Lord Kitchener: Your Country Needs You!

If political correctness is your bag, read no further, but if you like the frisson of a spicy tale told in a hushed whisper, my darling, read on. Lord Kitchener made his name singing saucy and downright ribald calypsoes. His lyrics tell down-home stories of sexual derring-do, the stories of a naughty, but hugely loveable scallywag, and his wicked ‘Carry On’ exploits.

Filed under: Afro-Latin, Music Blog

Sex at Your Parents' House

Badly shaped and fresh faced, art school antics afoot, the Night Train Express with me in tow for a wild night, Loud by Half Japanese was coming out of cheap speakers, masking tape and wire strung, the turntable that played too fast.

Filed under: Music Blog, Other Worldly, Rock 'n' Roll

Bold as Brass

What’s the best instrument?

Some people will immediately disagree with me, perhaps they’ll say it’s the guitar, maybe drums, but I’ll always opt for brass. Always. When you hear a killer jazz track with a great horn line that’s the instrument that does the deed, kills it. Stone dead I might add.

Filed under: Manifesto, Music Blog

I Feel Like Bustin' Loose

During the early 80′s, in the capital of the United States, just a stones throw from the presidential mansion, lived a dirt poor community of black folks. There were few jobs and this community was badly neglected. Against this backdrop, on the outskirts of the city in warehouses and secret parties a new sound was swinging across the neighbourhoods.

Filed under: Electronic, Music Blog, Sample-Based

6 of the Best... Stoner Boogaloos

As the 60’s drew to a close, the kids in Spanish Harlem were tripping on a new sound. With a growing self assurance a younger generation of Cuban, Puerto Rican and South American immigrants began to tell a new story in their Boogaloos. This is the altogether more gritty and dark tale of a life hustling on the streets of New York. Labels such as Speed and Cotique brought these yarns of blunts and broads to a small but appreciative audience as a new psychedelic latin sound was created.

Filed under: 6 of the Best..., Music Blog

Wish I Was In Heaven Sitting Down

The gravelly voice of R.L. Burnside sweeps across you like a desolate wind. There’s great warmth in his voice though. It’s the voice of a sharecropper from the Mississippi hill country, who’s seen it all and wants to lay down his life story before death.

Filed under: Blues, Electronic, Music Blog

Masked - Anonymity is Ours

All about the oddball musicians who perform in masks!

Filed under: Music Blog, Other Worldly

Having the balls to be Hugo Ball.

Who is this strange figure that stands before me, nonsense words pouring from his mouth? The year is 1916, the photo captures a performance by Hugo Ball at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich. The new century is just getting up a head of steam, WW1 underway, the worlds of art theatre and music are all finding new ways to express belief in the future promise or ways to protest at the injustices of the modern world.

Filed under: Music Blog, Uncategorizeable

Roky Erickson

Earth was built only for you – earth is a toy – here’s a toy for you – perfection for a perfect you – don’t slander me, my my my – don’t slander you.

Filed under: Music Blog, Rock 'n' Roll

Sex, death and naughty postcards

From the starting point of COUM Transmissions, a performance art group centred around Genesis P Orridge and the stripper Cosey Fanni Tutti, a notorious history and reputation for confrontation, experimentation and invention was born…

Filed under: Electronic, Music Blog, Other Worldly

Docking at the Music Port

From Bristol to Barcelona to Bahia, from Casablanca to Charleston to Cartageña, from Lagos to Liverpool, Marseille to Mumbai, and New York to New Orleans, we tell the musical story of port towns…

Filed under: Afro-Latin, Blues, Jazz, Manifesto, Music Blog, Other Worldly

Storms, trains, hi-fidelity and infidelity

Thunder and passion, stormy seduction, naughtiness, passing trains and ships in the night, the Hi-fi sensation of the sixties was undoubtedly The Mystic Moods Orchestra.

Filed under: Music Blog, Other Worldly

Bitty McLean - The Taxi Sessions

The great and the good of the reggae community turned out in force for a showcase of the classic reggae sound from its origins in Ska and Roots to Lover’s Rock and Dub sounds.

Filed under: Afro-Latin, Electronic, Music Blog

The Big Bamboo

By the late 40′s and early 50′s calypso was being sold hard to the adventurous Yankee tourist daring enough to visit the British colony of Trinidad and Tobago.

Filed under: Afro-Latin, Music Blog

The Viking of 6th Avenue

In the late 1940s the blind, Louis Thomas Hardin (Moondog), rejected the conventions of society and made his life on the streets of New York.

Filed under: Other Worldly

Sampling Culture and the Ownership of Ideas

We surely need to reinvent a way of acknowledge the brilliance of great thinkers without trying to own their ideas in whatever form. If we don’t, we’ll end up in a world where everything, but everything, is owned.

Filed under: Manifesto, Music Blog, Sample-Based

Room with a MU

Another day of grafting for a pittance complete, household chores shelved, my attention is drawn away to the sound coming from the turntable in the living room.

Filed under: Jazz, Music Blog

Coltrane on the brain

Ascension – John Coltrane. Free Jazz, with McCoy Tyner, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp and Freddie Hubbard.

Filed under: Jazz

Mongo Santamaria and the Afro-Cuban Diaspora

When Mongo Santamaria ‘bangs’ the drum, other people listen. He is one of the greatest percussionists ever recorded and to hear his music is a fine privilege indeed.

Filed under: Afro-Latin, Jazz, Music Blog

The Loop Digga

Yellow dog head with elongated pig snout. Is this Quasimoto, the Bad Character?
Quasimoto, The Lord Quas, he has a high pitched helium voice, a squeaky rapper, he’s the Loop Digga, his influence come from odd corners, Russ Meyer, the phat beats of David Axelrod and the intergalactic grooves of Jazz freak Sun Ra, the Astro Black numibian with a message for the world

Filed under: Music Blog, Sample-Based

Wild Garage and Desperate Rock & Roll: The Sound of Mad Mike

Hailing from Pittsburgh, Mad Mike was an ‘iconoclastic’ DJ who built his reputation on playing music from the underbelly of rock & roll. During the 60’s, he sought out the unknown in music and brought it to the mainstream through his Radio show Mad Mike developed a world-wide reputation amongst lovers of rock & roll by playing wild garage tunes from bands such as the Sonics on his show, often giving them exposure for the first time.

Filed under: Music Blog, Rock 'n' Roll

Medicine Man from the Land of the Rising Sun

Filed under: Jazz, Other Worldly

Witchdoctors, Wooden Robots and Cannibalistic Stew

I grew up in a childhood Xanadu. Now, living in the concrete jungle of London, the camp imaginings of Exotica play heavy on my heartstrings. I love this weird ‘totally tropical’ music with its’ imagined tribal utopia full of nubile Amazons (as opposed to Amazonians) clad in leather loin cloths. Tarzan and Jane dancing in a frenzy to ritualistic tribal beats.

Filed under: Afro-Latin, Music Blog, Other Worldly

Street Fighting Man: 50 Years of Youth Protest.

Filed under: Eye Candy, Music Blog, Photos, Rock 'n' Roll

Bootlegging, Brawling and Banjos.

Dock Boggs is considered a seminal figure in Country Blues and from the few artifacts we have from his early years its clear to hear why.

Filed under: Blues

Morgan's Miniature Masterpiece

A very special long player hit the racks in 1980 called Miniatures, an album of tiny masterpieces created to last 1 minute. Miniatures enlisted the talents of a broad range of artists, ranging from the contemporary avant garde elite, improvisers, poets, punks and raconteurs, all rising to the challenge of the minute time slot in their own unique style.

Filed under: Electronic, Jazz, Music Blog, Other Worldly, Uncategorizeable

Flamenco in Paris during the 1930's: Salim Halali and the Arabic-Andalucian sound

The ‘Chanson Marocaine’ was a Moorish-influenced mix of rumbas, tangos and tziganes. These were Spanish and North African sounds which must have spoken to the desire for the exotic amongst Parisians of the time. 

Filed under: Music Blog, Other Worldly

6 of the Best... Early Blues Tracks

In the 20’s and 30’s itinerant musicians would travel around with their guitar developing a sound that came from gospel, african, and slave roots. These intermingled to form the blues. A storytelling mode, the blues often told tragic tales of woe in a simple twelve bar format. New guitar playing techniques were invented to describe musically these tales of the downtrodden.

Filed under: 6 of the Best..., Blues, Music Blog

Riddim Driven

In the early 80’s, slightly behind the UK and US, digital keyboards and especially drum machines hit Jamaica. As is so often the case, these new instruments spawned a new sound.

Filed under: Electronic

Shake a Tail Feather

Twisting styles in his vocal delivery, a true rockabilly originator and a country singer who would cover and own all the songs that he put his mark on. Like a lot of the rockabilly I first enjoyed, I came to know Charlie Feathers music through my passion for The Cramps warped take on rocking sleaze, garage boogie and b-movie meltdown.

Filed under: Rock 'n' Roll

6 of the Best... Disco Breaks

Underground disco with emphasis on the breakbeats in these tracks. Some of these tunes have been sampled by contemporary producers, others have not, but all are banging dancefloor numbers from the crates of yours truly.

Filed under: 6 of the Best..., Electronic

Raymond Scott - Jazz and Lab Coats

As a bandleader during the 30’s and 40’s Raymond Scott was well respected as a great tunesmith and musician, his melodies later found their way into the Loony Tunes cartoons of the 1950’s, helping along many a Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny cartoon.

Filed under: Electronic, Music Blog

Gung-ho grit on the Sausage Machine

Taking Krautrock and giving it a good squeeze ‘n’ shake, Th’ Faith Healers in full flight were a force of their own.

Filed under: Electronic, Rock 'n' Roll, Uncategorizeable

MP3's - Eat Your Heart Out

Thinking back to when I first started buying records as a kid, one of the things that helped me decide what to buy that week was the graphics and sleeve designs. I thought I’d collect together a bunch of my favourite generic company sleeves for this post.

Filed under: Eye Candy, Music Blog, Record Art

The Girl with the Golden Stockings

‘This is ground control to Sun Ra, we are receiving you loud and clear’ … It’s 1958-ish and the big hand is pointing to ‘out there’.

Filed under: Jazz

More Sorcery

Gabor Szabo has got to be one of the finest Jazz guitarist of all time. His finger-licking picking is of the highest calibre and references both western Jazz traditions and Eastern paradigms.

Filed under: Jazz, Music Blog, Other Worldly

6 of the Best... Ragga Tracks

The best early ragga came out of the dancehall scene in late 80’s and early 90’s Jamaica. It features MC’s ‘chatting’ lyrics in Jamaican patois over electronic beats and basslines. Often, the same rhythm track would be used over and again with different lyricists toasting or rhyming in a competition for the best match of rhythm and MC. The Jamaican DJ’s would play a number of these variations on the same currently popular ‘riddim’ and the people would decide… Here are a few of the winners.

Filed under: 6 of the Best..., Music Blog

Acid Drenched Garden of Earthly Delights

Lead by Joseph Byrd, The United States of America were an experimental, psychedelic rock band, mixing avant garde composition with a radical take on progressive music making.

Filed under: Electronic, Rock 'n' Roll

Tequila & Mexican Beers

For a Few Dollars More, I’ll take you down into darkest Mexico where the chica’s eyes flash like daggers, but you just might get your throat cut, Gringo. Mexico; the US’s bad little hermano, where the cactus pricks you like a sharp conscience and where the touch of a woman is a sweet “Aloe Vera”. The legendary land of ‘La Cucaracha’ and of Pancho Villa, of Santa Anna and the Alamo. Let’s go get drunk down in Baja, boys and let’s see if the little men in pantalones brancas don’t come back and bite you on the ass! Que Pasa Hombre?

Filed under: Music Blog

Big Foot Stole My Car

Dallas born, classically trained musician Mark Griffin, becomes the rapper MC 900ft Jesus, an experimental Hip Hop artist with an abundant wit and a natural flair for story telling.

Filed under: Sample-Based

Flights of the Imagination

It’s funny what you can find right under your nose sometimes. I live around the corner from a little DIY venue called Stoke Newington International Airport, and some friends invited me to a gig there last night: L’Orchestre du Montplaisant.

Filed under: Afro-Latin, Music Blog, Other Worldly

I'm Still #1

BDP’s LP “By All Means Necessary” will go down in history as one of the all time rap albums and KRS-1 will remain in the top ten rappers of all time.

Filed under: Music Blog, Sample-Based

The Fabulous Fifties Graphics of TICO Records

Sandoval’s graphics are hugely evocative of their time, part of the post war boom that happened in graphics and advertising in America and especially New York.

Filed under: Afro-Latin, Eye Candy, Music Blog, Record Art

Son house - death letters and cat shaving

I got a letter this mornin how do you reckon it read?
It said Hurry, hurry, yeah, your love is dead.

Filed under: Blues

Gimme that Commodity Meat

Straw hat and bandana, bad boy chewing on a chicken bone, thumping on the bass drum with one booted foot and thrashing manic on his beat-up guitar, this is how Hasil Adkins performs and learnt to play the songs he heard on the radio as a kid.

Filed under: Blues, Music Blog, Rock 'n' Roll

6 of the best - Angry young men

Filed under: 6 of the Best..., Music Blog

6 of the Best... Popcorn Tunes

Popcorn is a form of music retrospectively applied to pop music with a rockabilly or rhythm and blues feel. It tells the story of love lost, and other dark tales. It is often linked with Belgium, where some of the tunes come from although many of the tunes were also no-hitters made in the United States. Many of the tunes reinterpret the rhythm and feel of the track ‘Fever’ by Little Willie John.

Filed under: 6 of the Best..., Music Blog

Hit the Road Jack

A cautionary tale of naughtiness, philandering and the consequences of being caught with the wrong man’s wife!

Filed under: Blues, Music Blog, Rock 'n' Roll, Uncategorizeable

Moonshine, Blue Grass and Ozark Mountain Sunshine

I dunno about you but I can’t think of much better to listen to on a lazy Sunday afternoon than some bad-ass Kentucky blue-grass with banjo and baritone voice à la redneck. Good ol’ boys singing about one night stands, and clear blue windswept skies. It leaves you feeling pretty bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, much like the octagenarian lady embossed on a plate on the album’s front cover.

Filed under: Blues, Music Blog

Ding-a-Ling Ding-Dong, Mr Bartholomew!

The songs of Dave Bartholomew swiftly become dear to the heart of anyone who hears them. Seek him out. You might even catch him live if you are very, very, lucky!

Filed under: Blues, Jazz, Music Blog

6 of the Best... Wild Indians

For 50 years or more, music from the Indian subcontinent has taken Western influences on board and mirrored them back at us but with a unique twist which is quirkily Indian. Here you will find Bollywood and sitar takes on funk, surf guitar, swing and garage! I’ve tried to include some of the greats of Indian music from composers RD Burman and Kishore Kumar through musicians Ananda Shankar and Shankar Jaikishan to the fantastic vocal talents of Asha Bothle. I’ve finished off with Ravi Harris reversing the trend as a Westerner playing Eastern music. Tune in, Turn on, Wig out.

Filed under: 6 of the Best..., Music Blog

Inner City Blues and the Gangstarr Boogie in 90's New York

For me, Guru & DJ Premier are essentially telling the same story as Robert Johnson or John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters or Howling Wolf. They are using intelligence and wit to rise above their adversity and to lead others away from the same predicament. The Blues at it’s finest.

Filed under: Blues, Music Blog, Sample-Based

Decorated Skin - A World Survey of Body Art by Karl Gröning

Check out this amazing book covering body adornment from all over the world. These decorations have meaning and cultural context. Tattoos from the modern primitive movement don’t compare with these for authenticity, complexity or truth.

Filed under: Music Blog

When Ska joined the Caravan

As the ska sound developed some of the key artists began to search for true African roots within their musical journey. Artists such as Roland Alphonso and Prince Buster began to make a handful of tunes which took the ska form in new directions evoking the imagined sounds of ancient Egypt and Morocco, the spice caravans and Islamic North Africa.

Filed under: Afro-Latin, Music Blog

Wish You Were Here...

When you perform or make music it’s dependent on mood, emotion, context.

Filed under: Manifesto, Music Blog

The Monkey Does Harmonies

Many people like monkeys, they think they’re kinda nice I guess. I’ve only had bad experiences myself, a really stupid monkey with dirty finger nails stole me from my parents when we were on safari in the congo.

Filed under: Electronic, Rock 'n' Roll, Sample-Based

6 of the Best... Steel City Rockers

Before they gained their international reputation for outré electronica, Warp records were a killer proto-rave label with outstanding Sheffield bleep tunes by the likes of the (then unknown) Aphex Twin, Tricky Disco, Nightmares on Wax, Sweet Excorcist and Coco Steel and Lovebomb.

Filed under: 6 of the Best..., Music Blog

Nice album sampler mix of Cumbia tracks by Los Chinches

Check out this great modern Cumbia band!

I’ve heard these guys play and they rock it out Colombian style y’get me?

Filed under: Afro-Latin, Music Blog

Tutus Too Much for Psyche Rock

Written in 1967 as a collaboration with fellow composer Michel Colombier for a Maurice Béjart ballet project, the Messe Pour le Temps Présent is no doubt Pierre Henry’s most widely known work. Pierre Henry started experimenting with sound when he was 15 and has devoted his life to avant garde composition and music concrete.

Filed under: Electronic

Silver Apples of the Moon

Silver Apples were an American psychedelic electronic music duo from New York, composed of Simeon, on a primitive synthesizer of his own devising (also named The Simeon), and drummer Danny Taylor.

Filed under: Electronic, Music Blog

6 of the Best... Rude Rockers

Living in the 21st Century it’s easy to think that we have a monopoly on behaviour of a certain type, that we invented transgressive sexuality and that the frisson one gets when taboo subjects are raised is an entirely new emotion. These records are here to prove that this is not the case.

Filed under: 6 of the Best..., Rock 'n' Roll

6 of the Best... Organ Grinders

I thought it would be fun to check out some of the greats of funky hammond jazz. I’ve selected a bunch of my favourites and you are in for a treat here. From Jimmy Smith to Brother Jack McDuff, Jimmy McGriff to Lonnie Smith, Ronnie Foster (who played with Grant Green on Sookie Sookie) to Charles Earland (who played with Lou Donaldson), these are amongst the hottest organ players of the 60s. Boy could they stroke those keys!

Filed under: Music Blog

6 of the Best... Blaxploitation Movie Soundtracks

The Blaxploitation Movies of the 1970’s were the first films to give black folks positive role models and to make Black people the star of the movie. They told the stories of the street, of pimp’s, hustlers and hookers and are the true origin of the phrase ‘ghetto fabulous’. They have some of the funkiest soundtracks ever created.

Filed under: 6 of the Best..., Music Blog

Controlling Hearts and Get Together Drops?

If you got love trouble, you got a bad woman you can’t control, I got just the thing for you, something called Controlling Hearts and get together drops.
If you work too hard and you need a little rest try my Easel eyes rub, and put some of my balls fix gel in your breakfast.

Filed under: Afro-Latin, Blues, Jazz, Music Blog

Shut Up! I Hate You. It's Monk Time

With everything there’s always a starting point. Abrasive non-conformists and proto punks running wild in Hamburg, The Monks are that point. The beat group that would be the anti-Beatles, the first Krautrockers and they’re were all American GIs. It’s the 60’s, it’s Germany and it’s The Monks.

Filed under: Rock 'n' Roll

Devil's Rumble

Step forward my main man, Davie Allan, the axe toting Clint Eastwood of down and dirty fuzz guitar. Link Ray showed the way, here you go lads and lasses, the guitar sounds well cool when it fuzzes and distorts. Taking on board all that Uncle Link could teach him Davie set forth to bring his own ways to bare upon this much loved instrument.

Filed under: Rock 'n' Roll

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• Episode 101- The Home Spun Sessions: The Remedy

  

  We are joined for an exclusive session this week by up-and-coming  Soul band, The Remedy as they launched their new EP ahead of a hectic festival schedule.
  The Remedy provide a delicate balance of lyric, harmony and melody which form a great counterpoint to Chrissie’s soaring voice. By turns intimate and poignant, her songs of love, family and personal experience transfixed us.
  

  plus:

  • When James Brown impersonated Little Richard and nobody sussed it.
  • How people forgot to learn the guitar for nearly a decade.
  • Why the night is the best time for creativity.
  • YouTube and SoundCloud have helped to create the ‘era of the underdog’.

  Listen to the Podcast Here:

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  Episode 101 Tracklist

  1. Marie ‘Queenie’ Lyons – See and Don’t See
  2. James Brown – Prisoner of Love
  3. The Jungle Brothers – Straight Out the Jungle
  4. The Remedy – Loving You
  5. The Remedy – Again
  6. Allen Stone – Unaware (live in his mother’s living room)
  7. Bonobo – Eyes Down
  8. The Remedy – The Lift
  9. The Remedy – Runner Man
  10. Nappy Brown – Hoonie Boonie
  11. The Mekons – Where Were You?
  12. The Remedy – Soulful Summer
  13. The Remedy – Where’s All the Soul?
  14. John Motha – Zulu Boy
  15. Dennis Edwards – Don’t Look Any Further
  16. Sly & Robbie – Boops (Here to Go)

  This Show was recorded 2nd & 28th April
  ©2014 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

• Episode 100 – The Home Spun Sessions: Prince Monolulu & the Royal Ponces

  

  Prince Monolulu and the Royal Ponces join us this week for some hot Rhythm & Blues, Exotic Rumbas and Desperate Rock & Roll.  It’s all Killer Diller – no Filler here. We get the low down on the old days of Soho’s roaring Night Life and get quite intoxicated in the process!
  plus:

  • Down at the Black Gardenia: we rue the good old days of one of Soho’s greatest dive bars run by the inimitable Jake Vegas.
  • Vintage music – WTF? Vintage is a bottle of wine blood.
  • Tito Puente – Band leader extraordinaire, showman and hep cat of the mambo and cha cha.
  • Storytelling in Music. Songs that run like poems.

  Listen to the Podcast Here:

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  Episode 100 Tracklist

  1. Magic Sam – Easy Baby
  2. Jay Swan – You Don’t Love Me
  3. Ronnie Isle & the Yo-Yo’s – Hassie
  4. Ronnie Isle – Wicked
  5. Prince Monolulu  – Bliss
  6. Prince Monolulu – Hurry Home to Me
  7. Sister Nancy – Bam Bam
  8. Arbee Stidham – Meet Me Half Way
  9. Prince Monolulu –  Exclamation!
  10. Prince Monolulu – The Night After the Night Before
  11. Prince Monolulu – Midnight Black
  12. Freddie Hall – This Crooked World
  13. Tito Puente  – Tatalibaba
  14. Marie Bryant – Tomato
  15. Leo Quica – Caliente
  16. Frank ‘Dual Trumpet’ Motley – Wanda Landa Landa
  17. Bob Lenarde – Cherokee Dance
  18. Prince Monolulu – Down at The Black Gardenia
  19. Prince Monolulu – Flash of Inspiration
  20. Prince Monolulu – I’m Shakin’
  21. Gene Vincent – Jezebel

  This Show was recorded 7th April 2014
  ©2013 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

• Episode 99 – The Home Spun Sessions: Mazaika

  

  From Russia with Love, Mazaika construct a mosaic of outstanding Gypsy Jazz, Balkan and Russian Folk songs for your delectation. Igor Outkine and Sarah Harrison, internationally prodigies of the accordion and violin grace Home Spun Mansions this week and it’s a feast for the ears.

  plus:

  • The origins of the accordion from India to Germany and how it has influenced music from Cumbia to Appalachian Bluegrass and Zydeco.
  • How 3o’s Russian musicians were sent to the Gulags by Stalin and then their music was rediscovered under Glasnost.
  • We learn from the Edwardians how to train bullfinches to sing Glen Miller.

  Listen to the Podcast Here:

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  Episode 99 Tracklist

  1. John Barry – From Russia with Love
  2. Slim Willet & His Hired Hands – Blue Eagle
  3. Roby Lakatos – Kallai Kettos
  4. Clifton Chenier – Zydeco et Pas Sale
  5. Mazaika – Czardas
  6. Mazaika – Heart
  7. Mazaika – Sirba
  8. Mazaika – Cursed Lips Dark Thoughts
  9. Mazaika – The Lark
  10. David Holland Quartet – Conference of the Birds
  11. Howling Wolf – I’m the Wolf
  12. Pyotr Leschenko – Don’t Leave
  13. Mazaika – Tainted Love
  14. Mazaika – Milonga
  15. Mazaika – Dark Eyes
  16. Mazaika – Igor’s Milonga
  17. Mazaika – James Bond Theme
  18. Igor Outkine – Smoke on the Water
  19. Bobbi Humphrey – Harlem River Drive

  This Show was recorded 18th February 2014
  ©2014 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

• Episode 98 – Voodoo Juju Obsession

  

  From the heady rites of Santeria to the glitzy posturing of Catholicism, we love ritual, especially if it has a sexual edge. Whether it be  blood sacrifice, ecstatic visions, frenzied dancing, or simply cross-dressing Xango  in Christian vestments, we check out weird and wonderful musical ritual and rite.
  plus:

  • Drinking vodka with Mr K – Matthew prefers Rum!
  • There are some things you just don’t tamper with – That great psychedelic masterpiece, “The Wizard of Oz” should be sacrosanct!
  • When Steven Hawkins clashed with the Vatican.
  • All about the time Simon got lucky and saw two pink moons on the motorway!

  Listen to the Podcast Here:

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  Episode 98 Tracklist

  1. John Bean – Mr. K
  2. James Chance and the Contortions – Roving Eye
  3. Wolfgang Press – Kansas
  4. Andre Williams – House of Bamboo
  5. Carmen Miranda – O Que É Que a Bahiana Tem
  6. Celina Y Reutillo – Rezo y Canto Pa’ Mi Ache
  7. Wall of Voodoo – Mexican Radio
  8. Dave Pike Set – Raga Jeeva Swara
  9. A Certain Ratio – Lucinda
  10. Masta Ace – Movin’ On
  11. Marion Brown – Once Upon a Time (A Children’s Tale)
  12. Ti Roro – Haitian Drums
  13. Th’ Faith Healers – A Word of Advice
  14. The Adverts – One Chord Wonders
  15. Roger & the Gypsies – Pass the Hatchet
  16. Horace Silver – Señor Blues
  17. Lee Perry – Wishes of the Wicked
  18. Miriam Makeba – Umqokozo
  19. Kip Tyler & His Flips – Jungle Hop
  20. Nico Gomez – Caballo Negro

  This Show was recorded March 4th 2013
  ©2014 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

• Episode 97 – The Home Spun Sessions: King Lagoon’s Flying Swordfish Dance Band

  

  Like psychedelic adventurers from another dimension King Lagoon’s Flying Swordfish Dance Band sail their way into our consciousness by catamaran. A golden bird with five wings whispers in their ear and they make sweet music according to its edicts. We listen and voyage with them to Xanadu.
  plus:

  • What’s the world coming to? When Lesbian Vampires entertain a nightclub crowd with candlesticks all they get is polite applause.
  • Al Castellanos and his Orchestra made ahead of their time dance floor mambos on the Rainbow label.
  • Soundway records’ excellent output is inspirational to many artists – check them out!
  • Catch King Lagoons Flying Swordfish Dance Band playing in early May.
  • Oxjam – Great to see so many promoters and musicians supporting charity!
  • Realise your dreams! Amy Camus – housewife turned the queen of exotica.

  Listen to the Podcast Here:

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  Episode 97 Tracklist

  1. Lord Kitchener – Is Trouble
  2. Al Castellanos – Talking Rhythm
  3. Vampires Sound Incorporated – Droge CX9
  4. King Lagoon’s Flying Swordfish Dance Band – 100,000 Islands
  5. King Lagoon’s Flying Swordfish Dance Band – One Leg
  6. King Lagoon’s Flying Swordfish Dance Band – Gazelle vs. Gazelle
  7. King Lagoon’s Flying Swordfish Dance Band – La Molina
  8. King Lagoon’s Flying Swordfish Dance Band – Magic Sand
  9. King Lagoon’s Flying Swordfish Dance Band – Ay Que Calor!
  10. Disco Warriors – Cumbaya Disco
  11. Opotopa – Belema

  This Show was recorded 2nd and 10th October 2013
  ©2014 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

• Episode 96 – The Home Spun Sessions: Capitol K

  

  Electro-Cumbia psychonaut, Capitol K explores the edges of Latin American pop music to create a new zeitgeist in transatlantic psychedelia. We trip out to his far-out sounds and dig the crates with him to find all manner of weird, trashy hybrids gone ‘wrong’, but Oh! SO Right.

  plus:
  
  • The history of Cumbia from Columbia to Venezuela, Peru, Mexico and beyond. It’s a musical form that’s been stretched squeezed and hybridised for 50 years now but still going strong.
  • When bands take on the sounds of their urban environment how does it affect their sound?
  • Cool unreleased projects: When muso’s are given studio time for their own projects you often get something rather special.
  • The eccentrically English sounds of On-U Sound System from Adrian Sherwood’s fab dub remixes of Punk to the tripped out tunes of Tricky and Massive Attack.

  Listen to the Podcast Here:

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  Episode 96 Tracklist

  1. D.R.A. La Danza de los Mirlos
  2. Grupo G – La Inconforme
  3. Feltuk a Sumetyat – Bengerta
  4. Paja Brava – Tarkas y Zamponas
  5. Junius Malveaux & Ernest Lafitte – Bye Bye Bonsoir mes Parents
  6. Los Labios – Bailando en Otra Parte
  7. Family Fodder – Dazomo
  8. Capitol K – Live Session
  9. Bosquez & Temperley ft Kumbha Kethu – Chancha via Circuito
  10. Sunshine Reggae – White Horse
  11. Loose Meat – Human Motivation (Dan Carey dub)
  12. Judy Nylon – The Dice
  13. Rita Indiana y los Mysterios – El Blue del Ping Pong (demo)
  14. Michael Waterson – John Barleycorn Must Die
  15. Los Jaivas – Mira Ninita

  This Show was recorded 10th February 2014
  ©2014 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

• Episode 95 – The Home Spun Sessions: Seraphim Kelly

  

  Talented Northern Irish Singer Songwriter Seraphim Kelly tells stories of homelessness and life on the streets. We were really glad to catch him playing live and giving us the low-down on working for a homeless charity. Make sure you donate to his kickstarter campaign to get this young man’s debut album made and his heartfelt songs heard.

  plus:

  • Dress with extreme Prejudice: Why Blues singer Big Bill Broonzy had to dress like a country bumpkin to make it with White audiences when in truth he was a sophisticated, sharp dresser in everyday life.
  • The town that loved Bob Marley.
  • Kickstarter campaigns: a great way to fund an LP but will the model have any longevity, and why shouldn’t record labels be doing this?
  • Seasick Steve demonstrates how to silence the crowd.

  and much, much more!

  Listen to the Podcast Here:

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  Episode 95 Tracklist

  1. Marlene Shaw – Wade in the Water
  2. Big Bill Broonzy – Horny Frog
  3. Seasick Steve – Started Out With Nothing
  4. Tim Hardin – If I Were a Carpenter
  5. Kenny Graham’s Afro Cubists – Bongo Chant
  6. Seraphim Kelly – Towards the Skyline
  7. Seraphim Kelly – Where Did You Sleep Last Night?
  8. Seraphim Kelly – Rough Sleeper
  9. Seraphim Kelly – The Happy Hobo
  10. Davy Graham – Moanin’
  11. Pete Seeger – Which Side Are You On?
  12. Eddy Vedder – Can’t Keep
  13. George Formby – Mother What Will I Do Now?
  14. Seraphim Kelly – My Resurrection
  15. Seraphim Kelly – Lost
  16. White Buffalo – Oh Darling What Have I Done?
  17. Mala – Hatchet
  18. Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt – Sunny Side of the Street

  This Show was recorded 3rd March 2014
  ©2014 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

• Episode 94 – The Home Spun Sessions: Shama Rahman

  

  Sitar Diva, Shama Rahman joins us for the Home Spun Sessions this week. Shama explores jazz idioms and combines them with hints of Eastern mysticism and storytelling forms to great effect on her brand new album Fable:Time.

  plus:
  
  • How Zappa kicked Dr. John out of his band for doing drugs!
  • Great Musical Dynasties: Nature or nurture? Is it in the blood or simply a result of being brought up with a fine musical heritage.
  • From Ravi Shankar and the Beatles to Talvin Singh and Badmarsh & Shri, the Classical Raga has been stretched into new forms and timings as it collides headlong with Western forms to create new sensibilities.
  • Promoters that do artist development? For Real? Check out the fine work of London Jazz Promoters Serious Music.
  • And finally… we reveal why all the best Donuts have a hole at the centre!

  Listen to the Podcast Here:

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  Episode 94 Tracklist

  1. Ananda Shankar – Streets of Calcutta
  2. Shama Rahman – Reflections
  3. Shama Rahman – Time
  4. Shama Rahman – Bolte Paro Ki (Can you tell me why?)
  5. Shama Rahman – Time (Hit by a Rock remix)
  6. Roy Budd – Hallucinations
  7. Frank Zappa – Eat that Question
  8. J. Dilla feat. Ghostface & Doom – Sniper Elite
  9. The Knife – A Tooth for the Eye
  10. Sven Kacirek – Aresnal Aluny Village
  11. Johnny Smith – Nicola Avenue Breakdown
  12. Owen Grey – Sinners Weep & Mourn
  13. Busters All Stars – Mules Mules Mules Mules
  14. Bob Dylan – Ballad of Hollis Brown
  15. Carl Perkins – Her Love Rubbed Off

  This Show was recorded 3rd February 2014
  ©2014 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

• Episode 93 – Me Tarzan, you Jane

  

  The boys don loin cloths for the evening as they dream of distant shores populated with nubile Amazonian vixens dolled up in leopard print.

  • Pen-less composers: Dave Brubeck,  Lucky Millinder, Captain Beefheart couldn’t write music but boy could they throw down a tune.
  • Star Trekkin’ across the loonyverse – when Spock and Kirk made LPs.
  • Spike Milligan, the performing man. An English treasure, who suffered from depression, but wrote the book on English comedy.
  • How Marc Bolan helped create the Mod Scene.
  • XL-ent! A label that has championed the sounds of the British underground.

  Listen to the Podcast Here:

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  Episode 93 Tracklist

  1. Lucky Millinder – Bongo Boogie
  2. Brother to Brother – Chance with You
  3. Chocolate Watch Band – Let’s Talk about Girls
  4. Dean Jones – Women (Ska-Da-La-De-Da)
  5. Bobby Williams – Tarzan
  6. Karl Denver – Uska Dara
  7. Jad Fair & Kramer – California
  8. Lightning Bolt – 2 Morro Morro Land
  9. Thin Lizzy – Johnny the Fox
  10. Fridge – Eyelids
  11. 12 O’Clock / Sunz of Man /Blue Raspberry – Strange Eyes
  12. Marsha Hunt – Oh No! Not the Beast Day
  13. Coldcut – More Beats & Pieces (Daddy Rips it Up)
  14. Sam Ulano – Drum’s Fairy Tale
  15. East of Eden – Gum Arabic
  16. White Stripes – Wasting My Time
  17. Liliput – Die Matrosen
  18. Mahalia Jackson – My Story
  19. Howling Wolf – Forty Four
  20. The Dodgers – You Make me Happy
  21. Noel Rosa – Palpito Infeliz
  22. Lloyd Miller – Gole Gandom
  23. Don Cunningham Group – Taboo

  This Show was recorded 21st Jan 2013
  ©2013 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

• Episode 92 – The Home Spun Sessions: Amir Haider

  

  Up and coming singer songwriter Amir Haider warms our winter cockles with his strongly original blend of whimsical Folk, Blues & Indian influences. The first Home Spun Sessions of 2014 is like a fine brandy slipping down your throat on a freezing winter’s night – Delectable!

  • Did you get the clap? Eric Clapton passes on the boogie disease.
  • I Wish I was In Heaven Sitting Down: RL Burnside takes the blues in to new territory.
  • With one of the finest Blues 78 collections and a fine player himself as well as a legendary comic strip illustrator, Robert Crumb’s new pet project is Eden & John’s East River String Band.
  • Rocking on the American Rhythm & Blues scene with JD Mc Pherson

  Listen to the Podcast Here:

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  Episode 92 Tracklist

  1. R. L. Burnside – Nothing Man
  2. Edgar Broughton Band – Freedom
  3. J.J. Cale – Don’t Go To Strangers
  4. The El Capris – Ko Ko Wop
  5. Amir Haider  – 6 a.m. to Lydon
  6. Amir Haider – I’m Home
  7. Amir Haider – Driftin and Driftin
  8. Eric Clapton – Walking Blues
  9. Eugene Chadbourne – Knock On The Door
  10. Amir Haider – Saving for Salvation
  11. Amir Haider – Here I Come to You
  12. Amir Haider  – Someone Else’s Fool
  13. Kruder & Dorfmeister – Speechless
  14. Forest Swords – Marches
  15. Billy Hancock with the Tennessee Rockers – The Boogie Disease
  16. J. D. McPherson – North Side Gal
  17. Jimmy Rodgers – She Was Happy Til She Met You
  18. Light Crust Doughboys – Pussy Pussy
  19. Eden & John’s East River String Band – Beaver Slide Rag

  This Show was recorded 20th January 2014
  ©2014 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

  
  

• Episode 91 – All Aboard the Excello Special to Baton Rouge, Louisiana

  

  We check out the awesome record collection of veteran Blues guitarist Jim Carlisle. He tells us how he got into collecting the Excello record label back in the early 60’s in Belfast and plays us some of the best Rock & Roll, Blues and Rockabilly we’ve heard in some considerable time!

  plus:

  • Forget your Troubles: Knocking about with the Mad Lads and Roy Orbison as a kid growing up in Belfast, Rock & Roll was better than fighting.
  • How to become a drugs counselor for Elton John.
  • Ordering a blues record for half a week’s wages, then waiting for 6 weeks or 2 months for it to arrive, you really, really listen when it finally shows up!
  • Bad Credit – the Stoke Newington recession Blues. Now there’s a contradiction, but all the same…
  • Cheap R&R: Conway Twitty & Jerry Lee Lewis for a shilling (that’s 10p to you kiddo).

  Listen to the Podcast Here:

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  Episode 91 Tracklist

  1. Cyrus Gabrysch & the Zizaniques – River of Fire
  2. Jerry McCain – Bad Credit (Excello Records)
  3. Jimmy Anderson – I’m a King Bee (Excello Records)
  4. Charles Sheffield – The Kangaroo (Excello Records)
  5. Slim Harpo – I Need Money (Excello Records)
  6. Arthur Gunter – Baby (Let’s Play House) (Excello Records)
  7. Gladiolas – Run Run Little Joe (Excello Records)
  8. Lightnin’ Slim – Hoodoo Blues (Excello Records)
  9. Them – Baby Please Don’t Go
  10. Classie Balou – Hey Pardner! (Excello Records)
  11. Long John Hunter – Ride With Me Baby
  12. Louis Brooks – Chicken Shuffle (Excello Records)
  13. Arthur Gunter – Little Blue Jeans Woman(Excello Records)
  14. Jack Toombs – If You Want Me, Catch Me (Excello Records)
  15. Lazy Lester – Late Late in the Evening (Excello Records)
  16. Lesa Cormier & Sundown Playboys – Saturday Night Special
  17. Nolan Cormier – Hee Haw Breakdown
  18. Johnny Jano – Some Other Time
  19. Lynn Taitt & Babba Brooks – Seven Guns Alive
  20. Jim Carlisle – 5 x 10

  This Show was recorded 7th October 2013
  ©2013 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

• Episode 90 – The Home Spun Sessions: Lady & the Tramps

  

  Fresh from releasing her new mini LP, “6 of the Best”, girl about town, She Rocola brings her band, Lady & the Tramps along to the Home Spun Sessions for a knees up. Believe you me, these cats  throw a rum party – I got to bed as the sun was rising and it was a Monday. MeaOw! My poor head…

  plus:
  

  • She’s not alone: when  Fats Waller played for 3 days for Al Capone.
  • Join the Car Crash Set: Travelling round San Fransisco in a Ford Cougar listening to Bullit on full blast.
  • Rocking the Camden scene with leatherette clad Bob Log III, who gets two young ladies up and plays with one on each knee for his encore.
  • Check out Grace Jones’ fantastically flamboyant film,“One Man Show.”
  • Name checking the excellent output of Too Pure records: Minxus, StereoLab, PJ Harvey, Moonshake and The’ Faith Healers.
  • Going for a curry in Bradford with “Rita, Sue and Bob Too”.
  • A chip off the old block: A day in the downfall of John Cooper Clarke.
    
  • How John lost his Fedora.

  Listen to the Podcast Here:

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  Episode 90 Tracklist

  1. Boogaloo & His Gallant Crew – Cops & Robbers
  2. Gabor Szabo – Gypsy Queen
  3. Lalo Schifrin – Bullit
  4. Grace Jones – Warm Leatherette
  5. Lady & the Tramps – St. James Infirmary
  6. Lady & the Tramps – Everybody Thinks You’re Beautiful
  7. Lady & the Tramps – Rum & Coca Cola
  8. CSS – Art Bitch
  9. Alternative TV – Why Don’t You Do Me Right
  10. Big L – Devil’s Son
  11. Lady & the Tramps – Spinach
  12. Lady & the Tramps – What Shall We Do With the Drunken Sailor?
  13. Lady & the Tramps – House of Bamboo
  14. Lady & the Tramps – Seafood Mamma
  15. Lady & the Tramps – Show Me the Way to the Next Whiskey Bar
  16. Lady & the Tramps  – Beginning to See the Light
  17. Clifford Brown – Gerkin for Perkin
  18. Fats Waller – Ain’t Misbehavin’

  This Show was recorded 17th September 2013
  ©2013 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

• Episode 89 – The Afro Palace

  

  Hot African night, the Afro Palace join us to promote their gig at the New Empowering Church this Friday featuring Yaaba Funk & Ebo Taylor (visiting from Ghana) and play us some super funky Afro beats for your delectation.

  plus:

  • Curried Beats: the tasty Lata Mangeshkar comes with Sauce!
  • When an eccentric English gentleman tries out new ideas: The uncategorizeable work of Fred Frith featuring Bill Laswell.
  • Solid gold members only: How Errol Flynn sent a cast of his cock to his lover. Let’s hope for their sake he was well endowed!
  • When Iggy Pop met Tom Waits for “Coffee and Cigarettes”; Make sure you check out the brilliant Jim Jarmusch film.
  • Creating your own scene: How bands like the Happy Mondays took influences like ESG to create their own Madchester scene.
  • We got a hunch you’ll need to brace yourselves. John Brings the noise!

  Listen to the Podcast Here:

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  Episode 89 Tracklist

  1. Mongo Santamaria – Yambu
  2. Modernaires Dance Band – Abrantsie Pa
  3. Fred Frith – Same Old Me
  4. Lata Mangeshkar – 1956, 1957,1958
  5. Tom Waits – Whistling Past the Graveyard
  6. Emerald Sapphire & Gold – Erase You
  7. Happy Mondays – Tart Tart
  8. Mighty Sparrow – Congo Man
  9. Ebo Taylor – Heaven
  10. The Hunches – Murdering Train Track Blues
  11. Cyril Davies – Country Line Special
  12. Shut Up and Dance – Reclaim the Streets
  13. Comus – Diana
  14. African Brothers Band International – Eye A Na Me Mu
  15. Roy Budd – The Thief
  16. Yaaba Funk – Nyash E Go Bite You
  17. Qpambuq International Band of Ghana – My Darling

  This Show was recorded 14th October 2013
  ©2013 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

• Episode 88 – The Home Spun Sessions: L’Orchestre du Montplaisant

  

  Fusing Cumbia and Secousse rhythms with hints of Arabia, the fantastic L’Orchestre du Montplaisant visit the Home Spun Show this week for our live sessions. These inspirational players create a melting pot of sultry and exotic sounds which inspire reveries of distant shores and faraway adventures.

  plus:

  • 40 years ago, down the local dancehalls, Stoke Newington Town Hall, The Blue Ribbon and The Flamingo people were wigging out to Ska.
  • Why West African bands named themselves after the local train service?
  • Africa speaks, America answers: When Guy Warren met Charlie Parker.
  • We check out some of the diversity of African music from Rai in Algeria to Sécousse in Congo and from Ethiopian Funk to Sega and Maloya from Mauritius and Réunion.

  Listen to the Podcast Here:

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  Episode 88 Tracklist

  1. The Sonics – I Been Shot Down
  2. Baba Brooks – Teenage Ska
  3. L’Orchestre Tout Mopia – Mokili Mayi Ya Buatu
  4. Guy Warren – Monkeys & Butterflies
  5. L’Orchestre Du Montplaisiant – Le Prince de Babylone
  6. L’Orchestre Du Montplaisiant – La Danza de Los Mirlos
  7. L’Orchestre Du Montplaisiant – Greeneries
  8. L’Orchestre Du Montplaisiant – Ayna Miftar Galbik
  9. L’Orchestre Du Montplaisiant – Etando Ya Mabina
  10. Imperial Tiger Orchestra – Lale Lale
  11. Joe Harriott & John Mayer Double Quintet – Acka Raga
  12. L’Orchestre Du Montplaisiant – Io Ti Amo
  13. L’Orchestre Du Montplaisiant –  Amandine
  14. L’Orchestre Du Montplaisiant – Masanga Ya Mbila
  15. L’Orchestre Du Montplaisiant – Samanta Tarantella
  16. Cheb Khaled & Chaba Zahouania – Ya Louyalid (Oh My Child)
  17. Salim Hilali – Monira
  18. Roger Lejuste – Col Coller
  19. Hugh Tracey – Detyetye Kusheka

  This Show was recorded 30th September 2013
  ©2013 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

• Episode 87 – Ahead of Their Times?

  

  Can an artist truly be ahead of their time? We explore a few artists considered to have been ahead of their time from Captain Beefheart to Blondie from the Modern Lovers to Digital Underground, Roland Kirk and beyond.

  plus:

  • How the Stone Roses took a leaf out of Cymande’s book.
  • When Damian Albarn was denied the stage at the Barbican’s Mali festival.
  • The shy but precocious talent of Robert Johnson and the special recordings he made.
  • How John’s parents used to feed the local animals junk food.
  • Why Captain Beefheart gave up music for painting.

  Listen to the Podcast Here:

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  Episode 87 Tracklist

  1. Prince Buster – Dance Cleopatra Dance
  2. The Meters – People Say
  3. The Modern Lovers – Pablo Picasso
  4. Mack Banks – Bee Bopping Daddy
  5. Robert Johnson – Preaching Blues
  6. Le Super Biton National de Sagou- Nyeleni
  7. Electric Manchakou – N’tselfik
  8. Scotty Moore Trio – Have Guitar Will Travel
  9. Love Machine – The Shadows of Vibrate
  10. Pierre Cavalli – Un Soir Chez Norris
  11. Digital Underground – Doowutchyalike
  12. Furious Pig – I don’t Like Your Face
  13. Black Velvet – Earthquake’s Coming
  14. Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band – Ice Cream For Crow
  15. Roland Kirk – Ain’t No Sunshine
  16. Paterson – Freedom Now
  17. Cymande – Bra
  18. Stone Roses – Fools Gold
  19. Chakachas – Ma Ma Dou
  20. Chakachas -Jungle Fever

  This Show was recorded 4th February 2013
  ©2013 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

• Episode 86 – The Home Spun Sessions: Aleh Ferreira

  

  Exclusive! On a flying visit over from Brazil for the Notting Hill Carnival, we managed to convince the amazing Aleh Ferreira (Banda Black Rio) to let us record one of the two gigs he did here in the UK. Expect uptempo Brazilian Funk of the highest order this week on the Home Spun Sessions.
  plus:

  • A fine vintage of profanity from the golden era of cussin’ and suggestion.
  • The hip house sound of Rhythm King makes Simon go a bit doolally!
  • Black Cowboys: The influence of the Western in Rhythm & Blues.
  • Woman of the Jamaican Ghetto: Phyllis Dillon
  • How the Jamaican’s used the timbale in Reggae to create a distinctively trashy snare sound.

  Listen to the Podcast Here:

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  Episode 86 Tracklist

  1. Jesse Powell Orchestra with Fluffy Hunter – Walking Blues
  2. Mickey & the Soul Generation – Joint Session
  3. © – When He Come Back
  4. The Rapture – Echoes (remix)
  5. Aleh Ferreira – Sou Do Bem
  6. Aleh Ferreira – Sexta Feira Carioca
  7. Aleh Ferreira – Nega Marrenta
  8. Aleh Ferreira – À Nossa Jemanjá
  9. Jimmy Rushing – Hi O Sylvester
  10. Pointer Sisters – Yes We Can
  11. Perhaps Contraption – You Bring Out the Savage in Me
  12. Mu – Paris Hilton
  13. Aleh Ferreira – Dona Da Banca
  14. Aleh Ferreira – Pra Não Parar de Sambar
  15. Aleh Ferreira – Deixa a Gira Girar
  16. Aleh Ferreira –  E Morriou
  17. Aleh Ferreira – Herói Nagô
  18. Phyllis Dillon – Woman of the Ghetto
  19. Michael Kiwanuka – Tell Me a Tale
  20. Miles Davis – On the Corner

  This Show was recorded 29th August 2013
  ©2013 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

• Episode 85 – The Home Spun Sessions: Tarq Bowen

  

  Up and coming Psych-Blues singer and slide guitarist extraordinaire, Tarq Bowen graces the Home Spun Sessions this week for a heavy-weight wig-out. Bowen is tearing up the contemporary British Blues scene with his killer guitar licks and highly original lyrics.

  Plus:

  • When Westerners interpret the quarter note scales of Eastern music, often it’s a success, sometimes a failure, but always well worth the attempt.
  • How important are words to you? Some artists can’t write lyrics for toffee!
  • Whisky all the way! Getting messy with the brothers Trice.
  • Hearing sounds in you head: How Brian Jones & John Coltrane were able to envisage what something would sound like on a different instrument.
  • The recorded version of a track should never be the final version. Keep reinventing that tune or it will become a yoke around your neck.

  Listen to the Podcast Here:

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  Episode 83 Tracklist

  1. The Shardells – Black Crack
  2. Shankar Jaikishan – Raga Kalavati
  3. Shellac – In a Minute
  4. John Mayer & Joe Harriott – Mishra Blues
  5. Tarq Bowen – I’m Alright
  6. Tarq Bowen – Cold Town Bound
  7. Tarq Bowen – Man Like Me
  8. Feyzullah Çinar – Taralar Beni
  9. Mississippi Fred McDowell – I Ain’t Gonna Be Bad No More
  10. Tarq Bowen – Rise With the Sun
  11. Tarq Bowen – Mama Sold the Vinyl
  12. Tarq Bowen – After We Make Them
  13. Seguidillas Gitanos – El Pili

  This Show was recorded 2nd September 2013
  ©2013 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

• Episode 84 – Crass Impressions of the Queen

  

  In true punk style Crass bring you spiky guitars and a DIY ethic on their graphics whilst bringing the Anarchist politics home with a bang. It’s a big bang too on “Big A Little A”.

  plus:

  • Shark Fin Soup: Lalo Schifrin gets his teeth into Jaws.
  • All at sea: that’s where you’ll find our rubbish these days. From plastic bags to tampons, most of it floats.
  • Rockin’ on the Go-Go scene: Sam the Beast takes Washington Go-Go to another level.
  • Ol’ Frenchy gets chopped up by English: When Pierre Henry met Coldcut.
  • East meets West as Don Cherry joins tabla meister Latif Khan.
  • Surviving the mean streets of NYC with Grandmaster Melle Mel.
  • The talent of Brian Jones – how the Rolling Stones looked far and wide to incorporate other musical styles within their own.
  • When calypso meets Swing, Wilmoth Houdini toots it well!

  Listen to the Podcast Here:

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  Episode 84 Tracklist

  1. Sun City Girls – Ben’s Radio
  2. Bobby Gentry – Mississippi Delta
  3. Lalo Schifrin – Jaws
  4. Leven Signs – Our Position Vanishes
  5. Karl Denver – Zimba
  6. Mo-Dettes – Paint It Black
  7. The Toppers – Let me Bang Your Box
  8. Wilmoth Houdini & His Royal Calypso Orchestra – Million Dollar Feet
  9. Grand Master Melle Mel – Survival
  10. Sam the Beast – Gucci Dance (Oh My God Mix)
  11. Crass – Big A Little A
  12. Cabaret Voltaire – No Escape
  13. Pierre Henry – Psyche Rock (Coldcut remix)
  14. Philip Cohran African Heritage Ensemble – The African Look
  15. Fela Kuti – Lady
  16. Don Cherry & Latif Khan – Rhythm 58¼
  17. Asha Bhosle – Aao Huzoor Tum Ko

  This Show was recorded 19th August 2013
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• Episode 83 – The Home Spun Sessions: Mak Murtíc Ensemble

  

  It’s Jazz, Jim but not as we know it!

  We are very proud to start our Autumn season of Home Spun Sessions with a stunning suite of music by young Jazz virtuoso, Mak Murtíc. His brilliant suite, “A Place Glowing a Brilliant Red” is an evocative investigation of the possibility of Mankind’s colonization of Mars, played by a 15-piece Big Band. It explores, with clarity and poise, the possible triumphs and tribulations of science and human interaction which might be encountered as a new society is created.

  Unusually, we gave over the whole show to this vision in russet, vermilion and crimson, with the suite presented in full, followed by an extensive interview with Mak which covers subjects as diverse as:

  • Can technology overcome the difficulties faced by a planet with dwindling resources and a re-doubling of population every 42 years?
  • What happens when Stone-Age cultures collide with Technocracies? Re-conciling psycho-geography with the homogeneity of a dominant culture.
  • Creative Commons vs. Genetic theft for medical profit. How DNA mapping can be fascistic but can also tell the story of human migration.
  • East meets West: How Debussy was influenced by the Gamelan.

  and much much more!

  Listen to the Podcast Here:

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  Episode 83 Tracklist

  1. Budd Johnson – Playing My Hunch
  2. Mak Murtíc Ensemble – A Place Glowing a Brilliant Red (Parts 1-12)
  3. Debussy – Estampes 1: Pagodes

  This Show was recorded 16th July 2013
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• Episode 82 – The Home Spun Sessions: The Cracked

  

  The sound of the summer is finally here as The Cracked join us for the Home Spun Sessions! Ian Tepper’s band bring us the blissful sound of Balearic Summer experienced via flamenco guitar and hot African basslines. Tune in Turn On and Drop Out!

  • What a Performance: Ry Cooder on one of our most loved soundtracks.
  • She Rocola: Too Pure for Punk, the Minxus!
  • Simon says Tortoise are just too lethargic.
  • How the UK clubs mixed up dance music with the Cure or hip hop  or Street Soul back in the mid 80’s to bring the Balearic sound to Britain.
  • Hardcore Uproar R.I.P.
  • Mustachioed Moog Stash: Miami’s latin funk pioneers, El Bigote.

  Listen to the Podcast Here:

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  Episode 82 Tracklist

  1. Joe Liggins – Going Back to New Orleans
  2. Ry Cooder – Get Away
  3. Minxus – Silk Purse
  4. The Cracked – Imaginary Friend
  5. The Cracked – Slow Down
  6. The Cracked – Without You
  7. Tortoise – TNT
  8. Tullio De Piscopo – Primavera
  9. El Bigote – Los Feligreses
  10. Wagadugu – Easy Dancing
  11. The Cracked – Bang Bang
  12. The Cracked – Everything
  13. The Cracked – Spanish Tune
  14. The Minutemen – God Bows to Math
  15. John Cooper Clarke – I Don’t Wanna Be Nice
  16. Roland Alphonso – Skaravan
  17. Isley Brothers – Who’s That Lady

  This Show was recorded July17th 2013
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• Episode 81 – ‘Hot Hands’ Solo

  

  Our guest, DJ Mark Solo brings some true Northern grit to the show and some Chicago finesse to the house. We get the lowdown on why Daft Punk must try harder and why the Japanese have such sharp elbows!
  plus:
  

  • We celebrate the long career and great influence of the hugely innovative Herbie Hancock. Sampled to death but still alive and kicking it!
  • Skaravan: How artists such as Roland Alphonso and Prince Buster looked to the east to find their Magic Star.
  • The first televised inter-racial kiss: the united nations of Star Trek.
  • Hanging off the rafters with Dave Mancuso and War.
  • Playing musical chairs with the 49 Americans, a band who have given us a new way to play the National Lottery.
  • Check out L’Orchestre du Montplaisant who are coming to play for us on the 2nd July.
  • Trevor Horn, Hackney born: Apples Pears and Buggles with a crack producer.
  • John gets all teary eyed over his Hawkwind album.

  Listen to the Podcast Here:

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  Episode 81 Tracklist

  1. Doug E Fresh & the Get Fresh Crew – The Show
  2. The Kills – Cheap and Cheerful
  3. Mina – Petite
  4. War – In the Ghetto
  5. Roland Alphonso – Cleopatra
  6. Bobby Boyle – Ricky the Record Hound
  7. Orchestre Du Montplaisant – Las Cumbres
  8. Herbie Hancock – I Thought It Was You
  9. Hawkwind – Master of the Universe
  10. Talking Heads – Seen and Not Seen
  11. Leo Zero – Magnificent Dub
  12. 49 Americans – Heritage
  13. X-Ray – Let’s Go

  This Show was recorded 09th June 2013
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• Episode 80 – The Home Spun Sessions: Cory Seznec & Friends

  

  Sometimes on your travels through music you find people who are on the same wavelength as you are and who inspire you with what they do. Cory Seznec is such a fine fellow. He takes Appalachian music (you know the good ol’ boy kinda thing) and mixes it with an African sensibility in a way that defies expectation. With the help of Senegalese percussionist Amadou Diagne, and fiddler Marius Pibarot, he shows that not everything in music has been done to death. Hugely enjoyable, their set captivated the Home Spun crowd!

  plus:

  • The Queens of Bollywood, Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle were sisters who defined the sound of Indian music in such a way that they have become some of the best-selling Artists of all time. Heard of them? Why not? Because the Western music industry doesn’t see fit, perhaps?
  • The Hemphill music dynasty: A Grandfather who recorded the Devil’s own music with a bunch of hand-crafted instruments for Alan Lomax and a Granddaughter who takes the Blues beyond.
  • Another great naughty ‘Cook’ Calypso recorded in Trinidad in the 50’s.
  • We are hardcore: Riding the Motherfucking Blues with Snatch & the Poontangs. Just remember, The Jesus & Mary Chain heard it here first.
  • Check out the excellent blog Global Groove for great ‘off the radar’ African music downloads.
  • Country Death Song – The Violent Femmes inspired a new genre in music.

  Listen to the Podcast Here:

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  Episode 80 Tracklist

  1. Lee “Shot” Williams – Welcome to the Club
  2. Herman – To the Fields
  3. Cream – NSU
  4. La Sonora Dinamita – Uli Li-E
  5. Cory Seznec – The Whippoorwill Comes
  6. Cory Seznec – East St. Louis
  7. Cory Seznec – Misty Eyed Mama
  8. Cory Seznec – Long Red Road
  9. Cory Seznec – East Virginia Blues
  10. Rahul Dev Burman & Asha Bhosle – Mera Naam Hai Shabnah
  11. Method Man & Redman – Let’s Do It
  12. Snatch & the Poontangs – Two Time Slim
  13. Cory Seznec -Chop it Up
  14. Cory Seznec – I Wish I Was in Outer Space
  15. Cory Seznec – Tell Me Little Woman
  16. Cory Seznec – Sugar Hill
  17. Chang-Kai Sheik – Naughty Boy
  18. Ronnie Dawson – Everything’s Gonna Be Alright
  19. Sid Hemphill – Devil’s Dream
  20. DNA – You & You
  21. Violent Femmes – Country Death Song

  This Show was recorded7th May &3rd June 2013
  ©2013 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

• Episode 79 – The Home Spun Sessions: Florence Joelle

  

  This week we are delighted to feature the distinct singing style of French Chanteuse, Florence Joelle on the Home Spun Sessions. Her songs are at times socially conscious, at times warmly personal. Her style blends the Parisian Gypsy Jazz of her childhood with influences ranging from Rock & Roll via North African Rai to Jimmy Scott  and beyond. Check out her brilliant album, Stealing Flowers!

  plus:

  • Why live recordings often come out better than studio recordings. Many of the old Blue Note jazz albums were recorded late at night after a live set.
  • The indifference of people to casual violence in the inner city.
  • With a tight backing band combined with a lackadaisical London voice, Ian Dury and the Blockheads were a seminal band with an unique sound.
  • The influence of mass migration on music: how the emigration of Gypsies escaping fascism influenced the sound of American post-war Jazz.

  Listen to the Podcast Here:

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  Episode 79 Tracklist

  1. Clarence Garlow – Bon Ton Roula
  2. The Royal Premiers – Make Love to Me
  3. Howling Wolf – All Night Boogie
  4. La Alianza Profana – Don Marcial
  5. Florence Joelle – 29 Bus Blues
  6. Florence Joelle – Caravan
  7. Florence Joelle – How Many Chickens
  8. Florence Joelle – Dat’s Love
  9. Mulatu Astatke – Mulatu
  10. Vilab – Fires
  11. Florence Joelle – Coucou
  12. Florence Joelle – Darkest Before Dawn
  13. Florence Joelle – How High the Moon
  14. Florence Joelle – Fever
  15. Wilmoth Houdini – Black But Sweet
  16. Missa Luba – Dibwe Diambula Kabanda

  This Show was recorded 21st & 27th May 2013
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• Episode 78 The Home Spun Sessions: The Wagon Tales

  

  Outstanding Country Bluegrass Band The Wagon Tales whoop up the Home Spun Sessions Kentucky style. Fresh from releasing their thigh slappingly fab debut album, “Introducing the Wagon Tales“ These good ol’ boys are going places. Yee-Haw diddly de Haw!

  plus:

  • The best record cutter in the industry was George ‘Porky’ Peckham. Porky Prime Cuts featured notes for the fans scratched into the records – Ace!
  • A great toaster: Yellowman, the original albino ragga muffin sound bwoy.
  • The growth and growth of the folk movement in Britain. How bands like Daughter are stretching the folk music envelope to breaking point.
  • Combustible Edison designed their own cocktails they were THAT loungey!
  • Ethiopian Rumba with an old master: Mahmoud Ahmed was one of the grandfathers of the Ethio-Jazz scene way back in the early 70’s.
  • Sister Ignatius, the diminutive  nun with a ministry of music in Ska.

  Listen to the Podcast Here:

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  Episode 78 Tracklist

  1. Perhaps Contraption – Cousin Grandma
  2. The Beat – Twisting and Crawling
  3. Mo-Dettes – White Mice
  4. Yellowman – Zungou Zu Zung
  5. Wagon Tales – Mountain Dew
  6. Wagon Tales – The Deep River Blues
  7. Wagon Tales – Nelly Kate
  8. Wagon Tales – Nine Pound Hammer
  9. Wagon Tales – The Big Sciota
  10. Wagon Tales – The Walker
  11. Pete Terrace – I’m Gonna Make It
  12. Combustible Edison – Utopia
  13. Cornelius – Fly
  14. Mahmoud Ahmed – Anchin Kalekuen
  15. Wagon Tales – 99 Years (and One More Day)
  16. Wagon Tales – Rabbit in the Log
  17. Wagon Tales – Cocaine Habit Blues
  18. Wagon Tales – I wish that I could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate
  19. Honkey Finger – Witch Doctor
  20. The Pioneers – Battle of the Giants
  21. The Bar Kays – Holy Ghost

  This Show was recorded 16th April and 20th May 2013
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• Episode 77 – The Home Spun Sessions: Folie Ordinaire

  

  Like shooting stars aimed straight for the heart of darkness, Folie Ordinaire take the swagger of Rock and the strut of Disco and turn them on their head. With Punk spikiness and Post-Acid electronics, they create a rhythmically pulsating live sound that defies categorization. They’ll be members of a futuristic leather-clad glitterati before you know it! Rock & Roll at it’s finest! Check out Folie Ordinaire’s unmissable live parties this summer.

  plus:

  • One of the unsung heroes of Mambo, Al Castellanos was one of the first Cuban musicians to arrive in New York.
  • The yearning towards a rediscovery and reinterpretation of African roots in the late 60’s Chicago Jazz Scene.
  • KRS-1 takes out the US autocracy in one with a direct hit from the ghetto.
  • From Black Nylons to Black Panthers, the arcing career of  The Charmer.
  • US anti-Communist Witch hunts of the 1950’s were a travesty of justice.
  • The troubled soul of Nina Simone: An Atheist who read Gospel music  against itself to create a whole new thrust in the Jazz idiom.

  Listen to the Podcast Here:

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  Episode 77 Tracklist

  1. Ann Sexton – You’ve Been Gone Too Long
  2. Medium Medium – Hungry Angry
  3. C.O.D. – In The Bottle
  4. Folie Ordinaire – Outcasted
  5. Folie Ordinaire – Rational
  6. Al Castellanos – Tango of Romance
  7. Art Ensemble of Chicago – Theme de Yoyo
  8. Folie Ordinaire – Fire & Water
  9. Folie Ordinaire – See Saw
  10. Folie Ordinaire – Che Folie
  11. Boogie Down Productions – Illegal Business
  12. The Charmer – Don’t Touch My Nylons
  13. Nina Simone – Backlash Blues
  14. Kriedler – Traffic Way

  This Show was recorded 7th & 13th May 2013
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• Episode 76 – The Home Spun Sessions: Park & Ride

  

  Quirky Colchester duo Park & Ride create quite a buzz when they bring their whimsical, eccentrically English take on French Chanson, Surf Guitar, Pop Classics, B-Movies and Breathy, Stylophonic Sex to the Home Spun Sessions.

  plus:

  • So you thought Punk was a male dominated style? The girls rocked it big time with Siouxsie Sioux, Kleenex, The Slits, X-Ray Specs, The Raincoats.
  • William Shatner: The Star man who always got the girl, especially if she was a green-skinned Orion Slave Girl.
  • The Conga vs The Cossack: John get’s drunk and attempts a bit of Russian Dancing to prove it’s better (or at least less simplistic) but then everyone realizes he’s cheating by sitting on a stool. Outrageous!
  • Russkie-Alien visitations and Post-Apocalyptic bombers. How the cold war influenced Ed Wood Jr. to create a B-movie masterpiece: ‘Plan 9…’
  • What’s a Boyyo to Do? Simon’s Parents only listened to the Beatles.

  Listen to the Podcast Here:

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  Episode 76 Tracklist

  1. Cozy Cole – Charleston
  2. Kleenex – U
  3. Stereolab – Super Falling Star
  4. Eddie Floyd – Good Love, Bad Love
  5. Billy Bumble & the Stingers – Nut Rocker
  6. William Shatner – Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
  7. Park & Ride – The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
  8. Park & Ride – Sexy Monsters From Outer Space
  9. Park & Ride – Ball Sack Dance
  10. Los Corraleros de Majagual – Pim Pam Pom
  11. Gabor Szabo – The Beat Goes On
  12. Ahab & the Wailers – Nebb Tune
  13. State of Mind – Move
  14. Park & Ride – All Over the Shop
  15. Park & Ride – Je T’Aime Moi Non Plus
  16. Park & Ride – Flight of the Bumble Bee
  17. Park & Ride -The Chick Habit
  18. France Gall – Poupée de Cire
  19. Go Cart Motzart – Hip Op
  20. Augusto Martelli – Beryl’s Tune

  This Show was recorded 2nd and 28th April 2013
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• Episode 75 – the Kopyright Liberation Front

  

  “What the FUCK is going on?” They asked of the music industry, back in 1987, when Whitney Houston joined them for Mission Impossible. They donned capes and made a pilgrimage to Dura, but by 1994 they were in the money. Their costly Art statements made blood boil on a million quid bonfire. Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty wrote The Manual on how to have a hit record and then proceeded to ‘Kick out the JAMS’ again and again.

  plus:

  • We got the Foghorn! Interracial sex, Colombian style with the Afrosound.
  • We dig those Black girls, Oh! so much more than White girls.
  • Why get married when you can Shack Up with Banbarra?
  • The Harder they Come: lost on the white cliffs of Dover and Kingston with Jimmy Cliff.
  • Can one band create a movement? We say no! The Sex Pistols didn’t create Punk (it was the Damned, of course) and Elvis didn’t invent Rock & Roll (neither did Ike Turner, however).
  • Don’t you speak my language? Why Slim Gaillard became the lexicographer of Beat Poetry.
  • Angelically glum: The divine dirges of Nick Drake.

  Listen to the Podcast Here:

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  Episode 75 Tracklist

  1. J.V.C. Force – Strong Island
  2. Johnny Cash – Own Personal Jesus
  3. Talking Heads – Psycho Killer
  4. The Monks – Boys are Boys
  5. The Afrosound –  Fiebre en la Jungla
  6. Slim Gaillard & His Middle Europeans – Yiproc Heresy
  7. The Jams – Whitney Joins the Jams
  8. Benny Goodman -Jam Session
  9. Joyce – Banana
  10. Anti Pop Consortium – Laundry
  11. Violent Femmes – Black Girls
  12. John Spencer Blues Explosion – Pant Leg
  13. Michael Gibbs – Family Toy
  14. Banbarra – Shack Up
  15. The Fire Engines – Candy Skin
  16. Jackie Brenston & His Delta Kings – Rocket 88
  17. Nick Drake – At the Chime of the City
  18. Jimmy Cliff – Many Rivers to Cross
  19. Lord Invader – Bassa Down

  This Show was recorded 22nd April 2013
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• Episode 74 – Don’t Cramp My Style

  

  Did you ever get the feeling that some of us were born bad? With a naughty or even wicked tendency that if unchecked leads to disaster, glorious disaster. Skid Row baby! The Cramps gave us a master class from the dark side of Americana by re-imagining the desperate tunes from the underbelly of 50’s Rock & Roll.

  plus:

  • A countin’ with Dicky Treadway & the Salados – they got your number.
  • Black Christ of the Andes: Mary Lou Williams’ preaches the Gospel according to Jazz in a dark mass that cuts to the quick.
  • The Dadaist tropical sounds of Tom Ze brought back from the wilderness by David Byrne in 1992.
  • How James Brown earned his dancing shoes and learned the steps.
  • Snap, Crackle and Hip Hop with Positive K.
  • The sparks that fly when a Moroccan muse takes a yuppie for his wife.
  • A sight for sore eyes? Matt dances around the studio in his Mankini!

  Listen to the Podcast Here:

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  Episode 74 Tracklist

  1. Dicky Treadway and the Salados – One To Ten
  2. Sneakers – Bald Headed Woman
  3. Jack Scott – The Way I Walk
  4. Bill Sanford and his Orchestra – Drumboogie
  5. Joe Meek and The Blue Men – Orbit Around The World
  6. LCD Soundsystem – Disco Infiltrator
  7. Mary Lou Williams – Praise The Lord
  8. Zine Mlih – Sublime Beauty
  9. Yellow Magic Orchestra – Citizens of Science
  10. The Mindexpanders – Love Syndrome
  11. Tricky Disco – Flyspray
  12. Tom Ze – Ogodo Ano 2000
  13. Positive K – The Night Shift
  14. Lee Moses – Time and Place
  15. Pigbag – Papas Got a Brand New Pigbag
  16. James Brown – Papas Got a Brand New Bag
  17. Max Upsetters – Smile Out a Style
  18. R.L. Burnside – Long Haired Donnie
  19. Lord Melody – Carnival Proclamation
  20. Dorothy Ashby – Wax and Wane

  This Show was recorded 8th April 2013
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• Episode 73 – Pop vs. Rock

  

  We are joined this week by Oz funk rocker, Dion Palumbo whose new 10-piece band, Palumbo & the Funk are reinvigorating the London funk scene.

  plus:

  • Snorting Fire with Johnny Cash & the Sons of the Pioneers.
  • The mighty organ: how the Doors and the Stranglers tricked us into thinking they were Rock bands
  • Melt Yourself Down: A global super-group is born to fix your life.
  • If Mark E. Smith buys you a pint it’s curtains mate!
  • The gloriously wistful, meandering R&B sound of Florence Joelle.
  • John rightly blasts the Eurovision Song Contest for being utterly naff & an insult to great pop music. An area in which Britain has nothing to prove.
  • More than an East End tradition: the sounds and visions of Billy Childish.
  • How many bands can you name that are named after a kind of chicken?

  Listen to the Podcast Here:

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  Episode 73 Tracklist

  1. Bill Haley – Chick Safari
  2. Robert ‘Nighthawk’ Johnson – Climbing High Mountains
  3. Melt Yourself Down – Fix My Life
  4. Palumbo and The Funk – So Sudden
  5. United States of America – Garden of Earthly Delights
  6. Florence Joelle – ESP
  7. Travis Wammack – Karate Time
  8. Lincoln Chase – I Love Your Many Ways
  9. The Doors – Break on Through
  10. Palumbo & the Funk – Dawn is Rising
  11. Palumbo & the Funk – Love Attack
  12. 13th Floor Elevators – Levitation
  13. J B Lenoir – Mamma Talk To Your Daughter
  14. Buff Medways – My Troubled Mind
  15. Wizard – So Cool Circle
  16. Edwyn Collins – Seventies Night
  17. Wizard – Flying Dream
  18. Diablito – The Jungle
  19. Electric Manchakou – She Said
  20. Sons Of The Pioneers – Ghost Riders In The Sky

  This Show was recorded 01 April 2013
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• Episode 72 – The Thinly Veiled Innuendo

  

  Get three boys together and the tone always lowers somehow. But it was the good ol’ boys of Rock & Roll that really brought the Copulating Blues to the tender ears of teenage America. A mention of ‘fucking’ in early Rockabilly earned a stiff reprimand and rather large fine from the Record Industry of America (RIAA). As usual the ‘peanuts’ escaped punishment even if ‘Her Love Rubbed Off!’ on Carl Perkins

  plus:

  • How Gene Vincent lost a bet to Eddie Cochran on who could get past the censors of the RIAA with a classic bit of lewd lyric mumbling…
  • Salsa Dura – getting wood with Willie Colon.
  • Something to get your claws into: A few tunes on the feline theme.
  • Carl Perkins – loved by the Beatles, but disappointed with his own success, not as cute as Elvis, but he did have the original pair of ‘Blue Suede Shoes’.
  • How Bob Marley’s first hit was a slow boiler for Coxone Dodd.
  • Voodoo Breaks – the proto-disco sound of Edwin Starr.
  • Lalo Schifrin – Argentinian Composer of the gangster breaks.

  Listen to the Podcast Here:

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  Episode 72 Tracklist

  1. Edwin Starr – I Just Wanna Do My Thing
  2. Chaos Inc – Daktari Ooh Ah
  3. Carl Perkins – Her  Love Rubbed Off
  4. The Wailers – Simmer Down
  5. Jack McDuff – Hot Barbeque
  6. Lee Hazelwood – Morning Dew
  7. Willie Colon – The Hustler
  8. The Son of PM – James Bond Theme
  9. Lalo Schifrin – Secret Code
  10. Frank Walden – The Cat
  11. Blackalicious – Alphabet Aerobics
  12. John Otway – Misty Mountain
  13. Light Crust Dough Boys – Pussy Pussy Pussy
  14. Sonora Panamera – Sell The Pussy
  15. John Cale – Heartbreak Hotel
  16. E-Culture – Tribal Confusion
  17. Miles Davis – Pharaoh’s Dance

  This Show was recorded 22nd October 2012
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• Episode 71 – Drunken Jungle Skank

  

  In which our good friend Crap Matt rocks up half cut and insists on some heavy, heavy Jungle rinse-out from back in the day. Proper? Proper! The Home Spun Show is always happy to oblige the inebriated with a shoulder to lean on and some soothing tunes for the ear.

  plus:

  • The heavy cuts of DJ Zinc and the True Playaz.
  • We visit the heart of English soul with Brian Auger and Julie Driscoll but listen to a song about snake charming in the end.
  • From Mansion House in the country to his own Island in the British Virgin Islands (Not a bad joke). How to become an Arsehole in a few easy steps.
  • Little Walter – the father of distortion?
  • Street Music Projects in 1930’s New York.
  • The early Ska sound of the Jiving Juniors.

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  Episode 71 Tracklist

  1. Toots and the Maytals – 54-46
  2. Brian Auger and Julie Driscoll – Indian Rope Man
  3. Funkadelic – You and Your folks
  4. Gudrun Gut – Move Me
  5. Floyd Dixon – Hey Bar Tender
  6. Leadbelly – Blind Lemon Memorial Record
  7. Little Walter – Sad Hours
  8. Los Stop – Pata Pata
  9. Misa Luba – Dibwe Diambula Kabanda
  10. Street and Gangland Rhythms – Six Boys in Trouble
  11. Rebel MC – Junglist
  12. Meters – Just Kissed My Baby
  13. The Stranglers – No More Heroes
  14. Magazine – Shot by Both Sides
  15. Jesse Rae – Life’s a Killer Dog
  16. DJ Food – Mella
  17. Ken Galloway – Bayou Lou
  18. Jiving Juniors – Lollipop Girl
  19. Slapp Happy  – The Drum
  20. Pierre Buchelet – O’et Sir Stephen

  This Show was recorded November 05 2012
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• Episode 70 – The Home Spun Sessions: Ma Polaine’s Great Decline

  

  Ma Polaine’s Great Decline visit The Home Spun Show this week for a brilliant session encompassing whiskey steeped Gypsy Reels, 1940’s Chanson, Country Death Songs and deep, down-home Delta Blues belters. We love their genre defying dark visions and warm tales of love lost and found.

  plus:

  • The hugely influential lyrics, rhythms and dark stripped down sound of Tom Waits late albums.
  • When studio experimentation becomes a part of the composition process you often get great results.
  • Which came first the 303 or Acid House? Huh chick?
  • We check out the Arabic and High-Life influenced Cumbia sounds of L’Orchestre Du Montplaisant’s great new album.

  Listen to the Podcast Here:

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  Episode 70 Tracklist

  1. Mahalia Jackson – Walkin’ to Jerusalem
  2. Sally Stanley – I’ll Have to Let You Go
  3. TNT Band – The Meditation
  4. Tom Waits – Hang on St. Christopher
  5. Fender Benders – XKE
  6. Blind Boys of  Alabama – Aint Nobody’s Fault but Mine
  7. Ma Polaine’s Great Decline –  Pigfoot Blues
  8. Ma Polaine’s Great Decline – Sweet Cold Harbour
  9. Ma Polaine’s Great Decline – Love Me or Leave Me
  10. Ma Polaine’s Great Decline –  Devil’s Touch
  11. L’Orchestre du Montplaisant – Le Prince de Babylone
  12. Groundhogs – Bogroll Blues
  13. Peanuts Wilson – Cast Iron Arm
  14. Mongo Santamaria – Climax
  15. Ma Polaine’s Great Decline – Simpler Kind of World
  16. Ma Polaine’s Great Decline – The Poison Sits
  17. Ma Polaine’s Great Decline – The Dregs
  18. Ma Polaine’s Great Decline – No Words We Need
  19. Ma Polaine’s Great Decline – The Wrong Side
  20. OST Saraswatichandra – Sau Saal Pahele
  21. Desmond Dekkar – Music like Dirt

  This Show was recorded 5th March 2013

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• Episode 69 – The Home Spun Sessions: Ma’Grass

  

  International Funkateers, Ma’Grass join us this week for the Home Spun Session. Matteo Grassi and his band give us a sneak peak of their brand new album, Fingers in the Socket, 2 years in the making. Their music harks back to the golden era of funk in it’s sound: tight Sly & the Family Stone style beats couple with consciously low slung lyrics from Ella Flierl. Heavy!

  • The tribal Tibetan vibes of 23 Skiddoo.
  • The sexy troublemaker who led Miles Davis down the garden path. Betty Davis, 20 years Davis’ junior proved herself his equal and gave a raunchy new vitality to his work as well as making great albums in her own right.
  • The story of Ray Charles’ “Hit the Road Jack”, a seedy tale of too much philandering. You read it here first.
  • The Chiterling Circuit:  Black only tour venues spawned by segregation.
  • “The Hardest Working Man in Show business” docked his musicians’ wages if they played too hard. Practice what you preach James!
  • Download the Ma’Grass album for free but please make a contribution ‘cos piracy is killing music, me hearties. This podcast has paid it’s dues BTW!

  Listen to the Podcast Here:

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  Episode 69 Tracklist

  1. The Gaturs – Gatur Bait
  2. 23 Skiddoo – A Y
  3. Au Pairs – We’re So Cool
  4. Ma’Grass – Complications
  5. Betty Davis – Your Mama Wants You Back
  6. The Gun Club – Ghost On The Highway
  7. The Pop Group – She’s Beyond Good And Evil
  8. Pat Field – Fich’ le Camp Jacques
  9. Ma’Grass – Keep It Groovy
  10. Ma’Grass – Get Yourself Together
  11. Ma’Grass – We Are No Fools
  12. Ma’Grass – Can’t Stop Moving
  13. Luis Varona – Porto Diablo
  14. Mombasa – Al Rahman
  15. Ray Scott & The Scottsmen – Right Now
  16. Jay Hodge Ork – Goatsville
  17. Norman Greenbaum – Spirit In The Sky

  This Show was recorded 19th Feb 2013
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• Episode 68 – All aboard the Afrobeat Express: It’s the High-Life for Me

  

  All Aboard the musical locomotive! This week we play hosts to special guests Richmond Kessie from the awesome African Afro-psych dancing band Yaaba Funk, DJ Volta African DJ extra-ordinnaire and Oli Hurez taking us on a trip to the French Caribe via Ghana, Senegal and Angola.

  plus:

  • High Life – proper smart – no messing about! Playing to the British Colonial masters – no trainers allowed!
  • What’s the best insect to come back as if you are reincarnated? The Bedbug of course. You can spend all night biting young ladies’ bumpers!
  • The Senegalese are the foremost Cuban music players in Africa. From Youssou N’Dour to the Super Eagles these boys do it best. Or do they? The Ghanaians have a thing or two to say about that!
  • When the Mafia ran Cuba, was there much exposure to R & B there?
  • The storytelling ritual in Afrobeat: Fela and the origins of the 12″ single.
  • Researching the French Caribbean musical forms.

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  Episode 68 Tracklist

  1. Count Zebra – Bedbug
  2. Etoille de Dakar – Esta China
  3. Alhaji K. Frimpong – Kyen Kyen Bi Ade Mawu
  4. Lito Barrientos – Dale
  5. Crazy Crickets – She’s Coming Home
  6. Jessie Mae Hemphill – She Wolf
  7. Fairness – À Presenta La
  8. Robert Wyatt – Strangers in the Night
  9. Cumbia Moderna de Soledad – Shacalao
  10. Elvis Yeboah’ – Medofo Yi Aw Ampa?
  11. Serge Christophe – On Bel Ti Chaff
  12. Roland Alphonso – Magic Star
  13. Orchestra G.O Malebo – Nasengi Demission
  14. Ramblers Danceband – Scholarship
  15. Mapletoft Poule Orchestra – Nobody’s Business
  16. Konkoma – Lie Lie

  This Show was recorded 18th February 2013
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• Episode 67 – The Home Spun Sessions: T.J. Johnson

  

  The man with the big voice,T.J. Johnson is our special guest on the Home Spun Sessions this week. T.J. is a fabulous Jazz crooner and pianist with an inimitable style. He crosses from country standards to bebop and beyond and delivers without fail. Outstanding!

  plus:

  • Three songs on the theme of Simoleans, Scrilla, Spondulicks, Swag to you!
  • How money mainly grows on family trees…
  • Big Dada’s Toastie Taylor – the voice of a skunk smoker.
  • The trials and tribulations of working on the jazz scene in the UK during the early 90’s.
  • The Afro-Calypso of one of the few great female Calypso stars, Maya Angelou.

  Listen to the Podcast Here:

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  Episode 67 Tracklist

  1. Lightnin’ Hopkins – My Babe
  2. Granville Williams Orchestra – The Third Man
  3. Lee Dorsey – Ride Your Pony
  4. The Barons – Money Don’t Grow on Trees
  5. TJ Johnson – My Castle’s Rockin’
  6. TJ Johnson – The Nightlife
  7. TJ Johnson – I’ll Fly Away
  8. TJ Johnson – World on a String
  9. New Flesh – Communicate
  10. Titus Turner – People Sure Act Funny
  11. Poor Boys – I’m Gonna Spend My Money
  12. Chaino – Gua-Gua
  13. TJ Johnson – Lester Leaps In
  14. TJ Johnson – I’ll be Your Baby Tonight
  15. TJ Johnson – Georgia on My Mind
  16. TJ Johnson – On the Road Again
  17. TJ Johnson – Running Wild
  18. Group Inerane – Awal September
  19. Maya Angelou – Polymon Bongo
  20. Coldcut – Border

  This Show was recorded Tuesday 5th February 2013
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• Episode 66 – The Home Spun Sessions: Errol Linton & Friends

  

  WE think Errol Linton is one of the best  harmonica players in the UK and we’re not wrong. He’s won UK Best Harp player 3 times!

  Well, this week  he graces the Home Spun Sessions for a knees up with a bunch of mates, and he brought along a fabulous band to boot. You’ll rarely hear a better Rhythm & Blues sound.

  plus:

  • How good is the recent album by Chicago Blueser J.D. McPherson? His band really swung when he played at the Electric Ballroom last month.
  • Henry Flint The man who stepped in for John Cale of the Velvet Underground but fell out with Lou Reed.
  • Are cowboys cool or is it only girls and gays that look great in a Stetson.
  • Missionary women! beware The Mighty Sparrow cuts his teeth on white meat.

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  Episode 66 Tracklist

  1. Juan Pablo Torres- Rompe Coccorico
  2. The Blues Explosion – Afro
  3. Kool and the Gang – Spirit of the Boogie
  4. J D McPherson – North Side Gal
  5. Errol Linton & Friends – F-Jam
  6. Errol Linton & Friends – Step Back
  7. Errol Linton & Friends – Bug in a Matchbox
  8. Errol Linton & Friends – Hoodoo Man
  9. Errol Linton & Friends – Wine Whiskey & Women
  10. Phylis Dylon – Make Me Yours
  11. Henry Flynt and the Insurrections – Missionary Stew
  12. The Aay Jays – Lal Qalandar Lal
  13. Errol Linton & Friends – Cast Iron Arm
  14. Errol Linton & Friends – Please Don’t Leave Me
  15. Errol Linton & Friends – Boogie Disease
  16. Errol Linton & Friends – Evil Woman
  17. Errol Linton & Friends – Play House
  18. Lazy Habits – Lazy
  19. Jimmy Rushin – Hi O Sylvester
  20. Ronnie Smith – Losing You
  21. The Mighty Sparrow – Congo Man

  This Show was recorded 22nd January 2013
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• Episode 65 – The Home Spun Sessions: Alastair James

  

  Brillliant young singer songwriter Alastair James brings his new band to the Home Spun Sessions. Alastair’s songs are reminiscent of Paul Simon at his best, and this cat is only 20 years old so expect great things! You heard it here first.
  

  plus:

  • Original Girl power with X-ray specs and the Raincoats.
  • How Machiavellian Malcolm Mclaren left Adam Ant out in the cold.
  • U.S.Warren: Unique in his field. Gardening with the green fingered.
  • Rocking the psych guitar with Capitol K.
  • How sad it is that the record industry no longer has the balls for career development?
  • 50 years of the cassette tape . John and Simon reminisce.
  • Why Sting’s solo career lacks something in the tail.

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  Episode 65 Tracklist

  1. The Chips – Rubber Biscuit
  2. The Wedding Present – Kennedy
  3. X-Ray Spex – The Day The World Turned Day-glo
  4. Alastair James – What Have I Done?
  5. Alastair James – Thinking of You Still
  6. Alastair James -Is Anybody Home?
  7. Alastair James – Summertime’s for Real
  8. Alastair James – I Only Want to Be at Home
  9. U.S. Warren – The Drop
  10. Capitol K – God Ohm
  11. Chakachas – Yo Soy Cubano
  12. Alastair James – You Give me Such Happiness
  13. Alastair James – Stay Strong
  14. Alastair James – Scarborough Bay
  15. Alastair James – I Wanna Fly to the Moon
  16. Bow Wow Wow – C30 C60 C90 Go
  17. King Sunny Ade – Samba/E Falabe Lewe
  18. Can – Mushroom

  This Show was recorded 11th December 2012
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• Episode 64- The Weird Sex Issue

  

  This issue of our podcast ended up being strewn with innuendo, stories of peculiar practices, the Battle of the Sexes, Man-Woman, Porno-Beat, and general flirtation with the dark side of the human psyche.

  • Snake!! The twisted Mambo of Mad Man Jones
  • Skin on Skin with Mongo Santamaria
  • Rita get’s it on with Peaches You gotta “Lovertits”
  • Margaret Atwood’s distopic visions of future sexuality.
  • Naughty places for a girl to wash her hands.
  • Leave that Kitten alone! says Little Willie John.
  • Lovage’s Music to make love to your old lady.
  • And finally… make sure you check out 6 0f the best Rude Rockers for some great saucy Jump Blues

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  Episode 64 Tracklist

  1. Mad Man Jones – Snake Charmer
  2. Mongo Santamaria – Bricamo
  3. Peaches – Lovertits
  4. Rita – Erotica
  5. Memphis Jug Band – Gator Wobble
  6. Alvarius B – The Demon 360
  7. Ray Agee – The Devils Angels
  8. The Velvelettes – Needle in a Haystack
  9. The Three Johns – Zowie
  10. Climaco Sarmiento – La Gaita Marciana
  11. PIL – Careering
  12. Duke of Iron – Man Smart, Woman Smarter
  13. Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit
  14. Rose Marie McCoy – Dippin In My Business
  15. Little Willie John – Leave My Kitten Alone
  16. Sandra Grimes – Hallelujah Rock n Roll
  17. John Davis – Up Jumped The Devil
  18. The Vibrettes – Humpty Dump
  19. La Playa Africana – Ay Enno Machi Yakana
  20. High Llamas – Apricot
  21. Nathaniel Merriweather – To Catch a Thief
  22. Miles Davis – Sanctuary

  This Show was recorded December 10th 2012
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• Episode 63 – Home Spun Sessions: Orchestra Elastique

  

  We have an extended, special this week with the astonishing live freeform soundscapes of Orchestra Elastique. Their music is a place of encounter, a musical catalyst, a Vorticist experiment and a new musical paradigm. Check Orchestra Elastique’s future gigs.

  plus:

  • How Geordie band, The Animals brought Jimi Hendrix over to busk on the streets of Newcastle, His first gig in the UK?
  • The early Blue Beat sound of Duke Reid.
  • Hoffman the Dr of Theremin. You’d play it in your lab coat wouldn’t you?
  • How musicians interact in free-form pieces: It’s all about listening and mutual respect, but make sure to make a surprise instrument!
  • Catch a desert wave! The Arab-Surf, Moog-Beats of Omar Khorshid.
  • The power of music to transport comes from the ritualistic celecbration. Music can lift the human spirit to a shamanistic trance-like state.

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  1. The Versatones – Bila
  2. Jiving Juniors – Lollipop Girl
  3. The Animals – Inside Looking Out
  4. Kevin Coyne – Some Dark Day
  5. Orchestra Elastique – My Dog was on the Canapé Yesterday (Live)
  6. Omar Khorshid – Rakset El Fadaa
  7. Anahoretii – Padurile Fosneau
  8. Dr Samuel J Hoffman – This Room Is My Castle Of Quiet
  9. Marvin Philips – Salty Dog
  10. Thee Oh Sees – Block Of Ice
  11. R Stevie Moore – Pop Music
  12. Orchestra Elastique – Home Spun Sessions (Live)

  This Show was recorded 20th November 2012
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• Episode 62 – The Atrocity Exhibition

  

  People are anaesthetised by the news. It becomes a soap opera of horror, which we watch compulsively, and without empathy. How Anarcho-punk outfits such as Flux of Pink Indians tried to redress the balance.
  plus:

  • The early 80’s Digital Dancehall sound of Cutty Ranks, the original Raggamuffin Soundbwoy.
  • Why the kids shouldn’t start taking Ayahuasca.
  • The KLF’s Manual “How to have a Number One the Easy Way” still applies.
  • A Modern Mersey Beat: the banging sounds of the Boom Boom Booms.
  • John Airs his knickers – top drawer stuff!
  • Mayo Thompson’s itinerant music career: from West to East, he’s moved up and up, working with Robert Rauschenberg, producing for Rough Trade and played with Connie Plank & Dieter Moebius in Germany.
  • And Finally… why the Home Spun Show vastly dislikes Noel Edmonds.

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  Episode 62 Tracklist

  1. Cumbia Siglo XX – Rhythm Naga-Peddale
  2. Red Snapper – Get Some Sleep Tiger
  3. Don Ellis – Theme from the French Connection
  4. Red Crayola – Discipline
  5. The Boom Boom Booms – Trouble and Strife
  6. Ike & Tina Turner – The Game of Love
  7. Cutty Ranks – Retreat (Soundbwoy)
  8. Cutty Ranks – A Who Seh Me Dun
  9. Scanner – Heidi
  10. UK Apache & Shy FX – Original Nuttah
  11. David Holmes feat. John Spencer – Bad Thing
  12. Jimmie Haskell And His Orchestra – Blast Off
  13. JB Lenoir – Don’t Touch My Head
  14. The Honey Drippers – Impeach the President
  15. Prince Far-I and The Arabs – Plant Up
  16. Roots Manuva – Soul Decay
  17. 3 Go 3 – Boing
  18. Flux of Pink Indians – Tube Disaster
  19. The Musical Linn Twins – Rockin out the Bloues
  20. FC Kahuna – Hayling
  21. Soul Centre – Funky Sterling (edit)

  This Show was recorded 26th November 2012
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• Episode 61 – Bhangaz & Beatles

  

  We rate the Shankar musical dynasty. From Ravi, who taught the Beatles what they know about Indian music, to Ananda, who’s exploits opened up the psychedelic sitar sound, to the Anglo-Indian sounds of Bishi Bhattacharya. Mesmerizing Indian Bhangaz one and all.
  plus:

  • Howard deVoto’s celluloid sexual exploits: shooting off the full Magazine.
  • The sly saxophone in garage with the Salados – take note!
  • Caught in the headlights, collecting roadkill with the men from Uncle.
  • How to forget that you’re working on the chain gang.
  • The early blues recordings of Alan Lomax.
  • Matthew goes goating up the hill and misses the Moonshot!

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  Episode 61 Tracklist

  1. The Buzzcocks – Boredom
  2. Dickie Treadway and the Salados – One to Ten
  3. The Groundhogs – Split Part 2
  4. Unkle – Rabbit in your Headlights
  5. Slim Harpo – Shake Your Hips
  6. Group Doueh – Ragsa Juguar
  7. Ed Lewis and Group – I Be So Glad When The Sun Goes Down
  8. Kenny Dope – Thoughts and Visions
  9. Quickspace – Walk Me Home
  10. Sounds Orchestral – Moonshot
  11. Jackie Brenston and His Delta Kings – Rocket 88
  12. Jackie Brenston – Trouble Up The Road
  13. Tom Waits – 16 Shells from a Thirty-Ought-Six
  14. PJ Harvey – To Bring You My Love
  15. Jonathan Richmond and the Modern Lovers – Egyptian Reggae
  16. Nancy Sesay and the Melodaires – C’est Fab
  17. Ananda Shankar – Streets of Calcutta
  18. Gang of Four – I Love a Man In Uniform
  19. Lafayette Afro Rock Band – Darkest Light
  20. Archie Shepp – Attica Blues

  This Show was recorded 19th November 2012
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• Episode 60 – The Home Spun Sessions: The Untouchables

  

  The rather brilliant Untouchables bring their special brand of  harmonica Blues to the Home Spun Sessions. Little Walter eat your heart out – they’ve got enough harps to shake a stick at!
  plus:

  • The boys quaff Mötorhead’s Shiraz, but wonder why wine? It just ain’t Rock & Roll… Why not Mötorhead Whiskey? Lemmy would be the toast of Hard Rock Cafe Society!
  • Sing for your Supper: the psychedelic ‘karaoke’ rantings of  Can legend Damo Suzuki.
  • Flash, the Grand Master who took over from James Brown as the hardest working man in Show-Business.
  • How Run DMC used to bless all the people at their gigs personally  as they left the building.
  • How the Wu-Tang Clan rejuvenated hip hop by bringing Eastern Mysticism into the genre and telling serious Black history with a unique voice.
  • Young Holt Unlimited: One of the best studio bands of the 70’s.

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  Episode 60 Tracklist

  1. Big Al Downing – Georgia Slop
  2. Haryou Percussion Orchestra – Welcome to the Party
  3. The Fall – I Am Damo Suzuki
  4. Darrel Rhodes – 4 o’clock Baby
  5. The Untouchables – My Babe
  6. The Untouchables – Help Me
  7. The Untouchables -I’ve got a Mind
  8. The Untouchables – 2:19
  9. Kraftwerk – Boing Boom Tchak
  10. Ice Cube – Check Yourself
  11. African Headcharge – Off The Beaten Track
  12. The Untouchables – Hound Dog
  13. The Untouchables – Chicago
  14. The Untouchables -Baby Please Don’t Go
  15. The Untouchables – Rock Me
  16. The Untouchables – Two Old Maids
  17. Family Tree – Family Tree
  18. El Michels Affair – CREAM
  19. Motorhead – No Class
  20. Young Holt Unlimited – Light My Fire
  21. Erma Franklyn – Light My Fire

  This Show was recorded 12th November 2012
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• Episode 59 The Home Spun Sessions: The Bikini Beach Band

  

  The fabulously flambuoyant Bikini Beach Band rock their surf noir sound for the Home Spun Sessions. This was a crazy gig recorded at the Red Hot Grind Show in Shoreditch.
  plus:

  • Japanese Gentlemen stand up please! Tightening up and funking out with The Yellow Magic Orchestra.
  • Head Saucier, Googie Rene rocks the sleazy beatnik beats. We learn the difference between a titty-shaker and a grind. One not to forget!
  • The classic flatshare: Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith. More punk than Johnny Rotten!
  • One micro-cosmic year: Youth Culture: Blink and you miss it.

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  Episode 59 Tracklist

  1. Hop Wilson and his Blue Steel Guitar – Rocking in the Cocoanut Top
  2. Googie Rene – Sidetracked
  3. Whitey Gallagher – Gotta Roam
  4. Chuck Reo and the Originals – C’est La Vie
  5. Yellow Magic Orchestra – Tighten Up
  6. Ornette Coleman – Virgin Beauty
  7. Dave and Ansil Collins – Double Barrel
  8. Bikini Beach Band – Ghost Riders
  9. Bikini Beach Band – Sex on Fire
  10. Bikini Beach Band – Tequila
  11. Bikini Beach Band – Hawaii 5-0
  12. Patti Smith – Privilege (Set Me Free)
  13. Etta James – At Last
  14. Fabian Andre – Rumor Tropical
  15. Musique Kongo
  16. Bikini Beach Band – Blue Monday
  17. Bikini Beach Band – LA Creepa
  18. Bikini Beach Band – Wipeout
  19. Bikini Beach Band – Misirlou
  20. Wire – Mr Suit
  21. The Monks – Love Come Tumblin’ Down
  22. Slick – Space Bass

  This Show was recorded 15th October 2012
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• Episode 58 – The Home Spun Sessions: Wara

  

  Wara bring their fab take on Cuban music to the Home Spun Show. Salsa meets Reggae, Afro-Jazz meets Rap in the underground sounds of London’s new pan-world immigrant communities.
  plus:

  • How the CIA exported Abstract Expressionism around the world during the 60’s to promote ‘freedom’ & the American Way.
  • How the Jamaicans took foghorns from American warships and turned them into bass speakers, inventing sound system culture.
  • Tom Collis extols the virtues of the VW Combi ‘bread loaf ‘camper van. So long as the damned thing doesn’t over-cook and catch fire!
  • It’s Banjo bashing time with Robert Crumb & the Cheap Suit Serenaders.
  • We say No, No, No to Yes.

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  Episode 58 Tracklist

  1. Los Boppers – Ali Baba
  2. Jackie Mitoo – Keep on Dance U
  3. Nice Face – Minor Altercation
  4. Original Flavor – Can I get Open
  5. The Gardenias – I’m Laughing at You
  6. The Syndicates – Howling For My Baby
  7. Wara – Conga (Intro)
  8. Wara – Somewhere Land
  9. Wara – 7 A.M.
  10. Milton Banana – Procissão
  11. Lani Kai – Batik
  12. Cheap Suit Serenaders – Fine Artiste Blues
  13. John Fahey – Dance of the Inhabitants of the Invisible City of Bladensburg
  14. Wara – Caprichoso
  15. Wara – Run
  16. Wara – Leave to Remain
  17. Wara – Conga
  18. Captain Beefheart – China Pig
  19. Sonic Youth – Death Valley 69
  20. Beach Boys  – Till I Die

  This Show was recorded 16th October 2012
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• Episode 57 – Tortoise and Hair

  

  Matthew generally prefers the slower tunes but also has a few musicals in his collection!
  plus:

  • The freakishness of Dennis Potter’s Frank in ‘Blue Velvet’ and how it has changed our view of Orbison’s ‘In Dreams’. How Potter got the job…
  • Saccharine just won’t do: The various kinds of sugar in Rock & Roll.
  • Collage in art is a form that has not yet been completely used up.
  • Kurt Schwitters’ room in the Lake District.
  • The expansive production values of older tracks enticed hip hop producers into sampling.
  • How the mathematics of the MP3 algorithm favours the bass and the treble and loses the dynamics and overtones to be found in the midrange.

  …and much more!

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  Episode 57 Tracklist

  1. Percy Mayfield – Louisiana
  2. Cannonball Aldderley – Walk Tall
  3. Bo Diddley – Road Runner
  4. Young Holt Unlimited – Soulful Samba
  5. Stock, Hausen and Walkman – Sleep
  6. Jimmy Cliff – The Harder They Come
  7. General Strike – My Other Body
  8. Eddie Kendrix – Girl you need a Change of Life
  9. Half Japanese – Thick and Thin
  10. Kenny Barry – Hypnotized
  11. The Pioneers – Kick The Bucket
  12. Kwakuiti – Nootka – Wolf Song
  13. Hector Rivera – Asia Minor
  14. Holger Czukay – Photo Song
  15. Kraftwerk – Showroom Dummies
  16. Coldcut – Tortoise remix
  17. Serge Gainsbourg  – 69 Annee Erotique
  18. Pete Rock and C L Smooth – Creator
  19. Johnny Cash – Belshazzar
  20. Jack Nitsche – Coming to Town
  21. Roy Orbison – In Dreams
  22. Lord Kitchener – Wife and Mother

  This Show was recorded 8th October 2012
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• Episode 56 – The Message in the Music

  

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  In the 80’s, Christian fundamentalists in the US heard voices in Rock music which when you played particular records backwards became intelligible and told you demonic messages. We reveal how to play a record backwards so you can hear these backwards messages in the music.

  • Bono Sucks: We say his self-importance isn’t justified.
  • The world of movie soundtracks is a glorious world to explore!
  • When you reissue records you should either do exact repros or create your own new logos and branding.
  • Drunk on the Lord.  Gospel with the Rev. F.W. McGee.
  • The Latin bass virtuoso Cachao was king of the Cuban music scene.
  • How the Shangri-las turned the pictures from love story comic books  into pop gold.

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  Episode 56 Tracklist

  1. Richard Caiton – Liston to the Drums
  2. J J Johnson – Across 110th Street
  3. Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra – Angel of Promise
  4. Joe Hill Louis – Gotta Let You Go
  5. Rev. F. W. McGee – He is the Savior for Me
  6. The Upsetters – Move Me
  7. Joe Cain – Pa-Pa Bajo
  8. Virgin Prunes – Baby Turns Blue
  9. Davy DMX – One For The Treble
  10. Asha Puthli – Space Talk
  11. Eno Moebius Roedelius – Tzima N’arki
  12. Psychosis – Tornado
  13. Gary Burton – Vibra Finger
  14. The Shangri-Las – Give Him a Great Big Kiss
  15. Can – Man Named Joe
  16. Billy Hamlin – If you ain’t got no Bread (You might as well Stay in bed)
  17. Buffalo Jams – Liquid Jungle
  18. Baba Brooks – 7 Guns Alive
  19. Beastie Boys – Brass Monkey
  20. Daedelus – Just Brarfly
  21. Nina Simone – I Put a Spell on You

  This Show was recorded October 1st 2012
  ©2012 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

• Episode 55 – The Crazy spider-eating Moon Dog

  

  Now eating giant live spiders is not my idea of a good time but Seth the dog has no problem with it. Yum, Yum, for some, but me? Not in a month of Black Sabbaths!

  plus:

  • The three kings of Mambo: Rainbow, Fiesta and Mardi Gras, the first New York Mambo labels.
  • The Seeds: Matthew likes the borlotti’s whilst John preferes mung.
  • How Sid Barrett monged out on too much acid and lost the plot.
  • The Violent Femmes, kings of the art school scene during the 80’s.
  • Reggae Royalty: DJ Derek, the West Country Selecta.
  • Jimmy Smith the funky fingered man casts a spell with his loins.
  • The Spice Girls did nothing for women’s rights with girl power. More likely they set feminism back by a decade. Bet they never knew what asafoetida was either…

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  Episode 55 Tracklist

  1. Walter Lane Trio – Drumambo
  2. The Seeds – Pushing Too Hard
  3. The Commandos – Penyesalan
  4. Violent Femmes – Gone Daddy Gone
  5. Pink Floyd – Bike
  6. Treniers – Moondog
  7. MC 900 ft Jesus – The City Sleeps
  8. Matmos – Jealous Order of Candied Knights
  9. Conroy Smith – Dangerous
  10. Swell Maps – Let’s Buy a Bridge
  11. Richard Hell & the Voidoids – The Blank Generation
  12. Liquid Liquid – Dig We Must
  13. Cluster – Avanti
  14. Jimmy Smith – Got My Mojo Working
  15. Eddie Burns – Hard Hearted Women
  16. Son House – Grinning in your Face
  17. Willie Bobo – Wild Rice
  18. Crane – Calpol
  19. Amon Tobin – Kitty Cat
  20. Letta – Kukuchi
  21. Plastic Ono Band – Woman Power

  This Show was recorded 3rd September 2012
  ©2012 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

• Episode 54 – The Home Spun Sessions: Jardares Por Fuera

  

  We are very proud to present the inimitable Jardares Por Fuera, who bring their superb Gypsy Flamenco sounds along to the Home Spun Sessions for a Dancefloor mash-up!

  plus:

  • 4 Magnums in a row on the train? So What! The undisputed king of Tutti Frutti is still Little Richard!
  • The Musique Concrète of Pierre Henry: a harsh inpenetrable sound?
  • John threatens to bring his container lorry full of prog rock along to the show…de Sade or just Sad? A torturous evening nonetheless!
  • Badly Stuffed Animals, taxidermy that’s gone so, so wrong.
  • The Canadian Reggae Scene: many reggae artists were able to make Lps in Canada when there was little support for them in the US during the 70’s and 80’s.
  • The sad demise of a man way ahead of his time: The beautiful warmth of Nick Drake’s music didn’t sell at the time, but is hugely influential now.

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  Episode 54 Tracklist

  1. Mickey Lee Lane – Tutti Fruitti
  2. The Maytals – I’ll Never Grow Old
  3. Pierre Henry – Jericho Jerk
  4. The Mighty Panther – I Kissed Her Hand
  5. Jardares Por Fuera – Camarero
  6. Jardares Por Fuera – Tomando Caña
  7. Jardares Por Fuera – La Cancion Mas…
  8. Carlos Morgan – Shake Your Body
  9. Tanya Winley – Vicious Rap
  10. Pigface  – Alles Ist Mine
  11. Return of The Living Acid – Move Dammit
  12. Clifton Chenier – Black Snake Moan
  13. Jardares Por Fuera – El Salpicao
  14. Jardares Por Fuera – Ya No Te Quiero
  15. Jardares Por Fuera – Encore
  16. Nick Drake – Cello Song
  17. Sabres of Paradise – Duke of Earlsfield
  18. Steve Taylor and Allen Ginsberg – Dear M

  This Show was recorded 18th September 2012
  ©2012 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

• Episode 53 – The Home Spun Sessions: A Little Night Music with Katy Jungmann and Trombone Poetry

  

  Cyrus Gabrysch and James Byron’s brilliant A Little Night Music are joined byTrombone Poetry and Katy Jungmann for a jazz-country-blues  poetry special.
  plus:

  • An enduring debt: The Buzzcocks paid for the studio to record the The Fall’s first album but were never paid back!
  • John Lurie from the Lounge Lizards worked on scores for Jim Jarmusch’s films.
  • You can get in a lot of trouble nicking your mates’ tunes – nah mate music is meant to share – that’s how you learn about new tunes! (not file sharing – Ed)
  • Vampyros Lesbos: A film that shows a bit of ankle! Why aren’t all nightclub promoters Vampirellas?
  • Simon’s Popcorn Voodoo Double Feature!

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  Episode 53 Tracklist

  1. Buzzcocks – I Don’t Mind
  2. Prince Buster – Madness
  3. Lounge Lizards – Incident on South Street
  4. A Little Night Music – Spoonful
  5. A Little Night Music feat. Katy Jungmann – Watermelon Man
  6. A Little Night Music feat. Katy Jungmann – Caravan
  7. A Little Night Music – A Tango ’til They’re Sore
  8. Dr Ross – Numbers Blues
  9. Pere Ubu – Misery Goats
  10. Manfred Hubler and Siegfried Schwab – Droge CK9
  11. Don Sargent – Voodoo Kiss
  12. Kay Starr – Voodoo Man
  13. A Little Night Music feat. Trombone Poetry  – This Trombone
  14. A Little Night Music feat. Trombone Poetry  – Everything Happens for a Reason
  15. A Little Night Music feat. Katy Jungmann – Randomville
  16. A Little Night Music feat. Katy Jungmann & Trombone Poetry – Chameleon
  17. Traffic – Dealer
  18. Lightnin’ Hopkins – Baby Please Don’t Go
  19. Billie Holiday – I’ll Get By
  20. Bert Jansch and John Renborn – Stepping Stones

  This Show was recorded 10th September 2012
  ©2012 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

• Episode 52 – Pink Elephants on Parade

  

  Sun Ra whistles up a herd of elephants with his brass arrangements. Watch out or Jumbo & Co will run roughshod over you.

  • Juvenile John get’s chased around Stonehenge by the Hell’s Angels.
  • Looking through the eyes of a criminal. Gary Gilmore’s body parts reanimated!
  • Getting sharp bits of metal stuck in one’s knickers. Bloody Nora!
  • We love the raw energy of early electro: It’s time to Rock the House!
  • Red Pryscock’s fab sax playing for the Mercury label.
  • Are some instruments past it these days? The Sax? The Geetar? What about the instruments that aren’t fully explored yet.

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  Episode 52 Tracklist

  1. Ronny Kae – Swinging Drums
  2. Johnny Kidd and the Pirates – Please Don’t Touch
  3. Davie Allan and the Arrows – Devils Angels
  4. White Stripes – Jimmy the Exploder
  5. The Adverts – Gary Gilmore’s Eyes
  6. Nora Dean – Barbwire
  7. King Tubby – Yeah Man Version
  8. Red Pryscock – Handclapping
  9. Sun Ra – Pink Elephants on Parade
  10. The Fall – Mr Pharmacist
  11. Chuck Daniels – Saturday Night on the Moon
  12. Faust – Party 5
  13. Roy Ayers – People in the World
  14. Eddie B – Time to Rock the House
  15. The Groundhogs – Bog Roll Blues
  16. Doris – Never Come Closer
  17. Magic Sam – All Your Love
  18. The Breeders – Cannonball
  19. De La Soul – Jenny
  20. Bobbi Humphrey – Harlem River Drive
  21. Don Carson – Yes Master
  22. The Whips – Yes Master
  23. Cresa Watson – Dead

  This Show was recorded 23rd July 2012
  ©2012 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

• Episode 51 – Choose Chinese Carefully

  

  Matthew likes Noodles, but John and Simon like Egg Foo Young, a far superior dish… Chop Sticks Away, Chaps!
  plus:

  • The first Treasure Isle excursion was a gem! A mixture of early ska and calypso from Jamaica. What a fab label.
  • Professor Can heard the Velvet Underground and created Kraut Rock.
  • The excellent Documenta Art Show in Kassel.
  • The ‘counter-cultural’ Vladimir Putin: He locks you up if he doesn’t like what you say.
  • Carry on Up the Jungle with the Euro beat sound of Resonance.
  • We like the dog and bone but not the boy and bone!
  • The Joy of Sex – a hand drawn manual for the modern teenager.
  • We love KRS-1’s mom, a Jamaican whose son brought the dancehall sound to New York. A Hot Rockin’ Momma if ever there was one!
  • A warp in time and space – how the Warp records sound reflects the grey northern city of Sheffield.

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  Episode 51 Tracklist

  1. Myron Lee & The Caddies – Homicide
  2. Count Lasher – Hooligan
  3. Captain Beefheart – I’m Going To Boogalize Ya Baby
  4. Can – Outside the Door
  5. Riot – God Bless Conchita
  6. Johnny Hammond – Shifting Gears
  7. Resonance – Safari Love
  8. Sleep – Dragonaut
  9. Boogie Down Productions – The Racist
  10. Roland Alfonso – 007 Shanti Town
  11. Ron Geesin – Twist and Knit For Two Guitars
  12. Animal Collective – Winter’s Love
  13. Alfredito – Egg Foo Young Mambo
  14. Martin Denny – Stone God
  15. Hubert Robinson – Old Woman Boogie
  16. Mississippi John Hurt – Sliding Delta
  17. Human League – Things Dreams Are Made Of
  18. Tricky Disco – Fly Spray
  19. Lucky Millinder – Chew Tobacco Rag
  20. James Moody – Tin Tin Deo
  21. Booker T and the MGS – Boot-Legg
  22. Lowell Fulsom – Pico
  23. Psychic TV – Paris

  This Show was recorded 20th August 2012
  ©2012 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

• Episode 50 – The Home Spun Show presents: Pé De Jurema

  

  We are really excited to present the excellent Pé De Jurema performing a captivating mix of folkoric sounds from North Eastern Brazil for you lucky listeners. There’s Maracatú, Coco de Roda and Forró for your listening pleasure.

  plus:

  • Why do modern rock bands still do the same ol’, same ol’, macho posturing that they’ve always done. It’s a dated shabby look chaps!
  • Check out Dom Servini’s excellent Wah Wah 45’s label for the best in funk and contemporary soul moves.
  • The Gilberto dynasty, Astrid and Bebel, who helped create a new idiom in Brazilian music: Bossa Nova was the cool sound of Ipanema beach and the hot sound of Rio de Janeiro’s Jazz Bars during the 60’s.
  • Robert Wyatt does despotic. There’s nowt like folk!
  • Brassed off with the Hackney Colliery Band.

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  Episode 50 Tracklist

  1. Helen Humes – Woojamacooja
  2. Tim Hardin – If I were a Carpenter
  3. Fred McDowell – Frisco Lines
  4. Hackney Colliery Band – Africa
  5. Astrid Gilberto – The Girl from Ipanema
  6. Pé De Jurema – Pipoca
  7. Pé De Jurema – Criola
  8. Pé De Jurema – Coco Da Gente / Coco Jurema
  9. Pé De Jurema –  Dona Mariquiñha
  10. Pé De Jurema – Taõ Grande
  11. Robert Wyatt – Starlin Wasn’t Stallin’
  12. Naughty by Nature – Everything’s Going to be Alright
  13. X-Ray Spex – Warrior in Woolworths
  14. Pé De Jurema – Asa Branca
  15. Pé De Jurema – Vai Levando
  16. Pé De Jurema – Zambueiro / Dona Selma
  17. Pé De Jurema – Maracatú
  18. Pé De Jurema – Areia Do Mar
  19. Creative Source – You Can’t Hide Love
  20. Fuxa – Our Lips are Sealed
  21. The Ink Spots – Cow Cow Boogie

  This Show was recorded 7th August 2012
  ©2012 The Home Spun Show – All Rights Reserved

• Episode 49 – The Home Spun Show Presents: The Dirty Gentlemen

  

  Special Guests the Dirty Gentlemen hot foot it back, dirt-and-all, from playing at Secret Garden Party to come and do a set especially for you, M’Dear. We really loved this one as these guys sure know how to play. Time to get low down and saucy with four times the horn!

  plus:

  • How Bo Diddley got his name. The Unitar and Ghana’s  Diddley Bow.
  • The Fabulous new blues releases of Evangelist Records, Lewis Durham (Kitty Daisy & Lewis) and Joe Walters’ new label.
  • Matthew gets a haul of records from his brother Nick and passes them off as his own – Oh the shame of it!
  • Harry Belafonte: respected as a campaigner for Black Rights.
  • Some of the best early Hip Hop and Electro was on the Warlock family of labels.

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  Episode 49 Tracklist

  1. Rene Hall Orchestra – Twitchy
  2. Pokey Lafarge – Fan It
  3. Group Doueh – Min Binat Omum
  4. Danny Cobb – My Isabella
  5. Butthole Surfers – Human Canonball
  6. Dirty Gentlemen – Hot Little Mamma
  7. Dirty Gentlemen – Lil’ Liza Jane
  8. Dirty Gentlemen – Lonely Lonely Nights
  9. Dirty Gentlemen – I Don’t Want Nobody Else But You
  10. Miriam Makeba – Kilimanjaro
  11. The Colts – Lips Red as Wine
  12. Ambrose and his Orchestra – Limehouse Blues
  13. Denton and Cook – Quiller Theme
  14. Jungle Brothers – Because I Got it Like That
  15. Dirty Gentlemen – Gangster of Love
  16. Dirty Gentlemen – Come With Me to the Casbah
  17. Dirty Gentlemen – Jambalaya
  18. Dirty Gentlemen – I Go Crazy
  19. Dirty Gentlemen – Bloodshot Eyes
  20. Chuito and the Latin Uniques – Dixie Peach
  21. Dudley Moore – The Look of Love

  This Show was recorded 24th July 2012
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• Episode 48 – Crazed Dance Crazes

  

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  The Hump, The Watusi Zombie, The Hawg, The Mashed Potato, The Bug, The Horse, The Tighten Up, The Hook & Sling: Why did the fashion for dance crazes during the 60’s tail off? Let’s start a new one crazy kids!

  plus:

  • Googie Rene a Jazzer in La La Land? Nah a composer of Mod classics!
  • Tumultuous Weather in Rock & Roll: Johnny & the Hurricanes.
  • Who needs pussy when you got Rats! The racy books of John Herbert.
  • Johnny Cash should be a guest on Jerry Springfield!
  • Olympic athletes laid bare. Buff! But Beware the Relay Race Boys…
  • Thomas Crapper, the inventor of the Kazi. Scatology Ahoy!
  • The Watusi Zombie – its like the Watusi but your limbs fall off.
  • John’s anger management techniques.

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  Episode 48 Tracklist

  1. Googie Rene – Caesar’s Pad
  2. Johnny and the Hurricanes – Crossfire
  3. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Dang
  4. Johnny Cash – Frankie and Johnny
  5. Jessie Mae Hamphill – Take Me Home With You Baby
  6. EMAK – Filmusik
  7. Cabaret Voltaire – Seconds Too Late
  8. Ray Baretto – Watusi
  9. The Bug – Angry
  10. The Pharcyde – Officer
  11. Joao Donato – Cala Boca Menino
  12. Thayelo Kapiye Trio – Mai Wanga Anadiuza
  13. Eddie Bo – Hook and Sling
  14. Eddie Kirk – The Hawg
  15. The Invaders – Cat’s Eyes
  16. Sly and the Family Stone – Love ‘n’ Haight
  17. EPMD – Strictly Business
  18. DJ Eclipse – Dedication
  19. Silicon Teens – Memphis Tennessee
  20. Walter Carlos – William Tell Overture
  21. Carlos Malcolm – Bonanza Ska
  22. Morris Wilson Beau Bailey Quintet – Paul’s Ark

  This Show was recorded 16th July 2012
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• Episode 47 – The Home Spun Show Presents: The Jolly Good Bollywood Band

  

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  We give you fabulous Indian Rock & Roll and Swing from the Golden Era of Bollywood soundtracks. All this and more with a fabulous set from The Jolly Good Bollywood Band.

  plus:

  • Living off the fat of the land with artistic avaitor, Joseph Beuys.
  • Toots on Bird.
  • Adrian Sherwood puts it On-U. A prototype Massive Attack?
  • How the Chakachas brought the Cuban sound to Europe.
  • Iggy Pop joins Death in Vegas for an axe murder.

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  Episode 46 Tracklist

  1. Shankar Jaikishan – Bombshell Baby
  2. The Maytals – Just got to Be
  3. Judy Nylon and the Crucial – The Dice
  4. Les Chakachas – Abaniquito
  5. Funkadelic – Knee Deep
  6. Death in Vegas – Aisha
  7. Jolly Good Bollywood Band
  8. Jolly Good Bollywood Band
  9. Jolly Good Bollywood Band
  10. Jolly Good Bollywood Band
  11. The Delegates – Pygmy
  12. Alemayehu Eshete and Hirut Beqele – Temeles
  13. Yves Hyatt – Path to Ascension
  14. Jolly Good Bollywood Band
  15. Jolly Good Bollywood Band
  16. Jolly Good Bollywood Band
  17. Papa Lightfoot – Mean Ole Train

  This Show was recorded 3rd July 2012
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• Episode 45 – The Home Spun Show Presents: The Bohemianauts

  

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  From Gypsy Jazz to Vaudeville via Dr Who and David Ike, The Bohemianauts have given us a very special show this week. Time travel with us back to 30’s Berlin with the highly original Tom Baker and dance the Fandango or the Tango. If not, Perhaps Polka? Maybe Mazurka?

  plus:

  • Why Don’t Commandos wear underpants? Matthew reveals all!
  • Avoid being left with 400 fish paste sandwiches – How to get the party started late at night!
  • Matthew get’s time all mixed up and it takes the Good Doctor, Tom Baker to stitch everything back together (and save 9?)
  • Airto Moreira and Flora Purim, the grand couple of Bossa Nova.

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  Episode 45 Tracklist

  1. Ernie George Quartet – The Natives are Restless Tonight
  2. The Commandos – June’s Blues
  3. Edgar Broughton Band – Dropout / Apache
  4. The Four Instants – Bogattini
  5. Konk – Konk Party
  6. Xavier Cugat – Park Avenue Mambo
  7. Bohemianauts – Thief of Dances
  8. Bohemianauts – Blame It On the Moon
  9. Bohemianauts –  The Desolation Tango
  10. Bohemianauts –  David Ike – What if You’re Right?
  11. BBC Radiophonic Workshop – Dr Who Theme
  12. Broadcast – Minim
  13. Ilaiyaraaja – Gudivada Gummatam
  14. Airto – The Happy People
  15. The Mariners – Zindy Lou
  16. Bohemianauts – Something Has Changed
  17. Bohemianauts – I Wish I Was Special
  18. Bohemianauts – Everybody Do the Cthulhu
  19. Bohemianauts – Those Were the Days / I Will Survive
  20. Yma Sumac – Choladas
  21. Eartha Kitt – I Want to be Evil

  This Show was recorded 19th June 2012
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• Episode 44 – Why Michael Jackson Turned White

  

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  We reveal the real reason Michael Jackson changed his colour!

  plus:

  • Kylie’s baddest friend, Nick Cave visits the devil for afternoon tea.
  • Conversion Excursion: Becoming one of the chosen 344,000 with the heaven-bound Pere Ubu. It’s true, as Jehovah is my Witness!
  • Get Knotted! Kinky rope work with Bob Kayli.
  • Porno Soundtracks are a great chance for musicians to flex their muscle. The focus is elsewhere! Obviously.
  • The svelte sounds of Brigitte Bardot. Men rub their thighs with glee!
  • The Bay-Area Funk phenomenon: Gettin’ Down with Eugene Blacknell and samplemeister DJ Shadow.
  • Experiencing the dizzying rock & roll heights of the Vertigo label.
  • New field recordings. Sven Kacirik’s produces Kenyan tribal sounds.
  • All the craziest kids love R. Stevie Moore.

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  Episode 44 Tracklist

  1. Quincy Jones – Sure is Groovy!
  2. Canned Heat – On the Road Again
  3. Juicy Lucy – Who Do You Love?
  4. Eugene Blacknell – Jump Back
  5. Pere Ubu – Non-alignment Pact
  6. Reuben Wilson – Got to Get Your Own
  7. Four Tet – Twenty Three
  8. Them – Baby Please Don’t Go
  9. The Turtles – I’m Chief Kamanawanalea
  10. Salt N’ Pepa – Push It
  11. L’Initiation OST – Psychedelic Dance Party
  12. Linton Kwesi Johnson – Five Nights of Bleeding
  13. Sven  Kacirek – Arsenal Aluny Village
  14. Bob Kayli – Tie Me Tight
  15. Hank Jacobs – Monkey Hips and Rice
  16. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Up Jumped the Devil
  17. R. Stevie Moore – Carmen is Coming
  18. Curtis Mayfield – Little Child Running Wild
  19. 808 State – Pacific State
  20. Brigitte Bardot – L’Appariel A Sous
  21. Birds of Paradise – Bossa Blue Port
  22. Joe Henderson – Fire

  This Show was recorded 18th June 2012
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• Episode 43 – Pimp’s Progress

  

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  Pilgrim, you need a pink cadillac to match your puce palatial pied-a-terre and candy-floss suit if your are gonna go to the Hustler’s Convention. Living it larger than life itself with the greatest pimps of all time: Lightnin’ Rod, Melle Mel, Papa Large, Huggy Bear, Snoop Dogg, Bull Moose Jackson and Charlie Mingus.

  • Jungle Fever – catch it – it makes your gene pool stronger!
  • French Scat with Etron Fou le Loublan, not the average vocal hoopla!
  • Podcast interruptus – Seth the dog goes barking mad.
  • We take you on a merry dance to Bombay: Hamming it up Indian style: The camp orchestrations and high drama of Bollywood.
  • How the Kennedy Assasination also killed the ‘flower power’ zeitgeist of the 60’s. The impossible line of fire that murdered a whole era. The subsequent cover-ups and the way it has influenced music.
  • The fantastic and distinctive cultural output of Mali. Check out the fabulous Afro funk guitar of Moussa Doumbia.
  • The late-era, B-movie period of Les Baxter, a man who kept composing even when he didn’t have to.
  • Meteorites older than the earth  – Rock On!

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  Episode 43 Tracklist

  1. Jimmy Lloyd – Got a Rocket in my Pocket
  2. Count Five – Psychotic Reaction
  3. Laibach – Sympathy for the Devil
  4. Steinski and the Mass Media – The Motorcade Sped On
  5. Moussa Doumbia – Djoliba
  6. R. D. Burnam – Phantom Music
  7. Les Baxter – Hells Belles
  8. Huggy Bear – Blow Dry
  9. Au Pairs – Intact
  10. Grand Prees – Jungle Fever
  11. Sheba – Jungle Fever
  12. Ultramagnetic Mc’s – Papa Large
  13. Cinematic Orchestra – Kalima
  14. Boogaloo and his Galant Crew – Cops and Robbers
  15. Lightning Rod – The Break Was So Load it Silenced the Crowd
  16. The Gun Club – Black Train
  17. Etron Fou Le Loublan – Batelages
  18. Bull Moose Jackson – Cherokee Boogie
  19. Fred Wesley – Blow Your Head
  20. Grand Master Melle Mel and the Furious Five – Beat Street
  21. Abaco Dream – Life and Death in G&A
  22. Lalo Schifrin – Secret Code
  23. Ronnie Foster – Mystic Brew

  This Show was recorded 21st May 2012
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• Episode 42 – House Music was Still Born

  

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  Sometimes you gotta wish that Disco and Electronica never had it off in the first place. At times they have spawned a monster. We can’t feel Mr Fingers any more but you can’t Beat Dis.
  plus:

  • Faking Bella Lugosi with Ed Wood: Plan 9 from Outer Space.
  • Making a ‘Beurre Blanc‘ with Marlon Brando in Paris. Mmmm Saucy!
  • Busting brain cells with The Inner City Unit on Amyl Nitrate.
  • Matthew shows us his paper cuts and Simon rubs ‘Salty Dog’ in the wounds, whilst John’s still recovering from being hit by a car.
  • John ‘Reminisces’ with himself – Is that what they call it these days?
  • Wiring up an Electronic Hairpiece: Wigs a Go-Go with Mort Garson.
  • Visiting the Casbah with William Boroughs and Bomb the Bass.
  • Skip Spence’s Madhouse blues.
  • Checking out some Late Night Jazz with Gabor Szabo, Wayne Shorter and Alan Weekes’ great residency at the Haggerston in Dalston.

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  Episode 42 Tracklist

  1. Dead Kennedys – California Über Alles
  2. The Monks – Shut Up
  3. Symarip – Skinhead Moon Stomp
  4. Inner City Unit – Amyl Nitrate
  5. The Lebron Brothers – Let’s Get Stoned
  6. The Dynamic Corvettes – Funky Music is the Thing
  7. Bomb The Bass – Beat Dis
  8. Mr Fingers – Can You Feel It
  9. Sonics – Skinny Minnie
  10. Elvis Presley – That’s Alright Mamma
  11. Skip Spence – Cripple Creek
  12. Marvin Philips – Salty Dog
  13. Mort Garson – Hair
  14. Chris and Cosey – Driving Blind
  15. Gogol Bordello – When the Trickster Starts a Poking
  16. Gato Barbiera – La China Leona etc
  17. Velvet Underground – Foggy Notion
  18. Gamimian and his Orientals – Come with me to the Casbah
  19. Delta 5 – Mind Your Own Business
  20. Desmond Dekkar – 007
  21. The Ozark Mountain Daredevils – Walking Down The Road
  22. Wayne Shorter – Witch Hunt
  23. Gabor Szabo – Los Matodoros

  This Show was recorded 14th May 2012
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• Episode 41 – The Crescent City Cha-Cha

  

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  DJ ‘lil Koko shows us the Zydeco Cha-Cha and the Mardi Gras Mambo in time for a second-line through the streets of Hackney whilst John casts a spell with a JuJu master, Big Chief Tchoupitoulas.
  

  plus:

  • Dressing up for the party with James Booker III, the Black Liberace.
  • Bob Log III, the Evil Knievel of one man Bands.
  • Edible hats and the tropical extravaganzas of Carmen Miranda We’ve only got conference pears and tangerines in our fruit bowl- BOO!
  • Beware of unapologetic Gold VW Passats. Getting run over on the busy streets of Harlesden, leaving a dent in the ego – and the Passat!
  • Fighting bullying with Lord Melody,  Creature from the Black Lagoon.
  • Busting great new UK hip hop with Lazy Habits on a jazz tip.
  • “Thatcher: We are all Prostitutes”
  • Pride comes before the Fall: 4 decades of Mark E Smith.
  • Angry young boys vs. Happy Old Men.

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  Episode 41 Tracklist

  1. Lord Melody – Creature From The Black Lagoon
  2. David Bartholomew – Shrimp and Gumbo
  3. Lee Dorsey – Confusion
  4. Professor Longhair – Big Chief
  5. Lazy Habits – Please People
  6. The Pop Group – Forces of Oppression
  7. Clifton Chenier – Zydeco Cha Cha
  8. Os Apolos – Xe Xe Mae
  9. The Fall – Fit and Working Again
  10. James Booker – Classified
  11. The Waitresses – Wait Here, I’ll Be Back
  12. Paul Gayten – The Music Goes Round and Round
  13. Esquivel – Whatchamacallit
  14. Les Baxter – Tico Tico
  15. Carmen Miranda – Tico Tico
  16. Tousan – Whirlaway
  17. Dr John – Junko Partner
  18. Shark Wilson and the Basement Eaters – Make It Reggay
  19. James Brown – Make It Funky
  20. El Rego – Vi Man Do Wingnan
  21. The Modern Don Juans – I’m Your Lover
  22. Edif Piaf – La Foule

  This Show was recorded Monday 6th May 2012
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• Episode 40 – The Fevered Mind

  

  Cats were born to give chicks fever, so we thought we’d raise the temperature a few degrees with a few hot-headed sizzlers .

  plus:

  • Poor flower, Matthew gets out his big black twelve inch, but he’s still a musical pansy, so John reckons!
  • John proves he’s ‘ardcore, fighting and drinking his way across America with the Electric Eels!
  • The glitch beats of Lucas Santtana, taking the Bossa Nova sound forward (at last).
  • On the train with Goth vs Witness – another fight waiting to happen.
  • John slags off the Chemical Brothers in person at a restaurant.
  • Patrick Adams, underground producer of spaced out disco.
  • Charles Mingus sets out his manifesto for life through Jazz.

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  Episode 40 Tracklist

  1. Al Jones – Mad Mad World
  2. Johnny Kidd and the Pirates – Big Blon Baby
  3. Lucas Santtana – Super Violão Mashup
  4. Young Marble Giants – Radio Silence
  5. Bauhaus – Bela Legosi’s Dead
  6. Clue J and his Blues Blasters – Slinky
  7. Cambridge Stones – Mar Cruel
  8. Laundry Room Squelchers – Fever
  9. La Lupe – Fever
  10. Little Willie John – Fever
  11. Joe Tex – Pneumonia
  12. Led Zeppelin – When the Levee Breaks
  13. Sonny Boy Williamson – Bring it on Home
  14. Seguidillas Gitanos – El Pili
  15. The Electric Eels – Agitated
  16. Chemical Brothers – Where  do I Begin
  17. Patrick Adams – Spaced Out
  18. Riuichi Sakamoto – Warhead
  19. The Selector – 3 Minute Hero
  20. Bran – Y Gwylwyr
  21. Charlie Mingus – Wham Bam Thank You Ma’am
  22. Nancy Wilson – All I Need to Get By
      
      

  This Show was recorded 16th April 2012
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• Episode 39 – French Cheese and Caribbean Wine an’ Grind

  

  Special Guest Oli Hurez plays us some gems from the French Caribbean – Tasty!

  plus:

  • ‘The Bob’ haircut  was invented by the Egyptians –  not Vidal Sassoon.
  • Visiting the eccentric architect and collector, John Soanes’ house, on Lincoln’s Inn Fields.
  • Rocking the sibling rivalry with the space-jazz sounds of United Vibrations:a great live band well worth checking out.
  • Preventing car crashes with Harold Burrage.
  • Thai beat A-Go-Go with PM Pocket Music
  • Matmos – a SF electronica band named after an weird ethereal nasty cloud!

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  Episode 39 Tracklist

  1. John Leyton – Johnny Remember Me
  2. Harold Burrage – Stop, For The Red Light
  3. PM Pocket Music – Kratae
  4. Dick Hyman – Booty Butt
  5. Andre Redo and his Guitar Boys – Besombe
  6. Lords of London – Time Waits for no Man
  7. Matmos – Solo Buttons for Joe Meek
  8. United Vibrations – My Way
  9. The Latinaires – Also Sprach Zarathrustra
  10. Prince Buster – Dance Cleopatra
  11. Company Flow – End To End Burners
  12. Le Tigre – The Empty
  13. La Pregunta – Shangri La
  14. Serge Remion – C’est La Vie, C’est L’amour
  15. Eddi Lund and his Native Tahitians – Vahine Anamite
  16. Flash Rubino and the Spunkies – Jamaican Jungle
  17. Anzala Dolor Velo – Renelia
  18. R D Burman – Krishna Shah’s Shalimar Title Music
  19. Franco – Azda
  20. Mombasa – Holz II
  21. Yusef Lateef – Back Home

  This Show was recorded 16th April 2012
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• Episode 38 – The Home Spun Show Presents: Dom & The Ikos

  

  The second in our series of live bands recorded exclusively for our podcast features Dom Pipkin & his Ikos. Bloody Marvelous New Orleans jazz from an outstanding group of players. You’ll be boppin’  away, we guarantee it!

  plus:

  • Sipping on aromatic Ethiopian cappuccino with Mulatu Astatke.
  • My Ding-a-Ling: Blowing trumpet with Dave Bartholomew, brilliant arranger, band leader and writer of many of Fats Domino’s hits.
  • Jazz Hands – it takes rather large digits and dextrous fingers.
  • How the playfulness of improvisation keeps musicians on their toes.
  • Coffee and Cigarettes with Jim Jarmusch, Iggy Pop and Bill Murray.
  • Learning to live with your size with our very own skinny man. Matthew, poor lad we’ll have to feed him up!
  • Driving to New Orleans with Alan Toussaint in his Rust Rolls Royce.
  • The wrong hammock: How to get pulled by the Louisiana police.
  • Actors with too much time on their hands: A little tinkle with Dudley Moore.

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  Episode 38 Tracklist

  1. The Ambertones – Clap Your Hands
  2. Dave Bartholomew – My Ding-a-Ling
  3. Spanky Wilson – Kissing My Love
  4. Mulatu Astatke – Yekermo Sew
  5. Dom & the Ikos – Skinny Man Skank
  6. Dom & the Ikos – No Buts and No Maybes
  7. Dom & the Ikos – Sick and Tired
  8. Dom & the Ikos – Somebody Change The Lock
  9. James Sugarboy Crawford – Jockomo
  10. The Dixie Cups – Iko Iko
  11. Dom & the Ikos – I Got Loaded
  12. Dom & the Ikos – So Swell When You’re Well
  13. Dom & the Ikos – The Digga-Digga Do
  14. Terry Edwards – Totally Wired
  15. The Upsetters – Soul Man
  16. Saras Watichandra – Main To Bhool Chali

  This Show was recorded 10th April 2012
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• Episode 37 – Finger Lickin’ Carrot Cake Kink!

  

  On lonely nights in the North Sea we reveal what naughty engineers get up to on the oil rigs. Frigging on the Rig with Mr Carrot Cake!

  plus:

  • Stravinsky’s ‘The Rites of Spring’: The birth of Modernism?
  • Alan Lomax, itinerant field recorder of early blues.
  • Paedo-Rock with the Glitter Band, John’s first 7-inch single.
  • Politics and music. Robert Wyatt, MC5, and the American White Panther movement.
  • The insightful writing of Noam Chomsky, a man whose writing has changed the world by elucidating world power structures.
  • Preston Epps: these are the bingo-bongo rockin’ surf breaks.
  • Loony Tunes at the Chicken Farm. Crazy Hasil Adkins‘ One Man Band
  • The debt early Hip-Hop owes to Jamaican DJs and Mic Controlers.

  And Much Much More…

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  Episode 37 Tracklist

  1. The Spencer Jackson Family – Walk Up Moses
  2. Fred McDowell – I Walked Tall
  3. Link Ray and His Raymen – Moon Men
  4. Gary Glitter – Rock n Roll Part 2
  5. Tom Tom Club – Wordy Rappinghood
  6. Robert Wyatt – East Timor
  7. MC5 – Ramblin’ Rose
  8. Preston Epps – Say Yeah
  9. Preston Epps – Bongo Rock
  10. Moonshake – Right To Play
  11. Cyril Davies & his Rhythm & Blues All Stars – Country Line Special
  12. 13th Floor Elevators – Levitation
  13. Warm Excursions – Hang Up
  14. Hasil Adkins – Chicken Twist
  15. The Zutons – Pressure Point
  16. Don Cherry – Brown Rice
  17. Beastie Boys – Get It Together
  18. Seeds Of The Earth – Planting Seeds
  19. Malcolm McLaren – Double Dutch

  This Show was recorded 2nd April 2012

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• Episode 36 – The Revolution WILL be Televised

  

  It’s clear now that the revolution will indeed be televised. The point is, will you be sitting on your posterior watching or out there helping things revolve?

  plus:

  • The legendary raps of Kool Keith: From Ultramagnetic to Dr Octagon and on to the porn-hop of the original Mr Kink.
  • The handicrafts in records: stitched sleeves are fab.
  • Great musical dynasties: The Shankars, from Ravi to Ananda Shankar and on to Norah Jones.
  • Becoming a hermit and going to live in a hovel for a year.
  • Smiley Culture: a Master of Ceremonies who died well before his time.
  • Zydeco: Louisiana swamp music with fiddle, banjo, washboard and rather large beards.
  • The outstanding Theremin player Clara Rockmore.

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  Episode 36 Tracklist

  1. Carol Kaye – Burning Spear
  2. Baby Gonzalez – Amalia’s Bembe
  3. DJ Vadim (Sarah Jones)  –  Your Revolution
  4. Smiley Culture – Police Officer
  5. Devo – Shrivel Up
  6. The Standells – Dirty Water
  7. J B and His Hawks – Combination Boogie
  8. M. I. A. – Bamboo Banga
  9. Suicide – Cheree
  10. Danser’s Inferno – Sombre Guitar
  11. Rema Rema – Rema Rema
  12. Ultramagnetic MCs – Chorus Line
  13. Church of Anthrax – Protege
  14. Ananda Shankar – The Lonely Rider
  15. The Purpose – Dustcracks, Bugs and Roaches
  16. Manu Dibango – Soul Makosa
  17. Freddie Notes and His Rudies – Down on the Farm
  18. Mantronix – Bassline
  19. Clara Rockmore – The Swan
  20. The Specials – Ghost Town

  This Show was recorded 26th March 2012

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• Episode 35 – The Version Excursion

  

  Bohemian Rhapsody in Jazz! Blue Monday meets Reggae Uptown! Staying Alive on Bollywood’s Mean Streets!  Special guest Stirling Roswell selects an esoteric mix of weird and wonderful cover versions of classic songs.

  plus:

  • We hate hair cuts, but love wigs.Top topiary tips!
  • Why does British Radio have playlists? BORING BORING BORING!
  • How early US record labels clubbed together on distribution.
  • Codpiece African with AJ Holmes & the Hackney Empire.
  • The Private Press: records self-released by the band that become instant collectors’ items. Go to gigs and buy ’em guys!
  • The early days of XFM.

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  Episode 35 Tracklist

  1. Chico Leverett – Work Work
  2. Family Fodder – Sunday Girls
  3. Francoise Hardy – Suzanne
  4. Marc Riley and the Creepers – Blow
  5. AJ Holmes & the Hackney Empire – Fraudian Slip
  6. The Jolly Boys – Blue Monday
  7. The Upsetters – Black Board Jungle Dub
  8. Frank Butler – If Love Don’t Change
  9. Ford Kiernan – Bohemian Rhapsody
  10. Papa Lightfoot – Mean Old Train
  11. Bollywood Meets Bee Gees – Staying Alive
  12. Betty Wright – Clean Up Women
  13. Afrika Bambaataa – Zulu War Chant
  14. Phil Moore and his Orchestra – Return toParadise
  15. Karl Denver – Wimoweh
  16. Chuck Daniels and the Downbeats – Tiny Tim
  17. Jimmy Mc Cracklin – Georgia Stomp
  18. The Residents – His Latest Flame
  19. Ray Barretto – Acid
  20. Maureen Tucker – Concerto in D Major
  21. Johnny Winter – Roadrunner
  22. City of Westminster Band – Oh You Pretty Things
  23. Sofahead – Every Day is Like Sunday
  24. Aidan Moffatt – Hungry Heart

  This Show was recorded 19th March 2012

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• Episode 34 – The Blind Alley and How To Get Out Of It…

  

  When things go wrong with your lover, the Emotions run high, and it feels like you are running up a ‘Blind Alley’, our music is better than relationship advice, on occasion!

  plus:

  • Rap No 66 – A kid collects rap records and labels each one with a number as he collects them consecutively. Charming Bwoyy!
  • Pierre Bastien’s clockwork Robots and the tunes they ‘compose’. A Kinetic Orchestra to get things moving?
  • John Barry – not just 007, but a great composer. His work is full of lush orchestrations.
  • How Good was Manzel’s music teacher?
  • Master’s at Work: DJ’s producers and remixers of note.
  • Soundway record’s excellent reissue manifesto.
  • The best of english jazz with Barak Schmool and the F-IRE collective.
  • Future Sound of London’s modern other-worldly exotica created from library music.

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  Episode 34 Tracklist

  1. Cyril Diaz and Orchestra – Taboo
  2. Tak Shindo – Mombasa Love Song
  3. John Barry – You only Live Twice
  4. Manzel – Space Funk
  5. Annette Peacock – Pony
  6. Kenny Dope and Shaggy – Gunshot
  7. Big Daddy Kane – Ain’t No Half Steppin’
  8. The Emotions – Blind Alley
  9. Pierre Bastien – Deep Speed
  10. Animal Collective – Leaf House
  11. Anand, Prayag & Chorus – Pretty, Pretty, Priya
  12. Zwabesho Sibisi – Angihambe
  13. Burning Spear – Foggy Road
  14. Errol Dixon – Midnight Train
  15. The Aggrovators – Shining Dub
  16. Acoustic Ladyland – Paris
  17. Otis Redding and Carla Thomas – Oooh Carla OOooooooooh Otis
  18. Blood and Brass – Elephants on Parade
  19. Art Neville – Arabian Love Call
  20. Future Sound Of London – Papua New Guinea
  21. Patti Jo – Make me Believe in You

  This Show was recorded 28th November 2011

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• Episode 33 – The Home Spun Show Presents: Gertie & Her Gaiety

  

  The first of our new series of live gigs bringing you the best of the underground London music scene recorded specially for your listening pleasure. This week we present the stand out sounds of Gertie & Her Gaiety. It’s Gypsy Jazz harking back to the 20’s and 30’s but  with a sprinking of modernity. Unmissable.

  plus:

  • Good ol’ Acid House with A Guy Called Gerald.
  • The merits and otherwise of exceedingly large bow ties.
  • A boat party, African style with Orchestre Regional Mopti.
  • How to survive (but only just) an Aphex Twin mosh pit.
  • The strutting sounds of Paul Revere & the Raiders.

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  Episode 33 Tracklist

  1. Jimmy Boyd – Crazy Mixed up Blues
  2. George Semper – Get Out of My Life Woman
  3. Orchestre Regional Mopti – Boro
  4. Zambian Copper Miners – Konta Iya Iya Konta
  5. Gertie and her Gaiety – Why Don’t You Do Right
  6. Gertie & Her Gaiety – I Need Some Sugar
  7. Gertie & Her Gaiety – It’s the Girl
  8. Duke of Iron – Man Smart, Woman Smarter
  9. Lene Lovich – Lucky Number
  10. Bikini Kill – This is Not a Test
  11. A Guy Called Gerald – Voodoo Ray
  12. Aphex Twin – Alberto Balsam
  13. Paul Revere and the Raiders – Steppin Out
  14. Gertie & Her Gaiety – Stop The Sun
  15. Gertie & Her Gaiety – I Hate Myself
  16. Gertie & Her Gaiety – You Bring Out The Savage in Me
  17. The Scholars – Kan- Gu-Wa
  18. Jackie Mittoo – Juice Box
  19. Polynesian Percussion – Marcelle a Vahine

  This Show was recorded 12th March 2012

• Episode 32 – Adults Only Please Kiddo

  

  Frantic whipping, saucy inserts, masked messy spaghetti eaters, jungle fantasies, vacuuming nude except for a pinny, this show has it all:

  • Arthur Lyman’s performance in Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic dome.
  • Dr Feelgood’s pub rock prototype for punk in 1975. Check out their saucy album “Down by the Jetty“.
  • Swearing cop-hating gangster pimps: Dr Dre and the NWA. The first hip hop to be made outside of NYC sold by the bucket load.
  • Pulp fiction just for Savage Kicks.
  • Miles Davis’ bit of fluff, Betty. She could turn an eye and had a sexy voice, but could the trumpet player blow?

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  Episode 32 Tracklist

  1. Toro – Ramona
  2. Love – Seven and Seven Is
  3. Midnight Cowpoke OST
  4. Frantics – The Whip
  5. Arthur Lyman – Jungle Fantasy
  6. Dr Feelgood – Another Man
  7. Disco Function – Rare Function
  8. Betty Davis – Anti Love Song
  9. Husnu Ozkartal Orkestrasi – Su Derenin  Sulari
  10. Juan Campolargo – Give Me Your Hand Grate
  11. Bowling Balls From Hell – Manikin Shuffle
  12. Mc Clusky – Light Caber Blues
  13. Ivor Cutler – If your Breasts
  14. Ivor Cutler – Common Sense
  15. King Alex and the Untouchables – Huchia Cuthia Lovin’ Man
  16. Steinski – Additive Remix
  17. R. Dean Taylor  – Gotta See  Jane
  18. Marva Whitney – It’s My Thing
  19. NWA – Fuck The Police
  20. Mood Mosiac – Touch of Velvet
  21. Bullet – The Hangman
  22. Happy Johnny – Don Wilkerson
  23. Mystic Moods – Honey Trippin’
  24. Mercy Baby – Pleadin’
  25. Johnny Fuller – Mercy
  26. Dandy – A Message to You
  27. The Congas – Row Fisherman Row

  This Show was recorded 20th February 2012

• Episode 31 – Sing for your Supper

  

  Life on the street. Tell a joke or do a rap for money. I’ll give you the cash, sure, but why are we generally so unkind to the homeless?

  plus:

  • Too many painted skulls: Mexican Day of the Dead is overexposed. ¿Que poca madre? Why not just lift culture and copy it to death.
  • The hairs’ breadth  between genius and madness.
  • Noodles versus pasta. The payback of hard to listen to jazz.
  • Yorkshire Caviar: A delicacy to be found in your local Richmond pub. But what on earth is it? Anyone for Cod Roe?
  • How do you translate a song and still keep it’s poetic nature? Let’s ask Scott Walker. His brother Johnny hasn’t a clue to be sure.

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  Episode 31 Tracklist

  1. Micky and Sylvia – No Good Lover
  2. John Fred & The Playboys – Boogie Children
  3. Boston Crabs – Down in Mexico
  4. Larry Byrant – Tequila & Mexican Beer
  5. Agnes Bernelle – Chocolate Eclair
  6. Scott Walker – Jackie
  7. La Fabolosa Orchesta de La Plata – Sholom Alecheim Mambo
  8. Horace Silver – Song For My Father
  9. Mina – P.etit.e
  10. Jah Screechie – Walk and Skank
  11. Jimmy Castor Bunch – Troglodytes
  12. Dave Gardner – Mad Witch
  13. The Stranglers – No More Heroes
  14. The Girls – Methodist Church
  15. Buddy Hollie – Peggy Sue
  16. The Dodgers – You Make me Happy
  17. Talking Heads – Once in a Lifetime
  18. Sugar Bear – Don’t Scandalize Mine
  19. King Kennytone – NwayoTwist
  20. Wildman Fischer – Merry Go Round
  21. The Delegates – Pygmy
  22. The Little Boy Blues – I can only Give You Everything
  23. Kathi McDonald – Freak Lover

  This Show was recorded 13th February 2012

• Episode 30 – Mo’ Monkey Business

  

  Did we evolve from meteoric bacteria? Nah mate! We came from Space Monkeys!

  • ‘I was working as a waiter in a cocktail bar.’ Matthew reminisces and plays some Slick Rick.
  • The English Folk Dance and Song Society in Camden.
  • The broken soul of Charlie Feathers, a great musician who didn’t get the success he deserved.
  • All that glitters is not gold, BUT, Stereolab are fab.
  • Lalo Schifrin, the man who invented the 70’s spy movie sound.
  • DJ Mad Mike, 60’s Pittsburgh DJ who helped to define the sound of Garage.
  • Trevor Horn, Brilliant and underrated independent 80’s producer from the UK. He did Frankie Goes to Hollywood and the Art of Noise.

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  Tracklist

  1. Eddie Hill – Monkey Business
  2. The Wild Tones – The Shut Ups
  3. Slick Rick – Behind Bars
  4. Carolina Chocolate Drops – Your Baby Ain’t Sweet Like Mine
  5. Charlie Feathers – Peepin’ Eyes
  6. Stereo Lab – Les Yper-Sound
  7. Fischerspooner – Invisible
  8. Lalo Schifrin – Dirty Harry’s Creed
  9. Red Rose Tea
  10. The Adverts – One Chord Wonders
  11. Leadbelly – Pick a Bail of Cotton
  12. Dick Dale – Miserlou
  13. Jan Davis – Watusi Zombie
  14. Johnny Hawksworth Hard Bite – Harmonics
  15. Roy Orbison – In Dreams
  16. Dave Diddle Day – Blue Moon Baby
  17. Dale O Warren – 24 Carat Black
  18. Les Baxter – Ting Ting Ting
  19. La Playa Sextet – Dry Cocoanuts
  20. Barrington Levy – Under Me Sensi
  21. La Dusseldorf – La Dusseldorf
  22. Art of Noise – Close to the Edit
  23. Underworld – Skyscrapers

  This Show was recorded 6th February 2012

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• Episode 29 – Do Monkey’s Dream of Mysteriana?

  

  A quixotic dream? A tale of faraway lands, of magic carpet rides, genies and harem girls? Of steamy voodoo ceremonies, jungle rhythms and forbidden flesh? The allure of ‘Paradiso Tropical’?

  Setting course between Cancer and Capricorn through unknown territories in the dark bosom of the Tropics, we catch a seductive Sirocco to Araby, then blow South of the Border on our quest for mythic shores.

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• Episode 28 – The Fuzz is Out to Get You

  

  Roscoe, ‘Sterling Roswell’ visits the show to let us know about some of his recent work. Rosco used to drum with mega Fuzz band, The Spacemen 3.

  plus:

  • If you are gonna do a cover version make it different or don’t bother.
  • The rekindled career of Wanda Jackson’s. Her hugely original ‘Funnel of Love’ was later covered by Panther Burns & by the Cramps.
  • Charity Shop gear – Is everyone out to scam the charity, selling things on for a profit? Or should it be a matter of helping poor people at home as well as abroad.
  • Coventry City Centre on a saturday night in the late 70’s a frightening place indeed. An era born of violence, perhaps these are better times.
  • The ‘Bo Diddley’ Rhythm and it’s influence on later bands. It’s origins in the South American  La Clave rhythms.
  • Remastering and Re-Equalising old tunes – screwed up and ruined?
  • Making your own instruments: Movements in music have often been driven forward by new technology and instruments.

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  Episode 28 Tracklist

  1. No Caminho do Bem – Tim Maia
  2. Big Boss Man – Jimmy Smith
  3. Give Peace Another Chance – Sterling Roswell
  4. The Nail Will Burn – Loop
  5. Sinner Not a Saint – Trini Lopez
  6. Funnel of Love – Wanda Jackson
  7. Get Me A Job – Ann Alford
  8. Temporary Secretary – Paul McCartney
  9. We Love Guys Named Luke – Mu
  10. Enjoy Yourself – Calypso Troubadours with Lloyd Prince Thomas
  11. I Want Candy – Bow Wow Wow
  12. Say Man – Bo Diddley
  13. Orinda Moraga – John Fahey
  14. Love, The Rhythm of the World – John Dansers
  15. Lonesome Road – Dean Elliot & His Big Band
  16. Dr Bergen Evans helps you to Read Write & Speak
  17. Final Weapon – Lee Perry
  18. I Was Born to Cry – Dion & His Belmonts
  19. Paint it Black – Chris Farlowe

  This Show was recorded 15th August 2011

• Episode 27 – Abandon Ship!

  

  We take you on a sea cruise – without disaster. What we really want to know Mon Capitaine is: Where was the cabin boy in all of this?

  plus:

  • Tuneless music made for Africa: Let’s line those involved in Live Aid up against the wall…
  • Put the Rock & Roll in with the Rock & Roll, put the R&B in with the R&B, Who is Charlie Parker Anyway? He’s a Jazzy Sensation of course.
  • Simon falls asleep in the middle of a show – Sweet dreams are made of this: Go-Go dancers go-going South of the Border. ¡Ay Caramba!
  • Paul McCartney visits Brian Wilson for a game of vegetable snooker.
  • 23 Skidoo, Cabaret Voltaire and the Industrial movement in the North of England. An inspiration for Warp Records?
  • Rock & Roll Indians? Asha Bhosle , R.D. Burman and  Mohd. Rafi.
  • …and finally – how not to tell a joke.

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  Episode 27 Tracklist

  1. Russ Meyer – Faster Pussycat Kill Kill
  2. Quincy Jones – Heat of the Night
  3. Felix and His Guitar – Puerto Rican Riot
  4. Gene Vincent – Woman Love
  5. Asha Bhosle –  Samphalo SamphaloApna Dil
  6. Beach Boys – Vegetables
  7. Africa Bambaataa and the Jazzy 5 – Jazzy Sensation
  8. 23 Skidoo – Last Words
  9. Plaid – Even
  10. Little Axe – The Wolf that House Built
  11. Cumbia Moderna de Soledad – Crees Que Yo Soy Sexy
  12. Frankie Ford – Sea Cruise
  13. Lee Dorsey – Confusion
  14. Wynona Carr – Touch and Go
  15. Amampondo – Bajubira Malaika
  16. Silver Apples of the Moon – Red River Laika
  17. Residents – Kaw Liga
  18. Gay Bykers on Acid – S.P.A.C.E. (Joy Toy Remix)
  19. Smiths – How Soon is Now
  20. Chrome – T.V. as Eyes
  21. Pharcyde – For Better of For Worse
  22. Marie Bryant – Chi Chi Boom
  23. Moondog – Theme and Variations

  This Show was recorded 18th January 2012

• Episode 26 – Something to Sink Your Teeth Into!

  

  Why bite marks are only welcome in certain oh-so-sweet spots. We lay bare those places – and the not so welcome locations too!

  plus:

  • “Poodles are a sign of perversion.” says Frank Zappa.
  • Simon breaks a leg on air whilst the boys have a sing-a-long to the best of UK garage!
  • Little Matthew experiences the delights of Barbarella, a film which brought the world Duran Duran and gave us space vixen, Jane Fonda.
  • The Cotique record label: Latin Boogaloo and the fine crop of players that emerged from that scene in 60’sw New York.
  • Looking at the Civil Rights movement in America – how the church fought the state for Black voting rights.
  • Peter Hammil and extremes in music – even if their music is difficult, sincerity is a driving force in music. You gots-ta mean it kid.
  • Fighting your ground to getting your music released.You have to be at it all the time to pay the bills folks! The plight of the poor musician. Private vs Vanity pressing.

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  Episode 26 Tracklist

  1. Ronnie Kae and his Drums – Wipe Out
  2. Chaino – Mau Mau
  3. Roots Manuva – Juggle Tings Proper
  4. Movement Soul
  5. Little Mary Staten – Steppin’ Stone
  6. Klicky Robinson – When I Wanna See You
  7. Jammin – Kinda Funky
  8. The Mae-Shi – Run to Your Grave
  9. Moonshake – Exotic Siren Song
  10. Peter Hammil – Modern
  11. Bowling Balls From Hell – Closet Bears
  12. High Llamas – Glide Time
  13. Barbarella – The Black Queen’s Beads
  14. Frank Zappa – Dirty Love
  15. Luke Vibert – Turtle Soup
  16. The Lebron Brothers – Summer Time Blues
  17. Mita Stoycheva – Storise Khoro Goliamo
  18. Fred McDowell -Frisco Lines
  19. Kid Dynamite – Uphill Peace of Mind
  20. Tribe Called Quest – Excursions
  21. Daniel Schell and Dick Annegarn – Granvelle
  22. Calypso Mama – Yes Yes Yes

  This Show was recorded 9th January 2012

• Episode 25 – A New Dawn, A New Day, A New Life for Me

  

  The futility of New Years resolutions, Do they ever work? Ours are: “Must Try Harder” and “Go Out More, Drink Less” …or was it t’other way round?

  plus:

  • Boy Scouts, the reason for punk rebellion?
  • The technicolour hairstyle is something for youth or old age only.
  • Cockneys and Mockneys. What is it to be a Londoner nowadays, huh?
  • The 1977 punk sound of Alternative TV. Mark Perry from the band wrote the first alternative Punk magazine, Sniffing Glue.
  • Derrick May, Juan Atkins, Kenny Larkin, Joey Beltram and the originators of the techno sound. A voyage from Detroit to Belgium.
  • The sound of the Columbian coastline: Cartagena and Barranquilla “All aboard the Cumbia Bus” we hear you cry!
  • How many New Orleans musicians from Alan Touissaint to Dr John, from Fats Domino to B.B. King and Professor Longhair have made long term careers in that city.
  • The brilliant Blues / Southern Soul label Excello started in Nashville Tennessee in 1953.

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  Episode 25 Tracklist

  1. Nina Simone – It’s a New Day
  2. Galt MacDermot –  Let the Sunshine In
  3. Dave Bartholomew – Concerto for Alto Sax
  4. Dr John – Black John the Conqueror
  5. Guitar Gable – Congo Mambo
  6. Mule Skinners – I am the Back Door Man
  7. Alternative TV – Action Time Vision
  8. Peggy Sue and the Pirates – Television
  9. Biz Markie – Nobody Beats the Biz
  10. The Lafyette Afro Rock Band – Hihache
  11. Derrick May – The Dance
  12. Gang Gang Dance – Blue Nile
  13. La Protesta – Free
  14. Johnny Cash – A Boy Named Sue
  15. Bob Lenarde – Cherokee Dance
  16. Antolin y su Combo Orense – La Negra Costena
  17. Quincy Jones – Snow Creatures
  18. Osymyso – Intro Inspection
  19. Babe Ruth – The Mexican
  20. The Edgar Winter Group – Frankenstein
  21. Hopeton Lewis – Sounds and Pressure

  This Show was recorded 2nd January 2012

• Episode 24 – The Equatorial Explorer

  

  Special Guest Miles Cleret of Soundway records spins some way-out Tropical favourites from his recent trips around Africa and South America.

  plus:

  • The boys discuss shelving techniques – Who said we were spods? Shelving is a very serious business.
  • Leadbelly, held on a murder charge, taken out of prison early to release his tunes.
  • Little Roy’s  excellent Nirvana covers album produced by Brighton’s Prince Fatty.
  • How major labels such as Phillips and Decca had studio operations in 25+ countries during the 60’s and 70’s. Unfortunately, this would never happen today.
  • Miles gives us a crash course in licencing records in the internet age.
  • Bowie & Jagger’s ‘Dancing in the Streets’: the Video – Imagine the makeup required to cover those crags!
  • A rocket on an Lp cover from the 50’s means trouble!
  • Semba music: frenetic dance-floor bombshells from Angola!
  • How much of a grip did the roots music of Africa have on African funk, are they just traditional folk songs made modern, or a whole new African idiom?
  • Why do some tunes become standards – what is it that makes a tune like ‘Ain’t no Sunshine’ famously transcend the rest to become great?
  • How songs that were initially recorded maybe just to make a few bucks become a part of our lives and are invested with additional meaning and baggage.
  • The brilliantly eccentric British label Deram’s fab output.
  • Check our events section for Soundway Records’ Album Launch party next Saturday 25th November

  Episode 24 Podcast

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  Episode 24 Tracklist

  1. The Delco’s – Arabia
  2. Booma Rockers – Soul Food
  3. Soul Agents – Gospel Train
  4. Fred Frith – Dancing in the Streets
  5. Jackie Wilson – I’m Coming on Back to You
  6. Jimmy Mawi – I Wan’t Get Up
  7. Soft Machine – Why Are we Sleeping
  8. Al Castellanos – Tango of Romance
  9. Ferrante and Teicher – Brazil
  10. Taranto’s y Sus Exitos – Opus Pi
  11. Leadbelly – Where did you Sleep last Night
  12. Crazy Teens – Crazy Date
  13. Greetje Kauffeld – Day by Day
  14. Carlos Lamartine – Basooka
  15. Joao do Vale – Jose Candido – Cacara
  16. La Negra Grande de Columbia – Selvas Colobianas
  17. George Clinton – Dog Talk
  18. Essential Logic – Wake Up
  19. Terry and the Chain Reaction – Keep Your Cool
  20. Trompeteros – Astronautos a Mercurio
  21. Davie Allen and the Arrows – Blue’s Trip
  22. Cat Stevens – Was Dog a Doughnut
  23. Chim Kothari – Indian Bat
  24. East of Eden – Jig a Jig

  This Show was recorded November14th 2011

• Episode 22 – The Bastard Son of Rhythm & Blues

  

  How did R&B get it so very wrong when it has such auspicious parents? Maybe we should put the poor dog down… plus:

  • The Jamaica – Canadia connection. Canada gave bass heavy support to many of the Jamaican artists by bringing them over to record and release,  gig dates etc.
  • The Canadian Disco scene, the Montreal Jazz Festival and Canada as an unexpectedly musical nation.
  • How music twists and turns: Britney Spears’s producer samples some crazy Indian tune for a pop hit then it goes back into the underground with Quiche Lorène who produce a jump up ska version of Toxic or is it after all a version of ‘Tere Mere Beech Men’. Who get’s the copyright money for this? That’s what I wanna know. Unlikely it’s some ageing bollywood producer.
  • Let’s all go on the road with Gogol Bordello: Slough, Reading, Weston Super Mare, here we come… The new poly-national Merry Pranksters?

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  Episode 22 Tracklist

  1. Luthjen’s – Big Mamou
  2. Errol Lynton’s Blues Vibe – Too Many Cooks
  3. Wayne McGhee & the Sounds of Joy – Cool It
  4. Add N to X – Total all out Water
  5. Amon Tobin – Journey Man
  6. The Temptations – I Wish it Would Rain
  7. Ek Duuje Ke Liye – Tere Mere Beech Men
  8. Quiche Lorene – Toxic
  9. Amy Winehouse – Tears Dry on Their Own
  10. I- Monster – Who is She
  11. Gogol Bordello – Super Tarranta
  12. Space Liner – Link
  13. Tipicismo – Gaita y Tambores
  14. The Saints – This Perfect Day
  15. Mary J Blige – No More Drama
  16. Junior Brown – My Wife Thinks your Dead
  17. Jody Reynolds – Endless Sleep
  18. Bob Andy – I’ve got to go Back Home
  19. Alice Coltrane – Journey in Satchidanada
  20. Sun Ra – Plutonian Nights
  21. EKO – Kilimanjaro My Home
  22. Elvis Presley – One Boy Two Little Girls

  This Show was recorded August 1st 2011

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• Episode 21 – Coca and Biscuits

  

  Enjoy a bedtime drink Columbian style

  plus:

  • Introducing Eurobeat: a bastard mix of afro-latin, out there-jazz and  psychedelic soul from the 60’s, pioneered by labels such as Barclay and Vogue.
  • Tribal Scarification & the modern penchant for branding. Would you? Could you? get a nike ‘swoosh’ burned onto your posterior?
  • The uncompromising career of Peter Hamill who made more than 70 albums.
  • How Futurama badly ripped off Pierre Henry’s Psych Rock for their theme tune.
  • The unassuming and tragic career of Nick Drake, gentle and increasingly highly rated. How a shy, delicate heart can get chewed up by the music industry.
  • Chris Cunnigham’s brilliant direction and music video work for Warp records.
  • Sister Ignacious catholic nun who taught many of the ska brass sections.
  • KLF and Malcolm McLaren, people who managed to get an overview of the machinations of the music industry and use it to their own advantage.

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  Episode 21 Tracklist

  1. Sivuca – Ain’t no Sunshine
  2. Lee Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra – Sand
  3. Soul Sisters – Wreck Buddy
  4. Les Chakachas – Ma Ma Dou
  5. Nino Ferrer – Mao et Moa
  6. Uele Kalabubu et sa Tribu – Makelele
  7. Ian Dury – Clever Trevor
  8. More Thiam – Ato Ayo Nene
  9. Van de Graaf Generator – Erg Man
  10. Pierre Henry – Psyche Rock
  11. Thee oh Sees – Block of Ice
  12. Mississipi John Hurt – Stagger Lee
  13. Nick Drake –  Know
  14. Atmosphere – Dancing in Outer Space
  15. The Flying Lizards – Money
  16. Quickspace – Docile
  17. Bocaccio – Enigma
  18. Desmond Dekker – Get up Edina
  19. Don Drummond – Green Island
  20. Spanky Wilson – Kissing my Love
  21. Bill Doggett – Honky Tonk

  This Show was recorded 25th July 2011

• Episode 20 – Brave New World

  

  The impulse to create a new Zeitgeist in post war New York. From Warhol to Woody Allen to Charlie Parker, this was focused in Greenwich Village, a hugely influential melting pot for music and art during the 50’s and 60’s.

  plus:

  • Brilliant gigs which happened at the Village Gate, imagine walking into a gig there and seeing Bird or Mongo or Miles. Mongo Santamaria tells the story of the greatest Conga players of all time.
  • Check out  6 of the Best…Stoner Bogaloos to hear what the next generation of New Yoricans were bugging out to in Spanish Harlem.
  • The international music collaborations of David Lynch.
  • Eugene McDaniels: a great songwriter famous for “Compared to What” and co-writer of Roberta Flack’s “Feel Like Making Love” died in August 2011.
  • Nina Simone’s troubled career. Her atheism. Her personal struggle with depression and drink. Her beautiful songs which resulted from this struggle.
  • The prolific output of Mark E Smith.
  • Creating your own Karaoke machine.
  • John Barry and the beginnings of the studio sound. Using studio techniques to carry a song, developing a sound in the studio rather than in the rehearsal room.
  • Bargains to be had at your local record emporium. Lou Rawls’ “Season of the Witch” for £2!

  And Here’s the Music:

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  Episode 20 Tracklist

  1. Roland Alphonso – El Pussy Cat
  2. Sally Stanley – I’ll Have to Let You Go
  3. The United States of America – Garden of Earthly Delights
  4. Mongo Santamaria – Afro Blue
  5. Afreaka – Disolusioned Man
  6. Cornelius – Star Fruits, Surf Rider
  7. Eugene Mc Daniels – Cherry Stones
  8. Nina Simone – Come by Here
  9. Julie Cruise – The Nightingale
  10. The Fall – A New Face in Hell
  11. John Lee Hooker – She Shot Me Right Down
  12. Gallon Drunk – The Last Gasp
  13. Tricky – Aftermath
  14. Miles Davis – Black Satin
  15. Shocking Blue – Venus
  16. The Stranglers – Get a Grip
  17. Serge Gainsbourg – Cargo Culte
  18. John Barry Seven – The Human Jungle
  19. Gene Chandler – I Fooled you This Time
  20. Fats Domino – Ain’t that a shame

  This Show was recorded 18th July 2011

• Episode 19 – Jungle Illusion

  

  Exotica and the yearning for a more primitive life caused by the jet engine and cheap flights during the 50’s .How the tourist industry made the search for a Utopian tropical paradise possible and translated into record sales – and a glorious fakery of tribal life.

  plus:

  • Yma Sumac and her 50’s tour of working men’s clubs in the north of England.
  • Exotica
  • Hank Williams – Loved by Charlie Parker, better than Johnny Cash?
  • Coleman Hawkins: one of the Jazz greats.
  • Loose Singers with tight backing bands – a recipe for success: Ian Dury and the Happy Mondays.
  • Gun Club – naughty boys who influenced the White Stripes.
  • Jimmy Hendrix comes over all Jazz on us.
  • Check Out John’s post on MC 900 ft Jesus, fab leftfield old school rapper.

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  Episode 19 Tracklist

  1. The Pyramids – Penetration
  2. War – Galaxy
  3. Earth Mother – Rubber Neck
  4. Martin Denny – Simba
  5. John Cale – Ghost Story
  6. Hank Williams – Alone and Forsaken
  7. Barney Kessel – Carioca
  8. Mystery Artist
  9. Mystery Artist
  10. Mystery Artist
  11. Coleman Hawkins – Wherever There’s a Will, Baby
  12. Jimi Hendrix – Easy Blues
  13. MC 900 ft Jesus – Truth is Out of Style
  14. Happy Mondays – Step On
  15. John Kongos – He’s Gonna Step on You Again
  16. The Gun Club – Preaching the Blues
  17. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
  18. Kitty White – I’m Going to be a Fool Next Monday
  19. Kenny Barry – Hypnotized
  20. Peaches – Hot Rod
  21. Aphex Twin – Vordhosbn
  22. Coke – You Turn Me On
  23. Santo and Johnny – Tears

  This Show was recorded 23rd May 2011

• Episode 18 – Car Booty

  

  Why car boot sales are the best thing since sliced bread…

  • Get collectable tunes for nowt.
  • Expect the unexpected – prepare for surprises.
  • Taking a chance on a tune cos it’s only 20p.
  • Car Boots reflect the music of the people from that area.
  • Car boots and flea markets abroad.
  • Reader’s Digest breaks! The 10 record box set with one tune – but what a tune…
  • Judging albums on content rather than on what’s fashionable at the time.
  • The joy of getting home and playing your fab booty, bragging to your mates about the prices you paid and knowing that they can’t just go down to the shop and get another copy.
  • and finally…the brick-a-brack! oh! the brick-a-brack! Furnish your whole house with things you never realised you needed until now.
  • Happy hunting and crate digging.

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  Episode 18 Tracklist

  1. The Wedding Present – Davni Chasy
  2. Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited
  3. Captain Beefheart – Blabber and Smoke
  4. Arthur Lyman – Taboo
  5. Incredible Bongo Band – Bongo Rock
  6. Public Enemy – Rebel Without a Pause
  7. Lennox Brown – Lennox Mood
  8. Mohammed Rafi – Nafrat Ki Duniya Ko
  9. Readers Digest Studio Band – Quiller
  10. BBC Sound Effects – Death and Horror
  11. Songs from Playschool – Bang on a Drum
  12. Cher – Sunny
  13. Marvin Gaye & Tammi Tyrell – You’re all I Need
  14. The Ragga Twins – Hooligan 69 (Remix)
  15. Snakefinger – The Man in the Dark Sedan
  16. Mungo Jerry – Summertime
  17. Ottilie Patterson – T’Aint No Sin
  18. Scott Walker – Next
  19. Les Chakachas – Tou Bou Dou
  20. Can – Halleluwaj

  This Show was recorded 26th August 2011

• Episode 17 – Walk Home Baby!

  

  Teenage tricks to get a sly kiss. Parliament knew how! The Treniers knew how! We reveal the age old secret of how to get a snog on your first date.

  plus:

  • The search for African roots in the US jazz scene.
  • “Black Jazz”- American Jazz artists would take exception to the phrase.
  • Junior Brown, Speedy West, Raymond Scott and the musicians behind Loony Tunes and cartoon music.
  • Treat ’em Mean- Keep ’em Keen!
  • Breakfast of Champions. Read Kurt Vonnegut’s Books!
  • Melvin Van Peebles, Sweet Sweetback and the beginning of Blaxploitation Movies. 6 of the Best…Blaxploitation Movie Soundtracks
  • Earth Wind and Fire: We don’t mind the earth or the fire, but someone just let one rip…seriously EW&F are all round good guys says Dave’s Brother.
  • Dance music production: The weird places that loops are sourced from – obscure or shit records. Sample as audio artefact. Cut and paste versus studio orchestration and the musicians behind the loop.
  • Musical Royalty: Elizabeth I and Henry VIII.
  • Henry VIII a bloke who could throw a great shindig. But don’t eat his chop or you’ll be for it me lad!

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  Episode 17 Tracklist

  1. Junior Brown – I Hung it Up
  2. White Stripes – Stop Breaking Down
  3. Oneness of JuJu – African Rhythms
  4. Nashville Teens – Wydicombe Fair
  5. Dave’s Mystery Guest
  6. Nat King Cole – Naughty Angelina
  7. Charles Brown – Please Believe Me
  8. Dave’s Mystery Guest
  9. Parliament – My Automobile
  10. The Treniers – Get Out of the Car
  11. Jim O’Rourke – Something Big
  12. Henry Cow – Bittern Storm over Ulm
  13. Earth Wind and Fire – Sweetback Getting It Uptight and Preaching it So Hard the Bourgeuis Reggin Angels in Heaven Turn Around
  14. David Holmes – Insight to Riot
  15. Gershon Kingsley – Hey Hey
  16. Dick Dale and his Del-Tones – Misirlou Twist
  17. Family Fodder – Savoir Faire
  18. Suicide – Sweet Heart
  19. U2 – Sunday Bloody Sunday
  20. DJ Shadow – Lost and Found
  21. The Rutles – Cheese and Onions

  This Show was recorded 6th June 2011

• Episode 16 – Las Vegas Grind

  

  The humdrum grind of living in a city that never sleeps. What to do in Las Vegas if you don’t wanna gamble…

  plus:

  • Special Guest Yvan Serrano, DJ Healer Selector and Guitarist from The Dustaphonics as well as  Raison D’Etre head honcho. Yvan has worked with many artists on the Surf, Soul, Rock and Roll and Rockabilly Scenes.
  • Is it really possible to pick your all time top tunes? If you had to pick 100 records to represent the musical endeavour of humanity what would they be?
  • Some music is meant for indoors, some for outdoors, some for day some for night. Why do some tunes suit a particular time and place?
  • The Burlespue Musical scale: Do Re Me Me Me Me Me…(Ad Infinitum).
  • Yvan politely declines an offer to become a pornstar.
  • Mexican Rockabilly: Young kids creating a new underground scene.
  • Lou Rawls, that rare breed that is engaged both musically and politically.
  • Why does the music industry sign actors and fame academy graduates instead of real musicians.

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  Episode 16 Tracklist

  1. Digital Underground – The Return of the Crazy One
  2. Yoko Ono – Walking on Thin Ice
  3. Monty Morris – Higher Than the Highest Mountain
  4. Cud – Only a Prawn in Whitby
  5. The Polaras – Cricket
  6. Al Castellanos – Talking Rythyms
  7. Stock, Hausen and Walkman – Open Up/Schweitzer
  8. Animal Collective – For Reverend Green
  9. Dustaphonics – Party Girl
  10. Dustaphonics – Burlesque Queen
  11. Gene Vincent – Race with the Devil
  12. The Lebron Brothers – Summertime Blues
  13. The Flamingos – Besame Mucho
  14. Joe Reisman and His Orchestra – Brasilia
  15. The Mighty Panther – Shame and Scandal in the Family
  16. Genius GZA – Investigative Reports
  17. Big Youth – Keep Your Dread
  18. The Damned – Neat Neat Neat
  19. The Cure – Killing an Arab
  20. Chicks on Speed – Sliding Down Your Rib Cage
  21. Nolan Corimier – Hee Haw Breakdown
  22. El General – Pu Tun Tun
  23. Sesso Matto – Le Sexe Fou
  24. Mike Theodore – Moon Track
  25. Big Mooses – Puppy Howl Blues
  26. Brion Bennett – Ergon
  27. Lou Rawls – Dead End Street
  28. Nat Adderley – Calling Out Loud

  This Show was recorded 4th July 2011

• Episode 15 – To the Victor, The Spoils.

  

  Cutting Competitions: the greats of music playing against each other for supremacy during the 50’s. Battling in hip hop. The Jamaican soundclash. Where does this tradition come from?

  plus:

  • Teaching students how to make corned beef hash
  • Great labels from Jamaica, Coxsone, Studio One, Ray & Nephews.
  • How can you have an American version of ‘Taxman’ when they have the IRS? The Taxman wears a Bowler Hat, Sir!
  • You can become a Southerner but you can never become a Scouser, a Geordie or a Yorkshireman. Is it possible to be an ‘honorary’?
  • ‘Arri Up of the Slits: A  German Aristocrat who tries too hard to be ‘Punk’.
  • Folkways field recordings of tribal peoples made during the 60’s are the only surviving record of tribes that have been dissipated and no longer exist.
  • The Drummers of Burundi and how they influenced Adam Ant. The Drummers of Burundi were later murdered during the genocide in Rwanda.
  • The influence of new instruments on musical style. How technology often drives music forward into new territory.
  • the relationship between poetry and music, William Blake and David Axelrod.

  Listen to the Podcast Here:

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  Episode 15 Tracklist

  1. Roland Alphonso – Downbeat Special
  2. Juniour Parker – Taxman
  3. The Slits – I Heard it Through the Grapevine
  4. James Brown – Dancing Little Thing
  5. Abaco Dream – Cat Woman
  6. Amon Tobin – Get Your Snack On
  7. John Fahey – Thus Krishna on the Battlefield
  8. Choprn Timbla Orchestra – Recording from Ethnic Folkways Library
  9. El Rego et ses Commandos – Feeling You Got
  10. James Brown – Prisioner of Love
  11. Lou Reed – I Want to Be Black
  12. Royal Trux – Dirty Headlines
  13. Art Tatum – Danny Boy
  14. The Bostones – Mope Itty Mope
  15. K. Pythacunthapuserectus – Voodoo Ju Ju Obsession
  16. The Clovers – Blue Velvet
  17. Magic Sam – Dirty Work is Going On
  18. David Axelrod – Urzen
  19. Speedy J – Minimal

  This Show was recorded 16th May 2011

• Episode 5 – Of Dogs and Gods

  

  Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:28:33 — 121.6MB)

  The naming of Dogs and Gods

  plus:

  • The genius of Les Paul,  sound on sound recording, echo, and the invention of the solid bodied guitar.
  • Moog and how to pronounce it. John’s synthesizer sickness. Great synthesizer tracks.
  • Dave touches Buddy Guys Arm (no really) – it was his pickin’ arm.
  • From Dizzy Gillespie to Jimmy Hendrix, how the jazz scene and the black music scene more generally worked. Older musicians give a break to the younger generation, who learn their skills touring  then break out on their own.
  • Dave catches Jungle Fever… with noticeable results.
  • How the US sees Mexico – Speedy Gonzales. Mexican revolutionary cartoons.

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  Episode 5 Tracklisting

  1. Captain Beefheart – Sure ‘Nuff ‘N Yes, I Do
  2. Little Jo & the Latinaires – Mambo No. 8
  3. Walias Band – Musica Silt
  4. Bobby Roberts – Big Sandy
  5. Brand Nubian – Punks Jump Up to Get Beat Down
  6. Lou Donaldson – It’s My Thing
  7. Scott Walker – Butterfly
  8. Les Paul – Smoke Rings
  9. Missy Elliott vs AC DC
  10. Larry Young’s Fuel – Turn Out the Lights
  11. Burning Spear – This Race
  12. King Tubby – Marcus Garvey
  13. Buddy Guy & Jr. Wells – First Time I Met the Blues (live in Chicago)
  14. Gabor Szabo – More Sorcery
  15. Joao Donato – Cala Boca Menino (Shut Your Mouth Boy)
  16. Wynona Carr- Ding Dong Daddy (take 4)
  17. Marvin Rainwater – My Baby Done Gone
  18. Ozark Mountain Daredevils – E.E. Lawson
  19. Count 5 – Psychotic Reaction

  
  Episode Recorded 1st November 2010