This playlist is 66% vinyl friendly. Very poor.

‘Reimagining the classic portable turntable and designed for DJs, vinyl enthusiasts, and creative performers in 2025, the Korg Handytraxx combines portability with cutting-edge features, including unique Korg digital effects, a built-in audio looper, and with a high-quality fader included‘, says the promo blurb. Another dealer added, ‘Optimised for scratching and portablism performances.’ £350 or thereabouts and if you’re questioning the word ‘portablism’ bit, it’s ‘the practice of DJing with easily transportable gear‘.

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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!!!

A late on problem with the mic means I’m not sounding quite the way I should on this show. Normal service will be resumed next show, hopefully.

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Lyric of Playlist 140

Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip. In… yer… face!!!

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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 – Ecstasy – Power, Corruption and Lies, LP – Factory – 1983

Certainly never performed live in my time of hectic NO gigging but maybe a track that would have suited as a backdrop to some cheery ‘transition’ or incidental section of a film, etc.

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04.50

JOHN FOXX with LOUIS GORDON – Walk This Away – Impossible, CD only – Metamatic – 2008

Reminds me of… nope, can’t think. Kraftwerk?

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10.08

CAN – Vitamin C – 7″ – United Artists – 1972

Not the format these German electronic heads are maybe most remembered (and revered?) for … but Vitamin C is from a whole bunch of Can singles that, with the wind blowing in their direction, suggested they’d have happily ‘infiltrated’ a pop chart or two, given the airplay/chance.

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13.09

DERADOORIAN – No No Yes Yes – Ready For Heaven, LP – Fire – 2025

Out of Los Angeles, it sounds like multi-instrumentalist, Angel Deradoorian has travelled a few journeys and ‘spaces’ in the fifteen years or so she’s been releasing music.

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17.43

U2 – Salomé (Zooromancer Remix) – 12″, promo only – Island – 1992

Supposedly released to promote the single, Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses (though said track is nowhere here to be seen or heard) I remember this deep and eerie 1000 copies only promo 12″ being a major WTF! moment across the dance radio shows I was listening to at the time, and what with U2 being worldwide rock gods and (Pete) Heller & (Terry) Farley serious go to’s for a house/dance remix, I suspect the fee the latter got, paid the bills for a month or ten.

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25.27

THE ITCH – The Influencer / Co-Conspirator – Download only – Oh You Records / Fiction Records – 2025

Sounding like a revved, electro funkin’ Human League, duo Simon Tyrie and Georgia Hardy with a ‘twofer’ easily heard/mixed maybe as a single track!

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32.21

DAN LE SAC Vs SCROOBIUS PIP – Thou Shalt Always Kill – 7″ – Lex Records – 2007

Even though they’d said all they needed to with 1min 50 of the track still to run this wonderful rant was blaring everywhere at the time, such was the aural impact of its UK culture-centric rap diatribe and though a healthy 7″ run of 1000, it’s still hugely collectable, and should you feel the need for a locked groove, side A has one. 🙂

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37.21

AVALON EMERSON – On It Goes * – Download only – Another Dove – 2025

More solo girls out of the US, with Avalon having skirted San Francisco, Berlin and New York. Snappy and punchy samples cut here in a style reminiscent of a certain period of Akufen.

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42.36

MYLES KAYNE – Visions of Love (Scat’s The Way To Do It Mix) – 12″ – Tomahawk – 1993

As with far too much house through the years, nothing sensational here but the summery scatting and the soaring vocals grabbing the ears back then lifted the spirits!

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47.06

JOSE FELICIANO – The Sad Gypsy – Souled, LP – RCA – 1968

Written by Carole King’s oft writing partner, Gerry Goffin, along with Barry Mann, who with his wife, Cynthia Weil wrote the Righteous Brothers’ You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling. Recorded on the same day as Jose’s cover of Cream’s Sunshine Of Your Love (initially mooted as a follow up to Light My Fire… and then never released), The Sad Gypsy appears never to have been covered by anyone else. Never even on a 7″ b-side but on the Souled album that jiggles with Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On as my all time fave ‘long player’, I’ve adored this song since I was a kid and fifty five years down the line because it’s Jose it’ll always be ‘right up there.’

Souled 1pg ad — Billboard, Nov 30, ’68.

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50.44

HELICON – Château H (D.ross Remix) – Download only – 2025

Warning! Do NOT approach the original of Château H expecting some semblance of recognition. You will be disappointed.

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55.56

JALEN NGONDA – Just As Long As We’re Together – Download only – 2025

Back with his ’60s soaked soul and likely previewing a second album for Daptone Records.

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58.45

BERES HAMMOND – Do This World A Favour (Album Version) * – 7″ b-side – 17 North Parade – 2010

Maybe best known as a Lovers Rock/roots reggae artist, this tune was originally to be found on his 1979 album, Just A Man but we’ll go with the new lease of life it got via a 7″ in 2010, cut at 33rpm to give the album version some breathing space. For the show I edited out some of the doodling keys bridge but to make the 7″ cut cooler I’d have taken the lot out… and called it an ‘Album Version Edit’. No problem for the soul fraternity, though. As rare as hens’ teeth it’s likely to be over £100 as and when a copy next turns up.

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01.03.54

MELBA MOORE – Do You Really Want My Love (Club Version) * – 12″ – Capitol – 1990

Funky, spacey and moody sounds.

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01.09.31

THOMAS LEER – Saving Grace – 12″ – Emotional Rescue – 2019

In reality, the melodies and arrangement of his lush 1982 debut single, All About You, minus the/any vocals.

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01.14.40

BLAINE L. REININGER – Playin’ Your Game – 12″ – Les Disques Du Crépescule – 1983

Not unlike Thomas Leer in the lush vocals department.

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01.18.46

RINGDOWN – Run (part) * – Lady On The Bike, LP – Nonesuch – 2025

‘Ringdown’s music is like calling your first love on a rotary telephone, percussively tearing out the hammers from a 1924 vintage upright, and flinging each of them into space while you wait for every heartache you’ve ever felt to quietly return‘. – Bandcamp

I could easily die of old age before I decipher the above but Portland, Oregon duo, Caroline Shaw and Danni Lee are concocting some interesting music, and though I truncated Run very heavily here they’ll be back later.

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01.20.10

THOSE DANCING DAYS – Home Sweet Home – In Our Space Hero Suits, LP – Wichita – 2008

As frantic as they always seemed to be, and a very slightly different (in the vocals dept?) version to the one on the flip of the Run Run 7″.

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01.22.49

PENETRATION – V.I.P. – 7″ b-side – Virgin – 1978

Pauline Murray’s vocals! 🙂

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01.25.21

SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES – Love In A Void – 7″ b-side – Polydor – 1979

The high priestess of punk? Maybe.

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01.27.51

THE COURETTES – Here I Come – The Soul Of… The Fabulous Courettes, LP – Damaged Goods – 2024

White, clear or orange and ‘getcha, getcha, getcha, someday…‘ as opposed to Blondie’s ‘getcha, getcha, getcha, one way or another…‘ I saw them recently at a maybe sold out Set Theatre in Kilkenny (Ireland to those further afield) and they rocked.

And for a Bedford connection. Damaged Goods boss, Ian and his label charges outside The Bear during the second of their three (I think) gigs to date at Esquires. The pub has sort of been Outsiders Central for a whole bunch of alternatives through the decades and was certainly a home from home for me in the late ’70s through all the ’80s.

Photo credit: Alison Wonderland

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01.30.24

THE YARDBIRDS – Heart Full Of Soul – 7″ – Columbia – 1965

For me, not many better than this lot from the ’60s. Looking back from nearly sixty years, with Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page in their ranks at various points, their singles feel just a shade too… ‘cerebral’ and ‘arty’? to have worried the charts but five did make the Top 40 and this one went to No. 2!

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01.32.48

? – ‘Little Miss Nancy’ – one-sided 8″ US acetate – Unreleased – Late 1960s

I’ve no idea who this is… and if I bid on what was an auction item I sadly didn’t win it. AI Overview reckons ‘Little Miss Nancy can refer to a few things: a vintage doll, a character from a children’s television show, or a slag term for an effeminate person. It could also be a specific title for a Nancy Ann doll from the Storybook collection, like Little Miss Sweet Miss #110.’ Whatever, its late ’60s feel hints it could/should have soundtracked some psychedelic visuals/imagery.

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01.36.10

YEASAYER – Final Path (unknown version) – ? – 2008-2010?

I say ‘unknown’ but more the fact I can’t place it. It’s certainly not the version that backed the band’s second single, Wait For The Summer and updating on/repeating from the band’s only other 41 Rooms playlisting to date, I still can’t find a Yeasayer gig at the (Heavenly) Social in London in any gigography but via a mate of a mate who was personally overseeing their first ever UK visit, that’s definitely where I saw them. Indeed, as an introduction to the media, it might well have been their first UK gig. Recollections… singer, Chris Keating climbing on and around something on stage and looking slightly confused afterwards when I referenced (to him) that their sound reminded me of a band he’d never heard of… and one I still can’t remember. 🙂

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01.39.27

THE BEATLES – Eleanor Rigby (Loo & Placido Mash Up) – Stream only – 2014 approx

It’s the Wild West out there even if you’re The Beatles. Not the smoothest of links ups but the idea works… and the news clip I threw in over the top was for real. Only in America…

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01.42.40

ASHLEY THOMAS – Serenity * – A Tale Of Two Cities, CD only – Wah Wah 45s – 2008

Blue-eyed soul Pt 1, with a jaunty folk slant… sort of.

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01.47.35

CLIVE GRIFFIN – Head Above Water (Full Length Version) * – 12″ – Mercury – 1988

‘Extremely classy huskily tremulous attractive 107-0bpm swaying blue eyed soul jogger in Michael McDonald/Hall & Oates/George Benson-ish style, a bit amorphous as a song maybe but strong on atmosphere… ‘ – James Hamilton, Jocks, 6.89

Blue-eyed soul Pt 2, this with an r&b slant… sort of… and there’s no mistaking the late ’80s major label sheen (visually and aurally) and hopes of the crossover that never came Clive’s way.

The following though is worth repeating from Clive’s debut on 41 Rooms just a few shows back… As a child and obviously long before three major label albums and a subsequent move then into session work, back in his very young days Clive provided the vocal for the Cadbury Fudge TV ad jingle, ‘A finger of fudge is just enough‘!

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01.53.08

JONI MITCHELL – Sweet Bird – The Hissing Of Summer Lawns, LP – Asylum – 1975

Has strumming ever underpinned such wonderfulness? ‘No’ is very possibly the correct answer. 🙂

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01.56.54

RINGDOWN – Thirst * – Lady On The Bike, LP – Nonesuch – 2025

Back, as I promised earlier, with some ambling and stark moodiness. First class!

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Show 141 will be here July 6.

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