Finally watched the Devo documentary on Netflix last night.
Unsurprisingly, I loved it (this is the 20th post on this blog tagged Devo after all), even if it was a bit of a hagiography. It works especially well with the first couple of glasses of port of the season and a bag of chocolate coins.
Santa's back, baby! Don't call it a comeback, but here's my first all-new mix in 10 years: it's a half-hour or so of weird and wonderful Christmas music and stings, featuring Radiohead, The Futureheads, and other acts not called something-head, such as Tyler, the Creator, Confidence Man, and Rotterdam Termination Source.
Nadolig Llawen bois!
Here is Xmas Mix #6 by Sammfax on YouTube...
And here it is on MixCloud...
Tracklist:
1. Radiohead - Creep But It's All I Want For Christmas Is You By Mariah Carey
2. Gruff Rhys - Post Apocalypse Christmas
3. Toni Stante - Donde Esta Santa Claus?
4. WAVVES - Emo Christmas
5. The Futureheads - What's This?
6. Tyler, the Creator - I Am The Grinch feat. Fletcher Jones
7. Lil Jon featuring Kool-Aid Man - All I Really Want For Christmas
8. K-Nock, Quad City DJs & The 69 Boy - What You Want For Christmas
9. Jonwayne - Xmas Diva
10. Wham - Last Christmas (Soulwax Stutter Snippet)
11. Confidence Man - Santa’s Comin’ Down The Chimney
12. Rotterdam Termination Source - Merry X-Mess
Related post: Another plug for the old Xmas mixes
New Aphex Twin dropped on his not-at-all secret SoundCloud account a couple of days ago. In fact, the artwork is a holiday snap (does AFX have guns??).
Zahl am1 live track 1 is the 'ambient mix'.
The other track is Zahl am1 live track 1c f760m1 unfinshd, which has this blurb "got many requests for this one from a few years back, italy, pic with my love from scilly recently...need sun...relentlessly raining in uk...mixed down on the zahl, think theres better mixes, will upload if i find em,"
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I can't sleep. Too excited for Christmas / Llantwit Major vs Afon Lido.
Here's another list of tracks I've been enjoying recently...
Top-notch lo-fi rock or egg punk, really digging the lurid DIY video too.
Sludgey, heavy yet pretty shoegaze that featured on that Daniel Avery Essential Mix from the other week.
Forever my fiancée... man, how good is Andre 3000? No, disrespect to Big Boi, but it's all about The Love Below.
House music does not get more uplifting than this.
Just Robyn doing Robyn things. Do-do-do-do-do.
A third emotional dancefloor banger in a row. Really feel that Felix Da Housecat doesn't get the props he deserves.
The moment that melody line kicks in at 30 seconds, you just know the Dewaele brothers are involved in this. And yep, it's on Deewee and has that late Soulwax vibe that I'm such a sucker for.
Strap in, lads, we're about to get spacey...
We started with a fun DIY video, and we're ending with another, except this one is proper trippy minimal techno (kinda) rather than egg punk.
Original image: Utagawa Kunisada, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
'Tis the season, appaz. Last week The Futureheads released a whole album of Christmas songs called... Christmas.
I'm not sure I'll be slapping down £15 for the CD, but there are a few bangers on it. If I ever do another Xmas Mix, then their cover of 'What's This?' from A Nightmare Before Christmas will 100% be there...
