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Eclectic Mainline 22nd September 2010

Managed to pack quite a lot in this week.  If you missed last week’s show and blog, you can go back and listen to the podcast of my Grinderman interview if you so wish, right here.

But if you prefer to live for the present moment, here’s what I played tonight:

Two Fingers – “Fools” (LP – “Ninja Tune XX”) (Ninja Tune)
Maps & Atlases – “Solid Ground” (single) (Fat Cat)
Yann Tiersen – “Palestine” (LP – “Dust Lane”) (Mute)
Clinic – “I’m Aware” (single) (Domino)
Neon Indian – “Mind, Drips” (LP – “Psychic Chasm”) (Static Tongue)
Women – “Eyesore” (single and LP – “Public Strain”) (Jagjaguwar)
Hannah Peel – “Song For The Sea” (7″ single) (Static Caravan)
Musée Mécaniques – “Fits & Starts” (single and LP – “Hold This Ghost) (Souterrain Transmissions)
Gonjasufi – “Holidays (MRR Remix)” (Remix LP – “A Caliph’s Tea Party”) (Warp)
Chief – “Stealing” (LP – “Modern Rituals”) (Domino)
Mice Parade – “Fortune Of Folly” (LP – “What It Means To Be Left-Handed”) (Fat Cat)
Grinderman – “Micky Mouse and the Goodbye Man” (LP – “Grinderman 2”) (Mute)
Darren Hayman & The Secondary Modern – “Calling Out Your Name (featuring Emma-Lee Moss)” (single) (Fortuna Pop!)
PVT  – “Light Up Bright Fires” (single and LP – “Church With No Magic”) (Warp)
Karen Elson – “The Truth Is In The Dirt” (single) (XL)

Eclectic Mainline 15th September 2010 – Grinderman interview

This week sees the release of the second Grinderman album, smartly titled Grinderman 2.  To celebrate, in my show tonight I spoke to Jim Sclavunos from the band.  If you heard the show you will have heard Jim and I discussing the evolution of Grinderman since the first album, and also the video to the single Heathen Child, which you can see below.  If you then read the rest of this entry, you will be able to listen to a longer version of the interview, which is available as a podcast. 

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Eclectic Mainline 8th September 2010

It’s been quite a couple of days for me, recording first a Grinderman interview to be broadcast in Eclectic Mainline next week, and then recording a session with Mountain Man for The BCB Sessions.  Not sure when that one will be broadcast, but definitely a Wednesday in the next few weeks.  If you’re on Facebook, the BCB Wednesday Night Club is the place to find out what is happening on a Wednesday.  Back to the present, here’s what featured in my show tonight:

8th September
Roots Manuva meets Wrongtom – “Big Tings Redone ft. Seanie T” (LP – Duppy Writer) (Big Dada)
Goodnight Lenin – “Crack In The Creak” (single) (Static Caravan)
Tricky – “Murder Weapon” (single) (Domino)
Dan Michaelson And The Coastguards – “Love Lends A Hand” (single) (Editions)
Rustie – “Hyperthrust” (“Sunburst EP”) (Warp)
The Charlatans – “Intimacy” (LP – “Who We Touch”) (Cooking Vinyl)
Eskmo – “Come Back” (single) (Ninja Tune)
Crystal Fighers – “Follow” (single) (Zirkulo)
Mint Julep – “Cherry Radio” (Explorers Club single) (Arctic Circle / Loaf)
Grinderman – “Heathen Child” (single) (Mute)
Syriana – “Al Mazzeh” (LP – “The Road To Damascus”) (Real World)
The Long Lost – “Woebegone (Flying Lotus’ Like Woe Mix)” (LP – “Ninja Tune XX”) (Ninja Tune)
Black Mountain – “The Hair Song” (single) (Jagjaguwar)
Agnes Obel – “Riverside” (single) (PIAS)
The Yellow Moon Band – “Barehed” (Static Caravan)

Eclectic Mainline 1st September 2010

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Ninja Tune

I’m getting down with Ninja Tune and Big Dada a lot at the moment, in anticipation of the Ninja Tune XX box set celebrating their 20th anniversary.  Expect more tunes from that in coming weeks.  This is what I played tonight:

Roots Manuva meets Wrongtom – “Jah Warriors” (single) (Big Dada)
The Charlatans – “My Foolish Pride” (single) (Cooking Vinyl)
Rose Elinor Dougall – “To The Sea” (LP – “Without Why”) (Scarlett Music)
Autolux – “Transit Transit” (LP – “Transit Transit”) (ATP)
Mala – “Conengitetis (Dance Mix)” (single) (Zaman)
Pulled Apart By Horses – “High Five, Swan Dive, Nose Dive” (single and LP -“Pulled Apart By Horses”) (Transgressive)
Roots Manuva – “Witness (Slugabed remix)” (LP – “Ninja Tune XX”) (Ninja Tune)
Efterklang – “Mirador (live)” (LP – “Parades + Under Giant Trees”) (Leaf)
Villagers – “That Day” (single) (Domino)
Ramona – “How Long” (single) (Bullitt)
Mountain Man – “Animal Tracks” (LP – “Made The Harbor”) (Bella Union)
Grinderman – “Heathen Child” (single and LP – “Here Come The Wolfman”) (Mute)
Lobi Traoré – “Moko Ti Y Lamban Don” (LP – “Rainy Season Blues”) (Glitterhouse)

BCB music shows web 1.0 and web 2.0

In the BUN era (see Untitled Noise 1 year on) our music shows’ individual websites and web 2.0 presence was the only way find out what we were all up to, and it was not easy to keep up to date with all shows.  In the SUN era this blog has brought things together nicely in a hub, but our original tentacles still spread healthily.  So I thought it would be a good idea to fill you in on what we have out there on the internet.   Here’s what I know of, starting with general BCB stuff, then working through the week (I may modify this entry if and when I get more information):

General BCB stuff

www.facebook.com/bcbradio
www.twitter.com/bcbradio

Monday

Going North From Nashville

www.myspace.com/goingnorthfromnashville

Selection Box

www.twitter.com/selection_box
www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7278081700
www.myspace.com/selectionboxbcb

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Eclectic Mainline 25th August

I tried to make this show a beard-free zone.  I’m not sure I totally succeeded, but I gave it a good shot..!

Surfer Blood – “Floating Vibes” (single and LP – “Astro Coast”) (Kanine)
!!! – “Steady As The Sidewalk Cracks” (LP – “Strange Weather, Isn’t It?”) (Warp)
Efterklang – “Antitech” (LP – “Tripper + Springer”) (Leaf)
Aberfeldy – “Lisa-Marie” (LP – “Somewhere To Jump From”) (Tenement)
Disclosure – “Offline Dexternity” (single) (Moshi Moshi)
Mala – “Conengitetis (Jug mix)” (single) (Zaman)
No Age – “Glitter” (single) (Sub Pop)
Max Richter – Sarajevo” (LP – “Memoryhouse”) (Fat Cat)
Summer Camp – “Round The Moon” (single)
Andreya Trianna – “X” (LP – “Lost Where I Belong”) (Ninja Tune)
The Vaselines – “Sex With An X” (single) (Sub Pop)
The Hundred In The Hands – “Pigeons” (single) (Warp)
Burning Spear – “Brain Food” (LP – “Marcus Garvey/Garvey’s Ghost”) (Island)
M.I.A. – “It Takes A Muscle” (single and LP – LP – “/\/\/\Y/\”) (XL)
Magic Kids – “Phone” (single and LP – “Memphis”) (True Panther Sounds)

Eclectic Mainline 11th August 2010

I’ve just read that on 1st November Domino are releasing compilation entitled An Introduction to Elliott Smith.  Regular listeners to Eclectic Mainline will know, that introducing Elliott Smith to the world is never something I would shy away from.  So, this release is welcome news.  One of the tunes on it will be “Between The Bars”, a most beautiful song, from one of my personal favourite albums of the 1990s, Either/Or.  If you haven’t got any of his albums, I can highly recommend you start your Christmas list now, and put An Introduction to Elliott Smith at the top.

Elliott Smith – Between The Bars by DominoRecordCo
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Eclectic Mainline 4th August 2010

What a muppet, I totally forgot to play something off the new album by Ass and I also forgot to play the new single by The Fresh and Onlys.  I only mention this because I also forgot both last week too!  Guess what’s going to be in next week’s show listeners..?

This is what was in tonight’s show:

Menomena – “Queen Black Acid” (LP – “Mines”) (City Slang)
Flying Lotus – “MmmHmm” ft. Thundercat (LP – “Cosmogramma”) (Warp)
The Soft Pack – “More Or Less” (single) (Heavenly)
Steve Mason – “Am I Just A Man” (single and LP – “Boys Outside”) (Double Six)
Apagya Show Band – “Ma Nserew Me” (LP – Various Artists – “Afro-Beat Airwaves”) (Analog Africa)
School Of Seven Bells – “Bye Bye Bye” (LP – “Disconnect From Desire”) (Full Time Hobby)
Dangermouse, Sparklehorse & Vic Chestnutt – “Grim Augury” (LP – “Dark Night Of The Soul”) (Parlophone)
Frank Turner – “Try This At Home” (single and LP – “Poetry Of The Deed”) (Xtra Mile)
Timber Timbre – “Demon Host” (single) (Full Time Hobby)
Mint Julep – “Cherry Radio” (Explorers Club single) (Arctic Circle / Loaf)
American Men – “Ccccool World” (EP – “Cool World”) (LuckyMe)
Camera Obscura – “The Nights Are Cold” (single) (4AD)
Black Mountain – “Old Fangs” (single) (Jagjaguwar)
Yeasayer – “Madder Red” (single and LP – “Odd Blood”) (Mute)
Toddla T ft Wayne Marshall – “Sky Surfing” (single) (Ninja Tune)

Jelly & Ice Cream: Selection Box 142

In keeping with advancing years, the party for Selection Box’s third birthday turned out to be a rather more low-key affair than the wild cake, balloon and full studio of previous years.  Although your host was able to treat himself to a tasty off-cut of a choccy caterpillar cake this was actually provided by someone else for celebratory purposes the nature of which I am not aware.  It was just a coincidence that it happened to be sat there on the same day as my show’s anniversary, but as it was sat there waiting to be sliced asunder by all comers I helped myself to one of the last pieces before heading into the studio.

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