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Eclectic Mainline 8th August 2012

I’ve been surprised recently by how sophisticated computer game music has become. I used to love the Sonic The Hedgehog music, but it seems rather crude by current standards. The HEALTH soundtrack to Max Payne 3 for instance, is extremely cinematic. But then, I suppose the games themselves have become rather cinematic. I started tonight’s show with another new tune from a game soundtrack. This was is by DVA, and is from the game Botanicula.

08 DVA  – Level 3 by DVA

The rest of the show, which you can hear again, went like this:

DVA – “Level 3” (LP – “Botanicular Soundtrack”) (Amanita Design / Bumbumsatori)
Spiritualized – “Little Girl” (single and LP – “Sweet Heart Sweet Light”) (Double Six)
Jim Coleman – “Another Place” (LP – “Trees”) (Wax & Wane)
Correatown – “Valparaiso” (LP – “Pleiades”) (Highline)
Animal Collective – “Today’s Supernatural” (single and LP – “Centipede Hz”) (Domino)
Kiko C. Esseiva – “Epigraphe Et Ouverture” (LP – “Drôles D’Oiseaux”) (Hinterzimmer)
Frank Turner – “If I Ever Stray” (single and LP – “England Keep My Bones”) (Xtra Mile)
How To Dress Well – “Cold Nites” (single and LP – “Total Loss”) (Weird World)
Cate Le Bon – “January” (EP – “CYRK II”) (OVNI/Turnstile)
White Rabbits – “I’m Not Me” (single and LP – “Milk Famous”) (Mute)
Falty DL – “Our House Stab” (b-side to “Hardcourage” single) (Nina Tune)
Dinosaur Jr. – “Watch The Corners” (single and LP – “I Bet On Sky”) (PIAS)
Gary War – “Thousand Yard Stare” (LP – “Jared’s Lot”) (Spectrum Spools)

Eclectic Mainline – 18th July 2012

As I prepared a couple of tunes to play you here on the blog, I thought to myself, “Haven’t I included this new Frankie Rose single on the BCB Music Blog before?” And the answer, it turns out, is yes I have, back in February. It’s a cracking tune though, so I don’t begrudge it being re-released.

Frankie Rose – Know Me by Slumberland Records

Frankie isn’t the only great artist on the Memphis Industries roster to have been played in tonight’s show. I also played this, the new single by Hooray For Earth:

HOORAY FOR EARTH – True Loves by Pias France

If you wish to listen back to the entire show, you’ll find it somewhere on this page of the BCB Listen Again service.  This is what I played:

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Eclectic Mainline 4th July 2012

What do you reckon to the new James Yorkston single?  It’s a bit alright, ain’t it?

James Yorkston – Border Song by Domino Record Co

This Wussy tune is pretty good too:

I’d like to be able to show you some more tunes from tonight’s show, as there were some (in the eyes of this writer) real gems. But I can’t find the tunes by Lorn, Jeremiah Jae or Evans The Death on either Soundcloud or YouTube.  So, you’ll have to take my word for it, or endure my ramblings and listen back to the show.

Here’s what you would hear if you do: Continue reading →

Eclectic Mainline 27th June 2012

When I introduced “Entr’acte” by The Cinematic Orchestra tonight, I apologised in advance for the fact that I would innevitably have to fade it out.  I couldn’t possibly play all 20 minutes of it, could I..? To do so would mean leaving out several other excellent tunes, and how could I possibly justify that?   However, as it played, I felt the opposite, I couldn’t possibly justify fading out something of such beauty.

‘Entr’acte‘, is taken from In Motion #1, the new album curated by The Cinematic Orchestra, and acts as a new soundtrack to René Clair’s 1924 short film of the same name.  Watch it in full here:

And here is something else you should feast your ears on, the tune I opened tonight’s show with, from the new El-P album:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrB2zUB6AiU

Here’s a full list of tonight’s tunes:

27th June:
El-P – “Request Denied” (LP – “Cancer4Cure”) (Turnstile)
Shonen Knife – “Mr. J” (LP – “Pop Tune”) (Damnably)
Slugabed – “Travel Sweets” (LP – “Time Team”) (Ninja Tune)
The Cinematic Orchestra – “Entr’acte” (LP – “In Motion #1”, curated by The Cinematic Orchestra) (Ninja Tune)
Future Of The Left – “Notes On Achieving Orbit” (LP – “The Plot Against Common Sense”) (Xtra Mile)
Fráncois & The Atlas Mountains – “Edge of Town” (single) (Domino)
My Bloody Valentine – “Angel” (LP – “EP’s 1988-1991”) (Sony)
Dobie – “Gillet Sq N16” (EP – “Nothing To Fear”) (Big Dada)
Alt-J – “Taro” (single and LP – “An Awesome Wave”) (Infectious)

Eclectic Mainline 13th June 2012

The Kilo tune I played tonight is from a CD+DVD set where each tune from the album has had a video made for it. I couldn’t find the video for Melody online, which is a shame, as it’s my favourite one. But if you can read German, you can see a still from the video here. In fact, you don’t need to read German to look at a photo do you? Silly me.  Anyway, my second favourite from the package, Masken, I could find, so here it is:

If you wish to listen back to the show, you’ll find it here for a month.  Here’s a list of what you would hear if you did so, or what you did hear if you heard the show tonight:

The Ladybug Transistor – “Light On The Narrow Guage” (LP – “Clutching Stems”) (Fortuna Pop!)

Jammer – “Big Man” (single) (Big Dada)
Blues Control – “Iron Pigs” (LP – “Valley Tangents”) (Drag City)
Peaking Lights – “Lo Hi” (LP – “Lucifer”) (Weird World)
Simon Scott – “_Sealevel.3” (CD – “Below Sea Level”) (12K)
Ergo Phizmiz – “It’s A Sin” (single) (Care In The Community)
Slugabed – “Grandma Paints Nice” (LP – “Time Team”) (Ninja Tune)
Wussy – “Maglite” (CD – “Buckeye”) (Damnably)
Poliça – “Amongster” (LP – “Give You The Ghost”) (Memphis Industries)
KILO – “Melody” (CD + DVD – “The Wildernis”) (Experimentalstudio Brigittenau)
Cinema Red And Blue – “Walkin’ To The Cemetery” (“Butterbean Crypt EP”) (Fortuna Pop!)
Future Of The Left – “I Am The Least Of Your Problems” (single and LP – “The Plot Against Common Sense”) (Xtra Mile)
Dorian Concept & Tom Chant – “Dream Work” (LP – “In Motion #1”, curated by The Cinematic Orchestra) (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 25th April 2012

After last week’s Record Store Day preview show, it was back to business as usual tonight.  I think my personal favourite in tonight’s show was this one by Clark:

This coming Saturday afternoon there is going to be a rather excellent-looking, family-friendly, disco in Saltaire hosted by DJ Wil Oddsox, called Love To Boogie. Get yourself down if you can.

If you wish to catch up with tonight’s show, you will be able to use this page of the BCB Listen Again service.  Here is a list of the tunes I played:

Tesfay Taye – “Selame” (12″ – “Ililta”) (Terp)
Yann Tiersen – “The Trial” (single and LP – “Skyline”) (Mute)
THEESatisfaction – “Earthseed” (LP – “awE naturalE” (Sub Pop)
Sven Kacirek – “Cars & Nightingales” (LP – “Scarlet Pitch Dreams”) (Pingipung)
Ellen And The Escapades – “This Ace I’ve Burned” (LP – “All The Crooked Scenes”) (self-released)
Clark – “The Pining Pt2” (LP – “Iradelphic”) (Warp)
Oren Ambarchi – “Passage” (CD – “Audience Of One”) (Touch)
Spoek Mathambo – “We Can Work” (LP – “Father Creeper”) (Sub Pop)
Simone Felice – “Splendour In The Grass” (LP – “Simone Felice”) (Reveal)
Amadou & Mariam – “Chérie” (LP – “Folila”) (Because)
Fuxa – “Our Lips Are Sealed” (single) (Rocket Girl)
Paul Weller – “The Attic” (LP – “Sonik Kicks”) (Island)
Marcus Fischer – “Wires On Carpet” (LP – “Collected Dust”) (Tench)

Eclectic Mainline 21st March 2012

I’ve only been back in the country 2 weeks and it feels like same old same old now. Boo. Well, tonight’s show featured this rather excellent tune by AU from their new album on The Leaf Label:

AU – Get Alive by theleaflabel

If you wish to listen back to the show, you should find it on this page of the BCB Listen Again service.

Here is a list of all the tunes I played tonight:

Le Super Borgou de Parakou – “Dadon Gabou Yo Sa Be No.2 (Afro Beat Dendi)” (Analog Africa)
Drugstore – “Aquamarine” (single and LP – “Anatomy”) (Rocket Girl)
NHK’koyxen – “587” (track 1* from LP – “Dance Classics Vol.1”) (PAN)
Robert Ellis – “Friends Like Those” (single and LP – “Photographs”) (New West)
Poliça – “Lay Your Cards Out” (single) (Memphis Industries)
Palace Songs – “Agnes, Queen Of Sorrow” (LP – “Hope”) (Domino)
AU – “Get Alive” (LP – “Both Lights”) (Leaf)
Yppah – “Film Burn” ft. Anomie Belle (single and LP – “Eightly One”) (Ninja Tune)
Yeti Lane – “Sparkling Sunbeam” (single and LP – “The Echo Show”) (Sonic Cathedral)
Crybaby – “I Cherish The Heartbreak More Than The Love That I Lost” (single) (Helium)
Hard Coming Love – “Sun Shines” (LP – “Hard Coming Love”) (Spezialmaterial)
The Cornshed Sisters – “Dance At My Wedding” (single and LP – “Tell Tales”) (Memphis Industries)
Nite Jewel – “One Second Of Love” (single and LP – “One Second Of Love”) (Secretly Canadian)
The Reads – “Galaxy Egg” (single and LP – “Stories From The Border”)

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.