Flamingo #32 (14/07/21)
Flamingo is my monthly radio show on Lisbon’s Rádio Quântica, broadcasting every fourth Wednesday from 16h–18h. You can find the mixcloud archive of previous shows here.
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The first half of this month’s show is less about new music and more about older records I’ve been playing out at bars or livestreams, though I do find space for the new record from Ed Hodge on Tresydos and that fantastic DECADA 2 compilation I wrote about recently (here).
The DJ mix in the second half is much more current, opening with the latest winner from Escaflowne and staying in a breaksy, garagey, electro-y register throughout. There’s an excellent new record from Trippsy, which he gave me at my gig in Kyiv two weeks ago (read my gig report here) and my pick from the brilliant Black Rave Culture comp, ‘Columbia Road’. I then used the Delroy Edwards beat track to up the tempo by about 5bpm as subtly as possible for a fast electro outro - check out that mad DJ Aquatraxx tune, which I’m actually still only playing on about -8!
I finish with ‘Doesn’t Matter’ by Christine And The Queens and if you’re a fan - or even if you aren’t - I highly recommend listening to her Song Exploder contribution, which is a candid, articulate and highly moving commentary on this astonishing song.
Thanks to Thiago at Amor Records, Hamish at Butter Side Up and Karl aka Trippsy for the records.
Man Parrish – Water Sports [Select, 1987]
Ed Hodge – The Gateway [Tresydos, 2021]
Type – Fim [Nylon Discographics, 2001]
Patti Austin – Love Me To Death [Qwest, 1981]
Eros – Go For It [Mixed Signals, 2020]
Delroy Edwards – Slap Happy [L.I.E.S., 2020]
Torch Song – Prepare To Energize (The Fong Test) [I.R.S., 1983]
Fun Fun – Happy Station [X-Energy, 1983]
Welt – Eggchelle [Cloak And Dagger, 1999]
DECADA 2 – Extasy Bondage [Philoxenia, 2021]
IN THE MIX
Escaflowne – Ray Cloud [Self-released, 2021]
Ballet Mechanique – The Third Ear [Delsin, 2020]
Basement Space – Domino [Butter Side Up, 2021]
Trippsy – Odessa [Hypnohouse, 2021]
The People In Fog – New Period (ft. Hiroyuki Kato) [Sound Of Vast, 2021]
Perception – Oh Yes [Practical Rhythms, 2020]
Black Rave Culture – Columbia Rd (Uptown) [Haus Of Altr, 2021]
Ed Hodge – Speaker To Animals [Tresydos, 2021]
Delroy Edwards – Buckeye Beats [L.I.E.S., 2020]
Turk Turkelton – Needle [Habibi Bass, 2021]
DJ Technician – Sync [Charlois, 2016]
DJ Aquatraxx & 3PA – Virtual Party Tool [Distrito 91, 2021]
ReQuest – Reef Pilgrim [Wémè, 2020]
Christine And The Queens – Doesn’t Matter (Voleur De Soleil) [Because, 2018]