It has to be said, when it comes to special guests we have all the luck of Spinal Tap’s drummers. This week we were meant to be joined by Sean and Finny from Pama Intl, currently supporting The Specials on tour… but sadly things weren’t going our way (again!) and the lads couldn’t make it in. Hence, we hastily put together a show which, in hindsight, turned out pretty damn well if we do say so ourselves.

Taking in much reggae (thanks in part to my scoring a lovely cache of Jamaican 45s from a dealer), we also swerve into “you know the name but you won’t know this” territory with a discofied re-edit of Mott The Hoople and a truly sublime blues track from the Peter Green-era Fleetwood Mac. Factor in a fastchat special from Tom and a fine, funky cover of “Sunshine of your Love” and you’ve got much to enjoy, trust us…

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Tracklisting:
Dave “Baby” Cortez – “Funky Robot pt.1″
Mott The Hoople – “Bastard (A Mountain Of One re-edit)”
Unknown Beverley’s Records 45
Papa San – “Big and Bad”
Fleetwood Mac – “Need Your Love So Bad”
5th Dimension – “Sunshine of Your Love”
Unknown reggae 45
Roland Alphonso – “Back Beat”
Pama Intl – “Hand To Mouth (Wrongtom Version)”

Hot Cool Spice were behind this week’s soundbed with an overly extended version of “Worker’s Bank”.

This was the Featured Video for this week – Smiley Culture’s “Police Officer” to tie in with Tom’s fastchat, er, chat…

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On this week’s show Tom played a fastchat track from Papa San, which led to mention of Smiley Culture and his Police Officer track. With me mentioning the quickly made junglist remix I did of that track, it seems like a perfect excuse to re-post it up here for you all to enjoy. I seem to have done myself a disservice in that I thought the remix got slated when I posted it on my blog back in 2005; from the comments, it was actually complimented a fair bit so thanks to all those who did take time to say something nice. The track was only ever made as a DJ tool to use when playing out, in the same vein as the Marilyn Manson/Titch mashup thing I did – something to roll out as a “you can’t buy this version” track at gigs and suchlike. (Sidenote: for some reason I still laugh when I read that first comment on the Manson remix post…)

Anyway – here’s the track; feel free to comment in the positive or negative below. Best played very loud on a very bass-capable system.

Smiley Culture vs Mr Trick – Police Officer (MP3, 4.3Mb)

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Join us this week as we take in the usual rather wide-ranging selections including midwestern indie/country pop, mento, a fine alter-ego of the Portishead chaps and – woo-haa! – Galt McDermott, among others… Also worthy of note is the inclusion of a track that Tom rated as “possibly the best thing you’ve ever brought in”, courtesy of Swiss industrial Doors-channellers Young Gods….

As ever the rant factor is in full swing on Trick’s part, with just about all new releases coming in for some serious wrath. We can only be glad he didn’t make good on his threat to air something from Kiss’ “Music from The Elder” album as some kind of spiteful revenge move. Well, not this week anyway…*evil grin*

Tracklisting:
1. The WLS Band – Simply Funky
2. The Jimi Entley Sound – Charlie’s Theme
3. Galt McDermott – Space
4. The Meat Puppers – Never To Be Found
5. Pantyraid – Beba
6. The Young Gods – Summer Eyes (excerpt)
7. Count Zebra and the Seasiders – Bedbug
8. Chin’s Sextet – Honeybee

Soundbed for the show was Manu Chao’s “Mr Bobby”.

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Featured Video for this week’s show was a curious YouTube find; Young Gods doing an awesome acoustic rendition of their “Our House” track, which was the 2nd track from them that Trick played on the show, briefly:

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This week we were joined by journalist, author and djhistory.com founder Bill Brewster, who brought with him a fine selection of tracks by artists both known and obscure for your delectation. It has to be said, Bill is very much a man on our wavelength; a true music fan with catholic tastes, it transpired he also shared our love of “double take” tracks, i.e. great tracks by well-known artists most people write off as rubbish. Ever think you’d hear a Jamiroquai track on the show? Neither did we but trust us, the one Bill selects is amazing.

If we’re honest, these kind of shows are manna from heaven for us, as they represent a chance to have someone else make the selections and potentially switch us on to both classic tracks and artists we may have slept on. Bill brought that in droves, airing killer songs from artists we knew of whilst turning us onto the likes of Kevin Hewick, Magazine 60 and The Feelies, one of Stiff Records’ lesser-known signings who – on the basis of the awesome track Bill aired – are to be sought out immediately.

Or, as listener JedB put it in a mid-show message, “these track selections are even more eccentric than usual!”… which we’re taking to be a good thing!

Be sure to check out the treasure trove that is Bill’s djhistory.com website, and if you’ve not already we strongly recommend you buy his excellent work with DJHistory co-founder Frank Broughton, “Last Night A DJ Saved My Life”

Tracklisting:
1. The Utmost – Whole Lotta Loving
2. David Essex – Rock On
3. Kevin Hewick – Haystack
4. Jamiroquai – Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing
5. Donovan – Well Known Has-Been
6. The Feelies – The Boy With Perpetual Nervousness
7. The Phenomenal Handclap Band – Fifteen To Twenty
8. Magazine 60 – Don Quixote
9. Etta James – You Give Me What I Want

Soundbed: Indeep – DJ Delight

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Oh, and this was our featured video for this show – Mark the 45 King rocking a pair of Vestax Handytrax turntables, which Bill told us about after I’d mentioned how I’d found that Utmost 45 at a fair thanks to me having the Handytrax with me…

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With plenty of time to prepare for this week’s show, you KNOW we were going to bring some broad but brilliant tunes for your delectation. So, kicking off with the insane Country & Western acid funk of Area Code 615, we then veer back into metal territory for the first time in a while with Justin Broadrick’s more obscure Sweet Tooth project before taking a change in format slightly by having Tom air three go-go tracks back to back from Tilt (aka Trouble Funk), Arkadion and The Junk Yard Band. Then its into tablist territory with the brilliant – and fully transcribed and notated – Antimatter from DJ Radar, back to the bovine dancefloor styles courtesy of The Magic Fly and finally down with some Hijack-sampling dub funk from Scottish hardcore merchants Dawson. Phew!

Tracklisting:
Area Code 615 – Scotland
Sweet Tooth – Fat City
Tilt – Arkade Funk
Arkadion – Torque
The Junk Yard Band – The Word
Radar – Antimatter
The Magic Fly – Two Planets feat. Ricky Ranking (Mr Benn Bambaclog Remix)
Dawson – Bodies Under The Floor

Soundbed: Zinc – Amazon

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This was the featured video for this week – and be sure to check out Tom’s GoGo mix he did on the blog!

Like what you hear? Leave a comment below! And remember, if you do listen live, hop on Twitter and follow @trickandtom to see our live in-show updates of artwork and more…

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