I’ve been a huge fan of Paces Lift & Ben Bounce since the first time I heard their Quick Trigger album released on Wax Thematique back in 2014. I was late to discovering their most recent album they released back in 2018 but it has been on repeat since my first listen a few weeks back. This duo have managed to release two of the greatest albums I’ve ever heard and the physical albums are 444 times (#GrapeGodDidItFirst) more beautiful than a music stream could ever be (that said, both albums are on Spotify).
I highly recommend listening to both of their albums all the way through but I do have a couple favorite tracks on each; “Suite For The Shaman” and “9 Million Steps” transported me directly to Tropikoro and I’m pretty sure it isn’t even a real place.
2014’s Quick Trigger remains to impress every time I hear it. The spaghetti western samples these two used on this album are truly magical. Quick Trigger is more than deserving of a full listen through but my favorites are “Sol Walk,” “Get To Work,” and “Garden Incantation.”
The pair were graciously not mad that I used their song “Sol Walk” in my first Street Art photography music video and I am grateful. I’ve fallen in and out of love with this video over the last few years but in hindsight, I feel I did a pretty great job of choosing the perfect politically inspired Street Art photos to pair with their song. Most of the photos were made with my iPhone while walking the streets of London, Barcelona, and Seattle.
I also used “Garden Incantation” from Quick Trigger in one of the least embarrassing videos from my @TheRingOfDOOM video series. Feeling inspired to make a new video about D*Face’s characters because they’ve popped up in Belltown, Seattle in the last year or so… finally united as one. We shall have to wait and see where my inspiration takes me…
Seattle D*Face Mural