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Eclectic Mainline 6th June 2012

As you may have become aware, I’ve grown particularly fond of drone and ambient music over the past few years. I played the title track from the new En EP this evening. Here are 3 more from it:

En: “Already Gone” by Students of Decay

If you are inclined to listen back to the full show, you’ll find it here.  Here’s what I played:

Slugabed – “Travel Sweets” (LP – “Time Team”) (Ninja Tune)
Herman Dune – “Monument Park” (“Monument Park EP”) (Fortuna Pop!)
En – “Already Gone” (LP – “Already Gone”) (Students Of Decay)
Future Of The Left – “I Am The Least Of Your Problems” (single and LP – “The Plot Against Common Sense”) (Xtra Mile)
Dirty Projectors – “Gun Has No Trigger” (single and LP – “Swing Lo Magellan”) (Domino)
THEESatisfaction – “Deeper” (single and LP – “awE naturalE” (Sub Pop)
MJ Hibbert & The Validators – “The Battle Of Peterborough” (single and LP – “Dinosaur Planet”) (self-released)
El-P – “Drones Over Bklyn” (single and LP – “Cancer For Cure”) (Turnstile)
Shonen Knife – “Pop Tune” (LP – “Pop Tune”) (Damnably)
Heatsick – “Déviation” (12″ – “Déviation”) (PAN)
Liars – “No.1 Against The Rush” (single and LP – “WIXIW”) (Mute)
Dobie – “Hustle With Speed” (EP – “Nothing To Fear”) (Big Dada)
Ben Zabo – “Wari Vo” (LP – “Ben Zabo”) (Glitterhouse)
Grasscut – “Pieces” (single) (Ninja Tune)

Eclectic Mainline – 30th May 2012

I’ll cut to the chase (as I need to get outta here) and show you 3 songs that were in tonight’s show.  Firstly, the gorgeously simple ‘Tallulah’ by Allo Darlin’:
Tallulah by Slumberland Records

Now the spacious ‘Nova Anthem’ by Lower Dens:

And finally, the swarming ‘Locusts’ by Tunabunny:

Tunabunny – Locusts by HHBTM Records

If you are inclined to listen back to the full show, you’ll find it over here.

Here’s a full list of tunes featured in the show:

Graham Coxon – “Running For Your Life” (LP – “A+E”) (EMI)
King Creosote – “Near Star Pole Star” (EP – “I Learned From The Gaels”) (Domino)
Tunabunny – “Locusts” (split single with Shrag) (Fortuna Pop!)
ROM – “Fish Making Food” (LP – “Foot Signal”) (Pingipung)
Shonen Knife – “Psychedelic Life” (LP – “Pop Tune”) (Damnably)
Volcano – “So Many Lemons” (LP – “Piñata”) (Leaf)
Real Estate – “Exactly Nothing” (single) (Domino)
Liars – “No.1 Against The Rush” (single and LP – “WIXIW”) (Mute)
Japandroids – “The House That Heaven Built” (single) (Polyvinyl)
Allo Darlin’ – “Tallulah” (LP – “Europe”) (Fortuna Pop!)
Ben Zabo – “Cinquantenaire” (LP – “Ben Zabo”) (Glitterhouse)
Breton – “Foam” (double A-side single with “Jostle”) (Fat Cat)
Lower Dens – “Alphabet Song” (LP – “Nootropics”) (Ribbon)

Eclectic Mainline 14th March 2012

I’m back! Thanks ever so much to Phil Cope and Patrick Thornton for filling in for me over the past few weeks.  I recommend you listen to their own shows, When Big Joan Sets Up and Selection Box respectively now they have given me back my Eclectic Mainline show.

While I was in Malaysia I recorded a local man playing the nose flute.  Once I’ve got that off minidisc I’ll be playing a bit of that in my show.  He also taught me to play the nose flute too, but I won’t attempt to play it on air.

Anyway, back to the present.  Here’s one of the tunes from tonight’s show:
THEESatisfaction – QueenS by subpop

If you wish to listen back to this episode of Eclectic Mainline, you should find it on this page.

Here is a full list of tunes I played in the show:
Felix Kubin – “Reflection No.6” (LP – “TXRF”) (It’s)
Ellen And The Escapades – “All The Crooked Scenes” (single) (
Ulrich Schnauss & Mark Peters – “The Messia Is Falling” (LP – “Underrated Silence”) (Bureau B)
Those Darlins – “Screws Get Loose” (single and LP – “Screws Get Loose, Screws Get Loose”) (Oh Wow Dang)
Martyn – “Hello Darkness” (single) (Brainfeeder)
Lightships – “Sweetness In Her Spark” (single and LP – “Electric Cables”) (Geographic)
Hooray For Earth – “No Love” (single) (Memphis Industries)
Palace Brothers – “New Partner” (LP – “Viva Last Blues”) (Domino)
THEESatisfaction – “QueenS” (single and LP – “awE naturalE” (Sub Pop)
The Magnetic Fields – “Andrew In Drag” (single and LP – “Love At The Bottom Of The Sea”) (Domino)
Shearwater – “Dread Sovereign” (LP – “Animal Joy”) (Sub Pop)
Anne-James Chaton – “Sul Volo” (7″ single – “Transfer/3”) (Unsounds)
Simone Felice – “You & I Belong” (single and LP – “Simone Felice”) (Reveal)
Robert Turman – “Flux” (LP – “Flux”) (Spectrum Spools)

Eclectic Mainline 7 March 2012

Albert Freeman, yesterday.

And lo, did I feel the bearded hand of Uncle Travelling Albert on my shoulder, informing me that he was returning from his global jaunt and that my stint in the coveted Electic Mainline chair (a decorative castered sedan with attachable caviar tray) was in its last throes.

 

Sadly, due to a misunderstanding between himself and a helmeted law enforcement officer regarding a holed-out turnip, a pair of malfunctioning trousers, a series of primal yelps and the back seat of an omnibus, Phil Cope was unable to co-present with me once more and the show progressed as a Thornton-only concern. Contributions to his bail should be sent in the form of cash directly to me in a brown paper envelope and without out a word to the Inland Revenue.

Still, despite the dearth of Cope’s lovely Pontefract brogue there were plenty of terpsichorean treats to fill the programme. Here be the monikers what be done gone given to them as rudimentary identifiers, and meanwhile I’ll scuttle back off to my Midnight griefhole with a chair made out of razorwire. Thanks for having me.

Eclectic Mainline 7 March 2012 (listen again here)

1. PJ Harvey – On Battleship Hill
from: Let England Shake

2. Meta Marie Louise featuring Max and Momo – Gramma’s Flower Pots
from: Sunny Spots

3. Chairlift – Met Before
from: Something

4. Cavacha Bariba – Adiza Claire
from: Le Super Borgou de Parakou (various artists)

5. Kate Walsh – Le Jardiner
from: The Real Thing

6. Band of Skulls – Bruises
from: Sweet Sour

7. Bonobo featuring Andrea Triana and Dels – Eyesdown
from: Black Sands Remixed

8. Joan As Police Woman – Run For Love
from: The Deep Field

9. Robert Ellis – Comin’ Home
from: Photographs

10. Spoek Mathambo featuring Yolanda – Let Them Talk
from: Father Creeper

11. Erik Friedlander – Tabatha
from: Bonebridge

12. Gang Gang Dance – Chinese High
from: Eye Contact

 

Patrick Thornton presents Selection Box every Monday at Midnight.

Eclectic Mainline 22 February 2012 & 29 February 2012

 

Phil Cope has yet to follow the example of Richard Herring vis-a-vis facial hair.

When Albert Freeman proferred his chair to myself and Phil Cope (one sat on the other’s knee since you ask) he did so with the promise that we would ensure that his commitment to a weekly blog about his show would also follow.  What Albert foolishly failed to check was whether myself and The Mod Oliver Hardy were in fact hiding cross keys behind our backs, which as everyone knows is the legally-binding get-out clause for any promise made publically or privately and is sadly a manouevre often abused at weddings by men intent from the start on being serial adulterers.

 

So, I have welched on this agreement made betwixt Freeman, Hardy & wally and thus have to use one blog entry to catch up on two editions of Eclectic Mainline.  The first saw Cope & I playing catch with such political hot potatoes as Adele’s sac of living tissue in which she nurtures her young Brit Award eggs, the appropraicy of Paul Weller’s tie knot and the manner in which a radio wireless show can disobey the rules of the space/time continuum.  In summary: we titted about again.

Ding dong Dingle, where chair?

Sadly, such titting was reduced to a solo practice for last week’s show and Mod Laurel was forced to go it alone as, due to the constraints of that there time that they have these days, Phil was unable to join me.  You may think that recording an hour of radio together per week is not that restrictive in terms of the ticky tick tock of clocks, but if you are thinking this it just goes to show what a wretched and naive specimen you are.  You are clearly failing to take into account the work that goes into ensuring that our voices are being pushed out of radios, computer speakers, iPods, phones and various other devices accross the World simultaneously.  Everyone says that Father Christmas is amazing for managing to get around every household in the World in a single night once a year, and yet we manage to be inside thousands of radio machines all at the same time, wittering nonsense about hair dos and Cain Dingle off of out of Emmerdale Farm.  You don’t get that without at least half an hour’s preparation time, I’ll tell you now.

Anyway, here’s the track-listing, brought to you via the twin media of the written word and contemporary dance, although only one is visible here:

Jagwar Pirates' Full Total Complete Bronzage

 

Eclectic Mainline 22 February 2012 (listen again here)

1.  Adele / Prophet Arise Riddim – Dubbin In The Deep

from: unreleased

2.  Steinvord – Maelstrom

from: Steinvord

3.  Alex Chilton – Come On Honey

from: Free Again: The “1970” Sessions

4.  Field Music – A Prelude To Pilgrim Street

from: Plumb

5.  Paul Weller – That Dangerous Age

from: Sonic Kicks

6.  New Age Steppers – Conquer

from: Love Forever

7.  Liechtenstein – No Idealists Left

from: Fast Forward

8.  Jagwar Pirates – Rocket Surf

from: Full Total Complete Bronzage

9.  Chairlift – Sidewalk Safari

from: Something

10.  Soap&Skin – Wonder

from: Narrow

11. Twin Sister – Gene Ciampi

from: In Heaven

12.  Tesfay Taye – Selame

from: Ilita!: New Ethiopian Dance Music (various artists)

Those Darlins: what's not to like?

 

Eclectic Mainline 29 February 2012 (listen again here)

1.  Liz Green – Hey Joe

from: O, Devotion!

2.  Afro Beat Bariba – Abakpe

from: Le Super Borgou de Parakou (various artists)

3.  Tom Waits – Raised Right Men

from: Bad As Me

4.  Emporium – Mindbender

from: Another Planet: The Best of Emporium

5.  Crybaby – When The Lights Go Out

from: Crybaby

6.  Those Darlins – Your Bro

from: Screws Get Loose

7.  Dave Davies – Do You Wish To Be A Man

from: Hidden Treasures

8.  Amadou & Miriam featuring Santi Gold – Dougou Badia

from: Folia

9.  Leonard Cohen – Amen

from: Old Ideas

10.  Grinderman – Palaces of Montezuma (Barry Adamson Remix)

from: Grinderman 2 RMX

11. Bowerbirds – Death Wish

from: The Clearing

12.  Saint Etienne – Tonight

from: Words & Music

 

Patrick Thornton presents Selection Box every Monday at Midnight

Phil Cope presents When Big Joan Sets Up every Wednesday at Midnight

Eclectic Mainline 15/2/2012: Another Fine Mess You’ve Got Me Into

Your regular EM host Albert Freeman is off for a few weeks on a mission to save stranded vegan wasps from a concentration camp in deepest Antasia, so myself and the venerable Phil Cope – the Mod Laurel & Hardy – are sitting in for a total of four weeks in return for lurid bodily favours which would make a street girl vomit into an ashtray.

I seem to recall an off-air agreement betwixt your hosts that if I did all the technical hoohah this week, Phillip would do the blogging honours. Ah cannae see the relevant entry*, so I’ve done the honours on his behalf and will make sure to smash all the teeth out of his head as a punishment for reneging on such a deal. It also gives me carte blanche to shove up these compare & contrast images of the two of us – coincedentally taken entirely independent of each other and without prior knowledge of the existence of either, which Phil hates as he thinks it makes him look like a blind Womble.

* Although, in fairness, I took home the tracklisting which might have made it difficult for him, but I must just smash his teeth out anyway for my own amusement.

Here’s the tunes that we poured onto the airwaves like aural soup into your listening ear bowls:

 

Eclectic Mainline 15 February 2012 (Listen here)

1. Those Darlins – Screws Get Loose
from: Screws Get Loose

2. Lambchop – Gone Tomorrow
from: Mr. M

3. Hookworms – Medicine Cabinet
from: Hookworms EP

4. La Makina Del Karibe – El Maki Man
from: Kosmik Chankleta

5. Cate Le Bon – Falcon Eyed
from: Cyrk

6. Jack White – Machine Gun Silhouette
from: Love Interruption 7″ single

7. EQ Why – Back 2 Dis
from: Let Me See Your Footwork

8. Alabama Shakes – Hold On
from: Boys & Girls

9. Liz Green – Rybka
from: Bad Medicine CD single

10. Metronomy – Corinne
from: The English Riviera

11. Shearwater – Breaking The Waves
from: Animal Joy

12. The Fall – Cosmos 7
from: Ertsatz GB

13. Ital – Doesn’t Matter (If You Love Him)
from: Hive Mind

 

Patrick Thornton presents Selection Box every Monday at Midnight.

Phil Cope presents When Big Joan Sets Up every Wednesday at Midnight.

Eclectic Mainline 9th November 2011

One of my favourite tunes in tonight’s show was this one by Fujako:
1- FUJAKO Sulphur-Goat (feat. Sensational) by Fujako

If you fancy a week off from listening to Eclectic Mainline next Wednesday, I can recommend you go and see Anna Calvi at The Cockpit in Leeds.

If you wish to listen again to this show, you will find the link on the BCB Listen again page for today.

Loka – “The Sound Stars Make” (LP – “Passing Place”) (Ninja Tune)
Gary War – “Zontag” (single) (Care In The Community)
The Go! Team – “Rolling Blackouts” (single) (Memphis Industries)
Angel – “Dark Matter Leak” (LP – “26000”) (Editions Mego)
Billy Bragg – “Constitution Hill” (LP – “Fight Songs”) (Bragg Central)
Simian Ghost – “Bicycle Theme” (single) (Heist)
The Twilight Sad – “Sick” (single) (Fat Cat)
Fujako – “Sulfur Goat w/ Sensational” (LP – “Landform”) (Angstrom)
Mint Julep – “Why Don’t We” (single) (Village Green)
Mickey Moonlight – “A Big Ship Passing” (LP – “And The Time Axis Manipulation Corporation”) (Because)
Gruff Rhys – “Space Dust #2” (double a-side single with “Whale Trail”) (OVNI/Turnstile)
Group Niob – “Nexus” (“Nexus EP”) (Phlox)
Hanni El Khatib – “Dead Wrong” (single and LP -“Will The Guns Come Out”) (Innovative Leisure)
Nettle – “Khalid’s Song” (LP – “El Resplandor: The Shining In Dubai”) (Sub Rosa)
Anna Calvi – “Suzanne & I” (LP – “Anna Calvi”) (Domino)

Eclectic Mainline – 18th May 2011

Here’s the exquisitely sad video to the brilliant Low tune I played tonight, taken from their marvellous new album, C’mon.

Before my list of tonight’s tunes, an adendum.  I seem to have neglected to mention in my playlist of 2 weeks ago that I played something by Mark McGuire.  Do I go back and edit said playlist or mention it today?  I’ll do the latter.  I played “Slipstreams” by him 2 weeks ago, and another tune from the same album tonight.  Here’s the *full* list of tonight’s tunes: Continue reading →

Selection Box Shows 161, 162 & 172

Yes, yes, I know that this new numbering system is not sequential. I did go to school, as demonstrated by the fact that words like “sequential” pour out of my fingers without so much as a pause to blow my nose. Simple counting is not something which I find a major problem – though don’t ask me to help with your algebra homework because you’ll be given short shrift. And I’ve forgotten how to do it anyway (though from memory, I recall it was surprisingly easy).

Time, however, is something I seem to have appalling problems with, and once again the weeks have slipped past and I am even further behind than I was previously. Luckily, the teething troubles that have been preventing Selection Box from appearing on BCB’s new Listen Again feature now appear to be ironed out, and you can now listen to this week’s show again here. A pincer movement from either end will therefore help us to get back up to date, so here’s two shows as yet uploaded to the blog brought to you by the loveliness of Soundcloud, starting with a seasonal “treat” from December which also features that there Albert Freeman. Merry Christmas.

Selection Box Show 161 by PatrickSelection_Box

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Eclectic Mainline 1st and 8th December 2010

Due to being rather poorly last week, I didn’t get out in the snow.  I also, therefore, didn’t get to do my show live on Wednesday.  A pre-record that was in the bag just for such an occasion, was broadcast.  I listened from home, and rather enjoyed it actually, so I should stay in and listen to myself more often, rather than do my show…

Here’s what I listened to last Wednesday night:

Peter Broderick – “Games” (LP – “Home”) (Bella Union)
Battles – “Atlas” (LP – “Mirrored”) (Warp)
James Yorkston – “5 a.m.” (BCB session)
Teenage Fanclub – “It’s All In My Mind” (LP – “Manmade”) (Pema)
Slow Club – “When I Go” (BCB session)
The Knife – “Heartbeats (live)”
Camera Obscura – “French Navy” (LP – “My Maudlin Career”) (4AD)
Half Man Half Biscuit – “Irk The Purists” (LP – “Trouble Over Bridgewater”) (Probe Plus)
Frightened Rabbit – “Fast Blood” (BCB session)
The Low Lows – “Five Ways I Didn’t Die” (BCB session)
Brakes – “Consumer, Producer, A Chicken Or An Egg” (BCB session)
Boards Of Canada – “Roygbiv” (LP – “Music Has The Right To Children”) (Warp)
Neil McSweeney – “Remember To Smile” (BCB session)
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – “Emily Jean Stock” (LP – “Some Loud Thunder”) (Wichita)
Micah P. Hinson – “Beneath The Rose” (BCB session)
Fleet Foxes – “Your Protector” (LP – “Fleet Foxes”) (Bella Union)
Nina Nastasia – “Stormy Weather” (BCB session)
The Broken Family Band – “Give And Take” (BCB session)
Trashcan Sinatras – “Weightlifting” (LP – “Weightlifting”) (Spin Art Records)

Now, back to (almost) full health, I was back in BCB to do my show tonight, and was therefore unable to listen.  Which is a shame, because I think I would have enjoyed what I played, had I been able to tune in.  If you did so, below is a list of what you will have heard.  Did you enjoy it?

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