Low - KEXP Session [2011]

Head on over to the KEXP blog for this.

Sonic Youth – Made In USA [1995]

Here we have a soundtrack to a film I've never seen. A little heard album by one of the pillars of leftfield guitar music, despite having been recorded in 1986 just after their great "Evol" album, and just before their (arguable career peak) "Sister" album.

This is a great addition to their studio albums, and appears here on it's own merit entirely. It also appears here now, just as the future of the group looks doubtful due to the split of Thurston & Kim.

I first heard this band on John Peel in 1986. Believe it or not, this is the tune that hooked me. Certainly for the next 3 or 4 albums they were a real passion of mine. I have to say I lost my way with them round about the "Dirty" album and after. I did see them live a few times after that, the latest time being 1995-ish? (I also saw them doing the Daydream Nation album at the excellent Primavera in Barcelona in 2007). I've dipped into their output a few times since, particularly "Rather Ripped". But for me the mid/late 80s stuff was the thing I think of with SY.

Here's what their own website says on it

Tracklisting:
1 .Mackin' For Doober
2. Full Chrome Logic
3. Secret Girl
4. Cork Mountain Incident
5. Moustache Riders
6. Tuck N Dar
7. Moon In The Bathroom
8. Thought Bubbles
9. Rim Thrusters
10. Lincoln's Gout
11. Coughing Up Tweed
12. Pre-poured Wood
13. Hairpiece Lullaby 1 & 2
14. Pocketful Of Sen-sen
15. Smoke Blisters 1 & 2
16. The Velvet Plug
17. Giggles
18. Tulip Fire 2
19. The Dynamics Of Bulbing
20. Smoke Blisters 3 & 4
21. O.J.'s Glove Or What
22. Webb Of Mud 1, 2 & 3
23. Barchelors In Fur!

Anyone seen the film?

Here's the music

Gavin Russom - FACT mix 142 [2010]

Well here we are, back in the saddle with a great DJ mix from producer Gavin Russom (thanks to FACT magazine). His name seems to have popped up a few times over the last couple of years with some interesting stuff, as well as in collaboration with Delia Gonzalez.

This is definitely worth checking out if you like your synthesizers analogue and your beats repetitive. Ditto if you're as familiar with krautrock as you are with chicago/acid.

Back into battle we go.


Tracklist:
Diamond Vampires “Friday Nights” [Unreleased]
Steven Halpern “Dancing Through the Rainbow, Part I” [Halpern Sounds]
Franco Cinelli “Acid Cut Pt. 2″ [Traut Muzik]
Vince Watson “Qualia” [Planet E]
Peter Van Hoesen “Resol” [Morse]
Fanon Flowers “Acid Kush” [Studio Sound]
Steve Lawler “Kalimba” [R&S]
DJ Qu “Party People Clap” [Deconstruct Music]
Levon Vincent “Double Jointed Sex Freak” [Novel Sound]
JM Strap “The Owl in Daylight” [Frigio]

Download the mix here:

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Andrew Weatherall for Mayor

While we're on the subject of Lord Sabre. Here's a link to something called "Facebook" (?). It's some kind of new fangled thing, that enables people who work in offices to spend their time talking rubbish and uploading photographs while getting paid. Amazing. This really is the future. But where the f*ck is my hover car?

The Campaign for Andrew Weatherall to get John Peel's Radio 1 slot

Andrew Weatherall - The Music That Made Screamadelica

I hope you're all purchasing and joining in to support the UK independent sector after their recent losses after the fire at the Sony storage facility. I do keep hearing stories daily about the losses to certain labels, many of which are much loved here at EE Towers.

Also much loved round here is Mr Andrew Weatherall esquire. As I've said before, I've danced my legs down to the knees to him many times and in more recent years had the great pleasure of warming up the technics for him too. He is indeed a gent an a scholar of the highest order.

Here's a link the the excellent (& new to me) TestPressing site, with Mr AW mixing up the tracks that influenced Screamadelica.

Andrew Weatherall - The Music that made Screamadelica

I'll save the story about seeing Primal Scream in 1988, pre-Screamadelica, at Planet X in Liverpool. I bet you can't wait ..........................

UK Riots/disturbances & UK Independant Labels

Here in the UK we've had a very bad week, with riots starting in Tottenham in London then spreading across the country (though it just seemed to be aimless looting and vandalism after the initial demonstration).

A Sony DADC owned storage facility was burned down in London, destroying stock for the majority of UK independant labels. (a list of labels distributed via.PIAS is here)

Various support websites/funds have been set up to help these labels, as many have stock insured at cost price not sale price etc... And of course this is a huge blow to the independant sector, who try and stand strong in the face of the majors and the changing face of the industry.

So, at the very least, go and buy some downloads from your favourite artists/labels from the list of those affected.

Links:
PIAS website with links and information (with support links to iTunes, Zune etc...)
Various compilations made by Jarvis Cocker etc...
Facebook page, with links to info/fundraisers
Another Facebook page!!
AIM label fund

(By the way - I don't work for an indie label/shop, or work in the industry at all)

Oh, and on the subject of the "riots". Lets push to reverse the cuts made to policing, social services etc... and lets try and fix the underlying problems instead of just focusing on punishing the individuals (which does need to happen).
Lets also not forget about the moral bankruptcy of the press and bribes paid to police by Murdoch and News International. How come the Guardian/Hugh Grant got to the bottom of the Hacking issue and not the Police investigation?!! Who was running the country?!

Splitting the Atom [1997]

This was a collaboration between Andy Ramsay and Simon Holliday, with contributions from the late great Mary Hansen and Pete Kember aka. Sonic Boom. It appeared as a 3 track 7” single in 1997, in quite small quantities I think. So here it is, in all it’s bubbling analogue glory. From my record deck to your ears.

Side A - Splitting The Atom (Part One) / Splitting The Atom (Part Two)
Side B - Monkey Brain

Splitting the atom

Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene [2005]

If you don't want to hear an album that sounds across between later period Fleetwood Mac and Sonic Youth, look away now.

Broken Social Scene's Self-Titled debut

Acetone - York Blvd [2000]

I like this record, though unfortunately I was a latecomer to Acetone.

Some people have reviewed this album, like this & this


Things are gonna be alright

Various Artists - Easter Everywhere vol.1

Here we present the first Easter Everywhere compilation/mixtape. To kick things off, volume 1 focuses on recent stuff (well, from the last 2 years).

The image on the cover is a triple exposed picture taken with a Diana F+ camera near Arbor Low, Derbyshire, in summer 2010 CE.

If you send me a blank tape in the mail (address available on request...), you can have this on a C90.

Mixtape/compilation -wise, news on what you can probably expect on these pages in the future is here.


Side 1:
1. Lower Dens - Blue & Silver
2. Black Lips - Bicentennial Man
3. Moon Duo - Scars
4. Dirtbombs - Shari Vari
5. Archie Bronson Outfit - Chunk
6. Chain & The Gang - It's A Hard, Hard Job (Keeping Everybody High)
7. Clinic - Male Stripper
8. Low - Witches
9. Les Savy Fav - Dirty Knails
10. Women - Heat Distraction
11. Sarabeth Tucek - Splash 1 (Now I'm Home)

Side 2:
12. Psychedelic horseshit - Laced
13. Woods - Find Them Empty
14. The Soundcarriers - Last Broadcast
15. TOKiMONSTA - Sa Mo Jung
16. Barbara Morgenstern - Der Augenblick
17. Spectrum - Mary
18. MGMT - Congratulations
19. Washed Out - Amor Fati
20. CFCF - Upon the Hill
21. Walls - Burnt Sienna

Download it here ...

... or stream on the right of this page

... and buy the artists albums here