Chris Coco’s weekly radio broadcast. An eclectic selection of brilliant new music starting with house and moving on to electronica, downtempo, acoustic and all sorts of other styles loosely connected to dance and electronic music. Let tastemaker Chris Coco guide you through his selection of the week’s best new music. This episode we are back in the studio for a feast of fresh electronica, post Balearic dub pop and new acoustic trainer gaze, that’s tongue twisters, remixes and shoegaze with less stylish footwear. [setlist] 1 Talking Heads / KC Flightt – Once On Planet E (Leftside Wobble Mix) – digital file 2 Boys From Patagonia – Rimini 80 – International Feel 3 Discoshit – Biwak – Rest THAT FUZZY FEELING (TUNE OF THE WEEK) 4 Alabama Shakes – Hold On – Rough Trade 5 Yerkemo Sew – A Man Of Experience & Wisdom – Late Night Tales 6 Frederic Robinson – Road Trip – Med School Music 7 Metronomy – Corrine (Benoit & Sergio Remix) – Because Music 8 Gang Colours – Heavy Petting – Brownswood 9 City Reverb – Roll On (Henry Oakley’s Dark Memory Mix) – MelodicaRecordings 10 Sufjan Stevens – Futile Devices (Shigeto Remix) – digital file STRINGS, WOOD AND A BOX OF AIR 11 Bonnie ‘ Prince’ Billie – Time to Be Clear – Domino 12 Lambchop – 2B2 – City Slang 13 Micatone – Handbrake – Sonar Kollektiv 14 No Logo – This City Never Sleeps – MelodicaRecordings

We, me, the CTYRVB and the boy, went in search of edgelands, the LDN rust belt, to find an image, some decay, some entropy, something modern, and suitable, to go with the music, some beauty in the disaster, some magic, in the ordinary, the so ordinary, it is usually overlooked, and we looked, and we shot, and we talked, and it was actually a good time, in these lost places, but, in retrospect, even for us, it was, perhaps, a little too bleak, a little too little, a little too colourless, for what we are searching for, which is there, we just have to find it.

Melodicablog 120227 More stuff about the music and stories on this week’s Melodica. All the shows are archived on the Chris Coco page at Mixcloud. There’s a new Melodica chart on Juno Download: here. Follow Chris Coco on Mixcloud Everyone says that the best parties end up in the kitchen. So… This episode comes live from the secret kitchen, an exclusive back room party venue decked out as a 70s kitchen, down a dusty corridor at the back of the Big Chill bar in Bristol. Chris plays music and chats with some guests who are doing things on the Bristol scene – DJ john Stapleton, bar owner Dave Westernsoul, agent and DJ Matty J and happening producer DJs Christophe & Lukas. There’s a broad range of music from a pretend horror soundtrack to 70s folk to cutting edge unreleased house music. Here are some pictures from the show:

Chris Coco’s weekly radio broadcast. An eclectic selection of brilliant new music starting with house and moving on to electronica, downtempo, acoustic and all sorts of other styles loosely connected to dance and electronic music. Let tastemaker Chris Coco guide you through his selection of the week’s best new music. Everyone says that the best parties end up in the kitchen. So… This episode comes live from the secret kitchen, an exclusive back room party venue decked out as a 70s kitchen, down a dusty corridor at the back of the Big Chill bar in Bristol. Chris plays music and chats with some guests who are doing things on the Bristol scene – DJ john Stapleton, bar owner Dave Westernsoul, agent and DJ Matty J and happening producer DJs Christophe & Lukas. There’s a broad range of music from a pretend horror soundtrack to 70s folk to cutting edge unreleased house music. [setlist] 1 Tevo Howard – The Wind Of The World – Buzzin’ Fly 2 Robert Owens – Sacrifice – Ndatl Muzik 3 Gang Colours – Fancy Restaurant (Ifan Daffyd Remix) – Brownswood 4 Ptarmigan – Go Dancing – Columbia 5 Paul Kenney – The Praise – Sound of Salvation 6 Red Rack Em – Alone Always – Bergerac 7 Soft Rocks – Obo (Tiago Remix) – Digital File 8 Maxmillion Dunbar – Pretty Please – Ramp Records 9 Christophe & Lukas & Eats Everything – Hello Flowers – Digital File 10 Don Carlos – Alone (Joey Negro Edit) – Pyramide