texture of en(n)ui

Recently via the wonderful, wierd world of twitter i connected with
Tracie Stefansson aka traiskin, you can check her graceful multi
layered tunage here.
Last week Tracie tweeted that she needed a theme for a series she
was doing and i sugested "the texture of ennui".
I'd remembered this phrase from an interview with arch capitalist and
commercial artist damien hirst that id seen years ago.. it had always
stuck with me - how we immerse ourselves in boredom sometimes,
we explore and even celebrate the minutae of inactivity.
When our days are not taken up by tasks, we tend to drift, wander,
observe the macro closeups of the everyday.
here is a selection blended to reflect those sixteen images with an
introduction from the mighty leonard cohen.
you can also check her photographs in all their individual beauty
here.

neil ardley - soft stillness and the light
gabriel roth and the mirrors - aquifier
dj food -the dawn
love & rockets - saudade
chari chari - aurora
david sylvian - a bird of prey vanishes into a bright blue cloudless sky
dan lissvik - 7 trxintermission
frankie valentine - tears from the maidens tower
john martyn - glistening glyndebourne
deodato - pavane for a dead princess
robert fripp - cathedral of tears
delta saxophone quartet - floating world
daniel lanois - telco
 ... and you will know us by the trail of the dead
      - it was there that i saw you
telefon tel aviv - i lied
alice coltrane - om supreme

our lives are shaped by what we love

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daniel lanois smith & mudd thompson twins dead composers discosessions dan mass luiz gonzaga jr. odyssey rune lindbaek e.m.s orchestra russ gabriel sweetback waterboys the earlies all have made me smile tonight!

matt deepsoul3 and molly's jubilee hall - new chapter of the troubadour

here we have a lovely fella and one of the nicest men in showbiz. Matt is fabulous dresser and like me, he has an active interest in facial topiery. But we are here to check out his great taste in records and his knack of creating atmosphere. As part of deepsoul3 with chris (M.I.A?) he was an early web prescence with their website and guest mixes and when me and george did some parties with them we got on like houses on fire..


a fine fella. ive cheekily nabbed this from matts soundcloud page, so it's more of a hijack than a guest mix.
this is a great slice of classy smoothness moving from light latin guitar into the realms of the cosmic.. some usual suspects rear their head along with stone cold classic slow funks.. goes great with friends, sunday roast and a bottle or 3 of pinot noir..
Mr Mollicone i salute you and your moustache!
get this on the pod and share, in preparation for the much needed summer.
 
Jose Feliciano - Wichita Lineman
Payola$ - Eyes of a stranger
Roxy Music - India
Peter Green - Just for you
Smith & Mudd - My Hill
Sky - Westway
Radiohead - Reckoner (Johnny Miller rmx)
Tycho - Coastal brake
Rondo Veneziano - La Serenissima
Claude Francois - Soudain Il Ne Reste Qu'Une Chanson
Findlay Brown - Stallion Suite
Bravo - Touch me now
Johnny Chingas - Phone Home (Inst)
Moton - My Guide
Johnny Bristol - Love no longer has a hold on me

two parts of a pale curve

been recording records a lot this week, my ipod is sighing with relief after i fixed the record players. this means i am getting some more diskspace..actually its getting a bit william gibson in our front room at the moment which has been augmented by obsessive moments reading articles from transhumanists and videos of the  perfect family that is the the shaytards and wondering if i shouldn't just bite the bullet and wave ta ta to the vinyl once and for all. encoding everything and edging ever further to becoming a fullydigital human.. just need to get rid of the books and get an interactive white board like we use at school and thats it..

this selection looks at the old and the new and finds wierdness, funny and the swing.
format bending courtesy of martin ansell, ash ra tempel, bloomfield kooper and stills, bo hansson, edwin birdsong, hugh hopper and alan gowen, jc barreto golf channeled, peter gabriel and the very heavy soft machine.

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emotional breakdowns #1

I've been listening to a LOT of lp's recently.
sounds made by groups of people together making music, words with narrative.
I think they used to be called songs. I've been very much an instrumental kind of chap, but these listening sessions have brought me back to a much earlier time, a much broader and baser listening experience. Emmotions. When i followed bands, listened to lyrics, searched for the hidden meaning.
Here i've assembled some of these tracks that i listened to over the last couple of days. stitched together as shared textures, so in no particular order we have daniel lanois, of montreal, american music club, the mars volta, amiina, plush, adem, sweet billy pilgrim, dj kaos, prince, seelunluft and aswad....

djh secret santa 2009

i jumped in with this years DJH secret santa.. and was drawn with
djh uber poster and all round italian stalion fabiofal.
he sent me a lovely blend of disco into house action.. really great!
ill post that one up.. once i get my burner working.. (out come the spanners!)
i sent him 3 discs of unmixed but slightly blended randomness..
of i must say a moody disposition (sorry fab:))
the selections i sent him are available here!








all kinds of gear on here incuding ass, fotheringay, burnt friedman & jaki liebezeit, gatto fritto
roninie lane, new age steppers, charles earland, super numeri, kuniyuki, jamaica girls,rocha,
flipside and a few others.

new year dinner funks

happy new year and all that:)

the police ub40 roast chicken
aswad sprouts chianti
manu dibango larry young
crushed potatoes
airto fogo weldon irvine
aural exciters carrots
mushrooms cosmic touch
can honeyed parsnips
rich medina choclate cake...

upton house friday night youth club fantasy

Upton house youth club, football in the sports hall
and FILM NIGHT where as impressionable teenagers we
were shown the warriors, countryman, snake in monkeys
shadow, the big boss and BABYLON!
Farrar slacks, Adidas sambas, crisps and dub.
celuoid visions of worlds we were still not party to.
From the viewpoint of now, i cant remember any
supervision at all, no teachers on late night duty
patrolling the corridors of this 60's concrete and
asbestos nightmare we called our secondary school.
Like some lord of the flies inner city youth experiment.
The hallways filled with mysterious older boys and men far
too old to be part of our school.
People, up to male shenanigans for sure, excitement to
be part of this evening meeting place not actually taking
part in any activities just hanging out.
This is a fantasy selection to evoke the flavour of the dance,
Sir Biggs, Saxon, Tubbys, the speaker boxes and the hall
in total darkness only the lights from the booth and the
occasional flare as a lighter ingnites spliffs and the
mysterious coded language of the dj as he guides us through
the evening.
this selection is for the children, the boys who i grew up
with, shared in these moments, ran with and played with.
eddie, hugh, peter, andrew, lloyd, randolph, trevor et al.

yard tales #3

a weekend of chaparoning the stuntclone to
various parties ended with the dark one
asleep and her controller deep in a xfactor
induced trance..
i therefore scooped up a few slices of plastic
and encoded this....

yard tales #2

the first track that made this selection is from this Amiina long player. Ever since watching the sigur ros film,
iv'e been obsessed with this wonderful string section. Amiina offer an even more distilled audio viewpoint from our favourite alien icelandic landscape.. adding brassbands and some deep deep love.
I got rid of a load of lp's in the summer and blindly recorded this  Thomas Dolby one for the harddrive..I had a listen and was instantly transported to an earlier time in my life when i was dazzled by his lab technician stylings.. magical magical stuff indeed.
I was introduced to Ass by Domammu and Fab Brown. Their amazing cover of John Carpenters "Escape from new york" is superb! ..but the other lps rule also check them..now!
Brazilian legend Caetano Veleso can move from ballads to funk with ease but its here, where his smooth vocals and lazy drums do it the most for me. Iv'e been diggin these deeply undercover lps from Liquid Liquids
Dennis Young for time.. he has no respect for groove or swing yet every time you find yourself checking his beats..people must check this blinding 12"..
Strut dig up all kinds of interesting stuff, things you dont know, things you've heard of but never checked and things that are downright super famous..it's all about the context.. punkfunk nearly there's and pop group descendants Maximum Joy being something that i knew from the first time round, re contextulized have got me digging at my mums house for my shriekback 12"s and dick'o dell productions..i might even get me a flat top...
Scientist.. classic legendary friday night youth club dub.. when we used to drool over the whacked out cartoon covers..killer! Killer lovers rock one hit wonder John Kipaye out does the Mac at their own game..
makes me think of that reggae version of the coronation street theme.
Big tune of the year.. super slow chunky parrish italian belter Cosmic Metal Mother flows into remixer/cosmic house flavour of 2009 The Revenge staring as 6th Borough Project.. brill!
The final 2 for this selection.. and my new favourite yankee noisenik hippies Black Moth Super Rainbow.. like Gong on angel dust and to finish australian goatee beard wearer and zelig stylecultural leader the mighty Daevid Allen.. the title track from this wonderful wonderul wonderful lp tells it like it is.... regarde!

yard tales #1

the party in my head has long since
been given over to the random dance
most corners of the disco have been
raided and all bets are off.

the start of this evening, my yard
gently swayed to sounds of:-

the waterboys - the waves
peter gabriel - exposure
dan lissvik - intermission
mudd & ahmed fakroun - drago (brennan green version)
japanese synchro system - check it spread it
dedos de mantequilla - oscillator madness
Q&A - trap door
DJ kaos - love the night away (tedye version)
satin whale - i often wondered
edgar broughton band - theres no vibrations, but wait!
topper headon - east versus west

longing for the future

  Longing for the future  by  creamedmeat

My daughter got caught in the head by a yellow flying toy chair this morning at nursery. I went down to give her a cuddle. She had already had a little cry but was now putting on a brave face. A great big grey lump with a bloody imprint of the said chairs leg was standing out from her forehead. The other kid didnt mean it.. at 4 why would they? He wanted to join in but there was a communication break-down. She said that he had said sorry and I was really proud of her for being understanding and tough at the same time. She can multi-task already.

We leave children behind at some point. We go our seperate ways. Maybe if we hung around? We could share in the future with them.

feel this

  your current cultural composers suggest rare

   euro funks rarer electronic pop from charts

   long forgotten blended with post modern

   theories regarding what goes around comes 

   around and that rearrangement is the finest form

   of flattery. 

   it is true that some seams of boogie remain

   untapped and not everything forgotten actually 

   means its worthless.

   it is definately a worthwhile task to continue to 

   search, find and recontectulize.

   FEEL THIS... 

6 chin wonders and his whatyouwant radio show

the mighty 6 chin wonders has graciously given over most of his show
whatyouwant radio to a team yours special...
we is now pan european!!

lord dommamu & fab brown came round to my luxurious
east london penthouse (my council flat in hackney)
and selected tunes based on the visual quality of the
record sleeve..
it ended up sounding like this...

this is the result

kinda progressive in a cheesy balearic kind of way!!

remember to subscribe and listen to the very lovely
6 chin wonders, on his previous shows broadcasted from
his top secret bunker buried beneath the european
parliament in the hague..
as they rule.. loads!!! :)

muir woods shuttle

i am sitting at the back of the bus,
headphones on, plugged into the
sounds of random FM..
frisco is on my mind
and in my immediate
future but before
that there is
muir woods..

germans on the beach