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Proper Sunday Fear kicking in right now, fending it off with some decent tracks like...

Gong - Love Is How You Make It

I first heard this track on Four Tet's DJ Kicks comp. I hear he's now hanging out with Skrillex and serial Wikipedia fiddler and son of King's Counsel barrister Charles Anthony Warneford Gibson, Fred Again. He looks happy.

Aphex Twin - QKThr

This was trending on Spotify last month amongst Aphex tracks. Apparently, it was popular on TikTok with the #corecore. I don't know what this means. Know Your Meme says "Many corecore edits hark on sadness, depression and loneliness with many using sad slideshow audios." OK, pal.

Newyddion / Geraint Davies - Arwyr

Proper good 80s indie pop, a little like Prefab Sprout, which features on a comp called Caneuon yr 80au: Dal i Freuddwydio that came out last year on Sain Records.

Bando - Shampw

Same era as Newyddion, but a completely different vibe, this is slick disco funk yn Gymraeg.

The Clash - The Magnificent Dance

A bassline that can walk for days, when people say punk funk, this is right up there with ESG.

Suburban Lawns - Flavor Crystals

I promise we'll move on from the 80s in this list soon, but for now it's Suburban Lawns from 1983. Its angular post-punk has a bassline that reminds me of Milk and Alcohol by Dr Feelgood or maybe it's something else entirely. Good though.

Comet Gain - Love Without Lies

Right, this came out in 2008 but it's still pure post-punk revival indie sleaze. The best I can do right now. Not sure how I missed this at the time?

The Bucketheads - The Bomb

I always thought it was 'peace and boogie in my mi-i-ai-ind'. Apparently, it's 'these sounds fall into my mind'. Fun time commercial house from 1995.

Ginuwine - Pony (Rustie Remix)

Genuinely gutted I only just learned this existed. Like Comet Gain, how the hell I missed this when it came out I'll never know. It's disappeared off SoundCloud but my word what a ripper. In related news, it looks like Rustie is returning. Get. In.

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Hudmo SlowJams

Somehow, despite digging Hudson Mohawke for years, I learned about his Valentines Slow Jams series just this week.

Starting in 2007 and apparently getting 'worse' every year, I've not listened to all of them yet but they mainly seem to be super syrupy 80s and 90s R'n'B, funk, and soul with the occasional gunshot SFX.

And keeping with the old school vibes this year's mix, Hudson Mohawke’s Valentines Slow Jams Chapter 12, doesn't appear to be on the streamers right now. Instead, you can listen over on the LuckyMe website and download it too with all the other chapters.

I did this by accident, thinking it was a WAV when I saw the huge file. So imagine my delight when unzipping it there were 12 mixes in there.

I've definitely downloaded worse suspiciously large files from the internet.

Panel Beaters From Prague

Disco Pogo, the reincarnation of Jockey Slut, marked the third anniversary of Andrew Weatherall's passing with an oral history of his early career.

Featuring contributions from Danny Rampling, David Holmes, and Terry Farley amongst many others, From Boy's Own To Panel Beaters From Prague is well worth carving out an hour with this in one tab and YouTube open in the other.

A few of the top top tracks mentioned along the way include:

Chris & Cosey - October (Love Song)

The Style Council - Shout To The Top

Capricorn - 20Hz

Fail we may, sail we must.

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Teki Latex at HÖR

The big man, Teki Latex, played that white-tiled room last week and tore it down like he always does. I now know that the white-tiled room is HÖR.

For the most part, this is a pretty restrained mix for TL, until we get to the last ten minutes when Dead or Alive's You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) and the chiptune kicks in. According to the comments section on YouTube the final track is The Moon Theme from DuckTales, released on NES and Game Boy. This ties in nicely with it being nearly three years since Teki & Nick's Mixtape Quest Adventure was released.

Anyway, definitely find an hour to bang Teki Latex | HÖR on, the king never misses.

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Did you feel that sun the other day? Could it be Spring? It felt so good, so close.

HMS Morris - Myfyrwyr Rhyngwladol

My New Year's Resolution is to listen to more Welsh-language radio shows. So here we are. Buzzy, bright art-rock-pop that mentions City Road and features my beloved Grangemoor Park in the video.

Tara Bandito - Croeso I Gymru

You wait for a bus etc. Another Lwp video, this is a fun bassy rumbler yn Gymraeg.

Yellow Magic Orchestra - Cue

I started a new note on my phone for the best things I heard in 2023 after one play. Synth-pop at its finest and years ahead of its time. Yellow Magic Orchestra are/were incredible. RIP Yukihiro Takahashi.

Yukihiro Takahashi - Drip Dry Eyes

Let's have a solo track as well from the great man, who passed away last month.

Wire - Strange

From 1977's Pink Flag. Definitive post-punk like.

The Stranglers - No More Heroes

I joined a game of that Music League last month. No More Heroes (great Wii game) was one of the tracks entered in the 'reminds you of your parents' round. I chose Here Comes The Rain Again by Eurythmics. I did not win.

Diana Ross - I'm Coming Out (Original Chic Mix)

Irresistible even in the gloom of this eternal winter. As sampled on Biggie's Mo Money Mo Problems.

Dafydd Pierce - Gorsaf y Gofod

Gwalaxia very nearly made it onto my Top 10 Things I Heard in 2022, and here's the title track from the space funk rock concept album released on cassette in 1980 or 1981.

Moderat - Milk

Sprawling, chugging, forever building electronic music from Moderat's second album in 2013.

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