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Sentrall to my beliefs…
jonas bering - mustang 1966 (pch rmx) (mp3)
specialising in dreamy soundscapes and minimal dance tracks, the los angeles based sentrall records have been busy releasing some serious modern day 21st century, californian soul music…
starting back in 2001 and with only a few releases to date (eight to be exact), the hit rate for these […]
Cosmic disco powers…
If you head on over to our friends at cosmic disco, you will find 5 hours worth of musical downloads (yes a whole 5 hours) from saturday’s best foot forward v’s cosmic disco showdown. here at bff, we would like to thank all three of the cosmic fraternity for coming down, in what was a […]
A sneak peek over the mountain of one
a mountain of one - brown piano (sample) (mp3)
well, it seems that the guys from a mountain of one enjoyed our company so much that they’ve been nice enough to provide a little taster of ‘brown piano’, which will be their next release sometime towards the end of august. the track opens with a dreamy […]
In the beginning there was the machine…
automat - the rise, the advance, the genus (mp3)
back in 1978 romano musumarra and claudio gizzi concieved, arranged and played all the music on their self titled ‘automat’ album. using a mcs-70 synthesiser, the album was created around the concept of the ‘machine’, and the dependency of the human on such machines. a little […]
The fool on the hillage
steve hillage - octave doctors (mp3)
a lovely beach-kissed balearic instrumenal for a rare sunny day here in manchester, this is taken from steve hillage’s 1977 album ‘motivation radio’. what starts off like a cosmic excursion into nick drake’s ‘joey’ continues to build with multiple layers of echo and guitar licks into a psychedelic haze […]
Blinded by the setting sun
the aliens - setting sun (mp3)
regular readers will know that as well as blethering on about silly records here in our little corner of the internet, we also run a little saturday shindig down here in manchester. long-term regular readers (yes, that’s both of you) will also be aware that this blog was originally set […]
Evans above, timbaland ahoy
tiffany evans - girl gone wild (mp3)
this blog is fast turning into a timbaland love-fest, but that’s pretty indicative of the music scene in general right now - everything mr. mosely touches turns to gold, and he shows no signs of taking his foot off the pedal or following any kind of rules but his […]
Moussa who?
moussa doumbia - mokholou (mp3)
things are a bit hectic over here at the moment, so apologies for the lack of blogging, but i shall endevour to make up for it with this cheeky piece of malian magic.
moussa doumbia was an ivorian born sax player turned writer who is one of the most overlooked african […]
Wednesday’s valium - extraordinary
ulrich schnauss - monday - paracetamol (mp3)
it may be a clear-headed wednesday but the song in my head when i woke up this morning was ulrich schnauss’s epic ‘monday - paracetamol’. this is a huge improvement over recent offenders ‘itchycoo park’ (the scary thing is i don’t know if it was the small faces version […]
Mighty bop, don’t stop…
the mighty bop feat. ejm - freestyle linguistique (the mix) (mp3)
a super quick post today courtesy of french trio christophe lefriant, alain ho & ejm - we just love the french on here right now…
requiring some soothing sounds for a lazy sunday afternoon, i came across this mighty bop release. not digged this […]
