Spannered Oddcast

Oddcast #15 was delivered on Saturday 28 April 2012 at 01:10 hours. Weighing in at just over 70 minutes, both parent and child are doing as well as can be expected. Music for Pregnant Ladies is a version of a mix originally put together by London-based DJ Jerome Hill for a friend of his during her pregnancy. Featuring wildly eclectic gems from the likes of Nino Ferrer, Os Mutantes and Jean-Pierre Massiera, we've been experimenting with this Oddcast in various situations and can assuredly report that it's a very fine listen even if you're not 'with child'. Despite Jerome's legendary standing as a techno DJ, anyone who's caught him at one of his more “irregular” gigs will know of his ceaseless quest to unearth the cheekiest tunes of all genres ever to have been pressed onto vinyl (and that he's a force to reckoned with when it comes to rocking out the catchiest wedding selection). His label, Don’t, recently reached it’s 20th release with a sturdy EP of clunking acid and jacking house

The latest instalment of Spannered's Oddcast series comes from none other than Glasgow's Dave Donnelly, aka Production Unit. Dave's no stranger to these pages, having previously contributed two short works of fiction about talking cows and a rather exquisite review of Autechre's Quaristice album. Formerly a member of Glasgow's now-dispanded electronica trio the Marcia Blaine School For Girls (along with Ruaridh Law, aka The Village Orchestra), Dave's had outings under his Production Unit guise on keen-eared labels such as Highpoint Lowlife and Stuff Records. He currently has releases primed and ready for Broken20 (which helps to run with Law) and Phuturelabs. The Broken20 release, titled ICU Tracks, is a particularly intense body of work —  a stark techno set (suitably supported by remixes from Perc and Emptyset's Paul Purgas) constructed from the sound of hospital machines. A while back, just after we got a whiff of his Mature Cheedar Dadcast for Techno Dads, we asked Dave if he'd pick up the Od

Loosen your tie and get down to half an hour of Bollywood oddities and sitar-fuelled strangeness (with nods to Britney, Herbie Hancock and Nancy Sinatra) from Phill Thomson, aka the Nam Shub of Enki. Nam Shub has released a slew of solo recordings since the '90s, as well as producing for and performing with Brisbane's riotous cabaret supergroup Monster Zoku Onsomb! and new MZO splinter project Hi Freqs. He's currently roaming about Europe, sculling bottles of Belgian beer and playing outrageous live sets of mashed electronics at people in anticipation of the release of his sixth album, due out soon on Australia's Retort Records.

It's been just over a year now since the delightful DJ Bus Replacement Service — ably assisted on mic duties by MC Toilet — made her site debut. The eighth installment of Spannered's Oddcast series pointed towards an almost virtuosic understanding of that much-maligned genre: outsider music.   We've been sitting on this follow-up mix for some months now, allowing the dense flavours to fustily mature, much like a corked bottle of cheap wine or a furry hunk of airing cupboard-ripened camembert.   Special credit to Tony Surgeon for 'Turd Polisher' duties.   "DJ Bus Replacement Service is... the human centipede... of music." — David Cameron (probably quoted out of context).    Tracklisting: Master Gunnery Sergeant Bill Dower - Warm-Up: Daily Seven - Gonna Fly Now (Rocky's Theme) Kromestar vs. Cotti - Mozart 3000 Heino - Karamba, Karacho, Ein Whisky (In Rio De Janeiro) The Alexandrov Red Army Ensemble of Leningrad - California Girls Charlie

1980. A good year for Ronald Reagan and Sissy Spacek but a bad year for John Lennon, Ian Curtis, and anyone involved in the production of Caligula. Chances are, even if you were alive and aware back then, you haven't experienced anything like this big bowl of 1980 soup, featuring fragments of music, news, film and trivia gathered up and broken down by the Timestump project. 1980: it's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there. Or would you? "People like using decades to categorise music. The 1970s: disco. The 1980s: Duran Duran. The 1990s: Take That. And the 2000s: Crazy Frog. But what if you zoom in a level and use a year instead? The Timestump project tests this out by taking a single year and turning it into a bewildering audio experience, staggering between musical genres, news stories, films, trivia and TV adverts. By showing how vast and confusing even a single year can be, it proves how daft it is to treat an entire decade as a single musical genre."   The Timestump Pro

With hellodoctornamecontinueyesterdaytomorrow, aka Spannered's 10th Oddcast, Datassette takes us through a wild and wonderful set of library music and various treats of the analogue world. Space out 70s style and enjoy a kaleidoscopic array of wibs and wobbles, blips and bloops, clicks and whooshes, and other mysterious sounds of the spheres. If this collection were a van, it would have carpeting all over the inside, swivelling seats, and an 8-track player. Since it's an Oddcast, you're stuck with listening to it. Just be sure you have your seatbelt on. Datassette, also known as Datashat, has releases on Echoecho, Ai Records, and other labels, and recently remixed Royskopp's Happy Up Here on Wall of Sound. The most excellent Handsette Recordings, which Datassette also has a hand in, has a new release out as well. Datassette has kindly supplied some truly cosmic artwork to enhance your experience (especially effective if you stare at it intently while listening).   Take it away Datassette!   T

"The sun's shining, I'm wearing my sombrero, and through my open window floats the gentle splosh and gurgle of folk falling into the river — all of which can mean only one thing: summer's here! So buckle on your flip-flops, crank the ghettoblaster up to eleven, pop open a bottle of 1994 Châteauneuf-du-Pape and kick back to the balmy sounds of the UNITY GAIN TEMPLE SUMMER SYNCRETASM!"   Unity Gain Temple is a full-time member of Communty (Massive Sonoral Carpets, Nefarious International Manoeuvres, Looting, Banditry, Ambushes, Car-Jacking, Physical Attacks and Killings). You can email him here.   Tracklisting: Kaija Saariaho – Jardin Secret I Denis Smalley – Wind Chimes Thomas Köner – Nival George Benjamin – Octet Brian Ferneyhough – Funerailles Gareth Loy – Nekyia György Ligeti – Glissandi Morton Subotnick – Silver Apples of the Moon Pierre Boulez – Sur incises Erik Bergman

DJ Bus Replacement Serivce (pictured left) has been described by multidisciplinary artist Russell Haswell as "evil" and "like a policewoman". She has now left the UK.  MC Toilet (pictured right) has been described by Brian Eno as "a visionary, a towering ellipsis of musicality, verve, passion and lyricism". He adds cohesion and class to an otherwise challenging playlist.   This Oddcast is dedicated to Tony & William. Tracklisting: Quincy Sing-a-long Theme Black Tea - No Flow For The Hos The Legendary Stardust Cowboy - Paralyzed John "Bowtie" Barstow - Silent Night Robert Alberg - Walking Alone On The Sandy Beach Rabaue - Pizza Hut Pirahna Man - Cats In The Cradle (Not) Sabrina - Boys, Boys, Boys Loli Terremoto de Alcorcon - Hung Up Cromagnon - Caledonia Eilert Pilarm - Elvis megamix E Pak Sa excerpt

Known in electronic music circles for his releases on Seed Records, Charles Matthews, aka Ardisson has spent much of the last few years immersing himself in music from the Indonesian islands of Bali and Java. This, the seventh installment of Spannered's Oddcast series, is a selection of music from Bali.   'This is a mix of various styles of Balinese music you can find on CD outside of Bali. Some of my friends complain that gamelan sounds a bit samey so I wanted to make sure there was a nice variety of timbres. There's a bit of genggong, gambuh, beleganjur, kecak... gamelan gambang, angklung and gong gede... it doesn't even scrape the surface though. I had fun mixing it so a couple of bits have come out a tad weird. I can't find the tracklisting right now but if you like this then a good place to start is Music From the Morning of the World on Nonesuch Recordings.' Ardisson, London 2009

A warm welcome to James Elphick, aka Mys-Elf, art director and organiser of London's heady Guerilla Zoo events, and sonic conjurer behind the sixth instalment of Spannered's Oddcast series.   Entitled A Room With a View, Oddcast #6 slides, drifts, hops and chops between sublime electronica, infectious folk-rock, Latin rhythms, crackly cinematic samples and queasy instrumental hip hop; we've had it on heavy rotation since he sent it in to us (we particularly recommend it for long train journeys across the UK, accompanied by a four pack of Guinness). If you're feeling the boy's style, we recommend you head on over to his MurdochSpace page and check out his tunes too.   Guerrilla Zoo is a London-based art/music/performance collective, featuring a slew of cool bands, live artists and performance acts from around the capital. For more info on forthcoming events and other mischief they're getting up to, check the site here.   Tracklisting (*** denotes unknown trackname): Controller 7 — T

Adverse Camber’s El Kano returns to Spannered with a malevolent mix up of metal, hardcore, grunge, distortion, throaty bellowing, deranged jabbering, hissing, clunking, and messy digital contortions — with a heap of megalomaniacal ranting from Superman's archfoe thrown in for good measure.   Brace yourself for an aural fisting!   Tracklisting: Tracks and extracts — speech by General Zod Khlyst — IV Knut — Karn Boys (Oren Ambarchi / Robin Fox / Antony Pateras Remix) Ministry — TV II Converge — Heartless Dillinger Escape Plan — When Acting As A Wave Eustachian — Teleporting Salesman Pig Destroyer — Lesser Animal Meshuggah — Exquisite Machinery of Torture Khanate — Torching Korovie Ennio Morricone — L’Uccello Con Le Piume Di Cristallo (Titoli) Shellac — The Crow Boris — Six, Three Times Drumcorps — Terrible Things Leviathan — What Fres

Last year we asked Rory Lemon, aka Randomoidz, if he'd be kind enough to put his boundless knowledge of ska music to good use and knock up a contribution to Spannered's Oddcast series. Not only did jump at the chance, but he opted for a two-pronged attack. Now we're pleased to unleash the first instalment: a properly spannered romp through choice cuts from his personal, erm, skarchive.   Rory did compile a tracklisting, but sadly it was scrawled on a piece of paper that was lost in the aftermath of a camembert fondue party. Hopefully he'll get a chance to write it all out again for us at some point (no mean feat, given the mix contains roughly a hundred tracks), but seeing as the sequel is almost upon us, we thought we'd best get part one out the door without further delay.   Expect appearances from the Skatalites, The Slackers, The Specials, Prince Buster, Hepcat, and even Rolf Harris. Keep it locked for part two!

Having recently returned to the UK from São Paulo, Brazil, Spannered's Al Fresco bundles together some of his favourite Brazilian finds for Oddcast #3.   Tracklisting: Cravo e Canela — Amor Em Jacuma Os Incríveis — Estou A Perigo Gal Costa — Barato Total Cravo e Canela — Estupido Cupido / Banho De Lua Claudette Soares — Canoeiro Antonio Carlos e Jocafi — Xamego De Ina Sonia Santos — Speed Antonio Carlos e Jocafi — Glorioso Santo Antonio Paulinho da Viola — Estou Marcado Ed Lincoln — The Blues Walk Noriel Vilela — 16 Tonelados Ed Lincoln — Palladium Waltel Branco — Not From Dixie Antonio Carlos e Jocafi — Fraqueza Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 — For What It's Worth Gal Costa — Aquele Frevo Axé Cravo e Canela — Loteca Os Mutantes — A Minha Menina Tim Maia — Cristina Gal Costa — Flor de M

It's taken a little while to deliver Spannered's second Oddcast, but then we've needed a few months to find something odd enough. Stitched together by site collaborator Uberdog, this instalment pretty much does the job. Just make sure you know what an off-colour sea lion looks like...   Tracklisting/samples: Spannered intro Speedranch — Eight Food + Freekz! (!ooT,eviLnaCskcuD) Noodles Discotheque excerpt Chris Morris — Club News Edit — Goats (Bernard's Haircut) Squirrel Nut Zippers — Ghost of Stephen Foster (Mammoth Records) Freq — Holy Shit (Death$ucker) Jeff Mills — The Bells (Purpose Maker) V/Vm — MOnEy) 4 nOTHING (V/Vm Test) Wevie Stonder — Pepsy (Skam) Ricky Gervais — Prostate cancer ad Pleated Lemon — Carl Cox & Friends (Hand on the Plow) Chris Morris — Club News The KLF — Six Hours to Louisiana, Black Coffee Going Cold (KLF Communications) Monolake — Untit

Tracklisting: All Stars — Bye Bye Blues (from Jazz w Polsce 1 - Poczatki 1950-1960) Alexandroid — Debil (False Starts) Vera Ward Hall — Poor Lazarus (Deep River of Song: Alabama: From Lullabies to Blues) An-shu — Sex and Death (Every Monkey Is a Star) Nettle — Grit remixed by DJ /rupture Featuring Jenny Jones (Soot) Slepcy with Charles Bukowski — On The Ride (Cock Rock Disco 2006 free compilation) Dr Who Dat — B-Boy Portrait in Spain (Lex Records) 3rd Party — The Hollow Moment Catalogue (Museum Records) The Lucky Dragons — New Homes (Dark Falcon) Miss Pickle — Hoff Boy Fredo Viola — The Sad Song (Because) Melodium — My Xylophone Loves Me (Autres Directions) TD Lind — Let's get lost (Come in from the Cold) Chubby Parker — King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O (Anthology of American Folk Music (1-A) ed. by Harry Smith) Spank Rock — What It Look Like (A cape