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Eclectic Mainline 25th April 2012

After last week’s Record Store Day preview show, it was back to business as usual tonight.  I think my personal favourite in tonight’s show was this one by Clark:

This coming Saturday afternoon there is going to be a rather excellent-looking, family-friendly, disco in Saltaire hosted by DJ Wil Oddsox, called Love To Boogie. Get yourself down if you can.

If you wish to catch up with tonight’s show, you will be able to use this page of the BCB Listen Again service.  Here is a list of the tunes I played:

Tesfay Taye – “Selame” (12″ – “Ililta”) (Terp)
Yann Tiersen – “The Trial” (single and LP – “Skyline”) (Mute)
THEESatisfaction – “Earthseed” (LP – “awE naturalE” (Sub Pop)
Sven Kacirek – “Cars & Nightingales” (LP – “Scarlet Pitch Dreams”) (Pingipung)
Ellen And The Escapades – “This Ace I’ve Burned” (LP – “All The Crooked Scenes”) (self-released)
Clark – “The Pining Pt2” (LP – “Iradelphic”) (Warp)
Oren Ambarchi – “Passage” (CD – “Audience Of One”) (Touch)
Spoek Mathambo – “We Can Work” (LP – “Father Creeper”) (Sub Pop)
Simone Felice – “Splendour In The Grass” (LP – “Simone Felice”) (Reveal)
Amadou & Mariam – “Chérie” (LP – “Folila”) (Because)
Fuxa – “Our Lips Are Sealed” (single) (Rocket Girl)
Paul Weller – “The Attic” (LP – “Sonik Kicks”) (Island)
Marcus Fischer – “Wires On Carpet” (LP – “Collected Dust”) (Tench)

Eclectic Mainline 18th April 2012 – Record Store Day special

Tonight’s was a special show dedicated to releases that are coming on on Saturday 21st April, the annual Record Store Day event.  The official UK Record Store Day 2012 website has a full list of releases coming out on the day.

Record Store Day 2012

 

During the show I spoke to Adam of Jumbo Records in Leeds.  Jumbo have arranged a really special line-up of in-store performances for Record Store Day.   If you do make it into Leeds, I would advise you also visit Crash Records who are, of course, also stocking a wide range of special releases for Record Store Day.

I must confess I got something wrong in the show tonight.  I said that the Wickerman 7″ is on BBC Records.  It is, in fact, nothing to do with the BBC, but is released on Silva Screen.

If you missed the show you can hear it on the BCB Listen Again service, here.  Apologies for the low bit-rate and low volume.

Here is a full list of the Record Store Day releases that I played tonight:

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Eclectic Mainline 4th April 2012

Last week I played the Groundislava remix of Slugabed’s “Sex”, this week I played the original version, and here is the Daedelus remix:

Slugabed – ‘Sex (Daedelus Remix)’ by Ninja Tune

If you missed the show, but you would like to catch up, you can do so here on the BCB Listen Again website.  Here is a list of tunes played in the show:

Slugabed – “Sex” (single) (Ninja Tune)
Those Darlins – “Bumd” LP – “Screws Get Loose”) (Oh Wow Dang)
Gareth Dickson – “This Is The Kiss” (LP – “Quite A Way Away”) (12K)
Amadou & Mariam – “Dougou Badia” (single and LP – “Folila”) (Because)
AU – “Solid Gold” (LP – “Both Lights”) (Leaf)
Frank Turner – “I still Believe” (single and LP – “England Keep My Bones”) (Xtra Mile)
Kellar – “The Vanishing Lamp” (LP – “Beloved Dean Of Magic”) (Foolproof Projects)
Cate Le Bon – “Puts Me To Work” (single and LP – “CYRK”) (OVNI/Turnstile)
Erik Friedlander – “Beaufain Street” (LP – “Bonebridge”) (Skipstone)
Grinderman – “Bellringer Blues (Nick Zinner remix)” (LP – “Grinderman 2 RMX”) (Mute)
Spoek Mathambo – “Let Them Talk” (single and LP – “Father Creeper”) (Sub Pop)
Robert Ellis – “What’s In It For Me” (LP – “Photographs”) (New West)

Eclectic Mainline 28th March 2012

Time is most definitely of the essence this week, so here is a link to listen again to the show….

… and here is a list of the tunes from the show….

Wiley – “Evolve or be Extinct” (single) (Big Dada)
Eugene McGuinness – “Shotgun” (single) (Domino)
eRikm – “Klein Surface” (CD – “Transfall”) (Room40)
Peter Broderick – “ASleep” (LP – “http://www.itstartshere.com”) (Bella Union)
Yppah – “R. Mullen” (LP – “Eightly One”) (Ninja Tune)
Lark – “Another Lover” (single and LP – “I Don’t Got”) (Care In The Community)
Frankie Rose – “Night Swim” (single) (Memphis Industries)
Spoek Mathambo – “Let Them Talk” (single and LP – “Father Creeper”) (Sub Pop)
Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks – “Stick Figures In Love” (single and LP – “MIrror Traffic”) (Domino)
Slugabed – “Sex (Groundislava Remix)” (single) (Ninja Tune)
Shearwater – “Immaculate” (single and LP – “Animal Joy”) (Sub Pop)
Viva Stereo – “Knee High Boots” (Lonely Tourist version) (“Wanderlust EP”)
Big Deal – “Talk” (single and LP – “Lights Out”) (Mute)
Bowerbirds – “Walk The Furrows” (LP – “The Clearing”) (Dead Oceans)
Atomâ„¢ – “Teil I” (LP – “Winterreise”) (Raster Noton)

Eclectic Mainline 21st March 2012

I’ve only been back in the country 2 weeks and it feels like same old same old now. Boo. Well, tonight’s show featured this rather excellent tune by AU from their new album on The Leaf Label:

AU – Get Alive by theleaflabel

If you wish to listen back to the show, you should find it on this page of the BCB Listen Again service.

Here is a list of all the tunes I played tonight:

Le Super Borgou de Parakou – “Dadon Gabou Yo Sa Be No.2 (Afro Beat Dendi)” (Analog Africa)
Drugstore – “Aquamarine” (single and LP – “Anatomy”) (Rocket Girl)
NHK’koyxen – “587” (track 1* from LP – “Dance Classics Vol.1”) (PAN)
Robert Ellis – “Friends Like Those” (single and LP – “Photographs”) (New West)
Poliça – “Lay Your Cards Out” (single) (Memphis Industries)
Palace Songs – “Agnes, Queen Of Sorrow” (LP – “Hope”) (Domino)
AU – “Get Alive” (LP – “Both Lights”) (Leaf)
Yppah – “Film Burn” ft. Anomie Belle (single and LP – “Eightly One”) (Ninja Tune)
Yeti Lane – “Sparkling Sunbeam” (single and LP – “The Echo Show”) (Sonic Cathedral)
Crybaby – “I Cherish The Heartbreak More Than The Love That I Lost” (single) (Helium)
Hard Coming Love – “Sun Shines” (LP – “Hard Coming Love”) (Spezialmaterial)
The Cornshed Sisters – “Dance At My Wedding” (single and LP – “Tell Tales”) (Memphis Industries)
Nite Jewel – “One Second Of Love” (single and LP – “One Second Of Love”) (Secretly Canadian)
The Reads – “Galaxy Egg” (single and LP – “Stories From The Border”)

Eclectic Mainline 14th March 2012

I’m back! Thanks ever so much to Phil Cope and Patrick Thornton for filling in for me over the past few weeks.  I recommend you listen to their own shows, When Big Joan Sets Up and Selection Box respectively now they have given me back my Eclectic Mainline show.

While I was in Malaysia I recorded a local man playing the nose flute.  Once I’ve got that off minidisc I’ll be playing a bit of that in my show.  He also taught me to play the nose flute too, but I won’t attempt to play it on air.

Anyway, back to the present.  Here’s one of the tunes from tonight’s show:
THEESatisfaction – QueenS by subpop

If you wish to listen back to this episode of Eclectic Mainline, you should find it on this page.

Here is a full list of tunes I played in the show:
Felix Kubin – “Reflection No.6” (LP – “TXRF”) (It’s)
Ellen And The Escapades – “All The Crooked Scenes” (single) (
Ulrich Schnauss & Mark Peters – “The Messia Is Falling” (LP – “Underrated Silence”) (Bureau B)
Those Darlins – “Screws Get Loose” (single and LP – “Screws Get Loose, Screws Get Loose”) (Oh Wow Dang)
Martyn – “Hello Darkness” (single) (Brainfeeder)
Lightships – “Sweetness In Her Spark” (single and LP – “Electric Cables”) (Geographic)
Hooray For Earth – “No Love” (single) (Memphis Industries)
Palace Brothers – “New Partner” (LP – “Viva Last Blues”) (Domino)
THEESatisfaction – “QueenS” (single and LP – “awE naturalE” (Sub Pop)
The Magnetic Fields – “Andrew In Drag” (single and LP – “Love At The Bottom Of The Sea”) (Domino)
Shearwater – “Dread Sovereign” (LP – “Animal Joy”) (Sub Pop)
Anne-James Chaton – “Sul Volo” (7″ single – “Transfer/3”) (Unsounds)
Simone Felice – “You & I Belong” (single and LP – “Simone Felice”) (Reveal)
Robert Turman – “Flux” (LP – “Flux”) (Spectrum Spools)

Eclectic Mainline 7 March 2012

Albert Freeman, yesterday.

And lo, did I feel the bearded hand of Uncle Travelling Albert on my shoulder, informing me that he was returning from his global jaunt and that my stint in the coveted Electic Mainline chair (a decorative castered sedan with attachable caviar tray) was in its last throes.

 

Sadly, due to a misunderstanding between himself and a helmeted law enforcement officer regarding a holed-out turnip, a pair of malfunctioning trousers, a series of primal yelps and the back seat of an omnibus, Phil Cope was unable to co-present with me once more and the show progressed as a Thornton-only concern. Contributions to his bail should be sent in the form of cash directly to me in a brown paper envelope and without out a word to the Inland Revenue.

Still, despite the dearth of Cope’s lovely Pontefract brogue there were plenty of terpsichorean treats to fill the programme. Here be the monikers what be done gone given to them as rudimentary identifiers, and meanwhile I’ll scuttle back off to my Midnight griefhole with a chair made out of razorwire. Thanks for having me.

Eclectic Mainline 7 March 2012 (listen again here)

1. PJ Harvey – On Battleship Hill
from: Let England Shake

2. Meta Marie Louise featuring Max and Momo – Gramma’s Flower Pots
from: Sunny Spots

3. Chairlift – Met Before
from: Something

4. Cavacha Bariba – Adiza Claire
from: Le Super Borgou de Parakou (various artists)

5. Kate Walsh – Le Jardiner
from: The Real Thing

6. Band of Skulls – Bruises
from: Sweet Sour

7. Bonobo featuring Andrea Triana and Dels – Eyesdown
from: Black Sands Remixed

8. Joan As Police Woman – Run For Love
from: The Deep Field

9. Robert Ellis – Comin’ Home
from: Photographs

10. Spoek Mathambo featuring Yolanda – Let Them Talk
from: Father Creeper

11. Erik Friedlander – Tabatha
from: Bonebridge

12. Gang Gang Dance – Chinese High
from: Eye Contact

 

Patrick Thornton presents Selection Box every Monday at Midnight.

Eclectic Mainline 22 February 2012 & 29 February 2012

 

Phil Cope has yet to follow the example of Richard Herring vis-a-vis facial hair.

When Albert Freeman proferred his chair to myself and Phil Cope (one sat on the other’s knee since you ask) he did so with the promise that we would ensure that his commitment to a weekly blog about his show would also follow.  What Albert foolishly failed to check was whether myself and The Mod Oliver Hardy were in fact hiding cross keys behind our backs, which as everyone knows is the legally-binding get-out clause for any promise made publically or privately and is sadly a manouevre often abused at weddings by men intent from the start on being serial adulterers.

 

So, I have welched on this agreement made betwixt Freeman, Hardy & wally and thus have to use one blog entry to catch up on two editions of Eclectic Mainline.  The first saw Cope & I playing catch with such political hot potatoes as Adele’s sac of living tissue in which she nurtures her young Brit Award eggs, the appropraicy of Paul Weller’s tie knot and the manner in which a radio wireless show can disobey the rules of the space/time continuum.  In summary: we titted about again.

Ding dong Dingle, where chair?

Sadly, such titting was reduced to a solo practice for last week’s show and Mod Laurel was forced to go it alone as, due to the constraints of that there time that they have these days, Phil was unable to join me.  You may think that recording an hour of radio together per week is not that restrictive in terms of the ticky tick tock of clocks, but if you are thinking this it just goes to show what a wretched and naive specimen you are.  You are clearly failing to take into account the work that goes into ensuring that our voices are being pushed out of radios, computer speakers, iPods, phones and various other devices accross the World simultaneously.  Everyone says that Father Christmas is amazing for managing to get around every household in the World in a single night once a year, and yet we manage to be inside thousands of radio machines all at the same time, wittering nonsense about hair dos and Cain Dingle off of out of Emmerdale Farm.  You don’t get that without at least half an hour’s preparation time, I’ll tell you now.

Anyway, here’s the track-listing, brought to you via the twin media of the written word and contemporary dance, although only one is visible here:

Jagwar Pirates' Full Total Complete Bronzage

 

Eclectic Mainline 22 February 2012 (listen again here)

1.  Adele / Prophet Arise Riddim – Dubbin In The Deep

from: unreleased

2.  Steinvord – Maelstrom

from: Steinvord

3.  Alex Chilton – Come On Honey

from: Free Again: The “1970” Sessions

4.  Field Music – A Prelude To Pilgrim Street

from: Plumb

5.  Paul Weller – That Dangerous Age

from: Sonic Kicks

6.  New Age Steppers – Conquer

from: Love Forever

7.  Liechtenstein – No Idealists Left

from: Fast Forward

8.  Jagwar Pirates – Rocket Surf

from: Full Total Complete Bronzage

9.  Chairlift – Sidewalk Safari

from: Something

10.  Soap&Skin – Wonder

from: Narrow

11. Twin Sister – Gene Ciampi

from: In Heaven

12.  Tesfay Taye – Selame

from: Ilita!: New Ethiopian Dance Music (various artists)

Those Darlins: what's not to like?

 

Eclectic Mainline 29 February 2012 (listen again here)

1.  Liz Green – Hey Joe

from: O, Devotion!

2.  Afro Beat Bariba – Abakpe

from: Le Super Borgou de Parakou (various artists)

3.  Tom Waits – Raised Right Men

from: Bad As Me

4.  Emporium – Mindbender

from: Another Planet: The Best of Emporium

5.  Crybaby – When The Lights Go Out

from: Crybaby

6.  Those Darlins – Your Bro

from: Screws Get Loose

7.  Dave Davies – Do You Wish To Be A Man

from: Hidden Treasures

8.  Amadou & Miriam featuring Santi Gold – Dougou Badia

from: Folia

9.  Leonard Cohen – Amen

from: Old Ideas

10.  Grinderman – Palaces of Montezuma (Barry Adamson Remix)

from: Grinderman 2 RMX

11. Bowerbirds – Death Wish

from: The Clearing

12.  Saint Etienne – Tonight

from: Words & Music

 

Patrick Thornton presents Selection Box every Monday at Midnight

Phil Cope presents When Big Joan Sets Up every Wednesday at Midnight

Eclectic Mainline 15/2/2012: Another Fine Mess You’ve Got Me Into

Your regular EM host Albert Freeman is off for a few weeks on a mission to save stranded vegan wasps from a concentration camp in deepest Antasia, so myself and the venerable Phil Cope – the Mod Laurel & Hardy – are sitting in for a total of four weeks in return for lurid bodily favours which would make a street girl vomit into an ashtray.

I seem to recall an off-air agreement betwixt your hosts that if I did all the technical hoohah this week, Phillip would do the blogging honours. Ah cannae see the relevant entry*, so I’ve done the honours on his behalf and will make sure to smash all the teeth out of his head as a punishment for reneging on such a deal. It also gives me carte blanche to shove up these compare & contrast images of the two of us – coincedentally taken entirely independent of each other and without prior knowledge of the existence of either, which Phil hates as he thinks it makes him look like a blind Womble.

* Although, in fairness, I took home the tracklisting which might have made it difficult for him, but I must just smash his teeth out anyway for my own amusement.

Here’s the tunes that we poured onto the airwaves like aural soup into your listening ear bowls:

 

Eclectic Mainline 15 February 2012 (Listen here)

1. Those Darlins – Screws Get Loose
from: Screws Get Loose

2. Lambchop – Gone Tomorrow
from: Mr. M

3. Hookworms – Medicine Cabinet
from: Hookworms EP

4. La Makina Del Karibe – El Maki Man
from: Kosmik Chankleta

5. Cate Le Bon – Falcon Eyed
from: Cyrk

6. Jack White – Machine Gun Silhouette
from: Love Interruption 7″ single

7. EQ Why – Back 2 Dis
from: Let Me See Your Footwork

8. Alabama Shakes – Hold On
from: Boys & Girls

9. Liz Green – Rybka
from: Bad Medicine CD single

10. Metronomy – Corinne
from: The English Riviera

11. Shearwater – Breaking The Waves
from: Animal Joy

12. The Fall – Cosmos 7
from: Ertsatz GB

13. Ital – Doesn’t Matter (If You Love Him)
from: Hive Mind

 

Patrick Thornton presents Selection Box every Monday at Midnight.

Phil Cope presents When Big Joan Sets Up every Wednesday at Midnight.

Eclectic Mainline – 8th February 2012

Here’s the Frankie Rose single, as featured in tonight’s show:

Frankie Rose – Know Me by memphisindustries

If you wish to listen back to tonight’s show, you will probably find it on this page of the BCB Listen Again service.  Here is a list of all the tunes I played:

Haywire Family – “Boatman” (Various Artists 2xCD – “World Routes On The Road”) (BBC)
Emika – “Hit Me feat. Jimmy Edgar” (single b/w “3 Hours”) (Ninja Tune)
Darren Hayman – “No Different For Girls (sung by Valentine Leys)” (2xCD – “January Songs”) (Belka)
The Boats – “The Ballad Of Indecision” (CD – “Ballads Of The Research Department”) (12K)
Shearwater – “Breaking the Yearlings” (single and LP – “Animal Joy”) (Sub Pop)
Metronomy – “Corrine” (double A-side single b/w “The Look” and LP – “The English Riviera”) (Because)
Hanni El Khatib – “Human Fly” (single) (Innovative Leisure)
Mikhail – “Friend” (LP – “Xenofonia”) (Sub Rosa)
Real Estate – “Easy” (single) (Domino)
Those Darlins – “Screws Get Loose” (single and LP – “Screws Get Loose, Screws Get Loose”) (Oh Wow Dang)
Ulrich Schnauss & Mark Peters – “Long Distance Call” (LP – “Underrated Silence”) (Bureau B)
Raffertie – “Brevity” (EP – “Mass Appeal”) (Ninja Tune)
Frankie Rose – “Know Me” (single) (Memphis Industries)
Half Man Half Biscuit – “Joy In Leeuwarden (We Are Ready)” (LP – “90 Bisodal (Crimond)”) (Probe Plus)
Black Bananas – “Acid Song” (LP – “Rad Times Xpress IV”) (Drag City)
Michel – “Homi di Fora” (Various Artists 2xCD – “World Routes On The Road”) (BBC)