In Other Peoples’ Lists We Trust
Invisible Conga People – Cable Dazed (MP3)
Here at Best Foot Forward, we don’t like to stick with the crowd, who ramp up their output for end of year lists. We’re much happier to take December off, as no doubt evidenced from recent postings.
Lazy? Us? No: we just balk in the face of convention.
But you know, if all those lists are out there. It would be rude not to take a gander. Yer Mam are working their way through 100 tracks and 50 albums (I bet you’re regretting that now James!), and I’ve been spending the afternoon listening to Pitchfork’s Top 100 Tracks of 2009 (thanks Black Country Grammar) and having my ears pricked up by some bits that I missed over the year.
And top of the “stuff I hadn’t heard” list has to be this – coming in at #50, Cable Dazed is a track by little known Invisible Conga People, released on Italians Do It Better. It’s a real low-key techno stormer – but don’t let the dreaded ‘T’ word put you off – think Villalobos with soul, or Carl Craig and Can doing the Conga. Basically, I loves it.
Happy New Year.
Addendum: As I was posting this, I was searching for an image and found it on 20JazzFunkGreats, who had this in their Best Of 2007 post. Those fuckers are so far ahead of the curve that it looks like a speck of dust in their rear-view mirror, and if they’ve beaten Pitchfork by 12 months, I don’t mind posting this now. Ah, to be as cool as the cool kids, that would be something indeed.
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Chris added these pithy words on Feb 23 09 at 9:20 pmMy god Kev even I heard this ages ago. I really wish I could come up with some suitably witty geometry based analogy explaining just how far behind the curve you are but I’m too busy sniggering.
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