Single Malt Scott

…and now featuring Weekly Features.

Starting this Thursday I’ll be adding a few regular weekly features to the blog. Each feature will take a simple influence as its basis and give you a sliver of a view into the many ways I like to appreciate music. New tactics for this blog war. Here’s a cheat sheet for the new features:

DIGI 12” Tuesdays: This feature is an homage to my favorite music delivery device, the twelve inch record. On the A-Side you get a heater, the go-to hit of the record, while the B-Side often went to a sleeper hit, something less likely to grab you immediately but likely to sneak its way back into your head. Each Tuesday I’ll put together two tracks for a dream 12”, perhaps by different artists, perhaps dovetailing each other, but perhaps not. You download both and decide which side wins.

Even Deeper Thursdays: Through the years of putting together my music collection I have come across some really curiosities. Some of these are indisputible gems, rare records or just great ones; others are too strange even for me sometimes. This Thursday afternoon feature will give you one track that you would be hard pressed to track down, with a little background provided by me. I may not always slip one past you, but I guarantee you’ll learn something at least once.

Sundays are for ALBUMS: When do you have time to sit down and listen, really listen, to a whole ablum start to finish anymore? Sunday, of course. Every Sunday I’ll pray at the altar of this dying format (gasp! please don’t let it happen) and provide a brief commentary on all the tracks and ephemera of the album. These albums will be undeniable classics; undeniable for the reason that I don’t have comments on this blog, nyah nyah! But really, these are my classics, which may include some of yours, or might be grossly offensive to you. If you trust me, you’ll get to know some new tunes, or see some old ones in a new light. Either way you’ll get to download my pick off the album.

And so you have it, the new Fall Lineup from Single Malt Scott Industries. Hope you like the designs and thoughts, but if not, ehh…

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Cut Copy

Ok, it’s been a little over most of the year now for a while, so I think it’s right about time to start tossing discs into that legendary album-of-the-year ring and let everyone have a chance to listen to the dang things. My pick, which should come as no surprise to anyone who hears me coming down the street with my boombox, is Cut Copy’s brilliant newest effort “In Ghost Colours”.

I must say, they really hit my buttons pretty hard with this one and just don’t quit until I’m out of breath and panting on the floor; dancefloor that is. I have played out virtually all the playable tracks at one place or another and have never recieved an even lukewarm response out of any of ‘em. So without making too much of a fuss about it, and because the Ausie blokes are on their way over here to Chicago next week (sold out… sniff) I thought I would prod my readers to get out there and check the album. And here, as a proverbial carrot on a proverbial stick, is my favorite album cut “Nobody Lost, Nobody Found”.

Do me a favor and listen to the album; getting one song off of a blog and running to your friends with new hot shit is all well and good (my blogroll is LARGE, trust the experience here) but this LP burns all the way through. This song that you’re listening to -at least I hope you’ve started listening to (sheesh)- is the second to last one on the album and the build all the way to this is worth it, even to those of you out there who think Girl Talk waits too long.

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Lost But Not Forgotten

It has been awhile since Apple released the iPhone 2.0 firmware update and as the apps roll in it has sapped more than a little bit of my attention away from this website. So now that a decent iPhone tumblr posting app has made it to market, I am taking this opportunity to post a reminder from my phone to all my loyal readers that I have not forgotten you. Paying gigs and family drama have reminded me just how important it is to stay focussed on the stuff that matters. And so, lots of posts are upcoming, including more free tracks, more edits, and yet another Mixtape perhaps even a themed one. Stay tuned.

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Flying Lotus

Okay, so i have been a little bit lax on the blog game of late. Time passes us by and we wonder where it goes, and if you look behind, more of it has gone. Kind of like this track. I enjoyed it so thoroughly that by the time I looked up it was over… thank god I can play it again.

“Robo Tussin” is the newest one from the spacemaster-general Flying Lotus. Hailing from Winnetka, CA (enjoy the inside joke there fellas) he happens to be eating up all unused credibility in the Los Angeles metro area, due to his prodigious output, stallwart collaborators, and his family name. And no, he’s not the long lost third son of Otis Jackson. His family name actually runs a little deeper than that, well, a lot deeper: sound it out with me here coal-train. That’s right that family name does include one of the greatest ever, but more important for our purposes is the close relationship he has with his aunt Alice Coltrane. Go check the video if you want that info from the source.

If you’re like me though, you’ve already clicked the clip and you’re thinking that you’ve heard his work before; and before you start to rack your brain for it, think of yourself stoned on a couch dreaming of cartoon characters battling for late-night supremacy. You got it: our familialy blessed friend got his start by submitting his music for the bumps in between Adult Swim shows. So not only is he good - i mean it, check the rest of his stuff - he’s already subliminally boom-bapped his way into the heads of you, your little brother, and that cute asian girl you like.

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First Mix In A Long While

Those of you who know me, know that I am nearly always talking about my next mix. Sometimes it’s all pie-in-the-sky, “I’m gonna remix every song you ever liked” kind of stuff, and consequently I don’t hold it against you when you don’t pay any attention to me. It comes with the territory of being a wide-eyed creative idealist perfectionist; it’s a tradition that rarely if ever do I come through on that new mix or that wonderful idea I had.

But, to paraphrase from the best movie ever, is it not also tradition that times must and always do change? Jeebus I hope so. So, in the effort of trying to make postivie steps forward doing, y’know, anything, I present to you my newest mix The Eclecticist. It runs an hour and eight minutes long and spans everything from Tom Petty and the Arcade Fire to Digitalism and The Presets. I think most people can find something to like all over it, and it does retain some thematic sensibility. So its got that going for it, which is nice.

A nice shiny nickel goes to whomever can spot all the different film references in the above paragraph because, just like my DJ style, I borrow and steal from all over the place for this stuff. Hope you all like the new mix and can pass it along to anyone and everyone who you think might like it. Just tell them to go become my fan on facebook, hire me, or buy me lottery tickets; anything works, ‘cause I’m easy like Sunday morning.

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