NEWS
Melodica 08 March 2010
Chris Coco's weekly radio broadcast. An eclectic selection of brilliant new music starting with house and moving on to electronica, downtempo, acoustic and all sorts of other styles loosly connected to dance and electronic music. Let tastemaker Chris Coco guide you through his selection of the week's best new music.
In this week’s episode - remixes of Paul Weller and The XX; new music from DFA records; dubstep goes jazz and tunes from Melodica faves Moodymanc and Soul Minority.
Tracklist
Extract - Lewis B - Pinball - Smoking Sessions
1 Black Van - Yearning - DFA
2 Soul Minority - Six Nine - Kolour Recordings
3 bonobo - Eyesdown (Floating Points Remix) - Ninja Tune
THAT FUZZY FEELING (TUNE OF THE WEEK)
4 Paul Weller - No Tears To Cry (Leo Zero Remix) - Island
5 The XX - VCR (Matthew Dear Remix) - Young Turks
6 Michoacan - In The Dark Of The Night - DFA
7 The Go Find - Heart Of Gold - Morr Music
8 Bison-Way To LA-Night - claremont 56
9 The Velvet Underground - Femme Fatale - Verve
10 Lewis B - Take 2 - Smoking Sessions
11 Moodymanc - Mode Dub - 2020 Vision
12 Tolga Fidan -Nised - Freak N Chic
Mavis
Chris Coco appears on Ashley Beedle's new Mavis project album, out now on K7 Records.
Feel Free Live Good
Feel Free Live Good is the forthcoming album from Chris Coco, coming soon on Big Chill Recordings.
City Reverb
City Reverb are a band / There are 3 members / A DJ / A Musician / And a Singer / Roughly speaking / They like Kraftwerk / But they also like Nick Drake / We are City Reverb.
Chris Coco, Nick Cornu and Micky Buccheri met during the sessions for Lost City Folk (Dumb Angel), an album which expanded Chris' original dance oriented tracks into mini symphonies about London life in the 21st Century. On completing what was primarily a recording project, the idea of creating a band began to emerge - a project which would draw on the strengths and characters of each member. The new group aesthetic relies on an economy of sounds. It's a "less is more" approach that strips each song to its bare bones to reveal the honest beauty of its structure. Happysad melodies shimmer above crisp machine rhythm. Plaintive synth lines waft through the mix like London fog. The dub bass is insistent while finger-picked acoustic guitars sew the elements together. The resultant sound is minimal but not stark; the songs often hint at a rustic wonder of the modern world. After months of experimenting, the three Londoners are finally honing a brave and singular voice.
Swimming (new song) live on Diesel U-Music Radio
New rehearsal recordings
city reverb by micky buccheri
Buy Lost City Folk on Beatport.
City Reverb My Space
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Rock The Funky Beat
Chris Coco has remixed the Natural Born Chillers' party classic Rock The Funky Beat, the remix is part of a package coming soon on Arcade Pony Records.
Coco Steel & Lovebomb - Feel It part of Warp20 box set
Coco Steel & Lovebomb - Feel It voted 48th best ever Warp release by Warp fans. Check the whole chart here.
Feel It is in the mix of Warp20 (Elemental): a CD album - Specially-commissioned hour long piece by Osymyso, made from sections, samples, and fragments of Warp music from the last 20 years. Part of the Warp20 box set.
Follow Chris Coco on twitter.
Heavy Pencil
Chris Coco tune Butterfly Heart appears on the Heavy Pencil CD, part of a package of 7" size graphics available now from Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.
The Normalites
Normalites is Chris Coco and Steve Miller (aka Afterlife). find their song Pink Skyscraper on the latest edition of Hotel Costes. Get their Dead Cat Bounce EP.
Normalites Myspace
i tunes.
e music.
napster.
rhapsody.
Coco sings for Afterlife
Chris Coco appears as guest vocalist on the new Afterlife album Electrosensitive. He sings a song called A Feeling. The album is out now on Bar Grooves.
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