Cheers to our mate Spike of Morschen43 from Le Puy-en-Velay, France for sending us a picture of a couple of plum trees that are really suckers of an ancient plum tree which was in the garden. They are about 4-5 years old and one did bare fruits last year but just carried on with the job of growing this year. We don’t know too much about Plum trees and what happens when you let suckers grow, any idea? Nice autumn colours Spike.
This weekend the second episode of TV on the Radio by Imaginary Stations was beamed over the shortwaves in monochromatic colour in 405 and 625 lines, thanks to the services of the great Shortwave.de
Above is the studio version up on Mixcloud which features all sorts of theme tunes and cathode ray tube business from DJ Frederick and the crew. There are mixes from the Mysterious Kit at 02.02 and One Deck Pete’s “Alternative Television” at 27.24 minutes in, featuring audio memories from the good old days of the coin-operated TV set.
Tunes featured on “Alternative Television”:
The Tony Hatch Orchestra – Theme from Crossroads
Midnight Television – Commercial Dreams
The Lost T shirts of Atlantis – Theme from Crossroads
Ron Grainger – The Prisoner
Mice Parade – Stereolab Remix – Warm Hand in Farmland
(which samples The Persuaders theme tune)
Just a little reminder that while we kip tonight the clocks will go back causing all sorts of havoc to sleeping, shortwave radio programming schedules and the like. So come 2am tomorrow morning in the UK, those hands of time will be turned back automatically (or manually when we wake up).
Cheers to our good mate Gerry Hectic for letting us know about Gardener’s World
It really is bonkers stuff as Jason uses a biofeedback device to come up with some ambient soundscapes by hooking up plants to a laptop. Tune in above and below for some top biosonification business.
And we love this tune. Thanks again Gerry and wonderful stuff Jason, it’s well up our street!
Cheers to The Rhythm Doctor for letting us know about a great LP called David Rodigan’s Dubwise Shower on BBE bandcamp here. There’s some classic stuff on there including the above horns cut of Delroy Wilson‘s “Have some mercy” that we haven’t heard before.
Also a version of Gregory Isaacs’ “Walk right in” by Sylvan Morris & Andy’s All Stars.
And talking of said tune and thanks to Steve Barker playing it on On The Wire a while ago, here’s some Banjo Dub!
Big shout to our radio collaborator Jesse Yuen, for sending us last month’s and the month’s before Dubwise and Otherwise show this morning. Both shows are well worth listening to for some genuine Sunday morning chilled vibes.
The show is broadcast once a month on Radio Cazimi, an online community radio station based in Walyalup/Fremantle, Western Australia. (Walyalup is located at the mouth of the Swan River and of course Jesse’s other show was called North of The River Swan!)
We’re half-way through the Springtones show at the moment and it is cracking! We were scratching our head’s thinking “Where do we know the intro from?” and it’s The Aloof with Never get out of the boat, a tune we only had in our hands last night while rearranging our records.
We’ll check out the Soundcloud link in a couple of days for yesterday’s great show. Cheers Jesse!
Big shout to Jesse Yuen and friends Lia T and Rok Riley who are on the air via the internet for the “Dubwise and Otherwise” show from 8-10am on this Saturday morning from the other side of this world of ours. If you want to chill out indoors in the warm to some downtempo bass heavy vibes tune into radiocazimi.com here.
We’ve just finished a shortwave International themed mix and chose this cracking version of Manzanita‘s Paga La Cuenta Sinverguenza in a Cumbia Rebajada style (slowed down).
Below is the track at the original turntable intended speed. What speed do you prefer? The track now sounds a bit “Pinky & Perky”.
A couple of weekends ago on Imaginary Stations a programme called CLSC was broadcast via the transmitters of the great Shortwave Gold. “Music we like to think is classic, or classical in nature” was the theme of the show and featured all sorts of loosely defined classic(al) tunes. Have a listen to below how the theme was translated by the Imaginary Stations crew.
Also at a couple of seconds in, is a mix from One Deck Pete called Classical Gas.
Tracklistings are:
Yussef Dayes – Magnolia Symphony
Classical Mechanics – Porphyry
Scientist Ft Alicia Previn – Scientist Spacewalk
The Salsoul Orchestra – You’re just the right size
The Poplar Bluff High School Bands – GRC – Classical Gas
There are more episodes of CLSC to come including CLSC2 which was broadcast last weekend and appears on the Imaginary Stations Mixcloud here.
A wonderful bit of dub just released out of the Jah Warrior camp called Lost Dub by I-Lodica. Excellent stuff.