Andrew Weatherall

We’re delighted to announce we’ll be playing with Andrew Weatherall on 3.2.12 at the Hare & Hounds, Birmingham. S’going to be awesome. Details to come soon. Here he is giving a Red Bull Music Academy lecture. Very inspiring and worth 1hr 50mins of anyone’s time fo sho….

Lecture: Andrew Weatherall (Madrid 2011) from Red Bull Music Academy on Vimeo.

Other podcasts that we like, like

The Mayer Hawthorne Radio show on Stones Throw‘s podcast series is pretty mega. Check this first song out from Episode 4:

Catching up on Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide podcast Vol.4 Ep 11. This one features David Rodigan who takes Gilles through a fascinating story. Check this out for a tracklisting:

Gallow Street Jug — Untitled
Dennis Bovell — Jazterpiece (Mixed Repertoire)
Queen Ifrica — Montego Bay (VP)
Myele Manzanza — Delay (Every Waking Hour)
Small Faces — Tin Soldier (Immediate)
Millie — My Boy Lollipop (Fontana)
The Wailers — Simmer Down (Studio One)
The Byrds — Mr Tambourine Man (CBS)
Delroy Wilson — Dancing Mood (Studio One)
Otis Redding — Sittin On The Dock Of The Bay (Stax)
Desmond Dekker & The Aces — 007 (Shanty Town) (Trojan Records)
Tony Tribe — Red Red Wine (Downtown)
The Skatalites — Phoenix City (Studio One)
Jackie Mittoo — Ram Jam (Coxsone)
Sound Dimension — Declaration (Coxsone)
Eric Barnet — The Horse (Gas)
King Tubby — Infusion Dub (Roots)
Aswad — Back To Africa (Stylus)
Jimmy Cliff — You Can Get It If You Really Want (Mango)
Augustus Pablo — Sleng Teng Dub (President)
Leroy Gibbon — No No No (Tubby’s Rodigan Dub)
Augustus Pablo — Sleng Teng Instrumental (President)
Tenor Saw — Ring The Alarm (Rodigan Dub)
Frank Sinatra — New York New York (Reprise)
Maxi Preist — New York New York (Rodigan Dub)
Maxi Preist — New York New York (Rodigan Dub) (Live footage from Brooklyn 1985)
Frank Sinatra — New York New York (Reprise)
Tenor Saw — Ring The Alarm (Rodigan Dub) (Live footage from Brooklyn 1985)
Count Ossie and His Band — Blacker Black (Sight N Sound)
Folkes Brothers — Carolina (Blue Beat)
Laurel Aitken — Boogie In My Bones (Starlite)
Tommy McCook & The Supersonics — Inez (Dutchess)
Roy Shirley — Hold Them (New Beat)
Alton Ellis & The Flames — Rocksteady (Trojan)
The Maytals — Do The Reggay (Attack)
Harry J. All Stars — Liquidator (Harry J. All Stars)
Augustus Pablo — Mr Big (Starapple)
U-Roy — Rule The Nation (Duke Reid)
Dirtsman — Hot Dis Year (Digital B)
Bob Marley & The Wailers — Slave Driver (Island)
Bob Marley & The Wailers — Rasta Man Chant (Island)
Bob Marley & The Wailers — Could You Be Loved (Island)
Shabba Ranks — Ting A Ling (Shang Muzik)
The Abyssinians — Declaration of Rights (Studio One)
Burning Spear — Marcus Garvey (Capo)
Ijahman Levi — I Am A Levi Dub (Gilles’ Selection) (Basic Levi)
The Drop — Takeover (David’s Selection) (Shoal)
Dennis Brown — It’s Too Late Dub (Gilles’ Selection) (Aquarius)
Keith Hudson — Pic A Dub (David’s Selection) (Mamba)
Augustus Pablo — East of The River Nile (Gilles’ Selection) (Message)
Tarrus Riley — Soul Grabber (David’s Selection) (Yard Vybz)
Coki — Old Hope (Gilles’ Selection) (DMZ)
King Tubby — In Fine Style (David’s Selection) (Earmark)
Phyllis Dillon — One Life To Live (Rodigan Dub) (Gilles’ Selection)
Joya Landis — Kansas City (David’s Selection) (Trojan)
Breakage — Together (Digital Soundboy)
Jackie Mittoo — Totally Together (Studio One)
Dadawah — 72 Nations (Dug Out)

 

 

Free School Podcast Episode #7

We’re delighted to have Adam Regan (Leftfoot, Different Drummer) on board for this podcast, legendary DJ, Promoter and venue-man, and an all round good-egg (more on this later). We talk about the old and the new with some delicious tunes to match, some swears were uttered and the bleep machine had to be wheeled out for the first time on Adam’s classic ‘Brian Travers‘ story.

Tracks this episode:

1. Escort – Makeover
2. Scientist – Dance Of The Vampires
3. Bibio – Light Seep
4. Godiego – Monkey Magic
5. Horace Silver – Not Enough Mama

iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/free-schools-podcast/id433240500

Non-iTunes: http://wearefreeschool.podomatic.com/entry/2011-11-08T08_58_12-08_00

 

 

 

 

 

Free School Podcast #6

Andy leaves Steve to record the intro alone. He does bad things and threatens to play Genesis. Then everything works out fine when he reveals the hilarious joke…..

….That’s because it’s a special mix version of the podcast. Hope you enjoy and at least you don’t have to listen to us!

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/free-schools-podcast/id433240500

Tracklisting:
1. Boat-Woman-Song – Holger Czukay
2. Slowdance (Bear In Heaven Remix) – Matthew Dear
3. Free Flight (Instrumental) – Acos Coolkas
4. After Laughter Comes Tears (Nicolas Jaar remix) – Wendy Rene
5. Sleeping Bear Lament (Take Remix) – Architeq
6. Gin Nation – Tiger & Woods
7. Ooh, I Love It (Love Break) – The Salsoul Orchestra
8. Baby Can’t Stop (Idjut Boys remix) – Lindstrøm & Christabelle
9. It Was Never Meant To Be (Games Remix) – Games
10. Take ‘Em Up (Tuff Enuff Michael Mayer Remix) – Shit Robot
11. Surfer’s Hymn (Actress Primitive Pattern Remix) – Panda Bear

See you next time
Andy & Steve

Heat Haze

Really liking this. Doesn’t sound all that ‘Kompakt‘. They launched their album with Luke Abbott and Andy from Fuck Buttons in London the other night. Touring US with Battles now….

http://soundcloud.com/walls_band/sets/walls-coracle-kompakt/

They have a track called Heat Haze. It’s weirdly hot outside. Like, record-breaking hot for October. So here’s a summer song and a song about memories innit:

Cities are the bodies of our collective souls

Round up:

Great blog on the pissy New Street staircase (update: it’s now closed off. For good…) – http://www.birminghamitsnotshit.co.uk/2011/07/danny-smith-requiem-for-a-piss-stained-short-cut.html

 

We did some music for two short films by Film Division.

End credits and Sound FX for Internalised:

Internalised ‘Directors Cut’ from Film Division Productions on Vimeo.

 

 

And the music for the Finders Keepers trailer:

Finders Keepers ‘Canada Cut’ from Film Division Productions on Vimeo.

 

 

Here’s a lovely video by Old Dead Eye

From the City from Old Dead Eye on Vimeo.

 

And for making your way through all that, here’s a great track which Jay Z used for Girls, Girls, Girls:

Tomorrow Never Comes (it did yesterday)

We’re totally stoked to be asked to become resident DJs at the ThisIsTmrw monthly club nights. Taking place at The Bull’s Head in Moseley, expect to hear some of the following:

FLOATING POINTS // NICOLAS JAAR // HORSE MEAT DISCO // JULIO BASHMORE // STAR SLINGER // WASHED OUT // TORO Y MOI // TALKING HEADS // METRONOMY // MATTHEW DEAR // JAMIE XX // XXXY // ACTRESS // LCD SOUNDSYSTEM // HOLY GHOST // GOLD PANDA // JACQUES GREENE // PEARSON SOUND // TENSNAKE // MIDLAND // KERRI CHANDLER // MOTOR CITY DRUM ENSEMBLE // SOFRITO // TODD TERJE

Here are the Facebook event details.

ThisIsTmrw have been at the forefront of FUTURE music in the city for many years now (I remember Lewes Herriot’s posters in The Victoria over 5 years ago and wondering who on earth these promoters were, where they’d come from and who the hell they were going to put on next). Here’s a mix we did for them a while back: http://www.thisistmrw.co.uk/2011/05/27/thisistmrw-mix-12-free-school/

This could get aired:

This probably won’t get a play but I likes dis a lot:

Liars – Proud Evolution

Disco Sucks #2

Further to this post, I’ve been watching Freaks & Geeks recently. Read about it here and then buy it. You won’t regret it. The last episode has a brilliantly judged take on the disco movement. The ‘Freaks’ are in to the rock music. You know the rock music. The Who and that. I think The Who actually get a mention in every episode and one episode is geared around the Freaks going to a Who show. The Jason Segel character is crazy mad on Neil Peart. Then this happens:

I then looked up the track playing at the disco music disco and it’s this horrific track:

Maybe disco does suck…. Nah, it doesn’t. (But some does).

We’re warming up for our EP launch with a DJ set at the awesome Sam Redmore’s Freestyle night. It’s Friday 12th August at The Bull’s Head, Moseley. We’re doing a back-to-back set with Sam. This may be played:

Tiger & Woods – Gin Nation

Man alive this is good: