Oi! from South East London brother,

Our July show is up to listen to now, our first as Official Residents of Voices Radio! Part of the fam! Slightly later time slot this time, before we return in August. More going on after the jump.

01. Jefre Cantu-Ledesma    - The Milky Sea
02. Angela Davis - Revolution Today (at CCCB, 09/10/2017)
03. Yves Montand - Le Temps Des Cerises (Cherry Blossom Time)
04. Xyla - Cold (feat. Oso Feo)
05. Commodo x Gantz 89! - Gloom
06. Bruce - Burned Alive (First Degree Edit)
07. Introspekt - Fractal
08. Sister Zo - The Tower
09. Björk - You've Been Flirting Again (Flirt Is A Promise Mix)
10. By Storm - Zig Zag (Remix 5)
11. 7038634357 - Final Lap
12. NZO - AXMM
13. DJ Narciso - Underground dos Loucos (feat. Farucox)
14. Text Chunk - Flow
15. LDS - Portal Merge (Peak Mix)
16. JD Twitch - Sophie Scholl
17. Gyrofield - Overdose
18. tomorrowland - Dustbot
19. Nondi_ - Eccojams (para-range / delusion)

You can hear the show on our Mixcloud and Soundcloud. Links to tracks available on Bandcamp can be found on our Buy Music Club.

We will be broadcasting live again on Voices Radio next month on Sunday 17th August at 20:00 UK time.

Plex Your Head

Well, at least Hulk Hogan is dead.

I was away from the studio this month due to having spent the previous week away from the city, once again reminding myself that the English coast remains a beguiling and multi-layered environment, just as long as there aren’t any other people within earshot. Go to Wells-next-the-Sea if you enjoy oyster catchers, picking samphire off the beach and getting a miniature train towards a village built around shrines; it looks like the Lincolnshire coast too, but with less bombing ranges.

Been reading The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again by M. John Harrison, a book that enjoyably ties those British provincial traits of thinking that curtain twitching constitutes eccentricity, and both classic and Facebook-hallucinated conspiracies to explain why the bus has stopped running on Tuesdays. Except there might actually be people living in the river? Odd and fun, and better than listening to news podcasts and feeling utterly useless.

The house band will be playing Supernormal Festival on Saturday 2nd August; we will be on the Shed stage at 12:00pm sharp. Wakey, wakey! If you are going down there too do please say hello, and I’m looking forward to giving my head a wobble after a few months of not quite feeling up to seeking out some new noises.

One achievement has been to set up a Raspberry Pi server in my home that is currently streaming Lust For Youth into my ears via Plex instead of a streaming service, and if you don’t mind looking up terminal commands every twenty minutes it’s worth exploring making your own cloud. Take back your media, (finally) quit Spotify and get back to The Files.

Black Sabbath’s music was always going to live forever (does this include Mob Rules? I’m just paying tribute here). The Quietus’ essay of their final gig is worth a read. 🎈

“One day, everyone will have always been against this”.

Looking Through / A Hole In The Sky

Signing in after spending the month largely unencumbered while I’m inbetween studying, which is actually making my days feel uncharacteristically slow. I don’t love this feeling, and have to admit that this month I’d already been in a fairly heavy brain funk for reasons both personal and blindingly obvious without this compounding it.

Besides trying to work out my emotions live on radio any time Ben leaves me (this time mostly on the themes of angry/Livejournal-style turmoil/Trans Genders™), I’ve been spending a large chunk of the past few weeks cooking increasingly complex breakfasts, discussing the finer points of Blixa Bargeld’s risotto technique, and swimming in Hampstead Heath Ladies Pond.

I don’t really revel in downbeat scene reports such as this one, but it’s been very hard to feel hope in moments like the current. This has only got more bleakly real in the past 72 hours, and I suppose taking a full quarter out of the show to clear space and share Angela Davis’ words is my small attempt at revitalising that in myself as well as my loved ones at a moment of breaking point. I will be in the Queers for Palestine bloc of Trans Pride’s annual march on Saturday starting in Cavendish Square, see you in the pit.

Additional notes:

1. Black Sabbath – Live in New Jersey, 1975. ARE YOU HIGH!? SO AM I.

2. Ailo gifting me a (/30!?) copy of Cutt Press’ 2023 A4-size reprint of Erin McCready’s 1994 zine Morai Gero 1, a 112-page monster interviewing Melt Banana, Merzbow, Boredoms, Surfers of Romantica and more.

3. As Ben noted, we are playing Supernormal Festival. First time attending! Many friends playing! Catch me in a dark corner slinking to Slikback.

4. Demystification Radio Hour for 1hr NYHC neck adjustment.

5. Jim Legxacy? Jim Legxacy. Have you ever heard Wiley’s Jam Pie and a bold-faced Paramore imitation on the same record? I just sold my last kidney for some Smart Whip, and I feel great.

Ⓐ Oi! from South London Ⓔ

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