The Show: It wasn’t meant to be an 80s bender. Honest.

Sananda Maitreya? No. Terence Trent D’Arby.

How did we get on a TTD kick today? Luckily we stopped short of actually playing any of his songs during the show but if you’re feeling bold try the above video – the first single off Terence’s 2nd album “Neither Fish Nor Flesh” from 1989. It’s worse than The Herb Whisperer remembers but better than he expected – if that makes any sense.

And here’s the playlist in full…

12pm – 1pm

+ Download 12pm – 1pm – 79MB

1pm – 2pm

+ Download 1pm – 2pm – 84MB

The Show: Ultimate 80’s Nightmare

Unfortunately no podcast again this week – our temporary home studio set up has failed us once again resulting in a recording similar in quality to a cassette bootleg of a Jesus & Mary Chain concert from 1984, only much, much less interesting than that implies.

However, here’s the playlist in full…

12pm – 1pm

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1pm – 2pm

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The Show: Return Of The Heavyweights

Dickheads?
Dickheads?

M83, Speech Debelle and Deano von Lounge – all of them back after lengthy absences from the show and all of them packing new tunes.

For the highly attentive listener there is an (anti?) RWC 2011 flavoured easter egg hidden in the show. Full credit for that particularly snippet goes to Roy & HG.

And here’s the playlist in full…

12pm – 1pm

  • Aquarius Heaven – Universe
  • Canblaster – Timemaster’s Chronicles
  • Canblaster – Clockworks
  • Betty Harris – 12 Red Roses
  • Sarah Vaughan – I Got The Blues
  • Maxine Brown – It’s Torture
  • Annisteen Allen – Take A Chance On Me
  • The Charmaines – I Idolise You
  • Etta James – 7 Day Fool
  • Speech Debelle –  Blaze Up A Fire (featuring Roots Manuva & Realism)
  • Mathieu SantosNorthern Mentality (Friendly Ghost Remix)
  • I Break Horses –  Winter Beats
  • Beastwars – Damn The Sky **NZ**
  • Prince Buster – Texas Hold Up
  • Mike Pedicin – Burnt Toast & Black Coffee
  • Ace St. Clair – Crazy Flu
  • Big Dee Irwin – I’m Happy Being Fat
  • Charlie Sheffield – Get Your Voodoo Working

+ Download 12pm – 1pm – 84MB

1pm – 2pm

  • Mulatu Astatke – Yegelle Tezeta
  • Manny Corchado – Pow Wow
  • Ray Barretto – Mercy, Mercy Me
  • Anandar Shankar – Jumpin Jack Flash
  • Return Of Macka Brown –  Dub Heaven (Edit)
  • Distal –  Angry Acid
  • King Creosote & Jon Hopkins –  Bubble
  • M83 –  Intro (featuring Zola Jesus)
  • Scala – Heart Of Glass
  • Alex Gopher – Motorcycle (Wet Clutch Mix)
  • Arthur Baker vs New Order – Confusion (Output’s Nu-Rocktro Version)
  • New Order – Waiting For The Siren’s Call (Planet Funk Remix)
  • Unkle – Ape Shall Never Kill Ape (Super Remix)

+ Download 1pm – 2pm – 84MB

The Show: Christchurch Heats Up. We Break Out The Local Stuff.

"The Citizen Kane of its genre" - Mark Kermode
"The Citizen Kane of its genre" - Mark Kermode

Maybe The Herb Whisperer went over the top in his enthusiasm for the film and maybe Mark Kermode is damning the movie with faint praise, but it is still worth watching and it is still the best band movie The Joint has seen.

Well, apart from That’ll Be The Day. And maybe the sequel Stardust. Possibly It Couldn’t Happen Here as well – if we ever get a chance to watch it. Shit. What about Head as well?

And here’s the playlist in full…

12pm – 1pm

+ Download 12pm – 1pm – 74MB

Apologies for the sound quality, our state of the art recording gear is in storage at the moment.

1pm – 2pm

+ Download 1pm – 2pm – 93MB

Again, apologies for the sound quality.

Mulchzoid “Gravy Train”

Mulchzoid aka David Mulcahy Esquire was listening to the show last Saturday afternoon and upon hearing us play Ed Muzik’s “EQC Are Looking At My House” felt compelled to indulge in some one-upmanship by letting us know about his track “Gravy Train” from his brand new (free download) album “Neck”.

Turns out that Mulchzoid very kindly sent us a copy of his album a while back but The Herb Whisperer has got the EQC painters in and the album is AWOL somewhere in his house.

Download Mulchzoid’s “Neck” album for yourself. It’s free and legit. And it has some lovely pop numbers like “The Saladeater” (with Neu basslines) and “Punch Drunk Giddy” (with Robert Palmer “Addicted to love” intro action).

Best of all, “Darkness Sublime”, first single off the album, might just be my favourite song of 2011 so far. Sneakily it has two videos, one for the US MTV market and one for the Al Jazeera Middle East market. Both videos are below and I’ll let you figure out which video is designed for which market.