The Psychedelic Waltons feat. Róisín Murphy – Wonderland + Matthew Herbert – See You on Monday (Linkwood Remix) =
See You on Monday (…In Wonderland) Mashup
[I don’t own the copyright to either song, but I’m hoping the copyleft will smile on the homage.]
Bette Midler – From A Distance (Cool Yule/Christmas Version) + Francis Harris – Pharaoh In the Morning (black light smoke (Over The Pyramid Mix)) =
DJ Special Flower – Pharaoh, From a Distance (Holy Daze Mashed Potato Better with Butter Melted Midler Mix)
[I don’t own the copyright to either song, but I’m hoping the copyleft will smile on the homage.]
A major part of the preparations for Róisearch – the ekstatic dance party that the amazing Róisearch Kollucktíf in Toronto held on 9 July in awe and honour of Ms. Róisín Murphy – was spending time deep in Moloko’s back catalogue and with Ms. Murphy’s singles and collaborations. Her. Lyrical. Power. It got me thinking-feeling about what it might have been to grow up on the dance floors of Mad-chester, about my own accidental relationship with Moloko, about how dancefloors can save you, make you queer, about everything that hangs between creativity and loss.
And then, the day before the party, I listened to the new album and received the gift of “Thoughts Wasted.” Dystopian emotional artchitextures. Navigating the tube. It turned my ear toward the quiet conversations that traffic between mundanity and conceptual efflorescence.
Everywhere I go I see construction. Re-construction. Orange vests. Caution. Be careful. Work is happening here. There is still work to be done. It’s incessant. It’s essential. And to think that any intimacy, any artistry is still possible amid all the dust…out of the din and the gloom.
Shaking the Habitual, the perfectly titled new album from the incredible Swedish duo The Knife is streaming here. (Thanks to MM for sharing.)
Also, if you want more context for their return to producing music as The Knife after several years, there’s a great piece in the Guardian. Judith Butler is a named influence on the conceptualization of this album.
La guida con le migliori trattorie e ristoranti di Bologna. Dove mangiare i tortellini, le tagliatelle e le lasagne più buone della città. Un brasiliano in giro per cento trattorie bolognesi, attento anche alla bilancia!