Back when a mate gave me a pirated tape of the newly-released first Radiohead album, I really liked it. Unsurprising perhaps, but I wouldn’t have thought for a second that 30 years on I’d still be pretty damn keen on their albums, anymore than I’d be likely to still listen to new Dodgy, Sleeper or Blur albums…

But obviously Radiohead released OK Computer and the world was astounded. Then they released Kid A and people were confounded… but still knew it was brilliant! The journey from there is what this mix covers, with tracks from OK Computer, Kid A, Amnesiac (and the recent additions on KID A MNESIA), Hail to the Thief, In Rainbows, The King of Limbs, A Moon Shaped Pool, plus some remixes and lesser known treats from the Towering Above The Rest compilation and EPs.

I’ve gone very light on OK Computer content as I was trying to pickup more of the atmospherics (and jazziness and electronics) from the later albums, but I’m hoping the intense paranoid political spirit of OK Computer pervades it all.

From Mixcloud: This show was 3rd in the global indie dance / alternative dance chart, 4th in the global indie rock chart, 7th in the global nu jazz chart, 11th in the global indie chart and 21st in the global electronica chart.

Anyhoo, give it a listen, and holler if you like it! 🙂

Tracklist below:

  1. High & Dry (beat only with samples from Towering Above The Rest)
  2. Paranoid Android (instrumental)
  3. Kid A (Kid Koala remix and Kid A Theory)
  4. Lotus Flower
  5. Nude
  6. Exit Music (for a Film)
  7. Weird Fishes / Arpeggi
  8. 2 +2 = 5
  9. Burn The Witch
  10. Nasty People (Towering Above The Rest)
  11. Like Spinning Plates (album version, Bentsonic remix and Why Us Version)
  12. Idioteque (album version and General Musician remix)
  13. Idioteque Anthem (Towering Above The Rest)
  14. The National Anthem
  15. Everything In Its Right Place (inc. the Robert Glasper version)
  16. Separator
  17. House Of Cards
  18. Skkatterwave
  19. Skttrbrain (Four Tet RMX)
  20. Scatterbrain (As Dead As Leaves)
  21. If You Tolerate This, Then Your Children Will Be Next
  22. Daydreaming
  23. Treefingers
  24. Pyramid Strings (Towering Above The Rest)
  25. Pyramid Song
  26. Broken Bass Bin (Towering Above The Rest)
  27. Rabbit In Your Headlights – UNKLE (and Underdog mix)
  28. Go Slowly
  29. I Might Be Wrong
  30. Meeting In The Aisle
  31. Present Tense
  32. How To Disappear Completely
  33. That’s How Horses Are – Thom Yorke
  34. Talk Show Host (Black Dog Mix and D&B mix)
  35. You And Whose Army?
  36. Codex
  37. Optimistic
  38. Untitled V3 (Towering Above The Rest)
  39. Decks Dark
  40. Morning Bell
  41. Motion Picture Soundtrack
  42. True Love Waits

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