Leo Chadburn is a librarian by day but at night he changes into his alter ego Simon Bookish. Bookish is an electro dandy, who composes incisive songs that steps outside of the standard 'boy meets girl in a cocktail bar' retro-fixation of bands like The Modern. This has shades of Jarvis Cocker's side project Relaxed Muscle swapping the sex obsessions for something, well more bookish and cerabel.
I don't want to teach you to suck eggs but Terry Riley is a modern classical composer known for this use of repetition in his work. He blends microtonal pieces, tape loops and Indian classical music to produce music that is otherworldly and ecstatic. If this sounds like a difficult listen than you should be heartened to know that his piece A Rainbow in Curved Air inspired The Who's Won't Get Fooled Again.
Bookish takes a disco beat some bassline bleeps and a deep croon that is part Iggy Pop meets Ian Curtis and part Neil Tennant's vaguely posh vowels. It does conjure images of the kind of record The Pet Shops Boys might make with Pulp - all skewed Roxy Music funk and clever lyrics. The Max Tundra remix takes the electro blueprint of the original and cut and shunts it into a twitchy bass heavy monster. The vocal snippets, dry drums and '70s synth blurbs make it a dance floor killer. Disco for the head and feet.
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