A personal collection for after hours grooving…
1. Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto – Vrioon – Raster Noton
Computerised glitches and piano work, saw them live at the Mute festival and had the honour of meeting Ryuichi San.
2. Manuel Gottsching – e2 e4 – Utterly Hypnotic Origins Of Techno
Once drove from Montreal to Ottowa and listened to this the whole way and back again!
3. William Basinsky – The Disintegration Loops – 2062
Ambient piano loops drifting in and out of the room, no vocals, no beats just ambience beyond Eno…
4 .KLF – Chill Out – KLF Communications
Genuis work from Drummond and Cauty, layered loops, sampled voices, field recordings, the whole album is a soundtrack to a film I’ve never seen. Great for journeys to work on the Northern Line, no ?
5 .The Infamous Language Lab – Demos 1993 – 1996 – unreleased
Myself and Mr Taylor’s early works designed for the after hours, only ever a demo. very much in the style of downtempo beats of portishead , massive attack , mowax back in the day , kinda big at the time the best album we never released
6 .Future Sound Of London – Papau New Guinea – Jumpin And Pumping
Old school classic to keep the blood flowing, coffee anyone?
7. Ron Trent and Chez Damier – Morning Factory – Prescription Underground
Killer deepness
8. Ultramarine – Kingdom – Blanco Y Negro
16th century folk house with Robert Wyatt on vocals. I wanna remix this!
9. Tim Hecker – Songs of the Highwire Shrimper – Mille Plateaux
More grainy ambient stuff, don’t want to wake the kids! Heard this afterhours in Mexico City in 2003, an unforgettable atmospheric track
10. The Blue Nile – A Walk Across The Rooftops – Linn Records
Without a doubt the classiest act ever to come out of Glasgow, on the Linn Records label whose factory is in in my village…
The new album ‘S_W_Z_K is released on Tresor on 11th June…
