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The Show: Macrodata Refinement

Starting the show off at a blistering pace with a track from the new Blair Parkes album “over board”, available right now on bandcamp.

You can still listen to the recent Karyn Hay interview with Blair over at the RNZ website, wherein he talks about his favourite local tunes and the seemingly arbitrary, fluid nature of the names of Christchurch suburbs, long a bugbear at The Joint mansions.

Say, say, say, say summat to me

On an unrelated note, we can’t help imagining that Caroline Polachek is attempting a broad Yorkshire accent during at least part of her latest song.

And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 19 February 2022

Notebooks out completists, here’s the playlist in full…

  • BLAIR PARKES – far
  • THE KVB – World On Fire
  • FAUZIA – swirl
  • MR BLOE – Groovin’ With Mr.Bloe
  • TRAMHAUS – I Don’t Sweat
  • FIRST FRONTIER – Jagged Line
  • KILO KISH – NEW TRICKS: ART, AESTHETICS, AND MONEY (featuring Vince Staples)
  • AUDIOBOOKS – Tryna Tryna Take Control
  • CAROLINE POLACHEK – Billions
  • WHATEVER THE WEATHER – 17°C
  • ICEBOY VIOLET – DEATHDRIVE
  • DJ NIGGA FOX – Sasuke
  • HIGHSCHOOL – Forever At Last

[Wellness Session] *

  • LINGUA IGNOTA – KATIE CRUEL
  •  J.J. JOHNSON – Parade Strut (Instrumental)
  • FLY ANAKIN – No Dough
  • DÄLEK – Decimation (Dis Nation)
  • MOTHER MOTHER – Hayloft II
  • SLAYYYTER – Stupid Boy (featuring Big Freedia)
  • YUNÈ PINKU – Affection
  • ORVILLE PECK – C’mon Baby, Cry
  • PAWAS – Naja (Bawrut Remix) (featuring Arooj Aftab)
  • YUNG SMARTRIDER – Night Of Solace
  • L’OBJECTIF – Same Thing

[Wellness Session] *

  • DAVID HOLMES – It’s Over, If We Run Out Of Love (featuring Raven Violet)
  • RILLA – Get Up Eight
  • NA-KEL SMITH – PRAYER
  • ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA – 10538 Overture
  • HEAVENLY – I Know What You Mean
  • LUNA LI – Silver Into Rain (featuring beabadoobee)
  • THE COOL KIDS, SIR MICHAEL ROCKS & CHUCK INGLISH – It’s Yours, Pt. 2
  • TELEFÍS –  Falun Gong Dancer (Donkey’s Gudge Dub) (featuring Jah Wobble)
  • SPICE – Different Category
  • 19 GADI PIRMS SĀKUMA – Nakts Ir Mana Zemapziņa
  • FAUZIA – low!
  • ROSALÍA – SAOKO

* The inspiration for this week’s lyrical heading.

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The Show: ASMR.

ASMR. It’s not just about whispering, scrunching leaves and brushing hair. With a little bit of ingenuity you can incorporate it into hip hop. Or even comedy.

And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 05 February 2022

Notebooks out completists, here’s the playlist in full…

  • 2 MANY DJS – Blue Monday Mix
  • NAJA NAJA – Dong Dong
  • MELODY’S ECHO CHAMBER – Looking Backward
  • SOFIA KOURTESIS – Estación Esperanza (featuring Manu Chao)
  • FORT ROMEAU – Untitled IV
  • DONORMAAL – Nervous (ASMR)

[Joe Pera talks you back to sleep]

  • SUSAN CADOGAN – Hurts So Good
  • ODDITY – Glide
  • TRAMHAUS – Karen Is A Punk (Roodkapje Sessions)
  • HATENA – ME
  • COUCOU CHLOE – WIZZ
  • M D EMM – Get Down
  • NA-KEL SMITH – HARVARD GRAD
  • PROGEDIA – Down (The Bug G36 Remix)
  • SUBSTANCE810 – The Bones (featuring Supreme Cerebral)
  • WIDOWSPEAK – While You Wait
  • NEAL FRANCIS – Alameda Apartments
  • HOMEBOY SANDMAN – Keep That Same Energy

[Joe Pera talks you back to sleep]

  • PJ HARVEY – The Wheel (Demo)
  • DENZEL CURRY – Walkin
  • NILÜFER YANYA – Midnight Sun
  • SKULLY – Austin Powers
  • BEKAH CC – Take Me To The Roof
  • WET LEG – Material Girl (SiriusXMU Sessions)
  • TIRESIAS – Un Bar En Hiver
  • SHANGHAI BABY – Congratulations
  • COMSAT ANGELS – Independence Day
  • U.S. VELVET – U.S. Velvet
  • ESHAM – Off Duty
  • BODEGA – Thrown
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The Show: Remember I was your hippo, I’d wear your heart like a Zippo

First up, let us acknowledge that the misheard lyric meme is tired, dated and had burnt itself out way before memes even existed.

Having said that, we did have cause to stop and stare in wonder at our speakers the other week when we listened to the opening verse of The Weeknd’s “Less Than Zero”. The accompanying  lyric video confirmed that we had misunderstood the words and that the couplet in question wasn’t actually hippo & Zippo but hero & symbol.

Far be it from us to advise Mr. Tesfaye on song writing, but we just can’t help but feel that our take is slightly better.  After all, it does actually rhyme. Plus, no matter what anybody tells us, we still hear a song about semiaquatic mammals and lighters.

And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 22 January 2022

Notebooks out completists, here’s the playlist in full…

  • MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA – Planetary Citizen
  • THE WEEKND – Gasoline
  • TAPE HISS – La Tirimbina
  • ERIS DREW – Time To Move Close
  • HOLODRUM – Free Advice
  • PRINCE JAZZBO – Replay Version
  • LONE – ROYGBIV
  • ROBERT GLASPER – Black Superhero
  • ARAB STRAP – Aphelion
  • TONY GALLARDO – Bruja
  • GUERILLA TOSS – Cannibal Capital
  • BLACK SHEEP – Flavor Of The Month
  • ANITA LANE – Do That Thing
  • RÖYKSOPP – The Ladder
  • CATE LE BON – Remembering Me
  • EARMAKE – Space Disco
  • CASSETTEBOY – Rage Against The Party Machine
  • EARL SWEATSHIRT – Titanic
  • ROLO TOMASSI – Closer
  • DOMINIQUE LAWALREE – Le Maison Des 5 Elements (First Meeting)
  • HAZEY – Packs and Potions
  • LEATHER RATS – Fuck Shit Up (live)
  • NIK COLK VOID – Interruption Is Good (edit)
  • THE KVB – Unbound
  • THE WEEKND – Less Than Zero *
  • SECTORSEPT – Be There
  • ACID COCO – Cara Dura
  • SHENSEEA – Dolly
  • KING CHAMPION SOUNDS – Telemetry
  • ROGER ROBINSON & RICHARD SKELTON – Where (“The Life We Knew” Version)
  • KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD – Black Hot Soup (DJ Shadow “My Own Reality” Re-Write)

* The misheard inspiration for this week’s lyrical heading.

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The Show: Cleanin’ out our closet

In the absence of any spare time during the holiday season to listen to our usual quota of new tunes, we’ve had to re-examine the songs that didn’t make the playlist cut first time around.

Good job too. How could we have originally overlooked Eris Drew’s attempt to cram 30+ years of classic dance music loops, beats, breaks and samples into one album? Or the post-punk crunch of M(h)aol? Or Lucy Duncombe’s soaring, sweeping voice? Or… or… or…

Direct download: The Joint – 8 January 2022

Notebooks out completists, here’s the playlist in full…

  • DONNAY SOLDIER – Goodbye Amerleaf Yellow
  • EX-EASTER ISLAND HEAD – Six Sticks
  • SOPHIE AND PETER JOHNSTON – Television Satellite
  • PIRI & TOMMY VILLIERS – Soft Spot
  • KUSH JONES – Fuck Off
  • ERIS DREW – The Message / Ride Free
  • TOM T. HALL – Strawberry Farms
  • LYRA PRAMUK & HUDSON MOHAWKE – Tendril (Midnight Peach Rework)
  • SIMPLE MINDS – New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) (Full Duration)
  • HORRID1 X SAV’O – Daily Duppy @ Grm Daily
  • ROGER ROBINSON & RICHARD SKELTON – Edgcote Moor (“Say Goodbye” Version)
  • LUCY DUNCOMBE – Brace
  • JUST MUSTARD – I Am You
  • K.G.B. – Detroit 909
  • SOMBRA Y LUZ – Sueño Almohade (Richard Fribert Rework)
  • DOSS – Look
  • ERIS DREW – Pick ‘Em Up
  • SEA POWER – Lakeland Echo
  • KATIE DEY – In the Sky
  • LATTO – Super Gremlin Freestyle
  • WILLIAM DOYLE – Semi-Bionic
  • M(H)AOL – Gender Studies
  • P E – The Reason for My Love
  • CREMATION LILY – A Certain Fragrance
  • iMAGiNARY FRiENDS (CHUUWEE and iMAGiNARY OTHER) – Milk (Instrumental)
  • ERIS DREW – Baby
  • ROLO TOMASSI – Drip
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The Show: So goodbye I’m a-leavin’

RIP Robbie Shakespeare…

Not sure if “Boops (Here To Go)” is the song he’d most want to be remembered for but it’s in today’s playlist because it’s an 80’s cut-n-paste classic here at The Joint HQ.

…RIP Steve Bronski…

We managed to sneak in part of the 12″ version of “Smalltown Boy” to pay our respects. To fully appreciate the continuing relevance of that song we recommend this recent BBC Soul Music podcast.

… and RIP Mike Nesmith

This news came in too late for us to celebrate his life on the show but he was our favourite Monkee, wrote one of our all time favourite tunes * and we happen to be part way through his autobiography.

And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 11 December 2021

Notebooks out completists, here’s the playlist in full…

    • GRANDADDY / JASON LYTLE – It Was A Silent Night At Least Until Jeff Lynne Arrived
    • DIVIDE AND DISSOLVE – Denial (BEARCAT Remix)
    • JARVIS COCKER – Swanky Modes (Dennis Bovell Dubmix)
    • MATTIEL – Freedom Feels
    • THE GODZ – Radar Eyes
    • JACKIE EXTREME – SIREN SONG
    • FLY ANAKIN – Ghost (Featuring Nickelus F)
    • WET LEG – Too Late Now
    • CHASTITY BELT – Fake
    • PINKPANTHERESS – just for me
    • ACEMO – Perpetrator
    • SLY & ROBBIE – Boops (Here To Go)
    • LEATHER RATS – Stab You With A Knife (Live)
    • OBAY ALSHARANI – Cocoon
    • NICK NICELY – Hilly Fields (1892)
    • SKEE MASK – Stone Cold 369
    • $&$ – AGP
    • CANNIBAL OX – Abyss
    • INVT – Super Galactic
    • CULTS – Beach Ball
    • SPENCER. – byyyte
    • MR CLIFFNOTE – HELLO NURSE
    • BURUNDI BLACK – Burundi Black
    • TANYA TAGAQ – Colonizer (Tundra Mix)
    • TRENTEMØLLER – Dead or Alive
    • EARL SWEATSHIRT – 2010
    • PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING – Lichtspiel III: Symphonie Diagonale
    • MILDRED MAUDE – Trevena
    • NUGLIFE & FRANKIEOG – The Furthest Sea Remix (featuring Fly Anakin & Guilty Simpson)
    • EGO ELLA MAY – For The Both Of Us

* The inspiration for this week’s lyrical heading.