{"id":9865,"date":"2005-04-18T10:21:16","date_gmt":"2005-04-17T23:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsdigital.net\/fatplanet\/?p=977"},"modified":"2021-01-31T05:12:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T05:12:50","slug":"malcolm-middleton-retina-it-dj-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/2005\/04\/18\/malcolm-middleton-retina-it-dj-bc\/","title":{"rendered":"MALCOLM MIDDLETON, RETINA IT, DJ BC"},"content":{"rendered":"

MALCOLM MIDDLETON<\/strong>\u00a0[SCOTLAND]
\na happy medium<\/strong>\u00a0mp3<\/a>
\nmalcolm middelton<\/strong>\u00a0is one part of the scottish band,\u00a0arab strap<\/strong>\u00a0– renowned for their dark, twisted tales of modern life, usually involving being down the pub and fighting with your ex-girlfriend. if it sounds banal, it’s far from it –\u00a0arab strap<\/strong>\u00a0have an incredible ability to give the everyday trials of life a deep gravitas, there’s drama in the humdrum. there’s a scottish word ‘dour’ which means (generally) miserable, unhappy. too often\u00a0arab strap<\/strong>\u00a0are landed with the ‘dour’ tag, but listen deeper and there’s plenty of humour and positivity in there, if only in the realisation that we’re not in alone in such tribulations, we’re all in the same boat. middleton’s second solo album is called ‘into the woods’ and features contributions from fellow scots\u00a0mogwai<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0the delgados<\/strong>, as well as from strap member aidan moffat. the track above is a perfect marriage of uptempo beats and beautiful harmonies matched with the lyrical refrain: ‘woke up today, realised i hate myself, my face is a disease’. more at\u00a0middleton’s site<\/a>, and at the glasgow label\u00a0chemikal underground<\/a>.
\nRETINA.IT [ITALY]
\nsambush\u00a0mp3<\/a>
\nretina.it<\/strong>\u00a0are an electronic duo made up of lino monaco and nicola buono. their label,\u00a0mousikelab<\/strong>, was founded in 2003 and one of their primary releases last year was a self-penned, self-titled back-catalogue compilation of tracks from which the above mp3 is taken.\u00a0click here<\/a>\u00a0for free label downloads from\u00a0retina.it<\/strong>\u00a0and more. a more recent label release is a compilation entitled ‘condominum’ with brings together iceland’s\u00a0mum<\/strong>, russia’s dj\u00a0vadim<\/strong>, italy’s\u00a0populous<\/strong>\u00a0and many more. unlike\u00a0retina.it<\/strong>, who seem to specialise in beats (albeit metallic or micro), the condominium comp is very much of the abstract side of contemporary electronica. dare i use the word ambient? ahh – there goes a flashback… [retina.it site<\/a>]
\n<\/strong>
\nDJ BC<\/strong>\u00a0[US: BOSTON]
\nquem vai encontrar a festa da maconha? (who is going to find the pot party?)<\/strong>\u00a0mp3<\/a>
\na quick mention of this sweet bootleg from\u00a0dj bc<\/strong>, mixing\u00a0m.i.a.<\/strong>‘s ‘galang’, a 1962 bossa track called ‘quem quiser encontar o amor’, plus\u00a0gloria gaynor<\/strong>,\u00a0dj paris<\/strong>\u00a0and some dialogue from an anti-drug movie. more bootlegs from dj bc at his\u00a0site<\/a>.
\nbaile funk trainspotters<\/strong>\u00a0– if you want to\u00a0see<\/em>\u00a0what the scene is like in brazil, check out\u00a0dj marlboro<\/strong>‘s\u00a0fotoblog<\/a>. as one of the main proponents of the scene (and apprarently responsible for a phenomenal % of the musical output), this is a great visual insight into what’s happening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MALCOLM MIDDLETON\u00a0[SCOTLAND] a happy medium\u00a0mp3 malcolm middelton\u00a0is one part of the scottish band,\u00a0arab strap\u00a0– renowned for their dark, twisted tales of modern life, usually involving being down the pub and fighting with your ex-girlfriend. if it sounds banal, it’s far from it –\u00a0arab strap\u00a0have an incredible ability to give the everyday trials of life a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[722,445,1066,1282],"class_list":["post-9865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fat-planet","tag-dj-bc","tag-fat-planet-blog","tag-malcolm-middleton","tag-retina-it","missing-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15562,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9865\/revisions\/15562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}