About to head off to the wilds of Surbiton to see John, probably be online in one way or t’other but y’all have a Happy Scroogemas and Bah Humbug New Year! Happy HanuKwanzaWinterDrinkymas!

So to celebrate my commiserations of the season, here is my Bah Humbug exclusive compilation I gave out to people who came to the 2nd Radio Clash night in 2005 (also called Bah Humbug!) – was that 4 years ago? Wow. I’m uploading this because I met up with Kirk last night and he said he still listens to it every Xmas while wrapping presents, so it definitely gets the Coverley Classic ™.

Also reuploaded the Bah Humbug mix also from 2005, you’ll get a bit of deja vu from this but it’s an expanded version of this compilation – but in lower quality to get the filesize…and it’s mixed!

You can get a zip file of the compilation here – enjoy! Or don’t, grinches!

01. Wayne Butane / Xmas (Excerpt)
02. Sparks / Thank God It’s Not Christmas
03. Bob Rivers / Chipmunks Roasting On An Open Fire
04. The Chipmunks / Xmas with the Devil
05. A plus D / Give Da Jew Girl Toys (Dirty)
06. Princess Superstar / I Hope I Sell a Lot of Records at Christmastime
07. Culturcide / They Aren’t The World
08. Cassetteboy / Up the Chimney
09. Mae West / Put The Loot In The Boot, Santa
10. Culturcide / Santa Claus Was My Lover
11. Vandals / Christmas Time for my Penis
12. Cassetteboy / Happy Cliffmas
13. Vim / When a Child is Bored
14. Little Marcy / Suzy Snowflake
15. Tiny Tim / Santa Claus Has Got the Aids
16. dj BC / Turbo Sleigh Ride
17. The Fall / Jingle Bell Rock
18. Bob Rivers / Wreck the Malls
19. Mr. T Experience / Merry Fucking Christmas
20. Voicedude / Carol Of The Burgers
21. Peter & The Test Tube Babies / I’m Getting Pissed For Christmas
22. Dwarves / Drinking Up Christmas
23. Showcase Showdown / Merry Christmas I Fucked Your Snowman
24. JIROB v Paul McCartney / Pipes of Peace (gentle remix)
25. Adam Sky / Shakin’ and a Bakin’
26. Shitmat / Dis Dancehall Ting Is Better Than That T.V. Ting Tony
27. Rx / Happy RxMas & a Whole Lotta Love
28. TBC Poundsystem / Don’t Lose my Funky Sledge

‘Dark electro / Disco noir’ is what I call a certain type of music referencing or sampling certain horror movie soundtracks from Goblin to John Carpenter that’s popped up recently in certain electro / electro house quarters, and it’s a music that I can connect to for several reasons, it’s dark and broody and seems to fit the state of the nation at the moment (and I also love the music of those 70s and 80s horror movies).

It seems like a lot of new bands from the French (Zombie Zombie, NOTe Found, daRoc, Justice, Maesthelvin, Mustard Pimp) to the British (Padded Cell, Emperor Machine, Does It Offend You, Yeah? and Sisters of Transistors) and even further outposts (Rico Tubbs, Tsk Tsk, Presets, Supermayer) have a common basis to me, so this is also a manifesto of sorts linking these bands together with older and less obvious inspirations (or just my guilty pleasures!) such as Fad Gadget, David Shrigley, Meat Beat Manifesto and Peter Gabriel.

So although not a ‘Halloween’ mix I’ve mixed together these horror-inspired tracks with some of the original tracks that I think inspired them, and thrown in some horror movie samples (can you spot where they are from?) as a nod to Halloween…and this is the first in a series. It’s also the first mix I’ve done in Ableton.

Thanks go out to several blogs that have helped inspire this in posting various tracks, and are blogs I regularly read also:

• Discodust
• Discoworkout
• Valerie
• Trashbagkids

Instamatic – Dark mix 1 Remember a Monster mix is not just for Halloween (113Mb, 109 mins)

• Justice – Planisphere 1/2
• NOTe Found – Error 403
• Zombie Zombie – What’s happening in the city ?
• Fad Gadget – State Of The Nation
• Late Of The Pier – The Bears Are Coming (Emperor Machine Remix)
• Padded Cell – Savage Skulls (Extended Version)
• Fad Gadget – 4m
• Maethelvin – Lost In Big City
• John Carpenter – The Bank Robbery
• David Shrigley – Loathsome
• Sage Francis – Civil Obedience
• Fad Gadget – Love Parasite
• John Carpenter – Escape From New York
• The Sisters of Transistors – the Don
• Padded Cell – World Of Mouth
• Fad Gadget – 4m
• Rufus Wainwright – Tiergarten (Supermayer Remix)
• Padded Cell – Far Beneath London
• John Carpenter – The End
• Meat Beat Manifesto – Oblivion/Humans
• TSK TSK – Un-Mustered
• Peter Gabriel – Of These, Hope
• The Presets – Girl and the Sea
• Justice – Phantom Pt2 (Soulwax Remix)
• John Carpenter – The Shape Stalks Laurie
• Does It Offend You, Yeah? – Weird Science
• Detroit Grand Pubahs – If Snow Was Black
• The Presets – Kicking and Screaming
• David Shrigley – The Jist
• SebastiAn – Victimo
• John Carpenter – Arrival At The Library
• Ragga Twins – The Homeless Problem
• Giorgio Moroder – If You Weren’t Afraid
• Mustard Pimp – Zombie Revenge
• Rico Tubbs – Gangsters (Original Mix)
• Mustard Pimp – Oh la la Satan (Stereoheroes Remix)
• Glowstyx – 7 Daze
• Legowelt – Electro Race
• Vangelis – End Titles
• DaRoc vs Preston Park – Serie B aka The Ice Entrance
• Eric Idle – That’s Death

On the 10th – 13th May I’ll be DJing in Trier in Germany as part of the International Bastard (aka International Boot Weekender) – current lineup includes (will add more closer to the date):

• Deep Disco Force (International Bastards 1-3)
• Slackjawedlocal
• Thriftshop XL (VJ as seen on The Hits/ The Box, Bootlegger, Club GYBO)
• Mr Whitelabel (Mutation, BBC @ Brighton)
• DJ Lumpy (WOBcast, Eclectic Kettle)
• TBC (me!)
• Juxtaposeur (WOBcast, Eclectic Kettle, Bootie SF)
• Bush No 10 (Uprising)
• Matt Catt (Bastard, Legs and Co.)
• Jetstopreston (Cease and Desist)
• PEZ
• Ape (Uprising)

Flights being booked:

• LV15

If you’re a bootlegger or bootleg-style DJ – WHY ARE YOU NOT THERE?
And if you’re local, come along! Those set of DJs you can’t go wrong, I guarantee much great music + madness, and now multimedia madness provided by Thiftshop XL and mattcatt.

Find out more here.

Yes the sun is shining and summer is back again, well probably for two weeks and then will fuck off so enjoy this early summer special while it lasts!

Let’s all play in the sunshine: (80Mb http://media.libsyn.com/media/radioclash/rc_115.mp3

• 2001 vs First Time (excerpt from The Man Don’t Give Two Forks)
• Kleptones – Stop
• Zamali – ABC In Central Park (from 10-4 Baby compilation)
• Frenchbloke – Hands Around My Cock
• DJ Earworm -Promiscuous Lola (from 10-4 Baby compilation)
• The Paragons – Tide is High
• A+D – Standing in the Way of Connection (from 10-4 Baby compilation)
• Wax Audio – Metallica goes to Punjab
• Baba Seghal – Tanda Tanda Pani
• Hal Cali – Candy Hearts
• Usha Uthup – Chupke Kaun Aya (from The Trip)
• Bjork – Bukolla
• Minipops – Cruel Summer
• Bim Skala Bim – Popcorn (from WFMU)
• Fiddler’s Green – Popcorn (from WFMU)
• Mark Summers – Summers Magic (original version)
• fudgetools – james bongo (excerpt from The Man Don’t Give Two Forks)
• Billy Bunter & JDS – Let It Lift You
• Venetian Snares – We Are Oceans
• Scissor Sisters – Us and Them (demo)
• VoiceDude – Four Twenty [one-hit edit]
• Kate Bush – Delius (Song of Summer)
• The Kleptones – Breathe In The Summertime
• tbc – Saturday Sunshine
• Sad Kermit – Creep
• Scissor Sisters – Return to Oz (demo)

As the email from them succinctly puts it:

1 – it’s free to get in.
2 – if you get there early enough you’ll get a free CD of great tunes that you might’ve heard on previous WoBcasts.
3 – there will be some great music played by Bloodsworth of Babyhead and DJ No No (aka Instamatic, aka tbc from Radio Clash) <<< me!.
4 – it starts at 9pm and goes on til 2am.
5 – it’s on Saturday March 10th.

It’s going to be a lot of fun, a lot of the kind of tunes I’ve been playtesting at the Parkade in SL (but this is Real Life!), classic fun tunes, ska, reggae, new wave, 70′s pop, disco, 80′s, and modern electrohouse and mashups..ones people have forgotten, the eclectic, the unusual, the should-be-loved. the classic and the new. Might even play the odd one of mine…and the WOBguys will play a real mixture of fun tunes and mashups, being true to the eclectic name.