We’ve been a bit quiet on this blog recently, I blame the Christmas/NYE comedown – We’ve also all been a bit ill recently with the usual winter flu type viruses. Lovely.
Anyway we’re into a New Year now. 2008. It’s time for a new start and for resolutions to be broken as fast as they’re made but first I just want to comment on a couple of things from Christmas and NYE.
Firstly my favourite present this year was the Sigur Ros DVD, Heima. To be quite honest the only reason I didn’t buy this on the day of release is because I knew someone would buy it for me for Christmas and then I’d end up with a spare copy and when exactly what I’d predicted happened I couldn’t wait to get the shrink wrap off and get the shiny little disc into the player. I turned the volume up and the lights down, waiting to get involved in something special. Heima really is special too, i’m not usually one for music DVD’s to be honest, most are nothing but a let down after promising so much but in the typical Sigur Ros style understatement is the key. The first disc is a documentary which recounts Sigur Ros’s return to Iceland after touring their 3rd album Takk all over the world. The band has decided to play a series of free gigs all over their homeland in strange and wonderful venues. Music recorded live at these venues is interspersed with brief interviews from band members and beautiful backdrops of Iceland which are as haunting and captivating as the music that seems to wrap around these visual motifs creating a sum which is greater than all the separate parts put together. I literally cannot recommend this enough.
Changing subject completely now I want to mention my NYE, which was spent in Barcelona among friends. It really was a great night which allowed me to visit Razzmatazz for the second time this year. The night’s main guest was Kompakt Records’ Rex The Dog but proceeding him when we arrived was MouseUp! Who was playing some lovely dark and twisted techno, his warm up set was what a lesser DJ would play if they were headlining and i’ll be honest there were only a few tracks in his set that I actually recognised, not that that is a bad thing. In fact it was quite refreshing. By the time Rex The Dog hit the decks things were getting very hazy in the whirlwind of strobes, dancing and clatter of techno but a more than memorable night was being had by all in The Loft at Razzmatazz. Opening with his own Prototype, Rex did not let up, melding electro with techno in his own wonky kind of way. All hell broke loose throughout this set on the dancefloor and it was great!
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