Sly & the Family Drone

#275 – Okkyung Lee, Eartheater, HHY & The Macumbas, Sloath, Wild/Life

18th May 2020

Even by our usual standards, this podcast is eclectic. We start things off with the mesmerising experimental electronics of Eartheater. Beyond that, we have a Polish-Malawian post-everything project, intense percussion music from Portugal’s HHY & The Macumbas, the first release in six years from psych masters Sloath, a 14-minute chamber pop opus from Daniel O’Sullivan, and a 24-minute track from Sly & the Family Drone’s Matt Cargill and UKAEA’s Dan Jones.

Tracklisting
Eartheater – Below the Clavicle (PAN, Germany)
Wild/Life – Smoke & Burn (Mik.Musik.!., Poland)
Mrs. Piss – Downer Surrounded by Uppers (Sargent House, USA)
The Stance Brothers – Resolution Blue (We Jazz Records, Finland)
HHY & The Macumbas – Horror Vector (Nyege Nyege Tapes, Uganda)
Sloath – Rewengue (Riot Season Records, UK)
Daniel O’Sullivan – The Colour of Entropy (Sleeperhold Publications, Belgium)
Okkyung Lee – Facing Your Shadows (Shelter Press, France)
Party Dozen – The Great Ape (Best and Fairest Records, Australia)
Pocket Signs – How to be Saved (self-release, UK)

Produced and edited by Nick McCorriston. Hit him up for any and all audio work at nickamc.com and follow him on Twitter @nickamc

#254 – Favourites of 2019 Part 2

16th December 2019 01:09:19

We continue to celebrate some of our favourites from the year. There’s been outstanding Middle Eastern techno, multiple tracks about moving at various pace, blistering Ugandan grime, experimental pop and lots more

Tracklisting
Ammar 808 and Cheb Hassen Tej – Zawali Fitness Club (Glitterbeat Records, Germany)
Rainbow Grave – Ten Million Tons of Shit (God Unknown Records, UK)
MC Yallah & Debmaster – Kubali (Hakuna Kulala, Uganda)
Richard Dawson – Jogging (Domino Recording Co, UK)
Ka Baird – Walking (RVNG Intl, USA)
Sly & the Family Drone – New Free Spirits Falconry & Horseman Display (Love Love Records, UK)
Hot in Da Club – Metalravefun (Spooky Shit, Uganda)
Vanishing Twin – Cryonic Suspension May Save Your Life (Fire Records, UK)
Hotmood – Wanna be Lost (StarCreature10000000 Records, USA)
Kapote – Pump It Edit (Toy Tonics, Germany)

Produced and edited by Nick McCorriston. Hit him up for any and all audio work at nickamc.com and follow him on Twitter @nickamc

#220 – Madlib, Oh No, Vanishing Twin, Drahla, Andrew Liles, Sly & the Family Drone

18th March 2019 01:03:10

A mix of the unusual and wonderful this week – and that’s just the 50-minute cover of 70s power ballad Without You by Nurse With Wound experimentalist Andrew Liles featuring writer and Quietus editor John Doran. We also have a new one from the peerless hiphop producer Madlib, some heavy bass from The Bug, synthpop from Argentina and loads more.

Tracklisting
Jamakabi & The Bug – Wickedest Dub (Pressure Records, Germany)
Oh No & Madlib – Big Whips (All City Records, Ireland)
Vanishing Twin – KRK (At Home in Strange Places) (Fire Records, UK)
Lauri Fire – Dialectos (Kriptonîa, Argentina)
Sly & the Family Drone – Jehovah’s Wetness (Love Love Records, UK)
Drahla – Stimulus for Living (Captured Tracks, USA)
Andrew Liles – Without You (feat. John Doran) (self-release, UK)
Volition Immanent – Whiteboy (MIND Records, Japan)
MoE – Sex is a Lie (Conradsound, Norway)
9XMentality – Dog Whistle (Heel.Zone, Italy)

Thanks to Nick McCorriston for editing this week’s show. Visit his website at nickamc.com and follow him on Twitter @nickamc

#144 – Stand High Patrol, Marika Hackman, Dusty Mush, Moon Duo

12th June 2017 01:09:00

Our last show before we take two weeks off for our summer holiday has jazz from Ireland alongside US psych from Moon Duo, garage from Howlin’ Banana Records’ Dusty Mush, the latest from Uganda’s Nyege Nyege Tapes, the brilliant Stand High Patrol have a new track. We also have drone, electro, indie and a charity repress from Coil.

Tracklisting
Fixity – What Wrong (self-release, Ireland)
Moon Duo – Boppers Hat (Sacred Bones Records, USA)
Dusty Mush – Couch Potato (Howlin’ Banana Records, France, Stolen Body Records, UK)
Maisha – Africa (Jazz re:freshed, UK)
Bwax ft S kide – Baba Animata Natafuta Kiki (Nyege Nyege Tapes, Uganda)
Marika Hackman – Boyfriend (Sub Pop Records, USA)
Stand High Patrol – The Shift (Stand High Records, France)
Coil – A Cold Cell in Bangkok (Optimo Music, UK)
Dorcha – Two Steps (self-release, UK)
Sly & the Family Drone and Dead Neanderthals – Ghoul Whispers (Hominid Sounds Records, UK)

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