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If There Is Hell Below Podcast... Dog Boy

2013-05-17T13:28:00.000+01:00

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Rob and Callum are starting the debates; join in, that’s radio now (it’s a podcast, though) we ask you ‘who is the official most interesting man in the world?’ and you get back to us, we ask ‘when is a mixtape an album?’ and you provide the knowledge.

Join in the debate (if it was me, I wouldn’t).

Solid gold tunes on this week’s podcast; GrandeMarshall, P-Money + MOP and AZIZI GIBSON occupy our recent hip hop listens whilst Torche, Tony Molina and Weed provide the sweet outsider sound of hardcore, metal and punk (not EMO, cannot emphasise that enough). There’s Byrdsian psych from Quilt, meticulously crafted pop from Ryan Power and others beside.

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If There Is Hell Below... All The Apples

2013-05-03T13:28:00.001+01:00

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Rob & Callum account for part of the 25% of the World’s multimedia artists not residing in Portland but it is questionable whether the podcast exists on multiple medias (ipods, iphones and macintoshbooks are multiples of media, right?) or what they do is ‘art’?
We’ll let you decide (we’re artists).

Other sounds heard in this podcast are songs; one of them is by fellow multimedia artist Big Pauper and another is Clams Casino new track with ‘PODGOD’ DOOM. More sounds come from Psychic Blood who are a good noisy garage psych group and Eleven Year Old who are a young group (not that young) and make wonderfully spunky pop with that wonderful youthful enthusiasm that you so dearly miss. Some sounds come from Nude Beach, Dune Rats and Goat all reliable favourites with ace new offerings and the rest is a mystery that is available within.

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Digs: Dice - Dice (1979)

2013-04-30T13:49:00.000+01:00

Dice - Dice

Post-punk, disco-funk prog from Germany.

If There Is Hell Below Podcast... Biffy Biffy

2013-04-26T13:29:00.000+01:00

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Hands up and light your biffy biffy, or have a beer (if you’re at work we’ve got you a ‘free one’) or a cranberry and soda (with a bit of lime) because the sun is out (has been out) and Rob & Callum are back with 12 choice cuts from their music listening week.

Join as we enjoy Redman’s charming little ode to those getting high, the soundtrack sleazecore return of Lilacs & Champagne, the snotty bottled-teenage-punk of Vacation and new workins from podcast heroes Flying Lotus, Wild Nothing and Madlib’s Quasimoto.

There’s more inside this podcast besides, trust us the good shit is undercover.

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GG DOOM! BUT HOW?

2013-04-24T14:13:00.000+01:00

But How? (Jesus Pizzas) by Grip Grand Check this killer Zappa'd up Doom remix, spliced together Grind Grand. You podcast listeners know how much we love DOOM.

Have a listen to all the killer remixes

Digs: Teenage Fanclub - Kickabout

2013-04-23T20:06:00.001+01:00

Teenage Fanclub - Kickabout (1997)

So I'm back on the blogging horse (once again) resurrecting an old feature I used to call 'The Dig' but changed to the more 'Digs'. Essentially just cuts from my record collection or latest purchases whether hard to find rarities or hidden cheap pick-ups. This first cut is one of those hidden tracks, which is fairly easy to pick for a few quid but you can't put a price on the joyfullness of this.

A B-Side to the wonderful 'Aint That Enough' from ITHB favourites Teenage Fanclub, it's a West Coast pop 'ode to the park 'Kickabout' you'd most likely be having at this time time of year if you were still 11, 30 man (and counting) games that only stop when the moon comes out.

If There Is Hell Below Podcast... $6.66 The Price of the Beast

2013-04-19T13:55:00.001+01:00

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Ride Up for the If There Is Hell Below podcast with Rob and Callum; reassuringly providing the lowest common denominator in online broadcast presenting.

Rob’s heavy on the hip hop this week, Callum’s balancing it out with some guitar sounds and we’ve both got the odd track that slots in between. There’s the exciting return of cosmic bass master Thundercat and a similarly cosmic welcome to Psymun & Damacha who are readying their debut full length. There’s a WORLD EXCLUSIVE from London’s best pop group Milky Onions, Elvis Depressedly provide something wonderfully bleak yet similarly uplifiting, Homeboy Sandman takes things back to Hip Hop’s genesis and The Eveywheres provide garage jangle from somewhere.

There’s more beside, so have a listen inside [rhyming].

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If There Is Hell Below Podcast... Kindling on the Fire

2013-04-12T12:45:00.002+01:00

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This week Rob and Callum are joined at the captain’s table by Luke Moore who completes a triad of incredible musical minds (perhaps, you should decide that).

The fruits picked by this unholy trinity include a Weatherall Primal’s dub house celebration of a Pug Dog by Flat Coke, a Lomax archived 40s recording from Sid Hemphill, a harmoniously sun-soaked cover of The Kinks by Woods and the post-rock of Thought Forms.

There’s also that incredible James Blake plus RZA track, something new from increasingly exciting MC and producer Tree, heavy jazz breaks from The Sign of Four, further gushing of Hookworms and more besides.

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If There Is Hell Below Podcast... The Crystal Meth of Cities

2013-04-02T13:30:00.002+01:00

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Rob and Callum want you to evacuate the dancefloor of your mind and just spend

a little time listening to twelve fine cuts and the rabbeting of an ex-Korn Goth and a dog hater.

Tunes includes possibly the first Math Rock track on the podcast by Tera Melos, the American 80s indie sound of Mincer Ray, power pop from GRMLN, hip hop from Co$$ and DJ Bazooka Joe, a whole album playback from Buck 65 and some other wee joys.

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If There Is Hell Below Podcast... Flu Random Generator

2013-03-22T18:28:00.000Z

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Rob and Callum present the very last podcast… to be recorded in Rob's soon-to-be old flat.

For this most emotional of farewells there's a Dinosaur Jr 'remix' of the new Phoenix single, Eastern psych sampled hip hop from Light19, Thai Funk from the latest Burger Records/Light in the Attic comp, a cut from Jonwayne's latest cassette release, the very Captured Tracks sound of Alex Calder and more.

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If There Is Hell Below Podcast... In the Engine of a Plane Taking Off

2013-03-15T13:21:00.003Z

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Rob and Callum don’t necessarily condone the taking of an Eccie during this If There Is Hell Below podcast but we would be awfully interested in hearing about how it aids the listening of said podcast (mail@ifthereishellbelow.com).

Euphoric states will be fed by the clearly MBV influenced Hot Glass and the Cocteau Twins glacial guitars of the new Cheetahs track. Sudakistan and Teen will provide you with your psychedelic needs. Adrian Younge and Ghostface Killah will take you back to a better place and 16 year old Bishop Nehru whose hip hop has the ability to make you feel optimistic about the future. There’s more inside of course but we’ll leave that to you to discover, dear friend.

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If There Is Hell Below Podcast... Year of the Snake

2013-03-01T10:42:00.001Z

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Rob (the Ox) and Callum (the Snake) return for another instalment of music and

talk.

With something new from London's garage punk torch bearers Black Manila, the

sound of 70s library jazz from The Kramford Look, Hip Hop beatmaker from Germany's Klaus Layer and Australia's Ta-Ku, loner country tales from Daniel Romano, some welcomed haze from Pure X and Curtin plus a whole extra bit more.

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If There Is Hell Below... Unreal Music

2013-02-22T13:20:00.000Z

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Rob and Callum are back after a week’s break with a podcast containing music that is undoubtedly ‘real’, in that we’ve provided songs that are there to hear and exist in reality but could also be beyond reality in how good they are and therefore become UNREAL. Being ‘unreal’ is better than being ‘real’, surely?

Whatever that is, we’ve provided our versions of the ‘unreal’ in the forms of Australian garage punks The Living Eyes and Running Gun Sound, the most old school hip hop track of the last decade from Prince Whipper Whip and Charlie Chase and some stupid talent from Janelle Monae’s Wondaland Arts Society with the Rotary Connection/Shuggie Otis shaped sound of Roman Gianarthur. There’s also new things from Ghostface Killah and Adrian Younge, White Fence, Souleance and more.

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Rob Morgan's Diggers Dozen vinyl mix

2013-02-11T13:55:00.000Z

I played Diggers Dozen last week at Alibi on Dalston's glittering high street, a night where 12 keen record diggers select 12 (a dozen) tracks from their vinyl collection and play them to other dusty finger vinyl perverts.
The records being played were astonishingly good, everyone pulled out gem after nugget after killer track after fist-bistingly good tune; the kind of night which makes you get all insecure about the size and quality of your own record collection.

Max, who hosted the night, has put up every DJs performance from the night, which you can check on his mixcloud. I haven't listened to them all but I can tell you that everyone is pure gold, check it out
http://www.mixcloud.com/diggersdozen/

Have a listen to my mix below, I fell short of the 30 minute time limit so could only present the 11 tracks below, I have however added my deleted 12th track for you to download.

If you're into hard rock, proto-metal, garage punk and fuzz, you could well dig on this dozen

Diggers Dozen Live Sessions: Rob Morgan (February 2013) by Diggers Dozen on Mixcloud

Tracklisting
Fontanelle – Traumaturge
Jean-Pierre Mirouze – Tivoli By Night
Ty Segall Band – Death
Funk Police – Red Blood Black Boobs
Golden Void – The Curve
Fury – Flying
Harvey Mandel – The Lark
May Blitz – For Mad Men Only
Fuzzy Duck – Double Time Woman
Pretty – Mustache In Your Face
XIT – I Was Raised
Bobb Trimble – Angel Eyes

If There Is Hell Below Podcast... Hologram Uprising

2013-02-08T13:07:00.001Z

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Rob and Callum prepare themselves for the uprising of dead celebrities made entirely of light and what perils it could bring humanity.

In the meantime we’ll need to have music for the week, this week we’ve chosen the krautrock funk of Klaus Johann Grobe, the travelled soul of Charles Bradley, the next level hip hop of The Underachievers, an experimental free-jazz remix by Shinji Masuko of the Boredoms, some Dilla praise with a new posthumous track from the ITHB hero and something from his good friend Karriem Riggins and we gush over that My Bloody Valentine album (you heard about that, right?). Have a listen theirs loads more ace music inside.

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If There Is Hell Below Podcast... What Decade's Your Dust?

2013-02-01T13:04:00.000Z

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Rob and Callum are back along with Luke Moore as co-presenter 3; we talk about all the great bearded pursuits: micro-breweries, guitar pedal making, vintage soundboards and the work of Tolkien.

Musical choice cuts include something from the eagerly anticipated Deltron 3030 comeback album and

a new thing from Hype Williams project Dean Blunt. There's prog rock fuzz from Wolf People,

heavy spanish blues rock from Guadalupe Plata, hypnotic kraut-pop from Wooden Shjips offshoot Moon Duo, a cut from that incredible Parquet Courts LP and more.

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If There Is Hell Below Podcast... Sunken Cat Tattoo

2013-01-25T12:39:00.001Z

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Rob and Callum present the If There Is Hell Below podcast; featuring a few choice cuts from our music listening week and some aimless talking about cat tattoos and the quest of staying on the right side of twee.

There's some wonderful guitar sounds from he heavy rock fuzz of Hot Lunch, the jangle Rickenbacker guitar pop of Veronica Falls, hypnotic krautrock drones of Thee Open Sex, the addictive sludgy blues of Endless Boogie, country picking from Indian Wars and more wonderfully exciting sounds.

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If There Is Hell Below Podcast... 27

2013-01-18T13:54:00.000Z

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Rob and Callum present the If There Is Hell Below podcast, if you didn’t know it’s a music podcast with some chat about important stuff, like the size of featured artist’s Lonnie Holley’s family, truly mind blowing.

Away from that there’s country music from the alt. Country reverbs of Wooden Wand to the infectious old-time pickings of The Black Twig Pickers, two cuts from one of our favourite hip hop labels Mello Music Group, a sprawling psych-brooder from Hookworms upcoming LP, powerpop from Cocktails, further psychedelic forays from Chile’s Holydrug Couple and much more.

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Julian Malone - Give A Eff

2013-01-16T16:28:00.000Z

Following up from the brilliant 7 Milli, as featured on the latest podcast - Stones Throw's, Julian Malone drops yet another great track.

Malone's talent clearly shines through on both of these tracks and his Enemy.. mixtape too.
He punctuates this smooth, self produced track with what is already becoming his trademark of gruff, yet youthful delivery and masterful flow.

His new mixtape, Diff.rnt will be out next month, with the Stones Throw debut to follow later in the year.

Check out the Enemy: The Times and Love of Malone mixtape here: http://www.mediafire.com/?or0g6bcrb5pmsou

If There Is Hell Below Podcast... Crowd Surf Limbo

2013-01-11T13:50:00.000Z

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First If There Is Hell Below of the year with Rob and Callum asking the big questions like ‘why do musicians release bad songs?’

Rest assured, the music contained in this file are those moments when the artist has released good songs, or ‘good shit’.

The good stuff this week comes from the not-so-mysterious Ty Segall project Fuzz, new Stones Throw signing producer/rapper Julian Malone, exciting UK garage punk from Thee MVP’s and Gorgeous Bully and the absolutely killer returns of The Men and Iceage.

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The Red Chords

2013-01-09T13:48:00.001Z

We're just back from our Xmas break, ease your way in with blog entry, you'll have to wait a wee bit longer before I can attempt any kind of critical musical writing. I always wonder the point in writing about music when everything that needs to be said is right below in those widgets.

Not much to report on these, just a cool heads up from the incredible Black Tambourines.

Check their EP on their bandcamp, click the widget and indulge in a free download.

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If There Is Hell Below Podcast... Good Shit '12: Albums

2012-12-21T11:21:00.001Z

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After last week’s Good Shit ’12: Tracks, we turn our attention to the year’s best Long Players.

Rob and Callum have pulled together their 20 favourite albums of the year, as before we haven’t ranked them but we do each have our own ‘Album of the Year’ and also throw out some silly awards (Fred Perrys) for notable inclusions.

This is our last podcast of 2012, thanks for listening.
Note: Rob says the Ty Segall and White Fence album is called ‘Wet Hair’, it isn’t it’s just ‘Hair’. He’s crippled with embarrassment.

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If There Is Hell Below Podcast... Good Shit '12: Tracks

2012-12-14T13:41:00.000Z

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Rob and Callum present their Good Shit 2012 podcasts. This episode concentrates on our 20 favourite tracks of the year; pop songs, 12” singles, 45s and joyous slabs of delight that have provided us with instant hits of gratification over the last 12 months.

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If There Is Hell Below... An Ode To Bath Salts

2012-12-07T11:17:00.001Z

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Rob and Callum welcome the power of three with the addition of guest co-host Luke Moore from the Football Ramble, who leaves his boots at the door to talk music.

The choices are split three ways; there’s some hip hop from Despot’s long awaited album, another stella drop from Homeboy Sandman and something off the Dahi Beats beattape. Charles Bradley gives a Rodriguez track a horned up soul/funk makeover, Renny Wilson provides some AOR saxophone disco groove and we remember The Rolling Stones for spearheading the garage rock movement.

There’s of course more music inside, join us.

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If There Is Hell Below... Great American Sandwich

2012-11-30T14:53:00.004Z

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Rob and Callum present the If There Is Hell Below podcast, without a theme they are left to talk about things like the kind of music played in bars in a late 80s sci-fi film that doesn’t exist.

The intergalactic barroom song in question comes from Nicolas Jaar and Theatre Roosevelt (whoever he is?), plus there’s hip hop from Dilla Ghost Doom, Wrathmatics and something dug up from the 90s by Rakim, smooth white soul from Donnie & Joe Emerson, Shintaro Sakamoto and a track from one our favourite comps of the year. There’s also some twee Scotch-pop from Golden Grrrls and garage surf power pop from King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. Of course that is only a few layers of filling inside this sandwich, take a listen and enjoy those hidden flavours.

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