Date: 18/12/2011
01. Ken Freeman - White Mountain
02. Mira Calix - Khala (Assisted by Gescom)
03. Dick Mills - The Mandragora Helix
04. Snoop Dogg - It Blows My Mind (Instrumental)
05. Clannad - Signs of Life.
06. Delia Derbyshire - Tutankhamun’s Egypt
07. Sleepy Brown - I Can’t Wait (Instrumental)
08. Maria Minerva - Unchain My Heart
09. Ian Mcshane - Drive
10. Elektriktus - Second Wave
11. Anthony Rother - Past Represents the Future
12. Koji Kondo - File Select.
13. Hudson Mohawke - Acoustic Lady
14. Madlib - Dirty Hop (the Shuffle)
15. BBC Radiophonic Workshop - Doctor Who Theme (Delaware Version)
16. Clams Casino - Kush Tonight
17. The Beatles - Flying
18. Shuki Levy - Les Sirènes
19. Dr Dre - Ackrite (Instrumental)
20. Anthony Childs - Over Napoli
21. Ichiro Shimakura - Castle Grounds
22. H. G. Wells - Radio Talk ‘Communications 1922-1932?
23. Jocelyn Pook - Dionysus
24. J Dilla - Won’t Do (Instrumental)
25. Marina & the Diamonds - Obsessions (oOoOO RMX)
26. Coil - Something
27. Sturm - Seiben
28. Peter - De Virtute Imaginativa
29. Ellie Goulding - Starry Eyed
30. Earthling - 1st Transmission (Portishead’s Earthead Mix)
31. DJ Shadow - 89.9 Megamix
32. D.D. Denham - The Railway Orphanage
33. Ginuwine - Pony (Instrumental)
34. Jean-Michel Jarre - The Abominable Snowman
35. Carl Craig - Alien Talk
36. Timbaland - Bounce (Instrumental)
37. Marc Rosen - Alien
38. Scott Walker - Bouncer See Bouncer
39. Nurse With Wound - Man is the Animal
40. Time Attendant - Rossmann Dial
41. Peter Cusack & Max Eastley - Zero Day To Zero Night
42. Thomas Koner - Nuuk (Night)
43. BBC Radiophonic Workshop - Janissary Band
44. Max Eastley/David Toop - Burial Rites
45. Julia Holter - Celebration
46. Siouxsie & The Banshees - Carousel
47. Autechre - Perlence Suns
48. Francisco Semprun & Michel Christodoulides - Voûtes
49. Moon Wiring Club - Sly Gavotte (Clockwork Mouth Mix)
50. Stanley Holloway - Strolling in the Park
51. Awake - Tempus Fuggit
52. Coil - Egyptian Basses
53. Mark Ryder and Phil Davies - ‘Fire’
54. Terror Danjah - Minimal Dub
55. FSB - Pesen.
56. Wiley - Get Along Gang
57. Higher Intelligence Agency - Speedlearn (Reformed By The Irresistable Force)
58. Automat - Droid
59. Tangerine Dream - Flock
60. Warren G & Nate Dogg - Regulate (instrumental)
61. Biosphere - Antennaria
62. John Zorn - Lucifer Rising
MWC is the alter ego of Ian Hodgson, and English eccentric in the grand tradition. Since 2007 he’s been delighting and occasionally confounding with his prolific output, graduating from hand-assembled CD-Rs to increasingly lavish vinyl and CD editions; his most recent full-length offering is the terrific Clutch It Like A Gonk.
Every Moon Wiring Club release tells a story, and each one is populated by characters from Clinksell, an imaginary community inspired by oneiric fragments of 1970s TV and VHS obscurities, the occult, steampunk, vaudeville, dated board games, weird children’s books and refracted memories of Peak District villages. Hodgson brings Clinksell to life through his own illustrations, which adorn every release and have become synonymous with the bewitching music contained within.
Broadly speaking, Moon Wiring Club’s musical and aesthetic preoccupations are similar to those of Ghost Box and Mordant Music crews; indeed, he collaborated with Belbury Poly on a 7? for Ghost Box’s Study Series. But MWC’s heightened sense of the absurd, the non-linear and the jarring, for us makes him the most convincing laureate of cathode ray-fried British dreamtime. His music is full of typically hauntological tropes – eerie drones, naive synthesizer sequences, juddering radiophonics, detourned film dialogue – but it also reflects his love of G-funk and Drexciyan electro. Clutch It Like A Gonk, released earlier this month, is his most insouciantly rhythm-driven outing to date.
And so we come to FACT mix 310, the last FACT mix of the year, and our de facto Christmas present to you. Hodgson has treated us all to a two-part session, subtitled Something, which is both a survey of his singular interests and, quite honestly, the most transporting, haunting, heartwarming and downright eventful FACT mix we’ve presented all year. To look at the tracklist is to picture the best Christmas party ever: one where you’ll find Warren G, Snoop and Dr Dre fraternising with Ian ‘Lovejoy’ McShane and Jimmy Saville (R.I.P); Wiley and Terror Danjah sharing war stories with Scott Walker and Tangerine Dream; H.G. Wells trying to edge Julia Holter under the mistletoe; Siouxsie scoffing mince pies with Jean-Michel Jarre and Clams Casino; Carl Craig and Autechre slugging mulled wine with Timbaland and Nurse With Wound; Delia Derbyshire being threatened with ejection for loutish behaviour. All in just over an hour.
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