I first heard the music of 10:40 three years ago when 10:40 (Jesse Fahnestock) shared his edit/ dub of Spacemen 3's How Does It Feel? in a few groups I'm a member of.
How Does It Feel? (10: 40's Terrace Moonshine Dub)
Jesse takes an already somnolent/ tripped out Pete Kember and co and filters him through a dub filter, everything stretched out and reverberating slowly.
From there I dug into the 10:40 back catalogue and found a treasure trove of edits, dubs, original music, remixes, Balearic shufflers, chuggers, bangers and a lot of slow, repetitive psychedelia. Jesse's big influences- Andrew Weatherall, Hardkiss, Spacemen 3 and Spiritualized- all made use of repetition and the long groove. After a while Jesse got in touch and stated sharing tracks with me, both as 10: 40 and his partnership with Darren Bell as Jezebell. At the start of 2023 10:40 released Transition Theory, an album that is a full conceived piece of work, each track flowing beautifully into the next one. Jesse was one of the people we approached to be on Sounds From the Flightpath Estate Volume 1, a relative unknown next to some big hitters- David Holmes, Justin Robertson, Sean Johnstone, an unreleased Weatherall and Tenniswood track for crying out loud!- and his track Three Rings stands along side any of the others on the album.
I thought it was time for a Sunday 10:40 mix. Once I started going through my folders and realised how much music Jesse has made my head swam a bit- so much music, what to include? In the end I went for a mix of slow and low, dubby electronic psychedelia, a world where it's permanently twenty to eleven. Maybe the bangers need a mix of their own. This was a tricky one to do in some ways and the tempo speeds up and slows down which maybe I should have fixed and shifted the sequence around to make it flow more evenly. And yes, that Spacemen 3 edit should really have been on it too.
10: 40's Bandcamp is here.
- One Way To Go (10: 40's So High It Hurts Edit)
- Green Shoots
- Neighbors Dub
- Left Behind Blues
- Sea Quenched
- Kissed Again
- Iz Um
- Hey You (10: 40 Remix)
- Tumbling Down
5 comments:
You're not going to believe this, but...
I'm taking this away for a listen, but this looks top notch, Adam.
Looks like it's going to be a Fahnestock Fest at Casa K for the rest of today.
Ha ha. Just been to Dubhed and seen what you've posted. Excellent blogging synchronicity.
Swiss Adam
aside from all the blushing you're inducing, this is a super surprising selection of tunes. If you had said to me, "What's the worst 10:40 song?" and not let me go back and listen, I might have guessed "Green Shoots." But it sounds alright! Bit songwriterly for a deep house track, though. And I certainly am glad I've stopped using that same echoed timbale/wood block combination in every track now :-/
Now I'm blushing- out of all your tunes I've included the one you think is your worst. I think it fits with the feel if the mix. I like the wood block/ timbale combo btw
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