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Well morbidly enough, I was thinking about this the other day but before that, lets have a listen to what Get Physical’s choice of DJs/Producers/Musicians want to hear as their one last request.

Unsurprisingly we get a touch of everything from folk, world, jazz, pop, rock with a little bit of Latin, indie, modern classical, disco, ambient, downtempo and some spaced out jazz! Not a compilation album for the narrow minded but just the thing for us FLY Global Music folks.

I like the idea of Kevin Saunderson dancing around to Cerrone’s ‘Supernature’ on his death bed (but not literally of course) and it’s goes to show the half empty, half full nature of folks’ view of life and death in a sort of In Bruge type way. Why would DJ legend Laurent Garnierr want to listen to Radionhead? And who’d guest that there’s DJ Hell would be such a fan of The Stranglers’ ‘Golden Brown’?

As an aside, what a great track Gilles Peterson played by Hell the other week and talking of Peterson, he’s on here picking his best mate Rob Gallagher in a mellow reflective acoustic mood (unusual for him?) which is fair enough but there’s some odd ones, like Chloé picking her own track ‘Paradise’, Ewan Pearson seeing the funny side with Peggy Lee’s classic (of sorts), ‘Is That All There Is?’ and film soundtrack master David Holmes going to the Beach Boys with ‘Til I Die’.

Ricardo Villalobos, fresh from his remix of Carl Craig’s Recomposed project gives the set a world touch with trip back to the homelands ‘Caramba, Yo Soy Dueno Del Baron’ but there’s no surprise with Richie Hawtin’s pick, ‘Amenity’ by Link (another of Mark Pritchard’s aliases along with Harmonic 313).

Unsurprisingly there’s a batch of the cinematic represented by Erik Satie, Photek’s ‘Modus Operandi’ and Brian Eno (picked by Ninja Tune’s Coldcut) suitable finishing with his celestrial track ‘An Ending (Ascent)’.

Possibly my favourite pick is the only jazz track by Pharoah Sanders (soon to be appearing at Bloc Weekend) with ‘Astral Travelling’ as selected by Francois K.

For such a diverse selection of 13 tracks, Final Song is a surprisingly coherent listen and a bit of an eye opener and an enthralling listen

Oh! Nearly forgot my pick. I was musing on Slade’s ‘Cos I Love You’ as it’s always been a bit of a guilty pleasure and for once, I’d pick something friends and family actually know but now I’m being pulled to the cinematic as getting obsessed with the film In Bruges and the stunning soundtrack of Carter Bellwell; either that or ‘Supernature’, lets dance whilst we can!

Reviewed: V/A - Final Song #1 (Get Physical Music) Cat. No. GPMCD026 Release date: 6th February 2009
Tracklisting:
1 Erik Satie - 1. Gymnopédie (3:38) [Selected by DJ T.]
2 Rob Gallagher - Little One (2:44) [Selected by Gilles Peterson]
3 Photek - Modus Operandi (7:00) [Selected by Storm]
4 The Stranglers - Golden Brown (3:27) [Selected by DJ Hell]
5 Cerrone - Supernature (10:22) [Selected by Kevin Saunderson]
6 Radiohead - Sit Down Stand Up (4:21) [Selected by Laurent Garnier]
7 Chloé - Paradise (6:26) [Selected by Chloé]
8 The Beach Boys - ‘Til I Die (2:40) [Selected by David Holmes]
9 Peggy Lee - Is That All There Is? (4:19) [Selected by Ewan Pearson]
10 Inti Illimani - Caramba, Yo Soy Dueno Del Baron (4:28) [Selected by Ricardo Villalobos]
11 Link - Amenity (6:42) [Selected by Richie Hawtin]
12 Pharoah Sanders - Astral Travelling (5:47) [Selected by Francois K]
13 Brian Eno - An Ending (Ascent) (4:23) [Selected by Coldcut]

Links
www.physical-music.com
www.myspace.com/getphysicalmusic
Gilles Peterson :: 26th February 2009 :: Tony Allen & The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble Session http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/gillespeterson/tracklistingarchive.shtml?20090226
DJ Hell - Angst Pt 1 & Pt 2 (Test)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/gillespeterson/tracklistingarchive.shtml?20090122
Gilles Peterson :: 22nd January 2009 :: Original Soundtrack Material
There Will Be Blood : Jonny Greenwood - Open Spaces (Atlantic)
Benjamin Button : Alexandre Desplat - Love In Murmansk (Concord Records)
In Bruges : Carter Bellwell - Thugs Passing In The Night (Lakeshore Records)