The show: Reduce me, seduce me, dress me up in Stüssy*

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

Download 12pm – 1pm here (m4a / aac file) – Technical difficulties for the second week in a row. So, apologies, no spiffing m4a / aac formats. Scroll down to get the mp3 version instead.

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

Download 1pm – 2pm here (m4a / aac file) – Technical difficulties for the second week in a row. So, apologies, no spiffing m4a / aac formats. Scroll down to get the mp3 version instead.

Alternatively, this is the raw, unpasteurized version of the show in mp3 format. No chapters, pictures or links. Slightly less quality. Otherwise the audio content is the same as the two files above. The choice is yours…..

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