Davy Jones RIP

Sad news about Davy Jones today, time for a few Monkees-related posts from the past:

 

http://www.djfood.org/heads-up

(fictional ‘Head’ comic cover)

 

http://www.djfood.org/head-shots

(ultra nerdy dissection of a trailer for ‘Head’)

 

http://www.djfood.org/discography/mixes/head-dj-food-re-score

(something I did around a decade ago)

 

image adapted from the Big Glee website – Jack Davis draws Davy Jones for a book of fan letters written to the Monkees. He also posted a great Japanese tour brochure from 1968 only yesterday – spooky timing!

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The The – Moonbug soundtrack

Here’s the cover to the new release by The The aka Matt Johnson who I collaborated with on my new album, covering one of his old songs in the process. This release – the soundtrack to the Nicola Bruce film ‘Moonbug’ – is all new music, although the keen-eared will have heard snatches of it via the monthly Cinéola podcasts in 2010.

The 17 tracks accompany the journey of photographer Steve Pyke, whose mission was to photograph every man who ever walked on the moon. I saw the film back in the Autumn of 2011 and it’s a fascinating documentary and Steve’s stunning photos capture the different men’s ageing faces and bring to mind the surface of the moon on occasion. These are included in the booklet that comes bound into the hardback CD book of the soundtrack along with an interview, conducted by Matt, about the journey.

The CD is available from the freshly revamped TheThe.com website from March 1st as an exclusive for 3 months before regular retail shops get it. It’s no.2 in an ongoing series of book-bound CDs covering soundtracks, archive material, cover versions and more to come, at least one of which will feature my ‘Deep Space’ mix of ‘GIANT’.

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DJ Format featuring Edan ‘Spaceship Earth’ video

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…

[youtube width=”640″ height=”380″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYJtqzwF8wg[/youtube]

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.

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Wagon Christ ‘Chunkothy’ video stills by Celyn Brazier

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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[youtube width=”640″ height=”385″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpPVPEoJdb0[/youtube]

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Belbury Poly – Belbury Tales LP

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

[youtube width=”640″ height=”480″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGW05V7nCOQ&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

 

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Lone – Crystal Caverns 1991


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.

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2econd Class Citizen – Perception/Identity (Postcard Set)

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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