Sunday 31 March 2013

The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show #51


The 51st installment of the Crow Versus Crow Lectures on Effective Implementation of Comprehensive Social Skills. Church.

If you are at all interested in the work of the artists featured in this episode, please support the artists and labels through purchasing their records and attending their shows where possible.

This episode originally aired in a far inferior mono form on 96.7 Phoenix FM (Calderdale) on Sunday 31st March 2013 between 6 and 8pm.



1. William S. Burroughs – Sound Piece (Break Through in Grey Room / Sub Rosa, 1986)
2. Black Leather Cop – Jazz Hands Bruised by Police Baton (Stars Extinguished, Black Sky Split w/ Wermacht Lombardo / Grindcore Karaoke, 2013)

3. Super Luxury - Ian Mackaye Made So Much Money Out of Fugazi that He Lives in a Gold House and Drives a Solid Gold Car, and He Sits on His Drive Way, but He Can't Go Anywhere because the Wheels are Made of Solid Gold (Live at the Shacklewell Arms / Not on Label, 2013)
4. The Birthday Party – She’s Hit (The John Peel Sessions / Strange Fruit, 2001)

5. Harry Pussy – Scenes from a Marriage (One Plus One / Palilalia, 2012)
6. Grey Guides – The Dread Beaver Mystery (Grey Guides: 2010 – 2013 / Not on Label, 2013)
7. Mainliner – The Dispossessed (Revelation Space / Riot Season, 2013)

8. Muluqèn Mèllèssè - Embwa Bèlèw (The Very Best Of Éthiopiques - Cult Hits From The Original Series / Metro Select, 2011)
9. Caught In The Wake Forever – Better Left Forgotten (Cadder Falls / Audio Gourmet, 2013)

10. Elizabeth – Dawson (Live at Goits Mill / Obscene Baby Auction, 2012)
11. Fred Frith – No Birds (Guitar Solos / Caroline, 1974)

12. Moon Ra – B1 III (Moon Ra / Triangle Tapes, 2013)

13. Dissolved – Heart of the Well (Surge of the Lucid / Daddy Tank Records, 2013)
14. David Meiser – There is No Scape in the Universe (Unreleased / Not On Label, 2013)

15. Blood Sport – Ø (Ø / Not on Label, 2013)
16. The Ex – Theme from Konono (Turn / Ex Records, 2004)

17. Hirut Bèqèlè & Police Orchestra - Ewnètègna Feqer (Ethiopiques Vol.13 - The Golden 70's - Ethiopian Groove / Buda Musique, 2003)
18. Ex-Easter Island Head – Mallet Guitars Two (Third Movement) (Mallet Guitars Two/ Music for Moai Hava / Low Point, 2012)




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Friday 22 March 2013

CVC BWFVII II


Here's the second of the batch of mixes/mixtapes/hackjobs I put together for the seventh British Wildlife Festival. There's nothing particularly fancy about this one, it's a straightforward, end-to-end mix of completely unrelated tracks, some older than others.

The featured tracks are.

PJ Harvey - Reeling
The Microphones - Map
Basillica - Sans
Ataxia - Another
Ex-Easter Island Head - Mallet Guitars I (Second Movement)
Do Make Say Think - The Landlord is Dead 





Thank You.

Sunday 17 March 2013

The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show #50


The 50th episode of the Crow Versus Crow Radio Show. 

What could have easily been a 120 minute loop of Fleetwood Mac's Tusk, thankfully (...or not) isn't, and features a few other records picked up between the recording of this and the previous episode. These include new works from Nails, Broken Shoulder, Old Skin, Aidan Baker with Plurals and Rejections, to name a few, along with older tracks from Dead C, Gétatchèw Mèkurya, Roman Nose, and Half Japanese amongst others.  

If you are at all interested in the work of the artists featured in this episode, please support the artists and labels through purchasing their records and attending their shows where possible.

This episode originally aired in a far inferior mono form on 96.7 Phoenix FM (Calderdale) on Sunday 17th March 2013 between 6 and 8pm.


1. Half Japanese – Ball and Chain (Sing No Evil / Iridescence Records, 1986)
2. No One Remains Virgin - 李嘉誠島 (Sir Li Ka-Sing Island) (Life Fucks Everyone / No One Remains Virgin, 2012)

3. Roman Nose – Zydecco Derriere (Black (Silk) Death on Silk (Silk) Road / Winebox Press, 2011)
4. Gétatchèw Mèkurya - Aha gèdawo (Negus of Ethiopian Sax (Éthiopiques Vol.14) / Buda Musique, 2003)

5. Bodywork – Tame (The Grind / Not On Label, 2013)
6. Gold Panda - Casyam_59#02 (Trust EP / Notown, 2013)

7. Lord Cernunnos – Untitled A3 (Lord Cernunnos/Ronzilla: Death Cap Drones / Triangle Tapes, 2013)
8. Lost Wax - Clogged & Buttered (My Sore Daad Heap’d / Winebox Press, 2013)

9. The Dead C – Waves (Secret Earth / Ba Da Bing!, 2008)
10. Fleetwood Mac – Tusk (Tusk / Warner Bros. Records, 1979)

11. Nails – Tyrant (Abandon All Life / Southern Lord, 2013)
12. Old Skin – Growth. Decay (Unreleased/Not On Label)

13. Broken Shoulder – 5:34 Dancercise (Sawara / Not On Label)
14. Helicopter Quartet – Frida (Helicopter Quartet / Not On Label, 2012)
15. Jealousy Mountain Duo – The Code of JMD (Jealousy Mountain Duo / Blunoise Records, 2011)

16. Rejections – Blood Garden (The Vertical City EP / Jehu and Chinaman, 2013)
17. Aidan Baker with Plurals – Turning Children into Mice (Glass Crocodile Medicine / Latitudes, 2013)

18. The Velvet Underground – Jesus (La Cave 1968: Problems in Urban Living / Keyhole Records, 2012)
19. 3 Leafs - 2011-12-05 Cafe du Nord San Francisco, CA (Excerpt) (Live at Cafe du Nord San Francisco, CA / Triangle Tapes, 2012)


Monday 4 March 2013

CVC BWFVII I


Crow Versus Crow Mixes for British Wildlife Festival VII

I was pleased to have been asked by British Wildlife/Adam Nodwell to play a selection of tracks between bands' sets at the seventh British Wildlife Festival at the Brudenell Social Club, Leeds on Saturday 2nd March 2013. Rather than play tracks 'live' using decks or CDJs I offered to make a set of mixes in advance, to allow me to experiment with the format and create works that I wouldn't necessarily be able to in a live context.

The mixes were made using an old copy of Cool Edit Pro, without any plug-ins, effects or 'production', but rather as raw, 'cut & paste' collages of tracks layered on top of each other and stitched together. They're sloppy and by no means 'perfect' but exist as a document of the first attempt at what will hopefully be an on-going project.

So, here's the first of six mixes available to stream via Mixcloud, featuring (in some way or other):

My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realise
1994! - Untitled 2
Phil Julian - Hive Work
Ex-Models - Buy American
Tortoise - Salt The Skies
Ashanti and Ewe Tribe of Ghana - Atokwe 1
Kogumaza - Swang
Storm & Stress - Meet Me in the Place they Stare at Leaving their Seat During a Show
Ciccone Youth - Macbeth




Sunday 3 March 2013

The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show #49


Corrupting More Young Minds than Syphilis and Pinball.

The 49th episode of the Crow Versus Crow Radio Show. 

If you are at all interested in the work of the artists featured in this episode, please support the artists and labels through purchasing their records and attending their shows where possible.

This episode originally aired in a far inferior mono form on 96.7 Phoenix FM (Calderdale) on Sunday 3rd March 2013 between 6 and 8pm.


1. Brion Gysin / William Burroughs – Recalling All Active Agents (Break Through in Grey Room / Sub Rosa, 1986)
2. GNOD – Hidden (Sex, Drones and Broken Bones / Not On Label, 2007)
3. Jandek – Mazes of the Phantom: Part One (Mazes of the Phantom / Corwood Industries, 2012)

4. Lungfish – Sex War (A.C.R 1999 / Dischord, 2012)
5. Jealousy Mountain Duo – Latino Heaven (No._2: ‘The Home of Easy Credit’ / Blunoise, 2012)

6. Kostoglotov – Side One (Louis Althusser Knows Why My Heart is Asunder / Liminal Noise Tapes, 2013)
7. Social Studies – Assignment 2 (Proxemics / Daddy Tank Records, 2012)

8. Cold Sun – Ra-Ma (Dark Shadows / Rockadelic Records, 1989)

9. Spirit of John – Units (Snakes / Gin House Records, 2013)
10. Tarrancis Mandingo Dance Band – Tatmata Binta Fudu Bender (Africa Elegant: Sierra Leone’s Kru/Krio Calypso Connection / Original Music, 1992)
11. Death Shanties – God Save the Master of this House (Nunatak / Not On Label, 2013)

12. 1994! – Non Multa, Sed Multum (Fuck This / Not On Label, 2013)
13. Nirvana – D-7 (Hormoaning / Geffen, 1992)

14. Esther Burns – Merci Pour Les Poissons (La Valeur Du Vide / La Valeur Du Vide, 2011)
15. Umez – Good Bye My Friend (Good Bye My Friend / Liminal Noise Tapes, 2013)

16. Xasthur – Doomed By Howling Winds (’05) (Xasthur EP / Moribund Records, 2006)





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