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Weekly mp3 #84: Faux Pas - Silver Line

OK, am bumping my scheduled weekly mp3 to bring you Faux Pas's new release, as announced on his site yesterday. The title / unmixed by other hands version is a free download in that post.

All kinds of spiralling and spangle synths rise up before a kick pulse drops in. A nice little vocal lines comes and goes, sometimes pitched up, sometimes all wandering. From there on in the track maintains a crazy (crazy awesome) mix of Jean-Michel Jarre / ELO high drama (those huge, spiralling synth arpeggios) and much more contemporary sliced and diced approach that you might hear in all that blissed out Californian beat head stuff or amongst all the weirdness going on on the frienges of dubstep.

Jeez, had better quit it. Did I mention I have a head cold?

I shelled out for all the mixes and reckon they're well worth it.

I've written about who Faux Pas is before, when talking up a track from his last EP back in February.

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Weekly mp3 #83: Yuichiro Fujimoto - Open Window (For Piano)

You can fetch this tune from Mr Fujimoto's own site, where it says "Listen" next to the particular tune.

Contains what's written on the tin. Starts with birds chirping and a completely unadorned piano piece begins. The low, mellow tones remind me of the piano versions of the theme from The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, although the melody shifts away in different directions pretty quickly. Sounds like some kids start playing outside. Maybe it's not really one recording by an open window, but, whatever, it sounds that way.

I also thoroughly recommend 'Old Bird Tape' on the same page. I just thought it was a bit short and sketchy to make it the main subject for this post.

You'll be shocked to discover that Yuichiro Fujimoto is a Japanese man. He's released albums of this kind of delicate, deliberately homemade-sounding acoustic music on Norwegian, American and Japanese record labels. Seems like his website's quite out of date, which is a pity. I guess he would be in his mid-20s now, so maybe he's been confronted with the excitement of working life in Japan. Maybe.

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Weekly mp3 #82: Dãm-funk - Toeachizown

Another XLR8R MP3 goodie and another vaguely arcade game-sounding thing. Well, the guy covered one of the songs from Outrun...

Squelchy synthfunk instrumental. The snares are probably big enough. Probably. It's like a throwback to stuff like Warren G, Ice Cube a la 'A Good Day', but looking further back than that to that ridiculously smooth Californian 80s soul stuff I used to leech from the op shops in Dannevirke and Woodville.

Wouldn't surprise me if Dãm-funk is not just well-known but totally played out by the time this queued post actually gets published. He's a keyboardist who apparently played on a whole lot of the key g-funk albums back in the early 90s and has been knocking away in LA for however many years.

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Weekly mp3 #81: Disrupt - International Karate Championship

Last year I linked to another release on the crazy Jahtari label. Figured I should point out at least one of the many tracks by Jahtari founder, Disrupt. This is the very first of Jahtari's net 7" series.

Well, it's Rob Hubbard's classic theme from the game I used to play on the Commodore 64, still sounding very like an 80s computer game sounds, but with off-beat reggae chords, booming dub effects and a heavy bassline. Samples from 'Enter The Dragon' echo echo echo about. That's about all you need to know.


Disrupt is a man called Jan, living in Leipzig, Germany. That's about all I can find about him, and it's all from his bio page on Jahtari. Otherwise, there are many, many fun tunes on his label. Some of them get a bit too typically "digi-dub" for my liking, but most of the time the synthesis (gah) of reggae music and video game sounds slays all comers.

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