April 2011
8 posts
#musicdiaryproject, SUNDAY
Mostly doing laundry and cooking and general cleaning today, while listening to podcasts. So, the theme songs from:
Comedy Death-Ray - CDR Best of 2010 MAIN EDIT2 - by Reggie Watts
Doug Loves Movies - Garfunkle and Oates and Samm Levine guest - theme performed live by Garfunkel (sic) & Oates
the return of Higson & Whitehouse’s magnificent Down The...
#musicdiaryproject, SATURDAY
almost all incidental music today. Flipping between a classic hits and an indie station in a friend’s car (her doing the flipping). Various clips and live performances on youtube. Some Tenacious D songs in their first episode of their TV show, watching to see what Paul F Tompkins looked like back then. The first disc of Andy Clockwise - Classic FM (bought for $1...
#musicdiaryproject, FRIEEDAY, FRIEEDAY
having breakfast and on the bus:
Stephen Tobolowsky - The Tobolowsky Files Ep. 44 - The Voice from Another Room - including various Talking Heads songs (eg Once In A Lifetime, Wild Wild Life, Radio Head) in Tobolowsky’s charming story of meeting David Byrne, co-writing True Stories and being the inspiration for Radiohead
at work:
Childish Gambino -...
#musicdiaryproject, THURSDAY
on the bus to work:
Tom Scharpling - Polyphonic Spree and Brian Wilson Unfair Record Reviews (originally aired on July 27, 2004) - including snippets from the albums as well as Scharpling’s “euchh”-ing
doc_emily_haines_2010_06_01 - actually, this one cuts out all the songs, but still back announces them.
richardinyourmind_2010_06_27 - this time...
#musicdiaryproject, WEDNESDAY
Having breakfast and hanging out washing:
lav_cloudcontrol_2010_11_09 - meant to be a studio session, but badly named and without any ID3 tagging, turns out to be two live tracks and an interview lav_reginaspektor_2010_04_30 - studio session including soporific Radiohead cover
On the bus:
PRI: The Sound of Young America - Flying Lotus - ...
#musicdiaryproject, TUESDAY
Having breakfast and getting a Wurlitzer ready for someone off eBay to come and pick up
brianwilson_2010_10_19 - in which 20-year-old breakfast radio hosts isolate a second of Wilson la-la-ing a Gershwin tune and tailing off, and play it over and over and giggle. delasoul_2010_11_10 - in which 20-year-old breakfast radio hosts mispronounce his bandmate’s name, and...
A slight change in format this week, as I hitch a ride on Nick Southall’s #musicdiaryproject bandwagon. Which basically means I’ll try and note some things I listen to at work (though not most of the single tracks, and nothing off youtube. I have actual work to do) and on CD, not just my phone. Also, I haven’t been home all week, so here follow Monday through Wednesday, posted at...
Judith Lucy and Sam Pang on 774 Melbourne, 07/01/11 - is it daylight savings that creates all these holes in the regional schedules that require networked spakfilla, or…? FBi 94.5’s All the Best: Election 2010, Turramurra Public School, Escaping an Ugandan Coup, Obama’s victory, The Great Donkey Debate, Rajiv Ghandi, Comrades - having to vote again, I thought I should get...
March 2011
2 posts
Marc Maron - WTF - EPISODE 146 DAVE FOLEY - zomg at dude’s life/legal tales, and more so at his continuing geniality in the face thereof
Pocketknife - Arthur Russell - moving-me-up-mix-FINAL - sweet greatest-hits type mix
This American Life ep 423 - excellent full hour on a few journos stunning themselves post-financial collapse by discovering that money is entirely fictional.
and more, oh...
Dave Pearce Meets Chuck D - 6mix-SAT-12-26-2010 - an amiable enough listen, with Chuck and Pearce reminiscing about the early days of PE, playing 80s hip-hop, and Chuck wheeling his “we chased the UK press because no-one else at Def Jam would” barrow out for an airing, but this was plugged as including material from the Hammersmith concert from which Pearce’s intro was nicked for Nation Of...
February 2011
6 posts
Jamie Lidell on Morning Becomes Eclectic - live-in-studio session plugging the Compass set with a full band. Hoping that the trio lineup he’s bringing here next week means we’re likely to get plenty of old-style loop jamming!
6 Music - Essential Albums – Screamadelica - light chat from Weatherall and some journos about how it was good, could have gone a couple of hours on the making of and...
Dam-Funk – Live DJ Set at No Culture, LA 2009 - Light on the keytar and mic-break toppings, but at one point he does big up “this is the UK-only 9-minute 12” version” of Prince’s Sexy Dancer, and claim he’s not going to stop it early, so everyone has a chance to find someone to dance with.
Boogie Down Productions - Operating Room Interview, Part 1 Boogie Down Productions - Operating Room...
fuckityballs: lost a bunch of actual written reaction whatnot in a Word.fail - anyway here’s some stuff that went in my ears in the first week of February:
Detroit Grand Pubahs - Mr O Dancehall Selection for allez allez - taking a fairly liberal definition of dancehall, which is reasonable enough for an 80-minute mix
DJ Moneyshot - Deep Covers - AMAZING mix, done for Solid Steel, of hip-hop...
more catching-up - from before the 29th of January
Alex Paterson - 6 Mix 24th Oct 2010 - Two hour radio jobbie for Orb megamind featuring influences on, and about half of, the David Gilmour collab Metallic Spheres. Shame it sounds so tame and dull!
Aeroplane October 2010 Mix - sounds like Vito’s switching to software over CD-Js for mixing?
DJ Food - “Go For Blue...
not things I've listened to, things I haven't read
Inspired by my previous post, and it reminding me of this Tom Ewing post, I decided to audit my shelves and get an idea of how many books I have sitting around unread – and how many have actually moved house several times without ever getting completed, or started.
This definitely isn’t even complete: I have several boxes unpacked from moving into this house almost a year ago, and a shipping...
Two weeks of no weekends, and often 12-hour days at work, and then a malwared-up laptop, stopped me from noting much of anything as I went. So, starting to catch up from now on:
listening up to the 23rd of January:
Roundhouse Soundclash 01 Warmup 17-02-2010 - opening rounds of a 7-hour or so clash between the Trojan Soundsystem, Soul II Soul, Metalheads and DMZ. Maybe one I’m forgetting? Hosted...
January 2011
5 posts
Moon Wiring Club – A Spare Tabby At The Cat’s Wedding
- Gorgeous, filigreed post-trip-hop compiled – apparently! – completely from samples of 60s-70s UK kids TV and the like.
Comedy Death Ray - CDR 53 podcast
- With Weird Al and Garfunkel & Oates in the studio , including G&O busting a live Al cover and including swears in it. He doesn’t quite bristle with...
Inkstuds Radio - Best American Comics Criticism
- Gary Groth almost inaudible on the phone here, just like his twooter.
BeatsInSpace-07.13.10 Part1 with Joakim BeatsInSpace-07.13.10 Part2 with Tim Sweeney
- It always takes me by surprise that the J in Joakim is sounded.
Jesse Thorn - The College Years - cy111104_082010
- ...
RA.225 Scott Grooves I/II - 2010.09.20 RA.225 Scott Grooves II/II - 2010.09.20
- Instead of a new mix, Grooves turned in both sides of a 1993 C90 of female vocal house. The second side was a little polite for my treadmill-based purposes, but opened with a Morales Klub Mix of What Can You Do For Me that it was well worth waiting 18 years to learn the existence of.
Kim Thompson...
Guardian Music Weekly: Saint Etienne’s Bob Stanley on Christmas tracks, favourite festive tunes
- Sack Petridish, get Stanley in every week
WTF_-_EPISODE_120_AUSTIN
- Maron gets excited that all his local guests here tell miserable stories about their lives.
WTF_-_EPISODE_121_KEN_JEONG
- Adorably, he actually approached...
through the Christmas break:
Andrew Weatherall - 6 Mix special on Screamadelica
- Sadly no stories whatsoever on the making of the album, just the genial producer playing stuff that he and Boaby G were listening to at the time.
Tony Martin & Ed Kavalee - Summer_Lovin_Podcast_3
- Taken aback by the #1 iTunes hit status of the first two podcasts,...
December 2010
4 posts
(pretend this was posted on Christmas Eve)
Bill Drummond - Belfast, Reimagining The City (BBC R4 - Tue March 9th 2010)
- Splendid piece of radio, with just enough sound cues to carry King Boy D’s narration of some of his favourite moments in and associated with the city, from touring the Bunnymen to his Soup Line art project.
Strictly Kev – Solid Steel 10-05-07-01 Moon...
Pharrell & The Yessirs - Out Of My Mind
- ?uestlove puts together a live band to re-play the backing tracks from Pharrell’s solo album In My Mind. Not having heard the original, the main take-away here is “holy shit is Skateboard P’s love game immature.”
J.Period Live Mixtape (Illadelph Edition) EP
- in the vein of those great single-artist best-of mixes he does with lot of new ...
Severed Heads – Cuisine
- I bought a handful of new and reissue CDs from Sevcom a few years ago, and have yet to play any of them. And yet, when he makes bits of back catalogue free to download, I always manage to give them a download and couple of listens. Obviously, this behaviour ought to tell me to stop bothering to clutter my house with cardboard and plastic for music listening, but...
Been working weekends, and 12-hour days during the week, with no time for pretty much anything else after hours (apart from gigs, obv), so here’s a few weeks at once:
Enzology Part 05 - Frenzy (1978-1979) - Fantastic bit of work on this one, interspersing many players enthusiastic memories of one shitty bush festival where everything went wrong but they played a blinder, turning...
November 2010
6 posts
Malcolm McLaren – Malcolm McLaren’s Musical Map Of London
- Autobiographical radio documentary, with not only the favoured self-mythologising the late Talcy Malcy was famed for, but also his gift of gab put to full effect. Great audio production by some BBC producers, too.
Tim Sweeney - mixing at Crew Love, Marcy Hotel, NYC 26/6/10
- As a one-hour podcast, it doesn’t get...
Maddslinky – FACT mix 184 (2) - the “new stuff” sequel to the Zed Bias mix from a few days ago – this stuff hits the “liquid funk” genre name he coined a lot more square-on, but there’s an AMAZING unreleased track at the end that’s like the Gangsta Gangsta of UKG. From the tracklist it seems to be called Blaow by Sleeping Giants feat. Btch Pls, and I’m going to slice it out of the full mp3 for...
Simon Caldwell – live at Cold Crush
- Great chance to hear one of Sydney’s most talented DJs play in a completely different style, rocking an hour and a half of early-80s electro. Heavy on the instrumentals, too.
NPR – Fresh Air interview with Dolly Parton from 2003
- She p much could have a pre-programmed robot doling out the same folksy, self-deprecating tales and schtick,...
Grant Phabao & Djouls - Ninja Tune - 20 Years of Remixes & Re-interpretations
- Parisian DJs pick favourite and obscure mixes from the Coldcut label catalogue. I have about 12 hours of official Ninja mixes around this 20th anniversary that are too imposing to get to, so this is a good stopgap.
Grant Phabao and Djouls - Ninja Tune - 20 Years of Psychedelic Hip Hop, Funk and Jazz
...
Bernard Sumner – The First Time on BBC6
- whoever ripped this one blended out all the full songs. BBC, can’t you do this and podcast legitimately?
DJ Jazzy Jeff @ The Do-Over July 11th 2010
-with Mad Skillz MCing
JD Twitch - Creatures Of The Night – Optimo Podcast 7, August 2010
- special goth-themed mix for a cancelled Factory Floor support
NPR - 20100908_fa_02
- about the late Robert...
Steven Adler on the Adam Carolla Show
- can’t deal with the whole Morning Show format of these newer podcasts, so I’m skipping the first almost-hour just to hear the guests that vaguely pique my interest. In this case, a stroke-slurred Adler proclaiming that Foo Fighters are literally the only good music of any kind made since the 1970s. Yow.
Coldcut & Peter Quicke – Ninja Tune XX...
October 2010
5 posts
Andrew Weatherall - Pulse.002 mix
Sunday Night Safran - safran_2010_08_15
- includes a relaxed interview with Chris Morris on the Four Lions promo trail
Doug Benson -I Love Movies
- Andy Kindler and Marc Maron guest
Loveline - 1998-04-01
- with Patton Oswalt & Brian Posehn offering advice to teenage girls picking up 40-year-olds in parking lots
WTF_-_EPISODE_99_LONDON
WTF_-_EPISODE_100
-...
Jimmy Edgar – live at Berghain (from allez allez)
- listened to this after missing half his set at the Civic when the door girls refused to tell us who was on when. WTF? He drops Hot Raw Sex early in this one, rather than building to it as a, er, climax
Inkstuds – Dash Shaw
Magda – RA.215
Marc Maron - WTF_-_EPISODE_96_COMIX_JULY
Inkstuds – Todd Hignite
Inkstuds – Al Columbia
Jackmaster –...
New Order – Live at Glastonbury 1987
- repeat TX from BBC6 of this Substance-era hits-heavy set. Interesting to hear how wobbly some of the live versions still were at this stage, and Barney keeps the whoops largely under control.
Orbital - 6 Mix_Orbital Glasto Special
- 90 minutes of them playing favourite live recordings of theirs from Glastonbury sets 1994-2004 and reminiscing charmingly...
Aeroplane - July Mix
- still the best running soundtrack, every month
Comedy Death Ray -ComedyDeathRayRadio35423
- Patton Oswalt’s widely reblogged comments on the Leno kerfuffle in this one. Good listening!
RA.213 Fred P - 2010.06.28
Laurent Garnier - live at Rock Werchter 02-07-09
- great set of hits with the full live band he brought out here last...
Boom Monk Ben - 117_SolidSteel_-_Podcast
Comedy Death Ray -ComedyDeathRayRadio26653
- with Sarah Silverman, and a truly woeful fake interview with Elvis Costello made up of song snippets
Comic Geek Speak - cgs-episode874
- Kim Thompson on FBI’s series of Tardi reprints, with a panel of bemused superhero fans
DK - 118_SolidSteel_-_Podcast
Tom Spurgeon – HeroesCon 2010: In Conversation with...
September 2010
3 posts
Aeroplane – June Chart Mix
Andrew Weatherall - Dummy_Mix_39
ComedyDeathRayRadio-ComedyDeathRayRadio14356
- Andy Samberg and Zach Galifinakis in on this one
DJ Cheeba - 116_SolidSteel_-_Podcast
FBi 94.5’s All the Best: Kings X, St Peters, Turn of the Century Darling Harbour + More
Guardian Music Weekly: Massive Attack
ComedyDeathRayRadio-ComedyDeathRayRadio16275
- with Andy Dick playing...
After that three-week catchup, I’ll be sticking to week-by-week roundups of just what I listen to on my phone for a while. Albums and such will have to have a separate catch-up down the line…
Adam Carolla Podcast – Olivia Munn
Adam Carolla Show – Peter North
Adam Carolla Show – Tom Arnold
Big Dada Podcast #8
Annie Viglielmo - meltingpod04-10-10
- Kuepper-Bailey duo tour in Australia...
All this lot listened to in London and Paris late August and early September. Didn’t take headphones to Glasgow, but did see Zola Jesus and Fever Ray in a Metro-sized venue.
Chris Morris - GLR Show: Sunday 25th February 1990
Aeroplane – Chart Mix May 2010
Comedy Death Radio - 19 June 2009 (with Weird Al Yankovic and Paul Scheer)
Conspiracy Worldwide Radio - [Part 1] Live Guests - ASSASSINATE...
August 2010
10 posts
Steinski – Praise
-an hour mix of US nutbar preachers, chosen for their rhythm
Pete Bagge – Seattle Public Library Comixtravaganza 3
- Audio of Bagge doing a slideshow talk covering his career and taking questions. Well-recorded, excellently edited. Hurrah, Seattle Public Library, for thinking about your podcasting!
Move D – Live in Portugal – XLR8R Podcast
Strictly Kev/DJ Food –...
Santigold – live at Arvikafestivalen, 6/3/09
- This stuff works remarkably well in a bashed-out soundsystem set. Well done to the 30,000 kids that crammed into the streets for her here in January 2009 before the police did their nana!
Guardian Music Podcast from Glasto, part the last
- Orbital’s childlike glee at playing now and historically is adorable.
doc_urthboy_2010_04_21
...
DJ Food (Strictly Kev) – Blech 20.2.2
- Second half of the third in Food’s Warp anniversary mixes – the Blech cassette from 1995 and the Blechsdottir CD from the year after have been followed up with two one-hour mp3 mixes. Kev broadcast the first on Solid Steel, then sadly put this second onto Soundcloud when Warp passed on their option to do anything clever, fun or promotional with it....
Never Not Funny live at MaxFunCon 2009
- Hearing this one for free doesn’t explain why people would choose to pay.
Adam Carolla Show with Kyle Gass & Trainwreck
- I thought a big advantage the podcast had over the radio show was not having to do heaps of banter about news stories and celebrity guff (though the “identify a celebrity blog by this vacuous excerpt” game is a...
Caribou live recorded by NPR
- Happily, vocals disappear after the first ten minutes.
Inkstuds – John Stanley Talk
- Jeet Heer invites some woman who kind of remembers reading Little Lulu when she was young and then runs away because the internet is down. Is the Frank Young from Stanley Stories the one who used to edit TCJ?
Savage Love ep 182
James Murphy interviewed by The...
Talking Heads, Live in Tokyo Nihon Seinenkan, Japan [July 8, 1979]
- Decent FM bootleg. Why isn’t Stop Making Sense down to $10 on DVD yet?
Craig Schuftan on Canvas on FBI, 11.4.10
Alex Smoke – FACT Mix 139
- Lots of pretty noises, very few at the same time.
Pulp live at Glastonbury 1995
- You can hear the confidence in his voice grow as he KNOWS this is their...
across the last work week:
Alabama 3 – Live at the House Of Blues, Cleveland 2008
- Great set, great banter, sounds like a vibe, but B- audience boot audio quality at best. They should do some proper live releases that aren’t $30 for a CD-R and a colour photocopy.
The Blow Parade – Episode 1, Lake Deuteronomy
- Nice to hear a couple of Chaser guys doing proper produced radio...
Broken Bells –SXSW 2010 concert excerpt from NPR
- Nice stuff, but all four songs kind of sound the same, innit? The excerpt was probably enough.
Elijah & Skilliam – FACT Mix 135
- Playstation beats, shouty London MCs, Terror Danjah’s cackling goblin – it’s like grime never died! <3
Still too busy to keep track properly as I go. Actually listening to heaps of CDs these days too. Anyway, mostly notes-free, across the last week:
Hot Chip and LCD Soundsystem at the Hordern.
- The Chip sadly under-par with the absence of Joe Goddard, except as an occasionally disembodied head. LCD killed it.
Armstrong & Miller, Olivia Colman and Kylie Minogue on Jonathon Ross.
Bonus...
July 2010
1 post
across the last 12 days…
Speaking of Music – Brian Eno
- A live-with-audience interview from 1983 or so. About 70 minutes of one-on-one, and 45 of audience questions, in two mp3s. Eno plays old doo-woppish records he loved as a kid and burbles happily. Plus other stuff.
Solid Steel 19/3/10
- An hour of typical beatsiness from Hexstatic, without ever getting too fiddly,...
