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...

radiopotta – late june podcast – side b

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,

radiopotta – late june podcast – side b

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

radiopotta - early june podcast

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

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

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