Sunday, 23 August 2020

The Listening Club - 23rd August 2020

 Greetings,

Hope you're all doing okay. Heatwave is over here in Amsterdam, so we're back to the regular summer selection of sunny patches and showers, which is okay, I guess. Seems like we've reached the streaming festival highpoint of the summer, as Lowlands, Green Man, Fuji Rock and many others are filling up the net with stuff - here, we have been enjoying We Out Here's stuff especially, a fine selection of bopping tunes. So there's that.

Last week chez #LC, found me @kleptones unexpectedly dropped into the chair as @JimMcCauley battled computer problems, so everyone got a dose of sunny-day 90s electronico in the shape of Ultramarine's "Every Man And Woman Is A Star", which went down pretty well, I think. Looks like Jim is back in action again now, which is good news, so over to him for tonight's intro...

"The 2003 August bank holiday was a weird one for me; the tipping point of a lost weekend of a year that was a lot of fun but that all got a bit too much. It began on the Friday evening when a friend showed up with this, a leaked copy of an upcoming second album; after that it’s all something of a blur.

I remember the threatening skies on the Monday afternoon, the feeling that something wasn’t right and the unshakeable notion that a new year had just started. Things got dark for quite a while after that, and this album fitted my state of mind perfectly.

If you already know this album then you’ll find it slightly different thanks to a presumably uncleared sample that must have been pulled at the very last minute. And there’s a little audio glitch in there at one point that must have been some form of rudimentary digital fingerprinting; fat lot of good that did. I bought the album proper when it came out, but I still come back to this version.

Enjoy!"

Okaydoke. Direct download is here, and the stream's below:

See you at 8pm BST/EST (GMT+1).



 

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