Yes after 4 years in the wilderness, the Aural pOddities show is BACK! Aren’t you lucky…after the last very POP show this is as unpop as it gets, including the mad, bad, sad, and just plain irritating avant-retard latest in car-crash audio.

You’ll feel like you’ve been in an audio trainwreck and will rush to your Kylie CDs for relief after this, but it’s worth reminding yourselves there’s a strange world out there, and people make and made music and audio like this…and the stranger sadistic thing, I really enjoy it all

Note: not all tracks used in this are ‘unlistenable’ nor ‘crap’ – but they are mixed with a specially developed ‘Unbeliev-a-bull-crap-o-sonic’ technique so terribly with other tracks to make them so. So no offence intended – the most crap thing here is me after all

With thanks (blame?) to WFMU’s Beware of the Blog, 365 Days Project, Hotrod’s Run for Cover, Cool and Strange Music Magazine , Lux and Ivy’s Favorites and many more.

Play LOUD to all your enemies (141Mins, 129Mb)

Tacklist:

• I Cut People – optimistdroppings

Kids and Religion Don’t Mix

• Jim & Tammy & Their Friends – Oops! There Comes a Smile
• Aunt Bertha Presents Singtime with Tiny Tot Calvin – A Cowboy For Jesus
• I Cut People – delete jesus
• Bill Carter – Baby Brother
• The Holiday City Hotcha Kitchen Band – Welcome From Holiday City
• Rick McNamara – Are You Hung Up?

Sex in the Shitty

• Byrd E. Bath – Old Fashioned Balls
• FAX Records Special Erotica Series #5 – Nights of Love In Lesbos: Side 1
• Les Baxter – Lust
• The Four Skins – It’s Beginning To Look a Lot Like Syphilis
• Cyrus Sullivan – Sex Worker
• Peter Gault & Amy Rachelle – Cosmic Vagina
• Edith Massey – Big Girls Don’t Cry

Invert Advertorial Interval

• Soul :60
• Cassetteboy – Crapboasts
• I Cut People – A Few Good Product Placements

Food Fight!

• Shakin Jake Woods – Fat Bacon
• Peter Gault & Amy Rachelle – Constipation
• Roger Roger – Sound Industrial 15
• GITAR – His Holy Exalted Donut
• The Readymen – Shortnin Bread
• Johnny Parker – tv commercial
• Peter L. Batsin – How To Make a Tape Recorder
• Helen & Dick Bouchard – At The End Of The Rainbow Is Tweekertown
• Yosemitebear Mountain Giant Double Rainbow
• Helen & Dick Bouchard – Nobody Wears A Frown In Tweekertown

By God It’s Foreign Gibberish!

• bosstones – mope-itty moope
• Unknown – Yoodling
• Charlie Drake – I’ve Lost The End Of My Yodel
• Sheena Scott – Yodelay
• The Credibility Gap – Foreign Novelty Smash
• Mala Fe – Beat It
• Gianko y su Sonido La Limpia – A Heart Alone (chichin!)
• Antonio Eugenio Martinez – Volver Volver
• Leonard Simmons – Somewhere My Love
• Mr. Miller and The Blue Notes – Mrs. Brown, You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter
• Mme St. Onge – Prends-moi (Try Me)
• Graveworm – Holding Out for a Hero (Bonnie Tyler)
• Spike Jones – The Jones Laughing Record

Animals Never Work

• Wevie Stonder – Gypsy Chimp
• Virginia Belmont – Billie – Dick – Duke (Canary Solos)
• Nino Nardini – Waltzing Birds
• Pancho the Parrot Sings! – I Left My Heart In San Francisco
• Forbidden Five – Enchanted Farm
• The Tape-beatles – /o/ for frog
• Vampires’ Sound Incorporation – The Lions and the Cucumber
• Eddie Osbourne – Kitten On The Keys
• Nino Nardini – Doggie Boogie
• The Seven Stooges – I Wanna Be Your Dog

Deaf and Violence

• Frank Perry and the Big Action Sound – I Can Fly
• EXEDEXEX – not didgeridoo fight ???
• Sound 8 – Music For Children’s Activities
• John Oswald – z
• GITAR – no-gitar
• The Tape-beatles – …of rebellion
• Groove Da Praia – Used To Love Her (Guns N Roses)
• Bernard Cribbins – The Hole In The Ground
• dicky doo & the don’ts – flip top box
• John Oswald – case of death [part one. chapters 1-16]
• The Frantics – Werewolf
• GITAR – la_getaway
• Embers – I walked all night
• Naomi Hall – Bride of the Monster
• John Oswald – case of death [part two. chapters 1-9]
• Katie Lee – Repressed Hostility Blues
• Erika Eigen – I Wanna Marry A Light House Keeper
• Topmost – The End

You might like these previous posts:

• Show 31: Aural pOddities (or the Annual Aural Terrorist Pledge Drive) – June 11, 2005
• Radio Clash 62: Aural pOddities 2 Strange for Radio – February 1, 2006
• RC 180: Shabbey Road (Beatles #7) – June 12, 2009
• I Cut People – March 13, 2010
• Radio Clash 79: Boot to the Old Skool (2001-2003) Part 1 – June 28, 2006

And to keep it on the track of mashups – just to show you the Depeche Mode influences (they also covered Photographic) bandmember Ricky Terry’s tune Deep is mashed here with Everything Counts, neatly colliding with my own current Depeche Mode mashup obsession

You might like these previous posts:

• My first mashup video – Neon Sex People – May 19, 2008
• New mashup – Neon Sex People (Neon Neon vs Depeche Mode) – May 11, 2008
• Miss Cyberpink’s new boots! – May 25, 2008
• I Cut People – March 13, 2010
• New Instamatic mashups! Free music! Multiply site! – December 5, 2006

Whew what HASN’T happened since the last show? New US President -and he’s black. New back pains and colds for Tim – and he’s ill. Yes we can, and No to H8, but not during happy hour or eating your Credit Crunch cereal (you know the one that turns the milk red). A new hope, Episode III, ‘I have a good feeling about this’, but first where’s my money?

This is a dance we do down Johannesburg way (93Mb, 111mins)

Tracklist:

• Miriam Makeba – Pata Pata
• Fosforo – Cumbia De Obama
• San Francisco Mime Troupe – Because you’re Stupid
• Incredible Bongo Band – Bongo 73
• Nan Vasconcelos – Brasil (Luciano Re-Edit)
• Nina Simone – Sinnerman (Felix Remix)
• Fifth Dimension – Let The Sunshine (Solly Bmore Edit)
• Kanye West – Love Lockdown (Solly Remix)
• AC Slater – Poison
• ZZT – Lower State Of Consciousness (Justice remix)
• AC Slater – Jack Got Jacked (Jack Beats Remix)
• DJ Donna Summer – Hoovermore
• Faex – What Poetry
• Ground Shelter (fear)
• The Chambers Brothers – Funky
• Mercury Rev – Senses On Fire (Fujiya & Miyagi Remix)
• Chase & Status – Against All Odds (Ft Kano)
• Chase & Status – Take Me Away
• London Elektricity – This Dark Matter
• Chase & Status – Is It Worth It
• London Elektricity – Outnumbered
• Eric B. and Rakim – Don’t Sweat The Technique
• The Moog Synthesizer with The Camarata Contemporary Chamber Orchestra – Sports et Divertissements – Le Flirt
• Tom Wilson – Lesbian_Seagull
• Gnarls Barkley – Who’s Gonna Save My Soul (Demo Version)
• Rah Band – Is anybody there
• Fleetwood Mac – Silver Springs (Rough & Outtakes)

You might like these previous posts:

• RC 161: Odds n Sods 6 – Acoustic PoohStyx (part one) – April 24, 2008
• Ground Shelter (Hope & Fear) – two topical mashups – November 7, 2008
• RC 170: Oddz and Sods 11 – All Good Things – August 25, 2008
• RC 176: Winter of Discontent v2.0 (aka Oddz and Sods 13) – February 5, 2009
• RC 179: Is he a Yankee? Naw I’m a Londoner – UK Hip Hop with Ian Fondue – April 5, 2009

And especially those who think that civil rights are all separate, they won’t fight for yours cos of self-interest or religion and don’t believe that unity and a common front and acceptance of others than them is worth fighting for.

Because You’re Stupid (by the San Francisco Mime Troupe)

You might like these previous posts:

• RC 172: All Change (Oddz and Sods 12) – November 16, 2008
• Wassup? Change. Vote Obama. – October 25, 2008
• Still NO to Prop 8! You can’t amend me! – October 30, 2008
• Dean Gray Tuesday – big success! – December 16, 2005
• Weblogs and Webstats, Bedknobs and Broomsticks – May 11, 2005

Last Thursday we did a special themed gig at the Parkade in Second Life around the music of the Pet Shop Boys. I DJ’d first for 2 hours, then Amanda Shinji aka Ms Cyberpink DJ’d for 2 hours – you can hear her mix here. My set included a real mixture of originals, covers, remixes, mashups, collaborations and even the odd spoof

In this mix I included To Speak is a Sin, one of my coming out songs, as it is as I correctly guessed before Mr Tennant’s coming out, about a gay bar – takes me back to those times!

C.L.I.C.K.I.N.G. we’re clicking (108Mb, 128mins)

Setlist

• Pet Shop Boys – We’re the Pet Shop Boys
• Pet Shop Boys – Love Comes Quickly (Automatic Drum Beat Mix)
• DJ Magnet – Love Comes Running Up That Hill Quickly
• Pet Shop Boys – You Know Where You Went Wrong
• Pet Shop Boys – Two Divided by Zero
• Xam – West End Jump
• Flight Of The Conchords.- Inner City Pressure
• Junobot – What Have I Done To Deserve This
• Pet Shop Boys – Paninaro ’95
• Electronic – Disappointed
• judgedreadfull – don’t drop the washing up
• Yoko Ono – Walking On Thin Ice (Pet Shop Boys Electro Mix)
• Pet Shop Boys – It’s A Sin (DreamTime Mix v2.0)
• Pet Shop Boys – Left To My Own Devices
• Pet Shop Boys – In Private (7″ mix)
• Pet Shop Boys – Sodom (Trentmoller remix)
• Pet Shop Boys – Psychological (alter ego remix)
• Pet Shop Boys – Yesterday, When I Was Mad
• 10000 Spoons – Polyminimal-C
• Pet Shop Boys – Shopping
• Carter USM – Rent (Pet Shop Boys)
• Pet Shop Boys – We All Feel Better In the Dark
• Pet Shop Boys – I Want A Dog
• KLF vs PSB – So Hard
• Pet Shop Boys – DJ Culture
• Pet Shop Boys – How I Learned To Hate Rock ‘n’ Roll
• Pet Shop Boys – Party Song
• Pet Shop Boys – A Red Letter Day
• Pet Shop Boys – Go West
• Pet Shop Boys – To Speak Is A Sin
• Pet Shop Boys – Tall Thin Men (Demo)

All of the tracks are my PSB faves – mostly B-sides and album tracks with some singles thrown in and mashups/remixes.

Of note are Go West – in there because of my memory in 2006 seeing the Pet Shop Boys at the Civic Auditorium in San Francisco and belting out the words along with all the men there doing the motions and raising the roof, an amazing moment.

And To Speak is a Sin – my coming out song, which ironically was Neil’s Coming out album, and it is about gay bars, the old sort like The Coleherne in London, which I really associate with that song…

The mashup by DJ Magnet – Love Comes Running Up That Hill Quickly has emotional resonance for me, and DJ Culture is about the first gulf war – all those satellite fantasies and wars we’ve (not) wom. And I think You Know Where You Went Wrong was the first bside of the first Pet Shop Boys 12″ I had. And I own Introspective on cassette somewhere and I Want A Dog along with the funny Always in my House are the favourite tracks from that, I like the same sort of irreverent approach to their own songs like Soft Cell did with Ecstatic dancing…

And the ending of Tall Thin Men was accidental – Amanda had problems with her feed so I did another song (forgetting to switch off the audio in SL at first, so at the start you’re hearing the song relayed sattelite-like through the server) and is an unused demo from Closer to Heaven. I love it because a) it refutes the gay stereotype of liking showtunes and b) rhyming Ute Lemper with temper. A showtunes song about hating showtunes? CLASS.

You might like these previous posts:

• Parkade Shop Bois (and Girls) – Finally PSB’s set – April 3, 2008
• Things I Never Posted But Didn’t Get Round To It – July 26, 2009
• Pop of the Tops – September 23, 2008
• Reshuffle > Edit > Recyle > Goto 10? – December 8, 2005
• Fleetwood Mix – Fleetwood Mac mashup LP – October 19, 2009

Why should I care you say?

Well seeing that one powercut can wipe out Livejournal, Second Life, Craigslist, Technorati, Typepad…the list goes on, you wonder why in this apparent age of Web 2.0 these systems are still susceptible to one fatal flaw – location. (actually just read up on the Technorati site and their site did have co-location but the generators went down).

So I’m supposed to set up virtual business and entrust more of my data to these people, in this shiny new world of online applications and environments? You know Google, GMail, LJ, SL et al…

Not until they all have backups, and alternate servers in other parts of the world, I won’t.

Ok for those of you getting the jitters from not being able to get onto LJ/SL et al, watch this:

You might like these previous posts:

• Web 2.0…sequels are so dissappointing aren’t they? – October 14, 2005
• Googlezon plus one – August 8, 2005
• Radio Clash on Sirius tonight – July 13, 2006
• Google talk will be VOIP (Gizmo / VIing et al) compatible – August 24, 2005
• Second Life part deux – February 1, 2007

Yes after 2 years Who Boys have a new mashup album out called The Good, The Bad and the Who Boys it’s a mixture of noise, drum and bass and downtempo doo wop, it seems to cover all bases – regular listeners to Radio Clash would’ve heard 4 of these tracks, all of which I heartily recommend (and now can finally post) -

Voodoo Molly (Little Richard cosies up to Musical Youth, they wisely get very scared)
Stayin’ A Firestarter (caused, well, fires* to start at San Francisco’s Bootie and the Who Boys Shunt gig. * Or something the kids say nowadays…)
Scarborough Clocks (Coldplay goes folderol?)
Friends Stuck in Chemicals (Gerry Rafferty and friends meet Gary Numan – I wonder what they talked about?)

Of the newer ones the downtempo ones are really floating my boat, see also San Fran Chopin, Strange Pyramid, the funny Who Boys Choral Society covers. For noisy dnb see Blue Betty and We Will Chop You (Aphrodite! WOOH!). Needless to say, as before you will hear some of these new tracks on upcoming Radio Clash shows.

Don’t forget, if you haven’t already check out the show where they invaded Radio Clash despite UN sanctions and international furore…you might then understand more of the creative chaos that is Who Boys. Or will you?

You might like these previous posts:

• new Who Boys tracks now up – February 12, 2006
• Radio Clash 114: Sunday Afternoon With The Who Boys! – March 29, 2007
• Radio Clash 106: Long Distance / French Bastard – January 26, 2007
• Who Boys do a podcast! – August 21, 2006
• RC 159: Parkade Shop Boys – the PSB mix – April 12, 2008

Last missive from San Francisco is all about the city, with the final part of the Eric Kleptone interview, interview with A+D of the Bootie club empire, and various bits recorded out n’ about in San Francisco…

Move to California where it’s warm: (47Mb 1:12) http://www.radioclashblog.com/show-archive/rc_99c.mp3

Notes 

• Intro from Ocean Beach
• Instamatic – Alison She’s So Horsey
• Bobby Womack – California Dreamin’
• Coit Tower
• Eric Kleptone – live Bootie intro

• Eric Kleptone interview pt 2 inc excerpts from his live Bootie set

• Smash up Derby – Don’t Call Me Song 2 (live @ Bootie)

• A+D interview inc excerpts from:

• A plus D – Dance Music
• A plus D – Decepta-Freak-On
• DJ Earworm – Attention Deficit Disco 1
• A plus D – Too Much Tits On My Hands
• Jay zeezer – 99 Luft Balloons
• Smash up Derby – Smells Like Billie Jean
• A plus D – Give Da Jew Girls Toys (dirty – from Santastic II!)

• Goodbye from Ocean Beach
• Johnny Cash – I’m on Fire

You might like these previous posts:

• Radio Clash 99: San Francisco Pt 1 – These Guys Are From England… – November 23, 2006
• Radio Clash 70: UBER interview special! – April 6, 2006
• Radio Clash 99: San Francisco Pt 2 – British Backroom Boys – November 26, 2006
• Radio Clash Show 17: Like, Totally Random – March 3, 2005
• Radio Clash Show 2 – December 1, 2004

• Push it Slut (French Avenue 2006) – An older boot from 2004 given a sparkly new treatment and basically redone from the ground up, adding Kraftwerk’s Tour de France to the existing mix of Avenue D’s ‘Do you Think I’m a Slut?’ and Salt n’ Pepa’s classic ‘Push It’

• Alison She’s So Horsey - sort of floating around for a while, this is an excercise in taking the piss out of Ms Alison’s ‘Ride a White Horse’ which like a lot of Goldfrapp wears it’s influences not only on it’s sleeve but pretty much has stolen the whole wardrobe! So I mixed it with Laidback ‘White Horse’ and a spoof of that called Disco Horse

• Ghetto Tits 2006 – another remake and a companion to Push it Slut, this is Benassi’s remix of Outkast’s Ghetto Musick mixed with various Peaches tracks, with added Scissor Sisters ‘Tits on the Radio’ and Salt n Pepa and a touch of Kraftwerk again for good measure. That’s if your measure is slightly tilting and vibrating from the bass, that is.

• LFO Can’t Turn Around – a bit of a cheat this one, it’s been released in the R-House mix before but never seperately, this mixes LFO ‘LFO’ with Farley Jackmaster Funk’s house classic ‘Love Can’t Turn Around’ and I’m rather fond of it.

Download them all here

You might like these previous posts:

• more Instamatic and tbc mashups / bootlets/ l’pop d’bastardo – May 11, 2005
• Radio Clash January Tim & Kirk Special – Show 11 – January 25, 2005
• Radio Clash 99: San Francisco Pt 1 – These Guys Are From England… – November 23, 2006
• Featured on the RU Sirius show! – May 17, 2006
• Miss Cyberpink’s Phoenix – March 27, 2009

• Eric Kleptone of the Kleptones – fresh from rocking Bootie in San Francisco (and knocking heads with the Vice Chairman of EMI – boo! hiss!)
• Jeb of £50 Note retuning especially from the US this time doing a longer live/DJ set!
• and your veritable host!

As you might have guessed it’ll be an Xmas event with a difference – just loads of good mashup malarky and eclectic mix of music like you hear on them darned poddycasts, so you can Xscape the cheesy Xmas tunes (or maybe hear them evilly buggered!).

Or we might go for non-stop Wizzard on a ever-increasing high pitched Whitney loop, we’ve not decided…:wink: Whatever it’ll be fun! And we have a late license (being a private members club it can go on til 3am) so Xmess cheer can go on WAY past closing time…

As before it’s at the Arts Theatre Club, 50 Frith Street, Soho London, and it’s free but guestlist only, so contact or comment here with your full name if you’re thinking of coming (+1s or even +10s like last time are ok )

To see pics of the previous mayhem of the first Radio Clash night, go here – loadsa cute bears btw…(hint hint)

Flyer to follow!

You might like these previous posts:

• RC#2: Bah Humbug flyer now up! – December 8, 2006
• Radio Clash: Hectic Eclectic – September 28, 2006
• Radio Clash 96: Rich’s Uncle with Scott and Jeb (2/3) – October 29, 2006
• Bah Humbug mix reposted – December 7, 2006
• Show 7 – Xmas Xscape Pod! – December 21, 2004