My Yamaha – Heaven On Earth
An ode to Yamaha. The Los Angeles tracks were both composed on an old Yamaha PSR. “I wanna make some music with my, Yamaha”.
Be My Baby – The Ronettes
How every morning in Los Angeles begins. “You don’t make up for your sins in church, you do it in the streets, you do it at home”. The sirens give way to Hal Blaine’s iconic drum intro.
Your Arms – Delicate Features
Hold me in your arms. I am the passenger. An euphonious track from the Saint Petersburg duo.
People – Hallucinator
I heard this on a mix for growing bin by Bartosz Krucznski. I’m not sure if it’s playing at the right speed.
“And you know how they say we’re all each others demons and angels?”
Atlantic Tales – Molly Nilsson
Miami Beach music. Another Yamaha construction, I believe.
Missing – Everything But The Girl
I can remember recording this onto cassette tape from the radio chart show when I must have been about 5 or 6.
“Could you be dead? You always were two steps ahead.”
An Ending (Ascent)
“It will be alright in the end, so if it’s not alright then it is not the end.” There are three more tracks yet..
Believe – Cher
This mix of classic 60s pop and millennium zeitgeist dance production reminds me of L’amour 124.
Don’t Worry Baby – The Beach Boys
Brian’s ode to Be My Baby. “Everything will turn out alright”.
3 Hours Spiritual Ascension Music – Singing With Angels
Call your angels using this video. Create and build rapport with the (Arch)angels, they are there, waiting for your call.
Los Angeles – Baby (Freeride Millenium / Pauls Musique)
The next collaborative release between Freeride Millenium and Pauls Musique is a terrific two-tracker from Manchester artist Joseph Louis Harland Manning under his new alias Los Angeles with the 7” vinyl release artwork designed by Daniel Rajcsanyi as part of his ‘BABY’ exhibition in Austria. Joseph Louis Harland Manning was the drummer of the band Wu Lyf and is involved in projects like Los Porcos, the Mancunian boyband Menage a Trois and Dream Lovers. Under his other aliases he released on Aficionado, Cracki, Ocean Records and Is It Balearic? sub label Über as well as having made music videos for Molly Nilsson. Here he is fine form across a pair of delicate and moving synth tracks. Opener ‘L’amour’ is a gentle cut that starts with celestial chords and wide-open expanses of synth before a buried deep groove slowly comes to the fore. Breathy vocals also add to the loved-up, dreamy feel and the whole thing carries you away in a majestic reverie that shifts from ambience to new age house. The track features the artists own field recordings from the streets of Berlin, twisting up sounds from the sidewalk into percussive notes that give an organic feel. The perfectly soothing second offering is ‘I Wanna Go To Heaven’ is a gorgeous synth piece that suspends you in a crystal clear blue sky on a warm summer’s day. Chords are smeared and stretched whilst angelic, wordless vocals drift by. It is the sound of a blissful passage to the afterlife and will leave you feeling cleansed.
Out Now Los Angeles – Baby (Freeride Millenium / Pauls Musique) FM008 / PM010.7
