Photo: Peter (Wolf) Sims.
Post boss sounds compiled and mixed by Patrick And I for our belfast "brahs" over at CF records.
Features alot of dubby bass, overdriven synths songs and summer street jams as well as two songs from the best re-releases Ive hear this year; Chrisma's Hibernation and Harold Grosskopf's Synthesist.
School Tour/Patrick Kelleher - Mega Muscle Mix by CF Records
Tracklisting
1. Underground - Declan Q Kelly
2. The Gambling Song of the Big Sandy River - John Jacob Niles
3. Circles of Mania - Coil
4. Careering - Public Image Limited
5. Flying Turns - Crash Course In Science
6. Day breaks Night Heals - Thomas Leer & Robert Rental
7. We R - Chrisma
8. 5-8-6 (Peel Sessions) - New Order
9. SO WEIT, SO GUT - Harald Grosskopf
10. Pull up to the Bumper - Grace Jones
11. Double Dutch - Malcolm McLaren
12. Pass The Dutchie - Musical Youth
13. Woke Up Laughing - Robert Palmer
14. Police And Thieves - Junior Murvin
15. Morning Sun - Al Murray And The Cimarons
16. Le Vent Nous Portera - Noir Désir
17. Aviva - Chinawoman
18. I Cry (Night After Night) - The Egyptian Lover
19. Eye In The Sky (33 1/3 RPM) - The Alan Parsons Project
Showing posts with label Mixtape. Show all posts
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Saturday 9 April 2011
Wednesday 8 December 2010
Re-Up "December Blues" Mixtape
Monday 25 October 2010
Re Up - "Hallowing" Mixtape
Saturday 16 October 2010
Skinny Wolves Club Night Tonight

After a few years absence, tonight Skinny Wolves relaunch they lustrous club night at the Workmans Club on Wellington Quay. Opens at Ten and they is no door charge. Except to hear Neue Deutsche Welle, post punk and "Art rocking music to dance to". There's a taster.
Excessive Moonlight WOLF CLUB MIX by Skinny Wolves Club
Monday 11 October 2010
Children Under Hoof - Skinny Wolves Mix

A mix I made for Skinny Wolves's ongoing mix series compiled by bands that are/ have played at their shows. I asked the four other members of Children Under Hoof to give me three songs each that reflected what they think influences their input into the Hoof's "sound". I spent Saturday mixing them together with some film and TV clips, slowed down vinyl rips and songs that get me all hot and bothered.
Tracklist
Rocky Road To Dublin - The Dubliners (Clip From The 68' Documentary, "Rocky Road To Dublin" Dir. Peter Lennon)
Flowers Of Romance (Vinyl Rip @33RPM) - PIL
Weight - Thread Pulls
Oscillations - Silver Apples
Geh Duschen - Malaria!
Glue Man - Fugazi
Omar K - Rainbow Arabia
Die Slow (Pictureplane Remix){Vinyl Rip @33RPM} - HEALTH
Interdependance Dance - Adrian Orange And Her Band
Banana Republic - Boomtown Rats (Clip From Reeling In The Years 1980)
Emerald - Thin Lizzy
Angels Standing Guard Round The Side Of Your Bed - Silver Mt. Zion (A Clip From 07' Film, Mister Lonely Dir Harmony Korine)
De-Orbit - Speedy J
Waiting For A Train - Flash & The Pan
Everyday - Buddy Holly (Clip From The 97' Film "Gummo" Dir. Harmony Korine)
It's You - P.J. Harvey
Turn The Heater On (Peel Sessions) - New Order {Keith Hudson cover}
Street Pharoah - Art Lord And The Self Portraits
C.I.E. Action Figures - Rollers/Sparkers
Mystic Prism - White Rainbow
Walking Blues - Son House
CHILDREN UNDER HOOF - MIX // October 2010 by SkinnyWolves
Download Children Under Hoof's A Collar Can Become A Noose mini LP Here
Children Under Hoof play the next Skinny Wolves show support Auzzie Gothgarage no wavers Naked On The Vague alone with Logikparty this Thursday in Whelans (Upstairs).
Wednesday 10 February 2010
School Tour - Skinny City Foxes Mix
Detail from stained glass window in a church in Rush, Co. Dublin.
I made a Mix for the lovely Skinny Wolves.
Heres The Tracklist.
01 Vessels That Float out of Metals That Sink (part 1) - Casino Versus Japan
02 Calling In Sick - Clovis Heald (feat. Josiah Wolf)
03 Beach Foam Baby - Future Islands
04 Club Rhythm 96 And Cell Phone - Tickley Feather
05 Do Your Best - John Maus
06 Bring Them Then - Sarsparilla
07 Devils Of Loudon (Fucktotem Remix) - Patrick Kelleher
08 Hymn - Ambulance
09 This Is Far From A Belleepoque - A Faulty Chromosome
10 Bleed Blood - City Center
11 Hey Chrome - Wet Hair
12 Back To High School - The Just Joans
13 Cloudy, Since You Went Away - The Caretaker
14 1st Track Of "The Boys Of The Feather" C20 - The Savage Young Taterbug
15 Blue Moon (33RPM Vinyl Rip) - Ray Conniff
16 Phantasthma - Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
17 Spent Time - The Durutti Column
18 Paddington Town - Ivor Cutler
SCHOOL TOUR - Skinny City Foxes Mix // February 2010 by SkinnyWolves
Also I'm playing a School Tour show for them, supporting U.S. Girls on 27 of February in Thomas House with Younger Colours.
Saturday 4 July 2009
Arp - Cosmic Mega Mix

One of my favourite electronic krautrock revivalist, Arp was made a cosmic lush mix for Vessel with some name I know and love (Deuter, John Cale & Terry Riley, Roedelius, Phew) and some I dont (Franco Battiatio, Sonny & Linda Sharrock) but must check out after hearing this mix, it spans the spectrum of interstellar musicians for 69' till 08'And is well worth a listen.
Get it Arp - Mega Mix Here
Buy Arp's incredible "In Light" Here
Thursday 11 June 2009
Patrick Kelleher's 'Another Pretty Face' Mixtape

To celebrate the launch of Patrick Kelleher's debut album "You Look Cold"on the 18th (This Thurday) in Academy 2, here is a a tip top compilation he made for a now debunked site but he has kind enough to throw it my way. Ill be Djing at the launch also playing some slowmo 7"s, so hopefully see a few heads at it busting a groove to some slowed down Kylie.
1. Robert Rental - Double Heart
Some friends and I were staying in Tentstation in Berlin last Summer, and to our delight one evening, instead of table tennis and bingo, the campsite entertainment consisted of DJs and a live gig. Anyway, this is one of the songs played by the DJ that night, who happened also to be the receptionist. After asking who it was, we tried to memorise his name, however we had forgotten an hour later. By chance, a kind last.fm user recommended this track to me and I have been listening solidly ever since. A post-punk DIY industrial electronic artist from Port Glasgow in Scotland, Robert Rental released two singles and two collaborative albums, one with Thomas Leer and the other with The Normal. Double Heart was released on Mute Records in 1980.
2. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Strange Fires
This is from the LA-based artist's superb 2004 album 'The Doldrums'
I will have the pleasure of supporting him and his live band when he plays Dublin on May 15th.
3. IXCHEL - Clockwork Castles
I have tried to put a lot of relatively unknown Irish acts into this mix and this is the first, IXCHEL, named after the aged jaguar goddess of midwifery and medicine in the ancient Maya culture. Comprising of Dublin Natives Timothy Hurley and Barry Semple.
4. Banjo or Freakout - Upside Down
Londoner Alessio Natalizia allows himself only one take for every track that he records. You can download his 'Upside Down' EP and other releases for free from his blog.
5. Angkorwat - Daughter of
Not to be confused with '80s Thrash metal outfit Angkor Wat, Dublin Artist Niamh is a classical violinist who went back to square one, typing out basic melodies on macbook keys. it’s reflection of several obsessions including synesthesia, Romaine Brooks, hidden history, Mozart and Cambodian temples.
6. Lucky Dragons - Mercy
I have been lucky enough to see the LA outfit twice in Dublin this year. In live shows, the audience becomes part of the music making process, as Luke passes around drums, gongs, live electrical wires, rocks and other instruments, creating a buzzing, clicking, humming symphony.
'Mercy' is from their 2002 LP 'Dark Falcon'.
7. A Faulty Chromosome - Jackie O
I fell in love with this band from Austin, Texas ever since my friend (cough, cough) introduced me to them last year. They seem to have the same effect on most people who hear their songs. You can purchase their Album 'as an ex-anorexic's six sicks exit' by mail. I did, and was very pleased when they sent out a copy of the album, along with a hand-made poster and a hand-written personal letter.
8. The Booklovers - She Said
Now based in London, Irishman Ferrau Lynch and friends love cassette tapes, glockenspiel, Jens Lekman and all things twee. It will be interesting to see how their sound develops with the all new line up.
9. Electrelane - On Parade
Fortunately, I saw them play once before they split up in 2007. Now I mourn the loss of the Brighton four-piece who are signed to the same label as Stereolab, 'Too Pure'.
'On Parade' Comes from their 2004 album, 'The Power Out'.
10. The Modern Lovers - Modern World
He was dancing in the lesbian bar, aoo, aoo aoo.
11. E+S=B - 3 Sides Part 1
Dublin 3-piece 'Electronic Sensoria Band' bring Krautrock, Jazz and Electronic sounds to the Irish underground scene. David, Anto and Fergus have released an LP with Can's Damo Suzuki.
This track is from 'Inhale the Sound'.
12. Cian Nugent - The Phantom Bus of Clarinda Park
Cian Nugent is an 18 year old exploratory guitarist from Dublin Ireland whose playing is rooted in pre-war blues, Appalachian string bands and the Takoma tradition.
Fahey is referenced quite a bit on this recording, but Cian is no mere Fahey imitator. He uses the style as a starting point for his compositions and creates something highly personal within these limitations.
13. Jeffrey Lewis - The East River
From 'The Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane and Other Favourites'.
14. David Kitt - Whispers Return the Sun, Rest the Moon
Has been at the forefront of the Irish 'indie' music scene for about 10 years. His new album, 'The Nightsaver' sounds great, however I have been too poor to buy a copy recently so here is my favourite song from his successful 2001 album, 'The Big Romance'.
15. Si Schroeder - C4
Possibly the best music in Ireland at the moment. This is from 2006's 'Coping Mechanisms'
16. Hulk - The Moon Versus the Sea
From his 2005 album 'Silver Thread of Ghosts', available on Osaka Recordings.
17. Jackson C. Frank - October
1960's folk from the now deceased Frank's album 'Blues Run the Game'.
18. Devendra Banhart - Nice People...
From his second album, fully entitled 'Oh Me Oh My...The Way the Day Goes By the Sun Is Setting Dogs Are Dreaming Lovesongs of the Christmas Spirit'.
19. John Jacob Niles - Little Black Star
I discovered the wonders of Appalacian dulcimer-playing John Jacob while watching Scorsese's Bob Dylan documentary 'No Direction Home'. He recorded primarily in the 1920s and '30s.
20. The Ink Spots - Do I Worry?
I remember this song from my parents playing the soundtrack to Dennis Potter's TV series 'The Singing Detective' on vinyl when I was little. I loved it. Frank Sinatra does a fine version of it too.
21. Mt. Eerie - Human
A band from Anacortes, Washington, fronted by Phil Elverum formerly of The Microphones. If you don't have any of their music, get some. This track is from 2005's 'Twenty Bees' EP, which they gave away for free.
You can buy many of their releases here:
http://www.pwelverumandsun.com/
Download The really rather brillant Patrick Kelleher 's 'Another Pretty Face Mix Tape' Side A:
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Download Patrick Kelleher's 'Another Pretty Face Mix Tape' Side B:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/5wzjeinytzt/another pretty face side B.rar
Again This Thursday 18th of June 2009
Patrick Kelleher & His Cold Dead Hands
Hulk
Angkorwat
"You Look Cold" Album Launch
Academy2, 57 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin 1
€5 in with free lucky bag
Wednesday 18 February 2009
"Willing To Float" Mixtape
A collection of river songs to float you away to where ever you want to go to.
From country blues to 60s pychedelic folk to tape hiss ethereal indie bookended by the late great John Fahey. It also contains a lot of big hiters in my listening habits of 2008, Ducktails, Silje Nes, Arab Strap all featured last year in this blog.
01 Sligo River Blues - John Fahey
02 Say Valley Maker - (Smog)
03 Weightless Again - The Handsome Family
04 Saw Mill Man - Cast King
05 The River Of No Return - Marilyn Monroe
06 lets rock the beach - Ducktails
07 Paint Work - The Fall
08 For Kate I Wait - Ariel Pink
09 Field of Dreams - Beaches
10 A Place In The Sun - Marine Girls
11 Softly to Me - Love
12 Song for Jo - Scarlett Johansson
13 Parrallelograms - Linda Perhacs
14 Two Seasons - AU
15 Drown - Silje Nes
16 Islands - Arab Strap
17 Dance Of Death - John Fahey
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Wednesday 21 January 2009
A Faulty Chromosome's Chicago-Centric Childhood (in mixtape form)

A friend send me your very nice "things i fell in love with" post about my album and -- even though I have been periodically working on a mix for you, it kept getting bumped lower and lower on my 'things-to-do list.' But today I managed to somehow pull it together and finish. It's sort of strange, but you had said something about wondering what I listened to, so wonder no more:
Hi. My name is Eric and "a faulty chromosome" is what I named the band that I make all the music for (on account of people always asking me if I was retarded).
When I say that I am in a band, people often ask a variation of this question:
"What kind of music do you play / what are your influences?"
Personally, I always seem to struggle with this answer, as I like to be thorough with my explanations because -- if I don't do this -- I'm merely presenting a rushed response so as not to inconvenience the question-asker. But many people are quickly bored (most don't like being subjected to long-winded stories nearly as much as I do) and just want as easily digestible and obvious of a reply as possible, and then move on. Like:
Lazy reply: "It sounds like New Order mixed with My Bloody Valentine?
Even lazier question-asker: "Oh, I've heard of those bands. Got it. What's for dinner?"
But you see, if someone can accurately and precisely explain what my songs sound like by merely listing a few well-known bands, then I feel as though I am a failure, and am making redundant and mediocre music, and should not keep wasting mine (and everyone else's) time. If every second of every song doesn't somehow express something uniquely specific to me and who I am and what I am trying to convey (at the very least, to me, as well as whoever might feel brave enough to take the time to really study it), then I suck.
So I present to you, a compacted chronological view of my musical memories from 1980-1999; a time spent living in the exact same bedroom in the most dilapidated house in my specific suburban neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois USA (though I do not know how well it will translate, as others I have played it for seem confused or unaffected by songs that resonate so strongly for me, but here it is anyway, it all it's lo-fi cassette-quality crappiness!).
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Harry Caray (feat. 35,000 cubs fans) - Take Me Out To The Ballgame.
I was 4 when I went to my first baseball game and I still remember getting goosebumps in the 7th inning singing along with that many people. It's also one of the rare times in life where you can make eye contact with absolutely anyone near you and they will smile and not look at the ground (granted, most of them are drunk, but still, it's a wonderful and fairly rare thing in America).
Sun Ra and the Nu-sounds - Chicago USA. Driving in the car with my mother essentially guaranteed that you -- the passenger -- would be subjected to some of the most shameful attempts at "music" ever imaginable: Contemporary Christian Rock. Nearly alll other music was of the devil. But somehow, I managed to convince her to let me listen to jazz.
The Chicago Bears Shufflin' Crew -- The Super Bowl Shuffle.
This was the first record I ever bought (at Kmart, I believe?). I was five years old. I would flail around in the living room breakdancing/rapping along over and over (and oh, that air-saxophone solo!) every single day for years. When a swear is said, the referee blows a whistle, but my mom would still insist on turning the volume down anyway.
Mr. T - Treat your mother right.
Mr. T was a very big deal in my childhood. He was a local hero, and I still have a picture of me in my A-team pajamas looking very, very terrified as he has his giant hand on my shoulder when my sister and I met him at our local mall. I enjoy songs with a positive message, rather than wallowing in sadness or seething in anger.
Ministry - Everyday Is Halloween.
I first heard this song at a christmas-themed amusement park called "Santa's village" and it (specifically the "oom bop oom bop bop" part) stayed with me for years until i finally found out who it was. They became absolutely huge in middle school, and all the cool, tough kids wore black ministry (or metallica, or slayer) shirts every day (not me, I was not cool, but my 7th grade girlfriend would call me and play Psalm 69 over the phone). I didn't understand why he was from Chicago, dressed like a vampire, and sang like he was British though?
Maniac Mansion theme song for NES.
A large portion of childhood was spent playing nintendo. To think that those songs looping incessantly didn't somehow effect how I listened to music is crazy (note: this was not from chicago, though I certainly played it there).
Big black - Heartbeat.
I first heard this from my friend's older brother (I think it was 4th grade?). I remember seeing a picture of Steve Albini and thinking how weird it was for a nerdy looking guy to sound so dark and angry (it's probably worth noting here that -- by this time -- I'd begun to hide cassettes I dubbed from friends and the public library underneath the Michael Jordan posters on the ceiling in my bedroom).
DJ Funk - Fine Ass Pussy.
A different friend's older brother would PUMP this in his brand new Mustang (which he wrapped around a tree with me in the back seat one night when he was showing off speeding in the snow). I loved the beats and the simplicity of it all, but it made me sort of uncomfortable to think about this thing called "pussy" though.

Wesley Willis - Rock 'n Roll McDonalds.
A 300 lb. schizophrenic guy who almost always would ask for you to headbutt him when you made eye contact with him at a show (I did it once. I was little. It was scary). There was something horribly amazing about how awful it all was. About how he could sing/speak whatever he wanted over a pre-programmed casio beat and it was still beautiful (also, I have fond memories of going to birthday parties at Rock and Roll McDonalds when I was young). I also began to run gameboy headphones in the sleeve of my jacket in order to listen to music all day during school.
Smoking Popes - Let's hear it for love.
After getting my junior high heart broken, it was nice to hear that nerdy guys from the suburbs weren't afraid to sing about how stupid love was in a sincere way. It was around here that I began to write lyrics to melodies I would hum in my head instead of paying attention in history class.
Screeching weasel - Hey suburbia!
Once I started high school, I began to hang out with the punk kids (though I was never fully accepted because I didn't want to wear a leather jacket or dye my hair or smoke or swear or be mad and hate everything). But it became very real that I too could start a band when I saw that their first album had a drawing of the 711 blocks away from my house. Not New York. Not La. Not London. Prospect Heights. I bought a guitar. My mother cried because she thought I would begin to worship satan. I tried to learn it right-handed, but I couldn't get it to work. I thought I'd never learn.
The eclectics - Bitch.
At this point, friends began getting their driver's licences, and -- even though I was afraid I was going to get beat up in a mosh pit -- I began to go to shows pretty much every weekend: in people's basements, at bowling alleys, and anywhere with some sort of electrical outlet. Ska was fun because you could dance and flop around and you didn't need any skill, but very limited in that -- for a genre based on supposed unity -- there sure were an awful lot of fights.
Cap'n Jazz - Forget Who We Are.
By this time, I had joined a punk band and then gotten kicked out because the lyrics I wrote were too depressing (that band would subsequently/embarrassingly turn into pretty-boy emo band afterwards). Cap'n Jazz were a band of average-looking kids from down the street in the suburbs that made me feel slightly less crazy for attempting to make noisy and confusing music with really well-written lyrics about trying to understand life and not pandering to what was currently safe and popular.
Wolfie - (title unknown?).
Although I could easily scream in a punk band, I can barely sing (I have no range to speak of, and my projection skills are far better suited for movie theatres! awful joke. sorry), so the idea of making pop songs seemed unlikely. But twee gave me the gift of not having to worry about that, and focus on the joy of singing songs no matter how off-key I was.
Lake Of Dracula - Plague Of Frogs.
Finding no wave was a musical miracle for me, as finding a proper way to make my guitar sound as confused and frustrated as I felt had always been a bit difficult for me, but there it was, all jaggedy and squelchy (also, it helped that I finally figured out that I was much better playing left-handed guitar, so I began to write my own songs).
Magas - Pocket Racers.
Feeling absolutely hopeless that I'd ever be able to put together a proper band, I decided to purchase the cheapest drum machine I could find (mind you, this was 1998, and laptops were still far away from being the portable studios that they are today). At the very least, I could have concerts for myself in my bedroom, right?
(And then my parents divorced and sold our house, so I packed up my car and waved goodbye to the windy city)
Download A Faulty Chromosome's super sweet "Chicago-Centric Childhood (in mixtape form)"
Thanks Eric, it was well worth the wait.
Thursday 15 January 2009
V. A. - Songs For Ireland 2008
Here's fifteen songs by fifteen Irish artists and groups that tickled my fancy that you might have missed this year. Oh I read that the Irish equivalent of the nonmerit and frankly who cares Mercury Awards (Choice Music Prize) revealed their nominations yesterday. Surprise, surprise none of eight acts featured here, that released a long player this year are in the running but hey what do I know.
Here's the tracklist:
01 IXCHEL - Clockwork Castles
Epic and ethereal song that I include in the Virtual 7" series I start. Barry and Tim spent their summer up in Portland hang out with Valet, Yellow Swans, White Rainbox and Bradford Cox. At least there are a couple of folks out there that know the wonder of their debut "Dreaming Of"LP. Get IXCHEL's virtual 7" Here.

02 Hulk - We The Burning Night
Elegant opener from Hulk's new album. He was one time member of the amazing The Plague Monkeys and his follow up to "Silver Thread of Ghosts" is just as glacier and roaming. Zithers and bowed bits and bobs shoe stringing together in a land slide that pulls and pushes you in different directions with every listen. Available on Dublin's fine Osaka Records.
03 On Platinum Rays - Sunken Foal
More electronic sweetness with large dollups of organic instruments. This time by Limerick's Sunken Foal who was it happens is playing tonight with Somadrome in whelan. His rightous debut album is out on Planet Mu.

04 Hunter-Gatherer - Snow-globe
Another artist that was featured in that Virtual 7" series, he's efford is available HERE. This track is just as icey as the Hulk song, but more remote and synthetic, great stuff though.

05 Engine Room Orchestra - Proximity
A myspace find, Engine Room Orchestra is the music musings of Brian Flynn. Orchestral hints of Moondog ricoshades in your headphones on this punch punch ditty.
06 Rollers/Sparkers - C.I.E. Action Figures
Oh such a fun and still engrossing record, "Hames" is LP no.2 from Ireland primeir hynotic kings Rollers/Sparkers, total underrated like alot of acts in this list. Available on the always good Lazy Bird Records.

07 Storkboy Choons & Colours Move - Anchorage
Stunning track from Storkboy Choons & Colours Move's wonderful LP made available free by Analogue Magazine Here. You got to put your hands together for Analogue Magazine, they are really leading the way in music publications in our wee island, and two excellent release under their belt which features five of the bands in this list. This track is my new "Lambic 9 Poetry", up up we go song, head spinningly good.

08 Sarsparilla - Over Sexed
Opener of his slick, free ep "Day Rider" get it HERE. "Oh no he didn't" street groove and a sample from the "The Last Dragon". Sarsparilla has got the Midas Touch, check out his debut album 'KARAHEE' if you haven't already, top notch stuff.

09 Supernova Scotia - Capogg
Electro pop sweetness from Kilkenny's Supernova Scotia. This song feature on Analogue mag's free "Peek: Irish Underground" vinyl/cd. Bursting pop goodness with killer synth lines all over it.

10 The Booklovers - She Says
I posted a cover they did of "And Then He Kissed Me" a while back which is twee pop brillance. This song is just as shambolic and sweet and a Stylophone hook that will make you hop bop like a buckfizz skittles induced gittiness.

11 Katie Kim - Heavy Lighting
Forget her song "Radio", it's too Gemma Hayes coping for me anyways, but with this moody, broody track for Waterford's Katie Kim, she as found a sound what is far less a homage and more a statement on entent. Musically it's thunderous and full of woe like the heavier Will Oldams. I'm looking forward in picking up a copy if her "Twelve" LP.

12 Patrick Kelleher - Windertimes Doll
Like a killer's confession with phasing violins from all sides that builds and builds, eventually collapsing with a sharp pin drop din. Patrick Kelleher's "You Look Cold" EP was wonderous listen and will be getting stetched out to a full LP and a proper release in the coming months on Osaka Records. It should be a big year of Mr Kelleher.

13 The Jimmy Cake - Haunted Candle
Spectre & Crown' is as good as their debut and thats saying something, as I still protest that their deleated "Brains" LP is better than anything Godspeed released.

14 Chequerboard - Skating Couple
Another Lazy Bird release. On paper he is Ireland's Juana Molina, both are graphic artist, both are dap hands at the loop pedals and both use the same axe to carve their tunes out with, the noble Spanish guitar. But musical they are quite different, Molina is the rave to Chequerboard campfire gathering but his "Black Penny" LP is just accomplished as Juana Molina last effort. This track, "Skating Couple" as the title suggests, swirls and skids effordlessly flowing further and further up.

15 The Bear People - Static
Stratosphering guitar soundscape from Waterford's The Bear People. It remind me of this scene in Twin Peaks "Fire Walk With Me". I would kill for a live outing, but the man just won't do one, "Come on, come on, come on."
You can get his delish Virtual 7" Here.
Thats it, hope you enjoyed what folks on our wee island have put out in the last 12 months.
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Saturday 22 November 2008
Turnpike Twilight Mixtape
A collection of arpeggiating night drive grooves.
01 Mort Garson And The Blobs - Son of Blob
The first song I ever heard on The Freak Zone on a very early wednesday morn tripping with Paul. A wonderful introduction to the only radioshow I listen to every week.
02 George Watts - Electric Man
More weirdo classic electro, this one from 81'. Thanks to No.1 in Belgium for this.
03 Thieves Like Us - Fass
B-side to "Drugs In My Body".
04 Truffle Club - Gone Blue
The Arpeggiating sweetness continues this time from this year and from a scot. The eathreal vocals flow over the bouncing keys locking you into its hypnotic waves.
05 Greg Vandike - Clone
Synth-pop gem from 79' with pretty much the same pulsating synth that 'Gone Blue' has. Miles better than any thing Numan ever did.
06 Andrew Weatherall - Feathers
One of the "Two Lone Swordsman" rocks it out on his first release under his own name.
07 Joachim Witt - Ich Bin Der Deutsche Neger
Witt plays it funky on this one, taken from his second album "Edelweiss" from 82'. He's the best thing to come out of the german new wave scene that i've heard anyways. Rad album, righteous track.
09 Tom Tom Club - Lorelei
My favourite Tom Tom Club song, this is trance music.
10 Jah Division - Heart And Soul (Dub)
The groove gets dubbed up now with kid millions side project Jah Division. The best dub joy divsion band ever.
11 Holy Fuck - Lovely Allen (No Age Remix)
The mood gets even murkier with this wonderfull remix from No Age. Maybe I should check them out.
12 The B-52's - Dirty Back Road
13 David Holmes - I Heard Wonders
Holmes is krautrocking it out with this one, the first track of his latest album.
14 M83 - Kim & Jessie
Yeah, yeah is sounds alot like that Nick Kershaw song but 80s pop has its charms.
15 Laura Branigan - Self Control
Wonderful night time cycling tune and the video is sweet and dark to.
16 Decadance - On And On (Dub)
One of my favouite songs ever and a big thanks to 20 j.f.g. for the heads up.
17 Sissy - Queen Of Discoteque 1984
More Italian disco wonderfulness, thanks to blow up doll for this one.
18 Cody ChesnuTT - With Me in Mind (feat. Sonja Marie)
If the bloods not up yet, it will be after this sexed up ditty.
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Friday 31 October 2008
"Hallowing" Mixtape

Photo: Diane Arbus
A haunted collection of treat fun street grooves and trick doom shake disco hell.
01. All Cats Are Grey - The Cure
Hypnotic Beginnings.
02 I'm Falling - Comsat Angels
"The band that Joy Division should have been." - Mark Kermode.
03 No Tobira - Mariah
My new favourite song, thank you to DJ Twitch for the heads up.
04 Falcon Soup - Sarsparilla
Take from his excellent album "Day Rider", available for free from Alphabet Set Records.
05 L'Éléphant - Tom Tom Club
05 Yo Son (Prince Language Edit) - Ahmed Fakroun
Heres a video of the orginal Version.
06 She's The Star (Pocketknife Continual Cornfield Remix) - Arthur Russell
07 Trust No Women - Graf + Zyx
The start of the trick section.
08 The Devil's Trident - Telepathe
Missed their last show because I was playing a gig. Their debut LP is in my top 5 albums of the year so far, cant wait to pick it up on vinyl.
09 Friday Nights - Diamond Vampires
Super sweet Moroderesque arpeggiator.
10 Actos de maldad - Vam Cyborg

11 Digitalis - Zombi
12 Terror Story - Iron Curtain
A dark an frighting tale from american duo, Iron Curtain. They are still the best minimal synch outfit to come from North America Ive heard.
13 Night Running - B/Film
Dark surf from British band B/Film who only release the one 7".
14 Denn ich bin so einsam - Joachim Witt
My Joachim Witt obsession isn't running out of stream yet.
15 Waltzing Me All the Way Home - Odetta/The 6ths
And to end a sweet sweet ditty from Stephen Merritt's The 6ths with whats sounds like the accordion singer from The Tiger Lilies but turns out it's Odetta.
Download "Hallowing" Mixtape
Have a good Halloween.
Sunday 14 September 2008
"How _____ Got His/Her Groove Back" Mixtape
An oldie but a goodie.
01 Baby Blue - The Warlocks
Named after the origInal name of The Grateful Dead.
I seen them back in 2001, thought the 2 drummer thing
was lame. A year later I picked up their record in the
discount bin, glad I did.
02 London - Noonday Underground
03 Being Followed - Rocket Science
04 Thinking of a Dream I Had - The Walkmen
To me The Walkmen sound like what Phython Lee
Jackson would sound like if they were from 2004.
05 Heartbeat - The Knife
06 Running Up The Hill - Kate Bush
07 Powered Wig Machine - Desert Sessions
Taken from 9/10 with Polly Jean on joint vocal chores.
08 Take Off Your Cool - Outcast (Feat. Norah Jones)
Get your on on.
09 Get Into The Groovey - Ciccone Youth
Sweet sweet cover from Sonic Youth's evil twin.
10 Sex Is Violent - Jane's Addiction and Diamanda Galas
Taken from the outstanding Natural Born Killers Soundtrack.
11 Dance Of The Underground - Radio4
12 Out Of The Races And Onto The Tracks - The Rapture
First song I got of them and probably still the best song for them,
didnt even bother with the album after Echos.
13 What We All Want (Live)- Gang Of Four
14 Eisbar - Grauzone
So good I made a t shirt of the cover of the single.
15 Pas A Pas, Step Until - Fly Pan AM
Taken from their third studio album N'écoutez pas. I had the
plessure of seen this Québécois band before the split up.
It a one rouckous riot.
16 Theres Always Room On The Broom - Liars
17 Triumph Of A Heart - Bjork
19 Peach, Plum, Pear - Joanna Newsom
20 The Dead Only Quickly - The 6ths
Taken from the wonderful project from Steven Merrits, where he gets different singers to sing each song, this the one minute highlight from the record is from Enniskellins own
Download It Here.
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