Long time friend of the show (and myself), Pete Juxtaposeur has started a new podcast called Skip to the End - well he did back in October but I was too busy pre-Xmess to listen to it, but more fool me as it's BRILLIANT. Very professionally done, and strangely reminds me of Radio 3 when it had a show like Mixing It (R.I.P.)

He's had the likes of Kid Carpet, Hoonboy, SP-SEPR, Parasite and Gusset and most recently Twocsinak aka DJ Sarah Wilson which I listened to live (he streams these live as he records them last Thursday of every month at 9pm, at Sound Unsound Radio) but also uploads them as podcasts. They are usually around 2 hours including a special 30 minute guest mix and if you like the more experimental/breakcore/silly side of the tunes I play, or the other podcast Pete is involved in WOBcast then you'll love this.

Red Castle to Pawn's foreleg 7th Mannequin (Original Halibut Maneuvre)

Check, mate. (66Mb, 86mins)

• New ident!
• Burial - Archangel (from Untrue)
• Glowstyx - 7 Daze (from Class of 1992)
• Yazoo - Situation (Dunproofin mix)
• Axwell - I Found U (remode)
• Age of Chance - Kiss (1986 Bootleg)
• Mr Oizo - Skatesteak (from Steak OST)
• The Peppers - Pepper Box
• Wilmoth Houdini - Black But Sweet (thanks to Copycat)

Red Castle mix (a mix inspired by the gardens and castles of the Alhambra in Granada.)

• Ann Rachlin - Mystery of the Spanish Garden with:
• Matmos - Zealous Order of Candied Knights (from The Civil War)
• Shackleton - You Make Me Cry (from Skull Disco)
• Matmos - Regicide (from The Civil War)
• controlfreak - one for sorrow
• The Orb - Spanish Castles in Space
• Francisco Tárrega - Recuerdos de la Alhambra
• Amiina - Hilli (from Kurr)
• Isaac Albéniz - Asturias
• Joan Baez - Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
• Joe Strummer and the Latino Rockabilly War - Cholo Vest (from Permanent Record outtakes)
• Carter USM - Impossible Dream

• Elizabeth Fraser - At Last I Am Free (from Rough Trade 25 - Stop Me If You've Heard This One)

My photographs from the Mezquita in Cordoba, December 2007

Anyone got a negative/slide scanner I could borrow?

First podcast of 2008 (the other one was a mirage) and we're strangely reflective, prancing in the dark like some sort of cycling proficiency fashion show, trying to blind passing cars or get some foxes to mate with us.

Flashlight! Red light Neon light Ooh, stop light (78Mb, 107mins)

Flashlist:

• Lethal Bizzle - Police on my Back (from Back To Bizznizz)
• Leslie Butler + Lyn Taitt & The Jets / Hornpipe Rocksteady (from Trojan's Reggae for Children)
• Kode9 + Space Ape - Kingstown(Vox) (from Warrior Dubz)
• Matmos - Tract for Valerie Solanas (from The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of the Beast)
• Test Department - Comrade Enver Hoxha (from The Unacceptable Face of Freedom)
• Wax Audio - The 4th Branch (Kashmiri mix) (from Cut, Paste and Run)
• Shackleton - Blood On My Hands (Ricardo Villalobos Apocalypso Now Mix Part 1 (from Skull Disco)
• Pete Shelley - Witness the Change (from Homosapien)
• Chumbawamba - When Fine Society Sits Down to Dine (from Un)
• Wax Audio - You'd Better Run You'd Better Take Cover (from Cut, Paste and Run)
• Illuminoids - Lugosi's Mongoloid Loser
• Pete Murphy - Cuts You Up
• Supersystem - Born into the World
• Goblin - Folie (from Patrick OST)
• SebastiAn - Arrival (from Steak OST)
• LeeDM101 - Die Silently (from The Radio Clash File)
• Copycat - L'Anarchie pour le U.K. (from The Radio Clash File)
• Disrupt - Blast you to bits (from Foundation Bit)
• Irn Mnky - Pray (from A Very British American Gangster)
• Lethal Bizzle - Sometimes I Think (from Back To Bizznizz)
• Bullion - Don't Talk (Close Your Eyes) (from Pet Sounds: in the Key of D)
• Divide & Kreate - Always With You
• Amiina - Seoul (from Kurr)
• DJ Lobsterdust - Baby Arrow

I know it's kind of geeky but here's the stats for This One's For Joe, the Joe Strummer mashup compilation - I wouldn't have done this but Marty wanted to know for the KillaKast podcast (which incidentally played Willesden Blue as part of it's Happy 2008 show!)

We've had over 1,000 people downloading!
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The Zip file got 905 unique visitors alone!

* probably much higher but he reposted the mix on his own server on the 31st.

Quite surprised at some of those (I'd recommend people check out Juxta's great mix, Earlybird's is brilliant and my English Ghost deserves more than last place- WAH!), but quite rightly Dun's mix is the best and is the most downloaded!