"PPEE" Special Edition!
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One of the most fun Bovine Life Support Systems so far!
This one is a collaboration between myself and Alex Norris, who I went to college with years ago. Alex came up to Glasgow from London for a trio of public events - The National Theatre of Scotland (Little Otik), The new (appalling) Indian Jones film and - most excitingly of all, to see and hear PUBLIC ENEMY! yehhhhh boyeeeeee!!! doing the 20th anniversary album show with the classic "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold us Back!" and it was surprisingly great!!!
So, I've made this BLSS very very upfront, with a hip hop and beat orientated criteria. Alex and I recorded it around The Museum of Transport in Glasgow. For no apparent reason really, but it was a really really fun day. We hope you'll enjoy it - we call it The Post Public Enemy Edition because, er, we were post Public Enemy gig!
This episode commemorates the Hip Hop History that was seeing Public Enemy perform their legendary album "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back" at the ABC in Glasgow. Myself and Alex Norris wander around Glasgow's West End whilst postulating the gig and thinking of their white hip hop histories.
Aiden Moffat - Cunt
The Grouch - You Ain't Artsier Than Me
Cepia - Ithaca
Mitchell Brothers - Harvey Nicks
Efterklang - Mirador (Vincent Oliver Remix)
Alva Noto - Unitext
UNKLE Feat. Nellee Hooper Feat. Justin Warfield - The Montague Boys / O Verona
Scarlett Johansson - Falling Down
Periskop - Demo
UNKLE - Various Feat Mos Def and Various Soundtracks Mixtape from UNKLE's Edit Music for a Film
March - May 08
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It's all change with this edition! It's recorded on location and I have made a major executive decision! I don't introduce the tracks, - it's all about the playlist and it makes folk visit the site!
I cut the tracks in, over a kind of waffle stream of consciousness in the middle of the woods in Lumsden, Aberdeenshire. I figured that folk can visit youtube, wikipedia, or buy the albums from my links and be their own pilgrim if they are moved by the sonics. It's been a long time coming this edition and it was going to be a double but I decided to editi it down in to a sharper single edition that will fit on a CD. Much of this show was edited on the TGV train between Uzes, France and on the Eurostar to St Pancras! and I'm writing this text on train three a cramped GNER from London to Glasgow with a flooded loo in close proximity.
I'd have gotten this out sooner had I not been on holiday this month... Back to Glasgow for the next edition. Track list below. It's one of my favourite mixes so far! Enjoy it!!! Put something in the shoutbox! Chris :-)
Click on song titles to be taken directly to either online shops to buy the albums or myspaces and such like.
01 Felicia Atkinson With Sylvain Chauveau
Aberdeen, Roman Anglais
02 Son Lux
Break, At War With Walls and Mazes
03 Burial
Exit Woundz, Ghost Hardware E.P.
04 Ivor Cutler
Get Away From The Wall, An Elpee and Two Epees
05 Lucky Pierre
Velbon, Touchpool
06 Koehncke/Heimermann
Albatros, Kompakt Speicher 31
07 Jacaszek
Rytm to Niesmiertelnosc ii, Treny
08 Lullatone
The Bedtime Beatbox, The Bedtime Beat
09 Snöleoparden
Dreng, Snöleoparden
10 Karine Polwart
A Tongue That Cannot Lie, This Earthly Spell
11 Peter Broderick
Something has changed, Float
12 Alasdair Roberts
The Calfless Cow, The Amber Gatherers
13 Yuko Ikoma
1ere Gnossienne, Moisture With Music Box
14 Bovine Life
Unreleased
15 Plat
Hverfandi (Vanish), Compulsion (2005 pressing)
February '08
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(portrait by Mina, credit coming soon)
Once you click on the pic, it will take you to site called Mediafire - mediafire hosts large files for free, but you have to wait until the download link becomes active - usually between 5 and 15 seconds. When it announces the file is ready for download click on it to download. It is an mp3 file and lasts for just over an hour.
BLSS 23rd Feb, 2008
Tracklisting (click on links to buy their work) :
0. February Intro
1. Jonquil - Lily
2. Johann Johannsson - Odi et Amo
3. King Creosote - Leslie
4. Islands - Don't Call Me Whitney, Bobby!
5. Devotchka - New World
6. Rachel Unthank and The Winterset - Blue's Gaen Oot O'the Fashion
7. Kal - Dvojka
8. Example - You can't rap
9. MC Frontalot - Nerdcore Hip Hop
10. Greg Davis - sea green and cyan
11. Alarm Will Sound - Blue Calx
12. III - Julien Neto
Recorded near Byres Road, Glasgow by Chris Dooks - Email bovinelife@yahoo.com
Many of the artists on this comp have given permission to be involved in the show - if you are an artist who would like a track removed, email bovinelife@yahoo.com from your management or representative. The BLSS makes no money and serves only to promote fringe and outside music. If you wish to send demos to the show please email bovinelife@yahoo.com - if we like it we'll push it with heart!
January '08
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Once you click on the pic, it will take you to site called Mediafire - mediafire hosts large files for free, but you have to wait until the download link becomes active - usually between 5 and 15 seconds. When it announces the file is ready for download click on it to download. It is an mp3 file and lasts for just over an hour.
BLSS 26th Jan, 2008
Tracklisting (click on links to buy their work) :
1. Intro to concept
2. Casiotone for The Painfully Alone - Cold White Christmas
3. Alaska in Winter - Homeless and Hummingbirds
4. Pikelet - Bug in Mouth
5. Adele - Hometown Glory
6. Kama Aina - Wedding Song
7. Detektivbryan - Nattopet
8. Gavouna - One, Four
9. M.I.A. - Paper Planes
10. Miracle Fortess - Beach Baby
11. Silent Land Time Machine - Everything Goes To Shit
12. Radicalface - Welcome Home Son
13. Radiohead - Four Minute Warning
14. The Field - Everyday / Show Outro
Recorded near Byres Road, Glasgow between 7 and 11pm by Chris Dooks - Email bovinelife@yahoo.com
Many of the artists on this comp have given permission to be involved in the show - if you are an artist who would like a track removed, email bovinelife@yahoo.com from your management or representative. The BLSS makes no money and serves only to promote fringe and outside music. If you wish to send demos to the show please email bovinelife@yahoo.com - if we like it we'll push it with heart!