I recently put together a ‘mix-tape’ for a friend and it was the first I’d done in just coming up for 5 years, an enjoyable process and I’m not sure why I left it so long. I guess part of the reason is that these days I don’t get paid to play records and as a result spend much less on acquiring vinyl. And so it feels like I just don’t have sufficient influx of new music to warrant attempting to loosely stitch together a sequence of tracks that I’ll find pleasing, and if I’m lucky others may. In any case to mark the moment I thought I’d share it with a – in theory – wider audience (assuming anyone reads these ramblings). It’s a collection of old and new, and fairly weighted toward post-punk and Glasgow.

Track listing:

00:00:00 Sketch for Face of Helen – Arthur Russell
00:03:36 Moon don’t come up tonight – Patty Waters
00:06:26 Soon-to-be-innocent Fun / Let’s see – Arthur Russell
00:15:50 Yaz Gazeteci Yaz – Selda Bagcan
00:18:32 Rebop – Garçons
00:21:11 Primitive – The Groupies
00:24:54 Judas – The Wake
00:28:11 Sympathetic Anaesthetic – Fire Engines
00:31:22 Guitar Trio – Rhys Chatham
00:39:21 Hinter den Bergen – Grauzone
00:41:45 Megafist – Multiplies
00:46:51 Mind Your Own Business – Delta 5
00:49:59 Can’t Cheat Karma – Zoundz
00:52:37 Where there’s a will there’s a way – The Pop Group
00:57:50 Cool – Pylon
01:01:07 Mushroom – Can
01:05:26 Oliver Postgate Intro & Main Theme – Ivor The Engine
01:07:29 (Effects) Ivor Chuffing – Ivor The Engine
01:07:49 Nothing to be done – The Pastels
01:11:35 Footsteps – Bricolage
01:14:53 All the rage – The Royal We
01:17:46 Get around to it – Arthur Russell
01:22:39 Twilight’s last gleaming – W.S. Burroughs
01:27:02 Mister Whisper – Dory Previn