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Eclectic Mainline 16th January 2013

I played a few things tonight that I hadn’t had chance to listen to before the show.  One was this by Kangding Ray:

Also in tonight’s show was the new single by Doldrums:

And the new Foxygen single:

If you wish to listen to the show at your leisure, you will find it on today’s page of the BCB Listen Again service.  This is what I played:

Lord Huron – “The Man Who Lives Forever” (LP – “Lonesome Dreams”) (Play It Again Sam)
Former Utopia – “Schism” (“Colapsar E.P.”) (Damnably)
Darkstar – “Amplified Ease” (single) (Warp)
Dutch Uncles – “Flexxin” (single) (Memphis Industries)
Kanding Ray – “North” (12″ – “The Pentaki Slopes”) (Raster Noton)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – “Jubilee Street” (LP – “Push The Sky Away”) (Nick Cave Ltd)
Gallops – “Jeff Leopard” (single)
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba – “Djadje” (LP – “Jama ko”) (Out Here)
They Might Be Giants – “Spine”
Seasfire – “Falling” (single) (Too Pure Singles Club)
Serafina Steer – “Island Odessey” (single and LP – “The Moths Are Real”) (Moshi Moshi)
Mr Vast – “In Terms Of Ease And Speed” (“LP – “Grievous Bodily Charm”) (Spezialmaterial)
Doldrums – “Anomaly” (single)
Harper Simon – “Bonnie Brae” (single) (Play It Again Sam)
Foxygen – “San Fransisco” (single) (Jagjaguwar)

Eclectic Mainline 9th January 2013

Over the festive season I finally got round to watching something that has been patiently waiting my attention for several months. That is the Faraway Close DVD that comes with Parallel 41, the 2012 album by Barbara De Dominicis and Julia Kent.  Watch the trailer here:

If you are inclined to do so you can stream the whole show.  This is what I played:

Wave Machines – “Home” (LP – “Pollen”) (Neapolitan)
Steve Mason – “Fight Them Back” (LP – “Monkey Minds In The Devil’s Time”) (Double Six)
Julia Holter – “Marienbad” (LP – “Ekstasis”) (Domino)
Roots Manuva – “Banana Skank (WAFA Remix)” (“Banana Skank EP”) (Big Dada)
Woody Guthrie – “Do-Re-Mi”
Cave Painting – “Leaf” (single and LP – “Votive Life”) (Third Rock)
Former Utopia – “A Love Like Infinity” (“Colapsar E.P.”) (Damnably)
The Creole Choir Of Cuba – “Tripot” (LP – “Santiman”) (Real World)
Barry Adamson – “If You Love Her” (single and LP – “I Will Set You Free”) (Central Control International)
Ducktails – “Letter Of Intent” (single and LP – “The Flower Lane”) (Domino)
The La’s – “Feelin'” (LP – “The La’s”) (Go! Discs)
Barbara De Dominicis and Julia Kent – “Voiceless Laughter” (CD + DVD – “Parallel41 + Faraway Close”) (Baskaru)

Eclectic Mainline 2nd January 2013

For the same reason that last week’s show was not a special festive edition, this week’s is not a special new year show.  Would you rather I had varied things a bit?  Let me know if so, either in the comments here, or on Twitter.  I just want to get as much new music into my show each week as I possibly can.  I do have one or two ideas for special features, which I might introduce over the next few weeks, but otherwise I will just stick to my “here are some new releases I think you should hear” formula.

If you’ve been listening to this show for a few years, you’ll know I’m a big fan of Max Richter.  Here’s a new tune of his, composed for for Random International’s ‘Rain Room’ at the Barbican Centre, down in that London:

Caitlin Rose, who has a cross-generational appeal in our has, is back too, and here’s her new single:

 

If you are brave enough to listen back to the whole show, be my guest. These are the tunes I played:

PAWS – “Miss American Bookworm” (LP “Cokefloat!”)
Jamie Lidell – “What A Shame” (single and LP – “Jamie Lidell”) (Warp)
Tame Impala – “Mind Mischief” (single and LP – “Lonerism”)
Heathered Pearls – “The Worship Bell” (LP – “Loyal”) (Ghostly International)
Caitlin Rose – “No One To Call” (single)
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba – “Kele magni feat. Khaira Arby” (LP – “Jama ko”) (Out Here)
Flying Lotus – “All In / Getting There” (single) (Warp)
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down – “Holy Roller” (single) (Ribbon)
Max Richter – “Rainlight”
Rachel Zeffira – “To Here Knows When” (LP – “The Deserters”) (RAF)
Electric Ills – “Thanks But No Thanks (Hookworms remix)”
Concrete Knives – “Wallpaper” (single b/w “Greyhound Racing”) (Bella Union)
Mazes – “Bodies”
Euros Childs – “Be Be High” (single) (National Elf)
Yo La Tengo – “Well You Better” (single)
Sum Of R – “Growing Into Something Special” (LP – “Ride Out The Waves”) (Storm As He Walks)

Eclectic Mainline 26th December 2012

No Boxing Day special show for me this year.  This wasn’t for any “bah humbug” reasons, but simply because I still have a backlog of new music that I want to air.  I know that if you want Christmas music, you are clever enough to find ways of hearing it all by yourself.  I don’t mean that you’re too dim-witted to unearth the tunes in my show, I mean….oh, I could get myself into a hole here.  I’ll quit while I’m only marginally behind and just show you what I played…

There is a new single coming out early in the new year by Roots Manuva.  This is certainly cause for excitement.

Roots Manuva – Natural Featuring Kope (Clean Edit) by Big Dada Sound

 

This Hauschka tune has been on my ‘to play’ list for several weeks now, and it is shameful that it has taken me so long, as it’s rather good indeed:

Hauschka – 2AM – patten Remix by Fat Cat Records

 

Vladislav Delay – “Kellute” (LP – “Kuopia”) (Raster Noton)
Joshua James – “Willamette” (LP – “From The Top Of The Willamette Mountain”) (Free The Sun)
Roots Manuva – “Natural ft. Kope” (“Banana Skank EP”) (Big Dada)
Villagers – “Nothing Arrived” (single) (Domino)
Kreidler – “Deadwringer” (LP – “Den”) (Bureau B)
Little Richard – “A Little Bit Of Something (Beats A Whole Lot Of Nothing)” (VA CD – “The Northern Soul Story Vol. 1: The Twisted Wheel”) (Sony BMG)
Ergo Phizmiz – “Bernard and The Genie” (single and LP – “Eleven Songs”) (Care In The Community)
The Creole Choir Of Cuba – “Llegada” (LP – “Santiman”) (Real World)
Concrete Knives – “Greyhound Racing” (single) (Bella Union)
Pinkcourtesyphone – “Sans Motif / Closer To Here Than You Care To Be” (LP – “Elegant and Detatched”) (Room40)
Field Music – “Is This The Music?” (single) (Memphis Industries)
Hauschka – “2AM (Pattern Remix)” (LP – “Salon Des Amateurs Remixes”) (Fat Cat)
Piano Interrupted – “You Don’t Love Me Yet” (LP – “Two By Four”) (Days Of Being Wild)

Listen back to the show if you are so inclined.

Eclectic Mainline 19th December 2012

For a few years now, my dad has been blogging about things that interest him. Recently, he has taken to reading poetry. The first of these efforts to appear on Soundcloud was featured in my show tonight:

 

Now, from parents to children (although not mine) and this tune by Melody’s Echo Chamber, that I also played in tonight’s show:

 

Feel free to listen again to tonight’s show if that is your will.  This is what you would hear:

M83 – “Steve McQueen” (single and LP – “Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming”)
The Raveonettes – “She Owns The Streets” (single)
Moon Duo – “Circles” (single)
Simon12345 & The Lazer Twins – “Make Up Tips” (LP – “If I Stay Here, I’ll Be Alone…”) (Doumen)
Scott & Charlene’s Wedding – “Footscray Station” (single)
Melody’s Echo Chamber – “Be Proud Of Your Kids” (LP – “Melody’s Echo Chamber”) (Weird World)
Christopher Owens – “Here We Go” (single)
The Walkmen – “Heaven” (single) (Bella Union)
Peter Household – “The Collar” by George Herbert (poetry reading) (free download from )
She & Him – “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” (single) (Double Six)
Crocodiles – “Bubblegum Trash” (single)
Ulrich Troyer meets Georg Blaschke – “Back From Serbia” (LP – “Somatic Soundtracks”) (4Bit)
Sylvain Chauveau – “Situation Finale” (LP – “Simple”) (Fat Cat)
The Child Of Lov – “Heal” (single) (Double Six)
Neil Halstead – “Tied To You” (single) (Sonic Cathedral)
Some Institute – “M’Ling – Blake’s Last Tape Mix (Dollboy mix) (free download from www.frontandfollow.com) (Front and Follow)

Eclectic Mainline 12th December 2012

I’m starting to feel a little Christmassy now.  As is Neil McSweeney.  He has recorded a couple of festive covers with David J Roch, including this lovely version of John Prine’s Christmas In Prison:

 

Away from the Christmas theme, here’s a gorgeous piece I played tonight by Billow Observatory:

 

If you are keen enough to want to listen back to tonight’s show, you will find it on today’s page of the BCB Listen Again service.  And this, dear listener, is what you would here:

Eugene Carchesio – “Circle Music 5” (LP – “Circle Music”) (Room40)
Dirty Projectors – “About To Die” (single and LP – “Swing Lo Magellan”) (Domino)
The Jim Jones Review – “Where Da Money Go?” (single and LP – “The Savage Heart”) (Play It Again Sam)
Ryan Francesconi and Mirabai Peart – “Parallel Fights” (LP – “Road To Palios”) (Bella Union)
Two Fingers – “Vengence Rhythm” (single) (Big Dada)
Billow Observatory – “Pankalia” (LP – “Billow Observatory”) (Felte)
Neil McSweeney – “Christmas in Prison feat. David J Roch) (free download with gig tickets)
Rachel Zeffira – “Here On In” (single and LP – “The Deserters”) (RAF)
Don Niño – “Beats (Turzi remix)” (single) (InFiné)
The Invisible – “Generational (Theo Parrish edit)” (single) (Ninja Tune)
Julia Holter – “Goddess Eyes I” (single and LP – “Ekstasis”) (Domino)
The Slaves – “Wild Ride” (LP – “Ocean On Ocean”) (The Helen Scarsdale Agency)

Eclectic Mainline 5th December 2012

The Julia Holter album, Ekstasis, which was released this week on Domino Records, includes this beauty, which I have sung along with and jigged to in the kitchen (take my word for it):

Also available this week, now that pre-orders are being taken for the new Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album, is this:

You can listen back to this week’s show if you wish.  This is what I played:

King Creosote – “On The Night Of The Bonfire” (EP – “It Turned Out For The Best”) (Domino)
Wild Nothing – “Only Heather” (single and LP – “Nocturne”) (Bella Union)
Jesse Boyskins III & MeLo-X – (“Schwaza” ft. JoeKenneth) (LP – “Julu Guru”) (Ninja Tune)
Snow Palms – “Snow Light” (LP – “Intervals”) (Village Green)
Yeasayer – “Reagan’s Skeleton” (single and LP – “Fragrant World”) (Mute)
Bee Mask – “Scanops” (LP – “Vaporware / “Scanops”) (Room40)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – “We No Who U R” (LP – “Push The Sky Away”) (Nick Cave Ltd)
Sticky – “Pedal Riddim” (single) (Big Dada)
Julia Holter – “Goddess Eyes II” (single and LP – “Ekstasis”) (Domino)
Elmore James – “Rollin’ & Tumblin'” (MOJO magazine CD December 2012)
Joshua James – “So Did I” (LP – “From The Top Of The Willamette Mountain”) (Free The Sun)
Father John Misty – “Only Son Of The Ladiesman” (single and LP – “Fear Fun”) (Bella Union)
Melody’s Echo Chamber – “I Follow You” (LP – “Melody’s Echo Chamber”) (Weird World)

Eclectic Mainline 28th November 2012

An excellent Roll The Dice / Pole remix 12″ came out last week. I played “The Skull Is Built Into The Version” tonight, and here is another track from it:

 

I also played one of the queerest cover versions I’ve ever heard.  I have Phil Cope to thank for this, seeing as he brought it to my attention when he played it in his show last week.   See what you think of this:

 

Here is where you will find the BCB Listen Again option for tonight’s show. And this is what I played:

Dead Can Dance – “Opium” (single and LP – “Anastasis”) (PIAS)
Tilly and the Wall – “Defenders” (single and LP – “Heavy Mood”) (Team Love)
Dobie – “I-Anomaly” (EP – “…But Fear Itself”) (Big Dada)
James Yorkston – “Just As Scared” (single and LP – “I Was A Cat From A Book”) (Domino)
Dinosaur Jr. – “Piercing The Morning Rain” (single and LP – “I Bet On Sky”) (Play It Again Sam)
Jamie Lidell – “What A Shame” (single and LP – “Jamie Lidell”) (Warp)
The Cryin’ Shames – “Please Stay” (single) (Decca)
Beach House – “Wild” (single and LP – “Bloom”) (Bella Union)
Cheval Sombre – “Someplace Else” (single and LP – “Mad Love”) (Sonic Cathedral)
Chapterhouse – “Pearl” (single and LP – “Whirlpool”) (Dedicated)
Roll The Dice meets Pole – “The Skull Is Built Into The Version” (12″ – “In Dubs”) (Leaf)
DJ T Ty featuring Sarah – “You Are The One That I Want” (self-released download)

Eclectic Mainline 21st November 2012

Do our brains act like virtual jukeboxes, storing a copy of every song we have ever enjoyed, and calling up any given song when prompted to do so by an outside stimulus? I ask this because every once in a while a song will end up going round in my head simply because somebody has said something that brings to mind its lyrics, or a conversation reminds me of a specific event that my brain links to a given piece of music.

This happened to me last week. I was speaking to a good friend about some of our favourite music from 20 years ago.  The next day when I awoke, ‘Fishes Eyes‘ by New Fast Automatic Daffodils was in my head, and there it stayed for several hours.  Despite not having heard it for several years, my brain was giving a pretty faithful rendition, and it sounded very much like this:

How this happens, I would love to know.  If anybody wants to sponsor me to write a book on the topic, I would certainly take up the challenge.

Anyway, as a result I decided to play a bit of New FADS in tonight’s show.  I also played this excellent Four Tet and Burial collaboration, that I picked on on 12″ at Jumbo Records earlier this year:

Another tune I played tonight was this from the Snow Palms album:

If you have a desire to listen back to the full show, you will find it on the BCB Listen Again site.  These are the tunes I played: Continue reading →

Eclectic Mainline 14th November 2012

The new Efterklang album is a thing of carefully constructed beauty.  To get a glimpse of the lengths the band went to to get the right sounds they wanted, watch this:

If you are inclined to listen back to tonight’s show, you’ll find it somewhere on this page.  Here is what I played:

Efterklang – “The Ghost” (LP – “Piramida”) (4AD)
Pulled Apart By Horses – “Epic Myth”
Offshore – “Slip” (LP – “Bake Haus”) (Big Dada)
Serafina Steer – “Night Before Mutiny”
Clinic – “Miss You” (single and LP – “Free Reign”) (Domino)
Tindersticks – “This Fire Of Autumn” (single and LP – “The Something Rain”) (Lucky Dog)
Emanuele De Raymondi – “BV_3” (LP – “Buyukberber Variations”) (ZerOKilled Music)
Chains Of Love – “He’s Leaving (With Me)” (single)
Hope & Social – “Shake Your Gimli” (LP – “All Our Dancing Days”)
Pianonegro – “La Cascada” (2CD – “Diablos Del Ritmo – The Colombian Melting Pot 1960 – 1965”) (Analog Africa)
Locrian & Christoph Heemann – “Loath The Light” (LP – “S/T”) (Handmade Birds)
Poliça – “Form” (single and LP – “Give You The Ghost”) (Memphis Industries)
Annie & Baby Dee – “State Of Grace (w/ Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy)” (LP – “State Of Grace”) (Tin Angel)
Rozi Plain – “See My Boat (Alexis Taylor Remix)” (single) (Fence Records / NeedNoWater Records)