Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Despite our busy schedules, being pressed for time and wishes for more than twenty-four hours in a day, we always find Sunday the perfect day to kick away all the obligations and take some well-deserved me-time. Even though Sunday is probably the best time to get cracking on ticking off some of those priority projects on that to-do list of yours, TRUANTS would love to give you an excuse and a half to crank up some tunes instead. So here’s another edition of Sunday’s Best for your weekly dose of evading productive activities! Remember, we don’t condone procrastination, we just cause it.
Are you feeling future dubstep? Of course you are. It’s the biz. It’s not just wobbles, it’s tics and quirks and “phzewm” and all sorts of crazy little nods to this and that. US Caves have just gone and done that slightly overdone but rarely done right thing by putting together an album/mix type thing full of rap acappellas over a different kind of sound. It’s all Drizzy and Weezy and such and the vocals aren’t new but the sound is mesmerising. Closer to IDM and electronica than dubstep really, it’s somewhere between interesting and fun, but thankfully has enough of both to make it a thoroughly worthwhile listening experience. Album/mix closer 1, 2 Step kicks off with harmonic bleeps and the sound of a cathedral choir singing hallelujah, before Ciara’s “automatic, supersonic, hypnotic, funky fresh” vocal kicks in, pitched down to an unhealthily robotic yet seductive degree. It sums up the best thing about this album – dark and moody, but at the same time irreverent and funky fresh. Check out the full album, but do the right thing and start at the end with 1, 2 Step.
CAVING – 1, 2 STEP (CIARA) (320 kbps)
MJ Cole is probably one of the most exciting producers out there. And Wiley, well, Wiley is a badman who knows to spits rhymes and how to work Ustream. The two teamed up for an EP that will be released throughProlific Recordings, MJ Cole’s label – one of the very few labels Wiley doesn’t have beef with or so it seems. Wiley takes the original Angel Riddim and does his thing – the outcome sounding ridiculous, and as he says himself, the flow is topnotch. One of Wiley’s better tracks out of the billion leaks, back to his grime roots. L-Vis 1990 did a well job remixing the track: he adds more energy to the track and some drops of acid, transforming the track into something dark and adds a drop. That’s what we were waiting for, after all. MJ COLE & WILEY – FROM THE DROP (L-VIS 1990 REMIX) (320 kbps)
This week I’m embracing a nostalgic glance back to the 80’s with help from SymbolOne’s remix of the sublime Tangerine Dream’s Love On A Real Train, perhaps best remembered as the soundtrack to one of the most well-executed love scenes of the era in the 1983 film ‘Risky Business’. The original revelled in hypnotic, looping synths and a brooding, intoxicating air, it provided the perfect backdrop for a subtle yet white-hot scene now burned into the psyche of a generation. This remix deftly deepens the vibe, increases the tempo and fattens everything up but daaayamn, still it conjures the magnetic coupling of Tom Cruise and Rebecca De Mornay…the anticipation, the longing, the lust. Heavens above, all this on the holy day – forgive me Father, for I have synthed. TANGERINE DREAM – LOVE ON A REAL TRAIN (SYMBOLONE REMIX) (320 kbps)
It takes a brave soul to take on something as classic as Windowlicker. In this instance Renaissance Man have wisely opted to go for a very different mood to the original. Gone is the demented energy of the original, replaced by an otherworldly shuffle of a house track, with a few gentle nods to the glitchy extremes that made Windowlicker such a dancefloor challenge. This is certainly one for when the sun is coming up and everyone is feeling a little bit “special”. Renaissance Man have been one of the breakout house artists of the last year or two, with a consistency in their production which has seen them steadily climbing the ranks. APHEX TWIN – WINDOWLICKER (RENAISSANCE MAN BOOTCUT) (320 kbps)
