Chill Out

Here's some ambience for you. But the type of ambience that makes it feel like the world is going to end by the time the track finishes. It is a cover of a Savage Republic track from the early 80s.

(Sam) Shackleton is co-owner of London based Skull Disco Records. Known for putting out trippy dub step full of spaced out drums, tribal beats, drippy melodies, echoes, etc, etc.

This track has the original singer from Savage Republic, Jackson Del Rey, reprising his duties.

These guys were on some SERIOUS drugs when they recorded this. Serious.

MP3: Next to Nothing (Original Mix) (YSI)

Explanation by Sam Shackleton of the Skull Disco name origins:

Who are you?
Skull Disco

Where did you get your name?
I read a book about a tribe in Cameroon who had a party where they dug up the ancestors skulls and place them in a circle around the festivities whilst the participants drank beer and played music. I thought that was the proper way to do a disco. It's also a bad pun on School Disco.

There's A Place Called...

So Black Dice have signed onto Animal Collective's Paw Tracks label. (WHAT?! They left DFA? Blasphemy! snicker Still love you Mr. Murphy!) They are planning to release their next album entitled Load Blown on October 23rd. And have released a nugget from that album a bit early for us.

About the new album, there are rumors of more accessibility, shit does that mean they have gone soft on us? Not likely, from the press release, "this is a work of over-stimulation, a product of frenzied media culture, a sonic sifting of the gratuitous amount of “stuff” out there."

Whew.

The track sounds like a dub track that has been sent out into space, done a few laps around the milky way before crashing somewhere in the Caribbean, downing a couple of Red Stripes before showing up at an after hours show in Downtown.

MP3: Kokomo (courtesty of Paw Tracks)

(And please ignore the reference to the The Beach Boys most forgettable song ever -- they are in my top five favorite bands ever... except for Kokomo and John Stamos playing the congas in the video. I forgave them already.)