My mum turning a blind eye to a 9 year old watching an 18 rated film outlined the final watershed moment. Children of the Corn was instantly forgettable and not remotely scary but led to a slew of slasher/zombie/melt/demonoid gore-fests rolling over our Fisher’s ever dirty heads and onto our faux-mahogany covered TV.

I’m a little late off the starting blocks with this one as I was hoping to tie it in with last week’s celeb spesh but as threatened I eventually took half an hour out of my demanding daytime tv schedule to get my teeth into the almost good “Hello Hello” by Brown Sauce AKA the three headed beast that was Philbin, Chegwin & Edmonds. I couldn’t tell you whether this was a Milli Vanilli-esque vanity project or the three of them really did miss their calling as metronomical session behemoths however u can now (perhaps) enjoy the good groove of the Swap Shop theme without the intrusion of the nasty synth horn fanfare.

In a concerted effort to balance out this somewhat tawdry entry I’m also upping an MP3 sent over by the nice folk at All Young Kings who’ve given the green light to pass around a new track from a Transatlantic lady by the name of Shaunsie who’s “Masudasante Naima” wont be rolling off most people’s tongues in a hurry but should definitely be blowing up a few speaker boxes with it’s creeping round midnight swing growing into a deep 4am lope of a beat. There isn’t much more info I can give you but definitely someone to keep your eye on in the coming months.

Brown Sauce “Hello Hello (Wrongtom’s Disco Dub)”

Shaunsie “Masudasante Naima” (YSI link)

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If you tuned into last week’s show you’ll know that a driving theme was imposed on us after I spent the best part of an hour sitting in a tunnel on the A12 with nothing but a hectic Diplo CD for company when I could have been relaxing in the Resonance office with a nice cuppa gearing up for another seamless change over.

Later in the show Mr Trick did his best to once again domesticate another piece of celestial brilliance by describing some cosmic disco as perfect driving music, I refer you to the time I played one of Gary Bartz’ more spiritually charged moments from his Ntu Troop days which Trick deemed “perfect Sunday morning music” but as much as I doubt Bartz ever intended his afro-centric opus to compliment a Sunday in the suburbs reading the supplements, I’m sure in this case anyone who’s been out on the open road with some Chris Rea blaring can relate. I jest of course as I jumped at the chance to knock up a quick mix of my favourite driving music and was on the blower to Tricky Towers moments later urging him to do the same.

I’ve probably committed a mix tape no-no by starting fast and winding it down but I felt it reflected my driving habits, pulling out in a cloud of dust only to end up in typical London traffic barely a couple of miles from my front door. Adversely, Trick knocked up a smoother night time drive theme so you can pick between the hot and sweaty selection of my hammond fueled hell or Trick’s twilight disco delights depending on your mood.

Wrongtom “Leslie’s Drive -Thru Nightmare”
1. Steve Miller Band “Living In The USA”
2. Amon Duul II “Archangel Thunderbird”
3. Colosseum “Rope Ladder To The Moon”
4. Gang Starr “The Planet”
5. Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity “Season of the Witch”

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Trick writes…
For my mix, I had one simple objective: to give a few examples of the kind of music I love driving to the station with. To give you some idea, my route basically involves driving along the Thames from the west, going past most of London’s most amazing monuments (Battersea Power Station, the various beautifully-lit bridges, MI5 and the Eye on my left as I cross the river etc etc) whilst the streetlights strobe above me. As Tom’s mix attests, driving during daytime in London is a gridlock affair for the most part: an exercise in stress where you’re lucky to break 10mph for more than 100 yards. At 9pm though, the roads are more clear and you can soak up just what a fine city it is we live in. So, this mix reflects that; those quiet road night time drive moments we all have once in a while where a city seems oddly serene.

As a mix, this wasn’t about taking my usual line of intricate mix moments and whatnot; it was quite the opposite, letting tracks play out for as long as possible, knowing that you just want to get right into them as you drive along. The Mogg & Naudascher tracks are a real revelation for me, for two reasons: first, I didn’t clock that the Mogg in question was former Psychonaut Paul Mogg. Second, I’d slept on this stuff first time around, so good on DFA for reissuing the lot.

Hope you enjoy the mix.

Mr Trick “Metro Night Time Drive Mix”
1. Paperclip People – Clear and Present
2. Mogg & Naudascher – Moon Unit Pt.2
3. Mogg & Naudascher – Moon Unit Pt.1
4. Lindstrom – Grand Ideas

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I once tried to tackle the prospect of a Van Halen cover version about 5 or 6 years ago during my ill fated “wrunk” faze, I got about two hours in and then swiftly switched off my sampler without saving a thing. No one really needed to hear such an atrocity but that’s not to say it couldn’t be done properly, and here to prove it is none other than Infinite Livez who if you don’t know is kinda like if Lester Bowie was a barrow boy, and if you still don’t know what I’m on about imagine Anthony Braxton and Toni Braxton doing a duet, and if you still don’t know what I’m saying…

Anyway the formidable Inf is currently touting around his new live album with his electronic free jazz outfit Stade and as far as I know should be finally dropping the follow up to his solo “Bush Meat” pretty soon but in the meantime “JUMP!”

Infinite Livez vs Stade “Jump”

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I first stumbled upon The Frantic Elevators whilst looking through a record cover and spotted a wiry Hucknall bent double with a shotgun in his mouth, which many may consider wishful thinking.