RC 220: The Quiet Hours (Harmonices Mundi)

Kepler’s Supernova (1604) in the constellation of Ophiuchus

Music of the Spheres, Clocks, Stars, Einstein on the beach, Ships in rain, Harmony of the universe, Tidal pools, Kepler, Dr Dee, Philip Glass, Shrigley’s StrangeFruit, Supernovas and bad record release dates all in this ambient episode of Radio Clash – from 90′s electronica to modern hypnagogic, spoken word to dub re-edits, to modern classical and folktronica. It’s hopefully several light years from ‘New Age’…but it is as chilled as a black dwarf.

Big thanks go out to Music for Maniacs blog for several of the tracks.

Set Sail for the Roundabout at Barnard’s Star (142Mb, 2:25)

  • Global Communication – 0 54
  • Global Communication – 8 07 (Maiden Voyage)
  • Philip Glass – Dance 1
  • Gold Panda – Same Dream China
  • Jon Brooks – Zukunft Als Konzept
  • Oneohtrix Point Never – I Only Have Eyes For You
  • Balam Acab – Oh, Why
  • Arthur Russell – This Is How We Walk On The Moon
  • Shoes – So What Version
  • Boards Of Canada – Roygbiv
  • David Shrigley – Truce
  • 2econd Class Citizen – Fragments Of A Dream
  • Id Loom – Sublation
  • David Shrigley – What There Is
  • King Creosote & Jon Hopkins – Starboard Home
  • Lanterns On The Lake – Ships In The Rain
  • Eleanor Hovda – Coastal Traces Tidepools 2
  • Richard Hawley – Shallow Brown (Featuring Smoke Fairies)
  • tbc aka Instamatic – Her Breath is The Wind (Rhiannon’s Breath)
  • Fleetwood Mac – Sisters of the Moon (Piano Demo)
  • Aphex Twin – Lichen
  • Ulrich Schnauss – You Were The Only One Around
  • David Shrigley – Joy
  • M83 – Let men burn stars
  • David Shrigley – I Am Good
  • Plaid – Anything
  • Boards Of Canada – One Very Important Thought
  • Tom Middleton – Lament

Womack is Back

Heard this via Cerys On 6′s show from Sunday, they’ve been playing this a lot on BBC 6Music but unusually it’s not an old 2011 release, the album’s not released yet apart from this single. I thought on first listen this was a mashup, it sounds closer to Jamie XX’s post-remix work on Gil Scott-Heron rather than anything that comes out of studios nowadays. Production is by Damon Albarn and Richard Russell, and it goes a little way of reclaiming Damon’s career post that partly laughable heynonnynony of Dr Dee (for the record I don’t hate all the LP, might play some of it on the podcast, but some of it really doesn’t work especially packaged as a solo LP). Anyway the LP also titled ‘Bravest Man In The Universe’ is out early June.

Old Skool Jungle FIRE!

This came in via the contact form, and pushes all my old-skool jungle buttons. It’s the debut single from Kamistry No. 1 – like Fire especially. Booyaka! *gunshot*

Next single is out in July, on the results of the first one, check it!

Dem Girls Stealing My Rolex – 4 years later mashup confession

Being a Man Of Many Aliases (some of which have never been shared, dear reader) after DJNoNo and before I was Captain Obvious (and round about the same time as DJ Contaminations) I did a single spoof track by Buyrite Soundsystem, a spoof of a few friends of mine and their Rolex/Wiley connection, and the general tendency for neon, whoop-whoop lazer noises and deep basslines predominant at the time. Except rather than a cool 4×4 UK bass (yes that’s what they called it, 4×4 rather than 2-step, silly term) mashup, Zig & Zag got in on the mix.

Must have been doing something right as APC posted it back in the day, but now I can confess it was I, L’Eclair. Although anyone with half a brain probly worked it out, given that it sounded like DJNoNo Goes Neon Hoxton Rave.

Buyrite Soundsystem – Dem Girls Stealing My Rolex

The Frown

If you cross Peter Greenaway with a pop video, you get this spooky gem ‘The National’ from The Frown. They’re from South Africa, and Spoek Mathambo shouted them out on BBC Radio 6 yesterday.