This week I dutifully (with daughter) went to see the Taylor Swift ‘Eras’ film, not knowing it was THREE HOURS LONG! Anyhow, it’s important that my music research goes far and wide, its all part of the good work – but, unfortunately, no Taylor Swift tracks made it into the show.
Instead, I played a ‘lost’ version of Martin Rev ‘Dreams’ (off a new release of cassette recordings), some of Vince Clarke’s orchestral-sounding lamentations, some nepo-rap – as in Adonis who is Drake’s 6 year old son – (the track is actually very good), some new jungle, a track from the new Black Dog album (‘This Brutal Life’), as well as Wookie’s garage classic “Scrappy”.
I closed the show with the very recognisable ‘The 900 Number’ by the 45 King – if you don’t know it, you will know it if you heard it. A heavy & funky breakbeat with sampled (from Marva Whitney’s 1968 song “Unwind Yourself’) baritone saxophone. Born as Mark James, he passed away a couple of weeks ago hence my amateur turntabalism homeage (bouncing between two versions of the track which came out in 1987). He went on to produce tracks for artists like Queen Latifah, Jay-Z (‘Hard Knox Life’) and Eminem (‘Stan’). The ‘45’ name presumably riff on single format he like pinch his samples from.
I played a forthright and damning track by Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter ‘ALL OF MY FRIENDS ARE GOING TO HELL’. Formerly (since 2017) releasing work as Lingua Ignota, notably the self-released ‘survivor’ albums ‘Let the Evil of His Own Lips Cover Him’ and ‘All Bitches Die’ – this current ‘Saved’ album takes on a spiritual/evangelical tone but still infused with some of the sonic experimentation characterising her earlier stuff.
Earlier in the show I played a lovely Mário Rui Silva track “Ngele-ngele-ngele”, which i played a couple of years ago too. From Luanda, Angola and also an academic researcher as well as a musician, Silva’s main body of work was in the 1980s. Possibly because Angolans share the same (Portuguese) language as Brazil, his sound is similar (to these ears at least) to Cateano Veloso but drew heavily from the traditional semba and kazukuta rhythms of Angola (and both politically and musically from the country’s legendary Ngola Ritmos band)
The track is taken from ‘Stories From Another Time 1982-1988’ a selection from Mário’s three 1980s albums, Sung’Ali (1982), Tunapenda Afrika (1985) and Koizas dum Outru Tempu (1988) compiled and released by Time Capsule in 2021.
Listen back here:
Full tracklist:
1 The Black Dog Béton-Brut
2 Vince Clarke The Lamentations of Jeremiah
3 Wild Anima Live
4 Mário Rui Silva Ngele-ngele-ngele
5 CTM For Jannis
6 Tommy Potts The Liffey Banks
7 Shabazz Palaces,Royce The Choice Binoculars
8 Dxrk ダーク RAVE
9 Tirzah Stars
10 Lukid Daisy Cutter
11 Ian Elms On A Beach Lost At Sea
12 Crave Short Cut
13 Klein DJ drop
14 Ice Spice,Rema Pretty Girl (with Rema)
15 DJ Deeon Bet
16 Wookie Scrappy
17 Nines,Bad Boy Chiller Crew Toxic (feat. Bad Boy Chiller Crew)
18 Slauson Malone 1 Olde Joy
19 Senyawa Gaib
20 Elizabeth Parker Congestion Hoe-Down
21 Vanishing Twin Lazy Garden
22 Martin Rev Dreams
23 position normal Whistle Conversion 1
24 Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter ALL OF MY FRIENDS ARE GOING TO HELL
25 Animal Collective Soul Capturer
26 MrDougDoug Candy-Coated U-Onion AD
27 Matmos Injection Basic Sound
28 Adonis My Man Freestyle
29 Bounty Killer Lodge – 2023 Remastered
30 AUNTY RAYZOR,Scotch Rolex Stuttrap
31 Moresounds Ting N Tings
32 ALIX PEREZ Back To Basics W/ Bou & Trigga
33 Actress Its me ( g 8 )
34 Fky Fky_Soulfreak01_CfoforCfofor
35 Byron Messia Talibans
36 45 King The 900 Number (DVD live turntable mix)
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