Tuesday, June 26, 2007  10:07 pm 

A Convergence of Wizardry

We don’t usually do this, we are all about fair distribution of things of an mp3 persuasion. Juan posted Sorcerer’s last single last week, but I’m too excited for the album to not post something from it - brilliance should not be ignored! The LP is called “White Magic” which you could probs gather from the dodgy unintentionally pixelated image above (soz for the qualitee), and is out in July on the most bodacious Tirk Records.

Sorcerer - Bamboo Brainwave

Sorcerer flips back his cloak and fires out slow motion comets of warm spacial love for this LP. ‘Bamboo Brainwave’ swaggers along in double-digit BPM style, creeping across your brain like shadows of palm trees as the blazing sun sets over the desert plains. It has a regal quality in its synth lines and fizzling percussion and the 8-bit rhythms just past the 2 minute mark don’t sound out of place but just right. This sunbeam of wizardry stands for all things good, but as always there is a bad side to compliment the brightness…

Tangerine Dream, a team of Warlocks sent from a cold and dark region of deepest space, soundtracking a movie by the name of “Sorcerer” in our Wizardry post! See what we did? We are like fucking lightyears beyond ourselves in our geniusness sometimes, y’know?

Tangerine Dream - Vengeance

Now, “Sorcerer” is not the most magical of films - i.e there is no actual sorcery - but Tangerine Dream turn it into this otherworldly suspense thriller in the same way that John Carpenter’s score turned “Assault On Precinct 13″ into a horror film. ‘Vengeance’ is a minimal marching beat with doom-laden synthesised shards of blackness floating throughout its uniformed staccato rhythms.

Tangerine Dream - Rain Forest

But then ‘Rain Forest’ is an attack of the aliens chase sequence from your worst nightmares with chattering insects and drums lit by the full sanguine Moon. Close your eyes and think of any of Tangerine Dream’s album covers animating to life, then crank up the tension and maybe listen to this on the way to the DVD shop to go buy ‘Sorcerer’?

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Now, an extra treat, Wizard Disco Mix, cos wizards need to dance too (they get bored of just drums sometimes). Thanks to G£nuin£ Guy for assistance.

/// WIZARD DISCO MIX ///

Tracklist:

Harmonia - Veterano
Throbbing Gristle - Hot On The Heels Of Love (Carl Craig Remix)
Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom - Rise
Lindstrom - Monsteer
Chas Jankel - 3,OOO,OOO Synths (US 12″ Edit)
The Fearless Four - F-4OOO
Goblin - Theme From ‘Tenebre’
Barry De Vorzon - Theme From ‘The Warriors’
Max Berlin - Nothing
Black Devil Disco Club - An Other Skin (Dub)
Allez Allez - She’s Stirring Up (An Optimo (Espacio) Drum Attack)
Liars - Pillars were Hollow and Filled with Candy so we tore them down

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Tonite- 20JFG will be rocking Capital City in one of those ‘once in a full moon moon trip to big smokey’ in support of the mighty natty Paper Rad affiliated Extreme Animals, you knows what goes on, an American light werewizard in London and we’ve prancing around excited- expect Electroid noise full force wacko whirlwind dance party yeay, and videos with pixelated cats doing chants to boot, RAWWWWRRR

9 O clock onwards at the Macbeth, more info here. Drop us a line at the myspace if you want some cheap list or summat.

labels >> Sorcery, dreams, wizards