Tuesday, March 31, 2009

John Eden's magickal mystery tape

(Review by Bassbeyondreason)
This tape came with the tracklist inside another sealed envelope, with a recommendation of blind listening. Mr Eden will be pleased to know that I managed not to peek at the tracklist before listening (although I couldn't bring myself to throw away the envelope unopened). Side A was a solid mix of (mainly unfamiliar) roots reggae/one drop. I ended up playing it quite a bit while reading/resting/napping, and it worked well. Side B was the real treat though, with a lot of industrial and noise taking me back to my early teenage years, including a Consolidated song I haven't listened to in at least 7 years, so cheers for the flashback. Also had one of Stewart Home's musical efforts, which I was impressed by and will be investigating, plus some foreign punk band whose name I don't remember (and don't have the tracklist to hand), who were great and completely new to me. Roll on next swap!