i realise i'm a few weeks behind schedule with this, but here's a mix i made of some of our favourite tracks of 2008. i started this tracklist thinking i wouldn't have much to pick from but there was loads i had to leave out for the purpose of time & space (hopefully it all fits onto one cd, give it a go).
Hope you're having a happy 2009 so far.
Link for the download resides here.
Los Campesinos! - My Year In Lists
MGMT - Kids (Soulwax Nite Version)
The Bug - Poison Dart (Skream remix)
Telepathe - Chrome's On It (the Mae Shi remix)
Germlin - thrash'r
Women - Lawncare
Beyoncé - Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)
Hot Chip - One Pure Thought (Toddla T remix)
Applicants - Pocket Dictionary
Warren Myles - Mountains
Errors - Toes
Yung Nate & Charles Hamilton - Stutter
Pagan Wanderer Lu - 2.0///The Bridge Of Sighs
Soko - I Will Never Love You More
The Chap - Surgery
Oxynucid - Keys and Lighter
Wiley - Wearing My Rolex
Neon Neon - I Told Her On Alderaan
Kylie - The One (Freemasons Vocal Club mix)
Gas - Konigsforst 4
Marble Krusher - Cat Power Hijacks a Train and Drunkenly Crashes It into Portsmouth in a Idiosyncratic and Wasteful Tribute to Tracy Is Hot & The Clap
xxxxx
Friday, 16 January 2009
Saturday, 11 October 2008
John Peel Day mixtape
Apparently it was John Peel Day this week? Or it will be next week. The Beeb don't seem to have devoted many shows to the day or indeed even mentioned it, but i'll press on regardless.
While working for The Man over the past few weeks i decided to fill the time between waiting for data to process by making a special mixtape-compilation-type thing for the occassion. It's the same length as the Peel shows i grew up listening to (two hours) and features bits that i remember fondly at the time, most of them being peel sessions or performances from Maida Vale or Peel Acres. It's by no means an 'ideal' show i've cobbled together - no Pig's Big 78 for a start - but it does feature some of my favourite artists and some older stuff as well.
Anyway. The link is here.
If you don't want to know the tracklisting (you might like the element of surprise, i know i do) then look away now:
- Cowcube - Itchy Cut
- The Damned - New Rose (Peel session)
- Delia Derbyshire - The Voice Of John Peel
- X Booty (Dan The Drummer) - O Superman
- The Black Keys- Hard Row (Peel session)
- Listen With Sarah - Cuntry Music
- The Magic Band - Diddy Wah Diddy (Live at Maida Vale)
- Party Of One - Shotgun Funeral
- dj /rupture - High Resolution (live at Maida Vale)
- Culture - Two Sevens Clash (Peel session)
- Son House - Death Letter (Peel session)
- Pavement - The Classical (Peel session)
- The Fall - Groovin' With Mr Blo / Green Eyed Loco Man (Peel session)
- Galactic Symposium - YMCA
- Half Man Half Biscuit - The Light At The End Of The Tunnel (Is The Light Of An Oncoming Train) (Peel session)
- The Would Bes - My Radio Sounds Different In The Dark (Peel session)
- Napalm Death - The Kill (Peel session)
- Jeff Mills live at Maida Vale
- People Like Us - Abridged Too Far (Peel session)
- Pico - Speed (Peel session)
- Belle And Sebastian - Roy Walker (live at Peel Acres)
- Orbital - Doctor ?/Chime (live at Maida Vale)
- Grandmaster Gareth - Dr Dre Buys A Pint Of Milk
- Hyper Kinako - Tokyo Registration Office
- Lightning Bolt - Dracula Mountain (live at Maida Vale)
- The Cuban Boys - The Nation Needs You
- CLSM - John Peel Is Not Enough (Fergus Mayhem remix)
Turn it up and keep it peel xxxxx
While working for The Man over the past few weeks i decided to fill the time between waiting for data to process by making a special mixtape-compilation-type thing for the occassion. It's the same length as the Peel shows i grew up listening to (two hours) and features bits that i remember fondly at the time, most of them being peel sessions or performances from Maida Vale or Peel Acres. It's by no means an 'ideal' show i've cobbled together - no Pig's Big 78 for a start - but it does feature some of my favourite artists and some older stuff as well.
Anyway. The link is here.
If you don't want to know the tracklisting (you might like the element of surprise, i know i do) then look away now:
- Cowcube - Itchy Cut
- The Damned - New Rose (Peel session)
- Delia Derbyshire - The Voice Of John Peel
- X Booty (Dan The Drummer) - O Superman
- The Black Keys- Hard Row (Peel session)
- Listen With Sarah - Cuntry Music
- The Magic Band - Diddy Wah Diddy (Live at Maida Vale)
- Party Of One - Shotgun Funeral
- dj /rupture - High Resolution (live at Maida Vale)
- Culture - Two Sevens Clash (Peel session)
- Son House - Death Letter (Peel session)
- Pavement - The Classical (Peel session)
- The Fall - Groovin' With Mr Blo / Green Eyed Loco Man (Peel session)
- Galactic Symposium - YMCA
- Half Man Half Biscuit - The Light At The End Of The Tunnel (Is The Light Of An Oncoming Train) (Peel session)
- The Would Bes - My Radio Sounds Different In The Dark (Peel session)
- Napalm Death - The Kill (Peel session)
- Jeff Mills live at Maida Vale
- People Like Us - Abridged Too Far (Peel session)
- Pico - Speed (Peel session)
- Belle And Sebastian - Roy Walker (live at Peel Acres)
- Orbital - Doctor ?/Chime (live at Maida Vale)
- Grandmaster Gareth - Dr Dre Buys A Pint Of Milk
- Hyper Kinako - Tokyo Registration Office
- Lightning Bolt - Dracula Mountain (live at Maida Vale)
- The Cuban Boys - The Nation Needs You
- CLSM - John Peel Is Not Enough (Fergus Mayhem remix)
Turn it up and keep it peel xxxxx
Saturday, 10 May 2008
dodecahedmix #1 : good grief
Here is an mp3 mixtape i made for you. It's got twelve songs in it. They are:
People Like Us - Sing With Melodious Inarticulate sound...
The Pointer Sisters - Pinball Number Count
Jason Forrest - My 36 Favourite Punk Rock Songs
Santogold - L.E.S. Artistes (XXXchange remix)
Bolt Action Five - Tree Friend Tree Foe (The Cleft Palettes remix)
Robyn - Handle Me (Chewy Chocolate Cookies remix)
CSS - Rat Is Dead (Rage)
Napoleon IIIrd - Hit Schmooze For Me
Napoleon XIV - They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!
Sebadoh - Yellow Submarine
Yung Nate & Charles Hamilton - Stutter
Elastica - Stutter
i'm wondering whether to do this more often.
Enjoy, anyway.
ttfbxxxxx
People Like Us - Sing With Melodious Inarticulate sound...
The Pointer Sisters - Pinball Number Count
Jason Forrest - My 36 Favourite Punk Rock Songs
Santogold - L.E.S. Artistes (XXXchange remix)
Bolt Action Five - Tree Friend Tree Foe (The Cleft Palettes remix)
Robyn - Handle Me (Chewy Chocolate Cookies remix)
CSS - Rat Is Dead (Rage)
Napoleon IIIrd - Hit Schmooze For Me
Napoleon XIV - They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!
Sebadoh - Yellow Submarine
Yung Nate & Charles Hamilton - Stutter
Elastica - Stutter
i'm wondering whether to do this more often.
Enjoy, anyway.
ttfbxxxxx
Friday, 29 February 2008
Wednesday, 11 July 2007
i was born bald with no teeth
On this day - hello, happy Wednesday - Hey Charlie! founder, loving chum, Go-Betweens fan, teacup specialist, devoted soul gardener and official Greatest Person Ever, Bianca Ferguson, celebrates her birthday. i hear it's ungentlemanly to reveal a lady's age (and if there's one lady i'd want to be gentlemanly to, it's her) but rest assured she's yet to reach even halfway to Loudon Wainwright III levels when he wrote this:
Loudon Wainwright III - The Birthday Present
i realise that in terms of birthday-related tracks Teenage Kicks is already a step ahead of us this week, and i appreciate that my lover isn't really a big fan of The Sugarcubes anyway, but it's blogging tradition and i'm willing to accept that not all traditions are bad. Plus i reckon this is a pretty neat demo, probably surpassing the single itself, if shoehorning an indier-than-thou statement of approval into proceedings is acceptable at this juncture of course.
The Sugarcubes - Birthday (demo version)
But anyway. All it leaves me to say, hoping that any other readers we have don't find their breakfast revisiting them, and yet in the sincerest most affectionate way:
Happy birthday Bee. You are fabulous and i love you.
Monday, 9 July 2007
Sunday, 1 July 2007
View Monday, in a post-Fopp malaise: Glastonbury special with added Mistys.
People are still going on about last weekend’s Glastonbury festival, and there’s nothing like jumping on a bandwagon a week late. So here we are. i can assure you that this first entry is the only time i will mention the word mud.
The only performance that i’ve seen from the abundant internet Glastonbury audio-visual material that looked particularly exciting is CSS, which is particularly good because of…balloons! Look! Balloons all over the stage! Oh and that they’re a great band. But still. Balloons! Check out also how it obviously takes three burly men to wade in and manhandle a petite and be-leotarded Lovefoxx from the adoring grasps of, ooh, half a dozen people? Obviously for her own safety. Three big blokes. With big hands. One small lady. Yes. Also, note the close up of her bum as well. But only because it’s got mud on it. No other reason. Nope.
Back a year (we think), this is the bard of Barking singing the greatest Billy Bragg song he never wrote. With the person who wrote it. We ought to do a post about Mr Bailey at some point. Remind me.
If you didn’t think we could get more self-indulgent, here’s that band my lover likes a lot. Just because she likes them and i love it when she’s happy.
More balloons! And two perpetual suns! And a dolphin! And a tiger! And several thousand other things! Those good ol’ boys from Oklahoma really do put some effort into it, and this was before Wayne decided to travel to gigs in a bloody massive inflatable ball. There’s a large chunk of the rest of this set online if you’re interested, which you probably ought to be.
And back in the real world – oh okay, away from the countryside then – this week saw the sudden yet unsurprising end to Fopp, making another big weapon in the music industry’s arsenal when arguing value for money doesn’t pay. (This of course being the same week that the music industry were furious that Prince would do anything as innovative and relatively selfless to his fans as give away his new album for nowt, although they seem to have ignored that the real reason to get mad is that in order to get your mitts on a copy you’d have to actually purchase the worst newspaper in Britain.) One thing that Fopp were good at – obviously not making much profit, or treating their employees with dignity and respect by actually paying them for their final month’s work – was in-store performances, and although they varied in quality they at least re-ignited in some way the notion that going out and buying records could be an experience and actually, whisper it, fun, rather than something you did in Tesco between choosing the shortest till to queue at and picking up some Tic Tacs. Here’s one of the in-store performances from Jim Noir, which as you’ll be able to tell is really rather badly out of synch. Bye Fopp, i’m sorry i didn’t buy that cheap reissue of After The Gold Rush as a way of saying farewell.
And finally, some added Misty’s Big Adventure, who this week at last saw the fruits of a video shoot for ‘Night Time Better Than The Day Time’…which came out as a single on Awkward Records in, uhm, 2004. You’ve got to hand it to director Marke Locke, he’s pretty nifty with the camera, and at least this use of his (generous) talent didn’t languish in a vault for evermore. Funny Times due soon too, thankfully.
The only performance that i’ve seen from the abundant internet Glastonbury audio-visual material that looked particularly exciting is CSS, which is particularly good because of…balloons! Look! Balloons all over the stage! Oh and that they’re a great band. But still. Balloons! Check out also how it obviously takes three burly men to wade in and manhandle a petite and be-leotarded Lovefoxx from the adoring grasps of, ooh, half a dozen people? Obviously for her own safety. Three big blokes. With big hands. One small lady. Yes. Also, note the close up of her bum as well. But only because it’s got mud on it. No other reason. Nope.
Back a year (we think), this is the bard of Barking singing the greatest Billy Bragg song he never wrote. With the person who wrote it. We ought to do a post about Mr Bailey at some point. Remind me.
If you didn’t think we could get more self-indulgent, here’s that band my lover likes a lot. Just because she likes them and i love it when she’s happy.
More balloons! And two perpetual suns! And a dolphin! And a tiger! And several thousand other things! Those good ol’ boys from Oklahoma really do put some effort into it, and this was before Wayne decided to travel to gigs in a bloody massive inflatable ball. There’s a large chunk of the rest of this set online if you’re interested, which you probably ought to be.
And back in the real world – oh okay, away from the countryside then – this week saw the sudden yet unsurprising end to Fopp, making another big weapon in the music industry’s arsenal when arguing value for money doesn’t pay. (This of course being the same week that the music industry were furious that Prince would do anything as innovative and relatively selfless to his fans as give away his new album for nowt, although they seem to have ignored that the real reason to get mad is that in order to get your mitts on a copy you’d have to actually purchase the worst newspaper in Britain.) One thing that Fopp were good at – obviously not making much profit, or treating their employees with dignity and respect by actually paying them for their final month’s work – was in-store performances, and although they varied in quality they at least re-ignited in some way the notion that going out and buying records could be an experience and actually, whisper it, fun, rather than something you did in Tesco between choosing the shortest till to queue at and picking up some Tic Tacs. Here’s one of the in-store performances from Jim Noir, which as you’ll be able to tell is really rather badly out of synch. Bye Fopp, i’m sorry i didn’t buy that cheap reissue of After The Gold Rush as a way of saying farewell.
And finally, some added Misty’s Big Adventure, who this week at last saw the fruits of a video shoot for ‘Night Time Better Than The Day Time’…which came out as a single on Awkward Records in, uhm, 2004. You’ve got to hand it to director Marke Locke, he’s pretty nifty with the camera, and at least this use of his (generous) talent didn’t languish in a vault for evermore. Funny Times due soon too, thankfully.
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