Belated December Pottacast

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...

October Pottacast

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'
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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

late august podcast parts i and ii

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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download: pottacast part I

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

download: pottacast part II

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