Thanks to all the people who contacted me during tonight’s show.  It’s great to know you are tuning in and enjoying what you hear.  If you want to listen again you can do so here.

Here’s the amazing video for the new Wiley single:

And here’s a full list of tonight’s tunes:

She Keeps Bees – “All Or None / Dark Horse” (LP – “Dig On”) (Names)
Biosphere – “Monju-2” (LP – “N-Plants” (Touch)
Diagrams – “Icebreakers” (“Diagrams EP” (Full Time Hobby)
Wiley – “I Just Woke Up” (LP – “100% Publishing”) (Big Dada)
Moebius – “Alaise” (LP – “Ding”) (Klangbad)
I Break Horses – “Hearts (R.A.R Mix)” (single) (Bella Union)
Arctic Monkeys – “The Hellcat Spangled Shalalala” (single) (Domino)
Mr Scruff – “Wobble Control” (single) (Ninja Tune)
James Blake – “A Case Of You”
The Advisory Circle – “Modern Through Movement” (LP – “As The Crow Flies”) (Ghost Box)
Vieux Farka Touré – “Aigna (feat. Derek Trucks)” (LP – “The Secret”) (Six Degrees)
Bee Mask – “Fallen Tree Thursday and the Half-Crushed Arc of the Sky Taking Tea in the Pastoral Index” (LP – “Elegy For Beach Friday”) (Spectrum Spools)
Bang On! – “Got It (Cesare vs Disorder Berlin Warrior take) (single)
Washed Out – “You And I” (LP – “Within And Without”) (Weird World)

It’s just not cricket… well, not tonight anyway. Last week the opposite was true, as it was just cricket on BCB, so I had no show.  I made up for it tonight though, by cramming in as much amazing music as was humanly possible.  You can listen again if you so wish.

Here’s the video to one of tonight’s tunes, the new single by Papercuts:

And here’s a list of all tonight’s tunes:

The Doomed Bird Of Providence – “Fedicia Exine (I Am A Vowel remix)” (single) (Front & Follow)
Amon Tobin – “Surge (Two Fingers remix)” (single) (Ninja Tune)
Black Lips – “Dumpbster Dive” (LP – “Arabia Mountain”) (V2)
The Advisory Circle – “Logotone I – Decisions” (LP – “As The Crow Flies”) (Ghost Box)
Billy Bragg – “Never Buy The Sun” (free download from www.billybragg.co.uk/sun.php)
Mazes – “Summer Hits” (single) (Fat Cat)
Papercuts – “Do You Really Wanna Know” (single) (Sub Pop)
Vieux Farka Touré – “The Secret (feat. Ali Farka Touré)” (LP – “The Secret”) (Six Degrees)
Wiley – “Information Age” (LP – “100% Publishing”) (Big Dada)
Metronomy – “The Bay” (single) (Because)
Shonen Knife – “Economic Crisis” (LP – “Free Time”) (Damnably)
Wild Beasts – “Bed Of Nails” (single) (Domino)
Burial – “Forgive” (LP – “Burial”) (Hyperdub)
Paul Thomas Saunders – “Appointment in Samarra” (single) (RT60)
Monoblock B – “Play Time” (LP – “Teatime In Medellin”) (Spezialmaterial)
Benjamin Francis Leftwich – “Pictures” (LP – “Last Smoke Before The Snow Storm”) (Dirty Hit)
Brian Eno – “Pour It Out” (LP – “Drums Between The Bells”) (Warp)
The Advisory Circle – “Beyond The Wychelm” (LP – “As The Crow Flies”) (Ghost Box)

I’ve got no idea where the image for this Samiyam Youtube clip came from, but it is intruiging.  Sam Baker’s Album really is great, and I could literally have played any track from it tonight.

Thanks to all my listeners tonight, it was a pleasure to have your company! :)  You can, if you so desire, listen again to the show for up to 4 weeks.  Here’s what I played:

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Due to Yorkshire’s 20/20 cricket match with Derbyshire my show was only 1/2 hour tonight.  If you want to listen again, I think you might find the 1st 1/2 of the show is the cricket, so skip forward 1/2 hour.

Here’s one of the tunes from tonight’s show, from the fantastic Oneohtrix Point Never:

Here’s what I played:

Roy Harper – “When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease” (LP – “HQ”) (Science Friction)
Samiyam – “Bedtime” (LP – “Sam Baker’s Album”) (Brainfeeder)
Dinosaur Jr – “They Always Come” (LP – “Bug”)
Oneohtrix Point Never – “Ouroboros” (LP – “Returnal”) (Editions Mego)
Trevor Moss & Hannah Lou – “A Hill Far, Far Away” (LP – “Quality First, Last & Forever”) (Heavenly)
Milk Maid – “Kill Me Again” (LP – “Yucca”) (Fat Cat)
The Go! Team – “Ready To Go Steady” (single) (Memphis Industries)
Biosphere – “Monju-1” (LP – “N-Plants” (Touch)
Weekend – “Coma Summer (Speculator’s Subconscious Mix) (single b-side – “End Times”) (Slumberland)

I played one tune from the new Elan Tamara EP tonight, and here’s a home video of another tune from the same EP:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sik52rGqGNs

You might also have heard me play the new single by Kitty, Daisy & Lewis.  On these here very pages you can read Katie Jennings’ review of their gig in Leeds last Sunday.

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If you choose to listen again to tonight’s show, this is what you maybe ought to try and visualise at after about 40 minutes:

Me talking to Rise Kagona at the 2010 Rough Beats Festival

Ahead of this weekend’s Rough Beats Festival I broadcast part of an interview I did with Bhundu Boy Rise Kagona at last year’s festival. He’s a fascinating man.  We spoke for over an hour, and what you heard tonight is just a small part of that chat.  This year Rise is performing with as Rise Kagona and the Jit Jive Band.

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I’ve wanted to play Capsize by Dels for a few weeks, but its lyrics were unsuitable for my family audience.  So, a pleasure it was to find a radio edit in my postpile last week.  Here’s the song via a Youtube ‘still’…

And here’s a list of tonight’s tunes:

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