radiopotta - its just stuff that i'm listening too...

Racer X

2010-05-13T13:36:00.000-07:00

Big Black - Racer X
Japandroids - Racer X

there yr go....

Caribou - Sun - Dote Mix and Swim LP

2010-04-11T14:45:00.000-07:00

Caribou - "Sun" - Dote by radiopotta

Caribou - Sun - Dote Mix.

It's a bit Krautrocky, some Motorik Beats in there... Quite Dubby too....

The whole new Caribou Swim album can be streamed from here:

Dote on Soundcloud

2010-02-28T02:56:00.000-08:00

Latest tracks by radiodpotta

Kosmichen Klange - Volume 41

2010-01-09T07:22:00.000-08:00

New mix on mixcloud...

Kosmichen Klange - Volume 41 by Radiopotta on Mixcloud

Tracklist

Voodoo VIllage

2009-02-17T04:36:00.000-08:00

9 volumes of the Cramps favourite songs, Nice...

radiopotta: DFA Mix

2009-02-15T11:45:00.000-08:00

There was time to, err, dust off the 'decks' today and do this mix of some DFA records... Usual suspects are there, THE JUAN MACLEAN, YACHT, HOLY GHOST!, SHIT ROBOT, RUNAWAY etc.

Stream/D:Load at this link...

http://www.dfarecords.com/

5-4-3-2-1 – A review of my week in 15 words - 03102008

2008-10-03T09:25:00.000-07:00

My reading, gaming, gigging, listening and viewing from the last week in 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 words.

Public schoolboy regrets getting stoned.

Thankfully, I’m not obese.

Zestless ‘stadium-indie’.

Warm veined.

Revolting.

Wunderlich

2008-10-02T11:58:00.000-07:00

Not a German comic book superhero responsible for administering most excellent cunnilingus... Instead the German 'composer' responsible for around 6,500 albums that house such Wurlitzer inspired aural monstrosities as the one below:

Klaus Wunderlich - Brazil

'Thanks' to a friend for reminding me that Wunderlich existed via a dream of his that went something like, "...me and a friend were buying vinyl in Godalming charity shops, ended up I had to clear of as my friend wanted to 'make out' with the shop girl.... what happened was we (in the current day but as our 17yr old selves) were listening to an old cassette (contents unknown) and as the leader gave way to the warm fuzz of ferrous oxide tape, there was the thump of a descending stylus then the bright crackle of static on vinyl kicked in and we were mezmerized by the technology of our yoof, so headed out for a vinyl fix. good job the lucidity dropped out when it came to actual choice of moosic, back in the day it would have been james last or some such twaddle..."

It was clearly Wunderlich...

This is the 'top listener' for Klaus on last.fm...

double bummer

2008-09-19T16:50:00.000-07:00

2 cd's here:

CD 1: listen here

There's Nothing Wrong (The Seven Stars Coda) - Mikrokosmos

Honeysuckleswallow - A.R. Kane

Spetsnaz/Paul Leni - port-royal

The Moon In The Gutter - Thieves Like Us

Observatory Crest - Captain Beefheart

Gross Magik - Tobacco

Bolan Muppets - Glissandro 70

Psychedelic Sewing Room - Bongwater

New Age - Chrome

Twisted flower - Cold Sun

I'm A Believer(Peel Session) - Robert Wyatt

bible silver corner (edit) - Rodan

Almost - Harmonia 76 (with Brian Eno)

The Bees Made Honey In The Lions Skull - Earth

Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime - The Korgis

Meniscus + Tears - This Mortal Coil

Articulate Silences part 2 - Stars of the Lid

There's a sort of retro joy/gloom about this podcast. I was really pleased to hear the Mikrokosmos CD's (pick them up here) - It's Bic Hayes from Levitation/Dark Star etc. Not new material, but 2 CD's recorded not long after/during the time Levitation broke down. There is a tragi-story attached to the two albums, master tapes lost in fire, floods, plague... that's explained a bit more here.

I stumbled upon the Mikrokosmos releases after getting swept away on a wave of listening nostalgia post MBV live in Manchester at the tale end of June ('You made me realise' is still ringing through my head - still haven't made sense of it all). Around this time I also heard Nathaniel Cramp on Rob Da Bank with a shoegazing special (well worth hunting down on iplayer). He was mumbling about 'great lost albums, which got me thinking about Levitations 'Meanwhile Gardens' (coincidentally unreleased by Chrysalis - the same label who didn't release the album he was talking about). After listening to and loving Levitation all over again I thought I'd better track down what they were doing now, and so I found Mikrokosmos and also that the

'Dragons' records I'd been picking up was Dave Francolini (Levitation's drummer, part of the 'tightest rhythm section in London' TM) new project.

cd 2: listen here

Is more of the same. It also features a very noisy record deck of mine - which I think adds a certain ambience to the Sun Electric track.

Articulate Silences part 2 - Stars of the Lid (continued)

Sun Electric - ?

Japancakes - Version 1

.o.rang - ?

Yume Bitsu - ?

Not sure what this is

Something by Drexciya

Bright Tomorrow - Fuck Buttons

A Titan's Buffet - Colossal Yes

Day I Would Bury You - Nina Nastasia & Jim White

Car Song - Kama Aina

Reciting The Airships - Eluvium

Textured - Lida Husik and Beaumont Hannant

Bear Of No Light - Pt I - Birthbite

The Promise Of Snakes - The Angelic Process

Sunset Rock - Portastatic

Weatherall - Freakin' - York - 12092008

2008-09-15T14:29:00.000-07:00

Blimey. The night was like an episode of 'This Is Your Life', your host 'Eamon' Andrew(s) Weatherall with his big red book of acid-house faves.

Everyone who was physically able to crawl out of the woodwork did so. Some you wanted to see, some you forgotten had existed and some you never thought would have been allowed back into the community. I'm sure more would have like to have been there too but tagging, detention curfews and the bolts on the doors at a variety of psychiatric hospitals appeared to prevent their attendance. I think they even had "MC Khabi" apologising on a videolinkup for "not being there" and wishing us all "peace" and I swear I saw someone appear from the smoke wearing one of those t-shirts that changed colur in line with your body temperature.

Here's his 'last-tune' from the night...

Fuck Buttons - Sweet Love For Planet Earth (Andrew Weatherall Remix)

All back to Claytons...

The next day Liverpool beat Man. Utd. in the league for the first time in four years and a restaurant forgot to charge us for our drinks - nice end to Friday night.

Shteve Mclarensh -"I shay I think we are not just... what you call?... underdogsh but mashive underdogsh"

2008-08-15T21:50:00.001-07:00

Just when you thought it was impossible for the man to sink any lower - out comes thish gem...

Rapeman - Dutch Courage

Boris - You were holding an umbrella

electric feel

2008-07-24T13:06:00.001-07:00

January 2008 Pottcast

2008-02-20T12:33:00.000-08:00

January (apart from, of course, my daughters birthday) was memorable for being a 'piss-awful' month for Liverpool. We lost our game in hand against West Ham and didn't win a match apart from the one in the FA Cup against Havant and Waterloovile (and then it was a close run thing for 45 minutes) which really is nothing to crow about. Most irksome though were the off the pitch wranglings. Not a day passed without some ridiculous headlines about sacking a manger who has got us to two champions league finals (and most importantly) dragged the club out of the dark ages and overhauled it's structure.

Looking at the titles from Side A of the January Pottacast, for example, Hot Tears, Don't take it too hard and Bright Tomorrow, they seem to form a neat sequence of my thoughts about Liverpool. There is upset, dark moods then blind romanticism about the future. Maybe there was some correlation between my listening and feelings about the club?

Then again, maybe not - otherwise "End of an American Dream" by Lee Scratch Perry and Clap You Hands say Yeah's "Yankee Go Home" might have featured a little more heavily.

Looking at the other tracks, The Fuck Buttons (presumably not a stage instruction from this film) are forming a very short list (two, along with Holy Fuck) of "Great bands with Fuck in their name to appear in 2007".

Hot Tears - Sarabeth Tucek - 5:06

Sunrise – Yeasayer - 4:09

Run - Gnarls Barkley - 2:45

Don´t Take It Too Hard – Tuomo - 3:14

Bright Tomorrow - Fuck Buttons - 4:15

Komaron Runner - Pharaoh Overlord - 6:04

Decibels And The Little Pills - American Music Club - 5:41

New Hampshire - Scary Mansion - 3:16

My Spine Is The Bassline - Shriekback - 4:02

The Queen Of All Returns - Dead Meadow - 5:33 - presumably nothing to do with Christine Gonzalez

Walcott - Vampire Weekend - 3:42 - presumably nothing do with Theo.

Songza

2008-02-17T07:30:00.000-08:00

I've been using this thing a lot of late and it hasn't really let me down. It's a music search engine launched last autumn that searches the net fairly extensively.

Amongst other things - I found a recording of Ramleh live in New York from last October.

Belated December Pottacast

2008-02-14T16:07:00.000-08:00

Belated ‘cast from December 2007.

Thinking back – I’m not sure what I was listening to in December – Looking at my iTunes, I downloaded 312 tracks. A lot of it was “backlist” – including Blue Aeroplanes a plenty, some Wackdaddies reggae and a couple of Victims Family tunes.

I remember being blown away by the new Black Mountain record, which has sent me on a trip through the psychedelic vaults and got me back into Circle (hence the track here) and Pharaoh Overlord. The Circle song is “an adrenalin packed comet of fiery-PCP intensity”. The best Finnish export since Jari Litmanen (not the cryogenic version now keeping the medics at Craven Cottage busy).

I liked the Japancakes cover of the whole of My Bloody Valentines ‘Loveless’ LP. There was some impressive ‘nu-gaze’ from Young Galaxy and reliable tunes from Sonar Kollektive.

I also remember reading an article by Lawrence Donegan in the Guardian that reminded me of the time I got a flyer through the post for Lonnie Donegans prophetically named “This could be the last time” tour. Nothing exceptional about this – except that it arrived three months after Lonnie Donegans death. I blamed it on the post.

Some months later though I found out from a girl I was seeing that it was she who had sent out the flyers whilst temping at the venue. Her boss had asked her to “send out all that shite in the corner of the room”. She duly obliged, unaware that the sultan of skiffle had left the crease for the last time. I found a link to some reduced price t-shirts from that tour – but didn’t bookmark it. Heh ho… There was an ironic element to this as the venue concerned was the Barbican Centre in York. With most of the acts they put on there, you look at a flyer and think “They are still alive?”…

Here is Side A: (click to listen/download)

Make the Road by Walking - Menahan Street Band - 3:09

Aly, Walk With Me - The Raveonettes - 5:02

Pump up the volume - Cool Kids - 2:37

Outside the City - Young Galaxy - 3:23

Circle – Circle - 6:39

World's Greatest - Bonnie Prince Billy - 2:26

Battles - Atlas/ MIA - Boyz mix – Diplo - 3:49

When You Sleep – Japancakes - 4:12

Western Lullaby - Tentacle Boy - 4:48

Sea Of Tranquillity – Colleen - 5:46

Ruf – Laub - 3:28

Some long songs on Side B: (click to listen/download)

Bright Lights - Black Mountain - 16:41

Like A Child (Carl Craig Remix) - Junior

Boys - 10:40

Slip Beneath – The Warlocks - 8:07

Crewell - Starving Weirdos - 8:50

Happy New Year – even if I didn’t even manage to get this out in time for the Chinese one. January to follow...

2007-12-28T03:47:00.000-08:00

Kevin Shields and Mark E Smith interviews from vbs.tv

2007-12-08T17:35:00.000-08:00

Nice interview in four parts with Kevin Shields embedded below . There is a Mark E. one on the same site.

The SMith one is rewarding. Smith gets drawn into a discussion about astrology in part ii. Odd.

In Part 4, Mark E. is talking about actors forming groups, "even that big guy, he's at it... Whats he called 'Cigar' or somink". And on Courtney Love, "there should be censorship in music, her out of Hole, she should be censored... It's no wonder he shot himself".

There is a definite air of tension at the end of the interview. The interviewer clearly feels glad he hasn't got the same treatment as Adam and Joe did. He goes to do some funny American handshake with SMith at the end too. Worth watching all the way through for that alone.

Part 1:

Part 2:

Part 3:

Part 4:

radiopotta - cover versions vol I

2007-12-04T14:00:00.001-08:00

I found out last night that almost everyone I know has a story incorporating the incongrous coupling of a night out and the delivery of milk. Some simply involve the removal of a bottle of Unigate from some old dears doorstep on return from an Essex rave in 1989 (usually accompanied by a friend, or it could even be the milkman, who bares an uncanny likeness to Liverpool's Andriy Voronin - pictured).

Others stories concern a complex blend of fast and psychedelic drugs, attractive woman and Policemans helmets.

My own appertains to a quest to find the site of an 'acid house party'. For one summer, seemingly every Friday night, six of us would squeeze into the back of someones Mums Metro (I was a lot thinner then) and drive around the luring landscapes of Surrey and Sussex.

The idea was to find said party, usually in the Cranleigh area. We'd stop the car, get out listen for music, aurally hallucinate where it was coming from, drive to said area find it was an Ambulance trying to get to an emegency and so block its path on a narrow farm track. The car would get stuck, wouldn't go in to reverse and quite possibly we'd be partially responsible for the death of some old farmer.

One night we saw a Milkfloat driving about, and as it was the only vehicle on the road, we tried to flag it down to see if the Milkman knew the wherabouts of the party. The 'float did its best to pull away from the Metro. It wouldn't respond to the flashing of lights and stop for us. The driver put her foot down, and we pulled in front of it. One of us wound down the window to ask the Milky the way to the do. It was no Milky driving the float though, it had been nicked by a group of saucer-eyed chavs in such a floundering euphoric mess that they mistook us for the law and thought we were going to arrest them.

Listen/Download Side A

Just Got Paid Rapeman 3:36

Rollin' Danny The Fall 2:26

Boy with the Thorn in his Side Dinosaur Jr. 1:58

I Just Wasn't Made For These Times Bullion 2:23

I Won't Hurt You Anja Garbarek 2:38

running up that hill datassette 3:55

Wonderwall (Live) Ryan Adams 4:04

If I Were A Carpenter Engineers 2:39

Ticket To Ride Echo and the Bunnymen 3:21

Love Will Tear Us Apart SWANS 3:40

Summertime Blues Blue Cheer 3:47

A Minha Menina The Bees 2:45 -

Song2 Tesla Girls 2:06 -

You'll Never Walk Alone Aretha Franklin 8:27 - Played at the end of my wedding, in a (cough, splutter) homage to Peel ; )

I Wish I had that suit.

Windcheater

2007-12-03T13:17:00.000-08:00

A mix here from 'Windcheater' - one time member of seminal Britpop combo Albion and one-third of the Elstead 3. It recalls the innocent days 0f 1990 and barns in Alford.

Download::Right Click Save AS!

November Pottacast

2007-11-29T13:09:00.000-08:00

Side A/B Players

I’m sure you have all been plagued with anxiety, nervously sweating, jiggling your legs and biting your nails waiting for the November ‘’pottacast”. Well, whoop with delight and punch the air, because my friends HERE IT IS.

I’ve managed to miss a lot of gigs I wanted to see this month, The(e) (they should adopt the extra ‘e’)Warlocks, Caribou, Holy Fuck, Ryan Adams and the Cardinals to name but a few. If you saw them any of them, without a hint of bitterness, I hope you enjoyed ‘em.

As far as seeing ‘Holy Fuck’ goes, I've fallen foul of that Fibbers [York’s toilet venue] 'coming soon' poster. The Fuck (as their family, no doubt, know and love them) were listed under the aforementioned ‘Coming Soon’ banner and I foolishly took the 'coming soon' tag as meaning they would be playing at the venue in the near future. How, err, foolish.

A clearer examination of Fibbers 'actually playing' listings shows no sign of The Fuck - just a miserable selection of local, tribute and local tribute acts.

Through no effort of my own I have managed to pick up a ticket for MBV, June 2008 (thanks Mr. C - indebted). Our own attempts to pounce like highly (sensually) aroused Tigers on the first tickets available for these shows failed miserably due to some sensually depredating beers in The(e) Sun in Acomb.

My Bloody Valentine make me recall a number of embarrassing incidents in 1989. A friend and I, in that very year – and for at least one after – regular posed as either journalists or owners of a small independent label. We managed to get into most London gigs this way, interviewing the band and so wasting hours of their time and ours under the pretence that an interview would be published in some tawdry rag. Or, expressing an interest in the support band and promising them a ‘split 7”’ with The(e – I actually think they were Thee) Sperm Wails or some similar doudy London band we had once nodded at in the queue at Subterania. Steve Albini once mistook us for the Legendary Stud Brothers ( late eighties Melody Maker hacks). We were neither, legendary, brothers or for that matter ‘Studs’.

One band who fell foul of this, ho hum – hustle – were My Bloody Valentine at my favourite venue, The Fulham Greyhound. All four of the poor beggars had to be interviewed by my compatriot, a man with a very large hooter whose name escapes me and I. I remember very little, thankfully, of the interview. At one point, intentionally, I did make all four Valentines laugh with a question about Wallpaper, however I’m quite sure there were several other incidents where the laughing was on the other side of their lovely indie faces. I believe my colleague also asked Debbie Goodge out. There is tape of this somewhere (Franc, NOTE: if it’s not destroyed yet – please incinerate in a vat of burning diesel). There is also a story involving Kevin Shields, the ULU and some ‘back-door’ action. It’s not as interesting as it sounds though. And, on second thoughts it should have inspired some sort of 'Londoners' joke about going down the tube at Goodge Street.

Here is the ‘cast. Enjoy.

Listen/Download Side A:

Archangel – Burial - 4:02

New Violence - White Williams - 2:51

Get Mad - Kyle Andrews - 4:35

Lovesong Lake - Candy Bars - 4:26

A WOT – Orgone - 5:33

About You - Clara Hill - 4:13

Right on the Malthus - The Capstan Shafts - 1:39

Dark Soldier - Roland Appel - 7:17

Glitter Pills – HEALTH - 3:38

Matron - The Orb vs Meat Beat Manifesto - 7:13

Listen/Download Side B:

Remembrance (Ulrich Schnauss Remix) – Dragons -4:34

Kaleid – Boxcutter -5:31

Fyrepond – Kiln - 4:17

My Dove, My Lamb – Phosphorescent - 9:28

You Little Superstar - Avenging Force - 3:29

Rockstone – Native - 4:24

Baby Let's Play Wet - Julian Cope - 2:27

Drool - Black Dice - 5:52

Saint (Heinrich Mueller Z Version) - Bochum Welt - 5:27

October Pottacast

2007-10-29T13:02:00.000-07:00

Nothing halloween themed here *... Infact the whole thing is fairly 'upbeat' for me. Tracks from an artist that I once bought batteries for (Thurston Moore), my new favourite band (Holy Fuck) and a band I only checked out 'cos they share a name with my favoured boozer (that is The Acorn... not The Octopus Project... and no, I've never checked out somewhere called Sunset Rubdown).

*just noticed I've included a track (unitentionally) by Scandanavian metal-ers 'Witchcraft'
...

Listen/Download Side A

My Gold The Pimps Of Joytime 3:56

Get UR Freak On Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra 2:21

Bees Bein' Strugglin' The Octopus Project 3:48

The Taming of the Hands That Came Back to Life Sunset Rubdown 6:07

Flood The Acorn 4:24

Kiss Scout Niblett 6:11

Leva Witchcraft 4:36

Don' t Stop AIFF 3:59

Royal Gregory Holy Fuck 3:52

Silver>Blue Thurston Moore 5:53

Listen/Download Side B.

Don And Sherri (Hot Chip Version) Matthew Dear 4:16

Primitive Róisín Murphy 4:50

In the City Chromatics 7:09

Only One Farah 5:56

Lisa Lân Cerys Matthews 4:06

Remembrance (Ulrich Schnauss Remix) Dragons 4:34

Marrakech (Soul) The Quantic Soul Orchestra 3:24

Saddle Up My Pony Charalambides 7:15

Repatriation Dennis Brown 6:09

September Pottacast

2007-09-22T16:45:00.001-07:00

Apologies this is posted twice and neither will delete! Nearly the end of the month, however here is the September Pottacast, once again a side A and B.

Getting straight to business with Canon Blue [itunes and emusic]and 'Odds and Ends'. Ignore the rather sixth form ramblings on last.fm about him. See what I mean? I'm sure I've read he is from Nashville, but the more I think about it, the more I think that can't be true. He sounds as far removed as an artist from Nashville, in my mind at least should sound.

'Is there a ghost' has been heavily blogged. I'm not a big Band of Horses fan. Having said that I think this a fine single and there is always one stunning track on each of their records ('Weed Party' on the last). Find them here at itunes.

The Galactic record is incredibly good leftfield Hip-Hop. Tragically, I'm a big fan of 'outros' and the Bonobo version of Alice Rusell's 'Mirror-Mirror...' has one that produced a satisfying nod from me at least.

Caribou [emusic], Banhart [itunes], Damien Jurado [itunes] and Iron and Wine [itunes] don't need much of an intro. The latters track has a astrange dub feel to it, hence the lead into Ticklah. He has some great honky dub on his side that is well worth hunting out. The Maria Hansen record is beautiful and Akron, odd as usual. The track here is probably the most straightforward. Nothing as good on this album though as their last.

Listen/Download Side A:

Odds And Ends - Canon Blue 3:30

Is There a Ghost - Band Of Horses 3:02

Second and Dryades w/ Big Chief Monk Bourdreaux – Galactic 2:46

Mirror Mirror On the Wolf Tell The Story Right (Bonobo mix) - Alice Russell 5:15

Stones - Caribou 1:54

Saved – Devandra Banhart - 5:33

I Am The Greatest Of All Liars - Damien Jurado 1:38

Wolves (Song of the Shepherd's Dog) - Iron & Wine 4:59

Queen Dub – Ticklah 3:31

All Clear - Maria Hansen 4:28

Ed Is a Portal - Akron/Family 7:31

Listen/download Side B:

As Sparks Fly Upward – Devastations 4:03

The Devil - PJ Harvey 2:57

Clear Path To The Future - Davis Redford Triad - 4:13

All the Way Down - Oakley Hall - 5:16

Viva Forever – Jim O'Rourke 6:14

Hymn - Asaf Sirkis The Inner Noise 7:40

The Trees so High - Symphonic Ballad in A minor:: Andante tr - Guildford Philharmonic Choir 4:38

Start To Play - Christian Prommer Remix pt.2 (Piano Mix) - Wagon Cookin' 5:59

Hold Your Secrets To Your Heart - Miracle Fortress 3:35

Theme From The Dead Letter Lounge – The Dead Letter Lounge 1:36

September Pottacast

2007-09-22T16:45:00.000-07:00

Nearly the end of the month, however here is the September Pottacast, once again a side A and B.

Getting straight to business with Canon Blue [itunes and emusic]and 'Odds and Ends'. Ignore the rather sixth form ramblings on last.fm about him. See what I mean? I'm sure I've read he is from Nashville, but the more I think about it, the more I think that can't be true. He sounds as far removed as an artist from Nashville, in my mind at least should sound.

'Is there a ghost' has been heavily blogged. I'm not a big Band of Horses fan. Having said that I think this a fine single and there is always one stunning track on each of their records ('Weed Party' on the last). Find them here at itunes.

The Galactic record is incredibly good leftfield Hip-Hop. Tragically, I'm a big fan of 'outros' and the Bonobo version of Alice Rusell's 'Mirror-Mirror...' has one that produced a satisfying nod from me at least.

Caribou [emusic], Banhart [itunes], Damien Jurado [itunes] and Iron and Wine [itunes] don't need much of an intro. The latters track has a astrange dub feel to it, hence the lead into Ticklah. He has some great honky dub on his side that is well worth hunting out. The Maria Hansen record is beautiful and Akron, odd as usual. The track here is probably the most straightforward. Nothing as good on this album though as their last.

Back soon with a more psychedelic Side B.

Odds And Ends - Canon Blue 3:30

Is There a Ghost - Band Of Horses 3:02

Second and Dryades w/ Big Chief Monk Bourdreaux – Galactic 2:46

Mirror Mirror On the Wolf Tell The Story Right (Bonobo mix) - Alice Russell 5:15

Stones - Caribou 1:54

Saved – Devandra Banhart - 5:33

I Am The Greatest Of All Liars - Damien Jurado 1:38

Wolves (Song of the Shepherd's Dog) - Iron & Wine 4:59

Queen Dub – Ticklah 3:31

All Clear - Maria Hansen 4:28

Ed Is a Portal - Akron/Family 7:31

Jingle- Rangles

2007-09-04T11:19:00.000-07:00

There seems to be some call on the Guardian Football Weekly forum for the safe return of the jingle.

According to podhost James Richardson they have been removed, not because they became 'a little tedious' , but as men in suits realised they may infringe certain copyright laws.

You can still find some here in the Old Jingles Home.

Funky16Corners

2007-09-04T10:26:00.000-07:00

Excellent post here on the always brilliant funky16corners blog. The guy is 45, which next to 33 and for those who make it, 78 are pretty important ages for him as the fella is a DJ with a somewhat exhaustive knowledge of his genres. He was probably born between 12:00 and 12:10. Happy birthday.

The whole blog is always full of inspirational soul and funk. Every week there is a new album length mix of tracks - available mixed or as zipped up mp3's - with posts highlighting artists and styles slotted in amongst them.

Gay Mountaineers, Terry Scott and other 'Snuff'.

2007-08-29T07:17:00.000-07:00

I still sometimes wake in the night in a cold sweat, mildly traumatized by a night with the two bastions of late eighties/early nineties British hardcore that were Snuff and Leatherface. As a loose collective of music, (but not necessarily street) wise eighteen year olds, two brothers (lets call them the "Pycrafts", for that - put simply - was their surname) and I decided to promote a gig with these chirpy south Londoners (Snuff) and dour Mackems (Leatherface) in Godalming, Surrey. Later, I will try and explain the logic that preceded this hideous miscalculation of judgements.

The gig took place in a prefabricated hut that rested itself uncomfortably upon the shoulder of a municipal car-park. The hut was more familiar to hosting playgroups, alcoholic anonoymous meetings and (I must add) as an eight year old, I once saw TV's Matthew Kelly open a Jumble sale there on a Saturday morning. I missed Swap-Shop for that - it was worth it though as I saw Terry Scott haggling with an old lady over the price of a worn pair of brown brogues. I still think he had failed to see the "AA meet cancelled" sign. The "Wilfred Noyce Centre", as the prefabricated tin rathole, that definitely did not have any asbestos in the roof, was monikered was christened after a gay British mountaineer. It was no gesture of a 1980's local authority promotion of alternate lifestyles that the centre was christened after a gay mountaineer. This was Godalming, borough of Waverley, County of Surrey. Liberalism was not permitted. There were no copies of "Jenny lives with Eric and Martin" in Waverley's school libraries. There wasn't even a 'Nelson Mandela Walk' in the Godalmings A-Z . It was pegged the "Wilfed Noyce" as the town could not bear anything else named after it's most famous son, the disgraced ("forget the women and children stuff..."), then rechampioned ("Phillips worked tirelessly to send messages to other ships on the wireless to enlist their assistance with the rescue...") chief radio operator of the Titanic, Jack Philips. There were simply no other deceased yet celebrated figures the town could offer up to lend their name to a prefabricated lean-to on the edge of a municipal car park, so a gay mountaineer it had to be. If Terry Scott had already passed away, this would of course been an entirely different matter, and the "Noyce" would have undoubtedly been known as the "Scott".

So, after failing to land pop-punk troubadours the Senseless Things and negotiations had hit a hiatus over the Charlatans (Ian Brown had said they were his favourite band so suddenly they wanted £375 AND 75% of the door - outrageous) the Pycraft brothers and I settled on an opening night at the Noyce with Snuff and Leatherface supported by my own band Sleeper. At this point, I must add just in case you didn't know, that I wasn't in the Sleeper that had a modicum of success during the glory days of Brit-Pop. However, after promoting this very gig in the Neals Yard Rough Trade shop ("which is the nearest tube to Godalming?... "you could try Collier's Wood, mate") I would still swear that Louise Wener nipped in to check out the new releases, saw our poster and decided to nick the band name Sleeper. She has never denied this.

Financially the night was an outrageous success. Although, in almost every other way, it can only be catergorised as an unmitigated disaster. Trouble began after booking, what the singer of Snuff described as a "Polish" PA. After leafing through the 'Public Address Systems" section of the Yellow Pages I had settled on the aforementioned 'eastern european' system from a company called "Show Sound". I had negotiated a good price for what was described by Mr. Show Sound as a '5K rig'. Unfortunately semantics had tainted my choice of PA. It became apparent that the "show" in his organisations handle referred to the agricultural variety rather than the musical type to which I equated it. The system had arrived in the back of a flatbed land rover, and once the two tin cans had been connected by pieces of string to the amplifier, one could barely hear oneself think. The bands refused to play. I pleaded with them to play. They cancelled the gig. They cancelled it again, then said they would play. Snuff and the less than pleased Frankie Stubbs of Leatherface asked me for the fifteenth time how long it took to ship "that heap of shite here from Gdansk" and "can you ask Lech Walesa to give us a bit more in these monitors?". They refused to play again. Then they saw the amount of people waiting in the car park to see them, hundreds, and I think pity got the better of them and they said they'd go ahead with the gig.

The doors opened about two hours late. This thankfully, gave us the chance to cancel Sleepers set. The guitarist had done to much acid and put simply, just wasn't really up for it. I remember nothing about the gig itself, aside from the look of pure evil that Frankie Stubbs reserved for me from the stage. What I do remember is having what amounted to a grand in cash stuffed inside my leather jacket all through the gig.

When it ended and, the time came to pay the bands, the crowd disappeared and so did my co-promoters, the Pycraft brothers. I was left with two pissed off bands their assorted co-horts and a shedload of cash hidden inside a coat. They wanted more money than we had promised them. I sat in a corner of the Noyce, surrounded by them. They said they had seen how much we had taken - I gave them some more money. Where were the fucking Pycrafts? They said we had taken more money than that, they wanted more. I gave them more. I said I was cleaned out. I'd paid them as much as the Charlatans had wanted. They still wanted more as the night had been such an ordeal. I didn't really have any choice but to give them more cash - apart from gettting kicked around the centres dressing room (I bet Matthew Kelly never acted like this, he left happy with a pair of green trousers and a copy of the board game 'Operation'(some pieces missing)'). I gave them more money. Eventually they left. I breathed a sigh of relief and found a pretty decent whack of cash inside the lining of my jacket.

I've never been able to think of Snuff or particularly Frankie Stubbs Leatherface in quite the same way since. I was slightly suprised to see that the latters 'Mush' has just been re-released. And also that it sounded quite good. Not that I would go as far as to say that it was a British Zen Arcade, like some have. Snuff were always a pretty good laugh, bran flakes, kwik fit fitter and assorted pop hits (Tiffany's "I think we're alone now" played at hypeer fast speeds) although there was really only one joke there. However, musically, they had a couple of inspired punk moments - I still like the track below. And if you ever see either band, that extra whack of cash went a long time ago.

Snuff - Ecstacy

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late august podcast parts i and ii

2007-08-24T12:40:00.000-07:00

Two forty five minute mixes here that feature, mainly new(ish) tracks. There are some exceptions, such as the proto stoner-krautrock of Just We and the suprisingly undated dark-intelli-pop of the Jazz Butcher (it's from 1984). I don't know that much about Just We, however the break and intro of 'Something Like It' are pleading to be sampled and I'm certain I'm not the first person to realise this... Anyone know any tracks they feature on? The No Age record that is coming out on fatcat groups together the best of their e.p.s. I've heard them likened to the 'Du. They have 'Mouldy' fuzzed out guitar - but thats where the similarity ends. It's more like Panda Bear producing a Built to Spill album. It must be summer now, cos I have been listening to a lot of Dub. The best of the batch of new tracks is from Michael Rose's new album, the first half of which is pretty much untouchable. Aside from these there is the usual smattering of Sonar Kollektiv and Ninja releases, some folktronica and Terry Edwards turning his vehicle of interest away from the Fall, down the M1 and over to the fatter, less abrasive and generally more mascara-clad southern Smith, Fat-Bob (who is nothing to do with the subjest of the Jazz Butcher track).

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1. Waking Up Drunk - Spider Bags - 3:26

2 . No Memory Of Time - Eva Be feat. Joe Dukie (Soulphiction Remix) - 6:28

3 . Something Like It - Just We - 3:26

4. Dowie Dens Of Yarrow – Scatter - 4:49

5. The Parakeet Beat - Sunburned hand Of The Man - 4:57

6. Move Me - Trickski & Hans Blitz - 3:52

7 . Last One - Aril Brikha - 8:04

8. Freedom Dub - Michael Rose - 3:45

9. Woman, You Don't Have To Go - Luther Snakeboy Johnson - 6:05

10. Every Artist Needs A Tragedy - No Age - 3:38

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1. Cool Kids Keep - American Analog Set - 3:45

2. Southern Mark Smith (Big Return) - The Jazz Butcher - 5:17

3. In Between Days - Terry Edwards - 2:47

4. I Won't Hurt You – Anja Garbarek - 2:37

5. This Is The Thing (Album Version) – Fink - 4:35

6. Glussi - Stafraenn Hakon - 4:31

7. Roll River Roll - Richard Hawley - 5:11

8. White Stone Door – Mekons - 3:58

9. Lonely Woman - Basquiat Strings - 2:51

10. Cold Leaves For The Violent Ground - Library Tapes - 3:05

11. Song2 - Tesla Girls - 2:05

12. The End of an American Dream - Lee Scratch Perry - 5:39

Hit The North - Part I - Happy Birthday Rich

2007-08-14T17:15:00.000-07:00

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Happy Birthday Rich.

Hit The North II - The Fall 4:01
I'm From Further North Than You - The Wedding Present 3:29
Girl from the North Country - Howard Tate 3:44
North Pole – The Walkmen 3:48
Ost’rich’ & Chirping- Elliott Smith 0:34
The Steppes to the North - Thomas Nöla et son Orchestre feat. Douglas P. of Death in June 2:54
Cock of the North/Farewell to the Creeks - Massed Pipe Band 3:21
Rich - Yeah Yeah Yeahs 3:36
Merry Christmas From The Great White North - Lash & Podo 3:16<
Cock O’ The North - Live Performance - Abbots Bromely Horn Dance Society 1:46

Songs In The Key Of Dan

2007-08-14T15:24:00.000-07:00

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I put this together for Dancin' Dan Aulds birthday this year. And then forgot to give him the CD.

Apologies Dan. Have a listen to it on the plane to Chicago instead.

Dan The Banana Man - Nettles Brothers String Band 3:08

Danny's Dream – Jeane Newman 1:57

Danny Carlisle - Vic Chesnutt 2:56

Danny Says - Tom Waits 3:05

Hustlin' Dan - Bessie Smith 3:20

ichi dan - Hofuku Sochi 8:31

Midnight Dan – Julia Moody 3:36

Nasty Dan – Johnny Cash 2:07

Danny Boy – Johnny Cash 3:19

Red Hot Dan - Fats Waller 3:21

Rollin' Danny – The Fall 2:25

August/July "PottaCast"

2007-08-14T13:05:00.000-07:00

Side A (right click, "save as...")
Side B (right click, "save as...")

A delayed missive, one from 'up the flue' as it were, dug out and sieved from my summer listening. It includes some traditional 'summer faves' like carnival choices Royal Rasses and Tempo 70, less traditionally summery old faves like Rapeman's cover of ZZ Tops "Just Got Paid" , the House of Love and a lot of new stuff as well, M.I.A, Hull's Thief, the slinky girl funk of Belleruche, Stars, Bullion's 'dillaed' take on pet sounds and Department of Eagles amongst them.

The Department of Eagles record is a particularly 'odd' record. I love the first three tracks and then was completely ambivalent towards the rest. "Noam Chomsky Spring Break: 2002" is though, one of the best song titles I have stumbled across in the last few years. I can never believe Thief are from Hull. They sound nothing like a band from Hull, in my ears at any rate, should sound like. Thankfully though, they are nothing like the Beautiful South. Or The Housemartins. There are two tracks from Caribou included (and Robin Guthrie musters two as well): Caribou 'cos one is a Four Tet re-work and Robin Guthrie just because I have really been enjoying his 'old-gaze' through our miserable, rainy July and August...

The Day Star – Robin Guthrie

God Only Knows - Bullion

Down Down - Thief

Lazy Eye (Adam Freeland Mix) - Silversun Pickups

Night Starts Here - Stars

Electric Worm - The Beastie Boys

The Overly Dramatic Truth (Main) - El-P

Homage To New York - Organic Grooves

Melody Day (Fout Tet Remix Featuring Luke Lalonde, Adem & On) - Caribou

Noam Chomsky Spring Break 2002 - Department of Eagles

Tonight I Have To Leave It - Shout Out Louds

Northern Girls - Belleruche

El Galleton - Tempo 70

Scorpion – The Budos Band

Unconventional People - The Royal Rasses

Paper Planes - M.I.A.

Used - Soulphiction

Para de Fazer Besteira (4hero Remix) - Marcos Valle

Oh Patrick - The Awkwards

Pretty Voice - Cloud Cult

Soon - Delorean

Savannah Smiles - Okkervil River

Old & Early Numbers - The Cape May

Bees - Caribou

Just Got Paid - Rapeman

Road – The House Of Love

Black Starliner Must Come - Culture

The Prince – The Black Seeds

The Red Queen theme ( aka Country song ) - Pink Floyd

Turn Off the Sun - Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd

radiopotta – late june podcast – side b

2007-07-02T05:46:00.000-07:00

Late arrival, considering it’s july already… however here it is - a playlist for ‘late june’ that begins with Tall Ponys manifesto for a successful relationship ‘I’m your Boyfriend Now’ [“…I will not spend more than three hours at your parents… etc etc”].

Also included is Engineers ‘Sometimes I Realise’ from their second, and now quite possibly, ‘lost’ album. This one is here as it is still sounds like a great single to me.

For me the best albums of the month have been these [admittedly startlingly obvious]
choices, The White Stripes and Fridge.

I’ll be back in a couple of days with a July ‘cast.

Regards,

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I'm Your Boyfriend Now - Tall Pony

Boring - The Pierces

Lovely Allen - Holy Fuck

Tbtf – Kevin Drew

Candlelighted (Kosmische Remix) - Serena Maneesh

Sometimes I Realise - Engineers

Hilli - Amiina

You Don’t Know What Love Is (You Just Do What You’re Told) – The White Stripes

Buried In Teeth - Mariee Sioux

Open Field - Taken By Trees

Eyelids - Fridge

a couple of random listens...

2007-06-28T10:35:00.000-07:00

bed - spacebox

i managed to miss this album when it came out in 2003. it wears it's 'laughing stock' influences on it's sleeve but is still right up my street, and leaves you feeling very 'warm-veined'.

ryan adams - easy tiger

there was a time when i'd have been really excited about a new adams record. easy tiger is the most middle of the road thing i have picked up recently - however it has still got some charm about it. the reviews of it seem to suggest it is his 'best one for ages'. i always get alarm bells when you see reviews like that (it always occurs when artists go through a wall of about ten albums and so prefixes every album review of everyone from the fall to paul mcartney these days) i tend to think it means, 'i can't remember what the last one sounded like - but this ones okay (if you like that kind of thing).

the ting tings

2007-06-27T12:03:00.000-07:00

i'd really recommend giving this lot five minutes of yr time. i know it is a bit 'of the moment' 'bit made at a barfly' - however i still rate it!

radiopotta - early june podcast

2007-06-02T17:17:00.000-07:00

as usual there is a c90 theme going on so here is side a....

there is a darkish, psychedelic-electro-dub feel to this bit of pod. the red screen record, "future rock" is a particular favourite from this year - as are both the gudren gut/thomas fehlmann "i put a record on" and apparats "arcadia". the slowdive reissue of 1995s "pygmalion" fills a retro slot - but sits nicely with what i've been listening to this month...

Red Screen - Strategy

Move Me - Gudrun Gut

Arcadia - Apparat

Forever Heavy - Black Moth Super Rainbow

Crazy For You - Slowdive

Deserter (4Tet remix) - Matthew Dear

Space Jam 2000.17 - Christian Prommer's Drumlesson

Un Beau Jour - Jay Bharadia

djs anonymous

2007-05-24T15:15:00.000-07:00

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

2007-05-21T12:13:00.000-07:00

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

2007-05-20T16:12:00.000-07:00

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

2007-05-20T08:31:00.000-07:00

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

Linkwood And House Of Traps Barely Eagle	1
Floating Points Vacuum Boogie	2
Motor City Drum Ensemble Raw Cuts 5	3
Audion It's Full Of Blinding Light	4
Lee Curtiss Black Door Beauty	5
Dj Pierre I'Ve Lost Control	6
Thomas Brinkmann Isch	7
Efdemin Acid Bells	8
Neurotic Drum Band Robotic Hypnotic Adventure	9
Q&A Tumbling Cubes	10
Slight Delay Can You Feel It	11
The Time And Space Band More Cowbell	12
G&S Portable Control	13
Edancer Pump The Move	14
Infiniti Game One	15
Milton Jackson Falling	16
Dj Qu Party People Clap Your Hands	17
Dennis Ferrer Hey Hey Dub	18
Dennis Ferrer Hey Hey (Vocal)	19
Donnacha Costello Ten Thousand Hours	20
Coco Steel And Lovebomb Feel It	21
Kikumoto All-Stars Jackpot	22