Tuesday, 17 February 2015

Naval Reservist John Coltrane aged 18 (1945)

Tomorrow - My White Bicycle

Tomorrow's pioneering paean to the joys of communal public transport has proved to be a classic of the British psychedelic underground

Mogwai Interview

Mogwai will be playing Melbourne's Hamer Hall on 1/3/15 and the Sydney Opera House on 2/3/15
Gotta admit that I wish I had the money to go to this gig but never mind...

Monday, 16 February 2015

Tindersticks - Live @The Philharmonie Paris (10/2/15)

1. Keep You Beautiful, 2. Second Chance Man, 3. Medicine, 4. Dying Slowly, 5. Johnny Guitar, 6. Into the Night, 7. Boobar, 8. Come Feel The Sun, 9. A Night So Still, 10. The Otherside, 11. Drunk Tank, 12. Piano Song, 13. Factory Girl
Encore1 1. Hushabye Mountain, 2. She's Gone, 3. Sometimes It Hurts, 4. My Oblivion, 5. Trouble Everyday
Encore2 1. Another Night In, 2. All The Love/This Fire Of Autumn

Freedom Sounds Mix (Toby Whelan)

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'Fossils'

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Jah Wobble's Top Ten Dubs (Audio)

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1 KING TUBBY MEETS ROCKERS UPTOWN Augustus Pablo
I first heard this as a pre-release in 1976. Love the sound of Augustus Pablo's melodica; I am also kinky for the sound of the dubbed-up timbale drums that feature on this recording. King Tubby was the king of pure, heavy-duty dub at that time. It was released in this country on Island Records. Hearing 'King Tubby' for the first time had a profound effect on me: it was like hearing music from another cosmos. There are any number of good King Tubby compilations now around - Trojan Records and the Blood & Fire label are good places to look.
2 CONCRETE DUB Bob Marley
I no longer have this record... in fact, I have not heard it for probably 25 years, so I hope it does really exist and is not a figment of my imagination. If memory serves me well, it was the dub version B-side of an Island 7" single; probably of the track called 'Concrete Jungle', from the Catch a Fire album. It must have been one of the first ever domestically released dub singles. It was great to hear a dub version of a Marley track - I nearly always preferred the dub version of a tune. There was more space, and the bass and drums were pushed to the fore.
3 MARCUS GARVEY (DUB VERSION) Burning Spear
One of the very first dub versions I ever heard. I heard it in 1975 on a Friday night on the Capital Radio reggae show. I used to listen to that show religiously - Tommy Vance was the DJ. I now occasionally hear him DJing on heavy-rock stations as I channel-hop.
4 PROMISE IS A COMFORT TO A FOOL Trinity/Yabby You
A classic bassline, with a beautiful vocal refrain, and DJ chat. There are some bass lines that contain the whole mystery of creation within them. This is one of them. Other examples are Roy Budd's bass line to the title track of Mike Hodges Get Carter, and Cecil McBee's line on Lonnie Liston Smith's 'Expansions' are two that come immediately to mind. The crediting of reggae musicians is notoriously lax. There are three possible players, re this particular tune. All giants of the bass - Robbie Shakespeare, Aston 'Family Man' Barrett and Clinton Fearon. If I had to put money down on who it is on this track, I would say it was Mr Fearon.
5 TWO SEVENS CLASH Culture
For a while back in 1977, you could not get away from this tune. It still sounds heavenly. It reminds me of walking back from a party in Hackney on a Sunday morning as the sun was coming up. I couldn't get the tune out of my head.
6 JUJU MUSIC King Sunny Ade
There was a little-known dub version of this classic album, mixed by an engineer that I worked with, called Groucho. What he did was devastating. I would love to hear it again. It was on Island (again!) and was released around 1982.
7 ROWING Dennis Bovell
One of the great musicians of his generation. I used to watch him perform this with his band Matumbi. As with "Juju Music", I hankered after hearing it again. I'm pleased to say that the label Pressure Sounds has released a compilation of Dennis's dub stuff, which includes this track.
8 THE SAME SONG Israel Vibration
Similar to our own late, and very great Ian Dury, 'Skeleton,' 'Apple' and 'Wiss' [Israel Vibration's three members] were stricken by polio in the fifties. This blend of their vocals within a dub context is wonderful. Yet again, there is a great compilation on Pressure Sounds.
9 CONSCIOUS MAN DUB Lee Perry and the Jolly Brothers
You could not have a dub selection without Lee "Scratch" Perry appearing. This is a great example of his idiosyncratic style.
10 SMILING STRANGER John Martyn
This is taken from his 1980 album One World. It was one of the first records outside reggae to utilise dub techniques. Superb.
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The Sound of Young Scotland (Teaser)

Alan Horne, B.A. Robertson, Edwyn Collins & fan

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'I think the worst thing that ever happened to Alan (Horne) and Paul (Quinn) was meeting' - James King

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I remember that Nu Sonics/Steel Pulse gig upstairs at the Apollo and Steven Daly still owes me a bootleg from back in the days when he was at Listen after I got a cardboard display of Patti Smith's artwork promoting Easter from where he worked which pissed him off and so he said I could get a bootleg from under the counter at Listen Records. Gave him the artwork and...never got my hands on that Pistols bootleg I wanted but I've always imagined that Patti cutout in pride of place in his Vanity Fair office in New York.
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Zé Otavio: William S. Burroughs

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DJ Food - Selected Aphex Works (Solid Steel 13/2/15)

Unless you've been living under a rock recently you'll have heard the news that Aphex Twin unexpectedly uploaded 155 of his old and unreleased tracks to Soundcloud and made them downloadable for free. Starting from his earliest demos through to known live tracks, later jungle experiments and beyond, this is the motherlode that his fans have always wanted. DJ Food, a long-time Aphex fan, has been through the entire collection with a fine-toothed comb and selected his favourites for the first half of the show this week. The hit rate was high but he's has managed to cram 31 tracks into 85 minutes to mark this unique occasion and peppered the mix with vintage interview clips of Richard James talking about his music
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39 Fnkmg
Floating
19 Ssnb
8 Utopia
19 [Slo]w early morning clissold sunrise
21 Hapshifter 1
12 Rough Beat Tune
Luke Vibert - Spiral Staircase [Future Music competition] [afx remix]
Thy're Here Aahha
33 Jonny Hawkes Broken Guitar[not Finished]
4 Red Calx [slo]
4 Red Calx
34.5 P.e.
5 heliosphan live
2 Afx 126b
15 Bradley Jam Pump
GPO Beat
Mortal 08
PrncDMC
Fork Rave
T13 Quadraverb
1 P-String
13 Short Mental fax
14 Make a Baby
14 Moodular Acid [pissflaps mix]
18 Mello Punchy
tigercubdelay
(HAB un23) (unfinished)
26 5 Demo
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