The Soundr Hour - Spring Breaks

 

As the clocks go forward, Soundr steps into the new season with a fruity bouquet of blossoming breaks, blooming tunes and mellow beats -from trip hop to sunny lectro pop to breezy nu jazz..

 Dig in and bliss out...

Soundr DJ · the Soundr Hour: Spring Breaks -blossoming, blooming beats for spring

The Soundr Hour - Cover Stars

 

Something to lively up your playlists - the Soundr Hour - Cover Stars.... 

60 solid minutes of uptempo covers: disco refits, funky reduxes and latin reworks - all contained herein. From Steely Dan to Rod Stewart, from the Average White Band to Ashford and Simpson - they all get rung and respun with fruity new versions...

Soundr DJ · The Soundr Hour: Cover Stars

Podrophenia's religious experience

 

Glory be: the religion edition of Podrophenia is up for download with M G Boulter on his Clifftown album and podcast. Local tales of fractured jazzers, Southend werewolves - and two quizzes -plus new music from Vix20 Bob Collum and a playlist of heavenly sounds

 

 Dig and DL below

Podrophenia's religious experience 

Podrophenia Love In - Hearts, Flowers & Chocolates

Rockers, rollers, new romantics and old romantics - settle in for Podrophenia's Love-in podcast. Where Piley, Lord Hastings and Mondo will be pleasuring your lugs with two hours of tuneage - themed around, hearts, flowers and Champagne. There'll be a Valentine's quiz, love songs rendered to 8 bit Sega style editions, and smoochy tunes played on a tuba.

  And a live a 'performance' of three eighties hits on a 1982 Casio VL Tone keyboard...... 

DL here or stream below...

The Soundr Hour - Nu Year Nu Yacht.

The Soundr Hour is back with Nu Year Nu Yacht. Sixty minutes of the finest yacht from (or found in) 2020.. Tennis to Thundercat, Joel Sarakula to Janko Nilovic, Prep to Polo and Pan

Tune in for 60 minutes of soothing tunes...

Soundr DJ · The Soundr Hour: Nu Year Nu Yacht - the best finds of 2020

Podrophenia 171: a David Bowie Scrapbook

Being five years since Major Dave left his capsule - Podrophenia celebrates the life of a widescreen genius by way of a scrapbook of Bowieness. Outtakes, alt-takes, oddities, curiousities and some live tunes from Dave 'Woodmansey' Woodcock… 

Strap in for a playlist that spins in: Young Americans extras, TOTP albums covering Bowie, overlooked B sides - and two quizzes….. 

 1)Bowie lyric or Eno Oblique Strategy. 

 2) Guess the song from the shonky Thai translation.. (Ground control to Magic Town etc…) 

Download here or stream below 

Word in Your Attic. David Hepworth, Mark Ellen and M'self have a collective natter going from Abbey Road to Zodiac Mindwarp

One of the earliest entries on this blog involved Batman 222 wherein the Caped Crusader investigates a 'Paul is Dead' type mystery - September 2007 to carbon date the actual post.. A few weeks later it appeared in Word mag' ish 56, after a very generous offer from Mark Ellen to write 250 words on it...

Fast forward 13 years and a fantasticus chat was had with David and Mark for a birthday treat. 
In forty five mins, we cover: rock stars in unlikely places - comics. football programmes, Rod Temperton's dodgy toplines. The sky-high value of collectable comics. 

My Radio 1 calendar/diary, with odd singles bought during this period, and tales including - Radio Luxembourg Roadshow comes to Southend - with  m'self and pals getting  drunk on crate of Crocodillo I won doing the pop quiz.  Naked neighbors displaying. Dressing up as KISS at the School Arts Festival... and of course records bought 

 You can grab full timeline of diaries here 

And risk Rod Temperton doing Rock With You below 


 

To Westcliff-on-Sea where our celebrating patron offers highly entertaining memories of the "white stiletto crowd" at the Lacey Lady in Ilford, the Fickle Pickle Folk Club in Southend, a 'Paul Is Dead' Batman comic, Toni Basil's effect on a Bowie sleeve, Petula Clark, Sex Pistols ads, a Goofy Greats compilation and the Ladykillers at the Pink Toothbrush ("Altamont meets the Muppet Show") - and we play Southend Stackwaddy and guess the psychedelic album that starts with a foghorn.

Our Debut Tune is out now: Buskr - Back in this Place

What started as a lockdown hobby-project - became, after a few months  mixing and muddling with beats, bleeps, instruments - and the addition of Missus Jo vocals - twelve tracks of lo-fi vibes ... yacht-hop and trip-pop, by a duo called Buskr

Debut single Back in this Place with it's music-for-moomins vibe is out now..  Janice Long gave us our first needle-time on BBC Radio Wales - you can listen or DL the single here 

For some background chat, you can catch us on BBC Upload 

Or hear it announced as Track of the Week on BBC Introducing

Podrophenia Lockdown Listens..

The latest Podrophenia is up for download. where Piley, self and Lord Hastings spin in a playlist of lockdown listens: from Peaches to Public Service Broadcasting, newbie tunes from Bob Dylan and The Damned, Southern soul from Elvis and The Everlys. And two quizzes Nut or No Nut and Rotten Film Songs. Dig in and DL below

Podrophenia Lockdown Listens..

And behold a play of the new single from m'self and Mrs Mond' (Buskr - Back in this Place out 4th December Hottwerk) as heard on Janice Long last week ...

Podrophenia: Every Record Tells More Stories...

He's back - and he's brought his new book with him.

Steve Carr makes his third appearance in the pod (second of 2020 in fact), choosing tunes, relating R 'n' R tales and supplying handy tips for the vinyl buyer (wood glue and toothpicks anyone?) taken from the freshly pressed volume - Every Record Tells a Story 

Musically we bring you the original version of Superstition (and it's *not* Stevie) Cher regrooving Dr John, the Isley's refunking Stephen Stills, and a rocking new tune from ex Tubeway Army Sean Burke Plus a bonus quiz - Blue or False. Is it a real Blue Oyster Cult title or Fake Blues

Dig in and DL here - or where ever you get your podcasts