The Show: No fixed beginning, no neatly tied up end

And on with the show…

No Mixcloud this week but you can stream on Libsyn instead…

Direct download: The Joint – 30 November 2024

Notebooks out completists, here’s the playlist in full…

    • GUT HEALTH – Stiletto
    • FAT DOG – Peace Song
    • FLY ANAKIN – YOUGOTME!!!
    • BLANCK MASS – Bloodhound
    • PAUL HIGGINS – Occluded By Chemistry
    • LIL UZI VERT – Its A Dream (featuring Snow Strippers)
    • HOT CHIP & SLEAFORD MODS – Cat Burglar
    • CECILE BELIEVE – Spark (featuring yunè pinku)
    • DYLAN DYLAN – Outta Here
    • TAAHLIAH – Boys
    • DISCLOSURE – Arachnids
    • GABRIEL QUIGLEY – Footsteps In The Snow
    • quickly quickly – From The Morning
    • JID – 31
    • EVERYTHING IS RECORDED – Losing You (featuring Sampha, Laura Groves, Jah Wobble & Yazz Ahmed)
    • ETHEL CAIN – Punish
    • KENDRICK LAMAR – squabble up
    • FELUKAH – Batwanes Beek
    • PAUL HIGGINS – What Is A Memorial Device?
    • WHOMADEWHO & NOUR – A3LA
    • NEGA BRANDON – OMA (One Man Army)
    • DENZEL CURRY – GOT ME GEEKED
    • ADDISON RAE & ARCA – Aquamarine / Arcamarine
    • PAUL HIGGINS – Light Out For Forever *
    • PASTELS, THE – The Morning Of The Executioners
    • MANIC STREET PREACHERS – Hiding In Plain Sight

* The inspiration for this week’s lyrical heading.

The Show: So much drive, now I gotta get a chauffeur

And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 15 June 2024

Notebooks out completists, here’s the playlist in full…

      • bar italia – drumstart
      • WILL HOFBAUER – Diiing
      • NOURISHED BY TIME – I Guess I Got My Answer
      • PRETTY SICK – Headliner
      • DISCLOSURE – She’s Gone, Dance On
      • salute – saving flowers (featuring Rina Sawayama)
      • bar italia – The only conscious being in the universe

Jonathan Pie on Rishi Sunak

      • CINDY LEE – Government Cheque
      • RHYS LANGSTON & STEEL TIPPED DOVE – polyglot on chloroform
      • MAX RICHTER – Movement, Before All Flowers
      • NORMANI – Candy Paint
      • ICEBOY VIOLET  & NUEEN – Heartbreak of a Broken Stitch (featuring Harriet Morley)
      • MEEKZ – Jummah
      • SMOKINGSKUL – Jenga
      • OPÉRA MORT – Le Monde
      • MERCURY REV – Patterns
      • FAT DOG – I Am The King
      • BLACK DRESSES – I STILL SEE EVERYTHING
      • DENZEL CURRY – HOT ONE (featuring TiaCorine & A$AP Ferg) *
      • RHYS LANGSTON & STEEL TIPPED DOVE – casino petit bourgeois (featuring Fatboi Sharif)
      • CINDY LEE – Diamond Jubilee

Nish Kumar on Rishi Sunak

      • JOHN GLACIER – Steady As I Am
      • ICEBOY VIOLET  & NUEEN – SM_FID
      • HOMIXIDE GANG – SIDE EFFExT (featuring Lil Yachty)
      • ELSY WAMEYO – Umva
      • THE NEW EVES – Astrolabe
      • TRABANTS – Mantra
      • GWAR – West End Girls / People Who Died

* The inspiration for this week’s lyrical heading.

The Show: Chase the disco devil!

Apologies (again) for the slightly inferior sound quality this week. A technical glitch meant we had to resort to the back up recording of the show.

Whilst we work on those glitches we pose the question for 2014 – why is Lee “Scratch” Perry not on Twitter???

And here’s the playlist in full…

Direct download: The_Joint_2014-05-03-12-14.mp3

12pm – 1pm

1pm – 2pm

The Show: ’79 Fever

Today’s opening (and truly mind boggling) song came courtesy of the Industrial Musicals website.

As well as an online archive, with audio snippets from a variety of these musicals from the 50’s to the 80’s, there’s also a book “Everything’s Coming Up Profits” which is making a strong early bid to be The Joint’s Christmas stocking filler.

For more information have a listen to an interview the authors gave to NPR, complete with recollections from a veteran of many of these productions, and have a look below at a brief appearance one of them made on the David Letterman Show.


And here’s the playlist in full…

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12pm – 1pm

1pm – 2pm

The Show: Lost in music

When I remembered yesterday that Nile Rodgers of Chic had been working on the new Daft Punk album it sent me on a late night YouTube bender digging up lots of classic Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards productions. In 1979 they wrote “Spacer” for French outfit Sheila and Black Devotion. I wouldn’t be surprised if the new Daft Punk album is a retread of “Discovery”. And that would be a very nice thing.

And here’s the playlist in full…

12pm – 1pm

+ Download 12pm – 1pm [83MB]

1pm – 2pm

+ Download 1pm – 2pm [81MB]