On My Radio (And Buzzcocks)

I've noticed once again that while I purport to be a post-punk blog, it has been months since I posted anything in that field.

Well inspiration has come from The Identity Parade on last night's Never Mind The Buzzcocks, where Pauline Black from The Selecter appeared.

I'll take any excuse I can get to post the brilliant On My Radio. A stone-cold classic example of 2 Tone Ska.

mp3---> The Selecter - On My Radio

Deadboy's FACT Mix 112

Cutting Edge - the position of greatest importance or advancement; the leading position in any movement or field.

Here's Deadboy's FACT Mix 112 from way back in January. FACT named it their mix of the year. Hard to argue.

Fact Mix 112: Deadboy by Fact Mix Archive on Mixcloud

Four Tet's FACT Mix 182 was second.

Top 10 Tracks Of 2010

#10 Simple Minds - I Travel [mp3]

I would call this a guilty pleasure except I have no guilt in loving this piece of disco rock.

#9 Total Control - Paranoid Video [mp3]

"It has a sparse brutality with a haze of recent violence around it"

#8 Arcade Fire - The Suburbs [mp3]

Apparently it sounds like Neil Young. All I know is that it sounds good.

#7 Gold Panda - You [mp3]

Lead track from probably the album of the year.

#6 Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Fright Night (Nevermore) [mp3]

Everyone's opted for Round And Round but I prefer Fright Night (Nevermore).

#5 Eleven Pond - Watching Trees [mp3]

"... gloriously otherworldly, its jerky funk wrapped in melancholia. It also possesses a stone cold classic pop chorus."

#4 Amon Düül II - Mozambique [mp3]

"This morning I listened to the free-form, off-kilter German prog-rock (krautrock is a term I've grown to dislike) of Amon Düül II while on the bog. Lovely."

#3 DJ Nate - Make Em Run [mp3]

"... for three minutes and a second this is the weirdest and most compelling track of the year."

#2 Police Academy 6 - Run [mp3]

"... my track of the summer. It has Balearic touches but really it is a pop song, dripping with melody. All it needs is a puppet's vocals and it'll soar away."

DDDDDDDDDDDDDDRRRRRRRRRRUUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLL

#1 Telex - Moskow Diskow [mp3]

"Moskow Diskow is a stupendous piece of dead-pan futuristic electronic disco music... from Belgium. It's the four-four handclap/fingersnap sound. It's the vocoder. It's the French (or Flemish, whatevs). It's the synths. It's the train motifs (the sister of Kraftwerk's bicycles?). It's the everything."

Xmas Mix 2010

Made this mix for some friends instead of sending Christmas cards. Time rich, cash poor and all.

Xmas Mix 2010 by Sammyfax on Mixcloud

mp3---> Sam's Xmas Mix 2010 [24 MB]

1. Nathan Fake - Silent Night

2. Glam Chops - Countdown To Christmas

3. Holly Golightly - Christmas Tree On Fire

4. Yo La Tengo - Rock & Roll Santa

5. Kurtis Blow - Rappin' Blow

6. Run DMC - Christmas In Hollis

7. Rotary Connection - Silent Night Chant

8. The Ergs - We're Gonna Have A Devo Xmas

Rock & Roll Santa

Can something that's eight years old be called new? Probably not.

So Nathan Fake keeps the ever-so-prestigious Ceefax Of Life Best New Xmas Song Of The Year Award 2010 for Xmas Rush.

And Yo La Tengo pick up the even-less-prestigious Ceefax Of Life Best New To Me Xmas Song Of The Year Award 2010 for Rock & Roll Santa.

mp3---> Yo La Tengo - Rock & Roll Santa