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| THE OCTOBER 21st SHOW | |
| 10/28/2007 | Download File (68.01 MB) - right click to download | |
| The show is going through a bit of a transitional period right now, so I'm away from things for a while.
Calm down though, because you've still got the 20 records played in the broadcast, with all those 'are they tacky?' type jingles throughout.
Here is how this weeks chart looks:
20. Bart B More - So It Goes (New Entry)
19. Rework - Check Your Vox (New Entry)
18. Golden Bug - Radio SSG (New Entry)
17. DJ Braaapscallion - The Things Freaks Are Made Of
16. Tocadisco - Better Days
15. Trash Fashion - Its A Rave Dave (New Entry)
14. Arrow !!! - D.O.E.S (New Entry)
13. Pomomofo - Back At The Club
12. Young Punx - Your Music Is Killing Me (New Entry)
11. New Young Pony Club - Get Lucky
10. VHS or BETA - Burn It All Down (New Entry)
9. Remi Nicole - Rock n Roll (New Entry)
8. Teenagers - Homecoming (New Entry)
7. Herve - Cheap Thrills
6. Dizzee Rascal - Flex (New Entry)
5. The Klaxons - As Above, So Below (New Entry)
4. Justice - D.V.N.O
3. Edison - Press Repeat (Pump Edit) (New Entry)
2. Justice - D.A.N.C.E (Stuart Price Remix)
AND THIS WEEKS MOST IMPORTANT RECORD.........................
1. Plump DJ's - System Addict (New Entry)
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| THE OCTOBER 14th SHOW | |
| 10/14/2007 | Download File (66.42 MB) - right click to download | |
| So, whats happening this week then?
Well, there are a few welcome returns to the chart for New Young Pony Club, The Black Ghosts, Tocadisco and SebastiAn.
Although the French got rumbled in the Rugby WC on Saturday, there is still a favorably French attendance in the top 20 compared to British talent.
Even the Aussies have emerged as an unlikely source for quality electronic music this year. Its crazy, but good.
Stuart Price / Les Rhythmes Digital help Justice get yet another Number One trophy with the D.A.N.C.E re-work thats just blowing up everywhere at the moment. Its terrifying, but good.
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| THE OCTOBER 7th SHOW | |
| 10/7/2007 | Download File (68.82 MB) - right click to download | |
| I must say its been a complete and utter pleasure compiling and recording this weeks show.
The first week of the month always seems to be a springboard for artists to get their new music out in the open and make us all dizzy and hyperactive with anticipation.
A total of 12 debuts in this weeks show to include Autokratz, SebastiAn, Herve, and Robyn.
It was a bit gutting to learn this week that Radio One are launching a show called 'THE SWITCH', presented by Annie Mac.
As I pondered over my roasted wolverine Sunday dinner whether I should change the name, I spat out an onion and pronounced that THE SWITCH CHART would remain, and neither man nor beast would shift this micro-revolution from its roots.
Fingers are crossed that they don't incorporate a chart within the show. Then I'm really screwed.
Anyways, do enjoy a most delectable record at the top of the chart this week from Dave Gahan and Digitalism, plus further details of how to vote in the end-of-year awards show on December 28th. Pro, so, pro.
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| THE SEPTEMBER 30th SHOW | |
| 10/1/2007 | Download File (66.45 MB) - right click to download | |
| I was thinking this week about how to generalise the content of the show.
If you imagine the chart as a large circular deep fill mince meat pie, and within that pie are all the musical elements that make up the content.
At least 65% of the pie these days is music defined at 'Nu Rave'.
To quote from Wikipedia:
New Rave (sometimes labelled New-Rave, Nu Rave, Neu- Rave or Nu-Rave), is a label applied to a style of music fusing elements of electronic, New Wave music, disco music, Indie music and punk, which developed in the UK in 2006.
It has similarities with US-led style dance-punk. The Angular Recording Corporation, former record label of New-rave band Klaxons, were the first to coin the term, although music publication NME is largely responsible for popularising the term throughout 2006 and 2007. The genre has connotations of being a 'new' version of 'rave' as well as being a corruption of the term 'new wave'.
The aesthetics of the New Rave scene are largely similar to those of the original rave scene, being mostly centred around psychedelic visual effects. Glowsticks, neon and other lights are common, and followers of the scene often dress in extremely bright and fluorescent coloured clothing.
Thats where it finishes.
So, almost accidentally, The Switch Chart has become a Nu-Rave platform.
As we all know, sub genres in music seem to have a short(ish) shelf life. Who says 'Electroclash' these days? Nobody.
I like this 'Nu-Rave' thing going on at the moment, and as long as its around, this site will continue to champion its disciples.
This week, new music from the likes of Trabant & The Filthy Dukes, Chromeo, Ursula 1000 and Interpol.
Dada Life make their chart debut, and, woaaah, hang on, the jammy little buggers have gone and got the Most Important Record Of The Week accolade with 'Fun, Fun Fun'.
Love it.
Listen out for the 'Go Buy These CD's' and the 'News Round-Up' sections embedded in all the noise and racket too.
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| THE SEPTEMBER 23rd SHOW | |
| 9/23/2007 | Download File (68.57 MB) - right click to download | |
| This week, the show evolves further, and may well implode soon due to the heavy weight of features that are starting to be introduced.
The new Switch Chart 'News Section' covers all those rather amazing stories that have emerged this week. It was just too late this week to announce that LCD Soundsystem front man James Murphy's pet dog strayed from the family home, but was later found alive and well in a B&Q car park, licking a grapefruit.
Alternative music these days takes second fiddle to the scandals in popular mainstream music. Britney is currently going completely mental. Pete Docherty' and Amy Winehouse are currently turning themselves into public health hazards,, and Chris Martin from Coldplay has admitted that he has a whole cellar full of Pink Floyd memorabilia that he has sprayed with his own semen over a period of 3 years.
Its nice that the alternative world of dance music is untainted by these shameful episodes.
We celebrate that fact this week, as we bring you some totally bloody nice records from the likes of The Plastic Operator, Hot Chip, Shlomi Aber and Boys Noize.
This weeks most important record is a crazy sound clash involving Example, Karen Carpenter and Herve. Its 'So Many Roads'.
Its a quality piece of modern day sound engineering, and lots of people love it too.
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| THE SEPTEMBER 16th SHOW | |
| 9/16/2007 | Download File (64.87 MB) - right click to download | |
| The Switch Chart has taken yet another bold leap forward, like a tramp who has just found a battered sausage wrapped in cling-film on the pavement, and just stuffed the whole thing into his mouth without considering how old it is, or why it may have been thrown away in the first place.
This is the first time that we have played ALL 20 RECORDS in the chart, whether they be new entries, or otherwise. Hopefully it will become a more interesting audible experience. The stats will tell the story.
We've ditched the frankly quite pointless 'Switch Down' and the Flashback and Bootleg features. They've been moved now to the Dexter Rimmer Gay Reggae Podcast. Dexter wishes to point out that he is not gay himself, but suspects that his sister just might be.
In the chart this week, we got new stuff from (amongst others) Spektrum, Rex The Dog, Pryda, Tronic Youth and Purple Crush.
This most important record of the week is from Dragonette with a disco-licous remix by Ocelot on their 'Competition' track.
Dream On. | |
| THE SEPTEMBER 9th SHOW: | |
| 9/11/2007 | Download File (66.48 MB) - right click to download | |
| This weeks chart is a little bit late in coming.
Basically, the Switch Chart computer system decided to wave the white flag, and upon closer inspection into the internal components, it turns out that a chicken had somehow found its way in through USB Port 4 and had laid a fat egg right in the middle of the motherboard.
I carefully ushered it away from the wires and sent it packing.
This poultry-free interface now allows us to bring you a bunch of excellent new records from the likes of The Dub Pistols, Utah Saints (remixed by Van She, you'll be relieved to hear), The Klaxons, Robyn, and Free Blood. This weeks Most Important Record comes courtesy of Peter, Bjorn & John. Punks Jump Up, as ever, do a bloody lovely job on their "Young Folks" track.
We "Take A Walk" (quite literally) with Bolz Bolz in the Flashback Track feature. Gui Boratto makes us feel like we're cuddling up to a heavily sedated Panda in the Switch Down, and I give my honest opinion on the future of music as yet another weird tangent in conversation is witnessed.
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| THE SEPTEMBER 2nd SHOW: | |
| 9/3/2007 | Download File (67.62 MB) - right click to download | |
| If you take a listen to the show this week, you'll hear brand new releases and pre-releases from the likes of Myoko, Digitalism, Simian Mobile Disco and Tepr. All in all, there are ten brand new records to play you that have made it in to the prestigious A list of this weeks finest alternative dance music recordings.
Linus Loves are featured as our Flashback Track, and I exorcise some shameless self promotion with my own home-made Bootleg Track. We also get all sensual and bleary-eyed with the chilled out Switch Down Track as well.
On a scale of 1 to 726, I'd give this weeks show a rating of 611.
The Most Important Record Of The Week is by Alloy Mental.
It is recommended (but not compulsory) that you listen to this weeks show in the company of a foul-mouthed priest, or a terrapin (whichever is easier to come by). | |
| THE AUGUST 31st SHOW: ECLECTIC SPECIAL | |
| 9/1/2007 | Download File (131.82 MB) - right click to download | |
| Here is a special 2 hour show recorded last night.
Totally separate from anything to do with The Switch Chart (except for the opening jingle, and my voice).
Two extremely quite likable gentlemen (David and Michael) join the show to sift through some wonderfully eclectic records to include The Black Keys, Ako, Mirwais, The Levellers, The Herbaliser, RJD2, Boca 45, Doris, Fischerspooner and Peter, Bjorn & John. The show is a bit of an ad-lib festival of irrelevant conversation and devastating mixing skills, the likes of which can only be witnessed in hedgehog rescue centres.
Bottom line is that its two hours of hand-picked brilliant music that will help you through your life.
This is the first "explicit" show on the web page, so those of a nervous disposition need not bother to click on the play button. I'd like to thank David and Mike for their contribution to this ground-breaking broadcast, that will surely be in the reckoning for the accolade of the Tampax sponsored "Podcast Of The Year". I'm dusting off the tux as we speak................
I have no picture to represent this podcast, so I have included a photograph of Jessica Alba to make this even more of an attractive option for downloading.
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| THE AUGUST 26th SHOW | |
| 8/27/2007 | Download File (68.02 MB) - right click to download | |
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| THE AUGUST 19TH SHOW | |
| 8/19/2007 | Download File (66.49 MB) - right click to download | |
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| THE AUGUST 12th SHOW | |
| 8/12/2007 | Download File (63.11 MB) - right click to download | |
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| THE AUGUST 5TH SHOW | |
| 8/5/2007 | Download File (79.86 MB) - right click to download | |
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| THE JULY 8 SHOW | |
| 7/8/2007 | Download File (87.51 MB) - right click to download | |
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| SWITCH CHART HEROES: Erol Alkan | |
| 7/8/2007 | Download File (10.65 MB) - right click to download | |
| FEATURED TRACK: Franz Ferdinand - Do You Want To? (Erol's Glam Racket Remix)
Some people get into djing because they feel awkward standing around at parties. Others want to be the first to break new records, and then get lured on by the adulation and the fame. And then there's Erol Alkan, who does it because music grabbed him by the balls at such an early age that he couldn't ever imagine doing anything else. Raised in north London by strict Turkish parents, his obsession with music turned professional in his teens, when he'd sneak out of the house to dj at a club in Leicester Square for a tenner and sneak back home before his mum caught him.
Fifteen years on, with Erol's epic sets are attracting bookings from New York, Barcelona and Rio de Janeiro up to a year in advance, his mum's admitted that her son made the right decision. Erol's still getting a bigger rush from the dancefloor than anything else - "The time I feel most alive,and the only time I truly feel like myself, is when I'm playing records and giving people a party," he explains with an enormous grin. "And right now, I'm more excited by djing than I've ever been."
In the past few years, since his own club Trash began to attract attention everywhere from Italian Vogue to The Face and from Rolling Stone to Kerrang, Erol's party-starting genius has surged in demand. One night he'll be djing at an Alexander McQueen catwalk show afterparty in London, with Kate Moss and Sadie Frost shaking their arses down the front, and the next night he'll be playing to a notoriously tough, no-nonsense Belfast crowd, who'll welcome him like a lost son.
It's a hard balance to pull off, and one that only Erol can do with such joyful panache, because he's always looked for the similarities in things rather than the differences between them. This democracy of vision led to him winning the Muzik Magazine award for Best Breakthrough DJ in 2002, and being hailed as king of the bootleg scene following the release of the infamous 'George Gets His Freak On' - a position he swiftly abdicated the day after a knock-off version of his Kylie / New Order cut was aired at the Brits 2002, and the world and his wife jumped on the bootleg bandwagon
Such interweaving was second nature to Erol, simply because he'd always seen good music as good music, right from the early days of 1990 when he used to mix alternative and indie anthems into searing acid house beats (he still has the tapes to prove it!) But times change, people get restless, and now that crossover djing is so widespread, Erol's been looking a for a bigger game. Without denying his indie roots he's enormously successful in the electro scene - playing at top level internationally - as well as popping up in various London bars virtually unannounced to conduct marathon psychedelic excursions with the aid of fellow slippery fish Richard Norris, under the name "Beyond The Wizards Sleeve"
"I'm still an absolute believer in the indie aesthetic," he explains, "and when I'm hunting down electronic music, it's still that independence in spirt that I'm looking for. I have to feel that the person behind that record truly had to make that record," Erol explains. And if they had to make it, he has to play it. And if he has to play it, he can't hide his excitement, and when Erol gets excited, everyone gets excited, until the whole club is rocketed into Alkan anarchy. And you just know there'll be a lot of sore heads in the morning - clubbers across the world have been going doolally to his re-edit of Mylo's massive 2004 hit 'Drop The Pressure' (played by everyone from Mousse T to Tiga), and had their ears pummeled by his mix of the Alter Ego smash 'Rocker' (apparently a favourite on the Techno underground, as well as being firmly lodged in the boxes of Andrew Weatherall, Mr C, Ivan Smagghe, 2manydjs and Twitch).
But it's not just the dance cognoscenti who turn to Erol for extra fun / pain injections for their tunes either - he's also responsible for the remix of Canadian rock duo Death From Above 1979's single 'Romantic Rights' thats been putting indie kids in casualty up and down the country, all suffering whiplash after over-enthusiastically head-banging for it's duration, as well as Bloc Party's 'She's Hearing Voices', which takes the frenetic new wave art punk of the origional and turns it into a throbbing funk of left field clubbery. So with all the attention and praise garnered from nigh on a decade of nocturnal innovation now pushing him into the limelight and with the readers of Mixmag voting him the 6th best DJ in the world (an unexpected suprise to say the least - the highest ranking for a British DJ in the 2004 poll), some may expect Erol to be on the brink of the cold water shock that comes with jumping into the Arctic deepend of notoreiety's swimming pool - except he's already had to get used to the star treatment: He's the only Bugged Out regular to get hassled for autographs after his set, and has been known to receive standing ovations.
Erol shrugs off the accolades though, and still fails to see himself as distinct from any other clubber - his rider request is simply a bottle of vodka, which he'll gladly pass into the crowd and share with anyone. He's happy to give you the name of a record he's just played or chat to anyone who wants a word. He will continue to play dance music that rocks, and rock music you can dance to. And, if you're lucky, you just might, maybe, possibly - catch him djing with his feet........ | |
| THE JULY 1 SHOW | |
| 7/1/2007 | Download File (81.44 MB) - right click to download | |
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| THE MOST IMPORTANT RECORD OF THE WEEK | |
| 7/1/2007 | Download File (9.12 MB) - right click to download | |
| Its the Soulwax re-remix of LCD Soundsystem's 'Daft Punk Is Playing At My House'.
Stream it here in full.
Its nice. | |
| SWITCH CHART HEROES: Mr Oizo | |
| 7/1/2007 | Download File (6.09 MB) - right click to download | |
| Mr.Oizo is the pseudonym of French music producer Quentin Dupieux.
Dupieux is most famous for his electro track "Flat Beat", which became a hit all across Europe in 1999 for being featured in a series of Levi's jeans TV advertisements. The track is short and minimalist, constantly repeating the same electro loop, which resembles a wasp's buzz made with a MS-20, for about four minutes. Dupieux also directed the ad, which featured a yellow puppet named Flat Eric shaking his head to the sound of the track while riding shotgun in a pickup truck. Flat Eric later appeared in the music video for "Flat Beat", talking on the phone while violently headbanging to the beat while playing the track.
After "Flat Beat", Oizo released his first album in 1999, Analog Worms Attack, featuring a trip hop single of the same name.
In 2005, Oizo released his second album entitled Moustache (Half a Scissor).
2006 and 2007 saw Oizo produce remixes for Kavinsky, Jamelia, Cassius and, most recently, Scissor Sisters.
Dupieux's first feature film, Steak was released in France on June 20th, 2007. | |
| THE JUNE 17 SHOW | |
| 6/17/2007 | Download File (77.22 MB) - right click to download | |
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