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Eclectic Mainline 26th June 2013

I played 3 tracks by Data 70 in tonight’s show, from the new CD Space Loops: The Complete Sessions. By coincidence, Data 70 have put a few tracks on Soundcloud in threes.  One of this 3, is one of the 3 I played tonight (am I making sense?):

Also in tonight’s show was this by Deerhunter, who curated the wonderful ATP Festival last weekend:

… and this by Magic Panda:

Here is the show’s full playlist:

Thundercat – ‘Heartbreaks + Setbacks’ (LP – Apocalypse) (Brainfeeder)
Deerhunter – ‘Monomania’ (LP – Monomania) (4AD)
Frank Bretschneider – ‘Super.Trigger’ (LP – Super.Trigger) (Raster Noton)
Robert Pollard – ‘It Disappears In The Least Likely Hands (We May Never Not Know)’ (LP – Honey Locust Honky Tonk) (Fire)
Camera Obscura – ‘Desire Lines’ (LP – Desire Lines) (4AD)
Data 70 – ‘Departure’ (LP – Space Loops: The Complete Sessions) (Enraptured)
COH – ‘Disco Discrete’ (LP – RETRO-2038) (Editions Mego)
The National – ‘Sea Of Love’ (LP – Trouble Will Find Me) (4AD)
Lord Tang – ‘Blue Sunshine’ (2xCD – 70 Years Of Sunshine) (Monotype)
Ceremonial Dagger – ‘Synesthesia’ (2xCD – 70 Years Of Sunshine) (Monotype)
Data 70 – ‘Biff! Bang! Pow!’ (LP – Space Loops: The Complete Sessions) (Enraptured)
Data 70 – ‘Ice Cubes’ (LP – Space Loops: The Complete Sessions) (Enraptured)
The Elwins – ‘Come On Out’ (LP – And I Thank You) (Affairs Of The Heart)
Magic Panda – ‘Zwolf’ (LP – Temple Of A Thousand Lights) (Tigerbeat6)

Eclectic Mainline 19th June 2013

As regular listeners to Eclectic Mainline will know, I can’t keep up with all the music downloads that get sent my way and far prefer a 5″ shiny disc, or even better a 7″ or 12″ black disc, or…even better…. a 7″ orange disc. Which is precisely what landed in the postpile a couple of weeks ago from Affairs Of The Heart Records, the new single by The Elwins:

The Elwins - Forgetful Assistance 7" orange vinyl

That’s how it looks, and this is how it sounds. (Affairs Of The Heart have chosen not to enable embedding of the song, so you will have to click through to hear it I’m afraid).

Also in the show tonight was this by COH:

…and two songs from the 2012 Guided By Voices album Class Clown Spots a UFO, including this one:

You will find the full show available to listen again on this page.  Here is the playlist:

Guided By Voices – ‘Chain to the Moon’ (LP – Class Clown Spots a UFO) (Fire)
COH – ‘Aniki’ (LP – RETRO-2038) (Editions Mego)
Camera Obscura – ‘Every Weekday’ (LP – Desire Lines) (4AD)
Thundercat – ‘A Message For Austin / Praise The Lord / Enter The Void’ (LP – Apocalypse) (Brainfeeder)
Alela Diane – ‘About Farewell’ (single) (Believe)
Eat Lights Become Lights – ‘Modular Living’ (LP – Modular Living) (Rocket Girl)
Happy Families – ‘New Forgetting’ (single) (Sonic Cathedral)
Beans On Toast – ‘Bear and a Burger’ (single and LP – Fishing For A Thank You) (Xtra Mile)
The Elwins – ‘Forgetful Assistance’ (single) (Affairs Of The Heart)
Nancy Elizabeth – ‘Simon Says Dance (Matthew Bourne remix)’ (single) (The Leaf Label)
Landshapes – ‘In Limbo’ (single) (Bella Union)
Frank Bretschneider – ‘Big Hopes’ (LP – Super.Trigger) (Raster Noton)
Big Deal – ‘Dream Machines’ (single and LP – June Gloom) (Mute)
Guided By Voices – ‘All Of This Will Go’ (LP – Class Clown Spots a UFO) (Fire)
Robyn Hitchcock – ‘End Of Time (Re-mix)’ (single) (Yep Roc)

Eclectic Mainline 12th June 2013

New music in this week’s show from The Growlers:

…Robert Pollard:

…and Greg Haines:

The full show is available on today’s BCB Listen Again page. Here is the playlist:

The Growlers – ‘Someday’ (LP – Hung At Heart) (Fat Cat)
Small Black – ‘No Stranger’ (single) (Jagjaguwar)
Anna Von Hausswolf – ‘Mountain Crave’ (single) (City Slang)
Ravi Shardja – ‘Attaque sournoise du Kopassus à Wamena’ (LP – Grün ist Grau) (Grautag)
Iceage – ‘Wounded Hearts’ (single) (Matador)
Vampire Weekend – ‘Step’ (LP – Modern Vampires Of The City) (XL)
Fela Kuti – ‘Zombie’ (LP – Zombie) (Knitting Factory)
Kid A – ‘BB Bleu (Daedelus remix)’ (single) (Technicolour)
Liars – ‘I Saw You From The Lifeboat’ (free download from liarsliarsliars.com)
Nancy Elizabeth – ‘The Last Battle’ (LP – Dancing) (The Leaf Label)
Robert Pollard -‘I Killed A Man Who Looks Like You’ (single) (Fire) (this week’s Brief Candle)
Low – ‘Plastic Cup’ (LP – The Invisible Way) (Sub Pop)
Greg Haines – ‘Habenero’ (LP – Where We Were) (Denovali)

Eclectic Mainline 29th May 2013

New music in tonight’s show included Alessi’s Ark covering The National:

…Jamie Isaac:

…Alphabetical Order Orchestra:

…Koreless:

…and  Camera Obscura:

The full show is available on the BCB Listen Again page for 29th May. Here is the full playlist:

Wolf People – ‘Empty Vessels’ (single and LP – Fain) (Dead Oceans)
Jamie Isaac – ‘Softly Draining Seas’ (single) (House Anxiety)
Tweens – ‘Rattle&Rollin’ (demo) (Fat Cat)
Camera Obscura – ‘Do It Again’ (single and LP – Desire Lines) (4AD)
Raffertie – ‘Trust (feat. YADi) (b-side to ‘Build Me Up’ single) (Ninja Tune)
Alphabetical Order Orchestra – ‘The Architect’ (unreleased)
She & Him – ‘I Could’ve Been Your Girl’ (LP – Volume 3) (Double Six)
Koreless – ‘Last Remnants’ (Yugen EP) (Young Turks)
Phosphorescent – ‘Ride On / Right On’ (LP – Muchacho) (Dead Oceans)
Teleman – ‘Steam Train Girl’ (single) (Encona)
Alessi’s Ark – ‘Afraid Of Everyone’ (LP – The Still Life) (Bella Union)
The National – ‘Pink Rabbits’ (LP – Trouble Will Find Me) (4AD)
Boats – ‘Great Skulls’ (single) (Kill Rock Stars)
Honeyslide – ‘Deep Architecture’ (double a-side single with ‘Drippin”) (Critical Heights)
The Travelling Band – ‘Hands Up (acoustic version)’ (single)

Eclectic Mainline 22nd May 2013

New music floating my boat this week includes Electric Ills:

…Cindytalk:

…Steve Mason:

…Guided By Voices:

…and Happy Walter Jr:

If you wish to listen back to this week’s Eclectic Mainline in full, you’ll find it on the BCB Listen Again service. Here is the full playlist: Continue reading →

Eclectic Mainline 15th May 2013

One of the most interesting albums I have heard this year is Voices by Kink Gong on Descrepant Reocords.  The album is based on location recordings Laurent Jeanneau made in South East Asia.  Laurent has manipulated the recordings, but with reverence to the original performers, and the end result is rather marvellous.  As I first listened, and read about the project, I thought of the field recordings I made during my own travels in South East Asia.  I keep thinking that I should do something with these recordings, at the very least put them online for people to hear.  Hearing Voices may just be the inspiration I need to finally do this.  Have a listen to the hypnotic, captivating opening track from Voices here:

I played that in my show on BCB this week, as I did this by Deco Child:

If you care to listen back to the show, you will find it on today’s BCB Listen Again page. Here’s the full playlist:

Still Corners – ‘Midnight Drive’ (LP – Strange Pleasures) (Sub Pop)
Lord Tang – ‘Fog’ (LP – Lord Tang) (Alarm)
The Electric Soft Parade – ‘Brother, You Must Walk Your Path Alone’ (single) (Helium)
Scout Niblett – ‘No Scrubs’ (LP – It’s Up To Emma) (Drag City)
Jon Hopkins – ‘Open Eye Signal’ (single) (Domino)
King Gong – ‘Baozoo Khen’ (LP – Voices) (Discrepant)
Alessi’s Ark – ‘Tin Smithing’ (LP – The Still Life) (Bella Union) (this week’s Brief Candle)
Balthazar – ‘Sinking Ship’ (single) (Play It Again Sam)
Lloyd James Fay – ‘From The Eyewall’ (single and LP – The Black River Chronicles) (Platform)
Betacicadae – ‘jjjjj’ (LP – Mouna) (Elagua)
Deco Child – ‘Skinless (Part One)’ (single) (Ninja Tune)
She & Him – ‘Never Wanted Your Love’ (single) (Double Six)
Neil Halstead – ‘Spin The Bottle (Alt. Version)’ (single) (Sonic Cathedral)

Eclectic Mainline 8th May 2013

John Grant is playing not once, but twice in Leeds this Saturday. In the afternoon he is doing an instore at Jumbo Records, and then he’ll be at Leeds Met in the evening. If you are in reach of Leeds you really should think about going to one, if not both.

And here’s a Letherette a tune from the self-titled album that I played in my show last night:

If you listen back to the whole show, you will hear these tunes: Continue reading →

Eclectic Mainline 24th April 2013

One of the (numerous) highlights of this year’s Bradford International Film Festival was Adam Buxton’s Best of BUG show.  In the Pictureville cinema he screened videos of several tunes that I have heard, and that I like, but have never seen. I don’t always get to see videos so it was a real eye-opener to see what amazing pieces of art have been created in the name of a music video recently, such as these by Shogu Tokumaru,  Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Bonobo.

Adam didn’t discuss the evolution of the music video, which I thought he might.  I find it interesting how we have moved beyond the MTV era and are now in the YouTube era whereby, to the best of my knowledge, most music video consumption is now online.   Gone are the days when I used to eagerly await The Chart Show once every 3rd Saturday morning on ITV to see if I might get to see a video by one of my favourite bands in the show’s Indie Top 10.

Anyway, moving seamlessly on from Adam’s BIFF show, the video for the next Bonobo single is also rather satisfying:

Other tunes I played in this week’s show include the new single by Marnie Stern:

..this from the new Locust album:

https://soundcloud.com/mark-van-hoen/07-oh-yeah

…and the new Bleached single:

If you wish to listen back to the show, you’ll find it on the BCB Listen Again service (look for the 8pm show).  This is the full playlist:

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Eclectic Mainline 17th April 2013 – Record Store Day preview

Record Store Day 2013This Saturday is Record Store Day.  Each year when I preview this event in my BCB show I notice the list of special, very limited, releases grow and grow.  Apparently this year there are 500 such releases.   Now, I love Record Store Day, and what it does for independent record shops.  However, I think there is a real danger that these limited edition releases may be starting to overshadow to real purpose of Record Store Day, and there are record shop owners who share my oncerns.   It is not Limited Edition Day, or Record Label Day.  The clue is in the title.   It is about the record shops.

This is why I think what shops like Jumbo Records in Leeds are doing is the right way to approach the day.  They have lined up a fabulous set of of instore performances throughout the day.  So, whether or not there is a limited release you want (and whether or not you get there in time for there to be any left) you can enjoy some wonderful music, have a browse round the shop, and acquaint yourself with the staff.  Last year a couple of young girls who are special to me saw The Staves at Jumbo, instantly became fans of the band, and want to go back to Jumbo again for Record Store Day this year.  The array of limited edition releases didn’t really matter to those little girls, but Record Store Day has done its job in drawing them into an independent record shop.  I for one hope that relationship lasts many years for them.  Their lives will be all the richer for it.

In my show this week you can hear Adam of Jumbo Records talking about what this day means to their shop.  If I were to make one recommendation, it would be that you are at Jumbo in the afternoon to see James Yorkston.  He came into BCB a few years ago to record one of my favourite sessions we’ve had.  Listen to the show here, and this is what you will hear:

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