If There Is Hell Below... Blanket European

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If anything is gonna leak out of your headphones make sure it’s the velvet tones of Rob & Callum of the If There Is Hell Below podcast, here to serve you, hopefully what our focus will deem  ‘good enough’.

So, Quelle Chris is back on the pod but with (for our money) his best tune yet; Ducktails provides further reason for Real Estate to split up and just concentrate on their superior side-projects, there’s a dark beat cloud closing in from mysterious instrumental doom hip hop group 3:33, Drenched/soaked reverb psych from Sun Machine, Gangsta Boo & Sinjin Hawke provide a dancefloor monster and we finish with God-like figure Robert Wyatt and something from his collection of unreleased material from ’68. There’s more besides, the focus group thought it ‘will do’.

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If There Is Hell Below... Blame the Smoothie Kids

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Classic driving rock is what you can expect from Rob and Callum, at least at the top of the pod,
the rest is music perfect for your favourite muesli and furniture shop adverts.
Nah, it's pretty hip hop heavy this week, good hip hop not Dad hip hop, at least it isn't Dad hip hop yet...  So there's ace new tracks from pod favourites Guilty Simpson & Small Professor, Freddie Gibbs & Madlib  and Mello Music Group's L'Orange & Stik Figa - duos.
Non-hip hop we have a kraut-prog-space-funk-ballad from Klaus Johann Grobe, the Byrdsian guitar of Young Sinclairs and Tony Molina: prince of the 90 minute face-melter pop tune.
There's more, it's all inside and all ethically sourced.

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If There Is Hell Below... whatmeworry

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Rob and Callum present a podcast, the audio equivalent of a court room scene painted in pastel and photographed with hashtagnofilters. You get that reference, right?

Our jury is music and… I’m stopping this courtroom blurb theme.

There’s some great music on this podcast: Cass McCombs is back with some good singer-songwriter shit, Fat Joe delivers an ‘I’m off to slammer’ farewell with help of DJ Premier and Action Bronson; there are hip hop instrumentals from Oh No and Ahnnu; a track from Dean Blunt’s latest free to DL album; MJ from Hookworms latest project Family Scraps and more.

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If There Is Hell Below... Put an X on my Hand

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Rob and Callum try to attempt a level of professionalism but with a nagging desire to slander some of music’s most powerful and respected coupled with unexpected door-step guests, this can often evade.
Praise be that possibly 70% of these podcasts are papered over with great music as chosen by these broadcasting rogues.
That 70% includes Boogarins a Brazilian psych outfit, so-called avant-garde pop group Virginia Wing, tight-harmony noise-pop from Regal Degal, a new ones from Parquet Courts, Together Pangea, Matthew E White, Eagulls and more.

Note: there’s a moment where audio goes a wee echoey, bear with it and enjoy the ride.

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If There Is Hell Below... Head On Jetpack Collision

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Callum and Rob regale in tales of jetpacks, machines that allow one to flip through the ocean like a dolphin and Dogboys – all bases covered. Then there’s music; we’ll talk about music and will most likely drop some clangers.
The music itself remains clanger free with the incredible return of White Denim and Black Milk, the Beck/Revolver psych of The Sufis, the cut-the-bullshit punk from Meat Market and Big Ups, psych from Lorelle Meets the Obsolete, dark ominous Birthday Party tones from Pop. 1280 and more.

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If There Is Hell Below... America's Sweetheart

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Hey guy, crack open a room-temperature bottle of Focklestone's Peculiar, Bishops Head or Wedgewood because we have some songs for you, you and Molly Ringwald aka America’s Sweetheart.

There’s some grooves in this podcast from Dam Funk & Steve Arrington's meeting of disco funk minds to that 80s Footloose/Love Is A Battlefield (don’t fight it) swing of Frankie Rose and The Preatures. There’s something to rhythmically nod and beard stroke to with Tape Deck Mountain and Bill Callahan’s dub inflicted LP taster plus Jonathan Wilson and Midlake return with some psychedelic folk and west-coast rock. We find some space for hip hop with something from Sonyae and Scotland’s Young Fathers plus other such sonic nuggets of joy inside.

 

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