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TISM “Whatareya?”

Currently listening to Michael Daly’s Australian music special on RDU’s Vintage Cuts. Early on he played the Regurgitator classic (from 1997) “I Like Your Old Stuff Better Than Your New Stuff” which for some reason, every time I hear it,  I always mistake it for TISM.

So, in case I forget to play it on the show next week, here’s TISM and their 1998 single “Whatareya?“. Any band who wears masks, was rumoured to be The Wiggles in disguise (!!!), is friends with John Safran, and can write catchy pop songs is all right with me…

And as an added bonus, here’s another TISM classic video from 1998 “Thunderbirds Are Coming Out”…

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The show: Nice weather for ducks

Ah. Sun showers. My favourite. Too nice for dubstep. Too changeable for summery pop. How about a smattering of bleepy, acidic techno and house instead? Yes, that’ll do the trick.

Reminds me that we must play this classic on the show sometime soon…

But if you need something really colourful and crazy check out the Miike Snow “Rabbit” video. It’s got everything. Kid with beard, booty, crazy colours, AND 2 Live Crew. Thx for the tip off Mercutio Messenger…

And here’s the playlist in full…

12pm – 1pm

+ Download 12pm – 1pm – 82MB

1pm – 2pm

+ Download 1pm – 2pm – 89.5MB

As promised, here’s a bonus hour of music – it’s the beatless set Optimo put together for FACT Mix 214

+ Download – 87.7MB

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The show: 2011-01-22 (Reprise)

 

Radio New Zealand said "Fuck Fuck Buttons", apparently.
Radio New Zealand said "Fuck Fuck Buttons", apparently.

In light of the fact that there will be 33% less of The Joint for the foreseeable future, we’ll increase our on-line only content to try and redress the balance with a series of exclusive (add heavy air quotes around that last word) mixes, interviews, other podcasts and assorted oddities.

First up we’re boldly going to go where Radio New Zealand fears to tread. David Klein is both a friend of The Joint and the Wednesday Drive host on RDU. He also occasionally moonlights as a contributor to Music 101, the additional income helping him to indulge his secret penchance for chinchilla fur accessories.

Only once has the national radio station declined to broadcast one of his interviews – the one he conducted with Ben Power from the magnificent Fuck Buttons. We’re sure David explained to us at the RDU Christmas Party at Goodbye Blue Monday as to why his submission was returned to him, but we were paying more attention to trying to score another free pint of Bodgie Beer. However, we still agreed to post the item so it wasn’t lost forever.

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The show: Deano von Lounge pays a visit

Deano von Lounge
Deano von Lounge discovers some hash resin in his rare vinyl grooves.

Deano von Lounge only makes it back to Christchurch once a year from Osaka, Japan so it’s our pleasure to have him play his most recently acquired vinyl classics and rareties.

And here’s the playlist in full (unfortunately we’re limited to 2 hours only for the foreseeable future) …

12pm – 1pm

  • Montauk – Magic
  • The Gerald Wilson Orchestra – California soul
  • The Flirtations – Nothing but a heartache
  • Etta James – Seven day fool
  • The Ramsey Lewis Trio – The “in” crowd
  • Primal Scream – The revenge of the hammond connection
  • Prince Buster – Dancing time
  • Prince Buster – Ten commandments
  • Prince Buster – Al Capone
  • Johnny Moore – Red is danger
  • The Angry Mexican DJs – Phoenix City (Skamba mix)
  • Resident Filters – Wak dat beat
  • Coldcut (feat. Floormaster Squeeze) – Beats + pieces edit
  • Wet Wings – Stockholm **NZ**

+ Download 12pm – 1pm – 74MB

1pm – 2pm

  • Canyons –  My Rescue (Dr Dunks Disco Extension)
  • Lone –  Cloud 909
  • British Sea Power –  Who’s In Control
  • Mint Royale –  Don’t Falter
  • Al Caiola – Mod Squad theme
  • Mulatu Astatké – Yègellé tezeta
  • Cut Chemist – Sound of the police (Part B)
  • Jack (Mr Bongo) Costanzo & Gerry Woo – Jive samba
  • Manny Corchado – Pow-wow
  • LCD Soundsystem – Tribulations
  • New Young Pony Club – The bomb (Kaos Disco Bomb extended dub)
  • Kraft Punk – Daft Punk is bootlegged at ma house
  • The Fall – Rowche rumble

+ Download 1pm – 2pm – 86MB

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Tricks of the trade

Records at The Joint HQ.

The question we get asked most often by listeners, friends and acquaintances is how we find all the music we play week in and week out on The Joint.

(Interestingly enough, we’re not asked specifically where we get the music from. So we’ll leave it to you to obtain the music how ever you prefer. But please allow us to recommend the joys of visiting old-fashioned record shops such as Galaxy Records, Penny Lane Records, Real Groovy, Slow Boat Records, and Conch and droppping some dollars).

Now, I can’t vouch for The Herb Whisperer’s mysterious methods but here’s my tried and true, hit and miss method for finding music. It all boils down to finding some trusted starting points and then letting serendipity take over. Listed below are my current starting points…

Radio shows and podcasts

Human Pleasure @ Hourly Rates – every Monday night at 7pm NZT on RDU98.5FM William Bird Esq. plays two hours of fresh indie tunes. How he keeps up with it all I don’t know but the man is an inspiration to us all (even if he likes to sound grumpy about it).

The Sound Pellegrino podcast – Based in Paris, France the Sound Pellegrino record label is the baby brother of Institubes. The podcast is irreverently and lovingly hosted by DJ Orgasmic & Teki Latex and they play some very lovely house, techno and electro. Damn I would love to see their studio.

Stones Throw podcast – Peanut Butter Wolf’s Los Angeles record label is host to some of my favourite artists (Madlib, Dam-Funk, Madvillain). The podcasts are really mixes and contain some good random selections.

Guardian Music Weekly – More talk than music (which I curse sometimes) but good interviews, conversations and wit.

MP3 blogs, magazines and mailing lists

Rough Trade weekly mailout – heaps of releases and a silly amount of genres listed.

Keytars and Violins – god bless Leighton Jones. Hope he doesn’t mind me plundering his techno and cosmic disco selections for our show. But I can never resist.

Avant-Avant – a curated music selection updated every day at 10:00am GMT

Dub dot dash – Peter McLennan aka Dub Asylum (ex Hallelujah Picassos) writes and DJs. Lately he’s been writing about the 1990s Auckland label Deepgrooves. Catch him on his show “Ring the Alarm” Base FM every Saturday at 10am.

20jazzfunk greats – even after all this time still one of the best.

FACT mixes –  courtesy of FACT magazine. Hundreds of classy mixes available free.

And then if you feel nerdy you can do some further research using…

Discogs – perfect for checking back catalogues of labels and artists

The Hype Machine – possibly the simplest way of all. Pop in a favourite artist and you can end up joining the dots for hours on end. It’s how I ended up finding most of my favourite MP3 blogs.

“Huh?” you say…

If you’re wondering why we’re giving our “secrets” away, it’s all in line with the mission statement that our board of directors recently adopted: “We will be truly successful when people have stopped listening to us because they can find the good shiz for themselves.”