Through your first story window I see my favourite record store…

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Rest in peace Mimi Parker. Hard to pick one track to celebrate her voice, percussion and songwriting. Instead, one track from each of Low’s albums so that we slow down time and immerse ourselves in beautiful and unsettling dreams.

The Guardian: Low’s Mimi Parker was a voice of hope and healing in indie rock

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And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 12 November 2022

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

  • LOW – Condescend
  • LOW – Two-Step
  • LOW – Laser Beam
  • LOW – Point Of Disgust
  • LOW – Broadway (So Many People) *
  • LOW – Pretty People
  • LOW – Holy Ghost
  • LOW – Landslide
  • LOW – All Night
  • NO BRA – The Cult of Hierarchy
  • MAD FRANK/VIOLET FRENCH – Break My Neck
  • T. G. SHAND – WAWO
  • HATCHIE – Don’t Leave Me In The Rain
  • 100% – Second Chances
  • THE TACKS – Someone Else
  • KERBSIDE COLLECTION – New Day, New Year
  • DON GLORI – The Wire
  • SOUND SIGNALS – Stevie’s Groove (Soul Renegades Remix)
  • ZANE 2000 – Rain Dream
  • TUPPERWAVE – Jane Fonda
  • ORBITAL & SLEAFORD MODS – Dirty Rat
  • RHYS LANGSTON – Progressive House, Conservative Ligature (feat. Fatboi Sharif) [prod. Opal-Kenobi]
  • ANDREW MBARUK – Who’s That Man on the Mic?
  • BILL CALLAHAN – Natural Information
  • BREANNA BARBARA – Diamond Light
  • MARGOT ET MAX – Monte La Musique
  • FLOATING POINTS – Someone Close

* The inspiration for this week’s lyrical heading.

The Show: Who killed the KLF?

Who indeed killed The KLF?

Spoiler alert: It wasn’t us. Honest.

But Chris Atkins might possibly know.

His new documentary “Who Killed the KLF?” irreverently chronicles the early lives of Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond, the formation of The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, how to make hit records, the evolution of The KLF, the pranks, the controversies, the art, and of course the burning of a million quid. Alan Moore appears and lovingly sums it up: “Everything was about confrontation, everything was a challenge.” Haven’t enjoyed a music doco this much in years…

And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 23 April 2022

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

  • THE KLF – Kylie Said To Jason
  • SARA DZIRI – Kan Ya Makan
  • PEREL – Real
  • CONFIDENCE MAN – Relieve The Pressure
  • BEN WOODS – Hovering At Home
  • ALDOUS HARDING – Bubbles
  • KATY J PEARSON – Talk Over Town
  • LAYAROUND – You Will Find Yourself in Time
  • PSYCHEDELIC PORN CRUMPETS – Dread & Butter
  • CARL SCHILDE – John Stamos
  • KING TUBBY – The Immortal Dub
  • HORACE ANDY – Mr Bassie
  • PRINCE – Soft and Wet
  • ELLI & JACNO – Main Dans La Main
  • THE WEE PAPA GIRL RAPPERS – The Beat, The Rhyme, The Noise
  • UFFIE – where does the party go?
  • ADVANCE BASE – Little Sable Point Lighthouse
  • AIRABOI – Resilience Transmissions
  • BLACK MERLIN – Surface Air (Wata Igarashi’s Surface Remix)
  • FLOATING POINTS – Vocoder
  • INTEGER – Glimmer
  • SAULT – Solar
  • ESIAFI 1 – 24 hour networking
  • SODA LITE – Dusk Lorikeets
  • BRIX & THE EXTRICATED – Strange Times

The Show: And then you touch my burqa, And do not know who is it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_Y-sw89qTY

And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 9 April 2022

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

  • BURKA BAND – Burka Blue *
  • CONFIDENCE MAN – Angry Girl
  • BLACK GIRL WHITE GIRL – burning tool
  • KITTIN & THE HACKER – Malade
  • PEREL – Spuistraat
  • ALDOUS HARDING – Tick Tock
  • GWENNO – An Stevel Nowydh
  • KID BE KID – Sense
  • MATTIEL – Subterranean Shut-In Blues
  • OUTSIDERS – Godless
  • THOMAS L. BIGELOW – Civilization’s Timelapse
  • FRANK COGLIANO – Brainscape
  • NEW MEXICAN STARGAZERS – 8
  • FLOATING POINTS – Grammar
  • SUN’S SIGNATURE – Golden Air
  • DOG UNIT – Pyramid Scheme
  • COURTESY – Night Journeys II
  • CHRIS IMLER – Shining
  • CHARLOTTE SIMON – User Work Hard
  • REALPLAYER 7 – Let You Go
  • SHIT AND SHINE – SOCKTAGON
  • MULCHZOID – Sleeper
  • SHIFTING GEARS – Average Hoshina Sound
  • TIMOTHY J FAIRPLAY – Satanic Cults
  • PANNA COTTA – Sweet

* The inspiration for this week’s lyrical heading.

The Show: Bulbous also tapered? That’s right!

For some bizarre reason I recently got an earworm of Captain Beefheart and The Mascara Snake talking about bulbous things at the start of Trout Mask Replica’s “Pena”, hence today’s show title. Delightful fan video below if you want the whole experience.

Not to be outdone on the freakiness front UNCLE QUENTIN aka Tim “Von Klap” Moore has just released the album Famous For God. One for fans of bent and swinging James Bond soundtracks, The Avalanches, beats and synths. Sneak peek below…

And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 9 November 2019

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

  • UNCLE QUENTIN – SILENCE!!!
  • JAY GLASS DUBS – An Ambivalent Path
  • NEUVO WAVO – Victory Lap
  • TOM OF ENGLAND – Sniffin’ at the Griffin
  • UMBERTO – Entrance
  • JENNY HVAL – The Practice of Love (feat. Laura Jean and Vivian Wang)
  • KONRADSEN – Never Say A
  • CARLA DAL FORNO – Took a Long Time
  • LIGHTNING DUST – Competitive Depression
  • LIGHTNING BOLT – Halloween 3
  • LONESOMECARBOY – Long delays
  • TOSHFUMI HINATA – Pavement
  • JACQUES GREENE – Night Service
  • FLOATING POINTS – Last Bloom
  • ZANE 2000 – Inner Castle
  • CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & HIS MAGIC BAND – Pena *
  • OISEAUX-TEMPÊTE – The Naming Of A Crow
  • JOHN CHRISSTOFFELS – Head [case] Side A
  • SEX JUDAS FEAT. RICKY – Flaming Creatures
  • DANIEL MAUNICK – Until The End
  • DEADBEAT – Vampire Dub

* The source of this week’s lyrical heading.

The Show: Leave me alone, I’m going to work it out by myself…

Those crazy Big Fresh Collective cats are at it again, this time cutting up and remix their favourite Nintendo 64 titles in a footwork and breakbeat style. Listen out for a sneaky threesome during the show.

Direct download: The Joint – 20 July 2019

And here’s the playlist in full…

  • NECRUM SELECT – Chalked Up Another One
  • IRIE MONA – Skuff Island
  • KHRUANGBIN – Order of Operations
  • VON SPAR – Boyfriends (Dead Or Alive) feat. Vivien Goldman *
  • MAOCHIE FEMCHAIN – To the Oracle
  • KOOL AID – Tunnel Vision
  • HATCHIE – Not That Kind
  • COMFORT – Better Need Assumptions
  • VANISHING TWIN – Cryonic Suspension May Save Your Life
  • THE GOLDEN FILTER – All The Queens
  • JESSICA PRATT – Poly Blue
  • SUMI SAUCE – Pomme Sans Peau
  • DILEMMA BEATS – TETRISPHERE VIP
  • MR MUSCLE – CHICAGO STEALTH
  • DJ RUGGED SHARK – DIRE DIRE DOCKS VIP
  • 808 STATE – Ujala
  • THE MAUSKOVIC DANCE BAND – Dance Place Garage
  • JESSICA SLIGTER – The Endless End
  • DEENA ABDELWAHED – Ken Skett (Karen Gwyer Remix)
  • FLOATING POINTS – LesAlpx (Extended)
  • FOUK – Arrakis
  • SOUND VOYAGE – Golden Garuda (Khidja Remix)
  • STABUDOWN PRODUCTIONS – Koln Alone
  • PREFUSE 73 – I Got The Good Beat
  • LOCKED GROOVE – Soma

* The source of this week’s lyrical heading.