This playlist is 73% vinyl friendly. Not bad.

Anonymous ‘radiogram’, 1960s… and even at its size, the sort of set up that most families of the time had when music was really just a household component. Ours followed on from a legless Dansette-type turntable and was initially used primarily for the radio, with Dad wiring it through to the kitchen where one or two very discreetly hidden grills under a cupboard relayed Worldwide Family Favourites to the family Sunday lunch.

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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. 🙂

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Lyric of Playlist 145

‘You could be laughing sixty three percent more of the time… ‘ When Grant’s in the house he’s a likely contender here.

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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 – Hey Now What You Doing – Waiting For The Sirens’ Call, 2LP – London – 2005

On what is arguably the band’s weakest album, a gunslinger strum of a song that’s easy to skank around to on the dancefloor and if I ignore the ‘rock drawl’ that Barney sometimes gravitated to in later years (and touches on here) I’d suggest it’s one of his finest vocal performance, with some beaut guitar to boot.

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05.40

PRESENCE – Better Days (Presence Vocal Mix) – 12″ – Pagan – 1997

One of producer Charles Webster’s many monikers, here with some class house music peeping out of a genre that’s been littered with sterility through the decades since its inception. He’ll be back here.

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09.37

DISCLOSURE (feat JESSIE WARE) – Confess To Me – Settle, 2LP – PMR/Island/Method – 2013

Saw this pairing delivering this on Later With Jools.

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13.37

SERMONS BY THE DEVIL – Synesthesia – Exorcismo Electronico, LP – Library Of The Occult – 2025

A ‘Sermons By The Devil’ search online is likely to lead to no good I tell ya, and the album’s imagery etc doesn’t grab me either but this is some cheery funky electronica. 🙂

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20.42

CABARET VOLTAIRE – Yashar (John Robie Mix) – 12″ – Factory – 1983

This would have been here a good few years earlier if it hadn’t slipped through the initial 2016 ’41 Rooms Potentials’ folder. Richard and Mal pretty much namechecked Robie’s mighty work here as having single-handedly opened them up to the possibilities of ‘branching out’ and it’s a tune and mix that’s as synonymous as any with Wednesday nights in Winkles, Bedford back in the day. Even Pete Care’s video was ever present with the times. 🙂

The US acetate below is likely to be the Robie mix and the owner (not me) will know.

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27.58

BLAWAN – NOS – SickElixir, LP – XL Recordings – 2025

Given the music he’s been knocking out since 2010 a move to Berlin for northern producer, Jamie Roberts isn’t such a surprise.

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31.01

THE HUMAN LEAGUE – Being Boiled (Album version) – Travelogue, LP – Virgin – 1980

Faster and definitely ‘funkier’ than the already playlisted original but it’s a toss up…

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34.51

DEEP PURPLE – Emmaretta – 7″ – Parlophone – 1969

I had the stock/shop copy of this back in my mid ’70s ‘rock, pop and soul’ years when I saw DP at Wembley Empire Pool and though classic rock rarely gets a look in on 41 Rooms this sounded more than fine. I’d maybe even have a belated stab at buying the demo/promo copy (below, and reminiscent of Motown demos of the time 🙂 ) if it hadn’t gravitated to a £150 and well beyond price tag.

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37.29

JEFFERSON AIRPLANE – White Rabbit (Ursula 1000 remix) – Stream only – 2000-2010?

This mix turned up on some radio show… and has since disappeared. File Alex Gimeno’s efforts here under Psychedelia Plus.

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41.30

RADWIMPS (feat TOAKA) – Suzume – ‘Suzume’ Motion Picture Soundtrack, 2LP – All The Anime Music – 2023

The sonics you can bump into on the net… 🙂

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45.24

LANA SOY – Mind Games – Stream only – 2021’ish

‘‘Pure’, ‘softest’ and ‘soulful’ are usually the words thrown to describe Svetlana’s voice. Originally from Moscow and Londoner since 17, Svetlana’s music has been inspired by Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush, Tori Amos, Regina Spektor, Evanescence, Des’ree, Brandy and Sade‘. – Soundcloud

On a recent whistle stop trip back to Bedford I caught Lana at an open mic night and the best grouping of her songs is possibly her Apple Music presence. However, this version of Mind Games is one of two that are elsewhere, certainly including Soundcloud.

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48.28

AIR (feat BETH HIRSCH) – You Make It Easy – Moon Safari, LP – Virgin – 1998

Any excuse to feature the voice of Beth Hirsch… and here it’s the avenue that most of the world got to first here her through.

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52.06

JOHN GRANT – GMF – Pale Gree Ghosts, 2LP – Bella Union – 2013

With Grant’s usual wit and Sinead O’Connor (RIP) guesting, a few TV appearances of this song also included the latter on BVs, and certainly on Irish TV also Sinead’s daughter, Roísín’ where the phrase ‘The G(reatest) M(other) F(ucker)’ is still not one you’ll hear clear as day too often.

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57.16

JAKE NAJOR and FRIENDS – Midnight In A Perfect World (live) – Stream only –

‘American drummer, active as musician for numerous bands and band projects… ‘ says Discogs and here Najor faithfully recreates – in a video’d 99% live setting – to within a hair’s breath of DJ Shadow’s already 41 Rooms playlisted original.

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01.01.54

DONOVAN – Hurdy Gurdy Man – 7″ – Pye – 1968

Another of the songs that when heard at the time, stood out over the Radio One airwaves, amongst its diet of pop music. Donovan himself even seems to be at odds with others involved in the session as to who added the electric guitar. Check the song’s Wikipedia entry for all the fun. I do know from research in a slightly different area (musicians playing live in the UK, but in the same time period) that sessioners were known to sometimes get paid in cash, with the deal and details being kept off the books for whoever it suited.

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01.04.58

KIDDA – We, Do, Da Dirty Soundbwoy – Fresh Mess, DJ mix CDr – Catskills – 2005

The only place to find this barely 2 mins bouncy hip hoppity skit.

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01.07.09

D’ANGELO – Unshaken – Red Dead Redemption II, video games soundtrack, 2LP – Lakeshore Records/Rockstar Games – 2019

“Produced by Daniel Lanois, co-writer of the track along with D’Angelo (RIP) and Rocco DeLuca, and on transparent red, should vinyl soundtracks be your thing.

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01.10.59

MARK S. WILLIAMSON – Encounter On The Moor – Folklore, Facts And Fables 5: The Eve Stone, CD only – Forged River Recordings – 2025

‘For the fifth instalment in folklore, facts and fables series, we finally get a fable. We return to Todmorden and the story of Rob o’Harry’ot’Deans and his encounter with the fairy people up on the moors above the town… ‘ – Bandcamp

It quickly gets on a sonic plain and just stays there but I’m not qualified to work out whether multi-instrumentalist Williamson’s one string biscuit tin violin made it to the proceedings.

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01.17.38

BREAKBEAT ERA – Breakbeat Era – 12″ – XL Recordings – 1998

And from one of my fave 21st century sounding albums (d&b is just that way). even though it was made a shade earlier.

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01.21.51

??? – ??? – ??? – 1997?

Taped off a d&b show on London’s KISS FM radio of the time, I had this down as Comin’ Down by Kapricorn… but in amongst the swamp of anonymous and/or barely iD’d white label/promo/acetate/DAT tape etc tunes DJs on these sort of shows were buried in, this one was maybe confused with the aforementioned on a playlist, and it’s not anything Shazam can identify either. If you know… then let me know!

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01.26.38

MATRIX – The Message 96 – New Identity Recordings – 12″ – 1996

One Jamie Quinn with some sparkling d&b!

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01.30.05

LONDON ELEKTRICITY – Fast Soul Music – Billion Dollar Gravy, 3×12″ – Hospital REcords – 2003

Given the title I’d have expected LE’s near-resident vocalist, Liane Carroll to have featured more here than with the occasional scat. 🙂

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01.35.45

PARANOID LONDON (feat JENNIFER TOUCH) – Fields Of Fire – Arseholes, Liars, And Electronic Pioneers, 2LP – Paranoid London Records – 2024

The shuffling ‘hi-hats’ drive the stark beats like a real driving thing. 🙂 If this had come out in 1981 I’d have made a home for this on the turntables for a good few week at Winkles. 🙂

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01.43.01

MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO – Radio Babylon – 12″ – Play It Again Sam – 1990

Any year but 1990 certainly and I may have heard it at the time. 🙁

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01.49.21

MERZ – Many Weathers Apart (Album version) – Merz, LP – Epic – 1999

A remix of MWA featured here a few years ago and it’s not the last time you’ll hear Conrad Merz’s idiosyncratic vocals here.

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01.54.00

JOHN MARTYN – I’d Rather Be The Devil (Scrimshire Edit) – Donwload only – 2016

Adam Scrimshire adding beats and things to the already beat’y.

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Show 145 hopefully surfaces Dec 7.

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