As with just about everyone on Twitter over the past couple of weeks, I’ve reminded myself what my first Tweet was. And it was a link to my MySpace blog with my latest BCB track lists. Ho ho:

has blogged the last 2 weeks’ tracklists at www.myspace.com/djalbertfreeman

— Albert Freeman (@AlbFreeman) February 13, 2009

That was just over 5 years ago, and it was only a few months later that we wrote the first post on this BCB Music Blog.  And what a good idea this blog has turned out to be.  While we’re talking about the past, next week I will be celebrating my 10th anniversary on BCB.   Anyway, enough of the history lesson.  New music in this week’s programme included this by Downliners Sekt:

and this from the new Polar Bear LP:

There’s a local gig next week you need to know about.  Golden Cabinet are bringing the “dark ambience” of Gnod back to Shipley on 5th April.

This week’s full programme will be available to hear online using the BCB Listen Again service for a few weeks. Here is the full track list:

Sum Of R – March Out Of Step When Crossing A Bridge (LP – Lights On Water) (Utech) Bandcamp
Downliners Sekt – Silent Ascent (single) (InFiné) SoundCloud
Family Fodder – Film Music (LP – Monkey Banana Kitchen) (Staubgold) YouTube
Black Hearted Brother – Got Your Love (single and LP – Stars Are Our Home) (Sonic Cathedral) SoundCloud
Arnold Dreyblatt – Harptones (LP – Choice) (Choose)
The Horrors – I See You (LP – Luminous) (XL) YouTube
Luminance Ratio – Before The Dawn (LP – Reverie) (Bocian) Vimeo
Real Estate – April’s Song (LP – Atlas) (Domino)
Mick Harvey – Bonnie & Clyde (2xCD – Intoxicated Man / Pink Elephants) (Mute)
Christina Vantzou – The Magic Of The Autodidact (LP – N°2) (Kranky)
Hauschka – Thames Town (LP – Abandoned City) (City Slang) SoundCloud
NameBrandSound – Name Brand Ah Murdah (EP – Nowadays Pressure) (Technicolour)
Polar Bear – Chotpot (LP – In Each And Every One) (Leaf) SoundCloud