August/July "PottaCast"

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

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