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Eclectic Mainline 16th February 2011

The bad news is that if you missed tonight’s show, you missed what I think was the best all round selection of music I’ve played this year so far.

The good news is that BCB now has a listen again feature, so you can catch up any time! From our current BCB Listen Again feature you will need to select the ‘Specialist music’ category on the right. Then, all being well, you will be able to see my show, Eclectic Mainline, in the list and hey presto, as if by magic it’s 8pm on Wednesday all over again..!

As with last week, I playe a tune from the brilliant Modified Toy Orchestra album, Plastic Planet.  Here’s a video of them performing the song I played tonight:

Up above the world so high from Modified Toy Orchestra on Vimeo.

And here is the full list of tunes from tonight’s show:

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Eclectic Mainline 9th February 2011

For me, personally, the most interesting records in my show last night were those by EVOL, Modified Toy Orchestra and Sven Kacirek.

I played 2 (or 1-and-a-bit, depending on how you look at it) tunes from the new Evol 12″.  And Evol’s record label, Alku have the most fantastic website URL: alkualkualkualkualkualkualkualkualkualku.org.

Modified Toy Orchestra produce the most amazing music as a result of instruments made by circuit bending. I’ll probably say more about them next week, when I shall also play a tune of theirs.

Sven Kacirek‘s new album, The Kenya Sessions, is a quite astonishing blend of field recordings made with musicians in Kenya, coulpled with his own added percussion.  “Turkey Dance” is one of my favourite tunes of 2011 so far:

Turkey Dance by Sven Kacirek

Here is a full list of last night’s tunes:

Benjamin Francis Leftwich – “Pictures” (“Pictures EP) (Dirty Hit)
The Walkmen – “Juveniles (Jacknife Lee Radio Mix)” (single) (Bella Union)
Austin Peralta – “The Underwater Mountain Odyssey” (LP – “Endless Planets”) (Brainfeeder)
EVOL – “Rave Slime” (12″ single, side A) (Alku)
Hannah Peel – “Don’t Kiss The Broken One” (LP – “The Broken Wave”) (Static Caravan)
Gregory Isaacs – “Cream Of The Crop” (2CD – “Night Nurse: The Best Of”) (Trojan)
EVOL – locked groove from side A of “Rave Slime” 12″ single (Alku)
Phosphorescent – “A Picture Of Torn Up Praise” (CD  – “Live/Ghost Lights”) (Dead Oceans)
Sven Kacirek – “Turkey Dance” (LP – “The Kenya Sessions”) (Pingipung)
Wye Oak – “The Alter” (single) (City Slang)
Modified Toy Orchestra – “Electric Rapture Because Of You” (LP – “Plastic Planet”) (Warm Circuit)
The Decemberists – “JUne Hymn” (LP – “The King Is Dead”) (Rough Trade)