DJ History Podcast #75

Hello happy shoppers. Tis the day of the Fri and that can only mean one thing. Well, two things: fish must be eaten for one, but then also the DJ History podcast is broadcasting from a metaphorical tower block somewhere near you.

Loads of ace stuff on the show today, including another track from Matthew Dear's new album Black City, which has got to be one of the contenders for album of the year (along with Caribou and Mock & Toof). I'm desperately trying to get all my work done so I can spend the afternoon with the kids (hope the weather perks up a bit, the sun's gone for its lunch, I think).

Anyhow, here you go:

FLOWERS AND SEA CREATURES - At Night (Buzzin' Fly)
T-COY - Carino (MCDE Mix)
ANTIPOP CONSORTIUM - Volcano (Four Tet Remix) (Ninja Tune)
RICCARDO CIONI & DJ FT BAND - Fog (Extended Mix)
BELLERUCHE - Gold Rush (Tru Thoughts)
LOCUSSOLUS - Tan Sedan (IFeel)
LDN - Sign (Psychemagik Dirty Radio Mix)
RUSSO - Fuck My MPC (Fullbarr)
AFRICA HITECH - How Does It Make U Feel (Warp)
MATTHEW DEAR - I Can't Feel (Ghostly International)

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DJ History Podcast #74

Sorry the tracklist is late, but I was visiting my ancestral seat at the weekend, though didn't manage to sneak away from the kids to watch Grimsby play Winterton Rangers in a local friendly though (the lure of Cleethorpes' Paddling Pool was too great). Anyhow, here are the runners and riders for last week's show. Booyakka!


CHRISTIAN PROMMER'S DRUMLESSON - High Noon (G-Stone)
SHOCK - R.E.R.B. (Blitz Club)
SOUL MEKANIK - High On Hope Street (Rubber Dub Mix) (RIP)
MARK E - Stoneleigh Express (Running Back)
BRYAN FERRY - You Can Dance (Padded Cell Remix) (Virgin)
MATTHEW DEAR - Honey (Ghostly International)
MAIN STEM - Colour Of The Sun (CD-R)
SEMTEK - Lotos Eaters (Neville Watson Remix)
CHICKEN LIPS - Sweet Cow (Cole Medina Mix)
THE CINEMATIC ORCHESTRA - Lilac Wine

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DJ History Podcast #73

I'm a bit late getting this up (ooh-err etc) after a manic Friday evening (Horse & Groom plus Imogen's 40th dontcha know), not enough sleep before kids made early morning raid on bed; all day at River Festival in Bedford and recovery yesterday.

It was a fantastic show, even if I do say so myself. Here's the evidence:

FERNANDO - Best Is Yet To Come (Internasjnol)
MATTHEW DEAR - Soil To Seed (Ghostly International)
HIGAMOS HOGAMOS - O Deo (HH)
MYSTERY JETS - Dreaming Of Another World (Lindstrom and Prins Thomas Mix) (Rough Trade)
THE THERMOMETERS - Babalawo (Soundway)
CEE-LO GREEN - Georgia (CD-R)
BLAKULA! - Feed Your Demons (Bear Funk)
MODEL 500 - OFI (Original Mix) (R&S)
JUSTIN HARRIS - Shadows (PPF Into The Light Rework)
PRINCE - Beginning Endlessly (Paisley Park)

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DJ History Podcast #72

Gearing up for my sis-in-law's birthday party, while the kids frolic like mini lambs in the paddling pool, only punctuated by the sound of son chucking all manner of unnecessaries into said pool. We only need a rusty bike stuck upside down and it would resemble the Grand Union Canal just by Ladbroke Grove. Ah summer!

Corker of a tracklist, as it always is. Dig in. But put a bib on first.

MAASA - Walking On The Moon (In Flagranti Mix)
ART DEPARTMENT - Without You (Crosstown Rebels)
ALOE BLACC - Femme Fatale (Stones Throw)
AKABU - Searchin' (MCDE Mix) (Zedd)
ALBERT - Crosseyed (Studiorockers)
CHICKEN LIPS - Ron Silver (Zeefungk Dub Out) (Lipservice)
DETACHMENTS - Audio Video (TINAE)
JAMES TEEJ - Anything Right (My Favorite Robot)
ROSKA - Hey Cutie (Rinse)
EARTH, WIND & FIRE - Jupiter (Sony)

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Chicken Lips competition!

CHICKEN LIPS COMPETITION

Yeah, kids. To celebrate the massive expansion of our spangly new download store (details coming soon) we're giving budding remixers the opportunity to rework a track by one of the UK's leading producers, Chicken Lips. The tune is Sweet Cow, taken from 2006's Making Faces album, and the winner of the competition will have their tune on sale in the new DJhistory download store, alongside all the other classic Lips' shizzle.

Competition ends on August 31st 2010. 


Please submit your entry in MP3 320 format to the Soundcloud Dropbox:
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Chicken Lips Competition Entries

Bill Brewster's 80s Pause Button Tapes (Vol. 6)

It's our final destination. Volume Six. Who'd have thought we'd get this far? Have you marveled at the pause button editing skills on these compilations? I know, shockingly bad, how did he ever get a job involved in music....

Anyhow, this has also got some corkers on it, as all of them have, even if they are segued together in a vastly incompetent manner. There's a particular bent towards roots music on this episode, with everyone from the amazing Billie Holiday in her pomp to the King at his peak and Woody's son Arlo's great boogie rag. Tracklist here:

OTIS CLAY - You Can't Keep Running

BILLIE HOLIDAY - This Year's Kisses

JIMMY RUSHING WITH COUNT BASIE - Gonna Move

MEADE LUX LEWIS - Railroad Blues

ARLO GUTHRIE - Presidential Rag

WILMOTH HOUDINI - Poor But Ambitious

ELVIS PRESLEY - Mystery Train

DC SCORPIO - Stone Cold Lovers

MAGAZINE - The light Pours Out Of Me

LEROY CARR - Barrelhouse Woman

RAMBLIN' JIMMY DOLAN - Hot Dog Race

PAUL JOHNSON - Burning

PAUL JOHNSON - Fear Of Falling

EVERLY BROTHERS -Poor Jenny

Bill Brewster's 80s Pause Button Tapes Vol. 6 by Bill Brewster

DJ History Podcast #71

Well, the weather's calmed down somewhat from the hazy, crazy, lazy days of summer last week, though the hay fever doesn't appear to have abated (atchoo etc). Been working furiously on the Francis Grasso interview CD we are giving away FREE to anyone buying our new book The Record Players, and even though the audio quality is not great (it was recorded in a bar in Brooklyn at 10am in the morning on a cassette recorder with Francis merrily knocking Buds back), he is still clearly audible above the hubbub of the bar. Think it's going to be really good once I've dropped all the music into it, as well as Frank's little intro spiel.

Anyhow, back to the matter at hand. This week's tracklist. Below. Cheers. 

AL USHER - Hilversum (Misericord)

ANDY BLAKE - Leisure Gets Tough (CD-R)

FISH GO DEEP FT. TRACY K - A Dream (Go Deep)

SHARON PHILLIPS - Want 2 Need 2 (Darryl's Edit)

BONAR BRADBERRY - Raum Strasse (Ray Mang Remix) (Under The Shade)

DISKJOKKE - Rosenrød (Smalltown Supersound)

RANDOLPH - GPS (Recloose Mix) (Still Music)

POPULAR PEOPLE'S FRONT - The Baker's Sun (PPF)

PEZZNER - Chiuso Per Ferie (Freerange)

RONNIE & RENZO - Broken Fingers (King Kung Foo) 

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