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Shock World Service 099: Emil's Home(Princess P) 18/3/2021 Bern, Switzerland

Tarotplane – Shatner's Bassoon Shatner's Bassoon is the first track on the just released Horizontology album by Tarotplane. You fly through a soft universe, eager to hear what comes next. The cover tempts you to dive in.
Helado Negro – Pais Nublado When i saw Helado Negro live i was blown away. His appearance combined with his bilingual poetry about personal and political issues immediately captivated me. His voice feels as warm as the Florida sun playfully flooding the room. The big sticker on my fridge reminds me every time 'this is how you smile'.
Pierre Barouh – Le Pollen (only intro) A conversation in a bar, cafe or bistro. Glasses clinking, a phone is ringing, probably people are smoking at the tables, pretty accents.
Silver Leaf – Hey! Sweet voice calls hey! and laughs. Here it comes. But it doesn't matter if nothing else comes. Let's go.
Serge Gainsbourg – Strip-Tease Instrumental I left out Juliette Gréco's voice, I hope you don't mind. So the melody could also come from a carnival, a merry-go-round, Paris in the 60s.
Il Quadro Di Troisi – Non Ricordi What could be better than two artists you love making an album together? I follow both Eva Geist & Donato Dozzy musically. This project is totally successful, a beautiful pop album.
Jean-Pierre Decerf – Surrounding Seas Jean Pierre Decerf recorded the Tracks for Space Oddities in the mid 70s. Surrounding Seas sounds just as the title promises. A dreamy flight around the seas.
Ssiege – Regina What an album! Luckily it's out on vinyl now, I don't buy tapes anymore. Regina is so good, the sounds, the mood, a perfect track. Ssiege is definitely one of my favourite artists at the moment.
Roy & The Devil's Motorcycle – We Don't Know The Roy's are a swiss rock band, consisting of 3 brothers with guitars and a drummer. One of them usually stands with his back to the audience. I have heard them live many times. The song 'We don't know' is the B2 on a 7" with a slightly larger hole than necessary. I love this song it sounds so drunk. The larger hole makes it wobble, which sounds even more drunk.
Julianna Barwick – Flowers Barwick's meditative blend of electronica, ambient and pop has an effective healing effect. 'Healing is a Miracle' came out last summer. The basslines, the echoing pads, together with her voice are amazing. The repetitive nature of this song is like a huge thunderstorm approaching or a storm passing by. The album feels so real, accompanied by a magnificent artwork.
Squid – Broadcaster “Lyrically the track was inspired by the visual artist Naim June Paik & his TV Garden installation,” the band’s drummer/vocalist Ollie Judge said “I thought it blurred the lines between a dystopian and utopian vision. I imagined what it must be like living synonymously amongst nature & technology in the most literal way I could imagine, with TVs towering over me amongst forests.” Let's take this psychedelic voyage.
Black Marble – Johnny And Mary A song born in 1980 and still so fresh 40 years later. A successful homage, it moves you to dance (also good for driving, I tried it).
Finis Africae – El Abrazo De La Selva This piece speaks a beautiful peace between modern electric instruments and traditional acoustic instruments from many cultures. Fortunately, you can travel with music.
Neo Museum – Area I discovered the song on a compilation of 'Light in the Attic'. It's sung in such a wonderfully weird way.
Burnto Bertolucci – Bake Me Dome Tonight This track is a remake of Schneider TM 'The Light 3000', in turn based on The Smiths classic.
The Schmutz Sisters – La Folle Finally, one of the best songs i know. The Schmutz Sisters was a Swiss project founded for a performance. Recently reissued on Optimo's So Low label. Play it loud & give the bolero.

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Shock World Service 098: The Day’s Eye (Patrick Savile) 19/1/2021 London, England

Absolute Body Control - Numbers 06 Nice bit of melody
Big In Japan - Nothing Special Cost a lot to buy this, so had to put it in
King Tubby - Fire Dub Perfect track. Re-released by the v nice Pressure Sounds
Beat Detectives - New Chilled Funk Five I’ve always had a soft spot for these guys out in Brooklyn, they have a good sense of humour
Robin Stewart - Time Travel Wicked release from Robin, of Giant Swan, Avon Terror Corps crew. xx
Bourbonese Qualk - Erector From the Japanese noise comp Sexorama vol 3. All sexy tunes
Medio Mutante - Another Land Fun tune
Doxa Sinistra - Entomorbide Nice one
Dr Dre - Genocide (Official Instrumental) Despite its name, I’m not sure its official. It’s pretty low bitrate
Suns Of Arqa - Acid Tabla ( Adrian Sherwood remix) I only play the first half of this track. but it goes on and gets better.
Marie Moor - Pretty Day I never tire of this track. It’s quite sexy
Ruff Sqwad - Misty Cold This fits well with Marie Moor in my head
Jonquera - Jonquera at Caluire On the Rocks Some dub from Lyon
A Guy Called Gerald - Cybergen I love Black Secret Technology, this track is very much an album track, feels like its part of a soundtrack to a movie
DJ Rashad - Let It Go A perennial track one of my favourite bits of music
Bay B Kane - Jungle Warriors Bonkers bass on this one
LiL JaBBA - Waila released on Local Action a while back. Nice vocals on this
Jana Rush - Frenetic Snare Lives u p to the name, wicked energy on this
тпсб - Pacifier Habits Emotional Jungle sound. Always on my iPod shuffle
Death In June - This Is Paradise David Tibet is having a wonderful time it seems
Soichi Terada - Yokozuna Beach Chillin’ I love the 90’s Japanese jungle aesthetic, very clean, very Japanese. I have to have it near at all times. Off Sumo Jungle Grandeur
4hero - The Paranormal In 4 Forms Nice bit off Parallel Universe
Novo Line - Aurora One that doesn’t really sound like Novo Line, who’s usual mad energy is so amazing to see live
Portion Control - Sentenced To Die Love the cover on this
Brood Ma - ESTEEM RAW SAVER (Recsund Remix) Wicked Recsund madness on Quantum Natives, who are THE BEST LABEL
Karima F - Random Loop From Doepfer Site I like how snappy this is. Need to get that chainsaw looked at
Junior Loves - Yantlet (First Passage Version) Solid release from the man Junior Loves. Cannot fault this
Coil vs The Eskaton ‎– First Dark Ride Off the Nasa-Arab release, this is Coil vs their alter egos The Eskaton. Its good have to have some coil in a mix
Recsund - Forsaken I found this on my computer, no idea who did it, I thought I made it for a while, then worked out it was Recsund, which makes it better I think.

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Shock World Service 097: An Effigy Hologram(David Kitt) 1/12/2020 Dublin, Ireland

Sansbut - Clothes On The Line, Carnsore Point
Mona Lo - Parting Song
Cornaleena - The Hare
Sansbut - Cantus In Memoriam
David Kitt - Wishing Well
Mona Lo - Heavy
Sansbut - Rêve Élève
Spillcrane - Too Long(Everything In Dub)
Cornaleena - Dead Esso
Sansbut - Skip An' Trample
David Kitt - Every Little Drop Of Fallen Rain
David Kitt - Not So Soon
Cornaleena - Frankie Floats
Sansbut - Tir Ami

Sansbut Vol 1 is out now on Awayday https://sansbut.bandcamp.com

Jon has been asking for something for something for Shock World Service for quite a while now and it's a great honour to finally deliver something for the legendary series. Congratulations to Jon for leaving behind such a rich musical archive.

My mix features all new unreleased work and mainly features music incoming on my new label Awayday, collaborations with Kevin Barry as Cornaleena, Margie Jean Lewis as Mona Lo, Catherine Sikora as Sansbut and with Stano as Spillcrane.

Also featured are three new David Kitt songs from a record due for release on All City in May 2021 with Katie Kim on vocals. It represents a good overview of a lot of what I've been making in the last while and was put together in Paris during an artist residency at Centre Culturel Irlandais.

To me it captures the atmosphere of those initial months of coming to terms with this unexpected version of reality we all found ourselves in.

– David Kitt

Artwork by Mel Keane

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Shock World Service 096: I Didn't Want The Night To End (Cian Ó Cíobháin) 19/10/2020 Galway, Ireland

Phil Lynott - One Wish (Demo with Huey Lewis) Phil Lynott’s friendship with Huey Lewis dated back to the mid-70s and this extraordinary demo, one of the last songs Lynott wrote, was never officially released.
John Cale - Dying On The Vine The eternally creative John Cale recorded this around the same time that Lynott collaborated with Lewis on the previous track.
OMD - Souvenir Possibly the most beautiful song in the entire OMD catalogue features the band’s keyboard player Paul Humphreys on vocals.
Karen Marks - Cold Café Wistful new wave track from Melbourne from ’81.
Clannad - Theme From Harry’s Game Regularly played on the radio in the 80s, I had almost forgotten about it until I happened upon a Twitter thread admiring it no end.
Lani Hall - Never Say Never Again From an unofficial Bond movie from ’83, I’ve always had a soft spot for the title track, sung by Lani Hall, who was married to Herb Alpert and briefly fronted Sérgio Mendes & Brasil ’66.
Sparks - I Want To Hold Your Hand Stunning cover from 1976 of The Beatles standard which was introduced to me by Barry Murphy of The Last Sound.
Chris Clark - How About You Chris Clark is one of a very small number of white performers who recorded on Motown during the 60s.
Love - My Little Red Book I first heard this when composer Burt Bacharach performed it at Galway Arts Festival in 2019. Next morning, I was on the hunt and discovered a number of covers, including this one from 1965 from the mighty Love.
BEAK> - Yatton From one of Geoff Barrow’s post-Portishead Bristol bands.
De Ambassade - Geen Genade Like the previous track, this Dutch song has the spirit of 1980s new wave all over it, though it came out in 2016.
Turquoise Days - Grey Skies Astonishing synth-pop classic from ‘84 from a duo based in Jersey on the Channel Islands, who released a number of cassettes in the 80s.
Ariel Pink - Stray Here With You Only a genius like Ariel Pink would have an unreleased pop gem like this in his locker. It surfaced last year on his ‘Oddities Sodomies Vol 2’ compilation of previously unreleased tracks.
Toasted Heretic - Another Day, Another Riot I’ve been after a good quality version of this track for ages - one of Toasted Heretic’s greatest moments, which will forever remind me of moving to Galway. I was thrilled when Neil Farrell, who used to record with the band (and also records as The Melancholy Thug), gifted me with a high quality version a few months ago. Indeed, I borrowed from the lyrics to give this podcast its title.
Jan St. Werner - VS Cancelled Jan St. Werner of Mouse On Mars collaborated with The Fall’s Mark E Smith as Von Südenfed. This track features Smith reading an email from Domino detailing why the band had been dropped by the label.
The Fall - Paint Work The Fall’s 8th studio LP ‘This Nation’s Saving Grace’ is a masterpiece and this ramshackle track is one of its defining moments.
Billy Fury - I’m Lost Without You This track almost sounds like a blueprint for the music of early Tindersticks. Indeed, Morrissey was also a huge fan of this 60s Scouse singer.
The Kinks - I Go To Sleep (Demo) We kicked off with a demo and so we’ll part with one. Written by Ray Davies, it was never formally recorded by The Kinks, but has been covered many times since.

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Shock World Service 095: Shahee Al Ni3na3 Mint Tea 12/6/2020 Dublin, Ireland

There is nothing nicer than getting up in the morning and making myself a cup of Arabic mint tea - this is a tradition I was exposed to growing up in Saudi. The songs I picked for this mix are songs that would go well with a nice cup (finjan) of mint tea (shahee ni3na3). I wanted to bring you through my cassette collection but also show you some songs that I hope to find on cassette. Every single song in this mix has a distinct memory that I truly love, and I hope they become special to you too. I highly recommend making a pot of mint tea, sitting on the floor, and mindfully listening to this mix.- Jamal Sul/ Moving Still

Ferqat Al Dana - Labod Nerjaa This is a band from Kuwait and the album was recorded in 1993. This song is a classic! It was pretty unusual to hear this type of Jazz from a Middle Eastern band. This is one of my favourites.
Bouchenak - Salam Alikoum This is a lovely cassette from Morocco that was released in 1992. This one has a lovely bassline and a melodic lead line that grabs you throughout.
Zeinab - Ya Hawly Zeinab released only two albums, and this song was released in 1985 on Delta Sounds. It is a lovely slow Egyptian Disco banger.
Faris - Ya Tayer Faris is an Egyptian singer and actor. This track was released as part of an Egyptian compilation called “Njoom Al Sharq”.
Simone - Zey Ma Matideny Simone is known for her Arabic covers of very popular pop songs. This cover of Janet Jackson’s “What Have You Done For Me Lately” is superb! This is the last track on her 1992 album “Merci”.
Mona Abdel Ghany - Ashab The name “Ashab” translates to “friends” in Arabic. Mona’s singing in this is one of a kind, and the hook melody is very soothing.
Americana Show - Taht Al Dila Americana Show were an Egyptian artistic trio founded by Hamid El Shaeri & Tareq Nur in the late 1980s. Members were Hisham Abbas, Aliya Saleh and Ahmed Al Gibaly. Taht Al Dila, which means under the shade.
Ali Bahar- Tesadeq Aad Ali Bahar is a Bahrani singer that was nicknamed “the Bob Marley of the Gulf”. This was released on great label called Al-Nazaer.
Cheb Arab - Yama Eouny This song is timeless, and those gated reverb snares and claps are key in this one. I would highly recommend listening to the entire album “Lo Kan” released in 1991.
Hany Shnoda Farkat Maserrian - Lama Kan El Bahr Azraa This song is very dear to me. You can literally float away listening to it.
Hamid El Shaeri - Oudah His mixed roots of being both Libyan and Egyptian gave his music a complete fresh taste during the boom of the cassettes industry in the 80s. The entire song is an acoustic guitar breeze and very different from his other tracks.
Azza Kamal - Maadna Bukra Azza Kamal only released one album, was an actress for a few years, and disappeared from the entertainment industry in the 90s. The edit is on the way!!
Laila Ghofran - Muhtagah Atghayar This is another cassette that was just collecting dust and I had no idea what was on it. This is an 80s banger and really love her singing on this particular song.
Sahar & Hamid El Shaeri - Rajer This is a song I recently discovered and would love to have this on cassette. I was really blown away by Sahar’s singing and the main lead guitar. I highly recommend listening to this one with mint tea.
Etteb - Ghourabah Etteb is my favourite female Saudi musician. As far as I know, she is the first female singer to emerge from Saudi. She moved to Egypt to continue her singing career and she was an advocate for women in music, and a member of the Union of Arab Artists and the Musicians Syndicate in Egypt.
Fatima - Douz Douz This one was released in 1984 on Atoll in France. The chorus on this track is absolutely amazing, and the Arabic percussion mixed in with Disco elements really give this song its signature.

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Shock World Service 094: Will You Ever Feel Okay (Gadget & The Cloud) 18/4/2020 Dublin, Ireland

The Appleseed Cast - The Last In Line Deep Elm Records’ finest at their most expansive and lush.
The Antlers - Kettering Taken from their 2006 masterpiece Hospice. Few songs hit me as hard as this.
Ricky Eat Acid - Three Love Songs Twinkling sounds that feel like being reborn.
A monologue from Synecdoche, New York
Teen Suicide - Haunt Me (x3) Bedroom pop with the catchiest damn melody.

6.Teen Daze - Longing It captures exactly what it says on the tin.

Lana Del Rey - Video Games (Balam Acab Remix) Sad girl springtime but make it experimental
Mount Eerie - Emptiness Pt 2 Phil Elverum’s unapologetically emotionally upfront lyrics are unlike anyone else. A Crow Looked At Me is essential listening.
Eluvium - Chime A haunting cut from Explosions in the Sky collaborator Matthew Cooper.
Lights & Motion - Only You Another Deep Elm Records deep cut.
Boards Of Canada - Amo Bishop Roden The OGs of emotional bleepcore.
Gadget & The Cloud - Quiescence My own track taken from the wonderful Bandcloud compilation Missives.
Mount Alaska - Lunar Dublin duo who released their LUSH debut album Wave Atlus: Season One last year.

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Shock World Service 093: An Ode To Selling Out (DC FSLMan) 5/4/2020 Dublin, Ireland

Selling Out Intro
Genesis P-Orridge & Cotton Ferox - Interlude 1: Slipping Away [2004] Technically under the name Thee Majesty along with Cotton Ferox, Interlude is a moody soundtrack with Genesis' creepy vocals throughout. Its from the 2004 album Wordship.
The Danse Society - There Is No Shame In Death [1981] Based out of Barnsley in the UK, The Danse Society(later to be known with little or to no success as Johnny In The Clouds) were a post-punk/goth band with synthy undertones. Their first single "There Is No Shame In Death" in particular is an excellent example of the early 80's British post-punk wave!
Bourbonese Qualk - Freefall [1983] Experimental & industrial sounds from the Southport, UK group's 1983 album Laughing Afternoon, which got reissued on Mannequin last year. Gives your brain a few minutes to adjust before the next few tracks.
Robert Turman - Way Down [1987] After being in NON with noise artist Boyd Rice in the late 1970's. San Diego's Robert Turman went on to make several solo albums dating up to very recently. Way Down is the 2nd of these & is a mixture of a post-punk & distortion loop.
To Live & Shave In L.A. - Bad Couple [2019/1992] Released last year on American noise/punk label Hanson, run by Aaron Dilloway. Bad Couple is one of four 1992 recordings by To Live & Shave In L.A. featured on the split with Tom Smith, Spatters Of A Royal Sperm. Think noisy guitar, distorted vocals & tape noises.
Black Phlegm - Movement Five [1989] Definitely the first track ever in the history of this mix series to include a power drill. Late 80's experimental noise. Calling it DIY would be an understatement.
Selling Out
Rexy - (Don't) Turn Me Away [1980] Originally a collaboration by Vic Martin who went on to play keyboard for The Eurythmics & Chris Burne from The Rivvits. Rexy a project named after the talking styled front singer. The band had a couple of singles & 1 album to very little success, but this track over the years has become somewhat of a cult classic having been re-issued a few times over the years.
Essendon Airport - B52 [2011/1981] Essendon Airport is an Australian post-punk/experimental band formed in 1978. Their only album Palimpsest came out in 1981. The CD re-release of it in 2011 included an extra CD of what I'm assuming were album off-cuts that includes B52. A loopy post-punk & tapey instrumental with some haunty machine sounds thrown in the background for good measure.
The Fall - Who Makes The Nazis? [1985] Originally from Hip Priest And Kamerads in 1985, I have no idea when this recording of this track actually is cause its from that big Peel sessions boxset. The track kinda feels like its just a jam and they are letting Mark E.Smith say whatever alongside some jaunty guitar and drums.
Sonic Youth - Créme Brûlèe [1992] I spent more time writing all this than I did recording the mix. Créme Brûlèe is of course the outro track of the now very somewhat famous 1992 Sonic Youth album Dirty. The track features some minimal guitar and distortion with Kim Gordon's intoxicated sounding vocals overlapped beautifully.
Broadcast - Tears In The Typing PooL [2005] Such a great album. Tears In The Typing Pool is a strumming guitar to some relaxing synths and beautiful vocals. It features on the band's 2005 album Tender Buttons which came out on Warp Records and has become a cult classic over the years. The band came to an end in 2011 when front singer Trish Keenan passed away.
Selling Out Conclusion

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Shock World Service 092: A Reflective Drift (The Drifter) 2/4/2020 Dublin, Ireland

Peaking Lights - Sea Of Sand Expansive piano and voice opener
Rikaar - Reflecting Spacetime From a stellar EP on Apollo
Joram Fetisma - Old Feelings Nils Frahm type vibe on Bigamo
Merrin Karras - Passage Sweet new sounds from Chymera under his ambient moniker
Young Marco - Looking Back Looking back, moving forward
Calibre - Planet Hearth What a beauty. So so good
Com Truise - Gaussian Piano wash over
Donnacha Costello - The Sea Between Us Melody moving things along. From a recent LP, great to have him back
Jonathan Fitoussi - Cercles Polaires Circles and more circles
Pariah - Linnaea Splendid Splendour
Phil Kieran - After Life Very proud to have released this on our label Maeve
Calibre - Five Minute Flame Flame still flickering

12.Sebo K - Pink Moon Not to be confused with the Nick Drake song

Pye Corner Audio - Imprisoned Splendour Sci-Fi Movie goodness
Zopelar - Beludi’s Lament Acid Lament
Nathan Jonson - In The End Eno esque beauty from my friend in Victoria, BC. In The End indeed.

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Shock World Service 091: World Synth Experiments by Frankie Grimes 9/2/2020 Dublin, Ireland

Juan Amenábar - Los Peces (1957 - Chile) The first tape piece from South American composer Juan Amenábar Ruiz. It’s an electroacoustic work based on Fibonacci sequence tape manipulations of recorded piano sounds. From Santiago, Chile, he was an engineer and composer and pioneer of electroacoustic music in South America. Studyied composition at the National Conservatory of Music in Santiago, later travelling to Bonn, Germany, where he studied with Stockhausen’s teacher Wener Meyer-Eppler.
Iannis Xenakis - Concret PH (1958 - Greece) Iannis Xenakis once approached Messiaen in Paris for composition lessons, but Messiaen turned him down, saying “I think one should study harmony and counterpoint. But this was a man so much out of the ordinary that I said… 'No, you are almost 30, you have the good fortune of being Greek, of being an architect and having studied special mathematics. Take advantage of these things. Do them in your music'."

Concert PH (paraboloïdes hyperboliques), was written to be heard as audiences entered and excited the Phillips Pavillion at the ’58 World Fair in Brussels, Xenakis was also involved in building the structure, and Varese’s Poeme electronique was played while people were inside the building.

Jorge Antunes - Auto-Retrato Sobre Paisaje Porteno (1969 - Brazil) Known as the originator of electronic music in Brazil, Jorge Antunes studied music and physics in Rio de Janeiro. Os Mutantes were building DIY guitar pedals, but Jorge Antunes was building himself oscillators, filters and modulators. He has been a professor at the University of Brasilia since 1973.
Delia Derbyshire - Falling (1964 - USA) Delia Derbyshire was a true electronic music pioneer. Working with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, she created the famous Doctor Who theme. The Dreams was a collaboration with Barry Bermange, of voice recordings of people describing their dreams, set to an entirely electronic soundtrack by Derbyshire.
Otto Sidharta - Lorong (1984 - Indonesia) After post-graduate study in Amsterdam, Otto Sidharta returned to Indonesia to gain his doctoral degree and compose electronic music based around nature and soundscapes. Reissued by Sub Rosa in 2017.
Mammane Sani - Tunan (1979 - Niger) Mammane Sani was a pioneer of West African electronic music, and creator of much of the incidental music used for radio in Niger. This, his first and only album, electronic interpretations of traditional Wodaabe and Tuareg music, was recorded in two takes at the National Radio of Niger, and released on a limited casette by the Ministry of Culture . Reissued by Sahel Sounds in 2013.
Yishak Banjaw - Libey Ma’aduley (1986 - Ethiopia) Originally from Addis Ababa, Yishak Banjaw created this album at his house in Eritrea, on a Casio PT rented from a friend. He recorded the whole album live, directly to his tape recorder. Reissued by Teranga Beat in 2016
Gökçen Kaynatan - Lost Island (1973 - Turkey) A pioneer of electronic music in Turkey. While there was much experimentation in Turkey at the time, Gökçen pioneered the use of electronics. Reissued by Finders Keepers in 2017.
The Upsetters - Chim Cherie (1973 - Jamaica) Reggae and Dub had a huge influence on the development of electronic music, and none more that Lee Scratch Perry. It’s hard to pick one, but this early dub from Pressure Sounds’ 2010 compilation shows just how far ahead they were.
Codek - Closer (1981 - France) Originally release on Ivorian Coast label West African Music, this is the a-side from the well known ‘Tam Tam’ single, recorded in France by Jean-Marie Salau.

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Shock World Service 090: The Spatial Relationship by Jon Averill 28/12/19 Dublin, Ireland

Mark Isham - Winter It is winter at the time of recording. I'm always on the ball.
Gabriel Yared ‎– 37°2 Le Matin I know very little about this track, it's French. It means '37.2°C in the morning'. Le Google will you more.
Lifted - Now More Than Ever Actually probably the newest track on this podcast. Very much a mash-up of styles in all senses. Beats & samples drop in never to be heard again. There's a threat of a structure but that seems to never quite manifest.
7 Hurtz - 3 Sisters. One of the very last compact discs I own & a great one at that. From the album Electroleum on Trevor Jackson's Output recordings. The term 'funky electro' sounds awful but this track does not.
Rare Silk - Storm I thought this was a much newer record before researching, mixing doo-wop style vocals with modern chord progressions & primal rhythms.
Peder Mannerfelt – Building of the Mountain Hypnotic & tense rave stabbing
Bing & Ruth - The How of it Sped From David Moore's Brooklyn collective Bing & Ruth, this track taken from their release 'No Home of the Mind 'on 4AD.
Girl Unit - Back From 2018's Song Feel EP, very much embracing the glistening DX-7 driven 1980s aesthetic.
Steve Hauschildt - Saccade A saccade is the measurement of eye movements, more accurately a rapid movement of the eye between fixation points.
Tuxedomoon - Do it for Van Gogh From the Blue Velvet Revisited soundtrack. A 2016 documentary about the making of David Lynch's Blue Velvet
Luke Slater - Weave Your Web Been a massive fan of Luke Slater since his 1997 album Freek Funk but never really found a place for his music on the podcasts. Wrong righted.
RX-101 - Pulse Shaper Taken from this year's (2019) Dopamine album which is an unashamed soundalike for Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works 85-92.
Cylob - Skylight Another Aphex associated track in that Cylob put out a lot of his early work on Rephlex Records
Henry Mancini - We've Loved Before And so here we are again, the end of our journey. Guided here by Henry Mancini who's music I for some reason call 'log collecting music'. See ya.

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Shock World Service 089: Back2Bray by EMA 23/10/19 Dublin, Ireland

Jorge Reyes & Antonio Zepeda - La Izquierda Del Colibri Emotional Rescue is a reissue label for lost or forgotten tracks. Jorge Reyes and Antonio Zepeda are Mexico’s most important experimental artists. This abstract unsettling track starts off the journey nicely.
Orson - Garzweiler A beatless drone-scape from an otherwise dubstep-centric powerhouse, Version.
Matias Aguayo - Between The Risings Spooky soundscapes.
Suba - Wayang 10 Psychedelic, slowed-goa sounds reissued on Vlad Ickovic's Offen Music label
Basses Terres feat. Mika Oki- Yōru No Satori Magical track that pulls at the heart strings. To be honest it makes me cry.
Great Ghost - Alien Hotel Del Mar The seaside chimes in and I'm home...bliss. Great Ghost is a producer & DJ making ambient and techno for years in the Brooklyn underground.
Ondo Fudd - Blue Dot Call Super's The Trilogy Tapes alias. Gorgeously sensual.
Lury Lech - Barreras A reissue from CockTail d'Amore Music off the album Música para el fin de los cantos/1990. Lury Lech, a Spanish electronic and digital audio-visual pioneer, makes you float away in this new-age meditative track.
Prins Thomas - Bobletekno (DJ Sotofett’s New Age Mix) Full Pupp records hands over to Prins Thomas who has the Sottofett bug like us all. Sottofett produces a beautiful ambient rework which really brings you to someplace special.
DJ Sports - Passing Melancholic skittering half-step off Yield Records >> "To give in, surrender. To give forth, produce" An adventurous EP from Arhus-boy DJ Sports.
Rare Silk - Storm (Arp Duppy Chip Mix) Another Emotional Rescue. Arp's rework of Rare Silks' 1985 (album American Eyes) cult classic strips back the vocals, keeps in the Jazz fire and creates this beautiful moody dub.
Mårble - Coco Dub feat. Slavic Ipatov Klammklang - Criminal Russia presents a melting pot of swampy dubstep lurk with some splashy marbled jazz.
Lo Kindre - Torment of One Optimo Music release presenting dub sounds from Glasgow based, Luxembourg-born and raised Irishman Daniel Magee. Freaky no-wave electronics.
Unknown Mobile - Medicine Man Pacific Rhythm showcases the best of the best for the most part in Canada. This one is from Montréal house artist Unknown Mobile. The superb album titled Daucile Moon is an 8 tracker where Unknown Mobile created a “digital-analog hybrid that sounds as pleasantly worn as a dog-eared novel”.
Abby Echiverri - Inquilinism Echiverri is an audio engineer classically trained in violin, flute and piano. This lush EP shows off her talents, and it is only her first! Inquilinism is an ambient electro workout off her Ab Initio EP on The Bunker New York. If you haven't checked out this record you should.
Cromby - Retribution (Shanti Celeste Mix) Suprisingly, this is found on the generally straight up Feel my Bicep imprint. This remix traditionally sits at 125bpm. I slowed it right down for the mix to about 96bpm, and it sounds just as good.

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Shock World Service 088: Dreamscapes by New Members 16/9/19 Berlin, Germany

Every now & then we like to focus on new artists & rather than do a mix, dedicate the podcast to their own productions (such as R. Kitt's amazing Cycles Podcast).

This month we turn the spotlight on Dublin based producer New Members who's episode 'Dreamscapes' melds hypnotic chord sequences with raw oldschool breakbeats.

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Shock World Service 087: The Funnel Generation: Irish electronic music 1994 to 2009 By Kate Butler & the Golden Maverick 23/7/2019 Dublin, Ireland

The Funnel, a 300 capacity venue in Dublin, was open for the blink of an eye: 1997-99. The magically desegregating effect of rave – where everyone and anyone was welcome on the dance floor – had come and gone. The Funnel arrived at a time when rave had been fully co-opted by commercial interests.

Rave music had become delineated with hardline positions taken on genres. Your music alignment gave a lot away about where you saw yourself in this world: techno uptown, trance downtown, house for the beautiful people, jungle for the fringe.

But there were lots of us floating around, looking for a community. Alan O’Boyle and Dennis McNulty of Decal, along with their manager/promoter Paul Timoney of Ultramack, found the place: the Funnel, 24 City Quay, Dublin 2. A long room on the first floor, with low ceilings and no frills. After a while, a bar was built downstairs with a fancy picture window looking out onto the Liffey.

Ultramack started the Phunk City nights there, bringing over people like Autechre, Alex Patterson, and Mike Paradinas, but also promoting Irish acts like Ambulance and Deep Burial.

With some limited exceptions, this became the pattern at the Funnel: Irish promoters with Irish labels, club nights with homegrown collectives of DJs and producers. The Fear collective, purveyors of freaky beats, started a Thursday night event, while Eamonn Doyle of the D1 Recordings techno label moved in with his Model One club, as did jungle/dnb crew Bassbin, which started its label while the Funnel was open.

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Shock World Service 086: Budget Mattress Superstore By Datassette 21/6/19 London, United Kingdom

Pierlo Umiliani - Lavoro Nero (1975)Crunchy percussive plodder from the prolific library composer also known as Moggi. Also responsible for the 1968 super-kitsch easy listening novelty smash 'Mah nà mah nà' which would be made infamous ten years after its recording by The Muppet Show.
Peter Thomas & Sten Clift - Galaxy Fall-Out (1973)One of those incongruous weirdo tracks that leaps out from an otherwise unremarkable library music album of sub-par Tijuana Brass style lifestyle themes and cheesy interludes. From that elusive 16mm-camera-on-a-yellow-background Movie Makers Music series.
Andres Lewin-Richter - Pulsations (1977)From an album of wonderful electro-acoustic weirdness - one of those collections where it's almost impossible to tell how each sound was made. Very few synths on this despite it being called Electronic Mystery, this track sounds like it's probably an oboe or contrabassoon going through a filter and a couple of delay lines. Vast!
Robert Painter & Terence Jenkins - Moleculum (1983)Not quite suitable for a horror film, not quite suitable for the disco, this is the best sort of library music - odd, uncategorisable and only in existence because two people were paid to sit in a room and make something that sounded like Industry and Tension and didn't know what else to do.
Pierlo Umiliani - Jingle No.1 (1975)Another Moggi classic. An unstable synth gnaws at you like a rabid dog while a percussion party kicks off in the background, wild!
Teddy Lasry - Metallopolis (1975)Action! Lasers!
Roger Roger & Nino Nardini - Super Flash 7 (1982)Sounds like a drunken James Stinson outtake, sprawling synths fall about the place like an injured moth while a steady 808 kick n' rim pattern clicks away.
Chris Swansen - Snow (1972)Chris Swansen was appointed 'composer in residence' at Moog in 1968, and after several years of intense twiddling came up with the album 'Pulaski Skyway'. Every part on the album is hand-played and painstakingly multitracked, even the white-noise drum bursts. Wholesome stuff (not strictly library music though).
Mort Garson - Ode To An African Violet (1976)Not library music either, but an absolutely sublime piece of moog work with enough of a weirdo vibe to sit in the library category in my head. Sentimental, wistful and creamy. Recently reissued, this album is supposed to be played to houseplants to help them grow!

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Shock World Service 085: Lock Robster's Conundrum by Dyllan Zain 10/5/19 London, United Kingdom

Peter Kowald & Tatsuya Nakatani - Definition 11 A textbook recording from Quakebasket record label. The track, taken from the album, "13 Definitions Of Truth", is much like any other Nakatani collaboration with a single horn player. The beauty is, everything he does is champion material. Every note Nakatani plays and bends out of shape can never be fully recreated to perfect duplication.
Lumisokea - Jenseits Dub Released on a double cassette called 'Contemporary Dance' from the infamous Opal Tapes. Tons of goodies on the compilation including this track - metallic flys buzzing past your ear while the war horns echo from the hidden valley.
Forgotten Corner & Khidja - Tatooine Moons (Cassini Division Remix) A beautiful collaboration between Forgotten Corner and Khidja with a mystic twist by Cassini Division - forged in dark caverns wielded through ancient temples.
A Strange Wedding - Cosmic Bastringue Chuggy Sluggy. Downtempo coming out of France.
Soft Rocks - Thunder Thunder (Spectral Empire Remix) Spectral Empire runs the remix on the Soft Rock Brighton Boy's track. Running through the cosmically composed jungle. There are even some lion field recordings in there - watch out Attenborough!
Asha Mirr - Blue Love One of my recent obsessions. I came across Asha Mirr recently - instantly blown away and always include her tracks in my sets. Massively underrated and relatively unknown for the calibre of production. Feels like it's always on the very verge of disintegrating into complete chaos yet never ventures into truly harsh territory which I enjoyed. Thought provoking and impossible to pin down, It's boundary-expanding and unsettling.
Asha Mirr - Killers Again, another 'killer' track from Mirr.
J-ZBEL - Nik Molina Deconstructed breakbeat with holistic sounds of worship. J-zbel guys are the weirdest, nicest people you'll never meet.
Fleck E.S.C - Nice Guy (Pip Williams RMX) FLECK is one of my fav's at the moment for gritty, sleazy electro. This one is remixed by Pip Williams - harsh wind samples, followed with an unapologetic bassline and claps.
Carl Finlow - Hashtag (Fleck E.S.C Remix) Another gritty electro track, this time remixed by Fleck. Mad scientist vocals with undertones of bleepy bubbles.
Sematic4 - Dream Creator Been digging this one a lot lately. Coming from Dalmata Danie, Sematic4 and DJ Overdose join forces putting our three tracks each on the release. Full of dirty breaks - everything you'd expect from Overdose and old-school legend Sematic4.
The Mover - Underwater Operations What a build up track this one is! It creeps up on your a like a communist submarine - firing off torpedos into your nervous system! This one is pretty mellow given The Movers history. One for a building until threat level midnight.
The B-52's - Rock Lobster Ah. Rock Lobster. What an oddball wonky track, eh? Impossible not to bubble your head to the rift. I've always wanted to lay this down in a club, hopefully, will get the chance one day! ROCK LOBSTER!

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Shock World Service 084: Lake TranquillizeR by Der Opium Queen 9/4/2019 Berlin, Germany

June11 - White Bird It can be hard to select an opening track sometimes, but the opening mantra of loosening up and beginning to float, up and away from our bodies is a good place to start. Released on the ever great treasure chest of Stroom Records out of Belgium.
Jura Soundsyem - The Latern Song A whimsical floatation device from the great Isle of Jura label, they do great work for reissuing oddball of disco-not-disco and baleiric treats. Those spaced out trumpets in the background clears the path for the dubbed out, weird and wonderful. The label first came to attention for me for their reissue of the classic Fire in My Heart, by Escape from New York, my friend let us stay up in his attic a few years back after a night out and we listened to a wild mix called Andy Blake Rocks the Boat, great times, I think even the Beegees were in that mix.
Black Merlin - Standing At The Summit Of Bosavi Black Merlin for me has been a staple in my mixes for some time. His penchant for tough electronics is complemented and contrasted by his immersive soundscape experiments. The key feature of these experiments is the dank soaking atmosphere of his exotic field records, where the synthesized elements are full of raw transcendental power. Combined with loosely geographical field records, you have a great meeting of document and fantasy, which i find interesting and sounds just great. This track is taken from his latest LP which is collected from field recordings surrounding the Kosua tribe of Papa New Guinea.
Aponogeton - The Night Sky is Falling (Sixth Seal) Another track from the Stroom camp, this time its a highly dense 3D ambient piece with high emotional content that swirls in and out of focus, not much else to say about this one, but sit back and enjoy it.
DJ healer - Get away The artist behind DJ Healer, and the countless other monikers that came before really is a true auteur. With so many different genres and it can be hard to know what exactly the expression of his style is, as its always evolving, changing. For me what it all has in common is his ability to make the small details really interesting, without necessarily using detail, its just a hard hitting effect, like he can get his point across with relatively formulaic formats (House, Techno and so forth) I guess he can put his stamp on effortlessly what has been produced over and over for years, and make it fresh!
Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Bridgetown Dub If Black Merlin's Kosua, mentioned previously, profiles real geographical landscapes and twists it into a full colour psychedelia, Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement aka Vatican Shadow has been carving a deep jungle soundspace that is entirely his own for a good few years now. For me this is a project that can really take you there, while Kosua acts as a warped quasi document of the real world exotica, RSE is not stuck to the limitations of the real world, allowing for some seriously dark and mind bending ideas to bloom. Reggae-dub in the humid depths of the jungle, why the hell not. This track comes from the 2 track Venus Flytrap Exotica.
OSSIA - Radiation Nice zone out here, accidentally pushed further into the extremity by the help of my turntables on33, 45 RPM function, this was actually accidental, but the slo mo skank out that occurred as a result melted my brain and stole my heart. blissed out in a dub hell.

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083: Piscean Dreamscapes by Aoife O'Neill 11/3/19 Cork, Ireland

Black Taffy - Geraldine Black Taffy's focus lies in pairing ambient music with bass & percussion. Frequently employing the use of tape loops & other antiquated mediums to create pillowy worlds of wow & flutter. Geraldine samples therapeutic instruments; the harp, koto, & flute instruments.
Cybe - The Running Water Inspired by travels in Asia, this track features recordings & instruments from the East. This track has a real 80s feel & sense of hopefulness/romance. Right up my alley, & hopefully yours too.
G.S. Schray - Greyfield Envoy This has a nostalgic feel due to its incorporation of forgotten 80’s studio projects. It sits somewhere between new age, balearic/art rock with an epic climax towards the end.
Wilson Tanner - Before Lotus Produced by Australians Wilson & Tanner, who are fans of turning natural elements in their environments into beautiful warm composition
salami rose joe louis - Cassionova flipp of Cheflee Californian based Cassionova flipp presents a super cute mix of soft vocals, lo-fi beats & off key sounds, perfect for sleepy day-dreamy afternoons.
Birdlabs - The View From The Big Window Drawing influence from early 1970's synthesizer music, contemporary ambient & field recording concepts alike, 'The View From The Big Window' thoughtfully revitalises an age-old relationship between electronic music & the natural world.
mejiwahn - June Mejiwahn is a musician hailing from Minneapolis/Oakland. Taken from his Lúil Ó Fadó EP which focuses on experimental beats incorporating storytelling & dreams. Meditative in sound, it captures a tone that is reflective, helped by vocal snippets about peace & spirituality.
Ricky Eat Acid - Inside my house; some place I keep dreaming about Synths, blips & melodies create a sense of warmth in this short but dreamy number.
Khotin - Dotty Dotty was taken from ‘New Tab’, an ambient album from the fantastic Vancouver based producer Khotin. The release focuses on textures, melodies & samples that you can space out to.
Art Wilson - Rebecca's Theme (Water) Produced using Synthesiser & Drum Machine, it was originally composed as a soundtrack for an Australian contemporary dance work. A new age vibey number that combines elements of nature.
Suzanne Kraft - Talk From Home The warm synth loop playfully ebs & flows, picking up momentum as the melody progresses, creating a mixture of feelings for the listener.
Kobina - Unsure (Ambient Edit) Unreleased material from Kobina who pulls together diverse & often disparate strands to create uniquely textured, emotive sound.
Brokenchord - When You Sleep Brokenchord is a Lituanian music composer/producer, picked up by Black Acre after a mix of his was aired on BBC Radio One’s Experimental Show, hosted Mary Anne Hobbs in 2010. With nods to the likes of Bonobo, Radiohead & Illum Sphere within the LP, Brokenchord also has an exquisite cinematic quality to his production.
Maria Somerville - All My People The title track from a fantastic debut LP by Galway native Maria Somerville. The track opens up with a hypnotic beat that draws you in before your immersed in a wash of delicate vocals, layers or distortion & ethereal sounds. Beautiful.
Grouper - Headache More melancholic yet peaceful dream pop with stunning vocals and a gentle strumming guitar accompanied by the occasional sound of a finger slide - lush!
Beta Librae - Shy Beta Librae is a producer based in New York City, who runs the Technofeminism residency with Umfang at Bossa Nova Civic Club. Shy is the opener from her Sanguine Bond album which includes fluid ambient, tech, rave & dub numbers.
New Members - Aztec Dawn New Members is a talented Irish producer who has released previously on Pear & SITU. He finishes the mix by leading us into the balearic world of Cyprian dreams.

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Shock World Service 082: Cycles by R. Kitt 4/2/19 Dublin, Ireland

We asked Robbie to put together an episode for is. He instead came back with a beautiful piece of music entitled Cycles made up from sketches & ideas that may at some point become separate tracks in their own right. Similar in some ways to the seminal E2-E4 by Manuel Göttsching it's a beautiful slowly building piece of blissful electronic music available as a podcast & on cassette.

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Shock World Service 081: Trigger Points by Sunken Foal 22/10/18 Dublin, Ireland

Daphne Oram - Melodic Group Shapes Simple, primitive synthesis and effects, and all the better for it. Daphne Oram had a unique method of drawing shapes on 35mm film and covering it to sound. I’m not sure if his is an example of the method though.
Raymond Scott - Sleepy Time Some of the tracks of this ‘Soothing sounds for Baby’ album are perhaps a little harsh and piercing for today’s infant but I think this one has a comporting warm tone. I love how you can hear the difference between each voice of the synth sequence.
Monoton - Jsca I became aware of Konrad Becker’s early 80’s synthetic soundscapes some years ago and I’ve been a huge fan since. Mono Tone / Monotonous: however you want to take it is fine by me.
Bernard Parmegiani - Jeux de Configurations Parmegiani is kind of a Daddy for me. By simply deviating from conventions in art you can pretty easily come up with something considered Avante-Garde. I find that sometimes the emperor is wearing no clothes. But making that work compelling, absorbing or transcending is another matter. I listened Parmegiani’s ‘La Création Du Monde’ in college in a pitch black room played back on a big set of Genelec mid field monitors and it spoke to me in volumes. Hope it speaks to other people just as much.
Arnold Dreyblatt - Luftmenschen IMinimalist composer Arnold Dreyblatt explores the psychoacoustic properties of prolonged stringed instrument techniques on his ‘Second Selction’ LP. Well worth lying down for.
Rashad Becker - Dances V This is kind of ‘The New Music’ for me. Really descriptive synth work-outs with little or no spacial affectation. Lots of dynamics and energy. The absence of regular rhythm and melody is so welcome.
Duane Pitre - Section IV Big lovely acoustic drones. Exploring layers of harmonics with washing movements. This is from 2012’s ‘Feel Free’ and is totally worth a listen.
Meyers - Inhaler II Another artist I kinda think of as ‘The New Music’ ; ). Apparently, Meyers was struck down with a bad illness and relegated to a small computer/contact mic set up and set about making a bit of a masterpiece in his ‘Negative Space (1981–2014)’ LP.
Roly Porter - Birth Roly Porter’s ‘Life Cycle of a Massive Star’ is a massive, massive album. Originally a member of Planet-Mu’s Dub Step visionaries Vex’d along with Jamie Kuedo. Kinda does what is said on the tin.
Lasry / Baschet - Quatuor Pour Trois The opening titles to early 80’s children’s television show ‘Music Box’ are forever inscribed on my brain. A few years ago I found out the music was by Jacques Lasry and played on the Cristal Baschet (invented by the Bashet Brothers), the creepy sounding glass & metal rodded instrument. So unique sounding and beautifully composed to get the maximum ‘odd’ but memorable recordings. This track is from ‘Les Structures Sonores’ album and is well worth checking out.
Autechre - Mirrage Taken from Ae’s latest ‘NTS Session (part 4)’ LP. People have been crying out for Autechre to make more legato music since their ‘Vletrmx’ opus in 1995. We got a couple of hours of it this year and it’s deep to say the least. This is probably my favourite track from the eight hour album put out this year (2018).
Kate NV - BUG Really charming, free sounding compositions from Kate NV. Beautifully illustrated postcards to go along with all the tracks from her для FOR LP.
Brian Eno - Innocenti Eno seemed to have really codified his ambient approach by 1992’s ‘The Shutov Assembly’ LP. So much patience and space and still so slick. I go back to this LP a lot. Neither happy or sad, just right ; )

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Shock World Service 080: 0MPH by Melly 7/10/18 Dublin, Ireland

A Happy Return - Shepherdess A UK family band A Happy Return comprised of Mat Fowler, Aimée Henderson and their daughter Agnes Bell. I first came across Mat Karmil on feature on Grey Skate Mag last year. Mat is an OG British skater who has been soundtracking some of Grey's first-rate video projects as well as running a small label of stuff like this, that four track off-the-cuff folk sound that is extremely lovable.
Elg - La Véritable Genese Recently released weirdo jazz/pop from Brussels! Have been listening to this record a lot.
Mammane Sani - Bodo DIY synth folk from Niger,1978. Re-released by Sahel Sounds in 2013. Each ditty as perfectly formed and heart breaking as the last.
Black Zone Myth Chant - Feng Jing Exoticism with attitude from Pennsylvania vie Editions Gravats and Hospital Productions
Acolytes - Tennis For The Blind Ungenrefiable madness from London via Alter
A Happy Return - Harmsakes Another from them
A loose end from the hard drive
Pontiac Streator & Ulla Strauss - Chat One One of four immaculate 'ambient' cuts from the latest release on Huerco S's West Mineral
Pauline Marx - Une petite épiphanie parcoure les Animaux I don't know much about this release. I found it via Mark fro Rush Hour's Soundcloud. It's from Toulouse, and it's a 25 tracker of medieval animal themed experiments, and it costs a euro.
Tusken Raiders - Blolp Just out on Planet Mu
Shamos - 1321313132 A recent crystal panpipe bumper from Andrew Lyster's flawless Manchester-based label Youth.
A loose end from the hard drive
Blancmange - Disco-A-Bomb-Bomb 80's DIY Mini album re-released on Minimal Wave a few years back. This record is perfect in every way. I think it could be the thing I've listened to most in the last few years actually.
Tomorrow The Rain Will Fall Upwards - Wrack His Days The A1 from this timeless album on Blackest Ever Black a few years back.
Toulouse Low Trax - Ejekter One from the trilogy of EP's out on Antinote last year. He has never made a bad track
A loose end from the hard drive
African Head Charge - Depth Charge It was tough narrowing down which of Adrian Sherwood's bits I wanted to use here.
Phil Struck - Delta Out recently on Quiet Time outta Brooklyn. Have got a huge amount of mileage out of it. The release and label are both great.
Tropa Macaca - Igual a Si Another family band, this time from Portugal. Out on TTT a couple of years ago. I picked it up then but didn't realise how great it was until quite recently.
Bendik Giske - Adjust Was over visiting my brother in Liverpool last year and we went to an exhibition in the Fact Gallery there. It was a video/dance piece by Wu Tsang (what a name I know). Bendik Giske had soundtracked it, was proper blown away by it and it took me ages to find out who it was. At that point it was available from his personal Bandcamp but It seems to have disappeared altogether from the internet recently, so perhaps it's receiving a wider release soon. Hopefully anyway.
Gen Ludd - Marraskuu New Gen Ludd on Rubabdub!
Laurel Halo - Arschkriecher A jazzier cut from THE POP ALBUM OF THE MILLENNIUM (Dust)
Oliver Coates - Another Day I didn't know much about him until his collaborative album with Mica Levi last year, which is great. I came across this while going through his back catalog. No idea how it isn't more well known. Would bring any man to his knees.

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Shock World Service 079: Almost Transparent Blue(Somadrone) 18/9/18 Dublin, Ireland

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Ryuichi Sakamoto - Bamboo Music (Remix) Not much else to say about this guy. One of the masters, along with David Sylvian (he was also heavily associated with the production of Brilliant Trees) in recent years he's got thought a near nuclear melt down and throat cancer. Async, his latest is well worth checking out. He's also acted along side David Bowie in Goodnight Mr. Lawrence. Shall i go on?
Yukihiro Takahashi - Curtains Fellow YMO band member, from the 1983 album - Neuroromantic. Amazing tonalities, so subtle - yet distinctly a prime example of Japanese electronic music. Roxy Music's Phil Manzara features on this one and the YMO lads chipped in a bit too...
Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO) - Ballet The Kraftwerk of the west. They never really get much credit but have shaped alot of what we hear in electronic music. They were huge in Japan, selling out stadiums in Japan, not so much here. They did appear on Soul Train in the US and the footage of this on youtube is something to be seen.
Mirah - Shinzo No Tobira I think it was Ross from I am the Cosmos who turned me on to this and it seems that Optimo came across this while shopping for records in Tokyo. Again, its the use of electronics - so balanced and distinct.
Kinyiuko Takahashi - Asia Beautiful - like drifting, came across this one in London as a re-release in Rough Trade. My 2 1/2 year old daughter, Meabh likes this one.
Harry Hanso - Platonic A mesh of sounds worlds all together, as you can see each member of YMO have really distinct voices. His earlier records are quite cool too, like Harry Nielson meets surf music.
Midori Takada - Music for Commercials Similar to Mirah's work but has a great sense of stillness yet the melodies revolve around the vocal. Not sure where or how i came across this one.
Hiorshi Yoshimura - Water Copy Eno at play in here for sure, but still sounds distinct - has that meditative and enchantment feel that you get when you go to Japan (which i got to tour with Redneck Manifesto in 2011). Decided to end it with this track as it leaves you with this sense of unknowing - sleep, eat, work, or make some tea I guess.

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Shock World Service 078: This Won't Hurt... Much! (Hardway Bros/A Love From Outer Space) 20/8/18 London, United Kingdom

DubXanne - Walking On The Moon I don't know too much about DubXanne, other than that they are musicians from Hamburg dedicated to exploring the dub roots of The Police's music. I'm not a big fan of The Police and in all fairness they do it with fairly mixed results, but I like the Laswell-like ambience on this one.
The Last Poets - Understand What Black Is (Mala Remix) A recent offering from the Last Poets, their first recordings in almost 20 years and to celebrate their formation 50 years ago. The founding fathers of hip-hop have taken a dubwise turn and sound all the better for it to my ears.
Brain Machine - Crystal Cloud In which Guido Zen and John Tye (of The SeaHawks) explore the tones, tastes and textures of 1970's Dusseldorf.
Yello - Take It All On from Dusseldorf to Zurich. From their 1981 album, "Claro Que Si", a timeless piece of experimental, electronic pop music, which sounds as though it could have emerged from a Berlin studio only last week.
Curses - Gold & Silber ft. Perel (Chinaski Painkiller Bonus Mix) The work of Luca Venezia aka Curses and Annegret Fiedler aka Perel, this actually did emerge from a Berlin Studio a matter of weeks ago, but sounds like it could have been made in 1981.
Maxi and Zeus - American Dreamer More time travel, in which Joel Martin and Matt Edwards (aka RadioSlave), conjure images of West Coast psychedelia.
Nicolas Jaar - John The Revelator Nicolas Jaar excavating deeper into the American psyche. This reading of Blind Willie Johnson's 1930's blues number is buried in deep lysergic silt. Who's that writin'?
Clive Stevens & Brainchild - Mystery Man (Velvet Seasons & The Hearts of Gold Remix) It's an international affair - Clive Stevens a genuine englishman in New York produced this record with an all star cast which was later popularised by Italian DJ Daniele Baldelli. Here in it's wonderful Joel Martin and Gerry Rooney remix. Cosmic!
Torch Song - Can't Find My Way Home This could possibly be one of the greatest cover versions of all time. William Orbit & Laurie Meyer's 1986 cover version of the Steve Winwood / Blind Faith song. A testament to the production genius of William, made on an 8 track, still sounds like the future.
The Deep Fix - Time Centre Michael Moorcock was a writer of swords & sorcery novels and sometime Hawkwind collaborator. It's something of a mystery to me as to how he came to be making proto-techno...
Edwin Star - Get Up Whirlpool! (Eric Duncan Edit) Better known as a Motown number one chart topper, but here's Edwin in mind-melting cosmic disco mode. Another Baldelli track...
The Pet Shop Boys - All Over The World (This Is A Dub) Yes, it's the Pet Shop Boys, yes it samples The Nutcracker, yes it's heavy as fuck. What more is there to say?
Killing Joke - Requiem (A Floating Leaf Always Reaches The Sea Dub) Martin "Youth" Glover's monumental dubbing of Requiem. I just love the sonic textures of this record. Proper.
Reptile Youth - Black Swan Born White (Keep Shelly In Athens Remix (Extended Version) Reptile Youth are a duo from Denmark, Keep Shelly in Athens are a chillwave duo from Greece. Together they make an ethereal and soaring racket.

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Shock World Service 077: Opposite Numbers (Jon Averill) 25/7/18 London, United Kingdom https://shockworldservice.bandcamp.com/

This podcast was made in waiting rooms at Lower Clapton Group Practice & The Royal Free Hospital between 2017 & 2018.

Tale Of Us – Ricordi Our opening track (underpinned by some recordings of London's Royal Free Hospital) comes from 2017s piano-led album Endless
Photay - Outré Lux From Photay's album Onism which boasts a mix of rich harmonic & timbral evolutions, field recordings, off-kilter vocalizations & impeccable sound design.
Hauschka - Wonder Volker Bertelmann is a German pianist & composer who might be best known for his soundtrack to the Baltasar Kormákur film Adrift. I much prefer this side of his work however, this track taken from the excellent Live At Robert Johnson Volume 8 compilation.
Melly – Shrubbery Dublin's Mel Keane is fast becoming one of my favourite new producers. This release is forthcoming on the equally great Major Problems label.
E Saggila - Assisting God Things take a turn towards the dark & claustrophobic with E Saggila aka Rita Mikhael who co-runs Summer Isle Records.
Ryan Teague - End Of The Line Bristol's Ryan Teague treads a similar path to contemporaries Portico Quartet, Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm.
Mücha – South Ends I met Amanda, aka Mücha long before she even mentioned she was a producer. Let alone a great one. This is taken from her latest release Misc. Works.
Visible Cloaks – Wind Voices Visible Cloaks are probably my favourite band at the moment. Also known for their sublime Fairlights, Mallets & Bamboo mixes which discloses their main influences; super clean FM synth based music from 1980s Japan.

10. Sign Libra - Outro/Oophaga Pumilio Sign Libra is Agata Melnikova, who according to her bio focuses on the exploration of nature & its auspicious influence on human's imagination & emotional balance. & you should too.

Georges Delerue – Capri Beautiful piece of music from the soundtrack to Jean-Luc Godard's "Le Mépris. I'm almost certain I've used this before in a podcast.

12. RUI HO - Becoming Is An Eventful Situation (Intro) Berlin-based Chinese producer RUI HO makes electronic music that attempts to bridge modern club influences with traditional Chinese sounds.

13. Biologic - Crystal violet This is from a great collection called Sampler 06: Quality Electronic Music on AI Records which I bought in 2006 & never got a chance to include in a podcast, until now.

14. Alessandro Cortini – Perdonare Cortini produces work in a lot of varying styles – this release is from a more personal album, Avanti. Inspired by Super 8 home videos from his youth.

Exuma – You Don't Know What's Going On A sort of epilogue for the podcast. Taken from the debut record from righteous Afro-Bahamian songwriter Macfarlane Gregory Anthony Mackey, aka Exuma from back in 1970. This entire podcast was made in waiting rooms, this track may or may not be a comment on the level of healthcare received.

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Shock World Service 076: Times When I Know (Sias & Lumigraph) 17/2/18 Dublin, Ireland http://www.shockworldservice.com/

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Shock World Service 075: Unrealistic Plans (Chequerboard) 24/1/18 Dublin, Ireland http://www.shockworldservice.com

Yosi Horikawa - Bubbles Nothing like the sound of cascading ping pong balls to kick off proceedings.
Photay - Illusion of Seclusion Nimble house, disco rhythms with live drumming and rolling Latin percussion from New Yorks Evan Shornstein
Devendra Banhart - Jon Lends a hand Wispy heart warming pop collage from the Venezuelan Texan.
Shintaro Sakamoto - In a Phantom Mood Beloved cult singer, Tokyo based songwriter Shintaro Sakamoto with the lead song from his joyous third album.
TV On The Radio – Test Pilot (Chilly Gonzales Re-Make) Chilly Gonzales reworks this TV on the Radio song into a soulful instrumental.
Gaussian Curve – Impossible Island Serene, cheesy and delicious.
Exploding - Jim James A delightfully coy guitar ditty from American composer and primary songwriter of My Morning Jacket.
Portico Quartet - Prickly Pear (Take from 'Knee Deep in the North Sea' album) Instrumental band from London well known for their lush use of the miniature flying saucer like hang drum.
Garth Stevenson - Journey Brooklyn-based film composer and double bassist with a song that wouldn’t be out of place on The Straight Story soundtrack.
Deru - The Future Never Comes American composer and sound designer Benjamin Wynn with a Boards of Canada-eseque beauty of a track.
Nils Frahm - Them Composition at its most fragile. One of many gems from the Berlin-based pianist.
Roger Eno - Stasis Affected A hypnotic and absorbing opener from Roger Eno’s recent album.
The Durutti Column - Requiem Again Another hopeful lament from Vini Reilly.
Badly Drawn Boy - In Safe Hands A beautifully echo drenched song from Damon Gough featuring his trademark micro-cosmic production sounds.
The Innocence Mission - When the One Flower Suitcase A song about new beginnings from husband-and-wife singer-songwriters Karen and Don Peris from Pennsylvania.

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Shock World Service 074: Leave The Skin You’re In At Least Once A Week (Cian Ó Cíobháin) 11/12/17 Galway, Ireland http://www.shockworldservice.com/

Radio Weirdo - Friday 5.58pm Brian Coney, of ‘zine The Thin Air has been recording off-kilter, lo-fi delights these past few years.
A Lilac Decline - Theremin Song A Lilac Decline is an anagram of Cecilia Danell, who hails from Sweden but resides in Galway.
Loner Deluxe - Watch Lake Eli More from Galway’s Rusted Rail imprint, this time label guru Keith Wallace reaches into his ghost box & discovers some Canadian boards.
Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh & Garth Knox - County Down The Gloaming’s Ó Raghallaigh on Hardanger fiddle & Knox on viola d’amore collaborated together this year, releasing an LP called ‘All Soundings Are True’ on Diatribe. Here’s their otherworldly take of an on old Irish standard.
Lankum - The Granite Gaze Stirring contemporary ballad from Dublin’s Lankum from their gripping new LP Between The Earth & Sky.
Hannah Peel - Archid Orange Dwarf Hannah Peel from Craigavon has released music with The Magnetic North & Beyond The Wizards Sleeve.
sfiiinx - Maze Composer & soprano Síobhra Quinlan’s Labyrinth Suite has just been released on Ensemble Records
Rollers/Sparkers - OH! Possibly the best album made on Irish soil in recent memory is by Dublin’s Rollers/Sparkers. It’s called Interior Ministry.
Rollerskate Skinny - Man Under Glass ‘Horsedrawn Wishes’, released in 1996, is the second album by Dublin’s Rollerskate Skinny and might be one of the greatest albums of the nineties, which includes this among its numerous highlights.
Somadrone - The Howling Infinite (feat Margie Lewis) Somadrone is one of the country’s most enduring & imaginative talents and this is taken his sixth LP Wellpark Avenue, which is due in spring 2018.
Naive Ted x Post-Punk Podge - Once A Week The utterly beguiling & unpigheonholable Naive Ted hails from Kerry but unlike most Kerrymen, he knows how to swing a hurley. Post-Punk Podge on vox. His chant is why this pod is called thus.
MuRli - RUN [Prod. by mynameisjOhn] This is from Limerick based /MC MuRli’s debut EP, produced by mynameisjOhn. Alongside God Knows, you might now know them best as Rusangano Family.
So Cow - Shackleton Brian Kelly, the force-of-nature behind So Cow, has influenced a generation of Irish bands. From Tuam, just like the Sawdoctors. He recently recorded a new LP with new band Half Forward Line.
Strength N.I.A. - Northern Ireland Yes Minimal New York no wave vibes from Derry band Strength N.I.A’s debut LP released earlier in 2017.
Trick Mist - Crumbs Abound Originally from Co. Louth, but now based in Cork, having previously resided in Manchester, Gavin Murray can claim to have lived in two of the world’s major music cities. This beautiful atmospheric love song came out in 2016.
neonfrench - makelove Dublin-based Djamel Medjy released his debut LP on his own Portals imprint. Worth seeking as is his recent ‘Bach Of The Bus’ EP, on which this is featured.
Gadget & The Cloud - Continue Kelly Doherty hails from Cork and this gem is from her 2017 debut LP Songs For Sad People To Dance To on Little L.
Or:la - Jaipur Known for her compelling DJ sets, Derrywoman Or:la is based in Liverpool & this off-kilter piece of hypnagogia is from her UK Lonely EP on Hotflush.
Comrade Hat - Old Amsterdam If George Michael had sang with The Blue Nile, he might have sounded a bit like Derry’s Neil Burns.

20. Katie Kim - Thieves When David Lynch discovers Waterford’s Katie Sullivan, she might become his next muse.

Ryan Vail - Above The White Wash (feat Best Boy Grip) I became aware of Ryan Vail after a spellbinding performance at 2016’s Other Voices in Dingle. Here he is with fellow Derry-based Eoin O’ Callaghan (yes, loads of Derry folk on this podcast, woof!), who records as Best Boy Grip & - most lately - Elma Orkestra.

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Shock World Service 073: A Beatless Drift (The Drifter) 5/12/17 Wicklow, Ireland

Roman Flügel - Fantasy Brian Enoesque opener.
Mental Overdrive - Opening The second opener.
Tim Engelhardt - Endless Endless beauty in them machines.
Nathan Jonson - Softly Make more ambient Nathan! Both tracks on this EP are beauties.
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Who I Am & Why I Am Where I Am Best tune from her new album.
Colleen - One Warm Spark Let the warm sparks wash over you.
Deru - Midnight in the Garden with Ghosts From the amazing album 1979. I could have picked any of them.
Caterina Barbieri - Gravity That Binds Bask in the distortion build.
NV - Nobinobi From an interesting japanese LP Binasu. From pop to ambient to all over the place.
Lord Of The Isles - Beatha He's been making some great music lately. This from an EP on Firecracker that came very soon after his ESP LP.
nonkeen - The Invention Mother I'm just gonna say it....I absolutely adore this song :)
Bwana - Kiyoko's Vision Taken from Bwana's album hommage to Akira. Check it!
The Prince of Denmark - Ambient 004 He made very nice ambient music too!
Alex Menzies - 02 Disorder 14A Alex Smoke in ambient/new classical mode. He's got some amazing music under his own name, he'll be soundtracking movies very soon i'd say.
Olafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm - Four 2 heavyweights = Four. Some great subtle music they've made together.
Mental Overdrive - Repeat: Then: Repeat Second one by him, nice bells from his new album
Lusine - Chatter Glassesque from Lusine. He has made some great music over the years.
Stimming x Lambert - Trafic Aerien Great collaboration from a new Life & Death compilation.
Johan Johansson - The Suns Gone Dim and the Sky's Turned Black I had to have a bit of a dramatic ending!

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Shock World Service 072: Constellation Swan by Chloe Frieda (Alien Jams) 22/11/17 London, United Kingdom http://www.shockworldservice.com

Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Ariel Kalma - Miracle Mile This whole album is amazing, a collaboration between Robert A. A. Lowe and Ariel Kalma called "We Know Each Other Now Somehow." It was released on RVNG in 2015.
Xordox - Diamonds This release came out this year on Editions Mego, a project helmed by JG Thirlwel with Noveller featured in three of the tracks. Shimmering synths morph into an intense horror soundtrack.
recsund - Hall of Waits This one is by my partner Clifford Sage, I also included a glimmer of this track at the very beginning of the mix, It's from his release Deadsounds V.
Charles Manier - Mesrop I have a few of Manier's records (an alias of Tadd Mullinix) and I always go back to them! Gritty, weird, EBM, industrial goodness, it's hard to pick one track from the record as there are so many great tracks to choose from.
Alek Stark - GC 4406 Alek Stark has an impressive discography, dating back to 2002, many of which I have yet to check out. This release on CPU is pretty solid, some beautiful electro here.
Reckonwrong - Morton This track is from Reckonwrong's release on Pinkman, it's a hard one to categorise. I love how this track unfolds, especially with the "I feel that my music is important" vocal sample.
Rings Around Saturn - Synchrotron Synthy perfection from this electro gem.
Jensen Interceptor- Carter's Green Factory Another one from the mighty Central Processing Unit, a Drexcyan beauty.
Dreams - Gut Bounce This one fits well amongst the Apron back-catalogue, with chugging acid lines and floating melodies.
Morphology - Darkstar (The Hacker Remix) This track is from a remix record with The Exaltics, JTC, Sync 24 and Deixis on the label Cultivated Electronics. Dark and brooding electro remix by the Hacker.
Echo 106 - From Brunnen to the Nile Euphoric electro, this is one of my favourites.
Wilted Woman - Heating Problem New record on Alien Jams :)
Terribilis - Alucarda Released on a Quantum Natives compilation "Seize the Means of Production," her set at the ICA this year was wonderful.

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Shock World Service 071: Mix for Milarepa (ELLLL) 20/9/17 Cork, Ireland http://www.shockworldservice.com/ Apple Podcasts: goo.gl/xyxuCh

Eliane Radigue - Mila’s Song in the Rain Queen of meditative drone.
Black Merlin - Somewhere in Ubud Taken from ‘Hipnotik Tradisi'. Washes of Gamelan and field recordings with sinister and broody hues.
Dickie Landry - Fifteen Saxophones An intense densely layered, free flowing study using tape delays.
Minced Oath - Quelle Décalotage Soft, warm, shimmering pools of sound.
Holger Czukay - Longing for Daydreams Apt title for clever use of sampling to lull the listener into a trance like state.
Midori Takada - Mr. Henri Rousseau’s Dream Percussionist and composer Takada melds traditional African and Asian motifs to form a delicate, airy narrative in homage to post-impressionist painter Henri Rousseau.
Haruomi Hosono - Growth Slightly uneasy yet stoic extract taken from ‘Watering a Flower’, a series of compositions commissioned to be played as background music in household goods store, Muji in 1983.
Andrea Belfi - Statico An abstract composition for drums, percussion and synthesiser. From the 2017 record ‘Alveare’.
ASDA - Bells Noise by Sebastian Gainsborough (Vessel) and words Chester Giles.
Holger Czukay - Floatspace An ethereal cloud to carry you away.
Patricia Escudero - Gymnopedie I Unique interpretation of Erik Satie’s ‘Gymnopedie I’.
Giusto Pio - Motore Immobile Stunning piece of 1970’s Italian minimalist composition.
Nadia Khan - Milky Sweat Taken from ‘Open Interior’ on Where to Now?
Johann Johannsson - Melodia (III) Distant piano solo vignette from the album ‘Fordlandia’

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Shock World Service 070: Strange & Torturous Customs Practiced In Our World Today by Shawn Renaud 9/8/17 Ontario, Canada

Cold Cave - The Idea Of Love Latest single from 'Heartworm Press'. Check the video by Amy Lee
Asphixiation - L'Acrostique D'Amour Dancey post-punk from Australia, recently reissued on Chapter Music.
Bronze Age - Coupling Symbols Alberich's (Kris Lapke) alter-ego. This was put on Bed of Nails which is a label run by Dominick Fernow who's previously featured on the podcast in his Vatican Shadow guise.
ZYX - Trust No Woman One album wonders, recently reissued by Dark Entries.
Prurient - Washed Against The Rocks Ambient piece by the previously mentioned Dominick Fernow this time under his Prurient alias
Nine Circles - Twinkling Stars 1982 classic from long time Dutch minimal faves
KWC 92 - Dreaming Of You Left field ambient opener from ‘Dream Of The Walled City (O.S.T.)’ on L.I.E.S. The soundtrack to a movie that doesn't exist.
Modern Art - Hello/Goodbye Longtime psychedelic synth project from Gary Ramon
Lussuria - Viper Room Vigil Dark ambiance from Italy, released on Hospital Productions.
Bene Gesserit - Nobody Can Know Long time Belgium faves featuring Alain Neffe
Whilst - Goya's Skull Left field dance on Glasgow’s Optimo Music.
Death In June - Come Before Christ & Murder Love Early synth-laden track from neofolk giants
Brusque Twins - Speaking In Colour Lovely minimal synth track from their album 'A Voice In The Night; on Visage Musique.
Tomo Akikawabaya - The Invitation Of The Dead Japanese minimal wave from 1984
Black Rain - Protoplasm Ambient industrial freak out project from Stuart Argabright (Dominatrix, Death Comet Crew) on Blackest Ever Black'
Ende Shneafliet - Session Zeitgeist We finish with Dutch experimental giants Ende Shneafliet.

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Shock World Service 069: The New Objectivity (Jon Averill) 24/7/17 London, United Kingdom

Oxford Street Saxophone Man – Unknown Part of my listening experience when I 1st moved to London was about how much background noise overtook music on my headphones, i’ve always tried to reflect this back into podcasts.
Wagner - Das Rheingold, Vorspiel Powerful piece of music i’ve never quite been able to get into a podcast, until now!
Mark Franklin - Release To The System (Beaumont Hannant Remix) From Warp’s amazing 1994 compilation Artificial Intelligence 2
Delicate Features - Prologue St Petersburg's Delicate Features. Like listening to an opera backwards, in space!
Bruce - Before You Sleep A cold hammering drumbeat gives way to emotive electronic shimmers.
Visible Cloaks & Dip in the Pool – Valve (Revisited) A crystalline polished soundscape from the Portland duo previously known for the mix; ‘Fairlights, Mallets & Bamboo’
Ben Frost - Venter (HTRK Remix) Understated lo-fi textures from Ben Frost
Wyatt/Atzmon/Stephen - The Ghosts Within The avant-pop legend Robert Wyatt from his collaborative album ‘For the Ghosts Within’.
Gora Sou – Choreography Pristine electronic droplets give way to breathy textures & polyrhythms
Aphex Twin - With My Family [48k] Rare Aphex track that’s not so rare now as he’s just put it up to buy on his new site.
Afro-Disiak - Tambours D'Eau Belgium world music from 1988 just given a fresh release on Optimo Music.
Seefeel - Spangle 2nd track from Warp’s Artificial Intelligence 2 compilation.
O'Flynn - Desmond's Empire The mysterious ‘O Flynn’ with one of my favourites so far this year. Ethnographic, emotional house music!
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Elephantism Theme (edit) 2002’s oddly titled ‘Elephantism Theme’ winding up this episode.
Oxford Street Saxophone Man – Rivers of Babylon [Extract] Part of the same recording that intro’d the podcast. Recorded on phone on Oxford St last year.

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068: Swelling Progress (Bandcloud) 20/3/16 Dublin, Ireland http://www.shockworldservice.com/

Jana Irmert – Altitude Adjustment From a compilation called self-identified non-male artists making experimental electronic music. Irmert is a Berlin-based sound artist, “interested in the vague, irrational, less tangible aspects of existence”.
Head Dress – Devil's Triangle LA-based Ted James Butler, who also records cassette-only podcast Norelco Mori. This experimental track was released on Castle Bravo.
CUBOP – Nocturnal Panacea CUBOP shared this track as an "aural gift". A nice clash of experimental noise & more earthly sounds.
Vlasta Burian – Vlasta Burian v Obrazarne (in the Picture Gallery) This excerpt comes from a compilation of tracks related to The Okeh Laughing Record. It's a 1930 recording of a Czech comedian.
Leaaves – The Only One Who Knew Leaaves makes lush music fuelled by melancholy; this track comes from a release called We Will Forget Our Sadder Days In Summers That Never End. Apt.
David Fyans – In An Object Sign up to this guy's Bandcamp sub. He drops beautiful ambient modulations all the time.
Mr Mitch – The Man Waits (Talbot Fade's Extension Cord To The Abyss Mix) I first got to know Talbot Fade when he shared his debut self-released album with me on Twitter. I was blown away. The first time we met was going to Boxed, where Mitch was playing. Now he's remixing Mitch & collaborates with him as Yaroze Dream Suite. <3
Linda O'Keeffe – Slowly Moving Out From The Centre Somehow this piece was created on an iPad. It featured on a compilation by British artists in the noise sphere that raised funds for the homeless at Christmas.
Agnes – 02 The excellent Aught project, which released 10 tapes by 5 artists, has expanded into a new realm. 012016002001 is a two-track vinyl release from Agnes, an unknown quantity, that features rhythmic patterns of non-musical noise.
Manuel Senfft – A Singing Comet Researchers noticed that the 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko comet was emitting 'music' in the form of oscillations in the magnetic field in its comet environment. German composer Manuel Senfft helped transform the data into the music we have here.
doepf fm2 Honestly, I can't remember where I got this. That's the problem with wav downloaded files from SoundCloud. TAG YOUR MUSIC, folks!
TANS – Queer Nation An Italian artist whose debut tape, Die Unsichtbare Überall, appeared on Seagrave.
Edna King – Tracing This is a beautiful, almost choral track from Toronto’s Edna King. It fits perfectly with Call Super’s track, adding haunting layers to an already beguiling piece.
Call Super – Leosengor Call Super is my favourite DJ and producer. This comes from his first release for Houndstooth, with whom he's enjoyed a fruitful relationship over the past few years. It’s deeply haunting & emotive, & encapsulates his ability to imbue straightforward structures with untold depth.
Line Idle – Woodblocks (Short Edit) Just a nice short track that sounds nice. I found it & never went further with the artist & hey, that’s okay.
Beatrice Dillon – Curl One of the most forward-thinking artists out there. This is just the intro to a track on Alien Jams, something I could listen to for hours on end.
Jorge Velez – Second Jorge Velez has been dropping a lot of archival stuff on Bandcamp, such as this piece, from a live recording in 2001. A world away from the gnarly techno he releases on labels like L.I.E.S.
Kara-Lis Coverdale – ICON -C I can’t put into words how this incredible piece stops my heart every time. KLC has an incomparable ability to build worlds with sound.
Diane Valence – Marion Vizenta I love foggy, melancholic ambient sounds, & this piece fits that bill better than most.
Jane Cassidy – Exit To The Shallows Irish artist Jane Cassidy released my favourite album of 2015, a sleeper release that deserves more attention.

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Shock World Service 067: Continental Drift (Jon Averill) 4/2/16 London, United Kingdom

Razen - Sleeper Electronic trad?
Dean Blunt – Papi A fleeting piece from album ‘The Redeemer’
John Cooper Clarke - Health Fanatic Been a while since Dr Cooper Clarke made a world service appointment. Obvious lyrical prowess aside this is a unique & extraordinarily original piece.
2 8 1 4 - Recovery Very tricky release to find, on vinyl at least. Telepath テレパシー能力者 & HKE are 2 8 1 4. Can’t recommend their album ‘Birth of a New Day’ highly enough.
Chassol - Music Is God Christophe Chassol want to Calcutta to record sounds & dialogue for his album Indiamore. Gilles Peterson fodder.
Spiritualized – I Didn’t Mean To Hurt You (Instrumental) Caught Spiritualized performing ‘Ladies & Gentleman…’ with full choir & orchestra late 2016, a reminder of how amazing they are in full flow. This is an instrumental version of a track from 2001’s ‘Let It Come Down’.
Zazou Biyake – M’Pasi Ya M’Pamba Plinky plonky Afro electronic record I picked up that came out back in 1984
Sera Arreza - Bohol A piano piece I came across on Soundcloud, thanks to Sera for letting me include it in this episode.
Deaf Center – Thread Norwegian duo Deaf Center sounding a little like William Basinski on ‘Thread’
Die Unbekannten – Radio War Taking from the soundtrack to 'Lust & Sound In West-Berlin 79-89’. Which as the title suggests is a homage to the walled-in city.
Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending One of my favourite ever pieces of music. From the cold war to Great War – this was written just before the outbreak of the 1st World War.
TS Elliot - Journey of the Magi (Extract) A poem by TS Elliot from 1927
Soft as Snow - Black Birds (Maria Minerva Rework) This Maria Minerva mix segues very nicely over the previous track
Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - Down From Dover You can’t accuse me of not supporting Lee on this podcast
R2DJ - Clean Living Rescued off a scratched & dusty CD in my drawer. Beautiful slice & cut emo-hop from the album ‘Since We Last Spoke’
Elvis Presley - Black Star An unreleased Elvis track dealing with the inevitable state of demise. Rumoured to be where Bowie took inspiration for the title of his final album. ‘& when a man sees his black star he knows his time has come’ & so dear listeners has ours for another podcast…

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Because Of You, We Survived the Cold of Winter Snow by Cian Ó Cíobháin 24/12/16 Galway, Ireland

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Edward Williams - The Sex Life Of The Fern Strange tune title? Perhaps … but not when you realise its context. It’s from the soundtrack to David Attenborough’s 1979 BBC series ‘Life On Earth’.
John Martyn - Head and Heart Achingly beautiful loves song from John Martyn’s 1971 classic LP ‘Bless the Weather’.
Shelleyan Orphan - Beamheart Caroline Crawley, the lead singer of Shelleyan Orphan, sadly passed away some months back. I was familiar with her vocal work on This Mortal Coil’s LP ‘Blood’, but had never taken the time out to explore any of her back catalogue, outside of her contributions to Ivo-Watts Russell’s 4AD super-group.
Perfume Genius - Mr Petersen Taken from Mike Hadreas’ debut LP from 2010, this is a song about a teacher he had in his formative years, who had a major influence on him, but later committed suicide.
Shiny Two Shiny - Moment To Moment Thanks to Mary Maguire for introducing me to this band. Based in Liverpool, they released 1 album and 2 EPs in the mid-80s.
The Strange Walls - Grey To Red ‘…. Won’t Last’ by New York-based The Strange Walls on Alrealon Musique is one of my albums of the year.
Worldbackwards - (Leaving Me) Now Minimal wave quartet from London who initially only released their music on cassettes (there are four of them, all C60s).
Peter Gordon & David Van Tieghem - Winter (feat Kathy Acker) Peter Gordon is the bandleader of Love Of Live Orchestra, a multi-genre downtown New York collective that has counted Arthur Russell, David Byrne, Arto Lindsay, Phillip Glass and Laurie Anderson amongst its members. He sent me a thank you email VIA his publicist for playing this one so often on my radio show this year.
Thomas Leer - Private Plane Amazing debut single from 1978 from Thomas Leer.
Lives Of Angels - Imperial Motors Lost classic from husband/wife duo Gerald and Catherine O’ Connell, taken from their 1983 album ‘Elevator To Eden’. Shades of Can, Suicide, Depeche Mode, New Order.
Rollers/Sparkers - Kodiak They’re from Dublin, they are responsible for my album of the year - ‘Interior Ministry’ - and by album, I mean a coherent collection of amazing songs that make complete sense in the way that they’re sequenced on the LP.
Let’s Eat Grandma - Eat Shiitake Mushrooms I believe that this precocious teenage girl duo from Norwich are still in school (only aged 16-17 when they wrote this) and yet…. how on earth did they come up with possibly the best pop-song of 2016?
Scraps - Dreams Brisbane’s self-styled ‘dehydrated disco queen’ released a corker of an album - called ‘TTNIK’ - on the always essential Not Not Fun label this year.
Blood Orange - Desirée This was my highlight from ‘Freetown Sound’, an album which features more great female vocalists, many who previously were unknown to me.
The Paradise - In Love With You Made by Alan Braxe (who had a hand in Stardust’s ‘Music Sounds Better With You’ with Thomas Bangalater and ‘Intro/Running’ with Fred Falke) with Romuald Louverjon back in 2003, I have Mike Smalle to thank for introducing me to this 6am afterparty classic.
Ruby & The Romantics - Baby Come Home Akron, Ohio R&B 60s group who became big in Belgium when this one became a staple on the Popcorn scene.
Liz Damon’s Orient Express - 1900 Yesterday Debut single from Liz Damon’s Hawaiian band came out in 1971 but I have my truelove to thank for introducing me to it recently.
Cocteau Twins - Half-Gifts 20 years ago the Cocteau Twins released their final album ‘Milk & Kisses’ and when it came out I recall many of us being completely besotted with this song. Liz Fraser’s biographer speculated that songs from this period may be about Jeff Buckley, but the lady herself has neither confirmed or denied this.

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Shock World Service 65: Guitar Side Of The Divide by Spaces 13/7/16 London, United Kingdom

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The Wailers - Don't Ever Leave Me This guitar solo by Ernest Ranglin is possibly the best ever.
Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train Version straight from YouTube is probably rawer than the live studio album.
Fripp & Eno - Wind On Water If you're forced to take a flight on your own listen to this on headphones.
Brian Eno - Third Uncle When I was young I remember trying to run really fast and almost falling forward mid-run. This song hurtles along so fast it sounds like exactly that.
Luciano Cilio - Della Conoscenza The vocals in this are up there with Ligeti's Lux Aeterna.
The Sonics - The Witch It was a toss up between this and Strychnine.
Neil Young - Guitar Solo, No. 1 The opener from the Dead Man soundtrack. The sleeve notes have great photos of a gurning Neil Young in front of a big screen, scoring the film with just an electric guitar. Or maybe I'm imagining that
Bill Frisell - Effects Pedal Demonstration (I actually like this.)
Phoenix - If I Ever Feel Better (And this.)
Laurie Anderson - The Puppet Motel A less well known Laurie Anderson song from the Bright Red album. Actually there's not really any guitar in here…
Julee Cruise - Floating| Not the normal guitar lick associated with Julee Cruise/Twin Peaks but close enough to raise all sorts of Laura Palmer-based hallucinations.
Neil Young - Organ Solo/Do You Know How To Use This Weapon? This gets in because he plays the organ like he plays the guitar. Haunting and stays with you.
Battant - Old School Baby Battant suffered an abrupt and tragic end in 2011 with the death of Joel Dever, this version of the Nena/Westbam is less polished but rawer.
Donal Keating & John Flynn - KLG Recently blown the dust of my guitar to add some bits to the tracks my musical twin Donal Keating has been sending me across the globe.
Pete Thorn - Guitar Picks (I don't actually like this.)
Wes Montgomery - No Blues Found this relatively late too. The way the album's mixed it sounds like Wes' amp is right next to you.

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Shock World Service 064: Float A Boat(Rory Bowens) 2/5/16 London United Kingdom http://www.shockworldservice.com/

D-Day - Float A Bort Beautiful mis-spelled dream pop from Japan. Taken from their 'Vale of Promises’ release on that most elegant of formats, the Flexi-Disc.
Henri Texier - Amir Avant-Garde Jazz Vocal beauty from the French double bass player.
Stockton's Wing And Steve Cooney - Ice Fields I found this one in my Dad’s 7" box on a trip home to Ireland last Christmas. The B-side of 'Skidoo' a popular didgeridoo led reel that ended up the Irish charts. This track, 'Ice-Fields' allegedly was recorded by Stephen Cooney on location at the Irish Arctic Expedition 1981 using a wind harp.
Bill Nelson- Sleeplessness Taken from Chamber Of Dreams (Music From The Invisibility Exhibition), a collection of backing tracks from his experimental multi-disciplinary performance project. The source material for these backing tapes came from the archives of the Echo Observatory. Bill Nelson’s expansive back catalogue is endlessly interesting. One of Britains great avant-pop eccentrics, he suggests on the liner notes that “Musicians owning this album, might enjoy sketching their own ideas over these tracks in the privacy of their own home”.
Operating Theatre - Eighties Rampwalk (Fanning Session) Operating Theatre was Irish composer Roger Doyle’s new wave band/ theatre troupe collaboration with Olwen Foure. Discovered this one on the excellent Strange Passion: Explorations In Irish Post Punk DIY And Electronic Music 1980-1983. Check it out if you haven’t already
Unknown Artist - Veni L’amou (Come My Dear) Recorded by Alan Lomax in Blanchisseuse (Tunapuna-Piarco), Trinidad in 1962. Session notes say "Recording of the above tunes was made at the home of Mrs. Jean Eustache Stoute from 8 p.m. on May 2nd until early next morning.”
Wally Badarou - Endless Race Grab Badarou’s Echoes album.
Makoto Matsushita - I Know Taken from his album 'First Light'. The broken English lyrics only add to the feeling of a relationship breakdown.
Mgqashiyo Ndlovu - Siyalivum’icala I know absolutely nothing about this one except from the caption on YouTube which reads "Zulu Music (South Africa)"
Bagarre - For Your Pleasure Really weird spoken word Italo-Disco tune. A lot of the joy of Italo comes from the often awful vocals and this is a prime example of that.
Vanity 6 - Make Up Prince Rogers Nelson & Denise Katrina "Vanity” Matthews RIP
Lives of Angels - Imperial Motors Taken from their Elevator To Eden album, lovingly reissued by Dark Entries a couple of years ago. Imperial!
Cleaners From Venus - The Jangling Man Beautiful stuff from UK home recording pioneer Martin Newell. What I love about the Cleaners From Venus catalogue is that all the tunes are unabashedly massive pop tunes and the lo-fi element doesn’t feel in any way stylised, but rather just them doing their thing.
Slowdive - Crazy For You (Alternative Demo Version) The balearic sound of Slowdive.
Kath Bloom, Loren Mazzacane - When Your Dreams Come True Taken from their Restless Faithful Desperate album. Heartache.
Mense Reents - This Is The Way First heard this one a recording of a Donal Dineen set from Electric Picnic a few years back, a name most Shock World Service listeners are undoubtedly familiar with. The sad euphoric feeling of the tune is the quality I most enjoy in music.

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Frank Sinatra - Empty (Extract) This podcast began after a conversation about how overrated I thought Frank Sinatra was. As if to prove myself wrong I shone a spotlight into the darker area of his back catalogue.
Fridge - Cut Up Piano & Xylophones Polyphonic probing from Kieran Hebden, Adem Ilhan, & Sam Jeffers. Recording as Fridge back in 2001.
Perdita - Rubber City This sounds like it’s from a David Lynch film, because it is; Wild at Heart from 1990.
HomeSick, Silkersoft & Keight - Faraway Suede Fresh beats recorded at this year’s Red Bull Music Academy in Paris.
Sinoia Caves - Elena's Sound-World From the soundtrack of Beyond the Black Rainbow, a queasy & uneven retro styled sci-fi film from 2010.
Iggy Pop - The Endless Sea Relatively restrained & nuanced balladeering. Endless Sea is from 1979. Which is the last time Iggy Pop wore a shirt.
Donald Byrd - Cristo Redentor (Loop) I looped the intro of this track (which also appears on podcast 18) to serve as underpinning for the next.
William S. Burroughs - From Here To Eternity A caustic, sardonic piece from Burrough’s collection of short stories; ‘Exterminator’ from 1973.
Thomas Leer & Robert Rental - Day Breaks, Night Heals Proper fuzzy, nasty electronic resonance from 1979. Man music.
Vangelis - Le Singe Bleu Been listening to Van the man’s pre Blade Runner output a lot recently. This is from 1973’s L'Apocalypse des Animaux.
Lee Hazlewood - The Nights Hazlewood is the grizzled troubadour who documented the fast disappearing American frontier. We play a lot of Lee on this podcast so much so I actually had to search back through the previous 62 episodes to make sure this track hasn’t already been used.
P-Model - Kameari Pop Amazing freaky outlandish electropop from Japan circa 1979.
Dave Clarke - Splendour Crunchy tractor hip-hop from techno stalwart Dave Clarke showcasing the power of the loop.
Gareth Anton Averill - Little Palace Horns Another track recorded at this year’s Red Bull Music Academy. Familiar name too.
Alan Vega - Love Cry This continues the outsider art template Vega created in Suicide alongside Martin Rev.
Moritz Reich - La Fabrique des hommes tristes: Ouverture French melancholy from frenchman Moritz Reich.
Frank Sinatra - Empty Is Frank returns to complete one of the more interesting songs in his cannon. I’m still not fully sold though.
Laraaji - Zither Dance Apparently discovered by Brian Eno. New age clanging & banging from Laraaji closes out this episode with a hypnotic zither melody.
Mare Street Band Recording A little post-script recording I made in Hackney that threatens to break into the Lambada at any point.

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Everything Comes From Chaos by Cian Ó Cíobháin 26/12/15 Galway, Ireland. http://www.shockworldservice.com

Young Marble Giants - Music For Evenings From ‘Colossal Youth’, their debut album which was released in 1980.
Katie Dey - y o y o Melbourne-based Katie Dey released one of the year’s quirkiest EPs in the shape of ‘asdf asdf’.
Kings Of Convenience V Röyksopp - I Don’t Know What I Can Save You From One of the key songs in my life, all the way from Norway. This was released the same year as Röyksopp dropped their debut LP ‘Melody AM’.
Björk Mit Funkstörung - All Is Full Of Love (seconddotted) Back in the nineties Funkstörung made essential outsider electronica, where they merged complex drum patterns with melancholic melodies.
Team LG - On Fire It’s been a decade since Team LG released their debut - & only - record. I haven’t heard anything about them since and had, indeed, forgotten about them, until I re-discovered this CD, which had been missing from my collection for years.
Low - What Part Of Me Everyone’s favourite Mormon indie pop band returned with this perfectly-formed pop song in late summer.
Marker Starling - Husbands Christopher Cummings is Marker Starling, previously of Mantler.
Kingdom - Bank Head This classic on the Night Slugs label is almost 3 years old now, but a month doesn’t go by that I don’t find myself returning to it.
Venetian Snares - Your Face When I Finally (Glass Version) Yes Aaron Funk is actually his real name and this hugely talented Canadian producer has been pretty prolific since releasing his first records in the late 90s.
Inga Copeland - I Am Your Ambient Wife Inga Copeland is your ambient wife. & I’m not going to argue with her.
Junior Boys - Teach Me How To Fight The debut LP from Junior Boys, entitled ‘Last Exit’ masterfully combined 80’s synth-pop melodies with yearning vocals & the jittery, irregular rhythms commonly associated with UK Garage.
Jam City - Crisis After falling heavily for Jam City’s neon-kissed LP it wasn’t a huge leap for me to endear myself to the same artist’s U-turn towards neon-kissed r’n’b torch-songs that make up ‘Dream A Garden’.
David Axelrod - The School Boy Composer, arranger, producer, drummer & ex-boxer David Axelrod has had a huge influence on the music landscape with the likes of De La Soul, DJ Shadow & DJ Premier having sampled him.
Susumu Yokota - Morino Gakudan Susumu Yokota’s sounds have haunted me since first discovering him back in ’99.
Our Brother The Native - Tilia Petiolaris Back in 2006, two Michigan teenagers & their Californian buddy released their debut LP ‘Tooth & Claw’, an album born out of acoustic strumming, field recordings, analogue feedback, weird samples & often particularly twee vocals.
Jackson C. Frank - Milk & Honey The composer of this song lived a life of heartbreak & woe, but was a huge influence on folk singers such as Nick Drake (who covered this song) & Paul Simon.
Saint Sister - Madrid One of the debuts of the year, courtesy of Gemma Doherty & Morgan MacIntyre, which was recorded in Co. Kerry by Alex Ryan of Hozier.
Kendal Johansson - Blue Moon A gorgeous cover of a Big Star song, released on Sincerely Yours.
Saint Etienne - Hobart Paving Saint Etienne pulled out all the stops at The National Concert Hall last September, performing their classic début ‘Foxbase Alpha’ in its entirety.
Spiritualized - Ladies & Gentlmen We Are Floating In Space (Original Elvis Mix) Back in 1997, Spiritualized’s third LP was barely on the shelves when the LP had to be recalled after an objection from Elvis Presley’s Estate.
King Midas Sound & Fennesz - We Walk Together So many of my favourites on 1 record. feat. Kiki Hitomi, with extra FX-drenched, shoegaze shimmering from Austrian guitarist & producer Christian Fennesz. Total heart-stopper.

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Shock World Service 061; Make Mine A 99 (Jon Averill) 15/05/15 London, United Kingdom

Bonnie Dobson & Her Boys - Winter’s Going ‘I’ll kill your baby & then i’ll kill you’, strong stuff from a Canadian. This song opens the podcast which was originally intended as an ode to the onset of summer. The fluctuating climate of May 2015 left us with something a whole lot less defined however.
Miaoux Miaoux - Hey Sound Miaoux Miaoux is Julian Corrie, a Glasgow based producer. This track is taken from his 2012 album ‘Light of the North’ which i’ve never listened to.
Howie B - Butt Meat Second part of a Glasgow producer double is an absolute masterclass by Howard Bernstein in how to make cut & paste hip hop. A near perfect record.
J. K. Mayengani & The Shingwedzi Sisters - Khubani No idea where I got this record from, it’s great though isn’t it?
Sly & Robbie - Computer Malfunction Another example of how much better I am than you is that I would steal this record from my dad’s collection in my early teens, fascinated by it’s intermix of groove & spacey electronics.
Gunnar Haslam - Aisepos Brooding strings sit atop an tribal sounding drum machine beat. Taken from a compilation with the fantastic title of ‘Music for ShutiIns’.
Original Tropicana Steel Band - Calypso Rock This track couldn’t be more antithetical to the last.
Pye Corner Audio - One Time Pad And once again we transmute from the sultry to the foreboding. Taken from the recently released ‘Intercepts’ album. A collaboration between Pye Corner Audio & Shock World Service favourite Not Waving.
Number One Ensemble - Flor De Coca Low bpm disco from a compilation entitled ‘Italo Disco – Essential Italian Disco Classics 1977-1985’
Owen Hand - Cam Ye O’er Frae France Long time followers of the podcast will wonder where it all went wrong.
Paul Stewart - Kiki & Pepe I always like to include some stories or spoken word elements in each podcast. This time it’s a section of audio from an album called ‘The Warrick Sessions Volume 1’ which is a bizarre & fascinating listen.
Joe Meek - Orbit Around The World Another bizarre piece of music from 1960 from Joe Meek, the UKs answer to Brian Willson & Phil Spector. This ploughs similar territory to his other retro-futuristic track ‘Telstar’.
Between - Devotion Psychedelic, meditative, transcendental, cogitative.
Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan - Journey’s End On my last visit to New York we went to late night honky-tonk (yet hipster) den called Skinny Dennis (152 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211). This is the kind of shit kickin’ anthem that would have gone down a treat there. And by co-incidence this is also our journey’s end.

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Past, Present & Future (Jon Averill) 22/01/15 London, United Kingdom

The Shangri-Las - Past, Present & Future An aloof monologue backed by an interpolation of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata reflects on what might have been.
Ryan Teague - Shadow Play A minimalist composition which owes much to contemporaries such as Steve Reich & John Adams.
INC. - Swear The polished chrome future R’n’B grooves of L.A’s INC.
Mount Kimbie - Maybes For some reason never really got into Mount Kimbie the way a lot of people did.
Japan - Quiet Life Waking us up with a jolt is the opening track from the 1979 album of the same name by Japan.
Paul Simon - 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover If you're being pedantic you could point out that he only lists 5 ways to leave your lover.
The Au Pairs - It’s Obvious Next up is the clattering post-punk clamour of Birmingham’s The Au Pairs.
Sun Araw, M. Geddes Gengras, & The Congos - Sunshine Amazing track but sounds completely out of place at the time of recording – a freezing January weekend in London.
Not Waving - Kneecap Ridge Another track I really wanted to include again – this podcast not really acting as a best of in the traditional sense but more a recap of the last 59.
Jai Paul - Jasmine (Demo) The best thing released in 2012.
Wendy Carlos & Rachel Elkind - Rocky Mountains Taken from Great Lakes Mystery’s horror soundtrack themed podcast. Wendy Carlos (formerly Walter) created 3 hugely influential soundtracks; the unsettling electronic score for A Clockwork Orange, Tron & worked again with Stanley Kubrick on The Shining from which this track is taken.
Mssingno - Xe2 Both myself & Cian Ó Cíobháin have featured tracks from Mssingo in previous podcast which is good enough to give him Shock preferred artist status. With electronic music you’re always looking for something that gives that little tingle - a feeling you get when you hear something that sounds like it’s from somewhere else.
Fabio Frizzi - Main Theme Absolutely floored by this first time I heard it. Just an extraordinary piece of synthesizer music from the 1979 soundtrack for Italian horror movie Zombi 2.
Burial - Raver Perfect music for avoiding eye contact on the night bus.
Lee Hazlewood - My Baby Cried All Night Long Taking us right out of that moment is moustached troubadour & regular at the Shock salon; Lee Hazlewood. And the moral of this story is that you shouldn't be caught messin' Where you shouldn't been messin'.
World Domination Enterprises ‎– Asbestos Lead Asbestos Music that sounds more like it’s made on a building site than a recording studio.
The Durutti Column - Otis Vini Reilly uses an Otis Redding vocal loop to great effect for this track.
Dennis Wilson - Time The deterioration of Dennis Wilson’s, once part of the angelic harmonies of the Beach Boys is a shocking thing to hear yet also adds a vulnerability to his music.
Tonstartssbandht - Hymn Eola Tonstartssbandht (pronounced tahn-starts-bandit) are two brothers Edwin & Andy White who’ve recorded dozens of albums merging dramatic choral style vocals & space rock-esque textures.
John Cooper Clarke - Beasley Boulevard (Live at Shock 16.5.08) I don’t think this track can be heard elsewhere so a bit of an exclusive for our listeners I guess. It’s a sequel to Cooper Clarke’s most well known track Beasley Street. Here John deals with Beasley Street as it might be now, fully in the grip of gentrification.
Moondog - Pastoral Pastoral is a childlike melody from the Viking of sixth avenue which brings the podcast to a close. So this is goodbye, so this is farewell, the fight's final bell. for now…

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Shock World Service 059 Old Acquaintance Be Forgot by Cian Ó Cíobháin 24/12/2014 Galway, Ireland

Mica Levi - Lonely Void Mica Levi’s soundtrack for Jonathan Glazer’s film ‘Under The Skin’ (based on Michel Faber’s novel) was, without doubt, the oddest yet most beguiling music I heard all year. I had listened to the soundtrack loads before I finally got to see the movie. Listening to the music out of context had made an impression, finally hearing it as I viewed the film almost made me want to start a cult.
Kode9 & The Spaceape - Autumn Has Come The ‘Killing EP’ was the last release from Hyperdub vocalist-poet-MC Stephen Samuel Gordon AKA The Spaceape before his untimely demise in the autumn. His parting words “I must learn to dance with life again while autumn is still here” are particularly heartbreaking considering he passed away soon after the recording was made.
Visonia & Dopplereffekt - Die Reisen This track should be employed by music teachers in classes to illustrate ‘how to write a bass arpeggio’. A big thanks to Laura O’ Connell for putting me onto this one. Released on Last Known Trajectory in January, this should still sound fresh in decades to come.
Clark - Snowbird Chris Clark has been a formidable presence on the legendary Warp label for over a decade now. His eponymously titled 2014 LP is rumoured to be his last. If there is any substance to these rumours, it is safe to acknowledge that he refused to go out with a whimper with possibly his most coherent LP to date.
Roberto Clementi - Agile The Italian’s debut LP for Soma - ’N Lights’ - took a slightly organic and dubby approach to electronic music. This one was the diamond in the rough: an ethereal and glistening piece of electronica that has shades of Burial or The Cyclist about it.
Actress - Gaze His latest LP ‘Ghettoville’ may not be up there with his finest work, but it did bestow upon the world this gorgeous slice of dreamy house.
JAW, Philip Wolgast & Benito W - Papersand Is JAW the new Robert Owens? The frontman of electronic French act dOP’s voice can be heard lighting up many a house tracks these days. I’ve never really been a fan of Robert Owens, bar a handful of tracks, though I’ve slowly began to warm to JAW. However, something about this collaboration - the production and the wistful vocal - made it sounds like a more melancholic take on what Ali Love & Hot Natured have been getting up to. One to slow dance to at the end of a lost weekend. From the ‘Midtown EP’ on Circus Company.
To Rococo Rot - Baritone Veterans of the German electro-acoustic scene released their eighth studio LP ‘Instrument’ this year which included this track, redolent of classic mid-90s Tortoise.
Fhloston Paradigm - Never Defeated (feat. Rachel Claudio) King Britt - under his Fhloston Paradigm guise - produced one of the most memorable LPs of the year in ‘The Phoenix’ and this collaboration with Rachel Claudio is the kind of gritty soul I subscribe to.
Ariel Pink - Lipstick Ariel Pink’s new LP ‘Pom Pom’ is a riot of ideas. Like an enterprising magpie, he swoops over many different genres and eras and steals the best parts to create a new and vibrant love letter to both AM & FM bubblegum pop.
Aphex Twin - PAPAT4 [155] [pineal mix] A period of two weeks listening to Aphex Twin’s first LP in 13 years confirmed this and the ‘minipops’ single to be my personal highlights.

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Shock World Service 058: Valley Of The Dolls by Elena Colombi (Osàre! Editions/NTS) 13/11/14 London, United Kingdom

Margot - Waldorf Italian producers Margot A.K.A. Pepe and Giaga Robot with "Waldorf", the first 12" released in March this year on Ivan Smaghe's new amazing label "Les Disques de la Mort".
Pacific 231 & Vox Populi! - Gole Mariam Gole Mariam is a mystical journey into the musical world of Pacific 231 & Vox Populi!, two long-running and legendary french projects.
Andy Stott - Missing Mystery and suspense in this track by Andy Stott's, on the forthcoming album "Faith in Strangers" on Modern Love records.
Vincent Gallo - Was Probably my favourite track from album "When", released on 2001 on Warp. There's something odd, awkward but at the same time very beautiful in all the work of Vincent Gallo, wether he is directing, acting or composing music.
Subject - What Happened to You? Belgian duo Subject built this brilliant instrumental throbbing Synthy energy lo-fi science fiction around a stone-simple 2/4 rhythm. Brought to life again by the "Minimal Waves Vol II compilation released on February 2012 on Stones Throw.
Paco Sala - Rosa x Damascena From the album "Ro-Me-Ro" out a couple of years back on Digitalis Recordings.
Muslimgauze - Low On Qat Bryn Jones aka Muslimgauze produced something like 90 albums between 1982 and 1998, before dying for a rare blood disease. All his music was inspired by the Muslim world, in particular the Palestinian conflict and was released on limited editions cassettes "Low on Qat" is from the album Tandoori Dog.
Copeland - Fit Formerly 50% of Hype Williams together with Dean Blunt, Inga Copeland self released the album "Because I’m Worth It" came out in May this year.
Young Man - Wandering I don't know much about Colin Caulfield and his project as "Young Man". The album Vol I is apparently the second of a planned trilogy and the composer dedicated this album to transition.
ABSTRAXION - Vampyros Lesbos Abstraxion is the project of French cool kid Harold Boué who does innovating electronica and counts support from the likes of Erol Alkan, Simian Mobile Disco, James Holden and Caribou. From the album Temple Of The Sun.
Klaus Nomi - From Beyond From the album Simple Man
The Death Set - Slap Slap Slap Pound Up Down Snap. From 2011's "Michael Poiccard" album.
Joane Skyler - Dinosaur Dies Alone From Joane Skyler debut album "Orz" On Reckno Records.
Patrick Vian - R&B Degenerit! From the album Bruits Et Temps Analogues, released in 1976 on the great Egg Records and repressed last year on Staubgold.
No More - Suicide Commando. 7" released on Too Late Records in 1981.? Pure, lo-fi No Wave from the German group.
Blonde Redhead - No More Honey How sexy is the voice of Kazu Makino?? From the album "Barragán"
Maxmillion Dunbar - Calvin & Hobbes Released a couple of months ago on the great Trilogy Tapes Label.

David Lynch - Eraserhead 1977. First David Lynch's movie. Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child. "In heaven, everything is fine"

Andy Stott - Damage Another track from Stott's forthcoming album "Faith in Strangers". Solid.
Sleep - Rain's Baptism A little metal treat.. from Sleep's album Holy Mountain
Actress - Birdcage From Darren J. Cunningham's latest album "Ghettoville".
Verdena - Bambina In Nero From the self titled "Verdena" on Black Out.
Tova Gertner - Etmol Another gem from Les Disques de la Mort.
Sid Vicious - My Way The only song actually present in the soundtrack of the movie. Cover of the famous Frank Sinatra's song, while performing this track Sid Vicious forgets the lyrics & improvises.

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Shock World Service 057 So Regency My Dear by Jon Averill 19/10/14 London, United Kingdom

Freescha - Kite High A warm & fuzzy start to ease us into this episode from Californian duo Freescha. Despite their electronic pretensions the pair also wrote ‘Heaven On Earth’ for Britney Spears.
Dead Can Dance - Saltarello This song has been in several podcasts before but never quite made the final cut so glad I could finally fit it in. ‘Saltarello’ (a reference to a long lost Italian folk dance) was recorded at Quivvy Church just north of Dublin.
Francisco - Love Sweet Love Taken from ‘Cosmic Beam Experience’, recorded in 1979. ‘Love Sweet Love’ is actually the most conventional track on an album permeated with avant garde psychedelic experimentation
Cashmere Cat - Mirror Maru Drum programming that could be lifted straight out a grime track plays off dramatically against layers of pitched up vocals & harpsichord lines underpinned by squeaky toy FX.
Ólafur Arnalds - Poland For this podcast i’ve tried to make each track in opposition to that last, this beautiful piece by Ólafur Arnald also serves as a backing for the next...
John Betjeman - Song Of Night-Club Proprietress As someone who comes from a family with English origins John Betjeman represents a sort of lost eccentricity & war time whimsy from an England long gone, or perhaps that never existed.
Art Garfunkel - Waters Of March ‘Águas de Março’ is a Brazilian song composed by Antonio Carlos Jobim & covered here by the other one in Simon & Garfunkel.
Mariah - 心臓の扉 Mariah is the brainchild of Yasuaki Shimizu. There’s not a huge amount of information out there on Mariah other than they made 5 albums under the name between 1980 & 1983, this being the last.
Béla Bartók - Andante I’ve always loved this piece, it sounds like it was performed on a rusty gate. As also sampled recently for Damon Albarn’s ‘Everyday Robots’.
Red Snapper - 4 Dead Monks (Demo) This is a demo of ‘4 Dead Monks’ which is actually very similar to the final version but with a little less going on, this is the version which I prefer.
Oliveray - Growing Waterwings Often in the podcast I’ll combine 2 pieces of music or dialogue that sit well together, this piece of music from Oliveray was chosen to underpin & also dilute the next…
Iceberg Slim - Pimp: The Story of My Life Iceberg Slim was an American pimp & later author. This is an extract from his autobiographical novel ‘Pimp: The Story of My Life’ which tells the tales of a cruel & vicious life before his incarceration & subsequent change of career.
Almeeva - Soviet Superstructures My description of this track as sounding like a slightly hyperactive version of The XX is both lazy & accurate.
Francis Bebey – Il N'y a Pas de Crocodiles a Cocody A short interlude from Cameroonian artist, musician & writer. Much like there are no snakes in Ireland there are no crocodiles in Cocody apparently.
The Shangri-Las - I’ll Never Learn The Shangri-Las are the coolest girl group of all time.
Zackey Force Funk - Cocaine Lady Zackey Force Funk regurgitates the affectations of 80’s r’n’b as a maladroit, clumsy & unpolished style all of his own.
Medium Medium - Hungry, So Angry We used to feature a lot more post-punk on the World Service so to make up for its absence of late here’s one of the better known tracks of the genre from Nottingham’s Medium Medium.
Not Waving - Battle Mountain Alessio Natalizia has a knack of making music that whilst unreservedly electronic concurrently swells & pulses in the most organic manner.
Dinah Washington/Max Richter - This Bitter Earth/On The Nature Of Daylight We close with a mash-up of two tracks; Max Richter’s ‘On The Nature Of Daylight’ & ‘This Bitter Earth’ by Dina Washington. Arguably the two together create something that’s greater than the sum of it’s parts.

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Shock World Service 056 Opening Scenes by Chequerboard 01/09/14 Dublin, Ireland

Beck - Phase  The opening scene can be seen through the opening.  First of two featured instrumentals from the album 'Morning Phase' (2013).
Ryan Teague - Shadow Play  Down rabbit holes and over trees.  The lead track from this Bristol based composers third album 'Field Drawings' (2012).
Other Lives - For 12  Gallop for a ghost train.  From the debut album Tamer Animals by this Stillwater, Oklahoma five-piece (2011).
Sarah Neufeld - Hero Brother  An untamed instruction.  Title track from the solo album from Canadian violinist with Arcade Fire (2013).
DIIV - Geist  Strobe tunnels under New York.  From the Brooklyn guitar-pop crews debut album Captured Tracks (2012).
Steve Hauschildt - Auto Mile  Movements in the night sky.  First of two pieces from former Emeralds member Steve Hauschildt taken from the album S/H. (2013).
Evenings - Lo-velo  Trailing shells into the city.  Taken from the album Yore by Virginia born Nathan Broaddus (2013).
The Field - They Won't See Me Mist over the battering ram.  Taken from the album 'Cupid's Head' from 2013 by Swede Axel Willner.
Sunken Foal - Cash for Gold  Synthesizing the shared expenses.  Taken from the 'Friday Syndrome Vol.2' by Dublin based musician Dunk Murphy (2013).
Mica Levi - Love  Shifting moral ground.  Taken from the OST for 'Under the Skin' by English composer Mica Levi (2013).
Eomac - Rainmaker  Light piercing through.  Taken from Berlin based Dublin producer Ian McDonell's debut album Spectre (2014). Ian is also half of electronic outfit Lakker.
Jacaszek - Elegia   A solitary boat.  Taken from Polish electroacoustic musician Michał Jacaszeks album SMM : Content (2011).
Yo La Tengo - Needle of Death  One grain of pure white snow.  Cover of Bert Jansch song from the album Today is the Day! (2003).
Steve Hauschildt - Still Cloudy  The heat bends the distance.  The second Steve Hauschildt track also taken from the album S/H (2013).
Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place  Waves become wings.  Taken from the album 'The Magic Place (2011).
Beck - Cycle  The closing scene can be closed from within.  The second instrumental from the album 'Morning Phase' (2013).
Alex Chilton - All We Ever Got from Them Was Pain   'I love them all the same.'  Taken from the album 'Free Again : The 1970 sessions'.

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Shock World Service 0055: Vermilion Sands by Jon Averill 15/08/2014 London, United Kingdom

Chris Watson - El Devisadero The Cabaret Voltaire founder captures everyday noise & clangour – the industrial/discordant & contorts it into something that resides at the apex between art & music.
Patrice Baumel - Birth Writhing electronics of Patrice Baumel sit atop ‘El Devisadero’. Pulsing feedback permeates ‘Birth’ with it’s theatrical peaks & troughs.
Irene Dailey & Martin Donegan - Wright, Charles, November 22, 1963 Taken from the absorbing ‘Of Poetry & Power: Poems Occasioned by the Presidency and by the Death of John F. Kennedy’.
Bohren & Der Club of Gore - Texas Keller The low slung sleaziness of Bohren & Der Club of Gore’s early material is in evidence in ‘Texas Keller’.
Mssingno - Xe3 Slap in the face from modernity shepherds us back to 2014. A crystalline intermingling of elements of R&B & Grime with pitch shifted vocals & snares.
Umwelt - Kneecap Ridge Absolutely no idea where I got this track from but I think it’s my favourite of the podcast – it feels like it’s alive; pulsing & growing throughout the mix.
Paul Martin - Le Troublant Témoignage De Paul Martin Wouldn’t you know it, just as the party is about to get going a French man comes along & ruins it.
Raymond Scott - Vim Buy Vim, lots of Vim.
Max Richter - Summer 2 (Vivaldi: The Four Seasons) My favourite moment of Max’s ‘Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons’.
Ambrosia - (On My Way To) Providence Have had a copy of the mostly ignored album ‘A Reminiscent Drive’ on a promo CD since around the year 2000.
Brian Briggs - Aeo (Pt. 1) If the lost underwater city of Atlantis existed (& it does) & was a country this would be the national anthem.
Oneohtrix Point Never - Returnal A galvanic & soporific deep space siren song Brooklyn’s Oneohtrix Point Never.
Lou Reed - Transformer (Advert) Time for another ad break folks. Buy Lou Reed.
Guy Warren Of Ghana With Red Garland - The High Life Taken from an album called ‘Funny Old Shit’ on Trunk Records.
April March - Cet Air La April March is an American singer-songwriter who is obsessed with French music & sings almost exclusively in the pompatus of love. April is best known for the track ‘Chick Habit’ which appears in Quentin Tarantino's ‘Death Proof'.
Dennis Wilson - Common This beguiling track is taken from the never completed follow up ‘Bambu’. I greatly suspect this was not originally intended to be an instrumental.
Donnie & Joe Emerson - Baby Taken from ‘Dreamin' Wild’, a winsome set of west-coast pop with a languorous delivery. This album was all but forgotten soon after it’s release. Then in 2012 it all changed. Ariel Pink released a cover version of ‘Baby’ & word of ‘Dreamin’ Wild’ began to spread – soon after it was re-issued.
Meredith Monk - Memory Song An amazing piece by the American composer, performer, vocalist, filmmaker & choreographer. Memory Song sits between performance piece & music & reminds me of the work of Robert Ashley (see ‘Bruno Pt. 1’ on Podcast 51).
The SM Corporation - Hammer (Great Lakes Mystery Version) A pulsing modern pop song featuring disembodied lyrics duelling with live cello throughout it’s 7 minute duration. Available in all good record stores.
Ray Cathode - Waltz In Orbit Ray Cathode is in fact George Martin who of course is known for for producing The Beatles & writing Game Of Thrones.
Moondog - Pastoral As well as being blind & dressing like a Viking, Moondog also made some of the most incredible music you will ever hear.
Alessi Brothers - Seabird A sagacious examination of loss, regret & yearning.
Man Outside HSBC - Why Are You Not Rebelling? In case you thought we’d finish the podcast on a high note this was recorded with a concealed microphone earlier this year.

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Shock World Service 054 In 1984, I Was Hospitalised For Approaching Perfection by Cian Ó Cíobháin 09/12/2013 Galway, Ireland

Lou Reed & John Cale - Open House
Oneohtrix Point Never - Still Life
Cupp Cave - Everlastic
Desire - Under Your Spell
Julia Holter - In The Same Room
The Space Lady - Humdinger
Nico - I'll Keep It With Mine
Silver Jews - Random Rules
Chad VanGaalen - Peace On The Rise
Leila - Eight
Mssingo - XE2
Lushlife - Big Sur
Stereolab - Cybele's Reverie
Thick Pigeon - Jess + Bart (Bemusic Remix)
Jessy Lanza - Against The Wall
Blood Orange - You're Not Good Enough
Miracle - Something Is Wrong
Burial - Stolen Dog
Zomby - Natalia's Song
This Mortal Coil - Mr Somewhere

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Shock World Service 053 Obelisk High by Chequerboard 03/10/13 Dublin, Ireland

J.R. Alexander – Memories The beautifully produced opening track from an EP released in 2012 by Jerome Alexander of Message to Bears featuring the sounds of the cups & saucers jostling about as patterned percussion.
Holden – The Illuminations (Excerpt) A brief tumble through the stars via an excerpt from James Holden’s new album 'The Inheritors'.
Clark – Soft Eruptor One of five tracks from the Iradelphic sessions sent out to people on Clarks mail out list recently & described as some extra material from his recent release 'Iradelphic', it contained some of my favourite Clark tracks ever. The blurred use of Martina Topley Birds vocals here envelop the guitar beautifully.
Recomposed by Max Richter – Autumn 3 (Vivaldi, The Four Seasons) A brief striking piece from Max Richter’s interesting Four Seasons recomposition project.
Girls Names – Pittura Infamante The key track from the brilliant LP 'New Life' by the Belfast 4 piece.
Wax Stag – Fantasy Gay A lovely leisurely piece of electro pop from the 80s referencing synth maestro Robert Lee aka Wax Stag.
Tim Hecker – No Drums Ghostly, poignant, hopeful and bleak, this piece from Tim Heckers amazing Ravedeath 1972 album is the audio equivalent of a haunting.
Chequerboard – Obelisk A brief track from my new album 'The Unfolding' out now on Lazybird records. http://www.chequerboard.com
Christ – One Sunny Cloudy Day A melting glacier of nostalgia under a blanket of surface noise from the elusive Scottish electronic artist Christ. The accompanying video by Stefan Larsson depicting two mysterious figures mirroring the movements of robotic trees in a snowy realm is a masterpiece.
Bark Psychosis – All Different Things A beautiful exercise in the extremes of quiet & loud from English shape shifting post rock/musical project Bark Psychosis.
Red House Painters – Sundays & Holidays An old tumbling autumnal gem from Red House Painters 1994 Shock Me EP.
Ethernet – Current (Loscil Remix) Scott Morgan remixes Ethernet creating a stunningly vast realm of icey tones. Listen out for the distant bombs going off.
ilex – ilk Great piece from Dublin based Holly McGowans ilex project recalling Susumu Yokota via Orbital.
Colleen – Break Away An interesting vocal montage from Cecile Schotts brilliant new album ' The Weighing Of The Heart.
Library Tapes - Sun Peeking Through The beautifully poignant title track from Swede David Wenngren’s recent album as Library Tapes.
Ametsub - Opening Above the clouds time with this strident gem from little known Tokyo-based Japanese artist Ametsub.
Blanck Mass - Sundown Music to watch stars explode to would be a fitting description for the music of Benjamin John Power, one of the founding members of Fuck Buttons.
Clark – Guy Fawkes/Night Night A hungry robot bird beckons in an unspooling guitar loop in this intriguing vignette from the Iradelphic Sessions mailout EP.
Luigi Boccherini – La Musica Notturna (Excerpt) I couldn't resist finishing on this charming snippit of Boccherini. Playful, charming but hinting at so much more.

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Shock World Service :052 The Sixty Pound Podcast by Raj Chaudhuri (NTS/ Boiler Room) 15/05/13 London, United Kingdom

Raj is part of Boiler, has a regular show on NTS & he is also 1/4 of club night, Livin' Proof. Over to the man himself...

I have had an idea of recording a 60 minute podcast with a budget of £60… The format being pretty simple. Go into a record store(s) & set myself this budget to buy some records & create a mix from the purchases.

This mix was created in one-take, recorded on vinyl from records bought in Lucky Seven Record store & Alan's Record & CD Shop. Total costs: £66. OK - so not as easy as I thought. I'm over 6 minutes short & £6 over-budget … So sue me".

Joni Mitchell - The Fiddle & The Drum (taken from 'Clouds' LP - £5) There is something quite hauntingly beautiful about Joni Mitchell's voice, but even more so when you remove all instruments & have it as naked and fragile as it appears in this song.
Weather Report - Morning Lake (taken from 'Weather Report' LP - £4) Weather Report are fucking great... & whilst they are more known for their uptempo jazz-fusion stuff more similar to Birdland, this more solemn and stripped number shows another side to this brilliant group.
Talking Heads - Drugs (taken from 'Fear of Music' LP - £6) This rather hypnotic track is a stand-out track from 'Fear of Music'.
Astral Sounds - Galaxia (taken from 'Space Drive' LP - £5) It said "Music De Wolfe" (the British pioneers of library music) and it said "Space Drive"… That was enough for me to know that it was going to be ace.
Barry White - Im Gonna Love You Just A Little Bit More (taken from 'I've Got So Much To Give' LP - £3) This is a classic drum break & bassline used in numerous hip-hop records. Couple that with the fact that the walrus of love is wearing a rather fetching mustard suit on the cover of the LP makes this record an absolute must.
Patrice Rushen - Remind Me (taken from the "Straight From The Heart" LP - £4) The famous track from this album is 'Send Me Forget Me Nots' or… the 'Men In Black soundtrack song' to total morons. However, this is definitely my favourite track from that album.
Lou Rawls - Heartaches (Just When You Think You're Loved)' (taken from the 'Sit Down & Talk To Me' LP - £2) Tons of strings & harmonies, all lead through by Mr Rawl's soothing voice.
James Brown - 'World Cycle Inc.' (taken from 'Nonstop!' LP - £4) In general, i've always been fascinated by instrumentals. Being a hip-hop vinyl fan, you either veer towards the rapping or towards the beat. I was always the kid at a record store that moved the needle straight to the instrumental track.
Yes - Heart of the Sunrise (taken from 'Classic Yes' LP - £4) Incredible drumming, constant switches, & funky as hell - Yes definitely are one of my favourite prog-rock bands.
Japan - Wish You Were Black (taken from 'Adolescent Sex' LP - £6) The woman at Lucky Seven was playing this on Saturday afternoon. I guess this will always be the beauty of buying from a bricks-&-mortar record store, as opposed to buying online. The possibility of a random purchase or recommendation from the shop staff. An incredible track.
The Who - Baba O' Riley (taken from 'Who's Next' LP - £5) An incredible intro to an incredible song… Pretty timeless in my mind.
East of Eden - Jig-a-jig (taken from 'Jig-a-jig' 7" - £5) I actually have no idea about this… digging around for some records in Allan's record store when a friend pulled this out & told me that I needed to buy it.
A Certain Ratio - Flight (taken from 'Flight' 12" - £8) So much of what A Certain Ratio do is just so funky… this is no different. Beautiful atmospherics & rhythms throughout.
The Rolling Stones - Paint It Black (taken from 'Paint It Black' 7" - £5) I remember Flying Lotus ending his 1st RBMA set with this track & wanting to own it on vinyl ever since. A great track to end a mix with.

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Shock World Service 051 Long Distance Call by Jon Averill 01/02/2013 London, United Kingdom

Chromatics – The Telephone Call Some late night atmospherics to start us off from ‘Night Drive/Original Motion Picture Soundtrack IV’ accompanied by some London rain I recorded.
How To Dress Well – When I Was In Trouble HTDW bring melancholy & starkness to the genre. Sounds more like the soundtrack to the walk home after breaking up with your girlfriend (suitable to this podcast) than champagne & gold chains.
Inc. – Swear Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis on Ketamine.
fLako – Mating Dance For me music is at it’s best when it sounds unconventional, surprises you & demands your attention. fLako’s afro-electronics ticks all the boxes.
Chosen Gospel Singers – Prayer For The Doomed This track was recorded at some time in the late 1950s & though a million miles away in process, to me has a lot in common with the previous tracks by How To Dress Well & Inc.
Daniel Bernard Roumain & Ryuichi Sakamoto – The Need To Be ‘The Need To Be’ is taken from a compilation with the lengthy title of ‘DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid* ‎– Sound Unbound Audio Companion: Excerpts & Allegories From The Sub Rosa Archives’, which is to accompany his book of the same name.
Edgar Froese – Icarus Edgar Froese was a founding member of seminal German act Tangerine Dream. in 1978 Froese released his solo album ‘Ages’ after major differences with his bandmates. According to Froese, it was recorded at a very emotional time in his career.
Dom Thomas – Gin & Tonic From the Finders Keepers & B-Music Crew; Dom Thomas blurs the lines between mixtape & original composition
Robert Ashley – Bruno Part 1 Robert Ashley is a contemporary American composer whose work traverses opera, experimental electronic music & theatrical works. ‘Bruno Part 1’ is a hypnotic spoken word piece that is similar in tone to Laurie Anderson’s ‘O Superman’.
Lee Hazlewood – Hands Ah, our old pal Lee Hazlewood is back – possibly the most featured artist ever on the World Service. Wouldn’t you know it, poor old Lee is down on his luck & of course it’s a woman that’s the source of his troubles. Chin up son.
Hackman – Forgotten Notes This track is released on Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood Records, named after North London’s Brownswood Road, which my old house backs on to. A fact interesting only to me.
Vangelis – Multi Track Suggestion Van the man in rare disco mode, disco with his unique take on it as you would expect. This is from the 1980 album ‘See You Later’ which sees him experimenting with electronic sounds for the first time. 2 years later he would take his electronic sounds to new heights & greater acclaim with the Blade Runner soundtrack.
Oneohtrix Point Never – Betrayed In The Octagon The Brooklyn-based musician Daniel Lopatin describes the track as "a stoned space epic about one really bad day in the life of an astronaut.", & that is good enough for me.
Robert Frost – Reluctance Another piece of spoken wordery by American poet Robert Frost
Julia Holter – Goddess Eyes (Echo Manor Version) Holter’s music builds up from layers of patient, breathy voices & strings that seem to slowly sneak up on, rather than impose themselves on you.
Bill Fay – The Never Ending Happening Revealing itself behind some Arsenal fans (thanks lads) is ‘The Never Ending Happening’, simply one of the most heartfelt & beautiful pieces of music i’ve heard in a long time.
Seti The First – Sugar To Sea Lion I’ve been a big fan of Seti The First for a while, only very recently discovering they were two Irish musicians; Kevin Murphy & Thomas Haugh.
F.J. McMahon – Sister Brother Released in 1969, following a stint serving in the U.S. Air Force. The album’s outsider, lo-fi folk vibe pulls from his experiences in Vietnam & has become a top item among collectors & folk/psych lovers alike.

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Shock World Service 50 Who’s Gonna Mend My Rainbow? by Cian Ó Cíobháin 28/12/12 Galway, Ireland

Chilly Gonzales – Kenaston A man with an unfair edge on pretty much every other male on the planet – check his track “Take Me To Broadway” where he boasts of having an extra testicle.
Rachel Zeffira – To Here Knows When With talk of a new My Bloody Valentine LP, we’ll try not get our hopes up and wallow instead in this pretty cover of one of the ‘Loveless’ LPs finest moments.
Alice Cohen – Cascading Keys This bears all the hallmarks of a lost 4AD classic but turns out to be the highlight of Alice Cohen’s recent LP ‘Pink Keys.'
The Go-Betweens – Bachelor Kisses Grant McLennan wrote this song during Christmas '83 on his way back to London from New York. He penned it whilst sitting in immigration having been refused entry to the UK.
Blood Orange – Instantly Blank (The Goodness) Dev Hynes, previously of short-lived dance punk troupé Test Icicles and who later went solo playing folk-pop as Lightspeed Champion, won me over briefly with this romantic jam.
SlowPlaceLikeHome – Talby’s Tower 2012 was a vintage year for the good folk of Co. Donegal. Not content on sauntering their way to Gaelic football All-Ireland glory, devouring several footballing superpowers on their way.
Os Mutantes – Panis Et Circenses Tropicália legends Os Mutantes from São Paulo, Brazil with this magical mystery tour various music genres from 1966. A
Young Dreams – Fog Of War (Korallreven Remix) Sweden’s Korrallreven remix Norway’s Young Dreams and in the process transport Scandinavia to a 1960’s west coast Brian Wilson-esque wonderland.
Animal Collective – Applesauce I came to their latest LP with pretty low expectations on the back of lukewarm reviews. What a pleasant surprise to find that the haters and naysayers couldn’t have been more off the mark. ‘Centipede HZ’ is a riot of colour and ideas and infinitely more interesting than 90% of what passes for Pitchfork –endorsed indie these days.
The Pale Saints – You Tear The World In Two From Leeds and one of the better of the shoegazing bewildebeast that roamed the pastures of the Melody Maker cultivated indie landscape back in the day.
Arthur Russell – Habit Of You The man with the largest post-humous back catalogue since Johann Sebastian Bach took my breath away when I rediscovered this lost classic from his ‘Love Is Overtaking Me’ LP.
Arto Lindsay – Simply Are From Arto Lindsay’s third solo LP ‘Noon Chill,’ originally released in ’97, the LP masterfully draws on art pop, tropicália & bossa nova traditions.
The Durutti Column – My Country To my shame, I was a latecomer to the music of Vinni Reilly’s The Durutti Column. Finally this year I began to investigate his music – thanks to tips from listeners of my radio show – in spite of being aware of the existence of The Durutti Column since I first heard the immortal words “Factory Records” being uttered by someone at the back of the school bus to Dingle as a young fella.
Tortoise – Glass Museum Keith Wallace AKA Loner Deluxe and éminence grise of the Rusted Rail label was all over post-rock before anyone else during my college days and stuck this one on tape for me during my UCG years.
Gene Pitney – 24 Sycamore Originally a massive hit in Australia for Manchester-born Wayne Fontana in '67, I got to hear the Gene Pitney cover from ’73 before the original.
Jim O’ Rourke – Insignificance ‘Insignificance’ is also the title of Chicago musician’s third LP from 2001, from whence this track is lifted from.
Laetitia Sadier – Silent Spot The former Stereolab chanteuse’s second LP ‘Silencio’ was released with a minimum of fanfare in ’12 and boasted several lovely moments.
Sonic Youth – Schizophrenia For me, few singers, or creators of music can better Sonic Youth 1980’s output.
Grouper – Alien Observer One of Liz Harris’ finest ever songs and that’s saying something.

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Shock World Service 049 The Coin Operated Winter Podcast by Chequerboard 12/12/12 Dublin, Ireland

The National Trust - Music Box In 2010, the National Trust commissioned Jarvis Cocker to create an album of found sounds taken from heritage sites around the UK.
Memory Tapes - Yes I Know One of my favourite songs of recent years, with 'Yes I know' Dayve Hawk mixes strident military drums with gothic 80s pop stylings.
Jonny Greenwood - Toki no Senrei wo Uketeinai mono wo Yomuna A stand out track from Jonny Greenwoods stunning soundtrack for the film adaptation of Haruki Murakami's book 'Norwegian Wood'.
Seti The First - Le Basinette Noir The opener from the debut album 'Melting Cavalry' by Dublin based Seti The First.
Clark - Mother McKnight A woozy, warm and playful Chris Clark rarity on a release called 'Throttle Clarence'.
Katie Kim - Your Mountains Katie Kim at her brilliant best with this fragile lullaby from her 2012 'Cover to Flood' album.
Bogdan Raczynski - Alright (Part 7) The Canadian prankster is better known for insane drill and bass excursions or tongue in cheek hyperactive mashups but dig a little deeper and you'll unearth exquisite gems like this.
Jai Paul - Jasmine Its always refreshing to have your perception challenged, so I'll never forget hearing the teeth wobbling bass that unhinges everything in this insanely soulful track.
Parks - Topaz This beautiful song takes me back to a more innocent time for ambient music when it was enough to get lost in plateaus of revolving patterns.
Ex Confusion - Chapter 5 I discovered Japanese guitarist/laptop minimalist Atsuhito Omori by accident last year but he has subsequently become a mainstay in all my playlists.
A Winged Victory For The Sullen - Steep Hills Of Vicodin Tears Just when I thought US drone masters 'Stars of The Lid' were closing up shop, this stunning side project appears out of nowhere. For me this particular track stands out for its uncharacteristically hopeful and conclusive cello sequence.
Sun Kil Moon - Admiral Fell Promises I actually pulled over the car and parked by the side of the road to listen carefully when I heard this first come on the radio one evening, one of those pinned to the earth moments. It feels like the song that represents everything about Mark Kozelek as an artist.
Lilac Time - Love Becomes a Savage I rediscovered this 1987 gem by The Lilac Time earlier this year. I adored it years ago. It acts as a great reminder of a particular strain of gothic pop recalled and touched on by many artists such as Junior Boys and Memory Tapes now.
Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou - Mother's Love A recent discovery but from an older time, this piece sums up everything wonderful and unique about the music of this Ethiopian nun who still plays for up to eight hours a day in a monastery in Jerusalem where she now resides.
The Leisure Society - We were Wasted This song for me acts as a sister piece to Mark Kozeleks 'Admiral Fell Promises' with its delicate nylon string guitar arrangement and lush vocal harmonies.
Message to Bears - Wake Me A wonderful uplifting piece by Oxford based multi instrumentalist Jerome Alexander.
Joe Keawe & His Harmony Hawaiians - Hookipa Paka After a recent exploration into the cheerful waters of vintage Hawaiian music, I stumbled upon this slow reflective gem.
Cleoma Breaux & Joe Falcon - Mon vieux d'autrefois A similar recent dive into cajun music resulted in discovering the music of Joe Falcon (1900-1965) and his wife Cleoma Breaux (1906–1941).
Clark - Frost Investigation Another music box themed piece seeing as we're wrapping things up.
The Doobie Brothers - Busted Down Around O'Connelly Corners I'll finish off with this brief beautiful guitar passage by Doobie Brothers guitarist James Earl Luft.

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Shock World Service 048 Zero Hour by Neil Higgins 02/12/2012 London, United Kingdom

Claude Larson & his Computer Controlled Oscillators - Mountains & Meadows Like a lot of the early synthesizer artists this German producer veers between moments of lush magic & terrible cheesy nonsense, but this is a lovely warm wave of analog atmosphere to kick things off.
Tonto’s Expanding Head Band - Cybernaut When these synth pioneers started making this music around 1969 there were virtually no reference points for what they were doing. This was just the music that the machines seemed to want to make/
Mike Vickers - Surf Rider This slightly re-edited piece of proto-techno was recorded by a former member of Manfred Mann, and featured on a library music LP on the British KPM label.
Sid Bass - Moog Espana The first commercially successful synthesizer record was ‘Switched-On Bach’ by Walter (later to become Wendy) Carlos in 1968. It was an attempt to show that the Moog synthesizer could replicate the full palette of sounds of an orchestra. Although it now feels like a full-on novelty record, it pretty much kick started the popularity of the Moog and launched the idea of using synthesizers in popular music.
Adrian Wagner - Where Are We Going A hypnotic but slightly bonkers epic from the UK Charisma label – home of Genesis and the Monty Python albums.
Cabaret Voltaire - Seconds Too Late Punk might have shattered much of the cosmic pretensions of 70s synthesizer music, but electronic music emerged darker and more experimental after the late 70s.
Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company - Ceres Motion This is just a small section of a 15-minute long minimalist journey. It’s well worth soaking up the incredibly euphoric full-length version.
Kraftwerk - Antenna The Men Machine certainly weren’t the first electronic group, but they were the first to sound like they were in complete control of the machines and to create their own unique sound – mysterious and unearthly but totally catchy.
Avida - Il Grillo e la Formica Some abrasive but romantic electro madness from early 80s Florence, Italy. This features the great Maurizio Dami.
David Bowie - Weeping Wall From the majestic B-side of ‘Low’, Bowie’s Eno-influenced homage to 1970s German electronic music.
Makers - Don't Challenge Me A wonderful, obscure synth-soul classic from a recent compilation ‘Personal Space: Electronic soul from 1974 to 1984’. That’s all I know …
Suicide - Touch Me These New York electro-punk pioneers took electronic music down a completely different back alley – one littered with junkies, muggers and seedy glamour.
Cluster – Caramel Cluster was Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius, two of the most legendary figures of 70s German experimental music (OK then, Krautrock – I was trying to avoid using that ridiculous label, but it’s inescapable). This warped minimal groove brings to mind a bunch of ecstatic robots dancing in a forest clearing. Anyway, Dies ist verdammt gut…
E.M.A.K. - Filmmuzik The E.M.A.K. collective were part of an early 80s second wave of German electronic music. Futuristic techno, minimal, deep house – you can hear the germs of all these movements in this track. Although it is 1982 in Germany and these things don’t exist yet, do they?
Laurie Anderson - Big Science Famous for taking ‘O Superman’, an abstract 8-minute minimal experiment, to the top of the charts – that could happen in 1982.
Rhythim is Rhythim - Kaotic Harmony The next chapter is well known … when black kids in the urban decay of Detroit, USA, started to absorb some of these sci-fi sounds from Europe and fused them with the ghosts of soul and disco to create Techno. This is a glimpse of how powerful that fusion could be.
Cluster - Rosa Closing with another track from the ‘Zuckerzeit’ LP. Deep, sad and otherworldly. Magic stuff.

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Shock World Service 047 Dance of the Dead by Gareth Averill (Great Lakes Mystery) 31/10/2012 Dublin, Ireland

Suspiria - Intro (Suspiria OST) Kicking things off in style are the Italian devil-prog stalwarts, Goblin. This track, given much less attention than the much celebrated, 'Main Theme', features on the soundtrack to seminal Giallo classic, Suspiria, directed by Dario Argento, 1977.
Armando Sciascia - Circuito Chiuso (Impressions in Rhythm & Sound) Italians do it better. This is a psychedelic horror-funk lost treasure from Armando Sciascia, better known for his violin-driven orchestral scores. This track broods along, with dark tones and if you were to remove all but the evil electric piano, you would end up with something straight from a horror movie. This comes all the way from 1970.
Espers - Widow's Weed (Espers II) A cold, autumnal lament, with nods to dark English psych-folk from Philly band, Espers. Widow's weed takes you on a walk through a golden forest at dusk, searching for the seed that has grown the widow's weed. Things aren't quite all they seem to be.
Ennio Morricone - Magic & Ecstasy (The Exorcist II OST) Ennio Morricone is a man who just will not stop. When wading through his vast catalogue, you occasionally take an unexpected turn, and this track is no exception. This track makes you feel like the dark forces that want your soul, are first going to take you out and show you the night of your life. Morricone and horror films make the perfect match.
Popol Vuh - Mantra 1 (Nosferatu OST) A haunting track from Werner Herzog's take on the tale of Nosferatu. Klaus Kinksi is not the only terrifying aspect of this film, as the slow sitar-like instrument becomes the musical manifestation of the phantom der nacht.
Zombie Zombie - Driving This Road Until Death Sets You Free (A Land For Renegades) This French duo are clearly alumni from the college of Carpenter. Whilst I feel that their efforts have been off-the-mark, this hits the nail on the head. Furthermore, the video, (a G.I Joe-style take on Carpenter's, 'The Thing') is a joy to behold. The shrieking modular wails become the howling dogs from the movie. Brilliant.
Goblin - Patrick (Patrick OST) Goblin make a brief return here, with a short and sweet piece of music from Australian horror film, Patrick. Slowly oscillating cold synth stabs followed by a signature dark arpeggio makes this a classic Goblin number.
Mount Eerie - Over Dark Water (Clear Moon) Making the first of two appearances on this mix, this is a track from the man who just keeps on giving. Releasing two albums back to back this year, Mount Eerie creates a fascinating blend of brutally dark intricate folk songs, whilst drawing on black metal influences to create something equally beautiful and disturbing. My favorite release of the year. There is also a strong notion of the element of water in these albums. The end of this track ends with a simple line, 'To the ocean', followed by a cascading black metal almost blast beat explosion. Chills up the spine, every time. That water is very, very dark indeed.
Lubos Fiser - The Sermon (Valerie and Her Week of Wonders) A track from a recent gem by the good folks at Finders Keepers who dig so deep into those record crates, that you expect them to meet with the devil himself. Some of their resurrected discoveries sound like that could be the case. This track is a haunting minimal choral piece from Eastern European vampire flick, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders. Chilling stuff. Be sure to check out the many great releases on Finders Keepers for more musical gore and extravagance.

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Shock World Service 046 Dreiklangsdimensionen by Thomas Whitehead 31/07/2012 London, United Kingdom

Aphrodite's Child - Loud Loud Loud "666" just re-issued (legitimately) on lovely, expensive vinyl.
Ultimate Spinach - Ballad of the Hip Death Goddess Because sometimes, great music comes from bands with terrible names
Bruce Haack - Incantation From "Electric Lucifer". Feel the "powerlove"
The Residents - The Booker Tease Just like TG, the Residents do actually have one or two tracks that don't make your skin crawl that you're not really supposed to favour over their more experimental output. This is one of them
Kourosh Yaghmaei - Leila Gorgeous Persian psych
The Congos / Sun Araw / M. Geddes Gengras - Sunshine These guys were collectively brilliant at Village Underground a month or so ago. The Congos made no attempt not to be bemused by their new collaborators "strange, strange music" and appeared to be having a great time.
Electric Prunes - Kyrie Eleison Another great band named after a very sensible foodstuff. From the David Axelrod period.
Lilacs and Champagne - Sensations Named after a track by Polish musician Czeslaw Niemen, also sampled on the album and whose work around that period is well worth checking out.
Phil Collins - I'm Not Moving Just a lovely track, from his good album
Flash and the Pan - Waiting for the Train Also made the similarly named record called "Walking in the Rain", as covered by Grace Jones
Nazareth - Waiting for the Man Like Guns and Roses attempting a disco track
Dreiklangsdimensionen - Rheingold German new wave that wouldn't scare a Dire Straits fan.
Ween - Tender Situation "Taste the Waste." Pod / Guava era Ween is the best
Robert Palmer - Woke up Laughing Very pretty song from "Clues"
Tonstartssbandht - Hymn Eola I'm intrigued by this band. This is by no means typical of their output.
Eric Copeland - UFOs over Vampire City Black Dice man's solo work. Would fit a bar scene in Twin Peaks

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Shock World Service 045 We Are The Moment, Built To Last by Cian Ó Cíobháin 18/01/12 Galway, Ireland

Arthur Russell – A Little Lost Another paeon to absent love from the cherub-voiced cellist.
Destroyer – Chinatown Sounds like Paddy McAloon from Prefab Sprout duetting with Belle & Sebastian-era Isobel Campbell.
Ultra Vivid Scene feat Kim Deal – Special One A huge favourite from my teenage years, this one had all but disappeared from my life, only re-discovering it on YouTube last summer.
Burt Bacharach – Something Big One of the most joyous songs I had the fortune of hearing last year, it’s from a 1973 LP called ‘Living Together’ which is not too shabby at all. I only wish the song would to on for longer.
Family Of Eve – Please Be Truthful 1979 debut single from Pittsburg outifit that first came to prominence VIA Keb Darge’s first ‘Legendary Deep Funk’ compilation on BBE.
Laura Lee – Don’t Leave Me Starving For Your Love A rarely heard, but utterly beguiling, Holland-Dozier-Holland composition from Chicago-born Laura Lee.
Mystery Jets – The Tale From an American-only release, the ‘Flotsam & Jetsam’ EP from 2007, this sounds like three songs rolled into one.
Da Luniz – I Got Five On It Bit of a worldwide hit this one in 1995, a quick Google reveals this nugget of information: “ ‘I got 5 on it’ is a phrase meaning to pay half for a dime bag (a 10 dollar bag of weed) with another person.”
Aaliyah – More Than A Woman I occasionally go through stages of suddenly loving genres that I may not have cared for too much in the recent past. It happened with country last summer with R'n'b.
Oneohtrix Point Never – Child Soldier Daniel Lopatin’s new LP ‘Replica’ as O.P.N. reveals an artist totally letting loose in his new studio.
Virginia Astley – A Father Kind of reminds me of Julee Cruise (especially her ‘Twin Peaks’ songs) . . from Virgina’s 1986 LP ‘Hope In A Darkened Heart’.
Scritti Politti – Absolute From 1985’s ‘Cupid & Psyche 85’ LP, Gart Greenside sounds utterly at one with dreamy post new wave synth-pop.
Belbury Poly – The Willows Jim Jupp, who runs the Ghost Box label, has released many records under the Belbury Poly moniker.
Disco Inferno – Love Stepping Out Disco Inferno were formed in Essex in the late 80s and though they released a few LPs & EPs in the early to mid-90s, they remained completely off my radar until One Little Indian compiled ‘The Five EPs’ (which features this beauty) last year.
Kitchens Of Distinction - Drive That Fast Every podcast needs an anthem that makes you want to roll down the car windows & crank up the volume.
Sascha Funke – Now You Know From the ‘Funkt EP,’ released on Bpitch Control in 2002, this manages to sound like Ricardo Villalobos reworking The Postal Service, while still finding a cameo for Fritz Kalbrenner on vox.
Joy O – Sicko Cell Slowly crept up to become an unlikely anthem in the clubs last year, with strong support from Pearson Sound, Jackman, Loefah & Bok Bok.
Westbam & Nena – Oldschool, Baby (Piano Mix) “We are the moment, built to last”. Breathless sun-kissed, Italo-influenced classic from 2002, featuring none other than the voice of yer wan who sang ’99 Luftballons’.

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Shock World Service 044 Electronic Snowflakes by Jon Averill 25/12/11 Dublin, Ireland

Bjork - Overture It became clear to me early on that a lot of the music I had earmarked for this podcast had only the most tenuous connection to the theme.
New David - Radioland One thing I’ve learned about covers of Kraftwerk tracks over the years is they’re mostly crap. Not this.
Kenneth Patchen - So Be It A wonderfully forbidding work by Kenneth Patchen. His own reading only serves to enhance its sense of authority.
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Generator 3; Keith follows his obsession with "the tenets of Process music & Systems music"
Vince Guaraldi Trio - Christmastime Is Here (Alternative Version) The first track which could be called an outright ‘Christmas song’ is from Vince Guaraldi. Vince composed & preformed the music to the Peanuts/Charlie Brown cartoons from which this is taken. It provides a suitable nod to the season without Slade or Sir Cliff in sight.
µ-Ziq - Hasty Boom Alert Swiftly back to the ‘tracks that remind of Christmas but have no connection whatsoever’ box. ‘Hasty Boom Alert’ is first rate melodic clatter and bash from µ-Ziq. Taken from his album ‘Lunatic Harness’ which I may or may not own.
Speedy J - Hayfever Speedy J was behind some stunning techno releases in the mid 90’s before stepping back somewhat to make quieter music.
Moscow New Choir - Pushkin’s Garland Nothing evokes the holiday spirit more than a choir from a cold country, nothing.
The Hacker - Electronic Snowflakes I’ve never been a big fan of The Hacker. This is ok.
Max de Wardener - Snowflakes An accompaniment piece to the previous track. Complementing The Hacker’s electronic gurglings with more traditional instrumentation.
The Cure - Primary Before things get too peaceful and you drift off here are The Cure in their visceral prime.
Visage - Whispers From a distance Visage always seemed like something of a novelty act. ‘Fade To Grey’ has had all its power and mystic drained away from inclusion on multiple drive-time 80’s collections but if you dig deeper they have a handful of really innovative pioneering tracks.
Creative Control - Me & My Drums Creative Control rework ‘Little Drummer Boy’
Lord Buckley - People Another whimsical rant from the one true lord, Lord Buckley, an indomitable exponent of the importance of people over deities.
Tom Waits - Clap Hands I won’t lie, I don’t know why Tom Waits whiskey & sandpaper voice reminds of Christmas but it does. Cian Ó Cíobháin used a Tom Waits track on his Christmas podcast also so there must be something in this?
The Andrew Oldham Orchestra - Play With Fire The Andrew Oldham Orchestra are most famous these days as the act whom The Verve sampled for the string refrain on ‘Bitter Sweet Symphony.
Wendy Rané - After Laughter Some may recognise this as the backbone to Wu Tang Clan’s ‘Tearz’.
The Kingston Trio - Last Month Of The Year Are we the only ones or does the intro remind you of Jape’s ‘Floating’? This is 60’s folk vintage from the ever so clean-cut Kingston Trio.
Soft Cell - Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (12” Mix) Increasingly this time of year is about people returning, myself included from their various outposts around the world before departing just as rapidly.
John Baker - Christmas Commercial This short concluding motif comes from John Baker, a key member of The BBC Radiophonic Workshop who produced some stunning and still highly sought after electronic music in the 60’s & 70’s.

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Shock World Service #043 Genius is a Weapon by Neil Higgins 25/11/2011 London, United Kingdom

Almost all the tracks in this mix were released between 1980-82. The outside world seemed to be full of confusion & danger: huger strikes, riots, hostages, assassinations, glue-sniffing & imminent nuclear wipeout. That paranoia & anger fed into the music, giving it this edge of urgency & anger.

Cabaret Voltaire - The Voice of America’ (Intro) / The Cure - Three Almost all the tracks in this mix were released between 1980-82, with maybe a couple from 1979. The artists I love from this period were fusing punk, funk, reggae, disco and electronics, all in an un-self-conscious way, because the rules hadn’t been written yet. Also, in the early 80s the outside world seemed to be full of confusion and danger: huger strikes, riots, hostages, assassinations, glue-sniffing and imminent nuclear wipeout. All that paranoia and anger fed into the music, giving it this edge of urgency and anger. If things continue to fall aaprt maybe we will get some of that back into music? Just a thought.
Virgin Prunes - Ulakanakulot Probably Ireland’s leading art-goth-pagan-death-cult band of the early 80s. Actually, the only one. In conservative, catholic Ireland of the time the Prunes were an unbelievably confusing and unsettling presence. Gotta admire them for that. This track is from their debut LP ‘If I Die, I Die’ and is a suitably sinister groove.
David Byrne & Brian Eno - Regiment In 1980 Brian Eno took a couple of months out from basically inventing ambient music to make the ‘My Life in a Bush of Ghosts’ album with David Byrne. Cutting and pasting tape loops of African and Arabic vocals and percussion with found-sounds from US TV news and radio evangelists over edgy punk-funk grooves. In the process they pretty much invented a whole new approach to music production, one that paved the way for an era of leftfield sample-based music. The fusion of world music, electronics and dislocated voices sounds like an obvious formula now, but this was 1981 – there were no samplers, MIDI, or laptops. The sampled words ‘… his insane desire to use his genius as a weapon...’ are referring to the silent movie director Erich von Stroheim, but they kind of capture the spirit of the music here.
James White & the Blacks - Irresistible Impulse If anyone deserves the ‘punk-funk’ label, it’s got to be James Chance. Another slice of danceable but menacing New York no-wave funk. From the 1982 Album Sax Maniac. I saw him live in London a couple of years ago and he was still on fire…
The Slits - Heard it Through the Grapevine ‘Heard it Through the Grapevine’ was the b-side of The Slits first single in 1979 and follows a grand tradition of sarcastic punk versions of soul and funk classics. This slice of cynical joy mixes soul, reggae, pop and punk and delivers proper girl power. In fact there were loads of fantastic, strong and edgy female-led bands around at the time. What happened?
Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi’s Dead Goth-Dub-Horror-Disco starts and ends with ‘Bela Lugosi’s Dead’ This classic was released in 1979 as a 6-and-a-half minute 12” with a disco-style arrangement, dub effects and unashamed Hammer House lyrics. It should be ridiculous but somehow it’s majestic. Undead! Undead! Undead!
Yoko Ono - Walking on Thin Ice Yoko Ono ‘Walking on Thin Ice’. Legend has it that it was while returning from the final studio session for this track that John Lennon was shot and killed, and he died clutching the master tapes. The discordant lead guitar on this song was Lennon’s last performance – a long journey from ‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand’. It gives Yoko’s great song a whole extra level of mystery and significance. ‘When our hearts return to ashes – It’ll be just a story…’

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Shock World Service 042 The Shoelace That Snapped by Jon Averill 04/10/11 London, United Kingdom

John Leyton - Johnny Remember Me The more eagle-eared among you will recognise the reverb-doused production techniques of Joe Meek all over this track.
Os Ritmistas Brasileiros - Samba 2° Andamento From the 1972 album ‘Batucada Fantástica'.
Aidan John Moffat - Nothing In Common I’ve never seen Grease. One day, one day.
Spiritualized - The Ballad Of Ricky Lee This track is taken from Spiritualized’s ‘Amazing Grace’, which is their most disjointed (worst) album.
Charles Dodge - The Days Are Ahead This is taking from a 1976 album entitled ‘Synthesized Voices’, a work that used analysis and re-synthesis of human voices.
Bryan Ferry - Which Way To Turn Summer ‘81. A middle aged man from Washington, County Durham is driving aimlessly. The final embers of night begin to fade. He feverishly flips between radio stations, eventually settling half way between two, the dialogue from both overlaps amid white noise which bubbles & pops like water boiling in a pot.
Joe Goddard - Gabrielle Seems like a short while ago when Hot Chip seemed to rule the world. Joe Goddard’s current output is the most accomplished so far.
Chrome Sparks - <3 & Soul I heard this on Tom Ravenscroft’s show. There’s a beautiful & almost naive simplicity to this record that reminds me little bit of Warp Records act Plone.
Tim Key - Waterloo Tim Key may be more familiar to people as ‘Sidekick Simon’ on ‘Mid Morning Matters’. This track is taken from the album ‘With A String Quartet. On A Boat’
Lee Hazlewood - My Autumn's Done Come Like the track from Nat King Cole which appears later in the podcast this Autumnally titled & themed track was originally intended for a summer podcast.
John Maus - Believer Like being at a Simple Minds concert whilst locked in the toilet.
Dennis Wilson - Time My favourite track from Dennis Wilson’s album ‘Pacific Ocean Blue’, which in recent years has gone from being largely ignored to being considered the best solo album released by a Beach Boy.
Max Richter - Journey 3 Taken from his his album 'Infra' which was part of a Royal Ballet-commissioned collaboration
John Cooper Clarke - Beasely Boulevard (Live) Never heard before recording of JCC from one of our Shock parties back in '08. As he doesn’t release any new material these days this track will probably be new to many of you.
Harry Partch - Life Is Too Precious To Spend It With Important People; Another snatch of sagacity from Harry Partch whom I would advocate more research being done, by you.
The Antlers - Kettering A histrionic piece from Brooklyn’s The Antlers guides us neatly out of our spoken word section & onto...
Glenn Branca - Lesson No. 1 Glenn Branca’s ‘Lesson No. 1’ segues relatively smoothly out of the Antlers track, which actually may seem odd to anyone familiar with his music, known for using unorthodox tunings on his avant-garde recordings.
Nat King Cole - Autumn Leaves At the time of writing its 28 degrees in London. Podcast track listings - another victim of global warming.
Susumo Yakotta - Imagine Thankfully not a cover of John Lennon but a track taken from Susumo Yakotta’s album ‘The Grinning Cat’ which I vividly remember being soundtrack for a trip to London in 2001.
Spiritualized - 100 Bars This 2nd Spiritualized outing on this episode, though more of a spoken word curiosity than a fully fledged track.
The Aphex Twin - Lichen Richard James describes the album ‘Selected Ambient Works - Volume 2’, from which this track is taken as being "like standing in a power station on acid".
Charles Bukowski - The Shoelace Time Magazine described Bukowski as the "laureate of the American lowlife".

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Shock World Service 041 Spaceships & Sand Dunes by Andy Blake 25/09/2011 London, United Kingdom

This month's instalment of the World Service comes from a DJ & producer you may not yet be aware of if you live outside London. We initially encountered him playing live at a party deep in the bowels of a seemingly abandoned office block back in 2009. Soon after we made the connection between Andy and several releases on (the now concluded) Dissident label. Andy now focuses his attentions on other ventures including his label Cave Paintings, which like Dissident distribute almost exclusively on limited run vinyl. Analogue sounds delivered in analogue formats for full frequency response. The label has featured two releases so far, both from Andy himself.

Although we usually give a full tracklist & breakdown on each episode Andy would prefer the contents of this episode remained relatively unknown, all we can say is it's a more dancefloor oriented affair than our last few episodes. If you really want to know a particular track email Andy at andyblake727@gmail.com

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Shock World Service 040 Now is Come a Darker Day – A Best of Compilation by Jon Averill 18/01/2011 London, United Kingdom

Final Fantasy - The CN Tower Belongs To The Dead (Many Lives Version) The Canadian violinist Final Fantasy (now just known as Owen Pallet after some minor legal wrangling with a well known video game's lawyers) has featured numerous times on the World Service. This track is his best known and seemed like a polite way to kick off proceedings.
From Episode #015
Tuxedomoon - In a Manner of Speaking One of my favourite tracks ever from San Francisco's Tuxedomoon. Formed in 1977 by multi-instrumentalists Blaine L. Reininger and Steven Brown, then two students of electronic music at San Francisco City College. This track is taken from the album 'Holy Wars'. Anyone else think the vocal that comes in around 2 mins 30 secs in sounds like a bad Bowie impersonator?
From Episode #032
John Carpenter - The Windows A transient piece taken from the much lauded and hugely influential 1976 'Assault on Precinct 13' soundtrack.
From Episode #033
Miracle Fortress - Beach Baby I'm not a massive fan of Canada's Miracle Fortress but Beach Baby is a track I adore. Cathedralesque reverb underpins this psychedelic pop track.
From Episode #015
Mr Hopkinson's Computer - Crazy Mr Hopkinson's Computer sings novelty cover versions with varying degrees of success. Taken from our very first episode back on 2007.
From Episode #001
Goblin - Suspiria (Main Title) A proper spine-chilling piece of horror music from genre-masters Goblin.
From Episode #033
Luke Vibert - Sharp A2 This is a rare Luke Vibert track taken from the Mo' Wax compilation 'Headz 2'.
From Episode #032
Moondog – Couplet The short spoken word piece comes from Moondog, most definitely an act worthy of further research. Living on the streets of New York for over 30 years dressed in clothes based on his interpretation of the Norse god Thor.
From Episode #032
Brian Eno - The Big Ship So many Eno tracks have featured on the World Service over the last four years it was very hard to chose one for the best of. I eventually settled for 'The Big Ship'.
From Episode #029
Chocolate Witch Band - I'm Not Like Everybody Else San Jose psych-rock in the form of a cover version from The Chocolate Witch Band.
From Episode #009
Devo - Gut Feeling Originally appears on their 1978 album 'Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!' which is well worth picking up if you're not already familiar with the strange world of Devo.
From Episode #015
Memory Cassette - Asleep At A Party Phil Spectoresque Wall of Sound drums juxtaposed with otherworldly, childlike vocals.
From Episode #019
Talk Talk - New Grass One of Talk Talk's gentler moments, 'New Grass' undulates and flows river-like through inventive arrangement & melodies.
From Episode #024
Rev AW Nix - Black Diamond Express To Hell The Reverend AW Nix was a 1920s hellfire preacher intent on terrifying sinners onto the path of virtue with gospel influenced sermons that are now considered as musical in their own right.
From Episode #026
Of Montreal - The Past Is A Grotesque Animal An uncompromising pièce of power pop from Of Montreal with with literary references such as Georges Bataille's 'The Story Of The Eye'.
From Episode #009
Ola & The Janglers This crackly old track from Ola & The Janglers sounds like the epilogue of the universe, dramatic & overstated with every emotion amplified to the point of distortion.
From Episode #015

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Shock World Service 039 The Sound Of Screaming Girls by Cian Ó Cíobháin 07/12/10 Galway, Ireland

Tindersticks – The Not Knowing One of the most treasured bands from my college years, early Tindersticks still ride an expressway to my skull. I saw them play a few times in the mid to late nineties and – to my eternal shame – once tried to nick singer Stuart Staples’ jacket after a gig in Nancy Spain’s, Cork. He caught me in the act and calmly pointed out that his jacket, tailored by Timothy Everest in London, cost him quite a bit of money and that if I wanted a memento of the gig, suggested I take a setlist instead.
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Love Comes To Me Will Oldham has been around the block so many times now, to quote a friend of mine who has bought possibly everything he’s ever released – “After about ten albums I thought: OK, we get it. We. Get. It”. But the man still has the capacity to surprise and this tour-de-force from his later catalogue is up there with his best work. In fact, I noticed Conor O’ Brien AKA Villagers remark in an interview that it was the song he would most like to have composed and recorded.
Peter Broderick – Below It Still only 23, this native of Portland, Oregon has been quietly building up an impressive body of songs that belie his tender years. Has anyone, at any point in history, sang the line ‘The sound of screaming girls’ with such pathos?
American Spring – Falling In Love A B-side from 1972, produced by Brian Wilson, who was at that time married to Marilyn Wilson, one of the sisters in this early 70s pop duo, a duo who had previously released songs as Spring and before that again as The Honeys.
The Fantastic Baggys – It Was I Just another one of your run of the mill American surf and hot rod groups, but for this cracker, which first came to my attention on Sonic Boom’s seminal ‘Spacelines: Sonic Sounds For Subterraneans‘ compilation.
Pavement – Trigger Cut I also thought I liked Pavement, without being totally crazy about them. But their remastered collection from earlier this year ‘Quarantine The Past’ brought songs to my attention that I hadn’t heard in years, songs with the capacity to make me giddy with joy, songs that I find myself practicing air guitar moves to around my music room Is there any better motivation for a songwriter to write songs than to imagine his/her audience worked up in such a state?
The Books This NYC duo have mastered collage techniques to such an extent that whether drawing on found sound or thrift-shop music instruments or obscure speeches, they know how to amalgamate it all into a funky brew or a “three part Christian harmony mixed with a sort of euro-disco-trash beat” as vocalist Nick Zammuto describes one of the tracks on their 2010 LP ‘The Way Out’. Probably not this track, but you get the picture.
Love – Maybe The People Would Be The Times Or Between Clark & Hilldale I’m a relatively newcomer to Love’s seminal ‘Forever Changes’. I’m not one of the precocious cool kids who was listening to Arthur Lee or John Coltrane VIA my parents’ record collection from an impossibly early age. In the house of my childhood, it was all Seán Ó Riada and Liam Óg Ó Floinn, before I rebelled and started buying Madonna (Shep Pettibone-era) records. But when Arthur Lee finally shone his light on me, only a few short years ago, this one sounded like it should have been part of my soundtrack down through the years.
Radical Face – Winter Is Coming I played this for a friend recently who thought it sounded like the best song that Frank Black/Black Francis never wrote. It’s from a 2007 LP on Morr Music called ‘Ghost’ by Ben Cooper, who had previously released electrocuted glitch-pop as Electric President.

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Shock World Service #038 Autumn EP by Vision Air 21/10/10 Dublin, Ireland

Vision Air - Troll's Hat
Vision Air - Kin-Youbi
Vision Air - Totem
Vision Air - God’s Hammer

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Shock World Service 037 The Ideal Correspondence by Jon Averill 17/09/10 London, United Kingdom.

Harry Partch - I'm Going To Start You Off By Giving You Some Sounds Harry Partch is an American composer & the first of three of this show's featured musicians who designed & created many of their own instruments. He was was fascinated buy microtonality, creating his own 43-tone scale system.
Piano Magic - Exit Just realised our first track proper is called 'Exit', that's not important. Piano Magic have featured previously on the World Service yet they're somehow still criminally ignored. Their most recent album 'Ovations' is most definitely worth a listen. It features contributions by Brendan Perry & Peter Ulrich of Dead Can Dance. Also for some reason this track reminds of the XX, which in turn reminds me of Chris Issak's 'Wicked Games'.
Lusine - Gravity Lusine is based in Seattle & releases his music through the very decent Ghostly International label. Occasionally I worry he is drifting too far into the arena of the coffee table but his productions are in the main too good to collapse into the placid zone.
2562 - Greyscale 2562 is a Dutch producer who loosely falls into the category of dubstep. I generally despise most of the cliched 'wobble' stuff but if you look a little deeper than you'll find that some of the most exciting electronic music is happening around the fringes of the scene.
LV - Turnaway Another impressively spacious LV track on the Hyperdub label (home to Burial, Kode9, Zomby) mixing dub, reggae & broken beat. The 'Five Years of Hyperdub' compilation is an extensive but accessible entry point.
Dubbel Dutch - Fool In You Again on the fringes different styles, UK funky, garage & broken beat - its looping vocal and blasting synths are also a big nod (& maybe a little wink) to early rave productions which are a big influence on this genre.
Acid Brass - Lets Get Brutal Acid Brass is an album of rave/techno classics conceived by Turner-Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller & executed by The Williams Fairey Brass Band. As with these types of projects some of the tracks fall flat but a scant few of them were worth the toil and serve to enhance the musicality of the originals. This version of Nitro Delux's 'Lets Get Brutal' is the worthiest track from the album.
Lucky Dragons - Open Melody 'Art-drone' duo Lucky Dragons have crept up on me to become one of my favourite bands, creating their own inimitable pallet of repeating noises drones & twisting them into something really beautiful. They've recorded 21 albums since 1999 apparently. This is from their most recent 'Rara Speaks'.
Quincy Jones - Exodus The closest thing to jazz we've had on the World Service. Quincy Jones is a man who is as near to the status of a god as a mortal can hope for.He's worked as a trumpet player, musical arranger, film composer, television producer, has 79 Grammy nominations to his name.
Yamasuki Singers - Yama Yama The booklet for this cd says 'educational-bubblegum-multi-cultural-psycho-rock-opera' & anything I offer beyond that will be valueless.
The Upsetters - Tight Spot The fabulous Upsetters with the even more fabulous Lee Scratch Perry at the controls.
Library Tapes - Terese Scratchy soliloquy from Library Tapes 'Like Green Grass Against A Blue Sky' album.
Top Drawer - Song Of A Sinner We finish this podcast with a redemptive psychedelic triumph. I'd never heard of Top Drawer until his track was made available on a compilation entitled 'Forge Your Own Chains: Heavy Psychedelic Ballads & Dirges’.

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Shock World Service 036 90% of Me is You by Jon Averill & Stephen Reynolds 21/07/10 Dublin, Ireland

The Human League - Get Carter Appearing as a brief Casio keyboard leitmotif on their classic 'Dare' album. The melody is from Roy Budd's jazzy, hypnotic soundtrack to the 1971 film of the same name.
This Mortal Coil - Song To The Siren This Mortal Coil was a supergroup of 4AD artists brought together by label boss Ivo Watts-Russell for an EP in 1983. Featuring members of Cocteau Twins, Modern English and Cindytalk they re-recorded a Modern English medley with this track, originally by Tim Buckley track as the b-side.
The Dynamics - 90% Of Me Is You Versions and excursions from France as The Dynamics inject some reggae and dub elements into Gwen McCrae's 1974 classic '90% Of Me Is You'
Morrissey & Siouxsie - Interlude A Lesser known collaboration between Siouxsie (of Siouxsie & The Banshees) and Morrissey. A fruitful but ultimately commercially unsuccessful alliance which was eventually released in 1994 but not promoted due the pair having a major fallout with regard track's promotional video. The song originally appears as 'Time Is Like A Dream' on the soundtrack to the 1968 film 'Interlude'.
Grace Jones - Warm Leatherette Throughout Grace Jones's extraordinary career she has always been shrewd with her musical choices. This track, a cover of The Normal's 'Warm Leatherette' is an anthesis to the original, dropping the visceral drum track and deadpan delivery for a more substantial groove. The Normal's'Warm Leatherette' originally appeared as the b-side to "T.V.O.D, the first release on Mute Records and heavily references J.G. Ballard's controversial 1973 symphorophilia based novel 'Crash'.
Montovani & His Orchestra - La Vie En Rose Fans of Grace Jones will be first to notice the connection here. 'La Vie En Rose' is another track to receive a Grace Jones reworking, perhaps even more radically than 'Warm Leatherette'. None of this however concerns us as Annunzio Paolo Mantovani and his orchestra are providing this podcasts version of 'La Vie En Rose'. This track may seem like a strange choice to some but I love the innocence and ardour that this piece of music exudes, next thing i'll be watching musicals...
Spiritualized - Born Never Asked 'Born Never Asked' appears on Spiritualized's 1995 album 'Pure Phase'. Strangely being a massive fan its only recently have I discovered the original version is by Laurie Anderson. This track is actually surprisingly short compared to Spriritualized’s usual 15 minute opuses.
The Slits - Heard It Through The Grapevine The Slits were (initially) an all female band formed right at the inception of the punk movement, regularly supporting bands like The Clash, The Buzzcocks and Subway Sect. We consider The Slits raw and unrefined take on 'Heard It Through The Grapevine' second only to the unequaled Marvin Gaye's version and far surpasses the earlier clumsy Smokey Robinson version as well as other attempts by Credence Clearwater, Gladys Knight and of course Craig David.
Art Of Noise - Robinson Crusoe Art Of Noise haven't really done anything to the original track bar add some drums and a few effects but we're glad they did as it grants it official 'cover' status and therefore eligible for this podcast.
Lee Hazlewood - Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin On Lee Hazlewood has featured heavily on Shock World Service Podcasts over the years. His wry, sardonic sense of humour is never more present than in his brilliantly creepy version of 'Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin On'. The origins of this track are often disputed but its the 1957 rock and roll version by Jerry Lee Lewis that was most likely the progenitor for this cover.

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Shock World Service 034 We Will Wade in the Tides of the Summer by Cian Ó Cíobháin 26/05/10 Galway, Ireland

Quincy Jones – Summer In The City Nightmares on Wax built their career sampling the Quincy Jones cover of The Lovin' Spoonful's 1966 hit. Nevertheless, it's the Quincy Jones version, above all others, that has me seeking out urban green areas when the sun comes out.
Quiet Village – Too High To Move The temptation when compiling a summer mix is to go 'all Balearic' and virtually anything on the 'Silent Movie' LP, released two years ago, would fit such an agenda.
The Avalanches – Since I Left You The Avalanches' 2001 début LP, which was ably stitched together from hundreds of samples, mostly sourced from forgotten exotic records foraged from junk shops, is a record custom designed for summertime.
Saint Etienne – Spring (Air France Mix) The pedants will call me up on the title of this Saint Etienne song from 1991, but the vibe is quintessentially summer. The original appears on the sublime 'Foxbase Alpha'; this version was released in 2009.
Grandaddy – Miner At The Dial-A-View Summer comes to life at the mere plucking of a Spanish guitar. From the 2000 LP 'The Sophtware Slump'.
Bill Withers – Harlem A song about the most hedonistic night of the week. The vibe is gleeful but there’s a bittersweet undercurrent. A tension that makes this song so delicious.
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Round & Round "Sentimental, heart-breaking, everything's my fault". . . L.A.'s Ariel Rosenberg has been making gorgeous lo-fi pop music for many years now and his new LP - 'Before Today' - on 4AD should see his music reaching a wider audience.
Caribou – Jameila Pop of an electronic bent always sounds better when the sky is blue and the weather is warm and Caribou's recent LP 'Swim' is crammed with summertime hooks.
Mark E – R’n’B Drunkie Mark E's re-work of Janet Jackson's 'R'n'B Junkie' - layered to perfection, with the line between tension and release deliciously taut - I sincerely feel goosebumps when that bassline thumps.
Jamie Jones – Ruckus (Discoid Dub) The Welsh whizzkid only had one season in mind when he made this tune. Will be a fixture on the shores of the Med, from Mykonos to Bora Bora in the coming months.
Bibio – Lovers’ Carvings The rays of late evening (and maybe late summer?) permeate this song from Bibio's 2009 LP 'Ambivalence Avenue'.
B-Movie Lightning – Triple Trouble The mighty Mike Smalle, previously of Cane 141, with his original version of this song which appeared on my compilation 'An Taobh Tuathail Vol III'. The newer version, just released on his own Micropolis label, features an additional horn section – go seek on Itunes.
El Guincho – Palmitos Park From the sun-soaked Canary Islands, this cover of The Ruby Suns song is as warm and sultry as the environment in which it was conceived.
Pixies – Velouria From whence the title of this podcast came. From their underrated 'Bossanova' LP, an album that I will forever associate with teenage summers in West Kerry.
Pantha Du Prince – Im Bann A Balearic time-out from the recent Pantha Du Prince album 'Black Noise'. The rest of the LP features sassy goatherd techno anthems from the Alps. I like it.
Spectrum – I Know They Say Pete Kember, aka Sonic Boom from Spacemen 3 and recent producer of MGMT's second LP, released a gorgeous LP called 'Highs, Lows & Heavenly Blows' in 1994, which featured this twilight, seaside hymn.
Cocteau Twins – Frou-Frou Foxes In Midsummer Fires I’ve long-felt that 'Heaven Or Las Vegas' is the Shangri-La of summer LPs.

Cian presents An Taobh Tuathail (The Other Side) on RTE RnaG, weeknights at 11pm.

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Shock World Service 033 Padded Celluloid by Neil Higgins (Padded Cell)

John Carpenter - Romero and the President (Escape from New York)
Ennio Morricone - Sterilization (The Thing)
Riz Ortolani - Massacre of the Troupe (Cannibal Holocaust)
John Carpenter - The Windows (Assault on Precinct 13)
Tangerine Dream - Impressions of Sorceror (Sorceror)
Goblin - Suspiria (Suspiria)
Popol Vuh - Zwiesprache Der Rohrflöte (Nosferatu the Vampyre)
Libra - Shock (Shock)
Herbie Hancock - Death Wish Re-edit 1’ (Death Wish)
Fabio Frizzi - Violenza (La Pelle)
Stelvio Cipriani - Hot Chase (L’Ispettore Anticrimine)
John Carpenter - Chase Across the 69th Street Bridge (Escape from New York)
Goblin ‘Death Dies- (Profondo Rosso)
Harry Manfredini & Michael Zager - Theme from Friday the 13th pt 3
Lalo Schifrin - Jaws
Ennio Morricone - Un Uomo da Rispettare Titoli

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Shock World Service 032 At The End She Was Gone by Jon Averill 09/04/10 London, United Kingdom

Idioma – Landscapes It took me weeks to settle on the right track to open this episode but I think this was the right choice, or maybe not, can I change?
Luke Vibert - Sharp A2 This is a track i've loved for years but never really had a chance to share. Its taken from the Mo' Wax compilation 'Headz 2'. Luke Vibert has produced astounding music no matter what style he applies himself too. This track has the elements of what became a the clichéd 'trip-hop' style but when the piano drops the hairs stand up on the back of your neck.
Roll The Dice - Guadeloupe A more positive aspect of the internet music revolution is the chance to discover music that may have otherwise passed you by. Roll The Dice are a case in point. An enchanting collaboration between two Swedish studio boffins, Peder Mannerfelt & Malcolm Pardon.
Sir Lady Java - My Mom Said This song took me about fifteen years to track down & as far as I know it was never officially released. Its taken from a soundtrack to the H-Street skateboard video ‘A Soldier’s Story’. Thinking back my first exposure to alternative music came from the soundtrack to skate videos.
Harold Budd - Neil's Theme Harold Budd, an American ambient/avant-garde composer (& sometimes poet). ‘Neil’s Theme’ is a collaboration with Cocteau Twins & Violet Indiana guitarist Robin Guthrie and is taken from the soundtrack to ‘Mysterious Skin’.
Moondog – Couplet The shortest ever track on the podcasts comes from Moondog. An artist I have become obsessed with recently so no doubt you'll be hearing a lot more from him in forthcoming podcasts.
Lionrock - Snapshot On Pollard Street I recently rediscovered Justin Robertson's 'An Instinct For Detection' from 1997. Another release that that has been lost in the mid nineties big beat mist.
Hawkwind - Welcome To The Future Freakout interlude from the legendary English 'space rock' act.
Piano Magic - A Fond Fairwell From their latest album 'Ovation'. On first listen it reminded me a lot of Dead Can Dance & on further investigation DCD percussionist Peter Ulrich features on this track. So basically what i'm saying is that I was absolutely right.
Popul Vuh - Der Tod De Corba Verde Another act that have been a huge influence on me since I was very young. This track is taken from the ‘Cobra Verde’ OST.
Luisine - Two Dots One of the first tracks I picked out for this podcast when I started it way back in 2009. Its a perfectly formed piece of electronic pop & sonically it has a lot in common with this podcasts opening track from Idioma.
Brian Eno – Becalmed Brian Eno could be the one artist who best sums up the World Service. He's appeared numerous times in episodes from our DJs. This track 'Becalmed' is from my favourite album of his, 'Another Green World'.
Adrian Munsey - I Think Its Going To Rain Today A crackly old 7" 'I Think Its Going To Rain Today' is a Randy Newman track has been covered by David Gray, Bette Midler, Claudine Longet, Judy Collins, Dusty Springfield, Neil Diamond, Peggy Lee, UB40 & Peter Gabriel. This may be the best version.
Orbital - Belfast/Wasted In my teen years while most were listening to Nirvana and other long haired paragons, my walkman cassettes principally contained music from Orbital. It probably speaks volume of my lack of emotional depth that two middle aged bald men making instrumental music were the most important band of my teenage years. This is a rare version of 'Belfast' released as a promo only in 1995 and features new vocals by Grant Fulton.

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Shock World Service #031 A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond by Mike Smalle 13/02/10 Galway, Ireland

Small Faces - Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
David Sylvian - Before & Afterlife (Edit)
Fan Death - Veronica's Veil (Erol Alkan Rework)
Bibio - Sugarette (Wax Stag Remix)
Aphex Twin - Flim
Hermann & Kleine - Leaving You Behind
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
The Scene Is Now - Yours In Concrete Friendship
Captain Beefheart - A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond
LCD Soundsystem - 45:33 (Prince Language Mix)
M83 - You Appearing
ABC - The Look Of Love (Part four)
Mos Def - Priority
Basil Kirchin - I Start Counting
Lee Hazlewood - Frenesi
Mount Kimbie - Sketch On Glass
Michel Polnareff - Love Me, Please Love Me
Fennesz - Ink
Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightnin'

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A Mixtape For Omar D Little (Cause A Man Got To Have A Code) by Cian Ó Cíobháin 26/08/09 Galway, Ireland

Biosphere – Kobresia I kicked off my first podcast for Shock with a field recording from Geir Jenssen, AKA Biosphere. Here he is doing the honours again with a track from the 2001 re-issue of his classic ‘Substrata’ LP, released on Touch.
Cocteau Twins – Lazy Calm I’ve been revisiting the Cocteau’s back catalogue with brio recently. This one, from an LP called ‘Victorialand’, brings me back to when I was about 14, discovering for the first time that a whole universe of music existed beyond the Hit Parade.
Broadcast – Echo’s Answer From a LP called ‘The Noise Made By People’ on Warp, this Birmingham band have been making beautiful music with a minimum of fuss for almost 12 years now.
Torngat – Afternoon Moon Pie Montréal ambient post-rockers with a gorgeous instrumental from their recent LP ‘La Petite Nicole’ on Alien8.
Q Lazzarus – Goodbye Horses (Krikor Edit) You know that bit toward the end of ‘The Silence Of The Lambs’ where Buffalo Bill, the serial killer, is applying his make-up and dancing in front of the mirror? This is the song (though not the edit) that’s playing. I always thought it seemed out of context as it’s a beautiful song with genuine pathos.
Stimming – Song For Isabelle One of the most beautiful 4/4 tunes I’ve heard this year, from Hamburg’s Martin Stimming.
Coalition Of The Killing V Eutactic – Haven’t Gotten So Far Another tuneful 4/4 cut coming from a mournful place, taken from the ‘What Of The Future?’ EP on Auralism.
Clark – Absence I must admit that I’m not a fan of Chris Clark’s new LP ‘Totems Flare’. Too gnarly in places, with overwrought Crookers-esque synths.
Department Of Eagles – Round The Bay Side project from Daniel Rossen, of Grizzly Bear, and his friend Fred Nicolaus. This song is my personal highlight from the ‘In Ear Park’ LP.
Atlas Sound – River Card Would it be heresy to suggest that the music that Brandon James Cox has released under his Atlas Sound alias has more depth and panache than his more publicised work as Deerhoof?
Linda Scott – I’ve Told Every Little Star One of my favourite songs ever. Thank you David Lynch for introducing it to me. Used hauntingly (as are all songs from the fifties & sixties in his movies of course) on the ‘Mulholland Drive’ soundtrack.
The Shirelles – Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? While I was busting out my girl-group moves, I thought I might as well stick this one in, which - like the Linda Scott song - was a million-selling hit in 1961.
Animal Collective – Bluish I have yet to hear a superior LP this year to ‘Merriweather Post Pavillion.’
Cane 141 – Eager Boy Comics It’s no secret that I consider Cane 141’s ‘Garden Tiger Moth’ the best Irish LP since MBV’s ‘Loveless’. Timeless perfectly-crafted indie pop with shades of Stereolab, Pere Ubu, The Go-Betweens and C-86.
Cinnamon Chasers – Luv Deluxe This retro/future bachelor-pad disco-pop ditty was composed by one Russ Davies, the son of Dave and nephew of Ray Davies, from The Kinks.
The Long Blondes – Fulwood Babylon Speaking of The Kinks, who are mentioned in this song, as are illicit Russ Mayer films, this is a Long Blondes B-side, which - I believe – may have been Erol Alkan’s first production for this now sadly defunct Sheffield band. This is what I imagine when you say the words ‘indie disco’.
The Specials – Friday Night, Saturday Morning Like the aforementioned Kinks & The Long Blondes, this 1981 ska classic tells its tale with a deft and humorous touch.
Seavault – Cornfields Tucked away on CD#2 of a Morr Music compilation entitled ‘Not Given Lightly’, which is mainly a covers of classic 80’s Kiwi indie pop, this one – which isn’t a cover as far as I know.

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Shock World Service 029: The End Of Something by Mano Le Tough 20/08/09 Berlin, Germany

Brian Eno - Always Returning The first of two Eno tracks that bookend the mix. from his 1983 album 'Music For Films Vol. 2'
The Carpenters - Superstar Karen Carpenter's voice was just unreal. love this one, so melancholy with a wonderful chorus. "loneliness is such a sad affair"... indeed!
Donnacha Costello - Closing Circles Lovely atmospheric track from Donnacha. was released on his new label Look Long in 2009.
Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme - Black Hole Sun Soundgarden's 'Blackhole Sun' gets the big band treatment on this one from las vegas lounge lizard husband and wife duo Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme. picked it up on d.i.r.t.y. 12" a couple of years ago.
Lee Hazlewood - Look At That Woman My good friend Richie Egan aka Jape turned me on to this album many moons ago... amazing track, love the change after the spoken word intro..."kinda soft and gooey lookin"... wowzerz
Girls - Hellhole Ratrace Love this one from San Francisco's 'Girls'… this beautiful woozy track came out on 'Fantasy Trashcan' in 2009
Burial - Raver My favorite Burial track, so deep and melancholic
Efdemin - Acid Bells (Martyn's Bittersweet Mix) Martyn on the remix here of Efdemin. amazing piano...
Brian Eno - The Big Ship Eno to finish, this time from 1975's Another Green World

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Shock World Service 027 Tropical Hot Dog Night Pt.1 by Rory Phillips 08/08/2009 London, United Kingdom

Lio - Amoureux Solitaires
Andy Arthurs - I Am A Machine
Talking Heads - Pulled Up
Robert Palmer - Looking For Clues
Honeymoon Killers - Histoire a Suivre
Ronnie Cook and The Gaylads - Goo Goo Muck
Dub Narcotic Sound System - Shake A Puddin
George Clinton - Atomic Dog (Extended)
Sam Jam - Dance & Chant
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Tropical Hot Dog Night
Maximum Joy - In The Air
Weave! - Bravery
Casino Music - Faites Le Proton

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Shock World Service #028 Tropical Hot Dog Night Pt.2 by Rory Phillips; 08/08/2009 London, United Kingdom

Mathematiques Modernes - Disco Rough
The Modern Lovers - Dodge Veg-o-matic
Harry Nilsson - Jump Into The Fire
Material - Slow Murder
Sexual Harassment - You Are My Sexual Connection
Units - High Pressure Days
Silver Apples - I Don't Care What The People Say
Weird War - Mental Poisoning
Lora Logic - Wonderful Offer

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Shock World Service 026 Black Diamond Express to Hell by Stephen Reynolds 09/07/09 Dublin, Ireland

Rev AW Nix - Black Diamond Express To Hell
Mount Kimbie - Maybes
Paul Simon - 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover
Milanese - Caramel Cognac
Joker - Snake Eater
Denis Wilson - River Song
Studio - Origin
Fox - S S S Single Bed
Das Bierbeben - Delirium
Circlesquare - Stop Taking (So Many)

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Shock World Service #025 Parts Unknown by Grand Master Evlis 10/05/2009 Dublin, Ireland

Top Gear Signature Tune - John Peel
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Pure
The Cure - The Caterpillar (Flicker Mix)
Unknown
Westbam - Conga
Woolfy Vs Projections - Neeve (Permanent Vacation Tropical Heat Mix)
Nubian Mindz - Afrika Man
Motor City Drum Ensemble - Frontin
Radiohead - Cymbal Rush(The Field Late Night Essen und Trinken Mix)
Antena - Camino Del Sol (Joakim Remix)
Morten Sorenson - Start Something (40 Theives Mix)
Eric Prydz Featuring Adeva - In & Out (Hugg & Pepp Mix)
Beppe Loda - Volcano (John Daly Version)
The Oscillation - Head Hang Low (Kelpe Version)

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Shock World Service 024: Mike Smalle Wild Combinations by Mike Smalle 29/04/2009 Galway, Ireland

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Arthur Russell - That's Us/Wild Combination
Kraftwerk - The Telephone Call
Belbury Poly - From An Ancient Star
Quiet Village - Can't Be Beat
Tuxedomoon - In A Matter Of Speaking
Japan - Quiet Life
Roxy Music - Sea Breezes (edit)
Talk Talk - New Grass
Augustus Pablo - Frozen Dub
Selda - Yaylalar
William Burroughs - Kim Like The Great Gatsby VS John Cage : First Interlude
Burial - Forever
Clark - Diesel Raven
AGF/Delay - Outbreak
Joe Byrd & The Field Hippies - Patriot's Lullabye
Can - Moonshake
The Cramps - Human Fly

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Shock World Service 023 Space Race 200 by Tim Sweeny (Beats In Space) 13/04/2009 New York, United States of America

Lipps Inc - How Long?
Lilyanne, Hawkeye - Unstoppable
Liquid Liquid - Optimo
La Funk Mob - Motor Bass Get Phunked Up (Richie Hawtin Electrofunk Mix)
International Pony - Our House
Unknown
808 State - Let Yourself Go (303 Mix)
Deee-Lite - Wild Times (Mayday Mix)
S’Express - S’Express (Unknown Mix)
Unknown
Sylvester - Dance (Disco Heat)
Don Armando's Second Avenue Rumba Band - I’m An Indian Too (12” Version)

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Shock World Service 022 I Don't Think It Will Ever Happen Again by Mike Smalle 12/02/2009 Galway, Ireland

The Shangri-Las - Past, Present & Future
Throbbing Gristle - Hot On The Heels Of Love
Young Marble Giants - Credit In The Straight World
The Cosmic Jokers - Electronenzirkus
Durutti Column - Otis
Faust - The Sad Skinhead
Mohammed Rafi - Jaan Pehechaan Ho
United States Of America - The Garden Of Earthly Delights
Junior Boys - Count Souvenirs
Coil - A Cold Cell
Portishead - Machine Gun
Max Richter - Harmonium (edit)
Harmonia - Sonnenschein
Bruce Haack - Good Life, Good Life
Lindstrom - I Feel Space (M.A.N.D.Y Mix)
Matmos - Solo Buttons For Joe Meek
Link wray - Jack The Ripper
The Delmonas - I Feel Like Giving In
Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance
Sun Ra - A Foggy Day
Felt - Magellan

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Shock World Service 021 Shock Me Quietly by Mano Le Tough 06/02/09 Berlin, Germany

Mano Le Tough - Waking Up (Exclusive)
Steve Reich - Section
Hauschka - Blue Bicycle
Neu! - Isi
Appalousa - The Day We Fell In Love
Rubies - The Keys (Studio Remix)
The Alan Parsons Project - Whats Goes Up
Popol Vuh - Wo Bist Du, Der Du Uberwunden
Midlake - Roscoe

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Shock World Service 020 The Minimum Of Life by Joakim 31/01/2009

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Shock World Service 019 Asleep at a Party by Stephen Reynolds 14/01/2009 Dublin, Ireland

OMD - Radio Prague
Beastie Boys - Transitions
Egg - Fugue In D Minor
High Places - The Tree With The Lights In It
Gang Gang Dance - Nicoman
The Notwist - Boneless (Panda Bear Remix)
Pam Hogg - Honeyland
Stars - What The Snowman Learned About Love
Memory Cassette - Asleep At a Party
Lena Lovich - I Think We're Alone Now
Jona Lewie - The Baby, She's On The Street
The Earlies - Morning Wonder
Whitley - A Shot To The Stars
Luna - Superfreaky Memories

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Shock World Service 018 I'm Dreaming of a Quiet Christmas by Cian Ó’Ciobhain 25/12/2008 Galway, Ireland

Akira – White Xmas (Entropy Remix)
Virginia Astley – A Summer Long Since Passed
Ryuichi Sakamoto – Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
Takeo Toyoma – Bobbin
Sufjan Stevens – Star Of Wonder
Mogwai – Christmas Song
Mechanical Bride – Umbrella
Decoder Ring – Heidi’s Theme
Gavin Bryars with Tom Waits – Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet
The Caretaker – False Memory Syndrome
Tom Waits – Innocent When You Dream (78)
Donald Byrd – Cristo Redentor
Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley – Pure Imagination
The Carpenters – I Can Dream Can’t I?

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Shock World Service 017 Shock The Dancefloor Vol 2. by Jon Averill 6/12/2008 Dublin, Ireland

John Cooper Clarke - Live at Shock Intro
Born Ruffians - I Need A Life (Four Tet Mix)
Rondo Veneziano - La Senerissima
Robert Palmer - You Are In My System
Aleem - Release Yourself
Tullio De Piscopo - E Fatto 'E Sorde! E?
Brian Eno & David Byrne - The Jezebel Spirit
Ray Mang - Look Into My Eyes
Talking Heads - I Zimbra
Midnight Mike - Hot In The Kitchen
Nitzer Ebb - Warsaw Ghetto
Georges Vert - Electric Bird
Ku Bo - Turnerment
Egyptian Lover - Party (Bonus Beats)
Capacara - 20hz
Devo - Disco Dancer
Bronski Beat - Hit That Perfect Beat
Sique Sique Sputnik - 21st Century Boy

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Shock World Service 016: A Wave That Leads You Home by Cian Ó Cíobháin 19/11/2008 Galway, Ireland

Grouper – Disengaged
Paavoharju – Pimeänkarkelo
White Noise – Love Without Sound
The Sound Of Lucrecia – Answering Machine
James Yorkston – Woozy With Cider (King Biscuit Time Mix
Gwen Maze – More Than Love (Anthony Collins Remix)
Moodyman – The Thief That Stole My Sad Days... Ya Blessin Me
The Cure – The Caterpillar
RickoLus – Ceremony
The Parsonage - Love Will Tear Us Apart
The Supremes – My World Is Empty Without You
The Three Degrees – Reflections Of Yesterday
Grovesnor – Drive Your Car
Tensnake – Congolal
Chad Jankel – Glad To Know You (Todd Terje Edit)
Holger Hiller – Das Feuer (Pilooski Edit)
Dapayk Solo – A Wave That Leads You Home
Paul & Fritz Kalkbrenner – Sky & Sand
Felix Da Housecat – What Does It Feel Like? (Röyksopp Return The Sun Mix)

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Shock World Service 015: At The Department Of Forgotten Songs (Jon Averill) 10/11/2008 Dublin, Ireland

Eleni Karaindrou - Litany (Variation I)
Jagat Skad - Home Squirrels
Menahan Street Band - The Contender
Final Fantasy - Many Lives
Codek - Tim Toum
Jeremy Jay - Airwalker
Jens Lekman - At The Department Of Forgotten Songs
The Jesus & Mary Chain - Cracking Up
The Chameleons - Up The Down Escalator
Lee Hazlewood - My Baby Cried All Night Long
Devo - Gut Feelings
Gang Gang Dance - First Communion
Comsat Angles - Now I Know
Miracle Fortress - Beach Baby
Apparat Organ Quartet - Romantika
Ola - What A Way To Die

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Shock World Service 014: We Got Our Own Thing Recorded Live at Nightflight by Jon Averill 06/09/2008 Dublin, Ireland

JVC Force - We Got Our Own Thing
M Craft - You Are The Music (Playgroup Mix)
John Carpenter - The End (Scratch Mix)
The Black Dog - Cost 2
Max Sedgley - Happy (Bent Mix)
Chromeo - Your So Gangsta (Playgroup Mix)
The Shortwave Set - Now Till '69 (Aeroplane Mix)
Telex - Moskow Disco
Pet Shop Boys - I Want A Dog
Gary Davis - The Professors Here (40 Thieves Mix)
2020 Soundsystem - The Chase
Tullio De Piscopo - 'E Fatto 'E Sorde! E (Money Money) (Maxessa Edit)

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Shock World Service 013 Stay Out Of It by Jon Averill 08/07/2008 Dublin, Ireland

Cabaret Voltaire - Stay Out Of It
The Specials - Friday Night, Saturday Morning
Public Image Ltd. - Public Image Ltd
John Cooper Clarke - Midnight Shift
Echo & The Bunnymen - The Cutter
Severed Heads - Dead Eyes Opened (Mix 3)
Television Personalities - Where's Bill Grundy Now?
Wasted Youth - Rebecca's Room
A Certain Ratio - Sounds Like Something Dirty
The Higher Primates - Taking In The Summer
Captain Sensible - Martha The Mouth

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Shock World Service 012 I Don’t Wanna Be Nice by Stephen Reynolds 15/06/08 Dublin, Ireland

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The Congos - Fisherman
The Clash - Armagideon Time
The Pop Group - She Is Between Good & Evil
Glaxo Babies - This Is Your Life
John Cooper Clarke - I Don't Wanna Be Nice
The Slits - Shopllifting
Magazine - A Song From Under The Floorboards
Au Pairs - It's Obvious
Department S - Is Vic There?
Virgin Prunes - Baby Turns Blue

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Shock World Service 011 Everyone's Got To Make A Livin' by Joakim 11/04/08 Leeds, United Kingdom

Kenny Dope Presents Powerhouse 3 - Makin' A Livin
Westbam - Monkey Say, Monkey Do
Mr Zim & Pablo Ingles – Peanut Butter Jelly Time
Prince – Sign Of The Times
Tiga – Pleasure From The Bass (Joakim Mix)
Ark - Sucubz (Mr. Oizo Remix)
M83/Aphex Twin/Khia - Pussylicker (Edit)
Hercules & Love Affair - You Belong (Riton Remix)
Kenny Dope - Jam The Mace
Armando - Radikal Bitch (London Fierce Pussy Mix)
Basement Jaxx - Set Your Body Free
Poni Hoax - Hypercommunication (Joakim's Cartoon Muscles Mix)
France Copland - RutgerHauer Song
Beni - My Love Needs You

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Shock World Service 010 Norwegian's Would by Diskjøkke & Vinny Villbass; 02/04/08 Oslo, Norway

Kaoru Inoue - The Secret Field (Todd Terje Mix)
DJ Kaos & Muallem - Awakening
Ytre Rymden Dansskola - Kjappfot
Lil'Wolf - Deliver Me (Diskjokke & Vinny Villbass Mix)
Bot'ox - Babylon By Car
Mock & Toof - Beat Up
Aeroplane - Above The Clouds (Dub Club Mix)
Syclops - Monkeypuss
Inviscible Scum - Shake It Up
Ajello - Magic Feet
Sh!t Robot - Chasm
Patrick Cowley - Primitive World
Love Is All - Make Out Fall Out Make Up (A Chickenlips Malfunction)
Fred Cherry - Busride To The Zoo
Les Edits Du Golem - Spacerock
Rinder & Lewis - 7 Deadly Sins
Dirty 30 - Disco Apocalypto
Randaberg Ego Ensemble - Vestamaran (Prins Thomas Mix)
Diskjokke - Aza Nizi Masa
Holy Ghost! - Hold On (Blackjoy Mazego Groove)

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Shock World Service 009 The Past Is a Grotesque Animal (Stephen Reynolds) 02/02/08 Dublin, Ireland

Sylford Walker - Deuteronomy
Steel Pulse - Ku Klux Klan
David Holmes - Happiness / Slip Your Skin
The Slickee Boys - Psycho Daisies
The Chocolate Watch Band - I'm Not Like Everybody Else
World Domination Enterprises - Asbestos Lead Asbestos
Killing Joke - Change (Dub)
Battant - Kevin
Huggy Bear - Her Jazz
The Kills - Fuck The People
The Wedding Present - Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft
Panico - Guadaloupe
Of Montreal - The Past Is a Grotesque Animal

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Shock World Service #008 Padded Cell Live 12/12/07 London, United Kingdom

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Unknown Zone
Signal Failure
TSOP (PC Re-edit)
Theme from Friday 13th
Moon Menace
Konkorde Lafayette
My Children Sleep Next to the Echo Chamber

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Shock World Service 007 Say Yes by Nadia Ksaiba 24/11/07 London, United Kingdom

Vijay Benedict - I Am A Disco Dancer
Thelonious Monk - Rhythm-A-Ning
Art Ensemble of Chicago - Theme De Yo Yo
Andre Williams - God Father Part 1
Man Friday - Love Honey Love Heartache (Larry Levan Mix)
Hey Willpower - Uh-Uh-Uh (Strategy Mix)
Tomboy - Swan (Extended)
LCD Soundsystem - Freak out
Unknown - Love Cant Turn Around
Padded Cell - Faces Of The Forest
Cerrone - Hooked On You
Orlando Riva Sound - Moonboots (A Tom Moulton Mix)
Giuseppe Manuele - Are You Down
Tomboy - Something
Wekan - Skid
Bangkok Impact - Taming The Taurus

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Shock World Service 006 Another September by Cian Ó Cíobháin 31/10/07 Galway, Ireland

Geir Jenssen - Camp 2: World Music On The Radio
A Hawk & A Hacksaw - In The River
Panda Bear - Comfy In Nautica
My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes
Vector Lovers - A Field
Italoboyz - Viktor Casanova
Roland Appel - Dark Soldier
Burial - Ghost Hardware
Joy Division - She's Lost Control (Tronik Youth Shred-It Edit)
Trans Am - 2378 Regrets
The Human Beinz - Nobody But Me (Pilooski Edit)
Midnight Mike - Mongloid
Mr Hopkinson's Computer - Where Is My Mind?
Final Fantasy - The CN Tower Belongs To The Dead
Kate Bush - Army Dreamers
The Cryin Shames - Please Stay
Porn Sword Tobacco - En Hyllning Till Cyckeln

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Shock World Service 005 Durrr on the Dancefloor by Rory Phillips 11/09/07 London, United Kingdom

The Gossip - Yr Mangled Heart (Rory Phillips Remangle)
Princess Superstar - Licky (Herve Goes Low Mix)
Dusty Kid - The Cat (Crookers Mix)
Bjork - Innocence (Simian Mobile Disco Mix)
Brodinski - Bad Runner
Kraftwerk - Aerodynamik (Etienne de Crécy mix)
Surkin - Radio Fireworks (Riot In Belgium Mix)
LA priest - Engine
Justice - Phantom Pt II (Soulwax Nite Version)

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Shock World Service 004 The Golden Ratio by Jon Averill 31/07/07 Dublin, Ireland

Johnny Trunk - Zeus
Plone - On My Bus
The Mystery Jets - The Pioneers
The Whitest Boy Alive - Golden Cage
Luke Vibert - Asheed
Roisin Murphy - Overpowered
Son Of Sound - Lust'n'Space
Timabland - Come Around (Eli Mix)
Sorcerer - Surfing At Midnight (Prins Thomas Mix)
Studio - Origin (Information)
Freddie Mercury - Love Kills (Shock Edit)
Spooky - Fingerbobs
Death In June - Death Of The West
Great Lakes Mystery - Untitled

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Shock World Service 003: A Man Of Constant Sorrow by Stephen Reynolds 26/05/07 Dublin, Ireland

Skeewiff - Man Of Constant Sorrow (Kraak & Smaak Mix)
Drrtyhaze - Hey Mama
Tom Ze - Ave Dor Maria
Rod Stewart - You're My Girl
My Sister Klaus - Kicks Of Sand
Poni Hoax - Involutive Star
Steve Bug - Cocaine
St. Etienne - Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Paul McCartney - Let Em In (Joakim Edit)
In Flagranti - In The Silver White Box
UB40 - Rat In Mi Kitchen
Neu! - Isi
Marianne Faithful - Broken English

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Shock World Service 002 Moon Menace by Neil Higgins (Padded Cell) 19/02/07, London, United Kingdom.

Sly Mongoose - Bad Pulse (Padded Cell Mix)
Disco Devil - Devil Love
Goat Dance - In the System
Black Joy - Jump Stomp & Twist
Padded Cell - Moon Menace
Emperor Machine - Seka Wants Your VCS (White Light Circus Mix)
Avida - Vorrei Tanto
Vincent Markowsky - Madness of Moths
Nick Chacona - Through the Door
Major Swellings - Assquake (Black Blood Edit)
Faze Action - Keep it Coming
Jupiter Black - We Like Moroder (Elitetechnique Mix)
Andrew Weatherall - Feathers

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Shock World Service 001: The Clocks Were Striking Thirteen by Jon Averill 22/01/07 Dublin, Ireland

I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness - According To Plan Strange that I chosen a goth rock/post-punk revival track for the very first track on the first ever podcast, but I have.
Robots In Disguise - DJs Got A Gun Pretty awful track that hasn’t aged all that well to be honest but hey, it was 2007.
23 Skidoo - Last Words Perhaps the first bit of decent music on the Shock World Service. ‘Last Words’ is a jam off 23 Skidoo’s album ‘The Gospel Comes To New Guinea’ from 1981.
The Flying Lizards - Sex Machine An experimental duo that surprisingly had some main stream chart success in the early 80s with their strange but brilliant cover versions.
The English Beat - Mirror In The Bathroom Formerly 'The Beat', a 2 Tone ska revival band founded in Birmingham in the late 70s. After the Beat split up Andy Cox & David Steele joined up with vocalist Roland Gift to form Fine Young Cannibals. When Fine Young Cannibals split up Roland Gift appeared in some episodes of the Highlander TV show. What a career.
The Psychonauts - Hips For Scotland I’d always thought of The Psychonauts as part of the big beat scene of the late 90s, but they were actually a far more interesting act than that. Psychedelic folk of the quality of ‘Hips For Scotland’ requires no further exegesis.
Mr Hopkin's Crazy Computer - Crazy Mr Hopkin’s computer is unlikely to be actually crazy but I enjoyed this cover of the Gnarls Barkley omnipresent radio hit.
Roxy Music - The Main Thing (Rub'n'Tug Mix) At the time of recording this podcast i’d never listened to Roxy Music. 8 years later I have.
In Flagranti - What Are You Doing After The Orgy? More a loop than a track from New York based Sasha Crnobrnja & Alex Gloor. From the time we had Sasha DJ for us we can tell you he’s a fan of art, high quality porn & Gaelic football.
Common - New Wave (Playgroup Remix) Trevor Jackson’s remix of Common drops his vocal over the Tom Tom Club’s ‘Wordy Rappinghood’. Simple & effective.
Vincent Price - Extract from Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Raven' I could contentedly listen to Vincent Price recite the phonebook but luckily for us this is an extract from one of Poe’s finest.
Jóhann Jóhannsson, Gudmundur Kristmundsson - Odi et Amo This vocals on this beautiful piece of nordic music feel like a kindred spirit of Mr Hopkin’s Crazy Computer. The track also feels like the end of something – luckily it’s also the end of our first ever podcast. Please note there will be no refunds at this point.

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A bit of 90s drum & bass I worked on with the band Phonic which was myself & Alex Lennon. I think this was recorded around 1997. This demo attracted attention from the management of LeftField & label Higher Ground (a version appears on the compilation 'Sounds of the Irish Underground' ) Like most things in life it didn't quite work out, but it's nice to hear this track so many years later. Pretty happy with the drum programming if not the whole track considering the basic set-up it was made on.

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