And the pounding in the street was your heart in 4/4 time
It's Friday! It's about three o'clock! It's time to Boogie At Your Desk!
Friday afternoons need a little something. I think they need a Top Tune. Something to make you shuffle in your seat and, if possible, Boogie At Your Desk.
I'm not claiming that any track provided to enable At-Desk Boogying is one of the world's best or most profound pieces of music. It will, however, be a tune which makes me smile, and which has at some stage made me surreptitiously Boogie At My Desk.
Desks are not compulsory, of course. Feel free to boogie through your office, in your bedroom, round your lab, across your classroom, on the train - wherever you find yourself on a Friday afternoon.
If you like the track, go out and buy the album it belongs to - I'll try and recommend a suitable CD to purchase for any BAYD track.
The link to the mp3 will expire at some point in the future.
Today you are invited to Boogie At Your Desk to:
Portasound - Messerschmitt [link to mp3 download expired, YouTube link may still be active]
One of the CDs I picked up in Banquet Records last weekend was Portasound's debut EP The Second Renaissance (you can listen to the whole thing online via that link - I recommend it).
I'd never heard of Portasound, but something about the note Banquet had stuck to it drew me in. Disappointingly, they returned the be-stickered copy to the shelves and sold me a crisp new one, and I can't now remember what the note said.
Anyway, what I seem to have bought is a four-track EP of instrumental, electronic music which is at once quite ambient and poundingly rhythmic. At under 4 minutes, Messerschmitt is the most bite-sized track on the EP, and probably the most consistent.
A review online describes them as being perfect for the soundtrack of a hypothetical movie of the animated Ulysses 31. I can't honestly say that's a concept which sprang readily to my mind, but now someone's mentioned it they're dead right.
Friday afternoons need a little something. I think they need a Top Tune. Something to make you shuffle in your seat and, if possible, Boogie At Your Desk.
I'm not claiming that any track provided to enable At-Desk Boogying is one of the world's best or most profound pieces of music. It will, however, be a tune which makes me smile, and which has at some stage made me surreptitiously Boogie At My Desk.
Desks are not compulsory, of course. Feel free to boogie through your office, in your bedroom, round your lab, across your classroom, on the train - wherever you find yourself on a Friday afternoon.
If you like the track, go out and buy the album it belongs to - I'll try and recommend a suitable CD to purchase for any BAYD track.
The link to the mp3 will expire at some point in the future.
Today you are invited to Boogie At Your Desk to:
Portasound - Messerschmitt [link to mp3 download expired, YouTube link may still be active]
One of the CDs I picked up in Banquet Records last weekend was Portasound's debut EP The Second Renaissance (you can listen to the whole thing online via that link - I recommend it).
I'd never heard of Portasound, but something about the note Banquet had stuck to it drew me in. Disappointingly, they returned the be-stickered copy to the shelves and sold me a crisp new one, and I can't now remember what the note said.
Anyway, what I seem to have bought is a four-track EP of instrumental, electronic music which is at once quite ambient and poundingly rhythmic. At under 4 minutes, Messerschmitt is the most bite-sized track on the EP, and probably the most consistent.
A review online describes them as being perfect for the soundtrack of a hypothetical movie of the animated Ulysses 31. I can't honestly say that's a concept which sprang readily to my mind, but now someone's mentioned it they're dead right.