Vinyl Land

Hello again,

After a long break, the Vinyl Land – Rock 45’s! Podcast is back with a vengence!

This time around I have a selection of 7” singles full of beats, b-sides, promos, remixes and 8bit sounds for you listening pleasure.

I think this mix came about when I started noticing that most of the club nights that I was attending or djing here in London would steer to a more “eletronic” direction towards the later hours, even in the indie venues. So here is my take on that, even tought I dont think this mix is necesserily dancefloor oriented at all. Anyways...

We start things off quite slow with the beautifull “Shiller” form New York duo Ratatat, and from there the pace picks up gradualy. Highlights are the promo only “Machine Gun” by Portishead; the clash between Crystal Castles and Health on “Crimewave”; the 100 copies limited edition picture disc of Plastic Little (with very funny “Mister T / E.T.” cover); the japonese version of “Pocket Calculator” by Kraftwerk and the Alex Gopher Remix of Ladyhawke’s “Paris is Burning”.

Check out the full track list:

1 – Ratatat – Shiller (XL Recordings)
2 – Daft Punk – Aerodynamic (Virgin Italy Promo)
3 – Thom Yorke - Harrowdown Hill (XL Recordings)
4 – Portishead – Machine Gun (Mercury Records)
5 – Crystal Castles vs Health – Crimewave (Trouble Records)
6 – Tiny Masters of Today – Hey, Mr. DJ (CSS Remix) (Mute Records)
7 - MIA – Paper Planes (DFA Remix) (XL Recordings)
8 - Toddla T ft Serocee – Manabadman (1965 Records)
9 – Plastic Little – Boys Remix (Rotflol) (Make Mine)
10 – Kraftwerk – Dentaku (EMI Records)
11 - Hot Chip – Ready for the Floor (Radio Edit) (EMI Records)
12 – Ladyhawke – Paris is Burning (Alex Gopher Remix) (Modular Recordings)
13 – Data Rock – Fa Fa Fa (Young Aspiring Professionals)
14 – Architecture in Helsinki – Hold Music (Cooperative Music)
15 – CSS – Move (Cut Copy Remix)

As usual go to www.myspace.com/vinylland if you want to check out the artwork on the records and sleeves or drop me a message with your thoughts on this mix.

Until next time,

Luiz

Dear Rock Fellas,

After a short break, the Rock 45s podcast is back with a new epicsode. This week, celebrating their upcoming gig in Victoria Park this tuesday, I am going to open and close the set with Radiohead, first with their single “Jigsaw Falling Into Place” from the “In Rainbows” album and later with “Paranoid Android” from “Ok Computer”.

Then there will be the usual mix of classics like The Jesus and the Mary Chain with “Cracking Up”, The Modern Lovers with “Astral Plane” and Pavement with “Cut You Hair”; and some more recent stuff like Polytechnic, Land of Talk and Of Montreal.

And theres is the live version of “This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)” by Arcade Fire with David Byrne singing.

As the story goes, the band used to cover this Talking Heads song in their shows, so when they were in New York to play the Irving Plaza in 2005, David Byrne got in touch by email with the band and they invited him to play. The audio is not that great, since its from a camera that one of the band members used to film it, but its worth it just for the little moment in rock history. Check out the video and see how happy they look! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u50KlJxCWpg&feature=related).

Here is the full listing of songs in this set:

1 – Radiohead – Jigsaw Falling Into Place (XL Records)
2 – Polytechnic - Let Me Down (Transgressive) – B Side
3 - Bombay Bicycle Club – How Are You (Mmm... Records)
4 – Land Of Talk – Speack To Me Bones (One Little Indian)
5 – The Jesus and Mary Chain – Cracking Up (Creation Records)
6 – Pavement – Cut Your Hair (Big Cat)
7 – The Shins – Austrália (Transgressive)
8 – The Modern Lovers – Astral Plane (Live) (Beserkly)
9 – Árcade Fire feat David Byrne – This Must Be The Place (Live) (Rough Trade) – B Side
10 – Belle and Sebastian – Step Into My Office, Baby (Rough Trade)
11 – We Are Scientists – No Body Move Nobody Gets Hurt (Virgin)
12 – Of Montreal – She’s A Rejecter (Polyvinyl)
13 – Super Furry Animals – Northern Lites (Creation Records)
14 – Beck – New Pollution (Geffen)
15 – Radiohead – Paranoid Android (Parlophone/EMI)

This week you can also catch me playing some more Rock 45s in 2 dates in London, at the Barfly in Camden on Friday 27/06 and at Monton @ Water Rats in kIngs Cross on Saturday 28/06 (Big shout-out to Dj Milla www.myspace.com/camand for hooking me up!).

Check back on www.myspace.com/vinylland for more details about these gigs and to see the scanned records and covers.

Until next time,

Luiz

Hello again,

For this weeks podcast I’ve included 3 singles from bands that I saw live in the past two weeks: Late Of The Píer, which I saw at the Barfly in Camden Town (they are re-releasing the single Space and The Woods on 7” this week also), The Black Lips, that played at the Kings College London Students Union on thursday and Wry, a band from Sorocaba, Brasil that is radicaded in London, which I saw at the Goonight@Buffalo Bar in Islington last Friday.

There are also a couple of classics like “Virginia Plain” by Roxy Music and “Radio Transmission” by Joy Divison (opening and closing the set), and some really good stuff in the middle, like Friendly Fires with “Paris” (on a very limited editon single on the Moshi Moshi Singles Club) and White Denim with “Lets Talk About It” on the Full Time Hobby label.

Check out the full set:

1 – Roxy Music – Virginia Plain (Island)
2 – Those Dancing Days – Hitten (Wichita)
3 – The Kills – Cheap and Cheerfull (Domino)
4 - The Sonics – Psycho (Norton Records)
5 – White Denim – Lets Talk About It (Full Time Hobby)
6 – Foxboro Hot Tubs – Mother Mary (Jingle Town)
7 – Black Lips - Bad Kids (Vice)
8 – My Morning Jacket – Off The Record (Ato/Rca)
9 – Mystery Jets – Young Love Feat. Laura Marling (SixSevenNine)
10 – The ShortWave Set – No Social (Wall Of Sound)
11 – Wry – Sister (Club AC30)
12 – Friendly Fires – Paris (Moshi Moshi)
13 – Late Of The Píer - The Bear Are Coming (Zarcorp)
14 – White Williams – New Violence (Double Six)
15 - Joy Division – Transmission (Factory)

To see the artwork on the sleeves and the records, got to www.myspace.com/vinylland and check out the slide show. Also, if you want to get in touch and give some feedback on the podcast, write to vinyl_land@hotmail.com

Listen to the music! Until next time,

Luiz

Hi there,

This is the first of a series of podcasts that I'll be posting every 15 days or so with the new and old records (mainly 7" singles) that I've been finding since arriving back in London.

Highlights of this week's podcast are the classics "Teenage Riot" by Sonic Youth on flexi-disc that I found in Brick Lane, "Rock Europeu" by Fellini (with Mercenarias on the flipside) on the Soul Jazz Records label, "Down on the Street" by The Stooges and the more recent stuff like "Time to Pretend" by MGMT and "A-Punk" by Vampire Weekend. Check it out!

1 - Patti Smith - So You Want To Be (A Rock N Roll Star)
2 - Les Savy Fav - Patty Lee
3 - Tapes N Tapes - Hang Them All
4 - Fellini - Rock Europeu
5 - Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot
6 - Teenage Fanclub - Star Sign
7 - Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues
8 - Morphine - Cure For Pain
9 - MGMT - Time To Pretend
10 - Crystal Castles - Courtship Dating
11 - Neon Neon - I Lust U
12 - The Teenagers - Love No
13 - Vampire Weekend - A-Punk
14 - Black Kids - I Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend...
15 - The Stooges - Down On The Street

To see the pictures of the records and more info about Vinyl Land, go to www.myspace.com/vinylland . Check back soon for new podcasts!

Cheers,

Luiz

MC5 - Kick Out The Jams
Iggy Pop And The Stooges - Search and Destroy
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Foo Fighters - Pretender
Eagles of Death Metal - I Want You So Hard
Queens of the Stone Age - Sick Sick Sick
Black Lips - Katrina
The Cramps - Whats Inside a Girl?
The White Stripes - Rags and Bones
The Noisettes - Sister Rosetta
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Talking About The Blues
Samuel L Jackson - Stackolee
The Hives - Tick Tick Boom
Death From Above 1979 - Blood On Our Hands
Weezer - Hash Pipe
Sonic Youth - Kool Thing
Artic Monkeys - Brianstorm
Rage Against The Machine - Guerilla Radio
Primal Scream - Kill All Hippies
Beck - E-Pro
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Date With The Night
The Young Knifes - Shes Attracted to
Devo - Gut Feeling

For more Rock 45s or to book gigs visit www.myspace.com/vinylland or send an email to vinyl_land@hotmail.com