Unexpectedly awsome songs

Have you ever come across something that just surprises you? I was doing "research" on Youtube (avoiding cleaning up the apartment) and came across some songs by the San Francisco Drum and Bass duo Bachelors of Science . These guys are making the kind of DnB that I've been yearning for. Soulful, textured with the right mix of beauty and ruggedness that got me in to electronic music in the first place. Their website is well laid out with a load of sample tracks and the option to buy either vinyl or mp3s. Here is the track that blew my mind "Song for Lovers" from their new album Science Fiction.



I am definitely picking up this on wax in a few days.

Speaking of songs that just hit right I have been meaning to post this one since I first started this blog. Its Omni Trio's "Torn" released by Moving Shadow back in 1995.

I remember going to the old Music Now/ Bohemia store on M street in Washington, DC and hearing this record for the first time. It was a cold day and the sun was going down. It was raining and the fogged over second floor windows at Music now were catching the traffic light. I must have had about a dozen records in the bin at the listening station. The songs seemed to eb getting progressively more monotonous. That combined with a growing hunger almost made me leave the shop with out listening to the rest of the picks. Then I pulled this track out and started smiling from the first loop. It starts out with Omni Trio's (aka Rob Haig's) distinct scatter shot drums and warm basslines then drops in to one of the most unexpectedly twisted mix of breaks and synth stabs. I was a very happy camper that day.Music Now may be gone, replaced by Yoshitoshi, and Rob Haig have made his last Omni Trio album but the song is still as fresh as the first day I heard it.

Unfortunatly I can embed the video but you can listen to it here

This song was also on Omni Trio's The Deepest Cut CD which features other Omni Trio classics like "Renegade Snares" and "Rollin Heights"
A little bit of trivia: there was an error made on a bunch of copies of the record. The B side was supposed to have Nu Birth of Cool on it but had another recording of Torn in its place. This was a good thing for me since one side of my copy got scratched in a late night mix session.

to bring things down a bit on this rainy Sunday here is a classic cut from the film Rockers with Kiddis I performing "Graduation in Zion". It also has some scenes of a Jamaican record factory and Hosemouth getting paid by Dirty Harry.



So tell me what tracks have hit you in just the right way? Post up in the comment section:)