It's been a pretty long break since proper postings so here I am. Not that the interim has been spent in an audio-less vacuum, not at all, just didn't feel like blogging for whatever reason, but there are many sounds and links that have accumulated during my time away. I will attempt to summarise forthwith; please don't get annoyed at the length of the post, it's all good stuff.
First up, Daniel Avery, an electronic musician who's probably very well known, but not by me, not until now anyway. I heard of him through this Guardian video and then looked him up and was pleased I did. His sounds are excellent and I'm planning on picking up the album and the Fabric mix in one form or another. You can hear loads of things on his Soundcloud page, including this:
Next, some video links, and I don't mean music videos. I don't have the time or patience to really use Youtube to it's full potential, but there are definitely some gems on that site, including a couple of great documentaries I've come across recently. One is all about Bjork, and I think it was originally on the BBC. You can watch it here. The other documentary is about dance music, a kind of general overview, and it's narrated by Idris Elba with his full-on, I'm-actually-from-London-mate geezer accent. Here you go.
Washington's version of City Paper had a good write-up recently on the 20th anniversary of a local music venue, the Black Cat. I've been to the venue a fair amount of times (to see Mum, Ash, Bonobo, and M83 to name a few), and while it's not one of my favourites, it's definitely not the worst venue in DC (that honour is reserved for the Rock n Roll Hotel, which is the worst venue I've been to around here anyway), and they do have a great booking policy -- in fact, I'm going there tonight to see Mount Kimbie. I found the write-up quite interesting, maybe you will too -- check it out here.
Lastly, I really like this Arctic Monkeys track, it's got a great groove to it:
found it, your post on avery
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