Ok , so basically I haven’t posted any tracklistings for a while so here’s a run down of the last three weeks for all you nostalgia buffs. Do you remember the golden days of 10th February?

And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead – “Cover The Days Like A Tidal Wave” (LP -“Tao Of The Dead”) (Superball Music)
Gil Scott Heron and Jamie XX – “Running” (LP – “We’re New Here”) (XL/Young Turks)
Chris Wood – “Hollowpoint” (V/A LP – “BBC Folk Awards 2011”) (Proper)
Skeptikal – “Process of Elimination” (V/A LP – “Transit One”) (Dispatch)
The Fall – “I Am Barmy” (3CD Set – “This Nation’s Saving Grace – Expanded Edition”) (Beggars Banquet)
The Fall – “Ma Riley” ( 3CD Set – “This Nation’s Saving Grace – Expanded Edition”) (Beggars Banquet)
Natalie Storm – “Nuh Watch We” (download from Ghettobassquake.com)
Hank IV – “Don’t Count On It” (LP- “3”) (Siltbreeze)
Hank Williams – “Lost Highway” (4CD Set – “Hillbilly Hero”) (Proper)
Cthulu Youth – “The Wizard’s Cat” (download “Demo 10”) (no label)
Cush – “Resusitation” (12″)(Plastique)
Jeff The Brotherhood – “Heavy Damage” (LP – “Live at Third Man”) (Third Man)
Jeff The Brotherhood – “Shredder” (LP – “Live at Third Man”) (Third Man)
Jeff The Brotherhood – “Beastmaster 420” (LP – “Live at Third Man”) (Third Man)
&ME -“Bye Bye” (v/a LP – “It Began In Africa Volume 2” ) (Kitball)

and what were YOU doing in the hazy lazy days of 17th Feb?

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Hello wild things,

For reasons so dull as to be not worth mentioning even here. I’m writing this week’s running order before actually doing the programme so your guess is as good as mine as to what happened. I was probabaly rubbish and the music was probably good that’s how it ususally goes – and a man in a green hat will bring you good luck, apparently.

A Hawk and a Hacksaw – “No Rest For The Wicked” (LP -“Cervantine”) (Forte)
The Babies – “Run Me Over” (LP – “The Babies”) (Shrimper)
Amen Ra – “Trifle” (EP – “EP2 Line Path”) (Keysound)
Elephant Man – “Wine and Dip” (LP – “Dance and Sweep”) (VP)
Megabats – “Medicine Hat” (LP -“Goes To A Lemon”) (Debacle)
Medicine Head – “(And The) Pictues In The Sky” (7″) (Dandelion)
Mosca – “Square One VIP” (v/a LP -“Nightslugs Vol.1) (Nightslugs)
Extortion – “Regrets” (CD – “Fear Candy 90”) (Terrorizer)
Kaleidoscope Jukebox – “Dance of The Jitterbug Fairy” (download)
The Fall – “Spoilt Victorian Child” (3CD Box – “This Nation’s Saving Grace – Expanded Edition”) (Beggars Banquet)
Hype Williams – “Blue Dream” (LP – “Find Out What Happens When People Stop Being Polite and Start Being Reel”) (De Stijl)
Hype Williams – “Untitled” (LP – “Find Out What Happens When People Stop Being Polite and Start Being Reel”) (De Stijl)
Hype Williams – “Untitled (Andrea Lopez) ” (LP – “Find Out What Happens When People Stop Being Polite and Start Being Reel”) (De Stijl)
DJ Slugo – “Tip Toe” (EP -“In The Middle”) (Subterranean Playhouse)
Chapel Club – “White Knight Position” (LP – “Palace”) (Polydor)
Last Soul Descendants – “Savage Lion Dub” (LP -“LSD Dub Experience”) (Chillmode)

Please Hammer, Dont Hurt 'Em

Hello puny humans,

When Big Joan Sets Up once again clawed it’s evil way onto the radio this week and brought you 20 minutes of the work of sound artist Joseph Hammer 50% of whose astonishing LP “I Love You , Please Love Me Too” was aired this week.

It’s mix of snippets and samples from Al Jolson to R&B all overlaid to create a hypnotic hurricane of sound which no doubt thrilled some of our listeners and sent three times as many back to Comet complaining that their radios were broken.

Y Niwl – “Undegpump” (LP- “Y Niwl”) (http://yniwl.bandcamp.com/)
Howse – “(Intro)ducing” (LP -“JSTCHLLN”) (http://howsez.bandcamp.com/album/jstchlln)
Sic Alps – “The First White Man To Touch California Soil” (LP – “Napa Asylum”) (Drag City)
Glasvegas – “The World Is Yours” (download from http://www.glasvegas.net/the-world-is-yours/)
Predator Dub Assassins – “Conquering Dub” (LP – “The Dub Files”) (Self Released)
Joseph Hammer – no title – Side 2 of “I Love You, Please Love Me Too” LP (Pan)
The Fall – “Race With The Devil” (5 CD set – “The Fall Box Set”1976 -2007) (Sanctuary)
Gene Vincent and The Blue Caps – “You Belong To Me” (LP “Gene Vincent Rocks and The Blue Caps Roll” (Capitol)
Pipsqueak – “Pipsqueak Boogie” (Cassette – “Pipsqueak”) (Burger)
AB – “Blip” (EP – “YODJ”) (Relentless)
Soom T – “Jungle of Peace” (LP – “Ode 2 A Carrot”) (Jahtari)
Broadcast – “The Book Lovers” (EP – “The Book Lovers”) (Duophonic)

In the words of Destiny’s Child – Question.

Where would you find ear shreddling guitar mangling, pelvis rattling bass frequencies, a forgotten sixties R&B classic, the triumphant return of a reggae legend,spine tingling post-rock,thundering techno, alt country titans covering Neil Young and ten minutes of the greatest live LP ever?

All this and Freddie Mercury In Dub – surely that’s worth falling alseep at work on a Thursday for?

Agathocles – “God Save The Real Green Crocodile” (LP – This is Not A Threat… It’s a Promise”) (Selfmadegod)
Watty Burnett – “Rasta At Di Kontrol” (LP- “Rasta At Di Kontrol”) (Worldbeat Pro Jam)
Downliners Sekt – “From Under Spinning Lights” (EP – “We Make The Hits, Not the Public”) (Disboot)
The Downliners Sect – “Baby What’s Wrong?” (7″) (Columbia)
Mogwai – “How To Be A Werewolf” (LP – “Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will”) (Rock Action)
The Five Stars of Harmony of Jackson GA. – “If I Can Just Hold On ‘Till Tomorrow”) (v/a LP – “In The Storm So Long”) (Mississippi)
Rock Steady Freddy – “Bohemian Rhapsody” (7″ “Heavy Duty Booty – Volume 3”) (Heavy Duty Booty)
Thurston Moore – “Black Hairs” (EP – “Suicide Notes For Acoustic Guitar”) (Carbon)
The Fall – “The Quartet of Doc Shanley” (LP – “Levitate”) (Artful)
Micheal Random – “Level” (EP – “Error”) (Datablender)
Asobi Seksu – “In My Head” (LP – “Florescence”) (Polyvynil)
Phosphorescent – “Are You Ready For The Country?” (v/a CD – “Harvest Revisited”) (Mojo)
Neil Young and Crazy Horse – “Rockin’In The Free World” (LP – “Weld”) (Reprise)

I am crap at timing (ooh errr!). Having trumpeted THREE tracks from the excellent new Mogwai LP “Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will” I managed to play about thirteen seconds of the last one. A full unexpurgated version will follow next week. I bet Huw Stephens doesn’t mess up his timings. ‘Mazing!

Yuck – “Holing Out” (LP – “Yuck”) (Fat Possum)
Altered Natives – “The Rain” (EP “No Mortgage”) (Bosconi)
Ann Peebles – “I Can’t Stand The Rain” (LP- “I Can’t Stand The Rain”) (Hi)
Unsane – “Pigeon” (download EP – “3 Songs”) (Coextinction)
Carol Batton – “Wasps” (v/a 7″ EP – “Twisted Words Vol.1”) (Finders Keepers)
Speed Freak – “Have A Nice Apocalypse” (2 x 12″ – “Audio Damage All Stars”) (Audio Damage)
Mogwai – “White Noise” (LP – “Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will) (Rock Action)
Busy Signal – “F.Y.I.” (Download from http://ghettobassquake.com)
The Humblebums – “Her Father Never Liked Me, Anyway” (LP – “The New Humblebums”) (Transatlantic)
Woebot – “Miner” (LP -“Moanad”) (Hollow Earth)
Mogwai – “San Pedro” (LP – “Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will) (Rock Action)
Traxman -“WTF” (v/a Download EP – “Overkill”) (Ghettophiles)
Autopsy – “Fiend For Blood” (LP -“Dark Crusades”) (Peaceville)
Wanda Jackson – “Dust On The Bible” (7″) (Third Man)
Brilliant Colours – “You Win” (split 7″ with Girls Names) (Slumberland Tough Love)
The Fall – “Pay Your Rates” (LP – “Grotesque”) (Rough Trade)
Mogwai – “How To Be A Werewolf” (excerpt) (LP – “Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will) (Rock Action)