RC 381: This Is My Church / 50th

Recorded on my 50th birthday, this is the church where I heal my hurt . It’s a speed garage special for punk rockers with flowers in their hair (in the pouring rain or buying them for yourself). We also have a tribute to Ryuichi Sakamoto , a middle finger to complaining neighbours, various mashups new and old, hiphop, sweary Ivor Cutler, New Order covers and various existential musings about age and life.



And absolutely no coronation, actual churches or religion – it’s a 50th party not a depressing old-fashioned ritual!



This Is The Church Of What’s Happening Then (186Mb, 2:15)



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Tippa Irie – Complain Neighbour



Dunproofin’ – Pale Flowers (Tears For Fears vs Miley Cyrus)



ah! – Daft Punk Rock Loser & The Giorgio Boys (Viagra Boys vs Daft Punk)



Instamatic – Rainy Lovesong (Eurythmics vs The Cure)



Dunproofin’ – Belfast Gift (Orbital (David Holmes) vs Way Out West vs Kate Bush vs Fleetwood Mac)



Scott Garcia Ft. MC Styles – A London Thing (London mix)



Double 99 – Ripgroove (Vocal Club Mix featuring Top Cat)



Bklava – Leave (Original Mix)



Sweet Female Attitude – Flowers (Sunship Remix)



Because of Art – Circle of Light (feat. Antony Szmierek)



Soul Mass Transit System – Dont You Want Me Edit



Faithless – God Is a DJ (Serious Danger Remix)



187 Lockdown – Gunman (King Hydra Remix)



Soul Mass Transit System – Ready Or Not Edit



Conducta – Lessons



Chip ft. Bugzy Malone – Grown Flex



Bklava – Sober



8 Bit Society ft Dave Medland – Gabriel (Roy Davis Jr/ Peven Everett cover)



Soul Mass Transit System – U Don’t Kno My Selecta



Peggy_P – Negative Blasts (Everything Everything x Four Tet)



DJ Jay-R – Brownstone California (Brownstone vs. Eagles)



Robert – Daddy Was A Bastard



ez. – PUNK ROCKER



Cecile DeMilla – Gimme Mr. Lawrence (Sam Smith/Koffee/Jessie Reyez vs Utada Hikaru)



The Arrogants – Shell Shock (New Order Cover)



Denise Johnson – Nothing You Can Do



Anne Müller – Nummer 2



ToToM – Watch Over This Great Gig in the Sky (Pink Floyd and Clare Torry vs. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross)



Vogel with Ivor Cutler – Arschloch



Adam B – Another Monday (Pink Floyd vs Sebastian Böhml)



Kid Kapichi – Special




Imagery for this podcast is based on the Legend of Ys – the Bretons Atlantis myth of the lost sunken island that one day a year he cathedral rises and you can hear the bells across the water. Debussy did a piece about this called The Engulfed/Sunken Cathedral and I’ve been obsessed ever since…So I was combining this with work of deceased Victorian and 20th century fantastical artists , and of course the ubiquitous disco ball given the theme of the podcast…and I learned what that ball with a cross is called, it’s a Globus cruciger .





































Alternative Images for The Legend of Ys / This Is My Church




Transcript
Hello welcome to Radio Clash, this is 381 and This Is My Church. It’s a birthday episode. Happy Birthday! That was Tippa Irie with Complain Neighbour. And at the start you heard the jingle from ToTom. Thank you ToTom for that jingle. Hello welcome to Radio Clash, this is 381 and This Is My Church, you can probably guess which song might appear later on. I’m probably not in the form you expect. And Complain Neighbour goes out to my neighbours because we have a couple of neighbours next door I’ve been complaining about the garden again, yes I’ve mentioned that previously about the garden and all that ferrago and yeah it’s all kicking off again, I just stay out of it. And I have to say thank you to Jim Pilchard, otherwise known as Scott Cairo for posting that onto his Facebook and I was like oh I’ve not heard that and that’s absolutely perfect. It wasn’t going to be in this podcast, we were going to start with another song which actually is going to start the next podcast because unusually I’ve pretty much prepared two podcasts in a row and because it’s my birthday today as I kind of mentioned, it’s my 50th birthday as I’m recording this, I had a gap between the last podcast was out a bit late because it took over a week, editing it, Psych School 380 and I switched it around with this podcast which was supposed to be 380 but I thought well I’m going to do a special one for a landmark number, there you, it’s all about landmark numbers at the moment. And so this one got delayed by a few weeks which is kind of weird because it’s all stuff which is a bit old now but I’ve also prepared 382, it’s pretty much ready to go as well so I’ve switched new and old things between that and between the two of them. And so yes, I’m not sure how I feel about being 50, it’s a weird one, a really weird one. I always thought I’d never make 50, you know and there’s always time, I might not make 51. Yeah I’d always said as a kid I was like oh no I won’t make it to 50, it’s weird to actually make it finally and also this is the age that John, well three months after he was 50, he met me so in my head I’ve got the idea of 50 being the time of change but I’m not sure, you know obviously I’m different and yeah I’m not sure I’m where I want to be really generally. So we’re going to play a track, one of the best mashups of recent times I think from Dunproofin. This was done for one of the challenges, I’ve been going through a lot of the challenges and in fact I just judged a challenge because I won the last challenge with a track, I’m not playing in this podcast, now ToTom has won it, you might hear some ToTom later in the podcast, though not again, not the one he won it was, I had to go through 22 tracks today or yesterday really now to judge them and then I also went through the last couple of weeks of challenges and this was one of them and I think it’s my favourite even though weirdly it didn’t win, it should have won and I know Adriana’s been playing this a lot, this is Pale Flowers and I was present in the production stream when Dunproofin did this. So this is Pale Flowers, Tears for Fears vs Miley Cyrus. That was Dunproofin with Belfast Gift, Orbital Brackets David Holmes which is kind of sort of true, is a David Holmes mix of Belfast which is inspired by Orbital playing at David Holmes club in Belfast, hence the name, versus The Gift by Way Out West which is on the tracks I associate with first meeting John, not say it was our tune because he doesn’t know anything about it and doesn’t listen to that kind of music but yeah I was associated with that. Sampling Roberta Flack, First Time I Ever Saw Your Face, versus Kate Bush, Wuthering Heights versus Fleetwood Mac Dreams and I was another one that was created on the live Acid production stream, yes Dunproofin still uses Acid Pro, yeah it was very good and I might have helped a little bit with what bits to use from Fleetwood Mac because I know that song so well, I’ve mashed it several times and I am a Fleetwood Mac obsessive but that is one of my favourite mashups of this year along with the Pale Shelter and interestingly both include songs I have a very deep connection with and before that one of mine that’s Rainy Love Song, Eurythmics versus The Cure by Instamatic, then before that from the New Punk album, Well Do Ya Punk That’s Ah, Alan Hurley with Daft Punk, Rock Loser and the Giorgio Boys as Viagra Boys versus Daft Punk from Random Access Memories, Giorgio but I love the fact that someone’s mashed up Viagra Boys, I don’t know of a single mashing up Viagra Boys, I’m sure someone has but they’re very good Scandinavian, modern pump, the pump, pump, modern pump act, they’re a pump act, they’re a Vent Act darling, Vent Act no, Punk act, get it right and yeah it’s always good to hear that and also that’s from the new Viagra Boys album which I’m checking out which I was somehow missed or I say new, it’s from 2022 or the end of 2022 and I completely missed that they had done a new album somehow even though I think I knew, I saw some of the singles, it’s always a problem, this is the same with the Everything but the Girl album which I think actually releases today, yeah I need to check out that album but I’m really liking the singles of that and you might hear, is it in this podcast or is it the other one, no it’s the other one I think, no it’s the other one, in the next podcast you’ll hear some Everything but the Girl, there’s a reason why I don’t do two podcasts at once, it gets very confusing about which ones and which and yeah they’ve released several singles and by the time they’ve actually released the album I’ve forgotten they’ve actually, we’re releasing an album and that’s the same with the Viagra Boys, I saw singles and then I just kind of wander off and lose interest until much later and I go, oh the album’s out, I’ve forgotten, was there an album? Oh I did know there was an album, I’ve completely forgotten now, I like the modern idea where people just release an album and say here you are, the idea that you sort of do all the singles for like months and then it’s old media and I’ve talked about this before but it’s to do with magazines and printed stuff and you need six to eight weeks to get into a magazine and all that sort of shit but I think in the modern age do you really need all that? I don’t know, I mean I know you do music videos and they take time but still, you could all, a lot of it could be ready beforehand and just sort of, I just don’t like this idea of, in this day and age of instant digital media you could await like three or four months for an album to drop and it’s like you know that they’ve got, they’ve already got it out, you know, by the time they’ve put out the artwork and the track listing it’s probably all there, it’s probably all, that’s the reason why things leak because it’s all there, yes. And then before that we had at the start of the session Dunproofin in Pale Flowers, Tears for Fears vs Miley Cyrus and something we discovered during that stream was that bit at the start which Dunproofin has been telling people about is a backmasking in the original track so he unbackmasked it and it’s strange because I never heard that there was any form of backmasking in the original track, I’d have to go and listen to it but in the stems there is this reverse thing and yeah that’s that text at the start and yeah I’ve promised for a while, many weeks, a speed garage mix because, well, partly because I love speed garage, also there seems to be a bit of a revival going on with speed garage, speed garage being the late 90s thing, a hybrid of garage, sort of a more soulful version of house, I mean the name comes from the music that was played at the Paradise Garage but people like Frankie Knuckles were very much into their female divas and so there was a New York thing, the Skippity Skippity New York house but then it morphed in the UK into taking the drum and bass production techniques, the long drops and the wobs and the sub bass and that sort of thing and speeding up, obviously the name speed garage but not as much as drum and bass but sort of speeding up, no not necessarily, we’re starting, this one I’m gonna play now is 128, 6 BPMs, it’s not much but you can think about house at the time, it wasn’t 120, it was yeah it was about 110-ish or some of it is 120, it’s not so much the speeding up BPM-wise more about the Skippity beats, I was so much into this music when 1997, 98, I was listening to speed garage non-stop pretty much, along with pavement and a few of the sort of US indie things and some of the UK but there was a real come down from Britpop and I cope with that by going into speed garage because Britpop got really dull around 97 Blur, went a bit up their own ass with their album and it was quite good but you know it was still, there was a real depressing and also the case of Blur Heroine come down thing going on and Elastica, you know all these bands were sort of falling apart and you had pulp as well, I love that this is hardcore album but it wasn’t really a happy album and so I started going into yeah sort of speed garage and drum and bass, I’d already kind of sort of been into drum and bass but it became more and more my thing and move more into electronica and electronic music away from the guitar stuff at this time apart from as say granddaddy and pavement with a few exceptions but a lot of the UK scene was everyone was looking for the next Britpop and it never came along, people like Geneva were never going to do it, Campagg, Villa set, smash, dude yeah so this is my chance to do something which I always wanted to do which is mix some speed garage, I’m probably totally wrong but I really love this genre and I hear it’s making a comeback, I hope so and I’ve been going to include in this mix sort of mix of new and old so you hear some of the newer speed garage people and there’s some really interesting stuff happening but at the start we have to begin at the beginning because it really was a London thing and my favourite track from one of those many speed garage compilations I used to hoard at that time was Scott Garcia featuring MC Styles at the time it was just Scott Garcia, MC Styles didn’t get the rep he deserved, they did actually make it with another MC 10 years later but this is the original so this is a London thing, London mix because it is a London thing That was DJ Jay-R now known as DJ Ily with an old mashup which I hadn’t heard before until it was played on one of the streams I don’t know if it was not sure if it’s I think it might be an Adriana’s Attic if that or PDS Mix and yeah I love that even though the Brownstone sounds a little bit slowed too slow down but it’s definitely got that vibe then before that we had a new mashup newish mashup that’s Peggy P with Negative Blasts Everything Everything versus Four Tet another Crumplbanger challenge track I don’t know which one that was there’ve been so many I think that might be the instrumental challenge because of the Four Tet and yeah I love that Blast Doors song and that goes out to why doesn’t go out to Elon Musk and his rocket there’s a lyric in there about building an empire and and he’s also mentioned to her of a rocket somewhere as well so you can fire a rocket at a rocket it’s a future yes he just had a classic SpaceX misfire of course all the Elon nerds were saying that was perfectly intended that’s supposed to happen yes yes right then before that we had strike of the speed garage section wasn’t really speed garage but it was speed garage but the verging to jungle that’s Soul Mass Transit System are from Leeds and that’s U Don’t Know My Selecta which that’s a YouTube rip because they’ve never released that or they’ve not released it yet it’s very new I love the use of Alicia Keys is it Alicia Keys You Don’t Know My Name versus jungle it’s sort of jungley but it’s a bit slower than jungle but it’s the kind of jungley beats number for that we had a cover of a speed garage classic that’s 8-Bit Society Featuring Dave Medland that’s Gabriel which is by Roy Davis jr featuring Peven Everett it’s one of my favorite speed garage songs of all time I mean it kind of bridges the two there was like a speed garage mix it was really a garage song with a speed garage mix it wasn’t really intended as a speed garrishing but it was just included in so many sets it just has that soulful vibes and the gospel thing which I don’t mind and it’s another YouTube rip weirdly it’s a live jam that’s all done live and I love the fact they’ve got the trumpets in there but again they didn’t do a recorded version which is crazy because it’s such a brilliant version but anyway then before that we had a track which probably wasn’t speed garage but it’s from a female producer producing speed garage but I liked it so I sort of threw it in as well that’s Baklava with Sober and she’s really talented I mean she does the singing and the production and the songwriting and it’s just brilliant and I predict great things for Baklava that’s from 2021’s autonomy EP then before that something that again was not speed garage but samples speed garage that’s Grown Flex by Chip featuring Bugzy Malone they obviously put their beef aside for that track that’s from 2021 Snakes And Ladders and it samples T2’s Heartbroken which is a brilliant track but I’ve played it before or it’s the part of the big bad I’m not recalling which one is but yeah there is a T2’s Heartbroken shape hole in this mix that we’re filling that then before that we have Conducta who is one of the leading lights of the speed garage revival with Lessons from 2022 brilliant video I mentioned it on the blog but well we’re checking out then before that we had Soul Mass Transit System again we had quite a lot of Soul Mass Transit System in this mix because they’re really good that’s ready or not edit sampling the Fugees with speed garage version of Fugees Ready Or Not from 2022 the Edits Vol 2 and what’s funny about their YouTube is they’re quite often they’ve got edits of their edits they’ve got kind of versions they’ve done especially of their edits with extra things you can buy their edits on their bandcamp but not all of their edits which is a bit annoying there’s a very good one of Renegade Snares but then there’s a version which has got their version of Renegade Snares speed garage but with It Wasn’t Me by Shaggy over the top which would be perfect with this but again I couldn’t get it it’s only I didn’t want to have too many YouTube rips in here then before that we had a remix of 187 Lockdown Gunman by King Hydra which is from 2023 it’s a new remix very different modern wub technology and then back to 1999 with a remix of Faithless God As A Dj the Serious Danger remix Serious Danger were one of the prime producers of speed garage and I called the podcast after it because that was the fulcrum when it was just that line This Is My Church This Is Where I Heal My Hurt and that seemed to sum up this mix a lot there’s a lot of tunes in here and to some extent the next podcast which are about being a salve of what I’m going through at the moment and very much music I’m enjoy to play and mean something to me rather than just playing stuff which go have you heard this you know rather than the magazine approach there’s a lot of that in here and there’s a sad that haven’t been to a club for nearly a year because it really is my space where you know I get all my anger and emotions out and lots of feelings on the dance floor and that is my space and is my church is my place where it’s not a healing happens a lot of emotional processing and stuff and yeah it’s been sad that with my damaging my leg which I did I don’t know if I mentioned on the last podcast you had probably did you know with my damaging my leg and lack of money and all kinds of stuff I haven’t gone for a long time then I miss it then before that we had Soul Mass Transit System again with Don’t You Want Me Edit edit of the Felix track and that’s from Edits Volume Three and yeah a lot of Soul Mass Transit System I’m quite a few of the speed garage people are the newer breed are doing mashup e remixy things but they are very mashup remix so they seem very appropriate with this broadcast then before that we had a track which isn’t speed garage probably more of a housey slightly skipity housey that’s because of Circle Of Light featuring Antony Szmierek love Antony Szmierek so that was a dead cert and that’s a new track from him and again it really does fit the whole memories of a dance floor thing in that section then before that we had a classic Sweet Female Attitude with Flowers Sunship remix Sunship or a really important Sunship amazing producers and remixes at the time speed garage mixes are quite often the b side you know but that was actually the released the Sunship remix was the radio version the radio edit was just a slightly cut down version of the Sunship mix so you know it was just a cut down version of that mix because it was so good then before that we had big lover in her speed garage guys that’s Leave original mix again all the feels 2021 that was from then we had the classic Double 99 Rip Groove that’s the slightly later version that’s the Vocal Club Version featuring Top Cat which is not the original well it was from 1997 but basically the re-release the the original version had a little bit of vocals hardly any vocals on it was instrumental and so for the official major label release re-release they did a vocal version with top cat which weirdly I knew the original version at the time and that was one of the versionals here on the mixes so I missed that version so that version isn’t the version I knew so it’s fresh to me but that was the one that got in the charts and then the start section we had Scott Garcia featuring MC Styles with It’s A London Thing London Mix I still quote that song this day it’s from 1997 and It’s A London Thing It’s A Dj Thing it’s still an earworm today for me and it was pretty much a London thing not completely I mean the new breed is all over the place you got London and Leeds and Bristol I think possibly manchester as well I don’t know it’s not so London centric but the original was very specifically South London around the club called Twice As Nice and yeah it was very much you know just like dubstep was pretty much a South London thing and also then this whole jazz scene that’s popping up is also South London so there’s a whole you know thing around Brixton and south south London and also Fat White Family and all that lot were from South London so yeah big up South London I guess or I live well not exactly South London so we’re gonna continue with a short section and then we’re gonna wrap up I’m gonna play some hip-hop at you as you do and from an artist I found out about because of skinny man was rapping this the uk rapper and I didn’t know who Robert was although was originally a rapper called Sleaze in the noughties and tens and it’s changed to just being Robert the album Orange Is A New Black is very I know it’s a cliche to say very confessional but it’s very very much so and very much background but I love the sort of sort of croc funk backing of this so this is Daddy Was A Bastard That was adam b with Another Monday Pink Floyd versus Sebastian Boehms cover of Blue Monday so epic and Yeah We Don’t Need No Education now Another Monday was for one of the challenges I think it was for one of the challenges on the Crumplbanger discord then before that we had the very educated Ivor Cutler used to be a teacher actually with Vogel and that’s Arschloch which is quite funny because I know what that means in German it means arsehole in German but it’s actually a bit more rude than that quite often you know british arsehole it’s kind of a bit minor be like bugger or whatever no arschloch I think is a bit heavier in German be also punny on the idea that it sounds like it’s a loch in Scotland but yeah he says it like can’t do it at the moment he’s rolling his chs he’s doing that ch ch thing which I struggle with as a sassenach that’s the joke but yeah I love that it’s very hard to make out all the lyrics and that and all the spoken words and I’m surprised to hear him talking about Homework As You Can Lick By Bum and masturbating that’s not what usually what you’re used to hear from Ivor Cutler but that’s from 1980 I think it was about 1980 or 79-80 that sort of period and Vogel is a experimental musician so it’s sort of an interesting combination and then before that we had ToTom with Watch Over This Great Gig In The Sky Pink Floyd and Claire Torrey versus Trent Reznor And Atticus Ross I mean I know ToTom doing Nine Inch Nails mashups such a surprise there’s been doing a lot of work with Trent Reznor And Atticus Ross recently and I forget where’s it from is that from The Social Experiment I think it’s for soundtrack then before that we had Nummer 2 Anne Müller and that’s from the Erased Tapes 150 that was to celebrate all around the time the acceleration of 10 years of a label they did a compilation double album compilation called 150 you can find that on their website for free or I download it for free I hope it’s still free quite often their compilations are free digitally and lossless as well you can download as a WAV file it’s quite big as a WAV file but there’s some really good stuff on there and then before that from 2020s Where Does It Go that’s Denise Johnson with Nothing You Can Do and that’s one of her songs there aren’t many of her songs on there I think this that’s either the only one or there might be another one and it shows it there’s actually she wasn’t just a good singer that’s actually a really good song I like that a lot in total mood and then before that we had a cover of New Order that’s Shell Shock by The Arrogants and that is from 2000 and is originally from a tribute to the Pretty In Pink soundtrack which there is a really good cover of Left Of Centre by Susanne Vega on there by Tresspasser’s William, Lotte Kestner and co and you might hear that on the next podcast but interestingly I put them together and then I decided to put the other one in the other podcast because it’s just ran out of time but I love that cover it goes to show you that this Shell Shock is not really a song from New Order that I really like I mean I hate it I’m a super fan of New Order but it’s not their best there’s sort of a weird slump in there 86 I mean Bizarre Love Triangle is brilliant but there are some a few singles around sort of 85 86 87 some are good some are a bit strange Touched By The Hand Of God is one of those ones where it’s like hmm mixed feelings about that one and Shell Shocks one of those and actually it’s a good song you can hear from doing that sort of shambling shoe gaze indie thing the lyrics really work so you know it’s a better song than the production and the original version make out then before that we had Cecile DeMilla with Gimme Mr. Lawrence Sam Smith Koffee yes glad to hear something more from Koffee the ragga toaster Jesse Reyez and Utada Hikura that was but in actually before the sad death of Ryuichi Sakamoto and I’ve gone on record many times it’s podcast how much I love that song I love the Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence theme otherwise those Forbidden Colours it’s one of my favorite pieces of music ever and I like that as well I really like that and Cecile put it out before the sad death and I was playing it anyway and then suddenly Ryuichi died and it was like okay well that’s that’s obviously a tribute and annoyingly I forgot to blog it as I was put it in here I was like oh well I don’t need to post on the blog and it looks like it was like oh I didn’t care no I was this is podcast was already to go just at that time and then last minute I switched in the Kids Psych Psych School thing so yes it’s all change and then before that we had ez. or ez. I don’t know it’s ez. or ez. ez lowercase ez. dot don’t I and that’s Punk Rocker with a sample of the Sandi Thom number one amazingly that was a number one in the UK 2006 something I kind of dimly remember but I completely blocked out and I had to look it up and I was like oh that yeah there was a one hit one that interestingly she had a nightmare with the record industry and then on independents still going and but had to kind of just get out of out of the corporate music industry I don’t think there’s an official use of that sample but I love that greatly and I thank Phoebe Howie for buying that my way I will have to check out ez. more in future or ez. and before that Robert formerly Sleaze with Daddy Was A Bastard and I don’t know what I might have looked up I might have found what that sample was it’s not on who sampled I’m not sure if I did I think a social lyrics and found out it was as always it’s a 1970s prog psych band but you know it’s I think it’s something like that I love that that sample and that feel of that you know I mean really sort of psych psych prog and hip hop goes so well it’s why a friend of mine posted a reaction from a usual hip hop YouTube reaction lyrics person Brain Squeeze and then we’re going crazy over Pink Floyd and it was like well that makes perfect sense because anybody is into especially if you’re into the more as they are into the more deeper heavier stuff as well as two back and have very much head music Pink Floyd it’s an obvious one so I’ve reached the end of the podcast and yeah it’s it’s been a weird one as I say this is cool This Is My Church because yeah I think the podcast is very m