Ace Of Wands theme tune ('Tarot' by Andrew Bown) - sH Extended Edit

I'm a bit too young to remember Thames Television's 'spooky' early '70s kids drama 'Ace Of Wands' the first time around (no, really) but I've always loved the theme tune. The work of one Andrew 'Andy' Bown, once a member of '60s heartthrobs The Herd, and future keyboard player for 'The Quo'. He was in a band called Judas Jump at the time of this track, and the sonic qualities of it are very similar to JJ's output, but it's better than anything on their only LP, IMHO (with the exception of the opening cut, perhaps).

Originally a snatch over 2 minutes long, I've somehow managed to almost double it's length (and stuck in a tiny bit of flanging, just for the hell of it). Original 7"s of this are normally well out of my price range, but if anyone's got one going spare..

Andrew Bown - Tarot (Ace Of Wands Theme - Soundhog's Extended Edit) by soundhog

NEU! NEW! NOUVEAU! : Mix90 #6 - "What Would You Do...?"

Link: Listen on Mixcloud
Link: Download from Mediafire

Created & released: December 2011

Tracklisting: 

Side 1:
The Assembled Multitude - Overture from 'Tommy'

The Bootles - I'll Let You Hold My Hand

The Shadows - Fourth Street

The Roulettes - Jackpot

Curley Moore & The Cool Ones - Funky Yeah

The Grumbleweeds - Never Before

Gruff Rhys - Patterns Of Power

The Ventures - Mod East

Shonen Knife - Twist Barbie (Moog Cookbook remix)

David Steel & Jesse Rae (ft. Bernie Worrell) - I Feel Liberal : Alright!

Raymond Scott - Portofino #1

Francis Monkman - Current Affairs

Loose Capacitor - Theme from 'Robin's Nest'

Munetaka Inoue & His Sharp Five - Haru No Umi

Side 2:
Van Morrison - Have A Danish

Arzachel - Queen's St. Gang (Soul Thing)

The Soft Machine - As Long As He Lies Perfectly Still

Steve Hillage - Electrick Gypsies

Honey Cone - Sunday Morning People

Rick Jones - Gulliver's Theme

Jim Ford - Dr. Handy's Dandy Candy

The Hunters - The Russian Spy & I

Roger Glover & Friends - Behind The Smile

The School - The One Who Left Me

Endaf Emlyn - Goodbye 'Cherry Lil'

Johnny Silvo - The Paper Song

Kevin Godley - To Fly Away

Jackie Lee - Theme from 'White Horses'

Ron Geesin - Mr. Peugeot's Trot

George Martin & His Orchestra - King's Road Raspberry Parade

The Monkees - Carlisle Wheeling

The Appletree Theatre - What A Way To Go

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Hey, New Year's Eve! Party time! Wahey! Well, not at Chez Soundhog, obviously... so I've put this together for anyone else who isn't out celebrating one arbitrary number changing into another. I bet 2012's gonna be crap. Anyway...

If you've heard any of the other Mix90s, you should have an idea of what to expect. If not, I hope you'll find it an enjoyable experience. Everything in here is great, as far as I'm concerned. Well, there's one track which perhaps isn't, but I put it in anyway, just for the bloody hell of it and for the comedy value. See if you can spot it. Elsewhere there's beat, funk, psych, TV themes, a bit of prog, electronic genius, some hippy nonsense with extra hippies, library music, contractual obligation recordings, Japanese surfadelia, and bits of a 1963 birthday party in Brighton. All chosen and sequenced with a lot more care and attention than you might think, or than anyone else would smother on such a thing.  There's method in the madness, you know.

Now, you'd not rather be dancing in a fountain while drunk, would you? Eh? Oh...

Old records and a few pints = THIS

Link: Listen on Mixcloud
Link: (download tbc)

Created & released: December 2011

Tracklisting: 

Family - Winter
Crazy Elephant - Pam
The Jaggerz - The Rapper
John Barry - Rodeo
Rachel Sweet - B-A-B-Y
The Pathfinders - To Love Somebody
The Five Stairsteps & Cubie - Stay Close To Me
Lulu - The Boat That I Row
David Bowie & The Lower Third - Can't Help Thinking About Me
Cat Stevens - Bitterblue
The Flamin' Groovies - Feel A Whole Lot Better
The Everly Brothers - Love Is Strange
The Open Mind - Cast A Spell
Chicago - 26 Or 6 To 4
The Greatest Little Soul Band In The Land - Something For My People
Etta James - Tell Mama
The Bar Kays - Knucklehead
Phil Upchurch - The Way I Feel
The Shadows Of Knight - Shake
Kasenetz-Katz Singing Orchestral Circus - Quick Joey Small
Ohio Express - Try It
The Monkees - I'm Not Your Stepping Stone
Jacques Dutronc - La Fille Du Père Noël
Os Mutrantes - A Minha Menina
The Dakotas - The Cruel Sea
Y Niwl - Tri
Jerry Keller - Here Comes Summer

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I just realised, I neglected to post this on here, even though it's been on the internet for a couple of weeks.  So I'll rectify that.  This me and a friend, playing records on record players, fuelled by Guinness and a desire to see what was going to come next.  There's no tricky mixing, no uber-raers, no scratching (well, not that kind of scratching, anyway) or any of that shite.  Just an hour and a bit of really brilliant music, with each record getting played because it felt like it was the right record to play.  There's all sorts in here, although it's got quite a bit of a '60s slant with a fair smattering of soul and a good dollop of Buddah bubblegum.  If that sounds like your 'bag', you might like to listen.  Well, that's the hope.

In the next programme, we will look at 'reggae'...

Something you probably missed. In fact I'd go so far as to wager you definitely missed. Robert Popper & Peter Serafinowicz's music for series one of 'Look Around You' was done under the moniker 'Gelg'. Very lovely all of it was, too. But all very short. So, here's my favourite snippet, made longer. It's still short, but not as short as it was... Obviously, for full effect this should be playing on an Akai reel to reel player, with some coloured disco lights shining on it.

Gelg - Reggae (Soundhog Extended Edit) by soundhog

Allez Allez mix. Again...

Link: Listen on Mixcloud
Link: Download (Mediafire)

Created & released: August 2011. 

Yeah, I know this has been up not long ago, but it turns out that the Allez Allez duo are going their seperate ways and their website is going to vanish very soon.  Probably my fault.  So, I thought I might as well upload it somewhere else to preserve it for future generations.  Yeah, right...  Anyway, Mixcloud and download links are above, should you not have heard it already.  By my calculations, I'm about 6,789,999,800 listens short of the world's population...  this could be an uphill struggle.  Shame, as it's quite good.

Tracklisting: 

Paul McCartney - Darkroom
Throbbing Gristle - Persuasion (Motor Remix)
Atomic Rooster - The Rock
Meat Beat Manifesto - Guns N' Lovers
10cc - The Worst Band In The World
Serge Gainsbourg - Danger
Tricky - Suffocated Love
Yes - South Side Of The Sky
Manassas - Isn't It About Time?
Reverend Ether - Eighteen Sixty Two B.P.
Boards Of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Living Sin
Nasty Habits - Shadow Boxing
The Normal - Warm Leatherette
Cabaret Voltaire - Digital Rasta
Argent - Hold Your Head Up
Frog - Witch Hunt
Add N To (X) - Invasion Of The Polaroid People
Beach Surgeon/Dave Prescott - Mouth Like Homicide
Mandingo - Mandingo
Die Verboten - Live In Eivissa
Edgar Broughton Band - There's No Vibrations, But Wait
MRR-ADM - Untitled 3
Soft Machine - Bone
The Beatles - Helter Skelter (Soundhog Remix)
Paddy Kingsland - Sequence
Frank Zappa - Creationism
Agitation Free - Rucksturz

Mix90 #5 - "...Be Unapproachable..." - NEU! NOUVEAU! NEW!

Link: Listen on Mixcloud
Link: Download (Mediafire)

Created & released: September 2011. 

After nearly three and a half years, I've decided (for some reason) to do another Mix90 compilation tape. Despite the pathetic amount of listens my other recent uploads have gained, I figured it was worth doing. No, I don't understand that way of thinking either. Anyway...

There's all sorts in here: some great pop music you may not be familiar with, some nice bits of electronic library music, some obscure TV theme and testcard tunes, early '70s rock, a little bit of soul and funk and other lovelies. I've also thrown in a few old radio/TV ads, snips of presentation and other odd little bits and bobs from my ridiculously haphazard archive of sonic stuff. Some of it has been recovered from seriously knackered old audio and video tapes, so I make no apologies for the lack of 'high fidelity' in parts. I also make no apologies for the fact that Neil Innes appears twice.

Listen online in mushy Mixcloud quality, or download two spanking 320kbps mp3 files.  Either way is fine with me. 

Tracklisting: 

Judas Jump - John Brown's Body
The Zipps - Chicks & Kicks
The Move - Beautiful Daughter
Keith Mansfield - Team Work
Bonzo Dog Band - You Done My Brain In
Mr Bloe - 71-75 New Oxford Street
The Zodiac : Cosmic Sounds - Taurus
The Horn The Hunt - Old Town Cow
The Models - Bend Me, Shape Me
Colin Blunstone - Andorra
Deirdre Wilson Tabac - Get Back
Denton & Cook - Quiller (sH edit)
Jan Hammer Group - Don't You Know
Anthony More - Industrial Drums

Jonsey - Ricochet
Nucleus - Song For The Bearded Lady
Certain Lions & Tigers - El Soul Condor
Voices Of East Harlem - Wanted Dead Or Alive
Richard Schneider Jr. - Samba Trip
Theme - Paint Along With Nancy
Claude Denjan - Kiss This
Jeff Britton & The Spitfires - Rub Out
Neil Innes - Hard To Get
Peter Howell - The Shock Of The New
The Advisory Circle - Modern Through Movement
Blossom Dearie - I Like London In The Rain
Pat Prilly - Sky Rocket
Cliff Hammer & His Golden Spinnet - Dancing On A Saturday Night
Herman's Hermits - It's Alright Now
Bert Ambrose & His Orchestra (ft. Sam Browne) - Nevertheless (I'm In Love With You)

Record to a low noise C90 compact cassette for best effect, and keep Dolby noise reduction switched off.

New mix! No, seriously... @ http://allez-allez.co.uk

 I asked the chaps at Allez-Allez if they'd like me to do something for their blog.  They said 'yes', so I did.  And it took ages to do.  But it's done, and it's online.  You can download it in zingy 320kbps mp3 quality from their website, http://allez-allez.co.uk ... It's an odd one, quite dark in tone which was probably reflecting my general mood when making it.  A good head-nodder, though.  If you like it, let me know, let them know and perhaps let other people know.  Who knows, I might do another one at some point. Oi, stop laughing.

Tracklisting:

Paul McCartney - Darkroom
Throbbing Gristle - Persuasion (Motor Remix)
Atomic Rooster - The Rock
Meat Beat Manifesto - Guns N' Lovers
10cc - The Worst Band In The World
Serge Gainsbourg - Danger
Tricky - Suffocated Love
Yes - South Side Of The Sky
Manassas - Isn't It About Time?
Reverend Ether - Eighteen Sixty Two B.P.
Boards Of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Living Sin
Nasty Habits - Shadow Boxing
The Normal - Warm Leatherette
Cabaret Voltaire - Digital Rasta
Argent - Hold Your Head Up
Frog - Witch Hunt
Add N To (X) - Invasion Of The Polaroid People
Beach Surgeon/Dave Prescott - Mouth Like Homicide
Mandingo - Mandingo
Die Verboten - Live In Eivissa
Edgar Broughton Band - There's No Vibrations, But Wait
MRR-ADM - Untitled 3
Soft Machine - Bone
The Beatles - Helter Skelter (Soundhog Remix)
Paddy Kingsland - Sequence
Frank Zappa - Creationism
Agitation Free - Rucksturz