Slumberland Records Podcast

Kid Frostbite

Expect an ever-changing musical palette from Slumberland's Kid Frostbite and friends: pop classics, soul, reggae, house, techno, afro-beat, funk and just about everything else.

  1. 09/26/2020

    Lockdown Tunes 1

    Just some records we've been listening to while in isolation. 1. Billy Gault - The Time Of This World Is At Hand 2. Cymande - Zion I 3. Emanative - Love In Outer Space (Celestial Love Mix) 4. The Tee Holman Sextet - The Rudie 5. Zorro Five - Good Books 6. Phantom Slasher - Nicoteen 7. Byron the Aquarius - Traveling Again 8. Glen Brown and King Tubby - Version 78 Style 9. Dr. Alimantado - Chant To Jah 10. The Umbrellas - Never Available 11. The Reds, Pinks & Purples - Keep Your Secrets Close 12. Failed Flowers - Faces 13. Jeanines - Too Late 14. This Poison! - You;--Think!!

    54 min

  2. 10/29/2012

    Into Something Good

    Just a little mix of some groovy power-pop, girl group sounds and a bit of mod action. Dark days call for fun music. 1. The Plimsouls - Zero Hour 2. Bram Tchaikovsky - Girl Of My Dreams 3. The Records - Starry Eyes 4. Nick Lowe - So It Goes 5. The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet 6. The Undertones - Teenage Kicks 7. Buzzcocks - I Don't Mind 8. The Rubinoos - I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend 9. The Spongetones - She Goes Out With Everybody 10. The Beatles - All My Loving 11. The Ronettes - Baby, I Love You 12. Earl-Jean - I'm Into Something Good 13. The Toys - Lover's Concerto 14. The Cinderellas - Baby Baby I Still Love You 15. The Pussywillows - The Boat That I Row 16. The Equals - I Get So Excited 17. The Kinks - Picture Book 18. The Jam - Boy About Town 19. Orange Juice - Holiday Hymn 20. Elvis Costello - (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding?

    55 min

  3. 09/28/2012

    Unlocking The Door

    No great plan for this one and not exactly bursting with rarities to prove what an awesome downloader I am. Just a mix of some stuff I've been listening to lately, old and new. 1. New Order - Ceremony 2. The Ropers - Transparent Day 3. Human Switchboard - (Say No To) Saturday's Girl 4. Able Tasmans - Wednesday (She's Coming Round) 5. Let's Active - Every Word Means No 6. Roommates - Kelly, I'm Not A Creep 7. The Boo Radleys - Lazy Day 8. Small Reactions - Nerve Pop 9. Merchandise - I Locked The Door 10. Big Troubles - Time Bomb 11. Permanent Collection - The Kids 12. Golden Grrrls - I Don't Want You Anyway 13. Sea Pinks - A Pattern Recognition 14. Zebra Hunt - Half Right

    40 min

  4. 10/19/2010

    Heaven Is Above Your Head #14

    The Boy And The Cloud is back with another smashing selection of girl group, garage, sunshine pop and soft rock. His Heaven Is Above Your Head #14 podcast is full of amazing obscurities that are sure to send you scurrying to eBay in no time. It sure had that effect on me! 1. We Five - Love Me Not Tomorrow 2. The Girls - Here I Am In Love Again 3. The Plagues - I've Been Through It Before 4. The Terminals - In And Out Of My Mind 5. The Folklords - Child 6. The Deep Six - Winds of Morning 7. The British North-American Act - Only A Dream 8. The Coastliners - See Me 9. The Penthouse 5 - You're Always Around 10. Something Young - On, Don't Come Crying Back To Me 11. Tommy Boyce - Pretty Thing 12. The Higher State - Clear Motive 13. Sonny Villegas - Help Me, Help You 14. Janie Grant - And That Reminds Me 15. Ohio Express - Stop Take A Look Around 16. The Sheffields - Do You Still Love Me 17. Les Bof! - Vivre Avec Toi 18. The Gremlins - Oh My Word 19. Every Mother's Son - Rain Flowers 20. The Off Set - You're A Drag 21. Charlotte & Emily - Please Stay With Me

    55 min

  5. 01/26/2010

    The None More Twee Bubblepunksoul Dance Party

    Over at None More Twee, we usually talk about the latest and greatest indie pop around but for this mix, I went back to the roots of twee for a big chunk of bubblegum, added some soul, some crazed glam rock, a few novelty tunes (can never get enough of those) and a track from my favorite punk band, then mixed it up for maximum dance party effectiveness. 1. Rick Springfield - We're Gonna Have A Good Time - This early 7T'z rocker comes from an album you need to track down called Mission Magic. I think I've started every mix of the past five years or so with this song. 2. Andy Kim - You Got Style - AK may have been a total Neil Diamond wanna-be, but sometimes he equalled his idol. Like here, for example. 3. Tommy Roe - Cinnamon - Nothing but love for T-Roe. He's the patron saint of NMT. One listen to this track and you'll know why. 4. Geno Washington And The Ram Jam Band - Feeling So Good (Skooby Doo) - Super groovy cover of the Archies' classic by a guy who made some great bubblesoul jams but is also a trained hypnotist and Peter Noone's brother in-law. 5. Sylvie Vartan - Garde Moi Dans Ta Poche - She totally destroys the Four Tops' "I Can't Help Myself" with a piledriver beat and some surprisingly tough vocalizing. Check the recent collection on Rev-Ola for more awesome Vartan sounds. 6. Little Eva - Get Ready/Uptight - More than a one-hit wonder, Little Eva made some killer records and this is the best of them. Makes me wish someone had signed her to Motown or Stax. 7. The Osmonds - Down By The Lazy River - Yeah, the Osmonds! Don't laugh until you hear this jam. It's cheesy but the good kind of cheese, the kind they give out as samples in grocery stores that you can't stop eating even though the staff keeps giving you dirty looks. 8. Jacques Dutronc - Le Responsable - Dutronc is a heavy dude and when he gets down to rocking, he's gonna rock you for reals. 9. The Messengers - That's The Way A Woman Is - Amazing bubblegum rocker on Motown of all places. 10. The Equals - My Life Ain't Easy - Eddy Grant? Eddy Grant! The Equals have few equals when it comes to hard rocking bubblesoul. Few equals...geez. 11. Lulu - Love Loves To Love Love - Lulu doesn't get much credit for tearing shit up but she really could. This track features some great Jimmy Page studio weirdness. 12. Honeybus - The Breaking Up Scene - My heroes Comet Gain borrowed some of this song for "Villain" way back on Casino Classics. The Honeybus version has some hot guitar action and a footstomping beat. Which is weird because the rest of their output consisted of heartbreakingly beautiful orchestrated pop that's almost on par with the Left Banke. 13. Mud - Tiger Feet - You haven't really lived until you've seen the Top of the Pops clip of Mud performing this song. It's like a four minute lecture on why rock & roll is so glorious, only it's way more fun than that. Even without the visuals this song should bring your party to a fever pitch. 14. The Saints - Do the Robot - Sometimes people forget that punk rock could be a hell of a lot of fun. Most of the Saints tracks are as serious as death, but this song is a good time jam. 15. Bobby Freeman - C'mon And Swim - It's the middle of winter here in Michigan but I reflexively reached for my swimsuit when this track came on. Bobby's just so persuasive! 16. The Revillos - Scuba Scuba If these guys had ever played on a bill with the B52's, it would have been one of the greatest nights in pop history. The only pairing I can think of that would be better is the Archies and the Banana Splits.

    42 min

  6. 12/18/2009

    Heaven Is Above Your Head #12

    Heaven Is Above Your Head was a weekly radio show and podcast while I was living in New Zealand. For the second hour of every show my friends and I would all play exactly what we wanted and maybe have a dance. They have kept the slot and you can now listen to Simply Thrilled (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=118285020973) every Saturday on non-commercial station Fleet FM (http://fleetfm.co.nz/), at 9pm local time or 9am GMT. If you happen to miss it they usually post a link on the Anorak forum afterwards. The previous episodes of HIAYH can all be found on my blog (http://heavenisabove.blogspot.com/). So the theme for this is 60s music, but avoiding the collectors scenes of garage and northern soul. What I ended up with was this great set of soft pop, haunted by the spirit of the Pye and Immediate labels. I was going to make it like an ordinary radio show at first, with spoken links, cause I felt I had a lot to say about the songs at the time. That was a couple of months ago though, so now I just mixed them together as they are. I hope you will appreciate the blending of some proper hits with more obscure would-be hits. Like the British group Thursday's Children who only released one single in 1965. And "Among the First to Know" which is one of my all-time faves, and has been covered by The Happy Balloon. The Mascots was a Swedish Hollies-styled group, here showing off their freakbeat side with a track from their great and only lp *EELPEE*. The American Breed had a couple of hits, but this string-laden ballad can't keep me from thinking of Belle & Sebastian. The Chants are notable for being a black vocal group from Liverpool, whose live debut took place in 1962 with The Beatles backing them. Read their story here: http://www.triumphpc.com/mersey-beat/a-z/chants.shtml! The group The Missing Links here is not the Australian one, but an American with one single to their name. Harmony Grass was a late 60s mutation of the Beach Boys-influenced Tony Rivers & the Castaways. And The Raindrops was of course the pseudonym used by the late great Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry for their own recordings. Enough talk. 1. The Outsiders - Gimme Some Lovin' 2. Marc Eric - Just Passing By 3. The Ivy League - A Girl Like You 4. The Missing Links - You Hypnotize Me 5. The Two of Each - Trust 6. The Happenings - Crazy Rhythm 7. The Exciters - Tell Him 8. The Scots of St. James - Tic Toc 9. The Macots - Close Your Eyes 10. The Searchers - Have You Ever Loved Someone 11. Dino, Desi & Billy - Not The Lovin' Kind 12. The Gentle Touch - Among The First To Know 13. Lee Hazlewood - She Comes Running 14. The Critters - Come Back On A Rainy Day 15. Chris Montez - What A Difference A Day Made 16. The American Breed - Sometime In The Morning 17. Thursday's Children - Just You 18. The Poets - I'll Come Home 19. The Raindrops - That Boy Is Messing Up My Mind 20. Harmony Grass - My Little Girl 21. The Chants - She's Mine 22. The Miracles - The Tracks of My Tears

    54 min

  7. 11/01/2009

    Running a Temperature Revival

    Running a Temperature Revival is not a podcast, a mix, set, session, cassette, or cd-r. It is a correspondence from one person to several, however many, or few. Not to be numbered or finite, but dated for it's place in time and unclear how strong and for how long this communique can endure. 10 songs (no more, no less) appropriated from their original composers and pieced together into an interpretive narrative as told from the rooftops of Brooklyn to any number of unique and diverse geographic locales, and the climates they inhabit. Back to basics. 1. The Birthday Party- 'The Friend Catcher' (Live 1981-'82. 4AD) 2. EDMX- 'You Can't Hide Your Love (Hidden Love Mix)' (26 Mixes For Cash (Aphex Twin), Warp) 3. Bo Diddley- 'Pollution' (Another Dimension, Chess) 4. Les Rallizes Dénudés- 'Black Sad Straw Raincoat' (High or Die, bootleg) 5. Sugarbelly- 'Shake Up Adinah' (Sugar Merengue, Port-O-Jam) 6. The Liverbirds- 'Leave All Your Old Loves' (Star Club Show Vol. 4, Star Club) 7. Bogshed- 'Can't Be Beat' (Step On It, Shelfish) 8. The Honeymoon Killers- 'Fonce a Mort' (Les Tueurs De La Lune De Miel, Crammed) 9. Tracy Thorne- 'Seascape' (A Distant Shore, Cherry Red) 10. Art Ensemble of Chicago- 'Bye Bye Baby' (Certain Blacks, America)

    52 min

  8. 10/17/2009

    Kitchen Sounds #3

    Stew is back with another smashing selection of punk/DIY/pop classics and rarities. Unfuckwithable! 1. THE BACHELOR PAD country pancake (live. - from the "Frying Tonight" 7inch EP, Egg Records, 1989 2. SPARKLE MOORE skull and crossbones - Fraternity Records 7inch, 1956 3. THE BUFF MEDWAYS archive from 1959 - from the 3 X LP "Archived From 1959", Damaged Goods, 2009 4. SOFT PAWS desperate idealism - from the self titled, self released debut LP, 2009 available from myspace.com/softpawsband 5. THE MAGGOTS lets get, lets get Tammy Wyynette - from the 7inch EP reiusse on Discourage Records, 2007 6. AMY AND THE ANGELS i hate being in love - from the compilation LP "Making Waves", Girlfriend Records 1980. 7. BEATNIK FILMSTARS crushed - from the 7inch on Satisfaction Records, 2009 8. JOSEF K heart of song - from the LP "Young And Stupid/Endless Soul", Supreme International Editions, year unknown 9. CRABSTICK treacle - from the LP "Discoverooster", 555 recs 2001. 10. THE MONKS pretty suzanne - from the "Black Monk Time" double LP reiusse on Light In The Attic Recs, 2009. 11. KIRSTY AND THE HUSBANDS sitting in a disco - from "8 from 80" 7inch EP, Matchbox Classics 1980. 12. THE HOMOSEXUALS slow guns - from the 10inch EP "Love Guns?" on Serious Business Records, 2008. 13. LUSTY GHOSTS doing the undoing - from the Cassette "Lusty Ghosts Two" on Refill Records, 1981. 14. ELVIS COSTELLO change partners - from the double LP "Secret Profane and Sugarcane" on Speciality Records, 2009.

    50 min
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Expect an ever-changing musical palette from Slumberland's Kid Frostbite and friends: pop classics, soul, reggae, house, techno, afro-beat, funk and just about everything else.

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