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Now on to its third edition, the latest contribution to A Colourful Storm’s Fleetway Tapes series seems to have caught a wave of sorts. In a world of endless online mixtapes and digital radio stations vying for your never-enough time, there’s gotta be some compelling reason for that… Florence is film journalist Florence Scott-Anderson, and with A Requiem For Prime Time TV she very much leans into her area of expertise, stitching together a narcotised slide through film/TV dialogue samples, soundtracks and a range of outre selections that don’t so much express a particular theme as elicit a particular feeling of aesthetic slippage - more of that where are in culture/where are we in time music that privileges the role of curator as artist. The arcane, the obscure and the naggingly familiar compete in a dance of strange symbiosis. I’m sure plenty will find joy in prising this apart to identity the origins of the discrete parts (it feels good to ‘know stuff’, I understand…), but I’d rather just succumb to the seduction of the narrative of the bricolage and melt away along with it, in full praise of the DJ. Fans of Time Is Away, the Seraphim LP on Lost Domain and Bruce Gilbert’s re-imagining of the Radio On soundtrack for Purge might also be familiar with that feeling.
FFO: Seraphim, Anti-Clock, Purge, Time Is Away
