A playlist of things I've been enjoying recently, that's what this is, these '9 in 1' lists. Zambian psych rock, high camp house from 1995, rave, maximalist trap, and the spiritual successor to Born Slippy all feature...
As featured on a recent Breakfast Show on NTS with Flo, definitely my favourite host in the new slot, here's a timeless cut from Broadcast. Come On Let's Go is from Broadcast's debut album, 2000's The Noise Made By People and man Trish Keenan went too soon.
"Fuzzy, psych-rock music group from Zambia" is what the YouTube description of this video says. Nails it, though this is proper laid back. Oh and 1973, I'd add that too.
AKA the ident/sting music that NTS uses. So, it was a bit of pisstake when Charlie Bones dropped it on his new Do!! You!!! Radio show. Yep, if you're not already on it, Charlemange has set up his own station and breakfast show after leaving NTS in dramatic fashion. It is essential listening as always.
I really don't know what to make of Fee Fi Fo Fum, it's camp cheese of the highest order but that synth line is genuinely affecting and quite melancholic, surely it's been sampled elsewhere?
And another 90s banger, From Disco To Disco is from 1996 but is plugging into that French filter house sound. One of those tracks that I've heard in lots of places but never knew anything about, so big up Teki Latex for dropping into his Sophia Antipolis mix.
The highlight of Overmono's recent Essential Mix is their remix of I Have a Love, which ends up somewhere between a spiritual successor to Born Slippy and a more driven Blinded By The Lights (The Streets that is... not Manfred Mann's Earth Band... though both are bangers, just in different ways).
Genuinely, this is one of the best things I've heard this year. And it turns out Overmono are Welsh, so that's more hot content for Amser Electroneg, if and when etc.
I had the pleasure of reviewing Jon Hopkins' latest album for Buzz recently. It's called Music For Psychedelic Therapy and it's well ambient and it's well good. Like five stars good.
I had a quick dig through my likes on SoundCloud after the EGG MIX drew me back to the platform.
Buried way down the list was a short mix from Washed Out. And I mean short, like 20 minutes short. Still, it packs in those 2010 vibes, proper chillwave like.
Tracklist: Washed Out - The Fantastic Symphony Mix for Platform. (March 2010)
Arch M – “Bedrm Band at Caf NVA (edit)”
The Samps – “Magnetic Thys”
Samiyam – “Wrap Up”
Toro Y Moi – “Brubek”
Koushik – “Homage”
Osborne – “Afrika (Bullion Remix)”
Iasos – “Inter-Dimentional Music”
Jack Nitzsche – “Untitled (edit)”
The Khalsa String Band – “Song of Bliss”
I think Platform was the magazine/website that spawned Boiler Room.
If you fancy more of this type of music with terrible attempts at Blue Jam style humour over the top, I made Nos Da around the same kinda time.
[Just as I was finishing writing this post and was sorting the labels out, I found that I wrote about this mix in December 2009. We go round and round and round.]
A Llantwit Major-based music blog for things post-punk, electronic and a little bit left of centre, with second-hand cultural musings, third-rate sociological stabbings and very rarely the odd mp3.
I also write the odd album review for Buzz Magazine and used to present Amser Electroneg on Bro Radio.
