Palov meets Ang. Angelides – Waste of time – Carnibal records
Here’s one found last week tucked away on a world music podcast called “boom shaka lacka”. A tune to wish the sun back to!
And by the powers of youtube, here is where the tune is taken from, a lovely calypso from the artist with the great name of Duke of Iron with his Trinidad Calypso Troubadours (and do take the subject matter with a very large pinch of salt!)
Garden of the week: Doctor Strangedub’s plot in Minnesota.
Well, going into the second week of October and Dr. Strangedub still hasn’t taken his garden down. Most years we have had a killer frost by now here in Minnesota. Looks like it will be pretty cool tonight (around 45 F/7 C), but still safe for a bit. In the photos are: some green tomatoes still on the vine; some weeds up to my knees; and some very healthy basil plants. Looks like it’s time to make some Italian pesto with me basil….but the tomatoes must ripen in a box before I can make some salsa.
Doctor Strangedub and DJ Baby Swiss present the excellent radio show “The Echo Chamber” on KFAI weekly.
Heard this on David Rodigan’s 1 Xtra show last week, a lovely piece of laid back roots tunage. It’s great to hear the great Big Youth back again in 2013 and he’s still on top form!
I’m praying that the sun comes out tomorrow as that garden needs a good old tidy!
Bang Bang Boogie – Lebrosk’s Electro Swing mashup – Soundcloud
Heard on this week’s excellent Echo Chamber on KFAI. On a pure bonkers tip, puts us in mind of this one below from many moons ago!
Just because it’s coming up to autumn there’s no need to stop planting in the garden. The other evening I stuck in a couple of rows of the onion sets I got last weekend. They’ll overwinter well and hopefully give us some tasty onions come early summer next year.
They’re a piece of cake to sow, normal preparation of the ground as per and preferably there’s been no compost been put in the ground for a season or two (if there was, they’d make the ground hold moisture over the winter thus leaving the sets open to rotting which isn’t good). All you do is make a hole with a dibber (or the other end of a trowel) and carefully put the set in with the top just very slightly poking out (and the root end downward).
I also stuck some sticks and brambles on the top to stop our cats digging them up and also hopefully keep the birds and squirrels away. I plant mine closer together then the usual (about 4″ apart) so I can thin them out and use them as small onions when they’re ready.
Never mind what they say about “onions being cheap in the shops so don’t bother growing them” as home grown onions are a hundred times better than the ones in the supermarket. Grow your own as they’re cheap as chips to buy as sets!
The link below leads you to a very nice chilled mix with tracks from Jon Hopkins, Max Richter and Dustin O’Halloran plus many others. A mix to play while enjoying a cup of (builders) tea watching the sun going down over the garden after a heavy afternoon pulling out weeds. This is the sort of mix José Padilla would make for himself to play in the shed of his allotment in Ibiza.
http://spacesfm.com/2013/09/steve-gibbs-ambient-modern-classical/
A slice of bass heaviness played on the David Rodigan 1Xtra show this week, a dub of a tune by Damian Marley featuring Sean Paul produced by Hard Work. A sort of reworking of a classic King Tubby’s tune done over in a 2013 style. Hard as a loaf of White Sunblest three weeks old. Rough!
http://soundcloud.com/r_co/tom-moulton-the-sandpiper-fire
I found this a few weeks ago on Soundcloud and I’ve been playing it ever since. A (Classic) Tom Moulton mix!
I really don’t do well with shop-bought Basil and Coriander plants and find the ones I sow myself do a lot better. It’s getting cold outside now so it’s windowsill sowing all the way!
After my £15 binge in Shannon’s, I sowed said herb seeds (from a cheap “herbs for the kitchen” combo pack off ebay for £2.50) in the newly bought plant pots. The seed labels are sticks that had kebabs on them in a former life and the covers to give them a good start are just cheap sarnie bags spread over and then knotted in the corner with wire ties. No expense spared and all that!
If you notice in the pic that I bought some pot saucers so the windowsill won’t get rotten and need several coats of paint like it did last year. Also in the background is our extensive Jamaican tray collection of two!
Oh and by the way my favourite kitchen cleaning product this week is “bar keepers friend.”
Another great tune from Alborosie heard on this week’s David Rodigan show on BBC 1Xtra. Music to listen to while carrying 50 litres of Multi-purpose compost (with added John Innes), an assortment of terracotta pots and .5 kg of Radar onion sets back home from Shannon’s. I’ll now have to spend all afternoon relaxing in a Radox bath just like the adverts in the 80’s!
Weeds up to me knees 