Paul Rooney of Owd Scrat Records shares a playlist compiled by label artists Alain Chamois, EF Bausor and The Creeping Things, exploring the magic of the space where musical sounds and spoken word meet. Broadcast in the Freak Zone Playlist series on BBC 6Music on 29/7/2018, and Including records by Laurie Anderson, Current 93, Coil and extracts from the work of surreal comedian Chris Morris.

Difficult Listening Hour, Live – Laurie Anderson (United States Live, Warners)

We have not yet learnt the new songs – Object Collection (Cheap&Easy OCTOBER, Object Collection/BMI)

Sea Hole L’Estaque. July 2002 – Luc Ferrari (Les Anecdotiques, Sub Rosa)

Indeterminacy Part 3 (excerpt) – John Cage and David Tudor (Indeterminacy, Doxy)

Child Soldier – Oneohtrix Point Never (Replica, Software)

Bottom of the Garden monologue – Les Dawson (Thirty Years of the Good Old Days, BBC TV show)

I’m Transmitting Tonight – Tim Hecker (Radio Amor, Mille Plateaux)

Blue Jam (excerpt) – Chris Morris (feat. Olive) (Radio 1FM show, series1, episode 2)

Minus Something – Swans (Soundtrack for the Blind, Young God)

Hollywood Ambient (excerpt) – AG Cook (feat. Charli XCX) (Liminal mix tape) 

B4 – Chuck Person (Eccojams, The Curatorial Club cassette).

I Looked to the South Side of the Door – Current 93 (Birth Canal Blues, Coptic Cat). 

Blue Jam (excerpt) – Chris Morris (Radio 1FM show, series 3, episode 6)

Down 3 – Stars of the Lid (The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid, Kranky)

Gorbals 1930 – Ivor Cutler (A Flat Man, Estate of Ivor Cutler)

Broccoli – Coil (Musick to Play in the Dark Vol. 1, Chalice).

The Backyard (excerpt) – Robert Ashley (Private Parts, Lovely Music)

BBC 6 Music Freak Zone Playlist - Paul Rooney/Owd Scrat Records

Lucy Over Lancashire

Mix presented at: For k-punk: The Weird and the Eerie, an event for Mark Fisher curated by Natasha Eves at Fox and Firkin, Lewisham, 18th Jan 2023.

Suspiria (excerpt) - Goblin
Raven’s Lament - Haxan Cloak (with Willie O, Nora Cleary)
Lipstick to Void- Mica Levi (with The League of Gentlemen, series 1 scene and
Under the Skin, hitcher scene).
Lotano (excerpt) - György Ligeti (with Gyroscope - Boards of Canada).
Meditation - Edward Artemiev (from Stalker, with Katy Perry - ET (Hardstyle Remix, edit) and The League of Gentlemen, series 2 alternative takes).
Main Theme for Mulholland Drive - Angelo Badalamenti (with The League of Gentlemen, Christmas Special outtakes).
Midnight, the Stars, and You (excerpt) - Al Bowlly
The Ascent - Bruce Smeaton (from Picnic at Hanging Rock, with the ‘ascent of the rock’ scene and Swifts in Brenner’s House - Oskar Sala).
The Owl Service Title Theme - Peter Plummer
Utrenja Part II - Krzysztof Penderecki (with The League of Gentlemen, Christmas Special outtakes).
Goetia - Lustmord (with The Cruel Mother - Lizzie Higgins)
Horror in Clay - Mark E Smith (excerpt) (with The Clearing - Brian Eno)
The Stone Tape Title Theme - Desmond Briscoe
Josie’s Past - Xiu Xiu (with Walking Flames - Actress)
New Theme to Still at Large - The Creeping Things
Arrival - Jóhann Jóhannsson (with Lucy).
Impression of J Temperance - The Fall
Rocky Mountains - Wendy Carlos, Rachel Elkind (from The Shining, with Tam Lin - Frankie Armstrong).

Mix: For k-punk: The Weird and the Eerie, event for Mark Fisher 18/1/2023

Surface Industries II

Open Plan

In the Distance the Dawn is Breaking

Something Happening (Sound of the Crowd) [feat. Saskia Cocker]

Psalm (Live at Tate Liverpool)

Tea, Coffee and Desserts

On This Pitch

Dear Guest

Willem van Liverpool

Dust

Author's Route Through France

A Million Darkened Kitchens (feat. Frankie Armstrong)

Futile Exorcise

Mackenzie (Smell of the Petrol)

Songs of ordinary but haunted life.
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