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Dublin singer-songwrriter Danny Carroll released his debut solo album I am the Cheese on March 1. He talks through the nine tracks on this TPOE 304.
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Press release: Part of the Dublin music scene for years, Danny Carroll is co-curator of A Litany Of Failures compilation series showcasing independent artists from across Ireland.  Having gigged in various projects, he’s opened for kindred spirits such as Jeffrey Lewis and Pavement guitarist Spiral Stairs before the time came to work on his debut solo album. Enlisting the help of Belfast based producer Chris W. Ryan (New Dad, Just Mustard, Robocobra Quartet), the two developed songs with a playful, anything goes approach, with Carroll’s songs likened to softer touchstones of indie rock - Silver Jews, Jonathan Richman, and Lee Hazlewood.
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Danny explains: I Am The Cheese is an album I initially recorded with Chris W. Ryan in a week in June 2021. We did this in a terraced house in East Belfast - visited by Carl Eccles on two occasions to play guitar and sing some backing vocals. In the months that followed, Finn McCarthy emailed me bass parts, and I added various bells and whistles to the songs from a flat on North Circular Road in Dublin 7. Laura Ryder also contributed piano to the song Cheesemonger. The drums were performed and recorded by Chris on one day in January 2022 in Start Together Studios. He then mixed the album, and eventually I got it mastered by the late, great John Davis (Blur, The XX, Careerist) who passed away in September 2023.

I've sat on the album a long time, in part down due to vinyl pressing, in part due to personal reasons. The mental fortitude it takes to independently 'emerge' and 'unleash' is not always forthcoming. At this point the album feels like a distant document. Nevertheless, it's still something I'm happy to have made for myself.

The title is taken from the 1977 Robert Cormier YA novel, which haunted my adolescence. The final lines of the novel refer back to the folk song 'The Farmer In The Dell':
"The cheese stands alone.
The cheese stands alone.
Hi-ho, the derry-o!
The cheese stands alone"

For a number of reasons it felt fitting to lift that title. 
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TPOE 304: Danny Carroll

This is a live mix by The Avalanches from back in 2006.

Big Tent Set 2006 - The Avalanches

Catch Ital / Halal and crew at Club Time on January 23rd: restlessnites.com/clubtime/

A few words from Ital on this incredible mix showcasing the best of Lovers Rock:

This mix is exclusively made up of artists on Lovers Rock, in various permutations & aliases. The DJ Python (aka DJ Wey) track will come out on Prohibito; many of these tracks also aren't made for release. A few of them of course have already been released: DJ Wey "Tare Gent Us," Earthen Sea "Beat 13" and Ital & Halal "The Thirst." The "Radio Interference" is a recording of some very unsettling, drifting noise that sometimes comes through the radio unprompted at LR HQ. As for the rest of them, we'll have to wait and see. 

Tracklist:
Damon Eliza Palermo & Earthen Sea - Unreleased
Ital - Vacation (Unreleased)
Lovers Rock Studios - Drum Track (Unreleased)
Anonymous - Unreleased
DJ Wey - Tare Gent Us 
DJ Python - Ciudado (Unreleased)
Earthen Sea - Beat 13
Ital & Halal - The Thirst
Ital & Halal - Unreleased
Ital & Halal - Unreleased
Ital - Unreleased
Earthen Sea - Unreleased
DJ Wey - Unreleased

Damon Eliza Palermo - Meera & Geetesh
Sleeper Cell - Unreleased
Anonymous - Unreleased 
Lovers Rock Studios - Bassline (Unreleased)
Earthen Sea - Unreleased
Sleeper Cell - Unreleased
Anonymous - Unreleased
Radio Interference 
Ital & Halal - Starving (Unreleased) 

Fine Time Session 3: Lovers Rock Mixed by Ital

The best that ever did it. 
This year's a UK special. All UK: eternal, factory, yaz etc. 

something brand new in there too

Year 9 (2016)

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Valentines Slow Jams Chapter 9

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Run Away With Me (EMBRZ Remix)

Taken from 'Anagrams' released 1st July 2016 on Melodic.
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Written & produced by Stephen Steinbrink. 
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Here’s a live mix, just my records, two turntables and my old rotary….a bunch of records I’ve been playing lately, new and old.

DJ Dates:
Sept 2: Zukunft - Zurich, Switzerland
Sept 4: Panorama Bar - Berlin, Germany
Sept 9: Sporting Club - Beirut, Lebanon
Sept 10: Badaboum - Paris, France
Sept 11: Berkley Suite - Glasgow, UK

Juan Maclean - End Of Summer DJ Mix

With Feeling

Got to play some vinyl on this great soundsystem. Back there July 28th.

Nialler9 vinyl set @ Hang Dai Chinese

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