Food is something we all need. It brings people together. What we eat reflects the world we live in. But what about its history? Is there really such a thing as traditional British food?

These are recordings of conversations with visitors to Newcastle's Discovery Museum on 22 February 2017 during school half term.

https://discoverymuseum.org.uk/

The 'Time Kitchen' was a pilot public engagement initiated by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums TNT (Try New Things) programme.

Time Kitchen offered visitors a free taster menu of historical recipes (Roman Lentil Casserole, 18th Century Hot Chocolate and Medieval Gingerbrede) and asked the question - When (and where) does your food come from? Is there really such a thing as traditional British Food?

Food is something we all need. It brings people together. What we eat reflects the world we live in. But what about its history? Is there really such a thing as traditional British food?

These are recordings of conversations with visitors to Newcastle's Discovery Museum on 22 February 2017 during school half term.

https://discoverymuseum.org.uk/

The 'Time Kitchen' was a pilot public engagement initiated by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums TNT (Try New Things) programme.

Time Kitchen offered visitors a free taster menu of historical recipes (Roman Lentil Casserole, 18th Century Hot Chocolate and Medieval Gingerbrede) and asked the question - When (and where) does your food come from? Is there really such a thing as traditional British Food?

Recording of conversation with our technical department.

Recording of conversation with our technical department.

As Peter Ackroyd said ‘I don’t believe in ghosts but they frighten me’ and with same sentiment you could say I’ve never been to LA but I love it.

It’s an imagined landscape seen darkly through a lense and experienced via the silent milieu of isolation in the films of Michael Mann, the neo noir of Chinatown and the abandoned decadence of movies like Sunset Boulevard. I know it through Ed Ruscha’s photography, David Hockney’s paintings and the sunkist pool side splash of Paul Schrader’s American Gigolo. It exists in my head and I’m fully aware it isn’t a real place.

So when exiled Angeleno, disque jock and producer https://soundcloud.com/deirdre-direktor, now a resident of Rotterdam, sent me some of her tracks for the label I asked her to do a mix and channel LA through it. In her words ’a foggy, mysterious, romantic sorta place with darkness lurking in places’.

Tracklist:

A Thunder Orchestra - Diabolical Gesture

The Exaltics - The Past

45 ACP - Ground to Ground

Myriad - The Way We Were

Legowelt - Spring Equinox

Delroy Edwards- Kickin' Butts!

Daze - Death Whirl

Deirdre Direktor - Sleep for the Anxious

Underground Resistance - Final Frontier

Antenna - In August- Pinkman

Elec Pt. 1 - Acid Mark- Signals

Maroje T.- Acid Plan

Lonny & Melvin- Theme From Murdercapital

Gosub - Blue in Blackness

Scorn - Falling (Autechre's FR 13 Remix)

Neville Watson - Songs to Elevate Pure Hearts (KiNK & Rachel Remix)

As Peter Ackroyd said ‘I don’t believe in ghosts but they frighten me’ and with same sentiment you could say I’ve never been to LA but I love it.

It’s an imagined landscape seen darkly through a lense and experienced via the silent milieu of isolation in the films of Michael Mann, the neo noir of Chinatown and the abandoned decadence of movies like Sunset Boulevard. I know it through Ed Ruscha’s photography, David Hockney’s paintings and the sunkist pool side splash of Paul Schrader’s American Gigolo. It exists in my head and I’m fully aware it isn’t a real place.

So when exiled Angeleno, disque jock and producer https://soundcloud.com/deirdre-direktor, now a resident of Rotterdam, sent me some of her tracks for the label I asked her to do a mix and channel LA through it. In her words ’a foggy, mysterious, romantic sorta place with darkness lurking in places’.

Tracklist:

A Thunder Orchestra - Diabolical Gesture

The Exaltics - The Past

45 ACP - Ground to Ground

Myriad - The Way We Were

Legowelt - Spring Equinox

Delroy Edwards- Kickin' Butts!

Daze - Death Whirl

Deirdre Direktor - Sleep for the Anxious

Underground Resistance - Final Frontier

Antenna - In August- Pinkman

Elec Pt. 1 - Acid Mark- Signals

Maroje T.- Acid Plan

Lonny & Melvin- Theme From Murdercapital

Gosub - Blue in Blackness

Scorn - Falling (Autechre's FR 13 Remix)

Neville Watson - Songs to Elevate Pure Hearts (KiNK & Rachel Remix)

TrapZ or TrapmasterZ or Trapmaster S or just plain Steve is well known within the North East Daarrrncce scene and also notorious for rigging decks to play at +16.

How does this go? 'BACK IN THE DAY' from which we'd pile on the superlatives yadda yadda yadda. Steve Nicolson is a good guy though and he Disk Jock'd quite a fair bit in the 90s/early 2000s in and around the North East. He co-ran a series of parties called Protect & Survive around the time the British Electro scene popped its head up in the 90s via Rephlex, Warp, Breakin and the like. It was a good gig.

He ran PAs for a good few years too and helped us a lot with the Road to Rimini nights and the various Signals parties.

He gave us this mix here and called it Stella Soundings after the Stella Power Station that used to be near his house in Tyneside. He wanted me to maybe write something about history and stuff, so I did, off the back of his mix. Read it here

http://signalsmmx.tumblr.com/post/130062200450/stella-soundings

Tracklist:

Surgeon - Dinah's Dream

Jon Hopkins - Open Eye Signals

Gauss - Denormal

Mark Hand - Mess it Up

ASOK - Purple Saturn Day

Baldo - Seventh Dimension

Sendex - Sound of the Eighties

LFO - Nuture

Mr Velcrofastner - This is it

Datassette - Molestando

Drexciya - Aquatacizem

Ectomorph - Skin

Legowelt - Spring Equinox

Mark Ambrose - Redial

Mark Ambrose - Dream Mode

ASOK - Edge

69 - Ladies & Gentleman

Gerald Mirchell - Soulsaver

DJ Deeon - 2 B Free

IVVVO - Dark Room 4 Dance

ASOK - Probability Drive

Myriadd - Way we were (Heckle mix)

2AMFM - Fusion Daze

Aubrey - Stressed Squares

Alexi - Delano - My busted SH101

Trevino - Buried

Inferior - Shurp

Phuture - Acid Trax 9Chris Moss Acid Remix)

DJ Qu - Circuit

HBE - Create/Object

TrapZ or TrapmasterZ or Trapmaster S or just plain Steve is well known within the North East Daarrrncce scene and also notorious for rigging decks to play at +16.

How does this go? 'BACK IN THE DAY' from which we'd pile on the superlatives yadda yadda yadda. Steve Nicolson is a good guy though and he Disk Jock'd quite a fair bit in the 90s/early 2000s in and around the North East. He co-ran a series of parties called Protect & Survive around the time the British Electro scene popped its head up in the 90s via Rephlex, Warp, Breakin and the like. It was a good gig.

He ran PAs for a good few years too and helped us a lot with the Road to Rimini nights and the various Signals parties.

He gave us this mix here and called it Stella Soundings after the Stella Power Station that used to be near his house in Tyneside. He wanted me to maybe write something about history and stuff, so I did, off the back of his mix. Read it here

http://signalsmmx.tumblr.com/post/130062200450/stella-soundings

Tracklist:

Surgeon - Dinah's Dream

Jon Hopkins - Open Eye Signals

Gauss - Denormal

Mark Hand - Mess it Up

ASOK - Purple Saturn Day

Baldo - Seventh Dimension

Sendex - Sound of the Eighties

LFO - Nuture

Mr Velcrofastner - This is it

Datassette - Molestando

Drexciya - Aquatacizem

Ectomorph - Skin

Legowelt - Spring Equinox

Mark Ambrose - Redial

Mark Ambrose - Dream Mode

ASOK - Edge

69 - Ladies & Gentleman

Gerald Mirchell - Soulsaver

DJ Deeon - 2 B Free

IVVVO - Dark Room 4 Dance

ASOK - Probability Drive

Myriadd - Way we were (Heckle mix)

2AMFM - Fusion Daze

Aubrey - Stressed Squares

Alexi - Delano - My busted SH101

Trevino - Buried

Inferior - Shurp

Phuture - Acid Trax 9Chris Moss Acid Remix)

DJ Qu - Circuit

HBE - Create/Object