The Sound Of Drums

Well, Glastonbury is over for another year and no doubt Tiny Dancer and Ricky Stardust will be giving us their highlights, just as soon as they find their brains again.

I caught some of the festival on the tellybox and of course Bjork was as brilliant as ever, climaxing with a storming Pluto from her third album Homogenic – which gives me a really poor excuse to bring in Mark Bell of LFO, who collaborated on the aforementioned album.

The editorial on Amazon states that it is ‘a nominal collaboration with Mark Bell of obscure techno outfit LFO’. Balls to Amazon, Mark Bell is a flippin’ genius and he’s all over Homogenic. If you don't believe me, listen to what happens 2 minutes and 39 seconds through Kombat Drinking when LFO realise they have literally exausted every drum sound they have on their computer.

They decide the hell with it, let's just go with some beautiful sweeping strings instead, and I reckon it's not far off being a sort of template for the sound of Bjork's All Is Full Of Love. Check it.

LFO - Kombat Drinking

LFO - Shove Piggy Shove


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