Burial - 'Ghost Hardware' (Hyperdub)

Last post for this week and what a corker! Burial return with a fantastic new EP; three tracks of rain-soaked, emotionally charged dubstep. Just quite, quite amazing. This so far vinyl-only release has been on constant rewind here in the Blue Lotus and if you haven't already got the Burial album, last year's Smoking Rooms' Album Of The Year (& thankfully also available on CD), then do so. Now!
Ghost Hardware

Find out more at Burial's Myspace

Buddha Machine

Cult Fetishes here in The Smoking Rooms, the Buddha Machine is a small, plastic piece of kit from China and the creation of duo FM3, again from China. All it does is loop one of nine drones until either the battery runs out or you switch to another loop. It comes in random colour selection in an ace box and is willfully low-tech, yet has captured our hearts.

Once a month the club runs Buddha Days when members turn their boxes on as they enter the Smoking Rooms, set to a random loop, and pick them up as they leave. That way the day is filled is crescendos and lulls of ever changing texture. But in an ever so relaxing way....

For more info on the Budda Machine go to the FM3 Buddha Machine website. Most of us got our boxes from Boomkat.

Patrick Balthrop - "Autopoetic" (Gears Of Sand)

Released on the excellent Gears Of Sand label this album really was the Sound of the Smoking Rooms when it came out - an album that works however hard you listen to it. The track featured here still is a particular fave.

Bedbox

Find out more at Patrick's Myspace

Test Post

Just testing, don't you know?