RC 381: This Is My Church / 50th

Hello welcome to Radio Clash, this is 381 and This Is My Church.
It’s a birthday episode.
Happy Birthday!
That was Tippa Irie with Complain Neighbour.
And at the start you heard the jingle from ToTom.
Thank you ToTom for that jingle.
Hello welcome to Radio Clash, this is 381 and This Is My Church, you can probably guess which
song might appear later on.
I’m probably not in the form you expect.
And Complain Neighbour goes out to my neighbours because we have a couple of neighbours next
door I’ve been complaining about the garden again, yes I’ve mentioned that previously
about the garden and all that ferrago and yeah it’s all kicking off again, I just stay
out of it.
And I have to say thank you to Jim Pilchard, otherwise known as Scott Cairo for posting
that onto his Facebook and I was like oh I’ve not heard that and that’s absolutely perfect.
It wasn’t going to be in this podcast, we were going to start with another song which
actually is going to start the next podcast because unusually I’ve pretty much prepared
two podcasts in a row and because it’s my birthday today as I kind of mentioned, it’s
my 50th birthday as I’m recording this, I had a gap between the last podcast was out
a bit late because it took over a week, editing it, Psych School 380 and I switched it around
with this podcast which was supposed to be 380 but I thought well I’m going to do a special
one for a landmark number, there you, it’s all about landmark numbers at the moment.
And so this one got delayed by a few weeks which is kind of weird because it’s all stuff
which is a bit old now but I’ve also prepared 382, it’s pretty much ready to go as well
so I’ve switched new and old things between that and between the two of them.
And so yes, I’m not sure how I feel about being 50, it’s a weird one, a really weird
one.
I always thought I’d never make 50, you know and there’s always time, I might not make
51.
Yeah I’d always said as a kid I was like oh no I won’t make it to 50, it’s weird to
actually make it finally and also this is the age that John, well three months after
he was 50, he met me so in my head I’ve got the idea of 50 being the time of change but
I’m not sure, you know obviously I’m different and yeah I’m not sure I’m where I want to
be really generally.
So we’re going to play a track, one of the best mashups of recent times I think from
Dunproofin.
This was done for one of the challenges, I’ve been going through a lot of the challenges
and in fact I just judged a challenge because I won the last challenge with a track, I’m
not playing in this podcast, now ToTom has won it, you might hear some ToTom later in
the podcast, though not again, not the one he won it was, I had to go through 22 tracks
today or yesterday really now to judge them and then I also went through the last couple
of weeks of challenges and this was one of them and I think it’s my favourite even though
weirdly it didn’t win, it should have won and I know Adriana’s been playing this a lot,
this is Pale Flowers and I was present in the production stream when Dunproofin did
this.
So this is Pale Flowers, Tears for Fears vs Miley Cyrus.
That was Dunproofin with Belfast Gift, Orbital Brackets David Holmes which is kind of sort
of true, is a David Holmes mix of Belfast which is inspired by Orbital playing at David
Holmes club in Belfast, hence the name, versus The Gift by Way Out West which is on the tracks
I associate with first meeting John, not say it was our tune because he doesn’t know anything
about it and doesn’t listen to that kind of music but yeah I was associated with that.
Sampling Roberta Flack, First Time I Ever Saw Your Face, versus Kate Bush, Wuthering Heights
versus Fleetwood Mac Dreams and I was another one that was created on the live Acid production
stream, yes Dunproofin still uses Acid Pro, yeah it was very good and I might have helped
a little bit with what bits to use from Fleetwood Mac because I know that song so well, I’ve
mashed it several times and I am a Fleetwood Mac obsessive but that is one of my favourite
mashups of this year along with the Pale Shelter and interestingly both include songs I have
a very deep connection with and before that one of mine that’s Rainy Love Song, Eurythmics
versus The Cure by Instamatic, then before that from the New Punk album, Well Do Ya Punk
That’s Ah, Alan Hurley with Daft Punk, Rock Loser and the Giorgio Boys as Viagra Boys
versus Daft Punk from Random Access Memories, Giorgio but I love the fact that someone’s
mashed up Viagra Boys, I don’t know of a single mashing up Viagra Boys, I’m sure someone
has but they’re very good Scandinavian, modern pump, the pump, pump, modern pump act, they’re
a pump act, they’re a Vent Act darling, Vent Act no, Punk act, get it right and yeah it’s always
good to hear that and also that’s from the new Viagra Boys album which I’m checking
out which I was somehow missed or I say new, it’s from 2022 or the end of 2022 and I completely
missed that they had done a new album somehow even though I think I knew, I saw some of
the singles, it’s always a problem, this is the same with the Everything but the Girl
album which I think actually releases today, yeah I need to check out that album but I’m
really liking the singles of that and you might hear, is it in this podcast or is it
the other one, no it’s the other one I think, no it’s the other one, in the next podcast you’ll
hear some Everything but the Girl, there’s a reason why I don’t do two podcasts at once,
it gets very confusing about which ones and which and yeah they’ve released several singles
and by the time they’ve actually released the album I’ve forgotten they’ve actually,
we’re releasing an album and that’s the same with the Viagra Boys, I saw singles and then
I just kind of wander off and lose interest until much later and I go, oh the album’s out,
I’ve forgotten, was there an album? Oh I did know there was an album, I’ve completely forgotten
now, I like the modern idea where people just release an album and say here you are, the idea
that you sort of do all the singles for like months and then it’s old media and I’ve talked
about this before but it’s to do with magazines and printed stuff and you need six to eight weeks
to get into a magazine and all that sort of shit but I think in the modern age do you really need
all that? I don’t know, I mean I know you do music videos and they take time but still,
you could all, a lot of it could be ready beforehand and just sort of, I just don’t like
this idea of, in this day and age of instant digital media you could await like three or four
months for an album to drop and it’s like you know that they’ve got, they’ve already got it out,
you know, by the time they’ve put out the artwork and the track listing it’s probably all there,
it’s probably all, that’s the reason why things leak because it’s all there, yes. And then before
that we had at the start of the session Dunproofin in Pale Flowers, Tears for Fears vs Miley Cyrus
and something we discovered during that stream was that bit at the start which Dunproofin has been
telling people about is a backmasking in the original track so he unbackmasked it and it’s
strange because I never heard that there was any form of backmasking in the original track,
I’d have to go and listen to it but in the stems there is this reverse thing and yeah that’s that
text at the start and yeah I’ve promised for a while, many weeks, a speed garage mix because,
well, partly because I love speed garage, also there seems to be a bit of a revival going on
with speed garage, speed garage being the late 90s thing, a hybrid of garage, sort of a more
soulful version of house, I mean the name comes from the music that was played at the Paradise
Garage but people like Frankie Knuckles were very much into their female divas and so there was
a New York thing, the Skippity Skippity New York house but then it morphed in the UK into taking
the drum and bass production techniques, the long drops and the wobs and the sub bass
and that sort of thing and speeding up, obviously the name speed garage but not as much as drum and
bass but sort of speeding up, no not necessarily, we’re starting, this one I’m gonna play now is
128, 6 BPMs, it’s not much but you can think about house at the time, it wasn’t 120, it was
yeah it was about 110-ish or some of it is 120, it’s not so much the speeding up BPM-wise more
about the Skippity beats, I was so much into this music when 1997, 98, I was listening to
speed garage non-stop pretty much, along with pavement and a few of the sort of US indie things
and some of the UK but there was a real come down from Britpop and I cope with that by going
into speed garage because Britpop got really dull around 97 Blur, went a bit up their own ass
with their album and it was quite good but you know it was still, there was a real depressing
and also the case of Blur Heroine come down thing going on and Elastica, you know all these bands
were sort of falling apart and you had pulp as well, I love that this is hardcore album but it
wasn’t really a happy album and so I started going into yeah sort of speed garage and drum and bass,
I’d already kind of sort of been into drum and bass but it became more and more my thing and move
more into electronica and electronic music away from the guitar stuff at this time apart from as
say granddaddy and pavement with a few exceptions but a lot of the UK scene was everyone was looking
for the next Britpop and it never came along, people like Geneva were never going to do it,
Campagg, Villa set, smash, dude yeah so this is my chance to do something which I always wanted to
do which is mix some speed garage, I’m probably totally wrong but I really love this genre
and I hear it’s making a comeback, I hope so and I’ve been going to include in this mix
sort of mix of new and old so you hear some of the newer speed garage people and there’s some
really interesting stuff happening but at the start we have to begin at the beginning because it
really was a London thing and my favourite track from one of those many speed garage compilations
I used to hoard at that time was Scott Garcia featuring MC Styles at the time it was just
Scott Garcia, MC Styles didn’t get the rep he deserved, they did actually make it with another
MC 10 years later but this is the original so this is a London thing, London mix because it is a London thing
That was DJ Jay-R now known as DJ Ily with an old mashup which I hadn’t heard before until
it was played on one of the streams I don’t know if it was not sure if it’s I think it might be
an Adriana’s Attic if that or PDS Mix and yeah I love that even though the Brownstone sounds a
little bit slowed too slow down but it’s definitely got that vibe then before that we had a new
mashup newish mashup that’s Peggy P with Negative Blasts Everything Everything versus Four Tet
another Crumplbanger challenge track I don’t know which one that was there’ve been so many
I think that might be the instrumental challenge because of the Four Tet
and yeah I love that Blast Doors song and that goes out to why doesn’t go out to
Elon Musk and his rocket there’s a lyric in there about building an empire and
and he’s also mentioned to her of a rocket somewhere as well so you can fire a rocket at a
rocket it’s a future yes he just had a classic SpaceX misfire of course all the Elon nerds
were saying that was perfectly intended that’s supposed to happen yes yes right
then before that we had strike of the speed garage section wasn’t really speed garage
but it was speed garage but the verging to jungle that’s Soul Mass Transit System are from
Leeds and that’s U Don’t Know My Selecta which that’s a YouTube rip because they’ve never released
that or they’ve not released it yet it’s very new I love the use of Alicia Keys is it Alicia Keys
You Don’t Know My Name versus jungle it’s sort of jungley but it’s a bit slower than jungle but
it’s the kind of jungley beats number for that we had a cover of a speed garage classic that’s
8-Bit Society Featuring Dave Medland that’s Gabriel which is by Roy Davis jr featuring Peven
Everett it’s one of my favorite speed garage songs of all time I mean it kind of bridges the two
there was like a speed garage mix it was really a garage song with a speed garage mix it wasn’t
really intended as a speed garrishing but it was just included in so many sets it just has
that soulful vibes and the gospel thing which I don’t mind and it’s another YouTube rip weirdly
it’s a live jam that’s all done live and I love the fact they’ve got the trumpets in there but
again they didn’t do a recorded version which is crazy because it’s such a brilliant version but
anyway then before that we had a track which probably wasn’t speed garage but it’s from a female
producer producing speed garage but I liked it so I sort of threw it in as well that’s Baklava
with Sober and she’s really talented I mean she does the singing and the production and
the songwriting and it’s just brilliant and I predict great things for Baklava that’s from
2021’s autonomy EP then before that something that again was not speed garage but samples
speed garage that’s Grown Flex by Chip featuring Bugzy Malone they obviously put their beef aside
for that track that’s from 2021 Snakes And Ladders and it samples T2’s Heartbroken which is a brilliant
track but I’ve played it before or it’s the part of the big bad I’m not recalling which one is but
yeah there is a T2’s Heartbroken shape hole in this mix that we’re filling that then before
that we have Conducta who is one of the leading lights of the speed garage revival with Lessons
from 2022 brilliant video I mentioned it on the blog but well we’re checking out then before that
we had Soul Mass Transit System again we had quite a lot of Soul Mass Transit System in this mix
because they’re really good that’s ready or not edit sampling the Fugees with speed garage version
of Fugees Ready Or Not from 2022 the Edits Vol 2 and what’s funny about their YouTube is
they’re quite often they’ve got edits of their edits they’ve got kind of versions they’ve done
especially of their edits with extra things you can buy their edits on their bandcamp but not all
of their edits which is a bit annoying there’s a very good one of Renegade Snares but then there’s
a version which has got their version of Renegade Snares speed garage but with It Wasn’t Me by Shaggy
over the top which would be perfect with this but again I couldn’t get it it’s only I didn’t
want to have too many YouTube rips in here then before that we had a remix of 187 Lockdown Gunman
by King Hydra which is from 2023 it’s a new remix very different modern wub technology
and then back to 1999 with a remix of Faithless God As A Dj the Serious Danger remix Serious Danger
were one of the prime producers of speed garage and I called the podcast after it because that was
the fulcrum when it was just that line This Is My Church This Is Where I Heal My Hurt and that
seemed to sum up this mix a lot there’s a lot of tunes in here and to some extent the next
podcast which are about being a salve of what I’m going through at the moment and very much music
I’m enjoy to play and mean something to me rather than just playing stuff which go have you heard
this you know rather than the magazine approach there’s a lot of that in here and there’s a
sad that haven’t been to a club for nearly a year because it really is my space where you know
I get all my anger and emotions out and lots of feelings on the dance floor and that is my space
and is my church is my place where it’s not a healing happens a lot of emotional processing
and stuff and yeah it’s been sad that with my damaging my leg which I did I don’t know if I
mentioned on the last podcast you had probably did you know with my damaging my leg and lack of
money and all kinds of stuff I haven’t gone for a long time then I miss it then before that we had
Soul Mass Transit System again with Don’t You Want Me Edit edit of the Felix track and that’s
from Edits Volume Three and yeah a lot of Soul Mass Transit System I’m quite a few of the
speed garage people are the newer breed are doing mashup e remixy things but they are very
mashup remix so they seem very appropriate with this broadcast then before that we had a track
which isn’t speed garage probably more of a housey slightly skipity housey that’s because of
Circle Of Light featuring Antony Szmierek love Antony Szmierek so that was a dead cert and that’s a
new track from him and again it really does fit the whole memories of a dance floor thing in that
section then before that we had a classic Sweet Female Attitude with Flowers Sunship remix Sunship
or a really important Sunship amazing producers and remixes at the time speed garage mixes are
quite often the b side you know but that was actually the released the Sunship remix was the
radio version the radio edit was just a slightly cut down version of the Sunship mix so you know
it was just a cut down version of that mix because it was so good then before that we had big lover
in her speed garage guys that’s Leave original mix again all the feels 2021 that was from
then we had the classic Double 99 Rip Groove that’s the slightly later version that’s the
Vocal Club Version featuring Top Cat which is not the original well it was from 1997 but
basically the re-release the the original version had a little bit of vocals hardly any vocals on
it was instrumental and so for the official major label release re-release they did a vocal version
with top cat which weirdly I knew the original version at the time and that was one of the
versionals here on the mixes so I missed that version so that version isn’t the version I knew
so it’s fresh to me but that was the one that got in the charts and then the start section we had
Scott Garcia featuring MC Styles with It’s A London Thing London Mix I still quote that song this day
it’s from 1997 and It’s A London Thing It’s A Dj Thing it’s still an earworm today for me
and it was pretty much a London thing not completely I mean the new breed is all over the place you
got London and Leeds and Bristol I think possibly manchester as well I don’t know it’s not so London
centric but the original was very specifically South London around the club called Twice As Nice
and yeah it was very much you know just like dubstep was pretty much a South London thing
and also then this whole jazz scene that’s popping up is also South London so there’s a
whole you know thing around Brixton and south south London and also Fat White Family and all
that lot were from South London so yeah big up South London I guess or I live well not exactly
South London so we’re gonna continue with a short section and then we’re gonna wrap up
I’m gonna play some hip-hop at you as you do and from an artist I found out about because of
skinny man was rapping this the uk rapper and I didn’t know who Robert was although was originally
a rapper called Sleaze in the noughties and tens and it’s changed to just being Robert
the album Orange Is A New Black is very I know it’s a cliche to say very confessional but it’s
very very much so and very much background but I love the sort of sort of croc funk backing of this
so this is Daddy Was A Bastard
That was adam b with Another Monday Pink Floyd versus Sebastian Boehms cover of Blue Monday
so epic and Yeah We Don’t Need No Education now Another Monday was for one of the challenges
I think it was for one of the challenges on the Crumplbanger discord then before that we had
the very educated Ivor Cutler used to be a teacher actually with Vogel and that’s Arschloch
which is quite funny because I know what that means in German it means arsehole in German
but it’s actually a bit more rude than that
quite often you know british arsehole it’s kind of a bit minor
be like bugger or whatever no arschloch I think is a bit heavier in German
be also punny on the idea that it sounds like it’s a loch in Scotland but yeah he says it like
can’t do it at the moment he’s rolling his chs he’s doing that ch ch thing which I
struggle with as a sassenach that’s the joke but yeah I love that it’s very hard to make out
all the lyrics and that and all the spoken words and I’m surprised to hear him talking about
Homework As You Can Lick By Bum and masturbating that’s not what usually what you’re used to hear
from Ivor Cutler but that’s from 1980 I think it was about 1980 or 79-80 that sort of period
and Vogel is a experimental musician so it’s sort of an interesting combination
and then before that we had ToTom with Watch Over This Great Gig In The Sky Pink Floyd
and Claire Torrey versus Trent Reznor And Atticus Ross I mean I know ToTom doing Nine Inch Nails
mashups such a surprise there’s been doing a lot of work with Trent Reznor And Atticus Ross
recently and I forget where’s it from is that from The Social Experiment I think it’s for
soundtrack then before that we had Nummer 2 Anne Müller and that’s from the Erased Tapes 150
that was to celebrate all around the time the acceleration of 10 years of a label they did a
compilation double album compilation called 150 you can find that on their website for free or
I download it for free I hope it’s still free quite often their compilations are free digitally
and lossless as well you can download as a WAV file it’s quite big as a WAV file
but there’s some really good stuff on there and then before that from 2020s Where Does It Go that’s
Denise Johnson with Nothing You Can Do and that’s one of her songs there aren’t many of her songs
on there I think this that’s either the only one or there might be another one and it shows
it there’s actually she wasn’t just a good singer that’s actually a really good song I like that a
lot in total mood and then before that we had a cover of New Order that’s Shell Shock by The
Arrogants and that is from 2000 and is originally from a tribute to the Pretty In Pink soundtrack
which there is a really good cover of Left Of Centre by Susanne Vega on there by Tresspasser’s
William, Lotte Kestner and co and you might hear that on the next podcast but interestingly
I put them together and then I decided to put the other one in the other podcast because it’s
just ran out of time but I love that cover it goes to show you that this Shell Shock is not
really a song from New Order that I really like I mean I hate it I’m a super fan of New Order but
it’s not their best there’s sort of a weird slump in there 86 I mean Bizarre Love Triangle is brilliant
but there are some a few singles around sort of 85 86 87 some are good some are a bit strange
Touched By The Hand Of God is one of those ones where it’s like hmm mixed feelings about that one
and Shell Shocks one of those and actually it’s a good song you can hear from doing that sort of
shambling shoe gaze indie thing the lyrics really work so you know it’s a better song than the
production and the original version make out then before that we had Cecile DeMilla with
Gimme Mr. Lawrence Sam Smith Koffee yes glad to hear something more from Koffee the ragga toaster
Jesse Reyez and Utada Hikura that was but in actually before the sad death of Ryuichi
Sakamoto and I’ve gone on record many times it’s podcast how much I love that song I love
the Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence theme otherwise those Forbidden Colours it’s one of my favorite
pieces of music ever and I like that as well I really like that and Cecile put it out before
the sad death and I was playing it anyway and then suddenly Ryuichi died and it was
like okay well that’s that’s obviously a tribute and annoyingly I forgot to blog it as I was put it in
here I was like oh well I don’t need to post on the blog and it looks like it was like oh I didn’t
care no I was this is podcast was already to go just at that time and then last minute I switched in
the Kids Psych Psych School thing so yes it’s all change and then before that we had ez. or ez.
I don’t know it’s ez. or ez. ez lowercase ez. dot don’t I and that’s Punk Rocker with a sample of the
Sandi Thom number one amazingly that was a number one in the UK 2006 something I kind of dimly
remember but I completely blocked out and I had to look it up and I was like oh that yeah
there was a one hit one that interestingly she had a nightmare with the record industry and
then on independents still going and but had to kind of just get out of
out of the corporate music industry I don’t think there’s an official use of that sample but
I love that greatly and I thank Phoebe Howie for buying that my way I will have to check out ez.
more in future or ez. and before that Robert formerly Sleaze with Daddy Was A Bastard and I
don’t know what I might have looked up I might have found what that sample was it’s not on who
sampled I’m not sure if I did I think a social lyrics and found out it was as always it’s a 1970s
prog psych band but you know it’s I think it’s something like that I love that that sample and
that feel of that you know I mean really sort of psych psych prog and hip hop goes so well
it’s why a friend of mine posted a reaction from a usual hip hop YouTube reaction lyrics person
Brain Squeeze and then we’re going crazy over Pink Floyd and it was like well that makes perfect
sense because anybody is into especially if you’re into the more as they are into the more deeper
heavier stuff as well as two back and have very much head music Pink Floyd it’s an obvious one
so I’ve reached the end of the podcast and yeah it’s it’s been a weird one as I say this is
cool This Is My Church because yeah I think the podcast is very much a place where I can play
things to heal me things to process what I’m going through the motions and things that’s yeah
and I don’t know how many people I mean it was kind of depressing looking at the stats so you
can never totally trust the stats but yeah it was like I was quite surprised because there used to be
a lot more visitors to the blog and I don’t know I was like I was like what’s nothing to do with
I’ve been upgrading the blog to PHP8 and that’s all been going swimming late and not uh it’s all
right now all right no but yeah it wasn’t um but yeah I do wonder about you know who actually reads
or even listens I know some people do so I keep doing it because I know a few people do it but
yes but also and I might be interviewed about broadcasting by a friend of mine who is doing
a project around the history of broadcasting so that will be good hopefully that will happen
I spoke to him a couple of days ago and also I might help out I’m quite happy to help out
doing some interviews so that might be involved more in that project so we’ll see we’ll see
well be brilliant because I think the the early part of history of broadcasting a
little bit like mashups has not been told properly there’s a lot of people out there trying to tell
it badly for their own benefit and it’s rather nice especially with mashups but broadcasting is
like no it didn’t start in 2012 or 2014 or 2006 there’s a whole prehistory of broadcasting and
mashups that seems to get erased and it’s depressing it’s very depressing and so I’d be happy to
do what I can to help spread that word and represent the history ready clash way also
broadcasting in general because it’s yeah there is a lot of weirdness about out there about that
people will change your narrative and rewriting the narrative and it’s like you just kind of
we’re still here it’s you know you can ask us it’s not like we’ve disappeared it’s a bit weird
so I can play out with a song from the recent my recent to me Kid Kapichi album which came out
in September and I’ve been listening to bits of that again there was one of those ones where I
was like I knew it was coming out and I really took the previous album and I dig the singles and
then just wandered off and did something else and I don’t have the ADHD I promise but I just
just waiting two three months for an album is a sight really I thought we got past that
but anyway they’re they’re brilliant Kid Kapichi and this is a track called Special off the album
Here’s What You Could Have Won and I’ll speak to you soon
excuse me I’m all wheezy yes I’m wheezy I’m not actually speaking not actually breathing
yes I can breathe and breathe