Blog: HiFi Fidelity

When lunacy meets talent

Feb 28, 2009, 5:27pm HiFi Fidelity
Sia - 'Buttons' Live on Later.... With Jools Holland
I love finding time to give old songs the attention and reverence they deserve. This morning, the urge to watch this video again became overwhelming... and 4 and a half minutes later I was left thinking it is one of the most expertly crafted mixes of lunacy and talent that I have ever seen. You know there's a part of you that wants to learn the dance. It's a voice (mine sounds like Jeremy Paxman) telling you that in a rom-com, the guy that knows all the moves and recreates an ironic [...]
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Link Text:Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
File Name:02_Hounds_Of_Love.mp3
Link Text:Sia - Buttons (CSS remix)
File Name:sia_-_buttons_css_remix_.mp3

Just a quickie...

Feb 27, 2009, 12:30pm HiFi Fidelity
Just a quickie... "You know what you get when two shit-tectonic plates collide? Shitquakes, Julian. Shitquakes." - Mr. Lahey from Tralier Park Boys And that sums up my current feelings of the last week. On with the show! I've been jumping around my playlist trying to avoid any songs that are by either Helge Schneider or Vincent Gallo. I don't know who they are or why I've got them but I hate their music. Helge Schneider is just some wierd German mumbling and [...]
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Link Text:DJ Rupture - Capilano Bridge, Jenny Jones.mp3
File Name:1-11 Capilano Bridge_ Jenny Jones.mp3
Link Text:DJ Rupture - Mass Dampers Ekstrak.mp3
File Name:1-08 Mass Dampers_ Ekstrak.mp3
Link Text:DJ Rupture - Plays John Cassavettes Pt.2 Ekkehard Ehlers.mp3
File Name:1-12 Plays John Cassavettes Pt. 2_ Ekkehard Ehlers.mp3
Link Text:DJ Rupture - Too Much_ Clouds.mp3
File Name:1-07 Too Much_ Clouds.mp3

Loves, Loathes and Rants

Feb 26, 2009, 1:11pm HiFi Fidelity
DEVO - Gates of Steel (1980) LIVE
This week Devo provide my usual "beginning of blog post live performance" weirdness. Whoever said only students put cones on their heads is looking mighty foolish right now, obviously not as foolish as Devo themselves but hey, they kind of pull it off. It's charity season in the entertainment industry, that magical time of year where every single media outlet has a massive drive towards charitable causes (be it Comic Relief [...]
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Artist:Bon Iver
Title:Brackett WI
Link Text:Bon Iver
File Name:104-bon_iver-brackett_wi.mp3
Bitrate:182 kbps
Year:2009
Artist:Gui Boratto
Title:No Turning Back
Link Text:No Turning Back
File Name:guiboratto_noturningback.mp3
Year:2009
Artist:Robert Gomez
Title:On This Day
Link Text:On This Day
File Name:robertgomez_onthisday.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Artist:Spoon
Title:Well Alright
Link Text:Spoon
File Name:201-spoon-well_alright.mp3
Bitrate:149 kbps
Year:2009
Artist:tUnE-yArDs
Title:Sunlight
Link Text:Sunshine
File Name:tUnE-yArDs - Sunlight.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps
Year:2009

Songbox (22/02/09)

Feb 22, 2009, 3:39pm HiFi Fidelity
This week's 'Songbox' very nearly became 'dongbox' through an unfortunate typo. Deerhunter - Never Stops Herbert - Something Isn't Right Neon Neon - Dream Girls Buraka Som Sistema - Luanda Lisboa Liars - Let's Not Wrestle Mt Heart Attack Meneo - Papi Big Sean - Supa [...]
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Link Text:Nikkfurie De La Caution - Thé a la Menthe
File Name:Nikkfurie de La Caution - Thé à la menthe.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Link Text:Radio show 5 (22/02/09)
File Name:5th show final.mp3
Artist:Big Sean
Title:Supa Dupa
Link Text:Big Sean - Supa Dupa
File Name:Supa Dupa.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps
Year:2009
Artist:Buraka Som Sistema
Title:Luanda-Lisboa
Link Text:Buraka Som Sistema - Luanda Lisboa
File Name:01 - Luanda-Lisboa.mp3
Bitrate:179 kbps
Year:2008
Artist:Deerhunter
Title:Never Stops
Link Text:Deerhunter - Never Stops
File Name:103-deerhunter-never_stops.mp3
Bitrate:214 kbps
Year:2008
Artist:Herbert
Title:Something Isn't Right
Link Text:Herbert - Something Isn't Right
File Name:01 - Herbert - Something Isn't Right.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Year:2006
Artist:Liars
Title:Let's Not Wrestle Mt. Heart Attack
Link Text:Liars - Let's Not Wrestle Mt Heart Attack
File Name:02 - Liars - Let's Not Wrestle Mt. Heart Attack.mp3
Bitrate:218 kbps
Year:2006
Artist:Meneo
Title:Papi (Dubmood Remix)
Link Text:Meneo - Papi
File Name:Meneo_Papi_Dubmood_remix.mp3
Bitrate:256 kbps
Year:2008
Artist:Neon Neon
Title:Dream Girls
Link Text:Neon Neon - Dream Girls
File Name:02 Dream Girls.mp3
Bitrate:212 kbps
Year:2008
Artist:Tiago La Is Losing The Plot
Title:Ages For Avedon
Link Text:Tiago La Is Losing The Plot - Ages For Avedon
File Name:Ages For Avedon.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps

Unsigned spotlight

Feb 22, 2009, 6:27am HiFi Fidelity
Unsigned spotlight Late Night Munchies Masterminded by Giovanni Rapacciuolo, LNM channels Daft Punk and Ratatat, to produce riproaringly satisfying electro (although the myspace page rather disarmingly describes it as sounding like 'electrical household appliances'). Having produced tracks privately for two years, LNM is now sharing the joy, and is well worth checking out. Late Night Munchies - Electrodomestic Uprising
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Artist:Late Night Munchies
Title:Electrodomestic uprising
Link Text:Late Night Munchies - Electrodomestic Uprising
File Name:Electrodomestic uprising.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Year:2009

Guilty pleasures

Feb 21, 2009, 6:34am HiFi Fidelity
Guilty pleasures About half a decade too late, I have finally started to learn to drive. It's bloody difficult and I have an instructor with quite a cavalier attitude to other road users. I have, however, been treated to a bounty of brilliant quotes from him - e.g. My instructor on pedestrians: "She will not go anywhere. Except on your windscreen. Ha ha ha", other drivers: "Pretend you will crash into him. Then he will not stop so close to centre line", and my driving down a road on the wrong side, "Um, you know, if you were in Poland, this would [...]
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Link Text:Diamond Nights - Girl's Attractive
File Name:06thegirlsattractive.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Link Text:Simon & Garfunkel - The 59th Street Bridge Song
File Name:04the59thstreetbridgesongfeeli ngroovy.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Artist:Bill Withers
Title:Grandma's Hands
Link Text:Grandma's Hands
File Name:08 - Grandmas Hands.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Year:1981
Artist:Of Montreal
Title:Wraith Pinned To The Mist (and other games)
Link Text:Of Montreal - Wraith Pinned to the Mist (And Other Games)
File Name:Of Montreal - Wraith Pinned to the Mist.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Year:2005
Artist:Patsy Cline
Title:Walkin After Midnight
Link Text:Patsy Cline - Walkin After Midnight
File Name:Patsy Cline - 1 - Walkin After Midnight.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:1988
Artist:Tracy Chapman
Title:Talkin' Bout A Revolution
Link Text:Tracy Champan - Talkin' About a Revolution
File Name:Tracy_Chapman_-_Tracy_Chapman_ -_01_.Talkin_Bout_A_Revolution .mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:1988
Artist:Two Hours Traffic
Title:Sure Can Start
Link Text:Two Hours Traffic - Sure Can Start
File Name:09 Sure Can Start.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps

Songbox 17/02/09

Feb 17, 2009, 3:38pm HiFi Fidelity
A songbox that was well worth the wait. Drink it up... Kelis - Bossy (Alan Braxe & Fred Falke remix) Bel Biv Devoe - Poison Beastie Boys - The Move Dizzee Rascal - I Luv You Nathan Fake - The Sky Was Pink (James Holden remix) Bjork - Wanderlust (Ratatat remix)
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Link Text:Kelis - Bossy (Alan Braxe & Fred Falke remix)
File Name:Kelis - Bossy Alan Braxe Fred Falke Remix.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Link Text:Nathan Fake - The Sky Was Pink (James Holden remix)
File Name:Nathan_Fake_-_The_sky_was_pink __James_Holden_remix_.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Link Text:Radio show 4 (16/02/09)
File Name:4th show final.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Artist:Beastie Boys
Title:The Move
Link Text:Beastie Boys - The Move
File Name:02 - Beastie Boys - The Move.mp3
Bitrate:209 kbps
Year:1998
Artist:Bell Biv Devoe
Title:Poison
Link Text:Bel Biv Devoe - Poison
File Name:poison.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Year:1990
Artist:Björk
Title:Wanderlust (Ratatat Remix)
Link Text:Bjork - Wanderlust (Ratatat remix)
File Name:Bjork-Wanderlust (ratatat remix).mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Year:2008
Artist:Dizzee Rascal
Title:I Luv U
Link Text:Dizzee Rascal - I Luv You
File Name:3 - Dizzee Rascal - I Luv U.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:2003

Loves, Loathes and Rants

Feb 16, 2009, 8:37pm HiFi Fidelity
Talking Heads - 13.Genius Of Love
Tina Weymouth invented sexy bass playing way before Kim Deal got her hands on one and here's her demonstrating this with Talking Heads spin-off band Tom Tom Club Notice how the combination of "leg", "insane bass line" and "strobe lighting" makes one unable to stop looking at the screen. I was introduced to Tom Tom Club by a man from the Wirral; if there's one thing I've learnt on this planet it's that northerners know their fucking music. [...]
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Artist:Dominique Leone
Title:Duyen
Link Text:Duyen
File Name:Dominique Leone - Duyen.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Artist:Mickey Avalon
Title:Jane Fonda
Link Text:Jane Fonda
File Name:JaneFonda.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Artist:Mickey Avalon
Title:waiting to die
Link Text:Waiting to Die
File Name:Mickey_Avalon_-_Waiting_to_die .mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps
Artist:Todd Sickafoose
Title:Barnacle
Link Text:Todd Sickafoose
File Name:ToddSickafoose_TinyResistors_1 1.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps
Year:2008

Spotify MOFO

Feb 15, 2009, 2:41pm HiFi Fidelity
Spotify MOFO Well, using my amazing ability of dodging work this past week I came across a new online music service called Spotify . It's essentially a mix of Pandora (back in the day when us non-yanks could ger at it) and an iTunes-typemusic database. While it's early days yet, it is a free service and has the backing of some major labels, so there is quite a selection. Using it's radio service, your able to select which decade to play from allowing all the cheesy 90's classics to come flooding back. So, thanks to Spotify, I kinda scrapped [...]
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Link Text:Radio show 1 (25/01/09)
File Name:first ever show final.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Link Text:Radio show 2 (01/02/09)
File Name:second show final.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Link Text:Radio show 3 (08/02/09)
File Name:3rd show final.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Link Text:Zak Frost - July 08 Mix Part 2
File Name:Zak Frost July 08 Mix-2.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Artist:Zak Frost
Link Text:Zak Frost - July 08 Mix Part 1
File Name:Zak Frost July 08 Mix-1.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:2008

Guilty pleasures.

Feb 14, 2009, 6:28am HiFi Fidelity
Guilty pleasures. This week my guilty pleasure is oldies revamped. I often get fixated on song for some minor feature - a riff, a lyric, a bassline. The problem is that I can't then restrain myself from listening to it to death (who invented ' repeat one '? They should die.). So of course, when some genius person tells me they've distilled the most toe-curlingly good bits of a song and applied it to something new... well, I'm not going to say no. Well, not always - obviously, playing with known and loved tracks can fail horribly, but just once in a [...]
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Artist:Michael Jackson
Title:Dirty Diana (Konstantino's Remix)
Link Text:Michael Jackson - Dirty Diana (Konstantino Remix)
File Name:Michael_Jackson_-_Dirty_Diana_ _Konstantino_s_Remix_.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Artist:Nina Simone
Title:SinnermanFelix Da Housecat's Heavenly House Mix
Link Text:Nina Simone - Sinnerman (Felix da Houscat's Heavenly House Mix)
File Name:Nina_Simone_-_Miami_Vice_-_04_ [1].Sinnerman(Felix_Da_Houseca t_s_Heavenly_House_Mix).mp3
Bitrate:175 kbps
Year:2006
Artist:The Bee Gees
Title:Stayin Alive (Teddybears Remix)
Link Text:Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive (Teddybears Remix)
File Name:The Bee Gees - Stayin Alive (Teddybears Remix).mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps

Loves, Loathes and Rants

Feb 9, 2009, 7:56am HiFi Fidelity
Telex at Eurovision 1980
Since I'm not very good at starting, here's some belgians with some exciting dance moves involving scarves to help me out. Personally, I cannot wait for Eurovision. This month sees the return of norwegian self-obsessed electronic kings Royksopp who once confessed to not wanting to listen to any other music but their debut album [...]
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Songbox 08/02/09

Feb 8, 2009, 3:02pm HiFi Fidelity
Check out the new HiFi Fidelity radio show, hot off the decks. And once that's whet your appetite, get stuck into this week's songbox - a little gift of tracks from the radio show and some extra goodies to keep you going until next week! The Futureheads - Meantime Bran Van 3000 - Drinking in LA Peter Von Poehl - Going To Where The Tea Trees Are [...]
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Guilty pleasures

Feb 7, 2009, 1:34pm HiFi Fidelity
Guilty pleasures My guilty pleasure this week is apple-love. I just got sent my new iphone, and it's sitting on my desk oozing sex and screaming 'play with me'. Obviously, this bandwagon is looking a little like a Tokyo commuter train by now. So, as if that isn't enough for my week of apple adulation - I am also getting into itunes' genius sidebar , which recommends music similar to the track you're playing. It's thrown up some gems, and has become one of my favourite ways to find new music, mostly by sheer virtue of the size and [...]
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One Big White Blob

Feb 3, 2009, 10:44pm HiFi Fidelity
One Big White Blob Well I tell you, nothing beats a couple of days of snow. You can pelt coppers and get away with it, but not Lilly Allen . Oh no, not a chance! Or snow angels - I leave that to Layls. On my rounds, I did get a few disgruntled snowball customers though. One woman drove across the road just to stare me down, another bloke came up with a great explanation of what snow is: "It's just God's shit! There is no need to pick it up and throw it at me!" He then complemented my accent, [...]
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The Snowtrack

Feb 2, 2009, 5:07am HiFi Fidelity
The Snowtrack I had by chance booked today off work as annual leave. So - imagine my unbounded delight at waking up to this (my garden), a sight just begging to be made into a snowball. But first, the snow angels. Oh, and a car to de-ice, and a canopy to de-snow and a little brother off school to throw into the powder. Of course, childhood joys such as this would need a soundtrack. A snow themed soundtrack, no less. To be trumpeted from [...]
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Songbox 01/02/09

Feb 1, 2009, 4:15pm HiFi Fidelity
Proxy - Dancing in the Dark Tricky - Black Steel Notorious B.I.G. - Hypnotize Gang Gang Dance - Princes Flaming Lips - A Spoonful Weighs a Ton Etienne de Crecy - Scratched Grandaddy - AM 180
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Mmmmmm De.licious

Feb 1, 2009, 2:34pm HiFi Fidelity
Mmmmmm De.licious My first post - I brought a cake. I was originally going to write this post a few days ago but I monged out a bit and started saving the universe with some Homeworld 2 action and became Champion at all things involving Super Mario Kart Wii. So, after a weekend of gaming and a touch of cold (the annoying typ - not full blown, but just enough to stop you heading out), I pop on the blog and it's gone through a refresh! Lookin' sweet! Paticularly like the crazy [...]
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Loves, Loathes and Rants

Jan 31, 2009, 3:57pm HiFi Fidelity
Loves, Loathes and Rants Hello and welcome to HiFiFidelity (or as I sometimes like to say in my head "hififi", which sounds like a name for a poodle); the best way to start off is probably by playing the radio show located at the top of the page (a new show will be uploaded at 8pm every Sunday). The show is mostly music but my opinion may come across a bit (a lot), especially when such fantastic songs as Professor Murder - Free Stress Test lurk somewhere between French hip hop ( Klub des Loosers ) and retro bassline house ( Juiceboxxx [...]
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Guilty pleasures

Jan 29, 2009, 5:52pm HiFi Fidelity
Guilty pleasures My guilty pleasure this week is Klezmer music. Remixed. Heck, let's just call it electro-klezmer, and hope we don't go to hell for the sacrilege. I would explain my love of all things Jewish big-band (possibly inspired by an afternoon spent watching fiddler on the roof in school)...but suffice to say that whatever wholesome goodness klezmer can bring, it's awesomeness runneth over when given a good old baseline. Witness the 1930s Yiddish song Bei Mir Bist Du Schon, performed by Waldeck (look out for the evening-gowned women playing xylophone, was there ever a simpler [...]
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Songbox 25/01/09

Jan 24, 2009, 2:10pm HiFi Fidelity
Klub des Loosers - Pas Stable Professor Murder - Free Stress Test Kamphopo - Esau Mwamwaya Juiceboxxx & Dre Skull - Center Stage Friendly Fires - Paris (Aeroplane Remix) Familjen - Det Snurrar I Min Skalle [...]
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