-Hear is not the right word. I became a telephone. Edith was the electrical conversation that went through me.
-Well, what was it, what was it?
-Machinery.
-Machinery?
-Ordinary eternal machinery.
-And?
-Ordinary eternal machinery.
-Is that all you are going to say?
-Ordinary eternal machinery like the grinding of the stars.
-That’s better.
-That was a distortion of the truth which, I see, suits you very well. I distorted the truth to make it easier for you. The truth is: ordinary eternal machinery.
-Leonard Cohen. Beautiful Losers, 1966

1. James Pants - Thin Moon (StonesThrow Records, 2009)
2. Ocuban - H. Ratnani (Unsigned?, 2009)
3. Washed Out - Feel it all Around (Transparent, 2009
4. Keaver And Brause - Awake (Dealmaker, 2009)
5. Nite Jewel - What did he Say (Italians do it better, 2008)
6. Florence and the Machine - You Got The Love (Jamie XX Rework feat. the XX) (not on label, 2009)
7. Unknown Artist - Its No Good (Bullion remix) (not on label, 2009)

This is quite a contemporary list for me, an assortment of the songs that are stuck in my head. Lots of late night listening to the James Pants album, regretting (and secretly enjoying) the guilt coming from spending money I’m meant to be saving for overseas. All these tracks seem to have a kind of lovely DIY aesthetic - they all seem marked by particular hands, machines, times, scissors, and places. Brazilian beatmaker Ocuban’s brilliant debut album (which appears to have been self released) fits alongside the strange tape hiss of Nite Jewel. XX’s rework of Florence and the Machine (an immensely fun track to play to a crowd) works well with Bullion’s semi-soaring remix.

P.S. there is a little Outfoxed event going down this Wednesday night @ Killing time, Melbourne, Australia. Ill be playing records from 9-1.
Pic: Author’s