The Joint presents… OMELETTES 003

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Omelettes… a quick and easy way for us to whisk up a collection of tunes currently whetting our appetite.

In OMELETTES 003 the main ingredients that came to hand were hazy, dreamy pop tunes and dark synths and moods from the likes of PURO INSTINCT, YUMI ZOUMA, NITE JEWEL, DESIRE, FAZERDAZE, FATIMA, CHROMATICS, TINY RUINS, LANA DEL REY, ÉLAN VITAL, ALAEXANDRA ATNIF, HELENA CELLE, INSTANT FANTASY, and PURPLE PILGRIMS.


PLAYLIST

Direct download: OMELETTES 003

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The Joint presents… OMELETTES 002

The Joint presents... OMELETTES 002

Omelettes… a quick and easy way for us to whisk up a collection of tunes currently whetting our appetite.

In OMELETTES 002 the main ingredients that came to hand were bleepy and soothing beats from the likes of CHCH NZ denizens HAAN-808, SHELDON WILLIAMS, RAFEEKI, L̶o̶s̶t̶ ̶T̶e̶m̶p̶l̶e̶, as well as beats further afield from WARREN RAWW, LONE, FELIX LEIFUR, and many more. Bon appetit.


PLAYLIST

Direct download: OMELETTES 002

Photo of Len Deighton and Michael Caine via The Guardian.

The Joint presents… OMELETTES 001

The Joint presents... OMELETTES 001

Yeah, we’re on hiatus, but withdrawal symptoms got the better of us. OMELETTES is a quick and easy way for us to whisk up a collection of tunes currently whetting our appetite.

No bangers. Just OMELETTES. With a little seasoning. Best of all, no yapping from us! Feel free to suggest fillings as we refine the recipe.

More whims, on a very irregular schedule, soon to follow.

Meantime, for your listening pleasure, here is OMELETTES 001.


PLAYLIST

Direct download: OMELETTES 001

Photo of Len Deighton and Michael Caine via The Guardian.

The Show: Game over

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Greetings friends, family, whānau.

Today is our last show before we head off on an indefinite sabbatical. Other commitments mean we need to take a break for a while.

The Joint first broadcast on RDU way back in July 2001 when the frequency was still 98.3FM. We started out on Sunday afternoons but after a while switched to Saturday afternoons. The reasons are lost in the mists of time.

By our really rough and unscientific calculations we reckon we’ve done 665 shows so far. That makes this final show today episode number 666. Not a shabby effort really. To put that in some completely unrelated context Ryan Giggs made 672 league appearances for Manchester United and David O’Leary made 558 league appearance for Arsenal.

Thank you for all your kind messages via Facebook, Twitter and the RDU text machine. It was a blast.

To paraphrase and plagiarise James Murphy…

Yeah, we lost our edge
The kids came up from behind
We lost our edge to the kids
From France and from London
And from Christchurch
But we were there
We lost our edge to better-looking people
With better ideas and more talent
And they’re actually really, really nice

xox
Ka kite ano
The Herb Whisperer & Fraserhead

Direct download: The_Joint_2016-04-09-12-16.mp3

Here’s the playlist in full…

RIP David Robert Jones (1947 – 2016)

The Joint curse strikes again ™.

Early yesterday evening I emailed The Herb Whisperer about David Bowie’s new “Blackstar” album and said this “doesn’t sound near-death like the last album.”

Half an hour later David Bowie’s death was announced.

Feel like a right jinxing cnut now.

RIP Mr Jones.

xox Fraserhead