tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58840392011-04-22T00:56:10.958Z tufluv///irrelevancetufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comBlogger1131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1090600949192502102004-07-23T16:39:00.000Z2004-07-23T16:42:29.193ZBring the noise all new jack cavaliers.
Much luv. Tufluv signing off.
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tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1083761329060072642004-05-05T12:27:00.000Z2004-05-05T12:53:13.810ZHello. Firstly, apologies for my extended absence, that's mainly due to having a job and no internet connection at home. Shameful. That's my blogging credentials properly out the window now. Truth is I only ever did Tufluv out of boredom - being a struggling freelance journalist in London with too much time and too many free records on my hands not to do anything with them. Sadly that brief bursttufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1078856391812309502004-03-09T18:18:00.000Z2004-03-09T18:22:59.000ZTufluv is on hold. For now. ///tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1078322737859178552004-03-03T14:05:00.000Z2004-03-03T14:10:00.653ZBig up Dave Haslam's 'Manchester, England', a long-overdue read - now there's a man with civic pride. Now I just can't stop listening to Manchester music; 'Black Secret Technology' ('The Reno' and 'The Nile' are the names of old shebeen-style clubs in Moss Side I've found out via Haslam), anything by New Order as usual but mostly 'Procession' (synth majesty!) and 'Power, Corruption and Lies' (I'mtufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1077712824067565532004-02-25T12:37:00.000Z2004-02-25T12:43:47.106ZAlbum//
Artist// MATTHEW DEAR
Title// LEAVE LUCK TO HEAVEN
Label// GHOSTLY INTERNATIONAL, USA
Released, UK// Now
Having got this last November, I listened to it once on a train and haven’t returned to it since. First impressions were vague, possibly because its subtleties were so perfectly merged with the motion of the train as I stared distantly out at the world passing by, possibly because I tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1077626764040656172004-02-24T12:44:00.000Z2004-02-24T12:48:51.496ZTufluv Album of the Now//
Artist// SPEKTRUM
Title// ENTER… THE SPEKTRUM
Label// PLAYHOUSE, GERMANY
Released( UK)// MID-APRIL 2004
What Spektrum aren’t is a new Basement Jaxx, although they sound a bit like one. It’s Lola Olafisoye’s voice, I think, that sounds funky and mischievous; a bit Poly Styrene, a bit Pauline Black, a bit Ari Up, a bit Eartha Kitt, a bit Betty Davis, a bit Brides of tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1077281230494281762004-02-20T12:45:00.000Z2004-02-20T12:49:52.436ZSurely I can't be the only person here who really likes General Levy & M-Beat's 'Incredible'. Gwan, listen to it jungle snobs. Rebel MC did some wicked breakbeat tunes too, namely 'Wickedest Sound'. ///tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1077281046591319702004-02-20T12:37:00.000Z2004-02-20T12:46:48.560ZI saw my two of my Geordie aunties yesterday, my mum's older sisters who are visiting for the week. These are top quality people - their stories of farce, absent-mindedness and complete bafflement with new-fangled technology (they call DVD 'VD', call their own phone numbers and leave messages, then play back and think it's someone else) are from the realms of the Two Ronnies, only more ridculous.tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1077280551668972562004-02-20T12:35:00.000Z2004-02-20T12:38:52.466ZNick Doherty has a really excellent profile on Ghostly International. Dig it. ///tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1077218457555519902004-02-19T19:20:00.000Z2004-02-19T19:23:38.780ZWow, I actually went and got myself a 'proper job' - deputy editor at a DVD magazine. So, after three years of attempting to make a living out of writing about music (at first it was dance music, the prospect of that seemed possible then but I'm not bitter), I find myself writing about films, something I haven't done a lot of, but don't tell my new employers that! But then, as many a journalistictufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1076414636609418662004-02-10T11:59:00.000Z2004-02-10T12:06:25.123ZThings I will review for you...
New Horsepower Productions LP...... rufff
Matthew Dear - Leave Luck To Heaven..... hardly fresh but still fresher than most
Lucien-n-Luciano LP..... red hot Chile pep-up
Ai records 'Station' compilation..... marvellous
Josh Wink's acid bangaz..... tweakin'
The return of Silvah Bullet (as pr oduced by Keith Tenniswood)..... double rufff
Things I have forgotten but tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1076088359991946542004-02-06T17:25:00.000Z2004-02-06T17:28:22.996ZPAUL KALKBRENNER
Self
(Bpitch Control)
Berliner, Kalkbrenner, jettisons the svelte-yet-pumelling club techno of his twelve inches for a personal, pan-European jaunt that cuts a dash through a variety of continental scenes. ‘Castanets’ is a percussion-dappled gypsy wig-out without ever sounding particularly like flamenco; the filmic strings of ‘Marbles’ swell with Wiermarian decadence, whilst tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1076072890638826162004-02-06T13:07:00.000Z2004-02-06T13:10:33.640ZJohn Lydon walking out of the jungle was probably for the best. I quickly became reconciled that his presence there was a good thing. Johnny Rotten, in the jungle, with a bunch of celebrities; some innocents but a couple of pieces of real trash. “I came here for THE NAYYY-cha”, he kept repeating when interviewed by Ant and Dec, and you kind of believed him. He was like a child for most of it, andtufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1075595351643932522004-02-01T00:29:00.000Z2004-02-01T00:31:26.780Zbemoaning the loss of nolberto solano, a peruvian demigod. a crushingly disappointing injury time equaliser today. you yanks don't knowmwhat i'm talkin' 'bout do ya?
"shoes off you love the toon" - this is genius, a riff on "pogo if you nlove the toon", but people take their shoes off and hold them aloft. it spread throughoput bthe whole away section. i love it.
encountered some wanker skinheadtufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1075484856464427172004-01-30T17:47:00.000Z2004-01-30T17:49:49.750ZI must say, to my shame, that I've been watching a lot of I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here. In fact, I watch far too much television full-stop. Lydon is coming across as a worryingly alright bloke, almost avuncular. It's just weird TV. That Garth Marenghi thing made me laugh, too, which made me feel dirty - there's something stranfely amiss about it - a pervasion of wrongness (?). Also, one of tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1075470702017428102004-01-30T13:31:00.000Z2004-01-30T13:55:37.750ZDon't know if anyone saw For The Benefit of Mr Parris (Revisited) on TV last night, wherein journailst/Tory/wanker Matthew Parris tried to live on a week's dole in the Scotswood part of Newcastle as he had done exactly 20 years ago (and failed). It left me feeling pretty sick and mixed up. So, you go into a community centre in the North of England in the year of the miners' strikes and tell a tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1075469001569168962004-01-30T13:22:00.000Z2004-01-30T13:25:34.763ZBlogging is a public experience, right? The idea of a journal usually being a private one, here you’re putting a piece of yourself up there for people to read – and you’re lying if you say you don’t want as many people as possible to read it. And, thinking about it, there’s loads of contradictions about blogs. They’re meant to be about sharing something, about community, exchange, conversation, tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1075468051933051862004-01-30T12:55:00.000Z2004-01-30T13:11:29.590ZThanks to the people who got back to me about the magazine piece on blogs. It was written grudgingly but in the end I just had to knock out something quite insubstantial and generalised. Ironically, keeping it within 450 words proved a major problem. But, on the up-side, it's given me a lot to think about and re-energised my belief in this medium. It's the fact that it's free (in every sense), tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1075466003711015292004-01-30T12:07:00.000Z2004-01-30T12:38:47.060ZWell, I had a listen to Wiley's 'Wot Do U Call It?' yesterday and is was not the disappointment I expected. It basically sounds the same as a lot of his other rhythms, just buffed up a bit (with a beefy low end) - the same synth/bass sounds and the usual five note riff that changes every eight or so bars plus those weird camera-shutter/door slam fx he uses on Roll Deep riddims, the only tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1075384598887345392004-01-29T13:51:00.000Z2004-01-29T13:59:56.966ZHere's a chart Wiley's done for FACT magazine - I'm giving you a sneak preview which I hope no one will object to. Interesting that he's rocking Kelis - get those two in the studio together, eski style. I expect that Kano track may break him if he's signed, even though it's a bit Blur. I'm really losing touch here though, being in the provinces and that. Effort is required, complacency the commontufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1075379609209329492004-01-29T12:32:00.000Z2004-01-29T12:36:39.686ZLast night dreamt about a crab tree - a tree with crabs in it, big orange-brown ones falling on my head with claws. Unsettling. ///tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1075318001999010982004-01-28T19:26:00.000Z2004-01-29T12:37:08.483ZThe area I live in has a lot of South Americans and other nationalities due to large number of language schools in the town. I'm in the internet and there's a very fucking loud thunder clap, then it starts snowing (I never associated the two before), and it's clear some of the Brazilians and that have never seen snow before, so they go rushing outside and there's lots of shrieking and shouting. tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1075236869772723142004-01-27T20:54:00.000Z2004-01-27T20:56:38.840Zit's good that i can go outside now and hear the sea. the sea in the dark is strange, like sky but wet. feels good, scary but safe. ///tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1075236777432292362004-01-27T20:52:00.000Z2004-01-27T20:55:06.513Zlast night dreamt there was a fire. put it out though. ///tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1075236039972592042004-01-27T20:40:00.000Z2004-01-27T20:42:49.216Zstruggling to cope with the petty fads of the day, one retro revival after the next, back and forth through chronology - how vcan you plot what's going to come next? who is behind this sinister obsession that has gripped music. and don't think the street is any better than the trendies - except that which seems divorced of any historical context, but only shards and flickers of many pasts tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1075146927115465672004-01-26T19:51:00.000Z2004-01-26T19:57:34.733ZA visit to DJ Sneak's opening night of his residency at Manchester's Sankey's Soap (tufluv's first time in the land the sun forgot) saw the fat man spinning plenty of acid house, which I drunkenly tried to record on my dictaphone, waving it above my head as I jacked my body and reached for the rafters. Yep, it's all about the 303s again - plus a bit of 'Move Your Body' - Chicago DJs still playingtufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1075145893007877782004-01-26T19:35:00.000Z2004-01-26T19:40:20.860ZFUNKSTÖRUNG
DISCONNECTED (!K7)
Four years after their rapturously-received ‘Appetite for Destruction’, this finds the Bavarian duo of Chris de Luca and Michael Fakesch expanding upon their once-unique but now potentially passé brand of deconstructed hip-hop by augmenting it with flesh-and-blood vocals. In particular, Munich-based Enik’s earthy tones are weathered beyond his 23 years, adding a tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1074792892357459972004-01-22T17:30:00.000Z2004-01-22T17:41:35.153ZHELL
NY MUSCLE (MOTOR/GIGOLO)
Helmut Geier – a one-man enigma-maker, scene-builder and breaker, the anti-superstar DJ, overlord of cool, Munich Machine, rhythm killer, phantom, fake, ex-punk, international deejay gigolo, poseur, bon viveur and man called Hell – has finally ridden out the crash of the hype-wave and delivered his first album in six years. The interceding years since ‘98’s ‘Munich tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1074686106229164372004-01-21T11:52:00.000Z2004-01-21T11:57:06.546Zsort it out and post something, michael
oh, alright then... ///tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1073993034465300042004-01-13T11:22:00.000Z2004-01-13T11:24:15.583ZRAMM:ELL:ZEE
THE BI-CONNICALS OF THE RAMM:ELL:ZEE (Gomma)
If The Ramm:Ell:Zee’s name has been written out of hip-hop’s history, it wouldn’t be the first time its self-appointed chroniclers have chosen to forget. Unsurprisingly, though, this rap anomaly, renowned graffiti artist and inventor of his own afro-futurist doctrine, Gothic Futurism, remains big in Japan, despite a recording career that tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1073394332228597992004-01-06T13:01:00.000Z2004-01-06T13:07:28.170ZStand by for the first tufluv dispatch of the year 2004 - it's the future but it's still sounding like the past. Reviews of the Ramm:Ell:Zee, The Rapture and Was (Not Was) coming up, plus weird stuff, dodgy stuff and some bangin' trance. You've probably noticed I've ditched the nasty orange set template and am rocking a new minimal, click house-style look courtesy of my man in the Tropics. It's tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1071895659483668432003-12-20T04:47:00.000Z2003-12-20T04:51:09.506ZHola, this increasingly relevant blog is currently being updated by a geeky ex-flatmate currently residing in Buenos Aires.
Normal service will resume shortly...
ChrisM (20/12/03)tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1071837723149687702003-12-19T12:42:00.000Z2003-12-19T12:43:48.810ZI'm moving house tomorrow and what with Christmas/New Year festivities, fixing up my ace new pad by the seaside and lack of internet connection there won't be much action here for a bit. Which is probably a good thing for all concerned. It's been fun discovering the blogowhatsit over the last 3 months (that all?) - I feel like I've known you all my life, gush.
Merry Xmas and a Happy 2004, tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1071767772348958372003-12-18T17:16:00.000Z2003-12-18T17:19:49.550ZCan only second Reynolds' hope for da noo fing, "MACROhaus (Felix 'Don't You Want My Love' meets Giselle Jackson 'Love Commandments' meets The Mover meets Energy 52 'Cafe Del Mar')" - don't know the middle ones (or maybe I do) but the others are two of my all time podium-moment faves.
Here's hoping for more sensation, excitement and thrusting rave devastation in the new year (most tunes with tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1071753945964561292003-12-18T13:25:00.000Z2003-12-18T13:26:00.323Z"I looked down and saw the fish"
Arthur Russelltufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1071753288440072752003-12-18T13:14:00.000Z2003-12-18T17:54:46.523ZWent to that Nag-Nag-Nag last night. All in the cause of duty. I got horribly drunk and now I just feel wrong. Yes, wrong would be the word. Didn't see the supposed Dave Clarke, though I may have heard it. Great music, except for the ridiculous band with Jonny Slut (I think) in a gold lame jacket sounding like a karaoke Steve Strange with drum & bass backing. ///tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1071677295785632592003-12-17T16:08:00.000Z2003-12-17T16:08:54.070ZWhat the fuck is going on?! I've just heard two hip-hop tunes that namecheck david beckham, one shite sub-R. Kelly (now that IS bad) track called 'Gigolo' and this from Jay-Z on the Missy album:
"Evisu jeans cover the rectum/I kick game just like David Beck-um"
First they get into Es, now footie? What next? Whippets? Pie 'n' mash?? ///tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1071675803609419142003-12-17T15:43:00.000Z2003-12-17T15:48:14.226ZYeah, I'm going to get more into disco. Chic are great.
Cor, that Arthur Russell album on Rough Trade has gotten stuck in my Sanyo 3-CD changer hi-fi system and each time it comes on keeps washing through my ears an brain like ethereal audio magic from beyond. It ain't disco, as such, more fractured, ghostly avant-groove-pop with elements that pre-date all eras of modern electronic music (well,tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1071662767790904452003-12-17T12:06:00.000Z2003-12-17T12:06:44.490Z(Simon requested I post this, so here it is. If you have any beef with this - facts, inaccuracies, questions, whatever, email me. Respects to the family and friends of Robert Davis Jr aka DJ Screw and the people in Texas who helped me with this piece.)
(published in Sleazenation magazine, April 2003)
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CULT HERO: DJ SCREW
He’s an unknown hip-hop legend; creator of Houston’s slowed-down sound tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1071614077828568702003-12-16T22:34:00.000Z2003-12-16T22:37:54.016ZMore info on Hardcore Is More Than Music, who just emailed me back. It's run by Nendie and Nina who graduated from Chelsea art school this summer and have started their own business with the Prince's Trust to run their music workshops and fanzine. There are more projects planned here and in the US (the last one was at the Stowe Centre on Harrow Road), and they're off to Glasgow to see the bhangratufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1071596068175695832003-12-16T17:34:00.000Z2003-12-16T17:39:07.683ZSingles:
Kelis ‘Milkshake’ (X-Press 2 Mixes) (Virgin)
What’s the point? When you think of the remixers that could have been drafted in for this, one of 2003’s most amazing, aggressively inventive tracks that in its original form bares more than one or two of the hallmarks of early-‘90s R&S (‘Dominator’/’The Vamp’’s hoover basslines especially), and they get in X-Press 2 to do their ordinary, tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1071588875894869642003-12-16T15:34:00.000Z2003-12-16T15:35:34.123ZPatagonica festival, Chile, Feb 04: If someone wants to pay for me to go to this please let me know, wink, wink. ///tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1071582869186899072003-12-16T13:54:00.000Z2003-12-16T13:55:42.433ZCheck out Jim's depiction of Uptown Records. How have I lived in London two years and never been in? Sounds like what people have told me of Blackmarket circa mid-'90s; the record shop as hub of scene activity. Big tings a gwan. ///tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1071582212340139562003-12-16T13:43:00.000Z2003-12-16T13:43:45.820ZSPEKTRUM:
NUFF RESPEKT
A lithe and sweaty meld of live and livewire, East London quartet Spektrum have seemingly arrived on cue for the fashionable return of guitars to the disco. Formed four years ago by classically-trained producer, Gabriel Olegavich, and singer, Lola Olafisoye (having since doubled in size to incorporate Kiwis Isaac on drums and bass-slinger, Taya), the band however boast atufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1071581715739038212003-12-16T13:35:00.000Z2003-12-16T13:35:52.213ZWish more people would talk about techno this way - of course, it needs to be good techno, which as Tim infers is not robotic/mechanical/sterile but visceral, sensual, coursing with life. I have this album, wasn't immediately struck first time but will have to return for a second round. ///tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1071580403379710482003-12-16T13:13:00.000Z2003-12-16T13:15:54.950ZPicked up an interesting 'zine thing the other day called Hardcore Is More Than Music: Jon E Cash on the cover, involved in a West London youth project with garage kids as well as 808 State's Graham Massey and hardcore US punk bands like Dillinger Escape Plan getting these kids to do tracks with them. Also a story called 'Welcome to the Disorded Future of the Eski Kidz' in which prospects for tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1071499056624075482003-12-15T14:37:00.000Z2003-12-15T14:41:59.050ZToday I'm in Holloway, at home, putting off the work I have to do, but yesterday I was walking on a beach in the December near-dark, keeping as close to the shore as I could and listening to the waves lapping up nearly to my feet and the fizz of bubbles bursting on the sand as they ebbed away, wanting to record it. There were gaggles of sea birds flying in loose formation close to the water, tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1071490773667417272003-12-15T12:19:00.000Z2003-12-15T12:19:47.253ZIf anyone knows how I can get my archives back drop me an email. Not sure if I've done something with the template by accident. Where's the geeky flatmate when you need him? ///tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1071488827926690812003-12-15T11:47:00.000Z2003-12-15T11:47:43.200ZAmong his latest batch check out Simon R riffing on the Texan Screw sound - the slowed-down hip-hop style pioneered by the late DJ Screw and closlely associated to consumption of mind-bending codeine cough syrup:
"A woozy-Uzi feel, like gangstas whose psychological armour is melting, releasing a long pent-up lush melancholy at times oddly redolent of Gary Numan at his most Satiesque and grandly tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1071487973568226462003-12-15T11:32:00.000Z2003-12-15T11:38:17.566ZMarcello Carlin announces his imminent departure, plus beautifully denoted end of year list. Certainly a few to catch up on there - still have to hold truck with Athlete, but. Sad to see you go, just as I was getting aquainted. ///
Also nuff props to young soul rebel, Sean O'Connell, a man so cynical for one so young. He's off on a zeitgeist hunt armed with a rapier wit. Can't say the name's tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1071235516903083782003-12-12T13:25:00.000Z2003-12-12T13:25:29.570ZThings (possibly) coming up from me next week...
Singles:
Boxsaga 'Computer_Love' (Nonstop)
Soundmurderer & SK-1/Tech Level 2/Wayne Lonesome 'Whowanseekwar'/'Dem Nuh Know Me' (Shockout)
Kid 606/The Bug/Wayne Lonesome 'Buckle Up' (Shockout)
Cae$ar 'EP' (Keys of Life)
Nicole Willis 'Say It' (Puu/Sahko)
Spektrum 'Kinda New' (Tiefschwarz Remixes) (Playhouse)
Master H 'Thirteen' (Mylo Mixes) (Soma)
tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1071232739585393462003-12-12T12:38:00.000Z2003-12-12T12:42:17.070ZWent to see Q-Bert last night at his first ever London gig. Now, I like turntablism, but like a lot of things once you've seen one scratch you've seen 'em all. However, some of the things he was doing with his fingers last night were mental - scratching without the cross fader but making it sound like he was using it by stopping the record abruptly to punctuate the sounds he made. I'd love to tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1071173951371829652003-12-11T20:19:00.000Z2003-12-11T20:22:43.150ZHave also just discovered that after a lot of speculation and less than a year in existence the indie-rockist BANG has folded. Sorry if this is sounding like a media news bulletin and half of you will probably say good riddance but we're still talking about people's jobs. Needless to say it's not a good time to be a journo - not if you want to get paid for it. That's why I'm moving back to tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-107115821563303522003-12-11T15:56:00.000Z2003-12-11T16:13:23.843ZHad to rub my eyes when walking into the newsagents today to see Sleazenation with a big RIP all over its nattily-designed slip-cover. Suspecting this as one of their little post-ironic jokes, once I'd purchased said magazine I quickly flicked to Neil Boorman's editorial to find that it was in fact true, Sleaze was dead. Well, not quite - Sleazenation was dead but will continue in a new, tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1071145973592243772003-12-11T12:32:00.000Z2003-12-11T12:33:05.870ZI appear to have lost my archives. Help.tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1071145556326031132003-12-11T12:25:00.000Z2003-12-11T12:26:08.720ZMISSY ELLIOTT ‘THIS IS NOT A TEST!’ (ELEKTRA)
KELIS ‘TASTY’ (VIRGIN/ARISTA)
Both albums sound like they look. Missy is leather, pit bulls, camouflaged Hummers with fat tyres and Black Power girls with menacing shades, Afros and clenched fists. It’s wire-mesh and borstal-chic. It’s ragga-bashment-bassquake and worries in the dance. It’s fight-fit and punchin’ its weight. Kelis is synthetic tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1071071205930482322003-12-10T15:46:00.000Z2003-12-10T15:51:37.526ZKERRIER DISTRICT ‘Kerrier District’ (Rephlex)
The only info on the primary-coloured sleeve is the name (an administrative region of Cornwall and a sly, West Countrified spin on New Jersey’s Metro Area) and a sticker bearing the solitary word: ‘DISCO’. Yes, in the latest stage of his chronologically back-to-front revision of modern dance music’s major epochs – most notably jungle and acid – Luke tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1070992491560347952003-12-09T17:54:00.000Z2003-12-09T17:55:03.866Zbling. orange-skinned Italian rubs his hands. ///tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1070990541894198642003-12-09T17:22:00.000Z2003-12-09T17:23:05.593ZPart two?! Look, listen, learn. ///tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1070987726227904492003-12-09T16:35:00.000Z2003-12-09T17:22:51.813ZYeeeeeah Boy-eee! THAT's what I want for crizmuz. ///tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1070987196070834602003-12-09T16:26:00.000Z2003-12-09T16:32:56.540ZNorman Cook and Darren Emerson have set up a paying dowload site here. Only their Underwater (Gus Gus/Tim Deluxe) and Southern Fried (Space Cowboy/Grandadbob) labels involved at the moment. ///tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1070896009783666912003-12-08T15:06:00.000Z2003-12-08T15:17:46.016ZJUNIOR SENIOR ‘SHAKE YOUR COCONUTS’ (MERCURY)
Trucker hat-wearing blonde freaks Junior Senior are a Scandanavian version of Black Lace (“Shake your coco-nuts!/Coco boyzz!”) meet the Spin Doctors, this being their addition to the office Christmas party cheese selection of unnecessarily bad novelty songs and humour from the Carry On school of innuendo, only without the humour (i.e. the soundtrack tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1070885149145573492003-12-08T12:05:00.000Z2003-12-08T12:10:20.830ZNew Touch mag out now: Ms Dynamite on the cover (bit of a Heat -style, 'Cor she's had a baby but just look at her figure!'), my Jehst feature and a great piece on Cuban hip-hop. Oh yeah, and a pic of a nine-year-old Dizzee in a dickie bow. Believe! ///tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1070884294914449002003-12-08T11:51:00.000Z2003-12-08T11:51:46.156ZNot half bad compilation, this...
LADYTRON 'Softcore Jukebox' (Emperor Norton)
1. My Bloody Valentine 'Soon'
2. The Fall 'Hit The North Part 1'
3. Cristina 'What's a Girl to Do'
4. Dondolo 'Peng'
5. Wire 'The 15th'
6. Ladytron 'Blue Jeans 2.0'
7. Snap Ant 'Saviour Piece'
8. New Fast Automatic Daffodils 'Big'
9. !!! 'Feel Good Hit of the Fall'
10. Fat Truckers 'Teenage Daughter'
11. Fanny Pack 'tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1070726525792408752003-12-06T16:02:00.000Z2003-12-06T16:05:18.050ZGlad it made some kind of sense to you Jeremy. Didn't even balk at the Don Henley/Chris Rea comparison.
Also long overdue respect to Jess. You're on it.
Word up.tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1070674178445812072003-12-06T01:29:00.000Z2003-12-06T01:29:49.363ZI was reading Dave Stelfox’s comments on appreciating music in its racial and social context. You really can’t afford to detach it from that – though, sure music can be escapist, but the best is when you’re getting at least a grain of someone’s soul or experience. Of course, even a joyous, celebratory track can be scarred by pain and suffering. So I was thinking how I feel about dancehall – tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1070636965723619782003-12-05T15:09:00.000Z2003-12-05T15:16:13.990ZList Me Baby One More Time
60 Tufluv Trax 4 Da 03 (In No Apparent Order, Well Sort Of...)
1. LFO: Freak
2. Dizzee Rascal: Fix Up, Look Sharp
3. Luke Vibert: I Love Acid
4. Radioactive Man: Fed-Ex to Munchen
5. !!!: Me and Giuliani Down by The Schoolyard (A True Story)
6. Kelis: Milkshake
7. Outkast: Hey Ya/Ghetto Musick
8. Junior Boys: Birthday/Last Exit
9. Busta Rhymes: Light Yo Ass on Fire
tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1070595288434763282003-12-05T03:34:00.000Z2003-12-05T12:23:25.233ZZIS IZ ZE FUTURE, ZIS IZ ZE PAST
ZE Records, possibly the most important label of the post-punk, No Wave, disco-rock crossover in the late-'70s/early-'80s re-release two classic albums from French No Wave nymphette Lizzy Mercier Descloux in the next few months, followed by a haul of forgotten booty from suit-sporting sax fiend James Chance. Here's the full interview I did with label co-founder tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1070569695155462942003-12-04T20:28:00.000Z2003-12-04T23:48:20.953ZTufluv's Albums of the Year 2003*
1. Dizzee Rascal: Boy In Da Corner
2. Outkast: Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
3. Mogwai: Happy Songs for Happy People
4. Prefuse 73: One Word Extinguisher
5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Fever To Tell
6. Blur: Think Tank
7. Fallacy: Blackmarket Boy
8. The Postal Service: Give Up
9. Four Tet: Rounds
10. Jehst: Falling Down
11. Luke Vibert : YosepH
12. Two Lone Swordsmen: tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1070553496404352442003-12-04T15:58:00.000Z2003-12-05T00:01:16.723ZWaking dreams and garbled words while listening to Mice Parade's 'Obrigado Saudade' (Fat Cat) ///
‘Two, Three, Fall’>> Whispered child(like) vocal sings to itself whilst playing in sand. Breaking-down acoustic guitar, weeping, becomes complex and multi-layered; harp-like. Jewel-spangled, mangled flamenco. ‘Mystery Brethren’>> Thai boogie, country twang, milk bottles, ice chill glissando, cymbal tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1070548890032027792003-12-04T14:41:00.000Z2003-12-04T14:41:40.420ZOXIA
24 HEURES (GoodLife/PIAS)
The Hacker’s buddy leading the French resistance to boring techno
There’s been a tectonic shift in techno of late. Electroclash saw the joyless stranglehold of unrelentingly looped beats crack and a wave of energised, cosmopolitan players chip away the granite-hard grimace of the old guard. Nowhere has this been quite so rampant as in France, where Grenoble’s tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1070544817623446712003-12-04T13:33:00.000Z2003-12-04T13:33:48.113ZScroll down for Junior Boys stuff>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1070540401125146892003-12-04T12:20:00.000Z2003-12-04T13:33:07.880ZFACT:03 The glorious third issue of FACT magazine is out from next week, free from independent record shops all over the UK and select outlets worldwide. Inside you will find: Steve D'Acquisto on Arthur Russell, 2004 New Talent, 2Sick Bastards, Pure Evil, Cover Story: Brand USSR, I Love Hardcore, The Rebirth of Psychedelia, Tony Marcus on Nina Simone, David Katz' 20 Best Reggae 7"s Ever Made, tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1070499985215293572003-12-04T01:06:00.000Z2003-12-04T01:09:50.466ZLIVE:
!!!/M83 @ MEAN FIDDLER, LONDON, WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 3
The early buzz around !!!, the punctuation-funk maniacs, has held out till winter, a healthy-sized throng in the Mean Fiddler, consisting of a good mix of obvious guestlist peeps and curious paying punters all up for dancing, disco-chanting and knocking into one another. Missed Electrelane but caught M83: haven't heard the album but a tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1070466229492475192003-12-03T15:43:00.000Z2003-12-03T15:43:59.603ZVIKTER DUPLAIX
Singles (Prelude to the Future)
(!K7)
Last year’s ‘International Affairs’ album proved Vikter Duplaix capable of merging house, broken beat, techno and world music with his well-oiled neo-soul grooves yet failed to live up to the Philadelphia singer/producer’s early promise, suffering from the absence of his most memorable tracks. This collection of previous singles and tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1070465631998580612003-12-03T15:33:00.000Z2003-12-03T15:34:02.250ZLet's talk about the German skirt scene. Bananas? These sneezing realms? Come on Pothead, let's fight.
What a great way to spend the day. Shit, I need a job.tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1070465232720327222003-12-03T15:27:00.000Z2003-12-03T15:27:23.070Zsomeone's been copying me
um, I'm telling...
here's the translation, courtesy of Babel Fish:
Since many years and many albums Pothead have a firm place in of Germany skirt scene reliably, now come ninth with the unusual name?Tuf luff?. Unfortunately the album title does not only exhibit unusualness, compared with which past albums, which pleased me actually very much to a certain, I do not tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1070461754233279462003-12-03T14:29:00.000Z2003-12-04T13:32:41.566ZJUNIOR BOYS Q&A
This interview, done for Jockey Slut magazine, is a few months old (see mention of NY/Ontario powercut) but still fairly entertaining. Well, all Blogsters love Junior Boys don't they? See below for thoughts on second single 'High Come Down', out in February on KIN. Scroll and be happy............
How long have you been recording as JBs?
Since I guess like 1999.
What was the tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1070460809501094992003-12-03T14:13:00.000Z2003-12-03T14:16:04.543Zsum thorts on
JUNIOR BOYS
HIGH COME DOWN EP
(KIN RECORDS)
Seems to falter and crack; fragile like painted eggshells under barefoot. Greenspan sounds like a whiteboy trying to be Prince, but he doesn’t quite have the chops for those high notes so sounds adolescent, like Daryll Hall with a sore throat, yet no less assured – the cocky-vulnerable-geek-wannabe-playa, possibly sat in a white satin tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1070288846338819762003-12-01T14:27:00.000Z2003-12-01T14:41:34.426Z'DANCE MUSIC IS UNDEAD'
CROSSTOWN REBELS PRESENT REBEL FUTURISM: MIXED BY DAMIAN LAZARUS (CROSSTOWN REBELS)
IVAN SMAGGHE PRESENTS DEATH DISCO (ESKIMO RECORDINGS)
Two good compilations that have slipped into my life in the last week, straddling this crooked bleep disco acid house amalgam that's making nightclubs an interesting prospect once again. As yet I don't think anyone's given this 'scene' tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1070036799296199662003-11-28T16:26:00.000Z2003-11-28T16:56:18.373ZMixmag's latest idea for a photo shoot: 'Bongs & Thongs!'. While I'm getting all huffed up about this latest nadir (that's right; scantily clad... well, naked girls clutching enormous toking apparatus) I couldn't help but marvel at its moronic genius. Horribly mysoginistic, as well, of course...
Their covermount CD - 50 tracks from this year mixed up by the Freelance Hellraiser - is actually tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1070020445172737812003-11-28T11:54:00.000Z2003-11-28T11:54:14.606ZFurther to somedisco's query as to whether Tufluv is a Birmingham City fan - God forbid. I am a Newcastle United fan and I've put a little link in to guide any faltering football followers onto the path of the True Faith. And before you start, I was born in the North East from a long lineage of black 'n' white - although as my accent suggests I am a naturalised suvverner. Supporting Newcastle is,tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1069943444521644352003-11-27T14:30:00.000Z2003-11-27T14:38:23.476Z//TUFLUVSUBMERSIONSOUNDSESSION//SINGLESEDITION1//
UNKLE ‘IN A STATE’ (REMIXES) (ISLAND) Typically, UNKLE seem to have a lot of money to throw at their music, working as a kind of dance music Met Bar where the stars and trendy people pop in to shoot the breeze and get fucked up and maybe do vocal or a remix. This is perhaps the best tune from the somewhat bland and unremarkable ‘Never,Never,Land’tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1069415035335933232003-11-21T11:43:00.000Z2003-11-21T11:58:57.623ZJEHST ANOTHER CHANCE
Some surplus quotes from a good interview I did over a cup of tea in a North London cafe last week with British rapper Jehst. Check the new album 'Falling Down' - UK hip-hop album of the year, just pipping Fallacy (Dizzee doesn't count).... (incidentally, what happened to that bwoy? Release a stunning album in 'Blackmarket Boy' then quit music and disappear up north? Very tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1069349654927054762003-11-20T17:34:00.000Z2003-11-20T17:37:12.313ZSOUNDMURDERER + SK1 'REWIND RECORDS' (REWIND/REPHLEX)
Well, blow me if this isn't every white boy junglist's wet bass fart fantasy - and hasn't everything this year been so very old school; acid, hardcore, jungle - everything moving very fast into the future now, and everyone grasping and clawing at the sonic fabric of past ages, tearing off strips of it as they hurtle into The Panic. This is tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1068207650798619042003-11-07T12:20:00.000Z2003-11-07T12:22:09.950ZBig up the return of the Stealthfox, with some quality musings on the Asian/bhangra/desi thing - that shit really needs your attention, especially those Tigerstyle boys. Check Bobby & Nihal for some diverse flavours and see where Jay-Z et al nick all their ideas from.///tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1068080521707850412003-11-06T01:02:00.000Z2003-11-06T01:03:27.966ZI did promise there'd be some guitar-based reviews up here. Well, fuck that. What I will say is that Life Without Buildings' one and only LP, 'Any Other City', is a wonderful thing that I recently aquired and can't stop listening to. They were based in Scotland but made up of mostly English art students, including vocalist Sue Tompkins whose fragmented Ari Up-style vocals have a juicy, real-life tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1067957429052513812003-11-04T14:50:00.000Z2003-11-04T14:57:31.900ZA worrying development/sign o' the times from danceblogga...
'Some members of the East Coast dance industry elite have put their heads together and come up with the Dance Music Hall of Fame, which will induct three performers, three records, one producer, one remixer and one DJ in spring 2004. Artists are not eligible until 25 years after they have released their first record.
A nominating tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1067954409696632742003-11-04T14:00:00.000Z2003-11-04T14:00:12.943Z12”// QUALIFIDE & JASON H ‘ALL I NEED’ (QUALIFIDE) Was compelled to buy some of this new strain of ‘4x4’ garage recently, and what’s quite obvious (and probably why I liked it) is that it’s not new, but the ‘old’ sound of 1997, pre-2-step garage. It’s house music, basically – hence Timmee Magic’s ‘Urban House’ tag, which really smacks of retro/conservative thirty somethingness. Only records like tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1067948636464857802003-11-04T12:23:00.000Z2003-11-04T22:59:57.136Z12”// WILEY ‘GROUND ZERO’ (WHITE LABEL) Wiley’s new ones are becoming ever-more abstract that you wonder just how much he can strain his relationship with the dancefloor with dubs like this before it snaps violently, but while he keeps it at maximum tension the results are thrilling. The obvious thing would be to say that this (like much of 'Boy In Da Corner') isn't music for dancing, and we're tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1067527725560358002003-10-30T15:28:00.000Z2003-11-04T13:17:54.896ZWiley interview here.
Incredible stuff. Love this bit:
Martin Clark: "Ice Rink,” “Eskimo” etc What’s the reason for the ice theme in the track names?
Wiley: "I’m a winter person but the cold… sometimes I just feel cold hearted. I felt cold at that time, towards my family, towards everyone. That’s why I used those names. I was going to use “North Pole” but I didn’t even get that far. It was tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1067386384386997842003-10-29T00:13:00.000Z2003-10-29T00:27:05.656ZLEMON D Q&A
This is the raw transcript of an interview I did with Kevin King aka Lemon D last week for a somewhat niche magazine. The original idea for Tufluv being reviews, I'm not altogether that it works to post interviews here. But until a print or web format becomes a reality you may be able to expect intermittent Q&As like this one...
Tufluv: Has your sound system become your mission?
tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1067361205477111662003-10-28T17:13:00.000Z2003-10-28T17:29:20.803Z7 INCHES OF TUFLUV//
UNKNOWN ‘HIDDEN LIBRAY 002’ (HIDDEN LIBRARY) Unknown my arse – this is the work of TLS on their until-now cloak and dagger Hidden Library label, the premise of which being that you could only buy its releases via a Sherlock Holmes-style hidden passage-way located on the Bi-Wire (Weatherall-affiliated online record store) website. Limited to 500 copies these are desirable tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1067046130520488002003-10-25T01:42:00.000Z2003-10-25T01:42:10.410ZI love strawberry smoke. LOVE IT!tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1066401839904026342003-10-17T14:43:00.000Z2003-10-17T14:43:59.500ZALBUM// TWO LONE SWORDSMEN ‘PEPPERED WITH SPASTIC MAGIC’ (ROTTERS GOLF CLUB) If you believe what you hear, the Two Lone Swordsmen spend hours in a daylight-less fug of genetically hyper-modified skunk smoke - red-eyed, choking and yellow of skin, ratcheting and cranking their behemoth-sized machines in a Frankenstein’s lab-style Cold War bunker a mile below the streets of London’s East End, wheretufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1066152937999339212003-10-14T17:35:00.000Z2003-10-14T17:35:37.660ZDon't think that I'm proselytising on behalf of broken beat - for some reason I'm still reluctant to do that for fear that it might not live up to the promise. Its shapeshifting vibe is definitely one of the big appeals - not least the lack of a regimented rhythm stated there in the name (the best anyone's come up with), meaning it can be what you want it to be, within reason - but also that it tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1065804542417833862003-10-10T16:49:00.000Z2003-10-13T15:51:32.060ZALBUMS// MINOTAUR SHOCK ‘RINSE’ (MELODIC) What is with this certain type of bedroom boffin that makes them so resistant to growing up? It’s there in music by Pilote, Lucky Pierre, Minotaur Shock and others, where the melodies are those of childhood memory – music boxes, nursery rhymes, lullabies – but what makes the best of it compelling listening rather than sentimental chill-out rubbish (see tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1065741788076609532003-10-09T23:23:00.000Z2003-10-09T23:32:23.663ZALBUMS// SASCHA FUNKE ‘BRAVO’ (BPITCH CONTROL) A tight sense of flux. A love-struck heart. The wide-eyed fear of a child. The tenderness of a touch. The bloodrush of arousal. The increasing pulse. The groin-centric throb brought on by the gentle tug-tugging of dance/sex temptation. So it goes with east Berlin’s Sascha Funke, whose music is dipped in sugared romance and pastel-coloured melancholy,tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1065721045357864392003-10-09T17:37:00.000Z2003-10-09T23:19:02.470ZTUFLUV MEDIA RAM-RAID!///
US hip-hop bloke Peanut Butter Wolf on broken beats (Touch magazine): "Hearing the music on a booming soundsystem at places like Co-Op was unlike anything else we've experienced in recent memory. The DJ Rels album* was made in the US, but it's kind of a tribute to what we heard when we went to London. Kinda like when Quincy Jones went to Brazil in the 1950s and was blowntufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5884039.post-1065719458384602322003-10-09T17:10:00.000Z2003-10-09T17:10:58.360ZLuke Vibert @ Plastic People last night: Acid slo-jamz, sub-bass knee tremblers, box-jacking sanity bending and a hefty wodge of hyperspastic, lung-crushing, throat-grabbing, limb-jerking, mind-imploding '93 breakbeat science for the never-say-die jungle tekno crew. The thrill of coming inches/decibels aware from blowing out an ear drum. The body-brain short-circuit of remebering how you do tufluvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17258293692082182666noreply@blogger.com