Richard H Kirk R.I.P.

Farewell to Richard H Kirk (1956-2021) of legendary Sheffield band Cabaret Voltaire. Connecting the experimental side of Roxy Music with William S Burrough's cut up techniques, their The Voice of America (1980) and Red Mecca (1981) remain utter gems of exploratory sound today. pic.twitter.com/TxWXE99wSy

— Robin Rimbaud - Scanner (@robinrimbaud) September 21, 2021

The Deviants - Midnight Shift/Uncle Harry's Last Freakout (Hyde Park, London, 20/9/69)

+

How Music Can Literally Heal the Heart

You Better Run From Me: A Moor Mother Mix

Tracklist: 

1 bebe's kids, APOLLO - Pink Siifu ft Moor Mother 

2 Circuit City Act 1: Working Machine - MM 

3 Vex'd - The Bug ft MM 

4 Catalyst - Zonal ft MM 

5 MMXXX - Eartheater ft MM 

6 Splinters - Reef The Lost Cauze ft MM & Kahlil Ali 

7 Gang For A Day - MM & Billy Woods ft Franklin James Fisher 

8 Creation Myth - MM 

9 Race Function Limited - MM ft Brother May 

10 Off Script (MM Remix) - The Body 

11 Ya Mom's A Cop - The Hirs Collective ft MM 

12 Nightshade - MM & Olof Melander 

13 Not For You (MM Remix) - The Hirs Collective 

14 Pick Up Your Burning Cross - Sons of Kemet ft MM & Angel Bat Dawid 

15 The Kill (MM Remix) - Gonjasufi 

16 This Week - MM 

17 End of My Bloodline (Remix) - Screaming Females ft MM & Sammus

Why Japanese peasants signed their list of demands with all their names in a circle (Edo Period1603-1868)

In Japan's Edo Period (1603-1868), when impoverished peasants finally couldn't take it anymore and decided to revolt, they would sign their list of demands with all their names in a big circle.

The had specific reasons for doing this...

1/ pic.twitter.com/fXeTeqcZUk

— Nick Kapur (@nick_kapur) September 12, 2021

THREAD

No Rush Mix

Tracklist: 

1 Rabbit Hills - Michael Chapman 

2 Feel So Good - Spacemen 3 

3 Stuck In The Middle With You - Gerry Rafferty 

4 Sad But True - Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit 

5 King of Nails - Sparklehorse 

6 Disappearing - Low 

7 Turn To Red - Killing Joke 

8 Forever Starts Now (Killing Joke Dub) - Gang of Four 

9 Monkey (Bob Mould Remix) - Low 

10 Original - Leftfield 

11 Fool's Gold - The Stone Roses 

12 I Think I'm In Love (Chemical Brothers Remix) - Spiritualized

Arvo Pärt: Blessed Are Those Who Are Invited To The Marriage Supper of The Lamb

Another great mix from Simon West

Michael Chapman - Among The Trees / Deal Gone Down (OGWT BBC1975)

R.I.P.

Michael Chapman: the man who connects Elton, Bowie, Nick Drake and Sonic Youth

Kieran Adair: The Universe of Lee 'Scratch' Perry

Lee Perry featuring Suns of Arqa and Little Axe - Devil Dead Out (Adrian Sherwood Mix)

+

Listen: Optimo Lee Perry Special (7/9/21)

This is how herd immunity rises and we get rid of some stupid in the world as a bonus

Low - White Horses / Days Like These

HEY WHAT - a magnificent redefinition of rock music

Low’s Thrillingly Noisy ‘HEY WHAT’ Is An Instant Classic

A Guide to Low’s Haunting Discography

+

+ 

Things We Lost In The Fire 20th Anniversary Visual Album

Fat White Family - Live in Hell (Glastonbury 2015)

Tracklist: Touch The Leather / Heaven on Earth / Whitest Boy on the Beach / Cream of the Young / Wild American Prairie / Goodbye Goebbels / Bomb Disneyland

I Went Up I Went Down Mix

Tracklist:

1 I Went Up I Went Down - Pink Faries 

2 Song From The Bottom of A Well - Kevin Ayers 

3 No Version - Zonal 

4 The Motor City's Burning - Hugo Race & Michelangelo Russo 

5 Don't Wake Me Up - Jesu 

6 River of No Shame - Alan Vega 

7 East Easy Rider - Julian Cope 

8 Feet Fat White - Family

Ken Thomas R.I.P.

Ok I'm very late to this news  having just found out today.

Ken  after working on recordings by the likes of Queen, Bowie and PIL as engineer went on to produce some of my very favourite bands from back in the day including 23 Skidoo, PsychicTV, The Au Pairs, Wire, Test Dept and Clock DVA and then producing amongst others Sigur Rós, Gavin Friday and M83 later 

I remember going up to Manchester to see PTV's second gig and the first with a full band: Genesis P'Orridge, Peter Christopherson, Paula P'Orridge, Alex Ferguson, Jonh Balance (Coil) and Jon Gosling (Mekon) 

Originally it was supposed to have been held at Prestwich Mental Hospital but council complaints meant it was transferred to The Ritz 

The debut line up had been just GPO and Sleazy as part of the Burroughs' Final Academy in Brixton just over a year before

At the Manchester gig Sleazy's set up malfunctioned and to be honest if it wasn't for Ken's mixing that night I think it would have been a complete shambles. 

At the end of the night I was chatting to some girl and it turned out she reviewed the gig for Sounds (I think it was). Now if anyone should have a clipping of that...

You can watch the film of the performance below 

'Don't forget Ken, make it hurt'

(ASIDE] I bought a tee shirt with a brilliant design of heretics burning at the stake with the words 'Nice People These Burn Again Christians'  at that show. I had it for a long time until someone stole it off my washing line here in Melbourne years later. I'd already cut the design out and sewn it on to new tees twice as that one got a lot of wear back in the day

Beat The Light