Posting something daily, whatever comes to mind #Random365 01/01/23

Starting off with the incomparable Nick Harper, using his own song Love Is Music as a foundation for a celebration of music, squeezing something like 20 covers in along the way🤯

https://youtu.be/WeAg-X2MkLA

Nick Harper being a legend for 20 minutes straight

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#Random365 02/01/23

Such a wonderful heartfelt song, with the preamble on the link adding more depth and context❤️

Kelly Joe Phelps - River Rat Jimmy

https://youtu.be/NP1O7ogdkyE

Kelly Joe Phelps - River Rat Jimmy (Live)

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#Random365 03/01/23

A #5albums83 flavour today, something from the greatest film soundtrack of all time and my number one by absolute light years.

Philip Glass - Pruit Igoe

https://youtu.be/nq_SpRBXRmE

Philip Glass - Pruit Igoe (from Koyaanisqatsi)

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#Random365 04/01/23

A highlight of 2022 was seeing my friend Agnes and her band Balamuc play on the Golden Hinde. Super live band, very talented musicians and a whole lot of fun. Yedi Kedi was one of my favourite albums of 2021.

Balamuc - Zuki Zuki
https://youtu.be/kfpVZH8xyhs

Zuki Zuki

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#Random365 05/01/23

The Two Sides Of Tony TS McPhee (1973) is a definitive album of two halves. Side 1 is great but it’s all about Side 2, a completely unexpected prog electronica polemic on the moral injustice of fox hunting. Brilliant!

Tony TS McPhee - The Hunt
https://youtu.be/BRIUUBlFVZ8

The Hunt

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#Random365 06/01/23

The Straight Story is my favourite David Lynch film, and probably my favourite film full stop, partly due to the exquisite soundtrack. Here’s a heartbreakingly beautiful example…

Angelo Badalamenti - Rose’s Theme
https://youtu.be/wyxo-UsYopo

The Straight Story: Rose's Theme (From "The Straight Story")

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#Random365 07/01/23

The most abrasive, uncompromising and aggy af hiphop crew ever to come out of the UK. Not sure you can dig any further underground than this tbh…

12 Stone Productions - E8 Clapper Capital
https://youtu.be/Txbv5dgrFPg

12 Stone Productions - E8 Clapper Capital

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#Random365 08/01/23

One of my favourite tracks from the album that introduced me to how banging Portuguese hiphop can be…

Chullage - Rhymeshit Que Abala
https://youtu.be/bO1FLggM1S8

Chullage - Rhymeshit Que Abala

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#Random365 09/01/23

I love a bit of Synthwave, and this is one of the finest examples - what a groove!

Carpenter Brut - Disco Zombi Italia
https://youtu.be/7Q3lwVAwHdI

Carpenter Brut - Disco Zombi Italia

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#Random365 10/01/23

Simply one of the best songs ever written🤷🏻‍♂️

Songs:Ohia - Farewell Transmission
https://youtu.be/malJUMz2A9Y

Songs: Ohia - Farewell Transmission

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#Random365 11/01/23

First drum and bass entry into this thread, and with this track floating around my head today maybe I’m pining for summer.

Seba - Connected
https://youtu.be/jdC6l5h1B60

Connected (Original 12" Mix)

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#Random365 12/01/23

Listening to Tom Waits and Balamuc this week put me in the mood to revisit an old favourite. The Way The Wind Blows is a brilliant and unique album, highly recommended.

A Hawk & A Hacksaw - God Bless The Ottoman Empire

https://youtu.be/4jEFt--uGq0

A Hawk and a Hacksaw - God Bless the Ottoman Empire

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#Random365 13/01/23

One of my favourite ever DnB tracks today…ruthless steppa, then that Ghost In The Shell sample drops…🤯

Makai - Beneath The Mask
https://youtu.be/eqhO7hdIihw

Makai - Beneath The Mask (original)

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#Random365 14/01/23

Steering this thread into the #RaveyardShift this evening with one of the greatest pieces of electronic music ever produced. Absolutely iconic🔥

Underworld - Rez
https://youtu.be/F6Y7lcvubhU

Underworld - Rez

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#Random365 15/01/23

Something from the best support act I’ve seen in a long time, and a big find for me from the tail end of last year, the hugely entertaining Scott Lavene…

Scott Lavene - Broke
https://youtu.be/PC4249OqUZU

Scott Lavene - Broke (Official Video)

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#Random365 16/01/23

Afie Jurvanen is a brilliant songwriter and I never get tired of listening to his albums. One of the finds of the last 10yrs or so for me…

Bahamas - Your Sweet Touch
https://youtu.be/_XtLdbo9Gxs

Your Sweet Touch

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#Random365 17/01/23

Makes me want to bop down the street giving everyone high-fives and fist-bumps…what a tune!

William Onyeabor - Fantastic Man
https://youtu.be/xyL4c_LDCl0

William Onyeabor – Fantastic Man (Official Animated Audio)

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#Random365 18/01/23

Billy The Kid & The Green Baize Vampire was one of my favourite films as a kid (after all who doesn’t love a post-apocalyptic supernatural snooker rock musical🤷🏻‍♂️). Randomly earwormed by this today…

The Fame Game - BTKATGBV OST
https://youtu.be/WGLZ2WngAHA

Billy The Kid and the Green Baize Vampire - The Fame Game

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#Random365 19/01/23

So excited to be able to see Arooj Aftab later this year, an artist whose music fizzes and vibrates with deep restorative energy😍

Arooj Aftab - Diya Hai (ft. Badi Assad)
https://youtu.be/oCUFC-ULdOk

Arooj Aftab - Diya Hai (Feat. Badi Assad)

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#Random365 20/01/23

Something Hungarian today, and an absolute banger.

Szabó Balázs Bandája - Zaj
https://youtu.be/6D1PXQLc3fA

Szabó Balázs Bandája - Zaj

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#Random365 21/01/23

Dropping this thread into the #RaveyardShift again with one of the tunes that got me started on the DnB train. It’s builder, a roller, a steppa with a vocal sample to die for🔥

Fortran - The End Part II
https://youtu.be/yZi3uPSahsk

Fortran - The End Part II

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#Random365 22/01/23

Kung Hey Fat Choi! Something from HK for Lunar New Year, exhibit A in “Watch the masterpiece original rather than the mediocre Hollywood remake”.

Infernal Affairs (2002)

Music Twitter should enjoy this scene⬇️
https://youtu.be/iwEdvXKFRJQ

Infernal Affairs 2002 (Audiophile Scene)

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#Random365 23/01/23

In ‘98 I picked up the Elohim 12” based on a magazine review. This track on the B-Side was the first time Saul blew my mind completely open, there’s been many more since. 🤯

Saul Williams - Twice The First Time
https://youtu.be/bIp47yWUQKs

Music: Saul WIlliams - Twice the First Time

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#Random365 24/01/23

One of the best Electronica Dj’s about, so many mixes to choose but the David Lynch intro to this makes it one of my favourites🔥

Adam Freeland - After Burning Man I Took The Train From Paris To Berlin And Did This Mixtape

https://on.soundcloud.com/JFwCVZg57zrSudum7

After Burning Man I took the train from Paris to Berlin and did this mixtape

<b>DOWNLOAD AT http://marineparade.net/ </b> (David Lynch -Spoken word sample) Cologne Tape- Render 4 Scuba-Dsy Chn Instra:mental- Sun Rec Luke Abbott-Modern Drive

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#Random365 25/01/23

What a song! And what a video! Absolutely brilliant…::

Gunship - Tech Noir
https://youtu.be/-nC5TBv3sfU

GUNSHIP - Tech Noir [Official Music Video]

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#Random365 26/01/23

When I was 10/11 my Dad bought a CD titled Zig Zag Wanderer. Essentially Safe As Milk but in a different order. This was the opening instead of closing track, therefore my intro to The Captain 🤯

Captain Beefheart - Autumn’s Child
https://youtu.be/85qq2RIf_J0

Autumn's Child

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#Random365 27/01/23

Listened to a lot of exceptional Jazz for #5albums63 this last fortnight, all of it made me keep going back to one of the standout tracks of 2022. Hip Hop & Jazz fans need this in their life…

Farma/Jehst/Soweto Kinch - Uncut Gems
https://youtu.be/qsSUkzVt2vM

Jehst & Soweto Kinch - Uncut Gems (Prd. Farma) *Official Video*

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#Random365 28/01/23

Another #RaveyardShift drop in.
One day someone will do a music challenge of a month of remixes, and this would feature in mine. What an absolute banger!

Orbital - Nothing Left (Tsunami One Remix)
https://youtu.be/XyB3lA_rD2A

Orbital - Nothing Left (Tsunami One Remix)

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#Random365 29/01/23

Should hold off sharing this til summer really, but it’s been in my head today. One of my favourite ever hip hop tunes.

Mission: ft. Mia Doi Todd (prod. Thes One) - Home
https://youtu.be/zFWIoFAsbxs

Mission (feat. Mia Doi Todd) "Home" (produced by PUTS Thes One)

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#Random365 30/01/23

One of my favourite songs by one of my favourite artists, this is so beautiful. This video isn’t official, but really does justice to the song.

Micah P Hinson - Beneath The Rose
https://youtu.be/QiVS56IePXw

Micah P Hinson - Beneath the Rose

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#Random365 31/01/23

In the mood for this today, the first RDJ track I remember really falling in love with. Would have been about 16yo and visiting my brother in London when I heard it first. 🤯

Aphex Twin - Girl/Boy Song
https://youtu.be/mkxz3nU5vOI

Aphex Twin - Girl/Boy Song

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#Random365 01/02/23

Only posting this one for #15TopGigs, the single most profound concert I’ve ever experienced. Roy Harper’s 70th Birthday concert at RFH in 2011. My heart burst open with pure emotion and many tears of joy were shed.

https://youtu.be/QjRknMy_zbA

Roy Harper - Twelve Hours Of Sunset - Royal Festival Hall 05/11/2011

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#Random365 02/02/23

What can I say about Chester? Unquestionably my favourite rapper of all time and one of the greatest lyricists across all genres.

Chester P - Fire In The Streets
https://youtu.be/Z31ZWDGiRr0

Chester P - Fire In The Streets

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#Random365 03/02/23

A masterpiece from a masterpiece album. Sonic architecture of the highest order.

Photek - Aleph 1
https://youtu.be/-MYxZjKIxn0

Photek - Aleph 1

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#Random365 04/02/23

The Unseen is one of my favourite hiphop albums, and I bought it off the strength of hearing this incredible track a year earlier…

Peanut Butter Wolf ft. Loot pack & Quasimoto - Styles, Crews, Flows, Beats
https://youtu.be/zT0_0PM0cIo

Peanut Butter Wolf - Styles, Crew, Flows, Beats (ft. Lootpack & Quasimoto)

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#Random365 05/02/23

Had the original on earlier, made me want to listen to this exquisite cover again. Privileged to have seen this version live a few times❤️

Nick Harper - Purple Rain
https://youtu.be/F110EtzUrnU

Nick Harper - Purple Rain - 'Live in the House'

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#Random365 06/02/23

My new to me find of the week for #5albums07 is the wonderful Knee-Deep In The North Sea by Portico Quartet. Here’s the title track…

https://youtu.be/ckJVotYWyRQ

Portico Quartett - Knee deep in the north sea (Cully Jazz Festival 2011)

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#Random365 07/02/23

Hands down one of the greatest album closers ever!

Roots Manuva - Motion 5000
https://youtu.be/WmD_noUCsGU

Roots Manuva - Motion 5000

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#Random365 08/02/23

Still staying away from Music Twitter challenges, but here’s one for everyone doing #SamplesInSongsChallenge.
Always takes me right back to a specific group of friends and being 15yo again…

Nice & Smooth - Sometimes I Rhyme Slow
https://youtu.be/MNOAM22yPAo

nice n smooth - sometimes i rhyme slow

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#Random365 09/02/23

No-one does reworks of trad folk ballads quite like the brilliant Crumbling Ghost. Fans of The Watersons might enjoy this one…

Crumbling Ghost - Swansea Town
https://youtu.be/prXuYf_zm2w

Swansea Town

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#Random365 10/02/23

Elite glitchy electro bleep magic!

Two Lone Swordsmen - Neuflex
https://youtu.be/AzBuAlkfJ7Y

Two Lone Swordsmen - Neuflex

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#Random365 11/02/23

Wonderfully sax-fuelled sleazy electro-noir…

Funky Porcini - B Monkey
https://youtu.be/Q9KJNFB1FcM

Funki Porcini - B. Monkey

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#Random365 12/02/23

Won’t be most people’s cup of tea, but the #5albums74 eligible Aqua by Froese is magical to me…

Edgar Froese - NGC 891
https://youtu.be/PVXz2irxwhk

Edgar Froese - NGC 891

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#Random365 13/02/23

Been humming this to myself all day, rest easy Dave…

De La Soul/ATCQ/Jungle Brothers - Buddy
https://youtu.be/i__2mI44O5w

de la soul-buddy (remix)

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#Random365 14/02/23

Double bill today as these two titanic tracks from two certified legends came on a double AA side Mo’Wax release. Absolutely fundamental and foundational 🤯🔥

DJ Shadow - Lost & Found
https://youtu.be/VWY8_Zuu1zM

DJ Krush - Kemuri
https://youtu.be/3cFhXCdL344

DJ Shadow - Lost & Found (S.F.L.)

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#Random365 15/02/23

Another corking remix, the definitive version of this imo. The interplay of kicks and snares is a thing of beauty.

UNKLE ft. Thom Yorke - Rabbit In Your Headlights (Underdog Remix)
https://youtu.be/XRMU3MX5uOQ

UNKLE (Feat.Thom Yorke) - Rabbit In Your Headlights (Underdog Remix)

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#Random365 16/02/23

10yr wedding anniversary today, so here’s a song that makes me think of my beautiful wife…

🎶My arms are just two things in the way til I can wrap them around you…🎶

Captain Beefheart - My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains
https://youtu.be/XJ2kSmbxEUw

Captain Beefheart - My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains

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#Random365 17/02/23

A song that transports me back to being 14/15yo in the mid 90’s, still love it to this day.

Senseless Things - Too Much Kissing
https://youtu.be/cKdj2Np8awA

SENSELESS THINGS: 'Too Much Kissing' (1989)

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#Random365 18/02/23

I left the first Grinderman album out of my #5albums07 recently. Mainly coz my favourite track from the album is this banging remix😅
One for the #RaveyardShift

Grinderman - No Pussy Blues (Adam Freeland Remix)
https://youtu.be/cuZOCdXZqHM

Grinderman - No Pussy Blues (Adam Freeland Remix) (2008)

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#Random365 19/02/23

Probably my favourite piece of electronic music of the last 20 years. Ridiculously brilliant…

Jon Hopkins - Open Eye Signal
https://youtu.be/Q04ILDXe3QE

Jon Hopkins - "Open Eye Signal" (Official Music Video)

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#Random365 20/02/23

Greenaway/Nyman collaborations were a staple of my adolescence. Obviously I didn’t understand most of the content at the time, but the symbiotic link between visual and musical art had undeniable resonance.

Michael Nyman - Memorial
https://youtu.be/L7oQmvLqB8Q

Memorial (2004 Digital Remaster)

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#Random365 21/02/23

A minute of soulful crooning and a minute and a half blitz of garage punk rock. A 2m30s belter of a song from a hugely underrated talent who deserves more ears…

Benjamin Booker - Off The Ground
https://youtu.be/2QP9VlRzDLQ

Off The Ground

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