Three from the enduringly magnificent Neko Case‘s new LP “The Worse Things Get,The Harder I Fight,The Harder I Fight,The More I Love You” and a track from Robert Mitchum’s mythical calypso LP. An excellent companion piece to Fi Glover and Jane Garvey

Machinedrum -“Gunshotta” (Download single) (Ninja Tune)
Pancreatectomie -“Trained In Mold” (LP -“Food”) (Bandcamp)
Amida -“Are You On Fire? -(EP -“Are You On Fire?”) (Dufflecoat)
Konshens and ZJ Chrome -“Ambition Freestyle” (Download single) (CR203)
Neko Case -“The Night Still Comes” (LP -“The Worse Things Get…”) (Anti)
Robert Mitchum -“Jean and Dinah” (LP -“Calypso Is Like So..”) (Capitol)
Clearance – “Walking Papers” (EP -“Dixie Two Step”) (Microluxe)
Perc and Truss – “Clapacid” (12″ “Spiker”) (Perc Trax)
Linda Thompson -“Never The Bride” (Download single) (Topic)
Neko Case -“Nearly Midnight, Honolulu” (LP -“The Worse Things Get…”) (Anti)
Skullflower – “Solar Anus” (Boxed Set -“Kino Vols. I-IV”) (Shock/Dirtier Promotions)
Mighty Diamonds – “Tamarind Farm” (LP -“Pass The Knowledge”) (VP)
The Hummingbirds – “Bankrupt Blues” (EP -“The Hummingbirds”) (Self Released)
The Crytearions – “I Can’t Believe What You Are” (LP -“I See What It Is And I Am Scared”) (Bandcamp)
Om Unit – “Sleepwalkers” (12″) (Metalheadz)
Neko Case -“Ragtime” (LP -“The Worse Things Get…”) (Anti)
Truth -“Empire” (12′) (Tempa)

Another mesmerising programme which featured three from Andrew Marr’s band Ski Lodge (not that one) and a collective dub selection from purveyors of top class terpsichorian treasures Jumbo Records.

Voight Kampf – “The Great White North” (EP -“Voight Kampf”)(Deranged)
Bobby Kalphat and The Sunshot All Stars – “Counter Punch” (LP -“Zion Hill’)(Pressure Sounds)
Mazzy Star – “California” (Download)(Rhymes Of An Hour)
Ski Lodge – “Boy” (LP -“Big Heart”)(Dovecoat)
Slow Walkers – “The Flood”(LP -“Slow Walkers)(Peak Oil)
Limbs Bin – “Summertime Blues”(EP -“Summertime Blues”)(Fly Me Into The Laser Eye)
Eddie Cochran – “Cut Across Shorty”(LP –“The Very Best Of Eddie Cochran”)(EMI)
Raving George – “Submerse (Attaque Remix)”(EP -“Obverse”)(Crux)
Ski Lodge – “You Just Can’t Help Being Cruel”(LP -“Big Heart”)(Dovecoat)
Royal Headache – “Give it All To Me” (7″)(Matador Records Singles Going Home Alone Club)
Monkey Fez – “Tralala Lala” (V/a Download LP -“Scandinavian Breakcore Compilation Vol 1”)(Bandcamp)
Michael Intergalaxon – “Woodpecker” (Download EP -“The Art of Bird Mutation”)(Mutant Swing)
King Tubby – “A Closer Dub” (LP -“Roots of Dub”)(Blue Moon)
Okkerville River -“On A Balcony” (LP -“The Silver Gymnasium”)(ATO)
Ski Lodge – “Down On This Southern Tip” (LP -“Big Heart”)(Dovecoat)
Ganz – “Faces” (EP -“Kraftschlieim”)(Saturate)
The Faces – “Bad N Ruin” (LP -“Long Player”)(Warner Bros)

WBJSU as,all the cool kids are calling it,came blaring out of your tranny again on Weds/Thurs blatantly stealing jokes from Richard Herring and playing a selection of popular melodies for hip young gunslingers including three tracks from Young Echo‘s debut LP “Nexus” and a bowel shaking selection from this week’s Dub Selecter Jim Powers

The Simonsound – “The Beam”(10”) (Project Blue Book)
No Age – “Circling with Dizzy”(LP -“An Object”) (Sub Pop)
Dizzy Gillespie and his All Stars – “Salt Peanuts”(4CD Box Set -“The Dizzy Gillespie Story 1939-1950”) (Proper)
Darren Styles & Gammer – “Paranoia” (Download) (Futureworld)
Israel Vibration – “Dub of Injustice”(LP -“I.V D.U.B”) (Continental Record Services)
Glaxo Babies – “It’s Irrational” (V/A LP -“Avon Calling”) (Heartbeat)
Young Echo – “Voices on the Water” (LP -“Nexus”) (Ramp)
Young Echo – “Nexus” (LP -“Nexus”) (Ramp)
Young Echo – “My Child,My Chain” (LP -“Nexus”) (Ramp)
Ty Segall – “Queen C.C” (LP -“Sleeper”) (Drag City)
Kabaka Pyramid – “Liberal Opposer” (LP -“Green Lion Crew – Rough Road”) (Soul of the Lion)
DAM feat.Abeer Al Zinati – “Hon Enwaladet”(V/A LP “Rough Guide to Arabic Revolution”) (World Music Network)
Null Forge aka Techno Paul – “Technohymne”(EP -“Dedication to the Quietsch”) (Rage and Error)

Yer tunes from Weds/Thurs:

Winam Jazz Band – “Ben Wambia”(Download single) (51 Lex)
The Courtneys – “Social Anxiety” (LP – ‘The Courtneys”) (Hockey Dad)
Enduser – “Retox” (12″) (Retox)
Cat Party – “Jigsaw Thoughts” (LP – “Cat Party”) (catpartymusic.bandcamp.com/album/cat-party)
Diana Jones – “Song For A Worker” (LP – “Museum of Appalachia Recordings) (Proper)
Coffins – “Dishuman” (LP – “The Fleshland”) (Relapse)
Leftside – “Monkey Biznizz” (Download single) (Keepleft)
Chuck Berry – “Too Much Monkey Business” (LP – “After School Session”) (Chess)
Chuck Upbeat – “Cicadas Dance” (v/a LP – “Funk Globo: The Sound Of New Baile”) (Mr Bongo)
Cat Party – “Still Life” (LP – “Cat Party”) (catpartymusic.bandcamp.com/album/cat-party)
Andy Kaufman – “Sleep Comedy” (LP – “Andy and His Grandmother”) (Drag City)
Walls – “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love” (12″) (Ecstatic)
The Deviants – “Let’s Loot the Supermarket” (LP – “Disposable”) (Stable)
Cat Party – “The Aftertaste” (LP – “Cat Party”) (catpartymusic.bandcamp.com/album/cat-party)
Break – “Steam Train” (12″) (Symmetry)

This week’s programme featured a multitude of tracks from a man described as “The New God” in 2004 by the current holder of that title, the late great John Robert Parker Ravenscroft. Eight tracks in total from his new LP “Magical Sound Shower” in a row which meant acres of superlative tuneage and very little banal DJ banter from me.

Cornel Campbell and Soothsayers – “We Want To Be Free” (LP – “Nothing Can Stop Us”) (Strut)
Dethscalator – “Grotto Crank” (LP – “Racial Golf Course, No Bitches”) (Self Released)
Sid Hemphill – “Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy” (LP – “The Devil’s Dream- Alan Lomax 1942 Library of Congress Recordings”) (Global Jukebox)
Neil Young and Crazy Horse – “Thrasher” (LP – “Rust Never Sleeps”) (Reprise)
Sun Araw – “Thrasher” (split 12′ with Ralph White) (Monofonous Press)
Grandmaster Gareth – “Music On Planet Earth Is Dead” (LP – “Magical Sound Shower”) (GM Sounds)
Grandmaster Gareth – “I Am Garzuvius” (LP – “Magical Sound Shower”) (GM Sounds)
Grandmaster Gareth – “A Glitch In Time” (LP – “Magical Sound Shower”) (GM Sounds)
Grandmaster Gareth – “The Horder Of Moments” (LP – “Magical Sound Shower”) (GM Sounds)
Grandmaster Gareth – “Magical Cuts” (LP – “Magical Sound Shower”) (GM Sounds)
Grandmaster Gareth – “Don’t Grumble Under Pressure” (LP – “Magical Sound Shower”) (GM Sounds)
Grandmaster Gareth – “The Bigger The Bass Line/The Bigger The Waist Line” (LP – “Magical Sound Shower”) (GM Sounds)
Grandmaster Gareth – “Thousands Of Years Of Progress” (LP – “Magical Sound Shower”) (GM Sounds)
Inspiral Carpets – “Keep The Circle Around” (5CD Box Set – “Scared To Get Happy – A Story Of Indie Pop 1980-1989”) (Cherry Red)
Sleeper – “Systema” (12″) (Chestplate)
Julianna Barwick – “Forever” (LP – “Nepenthe”) (Dead Oceans)

Now that the victorious Englishman Andy Murphy has packed away his tennis bat, our thoughts turn naturally to astoundingly talented guitarists from Portland, Oregon.  Six tracks from Marisa Anderson’s LP Mercury graced the programme this week alongside some scary posh kids.

Carl Orf and The Chorus of The Children’s Opera – “Oliver Cromwell” (LP – “Music For Children”) (Trunk)
Bloc Party – “Ratchet” (EP – “The Nextwave Sessions”) (Frenchkiss)
Inspirational Sound – “Warning Dub” (EP – “Warning/Sing Jah Praise”) (inspirationalsound.bandcamp.com)
Fuck Buttons – “Princes Prize” (LP – “Slow Focus”) (ATP Recordings)
Marisa Anderson – “Down Off The Mountain” (LP – “Mercury”) (Mississippi)
Marisa Anderson – “Old Names” (LP – “Mercury”) (Mississippi)
Satanicpornocultshop – “Rock” (EP – “Clover”) (satanicpornocultshop.bandcamp.com)
Cars Can Be Blue – “Lie” (download “Indietracks Compilation 2013”) (indietracks.bandcamp.com)
The Wolfhounds – “Cut The Cake” (5CD Box Set – “Scared To Get Happy – A Story Of Indie-Pop 1980-1989”) (Cherry Red)
Cornell Campbell – “Weed Out Vampire” (LP – “New Scroll”) (Zion High)
Marisa Anderson – “Mesquite Shake” (LP – “Mercury”) (Mississippi)
Marisa Anderson – “Happy Camp” (LP – “Mercury”) (Mississippi)
Rawtekk – “Photone Recruits” (LP – “Sprouted and Formed”) (Med School)
Fluorescent Tiger – “Nothing But Blue Skies From Here On Out, Nothing But Blue Skies” – (EP – “Under The Wildflowers – A Lamppost Records Sampler) (Lamppost)
Stimming – “Third of June” (LP – “Stimming”) (Diynamic)
Charlie Kunz and his Casani Club Orchestra – “On the Night of Third of June” (LP – Charlie Kunz 1934-1937) (Music and Memories)
Marisa Anderson – “Colfax” (LP – “Mercury”) (Mississippi)
Marisa Anderson – “Red Sky” (LP – “Mercury”) (Mississippi)
Eccentronic Research Council – “When You Are Woozy, Mind Your Language, Cutie) (EP – ” Bun Fight in the Open University Staff Room”) (eccentronicresearchcouncil.bandcamp.com)