Vinyl, CDs and a brilliant DJ

If I was going to be a DJ, I would almost certainly want to be Gilles Peterson, his knowledge and love of music is incredible.

Peterson is a great proponent of vinyl as oppossed to CD's and MP3s. This is somwthing I really admire, using the old and tried and tested medium, which not only delivers an unmatched quality of music, but also a nostaligia which is unbeatable.

I've grown up in a CD generation and CD is definitely my favourite medium, but I remain incredibly jealous of Gilles' brownswood basement, which is filled to the brim with vinyl, vinyl and more vinyl.

Gilles' excuse for not liking CDs is that they are too hard to put away, annoying and he always loses them, despite the fact that he uses CD's when he DJ's, this is a bit of a stupid excuse. Of course we'll let him off if he continues to introduce us to great new music.

Check this video out, the music is kick arse aswell:



Tune in next week for more quality music from Escape From the Pigeon Hole, every Saturday 4-5pm www.xpressradio.co.uk

Cheers
G

Well hello....

It has been sometime since we posted on this blog, but we're back at last and with a brand new spot. Now broadcasting at 4-5pm on Saturday afternoons we wil be bringing you once again a load of quality music. We've had all summer to scout out some new music and we've come back with a sack load of aural treats. I've put up the last show for you to download if you missed it. and below is the tracklisting. And remember to get in touch with your musical tastes.

7/11/09

1. Me and You - Hoop Loop
2. Q-Tip - Manwoogieboogie feat Amanda Diva
3. Nuyorican Soul - I am the black gold of the sun
4. Kenneth Carr with John Smart's band - Don't hate, lets communicate
5. Toumani Diabete's Symetrica Orchestra - Tapha Niang
6. Mr Scruff - This Way
7. Cinematic Orchestra - To build a home
8. Cinematic Orchestra - That home
9. Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings - When the other foot drops, uncle
10. Daedelus - Fair Weather Friends

We will be back with more posts, hopefully more colourful and interesting than this in the next week, so check back soon.

G x

Alrighty then
On Tuesday we had the last show of the year so we made it a bumper edition with nearly 30 tracks. Fatigue & Cabin Fever was definitely kicking in by the end so beware it might not all make sense! Great music though

1. Bob Marley- Soul Shakedown Party
2. Jumbonics- Jezebel (Diesler Remix)
3. The Black Keys- 10am Automatic
4. Lanu feat. Kero One- It's Time
5. Funky Four Plus One- That's the Joint
6. Daedelus- Pursed Lips (with Sach)
7. Cody ChestnuTT- Look Good in Leather
8. King Creosote- Coast On By
9. Mozez- Venus Rise
10. Bonga- Mulemba Xangda
11. Jazz Liberatorz- Cooldown
12. Pilooski- Can't There Be Love
13. Bon Iver- Wolves parts I & II
14. Aim- Smile
15. The Herbaliser- You're Not All That
16. Skinnyman- Love's Gone From the Streets
17. Staff Benda Bilili- Staff Benda Bilili
18. Pheonix - Long Distance Call
19. Kelvin Brown- Live at the Soul Cellar Mix
20. Orlando Julius- My Girl
21. Biosis Now- Independent Bahamas
22. Lamb- I Cry
23. Dance Area- AA 24/7 (Diplo Remix)
24. Jazzanova- Let Me Show You (feat. Paul Randolph)
25. Fiery Furnaces- Untitled
26. Orchestra Afrisa- Muwoso Muwoso
27. Billie Holliday- Pennies from Heaven
28. Bob Dylan- One More Cup of Coffee
29. Feist- Now at Last

Lovely stuff.I implore you to check out Staff Benda Bilili- amazing music and I've just found out that what I thought were bikes were actually wheelchairs!
This is the trailer for a feature film coming out soon:



Impressive
So we'll be back next year with more shows, maybe the odd post in the meantime
Take it easy
Jonny

May 26th show

Apologies again for this late tracklisting update, i seem to be a little slow now that I have nothing to do. There's some new shows for you to download however, incuding the 26th show, which, if you don't mind me saying, I think is one of our better ones.

We will be on again on tuesday but it may well be our last, hopefully it will be an extra long show so tune in from 10ish and we should hopefully be on.

I've been enjoying lots of new music recently, such as Quantic and his Combo Barbaro, Tony Allen and The Juan Maclean.

Check out this review of last years worldwide festival, I keep watching it and it keeps getting me more and more excited about the festival. Have a little look anyway, its a pretty nice vid.

Worldwide festival 2008 "the aftermath" from Morzy on Vimeo.

Now...the tracklisting

1. Fat Freddies Drop - Roady
2. Soil and Pimp Sessions - Avalanche
3. Lykke Li - Knocked up (Carson Daly)
4. Lee MacDonald aka Clevland Parker - I'll do anything for you
5. Staff Benda Biliki - Sala Mosala
6. Sexual Healing - Hot 8 Brass Band
7. Jay Electronica - Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge)
8. Eddie Roberts - Giorgio's Brother (Lack Of Afro remix)
9. Sufjan Stevens - Sofia's Song
10. King Creosote - You've No Clue Do You
11. Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova - Falling Slowly
12. Kurtis Blow - The Brakes
13. The National - Blood Buzz Ohio (live)
14. Royksopp - Remind Me
15. James Brown - Strangers In The Night
16. Badly Drawn Boy - Four Leaf Clover
17. Emilliana Torrini - Unemployed in Summertime
18. NSM - Hype
19. Ray Charles It's Not Easy Being Green

A lovely selection I hope you'll agree.
G xx

McFerrin

Just stumbled across this guy Terry McFerrin cause he's playing the Singapore worldwide festival. It's deep. His dad isn't bad either-

Tonights show!!

Fresh from the show I thought I'd whack the ole tracklisting up asap so here it is...

May 19th:
1. Youngblood Brass Band - V.I.P
2. Blackalicous - 4000 Miles
3. Estelle - Pretty Please (Love Me) Feat Cee Lo
4. The Veils - Jesus for the Jugular
5. Animal Collective - My Girls
6. Kosheen - Resist
7. LSK - The Takeover
8. Shirati Jazz - Dr Binol
9. TY - This is Hear Music
10. Go! Team - Ladyflash (Simian Mobile Disco remix)
11. Five Du Tones - Shake Your Tail Feather
12. The Bar-keys - Shake Your Rump to the Funk
13. Jackson Sisters - I believe in Miracles
14. Boozo Bajai ft Oh No - Back Up
15. Natural Self - Solomon (Nostalgia 77 mix)
16. Beck - Go It Alone
17. Cornish Waters - Walking
18. Coldcut - Aid Dealer
19. Herbie Hancock feat Leonard Cohen -

A belated update

Ok so We've been a bit lame of late. Or should I say more specifically I have; i've only just got round to posting up these two tracklistings but finally they are here for your viewing pleasure

Sorry to everyone who tried to tune in last Tuesday and failed to hear us. For some unknown and stupid reason the whole radio was shut down and we didn't know any of the password to get it up and running again. Hopefully tonight it will run a wee bit smoother.

I hope everyone has been enjoying the music on the show. We've only got a few more till we leave for the summer but please have a little listen to some of our past shows and give us any feedback we always welcome your comments and suggesttions. I've got two past shows which I hope to post on the blog soon.

Right tracklistings....

1. Bamboos - Step it up
2. Arcade Fire - Black Mirror (Team 9 remix)
3. Idle Time (Lack Of Afro remix) - The New Mastersounds
4. Ella James - Payback
5. Delroy Wilson - I Want Justice
6. Kero One Feat Niamaj - The Vibe
7. DJ Format - You Hear That?
8. Hey Joe - Brazilias
9. Hey Joe - Yuyu Vchida & the flavers
10. Dogs Die In Hot Cars - Paul Newman's Eyes
11. Orchestra African Fiesta - Runeme Mam
12. Fleetwood Mac - Never Going Back Again
13. Quasimoto - Real Eyes
14. Jon Kennedy - Tell Me How You Feel (Bonobo remix)
15. Idlewild - Remote Part pt.1 (Scottish fiction)
16. Tunng - Jenny Again
17. King Louis Collective - Leave This Town
18. Zero 7 - Look Up
19. Morcheeba - The Sea
20. Ryan Adams - Elizabeth you were born to play that part



28/04/09 (feat Mr 'Big Daddy' Faulkus)

1. Pharohe Monch - Welcome to the Terrordome
2. Johnathan Richman and the Modern Lovers - Roadrunner
3. Final Solution - Brotherman
4. Four Tet - She Moves She
5. Skinny Man - I'll be Suprised
6. Camille - Au Port
7. Jazzanova - Let Me Show Ya (Feat Paul Randolph)
8. Jorge Ben - Porque E'Proibido
9. Lemon Jelly - Babu Battle Scratch
10. Sebastian Schuller - Willow
11. Youngblood Brass Band - Bone Refinery
12. Jamie Woon - Spirits
13. John Martyn - Over the Hill
14. Bob Dylan - Just Like A Woman
15. The Four Brothers - Pasi Pano Pane Zviedo
16. Rhythm and Soul - Dem Never Know (feat John Cotton)
17. Cinematic Orchestra - Everyday

MC Xander

This is amazing. MC Xander is supporting Youngblood Brass Band when they play in Cardiff. Looks like quite a night, tickets available now at studentcardiff.com.
If you need proof, check this out:

MC XANDER IN THE GANTRY


Jonny

Whopper Virgins and Beat Mining!

I've come across a couple of really interesting things recently which I thought I'd share with you.



The first is something I saw on the brilliant Creative Review blog, a wicked blog which is twined with the expensive but similarly named magazine. Check out the blog here, there's loads of great stuff to check out.
http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/.



On Creative Review I saw this film (below) which made for strangely compelling but also pretty maddening and thought provoking viewing. It's basically about an advertising campaign taking the Burger King Whopper to some of the most obscure communities in the world, its quite interesting to see how these communiteis react to this strange food, especially looking at how they approach it, but it also left me with a srong distaste for how the film describes it, as a "cultural exchange", as if the Whopper burger was a ligitimate piece of western culture we should be inflicting on remote communities around the world or that the burger was the best cultural product America had to offer.

Ultimately why should any inuit from the tundra for example have to, or need to, taste a burger, surely there's a limit to the expansionist ideals of the fast food industry. Why should Burger King ever be allowed to infiltrate such pure and untouched communities as those featured in the film, in such an unabashed attempt to 'educate' people in the culture of fast food as if it was a lrgoitimate natural progression!!! This is cultural imperialsm at its most distasteful and Insidious. Check out the video and see what you think.







Now for something a little bit more heart warming. I heard this show on Radio 4 today and loved it, its basically a look at record collectors and beat mining, which is basically looking for tracks for specific, beats or riffs to use in the creation of new or reinvented music. Its a great documentary with some really interet people and tales from the record collecting world. It mentions Mr Scruff, DJ Shadow - who incedentally I found out has DJ'd with my manager at work - Cut Chemist and even Chas and Dave. If I ever have a life as interesting as these record junkies I'd be more than happy. Here's also a few tips to beat mining http://www.the-breaks.com/beats.php

Listen to the show here (there's only 7 days to listen to it)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hg8dq

Cheers
G x

March 25th Tracklisting and exciting news

Hello everyone,

Apologies for this being a wee bit late but below is the tracklisting for the last Escape From The Pigeon Hole show on the 25th, we've lost the weeks before, hence why the tracklistings have jumped from the 10th to the 25th. Lat weeks show was pretty scrappy with plenty of rambling from Jonny and me but the music was prety good and finally we worked out how to use the phone so we can now get people phoning in live on the show.

Also just a warning; the next show will be in about 3 weeks so don't both tuning in, as we are away from Cardiff for Easter. Also this week as mentioned in the show we found out to our suprise that the phenomenal Youngblood Brass Band are making their way to Cardiff of all places on May 7th, I'm so glad this is happening, its stunning news and is definitely something not to miss out on! If you can't make Cardiff check out some of their other dates.

They are playing the the Globe on Albany road and I'm pretty sure its going to be an in your face, full frontal, horny assault on the senses and definitely not something to miss.

Obviously they've been working on a new album for sometime now and I can't tell you how excited I am to see them play some new stuff. If you don't know Youngblood Brass Band, they are a 10 (ish)

brass band who play original, devestatingly infectious and mindblowing music, full of huge horn riffs and great lyrical hip hop style verse. Check out their website http://www.youngbloodbrassband.com/site/site_index.html to listen to their last album and download a few free tunes.

Here's the tracklisting for the March 25th show, and remember you can download the entire show, just look to the right of this page.

1. Tribe called Quest – The Hop
2. Midlake – Bandits
3. Tony Fox – (I got to) do it to it
4. Natural Self – The Crush
5. Patricia and Jimmy – Trust your Child
6. That Fucking Tank – Evening in Body Café
7. Leo Roy - Pound for Pound
8. Sigur ros - Inní mér syngur vitleysingur
9. Monkey Mafia – Make Jah Music
10. Quantic feat Spanky Wilson – Don’t Joke with the hungry Man
11. Jamie Woon – Wayfaring Stranger
12. Go! Team – Milk Crisis
13. Speedy J vs Grandmaster Flash
14. Gong Kibaya - Manuch Anguchi
15. Pierre bon Susan – Untitled
16. Beta Band – Lion Thief
17. Willie Hutch – Got to get over
18. Sufjan Stevens – Detroit lift up your weary head (rebuild, restore, reconsider)
19. Brakes – Comma, Comma, Full Stop
20. Mexican Institute of Sound – Escribeme Pronto
21. Brakes – Cheney
22. Black Umfolosi Choir – Bazali Bhetu
23. Beirut - Venice

Cheers guys

G xx