Monday 21st July 2008. Sex Pistols, Prototypes, Eclier, CSS, Old School Reunion, Birthday Party...

1st Hour of Show

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Aint Gonna Rain Anymore
Nick's feeling lonely and it aint gonna rain anymore, apparently, this is from the brilliant Let Love In album
Birthday Party – Fears of Gun
What do you get when you put 4 Australians in London, give them copious amounts of alcohol and narcotics. Let them stay in grimey bedsits struggling to get by and blow up all their previous misconceptions about a country? Well, you get the Birthday Party, and they were ANGRY, and we love them so...
The Horrors – She is the new thing
This is a watered down Birthday Party for a new generation, pretty cool none the less. I think its time for a new album boys..
Eclier – Boxon Say Hello (Redial Rmx)
Russian Electro remixed by an Aussie from Sydney
Crystal Castles – Crimewave (Crystal Castles vs Health)
From the latest album, Canadas new rising Electronic remix superstars with a Crimewave
FutureFlashs - Touch (QC Rmx)
FutureFlashs new Project was born in Autumn 2007. The DJ, known as Niko de Vries from Hamburg/ Germany who played with such Names as Boys Noize and Fedde le Grand thought the Time has come to support a new Style of Sound after he found the French Collective "Valerie" and such great Artists like Futurecop!, Cryptonites, Moulinex, Danger, Russ Chimes, Minitel Rose, GRUM and SymbolOne on MySpace, who produce a real new Future Sound. FutureFlashs decided to support this Sound, created the Name "Future Disco" and started the Mixtape Project "Future Disco Sound". Since his first Project there is huge Support from many great Online Blogs and Magazines around the World and until Autumn more than 50.000 People supported the latest Mix Sessions (from the MySpace page, read more at the link above)
Riton – Take Control
Newcastles Riton from the first album Beats du Jour
Mystery Jets – 2 Doors Down (Plimsouls Rmx)
"I think I'm in love with....." Wicked remix of the Mystery Jets by the Plimsouls
Prototypes – Dans Sur La Merde (Doperwerewolf Remix)
French Electro Pop 3 member group from Paris.
Hostage vs Herve vs NYPC vs Michael Jackson – Snake Ice Cream (Edu K Mash Up)
MAD mash up by Edu K
CSS – Left Behind (Midnight Juggernauts RMX)
From the new album, this has been given the reconstructed Juggernaut
Hot Chip – Ready for the Floor (Shake a Fist Diplo Rmx)
Diplo's mix is superb, certain to make you ready for the floor
The Ting Tings – Shut up and let me go
This band is exploding everywhere, I can't turn on the television or radio without seeing or hearing them. Not bad for a band doing it on their own terms
2nd Hour of Show
The Sex Pistols – Road Runner
From the Great Rock n Roll Swindle. Malcolm McLaren's "social experiment", its still being felt today, however, the "punk" of today compared to what it was when it first made its fetid way onto an unsuspecting world are complete polar opposites.
Love is All – Ageing had never been his friend
Gotthenburgs coolest Indie export
MGMT – Weekend Wars
Psychedelic Synthpop from the latest album. One of those albums that grow on you. I am still making my mind up about these New York natives. Cool song though
controller.controller – The Raw No
Sadly this Toronto Band is no more, they were a force of nature and this is for me their finest moment
White Rose Movement – Testcard Girl
Named after the English Anti-Nazi resistance movement set up during the 2nd world war. Also time for some new music guys!!!!
Nocturnal Emissions – No Seperation
From an awesome set of Albums called Funky Alternatives. They were forerunners to current Electro with an Industrial feel to them. There is a Best of Funky Alternatives floating around on Cleopatra records check it out here"
Old School Reunion – 7 Fires
My new favourite remixers. Last week I played the Metallica remix they did, this is them, STORMING
Simian Mobile Disco – Piggy In the Middle (Punks Jump Up Mix)
Please can someone let me know if its a Trent Reznor sample they use?? SMD at their usual awesome best
Les Rhythmes Digitales – Sometimes (Computer Clubs Front Room Edit)
New Jearseys Electro stomper
Cut /// Copy – Out there on the ice
Cut///Copy are doing exceptionally well with their new album, and here is one of the reasons they are.
The Presets – Are You The One? Lifelikes 1 Serious rmx)
Seriously cool remix of their classic track from their first album
Depeche Mode - Halo
From the Classic Violator album. Genius
Yazoo – Situation (US 12” Mix)
SO glad they have reformed. This is from the first album, Upstairs at Erics
fad gadget – collapsing new people

Frank Tovey in all his glory and pomp. The man was a genius. SO FAR ahead of his time

Call for fans to be in short films for Nick Cave

CALL FOR PARICIPANTS IN THE FILMS FOR THE ALBUM REMASTERS

Artists Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard have been commissioned to produce a
series of short films that will accompany each of the recently announced
Collector's Editions when Mute release the remastered Nick Cave & The Bad
Seeds studio albums.

Iain & Jane are looking for a small number of fans to participate in the
project. They're filming in London, New York, Melbourne and Berlin in August
and September this year and are looking for fans to talk about the songs
they have a connection to from the band's history.

If you're interested in being involved you are encouraged to get in touch as
soon as possible to secure a time to contribute. You can read more about the
project and submit your details to the production team here:
Participate

How awesome would this be, unfortunately I am stuck in South Africa, I would KILL to do this.

Tonights Show 14th July 2008 with Cult Hero, Alex Gopher, SMD, Palace of Pleasure...

This Mondays Show: The show is for Leeney as she is leaving us for a while to go and chill with Buddhist nuns for three months.
We have Cult Hero (Robert Smith, his bassist and a postman), Palace of Pleasure, Pravda23, Kliktrak, Grinderman etc....

1st Hour of Show

Cult Hero – I’m a cult hero
Robert Smith didn't like his original bassist (Michael Dempsey) much, he met a new bassist (Simon Gallup), to see if they could work well together, he formed a band with their postman, Frank Bell. They called it Cult Hero, Simon Gallup was hired and a postman had some fun and minor celebrity with a future anti-hero... lovely
The Kills – what new york used to be
Cool track from there most recent offering Midnight Boom
Material – don’t lose control (dance version)
Mr Bill Laswell and fiends with this slice of leftfield dance from the 80's, damn fine. Bill Laswell is an amazing bassist and he is still doing groundbreaking music today... find him, love him
Simian – Sunshine
Simian were a fourpiece, they bought out two albums, then they split... this is from the second album We Are Your Friends....

Simian Mobile Disco - Clock
They split and two of the members namely James Ellis Ford and James Anthony Shaw formed SMD and we are thankful for that, freaking awesome!!
Palace of Pleasure – Another Deal
Norwegian electronica kings with the title track from their new album out in September, This lends itself to a youth spent in ones bedroom listening to Gene Loves Jezebel and Echo and the Bunnymen Heaven up Here and taking many notes
Depeche Mode – The Darkest Star
What would a show of mine be without the MODE!!! This is the last track on the Playing the Angel album, I am still waiting to be dissapointed by a DM album..
Cabaret Voltaire – Sensoria (Bloody Beetroots vs Sir Billy Experience RMX)

The Cab's classic reworked and electrofied stupendously by them Blood Beetroots and the Sir Billy Experience, it hasn't left my car CD player for 4 days:)
MtKidU – Nudark
Jozi's finest leftfield thinking mans Electronica, check them out and give them some love
Kliktrak - Electrospheric (Edit 11)
Durbans finest electro tekno twiddler with another reason why i am a committed fan, you should be too
Pravda 23 – Forgetfulness Pravda23
Cape Towns Pravda23 with an unforgettable track, got this from Electrotrash's fine collection of free MP3's of our local talent, proving we have what it takes to take on the world stage
Noise Floor Crew vs Portishead – Machine Gun (RMX)
The new album has many brilliant tracks, this one is probably my favourite at the moment, the remix is astounding
2nd Hour of Show

The Cure – In Your House
This is the title track of The Cure's second album, a radical departure from the first album Three Imaginary Boys and a blueprint for their carreer to come, the album also has one of my all time favourite tracks A Forest
Cult Hero – I Dig You
Galluping Bob and his postman digging you
Grinderman – No Pussy Blues
Lord Nick complaing about something that he has never experienced, still great, the man is a genius, I love the fact that he is calling all the shots on his carreer and constantly reinventing himself, who knew that he played guitar so well, the only other time I can remember him playing guitar on any track was for The Girl At The Bottom Of My Glass which is the b-side of Oh Deanna
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Night of the Lotus Eaters
The great man from his great new album Dig, Lazarus Dig!, as with the Mode, I am STILL awaiting a bad Nick Cave album (I know some of you may think that Nocturama wasn't great, but I think its not one of his best but still streets ahead of most music out there)
NYPC – The Bomb (Dirty Disco Youths Maximal Bomb Remix)

Storming remix of a storming song by a storming band----- a lot of storming going on here
Siriusmo – Mein menu fahrrad (boys noise edit)
Mr Ridha doing what he does best, making Siriusmo sound even better than they allready did,
Yazoo – Don’t Go (Electro 2008 Rmx)
This is to celebrate the fact that this great band and slice of Electro Pop genius have reformed, they broke up after You and Me Both and never toured with the album, so it will be the first time these tracks are played live:)
Etienne de Crecy - Funk (Bloody Beetroots Rmx (video for Funk))
The French former member of Orange being his funky acid electro best, reinvented by them naughty Beetroots.
Alex Gopher – Aurora (Riot in Belgium & Knightlife Rmx)
Another member of Orange, with another fantastic track remixed beautifuly. The other two member of Orange are now called Air, that is like a supergroup of Electronica creativity and madness, brilliant
Late of the Pier – Heartbeat
Fast becoming the band to watch on the UK festival scene, this is from their up and coming album called Fantasy Black Channel. Very Numanesque which is high praise indeed
Pop Levi – Oh God, (What Can I Do?)
This makes me think of T-Rex at their pompous and swashbuckling best. The former Ladytron bassist is also one to watch.
Metallica – Master of Puppets (Old School Reunion Rmx)
A classic Metallica track given the shredded electro treatment by the Old School Reunion, this came third in a Metallica remix competition, I would have given it first place
Shriekback – My Spine is the Bassline (12” Mix)

Leftfield 80's dance heaven from Shriekback, makes me remember the Junction and Decodance with misty eyes....
Foetus - Mandelay
Mr Thirlwell, a complete nutter, gotta love it

Monday Nights 11pm till 1am Johannesburg Time, Channel 169 Audio Bouquet also 1485AM Radio (Johannesburg Only)
http://radiodeconstruction.blogspot.com

Musings on Ian Curtis's tombstone and two French exchange students

Some sad assed deranged probably Goth-wannabee has run off with Ian Curtis's headstone from his grave! REALLY ludicrous really! That is such an 80's thing to do, and even then it was a lame thing to do. I would tell the person to return it but the likelihood of that person being able to read this is negligible, so..... anyway, read on...

By WENN
world entertainment news -

Former Joy Division drummer Stephen Morris has spoken of his upset after robbers targeted the grave of his late bandmate Ian Curtis.

The tragic singer committed suicide in 1980 and was laid to rest in Macclesfield, Cheshire in north west England.

But now his grave has now been desecrated by thieves who have stolen the headstone.

And Morris has slammed the macabre act - insisting everyone who knew the late frontman is devastated by the news.

He says, "I just don't understand why anyone would do it. You couldn't sell it on eBay - it's ridiculous and very upsetting.

"There had been the films (2007's Control movie and this year's eponymous documentary) so maybe someone thought they could cash in… or maybe it's someone who is a bit deranged - you'd have to be.

"I'm speechless. It really is not a very nice thing at all."


In further news, the pointless murder of the two French exchange students is horrifying, it even one-ups Mr Fritzl and his bunker, and that takes some serious doing. Who stabs someone 243 times, 80 times AFTER the person is allready dead?? Clearly a complete and utter lunatic. The amount of knife crime and senseless murders happening in London at the moment is insane. It rivals (almost) the kind of shit we have here in South Africa, and we have some pretty scary shit happening here on a day to day basis!!
To the friends and families of the two people senselessly murdered, my most heartfelt and sincerest condolences, I can only hope that the crazy fucker is bought to justice sooner rather than later!!
Man Charged

Completely off the subject, I have spent many a frustrating hour trying to upload the second hour of my show from monday but the internet God's are conspiring against me. I shall persevere over the weekend!

David Bowie on his own Songs

David Bowie on his own songs

This is a cool article written by the man himself about a whole lot of his songs, what he was thinking when he wrote them etc.

Show 30 June 2008: Ladyhawke, Delta 5, Liaisons Dangereuses, Natalie Portmans Shaved Head, Soulwax, Alien Sex Fiend , Shriekback, The Ting Tings...

This Mondays Show: AWESOME tracks from Ladyhawke,
Shriekback, Matthew Dear, Sigur Ros, Soulwax, Natalie Portmans Shaved Head, Alien Sex Fiend, Delta 5 etc... Enjoy

First Hour of the Show
Simple Minds – Premonition
A track from their second album, pure class. They have apparently reformed with this line-up, I hope they get back to making music like this
Shriekback – Health and Knowledge and Wealth and Power
Kings of the alternative dancefloor in the mid to late 80's, they sit nicely in the space between The The and Fad Gadget, leftfield dance at its finest
(Matt Johnson) The The – (Like A) Sun Rising
This is from Matt Johnson's first album, its a bit uneven but it has hints towards the genius to come
The Ting Tings – Keep Your Head
Another Great Manchester band, from Salford, Indie Pop at its finest
They Came From The Stars I Saw Them – The Hot Inc.
Fantastic song from the fantasticaly named band from London
Natalie Portmans Shaved Head – Sophisticated Side Ponytail
Seattle's Natalie Portmans Shaved Head with this brilliant slice of lunacy, guarranteed to make you smile whilst dancing yer ass off...
Ladyhawke – BOTV (Van She Tech Turbo Fire Engine Remix)
Modular band Ladyhawke from Sydney (and other places, a multicultural band) with this sexy and stomping electro heaven remix by Labelmates Van She, guarranteed to get you sweating like a pony
Goose – 3T4
Belgiums finest Indie Electro Dancemasters with another cool track, proving that British Mode is not just a one-off, definately a band to watch
Alien Sex Fiend – Aint Got Time To Bleed
A Classic from a Classic band, the band that typified the Bat Cave and an era. Pre Electro Goth madness from the ugliest man (next to Shane McGowan) in music, Nik Fiend... spectacular
Does it Offend you, Yeah? – Lets Make Out (Stripe Remix)
UK's Does it Offend you, Yeah? remixed and grooved up, stupendous
Siouxsie – Into a Swan (Weatherall Mix)
Andrew Weatherall's remix of Siouxsies allready cool Into a Swan from the Mantaray album, lovely. Mr Weatherall still has the magic in his fingers
Soulwax – Another Excuse (DFA Remix)
DFA remix of Belgiums Soulwax, themselves the master remixes, absolutely skull crunchingly brilliant, driving bass from another dimension
The Cramps – Love Me
The worlds MADDEST band EVER with further proof of why they are loved by MANY.... "You Set My Heart On Fire...." woooohoooooo
2nd Hour of Show
Future Loop Foundation – Sunshine Philosophy
This track is so summery and sunshiney it just makes you want to run naked in the fields, like in a toilet paper commercial....
Sigur Ros – Hljómalind
Icelandic beauty transformed into music, glacial
Mazzy Star – So Tonight That I Might See (For WANDA)
Sandoval and co in a ritualistic durge of pure genius, from their first album of the same name
Rekleiner – Some People
Lifted from Mixmags Tiefschwarz mix of this month, minimal tekno at its finest
A Number of Names – Sharevari (Instrumental)
This is the original Tekno track Detroit, truly amazing that this track is from 1981, stomper of a track, it deserves our adulation

Matthew Dear – Don and Sherri
Texan Matthew Dear from his album Asa Breed. Hot Chip also do a version, the album is full of wonderfuly dark brooding tekno from the old school ala Trentemoller and Biosphere (imho)
Liaisons Dangereuses – Los Niños del Parque [12' Mix]
German band with a French name singing in Spanish, French and English with ties to Einsterzende Neubauten and DAF, it doesn't get any better (and stranger) than this, this track saw Electro coming from afar and mastered it before it existed, kinda like Dance with Mussolini on crack...
The Au Pairs – Inconvenience (12” Mix)
Riot Grrrl forerunners and pioneers, GREAT band from Birmingham, formed in 1979, this is from the Playing with a different Sex album
Delta 5 – Mind Your Own Business
Delta 5 from Leeds were an important figure in the post punk scene in the UK with leftfield ideologies. They were heavily involved in the Rock Against Racism movement
New Young Pony Club – Ice Cream (The Hooks Remix)
This has the coolest driving basslines of any remix I have heard in the past year, freaking awesome. It's made me fall in love with this song all over again
Late of the Pier – Space & the Woods (The Neon Plastix Remix)
Nottinghams up and coming new band remixed lovingly by Neon Plastix...
Midnight Juggernauts - Scorpius
Melbourne's The Midnight Juggernauts with this space filler from the Dystopia album, we love them, we love them a lot
Vivien Goldman - Launderette
A post punk classic from a journalist collaborating with the likes of John Lydon. She is the founding member of the Flying Lizards (they of Money, that's what I want fame), wrote songs for Massive Attack, penned the first biography of Bob Marley... a true Icon. Cool song too, LOVELY bassline (I seem to be into basslines today)

First Hour of Monday's show.... at last

After many problems trying to download the first hour, it is at last up
First Hour of show

Ratatat's video for Mirando

This Mondays show with Yazoo, Mazzy Star, Prototypes, Hadouken!, Does it Offend you, Yeah?

This Mortal Coil – Song to the Siren
Still one of the greatest cover versions of any song ever done, Elizabeth Frazier and Robin Guthrie of The Cocteau Twins under the 4 AD collective TMC completely rework the Tim Buckley classic, it doesn't get more beautiful and stark than this
Mazzy Star – Mary of Silence
Speaking of beautiful and stark, Hope Sandoval and David Roback made some truly dreamy hippy-goth tinged music on their two albums, this is from the first album, So Tonight I Might See... the same one that gave the world Fade Into You
Yazoo – Midnight
Vince Clarke and Alison Moyet made the most unlikely collaboration under the moniker Yazoo, Clarke had recently split from the group he founded (Depeche Mode) and Alison Moyet a blues singer but they made some of the most startling and long lasting music of the 1980's, probably influencing countless bedroom muso's and pioneering the one fingered synth technique. This was Clarkes blueprint for his most successful project still to come, Erasure. I still prefer Yazoo though.
Bjork Earth Intruders (xxxchange mix) for Sylvia (vote for her)
Bjork is by far the most successful export from Iceland, she seems to approach her music from a completely different way from anyone on the planet. She is fiercly independant and it shows in her glacial and challenging music.
Check out Sylvia's blog and VOTE FOR HER
Cazals – We’re just the same
British Indie band, fiends of Pete Doherty (have toured with Babyshambles)from the Kitsune released album What of our future
Prototypes – Dans sur le merde (Doperwerwolf Remix)
French Electro Pop awesomeness gets a cool reworking by Doperwerewolf...lovely

Johnny Cash – God’s Gonna Cut You Down
This is from Johnny Cash's final album, the American Recording V album he finished shortly before he passed away, this track is one of my all time favourite Cash songs, simple and to the point a BEAUTIFUL song that one wishes one wrote oneself, he was a genius
Hadouken! – Driving Nowhere
This is a track from their Music for an Accelarated Culture offering, for me this falls into the space between Bloc Party and pure unadultarated 80's synthpop circa 1984.... this can only be a good thing
Judge Dread – Skin Lake
A radical ska reworking of Tcaikowsky's Swan Lake, so awesome it should have a planet named after it.... stomp yer boots to this skanking fair
Does it offend you, Yeah? – Weird Science
Reading based 4 piece band from their "You have no idea what you are getting yourself into" offering. Awesome electro/punk electronica
Ratatat – Mirando (mmmathias remix)
Brooklyns finest instrumentalists given the mmmathias treatment
The Presets – My People (Mouse On Mars Terror Pretz Reamix)
This is a brutally driven remix by Mouse on Mars guaranteed to make you lose control on the dance floor when this one is dropped in by some smug DJ....
Cut//Copy – Hearts on Fire (Midnight Juggernautz Remix)
For Melbourne by Melbourne, this is an awe inspiring remix of the Cut//Copy track from their In Ghost Colours album on Modular Records
Foals – Electric Bloom (PHTPS Dusk Mix)
Sub Pops Foals from Oxford in the UK's minimalist elctronica at its finest
2nd Hour of Show

This Mondays Show with Pop Levi, The Young Punx, Cocteau Twins, Pony Pony Run Run etc

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This Mondays Show:

It was a pubic horrorday yesterday and as such I was too lazy to update this:) LOTS of new tracks, some old as is my wont.... thanks Izabella......to the bloke who phoned last night for a dedication, sorry i wasn't able to help you out:(
First Hour

Echo and the Bunnymen – In Bluer Skies
The final track on the amazing Porcupine album, moody, atmospheric... shows why the Bunnymen were one of the reasons it was great to be alive in the 80's
Tokyo Police Club – In a Cave
This is the first offering from their brilliant Debut full length album "Elephant Shell"
Cocteau Twins – Peppermint Pig
This was the first time I ever heard the otherworldly voice of Elizabeth Frasier, I was hooked. This track is brilliant, it's from one of my most prized possessions, the 12" single, The Twins get dancey (kinda)
The Young Punx – You’ve Got To… (Norman Cook Mix)
This remix is the cutest remix of any track I have heard in a long time, Drum and Bass at its finest (Norman Cooke style)
Son of Dave – Old Times Were Good Times
A beat-box and a harmonica never sounded so good...
Prototypes – Un Coup De Langue
Only the French could come up with an electro 80's style slice of coolness like this, wicked. From the awesome album Synthetique
Pony Pony Run Run – Boy/Girl Surrender (Summer Edit)
French powerpop brilliance
Goose – British Mode (Prepmode’s Heavy on the Kick Mix)
Awesome remix of this fantastic Belgian Indie band, the coolest riff of last year

Pop Levi – Oh God (What Can I Do?)
He used to play with Ladytron as their bassist, he is also known as Mozambique Courier. Lovely.
The Young Punx – Your Music Is Killing Me
Mad Electro House mash-up opera stomper
The Young Punx – Rockall (Krafty Kuts Mix)
WICKED remix by the Krafty Kuts, freaking awesome
Martina Topley Bird – Carnies
The voic eon Trickeys's debut Maxinquaye. HAs been likened to a modern day Etta James, high praise indeed
Yazoo – Softly Over
Vince Clarke left Depeche Mode and started this group with Blues vocalist Alison Moyet. They only did two full albums but they are filled with amazing tracks such as Goodbye 70's, Winter Kills, Only You and this slice of 80's brilliance from the album You and Me Both. Quite why they had to be called Yaz in the states, I will never know
Prototypes – Go To Hell Madamoiselle
Another piece of brilliance from their third album Synthetique

Radioactive Man – State of That
DJ Keith Tenniswood, partner in crime of Andrew Weatherall of Two Lone Sworsmen
MSTRKRFT – Vuvuvu
Canada's finest Electro nutters with an awesome track from their EP Bounce/Vuvuvu
Holy Fuck – Lovely Allen (Riton Rerub)
Toronto's Holy Fuck, from their latest album LP
Valerna – Touch
Originally from Boston based in LA, sexy Dance music....
Wax Tailor – Ungodly Fruit
French Hip Hop producer/DJ Jean-Christophe Le Saoût's brilliant stripped down Trip Hop type piece of funky heaven
Die Haut – Tokyo Express
German instrumental band best known for collaborating with Nick Cave and members also became part of the Bad Seeds collective.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Fleeting Love
The B-Side to the More News From Nowhere single. Nick NEVER fails to dissapoint
Drive-By Argument – The Sega Method
Pioneers of a genre called "Four-to-the-floor unhappy hardcore", this Ayr band from Scotland is definately one to watch
Chaingang – Get off my stage
Sydney based band, gutar driven madness with the coolest female vocals I have heard for a long time

Kav – Blaggers & Liars
London's Kavin "Kav" Sandhu formwer frontman of SonicAudio. This is his latest solo stuff, very cool
Cazals – Somebody, Somewhere (xTopher Remix)
London based The Cazals on the brilliant Kitsune label
The Draytones – Don’t Talk To Me
Londons mod inspired The Draytones. From the album Up in my Head. They have been touring with Paul Weller in the UK
Daft Punk – Television Rules The Nation (Aerotronic Remix)
French House pioneer futurists, great remix by Belgian's Aerotronic

Young Punx – Young and Beautiful (Laurent Konrad Remix)
Cosmetic Surgery sideswipe from the album Your Music's Killing Me...


Monday Nights 11pm till 1am Johannesburg Time, Channel 169 Audio Bouquet also 1485AM Radio

Tonights Show 09 June 2008 including New Ladytron, Thompson Twins and The Au Pairs

This Mondays Show:

Hmmmmm, our parties don't seem to be getting done yet, will let you know when the ACTUAL dates are, we need final sign off for one of the venues, so that means we still are to do our first Deconstruction party for the year, sigh... anyhoo, cool show including The Thompson Twins, a guilty pleasure of mine from the 80's, also including Foetus, the Polysics and the new Ladytron.....
1st Hour of Show
Tubeway Army – You are in my vision
This was when Gary Numan was at his finest, glacial. David Bowie might hate him but we don't
Thompson Twins – Love on your side
This is a guilty pleasure for me, I was a HUGE fan for many years, I even went so far as to become a member of their fan club, I have a cool collection of old photo's signed by the band as well as Allanah Currie's glove (fucking tiny, looks like it was a 10 year olds:))
Franz Ferdinand – Tell her tonight
From the debut album, can't wait for new music from them
You’ve Got Foetus On Your Breath – Mark of the Ostracizor
JG Thirlwell, another insane genius from Melbourne Australia (my all time favourite musician comes from closeby, no prizes for guessing who THAT is). The name and brand Foetus is a stroke of genius really, decidedly sick and perverse, but awesome none the less, my fiend Guy and I used to listen to them in his bedroom before going out to conquer the world (and more hopefully women's hearts, hahhahahahah)
The Fall – Pat Trip Dispenser
Manchesters second greatest band of all time, hot on the heels of a certain band previously known as The Warsaw, then named themselves after Jewish prostitutes pleasuring German soldiers, yes, you guessed it: Joy Division. The water is good in Manchester (cleasrly it is because that is where the greatest football team is on the planet, the Red half of course)
Joy Division – Day of the lords
What more can be said about this unbelievable and mythical band, I hate to say it but I do not think that New Order ever acchieved the same heights of genius and creativity, a sens of Isolation....
Cut//Copy – Midnight Runner
80's inspired brilliance out of Australia, Cut//Copy and The Presets are two of the most dynamic and forward thinking bands around in the world at the moment, lovely, makes me want to move to Melbourne (as if I needed any excuse to want to do that anyway)
The Presets – Kicking and Screaming
Speaking of The Presets, this is from the new album Apocalypso
NIN – The beginning of the end (Ladytron Remix)
This is from the Year Zero remixes, fantastic remix by the very talented Liverpudlian band Ladytron

Ladytron – Season of Illusions
This is from the new album Velocifero, it is awesome, it doesn't dissapoint in the least
The Au Pairs – It’s Obvious
A post-punk classic that had me dancing like a crazy person at clubs like The Playground, The Junction and Le Club (where I later ended up DJ'ing for a long time), "You're equal but different.... It's Obvious..." BRILLIANT
Thompson Twins - Watching
Back to my guilty pleasure, SUCH a great album, it has been reissued by Demon remastered including ALL the remixes, great!! Let's start a campaign to bring them back into prominence, I mean, they sold over 20 million albums in the early to mid 80's and now no-one really remembers or respects them... more respect is given to that twat boy george (note no capital letters) and he is an awful sexual deviant... disgusting
The Polysics – Wild One for Leeney
Fantastic, they termselves as "technicolor pogo punk", who am I to argue that?
Siouxsie – About to Happen Siouxsie
A fantastic song from a fantastic album from a fantastic singer, a legend really, like Michael Foot
2nd Hour of tonight's show
Can – Oh Yeah (Secret Knowledge mix)
Holger Czukay and his merry band of Krautrockers, probably the most important of that movement,a sound that defined a sound, a genre. Updated in 2003 (or somehwere near there)
Crystal Castles – Through the hosiery
GREAT new band from Toronto, better known for their brilliant remixes of the likes of The Klaxons etc, their debut album is a gem
The Go! Team – Flashlight Fight (Feat Chuck D)
What more can you say about this band, using as guest MC who else but the phenomenal "Fight The Power" man himself of Public Enemy, Chuck D!!!
Goldfrapp – Road to Somewhere
Alison and fiend come back from an electro masterpiece with an accoustic masterpice, great album
The National – Mistaken for Strangers
Brooklyn based indie rockers echo bands such as the Tindersticks and our Lord and Saviour, Nick Cave... The Boxer is a great album with many surprises and gems buried beneath its moribund exterior, well worth MANY listens
Metric – Love is a Place
Beautiful stripped down song from the amazingly talented Emily Haines, one of Canada's finest
The Go! Team – Ladyflash (Simian Mobile Disco Remix)
Simian Mobile Disco make this allready great track STOMP, as a DJ, it is a pleasure to use this track in a set
MSTRKRFT – Work on you
Toronto's finest Electro stompers, new album out in September, CAN'T WAIT
The Mystery Jets – The boy who ran away (Riton Re-Rub)
5 piece English band... SOLID
Slow Club – Summer Shakedown
Folksy and pretty, lovely band
Guilty Simpson – Home Invazion
What does one follow up a future folk classic with? HIP HOP, WOOHOOOO
Marbert Rocel – Tttictictac
Tres Jolie this one, tres jolie
Simple Minds – Thirty Frames a Second
Empires and Dance was an unbelievable album, this is a classic from a classic album, when Simple Minds were forward thinking and brilliant, I have it on good authority that they have reformed with the original lineup, I hope this is a good sign, more of the same from this era please:) Leave the Gaelic Stadium Rock to the Irish pomp rockers U2 please, go back to your Roxy Music inspired routes
Thompson Twins – We are detective
What better to finish off the two hours than a classic for the Smash Hits generation of pop lovers, pure 80's brilliant cheese, god bless them Twins


Monday Nights 11pm till 1am Johannesburg Time, Channel 169 Audio Bouquet also 1485AM Radio

ElectroCity

ElectroCity
A mix I did including Trentemoller, Hot Chip, Simian Mobile Disco, Boys Noize, Justice, Depeche Mode, Herve, Digitalism, Dave Gahan, Audion.
We are doing a party soon for Deconstruction and I am contemplating giving free CD mixes away, this one is one of the ones I am contemplating.

I did the mix purely on CD on the 25th May 2008 in my room, I had too many CD's piled on my trusty turntables, it's chaos in my room, cables everywhere to my laptop from my mixer. CD's and Vinyl lying everywhere and my flightcase on the spare bed, hahahaha!
Let me know what you think

Two cool Blogs to check out

Check out this really cool Blog I found, it's this cool girl from Brazil living in Germany, it's very comprehensive and is an awesome guide to what is happening in the indie/electro and alternative music scene, HIGHLY recommended by yours humbly
Indie Dancefloor Blog
Whilst checking that out also check out my friends online Blog shop which has sprung from the ashes of her cool shop Ke Ai in Mellville Jo'burg. It is Asian Pop Glam Junkshop Blog
It is early days and she is busy uploading all her stuff there but keep checking for cool shit from the East:)

Tonights Show 2nd June 2008

This Mondays Show:
1st Hour of Show
There was a technical screw up last week so the second hour from last week will go out this week... whereas the FIRST hour, well......Marc Almond's deviancy begins...Bomb the Bass's funkiness ends with pure coolness inbetween....
Soft Cell – Sex Dwarf
Crystal Castles – Good Times
Fad Gadget – Plain Clothes
Cut//Copy – Hearts on Fire
The Presets – Talk Like That
Boys Noize – Deny Selected
Mazzy Star – Fade Into You (For WANDA)
The Last Town Chorus – Modern Love (For WANDA)
Portishead – The Rip
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Midnight Man
Simon Bonney – Forever
The Cranes – Tangled Up
Bomb The Bass – Bug Powder Dust (La Funk Mob Remix)

2nd Hour
Mixes from Milkshake and Dimples from Showlove Party on the 6th June 2008 at the Nike Concept Store in
Melville with Showlove and Deconstruction


The Show will be up on the Blogspot shortly. The 30th June, keep it open.........
Monday Nights 11pm till 1am Johannesburg Time, Channel 169 Audio Bouquet also 1485AM Radio

Tonights Show 26th May 2008 featuring Showlove

1st Hour of Show
Bauhaus – In the flat field
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Aint gonna rain anymore
The Horrors – Horrors Theme
Portishead – Small
Merz – Malcolm

Love is All – Used Goods
Massive Attack – I Against I
X-Ecutioners – Feel The Bass
Robyn – Konitchiwa Bitches (Trentemoller Remix)
Freddie Foxxx - Devious Minds
Electrocute – Two Lane Blacktop
Klaxons – Two Receivers

2nd Hour
Mixes from Milkshake and Dimples from Showlove
Party on the 6th June 2008 at the Nike Concept Store in Melville

Tonights Show 19th May 2008... Echo and the Bunnymen, Cutout Collective, Daft Punk, Love on Rollerskates, Tones on Tail, Bauhaus, The Presets etc

Tonights Show:

1st Hour of the Show
Echo and the Bunnymen – Turquoise Days
The Fall – Draygo’s Guilt
Daft Punk – Da Funk
UB40 – Reefer Madness
Dead Can Dance - Cantara for nadia
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – night if the lotus eaters
Tones on Tail – Burning Skies for Tracie
Cutout Collective - fossils
Love on Rollerskates – marymichael motorcycle
The Presets – yippiyo-ay
Depeche Mode – Waiting for the night
Unit-R - daft
Eater - Queen Bitch
2nd Hour of Show
Bauhaus – Double Dare
Bauhaus – endless summer of the damned
The Last Town Chorus – Modern Love For Wanda
Digitalism - Zdarlight
The Presets – Down Down Down (Digitalism Remix)
Boys Noize – Shine Shine (Apparat Remix)
The Sea and Cake – Sound and Vision

MSTRKRFT – The Look
controller.controller – Magnetic Strip
Echo and the Bunnymen – With a Hip
Metric – Poster of a Girl
Cut // Copy - lights and music
The Cure – The Perfect Girl for Wanda
The Horrors – Draw Japan

Tonights Show, with The Death Set, Bongolian, Baltic Fleet etc

This Mondays Show:
I have more cool old Simple Minds, some Bongolian, Plastikman, Chris & Cosey, The Fall......
1st Hour of Show
Simple Minds - In Trance as Mission
The Fall - O! Brother
Japan - In Vogue
David Sylvian & Riuichi Sakamoto - Forbidden Colours
Cut Copy - Feel the Love
Helmet - Biscuits for Smut
Ministry - You know what you are
Die Haut and Nick Cave - Pleasure is the boss

Chris and Cosey - October (Love Song)
The Bongolian - Talking Synth
The Presets - Anywhere

The Death Set - Superzero
Muse - Supermassive Black Hole
2nd Hour of Show
Plastikman - Marbles
Crystal Castles - Air War
The Presets - This boys in love
The Fall - Hit the north (Part 2)
Baltic Fleet - Black Lounge
David Bowie - 5:15 The Angels HAve Gone
The Kills - Last Day of MAgic
Operator Please - Zero Zero
Interpol - Pioneer to the Falls

LCD Soundsystem - Tribulations
Eight Legs - Simple Life
The Faint - Your Retro Career Melted
The Fall - Acid Priest 2088

Monday Nights 11pm till 1am Johannesburg Time, Channel 169 Audio Bouquet also 1485AM Radio

LOVE ON ROLLERSKATES

VERY cool new band to watch..... I have been playing their song Marymichael Motorcycle on my show for a few weeks.......
Love on Rollerskates
Love on Rollerskates MySpace


One pop! Pop rocks! Blood clots! Hearts stops!
Thumb wars! Dance floors! Plastic toys! It's all a ploy!

Love on Rollerskates is and indie-cindi, nu-rave, electro, space travel, theatrical, hosepipe, dance!dance!dance! because you can and you MUST power-pop act from the bright lights of the big city (I heart Jozi).

LoR is a street team, a secret handshake, middle of the night, flash mobbing, head throbbing, dance monkey, top of your lungs, snap bangle, neon nightmare, inside-outside-inside-on, BMX-powered gang of kids who over dress in their Sunday best to make bright sights and loud sounds. We make dance-dance electro-fag glock-pop.

Over-use of adjectives aside we have no agenda other then to make kids shake their bodies about on the dance floor and perhaps when we finish recording our ep for them to take a copy of it home and home up synchronized dances. Wowie! Now that's success.

LoR likes…

The Arcade Fire…Bloc Party…The Knife…Crystal Castles…Uffie…Flash Mobs…Candy Bracelets…Foals…LCD Soundsystem…FrankMusik…Le Tigre…CSS…Enon…Digitalism…FreezePop…Riding bikes…Charity stores…Dance revolution…Does it offend you, yeah?…Lo-FiFNK…Party Monster…Fascination!

We are…

Eve Rakow the one with girlie face, ping-ping voice and b-b-beats…
Roberto Manuela Pombo the kid behind the keys, d-beam and boy voice….
Russell Grant banging mace laced bass, pumping the jam and looking both ways before crossing the road…

This brick is for love… We are building an army and starting a massacre to move your body!

okhi5.

Spread the word… the word is love*

Tonights Show featuring Cut Copy, Crystal Castles, Simple Minds...

I have new stuff from Cut Copy, Crystal Castles, Portishead, Hercules & Love Affair, as well as some COOL old tracks from Simple Minds before they went stadium rock and crap....
1st Hour of Show
Simple Minds - I Travel
Joy Division - Isolation
Love & Rockets - It could be sunshine
Neon Neon - Belfast
Cut Copy - Out there on the ice
The Whip - Blackout
Foreign Beggars - What goes up ft Dr Syntax
Alex Blood - Say Hello
Four Tet - A Joy (Remix)
Crystal Castles - Alice Practice
Hercules & Love Affair - Hercules Theme
Crystal Castles - Magic Spells
Simple Minds - Someone Somewhere in Summertime
Killing Joke - Requiem
2nd Hour of Show
Simian Mobile Disco - Sleep Deprivation
Boys Noize - Lava Lava (Feadz Aval Aval Mix)
Cut Copy - Hearts on fire
Depeche Mode - Clean
Depeche Mode - Stories of old
Gary Numan and Tubeway Army - It must have been years
Paul Woolford presents Bobby Peru - The Truth
Kasabian - Apnoea
Realistic Crew - Inevitable
Portishead - We carry on

Crystal Castles - Crimewave (Crystal Castles vs Health)
The Gathering - Perfect Souls (unfortunately there is no info on the net about this great South African Goth band from the mid to late 1980's, they used support No Friends of Harry and the Psycho Reptiles back then, very cool)
Cut Copy - Eternity one night only

Monday Nights 11pm till 1am Johannesburg Time, Channel 169 Audio Bouquet also 1485AM Radio

Last Nights Show

Today at 7:38am
Sorry for not updating yesterday but I was away, the shows will be up in a few hours on the Blogspot address further below:)
This Mondays Show:
I play the song by local indie electro heroes LOVE ON ROLLERSKATES AGAIN, coz i ROLL like that AS WELL AS............... tracks from the NEW PRESETS AND PORTISHEAD ALBUMS. PLUS lotsa old skool Goth and Industrial to get your toes atapping!
Without further ado:
1st Hour of Show
Fields of the Nephilim - Laura
Gene Loves Jezebel - Heartache (Mission UK Remix)
Christian Death - This is Heresy
Spahn Ranch - Mind Riot
Solar Enemy - Burn Up
NIN - My Violent Heart (Pirate Robot Midget Remix)
The Presets - A New Sky
Hot Chip - Hold On
Datarock - Fa-Fa-Fa
Love on Rollerskates - Marymichael Motorcycle

Fad Gadget - Saterday night special
The Kills - Getting Down
Battles - Atlas (Radio Edit)
Peter Bjorn and John - Lets Call It Off (Single Mix)
2nd Hour of Show
Portishead - Deep Water
Portishead - Plastic
Portishead - Hunter
Portishead - Nylon Smile
Tuatara - Madrigal
Figurines - Ambush
The Cure - Maybe Someday (for WANDA)
Mathias Schaffhauser - Coincidance (Trentemoller Remix)
Djuma Soundsystem - Les Djinns (Trentemoller Remix)
Boys Noize - My Head (Para One Remix)
Justice - Waters of Nazareth
Justice - One Minute To Midnight

Monday Nights 11pm till 1am Johannesburg (South Africa) Time, Channel 169 Audio Bouquet also 1485AM Radio

Tonights Show featuring Love on Rollerskates, new Presets, new Portishead, New Ladytron and New NIN

This Mondays Show:

I debut an AWESOME new song by local indie electro heroes Love on Rollerskates AS WELL AS............... tracks from the NEW PRESETS AND PORTISHEAD ALBUMS as well as a new tracks from Ladytron and Nine Inch Nails!!!!!!!!
Without further ado:
1st Hour of Show
Love on Rollerskates - Marymichael Motorcycle
The Presets - Kicking and Screaming
Ladytron - Black Cats (for Sylvia)
The Kills - Cheap and Cheerful
NIN - Ghosts IV
Justice - Phantom
Feadz - Numanoid
Gang of Four - Damaged Goods
The Birthday Party - Wildworld
Soft Cell - Where was your heart (when you needed it most)
Boys Noize - Lets buy happiness (Proxy Remix)
Soft Cell - Mr Self Destruct
NIN - Mr Self Destruct
The Cure - Another Day (for Wanda)
Jesus and Mary Chain - On the Wall (for Wanda)
2nd Hour of Show
The Presets - Together
Boys Noize - Don't believe the hype (Housemeister Remix)
The Presets - Anywhere
Portishead - Silence
The Kills - Tape Song
Portishead - machine gun
Redflecks - Baby
Sex Gang Children - Who on earth can that be?
Virgin Prunes - Pagan Love Song
Joy Division - Passover
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Rather Lovely Thing
Portishead - Scorn
Monday Nights 11pm till 1am Johannesburg (South Africa) Time, Channel 169 Audio Bouquet also 1485AM Radio (loadshedding permitting of course)