Tuesday 21 September 2021

How Music Can Literally Heal the Heart

Saturday 18 September 2021

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

Tuesday 14 September 2021

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

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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

Wednesday 8 September 2021

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

Tuesday 7 September 2021

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

I'm ready. ZÖJ badge on and counting down to their online show tonight (8PM AEST)


Tonight from 8:00 PM (Australian Eastern Standard Time)


+ No Man's Land: Pippa Bainbridge (vocals, guitar, loop, effects)/ Swiss van Kalken (bass guitar, found percussion, loop, effects) 
+ Gillian Howell (clarinet +)/Tony Hicks (clarinets + saxophones)/Alice Bennett (electronics/sound manipulations and flute)/Miranda Hill (bass + violine) 
+ ZÖJ: Gelareh Pour (Qeychak & Voice)/ Brian O’Dwyer (Drum kit). Video: Saeed Sourati 
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Monday 6 September 2021

The dying art of the hatchet job