{"id":309,"date":"2006-10-04T23:30:06","date_gmt":"2006-10-04T22:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=309"},"modified":"2006-10-04T23:30:06","modified_gmt":"2006-10-04T22:30:06","slug":"the-trip-navigated-by-tom-middleton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=309","title":{"rendered":"the trip &#8211; navigated by tom middleton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">last time i hard one of these <EM>the trip<\/EM>  compilations it was by <STRONG>jarvis coker<\/STRONG> and full of completely  unknown tracks. <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">for this collection, <STRONG>tom middleton<\/STRONG>  has been a lot more recognisable, while still creating a rather special  album.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">obviously tom has been around the scene for a  while, and is well established in the ways of quality track selection.  <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">so for this mix, he has put together some fun  stuff<STRONG>, i monsters &#8211; <\/STRONG><EM>the la la  song,<STRONG>&nbsp;<\/STRONG><\/EM>the thames tv ident leading into the opening  theme for this is your life being a weird flashback if you dont follow the track  selection, and the theme from some old tv show i used to watch many many years  ago, (<EM>vision on<\/EM> ?), some old school hip hop (<STRONG>stereo  mcs<\/STRONG> for the uk connection, <STRONG>eric b and rakim<\/STRONG> for the  us), before letting the groove mellow out slightly with the whistling splendour  that is <STRONG>airs<\/STRONG> <EM>alpha beta gaga<\/EM> (featuring mark  ronson\/rhymefest).&nbsp;of course an hour cant be complete without a little  pumped up soul, a dash of ska, before&nbsp;it all&nbsp;becomes gooey and smooth  on us with <STRONG>boards of canada<\/STRONG>, <STRONG>simian<\/STRONG>, surreal  40s soundtrack music by <STRONG>darleen carr,<\/STRONG> and even proper synth  masters <STRONG>tangerine dream<\/STRONG> make an appearance!<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">oh yes, this is one seriously diverse flow of a  mix, that even makes me think previously i may have been overly harsh on  <STRONG>breaks co-op<\/STRONG> as their contribution, <EM>duet, <\/EM>fits in  perfectly.&nbsp;for once, i am rather chuffed that the tracks aren&#8217;t all mashed  up and instead the gently blend into one another (<EM>note<\/EM> : there is an  unmixed version supplied as well for people who like their gaps) giving the  whole set a wondeful flow.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">in fact this is exactly the sort of compilation  that can replace a proper radio station, no crap presenters, no commerical  breaks, no broken 64kbps stream, instead you get decent track selection,&nbsp;a  level of educational value (i had no idea i would love european oompah marching  band type track by&nbsp;<STRONG>shantel!) <\/STRONG>and a fine soundtrack to  accompany some of the autumn evenings with.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">to summarise : nice. very.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">out <STRONG>family recordings<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><EM>more detail<\/EM> : <A href=\"http:\/\/www.tommiddleton.com\">here<\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; last time i hard one of these the trip compilations it was by jarvis coker and full of completely unknown tracks. for this collection, tom middleton has been a lot more recognisable, while still creating a rather special album. obviously tom has been around the scene for a while, and is well established [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}