.. with Andrea, Mr Black & James Remote

Fat Boy Slim ~ Talking About My Baby (Midfield General’s Disco Reshuffle)
DJ Pharoah ~ Back It Up (Dj Pharoah Edit)
Sister Sledge ~ You Fooled Around (Todd Terje edit)
Eddie C ~ Let Your Mind Be Free
Royalty ~ Cookie Dough (Jimmy Edgar’s Cookie Monster remix)
Mark E ~ Call Me
Chubby Dubz ~ Takin it Back (94 Mix)
Soul Clap ~ Action/Satisfaction (Lee Jones Remix)
Jade ~ Don’t Walk Away
Faith Evans ~ Love Like This
Luke Vibert ~ I Love Acid
Jamie XX ~ Beat For
Mosca ~ Bax
Julio Bashmore ~ Battle For Middle You (Maurice Donovan Dub Mix)
Robin S ~ Show Me Love
Storm Queen ~ Look Right Through
Space Ranger ~ Keep On Movin
Greyboy ~ Help Is On The Way
Disco Tom ~ Bad For You
Cymande ~ Brothers On The Slide (Ruffy & Tuffy Edit)
Flash and The Pan ~ Midnight Man (12″ mix)
Claudja Barry ~ Sweet Dynamite
Ramsey and Co ~ Love Call
Romanthony ~ Bring U Up
The Originals ~ Down To Love Town (Dimitri Secret Re-Edit)
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes ~ The Love I Lost (Dimitri From Paris Super Disco Blend)
Cherrelle ~ I Didn’t Mean to Turn You On
The Commodores ~ Machine Gun (Situation edit)

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Oh gosh, 2011 is nearly over. Who’d a thunk. It’s been a rollercoaster of a year for me – after completely losing my musical mojo in the early part of the year, it picked up by festival time, but has fluctuated wildly since.

Tonight’s show was the review of 2011, though there’s not much reviewing going on – tis mostly just tunes and me saying I love them… You know you want it, download the whole show from here, or check the Spotify playlist over here.

1. Aidan John Moffat – Santa Claus Is Coming To Town from Oh! What A Not So Silent Night Before Christmas (http://aidanjohnmoffat.bandcamp.com/track/oh-what-a-night-before-christmas)
2. ?lhan Barutçu – Sultaniyegah Taksim from A?k-? Neyzen – Sufi Music
3. Half Man Half Biscuit – Fix It So She Dreams Of Me from 90 Bisodol (Crimond) (Probe Plus)
4. Tune-Yards – Es-so from W H O K I L L (4AD)
5. Mogwai – San Pedro from Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will (Rock Action)
6. Low – You See Everything from C’mon (Subpop)
7. St. Vincent – Surgeon from Strange Mercy (4AD)
8. Fujiya & Miyagi – Cat Got Your Tongue from Ventriloquizzing (Full Time Hobby)
9. Conquering Animal Sound – Giant from Kammerspiel (Gizeh)
10. Origamibiro – Dismantle Piece from Shakkei (Abandon Building)
11. Plaid – founded from scintilli (Warp)
12. Evangelista – Enter The Prince from In Animal Tongue (Constellation)
13. Deaf Center – Hunted Twice from Owl Splinters (Type)
14. Björk – Sacrifice from Biophilia (One Little Indian)
15. Radiohead – Codex from The King Of Limbs (XL)
16. My Brightest Diamond – Reaching Through to the Other Side from All Things Will Unwind (Asthmatic Kitty)
17. Alice Gun – Metal Spider from Metal Spider (Ambiguous)
18. King Creosote & Jon Hopkins – Bats In The Attic from Diamond Mine (Domino)
19. The 2 Bears – Bear Hug from Bear Hug E.P. (Southern Fried)
20. Anna Meredith – Nautilus from Black Prince Fury EP (http://soundcloud.com/annameredith/sets/black-prince-fury)
21. Boxcutter – LOADtime from Hotflush Presents… Back And 4th (Hotflush)
22. Roots Manuva – Get the Get from 4everevolution (Big Dada)
23. Ghostpoet – I Just Dont Know from Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam (Brownswood)
24. Walls – Drunken Galleon from Coracle (Kompakt)
25. Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat – The Sadness In Your Life Will Slowly Fade from Everything’s Getting Older (Chemikal Underground)
26. Sinking Cruise Ship Rescue Drama I Saw Three Cruise Ships Come Sinking In (http://www.last.fm/music/Sinking+Cruise+Ship+Rescue+Drama/_/I+saw+three+cruise+ships+come+sinking+in)

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Seekmagic began in October 2009 as a music blog , (www.seekmagic.wordpress.com), created as an outlet for the various mixtapes that friends, Nick Cubley (Newcastle upon Tyne) and Gavin Botton (London) had been making for various friends. The duo met in 2005 over an internet forum for Liverpool band, Shack (www.shacknet.co.uk).

“We quickly realised that we had more than just this one band in common. We were born in the same year, so we found many musical touchstones that had been part of our mutual journey of musical discovery,” says Nick.

The popularity of the blog continued to develop “through the support of friends and acquaintances”, and spiralled when the duo were asked to provide a guest slot on Sean Rowley’s BBC Radio show, ‘The Joy Of Music’.

“Sean’s show has always been a massive influence to us musically. The eclectism and ‘no boundaries’ approach was something we definitely wanted to bring to our sets. So, to be asked by him to do a guest slot was a big turning point.”

The blog hits “went nuclear” and it wasn’t long before the pair launched their promotions side of Seekmagic, with the first ‘Seekmagic Sunday’ at The Social in London last month, which featured Nouveau-folkie John Stammers, the latin-tinged acoustic psych of Amor De Dias and the sunshine pop of The Superimposers. “We really wanted to put on a special gig with British artists that we felt were under-represented. We don’t want to put gigs on all the time, but there will definitely be more, both in London and Newcastle.”

So, expect a seamless eclectic mix of music every fortnight. Americana, soundtracks, soul, folk, psych pop, Balearic grooves, Anything that provides the magic, basically.

Sundays, fortnightly 2pm -3.30pm

Ashford and Simpson ~ Don’t Cost You Nothing (12″ disco mix)

Been meaning to post this for ages but the recent (off the scale) Leftside Wobble edit of this amazing dancefloor bomb gave me a much needed kick up the arse to dig it out and rip at full fat 320 kbps for your listening pleasure.

Turn it up!

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With thanks to Steven Shingler (photographer)

What a glorious month! Firstly, Had the svelte mum over to visit, went to Ireland, visiting friends and family, went to some good gigs, booked a whole bunch more. AND the radio show didn’t decide to implode technically on me, which was nice. In fact, I’m rather proud of this one.

You can download the show from here or grab from Spotify here.

Enjoy, yeah?

the svelte selection – 27 October 2011

1. Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat from Tasogare from Everything’s Getting Older
2. James Yorkston – Woozy With Cider (Jon Hopkins Remix) from Woozy With Cider
3. Samamidon – Little Satchel from All Is Well
4. Rachael Dadd – Moth In The Motor from Bite The Mountain
5. St. Vincent – Cheerleader from Strange Mercy
6. My Brightest Diamond – High Low Middle from All Things Will Unwind
7. Chilly Gonzales – Shut Up and Play The Piano – The Unspeakable Chilly Gonzales
8. Digitonal – monday from Piano Music (unreleased)
9. Digitonal – radio from Piano Music (unreleased)
10. Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat – Man Of The Cloth from Cruel Summer E.P.
11. The Necks – The Boys II from The Boys
12. Evangelista – Bells Ring Fire from In Animal Tongue
13. Janis Joplin – Ball & Chain – Janis Joplin’s Greatest Hits
14. Cor Godre’R Aran – Ymdaith Gwyr Harlech – The Music Of Wales
15. Valery Gergiev – Bluebeard’s Castle: IV. Third Door – The Treasury – Bartók: Bluebeard’s Castle
16. Roots Manuva – Here We Go Again – 4everevolution
17. Talk In Colour – Nightshifts
18. Björk – Virus – Biophilia
19. Pram – Track Of The Cat – Dark Island
20. Pixies – Monkey Gone To Heaven – Doolittle 20th Anniversary Live Sampler
21. The Thing – Mystery Song – Bag It!
22. Daedelus – Penny Loafers – Bespoke
23. Astrid Williamson – Pour (Raffertie Remix) – One Little Indian Sampler
24. Max Cooper – Chaotisch Serie

God. This is from months ago. I got a bit drunk and the microphone didn’t want to play ball. Or my voice.
the svelte selection – Indian Summer Edition
Still, music works nicely. Download it from here.

1. Murray Gold – Doctor Who XI
2. Murray Gold – I Am The Doctor
3. Sunday Driver – Concubine Waltz
4. Tune-Yards – Gangsta
5. The Divine Comedy – The Model
6. Sugarhill Gang – Hot Hot Summer Day
7. Amon Tobin – Night Swim
8. Ben Folds Five – Philosophy
9. Half Man Half Biscuit – Left Lyrics In The Practice Room (2:07)
10. Anna Meredith – Nautilus
11. Remember Remember – John Candy
12. Fennesz – Seven Stars
13. Emeralds – Science Center
14. Cikada String Quartet – String Quartet in Four Parts: Slowly Rocking
15. Synergy – John Cage: Amores – IV Solo for Prepared Piano
16. Get People – Rain Tears (Graphics Remix)
17. Breton – RDI (Girl Unit Remix)
18. Kraftwerk – The Model
19. Aperture Science Psychoacoustics Laboratory – I Made It All Up
20. Death In Vegas – Medication
21. The Field – Is This Power
22. Plaid – thank from Scintilli

I want to start this blog by saying that tonsillitis SUCKS. Tonsillitis really fucking sucks. It REALLY FUCKING SUCKS.

Look, even Charlie Brooker agrees with me. And he’s right about a lot of stuff.

Why is this important? Well, it explains a few things:

a. Why this show is being uploaded over a week after the broadcast

b. Why the show itself is almost 100% devoid of my talking

c. Why I’m at home on a Friday night writing this blog rather than seeing the wonderful Adam Buxton at Kings Place

Some of the above may well be a blessing to y’all, but they’ve all pissed me off to a rather large extent.

To reiterate: tonsillitis SUCKS.

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Name: Tyler

How many years in the game? : 40

What got you into DJing? : Pressing play for my mate Neil at a funk night in Cardiff. Plus buying records like a maniac since I bought my first turntable in 1985.

First Turntable? Was it a Fisher Price one?: Cheeky fucker! It was a Denon or something. I didn’t get 1200’s until December 30th 1999 a just in time for a NYE party.

Describe your style: Shambolic. Deep house/disco/rare groove.

Do you play out?: Yes, not much – just the occassional party / bar / festival.

Kit, (for the nerds!): Two CDJ’s because I can’t be arsed to carry record bags around. Vinyl if I REALLY need to 

DJ/Musical Heroes/Inspiration: Ahhh, so many. Big Name DJ’s I worship include Francois Kervorkian, Derrick May, Derrick Carter, Digs & Woosh, Laurent Garnier, David Mancuso, Paul Trouble Anderson, Luke Vibert, Trentemoller, Tom Middleton, Gilles Peterson, Mr Scruff, Swayzak, Ivan Smagghe, DJ Harvey, Dixon, Andy Weatherall, Nicky Blackmarket, Ray Keith, Bones, DJ Food and most definately Daniele Baldelli.

Just as importantly more underground DJ’s who have totally inspired me include Peej & Fran, Matt & Neil Phantom, Rick Donaghue, Psycle Crew, Rico, Trasca, Jay from Falling Up, Futureboogie and Daniel Donnachie.

First record bought: The Fame LP. The first proper record was Dennis Edwards & Siedah Garrett – Don’t look any further

Best DJing moment: A toss up between playing at Juice Joint in Cardiff & the full moon party in Thailand. Probably Juice Joint as it was a club I absolutely loved and respected due to the brilliant resident Chris Jenkins & his excellent musical choices. Sublime 

Name drop for us: I got hit in the nuts by Kelis. It was an accident I’ll never forget.

Hit in the nuts by Kelis – what the hell were you doing to her?: Haha, just walking past her. I was at the bar at Top Of The Pops during filming. She was gesticulating some story to her entourage, as i walked past she hit me down below. She apologised and I probably just looked like some kind of stunned rabbit staring into the headlights of a fast approaching car. She’s a babe!

Where can we listen to your musics/mixes? : Purple Radio / Soundcloud

Current dancefloor killer: Aretha Franklin – Mr DJ

All time top 5: No chance!

What’s your ‘most shocking’ dancefloor moment witnessed? : Somebody pooing themself while wearing shorts in the middle of a dancefloor. Apart from that I love Croatia!

And finally, when can we catch you on PR?: I’ll check my diary – it’s a classic 1987 filofax so not very reliable. Always late at night though

And here tis, the returning svelte selection. Get it now!

It’s been a while, but I’m back, Back, BACK.

1. Battles – Ice Cream (Featuring Matias Aguayo) from Gloss Drop (Warp)
2. Tune-Yards – Wooly Wolly Gong from W H O K I L L (4AD)
3. Ghostpoet – Finished I Ain’t from Peanut Blues & Melancholy Jam (Brownswood)
4. Omar Souleyman Band – Atabat from Clubtransmediale.07 (rx:tx)
5. Destiny’s Child – Bug A Boo from the Writing’s on the Wall (Columbia)
6. The Correspondents – Rio de Hackney (Demo)
7. Amon Tobin – Kitty Cat from ISAM (Ninja Tune)
8. Jamie xx – Beat For from Far Nearer / Beat For – EP (Numbers)
9. Robag Wruhme – Bommsen Böff from Thora Vukk (Pampa)
10. Björk – Crystalline (Serban Ghenea Mix) from Crystalline (single) (One Little Indian)
11. King Creosote & Jon Hopkins – Running On Fumes from Diamond Mine (Domino)
12. Low – Especially Me from C’mon (Sub Pop)
13. Aethenor – Vyomagami Plume from En Form For Blå (VHF)
14. Biosphere – Oi-1 from N-Plants (Touch)
15. Fennesz – Saffron Revolution from Black Sea (Touch)
16. Philip Jeck – Ark Overture (rehearsal) from The Bubbly Blue and Green Sampler (Arctic Circle)
17. Deaf Center – New Beginning (Tidal Darkness) from Owl Splinters (Type)
18. Sir Colin Davis, London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) – La damnation de Faust: Scene 7b – “Dors! Heureux Faust” from Berlioz: La damnation de Faust (LSO)
19. Dirty Three – she lifted the Net from She Has No Strings Apollo (Bella Union)
20. Pulp – This Is Hardcore from This is Hardcore (Island)