If you're hoping for more vintage soul from the new Mark Ronson album 'Record Collector' then you're in for a big disappointment. The most important thing you need to know is that there isn't a horn or cover in earshot. Instead Mark, under his new act name 'Mark Ronson & The Business' has ditched the Stax sounds and intially put out a squelchy breakbeat of a track called 'Circuit Breaker' as a bubble track (I'm bored of the word buzz). Check out the very cute, geeky video which meets DJ Hero with old school Zelda synchronised to the music.
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From what I've gathered the actual first single features the curious combination of Boy George and the London Gay Men's Choir on a track co-written by Jake Shears. Triple threat. Ex Pipette Rose Elinor Dougall is on four tracks and there's contributions also from Miike Snow, Spank Rock, Q-Tip and Santigold. I would be excited about Rose had she not seemed so disinterested and blah about her music when I saw her at SXSW. It was enough to send us home early for the night with all our energy zapped. Hopefully though Mark will have brought back her pizzazz.
'Circuit Breaker' however just makes me expect Stuart Hall to appear with the news. This is what the theme tune to Northwest Tonight sounded like in the 80s, yes?
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