321 : Beaty Heart

Beaty Heart – Get The Gurls

Beaty Heart is a band with more drummers than you might think necessary (three), but the preponderance of percussionists certainly fits their cute name, which (since you asked) reminds me of both Kevin Beattie and Edgar Allen Poe, neither of whom have much to do with swirling afro-mystic drum circles, but you did ask, and I like to share things with you. Triple truefax after the jump.

1. “I smoked a joint next to my mum in a Cardiff car park before watching Bob Dylan play at the Cardiff International Arena. People say he sounds like Kermit the Frog now but I appreciate that he’s old.”

2. “In Turkmenistan there is an 11pm curfew across the whole capital city Ashgabat. Tourists can be seen running back from the local bars to make it back to their hotels in time. If they were caught by authorities outside on the streets after 11pm they will be arrested. There is ALSO a 50ft solid gold statue of the ex-leader that rotates with the sun in daylight hours. It’s a pretty strange place.”

3. “The Warble Fly IS a parasite. It enters its host through the foot, chews through its foot, bores through its back-bone and then emerges through a hole in its back.”

1. “Organized Konfusion – Stress. Seriously ill lyrics and the dopest of beats. Organized Konfusion are the most underrated hip hop group of the nineties. Check out how tubs Pharoahe Monch is back in ’94.”

Organized Konfusion – Stress

2. “Aby Ngana Diop – Dieuleul Dieuleul. This song evokes ideas of what drum and bass should be.”

Aby Ngana Diop – Dieuleul Dieuleul

1. “I wish I was faster than Linford Christie.”

08.11.10.