The Listening Club - 21st March 2021

Greetings folks,

Hope you're all doing okay. Business as usual here in Amsterdam, as the weather gets warmer, the infection numbers go back up (third wave anyone?) and we sit patiently in our bubbles awaiting the vaccine roll out... Events are being booked and scheduled here starting in July, even though (as with most other countries), no one is totally sure yet how they are going to manage "conditions of entry"... but it looks like charging people extra for a rapid test on the day of the event will be the order of things, vaccine notwithstanding. Quite surprised that the govt are letting organisers figure this out for themselves rather than laying down the law, but there you go... it's going to be an interesting summer for sure...

Next Sunday, as I am sure you're aware, is the time of the vortex, this time it's a #NonEnglishVortex, so please parcel up a couple of your global favourites, and DM the mighty @saucer for the upload link!

Last time on the regular #LC, it was the very same @saucer in the chair, keeping us in the here & now for our 9th Birthday with his pick of Dry Cleaning's first two EP's (That's "Sweet Princess" and "Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks"), which went down very well indeed. Thanks to him for the pick, and for sailing the frisb back over to me, @kleptones, so let's get italic...

"Right then. I did have something earmarked for this purpose already, but as it's a bit close stylistically to last week's selection, we'll save it for another time,,, and go for something completely different.

Regular #lockdownradio listeners will know that I'm quite the fan of freaky electronic dance music from all corners of the globe, so here's a brand new dose of that. It's rare that an album comes out that I can cheerfully stick every track straight into my DJ box, but in this case it's pretty much true. Not easy to say much else that won't give it away too much, and I want to allow y'all to amuse yourselves trying to guess the country of origin. 

I realise that "Dance Music Albums" can be a bit of a stilted listen, but (1) this one is quite short (as are all the tracks), and (2) I've trimmed the track edges slightly to make it flow a little smoother. 

Furthermore, (3) if it goes down well, and I hope it does, I'll share an afterparty link to a 45 minute live video from a couple of years ago, which flows nicely and should make all of us pine seriously for the time to come when we can all get sweaty and jump around to crazy sounds together again. (Well, I will anyway!).

Hope you enjoy. Not sure about #drinkingclub... maybe a fruity cocktail, or voddy n redbull. Something with a kick, anyways... :)"

Right then. Download's here, stream's below:

See you 8pm GMT.