Matt's B-Side Remix Extravaganza Part Deux

The long-awaited second instalment of Matt's B-Side Remix Extravaganza is now upon us. There were several who had doubts as to whether I could follow up the brilliant original with a comparable second. I say let the b-sides do the talking themselves. If it's half as popular as the last one we're in business.

This years cast comes a little earlier than last. But that's because I have a ample amount of great seven inch remixes from the last 9 months. If luck is on our side we might squeeze another in before Christmas. Right let's get busy with the track-listing.

Lykke Li - I'm Good I'm Gone (Metronomy Remix)
Goldfrapp - Happiness (Metronomy Remix)
David Holmes - I heard wonders (Andrew Weatherall Remix)
Hot Chip - One Pure Thought (Toddla T Remix)
Digitalism - Pogo (CSS Remix)
Tricky - Council Estate (South Rakkas Crew Remix)
Roots Manuva - Again & Again (Matt Helders Remix)
Jazmine Sullivan - Need U Bad (Moody Boyz Remix)

UPDATE: Just realised that list is in the wrong order. Oh well. Figure it out yourselves.

Now get it while it's hot and be sure to pass the link on to any friends or relatives who like a drop of the good stuff.

Matt's B-Side Remix Extravaganza Part Deux

there's eating in this podcast. stuff your face!

I've managed to get a few hours away from the stuff of import that usually occupies Matt Vinyls life. Never one to rest on my laurels I thought that I'd get a podcast together for your general consumption. In these difficult times there's little in life that comes free. As such I thought I'd delve into the collection and pick out a few musical gems that you might not have otherwise come across. In doing so it turns out that I've put together seven pretty freaky cuts. Fuck it though, I believe that you're broadminded freethinking individuals who like a little spice in their life. So step up to the mark and wrap your ears around this. The track listing is as follows.

Theme from 'Chips' - Corniche
Utopia (Plaid Mix) - Goldfrapp
Plug Me In - Add N to X
The Four Horsemen - Aphrodites Child
Doctorin the Tardis (Minimal Mix) - The Timelords
Hip Hip - Shut Up & Dance
Angela - Bob James



Listen to : September Sounds












PS I just thought I'd throw in a picture of Spilly Walker at the Electric Picnic for good measure

damn it. let's have a podcast for the hell of it.

I thought to myself: "What the hell. These guys deserve a new podcast. So I'll damn well give it to them" So here it is. Tracklist below.

It must be love - Labi Siffre. I never tire of listening to this tune . The sentiment, his voice and the tune itself all add up to more than the sum of their parts. Its wonderful.

My World - Lee Fields. I'm not sure if I've put this on a previous podcast but even if I did it's worth a second spin. It's a beautiful slice of soul with some lovely arrangements going on in the backing track.

Brass in Africa - Hypnotic Brass Ensemble. These dudes turned up in Battlebridge in Leitirm a few weeks ago for a gig. They were brought there by the Mantua folk and I only heard about it because someone I know got off the rent-a-cruiser thing they were on and met these guys. Brilliant.

Now I Deliver - Rockers Hi-Fi. A beat, a bassline and a hook. Now they deliver.

Wash your face in my sink - Dream Warriors - Another recent purchase on seven inch this tune reminds me of more fun times in hip-hop. De la Soul, Disposable Heroes etc. Peace and Love and all that jazz.

Organize - Mugo - This is one groovy slice of break-beat disco funk. Nuff said.

Buff Nuff - Roots Manuva. All is well with Rodney Manuva if this tune is anything to go by. If I'm not mistaken he has a new album out around now. It could be worth a listen. Dancehall flavours included.

Sticky Rhythm - Tombee. Repetitive music at its most base but it somehow manages to appeal to me. Make what you will of it.


The August Shakedown Mix

surprise podcast!

Surprise.

The 80's Pop Pickers Podcast

This podcast was inspired by a post over at www.nialler9.com From nowhere people started to admit to certain a guilty pleasure they got from listening to particular tunes from the 1980's. Always a keen member of the nostalgia brigade I decided to dig through some boxes of seven inches from the eighties. This isn't a favourite top ten by any means but is instead intended as a representation of the stuff that really defined the charts during the period in question. Enjoy the trip down memory lane. If you enjoy it then go and buy one of those cheap compilations available in all good supermarkets. Better still you could offer to buy all mine from me.

The 80's Pop Pickers Podcast


1. Pop Musik – M

This one just manages to sum up the eighties for me. Perfect pop.

2. Living it Up – Level 42

I used to hate this band when this was released. Some pasty faced blokes trying to reinvent white soul music in the UK. That said I’ve revised my thinking considerably. It’s great.

3. Owner of a Lonely Heart – Yes

A great rock-pop crossover at the time. The production is great. The sound is set in a distinct time and place, a place that Yes never really managed to revisit. Pity.

4. Teardrops – Womack & Womack

The girls always loved this one. That’s enough reason to merit its inclusion.

5. Dancehall Days – Wang Chung

This reminds me of MT USA. I’m sorry that I didn’t include the Safety Dance by Men without Hats. I always associate the two songs together for some reason. Don’t know why.

6. All Night Long – Lionel Richie

The original soul-glo star of the eighties, Lionel really had it going on for a while. He had a succession of huge hits like that ‘Hello’ tune. In the video the chick made a hilarious bust of Lionel out of clay. It was a toss-up to include this tune or Dancing on the Ceiling but this one won out on account of it being just cheesey and great. But so is the other one you say!

7. I can’t go for that – Hall & Oates

I’m not sure how this one snuck onto the podcast but I decided to leave it in. I was never a huge fan of these chaps. The blonde one always reminded me of a mulleted mate and the little one always reminded me of one of the guys from Cannon & Ball. That doesn’t quite paint a delightful picture in the mind but the tune is good in a typical eighties kind of way. We were satisfied with less in those days.

8. State of Independence – Donna Summer

This tune really owes everything to the Quincy Jones production on it. The guy was on fire back in the eighties producing stuff like this as well as the Thriller album by Michael Jackson. It’s not really fast enough to get a dancefloor rocking but it still deserves its place in pop history.

9. Joe Le Taxi – Vanessa Paradis

Vanessa appeared on Top of the Pops singing this and I was smitten. I harboured thoughts of marrying her for several years but when you’re vying against Lenny Kravitz and Johnny Depp you realise you’ve got to give the game up. I learnt all the lyrics to this and its only recently I translated them. As it turns out its brilliantly nonsensical.

10. Sledgehammer – Peter Gabriel

Although Peter Gabriel put out an unholy amount of shite back in the eighties he did manage to release this piece of genuine brilliance. It was accompanied by a groundbreaking video that was the toast of MTV for a long time. I’ve never really wondered what the lyrics are about so I must give them a proper listen one of these days. Or else someone else might want to listen and leave a quick synopsis in the comment box.

seven sevens podcast

Hello there

Coming up on this podcast is a quickfire round of seven inches that I’ve purchased recently. They’re all pretty recent acquisitions to the collection. It’s a multi genre affair but it will appeal to most of you with a wide palate. Suck it and see. If you don’t like the music, don’t blame me, I didn’t make it. If you do like the music then go and buy some more stuff by the artists that you hear.

1. The first tune on the podcast is a new release from Lykke Li on the Moshi Moshi label called Little Bit. It’s a very simple and sparse affair with a sound all the through it that sounds like a Trinidadian steel drum. I love it.

2. Next up is the latest single from Yeasayer called Wait for the Summer. Now I’m not one for making comparisons but it sounds a bit Crosby, Stills & Nash which is by no means a bad thing. At one point it sounds like Mick Jagger busts in on their session but soon gets back to the harmony laden vocal. The more I listen to it the more I like it. I hope it’s the same for you.

3. Olan and the All City crew have just released the first in a series of seven, seven inches. The first one is by Snowman but I’ve gotten my hands on a promo copy of the second release by Irish beat producer, Mike Slott. I know nothing about this guy but I like the sound of this. It’s called ‘Knock Knock’.

4. ‘We are Rock Stars’ by Does it Offend You Yeah? sounds a bit like Hawkwind meets Daft Punk down a back alley and they have a go at each other with flick knives. I do like the vocoder bit though. I have a penchant for the vocoder that stems from my love of ‘Video killed the radio star’ by Buggles.

5. Enfant Terrible by Sonny J was mentioned in a recent post and I even linked to their freaky video for the tune. It sounds like they sampled the guitar riff from ‘Now I wanna be your dog’ but it somehow seems to work. I can see drunk people going mad for this one. Sensory impairment makes it sound better.

6. The penultimate tune is by Born Ruffians and was released on the Warp label. It’s good old fashioned guitar rock and its called ‘Hummingbird’. For any Grizzly Bear fans out there, there’s a cover of ‘Knife’ on the b-side of the single.

7. The Guillemots appear to have got their hands on a new producer. In this instance Ruadhri Cushnan helps them out with their latest release ‘Get Over It’. Cushnan has worked on a wide variety of stuff over the years including work with Primal Scream, U2 and even George Michael. There’s certainly a pop feel to the production values on this one. They’ve tried their hand at a pop epic. Listen for yourself to hear the results.

Here it is:


The Seven Sevens Podcast

spring sounds

What with March upon us, I've thrown down a few tunes into the latest podcast. All of the tunes were released over the last couple of months and as with anything you see or read about here, the artists would dearly love if you went out and bought a copy of whatever you fancy. I have cobbled it all together using the original vinyl so there'll be lots of blips and skips and crackly noises to give it that warm fuzzy feel.
The tunes appear in the following order:

I bet you look good on the dancefloor – Baby Charles.
Astronaut – Yila feat. Scroobius Pip
Negative Thinking – The Death Set
Ordinary Song – The Little Ones (X-Press 2 Mix)
Animal Sounds – Grand National (Fear of Theydon Remix)
Blind – Hercules & Love Affair
Time to Pretend - MGMT

And the podcast is here

Matt's Mediocre March Mixdown


Sit back and enjoy!

The Lost Irish Hip Hop podcast

I made a podcast in May of last year that I deleted from the PodOMatic thingy I was using. I thought it might free up more space but it didn't. As a result the podcast disappeared into the ether. Fear not, spurred on by reading about a recent radio interview with Captain Moonlight I searched for the podcast so that I could upload it again. I reckon Capt Moonlight won't mind too much that I've used his tune in the podcast, the lads in All City gave me the nod. Props to Cheebah for the old photos of Scary Eire.

Anyway here's the link to the podcast below. It features Captain Moonlight, Scary Eire, The Pointer Sisters and The Banana Splits.

The Forgotten Irish Hip Hop Mix

Strictly Sevens Please!

I cobbled together a few seven inches that I'd purchased recently and threw in and old one that was lying around just for good measure. The result is a heady brew of sounds that an army could march on for a month. Here's the tracklisting for it:

Wooden Ships – Chris Harwood – Finders Keepers - 2008
Suedehead – Morrissey – EMI – 1988
Jigsaw/Falling into Place – Radiohead – XL Recordings - 2008
Three Days (Elmore Judd & Louis Slippers Remix) – Hardkandy – Catskills Records – 2005
Ready for the Floor (Radio Edit) – Hot Chip – EMI – 2008
Darling (Jape Remix) – Sons & Daughters – Domino Records – 2008
Hey Mr D.J. (CSS Remix) – Tiny Masters of Today – Mute Records – 2007

The mix starts at a fairly pedestrian pace and finishes at a nice canter somewhere around 22 minutes later. You could do worse than to take it out for a walk. God knows it could do with the exercise. Better still, play it in the kitchen and rustle yourself up a quick pasta dish. Why not have a glass of wine. Put the washing machine on a quick spin cycle. Do whatever, it really is a very versatile mix. Make what you will of it.

Matt Vinyl is Strictly Sevens Mix!

whole lotta stuff

It's a slow aul January around these parts. Even though I've been in a record shop every day this week, there's been feck all seven inches to buy. Once again I resorted to a couple of internet purchases that have failed to hit the shelves here. The first is a cover of a favourite tune of mine by Crosby, Stills & Nash called 'Wooden Ships'. It featured on their eponymously titled album but also featured on a Jefferson Airplane album as one of their members Paul Kantner was one of the co-writers. Anyhow I digress! The seven inch I've ordered is by the little known artiste Chris Harwood and has been released on the Finders Keepers label. Its apparently a limited run of 500 copies but I won't be surprised if it gets a larger run at some point in the future.

I've also ordered the tune 'Darling' by Sons and Daughters. On their last seven they did a cover of 'Killer' by Adamski that I thought was pretty shit so I didn't buy it. This seven inch features a remix by Jape (Richie Egan) and that's the only reason I bought it. I haven't heard it yet but I'm hoping its going to be good. The a-Side is produced by Bernard Butler (ex-Suede) so it'll be interesting to hear what he brings to the party.

On an unrelated note, I bought a power adaptor for my SABA McDisc the other day. I've also been trying to get a DC adaptor for an old Roland D5 that's been lying around my gaff for ages but even though I ordered one from Music Maker in Dublin three months ago, I'm convinced that the lazy cunt who took my order never wrote it down. Fuck him. As it turns out the one I bought for the SABA is a multi-voltage DC adaptor and it works on the Roland. It's time for some synth pop experimentation one of these evenings when the kids have been packed off to bed.

I've cobbled together a five tune podcast on the SABA for your listening pleasure. The sound quality is undoctored so it hums and has lots of skips throughout. I think that adds a little something to it. It features in the following running order: The first tune from Decal's 1994 debut album 'Ultramack 004' and its called 'Aurora'. The next tune is an Ike & Tina Turner cover of the Led Zeppelin classic ' Whole lotta love'. Then it's The Housemartins with 'Anxious', a tune that featured on their debut album 'London 0, Hull 4' and the rather adventurous bassline is provided by FatBoy Slim himself, Norman Cook. Adventurous that is for The Housemartins. That's followed by 'My friend Goo' by Sonic Youth, a tune that was on their 1990 'Goo' album. Finally its twelve minutes of sublime soul from the one and only Isaac Hayes singing 'Walk on By'. It's altogether a smashing affair. Check it.




Matt's Mid-January Multi-Genre Mash-Up

the year of the rat! wasn't that an Al Stewart song?

Hail fellows well met. I reckoned that after all the hubbub of Christmas and the New Year I'd bring things back to normal with the first Podcast of 2008. I might have to do another for the Chinese New Year on Feb 7th. This one includes seven tunes that appeared on seven inch vinyl or vinyl album. Most of the tunes were released at some point in 2007 but there are a couple of older gems also. The two oldies that feature are a tune from Jimmy Behan on the Road Relish label from 2001 and the original version of 'Popcorn' that featured on an album by Gershon Kingsley called 'Music to Moog By'. Both are well worth the inclusion in the podcast. The other tunes come from new blues supremo Seasick Steve, the quirky Los Angeles popsters The Bird and the Bee, the Uk trio Fujiya & Miyagi, and one each from the popular Go Team and The Editors. Suck it and see.


New Year Super Seven Tunes


Seasick Steve – Its all good
The Editors – Smokers outside the hospital doors
Jimmy Behan – Side Parting
The Bird & the Bee - Birds and the Bees
Fujiya & Miyagi – Uh!
The Go Team – The Wrath of Marcie
Gershon Kingsley - Popcorn

Matt's Remix Highlights Podcast

I’ve finally gotten around to sorting out a new mix. It’s based on some of the best b-side remixes that I’ve found on the seven inches that I’ve bought throughout the year. Some are great because they are eminently danceable whilst others are just plain strange. Here's a nice picture on the right of the vinyl in question. There's one extra in there that isn't on the mix so you can try and figure out what it is. I do hope that you’ll enjoy the mix. If you do then check out some of the others at

This Site

or check out the older podcasts at

This Site

Here's the playlist for this one:

The Aliens – Robot Man (Hot Chip Remix)
Amy Winehouse – Tears Dry On Their Own (NYPC’s Fucked Mix)
Simian Mobile Disco – It’s the eat
The Gossip – Listen Up (MSTRKRFT Mix)
The Go Team – Doing It Right (Yo Majesty Remix)
Bonde Do Role – Marina Gasolina (Peaches Remix)
Pharoahe Monch – Body Baby (An Optimo (Espacio) Edit)
Dan Le Sac & Scroobius Pip – The Beat That My Jel Flipped

and here's the mix

Matt's End of Year Remixed B-Side Round Up

p p p pick up a podcast

Here is the first purpose built mix on the new hosting site. It's stuffed choc-a-bloc with some smashing tunes that I've lifted from my vinyl vaults. Some are very recent whilst some of the others needed the dust blown from them. It starts and finishes with different versions of the same song, namely Whip It, and two more different versions you won't find elsewhere. Squeezed in between is a sprinkling of sunshine sounds. It's an altogether heady musical mix that will thrill, delight and shock. Actually it probably won't shock as there's nothing untoward in it. Enjoy. The tracklist is:

1. Globo - Whip It
2. Jim Noir - All Right
3. Human League - These are the things (Kohncke Mix)
4. Feist - Sealion (Chromeo Mix)
5. Ladytron - Destroy Everything (Hot Chip Mix)
6. The Frank & Walters - Fashion Crisis Hits New York
7. DEVO - Whip It


The November Mix - Matt Vinyl

far away hills are greener

I've soaked up all my bandwidth on my Podomatic site. I even deleted a few mixes thinking that it would free up some space. Needless to say it didn't. As such I've decided to pay $5 (about €1 in our money) a month to my new friends in Libsyn (thanks 20).

I wasn't arsed getting a new mix together so I've just started with the last mix from the old site. I like a bit of continuity so I do. It doesn't seem to offer the facility of creating a badge for Blogger so you'll have to do without fancy pictures and the like. You can get the tracklist in the original post.

I've just listened to the mix again and I think its great, but of course I'd say that. Anyway here's the link if you're arsed.

Matt Vinyls' October Mix - The Best October Mix Ever!

shite - no talk!

Appeal to the people who know things

I've run out of space on my podomatic thingy, so I'm on a podcast hiatus. Does anyone know of a good place to host my podcasts so that I can get busy with the fizzy again?

just when you thought it was safe to go in to this blog...

After hitting the blogging doldrums for a few days I've put a bit of a pep in my step in the form of the latest podcast. It's for consumption by all and sundry. So get ready to chow down.

This podcast runs for over an hour (69 minutes in fact) so I suggest that you take it all in your stride. Rather than stick with any one theme or genre I've decided to give you an insight into the kind of stuff floats around in Matt Vinyls head and gathers dust on his record shelves. Some of the tunes are fairly recent, some are fairly old. The one thing that they all have in common is that they're individually brilliant. I also think that they don't sound too bad together. As with the last podcast I've dispensed with the talk. The music should be a more than adequate replacement for that. Here's the playlist:


1. This Time (Dub) - DJ Shadow
2. Charlemane (Bigga's Imperial Delay Mix For Rockers Hi-Fi) - Lundaland
3. Getting Away With It - Electronic
4. Click - Aphelion
5. Electric Worm - The Beastie Boys
6. Brutus Drums - Eddie Warner
7. Night of the Vampire – Joe Meeks
8. Peter Gunn – Art of Noise feat Duane Eddy
9. Present Arms in Dub – UB40
10. Congoman – The Congos
11. Star 6 And 7 8 9 - The Orb
12. Trail of the Lonesome Pine – Laurel Hardy
13. Joe Who - Mindless Boogie
14. 11.55 - Roni Size & DJ Die
15. Love is in the Ear - Polar
16. Playaway - Lionel Morton

You can listen through the podomatic thing on the right or go here

the breakdance podcast you've been waiting for

It's time for me to revisit my youth and to head back to the suburnan wasteland of Dublin. Not quite New York but still a hotbed of breakdancing activity. I strolled down to the local record store, Sounds Cool, and picked up a copy of 'Breakdance You Can Do It' which I'd seen advertised on TV. It was a K-Tel compilation and used lots of the popular breakdance tunes of the day except they re-recorded them with session musicians so they wouldn't have to pay royalties or something. A free poster came with the album which gave a pictorial demonstration on how to both moonwalk and bodypop. Needless to say it was only a matter of days before I was proficient.

Anyhow, I've dusted off a few seven inches and a couple of 12" remixes and I've presented them here for your collective listening pleasure. Let's get busy with the fizzy. The tracks are as follows:

Hey You Rock Steady Crew - Rock Steady Crew
Street Dance - Break Machine
Buffalo Gals - Malcolm McLaren
Automatic - The Pointer Sisters
Din Daa Daa - George Kranz
Breakdance Party - Break Machine
Tour De France - Kraftwerk
Step Off - Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five
Rockit - Herbie Hancock

New Podcast available

Yessirreebob, there's a new podcast available from the gadget on the right or by visiting here. The tracklist for this episode is below.

Nancy Elizabeth – Hey Son
Electrelane – To The East
Soulsavers – Revival
Super Furry Animals – Show Your Hand
King Creosote – You’ve No Clue Do You
Interpol – Mammoth
Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons – Beggin’(Pilooski Re-Edit)
Dizzee Rascal – Pussyole
The Beastie Boys – Electric Worm
The Go Team – Doing It Right

the klf are gonna rock you

For some reason I felt like making a KLF podcast. These guys were brilliant. I'm not sure what they're up to these days but no doubt they're lurking somewhere, plotting some madness. The last I heard of Bill Drummond was his silent protest walk that he did here in Dublin a few years back. Here's a copy of his map from his first walk. if you look closely you will see that it spells out Silent Protest. You can read about it here. Anyway, back to The KLF of old. Here's the playlist. Listen to it here. Sit back and freak out.








3Am Eternal – The KLF feat. The Children of the Revolution
What Time is Love? - Echo & The Bunnymen Remix
Rock Radio into the Nineties and beyond – The KLF
Whitney Joins the Jams – The KLF
Justified & Ancient – The KLF feat. Tammy Wynette
Doctorin the Tardis - The Timelords
What Time is Love? – The KLF feat. The Children of the Revolution

All hail the return of the podcast!!!

As the title suggests, I've finally got around to doing a new podcast. It features a variety of tunes that I've picked up on seven inch vinyl over the last number of weeks. It features a lot of artists that I have heretofore been unfamiliar with. I am however delighted to have made their acquaintance and now I present them to you interspersed with my usual gibberish. I hope you enjoy it. The playlist is :

Heart it races – Architecture in Helsinki
She’s got you high – Mumm Ra
Tron Song – Elmore Judd
Foundations – Kate Nash
Grip like a vice – The Go Team
Fluorescent Adolescent – Arctic Monkeys
You! Me! Dancing! – Los Campesinos
Burn My Shadow – UNKLE
Ice Cream (Popular Computer Mix) – New Young Pony Club
Take Pills – Panda Bear


With a selection like that, how could you not listen. Go on, you know you want to. It's available through the podcast thingy on the right.