RC 376: Hinterland / Epic 2023?

Hello, Welcome to Radio Clash, this is 376
and it’s Hinterland, or Epic 2023
Question mark? Will it be epic?
Welcome to Ready Clash 376
And it’s Hinterland
Because this is recorded in the Hinterland
The Christmas Hinterland as we call it around here
You know that weird time between Christmas and New Year
And also Epic 2023
Question mark
Because I have a theory that the music in 2023
And currently now is becoming less of that
Lockdown, acoustic and more epic
More bigger, more maximalist, more widescreen
More throwing the kitchen sink and everything
Well that’s just my theory, I think it’s going to get more epic
But the question is whether 2023 itself has become epic
Hmm, probably not
And you just heard I Fought the Law
Mikkim vs The Clash
And of course it’s not dated, but I think it’s from a few years ago
Mikkim is an Eastern European producer
He’s produced quite a few of dub drum and bass
Remixes especially around The Clash
Then before that we had from The Kunts
With their Christmas single this year
That’s Fuck the Tories
And that’s the Mr B, the Gentleman Rhymer remix
I didn’t really think I’d support them
Although I found it funny how they managed to
Piss off the sausage roll grifter that is Lad Baby
And quite right too
Although I think The Cunts are grifting to some extent
I think Lad Baby is much worse example
But I like that version by Mr B going all jungle
And I agree with the sentiment obviously
And then before the wonderful jingle from Cecille DeMilla
The new one that was a Rat Race by the Specials
From BBC concert live at the Paris Theatre
15th of December, 1979
And obviously included that because of the sad death of Terry Hall
And also we just had the 20th anniversary of
The death of Joe Strummer
Who died 23rd of December
I remember that, that was similar feeling to
How I feel about Terry Hall
Of Specials, FUNBOY 3
And many other things, kind of field
And you will hear some Terry Hall
And some more Joe Strummer and The Clash
Later on in the podcast
It’s a very dubby, punky, drum and bassy
Some electronica, something with the new Ceephax
And the new Daniel Avery albums
The Ceephax one just recently dropped
I’ve featured it on the blog RadioClash.com
If you don’t know, I’m sure you do know
Because you downloaded this
But you never know where people get to hear this
But yeah, from RadioClash.com
You can feature the Ceephax album
And the Daniel Avery album is brilliant as well
We’ll talk about that later
But we’re going to start with some more
More Clash related shizzle
RadioClash, I mean seriously, I mean
It’s part of the MO
That’s where we stole the name from
So this is from DJ Feva’s
Lockdown EP
During lockdown he created a bunch of
Lockdown related dub tracks
This one was less lockdown related
Probably is why I didn’t play it
But this is Gun Clash Brixton
The Clash Guns of Brixton
By DJ Feva
That was Dubxanne
With Spirits in a Material World
Spirits in a Dub World
Featuring Benjamin Zephaniah
I like BBenjamin Zephaniah but
Dubbing up police tracks
Oh that’s not the one I heard
Maybe it was but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t
Informously, a long long time ago
On this podcast we did a podcast
Probably the first ever podcast in the world
On psychedelic mushrooms
And just before they became illegal
In the UK
We thought we heard the best
Or I thought I heard the best
Police dub album ever
And I think it was just audio hallucinations
It certainly didn’t sound like that
It sounded like King Tubby
Or Lee Scratch Perry remixing the police
It was like wow
And I think it was just an audio hallucination
Because everything was looping around
In my head
Even the birds and everything was just looping around
Because it was like an in echo chamber
So it was the best dub album ever
And it was in my head, annoyingly
I’ve always wanted to do a dub section
And it just seemed appropriate
Because of the death of Terry Hall
And the 20th anniversary
Of Dub and Reggae and Ska
Just seemed to be appropriate
To drop loads of tracks relating to that
Before there was Funboy 3
With More I See The Less I Believe
From their album Waiting
From 1983
From Police and Dub
So I actually couldn’t have been that
It couldn’t have been that album
Maybe it was a pre-release, I don’t know
It’s such a shame that that Funboy 3 track
Is out of date
Is out nation divided
And terrorism
And all those things
It’s such a relic of the times
Things have changed
And it’s nothing like that at all
Ahem
Yes
Then before that we had Dubxanne
With Message in a Bottle
Message in a Dub
Featuring Earl 16
I love Earl 16
I’ve played tracks
I think with Mikkim again
From Earl 16
And I couldn’t decide which one to put in
So I put in both
And usually one gets dropped
I was like no
I really think the
Spiritual
Anti-Materialism
Your You
Message is perfect for
A New Year show
And also
There’s the line in
Message in a Bottle
About another year has passed
And then
Bottles
Arriving at my shore
And that kind of sums up
Kind of where I’m at at the moment
Talking about my experiences
And a few things online
The idea that
Not everyone’s experience is unique
But also
Depressingly common
And that also seems to work
Very well with a
A New Year idea
So, you know
And then before that
We had Dubmones
Featuring Sebastian Sturm
That’s Pinhead
That’s from
The King-sized Dub
25
Convolution
That’s from this year
I don’t know, is that a cover?
Is that a cover mashup?
A mash cover?
A cash-up
A mother
Of Pinhead
By the Ramones
I love how they dropped in bits of the Ramones
And it’s also mixed in
And with the radio sounds at the start
And then at the start of the section
We had DJ Feva
Spell FEVA
I think you can still find that online
For downloads still available
Very well worth checking out
For 2020
That’s
That’s Gun Clash Brixton
I’ve rinsed several tracks from that EP
Back in 2020
As it seemed to sum up the
Times
So I’m sure some of it
Has probably hasn’t dated very well
Because it’s talking about
Johnson and Gove
Hopefully
Hopefully those are in the past
Who knows what’s going to happen
Fuck the Tories
Fuck, fuck the Tories
Et cetera
And again
It’s a shame those things are in the past
It’s a shame things have changed
Things have got so much better
In the last two years
Yeah, so hopefully
2020-23 is epic
In Capitals
I have no doubts
But anyway
What is epic
Is the new album
I would say epic in a very quiet way
A new album from Ceephax
And it’s called
Baddow Moods
And he released it
I think it’s Christmas Day
Yeah, it was Christmas Day
He released it
And very much
I hate to use the phrase
Return to Form
Because there isn’t really a form
With Ceephax
Ceephax just does what Ceephax does
It’s all acid
Old machined
Kind of nostalgia
But kind of Ceephax
It’s just what Ceephax does
To say it’s acid
Is not really
It’s sort of acid
Ambient
Unlike his brother
Square push
It doesn’t go all
Base workouts
At sort of 170 BPM
No
But a variety of things
And there’s some really nice
Sort of chill track on this
Surprisingly
Piano tracks
And something a little bit
Even a little bit
Happy hardcore
A little bit
Even
Which is surprising
By the next track
He hasn’t exactly gone
Hands on the air
Whistle
And that’s the stuff
That’s the Ceephax
But yeah
I would really
Would recommend checking
Ceephax
That’s spelled C-E-E-P-H-A-X
If you don’t know
And it’s available
On Bandcamp
And this is Strat
Storm Mix
by Ceephax
That was DJ Useo
With
Girls Just Want to Tear Us Apart
Cindi Lauper vs Joy Division
And I hope
You got my
Feeling about the whole
Epic
That was the right
Epic mix in places
What I mean by that
The whole frequency range
The whole orchestral
Big
Sounds big
Not necessarily
Orchestral
But you know
Electronic
And very much in that vein
We have
Daniel Avery
From
Ultra Truth
The Latest Album
And that’s
KS Energy
Featuring
HAAi
H-A-A-I
And Kelly Lee Owens
Both
Or three
Are not
Strangest this podcast
It just sounds like
A massive breakbeat
Drum and bass rave
In the next room
A booming echoey room
But just
Invelopes you
Before that
We had
Cobrah
With an H
With brand new bitch
2022 as well
I heard that via
Iggy Pop
On 6Music
Actually
Just playing some Cobrah
Working with
Coucou Chloe
Chloe
Cuckou?
Cuckoo?
French producer
Bunshiin
I really like
Tranen
Again from
I was
Come down
On the drum and bass section
Degs
We’re still messed up
We love Degs
Another recent track
A single from
2022
4AM Kru
Are always welcome
On this podcast
4AM
Mark 3
Golden Boy
That’s them
Remixing
Elf Kid
With bits
Of
Reggae
Diggy
Hey Dougie Rascal
Yeah that’s
That’s a good mashup
Hey Dougie
Means
Dizzy Rascal
That needs to be done
I wouldn’t play
Probably
Because of
Revenge
Fairly recently
Yeah I don’t really like
People that
Beat up their partner
Yeah
Not good
But that’s
Got a little bit of that
Jamaican
Dancehall
I can’t remember the name
That
I’m thinking
Weedy G
That’s sampled in there
It’s very mashup like
A Golden Boy track
Then before that
We had a remix
Of the
Lily Allen’s Smile
By Mr. Trick
And Dizzy Gillespie
Swing and Bass
Compilations
They both have done
Fair amount of those
And going back to that
Danny Bird
Post
I then went through a lot of
I was like
Oh yeah 5
Sorry Mr. Trick
Oh Dizzy Gillespie
So I kind of went through
Their soundclouds
I stalked their soundclouds
You know
For all the
Freebies
And stuff
Which they can’t release
Properly
But I usually download
For free
So that’s how
I heard that
I think that’s
Probably how I heard
The new
Like I said
New
It was back from
March
It’s new for me
March 2022
That’s the new
In quotes
Remix
Gold Dust
Because it’s 10 years
Oh my God
Don’t you feel old
DJ Fresh’s
Gold Dust was released
10 years ago
7 years ago
That’s the next March
Fox Stevenson
Of that
And there was a big
EP
With about
I think
7 or 10
Remixes on it
That’s my favourite
Because
It just goes large
It goes large
In a very big fashion
Fashion
DJ Fresh’s Gold Dust
You’ve probably heard it
In a remix
Or an advert
Or whatever
It just became
Omnipresent
It was one of those releases
Which
Unlike
Say
Shirefx
Or
Andy C
Doesn’t really have
The same profile
That’s what to me
Brought him to my attention
I think is it him
Apologies for isn’t
We had another track
Or that’s from
The higher single
That’s higher
Vocal version
Because actually on the album
Sherelle’s vocal
Is on the previous track
I had to write a version
But it’s mixed in
Because I couldn’t be bothered
To go and edit it myself
And
And I think
I’m not sure
What she’s speaking about
But I suspect
She’s talking about
Queer spaces
Generally queer spaces
And raves how
They are special spaces
They are a church
The dance floor is a church
It’s a ritual space
I think house planiers
Came from gospel
And yeah
There’s a whole
Thing there
But
Certainly the dance floor
Has a queer
Ritual aspects
It is
Our coming together space
It is our
Ritual space
It’s an expression
Of our culture
It’s been there
For a very long time
60 70 plus years
And probably more
If you go back
Into the shamanic stuff
And all that things
And so many queer
People are shamans
It goes back
Even thousands of years
If you
Recent times
56 years
It is a very key part
Of a culture
Having that space
But it is
Hemmed in
By everything around it
So it is that
Area where
You can be yourself
Or you know
For other people
To guess themselves
And be themselves
But as soon as you leave
That dance floor
It becomes
Something else
You have to go back
Into the normal world
I don’t know if that’s
What it was about
But that’s what it got
From that
That vocal snippet
That was why it’s important
For me
What a mind
Instamatic with
Bush of Ghosts
That’s a deal
With the devil
That’s Kate Bush
Versus Ghost
That’s again
I think more
And more
Instamatic tracks
Leaking in
And more of the TBC stuff
The more serious side
Is leaking into them
There aren’t that many
Ghost mashups
And that was done
For one of the
Challenges
The Crumplbanger
Challenge
Which was
Mashed
Something that’s under-mashed
And there aren’t
That many Ghost mashups
I’ve done one
Titus Jones has done one
There might be a few more
But not many
Which is weird
Because Ghost
Are
Piggering
Amazing
I don’t know why
But yes
There is a darkness
And art
Track
Much more epic
And that was
What Adriana said
When she played it
And it was like
Yes, exactly
And that’s why I came up
With the
2023
Is the epic thing
Because I’ve noticed
That trend
Of making things
That were
Epic even more epic
That will be
Continue into
I might be wrong
But that’s why
I just have a feeling
Occasionally I have these
Little
And I’m not usually wrong
I have these
Things
It feels about right
It’s like
Three years after the
Pandemic
I think it’s
It’s going to be a time
When people will be like
Obviously circumstances
Allowing
It’s now time
To let everyone’s hair down
Or go
Just super wide screen
Glitz
Glam
I can see that happening
In a similar
Very epic frame
Hallmighty with
Set fire to
Blue Monday
You shouldn’t do that
Don’t set fly to
Unless you’re throwing it
It’s
Adele
Versus
New Order
Sebastian
Boom
And that’s from
No pressure
A collection of
New Order mashups
Which Hallmighty
Released
A month or two ago
A couple of months now
And yes
Again
mashupchuck
And that’s something
It’s been
In the stack for a while
It was more epic than
Sort of
Dua Lipa disco
Dio
Nothing really
Sort of big
Versus big
Big hair
Versus big beats
Bigish beats
I’ve been liking
mashupchucks work
Throughout 2022
And hopefully
We’ll continue to
Hear more good stuff
From them
In 2023
Then we had
Cookiee
Kawaii
2021’s
Van Ice
That’s Haters Anonymous
You might have heard
A theme there
I mean that
In a weird way
Inspired
A mashup
I’m going to play
Right at the end
Though
Doesn’t involve
Cookie Kauai
But there is a similar
Theme through a different artist
I love how it’s like
Haters get online
Do your thing
Don’t rake her
We had a mashup
Which I’m surprised
I’ve not played before
Bobby Martini
Too busy thinking about
The Magnificent 7
The Clash
Versus Marvin Gay
And it’s
This one’s for Joe
Compilation
I did in
Which was the 5th anniversary
Of Joe Strummer’s death
That is still out there
It was MutantPop.net
Slash
Strummer Remix
Punk Rock Warlord
This is a subtitle of it
It was all mashups
From people that Dunproofin’
Useo
Me
Juxtaposeur
Marty Batfreak
Ian Fondue
World Famous Audio Hacker
And a lot of people
Did stuff like that
And I think that worked
Really well
Other compilations
Later on
I thought
Oh, we were Mac
And that was a nightmare
But actually
That one wasn’t too bad
Yeah, it’s weird to think
15 years later
Now it’s the 20th
Anniversary of the death
Of Joe Strummer
I was listening to it
And I was still stunned
By it
And you might hear
Another one of the mashups
Which at the time
I played about
5 or 6 of them
And then I didn’t play
The rest
Because I was like
Don’t want to
Bother people
With all this
There was a mix
From the new album
I don’t know
Moods
That’s Struct
I like the sort of
Upbeat
But chilled nature of it
It is very
I know I said
Happy Hardcore
It’s not really
The piano
And things like that
And the way
It’s sort of mournful
But there is a sort of
A piano house
It’s a piano house
The Ceephax gets
So we’re going to play
A track
We’re going to get a bit more
Downbeat now
Reaching towards the end
Of the podcast
I hope not
It was originally
About 2.7 hours
3 hours
And I whittled it down
But there’s always
As always
A massive struggle
To get everything down
This is by
Universe Sound System
USS
The air track
In this
But I definitely know
The Doors
This is Doors versus air
Riders of love
That was
Stronger
By Sault
From one of four
New albums
Well, new
They were dropped in November
That’s from Earth
There was also
Eleven
A bit like
Well, Ed Sheeran
Does symbols and they
They do numbers
And so
There was like
Nine and there was eleven
But I forget the name
Of the other two albums
If you like Sault
If you like Sault’s work
You really, really
Really need to get over
To their Bandcamp
And check them out
There is a lot of listening to do
I’m not like all of them
I mean some of them
Are very gospel
Like
Very Jesus based
Which is not
Really so popular for me
It’s always worth listening
To what they do
They’re brilliant
And no one knows who they are
Apart from the singers
The singers who work with them
I’m not sure if the singers are
Part of them
Little Sims is always
Heavily connected with
Sault
But I suspect the people behind
The people doing the music
They stay
Out of the media
And they’re a collective
In London
I love them for that
They just like
Well, we just put on music
We don’t do videos
And we don’t know interviews
You take it on
What’s out there
And I think it’s worked
Very well for them
Belize featuring
MF Doom
That’s Danger Mouse
And Black Thought
2022’s
Cheat Codes
A brilliant album
One of my favourites
Of 2022
Heard it
Typical
But that’s actually
Been
Supposed to have been
In a couple of the podcasts
I could never refit it
In anywhere
It’s one of those tracks
I love the sample
That is
Federal Duck
Piece on my mind
It’s a
Very rare
Not very well known
Psychedelic
Rock record
From 1968
I just love the mood of that
And I’m playing that
In part
The fact that
Obama
President
But that
In his end of year
List of his favourite tunes
And he was in power
When he refused to
Allow
In his country
Although he’s born in London
His parents settled
From the age of
Well his age of
About one
Into
America
But unfortunately
They never got him
Proper
Status
So like a lot of the dreamers
He never got status
So
He didn’t realise that
And then it wasn’t until later
Life
He realised
He had trouble getting back in
He got back in
And he went out for another
Tour
He just refused to get
Let him back in
And that was it
Until he died
From the United States
The fucking cheek
Was a man who
Led the immigration policy
Which was worse
Than previous presidents
So for all of his
Talk
His actions were
An extra 2.5 million people
Were denied entrance
To the United States
So screw him
How dare he use the music
Of the people
He refused to
Allow back into their
Homeland
The place they grew up
Ceephax with
Roddy
That’s a
Wonderful track
Very
A synth wave
I love the
What seems to be synthetic
Rumbles of thunder
And it seems to
All been generated
And that has
Has its own
Feeling in itself
Synthetic thunder
I like that
Of course I had to go
Universal Sound System
And Riders of Love
Riders on the Storm
Yeah, I’m not
For anything
Predictable
My mixing sometimes
And the Doors
Versus Air
I assume that the love part
Is the air track
And is that
A recent Air track?
I thought I’d heard
All the Air tracks
And I was like
I don’t recognise that
So I said I had a track
The punk rock
Warlord
Mashup
Compilation I did
I’m really
Surprised I did
Not play this
This is
One of my favourite
Mashups I’ve ever done
And it’s pre
MVSep
It’s pre
AI separations
Any acapellas
Available for
We did the whole album
By then the
Clash
Rock band stems
Hadn’t leaked
So we had to do it
like London Booted
Had to be done
Just with what you could
Create or
Extract
And the same here
So I could do this
A lot better now
But this is
Willesden Blue
The Orb
Mescaleros
That’s Joe Strummer
And the Mescaleros
Which was his
One of his
Later bands
After
The Clash broke up
Bonzo Dog Band
And this is
Got a personal track
I used to live in
Willesden Green
So he was talking
About the areas
Near me
The Mescaleros track
Is called
From Willesden to Cricklewood
I knew both those places
Very well
And then I managed to
Find a
Bonzo Dog track
Which has
A weird interview
It’s Shirts
A bit of
street
Just accosting
Random people
In Willesden
Blue room
It’s quite
Dubby
BB Seaton
A reggae artist
That I
Randomly came across
When I was looking for
Covers of
Reggae covers of
Sweet Caroline
As you do
And that is
Well, it’s from a compilation
But it’s from
Mid-70s
I feel lost by
And it’s one of those tracks
Where you hear it
And you go
Oh, that must be a cover
That’s so brilliant
Why have I not heard this song before
And you look and you find out
It is actually an original
And it’s a lost
A lost reggae
Classic, I would say
The Specials with
Friday night
Saturday morning
On the B side
Of Ghost Town
1981
To me, I think that’s
What
The third Specials album
Which never happened
Which then became Specials
A.K.A.
Not with
The other three
The Funboy 3
I feel that’s
A hint of what it could have been like
It’s a bit sad to listen to
Because it’s a true
Brilliant song
Written by Terry Hall
And it’s sad when I saw them
They were brilliant
Jerry Dammers wasn’t involved with that
So I’ve never got to see the Specials
As they were
Back then
But still a brilliant song
And I was listening to
The Nouvelle Vague version
They did a cover version
With Terry Hall
That’s when
Nouvelle Vague
Became
A bit too much
Like a weird covers band
It wasn’t as good
As the original
Other punk links
Holly Cook
The daughter
Paul Cook
And Happy Hour
That’s from the latest album
Of the same name
Came out in June
That’s one of the tracks
I wanted to put in
And it sort of
Been put in
To get out
This has become
A sort of a best of
Podcast
I wasn’t intended to be
There’s a lot of
Things that
Other podcasts
That didn’t fit into that
For instance
I wanted to put them
Into the Christmas podcast
But then I wanted
To put some shit in there
And it’s sort of
I didn’t want to
You feel you have to
One of these days
Is going to be a Christmas
Ride Don’t Do A
That’ll be wonderful
BB Seaton in again
With a cover of
The classic
Thin Line Between
Love and Hate
The mid-70s
And at the start
Of the section
Instamatic
Ever since the challenge
Which is
Last week’s challenge
Undermashed on Mashed
I’ve been finding things
That have been
Undermashed
And one of them
Is Bonzo Dog Band
And the orb is another
The orb
Mashed things
But they very
Rarely
Mashed themselves
Outside of
Little fluffy clouds
Anyway
Is similar
If I can’t think of any
I can’t imagine
When I suspect
They’re probably all
Urban Spaceman
Not my favourite
Bonzo Dog track ever
So over each
The end of the podcast
I’m losing my voice
And that’s always a good ending
Tim loses his voice
I’m not even on the red wine either
It’s just
Too much talking
Just too much
And I hope you have a good new year
I need to panic when I post this
I don’t need to post this
Before the new year
Or shortly afterwards
But I hope you had one
Or we’ll have one
A time traveller’s
10th done, I’m written a
But I hope you had a good one
Or we’ll have a good one
And I’ll see you in 2023
When we’ve got out
Of this hinterland
This strange hinterland
I’m going to play out with a
Another mashup of mine
Yeah, it’s a whole mashup of some mine
There’s only three
Or is there four?
There’s three
This podcast
Weird, I tend to
Sort of do one per alias
But this one I’ll allow myself
Especially as
I have to say
The Instamatic track
Was really a TBC track
The Willesden Blue
That’s not really an
Instamatic track
And the Bush of Ghosts one
Is not really an
Instamatic track either
But this is TBC
aka Instamatic
With Only Living Boy in Jamaica
And this is my year
Ending track
Anyways, this is very appropriate
To actually end the podcast
The last podcast of 2022
And fuck you 2022
I look forward to 2023
But I say that every year
This is Boy Who We Be
That’s Tanya Stephens
Versus Simon and Garfunkel
And I’ve been obsessed by
Living Boy in New York
Partly because
Well, I am a Simon and Garfunkel stan
It’s appeared in so many brilliant films
It was in the normal heart
At the end
It’s in Garden State
Which is a film
Just rewatched it recently
I still come back to that film
I know some people have
Stacked it off
And I’m like, why?
It is actually
An amazingly brilliant film
The ending is shit
Yeah, like we’ve got to
Tack on a happy ending here
But the rest of it
Is brilliant from Zach Braff
I feel like I lost in translation
Where someone just wandering through that life
And just thinking, what the hell’s going on here?
I’ve used to in mashups
There was a Fever Ray mashup
Where I used the scene where they’re in the pool
Talking about families
There’s all that stuff about going home
And families
Which links into the Dorothea mashup I did
Links into the last podcast
With home
All that sort of stuff
You know, so yeah
No wonder I was watching Garden State again
Yeah, it’s all about sort of
Coming back to the place you grew up
And just being weirded out by it
Pretty much the film
And also finding it
The usual things of finding yourself
And resolving things with your parents
Not those Hollywood tropes
But mostly the bit that’s interesting to me
Is the whole
Kind of feeling of going home
Or whether you can really go home again
And then after this
I’m going to play a short little track
From the Specials
Because you know
I have to start with Specials
End with Specials
Or I like to bring this full circle
And enjoy yourself
Reprise
You’ve played them
Enjoy yourself
Before
That was the difficult thing
About this podcast
So many of the things
I wanted to play
I’ve played before
So this is
The Only Living Boy in Jamaica
And I hope you have a good
New year
And a good end of 2022
And a good start of 2023