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Londonism II


Flying Lotus
Tea Leaf Dancers
(Reset Ep / 2007)
ThecocknbullkidThere’s a mother in out bed
(Forthcoming)
The SpecialsGhost Town
(Ghost town extended 12″ / 1981)
Uncle SamRound the World Girls (Tes la Rok remix)
(Round the world Girls – Ignition 12″ / 2007)
Massive AttackKarmacoma
(Protection / 1995)
Alpha & OmegaDub Of Purpose
(Dub Philosophy / 2001)


My vision of London: Pulsing old city. High Ceilings. Dozing. Slumbering. Smoking. Drinking coffee. Cluttered lunch embracing the empty wine bottles on the rug. Fish bones. Thin china salad bowl drowning dying lettuce. Heavy ashtrays dealing with the afternoon shadows. Poles working as building painters spying on us when we shower through a hole in the wall. Afternoon indoors time listening to music. Four or five people around me lying on the floor. Gentle murmurs. Seeing the beautiful grey sky from the window. Bedrock bass booming. Pulse secure. Reggae chords nesting on hip hop beats. Londres sepultada bajo una capa de alquitrán.
Multiculti grasp of the sweetest kind.

Photos: Naughton and pics from Olafur Eliasson’s “the weather project” at Tate Modern, 2004 by Ade & New No. 2.

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Category: Electronica, Hip hop

2 Responses

  1. Rakibuzzaman says:

    Really nice way to start my Sunday. And end it, too.

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The song makes its imprint
in the air, making itself felt,
a felt world. Here, there,
the stunned silence

of knowing I will not remember
what I heard;

futures that will never happen,
a fluidity we cannot achieve
except as a child
creating possibility.

This is the untranslatable song
hidden in the earth.

-Untranslatable Song [1]