E. M. Esq.

Pursuant to a recent tagging, I shall now hold forth at short-to-medium length on seven songs that are currently jouncing around my head (“jouncing” being a recently coined word that combines the best elements of bouncing and, uh, jouissance).

Had this happened about a week ago this post would essentially have been a link to the Dazed and Confused soundtrack on Amazon. In the intervening period there has been a certain amount of boozing, dancing, playgrounding and intermittent bouts of furious writing, so we’re now at a kind of stage of chaotic semi-unmusicalness* that almost certainly very few people will enjoy. How and ever.

1. Saul Williams – Gunshots By Computer. A “remix” (read: original song with a black man hootenannying over it) of Nine Inch Nails’ already bangin’ Hyperpower!. (Emphasis theirs. Seriously. Listen up, Irish music scene: that’s how you punctuate a song title.) There are better Saul Williams songs, but this one lodged like a bastard when I first heard it.

I missed two Saul Williams gigs over the past two weeks. This makes me unhappy.

2. Martin Grech – I Am Chromosome. Got horrendously addicted to this a couple of years ago and picked it up again at the weekend. Waily-voiced Maltese-Brit gets scared about his legacy while the world ends around him. Excellent. My mate had a few drinks with him once, apparently a very nice guy.

3. Chrome Hoof – Circus 9000. It’s, well, circusy. And also kind of sinister. I walked into Tower once and heard this song playing and, in sheer amazement at someone in Tower putting on something not entirely wankery, bought the album.

Couldn’t find it on YouTube but, as coincidence and/or me liking the song a lot would have it, it’s the first track on the muxtape I will almost certainly finish one of these days.

4. The Dillinger Escape Plan – Milk Lizard. Crazy jazz metallers listen to mix of their new album, decide this track needs more 60s-era cop show brass section. Includes a vaguely boy band-ish breakdown of the type that only The Dillinger Escape Plan can make sound cool. Even if you don’t like his singing, do listen to the whole thing.

5. April March – Chick Habit. One for the ladies. Retro faux-French lady spoons sass onto bouncy beats, gives perfect end to best film of 2007 (i.e. Death Proof. While I think of it, the theme music from Planet Terror could very easily make this list… man, I am cheating so hard here.)

6. Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip – The Beat That My Heart Skipped. Waaaaay behind everyone else here, but this was only shoved my way last week and it stuck most thoroughly, to the extent of actually preventing me from sleeping one night. Deadly buzz, and even though I expect yer manno’s voice to start grating at any minute, it never does.

7. Right… I was going to put Sigur Ros – Staralfur here, after hearing it the other day and being randomly afflicted with slow motion ever since, but earlier today I happened to hear some grade A choonage from America’s foremost dance auteur and… well, listen for yourself.

I’m supposed to pass this on to seven people, but I’m going to make like Dragonball Z and roll them into one. Maybury, I am taking my revenge.

*On account of I’m leaving out the needlessly depressing ohmygodwhatamIdoing inevitable-crash songs.