Dan Morelle

I’m in that podcasting mood again. Here’s a little mix i’ve assembled with a bit of randomness in mind. Its not shuffled but the links are pretty abstract. I’ve been observing a lot of freaky coincidences lately and felt this a good opportunity to celebrate it. Chances are, if we’ve not met yet, we will. And if we don’t you probably know one of the songs from this playlist and we can all draw connections between you, me and a song. And you’re thinking I’ve gone totally bonkers right?

1. Orbital – Attached
2. Blur – Tender (Cornelius Remix)
3. Blackalicious – World of Vibrations
4. The Kleptones – 1150 Closer To The Boxer
5. Ray Charles – I Got a Woman
6. Olo Worms – Tortoise Shell
7. Count Basie Orchestra & Tony Bennet – Ol’ Man River
8. DJ Shadow – Hindsight
9. Herbert – The Audience
10.Radiohead – Everything In Its Right Place
11. Pulic Enemy – Louder the a Bomb
12. Mandy Patnikin – Alexander’s Ragtime Band

So its my 30th birthday today. Here’s a little podcast I put together to celebrate.

Enjoy!

Tracklist

1: Ghost Dog – Samurai Code Quote #4
2: Black Affair – Sweet
3: The Kleptones – Amazing Temptation
4: Billy Hawks – Ooh Baby (I Believe I’m Losing You)
5: Spoonie Gee – Spoonie Rap
6: Martina Topley Bird – Ragga
7: Elbow – One Thing
8: Andre 3000 – She Lives in my Lap
9: Sumac Yma – Gopher Mambo
10: Jay-Z – Lucifer
11: Ella Fitzgerald – Sunshine Of Your Love
12: Hayseed Dixie – Dueling Banjos
13: Elvis Presley – Do The Clam
14: Akasha – Brown Sugar (Les Rhythmes Digitales remix)
15: REM – I’ve Been High (Matthew “Intended” Herbert)
16: Isaac Hayes – Ike’s Rap
17: Chris Barber – You Rascal You
18: North Star (featuring the RZA) – 4 Sho Sho

Following on in the series of re-publishing interviews I did a while ago, here is an interview with The Aloof. I honestly have no recollection of doing the interview and was surprised when I stumbled upon it in a dusty back issue of G-echo December ‘99! Alas, The Aloof do not appear to have done much since this outing although band members are also elements of the gestalt entities that are Sabres of Paradise and Red Snapper. This is the interview:
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Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

At five to nine Monday on BBC Radio 4 a full frontal assault on user-generated content was made by the new self-styled (user-generated?) ‘anti-christ of silicon valley’.

Andrew Keen has written a book entitled ‘Cult of the Amateur‘, he discussed his belief that “the Internet is killing our culture and assaulting our economy”.
Maybe he is right, are either of his conclusions a bad thing?
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Following on from my interview with Talvin Singh, in May 1999 I spoke to Ollie Teeba and Jake Wherry AKA The Herbaliser in who were releasing their new album ‘Very Mercenary‘. I had learned my lesson to let the interviewee speak and not make the interview about me. It helped that they were very chatty and I had their records in my box. Here we go:

After a hiatus of two years The Herbaliser, a crew led by Jake Wherry and DJ Ollie Teeba, have emerged from their home made studio in Twickenham to unleash their third album. Jake took time out of his busy schedule of rehearsing for the forthcoming tour and spoke to Dan Morelle.

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So, this was the first ever interview I did for G:Echo in November 1998. My University was around the corner from Brick Lane AKA Banglatown in East London. I saw Talvin across the road from me one day on Brick Lane and decided to approach him and ask for an interview he’d just released the eponymous first album entitled ‘ok‘ and was running Anhoka, Sounds of the Asian Underground – a night-club every Monday at the Blue Note in Hoxton – he gave me his number and I called him up, quite simple really! Anyway, the editor thought it was a major coup and it made the front page. Read more »

Quite a few years ago I edited the music section of the magazine at the now rebranded London Metropolitain University. Its a typical ‘Dan’ story how I became appointed – for another time maybe. Needless to say it fully opened the already ajar door of blaggadon (my record/cd collection was doubling on a almost weekly basis) and meant I had some amazing oportunities to meet and interview some really creative people like Blackalicious/Quannum, Talvin Singh, The Herbalizer, Skunk Anansie, Tjinder Singh (of Cornershop) and loads of others. It also laid a nice foundation for my next project – setting up a radio station to broadcast to the whole of east london and beyond for 4 weeks in the summer of 2000.

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I put this mix together especially for my friends at olo radio. Check it out and let me know what you think.

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Playlist:

01: Gossip – Standing in the way of Control (Soulwax Remix)
02: Kid Carpet – Breakbeatles
03: Fela Kuti – Ololufe Mi
04: Apsci -Cherubic
05: Danger Doom – Space Ho’s
06: Nas – Understanding (feat AZ& Biz Markie)
07: Van Dyke Parks – Steel Band
08: Shuggi Otis – Sweet Thang
09: Leadbelly – In The Pines
10: Lonnie Donegan – New Burying Ground
11: Toots and the Maytals – Louie Louie
12: Blackalicious- Alphabet Aerobics (The Cut Chemist Remix)
13: Unknown – Harmonica Blues
14: Alpha – Lipstick From the Asylum
15: Kathryn Williams – All Apologies
16: Ultra Magnetic MCs – Poppa Large
17: Mylo – Sweet Child of Mine
18: Zbigniew Flakus – Evening Coffe
19: King Biscuit Time – Izzum
20: Lucas Dawson – I’m so miserable
21: Blue Bongo – Lewis, Ramsey

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