...I landed another one of those editing gigs downtown and wrote this post on my way there this AM...what up MOG? I'm on my way to another gig downtown and thought I'd pull your coat on an album worth checking that I'd uncovered in my old iPod using that "iPod access" program over the weekend (it had about 2,000 songs that I thought I'd have to buy again but, amazingly after letting it die and sit for a month, I was able to yank out all of my jams and add them to my MacBook/ external drive's files...yeah, that's pretty fekkin righteous...anyway, the LP I'm talking about is the soundtrack to The Beach contains some of my favorite soundtrack cuts (I think the film got overlooked because when it dropped everyone was going into Leo DiCapri-overkill mode as the film came out after that Titanic monstrosity that "iceberged" Celine Dion into everybody's face for months on end. I like most of the tracks for one reason or another as there's a mix that varies which one rarely finds on MPSTrks...there's the poppy "Pure Shores" by All Saints..."Voices" by Dario Gand which breathlessly coasts along until the gears switch up and lock in on the dance track "Yeke Yeke (Hardfloor Remix)" by Mory Kante and passable cuts are "Return of Django" by Asian Dub Foundation (kinda fucks up the Upsetters' classic reggae original that I've grown to know and love over the years)-- dyed-in-the-wool electronica heads might feels otherwise and dig on it, though) and the closing cut, "Beached" with Angela Badalamenti and Orbital which opens with one of those Leonardo journal entries from the film could've been left out as well but whatever's clever, yo...the tunes that I instantly noticed when I first got this LP are "Brutal" and "Woozy", by New Order and Faithless, respectively...in fact, I'm checking the New Order joint as I write this...I think I hear a train coming...dig this...
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