Archive for the ‘Office Listening’ Category
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

Listen ear
You can tell the
opening party is only a matter of days away from Julie’s dancey picks this week. Ruairi supports his anarcha-feminist comrades and keeps up the strive against patriarchy as an
essential part of post-Marxist class struggle. Mark selects some “real” sunny Balearic beats from the
Boys Own catalogue of cool. The reason for the long wait between the last listening session and this one was Andy trying to find the title of one of his choices. By humming, whistling and mumbling the melody to anyone who would care to listen, after four weeks of thought, we got there.
Julie…
Double You – Please Don’t Go
Hot Chip – Over And Over (Justus Köhncke’s Baking Horse Club Mix)
Dunne – Espiral
Ruairi…
Ani DiFranco – In or Out
Kate Nash – Mansion Song
Ivor Cutler & Linda Hirst – Women Of The World
Mark…
Cola Boy – Do You Dream In Cola
Saint Etienne – Like A Motorway
August Darnell – Friendly Children (Todd Terje Edit)
Andy…
Stevie Wonder – As
Hot Chocolate – Cadillac (The Revenge Re-Edit)
Escape From New York – Fire In My Heart
Tags: Ani DiFranco, August Darnell, Cola Boy, Double You, Download, Dunne, Escape From New York, Hot Chip, Hot Chocolate, Ivor Cutler, Justus Köhncke, Kate Nash, Linda Hirst, MP3, Saint Etienne, Stevie Wonder, The Revenge, Todd Terje
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Monday, April 26th, 2010
Tags: Andrew Weatherall, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Calexico, Cali Agents, Download, Editors, Espiritu, Evelyn Evelyn, Marshall Hain, MP3, Muse, Romanthony, Sabres Of Paradise, The Clash, The Flaming Lips, The Jesus Lizard, The Octopus Project
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Thursday, March 25th, 2010

Test track
“There’s a rat in my kitchen, what am I going to do?” These wise words from
Mr Ali Campbell way back in 1986 have clearly inspired Mark’s choice this week. Ruairi had an unpleasant alcohol fueled
dream in which he had to DJ to a room of judgemental hipsters and dropped those three tracks, true story. Andy chooses three from an album in commemoration of a
1967 Arab-Israeli war. Since it’s budget week Sarah is opening
offshore accounts for everyone! Our friendly window cleaner Pedro proved his worth this morning by walking face-first into our freshly wiped plate glass terrace door muttering those immortal words “está limpia”. Therefore, he be dedicated with the world’s
only two songs on the subject of window cleaning. Thanks Pedro, you made my day.
Julie…
U2 – Where The Streets Have No Name
Depeche Mode – Home (LFO Meant To Be)
New Order – Blue Monday
Ruairi…
Delorean – Seasun (John Talabot’s Kids & Drums Remix)
Boys Noize & Erol Alkan – Avalanche
T++ – Audio1995#8
Sarah…
The Beatles – Taxman
Butthole Surfers – Alcohol
Orbital – P.E.T.R.O.L.
Pink Floyd – Money
Mark…
The Boomtown Rats – House On Fire
Swamp Rats – Louie Louie
The Rats – Ventures
Andy…
Colonel Bagshot – Tightrope Tamer
Colonel Bagshot – Lord High Human Being
Colonel Bagshot – Six Day War
Pedro…
George Formby – When I’m Cleaning Windows
Van Morrison – Cleaning Windows
Tags: Boys Noize, Butthole Surfers, Colonel Bagshot, Delorean, Depeche Mode, Download, Erol Alkan, George Formby, John Talabot, LFO, MP3, New Order, Orbital, Pink Floyd, Swamp Rats, T++, The Beatles, The Boomtown Rats, The Rats, U2, Van Morrison
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Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
Tags: Babe Ruth, Black Eyed Peas, Download, Dubstep Devils, Echo & The Bunnymen, Eurythmics, Moondog, MP3, Pat Daly, Ry Cooder, Talking Heads, The Beatles, The Chieftans, The Dubliners, Thin Lizzy, Tom Caruana, Tom Waits, Wu-Tang Clan
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Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Tags: Bomb The Bass, Charles Aznavour, Creedence Clearwater Revivial, Download, Estelle, Ewan Pearson, Kanye West, Lenny Kravitz, LFO, Lions, Moon Unit, MP3, Music, Pilooski, Shawn Lee, Son House, The Doors, The Mamas and The Papas
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Thursday, March 4th, 2010

Ring ding
This week, Ruairi picks in honour of Andy’s recent
birthday celebrations which sounded too strange to be true yet the
photos prove otherwise. Andy dedicates his choice to Guru of Gang Starr who is in a coma, maybe it was a heart-attack, maybe he’s dead, we don’t know. Julie only gets two choices because she sent us a wild goose chase trying to find the third, which didn’t exist.
Ruairi…
Butthole Surfers – 22 Going On 23
Little Dragon – Looking Glass
PJ Harvey – Sheela-na-Gig (Acoustic Demo)
Julie…
Texas – In Demand
Edward Maya feat. Vika Jigulina – Stereo Love (Massivedrum DJ Fernando Remix)
Andy…
Gang Starr – Full Clip
The Rolling Stones – Miss You
Jape – Floating (Prins Thomas Diskomiks)
Tags: Butthole Surfers, Download, Edward Maya, Gang Starr, Jape, Little Dragon, MP3, PJ Harvey, Prins Thomas, Texas, The Rolling Stones
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Tags: Canned Heat, Crosby Stills & Nash, Dep.Art.Ment, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Dominic Behan, Download, Jefferson Airplane, Johnny Cash, Jonathan Richman, Ke$ha, MP3, N-Dubz, Norah Jones, The Divine Comedy, The Dubliners, Tinchy Stryder, Untold
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Friday, February 19th, 2010
Tags: Au Pairs, Axwell, Bad Brains, Boys Noize, Calexico, Deborah Cox, Download, Eels, Feist, Ingrosso, Japan, Laidback Luke, Lykke Li, MP3, Music, Pixies, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Roisin Murphy, Rolling Stones, Soundgarden, Steve Angello
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Monday, February 8th, 2010

Fix up look sharp
Just another manic Monday, I wish it was Sunday, ’cause that’s my fun-day. You can raze those lunes blues with some rocking lo-fi garage stoner-surf from Ruairi, some pretty balearica from Julie and some unapologetic classic rock and hip hop from Andy.
Ruairi…
Sleep – Dragonaut
Martyn – Seventy Four
Kyuss – (Beginning of What’s About to Happen) HWY 74
Julie…
Jason Mraz – Life Is Wonderful
Groove Armada – Paper Romance
Red Carpet – Allright (Erick Morillo Mix)
Andy…
Ali Love – Love Harder
Boston – More Than A Feeling
Jay-Z – Lucifer
Tags: Ali Love, Boston, Download, Erick Morillo, Groove Armada, Jason Mraz, Jay-Z, Kyuss, Martyn, MP3, Music, Red Carpet, Sleep
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Friday, January 29th, 2010

Head-case
Like Captain Lawrence Oates of the Terra Nova expedition, Julie is not here and may be some time. Ruairi and Andy are left like Captain Scott to forge forth boundaries of office tunes, just as the antarctic explorers did with huskies and ponies.
Ruairi…
Rory Gallagher – Out On The Western Plain
2020Soundsystem – Tape (Prins Thomas Bom Bom Digert Rom Miks)
Talk Talk – It’s My Life (Tropical Love Forest 12″ Mix)
Andy…
Hell – The Disaster
Jehst and Tommy Evans – Deadly Combination
Muddy Waters – Mannish Boy
Tags: 2020Soundsystem, Download, Hell, Jehst, MP3, Muddy Waters, Music, Prins Thomas, Rory Gallagher, Talk Talk, Tommy Evans
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