With my radio playlists, I catch you up

Yep, I been bad. Didn't stick my playlists up for the last couple of Saturday nights - so here they are...

Saturday September 1

Kill Memory Crash - Riyout
Black Strobe - Shining Bright Star (Black Strobe remix)
Kill Memory Crash - Demento Battery
Lindstrom - I Feel Space (M.A.N.D.Y. remix)
Claude Von Stroke - Chimps (Trevor Loveys remix)
Drop The Lime - Hot Sauce Grillz
M.I.A. - Bird Flu
Scam - Killer (Deepcut remix)
Team Shadetek feat. Skepta - Reign
Loefah - System
Skream - Tortured Soul
Stewart Walker - Fernbrank 1991
Zainetica - Awaken
Swayzak - So Cheap
Liberation - One Night Stand
Vector Lovers - Crash Premonition
DJ Mayonnaise - Post Reformat
Madlib the Beat Konducta - Dark Alley Incidental Music
Odd Nosdam - Kill Tone
Madlib the Beat Konducta - Movie Finale
Pitch Black - 1000 Mile Drift

Saturday September 15

Tiefschwarz feat. Eric D'Clark - Blow (dub)
T. Raumschmiere - Nietenbolzen
Exchpoptrue - Discoteca (Jackin' mix)
Claude Von Stroke - Chimps (Alland Byallo remix)
Stewart Walker - Madness, Like Schools Of Fish
Rex The Dog - Prototype (M.A.N.D.Y. remix)
Swayzak - So Cheap
Guy Gerber - The State Of Change
Lanoiraude - Hit By Cops
Kill Memory Crash - Crash V8
Snog feat. The Nam Shub of Enki - The Prisoner
Nine Inch Nails - The Perfect Drug (Spacetime Continuum remix)
Von Sudenfed - The Young, The Faceless and The Codes
Me & You - Elephant Takeover
Madlib the Beat Konducta - Freeze
Shape Of Broad Minds feat. MF Doom - Let's Go
DJ Mayonnaise - Easily Distracted
Odd Nosdam - Freakout 3
Uusitalo - Korpikansa
Snog - The Last Days Of Rome (Sir Real remix)

Listening: Stars - In Our Bedroom After The War (Shiny). a very interesting Montreal based quintet who've been accumulating plaudits for quite a while now - I'm pretty sure I heard good things about their previous 'Set Yourself On Fire' album too. Listen to track 7 'Personal' for some of the most close-to-the-bone and downright literate pop you're likely to hear all year...

Radio show playlist 18/8/2007

As I type, watching the DVD of Rage Against The Machine live in Mexico City...here's my playlist for my radio show, live to the national satellite network, from last week...

Meat Beat Manifesto - Asbestos Lead Asbesto (Toxic mix)
Garbage - Queer (Rabbit In The Moon remix)
Audiojack - Robot
Rockers Hi-Fi - Push Push (M.A.N.D.Y.'s Pusher remix)
Garbage - I Think I'm Paranoid (Crystal Method remix)
Atomic Hooligan - Weed
Soul Of Man - The Drum (Groove Diggerz remix)
Arrow!!! - Candymonster
Black Strobe - Who Are We
Partial Arts - Trauermusik
DJ Koze - Mariposa
Orbital - Halcyon (live at Glastonbury 1999)
Suguru Kusumi - Equaller (Wabi mix)
Stewart Walker - Most Natural Thing In The World
Yea Big & Kid Static - Powerful Jones
Ivens - Sounds To Expire To track 2
Ivens - Sounds To Expire To track 3
Von Sudenfed - Serious Brainskin
Ova Looven - The Last Song
Underlapper - Meanderthal
Damiak - Iridescent Wings

Radio show playlist 11/8/2007

Urrgh...I just watched 'Hannibal Rising' on DVD, and it was by far and away the worst of the Lecter flicks so far...even though the screenplay was supposedly written by Thomas Harris. And hey, I hear there's finally a new David Lynch movie out (exciting, as I'm a huge fan), but apparently loadsa folks have been torrenting it as there's no distro yet in this country...

Anyway, I digress - here's what I played to the national satellite network on my radio show...

Arrow!!! - Superfilth!!!
Laurent Garnier - The Hoe (DJ Hell remix)
Oliver Koletzki - Kick Trick
Reinhard Voigt - Follow The DJ
Rex The Dog - Every Day
Lindstrom - I Feel Space (M.A.N.D.Y. remix)
Andy Page & Danny Bonnicci - Vermouth
Soul Of Man - Acid Punch (Brothers Bud remix)
Von Sudenfed - Fledermaus Can't Get It
Chemical Brothers feat. Klaxons - All Rights Reversed
Orbital - Satan (live at Glastonbury 2004)
Modeselektor feat. Paul St. Hilare - Let Your Love Grow
Skream - Midnight Request Line
Modeselektor - Black Block
Bassnectar feat. Persia - Bomb The Blocks
Aesop Rock - Keep Off The Lawn
Aesop Rock - Zodiaccupuncture
Suguru Kusumi - Equaller (Alphageneric remix)
Alex Smoke - Don't See The Point (Henrik Schwarz remix)
Pentatonik - Credo
Filmic - Dividing Line

Current listening: Various Artists - Total 8 (Kompakt / Stomp) I actually haven't heard nearly as much Kompakt as some of my Cologne techno-ravenous mates, but this 2CD set is just gorgeous...and very diverse.

Things to keep in mind when DJing at a Furry convention

This particularly spun me out, and is well worth checking out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furry_convention

I particularly love this little bit;

Major conventions tend to have a disco on at least one evening. Often there is a "fursuit-friendly" dance prior to the main event, with raised lighting and slower music to offset fursuiters' reduced vision and mobility. The use of glowsticks and illuminated poi are popular once the lights are dimmed.^[9] A furry convention is also an opportunity to socialize, and private parties for subgroups of the fandom are common.^[10]

^{Woo - imagine getting booked for one of those!}

Listening - M.A.N.D.Y. - 12 Great Remixes For 11 Great Artists (Get Physical) Surprisingly enough, the Sugababes reworking ends up being one of the highlights here. Sadly, there's no Seelenluft...

Somewhere this could all be happening right now...

Dammit; I only just realised that I managed to miss both The Follow and Magic Dirt at the ANU Bar right at the end of last week; mainly because I was most likely majorly preoccupied with work...gahh. Still, the weekend did pan out fairly well with some hanging out with mates and an adventure out to Kowan Forest just outside Kowan Forest to check out Galactic Centre 2007 - an outdoor event I was seriously impressed with. The weather was perfectly clear (loadsa stars and a fantastic moon) and the organisers - www.servantsofsound.org really knew how to organise thingsa logistically, with two different stages a nicely spaced distance apart - one centred towards psy / doof, while the other catered to deeper tech sounds. Walski played a fine set (really enjoyed DK8 'Murder Was The Bass' over a biiig system), and then we got to witness the magic that its Charlie McMahon / Rhythm Organism, playing his incredible electronic didgeribone and loop pedals while The Professor backed him up on electronics. Even got to hug Stalker and hear about his Polybonk label, which I'll give you more news on soon.

The new Cyclic Defrost is out electronically (www.cyclicdefrost.com) - Issue 17 should be headed out to good record stores / the like over the first week of August; it looks great and comes with ghosts this time around. I got to chat to Feral Media artists Underlapper this time about their brand new album 'Red Spring', which is one of this year's treasures.

Oh and as I type, I'm loaded with German brau and pizza, and Dante even got to show me a clip on Youtube where this Dutch family go on a trip to a funpark, and convince Grandad to go on the bungie jump, which results in him sh*tting his pants live on international television. Hint - search for 'bungie poo.' Hmmm...

Listening: UNKLE - War Stories (Surrender All) Well, for all those who were about ready to give up on James Lavelle's escapades after the extremely lukewarm (and worryingly breaks-driven) 'Never Never Land', this certainly is a breath of much-needed oxygen. Far more geared towards band-oriented stuff (which we might get to check at the upcoming Big Day Out, by the sounds of things), and the various elements incorporated far more seamlessly than before. I really need to find out about this Chris Goss / Masters Of Reality guy, who's been quite involved with this UNKLE record and also does things with Josh Homme....homewerk, methinks. 

Sekou Sundiata

I only just read about this guy, but it sounds like he was something of a critical developmental influence on some of my favourite writers, musicians and cultural theoreticians....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sekou_Sundiata

Kenobi dumps breaks while Mel Gibson gets generally Apocalyptic

Did anyone else find Kid Kenobi's general dumping of breaks in general in his 3dWorld interview this week all a bit disingenuous? It was kinda interesting the way he described the whole scene as a 'curious blip that made it big here and some other places, but just a passing thing', when breaks no doubt kept his bank balance up and DJ schedule busy for the last few years...anyway, it's kinda interesting to see the sorts of revisionism that goes on when styles fall out of fashion and careers are involved. And his comment about "when I started DJing (around '97?) Australian music was a bit of a joke - I used to stand in record stores looking at that section, thinking 'who buys it - who plays it' was a bit worrying - hello Clan Analogue, Volition, Infusion, POcket, Wetmusik?! Umm...

Oh, and I watched the new(ish) Mel Gibson-directed flick 'Apocalypto' last night; and I haven't (won't) see 'Passion Of Christ', but does this guy have something going on with sadism and torture or what? Scary Christian punishment shit going on there...

Listening: Fridge - The Sun (Temporary Residence)

Unopenable UNKLE and the scary service station

Last Friday I ducked into Landspeed and in a fit of predictable major-label related consumerism, I picked the new Smashing Pumpkins 'Zeitgeist' (which actually isn't that bad - hell, I figure Billy pretty much played everything except the drums on all the other Pumpkins albums except 'Gish' anyway), Chemical Brothers 'We Are The Night' (a bit patchy) and UNKLE's newie 'War Stories.' I ended up opting for the deluxe two disc version of UNKLE with the swish slipcase and then found out that with the vacuum seal bag, the case had swelled up and was completely unopenable; after spending the last week having around 8 different people including myself try, I took it back to the store, only to find that NONE of them had been openable, and they'd had to ask for a whole new batch. Hilarious yet frustrating too - has this happened to you?

Just before, after my radio show I ducked past the usual service station in Braddon to grab some snacks and discovered that the entire store was virtually armoured shut with safety glass and I had to 'order' my stuff through a service window and then have my goods passed through a special safety drawer. Seriously, I felt like Lecter in 'Silence Of The Lambs' or something. I guess they got robbed, and as the guy in the store himself said - "regular people have to suffer." Still, it's gonna be a real bitch if everyone has to go through all that just to get a pack of kettle chips. Here's what I played on radio, live to ze nation tonight...

Zen-Kai - The Punisher (Arnaud Rebotini remix)
Chemical Brothers - We Are The Night
Dave Clarke - Dirtbox (DJ Hell remix)
Fox n' Wolf - Claws Against Knives (Todd Terje remix)
Prometheus - The Logic Of The Polyphonic
Motor - MDXT-A
Orbital - Funny Break (Weekend Ravers) (live at Glastonbury 2002)
Oliver Koletzki - Bud Spencer
Stewart Walker - Madness, Like Schools Of Fish
Black Strobe - I'm A Man (Audion's 'Audio Donation' remix)
Von Sudenfed - Flooded
Modeselektor feat. Puppetmastaz - The Dark Side Of The Sun
Bassnectar feat. Seasunz - Stomp
The Tuss - Rushup Edge track 1
Koshowko - Promise (Winduptoys 'Over There' mix)
Fridge - Our Place In This
13 & God - Into The Trees (Alias remix) 

Therapy radio playlist 14/7/2007

Chemical Brothers feat. Ali Love - Do It Again (Oliver Huntemann remix)
Black Strobe - Pins and Needles
Nitzer Ebb - Control (I’m Here) (Dubfire’s Jamrock remix)
Human Resource - Is Hell The One And Only Dominator? (DJ Hell remix)
Black Strobe - I’m A Man (Black Strobe remix)
Fischerspooner - We Need A War (DJ Hell remix)
Orbital - Walk Now (live at Glastonbury 1994)
Square One - Vesuvius (Justin Martin’s ‘I Hope It Doesn’t Blow’ mix)
Oliver Koletzki - Kick Track
Heartthrob - Baby Kate
Lindstrom & Prins Thomas - Boney M Down (alternative version)
Evan Marc - Emotional Ecology track 2
Wiley - Gangsters
Bassnectar feat. Persia - Bomb The Block
Modeselektor feat. Paul St. Hilare - Let Your Love Grow
Sky City Rising - Try Harder
Stewart Walker - Last Week’s Disappearance

Radio show playlist - Therapy 7/7/07

Numerologically, this might be the best date for any radio show I've ever done (and I think also perhaps the birthdate of the Smashing Pumpkins 'comeback' Zeitgeist - bit scared about that one).

Here's what I played last Sat night - btw, if you're in Canberra, this goes out weekly thru XX FM 98.3 from 9-11pm; and there's also a national satellite broadcast too - go to www.cbaa.org.au to find out about times in your local area 

Disco Stu - Adult Themes
Combichrist - Get Your Body Beat (KMFDM remix)
Prometheus - One Cell Short Of A Brain
Nitzer Ebb - Join In The Chant (Thomas P. Heckmann ‘Knarz Ist Machine’ remix)
Prometheus - Drug Sock
Black Strobe - Shining Bright Star (Oliver Huntemann remix)
Motor - Black Powder
Quasimodo Jones - Hellnight
Black Strobe - Last Dub On Earth
Digitalism - Jupiter Room (Martian Assault edit)
Groove Armada feat. Stush - Get Down (Henrik B remix)
Chemical Brothers - The Duke
Happy Mondays - Anti Warhole On The Dancefloor
Yello - Stalakdrama
The Damage Manual - Expand (Can remix)
Koshowko - Promise (Lunar Module Dub Crater remix)
Fridge - The Sun
Andrew Pekler - Rockslide
Underlapper - Red Spring track 7 

Dude, I think I'm about to buy a tropical aquarium (I've always wanted one:)

After the club, a radio playlist...

Wooo...talk about getting a second wind round midnight DJing indie, electro, rock, metal and industrial for Krust @ Toast - a chilly near-snowing Canberra night kept a lot of folk in, but we still had enough critical mass for a good night. Hey - I never stuck my playlist up for last week's show, so here it be...

Black Strobe - Buzz Buzz Buzz
Combichrist - Products (Live Composer version)
Front Line Assembly feat. Eskil Simonsson - The Storm
Combichrist - Get Your Body Beat (album version)
Freelance Hellraiser - Weightlessness (Klaas remix)
Booka Shade - Darko (Booka's Funk Da Funk remix)
Boom Bip feat. Ali Lee - Coogi Sweater
LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum (Onastic dub)
Sharokh SoundofK - Chicago
Throbbing Gristle - Hot On The Heels Of Love (Ratcliffe remix)
Nine Inch Nails - The Hand That Feeds (Photek dub mix)
Kelis - Bossy (Captain Ahab remix)
Groove Armada feat. Stush - Get Down (Stretch & Form remix)
The Scare - Bats! Bats! Bats! (Gerling remix)
New Order -Temptation (Secret Machines remix)
Boom Bip - The Pinks
Oliver Koletzki - Dieses Lied Glaubt An Sich
Christ. - Marsh Of Epidemics (Alias remix)
Back Ted N' Ted - V-Bron

Did I mention that I lurrve Black Strobe?

I do. Check out some of the nice things I said in this week's 3DWorld....yummy:)

http://www.threedworld.com.au/content/view/4121/60/

Oh, and looks like we'll be doing Krust next Friday (July 6), as opposed to this coming weekend; still - Combichrist at the Mtero Sat night looks pretty fine, and apparently they got live drums.

Oh, and additional to ze above post

Oh, and being the 29th, the stroke of midnight Fri. night will see me hitting the magical '33' revolutions of life (quite a bit nicer than 45, and def. way betterer than 78). I believe this may call for good tequila and Black Strobe...join me, why dontcha...!

Radio Playlist Saturday 24th June

So sorry, I said

Haha - I think the title might in fact be a Pet Shop Boys B-side reference, but I'm p-pretty f**cked up right now, and I'm just not completely sure. I've cracked out the old copy of Ministry's 'Twitch' as I've just come home from a goth-industro night, and it's been...kinda interesting. A good night; a chance to catch up with friends, but also kinda a downer, as I found out that the girl I'm kinda interesting is leaving town. Sigh.. how evilchris at the moment...single and everytime I get sligfhtly keen on someone, they end up moving away. Fuck these transient cities like Canberra sometimes, hey?

Meanwhile the new record goes great guns. I've just seriously upgraded the studio and the new material is so strong it frightens me. My equipment and brain are in perfect synch and the rush of ideas, production, situations, emotions and arrangements is more fluid than it's ever been before. It's literally almost like the new tracks are fighting to become real, and I'm simply the conduit. The deadline is the end of August, but when I close my eyes, the words 'August 15' hang like stone in the air, which from past experience, means something. It'll be interesting to see how it all pans out, but I can tell you right now that it a;; kicks off with around forty seconds of in-cockpit audio from a fully-loaded 747 just before it goes down. From  there, ten sharp songs to get stuck in your heads. All my vocals. Anyway, I'm sorry that you seem to always get these blogs from me when the female enters the equation....

Melankolica on the Bloc

It's been a really weird day; in fact, I'm actually currently stewing over the fact that when you actually get a public holiday or weekend, it's miserable outside, whilst I've spent the whole week working in an air-sealed building and looking at the gorgeous weather through plate glass windows; it may as well have been through an airlock, really. A spun-out week; losts of things completed some kinda weird cosmic cycle, or something. The older workmate who'd been harrassing me for about a year has finally left (in this case, it got pretty freaky - unannounced show-ups at my home, unwanted gifts, and straight-out lies about the fact that we'd apparently slept together (wow, wish I could remember that) to other dudes at work; who she was playing exactly the same victim-as-dominator shit on. And she's gone now - a relief for me, but it's coincided with one of those Saturdays where I think about how much enjoyment I don't derive from my work and wonder what the hell I should be doing with my life to make myself happier.

I just listened to Bloc Party's 'Weekend In The City' - I'd bought it about a week ago from Rev CD and hadn't touched it yet - I thought it was an incredible follow-up, and it really resonate4d with the stormy weather and my mood in general. Tonight I'm playing at Toast alongside Captain Ahab, Loom and Toecutter (yeah!), which has at least given me a mission to focus on - there's a toone of breakcore, noise and assorted fucked-up shizzle sitting in front of me on the coffee-table and in it's going to be fun. I just have to focus on music and the fact that there's gonna be friends and volume, and I think it'll actually end up being a real cool night. I have to do radio first too - missed it last week, because I slept thru it (arvo nap). Very embarrassing, and the first time it's ever happened. So, this week, I'll have to do some good stuff to make up for that:) Anyway, the main idea is to immerse yourself in what you can do, rather than what you cannot, so I'll be doing that, as well as gravitating towards folk who simply don't take my kindness for weakness. Hope I see you at Toast tonight, if you're in this gorgeous rainswept city...and I'm sorry that my first blog in ages sounded like it was written by Morrissey.

The carnival's left town...

Civic looks so much less crowded this week, with the multiculti festival being over and all...and getting through town was considerably less hassle as a result. Right now RAGE is proving John Safran's old adage that they really will play anything that you send them as long as it doesn't feature genital mutilation or ritual killings - dear god, Ugly Kid Joe just came on - there's a sketchy flashback, and I'm just popping in to stick my playlist up for this week. I also caught some decent action movie cinema this week - Japanese Matrix-meets-Tarantino-meets-Terminator movie 'Returner', and I'm hell excited at the idea of the radio station sticking a big neon sign up on the new 2XX building in Civic - heck, I figure a helluva lot of people still don't quite know where we've moved to... I also had bloody hassles with my radio program in that someone had disconnected the DAT machine, and I couldn't get any audio to input, meaning that I've gotta somehow make time to record an hour for the satellite show ASAp - things would be so much easier if they'd take a CDR, then I could virtually get it done tonight in my studio...nngh.

Here's what I played tonight on de radio;

Circuit Breaker - Left Hook (Superstyledeluxe remix)

Piano Overlord - Diplo Electric Manatee Final Mixdown

Mouse On Mars - Wipe That Sound

Tosca - John Lee Huber (Burnt Friedman remix feat. Theo Altenberg)

Jazztronik - Beeping

Lotek Hi-Fi feat. Roots Manuva & Sandra Melody - Move Your Thing (Small Arms Fiya remix)

The Bird feat. Hermitude - Birdville

Tosca - Pyjama (Stereotyp's Need No PJs remix)

Recoil - Jezebel (Filthy Dog remix)

Alien Digit - Cookin' Bugs

DJ Olive - The Furry Whale (live)

Prefuse 73 - Keeping Up With Your Quota

The Dolls - Motor City

Meat Beat Manifesto - Yuri

Pier Bucci - Tita

John Tejada & Arian Leviste - Faux Obsolete

Pitch Black - Speech (White Amplitude mix)

DJ Olive - Lila Dog (live)

M83 - Moon Child

Listening: M83 - Before The Dawn Heals Us (EMI France) I heard about these French guys ages ago, back one time when I was interviewing Mark 'Colder' Nguyan Tan and he mentioned that he'd just done all their font design; it's certainly very epic stuff, perhaps a bit like Air if they'd taken that '10,000 Hertz Legend' direction out even further - imagine Interpol and The Floyd getting down and you're getting close... 

I Am An X-Offender

Just got back from being at the radio station in town, where I was doing my radio show for the week, and we're just laughing about the fact that Canberra TV seems to have really pumped up the 'specialist adult' SMS line ads for all those lucky late night viewers...funny, 'cos someone once told me a story about how their significant other developed an addiction for those sorta lines; apparently he ran up bills in the vicinity of $700 each week, which I guess is getting into coke addict territory... I watched the rest of Dave Chappelle Series 2, and I've gotta confess that it really seemed to run out of steam at the end, one moment they seemed to be peaking, and then the next, Dave really didn't seem to want to even be there (perhaps he had a falling out with the show producers?), and he even made that pretty clear, with stupid gimmicks and rehashes of outtakes to pad the running time out...a pity.

I also checked out the Eurotrash festival here in Canberra out last night, and got to check out Curse Ov Dialect doing a great set on a big stage in the middle of City Walk, and also a bit of Casionova - even saw Mr. Dotodot playing some searing Eastern European-sounding violin at one point. Sadly, I missed Ollo, but I got to hook up and chat with them later at Toast, as they were DJing there, so I got the sneak preview of what the upcoming second album might be a bit like, and also got a 12" off them, which is apparently the only copy in-country aside from theirs. Neat! So, it's been a good weekend all up - I'm even teaching myself to plaster around the house.

Here's what I played tonight on the radio:

Spank Rock -Rick Rubin (President Evil Remix feat. Pase Rock)

Coldcut feat. Roots Manuva - True Skool

Playgroup feat. KC Flightt - Front 2 Back (Louie Vega Gotta mix)

Inxs - Disappear (David Morales 12" mix)

Hexstatic - L-Virata

Whitey - Leave Them All Behind

Trans Am - Outmoder

Flexitones - Joyrider

The Bird feat. Hermitude - Steppa Styles

Modeselektor feat. TTC - Puzzle Box

Pier Bucci - Cosmic

Prefuse 73 feat. Four Tet - Creating Cyclical Headaches

Tosca - Pyjama (Stereotyp mix #1)

Cornelius - Free Fall (UNKLE remix)

Fat Truckers - Lock & Load

Anthony Rother - Genestruktur

DJ Olive - Bin Raider (live)

Cornelius - Typewrite Lesson (Coldcut's Writer's Block mix)

Dimmer - Drift

The Bird feat. Hermitude - Birdville

Listening: The Bird: Birdville Sessions (Valve / Warner). For this fourth album there've been some changes in The Bird's arrangements; not only have they recorded it in their own home studio, they've expanded into a four-piece outfit, bringing on Bobby Singh on tablas fulltime, while also bringing in Barry Hill on double bass. Perhaps their most lush and organic / jam-sounding effort yet. Great DVD too. 

Wesley Willis R.I.P.

I just got home from doing my radio show in town and ended up on the couch watching 'Dark City' - a movie that a lot of folks don't really seem to dig all that much, but which I really love, cos it messes with your head rather nicely. A Sydney fella did it too - Alex Proyas, and it's got that sweet late-nite straight-to-video vibe to it.

The multicultural festival is on this weekend as well, and the city centre's fairly insane with people and cars - still, it's good to see some signs of life. I finally shelled out for the Dave Shapelle series two box when I was wandering through the city while the funfairs etc were setting up last night and watched a fair swathe of it before I went to bed, a lot of it I'd seen on SBS, but it looks pretty awesome. And I can't quite put my finger on why I'm strangely compelled by the Foo Fighters all of a sudden. All of this I realise is more or less stream-of-consciousness, but it's late at night and I'm a little bent. Here's what I played tonight on my radio show...

Lotek HiFi feat Sandra Melody & Roots Manuva - Move Your Thing (Small Arms Fiya remix)

Diplo feat Sandra Melody, Vybz Cartel & Pantera Dos Danadinos - Diplo Rhythm

Spank Rock - Rick Rubin (President Evil Remix feat. Pase Rock)

Modeselektor - Kill Bill Vol. 4

Goldfrapp - Lovely 2 CU (T. Raumschmiere instrumental remix)

Bloc Party - Banquet (Phones disco edit)

Playgroup feat. KC Flightt - Front 2 Back (Switch remix)

Cookin' On 3 Burners - Cressy St. Breakdown (Rephrase remix)

VHS Or Beta - Night On Fire (Cut Copy remix)

Whitey - Intro / In The Limelight

Death From Above 1979 - Romantic Rights (Erol Alkan re-edit)

!!! - Hello, Is This Thing On?!

Depeche Mode - Suffer Well

Cut Copy - Autobahn Music Box

UNKLE - The Knock (Indopepsychics remix)

Piano Overlord - The Overlord Meets The Adventure Time In Sleepy Keys

Trans Am - Spike In Chatter

Blockhead - Sunday Seance (Loka remix)

The Dolls - White Dove

Boards Of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy

Listening: Various Artists - Sound Sensation selected by Bigga Bush (Stereo Deluxe // Creative Vibes) Bigga Bush (ex-Rockers Hifi / Lightning Head) put out a great solo album on SD a couple of years ago, and this mix compilation of dub, latin and ragga-tinged beats follows up nicely, with no big recognisable names amongst the tracklisting, and it gets extra points for including ragga reinterpretations of Prince's 'Sign O' The Times' and synth proto-classic 'Popcorn'...

The Howling

I have a confession to make; yes, I did play Coldplay on my radio show tonight - and I'm really not quite sure what happened there. Those who know me will certainly know that I'm neither particularly fond of or averse to the band, I just don't find them particularly gripping - for me, they're really akin to Radiohead or U2 with all the 'dangerous / difficult' bits taken out, and I guess if that was the sort of experience I was looking for in music, then I'd most likely be a Nickleback fan or something as well. The fella's certainly got a nice voice though, and like a lot of the big bands that end up filling up huge stadiums, they seem to have managed that neat trick of neither sounding immediately US or UK - midAtlantic I guess might be the description here. I watched another Howling movie before I went out - number 6, but I didn't think it was quite as good as the one shot in Australia with the killer were-marsupials:)

Here's what I played tonight on my radio show;

DJ Hell - Let No Man Jack (Dave Clarke remix)

T. Raumschmiere - Querstromzerspaner

Playgroup feat. KC Flightt - Front 2 Back (Kenny Dope Gotta Extended mix)

Coldcut - Just For The Kick

Piano Overlord - Diplo Electric Manatee Final Mixdown

Coldplay - Talk (Francois Kevorkian remix)

The Presets - Truth And Lies

Bloc Party - Banquet (Phones disco edit)

Gerling - G-House Project

!!! - Dear Can (Maurice Fulton vocal mix)

VHS Or Beta - Night On Fire (Cut Copy remix)

Cut Copy - Going Nowhere

Anthony Rother - Maschinewelt

Four Tet - Sun, Drums And Soil (Part 2)

Dimmer - I Believe You Are A Star

The Dolls - Night Active

Ramjac feat. Natalie Gardiner - Arise

Depeche Mode - Lilian

Funkstorung feat. Tes - Chopping Heads

Felix Laband - Miss Teardrop