I walked into Red Eye records in the city this morning after a long walk/jog around the harbour. Flicked through new releases and some second hand records upstairs, but I eventually realised the record I was after wasn’t going to leap out at me.

I stepped up to the counter and waited for someone to help. And waited and waited. Two staff wandered within a metre or two of me looking at t-shirts and chatting. Finally a girl walked up to the counter.

I was short on details but I knew it was by Robyn and had the word ‘bitches’ in the song title – Trentemoller’s remix of ‘Konichiwa Bitches’ by Swedish songstress Robyn, I heard it on Stu Buchanan’s final Sunday night Fat Planet show a few weeks ago – staring right through me, she walked to the PC and apparently googled my clues. She said nothing came up.

I got home and googled the same clues. The song took up the entire first page of hits.

Lots of my friends work in record shops or labels, so going into record shops is mostly a pretty great experience, but that slapped me straight back into high school. Back then record shops could get away with that High Fidelity type action – like Central holding premo Clear records behind the counter for friends back in the early ’90s – but that stupid attitude doesn’t cut it now when music fans are paying a premium to buy at the local shop rather than getting tracks faster, cheaper and with better range online.

Sometimes I need more than two days to fit in everything that needs to be done on a weekend. The four days at Easter are really good for that – sorry if that’s sacrilegious. I wrote something for a friend, went book shopping at Gleebooks and the shop next door, Sappho Books. They’ve got a great music books section. I finally bought Clinton Walker’s book about Aboriginal country music (Buried Country) as well as a book of Australian music writing called Missing In Action.

I got home and listened to a bunch of records. It’s been ages since I posted anything, let alone a mix, so I recorded it.

The Durutti Column – Dream of a Child (Live in Japan, 1985)
Kaman Leung – Idioms
Dabrye – Reconsider (featuring Kadence)
Sabres of Paradise – Bubble & Slide (Nightmares On Wax mix)
Ammoncontact – That’s My Jam
Icecube – Who’s The Mack
Machine Drum – Icya
Panda One – She Knows Not (featuring Dena)
Mnemonic Ascent – Hold Back
Microdisiac – Deep Water
Vybz Kartel – Burn Them Down

Mzekezeke – Amakaporosh (feat Brown)
Mahlathini Nezintobi Zomgquashiyo – Ngicabangu Ngaqeda (I Have Made Up My Mind)
Okapi Guitars – Tourist
Rhythmx Chymx – The Now Generation
Severed Heads – Lamborghini
Severed Heads - Dead Eyes Opened (Joakim re-edit)
Joakim – I Wish You Were Gone
As We Fall – Ride (Chloe’s Broken Leg Mix)
Joakim Lone Octet – Reve 1
Joakim – Lonely Hearts
Poni Hoax – Budapest (feat Olga Kouklaki)
Soulwax – Another Excuse (DFA mix)
Futureheads – Let’s Dance
Milkrun – Your Sexx
San Serac – Teenage Wildlife
Plastic Palace Alice – Empire Falls
Aleks & The Ramps – Air Drums
Blastcorp – The Stars Will Never Fall
Christian Kleine – Ghostwriting
Guther – Afraid
The Go Find – Adrenaline