Forplay haz social media

It turns out that most of Forplay’s fans on facebook are people looking to list foreplay as an interest, game, or hobby. Grammatical shortcomings aside, everyone deserves some forplay - this is forplay’s post for foreplayers. If the song doesn’t do it for them - maybe the image will.

Sounds Like: Toro Y Moi, Nite Jewel, Sbtrkt

Goodie Bag:
Little Dragon - Little Man (Vindata Remix) (Left-Click)

Tomorrow’s post today

The NYC Marathon (viewing party) tomorrow may leave me incapacitated, so here’s something to add to your sunday lounging lullabies.

Sounds Like:DJ Vadim, Stéphane Pompougnac, Tru Thoughts

Goodie Bag TM Juke - Just for a Day (Sunday) (Left-Click)

Ever feel like there’s a squid on your face?

There are songs to chill to, and there are songs to tune out with. This is one of the latter breed, and this is what Forplay gets lost with at 3:30am.

Goodie Bag
Victor Malloy - The Girl Who Wasn’t There (Quantic Mix) (Left Click)

The merits of electronica are debated in respectable enthusiast circles all around the world. The Traditionalists hold that electronic engineering to the frequency of Nosaj Thing, Flying Lotus, Four Tet, Darkstar et al. is more an arrangement of sounds rather than actual music, in the conventional sense at least. More succinctly put by one adored forplayer, is it really music if the band can’t play during a blackout?
While the argument stands tall within the idea that music is a sacred art that should always retain it’s true form, and remain unadulterated; there is something to be said about music advancing in tandem with human invention. Ancient Roman Medicine before the fifteen year civil war combined physiology with primitive witchcraft, wicca, and herbology. The practice of liver reading for divine communications in the liver and other internal organs was common in Rome. But today we use X-Rays and scanners to diagnose disease and prescribe remedy. It can be argued that medicine is a science, and music an art. And from there we can digress to whether musicians should be artistic, or skillful. But before I lose the few readers that have made it this far into the post, let me get to the tune that sparked this train of thought.

While chilling with Portico Quartet some time back, the boys had mentioned that they were dabbling with electronica. This was exciting and unnerving at the same time. All of Portico’s work thus far has been brilliant. ‘Isla’ is cinematic modern jazz that drew audiences from a plethora of musical leanings. I have yet to meet a person that wasn’t immediately spellbound by the magical story in the music.

At first listen of Circle Traps (Jack and Duncan from Portico, and Will Ward), I wondered where in the soundtrack to my life the four track EP would fit in. Last night, between ends of a spliff, I found the answer.

The ambient soundscaping of Will Ward is immediate and unmistakable. And as you fume into tracks like “Mirrors and Monuments” and “Perspex, Glass” you find the instrumental layering of Jack Wylie and Duncan Bellamy. Together, the music creates a cocoon of spatial and mental comfort similar to that found in “Line.”

To quote a friend quoting Oscar WIlde, Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. Nowhere is that truer than in the realm of music.

Roman medicine eventually advanced leaps and bounds to levels only attained later in the 19th century. But it was a process of trial and error. This undertaking by Circle Traps was not an error.

Goodie Bag
Circle Traps EP (Left Click)

Oh Joy!…Orbison

So Derobe//Joy Orbison

Not a week goes by where I don’t listen to Joy Orbison’s downtempo mix, BSRkR01. Still waiting for Joy to drop some funkstastic shit like that again, but given that much of his tunes percolate to the tune of post-garage dubstep, I might be waiting long. Nevertheless, nothing to complain about with this track. Sadly, I can’t say the same about the EP.