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THE EXOTIC MOODS OF EL RITMO
A ‘Hi Fi Journey’ into spicy sounds with Claude Mono
EXOTICA – BOSSA – LIBRARY – BEATS
as broadcast on RTRFM
LISTEN
Show re-stream here
HQ Mixtape <coming soon>
PLAYLIST
Les Baxter – Shadow of Love / The Enchanted Reef – The Soul of the Drums
Martin Denny – Quiet Village – The Exotic Sounds of Martin Denny
Les Baxter with Bas Sheva – Lust – The Passions
Martin Denny – The Girlfriend Of The Whirling Dervish – Exotic Percussion
Ixtahuele – Mareld (2021 version)
Combustible Edison – Breakfast at Dennys – Isle of the Lost Demos
Sukia – Amok – Contacto Espacial Con El Tercer Sexo
Tipsy – Tuatara – Trip Tease
Nino Nardini – Mowgli – Jungle Obsession
Nino Nardini – Tropical Call – Jungle Obsession
The Karminsky Experience – Departures – The Power of Suggestion
Sven Libaek – Misty Canyon – My Thing
The Alan Lorber Orchestra – Mas Que Nada
Muhavisia Ravi Hatched and the Indo Jazz Following – Bombay Palace
Bei Bei and Shawn Lee – East – Beauty and the Beats
Nicola Conte – Danubian – Other Directions
Larry Manteca – UFO Bossa
Tangoterje – Aquarius (George Shearing re-edit)
Allessandro Allessandroni – Afro Darkness (LUCA quirky version)
Neno Exporta Som – Deixa a Tristeza
Mario Castro Neves & Samba S A – Candomble
The Kevin Fingier Collective ft Josie Dias – Um Brilho Novo
The Kevin Fingier Collective ft Josie Dias – Rua Nova Barao
Paul and Mark – Guaio A Caracas
Arthur Verocai – Sylvia (Live) – Jazz Esta Morto
Arthur Verocai – O Mapa – Arthur Verocai
Kit Sebastian – Melodi Pt1 and Pt2
Sven Wunder – Ultramarine – Late Again
Sven Wunder – Chamomile – Eastern Flower
Sven Wunder – Take A Break – Late Again
La Luz – Oh Blue – La Luz The Instrumentals
Sven Wunder – En Plein Air – Natura Morta
Soledad Miranda – La Verdad
WANT MORE
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IN SEARCH OF THE EXOTIC SOUNDS OF THE KARMINSKY EXPERIENCE INC.
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Yippee-ippee-ay-ay-ay-yey-yey
The Siamese Dream Happy Mondays Special
Your hosts…
Claude Mono
Anton Maz (spiritually there but at home looking after his unwell family)
Yippee-ippee-ay-ay-ay-yey-yey
Want a pre-party party?
Happy Mondays play Metropolis next Wed 25/10
Siamese Dream are play Happy Mondays Mon 23/10
Claude and Anton hit the studio in their best Joe Bloggs and take a deep dive with remixes, obscurities and rave on bangers plus mad tales of hazy crazy days
LISTEN
Show re-stream here
Spotify Playlist here – the tracks we played plus some other classics
PLAYLIST
Siamese Dream Happy Mondays Intro
Katie Puckrick – Shaun Ryder (The Word 1992)
Happy Mondays – Little Matchstick Owen
Happy Mondays – The Egg
Interview Shaun Ryder and Karl Denver
Happy Mondays – Lazyitis (One Armed Boxer feat. Karl Denver)
Happy Mondays – Dennis And Lois
Happy Mondays – Stinkin Thinkin /
Happy Mondays – Loose Fit (Paul Oakenfold Mix)
Happy Mondays -W.F.L. ‘Think About The Future’ (The Paul Oakenfold Mix)
Gaz Whelan – I Still See Bez
Happy Mondays – Donovan
Happy Mondays – Angel
Happy Mondays – Clap Your Hands
INTERMISSION (Grab a Kebab)
Interview Jamie Hutchings w/ Andrea Sturgess
Jamie Hutchings – Bachelors Buttons
PART TWO
Happy Mondays – Step On (Twistin My Melon Man Mix)
Happy Mondays – Kinky Afro
Shaun Ryder – Scooter Girl
Happy Mondays – Tart Tart (Live at Sheffield University 1989)
Happy Mondays – Stayin Alive
Happy Mondays – Kilamenjero (Rave On)
WANT MORE
Bummed Documentary
A short documentary which overviews ‘Factory Records’, as they help promote ‘The Happy Mondays’ during the recording / release of their second album, ‘Bummed’. Click the link in the video or go direct here.
Perth Connections
Anton Maz co-host for this edition of Siamese Dream DJed the after party at the last Happy Mondays Perth gig at The Astor – the after-party was at Amplifier and Anton tells the story of dropping Shaun, Bez and Rowetta along with Alan McGee into a taxi at 4am out the front of Amps and none of the band remembering where they were staying, and they were all at different hotels. Anton wished the taxi driver good luck as they headed into the night.They did get there.
Anton back in the mid-90s played in Yummy Fur the Perth-based and Manchester-inspired band loved equally by clubbers and indie-heads.
Jack (Kiriakos Lucas from Yummy Fur) played guitar pn Amateur Night in the Big Top. Band connections with Shaun Ryders Perth-based cousin Pete Carrol led us to his brothers Matt & Pat Carroll of legendary Manchester-based Central Station Design , who were responsible for some of the best Mondays artwork as well as the iconic Madchester logo, to do album artwork for the Perth-based band which was a big honour. Check out ‘The Story’ below and read on…
Amateur Night in the Big Top
The story goes something like this.
Ryder recorded his vocals in Carroll’s make-shift studio in his garage, which were recorded by Carroll and Norton. And lets not forget to mention Chad Hedley of Dada Records on percussion. Ryder had originally heard tracks Carroll and Shane Norton were working on for Offworld Sounds. “Our Pete just said, ‘Tell us a story.’ I’ve got that many, Pete reckoned I should record them once and for all” said Shaun Ryder. “I’m kind of a novelist in the way that 9/11 was a Great American Novel” the singer added.
The album is subtitled “Clowns and Pet Sounds”. It was released in September 2003 and co-produced by Pete Carroll, Shane Norton and Cabaret Voltaire’s Stephen Mallinder. It was recorded in Perth, Australia and released on the OffWorld Sounds record label run by Carroll and Mallinder.
Shaun stayed at his cousin’s Pete Carroll house in Perth. He thought the quiet location would be a good opportunity to go cold turkey from his previous heroin addiction.
Despite Shaun not wanting to make any music while in the country, Pete thought it would be something to distract him with. In April 2001, it was reported that Ryder had started recorded an album; sessions continued into July 2002. Carroll served as the executive producer on the project. Shane Norton of Kuling Bros produced and engineered the material and former Cabaret Voltaire member Stephen Mallinder acted as co-producer on “Scooter Girl”, “Clowns” and “Murder”.
The Ecstasy and the Agony
The Ecstasy and the Agony. A beautiful documentary filmed with Shaun and his family and during some of Shaun’s toughest times. The spirit of life shines through.
Gaz Whelan the Happy Mondays drummer has been working on a side-project to bring to life acoustic versions of Happy Mondays tracks. In their stripped back form the beauty and quality of the arrangements shines through but really hearing Shaun’s lyrics is a treat. In between tracks Gaz talks about his life with the band including growing up in Salford, The Hacienda, and touring. Great tales. Gaz explains that the band were not at all that interested in touring an acoustic project. You can just imagine the conversation with Shaun and Bez 🙂 – Tracks include: Kiny Afro, Loose Fit, Hallelujah
Gaz Whelan’s other musical project Black Symphony featuring Rowetta from the Mondays here
An interview with Angela Smith, former wife of Happy Mondays bass player and founding member – Paul Ryder, who died on 15th July 2022, after she had recorded many hours of interviews with him for the podcast The Paul Ryder tapes – On Spotify. Try here.
“We didn’t really expect that Paul would go before Shaun…”
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From Istanbul to Mumbai
From Paris to Rome via South London
Sounds from Then and Now
You’re in the VIP queue and the doors are about to open
Its The Tuesday Night Hi Fi Discotheque live from Club El Ritmo Moderno
selections by Claude Mono
LISTEN
Show re-stream here
HQ Mixtape here – just the grooves
PLAYLIST
Tandy Love (aka Andy Votel) –Turk Jerk Intro
Gaslamp Killer vs. Ersen and Kardaslar – Gunese Don Cicegim – All Killer
Sarolta Zolatnay – Zold Borostyan – Sarolta Zolatnay
Mustafa Ozkent Ve Orkestrası – Zeytinyaglı – Genclik lle Elele
Beyaz Kelebekler – Esmerim (Special Cosmic Balearic Edit 4.0)
Sarolta Zolatnay – Munanyag Almok – Sarolta Zolatnay
Kit Sebastian – Durma – Mantra Moderne (2019)
Vanishing Twin – The Third Door – In Piscina (2020)
Ray And His Court – Soul Freedom – Ray and His Court (1973)
Paikan And The Sadhus – Afro On The Rocks (2009) – Jazzman
Kit Sebastian – Pangea – Mantra Moderne
Jean Pierre Mirouze – Sexopolis – Bande Originale Du Film Le Marriage Collectif (1971)
Janko Nilovic – Xenos – Cosmos Rythmes – Contemporains (1974)
The Karminsky Experience Inc – Chant – Beat!
The Karminsky Experience Inc – L932 (original vinyl 12 – Jesse Yuen)
Lucky Brown – Space Dream – Lucky Brown’s Space Dream
M Ashraf – Too Ney Kaha – Dekha Jaye Ga OST
M Ashraf – I Am Very Sorry – The Sound of Wonder OST
The Bartender – Tum Jo Mil Gaye Ho (extended version)
Dimitri from Paris – Un World Mysteriouse – Sacre Blue (La Edition Speciale) 1998
Nicola Conte – Dossier Omega – Jet Sounds (1996)
Alfonso Santisteban – Zorongo – Spanish Moog LP (1971)
Vanishing Twin – Planete Sauvage – The Age of Immunology (2019)
Alemayehu – Eshete Alteleyeshegnem
Nephews of Phela – Mulah 2 (Mulatu Astatke’s Yegelle Tezeta)
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UPDATE: Mxtape added with extra tracks and fully remastered – had so much fun doing this special edition of the El Ritmo radio show for RTRFM that I thought I would preserve it for listeners for Valentines Day next year – or better still any day of the year!! – all the chit chat and ads have been removed – so its just the pure joy of the music with a nice HD mix
I loved doing the research for the show and finding so many versions of Bacharach on musical roads road less travelled, but I have to say stumbling across the unreleased version by The Beach Boys of Walk on By was a special find.
Celebrate Valentines Day with a ‘Tuesday Night Hi Fi Journey’
RTRFM’s El Ritmo radio show will be completely free of the mush and goes straight for the beautiful, funky and far out tunes by far out artists into the catalogue of the late great Burt Bacharach plus some other perfectly placed very groovy L.O.V.E tunes.
From 1958 and Burt’s first band The Five Blobs through to Cal Tjader and Frankie Goes To Hollywood – its all Moog workouts, lush soul, remixes and Japanese pop…
“Get Claude Mono. He will know what to play”
– Burt Bacharach
LISTEN
Show re-stream here (Archived soon)
HD Mixtape here (forever – kind of)
PLAYLIST
The Tokyo Paradise Orchestra – The Look of Love (Live)
Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra – Raindrops Keep Fallin on my Head
Burt Bacharach – 24 Hours To Tulsa
Burt Bacharach interview – 1964 (excerpt)
Apeman – 24 Hours From Tulsa
The Five Blobs – The Blob- The Blob OST – 1958
Cal Tjader – Moneypenny – Cal Tjader Sounds Out Burt Bacharach – 1968
Cal Tjader – My Little Red Book Cal Tjader Sounds Out Burt Bacharach – 1968
The Beach Boys – Walk On By (unfinished demo) – 1968 Friends Sessions
Christopher Scott – Wives And Lovers – Switched On Bacharach – 1969
Christopher Scott – The Look Of Love – Switched on Bacharach
Burt Bacharach interview 1964 (excerpt)
Roland Kirk – Walk On By – Slightly Latin – 1966
Tom Jones – Promise Her Anything – A-TOM-C Jones – 1966
Aretha Franklin – I Say A Little Prayer For You (Dimitri From Paris Re-Edit)
The Connection – Loves Theme (Kingstoned – Soundzz) – ltd records – 1975
Rosemary Martins – Love To Love You Baby – Disco Reggae Volume 3
Jack Jones – Wives And Lovers
Burt Bacharach – Bond Street – 1967
Les 5-4-3-2-1 – Bond Street – Tribute To Burt Bacharach -1994
Frankie Goes To Hollywood – San Jose – Welcome To The Pleasure Dome – 1984
The Gentle People – Groovin With You (Intergalactic Harbour Mix)
Isaac Hayes – Walk On By
El Michels Affair – Walk On By
Bebel Gilberto – Baby
Bebel Gilberto – So Nice (Summer Samba) (Mario Caldato Jr. Remix)
Pizzicato Five – Tokyo Mon Amour (Discotheque 96 Mix feat. Kume)
Pizzicato Five – This Years Girl – Made In USA
The Latin Hustle Cosmic Discotheque returns to RTRFM’s El Ritmo for your Tuesday Night Hi Fi Journey.
With exclusive sounds from El Barrio to Moonbase Alpha.
Turn off the lights, move back the furniture, kick off your shoes, and feel the comfort in your toes that comes from shag pile carpet… For Dancers Only… selections by Claude Mono
LISTEN
RTRFM show re-stream here
HQ Mixcloud Mixtape here (just the music)
PLAYLIST
Kako and His Orchestra – Kakos Boogaloo
La Clave – Latin Side (Edit)
Tejendrix – Guataqui
Gerardo Frisina – African Nite Life
Gilles Peterson Presents- Sonzeira – Samba de Retorno
Tito Puente in El Barrio NYC – Jam En El Barrio
Eddie Palmieri – Comparsa De Los Locos
Sonzeira – Sambaio (Atjazz Astro Dub)
The LTG Exchange – Corazon
Crown Heights Affair – Galaxy Of Love
Montana – Dance Fantasy Inspired by Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Suite 4)
Leftfield – Space March
Barbarella OST – Durand Durand Dialogue
Duran Duran – Planet Earth (Night Version)
Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra – Stars and Rockets
Spiritual South – Stars and Rockets
Spiritual South – Stars (feat. Aurora Dawn Ellis – Celestial mix)
The Ogyatanaa Show Band – Disco Africa (Mono Mix)
The Ogyatanaa Show Band – Disco Africa (Quantic remix)
Gerardo Frisina – Soul Drum
Eddie Drennon The B.B.S. Unlimited – Lets Do The Latin Hustle
Charanga 76 – Ain’t No Stopping Us Now
Tito Puente & India – To Be In Love
MAW feat India – To Be In Love (Original Mix)
Rotary Connection – I Am The Black Gold of the Sun
Nuyorican Soul feat Jocelyn Brown – I Am The Black Gold of the Sun
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El Ritmo Cruzeiro Airlines presents
Sitar Funk explosions
Now Sounds from Brazil
Arthur Verocai obscurities
cosmic country
and more…
with CLAUDE MONO
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Listen to the show restream here
Listen to the HQ Mixtape here – just the music
PLAYLIST
Peter Sellers – Birdie Num Num
Paikan and The Sadhus – Ananda The Great (Instrumental)
Paikan and The Sadhus – Dance Floor Flight
Bill Plummer and the Cosmic Brotherhood – The Look Of Love
Madlib Beat Konducta – Dancing Girls Theme – In India
Usha Khanna – Hotel Incidental Music from Sitar Beat Volume 1
Chris Farlowe – Moanin (Sitar and Fuzz version)
Speedometer – Kashmir
Wolfgang Dauner Quintet – Take Off Your Clothes to Feel the Setting Sun
The Soul Surfers – Another Song Another Dub (About Love)
Bill Plummer and the Cosmic Brotherhood – Journey To The East
Jon Lucien – Listen Love
The Sunburst Band feat Wayne Hernandez – Listen Love (Dave Lee Jazz Funk Renaissance Mix)
The Sunburst Band – Listen Love (Dave Lee Flute Reboot)
Arthur Verocai – O Mapa – Arthur Verocai
Arthur Verocai – Sylvia (live at Jazz Està Morto 2019)
Arthur Verocai – Louis Vuitton MFW 2022
Far Out Monster Disco Orchestra feat Arthur Verocai – Vendetta
Gerardo Frisina – Soul Drum
Arthur Verocai – O Mapa – Arthur Verocai
Josi Dias and The Kevin Fingier Collective – Um Brilho Novo
Folk and Rovere – Fotihouse
Laurindo Almeida and Ray Brown – Brazilian Greens
Sven Wunder – Natura Morta
Glue Trip feat Arthur Verocai – Lazy Days
The Karminksy Experience – Something For Madeleine (excerpt)
Kid Loco – Cosmic Supernatural
Glen Campbell – Wichita Lineman (Grandad Steve’s mix)
Air – Ce Matin La (Slowed Version)
Junior Bonner – South by South-West
Sun Ra Door of the Cosmos
Nicola Conte and Gianluca Petrella – Inner Light Joe Claussell Sacred Rhythm Cosmic Arts Dub Version
Gerardo Frisina – Donke De
WANT MORE
Arthur Verocai collaborates with Tyler the Creator to score the Louis Vuitton Men’s Fall-Winter 2022
The Legend of Arthur Verocai
Josi Dias and The Kevin Fingier Collective – Um Brilho Novo
Soul Drum Review (Phonica)
For a prolific artist as Gerardo Frisina, almost two years without a new release from him seems like an eternity: this brand new 12″ EP entitled ‘Soul Drum’ breaks the silence, giving us three new works composed by Gerardo, made up of four recordings if we consider the two versions of the title track. This EP anticipates the full album already in the works, scheduled for release at the end of 2022. Without losing his Latin trademark, Gerardo continues his research into hypnotic and pulsating rhythmic patterns in both acoustic and electronic form, which are now a fundamental stylistic element of his. As on his previous album ‘Moving Ahead’, the rhythmic style blends naturally with echoes of tribal voices, piano keys and wind instruments (trumpet, saxophone, flute), creating the ‘Joyful Sound’ (title of the forthcoming album) that reverberates on the surface. With an artist as meticulous as Gerardo Frisina, it is to be expected that even the simplest beat has been deeply thought out.
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Claude Mono guest curates Siamese Dream
The guitar riffs will rise like steam from the wet mud of the mosh-pits of Glastonbury only to evaporate into dubbed out bass acid-squelched indie dance beats from Manchester…
LISTEN
Listen to the RTRFM show re-stream here
Listen to the HQ Mixtape – just the music here
PLAYLIST
Siamese Dream intro (Mono Edit)
The Clash – The Magnificent Seven
The Clash – The Magnificent Dance
Primal Scream – Shine Like Stars (Live intro)
Primal Scream – Shine Like Stars Eden Studio Demo
Primal Scream – Shine Like Stars (Andrew Weatherall)
The Happy Mondays – Kilamenjaro (aka ‘Rave On’) – Bummed (Deluxe)
Crispy Ambulance – Step Up – Scissorgun
Chapterhouse – Mesmerise
Chapterhouse – Pearl
My Bloody Valentine – Map Ref. 41N 93W Whore – Various Artists Play Wire
Stereolab – John Cage Bubblegum – Refried Ectoplasm Switched On Volume 2
Stereolab – Doubt (Peel Session – 30-07-91)
The Pastels – Yoga – Mobile Safari
Lush – Burnham Beeches – Blind Spot – Blind Spot EP
Stockholm Monsters – Miss Moonlight
The Telescopes – Celeste – Celeste EP
The Telescopes – Celestial – Celeste EP
The Sunflowers – Twenty Fifteen – Cherry Red C90
Ride – Seagull – Nowhere
Lush – Undertow (Spooky Remix) – Hypocrite EP
Bowery Electric – Beat – Beat
Pulp – Space (BBC Hit The North Session Soundcheck)
MORE Siamese Dream Mixtapes
Siamese Dream Mixtape Number Four here
Siamese Dream Third Excursion here
Siamese Dream Second Excursion here
Siamese Dream First Excursion here
SLEEVE NOTES
THE CLASH
“Ring, ring, it’s 7:00am move yourself to go again”
On the cover of “The Magnificent Seven” (the record) is a clock showing seven. The song’s title is about time and about work – about The Clash track The Magnificent Seven is about work – about daily life, and its class struggle but instead of sounding punk its framed by the sound of funk and the emerging hip-hop of New York, which Joe Strummer later said “changed everything for us”. Read more on The Clash’s 1981 punk rock take on the cycle of consumption and work here
PRIMAL SCREAM
“I watch you dance / You look so happy… May you always / Shine like stars.”
2021 marks 30 years since the release of Screamadelica, As well as a set or demos Primal Scream have shared a previously unreleased Andrew Weatherall remix of “Shine Like Stars.” The late, great Weatherall transforms the record’s hazy and (comparatively low-key) closing track into a stadium-ready ballad. Bold guitar riffs replace the muted tones and eerie bleeps of the original, as Weatherall packs in warmth and feeling with rich choral harmonies. Delivering characteristic chug and pizzazz like only the Guv’nor could, the lyrics on this posthumous release hit hard.
LUSH
“I’m so shy, I never speak a word till were on our own“
Crispy Ambulance: “Joy Division stumbled upon us in July 1978 at a gig we played in Manchester, and they liked our approach, even if the material was a little weak, to say the least. They dragged Rob Gretton, their new manager, down to see us some months later, and as a result we did a gig with them at The Factory club in Hulme on 13 July, around the time that Unknown Pleasures was released.”
After years of relative obscurity and against the odds, in 1999 all four original members reconvened for a one-off live show at the Band On the Wall in Manchester. Intended to mark the reissue of Fin and The Plateau Phase on CD, the weeks of intensive rehearsal prepared the ground for a fine live performance, and also an album of new material, Scissorgun which includes the track Step Up
Full biography here
THE PASTELS
“It might not last /So were gonna record everything”
Excerpt from Diffuser interview with Stephen Pastel of the Pastels (by Kenneth Partridge) full article here
Quite a few younger bands have picked up on one aspect of your music, this early jangly pop thing. If you had to give someone a starting point for the Pastels, what would it be?
“In terms of music that we make [now], in some ways, [1995’s] ‘Mobile Safari’ was important. That was when Katrina joined the group. I think that lineup, with Katrina and Annabel [Wright] and myself, that was the beginning of a lot of the things we do now, and it probably has more elements from earlier Pastels music. It’s probably closer to the 1980s independent noisy-pop thing. It’s hard to say there’s one record. Different records represent different points in the group, and not one record would represent them all. ‘Mobile Safari’ was a really important record for us to make, because we almost didn’t know if we would be able to carry on. Annabel and I split from the people in the original group, and it was just really important for us to make an album. The other records were important, too. [1987’s] ‘Up for a Bit With the Pastels’ is really important. It was different from the early singles, and it slightly took people by surprise in terms of what it was”.
THE SUNFLOWERS
While selecting tunes I discovered this great track from 1990 called Twenty Fifteen by The Sunflowers. It was comped on Cherry Red’s C90 – Well it turns out the band is pretty obscure – I did some research to confirm the obscurity which was verified at the essential and encyclopedic indie resource Cloudberry Cake Proselytism V.3 here (The Sunflowers are about half way down)
I did find the cover for the 1990 Daydream 45 on which Twenty Fifteen was the B-side. And also loved the photo of their Scottish producer Jamie Watson – he looks like an Edinburgh gangster and ran the Chamber Studio which put out some pretty crazy and legendary stuff over three decades – the studio was located in an old pool hall and Jamie played in 80s bands The Solo/Monos and The Persian Rugs.
…and here is some rare live footage – how young are they – I mean seriously
STOCKHOLM MONSTERS
From promotional flyer:
Fri Jul 8 ” Percussive popular dance music… “Factory Records recording act. Songs are carefully constructed, layer upon layer, with unnecessary indulgence left out, producing a clean full sound that’s immediately attractive. Two sets at 10pm and 11:45pm.
‘Miss Moonlight’ by Stockholm Monsters was released in 1983 on the Factory Records offshoot Factory Benelux in Belgium. A neglected part of the Factory Records scene, the Stockholm Monsters are a key link between the bristly art-funk of A Certain Ratio and the good-foot indie dance vibe of Happy Mondays and the other Manchester bands of the late ’80s. Often seen merely as New Order proteges (Peter Hook produced all but one of their records) and victims of both record company indifference and unnecessary potshots by the cynical British music press, the Stockholm Monsters deserved better treatment than they usually got.
From the biography at LTM Recordings here and even more here
In April 1982 the band supported New Order on a European tour which took in France, Belgium and Holland, followed in August by a second single (Fac 58), coupling busy pop nugget Happy Ever After with Soft Babies. Produced by Peter Hook. In September the band performed at the Futurama IV festival at Deeside, where Melody Maker praised their ‘big sound and big tunes’, though Sounds condemned the group unkindly as ‘Factory failures.’…The arrival of the Happy Mondays on the scene also hastened the demise of the Stockholm Monsters. Initially sponsored by Rob Gretton, the Mondays were an older group and had also became Tony Wilson’s blue-eyed boys, in part due to a moderately hard, streetwise image which saw them variously labelled as Scallies and Perry Boys. By 1984 Stockholm Monsters were showing real promise with Alma Mater, yet the album was indifferently received by the critics, and failed to break out commercially. The group never made it to the States and would eventually find themselves overtaken by the Mondays, who quickly became press darlings and edged the Monsters from their niche at Palatine Road. Nor did it help that a somewhat emotional John Rhodes of the band threw a punch at Tony Wilson at The Hacienda in December 1986.
BOWERY ELECTRIC
Somewhere between Post Rock, Shoegaze and Trip Hop…
Simon Reynolds’ seminal post-Rock article in the November 1995 issue of The Wire placed Bowery Electric in the forefront of “a distinctively American post-rock.” The band returned to Studio .45 to work on the second full length release with engineer Rich Costley. With the acquisition of samplers, the band’s song writing process (which had always started with the bass track and drum beats) expanded. The resulting album, Beat, featured a drummer on four out of ten tracks, with plenty of subtly sampled beats and bass tones anchoring the bottom end. Lawrence Chandler told Alternative Press that “technologically Beat is the beginning of us learning our way around a proper sampler and software which allows us to work with samples on the computer. We can sample ourselves, manipulate sounds, create our own beats and basically work with fewer restrictions.” Beat was praised by The Wire as “genre-defining”.
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Your Tuesday Night Hi Fi Journey will get a little bit…
C R A Z Y
…with a return ‘trip’ by those crazy jazz beatnik junkies ‘DJ Cheese Baker’ (John Bannister) and Claude Mono
LISTEN
Show restream here
HQ Audio Cassette MIxtape here <COMING SOON>
PLAYLIST
Intro Hey Dig That Jazz
Kai Winding and Orchestra – Comin Home Baby
The Don Rendell Ian Carr Quintet – Black Marigolds
The Karminsky Experience – Chant
Cal Tjader – Fried Bananas
Chet Baker – Tension
Gerry Mulligan Quartet – Turnstyle
Henry Mancini – Floating Pool
Harold Mc Nair – The Hipster
Jeremy Stieg – Howlin For Judy
Noro Morales & His Orchestra – The Sheik of Araby
George Shearing – Blue Moon
Steve Allen – Readings From “On The Road” & “Visions Of Cody”
Noro Morales & His Orchestra – Sweet Sue Just You
The Modern Jazz Quartet – La Ronde Suite (excerpt)
Lambert Hendrick and Ross – Twisted
Strip Goes On – Too Darn Hot
Electric Moog – Sorrow
Percy Faith – Superfly
Meco – Other Galactic Funk
Soil and Pimp Sessions – Papas Got A Brand New Pigbag
United Future Organization – Loud Minority
Chet Baker – Lover For Sale
Herb Alpert – Keep Your Eyes On Me (Extended 12 Mix)
Alessandro Alessandroni – Afro Darkness (L.U.C.A. Quirky Remix)
Gerardo Frisina – Face The Time
Harold Ousley – El Exi-Hente
Jimmy Smith – Can Heat
Tamiko Jones with Herbie Man – The Sidewinder
Jet Set Sweden – The Man From T.H.R.U.S.H
Walter Wanderley – Felicidade
Buddy Rich – The Beat Goes On
Max Sedgley – Slowly
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“There was only just enough time to quickly grab a pile of gospel records. I had no idea what I would play or in what order… but then I was guided…”
Pastor C L Mono invites you aboard The Gospel Soul Train riding the tracks to spiritual enlightenment – Put some soul in your soul
Civil Rights activist who marched alongside Jesse Jackson, preacher for Earth Wind & Fire, Stax recording artist, and high school drop out. The much sampled Pastor T. L. Barrett stuffed a dozen lives into one.
T.L. Barrett is a complicated figure. Context colors perceptions of the man. To many on Chicago’s South Side, Barrett has been known for more than four decades as an activist and pastor, an influential figure in the city’s black community, and an active participant in numerous projects and initiatives intended to improve social and economic conditions on the South Side. To record collectors, he’s known for recording the classic, much-sought gospel record Like A Ship…(Without A Sail). To the Illinois legal system he is known for some darker commercial activities.
For outsider gospel visionary and Detroit native Otis G. Johnson, the Holy Ghost was in the machine…in this case a rhythm-equipped Hammond organ. Everything – God Is Love 78, a singular 1978 mid-fi document, features android percussion against chords of Otis’s own invention, possessed by minor tonality and frequent bum notes. Lifting it further are extemporaneous vocal homilies to the rapture, love, and everything, plus occasional “other” voicings that scratch at the periphery of the mix. Homespun gospel rarely entered this dirge-like, intuitive space, nor did it commonly achieve such a spectral and captivating hymn to its darkest conventions.
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Dave Hole Live at Courtyard Club – Blues Guitar Sinner outro
Voices of Conquest – O Yes My Lord
Andrew Watts And The Gospel Storytellers – There Is A God Somewhere – There Is A God Somewhere
Masonic Wonders – I Call Him – Good God! A Gospel Funk Hymnal
Sam Taylor – Heaven On Their Minds – The Soul Of Jesus Christ Superstar
The Sensational Saints – How Great Thou Art – You Wont Believe It
The Boss-tet – Wade In the Water – Charlie Chisholm Presents The Boss-Tet Live At The Lee Cultural Center
Detroit Cumberland Rivers – Im Going Home -he Gospel Soul Of Detroit – Sanctified Sounds From The Motor City
The Relatives – Rap-On – Don’t Let Me Fall
The Jehrico Travellers – Mother Is Gone – 45
David Lee Jones Trio – Walk With Me – Praise Poems Volume 5
Dynamic Disciples – Satan – 45
The Loving Sisters – Save The Word – The Sisters and Their Sons
Andrew Watts And The Gospel Storytellers – Can You Say Yeah – There Is A God Somewhere
Abraham Battat – Listen Baby – Praise Poems Volume 3
The East St. Louis Gospelettes – Have Mercy On Me – Love Is The Key
Isaac Hayes and Dionne Warwick – I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself / Walk On By – A Man and A Woman
Kim Weston – Eleanor Rigby – Soul Gospel
Gospel Echoes – God Is Real – Good God! Born Again Funk
Victory Travelers – Power Lord
The Rotary Connection – Amen – The Rotary Connection
Ada Richards – I’m Drunk And Real High (In The Spirit Of God) – Good God! Born Again Funk
In Memory of Stella Burke – Already Been In The Water – Gospel Funk
Kay Robinson – The Lord Will Make A Way Somehow
Willie Wright – Right On For The Darkness
Otis G Johnson – Walk With Jesus – Everything God Is Love 78
Esther Marrow – When I Die – Sister Woman /
The Staple Singers – Trippin On Your Love – This Time Around
Pastor T. L. Barrett And The Youth For Christ Choir – Like A Ship… (Without A Sail)
Celebrate the June Long Weekend with the Return of THE TWO GUYS WHO LOVE TO BOOGALOO – Microgroove and Claude Mono on SOULSIDES 7pm RTRFM 92.1 …the (long weekend) starts here…
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>> MICROGROOVE presents
Bill Doggett – Soul City /
Don Covay and the Goodtimers – Mercy Mercy /
Lee Dorsey – Give It Up /
Doris Duke – I Cant Do Without You /
Leon Haywood – Its Got To Be Mellow /
Eddie Holman – I Love You /
Bill Doggett – Monkey /
Jimmy Hughes – There is Something On Your Mind /
George Jackson – Double Loving /
Ty Karim – You Dont Know /
James Carr – Gonna Send You Back To Georgia /
Bill Doggett – Hot Fudge /
>> CLAUDE MONO presents
Soft Soul Transition – Soft Soul Transition /
Al Kooper – I Cant Keep From Crying Sometimes /
The Fifth Dimension – Dontcha Hear Me Callin To Ya /
Hank Hodge – One Way Love /
Lou Pride – Im Comun Home in the Mornun /
John Irving and Just Us – I Have This World and Just Us /
Roy Roberts – Got To Have All Your Love /
>> MICROGROOVE presents .
Smokey Johnson – Did You Heard What I Saw /
The Unemployed – They Wont Let Me /
Clarence Reid – Masterpiece /
Lee Moses – Time and Place /
Wendell Harrison – Farewell to The Welfare /
The Black Aces of Soul and the Eyes of Ebony – Lets Get Down /
Cool Sounds – Where Do We Go From Here /
Freddie Love – Everybodys Doin It /
Paul Weller – Testify /
>> CLAUDE MONO presents
Mary Lewis with All College Choir State University – What a Friend /
Elsie Strong – This is the Last Time /
Fred – Sweet Thing /
David Coleman with Hector Rivera And His Orchestra – Drown My Heart /
Cajun Hart – Got to Find A Way /
George and the Highlanders – The Hawk /
Mickey and the Soul Generation – Iron Leg