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Getting my Bond on

// June 25th, 2006 // Personal

As you can probably tell by the number of posts today I’m meant to be working but this was just too good a post to pass up on. I’ve recently been dusting off some of my older CDs and getting them into MP4 format for use on the iPod and stumbled across an album I used to adore but then got bored of due to over play.

The Propellerheads Decksandrumsandrockandroll was one of my dance staplers of the 90’s and is now back into my good books.

The main reason for actually buying this CD (aside from the general coolness of the sound) is the 9 minute micro-epic “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” – a funktastic remix of a number of James Bond related themes.

Take a listen (you’ll need decent speakers and turn it up! and tell me that’s not the coolest film take off ever? I mean just check out the orchestral breakdown 5 minutes in (which I think is from You Only Live Twice but I’m not sure); wait for the bass to kick back in at 6′50“ … fucking awesome.

Of course the main reason I love this tune as much as I do is this: it was the primary theme to most of James and my Goldeneye games and those my friends, those were happy days indeed.