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  1. FEB 1

    Post Punk Plus Podcast Playlist 148 – Original upload 1.2.26

    This playlist is 72% vinyl friendly. Not bad. The SL-1300G in 2025. Technics keeping it simple with the design, if not with the spec trying to convince punters they need one. ‘Coreless Direct Drive Motor Achieving Stable Rotation The use of a coreless direct-drive motor with no iron core eliminates uneven rotation of the turntable known as cogging. Also, the twin-rotor construction reduces the bearing load while maintaining high torque and reduces minute vibrations during rotation. Furthermore, the SL-1300G’s motor was redesigned to eliminate subtle vibrations that could affect sound quality. To improve rigidity, the same reinforcement pattern as the Reference Class SL-1000R/SP-10R was used for the coil mounting base‘. Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms tweak/edit/chop and the occasional tune might sound a bit dodgy, quality-wise. On top of that, the switch between different decades and production values never helps in the mix here. NB: THIS PLAYLIST INCLUDES EXPLETIVES. Lyric of Playlist 148 For the reality… Courtesy of Crooked Man, Jarvis’ by a country mile, but… For the idyll…John Sebastian. 00.00 (Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983. Episode #1 for info. 00.41 NEW ORDER – Turn – Waiting For The Sirens’ Call, 2LP – London – 2005 With Barney’s lilting, slightly forlorn vocal, a little gem nearly lost on one of the band’s least successful albums. 05.02 LITTLE NEMO – A Day Out Of Time – Past And Future, LP – Domestica – 2013 Though the track originally surfaced in 1987 on the 500 run, cassette-only format of the (debut) album. Even back then it could have been seen as yet another ‘sound’ out of Europe that seemed to echo the UK alternative/new wave scene of a few years earlier. 08.48 KIM GORDON – Not Today – Play Me, LP – Matador – 2026 Get past the intro – where it very momentarily sounds (to my ears anyway) like the batteries ran out – and Kim Gordon drifts nicely across the wash of sound. 12.03 THE COMSAT ANGELS – The Eye Dance – Sleep No More, LP – Polydor – 1981 Judging by a known set list for late Nov ’81 and the fact the band were then promoting the recently released, above album, this track was likely in the set list for my Bedford Corn Exchange gig promotion earlier that month. Big smiles when I hear them… though I’ve sadly never heard a tape of the Bedford night. 15.40 BUNNYDRUMS – Holy Moly – Holy Moly, LP – Fundamental – 1984 The short-lived, mid ’80s Philadelphian band with a quirky mix of ‘new wave’ vocal and a belting soul vocal bv in the backdrop of a low slung, punk country’ish workout. Maybe it’s the ‘yippee-ki-yay’ and pseudo peddle steel guitar? The band have been here before – and will be again. 21.30 COSTUME – Once I Loved (Original Mix) – Download only – 2021 Claudia Placanica’s slightly disconcerting delivery is always the thing for me! 23.54 THE IRONSIDES – The Web – Changing Light, LP – Colemine – 2023 Cinematically soundtracking the ’70s like a good’un! The Streets of San Francisco and its like… which is apt… as that’s where The Ironsides are from. 28.57 BABY ROSE – Go – Through and Through, LP – Secretly Canadian – 2023 My fave 21st century track of the show, Jasmine Rose Wilson (to her mum and dad) with a quivering indie soul vocal – on this tune anyway – that Anonhi/Antony and the Johnsons could have penned and rolled out, albeit with a slightly different sound, no doubt. And that really is the sleeve, honest. I could be wrong but I reckon it’s a photographer’s dud that someone subsequently had a weird liking for. I struggle to actually look at it! 31.56 THE DRIFTERS – Like Sister and Brother – 7″ – Bell – 1973 I had this single in the mid ’70s but with the years since maybe ‘softening’ the senses, this made-to-measure ballad (with lead vocalist, Bill Fredericks sounding more like Johnny Mathis than I’d have remembered) sounds better now than it did back then but in the world we now live in there will be few if any songs written like this again. I had to run the idea past one of my teenage years mates but I reckon that, along with Jimmy Ruffin’s What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted (and others, no doubt), this was a last-dance-of-the-night/grab-a-girl-type tune at Bedford Rugby Club’s Saturday night ‘discos’. I’m making this actually sound like the ’40s but it was the era and I was in my late teens… and until I find my membership card, this’ll have to do. ‘Swing to Boomerang’ indeed. I don’t think they came back. 34.52 EYELESS IN GAZA – Flight Of Swallows – Back From The Rains, LP – Cherry Red – 1986 The intro to my 1984 Rorschach Testing article below sums up my thinking on Flight back then – and though the track was being played live at the time it was a couple of years before it surfaced on the above album. EIG article, Rorschach Testing, 1984 39.22 JONI MITCHELL – Eastern Rain – Archives – Volume 1: The Early Years 1963-1967, 5CD – Rhino – 2020 Truly a legend, such is the quality of the lady’s songwriting this beaut – from a Folklore Radio broadcast, of March 19, 1967 – never even made it to an official album and though it was covered by others and turned up in Joni live appearances of the time it took until the above retrospective to be released officially. And she’ll be back here quicker than you might be expecting. 43.13 SÓLEY – I Will Find You (Live, at the KEX Hostel in Reykjavik: 30.10.13) – Stream only – 2013 With a whole different tone to Liam Neeson’s ‘I Will Find You’ :), a production from the classy KEXP and a song only found on Sóley’s 5 track, 10″ EP, Don’t Ever Listen. This take however is a far more endearing version. 45.54 NORMA TANEGA – Walkin’ My Cat Named Dog – 7″ – Stateside – 1966 Was Norma ‘indie’ before there was such a thing? Sadly, she died in 2019 but search out a short Youtube interview and snippets piece (and the comments that followed) from a decade or so earlier. It was meant to be included in a proposed documentary that never then got going. 48.06 THE ELECTRIC FLAG – Look Into My Eyes – A Long Time Comin’, CD only – Columbia – 2003 From a handful of tracks that possibly didn’t make the cut for the initial 1968 release of the Chicago soul rock band’s second album, this is one of two that were first added to the above reissue. 50.52 LOVIN’ SPOONFUL – Summer In The City – 7″ – Kama Sutra – 1966 Maybe the best known tune on the show, with a forceful sounding John Sebastian and his/their ‘city’ being New York and its Greenwich Village hub back then. 53.13 THE FORTUNES – Here It Comes Again – 7″ – Decca – 1965 Innocent ’60s ‘pop’ with a classy arrangement, and another the likes of which will never be made again… and certainly not by anybody aiming for the charts. 56.09 THE MINDBENDERS – Groovy Kind Of Love – 7″ – Fontana – 1965 Wayne Fontana at the helm (and co-written by a pre-Sager Carol Bayer, I’ve just noted) I think this might have subconsciously stuck with me enough in its chart days (I was 8), to then make it to my record collection in the early ’70s. It felt then like a great many happily got rid of their records (certainly singles) after just a few years coz every second hand record shop had loads of chart stuff from just the 5-10 years prior. I was too young to have been buying the height of ’60s ‘pop’ during its time but picking it up a decade later was dead easy. Bet this cost me 10p or thereabouts. 58.05 SPUDDHA – Ton – Unreleased demo – 2014 ‘Recorded in a single take with a pair of £100 analog groove boxes (Korg Volcas) and there’s no multi tracking, effects or post processing. One of the boxes is a three voice paraphonic synth and the other is an analogue drum machine.  ‘At the time I was interested in making big, immersive music with an organic quality with sparse loops and a minimal setup. There’s a lot of live tweaking and you will notice that the limitations of the synth mean that 1) only 3 notes can sound simultaneously and 2) the voices interrupt each other. Also presets couldn’t be saved… if I didn’t record what I was doing I couldn’t move onto making something else without losing it all‘. – Spuddha. ‘Spud’ to me. 01.04.46 LONELADY – Hinterland – Hinterland, LP – Warp – 2015 Julie Lonelady groovin’ a tune and lyric that should have been here before now. c/w Julie ‘helping out’… 01.09.32 JONI MITCHELL – River (acapella) 01.13.30 ATRIC & FRIDA DARKO – Hide & Seek – Download only – 2023 ‘Always trying to combine genre fluid compositions, qualitative mixing and to take the whole process with a good sense of humor‘. – Them, via Bandcamp 01.17.26 A CERTAIN RATIO – Knife Slits Water (Peel session, June ’81) – Sextet, 2LP reissue – Factory Benelux – 2013 Yep, with Martha ‘Tilly’ Tilson’s oh-so-right vocal, the slightly epic Knife Slits Water. Very coincidentally, the day ACR recorded the above Peel session (according to the Keeping It Peel site) I saw them live supporting Cabaret Voltaire at Leicester Uni and the day the session was broadcast my diary says I had a long phone chat with Rob Gretton – no idea about what, other than re what New Order were up to

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  2. JAN 4

    Post Punk Plus Podcast Playlist 147 – Original upload 4.1.26

    This playlist is 67% vinyl friendly. Poor. ‘In the year 2021, few turntables have captured the essence of that time the way that the Old Future Turntable and Speaker has. The silhouette of the player itself pays homage to ’70s architecture in Seoul. Slanted roofs were common during that era, and when you place the turntable and speaker side-by-side, they look like part of a ’70s city skyline. Some vinyl-lovers may not like this product initially because a flat, horizontal turntable would be preferred for sound quality. For those who care about audio quality over aesthetics, the turntable’s legs are adjustable, so you can make the table more even‘. – yankodesign.com Looks like it could more readily blow out hot and cold air than music. Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms tweak/edit/chop and the occasional tune might sound a bit dodgy, quality-wise. On top of that, the switch between different decades and production values never helps in the mix here. Lyric of Playlist 147 ‘Observational, not sexist‘ noted Jean-Jacques Burnel. 00.00 (Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983. Episode #1 for info. 00.41 NEW ORDER – Face Up – Low-life, LP – Factory – 1985 Face Up? More like Jump up, given the NO audience reaction when the chorus kicks in. 05.25 THE YOUNG GODS – Mes Yeux De Tous – Appear Disappear, 2LP – Two Gentlemen Records – 2025 Given that in the mid ’80s they were initially loosely bandied around in the same ‘industrial’ bag as my ‘charges’ Click Click I’ve heard very little of their lengthy and regular catalogue. This though is a mighty tune. 09.19 BLAWAN – Toast – Dismantled Into Juice, 12″ EP – XL Recordings – 2023 Nicely odd, with a ‘chorus’ that makes me smile. 11.56 BASETANK – Got Some Skills – The New Breed, v/artists promo only CD – Detonation – 1999 If it wasn’t for the 35 year age gap I might have said the vocalist on Got Some Skills and the modern day Microwave Man and his electric dirt bike online ‘Let Me Tell You Something, right?‘ words of wisdom sketches were of the same family. 15.44 9 LAZY 9: Turn Me Loose; UP, BUSTLE & OUT: Nightwalk; DJ FOOD: Klutes Groove; DJ TOOLZ: Rusty Goes GaGa; FUNKI PORCINI: It’s A Long Road – The Morning After The Night Before (one half of a CD free with DJ magazine – 1994 Old skool mixing from Cold Cut. ‘It’s (been) a long road… ‘ indeed. 22.00 HERCULES & LOVE AFFAIR (feat HIPS & LIPS) – Someone Else Is Calling, 12″ EP – Stratasonic – 2025 The sort of hypnotic beats that could have fitted in with a Winkles, Bedford set list back in the ’80s… although someone might point a sound or two here didn’t exist back then. 26.12 FUNKY GREEN DOGS – The Way * – 12″ – Twisted – 1997 ‘Anyone who ever liked That Sound from the Murk camp will like this just as much, even if they do whinge that it’s very similar to their previous favourite. The original is the heart-winner with its quivering vocal and acid-meets-funk groove, but the mixes are all attractive in their respective ways – Farley & Heller plod sweetly, Canadian Crash Productions do something along the same lines. Dirty White Boy rock and roll and Club 69 kick up a noisy messy rumpus. The best track of all is possibly the excellent FGD way-out beats. **** Daisy & Havoc, Record Mirror (Music Week), 10.5.97 Tough, liquidy goings on from the Murk camp. I was a fan. 32.51 JOY – Fragile Space – 7″ – DB-Low – 2000 ‘Isaac Hayes meets Led Zeppelin‘ ran the press release for Joy Jones’ one-off (at the time) dip into music, and there’s something sad about a single of substance that didn’t do enough for the artist to build on. 35.52 TALKING HEADS – Listening Wind – Remain In Light, LP – Sire – 1980 Just checked. This is the last in a near complete run of the album’s tracks making it to 41 Rooms. So, that must make Remain In Light a bit of a classic to my ears. 39.36 THE SOULSAVERS – Rumblefish – Beginning To See The Dark 12″ – Ghost Ride Music – 2002 The sort of drifting beats thing that would crop up late night/early morning on KISS FM or maybe Ross Allen radio shows of the time. 43.28 BETHANY & RUFUS – 900 Miles – 900 Miles, CD only – Little Monster Records – 2005 With Bethany being the daughter of ’60s folk group, Peter Paul and Mary’s Pete Yarrow, an ancient tune reworked. And it’s a cello apparently, not a double bass. 46.48 STARGARD – (Theme Song From) Which Way Is Up – 7″ – MCA -1977 As funky now as the day it was delivered. I was 20… and this would have been hitting someone’s decks at Bedford’s Nite Spot, Spectrum, Pilgrims, The Anglers’ Laird bar and elsewhere out of town I went. 51.29 THE STAPLE SINGERS – I’ll Take You There – 7″ – Stax – 1972 They never let on where exactly ‘there’ is but with their gospel background we can maybe guess. Good luck with it. 55.30 CARLA THOMAS – Things Ya Make Me Do (Summer Mix) – 12″ – Ruff Justice – 1994 Not the ’60s Stax label Carla Thomas but it’d be nice to think this CT’s parents had that lady in mind when naming this lady. What might have been tagged ‘street soul’… and possibly out of Manchester, UK. 59.06 THOMAS DYBDAHL – All’s Not Lost – That Great October Sound, CD only – Checkpoint Charlie Audio Productions – 2001 Delicate sounds from Norway. 01.04.06 PURESSENCE – Don’t Know Any Better – 7″ – Reaction Records – 2008 James Mudriczki’s vocal… 01.07.22 DAVID SYLVIAN – Nostalgia – Brilliant Trees, LP – Virgin – 1994 Post Japan, his first solo album making its mark in fine style. It was unlikely to do otherwise. 01.12.57 JOY DIVISION – Insight – The Peel Sessions, 12″EP – Strange Fruit – 1986 Peel sessions sort of mimicked a live gig recording at its crystal clear best… this one included. 01.16.50 SIOUXSIE and THE BANSHEES – Christine (Warner Chappell demo) – Kaleidoscope, CD only – Polydor – 2006 With everyone and everything here ‘battling’ to be the most understated – and with it all quite possibly recorded in a rehearsal room, on the likes of (say) a 4-track Portastudio – this is as demo’ish as a major act’s demo could sound back then. 01.19.32 THE FLAMINGOS – Shone Like The Sun #3 (unreleased demo) – 1984 With Cliff (Peacock) in Scott Walker-mode there were a few versions of this tune and to these ears it sounds even better now than it did back then – and a link here to the song being performed live when the Flamingos supported New Order at Leicester Palais, May 21, 1984. In effect the above might have doubled as my 27th birthday party and Shone Like The Sun was very likely on the Flamingos set list. 01.24.12 THE WAKE – Make You Understand – Here Comes Everybody, CD only comp – Factory Benelux – 2015 Recorded for a Feb ’84 BBC Radio 1 session for David/Kid Jensen and played live but the former only ever surfaced on the above. Stephen, Mac, Carolyn and Caesar: Winkles, Bedford, 13.11.83 Photo credit/copyright: Dec Hickey 01.26.33 LITTLE NEMO – Bed In Summer – La Cassette Froide, split cassette (with Rain Culture) – self released – 1986 Not the first European band in the mid to late ’80s to have sounded as if heavily influenced by UK bands of the early ’80s and with a track only to be found on this cassette. I won’t be acquiring one any time soon. 01.30.27 THE STRANGLERS – London Lady – 7″ – United Artists – 1977 Yep, Jean-Jacques Burnel with a lyric or two (well, one in particular) that we youth most probably laughed through back in the day but now would maybe slightly wince at. The times… 01.32.52 ELVIS COSTELLO – (I Don’t Want To Go To) Chelsea – 7″ – Radar – 1978 I had a brief moment with Declan’s singles around this time… and you had to admire the balls of a musician who wanted to strike out as an Elvis. 01.35.53 THE SUB ENSEMBLE – Faster Than The Sun (Domu Remix) – Download only – 2008 Very short-lived crew aided and abetted here by acclaimed Bedford-based (then, anyway) DJ, producer, remixer, Domu. 01.41.01 JAZZ THE GLASS – 16 Seconds – Download only, Soundcloud – 2019 A 41 Rooms regular, with another winner. Dave reminded me it uses a sample from a US boy band. I think it was a white label 12″ with anonymous writing (just initials?), that I took a punt on at no more than 20p. 01.44.47 FPI PROJECT – Come On (And Do It) (TC Funky Mix) – 12″ – Synthetic Records – 1993 ‘Tremendous funky Italian offering as ever from those talented members of Ital’s most consistent band. Chocca full of good alternative mixes,  including a wicked guitar ladened TC Funky mix… ‘ – Kenny Grogan, Mixmag Update, 28.4.93 ‘Everything you love/hate about Italian records in double helpings. Very FPI Project but bang on time with its riffing flamenco-style guitar and a bundle of irresistibly funked up mixes firm Mother-man Lee Fisher, which include a wonderful reinvention of the bouncy original into a big booming beast of a track‘. Matthew Cole, Record Mirror (Music Week), 10.7.93  ‘Girl chanted powerful Hamilton Bohannon-ish happy party pounder’s original Gypsy Kings-like guitars strummed 125bpm Official, 125.2bpm Gipsy, TC 199

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  3. 12/07/2025

    Post Punk Plus Podcast Playlist 146 – Original upload 7.12.25

    This playlist is 65% vinyl friendly. Very poor. Scorchio! ‘1960/1970 Vintage Stereo Design Record Player, in bright orange, the emblematic colour of the 1960 and an example of Mod Ultra Space Age Pop Art Raymond Loewy? France French Designer Museum-worthy‘ says the Etsy seller, adding ‘It has a few cracks, one of the speakers has a small tear in the cloth and may need an overhaul, a full check up to see how and if it works and if it is complete… WE HAVE NEVER TRIED TO USE IT AND I DO NOT KNOW IF IT WORKS OR PLAYS.‘ Thank flip it’s down to €4600, from €7100. Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms tweak/edit/chop and the occasional tune might sound a bit dodgy, quality-wise. On top of that, the switch between different decades and production values never helps in the mix here. And a bit of a croak in my voice here and there. A temporary glitch, hopefully. Lyric of Playlist 146 Trickery involved but it has to be The Bots! 00.00 (Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983. Episode #1 for info. 00.41 NEW ORDER – Ruined In A Day (Reading Festival, 1993) – In Concert – 577, CD – BBC Transcription – 1993 I and my four-year-old, Alice were there, on what was a triumphant return, with the wonderful ‘Ruined’ in amongst new numbers from the band’s then recently released Republic album nobody would have previously heard in a live setting. BBC Transcription Services recordings – produced to service radio stations and usually for a very limited time frame for broadcast – had moved from vinyl to CD but with runs still only in their low hundreds New Order completists would be struggling to own a copy of this one… and I don’t. 04.42 MERIC LONG – A Small Act Of Defiance – Kablooey, LP – Polyvinyl Record Company – 2025 Book-ending a bunch of releases through the years as a member of The Dodos, Kablooey is seemingly Long’s first solo release under his own name since 2006. 07.43 BIOCHEMICAL DREAD – False Kings Of The Earth – 12″ – Pulsolid – 2004 Besides Richard H. Kirk’s work with Cabaret Voltaire this 12″ demonstrates there have been gaps in my knowledge of his lengthy discography elsewhere. RIP, Richard. 13.21 DARKSIDE – One Last Nothing – Download only – Matador – 2025 Including a past member of the 41 Rooms playlist parish, Nicolas Jaar, a US trio currently NOT releasing a 12″, though their Bandcamp visual hints otherwise. 18.32 AGENTS WITH FALSE MEMORIES – Agents With False Memories (extract), CD only – Ash International / Soleilmoon Recordings – 1996 Extract, indeed as Richard H. Kirk promptly returns to show 146 with this four minute snippet from a 53 minute track. 22.34 HUMANIZER – Shinobi – ? – ? – 2000s? Ignoring the slight Liam Gallagher drawl and with zero connection to any Death Metal band of the same name, this might have been Manchester sourced… and maybe with a Peter Hook connection. That’s what I’m vaguely remembering… from over a decade ago. Dunno… A ‘demo’ version, minus vocals, might also get an outing here at some point. 27.08 DIFFERENT GEAR – A Little Bit Paranoid (Extended Mix) * – 12″ – City Rockers – 2002 Courtesy of a ‘Phil Dirtbox’, the vocal is the winner here. 32.59 MERZ – Sorrow In The Sky (Nightingale Vs The Crow) – 7″ b-side – Lotus Records – 2002 The stuff that people sing about… and here with gusto and passion, to boot! 36.55 LUSCIOUS JACKSON – Why Do I Lie? (Sessions at 54th, 11.97) – Stream only – 1997 Vocalist, Jill Cunniff’s tale of lying sounding best live! 40.13 THE POPPY FAMILY – I Was Wondering – 7″ – London – 1971 A bit of a strange arrangement, this one. Albeit with a key change in there – verses with no choruses! Weird and wonderful… and maybe a bit brave in the pop world of the early ’70s, where the only PF track I remember hearing as a young teen was Which Way Are You Going Billy? That won’t be getting a 41 Rooms spin. 42.43 SOPHIE JAMIESON – Camera – I Still Want To Share, LP – Bella Union – 2025 Being over in Brighton recently it seemed appropriate I buy her clear vinyl album from the Bella Union shop and re Camera? It’s the subtle build in Sophie’s vocal and she’ll be here again at some point. 46.59 MARTYN BATES – The Rhyme Of Miracles – Arriving Fire, CD only – Ambivalent Scale – 2014 Martyn instils presence in a tune like few others for me. 50.28 JOSE FELICIANO – First Of May – 7″ b-side – RCA – 1969 ‘Feliciano seems to be on a heavy Bee Gees kick… after ‘Marley Purt Drive,’ he now does ‘First Of May’ and ‘Gotta Get A Message To You.’ And with his highly stylised projection, Jose manages to make them sound totally removed from anything the Gibb brothers originated’. – Disc (edited review of the album, 10 to 23), 15.11.69. As far as I know the Bee Gees tune was only ever released on a 7″ (my ‘format of choice’) for Jose in Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines and Spain and never as an A-side and arranger, Al Capps most probably winced if he ever got to see the NZ pressing below. Strangely, Jose’s very rarely performed the song live. I’ve only noted it three times, including two at London’s Jazz Cafe, in 1996 and again in 1998 and at the former it surfaced nearly under duress. With the audience (maybe unsurprisingly) constantly shouting out for past JF favourites Jose countered, ‘You know there’s a lot of songs you people ask me for that unfortunately… and I’m not being rude, a lot of artists are rude, they do it on purpose, but some of the songs that you ask me to sing, do you know that I haven’t sung them in years and I’ve forgotten the words and rather than make an ass out of myself that’s why I don’t sing them, OK? So, don’t take it personal… I don’t sing those songs anymore. But I’ll tell you what though there’s some that you ask for that I do remember, like this one. I hope that this one will satisfy you.’ That rare sighting was even more surprising considering Jose had taken the rare move of including his own recording of the song when guesting on Brian Matthew’s My Top Twelve for BBC Radio 1 back in June 1974. 54.11 JAPAN – Alien – Quiet Life, LP – Ariola Hansa – 1980 Bedford: Heronscroft, Putnoe, 1980 and Winkles, 1981… with a few Japan gigs thrown in at the time. 58.47 JOHN CALE – Chinese Envoy (M:FANS) – M: FANS, 2 LP – Double Six – 2016 ‘Approached as a reinterpretation of Cale’s 1982 improvisational album, Music for a New Society… M:FANS is something of a funhouse mirror reflection of that work, using the basic song-structures of the original album as a starting point and using time, experience and the technological advances of the ensuing years to bring a new focus to the tunes. Some selections are comfortably familiar, while others have a significantly different footprint‘. – KCRW 01.02.32 ICEHOUSE – No Promises (Dance Mix) * – 12″ – Chrysalis – 1990 Fully five years after the track had seemingly done its thing it got an extended outing in Spain. 01.07.58 DAVID BOWIE – This Is Not America (BBC concert) – Bowie At The Beeb, 2CD – EMI – 2000 Part of Bowie’s special set for a small invited audience at the BBC’s Radio Theatre, in London, June 2000. 01.11.29 JOHNNY KEATING – Theme from Z-Cars (Johnny Todd) – 7″ – Piccadilly – 1962 Did I realise the grittier scripts involved here than had been delivered by Jack Warner’s strolling forerunner, Dixon Of Dock Green? Nah, I was five when Z-Cars kicked off but the theme (based on the traditional folk song, Johnny Todd) still brings a fuzzy feel. And Wikipedia will give you the full story on why Everton FC players come out to the tune at home games. 01.13.22 MARC COHN – ‘Walking in Memphis (Mahna Mahna)’ – Stream only – 1990’s? Cohn definitely wouldn’t have seen this coming, as the self proclaiming Mahna Mahna and the Snowths duo upstage him in a short but cheeky mashup (of sorts) I happened on via Youtube a couple of decades ago. I’ll openly admit I was a Muppets fan when they first aired on UK TV back in the mid ’70s and with Statler & Waldorf the stars for me I remember walking my girlfriend of the time, Jill home from work and then running up the hill to my house to record the show. Pre the age of video recorders, at one point there was a stack of ten to twenty AGFA(!!) cassette tapes of the shows in my bedroom. Getting back to Cohn, the fact he’s ‘racing’ a bit here actually adds to the cheeriness and I salute whoever was involved. 01.14.44 BERNARD CRIBBINS – The Hole In The Ground – 7″ – Parlophone – 1962 And like the Z-Cars theme I was five when this was released and I’d have definitely been singing this one in the years close after – and weirdly, although it’s the second tune from ’62 on this show, it’s not the last. 01.16.27 THE BOTS – Fuzzy Math – George W. Bush Greatest Hits, v/artists, CDr only – Spin The World – 2004 I heard this cut and paste work of art somewhere around its ‘release’ and as of 2004… ‘… utilizing the revolutionary Presidential Truth Filter(PTF). The PTF operates like this: All presidential statements are recorded, and made into a huge database. The database is searchable by speech, phrase, keyword, emotional intensity, etc. In parallel, an analysis is made of the historical circumsta

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  4. 11/02/2025

    Post Punk Plus Podcast Playlist 145 – Original upload 2.11.25

    This playlist is 73% vinyl friendly. Not bad. Anonymous ‘radiogram’, 1960s… and even at its size, the sort of set up that most families of the time had when music was really just a household component. Ours followed on from a legless Dansette-type turntable and was initially used primarily for the radio, with Dad wiring it through to the kitchen where one or two very discreetly hidden grills under a cupboard relayed Worldwide Family Favourites to the family Sunday lunch. Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms tweak/edit/chop and the occasional tune might sound a bit dodgy, quality-wise. On top of that, the switch between different decades and production values never helps in the mix here. Lyric of Playlist 145 ‘You could be laughing sixty three percent more of the time… ‘ When Grant’s in the house he’s a likely contender here. 00.00 (Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983. Episode #1 for info. 00.41 NEW ORDER – Hey Now What You Doing – Waiting For The Sirens’ Call, 2LP – London – 2005 On what is arguably the band’s weakest album, a gunslinger strum of a song that’s easy to skank around to on the dancefloor and if I ignore the ‘rock drawl’ that Barney sometimes gravitated to in later years (and touches on here) I’d suggest it’s one of his finest vocal performance, with some beaut guitar to boot. 05.40 PRESENCE – Better Days (Presence Vocal Mix) – 12″ – Pagan – 1997 One of producer Charles Webster’s many monikers, here with some class house music peeping out of a genre that’s been littered with sterility through the decades since its inception. He’ll be back here. 09.37 DISCLOSURE (feat JESSIE WARE) – Confess To Me – Settle, 2LP – PMR/Island/Method – 2013 Saw this pairing delivering this on Later With Jools. 13.37 SERMONS BY THE DEVIL – Synesthesia – Exorcismo Electronico, LP – Library Of The Occult – 2025 A ‘Sermons By The Devil’ search online is likely to lead to no good I tell ya, and the album’s imagery etc doesn’t grab me either but this is some cheery funky electronica. 20.42 CABARET VOLTAIRE – Yashar (John Robie Mix) – 12″ – Factory – 1983 This would have been here a good few years earlier if it hadn’t slipped through the initial 2016 ’41 Rooms Potentials’ folder. Richard and Mal pretty much namechecked Robie’s mighty work here as having single-handedly opened them up to the possibilities of ‘branching out’ and it’s a tune and mix that’s as synonymous as any with Wednesday nights in Winkles, Bedford back in the day. Even Pete Care’s video was ever present with the times. The US acetate below is likely to be the Robie mix and the owner (not me) will know. 27.58 BLAWAN – NOS – SickElixir, LP – XL Recordings – 2025 Given the music he’s been knocking out since 2010 a move to Berlin for northern producer, Jamie Roberts isn’t such a surprise. 31.01 THE HUMAN LEAGUE – Being Boiled (Album version) – Travelogue, LP – Virgin – 1980 Faster and definitely ‘funkier’ than the already playlisted original but it’s a toss up… 34.51 DEEP PURPLE – Emmaretta – 7″ – Parlophone – 1969 I had the stock/shop copy of this back in my mid ’70s ‘rock, pop and soul’ years when I saw DP at Wembley Empire Pool and though classic rock rarely gets a look in on 41 Rooms this sounded more than fine. I’d maybe even have a belated stab at buying the demo/promo copy (below, and reminiscent of Motown demos of the time ) if it hadn’t gravitated to a £150 and well beyond price tag. 37.29 JEFFERSON AIRPLANE – White Rabbit (Ursula 1000 remix) – Stream only – 2000-2010? This mix turned up on some radio show… and has since disappeared. File Alex Gimeno’s efforts here under Psychedelia Plus. 41.30 RADWIMPS (feat TOAKA) – Suzume – ‘Suzume’ Motion Picture Soundtrack, 2LP – All The Anime Music – 2023 The sonics you can bump into on the net… 45.24 LANA SOY – Mind Games – Stream only – 2021’ish ‘‘Pure’, ‘softest’ and ‘soulful’ are usually the words thrown to describe Svetlana’s voice. Originally from Moscow and Londoner since 17, Svetlana’s music has been inspired by Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush, Tori Amos, Regina Spektor, Evanescence, Des’ree, Brandy and Sade‘. – Soundcloud On a recent whistle stop trip back to Bedford I caught Lana at an open mic night and the best grouping of her songs is possibly her Apple Music presence. However, this version of Mind Games is one of two that are elsewhere, certainly including Soundcloud. 48.28 AIR (feat BETH HIRSCH) – You Make It Easy – Moon Safari, LP – Virgin – 1998 Any excuse to feature the voice of Beth Hirsch… and here it’s the avenue that most of the world got to first here her through. 52.06 JOHN GRANT – GMF – Pale Gree Ghosts, 2LP – Bella Union – 2013 With Grant’s usual wit and Sinead O’Connor (RIP) guesting, a few TV appearances of this song also included the latter on BVs, and certainly on Irish TV also Sinead’s daughter, Roísín’ where the phrase ‘The G(reatest) M(other) F(ucker)’ is still not one you’ll hear clear as day too often. 57.16 JAKE NAJOR and FRIENDS – Midnight In A Perfect World (live) – Stream only – 2021 ‘American drummer, active as musician for numerous bands and band projects… ‘ says Discogs and here Najor faithfully recreates – in a video’d 99% live setting – to within a hair’s breath of DJ Shadow’s already 41 Rooms playlisted original. 01.01.54 DONOVAN – Hurdy Gurdy Man – 7″ – Pye – 1968 Another of the songs that when heard at the time, stood out over the Radio One airwaves, amongst its diet of pop music. Donovan himself even seems to be at odds with others involved in the session as to who added the electric guitar. Check the song’s Wikipedia entry for all the fun. I do know from research in a slightly different area (musicians playing live in the UK, but in the same time period) that sessioners were known to sometimes get paid in cash, with the deal and details being kept off the books for whoever it suited. 01.04.58 KIDDA – We, Do, Da Dirty Soundbwoy – Fresh Mess, DJ mix CDr – Catskills – 2005 The only place to find this barely 2 mins bouncy hip hoppity skit. 01.07.09 D’ANGELO – Unshaken – Red Dead Redemption II, video games soundtrack, 2LP – Lakeshore Records/Rockstar Games – 2019 “Produced by Daniel Lanois, co-writer of the track along with D’Angelo (RIP) and Rocco DeLuca, and on transparent red, should vinyl soundtracks be your thing. 01.10.59 MARK S. WILLIAMSON – Encounter On The Moor – Folklore, Facts And Fables 5: The Eve Stone, CD only – Forged River Recordings – 2025 ‘For the fifth instalment in folklore, facts and fables series, we finally get a fable. We return to Todmorden and the story of Rob o’Harry’ot’Deans and his encounter with the fairy people up on the moors above the town… ‘ – Bandcamp It quickly gets on a sonic plain and just stays there but I’m not qualified to work out whether multi-instrumentalist Williamson’s one string biscuit tin violin made it to the proceedings. 01.17.38 BREAKBEAT ERA – Breakbeat Era – 12″ – XL Recordings – 1998 And from one of my fave 21st century sounding albums (d&b is just that way). even though it was made a shade earlier. 01.21.51 ??? – ??? – ??? – 1997? Taped off a d&b show on London’s KISS FM radio of the time, I had this down as Comin’ Down by Kapricorn… but in amongst the swamp of anonymous and/or barely iD’d white label/promo/acetate/DAT tape etc tunes DJs on these sort of shows were buried in, this one was maybe confused with the aforementioned on a playlist, and it’s not anything Shazam can identify either. If you know… then let me know! 01.26.38 MATRIX – The Message 96 – New Identity Recordings – 12″ – 1996 One Jamie Quinn with some sparkling d&b! 01.30.05 LONDON ELEKTRICITY – Fast Soul Music – Billion Dollar Gravy, 3×12″ – Hospital Records – 2003 Given the title I’d have expected LE’s near-resident vocalist, Liane Carroll to have featured more here than with the occasional scat. 01.35.45 PARANOID LONDON (feat JENNIFER TOUCH) – Fields Of Fire – Arseholes, Liars, And Electronic Pioneers, 2LP – Paranoid London Records – 2024 The shuffling ‘hi-hats’ drive the stark beats like a real driving thing. If this had come out in 1981 I’d have made a home for this on the turntables for a good few week at Winkles. 01.43.01 MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO – Radio Babylon – 12″ – Play It Again Sam – 1990 Any year but 1990 certainly and I may have heard it at the time. 01.49.21 MERZ – Many Weathers Apart (Album version) – Merz, LP – Epic – 1999 A remix of MWA featured here a few years ago and it’s not the last time you’ll hear Conrad Merz’s idiosyncratic vocals here. 01.54.00 JOHN MARTYN – I’d Rather Be The Devil (Scrimshire Edit) – Download only – 2016 Adam Scrimshire adding beats and things to the already beat’y. Show 145 hopefully surfaces Dec 7. Dec x The post Post Punk Plus Podcast Playlist 145 – Original upload 2.11.25 appeared first on 41Rooms.

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  5. 10/05/2025

    Post Punk Plus Podcast Playlist 144 – Original upload 5.10.25

    This playlist is 68% vinyl friendly. Poor, and the first show to hit that exact mark… though with a likely future vinyl release it should inch up at some point. ‘A German (Dieter Rams) design classic… that caused uproar in the ’60s as one of the first light-weight record players to eschew the heavy wooden cabinet design, the Braun Audio 1 was the company’s first fully transistorised combined hi-fi system. At just 67cm wide, it’s remarkably petite… ‘ – The Vinyl Factory, 2017 Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms tweak/edit/chop and the occasional tune might sound a bit dodgy, quality-wise. On top of that, the switch between different decades and production values never helps in the mix here. Lyric of Playlist 144 ‘I realized u were my demise… ‘ OK, so there’s little competition. 00.00 (Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983. Episode #1 for info. 00.41 NEW ORDER – Crystal (Unpasteurized version by Ivan X) – Stream only – 2025 ‘Crystal is a super song, but, to me, a lot of the “heys” and “oohs” are distracting, and conceal the excellent music underneath. I also don’t love the intro, or the repetitions of “keep it coming.” So I made this version that cuts out all of those, leaving a spare vocal and great music. Maybe you’ll like it, maybe you won’t. Here it is!‘ – Ivan X The barely 400 yoootoob views at the time I clocked this mix suggests this Naked/Unpasteurized mix is from recent times rather than from when the band offered out Barney’s vocal for anyone to build a (re)mix around. If so, it’s maybe in the light of AI making track/stem separation, errr… ‘easier’, and whether you like your remixes to pay purist homage or go the ‘out there’ route that house music remixers have so often championed (both can have their winners)… this is gold star. 06.38 CLOCK DVA – Consent – White Souls In Black Suits, LP – Italian Records – 1982 First released on vinyl in Italy in 1982 but now… ‘Available for first time in over 35 years, Clock DVA’s White Souls in Black Suits – originally released in 1980 as a limited-run cassette on Throbbing Gristle’s Industrial Records – now returns newly remastered and reissued via The Grey Area of Mute and expanded with four bonus tracks from the same era‘. – Mute, October, 2025 It would have jelled better if the drumming had been higher in the mix. 11.08 HULA – Walk On Stalks Of Shattered Glass – 12″ – Red Rhino – 1985 Only released as a 12″ but someone online recently grabbed a 7″ test pressing for all of about £3.50! 15.38 THE SISTERS OF MERCY – Adrenochrome – 7″ b-side – CNT Productions/Merciful Release – 1982 Bought new but I don’t remember ever having the pic sleeve to this Body Electric single. If I did have it I lost it early on and very possibly during its many outings at our Winkles club nights when both sides rightly got played a lot. The photo below might suggest otherwise but the state my copy has been in since the mid ’80s is not good and a long way off the €300 or so it might have attracted if I’d vaulted the bugger away the day I bought it. Of course no one did that sort of thing back then, even if they do now. 18.33 STRETCHER – Mocktober – Unreleased – 2002’ish? He’s known as Spud to me… and he’s given me as much info as when his other 2002’ish demo, Mousehold cropped up on 41 Rooms, back in 2021… which is diddly squat :)… so here’s a photo of a pink fairy armadillo! 23.31 HOT LIZARD – 165 Drop (Love From San Francisco Mix) – 12″ – Pacific Records – 1996 ‘Probably the strongest release yet on the label, 165 Drop is a superbly crafted atmospheric piece of deep house, though just to place it in this category doesn’t do it justice. The simple swishing hats provide a rhythmic background to a procession of interesting, arpeggiated synth lines that blend beautifully, all the time gradually building into quite a pacy groove. Love From San Francisco’s mix is slower, gentler and effective in a more easy listening manner but there are more mixes to follow on this track in the coming months so this package may get stronger still‘. **** Tim Jeffery, Record Mirror (Music Week), 1.3.97 Hey! Less of the ‘Easy Listening’! 31.35 SOUND OF MUSIC – Feel The Music (Part One) – 12″ – Emotive Records – 1992 ‘Feel the music’ indeed. There’s nothing profound in the lyrics but the beats and sounds of a handful of Emotive 12″s from around this period lifted the spirits. ‘Need the release‘? Both physically and mentally, at this time I did… and the £4 I paid for the 12″ in ’92 is about as much as a decent copy will cost now. 38.09 SILICONE SOUL – Right On! (Original Instrumental Version) (Pitched down!) – 12″ – VC Recordings/Soma – 2001 Given the sampled narration included, to this day this ‘instrumental’ take sounds a shade too chirpy cheery for me… so to give it some extra ‘presence’ I pitched it down on the show. 43.09 ISAAC HAYES – Theme From ‘Shaft’ – 7″ – Stax – 1971 Given its reason for being (a soundtrack) I’ve spun the full version rather than the subtly edited 7″ take. Arguably the most recognisable Blaxploitation sound(track)? 47.34 PART TIME HEROES – All This Time – Realise, 12″ EP – Mums The Word – 2006 I remember these guys doing some great radio shows, possibly stepping in for I’m not sure who – Gilles P, Ross Allen? It’s a blur. As of right now, a UK-sourced VG+ vinyl copy of the Realise EP (with this the second 41 Rooms playlisted track) on Discogs… at £1! 51.56 ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF – Stardust – Download only – 2025 ‘Reverb’ setting to ‘huge empty church’ or the likes in the recording process – or it was actually recorded in a huge empty church, and an ‘interesting’ use of a family photo for the sleeve below. There’s something in the water in Sweden. 58.29 HARMON BETHEA – Anonymous * – 7″ b-side – Creole – 1976 I spent a few years with only half of this track grabbed from somewhere online… and the wrong title! That never helps. 01.02.42 TOM BROCK – I Love You More And More – I Love You More And More, LP – 20th Century Records – 1974 ‘Lurv thang’ mid ’70s soul and from the only album Brock made… and one with two 21st century re-releases. Not that its version of ‘I Love… ‘ really goes anywhere different beyond the 2mins 46 edit used for the US 7″ but seeing as a 1975 Brazilian 7″ pressing was mastered at 33rpm (they often cut singles that way over there back then and it would have giving them ‘space’ for more music) I’d be interested to know whether they went with the full length version. Nice touch, if they did… but I bet they didn’t. 01.06.32 MARVIN GAYE – That’s The Way Love Is – 7″ – Tamla (Motown) – 1969 Marv Top 10’ing in the US with a punchier, moodier version than the Isley Brothers’ uptempo take from two years earlier. 01.10.01 STEELY DAN – Do It Again – 7″ – ABC Records – 1972 I playlisted the full version that lead off the band’s debut album, Can’t Buy A Thrill but I should have edited out the keyboard doodling… so using a 41 Rooms ‘trick’ I did the next best thing. With show 144’s time again I would go for the 7″ version, as it was the one that did it for me back in the day… as No. ‘977’ on the 7″ shelves of this then teenager’s bedroom, the log of the time still tells me. 01.15.16 (THE) PENTANGLE – Travellin’ Song – 7″ – Big T / Joc – 1968 Unless you lived in a folk music strong household, anyone nearing teenage years in the UK in the late ’60s most probably first heard Jacqui McShee’s signature vocals on the band’s Light Flight guesting as the theme to the BBC comedy drama, Take Three Girls but Travellin’ Song pre-dated that as their debut 7″. The copy below? To be picked up by me the next time I’m in Bedford. 01.18.08 THE B-52’s – Roam – 7″ – WEA International – 1989 Don’t ya just smile when you hear their vocals? Oh, and the apostrophe. It would hang on in their name for a few years more. 01.22.35 JAY B. SELLS (feat JOSHUA HAYES) – Pulling Strings (unreleased demo) – 1998’ish I got given this demo by ‘Jay B. Sells’ maybe sometime soon after I left working at the Westminster Uni’s Commercial Music department but when on a return visit to see folks. Give this song and arrangement to some young soul(s) with pop stardom in their sites and a 2020s production mindset and I reckon this is a nailed on’ hands in the air’ winner. Indeed, after Rod Thomas gravitated to becoming Bright Light Bright Light (and maybe somewhere in between his first two BLBL albums) I did wing this track to him but he’s very much an ‘own song’ man… or maybe he just thought I was mad. 01.26.05 JAZZ THE GLASS – Main Squeeze – Output2023, EP – Bandcamp, download only – 2023 The motif pulling it back wins out but the drive is there. Cinematic and classy! 01.30.52 COMMON FACTOR (+ JOHN REDMOND) – World Is Mine – 12″ – Planet E – 2000 Every few years I seemed to latch on to a track on Carl Craig’s label and here Redmond’s on a mission. Building from half way through, it feels like madcap gospel on speed. 01.36.35 LAYO & BUSHWACKA! – Deep South – 12″ – End Recordings – 1999 Rumbling sounds and som

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  6. 09/07/2025

    Post Punk Plus Podcast Playlist 143 – Original upload 7.9.25

    This playlist is 79% vinyl friendly. Not bad. The Vertere SG-1/Xtrax! Named by designer and founder, Tourag Moghaddam like a very expensive thing… and at nearly £45,000 in 2023 it was. With its ‘strategically placed LEDs embedded in the sumptuous acrylic plinth‘, when What Hi-Fi reached their 50th birthday earlier this year the turntable made it into their ‘20 very best turntables of What Hi-Fi?’s lifetime‘ and described it as ‘a true musical chameleon, one that changes character with the recording being played. Such a talent is rare in hi-fi, and should be cherished.‘ Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms tweak/edit/chop and the occasional tune might sound a bit dodgy, quality-wise. On top of that, the switch between different decades and production values never helps in the mix here. Lyric of Playlist 143 Could have gone with Devo’s ‘Afraid nobody around here, understands my potato. I think I’m the only spud boy looking for a real tomato‘ but I guess you needed to have been there. Instead, I’m going with ‘Diamond in the back, sunroof top, diggin’ the scene with a gangsta lean, wooh-ooh-ooh‘, a line anyone of a certain would likely know. 00.00 (Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983. Episode #1 for info. 00.41 NEW ORDER – Heart and Soul (Reading Festival, 1998) – 3 16, DVD – Warner Music Vision – 2001 Aside Ceremony and a version of Love Will Tear Us Apart in Birmingham back in 1983, if you weren’t at the Manchester Apollo gig a month before this Reading Festival appearance, to that point you’d have been waiting nearly two decades for New Order to perform any Joy Division songs and this evening – after yet another five year gap in performing live – they ran through Isolation, Atmosphere, Heart And Soul, Ceremony and Love Will Tears Us Apart. My daughter, Alice now at her second New Order gig, aged nine and a tall kid for her age back then, went jostling down the front once again, remembering ‘rolls and rolls of toilet paper being thrown through the crowd’. At the Rivermead party afterwards, being in the same room as Neil Tennant, Pete Shelley and Keith Allen meant zip to her when there were kids to be running around with and she spent most of the time playing video games with a boy and girl, both slightly older than herself. A very young Lily and Alfie Allen? We’ll likely never know. She did, though, remember me introducing her to Rob Gretton… which, of course, was far more important an event. 04.11 MEDIUM MEDIUM – Freeze – 7″ b-side – Apt Music – 1979 More ‘indie/new wave’ than the previously playlisted a-side, Them Or Me which rode the funk slant they’re best remembered for from their initial short incarnation. 07.07 LONELADY – Intuition (home studio version) – Stream only – 2022 A wonderful abrasive live version of an early Warp Records single and track from her debut album, Nerve Up. Seek out unique Lonelady content from Julie at Patreon. 10.21 THE SOUL OF 81 WINKLES – Look My Way (Radio Edit) – 10″ – So… Sparkle! – 1998 Where to start? From my time working within the Uni of Westminster’s Commercial Music Dept out in Harrow, London and a label project involving the students. I chose the tune, a cover of Mira Pa Ca by ’70s US Latin rockers, Chango and with one of the course’s heads, Alan Fisch/Fisher (ex Cabaret Voltaire) producing, we handpicked some of the best students. All pre internet, I remember sourcing Spanish and Portuguese peeps at the Uni to try and decipher the lyrics of the original (only partly successful, I think) and I even wrote an extra verse myself. I remember Alan F clocking the recording covering 174 tracks(!) and we ran with the adrenalin/enthusiasm that can overtake bands when playing live gigs – in that the finished track moved tempo and basically sped up… a lot(!) something that was later pointed out with great enthusiasm and admiration by DJ, Andy/Mr Scruff. For the uninitiated, the band ‘name’ was a sort of nod to the Bedford alternative club started in early 1981 at a club called Winkles, whereby although predominantly the alternative/indie/new wave of the time we did move around genres and should this ‘Look My Way’ project have carried on to other releases we may have moved across a genre or two. Indeed, my initial idea for a follow up (if one had come) was to cover One Fine Day, a single by ’70s Canadian rockers, Lighthouse… and we’d have pulled it off, too. Originally a 500 run, hand numbered, orange vinyl promo 10″ the reaction to Look My Way was brill. Fuelled massively by Patrick Forge on his Kiss FM radio show, a whole host of other buzz builder etc DJs (see below, including Pete Tong’s Radio One Essential Selection show) followed suit. Thanks to the facilities at the Uni we produced a video (it’s on Youtube), got a couple of A&R along to the filming and ended up performing the track live just the once, a 12 minute version at Patrick Forge’s 333/Off Centre club night’s first anniversary shindig. Oh, and a 12″ pressing followed as an official release. So, least we forget: Kirsten, Sahara, Adam, Vid, Buster, Dan, Phil, Ed, Calum, Shanks, Wills, John, Ivan, Alan, Colm (RIP) and no doubt others… and from 2020, my Facebook page for a slightly different take and more photos. Kirsten and Alan Pass to the recording of the video. 14.00 JOSE FELICIANO – Day Tripper (live) – 7″ b-side – RCA – 1969 Besides coupling with Windmills Of Your Mind on the above mentioned Turkish single – the only known official release of Jose’s Day Tripper on a 7″ – it did feature on a US promo 4-track 7″ that was used to promote the 1969 live at the London Palladium double album, Alive Alive-O, the best known source for Jose’s cover but though a massive Beatles fan he rarely played the song live beyond the release of the album. In a Rolling Stone interview with Jonathon Colt in Nov ’68 John Lennon was asked if there were any other versions of his songs that he liked and he replied: ‘Jose Feliciano does great things to ‘Help’ and ‘Day Tripper‘. As this was a year before Jose’s London Palladium performance and I’m reasonably sure Jose hadn’t performed Day Tripper on UK or US TV I can only assume Lennon had either caught Jose playing live at one of his low key club nights on his debut UK visit in May ’67 (The Scotch Of St James, a likely contender as it was a Beatles haunt and Macca certainly saw Jose there) or a far bigger concert when Jose began blowing up large in the US in the second half of ’68. 17.46 JOSE FELICIANO – Day Tripper (GOT-TA-SCATTA’s DT Ripper) – Unreleased – 2009’ish Unreleased for obvious reasons, although when I played a slightly earlier version of our ‘take’ to Jose years ago he loved it and said we ought to release it. And as it happens, I’ll be winging this version to Jose tomorrow, as it marks his 80th birthday! One half of GOT-TA-SCATTA (Dave, far right), with Jose (second left), here with Cliff Peacock and my daughter, Alice during the recording of Jose’s inclusion on The Flamingos’ Icarus Descending 1998 single. 21.04 ECHO and THE BUNNYMEN – Stars Are Stars – Crocodiles, LP – Korova – 1980 Hell, they were a class act. 23.45 D.A.F. – Kebaubtraume – 7″ – Mute – 1980 Easy to see why they passed through on Daniel Miller’s label. 27.14 CABARET VOLTAIRE – Landslide – Red Mecca, LP – Rough Trade – 1981 The one minute plus video of CV2025 (Mal, Chris Watson, Eric Random and Benge) rehearsing Landslide in preparation for their upcoming UK dates will have driven even greater interest in their return, one though that, as Mal freely admits, wouldn’t have happened had Richard Kirk not passed away in 2021. At that point Richard was the only member of Cabaret Voltaire and refrained from playing any old material in live performances… and maybe as important, Richard and Mal sadly weren’t exactly on speaking terms. With Richard’s passing and the void it left, coupled with a fiftieth anniversary looming since the first CV gig, it’s maybe understandable that Mal and Chris, as the other two original members, might want to celebrate… and I and whole bunch of others will be doing just that with them. RIP, Richard. 29.15 DEVO – Smart Patrol/Mr DNA – Duty Now For The Future, LP – Virgin – 1979 Were they not men? They are Devo! 34.47 RINGDOWN – Crazy – Lady On The Bike, LP – Nonesuch – 2025 Willie Nelson’s song taken in a Patsy Cline-type of way. 36.57 SPOKANKI – Ceann Dubh Dilis (My Sweet, Dark-Haired Love) – Stream only? – 2019’ish ‘Ever heard traditional Irish music like this? Composed by Michael McGlynn and performed by Spokanki — a magical a cappella group of 8 sisters blending haunting harmonies with heart. Turn the volume up and tag someone who needs to hear this! ’ – Irish Daily ‘… a “multi-genre musical, theatrical a cappella group” (their words, and honestly? accurate).Their sound is so unique, haunting and warm at the same time — I have sooo many questions According to legend (aka their website), they’re 8 sisters from the mystical land of SpokanLand, traveling the world to share the music of all peoples and becoming friends with the entire human world…‘ – dailychoirs Out of Russia a “multi-genre musical theatrical a cappella group” According to their website, they are eight* sisters from the mystical (and fictional) town of SpokanLand. 37.55 COCTEAU TWINS – Dear Heart

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  7. 08/03/2025

    Post Punk Plus Podcast Playlist 142 – Original upload 3.8.25

    This playlist is 76% vinyl friendly. Not bad. RCA Victor, 1950s. ‘No frills’ would be an understatement. Did the job though, no doubt. Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms tweak/edit/chop and the occasional tune might sound a bit dodgy, quality-wise. On top of that, the switch between different decades and production values never helps in the mix here. Lyric of Playlist 142 ‘Trigger happy policing. Panic is spreading. God knows where we’re heading… ‘ Marv, via The Flams. 00.00 (Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983. Episode #1 for info. 00.41 NEW ORDER – Paradise – Brotherhood, LP – Factory – 1986 The album’s lead track. Played live late ’80s through the ’90s and though I would get the very slightest wiff of c&w with the occasional ‘mid period’ New Order song it’s unlikely Barney’s ‘Jolene’ is the same as Dolly Parton’s. 04.16 ASHNYMPH – Saltspreader – Download only – 2025 A glorious, chugging, fuzzy racket from South London that band member, Jonny sees as ‘service station dance music.’ It’s also a rare example of a(nother) vocal rising from the bottom of a big barrel… that sounds OK! 07.43 CHAKK – No. 3 SOUND (Peel session) – stream only – 1984 ‘Industrial funk’ back then and just as much so now. At the time of recording for their one and only John Peel session this track sounded like a sketch of an idea with vocalist, Jake Harries slightly ad-libbing/winging it. So new maybe, it had no title… other than it was the third track recorded for the session. Tough, whatever and hello to anyone else who saw them at London’s Portobello Rd Electric Cinema or supporting The Smiths at Warwick Uni, both in early ’84 I think. 11.04 ZAINICHI FUNK – Bakudan Kowai – 爆弾こわい, CD only – P-Vine Records – 2011 Bonkers Japanese homage to James Brown, with the vocalist throwing in the slightest of Godfather of Funk moves in the video. They do it their own way over there and on the evidence of this alone it’s hard to know whether it’s a deep love of funk, a total spoof or somewhere in between. 15.04 NEW STREET ADVENTURE – Hangin’ On / Hangin’ Up – 7″ – Unmasked Recordings – 2012 Having had a stint as a solo artist Nick Corbin is currently back in 2025 action within his full band moniker. Here though it’s their mod-tastic debut single from back in the day. Sharp, especially with the flip side making it to the mega 7″ Heaven show 100. 17.41 THE STYLE COUNCIL – Money-Go-Round (Part One) – 7″ – Polydor – 1983 Paul Weller’s soul collective knocked out a cracking version of this live on UK TV back in the day (possibly not The Tube?) and though this is a slight cheat on the ‘play only once on 41 Rooms’ rule I set myself (the 12″ was spun about a hundred shows ago) it’s a set of lyrics as on point today as it was those forty plus years ago. 21.19 BOBBY BYRD – I Know You Got Soul (Original Full Album Version) – 12″ – S12 – 2001 If I’m honest, I wasn’t aware of Byrd’s original – either this album version or the original three minutes only 1971, King label 7″ – until after buying Eric B. & Rakim’s slightly slower 1988 cover but it still feels like I heard it a few years before the full version got released on this 12″. 25.46 TROUBLE FUNK – Trouble Funk Express – 12″ – D.E.T.T. Records – 1982 The Washington D.C. Go-Go train chugging along the tracks slightly slower than its Dusseldorf-based inspiration. Suggesting (as it appears to do) that it’s actually a Trouble Funk written track is something Kraftwerk may have had something to say about. 31.54 GURU (feat D. C. LEE) – No Time To Play – 12″ – Cooltempo – 1993 ‘Another jem from the ‘Jazzamatazz’ set, this crispy two-stepper boasting a C.J. MacKintosh remix of a chirpy rap tune featuring infectious backgrounds from D C Lee and jazzy guitar licks from Ronnie Jordan. Elsewhere in the proceedings string stabs, a warm bass line and live drum feel add to the joyous nature of the track, DC Lee’s chorus backgrounds definitely being the particularly effective riff that lodges in your grey matter‘. – Ralph Tee, Record Mirror (Music Week), 16.10.93 ‘CJ MacKintosh remixed jauntily jiggling 100bpm groove with Guru muttering through D.C. Lee’s mantra-like refrain and Ronny Jordan’s jazz guitar… ‘ – James Hamilton, Record Mirror (Music Week), 6.11.93  Yep, featuring in no small measure, D. C. Lee and with a big nod to the sounds bubbling underneath, yet another rap that passes me by as my ears wait to pick up on the chorus. 36.36 SOUL II SOUL – Just Right (Video version) – Stream only? – 1992 Not the first version of the song to grace 41 Rooms and it might not be the last, so props to all involved, most notably guest vocalist here, Rick Clarke and his melodies, and I’m wondering if it was nailed on that Jazzie B’s rap had to stay in, no matter who was remixing. 40.14 DONOR LENS – Inside Outside – As Warm As Summer, cassette only – My Pet Flamingo – 2025 Amazing how the kids have taken to a decades old format. The album is also available digitally but as of right now the now sold out cassette version is the only hard copy format out there. Re their ‘Vaporwave’-tagged sound? See their entry on the last show. 43.12 SCALER (feat AKIKO HARUNA) – Salt – Endlessly, LP – Black Acre – 2025 Upcoming in September and we’re in slow beats terrain that you may not be surprised to hear, emanates from Bristol, UK. ‘Scaler (Alex Hill, Isaac Jones, James Rushforth and Nick Berthoud, alongside visual artist Jason Baker) are the electrifying Bristol-based band hailed as the city’s “next national breakthrough” thanks to their pulverising live show and meticulous, mind-warping sound. Now they’re back with ‘Endlessly’, a sublime and stylistically expansive new album. 10 potent tracks written and recorded more collaboratively than ever before, as SCALER explore what it means to make music with no ceiling… ‘. – Spindizzy Records 46.32 LEON VYNEHALL (feat POISON ANNA) – Mirror’s Edge – Download only – 2025 Dub… step… 50.28 SANDOZ – Inner Rhythms – Intensely Radioactive, 2LP – Touch – 1994 The late Richard H. Kirk sounding cinematic. 59.34 JOI CARDWELL – What It Feels Like (Quentin Harris Club Mix) * – 12″ – BPM King Street Sounds – 2006 Not an R&B-style track then taken on a remix journey but co-written with and produced by Quentin Harris. 01.05.40 TASHAN – Love Is Forever (Shadow Zone Vocal Dub) – 12″ – Columbia – 1993 ‘Now here on import with mixes to suit every persuasion. The three A-side soul-cum-swing versions are certainly reflections of the bum and easily the highlight here, sophistication and subtle urban flavours lending to its potential at an adult rather than street level. The three B-side mixes house it up‘. – Ralph Tee, Record Mirror (Music Week), 4.12.93 ‘Soulfully moaning guy’s superb wriggly cantering 123.8bpm David Shaw, lush jiggly swaying 109.8bpm Radio, chunkier rolling 110.2bpm Joe ‘The Butcher’ Mixes‘. – James Hamilton, Record Mirror (Music Week), 4.12.93 I say ‘weirdly tagged’ on the show coz this ‘Vocal Dub’ sounds like a full vocal to me. Back listening to this at the time on KISS FM (London style) it was the clattering snares that caught my ear first. 01.09.51 BULLION – Long Promised – Young Heartache, 12″ EP – One-Handed Music – 2009 Depending on how you’re wired, this juttery approach may not be to everyone’s liking. 01.12.31 EYELESS IN GAZA – John Of Patmos – Photographs As Memories, LP – Cherry Red – 1981 Martyn Bates sounding as like some distant folk style got hijacked by punk with bare bones electronica to hand. 01.16.41 NORRIS MAN – Home And Away * – 7″ – Vertex Productions – 2005 I can’t stand the intro to this, so it got binned for the show. Apologies to Norris Man but after that it sounds great. 01.20.06 MORGAN HERITAGE – Crying Out – 7″ – Firehouse Crew – 1998 Checking out Discogs, you never had long to wait for the next Morgan Heritage single, as there are 230 listed on there – on nearly as many different labels! 01.24.00 COURTNEY BUCHANAN – Heaven – 12″ – Conscious – 1994 Actually this was first out on MCA but then shifted to the above short lived label where gems shone in their few releases. 01.27.49 THE FLAMINGOS – Inner City Blues (Extended Blue) – 12″ b-side – Robs Records – 1994 Maybe not for the soul purists and I can’t remember how we (Cliff, Dave and to a lesser extent myself) decided on having a stab at Marvin Gaye’s catalogue. All of us were fans… and that maybe included Rob(s Records) Gretton, too and it’s another set of lyrics that stands the test of time. 01.32.48 ANGÉLIQUE KIDJO – Agolo – 12″ – Mango – 1994 By total coincidence, the third tune in a row from 1994 but in no way accounts for why this follows The Flamingos so well. 01.37.05 DONOVAN – There Is A Mountain – 7″ – Pye – 1967 A Buddhist saying turned into a cheery poptastic tune and one of a lot of ’60s 7″ singles I as a teenager was belatedly catching up on five to ten years after their release. These days, Donovan sort of lives up the road from me (well, twenty miles of rural Irela

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  8. 07/06/2025

    Episode 141 – Original upload 6.7.25

    This playlist is 52% vinyl friendly. Worst ever! Apologies to all vinyl enthusiasts. The Miniot Wheel is as minimalist a stab at the record turntable as can be. ‘A modified Audio-Technica cartridge plays the record from underneath, with the spindle in the centre used to turn it on and off, skip tracks and adjust the volume if you have a pair of headphones plugged in‘. In action whilst laying flat or standing upright the original €650 model (above) has been superceded by subsequent Wheel 2, 3 and Black Wheel editions, the latter costing €4000. Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms tweak/edit/chop and the occasional tune might sound a bit dodgy, quality-wise. On top of that, the switch between different decades and production values never helps in the mix here. Temporary Glitch! ENCORE! A slightly different problem to the last problem means that my vocal input still isn’t quite what it should/could be. Here’s hoping, next time I’ve got it sorted. Lyric of Playlist 141 In Pete J, maybe the delicate sounding souls have it. 00.00 (Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983. Episode #1 for info. 00.41 NEW ORDER – Ruined In A Day (MK Extended Remix) – Stream only – ???? Nothing to do with the more famous ‘MK’ remixer, Marc Kinchen but someone chancing his arm on Youtube with some sympathetic (to New Order’s music) unofficial reworking. It helps that for me it’s a top class mid period (sort of) NO track to start with. 06.44 DERADOORIAN – Digital Gravestone – Ready For Heaven, LP – Fire – 2025 Multi instrumentalist out of California here with the lead track from her fourth album. 11.10 CLOCK DVA – Piano Pain – Thirst, LP – Fetish – 1981 At the time this album came out I wasn’t aware just how much material they’d released to that point and with the help of better production Adi Newton’s vocals maybe took until Thirst to sound as ‘threatening’ as they did. 13.51 CABARET VOLTAIRE – Diffusion – Gasoline In Your Eye, VHS video – Virgin – 1985 Quite possibly a track never played live. Not at any of the seventeen or so gigs I saw them at, anyway. 21.35 CHAKK – Sedative Ends (Peel session: 7.10.84) – Unreleased – 1984 For a couple of years around their tour de force, one and only session for Peely they were majestic. 25.31 THE BLOOD BROTHERS – Transfusion – 12″ – Big World Records – 1990 The alter ego of the London downtempo, beats duo, Pressure Drop and seems like it could have sat next to their PD Back2Back 12″ release in the same year without a name change. I have three copies of this 12″, which will have been down to two of them languishing in the mid ’90s in a 10p section of Notting Hill’s Vinyl & Record store emporium… and me wanting to save them from the landfill they could easily have ended up in. 30.37 INCOGNITO – Castles In The Air (Vikter Duplaix Afrotech Remix) – Life Stranger Than Fiction, 2×12″ – Talkin’ Loud – 2001 A thumping remix that way outweighs the original for me. 35.59 THE GREENHORNES (feat HOLLY GOLIGHTLY) – Season’s End (Max Josef Edit) – Tonic Edits Vol. 2, 12″ – Toytonics – 2014 Featuring Holly Golightly, The Greenhornes’ There Is An End, from their 2001 Dual Mono album, on Telstar, then remixed and namechecked on Soundcloud as ‘Holly Golightly – There’s An End (Max Josef Edit), from a Tonic Edits Vol 2 vinyl EP’… where on, it’s actually titled Season’s End. Phew! 39.25 CALIBRE (feat CIMONE) – Time To Breathe – Feeling Normal, 4 x 12″ LP – Signature – 2012 D&b heaven. Subtle and classy. 44.21 TRICKY (feat MARTINA TOPLEY-BIRD) – Black Steel (Sessions at West 54th, 1997) – 1997 From the first season of a multi genre TV show, this live performance lets loose the ‘unease’ of the song better than the album take. 47.52 2PAC (feat DR. DRE & ROGER TRAUTMAN) – California Love – 12″ – Death Row – 1995 As it might have suited me better, there’s a cool instrumental take to be had but it’s none of the two official ones out and about. An idea… I’m thinkin’. 52.29 BIG BLOOD – When I Was Young – Operate Spaceship Earth Properly, LP – Feeding Tube Records – 2018 They can be relentless in a tune the way I maybe wouldn’t take to with most others. Colleen Kinsella’s vocals are a big part of that. 59.03 EMILIO PIANO (feat LUCIE) – Maison – Download only – 2025 Early teen’er (I’m guessing) with seemingly her first song… and search out a couple of live ‘shopping mall/airport/train station-just passing by’ versions that aren’t maybe as ‘chance situation’ as they appear. Either way, a beaut of a collaboration. Video: Director/Camera/Editor: Marcel Stefanowski 01.01.52 THE MEMORY BAND with GRANTBY – The Ballad Of Imber Down – Further Navigations 10″ EP – Static Caravan – 2014 Sounding like incidental music to a ’70s-’80s James Herriot-sourced TV drama, it’s Folk… of the rural kind… what with ‘The Ballad of… ‘, Imber’s lost village Salisbury Plain setting… and rabbits on the menu… sorry, big in the ‘lyrics’, and in salute of the 10″, it was 500 copies via Record Store Day 2014. 01.07.26 THE SUNDAYS – Through The Dark – Cry, cassette single, extra track – Parlophone – 1997 Maybe a 41 Rooms first? A track only available on a cassette version, this of the band’s 1997 UK single, Cry and Japanese CD versions of the Static & Silence album the same year. 01.11.41 MANU DELAGO (feat PETE JOSEF) – A Step – Metromonk, CD only – Tru Thoughts – 2017 Josef appearing at 41 Rooms on others peeps’ tracks as much as on his own. 01.16.15 JON LUCIEN – Creole Lady – By Request, CD only – Shanachie – 1999 Better than the 1975 version original, I reckon. 01.19.58 JETHRO TULL – Living In The Past – 7″ – Island – 1969 Classic folk rock… not ‘arf. 01.23.03 MODERN NATURE – Pharaoh – The Heat Warps, LP – Bella Union – 2025 ‘A track influenced by Andrew Weatherall who, before he passed away in 2020, played Modern Nature on his NTS radio show and inspired them with his motto “Fail we may, sail we must”. Commenting on the track, Jack Cooper says: “It’s a song about the men we’re conditioned to respect and follow and it’s a song about the people who inspire us to think differently. It’s as much about Pharaoh Sanders as it is about the kings and politicians we’re meant to believe in. ‘Pharaoh’ makes the case for finding a personal philosophy and trying to live a life that might inspire others or at the very least not hurt them.” ‘ – wildfiremusic.net 01.27.48 DANA GAVANSKI – The Wind (Blew You Away) – Spring Demos, Cassette only – Fox Food Records – 2017 ‘Alternative, Experimental, folk‘ says Bandcamp, for songs that got a cassette release in the UK and Japan in 2017 and 2018, respectively before a UK CD issue the next year. The Wind? It’s wonderful. 01.32.35 DONOR LENS – Open Your Eyes – As Warm As Summer, cassette only – My Pet Flamingo – 2025 Slow beats doing it! The duo of Thom (Love in Dust, Wichita LimeWire) and Jay (Kid Neon, Timeshare 94) making ‘both sample-free and sampled music across a variety of vaporwave and vw-adjacent styles‘.‘Vaporwave is an electronic music microgenre and aesthetic that emerged in the early 2010s, characterized by its nostalgic and surreal atmosphere, often drawing from 1980s and 1990s corporate muzak, smooth jazz, and early internet culture. It frequently utilizes slowed-down samples, chopped and screwed techniques, and a visual style that incorporates glitch art, retrofuturism, and corporate imagery‘. – AI Overview Vaporwave… ‘slowed down samples‘. In the vocal department it’s been a favourite trick in the Got-Ta-Scatta camp for as long, and there are two complete tracks (both singles) by noted artists (one in the ’80s, the other a bit later) that have been in the 41 Rooms possibles bag for the whole nine years waiting for me to be brave enough to spin at the wrong speed… coz they sound absolutely fine. Also, any John PeeI fan will know that he occasionally played a record at the wrong speed (he definitely did with Click Click) and it must have sounded ‘right’ to him for a certain amount of time. I think even I might have consciously done the same once or twice at Winkles back in the day. It might have involved lots of alcohol but Portion Control springs to mind. Could be wrong there. 01.36.04 ACOLYTE – The Blue Dark – Download only – 2025 ‘An Edinburgh four piece comprising of lead-vocalist and poet Iona Lee alongside Lost Map regular Gloria Black (of Maranta) on synth and vocals, producer/multi-instrumentalist Ruairidh Morrison, and percussionist Daniel Hill. A cinematic dreamscape formed of shimmering synths and ominously unfolding rhythms – The Blue Dark is the perfect introduction to Acolyte’s singular sound‘. – Lost Map’ Facebook page The Isle of Eigg ref I mention on the show is for the Lost Map label. Their PostMap Club releases involve ‘printed postcards from the Lost Map collective, that come with download codes, containing exclusive tracks‘ – The Blue Dark being PostMap Club 217  01.40.06 RIVAL CONSOLES – Theme – MindsEye, 12″ EP – Erased Tapes Records – 2025 A feel of a plodding, stuttering and strained walk… encase

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  9. 06/01/2025

    Episode 140 – Original Upload 1.6.25

    This playlist is 66% vinyl friendly. Very poor. ‘Reimagining the classic portable turntable and designed for DJs, vinyl enthusiasts, and creative performers in 2025, the Korg Handytraxx combines portability with cutting-edge features, including unique Korg digital effects, a built-in audio looper, and with a high-quality fader included‘, says the promo blurb. Another dealer added, ‘Optimised for scratching and portablism performances.’ £350 or thereabouts and if you’re questioning the word ‘portablism’ bit, it’s ‘the practice of DJing with easily transportable gear‘. Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms tweak/edit/chop and the occasional tune might sound a bit dodgy, quality-wise. On top of that, the switch between different decades and production values never helps in the mix here. Temporary Glitch!!! A late on problem with the mic means I’m not sounding quite the way I should on this show. Normal service will be resumed next show, hopefully. Lyric of Playlist 140 Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip. In… yer… face!!! 00.00 (Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983. Episode #1 for info. 00.41 NEW ORDER – Ecstasy – Power, Corruption and Lies, LP – Factory – 1983 Certainly never performed live in my time of hectic NO gigging but maybe a track that would have suited as a backdrop to some cheery ‘transition’ or incidental section of a film, etc. 04.50 JOHN FOXX with LOUIS GORDON – Walk This Away – Impossible, CD only – Metamatic – 2008 Reminds me of… nope, can’t think. Kraftwerk? 10.08 CAN – Vitamin C – 7″ – United Artists – 1972 Not the format these German electronic heads are maybe most remembered (and revered?) for … but Vitamin C is from a whole bunch of Can singles that, with the wind blowing in their direction, suggested they’d have happily ‘infiltrated’ a pop chart or two, given the airplay/chance. 13.09 DERADOORIAN – No No Yes Yes – Ready For Heaven, LP – Fire – 2025 Out of Los Angeles, it sounds like multi-instrumentalist, Angel Deradoorian has travelled a few journeys and ‘spaces’ in the fifteen years or so she’s been releasing music. 17.43 U2 – Salomé (Zooromancer Remix) – 12″, promo only – Island – 1992 Supposedly released to promote the single, Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses (though said track is nowhere here to be seen or heard) I remember this deep and eerie 1000 copies only promo 12″ being a major WTF! moment across the dance radio shows I was listening to at the time, and what with U2 being worldwide rock gods and (Pete) Heller & (Terry) Farley serious go to’s for a house/dance remix, I suspect the fee the latter got, paid the bills for a month or ten. 25.27 THE ITCH – The Influencer / Co-Conspirator – Download only – Oh You Records / Fiction Records – 2025 Sounding like a revved, electro funkin’ Human League, duo Simon Tyrie and Georgia Hardy with a ‘twofer’ easily heard/mixed maybe as a single track! 32.21 DAN LE SAC Vs SCROOBIUS PIP – Thou Shalt Always Kill – 7″ – Lex Records – 2007 Even though they’d said all they needed to with 1min 50 of the track still to run this wonderful rant was blaring everywhere at the time, such was the aural impact of its UK culture-centric rap diatribe and though a healthy 7″ run of 1000, it’s still hugely collectable, and should you feel the need for a locked groove, side A has one. 37.21 AVALON EMERSON – On It Goes * – Download only – Another Dove – 2025 More solo girls out of the US, with Avalon having skirted San Francisco, Berlin and New York. Snappy and punchy samples cut here in a style reminiscent of a certain period of Akufen. 42.36 MYLES KAYNE – Visions of Love (Scat’s The Way To Do It Mix) – 12″ – Tomahawk – 1993 As with far too much house through the years, nothing sensational here but the summery scatting and the soaring vocals grabbing the ears back then lifted the spirits! 47.06 JOSE FELICIANO – The Sad Gypsy – Souled, LP – RCA – 1968 Written by Carole King’s oft writing partner, Gerry Goffin, along with Barry Mann, who with his wife, Cynthia Weil wrote the Righteous Brothers’ You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling. Recorded on the same day as Jose’s cover of Cream’s Sunshine Of Your Love (initially mooted as a follow up to Light My Fire… and then never released), The Sad Gypsy appears never to have been covered by anyone else. Never even on a 7″ b-side but on the Souled album that jiggles with Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On as my all time fave ‘long player’, I’ve adored this song since I was a kid and fifty five years down the line because it’s Jose it’ll always be ‘right up there.’ Souled 1pg ad — Billboard, Nov 30, ’68. 50.44 HELICON – Château H (D.ross Remix) – Download only – 2025 Warning! Do NOT approach the original of Château H expecting some semblance of recognition. You will be disappointed. 55.56 JALEN NGONDA – Just As Long As We’re Together – Download only – 2025 Back with his ’60s soaked soul and likely previewing a second album for Daptone Records. 58.45 BERES HAMMOND – Do This World A Favour (Album Version) * – 7″ b-side – 17 North Parade – 2010 Maybe best known as a Lovers Rock/roots reggae artist, this tune was originally to be found on his 1979 album, Just A Man but we’ll go with the new lease of life it got via a 7″ in 2010, cut at 33rpm to give the album version some breathing space. For the show I edited out some of the doodling keys bridge but to make the 7″ cut cooler I’d have taken the lot out… and called it an ‘Album Version Edit’. No problem for the soul fraternity, though. As rare as hens’ teeth it’s likely to be over £100 as and when a copy next turns up. 01.03.54 MELBA MOORE – Do You Really Want My Love (Club Version) * – 12″ – Capitol – 1990 Funky, spacey and moody sounds. 01.09.31 THOMAS LEER – Saving Grace – 12″ – Emotional Rescue – 2019 In reality, the melodies and arrangement of his lush 1982 debut single, All About You, minus the/any vocals. 01.14.40 BLAINE L. REININGER – Playin’ Your Game – 12″ – Les Disques Du Crépescule – 1983 Not unlike Thomas Leer in the lush vocals department. 01.18.46 RINGDOWN – Run (part) * – Lady On The Bike, LP – Nonesuch – 2025 ‘Ringdown’s music is like calling your first love on a rotary telephone, percussively tearing out the hammers from a 1924 vintage upright, and flinging each of them into space while you wait for every heartache you’ve ever felt to quietly return‘. – Bandcamp I could easily die of old age before I decipher the above but Portland, Oregon duo, Caroline Shaw and Danni Lee are concocting some interesting music, and though I truncated Run very heavily here they’ll be back later. 01.20.10 THOSE DANCING DAYS – Home Sweet Home – In Our Space Hero Suits, LP – Wichita – 2008 As frantic as they always seemed to be, and a very slightly different (in the vocals dept?) version to the one on the flip of the Run Run 7″. 01.22.49 PENETRATION – V.I.P. – 7″ b-side – Virgin – 1978 Pauline Murray’s vocals! 01.25.21 SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES – Love In A Void – 7″ b-side – Polydor – 1979 The high priestess of punk? Maybe. 01.27.51 THE COURETTES – Here I Come – The Soul Of… The Fabulous Courettes, LP – Damaged Goods – 2024 White, clear or orange and ‘getcha, getcha, getcha, someday…‘ as opposed to Blondie’s ‘getcha, getcha, getcha, one way or another…‘ I saw them recently at a maybe sold out Set Theatre in Kilkenny (Ireland to those further afield) and they rocked. And for a Bedford connection. Damaged Goods boss, Ian and his label charges outside The Bear during the second of their three (I think) gigs to date at Esquires. The pub has sort of been Outsiders Central for a whole bunch of alternatives through the decades and was certainly a home from home for me in the late ’70s through all the ’80s. Photo credit: Alison Wonderland 01.30.24 THE YARDBIRDS – Heart Full Of Soul – 7″ – Columbia – 1965 For me, not many better than this lot from the ’60s. Looking back from nearly sixty years, with Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page in their ranks at various points, their singles feel just a shade too… ‘cerebral’ and ‘arty’? to have worried the charts but five did make the Top 40 and this one went to No. 2! 01.32.48 ? – ‘Little Miss Nancy’ – one-sided 8″ US acetate – Unreleased – Late 1960s I’ve no idea who this is… and if I bid on what was an auction item I sadly didn’t win it. AI Overview reckons ‘Little Miss Nancy can refer to a few things: a vintage doll, a character from a children’s television show, or a slag term for an effeminate person. It could also be a specific title for a Nancy Ann doll from the Storybook collection, like Little Miss Sweet Miss #110.’ Whatever, its late ’60s feel hints it could/should have soundtracked some psychedelic visuals/imagery. 01.36.10 YEASAYER – Final Path (unknown version) – ? – 2008-2010? I say ‘unknown’ but more the fact I can’t place it. It’s certainly not the version that backed the band’s second single, Wait For The Summer and updating on/repeating from the band’s only other 41 Rooms playlisting to date, I still can

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  10. 05/04/2025

    Episode 139 – Original Upload 4.5.25

    This playlist is 81% vinyl friendly. Not bad. ‘Winner of Best Domestic Design at the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2023, this Brian Eno turntable has a stunning LED light feature that changes according to your music. Created in collaboration with the Paul Stolper gallery, the psychedelic turntable sold out back in 2021 but hasn’t become any less popular since. You might not be able to buy it, but there’s no shame in staring‘. £ price not disclosed. – muddystilettos.co.uk Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms tweak/edit/chop and the occasional tune might sound a bit dodgy, quality-wise. On top of that, the switch between different decades and production values never helps in the mix here. Lyric of Playlist 139 ‘Be Kind To My Mistakes‘ – Maybe more worthy as a usable turn of phrase, seeing as it only turns up once in the song. 00.00 (Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983. Episode #1 for info. 00.41 NEW ORDER – Hurt (Inst.) (Peppermint Lounge, New York: 22.11.81) – Movement, Definitive Edition boxset – Warner Music – 2019 Still being titled Cramp at this stage, but reminiscent of the dark new electronic tracks the band were road testing whilst still in development (here, with lyrics yet to surface), along with sometimes simultaneously also grappling with the equipment. It all gave the band’s gigs an edge and an air of the unknown but they’d have wanted for less stress. 06.22 KATE BUSH – Be Kind To My Mistakes – 7″ b-side – EMI – 1989 In actuality, a track that was ‘released’ – on a split (with Brian Eno) German, promo only 7″ – two years earlier than on her The Sensual World album but was also available in the less-cluttered-by-other-tracks setting of another 7″… albeit as the b-side of the fully released This Woman’s World A-side. The version on the show though is actually the lead track from the soundtrack of the 1987 film, Castaway. With the old skool * record company ideal of singles being looked on to promote albums, here it might have been a battle between the artist going for the more stylish and sophisticated album track as the A-side… when the A&R and promotional team must have surely wanted Be Kind… to lead the way. So old skool, there was even a picture disc 7″ 10.07 TALK TALK – My Foolish Friend – 7″ – EMI – 1983 As might have been confirmed by Mark Hollis’ later releases before his untimely passing, maybe his band’s earlier ‘synth pop’ era was a shade too cerebral for the kids, and this wasn’t one of the few TT singles that did make the UK top 20. 13.24 JOHN FOXX with LOUIS GORDON – Hiroshima Mon Amour – Glimmer: Best Of John Foxx, 2CD only – Music Club Deluxe – 2008 A faithful recreation. I reckon this Best Of should have been titled Glimmer / Just For A Moment. IYKYK. 18.09 CRASH COURSE IN SCIENCE – Cardboard Lamb (Original Club Mix) – Signals From Pier Thirteen, 12″ EP – Press Records – 1981 With a quirkiness that seems to have leant towards the US new wave/no wave scene of the time, this EP has found a way to regularly get re-released through the decades since… but up until a month ago I’d never heard of them. 20.36 EYELESS IN GAZA – China Blue Vision – 7″ b-side – Ambivalent Scale – 1980 41 Rooms royalty, with the homepage 7″ back out for an airing! Stark punk folk! 23.24 NASMAK – Toy-Line * – Split 7″ flexi-disc – Vinyl – 1983 Ah, the dreaded flexi disc, this time via Dutch magazine, Vinyl‘s own label. Bit of a Nick Cave thing going on with these 41 Rooms regulars? 27.25 JOY ORBISON – Hyph Mngo * – 12″ – Hotflush Recordings – 2009 Was JO’s Peter O’Grady a fan of Joy Division or Roy Orbison, or both, or neither? Dub step? D&B? Who cares! It’s a jittery earworm here. 31.07 THE FLAMINGOS (feat JOSE FELICIANO) – Icarus Descending – CD single only – So… Sparkle! – 1999 I’m biased but this is a lost epic… and it could easily have been in show 1. I may have known the seven time (at this point) Grammy award winning, Jose for twenty years plus at this juncture in time but it maybe still took some balls to ask him to guest with guitar on the recording… and it took a bit of co-ordinating to actually get it done. Firstly, no winging files via the internet back then, so Jose needed to be in the country, and I think that came about in between a run of dates he was doing at London’s Jazz Cafe and elsewhere around the rest of the UK. Having given him the track beforehand, I do remember realising in the car with him heading from central London to the Uni of Westminster’s Commercial Music dept, out in Harrow (where I was working at the time) that he hadn’t actually gotten around to listening to the track! A moments panic before I thought ‘He’ll be just fine’. Also, with Cliff’s lead vocal already done, when we got Jose in to the studio we mic’d him up just for guitar. Maybe I at least should have know better. As soon as the track started rolling it only took maybe a couple of takes for Jose to get in the groove and lay down more than enough guitar… along with some simple but just right backing vocals!… the latter caught slightly in the distance… through only the guitar mic. Doh! If only I’d been thinking. Another thing, we were a hairsbreadth from making the Radio 2 playlist. Blues & Soul, Tony Rounce 11.1.99 review… ‘Flamingos’ Icarus Descending is only their fourth single in 12 years. They obviously like to get things right if this remarkable release is anything to go by. Unreservedly recommended, it features Jose Feliciano and sounds like George Michael fronting Joy Division‘. – Paul Connolly, Metro, The Times on Saturday, 5-11.12.’98 Below: Flamingos’ Cliff Peacock and Dave Summersgill, with Jose and my daughter, Alice: Uni of Westminster, Harrow, June ’98. Below: Jose in the studio, guesting on Icarus Descending and engineer, Mark Cash doing exactly what was asked of him, mic’ing Jose up for guitar… only. 34.45 GLEN CAMPBELL – Lonely, My Lonely Friend – 7″ b-side – Capitol – 1969 The abundance of 7″ single b-sides that get spun on 41 Rooms must come from the days (in my case, the very early ’70s) when buying a 7″ was an ‘event’ and getting your money’s worth meant also giving the flip side some serious attention. In amongst all the pop, glam and soul, I was more than happy to also do that with Glen back then. 36.59 PETE JOSEF – Utopia – Download only – 2023 Only two of his own albums to date in over twelve years of activity but Josef is a regular folk soul vocal gun for hire, having started to make his mark via Germany’s Sonar Kollektiv label. He’ll definitely be back here. 41.20 DIONNE WARWICK – Walk On By – 7″ – Pye – 1964 A classic… and the sort of songwriting and production we may never hear again? I suspect this world’s equivalent of Dionne and Burt are surrounded by too much crap to tread this way. 44.04 SHAPE NAVIGATOR (feat EVON BRENNAN) – Flow (Like A River) (Mellow Delta Mix) – 12″ – Almo Sounds – 1995 Co-written by one Evon Brennan (though she’s only credited for her guest vocals on the CD formats of the single) but seeing as she for the most part changed careers, I’ll confidently claim 41 Rooms is the only show of any kind to spin two of her tunes. See show 115 for the other, plus her back story. 48.49 EMMA-JEAN THACKRAY – Maybe Nowhere – Weirdo, LP – ??? – 2025 Rather strangely the track first off the grid in promoting Weirdo, as it’s not only a bit ‘rockier’ than her previous leftfield soul, jazz and beats etc leanings, it’s also the only ‘rockier’ track on the album… which is all more down the (usual) road of her previous etc etc etc. 53.34 SOAP&SKIN – Me And The Devil – 7″ b-side – Play It Again Sam – 2013 Not unlike Nico in the vocals, Austrian, Anja Franziska Plaschg with a sought after 7″. 56.34 YHWH NAILGUN – Animal Death Already Breathing – 45 Pounds, LP – AD93 – 2025 Their debut album’s second sighting at 41 Rooms… and there’s nothing quite like ’em around. 59.06 GANZHEIT – Klasse – self released promo only cassette – 1984 At the time of this podcast’s upload I had no idea who had recorded this and it transpired I also got the title wrong. ‘Early Portion Control or the likes?’ was my best guess but on looking (Dec ’25) to dig out a certain tape I’ve just realised the above track was not Fate Twisted & Turned (as mentioned on the show) but was courtesy of ex-Bedford band, Ganzheit and a Summer Of ’84 cassette tape of demos they gave me – somewhere later said year – either as I was then running the ‘alternative’ club night at Winkles or, following on from our Rorschach label, various artists compilation cassette, Discreet Campaigns, when they were on course to be included on a second slightly ‘tougher sounding’ compilation, though that never came to pass. 01.04.10 CLICK CLICK – 15 Minutes – Rorschach Testing, LP – Play It Again Sam – 1988 And they would have deserved their 15 Minutes… 01.09.49 CABARET VOLTAIRE – Searchin’ – Groovy, Laidback and Nasty, LP – Parlophone – 1990 Marshall Jefferson… Ten City… Stirling Void vocalist, Paris Brightledge. 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  • Creator
    41 Rooms
  • Years Active
    2016 - 2026
  • Episodes
    10
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    41Rooms