Saturday 6 March 2021
Angel-Ho - Chapter 7: Crisis of Existential Selves Mix
This mix is by the incredibly talented Angel-Ho - a Vocalist, Producer and DJ based in Cape Town, South Africa. Afriqueen Diva and Connoisseur of the Arts she is on the Hyperdub Music Label. This mix accompanies Chapter 7 of Planet Divoc-91 comic, which is written by Bobby Joseph and illustrated by Zara Slattery, with cover by David Rubin
Friday 5 March 2021
ZÖJ are another band I have to catch live again soonish...
Photo by Mehdi Moradizadeh
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Here's video of a set recorded at the Melbourne Recital Centre late in 2020
Gelareh Pour (on the Kamancheh and vocals) and Brian O'Dwyer (on drums) are absolutely fascinating on stage and I don't think I have seen a performance that hasn't left me blissed out. Good luck in Warren Country guys and Gelareh I hope all the hospital shit is over soon
Finally here's Gelareh performing 'Into My Arms' in Farsi which was quite a hit on BadSeedsTV
Recorded and mixed by Jonathan Gilmour Gelareh Pour: Voice and Kamancheh
Mike Gallichio: Electric Guitar
Eshagh Pour: Translation
This is a rehearsal recording
A live version of this track is available on Gelareh Pour's Garden 'Live at Bakehouse' HERE
Billy Graham VS Human Nature
On-U Sound System Dubs/Mixes of Gary Clail's hit 'Human Nature'. Here with the original Billy Graham vocals that his Estate wouldn't authorise the release of. Hence the resulting Gary Clail version and here's the Perfecto Billy Graham remix of which allegedly only a few were released
Shane Levene: The Trauma of Beautiful Things
O it came and it pooled out of me as a sadness. It came through youth and I didn't know what it was. It was there in my sick bed during long fantastic days off school; came in on the drone of helicopters and the mid-afternoon screams and whistles from the schoolyard opposite. It passed by the window as a millipede of children, cruel and unruly, looking in and laughing as it made its way down to the local swimming baths. It was in the smell of chlorine, in pruned skin and warts and verrucas, in the hideous stench of changing rooms and sour milk, humid feet and prepubescence. It was in me and I don't remember a time when it was not. It roared by in the whoosh of freedom, expanded in my eardrums as I freewheeled downhill for life. Come each dusk I would feel it, would stare out as the sun collapsed and the city died, would want to cry over nothing I could fathom. It came in with history and it overwhelmed me and made me mute. And those were the first lashes from the whip and it was in the whip and in the lash and in the rhythm and the meter and the crack and the yelp of youth. It circled by overhead in the traumatic squawkings of seagulls, sounded in the high winds and arctic skies. It frothed out from my mother's mouth in the back of an ambulance and spread out in the bruises across her chest in intensive care. It comes through ugly and then turns beautiful, comes beautiful and ugly again. On a terrible night I wrote. It was the first time and it made me ill and she nursed me better. It was in me then and in the bright cold healthy morning. I woke up freshly damned and I wanted nothing more. X
Shane Levene truly is one of the most gifted wordsmiths that I have ever come across. Do check out his blog if you don't know of him. He has a seriously powerful way with words
Kevin Richard Martin - Lockdown Grooves (Elevate Festival)
Better known to most of us as The Bug, Kevin Richard Martin acts as a shapeshifter between genres. His contribution produced especially for Elevate, picks up where his album series "Frequencies for leaving earth", launched during the first lockdown left off. In this deeply personnal project, he devotes himself to intensely immersive soundscapes that develop a uniquely dystopian undertow.
This contribution was first aired on Thursday, March 4th at 11:30 p.m. CET through Austrian national radio station Ö1
Tracklist:
Kevin Richard Martin - Untitled 15
Kevin Richard Martin - Shepard tone 1 (Low hypnotic)
Kevin Richard Martin - Untitled 7
Kevin Richard Martin - Untitled 2
Kevin Richard Martin - A Broken Home (Taken from 'Frequencies for Leaving
Earth Vol.5')
OPN ft Roger Robinson - Replica
Kevin Richard Martin - Untitled 12
Kevin Richard Martin - Shepard tone 1 (High hypnotic)
Kevin Richard Martin - Untitled 4
Kevin Richard Martin - Refraction 5 (Taken from 'Sedatives')
Ana Roxanne - A study n Vastness
Kevin Richard Martin - Wife or Mother (Taken from 'Return to Solaris')
Kevin Richard Martin - Hallucinations (Taken from 'Hazy')
Robert Wyatt - Strange Fruit
Lockdown Grooves is part of Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union. In Cooperation with Ö1
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Mary Anne Hobbs 2020-12-04 The Bug Guest Mix
Summer Faded Fast (You Knew It Wouldn't Last) Mix [Version2]
NEW MIX
Tracklist:
1
The Touch of A Stranger's Skin
Gareth Sager
2
Bottom of The Sky
Tashi & Yoshi Wada and Friends
3
For Suzanne
Durutti Column
4
Morningstar
Grant Hart
5
Token Spokes 1
Suzanne Ciani
6
Only Myself To Blame
Scott Walker
7
Dada Was Here/Thank You Pierrot Lunaire
The Soft Machine
8
Lights Off
The Phonometrician
9
Token Spokes 2
Suzanne Ciani
10
Reboot
Gary Lucas & Peter Hammill
11
Big Mouth
Dennis Young
12
Fools Gold
The Stone Roses
13
English Ghosts ft John Robb
Humanist
David Gamson - No Turn On Red
Released in 1982 only on two compilations - Sex Sweat Blood and the NME Jive Wire cassette. A Fat Camp re-edit later featured on a few Ze Records releases around 2009/2010
Thursday 4 March 2021
Have Bass Will Travel
2 Bassists ; Bill Laswell and yours truly , in the dressing room , before a show in Brooklyn a few years ago . You never know...maybe before too long those days will be back again . But nothing’s ever certain is it? Pic by Yoko pic.twitter.com/hzhNVdyUQ2
— Jah Wobble (@realjahwobble) March 3, 2021
[UPCOMING GIGS] Black Cab: 'Rotsler’s Rules' single launch both North & South of the Yarra
The new single is dedicated to influential LA cosplayer, sci-fi author and '60's pornographer, William 'Bill' Rotsler and will be out late March. The track will feature on Black Cab's upcoming sixth album due for release later in 2021
LAUNCH DATES:
Howler (Brunswick)
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Supermädchen - live at The Corner Hotel Richmond (Jan 2021)
Friday, 16 April 2021
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The Gershwin Room (St. Kilda)
Saturday, 1 May 2021
I've caught Black Cab a couple of times so far in 2021. Both with limited sitting audience numbers.
Really looking forward to things getting totally back to normal as they are still currently the best live band in Melbourne and due to Covid we are still blessed with having Wes on drums...here's a couple of tracks recorded (a year apart) on my trusty Tascam. 'Untitled' from Jan 2020 before the lockdown hit last year and old fave 'Supermädchen' recorded at Black Cab's last Melbourne gig
Untitled - live at Nighthawks Fitzroy (Jan 2020)Kris Needs on Siouxsie and The Banshees
Siouxsie And The Banshees: the story of the band who band who saved punk from parody and invented goth
Funnily enough a friend of mine had come up to Glasgow from London where he worked for Charisma Records and was going to catch The Scars live supporting The Banshees at The Apollo on the 8th September 1979 before possibly signing them to PRE Records. Of course the gig was cancelled due to the drama in Aberdeen the night before and we ended up going to the most boring party in Byres Road. Oh well never have seen The Banshees live but I did get to see The Scars numerous times
JG Thirlwell interviewed in Brooklyn, NYC in 1986 by Tim Ritchie (3JJJ)
William S. Burroughs on Alex Trocchi, Jean Cocteau & Thomas De Quincey
It is notorious that in Bristol (to that I can speak myself, but probably in many other places) he (Coleridge) went so far as to hire men "porters, hackney-coachmen, and others" to oppose by force his entrance into any druggist's shop. But, as the authority for stopping him was derived simply from himself, naturally these poor men found themselves in a metaphysical fix, not provided for even by Thomas Aquinas or by the prince of Jesuitical casuists. And in this excruciating dilemma would occur such scenes as the following: "0h, sir," would plead the suppliant porter, suppliant, yet semi-imperative (for equally if he did and if he did not show fight, the poor man's daily 5s. seemed endangered) "really you must not; consider, sir, your wife and-" Transcendental Philosopher: "Wife! what wife?I have no wife." Porter: "But, really now,you must not, sir. Didn't you say no longer ago than yesterday" Transcend. Philos: "Pooh, pooh! yesterday is a long time ago. Are you aware, my man, that people are known to have dropped down dead for timely want of opium?" Porter: "Ay ,but you tell't me not to hearken " Transcend. Philos: "Oh, nonsense!An emergency, a shocking emergency, has arisen, quite unlooked for. No matter what I told you in times long past. That which I now tell you is that, if you don't remove that arm of yours from the doorway of this most respectable druggist, I shall have a good ground of action against you for assault and battery
Note: The passage Burroughs reads here is from De Quincey's 1856 revised edition of 'Confessions of an English Opium Eater'. It doesn't appear in the 1821 edition.
The passage concerns Coleridge's (1772 - 1834), not De Quincey's, reported attempts to curb his own laudanum addiction, attempts so half-hearted & inept they're amusing, as Burroughs points out.
Saturday 27 February 2021
COUM Transmissions: After Cease to Exist (1978)
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The last time I saw this film prior to watching it just before was at a showing at the London Film Makers Co-Op in Camden I think in 79 that also had all the memebers of TG present
Lost Horizons feat. The Hempolics - I Woke Up With An Open Heart (On-U Sound Remix)
Video directed by Innerstrings
Remix - Adrian Sherwood
Engineer - Matt Smyth
Cello and Bass Guitar - Ivan “Celloman" Hussey
Drums - Prisoner
ACAB (ALL CATS ARE BAST'RDS)
I HAVE NEVER NEEDED SOMETHING MORE IN MY LIFE pic.twitter.com/v0HOT4THvR
— justine raymond (@jmarieray) February 27, 2021
Congrats to Mogwai on making #1 this week in the UK album charts
We did it! Thank you everyone!!!!!!! I can’t believe we have a number one album. I’m honestly so humbled and grateful for everyone’s support. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ #Mogwai4Number1
— stuart braithwaite (@plasmatron) February 26, 2021
— Mogwai (@mogwaiband) February 26, 2021
Great Australian Albums / 16 Lovers Lane - The Go-Betweens
Friday 26 February 2021
Fairport Convention - 'Bouton Rouge' French TV Show, Broadcast Live, April 27 1968
01-Morning Glory
02-Time Will Show The Wiser
03-Reno Nevada
Judy Dyble - Vocals/Recorder
Iain Matthews - Vocals
Simon Nicol - Rhythm Guitar/Vocals
Ashley "Tyger" Hutchings - Bass Guitar
Richard Thompson - Lead Guitar/Vocals
Martin Lamble - Drums
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