Melt Bananas,to be precise (I know, I’m not proud of this Alan Partridge style opening, but it’s been a long week) Three tracks from “Fetch” the new LP by the incomparable Melt Banana graced the programme plus a new live LP from the greatest band to ever walk among us and the answer to the question I get asked more than any other (apart from “why don’t you go and put some clothes on’).

The Fall – “I Wake Up In The City” (LP – “Live In San Fransisco”) (Ozit/Dandelion)
Polvo – “Anchoress” (LP – “Siberia”) (Merge)
Jeff Mills – “When Night Fell” (LP – “The Jungle Planet”) (Axis)
Laura Cantrell – “Can’t Wait” (LP – “No Way There From Here”) (Spit and Polish)
Melt Banana – “The Hive” (LP – “Fetch”) (A-Zap)
Talisman – “Season For Freeman” (LP – “I-Surrection”) (Sugar Shack)
65daysofstatic – “Heat Death Infinity Splitter” (LP – “Wild Light”) (Superball Music)
Marc Smith and Joey Riot – “You Know How To Love Me” (Download) (Notorious Digital)
The Lodger – “Fast” (Download single) (Bandcamp)
Melt Banana – “Infection Defective” (LP – “Fetch”) (A-Zap)
Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band – “When Big Joan Sets Up” (LP – “Trout Mask Replica”) (Straight)
Si Begg – “Kosmiche Stepper” (LP – “Permission To Explode”) (Additech)
Red Hex – “Shoulda Known” (7″) (Negative Fun)
The Fall – “Cyber Insekt” (LP – “Live In San Fransisco’) (Ozit/Dandelion)
Melt Banana – “Lefty Dog (Run Caper Run)” (LP – “Fetch”) (A-Zap)
Dubblestandart feat. Jazzmine Tatum – “Don’t Worry What The People Think About You” (LP – “Woman In Dub”) (Collision)

An unusual amount of records by people called Bill in tonight’s programme. Not least three tracks of primal guitar strangling from the peerless Bill Orcutt whose new LP “A History of Everyone” tackles The Great American Songbook in the way that Roy Keane tackled Alfie Haland plus a dub selection from Pete Chapman who the eagle eyed will have observed isn’t called Bill.

Betse Ellis – “The Complainer” (LP – “High Moon Order”) (Free Dirt)
S3RL feat. Johnny – “Da De Da” (Download) (Emfa)
The String-A-Longs – “Wheels” (7″) (London American)
Bill Orcutt – “When You Wish Upon A Star” (LP – “A History of Everyone”) (Editions Mego)
Bill Callahan – “Ride My Arrow” (LP – “Dream River”) (Drag City)
Shed – “Fluid 67″ (12”) (50 Weapons)
Carlton Livingston and Blend Mishkin meet The Burger Project – “Born Troublemaker” (7″) (Cast A Blast)
Pop 1280 – “Coma Baby” (LP – “Imps of Perversion”) (Sacred Bones)
Bill Orcutt – “White Christmas” (LP – “A History of Everyone”) (Editions Mego)
Bonnie Prince Billy – “Make It Not An Evil Mark” (LP – “Bonnie Prince Billy”) (Astro Black)
Wild Billy Chyldish and CTMF – “Our Moonlit Heath” (LP – “All Our Forts Are With You”) (Damaged Goods)
Singers and Players – “Follower” (LP – “Revenge of the Underdog”) (On-U-Sound)
Tingle In The Netherlands – “Namklim” (EP – “Mirror Writing”) (Nerve Echo)
Sector Zero – “Guitar Attack” (7″) (Goner)
Agent Sasco – “Gone A Lead” (Download) (Markus)
Bill Orcutt – “Onward Christian Soldiers” (LP – “A History of Everyone”) (Editions Mego)
Nphonix – “Getting Run Down” (EP – “Getting Run Down”) (Shifting Peaks)

Three from the enduringly magnificent Neko Case‘s new LP “The Worse Things Get,The Harder I Fight,The Harder I Fight,The More I Love You” and a track from Robert Mitchum’s mythical calypso LP. An excellent companion piece to Fi Glover and Jane Garvey

Machinedrum -“Gunshotta” (Download single) (Ninja Tune)
Pancreatectomie -“Trained In Mold” (LP -“Food”) (Bandcamp)
Amida -“Are You On Fire? -(EP -“Are You On Fire?”) (Dufflecoat)
Konshens and ZJ Chrome -“Ambition Freestyle” (Download single) (CR203)
Neko Case -“The Night Still Comes” (LP -“The Worse Things Get…”) (Anti)
Robert Mitchum -“Jean and Dinah” (LP -“Calypso Is Like So..”) (Capitol)
Clearance – “Walking Papers” (EP -“Dixie Two Step”) (Microluxe)
Perc and Truss – “Clapacid” (12″ “Spiker”) (Perc Trax)
Linda Thompson -“Never The Bride” (Download single) (Topic)
Neko Case -“Nearly Midnight, Honolulu” (LP -“The Worse Things Get…”) (Anti)
Skullflower – “Solar Anus” (Boxed Set -“Kino Vols. I-IV”) (Shock/Dirtier Promotions)
Mighty Diamonds – “Tamarind Farm” (LP -“Pass The Knowledge”) (VP)
The Hummingbirds – “Bankrupt Blues” (EP -“The Hummingbirds”) (Self Released)
The Crytearions – “I Can’t Believe What You Are” (LP -“I See What It Is And I Am Scared”) (Bandcamp)
Om Unit – “Sleepwalkers” (12″) (Metalheadz)
Neko Case -“Ragtime” (LP -“The Worse Things Get…”) (Anti)
Truth -“Empire” (12′) (Tempa)

Another mesmerising programme which featured three from Andrew Marr’s band Ski Lodge (not that one) and a collective dub selection from purveyors of top class terpsichorian treasures Jumbo Records.

Voight Kampf – “The Great White North” (EP -“Voight Kampf”)(Deranged)
Bobby Kalphat and The Sunshot All Stars – “Counter Punch” (LP -“Zion Hill’)(Pressure Sounds)
Mazzy Star – “California” (Download)(Rhymes Of An Hour)
Ski Lodge – “Boy” (LP -“Big Heart”)(Dovecoat)
Slow Walkers – “The Flood”(LP -“Slow Walkers)(Peak Oil)
Limbs Bin – “Summertime Blues”(EP -“Summertime Blues”)(Fly Me Into The Laser Eye)
Eddie Cochran – “Cut Across Shorty”(LP –“The Very Best Of Eddie Cochran”)(EMI)
Raving George – “Submerse (Attaque Remix)”(EP -“Obverse”)(Crux)
Ski Lodge – “You Just Can’t Help Being Cruel”(LP -“Big Heart”)(Dovecoat)
Royal Headache – “Give it All To Me” (7″)(Matador Records Singles Going Home Alone Club)
Monkey Fez – “Tralala Lala” (V/a Download LP -“Scandinavian Breakcore Compilation Vol 1”)(Bandcamp)
Michael Intergalaxon – “Woodpecker” (Download EP -“The Art of Bird Mutation”)(Mutant Swing)
King Tubby – “A Closer Dub” (LP -“Roots of Dub”)(Blue Moon)
Okkerville River -“On A Balcony” (LP -“The Silver Gymnasium”)(ATO)
Ski Lodge – “Down On This Southern Tip” (LP -“Big Heart”)(Dovecoat)
Ganz – “Faces” (EP -“Kraftschlieim”)(Saturate)
The Faces – “Bad N Ruin” (LP -“Long Player”)(Warner Bros)

WBJSU as,all the cool kids are calling it,came blaring out of your tranny again on Weds/Thurs blatantly stealing jokes from Richard Herring and playing a selection of popular melodies for hip young gunslingers including three tracks from Young Echo‘s debut LP “Nexus” and a bowel shaking selection from this week’s Dub Selecter Jim Powers

The Simonsound – “The Beam”(10”) (Project Blue Book)
No Age – “Circling with Dizzy”(LP -“An Object”) (Sub Pop)
Dizzy Gillespie and his All Stars – “Salt Peanuts”(4CD Box Set -“The Dizzy Gillespie Story 1939-1950”) (Proper)
Darren Styles & Gammer – “Paranoia” (Download) (Futureworld)
Israel Vibration – “Dub of Injustice”(LP -“I.V D.U.B”) (Continental Record Services)
Glaxo Babies – “It’s Irrational” (V/A LP -“Avon Calling”) (Heartbeat)
Young Echo – “Voices on the Water” (LP -“Nexus”) (Ramp)
Young Echo – “Nexus” (LP -“Nexus”) (Ramp)
Young Echo – “My Child,My Chain” (LP -“Nexus”) (Ramp)
Ty Segall – “Queen C.C” (LP -“Sleeper”) (Drag City)
Kabaka Pyramid – “Liberal Opposer” (LP -“Green Lion Crew – Rough Road”) (Soul of the Lion)
DAM feat.Abeer Al Zinati – “Hon Enwaladet”(V/A LP “Rough Guide to Arabic Revolution”) (World Music Network)
Null Forge aka Techno Paul – “Technohymne”(EP -“Dedication to the Quietsch”) (Rage and Error)