Mr Mark Stewart Please

Last Saturday I was driving to my fave secondhand record store listening to 
The Joint and as I was pulling up to the bumper baby, radioshow host Fraser was introducing a track off of the new Mark Stewart album ‘Edit’ (a cover of The Yardbirds “Mr You’re a Better Man Than I”). Fraser mentioned that I play Stewart on my show and yes this is true I frequently play Stewart and his mates at ‘On U Sound records’ on the show, they are a staple of the shows sound—least of all ’speaker-scientist’ and producer Adrian Sherwood.

I reflected on Stewart for a moment and realised that his provocative/intelligent/political dub is essentially ‘hidden’ in popular music culture, yet he and his cohorts (The Maffia) have influenced many. The first CD recording I owned was “As The Veneer of Democracy Starts to Fade”, it sounds like the entire desk was put through The Boss distortion pedal. A history of modern distortion starts there. Punk was also turned into Funk with his first group The Pop Group. Check out the new doco about this man, because of Mark Stewart a lot of us have been Hypnotised. 

Chrome Black Mirrored Discoteque Infused With Liquid Clearlite

Playlist 27th July

Lush—Undertow (Spooky RMX)

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Zohar—Let There Be Light

Zimbabwe Legit—(Shadow ‘91 mix, Headz Part B)

Dionne Warwick—Message To Michael

Citay—On The Wings

Yeasayer—Red Cave

In Fear Of An Electromagnetic Field

Circulus—Reality’s A Fantasy

Kilometer—Sebastian (Jack Tennis RMX)

Yuksek—Should Be Slave

I Love To Move In Here—Moby (Holy Ghost Remix)

All Good Funk Alliance—REC (Ancient Astronauts RMX)

Michael Fakesh—Channels

Brother Louie

The New Mastersound—Drop It Down

Ghosttown—Bullock

Can You Feel It—Freakpower (Bass Bin Twins)

Rude Boy Rock—Lionrock

Zohar—Do You Have Any Faith?

Special Forces—When

Lovelock—Maybe Tonight

Dis/co & Dat/co

Sunday 20th Playlist

Club spaces were once vital, interesting places where 60’s styled happenings exploded around the bass bin speaker stack (or is that an ecstacy fulled flashback). People dancing with each other—not pointed in one unified DJ direction.

Vintage Cuts/Jazz show host Michael D remarked to me after today’s set that I should remember this is Christchurch, New Zealand, meaning that provincial towns would probably be more apt to take disco/floor social aesthetic aspiration to the haybarn. Disco funkin’ cow poke.

Remember that swinger Jerry Cornelious… the hip dude in swinging London… 24 hour party people of another kind.

Jerry Cornelius Nite Life

Dancers at The End of Time

The Irresistible Force—Space is the Place

Flowered Up—Weatherell’s Weekender
(Audrey is a Little Bit More Partial Mix)

BassOMatic—Ease On By

The Mexican—Babe Ruth

The Dragons—Food for my Soul

D Galaxy

Star Collector—The Monkees

RJD2

Hot Chocolate—Heaven in the Backseat of my Cadillac
(The Revenge Rework)

Corporate Cannibal—Grace Jones

Afro Dizzi Act—Cry Sisco (Norman Cook Boogaloo Mix)

Catch A Keeper—P Funk Allstars

Junior Byron—Dance to the Music

Anti Warhole—Happy Mondays

Fantastical—The Vanishing System

Willie BoBo—Spanish Grease

Stereo Mc’s—Deep Down & Dirty (TLS Remix)

Sex O Sonique—Thought it was You (Club 12″)

In Memory of Robert Racic Session

Sunday 13th Playplaylist

I remember being in a Sydney bar called Daddy’s one time, one sunday night. The long aching mixes—coming from the bus-stop styled DJ booth—were being played by the unassuming Robert Racic.

That was the night somebody haphazardly left a large brown cube of fudge on the bar. Everybody in that place (barmen too) came alive that night… green felt pool table ambient light and leather.

Hey Robert Racic

 

Jack of Swords—The Box

Fila Brazilia—Firelanes

Bassspace—Audio Active

Howie B—Discoteque

This & That—Hello Norman

Bigga Bush—******

Ghostland—Hyperbolic

SoulSavers—******

Fila Brazilia—6ft Wasp

The Boxer (Dfa mix again)

Family Tree—Family Tree

My Beatbox—DJ Punk Roc (Les Rythmes Digitale) rmx

Special Forces—When

Toxygene (Toxic Genes Orb Mix)

Africa—Mr Cook

Apparently Nothing (The token gesture towards freedom Nelson Mandela mix)

The Glitch Mob—Monday

Late of the Pier—The Bears are Coming (Emporer Machine mix)

The Matic—The Slow Fuck Rhythm

Dystopia—Midnight Juggernauts (Cut Copy rmx)

NIN ‘The Slip’ Download Count

NIN gives away recording. The red represents download count using Google earth.

Song, Costume and Dance

…clear, realized—art direction, camera angle(s), lighting, focused—wit. etc…’

Bitrate Rude-Boy/ Dark Dalek Psychedelic/ ‘93 Acidscape

 

Sunday 6th playlist

 

Light beyond sound—AA

Pink lemonade—Kahn

Wait for the summer—Yeasayer

Forevergreen—Finitribe (funky for ever rmx)

Meat beat manifesto

Africa—Dreadzone

No-one in this world—WFO

Cropduster—W

The game is not over—Edit

Anything V.2.1—Juicebox (G called G)

How dem so tough—Kraddy

Meat beat

You can dance—Sub dub

Waves & skunk—Professor Oz

Sunset Boulevard—Pacific

I need drugs—Fierce Ruling Diva (jungle rub rmx)

The peppermint tree—AA

Hacksaw—OOah

The boxer— The Chemical Brothers (dfa rmx)

Reed//Bowie