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BlipBlop, otherwise known as Bitpop or Chiptunes (and quite possibly a number of other things) is a new type of music, but also a (slightly) old one. The idea is to make music using outdated consoles and computers. Bit Shifter, for example, composes entirely on the Nintendo Game Boy. Strict restrictions on creativity like this are counter-intuitive - the more you are handicapped, the more you think of clever ways to get around problems. Having said that, some of the tracks and artists here stray a fair bit from that idea. But you get the point.

1. Anamanaguchi - Sting Operation
2. Bit Shifter - Hexadecimal Genome
3. Teamtendo - Philippines Volunteers
4. Random - Sitges Savepoint
5. Kid Carpet - Jump
6. Boy vs. Bacteria - Get Naked (The Stomp)
7. Paza - Crazy Bird
8. Slagsmålsklubben - Malmo Beach Night Party
9. Linde - Ryssland
10. Nullsleep - Dirty ROM Dance Mix
11. Rob Hubbard - Commando

1. The Kinks - Autumn Almanac
2. Django Reinhardt - September Song
3. Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Sand River
4. The White Stripes - Dead Leaves & The Dirty Ground
5. Arab Strap - Autumnal
6. Bat For Lashes - Sad Eyes
7. Destroyalldreamers - Automne
8. Sr. Click - Autumn
9. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Autumn's Child
10. Tom Waits - November
11. Ralph Koster - November

This is a collection of the worst music I could find over the course of a week. Most of the 'bad music' compilations I found contained large quantities of novelty records and other deliberately bad or wacky music, which in my opinion isn't really fair. I set myself a rule with these that only genuinely non-ironically bad music was allowed - the performers must have at least tried, in fact often they are trying a little too hard. The only other rule I decided upon was that only universally bad music was allowed. My personal choices of Westlife, Celine Dion, James Blunt and Michael Learns To Rock were a temptation I had to resist. Here instead are 21 songs I'm sure everybody will hate. I for one hope to never hear any of them again.

1. Portsmouth Sinfonia - From The Nutcracker Suite
2. Elvis Presley - Old MacDonald
3. Vanilla - No Way No Way
4. Barney - I Love You
5. Nola Campbell - Searching For My Baby
6. The Legendary Stardust Cowboy - Paralyzed
7. St Winifred's School Choir - There's No-one Quite Like Grandma
8. Pat Campbell - Mother Went A Walking
9. Devastatin Dave - Zip Zap Rap
10. Eli Kaniel - The Impossible Dream
11. P.J. Proby - Only You (And You Alone)
12. Rotterdam Termination Source - Poing!
13. Maguerita Pracatan - Hello
14. Reginald Bosanquet - Dance With Me
15. Gloria Balsam - Fluffy
16. Roy "Chubby" Brown with Smokie - Alice
17. The Blue Smarties - Take A Look
18. Gypsy Boots and The Nature Boys - These Boots Are Made For Walking
19. William Shatner - Rocket Man
20. Peter Andre & Jordan - A Whole New World
21. Keith Harris & Orville - Orville's Song

Extended show notes with descriptions of each track are to be found below.

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This fortnight's podcast started off as a selection of songs about sleep and moved within a few tracks to a selection of music that I could go to sleep to, getting more soothing and less intrusive as it goes on. A good deal of the sleep-based music I ound while making this was dull and artificial-sounding, which apart from being unimaginative could also be distracting. Good sleep music should be also be generally good music. This podcast is also the longest so far, as it can take me a while to get to sleep.

1. Madder Rose - Car Song
2. Robert Wyatt - Heaps of Sheeps
3. Cornershop - Sleep on the Left Side
4. Plaid - Eyen
5. Boards Of Canada - Zoetrope (Excerpt)
6. Múm - Green Grass of Tunnel
7. Curtis Mayfield - Think
8. Magnet - Willow's Song
9. Stars of the Lid - Articulate Silences Pt 2
10. Claude Debussy - Nocturnes 1: Nuages
11. David Behrman - On The Other Ocean
12. Nick Drake - Northern Sky
13. Black Tape for a Blue Girl - With a Million Tears
14. Brian Eno - Mu
15. Global Communication - 12.18
16. Kraftwerk - Ananas Symphonie
17. Hammock - Miles To Go Before Sleep
18. Kevin Ayers - Lullaby
19. Ronald Binge - Sailing By

 

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LNADJKMD is back, after a longer than expected break, and I'm back too - back in England for a year or so. Here's a selection of songs and talky bits which goes a little of the way towards painting a picture of the country of my birth. Not a completely nice picture, but that can't be helped now.

1. David Devant & His Spirit Wife - Life On A Crescent
2. Sparks - England
3. Flanders & Swann - A Song Of Patriotic Prejudice
4. Linton Kwesi Johnson - Inglan Is A Bitch
5. The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society
6. Black Box Recorder - England Made Me
7. Dreadzone - Little Britain
8. Bonzo Dog Band - My Pink Half Of The Drainpipe
9. Asian Dub Foundation - Real Great Britain
10. Selfish Cunt - Britain Is Shit (Excerpt)

 

Predictably the start of summer means a bunch of summer themed songs.
Good ones though, I'd say.

1. Arab Strap - The First Big Weekend
2. Chet Baker - Summertime
3. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - This Summer's Been Good From The Start
4. Pullover - Holiday
5. Ooberman - Sur La Plage
6. Sex Pistols - Holiday In The Sun
7. Mogwai - Summer
8. Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Captain's Holiday
9. Belle & Sebastian - Another Sunny Day
10. Love - Bummer In The Summer
11. Arab Strap - Hey!Fever
12. Pulp - David's Last Summer
13. Fairport Convention - End of a Holiday

 

Though I'm of the traveling persuasuion, I don't take that many flights. It seems a little wasteful if I do - there's no hurry and I want to see as much of the journey as I can. Tonight I am taking a plane, though - from Hong Kong to London. I could go overland, but this time I really don't have the time or the money. Don't get me wrong, I know there's a lot of people who find flying either distressing or dull, but it still excites me somehow. It's something to do with being up amongst the clouds. They look so odd up there, it's like being in another world. I like going through thunderstorms too, though it seems to scare the other passengers.
This mix was made to listen to as you fly. An hour's listening time should cover the allowed listening time on most short-haul flights. Not all the tracks here are about flying - some I just thought would sound good up there. There's no mention of accidents at any point.

1. The Divine Comedy - Tonight We Fly
2. Girlfrendo - Air
3. The Flaming Lips - In the Morning of the Magicians
4. Clearlake - Winterlight
5. Flanders & Swann - By Air
6. Goldfrapp - Fly Me Away
7. Angela Morley - Kehaar's Theme
8. Vangelis - Blush Response
9. Douglas Adams - Learning To Fly
10. Gruff Rhys - Skylon!
11. Tangerine Dream - Fly And Collision Of Comas Sola (Exerpt)

Bit of a long podcast this time, and many more tracks I'd have liked to put in, and a few I didn't think of in time.

1. Fat Truckers - Anorexic Robot
2. Add (N) to X - Metal Fingers In My Body
3. Servotron - Slave To The Metal Hoard (Peel Session)
4. Daft Punk - Robot Rock
5. Silver Bullet - 20 Seconds To Comply
6. Vibert / Simmonds - (This Can) Robotic
7. 65 Days of Static - I Am Robot
8. Looper - My Robot
9. Rufus Thomas - Funky Robot (pt. 1)
10. Kenickie - Robot Song
11. Incredible String Band - Robot Blues
12. Erin Tobey - Robot Song
13. Kraftwerk - The Robots

This time the podcast answers the age-old question: Cats? Or dogs? You decide.

Alamo Race Track - Don't Beat This Dog
Cassetteboy - Dogs Dogs Dogs Oh Yeah Dogs
The Cabin Fever - Cats Are Cooler Than Dogs
David Sedaris - Cat Got Your Tongue?
Pink Floyd - Lucifer Sam
The Cramps - Can Your Pussy Do The Dog?
The Day Today - Bomb Dogs
The Beatles - Hey Bulldog
Rufus Thomas - Bear Cat
Mr Oizo - Last Night A DJ Killed My Dog
Kenneth Williams - Diary Of A Madman (exerpt)
Tommy Scott - Cats & Dogs
Cassetteboy - Loving Dog ft Al Stylus
Cat Stevens - I Love My Dog
Pony Up! - The Truth About Cats and Dogs (Is That They Die)

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Right now I'm taking a couple of months out to travel round South-East Asia, so I thought it would be good to have a soundtrack to accompany me along my (approximate) route. The result was a podcast that was much harder to compile than I first imagined and not really completely successful.
Having said all that, the Dengue Fever track is brilliant.

Tracks:
1. Yunnan Folk Music
2. Naxi Dance Tune
3. MoaCha Mi & Tan Tui – JungDengDeng
4. Jimmy Cliff – Vietnam
5. Country Joe & the Fish - The Fish Cheer & I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag
6. Khymer Classical Music
7. Dengue Fever – Lost In Laos
8. Molam Lao – Pheng Sat Niao
9. Wasana Gam Par - Chaan Siang Phin
10. Surasak Donchai - Phin Solo 'Transcendental Technique'
11. Malay Folk Song
12. Tom Waits - Singapore

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Since last time the theme was the devil it seemed fitting that his heavenly counterpart should have a show too, even if just to settle that old argument about who has the best tunes.

(incidentally, moderately-easy-to-offend Christians probably should give this one a miss)

1. Super Furry Animals – God! Show Me Magic
2. George Harrison - My Sweet Lord
3. Charles O. Baptista - Gospel Dynamite
4. Judee Sill - Jesus Was A Crossmaker
5. Danny & The Nightmares – Jesus Boy
6. Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip - A Letter from God To Man
7. Grey Bloke – Religion
8. Matching Mole - God Song
9. Adam and the Ants - The Day I Met God
10. George Carlin – Religion
11. Bad Religion - Faith in God
12. Pixies - Monkey Gone to Heaven
13. Traffic – Heaven is in Your Mind
14. Tex Ritter - I Dreamed of a Hillbilly Heaven
15. The 13th Floor Elevators - Kingdom Of Heaven

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1. Al Pacino - Speech from Devil's Advocate
2. City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra - Theme from The Devil Rides Out
3. The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil
4. Godless Wicked Creeps - Deal With The Devil
5. Max Romeo And The Upsetters - Chase The Devil
6. Os Mutantes - Ave Lucifer
7. The Lord's Prayer Backwards
8. Boards Of Canada - The Devil Is In The Details
9. The Birthday Party - Mutiny In Heaven
10. Dimmu Borgir - Satan My Master
11. Fantômas - The Devil Rides Out (Remix)
12. Alec Empire - Down Satan Down (Dub)
13. Orbital - Satan (Industry Standard)
14. Nina Simone - Go To Hell


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This fortnight we're taking a trip across the USA.
New York is being saved for another time.
Incidentally I have never been to America.

1. Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers - New England
2. The Standells - Dirty Water
3. The Outcasts - I'm In Pittsburgh (And It's Raining)
4. Ry Cooder - My Old Kentucky Home (Turpentine & Dandelion Wine)
5. Ray Charles - Georgia On My Mind
6. Sufjan Stevens - Jacksonville
7. Drive-by Truckers - The Three Great Alabama Icons
8. Shocking Blue - Mississippi Delta
9. Louis Armstrong & Billie Holiday - Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans?
10. Fats Domino - Kansas City
11. Public Enemy - By The Time I Get To Arizona
12. Richard Brautigan - A Short Story About Contemporary Life In California
13. Joni Mitchell - California
14. The Fall - L.A.


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This fortnight's theme is 'Movies of the Eighties'.

1. Suburban Death Squad - Eighties Movie Era
2. Yello - Oh Yeah
3. Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me)
4. Ray Parker Jr - Ghostbusters
5. Tom Cruise - The World's Last Barman Poet
6. Bis - Starbright Boy
7. Huey Lewis and the News - The Power of Love
8. Queen - Flash
9. Gerard McMann - Cry Little Sister
10. Tom Wilson - Biff's Question Song (Live)

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Since this week is the first in the Chinese Year of the Rat, and since China is where I live right now, a rat-and-mouse-themed podcast seemed suitable. Why rats and mice? Because the Chinese don't make a distinction between the two... not just a justification for using that Adam & The Ants demo, I promise.

Here's what we have for you today, then:

   1. The Walkmen - The Rat
   2. The Specials - Rat Race
   3. Mogwai - Ratts of the Capital
   4. Blood Brothers - Rat Rider
   5. Ride - Mousetrap
   6. Cliff Carlisle - Mouse's Ear Blues
   7. Roland Rat Superstar - No. 1 Rat Fan
   8. Adam & The Ants - Mice In Freefall (demo)
   9. Sonic Youth - Rats
  10. Syd Barrett - Rats
  11. Rats - Rats Revenge Pt. 1
  12. Sufjan Stevens - Year of the Rat


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My original plans for this week's podcast had to be hastily shelved when I realised there were only 13mbs of space left for me to use. Instead of skipping a week here's an alternative - a mono pod with sounds from the days before stereo was even invented.
The 1930s were the decade of the great depression, but also saw the lifting of prohibition in the USA. The jazz and blues that had remained relatively underground in the secretive late 1920s became the soundtrack of the age, with big bands starting to replace smaller groups.
The music here is presented roughly chronolologically, with a couple of exceptions.

1. Cab Calloway and his Orchestra - Minnie The Moocher
2. Fletcher Henderson - Fidgety Feet
3. Leadbelly - Goodnight Irene
4. Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven - The Music Goes Round and Round
5. Duke Ellington & The Washingtonians - Rockin' In Rhythm
6. Charles Trenet - Je Chante
7. The Benny Goodman Sextet - I Got Rhythm
8. Fats Waller - It's A Sin To Tell A Lie
9. Andrews Sisters - Bei Mir Bist Du Schön

(p.s. if anyone has any suggestions of songs about mice, rats or robots then please feel free to leave a comment below)

This week's podcast comprises a selection of songs about breakfast.

Tracklist

1. Sabres Of Paradise - Jacob Street 7am
2. Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Wake Up And Make Love With Me
3. Cassetteboy - Sick as a Dog
4. Elastica - Waking Up
5. Aphex Twin - Milkman
6. Mice - The Milkman
7. Incredible Mouth Band - Incredible Breakfast Band
8. Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players - Eggs
9. Orange Juice - Breakfast Time
10. Streetband - Toast
11. Desmond Dekker - Get Up Edina
12. Saint Etienne - Mario's Cafe

Last Night A DJ Killed My Dog is a new fortnightly podcast.

#001 is all about numbers.

Tracklist:

1. Asa Chang & Junray - Hidden Track (excerpt)
2. Cornelius - Count Five or Six
3. Stereolab - Pause
4. BT - The Fibonacci Sequence
5. The Chemical Brothers - Base 6
6. Björk & Siobhan Fallon - 107 Steps
7. DJ Shadow - The Number Song
8. The Pointer Sisters - Pinball Number Count
9. Soul Coughing - Casiotone Nation
10. Kraftwerk - Numbers
11. Spiritualized - 200 Bars
12. Boards Of Canada - Aquarius
13. Owada - 1234
14. Pulp - This House Is Condemned (excerpt)
15. Asa Chang & Junray - Hidden Track

Next time: Breakfast.