So as I sit down with mince pie in hand and a hot cup of tea to write out the track list for podcast 20 I feel pretty good it must be said.
This is a special 2009 round up, with quite a mixture of tracks for your listening pleasure. It's not a best of as such, simply recalling big tunes from this year, new, old or other that have meant something. It's a bit longer than usual to squeeze everything in but I've tried to keep it to the right size for those of you who burn off a copy for the car...
I've loved this year, I've enjoyed making these podcasts for you and I'm really pleased I'm doing...
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A couple of weeks ago I was offered the opportunity to go and host Dom Servini's Unherd radio show on Colourful Radio. At first I was a little nervous about doing 3 hours of live radio but on the night I actually got right into it, loved every minute of it... unfortunately some curse had been put upon me and as my show began the stations ISP fell over and the internet part of the broadcast was completely knocked out...A conspiracy maybe? Or an unfortunate coincidence? Either way, that show was lost into the ether only to be heard by live DAB listeners but never recorded for my firstborn son to listen...
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This Friday we are having a rather large party at the Scala in Kings Cross to celebrate the 10th Birthday of Wah Wah 45s.In honour of that occasion I have gone digging through all of my Wah Wah vinyl and picked out some of my personal favourites.I've known Wah Wah for about 5 years now and have gradually become a part of the family, so this is a fairly special podcast, going back through a lot of memories of parties, places and people that wahwah has brought together over the years.If you are about on Friday please come down and celebrate with us. I can't wait.Splendidly Blended podcast 18 ====================(Right...
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The second in what looks to be an annual excursion into the songs that made me fall in love with strings and keep me feeling that way.From the more soulful selections to the plain divine this is a taste of things that really move me and inspire me.There's nothing particularly new or rare or difficult to find here, this is simply a self indulgent selection of favourite tunes, but in my birthday month I reserve that right. I hope you all enjoy.If you do and you missed the first one check podcast 10 from October last year.Splendidly Blended podcast 17 ====================(Right click above and "save...
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CARNIVAL! In 2 hours, after a quick haircut and a final root through my records I'm heading off to the Metropolitan for the Part Time Heroes Takeover.A big old all dayer with the Heroes themselves, Nextmen, Rob Luis, Tarrbaby, Dom Servini, myself and a few others. Should be very big indeed - except I do have to vacate the place with Dom straight after our set to shoot accross to the opposite side of London for the Wah Wah Eastend Carnival Party at the Vibe Bar (that will be interesting).But - more about this podcast.I'm quite excited about this one. This goes from the dubbier side of things right...
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This podcast is a pretty laid back affair. Tracks I've been collecting for the last few months while Blackclassical was stepping in for me. We kick off with Laura J Martin.I've just missed Laura at the Jazz Café supporting Homecut in order to play a gig where I was surrounded by models in underwear. It's been a weird night and if it wasn't for the fact I got to play music with Stac I would definitely rather have been seeing Laura do her thing as she is amazing!Some magic from Strutt, my favourite track off the incredible new Quantic album - can't wait to see him at the Big Chill next month.Some...
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