Spannered Oddcast

Oddcast #15 was delivered on Saturday 28 April 2012 at 01:10 hours. Weighing in at just over 70 minutes, both parent and child are doing as well as can be expected. Music for Pregnant Ladies is a version of a mix originally put together by London-based DJ Jerome Hill for a friend of his during her pregnancy. Featuring wildly eclectic gems from the likes of Nino Ferrer, Os Mutantes and Jean-Pierre Massiera, we've been experimenting with this Oddcast in various situations and can assuredly report that it's a very fine listen even if you're not 'with child'. Despite Jerome's legendary standing as a techno DJ, anyone who's caught him at one of his more “irregular” gigs will know of his ceaseless quest to unearth the cheekiest tunes of all genres ever to have been pressed onto vinyl (and that he's a force to reckoned with when it comes to rocking out the catchiest wedding selection). His label, Don’t, recently reached it’s 20th release with a sturdy EP of clunking acid and jacking house by Messrs Neil Landstrumm and Matt Whitehead. If you’re in London on 8 June 2012, we strongly recommend heading along to the second of his label parties, to be held in the bowels of a decaying video shop in Dalston. Check out Jerome’s other mixes for Spannered here and here. Tracklisting: Will Malone - Deathline Unknown - Check the Brutal Music label ! Nino Ferrer - Le Telephone (English Version) Dave Phillips & The Hotrod Gang - Tainted Love The Boots - Alexander Ike & Tina Turner - I Can't Believe What You Say The Kinks - Dedicated Follower of Fashion Dandelion Wine - Hot Dog The Nu People - I'd Be Nowhere Without You Jean Pierre Massiera - Il Tubo Os Mutantes - Bat Macumba Bdly Drawn Boy - Riding with Gabriel Greenburg Os Mutantes - A Minha Menina (Dom Thomas Edit) The Herbaliser - Amores Bongo Steve Martin - Gettin Small The Cherrystones - Be Careful What You Wish For The Free Association - Le Baggage The Free Association - Whistlin Down The Wind The M&S Band - Egg Roll Dave, Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Titch - Bend It Napoleon XIV - They're Coming To Take Me Away Jean Paul Massiera - Dali Court North Of Ping Pong - Reeboks Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - Rag Doll Roy Orbison - In Dreams

The latest instalment of Spannered's Oddcast series comes from none other than Glasgow's Dave Donnelly, aka Production Unit. Dave's no stranger to these pages, having previously contributed two short works of fiction about talking cows and a rather exquisite review of Autechre's Quaristice album. Formerly a member of Glasgow's now-dispanded electronica trio the Marcia Blaine School For Girls (along with Ruaridh Law, aka The Village Orchestra), Dave's had outings under his Production Unit guise on keen-eared labels such as Highpoint Lowlife and Stuff Records. He currently has releases primed and ready for Broken20 (which helps to run with Law) and Phuturelabs. The Broken20 release, titled ICU Tracks, is a particularly intense body of work —  a stark techno set (suitably supported by remixes from Perc and Emptyset's Paul Purgas) constructed from the sound of hospital machines. A while back, just after we got a whiff of his Mature Cheedar Dadcast for Techno Dads, we asked Dave if he'd pick up the Oddcast gauntlet for Spannered — and he's done so with gusto. "The theme is 'other music'" he tells us, "stuff that I'd probably never normally put in a mix." Well, we think he deserves one fat cigar for this epic two-hour selection, chock-full of beauty and strangeness in equal measures — and a large plastic beaker of warm sambuca for holding the dubious accolade of being the first (and probably last) mix on Spannered to feature the versatile delights of the legendary Bernard Cribbins. Tracklisting: Bjork - Overture Rose and Sandy - Play Cat's Cradle Hildur Gudnadottir - Aether Fatimah al Zaelaeyah - Ya mun dakhal bahr al hawa (Hey, who enters the sea of passion) Gendhing Kemanak Anglirmendung (Pelog Barang) Drummers of the Societe Absolutment Guinin - Yanvalou Njib Ould N’Ghaimich – Guetna Throbbing Gristle - Exotica Directions - Echoes (Continental Drift version) John Coltrane - Ole Miles Davis - In a Silent Way The Beach Boys - Fall Breaks and Back to Winter Scorn - White Irises Blind (Minimal Mix) Godflesh - Christbait Rising Scorn - Drained John Cohen - Tar River Coil - Triple Sun Introduction Hype Williams - Untitled 1 Tangerine Dream - Love on a Real Train Steve Reich - Proverb FSOL - Papua New Guinea (Dub Mix) Pole feat. Fat Jon - Slow Motion Senking - Mimi Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) (Instrumental) BFC - Sleep Mos Def - Kalifornia Chris Thomas King - Hard Time Killing Floor Raphael Corderos - Rock Creak Parp Bernard Cribbins - Winkle Picker Blues ^ New Production Unit EPs out soon on Broken20 and Phuturelabs

Loosen your tie and get down to half an hour of Bollywood oddities and sitar-fuelled strangeness (with nods to Britney, Herbie Hancock and Nancy Sinatra) from Phill Thomson, aka the Nam Shub of Enki. Nam Shub has released a slew of solo recordings since the '90s, as well as producing for and performing with Brisbane's riotous cabaret supergroup Monster Zoku Onsomb! and new MZO splinter project Hi Freqs. He's currently roaming about Europe, sculling bottles of Belgian beer and playing outrageous live sets of mashed electronics at people in anticipation of the release of his sixth album, due out soon on Australia's Retort Records.

It's been just over a year now since the delightful DJ Bus Replacement Service — ably assisted on mic duties by MC Toilet — made her site debut. The eighth installment of Spannered's Oddcast series pointed towards an almost virtuosic understanding of that much-maligned genre: outsider music.   We've been sitting on this follow-up mix for some months now, allowing the dense flavours to fustily mature, much like a corked bottle of cheap wine or a furry hunk of airing cupboard-ripened camembert.   Special credit to Tony Surgeon for 'Turd Polisher' duties.   "DJ Bus Replacement Service is... the human centipede... of music." — David Cameron (probably quoted out of context).    Tracklisting: Master Gunnery Sergeant Bill Dower - Warm-Up: Daily Seven - Gonna Fly Now (Rocky's Theme) Kromestar vs. Cotti - Mozart 3000 Heino - Karamba, Karacho, Ein Whisky (In Rio De Janeiro) The Alexandrov Red Army Ensemble of Leningrad - California Girls Charlie The Hamster - Remember the Sabbath Day Cycle Sluts From Hell - I Wish You Were a Beer Eddy Huntington - Meet My Friend Danny Boy & The Serious Party Gods - Castro Boy (Somewhat Normal Version) E Pak Sa - Gabba Darei (Out of Key Remix) Charly Lownoise & Mental Theo - Tiroler Kaboemsch 2 Live Jews - Oy! It's So Humid Reh Dogg - Why Must I Cry? Dictionaraoke - Anarchy In The UK Dictionaraoke - Word Up Dean Milan - Do It Like A Dog Ogden Edsl - Dead Puppies ***w/ Russell Haswell's A Horde Of Flies Feast On A Rotting Pheasant Carcass (Extract) played over Do It Like A Dog & Dead Puppies*** Azoto - Havah Nagilah Heino - Carnaval In Rio / Viva Espana Young Rick - You'll Never Walk Alone (Surgeon 2009 Autotune mix) ^ Savour the delights of DJ Bus Replacement Service's first Oddcast here

1980. A good year for Ronald Reagan and Sissy Spacek but a bad year for John Lennon, Ian Curtis, and anyone involved in the production of Caligula. Chances are, even if you were alive and aware back then, you haven't experienced anything like this big bowl of 1980 soup, featuring fragments of music, news, film and trivia gathered up and broken down by the Timestump project. 1980: it's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there. Or would you? "People like using decades to categorise music. The 1970s: disco. The 1980s: Duran Duran. The 1990s: Take That. And the 2000s: Crazy Frog. But what if you zoom in a level and use a year instead? The Timestump project tests this out by taking a single year and turning it into a bewildering audio experience, staggering between musical genres, news stories, films, trivia and TV adverts. By showing how vast and confusing even a single year can be, it proves how daft it is to treat an entire decade as a single musical genre."   The Timestump Project, April 2010   Tracklisting: The Human League - Black Hit Of Space Madness - Shadow of Fear Pointer Sisters - He's So Shy Linton Kwesi Johnson - Reggae Fi Peach The Gap Band - Yearning For Your Love Telex - Plus De Distance Brian Eno & John Hassell - Delta Rain Dream Queen - Dragon Attack Cheap Trick - High Priest of Rock'n'Roll Paul Simon - One Trick Pony Blondie - Angels on the Balcony Dead Kennedys - California Uber Alles Tangerine Dream - Tangram 1 The Clash - The Call Up Joy Division - Twenty Four Hours Giorgio Moroder - Night Drive Ultravox - Mister X John Foxx - 030 David Bowie - Kingdom Come Kurtis Blow - The Breaks Zapp - More Bounce To The Ounce Sister Sledge - You Fooled Around [TV Soup]