The Consumer

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J.G. Ballard: Zodiac 2000

I asked my friend Susannah to read Ballard's updated signs of the Zodiac short story. Transmitted thru the wires from Box Hill To Exile Towers back in the days of the Covid lockdown(s)

First came across this wonderful short story in a copy of Ambit (#75) which I bought in the Muswell Hill newsagents in London in the summer of 1978
As Martin Bax the publisher lived just up the road in Highgate he no doubt made sure that Ambit was available at least locally

Fractals Mix

Here's some recent music that has hit my buttons

Now Form A Band Mix

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...and this mix from last week follows the above nicely I think

That's How We Like It Mix

84 minutes including Scritti Politti, King Tubby, Aswad, Defunkt, Float Up CP, Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart, Rachid Taha, The Black Dog, Dot Allison, One Dove, Bjork and UNKLE

The Bug - Absent Riddim

Out now, the LP includes Moor Mother, Justin K Broadrick, Dis Fig, HTRK's Jonnine Standish and more 

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The Story Of Skeng

Pink Confusion (Educate Agitate Organise)Mix

Wish You Were Here Shining/Prayer/No Sympathy/Drawing Rings/Fat White Feet/I'll Make You See God/Black Man/Victory Horns/To Be Rich/More Is Insane/Safe

This one's for Merri Mark who recently has played Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here a couple of times so that's where I started

(as you do)

Spring Mix

Tracklist: 

1 High Ideals & Crazy Dreams (The Dokter RMX) - New Age Steppers 

2 Watersynth - Four Tet 

3 Amorpha - Bitchin Bajas 

4 I Paint What I See - William Orbit ft Beth Orton 

5 Brain Wash - JK Flesh 

6 Common Foot Soldiers (Reprise) - The Tivoli VS Cabaret Voltairte 

7 Swallow Baby (Maximum Sausage Mix) - Ruby 

8 Boops - Super Cat 

9 Boops - Sly & Robbie 

10 Reality - Material 

One for the morning to get you up and moving as the weather starts warming up down here

Steve Bell

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Dreaming of Wires Mix

Tracklist: 

1 Move Back - Bite Harder - Invocation (Excerpts) / Coup De Grace (23 Skidoo) 

2 Rawhide (Scott Walker) 

3 Wonderful World (Nine Horses) 

4 I Dream of Wires (Robert Palmer) 

6 The Loyalizer (Fatima Mansions) 

7 No Sympathy (Super Furry Animals) 

8 Coup (In The Palace) (Excerpt) (23 Skidoo) 

9 Voodoo Rage (A Guy Called Gerald) 

10 Relay (Fiona Apple) 

11 (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang (Heaven 17) 

12 Coup De Grace (23 Skidoo) 

13 Groove Thang (B.E.F.)

Chovu - Whispers

Bombart: Perversion Version

A very special one hour of remixed BOMBART classics,  All brand new unheard material! 

Includes an exclusive new mix by Adrian Sherwood (On-U Sound)

Also features Saul Adamczewski (Fat White Family/Insecure Men) Adam Brennan (Fat White Family/Scud FM) Babyman (Thom Driver/Peter Harris) Damp Carpet, Aloha Dead, Beefy Teeth (Ricardo Carbone/Peter Harris) The HiFi Twins (Zsa Zsa Sapien-Meatraffle/Peter Harris) a drum and bass mix by James Jessop (Horrific) and an exclusive unheard Lee "Scratch" Perry dub mixed by my old friend Fritz Catlin seen here with a 23 Skidoo repeater I made and sent him framed on the wall at his gaff in Hastings in the UK

Here's an hour of Police & Thieves that Fritz also contributed to

Charlie Watts during the making of Exile on Main Street (July 1971)

Photo by Dominique Tarlé 

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*Sigh

Took a punt on a record from a French retro shop because it came with a Françoise Hardy playing card that looked signed, and indeed it was... pic.twitter.com/kEpWgaW7Mn

— Grant McPhee (@GrantMcPheeFilm) August 26, 2022