Wow! It’s 2005! And I’m 31! It’s my birthday today, so I’ve decided to… well, effectively to give myself a much bigger job by going all-out with a genre-defying show of “stuff wot I like”. We had gypsy-klezmer, folk-jazz, indie-punk, you name it, with a bit over half-hour drum’n’bass mix at the end, just to add some regional colour to the proceedings. Back to normal next week, I promise!
Can – Oh Yeah [Spoon Records/Mute]
Amon Tobin – Tabukula Beach Resort [Ninja Tune]
Kroke – Tsigoyner Tants [Oriente]
David Krakauer – alt(dot)klezmer [Tzadik]
Carla Kihlstedt – 50 Miles [Tzadik]
The Books – There Is No There [Tomlab]
This Mortal Coil – You And Your Sister [4AD]
Cocteau Twins – ella megalast burls forever [4AD]
The Clouds – Ghost of Love Returned [Red Eye]
The Bad Plus – Velouria [Columbia]
The Pixies – Caribou [4AD]
My Bloody Valentine – Only Shallow [Creation Records]
Pop Will Eat Itself – Wise Up! Sucker [BMG]
The Paradise Motel – J. Star [Infectious Records Australia – long gone, sad to say]
The Triffids – Tender Is The Night (The Long Fidelity) [White Records, now re-released by Mushroom]
David McComb & Adam Peters – Don’t Go Home With Your Hard-On [Les Inrockuptibles/Columbia]
Leonard Cohen – Famous Blue Raincoat [Columbia]
John Cale – Hallelujah [Hannibal]
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – All Tomorrow’s Parties [Mute]
The Birthday Party – The Friend Catcher [originally released on 4AD]
Heligoland – Bluebird [Calcium Chloride] {Note: this is Tim Friese-Greene’s solo project, not the Melbourne band!}
Machine Translations – Out To Sea [Way Over There]
Tom Waits – Strange Weather [Island Records]
Serge Gainsbourg – L’Hotel Particulier [Polygram International, now part of the gigantic Vivendi-Universal]
Hood – i.fading hills [Domino]
Icarus – agua para mis abuelos [Recordings of Substance]
Alex Reece – Feel The Sunshine (DJ Pulse Remix) [4th & Broadway]
Björk – I Miss You (Photek remix) [One Little Indian]
Kosheen – Hide U (Decoder mix) [Moksha]
N.W.A. – Gangsta Gangsta (Aphrodite club mix) [Priority Records]
Klute – Phone Call (Matrix remix) [Certificate 18]
Hi Peter, enjoyed the birthday special. Missed the start of the program, but the cover of Velouria was amazing!