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Eclectic Mainline 1st September 2010

Ninja_Tune

Ninja Tune

I’m getting down with Ninja Tune and Big Dada a lot at the moment, in anticipation of the Ninja Tune XX box set celebrating their 20th anniversary.  Expect more tunes from that in coming weeks.  This is what I played tonight:

Roots Manuva meets Wrongtom – “Jah Warriors” (single) (Big Dada)
The Charlatans – “My Foolish Pride” (single) (Cooking Vinyl)
Rose Elinor Dougall – “To The Sea” (LP – “Without Why”) (Scarlett Music)
Autolux – “Transit Transit” (LP – “Transit Transit”) (ATP)
Mala – “Conengitetis (Dance Mix)” (single) (Zaman)
Pulled Apart By Horses – “High Five, Swan Dive, Nose Dive” (single and LP -“Pulled Apart By Horses”) (Transgressive)
Roots Manuva – “Witness (Slugabed remix)” (LP – “Ninja Tune XX”) (Ninja Tune)
Efterklang – “Mirador (live)” (LP – “Parades + Under Giant Trees”) (Leaf)
Villagers – “That Day” (single) (Domino)
Ramona – “How Long” (single) (Bullitt)
Mountain Man – “Animal Tracks” (LP – “Made The Harbor”) (Bella Union)
Grinderman – “Heathen Child” (single and LP – “Here Come The Wolfman”) (Mute)
Lobi Traoré – “Moko Ti Y Lamban Don” (LP – “Rainy Season Blues”) (Glitterhouse)

Eclectic Mainline 25th August

I tried to make this show a beard-free zone.  I’m not sure I totally succeeded, but I gave it a good shot..!

Surfer Blood – “Floating Vibes” (single and LP – “Astro Coast”) (Kanine)
!!! – “Steady As The Sidewalk Cracks” (LP – “Strange Weather, Isn’t It?”) (Warp)
Efterklang – “Antitech” (LP – “Tripper + Springer”) (Leaf)
Aberfeldy – “Lisa-Marie” (LP – “Somewhere To Jump From”) (Tenement)
Disclosure – “Offline Dexternity” (single) (Moshi Moshi)
Mala – “Conengitetis (Jug mix)” (single) (Zaman)
No Age – “Glitter” (single) (Sub Pop)
Max Richter – Sarajevo” (LP – “Memoryhouse”) (Fat Cat)
Summer Camp – “Round The Moon” (single)
Andreya Trianna – “X” (LP – “Lost Where I Belong”) (Ninja Tune)
The Vaselines – “Sex With An X” (single) (Sub Pop)
The Hundred In The Hands – “Pigeons” (single) (Warp)
Burning Spear – “Brain Food” (LP – “Marcus Garvey/Garvey’s Ghost”) (Island)
M.I.A. – “It Takes A Muscle” (single and LP – LP – “/\/\/\Y/\”) (XL)
Magic Kids – “Phone” (single and LP – “Memphis”) (True Panther Sounds)

Eclectic Mainline 4th August 2010

What a muppet, I totally forgot to play something off the new album by Ass and I also forgot to play the new single by The Fresh and Onlys.  I only mention this because I also forgot both last week too!  Guess what’s going to be in next week’s show listeners..?

This is what was in tonight’s show:

Menomena – “Queen Black Acid” (LP – “Mines”) (City Slang)
Flying Lotus – “MmmHmm” ft. Thundercat (LP – “Cosmogramma”) (Warp)
The Soft Pack – “More Or Less” (single) (Heavenly)
Steve Mason – “Am I Just A Man” (single and LP – “Boys Outside”) (Double Six)
Apagya Show Band – “Ma Nserew Me” (LP – Various Artists – “Afro-Beat Airwaves”) (Analog Africa)
School Of Seven Bells – “Bye Bye Bye” (LP – “Disconnect From Desire”) (Full Time Hobby)
Dangermouse, Sparklehorse & Vic Chestnutt – “Grim Augury” (LP – “Dark Night Of The Soul”) (Parlophone)
Frank Turner – “Try This At Home” (single and LP – “Poetry Of The Deed”) (Xtra Mile)
Timber Timbre – “Demon Host” (single) (Full Time Hobby)
Mint Julep – “Cherry Radio” (Explorers Club single) (Arctic Circle / Loaf)
American Men – “Ccccool World” (EP – “Cool World”) (LuckyMe)
Camera Obscura – “The Nights Are Cold” (single) (4AD)
Black Mountain – “Old Fangs” (single) (Jagjaguwar)
Yeasayer – “Madder Red” (single and LP – “Odd Blood”) (Mute)
Toddla T ft Wayne Marshall – “Sky Surfing” (single) (Ninja Tune)

Eclectic Mainline 28th July 2010

I had an operation today, but no you don’t now have to call me Alberta.  It was only a minor operation.  That said, I will never be able to listen to Windstorm by School Of Seven Bells the same way again.  That was the tune in my head when I went into theatre, and I tried oh so very hard to just focus on singing that song over and over in my head, rather than thinking about what the surgeon was doing….“focus on the song, Albert, focus on the song!!!” I told myself.

Remind me to tell you Phil Cope’s joke about the snail in the pub some time.

This is what I played tonight:

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Eclectic Mainline 21st July 2010

Well, last week you might have heard Phil Cope play a tune by the simply marvellously-named Duran Duran Duran in his show. By some strange twist of fate, this week I’ve userped Mr Cope by playing a tune with the lyric “Duran Duran Duran Duran” in it (it was the new single by The Vaselines in case you missed it). Anyone would think it was all part of a grand plan, but I assure you listeners, Laura is not, as far as I know, preparing 5 Durans for her show next week.

Here’s the next in the installments of Grinderman teasers. I showed you the first last week.

And here’s a list of what I played in tonight’s show:

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Eclectic Mainline 30th June 2010

A bit of simple GCSE level physics, but explained in a rather roundabout way:

If a ball travels approximately horizontally towards a static object (lets say a horizontal bar) and hits the underside of said object, this will cause the ball to have backspin as it falls sharply downwards.  Then, if as the ball comes down it comes into contact with a flat horizontal surface soon afterwards (the ground, say) the backspin will make it bounce backwards a bit in the direction of the horizontal plane from which it came.  So, if it hits our static object (the bar) again upon bouncing up, and if we imagine there was a straight line (let’s say it’s white) on the floor immediately below our static object (the bar), it must have hit the ground beyond that line.  If it hadn’t landed beyond the line, it would have missed the bar on the way back up.

The one man who DEFINITELY knew

"maybe nobody will notice, after all the're aren't many cameras around" - Manuel Neuer

Basically, what I’m saying is, the ref and his assistant could have figured out the ball had crossed the line simply from the fact that it hit the bar again as it bounced up.  “Get over it” I hear you say.  Maybe one day…

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Eclectic Mainline 23rd June 2010

A football-free zone here, and I think this was one of my most enjoyable shows so far in 2010:

Kohib – “Vulkana” (LP – “Make Fire”) (Beatservice)
Pulled Apart By Horses – “Back To The F**k Yeah” (single) (Transgressive)
Zola Jesus – “Night” (single) (Souterrain Transmissions)
Carlou D – “Ila Touba” (LP – “Muzikr” (World Village)
Goodnight Lenin – “Crook In The Creek” (single) (Static Caravan)
Veronica Falls – “Beachy Head” (single) (No Pain In Pop)
Funki Porcini – “This Ain’t The Way To Live” (single and LP – “”on”) (Ninja Tune)
Mountain Man – “How’m I Doin” (LP – “Made the Harbor”) (Bella Union)
Lorn – “Auotmaon” (LP – “Nothing Else”) (Brainfeeder)
Micah P. Hinson – “The Striking Before The Storm” (LP – “Micah P. Hinson and the Pioneer Saboteurs”) (Full Time Hobby)
Hayman, Watkins, Trout & Lee – “Jam-Eater Blues” (LP – “Hayman, Watkins, Trout & Lee”) (Fortuna Pop!)
Sleepy Sun – “Chicago” (LP – Various Artists “Be Yourself – A Tribute To Graham Nash’s Songs For Beginners”) (Grass Roots)
School Of Seven Bells – “Windstorm” (single) (Full Time Hobby)
The Mynabirds – “The Numbers Don’t Lie” (single and LP – “What We Lose In The Fire We Gain In The Flood”) (Saddle Creek)
PVT  – “Window” (single) (Warp)
Konono No.1 – “Guiyome/Konono Wa Wa Wa” (LP “Assume Crash Position”) (Crammed Discs)