Here’s the Illuha tune I played in tonight’s show:

http://youtu.be/48grW5oCJcs

If you wish to listen again to this evening’s show, you should find it on this page.

Here’s a list of the tunes I played:

Tyme. x Tujiko – “Tropic Penguin” (LP – “GYU”) (Editions Mego)
Dan Sartain – “Nam Vet” (LP – “Too Tough To Live”) (One Little Indian)
The Langa Children of Rajasthan – “Rag Soohab” (Various Artists 2xCD – “World Routes On The Road”) (BBC)
DJ Food – “Percussion Map (Pt. 1)” (LP – “The Search Engine”) (Ninja Tune)
Lovecraft – “The Telepathist” (LP – “Whistle And I’ll Come To You, My Lad”) (Probe Plus)
Illuha – “Aikou” (LP – “Shizuku”) (12K)
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – “Hysterical” (single and LP – “Hysterical”) (V2)
Ulrich Schnauss & Mark Peters – “Rosen Im Asphalt” (LP – “Underrated Silence”) (Bureau B)
Shearwater – “Breaking the Yearlings” (single and LP – “Animal Joy”) (Sub Pop)
Piney Gir – “Outta Sight” (single and LP – “Geronimo!”) (Damaged Goods)
The Twilight Sad – “Another Bed” (LP – “No One Can Ever Known”) (Fat Cat)
Justin Vali & Paddy Bush – “Veloma” (Various Artists 2xCD – “World Routes On The Road”) (BBC)
Christina Vantzou – “And Instantly Take Effect (Loscil remix)” (CD+DVD – “Nº 1: DVD and Remixes”) (The Numbered Series)

Folk like myself, Simon Ashberry and Phil Cope have a proclivity for making lists when it comes to music we like.  If I were to make a list of my favourite compilations when the sun sets on 2012 for the final time, then World Routes On The Road would surely be pretty high on that list.  It’s a 2xCD set comprising tunes recorded round the world by the BBC Radio 3 team that produce the World Routes show.  I played a couple of tunes from it tonight, and will continue to do so for the next few weeks.  Here is a sample of what it contains:

World Routes: on the road by Nascente music

Here is a list of all the tunes I played in tonight’s show:

Toumani Diabaté – “Musu Maramba” (Various Artists 2xCD – “World Routes On The Road”) (BBC)
Donald Suck – “Interjupe” (Various Artists LP – “Inner Self Globophobic Clown Tester (Part. 1)”) (Wildrfid)
Plug – “A Quick Plug For A New Slot” (LP – “Back On Time”) (Ninja Tune)
Half Man Half Biscuit – “Left Lyrics In The Practice Room” (LP – “90 Bisodal (Crimond)”) (Probe Plus)
Anders Hana – “Iskoras” (LP – “Dead Clubbing”) (Drid Machine)
Christina Vantzou – “Joggers (The Dead Texan remix)” (CD+DVD – “Nº 1: DVD and Remixes”) (The Numbered Series)
S.C.U.M – “Faith Unfolds (Silver Alert remix)” (single – “Again Into Eyes”) (Mute)
Peter Broderick – “It Starts Here” (single and LP – “http://www.itstartshere.com”) (Bella Union)
Matt Elliott – “The Pain That’s Yet To Come” (LP – “The Broken Man”) (Ici, d’ailleurs)
Wiley – “Boom Blast” (single) (Big Dada)
Nakibembo Village Musicians – “Waire Nzira Nte” (Various Artists 2xCD – “World Routes On The Road”) (BBC)
Darren Hayman – “We’re Tired Of Getting Dicked Around” (2xCD – “January Songs”) (Belka)
Arctic Monkeys – “Black Treacle” (single and LP – “Suck It And See”) (Domino)

I should make it clear from the outset – tonight’s show was not a ‘best of 2011’ show.  If it was, I would have included ‘Try to Sleep‘ by Low, the song which had my favourite video of 2011:

Low + Film Noir.  It was always going to impress me with that formula.

If tonight’s show was a proper 2011 review show I would also have had to play something from PJ Harvey’s Let England Shake album.  I’ve not really given much thought to what my favourite album of 2011 was, but if I did give it much brain time, this album would never have been far from those thoughts.

Each of the 11 songs on Let England Shake has a video.  You’ll find them all on the Let England Shake Youtube channel.

So, to what tonight’s show was, rather than what it wasn’t.  It was kind of a summing up of what’s changed in Eclectic Mainline over the past 12 months or so.  There are a number of factors.  One factor is what actually lands in my post pile.  I have to admit that I don’t have a great deal of spare time to seek out new music; often it’s a case that I play the music that finds me.  The music I have received has changed over the past year or so, and tonight’s show reflected that.  Or to be more specific, the music that arrives in the post has changed.  There are an ever-increasing number of promos that arrive digitally, and I don’t have time to listen to them.  This fact is to the benefit of those CDs and records that arrive the old fashioned way: in the post.

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This show has turned out to be rather more festive than I first thought when I picked up a pile of CDs to bring into BCB. So, in light of that, here is this year’s seasonal offering from Shonen Knife:

If you wish to listen again to this show, you should find it somewhere around about here.

Here’s a list of all the tunes from tonight’s show:

Mogwai – “Christmas” (“Mogwai EP” – CHEM036) (Chemical Underground)
Plug – “Come On My Skeleton” (LP – “Back On Time”) (Ninja Tune)
Gruff Rhys – “Slashed Wrists This Christmas” (“Athiest Xmas EP”) (OVNI/Turnstile)
Bill Ryder-Jones – “Intersect” (LP – “If”) (Double Six)
Shonen Knife -“We Wish You A Merry Christmas” (b-side to “Sweet Christmas” single) (Damnably)
No UFO’s – “Evidence / Century Park” (LP – “Soft Coast”) (Spectrum Spools)
Low – “Blue Christmas” (LP – “Christmas”) (Tugboat)
Still Corners – “Cuckoo” (LP – “Creatures of An Hour”) (Sub Pop)
Serph – “Alechemy” (LP – “Winter Alchemy”) (Noble)
Odonis Odonis – “Handle Bars” (LP – “Hollandaze”) (Fat Cat)
Slow Club – “Christmas, Thanks For Nothing” (“Christmas, Thanks For Nothing” EP) (Moshi Moshi)
Fennesz + Sakamoto – “0401” (2CD – “Flumina”) (Touch)
Frightened Rabbit – “It’s Christmas So We’ll Stop” (single) (Fat Cat)
Crystal Stilts – “Practically Immaculate / Jesus Claus mix 2” (free download from various sources – try The Quietus on Soundcloud or Fortuna Pop)

I played (most of) the opening tune from the sunn o))) meets nurse with wound album “The Iron Soul Of Nothing” in tonight’s show. If I had time I would have played the entire 19 minutes; it really is quite beautiful.  Just what is needed at this rather frantic time of year.  Here’s a preview of the album:
sunn o))) meets nurse with wound – the iron soul of nothing (album preview) by experimedia

If you wish to listen back to the whole show,you’ll find it on this page.

Here’s a list of the tunes I played:

Gruff Rhys – “Slashed Wrists This Christmas” (“Athiest Xmas EP”) (OVNI/Turnstile)
Reliq – “Rushhour” (LP – “Minority Report”) (Noble)
Forest Fire – “Future Shadows” (single) (Fat Cat)
Fennesz + Sakamoto – “0419” (2CD – “Flumina”) (Touch)
Plug – “Drum N Bass” (LP – “Back On Time”) (Ninja Tune)
S.C.U.M – “Faith Unfolds” (single and LP – “Again Into Eyes”) (Mute)
SOKO – “I Thought I Was An Alien” (single) (Because)
Shonen Knife – “Sweet Christmas” (single) (Damnably)
Roedelius Schneider – “Single Boogie” (single and LP – “Stunden”) (Bureau B)
Odonis Odonis – “Tick Tock” (LP – “Hollandaze”) (Fat Cat)
Sunn))) meets Nurse With Wound – “Dysnystaxis {… A Chance Meeting With Somnus}” (2LP – “The Iron Soul Of Nothing”) (Editions Mego)
She & Him – “Christmas Day” (single) (Double Six)

Now that my birthday has passed, the other December-based festivities can begin. Here’s one of the tunes from the new Gruff Rhys ‘Athiest Christmas EP’:

Gruff Rhys – Post Apocalypse Christmas by PIASGermany

If you wish to listen again to my show from tonight, you can do so from this page.

Here is a full list of tonight’s tunes:

Mark Van Hoen – “I Remember” (LP – “The Reverant Diary”) (Editions Mego)
Mutter – “Wo Die Sonne Nicht Scheint” (LP – “Mein Kleiner Krieg”) (Die Eigene Gesellschaft)
Loka – “The Art of Burning Bridges” (LP – “Passing Place”) (Ninja Tune)
Serph – “Noel” (LP – “Winter Alchemy”) (Noble)
Trailer Trash Tracys – “Strangling Good Guys” (double A-side single with “Candy Girl”) (Double Six)
This Is The Kit – “When Are you Coming, Come On!” (from Rozi Plain – “See My Boat EP”) (Need No Water)
Robert Lippok – “Sugarcubes” (LP – “Redsuperstructure”) (Raster Noton)
Björk – “Dark Matter” (LP – “Biophilia”) (One Little Indian)
Jérôme Montagne – “NOP (3)” (Various artists CD – “Archipel Électonique”) (D’Autres Cordes)
Gruff Rhys – “Post Apocalypse Christmas” (“Athiest Xmas EP”) (OVNI/Turnstile)
Decoy Child – “Pray” (single) (Ninja Tune)
Field Music – “(I Keep Thinking About) A New Thing” (free download from www.field-music.co.uk) (Memphis Industries)
Cast – “See That Girl”(single) (Cast Recordings)