BJM

After years of passing interest I'm now a full on BJM (Brian Jonestown Massacre) fan, despite their somewhat tasteless name. Always intrigued, watching the documentary DIG! recently converted me to fandom. Was thus delighted to see Anton (who more or less is the band it seems) is uploading weird and wonderful things on Youtube. Check it out here.

Here's a trailer for DIG! and a choice cut from Anton's Youtube.

Hot Chip - I Feel Better

I have just completely fallen in love with this song. The official video is unwatchable but I love this home video style one.



And here they are on fire in a live session for KCRW in California.

Joe Moran

Joe Moran, listed on Wikipedia as a social historian, wrote a lovely book called Queueing For Beginners which I came to after reading a piece on commuting he wrote for The Guardian. I see he has a blog now which is full of witty, interesting, pondersome observations on the minutae of everyday life. Check it out here and here is a small sample on the death of Ceefax.

'Ceefax’s go-to pages were well known to initiates: 102 for news, 302 for football, 400 for weather, 430 for train timetables, 888 for subtitles – good for watching Top of the Pops if you wanted to decipher the lyrics. Some people would watch the football on Ceefax, staring at the 0-0 score and willing a goal for their team. I suspect this is more gripping than it sounds.

Anyway, RIP pages from Ceefax, little Zen moments of stillness and contemplation in the otherwise endless flow of television. We have no need of you now that television is on all the time and it will never, ever end.'

My DJ Gig

Last Saturday of every month for the foreseeable find me at the Library pub, near Highbury & Islington Tube, spinning tunes...

Mankind by Eric Gill

Just had to post a photo of this incredible sculpture by Eric Gill which you can see at the V & A in London. Weird, thrilling, proper.

David Gilmour Girls - Crimson As Murder

Upload number 2!

Am I Nothing?

Been loving Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy - commendably envelope-pushing weirdness. Also it looks spectacular. Here is a photo of his artwork shown in Soho last year which relate to ideas in the show and which I found at Programmed From Childhood.

United Future Organisation - Cosmic Gypsy remix

A momentous day friends! My first Youtube upload!!!

I'm glad it's this track cos it took years to track down and everyone who hears it seems to dig it. Enjoy!

Boing Poum Tchak!

A mix by a man called Jean-Baptiste at Boing Poum Tchak!, which is surely the best name ever for a dance music blog.

Scott Ferguson - Any day now – ElectroVox remix (deep vibes)
Norma Jean Bell - Late night show – Theo Parrish remix (funky chocolate)
Ron Trent - Pressure release (future vision)
Delano Smith – Behind closed doors (mix mode)
Tang - Devout (emphasis)
Tommy Bones – Focused energy (real tone)
Antonelli Electr. - Shrinking (level)
Roosevell & Charles - Monastery (mojuba)
The Other People Place – Sorrow & a cup of joe (clone)
6th Borough Project – Hang on (instruments of rapture)
Mike Huckaby - Disco time (deep transportation)

Fats Sadi

Wow! One of my hard-to-find faves, Belgian vibesman Fats Sadi, is on the download at the delicious-looking blog Boogieman here.

On The Beach

Antonio Giova

Really special, mellow, fresh, inspired mix from Antonio Giova of Natural Electronic System at MNML SSGS here.

Donato Dozzy - Moonlight [Mule Electronic]
Andy Stott - Passed me by [Modern Love]
Relapxych.0 - City Nightlights II [Ghost Sounds]
Neel - Snow in the tube [unreleased]
Midnightopera - Untitled [Workshop]
Madteo - Sheepdipping [Meakusma]
Stl - In my dreams (Intrusion dub) [Something]
Jouem - Drifting [Just Another Beat]
Mohlao - Luminescent [Field]
Kangding Ray - Leavaila Scheme [Raster Noton]
Mike Parker - B1 [Geophone]
Anders Ilar - Paragram [Audio.nl]
Dorisburg - Sinai Hypnosis Dub [Aniara]
Ryo Murakami - Lunch of God (Stereociti rmx) [Pan]
Dj Snotburger - Snotann [Fxhe]
Emmanuel Top - Flux [Planete Rouge]
Slop Salon - A.meet mr J [Aspeak]
Nuel - B2 [Aquaplano]

Image from Things I Save.

Space Bitches

Space Bitches. Love it.

Dave Mothersole Mixes

I remember when I was dismayed at the lack of Mothersole mixes on the Web. Now you can get tonnes from Proton Radio, which I'm linking to via the unfathomably plentiful Liveset.NL

Here's his latest from the top of the year!

01. Estroe - Duisteritis [Eevo Next]
02. Ever Vivid - Lost Love [Open Mind]
03. Rick Grant and Jack Dixon - Muted [Man Make Music]
04. Motorcitysoul - Hatohay - Moved D Mix [Simple]
05. Kevin Yost - Photo Shoot [I]
06. Maceo Plex - Stay High Baby [Ellum]
07. Freaky Disco - No Debt [Wiggle]
08. Soy Mustafa - Return Of Anunnaki - John Tejada Mix [Cinematic]
09. Pig and Dan - Stronger [Yoshitoshi]
10. My Favorite Robot - Forest Fires [Visionquest]
11. Smallpeople - Black Ice [Smallville]
12. Christian Loeffler - Undefined Season [Ki]
13. Freaky Disco - Ferell [Wiggle]
14. Swayzak - State Of Grace - Van Bellen Mix [Columbia]
15. Flybaby - You Must Admit [World Wide]

American Athelete

Sadly American Athlete is no more but there are plenty of good tracks still available for download there. A lot of quality disco here and some nice world music nuggets too.

Big Pink tumblr

Guy from Dalstonite duo The Big Pink has his own tumblr. Check it out here.

Tazz And Giovanni - Welcome To The Dub

Love this tune I found over at dirtyblackdisco, really nice site streaming wicked tunes.

Chan3l

Here's a site of cool imagery (from a teenage girl in Sweden, I think) which I found whilst searching my family name (Flaxa) on Google images which seems to mean something like 'armpit' in Swedish. The blog address says Chan3l so that's what I'll call the post.

The polaroid of palm trees that is my new header is also from this site.

Miguel Puente

Chunky and fresh mix at Get The Curse

Hit Parade 87

Picked up this lovely compilation about a year ago in Notting Hill for a mere 6 quid. It's now my most played vinyl. Pure quality French pop.

Tracklist...

01 Joe Le Taxi-Vanessa Paradis 02 Helene-Julien Clerc 03 Kole Sere-P.Lavil & Jocelyne Beroard 04 Pile ou Face-Corynne Charby 05 Je te promets-J. Hallyday 06 Le coeur en exil-Images 07 Les petits boudins-Rober Farel 08 Quand la ville dort-Niagara 09 Les divas du dancing-Philippe Cataldo 10 Le pull-over blanc-Graziella De Michele 11 Les Tzars-Indochine 12 Ces idees-là -Bertignac 13 A bailar calypso-Elli Medeiros 14 Une autre histoire- G.Blanc