Ahead of the release of Waxfactor’s “Sci Fu” album on the 13th March, we thought we’d get a member of the Needlework/Rhythm Incursions extended famalam to come in and wreck up the album into a promotional megamix for you. Enter Buddy Peace, aka Chunky Love, aka Flashy Molasses, who brings the styles he’s now famous for in no small amount – and we’re not just talking about his fetching Abe Lincoln beard here.
Spread the word on this if you can!
Midnight Sex Talk – Prostitution and the New UK Laws
There’s been a lot going on with our sex laws recently here in the UK. As with the abortion debate, where sex work is concerned there’s the usual forest of moral panic to negotiate, before you get anywhere near the people who actually do it, or who work with those who do. And media stereotypes abound – there’s either the desperate drug addict working the street, Miss Whiplash of the suburbs, or the middle class girl who’s hoping to get a book deal out of it.
However, whatever happens in parliament, no-one is going to stop selling sex, or paying for it, anytime soon.
In the studio we’ve got Jahnet DeLight to give us her take on it all, and we’ve got interviews with Ana Lopes of the International Union of Sex Workers and Cari Mitchell of the English Collective of Prostitutes.
Midnight Sex Talk is broadcast on alternate Sunday nights, from 11.30pm-12.30am, on Resonance 104.4 FM. More info about us at
MidnightSexTalk.com.
Cuppid is, as you might expect, related to Cupid, although there is a lot more than that extra P to help you distinguish between them. Cuppid is composed of both toxic and non-toxic gases, and tinkles a little golden bell whenever it alights upon the hairy back of a bison, which it often does, for Cuppid’s favourite haunts are the vast plains of North America. I say it because Cuppid is, if not exactly a hermaphrodite, neither male nor female, although sometimes when its gases cool and take on liquid form it can bear a fugitive resemblance to Sonja Henie (1912-1969), the legendary Norwegian figure skating champion. Such moments can be dangerous for Cuppid, for it is volatile, and seeks warmer air urgently to return to its gaseous state.
This episode was first broadcast on 4th May 2005.
As many of you know, when they’re not presenting Rhythm Incursions Mr Trick and Waxfactor can be found at Needlework Records; Trick in his capacity as label manager and artist, Wax in his capacity as artist and errant A&R man.
So, we thought we’d podcast out a taster of the next release on Needlework Records, the excellent Loop Extensions album by Dday One. This sampler mix is 10 minutes long and mixed by the skilled hands of 2tall. If you like what you hear, be sure to keep an eye out for the album, appearing in all good record stores worldwide from March 14th.
Enjoy!
Harmon and Mrs Fokkerwolf find themselves in a vast, eternal changeless void. Given the opportunity to play God, they start to create, starting with… “Let there be light!”
Speech disfluencies are parts of speech which are not generally recognized as purposeful or containing formal meaning, usually expressed as pauses such as uh or er, but also extending to repairs (“He was wearing bla—uh, blue pants”), and articulation problems such as stuttering. Use is normally looked down upon in mass media such as news reports or films, but they occur regularly in everyday conversation – Wikipedia
This episode is a celebration of umming and ahhing, the bits between the words in our everyday language.
One of the more arresting facts about Dobson is that he spent a five-year period living in an evaporated milk factory in Winnipeg. Such was the hold on him of this location that he devoted no less than sixteen pamphlets to it. According to the statistician Aloysius Nestingbird, Dobson wrote more words about this factory than on any other topic. What was it about the place that exerted such a fascination upon Dobson? How significant is it that, during his stay there, the factory was still functioning, producing thousands of tins of evaporated milk every week, and not, as it is today, an abandoned ruin populated only by screeching birds? Was the workforce aware that the pamphleteer had taken up residence in an unused room on the mezzanine floor, and that he had attached his own design of bolts and latches to the door to prevent his being disturbed? Or that the carefully-lettered sign on the door, reading “S Q Perkins, Janitorial Padré”, was a fake of Dobson’s devising?
This episode was first broadcast on April 27th 2005.
Mr Trick is back once again, with a fine selection of killer tunes all here for you to download and get addicted to. In addition to the insanely dope music listed below, we have a special on a label that remains a steadfast favourite in Rhythm Inc. Towers, and that’s Wordsound. Back for 2006 with a slew of new releases, they are sounding better than ever. But don’t take our word for it – check out the 3 world exclusive tracks we have here for your listening pleasure. As if that ain’t enough, we also have a stunning “Wordsound Brasil” t-shirt for you to win, to celebrate the forthcoming “Wordsound: Made In Brasil” compilation. Don’t sleep people!
Playlist:
1. Intro: Fallen – Tubbybeat [unreleased]
2. Spankrock – Rick Rubin (President Evil ReVox feat. Pase Rock) [Big Dada]
3. Waxfactor – Down For The Count [Needlework Records]
4. Belle & Sebatian & DJ Signify – Space Boy Dream (Joe Beats Mix) [taken from Indie Rock Blues CD, available at www.joeybeats.com]
5. DJ Olive – Follow Me I’ll Be Right Behind You [The Agriculture]
6. Philosophy Major – The Gods of Light and Anger [unreleased – check www.myspace.com/philosophymajormusic for more info]
7. Dday One – Unstable Material Pt.2 [Needlework Records]
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8. Spectre feat. Labtekwon – Home [Wordsound]
9. Sensational meets Kouhei – The Purple People [Wordsound]
10. DJ KLOS – Niteroi Freestyle [Wordsound]
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11. Sixtoo – Side D from Songs From The Film By Pablo Aravena – “Next : A Primer on Urban Painting†[Bully Records]
12. QPE – Stare [The Agriculture]
13. Ghislain Poirier – Light Ya Ass On Fire RMX [taken from www.ghislainpoirier.com]
14. Clever Bunny – Alphasong (Instrumental) [Carbon Logic]
15. ID & Sleeper – Balance [Mush]
Advance notice: keep an eye on this feed in the second week of March, as we’ll be podcasting an amazing mix session from DJ Olive. Trust us, you don’t want to miss it.
Midnight Sex Talk – Addiction
Everyone’s an addict now, apparently. This week’s Midnight Sex Talk looks at sex addiction (does it really exist?) and also what addiction can do to a relationship. If you’re with someone who’s an addict, (and that could be drink, drugs, gambling etc, or, of course, sex), there are three (or more) of you in that relationship, whether you like it or not. Love itself is an addiction, and can mimic a lot of the same behaviours. Either way, you end up doing things you’d never imagine.
Suzanne Noble who, among other things, makes the excellent Modern Loving series of sex guides, joins us to help unravel it all.
Midnight Sex Talk is broadcast on alternate Sunday nights, from 11.30pm-12.30am, on Resonance 104.4 FM. More info about us at
MidnightSexTalk.com.
O what can ail thee, horoscope reader, alone and palely loitering? Make sure you treat yourself to an electric bath and a session in a sensory deprivation tank. The Bale of Gas in your House of Stupidity has incalculable effects. You will stand on the steps of the Insane Asylum, and hundreds of men and women will stand below you, with their upturned faces. Among them will be old men crushed by sorrow, and old men ruined by vice; aged women with faces that seemed to plead for pity, women that make you shrink from their unwomanly gaze; lion-like young men, made for heroes but caught in the devil’s trap and changed into beasts; and boys whose looks show that sin has already stamped them with its foul insignia, and burned into their souls the shame which is to be one of the elements of its eternal punishment.
A less impressible person than you would feel moved at the sight of that throng of bruised and broken creatures. A hymn will be read, and when the preachers strike up an old tune, voice after voice will join in the melody until it swells into a mighty volume of sacred song. You will notice that the faces of many are wet with tears, and there will be an indescribable pathos in their voices. The pitying God, amid the rapturous hallelujahs of the heavenly hosts, shall bend to listen to the music of these broken harps.
First broadcast on April 20th 2005.
