Rolling 'One Track Per Week' Thread 2014

i'm flying high! i'm flying high now!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLj0D-z_daU#

I'm excited that there is going to be an ilm Eurovision Song Contest poll, though it's going to be several years until it happens so I've been listening to lots of Eurovision this week, still think this might be my favourite (Nina Morato 'Je Suis Un Vrai Garcon', France 1994)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzs60_xLeyA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXn_Ev36QJo

xp That's gotta be one of the finer entries from France in the last 25 years
I did enjoy the Sébastien Tellier and Jessy Matador tracks in recent events

Wanted to post a track that reflects my feelings of the last week. Originally I wanted to post the Jabberjaw version of "Rock Star" where Courtney tracks her vocals with 15 overdubs. But instead I'm posting this! Have a good week!

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uKCwN8L7xZc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRwmQ1L9ILc

Been listening to Yello's "Live at the Roxy NY Dec '83" a lot lately, it's gotta be one of finest live performances by an electronic artist. For some reason it wasn't included in the recent reissue series except as a heavily edited version, but the full 15 minutes is the shit!

all of Yello's videos from the 80s are so incredible looking. did Dieter Meier direct them?

just been catching up with this whole thread. enjoyed pretty much everything here to be honest.

New Musik- Living By Numbers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viOAiUH0T1Q

okay I'm in with a calendar reminder.
I was shocked I've enjoyed the Lecrae album as much as I have; xtian rap is hardly a place i find worthwhile to troll but about 75% of Anomaly is quite good. Stylistically listening to a rapper who doesn't curse and has some flow is kinda unique. The lack of misogyny, consumerism, physical violence and minimal preachiness is a fun change of pace after putting bobby shmurda on repeat.
anyway, here's an anti-consumerist anthem from Jeremy Lin's favorite artist that interpolates luniz's 'i got 5 on it' and that also doesn't suck and that's a sentence i never thought i'd type.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqBBTm4Bh3k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7sTrBnzJ8k

It's in Pedro Costa's Colossal Youth, which I watched a few days ago. The song salutes the heroes of the Cape Verdean struggle for independece, foremost among them Amilcar Carbral, who was assasinated a few years earlier, which makes the 'viva Cabral' sad and ironic. Also because during the making of Colossal Youth, Ildo Lobo, the lead singer in Os Tubaroes, died as well. Hauting and sad film, haunting though optimistic song.

That Caetano Veloso song Frederik B posted is lovely, but I can't help thinking it's going to turn into a Belle and Sebastian song any moment.

This is most likely old news among certain ILM contingencies, but I'm still in love with this track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7trsy11auM

Feels like it's high time since someone like Popcaan came along. Love the lyrics to this one too.

That Caetano Veloso song Frederik B posted is lovely, but I can't help thinking it's going to turn into a Belle and Sebastian song any moment.

― zip it shrimpy (dog latin), 21. september 2014 16:06 (48 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's so indie that Beirut has covered it, so yeah, otm.

Great Popcaan track as well.

an alluring and enchanting tango-ish piece of contemporary jazz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULDI2_Gv77s

whole popcaan album is great; maybe one of faves of the year

Frederik - after I posted I put on the CV song again and had it in my head rest of the day. It's certainly grown on me a lot. Made me dig out some Os Mutantes and other Tropicalia stuff too.

Sweet Popcaan track
Really only heard (and loved) 'Waiting So Long' over the summer - will def check out the record.

The Brett record might seem a bit 'two-years-ago-y' but it does a great job of topping the sounds of Chad Valley, Kisses et al
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYafuzJsB7s

Hollins & Starr- Cry Baby Cry (1970)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CW0QU1mKYo

DJ Dodger Stadium - Never Win

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV4Gk4I-VX8

Something about the gratuitous looped vocal samples reminds me of big beat era production styles...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agxvWmE0HZk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXA4BYRhZf0
reminded of this by zro screw version on the new mixtape, great song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_PUW91SgPs

So, I was never that big on Atom Heart's "funny" IDM projects, but I just got the "Alien Symphony" album he did with Masaki Sakamoto and some Japanese vocalists, and this is just some pure chopped-up synth pop bliss... Kinda indulgent, but not in a tiring way a lot of his other IDM stuff is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oKGg_lRyDM

I've been listening to this track quite a lot lately. It's pretty famous in Denmark, debut single of a band that later became quite big. It's just lovely, and the lyrics are spot-on at the moment, the title translating as 'One Night It'll be Summer' and the line before that being 'Du Kan Ikke Sove' or 'You Can't Sleep', which, yup, correct on that count. Perfect song for autumn insomnia.

(btw if anyone wants to see the coolest of the cool in Denmark 90, check out this tv-performance)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab6bsSzBmLs

Jukebox Serenade by Brotherhood of Man

This is from their final album, where they had rebranded themselves as 'BHoM' and were trying trying to adjust to the New Pop landscape, I think it's their best album by some distance, judging by what I've heard of the others. Some of it sounds a bit like Dollar or Bucks Fizz. It was their only album with Barry Upton who later went on to co-write 5,6,7,8 for Steps and Bunsen Burner with John Otway

"Sri Jimi" stellar sandpaper, and not a Hendrix pastiche

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBaJEMxScCo

Heard that on KMUW's Global Village stream, the Gandhi Day show, last Thursday; shows are temp archived here:
http://kmuw.org/programs/global-village

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Kr8RSC9ysc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wj-zpQ9v8Z8

Terry Riley, Kronos Quartet and Wu Man. I love the sample. It's from Cheburashka, old Russian stop-motion films.

v fitting for an overcast autumn wednesday

DJ Dodger Stadium upthread is sooooo good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVFB4-Y0OXE

i really like the Belong record from 2011, Common Era. i wish they'd release something new.

^ The Brotherhood of Man posted posted up there - haven't heard it before so thanks. But I think the influence is not so much New Pop as just the same old influence that informed some of their earlier hits - Abba. It sounds very similar to the late period Abba songs Under Attack & You Owe Me One which came out a few months earlier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tn6jl2VPdc

Gary Private - Waiting For You

this sounds a bit like Corey Hart, but it's a different song from the song 'Waiting For You' that Corey Hart sang. as well as this youtube has a cover of Reach Out (I'll Be There), but no other records, only his acting reel. I would be grateful to anyone who has more information on Gary Private

oh, there are some more tracks here, I think these are more recent?

http://www.broadjam.com/artists/songs.php?artistID=40525&mediaID=294001&play=true

and his entire back catalogue seems to be on spotify, dodn't know why I didn't look there first

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-Vw49KM6JU

At the documentary film fest I saw Tomorrow is Always Too Long, a Scottish film, which really isn't that great. But it uses some songs by Cate le Bon, and I've been listening to them over and over. In the film, there is the scottish national orchestra, and it's sung by a prison inmate, and it's very emotional. But the original is cool as well.

AAAAARE YOU WITH ME NOW?

http://youtu.be/qKDjb8wXv94

Donald Adkins Lonely Side Walks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTkTnj3ofbQ

Scarlett Von Wollenmann - This Year's Model

this is melancholy electro-pop/disco; she is British but was successful in Italy. It can be nice to sit around feeling sad and glamorous sometimes

I found this because I was trying to discover more about John Hyde, who did the theme music for Henry's Cat. I don't know if the John Hyde who co-wrote this with Von Wollenmann is the same person, but I think they are as they both seem to be associated with De Wolfe Music. Discogs seems to think that this is also the same John Hyde who was in the post punk group The Gadgets with Matt Johnson from The The and also the same John Hyde as was in an 80s act called East Of Java who did Japan/Indochine style orientalist pop. there does seem to be a through line running through all of these projects even if they are not all the same person. they are all very good!

My girlfriend was on a Mylene Farmer nostalgia trip all weekend and this is the track that got stuck in my head - turns out "celestial" is the only look I really need from MF:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6OO3muLGys

<3 Mylene is the greatest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJkveJMNMSo#t=13

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6F8NpNBiu8

Seems like a good day for frosty Polish electropop.

Enjoying this piece of revivalist garage/proto-house
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wZJVf1GvJs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPrKYs2iDKQ

I often feel like I should listen to more italian music. So melodic.

http://youtu.be/meP7QincviY

sweet, sweet autechre

This is my favourite thread FYI, everything here is better than anything anywhere else <3 <3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze-fNkqi_5I&spfreload=10

so good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed2nSh7QraY

Discovered this while researching for the Italo poll:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAx7YUlryXI

can't get this song out of my head. haunting, heartbreaking burned out folk.. the way he sings 'memories' reminds me of cobain in "come as you are".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzKDK2mMb-w

sorry, i should probably label that: Robert Lester Folsom - "Please Don't Forget Me"

1982 version of "Alasdair Mac Colla" by Aneka (of "Japanese Boy" fame) complete with guitar soloing and Glitter Band/Adam & The Ants style drums

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whcS3c1oatI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZXGGShbEVI