Time flies when you’re having fun, or so they say.
In that case I must have been having an absolute whale of a time this past week.
It feels like about three days since I was sat on this here computer moaning to the internet about how intolerably exciting my Friday night was, my early night about to go tits up leaving me to face an evening drinking stout and sneering at my housemates choice of televisual entertainment. Goodness me aren’t I a happy character.
Turns out, it’s been seven whole English days.
Achievement levels have been at an all time high this week. The website that has been the bane of my life for the last few months is finally finished! (Although it won’t go live for a while, so don’t get too excited.) I can safely say that unless someone wants to pay me a wholesome sum of money to do so, I will not be undertaking a project of that nature again in the foreseeable future.
I have also put together a few new mixes. One is for the lovely chaps over at Olo Radio who are featuring me on their podcast, tying in nicely with a couple of remixes I’ve just completed for the rather wonderful OLO Worms. That mix features a nice mix of bits and bobs. Aphex, Fly-Lo, The Egg, Jamie Lidell all star alongside many others. Naturally I will be posting full spam when it finally becomes available. The other mix, is a a purely personal affair, no podcasts, radio shows or sponsorships on this one, just some tunes that I felt like putting together in order. Lots of good old fashioned “proper electro” goodness. Again, full spammage to come in the near future.
Oh, I seem to have lost my flow. Dammed forums.
Another great achievement of the week, has been finally coming round to the music of The Chap.I bought their album ‘Mega Breakfast’ after having heard the track ‘They Have a Name’ on the excellent (and totally free) ‘Bleep Clash’ compilation from, surprisingly, Bleep.com. For quite some time I really didn’t know what to make of it. The tunes are good, if a little eccentric, but the vocals sway from shouty indie, through the middle of the road, right up to mock opera silliness. The lyrical surrealism also proved a little rich for me, whether it’s intended to be ironic or simply off the wall, I wasn’t a fan. However, something inspired me to take another listen this week, and by Jove, it sounds fantastic! While spending several lines of text slating a band probably isn’t the best way to convince you of their greatness, I think it’s important to set the scene. Everything I felt before still stands, but for some reason it works. They have elements of electronica, indie, show tunes, and lots and lots of good old fashioned pop in there, and once you embrace the quirk, it warms you up a treat. Highly Recommended.
That seems to about cover it. I could waffle on and on about the details of my day to day happenings, but I fear that would be rather dull. If you do indeed want to find out more about my foolish mistake when choosing which towel to use in the shower, or the outright buffoonery of forgetting to drink my specially purchased sparkling elderflower drink with lunch, then I suggest you re-assess the situation promptly and get a grip.
And there we have it, another eventful Friday night, and I’m not very much mistaken I seem to be the last person left awake in my house.
Champion.
