James Acaster - Late Junction Mixtape

JAMES ACASTER - LATE JUNCTION MIXTAPE 19.05.23 (320kbs-m4a/63mb/27mins)
BBC Radio 3 broadcast: 19th May 2023

Verity Sharp shares a mixtape from stand-up comedian, record producer and head honcho behind the 40-strong international music collective Temps, James Acaster. As a child, Acaster grew up "obsessed with wanting to record an album one day" before pursuing a career as a stand-up comedian. The opportunity to revisit that desire arose during the first UK lockdown, when he found himself sitting on a wealth of drum tracks recorded on his childhood kit, material initially conceived as being part of a would-be mockumentary about a naive comedian-turned-musician. Stuck at home, the project morphed, and Acaster enlisted the help of some of his favourite artists - including drummer Seb Rochford and vocalists Xenia Rubinos and Quelle Chris - to realise the record. The resulting album, PARTY GATOR PURGATORY (named after a human-sized toy alligator that Acaster won at a county fair when he was 7), disregards genres in favour of experimentalism, packing all his favourite sounds into a singular melting pot of ideas. For his Late Junction mixtape, James Acaster picks out tracks from the likes of Brazilian vocalist Elza Soares, American singer-songwriter and guitarist Marnie Stern and experimental hip hop trio The Sooper Swag Project.

Produced by Gabriel Francis
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3

Lonnie Holley - Looking for All [Dust-to-Digital]
katie dey - data
Kiki Hitomi - Yellow Story [Jahtari]
Elza Soares - Dança [Mais Um Discos]
Marnie Stern - Nothing Left
The Sooper Swag Project - Dunk On A Yunk
The Doyenne - End Chaos Pt.1
Tredici Bacci (feat. Charlie Looker) - Vendetta Del Toro

Intro (320kbs-m4a/10mb/4mins)