RC 385: Cruel Summer

Hello and welcome to Radio Clash 385 and it’s Cruel Summer, yes it’s the hottest
June in record, I’m not happy about it.
Yes, welcome to 385 with Radio Clash and that was, well two songs of the summer, the official
song of, that’s the official song of summer which is Gimme One Margarita by That Chick
Angel as used in a Multi Margarita Mash, MMM, yes that’s Dirty Margarita Bounce Number
Five by Pimp Daddy Supreme, Jimmy Buffett featuring That Chick Angel, Sister Cindi which
is the meme that started it all, and I’ll explain in a bit, once I’ve listed all these
people and Lou Bega versus Don Henley, obviously we always like to put Don Henley in mashups
because that always goes down so well with Don, versus the showboys, yes Sister Cindi,
let’s start with her, she’s an evangelical preacher that appears on campuses in the
United States and the whole of the rap by That Chick Angel, Gimme One Margarita, Gimme
Two you know, is from a Sister Cindi preaching about, only takes one Margarita to do wicked
things and so of course in a, interestingly in a podcast, That Chick Angel then goes and
does that rap on the fly and then someone samples it and then it becomes a released
record with Steve Terrell and Karl Degson and Cassa Di, yeah that’s become a big thing,
there’s Margarita mashups appearing all over the place and it seemed to have been a bit
of a viral summer hit and then before that we had another song of the summer I think
Padam Padam by Kylie as remixed by me, finally I find something that works with Twilight by
Electric Like Orchestra, ELO’s Time is one of my favourite albums of all time, I know
that ELO, Cognoscenti do not like that album but they’re wrong and there’s some brilliant
songs on it and Twilight, it’s heavily involved in geeking out and make up just because of
Daikon 4 intro but it’s in a weird key and it turns out that Padam Padam is in that
strange key which is melodic major or I’m not going to Mixolydian b6 and all kinds of
things that sound like Star Trek planets so I managed to get it to work, it’s difficult,
that acapella is hard, Like Montero by Lil Nas X it’s got those weird auto-tune harmonies
which are not really in key or I don’t know what key they’re in, it’s in a strange harmonisation.
That’s the second version, Padam and Twilight and I think that works very well and it’s
by Instamatic, my Instamatic moniker, yes I use multiple aliases and will continue to
do so and yes there’s a summer show as you might have guessed from the title Cruel Summer
which is one of my favourite summer songs actually and that’s partly because we’re
covering a few things that have happened this summer, one is the release of Summer
Booty by DJ Useo and Friends 2023 which I have a track on which you’ll hear later
on in the podcast but you also hear some other tracks from that compilation all about summer
mashups and also we had Crumplstocks just happened just over a week ago the online festival
same weekend as Glastonbury and that was a lot of fun I wasn’t in a DJ and DJ no no
stepped in at last minute and you’ll hear some of those tracks and you’ll hear some
tracks from people who are involved with Crumplstock but first you’ll hear a summer mix,
a Cruel Summer mix of various things that have been released recently and not so recently
and some covers like you hear in the background I’ve got some covers and you may be later
on the drum and bass section if you’re lucky but we’re gonna start off with a track by
Rhythm Scholar and he is very recently remixed another one of my favourite favourite tunes
of the summer which is Boys of Summer by the aforementioned yes Don Henley again, I wonder
if I’m gonna get the lawyers on this podcast so this is the Boys of Summer Rhythm Scholar
Neon Beach remix
Of course it’s from Bluey that’s Joff Bush or well I just said Bluey I think is Joff
Bush that one there’s a very bad credits on the Bluey the album the first one just
tends to credit everything to Bluey and it’s very hard to work out who did what but
that’s I think that’s Joff Bush with Pool from the I come up with his first or second
season of Pool episode because I know the first album is like tunes from the first
season of half of the second season and then the dance mode album is half the second season
and sadly I’ve now watched all of the Bluey so far I’m very sad I’m just waiting for
them to release the last I think four because I think they do 52 episodes a series there’ll
be a Christmas episode definitely and there’s only 47 I think or 48 47 released so far
a series three and the cricket episode yes all the feels all the feels those are into
Bluey but no I don’t mean then before that similarly a bit like a Muppet song but not
really that’s iWillBattle with boats to Coconuts that’s Kim Petras versus Jimmy
Buffett Jimmy Buffett again is that two Jimmy Buffett mashups in the same he is this is
crazy this is crazy do you know buffeting me maybe I don’t know yeah but this is crazy
it’s two Jimmy Buffett mashups the same podcast that wasn’t intentional but yeah that didn’t
win my challenge because I did the challenge about using artists before their famous but
that was one of the ones that’s in it and must admit when I first heard it was I like
the Kim Petras I was a bit about the country but it grew on me especially when I listened
to the lyrics of Coconuts because of course that’s definitely about a pair of Coconuts
no other possible innuender there at all yes shouldn’t really put it next to the Bluey
but you know you can’t really you can’t really have a kid zone in this podcast getting kids
listening it’s definitely about coconuts the things that hang off trees nothing else and
yeah Kim Petras’s first single I think one of the first releases was Coconuts which wasn’t
a hit like a lot of early Kim Petras stuff it wasn’t a hit because it was the time was ready
for a trans superstar things have changed since I think and quite right too because we just had
London bride so I have to go out to bride as well every day is pride in this podcast but you know
and then before that we had Brighton Sonny with Snow On The Beach On The Beach I think it’s just
called snow on the beach on the graphic I thought that title was better it’s like snow on the beach
on the beach on the beach on the beach I think that snow on the beach on the beach is actually
better title but anyway it’s Taylor Swift versus Chris Rea and I really hate that Chris Rea track
it’s one of those songs that used to haunt summers in my childhood but actually it’s made a lot
better with Taylor Swift over the top although you do hear how annoyingly jazzy that song is yes
and then before that we had Adriana A with Cruel Summer Bloodsport Ace of Base versus Tokyo Rose
and Power Glove and that was for the Cyberpunk Bootie project and I thought oh I like that especially
which I thought was Bananarama but it’s actually the Ace of Base version it’s almost identical I mean
not not completely but you know it’s very similar version vocally I’ll allow it because I think I
made it second I think it might have been put into that same travel and just a thing while
she was doing the sober bunk and I think I’ve got that in number two I think
big just because it’s a Cruel Summer it’s one of my favorite songs I prefer the Bananarama
version but you know I’ll allow the Ace of Base version even though dodgy past of one of
their members we won’t go into that yes talking about things that we shouldn’t go into this podcast
almost got called First Law of Rebootics Don’t Mention The Reboots but hey it’s too long to it
it’s too specific it’s too much on in reference to a certain discord server but yes it all kicked
off about reboots again it always does I’m not going to go into why but you know I thought that
First Law of Rebootics was quite a good joke I will use it at some point and then before that we had
Fissunix Fissunix is always well listening to and that’s from Summer Booty 2023 Broken Summer
back to the 80s Bananarama versus Mister Mister versus Madonna and lots of other things I mean really
80s nostalgia and summer go hand in hand with me but as you might have guessed from that summer
mini mix it wasn’t exactly yeah or sunny and rosy which has been my summer really it’s been
far too hot and I’ve been far too depressed so that’s hence why we’ve got this Cruel Summer
theme it’s like a bittersweet this sort of sunny stuff Black Hole Sun definitely there’s no Black
Hole Sun in this podcast it probably should be but I think I’ve played all the versions and the
mashups I like of it and all the covers literally I’ve played everyone you know that’s another summer
song I really like there are a lot of blues summer songs and I will talk about this later on but
there are a lot of songs which are actually in a minor key they’re songs about summer but the
rest are quite sad if you actually listen to the lyrics you know theme seems quite oh it’s
sun it’s summer sunny oh but he listened he’s like hmm and that’s this case with Cruel Summer
so before that Cruel Summer block we had The Routes with Trans Europe Express from 2022 yeah if I
don’t mention dates they’re all modern apart from the blue which is 2021 they’re all kind of recent
2023 if I don’t mention the date I think we should have that rule if I don’t mention the date it’s this
year because otherwise we’re just listing modern stuff all the time but yeah The Routes
and they did the pocket calculator that I used in the first
speaking bit in the background The Routes do a brilliant album which is called
The Twang Machine and it’s well worth checking out it’s all surf rock covers of craft work songs
and unlike the Inokasira Rangers Summer Madness play before I don’t think the japanese I think they’re
italian but they might be but I think they’re italian The Routes but yeah I love that album and
it is perfect perfect like Inokasira Rangers like you’re hearing behind here Blue Monday they’re just
perfect for beds so I’ve actually redone all my beds I’ve obviously kept the classics the ones
that I regularly use and as I mentioned Inokasira Rangers Summer Madness from 2019 Now very hard to find
very very hard to find that stuff a lot of the stuff is he released on rare seven inches or
compilations but in that completion isn’t even on discogs and I don’t know why
it doesn’t exist according to discogs because quite often if I find someone I really like I’ll go
hey I’ll immediately hit discogs and go of what else are they done you know and do a deep dive on
them within Inokasira Rangers or Park Rangers as they’re sometimes known who’s japanese ska group
some of that stuff is released under some of the names of some of the people I think I played one
in the previous podcast and I kind of struggling to remember the name of it and it becomes okay but
the guy who he’s someone to do it and he had to put it out under his name and it was a born
slippy one or another one but that sort of that sort of thing but Inokasira Rangers yeah it’s kind
of hard to find this stuff and I found that very recently I was like oh summer madness perfect so
went straight in and then it started that block we had Don Henley The Boys Of Summer Rhythm Scholar
Neon Beach Remix and Rhythm Scholar did a video after that which I’ve not seen yet because
he put onto youtube and you guess what happened thank you Don but Rhythm Scholar sort of uploaded
it to his facebook page to download and stuff like partly because of that I think I wasn’t surprised
for it didn’t last very long on youtube because don does not like mashups Don Henley The Eagles
absolutely hates them so we’re going to continue the party I don’t know why I said it that with
a track I’m really digging the moment by someone who I think they’ve got a little bit of success
but the generally I’ve not heard them before I can’t remember heard of it I think I might have
heard this used in a mashup the backing and went oh what’s that and but not the vocal I think that
was the way it was and the vocal does really deserves to be used I heard it somewhere like that
I think it was in a mashup but the original is good this is Freya Ridings with Weekends
That was Sail Away by Enyana from 2022 that was october 2020 until even that was the Premiere
Rock Forum Covers PRF Monthly Challenge which they have on bandcamp and in october 2020 it was enya
so there we have Nirvana’s Stay Away mixed with Orinoco Flow called Sail Away I wouldn’t have
any you will heard that I was going oh it’s Nirvana and then after I was like hold on a minute
so it’s kind of a mashup in rock form what do we call those not cashups mothers cashups
yeah maybe they do make a lot of cash remember the chemical cashups I don’t know then before
that we had a drum and bass section yay I did enjoy setting that up when I was pre mixing
what I don’t pre mix I’d mix everything live especially this show because there was a long
gap and all these Crumplstock tracks dropped and then I wanted to play a lot of originals as
well I didn’t want to just be all mashups and because there’s a long gap between the last
podcast that wasn’t a pre done podcast but I’m not pre done in the sense of it wasn’t pre recorded
it was kind of hard to put everything in so this broadcast had a lot of kind of weeding through
kind of and does this work does this work does this work does this work it’s always difficult
because you don’t want to throw out the curveballs because sometimes the curveballs are the best
part but also this there’s always in a mix something you really want to put in there but it
sort of sticks out like a sore thumb and so I had to do a lot of that so it wasn’t really pre mixing
but I kind of practice the mixes in a way I don’t know it’s not really practicing but play test
the mixes really see if they’re working at the very least go you know the transitions between them
but yeah the drum and bass section was like do I think I’m using my new controller which is on
the laptop and going oh yes yes yes yes I think Adriana was right when he said you’re a drum and
bass DJ I am a heart although not professionally so that was Makoto featuring Degs I’ve been loving
Makoto I heard a track off the Hospital Records 100 album the compilation they released I think
it was at the end of last year or it was early this year they had Makoto on there and I really
liked that Makoto track and I was like who’s Makoto and I found out he’s a Japanese drum and
bass producer has been going on since the 90s or late 90s or early 90s long long time I’d not
heard off his work and it is liquid liquid drum and bass very I described it online I was trying
to be very careful just in case Tony from Hot Records saw it but it really sounds like London
Elektricity without someone having children and being distracted by running a label there was a
period about 10 years ago where I think London Elektricity did a few albums where it didn’t
really totally work and recent ones have been a complete return to form and back on track and
there was a long gap between that recent album and those so it seemed to be a period where it was
just London Elektricity wasn’t really a recording album thing I don’t know if it was touring but
it wasn’t really the main focus whereas Makoto has been sort of plugging away repeatedly so
and anybody who works with Degs is good with me so that was Luminate with Degs by Makoto and that’s
from 2019’s Tomodachi Sessions which is well what a really good really good album check it out
and then before that we had Makoto featuring Karina Ramage if you want to check out Makoto
track I really recommend just going straight to the Karina Ramage track she works with Makoto
quite a lot and they are just chef’s kiss but the thing about liquid drum and bass is it can get
rather noodley it needs an emotional centre for London Elektricity it would argue it’s Liane
Carroll for Makoto it’s Karina Ramage it’s just something works sort of seeing a song or IT thing
but the with the liquid drum and bass works very well so I don’t want to wake up from 2017’s
Salvation LP then before that the aforementioned London Elektricity featuring Liane Carroll
why are we here spy remix I mean I love it when London Elektricity asks kind of questions like
a bit like the psychiatrist five cents the psychiatrist is in
of drum and bass they do that and so is Degs as well really about mental states but
some of the London Elektricity does is they do talk about existential things which is not
usually what you associate with drum and bass so that was from 2016 and then before that we had
Calyx and TeeBee with Anything for Attention that’s from a new album or newish album 2022 which says
here plates I have to thank Dunproofin for putting me on to that and one of his drum and
bass mixes I don’t think that’s one he played but he played one of the other Calyx and TeeBee and
yeah I know of Calyx and TeeBee and I’ve probably played some Calyx and TeeBee on this podcast but not
for a while so it’s always good to check in like with London Elektricity and Makoto and other
people haven’t heard for a while because you know I just wander off and listen to something else
and get into bunching or something like that and then wander into the wilds and then something
like oh you know years later I’m like oh what happened to so and so and I find out the released
albums and I didn’t check them out I’m very bad for that then before that we had Kompressor with
We Have to Fight from Discipline I can’t remember where Discipline was released I think it’s
like a lot of Kompressor stuff it’s early noughties so I think it’s number four I think
from my memory correctly again I went through all the Kompressor back catalog
very very funny very good although it’s interesting how it reads as a parody because
Kompressor with a K being a type of car and it’s sort of German parody and the guy isn’t German
so it’s kind of like this industrial Kraftwork pastiche but then there’s tirades about the music
industry and have to fight against you know this barrage of shit and that’s what seemed to
sink very well with anything for attention we’re just talking about that on a social media thing
where especially I suspect Instagram and Twitter the Twitter’s going down the tubes fast but
that sort of wanting likes and attention and TikTok as well that’s wanting attention and wanting
numbers and likes yeah I just thought those two released probably about almost 20 years away from
each other a similar thing from different angles one social media one more about mass media so
that’s the interesting thing about Kompressor is there’s very serious stuff in there but it’s
done is like oh this funny parody but it’s a bit like weird owl with more politics it’s
this interesting you know I like the covers but I never really got the original thing I heard them
around the time and the reason why I think he’s probably serious is because when he and I forget
the name of the guy who did it stopped doing Kompressor he just released all of the music online
basically under a non-commercial commercial commons that I think existed then but basically under
non-commercial creative commons which is saying you know as long as you don’t make money off it
you know have at it so yeah I don’t think he was total parody all of the music industry criticism
then before that we had Ian Geek with Es-tu Narcissique at Orbital versus Blur I have to say I prefer
that way better for the actual new blessing or newish bursting I don’t know if the Blur albums
dropped yet I haven’t heard everyone going on about it so I don’t think it has but yeah the
Narcissist is a new single by on newish single by Blur came out was it end of May or June I think it was June
I have opinions about modern Blur and Damon and lots of opinions about Damon and some of the
stuff he’s done but yeah it works way better with him then before that we had a mashup by
me again but under another alias the aliases will not go away this is Captain Obvious
Space Flowers Disco is live version I have to kind of remaster that it sounds a bit weird
but I redid it a second version there wasn’t massively anything wrong with the first version
just I wanted to restructure it slightly and then I added in the Eddie Izzard Mystery Men it’s a
superhero film from 1999 sort of comedy film or spoof but as Eddie Izzard saying Disco is live
I couldn’t use a sample that was used before the last days of Disco which is whole mighty with
Disco will never die and that’s from the last days of Disco film I couldn’t use that because
he told me to use it for Disco Deluxe 7 so anyway but I just thought it’s worth saying it’s what I
believe I believe that Disco will never die and there is kind of a revival going on it comes and
goes it’s like Daft Punk Filter House had a had a Disco revival for a bit so it’s like that was the
last one and now there seems to be rumblings with Dua Lipa and Kylie and other people about sort of
Disco the last year couple years and the track before that Freya Riding’s Weekends total Disco
as is Flowers which was in the Captain Obvious matter I thought to say it’s Miley Cyrus versus
Sheila B Devotion I think it was just Sheila at that point although she’s known as Sheila B Devotion
I think B Devotion had gone and Spacer is on my favorite tracks of all time Nile Rogers Chic
of course and yeah the Freya Riding’s Track of Weekends which starts off very kind of like Mopey
piano singers on writer but then goes very Disco and I like the sentiment because I didn’t go to
Pride this year which is probably because it got disrupted by Just Stop Oil which was weird that would
have annoyed me I just wasn’t feeling it I actually stayed here and did a clay sculpture I found much
more productive yeah I’m doing and working on a Green Man in Modelling Clay because I found some
Modelling Clay for cheap TKMaxx and I was like oh Pebeo Modeling Clay and I was like oh because I’ve
always wanted to get back into sculpture and pottery well not since pottery is in pots but you know
clay work clay sculpture and this is a way of doing it for the back door because it’s self firing
I’m sure it’ll crack and fall apart and everything but it’s a lot of fun doing it so
we’re going to play a track by Michael the DJ who’s kind of new to me because of all what’s
happening at Reddit all the horror of Steve Hoffman and Spez the CEO basically saying screw you to
all the people who are running Reddit all the moderators and which I am kind of want are mashups
the mashups Reddit which I’m a silent moderator on is now got discord and it makes it so much
easier to actually find things you can just scroll down you know I’m not a big fan of the old school
forum thing because you want to scroll through just a lot of tracks a bit like Remix Dot Audio
you can just scroll through and first play it that is so much easier than have to go in
click on the thing oh I don’t like that go back out again you know it’s like what is this in
2000s you know it’s like so I’ve been checking out some of the people now and one of the ones I
really loved was Michael the DJ and she did a EP recently called Mixtape Number One
and this is if you can put it into the right slot that’s not you for missing that’s putting
it into the wrong deck this is Pink Floyd Interlude
That was Kylie Minogue with Say Something Acoustic I don’t know how official that is
who is from a kind of an unofficial compilation called Disco CD Restored but there’s another
acoustic version which is very different so it almost sounds like these extracted vocals
somehow from the final version but yeah I like that I mean the whole disco thing from 2020
where Kylie did this whole gospel disco thing and the live event in November was very emotional
especially after all the lockdown and that song always gets me because of the lyric can we be all
as one again and the other one oh we all got Wunderlust in the darkest place so it seemed to describe
things of the diamond then before that we had Oki and naughtily ripped off his youtube page because
that’s a live jam for the HWJ event called EPA very Tangerine Dream a lovely drone
Tangerine Dream thing going on there that end mix include two count them two of my favorite
people I actually know I mean I’ve got a lot of favorite musicians there’s not so many favorite
musicians I actually know personally the other one was earlier in the mix Mark but yeah it’s really
wonderful acid synths sort of ambient when there’s all done live with little machines and things like
all done with hardware or I think mostly with hardware then before that we had Everything
With The Girl When You Mess Up from 2023’s fuse and that’s a song I’ve taken out of so many podcasts
it’s a bit dark but I just love the line hate it when people give you advice when you mess up
because it is it’s like there’s so much advice out there but not very little help if that makes
sense then before that we had the Beatles but it wasn’t really the Beatles that was Grow Old and
Me John Lennon’s demo and I suspect I might be wrong but there’s always hoo-ha when that came
out a couple of weeks later Paul McCartney announced about oh the last final song with the Beatles
nice to suspect it’s going to be a version of that or something like that Grow Old with me is from
John Lennon’s last demos it was actually released after he died and then Dae Lims on YouTube has
recreated it as the Beatles as if the Beatles had done it themselves and she’s got Paul McCartney’s
voice in there because someone has gone and created an AI voice clone of Paul McCartney
and I think the vocal rather than taking it from the very low quality demo I think they’ve
either mixed the both in or they’ve created a John Lennon as well but I love the harmonies and
you’ve got like the whole George Martin sort of Purcell handle I mean it’s referring to a classical
piece which I don’t know but as someone said it’s weird to have an AI song that actually moves you
to tears and I got quite tearful when I first heard that because it’s not only the meaning but it’s
also the reuniting of the two together even virtually is quite moving especially with the
meaning of the song so that got taken down but I found a copy of it and ripped it but I wonder
whether taking down whether it was possibly but that’s the song that it’s just a weird timing
otherwise why not Paul McCartney is he just jump on all the new technology and he’s aware of what’s
out there he was aware of mashups because of people using Beatles in mashups and so he’s
he’s very aware pretty aware so I wouldn’t be surprised maybe it’s something like that when
it comes out later in the year but I hope so but if not that is very beautiful and you can still hear
it’s a bit like with AI separation you can still hear slightly roboticness in the voices but the
part of McCartney bit is very good and the harmony is wonderful so yeah that works very well and I can
imagine how much work that would be it’s not something you just go oh type type not only if
you’ve got to work phonetically I think with the voice clones the singing ones or what you do is you
sing it yourself and then so you’ve either got to be able to sing it but you know not
necessarily massively in tune but you know I’m sort of in tune and then you apply the cloning
process over the top which is probably what they did there but also you can kind of phonetically
get it to sing as well like a voice synth that’s just like yeah a lot of work then before that
we had Virginia Astley from 1983s from Gardens where we feel secure that’s summer of their dreams
Virginia Astley said to be new age I don’t think that’s new age because it’s too experimental with
all that reverse strings and those reverse guitars and stuff but I mean I know some easy
listening library music and new edgy music was actually quite experimental but if you think about
it doing a rhythm that’s just the rowing which is very similar to my foundation I posted about
my foundation on my art blog tjbaker.co.uk I did a piece I mentioned I wasn’t talking about the
video pieces I do this I was just all focusing on my traditional work one of the pieces I did
was a video piece I got my dad to row there’s a rhythm and yeah it’s very mesmerizing and rowing
yeah it’s that sort of rowing rhythm and it just feels a bit more experimental on a lot of new age
but you know it has that new age feel but it’s very ambient and certainly Virginia Astley
massive influence must be I’d be very surprised Alex Patterson had never heard that album then
before that we had from the new album interval we had did you know know with Break My Hart spelt
h-a-r-t that’s Dua Lipa versus The Noveltones that’s Noveltones the music from the gallery
of Tony Hart’s heartbeat heart attack the gallery music whenever they showed the people’s I never
sent anything into the Tony Hart’s shows I evidently watched them but I never really sent
anything in partly because they didn’t send it back one of the classic tunes there’s a couple of
them that and cavatina are the classic ones that you used in the gallery so it’s kind of like slow
tv it’s like showing pictures with music and then they might talk a little bit about the piece you’re
saying you know it’s wonderful a lot of slow tv comes from things like that it was a kid’s show
for junior artists for those outside the uk I just love the fact that break my heart by Dua Lipa
and the pun on the name and it actually more musically works then before that we had Jean Grae
and Quelle Chris with Everything’s Still Fine and it’s not credited properly because Nick Offerman
is the person doing the vocals on that I wouldn’t be surprised that was inspired by that famous gift
of the dog sitting in the burning room going this is fine and this mix my mixing is like clouds that
come over and this is how I visualize it when I’m doing it I do visualize it you know he’s
standing standing on the river side of the river and it’s a sunny day and suddenly a cloud comes
over and mood changes and then it then it departs after a while and the light you know gets brighter
and it’s almost like sometimes that happens and your mood completely changes it’s like it’s like
just stepping into a sort of a blue mode Picasso then you come out and it’s all like sort of hang
off you know so it’s just that sort of feeling is what I was trying to do with the mixing
sort of clouds coming and going of different moods and feelings that’s a very potential thing to say
but that’s what I was thinking and then before that we had Peggy_P that was from Peggy_P’s
Crumplstock set so yeah there are some from Crumplstock sets in here I was planning to
play some of Oki’s mashups from Crumplstock Lil Oki’s stuff was very good but didn’t fit
in the mix and that’s I’ve Got Bad Moments Ariana Grande versus Art of Noise I mean seriously
work with Arnaud’s I’m already there quite like Ariana Grande I don’t know bad idea
about Ariana Grande but it works very well that title sums it up then before that we had
I Know A Place The Creek Song by Joff Bush featuring Jazz D’Arcy and Helena Czajka
probably said that wrong from Bluey the album from 2021 again that was badly credited I had to look
that out and that’s a sort of a vocal version I think at least there’s a single from the Creek
episode of Bluey I thought say the everything’s fine is in 2018 then before that we had Daft Punk
within again that’s kind of come in and gone in a lot of episodes because it just doesn’t
seem to fit and it’s sort of fit there and that’s from Random Access Memories 10th Anniversary
and yeah it’s such an alienated song and before that a bit of sort of slow disco let’s Say She She
with Better Man from their new album or it’s been tagged as a new album but it actually was released
last year but I think they’re doing a re-release called Prism and Say She She it’s even the name is
a reference to Chic they’re such a big Chic fans say Chic so Say She She C’est Chic it’s a reference
to that yeah I’m obsessed with Say She She at the moment then before that we had as I mentioned earlier
Mark David Hadley with Hollow from his album that came out in May An Idea Of Almost Nothing
and that’s the other person that I know I know from my art degree days who does
really wonderful ambient found sound sound art musical pieces and yeah sometimes they’re based
purely on sound you know found sounds sometimes they’re drones sometimes they’re more you know more
sort of musical like that one and it’s all music being a more traditional musical and yeah I love
that and some really nice pieces on that album you can get the Mark Hadley album over at his
bandcamp which is soundbymark.bandcamp.com then before that we had Hercules & Love Affair and ANOHNI
with Poison Storytelling that’s from 2022’s In Amber an album I struggled with I really
struggled with when I heard it I know ANOHNI and Andrew Butler have moved away from doing
dance floor bangers but I do kind of miss them a bit and it is a very heavy album very heavy and
it’s called Andrew Butler singing which is unusual it works in places but the many tracks are the
ones I really love and what I like about that one is it doesn’t make it pretend to even try and put
it into a pop prose with the chorus which is we have to be careful with new narratives because
everyone is rotted out from Poison Storytelling and that says everything about current state of
affairs everything is so affected by toxic things in the environment and toxic things in the press
and toxic things ideas in society and people you know and it’s just we do have to be careful that
these these poison cakes sweetened with your disease show sugary you know I like that feeling
that everything is rotted out as if like it’s a pier or like a wood by the water and it’s going
to collapse it says it very well about what’s going on the moment in the world then before that
we had another one from the Interval album which is available on my bandcamp if you go to
realityengine.co.uk you’ll find it there or if you know where my bandcamp is
it’s easy to get that way and that was Dolly in Space, Jolene’s Earthmen, Dolly Parton versus
Paddy Kingsland with the Radiophonic Workshop who did an album in 1975 I think it was a four or five
his own album and the Earthman is from that it’s very well defined good quality versions but that
was happened to be on the Sound Gallery and I loved it I was like it’s classic classic classic
Paddy Kingsland you know they’ve got their old school synths but also the whole
funk and space themes but it worked that’s got the most likes of all the tracks I put on
remixed audio of the interval album there’s 17 tracks on there four of them are bonuses 13
main tracks because some of the tracks I just couldn’t all get to work I tried and I tried and
I just bought them out I was like mmm yeah this isn’t working and that won’t get the most likes
because yeah I didn’t understand it just works so well you know but I’m sure people were like
what is this not massive loads of likes across the album partly because it’s not really a thing
that a lot of people will be into the interval music and the 60s and 70s production music and
library music I love it greatly so that’s why I had to make it then before that we had Michael the
DJ with Pink Floyd interlude from Mixtape Number One and there’s some really good mashups on that
and some good mashups on Michael the DJ’s bandcamp which is Michael the DJ dot bandcamp dot com
so we’ve reached the end of the podcast way too long I knew it would be I knew I knew it I knew
it would be I knew it it’s always always too long over and that’s what he said and I’m gonna play out
with a track from another track from some of OT 2023 the one I did and it fits the theme
this summer bittersweet Cruel Summer theme I mentioned about the blues and summer and the
weird thing is everyone probably thinks summertime which I’ve some have played in various forms
they even covered myself so I do know it fairly well as a song because I’ve tried to play on the
guitar a lot of people think of it as like you know obviously a sunny summertime song but it’s
it’s a blues um it’s I don’t know it’s not really a blue scale but it’s in a minor key and it works
so well with Everything Everything’s new album has a track called Leviathan on it which is
about grief and I didn’t really discuss this when I released it but there’s a lot of stuff
that happened in the summer of 2008 which I’m still having to process and um yeah so this song
is kind of a sort of about that it’s sort of not but it I just love the Everything Everything song
something about Everything Everything always the end songs there you know and isn’t it’s not
even the end of the album it’s actually halfway through but you know the songs which you would
expect to close the album sort of more slower numbers seem to work better for me so this is
tbc aka Instamatic with Summertime Leviathan and as if it the artwork with the monster under
water and everything I put out there before just before the Titan sub stuff I was looking at thinking
yeah that might be seen as dodgy but you know it it was about that time not just before certainly
before they were found they died and so I was like weirdly on theme but also could be seen as
sick but it wasn’t supposed to be so this is Summertime Leviathan Ella Fitzgerald and Louis
Armstrong versus Everything Everything and I hope you’re having a good summer
then before that yeah I’m losing my voice seriously I’m losing my voice