Bulldog

Time to break up a few walls of text with...another wall of text! I'm in the middle of some hardcore procrastination at the minute, so this'll do to keep it going a bit longer. Can't be bothered to flag up an album just yet, so I'm gonna deviate from the format a bit.

So then, a tune or two that have been on my mind lately...


I was actually thinking of doing some huge write-up on the man's 1.Outside album, but then Friends came on so I kinda forgot about it. This way's less time-consuming anyway. Basically, the story here is that the aforementioned was initially meant to be released in a triple-disc format before Bowie's label told him to trim the thing down to one, which led to over 24 hours' worth of material recorded during the album sessions remaining unused and unreleased.

A few years after the album's release, half an hour of those outtakes were leaked onto the bootleg circuit and, as you can probably hear, to say that's it's a shame so much of this material's never seen the light of day, be it in official or unofficial format, would be quite the understatement. In a sentence, I think some of the guy's best material is on that bootleg, or at least the most avante-garde. The above's not necessarily as zany as it gets, but it's among my 5 favourite Bowie songs and, if it weren't for my keeping my ear to ground so to speak, I'd never have heard it. And, as I say, this is about as tip-of-the-iceberg as things get, and it's more than likely that I'll never see or hear much of the rest of the outtakes. For me at least, it's got that sense of morbid curiosity that the missing half-hour from Event Horizon does.

Every song on it is unofficially-titled, We'll Creep Together being the title I (as opposed to the video's uploader) was given. Anyway, I really couldn't recommend looking for this bootleg enough. Skip to about 2:30 on it if you wanna hear one of the most hauntingly beautiful pieces of music that I ever have and you're feeling a bit impatient for all the improv stuff at the start.


To think that there was a time when this was actually commercial!

I was actually looking forward to going over Goldie's Saturnz Return album in here, a little because any sort of electronica is fairly overlooked around here, nevermind dnb, but mostly because it's an absolutely immense album. But, four albums in a row in a thread like this is a bit much, so I'll pass for now

Little do the un-Goldie-initiated know that this tune's actually been edited down from the first disc of Saturnz Return, which accounts for another 57 minutes of major tuneage. Put simply, the radio edit you're hearing above comes in between two mammoth neo-cassical movements - the part where it just all breaks down into what I hope you're sitting through as you read this.

I dunno about you, but I just love when you can stick a tune on, it's guaranteed that it's gonna just keep going for well over the usual 3-5 minute timescale and that it doesn't devolve into random wankery or whatever.