As you hopefully know, I generally try to keep things in this series upbeat. But with all that has happened recently, I've found that pretty difficult.
Take this week's mix for example: I first put this one together when I finally got home from Joe's funeral a couple of weeks ago. As a result, this first few tunes on it are...melancholic I think is the best way to describe them. Beautiful, but melancholic. (Trust me, it was almost a lot bleaker: the first draft, recorded in the wee small hours of Saturday morning, also had Nick Cave and Leonard Cohen in it too. I listened back to it and decided: too bleak.)
In fact, here's a fun game: see if you can spot the precise moment when preparing this mix that I decided that I needed to liven things up a bit.
Actually, this is the third time I've had a go; I'm writing this paragraph at 19:25 on Friday evening, having listened to the second attempt, decided one song didn't quite fit (so swapped it for a different one by the same artist) and two songs which were clearly the wrong way round. And because I've redone it so late in the day, I suspect some of the mixing may be a little shonky, so apologies if that turns out to be the case.
The result? Well, if you're intrigues to see how I get from Tom Waits to Faithless in an hour, give this one a listen. But suffice it to say, it's not one for your average indie purist.
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Friday Night Music Club Vol 48
No time for sleeve notes (again) this week; I can't really go into the reasons that I'm so short of time at the moment, but I should be in a position to reveal all (and hopefully rectify it) in the next week or so...
Anyhoo, a quick scan through this list and you'll realise that at least one of these tunes merits one of these:
- Tom Waits - I Hope That I Don't Fall in Love With You
- 10,000 Maniacs - Verdi Cries
- The Weather Prophets - Like Frankie Lymon
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Zephyr Song
- Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse - Little Girl (Ft. Julian Casablancas)
- Inspiral Carpets - Caravan
- Danny Tenaglia + Celeda - Music Is The Answer
- Moloko - Sing It Back (Mousse T's Feel Love Mix) (Edit)
- Fatboy Slim - Star 69 (Ronario Remix)
- Duck Sauce - aNYway (DJ DLG Remix)
- Leftfield - Song Of Life
- Faithless - God Is A DJ
And that's your lot for another week. Same time next Friday? (More soon.)
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