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Melodic Randomiser: Isolation Radio, day thirty four.

Good morn-eve-ternoon to you, wherever you may be on this grey and rainy Tuesday.

Yes, rain!

Nobody mentioned there would be rain as well as a global pandemic, and a social lockdown; so I don’t even have the luxury of sitting in the garden to bring you the Isolation Radio show today, as the Melodic Randomiser isn’t waterproof and it is pretty miserable in our leaky shed.

So, a sofa-bound edition of the show starts like this…

My Morning Jacket, with “I Will Sing You Songs”, from 2003’s It Still Moves album…

…followed, by a truly amazing coincidence, by Dave Grohl; ex-Nirvana drummer and now Foo Fighters frontman, who once described MMJ as his favourite band.

Here he is in his current incarnation, with a song from the Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace album, beware the deceptively quiet intro to “Let it Die”

Which segues rather nicely into the jangly psychedelia of The Black Angels for our third and final track of the day, this is “The Executioner” from the 2014 album, Clear Lake Forest

I hope you have better weather where you are and whatever the climate, I aim to bring you more aural sunshine tomorrow.

Stay safe, stay dry, be froody to each other.

Peace

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Melodic Randomiser: Isolation Radio, day thirty three.

The start of another calender week (I’m not prepared to attempt anything more specific than that) means, well, it means exactly the same as every other day for the last 32, it’s time for more from the Melodic Randomiser, coming to you via the Isolation Radio show.

Dusting off a classic 1982 album to start with; The Party’s Over by a band which was the brainchild of the late, great Mark Hollis, this is “Mirror Man” by Talk Talk

And staying in the decade that fashion forgot, here’s some Gary Numan and an album track from 1980’s Telekon, called “Photograph”

https://youtu.be/Oi2aiWe9TP0

There is no obvious connection to the final song today, but that’s the nature of the Randomiser and its still a fine selection; The Wombats and 2015’s “Sex and Question Marks” from their Glitterbug album.

I hope your week has got off to a positive start, wherever you are and whatever you’re doing. I’ll be back here tomorrow, reality permitting, to provide the soundtrack to a small part of your Tuesday.

Have a marvellous Monday.

Peace

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Melodic Randomiser: Isolation Radio, day thirty one.

A full month by anybody’s standards, thirty one days old and the Isolation Radio show is still going strong, aided and abetted by the vicissitudes of the Melodic Randomiser, which has picked for today’s first audio delight…

…a 2013 rap supergroup; Run the Jewels and a track from their eponymous debut album, “36” Chain”, along with its…interesting video.

We follow that with a nice bit of minimal acid electro from Posthuman and a track off the 2018 Mutant City Acid album, this is “Gods of Technology”

And, closing today’s zigzag meander through the musical landscape, we come upon the self-titled, modern prog/space rock album by the always excellent Secret Machines and an 11 minute epic called “The Fire is Waiting”, enjoy.

How was that for a big finish? Fantastic stuff, I’m sure you’ll agree. Join me tomorrow for another blast of random tunage and in the meantime, as a wise man once said; always look on the bright side of life.

Peace

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Melodic Randomiser: Isolation Radio, day twenty seven.

So…this would be…Tuesday?

If it’s all merging into one huge mega-day and you don’t know your ass from your metaphor, never fear, the Isolation Radio show is on hand with its trusty accomplice, the Melodic Randomiser to bring you bang up to date…

…to 1994, with Everything but the Girl and possibly their most famous hit, “Missing”, from the Amplified Heart album.

Not changing the pace too much, we go back a couple of decades and slip across the English Channel to France, for some Jean Michel Jarre and “Oxygène, part IV”, from 1976’s groundbreaking Oxygène album.

https://youtu.be/5DDEl7JnWvo

And we end up in 1977 with the proto-Human League and a track from The Golden Hour of the Future, this is “Disco Disaster”

A strange mix, I admit, but that’s what it’s all about here on the Isolation Radio show and there’ll be more tomorrow.

Stay safe and love each other.

Peace

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Melodic Randomiser: Isolation Radio, day twenty six.

It’s still Monday, right?

Whew, that’s good, just time to squeeze in your daily dose of tunes from the Isolation Radio show, brought to you as ever by the magic of the Melodic Randomiser.

First we have “Love Me and Leave Me” from the Do It Yourself album by The Seahorses, solo project of Stone Roses guitarist, John Squire.

Next it’s Bomb the Bass and their classic electro dance single “Beat Dis”

Ending with a nice bit of motorik Krautrock from CAN and “One More Night” from their 1972 album Ege Bamyasi

And with that, I wish you goodnight sweet dreams and happy risings.

Keep healthy, stay safe.

Peace

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Melodic Randomiser: Isolation Radio, day twenty three.

Welcome back to the Isolation Radio show, brought to you by the impenetrable machinations of the Melodic Randomiser and its chaotically arranged memory banks.

Bubbling to the surface of the data pool first today is a song called “Cacti”, from 2017’s eponymous first album by space rock merchants, Holy Monitor…

…continuing in a similarly out-there vein, with the frankly bonkers afro/prog/jazz fusion of Melt Yourself Down, we have a track from another self-titled debut; here’s “Kingdom of Kush”

And, just to change the mood a little, let’s have a bit of anthemic, new punk, from possibly my favourite of the many similar bands from the ’90/00s, Lit. Despite their adolescent sense of humour, they have a way with clever lyrics and catchy tunes; here’s one from the 2001 Atomic album, “She Comes”.

You’ll have to tune in tomorrow to find out what comes next in the chain, it could be anything so don’t touch that dial.

I hope your weekend has begun safely and in good health, let’s all keep that determination to beat this thing together, by staying apart.

Peace

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Melodic Randomiser: Isolation Radio, day twenty two.

What a beautiful day to still be alive! And what better excuse do we need than that on the Isolation Radio show, to play a few more unexpectedly selected tunes from the Melodic Randomiser?

Excuses, we don’t need no stinking excuses.

So let’s get on with it; starting with Underworld and a very early song from their 1988 album, Underneath the Radar, here’s the very ’80s “Call Me No.1”

Going back two years to ’86 now, for Talking Heads‘ True Stories album and a typically upbeat, afrobeat-tinged “Hey Now”

Then we head even further down the time tunnel, to 1980 and “The Spy in the Cab”, from Bauhaus‘ In the Flat Field album.

https://youtu.be/2PMNQmSavfM

Not the cheeriest note to end on, but variety is the spice of life, as Mr Heinz noted, 57 times.

Good to have you with me again today, join me in 24 hours for another spin on the virtual turntables and stay safe out there.

Peace

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Melodic Randomiser: Isolation Radio, day twenty one.

Shuffling ahead with today’s Isolation Radio show, the Melodic Randomiser‘s first choice for the day is another song from Crystal Fighters, this time from their 2016 Everything is my Family album; here is the official video for the joyous “Good Girls”

Then we have something by another of my long time musical heroes, the very epitome of the English pop music eccentric; Thomas Dolby, and the title track from his 1984 opus, this is “The Flat Earth”

More from Simple Minds now, from possibly their most iconic album, Sparkle in the Rain, let’s end today’s show with “Up on the Catwalk”

A fine selection, I think you have to admit, there has to have been something you liked in that terrific trio, surely…

If not, although I can’t imagine why that would be, you’ll have to join me tomorrow and seek out something that tickles your fancy there instead, won’t you?

Keep on keeping on, feel the love and let music be your anchor in these tempestuous times.

Peace

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Melodic Randomiser: Isolation Radio, day seventeen.

Opening today’s Isolation Radio show is a song the Melodic Randomiser plucked from a 2002 album by Canadian pop-punk delinquents, Sum 41. From the aptly titled Does This Look Infected?, this is “Hyper-Insomnia-Para-Condrioid”.

A noisy start which contrasts completely with this pleasantly ethereal number from Natalie Marchant‘s 1998 release, “Ophelia”, so lay back and drift away to “Break Your Heart”.

And we end on a similarly laid back note, with one of the biggest artists of all time, from one of the best selling albums of all time; here’s “Oh Daddy” by Fleetwood Mac, from 1977’s mega-selling masterpiece, Rumours.

That should soothe your worries away quite nicely, allowing you to enjoy a relaxed and, above all, indoor Saturday night.

So, keep the faith, look for the positives in life and do what good you can for your fellow humans by staying safe and healthy and, until I join y’all again tomorrow…

Peace

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Melodic Randomiser: Isolation Radio, day sixteen.

Sweet sixteen and full of joie de vivre, the Isolation Radio show returns with another musical microcosm of mp3 magnificence, ably aided and abetted by the marvellous, mechanical Melodic Randomiser.

Starting today’s trawl through the archives is a band who I owe my interest in to my friend, Chris; a electronic-tinged goth act from Leeds that soundtracked much of my 20s, The March Violets.

Here’s a song from arguably their best album, Natural History, this is 1984’s “Crow Baby”

Now we travel south to London and come comparatively up to date with 2017’s African influenced Uyai album by Ibibio Sound Machine, from which we take the persuasively percussive funk soul tune, “The Pot is on Fire”.

And since I’m feeling generous, I’m giving you the extended live version, recorded at the Norwegian Oya Festival, two years before being included on the album.

Tell me that didn’t get your foot tapping and your body bopping, I dare you.

For our last offering today, we arrive back up north just in time to catch another of my all time favourite bands, New Order; shuffling up a track from their Low-life album, about which frontman Bernard Sumner once said (regarding the band’s herculean drug intake at the time):

“Listen to ‘Love Vigilantes.’ Listen to that chordal guitar solo. Listen to how fast it is. Impossible to recreate under normal circumstances.”

Anyway, you can judge for yourselves as you watch the original promo video for the single, here’s the chemically enhanced “Love Vigilantes”.

Which brings us to the end of today’s miniature rundown and all that remains is for me to wish you the happiest of weekends and remind you to keep safe and stay positive.

And remember, to paraphrase the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers; Music will get you through times of no money, better than money will get you through times of no music.

So we’re all rich, Yay!

Until tomorrow,

Peace

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