Personally I think it was my promise / threat to play country music on yesterday’s blog – there’s nothing the genre likes better than some misfortune, tragedy or epic event to get it’s teeth stuck into.

NPR Music Spotlight On Country Archive

Just a word of warning ahead of tomorrow’s edition of The Joint – for most of the week I’ve been listening to NPR’s Spotlight On Country podcast series.

It’s too early to say how exactly this will affect my choice of songs in Saturday’s playlist, possibly in the form of a Merle Haggard threesome or a Waylon Jennings Sesh.

Or maybe I’ll just play George Jones‘ “He Stopped Loving Her Today” whilst quietly crying in the studio. Am I alone in thinking that one of the This Mortal Coil line-ups could do a fantastic cover version of this song, maybe as a bonus track on the forthcoming 4AD boxset?

Simian Mobile Disco have been busy. Their new Delicatessen & Delicacies singles series features food in the titles. The first two singles are Aspic/Nerve Salad and Cazu Marzu/Thousand Year Egg. Casu marzu (Sardinian sheep’s milk cheese riddled with insect larvae) could well be the world’s deadliest cheese.

OMG FTW?!? The Fall have been confirmed for Monday 13 December at The Powerstation in Auckland. See you there.

And here’s the playlist in full…

12pm – 1pm

• Soulwax – KracK
• Matthew Dear – You put a smell on me
• Black Milk feat. Royce da 5’9″ & Elzhi – Deadly medley
• Tommy Ill – Robot **NZ**
• Simian Mobile Disco – Cazu marzu
• Balam Acab – See Birds (Coyote Clean Up dub)
• Solar Bears – Photo negative living
• Royksopp – Forsaken cowboy
• Donna Regina – Perfect stranger
• K-X-P – Pockets (Annie vocal mix)

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1pm – 2pm

• The Fall – Man whose head expanded
• White Boy and the Average Rat Band – Sector 387
• Robyn feat. Snoop Dogg – U should know better
• Kwes – No need to run
• Ulrich Schnauss & Jonas Munk – Chasing rainbows
• White Ring – lxc999
• Fluffy Lumbers – Harry Dolland’s
• Film School – Nothing’s mine
• Delaney Davidson – Wicked wiggler **NZ**
• WTF ?! & Dead Prez – Bigger than hip hop UK
• Thai Thanh – Bùrng sáng (Dawn)

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secrets - Hell is round the corner

1995 seems like such a long time ago.

That’s when Tricky released his debut album “Maxinquaye“. At the time it was released it was a dark, brooding, decaying and paranoid affair. I listened to it the other day and it has aged quite well.

The closest I have ever heard anyone get to its moodiness are the M.I.A., Burial, and Kode9 albums. Tricky is also the only artist I have ever heard cover a Public Enemy song (“Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos”) and match it (and arguably surpass it).

In a way, Tricky seems like an impossible artist to cover.

But you’d be wrong. I was.

The other day I was lurking around bandcamp.com and noticed that secrets aka Fraser Austin had done a cover version of “Hell is Round the Corner”. Damn well shat myself when I discovered that it was true in spirit to the original. Must be something about the Christchurch winter that lends itself to paranoia. Or secrets is taking lots of cough syrup at the moment.

*ERRATUM: Curses. As ever I got the lyric wrong. Instead of “Seduce me, seduce me…” it should have been “Reduce me, seduce me…”. THX Hairdresser on Fire for inadvertently alerting me to my error.

And here’s the playlist in full…

12pm – 1pm

• Royksopp – The fear
• Steffen Baldo – Efe efe
• Appaloosa – Intimate
• Big Hard Excellent Fish – Imperfect list
• Secrets – Hell is round the corner (Last House On The Left edit) **NZ**
• Mount Pleasant – Zimbabwe cock fight II **NZ** (free album download)
• KXP – 18 hours (of love)
• Robyn – We dance to the beat
• These New Puritans – Hologram (Causes remix)
• Kids of 88 – San Fran **NZ**
• Shit Browne – New colours

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1pm – 2pm

• Sexy Animals – Up the bum, no babies! **NZ**
• Salem – Asia
• Blonde Redhead – Spain
• The Jellies – Jive baby on a Saturday night
• Shawn Lee feat. The Superimposers – Fade up
• Dominique Young Unique – Blaster
• Lee “Scratch” Perry & Adrian Sherwood – Elixir of life
• E. Gold featuring Alexis – Separate our hearts (Passions Remix)
• Cours Lapin – Ma melodie
• Dum Dum Girls – Stiff little fingers
• Edwyn Collins – Losing sleep
• Shawn Lee feat. Princess Superstar – Christopher Walken on sunshine

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Technical difficulties also meant the first song on today’s show is missing from the podcast.

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And here’s the playlist in full…

12pm – 1pm

• Ulrich Schnauss and Jonas Munk – Sirocco [details here]
• Tamaryn – Mild confusion
• Teeth – See spaces
• Silver Columns – Always on (Caribou remix)
• Tono and the Finance Company – PJ Harvey is on the stereo **NZ**
• Tono and the Finance Company – No.7 blonde **NZ**
• Tono and the Finance Company – Politics will make you miserable **NZ**
• Roots Manuva – Butterfly Crab Walk (Featuring Riddla)
• Wiley – Flipping from the gut
• Lee “Scratch” Perry & Adrian Sherwood – Lucky Tarzan
• Homework - Fissa Tune

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1pm – 2pm

• Tommy Ill – Cheap wine bender **NZ**
• Las Robertas – History is done
• The HIVs – Daddy fix me up
• Shit and Shine – Bass puppy
• Maxence Cyrin – Kids
• Razorcuts – Brighter Now
• Mount Pleasant – Sussudio **NZ**
• Mount Pleasant – Sara **NZ**
• Mount Pleasant – In dreams **NZ**
• The Sea-ders – Thanks A Lot
• Jimmy Smith – Let’s stay together [live in 1972]
• Carte Blanche – Jigga bite
• Mates Of State – Laura

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We’re not sure why people persist in conducting on line polls for the purpose of dishing out honours. They are, after all, just an open invitation for a campaign to distort, rig or correct the results, depending on your point of view. The evidence goes as far back as 1999 when, incredibly, Belle & Sebastian beat out Steps and 5ive to take the prize for Brits Best British Newcomers.

Stewart Lee has his own set of reasons for decrying the Fosters Comedy God awards at this years Edinburgh Fringe Festival, but his throwaway line concerning The Frank Chickens has put them as firm favourites to win, ahead of more familiar names like Eddie Izzard, Bill Bailey and Flight Of The Conchords. It’s also given us a chance to dig out some old “We Are Ninja (Not Geisha)” vinyl to play on the show today (as well as an excuse to post Lee’s fantastic political correctness routine).

And here’s the playlist in full…

12pm – 1pm

• Karlmarx – The conversation **NZ**
• Karlmarx – Kiss a girl **NZ**
• Karlmarx – Leaning shadows **NZ**
• Karlmarx – Mists **NZ**
• Karlmarx – OSC **NZ**
• Skream – Where you should be
• Main Attrakionz – Ledgen of doom
• M.I.A. – The message (DBHB redux)
• Surf City – Crazy rulers of the world **NZ**
• Mulchzoid – Wicked love **NZ**
• !!! – The most certain sure
• Maxence Syrin – Where is my mind?
• DJ Assault – Ass n titties
• Munk – Portofino mosh
• B.o.B. – Generation lost

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1pm – 2pm

• Frank Chickens – We are ninja (not geisha)
• Bich Loan & CBC Band – Heart & tears
• Mai Le Huyen – A girl’s destiny
• Shit And Shine – Fuck you folk singers
• Benoit Pioulard – Shouting distance
• Shrag – Tights in August
• Tamaryn – Haze interior
• Ennio Morricone – Once upon a time in the west (finale)
• Brodinski – Arnold classics
• The Bitters – Travelin’ girl

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South Yorks, The South, South Yorks

That’s right – a short musical history of Sheffield, England in the form of a free mixtape from Lex Records: Kid Acne presents “South Yorks Vol.1″. You can download either the 40 minute original or the Toddla T 11 minute condensed version

And here’s the playlist in full…

12pm – 1pm

• Faze Action – In the trees (original disco mix)
• Dplay – Tangabucht
• Drlkt Freddie – Boys and girls (Disco Damage remix)
• James Blake – CMYK
• Bassnectar – Kingston town
• Lee “Scratch” Perry & Adrian Sherwood – Wake up call
• The Chap – We work in bars
• Frankie Rose and The Outs – Little brown haired girl
• Frankie and The Heartstrings – Needle in the camel’s eye
• Pikachunes – Nervous **NZ**
• Nneka – Heartbeat (Wet Paper remix)
• Skream – A song for Lenny
• Skream – The epic last song

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1pm – 2pm

• M.I.A. – XXXO (The Riton Rerub)
• Tamaryn – Cascades
• Tamaryn – Mild confusion
• The Rent Boys – Gang love
• Carol Kim – The sadness of being a girl
• Kid Acne – South Yorks Vol. 1 (Toddla T’s Tramlines Condensed Mix)
• Au Revoir Simone – The last one (Mack Winston dub remix)
• Serafina Steer – Drinking while driving
• Shrag – When we go courting
• Discodeine – Singular

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• New Pikachunes EP free download
• New Tiger Tones album (promo copy) “Strange New World”
• Mary Anne Hobbs to leave BBC Radio 1 in September
• Busy P gets the Pot Kettle Black Award™ today for this: “The Bloody Beetroots are not dance music”

And here’s that freaky DELS “Shapeshift” video:

And here’s the playlist in full…

12pm – 1pm

• Violet – Central pro NYC
• Carte Blanche (aka DJ Mehdi & Riton) – Gare du Nord
• Senor Stereo – Hot damn!
• Don Froth – 10,000 CC’s
• Pikachunes – Nervous **NZ**
• DELS – Shapeshift
• Skream – CPU
• Cut Chemist – Adidas to addis
• Indian Jewelry – Tono bungay
• Civil Civic – Run overdrive
• Nikoo – You’ve got a strange effect on you
• Carte Blanche – Jigga bite

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1pm – 2pm

• Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Love burns
• Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Stop
• Death in Plains – Whirlwind
• Dead Gaze – We all belong to you
• The Krays (aka Yuksek & Brodinski) – We’re ready when you are feat. Ebony Bones [preview]
• Mos Def – Priority (A Cappella)
• Craft Spells – The fog rose high
• Kool DJ Dust – Breakin’ n enterin’
• Kool DJ Dust – The enslaver
• Kool DJ Dust – The prophecy is fulfilled
• Tamaryn – The waves
• Tamaryn – Cascades
• Von Haze – Sad girls
• Homeboy Sandman – Bonkers
• Munk – La musica

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A Human Centipede

And here’s the playlist in full…

12pm – 1pm

• Sahin Meyer – World cup of the future
• Elektro Guzzi – Hexenschuss
• Jeff Mills – Satellite retrieval
• Jeff Mills – The occurrence
• Teeth – See spaces (The DreamTrak Diamond Sound)
• Shit Browne – Don’t ask
• The Superimposers – The beach
• A plus D – Close To Konichiwa Bitches (Robyn vs. The Cure)
• Black Milk – Welcome (gotta go)
• Mr Flash – Couscous
• Tiga – Gentle giant (Martyn’s heaven remix)
• The Golden Filter – Moonlight fantasy
• Pulshar – Sacrifice of love

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1pm – 2pm

• Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Whatever happened to my rock ‘n’ roll (punk song)
• The Jesus and Mary Chain – Take it
• Fucked Up – Here lies are
• Los Saicos – Demolicion (from Peru in 1964!!!)
• Acid Washed – Change
• Durrty Goodz – Life
• JDUBS – Buttajazz **NZ**
• Weed Diamond – Mint in my mouth
• Kendal Johansson – Blue moon
• Dead Ghosts – Thunderbird Esq
• Pack FM – Happy days

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But we needn’t worry for too much longer as the “internet is over”. We give it until the end of July.

And here’s the playlist in full…

12pm – 1pm

• Nacho Lovers – Deeper
• Mr Oizo and Gaspard Auge – Rubber (original mix)
• Florrie – Come back to mine (The Jaxon Remix)
• Violens – Acid reign
• Digital Mystikz – Return II space
• The xx – Infinity (Flufftronix remix)
• M.I.A. – The message
• M.I.A. – Steppin up
• M.I.A. – XXXO
• M.I.A. – Teqkilla
• Jay-Z vs Focus – Pray (Hocus Pocus) – Trafik’s Brave Bootleg
• Dear Time’s Waste – Room for rent **NZ**

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1pm – 2pm

• The Palace of Wisdom – Burnside **NZ**
• Prison – New hell
• Sick Cycle – Destroy (original mix) **NZ** [via Crunk Kidz]
• Villa Nah – Some kind of dream
• Shit Browne – Chairman (Meow?)
• Nodding By The Fire – The brave mountaineers
• The Vaselines – I hate the 80s
• Jammer – Back to the 90s [Guardian video]
• Mr Oizo and Gaspard Auge – Tricycle express
• The Drums – Let’s go surfing (Ravonettes remix)
• Nicolas Jaar – Marks
• Justin Bieber – Baby (The El-P Death Mix !!!)
• Lee Marvin – Wand’rin star [video]

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