4th June: Philip Lipton's Soundcloud

3rd June 2012: Tiki Tiki - Poncho

This was a Vimeo staff pick.

Tiki Tiki - Poncho from Plenty on Vimeo.

2nd June 2013: Ride Into The Sun (Demo, with vocals), The Velvet Underground

New favourite song.

1st June 2013: Emmy The Great - God Of Loneliness (CSS Remix)

Also.

31st May 2013: Summer camp on Soundcloud

30th May 2013: Lucius on Soundcloud

Thanks Radiolab for the introduction.

29th May 2013: The Band, The Last Waltz - full album

28th May 2013: 2 Chromeo videos

27th May 2013: Gary Numan/Tubeway Army - We Have a Technical

26th May 2013: new tracks for Polly's soundcloud

25th May 2013: 3 DoKashiteru tracks on Soundcloud

24th May 2013: Rudy Adrian - Desert Realms

23rd May 2013: Computerchemist - a more recent release

And this one - it sounds like what the Ashurbanipal folks made (see earlier post)

22nd May 2013: Kavinsky's Bandcamp tracks

And from the film, Drive:

21st May 2013: Jean Leloup, Mille Excuses Milady

This person is Canadian.

20th May 2013: Arthur Russell, Another Thought

19th May 2013: Russell ft. Russell

A young Kurt Russell auditions for Star Wars- played over top Arthur Russell's 'Instrumentals A' -with a splash of Kurt Russell confused.

Click here for the free download.



I'm looking for more Arthur Russell stuff after watching Wild Combination.

18th May 2013: Thieves Like Us

17th May 2013: Kosmischer Läufer

"This program should allow the average runner to complete a 5 kilometre run at a reasonable pace. Included are 3 minute warmup and warm down pieces.
Written by Martin Zeichnete this program was used by the East German Olympians in the 1970s."

UPDATED: It looks like we were hoaxed about the true origins of this music - it was made recently in Scotland, apparently - but we’re leaving the post up for posterity (and because the music’s still good).

16th May 2013: Esther Ku

We played this at the end of Very Loose WOMEN

15th May 2013: A Colder Consciousness Podcast

I was told about this series of podcasts after listening to Fad Gadget.

14th May 2013: Fad Gadget

We played Fad Gdget's song Lady Shave at the end of our show yesterday/
Here's the show:


Here's more Fad Gadget:

13th May 2013: Amiina

I especially like the first one, Ammalis

12th May 2013: Daft Punk's Tron

11th May 2013: Dutilleux's going to die on the 22nd May

10th May 2013: Totoro Soundtrack

9th May 2013: Gaoshanliushui

8th May 2013: Ashurbanipal Theatrical Soundtrack

Friends made this for this play:

7th May 2013: Nils Frahm, More and Screws

6th May 2013: Peter Broderick, Human Eye-balls on Toast

I found this through reading about Zoe Keating (in fact a Youtube user who says this guy is better.)
I don't want to compare. I love that old piano, not sure how I feel about the singing about battery farming though. I give it a lot of credit for being both funny and sad, that's for sure.

5th May 2013: Zoë Keating cello looping

This Radiolab episode is how I found out about her.

4th May 2013: Emmy the Great on soundcloud

3rd May 2013: What do you do, Polly McDoodle

2nd May 2013: Fela Kuti and Egypt 80, Beasts of No Nation

1st May 2013: Oasis, What's the Story Morning Glory.

Some of my favourite songs in Year 3.

30th April 2013: Tubular Bells, Mike Oldfield

I saw a clip of Through the Keyhole of Mike Oldfield's house and it was not a nice house.

All the same- and I admit it gets worse as the Tomes go on. I like 1 though.

29th April 2013: Van Morrison, Tupelo Honey

This was my Summer of Second year of university tape, and my Road Trip around Ireland with my Dad tape.

28th April 2013: Leonard Cohen, Songs of Love and Hate

27th April 2013: Takk, Sigur Ros

26th April 2013: Massive Attack, Mezzanine

My sister used to listen to this all the time. I also now have a mezzanine in my room.

25th April 2013: Deep Cuts, The Knife

24th April 2013: The Traveling Wilburys volume 1 and volume 2

23rd April 2013: George Harrison's Beatles songs.

I watched the Scorcese documentary yesterday.

22nd April 2013: Limeheaded Dog

These folks were playing the other night in Brixton. I liked them live, I think it works less well as a recording but still worth a mention.

21st April 2013: Pulp Fiction Soundtrack

20th April 2013: Easy Rider Soundtrack

19th April 2013: Shostakovich Cello Concerto 2

18th April 2013: April March, Chick Habit

These are covers. She also does them in English.

17th April 2013: Stereolab

16th April 2013: Rainbow Arabia, Boys and Diamonds

15th April 2013: Cat Power, The Greatest

14th April 2013: The Best of the Byrds

13th April 2013: Some funny French 80's videos

My absolute favourite:



Also











Actually, all of Dorothée is worth viewing.

12th April 2013: Leoš Janáček

I saw this piece today at St Martin in the Fields.




Here is the album, Capriccio. It's not a great recording but I like how it is so cheeky.

11th April 2013: Lijadu Sisters

I came across this on Soundcloud a while ago and made this playlist - not a lot on Grooveshark. A friend put it on our radio show last night, so it's time for a post on the Lijadu sisters.

And this is our radio show (episode number 2): And for the curious people, episode number 1, download it here.

10th April 2013: Fog on the Tyne, Lindisfarne

9th April 2013: Kind of Blue, Miles Davis

Today some one was whistling A Kind of Blue at Gatwick and a passer by said, Miles Davis, A Kind of Blue.

8th April 2013: More from the Penguin Café Orchestra

Some tracks were in this playlist.


Their Soundcloud



Here's an album:

7th April 2013: The Divine Comedy, The Secret History

6th April 2013: Jacques Brel, Grand Jacques

He's Belgian.

5th April 2013: Luz Y Norte

Harp music of the Italian Renaissance.
I love the whole album but could only find one track.



These are others by the same guy (composer?), one of which (the last one) is French troubadour music.

4th April 2013 : Two individual movie themed tracks tracks

From the Costes Etage 3 cd:


From the soundtrack of Project Nim:

3rd April 2013: Some Loud Thunder, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

Definitely a grower, this one.

2nd April 2013: Panic, the Smiths

1st April 2013: Bilingual '60's and '70's songs

This is a blog I wrote for my old job:



It's far from accurate to translate "runaway" as "Vanina," or "comme d'habitude" as "my way." There have been a number of bizarre transpositions like that in pop history, where a singer from abroad like a song and have just hung their own lyrics on it.
I recommend looking up the lyrics, and also comparing the visuals.

ONE

Runaway, Del Shannon, 1961.


versus

Vanina, Dave, 1974.


TWO

Comme D'Habitude, Claude François, 1967.


versus

My Way, Frank Sinatra, 1971.


THREE

The LocoMotion, Little Eva, 1962.

versus

Locomotion, Sylvie Vartan, 1962.


FOUR

Laisse Tomber les Filles, France Gall, 1964.


versus

Chick Habit, April March, 1995.


I'm putting aside single artists who decided to translate their songs to make themselves more marketable abroad.

31st March 2013: The Small Faces

I bought this best of the same time I bought the Marianne Faithfull best of, so I'm keeping them together.
"The Universal" is one of my all time favourites.

30th March 2013: Marianne Faithfull's early days (before all the drugs)

29th March 2013: Some Nick Cave lovers from Soundcloud - "Siskinbrace"

28th March 2013: Jake Thackray

A guy at an open mic where I sang "Chicken Farm" said my lyrics reminded him of Jake Thackray.

Judge for yourself...

27th March 2013: Tuvan Throat Singers and Paul Pena

I'm posting this because of this documentary:





Here is Paul Pena's throat singing (the documentary is about him):





And here is more of Paul Pena's music, more bluesy for sure:

26th March 2013: Niche Constructions

I can't embed today's post. You'll have to follow this link to hear Tom Besley's recordings of the Malagasy rainforests.

25th March 2013: Lou Reed, Live show, Paris '72

Another album I bought for 3€ and then listened to for three years.
"This is a song called Wild Child. It's about a Wild Child, funnily enough."
The album is completely mislabeled, and in fact, Wild Child is not even on this playlist.
You'd be missing out, so I found it on Youtube:

24th March 2013: Kafff - another soundcloud find

23rd March 2013: Melanie

Someone on soundcloud said I reminded her of Melanie, so I made a playlist.
I've mentioned Melanie before in this blogpost.
Some of the songs are a mix of Marianne Faithful and Devendra Banhart and the Shangri-Las. Maybe I'm wrong about that.

22nd March 2013: Franz Ferdinand

I bought this album in 2006 from an HMV.

21st March 2013: A Ghost is Born, Wilco

This was a recommendation.

20th March 2013: Neutral Milk Hotel, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

19th March 2013: Guqin music

I bought this tape in a Charity shop:






Here's a picture of some woman playing a GuQin:

18th March 2013: Another Soundcloud discovery, Open Cage

17th March 2013: The Singing Nun

and the original:



The story of this nun is very sad and it goes something like this:
After earning loads of fame from this track, she then was less popular.
She had given all her proceeds to her convent and they refused to acknowledge it so she had to pay taxes on money she never had.
Then the convent found out she was gay and banished her so she went to live with her girlfriend.
Then she had more financial trouble and some drug trouble and she and her girlfriend killed themselves but not before the singing nun made a disco remake of her hit single.

In French, "nique" means fuck, which maybe explains why this song was so popular.

The life of the singing Belgian nun was first made into a happy broadway show in the 60's and then a depressing French film with one of my favourite actresses, Cécile de France.

16th March 2013: Anna Meredith

15th March 2013: Hot Chip, Made in the Dark

14th March 2013: some Otis Redding

13th March 2013: Beethoven, The Piano Trios - Beaux Arts Trio

Also:

12th March 2013: Talking Heads, Little Creatures

11th March 2013: Devendra Banhart, Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Mountain

10th March 2013: The Pixies, Surfer Rosa

9th March 2013: Let's Get Out Of This Country, Camera Obscura

8th March 2013: Beatles out of Order

7th March 2013: Grimes

6th March 2013: Frente!

I took part in a choreography of "accidentally kelly street" when I was 11.







Here's Marvin The Album

5th March 2013: International, New Order

I got into this album after seeing Control in 2007.
I like Joy Division too, but that will be for another day.



Also - my favourite cover of Bizarre Love Triangle:

4th March 2013: Alanis Morissette, Jagged Little Pill

More nostalgia.

3rd March 2013 : Arvo Part

2nd March 2013 : John Adams Century Rolls

1st March 2013: Bach Cello Suites 1-6

And if Bach doesn't do it for you, here's a French song about brave birds


Dominique A - Le Courage des Oiseaux by Cleoh

28th February 2013: Tracy Chapman

My sister listened to this when I was growing up. It makes me feel seven again.

27th February 2013: Nathan Fake

I watch Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe regularly and each time am surprised at how good the theme tune is.



I looked it up and apparently it's by a guy called Nathan Fake. I don't like any of the tunes as much as the Weekly Wipe theme tune, but I still really do like them. I made a playlist of all the Nathan Fake on Grooveshark then deleted the tracks that either didn't work or that I didn't like.

26th February 2013: Generation X

I bought the cassette today in a Charity shop.

If you've heard track 1 before, it might be here (annoyingly)



and if you've heard of Generation X before, perhaps it was here

25th February 2013: American Dream

I bought this CD for 3€ back in 2002.

:

Here is the playlist:

24th February 2013: A Confusing Day

Songs I Maybe Shouldn't Like
by Chairlift, MGMT, Emmy the Great...

So to compensate, here is Nick Drake's Bryter Layter, in case you missed my Nick Drake post in January.

23rd February 2013: Julliard String Quartet, Beethoven.

22nd February 2013: Blood on The Tracks.

A cover of