Track Of The Day: Thomas Melchior - Feel Sensual (Perlon)

 

One from the early days of Perlon. Minimal before minimal. Having said that there’s plenty going on here. Of course it’s the eponymous vocal sample that grabs the attention first, but closer listening reveal a myriad of sonic activity. The percussion is what most stands out, but under the hi-hats you’ve got a guitar that sounds like a sitar, a laid-back sub bass and an undulating, indefinable floater. It sounds like the sound a short wave radio might make when overheating. It skips along a bit too quickly for me, so I’d pitch it down a tadge. 

Track Of The Day: LFO - Psycodelik (Warp)

 

Keeping it Yorkshire innit. LFO are from Sheffield and they are worth a comparison with Cabaret Voltaire not just for geographical reasons. So much of their output goes under the radar.’Psycodelik’, for their second album ‘Advance’ being a case in point. I bought this album pretty much on its day of release. However, it’s been so long since I listened to it that I’ve forgotten any specifics. ‘Psycodelik’ sounds like dance floor techno composed by a hybrid of The BBC Radiophonic Workshop and Jean-Michel Jarre. What it lacks in bass it more than makes up for in self-consciously affected space age high end effects and a sense of the euphoric. A great track from an album that I shall be revisiting before travelling up to Sheffield on Sunday.

Track Of The Day: Cabaret Voltaire - Sluggin' Fer Jesus Pt 1 & 2 (Les Disques Du Crépuscule)

 

Two for the price of one. One of Cabaret Voltaire’s finest earlier moments (by that I mean before the got groovier). Described as industrial in some quarters, when it sounds the opposite. Very primitive and organic. It can’t have been easy to get the machines to discover their inner organisms. This is a piece of tribal electronica which probably wrote most of 23 Skidoo’s nascent output for them. It’s a sampling masterclass that in turns reeks of cold war espionage and tribal funk. I’m off to Sheffield on Sunday for what is supposed to be their last ever gig. I don’t think they’ll perform this. It’ll probably be ‘Voice Of America’. Two sides of the same coin.

Track Of The Day: Giorgio Moroder - Paul's Theme (Jogging Chase) (UMG Recordings)

 

Feeling a little lazy today, so here’s something from ‘Cat People’ that sort of fits the bill. That is to say my name’s Paul and I’m about to go out running. Not jogging, that seventies/eighties fad invented by the target of Bill Hicks’ ire, Jim Fixx. I don’t have the leg warmers or head band. And is there a more eighties actress than Nastassia Kinski? She came and went. Where is she now I wonder? She’s still with us and she’s ]older than me! That feels odd. I’ve only ever viewed her through the prism of that decade and ‘Paris Texas’, ‘Tess’ and this film. Giorgio Moroder pulls out another one of his inimitable electric sagas. Has this ever been edited or extended? I’m a bit too lazy to look. The time is now though.

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Track Of The Day: Headman - Be Loved (Daniel Avery's 'Divided Love' Remix) (Relish)

 

I’ve just come across this very recent Daniel Avery remix of Headman’s ‘Be Loved’, and had to post it. If, for nothing else, nostalgia’s sake. I had quite a few Headman records a while back, but they seem to have vanished. I think they may have all been taken in the great flood of spring 2016, when I lost around a quarter of my collection courtesy of a small pipe which went into the bathroom sink suddenly bursting when we were in France. Luckily one of my sons was passing the house at the time and he thought he’d pop in for some free nosh. Imagine his surprise top enter the kitchen to get showered and to soon find around an inch of water on the floor.I was in Monet’s garden in Giverny at the time, were it was also pissing down. Having to arrange an emergency plumber from another country wasn’t part of the plan, but we got it done. I dread to think what would have happened if the leak had gone undiscovered. Anyway, I lost a lot of records, amongst other stuff, including my collection of Headman heat. Luckily we’ve got people like Daniel Avery who are up for a reinterpretation. And this is truly excellent. A slo-mo bleep fest that pulses its way across the dance floor using a combination of low end sonar and high end brittleness. Losing my Headman records wasn’t my happiest moment, but it’s good to see a and hear that the chug and bleeps remain intact.

Luxus Varta - Super Filter (In Abstracto)

 

Title: Super Filter

Artist: Luxus Varta

Label: In Abstracto

Cat Number: IA05

Genre: Electro

1: Shadow Play

2: Heavy Cream

3: Easy Listening

4: Tragic Fit

Monsewer Varta’s music isn’t the easiest to categorise, and I guess he probably likes it that way. Electro is just a sobriquet because although it feels like that, it’s so much more. ‘Shadow Play’ for example, relies on break beats to propel it through the thick, dark water that infuses the sonic underpass, but it feels like a reinterpretation of a Sisters Of Mercy record played through the apex of a Naum Gabo sculpture. ‘Heavy Cream’, the title alone feels radioactive, breathes like a Geiger Counter draped in menacing black underwear. Now when I think of easy listening, I think of Val Doonican and Perry Como. However, this eponymously titled track sounds like the accompaniment to a Vampire getting up for a midnight stroll with only one thing on its mind. ‘Tragic Fit’ is possibly the most conventional electro piece on the release, but it feels like it was composed by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, put in a centrifuge and then passed on to John Barry to see if he “could do something with it”. It’s possibly the best track on this release, but it’s all good. Just make sure you’re in the mood and it’s Hallowe’en. 

Call Super @TheLotRadio 10-16-2026

 

Track Of The Day: Brainticket - Black Sand (Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah)

 

Brainticket have been buried deep within the recesses of my mind for at least forty years. I first came across them during the scag years. Synthetic heroin flooded Merseyside in the late seventies and early eighties. I wasn’t a participant, but I knew some who were. There was also a rush on very strong cough medicines at the same time. Actifed and Phensedyl being particular favourites. Anyway, if you couldn’t get hold of any scag or methadone, you could try your local pharmacy and see what they had. If they saw you coming, then more frustration would await. Once equipped, back to a squalid flat or bedsit to be accompanied by Hawkweed or some other far out purveyor of sonic bliss. The organ stabs on ‘Black Sand’ are instantly recognisable, and take me back to a place I don’t want to revisit. I got out alive though.

Track Of The Day: Mondocane - Touring (Cosmovision Records)

 

Simple psychedelic chug just the way it was meant to be. It’s a deceptively minimal arrangement which makes good use of some off-key dynamics and a persistent, almost under the radar guitar riff to drive it along. Not much more to say, except I’m stunned that the video has only had four likes in the three years since it was posted. One of those being me.

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