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Matters relating to Albert Freeman’s Eclectic Mainline show.

Eclectic Mainline 21st August 2013

New music in tonight’s show included No Age:

…Tamikresk:

… and FKA Twigs:

You will find the whole show available on today’s page of the BCB Listen Again service. Here is the full show’s track list:

Pond – ‘Giant Tortoise’ (LP – Hobo Rocket) (Modular)
Tamikrest – ‘Tisnant an Chatma’ (LP – Chatma) (Glitterbeat)
Caitlin Rose – ‘Waitin” (LP – The Stand-In) (Names)
Lorn – ‘Inverted’ (EP – Debris) (Ninja Tune)
Totem – ‘See Saw Girl’ (single) (Moshi Moshi)
The Dials – ‘Rose Marie’ (single) (Gear Discs)
FKA Twigs – ‘Water Me’ (single) (Young Turks)
Pinkunoizu – ‘Necromancer’ (LP – The Drop) (Full Time Hobby)
Pierre Antoine & Vis-a-Vis – ‘Say Min Sy Soh’ (various artists LP – Afrobeat Airwaves 2 – Return Flight To Ghana) (Analog Africa)
Las Kellies – ‘Go V!’ (LP – Total Exposure) (Fire)
No Age – ‘An Impression’ (LP – An Object) (Sub Pop)
Younghusband – ‘Running Water’ (LP – Dromes) (Sonic Cathedral)
Bill Callahan – ‘Expanding Dub’ (single) (Drag City)
Sebadoh – ‘I Will’ (LP – Defend Yourself) (Domino)

Eclectic Mainline 14th August 2013

New music in this week’s show included Letherette remixed by Bibio:

… Au Revoir Simone:

… and Jackson and his Computer Band

You will find the whole show available on today’s page of the BCB Listen Again service. Here is the full show’s track list:

Eugeniusz Rudnik – ‘Collage’ (Various Artists 3CD – ‘An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music / Seventh and Last A – Chronology Volume #7) (Sub Rosa)
Bleached – ‘Searching Through The Past’ (single) (Dead Oceans)
Letherette – ‘After Dawn (Bibio Remix)’ (After Dawn EP) (Ninja Tune)
Au Revoir Simone – ‘Somebody Who’ (single) (Moshi Moshi)
Flowers – ‘Until You’re Dead’ (single) (Fortuna Pop!)
Jackson Scott – ‘That Awful Sound’ (single)
Ras G And The Afrikan Space Program – ‘One 4 Kutman…’ (LP – Back On The Planet) (Brainfeeder)
Crushed Beaks – ‘Feelers’ (single)
Maps – ‘Left Behind’ (LP – Vicissitude) (Mute)
The Smashing Pumpkins ‘God (DD 2/21/95) (box set – The Aeroplane Flies High)
Hoofus – ‘The Instant’ (LP – Several Wolves) (Exotic Pylon)
Jackson and his Computer Band – ‘Vista’ (LP – Glow) (Warp)
Western Lows – ‘Grapevine’ (single) (High Line)
Barbarossa – ‘Pagliaccio’ (single) (Memphis Industries)
Riva Starr – ‘Dublife (feat. Horace Andy)’ (single with The Care Song) (Snatch)
Israël Quellet – ‘Pour percussionist et Saturation’ (Various Artists 3CD – ‘An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music / Seventh and Last A – Chronology Volume #7) (Sub Rosa)

Eclectic Mainline 7th August 2013

New music in tonight’s show included The Cairo Gang:

…and this Djrum remix of the new Jono McCleery single:

You will find the whole show available on today’s page of the BCB Listen Again service. Here is the full show’s track list:

Sigur Rós – ‘Stormur’ (LP – Kveikur) (XL)
Marina Rosenfeld – ‘Hard Love’ (LP – P.A. / Hard Love) (Room40)
Koreless – ‘Never’ (single) (Young Turks)
The Cairo Gang – ‘Tiny Rebels’ (EP – Tiny Rebels) (Empty Cellar)
Boards Of Canada – ‘Come To Dust’ (LP – Tomorrow’s Harvest) (Warp)
Pure Bathing Culture – ‘Pendulum’ (single) (Memphis Industries)
Delorean – ‘Destitute Time’ (single) (Matador)
Jono McCleery – ‘Ballade (Djrum Remix)’ (single) (Ninja Tune)
Dent May – ‘Born Too Late’ (LP – Warm Blankets) (Paw Tracks)
Sharon Van Etten – ‘All I Can’ (LP – Tramp) (Jagjaguwar)
Braids – ‘Fruend’ (single) (Full Time Hobby)
Flowers – ‘Until You’re Dead’ (single) (Fortuna Pop!)
Dziga Vertov – ‘Radio Pravda’ (Various Artists 3CD – ‘An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music / Seventh and Last A – Chronology Volume #7) (Sub Rosa)
Hoofus – ‘The Loke’ (LP – Several Wolves) (Exotic Pylon)

Eclectic Mainline 31st July 2013

New music in tonight’s show included Ras G:

…AUF:

…and Las Kellies:

You will find the whole show available on today’s page of the BCB Listen Again service.  Here is the full show’s track list:

Congo Natty – ‘UK Allstars’ (LP – Jungle Revolution) (Big Dada)
Las Kellies – ‘Melting Ice’ (single) (Fire)
The Cairo Gang – ‘Shake Off’ (EP – Tiny Rebels) (Empty Cellar)
Goner – ‘The End Of Vinyl (Goner’s Morbid Rave Refix)’ (Pure & Various Artists LP – No End Of Vinyl) (Crónica)
Jono McCleery – ‘Ballade’ (single) (Ninja Tune)
Big Star – ‘Back Of A Car’ (LP – Columbia… Live At Missouri University) (SPV)
AUF – ‘Heiss’ (CD – CD) (Graumann)
Ras G And The Afrikan Space Program – ‘All Is Well…’ (LP – Back On The Planet) (Brainfeeder)
Chris Watson – ‘Sumor’ (CD – In St. Cuthbert’s Time) (Touch)
Letherette – ‘After Dawn’ (After Dawn EP) (Ninja Tune)
The Chills – ‘Molten Gold’ (single) (Fire)
Vieux Farka Touré – ‘Peace’ (LP – Mon Pays) (Six Degrees)
Cavern Of Anti-Matter – ‘You’re An Art Soul’ (LP – Blood-Drums) (Grautag)
Raffertie – ‘Last Train Home’ (LP - Sleep Of Reason) (Ninja Tune)

Eclectic Mainline 24th July 2013

New music in this week’s show included The Bug:

…and Ghostpoet:

It so frustrates me when artists and labels don’t enable embedding for their Soundcloud tunes. I was hoping to also include tonight’s tunes by Vieux Farka Touré and Congo Natty on this blog. But alas Six Degrees Records and Big Dada Records have chosen not to allow embeds, so linking to them is all I can do.

You will find the whole show available on today’s page of the BCB Listen Again service. Here is the full show’s track list:

Seaworthy + Taylor Dupree – ‘Wood’ (LP – Wood, Winter, Hollow) (12K)
The Bug – ‘Filthy’ ft. Flowdan (single) (Ninja Tune)
Queens Of The Stone Age – ‘I Sat By The Ocean’ (LP – …Like Clockwork) (Matador)
Circle Traps – ‘Open Cube’ (Obelisk EP) (Five Easy Pieces)
Vieux Farka Touré – ‘Diack So’ (LP – Mon Pays) (Six Degrees)
Christoph de Babalon – ‘The End Of Vinyl (Christoph de Babalon remix)’ (Pure & Various Artists LP – No End Of Vinyl) (Crónica)
The Cairo Gang – ‘Father Of The Man’ (EP – Tiny Rebels) (Empty Cellar)
Congo Natty – ‘Rebel’ (LP – Jungle Revolution) (Big Dada)
Stephan Mathieu – ‘Gliese 229 B’ (LP – The Falling Rocket) (Dekorder)
Raffertie – ‘Gagging Order’ (LP - Sleep Of Reason) (Ninja Tune)
Maps – ‘Adjusted To The Darkness’ (LP – Vicissitude) (Mute)
Ghostpoet – ‘Cold Win’ (single and LP – Some Say So I Say Light) (Play It Again Sam)

Eclectic Mainline 17th July 2013

New tunes in tonight’s show from Tunng:

… The Ballet:

… Circle Traps:

… and Alela Diane:

You will find the whole show available on today’s page of the BCB Listen Again service.  Here is the full show’s track list:

Mark Pritchard – ‘Get Wyld’ (Ghosts EP) (Warp)
Mark Mulcahy – ‘Poison Candy Heart’ (single and LP - Dear Mark J Mulcahy I Love You) (Fire)
Tunng – ‘So Far From Here’ (single) (Full Time Hobby)
Kurt Vile – ‘Air Bud’ (LP - Wakin On A Pretty Daze) (Matador)
Emika – ‘Centuries’ (single and LP - DVA) (Ninja Tune)
The Ballet – ‘Turn You’ (single and LP - I Blame Society) (Fortuna POP!)
Füxa – ‘Sun Is Shining’ (single) (Rocket Girl)
Lightning Dust – ‘Loaded Gun’ (single and LP - Fantasy) (Jagjaguwar)
Anne-James Chaton and Andy Moor – ‘Journey On The Péquod’ (LP - Transfer) (Unsound)
Circle Traps – ‘Heatwave’ (Obelisk EP) (Five Easy Pieces)
Stephan Mathieu – ‘Deneb’ (LP - The Falling Rocket) (Dekorder)
Alela Diane – ‘The Way We Fall’ (LP - About Farewell) (Believe)
Arctic Monkeys – ‘Do I Wanna Know’ (single) (Domino)

Eclectic Mainline 10th July 2013

New music in tonight’s show included Julia Holter:

…Raffertie:

…No Age:

…and Mount Kimbie:

You’ll find the full show available on demand on today’s page of the BCB Listen Again service.  Here is the full track list:

Raffertie – ‘One Track Mind’ (LP – Sleep Of Reason) (Ninja Tune)
Dead Can Dance – ‘Children Of The Sun’ (single) (PIAS)
!!! – ‘Californiayeah’ (single) (Warp)
Marsen Jules Trio – ‘Les Trains Stortent De La Gare’ (LP – Présence Acousmatique) (OCTAF)
No Age – ‘C’mon, Stimmung’ (single) (Sub Pop)
Alela Diane – ‘Lost Land’ (LP – About Farewell) (Believe)
Pond – ‘Xanman’ (single) (Modular)
Nothankyou – ‘Know Yourself’ (single) (Moshi Moshi)
Big Deal – ‘Pristine’ (LP – June Gloom) (Mute)
Mount Kimbie – ‘Lie Near’ (LP – Cold Spring Fault Less Youth) (Warp)
Queens Of The Stone Age – ‘Fairweather Friends’ (LP – …Like Clockwork) (Matador)
Julia Holter – ‘In The Green Wild’ (single) (Domino)
Big Star – ‘I Am The Cosmos’ (LP – Columbia… Live At Missouri University) (SPV)

Eclectic Mainline 3rd July 2013

A digression…

I’m starting this blog with a break from the norm. Rather than showing you tunes I played on BCB this evening, here are some I didn’t play.

The reason I didn’t play ‘Dies Irae’ by Gonzo is because it is possibly the most scarce release I have ever heard of. It is limited to just 30 cassettes, and the Soundcloud clip below is the closest there is to a digital version:

I’ve recently seen (twice: once at the ATP Festival, and once at the 1 in 12 Club in Bradford) the excellent presentation by Eric Isaacson of Mississippi Records. I bought several of the label’s LPs and intended to play a couple of tunes in my show, but a couple of technical glitches meant I couldn’t play any vinyl in the studio tonight. So, here’s the song by the Georgia Sea Island Singers that I would have played if able tonight:

Something I saw on the ATP TV channel at the recent festival was this amazing Bollywood rendition of a few nursery rhymes:

On with the show…

Now, onto tunes that I did play tonight. This excellent new tune from Mark Pritchard:

… ‘Basin’ by Fawn Spots:

…a welcome return from Fuck Buttons:

…and ‘Everlasting’ by Grey Reverend:

You’ll find the full show on the BCB Listen Again page for 3rd July. Here’s the full playlist:

Jon Hopkins – ‘We Disappear’ (LP – Immunity) (Domino)
Kurt Vile – ‘Was All Talk’ (LP – Wakin On A Pretty Daze) (Matador)
Jamie Lidell – ‘Do Yourself A Favour’ (double a-side single with Big Love) (Warp)
Fawn Spots – ‘Basin’ (split single with Scott & Charlene’s Wedding) (Critical Heights)
Sigur Rós – ‘Stormur’ (LP – Kveikur) (XL
Grey Reverend – ‘Everlasting’ (single) (Motion Audio)
Fuck Buttons – ‘The Red Wing’ (single) (ATP)
Guided By Voices – ‘W/ Glass In Foot’ (LP – English Little League) (Fire)
Motoomi Doi – ‘Dark Night’ (LP – The Illuminated Nightingale) (Noble)
Machinedrum – ‘Eyesdontlie’ (single) (Ninja Tune)
Vampire Weekend – ‘Unbelievers’ (single and LP – Modern Vampires Of The City) (XL)
Mark Pritchard – ‘Ghosts’ (Ghosts EP) (Warp)

Eclectic Mainline 26th June 2013

I played 3 tracks by Data 70 in tonight’s show, from the new CD Space Loops: The Complete Sessions. By coincidence, Data 70 have put a few tracks on Soundcloud in threes.  One of this 3, is one of the 3 I played tonight (am I making sense?):

Also in tonight’s show was this by Deerhunter, who curated the wonderful ATP Festival last weekend:

… and this by Magic Panda:

Here is the show’s full playlist:

Thundercat – ‘Heartbreaks + Setbacks’ (LP – Apocalypse) (Brainfeeder)
Deerhunter – ‘Monomania’ (LP – Monomania) (4AD)
Frank Bretschneider – ‘Super.Trigger’ (LP – Super.Trigger) (Raster Noton)
Robert Pollard – ‘It Disappears In The Least Likely Hands (We May Never Not Know)’ (LP – Honey Locust Honky Tonk) (Fire)
Camera Obscura – ‘Desire Lines’ (LP – Desire Lines) (4AD)
Data 70 – ‘Departure’ (LP – Space Loops: The Complete Sessions) (Enraptured)
COH – ‘Disco Discrete’ (LP – RETRO-2038) (Editions Mego)
The National – ‘Sea Of Love’ (LP – Trouble Will Find Me) (4AD)
Lord Tang – ‘Blue Sunshine’ (2xCD – 70 Years Of Sunshine) (Monotype)
Ceremonial Dagger – ‘Synesthesia’ (2xCD – 70 Years Of Sunshine) (Monotype)
Data 70 – ‘Biff! Bang! Pow!’ (LP – Space Loops: The Complete Sessions) (Enraptured)
Data 70 – ‘Ice Cubes’ (LP – Space Loops: The Complete Sessions) (Enraptured)
The Elwins – ‘Come On Out’ (LP – And I Thank You) (Affairs Of The Heart)
Magic Panda – ‘Zwolf’ (LP – Temple Of A Thousand Lights) (Tigerbeat6)

Eclectic Mainline 19th June 2013

As regular listeners to Eclectic Mainline will know, I can’t keep up with all the music downloads that get sent my way and far prefer a 5″ shiny disc, or even better a 7″ or 12″ black disc, or…even better…. a 7″ orange disc. Which is precisely what landed in the postpile a couple of weeks ago from Affairs Of The Heart Records, the new single by The Elwins:

The Elwins - Forgetful Assistance 7" orange vinyl

That’s how it looks, and this is how it sounds. (Affairs Of The Heart have chosen not to enable embedding of the song, so you will have to click through to hear it I’m afraid).

Also in the show tonight was this by COH:

…and two songs from the 2012 Guided By Voices album Class Clown Spots a UFO, including this one:

You will find the full show available to listen again on this page.  Here is the playlist:

Guided By Voices – ‘Chain to the Moon’ (LP – Class Clown Spots a UFO) (Fire)
COH – ‘Aniki’ (LP – RETRO-2038) (Editions Mego)
Camera Obscura – ‘Every Weekday’ (LP – Desire Lines) (4AD)
Thundercat – ‘A Message For Austin / Praise The Lord / Enter The Void’ (LP – Apocalypse) (Brainfeeder)
Alela Diane – ‘About Farewell’ (single) (Believe)
Eat Lights Become Lights – ‘Modular Living’ (LP – Modular Living) (Rocket Girl)
Happy Families – ‘New Forgetting’ (single) (Sonic Cathedral)
Beans On Toast – ‘Bear and a Burger’ (single and LP – Fishing For A Thank You) (Xtra Mile)
The Elwins – ‘Forgetful Assistance’ (single) (Affairs Of The Heart)
Nancy Elizabeth – ‘Simon Says Dance (Matthew Bourne remix)’ (single) (The Leaf Label)
Landshapes – ‘In Limbo’ (single) (Bella Union)
Frank Bretschneider – ‘Big Hopes’ (LP – Super.Trigger) (Raster Noton)
Big Deal – ‘Dream Machines’ (single and LP – June Gloom) (Mute)
Guided By Voices – ‘All Of This Will Go’ (LP – Class Clown Spots a UFO) (Fire)
Robyn Hitchcock – ‘End Of Time (Re-mix)’ (single) (Yep Roc)