Friday 22 February 2013
PLAYLIST 22.02.13
Soon, Soon, Soon 3:23 Kevin Ayers 'Joy of a Toy' (EMI)
Green Eyed 2:53 September Girls 'Green Eyed/Danny Wood' (EmuBands)
Ichiban 3:39 Sex Hands (Self Release)
Sucker Punched 3:50 Mazes 'Ores & Minerals' (Fat Cat)
Undercover 6:10 Ducktails 'The Flower Lane' (Domino)
Time Lost (Radio Edit) 3:35 Portasound (Blood & Biscuits)
Jeff Leopard 4:00 Gallops (Blood & Biscuits)
AM Portal 5:53 LONE
Tunnel 5:41 Matmos 'The Marriage of True Minds' (Thrill Jockey)
Here We Go Again 3:27 Christopher Owens 'Lysandre'
Bound To The City 3:52 The Age of Glass (Self Release)
Beyond The Edge of The World 3:27 Praguedren 'Kartography' (Dank Disks)
Heaven's Sins 5:02 Piatcions 'Heaven's Sins EP' (Fuzz Club Records)
The Dark Age 3:43 Widowspeak 'Almanac' (Captured Tracks)
The Flower Lane 4:29 Ducktails 'The Flower Lane' (Domino)
Coming Out of the Fog 5:28 Arbouretum 'Coming Out of the Fog' (Thrill Jockey)
My Heart Beats Veronica Falls 2:59 'Waiting For Something To Happen' (Bella Union)
I Can't Do it 2:52 39th & The Nortons 'On Trial' (Evil Hoodoo)
Interview with James Young of Darkstar
Time Away 3:22 Darkstar 'News From Nowhere' (Warp)
Iridescent Asteroid Mists 4:30 Vox Mod feat. Shabazz Palaces 'Syn-aesthetic'
Interneta Abstractca 4:26 Fature 'An Abstract Tomorrow' (Self Release)
Machineries of Joy 3:47 British Sea Power 'Machineries of Joy' (Rough Trade)
Ivy Covered House 3:30 Ducktails 'The Flower Lane' (Domino)
http://www.mixcloud.com/Pipemachine/orange-flavoured-pipe-machine-220213/
Friday 15 February 2013
PLAYLIST 15.02.13
Now Listen! 1:58 L. Pierre 'The Island Come True' (Melodic)
Snapdragon 2:42 Kaleidoscope 'Further Reflections: The Complete Recordings 1967-69' (Universal)
Lithium (Nirvana Cover) 2:44 Marika Hackman 'Covers EP' (Self Release)
Youthman Dub 4:26 Sleepy Time Ghost feat. Joe Ariwa (Unit 137)
You Don't Need a Weatherman 5:17 Darkstar 'News From Nowhere (Warp)
Circle of Trust 3:13 Ooga Boogas (Aargh! Records)
Casyam_59#02 4:06 Gold Panda 'Trust EP' (Ghostly International)
All Returns 3:39 Wolf People (Jagjaguwar)
Yellow Wood 5:41 Esben & The Witch 'Wash The Sins Not Only The Face' (Matador)
Statues 4:29 Hüsker Dü 'Amusement' (Numero Group)
Dirty Room 4:37 The Go (Burger Records)
Cathouse 2:35 Pissed Jeans 'Honeys' (Sub Pop)
Silver Cloud Dream Come True 7:04 Actress 'Silver Cloud EP' (Werkdisks)
Bardo States Dream Walker Version 4:11 Run DMT 'Stones Throw and Leaving Records Present: Dual Form Electronic' (Stones Throw)
A Day's Pay For A Day's Work 3:50 Darkstar 'News From Nowhere' (Warp)
Something That Feels Bad is Something That Feels Good 3:32 Haunted Hearts (Zoo Music)
Identical Ship 3:05 Mountains 'Centralia' (Thrill Jockey)
You Come Down 2:54 Marika Hackman (Paradyse Records)Interview with Marika Hackman at The Lantern Theatre, Sheffield 09.02.13
Cannibal 2:59 Marika Hackman (Dirty Hit)
San Francisco 3:48 Foxygen 'We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic' (Jagjaguwar)
The Lonely 5:22 Lorelle Meets The Obsolete 'Corruptible Faces' (Captcha Records)
Homosapien 4:24 PVT 'Homosapien' (Felte)
Cloud in Places 4.06 Grouper 'The Man Who Died In His Boat' (Kranky)
Armonica 3:42 Darkstar 'News From Nowhere' (Warp)
http://www.mixcloud.com/Pipemachine/orange-flavoured-pipe-machine-150213/
Sunday 10 February 2013
Interview with Marika Hackman at The Lantern Theatre, Sheffield 09.02.13
At just twenty one years old, Marika Hackman can be confident in her abilities as an artist and performer, mainly because her songs delve into themes that inspire deeper reactions than a mere pretty ditty. She draws on myth and legend and explores the dark corners of literature and landscape to create odd tales of lost love, missing body parts and weird incantations. I caught up with her after a spellbinding performance in Sheffield, at a venue that more than matched her delirious, hallucinatory imagery.
OFPM: Hi Marika. It was great to see you performing at The Lantern
Theatre tonight, the perfect environment for your unusual, surreal
compositions.
MH: Yeah, I walked in and I thought “This is perfect”,
exactly the type of venue that I love playing in. It’s amazing, so sweet and a
bit surreal because it’s so small, but it’s still so ornate and like a theatre.
A bit strange, but I like that…
OFPM: So how’s the tour progressing? You’re about half-way
through now, enjoying it so far?
MH: Yeah, very much so. It’s really nice to play to audiences that are really quiet, because they’re all sitting down and I think they’re all pretty much hardcore music fans. It’s just nice to feel a bit more appreciated than those kind of rowdy crowds where you don’t really know how it’s going down. You can never really tell when everyone’s chatting all the way through, you don’t even know what your performance has been like because you can’t even hear yourself. It’s nice to just stand up in a silent room and have everyone’s attention.
MH: Yeah, very much so. It’s really nice to play to audiences that are really quiet, because they’re all sitting down and I think they’re all pretty much hardcore music fans. It’s just nice to feel a bit more appreciated than those kind of rowdy crowds where you don’t really know how it’s going down. You can never really tell when everyone’s chatting all the way through, you don’t even know what your performance has been like because you can’t even hear yourself. It’s nice to just stand up in a silent room and have everyone’s attention.
OFPM: You’ve only
been in the public eye a short time, so tell us a bit about yourself. How long
have you been writing songs?
MH: Kind of as long as I can remember, but probably anything worth listening to from maybe since I was about sixteen. I can remember writing a song when I was about six and playing it to my headmistress at my primary school. Don’t think it went down very well (laughs).
OFPM: Where does that come from? Are your family musicians?
MH: Yeah, everyone in my family loves music and there was always music playing when I was younger. My Dad played piano and flute and was in a few bands and things like that. My Grandpa plays saxophone in a jazz band, my Granny’s a piano teacher and my Mum played piano as well. It’s all just in there I think. Somewhere…
MH: Kind of as long as I can remember, but probably anything worth listening to from maybe since I was about sixteen. I can remember writing a song when I was about six and playing it to my headmistress at my primary school. Don’t think it went down very well (laughs).
OFPM: Where does that come from? Are your family musicians?
MH: Yeah, everyone in my family loves music and there was always music playing when I was younger. My Dad played piano and flute and was in a few bands and things like that. My Grandpa plays saxophone in a jazz band, my Granny’s a piano teacher and my Mum played piano as well. It’s all just in there I think. Somewhere…
OFPM: Amidst a sea of singer-songwriters, you really stood
out when I first heard you. What struck me at first were your lyrics. There’s a
real fairy tale, dreamlike quality to them. They’re also very literary and
evocative.
MH: Yeah, I’ve always read a lot. I’m a bit of a bookworm. My Mum used to read to us every evening. Until the age of about twelve or thirteen she still was doing it, and when we were in the car or in the bath we always had story tapes on. I do a lot of train journeys for about three hours at a time and I just sit down and read a book and no one can talk to me. My Mum gets really angry when I get a new book ‘cos I’m like “aggh, just leave me alone, I want to read.” I never really think when I’m reading something, “I’m going to write something in the style of this, or write about a similar kind of thing,” but it obviously all goes in somewhere and comes out as something else…
OFPM: It strikes me that there’s a Grimm’s Fairy Tales aspect to some of your songs.
MH: I never really read Grimm’s Fairy Tales that much, but we read a lot of fairy tales. They’re all really dark though aren’t they? I think I just bring that side of it out. I don’t really think about it when I’m doing it. I grew up in the countryside and I lived on the edge of woods and by fields and things like that. I think I just injected this weird, dark side into it.
OFPM: How do your songs come into being, with the lyrics or a melody on the guitar?
MH: I usually write by playing around on my guitar and kind of humming and singing random bits of words and vowel sounds and things like that. It will just sort of click, and that will be the start. I’ll keep working on that melody and then a lyric will just pop in and it will fit just perfectly, then I can see where it’s going. It sounds a bit cheesy and lame, but I follow the song rather than trying to force it out, but generally it knows where it’s going.
OFPM: You guide it into existence? That’s great. There’s a wonderful descriptive quality to your songs too. I find a lot of modern literature very frustrating, as it seems to revolve around dialogue most of the time. Have you ever thought about writing a book?
MH: I actually did really want to be a novelist or a poet when I was about eight. Up until the age of about twelve or thirteen I wrote poems a lot. I wrote lots of beginnings of stories and I would think they were going so well, but then they would just run out of steam. That’s why I think writing a song is better, because it’s shorter.
MH: Yeah, I’ve always read a lot. I’m a bit of a bookworm. My Mum used to read to us every evening. Until the age of about twelve or thirteen she still was doing it, and when we were in the car or in the bath we always had story tapes on. I do a lot of train journeys for about three hours at a time and I just sit down and read a book and no one can talk to me. My Mum gets really angry when I get a new book ‘cos I’m like “aggh, just leave me alone, I want to read.” I never really think when I’m reading something, “I’m going to write something in the style of this, or write about a similar kind of thing,” but it obviously all goes in somewhere and comes out as something else…
OFPM: It strikes me that there’s a Grimm’s Fairy Tales aspect to some of your songs.
MH: I never really read Grimm’s Fairy Tales that much, but we read a lot of fairy tales. They’re all really dark though aren’t they? I think I just bring that side of it out. I don’t really think about it when I’m doing it. I grew up in the countryside and I lived on the edge of woods and by fields and things like that. I think I just injected this weird, dark side into it.
OFPM: How do your songs come into being, with the lyrics or a melody on the guitar?
MH: I usually write by playing around on my guitar and kind of humming and singing random bits of words and vowel sounds and things like that. It will just sort of click, and that will be the start. I’ll keep working on that melody and then a lyric will just pop in and it will fit just perfectly, then I can see where it’s going. It sounds a bit cheesy and lame, but I follow the song rather than trying to force it out, but generally it knows where it’s going.
OFPM: You guide it into existence? That’s great. There’s a wonderful descriptive quality to your songs too. I find a lot of modern literature very frustrating, as it seems to revolve around dialogue most of the time. Have you ever thought about writing a book?
MH: I actually did really want to be a novelist or a poet when I was about eight. Up until the age of about twelve or thirteen I wrote poems a lot. I wrote lots of beginnings of stories and I would think they were going so well, but then they would just run out of steam. That’s why I think writing a song is better, because it’s shorter.
OFPM: Tell us about your new album.
MH: It’s a mini-album, just seven tracks. I wrote a few of the songs a couple of years ago whilst I was still at school and I wrote some about six months ago, so there’s quite a wide span. I worked on them with Charlie Andrew who produced the Alt-j album. I was just so excited about that before I went into the studio with him. It sounds a bit different to what people might expect from me because I haven’t gone down the traditional folkie route. I‘ve tried to take it somewhere a bit different, somewhere a bit abstract.
OFPM: Is that a consequence of spending more time in the studio?
MH: I was kind of doing that on my demos at home anyway and Charlie just listened to what I said. He had some great ideas and we really worked together, there wasn’t any overriding thing going on. We were just working as a team. I’m really interested to see what people think, whether they will be shocked and surprised or whether they’ll just think it’s different.
OFPM: There’s a song you played tonight, ‘Retina Television’ which sounds very different on the album.
MH: We decided that we would do a track without any instruments on it whatsoever, and all the sounds on it had to come from me. So all of the chords that would usually be played on the guitar are hummed, and the percussion on it is me hitting myself and jumping up and down and tapping my tooth and stuff like that. It sounds kind of ethereal and strange.
OFPM: What are your visions for the future? Have you got an idea of where you want to be or what you’d like to produce?
MH: I try not to think too much into the future because I never really know what’s going to happen just two months in advance. I never really know what’s going to happen, so I try to focus on what I’m doing right now. This industry can change so quickly. You never know, in a year’s time I could be not doing anything or completely change my ideas and go off to Uni or something like that. I like to focus on what’s coming up in the very near future and make sure I’m doing it to the best of my abilities.
MH: It’s a mini-album, just seven tracks. I wrote a few of the songs a couple of years ago whilst I was still at school and I wrote some about six months ago, so there’s quite a wide span. I worked on them with Charlie Andrew who produced the Alt-j album. I was just so excited about that before I went into the studio with him. It sounds a bit different to what people might expect from me because I haven’t gone down the traditional folkie route. I‘ve tried to take it somewhere a bit different, somewhere a bit abstract.
OFPM: Is that a consequence of spending more time in the studio?
MH: I was kind of doing that on my demos at home anyway and Charlie just listened to what I said. He had some great ideas and we really worked together, there wasn’t any overriding thing going on. We were just working as a team. I’m really interested to see what people think, whether they will be shocked and surprised or whether they’ll just think it’s different.
OFPM: There’s a song you played tonight, ‘Retina Television’ which sounds very different on the album.
MH: We decided that we would do a track without any instruments on it whatsoever, and all the sounds on it had to come from me. So all of the chords that would usually be played on the guitar are hummed, and the percussion on it is me hitting myself and jumping up and down and tapping my tooth and stuff like that. It sounds kind of ethereal and strange.
OFPM: What are your visions for the future? Have you got an idea of where you want to be or what you’d like to produce?
MH: I try not to think too much into the future because I never really know what’s going to happen just two months in advance. I never really know what’s going to happen, so I try to focus on what I’m doing right now. This industry can change so quickly. You never know, in a year’s time I could be not doing anything or completely change my ideas and go off to Uni or something like that. I like to focus on what’s coming up in the very near future and make sure I’m doing it to the best of my abilities.
OFPM: How are you adapting to this process of being interviewed
by strangers and going out on tour and performing to a different audience every
night. Is it something you feel comfortable with?
MH: Yeah, you definitely get into the routine of it. I think
you just have to; it’s a way of life, a job. The first tour I did I felt a bit
homesick and a bit daunted by it. It was a pretty full-on tour. It was five
weeks on a bus with eleven guys and I didn’t know anyone. That was quite
hardcore, but after a couple of days you just think “I’ve got to get on and do
it” and then you start having fun and enjoying it.
OFPM: Thanks for talking to me Marika, it’s been wonderful
to meet you. You’ve only had a couple of singles out; but your music has become
a real staple of the show over the last few months. I’m really looking forward
to hearing the new album and seeing you succeed in the future.
MH: Thank you very much
.
Friday 8 February 2013
PLAYLIST 08.02.13
Shout It Out 2:55 Mikal Cronin 'MCII' (Merge Records)
Careless 3:03 Beach Fossils 'Clash the Truth' (Captured Tracks)
Only Tomorrow 6:22 My Bloody Valentine 'MBV' Self Release)
Water Damage 3:55 Dick Diver 'Calendar Days' (Chapter Music)
The Opposite of Afternoon 5:26 Unknown Mortal Orchestra ‘II’ (Jagjaguwar)
Cannibal 2:59 Marika Hackman (Dirty Hit)
Final Revelation 6:09 Umberto ‘Confrontations’ (Not Not Fun)
Collider 4:24 Laboratory Noise ‘The Devil Lays The Longest Path’ (Self Release)
Sinking Stone 4:08 The Circles ‘Home Demos’ (Self Release)
Paper Sky 3:35 Ian Skelly ‘Cut From A Star’ (Watertown)
Dropla Youth Lagoon 3:46 'Wondrous Bughouse' (Fat Possum)
Seer 3:04 Fear of Men 'Early Fragments' (Kanine Records)
The Chant 4:28 Dobie ‘We Will Not Harm You’ (Big Dada)
Hogs Are Coming 3:00 ALIEN BALLROOM ‘Zero PAC A.D’ (Agitated)
No Need for a Leader 5:45 Unknown Mortal Orchestra ‘II’ (Jagjaguwar)
Island Universe 3:24 Feeding People ‘Island Universe’ (Innovative Leisure)
To the Colours 4:55 Portasound ‘The Second Renaissance’ (Blood & Biscuits)
Night of the Long Grass 3:04 The Troggs 'Hit Single Anthology' (Mercury)
Do Not Claim Them Anymore 3:18 Balthazar ‘Rats’ (PIAS)
Too Much 4:14 Glumfox 'Mothbones' (Self Release)
Where Will You Go 3:15 Jacco Gardner (Trouble in Mind Records)
Whisper 2:32 Black Polygons (Self Release)
Know Til Now 6:27 Jim James ‘Regions Of Light And Sound Of God’ (V2)
Red World 5:16 Firesuite ‘Red World Special Edition CD/EP’ (Self Release)
Faded in the Morning 4:22 Unknown Mortal Orchestra ‘II’ (Jagjaguwar)
Careless 3:03 Beach Fossils 'Clash the Truth' (Captured Tracks)
Only Tomorrow 6:22 My Bloody Valentine 'MBV' Self Release)
Water Damage 3:55 Dick Diver 'Calendar Days' (Chapter Music)
The Opposite of Afternoon 5:26 Unknown Mortal Orchestra ‘II’ (Jagjaguwar)
Cannibal 2:59 Marika Hackman (Dirty Hit)
Final Revelation 6:09 Umberto ‘Confrontations’ (Not Not Fun)
Collider 4:24 Laboratory Noise ‘The Devil Lays The Longest Path’ (Self Release)
Sinking Stone 4:08 The Circles ‘Home Demos’ (Self Release)
Paper Sky 3:35 Ian Skelly ‘Cut From A Star’ (Watertown)
Dropla Youth Lagoon 3:46 'Wondrous Bughouse' (Fat Possum)
Seer 3:04 Fear of Men 'Early Fragments' (Kanine Records)
The Chant 4:28 Dobie ‘We Will Not Harm You’ (Big Dada)
Hogs Are Coming 3:00 ALIEN BALLROOM ‘Zero PAC A.D’ (Agitated)
No Need for a Leader 5:45 Unknown Mortal Orchestra ‘II’ (Jagjaguwar)
Island Universe 3:24 Feeding People ‘Island Universe’ (Innovative Leisure)
To the Colours 4:55 Portasound ‘The Second Renaissance’ (Blood & Biscuits)
Night of the Long Grass 3:04 The Troggs 'Hit Single Anthology' (Mercury)
Do Not Claim Them Anymore 3:18 Balthazar ‘Rats’ (PIAS)
Too Much 4:14 Glumfox 'Mothbones' (Self Release)
Where Will You Go 3:15 Jacco Gardner (Trouble in Mind Records)
Whisper 2:32 Black Polygons (Self Release)
Know Til Now 6:27 Jim James ‘Regions Of Light And Sound Of God’ (V2)
Red World 5:16 Firesuite ‘Red World Special Edition CD/EP’ (Self Release)
Faded in the Morning 4:22 Unknown Mortal Orchestra ‘II’ (Jagjaguwar)
Friday 1 February 2013
PLAYLIST 01.02.13
Not Enough 3:29 Food Court (Self Release)
For You 3:34 The Merrylees (Eighties Vinyl Records)
Science of shapes 2:32 Sex Jams 'Trouble, Honey' (Siluh Records)
Stupid Things 5:06 Yo La Tengo (Matador)
We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors Of Peace & Magic 4:27 Foxygen 'We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors Of Peace And Magic' (Jagjaguwar)
New Dimensions In Sound 3:42 Public Service Broadcasting (Test Card Recordings)
Edie's Dream 4:22 Suuns 'Images Du Futur' (Jagjaguwar)
(When You Wake) You're Still In A Dream 3:18 My Bloody Valentine 'Isn't Anything' (Creation)
I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night) 3:00 The Electric Prunes 'Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968' (Rhino)
1963 4:56 Heavy Beach (Self Release)
Bonnie Brae 3:33 Harper Simon (PIAS)
In Our Time 5:07 Hookworms 'Pearl Mystic' (Gringo Records)
Precession 5:25 Anthroprophh 'Anthroprophh' (Rocket Recordings)
Undercover 6:09 Ducktails 'The Flower Lane' Domino)
The Sweep 3:09 Cult of Luna 'Vertikal' (Indie Recordings)
On Blue Mountain 5:51 Foxygen 'We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors Of Peace And Magic' (Jagjaguwar)
Here I Am 3:28 Binki Shapiro & Adam Green Universal)
Home Alone 2:25 The Shrills 'Get Resurrected - Winter 2013 Sampler' (Resurrected)Heimförin 4:51 Ásgeir Trausti ‘Dýrð í dauðaþögn’ (Sena)
Indian Summer 3:29 Highasakite 'All That Floats Will Rain' (Riot Factory)
Look At The Light 3:40 Sin Fang ‘Flowers’ (Morr Music)
Poison Apple 4:14 Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats (Rise Above)
Tripalium 5:51 The Blondi’s Salvation (Self Release)
Fuse & a Spark 3:16 Angelica's Elegy (Riot Factory Records) -Norway
No Destruction 4:57 Foxygen 'We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors Of Peace And Magic' (Jagjaguwar)
http://www.mixcloud.com/Pipemachine/orange-flavoured-pipe-machine-010213/
For You 3:34 The Merrylees (Eighties Vinyl Records)
Science of shapes 2:32 Sex Jams 'Trouble, Honey' (Siluh Records)
Stupid Things 5:06 Yo La Tengo (Matador)
We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors Of Peace & Magic 4:27 Foxygen 'We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors Of Peace And Magic' (Jagjaguwar)
New Dimensions In Sound 3:42 Public Service Broadcasting (Test Card Recordings)
Edie's Dream 4:22 Suuns 'Images Du Futur' (Jagjaguwar)
(When You Wake) You're Still In A Dream 3:18 My Bloody Valentine 'Isn't Anything' (Creation)
I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night) 3:00 The Electric Prunes 'Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968' (Rhino)
1963 4:56 Heavy Beach (Self Release)
Bonnie Brae 3:33 Harper Simon (PIAS)
In Our Time 5:07 Hookworms 'Pearl Mystic' (Gringo Records)
Precession 5:25 Anthroprophh 'Anthroprophh' (Rocket Recordings)
Undercover 6:09 Ducktails 'The Flower Lane' Domino)
The Sweep 3:09 Cult of Luna 'Vertikal' (Indie Recordings)
On Blue Mountain 5:51 Foxygen 'We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors Of Peace And Magic' (Jagjaguwar)
Here I Am 3:28 Binki Shapiro & Adam Green Universal)
Home Alone 2:25 The Shrills 'Get Resurrected - Winter 2013 Sampler' (Resurrected)Heimförin 4:51 Ásgeir Trausti ‘Dýrð í dauðaþögn’ (Sena)
Indian Summer 3:29 Highasakite 'All That Floats Will Rain' (Riot Factory)
Look At The Light 3:40 Sin Fang ‘Flowers’ (Morr Music)
Poison Apple 4:14 Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats (Rise Above)
Tripalium 5:51 The Blondi’s Salvation (Self Release)
Fuse & a Spark 3:16 Angelica's Elegy (Riot Factory Records) -Norway
No Destruction 4:57 Foxygen 'We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors Of Peace And Magic' (Jagjaguwar)
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