tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65870996742008062172024-02-18T19:35:51.714-08:00InnersoundMusic from the Inner EarPer Bojsen-Mollerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07835479017578736244noreply@blogger.comBlogger177125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6587099674200806217.post-37112278415540070072013-05-31T03:25:00.000-07:002013-05-31T03:27:43.752-07:00End of the Road<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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No, not the Lugz 'n hugs Boyz II Men song, just a farewell to this blog for a while. As I write more exclusively about electronic music these past few years I don't really feel the need to post here.<br />
Instead, head over to <a href="http://www.littlewhiteearbuds.com/">LWE</a> where I produce the podcasts, write the odd review and interview the hell out of some of the world's best house and techno artists.<br />
Or if you like my occasional stream of nonsenseness scrawlings, head over to my <a href="http://solardjs.tumblr.com/">Tumblr</a> where I laud praise over the latest and classic greatest tracks that have been exciting me lately.<br />
Or just go about your lives, there's a lot happening outside you know.</div>
Per Bojsen-Mollerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07835479017578736244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6587099674200806217.post-75494091978318796982012-07-23T02:33:00.000-07:002012-07-23T02:33:55.784-07:00Spirits in the Snow House<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7kay2kT3B4MXYUvM7wJMoRQf3vSTMLwKtWPCC_vaHwItcsNZqURB-Hri9KvVN9rx9zO-OjBzvG3c-IQrDuCMjRdha-M7SPTcYdxje5JGIH4QptGecCo2Q9ccS2DSwTVhLy7vJDRzqbTc/s1600/transounds.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7kay2kT3B4MXYUvM7wJMoRQf3vSTMLwKtWPCC_vaHwItcsNZqURB-Hri9KvVN9rx9zO-OjBzvG3c-IQrDuCMjRdha-M7SPTcYdxje5JGIH4QptGecCo2Q9ccS2DSwTVhLy7vJDRzqbTc/s320/transounds.png" width="320" /></a></div>A good DJ mix or podcast is a special thing. I've been making mixtapes and mixes for over twenty years so I'm no stranger to the things that are going to make a mix a bit more memorable than a simple collection of tracks.<br />
In my role as podcast producer for Little White Earbuds I get to hear some amazing mixes, though to be honest, with the amount of music I try and listen to during the week - what with new promos and my own discoveries I come across there is usually very little time to listen to things that aren't somehow part of my work. Last week I came across a mix by Transounds and was instantly patting myself on the back for taking the time to listen to their latest mix, because it contained everything that - for me, makes a mix more than memorable, but something that you want to keep coming back to again and again.<br />
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For a start the scope of this mix, Spirits in the Snow House, is ambitious and pulled off with aplomb. It incorporates a bunch of tracks I know and artists I am familiar with, and then a bunch more I had never heard from artists I was unaware of. And that is part of what I have always loved about a good mix, the fact that it will introduce you to new artists. Anyways I could bang on about it some more, or you could just check it out and see for yourself.<br />
If you want to hear more from Transounds, you can check out their monthly podcast for London Fields Radio <a href="http://www.londonfieldsradio.com/shows/transounds/">http://www.londonfieldsradio.com/shows/transounds/</a><br />
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Where I grew up there was a pretty shitty furniture company called Danske Møbler. It means Danish furniture - amazing huh. Anyways, they ran a lot of ads on TV so most people of my generation growing up where I did knew about them. After a DJ gig the other night a friend jokingly dubbed me the Danske Møbeliser. Funny DJ name but one I'd tire of too quickly. So I made a track and called it that instead. Aren't you glad you got that back story?<br />
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<br /></div>Per Bojsen-Mollerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07835479017578736244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6587099674200806217.post-82919685745653592612012-02-28T11:31:00.002-08:002012-02-28T11:31:44.330-08:00Quadratic Harmony<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Here's my latest track, a heavy Silverbeat remix of a Mirrorcube track that has been formulating for some time and now ready to unleash. I just got a few crazy new pieces of kit too, so expect to have more and more finished tracks coming your way real soon. In the meantime check this out.</div><iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="http://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F37185197&show_artwork=true"></iframe>Per Bojsen-Mollerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07835479017578736244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6587099674200806217.post-33384537344896417952012-02-19T03:20:00.000-08:002012-02-19T03:20:36.996-08:00A Straw for the Drowning Man<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This is my latest track under my Dalston Pils handle. A nice, late night slice of floaty, dreamy house. That surly looking geezer in the pic is Joseph Conrad who wrote some amazing novels, perhaps most notably Heart of Darkness. Though the title for this track is taken from one of his most accomplished books, Lord Jim, which also includes this amazing line: The desire of peace waxes stronger as hope declines, till at last it conquers the very desire of life. Yeah, anyways, have a listen.</div>
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Here's a new techno track from me. It's inspired by reading Yevgeny Zamyatin's dystopian masterpiece 'We'. Cold steely techno for your pre-programmed brain - have a listen</div>
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Adolescence is a tricky time; raging
hormones, a deep distrust of the older generation, problem skin and
struggling to fit in amongst your peer group whilst trying to develop
a strong sense of individuality are just a few of the problems that
plague teenagers. Thankfully those times cede into adulthood and its
own set of trials, leaving the spotty, awkward years of growth and
development a distant, oily memory glossed over with the fuzzy
kindness of recalled triumphs and bff's. Some people are not so lucky
however, especially the small select group of child stars whose
puberty plays out on our TV screens in constant re-runs for decades
after their own journey from youth into maturity is over.</div>
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Fred Savage is one such child star, the
perpetually blemish-free Kevin Arnold, whose trials and tribulations
centred around growing up in the 1960's with a speccy geek of a best
friend and a love interest in the beautiful girl next door with
impossibly lustrous locks.</div>
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When I am patched through to Fred
Savage, the image of his teenage alter-ego quickly fades as we start
talking about more current matters. Savage is in his car, on his way
his kitchen job, which he likes to do in his spare time, not for the
extra cash, but simply because it's a great environment and a fun
place to work.
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“I feel like the work in a kitchen
parallels the work on a set,” he explains. “You've got a big
group of people who are thrown together and you're trying to create
something special but doing so in a really compressed amount of time
with a huge amount of stress and you've all got to communicate well
and I just love it.”</div>
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Savage's rapid-fire, enthusiastic
delivery leaves no doubt in my mind that he means every word he says,
and it's a vivacity that permeates our conversation about his life
and work as he slowly makes his way through the traffic to his
hospitality internship. Although it has been almost twenty years
since The Wonder Years finished screening, for many people Fred
Savage is still Kevin Arnold, despite the fact that at the age of 35
he is well past the days of awkward first kisses and trying to swerve
the school-yard bullies. In fact, although he came to prominence with
the role, and continues to appear in the occasional TV show or film,
he tells me that he feels slightly embarrassed thinking back on his
acting days. This is because for more than ten years Savage has been
following his lifelong dream of being a director.
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“It's been a long time goal of mine,
ever since I was a kid,” he tells me. “Being on set and taking
apart the cameras and checking out the lenses and going into the
camera trucks and loading it and feeding the film through the gate
and seeing how it all worked. Talking to the camera assistants and
the DP's, I was just always so fascinated by the mechanics of it.
Then when I got older I started to really appreciated the art of it
and the technique of it. So I've been pursuing it since the first
opportunity I got to do so. I've been directing now for the past ten
years and it's really gotten to a point where I'm working all the
time and I'm creating stuff and doing the work that I enjoy.”</div>
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Savage's first break came when he got
to direct one of the last episodes of Working, a sitcom he was
starring in, in 1999. The show was far from a hit but it was a break
for the budding director, who soon after went on to direct his
brother Ben Savage in his own series Boy Meets World. Acting may have
still been getting him more work than directing at this time, notably
appearing in smaller roles as the Mole in Austin Powers' Goldmember
and a particularly inspired turn as A Junkie Named Marc in Brett
Easton Ellis' The Rules of Attraction, but it was a way for him to
learn more about the trade he was passionate about, even if there was
no-one to actually mentor him.</div>
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“I found that working from when I was
a kid I was exposed to a lot of the good and the bad and I found I
learned as much from the directors I didn't like as I did from the
ones I did,” he says of his directorial education. “Learning what
not to do is just as important sometimes. I didn't get taken under
anyone's wing but I did learn about the different approaches that
people had on things and I learned what I liked, how different people
communicated with the crew and how they best responded to it. So you
start to pull together all this knowledge that you've gained over the
years from observing and then once you actually start applying it,
it's another whole learning curve.”</div>
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Savage's workload has steadily been
increasing over the years, not just in quantity but also in quality.
Working on his fair share of fairly lacklustre TV shows and TV
movies, he has in more recent years been doing a lot better, scoring
episodes of Ugly Betty, the Cuba Gooding Jr family film Daddy Day
Care and hit comedies It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia and Party
Down. With the latter two achieving some cult status amongst comedy
fans, they have now opened up many more doors to the young director.
Having been a fan of It's Always Sunny... since it started, Savage
went to met the creators of the show at the end of their second
season and ended up working on the third, fourth and fifth seasons,
producing as well as directing. With Party Down, one of the funnier
comedies to come out of America in the last five years, Savage was
lucky enough to get in on the ground floor. “The guys who had
created the show, they had shot a pilot where they each took a scene
and had put it all together,” he says of how it all came together.
“I don't know if they intended for it to be ready for air or if it
was more of a sales tool but I think they initially pitched it to HBO
and then Showtime and it had bounced everywhere. And then when Stars
finally picked it up they were looking for someone to come in and
re-shoot the pilot and give it a better treatment. It wasn't a very
cohesive show as it was – I mean there was a great script but what
they had shot was an amalgam of the different ideas of the four guys
who had created it. But one of the things they had shot was this bit
where Lizzy Caplan's character kind of walking around a party
shooting parts of conversations with a video camera. And in their
presentation they had that scene but the rest of the pilot they had
shot was very formal. When I watched the pilot I told them that
funniest part of it for me was the bits that Lizzy had shot with the
video camera because it was all this fly on the wall stuff and you
really felt like you were there. I thought that's what the whole show
should be, made up from these shots, so you're touching on a
conversation in the kitchen and then catching a moment in the
bathroom and being able to see something crazy that's happening in
the background. So that was my approach and they agreed with it so
that's how we came up with the style of the show.”</div>
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After lending his style to the
successful show for the two years it ran Savage has been in hot
demand, but instead of committing to one project he's choosing to
play the field and direct for a whole swag of different shows,
enjoying the variety and the challenge that each shows style brings
him. He likens the experience to that of playing different
characters, using the pre-set visual vocabulary of each show to work
his own style through. This will take a back seat though when Best
Friends Forever, a new show he shot the pilot to, starts shortly for
the American fall TV season. With all this comedy and television, I
wonder though if Savage has aspirations to crack the world of film or
dabble in drama.</div>
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“Film would be a world I'd like to
explore,” he confirms, “but I really do lean towards comedy. I'm
not a very dark person. I've lead a very happy life, I have a great
family and I just don't really have those stories to tell. I wouldn't
say I'm a cynical person but I would say that my approach to the
world is a layered one, which works well in comedy. In drama I just
don't feel like I have that in me, I don't know, maybe I just haven't
tapped in to my dark side yet.”</div>
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The only hint of that dark side
appeared in Roger Avary's adaptation of Brett Easton-Ellis's The
Rules of Attraction, in which Savage played a spaced out junkie with
a penchant for wind instruments. When I quiz him about where in his
psyche the drug-addled wannabe muso came from he replies with a
laugh: “Oh, my years as a junkie. That was actually my clarinet
that I brought to the scene though. I play a little so I guess that
was my connection to the character, my fondness for reed instruments.
You know sometimes you catch it on cable or something and it cracks
me up, because I don't know where that came from. People come up to
me and ask me 'what drug was that? It wasn't coke, but it wasn't
heroin. What was it?' And that right there uncovers my lack of
expertise in the area, because there was no research, there was no
sense memory, I honestly don't know where any of that came from.”</div>
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And as Fred regales me with the fun he
had shooting the scene, he also arrives at his destination, pausing
to talk to the car park attendant in his best school boy Spanish
before telling me he'd best get to work in the kitchen. With his zeal
shining through to the end as he heads off to do a job many in his
profession would consider a waste of time or menial, it's a
heartening to see that there are people out there who genuinely love
what they do.</div>
</div>Per Bojsen-Mollerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07835479017578736244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6587099674200806217.post-82874503881792364262011-10-02T16:33:00.000-07:002011-10-02T16:33:50.924-07:00The Baby<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Per Bojsen-Mollerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07835479017578736244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6587099674200806217.post-24777441791455676322011-08-30T11:31:00.000-07:002011-08-30T11:32:30.698-07:00Love for Mirrorcube<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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You slave and slave and try not to do bad things to others (to yourself is okay) and then finally people start noticing what you're up to. When Andrew Lo-Train and I started Mirrorcube a couple of years back and then Dalston Sunday Club earlier this year, we expected to be famous within minutes. Nevertheless we're quite happy to have people recognize us for our god-given talents, however long it takes.<br />
Here's a piece on Dalston Sunday Club by the lovely people at Glass Magazine <a href="http://www.theglassmagazine.com/forum/article.asp?tid=3071#title">here</a> </div>
Per Bojsen-Mollerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07835479017578736244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6587099674200806217.post-90351806839680284182011-08-08T08:29:00.000-07:002011-08-08T08:30:37.784-07:00Podcast for Little White Earbuds<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I write for the Little White Earbuds blog, which is an indispensable source of what's going on in the realms of house, techno and affiliated quality music musings. I also just compiled and mixed their latest podcast for them, two hours of damned fine house and techno, which I highly recommend you check out. <a href="http://www.littlewhiteearbuds.com/podcast/curators-cuts-18-per-bojsen-moller/">http://www.littlewhiteearbuds.com/podcast/curators-cuts-18-per-bojsen-moller/</a> </div>
Per Bojsen-Mollerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07835479017578736244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6587099674200806217.post-1649258657611452952011-07-05T15:59:00.000-07:002012-02-19T04:28:25.416-08:00Some new cuts from the Mirrorcube<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">It was a pretty productive week in the Mirrorcube and I managed to finish off a couple of tracks, both of the deep side but with some blah blah blah blah... just have a listen Mirrorcube, Remote Trading (Silverbeat's Hazy Dub) <br />
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Last Sunday's Dalston Sunday Club got treated to the wonderful sounds of Mr Doudou Malicious, head honcho and all round nice guy (despite his name) of Multi Vitamins records. First up was the Mirrorcube boys with a couple hours of back 'n' forth business, busting out new tunes and old, whilst Doudou was warming himself up in the corner with a series of finger crunches and snacking on vinyl biscuits.<br />
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It was just some real nice techno business for two hours featuring plenty of his own Multi Vitamins back catalogue. Check it out below...<br />
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I've got a veritable swagbag of different aliases I've used for writing and such. The latest is a new musical alias, Dalston Pils - came to me after seeing some staggering geezer trying to stuff fake money down a girl's jeans at a rave, all the while cradling a precious can of Holsten Pils. Anyways I digress, here's the latest track I've made under that moniker, it's called Exabachay, taken from one of my favourite movies of all time, Dead Man.<br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/23205270">Dalston Sunday Club 24.04.11</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user6960902">Mirrorcube</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>. If you missed the most recent edition of Dalston Sunday Club, then you can play catch up here. Five hours of house, techno, and in-between deliciousness with Mirrorcube and Jean-Robert Saintil. Enjoy!</div>Per Bojsen-Mollerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07835479017578736244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6587099674200806217.post-61451457668295739722011-04-06T06:57:00.000-07:002011-04-06T06:58:53.355-07:00DSC this Sunday<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjam6ZhKuWLhBiDVgejsJZeZiJb5kMdMdEsTgqE5tJu57ffWpXgADTNtcHxYemVqSME2CSvwHxqXK-j5LfcOTAFn00GbftzLyWzl0FfqOREPvTuJV5wZaIH5xcEDWEmANRTukMm2PLj_gE/s1600/dsc-flyer-100311.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjam6ZhKuWLhBiDVgejsJZeZiJb5kMdMdEsTgqE5tJu57ffWpXgADTNtcHxYemVqSME2CSvwHxqXK-j5LfcOTAFn00GbftzLyWzl0FfqOREPvTuJV5wZaIH5xcEDWEmANRTukMm2PLj_gE/s320/dsc-flyer-100311.gif" width="274" /></a>So after one week hiatus Dalston Sunday Club is back. We decided to hold the show every other Sunday and this week shows that the added preparation equals more treats for you. So this Sunday 10/04/11 we will be streaming live <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/dalston-sunday-club">right here</a> with special guests Bi-Bop (ReviveHER/Cool In The Pool) and Elliott Mess (Naive Melody/ReviveHER).<br />
Tune in to the stream 6:30PM GMT</div>Per Bojsen-Mollerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07835479017578736244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6587099674200806217.post-75935056292613593192011-03-20T06:47:00.000-07:002011-03-20T06:47:53.742-07:00Dalston Sunday Club<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Mirrorcube boys are now providing you with audio and visual treats each and every Sunday to massage away any lingering tension from the weekend and to soothe you into a new week.
We are streaming each Sunday around 6:30pm GMT on ustream. House, disco, techno, dubstep and more with special guests popping by to drop crucial sides and the latest heat for Dalston Sunday Club.
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Sometimes a week takes a longer time than you think. In any case here's the final part of the Smoke'N'Bubbles mix trilogy. Enjoy!
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Here it is, the second part of the near infamous/well known/anonymous Smoke'N'Bubbles Christmas party. </div>
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Part three coming next week. But for now, enjoy!</div>
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Most people spend their Christmas' in an endless toil of family fighting and crap presents. To counter that possibility some close friends held a Smoke'n'Bubbles Christmas party. The plan was simple, have a delicious meal, decamp to the upstairs bathroom, don a swim suit and play some amazing tunes.<br />
Here's the first of a three part mix of the event.<br />
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Many will try to argue but the truth is
that it's not where you're from but where you're at. Bearing that in
mind it makes no difference that the diminutive, pensive beauty
sitting in front of me is the daughter of one of the more famous
musicians from the late 70's and 80's, because she is here on her own
merits rather than any sort of fame by association. Coco Sumner has
been notching up increasing amounts of attention lately, but after
chatting to the affable young lady barely out of her teens I begin to
wonder if much of the press coverage is for the wrong reasons. For
the truth is that the majority of what I have read about her needles
at the fact that her father is Sting, he of the long winded sexual
rattle and former singer with the Police. While this is undeniably
true, these same articles have sought to denounce the budding
musician for her parentage. A good deal of similar sounding vitriol
may be more accurately levelled at the offspring of other ageing
stars, but there are two things that save Coco from the same unfair
categorisation. </div>
<a name='more'></a>One is her attitude towards what she is doing.
Throughout our brief but focussed interview her passion for her music
became more and more evident, while her insights into how she feels
about what she does displayed that her music career was anything but
a dalliance.<br />
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Born Eliot Paulina Sumner in Pisa,
Italy, in 1990 to Gordon Sumner and Trudie Styler, much of her early
life was spent in the idyllic surrounds of the Wiltshire countryside
in South West England. She first started writing songs around the age
of fifteen, though had starting playing around with a guitar as early
as ten years before that. It is small wonder then that having just
reached twenty years of age she is releasing her début album,
having already collaborated with a handful of incredibly talented
individuals.
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Her first recorded efforts began to
surface several years ago and, somewhat telling of her heritage were
heavily influenced by a mixture of reggae and pop punk. What shone
through those early recordings more than anything was her strong,
husky voice and a huge amount of unpolished talent. Her first release
was a 1997 white label 7” of “I Blame Coco”, a track she wrote
with Mr. Hudson that year. It was from this record that she took her
stage name.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
“It started off with being called
Coco the Clown,” explains the striking singer behind an unkempt
tangle of hair. “I don't really know why. My mum started calling me
that as a kid and then a few people started calling me that and then
it started to stick. But when I printed up “I Blame Coco” I found
myself writing the name of the song over and over again on to the
sleeves and when I got to the shop they asked me what the name of the
artist was and I used that. It seemed like I had written this name
out about 500 times so I should use it.”</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
By her own admission many of her first
songs she wrote were typical of a teenager's mind; angsty and
melancholic for no good reason. Though with the benefit of some years
of experience they started to materialise into something deeper and
more cryptic. Enquiring about the change of musical direction and
whether that process is forever open to changing views and the
gathering of experience netted a considered response. “I think the
musical brain is just like any other brain and it needs to go through
processes of learning things and processing them. I think I'm
learning every day and I'm hearing about new music every day so
that's very inspiring.”</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Sumner can found on guest vocal duties
on several tracks in the last few years, notably Miike Snow's
“Animal” from 2009 and Sub Focus' drum and bass crossover hit
“Splash” from earlier this year. The Sub Focus collaboration was
in trade for a remix of her first single “Self Machine” which
also got re-rubs from La Roux, Pangea and super fixer Chew Fu. Whilst
RackNRuin and Arthur Baker have had their way with “In Spirit
Golden”. This eclecticism is not just a nod to management choices
either, as Sumner tells me she's asked Matthew Dear to remix her next
single, “Turn Your Back On Love.” She says she enjoys the
crossover creative appeal of trading remixes for vocal spots, though
is hesitant about becoming known for being a guest artist.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
“I think there is a point where you
can do that too much and you end up losing a sense of your own
direction,” she states emphatically.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
From the early skank of her reggae
tinged material through to her current work, the big leap in Sumner's
sound can be attributed to her work with Swedish producer Klas
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Å</span>hlund, previously of
Teddybears fame and sometime producer for Robyn, Eagle Eye Cherry and
Jordin Sparks. Sumner was in the midst of a love/hate period with
London and needed some breathing space, so decided to take some time
out.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
“London can often be my oppressor,”
states Sumner quietly, “and it was becoming too much so I spun
around a globe and my finger landed on Sweden. So I just went there
without knowing anyone or where I was going to stay or anything. I
worked all that out when I got there, and ended up staying for about
six months.”</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
It was during this time and in
attendance at a Gnarls Barkley concert that a friend pointed out Klas
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Å</span>hlund, knowing that
Sumner was a fan of both Teddybears and Robyn. After introducing
herself the two started talking about music and it wasn't long before
she was visiting the producer at his studio, eventually leading to
the two making music together and working on her first album. There
is an understated quality to Sumner that belies her age, as she omits
certain facts from our conversation that any other young person would
be only too happy to boast about. She leaves out the sessions she had
in Los Angeles or earlier ones in Jamaica. In fact she doesn't
mention anything about what must be a very interesting life full of
travel and access to places and faces that the majority of people
don't even have on their radar. It is this sort of discretion that
further shines a favourable light on the musician. That, and her
attitude towards some of her seemingly more glamorous jobs that she
has undertaken too. Seeing the look of abject disdain at even
bringing up her brief stint modelling for Burberry or the bit part
she had in the 2007 feature film Stardust is enough to lead me to
believe that being a model or an actor is not high on her list of
professions.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
“I did a little bit of modelling when
I was younger but it was nothing I was proud of or anything I thought
much of,” she confirms. “And I have never really acted before, I
was just an extra as a way to make a quick little bit of cash. But
music has always been my focus, I just did those things to fund my
way.”</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Despite the natural tendency to think
that someone from such a privileged background doesn't need to think
about funding her own way, it would be churlish to think that just
because of her background, Sumner doesn't have her own sense of pride
in wanting to do things for herself. The signs are there, from
running off to Sweden for some time out from everything she knows, to
self releasing her first recordings to forging her own path through
music by releasing her album with relatively little fanfare. The
album itself, The Constant, may not be destined for immediate classic
status but it shows immense promise, something the folk at Island
Records obviously picked up on, having signed the singer for a
multi-album deal. I wonder if this is in any way daunting, having a
pledge to complete so much work ahead of her at such an early stage
of her career. Though the thought may have crossed her mind, careful
words flow from her and find footing in a positive outlook on the
task in front of her.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
“Hmmm,
I'm really looking forward to... I've already started to write the
second album. This first one hasn't really felt like a first album,
it's felt like a learning process, like this is the first bit of work
I'm handing in to the teacher, or the world I guess. So I'm sure I'll
learn from this one and then future albums will feel like more of a
journey to make.”</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
The
polished, electronic pop sheen of The Constant may not always hit the
mark, but within the chrome-plated production and catchy riffs lies
something more enduring, something that is more obvious when hearing
Sumner play the songs with an acoustic backing. While Klas <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Å</span>hlund
can rightly be accredited for that pop overdrive with some help from
Eliot's friends Dan Foat and Nathan Boddy from the DJ/production team
Wild Geese (who gave the tracks a “bit more punch and
compression”), you only need to search for Sumner's acoustic sets
on Youtube to see that her songs come with a solid base to begin
with.
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
“I think it's very important when
you're writing song that they're songs first and then you can put any
production on them whether it's electronic, dubstep or whatever,”
she says to explain the two sides to her work. “As long as you have
the structures there and they're written by an organic and natural
basis then you can do whatever you want with them. And I like playing
acoustic shows because it's more about the song side of it rather
than the pop side of it, whatever that means,” she adds with a rare
smile. Perhaps the best way to exemplify this is to look at the two
versions she has recorded of Neil Young's timeless paean “Only Love
Can Break Your Heart”. The first appeared on the Luv Luv Luv label
as a 7” single and was a faithful rendition of Young's version sung
as a duet with Fyfe Dangerfield from the Guillemots. It was sweet and
tender; a worthy cover, not the sort of drab effort you'd utter a 'if
it ain't broke' maxim at before blanking it from your mind forever.
The other version can be found on The Constant, and is a cover of the
marvellous Saint Etienne version from 1990. Again it is very true to
that version and succeeds for staying true to that course.
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
“I heard the Neil Young version when
I was very young and really loved that, then when I was a bit older I
heard this song from this other band (St. Etienne) who were massive,
and there was this video for them of this huge party and this
exciting new sound. House music has also been very inspiring to me
and my musical... likings,” smiles Sumner as she fails to find the
words to express herself properly. “So I didn't want to change
either of those two songs very much because they were both really
tributes to those songs and those artists, which is why they're so
similar to the originals.”</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
This sort of respect towards music is
most likely something she has learnt by being so close to it her
whole life. Picking up that guitar before she had reached half a
decade on the planet, having not just an incredibly famous musician
for a father but also having an older brother who had follwoed those
footsteps before her. It was an upbringing that had her hold both Ian
Drury and ABBA near to her heart. When I voiced a similar
predilection to the Swedish pop stars at an early age she wondered
why people hold them in such disdain, almost embarrassed to like a
band who had such incredible melodies.
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
“I also went through stages of liking
some quite angry music,” she says, delving deeper into her early
influences. “Things like the Prodigy and Rage Against the Machine.
When you're the smallest in the family and the smallest at school you
want to listen to music with swear words and you want to throw pieces
of paper at the teacher and that sort of thing. I didn't actually
throw paper at the teacher but I liked that musical attitude, it's
much more expressive.”</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Whilst that angry side of Sumner may
not have shown itself obviously on The Constant, you only have to
listen to the lyrics throughout the thirteen tracks to see that
nonetheless there is a mind trying to probe a bit deeper into life
than many of her peers. Alienation and observation both play parts
along with the standard tropes of love and idealism. The imagery
laden lyrics have been fuelled by more than listening sessions of Ian
Drury and Abba though, there's also some heavy reading on the
night-stand.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
“I
take a lot of imagery from some of the books and films I've enjoyed
and use that in my songs. I was reading Brave New World before I made
the album and not so much the sci-fi part of it but more just the
slightly dark and sinister tone it was written in, that stayed with
me. Same with the Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse. It's about a man who
lives as a recluse and thinks he's a wolf. It's all very dark and
that helped me create a lot of imagery for the album too.”</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Sumner sums things up best herself when
I ask her about how her experiences have been so far in the fairly
treacherous waters of pop music. Mentioning the strong unit of her
management and label, saying they help each other make careful
choices, she adds to close, “I think trial and error is not always
the best thing to do but it certainly is <i>a </i>way.”</div>
</div>Per Bojsen-Mollerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07835479017578736244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6587099674200806217.post-64152862944448467472010-11-01T12:46:00.000-07:002010-11-06T09:19:04.102-07:00The Greatest Dub Techno Mix in the World... Ever!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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That little pile of sweetness over there counts as some of the most prized records in my collection. Any serious techno head will have their own little love story to tell about how and when they found out about Maurizio, Basic Channel, Chain Reaction and Rhythm & Sound. After posting this pic I took for an <a href="http://deepinnersound.blogspot.com/2006/02/clubland-rhythm-sound.html">old article</a> I wrote profiling the music, I was asked if I'd ever done a mix of all of those records. I hadn't and immediately set about plotting one out.<br />
I made a few rules for myself in doing the mix: it would only be music made or remixed by Mark Ernestus and Moritz von Oswald together. That meant none of their recent solo work or co-produced tracks with others. I also left out the majority of the early Basic Channel records as they weren't really dub techno, although I did sneak in Q1.1. Some others I left out because with the mix running at 2 1/4 hours already I was conscious of how much more space I would need to host it, and my ability to keep putting the records together was waning. Anyway, here it is, 30 tracks of the greatest dub techno in the world... ever!
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Full track list after the jump!<br />
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1 - Rhythm & Sound w/ Jah Batta - Music Hit You [Burial Mix]<br />
2 - Rhythm & Sound - No Partial [Rhythm & Sound]<br />
3 - Rhythm & Sound w/ The Chosen Brothers - Mash Down Babylon [Burial Mix]<br />
4 - Rhythm & Sound - Outward [Rhythm & Sound]<br />
5 - Maurizo - M4 [Maurizio]<br />
6 - Basic Channel - Quadrant Dub II [Basic Channel]<br />
7 - Round One ft. Andy Caine - I'm Your Brother [Main Street Records]<br />
8 - Maurizio - M4.5 [Maurizio]<br />
9 - Carl Craig - The Climax (Basic Reshape) [Planet E]<br />
10 - Rhythm & Sound w/ Tikiman - Music A Fe Rule [Rhythm & Sound]<br />
11 - Rhythm & Sound - Smile w/ Savage [Rhythm & Sound]<br />
12 - Rhythm & Sound - Carrier [Rhythm & Sound]<br />
13 - Maurizio - Domina (Maurizio Mix) [Maurizio]<br />
14 - Rhythm & Sound - Queen In My Empire Version [Burial Mix]<br />
15 - Rhythm & Sound w/ Cornell Cambell - King In My Empire [Burial Mix]<br />
16 - Maurizio - M5 [Maurizio]<br />
17 - Rhythm & Sound - Range [Rhythm & Sound]<br />
18 - Rhythm & Sound w/ Tikiman - Why [Burial Mix]<br />
19 - Rhythm & Sound - Free For All Version [Burial mix]<br />
20 - Rhythm & Sound w/ Paul St. Hilaire - Free For All [Burial mix]<br />
21 - Round Two ft. Andy Caine - New Day [Main Street Records]<br />
22 - Maurizio - M6 [Maurizio]<br />
23 - Rhythm & Sound - Mango Drive [Rhythm & Sound]<br />
24 - Basic Channel - Q1.1 [Basic Channel]<br />
25 - Rhythm & Sound - See Mi Version (Basic Reshape) [Burial Mix]<br />
26 - Maurizio - M7 (Unreleased Mix) [Maurizio]<br />
27 - Round Three ft. Tikiman - Acting Crazy [Main Street Records]<br />
28 - Round Four - Found A Way [Main Street Records]<br />
29 - Rhythm & Sound w/ Tikiman - Never Tell You [Burial Mix]<br />
30 - Rhythm & Sound w/ The Chosen Borthers - Making History [Burial Mix]<br />
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Please share this with all lovers of dub techno!Per Bojsen-Mollerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07835479017578736244noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6587099674200806217.post-84407392654107687722010-10-26T12:41:00.000-07:002010-10-26T12:41:40.396-07:00RIP Gregory Isaacs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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He was the Cool Ruler, the Lonely Lover, possessed of the sweetest voice to grace reggae and perhaps my favourite reggae artist of all time. A compilation of his mid to late seventies work has been one of my most played albums of the many, many thousands that I own. I have played his music at various restaurants I have managed over the years and have had an enormous amount of people - most of whom I would never consider to be fans of reggae, come and ask me about the artist.<br />
He experienced the ups and downs of fame, though for all his personal trials he produced an incredible body of work that proved to be remarkably solid despite the overwhelming quantity he released.<br />
His music has and will continue to be a soothing tone, a healing vibration, a lovers soundtrack, a poor man's vision of hope. He was the Cool Ruler. RIP!<br />
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