Signals from the North

This weeks LIVE-1-SHOT-NO-PREP mix and broadcast for Star & Shadow Radio. Some belters, the odd slip but hey who's listening, who cares? I had fun. LIVE & DIRECT from The Dream Centre. Sponsored by RenewLife Colon Hydro-Therapy and Zapata Mexican Restaurants - 'the Rio Grande of your Life and a FIST full of Flavour'

We were invited by Woodhorn Museum near Ashington, Northumberland to deliver a session as part of the Northumberland Miner's Picnic on 10th June 2017 that, working with visitors, would offer a response to the Jeremy Deller: Battle of Orgreave temporary exhibition at Woodhorn. http://www.experiencewoodhorn.com/jeremy-deller-the-battle-of-orgreave-(an-injury-to-one-is-an-injury-to-all-2001/ We selected 40 tracks from the Top 100 UK singles of 1984 and used them and lyrics to prompt people about life, culture, identity, heritage and experience of the area. We recorded over 20 people on the day who attended the picnic and live in the area; young and old from 6 to 65. Thanks to Andrea, Anita and Liz at Woodhorn.

When did fish and chips become one of UK's favourite dishes? Why do British people love a curry? Food is something we all need. It brings people together. What we eat reflects the world we live in. But what about its history? Is there really such a thing as traditional British food? These are recordings of conversations with visitors to Newcastle's Discovery Museum on 22 February 2017 during school half term. https://discoverymuseum.org.uk/ The 'Time Kitchen' was a pilot public engagement initiated by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums TNT (Try New Things) programme. Time Kitchen offered visitors a free taster menu of historical recipes (Roman Lentil Casserole, 18th Century Hot Chocolate and Medieval Gingerbrede) and asked the questions - When (and where) does your food come from? Is there really such a thing as traditional British Food?

When did fish and chips become one of UK's favourite dishes? Why do British people love a curry? Food is something we all need. It brings people together. What we eat reflects the world we live in. But what about its history? Is there really such a thing as traditional British food? These are recordings of conversations with visitors to Newcastle's Discovery Museum on 22 February 2017 during school half term. https://discoverymuseum.org.uk/ The 'Time Kitchen' was a pilot public engagement initiated by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums TNT (Try New Things) programme. Time Kitchen offered visitors a free taster menu of historical recipes (Roman Lentil Casserole, 18th Century Hot Chocolate and Medieval Gingerbrede) and asked the questions - When (and where) does your food come from? Is there really such a thing as traditional British Food?

When did fish and chips become one of UK's favourite dishes? Why do British people love a curry? Food is something we all need. It brings people together. What we eat reflects the world we live in. But what about its history? Is there really such a thing as traditional British food? These are recordings of conversations with visitors to Newcastle's Discovery Museum on 22 February 2017 during school half term. https://discoverymuseum.org.uk/ The 'Time Kitchen' was a pilot public engagement initiated by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums TNT (Try New Things) programme. Time Kitchen offered visitors a free taster menu of historical recipes (Roman Lentil Casserole, 18th Century Hot Chocolate and Medieval Gingerbrede) and asked the questions - When (and where) does your food come from? Is there really such a thing as traditional British Food?

When did fish and chips become one of UK's favourite dishes? Why do British people love a curry? Food is something we all need. It brings people together. What we eat reflects the world we live in. But what about its history? Is there really such a thing as traditional British food? These are recordings of conversations with visitors to Newcastle's Discovery Museum on 22 February 2017 during school half term. https://discoverymuseum.org.uk/ The 'Time Kitchen' was a pilot public engagement initiated by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums TNT (Try New Things) programme. Time Kitchen offered visitors a free taster menu of historical recipes (Roman Lentil Casserole, 18th Century Hot Chocolate and Medieval Gingerbrede) and asked the questions - When (and where) does your food come from? Is there really such a thing as traditional British Food?

When did fish and chips become one of UK's favourite dishes? Why do British people love a curry? Food is something we all need. It brings people together. What we eat reflects the world we live in. But what about its history? Is there really such a thing as traditional British food? These are recordings of conversations with visitors to Newcastle's Discovery Museum on 22 February 2017 during school half term. https://discoverymuseum.org.uk/ The 'Time Kitchen' was a pilot public engagement initiated by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums TNT (Try New Things) programme. Time Kitchen offered visitors a free taster menu of historical recipes (Roman Lentil Casserole, 18th Century Hot Chocolate and Medieval Gingerbrede) and asked the questions - When (and where) does your food come from? Is there really such a thing as traditional British Food?

When did fish and chips become one of UK's favourite dishes? Why do British people love a curry? Food is something we all need. It brings people together. What we eat reflects the world we live in. But what about its history? Is there really such a thing as traditional British food? These are recordings of conversations with visitors to Newcastle's Discovery Museum on 22 February 2017 during school half term. https://discoverymuseum.org.uk/ The 'Time Kitchen' was a pilot public engagement initiated by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums TNT (Try New Things) programme. Time Kitchen offered visitors a free taster menu of historical recipes (Roman Lentil Casserole, 18th Century Hot Chocolate and Medieval Gingerbrede) and asked the questions - When (and where) does your food come from? Is there really such a thing as traditional British Food?

When did fish and chips become one of UK's favourite dishes? Why do British people love a curry? Food is something we all need. It brings people together. What we eat reflects the world we live in. But what about its history? Is there really such a thing as traditional British food? These are recordings of conversations with visitors to Newcastle's Discovery Museum on 22 February 2017 during school half term. https://discoverymuseum.org.uk/ The 'Time Kitchen' was a pilot public engagement initiated by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums TNT (Try New Things) programme. Time Kitchen offered visitors a free taster menu of historical recipes (Roman Lentil Casserole, 18th Century Hot Chocolate and Medieval Gingerbrede) and asked the question - When (and where) does your food come from? Is there really such a thing as traditional British Food?

Recording of conversation with our technical department.

As Peter Ackroyd said ‘I don’t believe in ghosts but they frighten me’ and with same sentiment you could say I’ve never been to LA but I love it. It’s an imagined landscape seen darkly through a lense and experienced via the silent milieu of isolation in the films of Michael Mann, the neo noir of Chinatown and the abandoned decadence of movies like Sunset Boulevard. I know it through Ed Ruscha’s photography, David Hockney’s paintings and the sunkist pool side splash of Paul Schrader’s American Gigolo. It exists in my head and I’m fully aware it isn’t a real place. So when exiled Angeleno, disque jock and producer https://soundcloud.com/deirdre-direktor, now a resident of Rotterdam, sent me some of her tracks for the label I asked her to do a mix and channel LA through it. In her words ’a foggy, mysterious, romantic sorta place with darkness lurking in places’. Tracklist: A Thunder Orchestra - Diabolical Gesture The Exaltics - The Past 45 ACP - Ground to Ground Myriad - The Way We Were Legowelt - Spring Equinox Delroy Edwards- Kickin' Butts! Daze - Death Whirl Deirdre Direktor - Sleep for the Anxious Underground Resistance - Final Frontier Antenna - In August- Pinkman Elec Pt. 1 - Acid Mark- Signals Maroje T.- Acid Plan Lonny & Melvin- Theme From Murdercapital Gosub - Blue in Blackness Scorn - Falling (Autechre's FR 13 Remix) Neville Watson - Songs to Elevate Pure Hearts (KiNK & Rachel Remix)

TrapZ or TrapmasterZ or Trapmaster S or just plain Steve is well known within the North East Daarrrncce scene and also notorious for rigging decks to play at +16. How does this go? 'BACK IN THE DAY' from which we'd pile on the superlatives yadda yadda yadda. Steve Nicolson is a good guy though and he Disk Jock'd quite a fair bit in the 90s/early 2000s in and around the North East. He co-ran a series of parties called Protect & Survive around the time the British Electro scene popped its head up in the 90s via Rephlex, Warp, Breakin and the like. It was a good gig. He ran PAs for a good few years too and helped us a lot with the Road to Rimini nights and the various Signals parties. He gave us this mix here and called it Stella Soundings after the Stella Power Station that used to be near his house in Tyneside. He wanted me to maybe write something about history and stuff, so I did, off the back of his mix. Read it here http://signalsmmx.tumblr.com/post/130062200450/stella-soundings Tracklist: Surgeon - Dinah's Dream Jon Hopkins - Open Eye Signals Gauss - Denormal Mark Hand - Mess it Up ASOK - Purple Saturn Day Baldo - Seventh Dimension Sendex - Sound of the Eighties LFO - Nuture Mr Velcrofastner - This is it Datassette - Molestando Drexciya - Aquatacizem Ectomorph - Skin Legowelt - Spring Equinox Mark Ambrose - Redial Mark Ambrose - Dream Mode ASOK - Edge 69 - Ladies & Gentleman Gerald Mirchell - Soulsaver DJ Deeon - 2 B Free IVVVO - Dark Room 4 Dance ASOK - Probability Drive Myriadd - Way we were (Heckle mix) 2AMFM - Fusion Daze Aubrey - Stressed Squares Alexi - Delano - My busted SH101 Trevino - Buried Inferior - Shurp Phuture - Acid Trax 9Chris Moss Acid Remix) DJ Qu - Circuit HBE - Create/Object