Bela Lugosi's Dubbed

Seeing that it's the spooky season, here's a stretched out dub reworking of Bela Lugosi's Dead by Bauhaus.

Ciao Bella is 11+ minutes of the good stuff, proper death disco, from Golden Fleece...

Related post: Bela Legosi's Dead Innit

9 in 1 (16)

Been a while right? 9 in 1 is basically a YouTube playlist of stuff I've been enjoying with a picture I keep running through a glitch programme to make more and more abstract. That's it. There's no reason.

Dry Cleaning - Strong Feelings

Moody Fall-ish post-punk with an inscrutable vocalist talk-singing non-sequiturs? Obvs I'm gonna be into it. Dry Cleaning's second album Stumpwork came out this week, but Strong Feelings is off their first. They're playing the Tramshed in February and all.

Not The Twos - HAHA

Not The Twos may have worked with Kendrick Lamar, but HAHA kinda reminds me of TV On The Radio. Heard it on Benji B a while ago as I ran to St Donats.

Spinner Dolphins - Happy Daze

A fav of Flo over on the NTS Breakfast Show, Happy Daze is a pure slice of summer through the gloaming. Baggy-ish vibes from 1993.

Nichts - Tango 2000

This might be another Flo one, and kinda like Dry Cleaning earlier, scratchy German post-punk from 1982 will always find a home on CeefaxOfLife.

Fumi Hirano - Funky Dreamer

As will City Pop that sounds a bit like Herbie Hancock's Rockit.

Denym - Beauty

Otherworldly UK soul from 1982.

Galaxy 2 Galaxy - Timeline

Underground Resistance. Detroit Techno. All Day.

Front 242 - No Shuffle (Terence Fixmer Remix)

Tough as nails EBM updated for 2022. From a Front 242 remix EP released to celebrate 40 years of the Belgian pioneers.

Philadelphia Five - Not Leaving Without Jerry

Even darker EBM now from 1988 that would probably not be released in 2022.

Related post: 9 in 1 (15)

Live, Laugh, Amser Electroneg

Oh hi Mark.

Yeah, as indicated by the lack of posting on here and on the socials, I jacked in the radio show.

I left it a little vague in my tweet back in August, but I should really say it was entirely my decision to stop doing Amser Electroneg. I'd just had enough. It sounds daft when it's only selecting ten or so tracks a week - with at last three from Wales obvs - but it took two to three evenings a week putting an hour's show together. It was becoming a chore.

Plus, and I'm going to sound ancient here, it wasn't like back in my student days on Radiowave (which is now Surf Radio). Then it was rock up with some CD-Rs, stick 'em in those awful Denon DJ CD players and do it live. With Amser Electroneg, it was recording links between tracks I'd already uploaded to Myriad at home... and it just wasn't as fun.

Now, this reads like I'm a right Debbie Downer, and I have been struggling recently, but I am very grateful to Ben Dain-Smith and Bro Radio for the opportunity. Doing the show really did make me go digging, I bought more off Bandcamp than I've done in years and got me listening to more local stuff than ever before. And there's some great electronic music being made in South Wales, stuff like Umbromaniii, Pope John Paul Van Damme, and Tom Algorithm.

And one artist I'd really like to shoutout is Ryhs, who's now getting BBC Radio airplay. Top productions from Cardiff like and you can get his latest track for free over on Bandcamp...

Anyway, the door may be open to do more shows at Bro, but I'm thinking I may bring AE back as a MixCloud thing, maybe monthly and just electronic music from Wales. Maybe. I've got a mic and Audacity on an old laptop somewhere. New Year's Resolution? Maybe.

But for now you can listen back to the old Amser Electroneg over on MixCloud.

And I'll try and post more here too. Take care and speak soon.