And another podcast slips out – what’s gotten into me?

To honour 10 years in the Old Smoke I’ve a two-part podcast for you about London – first one is full of those songs about moving to the Emeraldine city, and visiting Buckingham Palais and going down on Alice, doing the Lambeth Stalk and having a rather (too much of a?) good time, down at the Old Bull and Bush Ye Olde Weatherspoons.

Nah actually we take the sideroutes that only the locals know and the London tunes Nobody Sings (not only a reference to this great documentary, but also a great blog I owe a lot to for these shows, as well as the Wikipedia entry for London songs, and James O’Malley aka @Psythor and his London Musical Map) – and take a journey to the lesser known musical Metropolis. Yes that means no flipping Waterloo Sunset, sorry

No umbrellas, bedknobs, broomsticks or psychotic nannies or chimney sweeps needed…(66Mb, 85Mins)

P.S. Forgot to say the Peter Sellers is for my dad…he loves that track

• Rolf Harris – London Town
• Lord Kitchener – London Is The Place For Me
• Man Like Me – London Town (feat. JME) (Bass Line House Vocal Remix)
• Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine – The Only Living Boy in New Cross
• Dynamo City – One Night In Hackney
• Beverley – Where The Good Times Are
• Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich – Last Night In Soho
• Saint Etienne – London Belongs To Me (Richard X Remix from FoxBase Beta)
• The Clientele – Losing Haringey
• Magna Carta – Parliament Hill
• John and Beverley Martyn Primrose Hill
• Belle and Sebastian – Mornington Crescent
• Peter Sellers – Balham, Gateway to the South
• Saint Etienne – Girl VIII (Richard X Remix from FoxBase Beta)
• David Devant and His Spirit Wife – Pimlico
• Pulp – 59 Lyndhurst Grove

A bumper show of 3 months worth of delayed music. Twas the storm’s fault, you see. A quiet storm…one you could hardly hear, but yet so loud.

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. (121Mb, 180 mins)

• The Big Pink – Velvet
• Therapy? – Opal Mantra (Studio version)
• Culturcide – Pass For Normal
• The Kleptones – This Song Smells (from Uptime/Downtime)
• Fuck Buttons – Olympians
• Klutae – We Are Sinners (We Will All Burn In Hell)
• Reso – If Ya Can’t Beat Em – Original Mix
• The Horrors – Sea Within A Sea
• Broken Dongles – Only Idiots Assume
• Klutae – I’m A Fat Faggot In A Leather Jacket
• Anti-Nowhere League – Degeneration
• The Drums – I Felt Stupid
• Sub Focus – Timewarp
• Nu:Tone – Balaclava In My System
• Semi-Not – Disco Communist (from MusicforManiacs blog)
• Ivor Cutler – Out with the Light
• Hot Chip – Brothers
• Gil Scott-Heron – Black History/ The World
• Mikey Dread – Saturday Night Style mixed with bits from:
  Mikey Dread – Mikey Dread In Action
  Mikey Dread – Technical Selection
  Mikey Dread – JBC Days
• J-Live – Satisfied?
• Gil Scott-Heron – Home Is Where The Hatred Is
• King Britt featuring Ursula Rucker – Human Beings want to be Happy
• Viv Stanshall – The Question
• Big Hard Excellent Fish – The Imperfect List (Version 2)
• HEALTH – Die Slow
• Girls – Hellhole Ratrace
• Linda Thompson – The Way I Love You
• Richard Hawley – As The Dawn Breaks
• The Low Anthem – Cage The Songbird
• Kiki & Herb – Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You
• Sage Francis – Waterline
• Wild Beasts – Cheerio Chaps Cheerio Goodbye
• Viv Stanshall – In The Final Analysis
• Richard Hawley – Don’t Get Hung Up in Your Soul

As I mentioned before on the blog I went to Ethiopia and South Africa for 2 weeks, and to honour that occasion and of the 5 years of Radio Clash I resurrected the travel podcasts – with a twist. I shot video on my iPod and camera so there is a complete video podcast of 1 1/2 hours and also here is the full 2 hour music podcast it’s based from.

RC 183: Take Me Back To Africa – video podcast Part 1! from Tim Baker on Vimeo.

Part two:

RC 183: Take Me Back to Africa Part 2 from Tim Baker on Vimeo.

Includes music (and video) from all over Africa – from Ethiopia, South Africa, Nigeria, Malawi, Angola and Kenya, and the first ever solo remix from me, as Fingertrouble – that video will also go live separately, and the track will be available for download.

It Began in Africa-ca-ca-ca (88Mb, 116mins)

• Happy Birthday to RC-C-C!
• The Very Best – The Warm Heart of Africa (Fingertrouble Takes The Boom Bap Back to Africa remix)
• Femi Kuti – Alkebu-Lan (Cradle Of Civilization)
• DJ Mujava – Township Funk (Sinden Rmx)
• The Very Best (Esau Mwamwaya & Radioclit) – Boyz
• Buraka Som Sistema (feat. Dj Znobia) – Luanda/Lisboa
• Fela Kuti – Expensive Shit
• Sahara All Stars Bandjos – Enjoy Yourself
• Mandoza – Noma Guphi
• Zola – Ngudu
• Brenda Fassie – Vulindela
• Miriam Makeba – Remember Sophiatown (Featuring The Skylarks)
• Miss Frenchie – The Lion Sleeps
• Jonas Gwangwa – Sello Sa Matseltapo
• Sir Victor Uwaifo & his Melody Maestroes – Guitar Boy
• The Very Best (Esau Mwamwaya & Radioclit) – Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
• East Africa Bashment Crew – Fire Anthem
• Pitch Black Afro – A Day In the Life
• Aster Aweke – Tchewata
• Gigi – Guramayle
• Miriam Makeba – Kilimanjaro

This work is licenced under a Creative Commons Licence (yes Banksy you can kiss my arse)

I mentioned on Twitter that I was planning a follow-up to these shows, and without even mentioning that the idea was around the theme of first, dorkland aka Walton (Viera?) in Second Life suggested I do a show on the first mashups that got people hooked on them. I did so on Twitter, Get Your Bootleg On forum and this blog and had an amazing response…so amazing that the show has had to be edited down and some of the responses dropped – but I still have 27 amazing tracks which are all classics and part of bootleg/mashup history (and a few were surprises even for me).

Still ended up over 2 hours though! Very much worth it, because it is a 2 hour 20 long mix of some of the most influential and classic bootlegs of all time.

As I said this is part 1 of a series, the next one as it always happens was playlisted first and already included a few mashups and cutups that were mentioned for this show, so those tracks and shouts will be in the next part.

Thanks to all who responded what their first mashup they heard (or wanted to hear) was!

But you know that we’ve changed so much since then, oh yeah (2 hours 20, 110Mb)

Tracklist:

• Girls On Top – Warm Bitch (first mashup for: me & Cartelmike)
• Freelance Hellraiser – A Stroke of Genius (dorkland, LV15, okiokinl)
• Soulwax – Smells Like Teen Booty (iainh, A&D)
• dj french bloke – destiny’s kennedys (eve massacre)
• Soulwax – Skeelo & Eye Of The Tiger (REMIX) (tigermendoza, RebornIdentity)
• Jay-Z + DJ Danger Mouse – 99 Problems (Eternalkhaos)
• DJ EZG – Rockerfaction (ACRoZ, Mighty Mike)
• ? – My Name Is Funk Soul Brother (Veering Axiom)
• Pussy 2000 – It’s Gonna Be Alright (dunproofin)
• Tinman – 18 Strings (Promo mix) (ACROZ)
• Freelance Hellraiser – I Just Can’t Get Enough Purple Pills (GaraGara)
• ? – Last Night Billie Jean Saved My Life (Bob Levingbird)
• Missy Elliott – Get Ur Freak On (X-Press White Label Club Mix) (Oscar TG)
• ECC – Rebel Without A Pause (Pete Juxtaposeur, FM24)
• Osymyso – Intro Inspection (corporation)
• DJ Gauffie – Oops! Slim Shady Did It Again (Norwegian Recycling, DJ Schmolli)
• Jay-Zena – 99 Luft Problems (9freak9)
• Grease Vs Dr Dre & Snoop Dog – You’re The One I Want In The Next Episode (lassoo the moon)
• Girls on Top – We Don’t Give a Damn About Our Friends (Tizwarz, jake9274)
• Soulwax – Dreadlock Child (Lee Spoons)
• Freelance Hellraiser – Step on Man (Ian Fondue)
• Go Home Productions – Jacko Under Pressure (Linus)
• Loo & Placido – Rigby Reggae (CMP)
• DJ Earworm – Stairway to Bootleg Heaven (BenY)
• 10000 Spoons – Whiskey in the Jarre (clivester)
• PartyBen – Boulevard of Broken Songs (psycho acoustic research, WFAH)
• Orbital – Halcyon (Live) (PortPower)

Behold there I was recording a TV/Radio inspired podcast called ‘Switching Channels’ when my signal to the Radio Clash Pirate Satellite(tm) was jammed by my evil nemesis, Juxtaposeur – suddenly my signal was infected with the Bristolian tones of his Skip to the End podcast! Oh noes! *dramatic muzak*

Then I had a brainflush – I reversed the flow of the tachyon flux capacitor and sent my signal to HIS podcast – that’ll teach him! So that means you might have to listen to parts of Radio Clash on Skip to the End here (includes an exclusive never-before released Daft Punk/Spearhead mashup! EXCLOOOSIVE!) but at least it means his evil plans were partly foiled.

Also means it’s the WORLD’S FIRST* live cross-linked podcast thingummy, or something. Thanks to Pete Juxtaposeur for the idea and the swappage, was fun…;-)

Also includes – in various parts spread over the podblogosphereiverse like some Tron lightcycle splat – Emergency Broadcast Network, Ministry, another new mashup by DJNoNo, Culturcide, sick Disco, great drum & bass and some great topical and robotic tunes.

I’m BAD as hell and I’m not going to Beat It anymore!!!! (97Mb, 2 hours)

Trackage:

• Switching Channels intro
• Emergency Broadcast Network – Search
• DJNoNo – YoYoRoll (NEW!)
• Blur – Coffee & TV
  • Skip to the End interruption:
  • Michael J Rocks – Hand-held caves of Babylon
  • Michael J Rocks – Ragged Pussy
  • Pearl and Dean Theme
  • Beardyman – Shop
  • 16 Bit – In the Death Car
  • Yael Naim – Toxic (16 Bit Remix)
  • Crossplys and Radials Don’t Mix
  • Think! Always Leave a 2 Second Gap
  • The Drive of Your Life
  • Sam Appleby – Footbridge if Rendered lo
• Cassetteboy – I Know Michael Jackson
• Negativland – Michael Jackson
• Culturcide – Michael
• Röyksopp – The Girl And The Robot (Davide Rossi Re-Interpretation)
• Eine Kleine Nacht Musik – La Serenissima
• The Bloody Beetroots – We Are From Venice (La Serenissima)
  • Skip to the End interference:
  • Tame Impala – Remember Me
  • Si Begg – 24 Bit Teaser
  • 16 Bit – Swallow
  • RJD2 – True Confession
• WhoMadeWho – Keep Me In My Plane
• Mighty_Mike_-_Fall_Out_Gloria
• The Bloody Beetroots – Samwell -  What What (In The Butt) (Bloody Beetroots Mix)
• Des de Moor and Russell Churney – Boys Keep Swinging (David Bowie)
• Elocnep – Love kalemba or hate kalemba
• MAD Disco – Disco Suicide (via MusicforManiacs)
• Mistabishi – No Matter What
• Anti Nowhere League – So What (single version)
• team9 – No woman no wild (side)
• Fever Ray – Keep The Streets Empty For Me
• Blur – This Is A Low
• Linda Thompson – Beauty
• Lou Barlow – Legendary
• Mistabishi – From Memory
• Emergency Broadcast Network – End of Audio Program

* probably not, but we can hope.

One Hundred and EEEiiiightyyyyy!!!!

Last of the Beatles Podcasts, a bumper edition concentrating on the end of the Beatles, their various followups in mashup and cover form, and John Lennon’s death.

I live near Abbey Road so I just popped out and took these pictures – the ones of the tourists recreating the famous picture (and blocking the traffic in the process) are priceless – including the one below!

Tim you went too far this time…about 2 hours 18 minutes to be exact (138 minutes – EEK! 103Mb)

• The Rutles
• 17 Plombs Pour Peter Les Tubes – Come Together
• The Exterminators – The Beetle-Bomb
• Easy Star All-Stars – With a Little Help from My Friends
• Roy Redmond – Good Day Sunshine
• Wax Audio – Blue Rigby
• Stereo MC’s – Tomorrow Never Knows
• John Peel,John Lennon, Kenny Everett, Malcolm MCdowell – Nostalgia
• Jimmi Jammes – Let A Girl Be
• George Harrison – Pirate Bob
• Keith Lynn & The S.P.M’s & Byron Lee & The Dragonaires – My Sweet Lord
• Go Home Productions – Just Be Good To Paul
• People Like Us – Let Them In
• Ringo Starr with Stevie Nicks – Lay Down Your Arms
• The RIAA Remixes DO or DIY – Lord Only Knows:
• Byron Lee & The Dragonaires – Live And Let Die
• Ferris Bueller’s Day Off – Isms
• Rainbo – John, You Went Too Far This Time
• Yoshida Brothers – Oh, My Love
• Elliott Smith – Jealous Guy
• John Lennon And Kenny Everett – Desert Island Discs
• The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band – Give Booze a Chance
• John Lennon & ATOM – John Lennon-Nobody Told Me (ATOM’s Yin & Yang Mix)
• Yoko Ono – Everyman Everywoman (Basement Jaxx Man 2 Man Mix)
• Mountain Con – Variations on Outkast, The White Strips and John Lennon
• Marianne Faithfull – Working Class Hero (live)
• Wax Audio – God
• The Beatles – John Lennon with Yoko Ono – Interview (Part 2) June 1969
• WFMU – New York, NY Radio / The Night John Lennon Died
• John Lennon with Yoko Ono – Imagine (instrumental)
• team9 vs lennon vs temptations vs morrison – imagine vs ball of confusion vs palestine woman
• rx – imagine…walk on the wild side
• The Kleptones – Imagine The End Of The World
• DJ Earlybird – John Lennon vs the Supremes ‘Baby, imagine Love!’
• Go Home Productions – Imagine The Game
• Lennon – Love (demo)
• John Lennon – Stand By Me (demo?)
• Easy Star All-Stars – A Day in the Life
• Nina Simone – Here Comes The Sun

Here’s the audio(and video if you scroll down) of my International Mash Bash set (btw several inclusions of Lady Sov’s Love Me Or Hate Me means it is a bit sweary in places). The idea of the set was to combine audio and video – a new one for me – and in part represent Bastard and a theme runs through it commemorating 20 years since the Second Summer of Love (1989) – it seems piano house sound is coming back, so I wanted to mix old and new.

Also it includes Far Out – which was one of the first songs I DJ’d back in 1994 at Milk Laboratory (hence the Milk Lab mentions in the video which I also did) approriate as I said in my previous post, this is my last DJ set…at least for some time, might do VJing, might do online DJing, but probably the last one I’ll do in the flesh. Far too stressful, and far too many people ‘not getting it’ even when I try and make a floorfilling set like this one. Time to stop

EDIT: Safari users might want to download and play the MP3 below rather than click the player, looks like Soundcloud’s Flash has a problem with Safari going crashy crashy…

Tracklist:

• DJ Contaminations – Stand Up Against Bonkers Justice
• Funkytown Kiss (Art of Noise ft Tom Jones vs Lipps Inc)
• Ian Fondue – Edit!
• Instamatic – Burn Yr Radio (PE Edit – Leftfield vs Queen & Public Enemy)
• Skynet UK – Back to ‘89 (Calvertron remix)
• Black Box – Ride on Time (Dreamland remix)
• AC Slater – Jack Got Jacked (Jack Beats Remix)
• Sonz of Loop Da Loop Era – Far Out
• Juan Maclean – One Day (Surkin Remix)
• El Barto & Liam B – Charly the Cat (Prodigy vs Depeche Mode)
• Prodigy – Everybody in the Place (AC Slater remix)
• El Barto and Liam B – I Feel Out of Control (Donna Summer vs Chemical Brothers)
• Dunproofin – Electro Sandman (Metallica VS Deadmau5 VS F*kkk Off)
• DJ Lobsterdust – Put On The Red Light (Police vs. Coldplay vs. Thin White Duke)
• Soundhog – Dire Bass (Azzido da Bass vs Dire Straits)
• Dunproofin – FU2 (Lady Sovereign remix)
• La Roux – In For The Kill (Re-edit of Skream’s Remix by High Contrast)
• DJNoNo – Supercalibreaks (Julie Andrews vs Shy FX)
• DJNoNo – Do Re Mi Bombscare (short version – Julie Andrews vs 2 Bad Mice)

You can also download it here – or if you’re subscribed to this blog you’ve probably got it already

And drumroll – here’s the video. Yes I’ve combined the backing video for the Saarbruecken DJing with the set audio – most of it is synched, especially at the end. It is itself a mashup of films, found video, my own work, stop frame anim and animation. It includes video from:

• Unfinished works from 2002 – you might recognise a few people in there
• Hausu (strange 1977 Japanese film)
• My Milk Lab Tapes and TV Smash films
• Amiga demos new and old
• Architectural films
• 24 Hour Party People
• A Swiss documentary about Bastard
• Variety films from the turn of the last century
• Certain D*sney films starring Julie Andrew
• Various documentaries on the Second Summer of Love, rave culture
• Music videos (like, duh)
• UHF (Weird Al film) and Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
• My Printer Jam video (incidentally Fox has just removed that off YouTube! Boo!)
• Mistah Pok video for Burn Yr Radio with a new arty background which will make you go postal
• Wild Zero – another exceedingly odd Japanese movie

Medium res (you can share/embed by clicking on the icon in the right hand corner – feel free! – also for some strange reason you have to click play twice with this player – click the centre twice, or the two play buttons)

Higher res:

Here’s the second of the Parkade Flashback series – it’s a short, angry and rather rude mix from 2007 (you might have guessed from the title) and utterly exclusive. How do I know that? Well I recorded it when no-one was in the room at the Parkade, hence the ‘Empty’ bit – one of the down sides of DJing in Second Life and generally is when no-one turns up – I assure you this rarely ever happened, I always had at least a small attendance for my gigs in SL, but it does happen every once in a while.

So I vented my frustration via the medium of music

Half empty? Half full? Or just Halfway? (33Mb, 45 mins)

• Simian Mobile Disco – Tits & Acid
• Daft Punk – Around The World (Killdahype remix)
• Electrosound – Gossip around the World (The Gossip vs Dangerous Dan & Nicky Van She)
• Spoon – Don’t You Evah
• Instamatic – Dizzee Justice
• Smith n Hack – Space Warrior
• Hexstatic – Bass Invader
• Rum & Black – Fuck the Legal Stations
• Yo Majesty – Club Action (Chris Bagraiders Sailing to Baltimore Edit)
• Apeboy/Lenlow – Enya vs Prodigy
• Stakker/Humanoid – Humanoid
• Aggro1 – Pull Up The Poor Bitches
• Dillinja – Hard Noize
• Lemon D & Dillinja – Ghost
• Rx – Imagine / Walk on the Wild Side
• Los Hermanos Dalton – Pink Panther

Sorting out some minidiscs I found some of the mixes I recorded years ago at the Parkade…now the Parkade is gone it’s high time to release them as a reminder what was so great about it

Here’s the first Parkade Flashback – a nearly 2 hour dark dubby laid back ambient mix.

This mix was for Traffic Jambient when me and Amanda Shinji rotated Sunday sets – I’m guessing it’s 2007, could be 2008 but I’m guessing probably didn’t release it then cos of the similarity with bits of RC 136 ‘All A World’s A Siege’ which was in the middle of my Psychic TV and dubstep mania…so that would make it around October-November 2007.

Hope you enjoy – bits of it I queried were even mine, I’d forgotten the tracks and the mix so completely, so please mind the cobwebs, and the gaps in my memory in the tracklist below. Let me know if you can refresh my memory on any of these…

He gets in so late at night, We don’t want no fuss and no fight, All through the night (90Mb, 112 mins)

• Egyptian Lover – House on The Nile
• Skream – Tapped
• Apple Blim – Mystical Warrior
• John Carpenter – Halloween theme
• Shackleton – Stalker
• Control Freak – Limbo
• ?
• Skream – Midnight Request Line
• Skream – Chestboxing
• ?
• Disrupt – Blast You To Bits
• Disrupt – IK+
• Ryuichi Sakamoto – The Rain
• Vangelis – Memories of Green
• ?
• Supermayer – Don’t Let The Sun Catch You Crying
• Skream – Midnight Request Line (again? is this a remix? Or just liking it rather a lot? )
• Burial – Versus
• Digital Mystikz – Anti War Dub
• Egyptian Lover – Egypt, Egypt
• Supermayer – Two of Us
• Disrupt – The Stars My Destination
• Jeff Sconce – Mellotronia
• ?
• Dennis Brown – Man Next Door
• Merlene Webber – Hard Life
• Lethal Bizzle – Police on my Back
• Cabaret Voltaire – Over and Over
• Skream – Dub Period
• Easy Star All Stars – Money
• Gang of Four – To Hell With Poverty
• Psychic TV – Ov Power
• Egyptian Lover – What Is A D.J. If He Can’t Scratch
• Psychic TV – Always Is Always
• controlfreak – One For Sorrow
• ?
• ?
• Tay Zonday ‘Chocolate Rain’ vs Steve Reich ‘Electric Counterpoint’
• DJ Lunch Boy – Shouting at 18 Musicians (Tears for Fears vs Steve Reich)
• Philip Glass – Einstein on the Beach?

Original image by Tim Cayne – used under Creative Commons – cheers Tim

Keeping it real with a strictly UK thang, myself and Ian Fondue explore the world of UK hiphop, which despite being dissed at various times by the music industry is currently on fire like a bad boy. BRAP! BRAP! BRAP!

Just wait…til I reset the PC (88Mb, 126 mins)

• Caveman -I’m ready
• Ruthless Rap Assassins – Three the Hard Way (Peel Session)
• Beds from Jeep Beat’s ‘Reposessed Wildstyle: Classic Cuts’
• Stig of the Dump – Braindead
• Example – The Sell Out
• Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip – Fixed
• Massive Attack – Five Man Army
• Blak Twang – Dettwork SouthEast (unreleased)
• DJ Format – English Lesson
• Cookie Crew – Got to Keep On
• MC Tunes vs 808 State – The Only Rhyme That Bites
• Kiss AMC – Rawside (Peel Session)
• London Posse – Jump Around
• Chase & Status – Against all odds ft. Kano
• Skibadee – Tika Toc
• Silver Bullet – 20 Seconds to Comply (Final Conflict)
• Hijack – Doomsday Of Rap
• Akira the Don – Drinking Song
• Rebel MC – Better World
• Evil Ed ft. Yungun – Nico Suave
• Mr Scruff ft. Roots Manuva – Jus jus
• Lethal Bizzle – Sometimes I Think
• Braintax – Last One Out Turn Out Off The Lights

Mr Fondue blingin’ it in the WrongUn Limo, SF.