The Underground of Happiness

Playlist 1. Girls In Hawaii - Goddess (Capitane Records) 2. claire rousay – holy sedative (quality sounds ltd.) 3. Vanishing Twin – Familiar fruit (Fire Records) 4. Cujo – Nine bars back (Nomark Records) 5. Ella & The Nighthawks – Cross my heart and hope to die (Vacilando ’68) 6. Kristin Hersh – Moths (Fire Records) 7. Anushka Chkeidze & Robert Lippok – VI (Morr Music) 8. Cathal MacGabhann – Everybody’s like an angel (bandcamp) 9. Ana Palindrome – A man a cure (World of Echo) 10. more eaze – they tried to shove me in the structure (Thrill Jockey) ( playing Le Guess Who, Utrecht, Nov 5 ) 11. Bróna McVittie – Humpy (State 51 / Company of Corkbots) 12. Naomi in Blue – Apple (Man Made Tigers) 13. Black Duck & Elena Setién – Cactus mirror (Thrill Jockey) 14. Jeffrey Silverstein – Drop of a dime (Full Time Hobby) 15. The Gentle Spring – Down with love (Skep Wax Records) ( playing The Waiting Room, London, Jan 30 ) 16. Maisy Owen – Stranger (Tompkins Square) (...

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...

it's touring season for bands... lots of people playing live in this batch...get out and support if you can enjoy x Playlist 1. Starter Car - Kicking (Tapete Records) 2. Vanishing Twin – Bring me the axe (Fire Records) ( playing Earth, London, Oct 29 ) 3. Boa Morte – The following on (Gare du Nord Records) 4. Marisa Anderson – Sarvi simin (Thrill Jockey) ( playing Boole Library, University College Cork, Sept 10 ) 5. ANIQO – The turn (La Double Vie) 6. Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin – 69 Année Érotique (Warner Chappell) 7. Blumi – Jaguar (Capitane Records) 8. FKJ – Soulmates (AWAL) ( playing Exhibition, London, Oct 29 ) 9. Girls in Hawaii – Eldorado (Capitane Records) ( playing Hootananny, Brixton, London, Oct 20 ) 10. Gwenno – London 1757 (Heavenly) ( playing The Savoy, Cork, July 17 ) 11. Gurry Wurry – Like a landlord (Gurry Wurry) ( playing Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh, July 10 ) 12. Tricky feat. Mitch Sanders – I’m yours (False Idols) ( playing Green...

some out there musics in this batch...german electronica, drone rock and the like some in here musics also...whatever you're having yourself enjoy x Playlist 1. The Telescopes – White noise (Tapete Records) 2. The Notwist – Like this river (Alien Transistor) 3. SUEP – In the morning (Memorials of Distinction) 4. Alan & Jan – All one (Faitiche) 5. Sylvain Chauveau – The guitar piece I wrote for Masumi (130701) 6. Anadol & Marie Klock – Magnitude 6.3 (Pingipung) 7. Yael Naim – Inouie (Mouselephant) 8. Yael Naim – Rabbit hole (Mouselephant) 9. Tulpa – Monster of the week (Skep Wax Records) 10. Micha Acher/Henry & the Ghost – Loop D (Alien Transistor) 11. Marisa Anderson – Quodlibet (Thrill Jockey) ( playing University College Cork, Sept 10 ) 12. Magic Tuber Stringband – Where the place becomes forgetting (Thrill Jockey) 13. Craig Fortnam & Laurent Valero – White swan (Dark Companion Records) 14. The Would Be Goods – The back of your bike ...

spring has thrown up a bumper crop enjoy x Playlist 1. Colleen – Mis armas se habían caído al suelo (Thrill Jockey) ( playing Silent Green, Berlin, May 26, w/ Midori Hirano ) 2. Juha Maki-Patola – Moment 2 (130701) 3. Seamus Fogarty – Ships (Lost Map Records/Sing a Song Fighter) ( playing Kilkenny Roots Festival, May 3 ) 4. Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection – Jackie paints (Full Time Hobby) ( playing Kilkenny Roots Festival, May 3 ) 5. Craig Fortnam & Laurent Valero – Cries of London (Dark Companion Records) 6. Anadol & Marie Klock – Rentrer a la maison (Pingipung) ( playing Point Ephemere, Paris, May 29 ) 7. Special Friend – Clipping (Skep Wax) 8. Bill Wells feat. Norman Blake – El, El, El (Karaoke Kalk) 9. Memorials – Dropped down a well (Fire Records) ( playing The Lexington, London, Apr 29 ) 10. Penny Arcade – Everything’s easy (Tapete Records) 11. Heavenly – Scene stealing (Skep Wax) ( playing Wales Goes Pop, Cardiff, Apr 4 ) 12. Le Millipede – Lov...

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...

enjoy people x Playlist 1. Cluster & Eno – Ho Renomo (bureau b) 2. Midori Hirano – Oto, Kioku (Thrill Jockey) 3. Jimi Tenor Band – Selenites (Tapete Records) 4. Lucy Gooch – Clouds (Fire Records) 5. Barry Walker Jr feat. Rob Smith & Jason Willmon – Quiessence (Thrill Jockey) 6. The Notwist – X-ray (Morr Music) 7. Bill Callahan – The man I’m supposed to be (Drag City) 8. claire rousay feat m sage – just (Thrill Jockey) 9. Clementine March – Fireworks (PRAH Recordings) 10. Lande Hekt – Favourite pair of shoes (Tapete Records) 11. Prima Queen feat Girl Group – The prize (Submarine Cat) 12. Anna Prior – True for you (Beat Palace Records) 13. Hater – This guy (Fire Records) 14. Haylie Davis – Country boy (Fire Records) 15. Homer – Chrysanthemum (Big Crown Records) 16. The Cords – Just don’t know how to be you (Skep Wax) 17. Ladytron – I believe in you (Nettwerk) (playing Gorilla, Manchester, Mar 21) 18. lucky break – Burning string (Fire Records) 19. Ma...

we're all round the world in this mix osaka to glasgow, berlin to surabaya, tyrone to helsinki to new orleans enjoy x Playlist 1. Brian Bilston & The Catenary Wires – Might have, might not have (Skep Wax) ( playing Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, Nov 24 ) 2. Damian O’Neill – Inside out (Tompkins Square) (Imaginational Anthem XIV) 3. Joasihno – Crackleboom (Alien Transistor) 4. Madi Diaz – Why’d you have to bring me flowers (Anti) 5. Emma Pollock – Rapid rush of red (Chemikal Underground) ( playing Oran Mor, Glasgow, Oct 29 ) 6. The Alien Dub Ensemble – Pundit dub (Alien Transistor) 7. Eera – Celebrate (Test Card Recordings) 8. Geckos – Lo hice (ORG Music/PIAPTK Recordings) 9. Mark McCausland feat Pieta Brown & John Parish – Sweet Thursday (Delatasonic Records) (from the soundtrack of the film The Spin ) 10. Barry Walker Jr feat. Rob Smith & Jason Willmon – Quiessence (Thrill Jockey) 11. Prolapse – Swearing for decoration (Tapete Records) ( play...

the search for new sounds does not have to be a treadmill enjoy x Playlist 1. CV Vision – R.T.B. (Bureau B) 2. Prolapse – The fall of cashline (Tapete Records) 3. claire rousay – somewhat burdensome (Thrill Jockey) 4. The Saxophones – Too big for California (Full Time Hobby) 5. Joasihno – Characo orb. (Alien Transistor) 6. Anushka Chkheidze + Robert Lippok – Rainbow road (Morr Music) 7. Kathryn Williams – Goodbye to summer (One Little Independent) ( playing The Folk House, Bristol, Oct 31 ) 8. Cian Nugent – I am asleep and do not wake me (Tompkins Square) (Imaginational Anthem XIV) 9. Ailbhe Reddy – Align (Don Giovanni Records) 10. Stereolab – Aerial Troubles (Duophonic/Warp) ( playing Cyprus Avenue, Cork, Feb 19 ) 11. Linda Smith – So long ago (Upset The Rhythm) 12. Cardiacs – Downup (The Alphabet Business Concern) 13. Me Lost Me – Ancient summer (Upset The Rhythm) 14. Chantal Acda – Hit the verge (Starman Records) 15. Clock DVA – Consent (Mute) 16. EERA...

the dub is the genius alien dub orchestra loads of brass love it x Playlist 1. Donna Regina – Nothing heavy (Karaoke Kalk) 2. Stella & The Dreaming – In another life (bandcamp) ( playing Coughlans, Cork, Sept 26, w/ Ana Palindrome ) 3. Emma Pollock – Prize Hunter (Chemikal Underground) 4. Thee Marloes – I’d be lost (Big Crown Records) 5. Sam Prekop – Light shadow (Thrill Jockey) 6. Kathryn Williams – Tender (One Little Independent) ( playing St Pancras Old Church, London, Oct 24 ) 7. Julie Odell – Orioles eating oranges (Frenchkiss Records) 8. The Cords – Fabulist (Skep Wax) ( playing Mono, Glasgow, Oct 5 ) 9. EERA – I’ll stop when I’m done (Test Card Recordings) 10. The Alien Dub Orchestra – Bike rack (Alien Transistor) 11. AVR – Renaissance (Holywood) ( playing The George, London, Oct 15 ) 12. Mark McCausland – We’ll be just fine (Deltasonic Records) (from the soundtrack of the film The Spin ) 13. Cormac O Caoimh – The heart of the human race (bandca...

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...

so the final round up for 2024... ...there's a couple of smouldering soul tracks, marie klock twice, some knockout appalachian folk tunes, a low cover with trumpet, a drop dead choir in stasis, some of the soundtrack from one of the best films of the year... ...and a bit of chappell enjoy, my friends x Playlist 1. Marie Klock – Se goinfrer de rage (Pingipung) 2. Thee Heart Tones – Forever and ever (Big Crown Records) 3. Lake of Puppies – Si c’est fidelité (Wamho Records) 4. Supersempfft – Roboterwerke (bureau b) 5. Graham Reynolds – Mountain Part 1 (Fire Records) 6. Dave Guy – Diamond encore (Big Crown Records) 7. Magic Tuber Stringband – A dance on a Saturday night (Thrill Jockey) 8. Elephant – For a friend (Excelsior Recordings) 9. Cormac O Caoimh – My harbour (bandcamp) 10. Jeremy Warmsley – Dancing on the moon (bandcamp) 11. Anadol & Marie Klock – Sonate au jambon (Pingipung) 12. Brainstory – Hanging on (Big Crown Records) 13. Stuart Moxham ...

visiting tokyo, cork, boston, melbourne, berlin, london, sunderland, rotterdam, belfast and dublin enjoy x Playlist 1. Bananagun – Free energy (Full Time Hobby) 2. Chalk – Tell me (Nice Swan) 3. Sprints – Up and comer (City Slang) 4. Rats on Rafts – Japanese medicine (Fire Records) 5. Memorials – Acceptable experience (Fire Records) 6. Silverbacks – Selling shovels (bandcamp) 7. The Last Sound – Sting Possible Combinations (Cruel Nature Records) 8. Albertine Sarges – Stand near your fire (Moshi Moshi) 9. Marcel Wave – Something looming (Upset The Rhythm) 10. Field Music – The waitress of St Louis (Memphis Industries) 11. The Silver Abduction – Remember my heart (Lightwell Recordings) 12. Katrina Ford – Dundalk dungeon (Violin Films) 13. Oslo Twins – Sally (Half Normal Records) 14. Hilary Bow – Fall fall (bandcamp) 15. Kugelschreiber – (me x u) ≠ (u x me) (Wamho Records) 16. muckno – manboy (bandcamp) 17. Throwing Muses – Drigstore drastic (Fire Records) ...

tripping through sheffield, surabaya, los angeles, navan, fermanagh, helsinki, cork, copenhagen & montreal in this batch enjoy x Playlist 1. Minwhi Lee – Mirror therapy for phantom pain (Alien Transistor) 2. Ella Raphael – Tangled love (Fire Records) 3. Yosa Peit – Shelly (Fire Records) 4. Naima Bock – Takes one (Sub Pop Records/Memorials of Distinction) 5. Bobby Oroza – Goddess (Big Crown Records) 6. David Murphy – An Draigheann (Rollercoaster Records) 7. Hiro Ama feat. Keeley Forsyth – Billowing (PRAH Recordings) 8. Golden Bug feat. The Liminanas & Vega Voga – Hi No Tori (La Belle) 9. Jessica Pratt – Life is (City Slang) 10. Matthew Bourne – The mirror and its fragments (The Leaf Label) 11. Róis – Caoine (bandcamp) 12. William D Drake – The flickering shade (Zebedog Records) 13. Myriam Gendron – Long way home (Thrill Jockey & Feeding Tube) 14. Oisin Leech – Colour of the rain (Outside Music/Tremone Records) 15. Mary Lattimore & Walt McClem...

a first look back at the year in music x Playlist 1. Echolalia – Odd energy (bandcamp) 2. Derya Yildirim & Grup Simsek – Cool hand (Big Crown Records) 3. Homer feat. girl named GOLDEN – Wishing well (Big Crown Records) 4. Organi – Babylonia (Alien Transistor) 5. Tarwater – USA (Morr Music) 6. The Attendant – eden rock (faux lux) 7. Trust Fund – Leaving the party early (Tapete Records) 8. claire rousay – head (Thrill Jockey) 9. Daisy Rickman – Signpost to the stars (bandcamp) 10. Ariel Sharratt & Mathias Kom – Never work (BB*Island) 11. John Hynes – In over my head (bandcamp) 12. Aislinn Logan – Stolen days (self release) 13. Camille Baziadoly – Skin on fire (bandcamp) 14. Amy Rigby – Bricks (Tapete Records) 15. Penny Arcade – Jona (Tapete Records) 16. The Gentle Spring – Sugartown (Skep Wax) 17. SUN – Missing (Alien Transistor) 18. Pupkulies & Rebecca + Tibau Tavares – Nha badjam (Normoton) 19. Will Gregory Moog Ensemble – Young Archimedes (Mut...