Pump: CRTs & PVP

I left Do You Radio on as it went into the repeats for a change the other day. Had my head in Markdown, trying to fix a table that shouldn't be a table. A tale as old as time.

Anyway, I was pulled out of the drudge by the Mii Channel Theme, then Dire, Dire Docks and even more video game soundtrack bangers. It was Pump: CRTs & PVP.

I think Pump is a new host on the station??

Yeah, so the show was a top top two hours, the highlight of which was probably this, WANDA WANDA by Katamari Damacy Series SOUND TEAM.

Gotta say this is a new one on me, Katamari Damacy is a 2004 action puzzle video game developed and published by Namco for the PlayStation 2. Every day is a school day.

Fake Bleep

Hey, is your brain melting? Given up on the future? Swimming in existential dread?

Why not distract yourself for an hour or so with this headsy techno-ish mix from Nathan Fake? It's Bleep Mix 316 and is all Fake productions, so it's decent, y'know.

Bye.

Back Boards

OK, so it looks like it's actually happening...

Tape 05 is the first music from Boards of Canada in 13 years. So, if everyone could hold off bombing each other to oblivion until the album drops, that would be fab.

This upload follows the VHS mailouts and the posters appearing in LA, NY, London and Tokyo in the last week or so. If this rollout is going to be anything like Tomorrow's Harvest in 2013, then I'd recommend following bocpages on Instagram to keep up to speed. There's also this evolving thread on the story so far on the bocpages website.

Genuinely so happy that BOC appear to be back.

PS hi how are you? Sorry for the lack of posting, a mix of sickness, holidays and general existential dread means I've not felt like posting. But hey, couldn't miss this news.

Daphni Buzz

I reviewed Daphni's new album Butterfly for Buzz magazine the other day; it even made it into the print edition on page 28. (I did give it four stars, maybe the full review online reads more like a three?).

Hang is my pick from the album, and it also appears on Daphni's recent Essential Mix, which is up for the next month or so on BBC Sounds.

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Hi, how are you?

Hiroshi Yoshimura - Creek

One day, I'll get around to buying Green. Yoshimura's 1986 album was mentioned in one of the later chapters in Everything We Do is Music: How 20th-Century Classical Music Shaped Pop by Elizabeth Alker, which I finished off the other day. Good read like.

Manchester String Quartet - Voodoo Ray

Is this a bit too Pete Tong Ibiza Classics? It's right on the line.

Felix Da Housecat - Silver Screen Shower Scene (Thin White Duke Mix by Jacques Lu Cont)

I rarely adore a remix as much as I do the original, but here we are. Georgous orchestral start before it starts jacking, incredible stuff.

The Black Madonna - Venus Requiem

Another one from Acker's book - the chapter focussed on Pauline Oliveros - from the DJ now known as The Blessed Madonna.

Slam - Positive Education (Slam Remix)

No nonsense, heads down techno from Glasgow from 2001. 

Llondon Actress - Country

As flagged on the No Tags pod's best of 2025 episode (and a subsequent Dan Hancox post) there is something interesting going on here, definitely hearing Clams Casino in there on the production.

Lily Allen - Ruminating

Look, I'm just as suprised as you are, but this really gets under the skin.

KW Griff - Bring in the Katz (feat. Pork Chop)

I could watch those Baltimore line dancing videos for hours. The comments section is also a joy.

Hadouken! - That Boy That Girl

2008 was a long long long time ago.

Original image: Rosa Bonheur, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons