The Underground of Happiness

A bumper autumn harvest Dig in x Playlist 1. Gun Outfit – Unfelt loss (Upset The Rhythm) 2. Big Star – The Ballad of El Goodo (Ardent Records) 3. Lande Hekt – Circles (Tapete) 4. Railcard – Unstable neighbour (Skep Wax) ( playing Klondyke Club, Manchester, Nov 7 ) 5. Foglights – The rain felt kind (Skep Wax) 6. William D. Drake – Green shadows (Onomatopoeia Records) 7. Jonathan Kotik – Happy families (bandcamp) 8. Anushka Chkheidze & Robert Lippok – II (Morr Music) 9. Cholly – Fungus (bandcamp) 10. Odd Nosdam – Get you in (Belong Mix) (Alien Transistor) 11. Lael Neale – Slip away (Consensual Sound via Melodic Records) ( playing Bellobar, Dublin, Mar 3 ) 12. Donna Regina – Lazing away 2 (Karaoke Kalk) 13. Vanishing Twin – Oral tradition (Fire Records) ( playing Earth, London, Oct 29 ) 14. Boa Morte – Bird that flies (Gare du Nord Records) ( playing Coughlans, Cork, Oct 29 ) 15. Emil Friis – Hollow hands (130701) 16. Chúpame el Dedo – Nos vemos el proxim...

it's the middle of the year...here's the middle of the year review enjoy x Playlist 1. The Notwist – Projectors (Morr Music) 2. Boa Morte – The following on (Gare du Nord Records) 3. Marisa Anderson – Taqsim for guitar (Thrill Jockey) ( playing Boole Library, University College Cork, Sept 10 ) 4. Les Imprimés – Get lost (Big Crown Records) 5. Blumi – Jaguar (Capitane Records) 6. Yael Naim – Solaire (Mouselephant) 7. Micha Acher/Henry & The Ghost Project – Radio Four (Alien Transistor) 8. Rattling Ark – Omos Silverskin (bandcamp) ( playing Boole Library, University College Cork, July 23 ) 9. Magic Tuber Stringband – Where the place becomes forgetting (Thrill Jockey) 10. Season 2 – Abundance of power (Upset The Rhythm) 11. Library Card – Out of context (At Ease) 12. The Telescopes – Revolutionary blues (Tapete Records) 13. Dog Chocolate – Employee (Upset The Rhythm) 14. Bill Wells feat Norman Blake – El El El (Karaoke Kalk) 15. Bill Wells feat Aby...

see the light at the start of a new year enjoy x Playlist 1. Colleen - Antidoto (Thrill Jockey) ( playing Silent Green, Berlin, May 26, w/ Midori Hirano ) 2. Daniel Blumberg feat Amanda Seyfried – All is summer (from the soundtrack of the film A Testament to Ann Lee ) 3. Lande Hekt – Lucky now (Tapete Records) 4. Penny Arcade – Rear view mirror (Tapete Records) 5. Barry Walker Jr feat Rob Smith & Jason Willmon – Son, don’t brighten the Bear Creek Rhyolite (Thrill Jockey) 6. Marielle V Jakobsons – The salt rounds (Thrill Jockey) 7. Marta Del Grandi – Shoe shaped cloud (Fire Records) ( playing Balades Sonores, Paris, Feb 20 ) 8. Richard Neuberg – Crow needs the pine (Self-released) 9. Yael Naim – Wow (Mouselephant) 10. The Notwist – How the story ends (Morr Music) ( playing Garage, London, Apr 23 ) 11. The Besnard Lakes – Pontiac spirits (Ghost Mix) (Full Time Hobby) ( playing Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, Feb 15 ) 12. we didn’t care – Sorry for nothing (Kar...

rotterdam to osaka. surabaya to dublin. montreal to portland. enjoy x Playlist 1. Tulpa – Let’s make a Tulpa! (Skep Wax) 2. M(h)aol – Pursuit (Tulle) 3. Men I Trust – Heavenly flow (bandcamp) 4. Miss Grit – Tourist mind (Mute) 5. Nobukazu Takemura – deep sea’s rainbow part 2 (Thrill Jockey) 6. Pictish Trail – Hold it (Fire Records) 7. Rats on Rafts – Painting roses (Fire Records) 8. Robin Kester – The daylight (Memphis Industries) 9. Seamus Fogarty – I passed your house (Lost Map Records) 10. Barry Walker Jr feat. Rob Smith & Jason Willmon – Quiessence (Thrill Jockey) 11. Stereolab – Melodie is a wound (Duophonic/Warp) 12. Stuart Moxham – Do the locomotion (Stuart Moxham vs Radio Boy radio mix) (Tiny Global Productions) 13. The Attendant – Beautiful humans (faux lux) 14. Thee Marloes – What’s on your mind (Big Crown Records) 15. Truthpaste – See you around (Memorials of Distinction) 16. Vanbur – My own (Manners McDade) 17. Ways of Seeing – USA 94 (ban...

dublin to berlin. new orleans to belfast. brooklyn to cork. enjoy x Playlist 1. Adrian Crowley – Brother was a runaway (Valley of Eyes Records) 2. Midori Hirano – Oto, Kioku (Thrill Jockey) 3. Naim Amor & Kid Congo Powers – Tucson safari (In The Red Records) 4. Chalk – Pool scene (Nice Swan) 5. Clementine March – Fireworks (PRAH Recordings) 6. Cormac O Caoimh – The heart of the human race (bandcamp) 7. Derya Yildirim & Grup Simsek – Cool hand (Big Crown Records) 8. Julie Odell – Disappearing act (Frenchkiss Records) 9. Donna Regina – Nothing heavy (Karaoke Kalk) 10. Dreamwave – Moon buggy (Stolen Body Records) 11. EERA – I’ll stop when I’m done (Test Card Recordings) 12. Elaine Howley – Hold me in a new way (Modern Love) 13. Half Japanese – Step on up (Fire Records) 14. Haylie Davis – Golden age (Fire Records) 15. I Dreamed I Dream – Fags (bandcamp) 16. J Appiah – Forget about it (Vero Music x 19Fifty7) 17. Jeanines – Coaxed a storm (Slumberland R...

himeji to los angeles. glasgow to berlin. belfast to nashville. enjoy. x Playlist 1. Oh No Noh – Dog years (Teleskop) 2. Bella Wakame – Shades of Nambei (Umor-Rex) 3. Echolalia – Little bird (Full Time Hobby) 4. Geckos – Lo Hice (Org Music/PIAPTK Recordings) 5. Junk Drawer – Nids Niteca (Pizza Pizza Records) 6. Keeley Forsyth & Matthew Bourne – Talk to me (Fat Cat Records) 7. Pierre Bastien & Michel Banabila – Closing time: The party is over (Pingipung) 8. Quinie – Macaphee turn the cattle (Upset The Rhythm) 9. Albertine Sarges – Stand near your fire (Moshi Moshi) 10. Deradoorian – Digital gravestone (Fire Records) 11. Le Volume Courbe – Two love (Duophonic Super 45s) 12. Sam Prekop – Light shadow (Thrill Jockey) 13. Water Machine – River (Fat Cat Records) 14. Damian O’Neill – Inside out (Tompkins Square) (Imaginational Anthem XIV) 15. Me Lost Me – A souvenir (Upset The Rhythm) 16. Lael Neale – Tell me how to be here (Sub Pop Records) 17. Eddie M...

hny everyone we're flicking from berlin to milan, glasgow to brooklyn, helsinki to dunedin in this first look back at the year that was enjoy x Playlist 1. Jimi Tenor Band – Selenites (Tapete Records) 2. Lande Hekt – Favourite pair of shoes (Tapete Records) 3. Prolapse – The fall of cashline (Tapete Records) 4. Astral Bakers – Healing (Sage Music) 5. claire rousay – somewhat burdensome (Thrill Jockey) 6. Cloth – Pink silence (Rock Action) 7. Lucy Gooch – Like clay (Fire Records) 8. Marta Del Grandi – Antarctica (Fire Records) 9. Prima Queen feat Girl Group – The prize (Submarine Cat) 10. Lightheaded – Same drop (Slumberland Records/Skep Wax) 11. The Chills – Dolphins (Fire Records) 12. The Cords – Fabulist (Skep Wax) 13. Joasihno – Characa orb. (Alien Transistor) 14. Anushka Chkheidze & Robert Lippok – Rainbow road (Morr Music) 15. The Alien Dub Orchestra – Vine and fig tree (Alien Transistor) 16. The Notwist – X-ray (Morr Music) 17. Emma Polloc...

middle of the year but not middle of the road a compilation of my favourite tunes of the year so far enjoy people x Playlist 1. Pierre Bastien & Michel Banabila – Closing time: The party is over (Pingipung) 2. Men I Trust – Heavenly flow (bandcamp) 3. Stereolab – Melodie is a wound (Duophonic/Warp) 4. Water Machine – River (Fat Cat Records) 5. Bella Wakame – Shades of Nambei (Umor-Rex) 6. Lightheaded – Same drop (Slumberland Records/Skep Wax) 7. Elaine Howley – Hold me in a new way (Modern Love) 8. Lael Neale – Tell me how to be here (Sub Pop Records) 9. Cloth – Pink silence (Rock Action) 10. Albertine Sarges – Stand near your fire (Moshi Moshi) 11. M(h)aol – Pursuit (Tulle) 12. The Chills – Dolphins (Fire Records) 13. Keeley Forsyth & Matthew Bourne – Talk to me (Fat Cat Records) 14. Echolalia – Little bird (Full Time Hobby) 15. Oh No Noh – Dog years (Teleskop) 16. Adrian Crowley – Brother was a runaway (Valley of Eyes Records) 17. Derya Yildi...

some summery tunes for your heatdome go well brian x (pic far out magazine) Playlist 1. Ensemble – Proposal 1 (Fat Cat Records) 2. Emil Friis – For goodbyes (Fat Cat Records) 3. Studio Electrophonique – David and Jayne (Valley of Eyes Records) 4. Heavenly – Portland Town (Skep Wax) 5. The Alien Dub Orchestra – Vine and fig tree (Alien Transistor) 6. Astral Bakers – Vertical life (Sage Records) 7. Ways of Seeing – USA 94 (bandcamp) 8. Lightheaded – The garden (Slumberland/Skep Wax) 9. Jeanines – Coaxed a storm (Slumberland/Skep Wax) 10. The Beach Boys – Feel flow (Brother Records) 11. The Beach Boys – Til I die (Brother Records) 12. Bea Elmy Martin – Born to fly (Indigo Kin) 13. Half Japanese – Step on up (Fire Records) 14. Guerilla Toss – Red flag to angry bull (Sub Pop Records) 15. Cory Hanson – Lou Reed (Drag City) 16. Ty Segall – Buildings (Drag City) 17. Sebastian Reynolds & Myles Cochran feat. Kelly Michaeli – IYCSM (Pindrop) 18. Later Youth...

new music for your january enjoy x Playlist 1. Ex-Void – Down the drain (Tapete Records) 2. Saeko Killy – Dream in dream (bureau b) 3. Clever Bunny – Rolling in the hay (Slowfoot Records) 4. youbet – Deny (Hardly Art Records) 5. SPINNEN – Geister (Alien Transistor) 6. Chalk – Afraid (Nice Swan) ( playing Ulster Sports, Belfast, Apr 10 ) 7. Propaganda – World out of joint (bureau b) 8. Tarwater – Spirit of flux (Morr Music) 9. Adrian Crowley – Brother was a runaway (Valley of Eyes Records) 10. Albertine Sarges – Girl missing (Moshi Moshi) 11. The Burning Hell – Bottle of Chianti, cheese and charcuterie board (BB*Island) 12. Cloth – Polaroid (Rock Action) 13. Deradoorian – Digital gravestone (Fire Records) 14. Echolalia – Blood moon (Full Time Hobby) 15. Elephant – 20k (Excelsior Recordings) 16. Hiro Ama – Everything is going to make sense in the end (Daniel Brandt Remix) (PRAH Recordings) 17. House of All – The good Englishman (Tiny Global Recordings) ( pl...

odd energy is right let the music help you through enjoy x Playlist 1. The Attendant – eden rock (faux lux) 2. Trust Fund – Leaving the party early (Tapete) 3. The Gentle Spring – Sugartown (Skep Wax) 4. Echolalia – Odd energy (bandcamp) 5. Derya Yildirim & Grup Simsek – Yakamoz (Big Crown Records) 6. Homer Steinweiss feat girl named GOLDEN – Wishing well (Big Crown Records) 7. eat girls – Para los pies cansados (Tapete Records/bureau b) 8. Oslo Twins – Sally (Half Normal Records) 9. Westside Cowboy – I’ve never met anyone I thought I could really love (until I met you) (Nice Swan) ( playing The Castle Hotel, Manchester, Dec 3 ) 10. Organi – Babylonia (Alien Transistor) 11. Tarwater – USA (Morr Music) 12. Adrian Crowley – Tangled (Valley of Eyes Records) ( playing Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Apr 11 ) 13. Albertine Sarges – Blue lagoon (Moshi Moshi) 14. Bananagun – With the night (Full Time Hobby) 15. Barry McCormack – You would hardly know I’m here (...

And finally...my last word on the music that floated my boat in 2023. May the year rise with you. x Playlist 1. Saeko Killy – Sun shower (Tapete Records/bureau b) 2. Hiro Ama – Ultramarine (Silent Way) 3. Robert Forster – It’s only poison (Tapete Records) 4. The Bonk – The stars look great (bandcamp) 5. Nation of Language – Sole obsession (Play It Again Sam) 6. Decisive Pink – Destiny (Fire Records) 7. Sprints – Up and comer (City Slang) 8. POZI – Pest control (PRAH Recordings) 9. Chalk – Asking (Dutch Tilt) 10. m(h)aol – Nice guys (Tulle) 11. Martin Rev – Dreams (bureau b) 12. The Umlauts – Dance and go (PRAH Recordings) 13. Ghost Woman – Yoko (Full Time Hobby) 14. Christian Cohle – Another life (bandcamp) 15. Special Friend – Bete (Skep Wax Records) 16. Surprise Chef – Rosemary Hemphill (Big Crown Records) 17. Sally Anne Morgan – The center (Thrill Jockey) 18. Cormac O Caoimh – A good place for you (bandcamp) 19. Craig Fortnam – Ruins in time (Believer...