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Tracklist:

Anne Briggs- ‘Polly Vaughan’ (‘The Hazards of Love’ EP, 1964, Topic)
Tim Hecker- ‘Boreal Kiss pt.1 ’ (‘Haunt Me, Haunt Me, Do It Again’, 2001, Substractif)
Fennesz- ‘Cecaelia’ (‘Endless Summer’, 2001, Mego)
Gastr del Sol- ‘Blues Subtitled no Sense of Wonder’ (‘Camofleur’, 1998, Drag City)
Line- ‘1228’ (‘Hearts’, 2009, Uncharted Audio)
Lawrence- ‘Swap’ (‘The Night Will Last Forever’, 2005, NovaMute)
Broker/Dealer- ‘Feel Free’ (‘Initial Public Offering’, 2003, Asphodel)
Bjork- ‘Hyperballad (Girls Blouse Mix)’ (‘It’s Oh So Quiet CD Single, 1995, One Little Indian)
Speedy J- ‘Drill’ (‘A Shocking Hobby’, 2000, NovaMute)
Belong- ‘I Never Lose, Never Really’ (‘October Language’, 2006, Carpark)
SCKE//- ‘Airplane 1981’ (‘1981’, 2007, Myuzyk)
Poppy Seed- ‘Host’ (Unreleased, myspace.com/webreedkillingmachines)
Bogdan Raczynski- ‘Dluga Podroz W Chmurach’ (‘Muzyka Dla Imigrantów EP’, 2001, Rephlex)
Philip Jeck- ‘Fanfares’ (‘Sand’, 2008, Touch)
Line- ‘Number One (Wyndham Earl Remix)’ (‘The Chinese Room EP’, 2009, Uncharted Audio)
Polly Six- ‘I’m Still Fucking Waiting’ (‘Tzampla II’, 2003, Tzanda)

Enjoy!

First up is cyan341’s frankly awesome remix of ‘Number 1′… it’s a 9-minute dub techno masterpiece frankly.

Also there’s a Buddy Holly cover, of ‘Love is Strange’… I did it for Nottingham’s ace ‘Jumpers for Goalposts’ night a couple of months back. It’s been reworked a bit from the version that happened there mind…

Also, I am playing at Broadway cinema/cafe bar on May 16th. Yes.

Buy it from here: http://hotpockets.info/

It’s at the Alley Cafe though. James from the band Fists and also Joey Chickenskin will be playing too.

It won’t sound the same as the record but the spirit will be the same. They won’t be playing with me all the time, only for some shows, but it’s looking good….

The band features:

Mr. Christopher Baldwin on guitar, possibly best known for playing in Hirameka Hi-Fi, and now, among other things, of the band Yonokiero (whose album has just come out on Front and Follow and is good.)

Mr. Matt Southall aka  Spandex on the synthesizer. He has done several 12″s of wonderful techno under that name.

Mr. Darren Simpson, who I had the pleasure of playing with in Savoy Grand, on the drum kit.

Mr. David Gray, from my old band Seachange, on guitar and ‘vibes’.  Dave also did the artwork for my LP.

Basically, these are some serious people and I am very pleased to have them playing my music. It ought to be good times.

If you would like to book the Line band (or indeed just me on my own) for your birthday, wedding or bar mitzvah then please email johnpower@gmail.com

http://unchartedaudio.com/releases/unch011/

If you preorder the LP you also get a couple of really rather smashing exclusive remixes on MP3, and also the whole album as MP3s.  Physical product AND instant gratification. And sweets. That’s squaring the circle, folks.

Or, in the more eloquent words of the label:

” Uncharted Audio are now taking preorders for ‘Hearts’ – the debut album from Line. Available as a CD and download from the 9th of february, and as a vinyl LP a month later, the CD comes with a full colour 8-page booklet and the vinyl comes housed in a beautiful full colour sleeve.

Why preorder from us? Well, we love you. And to show just how much, we’re offering free stuff. Naturally we’ll be despatching your physical item to you in good time for the release date and including some of the hot promotional ‘Line Hearts’ sweeties.

In addition, we know you don’t like to wait. So we’ll email you a personal link to download 320kbps mp3’s of the whole album, along with some remixes not available elsewhere, and a bunch of digital content including exclusive wallpapers and lyrics.

CD preorders are £9.99*
LP preorders are £10.99*

*P&P charges apply. When ordering please ensure you select the correct option for your despatch address and the format you want to order. P&P to UK is £1, to mainland Europe £2 and £3 to the rest of the world.”

So to start with, a double bill.

BOGDAN RACZYNSKI:

A fairly straightforward musical influence here. It’s very rare that one can say that an artist is completely unique, but I think that’s fairly safe to say that Bogdan is just that. He’s one of those rare artists who ride completely rough-shod over the unspoken conventions of music-his music is intensely personal, and in terms of content is probably closest to someone like Daniel Johnston- there’s a similarly sweet, naïve concept of love coupled with a sometimes almost unbearable emotional intensity. But instead of using guitars and pump organs, Bogdan uses a primitive synth and a primitive PC, running primitive software, pulling the same trick the Aphex Twin often has: of lifting his hyperactive, scattershot drum’n'bass, gabba and abrasive screes of noise out of the frankly usually dull realms of breakcore with shards of gorgeous melody and harmony. Bogdan’s melodies are disarmingly simple and pure, and his vocals- unstudied, often out-of-tune but all the better for that- completely short-circuit the usual conventions of vocals in electronic music- instead of epic, austere, robotic or camp, they’re completely direct and personal, sometimes electronically mangled, sometimes painfully naked on top of the track. Combine all that with a playful wide-ranging imagination, which pulls in both the music of his Polish heritage and a good chunk of hyper-real Japanese attitude as well (as well as English, he also sings in Polish and Japanese), and who thinks nothing of releasing an LP dressed up as a drum’n'bass compilation, complete with a different alias (DJ Whiskey, Abdullah K) for each track, and you have an artist for whom it’s difficult to find a parallel.

Listen here: http://www.last.fm/music/Bogdan+Raczynski

RICHARD DAWKINS

Dawkins has been a bit of a hero of mine for a long time- the song ‘Predisposition’ on the album is partially inspired by his notion of the ‘Selfish Gene’- the idea that the evolution of animal (and human) behaviour and characteristics is driven, not by the survival of the fittest individuals, but of the fittest genes. Dawkins’ book of the same title, and his other books explaining evolution and natural selection, are some of the most lucid and compelling popular science books ever written, explaining what is after all a far from immediately intuitive idea in terms which make intuitive sense- not an easy task.

I feel slightly sad then that in recent years he’s moved his focus, and public persona, from promoter of scientific ideas to detractor of religious ones. Not that I’m in any sense religious, nor do I think that religious ideas should be immune from criticism, but I don’t really see the sense in setting up religion in opposition to science- after all, Isaac Newton, along with many other great scientists, was a fervently religious man, and many of the greatest horrors of the 20th century were committed under atheist regimes- dogmatic regimes, but not religious ones. And scientific ideas don’t seem to me to oppose religion so much as simply to sidestep it- if science does anything it’s to confront us with the sheer unintelligible enormity of what we don’t know about the world, making any idea that there’s further stuff beyond that seem, not impossible, but irrelevant. But though I disagree with his current methods, Richard Dawkins has still been enormously important in shaping my world-view- but through his masterly espousal of ideas, not his sometimes clumsy criticism.