Wednesday, December 28, 2011

top records of 2011 - 9. Bullion - You Drive Me To Plastic


9. BULLION - YOU DRIVE ME TO PLASTIC
I used to frequent a club-night back in my prime - I hope I have a second prime - a few years ago at university called Beats In Abundance and they used to spin funk, electronic, samba - a bit of everything. My friend Luke Baines was and still is a champion for mixing together so many colours and styles.

They once had cake at a christmas party and often had helium baloons in the small club. At the Christmas party in London a couple of years ago, they had exercise bikes inside to help power the speaker or something. Back in Norwich, their regular home, this was the only night I would ever happily pay for, as in Po Na Na, I often got someone to open the Fire Escape door and secretly enter through that. Once I got caught though, as the alarm was soundng pretty loudly. Maybe everyone thought it was part of the music though.

This EP shows bags of promise for a young British producer and DJ. The samples are magic. Maybe he makes a lot of them himself. About that, I'm not so sure. It is so diverse, so unique and so enthralling - that the journey will hopefully be even longer and more fleshed out so far. Recalling The Avalanches and The Books, hit this up for a whirlwind of a 20 minute party.

GO HERE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXqWhefsK08

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