Scottish Friction » LaFriendly http://scottishfriction.com Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:39:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Where Is The Picine? http://scottishfriction.com/2009/10/04/where-is-the-picine/ http://scottishfriction.com/2009/10/04/where-is-the-picine/#comments Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:02:18 +0000 Scottish Friction http://scottishfriction.com/?p=559 ou est le swimming pool

Listen: Ou Est Le Swimming Pool – Dance The Way I Feel (Armand Van Helden Club Mix)
Listen: The Secret Handshake – Summer Of ’98 (The Bloody Beetroots Remix) ←♥♥♥
MP3: Ou Est Le Swimming Pool – Dance The Way I Feel (Armand Van Helden Club Mix)
MP3: The Secret Handshake – Summer Of ’98 (The Bloody Beetroots Remix)

Cheers and big love to LAFriendly and RARCHE for these.

]]> http://scottishfriction.com/2009/10/04/where-is-the-picine/feed/ 1 2009: A Woolfy Odyssey http://scottishfriction.com/2009/07/26/2009-a-woolfy-odyssey/ http://scottishfriction.com/2009/07/26/2009-a-woolfy-odyssey/#comments Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:15:19 +0000 Scottish Friction http://scottishfriction.com/?p=374 You know when you just HAVE to be yourself post a song or you’ll just burst? Well I got that when I first heard ‘Odyssey’ by Woolfy when it was posted on I Guess I’m Floating. His description said it best and made me hit the ‘Play’ button instantly.

You’ve been lost on a desert island for 3 days. You find a radio in an abandoned beach shack, still works. You scan the channels looking for some distant flutter of life beneath the static. You turn the dial until the static subsides… it seems your whole life as been condensed down to those few gut wrenching seconds of silence. And then… a few snare hits. A guitar strum. Hand claps. A walking bass line? And then a voice: “Taking your tiimmmmmeee, to seeeeee, yourseelllllff.” “You’re giving it up.” “Odyssey.” You scan your surroundings beaming through a new veil of optimism. Hell, you don’t even care. Passive optimism. “Grab a coconut,” you tell yourself. “Stay a while.”

2001 a space odyssey

Listen: Woolfy – Odyssey ←♥♥♥♥
MP3: Woolfy – Odyssey

Saw this excellent GRUM remix over at LaFriendly. GRUM will be playing Cabaret Voltaire on 4th October. What? Am I going? Why yes. Yes I am.

grum miracle

Listen: Tommy Sparks – Miracle (GRUM Remix) ←♥♥♥
MP3: Tommy Sparks – Miracle (GRUM Remix)

This weekend saw the “largest ever gathering of clan chiefs” in Edinburgh for ‘Gathering 2009‘. Sounds like some sort of techno festival! LOL. Anyway, Prince Charles (known as the Duke Of Rothesay when in Scotland) and that came up to open the festival, which saw over 50,000 people and representatives from over 125 clans (scattered around the world). I always find it fascinating that there’s about 4.5 million Scots in Scotland but at least 25 million more of us settled abroad.

The Gathering
The Gathering 2009, Holyrood Park, Edinburgh

Don’t ask me what clan I’m in. I don’t have a fecking scooby. Anyway, back to what I do know. For instance, this is a banger.

Listen: Aquasky – It Will Knock You Out ←♥♥♥
MP3: Aquasky – It Will Knock You Out

Thanks to Nashville Nights for bringing this one to my earz.

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Just saw this over at LaFriendly! It’s the best thing I’ve heard of Simian Mobile Disco‘s new stuffff so far. What do you think?

Listen: Simian Mobile Disco – Bad Blood (Feat. Alexis Taylor)
MP3: Simian Mobile Disco – Bad Blood (Feat. Alexis Taylor)

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