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Description: Exuberance/Ebullience, banter, possibly an interview, context and connection, the familiar, the strange.
Find: Symphonies of Treble, Words Of Expectation, stab, skronk, shimmer, sheen, The New Sound of Now, Ideas for Walls, pleasure, pith, Flutter and Wow, Motorik, cowbells, disco akimbo, at least one Cantankerous Singer, The German Language, shards of glass, Ethiopian Punk, organic, synthetic, sawtooths & squarewaves, Library Riffage, yesterday's recipes, the wrong speed, intentional static, floating, ethereal, time and timelessness.
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Music behind DJ: Seascapers |
Comforting Ocean Waves 2
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Sound of Beach and Sea Waves |
Phantom Void |
2020 |
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| Whitey |
Meet The New Boss (Big Smile Reprise)
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Life Support | NoLabel | 2024 | This guy never stops, and never fails to deliver. Just a few short months after his last release, London's Whitey drops another set of songs. He works primarily in the alternative pop field, bringing in elements of pop, rock, classical and electronic; with influences from many other genres and mediums, for example, Charleston, swing, psychedelia, metal, acid house, cut-up poetry and found sounds. His sounds has been described to contain various styles of music such as alternative rock, bedroom pop, electronic, electronica, carnival, synthpop, indie rock, post-punk revival, neo-psychedelia, new wave and alternative dance....however this song feels like a pt. II of one of my favourites of his "People" and I would like a full album of organ music next from him.... | * | 0:02:22 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Chris Imler |
Was Ist Mit Uns?
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Der Spielmacher | Staadsakt | 2017 | Chris Imler is an industry veteran, a jack-of-all-trades, a drum dandy, a beat prophet, and an unmatched player in the Berlin indie scene. He has generated rhythm for artists as diverse as the Golden Showers, Jens Friebe, and, most recently, Oum Shatt, but most of all he works for himself: Chris Imler – Chris Imler solo – Chris Imler live. Imler’s live performances always grow out of rhythm. His beats and samples, which are both pre-programmed and played live, form the backbones of his songs. In a cold-sweated style à la DAF or evoking a present-day Cabaret Voltaire, these songs bring together melodies and lyrics that take root somewhere between the gold buyers of Kreuzberg and the concrete techno dungeons of the big city. | 0:05:53 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Disco Teeth |
Cab Calloway
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DEBUT | Disco Teeth | 2014 | Mystery band Disco Teeth has released several other albums, including: Let Daddy Die (2016), Fell In Love With A Girl (2020), The Dance (2017), and Psychic Debt in the Sunset of the Grotto (2016)... | 0:08:54 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| The Real Jobs |
Hogs
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Droolers | Apollon Records | 2024 | This is the sound of some bad fun being had. Bergen Norway's The Real Jobs debut album 'Droolers' is here. Late night tales told on evil sounding Synth, aggressive, hypnotic drums, guitar that's more noise than melody and then of course the words and vocals that set the scene, make you doubt your own morals and nuke your comfort zone. Torch the house and ride to infinity (wtf?)! Eirik Marinius Sandvik (Heatwaves, Jon Olav Nilsen & Nordsjoen, Lint) and Jonas Særsten (Heatwaves,Shaman Elephant, Atari) decided to make themselves a recording project where anything goes. The ugliest, the wildest. Whatever you feel like. Eirik invited long time collaborator Bryn Bowen (The Shalfonts, Mountain Cloth) to guest vocal on a track and their first single This Playboy signs it Blood was cut in a single take. The song needed some guitar noise. William Mangerøy Jensen (Lint) did his take and the recording project morphed into a full on band. The Real Jobs merge dark electronica and krautrock then somehow blend it through a kind of 90's/00's alternative melodic filter. Think beak< meets lifter puller meets Jawbreaker. The name comes from the George Thouroughgood & The Destroyers song "Get a haircut" (and get a real job) | 0:10:52 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Brutus VIII & This Is Lorelei |
Building a Bomb (RMX)
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Gluttony Remixed | Brutus VIII | 2024 | Brutus VIII is the brainchild of Jackson Katz (Slow Hollows). Through insane live performances that border on performance art, Brutus has cultivated a cult following amongst the Los Angeles DIY scene that continues to grow. On Building a Bomb: “It’s me poking fun at performative political activism while also expressing some fears about domestic terrorism,” he shares. “In the last decade it seems casual mass violence has become the new normal. This makes me profoundly uncomfortable. The lyrics and music are written to reflect that.” | * | 0:14:06 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Data Animal |
Crypto Fugitive
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Chemical Cowboy | DedStrange | 2024 | Data Animal is the second signing to Oliver Ackermann's (A Place To Bury Strangers, Death By Audio) label, Dedstrange. Data Animal stake a claim in this lawless austerity-stricken frontier armed to the teeth with serrated drum machine beats sharper than a bullwhip’s crack cut with acidic fuzzed-out power chords more electrifying than a tongue across the terminals of a 9v battery. It’s Data Animal’s world—we’re just trying to survive in it. | * | 0:18:12 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Thank |
Down With The Sickness
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I Have A Physical Body That Can Be Harmed | Big Scary Monsters | 2024 | The Rock Band Thank From Leeds’ concoction of anxious disco grooves, harsh noise freakouts and inscrutable sprechgesang bluster was borne out of their hometown’s notorious – and now sadly defunct – DIY collective CHUNK. After the release of their debut full length ‘Thoughtless Cruelty’ in 2022 and a smattering of EPs and split releases, the band is back with their sophomore album 'I Have A Physical Body That Can Be Harmed’, a volatile yet joyously cathartic post-punk record. “Thematically all the old classics are in there – sex, death, and Twitter brainrot. I don’t think I’m necessarily trying to say anything I haven’t tried to say before, I’ve just gotten better at saying it. I still hate landlords, I still hate right wing grifters, I still hate people who hide their cruelty behind progressive language. I do hate myself quite a bit less, so there’s some hope and positivity in there too, as a treat.”...'I Have A Physical Body That Can Be Harmed’ is a brash, satirical and downright stomping full length that combines the raw ferocity of the band’s early work with the ambitious arrangements and electronic experimentation of their more recent output. The end result combines hardware techno squelch, jungle-inspired drumming, synth pop bombast and anarcho-punk spartan aggression, acid-fried and internet-poisoned with a shit-eating grin on its face, landing somewhere akin to The Cure’s ‘The Head On The Door’ if it was remixed by ‘Jenny Death’- era Death Grips. | * | 0:21:13 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: Kurt Schick, Symphonia Orchestra |
Gorgeous Girl
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The Golden Age of Light Music: Table for Two |
Guild GMBH |
2015 |
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| Squid |
Crispy Skin
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Cowards | Warp | 2024 / 2025 | From NME: "Squid share dystopian single ‘Crispy Skin’ and announce new album ‘Cowards’ / The record is set to see the band explore folk, psychedelia, jazz and electronica //// By Liberty Dunworth / 13th November 2024 //// "Marking their third studio album, ‘Cowards’ is set for release on February 7, and explores nine stories where protagonists reckon with cults, charisma and apathy – with the band exploring the divide between right and wrong. //// It is also set to see Squid push the boundaries of their sound, with the English art rock quintet exploring inspirations of folk, kosmische, psychedelia, jazz and electronics. //// To celebrate the announcement, the band have shared the first preview of the record in the form of lead single ‘Crispy Skin’. The song comes as the opening track for the LP, and takes on inspiration from a dystopian world. //// “Am I the bad one? / Yep, yes I am / I couldn’t eat another thing / No more pages and pages of crispy skin,” sings frontman Ollie Judge, taking on a tense and paranoid sound. The lyrics of the song come partly inspired by the novel ‘Tender Is The Flesh’, which depicts a dystopian vision where cannibalism is the norm." //// “‘Crispy Skin’ was lyrically inspired by a dystopian novel I read where cannibalism becomes the societal norm and humans are manufactured and sold in supermarkets,” Judge explained of the inspiration. “I think when most people read books like these they picture themselves as the sort of person that would take the moral high ground within these narratives. //// “The track was written about how the reality of having a moral-compass in these stories of desperation and horror would be extremely difficult.” //// [The] music video for the single... ...is directed by Takashi Ito and adapts his award-winning experimental short film Zone (1995). Squid - Crispy Skin (Official Video) //// As for the album as a whole, ‘Cowards’ was recorded at Church Studios in Crouch End with Mercury Prize-winning producer Marta Salogni and Grace Banks. It also comes produced by Dan Carey, who also recorded the band’s first two albums. //// Mixed in Seattle and mastered in New York, contributions to the record also come from Danish experimental songsmith Clarissa Connelly, Tony Njoku (composer, pianist and singer), Rosa Brook from punk group Pozi, Zands Duggan (percussion), and Jonny Greenwood collaborators the Ruisi Quartet for violin, viola and cello. //// “The range of sound allowed Squid to push out further, writing arrangements that build into crescendo before sheer drops into discrete melody,” reads a press release. “Fleeting voices in eerie rounds, evoke prehistoric song and nursery rhyme." | * | 0:32:38 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Primal Scream |
Innocent Money
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Come Ahead | BMG | 2024 | A surprise call from producer David Holmes helped to spur on ‘Come Ahead’. Bobby Gillespie had thought 2016’s ‘Chaosmosis’ might have been their last album. Instead, here's the 2024 full-length, the 13th record Gillespie has released with Scream, though the only consistent members are now himself and guitarist Andrew Innes. //// "Primal Scream’s current lineup includes Gillespie, who is joined by guitarist Andrew Innes, drummer Darrin Mooney, and bassist Simone Butler. However, primary songwriter Gillespie wrote most of the album starting in 2022 and recorded it between Belfast, London, and Los Angeles with producer David Holmes, Innes, and a host of session musicians. / Multi-instrumentalist Jason Falkner, who has worked with Beck and Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, provides some solid bass work." //// This song features the spoken word of Renee Alleyne, a member of the 'House Gospel Choir', who perform on multiple tracks throughout the album. | * | 0:38:53 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Kim Deal |
Big Ben Beat
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Nobody Loves You More | Kim Deal / 4AD | 2024 | Deal's first bonafide solo album is a wonderfully diverse and satisfying affair. This song is the one with the most menace, which instantly makes it amongst my favourites. From Exclaim!: "Kelley Deal, Jim MacPherson, Mando Lopez and original Breeders drummer Britt Walford all had a hand in Nobody Loves You More, and that's not even mentioning former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer and producer Steve Albini, whose unmistakable drum sound is all over the record, as woolly and stark as ever. //// Deal built a lot of Nobody Loves You More in ProTools, carving out a version of the record that was confined to her computer screen. Eventually, she knew she'd taken it as far she could in the world of zeroes and ones — it was time to get physical. //// "A lot of recording was done there with [Albini]. He did these really elegant recordings of strings that are so gorgeous," Deal says... //// ...Albini's wild sonic lineage might have seeped into Deal's psyche as she conjured Nobody Loves You More. The album has Deal's rattling, meat-and-potatoes skeleton, but its softer parts are built with strings and horns and twinkling keyboards, a lushness that the Deal of the mid-'90s would've scoffed at. //// "I think I've gotten more weirdly interested in [songwriting]," Deal says. "I'm playing a song, and then I hear strings in my head, and instead of just ignoring it, I'm like, 'Now wait a minute, those sound cool!' Maybe this song can have strings. How can I get what I hear in my head into the air?" //// She adds, "And [now I have] this patience and this real curiosity. And then the incredibly awkward, non-graceful way of getting that [sound], which is really hard for me. But I enjoy it."" | * | 0:45:25 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Julian Cope |
Poet Is Priest...
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Jehovakill | Universal / Island Records Ltd. | 1992 / 2006 | Something about that last Kim Deal song reminds me of this song, too. We played the 21:36 minute version of this song from the 2006 deluxe version at the end of one of our shows once... This is the version that is on the album proper. The vocal hook in the chorus used to bug the shit out of me... But now I don't mind it at all. I used to be so annoyed by this song, now I love it. Go figure. //// "Jehovahkill is the eighth album by Julian Cope, released in 1992. After the critical success of Peggy Suicide (1991), Cope's idea for Jehovakill was to incorporate a krautrock attitude into his music. He began recording the album with musicians Rooster Cosby and Donald Ross Skinner, while co-producing it with the latter. The sessions yielded what Cope considered to be his most sonically experimental material to date. Originally titling the record Julian H. Cope, he sent an eleven track version to Island Records, who initially rejected its release, but gave Cope extra recording sessions for the album. During the extra sessions, in which six extra songs were recorded, the album became harder and was retitled Jehovahkill. //// Inspired by prehistoric monuments, the album features ancient, pre-Christian heathen and pagan themes, while commenting on "the destructiveness of mainstream religion." The theme spread to the packaging, with the cover depicting the Callanish Stones, a site with a cruciform layout that predates Christ by at least 2,000 years. Musically, the album combines krautrock with a dark folk sound." | 0:49:05 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Music behind DJ: James Brandon Lewis Trio |
Five Spots To Caravan
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Apple Cores |
Anit- |
2024 / 2025 |
Released Nov 19. -- From Jazzwise: James Brandon Lewis Trio announce new album and share first single ‘Five Spots to Caravan’ //////// "Rising star US saxophonist James Brandon Lewis returns with his fiery new Trio album, Apple Cores, in early 2025. It was recorded with longtime collaborators Chad Taylor (drums/mbira) and Josh Werner (bass/guitar), and through a collective compositional process that happened over the course of two intense, and – remarkably given how astutely realised the music sounds – entirely improvised sessions. Lewis’ second album for ANTI-, Apple Cores will be released on 7 February 2025. ////////// Speaking of the record Lewis says: “If you don’t spend time with your band, you’re not going to really trust that moment. I think we’ve spent enough time together to where we can do that. I’ve been playing Chad for like ten years, so that’s like water right there and me and Josh have been playing together since 2018.” //// The album takes its name and intention from the column that poet and jazz theorist Amiri Baraka wrote for DownBeat in the 1960s. “I was first exposed to Amiri Baraka at Howard University [also Baraka’s alma mater],” says Lewis. “Blues People [Baraka’s groundbreaking 1963 study of Black American music], was required reading. I’m always in constant dialogue with his work”. //// In addition to Baraka, the influence of another jazz giant looms mightily over Apple Cores: trumpeter and multi-instrumentalist, Don Cherry. In a testament to Cherry’s influence over the music that the trio is playing, Lewis designed each song title as a cryptogram of sorts, making subtle references to Cherry’s life and music. //// ‘Five Spots to Caravan’ is a multi-layered reference to Don Cherry’s creative arc and travels as a musician; It nods to New York’s famed Five Spot where Ornette Coleman made his New York City debut in the fall of 1959 alongside Cherry. Also joined by the drummer Billy Higgins and Charlie Haden on bass, this residency signalled the arrival of Coleman’s radical avant-garde experiments to jazz’s mainstream. The “caravan” in the song’s title is a reference to the Caravan of Dreams performing arts centre in Coleman’s hometown, Fort Worth, Texas. //// His 16th album, Apple Cores further cements Lewis as one of the provocative and prolific musical voices of his generation. It follows his breakthrough with JazzTimes’ ‘Album of the Year’ Jesup Wagon (2021), a dreamlike mosaic of gospel, folk-blues, and catcalling brass bands inspired by inventor George Washington Carver, and Eye Of I (2023), his joyous and exploratory debut for ANTI-." |
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| Warmduscher |
Top Shelf
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Too Cold to Hold | Strap Originals | 2024 | took a long hit on the pipe… and I felt my body slowly dissolve into digital dots” intones Irvine Welsh as Warmduscher’s latest record begins. That their fifth album begins with this surreal spoken-word tale does not feel in the least bit surprising. Their music has, after all, always felt a bit like a messy acid trip, full of debauched stories about the seedy underbelly of modern life. Yet, if the start of Too Cold To Hold is faintly predictable, the rest of the album opens up into something rather more unexpected. The band have always weaved elements of hip-hop and jazz into their messed-up punk-funk but here they’ve refined it and pushed it forward. The sounds seem richer and more ambitious. What was once chaotic seems more artfully controlled. The band, dare we say it, feel like they’ve grown up a little? With Too Cold To Hold, Warmduscher have, five albums in, acknowledged they’re older and wiser – but these songs show that doesn’t mean the party has to stop. | * | 1:03:42 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Jennifer French |
Telephone
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Telephone Single | Jennifer French | 2024 | “‘Telephone’ started as two synth bass tracks I wrote on a MicroKORG in my room. I loved the simplicity and repetitive pattern, like the hum of a refrigerator or the buzz of an old light fixture. I added a synth lead written on a Minilogue and programmed the initial kick and snare, which were later replaced by live drums from Vinny Earley. He also contributed the wild, textured guitar sounds. For vocals, I experimented with different styles before layering two tracks throughout most of the song, except for the bridge—a swirling voicemail vortex of telephone sounds. Lyrically, it’s a sarcastic, snotty take on the annoyance of someone constantly complaining over the phone, a feeling we’ve all experienced and probably caused, too! Co-produced and co-mixed with Vinny Earley and mastered by Andrew Oswald ” New Solo music from 1/2 of Cobra Man! | * | 1:06:43 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Decius, Lias Saoudi, Al White |
Walking in the Heat
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Birth of a Smirk | London-based electronic ‘super group’ Decius, composed of Lias Saoudi (Fat White Family), Quinn Whalley (Paranoid London, Warmduscher), and Trashmouth Records’ Luke and Liam May, returns with their latest single, This new track offers a glimpse into their forthcoming album, Vol. II: Splendour & Obedience, set for release on January 31, 2025, via The Leaf Label. Known for their acid house roots and unconventional sound, Decius hints at a more song-oriented approach this time around. The video for Walking In The Heat sees lead singer Lias Saoudi escorted to a car wash in the back of the vehicle - a 1970s Lotus Elan - which he then cleans in a passionate, homoerotic montage. Blending comedy with some great character work, Trask brings out some surprisingly heartwarming moments amongst all the gyrating and hose spilling, reflecting the solace and rebellion Saoudi shares in the bond with his vehicle. It's weird, but in a very good way. | * | 1:09:16 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
| BGourd & Beansprouts |
Whack
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Veggie Wraps Vol. 3 | WATF | 2021 | Ride with the king of the castle, Singaporean rapper BGourd as he rhymes about planes, cars, and introspects about life. " I decided to become a vegetable about three years ago when the urge to become a rapper struck. Fun fact: Did you know bitter gourd is a great cure for hangovers and cleanses the liver?....I guess I try to not take myself too seriously when I make music? Especially when it comes to my brand of hip-hop. Being able to take a step back to laugh at myself is something I have to do; it helps me with the macro perspective. At the end of the day, I just write bars that make myself laugh and if some of it rubs off on my listeners, I’m glad....I believe there’s a fine line between ‘not taking yourself too seriously’ and making well-thought-about music. I try my best to stay balanced on that line. So with respect to Halal Sol’s production, I had to research and experiment with different kinds of flow, so at least the resulting flow would complement the beats and vice versa. Really just considering the gestalt." | 1:14:09 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Good Sad Happy Bad |
Mirror Mirror
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All Kinds of Days | Textile Records | 2024 | Good Sad Happy Bad (formerly known as Micachu and the Shapes) is back with a new record! Raisa Khan, CJ Calderwood, and Marc Pell rejoin Mica Levi on a particularly lo-fi intimate and shruggingly optimistic album that sensitively, soberly deals with themes of “loss, grief, recovery, healing, home building and parenthood” in their droll London manner, and thru a prism of spidery guitar jangles, harmonised choruses and slacker drums surely owing to C86 sounds as much as West Coast US indie and the explosion of ‘90s Brit-pop indie. Finding a home on french label Textile Records, where they’re in good company amid a catalogue studded with works by Joanne Robertson, Jackie O Motherfucker, and Movietone, the album appears as though it could have been issued at any point over the past 30 years, attributable in part to unshowy production that simply frames the band doing their thing, cycling between charmingly glum bookends of ‘After Spirit’ and the psychogeography of ‘Find My Way’, via spikier post-punk indie skronk pep in ‘Shaded Tree’ and the urgency of ‘DIY’, with the latter one of a number featuring CJ Calderwood’s vocals, and uncannily reminding us of David Shrigley and co’s overlooked gem ‘Shrigley Forced to Speak With Others’ on the likes of ‘Twist The Handle’ or . Meanwhile Raisa Khan sounds great on the sort of raga-drone indie sway to ‘Guiding Light’, especially when joined by the others in choral harmony, and in the scuffed but prim shuffle of ‘Mirror Mirror’. | * | 1:16:05 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Death Sells |
Despair
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Death Sells | Death Sells | 2024 | "More Gone Than You" Death Sells is a Dutch band that bridges the gap between grunge, noise and punk. This newborn band is still playing in a pool of tinnitus-inducing dissonance, bone-breaking riffs and songs more relatable than your average tiktok feed. | * | 1:18:10 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Aquaserge |
Escalade
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New Information Order EP | Crammed Discs | 2024 | Aquaserge’s resolutely polymorphous music draws from sources as diverse as pop, free jazz, psych, noise, experimental rock from the 1960s and 70s (think kraut to Canterbury to ZNR et al), vintage Italian & French film music, all ingested and playfully transmuted into their own, unique, cinematographic sound. The EP sees the band further display their love for allegoric music, non-visual films, ostinatos, format-free songs, and keep spinning the thread of their socio-poetical idea...the EP also contains a Robert Wyatt cover...N.I.O New Information | * | 1:21:26 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: Jonny Trunk |
The Horn
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The Inside Outside |
Trunk Records |
2004 |
Jonny Trunk, born Jonathan Benton-Hughes, is an English writer, broadcaster and DJ as well as the owner and founder of Trunk Records. |
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| Sleaford Mods / Hot Chip |
Cat Burglar
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NOM NOM / CAT BURGLAR [Single] | Friendly Records / War Child | 2024 | New! Collab! Physically available (profits to War Child) as a limited ed. 900 copy 7". Digitally, streaming only. "**ONLY ONE COPY PER PERSON! MULTIPLE ORDERS WILL BE CANCELLED!** //////// Sleaford Mods + Hot Chip - Friendly Records War Child 7” //////// Sleaford Mods and Hot Chip have united for a collaborative joint seven-inch single featuring new tracks Nom Nom Nom and Cat Burglar, which were recorded at Abbey Road Studios. The limited edition neon yellow vinyl 7” is being released with Friendly Records in aid of the War Child charity. Limited edition of just 900. Sleeve artwork by David Shrigley. All profits will go to the brilliant War Child charity. //////// THIS IS A PHYSICAL RELEASE ONLY - NO DIGITAL TRACKS INCLUDED WITH PURCHASE!" https://sleafordmods.bandcamp.com/album/nom-nom-cat-burglar | * | 1:32:35 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Claudia |
Red
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You/Door | Self-released (Bandcamp) | 2024 | Released Nov 23, Hamilton's Claudia is, in fact, Drew from Banananananana. We've asked him to share his thought of the day each time we played a Claudia piece on the show... Didn't have time to arrange it this time, so fill in your own thoughts... _________________. This is a three track "pay what you wish" EP avail. on Bandcamp. https://claudiaclaudia.bandcamp.com | * | 1:36:47 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Fat Dog |
Peace Song
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Peace Song [Digital Single] | Domino Recording Co Ltd | 2024 | Released Nov 21, 2024. Choir [Vocals] – Budding Vocals. //////// From Stereogum --- "Fat Dog emerged this year with their zany debut album WOOF. and memorable live performances that exploded with the ebullient chaos of their music. Today, the UK band is back with the ironically titled “Peace Song.”///////// As usual, the tune comes with a just-as-jarring visual. The music video, made by James Ogram, begins in a pub and quickly morphs into a cartoon of the world ending. There is something somewhat peaceful in Joe Love’s refrain “And I’m in love with the world,” even if the accompanying image is of a city on fire." Fat Dog - Peace Song (Official Video) //// [The band have also announced a run of dates for their 2025 UK headlining tour.] | * | 1:40:45 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| A Place To Bury Strangers |
Join The Crowd
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Synthesizer | Dedstrange | 2024 | Released Oct 4, 2024. "Synthesizer is the title of A Place to Bury Strangers' seventh album. It is also a physical entity, a synthesizer made specifically for A Place to Bury Strangers’ seventh album. Synthesizer is a record that celebrates sounds that are spontaneous and natural, the kind of music that can only come from collaboration and community. It now features a fully collaborative new lineup, with John and Sandra Fedowitz. That spirit of reinvention is all over the record." https://aplacetoburystrangers.bandcamp.com/" | * | 1:43:54 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Everything Is Recorded (Feat. Sampha, Laura Groves, Jah Wobble, & Yazz Ahmed) |
Losing You
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Losing You | XL Recordings | 2024 | Released Nov, 2024. From Stereogum: "Richard Russell came aboard at the London label XL Recordings in the early ’90s, when it released “The Bouncer,” the rave anthem from his duo Kicks Like A Mule. Since then, Russell ascended to label-boss status and oversaw XL as it became a fixture in many different forms of left-of-center music. Since 2017, Russell has been making his own collab-heavy records under the name Everything Is Recorded, and now he’s got a new album on the way. //// A couple of months ago, Richard Russell released the Everything Is Recorded single “Porcupine Tattoo,” featuring the fascinating odd-couple duo of Bill Callahan and Noah Cyrus. That song will appear on Temporary, a new Everything Is Recorded album that will arrive early next year. The LP will also feature people like Florence Welch, Kamasi Washington, Nourished By Time, and Samantha Morton. Bill Callahan makes multiple appearances, and so does Sampha, the soul enigma who’s been working with Russell since he first started Everything Is Recorded. According to a press release, the album came about when Russell wondered, “What if folk music had ‘gone digital’ in the 80s, just as reggae had?” //// Today, Russell shares the new single “Losing You.” It’s a loping, evocative R&B jam, and it mostly serves as a showcase for Sampha, who sounds reliably awesome. It also features avant-folk artist Laura Groves, OG Public Image, Ltd. bassist Jah Wobble, and jazz trumpeter Yazz Ahmed. “Losing You” sounds like music for driving around at night, and that’s what the various musicians do in director Ed Morris’ video, where they play the track while riding in the back of a taxi." | * | 1:48:49 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: Adrian Sherwood, Lee "Scratch" Perry |
Hot Dready
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Five Decades Of Destruction - 10s |
On-U Sound |
2024 |
Release date: 07 November 2024. Not much info on this one that I can find yet. Appears to be digital only. Not sure if it has ever been released in any other form or mix. Basically, ????... But we all love Lee "Scratch" Perry, we all love Adrian Sherwood & we all love On-U Sound... "English record producer & musician, born on 1958-01-20 in London. Sherwood is best known for his On-U Sound label and his dub music, as well as for remixing a number of popular acts such as Coldcut, Depeche Mode, Sinéad O'Connor, Primal Scream or Skinny Puppy. Sherwood is also the founder of the labels Hitrun Records, Green Tea and Sound Boy, and cofounder of Carib Gems & Pressure Sounds. //// His most well-known label is On-U Sound, a name Sherwood sometimes also operates under cf. On-U Sound. He is also the 4th member of industrial hip-hop outfit Tackhead, credited as "mixologist". During the early 1980s he brought together many Jamaican artists under the collective name of Singers & Players including Prince Far I, Mikey Dread, Bim Sherman and many others, this helped promote the individual artists at the same time as promoting the On-U label." |
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Listener comments!
ultradamno:
DJ Babs:
Derek Westerholm:
Scott_Oz:
It's definitely desert weather here today, apart from 33% humidity, it's 32°C. So I'm in Daisy Dukes & a sleeveless T-shirt withacold can in hand of course.. Cheers!
🩴🩴🍻😎🤙✂️👖👕
ultradamno:
Will thee SG OCNY:
Aitch:
Scott_Oz:
DJ Babs:
Derek Westerholm:
prof.fuzz:
( 👁️)
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howdy!
DJ Babs:
DJ Babs:
DJ Babs:
Derek Westerholm:
Aitch:
ultradamno:
Derek Westerholm:
DJ Babs:
Derek Westerholm:
DJ Babs:
Derek Westerholm:
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ultradamno:
Scott_Oz:
Will thee SG OCNY:
Derek Westerholm:
Avspuk:
DJ Babs:
DJ Babs:
DJ Babs:
Derek Westerholm:
ultradamno:
v-dawg:
v-dawg:
DJ Babs:
Alli B:
Avspuk:
It's cold here, but OK othetwise
Will thee SG OCNY:
laurapanic:
Derek Westerholm:
Derek Westerholm:
DJ Babs:
Derek Westerholm:
Scott_Oz:
It was 87% when I got up, but the sun in a cloudless sky dried it up a bit.
🍻😎🤙💨🍹🌻
DJ Babs:
ultradamno:
laurapanic:
laurapanic:
DJ Babs:
ultradamno:
Derek Westerholm:
Kat in the chat:
coelacanth∅:
v-dawg:
Derek Westerholm:
v-dawg:
Tell us how you really feel.
Kat in the chat:
Derek Westerholm:
Kat in the chat:
laurapanic:
Derek Westerholm:
coelacanth∅:
Derek Westerholm:
ultradamno:
v-dawg:
-So if this is essentially worthless, aren't you running at a loss?
-YES!
coelacanth∅:
but, back at ya!
Kat in the chat:
Derek Westerholm:
Derek Westerholm:
DJ Babs:
ultradamno:
DJ Babs:
DJ Babs:
Kat in the chat:
prof.fuzz:
for example, the redhead had an emergency appendectomy four days before we got married, and she remembers almost nothing of the wedding and reception thanks to heavy-duty pain meds.
DJ Babs:
Kat in the chat:
Derek Westerholm:
DJ Babs:
DJ Babs:
Derek Westerholm:
Derek Westerholm:
prof.fuzz:
DJ Babs:
Derek Westerholm:
DJ Babs:
Derek Westerholm:
Kat in the chat:
DJ Babs:
Derek Westerholm:
DJ Babs:
Kat in the chat:
ultradamno:
DJ Babs:
DJ Blush:
Derek Westerholm:
Derek Westerholm:
ultradamno:
Kristine:
DJ Babs:
Derek Westerholm:
DJ Babs:
DJ Blush:
Derek Westerholm:
DJ Babs:
Awww Thanknyou!!! ❤️
Kristine:
Kristine:
DJ Blush:
DJ Blush:
Kristine:
DJ Babs:
DJ Blush:
ultradamno:
Addams Family mastodon.social...
DJ Blush:
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DJ Blush:
Kristine:
coelacanth∅:
DJ Babs:
DJ Babs:
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coelacanth∅:
(sorry TOTALLY kidding!)
Congratulations!
DJ Babs:
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coelacanth∅:
Kristine:
DJ Babs:
coelacanth∅:
Alli B:
DJ Babs:
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ultradamno:
DJ Babs:
Kristine:
Alli B:
DJ Babs:
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Alli B:
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DJ Blush:
DJ Blush:
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Derek Westerholm:
Alli B:
DJ Blush:
Kristine:
ultradamno:
ultradamno:
DJ Blush:
DJ Babs:
DJ Babs:
DJ Blush:
DJ Blush:
DJ Blush:
Derek Westerholm:
DJ Babs:
coelacanth∅:
DJ Blush:
northguineahills:
DJ Babs:
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Kristine:
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Avspuk:
But that wasn't about the Sleafords??? 😉
DJ Babs:
prof.fuzz:
Kristine:
northguineahills:
DJ Babs:
Derek Westerholm:
prof.fuzz:
Kristine:
DJ Babs:
northguineahills:
Kristine:
northguineahills:
DJ Babs:
northguineahills:
DJ Babs:
Derek Westerholm:
DJ Babs:
Derek Westerholm:
northguineahills:
Kristine:
northguineahills:
DJ Babs:
Kristine:
DJ Babs:
Ppl in Vegas were surprised it was our first barricade LOL. The gal who officiated for us was badass too.
DJ Babs:
Scott_Oz:
🌏🌞🍻😎🤙💨🍷🍷🍺🍺🌻
DJ Babs:
prof.fuzz:
northguineahills:
DJ Babs:
northguineahills:
prof.fuzz:
Kristine:
Kat in the chat:
v-dawg:
DJ Babs:
coelacanth∅:
Avspuk:
My inner ocd persona feeled sated now 😉
Derek Westerholm:
laurapanic:
laurapanic: