Kepler's Supernova (1604) in the constellation of Ophiuchus

Clocks, Music of the Spheres, Harmony of the universe, Kepler, Dr Dee, Einstein, Philip Glass, Shrigley's StrangeFruit, Supernovas and bad record release dates all in this ambient episode of Radio Clash - from 90's electronica to modern hypnagogic, spoken word to dub re-edits, to modern classical and folktronica. It's hopefully several light years from 'New Age'...but it is as chilled as a black dwarf.

Big thanks go out to Music for Maniacs blog for several of the tracks.

Set Sail for the Roundabout at Barnard's Star...

We continue the journey through space loving the gay alien with the second part of the  Space Disco 3 show, this is mostly not space disco at all - hence the title - but a continuation of the journey from space disco to electro, funk and chicago house, featuring re-edits and remixes, as well as a lot of 80's classics. I think this mix works really well, and is one of my best in a long time!

Dedicated to those we've lost: Ron Hardy (DJ at the Muzic Box, first person to play acid house), Sylvester (the Black Angel), Patrick Cowley (synth pioneer) and Arthur Russell (future jazz/funk/disco alien).

Big kisses and thanks Thomas for help providing some of the tracks.

The Third Agender

First part of a new Space Disco show - but rather than the previous shows mostly covering the prime of late 70s Italo Disco and Space Disco, this goes into what happened next, aka Close Encounter of The Third Gender - Where No Man Has Gone Before Without A Whistle And a Glow Stick (And Some Poppers). Aliens, orgies, polysexual, glamorous, dramatic, synthetic, futuristic, camp, dayglow and pumping, what's not to like?

So it's disco, space disco, hi-nrg, electro, experimental funk hybrids into Chicago House - what kept the space beats (and space beast) alive into the 1980s. The first part covers mostly the disco and Hi-NRG era, with occasional forays into very early house music...

Both shows are dedicated to those we've lost: Ron Hardy (DJ at the Muzic Box, first person to play acid house), Sylvester (the Black Angel), Patrick Cowley (synth pioneer) and Arthur Russell (future jazz/funk/disco alien). 

P.S. It was Giorgio Moroder's birthday yesterday - happy birthday Giorgio!

Zeus In A Tight T-Shirt GoGoing With Ganymede, Dionysus in the Darkroom...

Tracklist at the website or in the comments of the MP3, or on an iPod the Lyrics field (press your centre button 4 times).

A really long show since I've not done one for a while, and a quite a ranty/angry/noisy one putting the world to wrong.

Photo is one I took near Staines, as part of my recent riverwalks which I've started for the year (well did until it started raining!) glitched around by me.

Genocide & Juice on the Rocks please 

I started the Pop Is Dead mix back in 2004 or 2005 - yes 7 or 8 years in the making! Finally got round to doing it, and I've collected so many songs about the music industry that I decided to do a series of shows about the State of the Music Industry - starting with my favourite subject: radio and especially the dumbing down and computerised playlists of music stations. Starting with the commercial and local stations in the 70's and 80's was  the rise of the playlist and the DJ not having track selection choice.

Now in the digital age we have the same repetitive stale format being copied endlessly by corporate megaliths and the music being as disposable as the products advertised between the songs, safe 'classics' and golden oldies, inane chatter and local radio blether.

And sadly it's spread to the non-commercial BBC stations so Radio 1, 2 et al are also playlist/genre crazy and ruled by producers and committee. The last of the truly freeform DJs are being sacked, have died or are on digital stations or relegated to very late night on public broadcasters who have to have the odd token cred DJ - John Peel would spin in his grave. And sadly the music industry is complicit - feeding lazy X-Factor slush and corporate blandie to these playlists. Radio 1 originally and 1Xtra now might exist to provide an alternative to the pirates, but really it mostly doesn't cut it.

So here's an audio fight back against the playlist and dumb music radio programming (this is why the podcast is called Radio Clash - did you guess?)

The One And Only One for You...

Tracklist at the website or in the comments of the MP3, or on an iPod the Lyrics field (press your centre button 4 times).

Second part of the KLF story (part one is here) where we meet Bill Drummond strumming techno on a acoustic guitar, Jimmy Cauty goes into Space 1985, dogs rowing boats, abandon all art now, The fake (?) FoLKies, What Time Is 9/11 , remote scottish island rituals, german lounge punks, Royal Fail, David Starkey Ragga MC, guerilla radio stations and dead sheep.

This is Radio Freedom, Mine's a 99%!

3 weddings, 2 DJ gigs (I’m kinda of a DJ!) and one New Order gig…that was 2011. Hopefully 2012 will be quieter/busier (delete as applicable). And hopefully I don’t turn into the Shit Bears Say skit…already invented cubstep and dumbstep so far…Amazeballs! 

Various covers of New Order, I talk about The Artist, Canterbury Group and early 90′s Welsh pop, the aforementioned wedding, the New Order gig at the Troxy (GILLIAN WE LOVE U!), play an uptempo mix, some Star Wars rave and at least one track that is the Anti-Wedding! 

Dubstep is the SHIT!!!! Wuwubuwub…

Tracklist at the website or in the comments of the MP3, or on an iPod the Lyrics field (press your centre button 4 times).

For a season I either hate or feel meh humbug about, I don't half do a lot of CDs/shows/mixes about it! Here's the Xmas episode of Radio Clash, where I rant about shitty dubstep, play Jingle Bells on a saw, have a totally Punk Rock Christmas, meet some rather scarily friendly Cuddly Daleks (tm), play some silly mashups (yay!), go through a few of my favourite songs of 2011, and spend ages trying to think up a witty title and completely failing.

I Bet I'm Now On The Naughty List

Tracklist at the website or in the comments of the MP3, or on an iPod the Lyrics field (press your centre button 4 times).

I've been so busy I know I've skipped at least one months worth of podcasts - here's one I recorded earlier in the year and it's been sitting since October waiting to be edited! All those weddings and birthdays and revolutions just got in the way! But I'm working on a Xmas edition, as well as a special Wedding edition which should be out much sooner now it's gotten quiet.

It's little secret that Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, usually known as The KLF and Justified Ancients of Mu Mu are a major influence on mashup, dance and pop culture - and myself personally. Even the intro to Radio Clash contains sneaky KLF elements!

Some KLF rarities and decent quality versions of KLF/JAMs tunes appeared earlier in the year via the excellent KLF.de and this podcast literally would not exist without their help and people's patient mastering and ripping and eBay scouring - big thanks! Since their 'retirement' in 1992 KLF has entered into lore (and a lot of their creations into obscurity/rarity) but I was there from Doctorin the Tardis and later the second version of What Time Is Love buying the singles each of the Stadium House trilogy on day or week of release - I still have the 7"s!

But before that their 1987 album and sailing in hot (Swedish?) waters with ABBA and sample clearance (or more importantly lack of it) Their hiphop splatter samplepunk early records is what we focus on here in part one - the early days upto the Pure Trance singles, a car making a hit record, The Manual, and the first White Room film, as a broke KLF despair of bankruptcy and a little known track called What Time Is Love takes off in the clubs...

It's Good to Go, Yo!

Tracklist at the website or in the comments of the MP3, or on an iPod the Lyrics field (press your centre button 4 times).

I've been meaning to do a new Dark Electro / Disco Noir mix since I did the last one 3 years ago (was it really that long?).

As I've gotten more into dubstep, psych garage and surf oddities this is also now reflected in this late edition of Disco Noir 2 - it also has rock, dubstep, doowop, dnb, mashups (including a few from the excellent new Texas Chainsaw Mashacre album), and of course dark and cheesy disco and electro.

So I hope you enjoy this dark journey under the light of the moon, with the cry of the wolf, cat, cackling witch and, err, weird synthetic comic ghost noise. oooOOOoOOOOoo! And watch out for scary background noises BEHIND YOU - they creeped into the mix when I wasn't looking.

How Can Shadows be Grimey?