Here’s a dumb-as-hell end-of-year mix of stuff I’ve enjoyed, including some weird Welsh stuff and some tape clips:
What is: Through the Night?
DJ Brittle – 120122 (2)
A Letter from Genesis (Rest in Piss)
Matt Norman – Car Stories
Max Syedtollan – I Don’t Want Lorenzo Hearing Me Singing Today
Dandy Warhols - Literally Chaos Would’ve Ensued
The Panama Papers – About Your Father
Megzbow and Vinegar Tom – Ronnie Redux
Tom Mudd – Romantic Chord, The Brook and The Pool
Watching Hellraiser for the First Time
Darius Jones – Damon and Pythias
Lo Egin – The Things his Highness Overlooked
The Joys of Belgium
Ysbrydnos – Cadogan’s Tired Ghost
Jeremy Vine: Hell Awaits
IFS MA – Madorom
Rian Trainor & Ocen James – Bunga Bule
RS Tanget – Bovine Overbite
DJ Ramon Sucesso – Distorcendo a Realidade
Yfory – Dim Siawns
A Moving Tribute to Static Shock Festival from ‘O’ of The Tubs
Altar of Moss – Return
Good Luck
DJ Guy – Glide
2023 in review
Good: AI Homer Simpson doing ‘Starlight’, Lee Gamble’s ‘She’s Not’, SHIFT & Jon Ruddick
Bad: All remaining AI patter, FOR Cardiff and the thirteen million quid canal
I did this mix on Dec 23 and in retrospect, it was a huge waste of time: what I should have done was attend the tenth successive round of weekend action for a free Palestine in Cardiff, which among other things targeted the bastard arrogance of the Coca-Cola truck in front of central library. If nothing else, I think these community experiences outweigh the value of fucking ‘music’ ‘journalism’ any day.
I am sure that some of you have been involved in these actions and my partner has asked me to post a short FYI, which you can share among your friends: legal observers are there to monitor the behaviour and activity of the cops, several of whom were sporting thin blue line ddraigs today. They are there for your well-being, should it all go to shit. Just this afternoon they witnessed a high-ranking officer of the South Wales Police rifling through a printed copy of the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act to see what they could charge people with (nothing, it turns out), a level of diligence they certainly would not have bothered with had they not had eyes on them. Please do not confuse legal observers with Community Liaison Officers, who it is widely agreed are in the habit of feeding back sensitive information to the police. These are often identifiable by their blue hi-viz jackets.
Fuck the Western Colonizer Death Machine. Fuck the Netanyahu Impotence Complex. Long live Palestine. Long live all peace-loving peoples. Long live a free and weird Wales