JUSTICE “Phantom part II-soulwax remix” via busy p’s blog for fader.

Man I love this clip, it reminds me of drunken nights at basilika.
Me and illa going nuts behind the decks, loving the music as much as (way more than) the crowd, oh and that mix sounds amazing.

Speaking of basilika, prince week continues a pace with loads of exclusive versions of our favourite unreleased or hard to get tracks. Word to DC for joining in the fun.

Also on the firemusic network,jez at innersounds is posting like a maniac, (God knows where he gets the energy) including this monster from hl fav moodyman.

Heavy.

Solace has a phone-cam version of the trailer for new Michael Gondry/Jack Black film ‘Be Kind, Rewind‘-the quality is not so great, but it has the greatest premise of any movie ever made.

The LA Times reviews William Gibson’s new book Spook Country,which I would have pre-ordered from amazon alreday if I wasn’t half way through about 12 books already-maybe it’s the motivation I need to clear the decks.

And (via Serif) this wonderful collection of 60’s/70’s book covers.

image via (the amazing) deleted images (obviously)

Regular readers will have no doubt noticed the absence of good friend and longtime Hl contributor jez’s posts recently. Behind the scenes he has been hard at work getting his new project innersounds up and running . As you would expect, the blog (part of a jez’s music consultancy empire in the making) features the kind of unique killer selection that will be sorely missed here at hl.

Hopefully when things are a bit more established, he will find the time to send the occasional extended monologue in this direction, but in the meantime you can go with him on his personal journey to inner-space.

Also worth clicking through and bookmarking, is the fantastic SF Gospel blog, written by Gabriel Mckee. Where else will you find articles on the place of religion in world’s conquered by zombies or a review of the transformers that references Philip K. Dick, Martin Luther and (my current internet obsession) cloverfield. If only he could have worked in a few references to french electronic music, a deep love of cakes, scandy design and mid-eighties prince we could have shutdown hl altogether and replaced it with a rss feed to his site.

Oh well, we’re safe for the moment.

Here’s a track that’s featured on Trev Jackson’s incredible (and mind boggling) Playgroup Party mix which you can find more about on this aladdin’s cave of a mp3 blog that I stumbled upon monday (and haven’t been quite the same since)

It’s one of those records that walks that fine line between being rubbishly 80’s and amazingly 80’s but it’s got a vocoder in it-a let’s be honest that usually swings it.

Nairobi & the awesome foursome-Funky soul makossa

Salvage is what we here at the Plaza (I love that word…) use to draw attention to the great web work of others.

So check out Neil’s review of Prince at KoKo in London last week. Someone I know said they knew that girl. She made a lot of papers in the UK that night. I’d love to know what she was thinking!!

solar flares and other things we’ve found on our new tumblr mini-blog thing.

salvage 2.0

The Guardian has a fascinating interview with a 70’s film auteur Alejandro Jodorowsky worth reading for this quote alone;

“Out of the blue he tells a tale from the past, from his bad old days in Mexico City. He explains that the winner of a cockfight is judged to be the last bird standing; the one that does not put its beak to the ground. But some cocks are so ferocious and so full of intensity that they literally die on their feet, with their beaks inclined towards the sky. Meanwhile the other bird survives a little longer, staggering drunkenly for a spell before expiring in the dirt. According to the rules, this bird “loses” and the other bird “wins”.

Belatedly I realise that Jodorowsky is talking about himself.”

Two great stories about discovery (both via metafilter); one about life changing experience of finding the world’s greatest ever comic collection , the other telling the story of two men finding giant trees in an undiscovered part of california. I’m not sure what’s more amazing about the second story, that there are still unexplored areas of forest in california or that giant redwoods get given amazing sounding names like ‘The Lost Monarch’ and ‘The Screaming Titans’.

Spine magazine, which has been a little on the quiet side recently, (always seems to make it into my salvage posts) has a wicked track by hl fav, black milk and news of the forthcoming pharoah monch album (woot woot!)

Saturday is basilika time at the elbow rooms, and spring has sprung in london town (so it’s going to be heavy heavy party weekend).

To get you in the mood here is 77basilika (a 35 minute mixtape of me and teacakes back to back in 7 minute sections) loads of exclusive edits etc. (tracklisting to follow)

If I don’t see you, have a great weekend.

since i’m the single-minded, wordy type this is my first foray into the flotsam and jetsam of salvage so i’ll try to keep it low on word count and high in fibre.

y’all should check out this essay by sufjan stevens on the asthmatic kitty website about the perils of newly identified ‘friend-rock’ because, well, because the man speaks truth.

readers in london need to know about the newly opened cafe, the table on southwark street, se1. i pride myself on making breakfasts of champions and frankly it hurts when loved ones tell me they’ve just had the best breakfast ever and i’m not wearing a pinny. which is what happened this weekend

*stony silence*

but i’m girl enough to swallow my pride and admit that damn yes, my buttermilk pancakes aren’t that fluffy…

yet.

so until they are and since i can’t have you all round for my raspberry french toast and rocketfuel coffee head to the near perfect table (and ignore the opening times posted on the website - they’re wrong) which lives on the the ground floor of architectural practice, allies+morrison, behind the tate modern.

and lastly, and only not getting a post of her own since she’s hot tops on hypemachine’s search lists so there’s already an abundance of new feist material out there - do listen out for her new album, the reminder (great artwork too) which hits shelves and broadband connections at the end of april. here’s one of my favourites - a late-night, rufus wainwrighty-type, blue-eyed, torch-song which i’ll hijack to dedicate to my little brother (who’s more of a vintage port and stilton alexander) but its looking like ‘the reminder’ is an album which is bound to be the soundtrack to my springtime snow and sunshine.

 feist - brandy alexander

Though some have claimed the slow demise of the movie-going experience, few things ellict the excitement,  nay feverish anticipation, of a new trailer. Witness me, trying desperately to escape the apple store last weekend, stopped dead in my tracks by an advert for 300, writ large on an unnecessarilly covertable 30″ Cinema display.

I almost wept .

Also worth looking out for is sunshine. A darkly scifi adventure with apocalyptic undertows and most important of all, a great writer. The film is set for a ‘tbc 2007′ release date at the mo- but looks like it could be a winner.

Talking of apocalyptic undertow, it doesn’t take much to provoke my deep seated fear for the future. What with stock market crashes and disappearing bees, I am thinking this guy might have the best investment advice around at the moment.

People will always need guns.

Anyway enough of the doom and gloom. Here’s another hl exclusive*, from man of the hour Joseph Quaid.

joseph quaid-sunshine

*kelly family perks are awesome.

We were toying with the idea of a ’sidebar blog’ recently-a place to put links to all thise dope things we stumble across inn the constant pursuit of entertainment. Turns out it was a ball-ache to install the necessary plugin and getting it to work properly and look right so it’s on the shelf at the moment. In the meantime this is the first of a (semi-)regular set of posts to fufill the same role.

First and foremost, go run to the mighty SpineMag and download this track which is A MONSTER -if you need any further encouragement the following equation might help you out;

(kanye+nas+krsone+rakim) x dj premier = wtf are you waiting for?

The Guardian has an really interesting write up on the new (ish) Albert Ayler documentary. Which includes this amazing quote;

“Poet Ted Joans said his sound was “like screaming the word ‘fuck’ in Saint Patrick’s Cathedral on a crowded Easter Sunday.”

It sounds like he lived an amazing life, was kind of hoping the film was going to be fictional rather than a documentary though-imagine what the right director could do with those sort of themes. His boxset is out on revenant records

Everyone* should check out the wonderful poketo who design beautiful things and have this inspiring crafty, homespun menatlity and have applied it to a whole host of cool stuff. It’s the sort of thing that makes you wonder why you bother to buy mass produced products that half the world is using when you could be keeping it a little bit exclusive. It’s one of those sites that’s so perfect I just couldn’t bear to close the window and left it open all afternoon in the background.(what a weirdo)
*and when I say everyone I mean everyone apart from a certain recently deceased funk legend initialled hotty who has a birthday coming up soon

Oh and the Death Proof poster is taken from the Tarantino part of the Grindhouse Double bill coming later in the year, which looks awesome, has great artwork and stars Kurt Russell-it doesn’t get much better than that.