A relatively freaky tricky treaty for you with this installment. The fourth and by far the strangest mix to date. As ever, the most pleasing old and new music heard in recent weeks feature; frequently with a relatively ugly undercurrent of terror-stricken torment.

In keeping with the oft-overlooked notion of good old fashioned fun and also timed to coincide with the scariest event on the yearly calendar, here’s my Halloween special mix.

We kick off with NY’s No Wave electronic pioneers, Suicide‘s ghostly tune from their 1977 eponymous debut, devils come courtesy of Joakim and Scratch Perry , Dogs of War provide the pirates, zombies are more Fela Kuti‘s bag and  Sexual Harrassment need a freak. Some ridiculous hip-hop halloween edit of Morrissey (with whom the responsibility for this lies I have no idea), Capracara, Supermax, Ariel Pink and John Cooper Clarke are all in town this week too.

Spooking hell! Time to get off your monkey nut.

Tracklist

1. Suicide – Ghost Rider
2. Mogwai – Kids Will Be Skeletons
3. Dan Deacon – Padding Ghost
4. Joakim – Devil With No Tail
5. Scars – Horrorshow
6. Morrissey – Nonsense Halloween edit
7. Mari Boine vs Mungolian Jet Set – It Ain’t Necessarily Evil
8. Dogs of War – Love Pirate
9. Fela Kuti and Africa 7 – Zombie
10. Supermax – Spooky
11. Capracara – King of the Witches
12. Sexual Harrassment – I Need A Freak
13. Lee Scratch Perry – Disco Devil
14. Peter Tosh – Dracula (Vampire version)
15. John Cooper Clarke – I Married A Monster From Outer Space
16. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Among Dreams
17. Mark Fry – The Witch

Listen online, stream and download Radio Magnetic station manager, Andy McColgan’s relatively frequent music podcast on Radio Magnetic, Relative Frequency. Featuring music, old and new as well as interviews and chat.

Another Relative Frequency outing this week with snippets of conversations I’ve had with two ground-breaking producers and artists in their own right, Ashley Beedle and King Creosote.

Music from across the relative spectrum includes Fun Boy Three, Moody Boyz, Junior Murvin, Spiritualized and some stellar endeavours from Messrs Beedle and Creosote this week too. And more.

Check out last year’s selection of Relative Frequency DJ mixes on Radio Magnetic. And last week’s programme with John Cooper Clarke and Harri too.

Hope you like it.

Tracklist

1. Paul Simon – The Boy In The Bubble – Warner
2. Moody Boyz – Destination Africa (Spirit Of Freedom Mix) – Guerilla
3. Fun Boy Three – Our Lips Are Sealed (Special Remix) – Chrysalis
4. Ashley Beedle In Conversation
5. Human Arts – Big Sur Highway – Soma
6. Spiritualized – Soul On Fire – Universal
7. Aural Exciters – Chinese Rap – Top Flight Records
8. Gil Scott Heron – Me And The Devil – XL
9. King Creosote – Abacus – Fence
10. King Creosote In Conversation
11. King Creosote – Cath – Fence
12. Junior Murvin – Police And Thieves – Island

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Listen online, stream and download Radio Magnetic station manager, Andy McColgan’s relatively frequent music podcast on Radio Magnetic, Relative Frequency. Featuring music, old and new as well as interviews and chat.

At this time of year, rather than bore you with a seasonal or xmas themed selection of music I thought I’d bore you all with this instead. Many moons ago (about a year actually), I had way too much time on my hands, and started the moonshine enduced  Wired To The Moon facebook group. The intention was to try and get friends to suggest their favourite videos, songs, pictures and general lunar themed nonsense to create the perfect almoonac of moon tunes. There’s now 200+ moonmbers and nearly 100 moon tunes:

First we take Moonhatten.
Then
We
Take
Ber
lin.

Moony thanks to all the lunartics who’ve joined in on the moonsense so far. And now, at long last, I’ve put together a moon-mix of my personal favourites. Surely the Radio Magnetic station moonager has better things to do with his time you would think. You’d probably be right:

These are the words that I moonifest.

Tracklist

1. David Byrne & Brian Eno – Moonlight In Glory
2. The RAH Band – Clouds Across The Moon
3. Tri Atma – Yummy Moon
4. Mahogany Rush – Moonwalk
5. Elias Rahbani & His Orchestra – From The Moon
6. Padded Cell – Moon Menace (Part II)
7. The Field – I Have The Moon, You Have The Internet
8. Delorean – Moonson
9. K Barre – Right By The Moon
10. Wooden Shjips – Shrinking Moon For You
11. Thin Lizzy – Dancing In The Moonlight
12. Talking Heads – Moon Rocks
13. Joey Moon – Angelica
14. The Field Mice – Missing The Moon
15. Pulp – Someone Like The Moon
16. The Waterboys – Whole Of The Moon
17. Arthur Russell – This Is How We Walk On The Moon
18. Joya Landis – Moonlight Lover
19. ELO – Ticket To The Moon
20. Tiny Tim – Livin’ In The Sunlight, Lovin’ In The Moonlight
21. Wreckless Eric – Walking On The Surface Of The Moon

Suggested further cyber perusing/reading/listening/looking:

mooner-industries.de
apeonthemoon.com
ferventmoon.com
myspace.com/lunaflicks

Once again, sorry for the bad mixing at certain points but it’s all about the tunes baby. The above Denon AVR  Receiver is partly to blame for this; being 100 years out of date the THD+N vs Frequency modulator couldn’t be volted, ahhed and ohmed to the high standard I had initially hoped for. Probably need an upgrade.

Regardless of this antiquated frequency charting system the last year has been fantastic for new music. I’ve included here the finest tracks from some my favourite albums of 2009. Ranging from the beautifully dreamy downtempo funk of Bibio to the deranged tech-disco of Mungolian Jet Set, a few choice DFA cuts, Joakim and the spellbinding Rims by King Creosote. The Fence man’s finest five and a half minutes to date. All that and more. Tonight we’re going to party like it’s nearly the end of 2009.

December is here children.  God bless us every one.

Tracklist

1. Animal Collective – Lion In A Coma
2. Bibio – Lover’s Carvings
3. The Whitest Boy Alive – Courage
4. King Creosote – Rims
5. LCD Soundsystem – 45:33 (Prince language edit)
6. Joakim – Love & Romance & A Special Person
7. YACHT – I’m In Love With A Ripper (Party Mix)
8. Faze Action – Keep It Coming
9. The New Wine – Revolving Cylinder
10. The Doves – Jetstream (Lindstrom remix)
11. Mungolian Jet Set – A Thrilling Mungophony In Two Parts
12. Dan Deacon – Snookered
13. Riva Starr – I Was Drunk (feat Noze)

The wind rose diagram above details the relative frequency of directions from where the wind is coming from, and the relative frequency of the windspeed. For example, approximately 2% of general observations have wind directly from the west, with 15 kts < speed <=21 kts. Use this to ascertain the best direction to face when listening so as to not get too carried away when doing so.

This most recent mix is, again, a most varied and most pleasurable journey. Featured on it we have lots of disco, The New York pop-funk of The Phenomenal Handclap Band, the North East of England disco-pop-punk-funk of Quando Quango, another appearance of Jago’s Italo-disco-house beauty ‘I’m Going To Go’ and the quite stunning recent re-edit of LCD’s 45:33 by Theo Parrish alongside a whole lot more. I hope you like it for it’s the best one yet.

Tracklist

1. A Mountain of One – Bones (Thomas’s Way of the Ancients mix)
2. Phenomenal Handclap Band – 15-20
3. Quando Quango – Love Tempo
4. Mickey Moonlight – Interplanetary Music
5. Boney M – Ma Baker (C.O.M.B.I. version)
6. Bappi Lahiri – Jimmy Jimmy (Todd Terje edit)
7. King Errison – Disco Congo
8. The Chaplin Band – Madmen’s Discotheque (Part 2)
9. Stone – Girl, I Like the Way You Move (Dub)
10. Jago – I’m Going to Go (Instr Plant mix)
11. Padded Cell – Far Beneath London
12. LCD Soundsystem – 45:33 (Theo Parrish Space Cadet mix)
13. Ost and Kjex – Thru Being Bad
14. Justus Kohncke – (It’s Gonna Be) Alright (Dirk Leyers mix)

This is the second Relative Frequency mix which, as you know, are being posted on the site relatively frequently. More new sounds from the past, present and future featured.

The above line graph will help you determine how frequently the average listener is likely to play the mix on a daily basis depending on the height of their favourite polygon in relation to their overall enjoyment of said polygon.

The mix, again, takes in a mixture of styles and ideas highlighted by the atrocious attempts at mixing at certain parts of it but dont let that put you off. We begin with the dirty blues psychedelia of DJ Harvey and Thomas Rub N’ Tug’s Map of Africa outfit, travel through the Parisian streets of Noir Desir to the dirty, deep and soulful house of the Motor City Drum Ensemble ending with the Italo jazz prog-up of an extended dance remix of Jean Luc Ponty’s Open Minds. These open minds of which Jean Luc Ponty speaks are the key to happiness and enjoyment of this musical selection.

Go on girl. Give it a whirl.

Tracklist

1. Map of Africa – Wyatt Urp
2. Noir Desir – Le Vent Nous Portera (Rubber Room re-edit)
3. Glass Candy – Animal Imagination
4. Harry Thumann – Welcome Back, Jolette
5. Padded Cell – Faces of the Forest (edit)
6. Jago – I’m Going To Go (Instr. Plant. mix)
7. Motor City Drum Ensemble – Raw Cuts 02
8. David Astri – Dancing Digits (Todd Terje edit)
9. Solomun vs Ost and Kjex – Federgewicht (Oslo version)
10. Justus Kohncke – Lucienne
11. K.C. Flight – Planet E (Allez Allez edit)
12. They Came From the Stars vs Mungolian Jet Set – Moon Song (The Gospel According to Mung) (2012 Live@The Hacienda version)
13. Jean Luc Ponty – Open Mind (extended dance version)

This is the first mix from new station manager, Andy McColgan. It takes in the best bits and pieces of new and old music Andy’s been hearing over the last few weeks, as highlighted by the relative frequency density histogram above.

The title, Relative Frequency, has many meanings and connotations one of which is the fact that Andy hopes to be firing more of these mixes at you relatively frequently. Keep an ear to the station if you want to hear more meanings and more mixes.

It takes in quite a mixture of styles. From recently DFA signed, Dissident duo Cage and Aviary through bloggers of choice, Allez Allez’s re-edit of The Smith’s under-rated classic, Barbarism Begins At Home, YMO’s Haruomi Hosono and a truly marvellous Todd Terje/Wade Nichol African-esque re-edit; to the cowbell and handclap friendly stroll of Supermayer and the slo-mo disco house of Rub N’ Tug’s  LCD Soundsystem makeover. So, boys and girls, notebooks at the ready…

And, give a little listen. Give a little listen. And always let your conscience be your guide.

Tracklist

1. Cage and Aviary – Television Train
2. Free Blood – Quick and Painful (Hot Chip remix)
3. Woolfy – Odyssey
4. The Smiths – Barbarism Begins At Home (Allez Allez edit)
5. Supermayer – The Art of Letting Go
6. The Shortwave Set – Glitches and Bugs (Mungolian Jet Set mix)
7. Walter Jones – I’ll Keep On Loving You
8. Haroumi Hosono – Sports Men
9. James Yuill – No Surprise
10. Port of Notes – Walk Through Happiness (Lindstrom edit)
11. Turtles – Sjefen Sjefen (Todd Terje edit as Wade Nichols)
12. Coldcut – Stop This Crazy Thing (Adrian Sherwood dub mix)
13. !!! – Must Be The Moon (Emperor Machine remix)
14. LCD Soundsystem – Too Much Love (Rub N’ Tug rerub)