Mixtape Office - Catchup Sunday

Hello everyone, long time no blog entry. Your all looking well, have you been on holiday?

Due to a busy week of arguing about what colour of beige is best, i've finally managed to catch up with what i've missed with Office Thursday and last weeks Mixtape Sunday. As well as all this, we at Robot Soap have a little treat for you all, with a couple of half hour mixes from our residents Correct Effect and Paulo T, as well as a double edition of Mixtape Sunday (unfortunatly there has been a bit of a hiccup and this will be up tomorrow).

Office Thursday

This week i began the scanning and documenting of ten thousand or so active, agreed and withdrawn files, what these files are for is irrelevant but what you have to imagine is that all these files have to be scanned, logged and listed by hand. each file contains around 10 - 15 sheets of paper, and each are stapled together, as well as this the scanner enjoys to have a good chew on anything that is put in there.

I don't need to tell you, that music has helped me through these hard times. This week i've been hammering a collections of sounds and harmonies that have stopped me from settling a score with the Kodak scanner.


LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
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Watch the "All My Friends" Video - Youtube
Watch the "All My Friends" (Franz Ferdinand cover) Video - Youtube
Watch the "North American" Scum Video - Youtube
Watch the "Someone Great" Video - Youtube

Sound Of Silver has been on the shelves since March time of this year. I dug this this out of the crates after hearing North American Scum on the radio at the start of the week. The album itself is a great collection of electric vibes and indie beats, and although it may not be for everyone, its a steady album that i have a listen to on the tram to work as well as when im routing through the cabinets.

There are some serious highlights, tracks such as "Someone Great" and "All My Friends" are fantastic. If you have time its worth having a listen to the Franz Ferdinands cover of "All My Friends" as well, it's a great re-working of an already excellent song.


The Editors - An End Has A Start
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Watch the "An End Has A Start" Video - Youtube
Watch the "Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors" Video - Youtube

The problem that i have with this album, is that i think that it's much weaker than the bands previous Back Room album. That might be seen as saying something horrific to the musical world but its not to say that its a poor album, not by far. it's one of the strongest albums released in the past year but it's not that hard t compete with the trash thats been pumping out this year, call me bitter, but music has fallen over its laces a little of late. this is however left fr another discussion on a different day.

Its strengths are a little shadowed by its weaknesses that but its worth a listen in any case. One of hte strngest tracks is "An End Has A Start", its whine of guitars and constant beat, connected with a delicious vocal that makes my day go by.


Justice - Cross
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Watch the "D.A.N.C.E" video - Youtube

"Justice? Who the fuck are they again?"

Regarde, Ces't Justice. The French duo of Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay, who have for the past couple f years been a constant centre piece for the Ed Banger Records label, and of course, who can blame the boys from ed to blasting them into the upper stratosphere of fame. By law, its now illegal to have at least one friend that has this album, its a powerhouse of rock and dance combined into a ferocious bunch of bastard tracks that can knock a dancefloor up a level anytime.

I've been listening to releases from this album six months plus before its actually release, the internet was swarming with rips and leaked versions of the songs, which made it a bit f a shame when it was actually released, as djs started to turn their nose's up as it had all been heard before. The truth is that its a great album, and if it had been dropped without any publicity and prior releases i think it would have been a completely different story, in the sense of a DJ brew ha ha would not have existed.

everyone has been chewing at the bit to listen to more of Justice's offerings, i'll be honest, it's going to be hard to beat.

To end this first part of the blog, (with "Mixtape Sunday" now coming tomorrow) here are some previous promotional mixes from our good friends Paulo T and Correct Effect. Links are on Megaupload at the moment, but that will be changed tomorrow.

Until then, Good Evening

Download Correct Effects half hour mix here

Download Paulo Ts half hour mix here