Slow Dance Radio 25/5/20

Back on Slow Dance's lockdown radio. A quite bonkers mix - kicked off with some PC Music and a touch of Steps nightcore before slowing it down with some easy-listening. Then jumped into a bit of Ween, before doing a quick pan-African tour, and ending with a cover of Elvis's 'Suspicious Minds' from Sweden.

Dig That Treasure (25/5/20)

DJ Warlord - Never Ending War

100 Gecs - Stupid Horse (GFOTY & Count Baldor remix)

Steps - 5, 6, 7, 8 (DTT Nightcore mix)

A. G. Cook - Unlimited Wifi

Dreamtrak - Odyssey Pt.2

Doopees - Some Day, That Place In Time

Tak Shindo - Safari To Kenya

Zespół Instrumentalny Marka Sewena - Stranger In The Night

Vyacheslav Mescherin Orchestra - Лютня

Pete Drake - Forever

Z-Rock Hawaii - I Get A Little Taste Of You

Ween - Pandy Fackler

Ween - Hey There Fancy Pants

Mogontafe Sacko - Mogontafe Sacko

Groupe Still Waters - Zerenion (Le Géranium)

Teshome Meteku - Mot Adeladlogn

Ouayoro Gohi Chantal - Daniel

Eilert Pilarm - Suspicious Minds

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Resonance FM 19/5/20

Started this show in Japan, with YMO's Yukihiro Takahashi doing Italian Eurovision, and ended it in Poland, with Bałtyk's Elverumian earworm 'Clear Acetate (Cherries)'. Along the way I span Ben Zeki De Roa of the Ivory Coast, Mahmoud Awad's acid dabke, French harpist Ange Halliwell, and Italian American synth pioneer Suzanne Ciani.

Dig That Treasure (19/5/20)

Yukihiro Takahashi - Volare (Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu)

Ben Zeki De Roa - Louê

Mahmoud Awad - الفتيات, الفتيات, الفتيات (Girls, Girls, Girls)

Ange Halliwell - Autumn Interlude - Sarahsson

Suzanne Ciani - Birth Of Venus

Bałtyk - Clear Acetate (Cherries)

Resonance FM 12/5/20

Bookended this show with brand new music. More Eaze's 'Progress In Therapy', released on Orange Milk Records in April, opened the show. To close the show I played Zellerbach, the lead single from Aaron Space & His Terrestrial's debut album Fishland. The record's out on Moon Glyph on May 22nd. In between, I span Johnny Dupont's organ interpretation of Ebb Tide, a track from Portuguese musician Negra Branca (also of Gnod), and a lovely sprawling song from Oromo Ethiopian singer Abebe Abeshu.

Dig That Treasure (12/5/20)

More Eaze - Progress In Therapy (Feat. Claire Rousay)

Johnny Dupont - Ebb Tide

Negra Branca - O Espatelar Do Linho

Abebe Abeshu - Ya Shagge Burtukana Koo

Aaron Space & His Terrestrial Underlings - Zellerbach

Resonance FM 5/5/20

This episode kicked off with a recording of Pink Shabab live on Quarantunes, a YouTube channel that has been hosting livestream gigs during lockdown. I had the privilege of curating last Friday's show, with Pink Shabab, Platonica Erotica, Julian Lynch and Martha Skye Murphy performing live from their homes to celebrate the launch of Elevate. You can catch up on the whole stream here. Next up was the beautiful 'Kajyadhi Fu Bushi', which sounds like traditional Japanese folk music with Pet Sounds arrangements (the beds of horns, particularly). That was followed by K. K.'s No. 2 of Ghana, and a duo of tunes from the brilliant Zach Phillips. The Wiregrass singers' gospel/Sacred Harp music followed, before I closed with Jockstrap's new single.

Dig That Treasure (5/5/20)

Pink Shabab - If Only I Could Hold You One More Time (Live On Quarantunes)

Jun Arasak And Nine Sheep - Kajyadhi Fu Bushi

K. K.'s No. 2 - Odo Ye Wu Fie

Zach Phillips - Playing Dumb [Kalmia Traver]

Zach Phillips - A Week Of Sundays [Derek Baron]

Wiregrass Sacred Harp Singers - Give Me Just A Little More Time

Jockstrap - The City

Resonance FM 28/4/20

Another Elevate-themed show. This time I exclusively span tracks from the record, kicking off with Platonica Erotica's beautifully melancholic 'Safe In Adoration (Home Edition)' and ending with Norwegian improv collective DNA? AND?'s 'Wiwalu Wiwayu Maskat'. Between those were cuts by Pink Shabab, Woo, Tara Clerkin and Ted Mair - four wickedly interesting and intelligent pieces of music that I'm very proud to have on the record. Elevate was released on April 27th. You can buy the album here.

Dig That Treasure (28/4/20)

Platonica Erotica - Safe In Adoration (Home Edition)

Pink Shabab - I Was Just A Boy

Woo - The French One

Tara Clerkin - I Know He Will (Rework)

Ted Mair - 10 Rings Deep

DNA? AND? - Wiwalu Wiwayu Maskat

Slow Dance Radio 27/4/20

Slow Dance Radio has taken a new lockdown-friendly form and has been airing some fantastic stuff - not least SD boss Marco Pini's "Quarantini" (where he's spun tracks from DTT friends Platonica Erotica and Ted Mair). I put together a special hour-long mix which was aired on Elevate's release day. It includes tracks from Elevate sandwiched between other favourites of mine from the likes of Blanche Blanche Blanche, Eartheater and Jun Arasaki & Nine Sheep. It's a mostly very gentle and meditative mix. Check it out below.

Dig That Treasure (27/4/20)

Eartheater - Peripheral

Spectral Park & Kot Kot - Surok

Masahiro Takahashi - Cloud Bed

Jun Arasaki & Nine Sheep - Kajyadhi Fu Bushi

Metalworks - Parrot Soup

Aaron Space & His Terrestrial Underlings - (Blues) In 0rbit

Wyatt, Atzmon, Stephen - Round Midnight

Woo - See My Brother In Surbiton

Sam Eskin - A Hundred Years Ago

Blanche Blanche Blanche - I Can Pay

Julian Lynch - Big Minute #3

Woo - Try A Little Tenderness

Martha Skye Murphy - Devil Town

Tara Nome Doyle / Henning Schmiedt - Still Natt

Deorc Weg - Hollow Catacombs IV

Masahiro Takahashi - Dancers

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ELEVATE

Very excited to release Elevate, the second Dig That Treasure! compilation album. Twelve incredible tracks for £5, all of which will go to the charity CALM. Featuring: Platonica Erotica, Spectral Park & Kot Kot, Litter Frog, Pink Shabab, Woo, Aaron Space & His Terrestrial Underlings, DNA? AND?, Julian Lynch, Tara Clerkin, Ted Mair, Martha Skye Murphy and Masahiro Takahashi. Stream and buy below!

Resonance FM 21/4/20

Back to business as usual after a short interlude of re-runs. On this episode I played a track from Jerskin Fendrix's phenomenal debut album before spinning tracks from Japanese singer and actress Yukako Hayase and Martin Newell's influential DIY rock project Cleaners From Venus. A triptych of top tracks followed, starting with Moondog's charming 'My Tiny Butterfly', followed by a solo reed performance of some sort from Cameroon, and finally a lovely track from the "Queen of Czechoslovakian chanson." To close the show I premiered Masahiro Takahashi's new track 'Dancers', the final song on the new Dig That Treasure compilation album Elevate. Takahashi's beautiful and otherworldly closer is the last of twelve amazing songs - he is preceded by Platonica Erotica, Spectral Park & Kot Kot, Litter Frog, Pink Shabab, Woo, Aaron Space & His Terrestrial Underlings, DNA? AND?, Julian Lynch, Tara Clerkin, Ted Mair and Martha Skye Murphy. Elevate is released in full on April 27th. You can preorder the album here.

Dig That Treasure (21/4/20)

Jerksin Fendrix - I'll Clean Your Sheets

Yukako Hayase - 2/3 Amino Co Dé Ji

Cleaners From Venus - Don't Step On My Rainbow

Moondog - My Tiny Butterfly

n/a - Tilibartsi Solo

Hana Hegerová - Potměšilý Host

Masahiro Takahashi - Dancers

Resonance FM 24/3/20 (Litter Frog)

We may be on lockdown but I'll still try and bring guests onto the show! This week I had the brilliant Kurdish-British multimedia artist and noise-maker Litter Frog. She put together a twenty-minute mix of cutting-edge electronic and experimental music, featuring brand new tunes from the likes of Rouble and JuniorXL. Follow @litterfrog on Instagram or check out her portfolio site.

Dig That Treasure (24/3/20)

Chris Speed - Dog Hair

Loraine James - ALB19 10

Rouble - Tatlong Bibe Finger

Sugai Ken, Ben Vince & Andrew Pekler - Crape Myrtle MSTR

JuniorXL - Ferogoblin

Babyfather - Bubble

Resonance FM 10/3/20

Really happy with the selections here - I kicked of with the great Japanese folk group Kaeru-moku, stopped off by Russian avant-gardist Leonid Fedorov, Taiwanese bit-popper Joanna Wang, Malian disco singer Niama Makalou and US experimentalists Blanche Blanche Blanche before closing with an old French-language Julia Holter recording.

Dig That Treasure (10/3/20)

かえる目 (Kaeru-moku) - 拝借 (Borrow)

Леонид Фёдоров (Leonid Fedorov) - Музыка моя (My Music)

Леонид Фёдоров (Leonid Fedorov) - Старец (Elder)

Joanna Wang - You And Me

Niama Makalou & African Soul Band - Kognokoura

Blanche Blanche Blanche - Look At Me Now

Blanche Blanche Blanche - Why The Candle Burns

Julia Shammas Holter - Je Vivroie Liement