Bump: Löffel Bank Holiday Special this Sunday at The Spoon Inn, August 25th

A quick reminder that Löffel returns to The Spoon Inn this Sunday for a Bank Holiday Special. 

DJs will be Tom (aA) & Ed (Climate Control Radio) with percussion by Deadbeatz & we'll be starting around 3pm, running through to closing around 10.30pm. 

There's a few other things going on later on in Chorlton too, Nado @ Electrik & Eighty Six / Red Deer @ Beagle, so you can make a day / night of it....

PEA TANG CLAN

Spotted these in an issue of LoDown over the weekend - must be the thing, week after The Smiths-inspired This Charming Charlie

VENUE RECOMMEND, LEEDS: Outlaws Yacht Club / Joe's Bakery

Last night, Jeff & me DJ'd for Eighty Six @ Outlaws Yacht Club on New York Street in Leeds city centre, on a 5pm til 11pm thing. If you're over that way make sure you pop in - ale selection is great, venue is nicely laid out, the staff are ace & it's all very chilled.

We didn't record last night but check out this mix from their monthly 'Joe's Bakery' :

We did take some photos though: 

& the last track, as asked by the bar staff, was the B side of this (cannot find the A side on YouTubez...)

Was good to play these trax out though: 

  

Eighty Six @ Outlaws Yacht Club, Leeds this Friday

Eighty Six

This Friday I'm DJing with Eighty Six at their monthly for Outlaws Yacht Club in Leeds, from about 5pm til closing.  Really looking forward to checking out the venue. 

Click here for the Facebook event info. Free entry too. 

For more info on Outlaws, have a look through this recent Test Pressing interview with the guys behind it, Craig and Joe.

There's great events taking place there week to week, especially 'Joe's Bakery' each last Saturday plus they've got a birthday special on September 28th with Amnesia original, Leo Mas. 

Well worth checking out, food & drink menu meant to be very good too. 

SPACEMAN 3

DISCO

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Updates & latest news on Liverpool Psych Fest 2013

@LpoolPsychFest

Looking forward very much to DJing at this year's Liverpool Psych Fest - the line up is just getting better & better...

If you've not got your tickets yet then do so here, quick quick as it's gonna sell out very soon...

See below for the latest updates, breath in....

27th and 28th September 2013 - Camp & Furnace, Liverpool

With the announcement of final line-up additions and the release of single day tickets on Tuesday 30^th July, LIVERPOOL INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF PSYCHEDELIA announce a limited edition 7” vinyl on their new imprint label PZYK.

The record will feature previously unheard tracks from Lorelle Meets The Obsolete (Sonic Cathedral/Captcha Records) and Maston (Trouble In Mind), as well as tracks from festival headliners Moon Duo (Souterrain Transmissions/Sacred Bones) and Clinic (Domino). PZYK 0001 will be limited to a specific number of copies, and will be given away FREE, exclusively to people who purchase weekend tickets from Bido Lito! (see link below). The records will be allocated on a first come first served basis: once they are gone successful purchasers will be contacted with details of how they can collect their record at the event.

WEEKEND WRISTBANDS + FREE 7” RECORD: CLICK HERE 

In addition, Liverpool Psych Fest are delighted to unveil the complete bill of artists for this year’s event, with Heavenly Recordings’ scuzzed-up East End rockers CHARLIE BOYER AND THE VOYEURS, and cinematic diviners of psych LOLA COLT added to the programme. Orlando’s STRANGERS FAMILY BAND will be continuing their proggy tour through the outer reaches of blistering rock by teaming up with Dead Meadow again at Liverpool Psych Fest. Glaswegian psychonauts THE COSMIC DEAD are joined by CAMERA, Berlin’s latest wunderkinds of drone, with the deliciously raw garage rock of TELEGRAM and Manchester’s sonic wanderers BASE VENTURA completing the stunning roster.

Individual day line-ups have also been finalised, with the opening night (Friday 27^th September) featuring MOON DUO, DEAD MEADOW and PSYCHIC ILLS. Running from 5pm – 4am, Friday also sees performances from THE HOLYDRUG COUPLE, NIGHT BEATS, KLAUS JOHANN GROBE and CARLTON MELTON.

The live action on Saturday 28^th September begins at 2pm, with CLINIC, FUZZ, THE BESNARD LAKES, HOOKWORMS, WHITE MANNA and a PEAKING LIGHTS SOUNDSYSTEM keeping things running until 4am. Individual day tickets are available to purchase now, and full breakdowns of the running orders for each day can be found on the accompanying poster, or at www.liverpoolpsychfest.com.

BBC 6 Music’s MARC RILEY will be performing an exclusive DJ set at the festival this year, following on from recent live sessions with Psych Fest artists Hookworms, Telegram and Moon Duo. The award winning DJ has a sharp ear for today’s cutting edge sounds, so expect his set to be nothing short of an education. Founder of the consistently stunning Finders Keepers Records, ANDY VOTEL, will be playing an exclusive "Heavy Global Psych" set especially programmed for the festival.

RICHARD HECTOR-JONES (Never Been Caught, Slut Smalls Records) and BERNIE CONNOR (Bernie Connor’s The Sound Of Music) will be  performing an exclusive back-to-back DJ set, while proprietor of the longest running alternative music show on radio, Roger Hill, brings his PURE MUSICAL SENSATIONS playlist to the turntables. SONIC CATHEDRAL will be reprising their role on the 1s and 2s this year, along with TROUBLE IN MIND RECORDS’ DJ PSYCHED ALEX, and Shindig! Magazine’s SI NORFOLK. All of these will be joining existing disc spinners RICHARD NORRIS (The Time And Space Machine, Beyond The Wizard’s Sleeve) and Super Furry Animals collaborator PETE FOWLER.

The festival’s DJ selection already includes BAD VIBRATIONS, THE BLACK MARIAH, FAUX DISCX vs GRINGO RECORDS, THE GREAT POP SUPPLEMENT, AKOUSTIK ANARKHY, JOE McKECHNIE and CAFÉ DEL LAR.

This is all in addition to a bill already consisting of -

MOON DUO (USA), CLINIC (UK), FUZZ (USA), DEAD MEADOW (USA), THE BESNARD LAKES (CAN), PEAKING LIGHTS SOUNDSYSTEM (USA), WHITE MANNA (USA), PSYCHIC ILLS (USA), NIGHT BEATS (USA), THE HOLYDRUG COUPLE (Chile), HOOKWORMS (UK) and tonnes more.

The festival features a stage curated by the stunningly consistent TROUBLE IN MIND RECORDS, who will be making the trip across the Atlantic from Chicago bringing a cohort of their artists along for the ride. Liverpool Psych Fest will also host an exclusive hook-up with the gloriously antagonistic MORDANT MUSIC who bring an audiovisual MORDANT MUSIC MiasMa to the festival.

The full programme of visual arts, projections, film and additional kaleidoscopic delights will be announced later this summer, ahead of the festival in September.

For full line-up information and artist details please visit - www.liverpoolpsychfest.com

Here's a mixtape I did for last year's event:

 

  @LPOOLPSYCHFEST MIXTAPE FOR NME by VISUAL SOUND

Löffel back at The Spoon Inn for August Bank Holiday Sunday...

Löffel

We'll post more details when we have them but for now, a quick heads up that Löffel returns to The Spoon Inn on the next Bank Holiday Sunday, August 25th. 

MONKEYS ROCK - 2 HOUR 1999 / 2001 MIXTAPE COMPILATION

Between 1998 and 2001 I put together a series of mixtapes under the somewhat random title of 'MONKEYS ROCK!'. The mixes mostly consisted of soul breaks cut up with charity shop records,  hip hop & various reggae / disco tracks, put together on two Technics, a Vestax mixer and a tape deck.

I've now compiled volumes one & two into a continuations mixtape - check it out below:

 
 MONKEYS ROCK! [ CASSETTE RIP ] by VISUAL SOUND

There's absolutely no chance of a tracklisting as there's at least 150 separate records on there but as a guide, please see below for a list of some featured artists:

FOREIGN LEGION, REUBEN WILSON, DOUG E FRESH, SONNY & CHER, BOB DOROUGH, DESMOND DEKKER, SAM & DAVE, IKE TURNER, BIZ MARKIE, MUDFOOT, MOS DEF Vs BURT BACHARACH, O JAYS, MAJOR FORCE, CUT CHEMIST, PETER POWELL, DE LA SOUL, PUMPKINHEAD, ESTHER WILLIAMS, ROB BASE & DJ EZ ROCK, SISTER NANCY, NATURAL RESOURCE, RAEKWON, AV8, JAMES BROWN, AFU RA, CODE RED, DJ PREMIER, AYATOLLAH, CLINT EASTWOOD, PETER PARKER, DJ FOOD, SCHOOLY D, FRED STEINER, ESTA, SOULS OF MISCHIEF, DJ RECTANGLE, SHIRLEY BASSEY, BEANIE MAN, COLDCUT &  A LOAD OF CHARITY SHOP RECORDS....

LIVE RECORDING from July's Löffel at The Spoon Inn, Chorlton, M21..

The Spoon Inn

We recorded bits of last Sunday's Löffel at The Spoon Inn - check out the links below. mix of various afternoon suitable stuff...

 

  LOFFEL LIVE JULY 2013 PART ONE by VISUAL SOUND

TRACKLISTING:


FRENCH PSYCHEDELICS - HORSE
TOPANGA CANYON - LOVE YOU
AMARSI UN PO - ??? [ ADRATIC SUN EDIT ]
HEIKKI SARMANTO & JEANNINE OTIS - SUMMER SUN [ 33 RPM VERSION ] 
LEO'S SUNSHIP - GIVE ME THE SUNSHINE [ INSRT. ]
LAND OF LIGHT - PRESENCE OF THE PAST
LAND OF LIGHT - HIGHER LOVE
?? - ?? [ LETS'S GET LOST VOLUME 17 ]
NINOSTA STEEL - FOXY PUP
?? - ??
BEGIN - ELATE [ 33 RPM VERSION ] 
?? - ??
BEGIN - LAY
THE POPES - BASTARD [ VERSION IDJUT ]
GEORGIE FAME, DEE LEWIS & CORAL GORDON - NEW YORK AFTERNOON 

 
LOFFEL LIVE RECORDING JULY 2013 PART TWO by VISUAL SOUND  



 LOFFEL LIVE RECORDING JULY 2013 PART THREE by VISUAL SOUND
 
We'll post a tracklisting soon & look out some other recordings too....

Outside Spoon Inn

Dunkel

Arts

Basil

Terrace

Löffel July at The Spoon Inn, Chorlton

Loffel July

So next Sunday, the afternoon after the return of Club Suicide, we're back at The Spoon Inn for July's Löffel. 

We'll be starting around 3pm & playing through to the sun down - expect a suitable soundtrack for tea & cake consumption....

Here's a recording of a previous afternoon:

 
  LOFFEL LIVE DJ RECORDING PART TWO by VISUAL SOUND

The Return Of........CLUB SUICIDE - Saturday July 13th

Looking forward to the return of one of Manchester's best clubs from the last 10 years - here's what they say:

CLUB SUICIDE

LIVE: AÉREA NEGROT (BPITCH CONTROL) & HIEM (NANG RECORDS)

ISLINGTON MILL, SALFORD

Club Suicide is a misguided attempt to map the space between leftfield pop, old punk (funk), new electro and off-kilter techno. You could say 'anything goes', but it doesn't. Not really. Between 2000 and 2004, Suicide ran sporadically and chaotically at a pub in the Arndale (now demolished) and Charlie's. Live turns were crucial to the night and Club Suicide gave Manchester debuts to, among others, Patrick Wolf and M.I.A. The 'DJs' didn't mix (they still can't), but people danced. Honestly. 

On Saturday July 13, Club Suicide returns for a one-off continuation. No classics, no nostalgia, no pandering. Instead, we will pick-up where we left off and, for one night, hopefully present a unique collision (car crash?) of musical styles for curious disco dissidents. 

Playing live: Aérea Negrot, the 21st century Berlin chanteuse and Venezuelan force of nature, whose Arabxilla on BPitch Control was one of the most distinctive albums of recent years. Aérea's music may be filed as house or techno, she may be a sometime collaborator with Hercules & Love Affair, but this is 4/4 channelled by a woman equal-parts Grace Jones, Maria Callas and Klaus Nomi. Google her, now, and tell us that operatic, electronic eruption isn't one of the strangest, most thrilling noises you've heard, this year. See? You can’t, can you? 

Closer to home, we also welcome our friends and yours, Sheffield's mighty Hiem. The Steel City lineage of peculiar, clangy electronic pop remains one of Club Suicide's key inspirations, and with Hiem's debut album, Escape From Division Street, recently re-released by Nang Records, fate was clearly telling us to get Nico and Bozz involved. Expect: facepaint, fleet disko, fat synths and plenty of that trademark surly SoYo wit.

WHY? WHY? WHY ARE WE DOING THIS NOW? 

Someone asked us, basically. Bill Campbell is the creator of Islington Mill and a one-time Suicide regular: "For me, the early Club Suicide nights at John Willie Lees reasserted a DIY, John Peel-esque spirit in Manchester, bringing together various generations of misfits, and giving them a new home. The music, post-punk, synth pop and noisy garage rock, sat perfectly alongside the emerging electroclash scene, putting it in context without nostalgia. It reignited a sense of just-do-it in me personally and, in the friends I made there, brought two distinct music and art crowds together in a way that has informed much of what we now do at the Mill. That is, bringing people together to explore what is possible."

Which is a very nice way of Bill saying that he spent a lot of time at Suicide, "drunk" and "dancing". Ultimately - in fact, primarily - that is all there is to it. See you there. 

Löffel at The Spoon Inn | Sunday 26th May

 

Loffel returns to The Spoon Inn on Sunday 26th May for a bank holiday Sunday all dayer as part of Chorlton Arts Festival. #Facebook event here.

DJs are Jeff [ Eighty Six ] & Tom [ aA ] plus live percussion from Dreadbeatz. 

Expect the usual mix of folk, downtempo soul, calypso, electronics & most points in between. Plus of course good cake . 

A bit like this in fact:

 

LOFFEL LIVE DJ RECORDING PART TWO by VISUAL SOUND

We'll start around 3pm and run on through til closing time about 10pm. 

Some photos from last time:

Next LOFFEL : SUNDAY 21st APRIL

 Löffel returns to The Spoon Inn for another afternoon session on Sunday 21st April - more details, very soon..

NEW Nike sneaks

NIKE card box design

LIVE DJ RECORDINGS From Löffel, Sunday March 10th at The Spoon Inn, Chorlton, M21

Each month we do an afternoon / early evening DJ session at The Spoon Inn in Chorlton, Manchester called Löffel. It's a chance to play a more laid back selection of lo fi folk, soul, soundtracks & field recordings - pretty much anything that sounds good to drink tea in the sunshine to...

Last Sunday we recorded the soundtrack between 1pm and 6pm & uploaded them as below. The sound quality is a bit off as the levels go up and down all day but hopefully it gives you an idea of what we do.

There's no tracklist as yet but we'll try to sort one when we get a chance... 

 
 LOFFEL LIVE DJ RECORDING PART ONE by LEGO-aA
 

 
 LOFFEL LIVE DJ RECORDING PART TWO by LEGO-aA  

[ please excuse the record skipping at the start of the second recording, a toddler tried to storm the decks... ]

If you like this kind of thing keep an eye on The Spoon Inn's FB page for details of the next Loffel including a Bank Holiday all dayer in May.

& if you're after something very slightly bit more uptempo, check out Eighty Six which is on at Spoon Inn next Saturday:

EIGHTY SIX at De Nada, Friday March 01st

This Friday I'm DJing at De Nada in Chorlton with the Eighty Six lot. It starts around 8.30pm and runs til late.

Pop down for South American food, beers and a laidback sound track. 

Event info here....

Löffel Afternoon Session, Sunday March 10th

We're back at The Spoon Inn, Chorlton on Sunday 10th March for another Löffel, click here to find out miore...

ADAM CURTIS 'IT FELT LIKE A KISS' | 2009 DOCUMENTARY | AUDIO SOUNDTRACK MIXTAPE

I've just uploaded the soundtrack from Adam Curtis' 'It Felt Like A Kiss' show to Soundcloud. Not really a mixtape but it works well with just the audio, check it out:

IT FELT LIKE A KISS SOUNDTRACK

      Uploaded by LEGO-aA

Oh What a Dream - Ruth Brown
Camille - From Le Mepris soundtrack - Georges Delerue
Let the Four Winds Blow - Fats Domino
Stealing Fat - From Fight Club soundtrack - Dust Brothers
On the Rebound - Floyd Cramer
What Does a Woman Do? - Doris Day
Monkey 23 - The Kills
Baja - The Astronauts
Do-Wah-Diddy - The Exciters
Just One Look - Doris Troy
Monkey on Your Back - Clinic
I'll Be Your Mirror - Velvet Underground
Parlez-Moi d'Amour - Lucienne Boyer
Pink Shoe Laces - Dodie Stevens
Slap in The Face - from The Gadfly - Shostakovich
Easier Said Tan Done - The Essex
He Hit Me (and It Felt Like a Kiss) - The Crystals
The Locomotion - Little Eva
In Dreams - Roy Orbison
End of the World - Skeeter Davis
Cha-Cha - from Symphonic Dances from West Side Story - Leonard Bernstein
Meeting Scene - from Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
Who's That Guy? - The Kolettes
The Madison Time, Pt 1 - Ray Bryant Combo
All Tomorrow's Parties - The Velvet Underground
Love Minus Zero/No Limit - Bob Dylan
Cry To Me - Solomon Burke
Freak Freak - The Bug
Moonlight - Four Sea Interludes (From Peter Grimes) - Benjamin Britten
Who Is Tyler Durden? - Fight Club soundtrack - Dust Brothers
I Still Miss Someone - Johnny Cash
Wouldn't It Be Nice? - Beach Boys
Sister Ray - The Velvet Underground
Have You Seen Her? - The Chi-Lites
River Deep Mountain High - Ike and Tina Turner
Is That All There Is? - Peggy Lee
Krautrock - Faust
Dawn - Four Sea Interludes (From Peter Grimes) - Benjamin Britten

PHOTOSTREAM 02: More 1980s NYC + a narrative...

Another ace photostream - narrative, quoted below:

"The New York of the 1980s differed in two fundamental ways from the New York of today.

First, 1980s-era New York was an edgier, riskier, dirtier, tenser, more dangerous and chaotic place. I think that fairly comes through in my images.

Second, 1980s-era New York had a sense of wide-openness and freedom that was lost following 9/11 ... and likely never will be regained.

Notice how these two fundamental changes overlap in a number of important ways. A safer city, to some extent, comes at the price of a loss of freedom and openness. Conversely, the edginess and riskiness of the 1980s came at an appalling human and social cost. My photos of South Bronx and Bushwick are -- if I might say so -- a testament to that. Those who might be nostalgic for the edginess and riskiness of the 1980s were surely not the people who were growing up in the South Bronx and Bushwick in the era. 

 
The trade-off between openness and security is reflected in a very literal way in some of my 1980s photos. Some of my photos from that era were taken from the tops of bridges and within city-owned properties that were nominally closed off to the public. In that era, many of these locations were open and accessible. It is perhaps unnecessary to state that -- in this post-9/11 era -- an itinerant photographer should not attempt to explore these same locations. The probable consequence, at the very least, will be the loss of the ability to smoothly pass though airport security checkpoints.

In any event, these are just a few broad-brush generalizations... useful but limited. The City is such an enormous and complex place that one should hesitate to resort to generalizations -- let alone attempt to explain the complicated forces that have shaped the City over the past thirty years.

My photos say this better than I can. What I mean is: If my photos show anything about New York, it is New York's astonishing diversity. New York is not one city. It is -- and always has been -- a collection of hundreds of neighborhoods. Each of these neighborhoods has its own delicate social fabric. One cannot know New York -- or understand New York -- without exploring all five boroughs.

Although I have explored the City more than most, I can still find plenty of places that I've never encountered before... that are new to me, and surprising. One can never know it all! Even if one tried, a neighborhood would likely change by the time one got around to visiting it again! 

 

That brings me to the subject of neighborhood change. To me, viewing a neighborhood undergoing change is quite fascinating -- and a natural subject for photography. When a bodega is located next to a boutique, there are many chance interactions... and perhaps there is much more than that. Perhaps there is even real economic and racial integration. This is New York at its best and most vital. The suburbs will never contain this heterogeneity.

But unfortunately, this situation is inherently unstable. If only one could "freeze" that change in place.... before the lease on the bodega runs out, and it is forced to leave. If only.

Times Square is, in some ways, emblematic of the changes and trade-offs that have taken place in New York over the past thirty years (In other ways, it is not, because Times Square is the City's central business district -- not a mere neighborhood) In any event, no one can mourn the loss of the sleaze and degradation of the old Times Square. But the new Times Square is often sterile and corporate .... with all the character and authenticity of a shopping mall. I'm not at all sure that the best of the old could have been preserved while making way for tangible improvements.

I do know that, as long as I'm around, I'll be there -- with my camera -- to witness and record the changes in this remarkable City"

 

NOW, LISTEN:

 

                                                             IT WAS ALL A DREAM by LEGO-aA

PHOTOSTREAM 01: Street Portraits, NYC 1980s

Fascinating collection of 1980s NYC street phototgraphy

Then watch this....

DAMN.