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By the way, I will be posting my CD’s out on Friday or Monday next.
From what I’ve heard so far there doesn’t appear to be much of an appetite for heavy rock/metal so I’ve toned it down a bit and thrown a few quieter tracks into the mix, but it’s still best listened to loud!!
“Songs from the Bog” is on the way today; you should have it tomorrow. I tried to maintain a flow by starting with the quieter tunes, gradually working up to the loudest ones at the end. I’ll post up the tracklist tomorrow.
BTW Lionel, you have a PM.
Here's the tracklist.
1 Avenues - Ahab 2006
2 I Don't Mind At All - Bourgeois Tagg 1987
3 Yesterday's Girl - Cry Before Dawn 1989
4 Just A Shadow - Big Country 1984
5 Thunderstorm - Pierce Turner 1993
6 Jig of Life - Kate Bush 1985
7 Holloway Girl - Marillion 1989
8 Personal Saviour - Mo' Solid Gold 2001
9 Empty at the End - Electric Soft Parade 2003
10 Highs and Lows - The Laundry Shop 2007
11 You Know My Name - Chris Cornell 2007
12 Unsatisfied - Nine Black Alps 2005
13 Wayward Child (Live) - Rory Gallagher 1980
14 Kennedy - Wedding Present 1989
15 The Wrath of Marcie - The Go! Team 2007
16 Before Tomorrow Comes- Alterbridge 2008
17 State of Love and Trust- Pearl Jam 1992
18 Take Me Home - Wilt 2002
19 Crying Shame - Muse 2007
20 Blind Man - Black Stone Cherry 2008
21 State of the Union - Rise Against 2005
22 Broken Man - Von Bondies 2004
Haven't listened to it yet (haven't had the chance to give stann and noby's cds the time they deserve either) but must say I've always loved 'State of Love and Trust'. 'Kennedy' too (even had it on a preliminary list for my mix tape!:D).
Had a few spins now Sunny Jim, very much enjoyed it I must say. :)
Safe to say some of the stuff would not be my cup of tea, but it was great to hear, especially some excellent examples of the power ballad! :D
Highlights include the Ahab tune, Pierce Turner, The Laundry Shop (always wanted to know who did that), Nine Black Alps, Alterbridge (which was a really nice surprise, and nice to see that stuff is still being done well) and the Von Bondies.
Kennedy is probably my favourite Weddoes tune, just brilliant, and The Wrath Of Marcie is my current fave from the Go! Team, so two excellent inclusions there.
Brilliant to see a Big Country tune on there also. Though I tend to favour the stuff from their first album, it just shows they didn't half write some cracking songs.
Love the Kate Bush track also, madly over-the-top, brilliant! If I remember right there's some big Irish names on that one, including her brother Paddy who's a top, top trad musician. Great album that too. It's also inspired a good spin of her old stuff in the last few days, so thanks for that.
Actually, was a bit jealous that you were able to put a few Wexford acts in the mix, thinking that Val Doonican and Gilbert O'Sullivan don't quite match up, but then I remembered Kate is a good Waterford girl, which'll do for me! :)
Being listening to "songs from the bog" a few times over the weekend.
A lot of good stuff in there and a few others that wouild'nt rock my boat.
Highlights for me:
Broken Man - Von Bondies. An all time classic.
Just A Shadow - Big Country. One of the best bands around in the 80's early 90's.
Thunderstorm - Pierce Turner.
Jig Of Life - Kate Bush. This one really surprised me!
Unsatisfied - Nine Black Alps. Check out the album!
Wayward Child - Rory Gllagher.
Kennedy - Wedding Present
State Of Love & Trust - Pearl Jam.
Take Me Home - Wilt.
Nice to see the Wexford connection in the track list.
I didn't include the Cry Before Dawn song because cos it wouldn't be a favourite of mine.A great band in there day and have a lot more stronger songs that that one.
Overall an enjoyable cd that brought back some good memories.
Hi folks, with yeer indulgence I'm going to be a week late with mine which is due this friday/weekend I believe. I'm just busy with rocknroll stuff. If that's okay I'll be getting them out wednesday/thursday next week ...or if anyone wants to fill the gap this week -fine. short notice I know.
Got a couple of listens to Sunny Jims while out driving at the weekend. Eclectic for a rock based CD. I'll give a more detailed review later on but I know and love the Wedding Present (played support to them and Cinerama!) and Bourgeois Tag tunes ...In fact I have both on 12" somwhere.
Big Country tune is great as well. I could never get into Cry Before Dawn I'm afraid though.
I'll have a few more listens over the week.
Well I'm glad ye enjoyed some of the tracks anyway.
Stann, they're two dirty words. If I thought my taste had fallen that far I would end it all now!Quote:
Originally Posted by stann
Your choice of words is uncannily appropriate given, for whatever reason, my version of Songs From The Bog played only the first eight songs before giving me guff - the kind of unnegotiable guff that leads to a disgruntled yet appreciative "meh" from me, in that I listened to what I could, and enjoyed as much, but was subsequently left dumbstruck as my mind willed the following songs to play, but the technology was just not willing to cooperate. (Those of us with Fit-Minds-But-Unfit-Bodies-Syndrome should be feeling a touch empathetic at this juncture.)Quote:
Originally Posted by Sunny Jim
So be it, is my attitude.
Perhaps, after all, it was meant to be so. Maybe the first 8 songs are of such divine standing that God decreed they should stand alone - not to be tarnished by the subsequent few, maybe like a good-looking Cork bird before she opens her mouth?
Anyways, embarrassed at my tardiness and general lackadasicalness, I avow to become more visible (and audible). However, I won't fill in for Lionel this week. But I note that Monzo is due to go the week after. And I remember Monzo's doing the Leaving -- so I'll go after Lionel, so that our Star Student is not unduly distracted with Non-Curricular Duties. (so FAO Monzo, the choice is yours, don't feel under pressure to deliver, or even send, your offering.)
Over, and, out.... (for now)
Yep, go right ahead, can thus fully concentrate on the damn exams :D I can then get the mixes sent out in the second or third week of June.Quote:
Originally Posted by kingdom hoop
As for Sunny Jim's mix, I got listening to it just the once, t'was pretty good overall (highlights include Wayward Child, Unsatisfied, You Know My Name, Broken Man and Jig of Life) but I'd need a second listen to comment on it more.
I take it you mean "it broke", KH??Quote:
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Sorry about that. Heads will roll. I'll post another one to you later this week.
Yeah, that was what I was trying to say alright. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Sunny Jim
Thanks for re-sending Jim (no need for an extra case though I suppose).
Hi lads, been doing some work on my compilation and will use this rainy day to nail it down. Expect some snap, crackle and pop (okay not snap they were s***e) as I've been digitising some of my old 7" vinyls this week. Should be in the post on monday.
Sunny Jims CD is standing up to repeated listens with Go Team, Wilt and Rise Against added to my list of favourites.
Sorry to always be the one doing this, but any white smoke from the Treaty City yet?
Apologies for the delay Stann ...and everyone else. I should've flagged sooner that I'd run into some difficulties ...mainly time constraints. I know I'm overdue but I've most of the tunes assembled. Just need to grab the time to do the burning.Quote:
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Will keep all better informed.
Gentlemen, the missiles are flying. :)
Sweet.
Preparing for some snap (small s), crackle and pop so! :)
Actually I bunched all the 7" conversions at the end as I'd say a beachball would've dug a better groove on my vinyl than that old stylus -which has definitely seen better days.
Nothing especially 'new' -as in 'recently released' though maybe a few bits, particularily home grown and locally produced, that won't be well known ...none of that applies to the retro big-beat section which is very mainstream and just for kicks.
I'll post a tracklisting over the weekend.
Just got it in the post there. Likin' the disc, Lionel! :D
I'll have a listen to it sometime next week. Looking forward to track number two - only heard the original a few days ago and was quite blown away.
Got it today too. Driving tomorrow so will give it a good spin. Looks excellent though, can't beat a bit of Big Beat! :)
Some blast from the past with the Tuesday Blue too, loved that song, not heard it in years!
Hope ye don't mind my sticking a tuppence worth in on my own as well. Hope they all made it. For some reason the last few seconds were clipped off the final tune on 1 or 2 of them.
Lonnie Donnegan –Tom Dooley (1958)
Johnny Cash – The Mercy Seat (2000)
The Hitchers – Liver (1997)
Have to confess a selfish interest here. Was in The Hitchers and we used those first two as our intro tunes. Yeah ...two intro tunes! Up our own holes or what? Just carrying on a little tradition with Tom Dooley as I started LionelVol1 with a Lonnie Donnegan tune as well. The Mercy Seat might’ve been written for Johnny Cash he does it that well.
Dropkick Murphys – Rocky Road to Dublin (2001)
It’s a bit begorrah but still crackin.
Jinx Lennon – City of Styrofoam Cups (2007)
Probably the finest Irish writer of his generation. From the LP Know Your Station Gouger Nation.
Tooth – Perfect Teeth (1999)
Windings – Surrounded (2005)
...bit of rock’n’roll family trees here. After Tooth called it a day Steven Ryan (guitar/vocals) went on to form Giveamanakick (who’s Hatch 77 was on my previous compilation. Mark O’Connor (bass/vocals) who’s Float On was also on Lionels Vol1 was also in Tooth and, as well as his own stuff, he has gone on to engineer pretty much everything remarkable in Limrock over the last decade) . Meanwhile Steven Ryan has also released an album as Windings and frequently performs Windings material ably assisted by yet another Tooth member Liam Marley.
The Shanks – Babbling (1998)
Rulers of the Planet – Phone No. (2005)
...This week on Rock Family trees –The Shanks –this is an unfinished mix of Babbling (or Babbling Brook as I always knew it) by the pride of Kanturk, Co. Cork. They released an album on their own, ‘The Prawn Lawn’, in the mid 90’s before recording ‘Brang,’ from which this tune is lifted, for Murgatroid -the same label The Hitchers were on, in 97-98. After The Shanks the band members re-emerged in Rulers of the Planet (Mick and Niall), and Stanley Super 800 (Stan)
Cooper – Hanging on the Telephone (1996)
Top drawer cover by Dutch punks Cooper.
Zwan – Lyric (2003) I thought this tune was easily as good as most of The Smashing Pumpkins stuff and it’s a pity Corgan couldn’t hold the whole show together .
Spinal Tap – Tonight I’m Gonna Rock You (1984)
Had to go with this one after a cup final replay between it and ‘Sex Farm’. Never mind lyrically dubious stuff like the Police’ Dont Stand So Close or ABBAs Does Your Mother Know ...this puts it up to Gary Glitter .
“Your Sweet, but you’re just four feet, and you still got your babyteeth. You’re too young and I’m too well hung , but tonight I’m gonna rock you!”
Half Man Half Biscuit – The Referees Alphabet (2000) The Y is for Yate –the kind of town referees come from. :D
Fat Boy Slim – The Rockafeller Skank (1998)
Cornershop –Brimful of Asha (FBS Extended Remix) (1998)
Wildchild – Renegade Master (FBS Remix)(1998)
DJ Shadow Vs Metallica –Number Song feat Orion (Lionel Ritchie Blackguard Mash) (2009)
Ah Fatboy you genius. The magic of FBS lay in his ability to let no-hoper indie DJs (I was that soldier) break out of the constraints of playing Blur, Oasis etc... by creating a range of off-the-shelf mixes all of which had the same bpm and all of which had a drumless noisy bit three quarters of the way in where you could just fade up the next one –thus enabling beatless morons hold a headphone can up to one ear with their shoulder while punching the air with their free arm and urging the crowd to come AAAAAwwwwnn!! . All the while doing fatboys plugging for him. The sample of Metallica/Cliff Burtons intro to Orion wasn’t credited on the notes of Entroducing though it’s credited on the wiki. I just mixed a wee bit more in at each end. Crackin record all round.
The 7”s
Tuesday Blue – Tunnel Vision (1986) released on U2s Mother label and re-released by EMI three years later.
The Soupdragons – Hang Ten (1986) long before they sold their souls to floppy madchester ****ness like I’m Free –The Soup Dragons made very, very fine singles like Hang Ten which reached 102 in the charts late in 86. Tired of only reaching 102 and being patronised as a 2nd division Housemartins they sold their souls to floppy madchester ****ness like I’m Free.
Andy White – Here Come The Girls (1988) ...sound a bit familiar in places? I thought so too. Not the first time the Belfast bard had the arse ripped out of one of his songs by a pop act either. Have a listen to ‘Na Na Na Na’ next to Westlifes World of Our Own.
Fuzzbox – Love Is The Slug (1987) I shoplifted this from Golden Discs (no wonder they’re going to the wall) in early 1987. Don’t try and smuggle 7”s out of shops in your arse-crack –it’s extremely dangerous.
Klinkhamer – It Doarp (1990) If you can’t make out what he’s singing it’s probably because he’s singing in Fresian. Klinkhamer were a ska-punk band from Leeuwarden in the northern Netherlands.
Andy Stewart – Donald Where’s Your Troosers? (1957)
...if you can find a better Elvis impersonator –you hire him! My son loves this and listens to it at bedtime.
Absolutely loved it, Lionel, you've gone and raised the bar another few notches with this one.
Mixed, and your own mash-up! :eek:
What did you use for the mixing and to burn it properly can I ask?
To the tunes, well quicker to say the Dropkick Murphys was maybe a bit meh for me, but I loved everything else.
Especially loved:
Johnny Cash – The Mercy Seat Agree with the above, this and Hurt are two covers at least that he was made to sing
The Hitchers – Liver Heard of them through here, not heard the song though. Simply brilliant line that, "she broke my heart, so I ate her liver" :D
Jinx Lennon – City of Styrofoam Cups Just love this song, really must get myself that album
The Shanks – Babbling Also new to me, this one, and another band to check out
Spinal Tap – Tonight I’m Gonna Rock You Haha, class inclusion!
Big Beat Interlude Great inclusion too, love anything Big Beat, and am a huge fan of Mr Cook's work, no matter how LCD he's supposed to be. Chap has the midas touch - that Cornershop remix is phenomenal. Nifty bit of mixing by yourself there too!
DJ Shadow Vs Metallica – Number Song feat Orion (Lionel Ritchie Blackguard Mash) That's quite impressive! Anything with Shadow in it gets my vote, but with your own mash you've gone and done it now...
Tuesday Blue – Tunnel Vision Blast from the past this one. Knew the chorus still though, belting it out word perfect in the car :D
The Soupdragons – Hang Ten Loved that era Soup Dragons, the singles at least. Soft As Your Face was another cracker I remember from around the same time, before they went faux baggy.
Fuzzbox – Love Is The Slug Man, had not heard this in ages either. Another band I loved at the time, a somewhat guilty pleasure maybe.
Andy Stewart – Donald Where’s Your Troosers? Have to love this song, never heard the Elvis bit though, it's quite uncanny!
Mixed the FBS/DJShadow/Metallica stuff in Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro) which is actually more of a multi-track studio than a fruityloops or even Cubase type sequencer.Quote:
Originally Posted by stann
Burned with Nero -there's a setting in there where you can change the duration of the gap between songs, which is 2 secs by default, or remove it altogether. There's an overlap/crossfade function in there as well but truthfully I don't think it's great. It's too long and automatically fades out the ending track and fades up the new track which isn't what you'd be after mixing dance stuff certainly.
Yep ...I actually have Smell The Glove. What a title! They should've gone with the original artwork mind. They'd get into less grief over that today than this little ode to underage groupies. They're playing Wembley Arena on June 30th!Quote:
Originally Posted by stann
Didn't actually do a lot with it beyond sticking the intro to Orion at the start and a stretching a sample to fit over the all drums outro. I remember at the time Entroducing was released it was boasted the record contained no new performances and was an "audio-collage" of samples form old records which was why I found it curious that Orion wasn't creditied ...he just mightn't have gotten clearance to use it at that point which makes releasing it at all very, very risky if Metallica/Cliff Burton Estate had decided to play silly buggers.Quote:
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I remember telling mates of mine "that's Orion by Metallica" and some of them saying "nah ...I'm not hearing it". One bass-player buddy of mine did point out that anyone who buys Bassist-Monthly type magazines could get the settings and gear needed to create the exact sound Burton got. But that doesn't sit well with DJ Shadows no-new-performances boast. Either way the sample's since been acknowledged.
Fuzzbox or to give them their full moniker We've Got A Fuzzbox And We're Gonna Use It were a great band even if a bit one dimensional -before some clown decided to "produce" them while they were still young and suggestable enough to partake in muck like Pink Sunshine in 1989. I have that album on cassette somewhere, got it in a bargain bin for a punt, and it is the most tragic piece of claptrap imaginable when one considers that three years earlier these girls were coming up with stuff like this and 'Rules and Regulations'.Quote:
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It's savage. ...got the year wrong on this -just being picky -it's from 1961.Quote:
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Ah right, that's a commercial bit of gear isn't it? What's your recommendation on it, is it worth it for the part-time noodler who may or may not be a little bit simple? :) Would be too big a job for something like Audacity I guess.Quote:
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What about Nero? Though no doubt there's no shortage of freeware burning software that will let you put zero gaps in too.
And at risk of hijacking the thread, one more thing :D, for those mixed tunes, did you set the CD track start points in Nero too, or in Audition?
You going over to see Spinal Tap? :D
I've only audacity a couple of times but found it a little cumbersome and clanky. But you probably could do a similar job with it. Adobe Audition is a better piece of gear in my opinion. It's quite easy to use even for someone inexperienced with it. Though you can use it for high end stuff as well. I'm recording an album at the moment and I'll probably end up partially or fully mixing it with Audition and I'll definitely master it with it.Quote:
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I'd say any of the burner software out there should have that function. I have Roxios Easy CD Creator as well on my old PC so I'll check.Quote:
Originally Posted by stann
Did it in Audition. Imported the tunes put them into a session to create a single audio file and then broke it up again when I'd them overlapping as desired. See jpeg below...Quote:
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http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/i...83930455c9.jpg
probably can't see the text but track 2 is Rockafeller Skank, track 3 is Cornershop and 4 is renegade master. The green line running along the top of each track but which plunges downward during rockafeller skank is what's called a volume envelope. you can push and pull that line all over the place to make the volume rise and fall. Here I'm just using it for a simple enough fade out. You can see another line -blue this time -running through the middle of each track. That's the pan envelope and you can push a track to either side of the mix as frequently as you like with that. As you can see I left it dead center all the way.
So when I was happy with how the tracks overlap -I created a mixdown -which is in the "edit" dropdown menu and you can see the 2 vertical pale lines where I split the mixdown in to three seperate files again.
Ah very good, cheers Lionel, looks and sounds kinda similar to Audacity, superficially at least. And enough for me not to be put off by it! You'd recommend a purchase so?
How does it handle speed tweaking and beatmatching type stuff? Didn't arise with the FBS stuff I know. :D
It's fine. I'd to get the exact time of a drum loop in the dj shadow tune and stretch the metallica riff to match and it did it fine. For that matter I'd to tweak the key of the metallica riff as well as DJS had raised it a little under a semitone for number song. It'll let you do all that. It has find beats/snap to beats/loop to beats functions as well though honestly I don't use them much.Quote:
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It is similar to audacity. Audacity remended me a lot of wave studio which I got on my first PC. I think the version I have somewhere might be very basic just.
Buachaillí, I am about to concoct the next sonic smorgasbord for your respective auditory amazements. So you should have another treat finding its way to you some day next week (probably later in the week). I suspect the only mixing will be of genre, but let that not disappoint you, for this will be special. Well, we'll see. I think I'll set a guiding selection-philosophy of something kinda global with a fairly laid-back, cheerful vibe - as that's generally what I listen to and it should fit in with the summer season. So expect something, let's say "exultantly chilled" (if that isn't too oxymoronic). Ok, less typing, more thinking, 'whhhay I go. :)
Bloody forgot to buy CDs the past two days (hopefully I'll manage the onerous task today), so 'twill probably be next week by the time Pat gets them to you. You can continue to enjoy Lionel's for now.
The setlist is practically settled - the infeasibly unappeasable collator almost satisfied. I think I've managed to largely stick to my brief, it has a slightly different feel to all the other offerings that each had slightly different feels, so hopefully such continuing variation is welcomed.
Brought your CD over to New York with me Lionel and these Americans sure like their Lionel Ritchie mixes :)
Great CD again that raises the bar yet again. Now if only we could persuade the Hitchers to reform ;)
Can't wait for Kingdom Hoop's CD now, I have to hold my hand's up and say that I enjoy this Kerry degenerate's mixes the best :D
And in honour of the honour you hold me in I decided I had to somehow work "degenerate" into the title, so now the CD is named....... Sunny Soul for Degenerate Moles. The idea there being that moles don't get that awful much sun at all and might be kinda introverted and not much fun, so they may tend to lapse towards degeneration, so to try to cheer them up a bit and help them morph into more exuberant, dancing creatures I created a little playlist with a bright and airy disposition.Quote:
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Well anyway, I sent those off yesterday evening so they should arrive on Wednesday. I admit to cheating slightly by including the best song ever. And also arguably the best imagery ever in a song. Unfortunately I didn't manage to print off a tracklisting with the CDs - I'll just put that up in the next post. So if you want to leave everything as a surprise, look away now.
Happy listening. :)
I'm gonna include the year of release like most people and also the place / country of origin.
1. Fred Falke - 8.08pm @ The Beach (France, 2008)
2. King Sunny Ade - Mai Jaiye Oni (Nigeria, 1982)
3. The Rollers - Knockin' At The Wrong Door (Florida, early '70s)
4. Marius Cultier - Missie Sirop (Martinique, Caribbean, 1975)
5. John Holt - Beach Party (Jamaica, 1983)
6. Mikey Dread - Roots and Culture (Jamaica, 1982)
7. Orlando Julius - Mapami (Nigeria, 1966)
8. Copa 7 - No Samba (Rio, early '70s)
9. Caetano Veloso - Coracão Vagabundo (Brazil, 1967)
10. Nitin Sawhney - October Daze feat. Tina Grace (London, 2008)
11. Rhythm Quest - Closer To All Your Dreams (Birmingham, 1992)
12. Rhythim is Rhythim - Strings of Life (Detroit, 1987)
13. Alan Braxe - Penthouse Serenade (France, 2002)
14. The LK - Tamagotchi Freestyle (Malmo, 2008)
15. Royksopp - The Girl And The Robot (Norway, 2009)
16. Freeland - Morning Sun (Brighton, 2009)
17. Etienne de Crécy - F.uck (fullstop incorrectly inserted for purpose of avoiding censor) (Paris, 2006)
18. Saint Maarten's The Rolling Tones - It's A Feeling (Saint Maarten, Caribbean, 1970s)
Haven't heard most of those, will be a welcome surprise when I get home I feel
Incidentally which of those do you regard as the greatest song ever?
Also as an FAO Sligobrewer, are you good to join in at the moment or shall I jump ahead of you in the queue?
At that moment in time I was thinking Track 12, Strings of Life.Quote:
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Though I didn't really apply any scientific/systematic means of judging how to award the title or anything (my comment was more tongue-in-cheek to be honest) so of course at another moment I could think something else, but anyway, that one would definitely be therethereabouts for me. Would you hold it in similarly lofty regard? Or does classifying songs in such a way take away from the pure enjoyment of a track, distracting from what is truly important, and therefore we should stop this discourse immediately and just get back to digging the groove?
It would hold a high place on my list but it's no Archie Band's Sugar Sugar
I was gonna stick The Archies theme tune Get On The Line on my one. :DQuote:
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Back in my teens I used get up at 6am, to study for my leaving so the story went, but in fact to watch The Archies on the DJ Kat show.
Haven't got your CD yet KH. Looks interesting and virtually all new to me.
Apart from Roysopp I didn't know any of those artists beforehand. Great, ebullient mix though. I particularly enjoyed the Fred Falke opener (perfection in a song), Knocking At The Wrong Door and the closer.
I'll have a listen to Lionel's mix tomorrow before sorting out my own batch of tunes.
Really liking the two mixes that were waiting for me when I got lads, both solid mix CDs with my highlights being
On Lionels: The Hitchers, Zwan and Spinal Tap
On Hoop's: King Sunny Ade, Fred Falke and Etienne De Cercy
I'll be back with more thoughts as I listen to them more I'm sure
Will I go next week so?
I have my selections finalised - just need to burn the discs and get them posted. I'll have that done for Friday so the provisionally-titled Monzo's Mix (thank goodness for alliteration) should enter your respective postboxes by Monday or Tuesday.
Had another listen to kingdom hoop's and lionel's mix so will post an all-encompassing review sometime later.
Got the CD in the post today Monzo, had to rush out so haven't listened to it yet but I noticed a cover of my favourite Leonard Cohen song by one of my favourite bands, the Lemonheads, that caught my interest straight away