If There Is Hell Below Podcast... The 60s orgasm: a very different type of orgasm

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Rob & Callum Don't just offer a lick of the bueno, but the whole mother-jeffing two fingers. That's what we're gonna give you, but swap the hazelnut for some French Euro Trash Ye-Ye pop, the biscuit for Hip Hop from the Odd Future collective, a delicious covering of electronic psych, krautrock and indie and a seductively sleazy saxophone ripple. Rob will be DJ'ing at the Lock Tavern for the wonderful Psych, garage, krautrock, noise, Ye-Ye and soundtrack funk night Leatherboy on Sunday March 6th, come along!

Tracklisting
Two Tears - Eat People
Earl Sweatshirt - Pigions
Monique Thubert - Avec Les Dreil
J Rocc - Play This Too
David Hess - Intro/Opening Credits
Sonia Bazanta - Erotica 1
The United States of America - Coming Down
Grimes - Devon
Julian Lynch - Terra
Food Pyramid - Sundance Kid (excerpt)
All Smiles - Sun, Number One
Wavves - Horse Shoes

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Skorpis - The Sonambulist

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A drum-flute monster of a fuzz racket. 1973.........5 guys from Madrid kicking up a jazz psych soulful freakout, possibly in reaction to the 5-0 drubbing received from Barca that year, possibly in reaction to a group of guys dishing out all their influences at the same time and racing them, each one literally after the other.... The fuzz guitar riff firing wildly at the flute as it darts in front of the drums.Casually collapsing in on itself. Either way, a damn good reaction to something.

Moon Martin - Pain Killer (Woolfy Edit)

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This something I first heard at a club night run by one of my favourite blogs The Beat: the Visitation at the Lock Tavern (a regular haunt of mine).
A simple edit by Woolfy of the Moon Martin track 'Paid Killer' (below), stretched out and delicately cosmified, bringing some sense of morose to the dancefloor.

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Billy Ocean - Loverboy (Dub Mix)

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You know Billy Ocean? Covered Boyzone's 'When the going get's tough' didn't he? Well it's one of those little known facts that isn't little known - but he's from Romford, he doesn't sound like he should be from Romford, there is nothing Essex about his slickly produced and undeniably catchy R&B, this is probably why he did so well on both sides of the Atlantic (<<

I'm a sucker for Carribean Queen (she's simply awesome) and Love Really Hurts Without You makes me want to go on a bingo wing diet and flap them about a Working Men's Club, but you don't wanna hear me say that do you?
That's why I'm putting up the dub mix of Loverboy, something they'd play in East with a tongue in cheek, fuck the tongue this is a good jam.
Check the vid for Loverboy. This is my dream night out.

Spacin' - While You Come Around

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If you're into our podcast and you listen to it and you know the difference between Rob (me) and Callum (him) you may have picked up on tastes, this is Callum with bells dangling off his ruddy beard.
I'm fed up of using the term lo-fi, I read it wasn't the best word to use, that it was lazy, so this isn't lo-fi. Nuh uh.
It's just a real good time.

The Rave - Mother

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Do you remember Justice? They were the toast of the electro thing a few years back, all that Ed Banger, Kitsune stuff has aged a bit, this could be the cause of a brutal barrage of blogging accessible house-like-indie-funk-pop tracks that made dance music alright for the indie kid. It was fun while it lasted; I got kids dancing to it, now I’d more likely get a dancefloor going to the sound of a rippling sphincter than I would Justice, Sebastian or Boys Noize.

The only connection to this movement (for me personally) The Rave have was the inclusion of ‘Mother’ as part of Justice's ill-fated Fabric mix. That was a great mix; I dunno whether the reason it was rejected was the lack of electro or the fact that it wasn’t your usual monotonous house mix, it had tunes. Todd Rundgren, Sparks, Goblin, Das Pop, Korgis… there was some electro, but the thread was good pop, soft rock and disco.

 I know little about The Rave (hence why I’m padding this with guff about Justice), what I do know is that Mother is an addictive slice of power pop, there is something a bit freaks and geeks about it: they’re not a cool band, not a group of hipsters, they probably like Queen and The Beatles, the lead singer is fat, they have a sense of humour… guess that’s why I’m listening to this and not Kavinsky.

If There Is Hell Below Podcast... Anybody who says they want to stab Bruno Mars in the esophagus is alright by me

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Woah woah woah.... woah, we're shooting our load early on two of the most exciting acts and songs of the year. Rob & Callum are in awe of Tyler, The Creator and gush over The Stepkids, get down to some killer breaks of Las Vegas jazz funk, the mythical soundtrack to a film that only exists in the mind of RJD2 and chat a wee bit about The Radioheads new album. Don't forget to get down to Cold Heat on Feb 24th, Rob will be playing some tunes at The Horse & Groom in Shoreditch.

Tracklsting
Tyler, the Creator - Yonkers
Tune-Yards - Bizness
The Stepkids - Shadows on Belief
The Babies - Caroline
The War On Drugs - Coming Through
The Insane Warrior - The Mountain
Diabolical Two - Gid Together
Korralreven - Shine On
Generationals - Green Leaf
The Sidewinders - Can't You Feel The Fire

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If There Is Hell Below Podcast... Crack open the sparkling celebration juice

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...because the podcast is a year old sunshine. Rob & Callum debate the perils of the un-google'able witch house act, top tips for booking your valentine's day hooker and music yes we play a song so smooth it's like a silk earbud, the phenomenal new Cold Cave track, the obvious Beta Band choice, some (proper) indie from The Answering Machine and our Valentine's day picks.

Tracklisting

Cold Cave - The Great Pan Is Dead
Beta Band - Dry The Rain
Beach Fossils - What A Pleasure
Andrew Cedermark - Moon Deluxe
Ela Orleans - Light At Dawn
Horrid Red - Foehn Winds
Belong - Perfect Life
Bright Eyes - Spring Cleaning
Incarnations - Meet Me At Midnight
The Answering Machine - Lifeline
Big Troubles - Georgia
Jose Gonzales - Far Away

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You can't call your band Blouse without me thinking this...

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Callum bought this band to the pod last week, it didn't make it, mainly because in the end it was considered quite a ponderous number; that kind of emotionless, anodyne dream pop that sends the mind wondering on anything but the tune. It's nice I suppose, but utterly forgettable. Rather listen to the Tamaryn album, which did this stuff but better, I'm bloody drowning in the stuff.

The other reason for not going with it, was that I refused to acknowledge a band using the name Blouse that isn't fronted by Purves Grundy. Beside's the original Blouse song is a lot better.
Here's the youtube link for Blouse 'Me Oh Myra' (Channel 4 won't let me embed)

Andy Kim - Ressurection

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Andy Kim on most days sounds like he looks in the picture, a cruise ship singer with no sense of subtlety or the slightest change in shade of vocal range, scanning across youtube he has released (and had hit singles) with the kind of pop music that time has tried to forget. His big 'hit' 'Rock Me Gently' is a melodic cousin to the latter day's Jim'll Fix It theme (the best one) , his version of 'Baby I Love You' I won't even merit with a link, I'll leave to you morbid curiosity.

That is him on most days on another day he’s co-written a sweet little guilty pleasure of mine and is responsible for this track I thrust upon you, like Kim would his stuffed leather clad loin. From the 'end of transmission' beep at the start to the apocalypse lite crescendo; he has a boot in each side of the Scott Walker camp acting as both a merchant of  doom and crooning Nanny knicker wetter. If you were to squint your ear like you'd hear the kind of production David Axelrod used to carry The Electric Prunes.

Archie Whitewater - Cross Country

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First caught this cut on a mixtape Max (Cold Heat) gave me, just an edit of that, no vocals just that sleepy piano, horn and easy-as-she-goes breakbeat.
The voice comes in on the original like a kindly older friend; a rich tone that reminds me of Terry Callier.
This is what my brain requires before slumber, somewhat of a massage of the brain while I prepare myself for recharge.
Good night.

Serge Gainsbourg - La Horse

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The thing about the French is (if I can open up with a massive sweeping generalisation about a vast and complex society) that they're really quite good at a lot of stuff. Cycling, literature, painting, medicine, having sex, socialism, eating, arguing, telling the government to fuck off... As if that weren't enough, France is also a giant magpie's nest. Bet you didn't know the computer, the cinema projector, the motor car and the aeroplane were all invented in France. 'Alexander Graham QUI?' they cry as they gaze up at the grand statue of Charles Bourseul, inventor of the telephone. We won't get into where 'French' Fries really come from.
When it all comes together, it really amounts to something. Serge is far more important in France than any Beatles or Elvis, and with good reason. 'La Horse' is completely mindblowing, even if the honky tonk banjo break seems completely misplaced, it is heroin-soaked genius right from the opening harpsichord riff, and then...wow, breakbeat! Serge's knack of inventing a major style of music every other album is profoundly underestimated outside of la France. His influence on hip-hop, prog, electronica and dance is overwhelming, more, perhaps than any other musician, not to mention his forays into jazz, erotica, reggae and rock & roll. So, the French might not have invented popular music, but they did invent Serge Gainsbourg, born Lucien Ginsburg, a Russian Jew, he cloaked himself in hilariously exaggerated 'Frenchness' - a fistful of Gitanes, antiquarian womanising, and sublime individual brilliance (although Jean-Claude Vannier & Jane Birkin deserve their dues). What can you say? Oh la la, Serge.

If There Is Hell Below Podcast... monthly office meeting measure up

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Rob and Callum dream of being allowed into the office meeting, staring in and wondering what they're missing out on? The If There Is Hell Below podcast is their meeting; they talk important stuff, like the world's most satisfying song and listen to Diplo turning Sleigh Bells dancehall, Dam Mantle's chopped up electronic cinema, Echo Lake performing in an empty arena, the alarmingly fresh sound of Ted Lucas and Ann Pebbles plus over gemsand nuggets. Join the meeting, no secret hand-shake needed. 

Tracklisting
PJ Harvey - Last Living Rose
Hard Mix - Alright (Sumsun Remix)
Ann Pebbles - I Can't Stand The Rain
Echo Lake - Young Silence
Moon Tides - To Be
Ted Lucas - It's So Nice To Get Stoned
Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
The Feelies- Should be Gone
Pavement - 5 - 4 = Unity
Nodzzz - Time, What's it gonna do?
Sleigh Bells - Tell 'Em (Diplo remix)
Dam Mantle - Movement
Self - What A Fool Believes

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Jean Claude Vannier - L'Enfant La Mouche Et Les Allumettes

Tweet When I was 17 I applied for a job in a cutting edge clothes shop. The sort that sells T-shirts that reference masturbation and hoodies where the logo reads Snickers but on second glance, says Suckers. Yeah, the sort of clothing that really brings The Man down. My dear mother told me it would look good on my CV if I said that my main interest was fashion. I didn't get the job and foolishly used the same CV for many more job applications. None of which were successful, except in probably making the would-be employers laugh.

I'm not suggesting that this video is a good representative of what was going on in that shop and is what I missed out on. I probably missed out on days of unpacking hilarious T-shirts and listening to Sugar Ray.

This video, a musical accompaniment to Yves Saint Laurent's 1971 Autumn/Winter collection, displays are far far cooler era for fashion, looking like a cross between a Kenneth Anger movie and a Weather Report studio session and sounding like Moondog hitting pipes in snaketime over a lost Stones riff. Vannier's spaced-out celestial kitchen sink approach to arranging suits it perfectly.

Les Creteens - Le Bon Style des Noirs

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I'm going to go a little bit out on a limb (where I most like to be) with this one, but to me it's an exciting discovery. A Parisian band I really like. There's a lot of amazing music coming from this city, but much of it has been more on the serious side of things. Something about Paris doesn't encourage playfulness and fun in music. Les Creteens come from the grotty suburb of St. Ouen (not too far from chez moi), and, incredibly for a French guitar band, they sing in...French. That's another big plus in my book, especially with punk and all underground music - if you're not trying to communicate with the people right around you then it becomes pretty meaningless and pretentious. They're not saying much profound, it has to be said (quick translation for you 'j'aimerais avoir le bon style des noirs' = 'I'd love to have the good style of black people'). I guess this won't be to all tastes, but I'm hooked on it at the moment.

Mick.

Dexter Wansel - Life on Mars

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Here's a funk from Philidelphia a 'phunk' if you will? That city in the 70's was coming out with funks and grooves that were outta this world, if there's Life on Mars I'd like to think spacekids would be all over these thick as fresh clay basslines and keyboards that float around the ether before settling into the most satisfying of disco-jazz-funk-fusion-grooves.
And as we're talking Philly soul and Life on Mars, I can't be the only one who thinks that Young Americans is the Thin White Duke's most under appreciated album?

Toro Y Moi - New Beat

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Toro Y Moi "New Beat" by carparkrecords

This song must have bounced around every blog on the... can't bring myself to say 'blogosphere' as a dignified term, but you get that those kids lap this shit up. Toro Y Moi part of that chillwave elite, doing disco? Give 'em a spoon and they'll dig into that like they don't care for the crunch in the corner. Well give me a lick of that silver and I'll have those biscuit bits cos this has too good a funk and groove for me to ignore. Don't you ignore it too.
It's skilled in the art of being disco without being corny, at least for today anyway; that's the thing with d.i.s.c.o. you can wake up the next morning and find that perhaps it didn't taste as good as you once thought.

Toro Y Moi new album Underneath the Pine is out in a couple of weeks. Buy it. Then. From a good little independent store or somewhere.

The Answering Machine - Lifeline

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  Lifeline (Single) by The Answering Machine

The Answering Machine have a new album out in a couple of weeks (Feb 21st), it's called Lifeline and this new single from the album is also called Lifeline.
They garner up the same emotion I get when listening to Radio Dept, The Smiths and The Strokes, they love all three, but they don't copy there's nothing derivivative about this gang. You cannae teach what they got; that's the ability to woo a person with a perchant for velcro hooked indie in but a few rotations of a disc. Lifeline could do that to you, don't be surprised or alarmed.

Pre-order their new album from their website here