Category: [Mixcloud]

Podcast time again. Hitting the post-punk switch again this time, cos last week’s venture into 60s/70s psych and so forth was SUCH a hit… not like most of my mixes so far have had huge listenerships but at least the first three in the current series (I took down the previous editions I did from years ago) made it into double figures… anyway, enough of me complaining, go and listen to it, and here’s what’s in it:

1. 1. Simple Minds, Theme for Great Cities
   2. Chrome, Firebomb
   3. The Birthday Party, Cry
   4. The Psychedelic Furs, I Wanna Sleep With You
   5. Nightmares in Wax, Black Leather
   6. Hunters & Collectors, Junket Head
   7. David Bowie, Be My Wife
   8. The Stranglers, Nuclear Device
   9. Depeche Mode, The Landscape is Changing
   10. XTC, Paper & Iron (Notes & Coins)
   11. The Pop Group, She is Beyond Good and Evil
   12. Gary Numan, Music for Chameleons
   13. Wire, Once is Enough
   14. Fad Gadget, Collapsing New People
   15. Devo, Gates of Steel
   16. Ultravox!, Fear in the Western World

New podcast. For this one we go back to the fuzzier end of the mid to late 60s and early 70s, the era where so much of my musical heart is really located; if I wanted to limit myself to just doing mixes from one period (which, to be honest, I don’t, cos I like too much music from other times), the later 60s would probably be it. Playlist:

1. 1. The Sonics, The Witch
   2. The Misunderstood, Find the Hidden Door
   3. William S. Fischer, Saigon
   4. Iggy & The Stooges, Penetration
   5. Buffalo Springfield, Hung Upside Down
   6. Blonde on Blonde, Castles in the Sky
   7. Traffic Sound, Meshkalina
   8. Flamin’ Groovies, Slow Death
   9. The Pink Fairies, Do It
   10. Dana Gillespie, Andy Warhol
   11. The Rolling Stones, Complicated
   12. The Byrds, Bad Night at the Whisky
   13. Timebox, Gone is the Sad Man
   14. David Bowie, Holy Holy (1972 version)
   15. The Who, Baby Don’t You Do It (live)
   16. Yardbirds, Stroll On
   17. Love Sculpture, Sabre Dance

New podcast up now. Going a bit more in the darkwave/goth direction this time round (more relatively recent stuff at that), also the rank nepotism direction (that’s people I actually know behind Sequential Zero). Playlist:

1. 1. Sims, Breaking the Ice
   2. Night Battles, Curse the Day
   3. Esben and the Witch, Marching Song
   4. Massive Attack & Mos Def, I Against I
   5. The Soft Moon, Zeros
   6. Puritans, God of the Gutter
   7. Black Cab, Underground Star
   8. Ital Tek, Cobra
   9. Drab Majesty, Cold Souls
   10. Wovenhand, Field of Hedon
   11. Sequential Zero, The Banishing Spell
   12. The Faint, Violent
   13. Sextile, Into the Unknown
   14. Death Index, Ego-Dance

And now for the next installment of this podcast thing, going a bit heavier on the electronics and early industrial this time round. Playlist below.

1. 1. Severed Heads, Hot With Fleas (original version)
   2. Clock DVA, Beautiful Losers
   3. Abwärts, Beim erstenmal tut’s immer weh
   4. The Neon Judgement, Chinese Black
   5. Yellow Magic Orchestra, Stairs
   6. John Foxx, No One Driving
   7. Hula, Tear-Up
   8. Simple Minds, Careful in Career
   9. Danse Macabre, ECG
   10. Liaisons Dangereuses, Peut-etre… pas
   11. Yello, Lost Again
   12. Single Gun Theory, Open Grave
   13. Depeche Mode, Photographic (album version)
   14. Department S, Going Left Right

It’s 15 years today since The Cerebro-Vascular Accident. To mark the occasion of me somehow not dying on June 9 2009, I have for some reason decided to reanimate my music podcast… I actually first attempted such a thing about ten years ago, and started the Inanimate Carbon God one in 2016 as a semi-regular thing, produced 83 episodes of the thing until 2021 which is fairly impressive for me… then rebranded it and tried presenting it more like the radio show I used to do with voice links and a theme I’d bodgied together, and tried to make it regular too… but I soon found writing and recording a back-announcing script was a layer of production I could no longer be arsed with, so that was that. ICG redux, therefore, is going back to its roots of 15 songs per episode (or however many comes closest to an hour) with none of that fancy vocal stuff from me. And probably only semi-regular again. Here’s the playlist for the first one, which you can hear via the widget thing above.

1. 1. Chrome, Danger Zone
   2. The Adverts, On the Roof
   3. Flowers, Sister
   4. Xmal Deutschland, Augen-Blick
   5. Iggy Pop, China Girl
   6. Public Image Limited, Memories (single version)
   7. Joy Division, Heart and Soul
   8. Gang of Four, Capital (It Fails Us Now)
   9. O.A., Great White Hope
   10. Echo & The Bunnymen, No Dark Things
   11. The Lines, Background
   12. The Saints, New Centre of the Universe
   13. Joe Jackson, Got the Time
   14. The Damned, I Believe the Impossible
   15. MX-80 Sound, Someday You’ll Be King