The brutal realisation that I wouldn’t play most of my record collection again before I die prompted me to start doing All My Records. As the name suggests this is is me playing all my records by order that they’ve ended up in my shelves: left to right, top to bottom, how they’re currently sitting. Single deck show, one off and one on, ladened with unnecessary reminiscing about when and why I bought them and talking crap. It’s remarkably therapeutic, I recommend you try it.
You’d think during lockdown I’d be working my way through the records faster but it turns out the opposite is true. Recorded this one over three months ago and hadn’t even had time to move it of the recorder
I can’t recall a show that we’ve played where the sounds has shifted so much. As we venture in to the experimental bits and pieces this is to be expected though. We kick off in Mali with Alkibar Gignor before going to the ever mysterious Lost Tapes Record Club for “a unique project channelling ethnographic Radiolore from the Dorset village of Symondsbury” which kicks us down a totally different path, and at which point I mix up Chris Cornell for Chris Cunningham. Sorry Chris.
Hype Williams and Demdike Stare flipping up some Shangaan Electro, Black Rain, field recordings from Kink Gong, Sad City NHK’Koyxeи, Andy Votel and Demdike Stare as Slant Azymuth, the somewhat head-wrenching Phillipe Pettite with a concept album, Black To Comm with another concept album, Head Boggle, Ekoplekz and ending with some Portishead and an unnecessarily long and boring story about Andy Smith and Top Shop.
There’s music in here that you won’t find anywhere in any format, anywhere else but on these records.
This batch throws up some of the best looking artwork we’ve seen to date. Check the show above and the sleeves below and up on insta (https://www.instagram.com/awkwardmovements).
