RC 393: Boredom Could Be Good For You – Deep Dive #3

It’s been a while since I did a Deep Dive, but I finally got round to do another one, this time the joy of being bored in the 1980’s waiting for a loading screen, disco (sorry ‘jazz-funk ‘ *cough*) on the radio, feeling like you are a robot in a robot’s world. You might think boredom is a bad thing, but it can actually be good for you!



So, in this episode, I play a mix of songs from the ironic indie pop of Bis to the exotic Turkish folk of Istanbul Sarkicilari and Istanbul Calgicilari, from the soulful disco of Flaming Ember and glam stomp of Raffaella Carra to the futuristic drum and bass of Cyantific and Culture Shock. And err…disco Sound of Music? Anyone?



You cannot be bored with that! Also it’s the shorted episode I’ve done in years…so bonus!



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Bis – Boredom Could Be Good for You



Rosebud – Money



Istanbul Sarkicilari & Istanbul Calgicilari – Koroglu Daglari (Sark Bülbülü )



Flaming Ember – Robot In A Robot’s World



Surface – Falling In Love (Original Mix)



The RAH Band – Hunger for Your Jungle Love



Raffaella Carra – Rumore



Istanbul Sarkicilari & Istanbul Calgicilari – Oooh Ooh!



SL2 – DJs Take Control (Shadow Child remix)



Eartha Kitt and Bronski Beat – Cha Cha Heels



Harmony Cats – That’s Entertainment



Acidulant – Who’s The Gangster In You



Sheila – Hôtel de la Plage



Cyantific – Wild Child



Culture Shock – Renaissance



Nino Nardini – Tropicola



Ihsan Al Munzer – The Joy of Lina (Farha)



Velvet Chain – Beat Box (Diversion 2)



Aleksander Mazur Quartet & Novi Singers – (They Long To Be) Close To You



Guido & Maurizio De Angelis – Don’t Ever Let Me Hear You Say Goodbye (Performed by Amii Stewart)



Phainopepla – Atmosphere



Enya – I Want Tomorrow



Charlotte Gainsbourg – Ring-a-Ring O’ Roses




Previous episodes:




Deep Dive 1 – Time of Your Life (OKCU)



Deep Dive 2 – Tender Silence Of Night




Transcript
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00:00:00.000 –> 00:00:14.520 Hello and welcome to Radio Clash, this is 393 and it’s the third part of the Deep Dive



00:00:14.520 –> 00:00:18.120 series, it’s Boredom Could Be Good For You.



00:03:46.080 –> 00:03:53.200 Welcome to the third of the Deep Dive podcast, I last did one in June of last year, and



00:03:53.200 –> 00:04:00.280 I optimistically was like 36x, it goes to show you how long ago I planned this podcast.



00:04:00.280 –> 00:04:04.000 You compared to the last one, it’s a fairly downbeat of the Deep Dive series, which was



00:04:04.000 –> 00:04:07.920 384, ‘Tender Silence of the Night’, this one’s a bit more uptempo, and I love that



00:04:07.920 –> 00:04:12.600 Bis’s paeon to sort of, well I think it’s more 90s, but that’s what waiting for the



00:04:12.600 –> 00:04:16.400 loading screen, so of course we had to use the 8-bit intro.



00:04:16.400 –> 00:04:18.320 Thank you to Lee Spoons for that.



00:04:18.320 –> 00:04:24.960 And if you don’t know, the Deep Dive series is a dive into the tracks that are in the



00:04:24.960 –> 00:04:31.720 archives of Radio Clash, the ‘To Play’ folder, which is over 100 gigabytes big, it’s like



00:04:31.720 –> 00:04:35.560 90 odd gigabytes, because I’m doing video editing, I have to put it onto another folder.



00:04:35.560 –> 00:04:39.880 I did a new sort of tranche of these podcasts, as soon as I recorded this one, this is the



00:04:39.880 –> 00:04:44.840 last one of the first three, and I’ve actually got, yeah, it goes up to Deep Dive 11, because



00:04:44.840 –> 00:04:51.640 I went through 7,000 tracks on that folder, going through, well if I ever go “Oh sod



00:04:51.640 –> 00:04:56.120 this, I’m running out of space, delete” which I might do at some point, I’d better make



00:04:56.120 –> 00:05:00.420 sure I’ve got all the good stuff, it’s amazing how long it is to go through all that.



00:05:00.420 –> 00:05:04.720 A lot of the tracks I play on the Deep Dive series are things which kind of never really



00:05:04.720 –> 00:05:09.280 fit anywhere else, but are really good, I wouldn’t play them otherwise, but they don’t



00:05:09.280 –> 00:05:11.160 play well with others.



00:05:11.160 –> 00:05:16.720 So here is something that PDS Mix plays a lot, and it’s one of my favorites as well.



00:05:16.720 –> 00:05:22.720 I’ve talked a fair bit about disco Pink Floyd, I’m surprised, I haven’t played this probably



00:05:22.720 –> 00:05:28.040 because it was earmarked for this podcast so long ago, and this is Rosebud, named after



00:05:28.040 –> 00:05:35.880 the sled, and 1977’s version of Money, yes this is Disco Pink Floyd Money, and that is



00:05:35.880 –> 00:05:41.920 a really good 12″ but yeah, this isn’t the only Disco Pink Floyd, there’s quite a lot



00:05:41.920 –> 00:05:42.920 actually.



00:24:59.800 –> 00:25:02.640 Yes, song of my youth.



00:25:02.640 –> 00:25:04.120 A band of my youth, really.



00:25:04.120 –> 00:25:08.760 RAH Band, Richard A. Hewson, who is Hunger For Your Jungle Love, I own, Going Up, that’s



00:25:08.760 –> 00:25:09.760 from 1983.



00:25:09.760 –> 00:25:14.140 It’s actually quite a rare bit of vinyl now, but you can get arrested lugging that kind



00:25:14.140 –> 00:25:19.340 of music in the mid-80s, heard them via Clouds Across the Mood in ’85, and went, “Ooh!”



00:25:19.340 –> 00:25:27.140 and then got the best of and then delved back and found the crunch and all of those wonderful



00:25:27.140 –> 00:25:28.140 things.



00:25:28.140 –> 00:25:32.020 But for a long time, you can get arrested for disco that cheesy, but I love it.



00:25:32.020 –> 00:25:36.580 I love the synths and the vocodas and the “Sam the Samba Man” and “Hunger for Your



00:25:36.580 –> 00:25:40.400 Jungle Love.”



00:25:40.400 –> 00:25:45.120 And then before that, we had a bit of a borrowing the title of a few Twitch streams, Disco After



00:25:45.120 –> 00:25:52.080 Dark, more chilled disco thing going on, very much late disco, quite a lot of it.



00:25:52.080 –> 00:25:55.800 They probably call themselves Jazz Funk, that’s what RAH Band got branded.



00:25:55.800 –> 00:25:58.680 Jazz Funk, because they didn’t want to use the D word.



00:25:58.680 –> 00:26:04.600 That’s Surface with “Falling in Love” original mix from 1983 again, the surface were a very,



00:26:04.600 –> 00:26:05.600 very good group.



00:26:05.600 –> 00:26:10.340 The mold of Change and a few others, there was quite a few survivors of the Disco Crash



00:26:10.340 –> 00:26:16.780 who kind of went into different directions, but a bit like High Energy or Jazz Funk, Disco



00:26:16.780 –> 00:26:21.580 kept going, it just got rebranded, and it tended to slow down a bit, because things



00:26:21.580 –> 00:26:26.700 were getting 120, 130, unless it was High Energy, but a lot of the Jazz Funk slowed



00:26:26.700 –> 00:26:31.260 it down a little bit and rebranded itself, but it’s Disco, I mean Jazz Plus Funk, what



00:26:31.260 –> 00:26:32.260 is that?



00:26:32.260 –> 00:26:33.260 Disco.



00:26:33.260 –> 00:26:39.500 And then before that we had Flaming Ember from 1969, that’s Robot in a Robot’s World,



00:26:39.500 –> 00:26:44.200 Holland Dozier Holland written, that’s a B-side actually, from the things that’s good to show



00:26:44.200 –> 00:26:48.940 you this whole sort of AI, oh, robots are taking our jobs, it’s not a new thing.



00:26:48.940 –> 00:26:54.140 Then before that from 1980, we have, and this is going to be fun to pronounce, Koroglu



00:26:54.140 –> 00:27:04.380 Daglari (Sark Bülbülü ) by Istanbul Sarkicilari and Istanbul Calgicilari I think, and that’s



00:27:04.380 –> 00:27:12.300 from one of the Disco Fassl, Disco Folk compilations from 1980, well sampled, you’ve



00:27:12.300 –> 00:27:17.060 probably heard that in samples, there was a few people who were sampling that and other



00:27:17.060 –> 00:27:26.260 tracks from the series, sort of Turkish synth Disco, Koroglu Daglari is Koryaglu Mountains,



00:27:26.260 –> 00:27:31.380 which are in the north of Turkey, so I assume it’s a song about that material, or a lot



00:27:31.380 –> 00:27:35.620 of the Disco Fasil stuff was traditional songs, but don’t know the Disco style.



00:27:35.620 –> 00:27:40.660 And at the start of the session we had Rosebud with Money from 1977, and we’re going to play



00:27:40.660 –> 00:27:48.820 a track by Raffaella Carra, more known for Eurovision, set again with love and you know,



00:27:48.820 –> 00:27:54.340 thinks she won Eurovision or something, was higher and Ducky plays Raffaella Carra songs



00:27:54.340 –> 00:28:01.380 quite a lot, including this one, and this is a Italian classic from 1974, this is Rumore.



00:54:37.380 –> 00:54:45.620 That was Sheila, as in Sheila B. Devotion, with Hotel de la Plage,



00:54:45.620 –> 00:54:51.300 Ou et la plume de ma tante, so that’s 1978. A good year for disco, a very good year for disco.



00:54:51.300 –> 00:54:56.420 Then before that we had, not disco, that was Acidulant with Who’s The Gangster In You,



00:54:56.420 –> 00:55:05.860 from 2020’s MetroJax 4.3 via Balkan Vinyl, and we had a bit of a DJ no-no mix into Harmony Cats,



00:55:05.860 –> 00:55:12.500 Yes, Harmony Cats, the Brazilian disco stars, That’s Entertainment.



00:55:12.500 –> 00:55:19.300 Seems to be a medley of film tracks, there’s Cabaret there, but the real reason I play it is



00:55:19.300 –> 00:55:26.420 disco Sound of Music. Seriously, why has no one done that? Why has no one done a whole disco album



00:55:26.420 –> 00:55:31.620 of Sound of Music? Trust me on this, it’ll be brilliant. I might be the only person who buys



00:55:31.620 –> 00:55:38.420 it, but it’ll be brilliant. Then before that we had Eartha Kitt with Bronski Beat, although that’s



00:55:38.420 –> 00:55:47.700 Jon Boy, Jon Boy, that famous Bronski Beat queer Waltons, actually it’s not complete off track,



00:55:47.700 –> 00:55:53.540 because the grandfather and the Waltons was gay anyway. No, Jon Jon, it’s post



00:55:54.180 –> 00:56:01.940 Jimmy Somerville leaving, but yeah, that’s Cha Cha Heels, and that’s a camp Classic. And of course,



00:56:01.940 –> 00:56:09.700 again, I haven’t locked that one up. I think it’s 1988, but I might be wrong. 1989. Then before that



00:56:09.700 –> 00:56:18.260 we had SL2 with DJs Take Control, but that’s the Shadow Child remix from 2018. And then before



00:56:18.260 –> 00:56:25.860 that we had another pronunciation fun. This is Ooh oOh!, channeling Michael Zager Band or stealing Michael Zager Band.



00:56:25.860 –> 00:56:36.900 That’s Istanbul Sarkicilari & Istanbul Calgicilari from 1978. ayva cicek acmis, I think.



00:56:36.900 –> 00:56:44.980 Apologies to anybody Turkish listening to this. I mean, I had to put the titles into a normal



00:56:44.980 –> 00:56:50.660 character set because actually, track to us is like, no, no, it’s all those sort of special



00:56:50.660 –> 00:56:56.180 umlauts and track to us like, no, I’m not even going to read this title. And in the start section



00:56:56.180 –> 00:57:01.860 we had Raffaella Carra with 1974’s Rumore, which sounds really, that sounds disco, doesn’t it?



00:57:01.860 –> 00:57:06.580 It sounds like disco glam. This looks glam in there. It’s a bit rocky music. It’s very cool.



00:57:06.580 –> 00:57:14.820 And yes, we’re going to sort of up the BPMs a bit. And I’m going to play some German bass at



00:57:14.820 –> 00:57:20.820 you. And you have no choice in this. And we have a couple of fairly recent other, I think the cut



00:57:20.820 –> 00:57:27.700 of point for this mix was 2020, whereas the next bunch is going to be pretty much until, you know,



00:57:27.700 –> 00:57:33.060 up to the point I moved all move the tracks over, which I think was a year ago, especially as I



00:57:33.060 –> 00:57:37.140 hang you onto this for, I don’t know, a year and a half. I think it’s been two years, but may as



00:57:37.140 –> 00:57:42.580 well do some a few newer tracks and old tracks. But yeah, that was my cutoff point about a year ago



00:57:42.580 –> 00:57:48.180 for when I moved over to the NAS drive. And this is Cyantific with Wild Child.



01:30:49.140 –> 01:30:57.300 That was Enya. I usually can’t play Enya



01:30:57.300 –> 01:31:04.020 because she’s on a Universal label, but it turns out this first album is called The Celts.



01:31:04.020 –> 01:31:10.900 It was re-released as Enya in 1987, but originally it was in I think ’85 or ’86, a BBC’s The Celts



01:31:10.900 –> 01:31:15.540 soundtrack. And that’s off that, that’s I Want Tomorrow. And it’s all there, isn’t it? Proto,



01:31:15.540 –> 01:31:23.940 Enya, it’s the CLannad, the DX7, the slide guitar isn’t unusual, doing a solo version of Clannad



01:31:23.940 –> 01:31:30.900 stuff, but with more synthesizers. Then before that we had Phainopepla, and it’s the name of a



01:31:30.900 –> 01:31:37.540 bird, I don’t know how to pronounce it. With Atmosphere, Joy Division’s Atmosphere, and that’s from



01:31:37.540 –> 01:31:45.220 2018’s EP The Wolf at My Door. And I know very little about, almost nothing about Phainopepla,



01:31:45.220 –> 01:31:52.500 apart from it being a bird. And it’s a solo project of somebody called Holly Springhorn.



01:31:52.500 –> 01:32:01.220 It says here on Bandcamp, but really brilliant. I was like opera version, very operatic version



01:32:02.020 –> 01:32:09.460 of Joy Division, so I love that greatly. Then before that, that’s Amii Stewart with Don’t Ever



01:32:09.460 –> 01:32:18.660 Let Me Hear You Say Goodbye. Bit of a long title. Really, it’s by Guido & Maurizio De Angelis,



01:32:18.660 –> 01:32:27.140 who played quite a lot of their soundtracks. Italian juicers did a lot of giallo and Italian TV



01:32:27.140 –> 01:32:35.140 soundtracks. And that’s from 1979’s Killer Fish, Aguato Sul Fondo, it says it, in getting into



01:32:35.140 –> 01:32:40.900 that whole barracuda killer fish. You know, there was a whole load of them. I’ve not seen the film,



01:32:40.900 –> 01:32:44.820 but I love that soundtrack. There’s something very interesting about slowing it down. I mean,



01:32:44.820 –> 01:32:49.300 I do like that sort of slow disco, or I don’t even recall it, it’s not really disco at that point,



01:32:49.300 –> 01:32:55.620 but yeah, sort of the slow ballads of disco. There’s Discord in that, obviously because it’s a horror



01:32:55.620 –> 01:33:03.060 film. It sounds quite a spooky thing, so it’s like spooky disco. Yes. And then before that,



01:33:03.060 –> 01:33:08.180 we had a version of what playing in the background. They Long To Be Close To You. In fact, am I?



01:33:08.180 –> 01:33:13.700 Is this actually the same backing? Maybe it is. Which I use as a bed all the time. It’s Aleksander



01:33:13.700 –> 01:33:19.220 Mazur Quartet & Novi Singers. I think it is this version. Why am I using it as a bed again?



01:33:20.420 –> 01:33:28.500 You hear it again. You will hear it to the end of time. And I used to hate jazz, but you know,



01:33:28.500 –> 01:33:37.620 Carpenters, hello. And then before that, we had Velvet Chain, Beat Box (Diversion 2) from 2004’s



01:33:37.620 –> 01:33:42.820 The Abduction of the Art of Noise. It’s a cover of Beatbox 2. Again, I can’t play the originals



01:33:43.460 –> 01:33:52.180 because ZZT is now a part of Universal. Here it is. Am I playing this as a bed? Because this is



01:33:52.180 –> 01:33:58.180 the thing. There were several things in that last mix. Well, actually, our beds on this podcast,



01:33:58.180 –> 01:34:04.900 I don’t feel they get enough love. So hence playing them. And in fact, I suspect being in this mix



01:34:04.900 –> 01:34:10.900 predates them becoming beds on Radio Clash. So they were here first. So even though I’m playing it



01:34:10.900 –> 01:34:19.860 after many times using them in the background. And then before the Velvet Chain, we had Ihsan



01:34:19.860 –> 01:34:26.340 Al Munzer with the The Joy of Lina (Farha) from, well, I don’t know when it originally came out, from



01:34:26.340 –> 01:34:31.780 2015’s Habibi Funk compilation. But that, again, is another one of the beds that I use regularly



01:34:31.780 –> 01:34:40.180 on Radio Clash. But it’s a track I really love. And you can tell from the last three of these



01:34:41.060 –> 01:34:47.780 Arabic funk and disco were playing heavily on my mind. And there was lots of it in the archives.



01:34:47.780 –> 01:34:53.300 Still is a lot of it. It’s interesting how these things go through phases, how I go through phases



01:34:53.300 –> 01:35:00.820 of really getting into, say, Japanese classical covers or Arabic funk or Turkish disco or, you



01:35:00.820 –> 01:35:05.140 know, that kind of thing. And so it’s very telling and go through some go, oh, yeah, this was this.



01:35:05.140 –> 01:35:10.020 That’s when I was doing a lot of Eastern block covers as well. Hence the Novi singers who were



01:35:10.020 –> 01:35:18.900 Polish. And then before the Joy of Lena, we had Nino Nardini with Tropicola from 1972’s Mindbender.



01:35:18.900 –> 01:35:25.940 Nino Nardini, is that Roger Roger? It’s one of those people who has lots of aliases and does a lot



01:35:25.940 –> 01:35:33.940 of library music. Came from the Exotica world and then was doing more electronic stuff later on.



01:35:34.660 –> 01:35:42.660 Pre all of that, I think. And has done quite atonal startling stuff. But also quite like



01:35:42.660 –> 01:35:49.300 their traditional stuff, but very, very lovely. Exotica mixes very well, I think, from Drum and



01:35:49.300 –> 01:35:56.740 Bass. It’s a double time thing. So before that, we had Culture Shock with Renaissance from 2019’s



01:35:57.460 –> 01:36:04.500 RAM Drum and Bass annual 2020. And then before that, we had Cyantific with Wild Child, a cover



01:36:04.500 –> 01:36:12.820 of Just Be Good to Me. And that’s from 2018’s Bloodline. And yeah, I was very much into Culture



01:36:12.820 –> 01:36:17.860 Shock at that time, I remember. Because I do these things so far in the future, and it’ll



01:36:17.860 –> 01:36:22.660 be the same with the new ones, though obviously there will not be all Arabic disco, be of some,



01:36:23.220 –> 01:36:30.180 but it’s not going to be as prevalent. Because as I say, things shift and so the new stuff is



01:36:30.180 –> 01:36:36.340 very much my take on what I’ve got in my archive collection. So it’s kind of several levels. You



01:36:36.340 –> 01:36:41.460 have like, when I choose the tracks, and when I choose them for a podcast, and when sometimes they



01:36:41.460 –> 01:36:47.860 get like some of these, especially the last three of these, a lot of things are things I’ve been



01:36:47.860 –> 01:36:51.060 taking in and out. And they’re just like a little bit too long, a little bit too strange, a little



01:36:51.060 –> 01:36:59.140 bit too, you know, and I don’t like shaving off the edges of the podcast. So hence why sometimes



01:36:59.140 –> 01:37:04.820 I leave them in. And hence why sometimes I do podcasts like this where I’m intentionally not



01:37:04.820 –> 01:37:10.660 shaving off the weird bits, and going more into deeper dive into things. And it’s really interesting



01:37:10.660 –> 01:37:15.860 there’s quite a lot of mashups in the next Deep Dives, a lot more than they have been in the last



01:37:15.860 –> 01:37:22.580 three. So there’s more mashups mixed in. Because as time goes on, it’s stuff which is for a long



01:37:22.580 –> 01:37:28.340 time ago, which is I’ve completely forgotten about. So anyway, I hope you’re all well. I’m okay. I’m



01:37:28.340 –> 01:37:36.900 still trying to recover my knee, which according to a friend of mine, it’s LCL, the muscles that run



01:37:36.900 –> 01:37:42.740 down the back and the thighs, and the back of the knee, or the adductor muscles. I was wondering



01:37:42.740 –> 01:37:49.460 if it was a hamstring. And so I’ve just been doing gentle walking and exercises and trying to get



01:37:49.460 –> 01:37:56.740 that back over the last nearly three weeks, trying to get back to normal, because it was just so



01:37:56.740 –> 01:38:01.780 painful just just to walk to the shops was really painful. And that’s stopped now it’s now it’ll start



01:38:01.780 –> 01:38:08.740 to ache after a while, after a mile or so. So I have to rebuild the strength back up again, and also



01:38:08.740 –> 01:38:12.900 try to build more strength into that left knee, because that left knee is weaker than the right.



01:38:12.900 –> 01:38:20.260 So I think we won’t try and do 15 mile hikes with a heavy rucksack in the future. Not until I’ve



01:38:20.260 –> 01:38:25.940 got better at this. I mean, it’s weird because I regularly do walk or regularly have walked,



01:38:25.940 –> 01:38:32.260 you know, long distances, just not with all of that weight and pushing myself into that sort of



01:38:32.260 –> 01:38:37.140 deadline. So this is crazy. So I’ve been sort of doing the videos for that for the channel.



01:38:37.140 –> 01:38:44.580 And Red Crumplstock did two sets at Crumplstock. I released an album of best mashups of 2023.



01:38:44.580 –> 01:38:50.340 You can see that on radioclash.com. And I didn’t record my sets, although I think they’re still



01:38:50.340 –> 01:38:55.860 probably up for 14 days on I don’t know if they’ll be up by the time I do this, but they were



01:38:55.860 –> 01:39:00.980 basically, you know, just playing my mashups. I’ve done previously there was there wasn’t so



01:39:00.980 –> 01:39:07.380 much new stuff, although there was the Alexa, Alexa Play Pumped Up Kicks thing, which was



01:39:07.380 –> 01:39:13.700 via the PomDeter set. So that led to a mashup, which then became a running thing. Anyway,



01:39:13.700 –> 01:39:20.820 so a player with a track, which is very much of a certain time, I think this is Charlotte



01:39:20.820 –> 01:39:28.740 Gainsbourg, with a Ring And A Ring Of Roses. And I think I put this in because it is startlingly,



01:39:28.740 –> 01:39:34.500 you know, it’s 2017 from her album Rest, which is a really good album, by the way. And it’s about



01:39:34.500 –> 01:39:39.300 various things, but including the death of her half sister was starting when I heard it again,



01:39:39.300 –> 01:39:44.020 I think when I put this mix together, because I put this mix together post all the pandemic.



01:39:44.020 –> 01:39:50.500 And it seems to be basically about something like that about an emergency situation with



01:39:50.500 –> 01:39:56.420 an obviously Ring A Roses about plague. So yeah, it’s some very strange lyrics in this.



01:39:56.420 –> 01:39:58.580 So anyway, I’ll speak to you soon.