djs anonymous

i am only just getting into this site, however it contains a series (around 30 so far) hand picked mixes across the full range of electronic musics. the mixes come with some nice graphics too. i am currently listening to this one.

radiopotta may podcast

here is the radiopotta podcast for may. i always find better to post these things as if they were a 90 minute compilation tape. it just makes more sense to me. the top play button will give you side a, the lower side b.


side a :

fingerbangin' - SweetHeart

He Lied About Death - Metric/Stars

Live At The Cactus Tree Motel - Kammerflimmer Kollektief

That Sound Wiped - Von Sudenfed

Like Me - Dizzee Rascal

Patient Saints - Two Lone Swordsmen

Stars – Ulrich Schnauss

LCD Soundsystem vs John Cale - LCD Soundsystem

Squalor Victoria - The National

Complexity Reducer - Delorean

Mary - Taxi Taxi!

side b:

Young Folks (datashat remix) - datassette

I Believe In You - YACHT

Sickness - Skeletons And The Kings Of All Cities

Must be The Moon (Emperor Machine mix) - !!!

I Need You – Kathy Diamond

Watch Out - Slaraffenland

Corners - Small Sails

Dopamine Clouds Over Craven Cottage - Stars of the Lid

Rainbows and Dreams (With Worms Singing) - Giant Skyflower Band

john peel show, 30th may 1984

here is the peel show from the night we won our fourth european cup against as roma, in rome with penalties from neal, souness, rush and kennedy. its an exuberant affair and is co-hosted by peels rhythm pal, david "kid" jensen. jensens role appears to be to stop peel going off on an adrenalin fuelled rampage of hysterical hyperventilation - and to chip in with his somewhat sketchy knowledge of 'soccerball'.

the tape starts with a recording of alan kennedys final penalty, summariser emlyn hughes can barely contain himself.

and the way it is recorded takes me back to listening to radio two commentaries of liverpool games being broadcast from tbilisi or dresden. they were inevitably interrupted by waves of french pop radio and the like , to my battery operated radio stationed under my pillow.

i'll go with fades in slowlys tracklisting:

-We begin with the final penalty in the shootout
-Kop Choir - You'll Never Walk Alone
-The Mighty Wah - Come Back
-The Undertones - Teenage Kicks
-The Pogues - The Dark Streets of London
-The Wailing Souls - John's Shop
-The Membranes - New Breed (I'm not sure if band and song match here, let me know if I'm wrong)
-The Great Unwashed - Duane Eddy
-Duane Eddy - Hard Times
-Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band - Pachuco Cadaver
-Theater of Hate - Legion
-Anti Nowhere League - Streets of London
-Ivor Cutler - Scenes from a Scotch Sitting Room Vol.2 #17

soulsavers

Soulsavers - 'It's Not How Far You Fall, It's The Way You Land'
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'It's Not How Far You Fall, It's The Way You Land' is a collaboration between rich machin, ian glover and mark lanegan released by v2 in april of this year. the former supply the warm spacious loops, whilst arch collaborator mark lanegan adds his distinct vocal talents.

i've been a mark lanegan fan for a good couple of decades or more. hazily i can recall seeing a show of his (from screaming trees days) at the fulham greyhound, possibly at the end of the eighties - maybe later, maybe earlier. one thing i do recollect with a mild sense of disapointment is that there was about a dozen people at most in attendance. i loved the band and couldn't believe how few people had made the journey south of the river to see 'em. the show was brooding, the sound was huge and the band were too. i was 'blown away'.

however, my consort for the evening recalls the place being 'rammed', packed like he had never seen it before with sweat pouring from the ceiling. our memory of it shouldn't be focused - the majority of nights i can summon up fromthis era are the ones that were a let down - the good for the most part obliterated and left behind in a heady haze.

when the lanegan solo stuff had started rolling out in the early nineties i lived in a house with friends where we'd get up at 4:00pm and go to bed about three days later. at the end of those 72 hours we'd mix c-90s on the decks that included stuff off his whiskey for the holy ghost lp next to ninja tune 12"s, the tindersticks, spititualized, tricky, radioactive lamb, beatless sun electric tracks - never eating, smoking cheap fags and copious amounts of weed, coming down off psychedelics and drinking whiskey... and that, is what this soulsavers album takes me back too and manages to make sound crucial and contemporary. there are guest vocals on the majority of tracks from lanegan plus the odd appearance of will oldham. its laid over samples that recall the artists i mentioned before, and it should by all accounts be awful (spiritual grunge-hop?) but really, really is not. it leaves your veins feeling warm and your soul revived.

soulsavers are playing live, with lanegan in the uk in july '07

soulsavers - july UK dates:

15 - Latitude Festival, Suffolk
17 - Bush Hall, London
18 - Bush Hall, London
19 - Academy 3, Manchester