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Friday, October 05, 2007 

Category: Music
Currently listening:
Harmacy
By Sebadoh
Release date: 20 August, 1996
Sunday, August 26, 2007 

Category: Music
Benny & Space Burglar present:
 Midday Mass

Sunday from 12-2pm on FleetFM
Broadcast via fleetfm.co.nz and on the radio at 88.3 AK and 107.3 WTN

Well, today is my last show on Fleet for the foreseeable future - got some other stuff that I need to spend time honouring, some projects brewing. It's been great having the opportunity to select the musical input for Fleet listeners on an early Sunday afternoon. I will be popping in and out of the airwaves from time to time, special-guesting with Benny, and maybe with Joe Fish and Scarey D on the Dead Air show on Wednesday nights from 9 - 11.

Today I did the second half of the show. The playlist
:
Sparklehorse - Hammering the Cramps
Voom - Beth
Able Tasmans - Mary Tyler Moore
The Left Bank - Pretty Ballerina
Air - Space Maker
Public Enemy - Brother's Gonna Work It Out
Radiohead - Where I End and You Begin
The Doors - Shaman's Blues
Pop Art Toasters - I Won't Hurt You
Cream - World of Pain
DD Smash - Devil You Know
Alfie - People
Mazarin - The New American Apathy
Julee Cruise - I Float Alone
Lilys - Where the night goes
Beach Boys - Wind Chimes
Currently listening:
Red House Painters
By Red House Painters
Release date: 02 November, 1999
Sunday, August 12, 2007 

Category: Music
Benny & Space Burglar present:
 Midday Mass

Every Sunday from 12-2pm on FleetFM
Broadcast via fleetfm.co.nz and on the radio at 88.3 AK and 107.3 WTN

Yes, I missed last week's show, and this week Benny was away at a birthday party. So local Dj and producer Wilberforce (see my 'top friends') came in and did the second half of the show dropping some typically discerning crucial beats.

The playlist
:
Interpol - Pioneer to the Falls
Ruby Suns - birthday on mars
The Shins - Caring is Creepy
Caribou - After Hours
Beirut - Prenzlauerberg
Darkel - Be My Friend
Blonde Redhead - Publisher
Fujiya and Miyagi - Cassettesingle
Muse - Bliss
The Modern Lovers - Dignified and Old
REM - So. Central Rain
Band of Horses - Funeral
Red House Painters - Katy Song
Powersteppers - Active Speaker
Timbaland - Give It To Me (instr.)
Amit - Erazer
Dissident - Operated Dream
Jetone - Bassbind Sunblind
Scuba - Sleeper
Appleblim - Vansan
Wilberforce - Absent Presence
Elemental - Sparkle
Danny Breaks - Windscreen Wiper
Currently listening:
Andorra
By Caribou
Release date: 21 August, 2007
Sunday, July 29, 2007 

Category: Music
Benny & Space Burglar present:
 Midday Mass

Every Sunday from 12-2pm on FleetFM
Broadcast via fleetfm.co.nz and on the radio at 88.3 AK and 107.3 WTN

The playlist
:
Cansei Der Ser Sexy - Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above

Dinosaur Jnr - Feel the pain
Liz Phair - Supernova
Everly Brothers - Crying in the rain
JPS Experience - I Like Rain
Grace Jones - Walking in the Rain
Tiger Tones - Be Your Star
Whirlwind Heat - Purple
The Presets - Down Down Down
Minutemen - Tension
Sonic Youth - Starfield Road
Caribou - Sandy
Toy Love - Pull down the shades
The Shins - Turn On Me
Wedding Present - She's My Best Friend
The Cars - All Mixed Up
The second half of the show was a tribute to 1997!
The Beta Band - Dry the Rain
Pavement - Transport is Arranged
Blur - Beetlebum

Supergrass - Richard III

Radiohead - Lucky

Spiritualized - Stay With Me
Chemical Brothers - Elektrobank

Air - J'ai Dormi Sous L'eau
Ian Brown - Corpses in their Mouths

Amon Tobin - Chomp Samba
Can - Oh Yeah (Sunroof Remix)
Sunday, July 22, 2007 

Category: Music
Benny & Space Burglar present:
 Midday Mass

Every Sunday from 12-2pm on FleetFM
Broadcast via fleetfm.co.nz and on the radio at 88.3 AK and 107.3 WTN

The playlist
:
M. Ward - Let's Dance

The Monkees - Porpoise Song

Caribou - Melody Day

Loose Fur - Hey Chicken
Liam Finn - Second Chance
D-Super - The Moths
Velvet Underground - That's the Story of my Life
Surf City - Mt.Kill
The Clean - Point that thing somewhere else
The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys

The Good, The Bad & The Queen - History Song
Le Funk Mob - Motorbass Get Phunked Up (Ritchie Hawtin remix)
Revolution Uber Alles - The Who Boys
Kryptic Minds and Leon Switch - Minor Nine
The Presets - Are You The One
Leftfield - Original
LCD Soundsystem - Time to get away
The Smiths - What Difference Does It Make
Pavement - Heaven is a Truck
Spiritualized - Shine A Light
Spacemen 3 - Revolution
The Walkmen - Good for You's Good for Me
Tiger Tones - He Said
Guided By Voices - Motor Away

Straitjacket Fits - Dialling A Prayer
Bailter Space - Begin
Sunday, July 15, 2007 

Category: Music
Benny & Space Burglar present:
 Midday Mass

Every Sunday from 12-2pm on FleetFM
Broadcast via fleetfm.co.nz and on the radio at 88.3 AK and 107.3 WTN

The playlist:
Tiger Tones - Be Your Star
Thought Creature - Your Telepathy
The Bees - Listening Man

Beck - Heaven Hammer (Air remix)
Caribou - Irene
Menomena - Strongest Man in The World
Babyshambles - Beg,Steal and Borrow
The Walkmen - Good for You's, Good for Me
Yo La Tengo - I'm Tough
George McRae - Rock Your Baby
The Horrors - Count in Fives
Oasis - Supersonic
LCD Soundsystem - Time to Get Away
The Rapture - Whoo! Alright - Yeah...Uh Huh.
The Presets - Steamworks
Timbaland - Give It To Me (instr.)
The Bug - Fuck Version
The Sea and Cake - The Colony Room
Blur - No Distance to Run

Pluto - Dragstrip Girls
The Zombies - Time of the Season
Rogue Wave - Publish My Love

The Shins - Kissing the Lipless
The Ruby Suns - Maasai Mara
Blonde Redhead - Spring and by Summer Fall
Queens of the Stone Age - Quick and the Pointless
Ramones - Sheena is a Punk Rocker
Gang of Four - Return the Gift
Wire - Strange
Sunday, July 08, 2007 

Category: Music
Benny & Space Burglar present:
 Midday Mass

Every Sunday from 12-2pm on FleetFM
Broadcast via fleetfm.co.nz and on the radio at 88.3 AK and 107.3 WTN

The playlist:
Velvet Underground - Sunday Morning
Paul Revere & the Raiders - I'm not your stepping stone
The Kinks - Last of the Steam Powered Trains
The Bats - Sunday Afternoon
The Swingers - One Good Reason
The Cure - The Walk
Phelps & Munro - GnR
The Klaxons - My Love (JT cover)
Dinosaur Jr & Del the Funkee Homosapien - Missing Link
Dungen - Gor det Nu
Collapsing Cities - Elixir Always
The Pixies - No.13 Baby
Butthole Surfers - Hey
The Bees - Left Foot Stepdown
Rodriguez - Sugar Man
Whirlwind Heat - Orange
Moving Units - Melodrama
Tiger Tones - Monday. 8am. Tea
Snowden - Black Eyes
Swervedriver - Deep Seat
Snoop Dogg - Let's Get Blown
The Alcoholicks with Busta Rhymes - Bully Foot
Kelis - Milkshake
Tyfeat. Roots Manuva - Oh You want More
Currently listening:
Friend and Foe
By Menomena
Release date: 23 January, 2007
Saturday, June 30, 2007 

Category: Music
Benny & Space Burglar present:
 Midday Mass

Every Sunday from 12-2pm on FleetFM
Broadcast via fleetfm.co.nz and on the radio at 88.3 AK and 107.3 WTN

The playlist:

Lambchop - The Distance From Her to There
Blonde Redhead - Publisher
Beach Boys - Don't Worry Baby
Beck - Nitemare Girl Hippy Girl
Willard Grant Conspiracy - Flying Low
3D's - Spooky
Archie Bronson Outfit - Cuckoo
Bark Psychosis - A Street Scene
Hair & Skin Trading Co. - Loa
Kelley Stoltz - The Rabbit Hugged The Hound
Libertines - Music When The Lights Go Out
Violent Femmes - Gone Daddy Gone
The All-Night Workers - Why Don't You Smile Now
Belle & Sebastian - Simple Things
Starky - Hey Bang Bang
TV On The Radio - Playhouses
Sonic Youth - Diamond Sea
The Walkmen - The Rat
Ladytron - Seventeen (bootleg)
Peter, Bjorn and John - The Chills
Babybird - I Was Never Here
Band of Horses - Wicked Gil
Darcy Clay - What About It
Tiger Tones - Be your star
Fanatics - Models
Squarepusher - Boneville Occident
Nine Inch Nails - March of the Pigs
DJ Krush - Decks-A-Thron
Currently listening:
Oui
By The Sea and Cake
Release date: 03 October, 2000
Tuesday, June 26, 2007 

Category: Music
Benny & Space Burglar present:
 Midday Mass

Every Sunday from 12-2pm on FleetFM
Broadcast via fleetfm.co.nz and on the radio at 88.3 AK and 107.3 WTN

This week I should point out that the latest Blonde Redhead album, 23,  is totally captivating me. Some have seen fit to criticise it, god knows why - I think it's possible that this has something to do with a further 'polishing' of their sound. The album isn't quite so 'New York'/Sonic Youth sounding but then their LPs were becoming less so anyway over their last few outputs. The thing that stands out the most with 23 is a kind of leaning - in some songs - towards what I can only describe as a ''pop" aesthetic approach towards the vocal melodies - almost like Cocteau Twins meet the Supremes. However the general sense remains a nice My Bloody Valentine feel, particularly in Blonde Redhead's continuing love affair with descending emotive chord structures and walls of sound, and their cool lil broken beats remain. Check out the track Spring and By Summer Fall - it's the one that opened it all up for me. Epic!

Also, the Deerhunter LP Cryptograms is surprising me with its restraint, avoiding going all for the in-vogue 'dancepunk' sound and feeling more inclined to explore a darker, more brooding landscape of sound and motorhythms. Very much reminds me of an update on the Spiritualized approach, crossed with (of course) Joy Division or the Bunnymen's early stark minimalism, with the odd krautrock-ish groove or Velvet's kind of whimsy.

Also on high rotate in my car over the last couple of weeks: Solar Powered People (Sonic Youth meets Broken Social Scene), and The Sea and Cake's new album, Everybody - beautiful and fantastic as they always are.


The playlist:
My Morning Jacket - It Beats 4 U
Morrissey - Interesting Drug
Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
Cowboy Junkies - Seventeen Seconds
The Presets - Down Down Down
Tom Vek - If You Want
Velvet Underground - Lady Godiva's Operation
Faith No More - Evidence
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands
Deerhunter - Cryptograms
Baiterspace - New Man
The Crystals - He's a Rebel
Grinderman - No Pussy Blues
LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
Wire -12XU
Snowden - Like Bullets
Beck - Truckdrivin Neighbors Downstairs (Yellow Sweat)
Blonde Redhead - The Dress
Dungen - Gör Det Nu
Thought Creature - Your Telepathy
Tiger Tones - Be Your Star
Colder - Crazy Love
Whirlwind Heat - Purple
Buzzcocks - Something's Gone Wrong Again
Pig Out - Disco Bag
Pavement - Father to a Sister of Thought
The Walkmen - Thinking Of A Dream I Had
Currently listening:
Cryptograms
By Deerhunter
Release date: 06 February, 2007
Saturday, June 16, 2007 

Category: Music
Benny & Space Burglar present:
 Midday Mass

Every Sunday from 12-2pm on FleetFM
Broadcast via fleetfm.co.nz and on the radio at 88.3 AK and 107.3 WTN

The playlist:
Snowden - Time of The Season
Night of The Brain - Theme
The Album Leaf - We Once Were (Two)
Underworld - Cups
LCD Soundsystem - Time To Get Away
Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Rattlesnakes
Blonde Redhead - Spring and By Summer Fall
The Klaxons - It's Not Over Yet
Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime
Tiger Tones - Be Your Star
Elvis Costello and The Attractions - Oliver's Army
Tegan & Sara - Walking With A Ghost
Butthole Surfers - Graveyard
Solar Powered People - Commercial Flight
TV On The Radio - Wolf Like Me
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Sidewalking
Whirlwind Heat - Purple
The Terminals - Terminals
The Sea and Cake - Lightning
The Hidden Cameras - Ban Marriage
Pig Out - Disco Bag
Matmos - Stupid Fambaloo
Brian Eno - Third Uncle
Talking Heads - Crosseyed and Painless
Gang of Four - Damaged Goods
Laurie Anderson - From The Air
Biggie Smalls - Hypnotize
Thought Creature - First One Off This Planet
The Mamas and The Papas - Twelve Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming To The Canyon)
Red Riders - You're The Girl Who Makes Me Not Wanna Be Alone
Lindsey Buckingham -Trouble
Currently listening:
23
By Blonde Redhead
Release date: 10 April, 2007