After hours grooving…
01. Monobox (Robert Hood) – Realm 1 (M-Plant)
A classic Robert Hood track – it was years ahead of its time! So much emotive power in such a deceptively simple package. For me, this is Detroit.
02. Matthew Herbert – Foreign Bodies feat. Dani Siciliano (Studio !K7)
Perfect home listening. Brings back good old memories whenever I listen to this. Foreign Bodies is true testimony of Matthews genius.
03. Sid Le Rock – Naked (DJ Koze Remix) (Cereal/Killers)
Completely different from my original, I adore this remix DJ Koze did for me. A uniquely gifted producer that truly has his own voice.
04. Various Artists – 3 (Chain Reaction)
There is beauty found in subtlety. This song was a fine drawn distinction that Electronic music can be openminded to truthfulness and originality. Chain Reaction heavily influenced me and my creative thinking.
05. Console – Upon (Disko B)
A fine example of Shoe-gaze Electronica. With all his multi musical projects, Martin Gretschmann always shines.
06. Ada – Luckycharm (Areal Records)
I was blown away (like the chain smoking we did) when I first heard this track being played back on the cassette deck in Ada’s little red Opel car. Cassette deck!
07. Geeeze ‘N’ Gosh aka Atom Heart – Pray (Mille Plateaux)
Uwe Schmidt is definitely one of the most talented producers of contemporary electronic music and the originator of the term Advanced Sampling.
08. Trans Am – Surrender to The Night (Thrill Jockey)
I just had to throw that one in there for you. Music constantly welcomed to my ears.
09. Sid Le Rock – She Smiles (My Favorite Robot Records)
One of my own favourites. I wrote this for a girl that still makes me smile to this very day. Love performing this song live.
10. Sid Le Rock – Still Life (Shitkatapult)
Another one of my melancholic tunes that I can reflect to a special place and time in my life.
Sid Le Rock ‘Burning Daylight’ (My Favorite Robot)
Sid Le Rock has been a key part of the My Favorite Robot label for a while now, and following on from his fine album ‘Busted With a Bag of Bliss’ and some great remixes of it, comes this new EP. Featuring three new tracks plus various mixes it’s another standout package from both label and artist.
Canadian Sid has now released more than 6 LPs and 50 singles and is a remixer in high demand from the likes of Fairmont and Placebo as well as being someone who has collaborated with the likes of DJ Koze and Ada. His sound is an always expressive, arty and musically adept one that works wonderfully on and off the dancefloor.
The serene and supreme ‘Burning Daylight’ opens the EP with shimmering synths, dreamy whispered vocals and some beautiful vintage sounding pixelated melodies. A shorter radio edit and stripped back dub mix of the same track are also included.
‘Fade to Black’ is a more stormy and tumultuous affair with sombre chord progressions lain over deep drums as twinkling disco melodies and glowing lines shoot about like stars in a night sky. It’s a very real world Sid creates and is one that you feel right at the centre of.
Next up is ‘Butterflies’, which is a non standard arrangement of swelling synth lines, skittish claps and dark basslines. As if coming from outer space, this journeying, ambitious track really takes you on a journey through Sid’s musical mind and, importantly, never strays from a compelling groove. A stripped down version, radio edit and even more blissed out dub version also come along side the fantastic original track.
Sid Le Rock is a veritable synth and studio genius who creates dance music that is much more meaningful than most, as this latest EP proves in spades.
Sid Le Rock ‘Burning Daylight’ (My Favorite Robot Cat. No. MFR111) is out on October 20th 2014
