There
are many reasons to look forward to Fridays, but in the past six
months I've found another reason: Jonny Trunk's 50p Friday emails.
Jonny
runs the archival Trunk label, which remasters and reissues albums
that their original labels don't feel there's a demand for any
longer. Often issued as beautiful vinyl repressings, Trunk has become
the place to go for unusual obscurities, forgotten soundtracks and
much more. Back in February, Trunk reissued a single by The BBC
Radiophonic Workshop as a download for a mere 20p and since then
Jonny has been hand-picking an album from the label's back catalogue
and offering it up as a download for a mere 50p. Over the past six
months he's offered Louis and Bebe Barron's early electronic
soundtrack to Forbidden Planet, albums from Peter Cooke, the Herbie
Mann record I wrote about recently, cool bossa nova from Charlie
Rouse, wonky jazz from Raymond Scott and primitive computer music -
it's mindbendingly diverse stuff.
Sadly
Jonny's taken a holiday this week and so there was nothing on offer
on Friday, but if you want a means of comprehensively expanding your
knowledge of music in these austere times, Trunk is the place to
head. Navigate to the 50p Friday menu link on Trunk's website to fill
your ears with great tunes you'd never think to listen to for less
than the price of packet of crisps.
The
past week I was tipped off about an album of covers of predominantly
Eighties pop tracks by an Australian unit called Parralox. Recovery
tackles classics from Erasure, Madonna, Pet Shop Boys, The Cure,
Front 242, Depeche Mode and many others. My full review can be found
over on Documentary Evidence here, but suffice to say it's probably
the best electronic pop album I've heard for a long time.
Dave
Fleet, who works under the alias Laica and who I wrote about ages ago
(click here for that post) has a number of new projects in the can.
Not content with lining up the Environs project for Alrealon, he's
contributed to my upcoming MuteResponse project, is realising tracks
inspired by my short story The Engineer and today let me know about
another project, this time an EP for the Phatic Musk label.
A short teaser for his latest dystopian soundtrack hit YouTube today – check it out below or hit here
if you're reading on email.
Finally,
I was recently sent a new track from Iggy & The German Kids which
is presently doing great things on German radio. The mastermind
behind this great, towering pop electronic moment is Ignacio, who I
also wrote about way back in the early days of this blog. The Lynchian suburban nightmare video
for 'So Hard' can be reached below, or for those reading this on
email, click here to watch over at YouTube.
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