{"id":2601,"date":"2002-07-01T21:48:05","date_gmt":"2002-07-01T20:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=2601"},"modified":"2002-07-01T21:48:05","modified_gmt":"2002-07-01T20:48:05","slug":"i-know-that-at-least","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2002\/07\/01\/i-know-that-at-least\/","title":{"rendered":"I know that at least"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know that at least a few of my regular readers listen to John Peel&#8217;s programmes on Radio One, so may be familiar with the work of <a href=\"http:\/\/brainwashed.com\/vvm\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"v\/Vm Records\">The Caretaker<\/a>. It&#8217;s extremely hard to describe &#8211; an ethereal, bewitching, slightly spooky and disturbing sound created from distortion and remodelling of old 20s and 30s ballroom and dancehall music. The closest to anything like this I have ever heard before is some of Vangelis&#8217; music for Bladerunner, or Angelo Badalamenti&#8217;s music for David Lynch &#8211; I say &#8220;closest&#8221;, but neither are really that close at all, but you might begin to guess the atmosphere that is created. John Peel likened it to being stood in the rain outside a thirties speakeasy.<br \/>\nOlli Siebelt in his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/music\/experimental\/reviews\/caretaker_stair.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"BBC\">BBC review<\/a> describes it much more succinctly than I could, and the BBC kindly provide a couple of RealAudio samples for you to listen to.<br \/>\nAdmittedly, a whole 50 minutes of it may not be to everyone&#8217;s taste, but I don&#8217;t think that there are many who could resist &#8220;Cloudy Since You Went Away&#8221; thrown into an evening&#8217;s listening. And &#8220;Consigned to a Yesterday&#8221; should put the spooks on just about anyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know that at least a few of my regular readers listen to John Peel&#8217;s programmes on Radio One, so may be familiar with the work of The Caretaker. It&#8217;s extremely hard to describe &#8211; an ethereal, bewitching, slightly spooky and disturbing sound created from distortion and remodelling of old 20s and 30s ballroom and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}