Super Furry Animals live at Cardiff International Arena 1999

This is a bootleg of a Super Furry Animals gig recorded by Radio 1 for Lamacq Live just before Christmas in 1999. As it is recorded onto cassette from FM radio like what we had to do in those days, it is occasionally a bit crackly and is not the full set played that night - the Beeb usually only broadcast choice parts of the event unless it was completely live. Because of the year the setlist is pretty Guerrilla-heavy - or rather, it includes tracks off the album that they've not played live much since, including The Turning Tide and The Door To This House Remains Open. My recording misses the first couple of bars too...sorry about that.

Super Furry Animals recorded at Cardiff International Arena 1999

Something 4 The Weekend
The Door To This House Remains Open
The Turning Tide
Northern Lites
Play It Cool
The International Language Of Screaming
God! Show Me Magic
Fire In My Heart
Hometown Unicorn
Calimero
Mountain People
Ice Hockey Hair

You can also see (read: hear, with a nice picture from space to accompany it) a recently-added Peel session and interview with John by the band here on YouTube from around the time of Fuzzy Logic, as added by someone called stepintothegalaxy. Lovely.

Eat The Beatles on Another Nice Mess

A few months ago, during the modest promotional run for Two Of The Beatles Have Died, i was fortunate enough to compile a mix for the superlative Another Nice Mess radio show on DFM Radio hosted by Marcelle Van Hoof in Amsterdam. Considering it's a show that i've been a huge fan of for over five years now i felt honoured, frankly, and incredibly grateful that Marcelle played so many songs from the compilation. Considering there's supposedly a renewed wave of Beatlemania this week - and they're all songs relating somehow to The Beatles, you see - i thought it appropriate to upload the set here.

Eat The Beatles on Another Nice Mess 28/4/09

*Marcelle introduction*

Michael Mills - The Beatles (excerpt)
The Beatles - Flying
John Baker - I Want To Hold Your Hand
The Debbie McGees - Two Of The Beatles Have Died (Ziggy Bollus remix)
Yoko Ono - Snow Is Falling All The Time
Astral Navigations - Pope John Paul & Ringo
Grandmaster Gareth - The Sound Of Gareth
The Beetles featuring Cookie Monster - Hey Food
The Better Beatles - Eleanor Rigby
Daniel Johnston - The Beatles
Sebadoh - Yellow Submarine
The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - Give Booze A Chance
People Like Us - Something In The Way
The Beatles Fan Club Christmas Record 1968 (excerpt)
Mojo Jones - Strawberry Fields Forever
Monsoon - Tomorrow Never Knows
The Fall - A Day In The Life
Paul McCartney, Super Furry Animals & Youth - Peter Blake 2000 (excerpt)
The Seltaeb - Enif Leef I

*Marcelle back-announcement*

The Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated
Zea - I Wanna Be Deleted

Unjazz

Hello.

i realise that this blog is now just a place for me to store mixes, but i will at least try to make it a place for me to store mixes more often.

Today's particular mix is entitled Unjazz and it is dedicated to Chris and Rifa. The word Unjazz has been playing on my mind since it was announced that there might be a future EP by Chris T-T of that title, comprising of his improvised piano recitals that in other variations recently delighted those attending his joint headline show with MJ Hibbett's Dinosaur Planet a few weeks ago. It makes sense to me that Chris might want to call what he's doing Unjazz, seeing as i once mentioned jazz in an interview with him and he became so appalled that he couldn't even bear to repeat the word back to me. Thing is though, now that i've heard the word Unjazz i believe it's something that actually exists, maybe not simply as a genre or movement, but a description of an attitude as vague and disparate as jazz itself. Maybe, like punk once claimed those that foreshadowed it, suggesting that the Stooges and MC5 were singing from the same hymn sheet when it yet had a title, perhaps one day unjazz will become the umbrella term for something much more subtle and yet incredibly potent. In my mind's eye i can't imagine it being the opposite to jazz, just like anti-folk isn't the opposite of folk per se, and i can't see it having shaken off the burden of jazz itself, just as post-rock hasn't - and can't - liberate itself from rock. i can imaging something that is largely undiluted funk, or beat poetry, or minimal techno or maximal house or swing or bluebeat can be unjazz, but unjazz is not all of these things. You dig?

Well maybe not. i might be closer to explaining myself properly by playing you some things i could, if needed to, consider unjazz. Delicious cold, disgusting hot? You decide.

Tracklisting:
People Like Us - Sing With Melodious Inarticulate Sound...
Acoustic Ladyland - Thing
The Bad Plus - Velouria
Asa Chang & Junray - Hana
Delia Derbyshire - Ziwzih Ziwzih OO-OO-OO
MRR-ADM with Malcom Catto - B1
Tracy Is Hot & The Clap - Cat Power Is Fucking Rubbish
David Shrigley - Don'ts
Raymond Scott - Manhattan Minuet
Grandmaster Gareth - Lovely Cellos
Gil Scott-Heron - B Movie
Squarepusher - The Modern Bass Guitar
Aphex Twin - Avril 14th
Schneider TM - I Dream Of Chomsky (High Llamas remix)
Blur - French Song
David Schafer - Forever In Love In Forever Part 1
The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - Rhinocratic Oaths

Annals retentive: Two Thousand And Late

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

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

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

Coping with Los