Next Friday I'll be spinning at the night Set The Tone. There will be a an exhibition B-Boy battle, a live set from the jazz/hip hop group 5 Coffees and DJ Sets from Sage One, D-Lect and myself and the Swat DJs. So if your down with the jazz, funk, disco boogie and old school hip hop sounds get on down.
So i just picked up the new album from UK producer Ghost. Its his third album and limited to 300 copies available from his bandcamp site and a select few stores in NZ where he now resides. Im not sure what they put in the water in NZ but it seems to agree with overseas producers who move there. Postcards From The Edge (Which incidentally is also the title of Carrie Fishers autobiography) is a radical departure from Ghosts previous work on labels such as Breakin Bread. Gone are the jazz samples and the swinging organic drums. Also most of the vocals as well as only three of the thirteen tracks feature Mcs. Instead they are replaced by dark and sweeping synths that create rich soundscapes akin to something that could have been put out on Warp Records in the late 90s. Hearts and Minds remind me of something Autechre or Black Dog would have produced. This is not so say Postcards sound derivative, far from it. Ghost has crafted a dark yet uplifting album that conjures up blade Runner like images of the future.
