And more of this re-release mania – back in May 2008 I appeared on Pete Juxtaposeur’s Skip to the End podcast as DJNoNo and created a 30minute mix specially.

Here’s the 320kbps separate version for your separate listening pleasure (although I heartily recommend listening to Skip to the End show I was on for chat and great music from Pete).

Also another mix I’m quite proud of is the Cuddle the Present mix I did for Jeb 50 Pound Note‘s podcast – that’s now back up after being unavailable for a few years and available here.

Also back up is the show I did with Jeb and Lee from I Motor Away and the first of the 3 shows Scott, Jeb and myself did. – the second is available here. Also the Xmas show I did with Scott and Jeb on Scott’s 30th birthday.

Oh and still one of the best podcasts I ever did – the Hijack Happy Birthday podcast me and Jeb did for Lee’s I Motor Away podcast is now up (it seems I Motor Away has podfaded and is not up anymore so I uploaded it for good on my server)

Phew! Did I really do all that?

EDIT: and now courtesy of Scott the 3rd podcast myself, Jeb and Scott did the Night Nurse Show ‘Podwhores’ – joined by Stefan is now up on my server. It is very very rude though in true Night Nurse Show tradition, be warned

What is nu/neo-disco?

I asked myself that recently – disco is in my genes (jeans?) yet I was confused at what had happened to the genre since 2008, and at all since I knew hardly any of it (I thought, it partly turned out a matter of genre labelling for a few acts I already knew!)…and you know me, I like a challenge…so I did what I do when I don’t know a genre – I make a mix! Nothing better than concentrating your mind and finding out what’s what than planning a mix.

So I did some research and asked loads of people for suggestions – so big thanks go to eve massacre, ian fondue and @iainh  for introducing me to some of these tracks and bands/producers

So ‘nowdisco’ a 90 minute live Traktor mix is the result…from classic disco re-edited to 1984-style electrodisco to balearic/chilled disco to nu-acid house to modern cosmic (space) disco and a dash of old-skool italodisco from all over the world. I hope you enjoy this sunny disco modern mix.

disco will never die! download nowdisco (127Mb, 90 mins) Or stream/download the whole mix from Soundcloud or at Fairtilizer.

Tracklist:

• Pink Project – Disco Project
• CFCF – You Hear Colours
• Friendly Fires – Paris (Aeroplane remix)
• Drums Of Death – DODFUCKSUPANESCORTTUNE
• Cut Copy – Hearts On Fire (Aeroplane Pop Remix)
• Hercules & Love Affair – Classique #2 (Edit)
• James Yuill – This Sweet Love (Prins Thomas Sneaky Edit)
• YACHT – Psychic City (Rory Phillips Remix)
• Classixx – I’ll Get You (Feat Jeppe)
• Grace Jones – Williams’ Blood (Greg Wilson Version)
• O. Children – Dead Disco Dancer (The Golden Filter Remix)
• Del Shannon – Gemini (Pilooski Edit)
• Headman – Private Show (Video Edit)
• Social Disco Club – Acid Town
• Hard Ton – Earthquake
• House Machine – A.C./I.D.
• Hard Ton – Losers
• The Juan MacLean – Happy House
• The C90s – 10:01 (VillA Remix)
• Golden Bug – King Of Kong
• The Pointer Sisters – Send Him Back (pilooski edit)
• Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons – Beggin’ (pilooski edit)
• Fake Blood – Fix Your Accent
• Goldfrapp – Rocket (Richard X Eight Four Remix)
• Quixote feat. Lisa Li-Lund – Before I Started To Dance (Prins Thomas Diskomiks)

From the underground to the Underground, from the pirates patois to piccadilly palare, the bright lights of Londonium  shine on for the last of the London shows.

“Nothing is certain in London but expense.” (69Mb, 92Mb)

• London Radio montage inc Radio London and Pirate Radio 1994/95
• Blur – London Loves (GHP ‘Londinium Loves’ bootleg mix)
• Sid James – Look at Life – The Market
• Television Personalities – Oxford St., W1
• Philip Lynott – Solo In Soho
• Members – Solitary Confinement
• Soft Cell – Bedsitter
• The Kinks – Muswell Hillbilly
• Frank Tovey – Bridge Street Shuffle
• The The – Heartland
• The Real Tuesday Weld – Last Words
• Polly Perkins of Paddington Green by SpokenVerse (originally Harry Clifton)
• Leslie Hutchinson (Hutch) – A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
• Flanagan & Allen – Where The Arches Used To Be
• Sid James – Bermondsey
• The Mint Juleps – Docklands
• London Conversation with Andy Hackett
• Morrissey – Piccadilly Palare
• Catatonia – Londinium
• Specials – Bright Lights (Peel session)
• London – Amen Andrews (part)
• Pulp – Bar Italia

London Bridge
Is Broken down,
Dance over my Lady Lee.
London Bridge
Is Broken down
With a gay Lady.

Take a key and lock her up,
Lock her up, Lock her up.

Build it up with silver and gold,
My fair lady.

Gold and silver I have none,
I have none, I have none.

Silver, and Gold
Will be stolen away,

Stone so strong will last so long,
Last so long, Last so long.

Second part of the now 3-part London series with a darker, greyer and less shiny podcast including rain, riots, rail, revolution and race; and also a LUL FU. So just another day in the city, then!

As before, thanks to The London Nobody Sings, Bob Levingbird, Ian Fondue and anyone I’ve forgotten for their suggestions/posts.

Gold , Silver or Oyster Card I Have None, My Fare Lady! (72Mb, 97mins)

• Professor Bumble’s Magic Machine – London Bridge Is Falling Down
• George Mitchell Singers – Swinging London
• Wendy James – London’s Brilliant
• Blur – London Loves
• Gene – To The City
• Bitter Springs – Moving to the City
• London Conversations  – Sheena MacKay
• Mike Proctor – Mr. Commuter
• Ian Dury -  Busdrivers Prayer
• Big Audio Dynamite – Harrow Road
• XTC – Towers of London
• Rotten & Reynebeau: Finsbury Park – Part 1
• Linton Kwesi Johnson – Di Great Insohreckshan
• Blak Twang – Real Estate
• Demon Boyz – Law Abiding Citizen
• Ivor Cutler – British Museum
• Linton Kwesi Johnson – Reggae Fi Peach
• Smiley Culture – Cockney Translation
• The King Blues – Let’s Hang The Landlord
• Bevis Frond – South Hampstead Rain
• Spike Milligan – Wormwood Scrubs Tango
• Saint Etienne – Side Streets
• The Real Tuesday Weld – London
• The Real Tuesday Weld – I Loved London
• London Bridge (Chinese version)

P.S. following on from my discussion of Blair Peach, I found out that the CPS are reviewing the case – read the comments about the weapons and items they found afterwards – including Nazi regalia. Horrific.

And it seems 30 years later, like with the riots and Kevin Gately and more recently Charles De Menenez and Ian Tomlinson, nothing has really changed. A few of many reasons why I don’t trust the police. In my opinion, any police officer that is violent towards the public and/or hides their identity should be fired, prosecuted and jailed.

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
• London Conversations – Nick Sanderson
• 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
• Sylvia Plath – Parliament Hill Fields
• 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)
• Passport to Pimilico
  
• David Devant and His Spirit Wife – Pimlico
• Pulp – 59 Lyndhurst Grove