{"id":9873,"date":"2005-01-05T15:32:36","date_gmt":"2005-01-05T04:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsdigital.net\/fatplanet\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2021-01-31T05:12:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T05:12:50","slug":"ancient-mith-peter-bjorn-john-half-cousin-uncut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/2005\/01\/05\/ancient-mith-peter-bjorn-john-half-cousin-uncut\/","title":{"rendered":"ANCIENT MITH, PETER BJORN & JOHN, HALF COUSIN, UNCUT"},"content":{"rendered":"

happy new year to y’all.<\/strong>\u00a0the start of a year is always a good time to blow out the cobwebs, tear down the walls, kick out the jams (or the chairs) – hope you can find some space to do at least one of those things this week…
\nANCIENT MITH<\/strong>\u00a0[US: COLORADO]
\nbloody flags (remix feat. demune & the mole)<\/strong>\u00a0mp3<\/a>
\nkicking off 2005 with a whole roster of artists to get your bandwidth crackling over at\u00a0motionrecordings.com<\/a>. i was lead there by the excellent album from\u00a0mattr and friends<\/strong>\u00a0called ‘consequence of thoughts’.\u00a0mattr<\/strong>\u00a0is a producer from switzerland who roped in most of the motion recordings crew on this release for MC duties. this is hip hop from the darkest realm, with\u00a0mattr<\/strong>pumping out some delicious broken quasi-industrial electronic beats. material from\u00a0mattr<\/strong>\u00a0doesn’t come easy online, so i’ve selected a track from one of the ‘friends’, namely denver-based\u00a0ancient mith<\/strong>. there’s heaps more material to get your hands on, like hawaiin producers\u00a0demune<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0hairdresser mike<\/strong>. motion have also launched\u00a0a remix comp<\/a>\u00a0and have provided what seems to be an entire back-catalogue’s worth of acapellas to throw into your own mix.
\nPETER, BJORN & JOHN<\/strong>\u00a0[SWEDEN]
\nteen love<\/strong>\u00a0mp3<\/a>
\nplayed a\u00a0peter bjorn and john<\/strong>\u00a0track on the show from the excellent ‘it’s a trap readers companion volume one’ [site<\/a>] put together by the scandanavian\u00a0blog<\/a>\u00a0run by avi roig. (if you’ve yet to visit, this is one of the most comprehensive english sites covering scandanavian music in all flavours). this track from the band is a cover of a track by fellow swedes the concretes, whose single ‘you can’t hurry love’ was one of the shining moments of pop greatness in 2004. even without the concretes’ signature female lead and spector-esque production, their songwriting still shines through on this track. you can find this on peter bjorn and john’s new album ‘falling out’ [buy\u00a0here<\/a>].
\nHALF COUSIN<\/strong>\u00a0[SCOTLAND]
\ncountry cassette<\/strong>\u00a0mp3<\/a>
\ni have to reveal a vested interest on this – my wife and i produced the web site for\u00a0half cousin<\/strong>‘s record label\u00a0gronland records<\/a>\u00a0last year (which, happily, was nominated for ‘best label site’ in the 2004 online music awards – plug, plug…). bias aside,\u00a0half cousin<\/strong>‘s debut album ‘the function room’ slipped under most radars outside the uk on its release last august, although it landed a very respectable 8.1 on\u00a0pitchfork<\/a>.\u00a0half cousin<\/strong>\u00a0hail from the outermost area from scotland – from orkney, an island which is reached by a long and bumpy ferry ride from the northern-most tip of the country. orkney is a relatively bleak place, although the sense of nordic history is overpowering – burial chambers and other viking remanants lay scattered across the island. i can’t think of a more perfect location to sit down and put together a collection of rich contemporary folk songs, married with angular electronic production. scotland’s other famous electronic export\u00a0boards of canada<\/strong>chose pastoral farmland as their geographic inspiration – take that notion and imagine something darker, yet no less beautiful. [buy\u00a0here<\/a>]. more info on their\u00a0better propaganda<\/a>\u00a0page.
\nUNCUT<\/strong>\u00a0[CANADA]
\nunderstanding the new violence<\/strong>\u00a0mp3<\/a>
\nlast year saw the disco-punk, post-punk, new wave (‘tell me wot you call it’…) template being rolled out across a great many bands, often to alarmingly tedious effect. thankfully, one of the champions of the sound, lcd soundystem, have recorded an album that puts them at the top of the tree where they belong – due for release later this month. uncut, a four-piece from toronto, have also been referenced in the same arena, but fortunately – on the evidence of this mp3 – they’ve a lot more to offer. the signature bass-heavy 4-4 is there, but rather than opt for a stripped-back affair (ala lcd), they’ve layered this with clipped chords, riffs, fuzz and more. seems to be a natural evolution for the new wave sound – perhaps 2005 will be a breakout year for these guys? more info on their\u00a0site<\/a>\u00a0and check out their label,\u00a0paperbag records<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

happy new year to y’all.\u00a0the start of a year is always a good time to blow out the cobwebs, tear down the walls, kick out the jams (or the chairs) – hope you can find some space to do at least one of those things this week… ANCIENT MITH\u00a0[US: COLORADO] bloody flags (remix feat. demune […]<\/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":[511,445,882,1220,1502],"class_list":["post-9873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fat-planet","tag-ancient-mith","tag-fat-planet-blog","tag-half-cousin","tag-peter-bjorn-john","tag-uncut","missing-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9873","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=9873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15573,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9873\/revisions\/15573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}