Rare and obscure shite...



RJD2 - Your face or your kneecaps

OK, first up in today's "you ain't goning to get any of these in your local HMV"-fest is RJD2's sort of legendary mix CD. Well, maybe legendary is too strong a word, but I've certainly been aware of it's existance ever since I stumbled across his first proper CD - Deadringer. Anyway, back to the kneecaps - what you get here is an old skool soul/funk music mega mix, and a couple of extra tracks which don't quite fit into the megamix heading since they're alot more laid back. It's a good CD, if you want a joyous blast of obscure 60s/70s soul music then you can't go wrong.



Themselves - Live

This one is only available through there website apparently, so once again local record shops aren't going to be much use. I've been kicking myself about missing this group playing live since apparently they put on quite a show: whiteboards, projections, live programming and, according to the Wire, Dose One's devil manifestation routine is quite something to see... devil manifestation WTF! Anyway, this CD has a recording of there Peel Session plus songs and improvisations recorded in various European locations - not sure about the devil manifestation though, I don't think it translates to CD very well :-S.



Dose One - The Pelt

We're into some serious abstract shit here - essentially this is a book of (gulp!) poetry. There is also an accompanying CD with chopped up recordings of various passages from the book backed by tape hiss and general ambience. I find it nicely disturbing.