Glad All Over

What links my granddad's side Crystal Palace, my new favourite Scottish football team Partick Thistle (sorry Kilmarnock but they've got a David Shrigley mascot) and former Welsh rugby powerhouse Pontypridd?

They all use - according to Wikipedia, anyway - Glad All Over by The Dave Clark Five as celebration music.

And what a stomper it is...

Eyesdown, Listen Up

Coldcut were recently on Essential Mix duty to celebrate 25 years of Ninja Tune and it goes without saying that it was some top, top listening.

The mix is on the BBC iPlayer for a couple of more weeks and I have to say it's been great that the Beeb have extended the time that you can catch up on radio shows from a week to a month.

One of the highlights of the mix was 30 minutes in when they dropped Machinedrum's roller of a remix of Eyesdown by Bonobo...

Music For Misfits

Nice if slightly hagiographic, Music for Misfits: The Story of Indie, started last night on BBC4.

The first in a three part series, it's shaping up to be a  rather good documentary strand and I've got the YouView on it.

Anyway, episode one kicked off with Joy Division's Disorder, the opener of Unknown Pleasures, and I don't need to be asked twice to share this track.

Windows 95 (Full Eno Mix)

Someone dared to go full Eno. They have taken something Brian Eno made and made it even more Eno.

Eno.

Ideoforms has stretched out the Windows 95 start up music, all four seconds of it, by 4000 times to make it super ambient. It's really quite lovely.



Though this is not a new idea (I first came across it when Nyan Cat was stretched to eternity), it's a fitting and beautiful way to mark the 20th anniversary of the launch of Windows 95.

Fingerbib Shuffle

After trying to cram in as many listens of Nicolas Godin's curio Contrepoint for a Buzz review, I went full shuffle on the walk to work and Fingerbib was thrown up.

Fingerbib is track four off my favourite Aphex Twin LP, Richard D. James Album, and one of my all-time favourites for that matter. It has everything you want from an Aphex album, lush melodies, complex programming, noise, whimsy and beauty. Fingerbib captures this all.