This week on solipsistic NATION we have a special mix from Spectraliquid recording artist, Blackfilm!
As usual I first heard about Blackfim through HC’s Headphone Commute blog. HC and I have similiar taste in music but HC always seems to be one step ahead of me in finding albums that are spectacular. HC praised Blackfilm’s self-titled CD on Spectraliquid. My curiosity was already aroused but when HC said that Blackfilm defibrillates Amon Tobin‘s pioneering sound I knew I had to hear Blackfilm’s album.
Like Amon Tobin, Blackfilm is haunting, menacing and beautiful. But Blackfilm’s music is also unique. He has an arcane sound that I don’t know exactly how to describe. It’s spooky, eldritch, almost as if Blackfilm had set out to score music for the Kafkaesque stop-motion animated films of the Brothers Quay. Let me quote HC quoting from Emmanuel Top‘s Turkish Bazaar single: “The music was new, black, polished chrome and came over the summer like liquid night.” Once Blackfilm’s music is inside your head it will infect you like a virus and you will never want to be cured.
If you enjoy today’s show you’ll also want to listen to my show featuring music from Spectraliquid any my show featuring music from Tympanik Audio. If you’re also a fan of Amon Tobin you also might enjoy my interview with Amon and a retrospective mix of his career so far or Amon Tobin’s live set.
For now, close your eyes, kick back and create your own imaginary soundtrack to accompany Blackfim’s devastatingly beautiful mix!
Photo Credit: James G. Mundie
- Blackfilm “Come & See”
- Blackfilm & Eraldo Bernocchi “Untitled”
- Interview with Blackfilm
- Ekaros “Sad Moon (Blackfilm Remix)”
- Blackfilm “SE5”
- Blackfilm & Ekaros “Nowhere”
- Blackfilm “Mahabharata”
- Interview with Blackfilm
- Blackfilm “Stalingrad”
- Blackfilm “Midnight to 4am”
- Interview with Blackfilm
- Blackfilm “Interference”
- Blackfilm & Bridget Insinna “Burning Sun”
- Blackfilm “Eastern”
- Hecq “Steeltongued (Blackfilm Remix)”