the svelte selection – May the musical joy be with you

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Hello dearest listeners!

Thanks for popping over for more svelte goodness, I hope you’ll enjoy this show with it’s gentle start and more intense middle and end. I’m quite happy with it. Music is great, innit?

You can download or stream the whole show from here, or listen to a selection from Spotify

1. French for Cartridge – We Humans from We Humans (see below for the excellent video and pre-order the album here)
2. Jenny Hval – I Got No Strings from Innocence Is Kinky
3. Dark Dark Dark – I Collect Things from What I Needed
4. Rob St. John – Charcoal Black and the Bonny Grey from Rob St. John & the Coven Choir 7″ (get it here)
5. The Mariner’s Children – In My Bed from Sycamore
6. Sir Colin Davis, London Symphony Orchestra – Requiem And Kyrie from Mozart: Requiem
7. Sir Colin Davis, London Symphony Orchestra – Lacrimosa from Mozart: Requiem
8. Antony and the Johnsons – Everything Is New from Swanlights
9. Martin Creed \ Box Codax – Dawning from Dawning \ Where Are You
10. The Carpenters – Yesterday Once More from Classic Airwaves
11. Sydney Gay & Lesbian Choir – When We are Old and Gay from Something to Sing About
12. Sydney Gay & Lesbian Choir – Rubber Duckie from Something to Sing About
13. The Duckworth Lewis Method - Jiggery Pokery from The Duckworth Lewis Method
14. Tokyo Track – Underneath from their Soundcloud page
15. Low – Just Make It Stop from The Invisible Way
16. Divinyls – I Touch Myself from Divinyls
17. Divinyls – Boys In Town from Essential
18. Divinyls – Hey Little Boy from Essential
19. Savages – Strife from Silence Yourself
20. Pet Shop Boys – Axis from Electric
21. Talk In Colour – Candles (Ricky Fabulous Remix) from Candles (Single)
22. Moloko - Indigo (Gus Gus Mix) from Indigo
23. The Knife – Without You My Life Would Be Boring from Shaking The Habitual
24. Kathrin deBoer, Max Cooper – Numb (Extended Version) from Conditions Two
25. Midfield General – Reach Out from Generalisation

Here’s the video from French for Cartridge:

And one from Talk in Colour:

And here’s Chrissy Amplett being FIERCE:

the svelte selection – April’s radio action

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Hello dearest little music lovers, welcome to my wee corner of the internet, I will reward your arrival with some tunage.

This month’s show starts quiet, then gets loud and BEATY. Just the way I like it.

Listen via Spotify by clicking here, or get the whole bloody thing, with me talking and EVERYTHING, by clicking on this tasty link here.

1. The Beatles – Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) (Take 1) from Anthology, Vol. 2 (Disc 1)
2. Rob St. John – Stainforth Force from Weald
3. Low – Amethyst from The Invisible Way
4. Southwire – Time Bomb from Southwire
5. Collectress – Goodbye (for more info head to their website)
6. French for Cartridge – Two Feet In The Water from Dinner with Daisy promo
7. George Benjamin – Part One: The Protector, Agnès and the Boy from Written On Skin
8. Sam Amidon – My Old Friend from Bright Sunny South
9. Anja Silja – Die 7 Todsunden (The 7 Deadly Sins): Prologue from Weill: 7 Deadly Sins (The) / Quodlibet, Op. 9
10. Anja Silja – Die 7 Todsunden (The 7 Deadly Sins): I. Sloth from Weill: 7 Deadly Sins (The) / Quodlibet, Op. 9
11. Suuns – Sunspot from Images du Futur
12. Grace Jones – Devil Dub [Dub Version] from Hurricane Dub
13. Roots Manuva – Get the Get from 4everevolution
14. Eurythmics – Missionary Man from Revenge
15. Omega Male – No from Omega Male
16. Ellen Allien & Apparat – Jet from Orchestra Of Bubbles
17. Squarepusher – Panic Massive from Enstrobia
18. FaltyDL – Straight & Arrow from Hardcourage
19. Mount Kimbie – Made To Stray from Cold Spring Fault Less Youth
20. The Knife – Full Of Fire from Shaking The Habitual
21. Peaches – Burst! (Original Mix) from Burst!
22. Martin Creed – Love To You from Love To You

the svelte selection – Middle March

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Hello! Welcome! Thanks for coming to get the latest show. It’s a long one (what with ending with a 34 min journey into early electronic music and all), but a good one.

 

You can download or stream it from here or Spotify the fuq out of it by clicking here.

 

1. The Dodge Brothers – Churchhouse Blues from Louisa & The Devil
2. L. Pierre – Sad Laugh from The Island Come True
3. Mogwai – The Huts from Les Revenants Soundtrack
4. Alfred Brendel – Stravinsky: 3 Movements from Petrushka from MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition STRAVINSKY Petrouchka (Brendel) (1955)
5. Fiium Shaarrk – Wozzeck’s Variations from No Fiction Now!
6. Philip Jeck – Chime, Chime (Re-rung) from An Ark For The Listener
7. Low – So Blue from The Invisible Way
8. Retribution Gospel Choir – Seven (w/ guest Nels Cline) from 3
9. Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds – We Real Cool from Push the Sky Away
10. Lorde – Biting Down from The Love Club EP
11. Roots Manuva – A Haunting from Awfully Deep
12. Atoms For Peace – Default from AMOK
13. The New York Philharmonic – Muhly: Detailed Instructions, for Orchestra: III. Can’t Wait from On the Cutting Edge: New Music from CONTACT!
14. Carter Tutti Void – V2 from Transverse
15. Peaches – Mud from I Feel Cream
16. The Breeders – Divine Hammer from Last Splash
17. The Sea and Cake – Skyscraper from Runner
18. Fredrik Ullen – Stockhausen: Kontakte (version for electronic sounds, piano & percussion) from Stockhausen: Zyklus / Klavierstucke V and Ix / Kontakt

the svelte selection – February fondlings

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Dearest listeners, welcome to 2013! Sorry for not being around in January, but I’m back, back, BACK with lots of new tunage and some old(er) love songs.

This month’s show was a surprise joy – the music came together nicely, I didn’t bugger anything up too badly and it just clicked.

To get in on the action, download the whole show from here, or Spotify it up here

Here’s what I played:

1. Gwen McCrae – Early Morning Love from Let’s Straighten It Out
2. Fiona Egan - Secret Love from Touch Has a Memory
3. Lorde – Royals from The Love Club EP
4. Pulp – After You from After You (single)
5. Savages – Give Me A Gun (Live in Nottingham, Bodega) from I Am Here
6. Sonic Youth – Candle from Daydream Nation (Remastered Original Album)
7. Left Leg – Milk But Sinister from Left Leg Is Life!
8. The Magnetic Fields – Love Is Like A Bottle Of Gin from 69 Love Songs, Vol. 3
9. Sparrow and the Workshop – Shock Shock from Song, by Toad Records 2013 Sampler
10. Grouper – Being Her Shadow from The Man Who Died in His Boat
11. The New York Philharmonic – Anton Webern: Symphony, Op. 21: I. Calmly striding from Schumann & Webern: The Austro-German Line
12. The New York Philharmonic – Anton Webern: Symphony, Op. 21: II. Variations from Schumann & Webern: The Austro-German Line
13. Low – Soon from Secret Name
14. The Divine Comedy – Songs Of Love from Casanova
15. Sebastian Rochford & Brian Eno - Dream Nails (Tom Herbert Remix) from Days and Nights At the Takeaway 12: December
16. Madonna – Justify My Love from The Immaculate Collection
17. Mogwai – White Noise (EVP Mix by Cylob) from A Wrenched Virile Lore
18. Kraftwerk – Tour De France (Live) from Minimum – Maximum
19. The O.T. Quartet – Hold That Sucker Down (Radio Edit) from Hold That Sucker Down (Single)
20. Factory Floor – Fall Back from Fall Back
21. Plant Plants – Repeaters from Plant Plants EP2
22. Autechre – tuinorizn from Exai
23. Terry Callier – What Colour Is Love (Live) from Alive

 

Some of the stuff I talked about:

Pioneers of Electronic Music Festival curated by Nonclassical. 6 – 17 March, 2013

Marky de Sade’s Moist Cwtch mix: http://www.mixcloud.com/markydesade/moist-cwtch/

the svelte favourites of 2012

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Welcome dear listeners, to my favourite albums of 2012 – a show packed full of new and beautiful music.

As I say on la show, I do it to show that there’s ace stuff out there, so I urge y’all to go out and buy the music you love, if you can, go and see the bands you like. There’s so much out there.

And so, here’s the show. To check the Spotify playlist you can click here, or scroll down for an embedded player. To download the whole show, click right bloody here.

Merry Christmas everyone. Hope you spend some time with the people that you love. Even if that’s just yourself.

1. Anna Meredith – Nautilus from Black Prince Fury EP
2. The 2 Bears – Get Together from Be Strong
3. Errors – Relics from New Relics
4. F.C. Judd – Moving Pieces from Electronics Without Tears
5. Rob St. John – An Empty House (Seb Reynolds Remix) from Weald Remixes
6. Antony & The Johnsons – I Fell In Love With a Dead Boy from Cut The World
7. Swans – Song for a Warrior from The Seer
8. Julia Holter – This Is Ekstasis from Ekstasis
9. Cate Le Bon – Fold The Cloth from CYRK
10. Bat For Lashes – Lilies from The Haunted Man
11. The Magnetic Fields – Andrew In Drag from Love At The Bottom Of The Sea
12. Django Django – Love’s Dart from Django Django
13. Spoek Mathambo - Venison Fingers from Father Creeper
14. Zammuto – Zebra Butt from Zammuto
15. Let’s Wrestle – I’m In Fighting Mode from In The Court Of The Wrestling Let’s
16. Martin Creed – I Don’t Know What I Want from Love To You
17. Jim White – Here We Go from Where It Hits You
18. Ben Folds Five – Erase Me from The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind
19. Retribution Gospel Choir – Feel It, Superior from the revolution
20. RM Hubbert with John Ferguson – Gus Am Bris An Latha from Thirteen Lost & Found
21. Dirty Three – Rain Song from Toward The Low Sun
22. Mala – Tribal from Mala in Cuba
23. Four Tet – 128 Harps from Pink
24. Race Horses – Mates from Furniture
25. Low – Waiting from Plays Nice Places
26. Hot Chip – Look At Where We Are from In Our Heads
27. Tracey Thorn – Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas from Tinsel and Lights

The Rob St John remix album I promised can be found over here.

the svelte selection – from Spain!

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Hello dearest listeners and welcome to the latest svelte selection, the penultimate one for 2012 and the first I’ve managed to do successfully from overseas (I think). Yes, wonderful wonderful Andalucia has provided much joy over the last week, and here’s a slightly sunshine-y show for you all.

Major news of the month is that I’m DJing at a new night: Phasers at the Catch Bar in Shoreditch on Thursday 13th December. I would love to have you all down for it – it’s going to 90s-tastic. Full info is available from the Phasers Facebook Page, and you can follow them over on twitter @PhasersClub.

You can download the show from my new dropbox folder (let me know if you would like to subscribe to get all of the shows automatically) or you listen to the music via Spotify here. I’m also experimenting with embedding a Spotify player below. Let me know what you think.

Oh, and the show was only 90 minutes this month rather than the usual two full hours – sorry about that.

The tracklisting:

1. Adam F – Circles from Circles (single)
2. Black Moth Super Rainbow – Spraypaint from Cobra Juicy
3. The Crystal Ark – Morir Soñando from The Crystal Ark
4. TWEAK BIRD – Pigeons from Undercover Crops
5. Catatonia - Mulder And Scully from International Velvet
6. Everything But The Girl – Missing (Todd Terry Club Remix)
7. The Divine Comedy – A Drinking Song from Promenade
8. Ben Folds Five – Kate from Whatever And Ever Amen
9. Joe Jackson – Steppin’ Out from Live At The BBC
10. Yo La Tengo – How Some Jellyfish Are Born from The Sounds of the Sounds of  Science
11. Bat for Lashes – Lumen
12. Rob St. John - Vanishing Points (Jonnie Common Remix) from Weald Remixes
13. godspeed you! black emperor – Their Helicopters Sing from Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
14. Dawn Hunger – Billowed Wind from Stumbling Room
15. Polar Bear – Sunshine from Polar Bear
16. Dirty Three – The Pier from Toward The Low Sun

the svelte selection – drizzle bizzle

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Happy late October, everyone, I hope this radio show finds you happy and full of the Autumnal \ Spring Spirit.

Below you’ll find the tracklisting and links to download the show directly, or listen to the Spotify playlist.

First of all, however, you should all go and purchase Music For A Good Home 2 – raising money for Shelter – the housing and homeless charity. It’s an excellent 40-track compilation featuring the likes of Fujiya and Miyagi, Four Tet, Wire, Boxcutter and Felix.

And now, to the tunes. You an download the whole show, with all my talking and stuff, by clicking here. If you want the Spotify version, click here.

And here’s the tracklisting:

1. The Beatles – Magical Mystery Tour from Magical Mystery Tour
2. Joe Jackson – You’re My Meat from Jumpin’ Jive
3. Roots Manuva – Colossal Insight (Soft Pink Truth Remix) from Colossal Insight (single)
4. Hot Chip – Night And Day (2 Bears feat. Trim edit) from Night And Day (single)
5. Django Django – Default from Django Django
6. Fever Fever – The Chair from The Chair
7. Primal Scream – Shoot Speed/Kill Light from Xtrmntr
8. Dawn Hunger – Stumbling Room (download from here)
9. Tyondai Braxton – Uffe’s Woodshop from Central Market
10. Christian Marclay – His Master’s Voice (Excerpt) from Records
11. Ned Rothenberg – Old Country from Atlantic Waves 2006: The Wire Sampler
12. Mala – Revolution from Mala in Cuba
13. Magnetophone – All She Could Find from Music For A Good Home 2
14. Spacedog – Submariner (feat. Colin Uttley) from Juice for the Baby
15. Balam Acab – Fragile Hope from WANDER / WONDER
16. Radiohead – Give Up The Ghost from The King Of Limbs
17. Bat For Lashes – Laura from The Haunted Man
18. Rob St. John – Domino from Weald
19. Goldmund – Image-Autumn-Womb from The Malady Of Elegance
20. Errors – Grangehaven from New Relics
21. Origamibiro – Quad Time (Leafcutter John Remix) from Shakkei Remixed
22. Stars of the Lid – Another Ballad for Heavy Lids from and Their Refinement of the Decline

the svelte selection – Autumnal tunage

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Hello everyone!

Welcome to this month’s svelte selection – a range of excellent new tunes and some stuff from the svelte vaults. You may also find my sudden descent into a little drunkenness amusing…

You can get a bunch of the tunes click on the Spotify playlist, but if you want the full experience, go ahead and download the whole show. go on, you’ll love it.

(BTW, the pic is me. In a dog mask. It was for a party, okay?)

1. Race Horses – World 6 from Furniture
2. Aphex Twin – Windowlicker
3. Origamibiro – Womb Duvet from Cracked Mirrors And Stopped Clocks
4. Pet Shop Boys – Everything means something from Elysium
5. Bat For Lashes – Marilyn from Haunted Man (available as a free download on Amazon, by the way)
6. MONO – Dream Odyssey from For My Parents
7. The Murder of Crows – Midday Waltz from Imperfecta
8. One Little Plane – Synthesizer from Into The Trees
9. Race Horses – Sisters from Furniture
10. Race Horses – My Year Abroad from Furniture
11. Django Django – Life’s a Beach from Django Django
12. Ben Folds Five – Michael Praytor, Five Years Later from The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind
13. Ben Folds Five – Fair from Whatever And Ever Amen
14. Radiohead – There There (The Boney King Of Nowhere) from Hail To The Thief
15. Swans – Mother of the World from The Seer
16. Everything But The Girl – Lullaby Of Clubland from Temperamental
17. Derrick L. Carter – If I from Squaredancing In A Round House
18. LCD Soundsystem – Movement from LCD Soundystem
19. The Fall – I Am Damo Suzuki from This Nation’s Saving Grace
20. 23 Skidoo – Four Note Bass

Mostly talked about a bunch of gigs this month, you can get more details of the stuff I’m going to here. For Origamibiro look here…

Origamibiro dates:

LONDON
17th October 2012,
Merge Festival, 19:30
The Borough Welsh Congregational Chapel,
90 Southwark Bridge Road,
London, SE1 0EX
FREE ENTRY
More info here

LONDON
24th October 2012, 20:00
The Bedroom Bar
62 Rivington Street,
EC2A 3AY
London,
FREE ENTRY
More info Here

LONDON
23rd November 2012,
Supporting Hexstatic & Addictive TV
The Village Underground,
54 Holywell Lane
Shoreditch
London, EC2A 3PQ
Tickets: £12 (earlybird), £17.50 (general)
More info here

the svelte selection – summer’s slipping

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Welcome to the latest svelte selection, a mixed bag of beauty, crackle, pop and stories of underwhelmedness. There’s also some chat about Green Man and ridiculous fawning over Cate le Bon and Tune-Yards.

Here are some things I talked about:

Pledge to support an Arthur Russell tribute album featuring Twin Shadow, Washed Out, José González, Hot Chip, Robyn, Sam Amidon, and many others – here.

To check out the wonders of the Southbank Centre’s Ether Festival, click on over here.

Indeterminacy, by John Cage, with Stewart Lee and Tania Chen:

(appearing at Cafe Oto on the 25th September, or Battersea Arts Centre on the 23rd September)

So, to listen to just the glorious tunes, do click here for the Spotify playlist, or to download the entire thing, click here.

1. Four Tet – Jupiters from Pink
2. Antony and The Johnsons – Rapture from Cut The World
3. Chilly Gonzales - Train Of Thought from Solo Piano II
4. Kippi Kaninus – Örbrot from Huggun
5. Kippi Kaninus – Purer, Softer, Deader from Happens Secretly
6. A Winged Victory for the Sullen – Minuet For A Cheap Piano Number Two from A Winged Victory For The Sullen
7. Meursault – Mamie from Something for the Weakened
8. Hot Chip – Baby Said from Coming On Strong
9. Adam & Joe – The Festival Song from Adam and Joe’s Song Wars Volume 2
10. The Pictish Trail – The Handstand Crowd from Rough Trade Shops Green Man 12
11. Kwes. – Bashful from Meantime.
12. Cate Le Bon – Seaside, Low Tide from CYRK II
13. Tune-Yards – News from Bird-Brains
14. Franz Ferdinand – Do You Want To from You Could Have It So Much Better
15. Tortoise, The Ex – Pleasure As Usual from In The Fishtank 5
16. O Duo – Stephen McNeff: Baristas from O Duo
17. Synergy – John Cage: Amores – I Solo for Prepared Piano from Impact
18. Pet Shop Boys – A certain “Je ne sais quoi” from Winner
19. Arthur Russell – Calling Out of Context from Calling Out of Context
20. Philus – Kuvio 3 from Kolmio
21. Blur – Caramel from 13

the svelte selection – A warm August night

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Welcome back everyone, sorry I’ve been away – I was in the French countryside last month and didn’t have the chance to pre-record as had been the plan…

So I’ve a densely packed show for you – a bit of uneasy listening, some very pretty stuff, my Tune of the Year and some gloriousness from Martin Creed, who’s made my Album of the Year so far. Listen to some of the tunes from Spotify, or get it all, WITH ME TALKING AND STUFF.

1. Martin Creed – Work No. 1372 from Work No. 1372 (http://www.allthebells.com/home/)
2. Fuck Buttons – Surf Solar (7″ Edit) from Surf Solar
3. Icebreaker – Brian Eno: An Ending (Ascent) II from Apollo
4. So Percussion – Steve Mackey: It Is Time: III. Marimba from Mackey: It Is Time
5. We Saw Heaven – Luminosity from We Saw Heaven
6. Múm – Póst Póstmaður from Early Birds
7. Will Dutta with Neil Grant and John Matthias – Suprachiasmatic Beta from Parergon
8. Hot Chip – Look At Where We Are from In Our Heads
9. The Chap – Painkiller from We Are Nobody
10. Birdy Nam Nam – Escape from Birdy Nam Nam
11. Birdy Nam Nam – L’Interlude De Qualité from Birdy Nam Nam
12. Joe Jackson feat. Iggy Pop – It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) from The Duke
13. Grinderman – When My Baby Comes (Cat’s Eyes With Luke Tristram) from Grinderman 2 (Remix)
14. Can – Oh Yeah from Tago Mago (40th Anniversary Edition)
15. Martin Creed – What’s The Point Of It? from Love To You
16. Martin Creed – You’re The One For Me from Love To You
17. The Invisible – Utopia from Rispah
18. Victoire – Like a Miracle from A Door into the Dark (EP)
19. Nico Muhly – Part IV Material in a Long Cadence from Drones & Viola
20. Georg Solti: Chicago Symphony Orchestra – Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition – 6. Ballet Of The Chicks In Their Shells
21. Georg Solti: Chicago Symphony Orchestra – Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition – 7. Samuel Goldenberg & Schmuyle
22. Georg Solti: Chicago Symphony Orchestra – Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition – 8. The Marketplace At Limoges
23. Laurie Anderson – Big Science from Big Science
24. Omega Male – Omega Male (Download from Resident Advisor)
25. Rocketnumbernine – Lone Raver from Lone Raver EP
26. The Chemical Brothers – Theme For Velodrome from Theme For Velodrome

A couple of links for thee:

Prom 29 – starring the National Youth Orchestra

• Varèse – Tuning Up
• Nico Muhly – Gait (BBC Commission – London Premiere)
• Messiaen – Turangalîla Symphony
• Anna Meredith – HandsFree

My upcoming gigs (you can also see ‘em over there =>>)

Over the June – this month’s radio show

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Hello friends and listeners, welcome to this month’s show.

Twas a weird little pre-record with links recorded very very quickly in a conference room, so apologies that I sound so alien. Twas just one of those months, I’m afraid.

Some things that I talked about this month:

• The new exhibition at the Horniman Museum ‘The Body Adorned‘ (till Jan 2013). The Gardens have just reopened as well. Beautiful views across London
• Stewart Lee, Tania Chen and Steve Beresford at Cafe Oto doing John Cage’s Indeterminacy on September 25th
• Margaret Cho coming up at the Leicester Sq theatre in October
• The Margate Shell Grotto! A thing of amazingness and wonder. Read up on it on Wikipedia.
• Bauhaus at the Barbican (till August 2012)
• The usual heavy gig schedule

If you want to avoid the chatting, just pop to the Spotify playlist, but if you want the whole thing, click to download here.

Tracklisting
1. Jim White – State Of Grace from Where It Hits You
2. Gemma Ray – They All Wanted A Slice from Island Fire
3. Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm – a2 from Stare
4. Julia Holter – Our Sorrows from Ekstasis
5. Johann Johannsson – Glíma from Transcendentalism EP
6. Hauschka – Spark (feat. Samuli Kosminen) from Transcendentalism EP
7. Katherine McAlpine – CERN Rap
8. Nachklangmusik – Cern Technology (Nasty Bobby Speaking in Tongues Remix) from Cern Technology Remixed
9. Walter Gropius – On the Origins of the Bauhaus from Bauhaus Reviewed 1919-1933
10. Hans-Joachim Roedelius – Queerishism from Roedeliusweg
11. Martin Creed – Fuck Off from Fuck Off
12. Half Man Half Biscuit – 99% Of Gargoyles Look Like Bob Todd from Back in the Dhss/the Trumpton Riots Ep
13. Half Man Half Biscuit – Fix It So She Dreams Of Me from 90 Bisodol (Crimond)
14. The Duckworth Lewis Method – Gentlemen and Players from The Duckworth Lewis Method
15. New Order – World In Motion from Best Of New Order
16. Joe Jackson – Tuxedo Junction from Jumpin’ Jive
17. Shit Robot – I Got A Feeling from From The Cradle To The Rave
18. Donna Summer – Last Dance

Oh, and as a special treat, here’s the CERN rap with VIDEO!

the svelte selection – May All Your Dreams Come True

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Another month gone, another raft of excellent gigs and releases. Music truly is brilliant, innit?

Here’s the show as it went out, you can, as usual, download the whole thing from here, or check out some of the tunes from Spotify.

1. Bob Marley – Burnin’ & Lootin’ from Live On Air
2. Regular Fries – The Pink Room from Accept the Signal
3. James Canty – Something You Choose from James Canty EP
4. Sam Amidon – Johanna The Row-di from I See The Sign
5. One Little Plane – It’s Alright from Into The Trees
6. Markus Stenz: London Sinfonietta – Thomas Adès: Living Toys – Playing Funerals from Adès: Living Toys
7. Markus Stenz: London Sinfonietta – Thomas Adès: Living Toys – Tablet from Adès: Living Toys
8. Dustin O’Halloran – A Great Divide from Lumiere
9. Midaircondo – Could You Please Stop from Domino 06
10. Julia Holter – Goddess Eyes from Tragedy
11. Origamibiro – Sedimental Value (K-Conjog Remix) from Shakkei Remixed
12. Errors – Holus-Bolus from Have Some Faith In Magic
13. Zammuto – Weird Ceiling from Zammuto
14. Radiohead – Idioteque from I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings
15. Cate Le Bon – The Man I Wanted from CYRK
16. Ben Folds Five – Do It Anyway from New Album-In Progress
17. The Smiths – Bigmouth Strikes Again from The Queen is Dead
18. Gina X Performance – Nice Mover from Nine O’Clock Drop
19. Actress – Shadow From Tartarus from R.I.P.
20. Seams – Potential from Potential
21. Squarepusher – Dark Steering from Dark Steering
22. Shifted – Structure from Control
23. Girl Unit – Double Take from Club Rez EP

A couple of extra things:

Blue Touch Paper with the London Sinfonietta.

Upcoming gigs

I’M GOING TO CERN!!!

the svelte selection – April Showers, May Flowers

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And so to my April show. The usual rollercoaster ride, bumping from genre to genre, talking bollocks about stuff I liked and stuff that I didn’t. Random shoutouts and a (failed) attempt at doing a dinner round-up. At the bottom of this post there are links to some things I talked about and one big major thing I forgot to talk about. The Simple Things Festival in Bristol on the 6th May. Ooops.

As usual, you can have a Spotify link or download the whole thing. Take your choice.

1. The Magnetic Fields – Goin’ Back To The Country from Love At The Bottom Of The Sea
2. Belleruche – Stormbird from Stormbird
3. One Little Plane – Into the trees from Into The Trees PROMO
4. Mirroring – Silent From Above from Foreign Body
5. Jim White – The Way Of Alone from Where It Hits You
6. Julia Holter – Moni Mon Amie from Ekstasis
7. SOAP&SKIN – Voyage Voyage from Narrow
8. Bang On A Can All-Stars – David Lang: sunray from Big Beautiful Dark and Scary
9. Bill Ryder Jones – By The Church Of Appolonia (Leyland Kirby Mix) from 14 tracks: Consensual Hallucination
10. Simon Scott – Betty from Bunny
11. Blanck Mass – Icke’s Struggle from Blanck Mass
12. Low – Murderer from Hel-low
13. Retribution Gospel Choir – I’m a Man from the revolution EP (you can download it from here)
14. Martin Creed – Thinking Not Thinking from Marc Riley Session
15. Arab Strap – The First Big Weekend (Live 2011) from Live At Nice ‘N’ Sleazy 2011
16. Lotus Plaza – Out of Touch from Spooky Action at a Distance
17. Spoek Mathambo – Put Some Red On It from Father Creeper
18. Burial – Loner from Kindred
19. Riley – Kleek from Stem/Kleek (http://rileymusic.bandcamp.com/album/stem-kleek)
20. Jimmy Edgar – Switch Switch from HF033 – This One’s For The Children
21. Stakker – Eurotechno (Part 18 – 21) from Eurotechno
22. Bizzy B – Bad Boy Sound from Science EP Volumes III & IV
23. Rocketnumbernine – Shot One from You Reflect Me

Some things I talked about on my show

Nick Zammuto – Real Beauty Turns (from the Bang On A Can – Field Recordings gig)

Martin Creed @ The Lexington, 24 May 2012

A big thing I forgot to talk about on my show

The Simple Things Festival in Bristol on the 6th May!

Other gigs to which I’m going can be found over there => to the right =>

the svelte selection – Spring forward!

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Oh dearest ones, the arrival of the Spring sunshine is cheering me LOADS, as in the plethora of musical delights I’ve been experiencing of late and the anticipation of many to come. This month’s show was BLOODY GREAT if I do say so myself. Chat was a bit rushed, but only cos there was so much brilliant music to get out, as you’ll see below.

If you want to know more details about the gigs I’m booked in to see, you can check the list over on last.fm by clicking here. Yes, I know I should be blogging about them all, but I’m a bit rubbish, y’see.

Aaaaanyway, here’s the show in all its glory. Download using this discreet link, or for (some of) the music, try this Spotify playlist.

Fill. Your. Boots.

1. Jim White – What Rocks Will Never Know from Where It Hits You
2. Tindersticks – This Fire of Autumn from The Something Rain
3. Tanya Auclair – Fluke from ORIGAMI
4. Anna Meredith – Orca from Black Prince Fury EP
5. Oren Ambarchi – Passage from Audience of One
6. Sam Amidon – Nico Muhly: The Only Tune: I. The Two Sisters – Samamidon from Mothertongue
7. Raffertie – Courage Boy from Mass Appeal
8. Wolfgang Voigt – Rückverzauberung 5 from Pop Ambient 2012
9. Bowerbirds – Sweet Moment from The Clearing
10. Rob St. John – Sargasso Sea from Weald
11. Orchestre Métropolitain – Claude Vivier: Orion from Orchestre Métropolitain 2
12. Drivan – Inget Mer Sen from Disko
13. SOAP&SKIN – Boat Turns Toward The Port from Narrow
14. Dirty Three – Sometimes I Forget You’ve Gone from Toward The Low Sun
15. Breakbeat Era – Ultra-Obscene from Ultra Obscene
16. Peaches – Shake Yer Dix from Fatherfucker
17. Fanny Jam – God and Women from The Lady Love EP
18. The Magnetic Fields – God Wants Us To Wait from Love At The Bottom Of The Sea
19. Bang On A Can All-Stars – Michael Gordon : For Medeline from Big Beautiful Dark and Scary
20. The 2 Bears – Be Strong from Be Strong
21. Factory Floor – Two Different Ways from Two Different Ways

Oh, and here’s a brief thing about the awesome Anna Meredith at the National Portrait Gallery Lates

And, as a bonus treat, my first film for BishUK:

Mary Pickford Revived | Purcell Room | 9 March 2012

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Birds Eye View is an organisation that supports and promotes women’s filmmakers. You may have heard recently that they had their funding cut, curtailing their annual festival but as part of the International Women’s Day (8th March) celebrations this year, they’re holding a night where contemporary female musicians soundtrack the films of silent screen legend Mary Pickford.

Included on the bill is the wondrous Anna Meredith performing a live score for The New York Hat (1912). Regular svelte readers and listeners will know how much I love Meredith’s contemporary classical and her more ‘pop’ work. I last saw her at the Shhh! festival where she played up a (loud) storm. She’ll sound even more amazing with a decent soundsystem to support.

You can have a listen to most recent EP, just here:

BEV have been doing this type of programme since 2005. Click on the YouTube clip below to hear some of the participants discuss the 2009 programme.

In addition to the programme above, on the 11th March at the Hackney Picturehouse, Aristazabal Hawkes (of The Guillemots) will be performing a live score to Pickford’s 1926 film Sparrows.

For more information on both events, click here.