First full track from the, now delayed, collaborative album, this is the B side of the new single released 11th March on digital and 12th March on Limited Edition Numbered 12″ vinyl and CD.
I have several rules in my AV sets when I play out: no breaking videos, no endless graffii, no bad cgi dancing people on a loop and no skateboarding videos. I’ll make an exception for this one…
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One of the best Rap tracks released in years, DJ Format with Edan – ‘Spaceship Earth’, this is taken from Format’s new album ‘Statement of Intent’ which was released on Monday on Project Blue Book.
It features collaborations with Mr Lif, Phill Most Chill, Sureshot La Rock, The Nostalgia 77 Quintet, and The Simonsound. He’s touring the album with The Simonsound beginning in his home town of Brighton this Friday at the Concorde II – more dates on his blog.
I’ll be pootling along to this on Thursday evening at Orbital Comics in the west end of London (8 Newport St, WC2H 7JA to be precise) for the opening of an exhibition curated by Jason Atomic to celebrate the comic medium.
Adam & The Ants scrapbook covers drawn by me aged 11-12, 1981-82. A3, biro and felt tip – presumed lost but recently rediscovered after over 25 years in the loft of a friend.
This video debuted last year but I never got round to posting a series of stills I got from it at the time. Seeing as I’m playing with Luke Vibert in Dublin this Friday that seems like excuse enough to revisit this beautiful piece. The images are by Celyn Brazier, who has illustrated all the Wagon Christ albums on Ninja so far and you can watch the video again below.
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This turned up today, the latest Ghost Box release, in beautiful Julian House designed sleeve as usual. Here’s an excerpt with a clip from the forthcoming film ‘New Summer Wavelengths’, by House, to accompany, also a Radio Belbury radio programme.
Programme 8: “Ask the Family” by Radio Belbury on Mixcloud
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I have to listen to this several times a day at the moment, absolutely love it, everything I like about a good techno record as well a nice dollop of nostalgia from my own raving days in both the sound and the label it’s on. There is a new Lone album on the horizon called ‘Galaxy Garden’ out on May 7th and ‘Crystal Caverns 1991’ in out as the first single on March 26th.
My good friend Aaron Thomason aka 2econd Class Citizen will release his 2nd album in early May this year, I’m lucky enough to have heard it in many stages of production and he’s outdone himself this time. To head off the promotion and campaign, Equinox Records have cooked up a treat for 25 lucky people.
“Perception / Identity”, the second postcard package on the label, includes two beautiful vinyl postcards – designed by the American illustrator toobz – and features two new exclusive songs which will give you a preview of what you can expect to hear on his album “The Small Minority”. The set goes on sale tomorrow (Friday Feb 24th) from the Equinox shop – be quick!
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He’s back!
I found these whilst looking for something else – pretty amazing! It’s in the Atacama desert in Northern Chile and was made by Mario Irarrázabal in 1992 apparently.
Another great cover from the Stones Throw label, truly becoming the Blue Note of this generation
I forgot to post this last week as lots was happening, the first half is from DJ Shepdog but I take over at the 30 minute mark for some dark electronica. This is also sans the chat that’s on the Strongroom Alive broadcast version that’s also kicking around the web but which also features a live mix from PC, my old DJ Food sparring partner.
There’s some as yet unreleased The The, a nice little mash up of Boards of Canada and Kraftwerk and some of the new Trunk Records release ‘The Seasons’.
Solid Steel Radio Show 17/2/2012 Part 3 + 4 – Shepdog + DJ Food by Ninja Tune
Tracklist:
Ronald Duncan & David Cain – August (from The Seasons) (Trunk)
Paul Giovanni – The Anointing (from The Wicker Man) (Trunk)
Jon Brooks – Zukunft Als Konzept (Reconstruction) (Cafe Kaput)
Bonobo – Black Sands (Duke Dumont’s ‘Grains Of Sand’ Reconstruction) (Ninja Tune)
Boards of Canada – Olsen (Midland re-edit) (mp3)
Kraftwerk – Neon Lights (EMI)
Jon Brooks – Zukunft Als Konzept (Reconstruction) (Cafe Kaput)
Bonobo – Black Sands (Duke Dumont’s ‘Grains Of Sand’ Reconstruction) (Ninja Tune)
Ronald Duncan & David Cain – February (Trunk)
The The – Electric Moonlight (Cinéola)
Arnaud Rebotini – The Choir of Dead Lovers (Black Strobe/K7!)
Demdike Stare – Regolith (Modern Love)
In the last few days I’ve been asked to do a promo mix for one of my heroes, curate a compilation of someone else who I’ve helped bring to the public conscious in the last few years, designed a pitch brochure for a prominent TV production company and started on ideas for the artwork for The Herbaliser‘s seventh album. I’m also in the middle of two video edits and artwork for my record store day release, I haven’t slept much…
To anyone wanting one of the DJ Food postcard records that I made for the recent Pure Evil Gallery exhibition, the LAST ONE is being auctioned tonight in aid of Resonance FM the independent radio station that’s home to show’s like Jonny Trunk’s OST, Ben Eshmade’s Arctic Circle and Alex Fitch’s Panel Borders shows amongst many more. The auction ends tonight (Feb 19th) at midnight GMT and you can see the list of goodies up for auction on the Fundraiser Spreadsheet.
The postcard is actually no.31 of 30 and is specially signed for the Resonance auction, also up for grabs is a one of a kind DJ Food 12″ controller record for use with DJ software like Tractor and Serato, on multi-coloured splatter vinyl. My items are lot # r9 and r10 (scroll down to near the bottom) and you can email your bids to [email protected] before midnight tonight. Please support this station if you can even if it’s a small donation, every bit helps.
