Spent Time....Durutti Column
Durutti Column is a weird band. People who know them dig them in a big way. Most people do not know them. I don't think they ever had a hit. To me they make me think of 4AD and the Cocteau Twins, as most of their songs are instrumentals and bear some resemblance to what solo guitar works by Robin Guthrie of the Cocteau Twins would sound like (although i know that Robin Guthrie has recorded solo guitar works and i have never heard them).
Anyways, this song is a perfect mixtape song. On its own, it might not impress or overwhelm. But in the middle of a mix, its perfect. Its very subtle, vaguely sad. And very echoey. Quite beautiful, in a very minor-key way. The guitar instrumental leads in a long way before the vocals come in, its very beautiful throughout. Definitely worth hearing and checking out.
Saturday, February 17, 2007
Rej...Âme
If you have heard this track, and you should have...you'll know. Its also possible you have heard it and freaked out to it already. Sound weird...no seriously, if you ever go out and dance, there's a chance. And if you don't....you need to hear this soon. But honestly, the best way to hear it is loud and on a dancefloor.
Every so often, a track comes along that every DJ plays. It could be something that charts on the pop charts, such as "Finally" by CeCe Peniston. Or something obscure. Like this. I think Âme are from France. This track falls into the whole European minimal techno thing. I am sure it started out with just a couple of DJ's and went from there. Exploded. Became huge.
Funny story. So i go to Fire Island this summer with my friend Bryan. We are hanging out on the beach having fashion conversation after fashion conversation. Now, i like fashion. But this was way out of my league. So i kinda zoned out and was reading a dance music magazine. Somebody asked me what i was reading and i told them. And they started talking about music. So i pontificated a bit on this track...i said its weird when a song becomes universal, how everybody knows it and it becomes massive, all from this small little starting point. And i talk about "Rej", which i was listening to at the time. And everybody zones out, gets bored. Flash forward: we are getting ready for going out. And i put on a mix CD i burned. All sorts of cool tracks of course :) including this one. So everyone is into it but getting ready....people are in the bathroom, gettting dressed, hanging out. And "Rej" comes on. My friend Bryan goes nuts...he comes out of the bathroom totally naked and says "what is this" while dancing. The other two guys...everyone in the house was floored in some way. Its that track. Its the track that some dork like me would go out of his way to download in last summer that some girl from Jersey is asking the DJ about in a Bridge & Tunnel club as we speak. Its that much of a uniter.
What does it sound like. Well, it proves the maxim "alot with a little." My boyfriend said is sounded like a much cooler version of "Nightmare." Its minimal i guess, although its impact is far from that. Maybe a dance party at a haunted house. Or heat lightning. Or heady drugs. Let me say this. You must hear it. Its massive.
If you have heard this track, and you should have...you'll know. Its also possible you have heard it and freaked out to it already. Sound weird...no seriously, if you ever go out and dance, there's a chance. And if you don't....you need to hear this soon. But honestly, the best way to hear it is loud and on a dancefloor.
Every so often, a track comes along that every DJ plays. It could be something that charts on the pop charts, such as "Finally" by CeCe Peniston. Or something obscure. Like this. I think Âme are from France. This track falls into the whole European minimal techno thing. I am sure it started out with just a couple of DJ's and went from there. Exploded. Became huge.
Funny story. So i go to Fire Island this summer with my friend Bryan. We are hanging out on the beach having fashion conversation after fashion conversation. Now, i like fashion. But this was way out of my league. So i kinda zoned out and was reading a dance music magazine. Somebody asked me what i was reading and i told them. And they started talking about music. So i pontificated a bit on this track...i said its weird when a song becomes universal, how everybody knows it and it becomes massive, all from this small little starting point. And i talk about "Rej", which i was listening to at the time. And everybody zones out, gets bored. Flash forward: we are getting ready for going out. And i put on a mix CD i burned. All sorts of cool tracks of course :) including this one. So everyone is into it but getting ready....people are in the bathroom, gettting dressed, hanging out. And "Rej" comes on. My friend Bryan goes nuts...he comes out of the bathroom totally naked and says "what is this" while dancing. The other two guys...everyone in the house was floored in some way. Its that track. Its the track that some dork like me would go out of his way to download in last summer that some girl from Jersey is asking the DJ about in a Bridge & Tunnel club as we speak. Its that much of a uniter.
What does it sound like. Well, it proves the maxim "alot with a little." My boyfriend said is sounded like a much cooler version of "Nightmare." Its minimal i guess, although its impact is far from that. Maybe a dance party at a haunted house. Or heat lightning. Or heady drugs. Let me say this. You must hear it. Its massive.
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