Tak Tent Four

I submitted another mix to Tak Tent Radio, an eclectic and broadminded internet radio station broadcasting out of Scotland. It went live yesterday. You can find it at Tak Tent and at Mixcloud. No irritating DJs talking over the intros, no cutting away for the travel news or adverts, no playlist songs you don't like but they have to play anyway, just an hour of songs from my record collection/  hard drive. I don't think there are many surprises in the tracklist, it's the usual sort of stuff I've been writing about here but collected into one hour long mix. 

Tak Tent Four

• Durutti Column: Sketch For Dawn I
• Andrew Weatherall and Keith Tenniswood: The Crescent
• David Holmes and Steve Jones: The Reiki Healer From County Down
• Reinhard Vanbergen and Reinhard Roelandt: Amber Amplifier
• Steve Cobby: 45ft Tide
• Nick Drake: Rider On The Wheel
• Saint Etienne: Little K
• One Dove: Breakdown (Squire Black Dove Rides Out)
• David Holmes: Theme/ I.M.C.
• A Mountain Of One: Custards Last Stand
• 10:40 Kissed Again
• Ry Cooder: Cancion Mixteca (Paris Texas Soundtrack)

Amber Amplifier

Something odd from Belgium for Tuesday, a modular soundscape from two Reinhards,Vanbergen and Roelands. Vanbergen has been here before on his own and as the multi- instrumentalist in Rheinzand. Roelandt hasn't. Amber Amplifier is just under three minutes, a drifting lilting piece of music with synths, ukulele and pedal steel guitar all playing off with and against each other, sounding like the soundtrack to some late night TV weirdness or the otherworldly music playing in a bar you stopped in once and could never find again. Buy it here. I hope there's an album to follow.