“When the man behind the music of Foetus, ‘Archer’ and ‘The Venture Bros.’ gives you advice, you should pay attention…”
Starts as a review of 2 shows by JG Thirlwell, ends as an advice column.
Radio: 11 December 2023
Recorded for CAMP Radio in Aulus-les-bains, France
Kid Carpet – I AM A DJ (single, self-released)
Large Plants – District Messenger (The Thorn, Ghost Box)
Frankie – CLOUDS (HEAVEN/HELL, Shadow World)
Turner Williams Jr. – Immortelle (Ensoleillée, Les Disques Omnison)
The Foolish One – Threnody No. 7 (A Peculiar Fellow) (Music To Watch The End Of The World By, self-released)
Ensemble Ex Materia – Lightening Falls on Low Places (Ensemble Ex Materia, Arpaviva Recordings)
White Town – Timeslip (Philogrammetry, self-released)
Look Mum No Computer – Greensleeves (KOSMO COMES FOR CHRISTMAS, self-released)
VÄLVĒ – Delicate Engines (Tiny Pilots, Slowfoot Records)
VHS Head – Head Crimes (Phasia, Skam Records)
Sainte Lucie – Je bois une pierre amère (Merci et Remercie, La Souterraine)
Hit Bargain – Degree Decree (A DOG A DEER A SEAL, Get Better Records)
Dark Jazz Cafe Assembly – Do You Remember This Voice (Drinking at Midnight – Noir Doom Dark Jazz Vol. II, Signora Ward Records)
New Age Doom & Tuvaband – Kurgan Dwellers (There Is No End, We Are Busy Bodies)
Orbiting Human Circus – Let’s Face The Music (Quartet Plus Two, Merge Records)
Radio: 13 November 2023
Recorded for CAMP Radio in Aulus-les-bains, France
My first show for CAMP, where I previously attended an artist residency led by Bill Drummond.
Matmos – Music or Noise (Return to Archive, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings)
Hannah Marks – Graduation (Outsider, Outlier, Out Of Your Head Records)
Sea of Suns – Jackie Dreaming (Sea of Suns EP, Courier)
Natalia Beylis – The Lighthouse Trembles (Mermaids, Touch Sensitive Records)
Algis Fediajevas – Tamsi sielos naktis (Po trejų metų, Resonating Wood Recordings)
Gazelle Twin – Fear Keeps Us Alive (Black Dog, Invada Records)
Rita Braga – Ikea Snow (Illegal Planet, Groovie Records)
Frazer Merrick – Tensegrity (Dymaxion, self-released)
Charlène Darling – La chanson du regard (La Porte, Disciples)
WaqWaq Kingdom – Buri Buri [feat. Catu Diosis] (Hot Pot Totto, Phantom Limb)
Hilary Woods – Wife Mother Lover Crow (Acts of Light, Sacred Bones Records)
Maria Uzor – Prophylactics For Pterodactyls (Soft Cuts, Castles In Space)
David Liebe Hart & Tragic Club – Boogie Woogie Funk (Live From Star Korendor) (Good Morning, Have A Good Day, self-released)
Stephen Clarke 1980 – HIRE
John Fahey – F for Fake (Proofs & Refutations, Drag City)
Buddhadatta – 仏の鳥 Buddha Bird (Buddhadatta/Paul Kidney Experience Split LP, Kasumuem Records)
Dispatches from a frantic planet: the video essays of Stuart Millard
“Pre-millenium British television was a lot weirder than you remember. One obsessive has dedicated his life to hilariously dissecting it for your pleasure…”
A feature on writer and video-essayist Stuart Millard.
Radio: 2 October 2023
Recorded for Oscillate Live in Colchester, UK
My final show for Oscillate, which moved on to focus on live events.
Gary Wilson – October Nights (Marshmallow Man, Cleopatra Records)
LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER – Night or Day (single, self-released)
Bas Jan – At The Counter (Back To The Swamp, Fire Records)
Richard Carr, Joakim Lartey, Chris Lane – Twirling Dollop (Shokoloko, self-released)
Local Psycho and The Hurdy-Gurdy Orchestra – The Hurdy-Gurdy Song (Mothers of the New Stone Age remix) (The Hurdy-Gurdy Song Remixes, Heavenly Recordings)
Belbury Poly – Highways and Byways (The Path, Ghost Box)
Rita Braga – Chien Mystérieux (Illegal Planet, Groovie Records)
Elizabeth Parker – The Killing Skies (Future Perfect, Trunk Records)
Harry Perry Band – Time Travel Freaks (Video Commander, Kama Kosmic Krusader Inc.)
The Junkman – Abracadabra Again! (single, Moo Records)
Lana Del Rabies – A Plague (STREGA BEATA, Gilgongo Records)
Piotr Kurek – Noa (Smartwoods, Unsound)
Kristeen Young – Sara Get The Baby (The Beauty Shop, Test Tube Baby)
Bleedingblackwood – The Kiss That Opened The Void ((If You See The Sky) You’re Almost There, Mai Lei Bel)
BRIK TU-TOK – Horsing Around (Hot Glue, self-released)
Lucas Abela & Zach Hill – Bug House (NEVER, Dual Plover)
Black Tempel Pyrämid – Amplifier Oblivion (Meditations On Consequences, Cruel Nature Records)
eleOnora – Voice improv at stairwell in Tallin Old Town (2023 edit) (tuuljamuud, Cruel Nature Records)
Kai Whiston – UNDERSTATED (XUL1, self-released)
The Armed – Modern Vanity (Perfect Saviors, Sargent House)
Jantra – Khadija (Synthesized Sudan: Astro-Nubian Electronic Jaglara Dance Sounds From The Fashuda Underground, Ostinato Records)
Octo Octa – Let Yourself Go! (Dreams of a Dancefloor EP, T4T LUV NRG)
Lathe of Heaven – Moon-Driven Sea (Bound By Naked Skies, Sacred Bones Records)
Ziúr – Cut Cut Quote feat. Elvin Brandhe (Eyeroll, Hakuna Kulala)
Andrew Hung – Love Is (Deliverance, Lex Records)
Let’s Paint TV – Play that music! (Riding the sound waves, self-released)
Michael Barrymore ft. Remission – See You When You Get There (YouTube video)