BBC 6 radio end of 2011 blog show

Tomorrow, the 30th of December, is the first ever Now Playing 2012 Blog Preview on BBC 6 Music.

Below is a list of the tracks and blogs who have contributed. They have included my recommendation, Brenmar (video below).

The show starts at 7pm GMT tomorrow (Friday 30) and will also feature contributions from the presenter Tom Robinson, and 6 Music listeners.

Some of these tracks I don't know. They originally asked me to contribute artists who would blow up in 2012. With that in mind, I'm not sure about Garbage, who were already big. Though I like the track. I also like the D/R/U/G/S track though it's not the best from that genre in my view.

You will be able to stream the show afterwards also at the BBC site by clicking on the Radio and Radio 6 and then looking for the show.

Jay Weathers – I Like It (Instrumental)     (BNTL)
D/R/U/G/S – Lust                                     (A New Band a Day)
Blondes – Wine                                      (Dummy)
Maya Jane Coles -                                     (4clubbers)
Frank Ocean – Swim Good                         (Muso’s Guide)
Hysterical Mystery – Maths                         (Drunken Werewolf & Music Liberation)
First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar               (Strikes Spark Anywhere)
Duologue – Push                                     (Fear of Fiction)
The Weeknd – Lonely Star                         (Details of My Life)
Cloud Nothings – No Future/No Past     (Vainzine)
Clock Opera – Belongings                         (Faded Glamour)
Dave Congreve – Your Sun                        (Beats and Beyond)
The Widowmaker – Black Monday             (Oh Deary Me)
Brenmar – Temperature Rising                (Dalston Oxfam Shop)
Garbage – Milk                                        (We Are Pop Slags)
Chapter 24 – Spindle                                    (God is in the TV Zine)
KUTF – These Canvas Shoes                        (Cougar Microbes)

Chris Low - Trax Bedroom Mix - jackin house

Chris Low has given me a number of excellent mixtapes and this is a mix he made himself.  It's a lot of stuff that you could find on Dance Mania or Trax records.  Very basic hard jackin early house.  He made it for a 91.5 WPRK radio in the US in 1996.  

Chris ran and DJd at a number of Scotland’s most successful club nights throughout the 1990s: SOMA, SKIDOO, PHUTURE JACKS, SEX BEAT, XS and the legendary AHOY! ferry-boat all-nighters. Chris also guested at the aftershow parties on Kraftwerk’s 1991 tour as well as having DJd throughout Europe, America and Tokyo.   Here are a few pics which Chris sent me.

 

Chris tried to remember the track listing for this  mix though in some places there are records mixed that seem to be white labels or disappeared. You can download both mix sides below as well as a few tracks from the mix.  I've included below a track from Steve Poindexter not in the mix, but which is incredible.

You can find Chris on Facebook here.

CHRIS LOW – BEDROOM MIX 1996 FOR 91.5 WPRK HOUSE NATION SHOW

Side 1 (download)

1)      Parliament Funkadelic – Free Your Mind intro (signature set opener)

2)      Terrence McDonald – Spaced Out (Saber)

3)      Bryant Stewart – Dance Wit Me (Maad Trax)

4)      DJ Rush – Beat The Devil (Force Inc)

5)      DJ Rush - ? white label

6)      K-Alexi Shelby – Club MCM (Rhythm Beat)

7)      DJ Puff – Work This MF (Dance Mania)

8)      Quad – Gherkin Beat (Dance Mania)

9)      Robert Armani – Up (ACV)

10)  Steve Poindexter – Whiplash (Muzique)

11)  DJ Rush - ? track on Child’s Play EP (Dance Mania)

12)  K Alexi Shelby – Jazz (Djax)

13)  Skyman I – Skoba Dee (Drewsky mix) (Dance Mania)
14) DJ Deeon - Akceier 8 (original mix)

14)  Steve Poindexter – Body Heat (Muzique)

15)  Houz Mon & DJ Funk – Over Dose (Underground Trax)

16)  ? – Circuit Records white label

      Side 2   Download

? - something backwards

1)      Paul Johnson – Mindwarp (razor)

2)      DJ Rush – Slam Jack (Knee Deep)

3)      ? – haven’t a clue!! Mad record tho.

4)      Mixx Blood camero – Psycho House (Saber)

5)      Traxmen – Playin’ With A Rubberband (Dance Mania)

6)      ? – Dance mania white label

7)      White Knight – Yo baby Yo / white label / Lil Louis – Video Clash / Steve Poindexter – Work That MF / Robert Armani – Ambulance (5 track mix!)

8)      Quad – Work That MF beat (Dance Mania)

9)      Trackstars – Hardcore Trax (Dance Mania)

10)  ? – Dance Mania white label

11)  Jammin’ Gerald white label

12)  Drew Sky – Pussy Make The World Go Round (Chicago Power)

13)  Groove Source – This MF is Hype (Underground Construction)

14)  ? – Dance Mania white label

15)  DJ Rush – Rush Revenge (Dance Mania)

16)  A Guy Called Gerald – Blow Your House Down (Rham)

Steve Poindexter - Computer Madness

Destroy Culture vs. Long Clothing party

I think the music world in general is floundering about with lots of people doing things in different directions but not much dominating the scene with excitement.  You have nu disco stuff happening, some of it really well done, and new bands doing old school house - but none of its has been really exciting me. 

Fortunately I recently went to a Halloween  party put on by Destroy Culture and was really loving the scene and the music, especially that of Shaun Bass.  So I'm especially excited that they've invited me to dj with them this Saturday, the 26th.  Lots of new sounds, dubstep (but fun), tropical madness, rave, etc.  Hope to see you there.  More details on the Destroy Culture tumblr.

Select Magazine - Cloud 9 compilation 1996

I bought this tape in the Dalston Oxfam shop some time ago. It was a free compilation tape which came with the May 1996 issue of Select Magazine.

It's unique because it has a slightly electro rock version of a Moby track that he did for this compilation only - so you can't find it anywhere else.  And it's quite good.

There is also a track from Cable which was recorded with John Peel which is only on this tape as well.

Unfortunately the sound quality is not great on the B side and the A side is virtually ruined (so I've not posted it).

A1	Ash –	Kung Fu (Mark Radcliffe Show 1995)	2:23
A2	Underworld –	Oich Oich	8:30
A3	The Afghan Whigs –	You've Changed	4:21
A4	Edwyn Collins –	You Are On Your Own	2:50
A5	Beth Orton –	Live As You Dream	2:50
A6	Rosa Mota –	Shelflife	3:11
B1	Northern Uproar –	Kicks	3:09
B2	Moby –	Everytime You Touch Me (Fucked Up Version)	3:10
B3	David Holmes –	Keep The Motor Runnin' Honey	7:30
B4	The Trash Can Sinatras –	Pop Palace	3:30
B5	The Divine Comedy –	Becoming More Like Alfie	2:55
B6	Cable –	Action Replay Replay (BBC Peel Session 1996)	2:25

 

Fire Shock - Sister Irene O'Conner vs. Daniel Bell

I recently downloaded a fab playlist from the Boyhood tumblr and discovered the fantastic track Fire by Sister Irene O'Connor who had been featured on WFMU.  Then one day I was playing around with my Djay software on my iphone and thought it might go well with one of my favorite old minimalistic house tracks from the early 90s by Daniel Bell,  Electric Shock. I had first discovered that track by watching this great youtube clip from the New Dance Show.  As it turned out I really liked the mix, so I tried to polish it up in Logic and here it is.

Fire Shock (Daniel Bell vs. Sister Irene) - Todd Hart mashup (direct download)

Smylonylon 22

It's been a while since I uploaded a Smylonylon comp but I have a number of them that have still not been posted.  This is one that I picked primarily because I think side 2 has a number of good and yet obscure tracks.  In particular, I think the way that Alex (from In Flagranti) would speed tracks up sometimes when he made these comps produces a really interesting effect.  The track Going Home by Annie Haslam is really not nearly as catchy at regular speed.

There is also a new Smylonylon page on Facebook that has lots of related stuff on it.

The track I've included for separate download is the Soukous/calypso-ish African track that has a great synth bit in it at the end of side B.  I also highly recommend that you download the Telex track Lakelele.  I'm not sure what the Purilator - Minimal Tape track is - no record of it on the Internet.

Honorable mention goes to Sven Vath's Electric Salsa and Flash and the Pan - Walking in the Rain.  Also, check out the other track on that Ramsey Lewis album Sun Goddess.

Side A (direct download)

1. Man 2 Man/Man Parrish - Male Stripper
2. Sven Vath - Electric Salsa
3. Hot Chocolate - Put Your Love in Me
4. Visage - Fade to Grey
5. OMD - Enola Gay
6. B.R.E.R.
7. Disconnection - Dead On The Case
8. Style Council - Mick's Company
9. Gina X - No G.D.M.
10. Flash and the Pan - Walking in the Rain.
11. Soft Cell - Tainted Love
12. Fad Gadget - Coitus Interruptus
13. Liaisons Dangereuses - Los Ninos Del Parque
14. Vanity 6 - Drive Me Wild
15. Prince - Controversy


Side B (direct download)

16. Jerry Goodmann - No Fear
17. Purilator - Minimal Tape
19. Vangelis - La Fete Savage
19. Elo - The Whale
20. Annie Haslam - Going Home
21 Trio - W.W.W.
22. Alan Parsons - A Dream with a Dream
23. Ramsey Lewis - Jungle Strut
24. Malcom McLaren - Legra
25. Strech - Why Did You Do It
26. Macho - Hear Me Calling
27. D. Dundas - Jeans on
28. Slade - Coz I Luv You
29. Telex Lakelele
30. Baricentro - Tittle Tattle
31. Les Aiglons - Le Petit Chaperon Noir (download)

Sigue Sigue Sputnick- Russian sleeve of Love Missile

I recently picked up a collection of dance vinyl from a collector and in it was this Russian text cover of Sigue Sigue Sputnik's Love Missile.  As that track has seen a fair amount of coverage, I thought I would post the track on the B side that I've heard less of.  All around I like their sound a lot.  But that would make sense cause this was produced by Giorgio Morodor, who I love.

Interesting trivia about Sigue Sigue Sputnik is that one of the key members, Tony James, was previously in bands with members of the Clash (before the Clash) AND with Billy Idol when he was in the punk band Chelsea.  And later he was in Sisters of Mercy.  Here is a link to some music with Billy Idol in Chelsea (the track Right to Work was a big single).

Hack Attack (direct download)

Buy Love Missile at Itunes.

Kristine W - Land of the Living remixes

I recently acquired a collection of mid and late 90s house and trance.  And then I was listening to old Junior Vasquez and other mixes from the mid 90s that I used to listen to in NY and realizing how I feel that big house fun is missing from my music world these days.  So I'm going to post some of the great records I got.  This is one of the tracks I rarely hear that I used to love.  The Junior Vasquez mix is amazing but wasn't on this 12".  My favorite of these mixes is definitely Dekkard's.  Enjoy.

Land of the Living (Lisa Marie Experience Vocal mix)

Land of the Living (Rollo & Sister Bliss Remix)

Land of the Living (Deep Dish Land of the Lost remix)

Land of the Living (Dekkard's Planet Vocal mix)

Download all tracks

This Friday I will be djing at Durrr in Dalston at the Nest with The Magician, Moonlight Matters and Rory Phillips.

Facebook event here.

Sue Barnett - Fit for Life

Back in 1984 Sue Barnett, a Christian PE teacher and wife of evangelist Doug Barnett (according to Buzz Mag), came across the idea of setting an aerobics session to Christian pop, a la Bob Sinclar in  Gym Tonic.  It sounds strangely sexual to me.  Probably not what she had in mind.  But in the quest for new ideas, I felt that I had to bring you this record.  Have a listen in particular to We Need to Hear from You.

Side 1
I'm Forgiven
Under His Reign
Cornerstone
Never Had a Reason
I Have Decided
I Don't Worry

Side 2

We Need to Hear from You
Walk By Love
Somebody new
This is The Day
All I Must Do

I've also started doing some of my own music.  Matthew Stone recently was introduced me to this great software called DJAY - great cause it's easy to use and play with ideas without having to learn all that Ableton malarchy, etc.  I made this mashup from ideas I played with on that software.

Kylie vs. Gesaffelstein - Slowpr (Todd Hart mash)

The Olympic Trio

I really know nothing about this group and can't read Greek so I can't find anything on the Internet. I assume they're actually called The Olympic Trio.  The music has touches of cheap synths and greek guitars. But here and there is a slight disco feel and it's fun.  

I bought this in the Oxfam shop in Marylebone and it's kind of fun.  I can't identify the track names but I think my favorite is Track B1.



Tracks.

A1
A2
A3
A4
A5
A6

B1
B2
B3
B4
B5
B6
B7

NME 21 - Pogo a Go Go

I am reposting this blog post from 2009 because it was offline for a while and has a lot of tracks that are rare and sought after.

Here is another of the rare NME cassettes released with the magazine in the early 80s, a number of which you can find elsewhere on this blog. These tapes featured a variety of styles from jazz, pop, reggae, even african, to punk, which is what they tape is. Each of them has a lot of tracks from bands that are quite obscure and impossible to find elsewhere. This one has unreleased tracks from the Sex Pistols and The Clash that are not released. Even though this compilation came out on CD, the unreleased tracks were not included. So this is the only place you can find them.

Unfortunately, the cassette quality is not so amazing. Some of the last tracks on the B side, such as the Buzzcocks track have a slight waiver in the pitch and the Sex Pistols track has a bit of a buzz in it now and then. But it's great to hear the Sex Pistols guy say something at the end of the demo recording. And the tracks by The Fall, Elvis Costello and The Slits are all good quality and also fantastic tracks. "Part Time Punks" is also great for its tale (even when punk was big) about people who do Punk for the aesthetic, not for the principle. Aesthetic is my principle, though, and I'm not ashamed of it. I'm a punk in other ways.

A1 Sex Pistols - Satellite (Suburban Kid) (unreleased version)
A2 Undertones - True Confessions
A3 Nipple Erectors - King Of The Bop
A4 Television Personalities - Part Time Punks
A5 Sham 69 - Borstal Breakout
A6 The Damned - Stretcher Case Baby
A7 Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Watching The Detectives
A8 The Stranglers - Choosey Susie
A9 Victim - Strange Thing By Night
B1 The Clash - 1977 (demo)
B2 Johnny Moped - Incendiary Device
B3 Slits - Typical Girls
B4 Alternative TV - Love Lies Limp
B5 Swell Maps - Read About Seymour
B6 The Jam - In The City
B7 The Fall - Bingo Master's Breakout
B8 Subway Sect - Ambition
B9 Wire - Dot Dash
B10 Buzzcocks - Orgasm Addict

Maria & the Mirrors - Travel Sex EP

I'm a big believer in people.  I want to believe that special people have something special that will make them keep doing special things.  Maybe this is because I want to believe in heroes.  When I hear a really good band I want to believe there is something special about their songwriting that no one else can imitate and want to believe that they will continue to do amazing things.  This is why I continue to be intrigued by Metronomy for example.

Maria & the Mirrors is a band that I've loved from the first time I saw them at the Offset festival a few years ago.  Since then I've written about them and they have done various gigs and blah blah.  But they're still around and they have a new ep out called Travel Sex and I still think their sound is unique, raw, trancelike and not formulaic.  It's like 3 blind people trying to map Godzilla's skin in Logic. . . 

This is not the title track from the ep but I like it probably best. I assume it was named after this film but who knows.  I didn't ask.


Valerie a tyden divu

Special Fetes

I picked up this tape in a flea market in south Paris a few weekends ago.  Not really sure what song is which or what the song titles are but I was loving this arabic cover of Barbie Girl by Aqua.  I've also included two other tracks just to show what it sounds like.  I thought it was also interesting that one of the tracks, while sounding like typical party music you might hear blaring from a Lebanese restaurant, also has shades of Scottish bagpipe music.

Barbie Girl - arabic cover version

Track 1

Track 2

5 year Annivesary radio show!

Having done this blog for five years, I thought it would be a good idea to do something special for the 5th anniversary.  Five years ago in April 2006 I started the blog with this post.  Luckily, the people at the new London Fields radio station invited me to do a new radio show and so here you have a 5 year overview of the good stuff from this blog.

LISTEN HERE

The tracklist for the show is as follows - all of these tracks have been previously featured on the blog and you can search for them above.


Tracklist

The Look            I Am The Beat

Ongaku            Mihon 3

Cinnabar            Forces

Dr. Calculus            Perfume From Spain

Bobby Brown            Free Style Megamix (On Our Own, Do....)

Ivo Papasov And His Bulgarian Wedding Band

Bulchenska Ratchenitsa (Bride's Ratchenitsa)

Star Taxi Music            Interlude 8

Umoja                        Money Money

Richard Berry            Oh! Oh Get Out The Car

Tradicional Kazzabe            Gurinbiuwa

Frank Chickens            Shellfish Bamboo

Aphex Twin            Phlid

Les Jaloux Saboteurs            Maître Gazonga

Lata Mangeshkar & Asha Bhosle

Main Chali Main Chale

Fiat Lux            Secrets

Les Choeurs L'Armee Sovietique            Hymne Soviétique

Hi-Ryze            Jp233

Omary Kopa            Track 03

Sex Pistols            Satellite (Suburban Kid)

Dj Chip Dilla            Carbootie Mixtape

Eydie Gorme Y El Trio Los Panchos

Noche De Ronda

Colourbox            Baby I Love You So

 

This blog has always been about trying to pull music that you either don't know or have forgotten about off of old tapes - sometimes with a sense of humor but often unearthing things that are amazing.  I think that's what gives the blog an edge - the feeling that you're finding treasure here that you can't find anywhere else, and someone has actually done work to bring it back to life for you.

I recently was given some more tapes of the collection of friends of DJ Quark who I've previously featured.  This one was done for a radio station called Zero Gravity in 1993.  Obviously it was a radio station that required a certain degree of cannabis-ness to function.  But dj Quark has a real talent for mixing in tracks and layering beats in a way that, as my friend Yasmin says, tells a story.  Have a listen and see what you think.  Most of the mix does not feature individual tracks but woven throughout the story are featured at least the following tracks.

Download Side 1

Download Side 2

Balil - Merck

The Clan (Mongol Hordes) - I.A.O.

Both of the above tracks are from the Black Dog Productions album Bytes.  Black Dog later becaome Plaid and were on Warp.

Colourbox - Baby I Love You So

Colourbox were an English due of brothers and were on 4AD label - the same as This Mortal Coil.  They also were sort of a precursor to the much later work by Rhythm & Sound such as the 2003 album I used to listen to with Jah Rule.

The Grid - Floatation (Subsonic Grid Mix)

This mix also features 2 tracks from The Grid. The other is one is mixed by the Orb called Crystal Clear (the Crystal Clear Water Revival mix).

I've also lately been buying some more gear for my home studio.  I got a Korg M1 for not a bad price and excellent for producing original piano house sounds.  I am increasingly working on more of my own music and remixes and I'm always a sucker for interesting pro studio equipment.  I'm on the lookout for a good drum machine right now.  I discovered there are actually not very many actual shops you can go to and try things out in the Uk these days, at least not in London.  There are only the limited selections on Denmark street.  For this reason I wanted to draw your attention to this new pro audio resource I discovered called Sounds Great Music in Cheshire.  You may want to check out their Voodoo Lab effects.

The Wizard (Jeff Mills) - 1986 & 1987 WJLB live shows

These are original dj sets from Jeff Mills aka The Wizard on WJLB radio in Chicago from 1986-87.   These are more of the tapes I got from Chris Low. This is mostly hip hop although now and then some early house slips in.  The crazy thing is that Jeff Mills really adds a lot to the mix as many of the tracks are scratched and mixed into completely new tracks and often sped up significantly.  All around a very enjoyable listen to see a real dj artist at work.

At some point in Side 1 it appears that we join radio station WHPK which apparently was one of the first stations to broadcast rap in Chicago.  Included in that segment are two live raps identified as Legend of Doom and DJ Quickhand.  I've posted  few separate tracks below that are included in the shows that are rarer and the live shows.

Side 1 - Download

live rap - Legend of Doom
live rap - DJ Quickhand


Side 2 - Download

Side 2 includes the following tracks.  I managed to find the fantastic Nude Photo track on the Boards of Electronica site here.  Particularly great is the Prince - Kiss live remix clip.

Shante - Have a Nice Day

Chip E  - If You Only Knew 

Rhythim is Rhythim - Nude Photo - Download

EPMD - I Know You Got soul

Eric B & Rakim - Check out my Melody

Cafe del Mar tape no. 1

This is the original first tape that was sold in the Cafe del Mar of Ibiza.  I received it from someone I work with who actually bought it in the Cafe in 1991.  It was mixed by Jose Padilla and never commercially released (the cd series came later with different tracks).

Unfortunately the quality if the recording is such that it wavers a bit too much so I was lucky to find this upload of the same tape as one continuous stream on the djhistory website.  According to that forum the tracklisting is as follows.  It's a lot more mellow than I expected.  I never made it to Ibiza until 1999 and I somehow thought it would be more upbeat.  This shows how much of a fool I am because Jose Padilla is known for popularizing chillout music ;)  I could imagine after a hard night of strange substances this would be nice to listen to as the sun rose hot over the beach.  Could do with a bit of that now actually . . . 

I've also included one track to download, Habebe from Ann Dudley & Jaz Coleman.

00:00 Penguin Café - Paul's Dance
01:42 Chris Spheeris - Fields of Tears
04.47 Bob James - Women of Ireland
12:14 Clifford White - Ascension
18:10 Eric Serra - Remembering a Hearbeat
19:21 Dancing Fantasy - Are You Ready?/ Beyond the Horizon
23:48 Mahavishnu Orchestra - When Blue Turns Gold
26:25 Richard Horowitz - Marnia's Tent
29.05 Ann Dudley & Jaz Coleman - Habebe
36:18 John Carpener - Starman (End Titles)
38:12 Jevetta Steele - Baghdad Café (Callin' U)
42:04 Dancing Fantasy - Good Morning America
47:02 Penguin Café - Steady state
49:59 Penguin Cafe - Air a Danser
54:14 Dancing Fantasy - Tim's Talk/ Malibu

DOWNLOAD

I also want to draw attention to the new EP from Beth Ditto of the Gossip. It's produced by Simian Mobile Disco and is very excellent. The track I Wrote the Book has been on constant circulation in my flat cause my friend Price James has been staying with me while he made her video. Check it out. Major voguers.  Also check out his recent vid for Hercules & Love Affair.  That's major kudos too.

It's Contagious compilation

My friend Anthony Faroux found this tape in a flat he was clearing out in Kennington, south London.  The only artist on here I can find any detail about is The Instant Automatons and so this may be part of their DIY/free music scene discussed here.  There is a video of theirs below.

Unfortunately the quality of the tape is pretty low but there are still some amusing sounds here.  John the Baptist is pretty funny and the Christmas song Our Father has the lyrics "Father Bagwan, Father Bagwan, here's my Volvo . . ."  But probably the most enjoyable to listen to are Nick Harrison's vaguely 80's eurodisco "Kuji" and Colin Potter's "Here is Picture", which remotely sounds like Suicide.

Thanks Anthony, and check out his video art here.


Side One:
1. Negrava: John the Baptist
2. Nick Harrison: Orford Ness
3. Missing Persons: Sir, You're an Arsehole
4. The Instant Automatons: Ignorance is Bliss
5. Negrava: Under the Anaesthetic of Love
6. Colin Potter: Another Day is Missing
7. Transistor Six: Slowfall
8. Negrava: Our Father

Side Two:
1. Missing Persons: Nothing Happens (when you least expect it)
2. Negrava: Brian's Girls
3. Transistor Six: Light like Moss
4. Nick Harrison: Kuji
5. The Instant Automatons: Ballad of the New Things
6. Colin Potter: Here is Picture
7. Negrava: Little Venom
8. Transistor Six: Fanatical Belief