Tag Archive


27 2009 albums anime art banks bastard pop Blog books Christmas comics cycling edinburgh emusic film flickr food gigs interest last.fm live london me mobile moving pictures music neighbourhood new music news new year old music photo politics scotland snow statistics stupidity television tv twitter walking west london WordPress work youtube

Royksopp’s Junior has (awesome) J-Pop Roots

I’ve been really enjoying the new Röyksopp album Junior, and have been rather taken with a number of tracks which appear to me to have the spirit of the soundtrack of the Amiga game Lotus III within them.
One song that has rather caught me is track 3, Vision One. It has a really rather awesome [...]

Pagan Wanderer Lu – Fight My Battles For Me

Were you to try and create a musician for me to admire, I’d think it hard for anyone to come up with anything more suitable than Pagan Wanderer Lu. A keen social commentator, multi instrumentalist and lover of melding the the slight and heartfelt sounds that sometimes typify bedroom indie to the louder electronica sounds [...]

Music to hold onto whilst the sky is falling

At last, the start of posts about my favourite music I came across last year.

I’ve been listening to Kelley Polar since his first album Love Songs Of The Hanging Gardens was reccomended to me by emusic. It was nice, but didn’t really hook me but his second album I Need You To Hold On While [...]

Tipped For The Top (sorta)

It’s a new year so everyone’s trying to predict the big musical acts forthe year. I hate such nonsense myself but as a prelude to my usual year end round-up here’s a few acts I’ve come across lately that stand at best an infinitesimally small chance of making it big but who I really rate. [...]

What happens when I watch one thing…

So Ian (whose fault it usually is) sends me a link to this nifty video of tilt shift shenanigans in motion video form.
Beached from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.
I realise I rather like the soundtrack and google it finding out that it’s by Sonido Lasser Drakar who have an album on emusic.
And before you know where [...]