Another month, another Bandcamp Friday and another haul of music to unpack and listen to. I've been steadily picking up digital & CD copies of the On-U Sound back catalogue, either in place of very crackly vinyl or to expand and fill the gaps in my collection. That's going to be whole other series of posts...
I picked up some new music too: Clarion Call by Xan Tyler & Mad Professor, which I raved about a couple of weeks ago, remixes of Hope Is The Last Thing To Die by David Holmes ft. Raven, which was put on my radar by Swiss Adam at Bagging Area last month, and Eyes Open, the spook-tacular Hallwe'en single from Pye Corner Audio.
And then this beauty, a remix of an obscure 1960s psychedelic trip by 10:40. The Forest Of Black, a 1968 single by Californian psych-rock band Dirty Filthy Mud is taken uptown, riding on a funky beat, with stabbing synths, electronic howls and vocal snippets driving the song along. Jesse Fahnestock has been very busy in 2021, and this is another tune that doesn't disappoint. You can pick up this remix as the latest Paisley Dark Edits Box release, another name your price offer, but well worth spending money on.
I'd never heard the original song by Dirty Filthy Mud and tracked it down on YouTube. It could easily have been a contender for the classic 1972 Nuggets compilation and seems to have popped up on quite a few psychedelic collections since the late 1990s. It's a cracking song and feels much more expansive than it's 3 minute running time would suggest.
Good stuff Khayem.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Adam
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