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About Albert

Presenter of Eclectic Mainline on BCB 106.6FM, bassist in Wilful Missing, solo musician under the name Our Albert, and photographer.

Eclectic Mainline 6th October 2010

My show tonight was merely an apéritif for Laura Rawlings‘ BCB Sessions featuring Mountain Man, and as Laura said, my even the hairs of my chinny chin chin stood on end!

But as starters go, I think I managed to squeeze in a rather good selection of new tunes…

Agnes Obel – “Avenue” (LP – “Philharmonics”) (PIAS)
Charles Douglas – “Good Luck” (LP – “The Lives Of Charles Douglas”) (Broken Horse)
Rustie – “Hyperthrust” (“Sunburst EP”) (Warp)
Elliott Smith – “Between The Bars” (LP – “An Introduction To Elliott Smith”) (Domino)
Male Bonding – “Nothing Remains” (single) (Sub Pop)
No Age – “Chem Trails” (LP – “Everything In Between”) (Sub Pop)
The Creole Choir Of Cuba – “Peze Cafe” (LP – “Tande-La”) (Real World)
Laetitia Sadier – “One Million Year Trip” (LP – “The Trip”) (Drag City)
Gonja Sufi – “Love Of Reign (Bear In Heaven remix)” (LP – “A Caliph’s Tea Party”) (Warp)
The Twilight Sad – “The Room (Mogwai remix) (“The Wrong Car EP”) (Fat Cat)
Anna Calvi – “Jezebel” (single) (Domino)
Yann Tiersen – “Palestine” (LP – “Dust Lane”) (Mute)
Fops – “Scandinavian Preppy” (LP – “Yeth Yeth Yeth”) (Monotreme)
Dum Dum Girls – “It Only Takes One Night” (single) (Sub Pop)

Next week Laura has Gary Stewart in session by the way.  For more details of that and future sessions see the Facebook group, BCB Wednesday Night Club.

Eclectic Mainline 29th September 2010

Is this me or it a shuttlecock? Tricky one.

I can see the similarity

Phil Cope said I looked like a shuttlecock this evening.   This was due to pressure exerted upon my mop of hair by my cycle helmet. 

I’m having my hair cut tomorrow anway, so maybe next time Phil sees me he’ll just think I look like a shuttle?

Here’s what I played tonight; I managed to cram quite a number of tunes in tonight, as there was nothing particularly long:

Flying Lotus – “Kill Your Co-Workers” (“Pattern+Grid World EP”) (Warp)
Paul Weller – “Andromeda” (single) (V2)
No Age – “Katterpillar” (LP – “Everything In Between”) (Sub Pop)
Darren Hayman & The Secondary Modern – “Calling Out Your Name (featuring Emma-Lee Moss)” (single) (Fortuna Pop!)
PVT – “Light Up Bright Fires” (single and LP – “Church With No Magic”) (Warp)
Crystal Fighters – “I Love London” (LP – “Star Of Love”) (Warp)
The Yello Moon Band – “Barehed” (single) (Static Caravan)
Syriana – “A Ya Zain” (LP – “The Road To Damascus”) (Real World)
Magic Kids – “Superball” (single) (Matador)
Owen Pallett – “Scandal at the Parkade” (“A Swedish Love Story EP”) (Domino)
Sparrow and the Workshop – “Black To Red” (single) (Distiller)
Squarepusher presents – Shobaleader One – “Megazine” (LP – “d’Demonstrator”) (Warp)
The Duke & The King – “Have You Seen It?” (LP – “Long Live The Duke & The King”) (Loose)
Tricky – “Ghetto Stars” (LP – “Mixed Race”) (Domino)
Caitlin Rose – “Shanghai Cigarettes (ft. Rayland Baxter)” (single and LP – “Own Side Now”) (Names)
Mice Parade – “Kupanda” (LP – “What It Means To Be Left-Handed”) (Fat Cat)
The Hundred In The Hand – “Gold Blood” (LP – “The Hundred In The Hand”) (Warp)

Miscellaneous Plays 14th to 29th September 2010

The following is a brief list of some of the other new releases played recently on BCB.

When I say some I mean I don’t know all the new releases played on BCB, so this is just what I know about at the time of writing.

When I say other I mean that this list does not include tunes that have appeared in other playlists here on the BCB Music Blog.

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Eclectic Mainline 22nd September 2010

Managed to pack quite a lot in this week.  If you missed last week’s show and blog, you can go back and listen to the podcast of my Grinderman interview if you so wish, right here.

But if you prefer to live for the present moment, here’s what I played tonight:

Two Fingers – “Fools” (LP – “Ninja Tune XX”) (Ninja Tune)
Maps & Atlases – “Solid Ground” (single) (Fat Cat)
Yann Tiersen – “Palestine” (LP – “Dust Lane”) (Mute)
Clinic – “I’m Aware” (single) (Domino)
Neon Indian – “Mind, Drips” (LP – “Psychic Chasm”) (Static Tongue)
Women – “Eyesore” (single and LP – “Public Strain”) (Jagjaguwar)
Hannah Peel – “Song For The Sea” (7″ single) (Static Caravan)
Musée Mécaniques – “Fits & Starts” (single and LP – “Hold This Ghost) (Souterrain Transmissions)
Gonjasufi – “Holidays (MRR Remix)” (Remix LP – “A Caliph’s Tea Party”) (Warp)
Chief – “Stealing” (LP – “Modern Rituals”) (Domino)
Mice Parade – “Fortune Of Folly” (LP – “What It Means To Be Left-Handed”) (Fat Cat)
Grinderman – “Micky Mouse and the Goodbye Man” (LP – “Grinderman 2”) (Mute)
Darren Hayman & The Secondary Modern – “Calling Out Your Name (featuring Emma-Lee Moss)” (single) (Fortuna Pop!)
PVT  – “Light Up Bright Fires” (single and LP – “Church With No Magic”) (Warp)
Karen Elson – “The Truth Is In The Dirt” (single) (XL)

Eclectic Mainline 15th September 2010 – Grinderman interview

This week sees the release of the second Grinderman album, smartly titled Grinderman 2.  To celebrate, in my show tonight I spoke to Jim Sclavunos from the band.  If you heard the show you will have heard Jim and I discussing the evolution of Grinderman since the first album, and also the video to the single Heathen Child, which you can see below.  If you then read the rest of this entry, you will be able to listen to a longer version of the interview, which is available as a podcast. 

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Miscellaneous Plays 1st – 10th September 2010

The following is a brief list of some of the other new releases played recently on BCB.

When I say some I mean I don’t know all the new releases played on BCB, so this is just what I know about at the time of writing.

When I say other I mean that this list does not include tunes that have appeared in other playlists here on the BCB Music Blog.

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Eclectic Mainline 8th September 2010

It’s been quite a couple of days for me, recording first a Grinderman interview to be broadcast in Eclectic Mainline next week, and then recording a session with Mountain Man for The BCB Sessions.  Not sure when that one will be broadcast, but definitely a Wednesday in the next few weeks.  If you’re on Facebook, the BCB Wednesday Night Club is the place to find out what is happening on a Wednesday.  Back to the present, here’s what featured in my show tonight:

8th September
Roots Manuva meets Wrongtom – “Big Tings Redone ft. Seanie T” (LP – Duppy Writer) (Big Dada)
Goodnight Lenin – “Crack In The Creak” (single) (Static Caravan)
Tricky – “Murder Weapon” (single) (Domino)
Dan Michaelson And The Coastguards – “Love Lends A Hand” (single) (Editions)
Rustie – “Hyperthrust” (“Sunburst EP”) (Warp)
The Charlatans – “Intimacy” (LP – “Who We Touch”) (Cooking Vinyl)
Eskmo – “Come Back” (single) (Ninja Tune)
Crystal Fighers – “Follow” (single) (Zirkulo)
Mint Julep – “Cherry Radio” (Explorers Club single) (Arctic Circle / Loaf)
Grinderman – “Heathen Child” (single) (Mute)
Syriana – “Al Mazzeh” (LP – “The Road To Damascus”) (Real World)
The Long Lost – “Woebegone (Flying Lotus’ Like Woe Mix)” (LP – “Ninja Tune XX”) (Ninja Tune)
Black Mountain – “The Hair Song” (single) (Jagjaguwar)
Agnes Obel – “Riverside” (single) (PIAS)
The Yellow Moon Band – “Barehed” (Static Caravan)

Eclectic Mainline 1st September 2010

Ninja_Tune

Ninja Tune

I’m getting down with Ninja Tune and Big Dada a lot at the moment, in anticipation of the Ninja Tune XX box set celebrating their 20th anniversary.  Expect more tunes from that in coming weeks.  This is what I played tonight:

Roots Manuva meets Wrongtom – “Jah Warriors” (single) (Big Dada)
The Charlatans – “My Foolish Pride” (single) (Cooking Vinyl)
Rose Elinor Dougall – “To The Sea” (LP – “Without Why”) (Scarlett Music)
Autolux – “Transit Transit” (LP – “Transit Transit”) (ATP)
Mala – “Conengitetis (Dance Mix)” (single) (Zaman)
Pulled Apart By Horses – “High Five, Swan Dive, Nose Dive” (single and LP -“Pulled Apart By Horses”) (Transgressive)
Roots Manuva – “Witness (Slugabed remix)” (LP – “Ninja Tune XX”) (Ninja Tune)
Efterklang – “Mirador (live)” (LP – “Parades + Under Giant Trees”) (Leaf)
Villagers – “That Day” (single) (Domino)
Ramona – “How Long” (single) (Bullitt)
Mountain Man – “Animal Tracks” (LP – “Made The Harbor”) (Bella Union)
Grinderman – “Heathen Child” (single and LP – “Here Come The Wolfman”) (Mute)
Lobi Traoré – “Moko Ti Y Lamban Don” (LP – “Rainy Season Blues”) (Glitterhouse)

BCB music shows web 1.0 and web 2.0

In the BUN era (see Untitled Noise 1 year on) our music shows’ individual websites and web 2.0 presence was the only way find out what we were all up to, and it was not easy to keep up to date with all shows.  In the SUN era this blog has brought things together nicely in a hub, but our original tentacles still spread healthily.  So I thought it would be a good idea to fill you in on what we have out there on the internet.   Here’s what I know of, starting with general BCB stuff, then working through the week (I may modify this entry if and when I get more information):

General BCB stuff

www.facebook.com/bcbradio
www.twitter.com/bcbradio

Monday

Going North From Nashville

www.myspace.com/goingnorthfromnashville

Selection Box

www.twitter.com/selection_box
www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7278081700
www.myspace.com/selectionboxbcb

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Miscellaneous Plays 19th to 31st August 2010

The following is a brief list of some of the other new releases played recently on BCB.

When I say some I mean I don’t know all the new releases played on BCB, so this is just what I know about at the time of writing.

When I say other I mean that this list does not include tunes that have appeared in other playlists here on the BCB Music Blog.

19th August
FLYING LOTUS – MmmHmm (featuring Thundercat)
THE BLACK KEYS -  Everlasting Light
M.I.A. – It Takes A Muscle
MOUNTAIN MAN – Animal Tracks

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