Sometimes I’m on hype, sometimes I’m on chill mode…

Ambient bagpipes, hip hop mashups, local synths, and ballet symphonies amongst others.

Allow us to enter into evidence, Exhibit A…

And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 29 April 2023

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

  • KERBSIDE COLLECTION – Glaze
  • JAY-Z VS GIL SCOTT-HERON – New York (Concept de Paris)
  • SEB THE VEGABOND – butterfly effect feat. Lui Mill
  • JPEGMAFIA X DANNY BROWN – Fentanyl Tester
  • WESTSIDE GUNN – Mac Don’t Stop
  • ANDREW MBARUK AND RHYS LANGSTON – Dylan Thomas and James Baldwin Walk into a Bar (feat. Old Grape God)
  • LORD APEX & EL LIF – Hype & Chill *
  • THOMAS BANGALTER – L’Accouchement
  • MEN AN TOL – Womb of The Ancient Ones
  • SIX O’MATIC – The Land of Nod
  • ZANE 2000 – Thank You Demi
  • THE GLASS EYE – We Are The Johns
  • THE GLASS EYE – Mania
  • THE GLASS EYE – Scum Surfer
  • BLAIR PARKES – breezy
  • BLAIR PARKES – we control the message
  • BLAIR PARKES – la la lee
  • SQÜRL – John Ashbery Takes A Walk (feat. Charlotte Gainsbourg)
  • JESSY LANZA – Don’t Leave Me Now
  • MONTE MAI – Peaches and Limes
  • FRIKARDO & IGOR GONYA – Fate & Chance
  • UNLOVED – Number in my phone
  • SBTRKT – L.F.O. (feat. Sampha & George Riley)
  • VICK LAVENDER – Shifting Gears (Vick Lavender’s Time Traveler Mix)
  • LORENZO MORRESI & LE ISOLE – Sulla Strada Della Luna
  • SURPRISE CHEF – Talent Stick
  • 2XM – Absolute
  • BACAO RHYTHM AND STEEL BAND – Hotline Bling
  • BIOSPHERE – Baby Satellite

* The inspiration for this week’s lyrical heading.

You’re getting older. And you don’t know why. And you don’t know what to do…

RIP Hamish Kilgour. 1957-2022.

Hamish Kilgour – The last beatnik
by Roger Shepherd (Flying Nun)

Life story: Musician Hamish Kilgour ’emanated generosity, possibility’ 
by Philip Matthews (The Press)

‘An understated power’: Hamish Kilgour of the Clean remembered as a restless innovator
by Matthew Goody (The Guardian)

“He was the yin and the yang, the sturm and the drang, the bucket, the glue, the whole shebang.” – Robert Scott

And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 10 December 2022

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

  • THE CLEAN – Getting Older *
  • JUST ANOTHER JUNE – Driving
  • ANNUAL LEAF – Racing Heart
  • HISS EXPLOSION – Blue wave
  • THE CHATS – THE PRICE OF SMOKES
  • DR HITCHCOCK – Disco Brutus (F.L.O.)
  • WILLEM WOLFE – Tobiko Bubblebath (Tour De Tokyo)
  • AKIO NAGASE – Mongol 303
  • HELENA HAUFF – Your Turn To Fly
  • DAVID SHRIGLEY – Rock Festival
  • ERNY BELLE – Nuclear Bombs
  • SHIT AND SHINE – Miami
  • R.A.P. FERREIRA – sittlichkeit (prod. Basico & ZOCHI)
  • ROME STREETZ – Ugly Balenciagas
  • PAUL HUMPHREY & HIS COOL AID CHEMISTS – Baby Rice
  • EBB & ILL FIGS – C Beams
  • PAIGE JULIA – Ease Your Mind
  • YOUNG GHO$T – JUNGLE HOLIDAY
  • PRIZEFIGHT – Maintenance (nickname & No Name Nath’s Old Skool Mix)
  • FRIKARDO – When Up Is Down
  • KATE BOLLINGER – Running
  • WEYES BLOOD – It’s Not Just Me, It’s Everybody
  • BREANNA BARBARA – You Got Me High
  • KAITLYN AURELIA SMITH – Is it Me or is it You?
  • GRAND RIVER – Human
  • MITRA MITRA – Gappy Spheres
  • ASTROLOOP – Drape
  • KHOTIN – Fountain, Growth (feat. Tess Roby)

* The inspiration for this week’s lyrical heading.