
Ghibli - Little Clique Rare Pleasures is the most recent musical outpouring of Edmonton producer Tomas Michael. It is his unique interpretation of what he thinks a genre of music ought to be. That's a bold notion to represent in an album. You are introduced to a genre, it becomes something you "love", but as time passes that genre is re-invented and re-branded over and over, until it can become something you "hate". In that respect, what Ghibli [...]
House music sometimes seems like a set-it-and-forget-it genre. The artist puts on a bassline, strolls out of the room, gets experimental with instant ramen, and comes back to make a minor adjustment that lasts another four minutes. Ghibli 's newest album, Rare Pleasures , doesn't live up to that generalization, and we're all better for it. It's a little disco-house, a bit of the genre that many try to forget like the Three Wolf Moon shirt hidden in your closet, and grainy samples that come from youtube videos instead of vinyl. Mining illegal videos of songs for your [...]
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Rare Pleasure: Let Me Down Easy Epic melancholy New York disco. The vocalist sounds like Diana and absolutely crushes this, especially on the word "string". Nice proto-house piano as well.
100 Years (in Ten Jumps) 1976: Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, Cherchez La Femme/Se Si Bon. Rare Pleasure, Let Me Down Easy. James Talley, Are They Gonna Make Us Outlaws Again? Eddie and the Hot Rods, Teenage Depression. George Harrison, Crackerbox Palace. Anthony Braxton, Cut 3. Max Romeo, Sipple Out Deh. Boz Scaggs, Lowdown. The Wild Tchoupitoulas, Big Chief Got a Golden Crown. Arlo