This week's show featured new music from Soaked Oats, Weyes Blood, Brockhampton, Shame and more. Sam also pays tribute to Public Image Ltd guitarist Keith Levene who died this week.
Mixed bag of a few classics, brand new stuff and something that I thought was gonna be cool but ended up being actually bloody awful. But hey, you might like it and Grief Cat is still a cool name for a band. Couple of serato/dust/needle mishaps to keep us honest in there as well. Radio. Live with humans and equipment.
Welcome to this bcast: 2-3 hours of tunes edited for best listening experience (aka min yabbering)
trip hop to chill local tunes, finishing on a mix from the Cocteau twins to Florence Adooni. 3 Tracks from Haruomi Hosonos's 1995 N.D.E. album are played with info sourced here. A bFM listener's poem reccomendation: And What Good Will Your Vanity Be When The Rapture Comes
In Hour 1 we're joined by Steven Rutter from B12, the label and production duo that also features Mike Golding, who were at the forefront of the UK Techno scene in the early 90's, inspired by the sounds coming out of Detroit at the time. They were signed by Warp featuring on the seminal Artificial Intelligence series (alongside Aphex Twin, Richie Hawtin, The Black Dog and Autechre) and their classic Electro-Soma from 1993 was reissued last year and he has a new album coming out on his FireScope label in March. He told us;
"When I was asked to do a mix ; I got kinda nervous as I have never done one of these before .. I am only a bedroom mixer … and certainly doing something like this was a bit frightening. I don’t pretend to be cutting edge or really listen to much new music. Although I own and run my label FireScope Records, this is not an issue for me personally. Anyhow, so I just allowed my mind to go back to the days of standing by the window in my bedsit, situated in Walthamstow east London and I dug out the tunes that I loved then and still love today. I also cheekily included 3 FireScope records tunes too :-) but none of my own recent solo releases !!!
I was no longer 51 years old ; but a bright eyes bushy-tailed music nut, and the mix just put itself together as my hand and ears were once again guided by my higher power. I hope you will enjoy this selection. Thank you to each and everyone that has supported me through the years as I start developing my own solo identity going forward.
I just played Berghain New Years Eve ; a massive club, it was wonderful and the people loved it. It was in the Halle AM ambient room and there were some B12 beats going on in there. In contrast to this, I will be playing a very small gig in May for my friends at Touched music where all proceeds go to McMillan Cancer Support - Touched is a cause I am constantly working with, having given them their first vinyl release last year :-)
November 2017 was a good month for me ; I released FS009 - Steven Rutter - From Me To You - on my FireScope records label and for the first time I used my name as the artist name it was well received ; and sometime probably March ; my solo album (cat no. FS012) will be out there."
In Hour 2 it's Bearcubs the solo project from 26 year old electronic artist Jack Ritchie. Over the past 3 years, Bearcubs has honed in on a distinctly unique blend of emotive electronic music, future garage and lofi house music in his meticulously crafted productions. With two singles and two highly acclaimed EPs ‘Chroma’ and ‘Underwaterfall’ that have seen him heavily championed by the likes of Annie Mac, MistaJam and Huw Stephens on BBC Radio 1, Bearcubs announces the release of his debut full-length album ‘Ultraviolet’ for a March 2018 release. He had this to say;
'The mix is a collection of dance music from the 90's to the present that is inspiring my own music making at the moment. There's some unreleased tunes in there and also some Memphis rap tunes that I've been listening to from dusty tapes posted on youtube. It's kind of supposed to be a late night London soundtrack with some unexpected moments.'
π Hello beautiful humans, step inside as Eli hurls you into the genre washing machine for 3 hours. Thank you as always for checking in with the show. More indie/alternative flavours with a tendancy for the 2000-2015 period on this show, slightly less electronica.. for now. π A few technical hiccups and sloppyness, so thank you for bareing with that :) See you next week.
π Hey wonderful humans. That was probably one of my favourite shows to date - following up from covering brekky the previous day. Lovely texts and calls of which I am immencely grateful.
3 hours of sweltering, saucey tunes for your little taringa's. We also fumbled around on the XDJ's for a brief mix in the middle of the show and then keep the energy rolling throughout.
A huge thank you to Aneeka for absolutely blowing the doors down last week on the show while I was answering questions in a test booklet.
As always see you next thursday.
Spotify playlist attatched for your listening pleasure. π
π Hi again. Thank you for stopping by. A gentle ambient greeting leads you to three hours of the weird and (hopefully) wonderful. From alt rock to dub to breakbeat we cycle through the genres like a Tour de France hill-climber.
π Kia ora gorgeous humans, Thursday 1-4's Eli guest hosts today's show with a selection of music from all genres and eras. There is something for everyone in this three hour package. Eli also chats to Professor Peter Lineham about recent developments in the Cathlolic's church's approach to same sex marriage for That's the Spirit.
The playlist for todays show also exists here. π
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