Monday, June 23, 2008  12:05 am 

Get celestial!

If you liked that song we posted some time ago with Pete Tosh singing exalted about smoking doobie while dancing to tropical disco then you are going to love this one.

We first heard Junior Byron’s ‘Dance to Music’ in the astonishing James Murphy/Pat Mahoney Fabriclive cosmic/physical trip, it was one of those cuts that sounded simply timeless, a fantastic hybrid of slowed down italo strutting and warm reggae vibes with an uplifting synth riff wrapping things up into the sort of package that Kraftwerk would surely have taken home for research purposes.

We encourage you to dance soaked by the rain of kisses of its utopian mantra, as they fall from a pastel coloured sky which is the interface between our world and some constellation of love shining strong in the midst of the darkness of space. Dance. to. the. music.

Junior Byron- Dance to the Music

We know that Carl Craig is a genius, but it would be unfair and stupid not to take our proverbial hats off and genuflect in front of his aural image every time he pulls another piece of heart-rending music of the sleeve of his sorcerer’s robe, printed with the schemata of computer chips which connect with each other to deliver a message of electronic beauty. Here he compresses Ayumi Hamasaki’s j-pop drama oddyssey ‘Part of Me’ into a carriage of electric impulses circulating the reticle of a Tron style scenario under a gradient many tones of blue, accessing different regions of a RAM memory full of synthetic constructs of melancholy and longing that sound more real than the real thing.

We encourage you to stare at the night sky from the window of that train you travel in drenched loneliness across an anonymous urban landscape, because you might hear the stars singing you this song.

Ayumi Hamasaki- Part of Me (Carl Craig Instrumental Remix)

Photo of Bladerunner styles Tokyo above taken from here

labels >> Junior Byron, carl craig

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