Apparently, I buy too many records

My wife Helen, like every other woman i've ever lived with, believes that I buy too many records.

Which, as every record-buying man knows, is a ridiculous belief.

I will concede, however, that I do indeed buy a lot of records and that I don't afford them the same amount of listens and attention that I did 20 or 30 years ago.

To this end, I have decided to blog about the records that I buy, in order to help my appreciation of them - and perhaps to show Helen that I don't buy that many records after all.

Because i'm crap with deadlines the blog posts will be sporadic and probably be about a month or 2 behind but that's just the way i am! The posts will not necessarily be actual reviews (most likely comments, at best) and will generally be pretty damn short due to the reasons outlined above. As a writer in a previous existence i have decided not to worry about writing as art in the pieces but, instead, to attempt to convey feeling over semantic (and often grammatic) perfection.

And 'OCRB'? It stands for 'Obsessive Compulsive Record Buying' - a little known mental health affliction that is potentially damaging to the bank account but ultimately life-affirming. It is sad.......but a nice form of sad.

Monday, 5 December 2011

RxRy: Alpha (Sweat Lodge Guru)

The mysteriously anonymous RxRy have created here the sound of techno falling apart into the dust. At times rumblingly ambient and at other times glitchy and, at the beginning of side 2, the most godawful fucking noise i've ever heard in my life - this album is certainly a journey through the graveyard of techno. There are beats dotted around the album but they rarely stay in one place (or at one rate) for long - but they do appear they pulse along in time with your heart as your brain tries hard to get to grips with what is happening musically alongside the rhythmic patterns.

A massively engaging album this, with no clear idea as to what each track will bring to the table, but one that sounds like a deconstruction of the last 20 years of electronic music - and a creative phoenix rising from the ashes of the remains.

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