I was surfing youtube and caught this guys channel and thought it was a great idea.  He does a little chat about why he likes the record and drops the needle and plays it.  BUT my ears went buck mental when he dropped the needle as he’s just using the Video Camera mic to record the audio.  Really spoilt the whole idea for me.

So I thought, why not rip the audio from the Vinyl while the Video is recording and take a minute to sync them and upload a video.  That way you get high quality audio from the crackly Vinyl while watching the disc spin around (better than some stock photo of the sleeve)

So I rattled this together as a quickie and will hit ebay for a wee tripod and get a ripping over the next few weeks.  Enjoy!

Well, this year has been really hard to listen to new music due to having a baby in Jan! Its been pretty flat out at home with little time to indulge. I have the luxury of streaming grooveshark in work but its been that kind of year where Ive fallen back on old favourites to get through the working day. So the ‘new’ artists aren’t as prevalent as some people but hey, its what pleases the ears that matters right? Have a listen and hopefully one of the artists will catch your attention and give you a wee lift!

Wee write up after the break below.

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This one is from last year, Brooks & I sitting bored in work throwing bouncy, upbeat mash ups at each other. I know there are loads of cheesy ones out there and the fad is probably over. But i think we captured some of the better ones and hopefully this one will get you going, sink a few beers or a bottle o bucky and get skanking!

Download here or old style stream:
 

Another Brooks / Fattakin epic! This time the brief was simple, no songs shorter than 7 minutes. It veers across all genres and as you’d expect, takes in some weird shit!

Enjoy if you have 2 hours of boredom to fill, this will get you through it!

Download & Tracklisting here:
Old fashioned stream here if you have mixcloud issues:
 

This is a sadder affair than normal, a friends father died recently and I was reminded of the days we used to play music in our parents home and talk about the big releases like they were the end of the world. Our paths were different at the time, he liked Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd but we had common ground in Neil Young and Ben Folds Five! I still remember the day he heard ‘the battle of who could care less’ on the radio and taped it for me and phoned me up all excited to let me know!

So a few days after the funeral i thought id try and capture the essence of that time. Not really using old songs so much but something he can stick on when feeling down and to work through it. I’ve never really been a fan of having ‘uplifting’ music when you are feeling down, i prefer to think it out, struggle through and emerge on the other side. When i was younger i’d listen to the Red House Painters when I had fights with my girlfriend and felt at the bottom of the earth. Now I positively love their morbid drone rock, it cheers me up thinking of how stupid and emo I was then.

So this wee mix is for him, Ive burnt a CD and will post it up tomorrow with a few other albums and hope it helps at this time.

Download the mp3 here

Its back, Opposing Forces! This episode is for the broken hearts or plain messed up in some cases. But born of the desire for the opposite sex, but tainted with the pain and hurt of fucking it up along the line! Again, myself & Brooks were sitting in work and came up with this flurry of songs in an hour to sum up the pains of a broken heart.

Stream:

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Stay tuned for more as IM BACK from fatherhood. Yep, done and dusted.

I am still alive! Fatherhood is just consuming all my time at the minute, but I have a few mixes up my sleeve so expect to see them soon!

Had to post this lovely song from John Martyn as it really grabbed me in the sentimenal spots!

Its the grand national this weekend so Brooks & I got to talking about the gee gee’s in work and came up with this mix. It flows pretty well i think, with some funk & obscura in the middle.. thats where Brooks typically leads it…

It was only when I got home and was looking on itunes that I realised I missed the chance to include Belle & Sebastian – Judy & the Dream of Horses! Download here or stream below

Only just heard this, from wiki:

The No WTO Combo was a one-shot punk rock band started by Krist Novoselic (former Nirvana bassist). The band consisted of Jello Biafra (former frontman of Dead Kennedys); Kim Thayil of Soundgarden; the rhythm section of Sweet 75, Gina Mainwal and finally Novoselic.

I stumbled across em on part of a mixcloud from the fab audio antihero mixes as it kicks off with a cover of “lets lynch the landlord” and i was thinking, that sounds a hellova like Jello singing!

Another quick n nasty collaboration with Brooks! We were talking about April Fools Day and he suggested this as a topic for an Opp Forces. He takes the lead with the odd numbers, i get the even (apart from the last 2 tracks, I swopped them around to finish on tricky)

Listen below or right click/save as to download mp3 here