A couple of bleeping gems to take you into the bank holiday weekend.
It's A Fine Line is a collaboration between
Ivan Smagghe &
Tim Paris, I'll let Mr Smagghe explain the ethos:
"It's a Fine Line was first born out of Tim Paris and myself ending up in London a few months from each other (4-5 years ago). I think we left Paris for kind of the same reason: it seemed at the time a small pretty conformist scene. Fresh air needed. But then again, London is gigantic, hectic and easy to get lost in. here, anchors were needed and setting up it's a fine line, building a kind of proper studio and trying to be in it as much as we can was also a way to put a brake on going out..It took us a good year to get the studio going properly... getting into machines and into analog was not at all something given: we are not synth geeks. But those bits and bobs clearly came into the building of the IAFL sound, also because we were learning in the making kind of thing...It was the same thing with he production of the Battant lp for Kill the DJ. Producing a rock album was not something we aimed at, but, hey, we could learn from it no? If the machines were one key thing, the refusal of club music conformisms was probably the main root for IAFL. It was key for us to let go of the "first we need to make a record that sound good in club". We still aim to that in a way, but not over everything. We wanted to avoid anything "straight" ("bancal bancal" was the name of the studio). We also opened our sound to a lot more influences than the classic krautrock / italo / space disco thing : industrial beats, 50's rockabilly ("Grease" for I'm a Cliche), sixties psychedelia (our remix of Burger and Voig for Kompakt)... anything really... Probably also reaction to the house music return to classicism (deep/bongo/loops) and the commercial diffusion of the neo-disco sound... may be... but definitely showing that we love a lot of things, fashionable or not. Our list of remixes so far probably also testifies of a broad taste in music: Marc Houle, The XX, Burger and Voigt, Au Revoir Simone etc... We will keep our mind open in our choices."
New 12 'Do The Hot Tar/Bachbeat' is out now, you can pick it up
here.
It's A Fine Line- Bachbeat (Download)And from a couple of years back here's
Misstress Barbara with an equally fine bleepy anthem.
Get it.
Misstress Barbera- Come Back (Download)
Electronic goodness to begin our week: Cage & Aviary deliver a splendid slow mo version of Blamma! Blamma!'s 'Beyond 17' (The one that sample's Stevie Nicks, that Destiny's Child sampled) You can get your hands on the 12" here.
