Shuffle The Pack

When David Holmes appeared on our album Sounds From The Flightpath Estate it was under the name The Light Brigade. He's using that name again now for a 12" single that's due out at the end of the month, a track that has been kicking around in David's DJ and radio sets for a while. Shuffle The Pack is a collaboration with former Two Lone Swordsman Keith Tenniswood, a fired up and righteous piece of music that sounds like the soundtrack to a protest. 

It starts with applause and crowd sounds and then a voice, 'yeah, it's time for anew course, a new coalition.. got to rise above race, rise above sex... don't cry about what you don't have, use what you got! Our time has come'. The drums kick in, a massive wobbly bassline rides the waves and synths, strings and FX echo and bounce around. Just as you think you're done, that the soundtrack to your own personal revolution is coming to an end and everything's fading out, the voice of Andrew Weatherall appears talking about gnostic ceremony, coloured lights, smoke and acid house as religious ritual. 

Shuffle The Pack is at Bandcamp. The flipside is a track called Only Love Can Save Us, another collaboration, this one with Michael Andrews who worked with David on his Blind On A Galloping Horse album. David was back at NTS last week, another two hour edition of God's Waiting Room with the subtitle Humanity As An Act Of Resistance. AS well as the usual excellent selection of tunes David intersperses the mix with excerpts from TV and radio news concerning the recent hysteria over Kneecap and the ongoing horror show in Gaza and genocide of the Palestinian people who live there- and die there. It's vital stuff, powerful and important. You can listen at NTS.