Wednesday, March 5, 2008

TRUCKS, CATS AND DOLLIES

Big apologies for lack of posts - been scouting for a 'crock o' gold' and this is possibly the best yet.



Frankie J got in touch with a collection of tunes he found at various thrift stores as he travelled cross country to the 2006 Big Logs Festival. More like HOT logs after these goods were pushed into the cassette machine. Frankie J got cracking and is proud of this EXCLUSIVE mix - the likes of which shan't be heard again.

First up - Australia's answer to Richie Cunningham and the Stale Froot Machine - the Silver Studs. Sadly the follow up single 'Ripe and Dandy' didn't make it for them, so it was back to the Dry Cleaning Industry. We're left with 'Dance With A Dolly', a stain these boys could never EVER remove.



Next - ride high with Bronson - one of Australia's unknown Country KINGS and a truckie to boot. Featuring from Volume 6 of his cassettes,'Trucks Trucks and More Trucks - Bronson Drives Home Some Trucking Songs'- how this was left on the shelf of the Longreach Community Health Centre for so long will amaze you! 'Cholestreeol [sic] Kings' makes a bold honest statement that BIG BRONSON is keen to own. Bronson plays all instruments, vocals; composes the tunes and records them in the BRONSON TRAVELLING MOBILE UNIT - presumably a Kenworth.

From the western twang to the Opera Halls of Italia - the Great Caruso will have you FLOORED to the strains of 'My Beautiful Cat' - a heartfelt tune dedicated to his precious moggy. The production skills of Davino Bernardio are evident in the forgotten technique of 'live cassette edit' - a skill presumed to have died out in 1974. Listen to the very end for a coda that will bring a tear to your eye.

Add delicate doses of Status Quo, Reynols and old Sigsworth Hero, Robin Jolley - this is the PARTY STARTER you've been CRAVING.



Don't delay - download TODAY!

Tracklisting:

Dance With A Dolly SILVER STUDS
The Cholestreeol Kings BRONSON
Masiamo Tupido REYNOLS
Moon In Uranus [excerpt] JOM O'KAEF
Electric Apple MIKE VICKERS
The Punjab EXCEPTER
Cannonball Yodel BOBBEJAAN SCHOEPEN
Night Rider STATUS QUO
Looking For An Echo [remix] FRANKIE J AND THE JANDY BAND
Do it again ROBIN JOLLEY
My Beautiful Cat THE GREAT CARUSO

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

PK Freshk-Ness On The Decks



The momentum for FRESH mixes is just at boiling point. Ol' Dub Jraan from the Jraanmin Krew has been hanging around my garage like a bad smell for weeks - once he got a hint of the blog he was off up the street to Burmenk Audio Suite to visit his idol P.K Freshness.

Ol' Dub also plays trombone in the Jandy Band who played along with P.K. as he accidentally cut new grooves in his vinyl with his 'lathe-cut' technique. Some nice work - re-slicing a whole new feel to Doug Parkinson's theme to the ill-feted TV Show 'Arcade' from the 80s - which ironically had PK as an extra, sharpening the knives in Vickey's Sandwich Shoppe.



I include a rare snap of the Jandy Band - known to 'take the pipe' to anyone weilding a camera - PK's absence of his left eye is a testament to that.

Please - care to enjoy!

P.K. Freshness and the Jandy Band - 'Hot Town Burn Like A Fever' Mix

Get the Feeling SPARK-EYE AND THE JANDY BAND
Tomorrow's World JOHN BAKER
It Fit When I Was a Kid (Crystal Castles remix) LIARS
Knock Knock Who's There MARY HOPKINS
Freshness P.K. FRESHNESS AND THE JANDY BAND
(Do You Have) The Force DROIDS
Arcade [Fresh mix] DOUG PARKINSON
Boogie Dancing GORDON THOMAS
Yamasuki YAMASUKI SINGERS
Poppy Tea INCA ORE
Mindbender STRINGTRONICS
H.C.T.F.R. COLIN NEWMAN
The Subway Ride Thru Inner Space THE FREAK SCENE
Evelybody Jiggring P.K. FRESHNESS AND THE JANDY BAND
New Toy [Extended Softly Mix] LENE LOVICH

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

DJ Flunk Jonovan is on the toilet!




Ring the bells! Flunk Jonovan has joined Sigsworth and promises some deadly mixes! He has been a downloading freak since the day he gave up his cassette mixes [last Friday] and so far has cut a solid 5 mixes which have all been on air on the Cruskit hour on 2MBS-FM.

Here's his first mix recorded live at the Guildford Bowling Club on Sunday night.

Theme from Jonovan DJ JONOVAN
We Are All Animals DIAGRAM BROTHERS
Program Tvog Kompjutera DENIS AND DENIS
Fireball Mail LADISLAV VODICKA
Lady of Spain PIFFY THE BELL RINGER
My Up Is My Down TOM AND ELLEN
Saturday/Man Dat Hip TOM ELLARD
Ronu Ronu THE HANOUR HAZIONI SINGERS
Moja Bol BUMERANG
I like It Both Ways SUPERNAUT
The Superbird THE AVIARY CONNECTION
Der Lachende Papst ANDREAS DOREAU
Softly I Leave You DJ JONOVAN

Bluey's back

and he wants you to check out the great Robin Jolley in action here ( 1977 ) and the world's sleaziest host from ( Vic ) BTV6 Six Tonight




Monday, February 18, 2008

Marshall's Portable Music Machine




Marshall's Portable Music Machine - say no more.

Read em and weep. Hear em and weep.

This is what happens when Bluey Mitchell's Ceramic Budgie Sound System rocks up outside the Lidcombe Senior Citizens Bingo afternoon.

Lucky for everyone we recorded it.....

Tracklist

1. Leka Hum Diwana Dil ( Ceramic Budgie Mix ) - RD Burman
2. Blind Vision ( 12" Mix ) - Blancmange
3. Do The Mussolini - Cabaret Voltaire
4. Startflur - Ageatis Byrjun
5. Marshall's Portable Music Machine - Robin Jolley
6. Tape Kebab - CAN
7. The Mouse That Roared - Dalek I Love You
8. Independence Day - Fat Tulips
9. Nowhere Girl - B Movie
10. Older Lover - The Fall

Hot Boolian Mix


When Sigsworth asked me to add a shift I was all thumbs and trousers - excitedly I just had to share with you my Budgie Boolian's mix. What? - you say? True. I cut up paper with track names I've been listening to from my download pile and as he 'chooses' each track - then I mix em! Some may think this odd - but I think he knows some hot tunes and how they flow together! See what you think....this is equal parts hot Yugo-Prog circa 75 meets click-crunk via NZ pop tones. As I type he's biting my ear cause he wants some more tunes to choose. Ooooh I love em - hope you do.
Committee of Love TACTICS
Noè u paklu IPE I LAZA
I'm in love with my sister ROBERT OWENS
What was that Thing ABLE TASMANS
Green Tomato TOBIAS SVENSSON
Zed DEN ZA DEN
Zwischen Himmel Und Erde DEUTSCHE ANARCHISTEN TAUMELN BENOMMEN EINEN SCHRITT ZUR SEITE
When U Sleep SALEM
Ronach ZAO
Titan PRINCIPLES OF GEOMETRY

Sunday, February 17, 2008

phil and donnie go head to head

sure shot - as you English speakers say...is what a Swedish guy wrote to me in an email the other day...sure shot ?? ( body rock ...can you dance like the crew ?? )

but I've digressed...even before we've begun whch isn't bad going

for our first mix today we locked Phil ( Bryemk ) and Donnie ( Mayo ) in the Sigsworth studios and they went head to head - using only music they've downloaded from blogs of course

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Tracklist -

1. Red Frame White Light - OMD
2. I Need Two Heads - The Go-Betweens
3. Touch - Lori & The Chameleons
4. Nag Nag Nag - Caberet Voltaire
5. Child's Play - Modern Eon
6. Just Like Gold - Aztec Camera
7. The Sweetest Girl - Scritti Politti
8. So Soon - Tiny Town
9. Treason ( orig Zoo vers ) - Teardrop Explodes
10. Shack Up - A Certain Ratio