To start the week off right

"Won't Bother Me" by The Glass -- The Glass is a vocal project from Plant Music owner Dominique Keegan and DJ Wool. Plant Music, which grew out of Plant Bar (3rd Street btwn Aves B and C), is an important piece of the fabric of recent dance-music history and New York City's East Village - the tiny bar, founded by Keegan (an Irish transplant who came to NYC in the mid-90s) was home to some of the best dance-music parties around the turn of the century, but thanks to the city's crackdown on dancing in venues without a Cabaret license, the bar had to stop the parties. At least we're still left with good music, like this cut.

"Won't Bother Me" comes from the first volume of Plant's The Sound of Young New York - this is the vinyl version of the song, thus there's an intermittant crackle near the beginning of the track - This is my favorite cut from the record: the solid breakbeat and that funky, rumbly bassline that chases it. Solid.
There's also a mixed-CD version of TSOYNY that has some other great songs on it, including the DFA mix of Metro Area's "Orange Alert," plus there's a cool remake of Sexual Harassment's 80s underground hit "If I Gave You a Party" by Syrup, and the Rapture does a re-work version of Rinôçérôse's "The Music Kills Me." If, like myself, you're a fan of this kind of dancey-rocky-poppy thing, I highly suggest buying yourself a copy, either from your local independant retailer, or here.

The Glass have been working solidly since this song was released in 2003, and have remixed Rinocerose, Les Clones and Secret Frequency Crew. Very much worth noting as well is that there is a second volume of TSOYNY (it came out about a month ago), which has a bunch more goodies and features a new song by The Glass - you can get it here.

Oh yeah, and Happy Halloween!