DARK/BLACK/DRONE/SLUDGE/DEATH METAL SHOW

It was definitely about time to branch out to a genre of music that I really knew very very little about, and that I often found hard to listen to. With few preconceptions, (as always) I carried out a significant amount of research(!) into Metal in general, and after listening to a fair amount of stuff, and after doing this show with my friend Tim who brought in some excellent songs to the studio, I have started to take a serious liking to the genre.

SO I suggest that you check out the show, because maybe you will experience a similar enlightening: Download the METAL SHOW (18th November 2008)
or liSTAN here:

The SHONGS were these ones:
1. Bohren & Club de Gore – Midnight Black Earth
2. The Melvins – Skeeter
3. Boris – My Neighbour Satan
4. Gorgoroth – Huldrelokk
5. Burzum – Dunkelheit
6. Mayhem – Bloodswords
7. Napalm Death – Siege of Power
8. Jesu – Old Year
9. Rollo Tomassi – I Love Turbulence
10.Down I Go – King Leopold II
11. Lurker of Chalice – Paramnesia
12. SunnO))) – It Took The Night To Believe

rwAAAAAAAaHHH!!!!

REMEMBRANCE DAY SHOW

Since it was the 11th of November, Remembrance day, remembering all those who died in the Wars, 90 years after the signing of the Armistice of The Great War, and ESPECIALLY since the show was at 11:00pm, (making the time and date, 11pm on the 11th of the 11th!) I decided to do a show where I played songs that the soldiers would have been listening during the wars.
It was very interesting to research; I even discovered (and played) some recordings of songs that the soldiers sung while marching and in the trenches.
My good friends Liv and Katherine joined in with the song selection, and provided some very interesting War-time anecdotes!

To listen to this unique, one-off, exclusive show, DO download the REMEMBRANCE DAY SHOW here (11th November 2008)
or listen to it nichely here, KEEPING CALM:

The songs, recordings and poems that you can hear on the show WERE:
1. The Andrews Sisters – Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (1941)
2. Oh It’s a Lovely War (1918)
3. Are We Downhearted (1917)
4. Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty (1916)
5. Vera Lynn - We’ll Meet Again (1939)
6. Les Brown and his Orchestra & Doris Day – Sentimental Journey (1944)
7. Jimmy Dorsey and his Orchestra - (There’ll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover (1941)
8. Vaughn Monroe and his Orchestra – There! I Said it Again
9. Gracie Fields – Stop and Shop at the Co-Op Shop (1939)
10. The Merry Macs– Mairzy Dots (1944) [with hidden messages in the lyrics!]
11. Duke Ellington and his Orchestra – C-Jam Blues (1942)
12. Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters – Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby? (1944)
13. Bud Flanagan – Who Do You Think You Are Kidding Mr. Hitler? (D&B Remix!)
14. Vera Lynn – Wish Me Luck As You Wave Me Goodbye
15. POEM: Siegfried Sassoon – The Hero

CARRY ON.

EXPLOSIVE BEATS SHOW

It being Guy Fawke's night in about 22hours time after this show, I thought it the perfect opportunity to play some of my favourite explosive tunes, since I have so many, and they always tell me that they should be unleashed to the world. I also got my friend Rhodri, who is also very experienced in the world of explosion-music, to assist me in the track selection.

If you would care to experience the controlled explosion in the form of a download, please click here: EXPLOSIVE BEATS SHOW (4th November 2008)
or if you would prefer to simply listen to it, without risk of meltdown on your computer, do that therrr:

You can read that tracklisting here:
1. Explosions in the Sky – Six Days at the Bottom of the Ocean
2. Bogdan Raczynski – Pouch Fulla Seed
3. Milanese – Magical Flying Hat
4. Venetian Snares – Hand Throw
5. Ebola – Painkillers (Enduser Remix)
6. LV – Dream Cargo
7. Appleblim – Fear
8. Metric – Empty
9. LFO – Freak
10. Pivot – Didn’t I Furious
11. Melt Banana – Introduction For Charlie
12. Amen Andrews vs Spac Hand Luke – 1 Shot Killer Pussy
13. Squarepusher – Anstromm Feck-4

Let me know the results of any experiences.

INDIAN / DIWALI SHOW

I had been to India over the Summer holidays and had picked up a bunch of music that I really wanted to play. I thought it would be appropriate to have this show on Diwali, the Festival of Light, celebrated by Hindus, Sikhs, Buddists and Jains all over the world. My friend Dinesh, who speaks Hindi, was a guest on the show, and provided an excellent selection of tracks, and little explanations of all of them too!

You can download it to accompany your Yoga practice, or simply as a soundtrack to your reading of the Vedas right here: INDIAN SHOW (28th October 2008)
or even listen to it herio:

1. Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Mahalaxmi Iyer- Bol na halke halke (from the film Jhoom Barabar Jhoom)
2. Udit Narayan – Pehla Nesha (from Jo Jeeta Woh Sikandar)
3. Kunal Ganjawala - Bheege Hoth Tere (from Murder)
4. Rashid Ali - Kabhi Kabhi Aditi Zindagi (from Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na)
5. Soham - In Dino (from Life in a Metro)
6. Harbhajan Talwar - Chit Karda
7. Dhol Foundation – Drummer’s Reel
8. DJ Shadow & Dan the Automator - Inspector Jay from Dehli
9. Mithoon, Hamza Faruqui, Kshitij - Ke Bin Tere Jeena nehi (from Aggar)
10. Ravi Shankar – Raga Bahar
11. Prem Joshus & Manish Viyas
12. Kumar Sanu - Hum yaha Tum waha (from Zakhm)

Check you.