The Current State of Music Radio Show - Archive
<p>Hello, how are you doing? I’m putting this one out a little earlier than usual. I’m gonna be away for the next week or two and I didn’t want to leave you bereft, so here is another dip into my archive, this time going back to 2016, which would have been one of my earlier radio shows. </p><p>Its funny looking back to see how I was finding my groove at the time and these were recorded live, so I was definitely winging it, pulling tunes out from wherever. I wonder what my thought process was like at the time. I think my voice also sounds a little less haggered than it does now, I guess I may have had less worries at the time.</p><p>I open up with Adam F and into Bonobo, his album was incoming and is one of his finest, I should revisit that at some point. Both artists are Brighton locals, or at least were, so an accidental link there.</p><p>If you haven’t seen Victoria, which this Nils Frahm track is from, it’s a tale of a girl that goes on a night out and ends up involved with some gangsters. Its shot in a single take and is quite remarkable, as well as Nils Frahm creating the soundtrack, which obvioulsy makes it special.</p><p>I weave from Blur and their album The Magic Whip to DJ Shadow, I winder what I was thinking, but it kinds works and that Shadow track is mental… I sometimes wonder if anyone can actually listen to my show, especially The Cavern of Any Matter, bought as one of Resident Musics albums of the year, this might be the only time I’ve played it…</p><p> I’ve been working a bit with an artist who lives in Iceland (regular listeners will know her as Ea Akilat) and I think I’d like it there, thats also where this track by Olafur Arnalds was recorded. I like it.</p><p>The track by Robert Pete Williams os from an album of songs recorded at Angola Prison, which is delightful but also deeply sad. Inmates singing songs that keep them sane. I also give a shout out to my mate Pete Williams, who I incendenatlly saw this week.</p><p>Moses Boyd is fucking brilliant. </p><p>I’ve talked about Adriano Celentano recently and I did a post about Applewood Road as well, whichis brilliant.</p><p>We should talk about Mark Fry. I first heard of him when I went to spend a day with Nick Franglen of Lemon Jelly. He was working on his new album, but told me that the record ‘Dreaming With Alice’ (which had a part to play in naming my daughter Alice) was one fo the rarest, most expensive records you can find. Nick built a band to recreate this album in part for a show in London which I was stoked to be at, and, when, the album got reissued, I grabbed two copies, one for me and one for Nick. Annoyingly, my copy has vanished, I really should get another copy because this track, Mandolin Man is wild and brilliant.</p><p>I guess if this show has a theme, is ‘Out There’ because there is some pretty wigged out tracks here. This LUke Vibert track shares a DNA with Mark Fry, in the sense they both end somewhere different to where they start.</p><p>I need to listen to more Romare, his records are great, but I keep forgetting. Like a modern DJ Shadow, he is all over samples but not in the more traditional sense, he builds bangers and modern sounding records. I love it.</p><p>I can’t find any reference to the Daft Punk/Robin Scott mash up, which is a shame, but then straight into Bomb The Bass from the album Enter The Dragon, which is awesome. Then into Tuff Crew, track which appeared on Rae and Christians Blazing the Crop mix album, then got a 7” reissue on Mr Bongo as part of their hip hop 7 series. Total banger.</p><p>I was definitely a bit looser back then, happy to smash some tunes together. I think that has something to do with the show being live and the jeopardy element. Most of my shows post covid have been made in my studio where I can (but don’t often) stop and start, which is good too, but the live thing definitely drives me in a different way.</p><p>Its always nice to leave show on a positive, and this track by Kamasi had me in tears at Glastonbury the same year. Patrices’ vocal is sublime and when she was singing ‘I’m Here’ I couldn’t hold back. OK, it was Sunday afternoon and it might have also had something to do with three days of raving beforehand and I might have felt a little vulnerable by that point, but that show was something else, a real highlight and nice to sit here and relive it whilst I type.</p><p>I did manage to tell Kamasi and Patrice about that when I met them on Brighton beach (of all places) and they were lovely and invited me to hang out with them, another treasured memory. Their keys player Brandon did suggest I sack everything off and go on tour with them which seemed like a marvellous idea, but, thats another story…</p><p>x</p><p>Adam F - Circles (Nixon vs Toby One remix)</p><p>Bonobo - Kerala </p><p>Nils Frahm and DJ Koze - Victoria</p><p>Blur - My Terracotta Heart</p><p>DJ Shadow - Ashes to Oceans (feat Matthew Halsall)</p><p>Cavern of Anti Matter - Planetary Folklore</p><p>Olafur Arnaulds and South Iceland Chamber Choir (Raddir)</p><p>Robert Pete Williams - I’m Goin’ BAck with Him When He Comes</p><p>Moses Boyd - Drum Dance</p><p>Adriano Celentano - Prisencolinensinainciusol</p><p>Applewood Road - Honey Won’t You?</p><p>Mark Fry - Mandolin Man</p><p>Friar Tuck - Louis Louis</p><p>49th Blue Streak - Foxy Lady</p><p>Luke Vibert - Doozit</p><p>Romare - Je T’aime</p><p>Robin Scott/Daft Punk - Around the World/Pop Muzik</p><p>Bomb The Bass - Beat Dis</p><p>Tuff Crew - My Part of Town</p><p>William Orbit - Montok Point</p><p>Royksopp - Eple (Boris and Michi’s eplistic skratch attack)</p><p>The Kiki Dee Band - I’ve Got the Music In Me</p><p>Kamasi Washington - The Rhythm Changes</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. 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