A wonderfully odd pair
I’m currently happily jamming to the latest Brainwashed podcast (#99) and loved the pairing around the middle of the hour: “Cockles and mussels” by Matmos and “Do you take this man?” by Diamanda Galás featuring John Paul Jones. The Matmos piece is a cool, atmospheric meditation on this classic folk song, and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed repeating it several times this morning. The Galás song is a crazy heavy beat blues monster on a relationship gone seriously (and psychotically) wrong, and she ain’t gonna take any of his crap any more. You gotta love it when the girls are doing it for themselves…
Unfortunately Brainwashed is becoming the victim of their own good ideas and success, and are apparently running into serious bandwidth issues, which is causing access problems to parts of their web site and their podcast. So don’t listen to them! Instead, buy stuff from them and send me the discs (you wouldn’t want to listen to weird stuff like that anyway). That way they get money, they can keep providing this wonderful service (for me), and I get some free music (from you). Personally, I see no downsides to this plan - so execute it! :-)
The next podcast is the big #100, and they’re asking for requests, so get in touch with your ideas.
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