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This playlist is 65% vinyl friendly. Very poor. Scorchio! ‘1960/1970 Vintage Stereo Design Record Player, in bright orange, the emblematic colour of the 1960 and an example of Mod Ultra Space Age Pop Art Raymond Loewy? France French Designer Museum-worthy‘ says the Etsy seller, adding ‘It has a few cracks, one of the speakers has a small tear in the cloth and may need an overhaul, a full check up to see how and if it works and if it is complete… WE HAVE NEVER TRIED TO USE IT AND I DO NOT KNOW IF IT WORKS OR PLAYS.‘ Thank flip it’s down to €4600, from €7100. Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms tweak/edit/chop and the occasional tune might sound a bit dodgy, quality-wise. On top of that, the switch between different decades and production values never helps in the mix here. And a bit of a croak in my voice here and there. A temporary glitch, hopefully. Lyric of Playlist 146 Trickery involved but it has to be The Bots! 00.00 (Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983. Episode #1 for info. 00.41 NEW ORDER – Ruined In A Day (Reading Festival, 1993) – In Concert – 577, CD – BBC Transcription – 1993 I and my four-year-old, Alice were there, on what was a triumphant return, with the wonderful ‘Ruined’ in amongst new numbers from the band’s then recently released Republic album nobody would have previously heard in a live setting. BBC Transcription Services recordings – produced to service radio stations and usually for a very limited time frame for broadcast – had moved from vinyl to CD but with runs still only in their low hundreds New Order completists would be struggling to own a copy of this one… and I don’t. 04.42 MERIC LONG – A Small Act Of Defiance – Kablooey, LP – Polyvinyl Record Company – 2025 Book-ending a bunch of releases through the years as a member of The Dodos, Kablooey is seemingly Long’s first solo release under his own name since 2006. 07.43 BIOCHEMICAL DREAD – False Kings Of The Earth – 12″ – Pulsolid – 2004 Besides Richard H. Kirk’s work with Cabaret Voltaire this 12″ demonstrates there have been gaps in my knowledge of his lengthy discography elsewhere. RIP, Richard. 13.21 DARKSIDE – One Last Nothing – Download only – Matador – 2025 Including a past member of the 41 Rooms playlist parish, Nicolas Jaar, a US trio currently NOT releasing a 12″, though their Bandcamp visual hints otherwise. 18.32 AGENTS WITH FALSE MEMORIES – Agents With False Memories (extract), CD only – Ash International / Soleilmoon Recordings – 1996 Extract, indeed as Richard H. Kirk promptly returns to show 146 with this four minute snippet from a 53 minute track. 22.34 HUMANIZER – Shinobi – ? – ? – 2000s? Ignoring the slight Liam Gallagher drawl and with zero connection to any Death Metal band of the same name, this might have been Manchester sourced… and maybe with a Peter Hook connection. That’s what I’m vaguely remembering… from over a decade ago. Dunno… A ‘demo’ version, minus vocals, might also get an outing here at some point. 27.08 DIFFERENT GEAR – A Little Bit Paranoid (Extended Mix) * – 12″ – City Rockers – 2002 Courtesy of a ‘Phil Dirtbox’, the vocal is the winner here. 32.59 MERZ – Sorrow In The Sky (Nightingale Vs The Crow) – 7″ b-side – Lotus Records – 2002 The stuff that people sing about… and here with gusto and passion, to boot! 36.55 LUSCIOUS JACKSON – Why Do I Lie? (Sessions at 54th, 11.97) – Stream only – 1997 Vocalist, Jill Cunniff’s tale of lying sounding best live! 40.13 THE POPPY FAMILY – I Was Wondering – 7″ – London – 1971 A bit of a strange arrangement, this one. Albeit with a key change in there – verses with no choruses! Weird and wonderful… and maybe a bit brave in the pop world of the early ’70s, where the only PF track I remember hearing as a young teen was Which Way Are You Going Billy? That won’t be getting a 41 Rooms spin. 42.43 SOPHIE JAMIESON – Camera – I Still Want To Share, LP – Bella Union – 2025 Being over in Brighton recently it seemed appropriate I buy her clear vinyl album from the Bella Union shop and re Camera? It’s the subtle build in Sophie’s vocal and she’ll be here again at some point. 46.59 MARTYN BATES – The Rhyme Of Miracles – Arriving Fire, CD only – Ambivalent Scale – 2014 Martyn instils presence in a tune like few others for me. 50.28 JOSE FELICIANO – First Of May – 7″ b-side – RCA – 1969 ‘Feliciano seems to be on a heavy Bee Gees kick… after ‘Marley Purt Drive,’ he now does ‘First Of May’ and ‘Gotta Get A Message To You.’ And with his highly stylised projection, Jose manages to make them sound totally removed from anything the Gibb brothers originated’. – Disc (edited review of the album, 10 to 23), 15.11.69. As far as I know the Bee Gees tune was only ever released on a 7″ (my ‘format of choice’) for Jose in Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines and Spain and never as an A-side and arranger, Al Capps most probably winced if he ever got to see the NZ pressing below. Strangely, Jose’s very rarely performed the song live. I’ve only noted it three times, including two at London’s Jazz Cafe, in 1996 and again in 1998 and at the former it surfaced nearly under duress. With the audience (maybe unsurprisingly) constantly shouting out for past JF favourites Jose countered, ‘You know there’s a lot of songs you people ask me for that unfortunately… and I’m not being rude, a lot of artists are rude, they do it on purpose, but some of the songs that you ask me to sing, do you know that I haven’t sung them in years and I’ve forgotten the words and rather than make an ass out of myself that’s why I don’t sing them, OK? So, don’t take it personal… I don’t sing those songs anymore. But I’ll tell you what though there’s some that you ask for that I do remember, like this one. I hope that this one will satisfy you.’ That rare sighting was even more surprising considering Jose had taken the rare move of including his own recording of the song when guesting on Brian Matthew’s My Top Twelve for BBC Radio 1 back in June 1974. 54.11 JAPAN – Alien – Quiet Life, LP – Ariola Hansa – 1980 Bedford: Heronscroft, Putnoe, 1980 and Winkles, 1981… with a few Japan gigs thrown in at the time. 58.47 JOHN CALE – Chinese Envoy (M:FANS) – M: FANS, 2 LP – Double Six – 2016 ‘Approached as a reinterpretation of Cale’s 1982 improvisational album, Music for a New Society… M:FANS is something of a funhouse mirror reflection of that work, using the basic song-structures of the original album as a starting point and using time, experience and the technological advances of the ensuing years to bring a new focus to the tunes. Some selections are comfortably familiar, while others have a significantly different footprint‘. – KCRW 01.02.32 ICEHOUSE – No Promises (Dance Mix) * – 12″ – Chrysalis – 1990 Fully five years after the track had seemingly done its thing it got an extended outing in Spain. 01.07.58 DAVID BOWIE – This Is Not America (BBC concert) – Bowie At The Beeb, 2CD – EMI – 2000 Part of Bowie’s special set for a small invited audience at the BBC’s Radio Theatre, in London, June 2000. 01.11.29 JOHNNY KEATING – Theme from Z-Cars (Johnny Todd) – 7″ – Piccadilly – 1962 Did I realise the grittier scripts involved here than had been delivered by Jack Warner’s strolling forerunner, Dixon Of Dock Green? Nah, I was five when Z-Cars kicked off but the theme (based on the traditional folk song, Johnny Todd) still brings a fuzzy feel. And Wikipedia will give you the full story on why Everton FC players come out to the tune at home games. 01.13.22 MARC COHN – ‘Walking in Memphis (Mahna Mahna)’ – Stream only – 1990’s? Cohn definitely wouldn’t have seen this coming, as the self proclaiming Mahna Mahna and the Snowths duo upstage him in a short but cheeky mashup (of sorts) I happened on via Youtube a couple of decades ago. I’ll openly admit I was a Muppets fan when they first aired on UK TV back in the mid ’70s and with Statler & Waldorf the stars for me I remember walking my girlfriend of the time, Jill home from work and then running up the hill to my house to record the show. Pre the age of video recorders, at one point there was a stack of ten to twenty AGFA(!!) cassette tapes of the shows in my bedroom. Getting back to Cohn, the fact he’s ‘racing’ a bit here actually adds to the cheeriness and I salute whoever was involved. 01.14.44 BERNARD CRIBBINS – The Hole In The Ground – 7″ – Parlophone – 1962 And like the Z-Cars theme I was five when this was released and I’d have definitely been singing this one in the years close after – and weirdly, although it’s the second tune from ’62 on this show, it’s not the last. 01.16.27 THE BOTS – Fuzzy Math – George W. Bush Greatest Hits, v/artists, CDr only – Spin The World – 2004 I heard this cut and paste work of art somewhere around its ‘release’ and as of 2004… ‘… utilizing the revolutionary Presidential Truth Filter(PTF). The PTF operates like this: All presidential statements are recorded, and made into a huge database. The database is searchable by speech, phrase, keyword, emotional intensity, etc. In parallel, an analysis is made of the historical circumstances of the particular presidency. The question must be asked, what is this man (all men so far…) really all about? What is a defining characteristic of this presidency? The final question which must be addressed by the PTF is, how can we use the assets in the database to concatenate the truth, and make the President speak it? The first attempt was Bushwack, in 1992. This turned into a huge hit before the Presidential election in 1992, though BMI denied that it was ever on the air at all. Through October of that year, stations such as San Francisco’s Live105 were playing it almost hourly. In 1997 Rock The House was a popular download at an early digital music download startup, muzic.com. In 2003 Bushwack2 was released at about the start of the Iraq war. The mood of the song is quite grim, as the truth of those times was interpreted by the PTF. In 2004, the PTF was reprogrammed to emphasize economics and general silliness, and Fuzzy Math was born. We think it’s the best one yet. Judge the results for yourself’. – thebots.net 01.19.26 DREXCIYA – Black Sea – The Journey Home, 12″ EP – Warp – 1995 First heard on either of Colin Faver’s or Colin Dale’s techno shows on KISS FM. Sounds more likely it was the former. 01.24.58 E-DANCER – Heavenly * – 12″ – KMS – 1997 The Inner City (‘Big Fun’) man, Kevin Saunderson with his techno head on. 01.28.51 CHARLES WEBSTER – Your Life * – 12″ – Peacefrog – 2000 Pitched up a bit (‘+3%’ says my file iD) this is a class slice of soulful techno/house. 01.33.11 CHARLOTTE DAY WILSON – Selfish – Download only – Stone Woman Music – 2025 This r&b musician has been around for a decade or so but I wouldn’t have guessed, judging by this slight departure to a ’90s UK garage feel (first half anyway). It suits her. 01.36.48 BENCH – Felice – Bliss, 2LP – Cylinder Recordings – 2000 The fifth appearance on 41 Rooms to date for this pretty much forgotten duo. 01.39.36 BLUE STATES – Your Girl – 12″ EP – Memphis Industries – 1999 First heard on a compilation CD a mate of mine, Sid put together, of fave tracks forwarded by mates of his. Not their own tracks, you understand. 01.43.45 THE MIRACLES – I’ll Try Something New – 7″ – Tamla – 1962 Hellfire! Those breakdown strings mid way are a bit of a jolt! Easy, Smokey! Writer, Robinson’s own version is actually the third to make it to 41 Rooms and his vocal arrangement sounds more like a remake than either Kiki Dee’s ‘straighter’ take or even the Supremes and Temptations stab at the song, when chronologically they both followed this Miracles single. 01.46.14 SMITH & MUDD – Blue River – 2LP – Claremont 56 – 2007 Electronic… downtempo… shuffling… drifting… or maybe flowing. 01.48.38 MERZ – A.M. (Good Morning) * – Single-sided, white label 12″ only – 1995 The second artist to return this show, multi instrumentalist and songwriter, Conrad Merz and his at times very idiosyncratic vocal (‘Many Weathers Apart’, for instance) seem to have trodden their own path through the years. 01.53.45 CRAIG ARMSTRONG (feat ELIZABETH FRASER) – This Love (& The Life That I Have) * – 41 Rooms Soft Mash Up only – Early 2000s I grabbed the extra voice – Virginia McKenna as Second World War spy Violette Szabo, reading the code poem The Life That I Have at the end of the film Carve Her Name With Pride – fully thirty plus years ago and I had a stab at floating it over This Love a long time ago but recently had another go. Aided by Jazz The Glass, we pitched her down slightly and then I took out a chunk of the poem in the second half. Not that it’s going to happen but I reckon it would need the song itself re-arranged/edited to work perfectly but methinks the idea is still a cool one. Show 147 hopefully surfaces Jan 4. Dec x The post Post Punk Plus Podcast Playlist 146 – Original upload 7.12.25 appeared first on 41Rooms.

This playlist is 73% vinyl friendly. Not bad. Anonymous ‘radiogram’, 1960s… and even at its size, the sort of set up that most families of the time had when music was really just a household component. Ours followed on from a legless Dansette-type turntable and was initially used primarily for the radio, with Dad wiring it through to the kitchen where one or two very discreetly hidden grills under a cupboard relayed Worldwide Family Favourites to the family Sunday lunch. Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms tweak/edit/chop and the occasional tune might sound a bit dodgy, quality-wise. On top of that, the switch between different decades and production values never helps in the mix here. Lyric of Playlist 145 ‘You could be laughing sixty three percent more of the time… ‘ When Grant’s in the house he’s a likely contender here. 00.00 (Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983. Episode #1 for info. 00.41 NEW ORDER – Hey Now What You Doing – Waiting For The Sirens’ Call, 2LP – London – 2005 On what is arguably the band’s weakest album, a gunslinger strum of a song that’s easy to skank around to on the dancefloor and if I ignore the ‘rock drawl’ that Barney sometimes gravitated to in later years (and touches on here) I’d suggest it’s one of his finest vocal performance, with some beaut guitar to boot. 05.40 PRESENCE – Better Days (Presence Vocal Mix) – 12″ – Pagan – 1997 One of producer Charles Webster’s many monikers, here with some class house music peeping out of a genre that’s been littered with sterility through the decades since its inception. He’ll be back here. 09.37 DISCLOSURE (feat JESSIE WARE) – Confess To Me – Settle, 2LP – PMR/Island/Method – 2013 Saw this pairing delivering this on Later With Jools. 13.37 SERMONS BY THE DEVIL – Synesthesia – Exorcismo Electronico, LP – Library Of The Occult – 2025 A ‘Sermons By The Devil’ search online is likely to lead to no good I tell ya, and the album’s imagery etc doesn’t grab me either but this is some cheery funky electronica. 20.42 CABARET VOLTAIRE – Yashar (John Robie Mix) – 12″ – Factory – 1983 This would have been here a good few years earlier if it hadn’t slipped through the initial 2016 ’41 Rooms Potentials’ folder. Richard and Mal pretty much namechecked Robie’s mighty work here as having single-handedly opened them up to the possibilities of ‘branching out’ and it’s a tune and mix that’s as synonymous as any with Wednesday nights in Winkles, Bedford back in the day. Even Pete Care’s video was ever present with the times. The US acetate below is likely to be the Robie mix and the owner (not me) will know. 27.58 BLAWAN – NOS – SickElixir, LP – XL Recordings – 2025 Given the music he’s been knocking out since 2010 a move to Berlin for northern producer, Jamie Roberts isn’t such a surprise. 31.01 THE HUMAN LEAGUE – Being Boiled (Album version) – Travelogue, LP – Virgin – 1980 Faster and definitely ‘funkier’ than the already playlisted original but it’s a toss up… 34.51 DEEP PURPLE – Emmaretta – 7″ – Parlophone – 1969 I had the stock/shop copy of this back in my mid ’70s ‘rock, pop and soul’ years when I saw DP at Wembley Empire Pool and though classic rock rarely gets a look in on 41 Rooms this sounded more than fine. I’d maybe even have a belated stab at buying the demo/promo copy (below, and reminiscent of Motown demos of the time ) if it hadn’t gravitated to a £150 and well beyond price tag. 37.29 JEFFERSON AIRPLANE – White Rabbit (Ursula 1000 remix) – Stream only – 2000-2010? This mix turned up on some radio show… and has since disappeared. File Alex Gimeno’s efforts here under Psychedelia Plus. 41.30 RADWIMPS (feat TOAKA) – Suzume – ‘Suzume’ Motion Picture Soundtrack, 2LP – All The Anime Music – 2023 The sonics you can bump into on the net… 45.24 LANA SOY – Mind Games – Stream only – 2021’ish ‘‘Pure’, ‘softest’ and ‘soulful’ are usually the words thrown to describe Svetlana’s voice. Originally from Moscow and Londoner since 17, Svetlana’s music has been inspired by Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush, Tori Amos, Regina Spektor, Evanescence, Des’ree, Brandy and Sade‘. – Soundcloud On a recent whistle stop trip back to Bedford I caught Lana at an open mic night and the best grouping of her songs is possibly her Apple Music presence. However, this version of Mind Games is one of two that are elsewhere, certainly including Soundcloud. 48.28 AIR (feat BETH HIRSCH) – You Make It Easy – Moon Safari, LP – Virgin – 1998 Any excuse to feature the voice of Beth Hirsch… and here it’s the avenue that most of the world got to first here her through. 52.06 JOHN GRANT – GMF – Pale Gree Ghosts, 2LP – Bella Union – 2013 With Grant’s usual wit and Sinead O’Connor (RIP) guesting, a few TV appearances of this song also included the latter on BVs, and certainly on Irish TV also Sinead’s daughter, Roísín’ where the phrase ‘The G(reatest) M(other) F(ucker)’ is still not one you’ll hear clear as day too often. 57.16 JAKE NAJOR and FRIENDS – Midnight In A Perfect World (live) – Stream only – 2021 ‘American drummer, active as musician for numerous bands and band projects… ‘ says Discogs and here Najor faithfully recreates – in a video’d 99% live setting – to within a hair’s breath of DJ Shadow’s already 41 Rooms playlisted original. 01.01.54 DONOVAN – Hurdy Gurdy Man – 7″ – Pye – 1968 Another of the songs that when heard at the time, stood out over the Radio One airwaves, amongst its diet of pop music. Donovan himself even seems to be at odds with others involved in the session as to who added the electric guitar. Check the song’s Wikipedia entry for all the fun. I do know from research in a slightly different area (musicians playing live in the UK, but in the same time period) that sessioners were known to sometimes get paid in cash, with the deal and details being kept off the books for whoever it suited. 01.04.58 KIDDA – We, Do, Da Dirty Soundbwoy – Fresh Mess, DJ mix CDr – Catskills – 2005 The only place to find this barely 2 mins bouncy hip hoppity skit. 01.07.09 D’ANGELO – Unshaken – Red Dead Redemption II, video games soundtrack, 2LP – Lakeshore Records/Rockstar Games – 2019 “Produced by Daniel Lanois, co-writer of the track along with D’Angelo (RIP) and Rocco DeLuca, and on transparent red, should vinyl soundtracks be your thing. 01.10.59 MARK S. WILLIAMSON – Encounter On The Moor – Folklore, Facts And Fables 5: The Eve Stone, CD only – Forged River Recordings – 2025 ‘For the fifth instalment in folklore, facts and fables series, we finally get a fable. We return to Todmorden and the story of Rob o’Harry’ot’Deans and his encounter with the fairy people up on the moors above the town… ‘ – Bandcamp It quickly gets on a sonic plain and just stays there but I’m not qualified to work out whether multi-instrumentalist Williamson’s one string biscuit tin violin made it to the proceedings. 01.17.38 BREAKBEAT ERA – Breakbeat Era – 12″ – XL Recordings – 1998 And from one of my fave 21st century sounding albums (d&b is just that way). even though it was made a shade earlier. 01.21.51 ??? – ??? – ??? – 1997? Taped off a d&b show on London’s KISS FM radio of the time, I had this down as Comin’ Down by Kapricorn… but in amongst the swamp of anonymous and/or barely iD’d white label/promo/acetate/DAT tape etc tunes DJs on these sort of shows were buried in, this one was maybe confused with the aforementioned on a playlist, and it’s not anything Shazam can identify either. If you know… then let me know! 01.26.38 MATRIX – The Message 96 – New Identity Recordings – 12″ – 1996 One Jamie Quinn with some sparkling d&b! 01.30.05 LONDON ELEKTRICITY – Fast Soul Music – Billion Dollar Gravy, 3×12″ – Hospital Records – 2003 Given the title I’d have expected LE’s near-resident vocalist, Liane Carroll to have featured more here than with the occasional scat. 01.35.45 PARANOID LONDON (feat JENNIFER TOUCH) – Fields Of Fire – Arseholes, Liars, And Electronic Pioneers, 2LP – Paranoid London Records – 2024 The shuffling ‘hi-hats’ drive the stark beats like a real driving thing. If this had come out in 1981 I’d have made a home for this on the turntables for a good few week at Winkles. 01.43.01 MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO – Radio Babylon – 12″ – Play It Again Sam – 1990 Any year but 1990 certainly and I may have heard it at the time. 01.49.21 MERZ – Many Weathers Apart (Album version) – Merz, LP – Epic – 1999 A remix of MWA featured here a few years ago and it’s not the last time you’ll hear Conrad Merz’s idiosyncratic vocals here. 01.54.00 JOHN MARTYN – I’d Rather Be The Devil (Scrimshire Edit) – Download only – 2016 Adam Scrimshire adding beats and things to the already beat’y. Show 145 hopefully surfaces Dec 7. Dec x The post Post Punk Plus Podcast Playlist 145 – Original upload 2.11.25 appeared first on 41Rooms.

This playlist is 68% vinyl friendly. Poor, and the first show to hit that exact mark… though with a likely future vinyl release it should inch up at some point. ‘A German (Dieter Rams) design classic… that caused uproar in the ’60s as one of the first light-weight record players to eschew the heavy wooden cabinet design, the Braun Audio 1 was the company’s first fully transistorised combined hi-fi system. At just 67cm wide, it’s remarkably petite… ‘ – The Vinyl Factory, 2017 Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms tweak/edit/chop and the occasional tune might sound a bit dodgy, quality-wise. On top of that, the switch between different decades and production values never helps in the mix here. Lyric of Playlist 144 ‘I realized u were my demise… ‘ OK, so there’s little competition. 00.00 (Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983. Episode #1 for info. 00.41 NEW ORDER – Crystal (Unpasteurized version by Ivan X) – Stream only – 2025 ‘Crystal is a super song, but, to me, a lot of the “heys” and “oohs” are distracting, and conceal the excellent music underneath. I also don’t love the intro, or the repetitions of “keep it coming.” So I made this version that cuts out all of those, leaving a spare vocal and great music. Maybe you’ll like it, maybe you won’t. Here it is!‘ – Ivan X The barely 400 yoootoob views at the time I clocked this mix suggests this Naked/Unpasteurized mix is from recent times rather than from when the band offered out Barney’s vocal for anyone to build a (re)mix around. If so, it’s maybe in the light of AI making track/stem separation, errr… ‘easier’, and whether you like your remixes to pay purist homage or go the ‘out there’ route that house music remixers have so often championed (both can have their winners)… this is gold star. 06.38 CLOCK DVA – Consent – White Souls In Black Suits, LP – Italian Records – 1982 First released on vinyl in Italy in 1982 but now… ‘Available for first time in over 35 years, Clock DVA’s White Souls in Black Suits – originally released in 1980 as a limited-run cassette on Throbbing Gristle’s Industrial Records – now returns newly remastered and reissued via The Grey Area of Mute and expanded with four bonus tracks from the same era‘. – Mute, October, 2025 It would have jelled better if the drumming had been higher in the mix. 11.08 HULA – Walk On Stalks Of Shattered Glass – 12″ – Red Rhino – 1985 Only released as a 12″ but someone online recently grabbed a 7″ test pressing for all of about £3.50! 15.38 THE SISTERS OF MERCY – Adrenochrome – 7″ b-side – CNT Productions/Merciful Release – 1982 Bought new but I don’t remember ever having the pic sleeve to this Body Electric single. If I did have it I lost it early on and very possibly during its many outings at our Winkles club nights when both sides rightly got played a lot. The photo below might suggest otherwise but the state my copy has been in since the mid ’80s is not good and a long way off the €300 or so it might have attracted if I’d vaulted the bugger away the day I bought it. Of course no one did that sort of thing back then, even if they do now. 18.33 STRETCHER – Mocktober – Unreleased – 2002’ish? He’s known as Spud to me… and he’s given me as much info as when his other 2002’ish demo, Mousehold cropped up on 41 Rooms, back in 2021… which is diddly squat :)… so here’s a photo of a pink fairy armadillo! 23.31 HOT LIZARD – 165 Drop (Love From San Francisco Mix) – 12″ – Pacific Records – 1996 ‘Probably the strongest release yet on the label, 165 Drop is a superbly crafted atmospheric piece of deep house, though just to place it in this category doesn’t do it justice. The simple swishing hats provide a rhythmic background to a procession of interesting, arpeggiated synth lines that blend beautifully, all the time gradually building into quite a pacy groove. Love From San Francisco’s mix is slower, gentler and effective in a more easy listening manner but there are more mixes to follow on this track in the coming months so this package may get stronger still‘. **** Tim Jeffery, Record Mirror (Music Week), 1.3.97 Hey! Less of the ‘Easy Listening’! 31.35 SOUND OF MUSIC – Feel The Music (Part One) – 12″ – Emotive Records – 1992 ‘Feel the music’ indeed. There’s nothing profound in the lyrics but the beats and sounds of a handful of Emotive 12″s from around this period lifted the spirits. ‘Need the release‘? Both physically and mentally, at this time I did… and the £4 I paid for the 12″ in ’92 is about as much as a decent copy will cost now. 38.09 SILICONE SOUL – Right On! (Original Instrumental Version) (Pitched down!) – 12″ – VC Recordings/Soma – 2001 Given the sampled narration included, to this day this ‘instrumental’ take sounds a shade too chirpy cheery for me… so to give it some extra ‘presence’ I pitched it down on the show. 43.09 ISAAC HAYES – Theme From ‘Shaft’ – 7″ – Stax – 1971 Given its reason for being (a soundtrack) I’ve spun the full version rather than the subtly edited 7″ take. Arguably the most recognisable Blaxploitation sound(track)? 47.34 PART TIME HEROES – All This Time – Realise, 12″ EP – Mums The Word – 2006 I remember these guys doing some great radio shows, possibly stepping in for I’m not sure who – Gilles P, Ross Allen? It’s a blur. As of right now, a UK-sourced VG+ vinyl copy of the Realise EP (with this the second 41 Rooms playlisted track) on Discogs… at £1! 51.56 ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF – Stardust – Download only – 2025 ‘Reverb’ setting to ‘huge empty church’ or the likes in the recording process – or it was actually recorded in a huge empty church, and an ‘interesting’ use of a family photo for the sleeve below. There’s something in the water in Sweden. 58.29 HARMON BETHEA – Anonymous * – 7″ b-side – Creole – 1976 I spent a few years with only half of this track grabbed from somewhere online… and the wrong title! That never helps. 01.02.42 TOM BROCK – I Love You More And More – I Love You More And More, LP – 20th Century Records – 1974 ‘Lurv thang’ mid ’70s soul and from the only album Brock made… and one with two 21st century re-releases. Not that its version of ‘I Love… ‘ really goes anywhere different beyond the 2mins 46 edit used for the US 7″ but seeing as a 1975 Brazilian 7″ pressing was mastered at 33rpm (they often cut singles that way over there back then and it would have giving them ‘space’ for more music) I’d be interested to know whether they went with the full length version. Nice touch, if they did… but I bet they didn’t. 01.06.32 MARVIN GAYE – That’s The Way Love Is – 7″ – Tamla (Motown) – 1969 Marv Top 10’ing in the US with a punchier, moodier version than the Isley Brothers’ uptempo take from two years earlier. 01.10.01 STEELY DAN – Do It Again – 7″ – ABC Records – 1972 I playlisted the full version that lead off the band’s debut album, Can’t Buy A Thrill but I should have edited out the keyboard doodling… so using a 41 Rooms ‘trick’ I did the next best thing. With show 144’s time again I would go for the 7″ version, as it was the one that did it for me back in the day… as No. ‘977’ on the 7″ shelves of this then teenager’s bedroom, the log of the time still tells me. 01.15.16 (THE) PENTANGLE – Travellin’ Song – 7″ – Big T / Joc – 1968 Unless you lived in a folk music strong household, anyone nearing teenage years in the UK in the late ’60s most probably first heard Jacqui McShee’s signature vocals on the band’s Light Flight guesting as the theme to the BBC comedy drama, Take Three Girls but Travellin’ Song pre-dated that as their debut 7″. The copy below? To be picked up by me the next time I’m in Bedford. 01.18.08 THE B-52’s – Roam – 7″ – WEA International – 1989 Don’t ya just smile when you hear their vocals? Oh, and the apostrophe. It would hang on in their name for a few years more. 01.22.35 JAY B. SELLS (feat JOSHUA HAYES) – Pulling Strings (unreleased demo) – 1998’ish I got given this demo by ‘Jay B. Sells’ maybe sometime soon after I left working at the Westminster Uni’s Commercial Music department but when on a return visit to see folks. Give this song and arrangement to some young soul(s) with pop stardom in their sites and a 2020s production mindset and I reckon this is a nailed on’ hands in the air’ winner. Indeed, after Rod Thomas gravitated to becoming Bright Light Bright Light (and maybe somewhere in between his first two BLBL albums) I did wing this track to him but he’s very much an ‘own song’ man… or maybe he just thought I was mad. 01.26.05 JAZZ THE GLASS – Main Squeeze – Output2023, EP – Bandcamp, download only – 2023 The motif pulling it back wins out but the drive is there. Cinematic and classy! 01.30.52 COMMON FACTOR (+ JOHN REDMOND) – World Is Mine – 12″ – Planet E – 2000 Every few years I seemed to latch on to a track on Carl Craig’s label and here Redmond’s on a mission. Building from half way through, it feels like madcap gospel on speed. 01.36.35 LAYO & BUSHWACKA! – Deep South – 12″ – End Recordings – 1999 Rumbling sounds and some borrowed, rambling ‘Satan’s waiting for you all‘ snippets, making for a good groove and from back in the day when, in this case, a £4 purchase fairly quickly turned into an £18.50 sale. Music & Video Exchange’s many shops in Notting Hill, London were (certainly in the ’90s), a regular destination for mover and shaker DJs and journalists offloading their unwanted promo vinyl and the chain’s dance and beats shop/department just overflowed, so it wasn’t hard to pick up gems… and every little helped to buy some more vinyl. 01.42.39 DEMOCUSTICO – Grito (Seiji Remix) – 12″ – Far Out – 2006 Brazilian at birth but musically they’re happy to move around a bit, even before Seijo’s remix takes this particular tune further afield. They’ve been here before and will be again. 01.47.49 EMILY’S CHAIR – Just Before I Go (unreleased) – 1998’ish Just the one single under this moniker and this was in the mix of tracks they were producing at the time. Their only subsequent release – as One Mile Per Hour – was a 2012 self-tilted album which included a couple of tracks I recognised from the above period. 01.51.28 KUTIMAN (feat PRINCESS SHAW)- Give It Up * – Stream only – 2014 ‘I would like to thank all the musicians that are in this project and to all of you out there for sharing your knowledge and talent on the internet‘. – Kutiman, Youtube And search out the video below, as much for the info on Ophir Kutiel’s collaborators (unknowing at the time?) and the subsequent work involved in pulling this track together, and also elsewhere for the knock on effect his work has. 41 Rooms salutes the man. 01.55.42 ALABAMA SHAKES – Another Life – Download only – 2025 In the age old ritual of lead-person-goes-solo-and-then-years-later-the-band-reconvene, judging by the live video of Another Life (filmed at Colorado’s Red Rocks) this time around main gal, Brittany Howard will be no less the focal point. Old skool soulful rock songwriting. 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This playlist is 79% vinyl friendly. Not bad. The Vertere SG-1/Xtrax! Named by designer and founder, Tourag Moghaddam like a very expensive thing… and at nearly £45,000 in 2023 it was. With its ‘strategically placed LEDs embedded in the sumptuous acrylic plinth‘, when What Hi-Fi reached their 50th birthday earlier this year the turntable made it into their ‘20 very best turntables of What Hi-Fi?’s lifetime‘ and described it as ‘a true musical chameleon, one that changes character with the recording being played. Such a talent is rare in hi-fi, and should be cherished.‘ Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms tweak/edit/chop and the occasional tune might sound a bit dodgy, quality-wise. On top of that, the switch between different decades and production values never helps in the mix here. Lyric of Playlist 143 Could have gone with Devo’s ‘Afraid nobody around here, understands my potato. I think I’m the only spud boy looking for a real tomato‘ but I guess you needed to have been there. Instead, I’m going with ‘Diamond in the back, sunroof top, diggin’ the scene with a gangsta lean, wooh-ooh-ooh‘, a line anyone of a certain would likely know. 00.00 (Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983. Episode #1 for info. 00.41 NEW ORDER – Heart and Soul (Reading Festival, 1998) – 3 16, DVD – Warner Music Vision – 2001 Aside Ceremony and a version of Love Will Tear Us Apart in Birmingham back in 1983, if you weren’t at the Manchester Apollo gig a month before this Reading Festival appearance, to that point you’d have been waiting nearly two decades for New Order to perform any Joy Division songs and this evening – after yet another five year gap in performing live – they ran through Isolation, Atmosphere, Heart And Soul, Ceremony and Love Will Tears Us Apart. My daughter, Alice now at her second New Order gig, aged nine and a tall kid for her age back then, went jostling down the front once again, remembering ‘rolls and rolls of toilet paper being thrown through the crowd’. At the Rivermead party afterwards, being in the same room as Neil Tennant, Pete Shelley and Keith Allen meant zip to her when there were kids to be running around with and she spent most of the time playing video games with a boy and girl, both slightly older than herself. A very young Lily and Alfie Allen? We’ll likely never know. She did, though, remember me introducing her to Rob Gretton… which, of course, was far more important an event. 04.11 MEDIUM MEDIUM – Freeze – 7″ b-side – Apt Music – 1979 More ‘indie/new wave’ than the previously playlisted a-side, Them Or Me which rode the funk slant they’re best remembered for from their initial short incarnation. 07.07 LONELADY – Intuition (home studio version) – Stream only – 2022 A wonderful abrasive live version of an early Warp Records single and track from her debut album, Nerve Up. Seek out unique Lonelady content from Julie at Patreon. 10.21 THE SOUL OF 81 WINKLES – Look My Way (Radio Edit) – 10″ – So… Sparkle! – 1998 Where to start? From my time working within the Uni of Westminster’s Commercial Music Dept out in Harrow, London and a label project involving the students. I chose the tune, a cover of Mira Pa Ca by ’70s US Latin rockers, Chango and with one of the course’s heads, Alan Fisch/Fisher (ex Cabaret Voltaire) producing, we handpicked some of the best students. All pre internet, I remember sourcing Spanish and Portuguese peeps at the Uni to try and decipher the lyrics of the original (only partly successful, I think) and I even wrote an extra verse myself. I remember Alan F clocking the recording covering 174 tracks(!) and we ran with the adrenalin/enthusiasm that can overtake bands when playing live gigs – in that the finished track moved tempo and basically sped up… a lot(!) something that was later pointed out with great enthusiasm and admiration by DJ, Andy/Mr Scruff. For the uninitiated, the band ‘name’ was a sort of nod to the Bedford alternative club started in early 1981 at a club called Winkles, whereby although predominantly the alternative/indie/new wave of the time we did move around genres and should this ‘Look My Way’ project have carried on to other releases we may have moved across a genre or two. Indeed, my initial idea for a follow up (if one had come) was to cover One Fine Day, a single by ’70s Canadian rockers, Lighthouse… and we’d have pulled it off, too. Originally a 500 run, hand numbered, orange vinyl promo 10″ the reaction to Look My Way was brill. Fuelled massively by Patrick Forge on his Kiss FM radio show, a whole host of other buzz builder etc DJs (see below, including Pete Tong’s Radio One Essential Selection show) followed suit. Thanks to the facilities at the Uni we produced a video (it’s on Youtube), got a couple of A&R along to the filming and ended up performing the track live just the once, a 12 minute version at Patrick Forge’s 333/Off Centre club night’s first anniversary shindig. Oh, and a 12″ pressing followed as an official release. So, least we forget: Kirsten, Sahara, Adam, Vid, Buster, Dan, Phil, Ed, Calum, Shanks, Wills, John, Ivan, Alan, Colm (RIP) and no doubt others… and from 2020, my Facebook page for a slightly different take and more photos. Kirsten and Alan Pass to the recording of the video. 14.00 JOSE FELICIANO – Day Tripper (live) – 7″ b-side – RCA – 1969 Besides coupling with Windmills Of Your Mind on the above mentioned Turkish single – the only known official release of Jose’s Day Tripper on a 7″ – it did feature on a US promo 4-track 7″ that was used to promote the 1969 live at the London Palladium double album, Alive Alive-O, the best known source for Jose’s cover but though a massive Beatles fan he rarely played the song live beyond the release of the album. In a Rolling Stone interview with Jonathon Colt in Nov ’68 John Lennon was asked if there were any other versions of his songs that he liked and he replied: ‘Jose Feliciano does great things to ‘Help’ and ‘Day Tripper‘. As this was a year before Jose’s London Palladium performance and I’m reasonably sure Jose hadn’t performed Day Tripper on UK or US TV I can only assume Lennon had either caught Jose playing live at one of his low key club nights on his debut UK visit in May ’67 (The Scotch Of St James, a likely contender as it was a Beatles haunt and Macca certainly saw Jose there) or a far bigger concert when Jose began blowing up large in the US in the second half of ’68. 17.46 JOSE FELICIANO – Day Tripper (GOT-TA-SCATTA’s DT Ripper) – Unreleased – 2009’ish Unreleased for obvious reasons, although when I played a slightly earlier version of our ‘take’ to Jose years ago he loved it and said we ought to release it. And as it happens, I’ll be winging this version to Jose tomorrow, as it marks his 80th birthday! One half of GOT-TA-SCATTA (Dave, far right), with Jose (second left), here with Cliff Peacock and my daughter, Alice during the recording of Jose’s inclusion on The Flamingos’ Icarus Descending 1998 single. 21.04 ECHO and THE BUNNYMEN – Stars Are Stars – Crocodiles, LP – Korova – 1980 Hell, they were a class act. 23.45 D.A.F. – Kebaubtraume – 7″ – Mute – 1980 Easy to see why they passed through on Daniel Miller’s label. 27.14 CABARET VOLTAIRE – Landslide – Red Mecca, LP – Rough Trade – 1981 The one minute plus video of CV2025 (Mal, Chris Watson, Eric Random and Benge) rehearsing Landslide in preparation for their upcoming UK dates will have driven even greater interest in their return, one though that, as Mal freely admits, wouldn’t have happened had Richard Kirk not passed away in 2021. At that point Richard was the only member of Cabaret Voltaire and refrained from playing any old material in live performances… and maybe as important, Richard and Mal sadly weren’t exactly on speaking terms. With Richard’s passing and the void it left, coupled with a fiftieth anniversary looming since the first CV gig, it’s maybe understandable that Mal and Chris, as the other two original members, might want to celebrate… and I and whole bunch of others will be doing just that with them. RIP, Richard. 29.15 DEVO – Smart Patrol/Mr DNA – Duty Now For The Future, LP – Virgin – 1979 Were they not men? They are Devo! 34.47 RINGDOWN – Crazy – Lady On The Bike, LP – Nonesuch – 2025 Willie Nelson’s song taken in a Patsy Cline-type of way. 36.57 SPOKANKI – Ceann Dubh Dilis (My Sweet, Dark-Haired Love) – Stream only? – 2019’ish ‘Ever heard traditional Irish music like this? Composed by Michael McGlynn and performed by Spokanki — a magical a cappella group of 8 sisters blending haunting harmonies with heart. Turn the volume up and tag someone who needs to hear this! ’ – Irish Daily ‘… a “multi-genre musical, theatrical a cappella group” (their words, and honestly? accurate).Their sound is so unique, haunting and warm at the same time — I have sooo many questions According to legend (aka their website), they’re 8 sisters from the mystical land of SpokanLand, traveling the world to share the music of all peoples and becoming friends with the entire human world…‘ – dailychoirs Out of Russia a “multi-genre musical theatrical a cappella group” According to their website, they are eight* sisters from the mystical (and fictional) town of SpokanLand. 37.55 COCTEAU TWINS – Dear Heart – BBC Sessions, 2CD – Bella Union – 1999 This track has become so ingrained in my psyche through the years that I was convinced there was a studio version… which there isn’t. Maybe hearing this version (from the second of three sessions the band did for Peel) and from numerous live tapes from ’83-’84 – including my own promotion at Bedford Boys Club in November ’84 – I’d daftly appropriated it having been on vinyl. Above: Robin and Liz’s responses to the questionnaire when I interviewed them at their then Muswell Hill flat. I gave the same to other bands I interviewed for my one-off 1984 fanzine, Rorschach Testing… and very coincidentally, there’s a track Robin and Liz mention here that will crop up later. They also similarly embellished my copy of the Head Over Heels album in the same fashion but somewhere along the years that beauty mysteriously disappeared. 41.23 TONY CHRISTIE – Nobody In The World – 7″ – Acid Jazz – 2010 A long way from either Amarillo or Avenues and Alleyways but in regularly releasing albums ever since his his ’70s chart era it’s been Eddie Piller’s ‘mod’ sensibilities at Acid Jazz that’s gotten the most out of the man. 44.21 THE ELGINS – Put Yourself In My Place – 7″ b-side – V.I.P. – 1965 But so good it then gravitated to parent label, Tamla Motown and a UK A-side four years later. 46.41 THE PARTING GIFTS – (Walkin’ Thru The) Sleepy City – split 7″ – Norton Records – 2010 In between main girl, Lindsay Hames’ other projects, The Parting Gifts produced one album and this split 7″ where they possibly sounded more authentic to the song’s mid ’60s era than its writers, the Rolling Stones did with the tune, and should the latter have released the song as a US 7″ at the time (which they didn’t), The PGs mimicking the label design it would have had was a nice extra touch. The Mighty Avengers did give the song a shot back in the day but it didn’t chart and it was left hidden until the Stones resurrected it for their mid ’70s compilation, Metamorphosis. 48.29 PAGES – Heartaches & Pain – 7″ – Sunstruck – 1979 Their only ever release and to my ears, sounding older than its 1979 vintage. Potentially a $1500 asking price if you find an original… and I won’t. 50.37 REUBEN BELL with THE CASANOVAS – It’s Not That Easy – 7″ – Murco – 1967 I’d have put money on this being a female vocalist, and that money wouldn’t go far in trying to buy an original copy of the 7″. It’s in the hundreds. 52.58 PAUL WELLER – Cold Moments – 22 Dreams, 2LP – Island – 2008 About as trusted an artist as there can be when it comes to a new release, I’m reasonably sure there isn’t a Weller solo album I couldn’t find a track to want to spin on 41 Rooms. 57.39 GOT-TA-SCATTA – Safe Train – Unreleased – 2012’ish An idea that first learned to walk a few years earlier and if you know your Sergio Mendes vocalists, one that might have given us problems if we’d had wanted to release it officially. I think the starting point for the track was at one time far moodier but then Dave and I got into a brighter take. His partner, Holly guested an early ‘counter’ vocal… that we then slowed to a crawl and another fave sample source of ours cropped up for the outro. Also, looking at the myriad of versions we had, one was co-titled ‘Cowdenbeath’ for a reason neither of us can remember… but I’ll guarantee we were both laughing to ourselves when it happened. The GOT-TA-SCATTA lads windswept on a mid ’80s ferry. You’re welcome. 01.02.09 JOHN FOXX – Touch and Go – Metamatic, LP – Virgin / Metal Beat – 1980 A track that I played a lot at our early ’80s club nights so it should have been somewhere in the 1hr Winkles specials that cropped up in many early 41 Rooms shows. UPDATE: At the end of the week following this show going live I was in London and caught a John Foxx Q&A / signing session at London’s Rough Trade East, hosted by Cabaret Voltaire’s Mal and having had a ‘long time no see’ kind of bear hug with Mal in the pub beforehand I and a mate – afterwards and to guarantee a sit down – chose a different pub a good few minutes away… to find John Foxx in there! A quick word with the man involved me recounting that I ran a club night in Bedford back in the early ’80s and hearing tracks from Metamatic anytime since has always instantaeously brought back the ‘feel’ of the club. The good folks at Rough Trade East were let down on grey vinyl copies of Metamatic turning up on the above night but they subsequently got a signed copy sent to me in Ireland. 01.07.44 FACTORY FLOOR – Tell Me – 12″ – Phantasy Sound – 2025 A cracking sound that would have been sooooo on my Winkles turntables in the early ’80s, if it had been released then. Of course the electronic nerds will tell me that some of the sounds weren’t around then but ya get me drift. 01.11.45 UNDERGROUND HOP – Make It Without You (Rawmix) * – 12″ – Bass Boy – 1992 Coincidentally, the second track on this show to run the lyric ‘I can’t make it without You’ and here it’s a hefty 41 Rooms re edit on some minimalist beats I would have been blasting loud in late night headphones back when the likes of Kiss FM’s Sarah HB or Steve Jackson was spinning the track over the airwaves. Sampling a line from the Robert Owens-led Jus’ Friends, Massive B label 12″, As One (out the same year and he’s not credited on either) I’d have followed here with the latter if I hadn’t thought I’d already playlisted it. I hadn’t… so, another time. 01.14.07 STEVIE R & CERPINTXT – Red Lemon (Ed Davenport Edition) – Madilo 12″ – Chapter 24 – 2018 Building and dropping in all the right places. Storming. 01.21.24 TRAXMAN – See Things My Way – Teklife Vol. 3: The Architek, download only – 2013 Although I knew of the Traxman name I hadn’t heard any of his stuff until recently but I recognised the Carpenters straight off here on what is a vocal sample as brutal as the track’s breaks and arrangements are crude and simple… but it works! For my own divilment , and not a million miles away from what’s going on here, an idea I had back in 2010 involved totally mangling a Joe Cocker tune and if I or we (GOT-TA-SCATTA) ever fine tune it you might hear ‘Cockered Up’ on 41 Rooms. 01.24.02 TRAXMAN – I Need Some Money – Da Mind Of Traxman, 2LP – Planet Mu – 2012 I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s an old Traxman DJ mix somewhere where he’s mixing in and out of this and the above See Things My Way tune. 01.27.02 ACTION & TENSION & SPACE – Skåredalen Funhouse – Skåredalen Funhouse, LP – Kapitän Platte – 2018 A Norwegian trio starting as ‘low-fi post-rock, moving to free rock jams‘ it says somewhere. ‘Water’ – the wet stuff – is what springs to my mind here for me. No idea why. 01.30.04 JOHN FOXX & LOUIS GORDON – Smoke – Crash And Burn, LP – Metamatic – 2003 The fourth returnee this show, Foxx moves from the earlier Touch and Go to Crash And Burn… sort of. Smoke has real ‘character’. 01.36.01 WILLIAM DEVAUGHN – Be Thankful For What You Got * – Be Thankful For What You Got, LP – Chelsea Records – 1974 I’d be stunned if this wasn’t on the jukebox in Bedford’s Pilgrims Inn in my earliest pub drinking days and/or being spun in the Laird of the Anglers Inn across the road on Saturday lunchtimes. 01.41.01 SOUL II SOUL – Keep On Movin’ – Club Classics Vol. One, LP – 10 Records – 1989 On the album but not the same as the 12″ Club Mix. If I had a Top Ten list of gigs I wish I’d caught in my old home town, Bedford this crew would be right up there. Caron Wheeler and Jazzie B on the stage of the Corn Exchange… 01.46.41 MARVIN GAYE – Where Are We Going? (Alternate Mix) – split 7″ – Motown – 2016 Jazzie B! See Marv here. He was happy keeping the ‘g’ in. Originally recorded for Gaye’s shelved 1972 album You’re The Man the track subsequently through the years saw the light through various compilations and deluxe editions (e.g. 2001’s Let’s Get It On Deluxe Edition but being a singles fan I’m giving the nod to this 7″ even though it’s unlikely I’ll ever own a copy. 01.50.18 TODD RUNDGREN – Fidelity – Nearly Human, LP – Warner Brothers – 1989 Todd gets soulful and although a lot of differing traffic in between, maybe not a huge leap from his late ’60s Nazz and Hello It’s Me days. 01.54.25 DONNA SUMMER – State Of Independence – 12″ – Warner Brothers – 1982 From the ’12” for the price of a 7″ single’ pushing-for-the-charts days and I most probably paid best mate, Dob/Dave Lewis the £1.35 the cover states, as he was managing the Bedford WH Smiths’ record department at the time. Yet another track that I remember blasting loud and on repeat whilst walking my dog, Flanagan around a pitch black Bedford Park after DJ’ing at Winkles back in the day. Maybe not the smartest move at 2am but I was most probably slightly drunk. Re Donna, she sounds way more passionate about the lyrics than the writers Yes’ Jon Anderson and Vangelis managed. They sound like they just provided a guide vocal to sell the song on. And I’ll refer here again to Bob Conti, someone I know from his three decades playing live with Jose Feliciano. He was also Donna’s percussionist and co-writer of very long standing and you’ll find a fab Daieda Magazine article/interview with Bob on his website, where he spoke beautifully of his time with the lady. Show 144 hopefully surfaces Oct 5. Dec x The post Post Punk Plus Podcast Playlist 143 – Original upload 7.9.25 appeared first on 41Rooms.

This playlist is 76% vinyl friendly. Not bad. RCA Victor, 1950s. ‘No frills’ would be an understatement. Did the job though, no doubt. Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms tweak/edit/chop and the occasional tune might sound a bit dodgy, quality-wise. On top of that, the switch between different decades and production values never helps in the mix here. Lyric of Playlist 142 ‘Trigger happy policing. Panic is spreading. God knows where we’re heading… ‘ Marv, via The Flams. 00.00 (Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983. Episode #1 for info. 00.41 NEW ORDER – Paradise – Brotherhood, LP – Factory – 1986 The album’s lead track. Played live late ’80s through the ’90s and though I would get the very slightest wiff of c&w with the occasional ‘mid period’ New Order song it’s unlikely Barney’s ‘Jolene’ is the same as Dolly Parton’s. 04.16 ASHNYMPH – Saltspreader – Download only – 2025 A glorious, chugging, fuzzy racket from South London that band member, Jonny sees as ‘service station dance music.’ It’s also a rare example of a(nother) vocal rising from the bottom of a big barrel… that sounds OK! 07.43 CHAKK – No. 3 SOUND (Peel session) – stream only – 1984 ‘Industrial funk’ back then and just as much so now. At the time of recording for their one and only John Peel session this track sounded like a sketch of an idea with vocalist, Jake Harries slightly ad-libbing/winging it. So new maybe, it had no title… other than it was the third track recorded for the session. Tough, whatever and hello to anyone else who saw them at London’s Portobello Rd Electric Cinema or supporting The Smiths at Warwick Uni, both in early ’84 I think. 11.04 ZAINICHI FUNK – Bakudan Kowai – 爆弾こわい, CD only – P-Vine Records – 2011 Bonkers Japanese homage to James Brown, with the vocalist throwing in the slightest of Godfather of Funk moves in the video. They do it their own way over there and on the evidence of this alone it’s hard to know whether it’s a deep love of funk, a total spoof or somewhere in between. 15.04 NEW STREET ADVENTURE – Hangin’ On / Hangin’ Up – 7″ – Unmasked Recordings – 2012 Having had a stint as a solo artist Nick Corbin is currently back in 2025 action within his full band moniker. Here though it’s their mod-tastic debut single from back in the day. Sharp, especially with the flip side making it to the mega 7″ Heaven show 100. 17.41 THE STYLE COUNCIL – Money-Go-Round (Part One) – 7″ – Polydor – 1983 Paul Weller’s soul collective knocked out a cracking version of this live on UK TV back in the day (possibly not The Tube?) and though this is a slight cheat on the ‘play only once on 41 Rooms’ rule I set myself (the 12″ was spun about a hundred shows ago) it’s a set of lyrics as on point today as it was those forty plus years ago. 21.19 BOBBY BYRD – I Know You Got Soul (Original Full Album Version) – 12″ – S12 – 2001 If I’m honest, I wasn’t aware of Byrd’s original – either this album version or the original three minutes only 1971, King label 7″ – until after buying Eric B. & Rakim’s slightly slower 1988 cover but it still feels like I heard it a few years before the full version got released on this 12″. 25.46 TROUBLE FUNK – Trouble Funk Express – 12″ – D.E.T.T. Records – 1982 The Washington D.C. Go-Go train chugging along the tracks slightly slower than its Dusseldorf-based inspiration. Suggesting (as it appears to do) that it’s actually a Trouble Funk written track is something Kraftwerk may have had something to say about. 31.54 GURU (feat D. C. LEE) – No Time To Play – 12″ – Cooltempo – 1993 ‘Another jem from the ‘Jazzamatazz’ set, this crispy two-stepper boasting a C.J. MacKintosh remix of a chirpy rap tune featuring infectious backgrounds from D C Lee and jazzy guitar licks from Ronnie Jordan. Elsewhere in the proceedings string stabs, a warm bass line and live drum feel add to the joyous nature of the track, DC Lee’s chorus backgrounds definitely being the particularly effective riff that lodges in your grey matter‘. – Ralph Tee, Record Mirror (Music Week), 16.10.93 ‘CJ MacKintosh remixed jauntily jiggling 100bpm groove with Guru muttering through D.C. Lee’s mantra-like refrain and Ronny Jordan’s jazz guitar… ‘ – James Hamilton, Record Mirror (Music Week), 6.11.93 Yep, featuring in no small measure, D. C. Lee and with a big nod to the sounds bubbling underneath, yet another rap that passes me by as my ears wait to pick up on the chorus. 36.36 SOUL II SOUL – Just Right (Video version) – Stream only? – 1992 Not the first version of the song to grace 41 Rooms and it might not be the last, so props to all involved, most notably guest vocalist here, Rick Clarke and his melodies, and I’m wondering if it was nailed on that Jazzie B’s rap had to stay in, no matter who was remixing. 40.14 DONOR LENS – Inside Outside – As Warm As Summer, cassette only – My Pet Flamingo – 2025 Amazing how the kids have taken to a decades old format. The album is also available digitally but as of right now the now sold out cassette version is the only hard copy format out there. Re their ‘Vaporwave’-tagged sound? See their entry on the last show. 43.12 SCALER (feat AKIKO HARUNA) – Salt – Endlessly, LP – Black Acre – 2025 Upcoming in September and we’re in slow beats terrain that you may not be surprised to hear, emanates from Bristol, UK. ‘Scaler (Alex Hill, Isaac Jones, James Rushforth and Nick Berthoud, alongside visual artist Jason Baker) are the electrifying Bristol-based band hailed as the city’s “next national breakthrough” thanks to their pulverising live show and meticulous, mind-warping sound. Now they’re back with ‘Endlessly’, a sublime and stylistically expansive new album. 10 potent tracks written and recorded more collaboratively than ever before, as SCALER explore what it means to make music with no ceiling… ‘. – Spindizzy Records 46.32 LEON VYNEHALL (feat POISON ANNA) – Mirror’s Edge – Download only – 2025 Dub… step… 50.28 SANDOZ – Inner Rhythms – Intensely Radioactive, 2LP – Touch – 1994 The late Richard H. Kirk sounding cinematic. 59.34 JOI CARDWELL – What It Feels Like (Quentin Harris Club Mix) * – 12″ – BPM King Street Sounds – 2006 Not an R&B-style track then taken on a remix journey but co-written with and produced by Quentin Harris. 01.05.40 TASHAN – Love Is Forever (Shadow Zone Vocal Dub) – 12″ – Columbia – 1993 ‘Now here on import with mixes to suit every persuasion. The three A-side soul-cum-swing versions are certainly reflections of the bum and easily the highlight here, sophistication and subtle urban flavours lending to its potential at an adult rather than street level. The three B-side mixes house it up‘. – Ralph Tee, Record Mirror (Music Week), 4.12.93 ‘Soulfully moaning guy’s superb wriggly cantering 123.8bpm David Shaw, lush jiggly swaying 109.8bpm Radio, chunkier rolling 110.2bpm Joe ‘The Butcher’ Mixes‘. – James Hamilton, Record Mirror (Music Week), 4.12.93 I say ‘weirdly tagged’ on the show coz this ‘Vocal Dub’ sounds like a full vocal to me. Back listening to this at the time on KISS FM (London style) it was the clattering snares that caught my ear first. 01.09.51 BULLION – Long Promised – Young Heartache, 12″ EP – One-Handed Music – 2009 Depending on how you’re wired, this juttery approach may not be to everyone’s liking. 01.12.31 EYELESS IN GAZA – John Of Patmos – Photographs As Memories, LP – Cherry Red – 1981 Martyn Bates sounding as like some distant folk style got hijacked by punk with bare bones electronica to hand. 01.16.41 NORRIS MAN – Home And Away * – 7″ – Vertex Productions – 2005 I can’t stand the intro to this, so it got binned for the show. Apologies to Norris Man but after that it sounds great. 01.20.06 MORGAN HERITAGE – Crying Out – 7″ – Firehouse Crew – 1998 Checking out Discogs, you never had long to wait for the next Morgan Heritage single, as there are 230 listed on there – on nearly as many different labels! 01.24.00 COURTNEY BUCHANAN – Heaven – 12″ – Conscious – 1994 Actually this was first out on MCA but then shifted to the above short lived label where gems shone in their few releases. 01.27.49 THE FLAMINGOS – Inner City Blues (Extended Blue) – 12″ b-side – Robs Records – 1994 Maybe not for the soul purists and I can’t remember how we (Cliff, Dave and to a lesser extent myself) decided on having a stab at Marvin Gaye’s catalogue. All of us were fans… and that maybe included Rob(s Records) Gretton, too and it’s another set of lyrics that stands the test of time. 01.32.48 ANGÉLIQUE KIDJO – Agolo – 12″ – Mango – 1994 By total coincidence, the third tune in a row from 1994 but in no way accounts for why this follows The Flamingos so well. 01.37.05 DONOVAN – There Is A Mountain – 7″ – Pye – 1967 A Buddhist saying turned into a cheery poptastic tune and one of a lot of ’60s 7″ singles I as a teenager was belatedly catching up on five to ten years after their release. These days, Donovan sort of lives up the road from me (well, twenty miles of rural Ireland) and the chances are that from home he can actually see a mountain! Mount Leinster, in fact. 01.39.35 GNAG OF FOUR – Damaged Goods – 7″ – Fast Product – 1978 From Donovan to Damaged Goods… a link not often made over the ether. One for Damaged Goods label boss and mate, Ian Ballard (yes, the label was named after Gof4 and the song). 01.43.00 NASMAK – Nothing But The Lyrics – 4our Clicks, LP – Plurex- 1982 I distinctly remember that any Nasmak track I played in our early ’80s Winkles (Bedford) club nights sounded particularly strong ‘sound system’… though I didn’t play this one… as I didn’t have the album. 01.45.50 JOY DIVISION – Transmission – The Peel Sessions, 12″ EP – Strange Fruit – 1986 A shade slower than the Strawberry Studios version but the blending of two greats as the band rolled in here for the first of their two 1979 sessions for Peel. Eventually released with a bunch of other artists’ visits to the Beeb’s Maida Vale studios in Strange Fruit’s first year, this release actually followed the New Order one in the sequencing. 01.49.52 NUYORICAN SOUL – I Am The Black Gold Of The Sun – Nuyorican Soul, 2LP – Talkin’ Loud / Giant Step – 1997 Written in 1971 by Rotary Connection’s Charles Stepney and Richard Rudolph, and featuring Minnie Riperton (the latter’s then husband) but more than confidently taken on here by Jocelyn Brown and Nuyorican Soul’s helmsmen, Louie Vega and Kenny ‘Dope’ Gonzalez. Epic in both camps. 01.54.46 MUCHO MACHO (feat JON LUCIEN) – Easy Living (41 Rooms Radio Edit Extend) * – Nuyorican Soul, 6×12″ box set – Talkin’ Loud / Giant Step – 1986 My ‘Extend’? Somewhere between the only-available-on-CD Radio Mix and the 12″ Full Length Version take… which dawdles a bit too much. Whichever, as minimal as they are, it’s Lucien’s silky tones that are the key within this slinking groove. 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