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Album Review / MP3 Download: FabricLive 49 - various mixed by Buraka Som Sistema

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Judging by FabricLive 49 Burakama Som Sistema are a goddamn cussing noisy bunch. Make no mistake, this album feels like being tied to the front of Alton Tower's biggest rollercoaster (is that still the Oblivion?) for an hour or so with an emotionally epic hangover.

To be honest BlackPlastic was ready to slate it but instead we will say this - you will like FabricLive49 if:

 

  • You like the sound that several travelling fair grounds would make if you put then all in the same place at once and told them to SCREAM IF YOU WANNA GO FAAAAAASTTAAAAAA!
  • You hate your own head.
  • You have some incredibly persistent guilty voice inside your soul constantly reminding you that you butchered your mother.
  • You are on more drugs than BlackPlastic has ever tried.

 

There are a few better moments but, in all honesty, they are not good - they just gave BlackPlastic a bit of a breather because they didn't sound like a baby screaming.

It might be built to sound like a soundclash but to BlackPlastic it just IS a soundclash.

Download the full version of 'Kurum (Roulet Remix)' by Buraka Som Sistema, which appears on FabricLive 49 for a taste [right click, save as].

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FabricLive 49 is out tomorrow, available for pre-order now from Amazon.co.uk on CD [affiliate link].

MP3: Tupac Robot Club Rock (Kill Em All, Let Wiley Sort It Out remix) - Filthy Dukes

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BlackPlastic recently reviewed Filthy Dukes' FabricLive album and, pretty much, we said it was good in a somewhat predictable way...

This track is not, as we hoped, some sort of Daft Punk / Tupac mashup but is instead a fairly full-on Wiley-style banger. It could definitely be accused of being more than just a little bit cheesy (check those keys!) but the bassline ensures it is at least worthy of a few moments of your time and is fairly representative of their Fabric disk... If you like this there's a good chance you will like FabricLive 48.

Download and enjoy! [right click, save as]

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News: Free Charlotte Gainsborough MP3 from new album

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Charlotte Gainsbourg's 5:55 was something of a masterpiece and if 'IRM' is anything to go by the follow-up album, from which it is taken, could be even better.

Check the video for a teaser and a quick interview with Charlotte but if you head over to Charlotte's site you can download an MP3 of the song for free. Inspired by the rhythmic sensation of undergoing an MRI scan it's a trippy, spooky number that feels a long way from the melodic autumnal walks of 5:55 but still captivates.

BlackPlastic is excited to hear what impact this new found eclecticism will have on the forthcoming album.

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MP3: Mitsubitchi - The Subs

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If you were to come up to BlackPlastic and ask us what song you should play in your office / shop / hair dressers' / generic place of work that is going to cause maximum offence then The Subs' 'Mitsubitchi' would probably be it.

Like a five-year-old child with ADHD and suffering from a nose-bleed 'Mitsubitchi' doesn't give a damn who you are or what you are doing, it just wants your attention and isn't going to shut-up or stop pulling a variety of stupid shapes until it gets it. Subtle this ain't, but it is fun in a 'wearing pants on your head' type way.

Put it this way - it's for the weekend, not for life.

The Subs are playing at FabricLive this Friday for Fabric's 10th Birthday weekend. Simian Mobile Disco (good), the Filthy Dukes (good) and Shinichi Osawa (great) will also be playing. Visit FabricLondon.com for more.

Download 'Mitsubitchi' by The Subs on MP3 [right click, save as].

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Download: Lie Down (Live At The Green Room) - Long Range

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BlackPlastic never really got around to properly listening to the debut album, Madness & Me, from Phil Hartnoll (of Orbital) and Nick Smith's Long Range, but from what we hear it is one of the best ambient albums in years. If this track is anything to go by then that sounds believable.

BlackPlastic struggles with ambient. It seems to be a genre of choice for many a bedroom producer but it is incredibly difficult to make it work and to produce something with any real emotional gravitas. Much like Global Communication, whose 76:14 is probably the best ambient album ever produced, what makes 'Lie Down' work is that it doesn't let the genre get in the way - there is still considerable variety, ebb and flow over the track's eight-minutes, and it is unsurprisingly reminiscent of Orbital's better work.

Download 'Lie Down (Live At The Green Room)' by Long Range [right click, save as].

Long Range release a new EP, Control Me, on Pure Mint Recordings on 1 December 2009. Visit the Long Range website for more info.

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