The changing sound of music

Interesting discussion and links regarding varying sound quality of releases:
http://www.bandfandango.com/motherboard/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3126&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=15

OKJunior's flashmob video to All I Need, directed by Michael Travis. Rather fun:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1260853901416089745&ei=YXikSKDkD4yUjQLOopW2CA&q=okjunior

RIP: http://www.stolenwine.co.uk/

Thee Moths album on Stolen Wine was, and still is, an absolute gem.

Video for "All I Need"

Here is a lovely video for OKJunior's "All I Need" featuring some downright awesome dancing. These are the sort of moves I dream of pulling off on a dancefloor.

The Bac were Mac...

Last Saturday, 2nd August, was the Village Fete at Fawley House Stud - Fleetwood Bac played and it was a rather raucous awesome evening. My slightly shoddy recording of the band in action is here.

numero uno

Well, this is my first ever blog and how incredibly exciting it is too. I have been stuck in hospital for 4 days and it has been stupendously dull. However, I have been listening to a lot of Engine 7. I'm not normally a fan of minimalist electronic music but this - aside from not being too minimalist - just grabs me. There's a live MP3 you can download which is amazing and to my hears makes it sounds like this guy is probably very captivating when playing live.

Engine 7 is some Scottish guy and his new album is vaguely concept-esque, based as it is around a day with his child who, as the name of the album suggests is him, "but perfect".

In other very cool news, Seldom Records is about to get a re-styling. Courtesy of Make It Nice. Here's a little taster of how ridiculously rad we are about to become...