Memomix: Forgotten Broadcasts

I put Memomix together for my new job. It's all snippets from my 2002-03 tape collection. More details on the burningred blog.



Memomix tracklist:
Excerpts from...

1. The Avalanches Mix for Radio 1's The Breezeblock - October 2001
2. Danny C - Say Yeah
3. Gilles Peterson's Brownswood Basement Special with DJ Shadow - August 2002
4. DJ Marky from Homelands (May or June 2002)
5. Mos Def - Creole
6. MC Pitman - Phone Pitman 2
7. Groove Armada's Mix for Radio 1's The Breezeblock - July 2002
8. A Million Sons Mix for Radio 1's The Breezeblock into Golden Boy & Miss Kittin - Rippin Kittin
9. DJ Shadow Mix for Radio 1's The Breezeblock - August 2002
10. Squarepusher - Do You Know Squarepusher?
11. The Soft Pink Truth - Make Up
12. Iz & Diz - Mouth (Pepe Bradock Remix)
13. Xper. XR - Nao Len Mien
14. Dave Tyack & Malcolm Mooney - Rip Van Winkle
15. A Millions Sons - Imagination into David Bowie & Philip Glass - Heroes (Aphex Twin Remix) via an intake of breath from Mary Anne Hobbs
16. ?-? (Seriously, if anyone knows what this drum'n'bass track is please comment below) into Nas - Made You Look
17. DJ Downfall Mix for Radio 1's The Breezeblock - March 2003
18. DJ Yoda Mix for Radio 1's One World - April 2003
19. Eric B & Rakim - Let The Rhythm Hit 'Em
20. Matmos Mix for Radio 1's The Breezeblock - May 2003

5 in 1 Again

Oh hi there. Here's five bits of music I've enjoyed over the last month or so.

Shlohmo - The End

Shlohmo did a top Essential Mix a few weeks back, but I found this on a recent Electronic Focus mix from BBC Sounds. Think the series is meant for 14 year olds studying for GCSEs but it's handy for the workplace too. Love the feel of this...

Busta Rhymes - Tear da Roof Off

Bounce, Bounce, Bounce.

Duster - Stratosphere

Holding my hands up on this one, I had no idea about this band. Not a lot of people did in the late 90s when Duster's debut came out. However, a lot of people are finding them now. Which is the gist of this article from The Ringer, and where I first heard about then. Space rock or post rock?

Miss Kittin & The Hacker - Flexibility

Zaltan ended his superb VF Mix 158 with this electroclash banger from 1999.

Orbital - Petrol

Caught BBC 6 Music's excellent documentary on video game music recently. It features this stark banger from Orbital, which was on the Wipeout 2097 soundtrack.

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Buzz Will Tear Us Apart

This week I have mostly been listening to the new EP from Hot 8 Brass Band and the new album from Apparat. The reviews for these will be in March 2019's edition of Buzz Magazine, and I won't publish here before they go to print. Yet I will say that I liked one a lot, the other not at all. Like five stars liked and one star hated.

Anyway, in one of those lovely coincidences, the Hot 8 Brass Band EP is called Take Cover and features versions of Michael Jackson, George Benson, The Jacksons. As mentioned in a previous post, I'm on a covers hunt as part of the playlist challenge for the road trip to Wrexham next month for Wales vs Trinidad and Tobago.

While the previously mentioned artists may lend themselves naturally to Hot 8's hot takes, the first track on Take Cover probably took a bit work to make fit...

Who knew Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart could get so funky?

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Salty Boyz

My mate Teki Latex... OK I got a retweet once... tore it up at Boiler Room Paris last month. From the Super Mario 64 opening (Dire, Dire Docks) to pounding techno and The Prodigy, it's an absolute blast.

Even more entertaining are the couple of salty lads in the comments. It seems anything that isn't minimal, precise and straight down the line is not acceptable. Remember, clubbing is a deadly serious activity and in no way meant to be fun or enjoyable.

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Wreck Some Covers

I'm off to Wrexham next month. For the first time in over 10 years, Wales will play at The Racecourse, the oldest international stadium still in use.

Trinidad and Tobago await on Wednesday 20th March 2019. And as it's a three-hour drive, we're treating it as an away day, and doing another playlist challenge for the car.

This time around the theme is covers. Yet I'm having a bit of a 'mare. We're using Spotify and it doesn't seem to have all the oddball covers that I got from the glory days of the MP3 Blogs. I can't find Metronomy covering Fascination Street by The Cure or Ladytron's take on Tweet's Oops Oh My for starters.

One banger they do have though, which Boom Bip opened his latest NTS show with, is The Williams Fairey Brass Band covering Pacific 202.

A brass band take on the acid house classic by 808 State - what's not to love?

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