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Grapple at Electric Swamp

Opening with a sequence that sounds like Martin Denny’s delicate numbers suddenly being swamped by Madlib’s blitzkrieg beats, a exotic idyll turned into mutant wasteland, Pelican Island seem in the habit of turning scraps into moveable feasts with this “Three Part Collage”. Never sure quite how seriously to take him but the Barbados native, having grown up cutting samples on cassettes on his sister’s karaoke machine, is now stationed out in E3. Plans are to release a beat tape in the next month or so, piecing together in the same hurdy-gurdy glories as The Samps, but until then it’s just another average day of “wake halfway. cereal. beats. take out. beats. beats. sleep. beats. wake halfway. dream.”



MP3: Pelican Island - Three Part Collage

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ZOMBY COMING

The video for the relatively sedate, near-beatless ‘Mercury’s Rainbow’, as shot by the man/woman/beast himself. It was originally posted by Ramp, so you’d imagine it might come out through them at some point.

Tags: ramp recordings, zomby

Sunshine Cripple

Endlessly seduced and mashing like rabbits, Family Time’s latest sprog is pumped out wailing into the sun’s first glare, covered in bits of gut and exploded Tascam - this one 26-years-old already, and moustachioed. A shock, then, but a shock allayed by the song of the Norse Horse - Ryan Beal’s music ripples out like a quelling beam, enveloping all within earshot in its grand, mass hallucination of short shorts, Mariachi and the liberties of children drunk on Coca-Cola. As it staggers from its birth sack, the ‘Horse breaks into an ungainly quadruped mince and everyone cheers at the unexpected parade, the nag wailing, still, and smiling as it squints into dawn rays.

An eight-track cassette and CD-R called Secret Geographies will arrive through the heroes at Family Time some time this month.



MP3: Norse Horse - Gangplank Galleon



MP3: Norse Horse - Swamp Trotter



MP3: Norse Horse - Sleepers

Tags: family time, norse horse, ryan beale