Hungry is the ghost inside of me

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Direct download: The Joint – 27 August 2016

Off-kilter beats, digital drums, air drumming, a 1980s classic, washing machine techno, music with guitars(!), mellower tubby beats, and finished off with some introspective country and dreamy folk.

And here’s the playlist in full…

  • Hoyt Curtin – Battle of the Planets intro
  • Bear Bones, Lay Low – Sowisau
  • TRIO – Da Da Da
  • 1985 Simmons Drums CB700 Demo
  • Com Truise – Sunspot
  • Factory Floor – Relay
  • Beesmunt Soundsystem – First Timer
  • Bored Young Adults – Check Up From The Neck Up
  • Pleasure Model – Bealichtbach
  • Black Merlin – Burn It
  • Inigo Kennedy – NGC6826 (Blinking Eye)
  • Elka – Jayex Story
  • DJ Béeso – Searching
  • Vince Guaraldi – Motocross 1975
  • Man Power – Thnk U
  • 1986 Casio DP1 and keyboard
  • White Owl – In League With The Devil
  • The Trendees – Abandoned Hospital
  • Vinyl Williams – The Presence of Absence
  • 1977 – Auguste & Co
  • Uffe – Tosmogs
  • Kiki Hitomi – Yellow Story
  • Blood Orange – E.V.P.
  • Gallant – Skipping Stones (feat. Jhené Aiko)
  • The Renderers – You Raise Me
  • Marissa Nadler – Hungry Is The Ghost *

* The source of this week’s lyrical heading.

The Show: Game over

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Greetings friends, family, whānau.

Today is our last show before we head off on an indefinite sabbatical. Other commitments mean we need to take a break for a while.

The Joint first broadcast on RDU way back in July 2001 when the frequency was still 98.3FM. We started out on Sunday afternoons but after a while switched to Saturday afternoons. The reasons are lost in the mists of time.

By our really rough and unscientific calculations we reckon we’ve done 665 shows so far. That makes this final show today episode number 666. Not a shabby effort really. To put that in some completely unrelated context Ryan Giggs made 672 league appearances for Manchester United and David O’Leary made 558 league appearance for Arsenal.

Thank you for all your kind messages via Facebook, Twitter and the RDU text machine. It was a blast.

To paraphrase and plagiarise James Murphy…

Yeah, we lost our edge
The kids came up from behind
We lost our edge to the kids
From France and from London
And from Christchurch
But we were there
We lost our edge to better-looking people
With better ideas and more talent
And they’re actually really, really nice

xox
Ka kite ano
The Herb Whisperer & Fraserhead

Direct download: The_Joint_2016-04-09-12-16.mp3

Here’s the playlist in full…

The Show: Jeremiah was a bullfrog

The first (and only?) two songs on our Music With Bullfrogs playlist.

And here’s the playlist of today’s show in full…

Direct download: The_Joint_2015-10-24-12-14.mp3

12pm – 1pm

1pm – 2pm

The Show: The weird and wonderful world of…

A quick round up…

The NWA movie “Straight Outta Compton” hits the big screen in the next week but if you don’t have $17 to spare for a movie ticket or are too busy to spend 147 minutes sitting in a cinema get the gist with the EXPLICIT CONTENT ONLY version of the classic album. One for the whole family to sing along to. Is “nuts” really a swear word though?!?!?!?!?

Before people queued up for Apple products they queued up for Microsoft software. Not a bad earner for the Rolling Stones. Strange days from 1995…

Lord Echo at the Christchurch Arts Festival tonight! Be bloody aware of large freaking eels though. If you’re on epic acid you’re not imagining it. That’s the power of art.

And here’s the playlist in full…

Direct download: The_Joint_2015-09-12-12-14.mp3

12pm – 1pm

1pm – 2pm

The show: Failing to bridge the generation gap

Can men of advanced years continue to broadcast saucy tunes made by young people without appearing, at best, odd or, at worst, creepy?

We’re not sure, so we invite you to listen to all of Posi+ive by Babeo Baggins in your own time.

https://soundcloud.com/babeobaggins/sets/posiive

 

And here’s today’s playlist in full…

Direct download: The_Joint_2015-09-12-12-14.mp3

12pm – 1pm

1pm – 2pm