whilst getting the tube back from work, having started to come down with a full on flu/cold thing which ended up taking me out for the subsequent 4-5 days.

Anyway, I was at that weird turning point - just before really being ill but with that growing sense of what was to come - and whilst standing up in a packed tube carriage, I stuck Untrue on, and the concoction of sensations almost made me feel high. Not necessarily good high, or bad even, just disconnected from reality. The music seemed to strangely reflect and build upon the hazy drifting sense of fatigue which comes with the onset of illness, and the frankly surreal sensation of being on a packed tube train at rush hour.

Or maybe it was just that the chap on the cover art looks like he's in need of the Lemsip sitting in front of him.



He makes all his tunes using just Sony's Sound Forge wav editor, which I think helps to give it that choppy, rough round the edges, almost not quite syncopated, sound.

Next up, a techno tune that manages to keep me entertained throughout the track, I like listening out for the subtleties as the tune evolves - decent pair of headphones permitting. It manages to be both catchy and energetic, whilst at the same time hypnotic



Lastly, a tune that has been sitting on my ipod that has grown on me of late, again, I like the way it unfolds slowly. Up your street it you like Fourtet



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