EOS Radio (September 2022)
For the September edition of my EOS Radio residency I once again took inspiration from the time of year and went with a Back To School theme. During lockdowns in 2020 and early 2021 I produced two radio shows (Part 1 and Part 2) mining my teenage listening habits - nostalgia trips navigating between indie, post rock, and my early (and rather pretentious) forays into ambient and experimental electronic music. This is a third part to that trilogy that looks back at the end of secondary school, with a couple of anachronisms from later on at university. It’s not an electronic music mix, though in this selection I personally can hear easily the germ of what was to come.
The provenance of some of these tracks is worth mentioning. Honey Cone were on a mixtape my sister was given by a friend of hers, a friend with very cool taste who was probably the first person to ever show us soul and early electronic music. (I remember ‘Was Dog A Doughnut?’ featuring on one tape.) Chicane and Mint Royale were favourites of an acquaintance I made through RollerCoaster Tycoon forums, who also introduced me to post-rock, slowcore and any other number of fringe (and highly contradictory) genres.
The spoken-word outro of ‘Another Love Song’ by Queens Of The Stone Age (“This is W-O-M-B, the Womb. And if you, my pets, learn how to listen, I'll let you crawl back in.”) is also partly an RCT connection, since in 2003 I made an entire music-related theme park called ‘Walkman Of My Brain’, or W.O.M.B., with areas based on Discovery, Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, Rooty, and Hotel Yorba.
I think Eddie Kendricks’s ‘Intimate Friends’ was one of the earliest things I downloaded on Audiogalaxy - played, naturally, through Winamp with a carefully chosen skin. All Saints and Richard X show that I never really stopped listening to pop music during those years, and indeed I’ve been playing ‘Finest Dreams’ quite a lot in 2022. Then there’s the usual Pitchfork fare that made up the bulk of my adolescent listening.
My guest this month was Dust Off head honcho and superlative DJ, Nick Kagame. I’ll cover his contribution in a future Midweek Mixes but in the meantime you can listen to his archived show here.
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Joe Delon - EOS Radio Back To School (September 2022)
Björk – Unison [2001]
Can – Vitamin C [1972]
Lisa Left Eye Lopes – The Block Party [2001]
Nine Inch Nails – The Good Soldier [2007]
Honey Cone – Sunday Morning People [1969]
Queens Of The Stone Age – Another Love Song [2002]
All Saints – Black Coffee [2000]
Richard X feat. Kelis – Finest Dreams [2003]
Ciara – Oh [2004]
Peer Raben – Dark Chariot [2004]
Eluvium – Radio Ballet [2007]
Chicane – No Ordinary Morning [2000]
Eddie Kendricks – Intimate Friends [1977]
Mint Royale – Don’t Falter [1999]
The Swirlies – Boys, Protect Yourself From Aliens [1996]
The Rapture – Infatuation [2003]