The Underground of Happiness

Tunes for your heatwave x Playlist 1. Decisive Pink – Dopamine (Fire Records) 2. Colleen – Subterranean-Movement I (Thrill Jockey) ( playing Le Guess Who, Utrecht, Nov 11 ) 3. Minwhi Lee – Dream (Morr Music) 4. Yann Tiersen – Ar maner kozh (Mute) ( playing Liquid Room, Edinburgh, Aug 8 ) 5. Spirit Fest – Lost & Found (Morr Music) 6. Saroos feat Ronald Lippok – Tin & glass (Alien Transistor) 7. Robin Saville – Beltane (Morr Music) 8. Anadol – Yapilacak Kadin (Pingipung) 9. Me Lost Me – Mirie it is while summer I last (Upset The Rhythm) 10. A.R. Kane – Crack-up (Rocket Girl) 11. Swans – Michael is done (Mute/Young God Records) ( playing The Academy, Dublin, Aug 21 ) 12. Current Affairs – Reactor (Tough Love) ( playing The Lexington, London, July 26 ) 13. Naked Lungs – Relentless (Naked Lungs) 14. POZI – Faulty receiver (PRAH Recordings) 15. Vanishing Twin – Afternoon X (Fire Records) 16. Water Machine – Water Machine Part II (Upset The Rhythm) 17. Heav...

aka Massive Summer Backlog Mix Lots of cello going around at the moment. Not sure why. But always welcome. Enjoy. x Playlist 1. Decisive Pink – Destiny (Fire Records) 2. Bruce Haack – Cherubic hymn (Columbia) 3. CV Vision – Die frommen wanderer (bureau b) 4. Mera Bhai feat Stealing Sheep – Evil butter (Morning Raga Recordings) 5. Air Waves – Star earring (Planningtorock’s Planning to Star Version) (Fire Records) ( playing The Shacklewell Arms, London, June 19 ) 6. Modern Cosmology – Le train ne passera pas (Duophonic UHF Disk) 7. The Chills – Party in my heart (Fire Records) 8. The Chills – Double summer (Fire Records) ( playing Whelan’s, Dublin, June 22 ) 9. Caoilian Sherlock – Push the oil away (bandcamp) ( playing The Green Room, Cork Opera House, July 1 ) 10. MD Pallavi & Andi Otto – Flute boy (Pingipung) 11. Eden Ahbez – Eden’s Island (Trunk Records) 12. Minwhi Lee – Borrowed tongue (Morr Music) 13. The Saxophones – Boy crazy (Full Time Hobby) 14....

New music for spring. Enjoy. x Playlist 1. Ghost Power – Lithic fragment (Duophonic UHF Disk) 2. Robert Forster – It’s only poison (Tapete) ( playing Cyprus Avenue, Cork, July 26 ) 3. Terry – Gold duck (Upset The Rhythm) 4. The Toads – Nationalsville (Upset The Rhythm) 5. Josephine Foster – Haunted house (Fire Records) ( playing Supersonic Festival, Birmingham, Sept 3 ) 6. Comet Gain – Your just lonely (Tapete) 7. Bill Pritchard – Lance (Tapete) 8. Immaterial Possession – To the fete (Fire Records) 9. Me Lost Me – Eye witness (Upset The Rhythm) ( playing Hyper Inverter Festival, Ulverston, June 30-July 2 ) 10. Low – Lord, can you hear me? (Rocket Girl) (A Tribute to Spacemen 3) 11. Low – Sunflower (Kranky) 12. Death & Vanilla – Out for magic (Fire Records) 13. Purple Submarine Orchestra – Zinedine Zidane (Martyrs of Pop) ( It’s a Deluxe World compilation ) 14. The Notwist – Exit strategy to myself (Live from Alien Research Center) (Morr Music) 15. The T...

New music for the spring. Enjoy. x Playlist 1. Modern Cosmology – A time to blossom (Duophonic UHF Disk) 2. The Telescopes – Butterfly (Tapete) 3. Arborist – Matisse (Kirkinriola Records) 4. Audioweb – Remember that Monday (Nowhere) 5. Naima Bock – Lines (Sub Pop/Memorials of Distinction) ( playing Wide Awake Festival, London, May 27 ) 6. Nation of Language – Sole obsession (Play It Again Sam) ( playing Primavera Sound Festival, Barcelona/Madrid, June 2/9 ) 7. Okay Kaya – Jazzercise (Jagjaguwar) ( playing The Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh, Apr 3 ) 8. POZI – Pest control (Prah Recordings) ( playing 100 Club, London, June 14 ) 9. Rozi Plain – Painted the room (Memphis Industries) ( playing Brighten the Corners Festival, Ipswich, June 10 ) 10. Sara Wolff – Don’t feed the birds 11. Tony Njoku – Lost forever (Moshi Moshi Records) ( playing Wanderfal Festival, Falmouth, Apr 8 ) 12. Henrik Lindstrand – Hvid (One Little Independent) 13. Cormac O Caoimh – Didn’t we 14. MD ...

A mix of some of my favourite instrumental music. There are some vocals involved here, I hear you say, but voices used in an instrumental way, I would say. Non lyrical voices, let's say. What strikes me listening back is the range of emotions in these tunes. Romantic. Melancholy. Reverie. Delirious. Stoic. Noirish. Beauty and strangeness. Electronic. Stringed. Ambient. Gothenburg. Tokyo. Dublin. Down. Philadelphia. Berlin. Tucson. Toronto. Enjoy. x Playlist Ennio Morricone – Come Maddalena (EMI) Moondog – Theme (Columbia) Áine O’Dwyer – For the souls of our fleas (Fort Evil Fruit) Faten Kanaan – Ebla (Fire Records) ( playing Union Chapel, London, Apr 28, w/ Colin Stetson ) Silver Servants – Spailing farrows (Second Language) Pieter Nooten – Lo-fi lullaby (Rocket Girl) Maggie Bjorklund – Flow (Tompkins Square) ( Luke Schneider presents Imaginational Anthem Vol XI: Chrome Universal – A survey of modern pedal steel ) Edward Williams – Japanese m...

In this episode, there's a couple of edits from an interview I did with Marina Allen in Dublin last week, as she was on her European tour. I'll post the full interview shortly - she's an interesting and charming character. Aswell as some Marina Allen music, I've also included a few tracks by artists mentioned by Marina as influences - Joanna Newsom, Meredith Monk and Linda Perhacs. Also new music from Spencer Cullum, Núria Graham, Robert Forster, Marlody and Dana Gavanski. Enjoy. x Playlist 1. Saeko Killy – Sun shower (bureau b) 2. Chalk – Static (Dutch Tilt) 3. Ghost Woman – Three weeks straight (Full Time Hobby) 4. Núria Graham – Fire Mountain Oh Sacred Ancient Fountain (Verve Forecast/New Deal/Primavera Labels/Universal Music) ( playing Primavera Sound Festival, Barcelona/Madrid, June 3/10 ) 5. Dana Gavanski – My thoughts (Full Time Hobby) ( playing Point Ephemere, Paris, Apr 16 ) 6. Marlody – Summer (Skep Wax) 7. Terry – Centuries (Upset The...

new music for the new year enjoy x Playlist 1. BMX Bandits – Long forgotten summer (Tapete Records) 2. Arborist – Dreaming in another language (Kirkinriola Records) 3. Danny Carroll – Affection (bandcamp) 4. David Brewis – Surface noise (Daylight Saving Records) 5. Hiro Ama – Ultramarine (Silent Way) 6. POZI – Failing (PRAH Recordings) ( playing Shacklewell Arms, London, Feb 3 ) 7. The Notwist – Sans soleil (Morr Music) 8. Death and Vanilla – Looking glass (Fire Records) ( playing The White Hotel, Manchester, Apr 22 ) 9. Amber Arcades – Odd to even (Fire Records) ( playing The Hug & Pint, Glasgow, Feb 5 ) 10. Decisive Pink – Haffmilch holiday (Fire Records) 11. Faten Kanaan – Florin Court (Fire Records) 12. Gemma Rogers – The great escape (Tiny Global Productions) 13. Ghost Woman – The end of a gun (Full Time Hobby) ( playing The Lexington, London, March 8 ) 14. Boa Morte – Hard to know (Gare du Nord) 15. Josephine Foster – Pendulum (Fire Records) 16. ...