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Eclectic Mainline 13th March 2013

New music in tonight’s show included Stephan Mathieu:
https://soundcloud.com/deform-store/03-stephan-mathieu-eglise

…Lower Plenty:

…and King Ayisoba:

Here is the full playlist:
Itch – ‘Diplomat’ (EP – Manifesto Pt. 2: We’re All In The Gutter) (Red Bull)
Stephan Mathieu – ‘Église’ (LP – Un CÅ“ur Simple) (Baskaru)
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down – ‘City’ (LP – We The Common) (Ribbon)
Atoms For Peace – ‘Before Your Very Eyes…’ (LP – Amok) (XL)
Sweet Baboo – ‘If I Died…’ (single) (Moshi Moshi)
Autechre – ‘prac-f’ (LP – Exai) (Warp)
Serafina Steer – ‘Disco Compilation’ (single and LP – The Moths Are Real) (Stolen)
David Bowie – ‘Breaking Glass’ (LP – Low) (RCA) (this week’s Brief Candle)
Darkstar – ‘A Day’s Pay For A Day’s Work) (single and LP – News From Nowhere) (Warp)
Lower Plenty – ‘Strange Beast’ (single) (Fire)
Liars – ‘WIXIW’ (single and LP – WIXIW) (Mute)
Lloyd Cole / Hans-Joachim Roedelius – ‘Fehmarn’ (LP – Selected Studies Vol. 1) (Bureau B)
Iron & Wine – ‘Grace For Saints And Ramblers’ (single) (4AD)
King Ayisoba – ‘Baaba Poore’ (LP – Modern Ghanaians) (Makkum)

Eclectic Mainline 6th March 2013

New music in tonight’s show included Charlie Parr (this is a live version of the current single):

…and Pixel (this is a preview of the full album):

Here’s the full playlist of the show, which you can listen back to if you desire:

Megrim – ‘Step Of The Flake’ (LP – Intersect Landscape) (Moph)
Letherette – ‘She Shines’ (single b-side – D&T) (Ninja Tune)
Ducktails – ‘Under Cover’ (LP – The Flower Lane) (Domino)
Autechre – ‘nodezsh’ (LP – Exai) (Warp)
Charlie Parr – ‘True Friends’ (single) (Tin Angel)
RM74 – ‘Anthem For A Windmill’ (LP – Two Sides Of A Triangle) (Utech)
PVT – ‘Casual Success’ (LP – Homosapien) (Felte)
Nick Drake – ‘Harvest Breed’ (LP – Pink Moon) (Island) (this week’s Brief Candle, nominated by David Craig)
Pixel – ‘Mantle’ (LP – Mantle) (Raster-Noton)
Simon Whetham – ‘(Interlude, The Suspension Of Time) (LP – Never So Alone) (Crónica)
Falty DL – ‘She Sleeps (Ital Remix)’ (single) (Ninja Tune)
Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – ‘Milk Train’ (LP – What The Brothers Sang) (Domino)

Selection Box Show 253: Rodent Touch That Dial

Not only do rats spread disease, they also saved TVam, which was far worse.

Having avoided fully referring to BCB’s Studio 4 as a sea-faring vessel I now find that the metaphor would be rather useful not in only that, as a committed land-lubber (again in not in literal terms, though I can’t pretend I’m especially taken with sailing), I’m set to leg it from the aforementioned craft but also because a water rodent theme briefly developed on this week’s Selection Box. Whilst I am not a rat, and indeed Studio 4 is presumably built upon sound foundations and therefore I’m unlikely to disappear into a sink hole like that poor fellow in America, there does seem to be a varmint of a metaphor just sat there waiting to be smacked by my rolled-up newspaper.

 

Anyway, I appear to be drowning in metaphors. Metaphorically. As featured on this week’s programme, here’s some actual Rats, but not actual rats, courtesy of that there YouTube what all the kids are talking about now whilst they play with their yo-yos and trade Garbage Pail Kids cards.

 

Selection Box Show 253 (Listen again HERE)

Transmitted 27/02/2013

1. Gogol Bordello – Sally
from: Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike

2. The Glens – I Feel Great
from: Doo Wop From Rome Records 1960 – 61 (various artists)

3. Yumuri Y Sus Hermanos – Acaramelao
from: Tiene Bilongo

4. Balthazar – Sinking Ship
from: Rats

5. The Rats – Rats Revenge
from: Back From The Grave Volume 1 (various artists)

6. Ryan Francesconi & Mirabai Peart – Road To Palios
from: Road To Palios

7. ME – Vampire!! Vampire!!
from: Even The Odd Ones Out

8. Gary Numan – M.E.
from: The Pleasure Principle

9. Maclaine Coulson & Saul Rose – The Lazy Farmer
from: Sand & Soil

10. Submotion Orchestra – Thinking
from: Fragments

11. Tindersticks – A Night So Still
from: The Something Rain

12. Debroy Somers & His Band – You And The Night And The Music
from: Great British Bands Volume 2: Debroy Somers & His Band

13. The Bush – To Die Alone
from: Impossible True – The Kim Fowley Story

Patrick Thornton presents Selection Box every Wednesday at 9pm.

Eclectic Mainline 27th February 2013

New music in tonight’s show included Purling Hiss:
https://soundcloud.com/drag-city/purling-hiss-mercury

…Julia Kent:

…Blank Realm:

…and Jasper TX. The tune from the new album I played tonight was its opener. The closing tune on the new album is just as worthy, if not even more so, so here it is in full:

 

Listen back to the full show if you desire.  Here is the full show playlist:
Mark Templeton – ‘Matinee’ (LP – Jealous Heart) (Under The Spire)
Purling Hiss – ‘Mercury Retrograde’ (LP – Water On Mars) (Drag City)
Vision – ‘The Phuture Makes Beats’ (Life EP) (Big Dada)
Night Moves – ‘Country Queen’ (single and LP – Colored Emotions) (Domino)
RM74 – ‘Bees And Ghosts’ (LP – Two Sides Of A Triangle) (Utech)
Steve Mason – ‘Oh My Lord’ (single and LP – Monkey Minds In The Devil’s Time) (Double Six)
Autechre – ‘jatevee C’ (LP – Exai) (Warp)
Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – ‘Breakdown’ (LP – What The Brothers Sang) (Domino)
Blank Realm – ‘Acting Strange’ (LP – Go Easy) (Fire)
Duane Eddy – ‘Some Kinda Earthquake’ (2xCD – Rockin’ Guitar Man 1955-1960) (Smith & Co) (this week’s Brief Candle, nominated by Phil Cope)
King Ayisoba – ‘Modern Ghanaians’ (LP – Modern Ghanaians) (Makkum)
Julia Kent – ‘Tourbillon’ (LP – Character) (The Leaf Label)
Troumaca – ‘My Love’ (Virgin Island EP) (Brownswood)
Jasper TX – ‘Abandon’ (LP – An Index Of Failure) (Handmade Birds)
Clinic – ‘Seamless Boogie Woogie (Free Reign II Version)’ (LP – Free Reign II) (Domino)

Selection Box Show 252: Fire Up The Quattro

For reasons far too dull and footling for even me to remember, this week’s Selection Box was recorded in Studio 4 of BCB instead of it’s regular home two doors away in Studio 2. Much like its Thunderbird of the same numeral, Studio 4 is something of a minor player in the BCB cannon compared to the all-important live broadcast hypersonic variable-sweep wing rocket plane of Studio 1, the heavy supersonic VTOL carrier lifting body aircraft that is Studio 2 and the re-usable, vertically-launched single-stage-to-orbit spacecraft we affectionately know as Studio 3. It’d be a stretch of an already tenuous metaphor to suggest it is a small utility submersible for underwater rescue, but, to flick to a barely more relevant simile, using Studio 4 instead of one of the other recording holes is like suddenly trying to use a Commodore 64 joystick to play Fifa when you’re used to the Duashock 3 controller.

In basic terms, the controls are different. In basic terms, it’s basic. Whilst to a novice the myriad of fiddly knobs, light-emitting diodes and push-me-pull-you faders may look more daunting than a desk with an abacus and a twisty crank, when you are used to the former you know how it works and, more to the point, how to correct something if it goes wrong. If you have nothing more than an on / off switch and a big red button that says, “DO NOT PRESS” on it then finding a way of piloting the vessel away from the big broadcasting black hole you’re about to get sucked into is more problematic. And thus it was that I fully expected disaster to befall the programme this week with every given push of a button or slide of a fader. Save for an odd moment a few records in, where my voice seems to appear mid-sentence for reasons I’m still not entirely clear of, I seem to have come out of my Studio 4 journey unscathed, which makes me blase for next week when I am in there again and will, therefore, no doubt end up die screaming as I plough the ruddy thing at full pelt into the hot burning sun.

Anyway, a quick bit of housekeeping is required on here before I get onto the weighty subject of the playlist, namely that the show this week began with Local Natives and you can still hear the interview I conducted with them at Leeds Festival on this ‘ere Soundcloud wotsit here. You can even download it should you be so very inclined – simply click on the arrow on the player and save it as you feel appropriate.

Patrick Thornton speaks to Andy & Kelsey from Local Natives by PatrickSelectionBox

 

Selection Box Show 252 (listen again HERE)

Transmitted 20/02/2013

1. Local Natives – Heavy Feet
from: Hummingbird

2. Junior Electronics – Mike McConnell
from: Musostics

3. Harlem River Drive – Seeds Of Love
from: Harlem River Drive

4. Mikhail – Cerberus
from: Xenophonia

5. Ray Noble & His Orchestra – Oh You Nasty Man
from: Risque Blues, Vol. 1 (various artists)

6. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Higgs Bosun Blues
from: Push The Sky Away

7. Natacha Atlas – Marifnaash
from: Halim

8. Chris Barber Skiffle Group feat Dickie Bishop – Gypsy Davy
from: Chris Barber 1956

9. John Grant – Pale Green Ghosts
from: Pale Green Ghosts

10. Freaks – 80s Throwback
from: The Man Who Lived Underground

11. Melody’s Echo Chamber – Crystallized
from: Melody’s Echo Chamber

Patrick Thornton presents Selection Box every Wednesday at 9pm.

Eclectic Mainline 20th February 2013

New music in this week’s show included Letherette:

…Fawn Spots:

…and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.  The video below is the censored version. Feel free to watch the uncensored version if you can handle it:

If you were to stream the show at your leisure, this is what you would hear:

Concrete Knives – ‘Wallpaper’ (LP – Be Your Own King) (Bella Union)
Blood Red Shoes – ‘Get Off My Ghost Train’ (split single with Pulled Apart By Horses)
Letherette – ‘D&T’ (single) (Ninja Tune)
Youth Lagoon – ‘Dropla’ (single)
Julia Kent – ‘Only Child’ (LP – Character) (Leaf)
Beach Fossils – ‘Careless’ (single)
Gilded – ‘Velar’ (LP – Terrane) (Hidden Shoal)
Pulp – ‘After You’ (single)
Melody’s Echo Chamber – ‘Crystallized’ (single and LP – Melody’s Echo Chamber) (Weird World)
Mogwai – ‘Special N’ (LP – Les Revenants)
Fawn Spots – ‘Watered Down’ (LP – Wedding Dress) (Fat Cat)
Wire – ‘Outdoor Miner’ (LP – Chairs Missing) (this week’s Brief Candle, nominated by Tilt Araiza)
Ducktails – ‘Ivy Covered House’ (LP – The Flower Lane) (Domino)
Yo La Tengo – ‘Ohm’ (single)
Japandroids – ‘The Nights Of Wine And Roses’ (single and LP – Celebration Rocks) (Polyvinyl)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – ‘Jubilee Street’ (LP – Push The Sky Away) (self-released)

Selection Box Show 251: Hang The DJ

Click ting stamps.

Ugh. Every now and again a show ends up being an unmitigated disaster for no readily apparent reason. The brain fails in basic cogent thought and even when there is a flicker of something approaching intelligent air-filler the lip-enhanced hole in the middle of my face fails to express this appropriately and it just comes out as bibblebibblebibblebibblebibblebibblebibble.

Sadly, this week’s Selection Box was one such show. I can only apologise. Oh, and boil my neck in pot of heated fat as a form of self-flaggelation.

Thankfully there was the usual helping of delicious musical morcels to punctuate the flailing jibbering idiot, including a Thanking Your Kind Indulgence from Kraftwerk – who completed their residency at Tate Modern this week. What better antidote to an incoherent disc jockey could there be than a 7-minute display of minimalist German efficiency.

Here be the full playlist. I’m off to cry big wet tears until next week’s show.

 

Selection Box Show 251 (Listen again HERE)

Transmitted 13/02/2013

 

1. My Bloody Valentine – In Another Way
from: MBV

2. Bob & Lucille – Eeny-Meeny-Miney-Mo
from: Good Girls Gone Bad (various artists)

3. The Soft Hills – Dr. Mr Moonlight
from: Chromatisms

4. Kraftwerk – The Hall of Mirrors
from: Trans Europe Express

5. Hank Penny & His Radio Cowboys – Won’t You Ride In My Little Red Wagon
from: Crazy Rhythm: The Standard Transcriptions

6. Woodkid – Iron
from: The Golden Age

7. Walter Carlos – Title Music From A Clockwork Orange (From Henry Purcell’s The Funeral of Queen Mary)
from: A Clockwork Orange soundtrack

8. Wess & The Airedales – Blackout
from: Aquarium Drunkard Presents DJ Soft Touch (various artists)

9. Edwin Bonilla Y Jesus El Nino Perez – Angoa
from: Tirando Pa Charanga

10. Paul Ngozi – In The Ghetto
from: The Ghetto

11. Mr Vast – In Terms Of Ease & Speed
from: Grievous Bodily Charm

12. Fotheringay – The Sea
from: Fotheringay

 

Patrick Thornton presents Selection Box every Wednesday at 9pm.

Eclectic Mainline 13th February 2013

In this week’s show, the new music included Veronica Falls:

…Jamie Lidell:

…and Lycoriscoris:

Feel free to listen back to the show. This is what you would hear:

Thao & The Get Down Stay Down – ‘We The Common’ (single) (Ribbon)
Ty Segall – ‘Would you Be My Love’ (single) (Drag City)
Dobie – ‘Stan Lee Is A Hero Of Mine’ (LP – We Will Not Harm You) (Big Dada)
Caitlin Rose – ‘Only A Clown’ (single)
David Fenech – ‘Grand Huit’ (LP – Grand Huit) (Gagarin)
Bleached – ‘Next Stop’ (single)
Rdeča Raketa – ‘andere Menschen (part 1)’ (LP – Wir weden) (Godrec)
Smashing Pumpkins – ‘Sweet Sweet’ (LP – Siamese Dream) (Virgin) (this week’s Brief Candle, nominated by David Craig)
Veronica Falls – ‘Teenage’ (LP – Waiting For Something To Happen) (Bella Union)
Pulled Apart By Horses – ‘Heartsink’ (split single with Blood Red Shoes)
Jamie Lidell – ‘You Naked’ (single) (Warp)
PVT – ‘Nghtfall’ (LP – Homosapien) (Felte)
Frightened Rabbit – ‘Escape Route’ (LP – Pedestrian Verse) (Atlantic)
Major Lance – ‘Investigate’ (CD – The Northern Soul Story Vol.2: The Golden Torch) (Sony BMG)
Lycoriscoris – ‘Oar’ (LP – From Beyond The Horizon) (Moph)
My Bloody Valentine – ‘Wonder 2’ (LP – MBV) (self-released)

Selection Box Show 250: Tube Wave Harm Me

As many a dull, spawn-of-their-loins-obsessed parent will tell you, having a child can present a different perspective on the ways in which the World works from time to time. This has a peculiar way of manifesting itself now and again, such as, just for example, discovering that those irritating adverts on YouTube can serve a genuinely beneficial sociological function.

Of course it serves us ruddy well right for trying to watch something for nothing that we have to sit through up to a whole five seconds of an advertisement before we can view whatever 5-minute load of pelt we’re wanting to stream, but this does not stop us finding the 8%-of-a-minute commercial for arse hair removal something of an irritant. However, when your choice of viewing is an episode of Fireman Sam, selected by your 3 year old son, and the advert is for the new album by Villagers there is clearly something of a benefit to them. This is particularly true when 24 hours later said child expects to see the same advert again and asks for it, and then spends much of the week singing Villagers around the house.

Thus it was that we added Villagers to the list of Good Things that he has now shown a genuine postive interest in, which includes Talking Heads, Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers, Spirit of Eden period Talk Talk and Diana Rigg-era episodes of The Avengers. Parenting isn’t a competition, but I’ve definitely won.

Enough of this Look At Me I Procreated guff, here’s what I went and gone done played this week:

 

Selection Box Show 250 (listen again HERE)

Transmitted 6/2/2013

 

1. Villagers – The Waves
from: {Awayland}

2. The Lightcrust Doughboys – Pussy, Pussy, Pussy
from: Hillybilly Fever! Volume 1 Legends of Western Swing (various artists)

3. Submotion Orchestra – Thinking
from: Fragments

4. Max Roach – Motherless Child
from: Lift Every Voice & Sing

5. Carmen González & Koral Y Esmerelda – Andarele
from: Anderele

6. Ian Skelly – Nickel And A Dime
from: Cut From A Star

7. Wilko Johnson – Down By The Waterside
from: The Best of Wilko Johnson Volume 2

8. T. Power – Kool & Deadly
from: Y3K Deep Progressive Beats (various artists)

9. Izzi Dunn – Visions
from: Visions EP

10. Johnny Macrae – Betty Boop
from: It Came From The Suburbs: Rare Teen Rock From The Kennedy Era (various artists)

11. Liars – No. 1 Against The Rush
from: WIXIW

12. Naomi Adams – Woman of Samaria
from: Rough Guide to Ska (various artists)

13. Parquet Courts – Borrowed Time
from: Light Up Gold

 

Patrick Thornton presents Selection Box every Wednesday at 9pm.

Selection Box Show 249: Kris mass time

Nothing says Folk more than a set of welding goggles

Last Wednesday was a good evening for Kris Drever.  At virtually the same moment he was stood on stage, towering over his Lau bandmates Martin Green and Aidan O’Rourke as they picked up the Radio 2 Folk Award for Band of the Year, he was also treated to an even more thrilling achievement in that his solo recording of Harvest Gypsies, from the album Blackwater, was the opening track to Selection Box.  I dare say that life will never quite be so exciting for him again.

I did suffix the track by saying that it was one of my favourite records of the last five years, then suggested that it may well be older than that. In doing so I have made myself right and wrong simultaneously as it is in fact an astonishing 7 years since said offering was released.  No matter, though, because I’ll just readjust my hypothetical lists and declare that it is one of the best records of the last seven years.

Because it is.

 

 

Selection Box Show 249 (Listen Again here)

Transmitted 30/1/2013

1. Kris Drever – Harvest Gypsies
from: Blackwater

2. John Grant – Pale Green Ghosts
from: Pale Green Ghosts

3. Unknown artist – Oun Rognea Dul Chung Knong
from: Aquarium Drunkard Presents Dengue Fever (various artists)

4. Besnard Lakes – People Of The Sticks
from: Until In Excess, Imperceptible UFO

5. Julia Holter – Boy In The Moon
from: Ekstatis

6. Wave Machines – I Hold Loneliness
from: Pollen

7. Freddy Slack & His Orchestra – Mr Freddie’s Boogie
from: Bands That Can Boogie Woogie (various artists)

8. Pulp – After You
from: single release

9. Mary Love – Baby I’ll Come
from: Soul ‘n’ Moody, Black & Bluesy (various artists)

10. Beryl Bryden’s Backroom Skiffle – Rock Me
from: Heroes of Skiffle (various artists)

11. Rachael Zeffira – Here On In
from: The Deserters

12. Nick Cave – Jubilee Street
from: Push The Sky Away

 

Patrick Thornton presents Selection Box every Wednesday at 9pm.