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Buddy Peace and his Strange Famous…. errrm buddies

Mar 22, 2013 · 20 Comments · In News and MP3s

Making the video for the 1st single

As a non-bearded Englishman Buddy Peace is something of an oddity for Sage Francis’ Strange Famous Records. The label is packed with such hirsute talent that the artist roster resembles a scene from the International Bear convention (and yet somehow Vibe magazine failed to mention a single SF act in their 20 coolest beards in Hip-hop list).

Buddy’s latest Strange Famous release pairs him with Rhode Island emcee Prolyphic, who despite his name has kept fans waiting five years for the follow up to 2008′s “The Ugly Truth“. “Working Man“ tells a tale of family turmoil, cancer scares, lack of health care and unemployment woes set to Peace’s obscure loops and dusty breaks.

It doesn’t pull its punches, “Drug Dealer” talks about doctors pushing pharmaceutical products on his mother to treat her cancer, and why her ultimate decision was to refuse them. While “Six Feet High” tells the story of his father losing the family business in the New England Floods. The first single “Business As Usual” is available as a free download and races along with a bouncing beat that belies any idea the album might be an entirely sombre affair.

Baroque Remixed: Will Gregory’s Sarabande

Mar 13, 2013 · 1 Comment · In News and MP3s

BBC Radio 3′s ‘Baroque Remixed’ night at The Roundhouse featured a specially commissioned collaboration between the BBC Concert Orchestra, Charles Hazlewood and the vintage synths of Goldfrapp’s Will Gregory.

A Moog, Korg Monopoly and a Roland SH9 joined the orchestra for a beguilingly elongated take on the Sarabande from Bach’s Partita No.1 in B flat major, BWV825.
Walter Carlos’s famous “Switched on Bach” is an obvious comparison but it has far more in common with the trippy ambience of Mixmaster Morris’s Irresistible Force with of course Johann Sebastian weaving throughout.

Listen to the full concert on the BBC iPlayer.

In an interview with SinfiniMusic, Gregory said ‘I wanted to suck Bach down a big black hole, It’s a three-minute piece and in my version I stretch it to three times its original length. To do this I used a gizmo called the Eltro Information Rate Changer, which allows you to slow down material electronically while keeping the pitch the same. Otherwise, if you play something at half speed, its pitch will drop by an octave. That material is played by my synthesizer ensemble as the orchestra moves very slowly underneath, almost like a drone.’

Top tracks of the month: February

Mar 7, 2013 · 2 Comments · In News and MP3s

In the words of Willie Nelson “Ain’t it funny how time slips away“, has this blog really stumbled, crawled and rambled it’s way through 8 years of music? The Virgin Megastore from the first post is long gone (along with 1000′s of other record shops) but there’s still a tide of incredible music so Music Like Dirt will no doubt keep on keeping on in a vaguely unprofessional way.

Enough self congratulation and on with what counts, the music and a few gems from last month starting with something French and exquisitely beautiful, courtesy of Chamberlain. T-ISA is in a similar vein to Chilly Gonzales’s Solo Piano work and one can only hope Apple are looking for a new tune to whip the masses into hysteria over the next ipad – pick T-isa. Listen to more on Facebook & Twitter.
Thanks to Whyd.com for tipping me off.
Below is the tracks gorgeous video and as ever a Whyd playlist of some favourites from last month.

Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition

Mar 2, 2013 · Add Comment · In News and MP3s

Stuck for something new to listen to??
How about a playlist of 120 tracks from the UK & Ireland’s finest unsigned acts, hand picked by 40 bloggers from the over 8,000 entries to the Glastonbury Emerging Talent competition?

In January, thousands of new bands, like Sky Valley Mistress (above) entered Glasto’s competition, by June one of them will stand beneath the most famous Pyramid outside of Giza.

It is however a long road to Glastonbury’s main stage, they first had to tickle the ears of Music Like Dirt and 39 other music blogs who listened to 200 acts a piece. Each selected their favourite three to form a mammoth 120 strong “Emerging Talent Longlist“.
Next, Emily & Michael Eavis (pictured) plus others faced the unenviable task of whittling the 120 down to a final eight who’ll perform in the live final at Pilton Working Men’s club.

You can read the thoughts of what I’m reliably informed are “40 of the UK’s best music bloggers” over on the Glastonbury site, or listen to all 120 of their choices in one mighty Whyd.com playlist here – or 50 in the embedded player below.

Banks – Before I Ever Met You (SOHN RMX)

Feb 25, 2013 · Add Comment · In News and MP3s

Perfection can it seems be improved upon.
Sohn’s remix of Banks “Before I Ever Met You” is the Messi to the originals Ronaldo, it’s General Zod in Superman II, or a skinheaded Sinead to Prince’s Nothing Compares To You. The London-born but Vienna-based producer rebuilds the track from the ground as he did with Laura Mvula’s ‘Green Garden‘ just a week ago.