Bontempi Radio Köln: Edition 11 | Everything you think you know

Everything you think you know (is probably wrong)

Welcome to edition eleven of Bontempi Radio Köln. 57 minutes in your own personal headphone space - wherever that may be. This one is a little bit dark. A yang to the last one's ambient ying. And a birthday edition too! Is it really a year+ since I first set up a feedburner account and was wowed at the potential of sending several mix-tapes to friends at once?

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Please mail with requests or ideas for themes or even to lavish your undying love for my aural travails. I'd love to know who you are, what you like and where you listen to the show. I thrive on feedback! Tell all your friends too. I crave new listeners.

Bontempi Radio Köln 10; 08/03/07
Tracklisting:

01 Cliff Martinez - Don't blow it
02 Dead Can Dance - Dawn of the Iconoclast
03 Angelo Badalementi - The Pink Room
04 OMD - Enola Gay (Peel Session alternative take)
05 Ladytron - True Mathematics
06 Ellen Allien - Stadtkind
07 Meat Beat Manifesto - Hello Teenage America
08 LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum
09 Chicks on Speed - Kaltes Klares Wasser
10 Tipper - Sound Off
11 Fischerspooner - We Need a War
12 Lali Puna - Call 1-800-FEAR
13 Brian Eno - Bonebomb
14 Laurie Anderson - O Superman (For Massenet)
15 The KLF - What time was love?
16 Laurie Anderson - O Superman (Pixelbeats)
17 Mike Reid - Runaround
18 Jean Michel Jarre - Computer Weekend
19 Joan Jett - Bad Reputation

Bontempi Radio Köln: Edition 10 | Adrift on Moonbase Alpha

Adrift on Moonbase Alpha

Welcome to edition ten of Bontempi Radio Köln. 45 minutes in your own personal headphone space - wherever that may be.
This is a special retro edition; Found whilst rooting through a box of cassettes (yes I still have some) I unearthed this pre-Bontempi mix I made around about 1994 or 95 judging by the tunes on it. Global Communication, FSOL, Bandulu, MLO...mmm

No Ableton back then, not even laptops for brassic students, so this is strictly 'old-skool' with the mix done with a combination of 2 mismatched decks, a cruddy vari-speed 4-track tape machine, a CD player and a VCR all hooked up via a cheapo 4 channel mixer on the dining room at home during the summer break. No luxury of post production edits or timestretching then - it was a one take deal and after dusting off the TDK and listening back I was pleasantly surprised with this (most tapes used to mess up at about the 37 minute mark) so I thought y'all might like to hear it. So lean back, turn on the Dolby noise reduction and enjoy! And if anyone can identify the dubby one near the end - I think it's the Original Rockers - and mail me with the title I'll despatch them a Milky Way bar post haste.

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Please mail with requests or ideas for themes or even to lavish your undying love for my aural travails. I'd love to know who you are, what you like and where you listen to the show. I thrive on feedback!

Bontempi Radio Köln 10; 24/10/06
Tracklisting:

01 FFWD - A Violent and Rushing Wind
02 Golden Claw Musics - Long Ships
03 Bandulu - Phaze in (Remix)
04 Peter Gabriel - Of these, hope (Last Temptation of Christ OST)
05 Amorphous Androgynous - Fat Cat
06 Global Communication - 12:18
07 Meat Beat Manifesto/Dudley Moore Trio - Placebo/Millionaire
09 The Orb - Backside of the Moon (Peel Session)
10 OMD - Stanlowe
11 Original Rockers - Push Push (The Underwater Worldo of Jah Cousteau)
10 Fortran 5 - Time to Dream (Spiritfeel's Fruit of the Spirit mix)
11 System 7 - 777 (Ambient mix)
11 Transform - Transform (MLO Ambient mix)
12 Janis Joplin - Live at Woodstock

Bontempi Radio Köln: Edition 09 | Tiger Mustard

Tiger Mustard

Welcome to edition nine of Bontempi Radio Köln. 70+ minutes in your own personal headphone space - wherever that may be. I would say relaxing, but this is probably one of the most bass-heavy podcasts thus far. Lots of freestylin' towards the end. Hope you enjoy - my feelers have been out finding the best music, best *harmonic* mixing and most deja-vu inducing snippets of sampled fun iced-gems can buy. Again - sorry for the delay getting this out. I really should stop saying that it's fortnightly as that's patently not true.

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Pull up an office chair, sofa, cross trainer, car seat, train seat, bike saddle or whatever it is you sit on to listen to these, jack in your phones and enjoy!

Please mail with requests or ideas for themes or even to lavish your undying love for my aural travails. I'd love to know who you are, what you like and where you listen to the show. I thrive on feedback!

Bontempi Radio Köln 09; 30/10/06
Tracklisting: (of sorts - it's get a bit layered towards the end)

01 John Carpenter: Assault on Precinct 13
02 OMD: Junk Culture
03 Aneka: Japanese Boy
04 Billy Idol: Catch My Fall (Remix Fix)
05 Yes: Owner of a Lonely Heart
06 John Barry: Florida Fantasy
07 Uffie: Pop The Glock
08 Anthony Rother: Punks
09 Modeselektor: Turn Deaf
10 Vitalic: Suicide Commando
11 Meat Beat Manifesto: Electric People
12 Mike Oldfield: Family Man
13 Missy Elliot: Pass That Dutch
14 Madonna: Music
15 David Bowie: The Man Who Stole The World
16 Olive: You're not Alone
17 Krush: House Arrest
18 Felix Da Housecat: Watching Cars Go By
19 Tori Amos: Professional Widow (Armand Van Heldon mix)
20 Deee Lite: Intro
21 Chicks On Speed: Eurotrash Girl
22 New Order: The Beach
23 Missy Elliot: Work it
24 Sheep on Drugs: Motorbike
25 Bis: Shack Up
26 Felix Da Housecat [Feat. Miss Kittin]: Silver Screen (Shower Scene)
27 Studio B: I See Girls (Tom Neville mix)
28 Frankie Goes to Hollywood: Relax
29 John Carpenter: Prince of Darkness (Transmitting from the year 1-9-9-9)
30 Kylie: I Believe in You

Bontempi Radio Köln: Edition 08 | Bubble & Squeak

As in ‘mixed bag of leftovers’

Welcome to edition eight of Bontempi Radio Köln. A relaxing hour in your own personal headphone space I hope. Apologies to fans for the delay; reading earlier posts you may have noticed I was gadabout recently and despite original plans to podcast from the train I was far happier with my nose jammed against the glass of a railway carriage window picking up inspiration than fannying about in Ableton annoying everyone with my endless tinny high-hat loops.

This Bontempi’s a bit of a mixed bag - hence the name, but has some of my all time faves on it including the untouchably great Spooky mixes of 'Water from a vine leaf' from back-in-the-day. There's some nice soundtrack Bambient stuff, some Alvin Lucier (for those who've read 'Words and Music' by Paul Morley) and a healthy slab of silly samples. Let's face it - where else could you get to hear the theme music to ‘Rockliffe’s Babies’ as well as Tom Baker swearing like a fishwife? Where I ask you? ;)

This is a special edition of sorts as it is the first podcast brought to you in Uncle-o-Ramic Sound. Yep - Yesterday morning Baby Ellen was born during a lightning storm and I am now an uncle. I’m *very excited* at the prospect of meeting her along with her fab mum and dad tomorrow. Congrats guys! And this one's for you Ellen!

Listen here or subscribe via iTunes by clicking the post-title or the Podcast link in the right-hand column I've had some feed problems with Blogger so some existing listeners may need to unsubscribe and then resubscribe in iTunes for the new edition to come down the line properly

Those of you without cloth ears may notice a small improvement in sound quality - I've switched to Garageband to do the final mastering and though it's CaptainSLOW at spitting out the final file, it now comes to you in a gloriously crispy 192Kbps AAC format. Which is nice when played loud. So pull up an office chair, sofa, cross trainer, car seat, train seat, bike saddle or whatever it is you sit on to listen to these, jack in your phones and enjoy!

Please mail with requests or ideas for themes or even to lavish your undying love for my aural travails. I'd love to know who you are, what you like and where you listen to the show. I thrive on feedback! (Sorry Ben—I haven't found a suitable spot for your request yet - maybe in the next one yeah?)

Bontempi Radio Köln 08; 23/07/06
Tracklisting:

01 Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Kaneda (Akira Soundtrack)
02 Tom Baker - Equinox Rave Episode [feat the Hartnoll Bros.]
03 Orbital - Equinox (Times Hard)
04 Global Communication - Ob Selon Mimos (LittlePixel windtunnel mix)
05 The Carpenters - Calling All Occupants of Interplanetary Craft [excerpt]
06 Locust - No-one in the world
07 Bola / Alvin Lucier - Forcasa III / I am sitting in a room
08 Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Illusion (Akira Soundtrack)
09 William Orbit & Beth Orton - Water from a Vine Leaf (Spooky Xylem Flow / Acid Bath mixes)
10 TV Theme - Rockliffe's Babies
11 Interlocking brick-play - Wind that back ('06 LittlePixel remaster)
12 The Mitgang Audio - Minor Causes

Bontempi Radio Köln: Edition 07 | Music to ride trains by

Pishh-ti-coof... Pishh-ti-coof!

Welcome to edition seven of Bontempi Radio Köln. A bumper D90 double-length edition this time (sorry for download size—it is worth it I promise!) as I’ll be away riding trains for the next month and won’t easily be able to fill the missing Bontempi gap when away. This ’cast contains a definite George Stephenson theme and is best listened to with your eyes peering out of the window on whatever journey you find yourself on, with your brain duly engaged in neutral. Unless you’re driving of course. Or there are kids opposite eating oranges and playing [insert name of latest japanese kids’ craze game here]. In which case turn it up even louder. It will scare them off.

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If you liked the show or have requests, comments, suggestions, please email me (address at bottom of page) and let me know! I’d love as much feedback as possible so I can continue to make BRK as interesting and fun as I can.

Tags:PodcastsTrainsNorth American Railroads

Bontempi Radio Köln 07; 20/05/06
Tracklisting:

01 Roy Budd: Carter takes a Train (Get Carter OST)
02 Keiichi Suzuki: Satellite Serenade (Orb Trans Asian Express)
03 The KLF: Last Train To Trancentral (Pure Trance)
04 Special Projects: Code of the Goddamn Streets
05 LMNO: Silcock Express (Sabres of Paradise mix)
06 Underworld: Dark and Long (Dark Train)
07 Jimmy Saville: InterCity 125
08 Tangerine Dream: Love on a Real Train (Risky Business OST)
09 Brian Eno & David Byrne: Mea Culpa
10 Two Lone Swordsmen: Sex Beat
11 Le Tigre: My My My Metrocard
12 Berlin: The Metro (Extended version)
13 Si Begg: Eurostar
14 Kraftwerk: Europa Endlos
15 The KLF: Madruga Eterna (LittlePixel overdub)
16 The Monkees: Last Train to Clarkesville

Bontempi Radio Köln: Edition 06 | Jack yer’ Bontempi

Long time coming…

Welcome to edition six of Bontempi Radio Köln. A long time coming but good things come to those who wait... This one mainly features early house, euro-beat, electro and hi-nrg cuts from the 80s. Tunes in the charts or discovered later that made me prick up my ears and stop listening to stadium rock. I've kept production to a minimum on this - it’s really just the tunes but I hope you enjoy the selection.

If you do — I thoroughly recommend seeking out some of the old WBMX Chicago Hot Mix Five sessions that can be easily be found on your p2p network of choice, fully capturing the birth of the modern DJ featuring legends like Farley Jackmaster Funk, Fast Eddie Fawlkes, Kenny Jammin Jason, Ralphie Rosario, Steve Silk Hurley, Julian Perez and Mickey Oliver. They did this sort of thing way, way better than me.

Perfect summer music. To dance to. Or listen on the bus.

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If you liked the show or have requests, comments, suggestions, please email me (address at bottom of page) and let me know! I’d love as much feedback as possible so I can continue to make BRK as interesting and fun as I can.

Tags:PodcastsHot Mix FiveClassic Chicago House

Bontempi Radio Köln 06; 09/05/06
Tracklisting:

01 Taffy: I Love My Radio (US 12")
02 Man2Man meets Man Parrish: Male Stripper (Pixel mix)
03 Pet Shop Boys: In the Night
04 Vicious Pink: Cccant you see?
05 Nightmares on Wax: A Case of Funk
06 Shannon: Let the Music Play
07 Steve ‘Silk’ Hurley: Jack your Body
08 Hithouse: Jack to the sound of the Underground
09 Jack ‘n’ Chill: The Jack that House Built
10 The KLF: Kylie said to Jason (Kylie in a Trance)
11 Inner City: Good Life
12 Frankie Knuckles Feat. Jamie Principle: Your Love

Bontempi Radio Köln: Edition 05 | Édition Spécial Français

Ecoutez moi!

Welcome to edition five of Bontempi Radio Köln. This one has been fun to put together; 49 minutes of French (or tenuously gallic) goodness for your ears. Tracklisting is below if you are unsure of the JMJ inclusion ratio! It's been difficult cramming in all I wanted—so watch out for a ‘part two’ at some point in the near future...

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If you liked the show or have requests, comments, suggestions, please email me (address at bottom of page) and let me know! I'd love as much feedback as possible so I can continue to make BRK as interesting and fun as I can.

Tags:PodcastsGallicFrench Music

Bontempi Radio Köln 05; 29/03/06
Tracklisting:

01 Michel Polnareff: Computer’s Dream
02 Richard Ayoade & Matt Berry/Univers: Whistle Test/Sideral
03 Serge Gainsbourg: Melody
04 Beck: Paper Tiger
05 David Holmes/Madonna/The Verve: Don't die with just the power of bittersweet goodbyes
06 David Holmes: Don't Die Just Yet
07 Wood Nymph: Hairdresser
08 Renegade Soundwave: Deadly
09 Modeselector: Dancing Box
10 Bomb the Bass: Bug Powder Dust (La Funk Mob remix)
11 Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot: Bonnie and Clyde
12 MC Solaar: Nouveau Western
13 Stereo Total: Ma Radio
14 Cassius/Jean-Michel Jarre: TV Rules the Nation/Rendez-vous Three
15 Cassius/Jean-Michel Jarre: TV Rules the Nation/Rendez-vous Five
16 Max Berlin: Elle et Moi (Joakim mix)
17 Stereolab: Lo Boob Oscillator
18 Charles Trenet: Boum

Bontempi Radio Köln: Edition 04 | Guest Special with Alex H.

Watch out! Alex H is in town

Only a week since the last BRK, but that’s probably because I barely had to lift a finger for this edition. Yes—Number Four is a guest mix by the ever-talented Alex H who heard BRK editions 1&2 and begged me to let him have a go*

*Not in fact entirely true; It's an honour...

Who is Alex H? He's a producer/DJ of note I just happen to work with who’s mashups and long-form mixes never fail to amuse or get your toes a-tappin’. He’s got an impressive back catalogue of bootlegs, original stuff and mixes to peruse: Get over to www.alexh.org to hear more!

But we digress; this 26 minute mix has been scalpelled together for your aural pleasure with some fantastic gobbets of unlikely soundtrack history, razor-sharp beats and breaks and (as if that wasn't enough) it even comes with a twist of hispanic hip-hop. It’a treat - if you haven’t subscribed yet… Why the delay?!?

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Tags:PodcastsSoundtracksAlex H

Bontempi Radio Köln 04; 13/03/06
Tracklisting:

01 Ghost in the Shell OST: Making the Cyborg
02 Never Ending Story OST: Fantastia (w. beats)
02 The Spy Who Loved Me OST: Bond 77 (w. house beats)
03 Kontrol OST: Orangyal
04 Kontrol OST: Uldozes
05 Derren Brown: Hallucination Button
06 Hexstatic: That Track
07 Wagon Christ: Rendel Shack
07 Cypress Hill: Hits from the Bong (Spanish Version)
08 Rueben Wilson: Mr Big Stuff
09 Bis, Magic Dance, Labyrinth, Queen, Living Daylights et al vs. Alex H: Unnamed Mashup
10 Manu Chao: Me Gusta Tu
11 The Great Escape OST vs. Africa Bambataa: Funky Heroes

Bontempi Radio Köln: Edition 03 | Shopping World

Yessiree... Edition three is out!

Length is finally creeping towards the magic 45 minute mark and there’s a bumper pack of 19 tunes somehow squeezed in this time. I've had a lot of fun making it—I hope it’s a fun listen for all of my 43 listeners! (If you liked it - tell your friends! ;)

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Tags:PodcastsTom Baker

Bontempi Radio Köln 03; 05/03/06
Tracklisting:

01 Mohammed Rafi: Jaan Pehechaan Ho
02 The Electric Chairs: Barbie Girl
02 The Droyds: Girls on Pills
03 Tiga: Burning down the house
04 Soulwax: NY Lipps
05 PWEI: Def-Con-One
06 Cassetteboy vs BIll Gates
07 Commodore 64: Unbeatable
07 Atari: Out of this World
08 Tangerine Dream: The Dream is always the same...
09 LittlePixel vs The Tangs: I'll never get to College
10 Lost: Main Theme
11 Hedgehoppers Anonymous: It’s Good News Week
12 ICI: The New Way to Dress
13 Ladytron: P.A.C.O.
14 Ann Armstrong: I'm tall but even I couldn't...
15 LittlePixel vs The IT Crowd & Bandulu: Reality Guidance
16 LittlePixel vs Nathan Barley and the Grand Detroit Pubahs: Awesome Sounds
17 LittlePixel vs Sugababes & Bandulu: Guide the Button
19 Meat Beat Manifesto: Circles

Bontempi Radio Köln: Edition 02 | Sexy Synthesisers

Bontempi Radio Köln: Edition 02

And a bit different this time…
Yes indeed—I may have spent way too long polishing the details (chapters, beat matching, cover images), to make this the first ‘proper’ podcast after last week’s little experiment—but it's lined up to be a goody.

The selections on this one are sort of a glimpse inside my head during the mid-to-late eighties, with a few things added for spice that I've since discovered but would probably have loved then too had I known about them. I got a few deja-vu’s just making it. So jack in your phones and expect synthesisers, a little cheese and of course an ex-stockbroker from Switzerland rapping and shouting in a mockney accent!

There was an enhanced version in the .m4b format with chapters and images, but I’m currently experiencing problems with my provider not being able to properly host the files so it remains in .mp3 for the foreseeable future.
[EDIT: A very helpful person at Pipex gave me the heads-up on how I might sort this problem with mime-types so from now on (Sunday 19th Feb) it will indeed be enhanced. Yay!—I feel like a server-side genius making this work. It seemed just too easy!]

You can subscribe to the podcast via iTunes or RSS with one of the links in the ‘subscribe’ sidebar on the right—which means you'll get new podcasts from me automatically every time I make a new one. Hopefully this will be fortnightly or more often should time allow. If the iTunes or RSS links don't work for you, you can download the whole mix directly from the link below. If you’ve heard it and liked it - mail me at littlepixel(at)littlepixel.info or post a comment and let me know - or if you’re really moved—leave a review on iTunes...

Direct download here

Tags:Music PodcastBontempi Radio KölnAbletonSynthpop.m4biTunes

Bontempi Radio Köln 02; 12/02/06
Tracklisting:

01 Yellow Magic Orchestra: Rydeen
02 Tom Tom Club: Wordy Rappinghood [Excerpt]
02 Yukihiro Takahashi: Extra Ordinary
03 Simple Minds: Factory
04 Flash and the Pan: Waiting for a Train
05 Yello: Bostich
06 Art of Noise: Beatbox [Snapshot]
07 Mick Jones/Big Audio Dynamite: Get Fresh [TV Theme]
07 OMD: Apollo
08 The Human League: Dominion Advertisement
09 Giorgio Moroder: Evolution
10 Think Again [TV Theme]

Bontempi Radio Köln: Edition 01 | Testing... Testing... Is this on?

If everything worked this should be my first podcast post...

Woo! Pretty smart huh? It’s experimental, it’s 26minutes long and sadly yes—I’ve resorted to one of the Mac’s ‘Steven Hawking’ robot voices out of microphone shyness—but it’s early days ok? Made with Ableton, the tunes on it are erm a bit eclectic but for edition two, I promise to compile a Disco Electro Giorgio Yello treat. Won’t that be nice?

But for now either:
1) Get a proper RSS podcast subscription by pasting the feed url below into iTunes via the ‘Subscribe to Podcast’ advanced menu item and you should get new downloads automatically as-and-when I make new shows:

feed://feeds.feedburner.com/BontempiRadioKoln

2) Click here to launch the mp3 in a new window Or ctrl-click/right-click the link to save it to somewhere on your hard-disk.

Hope you enjoy them…

Tags:PodcastEclectic Music

Bontempi Radio Köln 01; 06/02/06
Tracklisting:

01 Ellen Alien: Wish
02 Lali Puna: Don’t Think
03 Cornershop: Funky Days are Back Again
04 Bill Wyman: Je suis un Rock Star
05 Bow Wow Wow: I Want Candy
06 Lene Lovich: Lucky Number
07 Peter Schilling: Major Tom (German version)