Wednesday, March 30, 2005  1:17 pm 

Nice line in cravats and the incompleteness theorem

Pink Grease - Peache Grease Remix by Peaches

The original of Pink Grease - Peaches is on of my favourite almost balad since The Ramones - Baby I Love You which it pays tribute to, and can easily bring a tear to my eye. A heartbreaking tragic love tale that i’m really hopeing gets radio play.

Peaches remix takes nothing from the original except small vocal samples (which to be honest she could do without). Peaches gives a vocal performance all dark and moody like The Vanishing or Glass Candy. The music underneath steps out as drum machine Suzi Quatro and builds in intensity and repetitive bass patterns that would fit well into any Soulwax DJ set or next to Whitey. It sounds more like Peaches has done her own track either b4 or after hearing the Pink Grease original and then just stuck the little vocal sample in.

Sometimes things just come right up and convince me that 2+2 is not equal to 4.

For instance if you get two great artists like as an abstract example Pink Grease and Peaches and you put them together you think your gonna get State of Shock or U Got the Look or Motor Inn. Saying that this is only a remix and I would like to have seen what would have happened if you got them both in the studio together.

Pink Grease are from Sheffield and signed to Barry 7s Horseglue Records. Go check out their new stuff by Noblesse Oblige, Asian Zombie and The Secret Mexican Band(although thats not really new).

The other remix on of the Peaches single is by Riton who we like lots but sadley doesn’t do the business for us here. This Peaches remix proves that the whole is often not equal to the sum of its two halves, and i would have posted the far superior original which can rush over and listen too at the Pink Grease website, but you should buy it please as Pink Grease deserve some attention at last.

This next post proves 2+2 is sometimes 10, and that Kurt Godel was right.

Ron Granier - Doctor Who Theme

Were we going to post this song when the new Doctor Who series appeared back on our BBC TV screens? Of course we fucking were, who do you think that funny man above the Archive is? Stephen Hawkin? (for trainspotters only if you look at the graphic carefully you can see the upside down cover of White Noise An Electric Storm in it too).

So for those of you that don’t know Ron Granier wrote the theme tune to Doctor Who then as always happened with under budgeted BBC TV shows the BBC Radiophonic Workshop were left to ‘perform’ the piece. In this case Delia Derbyshire performed the piece and when she presented it back to Ron, he was both astounded and unsure if that was what he had really written. “Did I really write this?” he asked. “Most of it” replied Delia. I think he would have liked to give Delia more credit for the theme.

This is the original version, not the new re-edited theme from the 90s with more whooshes.

So how is a piece of music like this performed before either Bob or Walter/Wendy developed their revolutionary electronic music synthesising machine? No samplers, no synth, no sequencers and it still turned out better than most of today’s electronic music, go figure.

(EDIT oops - David has pointed out they had modular synths this baby, the VCS3 As a reward we would like anyone who owns one to send it to David please, as his casio cz-101 is broke, and this makes us very sad - thanks David! we hope it gets fixed soon)

People! Go get those reel to reels left gathering dust, start recording and cutting up your loops. It’s much more fun, trust me, and you get a great deal or randomness that leaves an organic feel to the composition. You might need to practice some maths too, no pain no gain.

If the new series lives up to expectations can only now be in the hands of the Timelords.

I’m interested to know what any of our readers who don’t know Doctor Who think of this track. Let us know in the comments bit below.

Also a shout out to a new kid on the block Why Popstars Can’t Dance who you should go see, and someone play him some Chrome!

A Welcome to a new writer su at N.1 in Belgium who has a number of mp3s from NUVO - Montreal’s Radical Pop Underground well worth checking.

Something I Learned Today has some prime rock action by The Saints.

Stylus magazine makes a case for DHR.

Lastly a fucking great idea, a project posting mp3s of past John Peel shows called The Peel Tapes - get em while they are hot, contribute if you can! My hope is we eventually all the shows will be rescued and available as a huge collective memory help in the p2p networks.

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