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The Show: I can see my chest. I can see my Sunday best.

A quick revisit to the KOOL AID “Family Portrait” EP plus new tracks from locals ZANE 2000 and LIAM K. SWIGGS amongst others. Have a listen to them below.

And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 26 October 2019

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

  • LIAM K. SWIGGS – REDWOOD SPRINGS
  • THE ISLEY BROTHERS – Footsteps in the Dark, Pts. 1 & 2
  • STEVE LACY – N Side
  • SLAUSON MALONE – Off Me! “The Wake” Pt. 1 & 2 (feat. Pink Siifu)
  • SHIT & SHINE – NO NO NO NO
  • ZANE 2000 – I COPY
  • LIGHTNING BOLT – All Insane
  • BLAWAN – Gadget
  • PINCH – Border Control
  • CHIHEI HATAKEYAMA – The big stone tomb
  • LINA TULLGREN – Saiddone
  • LIGHTNING DUST – 3AM / 100 Degrees
  • JENNY HVAL – Accident (feat. Laura Jean)
  • AUTOMATIC – Champagne
  • THE PARANOYDS – Courtney
  • LAUMĖ – Spells (Oedipusi)
  • VIOLET – They Don’t Wanna Know
  • KOOL AID – Dead Me *
  • TWOONKY – Aqua Bar
  • MAJEURE – Face Dancer
  • DWIG – Keep Us
  • AZURE – Rhodes Fashion
  • SOCIAL SPORT – Chlorine
  • SIT – Spectral
  • LONE – Glyphic
  • EIGER DRUMS PROPAGANDA – Disco Sound To Death

* The source of this week’s lyrical heading.

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The Show: I’m taking myself to the dirty part of town…

In which David Hasselhoff makes his first ever appearance on The Joint covering the 1989 Jesus and Mary Chain classic “Head On”. He doesn’t do a bad job either. File under #karaokeguiltypleasures

Closer to home we’ve got REDWOOD PATROL TAPE #2 REDWOOD GIRLS by THE BIG FRESH COLLECTIVE on high rotate. Rolling beats, future hip hop, and lo-fi juke courtesy of Liam K. Swiggs and Mushman straight outta the north end of Ōtautahi Christchurch.

Name your price over at The Big Fresh Collective bandcamp!

And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 28 September 2019

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

  • LIAM K. SWIGGS – FRESH PRINCE OF THE MAIN NORTH ROAD
  • WORLD OF TWIST – Sons Of The Stage (12 inch extended version)
  • AUTARKIC – WBF
  • ROSE ROYCE – Is It Love You’re After
  • FRANK RODAS – Mandroid
  • DAVID HASSELHOFF – Head On *
  • LOU REBECCA – Break It Apart
  • THE JUAN MACLEAN – You Are My Destiny
  • THE HACKER – Nancy (It Turns Gold) feat. Michael Zodorozny
  • TACIANA – Tudo Faz Sentido (Suba Extended Remix)
  • MARTINA LUSSI – Care
  • MUSHMAN – THE CREME JOINTS
  • DJ EARL – Smoke Breakk
  • POINT BLEAK – Drug Dealer
  • PAVLOV’S PUSS – Charlie Dealt In Pharmaceuticals
  • GOLD MEDAL FAMOUS – Thousand Yard Stare
  • FENELLA – Bright Curse
  • DEAN HURLEY – Birth
  • TRENTEMØLLER – In The Garden (feat. Lina Tullgren)
  • SUO – Unsatisfied Blood
  • BETTYE CRUTCHER – So Lonely Without You
  • PORTISHEAD – Roads
  • GRÜN WASSER – Stranger’s Mouth
  • LAIMA – Home
  • SECRET KNIVES – Spinning Top
  • ADAM HATTAWAY AND THE HAUNTERS – Nothing Lasts
  • DJ PYTHON – Cuando

* Today’s lyrical snippet courtesy of DAVID HASSELHOFF and THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN.

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The Show: Went to the party, I just sit on the back stairs…

Direct download: The Joint – 31 August 2019

And notebooks out completists, here’s the playlist in full…

  • JAINS MIND – Can’t Let Go
  • L’ÉPÉE – Ghost Rider
  • KIM GORDON – Sketch Artist
  • 100 GECS – 745 sticky
  • LIGHTNING BOLT – Air Conditioning
  • SNO GLOBE – Happy Place
  • UBER DRIVER – Learn U
  • CLEOPHUS & LIGHTSKINJOHN – Auckland Blues
  • CLEOPHUS & LIGHTSKINJOHN – Out Here
  • LIAM K. SWIGGS – NORTHLANDS CARPARK
  • MUSHMAN – IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY IN REDWOOD
  • FRENCH_CONCESSION 法國租界 – Waves
  • MAD FRANK – Worthy
  • LINA TULLGREN – Bad At Parties *
  • KONRADSEN – Television Land
  • MISS REPRESENTED – The Truth is Out There
  • DRUGFACE – Dragonfly (Iñigo Vontier Remix)
  • CURSES – Puttanesca
  • 2XM – Dancing Styles
  • KAREEM EL MORR – Eros 404
  • GOLDEN BABY – What A Strange Life
  • LINDSTRØM – Really Deep Snow
  • AKSK – Special Times & Places
  • Q – Keep It Strong (Unreleased Dub Edit)
  • BRIAN BENNETT – Ocean Glide
  • ALEXANDER ARPEGGIO & MARLENE STARK – Fitnessstudio
  • SOCCERPRACTISE – Younger Looking Skin

* The source of this week’s lyrical heading.

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The Show: He said a song is just a song

In which Fraserhead starts off with a 1982 Prefab Sprout classic all about being addicted to radio, then zig zags through the realms of wonky electronics, dark house, wobbly techno, twee pop, melancholic pop, some sifty rock’n’roll… oh… and some classic 1970s Japanese whisky advertisements (see below).

Direct download: The Joint – 21 October 2017

And here’s the playlist in full…

  • Prefab Sprout – Radio Love *
  • Four Tet – Lush
  • Gerry Read – Peanut
  • Succhiamo – Succhiamo
  • Caldera – Switch
  • Arttu – Bass Trakk
  • 1976 Nikka G&G Whisky commercial feat. Orson Welles
  • HNNY – Trettio
  • Pickle Darling – Happy Together (demo version)
  • Sebastien Tellier – Chrysalis
  • Lana Del Rey – White Mustang
  • Fazerdaze – Half-Figured
  • Lina Tullgren – Red Dawn
  • Ryuichi Sakamoto – Fullmoon
  • Horace Andy – Show And Tell
  • Destroyer – Tinseltown Swimming in Blood
  • CHAIN & THE GANG – I Hate Winners
  • Com Truise – Vacuume
  • Stratton – White Punks on E
  • BOY HARSHER – Motion
  • Queen Neptune – Running
  • 1974 Suntory Whisky cinema commercial feat. Sammy Davis Jr.
  • Lost Temple – Black Coffee [tripleshotespressomix]
  • JASSS – Oral Couture
  • Machine Woman – I Want To Fuck Tech House
  • Minimal Violence – Can’t Stop Loving You
  • Shit And Shine – Blick Von Der Berg
  • Greita – Hokkaido

* The source of this week’s lyrical heading.