3stripe (a music blog by James Greig)

Truelove’s Gutter

3stripe — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:36:57 +0000

Richard Hawley’s new album is a romantic loungecore delight. My favourite track is the haunting “Don’t Get Hung Up in Your Soul”, which features a musical saw – listen to the other tracks for some equally unusual instrumentation…

Adventures in Dubtech — Volume One

3stripe — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:07:43 +0000

From wonky funk to minimal techno, dubstep and dub… this is the first mix in my new dubstep/techno guise of Yakushima.

Download the mix (78mb)

Burgundy City / Dam Funk
Love Me Like This (Nonsense Dub) / Floating Points
Plumbicon (Deadbeat Remix) / Monolake
Only Yesterday / Claro Intelecto
No Time / The Juan MacLean
Sous le Sable / Appleblim & Ramadanman
Hyph Mngo (Original Mix) / Joy Orbison
Feel For You / TRG
Flame Tree / Appleblim & Geiom
Kameleon / 2562
Joyride / Pinch
Wake The Town / Fat Eyes
Jah Red Gold And Green / Disrupt
Mexican Bean Riddim / Mungo’s Hi Fi
Work Dat Box (16 bit Transition master) / Jaybird
Rude Boy / Hopeton Lindo

Brian Eno – Music For Airports interview

3stripe — Sat, 16 May 2009 09:53:57 +0000

An interesting clip on YouTube on the inspiration for Eno’s seminal ambient release.

Sidenote: just found out that Muzak was the name of an actual company!

Tapes for Listening (Tapes for Dancing)

3stripe — Sat, 09 May 2009 09:30:16 +0000

A funny wee music video on Vimeo made using tapes from tapedeck.org

Motorways Died Young

3stripe — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:02:51 +0000

My first collaboration with another artist is finally off the press! I recorded six tracks on Jocky Venkataraman’s new double-disk LP, “Motorways Died Young/This is Not Food, This is Not Even Food”, out on Adam Stafford’s Wise Blood label in Glasgow.

Three of the tracks (see above) have organ/synth/drum contributions by me.

“You can’t really say that Jocky Venkataraman sounds like anybody else apart from Jocky Venkataraman. Sure, some have made comparisons to Daniel Johnson (who Jocky hadn’t heard until recently) and Malcolm Middleton, but nobody in Scottish music today imbues the kind of idiosyncratic blend of the personal and political with such humour and naive charm quite like Jocky.

The songs cover a broad range of topics from cycling In Sanquhar (where Jocky’s legs get wet), the horrible, transparent nothingness shopping-mall town of Newton Mearns and the mundane conversations you have with your relatives on graduation day (Graduatitive).”

(from the Wise Blood release notes)

Head over to Jocky’s MySpace to order your copy.

Dub Echoes (a dubumentary)

3stripe — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 10:30:02 +0000

Traces the origins of the Jamaican dub music and it’s influence on the development of hip hop and electronic music: www.dubechoes.com

Jocky Venkataraman

3stripe — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 07:15:11 +0000

I’ve very excited to announce that I’ve been producing some tracks for the talented, and slightly crazy-in-a-good-way, singer/songwriter Jocky Venkataraman.We’ve been working together on tunes for his new album which is due out early next year, so stay tuned for further details.

4 car-related concept albums

3stripe — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 00:04:48 +0000

Useless fact: Autobahn and Landcruising both being with a sample of car door being closed and an engine starting. (And the title track of both albums is outstanding too.)

Lykke Li Live

3stripe — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 12:58:19 +0000

Louder and better than in her album. Recommended. Listen here.

Different Route Home

3stripe — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:57:37 +0000

I think this resulted from listening to various B.Fleischmann and Kompakt albums too much, although I’m not 100% sure…