Wednesday, June 2, 2010

the rose


"...eeelectric shadow, a full moon in my bed."
The Laughing Light of Plenty - The Rose by piece together music

It appears that the Laughing Light of Plenty (LLOP) have only 3 songs. Their 'hit', is 'The Rose' - an absolutely epic classic-rock-soaked piece of space disco (or just cosmic rock).
The track was huge last summer (amongst those of us who are into this kind of shit) but I think it needs to come out again this summer. this kind of music has a long shelf life so it wont (easily) age... its like the past and the future here in the present... or not.
anyway, the analogue break gets a bit too squelchy and psychedelic for perfect-song status, but its close.

LLOP is apparently "a collaborative project between Rub'n'Tug's Thomas Bullock (who also records as Bobby Marie and Map of Africa for WWW) and Eddie Ruscha (who spent time in Medicine, Maids of Gravity and Future Pigeon)".
Rub'n'tug (DFA, NYC) is a a disco outfit consisting Thomas Bullock and Eric Duncan. Their stuff is pretty good.. a bit hit and miss though. As mentioned by Eric Duncan on Beats in Space they have an album coming out soon... and with outtakes like the first 10 mins of this I think it could be one to watch out for.

Their remix work can sound a bit like this:




I think their best work however is their edit of Chicago's 'I'm a man' found on the top notch and still very relevant Glimmers DJ Kicks Compilation. Yeah.



Keep an eye open here for news of the hot new rub'n'tug album.
Also look for Eric Duncan side projects, under the Dr. Dunks and the excellent Still Going alias'.
Spaghetti Circus by Still Going is a high energy disco mega blast and a personal favourite of mine from last year. Opah!

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