{"id":166,"date":"2006-02-08T20:53:36","date_gmt":"2006-02-08T19:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=166"},"modified":"2006-02-08T20:53:36","modified_gmt":"2006-02-08T19:53:36","slug":"justin-warfield-the-return-journey-from-planet-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"justin warfield : the return journey from planet 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">so there i am feeling chuffed to have cleared out a  few of the current pile when today brings even more stuff.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">most of it was not giving me any thrills and my  heart sank. then all of a sudden everything changed. 3 singles from the <A href=\"http:\/\/www.ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/memphis\/memphis_industries.htm\">memphis  industries <\/A>label have reenergised my passion. new stuff by <STRONG>the  pipettes<\/STRONG>, <STRONG>field music<\/STRONG> and <STRONG>absentee<\/STRONG>  are totally wonderful. <STRONG>the pipettes<\/STRONG> at last make the single  that we all knew, and hoped they would. cheeky humour, massive motown\/phil  spector styled production and a song that just clicks perfectly for its 2.5  minutes, <STRONG>absentee<\/STRONG> do their rolling tom waits rock far better  than anything they have ever done before and make me smile a lot,&nbsp;whereas  <STRONG>field music<\/STRONG> prove that they have a lot more excellence to come  following their initially awkward album of last year&nbsp; (the band have played  to their strength with straight forward song structures as opposed to the  disjointed styles on the album). hurray.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">then when i though the day couldn&#8217;t get any better.  i received word re <A href=\"http:\/\/www.shewantsrevenge.com\"><STRONG>she wants  revenge<\/STRONG><\/A>.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">and the reason for my buzz : <STRONG>justin  warfield <\/STRONG>is involved<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">you see, justin has been one of the characters on  the fringe of the mainstream for years that always makes me interested, he  dabbles in every style of music i love, yet never seems to get the recognition  due his chop and change style.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">after all its not easy loving his work. first up  his debut, <EM>&#8216;my field trip to planet 9&#8217;<\/EM>, was all prince paul produced  psychedelic hip hop and made a lot people rather excited to hear more,&nbsp;so  naturally he followed up with his southern rock band &#8216;the justin warfield  supernaut&#8217; (not a great album to be honest), before dropping the ultimate  dark-n-broody one inch punch album, <EM>&#8216;tao of theone inch  punch&#8217;<\/EM>,&nbsp;which managed to combine my bloody valentine\/underground  guitar noise with the deepest and most raw hip hop beats. as well as his guest  appearances on tracks by placebo, lhb, cornershop and of course the drop dead  classic <STRONG>bugpowder dust<\/STRONG> by <STRONG>bomb the  bass.<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">after which all went quiet for a while. sort of. he  was experimenting with a band called <STRONG>&#8216;tape&#8217;<\/STRONG>. slow drawn out  drone rock music that, well, it rocked hard, but never got past the  demo-available-via-website kinda groove (a shame as there were some great  tracks).<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">perhaps then this&nbsp;media unfriendly, genre  hopscotch means that i am probably the only person to be pleased to see\/hear of  his return as a homage to all thing bauhaus and goth pop under the guise of  <STRONG>&#8216;she wants revenge&#8217;<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">within moments of the tipoff, i am immediately on  the case, when i tap into the bands myspace area&nbsp;i find out that they have  amassed over 24,000 friends. <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">and i knew nothing. how is it i had not  heard.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">damn.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">expect to hear\/read more on this ongoing  trip.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">onwards<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">mark e<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><STRONG><EM><A href=\"http:\/\/www.ireallylovemusic.co.uk\">ireallylovemusic<\/A><\/EM><\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>so there i am feeling chuffed to have cleared out a few of the current pile when today brings even more stuff. most of it was not giving me any thrills and my heart sank. then all of a sudden everything changed. 3 singles from the memphis industries label have reenergised my passion. new stuff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}