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The Mixtapes

If we still lived in the age of the cassette I’d lovingly put this together for you on a TDK and pop it through your letter box (if, that is, letter boxes are still a thing). Anyway, instead, mixtapes from my ears to yours are available on mixcloud, where there is no need to craft hand-written labels that demonstrate my love and affection. Mostly, these mixtapes are what I’ve been listening to during the week; new releases, tunes I’ve encountered for the first time, old favourites and stuff I’ve dredged up – you know the score, you’ve got your own music collection. Hope you enjoy. x

Yes! We have no tomatoes…

A lack of fruit and veg based mix, featuring tracks from Nick Drake, Eska, Steve Cobby, Gorillaz, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Nina Simone, Gil Scott-Heron, Kae Tempest and more.

Track List

  1. Louis Prima & His Orchestra – Yes, We Have No Bananas
  2. Nick Drake – Fruit Tree
  3. Camper Van Beethoven – All Her Favourite Fruit
  4. Steve Cobby – From Roots To Fruits (Original Mix)
  5. XTC – Love On A Farmboy’s Wages
  6. The Housemartins – Me & The Farmer
  7. Eska – This Is How A Garden Grows
  8. Gorillaz – Possession Island (feat. Beck)
  9. Nina Simone – Strange Fruit (Live In New York 1965)
  10. Ryuichi Sakamoto – the end of europe (2019 Remastering)
  11. Hot Chip – (Just Like We) Breakdown
  12. Yazoo – State Farm (12″ mix)
  13. Kae Tempest – Europe Is Lost
  14. Gil Scott-Heron – Or Down You Fall
  15. Just Brothers – Sliced Tomatoes
  16. Pink Martini – Hang on Little Tomato

Spring in your step…

20 tunes to put a spring in your step, including Orbital, Req, The WAEVE, Two Lone Horsemen, Bibio, Anna B Savage, Born Ruffians, Miya Folick, Seefeel, Indigo De Souza and more.

Track List

  1. Orbital – Dirty Rat
  2. Harmonic 313 – Flashback
  3. Bibio – Jealous of Roses
  4. Req – Blimpot
  5. Lack of Afro – The Outsider
  6. The New Birth – Con-Funk-Shun
  7. Joey Negro – Here Comes The Sunburst Band
  8. The Doobie Brothers – Long Train Runnin’
  9. Synapson – All in You (feat. Anna Kova)
  10. Jamie Lidell – A Little Bit More (Herbert – A Little Bit Less Remix)
  11. Seefeel – Rough For Radio (Peel Session)
  12. The WAEVE – Someone Up There
  13. Born Ruffians – Plinky Plonky
  14. Rilo Kiley – Always
  15. Miya Folick – Get Out of My House
  16. Ye Woodbeast – Pearls
  17. Two Lone Swordsmen – Driving With My Gears In Reverse (Only Makes You Move Further Away)
  18. Anna B Savage – The Orange
  19. Caroline Polachek – Hopedrunk Everasking
  20. Indigo De Souza – Younger & Dumber

Raindrops keep fallin’…

Why, what’s the matter, that you have such a February face? Including tracks by Burt Bacharach, Television, Automatic, Dry Cleaning, The Murder Capital, RAYE, SZA, St Vincent, Ladytron and more.

Track List

  1. BJ Thomas – Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head
  2. Television – Marquee Moon
  3. Automatic – On the Edge
  4. Coach Party – Micro Agression
  5. Dry Cleaning – Strong Feelings
  6. The Murder Capital – Return To My Head
  7. The Tallest Man On Earth – Every Little Heart
  8. Daydream Review – Have You Found What You’re Looking For?
  9. RAYE – The Thrill Is Gone
  10. St Vincent – Digital Witness
  11. Isaiah Mendiola – Last Dance
  12. Avalon Emerson Sandrail Silhouette
  13. SZA – Gone Girl
  14. The Arcs – Only One For Me
  15. mazie – it’s not me (it’s u)
  16. Eden Ahbez – Nature Boy
  17. Ladytron – Time’s Arrow
  18. Burt Bacharach – Knowing When To Leave

Funky February…

Funky tunes to get us moving in February, including Cimafunk, Kimbra, Samia, Nina Simone, Diesler, Prince and more.

Track List

  1. Cimafunk – Esto Es Cuba
  2. Kimbra – la type
  3. Diesler – Back to My Old Tricks
  4. Nina Simone – Funkier Than a Mosquito’s Tweeter
  5. LTJ XPerience – Funk Is On
  6. Ben Toury – Slow New Funk
  7. Nite Bjuti – Mood (Liberation Walk)
  8. The Arcs – Sunshine
  9. Samia – Amelia
  10. Prince – Y Should Eye Do That When Eye Can Do This?
  11. Phil Martin’s Mystical Funk – Here We Go Again
  12. Louis Cole – Dead Inside Shuffle
  13. Stretch – Why Did You Do It?
  14. Cimafunk – Funk Aspirin

The Sunday contortion…

The Sunday Contortion: A mixed bag of tunes that includes The Snuts, The Reytons, Royal Blood, Bush Tetras, Belleruche, Mr Scruff, Patti Smith and The Cinematic Orchestra.

Track List

  1. Bob Dylan – Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream
  2. The Reytons – It’s A Fuck About
  3. The Snuts – Zuckerpunch
  4. The Charlatans – You’re So Pretty, We’re So Pretty
  5. Mick Jagger – Sweet Thing
  6. Royal Blood – Come On Over
  7. Bush Tetras – Can’t Be Funky
  8. The Contortions – Contort Yourself
  9. Patti Smith – Redondo Beach
  10. The Reytons – Kids Off The Estate
  11. Belleruche – Northern Girls
  12. The Cinematic Orchestra – Channel One Suite
  13. Terranova – Midnight Melodic (Chase the Blues)
  14. The Long Lost – The Art of Kissing
  15. Julia Jacklin – Moviegoer
  16. Mr Scruff – Donkey Ride
  17. The Herbaliser – Gadget Funk
  18. Tom Misch & Poppy Ajudha – Disco Yes
  19. Bob Dylan – Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream

Risk is our business…

A journey into the 21st century. You’ll be amazed at what you hear, accompanied by William Shatner. With tracks by Rozi Plain, Circa Waves, Derrick Gardner & the Big Dig! Band, The Dickies, Billy Nomates, Funkadelic, Parliament, Simian Mobile Disco, Coldcut, Soulwax and more.

Track List

  1. Alexander Courage – Theme from Star Trek
  2. Rozi Plain – Here
  3. Circa Waves – Northern Town
  4. Billy Nomates – same gun
  5. Gaz Coombes – Feel Loop (Lizard Dream)
  6. Derrick Gardner & the Big Dig! Band – The Sixth Village
  7. The Only Ones – Another Girl, Another Planet
  8. The Vibrators – Baby Baby
  9. The Dickies – Banana Splits
  10. Thee Headcoats – Davey Crockett
  11. MC5 – Kick Out The Jams
  12. Funkadelic – Whole Lot of BS
  13. Parliament – Night of the Thumpasorus People
  14. Funkadelic – Let’s Take It To the Stage (Amp Fiddler Laughin @Ya Mix)
  15. Purple Disco Machine/Kool Keith – Memphis Jam (feat. Kool Keith)
  16. Soulwax – Is It Always Binary
  17. Steinski – Everything’s Disappeared
  18. Simian Mobile Disco – Space is Filled With Ringing
  19. Coldcut – Space Journey (Hexstatic Remix)

We could get higher…

A mixed bag of tunes, featuring Loyle Carner, Self Esteem, Lizzy McAlpine, Leftfield, FènixDion, Warmduscher, Little Simz, Charlotte Adigery and more.

Track List

  1. Self Esteem – Wrestling
  2. Lizzy McAlpine – an ego thing
  3. Amber Mark – Darkside
  4. Beyoncé – PURE/HONEY
  5. Curse Of Lono – So Damned Beautiful
  6. FènixDion – Sugar
  7. Flo Rida – I Don’t Like It, I Love It (feat. Robin Thicke & Verdine White)
  8. Paramore – This Is Why
  9. RAYE – Escapism
  10. Leftfield – Full Way Round
  11. Warmduscher – Double Vision
  12. Sudan Archives – Selfish Soul
  13. Charlotte Adigery – HAHA
  14. Little Simz – Broken
  15. Stormzy – Give It To The Water
  16. Loyle Carner – Nobody Knows (Ladas Road)
  17. Pastor T.L. Barrett & The Youth For Christ Choir – Nobody Knows

Digging the December dirt…

25 tracks to see December in, featuring Fazerdaze, Wet Leg, Wire, New York Dolls, The Stooges, Yard Act, Sault, Throbbing Gristle, STRFKR, Manu Dibango and more.

Track List

  1. COIN – Chapstick
  2. The Cure – Wrong Number
  3. Fazerdaze – Break!
  4. Laney Jones – Not Alone
  5. Wet Leg – Supermarket
  6. Wire – Outdoor Miner
  7. New York Dolls – Jet Boy
  8. The Stooges – 1969
  9. Yard Act – Pour Another
  10. The Modern Lovers – Roadrunner
  11. Broncho – Class Historian
  12. The Cat Empire – Til The Ocean Takes Us All
  13. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Hysteric
  14. Margaret Glaspy – Somebody to Anybody
  15. Porridge Radio – Back To The Radio
  16. The Velvet Underground – Foggy Notion
  17. Sault – Higher
  18. !!! – Things Get Hard
  19. Dataworx – Control (Original Mix)
  20. Jockstrap – 50/50 (Extended Mix)
  21. Throbbing Gristle – Hot On The Heels Of Love
  22. Warmduscher – Twitchin’ In The Kitchen
  23. STRFKR – Never Ever
  24. TEYMORI – Patience
  25. Manu Dibango – The Panther

World Cup feelings…

It’s the most controversial World Cup in history. Giovanni Infantino has strong feelings, all of them wrong. A rag bag of loosely-related tunes, including Charles Bradley, Ben Lamar Gay, Gramatik, Siouxsie and The Banshees, Zoë Keating, Stormzy, Chip Wickham, Esbjörn Svensson and more.

Track List

  1. Charles Bradley – Stay Away
  2. Chip Wickham – Sais (Egypt)
  3. Khruangbin – Balls and Pins
  4. Tommy Guerrero – White Sands
  5. Ben Lamar Gay – Bang Melodically Bang
  6. Gramatik – Ass Kickin’ Bass
  7. Ivy Sole – Cloud Kickin’
  8. Jungle Brothers – Beyond This World
  9. Sharpshooters – Pork Pie Stride
  10. The Fugees – The Score (feat. Diamond D)
  11. Stormzy – My Presidents Are Black
  12. Pigbag – Papa’s Got a Brand New Pigbag (12″ Version)
  13. Shire Tea – Gentlemen’s Whistle Club
  14. Siouxsie and The Banshees – Desert Kisses
  15. Esbjörn Svensson – Zeta
  16. Zoë Keating – Seven League Boots

Fly away somewhere…

Mood music, featuring Weyes Blood, Laney Jones, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Art Blakey, Portishead, Prince, Miles Davis and more…

Track List

  1. Weyes Blood – It’s Not Just Me, It’s Everybody
  2. Laney Jones – Stories up High
  3. Adrianne Lenker – Disappear
  4. Billy Preston – How Long Has The Train Been Gone
  5. Ryuichi Sakamoto – The Sheltering Sky
  6. Prince – 17 Days (Piano & A Microphone 1983 Version)
  7. Art Blakey – Like Someone In Love (Rudy Van Gelder Edition, 2004 Remaster)
  8. Portishead – Nylon Smile
  9. Public Image Limited – Chant
  10. The Hold Steady – Unpleasant Breakfast
  11. Mark Franklin – Release to the System
  12. Baby Mammoth – Quick Kick
  13. Miles Davis – Mystery