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This'll be the last 9 in 1 in 2025, I reckon. Better pack it with cutting-edge tracks and not a load of sad bangers from the 1980s... who am I kidding!

John Martyn - Please Fall in Love with Me

John Martyn is one of those artists that I've heard lots of interesting things about, no more so than this recounting of a festival dedicated to his music in The Fence. Yet I've never got around to listening to some.

Well, readers, that changed recently, with this beautiful, dreamy song from 1981.

Give it a minute, and it'll swallow you.

Percy Pavilion - Gower Power

Similar era and feel, but very different tone now. This is a homage to David Gower, the stylish left-handed batsman who was in his pomp in 1984 when this came out, and not that delightful peninsula to the west of Swansea.

Electronic - Getting Away With It

Ah, yes, the track that I always think is PSB or New Order and never 'Electronic'. Dipped into the 90s with this one, don't worry, normal service will resume shortly.

Charanjit Singh - Raga Bhairav

From an album called 'Synthesizing: Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat' from 1982, it's like if Black Devil Disco Club hailed from Pune rather than Paris. Heady chug from before chug was a thing.

Womack & Womack - Teardrops

Still not leaving the 80s. I swear I've posted this before, I've got a 'Womack + Womack' tag, but it's empty?? Also, 116m views on YouTube for Teardrops; you simply can't argue with numbers like that.

Richard X - Finest Dreams feat. Kelis

Fine, we'll go to the 21st century. 2003 is the best I can do. Somehow never posted about Kelis before, that's mad. 

Parliament - Flashlight

I've got Everything We Do is Music: How 20th-Century Classical Music Shaped Pop by Elizabeth Alker out of Llantwit Major Library ATM, and the chapter on Moog talks about this funk banger, so here it is, just like that.

Thundercat - Fair Chance (feat. Ty Dolla $ign & Lil B)

It is what it is, and it was what it was.

And look at that, we're in the 2020s. Be good to finish on something from this year, right?

Clipse - P.O.V. feat. Tyler, The Creator

Oh shit, waddup! Top video this. Is this Unc Rap? TBH, I only really know Grindin' by Clipse, but this measured flow sounds so much better than your mumblers... and *poof* we all become Uncs.

Original image: Musée Saint-Raymond, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Devo Doc

Finally watched the Devo documentary on Netflix last night.

Unsurprisingly, I loved it (this is the 20th post on this blog tagged Devo after all), even if it was a bit of a hagiography. It works especially well with the first couple of glasses of port of the season and a bag of chocolate coins.

Merry something to you!

Xmas Mix #6

Santa's back, baby! Don't call it a comeback, but here's my first all-new mix in 10 years: it's a half-hour or so of weird and wonderful Christmas music and stings, featuring Radiohead, The Futureheads, and other acts not called something-head, such as Tyler, the Creator, Confidence Man, and Rotterdam Termination Source.

Nadolig Llawen bois!

Here is Xmas Mix #6 by Sammfax on YouTube...

And here it is on MixCloud...

Tracklist:

1. Radiohead - Creep But It's All I Want For Christmas Is You By Mariah Carey

2. Gruff Rhys - Post Apocalypse Christmas

3. Toni Stante - Donde Esta Santa Claus?

4. WAVVES - Emo Christmas

5. The Futureheads - What's This?

6. Tyler, the Creator - I Am The Grinch feat. Fletcher Jones

7. Lil Jon featuring Kool-Aid Man - All I Really Want For Christmas

8. K-Nock, Quad City DJs & The 69 Boy - What You Want For Christmas

9. Jonwayne - Xmas Diva

10. Wham - Last Christmas (Soulwax Stutter Snippet) 

11. Confidence Man - Santa’s Comin’ Down The Chimney

12. Rotterdam Termination Source - Merry X-Mess

Related post: Another plug for the old Xmas mixes

Your Zahl am1 live track 1s

New Aphex Twin dropped on his not-at-all secret SoundCloud account a couple of days ago. In fact, the artwork is a holiday snap (does AFX have guns??).

Zahl am1 live track 1 is the 'ambient mix'.

The other track is Zahl am1 live track 1c f760m1 unfinshd, which has this blurb "got many requests for this one from a few years back, italy, pic with my love from scilly recently...need sun...relentlessly raining in uk...mixed down on the zahl, think theres better mixes, will upload if i find em,"

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I can't sleep. Too excited for Christmas / Llantwit Major vs Afon Lido.

Here's another list of tracks I've been enjoying recently...

Snooper - Pom Pom

Top-notch lo-fi rock or egg punk, really digging the lurid DIY video too.

Glixen - Sick Silent

Sludgey, heavy yet pretty shoegaze that featured on that Daniel Avery Essential Mix from the other week.

Outkast - She Lives In My Lap

Forever my fiancée... man, how good is Andre 3000? No, disrespect to Big Boi, but it's all about The Love Below.

Ten City - That's The Way Love Is (Underground Mix-Extended Version)

House music does not get more uplifting than this.

Robyn - Dopamine

Just Robyn doing Robyn things. Do-do-do-do-do.

Felix Da Housecat - Ready 2 Wear

A third emotional dancefloor banger in a row. Really feel that Felix Da Housecat doesn't get the props he deserves.

Aso Mato - MJ Complex

The moment that melody line kicks in at 30 seconds, you just know the Dewaele brothers are involved in this. And yep, it's on Deewee and has that late Soulwax vibe that I'm such a sucker for.

Austin Ato - To Fall In Love

Strap in, lads, we're about to get spacey...

Cy Gorman & Wu Kush - Prophit

We started with a fun DIY video, and we're ending with another, except this one is proper trippy minimal techno (kinda) rather than egg punk.

Original image: Utagawa Kunisada, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons