Desert Island Disco - October 2016

Friday 28th October, by Matthew Mills Team Laverne

Sam Judd began to build his Desert Island Disco mix in honour of his Dad's musical influence. Some of this inspiration remained, but in the end, the bangers took over...

With a love for music it is never the easiest thing to narrow down a few tunes but I feel like there are definitely some which inspired me to listen to new genres. Originally I wanted a few songs to each genre I love but as I started it was clear that wasn't going to work.

I would have loved to put the music my Dad got me into and the first I started to explore by myself. I have managed to put a few of those in but my love for a bass-line and lyrical hip-hop took over. The list is partly down to how I'm feeling right now, there is nothing I would love more than being in Fabric’s main room with some Bristol Dub blasting out! It’s very hard making the list this short but would be ever so easy to make it longer, enjoy!!

Thanks
Sam Judd

Let's Push Things Forwarded

Pink Floyd - Money
The Who - Eminence Front
David Bowie - Oh! You Pretty Things
Gorrilaz - Feel Good Inc
Culture - The International Herb
The Abyssinians - Black Man Strain
Portishead - Mysterons
Massive Attack - Angel
Gemmy - Bk 2 The Future
Loefah - Truly Dread
Skream - Rutten
Smith & Mighty - Walk On
Tricky - Hell Is Around the Corner
RSD - Pretty Bright Light
DJ Shadow - Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt
Kode 9 - 9 Samurai
King Krule - Easy Easy
Congo Natty - Champion DJ 99remix
Aphrodite - Stalker
Roni Size - Railing
The Streets - Lets Push Things Forward
Zed Bias - Fair Play
Roy Davis Jr - Gabriel
Redman - Tonights Da Night
D'Angelo - Left And Right
Amerie - 1 Thing
Camp Lo - Luchini
Big L - '98 Freestyle
MF Doom - Rhymes Like Dimes
Dizzie Rascal - 2 Far
Joey Bada$$ - Big Dusty

Friday 20th October, by Matthew Mills Team Laverne

We're live from Rochdale Library as part of the BBC's #love2read campaign. As well as celebrating books and checking out the literature festival currently in full swing, we're also tapping in to the musical heritage of the town. Born just outside, The Wedding Present's David Gedge remembers recording in Rochdale's legendary Cargo Studios back in the day (the place where Joy Division recorded 'Atmosphere' amongst other tracks...) and he's sent us a Desert Island Disco that spans all the decades and shifts from Django Reinhardt through to Mark E Smith in a glorious sweep.

Gedge's Desert Island Disco

Livin' Thing by Electric Light Orchestra
Swing Guitars by Django Reinhardt
Sorry For Laughing by Josef K
Gold Sounds by Pavement
(There’s) Always Something There To Remind by Sandie Shaw
The Age Of The Understatement by The Last Shadow Puppets
The Persuaders Theme by John Barry
Monday Morning 5:19 by Rialto
Gigantic by The Pixies
Ping Pong by Stereolab
No Good Here by Tim Fite
What Goes On by The Velvet Underground
Typical Girls by The Slits
Pull Shapes by The Pipettes
Lie Dream Of A Casino Soul by The Fall
...plus ANYTHING by My Bloody Valentine

Friday 14th October, by Matthew Mills Team Laverne

In honour of BBC Music's My Generation season, we're taking it back to 1979 this Friday, imagining how 6 Music would have sounded if it had been around. Ian Smith Dwight AKA Beane has sent us in an amazing Desert Island Disco mix celebrating that year.

You have here before you a small list of some of my favourite disco records from the late 70s - an era that gave us some truly wonderful dance floor magic. To be honest, I was still running around in my nappies eating mud pies when many of these tracks were lighting up hedonistic dance floors across the world but over the years through my unhealthy obsession with record collecting, attending various parties and hearing fellow djs at club nights, my love for disco music has flowered into a bit of bit of a love affair that sees no signs of fading. I’ve been very fortunate to been have had the opportunity to play most of these down at my own Soul Buggin’ night here in Nottingham (which I co-run with some friends) where we like to play many dusty forgotten gems mixed with more contemporary sounds from this century. I find it amazing that some three decades on from when these records were first pressed up none of them seem to have lost their sparkling potency for making people get up and get down and it’s for that very reason they still make myself beam from ear to ear whenever I hear them. These records are not necessarily the rarest from that era (disco nerds look away now!), some are very well know, others maybe not so but together they sum up everything I like in music. Play them all in one go and you’ve got yourself a hell of a party on your hands and if you find me on that dance floor with you at said party you’re more than likely going to be peeling me off that ceiling. Enjoy!

+++ Beane Noodler’s Desert Island Disco+++

01. Harry Thumann - Underwater [1979]
Sounds like it was beamed down from another galaxy. Was blessed to play this to an appreciative crowd at Pride street party in Nottingham this summer. Went right off!
02. Dennis Parker - Like an eagle [1979]
Where to start. Check the video - Dennis soars across a New York skyline dressed in spangly gear. Don’t get no better
03. Jean Carne - Was that all it was [1979]
Beautiful vocals, wriggly bassline, killer strings and contains my favourite disco noise of all time… ‘booo booo booo!’
04. The Love Symphony Orchestra - Let me be your fantasy [1979]
Seductive vocals, killer percussion and goes on forever into bongo heaven. Comes in a rather risqué triple gatefold sleeve with naked ladies draped everywhere. What’s not to like?
05. Claudja Barry - Love for the sake of love [1976]
Taking the tempo right down as Claudja goes slow and low. A great track to play early doors or at the end of the night and always gives me the horn. Oo-er missus.
06. Skye - Ain’t no need [1976]
Absolute fire. Makes my face go all funny. Killer groove from start to finish
07. Phyllis Hyman - You Know How To Love Me [1979]
Phyllis made so many great records but this one still shines bright for me
08. Love Unlimited Orchestra - Theme From King Kong [1976]
Instrumental string-laden beast! King Kong would be proud. Make sure you beat your chest
09. Miroslav Vitous - NY City [1976]
Comes out the traps like there’s no tomorrow and doesn’t let up until you’re gasping for air 9 minutes later and crying out for water
10. First Choice - Let no man put asunder [1977]
Sampled a million times by so many artists yet the original has lost none of it’s power. A right screamer
11. Ashford and Simpson - Found a cure [1979]
What a duo, what a combo and what magical talents Nick and Valerie were
12. Chic - My forbidden lover [1975]
A cheeky chic favourite of mine. Naughty.
13. Kleeer - Keeep Your Body Workin' [1978]
Pure Saturday night gear. Ideally danced to with your top off
14. Number One Ensemble - Back to heaven [1979]
Slightly poppy, a little cheesy? Maybe, I think that’s why I can’t get enough of it
15. Gino Soccio - Dancer [1979]
Brought to my attention by Nottingham super group Crazy P via one of their samples in the 90s. Superb stuff
16. Instant Funk - Got my mind made up [1978]
The Salsoul record label on fire and instantly makes me want to do the conga
17. Milton Hamilton - We have all the time [1976]
Part jazz-funk, part disco this is just gorgeous. The horns!
18. Harold Melvin and The Bluenotes - Don’t leave me this way [1977]
Perfect end of the night belter. If Teddy’s vocals aren’t moving check your pulse and you get yourself to A&E immediately
19. The Trammps ‎- (The Night The Lights Went Out In) New York City [1977]
Any disco record that has people shouting and whooping through the middle gets my vote
20. Loose Change ‎– Straight From The Heart [1979]
Could listen to this on loop for days and not get bored
21. Skatt Bros. ‎– Walk The Night [1977]
Music for dark basements. Deadly. Be careful with this one

Friday 7th October, by Matthew Mills Team Laverne

If your parents owned a record shop, you'd expect to grow up with pretty solid music taste and an unhealthy attachment to vinyl. Well whilst we're not sure about the later, we can confirm that Hannah Waite definitely conforms to the former.

I grew up in South West Dorset by the sea, where my parents have run an independent music shop - Bridport Music - for 40 years. My siblings and I were introduced to music from a young age, having the gold plated problems of ALL the CDs to choose from to play when working in the shop. My parents' vinyl collection at home is big and eclectic, and at home the Sunday soundtrack was a mix of the likes of Joni Mitchell, T-Rex, Crowded House, Genesis, Neil Young, David Bowie, The Beatles and The Bangles as well as a respectably high proportion of ‘new’ music - as would be expected from record shop owners! For instance my Mum introduced me to Alt J and my Dad is a big fan of This Is The Kit.

This mix is of songs that have stood out and sounded louder, better and done more for me than others. These are songs I’d put on at a party, or on the stereo if I owned my own bar. They’re not necessarily the best songs in my life, but ones that I think can cut through other noise and make you listen whatever you might have been doing.

Influencers in my life who first introduced me to the likes of Cinematic Orchestra, Mr Scruff and Bonobo include my DJ friend James Baker, and Giles Peterson, who I followed from Radio 1 to 6 and have seen live numerous times over the years. I’ll forever be grateful to those two. I was always into music before then, but they opened my ears to a host of sounds I’d not come across until I was 17.
Uni was when I got into the likes of Quantic, Alice Russell and beat box artists like Kila Kela. Whilst studying I listened to mini-discs (!) of Boards of Canada, Matthew Dear, Bugz in the Attic - all sorts! I’ve been to every Glastonbury bar one since 2003, and I’ve been to Green Man, Big Chill, Shambala, Bestival, Sonar and Larmer Tree Festivals - learning and absorbing so many sounds.

I did some work experience at Ninja Tune straight after uni, which set me up nicely for four years of gigs, clubs and new music in London. During this time I found SO MUCH music including Caribou, Four Tet, Wax Tailor, Little Dragon, Aaron Jerome AKA SBTRK. I went to see James Blake by myself once, one of the most beautiful and intense gigs I’ve been to. My first London flat was 15 minutes from Corsica Studios, a cool little club in Elephant and Castle, where I learnt to dance to dubstep until 5am and also saw Daedalus live once. Lots of amazing memories of that place, everyone there was really really into their music.

I think the biggest influence on my music tastes, apart from being aware of all the new releases the working at my parents’ shop, self-discovery at festivals and Last.fm (back in the day!) - are my friends! All of these songs conjure up either a specific memory, or a particular friend, all amazing moments in life when you do nothing but dance, listen, sing - just enjoy! Different friends have introduced me to different artists over the years, which has developed my musical tastes and given me an appreciation for all genres.

None of these songs really relate to each other, they are in no order, but the one thing in common is that they all DO something for me, they move me and stir up some kind of emotion - all positive!

I DJ once a year at a food tent at Glastonbury called Henry’s Beard. It’s in the Greenfields and our set up is completely solar powered but we alternate DJ sets with live acoustic music so the sounds always flow. One of my best memories is a lady coming to ask if I’d DJ at her wedding, she was feeling so good on the tunes! I remember I was playing Massive Attack and Moby, real feel good stuff - I Love the power music has over people. It’s so subjective though, sometimes you think ‘everyone’s going to Kick Off when I play this one!’ and nothing happens, other times you get people dancing to the most unlikely songs. It’s brilliant!

Buffalo Stance - Neneh Cherry
Donna Summer - I Feel Love
Lyyke Li - I Follow Rivers (Magician Mix)

Soulwax remix of Metronomy’s Love Letters

Future Sound of London - Papau New Guinea
Four Hero - Hold It Down
Caribou - Can’t Do Without You
Gil Scott Heron & Jamie XX - I’ll Take Care of You
Quantic - Time is the Enemy
Flume - Holding On
Fatboy Slim - Don’t Let the Man
HNNY - Cheer Up My Brother
Little Dragon - My Step
Wax Tailor - Only Once
Noir & Haze – Around (Solomun Vox)
Jose Gonzales - Killing for Love (Beatfanatic Remix)
Aim - Cold Water Music
New Order - Blue Monday
Julio Bashmore - Holding On