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Shock World Service 080:

0MPH by Melly

7/10/18 Dublin, Ireland

1. A Happy Return - Shepherdess

A UK family band A Happy Return comprised of Mat Fowler, Aimée Henderson and their daughter Agnes Bell. I first came across Mat Karmil on feature on Grey Skate Mag last year. Mat is an OG British skater who has been soundtracking some of Grey's first-rate video projects as well as running a small label of stuff like this, that four track off-the-cuff folk sound that is extremely lovable.

2. Elg - La Véritable Genese

Recently released weirdo jazz/pop from Brussels! Have been listening to this record a lot.

3. Mammane Sani - Bodo

DIY synth folk from Niger,1978. Re-released by Sahel Sounds in 2013. Each ditty as perfectly formed and heart breaking as the last.

4. Black Zone Myth Chant - Feng Jing

Exoticism with attitude from Pennsylvania vie Editions Gravats and Hospital Productions

5. Acolytes - Tennis For The Blind

Ungenrefiable madness from London via Alter

6. A Happy Return - Harmsakes

Another from them

7. A loose end from the hard drive

8. Pontiac Streator & Ulla Strauss - Chat One

One of four immaculate 'ambient' cuts from the latest release on Huerco S's West Mineral

9. Pauline Marx - Une petite épiphanie parcoure les Animaux

I don't know much about this release. I found it via Mark fro Rush Hour's Soundcloud. It's from Toulouse, and it's a 25 tracker of medieval animal themed experiments, and it costs a euro.

10. Tusken Raiders - Blolp

Just out on Planet Mu

11. Shamos - 1321313132

A recent crystal panpipe bumper from Andrew Lyster's flawless Manchester-based label Youth.

12. A loose end from the hard drive

13. Blancmange - Disco-A-Bomb-Bomb

80's DIY Mini album re-released on Minimal Wave a few years back. This record is perfect in every way. I think it could be the thing I've listened to most in the last few years actually.

14. Tomorrow The Rain Will Fall Upwards - Wrack His Days

The A1 from this timeless album on Blackest Ever Black a few years back.

15. Toulouse Low Trax - Ejekter

One from the trilogy of EP's out on Antinote last year. He has never made a bad track

16. A loose end from the hard drive

17. African Head Charge - Depth Charge

It was tough narrowing down which of Adrian Sherwood's bits I wanted to use here.

18. Phil Struck - Delta

Out recently on Quiet Time outta Brooklyn. Have got a huge amount of mileage out of it. The release and label are both great.

19. Tropa Macaca - Igual a Si

Another family band, this time from Portugal. Out on TTT a couple of years ago. I picked it up then but didn't realise how great it was until quite recently.

20. Bendik Giske - Adjust

Was over visiting my brother in Liverpool last year and we went to an exhibition in the Fact Gallery there. It was a video/dance piece by Wu Tsang (what a name I know). Bendik Giske had soundtracked it, was proper blown away by it and it took me ages to find out who it was. At that point it was available from his personal Bandcamp but It seems to have disappeared altogether from the internet recently, so perhaps it's receiving a wider release soon. Hopefully anyway.

21. Gen Ludd - Marraskuu

New Gen Ludd on Rubabdub!

22. Laurel Halo - Arschkriecher

A jazzier cut from THE POP ALBUM OF THE MILLENNIUM (Dust)

23. Oliver Coates - Another Day

I didn't know much about him until his collaborative album with Mica Levi last year, which is great. I came across this while going through his back catalog. No idea how it isn't more well known. Would bring any man to his knees.

Shock World Service 079:

Almost Transparent Blue(Somadrone)

18/9/18 Dublin, Ireland

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1. Ryuichi Sakamoto - Bamboo Music (Remix)

Not much else to say about this guy. One of the masters, along with David Sylvian (he was also heavily associated with the production of Brilliant Trees) in recent years he's got thought a near nuclear melt down and throat cancer. Async, his latest is well worth checking out. He's also acted along side David Bowie in Goodnight Mr. Lawrence. Shall i go on?

2. Yukihiro Takahashi - Curtains

Fellow YMO band member, from the 1983 album - Neuroromantic. Amazing tonalities, so subtle - yet distinctly a prime example of Japanese electronic music. Roxy Music's Phil Manzara features on this one and the YMO lads chipped in a bit too...

3. Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO) - Ballet

The Kraftwerk of the west. They never really get much credit but have shaped alot of what we hear in electronic music. They were huge in Japan, selling out stadiums in Japan, not so much here. They did appear on Soul Train in the US and the footage of this on youtube is something to be seen.

4. Mirah - Shinzo No Tobira

I think it was Ross from I am the Cosmos who turned me on to this and it seems that Optimo came across this while shopping for records in Tokyo. Again, its the use of electronics - so balanced and distinct.

5. Kinyiuko Takahashi - Asia

Beautiful - like drifting, came across this one in London as a re-release in Rough Trade. My 2 1/2 year old daughter, Meabh likes this one.

6. Harry Hanso - Platonic

A mesh of sounds worlds all together, as you can see each member of YMO have really distinct voices. His earlier records are quite cool too, like Harry Nielson meets surf music.

7. Midori Takada - Music for Commercials

Similar to Mirah's work but has a great sense of stillness yet the melodies revolve around the vocal. Not sure where or how i came across this one.

8. Hiorshi Yoshimura - Water Copy

Eno at play in here for sure, but still sounds distinct - has that meditative and enchantment feel that you get when you go to Japan (which i got to tour with Redneck Manifesto in 2011). Decided to end it with this track as it leaves you with this sense of unknowing - sleep, eat, work, or make some tea I guess.

Shock World Service 078:

This Won't Hurt... Much! (Hardway Bros/A Love From Outer Space)

20/8/18 London, United Kingdom

1. DubXanne - Walking On The Moon

I don't know too much about DubXanne, other than that they are musicians from Hamburg dedicated to exploring the dub roots of The Police's music. I'm not a big fan of The Police and in all fairness they do it with fairly mixed results, but I like the Laswell-like ambience on this one.

2. The Last Poets - Understand What Black Is (Mala Remix)

A recent offering from the Last Poets, their first recordings in almost 20 years and to celebrate their formation 50 years ago. The founding fathers of hip-hop have taken a dubwise turn and sound all the better for it to my ears.

3. Brain Machine - Crystal Cloud

In which Guido Zen and John Tye (of The SeaHawks) explore the tones, tastes and textures of 1970's Dusseldorf.

4. Yello - Take It All

On from Dusseldorf to Zurich. From their 1981 album, "Claro Que Si", a timeless piece of experimental, electronic pop music, which sounds as though it could have emerged from a Berlin studio only last week.

5. Curses - Gold & Silber ft. Perel (Chinaski Painkiller Bonus Mix)

The work of Luca Venezia aka Curses and Annegret Fiedler aka Perel, this actually did emerge from a Berlin Studio a matter of weeks ago, but sounds like it could have been made in 1981.

6. Maxi and Zeus - American Dreamer

More time travel, in which Joel Martin and Matt Edwards (aka RadioSlave), conjure images of West Coast psychedelia.

7. Nicolas Jaar - John The Revelator

Nicolas Jaar excavating deeper into the American psyche. This reading of Blind Willie Johnson's 1930's blues number is buried in deep lysergic silt. Who's that writin'?

8. Clive Stevens & Brainchild - Mystery Man (Velvet Seasons & The Hearts of Gold Remix)

It's an international affair - Clive Stevens a genuine englishman in New York produced this record with an all star cast which was later popularised by Italian DJ Daniele Baldelli. Here in it's wonderful Joel Martin and Gerry Rooney remix. Cosmic!

9. Torch Song - Can't Find My Way Home

This could possibly be one of the greatest cover versions of all time. William Orbit & Laurie Meyer's 1986 cover version of the Steve Winwood / Blind Faith song. A testament to the production genius of William, made on an 8 track, still sounds like the future.

10. The Deep Fix - Time Centre

Michael Moorcock was a writer of swords & sorcery novels and sometime Hawkwind collaborator. It's something of a mystery to me as to how he came to be making proto-techno...

11. Edwin Star - Get Up Whirlpool! (Eric Duncan Edit)

Better known as a Motown number one chart topper, but here's Edwin in mind-melting cosmic disco mode. Another Baldelli track...

12. The Pet Shop Boys - All Over The World (This Is A Dub)

Yes, it's the Pet Shop Boys, yes it samples The Nutcracker, yes it's heavy as fuck. What more is there to say?

13. Killing Joke - Requiem (A Floating Leaf Always Reaches The Sea Dub)

Martin "Youth" Glover's monumental dubbing of Requiem. I just love the sonic textures of this record. Proper.

14. Reptile Youth - Black Swan Born White (Keep Shelly In Athens Remix (Extended Version)

Reptile Youth are a duo from Denmark, Keep Shelly in Athens are a chillwave duo from Greece. Together they make an ethereal and soaring racket.

Thanks & respect to Sean for the podcast.

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Hardway Bros (A Love From Outer Space)

Shock World Service 077:

Opposite Numbers (Jon Averill)

25/7/18 London, United Kingdom

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This podcast was made in waiting rooms at Lower Clapton Group Practice & The Royal Free Hospital between 2017 & 2018.

1. Tale Of Us – Ricordi

Our opening track (underpinned by some recordings of London's Royal Free Hospital) comes from 2017s piano-led album Endless

2. Photay - Outré Lux

From Photay's album Onism which boasts a mix of rich harmonic & timbral evolutions, field recordings, off-kilter vocalizations & impeccable sound design. 

3. Hauschka - Wonder

Volker Bertelmann is a German pianist & composer who might be best known for his soundtrack to the Baltasar Kormákur film Adrift. I much prefer this side of his work however, this track taken from the excellent Live At Robert Johnson Volume 8 compilation. 

5. Melly – Shrubbery

Dublin's Mel Keane is fast becoming one of my favourite new producers. This release is forthcoming on the equally great Major Problems label. 

6. E Saggila - Assisting God

Things take a turn towards the dark & claustrophobic with E Saggila aka Rita Mikhael who co-runs Summer Isle Records.

7. Ryan Teague - End Of The Line

Bristol's Ryan Teague treads a similar path to contemporaries Portico Quartet, Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm.

8. Mücha – South Ends

I met Amanda, aka Mücha long before she even mentioned she was a producer.

Let alone a great one. This is taken from her latest release Misc. Works. 

9. Visible Cloaks – Wind Voices

Visible Cloaks are probably my favourite band at the moment. Also known for their sublime Fairlights, Mallets & Bamboo mixes which discloses their main influences; super clean FM synth based music from 1980s Japan. 

10. Sign Libra - Outro/Oophaga Pumilio

Sign Libra is Agata Melnikova, who according to her bio focuses on the exploration of nature & its auspicious influence on human's imagination & emotional balance. & you should too. 

11. Georges Delerue – Capri

Beautiful piece of music from the soundtrack to Jean-Luc Godard's "Le Mépris. I'm almost certain I've used this before in a podcast.  

12. RUI HO - Becoming Is An Eventful Situation (Intro)

Berlin-based Chinese producer RUI HO makes electronic music that attempts to bridge modern club influences with traditional Chinese sounds.

13. Biologic - Crystal violet

This is from a great collection called Sampler 06: Quality Electronic Music on AI Records which I bought in 2006 & never got a chance to include in a podcast, until now.

14. Alessandro Cortini – Perdonare

Cortini produces work in a lot of varying styles – this release is from a more personal album, Avanti. Inspired by Super 8 home videos from his youth.

15. Exuma – You Don't Know What's Going On

A sort of epilogue for the podcast. Taken from the debut record from righteous Afro-Bahamian songwriter Macfarlane Gregory Anthony Mackey, aka Exuma from back in 1970. This entire podcast was made in waiting rooms, this track may or may not be a comment on the level of healthcare received.

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Shock World Service 076:

Times When I Know (Sias & Lumigraph)

17/2/18 Dublin, Ireland

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An outstanding collage of field recordings, spoken word, found sound & very

little actual music. Put together by Sias & Lumigraph in early 2018. This

really takes the music podcast format into new territory.

Shock World Service 075:

Unrealistic Plans (Chequerboard)

24/1/18 Dublin, Ireland

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1. Yosi Horikawa - Bubbles

Nothing like the sound of cascading ping pong balls to kick off proceedings.

2. Photay - Illusion of Seclusion

Nimble house, disco rhythms with live drumming and rolling Latin percussion from New Yorks Evan Shornstein

3. Devendra Banhart - Jon Lends a hand

Wispy heart warming pop collage from the Venezuelan Texan.

4. Shintaro Sakamoto - In a Phantom Mood

Beloved cult singer, Tokyo based songwriter Shintaro Sakamoto with the lead song from his joyous third album.

5. TV On The Radio – Test Pilot (Chilly Gonzales Re-Make)

Chilly Gonzales reworks this TV on the Radio song into a soulful instrumental.

6. Gaussian Curve – Impossible Island

Serene, cheesy and delicious.

7. Exploding - Jim James

A delightfully coy guitar ditty from American composer and primary songwriter of My Morning Jacket.

8. Portico Quartet - Prickly Pear (Take from 'Knee Deep in the North Sea' album)

Instrumental band from London well known for their lush use of the miniature flying saucer like hang drum.

9. Garth Stevenson - Journey

Brooklyn-based film composer and double bassist with a song that wouldn’t be out of place on The Straight Story soundtrack.

10. Deru - The Future Never Comes

American composer and sound designer Benjamin Wynn with a Boards of Canada-eseque beauty of a track.

11. Nils Frahm - Them

Composition at its most fragile. One of many gems from the Berlin-based pianist.

12. Roger Eno - Stasis Affected

A hypnotic and absorbing opener from Roger Eno’s recent album.

13. The Durutti Column - Requiem Again

Another hopeful lament from Vini Reilly.

14. Badly Drawn Boy - In Safe Hands

A beautifully echo drenched song from Damon Gough featuring his trademark micro-cosmic production sounds.

15. The Innocence Mission - When the One Flower Suitcase

A song about new beginnings from husband-and-wife singer-songwriters Karen and Don Peris from Pennsylvania.

Shock World Service 074:

Leave The Skin You’re In At Least Once A Week (Cian Ó Cíobháin)

11/12/17 Galway, Ireland

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1. Radio Weirdo - Friday 5.58pm

Brian Coney, of ‘zine The Thin Air has been recording off-kilter, lo-fi delights these past few years.

2. A Lilac Decline - Theremin Song

A Lilac Decline is an anagram of Cecilia Danell, who hails from Sweden but resides in Galway.

3. Loner Deluxe - Watch Lake Eli

More from Galway’s Rusted Rail imprint, this time label guru Keith Wallace reaches into his ghost box & discovers some Canadian boards.

4. Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh & Garth Knox - County Down

The Gloaming’s Ó Raghallaigh on Hardanger fiddle & Knox on viola d’amore collaborated together this year, releasing an LP called ‘All Soundings Are True’ on Diatribe. Here’s their otherworldly take of an on old Irish standard.

5. Lankum - The Granite Gaze

Stirring contemporary ballad from Dublin’s Lankum from their gripping new LP Between The Earth & Sky.

6. Hannah Peel - Archid Orange Dwarf

Hannah Peel from Craigavon has released music with The Magnetic North & Beyond The Wizards Sleeve.

7. sfiiinx - Maze

Composer & soprano Síobhra Quinlan’s Labyrinth Suite has just been released on Ensemble Records

8. Rollers/Sparkers - OH!

Possibly the best album made on Irish soil in recent memory is by Dublin’s Rollers/Sparkers. It’s called Interior Ministry.

9. Rollerskate Skinny - Man Under Glass

‘Horsedrawn Wishes’, released in 1996, is the second album by Dublin’s Rollerskate Skinny and might be one of the greatest albums of the nineties, which includes this among its numerous highlights.

10. Somadrone - The Howling Infinite (feat Margie Lewis)

Somadrone is one of the country’s most enduring & imaginative talents and this is taken his sixth LP Wellpark Avenue, which is due in spring 2018.

11. Naive Ted x Post-Punk Podge - Once A Week

The utterly beguiling & unpigheonholable Naive Ted hails from Kerry but unlike most Kerrymen, he knows how to swing a hurley. Post-Punk Podge on vox. His chant is why this pod is called thus.

12. MuRli - RUN [Prod. by mynameisjOhn]

This is from Limerick based /MC MuRli’s debut EP, produced by mynameisjOhn. Alongside God Knows, you might now know them best as Rusangano Family.

13. So Cow - Shackleton

Brian Kelly, the force-of-nature behind So Cow, has influenced a generation of Irish bands. From Tuam, just like the Sawdoctors. He recently recorded a new LP with new band Half Forward Line.

14. Strength N.I.A. - Northern Ireland Yes

Minimal New York no wave vibes from Derry band Strength N.I.A’s debut LP released earlier in 2017.

15. Trick Mist - Crumbs Abound

Originally from Co. Louth, but now based in Cork, having previously resided in Manchester, Gavin Murray can claim to have lived in two of the world’s major music cities. This beautiful atmospheric love song came out in 2016.

16. neonfrench - makelove

Dublin-based Djamel Medjy released his debut LP on his own Portals imprint. Worth seeking as is his recent ‘Bach Of The Bus’ EP, on which this is featured.

17. Gadget & The Cloud - Continue

Kelly Doherty hails from Cork and this gem is from her 2017 debut LP Songs For Sad People To Dance To on Little L.

18. Or:la - Jaipur

Known for her compelling DJ sets, Derrywoman Or:la is based in Liverpool & this off-kilter piece of hypnagogia is from her UK Lonely EP on Hotflush.

19. Comrade Hat - Old Amsterdam

If George Michael had sang with The Blue Nile, he might have sounded a bit like Derry’s Neil Burns.


20. Katie Kim - Thieves

When David Lynch discovers Waterford’s Katie Sullivan, she might become his next muse.

21. Ryan Vail - Above The White Wash (feat Best Boy Grip)

I became aware of Ryan Vail after a spellbinding performance at 2016’s Other Voices in Dingle. Here he is with fellow Derry-based Eoin O’ Callaghan (yes, loads of Derry folk on this podcast, woof!), who records as Best Boy Grip & - most lately - Elma Orkestra.