Tune of the week. Joy Orbison. On the incredible Hotflush record label.

Burial, Four Tet + Thom Yorke. How’s that for a combo?

Not many people know, but many years ago when Thom Yorke was at university in Exeter, he was a bit of a DJ playing house music. His love of electronic music has clearly influenced Radiohead’s interesting directions over the years. And as for DJing, he’s still doing that now. He did a brilliant show with Gilles Peterson last year, and in this clip, he’s taking the roof in LA, playing Burial and Modeselektor’s Kill Bill Vol. 4. Wow!

Gold Panda is brilliant.

Ayy-you

If you like the music of Au, it is helpful to know that it’s pronounced Ayy-you. That’s been bugging me for a long time and stopped me mentioning them to anybody. Here is one of their better known songs from the album Verbs, which interestingly, some chap has placed over some videos of dances from around the world. In order of appearance we have:

  1. Bavarian dance (from Germany, filmed at a traditional costume club in the city of Au (yes, that’s Au!) in Germany.
  2. Cueca, the national Chilean dance
  3. A Māori dance from New Zealand
  4. Dancing to a Mariachi band in Mexico
  5. Inuit ladies doing a traditional dance
  6. Vogue battling, Philly style
  7. Traditional Korean dance
  8. An Iranian girl dancing in the classroom
  9. A Mongolian Dancer dancing a Spanish Dance

new music in my record box this week.

Angel Echoes (Caribou remix) by Four Tet
Mala - Don’t Let Me Go (4.15) by Soul Jazz Records

paint dancing

This has shot right to the top of my list of things to take up…

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