Jun 19, 2021 | 2021, Playlists, Toons |
Ninja Tune, the greatest recording organisation in the world, presents a daily demonstration of their new stereophonic discs… While other record labels have had their time in the sun, Ninja Tune has consistently been one of my favourite labels. Not just for...
Jun 5, 2021 | 2021, Playlists, Toons |
The strings of West Africa reverberate around the world and if you’d like them reverberating around your home too, this playlist is for you. Every morning carefully trained string theory bots start their quantum work, listening backwards and forwards to tracks...
May 8, 2021 | Playlists, Toons |
Plenty has been written about Jonathan Richman, the Peter Pan of post-punk / new wave, so that’s not the purpose of this. This is a compilation of Jonathan Richman’s music from the seminal Modern Lovers album through to his more recent and quirky solo...
Apr 24, 2021 | 2021, Mixes, Toons |
A good mix should take you on a journey, ideally not down familiar roads. This is that kind of mix, whether good or not. There are a handful of tracks from the last few years, and roughly the same from the previous century. The Love section is the oldest, and the...
Apr 17, 2021 | 2021, Playlists, Toons |
As tends to happen with UK-based artists, Spotify can be quite slow to create a playlist to pull together their best work. But that’s why fans are here 🙂 Matthew Halsall’s 2020 album Salute To The Sun was my favourite album of the year (tied with...
Feb 10, 2021 | 2020, 2021, Playlists, Toons |
With the inevitability of a child’s ice cream hitting the summer hot tarmac, but the unmitigated joy of getting free scoops of new flavours of ice cream, Bill Callahan and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy have teamed up with a diverse group of pals to record a...