You Are Being Served

So, another Bottomless Crates radio show went ahead on Monday just gone, the previous week's show having being cancelled due to ill health. As usual, the tunes were crispy and all was going well until the guests turned up.... Find out what happened for yourself (I can barely bring myself to talk about it and am dreading the damages bill)...

Artists this week included; Ronnie Hazlehurst, Sugar Bear, The Demon Boyz, Si Begg, Dr Octagon and Coldcut among many, many others.

First part of two

Second part of two

Back again.

Back in fuller effect.

The Bottomless Crates radio show, tonight from 10 till Midnight, 102.5 NE1 FM.... Gonna be mighty fine!

Email studio@ne1fm.com or text 60300 starting your message NE1 for shouts and all that!

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TBC 110110

Monday's show, with a touch of added Les Baxter for good measure.

1st Hour


2nd Hour

Catch of the Day

Red Snapper have produced some pretty tasty and, at times, quite mental lo-fi/jazz/funk/hip hop/electronica nuggets over the years, here's a few morsels - do watch out for the bones....

Strike One and Last One (Coldcutted and Gutted by DJ Food), both taken from the 1996 Loopascoopa EP.

Mooking (Depth Charge remix), from the Mooking 12", again 1996).

Radio Shoes

At long last, here are the two previous Bottomless Crates shows from NE1FM. The show from last week is in 2 halves as it's 2hrs.

Thursday 6th August

Thursday 13th August Pt 1

Thursday 13th August Pt 2

With the change of studio and an assortment of techinical gremlins things could have been better presentation wise (!), but rest assured, the tunes are top notch.....

Unofficial off on a tangent reggae(ish) Monday...

Moving further away from hip-hop but retaining the theme of the previous post, we bring you a couple of tunes from the back catalogue of Dub Syndicate. Firstly, 1991's "Stoned Immaculate". Taken from the album of the same name, the choice of track name and album cover art seems unusual- when was the last time you heard of dub being associated with spliff??

Going back to 1984, taken from "Tunes From The Missing Channel" we have "Ravi Shankar" (PT.1). No prizes for guessing the instrumentation that supplies the backbone of this one.

Chemicals

I don't recall seeing this on any other Chemical Bros. albums or compilations, so this may be of interest to some... "Buzz Tracks" was the B-side to the Setting Sun 12" in 1996.

All good clean fun, especially the comically nauseating tape loop effect at 3 mins-ish...

Bring back summer...

So, the weather has been surprisingly pleasant of late, until today when it actually feels like April... The sun has got his hat on, but also appears to have buggered off to the pub...

A couple of happy bits and bobs now to keep the mood up...

The first of todays tracks is kind of sunshine related, being the B side of Alex Reece's "Feel the Sunshine" from 1996.
Austrian knob-twiddlers, Kruder and Dorfmeister, work their magic over "Jazz Master" and justify adding an umbrella to your pint.

The second is one of my favourite breaks of all time and just an outstanding song in it's own right, from 1972 it's Al Green with "I'm Glad You're Mine".

Uncommon Covers

As requested offline, two covers of well known tracks from less well known artists..

Billie Jean/Mama Used To Say by Shinehead, 1986

and

Under The Boardwalk by Howie B, 2001.

Enjoy, comments welcome as always.

Hello. Good Afternoon. Welcome

It's Easter Monday and what better way to celebrate than by hearing something good for the first time?

I'm starting off with a track from Howie B's "Another Late Night" compilation. It's ripped from vinyl, so apologies to our younger viewers who may notice additional snap, crackle and pop.

The crates contain some other Spacer stuff which is pretty nice (and may well appear here in time), but this track is probably more of a curiosity for Goldfrapp fans. Alison Goldfrapp lends her voice to proceedings here with not unpleasant results. The tune was originally released on Howie B's
Pussyfoot Records in 2000.

More stuff to come soon, enjoy, and comments very welcome...

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