Mr Trick & Wrongtom: Show #56 (Oct.’09)

… AKA “The Beatless Special”. Given both myself and Tom are very rhythm-driven in terms of tracks we love -- or rather, appreciative of the power of a killer beat -- we thought it might be interesting to try a theme special where none of the tracks had beats at all. Well, that was the initial plan, though as you’ll hear something may have been lost in translation resulting in one or two tracks creeping in sporting percussive qualities at best and a bloody huge drum beat at worst (take a bow Ed Zed)…

So, with the Beatles/Beatless puns out the way and joined by our compadre Mr Ed Zed, we sidestep numerous technical disasters including the Resonance CD decks collectively refusing to play Melvins’ “Colossus of Destiny” (a wise move, many might argue) and press on with a series of selections that we hoped might go beyond your obvious choices to deliver something a bit more interesting. Did we succeed? Well, we shall leave that to you to decide, but if the tracklisting might sway you, here it is…

Tracklisting:
Pigbag “The backside”
Grinderman “Grinderman”
Inflatable Boy Clams “I’m Sorry”
Sigue Sigue Sputnik “Atari Baby”
Xela “Creeping Flesh”
Hightower Set “Putting Heads To Bed”
Stephen Duffy “Wednesday Jones”
Morphine “In Spite Of Me”
Social Climbers “Hello Texas”
Galliano “Roofing Tiles (Instrumental)”

As mentioned above, the soundbed was meant to be Melvins’ “Colossus of Destiny” album/track, but thanks to technical hell turned out to be “O Berimbau” by Nana Vasconcelos.

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Featured video this week is a peach of a selection by Tom -- a slightly random clip of Martin Degville from Sigue Sigue Sputnik forcing some German TV presenter to dress up SSS-style:

Mr Trick & Wrongtom: Show #20 (January ‘09)

For our second show of ‘09, we bring you the kind of aural smorgasbord that frankly should be outlawed for sheer variety alone. Taking in the early production work of Xela (in fine “Snoop Dogg-meets-Boards of Canada mode), we celebrate the Welsh indie music scene (and indeed all local scenes come to that), drop possibly the most insane ska/hip hop/mentalism ever (clue: one member is called “Beard of Meats”), consider the Headcoatees-meets-beats sound of the awesome “Taylor Meets The Headcoatees” and take in the air-tight percussion of the The Au-Pairs… and hey, that’s not even all the selections!

As ever the chat plays it fast and loose, making this another show you won’t want to miss. Get stuck in!

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(pic above: the Metamatics cover Tom describes in the show)