DJ Alex Corton – Vinyl Reviews

Good Looking Records

Cosmology & Enea / Sight Unseen – The Funky  2.3 / Expressions

2013

Today, we have two new artists to the Good Looking label. Well, three really. These last few Good Looking Records releases meant that the music was just ducking under the ceiling of the label, before the water level filled up and drowned it for the third time. While that may be the case, it still held the profile of a past that will never be equaled in regard to its content and influence on music. Forever the number one in my life.

   We also reach November of 2013. The year was approaching its end and Bukem was touring more and more with the liquid sounds, and finding a clear divide between the stresses of organizing and operating a record label, and with DJing (with his eyes closed basically). The money was coming in for the latter, more than the costs of cutting and then selling tunes. Even without paying artists, it was a no brainer. We didn’t know the label was coming to its end at the time. 

   Ben Thomlinson is Cosmology, with releases on Soul Deep, Celsius and Liquid Drops. We is joined by German artist, Alessandro Greco, who goes by Enea. 

  For Side A, we have ‘The Funky 2.3’ which I’d love to understand the background behind the name. It may be linked to the guitar that’s featured in the track? Someone probably has an idea…

   This is a really impressive track, rolling out the amens, the shoreline waves lapping and the sweet electric guitar strings. I’ve not really dug this plate out in a while, as many of the sounds of liquid became monotonous, however tracks like this swerve around a majority and serve up the tastiest scoops of music of the time. There was still a charm within the tune, if you know what I mean? An imaginative and thoughtful piece of music this.

   Sight Unseen lives up to his name as I do not know who they are. Loxy & Gremlinz worked with the artist and he had a release on Digital’s Function Records label. I don’t think we’ve had much output too recently though.

   Here on Side AA is ‘Expressions’. A punchy beat kicks things off, the looped piano and a faint wail from a lady who sounds like she’s trodden barefoot on some Lego on the dark…or something a bit more adult..not sure these days. It’s when the bassline drops that the tune just takes off. A huge heaving bass wallows in and out of the swamp thick waters. The electro techno stab is a fucking killer sound, lifted from the dank caves of the underground pathways below the city. At the breakdown we have the fleeing migration, the search for inner peace, before the tune returns to its deep, hammering dose of musical medicine. A real jewel of a track from Sight Unseen. Any news on future projects?  

   Can you believe that this is the last full week of the Good Looking 12” singles? Four left next week and then this time next week we move onto the next section of the label. 

Have an “absolutely T for tremendous” weekend, and make sure you find time to “r-r-r-r-roll da beats” out. Whatever life throws at you, there’s a tune in there for you. 

EZ all!