Let the Children play...

Emily chats reaction and reflection with Jane Weaver and celebrates new album Flock, Rough Trade Album of the Month for March, a record that explored multiple styles and sounds.

Plus! Edit highlights from DJ Muggs, Valerie June, Israel Nash and exclusive reissues from dub legends New Age Steppers.

Music played
New Age Steppers - My Whole World
Valerie June - Stay
DJ Muggs - Incantation
Israel Nash - Pressure
Jane Weaver - Flock 

Useful links:
Listen to the weekly updated Rough Trade Edit Playlist, featuring 25 tracks, exclusive to Apple Music: rghtrd.co/rtapplemusic
Rough Trade Edit Podcast Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3259nXPsu584Efs56jc8pR?si=4fd0bc53bba0422f
Rough Trade Edit albums available to purchase: rghtrd.co/rtedit
Rough Trade Blog: https://blog.roughtrade.com
Rough Trade Transmissions: www.instagram.com/roughtrade/channel/

Every other week, legendary independent vinyl retailer, Rough Trade, takes you behind the record shop counter to discuss the most exciting new albums, as well as chatting with the recording artists themselves.

Thank you for listening.

Rough Trade Edit Podcast 26 with Jane Weaver

A.A. Williams chats music as therapy, putting out two albums inside one crazy year and coming to appreciate the small things about being on the road.

Plus! Edit highlights from Tune Yards, Clark, The Antlers and a heads up on brand new Fire Records signing Marina Allen.

Music played
Marina Allen - Oh Louise
Tune Yards - Hold Yourself
Clark - Citrus
The Antlers - Solstice
A.A. Williams - Where Is My Mind

Useful links:
Listen to the weekly updated Rough Trade Edit Playlist, featuring 25 tracks, exclusive to Apple Music: rghtrd.co/rtapplemusic
Rough Trade Edit Podcast Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3259nXPsu584Efs56jc8pR?si=4fd0bc53bba0422f
Rough Trade Edit albums available to purchase: rghtrd.co/rtedit
Rough Trade Blog: https://blog.roughtrade.com
Rough Trade Transmissions: www.instagram.com/roughtrade/channel/

Every other week, legendary independent vinyl retailer, Rough Trade, takes you behind the record shop counter to discuss the most exciting new albums, as well as chatting with the recording artists themselves.

Thank you for listening.

Rough Trade Edit Podcast 27 with A.A. Williams

Dry Cleaning discuss origins, popularity and pandemic album making as they debut their first full length with 'New Long Leg'.

We're also showcasing new Edit album highlights from Flock of Dimes, Silver Synthetic, Caoilfhionn Rose and the 35th anniversary edition of a staple album from Beverley Glenn-Copeland.

Music played
Beverley Glenn-Copeland - Let Us Dance
Flock of Dimes - Price of Blue
Silver Synthetic - Around the Bend
Caoilfhionn Rose - To Me
Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg

Useful links:
Listen to the weekly updated Rough Trade Edit Playlist, featuring 25 tracks, exclusive to Apple Music: rghtrd.co/rtapplemusic
Rough Trade Edit Podcast Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3259nXPsu584Efs56jc8pR?si=4fd0bc53bba0422f
Rough Trade Edit albums available to purchase: rghtrd.co/rtedit
Rough Trade Blog: https://blog.roughtrade.com
Rough Trade Transmissions: www.instagram.com/roughtrade/channel/

Every other week, legendary independent vinyl retailer, Rough Trade, takes you behind the record shop counter to discuss the most exciting new albums, as well as chatting with the recording artists themselves.

Thank you for listening.

Rough Trade Edit Podcast 28 with Dry Cleaning

Squid's debut album is finally here and yup, it is worth the wait. Emily chats to Ollie, Arthur and Louis from the band about the evolution of their sound, working with Dan Carey and recording live to vinyl for their special RSD 2021 release.

We're also showcasing new Edit album highlights from the late Tony Allen, Girl in Red, Alfa Mist and Dodie.

Music played
Tony Allen - Stumbling Down
Girl in Red - Body and Mind
Alfa Mist - Organic Rust
Dodie - Rainbow
Squid - 2010

Useful links:
Listen to the weekly updated Rough Trade Edit Playlist, featuring 25 tracks, exclusive to Apple Music: rghtrd.co/rtapplemusic
Rough Trade Edit Podcast Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3259nXPsu584Efs56jc8pR?si=4fd0bc53bba0422f
Rough Trade Edit albums available to purchase: rghtrd.co/rtedit
Rough Trade Blog: https://blog.roughtrade.com
Rough Trade Transmissions: www.instagram.com/roughtrade/channel/

Every other week, legendary independent vinyl retailer, Rough Trade, takes you behind the record shop counter to discuss the most exciting new albums, as well as chatting with the recording artists themselves.

Thank you for listening.

Rough Trade Edit Podcast 29 with Squid

Emily delves into the debut album from the London-based two-piece, a complex and lavish body of work that fascinates and mystifies.

We're also showcasing new Edit album highlights!

Music played
my bloody valentine - only shallow
Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime
Portico Quartet - Terrain III
Billie Marten - Aquarium
Sons of Raphael - Let's All Get Dead Together

Useful links:
Listen to the weekly updated Rough Trade Edit Playlist, featuring 25 tracks, exclusive to Apple Music: rghtrd.co/rtapplemusic
Rough Trade Edit Podcast Spotify playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/3259nXP…4fd0bc53bba0422f
Rough Trade Edit albums available to purchase: rghtrd.co/rtedit
Rough Trade Blog: blog.roughtrade.com
Rough Trade Transmissions: www.instagram.com/roughtrade/channel/

Every other week, legendary independent vinyl retailer, Rough Trade, takes you behind the record shop counter to discuss the most exciting new albums, as well as chatting with the recording artists themselves.

Thank you for listening.

Rough Trade Edit Podcast 30 with Sons of Raphael

Emily catches up with L.A. woman and sublime songstress Marina Allen to explore her authentic and beautiful Fire Records debut.

Music played
Wolf Alice - Delicious Things
Sqaurepusher - Deep Fried Pizza
Greentea Peng - Soulboy
black midi - Diamond Stuff
Marina Allen - Original Goodness

Useful links:
Listen to the weekly updated Rough Trade Edit Playlist, featuring 25 tracks, exclusive to Apple Music: rghtrd.co/rtapplemusic
Rough Trade Edit Podcast Spotify playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/3259nXP…4fd0bc53bba0422f
Rough Trade Edit albums available to purchase: rghtrd.co/rtedit
Rough Trade Blog: blog.roughtrade.com
Rough Trade Transmissions: www.instagram.com/roughtrade/channel/
RSD: https://blog.roughtrade.com/record-store-day-2021/

Every other week, legendary independent vinyl retailer, Rough Trade, takes you behind the record shop counter to discuss the most exciting new albums, as well as chatting with the recording artists themselves.

Thank you for listening.

Rough Trade Edit Podcast 31 with Marina Allen

Emily catches up with Nai and Bender of Australian jazz/funk/soul outfit Hiatus Kaiyote, discussing overcoming challenges, uniting in art, friendship and their valiant journey to creating their stunning third album.

Music played
Faye Webster - Cheers
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - Carnage
Francis Lung - Say So
The Lounge Society - Burn The Heather
Hiatus Kaiyote - Get Sun

Useful links:
Listen to the weekly updated Rough Trade Edit Playlist, featuring 25 tracks, exclusive to Apple Music: rghtrd.co/rtapplemusic
Rough Trade Edit Podcast Spotify playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/3259nXP…4fd0bc53bba0422f
Rough Trade Edit albums available to purchase: rghtrd.co/rtedit
Rough Trade Blog: blog.roughtrade.com
Rough Trade Transmissions: www.instagram.com/roughtrade/channel/
RSD: https://blog.roughtrade.com/record-store-day-2021/

Every other week, legendary independent vinyl retailer, Rough Trade, takes you behind the record shop counter to discuss the most exciting new albums, as well as chatting with the recording artists themselves.

Thank you for listening.

Rough Trade Edit Podcast 32 with Hiatus Kaiyote

When the chips are down, music becomes our life raft, buoying us through all the insecurity and instability with songs that empathise, galvanise, satirise or even trivialise. Music is the warm blanket, to wrap you up and steal you away, even if it's just for a moment.

And so to 2021 which, so far, has bore nothing short of a goddamn goldmine of new albums. In no particular order here are our favourites.

Music played
Arlo Parks - Caroline
Mogwai - Midnight Fit
Dry Cleaning - Unsmart Lady
Japanese Breakfast - Posing In Bondage
Serpentwithfeet - Fellowship
BICEP - Atlas
Sleaford Mods - Elocution
Cassandra Jenkins - Hard Drive
Black Country, New Road - Sunglasses
Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime

https://blog.roughtrade.com/albums-of-the-year-so-far-2021/

Rough Trade Edit Podcast 33 - Albums of the Year So Far 2021

Emily and Nigel celebrate the Aussie icons whose no-frills nature has won the hearts of the Rough Trade community. 

Emily also catches up with the band to chat acceptance, legacy and the emotional and sonic evolution found on new album Comfort To Me.

Amyl and The Sniffers music played:

Caltex Cowgirl
Blowjobs
I'm Not A Loser
Freaks to the Front
Security
No More Tears
Don't Need A Cunt (Like You To Love Me)

Useful links:
Rough Trade Edit Podcast Spotify playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/3259nXP…4fd0bc53bba0422f
Rough Trade Edit albums available to purchase: rghtrd.co/rtedit
Rough Trade Blog: blog.roughtrade.com

Every other week, legendary independent vinyl retailer, Rough Trade, takes you behind the record shop counter to discuss the most exciting new albums, as well as chatting with the recording artists themselves.

Thank you for listening.

Rough Trade Edit Podcast 34: Amyl and The Sniffers Special

When it came out in 1984 the far-out album Sweet Sweet Dreams by Trinidad & Tobago’s Shadow (aka Winston Bailey) was described as “way ahead of its time”. Undeservedly it was panned by critics and, unable to reach markets, disappeared into the dusty record collections of a few music aficionados. Now, more than three decades later that cosmic dance-floor UFO is about to take off again, change all that and set the record straight. Remastered and cut by Frank Meritt at The Carvery the album is truly a masterpiece.

But who is this Shadow behind Sweet Sweet Dreams? Shadow is a man of understated magnitude. A truly enigmatic artist, he first emerged in Trinidad and Tobago during the 1970s, becoming a part of the tapestry of Caribbean music and reinvigorating calypso at the time. Calypso, the indigenous folk music of Trinidad and Tobago, has roots in West African kaiso rhythms, French Creole influences, and the hardships endured by the African slaves brought to Trinbago, whose descendants still use it as a tool for satire, self-expression,  and social commentary. Calypso has also given birth to several other music genres, including soca, with its uptempo beats and festival context. Shadow effortlessly moves between both.

Accoring to Carl "Beaver" Henderson, one of Trinidad's veteran producers; “Shadow broke all the traditional musical rules and made his own and that made him a musical giant. He changed the face of Calypso music in 1974 with the release of "Bassman" a tune in which Bass and magnificent horn line took central stage changing Soca music for ever. What Shadow did with his music was to put calypso on the International Dance circuit, giving it a totally different groove. You could take his music and swing it in any direction; Disco, Pop, Calypso, you name it. His music was different from anything that existed before”. 

This inert creativeness culminated in Sweet Sweet Dreams which was arranged by Shadow and deals with burning and ever-relevant themes like love and the ups and downs of relationships. a surprising fact for someone mainly known for his satirical and political lyrics. It prompted his manager to wonder if Shadow had written the lyrics while in a state of ‘tabanca’ (a word used in Trinidad and Tobago to describe lovesickness). 

Sweet Sweet Dreams was recorded at the legendary SHARC studios, located on a hill in Chaguaramas (near Port of Spain) and despite a fantastic sound and monster Soca-boogie tunes like “Lets get it together”, “Lets Make it Up” and “Way, Way Out” the album was a commercial flop, probably due to the fact that it didn’t sound like anything else coming out of Trinidad & Tobago at the time: It fused a range of different rhythms and new sounds, primarily heavy synth riffs.

Shadow took the album’s lack of success in his stride with usual aplomb:
“When I did Sweet Dreams I expect something could happen. But nothing big happen because I have no big market and no distribution and all this thing now. So I just cool myself and move on to another song. I wasn’t doing just one song. I used to always have plenty songs at the one time. And be writing music”.

What Shadow didn’t realise back then was that the proto-electronic cocktail he had mixed in 1984 would only find the recognition it deserved three decades later. Life has swung full circle: Sweet Sweet Dreams has come true and been elevated to holy grail status becoming one of the most sought-after Caribbean disco records in existence. Asked about this turn around Shadow mused  “I’m trying to understand that part. A lot of people ask me for it over a few years now. But I never give anybody it. That music wasn’t for then. It’s for now”.

Sweet Sweet Dreams

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This player previews V/a - Pantsula! - The rise of Electronic Dance Music in South Africa, 1988-90

Release: December 4, 2017
PRE-ORDER VINYL: http://bit.ly/PantsulaLP

Late 80s South African dance floor winners only! Selected by DJ Okapi and Antal, the compilation holds tracks by Jivaro, The Hard Workers, Ayobayo Band, S.Y.B. & many more. This is the sharp electronic music that fuelled the local Pantsula dances during the 80s and 90s . A must have for fans of Bubblegum and Kwaito music. 

The 12 tracks selected for Pantsula! come from a very unique, very different time and place. They represent the birth of electronic dance music in South Africa, through the songs of one particular independent label from the time: Music Team. The sound represents the culmination of the bubblegum era, when South Africa’s disco artists outgrew their American influences and forged an increasingly electronic and ‘local’ pop sound.

Evolving over time since long before the 80s, the distinctly South African subculture of Pantsula is more closely associated with an attitude, a style and a signature dance, rather than any specific sound. In the late 1980s and early 90s, Pantsula was also the name given to a new type of dance music taking over the streets of South Africa, influenced by earlier bubblegum and the rise of Shangaan Disco, but with a far broader appeal and a harder, purely electronic sound.

Tracklist:
1. The Equals - New Lover
2. Jazino - Ushelakanjani
3. Jivaro - What Next
4. S.Y.B - Jika Magogo
5. Scotch Band - Watsotasama
6. Kakappa - Sisonke
7. Spirro - Ma Hero (Dub Mix)
8. The Hard Workers - Ayoba-yo
9. Ayobayo Band - Sorry Bra
10. Rush feat. Linda Ziqubu - Sobohla Manyosi
11. Chaka - Via Tembisa
12. La Viva - Go Siami

PANTSULA! - THE RISE OF ELECTRONIC DANCE MUSIC IN SOUTH AFRICA, 1988-90 (RHMC 003)

Brett Anderson braved the recent winter conditions to join Emily in the podcast studio, to discuss his new book - Coal Black Mornings, ahead of his sold out Q&A at Rough Trade East, as well as his selections for this episode of Shoplifting.

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Shoplifting with Brett Anderson

Maximo Park are a band who have never shied away from disruption and change. Lead vocalist Paul Smith discusses the importance of musical evolution and some of his most personal songwriting to date.

Emily also shares recent Edit album highlights from Julien Baker, Lost Horizons, Here Lies Man and Whitney K.

Music played:
Julien Baker - Favour
Here Lies Man - Collector of Vanities
Lost Horizons - One For Regret
Whitney K - Maryland
Maximo Park - Feelings I'm Supposed to Feel

Useful links:
Listen to the weekly updated Rough Trade Edit Playlist, featuring 25 tracks, exclusive to Apple Music: rghtrd.co/rtapplemusic
Rough Trade Edit albums available to purchase: rghtrd.co/rtedit
Rough Trade Blog: blog.roughtrade.com/
Rough Trade Transmissions: www.instagram.com/roughtrade/channel/

Every other week, legendary independent vinyl retailer, Rough Trade, takes you behind the record shop counter to discuss the most exciting new albums, as well as chatting with the recording artists themselves.

Thank you for listening.

Rough Trade Edit Podcast 25 with Maximo Park

Legendary independent vinyl retailer, Rough Trade, takes you behind the record shop counter to discuss the most exciting new albums, as well as chatting with the recording artists themselves.

Shoplifting with Brett Anderson

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