i’ve mentioned homelife on here before, i think i initially came across them after a recommendation on matt’s fortune grey blog. i found a copy of their album flying wonders online and quickly fell in love not just with the music (a homemade down-the-rabbit-hole blend of live instrumentation and electronic wizardry that is so intricate and unhinged that it walks the line between being inaccessible and rapturous - man i been reading too many blogs) but also with the idea. a small amount of googling revealed that they are/were an international trans-continental digital jam band of sorts, a collective of anywhere up to 12 people in various different countries trading ideas and recorded parts across the continents. the smallest amount more research would have revealed at the time what i have only just worked out now, that this crazy forward-sounding album was actually released way back in the dark ages of 2002 and is not even the most recent homelife release. its easy with blogs and file sharing to get into an album without even doing the most basic homework about it. an album just becomes a practically anonymous batch of files lost in the nether regions of your mp3 library.

homelife have been asleep for a couple of years but it turns out they and their hirsute bandleader/’ancient wizard’ paddy can be found on myspace, along with the rest of the god damn world. go over to myspace, kiss your rupert murdoch idol, hear some unreleased tunes, and send paddy a message, he may even invite you over for a beer
http://www.myspace.com/madwaltz (Homelife)
http://www.myspace.com/paddysteer

you can order homelife cds at ninjatune, or through inertia locally. and if you do go searching for homelife, track down their remix of beck from the guerolito cd, it is surely the blueprint for the future of music as handed down by the gods