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SOUND OF CINEMA - 330. THE FILMS OF CLINT EASTWOOD (320kbs-m4a/134mb/58mins)
BBC Radio 3 broadcast: 13th November 2021
With the release this week of 'Cry Macho', Matthew Sweet looks back on the music for the films of Clint Eastwood, both as actor, director and composer. The programme includes music from 'For A Few Dollars More', 'The Outlaw Josey Wales', 'Magnum Force', 'High Plains Drifter', 'Pale Rider', 'Mystic River', ''Letters from Iwo Jima', 'Sully' and 'Unforgiven' and celebrates his musical links and collaborations with composers such as Ennio Morricone, Lalo Schifrin, Dee Barton and Lennie Niehaus. And we end with music by Morgan Kibby from 'Mothering Sunday' which is also out this week.
Image courtesy of Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Photo: Claire Folger
Clint Eastwood - Don't Fence Me In [ACE]
Ennio Morricone - For a Few Dollars More (1965) - Main Theme [Rhino]
Jerry Fielding - The Outlaw Josey Wales (1975) - Main Title [Warner Bros.]
Lalo Schifrin - Magnum Force (1973) - Main Title [Aleph]
Lalo Schifrin - Magnum Force (1973) - Finale [Aleph]
Dee Barton - High Plains Drifter (1973) - Main Theme [Silva Screen]
Alan Hawkshaw - Best Endeavours (Channel 4 News Theme)
Lennie Niehaus - Pale Rider (1985) - Theme [Warner Bros.]
Clint Eastwood - Mystic River (2003) - Orchestral Variation #2 [Warner Bros.]
Kyle Eastwood & Michael Stevens - Letters From Iwo Jima (2006) - Song For The Defence Of Iwo Jima [Milan]
Kyle Eastwood & Michael Stevens - Letters From Iwo Jima (2006) - End Titles Part 1 [Milan]
Christian Jacob & Clint Eastwood - Sully: Miracle On The Hudson (2016) - Suite [Varèse Sarabande]
Lennie Niehaus & Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven (1992) - Selection of music [Varèse Sarabande]
Mark Mancina - Cry Macho (2021) - Time Lapse [Warner Bros.]
Mark Mancina - Cry Macho (2021) - He's Yours Now [Warner Bros.]
Morgan Kibby - Mothering Sunday (2021) - Resonance [Filmtrax]
MARK BILLINGHAM'S RULE BOOK OF CRIME (320kbs-m4a/412mb/2hrs59mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 21st August 2021
Best-selling crime writer Mark Billingham has always been obsessed with the creative criminal minds of the past.
Over three hours, Mark sets out to detect the clues dropped in the BBC archives, as he brings a flavour of the magic of his favourite crime writers:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Dame Agatha Christie
Raymond Chandler
PD James
Henning Mankell
Clues that reveal why their sleuthing creations - Sherlock Holmes, Miss Marple, Philip Marlowe, Adam Dalgliesh and Kurt Wallander - are so enduring.
Having created his own flawed crime fighter, Detective Inspector Tom Thorne, Mark's wrestled with the thorny issue of inventing a distinctive new voice amongst a myriad of detecting greats. What's more important, devious plotting or debauched heroes, a killer in plain sight or rug-pulling twists?
In plundering the archive for answers, Mark has uncovered a hidden BBC radio detecting gem. Debuting in the late 1970s and running for a few seasons into the 1980s, it starred an actor who could be a lead in TV classic Cathy Come Home and voice an iconic children's cartoon. It was penned by a writer that worked on TV police dramas Z Cars and Softly Softly.
All is revealed in Mark Billingham's Rule Book of Crime.
Producer: Peter McHugh
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in March 2013.
DISCOVERY - THE JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE (320kbs-m4a/78mb/34mins)
BBC World Service broadcast: 13th December 2021
The launch of the James Webb Space Telescope is only days away. Scheduled for lift off on 22 December, the largest and most complex space observatory ever built will be sent to an orbit beyond the moon.
James Webb is so huge that it has had to be folded up to fit in the rocket. There will be a tense two weeks over Christmas and the New Year as the space giant unfurls and unfolds. Its design and construction has taken about 30 years under the leadership of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
With its huge 6.5 metre-wide primary mirror, the giant observatory promises to extend our view across the cosmos to the first stars to shine in the early universe. That's a vista of Cosmic Dawn: the first small clusters of stars to form and ignite out of what had been a universe of just dark clouds of primordial gas. If the James Webb succeeds in capturing the birth of starlight, we will be looking at celestial objects more than 13.5 billion light years away.
Closer to home, the telescope will also revolutionise our understanding of planets orbiting stars beyond the solar system.
BBC science correspondent Jonathan Amos reports from the European Space Agency's launch site in French Guyana from where James Webb will be sent into space. He talks to astronomers who will be using the telescope and NASA engineers who've built the telescope and tested it in the years leading to launch.
Producer: Andrew Luck-Baker
Picture: James Webb Space Telescope, Credit Northrup Grumman
NASA: James Webb Space Telescope
DARE TO REPAIR: FIXING THE FUTURE (320kbs-m4a/61mb/26mins)
BBC World Service broadcast: 26th July 2021
Mark Miodownik, explores the environmental consequences of the throwaway society we have become and reveals that recycling electronic waste comes second to repairing broken electronics. He asks what we can learn from repair cultures around the world, he looks at manufacturers who are designing in repair-ability, and discovers the resources available to encourage and train the next generation of repairers.
Producer: Fiona Roberts
(Photo: Teen boy solders wires to build robot. Credit: SDI Productions/Getty Images)
DARE TO REPAIR: THE FIGHT FOR THE RIGHT TO REPAIR (320kbs-m4a/63mb/26mins)
BBC World Service broadcast: 19th July 2021
Many electronics manufacturers are making it harder for us, to fix our broken kit. There are claims that programmed obsolescence is alive and well, with mobile phone batteries designed to wear out after just 400 charges. They claim it's for safety or security reasons, but it pushes constant replacement and upgrades. But people are starting to fight back. Mark Miodownik talks to the fixers and repairers who are heading up the Right to Repair movement which is forcing governments to act, and making sustainability and value for money part of the consumer equation.
Producer: Fiona Roberts
(Photo: A pile of discarded computer circuit board. Credit: Tara Moore/Getty Images)
DARE TO REPAIR: HOW WE BROKE THE FUTURE (320kbs-m4a/61mb/26mins)
BBC World Service broadcast: 12th July 2021
Materials engineer Professor Mark Miodownik looks back to the start of the electronics revolution to find out why our electronic gadgets and household goods are less durable and harder to repair now. As he attempts to fix his digital clock radio, he reveals that the drive for cheaper stuff and advances in design and manufacturing have left us with a culture of throwaway technology and mountains of electronic waste.
Producer: Fiona Roberts
(Photo: Apron housewife at kitchen dish washer. Credit: George Marks/Getty Images)
MASTERTAPES SERIES 5 - 8. DONOVAN (THE B-SIDE) (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 12th January 2016
John Wilson continues with his fifth series of Mastertapes, in which he talks to leading performers and songwriters about the album that made them or changed them. Recorded in front of a live audience at the BBC's iconic Maida Vale Studios.
Programme 6 (B-side): Having discussed the making of 'Sunshine Superman' (in the A-side of the programme, broadcast on Monday 11th January and available online), Donovan responds to questions from the audience and performs exclusive live acoustic versions of some of the key tracks from the album.
Producer: Clare Walker
MASTERTAPES SERIES 5 - 7. DONOVAN (THE A-SIDE) (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 11th January 2016
John Wilson continues with the fifth series of Mastertapes, the programme in which he talks to leading performers and songwriters about the album that made them or changed them. Recorded in front of a live audience at the BBC's iconic Maida Vale Studios.
Programme 7. Donovan talks to John Wilson about 'Sunshine Superman', which according to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame "ignited the psychedelic revolution virtually single-handedly" when it was released in the summer of 1966.
'Sunshine Superman' is Donovan's breakthrough third album and a radical departure from his previous work. Born in Glasgow, Donovan Phillips Leitch grew up listening to his father reading him poetry and his family singing Scots Irish folk music. He began playing guitar when he was 14 and was 18 when he had his first hit, 'Catch the Wind'. A year later he began work on the album that first introduced meditation, Celtic mythology and Flower Power to the world.
Creating a unique fusion of classical, jazz, folk, pop, Celtic, Latin and Indian music, the album veered from the LA-influenced 'The Trip' and 'The Fat Angel' (written for Mama Cass) to the medieval tinged 'Guinevere' and 'Legend of a Girl Child Linda' (written for Brian Jones' ex-girlfriend Linda Lawrence who became Donovan's life-long muse and wife). Linda is also the Sunshine Super-Girl of the song 'Sunshine Superman' which topped the charts on both sides of the Atlantic and featured a young Jimmy Page on lead guitar.
The B-side of the programme, where it's the turn of the audience to ask the questions, can be heard on Tuesday 12th January at 3.30pm.
Producer: Clare Walker
MASTERTAPES SERIES 4 - 10. NOEL GALLAGHER (THE B-SIDE) (320kbs-m4a/63mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 7th October 2021
John Wilson continues with his new series in which he talks to leading performers and songwriters about the album that made them or changed them. Recorded in front of a live audience at the BBC's iconic Maida Vale Studios. Each edition includes two episodes, with John initially quizzing the artist about the album in question, and then, in the B-side, the audience puts the questions. Both editions feature exclusive live performances.
Programme 10, the B-side. Having discussed the making of 'Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds', his first studio album since leaving Oasis, Noel Gallagher responds to questions from the audience, performs acoustic live versions of some of the tracks from the album and looks forward to his next musical project "Chasing Yesterday" due out in 2015.
Producer: Paul Kobrak
MASTERTAPES SERIES 4 - 9. NOEL GALLAGHER (THE A-SIDE) (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 6th October 2021
John Wilson continues with the latest series of Mastertapes, in which he talks to leading performers and songwriters about the album that made them or changed them. Recorded in front of a live audience at the BBC's iconic Maida Vale Studios. Each edition includes two episodes, with John initially quizzing the artist about the album in question, and then, in the B-side, the audience puts the questions. Both editions feature exclusive live performances.
Programme 9, A-side. 'Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' with Noel Gallagher
In 2009 Noel Gallagher left Oasis – one of the seminal bands of the Britpop era with seven multi-platinum albums including: 'Definitely Maybe', '(What's The Story) Morning Glory?' and 'Be Here Now' – which became the fastest selling album in UK chart history. Two years later Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds also went to Number 1 in the UK with tracks like "Everybody's On the Run", "AKA... What A Life!" and "The Death of You and Me". Praised for its psychedelic tinges and eternal themes of love, loss and hope, it's been described as the best collection of songs "since his Morning Glory days".
With tracks inspired by New Orleans ragtime rhythms and Ennio Morricone-like strings, it put paid to rumours that its creator entered into a state of inertia after the end of Oasis. Noel Gallagher said of the album: "I won't criticize anything about Oasis because I loved being in that band and I was in charge of it, but there was always the feeling: how will this go down in Wembley, with 70,000 people braying for good times? This time I didn't have to think about that. I've got a guy playing wine glasses on one song, a saw on another. This is not Oasis."
Producer: Paul Kobrak
MASTERTAPES SERIES 4 - 8. THE BOOMTOWN RATS (THE B-SIDE) (320kbs-m4a/63mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 4th October 2021
John Wilson continues with his new series in which he talks to leading performers and songwriters about the album that made them or changed them. Recorded in front of a live audience at the BBC's iconic Maida Vale Studios. Each edition includes two episodes, with John initially quizzing the artist about the album in question, and then, in the B-side, the audience puts the questions. Both editions feature exclusive live performances.
Programme 8, the B-side. Having discussed the making of "A Tonic For The Troops", their 1978 hit album, Bob Geldof and the Boomtown Rats respond to questions from the audience and performs acoustic live versions of some of the tracks from the album which brought them their first Number 1 single with 'Rat Trap'.
Producer: Paul Kobrak
MASTERTAPES SERIES 4 - 7. THE BOOMTOWN RATS (THE A-SIDE) (320kbs-m4a/63mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 4th October 2021
John Wilson continues with the series in which he talks to leading performers and songwriters about the album that made them or changed them. Recorded in front of a live audience at the BBC's iconic Maida Vale Studios. Each edition includes two episodes, with John initially quizzing the artist about the album in question, and then, in the B-side, the audience puts the questions. Both editions feature exclusive live performances.
Programme 7, A-side. 'A Tonic For The Troops'
Named after a gang in Woody Guthrie's autobiography, The Boomtown Rats had a series of hits between 1977 and 1985. Signed by Mercury records the same year that punk rock exploded in Britain, it was their second album 'A Tonic for the Troops', with tracks like "She's So Modern", "Like Clockwork" and "Me and Howard Hughes", that brought them their first Number 1 hit with "Rat Trap".
It's an album that treats dark themes like suicide and euthanasia in an often upbeat, pop-punk style - one critic described the track "Eva Braun" as "the happiest, cheeriest, best upbeat song about Hitler ever written." And another said "Vintage superstars who look like eyesores and sound like dinosaurs should carefully study this album."
The band broke-up in 1986, but reformed in 2013 to tour the UK. This will be a unique opportunity not only to hear them talk about their album but also to see them perform exclusive versions of key tracks.
Producer: Paul Kobrak
MASTERTAPES SERIES 4 - 6. MANIC STREET PREACHERS (THE B-SIDE) (320kbs-m4a/63mb/27mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 18th November 2014
John Wilson continues with his series in which he talks to leading performers and songwriters about the album that made them or changed them. Recorded in front of a live audience at the BBC's iconic Maida Vale Studios. Each edition includes two episodes, with John initially quizzing the artist about the album in question, and then, in the B-side, the audience puts the questions. Both editions feature exclusive live performances.
Programme 2, the B-side. Having discussed the making of "The Holy Bible", the career defining third album (in the A-side of the programme, broadcast on Monday 17th November and available online), James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire and Sean Moore respond to questions from the audience and performs acoustic live versions of some to the tracks from the album which was released twenty years ago.
Producer: Paul Kobra
MASTERTAPES SERIES 4 - 5. MANIC STREET PREACHERS (THE A-SIDE) (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 17th November 2014
John Wilson continues with his new series in which he talks to leading performers and songwriters about the album that made them or changed them. Recorded in front of a live audience at the BBC's iconic Maida Vale Studios.
Programme 3. Manic Street Preachers' 'THe Holy Bible' with Sean Moore, James Dean Bradfield and Nicky Wire.
Released a mere five months before the disappearance of main lyricist and rhythm guitarist Richey Edwards, The Holy Bible reflects his fragile mental state. On its release, Q said "even a cursory glance at the titles will confirm that this is not the new Gloria Estefan album". And with tracks like "Yes", "Of Walking Abortion", "Mausoleum" and "4st 7lb", the lyrics deal with everything from prostitution and serial killers to the Holocaust and self-starvation.
With Manic Street Preachers about to take this career defining album back on Tour in December, when they played some of the songs from it for this special edition of Mastertapes, it was the first time in two decades that Nicky, James and Sean played some of them in front of an audience.
Complete versions of the songs performed in the programme (as well as some that weren't) can be heard on the 'Mastertapes' pages on the Radio 4 website.
Producer: Paul Kobrak
THE MASTERTAPES GUIDE TO WRITING THE PERFECT SONG (320kbs-m4a/393mb/2hrs51mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 1st to 15th September 2021
John Wilson has talked to 45 acclaimed songwriters for BBC Radio 4's series 'Mastertapes'. In each episode, recorded with an audience of fans at the BBC Maida Vale Studios, the guest focusses a key album from their career, describing in detail how dozens of much loved hit songs were written.
Presented and produced by John Wilson.
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in May 2021.
THE MASTERTAPES GUIDE TO WRITING THE PERFECT SONG - 1. FROM MACCA TO MCLEAN (320kbs-m4a/131mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 1st September 2021
Sir Paul McCartney, Emeli Sande, Suzanne Veja, Natalie Merchant, Paul Weller, Corrine Bailey Rae, Richard Hawley, Jimmy Webb, Laura Marling, Billy Bragg, Ray Davies and Don McLean give a masterclass in the art of songwriting.
Now, the 'Mastertapes' guests are brought together to offer a unique how-to guide to writing the perfect song. Sir Paul McCartney demonstrates the building blocks of songwriting, reveals how a chord 'borrowed' from a Picasso painting became the basis of a collaborative composition with Kanye West. McCartney also talks candidly about his songwriting partnership with John Lennon in The Beatles. Suzanne Vega and Emeli Sandé remember - and try to play - the very first songs that they wrote as children.
Ray Davies reveals how the character studies he created for his songs with The Kinks - including 'Dedicated Follower Of Fashion' - were based on real people. Paul Weller breaks down the words and chords to 'A Town Called Malice', and remembers how, as a younger songwriter, he would ritually destroy his lyric books after completing a new album. And Don McLean is delightfully evasive about his greatest hit, 'American Pie'.
THE MASTERTAPES GUIDE TO WRITING THE PERFECT SONG - 2. PROTEST AND PROCLAIM (320kbs-m4a/131mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 8th September 2021
Elvis Costello, Sinead O'Connor, David Crosby, David Hinds and Selwyn Brown of Steel Pulse, Billy Bragg, Benjamin Clementine, James Dean Bradfield and Nicky Wire of The Manic Street Preachers, Craig David, Robbie Williams, Guy Chambers and Spandau Ballet's Gary Kemp and Tony Hadley give a masterclass in the art of songwriting.
Now, the 'Mastertapes' guests are brought together to offer a unique how-to guide to writing the perfect song. In this episode, Elvis Costello denies his role as a protest singer and David Crosby describes the process by which the song 'Ohio' became an anthem for '70s American counterculture.
THE MASTERTAPES GUIDE TO WRITING THE PERFECT SONG - 3. WHO'S IT FOR? (320kbs-m4a/131mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 15th September 2021
Randy Newman, Laura Marling, Lily Allen, Noel Gallagher, Damon Albarn (The Good, The Bad and The Queen), Elvis Costello, David Gray, Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook (Squeeze), David Crosby, Graham Nash, Emeli Sande and Sir Paul McCartney give a masterclass in the art of songwriting.
Now, the 'Mastertapes' guests are brought together to offer a unique how-to guide to writing the perfect song. In this episode, Randy Newman reflects on writing for films and Graham Nash recalls Neil Young's unique playback system.
MASTERTAPES - ACCESS ALL AREAS (320kbs-m4a/402mb/2hrs55mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 19th August to 2nd September 2020
Mastertapes is a BBC Radio 4 series in which John Wilson talks to leading performers and songwriters about the album that made them or changed them.
In this three-part series made for BBC Radio 4 Extra, John goes behind the scenes of the iconic BBC studios at Maida Vale in London where over 40 episodes of Mastertapes were recorded.
Producer: Sarah Shebbeare
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in December 2018.
MASTERTAPES - ACCESS ALL AREAS - 1. MACCA TO MODFATHER (320kbs-m4a/137mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 19th August 2020
For starters, John returns to the very first series recorded in 2012.
This series features the likes of Sir Paul McCartney, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Robbie Williams, Guy Chambers, Corrine Bailey Rae and Paul Weller.
MASTERTAPES - ACCESS ALL AREAS - 2. FROM FOUR SEASONS TO TIME OF THE SEASON (320kbs-m4a/130mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 26th August 2020
John continues his behind the scenes tour of the iconic BBC studios at Maida Vale in London where over 40 episodes of Mastertapes were recorded.
Series featuring the likes of Nigel Kennedy, Noel Gallagher, Bellowhead, Soul II Soul, Wilko Johnson, Natalie Merchant, Emeli Sande and The Zombies.
MASTERTAPES - ACCESS ALL AREAS - 3. RUFUS WAINWRIGHT TO DAVID GRAY (320kbs-m4a/134mb/58mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 2nd September 2020
John concludes his behind the scenes tour of the iconic BBC studios at Maida Vale in London where over 40 episodes of Mastertapes were recorded.
Series featuring the likes of Nigel Kennedy, Noel Gallagher, Bellowhead, Soul II Soul, Wilko Johnson, Natalie Merchant, Emeli Sande and The Zombies.
FATBOY SLIM - MINI MIX 27.08.21 (320kbs-m4a/12mb/5mins)
BBC Radio 1 broadcast: 27th August 2021
Bonzo Goes To Washington - 5 Minutes [Sleeping Bag]
The Doors - The End [Rhino]
Fatboy Slim - Praise You [Skint]
Armin van Buuren - The Sound Of Goodbye [Armind]
Fisher - Just Feels Tight [Catch & Release]
"Little" Louie Vega & David Morales - You Are Everything [Vega]
ABBA - Thank You For The Music [Epic]
Papa Marlin & Kricked - Pinkie [Slightly Sizzled]
Clooney - Dub Be Good To Me
John Denver - Annie's Song [RCA Victor]
DJ Koze - Pick Up [Pampa]
Gladys Knight & The Pips - Neither One Of Us [Tamla Mowtown]
Roland Clark - I Can't Wait
Ludo Lacoste - Essence [Insomniac]
Vera Lynn - We'll Meet Again [Decca]
LOSE YOURSELF WITH... STUART BRAITHWAITE 21.11.21 (320kbs-m4a/135mb/59mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 21st November 2021
Stuart Braithwaite closes out the current series with a relaxing playlist, including music from The Velvet Underground, Primal Scream, PJ Harvey and more.
The Velvet Underground - Rock & Roll [Verve]
Primal Scream - Imperial
PJ Harvey - The Ministry Of Defence [Island]
Koreless - Black Rainbow [Young]
Elisabeth Elektra - Sadie (Ajimal Remix) [Occult Babes]
Low - Days Like These [Sub Pop]
Galaxie 500 - Blue Thunder [20/20/20]
Hood - Useless [Domino]
Circuit des Yeux - Vanishing [Matador]
Rev Magnetic - Sunny Windy Winter Morning (Rainbows Spanning The Valley) [Rock Action]
bdrmm - Momo [Tugboat]
The Pastels - Lonely Planet Boy
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Dazzle [Polydor]
LOSE YOURSELF WITH... STUART BRAITHWAITE 31.10.21 (320kbs-m4a/138mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 31st October 2021
Stuart is back as host with a calming playlist to soothe your soul. Including music from Nick Cave & The Badseeds, Sam Cooke, The Orb and many more.
Angel Olsen - Lark [Jagjaguwar]
Anohni - Crisis [Rough Trade]
Blind Willie Johnson - Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground [Sony]
Sam Cooke - Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen [RCA]
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Ghosteen Speaks [Ghosteen]
Spiritualized - Broken Heart [Sony]
Brainwaltzera - Kurrytee [MIDI_2_CV] [2017 FILM]
Clark - Labent Rag
Son House - John The Revelator [Sony]
The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds [Virgin]
Tortoise - Gamera
Bruce Springsteen - Dream Baby Dream [Columbia]
LOSE YOURSELF WITH... STUART BRAITHWAITE 10.10.21 (320kbs-m4a/137mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 10th October 2021
Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite is back as host, playing you a relaxing mix of music he loves to travel to. Including tracks from Burial, David Bowie, Cat Power, Arab Strap and more.
múm - The Colorful Stabwound [Morr Music]
Lubomyr Melnyk & Jamie Perera - Sunshimmers [Erased Tapes]
Karen Dalton - Reason To Believe [Delmore Recording Society]
David Bowie - Blackstar [Sony]
Burial - NYC [Hyperdub]
Julianna Barwick (Feat. Mary Lattimore) - Oh, Memory [Ninja Tune]
Num Num - South Quay [A Colourful Storm]
Arab Strap - The Turning Of Our Bones [Rock Action]
Purple Mountains - Margaritas At The Mall [Drag City]
Pavement - Strings Of Nashville [Matador]
Cat Power - Good Woman [Matador]
Nina Simone - I Put A Spell On You [Philips]
Leonard Cohen - Sing Another Song, Boys [Sony]
LOSE YOURSELF WITH... STUART BRAITHWAITE 19.09.21 (320kbs-m4a/138mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 19th September 2021
A relaxing mix of music to encourage a meditative state and evoke the feeling of being on the move, put together by Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite. Including music from Aphex Twin, Brian Eno, Grouper and more.
Labradford - I [Kranky]
Neu! - Hallogallo [Grönland]
Grouper - Call Across Rooms [Kranky]
Brian Eno - By This River [Virgin]
Belong - The Door Opens The Other Way [Belong]
My Bloody Valentine - Drive It All Over Me [Domino]
Low - Lust [Virgin]
Julian Cope - Safesurfer [Island]
Mdou Moctar - Tahoultine [Sahel Sounds]
The Staple Singers - Will The Circle Be Unbroken [Vee Jay]
Boards Of Canada - Gemini [Warp]
Stars Of The Lid - Requiem For Dying Mothers Part 1 [Kranky]
Aphex Twin - Avril 14th [Warp]
AMON TOBIN - THE RAVERS HOUR MIX 22.10.21 (320kbs-m4a/67mb/29mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 22nd October 2021
An exclusive 30 minute mix from Amon Tobin, who's just released his new album 'How Do You Live'.
Amon released his first album under the pseudonym Cujo some 25 years ago. He's released pioneering bass music as Two Fingers, psyche-folk as Figueroa, rock electronica as Only Child Tyrant and his most recent outing as Stone Giants showed another side as he explored love songs.
How Do You Live is Amon Tobin’s first new album under his own name since he launched his Nomark Records label with the #1 Fear in A Handful of Dust and its sister album, Long Stories, in 2019.
Only Child Tyrant - The Love Again
Figueroa - Weather Girl
Two Fingers - Rockyou Feelit
Stone Giants - Metropole
Figueroa - Put Me Under
Only Child Tyrant - Solid Grey Zebra
Stone Giants - A Year To The Day
Amon Tobin - On A Hilltop Sat The Moon
Amon Tobin - Vipers Follow You
Figueroa - End of Summer
Eris Drew - Sensation
Yosh - Hold On
Jason Code - HOT! [Scuffed Recordings]
Blawan - Under Belly [XL Recordings]
Surgeon - Inside [Blueprint]
IAMI - Dice [1HX]
Nowsm - Leave Your Circle [Future Bubblers]
Breaka - Solaria [Breaka]
Killjoy - Shake Junt [Extra Spicy]
Intro (320kbs-m4a/3mb/1min)
STUART MACONIE'S FREAK ZONE - EXPERIMENTAL EXPLORATIONS WITH FAUST (320kbs-m4a/44mb/19mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 24th October 2021
Stuart poses five questions to four members of the legendary experimental rock band, Faust. From a variety of locations Hans, Gunther, Zappi and Jean-Herve come together to look back at the period between 1971 and 1974, during which time they revolutionised the history of music in the space of just four years. What began in a Hamburg (Sternschanze) bunker in 1970 would send shockwaves around the world, require their mums to bail them out of jail and see the release of four albums and the mythical "Munich album" Punkt, which Faust recorded at Giorgio Moroder's Musicland Studios.
Faust - Krautrock
Faust - So Far
FREAK ZONE PLAYLIST - REMEMBERING RICHARD H KIRK (320kbs-m4a/136mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 23rd September 2021
A sixty minute playlist dedicated to Cabaret Voltaire's Richard H Kirk, who we sadly lost at the age of 65. Kirk was a towering creative genius and an artist whose fearless experimentation revolutionised music. Formed in 1973, Cabaret Voltaire were pioneers of electronic and industrial music. Their experimental use of synthesisers and tape loops has influenced generations of pop, house, techno and art-rock artists, and in his solo work, Kirk continued to transform the UK club scene pushing sound in spaces no one else thought to go. He will be greatly missed.
Cabaret Voltaire - Sensoria [Mute]
Sweet Exorcist - Testone [Warp]
Cabaret Voltaire - Yashar
Cabaret Voltaire - Just Fascination [Virgin]
Cabaret Voltaire - This Is Entertainment
Cabaret Voltaire - Nag Nag Nag
Richard H. Kirk - East Of Nima
Cabaret Voltaire - Kneel To The Boss
Cabaret Voltaire - Everything Is True
STUART MACONIE'S FREAK ZONE - HALLOWEEN SPECIAL WITH JOHN CARPENTER 31.10.21 (320kbs-m4a/261mb/1hr53mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 31st October 2021
Stuart heads out to explore the darkest corners of freaky music, with director and composer John Carpenter for our All Hallows Eve special, featuring music from film and TV as well as spine tingling compositions from around the world. John's hypnotic theme to his 1978 horror masterpiece Halloween has embodied slasher-stalker anxiety for generations of film goers, and over the next two hours, we shine a light on his work, find out what's lurking in the shadows and unearth some horrifying gems. So sit down, settle in... and don't get scared.
The Moontrekkers - Night Of The Vampire
The Haxan Cloak - Raven's Lament
Scott Walker - The Cockfighter
Demdike Stare - Floor Stairwell
The Mars Volta - With Twilight As My Guide
Gentle Giant - Edge Of Twilight
The Night Monitor - An Alien On Ilkley Moor
clipping. - Make Them Dead
Kevin Ayers - Song From The Bottom Of A Well
Aaron Dilloway & Lucretia Dalt - Niles Baroque
Shub-Niggurath - La Ballade De Lenore
John Carpenter - Unkillable
The Beatles - Day Tripper
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Bernard Herrmann - Escape
Bebe And Louis Barron - Forbidden Planet Overture
Bernard Herrmann - Prelude And Outer Space
cLOUDDEAD - Pop Song
Justin Hopper & Sharon Krauss - Out Of Body
Liturgy - Reign Array
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Lingua Ignota - Repent Now Confess Now
Espers - Children Of Stone
Anna von Hausswolff - Deathbed
SWAMPMASTER - NUMENIUSMIX (320kbs/184mb/81mins)
January 2022
Bryan Bland - Introduction/Whimbrel [Millstream]
David Lynch/Toto - Dune Prologue/House Atreides [Polydor]
Black Lodge - Mo Wax 5 [Arcola]
Beyond The Wizards Sleeve - Diagram Girl (Beyond The Wizards Sleeve Re-animation) [Phantasy Sound]
Bryan Bland & John Ward - Curlew [Millstream]
Garden City Movement - She's So Untouchable (Psychemagik Remix) [BLDG5]
Alico Vs. Cagri - Les Mondes Engloutis (Psychemagik 5 AM Mix) [MB Disco]
77:78 - Chilli (Dubwood Allstars Re-rub) [Heavenly]
Soul Clap - Resurrect The Funk [Gator Boots]
Beyond The Wizards Sleeve - Creation (Psychemagik Rework (Dub)) [Phantasy Sound]
Kerrier District - Techno Disco (KiNK Remix) [Hypercolour]
Luke Vibert - Juice [People Of Rhythm]
Jamie 3:26 - Purple Music [326]
Goldie - Inner City Life (Burial Remix) [Metalheadz]
Gajek - Curved Engines Part 04 (Plaid Remix) [Monkeytown]
Let's Eat Grandma - Eat Shiitaki Mushrooms (Joel Wolf Alice Remix) [Transgressive]
The Radiophonic Workshop - Mind The Gap [Electronic Sound]
Urbandawn featuring Tyson Kelly - Come Together [Hospital]
Bryan Bland - Conclusion [Millstream]
DJ FLIGHT - RADIO 1 DANCE PRESENTS... DRUM&BASSARENA (320kbs-m4a/138mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 1 broadcast: 27th November 2021
Exclusive mixes from some of the biggest names in electronic music. DJ Flight is in the mix celebrating the past, present and future of D&B and jungle.
Joakim - Untitled [Repertoire]
Unknown - Untitled
Hidden Turn - Late
Mark System - The Earth [Soul In Motion]
Bungle - Cubic [Prestige Music]
Seba - Horsepower [Secret Operations]
Gremlinz & Jesta - Prism
Basic Rhythm - Horse Mouth
Theory - Revolution
Breakage - Original Certified Bubbler [Index]
Mutabaruka - Dis Poem (Marcus Visionary Remix)
Kush Jones - Basic Bass (DJ Noir Remix)
Battery & Flight - Overture [Carbon Music]
Holsten - Corner Trap [UVB-76]
Zero - Amazon [Amen Lisboa]
Saikon - Badman Wan Dance (Badman Souljah VIP)
Tim Reaper - Lights Off, Heads Down (Sully Remix) [Circadian Rhythms]
Lemon D - Two Techniques [R&S]
Unknown - Untitled
Dwarde & Dev/Null & Tim Reaper - Exoplanet
Unknown - Untitled
Nectax - No Such Luck
Coco Bryce - Sonar [AKO Beatz]
Nia Archives & Sl8r - Nuff Tingz
Redeyes (Feat. [ K S R ]) - A Thousand Times (Visages Remix) [The North Quarter]
LTJ BUKEM - RADIO 1 DANCE PRESENTS... DRUM&BASSARENA (320kbs-m4a/137mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 1 broadcast: 20th November 2021
LTJ Bukem is in the mix celebrating past, present and future of D&B and jungle.
External Subway - Where The Wild Things Are
Unknown - Unknown (LoftyXXXo Remix)
Skuff - Air A Soul
BCee - Crystal [Fokuz Recordings]
Break & Total Science - Blame You
The Sauce Meets Serum - Got The Money [Souped Up]
Pacific - The Way
Jaybee - Sunday Secret [Flight Pattern]
Vectasonic - Cuts Deep
Alex Phountz (Feat. Xantoné Blacq) - Another Way (M.I.S.T. Remix) [Funk Of Fury Recordings]
Technicolour - Scorched Earth
Paul T & Edward Oberon - Rockin Me
Greekboy (Feat. AKA) - The Jungle (Madcap Remix) [In-Reach]
Bailey & MC Fats - For The Love [U Understand Me Music]
Tayla - Turn It Around [Good Looking]
Muffler - I Go
LSB - Tumult [Soul:r]
Artificial Intelligence - Desperado [V Recordings]
ARP 1 & dRamatic & dbAudio - Clash Of The Kings [Horrific Recordings]
Monty - Direct Sense [1985 Music]
Pardelluchs - Another Day (Viewer Remix) [Smooth N Groove]
Atlantic Connection - In Your Eyes
Pola & Bryson - Shinrin Yoku [Shogun Audio]
Bim Sherman - Can I Be Free From Crying (Underwolves Mix) [Mantra Recordings]
