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Saturday 27 June 2009Sunday 7 December 2014

The show: Michael Jackson tragibute. A threesome with Mos Def. Mrs Herb Whisperer drops in.

And here’s the legendary Cassetteboy with possibly the greatest Michael Jackson tragibute of all time…

We’ve always enjoyed those Cassetteboy scallywags. Get your fill at these places:

There are many MJ tributes doing the rounds but here is our truly favourite MJ moment. It was when Jarvis Cocker invaded the stage at the 1996 BRIT Awards to protest Michael Jackon’s messiah complex. Brilliant stuff. It’s what rock n roll™ is all about.

And here’s today’s playlist in full…

12pm – 1pm

Cassetteboy – Apple cak
Holy Ghost! – I will come back
Boy Crisis – Dressed to digress (Nero remix)
Rubies – Diamonds on fire (Pyramid Dub Version by Sorcerer)
Mulchzoid – Cruising **NZ**
Air France – GBG belongs to us
The Emperor Machine – You capper
The Cone of Silence: Michael Jackson tragibute
- Cassetteboy – Apple cak
- The Esso Trinidad Steel Band – I want you back
- The Jackson 5 – ABC
- Michael Jackson – Rock with you
Lost Valentinos – Midnights (The Emperor Machine remix)

1pm – 2pm

Mrs Herb Whisperer drops in…
- My Toys Like Us – Quiet please
- Elbow – Grounds for divorce
- Delphic – Counterpoint
Chateau Marmont – Beagle
James Yuill – This sweet love (Prins Thomas sneaky edit)
This is Not The Christchurch Sound Vol 3 – Dubstep
- Truth – Payback **NZ**
- Dutty Ranks – Clash **NZ**
- Ilwrath – Tilt the cart **NZ**
- Rudementary Bwoys – Muddlehead
Mos Def – Supermagic
Mos Def – Auditorium
Mos Def – Quiet dog
Oh No – Heavy
Sheena Easton – Sugar walls

No podcast this week sorry.

Saturday 20 June 2009Friday 20 November 2015

The show: The Herb Whisperer is carbon negative and is now on hiatus. Fraserhead will hold the fort.

Earlier this week our accountant shocked us with the news that The Herb Whisperer is carbon negative – not carbon neutral like we originally thought. To get him to a point where he is carbon neutral will involve him expending a lot of carbon by making lots of international flights. This means The Herb Whisperer will be on hiatus over the next several months.

Hiatus is not a country in the Caribbean. In fact, The Herb Whisperer has taken up semi-permanent residence in The Andrew Ridgeley Suite at Club Tropicana on the Gold Coast in AUstralia. This involves a lot of poolside action and being served pinacoladas by George Michael lookalikes. The Gold Coast is one of the weirder parts of world.

This does mean that the podcast is out of action for a while.

But it also means that in the secluded privacy of the RDU studio Fraserhead, as well as continue doing the show, can just sit there watching classy music videos by Make The Girl Dance for their new single “Baby Baby Baby”. If you look closely, you will notice that the video image is mirrored (eg. shop names are backwards). Yes, Fraserhead notices things like this.

And here’s today’s playlist in full…

12-1pm

Lindstrom & Solale “Baby I can’t stop”
John Lord Fonda “So far away”
Bottin “Horror disco”
Sola Rosa “The ace of space” **NZ**
The Horrors “Scarlet fields”
Jon Lajoie “Not giving a fuck!”
Gossip “Heavy cross” (Fred Falke remix)
Quad Throw Salchow “Speed”
Bon Jovi “Livin’ on a prayer”
Beastie Boys “Brass monkey”
Spank Rock “Far left”
M.I.A. “Paper planes” (DFA remix)

1-2pm

Justice “Waters of Nazareth”
Michael Jackson “Thriller”
Fenech-Soler “The cult of romance” (Alan Braxe remix)
Van She “Virgin suicide”
The Beatles “Flying”
Nosaj Thing “Caves”
Make The Girl Dance “My name is breezy”
Make The Girl Dance “Baby baby baby”
Black Meteoric Star “Death tunnel”
Galaxy Sound Company “Shake it up”
The Fall “British people in hot weather”
Colder “Colder”
Alan Braxe & Fred Falke “You’ll stay in my heart”

No podcast this week sorry.

Saturday 13 June 2009Friday 20 November 2015

The show: Hello, everyone, it’s nice to be here

12pm – 1pm

DatA “Blood Theme”
ELLEN ALLIEN “Washing Machine Is Speaking”
GALAXY SOUND COMPANY “Shake It Up”
BLACK METEORIC STAR “Domination”
MIIKE SNOW VS PETER BJORN & JOHN “It Don’t Move Me”
NEW ORDER “Sooner Than You Think”
KING MIDAS SOUND “I Dub”
L QUE “Too Much Coffee” **NZ**
CHAMPION DJ “Baako”
KING KAPISI “Elimination Process” **NZ**
NICKI MINAJ “Still I Rise”
MATT AND KIM “Lessons Learned”

Download 12pm – 1pm here

1pm – 2pm

PHOENIX “Lisztomania (Classixx Version)”
MAGIC WANDS “Black Magic (The XX Remix)”
DIMMER “I Believe You Are A Star”
EUREKA BROWN “Full Speed Ahead”
EUREKA BROWN “I Told You So”
EUREKA BROWN “Yes No Maybe So”
STEED LORD “Feel The Heat”
CHAPTERHOUSE “Pearl”
HIS CLANCYNESS “Nothing And Nowhere To Go”
SPACELEX “Pretty Face”
FREDERIC MERCIER “Pacific”
NOIZY B “Fiendhood”
TIMBERLEE “We Nuh Give A Damn”

Download 1pm – 2pm here

2pm – 3pm

QUAD THROW SALCHOW “Chrome September”
THE PAN I AM “Firedance”
bIG fLAME “Debra (Live)”
MAGIC WANDS “Warrior (Defend Moscow Mix)”
READE TRUTH “Another Dilemma”
AFRIKAN BOY “I Go Chop’am”
DISCOROCKETS “Venetian”
GUI BORATTO “Take My Breath Away”
GARY WAR “Everynight”
MONOTONIX “Ride”
SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO “Synthesise”
PAGAN WANDERER LU “The Gentlemen’s Game”

Download 2pm – 3pm here

Saturday 6 June 2009Friday 20 November 2015

The show: So sentimental, not sentimental no

12pm – 1pm

PHOENIX “Lisztomania”
THE GOLDEN FILTER “Favourite Things”
FRIENDLY FIRES featuring AU REVOIR SIMONE “Paris (Aeroplane Remix)”
BOY CRISIS “Dressed To Digress (Nero Remix)”
DEM HUNGER “Balloon Rasta”
CHATEAU MARMONT “Solar Apex”
GNAWA NJOUM EXPERIENCE “Kami Ni Mantara”
L QUE “Hey Youth Man”
GUILTY SIMPSON featuring J DILLA “Stress”
NOTES TO SELF featuring DILATED PEOPLES “Yellow & Grey Remix”
DEM HUNGER “Red Arsehole”

Download 12pm – 1pm here

1pm – 2pm

THE RUBY SUNS “Look Out SOS!” **NZ**
RADIANT DRAGON “Cloud Seeding”
QUAD THROW SALCHOW “Speed”
THE HORRORS “Scarlet Fields”
WHITE ROSE MOVEMENT “Cigarette Machine (Club Mix)”
DatA “One In A Million”
DatA “So Much In Love”
DatA “Nightmare”
TIMBERLEE “Backdoor Delivery”
LYDIA LUNCH “Another Man Comin’ (While The Bed Is Still Warm)”
CAN “Future Days”

Download 1pm – 2pm here

2pm – 3pm

SUBWAY “Xam”
L QUE “Too Much Coffee” **NZ**
NICKI MINAJ “Beam Me Up Scotty”
THE COVENTRY AUTOMATICS “Blank Expression”
THE COVENTRY AUTOMATICS “Concrete Jungle”
THE COVENTRY AUTOMATICS “Dawning Of A New Era”
THE ROBOT DISASTER “Guitars Are Over Rated”
THE XX “Teardrops”
NEILS CHILDREN “Communique”
RQ “Beatnik” **NZ**
ED MUZIK “Disco Casualty” **NZ**
ROSE ELINOR DOUGALL “Start Stop Synchro”

Download 2pm – 3pm here

Saturday 30 May 2009Sunday 7 December 2014

The show: DatA. Auto-Tune.

We haven’t figured out if he is officially DatA or datA or DaTa or Data or dAtA. Usually this mixed-case fetish would ring alarm bells and play havoc with our nerdy iTunes naming conventions but David Guillon has just released the funnest, guilty pleasure of an electro album for 2009 in the form of “Skywriter”.

Maybe the sugar rush will wear off but loved it so much had to play three tracks on the show today. Love the wailing guitars and emo sentiments (“Rapture”), vocoders (“So much in love”), and even more wailing guitars and synth stabs (“Renaissance Theme”).

Can’t believe we made it through that last paragraph without once mentioning Alan Braxe, Fred Falke or Justice.

More info about DatA at:

Possibly the weirdest and most disturbing track we played on the show today was “Baako” by DJ Champion. The track features heavy use of a sample of a baby crying – run through Auto-Tune software.

Jace Clayton recently wrote about the Auto-Tune phenomenon in “Pitch Perfect” in Frieze magazine. Auto-Tune first gained mainstream fame/infamy with Cher’s 1998 single “Believe”. North African musicians have embraced it for the last decade to bizarre effect. Many music critics now blame it for the world’s social ills. But Jace Clayton argues a really good “defence” for its use – it’s just another technology that can be used well or misused. James Marcus also covers the issue nicely in his House of Mirth blog.

Still doesn’t beat the fun and silliness of an old school vocoder though.

And here’s the playlist in full…

12pm – 1pm