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Wednesday 22 March 2017

How About Some More Ether?


Acid Ted posted about this the other day but it was on my mental list of stuff to write about and it's all in a good cause. Steve Cobby must have had some time on his hands recently. While looking back at his own Solid Doctor compilation spanning music he made and put out between 1990 and 1995 he decided to remaster it for a re-release. Then, due to his own lax methods of labelling tracks he discovered a few unreleased ones that actually sounded really good. So he's putting them out as well. The whole thing adds up to fifty eight tracks, six and a half hours worth of music, spread over six cds and now available from Bandcamp as either a cd box or a download. There is way more here than I can get my ears around at the moment, tracks ranging from properly chilled out loveliness to Balearica to 90s trip hop and to digital jazziness to fifteen minute long tranced out repetitive bliss. You just have to dive in and start swimming. This track is my current favourite- an answer phone message, some sampled Phillip Glass strings and the funkiest rhythm. Just wait for the bleepy bit at two minutes fifty and then...bye bye.



6 comments:

drew said...

Excellent photie

Swiss Adam said...

Ta. A skip full of old tv sets I walked past on the way to the pub at the weekend.

The Swede said...

6½ hours? This tune is a delight, but I'm almost scared to like it too much!

Swiss Adam said...

Ha. Know what you mean. Ideal for a long car journey maybe?

Anonymous said...

It is an intimidating amount of music but it's all lovely.

Hazard said...

Would be so comforting during a bad trip