James. Indecisive in London.
DIY punx, vitriol, red stripe.
I'm a QPR and Clapton FC fan and run a blog documenting radical football culture:
footballisradical
I play drums in some bands
I also have a last.fm
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
late night ‘mo mix
Was making a mix of some emo-related stuff for a mate but figured I’d chuck it up on here in case anyone wants it. Not seminal by any means, just some of my favourites. A lot of mid 90s, some more modern stuff too. Excuse the uninspired track order, just how it defaulted. Download link at the bottom.
1. 125 Rue Montmarte - Hit #2
2. The Union Ares - The Halloween Song
3. Twelve Hour Turn - Dance Like Everyone’s Watching
4. Jasemine - Heritage
5. Brainworms -Sunrise Dudes
6. Reds - Dividing Unions
7. Sinaloa - Hello to Goodnight
8. Ten Grand - Fuck you Guyses Team
9. Spirit Assembly - Stain
10. Chino Horde - Song 3 (This is Done 7”)
11. Constantine Sankathi - Esoteric
12. Evergreen - Freight Trains and Windsongs
13. Lumber - Super 8
14. Mohinder - The Mission
15. Nuzzle - No Mas
16. Ordination of Aaron - You too can be a Motion Picture Star
17. Cole - Pigeon
18. Plunger - H.S
19. Rights Reserved - Screw Your Hand
20. The Hated - Someone (ft. ridiculous/amazing intro)
21. Yaphet Kotto - Reserved for Speaker
http://www.sendspace.com/file/qql2qe (Make sure you uncheck the “download accelerator” bullshit first)
Absolute gem from the Ash From Sweat back catalogue
On the topic of ‘mo, Ruth really kindly made me a Honeywell jumper. Excited.
Still an absolute banger. Really miss this band.
Roosevelt - Smile
Lumber - Super 8
Fucking love everything about this song. That chorus. Like a rowdier version of the older stuff by bands like Ribbon Fix and Rainer Maria. Or at a push, imagine earlier Lemuria releases with added ‘mo.
Enregistré par Steve Albini - Capitalism
Randomly remembered this band today, havn’t listened to them in years. Band from France, unfortunately inactive since 2008. Hard to describe, but it’s groovmo and there’s a saxophone. If you like stuff like Off Minor, Blame Game, Polaris or other stuff like that you may really dig it? I think they are a gem of a band.
You can download all their stuff here: http://stevealbini.free.fr/
Japan purchases!
For my own benefit as much as anything I wanted to document most of the records and gaming stuff I picked up in Japan for the sake of memories. Tokyo, where most of this stuff was purchased, apparently has the highest density of record stores in the world so I went a bit silly. All of the gaming stuff was purchased at Super Potato - lifelong dream to go there. There are some other bits and bobs too. Maybe some of you music and gaming nerds will get a kick out of it, I dunno, but indulge me. There’s some nice emo and punk bits in here. Was also a really nice surprise to see my old band What Price, Wonderland? having records in lots of the stores (and not in the bargain bin for once!).
Picture 1:
Blatz - Cheaper than the beer
Impetus Inter - S/T
Hypatia - We move at light speed
Shores/Creepoid - Split
The Promise Ring/Texas is the Reason - Split
Die Kreuzen - Cows and beer
Hot New Mexicans - S/T
Admiral - Revolving and Loading
Ghosts and Vodka - Memento Mori
Swipe - S/T
Mob 47 - S/T
Catena Collapse/Sinaloa - Split
Little Lungs - S/T
Yage/Robocop Kraus - Split
Blue friend/from ten to nine/none but air/kanatahakura/cofun - 5 way split
Picture 2:
Yaphet Kotto - Syncopated synthetic laments for love
Ultramagnita - Vol. 7 (Laser disc)
Tomoyo Harada - Pavane
Mako - We love Mako
Onyanko Club - S/T
Braid - Frame and canvass
Picture 3:
Kerosene 454/Bluetip/Naht/Sweetbelly freakdown - 4 way tour split
Fleetwood Mac - S/T (Japanese press)
Yage - The human head too strong for itself
Broccoli - S/T
Shonen Knife - Super Mix
Born Against - The rebel sound of shit and failure
Picture 4:
Heaven in her arms - Paraselene
Julia - S/T
K-On! Ritsu Tainaka drummer figurine
Japanese tarot card set
Dizzy Gillespie - Groovin high!! (Japanese press)
Picture 5:
Super Potato flyers and Taito arcade vouchers
Super famicom game (can’t type out the Japanese lettering)
Gameboy/Gameboy colour games (Warioland 3, Darius 2, Beatmania)
Kirby costume plush toy
PC Engine console and games (Altered beast, War of the dead, Space harrier)
Polaris - Babyfoot
Groovmo from the UK, ex-Bob Tilton. This tune was (allegedly) created to help you sort out your underwear being uncomfortable on long car journeys.
Please inform the captain this is a hijack - Karma collection day
The verdict’s in, court is closed, payment’s due
It’s karma collection day
And all around the world there’s people saying:
Weapons? Check!
Are you ready? Yes!
Let’s get it on with these devils
I don’t know if there’s hell below
If so, let’s kick them to the lowest level
We march with gas in bottles, zip guns
and pipe bomb power
We march, legions of ants, to devour this mega monster
All members of the international bad guy league take note:
We laugh and cheer and celebrate
every time that you get smoked
I was there at Nasaria
I was there at Diem Bien Phu
I watched you on CNN
Stripped to the ass for the live broadcast
Happy children parade your remains through the streets
I saw you in Montevideo
Stuffed plastic in the trunk of a car
Ask Aldo how it feels
Because tonight, tonight
Everyone dances or nobody dances
To celebrate a midnight verdict
Scrawled in blood on the discotheque walls
You’ve got hands and a heart
and friends that share a gut feeling
A blueprint for combustion
Send the emperor’s assassins reeling
There’s something on the horizon
It’s the terror of every scoundrel
A flock of enemy combatants come to take away your power
Pressure points and arteries, at home and overseas
Capital gains have jugular veins
We’ve got sharpened steel and muscle
I saw you in Mogadishu
I was there on the morning of Tet
We have a date and we won’t forget
That tonight, tonight, we lower your earthly remains
All over the world, we recite your last rites,
a joyous celebration
A holiday to serenade your memory into oblivion
Back to hell
