Finn Johannsen – Go Check The Survey (Mark Bell)

00:00:00 1 Björk – Possibly Maybe (Lucy Mix)
00:03:20 2 Björk – 107 Steps
00:05:39 3 Björk – Batabid
00:07:34 4 LFO – Millionaire Dogs
00:09:45 5 LFO – Slow Down Speedy
00:12:00 6 LFO – Goodnight Vienna
00:15:40 7 Björk – Amphibian (Mark Bell Mix)
00:17:32 8 Jackie-O Motherfucker – Hey! Mr Sky
00:24:36 9 yan_g – unt001 (Liverneck Remix By LFO)
00:27:36 10 Depeche Mode – I Am You
00:31:59 11 LFO – Premacy
00:34:43 12 Aural Expansion – Moon Resort (Quiet Side) (Remixed By Speedjack)
00:37:43 13 Björk – Joga
00:42:04 14 Björk – I’ve Seen It All
00:47:23 15 Depeche Mode – Home (LFO Meant to Be)
00:50:29 16 Radiohead – Planet Telex (LFO J.D. Mix)
00:54:57 17 Björk – All Is Full Of Love
00:59:10 18 Björk – All Neon Like
01:04:10 19 Depeche Mode – Dirt
01:08:15 20 Sarah McLachlan – Stupid (Mark Bell remix)
01:11:32 21 Björk – Hunter (Mood Swing remix)
01:14:14 22 Björk – Hunter
01:18:05 23 Björk – Mouth’s Cradle
01:21:24 24 Björk – Where Is The Line
01:25:57 25 Björk – 5 Years
01:30:18 26 Soft Ballet – Brilliant Fault (LFO Mix)
01:34:05 27 LFO – Sleepy Chicken
01:37:45 28 Depeche Mode – Zenstation
01:43:59 29 Björk – Amphibian
01:47:47 30 The Art of Noise – Crusoe (LFO Mix)
01:50:26 31 Depeche Mode – Comatose
01:53:21 32 LFO – New Age
01:57:19 33 LFO – Loch Ness
02:00:19 34 The Sabres Of Paradise – Duke of Earlsfield (LFO Mix)
02:05:45 35 Björk – Pleasure Is All Mine
02:08:29 36 Björk – Who Is It (Bell Choir Mix)
02:11:31 37 Björk – Who Is It (Carry My Joy On The Left Carry My Pain On The Right) (Fruit Machine Mix)
02:14:06 38 Björk – Who Is It
02:17:06 39 LFO – El Ef Oh!
02:20:43 40 Björk – Immature
02:23:28 41 Depeche Mode – Lovetheme
02:24:51 42 LFO – Unafraid To Linger
02:29:03 43 Depeche Mode – Breathe
02:33:22 44 Björk – Alarm Call
02:37:40 45 Björk – Scatterheart

00:00:00 1 Björk – Bachelorette (Mark Bell Optimism Remix)
00:04:30 2 Soft Ballet – Brilliant Fault And Sky Was Blue (LFO Remix)
00:10:18 3 Björk – Nature Is Ancient
00:14:08 4 Björk – Oceania (Radio Mix) (feat. Kelis)
00:16:48 5 Björk – Oceania
00:19:33 6 Depeche Mode – The Sweetest Condition
00:23:08 7 LFO – Loop (Journey Mix)
00:31:50 8 LFO – Nevertheless
00:35:19 9 LFO – Think A Moment
00:38:07 10 Depeche Mode – Shine
00:43:09 11 Depeche Mode – Easy Tiger
00:44:25 12 Depeche Mode – Freelove
00:50:03 13 Depeche Mode – When the Body Speaks
00:55:27 14 Depeche Mode – Goodnight Lovers
00:59:00 15 Björk – I Go Humble
01:03:10 16 LFO – Shove Piggy Shove
01:06:43 17 Björk – I See Who You Are (Mark Bell Mix)
01:09:45 18 Deltron 3030 – Turbulence (Mark Bell Remix) (feat. Dan The Automator, Del The Funky Homosapien & Kid Koala)
01:13:40 19 Graham Lewis – Eclipsed (Emmersion Mix)
01:19:16 20 Björk – Vertebrae By Vertebrae
01:24:10 21 Graham Lewis – Eclipsed (Sweep Mix)
01:29:34 22 Wire – Take It (LFO Mix)
01:33:20 23 Lassigue Bendthaus – Overflow (LFO Mix)
01:36:58 24 LFO – Change
01:40:46 25 Björk – Ambergris March
01:43:42 26 Björk – Cvalda
01:47:24 27 LFO – Advance
01:52:34 28 LFO – Helen
01:55:43 29 LFO – Mokeylips
01:59:09 30 LFO – Them
02:01:56 31 Yukihiro Takahashi – Mirrormanik (L.F.O. Mix)
02:11:05 32 LFO – Track 14
02:13:45 33 Depeche Mode – Lie To Me (‘The Pleasure Of Her Private Shame’ Remix By LFO)
02:19:58 34 Bill Laswell – Holy Mountain (LFO What Do You Think? Mix)
02:28:06 35 Björk – Triumph Of A Heart
02:31:21 36 LFO – Moistly
02:35:13 37 LFO – Sam & Dave
02:39:05 38 Recoil – The Faith Healer (LFO Mix)
02:43:29 39 LFO – Quijard
02:47:56 40 LFO – Probe (The Cuba Edit)
02:52:02 41 LFO – Track 4
02:56:42 42 LFO – Simon From Sydney
03:01:01 43 LFO – Forever
03:05:46 44 Speed Jack – Fast

00:00:00 1 LFO – LFO (The Leeds Warehouse Mix)
00:05:18 2 LFO – LFO (Remix)
00:09:39 3 Miss Kittin – Happy Violentine (LFO Mix)
00:15:27 4 LFO – Mentok 1
00:19:24 5 Nightmares On Wax – Aftermath (LFO Remix)
00:23:01 6 Botany 5 – Love Bomb (LFO Mix 1)
00:27:25 7 Botany 5 – Love Bomb (LFO Mix 2)
00:31:32 8 Botany 5 – Love Bomb (LFO Mix 4)
00:35:53 9 LFO – Love Is The Message
00:39:08 10 LFO – Take Control (Peel Session)
00:43:03 11 LFO – Squeaky
00:46:36 12 LFO – To The Limit (Peel Session)
00:49:26 13 Recoil – Faith Healer (Healed Mix)
00:52:12 14 LFO – Tied Up (Acid Mix)
00:55:55 15 LFO – Push
00:59:03 16 GusGus – Believe (LFO Remix)
01:03:41 17 LFO – Rob’s Nightmare (Peel Session)
01:07:14 18 The Bridewell Taxis – Spirit (LFO Decision Remix)
01:11:24 19 LFO – Lost World (Peel Session)
01:15:40 20 LFO – Ultra Schall
01:18:28 21 LFO – Freeze
01:21:16 22 Depeche Mode – I Feel Loved
01:24:59 23 Depeche Mode – Dream On
01:28:42 24 LFO – Nurture
01:32:24 25 LFO – Tan Ta Ra
01:36:20 26 LFO – DU Boy
01:41:18 27 LFO – You Have To Understand
01:44:26 28 LFO – We Are Back
01:48:55 29 LFO – We Are Back (Remix)
01:53:12 30 LFO – Intro
01:55:24 31 Björk – All Is Full Of Love (All Is Full Of Lies Mix)
01:58:19 32 Clark – Knowledge
02:04:27 33 Björk – Wanderlust
02:09:28 34 Fandango Widewheels, Huggy Bear & Mark Bell – Mash
02:16:58 35 Björk – Bachelorette (Mark Bell ”Zip” Remix)
02:21:07 36 Björk – Bachelorette (Mark Bell ”Blue” Remix)
02:22:48 37 Björk – Alarm Call (Rise & Shine Mix)
02:24:51 38 Björk – Alarm Call (Enough Is Enough Mix)
02:28:12 39 Björk – Alarm Call (Potage Du Jour)
02:32:10 40 Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force – Planet Rock (House Mix II) (feat. LFO)
02:37:38 41 LFO – Groovy Distortion
02:40:36 42 LFO – Syndrome
02:44:54 43 YMO – La Femme Chinoise (LFO Mix)
02:49:12 44 Clark – Christo

00:00:00 1 LFO – Mashed Potato
00:02:18 2 Wildplanet – Electron (Computer Edit)
00:07:17 3 Feedback – Heaven
00:10:09 4 LFO – Psycodelik
00:13:43 5 LFO – Tied Up Electro
00:17:01 6 LFO – What Is House (LFO Remix)
00:21:21 7 LFO – Blown
00:26:19 8 !!! vs LFO – Me & Giuliani Down By The Schoolyard (A Remix)
00:31:24 9 Björk – Hyperballad (Disco Sync Mix)
00:35:26 10 Björk – Hyperballad (LFO’s 3am Mix) One Little Independent Records
00:39:19 11 LFO – Freak
00:43:53 12 Nitzer Ebb – Control I’m Here (LFO Remix)
00:49:12 13 Counterpoint – Soul Search
00:54:48 14 LFO – Tied Up (Sweep Mix)
00:58:27 15 Regis – Guiltless (LFO Remix) (feat. LFO)
01:03:36 16 LFO – Carrots In Space
01:07:18 17 LFO – Shut Down
01:10:24 18 LFO – Mummy, I’ve Had An Accident…
01:14:11 19 Laurent Garnier – Astral Dreams (LFO Lucid Mix)
01:23:26 20 Laurent Garnier – Astral Dreams (LFO’s Deep Sleep Mix)
01:31:33 21 LFO – Nurture (Remix)
01:37:12 22 Björk – Declare Independence (LFO Mum-Man Mix)
01:40:02 23 Björk – In The Musicals
01:44:35 24 LFO – Flu-Shot (Kringlan)
01:48:04 25 LFO – Jason Vorhees
01:52:00 26 LFO – Kombat Drinking
01:56:28 27 Speed Jack – Blue Bossa
01:59:16 28 Speed Jack – Tone Control
02:03:36 29 Speed Jack – Construction
02:05:25 30 Speed Jack – Worldline
02:12:16 31 Speed Jack – C.T.C.
02:19:25 32 Biosphere – Novelty Waves (Mark Bell Remix)
02:24:30 33 Daft Punk – Chord Memory (Mark Bell Mix 1)
02:29:59 34 Speed Jack – Emma
02:33:34 35 Speed Jack – With The Clouds
02:36:32 36 Antipop Consortium – Ghostlawns (LFO ‘Rik Waller’ Mix)
02:42:17 37 Mark Bell – A Salute To Those People Who Say Fuck You
02:48:03 38 The Longcut – A Last Act of Desperate Men (LFO Remix)
02:54:10 39 Dave Clarke – What Was Her Name (LFO Remix)
02:59:19 40 LFO – Whistle While You Jerk
03:03:22 41 Björk – Pluto
03:06:13 42 LFO – Pathfinder
03:10:46 43 LFO & Mark Bell – Si on partait
03:13:34 44 LFO – Snot
03:16:29 45 Super Furry Animals – Lazer Beam (LFO Mix)

Live @ Acetate, The Wire Club, Leeds, June 3rd 2016

Ok, the ancient mixer Pearson Sound bought for his night was a bitch to handle, but I must admit it sounded fantastic. Ben UFO struggled less than me, but I told myself he just had more practice with it.

Photo by Tom Lawton.

@ Acetate

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Rewind: Bill Brewster on “Sextet”

In discussion with Bill Brewster on “Sextet” by A Certain Ratio (1982).

What is your personal history with this particular album? How and when was your first encounter with it?

I bought it the week it came out. I had just moved back to Grimsby (my hometown) after working in London and Switzerland as a chef for five years. I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life but I knew I didn’t want to spend the rest of it sweating in a kitchen. I’d met some new people who were trying to do cool stuff with music. We’d all been punks in 1976 and 1977 but got bored of how musically limited it all was. We were searching for something new. We had a musical mentor, a guy who ran a musical instrument shop with a few boxes of records in the back, called Roy Bainton. He was 15 years older than us and knew loads about music, everything from Mike Westbrook and Carla Bley to Graham Central Station and, in particular, the blues. We were listening to all this brilliant old stuff that was new to us and also discovering bands like A Certain Ratio and 23 Skidoo who, like us, were also groping towards something different. We were in the process of forming a band when this album came out.

What made you decide for „Sextet“ instead of other of their albums?

They toured to promote this album and we went to see them at this bizarre wine bar in Leeds. I went with all the guys who were in my band. The venue was brightly lit, chrome-plated, horrible. And it was nearly empty, but they didn’t give a fuck: they were astonishing, really tight (helped somewhat by Donald Johnson’s prowess behind the traps). I suppose what “„Sextet“” represents to me is a crossroads of where I had arrived and where they were headed; a sort of Robert Johnson involving trams, drizzle and Northern misery. What is interesting about „Sextet“, listening back now, is that they’d reached a certain competence on their instruments but they still had a thirst for wayward and interesting song ideas and arrangements. Later on, when they were recording stuff like “Don’t You Worry Bout A Thing”, they ended up sounding like those pale Britfunk imitations of the real deal, whereas what makes „Sextet“ endearing is that they sound like nothing and no-one else. The world they inhabited then, it seemed to me, was hermetically sealed from outside influences. I imagined them living together in a big house in Whalley Range, a bit like the Monkees, except with acid and analogue instruments. Read the rest of this entry »