With copious apologies, I regret not updating much the past couple of weeks. I’m a dickfor. I’ve had a lot going on with the holiday safari, relocation, yadda yadda. But I will make it up to you with the promise of a new day, more updates, and a nice rare treat.
Illuminati was a compilation released in 1998, featuring various artists of varying caliber covering their favorite jam styles by Creation/C86 group The Pastels. Actually, covering is not the right term, these are remixes. The majority of the compilation is quite glitch-centric, well informed by groups like To Rococo Rot and Mouse on Mars, and interestingly enough, retaining the original vocals of Stephen McRobbie. However, there are some serious curveball artists on Illuminati as well, including My Bloody Valentine and Third Eye Foundation.
The MBV remixes are closer to Kevin Sheilds’ production work on Primal Scream’s Evil Heat and his thousand minute or so architecting of “Mogwai Fear Satan” for the Kicking a Dead Pig compilation than traditional MBV material. So really, it’s just Kev, not My Bloody Valentine. But never you mind, it’s still worth a listen.
Third Eye Foundation, if you’re not familiar, deserves a little degrees of separation mention. Third Eye Foundation was the project of Matt Elliot of Flying Saucer Attack, who also wrote under the name Linda’s Strange Vacation, which featured Kate Wright of Movietone, who was also part of FSA. Regular readers of this blog know that I feel morally obligated to drop Flying Saucer Attack on a regular basis, as they are the best shoegaze/noise/space rock band ever. This can be statistically proven, though I don’t have the gumption to draft up a proof at this time.
My favorite Pastels song, from the Patron Saints of Teenage comp for Creation Records, is included for your consideration. Read up on Creation if you’re just now diggin’ on it.
MP3 :::
The Pastels – Baby Honey
My Bloody Valentine – Cycle
My Bloody Valentine – Magic Nights
Third Eye Foundation – On the Way
