Oh hi, Mark.
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...
Broadcast - Come On Let's Go
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.
Witch - Home Town
"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.
Vegyn - Blue Verb
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.
Theo Parrish - Soul Control
I'm not sure how you even begin to describe this without using deeeeeeeep. A proper soulful roller from one of the best there is.
TNGHT - TUMS
I'm always a sucker for Hudson Mohawke and Lunice's maximalist trap bangers, and TUMS is no exception. Plus that smile, that damn smile.
SL2 - DJs Take Control
The Top of the Pops reruns on BBC 4 have finally made it to the 90s so rave delights like this are now going out on TV at 8pm on Fridays. Yes, mate.
Candy Girls - Fee Fi Fo Fum
Keeping it on a rave tip, I found this on the second disc of The Best of Dance Mania 95, one of 15 CDs I picked up for a quid from The Cabin on Lamby Way, AKA the shop at the tip in Cardiff.
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?
Whirlpool Productions - From Disco To Disco
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.
For Those I Love - I Have a Love (Overmono Remix)
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.
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