Author: The Joint

There are chardonnay socialists. And there are champagne socialists. And there are also vintage champagne socialists. But there are not many single malt socialists.

Iain Banks was one of the latter. His sharp wit, incredible imagination, fierce criticism of Tory ideology, defence of the underdog, unashamed appreciation of Porsche 911s and BMW M5s, and whisky research will be sorely missed.

While I tend to prefer Iain Banks “mainstream” fiction something I love about his science fiction novels, those featuring the utopian civilisation “The Culture”, is the absurd, silly and playful names he gave to the ships’ minds. See a full list on Wikipedia. So as a nerdy tribute to Mr Banks on the show today we got our robot to read out the registry of ships’ names over some nice Boards of Canada backing beats. Hope it didn’t wig you out too much.

• The Guardian: Iain Banks dies
• The Guardian: The final interview
• Wikipedia: Iain Banks

And here’s the playlist in full…

12pm – 1pm

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• Appleblim – Fluorescent
• Rihanna – Pour It Up (Araabmuzik Remix)
• Jungle by Night x Gaslamp Killer – High Times Ghost Town
• Bass Taco – Flip My Chips
• Foxsky – The Whip (Original Mix)
• Inland Knights – Back Chat (Sabo Moombahton Edit)
• Tommy Ill – Wood Floors **NZ**
• Mirage – Let’s Kiss
• Bibio – The First Daffodils

1pm – 2pm

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• Chain And The Gang – Certain Kinds Of Trash
• The Limiñanas – Belmondo
• Cosines – The Answer
• Gramme – Fascination
• Jon Hopkins – Form By Firelight
• Superjones – Straight Ruffneck (Featuring The Ragga Twins)
• Boards of Canada – Come to Dust
• Co-Real Artists – What About You
• Cx Kidtronik –  Shatterproof (Featuring Ruste Juxx, Mf Grimm, Infinit Evol, Sayyid Airborn)
• Appaloosa – Fill The Blanks
• Crocodiles – Teardop Guitar