Unknown visitor commented on the Planet Dog compilation, referencing the Starseeds. Well, I just happened to have some Starseeds in Overflow that needed shared, so perfect...
The Starseeds were a Trip-hop chill-out duo made up of Canadian Regina Dannhof & Brit Alex McGowan.
Their debut full-length was Parallel Life, recorded in their legendary "Orange Blue" Central London recording studio called Universal Feedback. About Parallel Life, Billboard magazine sez:
"the hottest import since Massive Attack."
Parallel Life
Behind the Sun
Timequakes
Sonne, Mond, & Sterne
Heavensairportcoffeeshoprestaurant
Subspace Radio Signals
Regina from the Future
Earth, Moon, & Stars
Elsewhere
Behind the Sun
Timequakes
Sonne, Mond, & Sterne
Heavensairportcoffeeshoprestaurant
Subspace Radio Signals
Regina from the Future
Earth, Moon, & Stars
Elsewhere
Enjoy,
NØ
Parallel Life
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Nicely, Nate. I've had a soft spot for trip hop ever since the 1st Portishead album blew me away all those years ago.
ReplyDeleteI don't want to interrupt the important work of wrangling your overspill folder into a managable state, so i have a request that i hope you might be able to fulfill at some point down the line. I've been meaning to ask if you have any Tobinsprout (or is it Tobin Sprout?) you might be able to share at some point? I bought 'Let's Welcome The Circus People' after hearing some on the sainted John Peel's show many years ago, and haven't seen the name since. If you can help me, there's no hurry mate, as and when. Cheers.
Here’s a kinda mixed bag. First is Demos & Outtakes that came out the year after the Circus People one you mentioned. Also is Demos & Outtakes Two which didn’t appear until 2023. In between is Lost Planets & Phantom Voices from 2003 & a newer one The Universe & Me from 2017. I have a few more but they need a bit of work & I don’t have time right now. I will include them when next I get back to Musick that Needed Work: T which is next in that series.
DeleteDemos & Outtakes, Recordhead LUNA35, 2001.
https://mega.nz/file/24smVRQa#-pl-peLtWwgRnULfNOvKNw17UmNKar08zztyB11lSN0
Demos & Outtakes Two, Persona Non GratG11LP, 2023.
https://mega.nz/file/3gtUnajS#07Vvq44-GFX4rFrXizg4DEQfNBIFOV78VdHvk9hLDy4
Lost Planets & Phantom Voices, Recordhead LUNA64, 2003.
https://mega.nz/file/Wx0AFTBL#K5aoLam2wQ7LYSMTaZ8PiyX1zQ5lqWNGKi0zhkyLyUQ
The Universe & Me, Burger Records BRGR1050, 2017.
https://mega.nz/file/usN1mRqZ#6cGmzbeYXSqBij_pNAUq7PMNEkgaXu4Sbt8pUdxd9qA
Fantastic mate. I'm developing a taste for sprouts! Yum!
DeleteBeing a vegan, I already loves me sprouts, but these are indeed tasty enough to sway a sproutaphobe. Thanks, brother.
DeleteNØ, thanks for the Starseeds stuff, I am entering a (very specific) trip hop obsession and these will scratch the itch for a moment.
DeleteRichie, (as NNS's resident ex-Daytonian) if you're at all inclined and bored I recommend finding versions of the same song performed by Tobin Sprout and Guided By Voices for comparison. Mr. Sprout was second fiddle in GBV during some of their peak years and would often contribute songs to the records. Then he'd re-record them for his solo efforts. Not vastly different, but sometimes in noteworthy ways. Dude is also a painter and author too, check his wikipedia page.
Being a life-long trip-hop fan, I've shared a shitload of it over the years. Search the upper left blooger search or the Labels list in the right collumn. I even did Trip-hop Fabuweary 2024. Want to share (very specific)? Need anything?
DeleteSorry, that anonymous comment above was me, i hit enter before adding my nom-de-guerre. The specifics is just a particular feeling based on Portishead's 2nd and Massive Attack's 3rd and Kind Midas Sound's 1st, i.e. stark and gloomy and kinda noisy but with powerful and heartbreaking melodies. I've never gotten into the funkier or jazzier or lounge-ier sides of trip hop (they're totally fine, just not for me). Don't need anything in particular, you know i'm always tuning in here.
DeleteTrip-hop is one of my favorite genres. I think I like most all takes on it to one degree or another. The doomy, the gloomy, the jazzy, the funky, it all plays well to me at different times in different moods. Massive Attack is top-notch & I try to get anything I come across of theirs, but my favorites era of MA is actually 100th Window & Heligoland. With Portishead, since they have such limited output, I like anything: Dummy; self-titled; or Third. Geoff & Adrian'a ear for sound is phenomenal & Beth is unassailable.
DeleteWhat's your take on Tricky, especially Maxinquaye, Pre-Millenium Tension, False Idols, or Fall to Pieces? They are definitely "stark and gloomy and kinda noisy but with powerful & heart breaking melodies".
To aboynamedstew, from many past conversations with you about various music, I know you have eclectic but impeccable taste, one more query. What is your take on largly overlooked & underapreciated albums such as Sissy - March of the Humans & the like?
Deletethanks for the kind words. i'm just happy that i've been able to figure out the particularities of what i like and don't like in a given genre of music while leaving judgements behind - i think it makes the endless digging that us obsessives have to do a little more efficient and fun at the same time (and the pleasant leftfield surprises even more surprising and therefore delightful).
DeleteLet's see now, takes? Tricky. Well firstly, all due respect. He's an originator and in my mind, one of the holy trinity of trip hop. And he does have a lot of the starkness and noisiness in the strains of trip hop that i like. For whatever reason, I don't connect with his stuff as much as I do with Portishead and MA. I loooove certain songs, but don't usually listen to whole albums by Tricky. Maxinquaye and Tension have plenty of gems, and I actually also really like Nearly God. That might be the one that I go back to most often.
Sissy? I'd actually not heard of them (or remembered the name, since i found them in yr not-too-distant past) so I had to dig them up on Youtube and give a listen. I liked it! Some of it was right on the border of too electronica for me, but then other songs were really interesting. I DL'd from you and will have to give it some more thorough listening but yeah I dug it. I'm gonna have to go through yr Trip Hop month again more carefully now.
I've been returning to Neneh Cherry's Blank Project album a ton lately (and her CD with The Thing) as those seem to scratch this same itch, even though i'm not sure I'd call them trip hop.
There is so much that is called trip-hop that I don't agree with the labeling of & so much other that is not called trip-hop, but is more in the vein (like Neneh's material you mentioned). In one of your earlier comments you mentioned King Midas Sound. They are not usually classified as trip-hop, but that 1st album is more trip-hop sounding than much that is so-called. Thanks for the on-going dialogue. Always enjoy coversing with you.
DeleteAlways love and appreciate the conversation with you, NØ! And the forum for sharing (opinions and musical recordings) that you cultivate here.
DeleteI provide the forum & try to shine a light in a certain direction, but it is because of folks like unto yourself who real spark life into this petri dish.
DeleteKoooooool!!! Thank You NØ Sir!~
ReplyDeleteThanks VCMD.
DeleteIm the one who posted comments on the Feed Your Head 3 you posted. This album was and always will be the best stuff these two ever released. The followup was still downtempo/ambient (maybe) but like many other projects ie Enigma's debut they did not have that special sauce the debut release had and not as memorable as Parallel Life. By any chance you might have any of the material on their single cds ie The Starseeds – Heavensairportcoffeeshoprestaurant mixes? Just asking!
ReplyDeleteI seem to have 13 various remixes of Parallel Life, Timequakes, Behind the Sun, Starman, & Heavensairportcoffeeshoprestaurant. I made a compilation of them. You can grab them here:
DeleteThe Starseeds Remix Set
https://mega.nz/file/n1dilaIT#CUr1PZZqn-uJmSxDTI-hSSdhITdUYd_jgf3uopKaSbQ