Ep 239 w/ Anton Spice (UK)

Anton Spice is a broadcaster and journalist from the UK. He is founding editor of The Vinyl Factory online magazine, co-runs Dislo Publishing, has written and produced music documentaries, has contributed words to multiple publications and liner notes, and appeared on NTS, Worldwide FM, Dublab, and now - Friendly Potential Radio. "Like any good daydream, this mix isn't particularly linear. Instead, it moves between scenes, moods and sequences, loosely inspired by the title of Takami Hasegawa's only album L'Ecume de Jours (itself named after Boris Vian's 1947 novel, Froth on the Daydream). When I first heard the track of hers I've included, it totally blew my socks off - a jazzy little ballad, tinged with melancholy and outrageous orchestral flourishes. It has a baroque, melodramatic quality that I think you get in a lot of the less mainstream pop, synth and new wave from the mid '80s. On the one hand, the rhythms and melodies are punchy and full of confidence, and then on the other, there is a naïve, nostalgic strangeness to the song-writing, so aware of its own fast-fading youth that it almost melts away completely. If there's a feeling I wanted to capture with the mix then it is this contrast, between vivid technicolour and hazy drift." Tracklist: Mikael Tariverdiev - Boys and the Sea pt.1 (Earth Recordings) Kalima - Token Freaky (Factory) Takami Hasegawa - サーカス列車 (Epic) Princess Demeny - New York Grief (Seance Centre) Tamao Koike - Automne Dans Un Miroir (Yen Records) Laurie Anderson - Let X=X / It Tango (Warner bros.) Dip In The Pool - View (Rough Trade) Joni Mitchell - Smokin' (Empty, Try Another) (Geffen) Nirosta Steel - Foxy Pup (Hollie Records) Peter Zummo - The Tape Is Chill (Optimo Music) Deadline - Boat Peoples (Celluloid) 17 Pygmies - Chaganca (Resistance Records) Parachute - Mystery of Asian Port (Agharta) Tetsuo Sakurai - Kimono (Invitation) Ryuichi Sakamoto & Robin Scott - The Left Bank (Alfa) Taeko Ohnuki - 幻惑 (Dear Heart) Masaaki Ohmura - A Touch of Temptation (SMS Records) Becker / Stegmann / Zeumer - Der Schnupfen (Music From Memory) Stina Nordenstam - Memories of a Colour (Telegram Records Stockholm) Taeko Ohnuki - Siena (Dear Heart) Talking Drums - Sweet July (Sticky Music) Japan - Visions of China (Virgin) Yukihiro Takahashi - Bounds of Reason, Bonds of Love (Alfa) Lis Sørensen - Jeg Vil Forelske Dig (Mercury) Thomas Leer - Chasing The Dragon (Arista) China Crisis - The Highest High (Virgin) Joe Jackson - Steppin' Out (A&M) Tatsuro Yamashita - Doyobi No Koibito (Moon) Mikael Tariverdiev - My Younger Brother (Earth Records)