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Sunday, 30th of May, 2004

Hokay, I’m putting up tonight’s playlist for the first time using a new blog program, WordPress – hopefully it won’t make a jot of difference to you, the end-user, except that it might load quicker.
Big interview tonight with Kieran Hebden aka Four Tet, so sit back and enjoy the sounds!

Belle & Sebastian – Don’t Leave The Light On Baby [Jeepster]
Greg Davis – brocade (rewoven) [Carpark]
Sybarite – House of Unbuilding [Arbouse Recordings]
Animal Collective – Kids on Holiday [Fat Cat]
Mice Parade – Mystery Brethren [Bubblecore/Fat Cat]
Richie Warburton – 00 [em:t]
Nitrada – Old Love, New Idea [2.nd rec]
Qua – Rainy Day Pink Mouth [Surgery's split 7" series]
Fridge – Cut Up Piano And Xylophone [Temporary Residence/Brainwashed]
…then the first part of the interview with Kieran Hebden of Four Tet…
Four Tet – Calamine (Radio Edit) [Output]
Four Tet -Everything Is Alright [Domino]
…then the second part of the interview with Kieran Hebden…
Four Tet – Track #4 from Live in Copenhagen, 30th March 2004 cdr (VERY limited) [Domino] {If you were reading this during or just after the show, and were as huge a fan of the guy as I am, you could’ve gone here to purchase it for £6.00 plus minimal postage… Sold out forever now, but you can download the mp3s, up for a few more weeks!}
Beth Orton – Daybreaker (Four Tet remix) [Astralwerks]
…then the third part of the interview with Kieran…
Four Tet -As Serious As Your Life (Remix 2) [Domino]
…then the fourth part of the interview with Kieran…
The Notwist – This Room (Four Tet & Manitoba remix) [Domino Records]
Qua – On Clouds [Surgery]
margareth kammerer & b. fleischmann – facing it (remix by b. fleischmann) [Charizma]
Styrofoam – If I Believed You/Back Into Focus [Morr Music]
Wibutee – 1-800-SKAUEN [Jazzland Recordings courtesy of The Wire]
cLOUDDEAD – Son Of A Gun [Mush/Big Dada]
Boom Bip – Closed Shoulders (cLOUDDEAD remix) [Lex Records]
Fennesz – aus [Mego]
maps and diagrams – moongolia (or is it ooganon?) [Static Caravan]
Jimmy Little – Life’s What You Make It [FMR]
Talk Talk – It’s Getting Late In The Evening [Polydor]
edIT – Ants [Planet µ]
EOSS (Electro Organic Sound System) – Wacko Macko Is Backo (DJ C‘s Babylon a Fall mix) [Mashit]

Sunday, 23rd of May, 2004

OK, a very compact Múm interview tonight (but padded out with LOTS of tracks!), plus a bit of new stuff and lots of great, well, older stuff :) Just what you’ve come to expect from You Tilley Teaf Hog, eh.

65daysofstatic – face of the earth (clinging on to) {remix of Dismemberment Plan} [Dust Punk Records]
Console – My Dog Eats Beats [Matador]
Plaid vs Nicolette – Wholesome [Peacefrog]
Lexaunculpt – Has Been Trying Not To Wonder [Planet µ]
Four Tet – My angel rocks back and forth (Four teas on English time – Icarus remix) [Domino]
Icarus – Ganglion [Leaf]
Icarus – Ubik [Output]
Múm – sunday night just keeps rolling on [TMT-Entertainment/Thule Musik]
Múm – once a shiny morning puddle [Fat Cat]
…then the first part of the interview with Mr Örvar Äreyjarson Smárson of Múm…
Múm – hú hviss – a ship [Fat Cat]
Múm – we have a map of the piano [Fat Cat]
Múm – sing me out the window [Fat Cat]
…then the second part of the interview with Örvar from Múm…
Múm – the ballad of the broken birdie records [TMT-Entertainment/Thule Musik]
Múm – please sing my spring reverb [Morr Music]
Múm – will the summer make good for all of our sins? [Fat Cat]
…then the last part of the interview with Örvar…
Múm – don’t be afraid, you have just got your eyes closed [Fat Cat]
Múm – the ballad of the broken birdie records/there is a number of small things (µ-Ziq Fucked mix) [TMT-Entertainment/Thule Musik]
µ-Ziq – Phiescope [Virgin]
Kid Spatula – Go Ya Lo [Planet µ]
Kid Spatula – Jackal [Planet µ]
edIT – 4am in 4 parts [Phthalo/Infinite Complexity]
DJ C – Billy Jungle [Mashit]
General SmatBwoy – uglyrudebwoyting in c minor [Aural Addiction Recordings]
Drop The Lime – Rad Girl Killy [Tigerbeat 6]
Donna Summer and Sickboy – Soft Moon [from the same compilation given away at the Abracadabra in Moscow]
Jason Forrest (aka Donna Summer) – Satan Cries Again (featuring Dan Walsh on acoustic guitar) [Sonig]
edIT – Dex [Planet µ]
Qua – Watercolour [Surgery]

Sunday, 16th of May, 2004

Tonight we have an interview with the lovely Jason from Pretty Boy Crossover (aka PBXO, originally Adelaide-based, now residing in Melbourne). Also featured is new music from English post-jungle experimentalists Icarus, and a big pile of new vinyl, including a new track from Sun on a split 12″, new music from Keith Fullerton Whitman (Hrvatski’s more sedate alter-ego) and more.

Sun – Bruise Things [Textile Records]
Black Ox Orkestar – Papir Iz Dokh Vays [Constellation]
Drop The Lime – The Days [Tigerbeat 6]
Kid Spatula – Disclosed [Planet µ]
Múm – Please Sing My Spring Reverb (b. fleischmann mix) [Morr Music]
Pretty Boy Crossover – Snowdrop [Sensory Projects]
Pretty Boy Crossover – Snowstorm [Pleasurecraft]
…then the first part of the interview with Jason Sweeney of PBXO…
Pretty Boy Crossover – x-3 fader [Surgery]
Other People’s Children – Skywave [Library Records]
…then the second part of the interview with Jason Sweeney of PBXO…
Pretty Boy Crossover – Last Steps [Steady Cam's Background Frequencies 7" Series]
Pretty Boy Crossover – Mystery Sentence [Clan Analogue]
Pretty Boy Crossover – Pencil Box (Revision) [Sensory Projects]
…then the last part of the interview with Jason Sweeney of PBXO…
Pretty Boy Crossover – Skiprope [Surgery's split 7" series]
Qua – Bounced [Surgery]
John Chantler – Sunburning [Piehead Records]
Keith Fullerton Whitman – Schnee [Kranky]
Greenland – Secret Rat And The Bag of Happiness [Gizeh Records/Reverberation]
Icarus – Three False Starts [Leaf]
Helios – Clementine [Merck]
Octet – Blind Repetition (feat. Suzanne Thoma) [Discograph/Diamondtraxx]
Slicker with vocals from Lindsay Anderson & others – A Strong Donkey [Hefty]
Baikonour – Coca Sun (Amon Tobin Bhangratronic mix) [Melodic]
DJ C feat. Wayne Lonesome – Come Back Wicked (Mashit Mix) [Shockout]
Drop The Lime – Amarcord Gold [Tigerbeat 6]
dev/null – Rave 6 [Violent Turd]
Maladroit – Hazardous [Core-Tex Records]
Overcast – Untitled tk 2 (“Happiness”) off the No Copyright 12″ [recently repressed masterpiece by the Bloody Fist head-honcho]
Shitmat – Amen Babylon [Planet µ]
Cha-Cha Cohen – Spook On The High Lawn (De-reconstructed by Hood) [Chemikal Underground]

Sunday, 9th of May, 2004

Big interview with Valerie from Lali Puna tonight, and new stuff from all around as well, including that excellent French duo confusingly named Octet, and that US duo Matmos removing a rat from their apartment, recording the process and then creating an insane prog-rock-drill’n'bass-digital-cut up soundtrack to/with it…

Octet – Hey Bonus [Discograph/Diamondtraxx]
edIT – Ants [Planet µ]
The Flashbulb – If Trees Could Speak [Sublight]
Slicker – God Bless This Mess, This Test We Pass [Hefty]
Matmos – Rat Relocation [Locust]
Christopher Willits – The Fall In Love Machine [12k]
Wonderland Falling Yesterday – Sheep Creep [Cubic Music]
Pretty Boy Crossover – Factory Glow [Steady Cam]
Lali Puna – Left Handed Dub [Morr Music]
Octet – Blind Repetition (feat. Suzanne Thoma) [Discograph/Diamondtraxx]
Ms. John Soda – Solid Ground [Morr Music]
Dwayne Sodahberk – Unfortunately [Tigerbeat 6]
Sia – Breathe Me (Four Tet remix) [Go! Beat]
Lali Puna – Cubico [Simball]
Lali Puna – Don’t Think [Morr Music]
Then first part of interview with Valerie Trebeljahr from Lali Puna…
Lali Puna – Micronomic [Morr Music]
…followed by the second part of the interview…
Bomb The Bass/Lali Puna – Clearcut [Morr Music/Electric Tones]
Dntel – (This Is) The Dream of Evan and Chan (Lali Puna remix) [Plug Research]
Lali Puna – Common Ground [unhip records]
…and the third part of the interview with Valerie…
Lali Puna – Small Thing [Morr Music]
…and the final part of the interview…
Lali Puna – Grin and Bear [Morr Music]
Múm – once a shiny morning puddle [Fat Cat]
Mice Parade feat vocals by Kristin Anna Valtysdottir of Múm – two, three, fall [Bubblecore/Fat Cat]
Icarus – Stealth [Shadow Records]
Funckarma – Brush [dub]
The Flashbulb – Didj Z [Sublight]
The Flashbulb – Black Lawn Finale [Sublight]
edIT – constipation is a bitch [Phthalo/Infinite Complexity]
The Bug vs The Rootsman ft. He-man – Killer (Soundmurderer & SK-1 “Badman Rewind” Remix) [Razor (mi)X]
Venetian Snares – Weinerpeg Mannertoeba [Sublight]
edIT – Situps Pullups [Planet µ]

Sunday, 2nd of May, 2004

So, starting with a criminally neglected Sydney album from last year (re-release it TJ!), followed by some excellent post-rock from Melbourne, then an ex-pat New Zealander… Interview with Polish Ninjas Skalpel this week, plus new stuff from Jason Forrest (plunderphonic breakcore lunatic who used to call himself Donna Summer) on Mouse on Mars‘ Sonig label, edIT on Planet µ, new remixes of Boom Bip… The list goes on, and the next few weeks will only be featuring MORE new music and interviews…
Despite this plethora of material, I played quite a few long tracks this week, so the playlist looks quite short – bizarre ;)

TJ Eckleberg – Lighbulb [Akimbo]
this is your captain speaking – with angels on our shoulders [self-released EP]
Dean Roberts – all pidgins sent to war, palace of adrenaline v and e.e. [Kranky]
City City City – Empty [Sensory Projects]
Skalpel – Together [Ninja Tune]
…followed by the first part of the interview with Igor from Skalpel (music in background: “Low”, from the 1958 EP)…
Skalpel – Theme From “Behind The Curtain” [Ninja Tune]
… and the second part of the interview (music in background: “Low” again, and “Asphodel” from the album)…
Skalpel – 1958 (Skalpel remix) [Ninja Tune]
Jason Forrest (aka Donna Summer) – Big Outrageous Sound Club [Sonig]
edIT – Ashtray [Planet µ]
Icarus – Benevloent Incubator [Not Applicable (own label)]
Four Tet – Last track (#7) from Live in Copenhagen, 30th March 2004 cdr (VERY limited) [Domino] {If you were reading this during or just after the show, and were as huge a fan of the guy as I am, you could’ve gone here to purchase it for ?6.00 plus minimal postage… Sold out forever now, but you can download the mp3s, up for a few more weeks!}
Boom Bip – Third Stream (Four Tet remix) [Lex Records]
Boom Bip – Awaiting An Accident (Lali Puna remix) [Lex Records]
Slicker with vocals from Lindsay Anderson & others – A Strong Donkey [Hefty]
The Flashbulb – Lawn Wake I [Sublight]
dev/null – Rave 4 [Violent Turd]
Venetian Snares – Horse and Goat [Sublight]
Funckarma – Spunge [dub]
Autechre – VI scose poise [Warp]
edIT – Laundry [Planet µ]
Mr 76ix – OL4 [SKAM] {Another absurdly anonymous artist on Skam…}
Mr 76ix – Other [SKAM]
Overcast – Untitled tk 1 (“Happiness”) off the No Copyright 12″ [recently repressed masterpiece by the Bloody Fist head-honcho, who's not as scary as he might seem. I played it off my original pressing, surface noise and all. This must be because I Am Cool and On The Money]
Jason Forrest (aka Donna Summer) – An Event (helicopter_passing–(edit)–251001.mp3) [Sonig]
65daysofstatic – face of the earth (clinging on to) {remix of Dismemberment Plan} [Dust Punk Records]