Monday, June 30, 2008  12:05 am 

Cowboys

The image of Snake Plissken advancing stealthy down the mesas, sliding in between the small flows of life that flourish in the desert at night like a shark tracking down the scent of his prey in the air so still, desert foxes, coyotes and wild dogs staring on his wake like a visitation from a world even more feral than theirs, all of this while the sun starts announcing its arrival with lines of blood-light in the eternal horizon is one that 20JFG would pay dearly to see.As it is, the soundtrack for that potential scene will have to do, but then, what a fucking soundtrack this is.

Ass- Escape from NY (Main Title)

Ass’ ‘My Get Up and Go Just Got Up and Went‘ is the sound of John Fahey looking at the skies with the eyes of some kosmische sorcerer, and then reporting back slow and furious battle between constellations.

It is RVNG OF THE NRDS time again, so get ready for something good.

Wade Nichols, alter ego of one of our favourite edit wizards out there steps in the ring of fire in the new 12” that these defenders of everything that is good and beautiful are putting out. In this occasion the source of joy are three ridiculously awesome edits of AM radio classics, so far we have identified two of them, America’s ‘A Horse with No Name’ and Canned Heat’s ‘Wanda Rode Again’, here you have the latter, where the mournful country blues one-two one-two of the original is skilfully transformed into a barnyard stomper racing metronomic through highways of loneliness to show us an epic western landscape covered in white clouds like the hands of god were stretching to comfort us, somewhere in between Bill Calahan’s demesne of despair and Black Mountain’s Appalachian hut, frankly incredible stuff, get it here.

Wade Nichols- Wanda Rode Again

Oh, and if you are in Scotland this week, you could do waaaaay worse than go to this

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