on heavy rotation this week on the proverbial boombox:

Stumbled across this the other day at CD Esoterik while checking out all the hubbub surrounding the new Crackhaus EP, which while not bad didn't get a rise outta me, but that's another post.

I'd tried several times on Amazon to procure this puppy, only to be defeated by the blasted out of stock email after placing my order. As I've probably rambled on before, track #4, “The Love you bring” is one of the most emotively compelling pieces I've ever heard. The cut up treatment of the female vocal, such that her words are always teetering between the abstract and literal, coupled with the profound yearning of her voice, its like that unrequited love that almost was. If only you'd said the right words and the right time.

After my gig with Gys last month in Miami, decided to revisit Todd's debut album and this time really get into it. Lots of deliciously organically shifting, bubbly textures that emerge, and then re-submerge themselves dub-stylie. Todd's production here has a great sense of space and placement. It'd be fun and interesting to do a collaboration with him, I know I'd pick up a lot of great ideas on new ways to work. Notable tracks: Gymnasium, Mor and Tried.

Thanks to KaZaA I've been able to preview a handful of DJ Shadow tracks from his debut album Endtroducing. So with a couple of individual favourites like “Organ Donor” and “Stem/Long Stem”, I had high expectations for album as a cohesive piece of work. While very good in places, I didn't really feel the album worked for me, its myriad little hip-hop-esque interludes felt fragmentary and were distracting. To its credit though, it had the feel of work with the potential to grow on you. All in good time.