This weekend I’m mostly listening to… Cornelius.
Cornelius, or Keigo Oyamada, is a Japanese musician who appropriated the name of one of the main characters (who happened to be an ape) in Planet of the Apes. I’m not sure whether that illuminates the music which is a fairly exhaustive crushing together of musical genres from shoe-gaze, hip hop, dance and pop. I got hold of his 1997 album Fantasma a year or two later. It’s a remarkably eclectic mix which is held together only by a strong melodic thread that can somehow combine near-punk with