Here's the latest instalment for January. It should act as a little pick me up to beat those early year blues. Sit back and enjoy a selection of tunes culled from their seven inch vinyl format and brought together for your musical enjoyment. The tracklist is as follows:

Wooden Ships – Chris Harwood – Finders Keepers - 2008

Suedehead – Morrissey – EMI – 1988

Jigsaw/Falling into Place – Radiohead – XL Recordings 2008

Three Days (Elmore Judd & Louis Slippers Remix) – Hardkandy – Catskills Records – 2005

Ready for the Floor (Radio Edit) – Hot Chip – EMI – 2008

Darling (Jape Remix) – Sons & Daughters – Domino Records – 2008

Hey Mr D.J. (CSS Remix) – Tiny Masters of Today – Mute Records – 2007

 

Until next time.

It's only been a couple of weeks since the last podcast but I thought that I'd put one together on the SABA portable turntable that I recently acquired. I ran it straight into the laptop and as such its not earthed or run through a preamp so there's an audible hum the whole way through. Its sounds something like an old hometape from the 1980's. One of those tapes that was recorded over a hundred times and it rapidly deteriorates as a result. There's a terrible hum through most of it. Add to this the fact that a couple of the records kept skipping and you realise the kind of workmanship that went into to crafting this podcast. Slipshod, wouldn't adequately describe the nature of its construction. Anyway, if that's the kind of sound you're after then you've chanced upon the right podcast. There is no one genre favoured over another, it's just five records that came to hand when I was making it. The tracklist is as follows.

Decal - Aurora
Ike & Tina Turner - Whole Lotta Love
The Housemartins - Anxious
Sonic Youth - My Friend Goo
Isaac Hayes - Walk on By.

New Year. New Podcast. It's the least you could expect from me. It includes seven tunes that appeared on seven inch vinyl or vinyl album. As such there's lot of bips, beeps and scratchy sounds. If you have a Bang & Olufsen stereo system don'y play this on it. If you're not a fussy fecker then it'll be just the job.  Most of the tunes were released at some point in 2007 but there are a couple of older gems also. The two oldies that feature are a tune from Jimmy Behan on the Road Relish label from 2001 and the original version of 'Popcorn' that featured on an album by Gershon Kingsley called 'Music to Moog By'. Both are well worth the inclusion in the podcast. The other tunes come from new blues supremo Seasick Steve, the quirky Los Angeles popsters The Bird and the Bee, the Uk trio Fujiya & Miyagi, and one each from the popular Go Team and The Editors. Suck it and see.

Seasick Steve – Its all good

The Editors – Smokers outside the hospital doors

Jimmy Behan – Side Parting

The Bird & the Bee - Birds and the Bees

Fujiya & Miyagi – Uh!

The Go Team – The Wrath of Marcie

Gershon Kingsley - Popcorn