RC 378: Not Alone

Hello Welcome to Radio Clash, this is 378 and it’s Not Alone.
That was Captain Obvious, yes me with Only 80s ghosts again, that’s Yazoo.
Only you versus Depeche Mode’s new single, well new-ish single, Ghosts [Again].
Recently released from the new Depeche Mode album, which is upcoming.
And before that we had another slice of, I was going to say 80s fried gold, but we’re not that kind of radio station.
We’re not even a radio station, we’re just a podcast.
Yeah, another slice of fried gold, no, no, no, no, no.
That was LeeDM101’s, a very recent mashup released a few days ago.
That’s West End Anthem, Pet Shop Boys versus PilotPriest.
I like the way it uses a very sort of different timing for the backing.
It’s very chilled take on West End Girls, very different.
So I like that lot, a lot.
And yes, we’ve got a podcast with a variety of things.
We’ve got some Orbital because they’ve got the new Orbital album and released, Optical Delusion.
So have a track from that and some mashups, Orbital Mashups.
The news that Daft Punk, no, they haven’t come back, sadly, they are still no more.
But it’s 10 years since the release of Random Access Memories, or nearly 10 years.
And thus they are releasing a special deluxe edition with lots of things,
about 20, 30 minutes of music that’s not been heard before.
Or not they, the record label, not sure if the actual Daft Punk have anything to do with it.
But anyway, and so that’ll be good, although still be able to hate that album.
I don’t understand why people will hate Random Access Memories.
It’s a good disco album, I don’t understand this.
I had arguments at the time about this.
You’re wrong, you’re wrong, you’re wrong, you’re wrong, you’re wrong, you’re wrong, you’re wrong.
And gonna have a Pink Floyd section towards the end of the podcast mashups.
It’s more upbeat this podcast than the last one, 377, which was a bit kind of downbeat.
This one is gonna have some drum and bass and techno-y upbeat-y stuff.
Not too many of my mashups, but I am gonna play another one of mine.
Partly because the reaction to this one has been surprisingly good.
It’s one of these weird things, whereas I almost didn’t release this mashup.
It wasn’t supposed to be in this podcast.
It was like, eh, not sure about this.
And then it’s kind of taken off as Boot of the Day, been praised on Bootie’s Twitchstream, by Adriana.
It’s been DJ’d by Dunproofin.
People like this mashup, which I’m glad, because it is definitely what I love,
which is New Order and Donna Summer.
And I do actually like this Dua Lipa track.
And this is the full 12-inch version, because I did a 7-minute version and a 5-minute version.
Of course, I did the New Order single thing of releasing the single version,
or what I call the Benelux 12-inch version.
That is the 7-inch version.
That’s usually the usual New Order single length.
And then I did a cut-down version.
But this is the full version.
So this is Don’t Start Plastic Love, Dua Lipa versus New Order versus Donna Summer.
And yes, I heard that you really liked Wub laden Dubstep with lots of noisy, chaotic samples.
And so I thought I’d play something like I featured on the Radio Clash blog 13 years ago.
That’s Retarded Cunt with Where’s My War of the Worlds?
I’m not sure what everything’s in it, because of course I didn’t list their sources,
but TC’s Got My Money with Jeff Waynes, War of the Worlds, Gwen Stefani, Outkast.
I cast a million.
I know it’s popular at the moment to do dubstep-y sound.
It’s always associated with Soundclown, because a lot of the Soundclown people came from either Happy Hardcore or that sort of dubstep scene,
making silly dubstep edits.
And yeah, I know it’s popular in the booty chat pod.
I think that’s basically what they’re doing now.
Well, certain people are doing now.
And they’re going, oh, it’s a new thing.
It’s not new.
It is not new.
And then before that, we had Origin8a and Propa with Massive Mark II Remix from 2022’s Hardcore Energy Volume 1.
I wonder if they’ve done a volume 2.
I need to check.
I know they’ve been doing some club nights, but I don’t know if they’ve actually done another volume,
because I’ve played so much from Hardcore Energy.
Really, really good compilation.
And it was mixed and put together.
I think it was mixed by Origin8a and Propa.
So it had quite a few songs on there.
And then what you describe it means it was Hardcore, Hardcore Rave.
Not exactly Happy Hardcore, but just edge into that.
Hands on the air.
Hardcore without a H.
And then before that, from the Rave scene, back in the day, although that’s new shizzle,
Orbital featuring Penelope Isles Are You Alive from the new album Optical Delusion,
which was the least it would have been last Friday.
So it’s just under a week ago.
And yeah, a brilliant album.
Really, really, really, really recommend it highly.
There was actually a French version of that called Oxygene with someone called Cuckou or Chlou.
Not Coucou Chloe
No, it was Clou or Cucklou.
It’s a French singer, but that is really nice as well.
But obviously I prefer the English version, especially we’re talking about seemingly about the music industry.
And Penelope Isles is, I think, from London as a singer and songwriter.
This certainly a political aspect to that album.
I think the Optical Delusion title and some of the things on there are having a go at the current situation.
It is a good Orbital album.
Very good.
And then before that, we had DJ Firth with Born Slippy Flowers.
That’s Miley Cyrus, a new-ish single that’s been out for about a month.
Versus Underworld.
It’s a remix of Underworld.
It’s weird because in my head I was like, oh, why wasn’t that on the O’Flower of Mashups album?
And then I realized, well, actually, although Underworld in my head is associated with Trainspotting,
they’re not Scottish.
So no, that doesn’t work.
And even the person who inspired the Lager Lager Lager shout is Bill Bailey and he’s not Scottish.
So it’s not really much of a Scottish link there, apart from the film.
And then before that, we had ToTom from 2022.
That’s Daft Punk is Kicking and Not Screaming a Love Song at My House.
Public Image Limited versus LCD Sound System versus Presets playinf that because obviously the Daft Punk news.
Stealing that off Dunproofin.
It was done for one of his challenges on the Crumplbangers Discord.
And he played it recently and reminded me of it again and I had to track it down.
There’s things where I, for some reason, I didn’t download it even though I think at the time I talked about it
and went, oh Presets mashup.
Anybody who does a presets mashup is, you know, because there aren’t that many presets mashups.
There should be a lot more, but there aren’t.
One of those bands which I’m like, where are the Presets mashups?
I’ve done a couple.
There haven’t been that many at all.
The other one is Ghost, but seems to be a lot of people are making Ghost mashups now, which is good.
So it’s working.
My campaigns are working.
Yeah, where are the presets mashups?
And then before that, we had fairly new shizzle from 4AM Kru with McDonald and Janetta.
That’s Pianos Raining Down from September of last year.
It’s the latest release from 4AM Kru.
And it’s quite odd that because, yes, there isn’t, well, there is a pure jungle version.
And then it seems like the version they more widely released is that version which goes from 164, 160-ish to 136.
I don’t think there is a pure 136 version.
I don’t have the jungle version.
But I quite like that how it starts off really fast and slows down.
And that’s the Pianos Raining Down.
It’s actually slowly down, you know, arpeggiation slowing down.
That’s quite nice.
So we had Liquid, Blood Like Dope from Liquid’s recent album.
But that’s the Acen remix from 2022.
I managed to track that down.
It was like, ooh, yeah, that was something I’ve tracked down for a while.
And Assen bringing in the old-school flavour.
Then before that, we had, the aforementioned Dunproofin, with Smiley like You Mean It,
The Killers vs. Orbital for the Titus Jones Challenge, one of the bands in his list.
As well as Keisha, obviously Keisha was The Killers.
I remember doing proofing and complaining about the lyrics of that.
Yeah, that they are pretty inane.
That’s one of the reasons I’m not a fan of The Killers.
But that works really well and obviously like the track Smiley,
which is for all those old-school rave samples, including that Acid Man,
which was sampled back in the day on a track called funnily enough Acid Man.
Is that Jolly Roger?
I think it might have been Jolly Roger, I’m not sure.
Yeah, I love the bits that start on the end because he wanted people to do a whisper tag
and the bit that start treating Twitch as if they’re illegal raves.
It’s very funny.
And then before that, we had a new one, or new-ish one, like LeeDM101 releasing stuff.
Not exactly every day, but every time I go back to Sowndhaus,
there’s another Aggro1 bootleg or another LeeDM101 bootleg.
That’s Sam Smith Unholy vs. Aega Blast Em.
And yeah, I like that. It’s my favorite.
Apart from my own, I think it’s my favorite on Holy with Kim Petras.
I mean, I’ve got Kim Petras.
Is it Sam Smith featuring Kim Petras?
Was it Kim Petrus featuring Sam Smith?
I can’t remember. I think it sounds like it’s featuring Kim Petras.
It’s my favorite Unholy bootleg, I think, of all that have been out there.
The rock ones, I don’t know.
When I first heard it, I was like, oh yeah, that would work really well with rock.
And I was like, well, that’s a bit an obvious one.
So I went for the whole Arabic thing.
And also, I didn’t know anything with that strange…
Is it Mixolodian?
Or is it Aeolian Arabic Tuning?
Or the probably Greek Tuning, Ancient Greek Tuning.
But it’s got a very strange mode.
I never know the difference between mode and scales, but I’m not going to get into that.
But yeah, I kind of didn’t know the stuff that would probably be into that.
I mean, obviously some of the weirder, way off rock bands would probably do that kind of thing.
But I’m not heavily knowledgeable about those different tunings and rocks.
So I was like, mmm.
Then before that, we had Ceephax Acid Crew with Fossil Funk.
I thought that was from Baddow Moods, but actually it turns out it’s from Box Steady from 2021.
And it has been in the stack for ages.
A bit like the Origin8a and Propa.
That’s been in and out of podcasts for ages.
A bit like the Pomdeter from The Last Podcast.
I put it in and then I run out of space and it’s always the bridesmaid,
but it’s nice to actually find a home for it.
Then before that, we had Egyptian Lover.
Yes, Egyptian Lover covering Wham!
Everything she wants.
That’s from 2018.
The album’s called 1985.
I can’t remember if I heard a reference to that or saw someone referencing it or talking about it.
I was like, what?
Egyptian Lover covering Wham!
And then listen to it.
I was like, that’s perfect.
I kind of knew this podcast might go into sort of an 80s mode.
So it has definitely got an 80s rave,
electro thing going on.
I was trying to think of a clever title about that,
but I’ve done 80 shows and things, so I couldn’t think of one.
And then before that, at the start section,
we had me Instamatic with Don’t Start Plastic Love,
Dua Leaper versus New Order versus Donna Summer,
the Benelux 12-inch version.
And as I say, the thing that bothered me about that was the Donna Summer acapella,
because Donna is the goddess of disco,
and disco is almost my religion.
Not far off.
I don’t really have a religion,
but if I had a religion, it would be disco.
But she is OOK.
Not that she’s OOK in the bootleg.
She’s OOK with herself.
Her harmony’s a OOK.
She’s out of key.
I kind of knew this,
but it doesn’t help that the acapella is a really weird…
I don’t know where it came from.
It’s a vinyl rip.
Somebody at some point must have released a vinyl acapella
with loads of echo,
but I think the original has loads of echo anyway,
so it’s probably genuine in that regard.
So it’s not a dry acapella,
but it’s crackly.
It’s got like hum running through it,
record hum,
and also she happens to be OOK with herself.
So yeah, fun to work with.
So I almost didn’t release it.
And then I posted online,
accidentally named it Inatamatic typo
on Sowndhaus.
I had to shut down the downloads
and put it onto my own website
when I realised that
because she can’t replace things on Sowndhaus.
But at the moment,
it’s in the Sowndhaus charts.
It’s not on the front page,
but it’s in the top 20 or so, 23 years last time I looked.
I was like, what?
Yeah, because I generally don’t ever
even get into the top,
boy, is it 50 or 40 or whatever,
because it’s all Italian bootlegs
and Italian dodgy house mixes.
And no, I’m on there,
as well as Dumproofin’s Siouxsie versus Prince,
which is also going viral,
quite deservedly,
and almost was played.
If there was a news reason,
kind of is,
I know Siouxsie is going on tour,
but I’m more relevant to this podcast,
news reason about Siouxsie
or I guess Prince,
I would have played it,
but I was like, no, well, there’s,
you know, I know I’m going to feature Orbital,
so I’ll do the Orbital bootleg.
It was a difficult choice between those two,
because I was like, I really want to play both,
but I don’t really have space to play.
And this one fits in the mix.
As always, if it fits in the mix,
then it’s in.
If it doesn’t really fit
in the sort of shape of things,
though I try and keep things in
that are square peg in a round hole tracks.
I do try and keep them in there,
because always everything becomes
a bit of a homogeny.
I was talking about this recently,
how very crumpl tracks are very hard
to put into this podcast,
because unless you do a whole chunk of them,
put stuff around them,
which fences them off,
or is very frenetic or insane,
on their own,
it’s just a massive tonal shift
from going some serious heartfelt song,
and suddenly you go into some absolute silliness,
and you’re like,
people might go, oh, well, no, do that.
Oh, you should do that.
It’s all right for comedy purposes,
but unfortunately it affects badly
on the previous track.
It does seem like you’re mocking
the other tracks,
which is not my intention.
And it’s a mood thing at the moment.
This is an upbeat podcast,
and I’m going to play some more crumpl stuff later,
and even now.
But yeah, sometimes it’s just like,
I’m not feeling it, not feeling it.
So talking of sort of crumpley things,
although it’s not really intended
in that sort of way,
and it’s pre-crumpl anyway,
but back in 2000,
Martyn Bennett,
I’ve played on the podcast a few times,
did an album called Hardland,
or with Martin Low,
and I’ve been trying to track it down.
Since I first featured Martyn Bennett
on this podcast,
which is many years ago,
I’ve been looking for this album.
It’s that rare.
I don’t know why it’s rare,
because it’s really brilliant.
If you don’t know Martyn Bennett,
he was a bagpipe player,
but he worked with Electronica.
A lot of his stuff,
it’s more down-tempo than this,
it’s got beats and things,
but the Hardland album
went even more in your face.
He also samples quite a lot of
old folk recordings,
Scottish Isles recordings as well.
It was great to actually find this,
but it was like,
why has it taken so long to find this?
So this is Spree by Martyn Bennett
and Martin Low.
That was pomDeter
with the excellent
Sleepwalk to Daddy,
Santo and Johnny versus Aphex Twin.
As you might have guessed in the bed,
I am a big fan of Sleepwalk.
It’s a 1950s instrumental classic.
Maybe not this version.
And then before that,
we had London Elektricity.
It’s an age since we played.
Well, we’d recently been there.
There was a massive gap
where we didn’t realise
they had the album out,
and I missed the album from 2019.
Building Better Worlds.
And that was Time to Think,
featuring Inja.
Inja’s brilliant.
And the Secretary General.
Who’s the Secretary General?
The guy that runs hospital records
and behind London Elektricity.
I think he’s called Tony.
I might be wrong.
Yep, Tony Colman.
His son,
he describes him as the Secretary General.
That’s his name.
So that’s his son rapping on it.
It’s so sweet,
but actually it has a meaning as well.
It’s not like,
oh, it’s cute for the sake of cute.
There is a meaning behind it as well.
So about the creative process
and writing,
and also taking a breath,
taking time to create
and not panic about it.
Almost like an ADHD manual
in that process.
And then before that,
we had Daniel Avery
from Ultra Truth.
That’s devotion.
And I love that echoey,
manic, distant breaks
with all that distortion.
Wonderful.
And then before that,
we had one of mine,
although it’s credited as
TBC versus DJNono
versus Reality Engine.
Who’s Reality Engine?
That’s my experimental music alias,
which I haven’t played anything from them
for a long, long time.
But all the weird CONET project
radio samples and stuff like that.
Because the theme was counting
because it was for a Crumplbangers challenge
where Oki wanted people to use cheerleader counts,
which people create these cheerleader techniques
and cheerleader techno things
for people to count to
and do cheerleading sections too.
And they’re quite expensive.
And so that was by Pablo Archee.
It’s like a demonstration thing.
Of course, counting a pinball count,
Sesame Street, by Venetian Snares.
And then there’s The Postmarks version
of the Pinball Count,
which is the singy bit.
And then Fred Leslie’s Missing Link,
another version of Pinball Count.
And then I just chopped up all of the county bits
all over the top.
Total chaos and played far too quickly there.
But yeah, so that’s why it’s kind of got
bits of TBC, bits of DJNono,
bits of Reality Engine in them.
It is an insane collaboration.
Then before that, we had M Beat,
Incredible featuring General Levy,
and that’s the Slynk remix.
This is Incredible General, which is wrong.
It’s Incredible featuring General Levy.
Yeah, the original jungle classic.
It wasn’t the original, but you know,
the first jungle hit is sort of a modern remix.
And I borrowed that from Dunproofin,
one of the things that he played on his
drum and bass Twitch streams.
Oh, what’s that?
Then before that, someone I played a lot
on podcast Buunshin.
That’s their remix of Apashe.
Not Apache, Apashe.
Spelt with an S.
And that’s Distance featuring Jeff Roy.
More Jeffery, but Jeff Roy.
And yeah, I love that.
I just love Buunshin’s
Radiophonic drum and bass thing.
It’s kind of hard, but I don’t really go for
insane drum and bass for sake of it.
I do like the really extremely mad stuff.
I kind of quite like the insane of the better,
but I usually like there to be something
a bit more than just noisy distortion crunchiness.
And I like what Buunshin does.
I’ll start that section.
We had Martyn Bennett and Martin Low
with Spree from Hardland.
And you can see how insane that is.
And you’ll hear some more Martyn Bennett
though without Martin Low in a little bit.
So we’re going to play a track which, you know,
I don’t usually borrow.
Occasionally I borrow tracks off Ian Fondue.
I’ve been listening to his podcast actually.
I go through stages where I do download them
and then they’re on my iPod and then it depends
if I’m listening to my iPod or not.
Because podcasts for me are really an iPod thing
and it depends if I’m not going out
or doing things that I haven’t been
going out and doing landscape stuff.
I haven’t been listening so much to my headphones
outside of my computer.
So I haven’t been listening to his podcast as much.
So we’re checking out the last couple of podcasts.
He’s released 259, 260.
I think it’s 259 is the rain one.
There might be 258.
But yeah, it’s very, very good.
Especially that is a down tempo rain theme.
He’s got things like Silvetti, Silver Rain
and all these rain tracks.
That’s really good.
But yeah, I sometimes filter tracks from other DJs.
Not very often, but occasionally from Dunproofin,
occasionally from Ian Fondue.
And this one has been stolen from PDS Mix
from PimpDaddySupreme.
He played it.
I’d never heard of Hero No. 7 before.
This is a early mashup from 2000.
There ain’t no party like Hero Party EP.
HERO02D.
I wonder what other…
I need to check out what else Hero No. 7 did.
There was a few things on discogs and not very much.
Those who remember the Rockford files would love this.
This is Bring the Files Jim.
And yes, it goes back to that 2000 thing
where everyone had to slap the Public Enemy
a cappella and everything.
That was…
Well, me, under another guise.
You see pretty much put almost every single alias
in this podcast.
Five mashups.
That’s more than I usually would do.
But that’s TBC aka Instamatic.
On their own that time.
And that’s Happy Fake Plastic New Year.
We got featured by Bootie on the Bootie Top 10 actually.
And that’s ABBA vs Radiohead.
And that was created at 3AM on New Year’s Day.
So it has that New Year’s Blues vibe.
Then before that, we had the Kleptones
from 2022’s Flow, F-L-O-W EP.
Sort of outtakes from the Overload series.
I think.
And that’s Deep Breath.
And I don’t know what else is in it,
but obviously there is Bits of Breathe by Pink Floyd.
And then before that, another ABBA bootleg.
By that time, with Pink Floyd,
that’s Voulez-Vous La Machine.
Which I’m told does actually mean,
do you want the machine?
I think it says what I wanted to say.
I think so.
And before that, asking the question,
because it kind of answers it,
do you want the machine?
I have a question.
Have you ever interlewed by Vixoria Drift?
Offer a new Passages album.
That’s Taylor Swift versus Cindi Lauper
versus Billie Eilish versus Ariana Grande
versus Post Malone versus Creedence Clearwater Revival.
So many acts for a sort of short track.
But I actually like that.
It’s my favourite track from that album.
It’s just a little interlude.
It’s just, I like the layeredness of it.
I always go for moody meshes and ambient things anyway.
And I’m losing my voice.
I need to go and have my dinner.
Then before that, we had Martyn Bennett.
And again, on his own at the time,
with Deoch An Dorus Part 2 from 1996.
And Martyn Bennett album, I think.
Yeah.
Again, hard to find it eventually.
And before that, we had De La Soul, I Know,
The Know-It-All Mix.
And that’s in honour of Trugoi Dove,
who died recently, which is very sad.
De La Soul and Tribe Callled Quest and The Native Tongues Collective
were pretty much my education in hip hop,
really, up on with Eric B and Rakim.
So they are very important to me.
And then before that, the start of the session,
we had Hero No. 7,
Bring The Files, Jim,
Public Enemy versus the Rockford files theme.
Jim Rockford.
Nice to watch Jim that all the time.
I love that.
It was a very strange James Garner, I think it was.
I loved him as an actor.
I almost like a pastiche of that Harry Como thing.
What was it?
Perry Mason.
Perry Como is a singer.
I think it’s Perry Mason, isn’t it?
Not Perry Como.
Perry Como didn’t do much in detective work.
Yeah, no, it’s Perry Mason and Colombo and that kind of thing.
It felt like a bit of a pistachio in the 70s,
but it was very, that mixed with almost Starsky and Hutch,
you know, Huggy Bear type stuff.
And it was interesting.
I liked the way it quite gritty, but also quite funny.
It was a weird combination, but it worked.
So we end under the podcast.
And now you’re going to find out why it’s called Not Alone,
because that’s the track I’m playing next.
And yes, you know, we ended in a really depressing track.
That’s normal, but it’s certainly this came on when I was painting
in one of my live streams.
I do live stream paintings.
You can find out more at tjbaker.co.uk.
I haven’t done one for a while.
I need to do another one.
I’ve actually sitting right next to the Gesso covered wallpaper liner,
which I did over a week ago.
And I’ve just been sitting there with me kind of wanting to be
in the right frame of mind to do it.
And that’s the problem is I haven’t been in the right frame of mind to do.
I’ve been sort of keeping myself busy, but it’s been a bit the questions
of why I do what I do in my head.
I’ve been rather persistent recently.
Yes.
So this song goes out to people are similarly afflicted.
It’s from The Indelicates and it’s from the 2013 Diseases of England album.
It’s not exactly a laugh riot, but I would say those are struggling
in mental health.
You are not alone, even if you might not be lovable at certain points
or even any of it.
And I’m like all in the same boat.
So anyway, I’ll speak to you soon and look after yourself.
Let’s see how far we get with this.
I’m actually half asleep.
Yes.
If you don’t know Martyn Bennett, he was a bagpipe player.