The Music Lab with James & Alex

Episode 4: They Needed A Sexy Face

Sat, 22 May 2021 12:00:28 GMT

This month, Alex raves about Amazon Original series Invincible & the late, great Tony Allen, James praises Floating Points' new collaborative album Promises & rails against Rod Stewart, Papa Thurman Recommends us a song by The Move, plus a bit of waffle about silly song titles & band names.

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STUFF FROM THE SHOW

Songs Discussed

Cage The Elephant - Broken Boy

Alfie Templeman - Everybody's Gonna Love Somebody

Tony Allen feat. Ben Okri & Skepta - Cosmosis

Supreme Sol & Handbook - Talk Show Host (Remix)

London Grammar - Californian Soil

Papa Thurman Recommends: The Move - Cherry Blossom Clinic

The Black Keys - Crawling Kingsnake

Silversun Pickups - Cannibal

Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises, Movement 1

Francis Bebey - Fleur tropicale

Ego Ella May - Table For One

This Month's Homework

Invincible Season One

Alfie Templeman - Happiness In Liquid Form

Tony Allen - Wolf Eats Wolf

Tony Allen & Moses Boyd Masterclass for Boiler Room & Guardian Gateways

The Move - Cherry Blossom Clinic Revisited

Floating Points - Promises

Ego Ella May - Girls Don't Always Sing About Boys

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Episode 3: A Cuddly Mike Skinner (with Jimmy May)

Sat, 17 Apr 2021 11:00:36 GMT

He wears many backwards hats and goes by many names: Jimmy The Gent, Jimmy Slay, Rusty Sierra. The Music Lab simply knows him as their mate Jimmy. In this stacked episode, James and Alex sit down with Boston's number one DJ Jimmy May to talk about his career, the various projects he's been a part of over the years such as Cool Beans and 50 Sniffs, his experiences as a touring DJ, his decision to become a counsellor and more.

Along the way we play selected highlights from Jimmy's back catalogue, Jimmy & James share music they've been listening to from the likes of The Distillers, Desmond Dekker, XOA & 2manydjs, Papa Thurman Recommends a track that can only be described as epic, and, miraculously, Alex sits back and lets other people talk. Mostly.

STUFF FROM THE SHOW:

Rusty Sierra - The Fever Shed

https://open.spotify.com/album/0XxrlMwmMcLjacUe1QUxaf

Cool Beans

www.coolbeansproductions.co.uk

https://www.youtube.com/user/coolbeanstelevision

Cheese Riot - Angry, Bored & Mildly Annoyed

https://youtu.be/c9I-EO4K0U8

50 Sniffs

B.S.T.N.:

https://youtu.be/0m9Bp61GE8g

Fish Chips and Donkey Ridez:

https://youtu.be/ADtADJOJZUU

Fifteen Minute Fictions

https://anchor.fm/jimmy-slay

Jimmy The Gent

https://itsjimmythegent.bandcamp.com/

SETLIST:

R.L. Burnside - Let My Baby Ride

Rusty Sierra - South of Somewhere

Cheese Riot - Angry, Bored & Mildly Annoyed

Desmond Dekker & The Aces - 007 (Shanty Town)

Bombay Bicycle Club - Luna

Breakbot - Baby I'm Yours

Tungz- Do You Like It?

Yard Act - Fixer Upper

Avelino - Higher Power

Renaissance - Mother Russia

The Cool Beans Roadshow - Not Enough Grime About Porcupines

Rusty Sierra - English Cricket

2manydjs - Dreadlock Holiday/Independent Women

Kindness feat. Seinabo Sey - Lost Without

Ashnikko - Daisy

The Distillers - Drain the Blood

50 Sniffs - Big Mac Daddy

XOA feat. Anthony Joseph - Storm Windows

Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio - Inner City Blues

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Episode 1: Pavement Politics

Fri, 12 Feb 2021 16:23:08 GMT

In this first episode, we talk about our music video memories, our first concert experiences, Instagram's MOB Kitchen, Happy songs with sad lyrics, the legacy of hip hop artist MF DOOM, podcast & Netflix show Song Exploder, David Byrne's American Utopia concert film, the positive messages music can have in difficult times and the surprising new direction of Tom Jones. Music featured includes James Taylor, Little Dragon, BADBADNOTGOOD, R.E.M., Lianne La Havas & The Black Keys.

The video for Talking Reality Television Blues:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khgdwZmWkXc

FULL SETLIST:

James Taylor - Mexico

SoulChef - Woke Up Making Money

Soccer Mommy - circle the drain

Benny Sings - Sunny Afternoon

Arlo Parks - Portra 400

BADBADNOTGOOD & MF DOOM - The Chocolate Conquistadors

Oscar Jerome - Gravitate

Little Dragon - The Pop Life

Phoenix - Fior Di Latte

R.E.M. - Losing My Religion (Isolate Vocals & Backing Track)

Lianna La Havas - Can't Fight

Tom Jones - Talking Reality Television Blues

The Black Keys - Bullet In The Brain

Nubyian Twist - Tittle Tattle

Run The Jewels - a few words for the firing squad (radiation)

David Byrne - One Fine Day / Road To Nowhere (Live)

BONUS TRACK:

Michael Fry - The 'Dear Lord What a Sad Little Life Jane’ speech from Come Dine with Me but it’s performed by an Indie band.

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