Various Artists
Norken ? Motorbreeze (Remodeled by Swamay)
A1 People ? The Reason (Radio Edit)
3rd Eye Parametrics ? Inner Thoughts
Pentatonik ? Better To Have Loved.
Lithium Project ? Majik Kiosk
The Experiment ? Walkaway
Metamatics ? 4AM on Spectre Canal (John Foxx Remix)
Following on from their acclaimed series Electronic Music For Heroes, Hydrogen Dukebox Records give us Volume 3, setting the agenda for 2004 and revisiting some recent golden nuggets from the South East London label?s ever.
more » morphing roster. Norken?s Motorbreeze remixed by Swamay this Detroit inspired original was already a classic, now bent into a lush textures making it even more soulful. A1 People?s The Reason , a playlisted track on London?s XFM evokes nostalgia for a future past with it?s futuristic pop. Next up, new signing 3rd Eye Parametric deliver the exclusive Inner Thoughts showing that you do not need to be an electro aficionado to persuaded by digital beats. After a 7
B.B. Palmer’s Cosmic Country on Display with “Simulation Theory” (premiere)
B.B. Palmer’s new song answers the long-standing question, “What might have happened if Charlie Louvin read the Bhagavad Gita while tripping?”
Alabama’s B.B. Palmer creates music steeped in American country music while keeping an eye on contemporary events. You can hear this on the latest Palmer opus,
Krishna Country, a record that bridges the distance between Ravi Shankar and Tom T. Hall with remarkable aplomb.
The latest single, “Simulation Theory” has sounds that harken back to the saturated colors and wide collars of Nashville during the 1960s and 1970s and lyrics that tap into the growing anxieties and conspiracies of the day, replete with references to lizard people, false flags and the nagging question of whether we are, in fact, living in a computer simulation. The lyrics are ripped from today’s virtual headlines but, like those headlines, it’s an important document of a mo