This playlist is 52% vinyl friendly. Worst ever! Apologies to all vinyl enthusiasts.

The Miniot Wheel is as minimalist a stab at the record turntable as can be. ‘A modified Audio-Technica cartridge plays the record from underneath, with the spindle in the centre used to turn it on and off, skip tracks and adjust the volume if you have a pair of headphones plugged in‘. In action whilst laying flat or standing upright the original €650 model (above) has been superceded by subsequent Wheel 2, 3 and Black Wheel editions, the latter costing €4000.

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Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms tweak/edit/chop and the occasional tune might sound a bit dodgy, quality-wise. On top of that, the switch between different decades and production values never helps in the mix here. 🙂

Temporary Glitch! ENCORE!

A slightly different problem to the last problem means that my vocal input still isn’t quite what it should/could be. Here’s hoping, next time I’ve got it sorted.

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Lyric of Playlist 141

In Pete J, maybe the delicate sounding souls have it.

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00.00

(Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983. Episode #1 for info.

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00.41

NEW ORDER – Ruined In A Day (MK Extended Remix) – Stream only – ????

Nothing to do with the more famous ‘MK’ remixer, Marc Kinchen but someone chancing his arm on Youtube with some sympathetic (to New Order’s music) unofficial reworking. It helps that for me it’s a top class mid period (sort of) NO track to start with.

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06.44

DERADOORIAN – Digital Gravestone – Ready For Heaven, LP – Fire – 2025

Multi instrumentalist out of California here with the lead track from her fourth album.

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11.10

CLOCK DVA – Piano Pain – Thirst, LP – Fetish – 1981

At the time this album came out I wasn’t aware just how much material they’d released to that point and with the help of better production Adi Newton’s vocals maybe took until Thirst to sound as ‘threatening’ as they did.

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13.51

CABARET VOLTAIRE – Diffusion – Gasoline In Your Eye, VHS video – Virgin – 1985

Quite possibly a track never played live. Not at any of the seventeen or so gigs I saw them at, anyway.

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21.35

CHAKK – Sedative Ends (Peel session: 7.10.84) – Unreleased – 1984

For a couple of years around their tour de force, one and only session for Peely they were majestic.

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25.31

THE BLOOD BROTHERS – Transfusion – 12″ – Big World Records – 1990

The alter ego of the London downtempo, beats duo, Pressure Drop and seems like it could have sat next to their PD Back2Back 12″ release in the same year without a name change. I have three copies of this 12″, which will have been down to two of them languishing in the mid ’90s in a 10p section of Notting Hill’s Vinyl & Record store emporium… and me wanting to save them from the landfill they could easily have ended up in. 🙂

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30.37

INCOGNITO – Castles In The Air (Vikter Duplaix Afrotech Remix) – Life Stranger Than Fiction, 2×12″ – Talkin’ Loud – 2001

A thumping remix that way outweighs the original for me.

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35.59

THE GREENHORNES (feat HOLLY GOLIGHTLY) – Season’s End (Max Josef Edit) – Tonic Edits Vol. 2, 12″ – Toytonics – 2014

Featuring Holly Golightly, The Greenhornes’ There Is An End, from their 2001 Dual Mono album, on Telstar, then remixed and namechecked on Soundcloud as ‘Holly Golightly – There’s An End (Max Josef Edit), from a Tonic Edits Vol 2 vinyl EP’… where on, it’s actually titled Season’s End. Phew!

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39.25

CALIBRE (feat CIMONE) – Time To Breathe – Feeling Normal, 4 x 12″ LP – Signature – 2012

D&b heaven. Subtle and classy.

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44.21

TRICKY (feat MARTINA TOPLEY-BIRD) – Black Steel (Sessions at West 54th, 1997) – 1997

From the first season of a multi genre TV show, this live performance lets loose the ‘unease’ of the song better than the album take.

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47.52

2PAC (feat DR. DRE & ROGER TRAUTMAN) – California Love – 12″ – Death Row – 1995

As it might have suited me better, there’s a cool instrumental take to be had but it’s none of the two official ones out and about. An idea… I’m thinkin’.

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52.29

BIG BLOOD – When I Was Young – Operate Spaceship Earth Properly, LP – Feeding Tube Records – 2018

They can be relentless in a tune the way I maybe wouldn’t take to with most others. Colleen Kinsella’s vocals are a big part of that. 🙂

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59.03

EMILIO PIANO (feat LUCIE) – Maison – Download only – 2025

Early teen’er (I’m guessing) with seemingly her first song… and search out a couple of live ‘shopping mall/airport/train station-just passing by’ versions that aren’t maybe as ‘chance situation’ as they appear. Either way, a beaut of a collaboration.

Video: Director/Camera/Editor: Marcel Stefanowski

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01.01.52

THE MEMORY BAND with GRANTBY – The Ballad Of Imber Down – Further Navigations 10″ EP – Static Caravan – 2014

Sounding like incidental music to a ’70s-’80s James Herriot-sourced TV drama, it’s Folk… of the rural kind… what with ‘The Ballad of… ‘, Imber’s lost village Salisbury Plain setting… and rabbits on the menu… sorry, big in the ‘lyrics’, and in salute of the 10″, it was 500 copies via Record Store Day 2014.

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01.07.26

THE SUNDAYS – Through The Dark – Cry, cassette single, extra track – Parlophone – 1997

Maybe a 41 Rooms first? A track only available on a cassette version, this of the band’s 1997 UK single, Cry and Japanese CD versions of the Static & Silence album the same year.

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01.11.41

MANU DELAGO (feat PETE JOSEF) – A Step – Metromonk, CD only – Tru Thoughts – 2017

Josef appearing at 41 Rooms on others peeps’ tracks as much as on his own.

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01.16.15

JON LUCIEN – Creole Lady – By Request, CD only – Shanachie – 1999

Better than the 1975 version original, I reckon.

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01.19.58

JETHRO TULL – Living In The Past – 7″ – Island – 1969

Classic folk rock… not ‘arf.

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01.23.03

MODERN NATURE – Pharaoh – The Heat Warps, LP – Bella Union – 2025

‘A track influenced by Andrew Weatherall who, before he passed away in 2020, played Modern Nature on his NTS radio show and inspired them with his motto “Fail we may, sail we must”.

Commenting on the track, Jack Cooper says: “It’s a song about the men we’re conditioned to respect and follow and it’s a song about the people who inspire us to think differently. It’s as much about Pharaoh Sanders as it is about the kings and politicians we’re meant to believe in. ‘Pharaoh’ makes the case for finding a personal philosophy and trying to live a life that might inspire others or at the very least not hurt them.” ‘ – wildfiremusic.net

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01.27.48

DANA GAVANSKI – The Wind (Blew You Away) – Spring Demos, Cassette only – Fox Food Records – 2017

‘Alternative, Experimental, folk‘ says Bandcamp, for songs that got a cassette release in the UK and Japan in 2017 and 2018, respectively before a UK CD issue the next year. The Wind? It’s wonderful.

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01.32.35

DONOR LENS – Open Your Eyes – As Warm As Summer, cassette only – My Pet Flamingo – 2025

Slow beats doing it! The duo of Thom (Love in Dust, Wichita LimeWire) and Jay (Kid Neon, Timeshare 94) making ‘both sample-free and sampled music across a variety of vaporwave and vw-adjacent styles‘.

‘Vaporwave is an electronic music microgenre and aesthetic that emerged in the early 2010s, characterized by its nostalgic and surreal atmosphere, often drawing from 1980s and 1990s corporate muzak, smooth jazz, and early internet culture. It frequently utilizes slowed-down samples, chopped and screwed techniques, and a visual style that incorporates glitch art, retrofuturism, and corporate imagery‘. – AI Overview

Vaporwave… ‘slowed down samples‘. In the vocal department it’s been a favourite trick in the Got-Ta-Scatta camp for as long, and there are two complete tracks (both singles) by noted artists (one in the ’80s, the other a bit later) that have been in the 41 Rooms possibles bag for the whole nine years waiting for me to be brave enough to spin at the wrong speed… coz they sound absolutely fine. Also, any John PeeI fan will know that he occasionally played a record at the wrong speed (he definitely did with Click Click) and it must have sounded ‘right’ to him for a certain amount of time. 🙂 I think even I might have consciously done the same once or twice at Winkles back in the day. It might have involved lots of alcohol but Portion Control springs to mind. Could be wrong there.

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01.36.04

ACOLYTE – The Blue Dark – Download only – 2025

‘An Edinburgh four piece comprising of lead-vocalist and poet Iona Lee alongside Lost Map regular Gloria Black (of Maranta) on synth and vocals, producer/multi-instrumentalist Ruairidh Morrison, and percussionist Daniel Hill. A cinematic dreamscape formed of shimmering synths and ominously unfolding rhythms – The Blue Dark is the perfect introduction to Acolyte’s singular sound‘. – Lost Map’ Facebook page

The Isle of Eigg ref I mention on the show is for the Lost Map label. Their PostMap Club releases involve ‘printed postcards from the Lost Map collective, that come with download codes, containing exclusive tracks‘ – The Blue Dark being PostMap Club 217 🙂

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01.40.06

RIVAL CONSOLES – Theme – MindsEye, 12″ EP – Erased Tapes Records – 2025

A feel of a plodding, stuttering and strained walk… encased in the most minimalist (visually) record sleeve ever to be seen on 41 Rooms.

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01.44.38

MASSEY & SUPERNATURE – Walk…Now Walk – Download only – 2025

On to a more purposeful, striding and strutting Mancunian walk, maybe.

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01.51.45

CABARET VOLTAIRE – Crackdown (12″ version) – 12″ – Virgin/Some Bizarre – 1983

A band encore within the same 41 Rooms show is a rarity but as I’ve only just realised it’s the first sighting of any version of Crackdown sighting on 41 Rooms (I can only apologise), it had to happen.

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Show 142 should be here Aug 3.

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