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Force Majeure II

The New Sheffield Students' Union Media Development Co-ordinator
The New Sheffield Students' Union Media Development Co-ordinator

We’re still denied access to the RDU studios after last weekend’s earthquake so no show again.

In the meantime why not listen to some proper DJ’s. Here’s Mary Anne Hobbs final radio broadcast for BBC Radio 1 that went out earlier this week. Entitled “Mary Anne’s Send Off Show“, it includes a special farewell collaborative mix from Kode9 and Burial.

Mary Anne Hobbs:

1. Drumcorps – Terrible Things
2. Vex’d – Lion VIP
3. Braiden – The Alps
4. Gonja Sufi & The Gaslamp Killer – Change
5. Jahbitat & Daniel Gutteriez – Tonado Tel Tormento
6. Uma Thurman & John Travolta – Fox Force Five Joke
7. Sepalcure – Your Love
8. Rakim – I Know You Got Soul Version
9. Al’Tourettes – Swan Sketch
10. Subtle – Long Vein Of The Law (featuring Mike Patton and Alexis Anne)
11. Jacques Green – Tell Me
12. Misty In Roots – Mankind
13. Aphex Twin – ‘i’
14. Burial – Fostercare

+ Part 1/ 3 – 46 Mb mp3

Kode9 And Burial

1. Speedy J – Tesla
2. Zomby – Natalia’s Song
3. Brandy – Never Say Never (El-B Version 1)
4. Brandy – Never Say Never (El-B Version 2)
5. Brandy – Angel (X-Men Vocal Mix)
6. Laurie Spiegel – Voices Within – A Requiem
7. Alena – Turn It Around (Hard House Bantons Mandy Mix)
8. Cooly G – He Da Biz
9. Theo Parrish – Soul Control (featuring Alena Waters)
10. KMFH aka Kyle Hall – Girl U So Strong (Wild Oats)
11. Terror Danjah – S.O.S.
12. Darkstar – 2 Chords
13. Prince – Condition of the Heart
14. Erykah Badu – Telephone
15. Foul Play – Being With U Rmx
16. A Guy Called Gerald – Silent Cry

+ Part 2/ 3 – 33 Mb mp3

Mary Anne Hobbs

01. Kode9 – Black Sun
02. Method Man – Release Yo’ Delf (Prodigy Remix)
03. Mosca – Nike (Club Edit)
04. Monkey Mafia – Work Mi Body (featuring Patra & scratches by Krash Slaughta)
05. Ikonika – Yoshimitsu
06. Pudge – Awesome
07. Airhead – Paper Street
08. Billie Holiday – Yesterdays (Junior Boys Remix)
09. Seaming – Vertigo Billy
10. Claro Intelecto – Beautiful Death
11. Ms Dynamite & Oris Jay – Tes Dis

+ Part 3/ 3 – 32 Mb mp3

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Mount Pleasant “The Flood” LP

Mount Pleasant "The Flood" LP

On the show last Saturday I was being a little bit cheeky when I described the new Mount Pleasant LP “The Flood” as being the perfect soundtrack for David Lynch’s remake of “American Psycho”.

In hindsight I don’t think I was too far wrong. This album pushes my buttons. Jonathan Phillips is sneaky like that. “The Flood” comes across as more of a sketchbook than the final, finished article and that’s why I like it.

With woozy cover versions of songs that I really hated in my childhood (Bruce Springsteen’s “On Fire”, Stevie Nicks’ “Sara”, and Phil Collins’ “Sussudio”) but now sort of like (not in an ironic way – it’s more like Stockholm Music Syndrome), lots of loud/quiet dreamy pop (“In The City”), dropouts and cutouts, glitches, snares and keyboards this is my kind of (un)easy listening.

The kicker for me is the final track on the album – a cover of Roy Orbison’s “In Dreams” – one of my favourite songs of all time. I can still remember the first time I saw Dean Stockwell camply and menacingly mime the song in Blue Velvet. I was terrified and had strange dreams for weeks afterwards. It was my initiation into the weird universe of David Lynch. I have a hunch that Jonathan Phillips resides in a corner of that same universe.

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Tono and the Finance Company “Fragile Thing” EP

Tono and the Finance Company "Fragile Things" EP

I was at Galaxy Records yesterday on the hunt for the Tono and the Finance Company 2008 EP “Love and Economics” when I discovered that Dave had the newish “Fragile Thing” EP in stock. So I bought it (#147 of 300 I’ll have you know).

Damn nice EP too. Throughout I hear faint traces of  Paul Banks, Stephen Malkmus, and Graeme Downes (… the curse of a music geek making comparisons sorry). “Tuesday Afternoon” has been getting a thrashing on RDU lately. Title track is fantastic. And “Politics Will Make You Miserable” is possibly the best Smiths song that Morrissey and Marr never wrote.

I’m not usually one for “singer/songwriters” (I honestly have real trouble hearing lyrics in music – I usually tune into the bassline) but something about Anthonie Tonnon really appeals to me. Perhaps it’s because he has balls to keep things loose and slightly rough around the edges (don’t tell him I said that last bit okay)?

Reviewers describe him as being “ironic”. Can’t stand that term myself. I prefer “witty”. At a stretch “quirky”.

Here’s the recent Cheese On Toast interview:

More info:

As a bonus, here’s that freakish video for “Love and Economics”…

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Barcelona win. We lose our life savings. The party at Chateau Marmont is off.

Man Utd play for 9 minutes of the European Cup Final. Barcelona score to make it 1-0. Exhibition of creative and dominating Catalan midfield wizardry follows. Another Barca goal to end it 2-0. Sadly not the 7-6 we predicted. Even more sadly, all our life savings went on that sure bet. Hence no big party for us all at Chateau Marmont, Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, Los Angeles.

Speaking of which, Chateau Marmont is also the name of a rather tasty French synth outfit. They’ve remixed the likes of Ladyhawke, Koko von Napoo, and La Roux and end of last year released their debut EP “Solar Apex” on Institubes. Definitely one for fans of Air, Jean Michel Jarre, Giorgio Moroder, Jean Michel Moroder, and Giorgio Jarre.

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Jet Jaguar is our special guest star this Saturday!

Wow. For once all that stalking paid off!

Jet Jaguar aka Michael Upton is dropping into The Joint this Saturday to play some of his new tunes.

As well as appearing to be the politest person in the NZ music “scene” Jet Jaguar has been making classy mellow beats forever (well, since 1996 – check his discography). We promise to be nice to him.

Linky dinks…