17 Jun 2026

9 in 1 (56)

56 Leonard Street in Tribeca, Manhattan - glitched with 56 on the centre left


No, no, where have you been? OK, here's your first '9 in 1' since January, no order or reason...


Caryl a'r Band - Canu'n Ara

Is this yacht rock? Welsh-language soft rock beauty from 1980 played by Flo Dill on NTS a few weeks back.


Oneohtrix Point Never - Memories Of Music

As mentioned in the last section of the No Tags 2 book, on a piece about music, separation, and incarceration. V. surprised to learn only now about National Prison Radio in that piece. It launched in 2009, a few years earlier, and I'd have been all over it at uni. Shows how much things drop away, I suppose.


Patrick Selinger - Businessmen

Another one from Flo Dill's breakfast show on NTS, I think this was on Ultimate DJ as a joke song or something, but I dig it. Oldball crunchy new wave from late 80s Belgium.


Severed Heads - Lamborghini (Petrol April 1982)

Ashamed to say I think the algo chucked this one up on Instagram for me. But it got me. More scratchy electronic new wave, this time from early-80s Australia.


Mr & Mrs Dale - It's You (Free House Mix)

Stripped-back deep house from 1989.


Los Twangueros - Star Guitar

Yes, one of my favourite Chemical Brothers tracks given the balearic guitar treatment. Big summer vibes.


The The - Uncertain Smile

A third track from Flo Dill's show. I swear I've listened to other shows in the six months since I last posted one of these lists.


John Martyn - You Might Need a Man

This is now a John Martyn fan blog. Glorious pop rock from 1982.


Joachim Witt - Goldener Reiter

Yet more 80s new wave; this time closer to the rock end. As heard on the German-language Hola FM while on holiday in Fuerteventura in February.


Original image: Kidfly182, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons