Saturday's Delivery...



Kid Koala - Some Of My Best Friends Are DJs

The best word I can come up with to describe this CD is charming. The fact that it comes with a comic (well, CD inlay with a comic strip, but it's the thought that counts) and a cut out and keep chess set adds to this, you don't get that with Kazaa! Musically we're in New Orleans but with a hint of Jazz and Ska, solo instruments are skillfully scratched via the kids turntables, never anything too fancy, always just enough to make you go 'eh? that's not right". And it's nice and short!



Jah Wobble & Deep Space - Five Beat

The artists name here is a damn filthy lie! It should be Jah Wobble and Philip Jeck, I bought it for the latter's involvement, I've mentioned him before (check the archive, the cd is called Stoke), basically he produces amazing minimalistic ambient music with a few old record players, a couple of guitar FX pedals and a bunch of obscure vinyl LPs with stickers on them to produce loops! I was a bit wary about how is gentle approach to music would work with Wobbles beat heavy dub workouts, but I need not have feared - it works very well. What you get here is 6 very long songs of ambient dub, it sounds like it's all been recorded live without any overdubs. Even with the fact that most of the songs pass the 10 minute mark using basically a single bass line it never gets boring.



Matmos - The Civil War

On one hand Matmos are a very left-field electronica group who have had a career producing CDs where they restrict themselves to a limited approach to sampling (there last one used samples produced from plastic surgery operations - squelchy!). On the other hand they are Bjorks live backing band, so they have the potential to break out into the wider electronica scene. I'm not sure they will with this CD which is a strange mix of Medieval folk music and electronica - it also has a song constructed entirely by sampling a rabbit's pelt. Just don't ask me how.