If you ever wondered what we do when the microphones are switched off and the music is playing, this video for “Love To Love You Baby” from 1975 will give you an idea of our super smooth moves.

Blair Parkes, Mr Saturations himself, has put together videos for three songs, one from the new album and two from last years self-titled EP. They have a permanent home over at NZIndieScene’s YouTube channel but no need to click and search – we’ve posted them below for your ease and comfort.

First up, the new Fistful of Gems‘ video “Diamond” by ex-Tiger Tones member Mark Wundercastle.

Second up, Flat Eric & William Fichtner play chess while promoting the new Mr Oizo free EP “Stade 3″.

And here’s the playlist in full…

12pm – 1pm

+ Download 12pm – 1pm - 90MB

• Spiritualized - So Long You Pretty Thing
• Fistful of Gems - Diamond **NZ**
• RL Grime – Amphibian
• I-F – Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass
• Carlos Giffoni –  Desire In The Summer
• Traxman – Lifeeeee Is For Ever
• VAMPIRE SLAYER – BFF’s
• Ta-ku – Day 11
• Mr Oizo – Toodoo (feat. Carmen Castro)
• Homeboy Sandman – Look Out
• Miniatures – Midwinter (air) **NZ**
• Royal Headache – Girls
• Toy – Motoring

1pm – 2pm

+ Download 1pm – 2pm - 84MB

• Saturations – Don’t shoot**NZ**
• Saturations – Eroica **NZ**
• Saturations – Russian clock **NZ**
• Theesatisfaction – Queens
• Moodymann – Saturday At The Rock
• Woody Allen – Bullet in my breast pocket
• Citizens! –  Reptile
• Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Little Blu House **NZ**
• Mac Demarco – Baby’s Wearin Blue Jeans
• Bobby Conn –  Macaroni
• Curxes – Haunted gold
• Quakers – Russia With Love (Featuring Coin Locker Kid)
• El-P - The Jig Is Up
• Death Grips – System blower
• Jef Barbara – Les Homosexuelles

So here are 420 plus song introductions and accompanying animated album artwork. Good if you have a short attention span. Antagonising if you want to hear the whole track! You can’t help but love those Dewaele brothers can you?

More info:

• Radio Soulwax
• Introversy tracklisting (thx I So Bored)
• The Guardian: Soulwax’s mashup marathon

In case you missed it here’s the new video for Ed Muzik’s “A Song Falls In The Woods”.

Bit gutted because we were meant to be in the “audience” scene and finally get our 15 seconds of fame.

But we blew it.

Sorry Ed for not returning your calls. We weren’t listening. But your video is probably better for it.

For more info see http://pacificstandardtime.org

And if you thought this was Ice Cube’s first attempt at depicting modern Los Angeles, you’d be wrong. Here’s his 1988 documentary about the south central Los Angeles suburb of Compton…

For your Christmas/New Year lull viewing pleasure, here’s one of those classic TV moments you never thought would happen (well not back in 1990 anyway).

In 1990 Oprah Winfrey hosted a discussion about the PMRC (Parents Music Resource Centre) and their “Parental Advisory” labelling of records.  Guests on the show were Jello Biafra, Tipper Gore, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Juan Williams, Ice-T and Nelson George.

I remember watching it, by pure chance, one lunchtime in the RDU offices (it was my first year there) and with the dozen of so people milling about it was a real “WTF?” moment before any of us had ever used the term “WTF?”. I think that’s the effect of Oprah Winfrey reciting Ice-T and Guns N’ Roses lyrics cold. Someone should give her a record deal.

Another week, another pile of digitally archived Memorex VHS cassettes.

This is the second episode of the second series of the Snub TV and aired in, ummmm, 1991?

Making their TV debut are a young, cheeky Manic Street Preachers full of piss and vinegar but avoiding eye contact in an endearing adolescent way – “I’d rather never have to do more than 50 (concerts) in my whole life”, “We’ll never write a love song (or ballad) ever”.

Their feature starts at the 11:20 mark. Although it’s available elsewhere on t’internet in isolation, I like the context that the whole show provides.

Their peers in the same programme? Dinosaur Jr, Spirea X, The Pixies, The Darkside, The Scientist and Front Line Assembly.

Continuing the exploration of the pile of VHS cassettes that litter the Joint Mansion during our own personal Earthquake Recovery Process.

I think this mini Housemartins documentary was originally broadcast as part of BBC 2′s “Rock Around The Clock” music marathon on Saturday September 20th 1986. It might be horrifically twee and horribly dated but it has one saving grace (well, two if you include the performance of “Think For A Minute”). At just over the 3 minute mark there is footage of an impossibly young Norman Cook trying to mash up The Clash and Run DMC on a primitive looking pair of turntables.

For want of a better headline, I’m calling it Fatboy Slim’s debut TV appearance – nearly 10 years before he was even a gleam in Norman’s own eye.

As I begin to sort through all the boxes on the floor that have acted as my storage system in post-earthquake Christchurch, it’s time to make some hard choices – should it stay or should it go?

In the case of VHS cassettes the answer seems to be – go, but not before I digitize some of the contents. And then upload them.

So here’s the first in an occasional series of videos that don’t seem to be available elsewhere on the web.

It’s an early 80’s UK Channel 4 programme hosted by Tony Wilson compiling dozens of live music performances and interviews, all culled from So It Goes and other Granada TV programmes that he had hosted a few years earlier.

The Sex Pistols, The Clash, Buzzcocks, Iggy Pop, The Fall, Elvis Costello, Blondie, Penetration, Wreckless Eric, Ian Dury, Tom Robinson, Magazine, John Cooper Clarke, XTC and Joy Division, amongst others, are featured. Some of them are making their TV debuts.

The quality can be quite ropey at times (for reasons outside of my control and explained on screen) but enjoy.

Special thanks to the crew at Dangerous Minds, who have already featured the video in one of their posts.

Further fuzzy treats in the coming weeks – the first TV appearance of the Manic Street Preachers and Norman Cook as Fatboy Slim in 1984…