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Eclectic Mainline 20th March 2013

New music in tonight’s show included The Leisure Society:

…Serph:

…and Autumns:

You can listen back to the whole show if you desire, and here be the full playlist:

The Leisure Society – ‘Fight For Everyone’ (single)
Autechre – ‘spl9’ (LP – Exai) (Warp)
Wolf People – ‘All Returns’ (single and LP – Fain) (Jagjaguwar)
Gintas K – ‘Niekovv’ (LP – Slow) (Baskaru)
Kurt Vile -‘Airbud’ (single)
Marika Hackman – ‘Bath Is Black’ (mini-LP – That Iron Taste) (Dirty Hit)
!!! – ‘Slyd’ (single and LP – Th!!!er) (Warp)
The Box Tops – ‘The Letter’ (single) (Mala)
The Physics House Band – ‘Titan’ (single)
Karl Bartos – ‘Rhythmus’ (LP – Off The Record) (Bureau B)
Casual Sex – ‘Stroh “80”‘ (single) (Moshi Moshi Singles Club)
Serph – ‘Twiste’ (LP – El Esperanka) (Noble)
Autumns – ‘Keep On Sinking’ (demo) (Fat Cat)
Lapalux – ‘Swallowing Smoke’ (LP – Nostalchic) (Brainfeeder)

Selection Box Shows 254 & 255: Ol’ Blue Eye Is Back

Yes, well done, do a joke about the colour of his eyes then use a black & white photo. Idiot.

In case you’ve been hiding under a glam rock for the last few months you can’t have helped but notice that music journalists and highly-successful BCB disc jockeys with up to 3 listeners alike have been getting into something of a froth with regards to the new album by a young man from South London. The Next Day, David Bowie’s first album since Reality in 2003 was released this week following something of a biscuit game by the great and the good among musos, among whom The Independent‘s Andy Gill referred to the new Jones long-player as “The greatest comeback ever.” Clearly the likes of Greg LeMond, Bobby Ewing, and, this week, FC Barcelona have something of a claim themselves to this title, but to argue whose was the best is a pointless task partly because it is a largely meaningless phrase and partly because I’m not entirely sure what a “comeback”, in musical terms, actually is. To comeback to something you surely have to have indicated that you were, by choice or by default, stopping doing whatever it was that you were doing in the first place. I recall no such suggestion from The Thin White Pensioner. Admittedly, 10 years between albums is something of a significant gap – particularly for someone who not only released 14 albums in 13 years between 1967 and 1980, but some of those albums were the most influential records of all time. A couple of the records after were a right load of old pelt as well, but we’ll skirt over that. However, for whatever reason our pop idols are more pop idle than they used to be – whereas releasing two albums in a year was not uncommon in the 1960s and 1970s, we think little now of artists taking 3 or 4 years between releases, which really begs the question as to why they aren’t generally a good deal better than they were 30 years ago. Continue reading →

Eclectic Mainline 13th March 2013

New music in tonight’s show included Stephan Mathieu:
https://soundcloud.com/deform-store/03-stephan-mathieu-eglise

…Lower Plenty:

…and King Ayisoba:

Here is the full playlist:
Itch – ‘Diplomat’ (EP – Manifesto Pt. 2: We’re All In The Gutter) (Red Bull)
Stephan Mathieu – ‘Église’ (LP – Un CÅ“ur Simple) (Baskaru)
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down – ‘City’ (LP – We The Common) (Ribbon)
Atoms For Peace – ‘Before Your Very Eyes…’ (LP – Amok) (XL)
Sweet Baboo – ‘If I Died…’ (single) (Moshi Moshi)
Autechre – ‘prac-f’ (LP – Exai) (Warp)
Serafina Steer – ‘Disco Compilation’ (single and LP – The Moths Are Real) (Stolen)
David Bowie – ‘Breaking Glass’ (LP – Low) (RCA) (this week’s Brief Candle)
Darkstar – ‘A Day’s Pay For A Day’s Work) (single and LP – News From Nowhere) (Warp)
Lower Plenty – ‘Strange Beast’ (single) (Fire)
Liars – ‘WIXIW’ (single and LP – WIXIW) (Mute)
Lloyd Cole / Hans-Joachim Roedelius – ‘Fehmarn’ (LP – Selected Studies Vol. 1) (Bureau B)
Iron & Wine – ‘Grace For Saints And Ramblers’ (single) (4AD)
King Ayisoba – ‘Baaba Poore’ (LP – Modern Ghanaians) (Makkum)

Eclectic Mainline 6th March 2013

New music in tonight’s show included Charlie Parr (this is a live version of the current single):

…and Pixel (this is a preview of the full album):

Here’s the full playlist of the show, which you can listen back to if you desire:

Megrim – ‘Step Of The Flake’ (LP – Intersect Landscape) (Moph)
Letherette – ‘She Shines’ (single b-side – D&T) (Ninja Tune)
Ducktails – ‘Under Cover’ (LP – The Flower Lane) (Domino)
Autechre – ‘nodezsh’ (LP – Exai) (Warp)
Charlie Parr – ‘True Friends’ (single) (Tin Angel)
RM74 – ‘Anthem For A Windmill’ (LP – Two Sides Of A Triangle) (Utech)
PVT – ‘Casual Success’ (LP – Homosapien) (Felte)
Nick Drake – ‘Harvest Breed’ (LP – Pink Moon) (Island) (this week’s Brief Candle, nominated by David Craig)
Pixel – ‘Mantle’ (LP – Mantle) (Raster-Noton)
Simon Whetham – ‘(Interlude, The Suspension Of Time) (LP – Never So Alone) (Crónica)
Falty DL – ‘She Sleeps (Ital Remix)’ (single) (Ninja Tune)
Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – ‘Milk Train’ (LP – What The Brothers Sang) (Domino)

Selection Box Show 253: Rodent Touch That Dial

Not only do rats spread disease, they also saved TVam, which was far worse.

Having avoided fully referring to BCB’s Studio 4 as a sea-faring vessel I now find that the metaphor would be rather useful not in only that, as a committed land-lubber (again in not in literal terms, though I can’t pretend I’m especially taken with sailing), I’m set to leg it from the aforementioned craft but also because a water rodent theme briefly developed on this week’s Selection Box. Whilst I am not a rat, and indeed Studio 4 is presumably built upon sound foundations and therefore I’m unlikely to disappear into a sink hole like that poor fellow in America, there does seem to be a varmint of a metaphor just sat there waiting to be smacked by my rolled-up newspaper.

 

Anyway, I appear to be drowning in metaphors. Metaphorically. As featured on this week’s programme, here’s some actual Rats, but not actual rats, courtesy of that there YouTube what all the kids are talking about now whilst they play with their yo-yos and trade Garbage Pail Kids cards.

 

Selection Box Show 253 (Listen again HERE)

Transmitted 27/02/2013

1. Gogol Bordello – Sally
from: Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike

2. The Glens – I Feel Great
from: Doo Wop From Rome Records 1960 – 61 (various artists)

3. Yumuri Y Sus Hermanos – Acaramelao
from: Tiene Bilongo

4. Balthazar – Sinking Ship
from: Rats

5. The Rats – Rats Revenge
from: Back From The Grave Volume 1 (various artists)

6. Ryan Francesconi & Mirabai Peart – Road To Palios
from: Road To Palios

7. ME – Vampire!! Vampire!!
from: Even The Odd Ones Out

8. Gary Numan – M.E.
from: The Pleasure Principle

9. Maclaine Coulson & Saul Rose – The Lazy Farmer
from: Sand & Soil

10. Submotion Orchestra – Thinking
from: Fragments

11. Tindersticks – A Night So Still
from: The Something Rain

12. Debroy Somers & His Band – You And The Night And The Music
from: Great British Bands Volume 2: Debroy Somers & His Band

13. The Bush – To Die Alone
from: Impossible True – The Kim Fowley Story

Patrick Thornton presents Selection Box every Wednesday at 9pm.

Eclectic Mainline 27th February 2013

New music in tonight’s show included Purling Hiss:
https://soundcloud.com/drag-city/purling-hiss-mercury

…Julia Kent:

…Blank Realm:

…and Jasper TX. The tune from the new album I played tonight was its opener. The closing tune on the new album is just as worthy, if not even more so, so here it is in full:

 

Listen back to the full show if you desire.  Here is the full show playlist:
Mark Templeton – ‘Matinee’ (LP – Jealous Heart) (Under The Spire)
Purling Hiss – ‘Mercury Retrograde’ (LP – Water On Mars) (Drag City)
Vision – ‘The Phuture Makes Beats’ (Life EP) (Big Dada)
Night Moves – ‘Country Queen’ (single and LP – Colored Emotions) (Domino)
RM74 – ‘Bees And Ghosts’ (LP – Two Sides Of A Triangle) (Utech)
Steve Mason – ‘Oh My Lord’ (single and LP – Monkey Minds In The Devil’s Time) (Double Six)
Autechre – ‘jatevee C’ (LP – Exai) (Warp)
Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – ‘Breakdown’ (LP – What The Brothers Sang) (Domino)
Blank Realm – ‘Acting Strange’ (LP – Go Easy) (Fire)
Duane Eddy – ‘Some Kinda Earthquake’ (2xCD – Rockin’ Guitar Man 1955-1960) (Smith & Co) (this week’s Brief Candle, nominated by Phil Cope)
King Ayisoba – ‘Modern Ghanaians’ (LP – Modern Ghanaians) (Makkum)
Julia Kent – ‘Tourbillon’ (LP – Character) (The Leaf Label)
Troumaca – ‘My Love’ (Virgin Island EP) (Brownswood)
Jasper TX – ‘Abandon’ (LP – An Index Of Failure) (Handmade Birds)
Clinic – ‘Seamless Boogie Woogie (Free Reign II Version)’ (LP – Free Reign II) (Domino)

Buffet’s Sunday Spread (show #46)

We reckon we played some good music this month, what do you think? Didn’t hear the show? Listen here!  And if you want to check out any artists the tracklist is below.  See you next time – 24th March 7pm – Ciao! x
1. Champion the Wonder Horse Theme music
2. TURING MACHINE – Yeah, C’mon!
3. MY BLOODY VALENTINE – Only Tomorrow
4. ALUNA GEORGE – Double Sixes
5. HIKU SALUT – Secret Forever
6. MISSY ELLIOT – Get Ur Freak On
7. NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS – Mermaids
8. LUKE HAINES/CATHAL COUGHLAN/ANDREW MUELLER – Enoch Powell: Space Poet (From North Sea Scrolls)
9. THIS MORTAL COIL – You and Your Sister
10. DOG CANUTE – Flex
11. THE OSMONDS – Crazy Horses
12. KRISTIN HERSH – Hemingway’s Tell
13. FLYING LOTUS – All In
14. TAME IMPALA – Keep On Lying

 

Going North from Nashville celebrates 50 years of the Beatles! Monday 25th February,10-11pm.

Featuring a host of Beatle’s covers & Beatle related songs, Going North from Nashville celebrates the band, 50 years after they shot to international fame!

 1. Handsome Family & the Rivet Gang: Eleanor Rigby

2.Tony Sheridan & the Beatles: Sweet Georgia Brown

3.CW Stoneking: Maggie Mae

4.Lizzie Nunery: Company of Ghosts

5.Sonnenberg: Mersey Moon

6.Bob Dylan: Fourth Time Around

7.Thea Gilmour: I Want to Tell You

8.George Harrison: All Those Years Ago

9.Paul Mc Cartney: The Song We Were Singing

10.The Beatles: Octopus’s Garden

11.  A Girl Called Eddy : Julia

12. Sarabeth Tucek : Goodnight

13.Luke Powers: Cover Song ( for Sgt Pepper)

14.Bob Dylan: Roll On John

Selection Box Show 252: Fire Up The Quattro

For reasons far too dull and footling for even me to remember, this week’s Selection Box was recorded in Studio 4 of BCB instead of it’s regular home two doors away in Studio 2. Much like its Thunderbird of the same numeral, Studio 4 is something of a minor player in the BCB cannon compared to the all-important live broadcast hypersonic variable-sweep wing rocket plane of Studio 1, the heavy supersonic VTOL carrier lifting body aircraft that is Studio 2 and the re-usable, vertically-launched single-stage-to-orbit spacecraft we affectionately know as Studio 3. It’d be a stretch of an already tenuous metaphor to suggest it is a small utility submersible for underwater rescue, but, to flick to a barely more relevant simile, using Studio 4 instead of one of the other recording holes is like suddenly trying to use a Commodore 64 joystick to play Fifa when you’re used to the Duashock 3 controller.

In basic terms, the controls are different. In basic terms, it’s basic. Whilst to a novice the myriad of fiddly knobs, light-emitting diodes and push-me-pull-you faders may look more daunting than a desk with an abacus and a twisty crank, when you are used to the former you know how it works and, more to the point, how to correct something if it goes wrong. If you have nothing more than an on / off switch and a big red button that says, “DO NOT PRESS” on it then finding a way of piloting the vessel away from the big broadcasting black hole you’re about to get sucked into is more problematic. And thus it was that I fully expected disaster to befall the programme this week with every given push of a button or slide of a fader. Save for an odd moment a few records in, where my voice seems to appear mid-sentence for reasons I’m still not entirely clear of, I seem to have come out of my Studio 4 journey unscathed, which makes me blase for next week when I am in there again and will, therefore, no doubt end up die screaming as I plough the ruddy thing at full pelt into the hot burning sun.

Anyway, a quick bit of housekeeping is required on here before I get onto the weighty subject of the playlist, namely that the show this week began with Local Natives and you can still hear the interview I conducted with them at Leeds Festival on this ‘ere Soundcloud wotsit here. You can even download it should you be so very inclined – simply click on the arrow on the player and save it as you feel appropriate.

Patrick Thornton speaks to Andy & Kelsey from Local Natives by PatrickSelectionBox

 

Selection Box Show 252 (listen again HERE)

Transmitted 20/02/2013

1. Local Natives – Heavy Feet
from: Hummingbird

2. Junior Electronics – Mike McConnell
from: Musostics

3. Harlem River Drive – Seeds Of Love
from: Harlem River Drive

4. Mikhail – Cerberus
from: Xenophonia

5. Ray Noble & His Orchestra – Oh You Nasty Man
from: Risque Blues, Vol. 1 (various artists)

6. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Higgs Bosun Blues
from: Push The Sky Away

7. Natacha Atlas – Marifnaash
from: Halim

8. Chris Barber Skiffle Group feat Dickie Bishop – Gypsy Davy
from: Chris Barber 1956

9. John Grant – Pale Green Ghosts
from: Pale Green Ghosts

10. Freaks – 80s Throwback
from: The Man Who Lived Underground

11. Melody’s Echo Chamber – Crystallized
from: Melody’s Echo Chamber

Patrick Thornton presents Selection Box every Wednesday at 9pm.

Eclectic Mainline 20th February 2013

New music in this week’s show included Letherette:

…Fawn Spots:

…and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.  The video below is the censored version. Feel free to watch the uncensored version if you can handle it:

If you were to stream the show at your leisure, this is what you would hear:

Concrete Knives – ‘Wallpaper’ (LP – Be Your Own King) (Bella Union)
Blood Red Shoes – ‘Get Off My Ghost Train’ (split single with Pulled Apart By Horses)
Letherette – ‘D&T’ (single) (Ninja Tune)
Youth Lagoon – ‘Dropla’ (single)
Julia Kent – ‘Only Child’ (LP – Character) (Leaf)
Beach Fossils – ‘Careless’ (single)
Gilded – ‘Velar’ (LP – Terrane) (Hidden Shoal)
Pulp – ‘After You’ (single)
Melody’s Echo Chamber – ‘Crystallized’ (single and LP – Melody’s Echo Chamber) (Weird World)
Mogwai – ‘Special N’ (LP – Les Revenants)
Fawn Spots – ‘Watered Down’ (LP – Wedding Dress) (Fat Cat)
Wire – ‘Outdoor Miner’ (LP – Chairs Missing) (this week’s Brief Candle, nominated by Tilt Araiza)
Ducktails – ‘Ivy Covered House’ (LP – The Flower Lane) (Domino)
Yo La Tengo – ‘Ohm’ (single)
Japandroids – ‘The Nights Of Wine And Roses’ (single and LP – Celebration Rocks) (Polyvinyl)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – ‘Jubilee Street’ (LP – Push The Sky Away) (self-released)