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It's my wedding anniversary today. I shouldn't be doing this.

Dream Academy - Life In A Northern Town

Sampled by Dario G for Sunchyme if you're wondering.

Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al

Some would say miming the bass solo bit as it played on one of the tiny buses that drive around Falmouth is incredibly naff. Not this guy.

Clan Of Xymox - Stranger

As featured on The Chain a few weeks/months back. Dutch darkwave from 1985.

Devo - Social Fools

Rare-ish Devo from 1978, much closer to punk than synthy new wave.

Digitalism - Pogo

The sound of uni, baby. I'll never tire of this maximalist indie electro schtick.

Benga - Pleasure

I was reminded of this dubstep rumbler on one of those 6 Music's Rave Forever playlists because I am ancient and my back hurts and so do my knees.

808 State - 808091 (Live)

Finally got my vinyl situation sorted out (I needed a mini pre-amp) and can play records again. So, I collected some of my old stuff from my mum's when I was last down. This is on the b-side to Ooops, which I picked up for 50p from god knows where god knows when. Still prefer CDs mind, have you seen the prices?

San Soda - Juno Love

It's been a while since I jotted this one down, but I'm guessing I heard it on Do!! You!!! Radio. Laid-back driving music for 80s cars. Immaculate vibes.

The Other People Place - Let Me Be Me

Again, I know very little of this tune, but it's one of those minimal epics from Detroit, techno/electro for the soul. It came out on Warp in 2001, so I've no idea how I missed it.

Chillwave to the grave

Ah, you think Chillwave is your ally? You merely adopted the chill. I was born in it, molded by it.

OK, this one made me feel old. NTS doing a guide to chillwave. I knew most of the stuff in there but this jam, Brokendate from Com Truise is superb (do you think he regrets that choice of name?). Synthy artificial nostalgia that has looped around. And on Ghostly International too, you love to see it.

Time to die.

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Enjoying this Indian Summer? That's still fine to say, right?

Anyway here are nine tracks I've been enjoying since the last one of these... 

Alan Braxe & Fred Falke - Intro

It's one of those tracks that really should've been on one of these lists long before now. Maybe it was, lemme check. Nope. Classic French filter house from the year 2000 that still abso slaps.

Haruomi Hosono - Heliotherapy

Blippy trippy electronica from yerr man from YMO who did Sports Men. 

Mali Hâf - SHWSH!

Tidy electro-pop yn Gymraeg from earlier this year.

Sandy Steel - Mind Your Own Business

Boy, do I wish I had known about this track while I was at uni? Delta 5's post-punk indie-disco classic gets a slightly beefed-up and extended cover courtesy of Sandy Steel, of whom I know zilch. Anyway, this was played by Sofie K and DJ Subaru on NTS a couple of weeks ago, def worth checking out Sofie K's Work Out shows on the station.

Killer Mike - Scientists & Engineers ft. Future, Andre 3000, Eryn Allen Kane

Always good to hear Andre 3000, especially in 2023. And y'know, Killer Mike too.

Danger Doom - Old School

Joyous, summery hip hop from DOOM and that.

Egyptian Lover - I Cry (Night After Night)

Incredible videos, immaculate vibes. You don't get more 80s than this. Pure electro gold.

Olof Dreijer - Rosa Rugosa

Yerr fella from The Knife doing his minimal peak techno thing on Hessle Audio. I don't know how he makes his synths sound like that but I love it. Feels like a continuation from Oni Ayhun - OAR003-B which he released in 2010.

The Chemical Brothers - Saturate

Seeing Chem Bros in Event City tonight, cannot wait. While doing my homework ahead of it, refound this banger from 2007's We Are The Night, which was also an Electronic Battle Weapon (8).

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I'm so glad you could tear yourself away from the rebirth of social media / 'mecca of Millennial brain rot' that is Threads to visit here for a few moments.

If you are new here, this is just a YouTube playlist of tracks I've been enjoying recently... on Blogger, remember blogger? It's still going. It's here. 

And that picture at the top, which kinda has an Alien/Predator on the Gameboy vibe? That's a picture that's been through PhotoMosh 26 times and counting. I can't remember what it was off originally, but would've been off Wikimedia.

Anyway here's the playlist, 9 in 1 (26): 

And here are some words...

Pys Melyn - Bywyd Llonydd

Loungy laid-back pop from Pwllheli. Big summery vibes yn Gymraeg. Neis.

Novelist - Stay With Me

As mentioned on the first episode of Digging with Flo -  Flo Dill from NTS's new gardening/interview podcast - where Novelist was helping with prepping an allotment. It's kind of a similar vibe to Pys Melyn despite being utterly different music. The video is a scream as well you can just tell he's cracking up doing it. 

Malcolm Neon - Llygaid yr Haul

Not 100% sure where I heard this oddball scratchy pop, again yn Gymraeg, but it's lovely stuff.

Underworld - Jumbo

I'm sure I've said this before, but the older I get the more I get Underworld. As a kid, they weren't up there with Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, or even Orbital in the big 90s dance acts for me. Now though, I'm digging the proggier vibes more and more. Jumbo is just lush and a single I completely missed at the time in 1999.

Charli XCX - Vroom Vroom

Dumb /v. clever fun. Not on PC Music but I've been on a SOPHIE tip recently (she produced Vroom Vroom) following the news that the label is to become archive-only after 2023.

Chris Korda and The Church of Euthanasia - Buy

Sofie K closed a recent NTS show with this nagging electropop that eventually led me to read up on the Unabomber... Chris Korda was behind the Unabomber for President campaign in 1996.

Joy Orbison x Overmono – Blind Date

Bit of a thumper from Joy Orbison and Monmouth's finest Overmono. It stood out in ANNA's Essential Mix on the drive back from Bridport a couple of weeks ago.

FRMAND - Heuldy

One of the big finds from the research into the Colour Run playlist I did for the boy's school event the other week. Big room house yn Gymraeg, neis neis.

Confidence Man and Daniel Avery - On & On (Again)

I've got to keep better records of where I hear things. But yeah, the summer anthem for me here. Big 90s throwback vibes, it just sounds massive, and fun, and yes mate, love it.

All-Welsh Colour Run Bangers

Need a YouTube playlist of all-Welsh bangers to soundtrack your next social gathering? CeefaxOfLife has you covered buddy.

I made this for the Colour Run at my boy's school, the remit was up-tempo songs in Welsh. I stretched that to include instrumental tracks by Welsh artists... or artists with connections to Wales... or that sound kinda Welsh. 

But mainly we're talking Diffiniad, Dom James & Lloyd, FRMAND and lots of Gwilym. On brand and within remit.

But there are over 50 tracks here, so you can skip a couple if needed.