Beautiful little oddity

Gagh the flat I live in is falling apart. On the surface, it looks great. A modern 3 bedroom duplex with a big open plan kitchen and loads of cool stuff. But peel back the veneer and its falling to bits. I'd swear the walls are made of weetabix. The curtain rail in my room has fallen out of its crumbling cradle three times now. The last time this happened I resorted to sticking black binliners over the window with elastoplasts because there was no sellotape in the house. Also, none of the doors sit well on their hinges and our spotlights keep randomly exploding. Its enough to tear my already flayed nerves to utter shreds. Anyway, I digress. This is supposed to be a blog about my favourite Welsh folkster Adem Ilan.

After a long break since the-not-as-good-as-homesongs-but-still-fine 'love and other planets', Adem is returning to the fray with a big bag of cover versions of some of his favourite songs called 'takes'. Now to be honest, this news doesn't exactly thrill the fuck out of me, cover version albums stink of song-writer's block. However, the tracklisting looks unusual in a good way, and there is one beautiful little oddity on it. A cover version of two Aphex Twin tracks from the Richard D. James album melded together to form something that should be a throwaway ditty but somehow isn't. Its utterly Ademesque, plinking, rattling, creaking and whirring away like an old children's playroom come to life at twilight.


MP3: Adem-girl/boy song-to cure a weakling chile

UPDATED!! Here is a working MP3 of the song on Rapidsare
MP3: Adem-girl boy song-to cure a weakling chile

I've been to a few live things recently. Deerhunter in Whelans, M83 in ALT, and Ricardo Vilallobos in the Tivoli. Funnily enough, the best moment out of all of them was during a DJ set. During one of the many giddy highs of Villalobos' set he played this colossal strung out techno remix of 'I feel love' by Donna Summer. He destroyed the place. The sense of communal abandon and release was magic. Top stuff.