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Eclectic Mainline 27th January 2010

Last night I included in my show something from the best album I didn’t hear in 2009 – a marvellous reswizzle of Pet Sounds by Bullion.

Here’s the full list for what I played in the show:

Lightspeed Champion – Concerto .2 “So Long! So Long!”
Broken Bells – The High Road
Oh No Ono – Helplessly Young
Liars – Scarecrow On A Killer Slant
Laura Veirs – Carol Kaye
Bullion – You Still Believe In Dee (from Pet Sounds: In The Key Of Dee)
The Soft Pack – Answer To Yourself (from Rough Trade Shops Counter Culture 09)
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – Memory (from The Road OST)
Magnetic Fields – I Don’t Know What To Say
Vampire Weekend – Horchata
Death Vessel – Deep In The Horchata
Midlake – Acts Of Man
Tunng – Hustle
Beach House – Used To Be
Charlie Alex March – Snow Feet
Per Olund Band – The Crippled Court Jester ( from Bearsuit Records compilation – Captain Woof Woof’s Guitar)

Eclectic Mainline 6th January 2010

Yes, I know, I’m dead late with this one. So late in fact that as I write it’s less than 3 hours til this week’s show! In which, dear reader/listener, you can win the fantastic Rough Trade Shops Indie Pop 09 compilation.

Anyway, that’s the future, and this is the past:

Charlotte Gainsbough feat. Beck – Heaven Can Wait
Good Shoes – Under Control
Lou Rhodes – There for the taking
Nice Nice – See Waves
Yeasayer – Ambling Alps
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – The Journey (The Road OST)
Beach House – Norway
Tamikrest – Tamiditin
The Notwist – Boneless (Grizzly Bear remix)
Aphex Twin – Acrid Avid Jam Shred
Iron And Wine – Such Great Heights
Mus̩e M̩caniques РLike Home
White Rabbits – Percussion Gun
Low – Taking Down The Tree
Lawrence Arabia – Dream Teacher

Eclectic Mainline 30th December 2009

So, dear listeners, it is now 2010, and it seems awfully old fashioned of me to talk about last year, but you see, the thing is, I haven’t yet told you what I played in my last show of the year on 30th December.  This was part of our Warp Records night on BCB, so sandwiched in the middle of my show was a Warp20 (Minutes) mix of tunes on said record label, celebrating their 20th anniversary.  This is what I played:

APSE – 3.1
Phosphorescent – Can I Sleep In Your Arms
Magnetic Fields – We Are Having A Hootenanny
Fever Ray – If I Had A Heart
Vic Chesnutt – Like A Monkey In A Zoo [RIP Vic Chessnutt]
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Warp20 (Minutes) mix:
Boards Of Canada – In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country
Autechre – Rale
Grizzly Bear – While You Wait For The Others
Aphex Twin – Girl/Boy Song
Gonjasufi – Kowboyz&Indians
Sqarepusher/AFX – Freeman Hardy & Willis Acid
Battles – Atlas
Bibio – Kaini Industries
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Flight Of The Conchords – Hurt Feelings
Big Star – Blue Moon [played because 31st December was indeed a blue moon]
Camera Obscura – French Navy
Antoine Dougb̩ & Orcheste Poly-Rythmo РYa Mi Ton Gbo (Legends Of Benin compilation)

Phil Cope and Laura Rawlings also devoted a third of their shows that night to Warp20 (minutes) mixes.

And, if it doesn’t seem ludicrously old fashioned, I would still like to write a bit of a blog looking back at 2009, so I may yet still do that.

Eclectic Mainline 9th December 2009

I’m still getting over how good Monday’s Battles / Flying Lotus / Nice Nice gig was.  So I played tunes by all of them in last night’s show.  Also featured was Graham Coxon, whose latest album we are giving away this week on BCB.   This is the full list from last night:

Depeche Mode – Come Back (SixToes remix)
I, Ludicrous – We’re The Support Band
Nice Nice – Ark Drum
Cortney Tidwell – Oslo (Hands Off Cuba remix)
Das Wanderlust – Someone to pull crackers with
Metronomy – You Could Easily Have Me
Husky Rescue – First Call (Metsä Kutsuu)
Spiritualized – Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space (new version)
Flying Lotus – GNG BNG Warp20 (Chosen)
Graham Coxon – Perfect Love
Yeasayer – Ambling Alp
Fionn Regan – Protection Racket
Battles – Race:Out – Warp20 (Chosen)
Atlas Sound – Quick Canal

Eclectic Mainline 2nd December 2009


Climate Chains - The Wheels To The Wave

Climate Chains - The Wheels To The Wave

This week finally saw Bradford’s Climate Chains cyclists head off from Bradford (a second branch also set off from Manchester) down to London for The Wave on Saturday. I’ve been involved in the planning since we had the idea about 6 months ago. It’s been a lot of hard work, and late nights in front of a computer for me. And although I’m not cycling all the way with them, I did go with them half way to Sheffield and back on Monday. That’s the furthest I’ve ever cycled in a day, and crikey, my knees didn’t like it. I shall be heading down the London for The Wave on the train on Saturday. Fingers crossed there are enough of us to effect a change, to halt the change. You can monitor progress of the cyclists on their blog, and on Twitter:

climatechains.blogspot.com
twitter.com/climatechains

Here’s what I played last night, finishing on a tune for the Climate Chains cyclists:

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Eclectic Mainline 18th November 2009

I must say, that Jon Hopkins collaboration with Tunng and some ping pong balls is pretty fine.  I think this was one of my favourite shows for quite a while.  This is what I played:

James Yorkston & The Big Eyes Family Players – Mary Connaught & James O’Donnell
Polly Scattergood – Unforgiving Arms
The Explorer’s Collective – Bangers and Mash
Frightened Rabbit – Swim Until You Can’t See Land
Darren Hayman & The Secondary Modern – Out Of My League
Jon Hopkins (with Tunng) – Seven Gulps Of Air
Hope Sandoval & The Warm Interventions – Wild Roses
Good Shoes – Under Control
Emily Loizeau – Sister
Andrew Bird – Effigy
Betty & The Werewolves – David Cassidy (from Rough Trade Shops Indiepop 09 compilation)
David Cronenberg’s Wife – Desperate Little Man
Sparrow And The Workshop – Swam Like Sharks
Brakes – Worry about it Later
Laura Gibson – Sweet Deception

And don’t forget, this week you can win the new album by Andrew Bird here on BCB.

Eclectic Mainline 11th November 2009

It’s not every day that I get to announce a piece of music called Coral Larvae – Arabesque for Flatworms but today I had that pleasure.   Forgive my brevity, but this is the full list of last night’s show:

Trashcan Sinatras – People
We Fell To Eearth – Deaf
Alela Diane – Tatted Lace
Soulsavers – Unbalanced Pieces
Animal Collective – Brother Sport
Brakes – Worry about it later
Internet Forever – Cover The Walls
Life On Earth BBC TV series – Coral Larvae – Arabesque for Flatworms
Japandroids – Young Hearts Spark Fire
Charlotte Gainsbourg – IRM
Grizzly Bear – Fix It
Archie Bronson Outfit – Rituals
The Antlers – Two
Fool’s Gold – Surprise Hotel