Another issue, another thematically-oriented playlist – this time in inaugural, experimental and conveniently downloadable mp3 format. Entropy, mess and environmental evangelism are the main concepts at stake. There is, as such, some stuff that’s chiefly here on account of subscribing to a ‘less is more’ approach, whether in terms of run time, instrumentation or melodic development – thus the Gas track, which also has the merit of suggesting what it might feel like to photosynthesize.
There’s also some tracks more explicitly preoccupied with economy and ecology. Neil Young, topically enough, slurs some oil magnates, Chicks on Speed sing about those devices for shearing bobbles off old jumpers, Boards of Canada cite a public information film about conserving natural resources.For Minor Threat, form and content were more or less inextricable; believe it or not, the cut of Big Man, Small Mouth below comes from a demo they binned because they thought it wasn’t fast enough – slow songs presumably figuring somewhere on their endless list of Stuff We Consider Loathsomely Indulgent and Complicit.
Oh, and with any luck we’ll be cutting a podcast soon too, so look out for that…
- FM3 – Huan
- Boards of Canada – Energy Warning
- Temporal Pain – Waves Hit
- Neil Young – Vampire Blues
- Gas – Pop III
- Brian Eno – Music for Airports 2/1
- Ricardo Villalobos – Minimoonstar (Shackleton Remix)
- King Cannibal – So… Embrace the Minimum
- Chicks on Speed – Jumpa Shava
- Minor Threat – Small Man, Big Mouth
- Patti Smith – Free Money
