Soundtracks and Other Expletives – Dash Dash One

Posted on: 08-06-2014

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OK, so VS is clearly on a small hiatus whilst Kurac undergoes the transformation surgery she has been wanting for decades. We look forward to welcoming our new DJ’ette, yet to be named. So Ringfinger got itchy cratedigging fingers and put this little shebang together.

This is the (slight) return of Soundtracks and other Expletives, the radio show first heard on 2RRR around the turn of the century. This show eventually morphed and became a variety of other weird Sh!t shows, like VS and Fabrication De Bruit, but in this incarnation it was Ringfinger’s show that played all a whole lot of stuff they liked, had just purchased or had wanted to highlight some of the connections between the tracks. So, here it goes, listen, enjoy, feedback and rock the house down. Some random thoughts, lots of cool French at the top, none of which we would DJ with, too smooth, too sexy. Then some Krautrock with Faust from a RSD release last year. The we whack the country bug with the Possum himself, George Jones, the beautiful Connie Smith and the impossibly talented Tammy Wynette.

Gene Clark, erstwhile Byrd penned this brilliant track from 4AD superband, This Mortal Coil, which we follow up with a Tim Buckley cover. Modern Giant is a Sydney band from 2007, this is a song that most Sydneysiders get, why do we want to move to Melbourne? Really? Trams and Angie Hart. From the band Frente, which is next with their stunning new Order Cover. Mogwai from their Earth Division EP is followed up with NZ post-rock band Jakob off their superlative ‘Subset of Sets’ record leaving us Muddy Waters doing Big Bill Broonzy, Primal Scream doing Sonic’s Rendezvous Band (for Rock Action) and the Angels doing ‘Take a Long Line’ (for Doc – RIP)

69 Année Erotique – Serge Gainsbourg
Holidays – Michel Polnareff
Je Te Cherche – Françoise Hardy
Beyond Cloud Hill (A Faust Improvisation 2009) – Faust
I’ll walk the line – George Jones
Will the real me please stop crying – Connie Smith
Stand by your man – Tammy Wynette
Strengths of Strings – This Mortal Coil
Morning Glory – This Mortal Coil
Angie Hart – Modern Giant
Bizarre Love Triangle – Frente
Letter to France – Mogwai
Nice day for an earthquake – Jakob
Southbound Train – Muddy Waters
City Slang – Primal Scream
Take a Long Line – The Angels