Download: If There Is Hell Below Podcast... 2 Years of Shrugging iTunes RSS Rob Morgan and Callum celebrate 2 years of the podcast, in the only way they know how; unprofessionalism, ramblings and opinions, with some music that we like dotted inbetween the cracks. There’s something new from Wes Doyle and his new rock-duo Treefort, a bite from Field Music’s Plum, FIDLAR with a song every bit as good as [...]
Had a listen to this radio show the other day for Strongroom Alive . Some killer selections from Luke, Rusty, pioneering club owner Newton Dunbar. Here's their blurb: 'The Luke and Rusty Rodeo Show set off on their maiden voyage with a mixture of psych, soul, reggae and rockabilly plus an interview with living London legend Newton Dunbar who ran the Four Aces nightclub, later [...]
Timmy Thomas - Why Can't We Live Together (1972) Gilles Peterson dropped this one on his essential Radio 1 show , sitting perfectly between his mix of old jazz, funk, soul and new experimental, dub, electronic, house music. It's sparse, soulful and the organ sound is a modern producer's dream sound, James Blake would kill to write this.
Timmy Thomas - Why Can't We Live Together (1972) Gilles Peterson dropped this one on his essential Radio 1 show , sitting perfectly between his mix of old jazz, funk, soul and new experimental, dub, electronic, house music. It's sparse, soulful and the organ sound is a modern producer's dream sound, James Blake would kill to write this.
Cheers goes to the excellent LostLostLost blog for the heads up on this. They tell me that this mini-album is inspired by the hit comedy Friends, this shouldn't fill me with any excitement as the show has been a constant moan in my life. Vapid, characterless, superficial, bland, dullard cunts and after we've talked about the show's target audience we'll get onto the characters... am I right, or am I right? Oh fuck, you like it too. This has none of the 'qualities' of the show; it's rough, charming and actually [...]
Download: If There Is Hell Below... The Most Romantic Number iTunes RSS Oooh it is a sexy episode isn't it, all about 'that' number, so infectious so satisfying to behold. Music comes from Sharon Von Etten, Sophia Knapp and her balearic AOR Nicks grooves, Wild Nothing's Jack Tatum cooks something with a pan, Lower Dens provide some adictive motorik joy and there's more, you'll have to listen though, sexy should [...]
Missed out on this Hype Williams and Inga Coupland cut on vinyl, killer blow just like the killer blow Robbie Fowler emulated in his relevant days. If you don't know who Robbie Fowler is, he was like the original Mario Ballotelli.
Missed out on this Hype Williams and Inga Coupland cut on vinyl, killer blow just like the killer blow Robbie Fowler emulated in his relevant days. If you don't know who Robbie Fowler is, he was like the original Mario Ballotelli.
Download: If There Is Hell Below... All Back to Mine iTunes RSS Rob Morgan from the If There Is Hell Below Podcast was asked to make an All Back to Mine Mix for Sean Rowley's BBC Radio Kent show . This is that and these are the tracks: [...]
Download: If There Is Hell Below... The Unskippables iTunes RSS Down tools and sack-off your work load, it’s the If There Is Hell Below podcast… Rob and Callum have unintentionally pulled together 3 songs with loosest connections to the ‘Big Star’ sound and Alex Chilton’s little circle of influence. The other songs jump from a new cut from Gonjasufi’s latest desert hip hop trip, Conduits; a shoegaze band who refuse [...]
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Spottie by ArtDontSleep Sly little drop from the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, a cover of Outkast's ' Spottieottiedopaliscious'. What can be said that you wouldn't expect from HBE, it's a jazz funk orchestra reworking with a bit of hip hop erm.... awww man I ain't using that word. You know what I mean
Edzayawa - Gondzin by Soundway Soundway have dug this nugget of an album straight out of West-Africa. Sat alongside BLO's Last Chapter and Mono Mono's Give the Begger A Chance as one of the earliest Afro-rock LP, Project One by Ghanian rock outfit Edzayawa has been out of print for 40 years and only now it getting a much needed a reissue on gatefold vinyl and CD in February. Gondzin is the only teaser we have to go on, there's a motorik almost krautrock feel to that delicious [...]
K.S. Chithra - Indha Vennila by Finders Keepers Records Can't put my finger on this cut, one minute it's a p-funk synth lite-jam then it's string and bongo draped Bollywood but still with the funkiest little bass down just subtlety hanging out the back and then a drop of cinematic drama. You come to expect the unexpected from Finders Keepers , who are putting this out on wax and CD sometime in the year, till then you've got this to gorge on.
It was a massive honour to be asked by Sean Rowley to provide the All Back to Mine Mix for his BBC Radio Kent show, we're massive fans of his radio show. You can listen to the country rock, psychedelic folk and cosmic jazz mix on the iPlayer for the rest of the week, I'll make it available for download and on the mixcloud next Monday. Cheers again Sean, click the link below and take a listen to the show. If There Is Hell Below on Sean Rowley [...]
Download: If There Is Hell Below Podcast... Fred West's Marvellous Collection of Glam Rock Records iTunes RSS Think of a bad British man from the 70s and you know they either have an incredible Glam Rock record collection or were a successful Glam Rock recording artist. There’s no Glam Rock in this, Rob and Callum are the good guys, and 2012 loves a good guy. The good stuff on this pod includes: Afro-disco of Sinkane, [...]
Was supposed to look for songs on my lunch break, for the pod and the blog and the like, just ended up listening to this on loop for 40 minutes. Not exactly a step away from The Shins sound, I couldn't be happier, James Mercer has the rare ability to write the most satisfyingly addictive hooks. Port of Morrow is out in March.
Lothar and the Hand People - Heatwave I've worn the original so thin I need a new kind of kick from this song. This cover of the Martha and Vandellas staple was taken from Lothar and the Hand People's Space Hymn LP from 1969, sounds more like it would belong in the mid-to-late-70s-early-80s new wave era.
It's not that the last few releases by Air haven't been good, they've just failed to really give us that music horn, that same musical we got from the Virgin Suicides Soundtrack , Moon Safari or the Premier Symptones EP . This is something taken from the forthcoming soundtrack to the newly restored and colourised 1901 film 'Le Voyage Dans la Lune', a film that looks more like a piece of engineering than a piece of cinema. The industrial clanks that make up the rhythm of this tune and the vintage analogue synths fit [...]
Jeeper Creeper by Sinkane Ra I think all my end of 2011 celebration hangovers have come at once - with interest. Back at work and back to the blog and paying attention to music. Starting with this, which I can comfortably is the best new song I've heard this year! On first hearing this I was taken back to the first time I heard Yeasayer ' s debut album All Hour Cymbals, with it's African rhythms, Ghanian/Nigerian guitar twangs and [...]
Download: If There Is Hell Below... Good Shit '11: Albums iTunes RSS Second and final part of our Good Shit 2011 series, it's about the albums this time, as Rob and Callum pick choice tracks from our favourite Long Players of the year. [...]
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