This Party Is So Rubbish
Rattled together another mix appropriately with mixed results. Bit scunner’d actually as my creaking pooter is struggling these days with the amount of editing I am asking of it.
Having said that i don’t have any decent software and I’m using Nero to do the editing and compiling which is okay for very basic activity but I really would love to learn how to use Ableton or something a bit more simple on a nice shining new box.
Anyway, I had to remove various dialogue clips that were only 4 or 6 seconds in length because they seemed to develop a stutter or repeat once burned but not during the process.
The clip that resulted in the mix title has actually been deleted due to burning issue but Simon Pegg still deserves to be here somewhere, er, so behold…
So the final disc runs thus;
Celebration Of The Lizard (intro) – The Doors
WFL (Vince Clarke 12″) – Happy Mondays
Di Gue Ding Ding – Michael LeGrande
Every Breath You Take/Peter Gunn – Henry Mancini
Rebel Without A Cause/Ghostbusters Mash Up – Public Enemy
Disco Fudge – dialogue from Spaced
Smash It Up – Fuzz Townshend
Ezekiel – dialogue from Pulp Fiction
Go It Alone – Beck
The In Crowd – Ramsey Lewis Quartet
Juice You Up – dialogue from The Cable Guy
The Devil Went Down To Silverlake – MC Honkey (Eels)
Jesus I’ll Never Forget – The Soul Stirrers
Zed’s Dead – dialogue from Pulp Fiction
My Doorbell – The White Stripes
Good Evening America – dialogue from Apollo 13
Genius – Kings Of Leon
Let Freedom Ring – dialogue by Martin Luther King Jr.
Intervention – The Arcade Fire
Freedom Exists – Jim Morrison poem
Sister Christian – Night Ranger
Hold On – Magnet
Beaumont’s Lament – diaologue from Jackie Brown
Tennesee Stud – Johnny Cash
Bring Out The Gimp – dialogue from Pulp Fiction
Can’t Stay With You Baby – Jimi Tenor
Express Yourself – Niggaz With Attitude
Your Wicked Life – dialogue from Kill Bill Vol. 1
Music For A Found Harmonium (Dirt) – Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Life Moves Pretty Fast – dialogue from Ferris Beuller’s Day Off
Melancholy Mixes
I have deserted anything less than 30 minutes in duration this past week as I have been drawn once more into the murky world of the DJ set.
One of my favourite Djs since hearing Melancholy Flowers 2 is Bobby Corridor. Initially I found his toons on Boombox but he has a blogspot page which unfortunately doesn’t see mych updating but has a raft of links to some top mixes not leats bothe Vol. 1 & Vol2 of Melancholy Flowers. Get on the download
Beam Me Up
Loving the latest King Megatrip mix I’ve got my hands on and lugs into. It’s a mellow groove of laid back trip’ness.
Outta Space
Working on a new mix but it’s been difficult with work, work, vodka and a wee bit more work. Sitting surrounded by discs at teh moment and felt obliged to post som,ething so here’s a picture of my favourite funked up wee Fin feller – Jimi Tenor who I’ll try to fit in to the mix which is changing in theme from day to day resulting a farirly diverse collection of tracks to work on.
Do You Remember The first Time?
Okay, I’ve been thinking about what to mix/compile next after spening days listening to the Britmix which I totally love although there are a couple of transitions which irk me and could have come off better.
My next mix will be along the ines of all time favorite tracks or the tracks that I specifically remember hearing for the first time ie: God Save The Queen (Sex Pistols) which I recall hearing in Picadilly Records in Manchester in 1977 (I bought it needless to say).
Let Me Enfold You
The britmix c’est fin. 2.5 hours it is too. Themed on more mellow tracks of generally British indie or alternative bands. Although some of the tracks are from fairly mainstream releases their indie origins cannot be faulted ie: Divine Comedy. Wish I could do artwork for it. It’s on audio file split onto two cdr or one mp3 file for the pooter.
Tracks;
Still Life (Suede)
I Don’t Belong Here (Echobelly)
Hiding (Simon Warner)
History Chimes (Echo & The Bunnymen)
Song To The Siren (This Mortal Coil)
Nick Drake (Mogwai)
I Believe In You (Talk Talk)
New Birds (Arab Strap)
All I Want (BabyBird)
This Is A Low (Blur)
Last Ever Pop Song (David Devant & His Spirit Wife)
The Space Race Is Over (Billy Bragg)
Bubbles (Satellite)
Hello Sunshine (Super Furry Animals)
Gold Help Me (Jesus & Mary Chain with Shane McGowan)
Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken (Lloyd Cole & The Commotions)
Best Wishes (Ultrasound)
There Is A Place In Hell For Me And My Friends (Morrissey)
It Wont Be Long (Trashmonk)
Lazarus (Boo Radleys)
You’re Gorgeous 3 (Babybird)
Tishbite (Cocteau Twins)
Nine Million Rainy Days (Jesus & Mary Chain)
You Never Knew Me (Magazine)
My National Pride (Dexy’s Midnight Runners)
Harvest Festival (Xtc)
Drawn To The Deep End (Gene)
This Guy’s In Love (Terry Hall)
Autopsy (Duffy) *the real one not the shreaking bitch!!!
Underwater Love Story (Ultrasound)
Statues (Orchestral Manouevres In The Dark)
Motorcycle Emptyness (Manic Street Preachers)
The Beauty Regime (Divine Comedy)
This Is Hardcore (Pulp)
Still Life (reprise) (Suede)
I’m Boredom’s Latest Son
Oooh, my tracklist in set in the proverbial stone of my hard drive and backed up on cdr and it plays not bad as a compilation. But compilation it is not and it still requires to be mixed in order to provide the consitancy of mellowness required for a crashed out set.
At times tripping, at times soaring but throughout undeniably British in response to the mediochrity of last week’s Britpesh Awards (I feel sick even thinking about it).
So a frustrating period ahead of editing and dodgy mixing on what will be a 160 minute-ish mix. What gets me is I look back at the tracks I selected as a “pool” and can’t believe some of them didn’t make it.
Full tracklisting to follow at a later stage.
Best Wishes
This mix is just so difficult to compile as there are so many brilliant tracks I want to include from individual bands like Ultrasound who were one of the most original and mesmerising enigmas of a band I have ever seen.
How to describe Ultrasound? Well at the time the music press, obsessed with labels as it is/was, coined the phrase indie-opera for the band. Hmmm, doesn’t really do them justice as the band combined indie guitar sound, rousing choral chorus’s with massive a prog soundscape which, all together, created an absolute wall of melody dropping into delicate spacial parts and feedback driven walls of horror of which the Who would have been envious. The debut (for a major but not their first indie) single best Wishes was compared to Blake’s Jerusalem. Check it out and feel the swell in your heart.
Sadly missed.
Nonsuch
While compiling my Britmix I’ve dug out some of what are my favourite albums by some of my favourite bands/acts of all time not least these young fresh-faced laddies as pictured from days of yore – Xtc.
Xtc are one of those bands which hold a special place in ma hert as they are the first band I remember sitting and taping off the John Peel show back in 1977 (I checked the session date). They were just so bizarre and totally wired and would make most of the supposed alternative bands of today (Brit Awards, I scoff at you for your commercial fakery) sound like Take That.
Your Serious Ways
Been trying to grab hold of Scars’ “All About You” a post punk Scottish clasic and manage dot locate it online at last.fm.
