Record Store Day, Rough Trade East, 2012
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Little Boots (Tensnake Remix) and Record Store Day

Yes I did Record Store Day, I travelled down to Rough Trade East (there aren’t any record stores near me anymore apart from another smaller Rough Trade in the west!) and found I had to queue (see picture – oh by the way I’ve sold my photographic soul and joined Instagram). Also they inflicted two members of Keane on us, which apparently I missed Little Boots who were on earlier and the place was deluged by the Guardian Coffee Table set (thankfully without the 4x4s or McLaren strollers) loving the renditions of Bedshaped et al while I cringed by the hardcore section. Interestingly the one that Kirk described accurately as ‘a four year old on a man’s body’ was slagging off MTV and the current charts as being ‘just noise’. Funny, I have the same response to their aural bilge…

Talking of Little Boots, as it was also my birthday (nice of them to put on parties and special records on just for me, although a cake or a card would’ve done fine) I treated myself to this 12″ with Tensnake – a man who cannot do no wrong after his amazing Little Dragon remix from last year, probably my favourite remix this side of Psychemagik’s Everywhere, which also has Joe Smooth remix on the flip which I’ve not heard yet. Also my gaydar must’ve been working, since I knew nothing about this limited 12″ but bought it on spec, turns out it’s co-written with Andy Butler from Hercules and Love Affair. RESULT! It sounds like late 80′s/early 90′s soul, very Orange Juice Jones / Jackson slinky electro-soul. Very cool.

I also treat myself to this:

Out of This World re-issue

I had this on original cassette from the 80′s or late 70′s – forgive the cheesy sound effects for Super 8!!!!!1111 packaging, it has tracks from the likes of John Baker, Delia Derbyshire, Brian Hodgson and all the greats – it’s because of this and other BBC Sound Effects records I had (there’s also another with natural disasters I have on record somewhere) that when I watch 70s-80s Doctor Who and Blake 7 I get severe deja vu on the sounds used…and reused. It’s cos they all got repackaged into these hobbyist-friendly records. Although how much someone using an early video camera or Sound-8 was going to use that TARDIS sound or ‘Andromedan War Machine’ the mind boggles…almost bought the companion, the Doctor Who Sound Effects on blue vinyl (rather than amber in the case of Out Of This World) but cashflow and all that…that’s remastered by Mark Ayres, no less.

More treats were a signed Graham Coxon A+E, the Jubilee EP from King Creosote looking rather queenly and Jon Hopkins (plus download code, I do prefer that since my vinyl deck is pretty shit), Rough Trade Counter Culture & Electronic 11 compilations which are always good, and this book which is after my own Streetise heart:

Shit London book

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The New Sound of Music

Well for 1979…this BBC documentary is a really good explaination about how sound synthesis works and where the technology has come from – and as well as featuring David Vorhaus and Peter Zinovieff aka founder of EMS, it also includes the Radiophonic Workshop with the likes of Malcolm Clarke. Peter Howell and Paddy Kingsland (and is that an uncredited Elizabeth Parker?). Fascinating look at their work too including Doctor Who, and it does go into earlier pieces such as from John Baker and Delia Derbyshire, although not by name:

I miss BBC documentaries that were as clear and educational as this – the principles of synthesis explained in the program still is in use today in the latest VST if rather differently implemented…although of course in 1979 sampling hadn’t hit the mainstream, and the computer used in the studio is laughably is a mainframe with a teletype machine – the microcomputer revolution was rather missed, which only 7 years later Micro Live was covering Cheetah Specdrum and suchlike on the home computer, just to show the rapid pace!

Also a lot of that early computer music sounds like 8bit computer game music to me!

If you can watch Part 3 and Part 4 I’d recommend it as that includes the genesis of the classic “Greenwich Chorus” and David Vorhaus in his studio playing a gigantic penis Kaleidophon. ;-)

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Bah Humbug II

It’s been 5 years since the original Bah Humbug (the event and the CD – still up!) hit the world…in fact Kirk has repeatedly told me he plays the CD every year…so I thought in the sake of giving him another CD to play (it must be the only one he has) I’d create BAH HUMBUG II! *dramatic music*

Following the first it’s another dose of antidote to the usual sickly cheesy Xmas tunes we hear year after year…so here’s a journey into the stranger side of Xmas tunes, the extremely rude (yes this is NSFW and not for children, or anyone really), the perverted, the strange, the outsider, the silly, the misfires, mashups, the Xmas protest songs and parodies – strange, silly, bizarre and terrible – it’s all here but actually hypnotically and strangely quite good. And hopefully it’ll spread some real Scroogemas Cheer to you all! Should fit onto a 80 minute CD, and includes printable artwork in the zip.

Thanks and cheers goes to these paragons of Xmess strangeness who either were included here or nearly were – consider buying/checking them out if you like what you hear here (do you?):

  • Santastic
  • An American Song Poem Christmas
  • A Punk Rock Christmas
  • Christmas In The Stars
  • A John Waters Christmas
  • A Very Bootie Christmas / Dan Phillips
  • WFMU Beware of the Blog
  • The Vandals Christmas LP
  • Dr. Demento Presents: Greatest Christmas Novelty CD Of All Time
  • Tales From The Crypt: Have Yourself A Scary Little Christmas
  • Merry Creepmas
  • It’s a Red Peters Christmas!, Vol. 1
  • Music for Maniacs probably since I steal so much from there and then forget where I got it!
  • Kinsey Sicks ‘Ov Vey In A Manger’
  • and in case Cthulu gets annoyed: A Very Scary Solstice

So rifle through Santa’s Sac here (184Mb, Zip)

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RC 189: Shuffle Little Children feat DJ Charles IV

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(image created in part by Data Bending – like Circuit Bending or Data Moshing but taking the data of an image file and hacking it about to create interesting errors ;-)

Time to let the machines run the show, so this is DJ Charles IV (my iPod) choosing the playlist for this show, with a little Blue Peter style help from me, but it’s mostly his choices, I’m just tagging along for the ride!

He’ll be making the tea next (94Mb, 128Mins)

or listen on Mixcloud

  • Cee-Lo – Night Train (with the Goodie Mob – from Stray Bullets mixtape)
  • Mos Def – The Embassy (from The Ecstatic)
  • David Cain – May (from The Seasons)
  • Dennis Alcapone – No.1 Station
  • Goodie Mob – Cell Therapy
  • B.o.B – Don’t Break My Heart
  • Ian Dury – Don’t Ask Me
  • Passion Pit – I’ve Got Your Number
  • John Baker – Milky Way
  • Hot Chip – Hand Me Down Your Love
  • Sage Francis – The Best of Times (from LI(f)e)
  • Goodie Mob – Free
  • David Cain – July (from The Seasons)
  • Horace Heidt & His Californians – Turn On The Heat
  • Frankie Goes To Hollywood – One September Monday
  • Link Wray & The Raymen – The Fuzz
  • Mos Def – Casa Bey (from The Ecstatic)
  • Ian Dury – Inbetweenies
  • Justice + Cursive – Justified Bad Sex (eve massacre mix)
  • Sir Mix-A-Lot – Swass
  • The Jamaicans – Ba Ba Boom
  • Goodie Mob – Guess Who
  • Sage Francis – Slow Man
  • Iron & Wine – Boy With A Coin
  • Cee-Lo – I’ll Kill Her (feat. ME, LOnan the Destroyer - from Stray Bullets mixtape)
  • Mark McGuire – Sun Shining Through The Open Barn Door
  • Dolly Parton – Early Morning Breeze (Bent Remix with B.J.Cole)
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