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The Mixtapes

If we still lived in the age of the cassette I’d lovingly put this together for you on a TDK and pop it through your letter box (if, that is, letter boxes are still a thing). Anyway, instead, mixtapes from my ears to yours are available on mixcloud, where there is no need to craft hand-written labels that demonstrate my love and affection. Mostly, these mixtapes are what I’ve been listening to during the week; new releases, tunes I’ve encountered for the first time, old favourites and stuff I’ve dredged up – you know the score, you’ve got your own music collection. Hope you enjoy. x

Yes! We Have No Tomatoes

    1. Louis Prima & His Orchestra – Yes, We Have No Bananas
    2. Nick Drake – Fruit Tree
    3. Camper Van Beethoven – All Her Favourite Fruit
    4. Steve Cobby – From Roots To Fruits (Original Mix)
    5. XTC – Love On A Farmboy’s Wages
    6. The Housemartins – Me & The Farmer
    7. Eska – This Is How A Garden Grows
    8. Gorillaz – Possession Island (feat. Beck)
    9. Nina Simone – Strange Fruit (Live In New York 1965)
    10. Ryuichi Sakamoto – the end of europe (2019 Remastering)
    11. Hot Chip – (Just Like We) Breakdown
    12. Yazoo – State Farm (12″ mix)
    13. Kae Tempest – Europe Is Lost
    14. Gil Scott-Heron – Or Down You Fall
    15. Just Brothers – Sliced Tomatoes
    16. Pink Martini – Hang on Little Tomato

    Spring In Your Step

      1. Orbital – Dirty Rat
      2. Harmonic 313 – Flashback
      3. Bibio – Jealous of Roses
      4. Req – Blimpot
      5. Lack of Afro – The Outsider
      6. The New Birth – Con-Funk-Shun
      7. Joey Negro – Here Comes The Sunburst Band
      8. The Doobie Brothers – Long Train Runnin’
      9. Synapson – All in You (feat. Anna Kova)
      10. Jamie Lidell – A Little Bit More (Herbert – A Little Bit Less Remix)
      11. Seefeel – Rough For Radio (Peel Session)
      12. The WAEVE – Someone Up There
      13. Born Ruffians – Plinky Plonky
      14. Rilo Kiley – Always
      15. Miya Folick – Get Out of My House
      16. Ye Woodbeast – Pearls
      17. Two Lone Swordsmen – Driving With My Gears In Reverse (Only Makes You Move Further Away)
      18. Anna B Savage – The Orange
      19. Caroline Polachek – Hopedrunk Everasking
      20. Indigo De Souza – Younger & Dumber

      Raindrops Keep Fallin’

        1. BJ Thomas – Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head
        2. Television – Marquee Moon
        3. Automatic – On the Edge
        4. Coach Party – Micro Agression
        5. Dry Cleaning – Strong Feelings
        6. The Murder Capital – Return To My Head
        7. The Tallest Man On Earth – Every Little Heart
        8. Daydream Review – Have You Found What You’re Looking For?
        9. RAYE – The Thrill Is Gone
        10. St Vincent – Digital Witness
        11. Isaiah Mendiola – Last Dance
        12. Avalon Emerson Sandrail Silhouette
        13. SZA – Gone Girl
        14. The Arcs – Only One For Me
        15. mazie – it’s not me (it’s u)
        16. Eden Ahbez – Nature Boy
        17. Ladytron – Time’s Arrow
        18. Burt Bacharach – Knowing When To Leave

        Funky February

          1. Cimafunk – Esto Es Cuba
          2. Kimbra – la type
          3. Diesler – Back to My Old Tricks
          4. Nina Simone – Funkier Than a Mosquito’s Tweeter
          5. LTJ XPerience – Funk Is On
          6. Ben Toury – Slow New Funk
          7. Nite Bjuti – Mood (Liberation Walk)
          8. The Arcs – Sunshine
          9. Samia – Amelia
          10. Prince – Y Should Eye Do That When Eye Can Do This?
          11. Phil Martin’s Mystical Funk – Here We Go Again
          12. Louis Cole – Dead Inside Shuffle
          13. Stretch – Why Did You Do It?
          14. Cimafunk – Funk Aspirin

          The Sunday Contortion

            1. Bob Dylan – Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream
            2. The Reytons – It’s A Fuck About
            3. The Snuts – Zuckerpunch
            4. The Charlatans – You’re So Pretty, We’re So Pretty
            5. Mick Jagger – Sweet Thing
            6. Royal Blood – Come On Over
            7. Bush Tetras – Can’t Be Funky
            8. The Contortions – Contort Yourself
            9. Patti Smith – Redondo Beach
            10. The Reytons – Kids Off The Estate
            11. Belleruche – Northern Girls
            12. The Cinematic Orchestra – Channel One Suite
            13. Terranova – Midnight Melodic (Chase the Blues)
            14. The Long Lost – The Art of Kissing
            15. Julia Jacklin – Moviegoer
            16. Mr Scruff – Donkey Ride
            17. The Herbaliser – Gadget Funk
            18. Tom Misch & Poppy Ajudha – Disco Yes
            19. Bob Dylan – Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream

            Risk Is Our Business

              1. Alexander Courage – Theme from Star Trek
              2. Rozi Plain – Here
              3. Circa Waves – Northern Town
              4. Billy Nomates – same gun
              5. Gaz Coombes – Feel Loop (Lizard Dream)
              6. Derrick Gardner & the Big Dig! Band – The Sixth Village
              7. The Only Ones – Another Girl, Another Planet
              8. The Vibrators – Baby Baby
              9. The Dickies – Banana Splits
              10. Thee Headcoats – Davey Crockett
              11. MC5 – Kick Out The Jams
              12. Funkadelic – Whole Lot of BS
              13. Parliament – Night of the Thumpasorus People
              14. Funkadelic – Let’s Take It To the Stage (Amp Fiddler Laughin @Ya Mix)
              15. Purple Disco Machine/Kool Keith – Memphis Jam (feat. Kool Keith)
              16. Soulwax – Is It Always Binary
              17. Steinski – Everything’s Disappeared
              18. Simian Mobile Disco – Space is Filled With Ringing
              19. Coldcut – Space Journey (Hexstatic Remix)

              We Could Get Higher

                1. Self Esteem – Wrestling
                2. Lizzy McAlpine – an ego thing
                3. Amber Mark – Darkside
                4. Beyoncé – PURE/HONEY
                5. Curse Of Lono – So Damned Beautiful
                6. FènixDion – Sugar
                7. Flo Rida – I Don’t Like It, I Love It (feat. Robin Thicke & Verdine White)
                8. Paramore – This Is Why
                9. RAYE – Escapism
                10. Leftfield – Full Way Round
                11. Warmduscher – Double Vision
                12. Sudan Archives – Selfish Soul
                13. Charlotte Adigery – HAHA
                14. Little Simz – Broken
                15. Stormzy – Give It To The Water
                16. Loyle Carner – Nobody Knows (Ladas Road)
                17. Pastor T.L. Barrett & The Youth For Christ Choir – Nobody Knows

                Digging The December Dirt

                  1. COIN – Chapstick
                  2. The Cure – Wrong Number
                  3. Fazerdaze – Break!
                  4. Laney Jones – Not Alone
                  5. Wet Leg – Supermarket
                  6. Wire – Outdoor Miner
                  7. New York Dolls – Jet Boy
                  8. The Stooges – 1969
                  9. Yard Act – Pour Another
                  10. The Modern Lovers – Roadrunner
                  11. Broncho – Class Historian
                  12. The Cat Empire – Til The Ocean Takes Us All
                  13. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Hysteric
                  14. Margaret Glaspy – Somebody to Anybody
                  15. Porridge Radio – Back To The Radio
                  16. The Velvet Underground – Foggy Notion
                  17. Sault – Higher
                  18. !!! – Things Get Hard
                  19. Dataworx – Control (Original Mix)
                  20. Jockstrap – 50/50 (Extended Mix)
                  21. Throbbing Gristle – Hot On The Heels Of Love
                  22. Warmduscher – Twitchin’ In The Kitchen
                  23. STRFKR – Never Ever
                  24. TEYMORI – Patience
                  25. Manu Dibango – The Panther

                  World Cup Feelings

                    1. Charles Bradley – Stay Away
                    2. Chip Wickham – Sais (Egypt)
                    3. Khruangbin – Balls and Pins
                    4. Tommy Guerrero – White Sands
                    5. Ben Lamar Gay – Bang Melodically Bang
                    6. Gramatik – Ass Kickin’ Bass
                    7. Ivy Sole – Cloud Kickin’
                    8. Jungle Brothers – Beyond This World
                    9. Sharpshooters – Pork Pie Stride
                    10. The Fugees – The Score (feat. Diamond D)
                    11. Stormzy – My Presidents Are Black
                    12. Pigbag – Papa’s Got a Brand New Pigbag (12″ Version)
                    13. Shire Tea – Gentlemen’s Whistle Club
                    14. Siouxsie and The Banshees – Desert Kisses
                    15. Esbjörn Svensson – Zeta
                    16. Zoë Keating – Seven League Boots

                    Fly Away Somewhere

                      1. Weyes Blood – It’s Not Just Me, It’s Everybody
                      2. Laney Jones – Stories up High
                      3. Adrianne Lenker – Disappear
                      4. Billy Preston – How Long Has The Train Been Gone
                      5. Ryuichi Sakamoto – The Sheltering Sky
                      6. Prince – 17 Days (Piano & A Microphone 1983 Version)
                      7. Art Blakey – Like Someone In Love (Rudy Van Gelder Edition, 2004 Remaster)
                      8. Portishead – Nylon Smile
                      9. Public Image Limited – Chant
                      10. The Hold Steady – Unpleasant Breakfast
                      11. Mark Franklin – Release to the System
                      12. Baby Mammoth – Quick Kick
                      13. Miles Davis – Mystery