Playlist for Friday 16th May 2008

Here’s the playlist for my show on www.phantom.ie and Phantom 105.2 in Dublin which is on every Friday night at Midnight BST. The ‘Under The Radar’ album was:

PLAYLIST:

SO COW – Exclamation Mark
BORN RUFFIANS – In A Mirror
FLEET FOXES – English House
SANTOGOLD – Anne
ADAM & THE ANTS – Antmusic
ELF POWER – Owl Cut (White Flowers in the Sky)
ATLAS SOUND – My Car
THE TING TINGS – Shut Up & Let Me Go
EL-P – Deep Space 9mm [SEE VIDEO BELOW]

LAST SHADOW PUPPETS – I don’t like you anymore
THE SONICS – Psycho
MICHAEL KNIGHT – Ascending and Ascending
CHEQUERBOARD – Quotidian Debris
WOLF PARADE – Call It A Ritual
REDNECK MANIFESTO – You owe me five potatoes
CLINIC – Shopping bag
LADYHAWKE – Back of the Van (Van She Tech Remix)
THE SONICS – The Witch
MAN MAN – Top Drawer [SEE VIDEO BELOW]

PLONE – Plock
JAPE – Appile in the Orchard
LATE OF THE PIER – Focker
THE SHORTWAVE SET – Replica
SILVER APPLES – Oscillations  [SEE VIDEO BELOW]

THE SONICS – Strychnine
CAP PAS CAP v PROBLUMS – Cap Pas Cap v  Problums
CASS McCOMBS – Crick in My Neck
SKYPHONE – Quetzal Cubicle
THE VINNY CLUB – Everybody Can Change
PORTISHEAD – Deep Water

Aesop Rock

Nialler has a fairly accurate post about Aesop Rock’s gig in Crawdaddy on Saturday night, though I was about halfway back from the stage where the sound is not as good as upstairs but beter than the back of the venue. I thought that the gig suffered musically – this is something to do with a pet hate I have with hip-hop gigs. Actually, I have a few. One is when MC’s depend too much on call and response action with the crowd – Aesop & Rob Sonic just about stayed the right line of this but it was a close call. Their encouragement of the crowd’s ‘Olé, Olé,Olé’ didn’t help though.  But the other pet hate of mine is Hip-Hop artists’ insistence of changing the backing beats of tracks – fine if it improves the track, but for the most part this isn’t the case. For an artist whose lyrics are the key, I felt that Aesop suffered as often his lyrics weren’t intelligible on Saturday night. But the gig still was victorious and hopefully he will keep his promise to return with El-P and the rest of the Def Jux Crew later in the year.