New Years Resolution Breaking...



Manhunt Remixes

Some Videogame music here, this CD contains the main theme music to Rockstars oh so controversial Playstation 2 Manhunt game (I'm reserving my judgement until the XBox version) - which reminds me no end of John Carpenter's early film scores. Then someone has had the bright idea to get in touch with the Aphex Twin's Rephlex label and get various artists from that to do remixes. 17 in total!! All using the same one minute long score as a base. It should be dull, and to be honest it could do with some trimming - but when listened to in small chunks it's pretty good - the Soundmurderer (I love that name!!) and Bug remixes are particularly evil and there are a couple by someone called EDMX which are very good.



Why?/Odd Nosdam - The Split EP

On the slim chance that someone from Anticon reads this can I just make a small request: Tracklistings, please! It makes it very difficult to ramble on about albums when you have to refer to songs as track number x, or that one that goes wibble a bit... Anyway, I digress - the Why? side is pretty god damn awesome as usual, the Odd Nosdam tracks are OK - to be honest I've always found his solo stuff a bit underwealming, and the theme continues here.



Fennesz - Live in Japan

There was a review on brainwashed.com (which really should be one of your weekly website visits) where the review neatly divided the world's population into three groups: the huddled masses who hadn't heard of Christian Fennesz, the enlightened few who had, and the scum who'd prefer to listen to something a bit more boring and dull. A bit harsh, I love his stuff, but along with the likes of Autechre and Philip Jeck I can understand how people could be put off by him since he doesn't exactly do conventional music. Still, it's worth trying out - and the Red Hot Chilli Pepper's guitarist John Fusciante is a fan apparently...