El Senor Ciuf Ciuf

El Senor Ciuf Ciuf (Italian for a child's name for a steam train - chuff chuff) presents an intriguing proposition. The music is equal parts house music and Beach Boys style harmonies, all mixed up into a intriguing brew that brings Jamie Liddell, early Aphex Twin and the Flaming Lips in minds.

I Think I Saw A Dead Person Walking Yesterday is the best track from his debut EP, and much like Good Vibrations, it creates a series of mood-scenes, loosely connected with a common theme. It's stupendous.

You can download the entire EP, As Seen From Above released free over the intertubes by those pleasant people at 12rec.

I thought the EP was spoiled by the interminably long track The Unspeakable Chant Of A Collapsing Universe, which is nine-minutes of monotonous industrial techno-noise that sits at odds with the rest of the album. But that may be the entire point.

Deep Beep

Next of all, we have Deep Beep's Funky_3-4 : It's not really nu-rave, cause that would automatically put it into a category of derision and scorn, but it's not really oldskool rave either. Instead it's just plain and simple rave - which despite being written in the last two months doesn't make it any more nu than oldskool. (I know, I know - post the freakin' track and we'll decide -- ok ok ok) here it is:

• Deep Beep - Funky 3-4 Mp3 (unsigned, unreleased)