the svelte selection – September singles

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Hello all, I hope that the seasonal changings are not discombulating you too much and that things are alright, in Brexit and Trump-adjusted terms.

This month I present the standard rag bag mix of music – kicking off with a hit from the #sveltevaults, cos I’m going camping in a Forest in a couple of weeks.

There are lots of new records featured too, plus a little Jim White section for he is a gift to humanity and must be honoured (and I saw him last night :D)

I’ve actually been getting out and about for the most in ages – like maybe five gigs last month! Hurrah! Let’s hope I keep my gig-going mojo going…

So, here’s the tracklisting. See below it for a stream from Mixcloud, or you can go listen to the tunes on Spotify (in which they are in a slightly better order, tbf).

1. The Cure – A Forest (Extended Mix) from
2. Meshell Ndegeocello – Funny How Time Flies (When You’re Having Fun) When You’re Having Fun from Ventriloquism
3. Hallé Orchestra – Holt: St Vitus in the Kettle from Holt: A Table of Noises, St. Vitus in the Kettle & Witness to a Snow Miracle
4. Our Girl – Two Life from Stranger Today
5. Courtney Barnett – Charity from Tell Me How You Really Feel
6. Panic Pocket – Don’t Get Me Started from Don’t Get Me Started
7. Confidence Man – Boyfriend (Repeat) from Confidence Man
8. Szun Waves – Temple from New Hymn To Freedom
9. Jim White – A Perfect Day To Chase Tornados from Wrong-Eyed Jesus!
10. Jim White – Objects In Motion from Drill A Hole In That Substrate And Tell Me What You See
11. Jim White – Prisoner’s Dilemma from Waffles, Triangles & Jesus
12. Anna Meredith – Stoop Spring from ANNO: Four Seasons by Anna Meredith & Antonio Vivaldi
13. Anna Meredith – Heat Summer from ANNO: Four Seasons by Anna Meredith & Antonio Vivaldi
14. Helena Hauff – Hyper-Intelligent Genetically Enriched Cyborg from Qualm
15. STILL – Nazenèt Wasp Riddim from I
16. Nightwave – Awesome (feat. Rye Rye) from Wavejumper
17. Peggy Gou – Han Jan from Once
18. Alva Noto – Uni Blue from Unieqav
19. Bill Laswell – Metabolic Regulator from In Dub
20. House Gospel Choir – Battle (Extended Mix) from Battle
21. Nadia Sirota – Greenstein: In Teaching Others We Teach Ourselves from Greenstein: In Teaching Others We Teach Ourselves

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the svelte selection – February First

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And then some light…

I hate winter, a lot. wrt: sunshine, you can take me out of Australia, but you can’t take Australia out of me. Or something.

Aaaaanyway, I’ve been on holiday in Florida, hanging out at Kennedy Space Centre, taking the (low) seas on Star Trek: The Cruise and headin’ on down to Key Largo. There wasn’t much music involved, but it was pretty frickin’ amazeballs.

And so to the radio show, you can find the tracklisting and player below but first, as promised, I’m posting a link to Video Jam x Basquiat – incredible short films inspired by Jean-Michel Basquiat, scored and played live by a selection of musicians. Scroll down for a sample of ‘Fetish’ by Topher Campbell (unfortunately without the incredible music from Young Fathers).

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• Karen O – YO! MY SAINT
• Equiknoxx – A World of Welsh from Colón Man
• Cindy Wilson – On the Inside from Change
• Lone Taxidermist – Hammered in Homebase from Trifle
• Dungen –  Häxan (VERSION) from Häxan (Versions by Prins Thomas)
• Adrian Corker & Jack Wyllie – 09/07/2014  20:23:00 from Adrian Corker & Jack Wyllie – available on Bandcamp
  
• Pauline Anna Strom – Virgin Ice from Trans-Millenia Music
• Snapped Ankles – I Want My Minutes Back from Come Play the Trees
• Gnod – Real Man from JUST SAY NO TO THE PSYCHO RIGHT-WING CAPITALIST FASCIST INDUSTRIAL DEATH MACHINE
• Django Django – Sundials from Marble Skies
• Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – Stunts from Euclid
• Ibibio Sound Machine – Uwa the Peacock from Ibibio Sound Machine
• Young Fathers – Lord
• Mantronix – Needle to the Groove from Mantronix the Deluxe Edition
• Kda – Hate Me (feat. Patrick Cash)
• Dawn Hunger – Home 16  
• Ben Frost – Ionia (Jlin Rework)  
• Blawan – 993 from Nutrition
• Laurel Halo – Moontalk from Dust
• Klaxons – Atlantis To Interzone from Myths Of The Near Future
• Dennis McCarthy – Star Trek:  Deep Space Nine – Main Title  
• Bertie Higgins – Key Largo

the svelte favourites of 2017

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That time of the year again! Time to look back over the albums I’ve listened to this year and find the ones I especially loved.

These are in no particular order, but if I had to come up with a top five records they would be:

• Jlin – Black Origami
• Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – The Kid
• The Magnetic Fields – 50 Song Memoir
• Visible Cloaks – Reassemblage
• Blanck Mass – World Eater

Probably.

Anyway, here’s the show, scroll down for the tracklisting and for the Spotify player.

If you scroll down, you’ll also find a bunch of other albums I enjoyed this year. And a special video.

1. Forest Swords – Raw Language from Compassion
2. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – I Am Curious, I Care from The Kid
3. Kelly Lee Owens featuring Jenny Hval – Anxi. from Kelly Lee Owens
4. Diet Cig – Link in Bio from Swear I’m Good At This
5. Waxahatchee – Hear You from Out in the Storm
6. Tinariwen – Sastanàqqàm from Elwan
7. Blue Lab Beats – Keep Moving from Freedom
8. Wrongtom, The Ragga Twins – Bacchanal from In Time
9. Ibibio Sound Machine – Guide You (Edu Kpeme) from Uyai
10. The Magnetic Fields – ’12: You Can Never Go Back to New York from 50 Song Memoir
11. Rose Elinor Dougall – All At Once from Stellular
12. Steps – Happy from Tears On The Dancefloor
13. Moire – Bootleg (feat. DRS) from No Future
14. Photay – Off-Piste from Onism
15. Nicholas Britell – Black’s Theme from Moonlight (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
16. Laura Cannell – Awaken Waken from Hunter Huntress Hawker
17. Earthen Sea – Delicately in the Sunlight from An Act of Love
18. Visible Cloaks – Bloodstream from Reassemblage
19. Björk – Claimstaker from Utopia
20. Jane Weaver – Valley from Modern Kosmology
21. Quinta – Lightning Trees from The Quick of the Heart
22. Colin Stetson – In the clinches from All This I Do For Glory
23. Terje Isungset – Kjøe from The art of irrigation
24. Nathan Fake – CONNECTIVITY from Providence
25. Jlin – Carbon 7 (161) from Black Origami
26. Total Leatherette – Work Harder from For The Climax Of The Night
27. Karen Gwyer – It’s Not Worth the Bother from Rembo
28. LCD Soundsystem – How Do You Sleep? from American Dream
29. Fever Ray – Mama’s Hand from Plunge
30. Blanck Mass – Silent Treatment from World Eater

And here are some other records I enjoyed:

• Andrew Hung – Realisationship
• anarchistwood – The Nasty Album
• Jim White – Waffles, Triangles & Jesus
• Pye Corner Audio – The Spiral
• Four Tet – Planet
• Tudor Acid – Forga
• Balam Acab – Club Water Discus EP
• Bicep – Bicep
• Adrian Corker & Jack Wyllie – Adrian Corker & Jack Wyllie
• Robert Hood – Paradygm Shift
• Robot Riddims – Rude Mechanicals
• Little Dragon – Season High
• Japanese Breakfast – Soft Sounds from Another Planet
• Lung Dart – What’s difficult gets easier
• Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – Soul of a Woman

 

 

 

the svelte selection – geography and politics

Well kids, after feeling rubbish for quite a while now, I’m feeling surprisingly buoyant this month – could it be that things just can’t get any worse, or am I still in the afterglow of going to see Steps (yes, THE Steps) at the O2.

Unfortunately, due to not having the ‘studio’ to myself for this show, there is no mic action from me at all this month. No little stories or reviews* or technical fuq-ups (I hope…) so the music is without context. If you wanna keep the mystery, look away now and if you don’t really gaf, scroll down for the tracklisting and the Mixcloud and spotify links.

As with most of my radio shows, the music in this month’s svelte selection reflects new records I’ve bought, gigs I’ve witnessed and other things that have entered the svelte mind.

I start off the show with ‘The Madness Industry’, composed by Cheryl Frances-Head and performed by Onyx Brass, from the compilation Flux from NCM Recordings. NCM presents work from many contemporary British composers and this is a great selection. Later in the show is Quinta’s ‘Themistocles Is Captured’ from the same album. I have featured Quinta before on the show and I strongly suspect her stuff will be showing up in the svelte favourites of 2017…

Claire M Singer put together the Organ Re:framed series at the Union Chapel and supported Low and ‘Solas’ is from the album of the same name released last year.

Jim White gets a double play as he has a new record out (‘Waffles, Triangles & Jesus’) AND he played an amazing gig at Dingwalls a couple of weeks ago. In between stories of growing up in Pensacola, Florida, his lifetime of adventures and reflections on aging, he played us the most beautiful music from his new release and tracks from his back catalogue. He gave us an incredible rendition of ‘Jailbird’ from ‘Transnormal Skiperoo’, so I’ve included a live version of the latter track here.

Anna Meredith features frequently here and this month’s inclusion is cos I saw her at Oval Space recently and I came across this random track on a compilation from Brighton promoter The Outer Church. I believe ‘The Binks’ refers to a place near Edinburgh. Anna’s gig was awesome, as per, and she ended the show with a cover of Metallica’s ‘Enter Sandman’. Oh yes.

I came across Daniel Elms’s ‘Bethia’ perusing the NCM catalogue – it’s a gorgeous piece of music celebrating the maritime history of Hull. This recording comes from a performance accompanied by film, hopefully that will be available some time.

‘I can feel it in my bones’ was the one good tune I’ve ever found from Spotify Discovery.

Tracks 8 – 14 are from new things I’ve picked up recently, with special Björk love, as I’ve scored tickets for her performance at the Eden Project and I am VERY excited about it.

I saw Total Leatherette in a little brewery last week and they were so great. You can see them doing their thing here:

Steps get a play (and the feature photo) cos I had a wonderful time seeing them at the O2 – cheesy af and gloriously so. I sang along, I remembered the dance steps and we all had a jolly good time.

The very dark Penderecki is in tribute to Twin Peaks Season 3, which featured it brilliantly. It’s hard going, but worth it.

And finally there’s the sadly recently-departed Sharon Jones telling us to keep up the good fight. It’s important.

I’ve titled this show: geography and politics as most of the tunes refer to one or the other, sometimes obtusely.

So, enjoy the show, support the artists, and come back soon for more.

* though, of course, you can generally take a spot on the svelte selection as a svelte endorsement, obvs

Spotify:

And here’s the all important tracklisting:

1. Onyx Brass – Cheryl Frances-Hoad: The Madness Industry from Flux
2. Claire M Singer – Solas from Solas
3. Jim White – Drift Away from Waffles, Triangles & Jesus
4. Jim White – Jailbird from A Funny Little Cross to Bear Live EP
5. Anna Meredith – The Binks from The Outer Church
6. Paul Bentley-Angell – Daniel Elms: Bethia (Live) from Daniel Elms: Bethia (Live)
7. Æ MAK – I Can Feel It in My Bones from I Can Feel It in My Bones
8. Björk – Loss from Utopia
9. Laura Cannell – Blackwater from Hunter Huntress Hawker
10. Terje Isungset – Vassreke from The art of irrigation
11. Photay – The Everyday Push from Onism
12. Weval, Harm Coolen & Merjin Scholte Albers – Metazoa from Kompakt: Total 17
13. The Bug – Bad from Bad / Get Out The Way
14. Total Leatherette – Body Spin (Murray CY Edit) from For The Climax Of The Night
15. Steps – Heartbeat from Step One
16. Steps – Scared Of The Dark from Tears On The Dancefloor
17. Quinta – Themistocles Is Captured: I. A Ship for Asia Minor from Flux
18. Quinta – Themistocles Is Captured: II. I Have with Me Two Gods from Flux
19. Quinta – Themistocles Is Captured: III. The Likely and the Rich from Flux
20. Cracow Philharmonic Orchestra – Penderecki:Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima from Penderecki: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1
21. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – Searching for a New Day from Soul of a Woman

the svelte selection – tracks to who knows where…

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It feels as if the end is nigh, but there’s some light in the darkness. From tomorrow there’s the Organ Reframed series at the Union Chapel with Low and a bunch of this month’s artists plus Sam Amidon’s going to be there later in the month.

I also discovered that I’d missed an EP from the incomparable My Brightest Diamond and delighted in a couple of new records.

I do sound half dead on the show, and that’s cos that’s how I’m feeling right now. I’ll get better.

SO LISTEN

 

 

1. Austin Ato – Song For Mr. Lewis from Song For Mr. Lewis EP
2. Four Tet – Planet from Planet
3. Bicep – Opal from Bicep
4. My Brightest Diamond – Ceci Est Ma Main (Groundlift Remix) from I Had Grown Wild
5. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – I Will Make Room for You from The Kid
6. Emily Hall – Ode to Nature from Folie à Deux
7. James McVinnie – Beaming Music from Cycles
8. Low – Congregation from Ones and Sixes
9. Sam Amidon – You Better Mind from I See The Sign
10. Floating Points – Lucerne Valley from Reflections – Mojave Desert

the svelte selection – falling down

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After another ridiculously long hiatus, I’m back with more new tunes for your open ears.

Got three months of new records to get through, plus there’s a couple from the #sveltevaults to entice and delight.

To listen to the whole show with me speaking and the like, listen via mixcloud right here or scroll down a bit for the Spotify playlist.

 

 

 

1. Wrongtom, The Ragga Twins – CND/Spy Thriller from In Time
2. Diet Cig – Blob Zombie from Swear I’m Good At This
3. Japanese Breakfast – Soft Sounds from Another Planet from Soft Sounds from Another Planet
4. Jlin – Kyanite from Black Origami
5. Shackleton & Vengeance Tenfold – The Prophet Sequence from Sferic Ghost Transmits
6. Nathan Fake – REMAIN (Olga Wojciechowska Rework) from Providence Reworks: Part II
7. GAS – Narkopop 3 from Narkopop
8. Grouper – Children from Children
9. Cornelius – Dear Future Person from Mellow Waves
10. Forest Swords – The Highest Flood from Compassion
11. Zomby – ZKITTLEZ from GASP!
12. Total Leatherette – Work Harder from For The Climax Of The Night
13. Soft Cell – Seedy Films from Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
14. Andrew Hung – Animal from Realisationship
15. The Magnetic Fields – ’84: Danceteria! from 50 Song Memoir
16. Future Bible Heroes – A Drink Is Just the Thing from Partygoing
17. Blue Lab Beats – Freedom (feat. Louis VI) Explicit from Freedom
18. San Francisco Symphony – Three Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6 (1929 revision): II. Reigen from Berg Three Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6 (1929 revision)
19. Leo Chadburn – Steganography from Epigram / Microgram
20. Aisha Orazbayeva – 12 Fantasias for Violin without Bass, No. 3 in F Minor, TWV 40:16 (Arr. by Aisha Orazbayeva) Arr. by Aisha Orazbayeva from Telemann Fantasias
21. Elodie Lauten – Cat Counterpoint from The Wire Tapper 22
22. Björk – the gate from the gate
23. Karen Gwyer – Why Is There a Long Line in Front of the Factory? from Rembo
24. LCD Soundsystem – Other Voices from American Dream
25. Itch-E & Scratch-E – Sweetness and Light from Itch-E Kitch-E Koo

the svelte selection – warm tidings

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Oh my loves, another couple of rollercoaster months, what the dear fuck is going on?

I’ve been off air for a couple of months, so there’s lots to catch up, and this month’s show moves from dreamy, ethereal through quiet and strange to punky and upfront to proper bangin’.

So dive in. You can always skip the ones you don’t like. Do think about buying the ones you do.

More info about stuff I talked about on the show:

You can find Quinta’s website here. Soon it will feature the new record…

After 10 years, samandtheplants is back.

Xenia Rubinos played back in April. Sorry. But look out for her next tour, yeah?

And so to the show!

 

 

1. Quinta – An Elf Rising from The Quick of the Heart
2. Jane Weaver – Ravenspoint from Modern Kosmology
3. Colin Stetson – Spindrift from All This I Do For Glory
4. Little Dragon – High from Season High
5. Robot Riddims – RoboRockers (Original Mix) from Rude Mechanicals
6. Young Fathers featuring Leith Congregational Choir – Only God Knows
7. Xenia Rubinos – Right? from Black Terry Cat
8. Maarja Nuut – Kiik Tahab Kindaid (feat. Patrick Mcginley) from Une Meeles
9. Samandtheplants – Flaming Liar *preview from Flaming Liar
10. Lung Dart – Cold Tea Syndrome from Some Other Hunger
11. Martin Creed – Blow And Suck
12. Cate Le Bon – Wonderful from Crab Day
13. Tudor Acid – Ballad Of Bandit Racoon from Forga
14. Moire – Magma Dream from No Future
15. Nathan Fake featuring Prurient – DEGREELESSNESS from Providence
16. Kelly Lee Owens – CBM from Kelly Lee Owens
17. Lawrence – Marble Star from Yoyogi Park
18. Move D – Roll Split from Roll Split / 460 Melrose Ave
19. Robert Hood – I Am from Paradygm Shift
20. LCD Soundsystem – Pow Pow from This Is Happening

 

the svelte selection – at least there’s a decent soundtrack…

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Jesus. It just keeps coming, the shit, doesn’t it? I’ve had to take to muting a couple of key words on the twitterz and facebookz to stop myself falling (even more deeply) into a pit of despair.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaanyway, sometimes you just have to shove one’s head into a bassbin and lose oneself for a while, and I’m here to help you with that. This month’s show starts with Top Pop Princes Kylie Minogue in tribute to my Evening Album Club show featuring her eponymous 1994 album (you can download that show from here if you like).

Then there’s lots of lush electronic biz, a bunch of tracks from the Magnetic Fields opus 50 Song Memoir (a bargain even at its ludicrous price), some excellent techno, and a bunch of classical music. Don’t say you’re not spoiled.

Here’s the stream:

And here‘s the Spotify playlist.

 

1. Kylie Minogue – Confide In Me from Kylie Minogue
2. Kelly Lee Owens – Lucid from Kelly Lee Owens
3. Tim Burgess and Peter Gordon – Being Unguarded from Same Language, Different Worlds
4. Confidence Man  (Andrew Weatherall remix) – Bubblegum from Bubblegum (single)
5. anarchistwood – Fear is the Mindkiller from Sine On Mr Lovely
6. The Magnetic Fields – ’70: They’re Killing Children Over There from 50 Song Memoir
7. The Magnetic Fields – ’83: Foxx and I from 50 Song Memoir
8. The Magnetic Fields – ’01: Have You Seen It in the Snow? from 50 Song Memoir
9. The Magnetic Fields – ’12: You Can Never Go Back to New York from 50 Song Memoir
10. Nico Muhly & Valgeir Sigurðsson – Scent Opera from Scent Opera
11. Balam Acab – Look from Club Water Discus EP
12. Ibibio Sound Machine – The Pot Is On Fire from Uyai
13. Blanck Mass – Silent Treatment from World Eater
14. Marie Davidson – Planet Ego from Adieux Au Dancefloor
15. Slam – Alien Radio (Darren Emerson Mix) from Alien Radio (Remixed)
16. Autechre – rale from Quaristice
17. sir Was – Heaven Is Here from Digging A Tunnel
18. Visible Cloaks feat. Matt Carlson – Neume from Reassemblage
19. Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra – Allegro molto from Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz. 106
20. Kiri Te Kanawa; Georg Solti: Chicago Symphony Orchestra – 4. Sehr Behaglich from Mahler: Symphony #4

the svelte selection -To March 2017

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I’ve put a pun in the title. So kill me.

So much marching, so much protesting to do, thank heck we’ve got music and dancing and love and stuff, heh?

Been feeling the full roller coaster of emotions over the last couple of weeks with heartbreak, an almost overwhelming display of love and stirrings of new adventures to come. I’ve also gone from despair to hope and back again. A million times.

And so to this month’s show – we’re just into March and we’ve got a crop of great records already. Could we be in for another bumper year for music? I haz my fingers crossed.

And here’s the standard Spotify playlist.

Tracklisting:

1. French For Cartridge – Counting Games from The Golden Hour
2. Rose Elinor Dougall – Hell And Back from Stellular
3. Tornado Wallace – Warp Odyssey from Lonely Planet
4. RM Hubbert – The Bird (Kathryn Joseph) from Recovery EP1
5. Meilyr Jones – Passionate Friend from 2013
6. The Divine Comedy – Our Mutual Friend from Absent Friends
7. anarchistwood – Answer to War from The Nasty Album
8. The Jam – Beat Surrender from Beat Surrender
9. Tinariwen – Nizzagh Ijbal from Elwan
10. 3 Winans Brothers feat Karen Clark Sheard – I Choose You (Louie Vega Chosen dub) from
11. Dinamite – Enterprise from Excelsior
12. Prince – Controversy from Controversy
13. Moon Duo – Cold Fear from Occult Architecture Vol. 1
14. Pye Corner Audio – She Hunts at Night (Clesse remix) from Half-Light
15. Belbury Poly and Moon Wiring Club – Moonling from Other Voices 09
16. Earthen Sea – Apparent Lushness from An Act of Love
17. Thomas William Hill – Cirrostratus from Cirrostratus
18. Visible Cloaks – Place from Reassemblage
19. Nicholas Britell – Chiron’s Theme Chopped & Screwed (Knock Down Stay Down) from Moonlight (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
20. The Necks – Overhear from Unfold

the svelte selection – everything’s FINE

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Of course it is, nothing to see here. It’s fine. It’s really, really fine.

But just in case you’re not sure that it is, here’s some music for you.

It’s starts with some old favourites, goes a little contemporary classic and then moody and downtempo for the most part with a big dark finale.
Well, I like it.

A couple of gigs I recommended:

• Christine Sun Kim, Plus-Minus Ensemble and Juliet Fraser at Cafe Oto on Tuesday 7th Feb
• Boxcutter at Archspace on Friday 31st March

And so to the show. You can stream it here:

Listen via Spotify here.

Or, as always, subscribe to the sveltecast to get it direct!

1. CAN – Vitamin C from Ege Bamyasi
2. Sex Swing – Karnak from Sex Swing
3. George Michael – Outside from Ladies & Gentlemen: The Best of George Michael
4. Stockard Channing – There Are Worse Things I Could Do from Grease
5. Digitonal – 93 Years On (Live)
6. Boxcutter – Canopy from Canopy
7. Juliet Fraser – Wiegold: Les Roses: You can’t touch me from Peter Wiegold: Earth & Stars
8. Heather Roche – Einbond: Resistance from Ptelea
9. Grouper – Headache from Paradise Valley
10. Scanner+Yui Onodera –  Locus Solus from Pop Ambient 2017
11. Roly Porter – Departure Stage from Third Law
12. Adele Anthony – Akhnaten: Prelude from GLASS, P: Violin Concerto / Company / Prelude from Akhnaten
13. Oren Ambarchi – Sleepwalker’s Conviction, Pt. 1 from Sleepwalker’s Conviction

the svelte selection – more goodies from 2016

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New year, new exciting possibilities, new tunes. Well, not SUPER new, I’m yet to get anything in 2017, but still pretty freshly baked.

The show starts soft, but there’s all sorts of interesting biz to help you through the current political storm. Think of it as a form of self care.

 

 

Listen to the show here:

Listen to the tunes over on Spotify

 

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1. Christian Fennesz & Jim O’Rourke – I Just Want You to Stay from It’s Hard for Me to Say I’m Sorry
2. Sophie Ellis-Bextor – Crystallise from Familia
3. Bat For Lashes – Land’s End from The Bride
4. Keenya – Restless Books from Moment Invisible
5. Andrew Weatherall – Ghosts Again from Convenanza
6. Sanford Parker – PSYCHIC DRIVING from Lash Back
7. Lung Dart – Wrung Out from As I Lay Drying
8. Oren Ambarchi – Hubris, Pt. 2 from Hubris
9. Equiknoxx – Porridge Should Be Brown Not Green from Bird Sound Power
10. The Comet Is Coming – Space Carnival from Channel the Spirits
11. Beyond The Wizards Sleeve – Black Crow from The Soft Bounce
12. Roisin Murphy – Romantic Comedy from Take Her Up To Monto
13. Radiohead – Identikit from A Moon Shaped Pool
14. Bon Iver – 715 – CR∑∑KS from 22, A Million
15. Andrew Hung – Gulp! from The Greasy Strangler Soundtrack
    
16. Jessy Lanza – Never Enough from Oh No
17. School of Seven Bells – Music Takes Me from SVIIB
18. Peaches – Pickles (Lauren Flax ‘Acid’ Remix) from Rub Remixed
19. Evvol – The Beat Within from Physical L.U.V
20. Aphex Twin – CIRKLON3 [ Kolkhoznaya mix ] from Cheetah EP
21. Peder Mannerfelt – I Love You from Controlling Body
22. B(if)tek – Electroencephalagram from 2020
23. Delia Derbyshire and Elsa Stansfield – Circle of Light, Pt. 2 from Circle of Light

the svelte favourites of 2016

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Jesus frickin’ Christ, what a year. And not in the way you’d expect. Yes, it’s been a very very shitty year for progressive politics but it’s been an incredibly great year for music. And I know I’ve only listened to a fraction of the good stuff that’s out there.

I managed to whittle it down to 32 of my favourites from the year, but it could have easily been 40 or more, check the honourable mentions below.

Rather than the old Purple Radio mix server, I’m now uploading my shows to Mixcloud. Look I can embed it!

If you’d like to listen via Spotify, I have handily embedded it here. Spotify is an easy way to get access to the full albums though, of course, I recommend you go out there and put your money down directly.

 

1. Oy – Space Diaspora from Space Diaspora
2. Loscil – Anthropocene from Monument Builders
3. David Bowie – Girl Loves Me from Blackstar
4. Xenia Rubinos – Black Stars from Black Terry Cat
5. Beyoncé feat. Jack White – Don’t Hurt Yourself from Lemonade
6. Savages – Sad Person from Adore Life
7. Anna Meredith – Shill from Varmints
8. Plaid – Baby Step Giant Step from The Digging Remedy
9. Factory Floor – Dial Me In from 25 25
10. Audion – There Was A Button from Alpha
11. Surgeon – EGS-zs8-1 from From Farthest Known Objects
12. Pet Shop Boys – Burn from Super
13. Tudor Acid – Never Let Me Go from Crossing
14. Black Peaches – Suivez-Moi from Get Down You Dirty Rascals
15. Tortoise – Shake Hands With Danger from The Catastrophist
16. Beth Orton – Petals from Kidsticks
17. Jameszoo featuring Steve Kuhn – The Zoo from Fool
18. Exploded View – No More Parties in the Attic from Exploded View
19. Julianna Barwick – Heading Home from Will
20. Laura Cannell – A New Theory of Eclipse from Simultaneous Flight Movement
21. Oliver Coates – The Irish Book of Death & Flying Ships from Upstepping
22. Ichi – Wakka P from Maru
23. Mogwai – Pripyat from Atomic
24. ANOHNI – Crisis from HOPELESSNESS
25. Klara Lewis – Else from Too
26. Jenny Hval – The Great Undressing from Blood Bitch
27. Meilyr Jones – Refugees from 2013
28. Agnes Obel – Stone from Citizen Of Glass
29. Modern Studies – Black Street from Swell to Great
30. Tindersticks – Were We Once Lovers? from The Waiting Room
31. Mavis Staples – Action from Livin’ On A High Note
32. Martin Creed – It’s You from Thoughts Lined Up (see below!)
33. Low  – Silent Night from Christmas

Honourable Mentions:

• School of Seven Bells – SVIIB
• Bat for Lashes – The Bride
• Roisin Murphy – Take Her Up To Monto
• Jessy Lanza – Oh No
• Bon Iver – 22, A Million
• Keenya – Moment Invisible
• Aphex Twin – Cheetah EP
• Ocoeur – Reversed
• Andrew Weatherall – Convenanza
• Oren Ambarchi – Hubris
• Andrew Hung – The Greasy Strangler Soundtrack
• Radiohead – A Moon-Shaped Pool
• Lung Dart – As I Lay Drying

And finally, a bit of Christmas not-quite-what-it-seemsness from the always amazing Martin Creed.

the svelte selection – back in 10

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Sorry it took so long to get back to you, my loves. The Brexit vote broke my heart and then Summer got in the way. I apologise profusely.

Still, my extended hiatus means I have loads of new music for you this month, and plenty more to come next month! In’t that excellent.

To stream or download the show, please click over to the Purple Radio mix warehouse.

Or you can have a go at the Spotify playlist.

1. Oy – Made of Love from Space Diaspora
2. Xenia Rubinos – See Them from Black Terry Cat
3. Roisin Murphy – Pretty Gardens from Take Her Up To Monto
4. BADBADNOTGOOD featuring Colin Stetson – Confessions Pt II from IV
5. Jenny Hval – Secret Touch from Blood Bitch
6. Modern Studies – Everybody’s Saying from Swell to Great
7. Lung Dart – One Day You Just Stop from As I Lay Drying
8. Oliver Coates – Rise & Fall from Upstepping
9. Exploded View – Orlando from Exploded View
10. The Moonlandingz – Sweet Saturn Mine from The Moonlandingz
11. The Dovers – Third Eye
12. Ichi – Foorai from Maru
13. Julianna Barwick – Heading Home from Will
14. Meilyr Jones – How To Recognise A Work of Art from 2013
15. Klara Lewis – Twist from Too
16. Factory Floor – Relay from 25 25
17. Audion – Traanc from Alpha
18. AK/DK – Electricity from The Singing Bridge
19. Martin Creed – Let’s Come to An Arrangement from Thoughts Lined Up
20. The Pixies – Um Chagga Lagga
21. Lily – Running from Odd Hours
22. Cactus Agony – Zambian Flag (feat. Roberto) from Chasing the Wind
23. Tay Grin – Sugar Mami ft Sonye & Roberto
24. Freshlyground – The Message from Take Me to the Dance
25. Moto Buu – Ngati Sundikonda from Chiwoko Rock
26. Gasper Nali – Abale Ndikuwuzeni from Abale Ndikuwuzeni
27. Low – Untitled 3 from The Exit Papers

the svelte selection- Referendum relief

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WTF is with 2016? I mean seriously. Just fucking stop. Please?

Whilst I was broadcasting this evening, the EU referendum was foremost in my mind, I just can’t fathom that it’s VERY possible that the UK will have voted to leave the EU today. Of course, by the time you read this, you know what’s happened, as I type, I’m fucking petrified.

Aaaaanyway twas a short show this evening, but so very much full of goodness. Tracklisting is below. You can download or stream or check out the Spotify playlist.

Enjoy.

 

1. The Divine Comedy – Sweden from Fin De Siècle
2. The Little Hands Of Asphalt – Oslo from Leap Years
3. Circle Traps – Fjord  
4. Ralph Myerz & The Jack Herren Band – Bergen from Your New Best Friends
5. ABBA – Lay All Your Love On Me from Gold
6. Sydney Gay & Lesbian Choir – These Candles We Burn from Something to Sing About
7. Concrete Blonde – Tomorrow, Wendy from Bloodletting
8. RM Hubbert feat. Kathryn Williams – I Can Hold You Back from I Can Hold You Back
9. Goat – I Sing In Silence from I Sing in Silence
10. Beth Orton – Petals from Kidsticks
11. Tudor Acid – Uncertain Endings from Crossing

 

 

the svelte selection – Come what May

It’s time for a new svelte selection, full to brimming with music so fucking brilliant, you’ll be amazed it really exists. But it does. And I’ve put it all together just for you.

 

So, here’s the radio show, you can download or stream it from here or check out the Spotify playlist.

1. Mogwai – Weak Force from Atomic
2. Jessy Lanza – Begins from Oh No
3. Ocoeur – Souffle from Reversed
4. Oliver Coates – Stash from Upstepping
5. Jameszoo – Meat from Fool
6. ANOHNI – Crisis from HOPELESSNESS
7. Hauschka – Who Lived Here? from Abandoned City
8. Alexis Taylor – Just For A Little While from Piano
9. Radiohead – Glass Eyes from A Moon Shaped Pool
10. Christa Vi – Loveblind (Fybe:One Remix) from Loveblind EP
11. Beth Orton – Moon from Kidsticks
12. Oy – A New Planet Is Born (single)
13. Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin – Modul 42 – Wien from Live
14. Prince – I Wanna Be Your Lover from Prince
15. Prince – Gett Off from Diamonds and Pearls
16. Prince – Baltimore from HITnRUN  Phase Two
17. Rattle – Starting from RATTLE EP
18. Hooded Fang – Miscast from Venus on Edge
19. Erasure – S.O.S. (Chris And Cosey / Perimeter Mix) from Abba-Esque the Remixes
20. Coil – Amber Rain from Backwards
21. Brian Eno – Fickle Sun (i) from The Ship