Weak-ender.11.09.2011

1. Public Enemy - Live at The Ritz, Manchester
   Still got the flavour. Still the kings.
    
2. Iceage - New Brigade LP
   It only takes 25 minutes girl, if you're punk enuff, if yer punk! These kids just want everything now. You have to applaud their desire when their hit list seems to include the back catalog of Uniton and G.B.H. The Danes are alright for fighting. Oh yeah even if I missed the manc gig by these Warsaw loving youths. They'll be back.
   
   Buy it at Piccadilly.
   Watch a daft viddy fer a bit doe.
    
3. Baxter Dury - Happy Soup
   Dunno if it 'its the 'eights of Cocaine Man but is in the same vein i.e twee, deadpan, kitchen sink romance delivered with a derivative (if more downbeat) kinks-y cockernee eccentricity. Fack orf 'how's yr father?' this is pretty good on it's own, despite the same accent. Catchy as fuck, like a more 'old boozer', less Shoreditch Metronomy. Get. Innit tho.
    
4. Tiger & Woods - Gin Nation - Through The Green Lp - Running back
   
   You know when you REALLY love Tensnake and hoped there were other disco and house heads making music like Tensnake but maybe a bit different and a bit more classic filter-y and sexy repetitive...
   ...I mean if a girl tells you how much she likes your cock repeatedly then that's in no way boring is it?
   
   
5. Mike Simonetti - Song For Luca - Capricorn Rising Lp - Italians Do It Better.
   
   My man. Nobody does it better, cappice? 
6. Wild Nothing - Live At Deaf Institute, MCR.
   
   Full band rounded out the sound beautifully including the heckle 'Everybody's is getting wet'. Never mezzanine snog is the lesson.
   
7. Mass - Cross Purposes - Labour Of Love LP - 4AD
   
   LP about to be re-released and about fucking time. More brit old school new wave doom pls. Black laughs.
   
   
8. Mission Of Burma - Wounded World - onOFFon LP
   
   I love these old cunts so much it makes me want to vom.
   
   
9. Keith Hudson - Flesh of My Skin, Blood Of My Blood
   
   John Peel serialised a Keith Hudson LP when I was a smaller cunt and he has never disappointed me. Shove Bob Marley up your ass pipe, pop reg twats.

Black Box 19 :: Efil4Onket

BB19 :: Efil4Onket by Simon Saint-Simon

Efil4Onket

Designed and composed by Simon Saint-Simon

C Ya Simon Pukey

It is with deep regret and sadness that we must confirm to the listenership the departure from The Ark of Simon Clifford Pukey. Not only was he the chief engineer of Black Box and an expert in his field but he was also a dear friend.

Not citing ill health as a reason he referred to a desire to pursue more pure and consistent political and philosophical aims with his group Brothers Bear Arms. With this in mind Simon has issued the following statement (referenced in part below) on his Facebook account

'I hereby recognise myself as a sovereign state and here forth remove myself from the digital media light district, severing all ties forthwith. Like all organic creatures I find repose in shadows. I find myself an auratic, autonomous and uncommodifiable individual and refuse any longer to support exploitative frameworks in exchange for vicarious identity & second hand love. Safe voyage my brothers and sisters. The night is long but i will be at your shoulder always. Dont forget.'

This is my musical farewell (i only know how to party not how to grieve) at a loss of a dear brother as relevant as Ersnt, Mayakovsky, Bakunin, Cendrars, Kerouac, Levan, Alkan, Fellini, Prince and every other anarcho-disco legend not mentioned.

Sounds:
01 Loose Joints - Is It All Over My Face
02 Bobby Konders - Nervous Acid
03 DJ Hell ft. Bryan Ferry - You Can Dance (Carl Craig Remix v.2)
04 Errorsmith and Fiedel - Nous Sommes (MMM Original Mix)
05 Mattias Aguayo - Walter Neff
06 Sandwell District - Silent Servant (Regis edit)
07 Casioware, Chip E and the OGs - I Wanna See You Freak (Like Dis)
08 Allez Allez - Allez Allez (Lindstromm and Prins Thomas Mix)
09 Fresh - Dum Dum Part 2
10 CLS - Can you Feel It
11 Anthony 'Shake' Shakir - The Floor Filler
12 Tensnake - Keep Believin'
13 Hercules and Love Affair - My House
14 Motor City Drum Ensemble - Shine On (Warehouse Dub)
15 Anthony 'Shake' Shakir - Plugged In
16 Rick Wilhite - Drum Pattern and Memory (MM mix)

A few of my favourite things from the past week...

1. John Maus - We Must Become the Pitiless Censors
of Ourselves
2. Diegors on Beats In Space
3. Pure X - Surface (from Pleasure LP) (Joy Division, Tindersticks, Moose, Smiths, Fra Lipoo Lippi)
4. Motor City Drum Ensemble - DJ Kicks
5. James Pants - James Pants LP

Black Box 18 :: Annual Report 2010 (Part Un)

Annual Report 2010 Part Un

Illustrated by Milla Galea

Composed by Simon Saint-Simon

On a wintry and treacherous December 17 2010 Simon Saint-Simon was joined by Harrison Prickles in the overtly comfortable, air-conditioned halls of the Heyward Gallery, South Bank, London. Here in front of a partially live audience they met to discuss the years highlights thus far. However neither expected the dead air that ensued to result in their incarceration. A breif relaxation of the ancient sphinctal libel laws means that a show that was quickly banned can now have the first putrescent corpse of its visi-gogging aired here today now. FREE THE RACECASTE 2!!

Sounds:
(Intro) Daphne Oram - Power Tools

Forest Swords - Rattling Cage
Gil Scott Heron - I came from a broken home
Oneohetrix Point Never - Betrayed in the Octagon
Organ Freeman - Laura Jones
The Good, The Bad and The Queen - Herculean
Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band - Electricity

(Beds) Stan Getz - I remember When

Black Box 17 :: Swallows' Pit

Swallows' Pit

Illustrated by Milla Galea

Composed by Simon Saint-Simon

3/3 recorded live at Westminster Road Necropolis. Twilight has fallen upon the terminal dawn and no day to speak of lies crooked between atrium panes. Feathers have been spilled upon lost marble flooring but before these petrifications, a lively August swaying brought to fruit the globular and monal last spits of Simonhain which was accompanied, as is the tradition, by the bearing aloft of chairs, arms and other instruments of love.

This year the females and males played in honour of Dickie Hyde who came northwards to suprise himself square within the pyramid, laid-bare as he was with gauntlets and down-laden with dumb number.

Sounds:
01 Fuck Buttons - Surf Solar
02 Coil - The Snow
03 Sorcerer - Surfing At Midnight (Prins Thomas Miks)
04 LCD Soundsystem - Bye Bye Bayou
05 Moodymann - It's 2 Late 4 U and Me
06 Nosaj Thing - Heart Entire
07 John Robie - Vena Cava
08 Pacific and Loverman - From Outer Space (Moxie edits John Cooper Clarke)
09 Omar feat. Stevie Wonder - I'm Feeling You (Henrik Schwarz Remix)
10 Rocha - Hands of Love
11 Phenomenal Handclap Band - You'll Disappear (Horse Meat Disco Remix)
12 Phoreski - Slow Me Down
13 Professor Genius - Night Games
14 Subway - DBO
15 Holy Fuck - SHT MTN
16 Wire - Three Girl Rumba

'Now summer's tumult through sweet clover has been clasped to the hold I ask you, sizzled brethren, to drop your rates, break water, cease your faring and bubble up sotto voce to just touch Saturn's ring of hearts'.

xxx
sss

Black Box 16 :: L'Eternel

Illustrated by Milla Galea

Composed by Simon Saint-Simon

2/3 recorded LIVE at the Frog and Nightmare, as part of Chester's 'Simonhain' festivities celebrating the end of summer, the dead and the return home of a heavily corrupt and compromised political careerist who cares not a jot about the Wales he isn't from.

Local bumfunsters 'What Do You Do?' egg-on Simon to loosen the swelling gourd of his glans into the divinely unbalanced ampola of bass bin and tweeter and then leer in character at the salivating throng as they lasciviously ululate at the trough. In a heavy trance this is the midpoint of the rite.

Sounds:
01 Justin Vandervolgen - Better Middlands
02 Village People - Fire Island (Horse Meat Disco edit)
03 Everything Everything - Suffragette Suffragette
04 Eyeko Syko - Loverde (Horse Meat Disco 'Eyeko Dyko' edit)
05 Mindless Boogie - Hot Boogie
06 Wu-Tang Clan - Rush
07 Mobb Deep - Shook Ones Pt.II
08 Whitesnake - Still of the Night
09 Todd Rundgren - International Feel
10 Massive Attack - Paradise Circus (Gui Boratto remix)
11 The Crystal Ark - The City Never Sleeps
12 Charlotte Gainsbourg - The Operation (Superpitcher Remix)
13 Ron Hardy - Sensation
14 Ministry - I Wanted To Tell her (Naum Gaubo edit)
15 Moxie - Use Me John
16 C2C4 (Carl Craig) - Specimen 2 (Talking Heads) (Moxie)
17 Radiohead - Reckoner (Nosaj Thing remix)
18 Fuck Buttons - Surf Solar

'...And as the universe was spat out circular, with no legs or feet, so it was St.Simon who tore asunder the annular muscle, passed through the mirror and man-made the mortals dance, in the image of the Olympian gods'.

xxx
sss

Black Box 15 :: No-Place

Image by Milla Galea


Presented by Simon Saint-Simon

There's no place like home, only the wild productions of caves and islands. I hope this helps you sleep in shadows, bathed eyeless in the fire.

Recorded live at the Frog and Nightmare (defunct), Chester. Part 1 of 3.

Sounds:
01 Space Art - Folkstone Hovercraft
02 Daniel Wang - Like Some Dream
03 Bottin - Sage Oil
04 Heaven 17 - Penthouse To Pavement
05 Blackway - A New Life
06 Bottin - Hot Lizard
07 DJ Kaos - Way Out Pleasure
08 DJ Mujave - Township Funk (Crazy P Remix)
09 Dr. Dunks - Hold me
10 Justin Vandervolgen - Better Middlands

xxx
sss