Playlist: September 2013

September saw the Stiff family host the last BBQ of the season in celebration of our youngest child's third birthday.

Apart from BBQ tending duties, I had the truly terrifying job of holding the piñata while violent young party guests swung at it/me/each other with a plastic cricket bat. It was like a scene from Aphex Twin's "Come To Daddy" video.

I'm still traumatised.

The following tracks are helping with my rehabilitation:

1. Forest Swords - Friend, You Will Never Learn
2. Applescal & Ryan Davis - Creatures (Ambient Version)
3. Nathan Fake - Fentiger (Clark Remix)
4. Clark - Growl's Garden (Nathan Fake Remix)
5. Tricky - Valentine (Andy Stott Remix) feat. Francesca Belmonte
6. FKA twigs - Water Me
7. Emiliana Torrini - Speed Of Dark
8. Volcano Choir - Comrade
9. Swim Deep - Honey
10. Atoms for Peace & Jonny Greenwood - You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry (Mush Mix)
11. R - Change
12. Machinedrum - Gunshotta

Playlist: August 2013

I started August getting over the fact that I'd just turned 39 and attempting to cope with the emotional turmoil that post 20s birthdays apparently bring.

Meanwhile, the Stiff household experienced a series of plagues including fruit flies, snails and slugs. We're still waiting for rodents but the neighbours assure us that we can expect them. It might be time to get a cat.

Work highlights included the launch of Crackle with my pals at Mediaburst. It was my first experience of designing an app for Windows - admittedly an alien environment to a Mac user of 20 years! I also had the pleasure of creating the app branding and a simple marketing website.

The month ended on a high with an awe-inspiring performance by Sigur Ros, live at Jodrell Bank.

As if that wasn't enough, there was also plenty of new music to catch my ear:

1. Oneohtrix Point Never - Problem Areas
2. Cloud Control - Dojo Rising
3. Mark Pritchard - 1234 feat. Ragga Twins
4. Machinedrum - Body Touch
5. Subculture Sage - Overly Dead
6. Outfit - House on Fire
7. John Foxx & Jori Hulkkonen - Evangeline
8. Captain Murphy - Between Villains feat. Viktor Vaughn, Earl Sweatshirt & Thundercat
9. Congo Natty - UK All Stars
10. Jon Hopkins - Breathe This Air feat. Purity Ring
11. Vessels - Attica live at The Garage
12. Barker & Baumecker - Spur (Clark Remix)

Playlist: July 2013

You would be forgiven for thinking that I've been sat on my hands of late. I'm painfully aware that this humble website is looking a little sparse on the work front and heavy on the playlists. I'm not about to buck that trend but rest assured, I am still beavering away on stuff and will share it in the near future. In the meantime, listen to this.

1. John Wizards - Lusaka By Night
2. Style of Eye - Norway feat Bessem
3. Nothankyou - Know Yourself
4. When Saints Go Machine - System Of Unlimited Love
5. Jackson And His Computerband - Vista
6. Sampha - Without
7. Solomon Grey - Gen V
8. Forest Swords - The Weight Of Gold
9. Moderat - Bad Kingdom
10. Gesaffelstein - Pursuit
11. Machinedrum - Eyesdontlie (DJ Shadow Remix)
12. Letherette - After Dawn (Bibio Remix)

Playlist: June 2013

I spent a large part of June working with James Inman on an iOS app for Timetastic. When I wasn't doing that, I was designing some prints and T-shirts which I hope to unleash soonish. I was also listening to these here tracks:

1. Tricky - Passion Of The Christ
2. Clark - Suns Of Temper (Bear Paw Kicks Version)
3. Bibio - Sycamore Silhouetting (Session)
4. Run The Jewels - 36" Chain
5. A-Trak - Jumbo feat. Galantis
6. Fuck Buttons - The Red Wing
7. Close - My Way feat. Joe Dukie (Tanner Ross & Slow Hands Remix)
8. Beck - Defriended
9. Jon Hopkins - Open Eye Signal
10. Mark Pritchard - Ghosts
11. Jungle - Platoon
12. Walton - Frisbee

Playlist: May 2013

Another month, another playlist for your aural pleasure. Don't mention it.

Tracklist:

1. The Gaslamp Killer - In The Dark
2. Balthazar - Sinking Ship
3. Bibio - Business Park
4. Queens of the Stone Age - I Appear Missing
5. Blue Daisy x Unknown Shapes - 5's Up
6. Junip - Line Of Fire
7. Tall Black Guy - From Home to Work and Back
8. The Courtney John Project - Black Cinderella
9. Run The Jewels (Killer Mike & El-P) - Get It
10. Ghostpoet - Meltdown
11. Thundercat - Oh Sheit, It's X!
12. Clams Casino - Bookfiend Ft. DOOM
13. Boards of Canada - Reach for the Dead
14. Daughn Gibson - You Don't Fade

Playlist: April 2013

The first half of April was spent enjoying some quality time (and rain) with family in Hong Kong.

The latter half marked the start of part time employment at Mediaburst where I've been working on some exciting projects. More about that in another post.

Thankfully, plenty of music caught my ear this month so compiling a playlist was no hassle. The tail end of April also saw Boards Of Canada fans treated to some material from their forthcoming album "Tomorrow's Harvest", due out on 10/11 June on Warp Records. The internet broke.

Listen with your ears:

1. Bibio - You
2. Mount Kimbie - Blood and Form
3. TNGHT - ACRYLICS
4. King Midas Sound - Aroo
5. Blue Hawaii - Try to Be
6. DJ Muggs - Breathe Slow
7. Zomby - Soliloquy
8. Suuns - 2020
9. Solar Bears - Supermigration
10. Boards Of Canada - volscp
11. Boards Of Canada - csch
12. Boards Of Canada - Cosecha Signal One
13. Boards Of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest Transmission

Playlist: March 2013

Just in time for Easter, here's my playlist for March.

Enjoy!

Tracklist:

1. Woodkid - Iron
2. Lulu James - Closer
3. James Blake - Retrograde
4. Lapalux - Without You (ft. Kerry Leatham)
5. Barbarossa - The Load
6. !!! - Slyd
7. Bonobo - First Fires (ft. Grey Reverend)
8. John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts
9. Captain Murphy - The Killing Joke
10. Sigur Rós - Brennisteinn

Bonus Easter Eggs:

1. Applescal - Spring and Life
2. Youth Lagoon - Mute
3. Om'Mas Keith - Pulse Of The City
4. Vessel - Court Of Lions
5. Bibio - À tout à l'heure

Playlist: February 2013

OK, so I missed my self-imposed, playlist creation deadline of the end of February. Boo!

However a house move plus a new part-time job at Mediaburst means that I have a valid excuse for the delay, right? Thanks for understanding.

Without further ado, here are the tracks:

1. Blue Daisy presents Dahlia Black - F**k A Rap Song (Explicit)
2. How To Destroy Angels - How Long?
3. Missa Watanabe vs Space Traveler - Further Good News From The Don't Think Channel
4. Tall Ships - T=0
5. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Secret Xtians
6. Letherette - D&T (Dorian Concept Remix in lieu of the Clark Remix)
7. DVA DAMAS - Out Of Thin Air
8. Local Natives - Heavy Feet
9. Melt Yourself Down - Fix My Life
10. Kirk Spencer - Kukcu (feat. Safia May)

Warning: This playlist features rude words, cannibalism, ballerinas and singing sandwiches. If you are offended by any of these things, soz.

Playlist: January 2013

Having really enjoyed compiling a little mix to mark the end of 2012 (and the world), I decided it would be a great idea to create a monthly playlist of tracks that I've discovered. Great ideas often seem to entail making a rod for your own back. We'll see.

Here's the tracklist:

1. Wave Machines - I Hold Loneliness
2. A$AP ROCKY - Long Live A$AP (Explicit)
3. Clams Casino - Dem Wan
4. Jamie Lidell - What A Shame
5. Dutch Uncles - Fester
6. Cristobal Tapia de Veer - Utopia Soundtrack
7. The Child of Lov - Give Me*
8. AlunaGeorge - Your Drums, Your Love
9. Bondax - Gold
10. Nosaj Thing - Distance

• Ever so slightly NOT SAFE FOR WORK (depending on how prudish your colleagues are).