Thanks to Stevyn Iron Feather Journal for sending this tune on to us via Facebook messenger late last night. “Some wicked japan dub” he told us and rightly so! Cheers Stevyn.
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Off the rails in dub
While looking for music on Bandcamp, we found these two great locomotive related dub tracks. The first is Chu Chu Train Dub by Ras Teo. Nice stuff!
The second is Train Dub from Vin Morgan Meets Lone Ark and as David Rodigan would say “Give me some Signal!”
Have you ever seen a rubber plant pogo?
A big thanks to The Rhythm Doctor and Gerry Hectic who both told us this week about Brian d’Souza (AKA Auntie Flo) who makes music with plants. He says on his website: “I entered the world of biosonification which allowed me to listen to nature’s internal rhythms – analysing electrical biodata and converting it into sound information that in turn can be subtly manipulated and heard as a type of generative music. I created bioelectrical music for vertical farms, mycelium pavilions, mushroom dens and even Vinnie Jones’ vegetable patch!”
The above is a live ambient set on the My Analog Journal channel where he hooks a modular synth to the plants and combines the sounds harvested with some ambient tunes. We don’t know that much about his stuff but will research more on this artist as he sounds well up our street!
More on his Plants Can Dance project here. Thanks again to RD and Gerry Hectic for this.
Angry skies and a bit of snow
Cheers to Rich R up in the Lake District for sending us this dramatic picture of what the weather was like up there yesterday. They’ve had some snow and the sky is looking a bit angry. Keep warm up there Rich!
It don’t get better than this (again)
We have no idea how to describe this excellent track, it’s absolutely bonkers and something else! It’s by Lifetime Pineapple and called Double Busfare and what a wonderful graphic too.
The Thursday Tune (bus related of course)
As usual, looking for some tunes for a forthcoming shortwave mix we found a nice tune. It’s a great bit of Polish Rap from Litlost from the Olszak / Bitykradne – Night Bus EP called Promienie słońca Brooklynu. Really good stuff indeed.
A passport to beer and nuts
We’ve just listened to this weeks Great Lives on Radio 4 with John Cooper Clarke about one Johnny Green (once hippy, driver, writer and the road manager of The Clash and Tour De France fan). It’s a great 27 minutes with contributions from his kids, Topper Headon and Chris Salewicz. It’s nice to hear old JCC’s distinctive voice again. To listen to the show click here.
On the subject of Johnny Green, here’s something about him on blackmarketclash.co.uk (here) about The Clash’s Bury St Edmunds gig in 1978 (where we were also in attendance). We love the line at the end which makes us smile “I considered the Camden Town rockabilly as my friend and a passport to beer and nuts”. We all love a passport to beer and nuts.
WNTR in dub
This weekend just gone saw the broadcast of WNTR by Imaginary Stations on Shortwave Gold. As they said on SWLing Post: “Winter vibes abound as per with the show, and the temperature outside may only a few degrees, but we will be transmitting as much winter warmth as we can!” Enjoy the warm vibes of WNTR.
At 43.19 in is One Deck Pete presents a festive dubwise mix.
Here’s the tracklistings:
Kohei Yoshii – Cold Ice Dub
Forgotten employee – The backroom tapes – A Merry KMART Christmas (excerpt)
Mal – Powder Snow dub
Michael Powell – Christmas Dub
Coming through a chimney’s a whole lot of stupidness
A big season’s/holiday greetings to all our gardening, radio and musical mates from everywhere around the world. A big thanks to everyone for supporting the blog and whatever you celebrate at this time of year, make sure you have a great one!
And for this time of year, here’s a wonderful tune from Lord Nelson (from Trinidad & Tobago we reckon) called A party for Santa Claus. It’s a brilliant 7″ on Camille Records with some very funny lyrics and a great tune too.
“Christmas is here and we’re all having fun
Santa brought presents for everyone
But he had to squeeze through a chimney Poor Nicholas
What a horrible place to pass
Why not open your window
Or your front door
So Santa could bring his gifts?
I find that climbing on a rooftop and coming through a chimney’s
a whole lot of stupidness.”
A life on the ocean (air)wave(s) two
Cheers to Spike from Morschen43 for sending us the video for his single MV Ross Revenge For Ever! which we featured in the last post.
Here’s more on the great boat from the great offshoreradiomuseum here.
Weeds up to me knees 