Shock World Service

Shock World Service 098: The Day's Eye (Patrick Savile) 19/1/2021 London, England 1. Absolute Body Control - Numbers 06 Nice bit of melody 2. Big In Japan - Nothing Special Cost a lot to buy this, so had to put it in 3. King Tubby - Fire Dub Perfect track. Re-released by the v nice Pressure Sounds 4. Beat Detectives - New Chilled Funk Five I've always had a soft spot for these guys out in Brooklyn, they have a good sense of humour 5. Robin Stewart - Time Travel Wicked release from Robin, of Giant Swan, Avon Terror Corps crew. xx 6. Bourbonese Qualk - Erector From the Japanese noise comp Sexorama vol 3. All sexy tunes 7. Medio Mutante - Another Land Fun tune 8. Doxa Sinistra - Entomorbide Nice one 9. Dr Dre - Genocide (Official Instrumental) Despite its name, I'm not sure its official. It's pretty low bitrate 10. Suns Of Arqa - Acid Tabla ( Adrian Sherwood remix) I only play the first half of this track. but it goes on and gets better. 11. Marie Moor - Pretty Day I never tire of this track. It's quite sexy 12. Ruff Sqwad - Misty Cold This fits well with Marie Moor in my head 13. Jonquera - Jonquera at Caluire On the Rocks Some dub from Lyon 14. A Guy Called Gerald - Cybergen I love Black Secret Technology, this track is very much an album track, feels like its part of a soundtrack to a movie 15. DJ Rashad - Let It Go A perennial track one of my favourite bits of music 16. Bay B Kane - Jungle Warriors Bonkers bass on this one 17. LiL JaBBA - Waila released on Local Action a while back. Nice vocals on this 18. Jana Rush - Frenetic Snare Lives u p to the name, wicked energy on this 19. тпсб - Pacifier Habits Emotional Jungle sound. Always on my iPod shuffle 20. Death In June - This Is Paradise David Tibet is having a wonderful time it seems 21. Soichi Terada - Yokozuna Beach Chillin' I love the 90's Japanese jungle aesthetic, very clean, very Japanese. I have to have it near at all times. Off Sumo Jungle Grandeur 22. 4hero - The Paranormal In 4 Forms Nice bit off Parallel Universe 23. Novo Line - Aurora One that doesn't really sound like Novo Line, who's usual mad energy is so amazing to see live 24. Portion Control - Sentenced To Die Love the cover on this 25. Brood Ma - ESTEEM RAW SAVER (Recsund Remix) Wicked Recsund madness on Quantum Natives, who are THE BEST LABEL 26. Karima F - Random Loop From Doepfer Site I like how snappy this is. Need to get that chainsaw looked at 27. Junior Loves - Yantlet (First Passage Version) Solid release from the man Junior Loves. Cannot fault this 28. Coil vs The Eskaton ‎– First Dark Ride Off the Nasa-Arab release, this is Coil vs their alter egos The Eskaton. Its good have to have some coil in a mix 29. Recsund - Forsaken I found this on my computer, no idea who did it, I thought I made it for a while, then worked out it was Recsund, which makes it better I think. https://patricksavile.com/ Patrick is a freelance Graphic Artist and Art Director based in London

Shock World Service 097: An Effigy Hologram(David Kitt) 1/12/2020 Dublin, Ireland 1. Sansbut - Clothes On The Line, Carnsore Point 2. Mona Lo - Parting Song 3. Cornaleena - The Hare 4. Sansbut - Cantus In Memoriam 5. David Kitt - Wishing Well 6. Mona Lo - Heavy 7. Sansbut - Rêve Élève 8. Spillcrane - Too Long(Everything In Dub) 9. Cornaleena - Dead Esso 10. Sansbut - Skip An' Trample 11. David Kitt - Every Little Drop Of Fallen Rain 12. David Kitt - Not So Soon 13. Cornaleena - Frankie Floats 14. Sansbut - Tir Ami Sansbut Vol 1 is out now on Awayday https://sansbut.bandcamp.com Jon has been asking for something for something for Shock World Service for quite a while now and it's a great honour to finally deliver something for the legendary series. Congratulations to Jon for leaving behind such a rich musical archive. My mix features all new unreleased work and mainly features music incoming on my new label Awayday, collaborations with Kevin Barry as Cornaleena, Margie Jean Lewis as Mona Lo, Catherine Sikora as Sansbut and with Stano as Spillcrane. Also featured are three new David Kitt songs from a record due for release on All City in May 2021 with Katie Kim on vocals. It represents a good overview of a lot of what I've been making in the last while and was put together in Paris during an artist residency at Centre Culturel Irlandais. To me it captures the atmosphere of those initial months of coming to terms with this unexpected version of reality we all found ourselves in. – David Kitt Artwork by Mel Keane

Shock World Service 096: I Didn't Want The Night To End (Cian Ó Cíobháin) 19/10/2020 Galway, Ireland 1. Phil Lynott - One Wish (Demo with Huey Lewis) Phil Lynott's friendship with Huey Lewis dated back to the mid-70s and this extraordinary demo, one of the last songs Lynott wrote, was never officially released. 2. John Cale - Dying On The Vine The eternally creative John Cale recorded this around the same time that Lynott collaborated with Lewis on the previous track. 3. OMD - Souvenir Possibly the most beautiful song in the entire OMD catalogue features the band's keyboard player Paul Humphreys on vocals. 4. Karen Marks - Cold Café Wistful new wave track from Melbourne from '81. 5. Clannad - Theme From Harry's Game Regularly played on the radio in the 80s, I had almost forgotten about it until I happened upon a Twitter thread admiring it no end. 6. Lani Hall - Never Say Never Again From an unofficial Bond movie from '83, I've always had a soft spot for the title track, sung by Lani Hall, who was married to Herb Alpert and briefly fronted Sérgio Mendes & Brasil '66. 7. Sparks - I Want To Hold Your Hand Stunning cover from 1976 of The Beatles standard which was introduced to me by Barry Murphy of The Last Sound. 8. Chris Clark - How About You Chris Clark is one of a very small number of white performers who recorded on Motown during the 60s. 9. Love - My Little Red Book I first heard this when composer Burt Bacharach performed it at Galway Arts Festival in 2019. Next morning, I was on the hunt and discovered a number of covers, including this one from 1965 from the mighty Love. 10. BEAK> - Yatton From one of Geoff Barrow's post-Portishead Bristol bands. 11. De Ambassade - Geen Genade Like the previous track, this Dutch song has the spirit of 1980s new wave all over it, though it came out in 2016. 12. Turquoise Days - Grey Skies Astonishing synth-pop classic from ‘84 from a duo based in Jersey on the Channel Islands, who released a number of cassettes in the 80s. 13. Ariel Pink - Stray Here With You Only a genius like Ariel Pink would have an unreleased pop gem like this in his locker. It surfaced last year on his ‘Oddities Sodomies Vol 2' compilation of previously unreleased tracks. 14. Toasted Heretic - Another Day, Another Riot I've been after a good quality version of this track for ages - one of Toasted Heretic's greatest moments, which will forever remind me of moving to Galway. I was thrilled when Neil Farrell, who used to record with the band (and also records as The Melancholy Thug), gifted me with a high quality version a few months ago. Indeed, I borrowed from the lyrics to give this podcast its title. 15. Jan St. Werner - VS Cancelled Jan St. Werner of Mouse On Mars collaborated with The Fall's Mark E Smith as Von Südenfed. This track features Smith reading an email from Domino detailing why the band had been dropped by the label. 16. The Fall - Paint Work The Fall's 8th studio LP ‘This Nation's Saving Grace' is a masterpiece and this ramshackle track is one of its defining moments. 17. Billy Fury - I'm Lost Without You This track almost sounds like a blueprint for the music of early Tindersticks. Indeed, Morrissey was also a huge fan of this 60s Scouse singer. 18. The Kinks - I Go To Sleep (Demo) We kicked off with a demo and so we'll part with one. Written by Ray Davies, it was never formally recorded by The Kinks, but has been covered many times since. https://cianociobhain.com/ https://www.rte.ie/rnag/

Shock World Service 095: Shahee Al Ni3na3 [Mint Tea](Moving Still) 12/6/2020 Dublin, Ireland There is nothing nicer than getting up in the morning and making myself a cup of Arabic mint tea - this is a tradition I was exposed to growing up in Saudi. The songs I picked for this mix are songs that would go well with a nice cup (finjan) of mint tea (shahee ni3na3). I wanted to bring you through my cassette collection but also show you some songs that I hope to find on cassette. Every single song in this mix has a distinct memory that I truly love, and I hope they become special to you too. I highly recommend making a pot of mint tea, sitting on the floor, and mindfully listening to this mix.- Jamal Sul/ Moving Still 1. Ferqat Al Dana - Labod Nerjaa This is a band from Kuwait and the album was recorded in 1993. This song is a classic! It was pretty unusual to hear this type of Jazz from a Middle Eastern band. This is one of my favourites. 2. Bouchenak - Salam Alikoum This is a lovely cassette from Morocco that was released in 1992. This one has a lovely bassline and a melodic lead line that grabs you throughout. 3. Zeinab - Ya Hawly Zeinab released only two albums, and this song was released in 1985 on Delta Sounds. It is a lovely slow Egyptian Disco banger. 4. Faris - Ya Tayer Faris is an Egyptian singer and actor. This track was released as part of an Egyptian compilation called “Njoom Al Sharq”. 5. Simone - Zey Ma Matideny Simone is known for her Arabic covers of very popular pop songs. This cover of Janet Jackson's “What Have You Done For Me Lately” is superb! This is the last track on her 1992 album “Merci”. 6. Mona Abdel Ghany - Ashab The name “Ashab” translates to “friends” in Arabic. Mona's singing in this is one of a kind, and the hook melody is very soothing. 7. Americana Show - Taht Al Dila Americana Show were an Egyptian artistic trio founded by Hamid El Shaeri & Tareq Nur in the late 1980s. Members were Hisham Abbas, Aliya Saleh and Ahmed Al Gibaly. Taht Al Dila, which means under the shade. 8. Ali Bahar- Tesadeq Aad Ali Bahar is a Bahrani singer that was nicknamed “the Bob Marley of the Gulf”. This was released on great label called Al-Nazaer. 9. Cheb Arab - Yama Eouny This song is timeless, and those gated reverb snares and claps are key in this one. I would highly recommend listening to the entire album “Lo Kan” released in 1991. 10. Hany Shnoda Farkat Maserrian - Lama Kan El Bahr Azraa This song is very dear to me. You can literally float away listening to it. 11. Hamid El Shaeri - Oudah His mixed roots of being both Libyan and Egyptian gave his music a complete fresh taste during the boom of the cassettes industry in the 80s. The entire song is an acoustic guitar breeze and very different from his other tracks. 12. Azza Kamal - Maadna Bukra Azza Kamal only released one album, was an actress for a few years, and disappeared from the entertainment industry in the 90s. The edit is on the way!! 13. Laila Ghofran - Muhtagah Atghayar This is another cassette that was just collecting dust and I had no idea what was on it. This is an 80s banger and really love her singing on this particular song. 14. Sahar & Hamid El Shaeri - Rajer This is a song I recently discovered and would love to have this on cassette. I was really blown away by Sahar's singing and the main lead guitar. I highly recommend listening to this one with mint tea. 15. Etteb - Ghourabah Etteb is my favourite female Saudi musician. As far as I know, she is the first female singer to emerge from Saudi. She moved to Egypt to continue her singing career and she was an advocate for women in music, and a member of the Union of Arab Artists and the Musicians Syndicate in Egypt. 16. Fatima - Douz Douz This one was released in 1984 on Atoll in France. The chorus on this track is absolutely amazing, and the Arabic percussion mixed in with Disco elements really give this song its signature.

Shock World Service 094: Will You Ever Feel Okay (Gadget & The Cloud) 18/4/2020 Dublin, Ireland 1. The Appleseed Cast - The Last In Line Deep Elm Records' finest at their most expansive and lush. 2. The Antlers - Kettering Taken from their 2006 masterpiece Hospice. Few songs hit me as hard as this. 3. Ricky Eat Acid - Three Love Songs Twinkling sounds that feel like being reborn. 4. A monologue from Synecdoche, New York 5. Teen Suicide - Haunt Me (x3) Bedroom pop with the catchiest damn melody. 6.Teen Daze - Longing It captures exactly what it says on the tin. 7. Lana Del Rey - Video Games (Balam Acab Remix) Sad girl springtime but make it experimental 8. Mount Eerie - Emptiness Pt 2 Phil Elverum's unapologetically emotionally upfront lyrics are unlike anyone else. A Crow Looked At Me is essential listening. 9. Eluvium - Chime A haunting cut from Explosions in the Sky collaborator Matthew Cooper. 10. Lights & Motion - Only You Another Deep Elm Records deep cut. 11. Boards Of Canada - Amo Bishop Roden The OGs of emotional bleepcore. 12. Gadget & The Cloud - Quiescence My own track taken from the wonderful Bandcloud compilation Missives. 13. Mount Alaska - Lunar Dublin duo who released their LUSH debut album Wave Atlus: Season One last year. More episodes: bit.ly/3fsuFSr Spotify: spoti.fi/2zbhp46 Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2WMmbwZ Google Podcasts: https://bit.ly/35Sdwgy

More episodes: https://bit.ly/3fsuFSr Shock World Service 093: An Ode To Selling Out (DC FSLMan) 5/4/2020 Dublin, Ireland 1. Selling Out Intro 2. Genesis P-Orridge & Cotton Ferox - Interlude 1: Slipping Away [2004] Technically under the name Thee Majesty along with Cotton Ferox, Interlude is a moody soundtrack with Genesis' creepy vocals throughout. Its from the 2004 album Wordship. 3. The Danse Society - There Is No Shame In Death [1981] Based out of Barnsley in the UK, The Danse Society(later to be known with little or to no success as Johnny In The Clouds) were a post-punk/goth band with synthy undertones. Their first single "There Is No Shame In Death" in particular is an excellent example of the early 80's British post-punk wave! 4. Bourbonese Qualk - Freefall [1983] Experimental & industrial sounds from the Southport, UK group's 1983 album Laughing Afternoon, which got reissued on Mannequin last year. Gives your brain a few minutes to adjust before the next few tracks. 6. Robert Turman - Way Down [1987] After being in NON with noise artist Boyd Rice in the late 1970's. San Diego's Robert Turman went on to make several solo albums dating up to very recently. Way Down is the 2nd of these & is a mixture of a post-punk & distortion loop. 7. To Live & Shave In L.A. - Bad Couple [2019/1992] Released last year on American noise/punk label Hanson, run by Aaron Dilloway. Bad Couple is one of four 1992 recordings by To Live & Shave In L.A. featured on the split with Tom Smith, Spatters Of A Royal Sperm. Think noisy guitar, distorted vocals & tape noises. 8. Black Phlegm - Movement Five [1989] Definitely the first track ever in the history of this mix series to include a power drill. Late 80's experimental noise. Calling it DIY would be an understatement. 9. Selling Out 10. Rexy - (Don't) Turn Me Away [1980] Originally a collaboration by Vic Martin who went on to play keyboard for The Eurythmics & Chris Burne from The Rivvits. Rexy a project named after the talking styled front singer. The band had a couple of singles & 1 album to very little success, but this track over the years has become somewhat of a cult classic having been re-issued a few times over the years. 10. Essendon Airport - B52 [2011/1981] Essendon Airport is an Australian post-punk/experimental band formed in 1978. Their only album Palimpsest came out in 1981. The CD re-release of it in 2011 included an extra CD of what I'm assuming were album off-cuts that includes B52. A loopy post-punk & tapey instrumental with some haunty machine sounds thrown in the background for good measure. 11. The Fall - Who Makes The Nazis? [1985] Originally from Hip Priest And Kamerads in 1985, I have no idea when this recording of this track actually is cause its from that big Peel sessions boxset. The track kinda feels like its just a jam and they are letting Mark E.Smith say whatever alongside some jaunty guitar and drums. 12. Sonic Youth - Créme Brûlèe [1992] I spent more time writing all this than I did recording the mix. Créme Brûlèe is of course the outro track of the now very somewhat famous 1992 Sonic Youth album Dirty. The track features some minimal guitar and distortion with Kim Gordon's intoxicated sounding vocals overlapped beautifully. 13. Broadcast - Tears In The Typing PooL [2005] Such a great album. Tears In The Typing Pool is a strumming guitar to some relaxing synths and beautiful vocals. It features on the band's 2005 album Tender Buttons which came out on Warp Records and has become a cult classic over the years. The band came to an end in 2011 when front singer Trish Keenan passed away. 14. Selling Out Conclusion

Shock World Service 092: A Reflective Drift (The Drifter) 2/4/2020 Dublin, Ireland 1. Peaking Lights - Sea Of Sand Expansive piano and voice opener 2. Rikaar - Reflecting Spacetime From a stellar EP on Apollo 3. Joram Fetisma - Old Feelings Nils Frahm type vibe on Bigamo 4. Merrin Karras - Passage Sweet new sounds from Chymera under his ambient moniker 4. Young Marco - Looking Back Looking back, moving forward 5. Calibre - Planet Hearth What a beauty. So so good 6. Com Truise - Gaussian Piano wash over 7. Donnacha Costello - The Sea Between Us Melody moving things along. From a recent LP, great to have him back 8. Jonathan Fitoussi - Cercles Polaires Circles and more circles 9. Pariah - Linnaea Splendid Splendour 10. Phil Kieran - After Life Very proud to have released this on our label Maeve 11. Calibre - Five Minute Flame Flame still flickering 12.Sebo K - Pink Moon Not to be confused with the Nick Drake song 13. Pye Corner Audio - Imprisoned Splendour Sci-Fi Movie goodness 14. Zopelar - Beludi's Lament Acid Lament 15. Nathan Jonson - In The End Eno esque beauty from my friend in Victoria, BC. In The End indeed.

Shock World Service 091: World Synth Experiments by Frankie Grimes 9/2/2020 Dublin, Ireland 1. Juan Amenábar - Los Peces (1957 - Chile) The first tape piece from South American composer Juan Amenábar Ruiz. It's an electroacoustic work based on Fibonacci sequence tape manipulations of recorded piano sounds. From Santiago, Chile, he was an engineer and composer and pioneer of electroacoustic music in South America. Studyied composition at the National Conservatory of Music in Santiago, later travelling to Bonn, Germany, where he studied with Stockhausen's teacher Wener Meyer-Eppler. 2. Iannis Xenakis - Concret PH (1958 - Greece) Iannis Xenakis once approached Messiaen in Paris for composition lessons, but Messiaen turned him down, saying “I think one should study harmony and counterpoint. But this was a man so much out of the ordinary that I said… 'No, you are almost 30, you have the good fortune of being Greek, of being an architect and having studied special mathematics. Take advantage of these things. Do them in your music'." Concert PH (paraboloïdes hyperboliques), was written to be heard as audiences entered and excited the Phillips Pavillion at the '58 World Fair in Brussels, Xenakis was also involved in building the structure, and Varese's Poeme electronique was played while people were inside the building. 3. Jorge Antunes - Auto-Retrato Sobre Paisaje Porteno (1969 - Brazil) Known as the originator of electronic music in Brazil, Jorge Antunes studied music and physics in Rio de Janeiro. Os Mutantes were building DIY guitar pedals, but Jorge Antunes was building himself oscillators, filters and modulators. He has been a professor at the University of Brasilia since 1973. 4. Delia Derbyshire - Falling (1964 - USA) Delia Derbyshire was a true electronic music pioneer. Working with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, she created the famous Doctor Who theme. The Dreams was a collaboration with Barry Bermange, of voice recordings of people describing their dreams, set to an entirely electronic soundtrack by Derbyshire. 5. Otto Sidharta - Lorong (1984 - Indonesia) After post-graduate study in Amsterdam, Otto Sidharta returned to Indonesia to gain his doctoral degree and compose electronic music based around nature and soundscapes. Reissued by Sub Rosa in 2017. 6. Mammane Sani - Tunan (1979 - Niger) Mammane Sani was a pioneer of West African electronic music, and creator of much of the incidental music used for radio in Niger. This, his first and only album, electronic interpretations of traditional Wodaabe and Tuareg music, was recorded in two takes at the National Radio of Niger, and released on a limited casette by the Ministry of Culture . Reissued by Sahel Sounds in 2013. 7. Yishak Banjaw - Libey Ma'aduley (1986 - Ethiopia) Originally from Addis Ababa, Yishak Banjaw created this album at his house in Eritrea, on a Casio PT rented from a friend. He recorded the whole album live, directly to his tape recorder. Reissued by Teranga Beat in 2016 8. Gökçen Kaynatan - Lost Island (1973 - Turkey) A pioneer of electronic music in Turkey. While there was much experimentation in Turkey at the time, Gökçen pioneered the use of electronics. Reissued by Finders Keepers in 2017. 9. The Upsetters - Chim Cherie (1973 - Jamaica) Reggae and Dub had a huge influence on the development of electronic music, and none more that Lee Scratch Perry. It's hard to pick one, but this early dub from Pressure Sounds' 2010 compilation shows just how far ahead they were. 10. Codek - Closer (1981 - France) Originally release on Ivorian Coast label West African Music, this is the a-side from the well known ‘Tam Tam' single, recorded in France by Jean-Marie Salau. Notes end as we have reached max word count

Shock World Service 090: The Spatial Relationship by Jon Averill 28/12/19 Dublin, Ireland 1. Mark Isham - Winter It is winter at the time of recording. I'm always on the ball. 2. Gabriel Yared ‎– 37°2 Le Matin I know very little about this track, it's French. It means '37.2°C in the morning'. Le Google will you more. 3. Lifted - Now More Than Ever Actually probably the newest track on this podcast. Very much a mash-up of styles in all senses. Beats & samples drop in never to be heard again. There's a threat of a structure but that seems to never quite manifest. 4. 7 Hurtz - 3 Sisters. One of the very last compact discs I own & a great one at that. From the album Electroleum on Trevor Jackson's Output recordings. The term 'funky electro' sounds awful but this track does not. 5. Rare Silk - Storm I thought this was a much newer record before researching, mixing doo-wop style vocals with modern chord progressions & primal rhythms. 6. Peder Mannerfelt – Building of the Mountain Hypnotic & tense rave stabbing 7. Bing & Ruth - The How of it Sped From David Moore's Brooklyn collective Bing & Ruth, this track taken from their release 'No Home of the Mind 'on 4AD. 8. Girl Unit - Back From 2018's Song Feel EP, very much embracing the glistening DX-7 driven 1980s aesthetic. 9. Steve Hauschildt - Saccade A saccade is the measurement of eye movements, more accurately a rapid movement of the eye between fixation points. 10. Tuxedomoon - Do it for Van Gogh From the Blue Velvet Revisited soundtrack. A 2016 documentary about the making of David Lynch's Blue Velvet 11. Luke Slater - Weave Your Web Been a massive fan of Luke Slater since his 1997 album Freek Funk but never really found a place for his music on the podcasts. Wrong righted. 12. RX-101 - Pulse Shaper Taken from this year's (2019) Dopamine album which is an unashamed soundalike for Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works 85-92. 13. Cylob - Skylight Another Aphex associated track in that Cylob put out a lot of his early work on Rephlex Records 14. Henry Mancini - We've Loved Before And so here we are again, the end of our journey. Guided here by Henry Mancini who's music I for some reason call 'log collecting music'. See ya.

Shock World Service 089: Back2Bray by EMA 23/10/19 Dublin, Ireland 1. Jorge Reyes & Antonio Zepeda - La Izquierda Del Colibri Emotional Rescue is a reissue label for lost or forgotten tracks. Jorge Reyes and Antonio Zepeda are Mexico's most important experimental artists. This abstract unsettling track starts off the journey nicely. 2. Orson - Garzweiler A beatless drone-scape from an otherwise dubstep-centric powerhouse, Version. 3. Matias Aguayo - Between The Risings Spooky soundscapes. 4. Suba - Wayang 10 Psychedelic, slowed-goa sounds reissued on Vlad Ickovic's Offen Music label 5. Basses Terres feat. Mika Oki- Yōru No Satori Magical track that pulls at the heart strings. To be honest it makes me cry. 6. Great Ghost - Alien Hotel Del Mar The seaside chimes in and I'm home...bliss. Great Ghost is a producer & DJ making ambient and techno for years in the Brooklyn underground. 7. Ondo Fudd - Blue Dot Call Super's The Trilogy Tapes alias. Gorgeously sensual. 8. Lury Lech - Barreras A reissue from CockTail d'Amore Music off the album Música para el fin de los cantos/1990. Lury Lech, a Spanish electronic and digital audio-visual pioneer, makes you float away in this new-age meditative track. 9. Prins Thomas - Bobletekno (DJ Sotofett's New Age Mix) Full Pupp records hands over to Prins Thomas who has the Sottofett bug like us all. Sottofett produces a beautiful ambient rework which really brings you to someplace special. 10. DJ Sports - Passing Melancholic skittering half-step off Yield Records >> "To give in, surrender. To give forth, produce" An adventurous EP from Arhus-boy DJ Sports. 11. Rare Silk - Storm (Arp Duppy Chip Mix) Another Emotional Rescue. Arp's rework of Rare Silks' 1985 (album American Eyes) cult classic strips back the vocals, keeps in the Jazz fire and creates this beautiful moody dub. 12. Mårble - Coco Dub feat. Slavic Ipatov Klammklang - Criminal Russia presents a melting pot of swampy dubstep lurk with some splashy marbled jazz. 14. Lo Kindre - Torment of One Optimo Music release presenting dub sounds from Glasgow based, Luxembourg-born and raised Irishman Daniel Magee. Freaky no-wave electronics. 15. Unknown Mobile - Medicine Man Pacific Rhythm showcases the best of the best for the most part in Canada. This one is from Montréal house artist Unknown Mobile. The superb album titled Daucile Moon is an 8 tracker where Unknown Mobile created a “digital-analog hybrid that sounds as pleasantly worn as a dog-eared novel”. 16. Abby Echiverri - Inquilinism Echiverri is an audio engineer classically trained in violin, flute and piano. This lush EP shows off her talents, and it is only her first! Inquilinism is an ambient electro workout off her Ab Initio EP on The Bunker New York. If you haven't checked out this record you should. 17. Cromby - Retribution (Shanti Celeste Mix) Suprisingly, this is found on the generally straight up Feel my Bicep imprint. This remix traditionally sits at 125bpm. I slowed it right down for the mix to about 96bpm, and it sounds just as good. MORE AT: https://shockworldservice.com https://soundcloud.com/emma-jane-g https://www.instagram.com/ema_jg_ https://www.facebook.com/EMADeeJay https://twitter.com/emajg3

Shock World Service 088: Dreamscapes by New Members 16/9/19 Berlin, Germany Every now & then we like to focus on new artists & rather than do a mix, dedicate the podcast to their own productions (such as R. Kitt's amazing Cycles Podcast). This month we turn the spotlight on Dublin based producer New Members who's episode 'Dreamscapes' melds hypnotic chord sequences with raw oldschool breakbeats. More at: www.shockworldservice.com

Shock World Service 087: The Funnel Generation: Irish electronic music 1994 to 2009 By Kate Butler & the Golden Maverick 23/7/2019 Dublin, Ireland The Funnel, a 300 capacity venue in Dublin, was open for the blink of an eye: 1997-99. The magically desegregating effect of rave – where everyone and anyone was welcome on the dance floor – had come and gone. The Funnel arrived at a time when rave had been fully co-opted by commercial interests. Rave music had become delineated with hardline positions taken on genres. Your music alignment gave a lot away about where you saw yourself in this world: techno uptown, trance downtown, house for the beautiful people, jungle for the fringe. But there were lots of us floating around, looking for a community. Alan O'Boyle and Dennis McNulty of Decal, along with their manager/promoter Paul Timoney of Ultramack, found the place: the Funnel, 24 City Quay, Dublin 2. A long room on the first floor, with low ceilings and no frills. After a while, a bar was built downstairs with a fancy picture window looking out onto the Liffey. Ultramack started the Phunk City nights there, bringing over people like Autechre, Alex Patterson, and Mike Paradinas, but also promoting Irish acts like Ambulance and Deep Burial. With some limited exceptions, this became the pattern at the Funnel: Irish promoters with Irish labels, club nights with homegrown collectives of DJs and producers. The Fear collective, purveyors of freaky beats, started a Thursday night event, while Eamonn Doyle of the D1 Recordings techno label moved in with his Model One club, as did jungle/dnb crew Bassbin, which started its label while the Funnel was open.

MORE EPISODES ON APPLE PODCASTS: apple.co/2MgH6RE & SPOTIFY: spoti.fi/2Sswozn Or search 'shock world service' wherever you listen to music. Shock World Service 086: Budget Mattress Superstore By Datassette 21/6/19 London, United Kingdom 1. Pierlo Umiliani - Lavoro Nero (1975)Crunchy percussive plodder from the prolific library composer also known as Moggi. Also responsible for the 1968 super-kitsch easy listening novelty smash 'Mah nà mah nà' which would be made infamous ten years after its recording by The Muppet Show. 2. Peter Thomas & Sten Clift - Galaxy Fall-Out (1973)One of those incongruous weirdo tracks that leaps out from an otherwise unremarkable library music album of sub-par Tijuana Brass style lifestyle themes and cheesy interludes. From that elusive 16mm-camera-on-a-yellow-background Movie Makers Music series. 3. Andres Lewin-Richter - Pulsations (1977)From an album of wonderful electro-acoustic weirdness - one of those collections where it's almost impossible to tell how each sound was made. Very few synths on this despite it being called Electronic Mystery, this track sounds like it's probably an oboe or contrabassoon going through a filter and a couple of delay lines. Vast! 4. Robert Painter & Terence Jenkins - Moleculum (1983)Not quite suitable for a horror film, not quite suitable for the disco, this is the best sort of library music - odd, uncategorisable and only in existence because two people were paid to sit in a room and make something that sounded like Industry and Tension and didn't know what else to do. 5. Pierlo Umiliani - Jingle No.1 (1975)Another Moggi classic. An unstable synth gnaws at you like a rabid dog while a percussion party kicks off in the background, wild! 6. Teddy Lasry - Metallopolis (1975)Action! Lasers! 7. Roger Roger & Nino Nardini - Super Flash 7 (1982)Sounds like a drunken James Stinson outtake, sprawling synths fall about the place like an injured moth while a steady 808 kick n' rim pattern clicks away. 8. Chris Swansen - Snow (1972)Chris Swansen was appointed 'composer in residence' at Moog in 1968, and after several years of intense twiddling came up with the album 'Pulaski Skyway'. Every part on the album is hand-played and painstakingly multitracked, even the white-noise drum bursts. Wholesome stuff (not strictly library music though). 9. Mort Garson - Ode To An African Violet (1976)Not library music either, but an absolutely sublime piece of moog work with enough of a weirdo vibe to sit in the library category in my head. Sentimental, wistful and creamy. Recently reissued, this album is supposed to be played to houseplants to help them grow! Full tracklist & notes: https://www.shockworldservice.com/#/page86/

APPLE PODCASTS: apple.co/2MgH6RE SPOTIFY: spoti.fi/2Sswozn or search 'shock world service' in your Podcast App. Shock World Service 085: Lock Robster's Conundrum by Dyllan Zain 10/5/19 London, United Kingdom 1. Peter Kowald & Tatsuya Nakatani - Definition 11 A textbook recording from Quakebasket record label. The track, taken from the album, "13 Definitions Of Truth", is much like any other Nakatani collaboration with a single horn player. The beauty is, everything he does is champion material. Every note Nakatani plays and bends out of shape can never be fully recreated to perfect duplication. 2. Lumisokea - Jenseits Dub Released on a double cassette called 'Contemporary Dance' from the infamous Opal Tapes. Tons of goodies on the compilation including this track - metallic flys buzzing past your ear while the war horns echo from the hidden valley. 3. Forgotten Corner & Khidja - Tatooine Moons (Cassini Division Remix) A beautiful collaboration between Forgotten Corner and Khidja with a mystic twist by Cassini Division - forged in dark caverns wielded through ancient temples. 4. A Strange Wedding - Cosmic Bastringue Chuggy Sluggy. Downtempo coming out of France. 5. Soft Rocks - Thunder Thunder (Spectral Empire Remix) Spectral Empire runs the remix on the Soft Rock Brighton Boy's track. Running through the cosmically composed jungle. There are even some lion field recordings in there - watch out Attenborough! 6. Asha Mirr - Blue Love One of my recent obsessions. I came across Asha Mirr recently - instantly blown away and always include her tracks in my sets. Massively underrated and relatively unknown for the calibre of production. Feels like it's always on the very verge of disintegrating into complete chaos yet never ventures into truly harsh territory which I enjoyed. Thought provoking and impossible to pin down, It's boundary-expanding and unsettling. 7. Asha Mirr - Killers Again, another 'killer' track from Mirr. 8. J-ZBEL - Nik Molina Deconstructed breakbeat with holistic sounds of worship. J-zbel guys are the weirdest, nicest people you'll never meet. 9. Fleck E.S.C - Nice Guy (Pip Williams RMX) FLECK is one of my fav's at the moment for gritty, sleazy electro. This one is remixed by Pip Williams - harsh wind samples, followed with an unapologetic bassline and claps. 10. Carl Finlow - Hashtag (Fleck E.S.C Remix) Another gritty electro track, this time remixed by Fleck. Mad scientist vocals with undertones of bleepy bubbles. 11. Sematic4 - Dream Creator Been digging this one a lot lately. Coming from Dalmata Danie, Sematic4 and DJ Overdose join forces putting our three tracks each on the release. Full of dirty breaks - everything you'd expect from Overdose and old-school legend Sematic4. 12. The Mover - Underwater Operations What a build up track this one is! It creeps up on your a like a communist submarine - firing off torpedos into your nervous system! This one is pretty mellow given The Movers history. One for a building until threat level midnight. 13. The B-52's - Rock Lobster Ah. Rock Lobster. What an oddball wonky track, eh? Impossible not to bubble your head to the rift. I've always wanted to lay this down in a club, hopefully, will get the chance one day! ROCK LOBSTER! https://shockworldservice.bandcamp.com/ http://www.shockworldservice.com/

Shock World Service 084: Lake TranquillizeR by Der Opium Queen 9/4/2019 Berlin, Germany 1. June11 - White Bird It can be hard to select an opening track sometimes, but the opening mantra of loosening up and beginning to float, up and away from our bodies is a good place to start. Released on the ever great treasure chest of Stroom Records out of Belgium. 2. Jura Soundsyem - The Latern Song A whimsical floatation device from the great Isle of Jura label, they do great work for reissuing oddball of disco-not-disco and baleiric treats. Those spaced out trumpets in the background clears the path for the dubbed out, weird and wonderful. The label first came to attention for me for their reissue of the classic Fire in My Heart, by Escape from New York, my friend let us stay up in his attic a few years back after a night out and we listened to a wild mix called Andy Blake Rocks the Boat, great times, I think even the Beegees were in that mix. 3. Black Merlin - Standing At The Summit Of Bosavi Black Merlin for me has been a staple in my mixes for some time. His penchant for tough electronics is complemented and contrasted by his immersive soundscape experiments. The key feature of these experiments is the dank soaking atmosphere of his exotic field records, where the synthesized elements are full of raw transcendental power. Combined with loosely geographical field records, you have a great meeting of document and fantasy, which i find interesting and sounds just great. This track is taken from his latest LP which is collected from field recordings surrounding the Kosua tribe of Papa New Guinea. 4. Aponogeton - The Night Sky is Falling (Sixth Seal) Another track from the Stroom camp, this time its a highly dense 3D ambient piece with high emotional content that swirls in and out of focus, not much else to say about this one, but sit back and enjoy it. 5. DJ healer - Get away The artist behind DJ Healer, and the countless other monikers that came before really is a true auteur. With so many different genres and it can be hard to know what exactly the expression of his style is, as its always evolving, changing. For me what it all has in common is his ability to make the small details really interesting, without necessarily using detail, its just a hard hitting effect, like he can get his point across with relatively formulaic formats (House, Techno and so forth) I guess he can put his stamp on effortlessly what has been produced over and over for years, and make it fresh! 6. Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Bridgetown Dub If Black Merlin's Kosua, mentioned previously, profiles real geographical landscapes and twists it into a full colour psychedelia, Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement aka Vatican Shadow has been carving a deep jungle soundspace that is entirely his own for a good few years now. For me this is a project that can really take you there, while Kosua acts as a warped quasi document of the real world exotica, RSE is not stuck to the limitations of the real world, allowing for some seriously dark and mind bending ideas to bloom. Reggae-dub in the humid depths of the jungle, why the hell not. This track comes from the 2 track Venus Flytrap Exotica. 7. OSSIA - Radiation Nice zone out here, accidentally pushed further into the extremity by the help of my turntables on33, 45 RPM function, this was actually accidental, but the slo mo skank out that occurred as a result melted my brain and stole my heart. blissed out in a dub hell. Notes end.

ORDER CASSETTE: https://bit.ly/2UzHM9e Shock World Service 082: Cycles by R. Kitt 4/2/19 Dublin, Ireland We asked Robbie to put together an episode for is. He instead came back with a beautiful piece of music entitled Cycles made up from sketches & ideas that may at some point become separate tracks in their own right. Similar in some ways to the seminal E2-E4 by Manuel Göttsching it's a beautiful slowly building piece of blissful electronic music available as a podcast & on cassette.

Shock World Service 081: Trigger Points by Sunken Foal 22/10/18 Dublin, Ireland 1. Daphne Oram - Melodic Group Shapes Simple, primitive synthesis and effects, and all the better for it. Daphne Oram had a unique method of drawing shapes on 35mm film and covering it to sound. I'm not sure if his is an example of the method though. 2. Raymond Scott - Sleepy Time Some of the tracks of this ‘Soothing sounds for Baby' album are perhaps a little harsh and piercing for today's infant but I think this one has a comporting warm tone. I love how you can hear the difference between each voice of the synth sequence. 3. Monoton - Jsca I became aware of Konrad Becker's early 80's synthetic soundscapes some years ago and I've been a huge fan since. Mono Tone / Monotonous: however you want to take it is fine by me. 4. Bernard Parmegiani - Jeux de Configurations Parmegiani is kind of a Daddy for me. By simply deviating from conventions in art you can pretty easily come up with something considered Avante-Garde. I find that sometimes the emperor is wearing no clothes. But making that work compelling, absorbing or transcending is another matter. I listened Parmegiani's ‘La Création Du Monde' in college in a pitch black room played back on a big set of Genelec mid field monitors and it spoke to me in volumes. Hope it speaks to other people just as much. 5. Arnold Dreyblatt - Luftmenschen IMinimalist composer Arnold Dreyblatt explores the psychoacoustic properties of prolonged stringed instrument techniques on his ‘Second Selction' LP. Well worth lying down for. 6. Rashad Becker - Dances V This is kind of ‘The New Music' for me. Really descriptive synth work-outs with little or no spacial affectation. Lots of dynamics and energy. The absence of regular rhythm and melody is so welcome. 7. Duane Pitre - Section IV Big lovely acoustic drones. Exploring layers of harmonics with washing movements. This is from 2012's ‘Feel Free' and is totally worth a listen. 8. Meyers - Inhaler II Another artist I kinda think of as ‘The New Music' ; ). Apparently, Meyers was struck down with a bad illness and relegated to a small computer/contact mic set up and set about making a bit of a masterpiece in his ‘Negative Space (1981–2014)' LP. 9. Roly Porter - Birth Roly Porter's ‘Life Cycle of a Massive Star' is a massive, massive album. Originally a member of Planet-Mu's Dub Step visionaries Vex'd along with Jamie Kuedo. Kinda does what is said on the tin. 10. Lasry / Baschet - Quatuor Pour Trois The opening titles to early 80's children's television show ‘Music Box' are forever inscribed on my brain. A few years ago I found out the music was by Jacques Lasry and played on the Cristal Baschet (invented by the Bashet Brothers), the creepy sounding glass & metal rodded instrument. So unique sounding and beautifully composed to get the maximum ‘odd' but memorable recordings. This track is from ‘Les Structures Sonores' album and is well worth checking out. 11. Autechre - Mirrage Taken from Ae's latest ‘NTS Session (part 4)' LP. People have been crying out for Autechre to make more legato music since their ‘Vletrmx' opus in 1995. We got a couple of hours of it this year and it's deep to say the least. This is probably my favourite track from the eight hour album put out this year (2018). 12. Kate NV - BUG Really charming, free sounding compositions from Kate NV. Beautifully illustrated postcards to go along with all the tracks from her для FOR LP. 13. Brian Eno - Innocenti Eno seemed to have really codified his ambient approach by 1992's ‘The Shutov Assembly' LP. So much patience and space and still so slick. I go back to this LP a lot. Neither happy or sad, just right ; ) Read notes on all 52 tracks at at http://www.shockworldservice.com/081/

APPLE PODCASTS: apple.co/2MgH6RE 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 Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2ML2iQ6 Web: www.shockworldservice.com 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. www.shockworldservice.com https://shockworldservice.bandcamp.com/

Shock World Service 077: Opposite Numbers (Jon Averill) 25/7/18 London, United Kingdom https://shockworldservice.bandcamp.com/ 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. www.shockworldservice.com https://shockworldservice.bandcamp.com

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Shock World Service 075: Unrealistic Plans (Chequerboard) 24/1/18 Dublin, Ireland http://www.shockworldservice.com 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 http://www.shockworldservice.com/ 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.

More Episodes: https://apple.co/2MgH6RE Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2zbhp46 Shock World Service 073: A Beatless Drift (The Drifter) 5/12/17 Wicklow, Ireland 1. Roman Flügel - Fantasy Brian Enoesque opener. 2. Mental Overdrive - Opening The second opener. 3. Tim Engelhardt - Endless Endless beauty in them machines. 4. Nathan Jonson - Softly Make more ambient Nathan! Both tracks on this EP are beauties. 5. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Who I Am & Why I Am Where I Am Best tune from her new album. 6. Colleen - One Warm Spark Let the warm sparks wash over you. 7. Deru - Midnight in the Garden with Ghosts From the amazing album 1979. I could have picked any of them. 8. Caterina Barbieri - Gravity That Binds Bask in the distortion build. 9. NV - Nobinobi From an interesting japanese LP Binasu. From pop to ambient to all over the place. 10. Lord Of The Isles - Beatha He's been making some great music lately. This from an EP on Firecracker that came very soon after his ESP LP. 11. nonkeen - The Invention Mother I'm just gonna say it....I absolutely adore this song :) 12. Bwana - Kiyoko's Vision Taken from Bwana's album hommage to Akira. Check it! 13. The Prince of Denmark - Ambient 004 He made very nice ambient music too! 14. Alex Menzies - 02 Disorder 14A Alex Smoke in ambient/new classical mode. He's got some amazing music under his own name, he'll be soundtracking movies very soon i'd say. 15. Olafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm - Four 2 heavyweights = Four. Some great subtle music they've made together. 16. Mental Overdrive - Repeat: Then: Repeat Second one by him, nice bells from his new album 17. Lusine - Chatter Glassesque from Lusine. He has made some great music over the years. 18. Stimming x Lambert - Trafic Aerien Great collaboration from a new Life & Death compilation. 19. Johan Johansson - The Suns Gone Dim and the Sky's Turned Black I had to have a bit of a dramatic ending!

Shock World Service 072: Constellation Swan by Chloe Frieda (Alien Jams) 22/11/17 London, United Kingdom http://www.shockworldservice.com 1. Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Ariel Kalma - Miracle Mile This whole album is amazing, a collaboration between Robert A. A. Lowe and Ariel Kalma called "We Know Each Other Now Somehow." It was released on RVNG in 2015. 2. Xordox - Diamonds This release came out this year on Editions Mego, a project helmed by JG Thirlwel with Noveller featured in three of the tracks. Shimmering synths morph into an intense horror soundtrack. 3. recsund - Hall of Waits This one is by my partner Clifford Sage, I also included a glimmer of this track at the very beginning of the mix, It's from his release Deadsounds V. 4. Charles Manier - Mesrop I have a few of Manier's records (an alias of Tadd Mullinix) and I always go back to them! Gritty, weird, EBM, industrial goodness, it's hard to pick one track from the record as there are so many great tracks to choose from. 5. Alek Stark - GC 4406 Alek Stark has an impressive discography, dating back to 2002, many of which I have yet to check out. This release on CPU is pretty solid, some beautiful electro here. 6. Reckonwrong - Morton This track is from Reckonwrong's release on Pinkman, it's a hard one to categorise. I love how this track unfolds, especially with the "I feel that my music is important" vocal sample. 7. Rings Around Saturn - Synchrotron Synthy perfection from this electro gem. 8. Jensen Interceptor- Carter's Green Factory Another one from the mighty Central Processing Unit, a Drexcyan beauty. 9. Dreams - Gut Bounce This one fits well amongst the Apron back-catalogue, with chugging acid lines and floating melodies. 10. Morphology - Darkstar (The Hacker Remix) This track is from a remix record with The Exaltics, JTC, Sync 24 and Deixis on the label Cultivated Electronics. Dark and brooding electro remix by the Hacker. 11. Echo 106 - From Brunnen to the Nile Euphoric electro, this is one of my favourites. 12. Wilted Woman - Heating Problem New record on Alien Jams :) 13. Terribilis - Alucarda Released on a Quantum Natives compilation "Seize the Means of Production," her set at the ICA this year was wonderful.

Shock World Service 071: Mix for Milarepa (ELLLL) 20/9/17 Cork, Ireland http://www.shockworldservice.com/ Apple Podcasts: goo.gl/xyxuCh 1. Eliane Radigue - Mila's Song in the Rain Queen of meditative drone. 2. Black Merlin - Somewhere in Ubud Taken from ‘Hipnotik Tradisi'. Washes of Gamelan and field recordings with sinister and broody hues. 3. Dickie Landry - Fifteen Saxophones An intense densely layered, free flowing study using tape delays. 4. Minced Oath - Quelle Décalotage Soft, warm, shimmering pools of sound. 5. Holger Czukay - Longing for Daydreams Apt title for clever use of sampling to lull the listener into a trance like state. 6. Midori Takada - Mr. Henri Rousseau's Dream Percussionist and composer Takada melds traditional African and Asian motifs to form a delicate, airy narrative in homage to post-impressionist painter Henri Rousseau. 7. Haruomi Hosono - Growth Slightly uneasy yet stoic extract taken from ‘Watering a Flower', a series of compositions commissioned to be played as background music in household goods store, Muji in 1983. 8. Andrea Belfi - Statico An abstract composition for drums, percussion and synthesiser. From the 2017 record ‘Alveare'. 9. ASDA - Bells Noise by Sebastian Gainsborough (Vessel) and words Chester Giles. 10. Holger Czukay - Floatspace An ethereal cloud to carry you away. 11. Patricia Escudero - Gymnopedie I Unique interpretation of Erik Satie's ‘Gymnopedie I'. 12. Giusto Pio - Motore Immobile Stunning piece of 1970's Italian minimalist composition. 13. Nadia Khan - Milky Sweat Taken from ‘Open Interior' on Where to Now? 14. Johann Johannsson - Melodia (III) Distant piano solo vignette from the album ‘Fordlandia' https://twitter.com/__ellll__ http://gashcoll.com/

Apple Podcasts: goo.gl/xyxuCh | Acast: goo.gl/vcYE8X | RSS: goo.gl/RAoV1d Shock World Service 070: Strange & Torturous Customs Practiced In Our World Today by Shawn Renaud 9/8/17 Ontario, Canada 1. Cold Cave - The Idea Of Love Latest single from 'Heartworm Press'. Check the video by Amy Lee 2. Asphixiation - L'Acrostique D'Amour Dancey post-punk from Australia, recently reissued on Chapter Music. 3. Bronze Age - Coupling Symbols Alberich's (Kris Lapke) alter-ego. This was put on Bed of Nails which is a label run by Dominick Fernow who's previously featured on the podcast in his Vatican Shadow guise. 4. ZYX - Trust No Woman One album wonders, recently reissued by Dark Entries. 5. Prurient - Washed Against The Rocks Ambient piece by the previously mentioned Dominick Fernow this time under his Prurient alias 6. Nine Circles - Twinkling Stars 1982 classic from long time Dutch minimal faves 7. KWC 92 - Dreaming Of You Left field ambient opener from ‘Dream Of The Walled City (O​.​S​.​T​.​)' on L.I.E.S. The soundtrack to a movie that doesn't exist. 8. Modern Art - Hello/Goodbye Longtime psychedelic synth project from Gary Ramon 9. Lussuria - Viper Room Vigil Dark ambiance from Italy, released on Hospital Productions. 10. Bene Gesserit - Nobody Can Know Long time Belgium faves featuring Alain Neffe 11. Whilst - Goya's Skull Left field dance on Glasgow's Optimo Music. 12. Death In June - Come Before Christ & Murder Love Early synth-laden track from neofolk giants 13. Brusque Twins - Speaking In Colour Lovely minimal synth track from their album 'A Voice In The Night; on Visage Musique. 14. Tomo Akikawabaya - The Invitation Of The Dead Japanese minimal wave from 1984 15. Black Rain - Protoplasm Ambient industrial freak out project from Stuart Argabright (Dominatrix, Death Comet Crew) on Blackest Ever Black' 16. Ende Shneafliet - Session Zeitgeist We finish with Dutch experimental giants Ende Shneafliet. Check out Shaun's Seminal Wave Podcast at; https://www.mixcloud.com/shawnrenaud90/

Shock World Service 069: The New Objectivity (Jon Averill) 24/7/17 London, United Kingdom 1. Oxford Street Saxophone Man – Unknown Part of my listening experience when I 1st moved to London was about how much background noise overtook music on my headphones, i've always tried to reflect this back into podcasts. 2. Wagner - Das Rheingold, Vorspiel Powerful piece of music i've never quite been able to get into a podcast, until now! 3. Mark Franklin - Release To The System (Beaumont Hannant Remix) From Warp's amazing 1994 compilation Artificial Intelligence 2 4. Delicate Features - Prologue St Petersburg's Delicate Features. Like listening to an opera backwards, in space! 5. Bruce - Before You Sleep A cold hammering drumbeat gives way to emotive electronic shimmers. 6. Visible Cloaks & Dip in the Pool – Valve (Revisited) A crystalline polished soundscape from the Portland duo previously known for the mix; ‘Fairlights, Mallets & Bamboo' 7. Ben Frost - Venter (HTRK Remix) Understated lo-fi textures from Ben Frost 8. Wyatt/Atzmon/Stephen - The Ghosts Within The avant-pop legend Robert Wyatt from his collaborative album ‘For the Ghosts Within'. 9. Gora Sou – Choreography Pristine electronic droplets give way to breathy textures & polyrhythms 10. Aphex Twin - With My Family [48k] Rare Aphex track that's not so rare now as he's just put it up to buy on his new site. 11. Afro-Disiak - Tambours D'Eau Belgium world music from 1988 just given a fresh release on Optimo Music. 12. Seefeel - Spangle 2nd track from Warp's Artificial Intelligence 2 compilation. 13. O'Flynn - Desmond's Empire The mysterious ‘O Flynn' with one of my favourites so far this year. Ethnographic, emotional house music! 14. Ryuichi Sakamoto - Elephantism Theme (edit) 2002's oddly titled ‘Elephantism Theme' winding up this episode. 15. Oxford Street Saxophone Man – Rivers of Babylon [Extract] Part of the same recording that intro'd the podcast. Recorded on phone on Oxford St last year.

068: Swelling Progress (Bandcloud) 20/3/16 Dublin, Ireland http://www.shockworldservice.com/ 1. Jana Irmert – Altitude Adjustment From a compilation called self​-​identified non​-​male artists making experimental electronic music. Irmert is a Berlin-based sound artist, “interested in the vague, irrational, less tangible aspects of existence”. 2. Head Dress – Devil's Triangle LA-based Ted James Butler, who also records cassette-only podcast Norelco Mori. This experimental track was released on Castle Bravo. 3. CUBOP – Nocturnal Panacea CUBOP shared this track as an "aural gift". A nice clash of experimental noise & more earthly sounds. 4. Vlasta Burian – Vlasta Burian v Obrazarne (in the Picture Gallery) This excerpt comes from a compilation of tracks related to The Okeh Laughing Record. It's a 1930 recording of a Czech comedian. 5. Leaaves – The Only One Who Knew Leaaves makes lush music fuelled by melancholy; this track comes from a release called We Will Forget Our Sadder Days In Summers That Never End. Apt. 6. David Fyans – In An Object Sign up to this guy's Bandcamp sub. He drops beautiful ambient modulations all the time. 7. Mr Mitch – The Man Waits (Talbot Fade's Extension Cord To The Abyss Mix) I first got to know Talbot Fade when he shared his debut self-released album with me on Twitter. I was blown away. The first time we met was going to Boxed, where Mitch was playing. Now he's remixing Mitch & collaborates with him as Yaroze Dream Suite.

Shock World Service 067: Continental Drift (Jon Averill) 4/2/16 London, United Kingdom 1. Razen - Sleeper Electronic trad? 2. Dean Blunt – Papi A fleeting piece from album ‘The Redeemer' 3. John Cooper Clarke - Health Fanatic Been a while since Dr Cooper Clarke made a world service appointment. Obvious lyrical prowess aside this is a unique & extraordinarily original piece. 4. 2 8 1 4 - Recovery Very tricky release to find, on vinyl at least. Telepath テレパシー能力者 & HKE are 2 8 1 4. Can't recommend their album ‘Birth of a New Day' highly enough. 5. Chassol - Music Is God Christophe Chassol want to Calcutta to record sounds & dialogue for his album Indiamore. Gilles Peterson fodder. 6. Spiritualized – I Didn't Mean To Hurt You (Instrumental) Caught Spiritualized performing ‘Ladies & Gentleman…' with full choir & orchestra late 2016, a reminder of how amazing they are in full flow. This is an instrumental version of a track from 2001's ‘Let It Come Down'. 7. Zazou Biyake – M'Pasi Ya M'Pamba Plinky plonky Afro electronic record I picked up that came out back in 1984 8. Sera Arreza - Bohol A piano piece I came across on Soundcloud, thanks to Sera for letting me include it in this episode. 9. Deaf Center – Thread Norwegian duo Deaf Center sounding a little like William Basinski on ‘Thread' 10. Die Unbekannten – Radio War Taking from the soundtrack to 'Lust & Sound In West-Berlin 79-89'. Which as the title suggests is a homage to the walled-in city. 11. Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending One of my favourite ever pieces of music. From the cold war to Great War – this was written just before the outbreak of the 1st World War. 12. TS Elliot - Journey of the Magi (Extract) A poem by TS Elliot from 1927 13. Soft as Snow - Black Birds (Maria Minerva Rework) This Maria Minerva mix segues very nicely over the previous track 14. Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - Down From Dover You can't accuse me of not supporting Lee on this podcast 15. R2DJ - Clean Living Rescued off a scratched & dusty CD in my drawer. Beautiful slice & cut emo-hop from the album ‘Since We Last Spoke' 16. Elvis Presley - Black Star An unreleased Elvis track dealing with the inevitable state of demise. Rumoured to be where Bowie took inspiration for the title of his final album. ‘& when a man sees his black star he knows his time has come' & so dear listeners has ours for another podcast… http://www.shockworldservice.com/ Apple Podcasts: goo.gl/xyxuCh

Because Of You, We Survived the Cold of Winter Snow by Cian Ó Cíobháin 24/12/16 Galway, Ireland Label: goo.gl/6VXilY Twitter: twitter.com/shockws All Podcasts: https://goo.gl/bkdZyY 1. Edward Williams - The Sex Life Of The Fern Strange tune title? Perhaps … but not when you realise its context. It's from the soundtrack to David Attenborough's 1979 BBC series ‘Life On Earth'. 2. John Martyn - Head and Heart Achingly beautiful loves song from John Martyn's 1971 classic LP ‘Bless the Weather'. 3. Shelleyan Orphan - Beamheart Caroline Crawley, the lead singer of Shelleyan Orphan, sadly passed away some months back. I was familiar with her vocal work on This Mortal Coil's LP ‘Blood', but had never taken the time out to explore any of her back catalogue, outside of her contributions to Ivo-Watts Russell's 4AD super-group. 4. Perfume Genius - Mr Petersen Taken from Mike Hadreas' debut LP from 2010, this is a song about a teacher he had in his formative years, who had a major influence on him, but later committed suicide. 5. Shiny Two Shiny - Moment To Moment Thanks to Mary Maguire for introducing me to this band. Based in Liverpool, they released 1 album and 2 EPs in the mid-80s. 6. The Strange Walls - Grey To Red ‘…. Won't Last' by New York-based The Strange Walls on Alrealon Musique is one of my albums of the year. 7. Worldbackwards - (Leaving Me) Now Minimal wave quartet from London who initially only released their music on cassettes (there are four of them, all C60s). 8. Peter Gordon & David Van Tieghem - Winter (feat Kathy Acker) Peter Gordon is the bandleader of Love Of Live Orchestra, a multi-genre downtown New York collective that has counted Arthur Russell, David Byrne, Arto Lindsay, Phillip Glass and Laurie Anderson amongst its members. He sent me a thank you email VIA his publicist for playing this one so often on my radio show this year. 9. Thomas Leer - Private Plane Amazing debut single from 1978 from Thomas Leer. 10. Lives Of Angels - Imperial Motors Lost classic from husband/wife duo Gerald and Catherine O' Connell, taken from their 1983 album ‘Elevator To Eden'. Shades of Can, Suicide, Depeche Mode, New Order. 11. Rollers/Sparkers - Kodiak They're from Dublin, they are responsible for my album of the year - ‘Interior Ministry' - and by album, I mean a coherent collection of amazing songs that make complete sense in the way that they're sequenced on the LP. 12. Let's Eat Grandma - Eat Shiitake Mushrooms I believe that this precocious teenage girl duo from Norwich are still in school (only aged 16-17 when they wrote this) and yet…. how on earth did they come up with possibly the best pop-song of 2016? 13. Scraps - Dreams Brisbane's self-styled ‘dehydrated disco queen' released a corker of an album - called ‘TTNIK' - on the always essential Not Not Fun label this year. 14. Blood Orange - Desirée This was my highlight from ‘Freetown Sound', an album which features more great female vocalists, many who previously were unknown to me. 15. The Paradise - In Love With You Made by Alan Braxe (who had a hand in Stardust's ‘Music Sounds Better With You' with Thomas Bangalater and ‘Intro/Running' with Fred Falke) with Romuald Louverjon back in 2003, I have Mike Smalle to thank for introducing me to this 6am afterparty classic. 16. Ruby & The Romantics - Baby Come Home Akron, Ohio R&B 60s group who became big in Belgium when this one became a staple on the Popcorn scene. 17. Liz Damon's Orient Express - 1900 Yesterday Debut single from Liz Damon's Hawaiian band came out in 1971 but I have my truelove to thank for introducing me to it recently. 18. Cocteau Twins - Half-Gifts 20 years ago the Cocteau Twins released their final album ‘Milk & Kisses' and when it came out I recall many of us being completely besotted with this song. Liz Fraser's biographer speculated that songs from this period may be about Jeff Buckley, but the lady herself has neither confirmed or denied this.

Shock World Service 65: Guitar Side Of The Divide by Spaces 13/7/16 London, United Kingdom Label: goo.gl/6VXilY Twitter: twitter.com/shockws 1. The Wailers - Don't Ever Leave Me This guitar solo by Ernest Ranglin is possibly the best ever. 2. Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train Version straight from YouTube is probably rawer than the live studio album. 3. Fripp & Eno - Wind On Water If you're forced to take a flight on your own listen to this on headphones. 4. Brian Eno - Third Uncle When I was young I remember trying to run really fast and almost falling forward mid-run. This song hurtles along so fast it sounds like exactly that. 5. Luciano Cilio - Della Conoscenza The vocals in this are up there with Ligeti's Lux Aeterna. 6. The Sonics - The Witch It was a toss up between this and Strychnine. 7. Neil Young - Guitar Solo, No. 1 The opener from the Dead Man soundtrack. The sleeve notes have great photos of a gurning Neil Young in front of a big screen, scoring the film with just an electric guitar. Or maybe I'm imagining that 8. Bill Frisell - Effects Pedal Demonstration (I actually like this.) 9. Phoenix - If I Ever Feel Better (And this.) 10. Laurie Anderson - The Puppet Motel A less well known Laurie Anderson song from the Bright Red album. Actually there's not really any guitar in here… 11. Julee Cruise - Floating| Not the normal guitar lick associated with Julee Cruise/Twin Peaks but close enough to raise all sorts of Laura Palmer-based hallucinations. 12. Neil Young - Organ Solo/Do You Know How To Use This Weapon? This gets in because he plays the organ like he plays the guitar. Haunting and stays with you. 13. Battant - Old School Baby Battant suffered an abrupt and tragic end in 2011 with the death of Joel Dever, this version of the Nena/Westbam is less polished but rawer. 14. Donal Keating & John Flynn - KLG Recently blown the dust of my guitar to add some bits to the tracks my musical twin Donal Keating has been sending me across the globe. 15. Pete Thorn - Guitar Picks (I don't actually like this.) 16. Wes Montgomery - No Blues Found this relatively late too. The way the album's mixed it sounds like Wes' amp is right next to you.

Shock World Service 064: Float A Boat(Rory Bowens) 2/5/16 London United Kingdom http://www.shockworldservice.com/ 1. D-Day - Float A Bort Beautiful mis-spelled dream pop from Japan. Taken from their 'Vale of Promises' release on that most elegant of formats, the Flexi-Disc. 2. Henri Texier - Amir Avant-Garde Jazz Vocal beauty from the French double bass player. 3. Stockton's Wing And Steve Cooney - Ice Fields I found this one in my Dad's 7" box on a trip home to Ireland last Christmas. The B-side of 'Skidoo' a popular didgeridoo led reel that ended up the Irish charts. This track, 'Ice-Fields' allegedly was recorded by Stephen Cooney on location at the Irish Arctic Expedition 1981 using a wind harp. 4. Bill Nelson- Sleeplessness Taken from Chamber Of Dreams (Music From The Invisibility Exhibition), a collection of backing tracks from his experimental multi-disciplinary performance project. The source material for these backing tapes came from the archives of the Echo Observatory. Bill Nelson's expansive back catalogue is endlessly interesting. One of Britains great avant-pop eccentrics, he suggests on the liner notes that “Musicians owning this album, might enjoy sketching their own ideas over these tracks in the privacy of their own home”. 5. Operating Theatre - Eighties Rampwalk (Fanning Session) Operating Theatre was Irish composer Roger Doyle's new wave band/ theatre troupe collaboration with Olwen Foure. Discovered this one on the excellent Strange Passion: Explorations In Irish Post Punk DIY And Electronic Music 1980-1983. Check it out if you haven't already 6. Unknown Artist - Veni L'amou (Come My Dear) Recorded by Alan Lomax in Blanchisseuse (Tunapuna-Piarco), Trinidad in 1962. Session notes say "Recording of the above tunes was made at the home of Mrs. Jean Eustache Stoute from 8 p.m. on May 2nd until early next morning.” 7. Wally Badarou - Endless Race Grab Badarou's Echoes album. 8. Makoto Matsushita - I Know Taken from his album 'First Light'. The broken English lyrics only add to the feeling of a relationship breakdown. 9. Mgqashiyo Ndlovu - Siyalivum'icala I know absolutely nothing about this one except from the caption on YouTube which reads "Zulu Music (South Africa)" 10. Bagarre - For Your Pleasure Really weird spoken word Italo-Disco tune. A lot of the joy of Italo comes from the often awful vocals and this is a prime example of that. 11. Vanity 6 - Make Up Prince Rogers Nelson & Denise Katrina "Vanity” Matthews RIP 12. Lives of Angels - Imperial Motors Taken from their Elevator To Eden album, lovingly reissued by Dark Entries a couple of years ago. Imperial! 13. Cleaners From Venus - The Jangling Man Beautiful stuff from UK home recording pioneer Martin Newell. What I love about the Cleaners From Venus catalogue is that all the tunes are unabashedly massive pop tunes and the lo-fi element doesn't feel in any way stylised, but rather just them doing their thing. 14. Slowdive - Crazy For You (Alternative Demo Version) The balearic sound of Slowdive. 15. Kath Bloom, Loren Mazzacane - When Your Dreams Come True Taken from their Restless Faithful Desperate album. Heartache. 16. Mense Reents - This Is The Way First heard this one a recording of a Donal Dineen set from Electric Picnic a few years back, a name most Shock World Service listeners are undoubtedly familiar with. The sad euphoric feeling of the tune is the quality I most enjoy in music.

BANDCAMP: https://bit.ly/2EcjjQL Day of the Locust by Jon Averill 3/3/16 London United Kingdom 1. Frank Sinatra - Empty (Extract) This podcast began after a conversation about how overrated I thought Frank Sinatra was. As if to prove myself wrong I shone a spotlight into the darker area of his back catalogue. 2. Fridge - Cut Up Piano & Xylophones Polyphonic probing from Kieran Hebden, Adem Ilhan, & Sam Jeffers. Recording as Fridge back in 2001. 3. Perdita - Rubber City This sounds like it's from a David Lynch film, because it is; Wild at Heart from 1990. 4. HomeSick, Silkersoft & Keight - Faraway Suede Fresh beats recorded at this year's Red Bull Music Academy in Paris. 5. Sinoia Caves - Elena's Sound-World From the soundtrack of Beyond the Black Rainbow, a queasy & uneven retro styled sci-fi film from 2010. 6. Iggy Pop - The Endless Sea Relatively restrained & nuanced balladeering. Endless Sea is from 1979. Which is the last time Iggy Pop wore a shirt. 7. Donald Byrd - Cristo Redentor (Loop) I looped the intro of this track (which also appears on podcast 18) to serve as underpinning for the next. 8. William S. Burroughs - From Here To Eternity A caustic, sardonic piece from Burrough's collection of short stories; ‘Exterminator' from 1973. 9. Thomas Leer & Robert Rental - Day Breaks, Night Heals Proper fuzzy, nasty electronic resonance from 1979. Man music. 10. Vangelis - Le Singe Bleu Been listening to Van the man's pre Blade Runner output a lot recently. This is from 1973's L'Apocalypse des Animaux. 11. Lee Hazlewood - The Nights Hazlewood is the grizzled troubadour who documented the fast disappearing American frontier. We play a lot of Lee on this podcast so much so I actually had to search back through the previous 62 episodes to make sure this track hasn't already been used. 12. P-Model - Kameari Pop Amazing freaky outlandish electropop from Japan circa 1979. 13. Dave Clarke - Splendour Crunchy tractor hip-hop from techno stalwart Dave Clarke showcasing the power of the loop. 14. Gareth Anton Averill - Little Palace Horns Another track recorded at this year's Red Bull Music Academy. Familiar name too. 15. Alan Vega - Love Cry This continues the outsider art template Vega created in Suicide alongside Martin Rev. 16. Moritz Reich - La Fabrique des hommes tristes: Ouverture French melancholy from frenchman Moritz Reich. 17. Frank Sinatra - Empty Is Frank returns to complete one of the more interesting songs in his cannon. I'm still not fully sold though. 18. Laraaji - Zither Dance Apparently discovered by Brian Eno. New age clanging & banging from Laraaji closes out this episode with a hypnotic zither melody. 19. Mare Street Band Recording A little post-script recording I made in Hackney that threatens to break into the Lambada at any point.

Everything Comes From Chaos by Cian Ó Cíobháin 26/12/15 Galway, Ireland. http://www.shockworldservice.com 1. Young Marble Giants - Music For Evenings From ‘Colossal Youth', their debut album which was released in 1980. 2. Katie Dey - y o y o Melbourne-based Katie Dey released one of the year's quirkiest EPs in the shape of ‘asdf asdf'. 3. Kings Of Convenience V Röyksopp - I Don't Know What I Can Save You From One of the key songs in my life, all the way from Norway. This was released the same year as Röyksopp dropped their debut LP ‘Melody AM'. 4. Björk Mit Funkstörung - All Is Full Of Love (seconddotted) Back in the nineties Funkstörung made essential outsider electronica, where they merged complex drum patterns with melancholic melodies. 5. Team LG - On Fire It's been a decade since Team LG released their debut - & only - record. I haven't heard anything about them since and had, indeed, forgotten about them, until I re-discovered this CD, which had been missing from my collection for years. 6. Low - What Part Of Me Everyone's favourite Mormon indie pop band returned with this perfectly-formed pop song in late summer. 7. Marker Starling - Husbands Christopher Cummings is Marker Starling, previously of Mantler. 8. Kingdom - Bank Head This classic on the Night Slugs label is almost 3 years old now, but a month doesn't go by that I don't find myself returning to it. 9. Venetian Snares - Your Face When I Finally (Glass Version) Yes Aaron Funk is actually his real name and this hugely talented Canadian producer has been pretty prolific since releasing his first records in the late 90s. 10. Inga Copeland - I Am Your Ambient Wife Inga Copeland is your ambient wife. & I'm not going to argue with her. 11. Junior Boys - Teach Me How To Fight The debut LP from Junior Boys, entitled ‘Last Exit' masterfully combined 80's synth-pop melodies with yearning vocals & the jittery, irregular rhythms commonly associated with UK Garage. 12. Jam City - Crisis After falling heavily for Jam City's neon-kissed LP it wasn't a huge leap for me to endear myself to the same artist's U-turn towards neon-kissed r'n'b torch-songs that make up ‘Dream A Garden'. 13. David Axelrod - The School Boy Composer, arranger, producer, drummer & ex-boxer David Axelrod has had a huge influence on the music landscape with the likes of De La Soul, DJ Shadow & DJ Premier having sampled him. 14. Susumu Yokota - Morino Gakudan Susumu Yokota's sounds have haunted me since first discovering him back in '99. 15. Our Brother The Native - Tilia Petiolaris Back in 2006, two Michigan teenagers & their Californian buddy released their debut LP ‘Tooth & Claw', an album born out of acoustic strumming, field recordings, analogue feedback, weird samples & often particularly twee vocals. 16. Jackson C. Frank - Milk & Honey The composer of this song lived a life of heartbreak & woe, but was a huge influence on folk singers such as Nick Drake (who covered this song) & Paul Simon. 17. Saint Sister - Madrid One of the debuts of the year, courtesy of Gemma Doherty & Morgan MacIntyre, which was recorded in Co. Kerry by Alex Ryan of Hozier. 18. Kendal Johansson - Blue Moon A gorgeous cover of a Big Star song, released on Sincerely Yours. 19. Saint Etienne - Hobart Paving Saint Etienne pulled out all the stops at The National Concert Hall last September, performing their classic début ‘Foxbase Alpha' in its entirety. 20. Spiritualized - Ladies & Gentlmen We Are Floating In Space (Original Elvis Mix) Back in 1997, Spiritualized's third LP was barely on the shelves when the LP had to be recalled after an objection from Elvis Presley's Estate. 21. King Midas Sound & Fennesz - We Walk Together So many of my favourites on 1 record. feat. Kiki Hitomi, with extra FX-drenched, shoegaze shimmering from Austrian guitarist & producer Christian Fennesz. Total heart-stopper. www.rte.ie/rnag/an-taobh-tuathail/ http://cianociobhain.com/

Shock World Service 061; Make Mine A 99 (Jon Averill) 15/05/15 London, United Kingdom 1. Bonnie Dobson & Her Boys - Winter's Going ‘I'll kill your baby & then i'll kill you', strong stuff from a Canadian. This song opens the podcast which was originally intended as an ode to the onset of summer. The fluctuating climate of May 2015 left us with something a whole lot less defined however. 2. Miaoux Miaoux - Hey Sound Miaoux Miaoux is Julian Corrie, a Glasgow based producer. This track is taken from his 2012 album ‘Light of the North' which i've never listened to. 3. Howie B - Butt Meat Second part of a Glasgow producer double is an absolute masterclass by Howard Bernstein in how to make cut & paste hip hop. A near perfect record. 4. J. K. Mayengani & The Shingwedzi Sisters - Khubani No idea where I got this record from, it's great though isn't it? 5. Sly & Robbie - Computer Malfunction Another example of how much better I am than you is that I would steal this record from my dad's collection in my early teens, fascinated by it's intermix of groove & spacey electronics. 6. Gunnar Haslam - Aisepos Brooding strings sit atop an tribal sounding drum machine beat. Taken from a compilation with the fantastic title of ‘Music for ShutiIns'. 7. Original Tropicana Steel Band - Calypso Rock This track couldn't be more antithetical to the last. 8. Pye Corner Audio - One Time Pad And once again we transmute from the sultry to the foreboding. Taken from the recently released ‘Intercepts' album. A collaboration between Pye Corner Audio & Shock World Service favourite Not Waving. 9. Number One Ensemble - Flor De Coca Low bpm disco from a compilation entitled ‘Italo Disco – Essential Italian Disco Classics 1977-1985' 10. Owen Hand - Cam Ye O'er Frae France Long time followers of the podcast will wonder where it all went wrong. 11. Paul Stewart - Kiki & Pepe I always like to include some stories or spoken word elements in each podcast. This time it's a section of audio from an album called ‘The Warrick Sessions Volume 1' which is a bizarre & fascinating listen. 12. Joe Meek - Orbit Around The World Another bizarre piece of music from 1960 from Joe Meek, the UKs answer to Brian Willson & Phil Spector. This ploughs similar territory to his other retro-futuristic track ‘Telstar'. 13. Between - Devotion Psychedelic, meditative, transcendental, cogitative. 14. Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan - Journey's End On my last visit to New York we went to late night honky-tonk (yet hipster) den called Skinny Dennis (152 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211). This is the kind of shit kickin' anthem that would have gone down a treat there. And by co-incidence this is also our journey's end. APPLE PODCASTS: https://apple.co/2RtcbVZ SPOTIFY: https://spoti.fi/2GxY7aN WEB: http://www.shockworldservice.com MAILOUT: https://bit.ly/2TO6XVq

Past, Present & Future (Jon Averill) 22/01/15 London, United Kingdom 1. The Shangri-Las - Past, Present & Future An aloof monologue backed by an interpolation of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata reflects on what might have been. 2. Ryan Teague - Shadow Play A minimalist composition which owes much to contemporaries such as Steve Reich & John Adams. 3. INC. - Swear The polished chrome future R'n'B grooves of L.A's INC. 4. Mount Kimbie - Maybes For some reason never really got into Mount Kimbie the way a lot of people did. 5. Japan - Quiet Life Waking us up with a jolt is the opening track from the 1979 album of the same name by Japan. 6. Paul Simon - 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover If you're being pedantic you could point out that he only lists 5 ways to leave your lover. 7. The Au Pairs - It's Obvious Next up is the clattering post-punk clamour of Birmingham's The Au Pairs. 8. Sun Araw, M. Geddes Gengras, & The Congos - Sunshine Amazing track but sounds completely out of place at the time of recording – a freezing January weekend in London. 9. Not Waving - Kneecap Ridge Another track I really wanted to include again – this podcast not really acting as a best of in the traditional sense but more a recap of the last 59. 10. Jai Paul - Jasmine (Demo) The best thing released in 2012. 11. Wendy Carlos & Rachel Elkind - Rocky Mountains Taken from Great Lakes Mystery's horror soundtrack themed podcast. Wendy Carlos (formerly Walter) created 3 hugely influential soundtracks; the unsettling electronic score for A Clockwork Orange, Tron & worked again with Stanley Kubrick on The Shining from which this track is taken. 12. Mssingno - Xe2 Both myself & Cian Ó Cíobháin have featured tracks from Mssingo in previous podcast which is good enough to give him Shock preferred artist status. With electronic music you're always looking for something that gives that little tingle - a feeling you get when you hear something that sounds like it's from somewhere else. 13. Fabio Frizzi - Main Theme Absolutely floored by this first time I heard it. Just an extraordinary piece of synthesizer music from the 1979 soundtrack for Italian horror movie Zombi 2. 14. Burial - Raver Perfect music for avoiding eye contact on the night bus. 15. Lee Hazlewood - My Baby Cried All Night Long Taking us right out of that moment is moustached troubadour & regular at the Shock salon; Lee Hazlewood. And the moral of this story is that you shouldn't be caught messin' Where you shouldn't been messin'. 16. World Domination Enterprises ‎– Asbestos Lead Asbestos Music that sounds more like it's made on a building site than a recording studio. 17. The Durutti Column - Otis Vini Reilly uses an Otis Redding vocal loop to great effect for this track. 18. Dennis Wilson - Time The deterioration of Dennis Wilson's, once part of the angelic harmonies of the Beach Boys is a shocking thing to hear yet also adds a vulnerability to his music. 19. Tonstartssbandht - Hymn Eola Tonstartssbandht (pronounced tahn-starts-bandit) are two brothers Edwin & Andy White who've recorded dozens of albums merging dramatic choral style vocals & space rock-esque textures. 20. John Cooper Clarke - Beasley Boulevard (Live at Shock 16.5.08) I don't think this track can be heard elsewhere so a bit of an exclusive for our listeners I guess. It's a sequel to Cooper Clarke's most well known track Beasley Street. Here John deals with Beasley Street as it might be now, fully in the grip of gentrification. 21. Moondog - Pastoral Pastoral is a childlike melody from the Viking of sixth avenue which brings the podcast to a close. So this is goodbye, so this is farewell, the fight's final bell. for now… APPLE PODCASTS: apple.co/2RtcbVZ SPOTIFY: spoti.fi/2GxY7aN WEB: www.shockworldservice.com MAILOUT: bit.ly/2TO6XVq

Shock World Service 059 Old Acquaintance Be Forgot by Cian Ó Cíobháin 24/12/2014 Galway, Ireland 1. Mica Levi - Lonely Void Mica Levi's soundtrack for Jonathan Glazer's film ‘Under The Skin' (based on Michel Faber's novel) was, without doubt, the oddest yet most beguiling music I heard all year. I had listened to the soundtrack loads before I finally got to see the movie. Listening to the music out of context had made an impression, finally hearing it as I viewed the film almost made me want to start a cult. 2. Kode9 & The Spaceape - Autumn Has Come The ‘Killing EP' was the last release from Hyperdub vocalist-poet-MC Stephen Samuel Gordon AKA The Spaceape before his untimely demise in the autumn. His parting words “I must learn to dance with life again while autumn is still here” are particularly heartbreaking considering he passed away soon after the recording was made. 3. Visonia & Dopplereffekt - Die Reisen This track should be employed by music teachers in classes to illustrate ‘how to write a bass arpeggio'. A big thanks to Laura O' Connell for putting me onto this one. Released on Last Known Trajectory in January, this should still sound fresh in decades to come. 4. Clark - Snowbird Chris Clark has been a formidable presence on the legendary Warp label for over a decade now. His eponymously titled 2014 LP is rumoured to be his last. If there is any substance to these rumours, it is safe to acknowledge that he refused to go out with a whimper with possibly his most coherent LP to date. 5. Roberto Clementi - Agile The Italian's debut LP for Soma - 'N Lights' - took a slightly organic and dubby approach to electronic music. This one was the diamond in the rough: an ethereal and glistening piece of electronica that has shades of Burial or The Cyclist about it. 6. Actress - Gaze His latest LP ‘Ghettoville' may not be up there with his finest work, but it did bestow upon the world this gorgeous slice of dreamy house. 7. JAW, Philip Wolgast & Benito W - Papersand Is JAW the new Robert Owens? The frontman of electronic French act dOP's voice can be heard lighting up many a house tracks these days. I've never really been a fan of Robert Owens, bar a handful of tracks, though I've slowly began to warm to JAW. However, something about this collaboration - the production and the wistful vocal - made it sounds like a more melancholic take on what Ali Love & Hot Natured have been getting up to. One to slow dance to at the end of a lost weekend. From the ‘Midtown EP' on Circus Company. 8. To Rococo Rot - Baritone Veterans of the German electro-acoustic scene released their eighth studio LP ‘Instrument' this year which included this track, redolent of classic mid-90s Tortoise. 9. Fhloston Paradigm - Never Defeated (feat. Rachel Claudio) King Britt - under his Fhloston Paradigm guise - produced one of the most memorable LPs of the year in ‘The Phoenix' and this collaboration with Rachel Claudio is the kind of gritty soul I subscribe to. 10. Ariel Pink - Lipstick Ariel Pink's new LP ‘Pom Pom' is a riot of ideas. Like an enterprising magpie, he swoops over many different genres and eras and steals the best parts to create a new and vibrant love letter to both AM & FM bubblegum pop. 11. Aphex Twin - PAPAT4 [155] [pineal mix] A period of two weeks listening to Aphex Twin's first LP in 13 years confirmed this and the ‘minipops' single to be my personal highlights. Full tracklist: http://www.shockworldservice.com/#/page59/

Shock World Service 058: Valley Of The Dolls by Elena Colombi (Osàre! Editions/NTS) 13/11/14 London, United Kingdom 1. Margot - Waldorf Italian producers Margot A.K.A. Pepe and Giaga Robot with "Waldorf", the first 12" released in March this year on Ivan Smaghe's new amazing label "Les Disques de la Mort". 2. Pacific 231 & Vox Populi! - Gole Mariam Gole Mariam is a mystical journey into the musical world of Pacific 231 & Vox Populi!, two long-running and legendary french projects. 3. Andy Stott - Missing Mystery and suspense in this track by Andy Stott's, on the forthcoming album "Faith in Strangers" on Modern Love records. 4. Vincent Gallo - Was Probably my favourite track from album "When", released on 2001 on Warp. There's something odd, awkward but at the same time very beautiful in all the work of Vincent Gallo, wether he is directing, acting or composing music. 5. Subject - What Happened to You? Belgian duo Subject built this brilliant instrumental throbbing Synthy energy lo-fi science fiction around a stone-simple 2/4 rhythm. Brought to life again by the "Minimal Waves Vol II compilation released on February 2012 on Stones Throw. 7. Paco Sala - Rosa x Damascena From the album "Ro-Me-Ro" out a couple of years back on Digitalis Recordings. 8. Muslimgauze - Low On Qat Bryn Jones aka Muslimgauze produced something like 90 albums between 1982 and 1998, before dying for a rare blood disease. All his music was inspired by the Muslim world, in particular the Palestinian conflict and was released on limited editions cassettes "Low on Qat" is from the album Tandoori Dog. 9. Copeland - Fit Formerly 50% of Hype Williams together with Dean Blunt, Inga Copeland self released the album "Because I'm Worth It" came out in May this year. 10. Young Man - Wandering I don't know much about Colin Caulfield and his project as "Young Man". The album Vol I is apparently the second of a planned trilogy and the composer dedicated this album to transition. 11. ABSTRAXION - Vampyros Lesbos Abstraxion is the project of French cool kid Harold Boué who does innovating electronica and counts support from the likes of Erol Alkan, Simian Mobile Disco, James Holden and Caribou. From the album Temple Of The Sun. 12. Klaus Nomi - From Beyond From the album Simple Man 13. The Death Set - Slap Slap Slap Pound Up Down Snap. From 2011's "Michael Poiccard" album. 14. Joane Skyler - Dinosaur Dies Alone From Joane Skyler debut album "Orz" On Reckno Records. 15. Patrick Vian - R&B Degenerit! From the album Bruits Et Temps Analogues, released in 1976 on the great Egg Records and repressed last year on Staubgold. 16. No More - Suicide Commando. 7" released on Too Late Records in 1981.? Pure, lo-fi No Wave from the German group. 17. Blonde Redhead - No More Honey How sexy is the voice of Kazu Makino?? From the album "Barragán" 18. Maxmillion Dunbar - Calvin & Hobbes Released a couple of months ago on the great Trilogy Tapes Label. > David Lynch - Eraserhead 1977. First David Lynch's movie. Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child. "In heaven, everything is fine" 19. Andy Stott - Damage Another track from Stott's forthcoming album "Faith in Strangers". Solid. 20. Sleep - Rain's Baptism A little metal treat.. from Sleep's album Holy Mountain 21. Actress - Birdcage From Darren J. Cunningham's latest album "Ghettoville". 22. Verdena - Bambina In Nero From the self titled "Verdena" on Black Out. 23. Tova Gertner - Etmol Another gem from Les Disques de la Mort. 24. Sid Vicious - My Way The only song actually present in the soundtrack of the movie. Cover of the famous Frank Sinatra's song, while performing this track Sid Vicious forgets the lyrics & improvises.

Shock World Service 057 So Regency My Dear by Jon Averill 19/10/14 London, United Kingdom 1. Freescha - Kite High A warm & fuzzy start to ease us into this episode from Californian duo Freescha. Despite their electronic pretensions the pair also wrote ‘Heaven On Earth' for Britney Spears. 2. Dead Can Dance - Saltarello This song has been in several podcasts before but never quite made the final cut so glad I could finally fit it in. ‘Saltarello' (a reference to a long lost Italian folk dance) was recorded at Quivvy Church just north of Dublin. 3. Francisco - Love Sweet Love Taken from ‘Cosmic Beam Experience', recorded in 1979. ‘Love Sweet Love' is actually the most conventional track on an album permeated with avant garde psychedelic experimentation 4. Cashmere Cat - Mirror Maru Drum programming that could be lifted straight out a grime track plays off dramatically against layers of pitched up vocals & harpsichord lines underpinned by squeaky toy FX. 5. Ólafur Arnalds - Poland For this podcast i've tried to make each track in opposition to that last, this beautiful piece by Ólafur Arnald also serves as a backing for the next... 6. John Betjeman - Song Of Night-Club Proprietress As someone who comes from a family with English origins John Betjeman represents a sort of lost eccentricity & war time whimsy from an England long gone, or perhaps that never existed. 7. Art Garfunkel - Waters Of March ‘Águas de Março' is a Brazilian song composed by Antonio Carlos Jobim & covered here by the other one in Simon & Garfunkel. 8. Mariah - 心臓の扉 Mariah is the brainchild of Yasuaki Shimizu. There's not a huge amount of information out there on Mariah other than they made 5 albums under the name between 1980 & 1983, this being the last. 9. Béla Bartók - Andante I've always loved this piece, it sounds like it was performed on a rusty gate. As also sampled recently for Damon Albarn's ‘Everyday Robots'. 10. Red Snapper - 4 Dead Monks (Demo) This is a demo of ‘4 Dead Monks' which is actually very similar to the final version but with a little less going on, this is the version which I prefer. 11. Oliveray - Growing Waterwings Often in the podcast I'll combine 2 pieces of music or dialogue that sit well together, this piece of music from Oliveray was chosen to underpin & also dilute the next… 12. Iceberg Slim - Pimp: The Story of My Life Iceberg Slim was an American pimp & later author. This is an extract from his autobiographical novel ‘Pimp: The Story of My Life' which tells the tales of a cruel & vicious life before his incarceration & subsequent change of career. 13. Almeeva - Soviet Superstructures My description of this track as sounding like a slightly hyperactive version of The XX is both lazy & accurate. 14. Francis Bebey – Il N'y a Pas de Crocodiles a Cocody A short interlude from Cameroonian artist, musician & writer. Much like there are no snakes in Ireland there are no crocodiles in Cocody apparently. 15. The Shangri-Las - I'll Never Learn The Shangri-Las are the coolest girl group of all time. 16. Zackey Force Funk - Cocaine Lady Zackey Force Funk regurgitates the affectations of 80's r'n'b as a maladroit, clumsy & unpolished style all of his own. 17. Medium Medium - Hungry, So Angry We used to feature a lot more post-punk on the World Service so to make up for its absence of late here's one of the better known tracks of the genre from Nottingham's Medium Medium. 18. Not Waving - Battle Mountain Alessio Natalizia has a knack of making music that whilst unreservedly electronic concurrently swells & pulses in the most organic manner. 19. Dinah Washington/Max Richter - This Bitter Earth/On The Nature Of Daylight We close with a mash-up of two tracks; Max Richter's ‘On The Nature Of Daylight' & ‘This Bitter Earth' by Dina Washington. Arguably the two together create something that's greater than the sum of it's parts.

Shock World Service 056 Opening Scenes by Chequerboard 01/09/14 Dublin, Ireland 1. Beck - Phase
 The opening scene can be seen through the opening.
 First of two featured instrumentals from the album 'Morning Phase' (2013). 2. Ryan Teague - Shadow Play
 Down rabbit holes and over trees.
 The lead track from this Bristol based composers third album 'Field Drawings' (2012). 3. Other Lives - For 12
 Gallop for a ghost train.
 From the debut album Tamer Animals by this Stillwater, Oklahoma five-piece (2011). 4. Sarah Neufeld - Hero Brother
 An untamed instruction.
 Title track from the solo album from Canadian violinist with Arcade Fire (2013). 5. DIIV - Geist
 Strobe tunnels under New York.
 From the Brooklyn guitar-pop crews debut album Captured Tracks (2012). 6. Steve Hauschildt - Auto Mile 
Movements in the night sky.
 First of two pieces from former Emeralds member Steve Hauschildt taken from the album S/H. (2013). 7. Evenings - Lo-velo
 Trailing shells into the city.
 Taken from the album Yore by Virginia born Nathan Broaddus (2013). 8. The Field - They Won't See Me Mist over the battering ram.
 Taken from the album 'Cupid's Head' from 2013 by Swede Axel Willner. 9. Sunken Foal - Cash for Gold
 Synthesizing the shared expenses.
 Taken from the 'Friday Syndrome Vol.2' by Dublin based musician Dunk Murphy (2013). 10. Mica Levi - Love 
Shifting moral ground.
 Taken from the OST for 'Under the Skin' by English composer Mica Levi (2013). 11. Eomac - Rainmaker 
Light piercing through.
 Taken from Berlin based Dublin producer Ian McDonell's debut album Spectre (2014). Ian is also half of electronic outfit Lakker. 12. Jacaszek - Elegia 
 A solitary boat.
 Taken from Polish electroacoustic musician Michał Jacaszeks album SMM : Content (2011). 13. Yo La Tengo - Needle of Death
 One grain of pure white snow.
 Cover of Bert Jansch song from the album Today is the Day! (2003). 14. Steve Hauschildt - Still Cloudy
 The heat bends the distance. 
The second Steve Hauschildt track also taken from the album S/H (2013). 15. Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place
 Waves become wings.
 Taken from the album 'The Magic Place (2011). 16. Beck - Cycle
 The closing scene can be closed from within.
 The second instrumental from the album 'Morning Phase' (2013). 17. Alex Chilton - All We Ever Got from Them Was Pain 
 'I love them all the same.'
 Taken from the album 'Free Again : The 1970 sessions'.

Shock World Service 0055: Vermilion Sands by Jon Averill 15/08/2014 London, United Kingdom 1. Chris Watson - El Devisadero The Cabaret Voltaire founder captures everyday noise & clangour – the industrial/discordant & contorts it into something that resides at the apex between art & music. 2. Patrice Baumel - Birth Writhing electronics of Patrice Baumel sit atop ‘El Devisadero'. Pulsing feedback permeates ‘Birth' with it's theatrical peaks & troughs. 3. Irene Dailey & Martin Donegan - Wright, Charles, November 22, 1963 Taken from the absorbing ‘Of Poetry & Power: Poems Occasioned by the Presidency and by the Death of John F. Kennedy'. 4. Bohren & Der Club of Gore - Texas Keller The low slung sleaziness of Bohren & Der Club of Gore's early material is in evidence in ‘Texas Keller'. 5. Mssingno - Xe3 Slap in the face from modernity shepherds us back to 2014. A crystalline intermingling of elements of R&B & Grime with pitch shifted vocals & snares. 6. Umwelt - Kneecap Ridge Absolutely no idea where I got this track from but I think it's my favourite of the podcast – it feels like it's alive; pulsing & growing throughout the mix. 7. Paul Martin - Le Troublant Témoignage De Paul Martin Wouldn't you know it, just as the party is about to get going a French man comes along & ruins it. 8. Raymond Scott - Vim Buy Vim, lots of Vim. 9. Max Richter - Summer 2 (Vivaldi: The Four Seasons) My favourite moment of Max's ‘Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons'. 10. Ambrosia - (On My Way To) Providence Have had a copy of the mostly ignored album ‘A Reminiscent Drive' on a promo CD since around the year 2000. 11. Brian Briggs - Aeo (Pt. 1) If the lost underwater city of Atlantis existed (& it does) & was a country this would be the national anthem. 12. Oneohtrix Point Never - Returnal A galvanic & soporific deep space siren song Brooklyn's Oneohtrix Point Never. 13. Lou Reed - Transformer (Advert) Time for another ad break folks. Buy Lou Reed. 14. Guy Warren Of Ghana With Red Garland - The High Life Taken from an album called ‘Funny Old Shit' on Trunk Records. 15. April March - Cet Air La April March is an American singer-songwriter who is obsessed with French music & sings almost exclusively in the pompatus of love. April is best known for the track ‘Chick Habit' which appears in Quentin Tarantino's ‘Death Proof'. 16. Dennis Wilson - Common This beguiling track is taken from the never completed follow up ‘Bambu'. I greatly suspect this was not originally intended to be an instrumental. 17. Donnie & Joe Emerson - Baby Taken from ‘Dreamin' Wild', a winsome set of west-coast pop with a languorous delivery. This album was all but forgotten soon after it's release. Then in 2012 it all changed. Ariel Pink released a cover version of ‘Baby' & word of ‘Dreamin' Wild' began to spread – soon after it was re-issued. 18. Meredith Monk - Memory Song An amazing piece by the American composer, performer, vocalist, filmmaker & choreographer. Memory Song sits between performance piece & music & reminds me of the work of Robert Ashley (see ‘Bruno Pt. 1' on Podcast 51). 19. The SM Corporation - Hammer (Great Lakes Mystery Version) A pulsing modern pop song featuring disembodied lyrics duelling with live cello throughout it's 7 minute duration. Available in all good record stores. 20. Ray Cathode - Waltz In Orbit Ray Cathode is in fact George Martin who of course is known for for producing The Beatles & writing Game Of Thrones. 21. Moondog - Pastoral As well as being blind & dressing like a Viking, Moondog also made some of the most incredible music you will ever hear. 22. Alessi Brothers - Seabird A sagacious examination of loss, regret & yearning. 23. Man Outside HSBC - Why Are You Not Rebelling? In case you thought we'd finish the podcast on a high note this was recorded with a concealed microphone earlier this year.

Shock World Service 054 In 1984, I Was Hospitalised For Approaching Perfection by Cian Ó Cíobháin 09/12/2013 Galway, Ireland 1. Lou Reed & John Cale - Open House 2. Oneohtrix Point Never - Still Life 3. Cupp Cave - Everlastic 4. Desire - Under Your Spell 5. Julia Holter - In The Same Room 6. The Space Lady - Humdinger 7. Nico - I'll Keep It With Mine 8. Silver Jews - Random Rules 9. Chad VanGaalen - Peace On The Rise 10. Leila - Eight 11. Mssingo - XE2 12. Lushlife - Big Sur 13. Stereolab - Cybele's Reverie 14. Thick Pigeon - Jess + Bart (Bemusic Remix) 15. Jessy Lanza - Against The Wall 16. Blood Orange - You're Not Good Enough 17. Miracle - Something Is Wrong 18. Burial - Stolen Dog 19. Zomby - Natalia's Song 20. This Mortal Coil - Mr Somewhere

Shock World Service 053 Obelisk High by Chequerboard 03/10/13 Dublin, Ireland 1. J.R. Alexander – Memories The beautifully produced opening track from an EP released in 2012 by Jerome Alexander of Message to Bears featuring the sounds of the cups & saucers jostling about as patterned percussion. 2. Holden – The Illuminations (Excerpt) A brief tumble through the stars via an excerpt from James Holden's new album 'The Inheritors'. 3. Clark – Soft Eruptor One of five tracks from the Iradelphic sessions sent out to people on Clarks mail out list recently & described as some extra material from his recent release 'Iradelphic', it contained some of my favourite Clark tracks ever. The blurred use of Martina Topley Birds vocals here envelop the guitar beautifully. 4. Recomposed by Max Richter – Autumn 3 (Vivaldi, The Four Seasons) A brief striking piece from Max Richter's interesting Four Seasons recomposition project. 5. Girls Names – Pittura Infamante The key track from the brilliant LP 'New Life' by the Belfast 4 piece. 6. Wax Stag – Fantasy Gay A lovely leisurely piece of electro pop from the 80s referencing synth maestro Robert Lee aka Wax Stag. 7. Tim Hecker – No Drums Ghostly, poignant, hopeful and bleak, this piece from Tim Heckers amazing Ravedeath 1972 album is the audio equivalent of a haunting. 8. Chequerboard – Obelisk A brief track from my new album 'The Unfolding' out now on Lazybird records. http://www.chequerboard.com 9. Christ – One Sunny Cloudy Day A melting glacier of nostalgia under a blanket of surface noise from the elusive Scottish electronic artist Christ. The accompanying video by Stefan Larsson depicting two mysterious figures mirroring the movements of robotic trees in a snowy realm is a masterpiece. 10. Bark Psychosis – All Different Things A beautiful exercise in the extremes of quiet & loud from English shape shifting post rock/musical project Bark Psychosis. 11. Red House Painters – Sundays & Holidays An old tumbling autumnal gem from Red House Painters 1994 Shock Me EP. 12. Ethernet – Current (Loscil Remix) Scott Morgan remixes Ethernet creating a stunningly vast realm of icey tones. Listen out for the distant bombs going off. 13. ilex – ilk Great piece from Dublin based Holly McGowans ilex project recalling Susumu Yokota via Orbital. 14. Colleen – Break Away An interesting vocal montage from Cecile Schotts brilliant new album ' The Weighing Of The Heart. 15. Library Tapes - Sun Peeking Through The beautifully poignant title track from Swede David Wenngren's recent album as Library Tapes. 16. Ametsub - Opening Above the clouds time with this strident gem from little known Tokyo-based Japanese artist Ametsub. 17. Blanck Mass - Sundown Music to watch stars explode to would be a fitting description for the music of Benjamin John Power, one of the founding members of Fuck Buttons. 18. Clark – Guy Fawkes/Night Night A hungry robot bird beckons in an unspooling guitar loop in this intriguing vignette from the Iradelphic Sessions mailout EP. 19. Luigi Boccherini – La Musica Notturna (Excerpt) I couldn't resist finishing on this charming snippit of Boccherini. Playful, charming but hinting at so much more.

Shock World Service :052 The Sixty Pound Podcast by Raj Chaudhuri (NTS/ Boiler Room) 15/05/13 London, United Kingdom Raj is part of Boiler, has a regular show on NTS & he is also 1/4 of club night, Livin' Proof. Over to the man himself... I have had an idea of recording a 60 minute podcast with a budget of £60… The format being pretty simple. Go into a record store(s) & set myself this budget to buy some records & create a mix from the purchases. This mix was created in one-take, recorded on vinyl from records bought in Lucky Seven Record store & Alan's Record & CD Shop. Total costs: £66. OK - so not as easy as I thought. I'm over 6 minutes short & £6 over-budget … So sue me". 1. Joni Mitchell - The Fiddle & The Drum (taken from 'Clouds' LP - £5) There is something quite hauntingly beautiful about Joni Mitchell's voice, but even more so when you remove all instruments & have it as naked and fragile as it appears in this song. 2. Weather Report - Morning Lake (taken from 'Weather Report' LP - £4) Weather Report are fucking great... & whilst they are more known for their uptempo jazz-fusion stuff more similar to Birdland, this more solemn and stripped number shows another side to this brilliant group. 3. Talking Heads - Drugs (taken from 'Fear of Music' LP - £6) This rather hypnotic track is a stand-out track from 'Fear of Music'. 4. Astral Sounds - Galaxia (taken from 'Space Drive' LP - £5) It said "Music De Wolfe" (the British pioneers of library music) and it said "Space Drive"… That was enough for me to know that it was going to be ace. 5. Barry White - Im Gonna Love You Just A Little Bit More (taken from 'I've Got So Much To Give' LP - £3) This is a classic drum break & bassline used in numerous hip-hop records. Couple that with the fact that the walrus of love is wearing a rather fetching mustard suit on the cover of the LP makes this record an absolute must. 6. Patrice Rushen - Remind Me (taken from the "Straight From The Heart" LP - £4) The famous track from this album is 'Send Me Forget Me Nots' or… the 'Men In Black soundtrack song' to total morons. However, this is definitely my favourite track from that album. 7. Lou Rawls - Heartaches (Just When You Think You're Loved)' (taken from the 'Sit Down & Talk To Me' LP - £2) Tons of strings & harmonies, all lead through by Mr Rawl's soothing voice. 8. James Brown - 'World Cycle Inc.' (taken from 'Nonstop!' LP - £4) In general, i've always been fascinated by instrumentals. Being a hip-hop vinyl fan, you either veer towards the rapping or towards the beat. I was always the kid at a record store that moved the needle straight to the instrumental track. 9. Yes - Heart of the Sunrise (taken from 'Classic Yes' LP - £4) Incredible drumming, constant switches, & funky as hell - Yes definitely are one of my favourite prog-rock bands. 10. Japan - Wish You Were Black (taken from 'Adolescent Sex' LP - £6) The woman at Lucky Seven was playing this on Saturday afternoon. I guess this will always be the beauty of buying from a bricks-&-mortar record store, as opposed to buying online. The possibility of a random purchase or recommendation from the shop staff. An incredible track. 11. The Who - Baba O' Riley (taken from 'Who's Next' LP - £5) An incredible intro to an incredible song… Pretty timeless in my mind. 12. East of Eden - Jig-a-jig (taken from 'Jig-a-jig' 7" - £5) I actually have no idea about this… digging around for some records in Allan's record store when a friend pulled this out & told me that I needed to buy it. 13. A Certain Ratio - Flight (taken from 'Flight' 12" - £8) So much of what A Certain Ratio do is just so funky… this is no different. Beautiful atmospherics & rhythms throughout. 14. The Rolling Stones - Paint It Black (taken from 'Paint It Black' 7" - £5) I remember Flying Lotus ending his 1st RBMA set with this track & wanting to own it on vinyl ever since. A great track to end a mix with.

Shock World Service 051 Long Distance Call by Jon Averill 01/02/2013 London, United Kingdom 1. Chromatics – The Telephone Call Some late night atmospherics to start us off from ‘Night Drive/Original Motion Picture Soundtrack IV' accompanied by some London rain I recorded. 2. How To Dress Well – When I Was In Trouble HTDW bring melancholy & starkness to the genre. Sounds more like the soundtrack to the walk home after breaking up with your girlfriend (suitable to this podcast) than champagne & gold chains. 3. Inc. – Swear Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis on Ketamine. 4. fLako – Mating Dance For me music is at it's best when it sounds unconventional, surprises you & demands your attention. fLako's afro-electronics ticks all the boxes. 5. Chosen Gospel Singers – Prayer For The Doomed This track was recorded at some time in the late 1950s & though a million miles away in process, to me has a lot in common with the previous tracks by How To Dress Well & Inc. 6. Daniel Bernard Roumain & Ryuichi Sakamoto – The Need To Be ‘The Need To Be' is taken from a compilation with the lengthy title of ‘DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid* ‎– Sound Unbound Audio Companion: Excerpts & Allegories From The Sub Rosa Archives', which is to accompany his book of the same name. 7. Edgar Froese – Icarus Edgar Froese was a founding member of seminal German act Tangerine Dream. in 1978 Froese released his solo album ‘Ages' after major differences with his bandmates. According to Froese, it was recorded at a very emotional time in his career. 8. Dom Thomas – Gin & Tonic From the Finders Keepers & B-Music Crew; Dom Thomas blurs the lines between mixtape & original composition 9. Robert Ashley – Bruno Part 1 Robert Ashley is a contemporary American composer whose work traverses opera, experimental electronic music & theatrical works. ‘Bruno Part 1' is a hypnotic spoken word piece that is similar in tone to Laurie Anderson's ‘O Superman'. 10. Lee Hazlewood – Hands Ah, our old pal Lee Hazlewood is back – possibly the most featured artist ever on the World Service. Wouldn't you know it, poor old Lee is down on his luck & of course it's a woman that's the source of his troubles. Chin up son. 11. Hackman – Forgotten Notes This track is released on Gilles Peterson's Brownswood Records, named after North London's Brownswood Road, which my old house backs on to. A fact interesting only to me. 12. Vangelis – Multi Track Suggestion Van the man in rare disco mode, disco with his unique take on it as you would expect. This is from the 1980 album ‘See You Later' which sees him experimenting with electronic sounds for the first time. 2 years later he would take his electronic sounds to new heights & greater acclaim with the Blade Runner soundtrack. 13. Oneohtrix Point Never – Betrayed In The Octagon The Brooklyn-based musician Daniel Lopatin describes the track as "a stoned space epic about one really bad day in the life of an astronaut.", & that is good enough for me. 14. Robert Frost – Reluctance Another piece of spoken wordery by American poet Robert Frost 15. Julia Holter – Goddess Eyes (Echo Manor Version) Holter's music builds up from layers of patient, breathy voices & strings that seem to slowly sneak up on, rather than impose themselves on you. 16. Bill Fay – The Never Ending Happening Revealing itself behind some Arsenal fans (thanks lads) is ‘The Never Ending Happening', simply one of the most heartfelt & beautiful pieces of music i've heard in a long time. 17. Seti The First – Sugar To Sea Lion I've been a big fan of Seti The First for a while, only very recently discovering they were two Irish musicians; Kevin Murphy & Thomas Haugh. 18. F.J. McMahon – Sister Brother Released in 1969, following a stint serving in the U.S. Air Force. The album's outsider, lo-fi folk vibe pulls from his experiences in Vietnam & has become a top item among collectors & folk/psych lovers alike.

Shock World Service 50 Who's Gonna Mend My Rainbow? by Cian Ó Cíobháin 28/12/12 Galway, Ireland 1. Chilly Gonzales – Kenaston A man with an unfair edge on pretty much every other male on the planet – check his track “Take Me To Broadway” where he boasts of having an extra testicle. 2. Rachel Zeffira – To Here Knows When With talk of a new My Bloody Valentine LP, we'll try not get our hopes up and wallow instead in this pretty cover of one of the ‘Loveless' LPs finest moments. 3. Alice Cohen – Cascading Keys This bears all the hallmarks of a lost 4AD classic but turns out to be the highlight of Alice Cohen's recent LP ‘Pink Keys.' 4. The Go-Betweens – Bachelor Kisses Grant McLennan wrote this song during Christmas '83 on his way back to London from New York. He penned it whilst sitting in immigration having been refused entry to the UK. 5. Blood Orange – Instantly Blank (The Goodness) Dev Hynes, previously of short-lived dance punk troupé Test Icicles and who later went solo playing folk-pop as Lightspeed Champion, won me over briefly with this romantic jam. 6. SlowPlaceLikeHome – Talby's Tower 2012 was a vintage year for the good folk of Co. Donegal. Not content on sauntering their way to Gaelic football All-Ireland glory, devouring several footballing superpowers on their way. 7. Os Mutantes – Panis Et Circenses Tropicália legends Os Mutantes from São Paulo, Brazil with this magical mystery tour various music genres from 1966. A 8. Young Dreams – Fog Of War (Korallreven Remix) Sweden's Korrallreven remix Norway's Young Dreams and in the process transport Scandinavia to a 1960's west coast Brian Wilson-esque wonderland. 9. Animal Collective – Applesauce I came to their latest LP with pretty low expectations on the back of lukewarm reviews. What a pleasant surprise to find that the haters and naysayers couldn't have been more off the mark. ‘Centipede HZ' is a riot of colour and ideas and infinitely more interesting than 90% of what passes for Pitchfork –endorsed indie these days. 10. The Pale Saints – You Tear The World In Two From Leeds and one of the better of the shoegazing bewildebeast that roamed the pastures of the Melody Maker cultivated indie landscape back in the day. 11. Arthur Russell – Habit Of You The man with the largest post-humous back catalogue since Johann Sebastian Bach took my breath away when I rediscovered this lost classic from his ‘Love Is Overtaking Me' LP. 12. Arto Lindsay – Simply Are From Arto Lindsay's third solo LP ‘Noon Chill,' originally released in '97, the LP masterfully draws on art pop, tropicália & bossa nova traditions. 13. The Durutti Column – My Country To my shame, I was a latecomer to the music of Vinni Reilly's The Durutti Column. Finally this year I began to investigate his music – thanks to tips from listeners of my radio show – in spite of being aware of the existence of The Durutti Column since I first heard the immortal words “Factory Records” being uttered by someone at the back of the school bus to Dingle as a young fella. 14. Tortoise – Glass Museum Keith Wallace AKA Loner Deluxe and éminence grise of the Rusted Rail label was all over post-rock before anyone else during my college days and stuck this one on tape for me during my UCG years. 15. Gene Pitney – 24 Sycamore Originally a massive hit in Australia for Manchester-born Wayne Fontana in '67, I got to hear the Gene Pitney cover from '73 before the original. 16. Jim O' Rourke – Insignificance ‘Insignificance' is also the title of Chicago musician's third LP from 2001, from whence this track is lifted from. 17. Laetitia Sadier – Silent Spot The former Stereolab chanteuse's second LP ‘Silencio' was released with a minimum of fanfare in '12 and boasted several lovely moments. 18. Sonic Youth – Schizophrenia For me, few singers, or creators of music can better Sonic Youth 1980's output. 19. Grouper – Alien Observer One of Liz Harris' finest ever songs and that's saying something.

Shock World Service 049 The Coin Operated Winter Podcast by Chequerboard 12/12/12 Dublin, Ireland 1. The National Trust - Music Box In 2010, the National Trust commissioned Jarvis Cocker to create an album of found sounds taken from heritage sites around the UK. 2. Memory Tapes - Yes I Know One of my favourite songs of recent years, with 'Yes I know' Dayve Hawk mixes strident military drums with gothic 80s pop stylings. 3. Jonny Greenwood - Toki no Senrei wo Uketeinai mono wo Yomuna A stand out track from Jonny Greenwoods stunning soundtrack for the film adaptation of Haruki Murakami's book 'Norwegian Wood'. 4. Seti The First - Le Basinette Noir The opener from the debut album 'Melting Cavalry' by Dublin based Seti The First. 5. Clark - Mother McKnight A woozy, warm and playful Chris Clark rarity on a release called 'Throttle Clarence'. 6. Katie Kim - Your Mountains Katie Kim at her brilliant best with this fragile lullaby from her 2012 'Cover to Flood' album. 7. Bogdan Raczynski - Alright (Part 7) The Canadian prankster is better known for insane drill and bass excursions or tongue in cheek hyperactive mashups but dig a little deeper and you'll unearth exquisite gems like this. 8. Jai Paul - Jasmine Its always refreshing to have your perception challenged, so I'll never forget hearing the teeth wobbling bass that unhinges everything in this insanely soulful track. 9. Parks - Topaz This beautiful song takes me back to a more innocent time for ambient music when it was enough to get lost in plateaus of revolving patterns. 10. Ex Confusion - Chapter 5 I discovered Japanese guitarist/laptop minimalist Atsuhito Omori by accident last year but he has subsequently become a mainstay in all my playlists. 11. A Winged Victory For The Sullen - Steep Hills Of Vicodin Tears Just when I thought US drone masters 'Stars of The Lid' were closing up shop, this stunning side project appears out of nowhere. For me this particular track stands out for its uncharacteristically hopeful and conclusive cello sequence. 12. Sun Kil Moon - Admiral Fell Promises I actually pulled over the car and parked by the side of the road to listen carefully when I heard this first come on the radio one evening, one of those pinned to the earth moments. It feels like the song that represents everything about Mark Kozelek as an artist. 13. Lilac Time - Love Becomes a Savage I rediscovered this 1987 gem by The Lilac Time earlier this year. I adored it years ago. It acts as a great reminder of a particular strain of gothic pop recalled and touched on by many artists such as Junior Boys and Memory Tapes now. 14. Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou - Mother's Love A recent discovery but from an older time, this piece sums up everything wonderful and unique about the music of this Ethiopian nun who still plays for up to eight hours a day in a monastery in Jerusalem where she now resides. 15. The Leisure Society - We were Wasted This song for me acts as a sister piece to Mark Kozeleks 'Admiral Fell Promises' with its delicate nylon string guitar arrangement and lush vocal harmonies. 16. Message to Bears - Wake Me A wonderful uplifting piece by Oxford based multi instrumentalist Jerome Alexander. 17. Joe Keawe & His Harmony Hawaiians - Hookipa Paka After a recent exploration into the cheerful waters of vintage Hawaiian music, I stumbled upon this slow reflective gem. 18. Cleoma Breaux & Joe Falcon - Mon vieux d'autrefois A similar recent dive into cajun music resulted in discovering the music of Joe Falcon (1900-1965) and his wife Cleoma Breaux (1906–1941). 19. Clark - Frost Investigation Another music box themed piece seeing as we're wrapping things up. 20. The Doobie Brothers - Busted Down Around O'Connelly Corners I'll finish off with this brief beautiful guitar passage by Doobie Brothers guitarist James Earl Luft.