With Caribou

January 19th, 2008

With Caribou

I’ve been rambling on about this Sydney Festival gig supporting Caribou, Mountains in the Sky and Jamie Lloyd at the Hyde Park Barracks for ages. It finally happened on Thursday night. Despite the rain, and the sheets of red dust flying everywhere and especially all over the records (as they played), it was a blast. Loads of great people in attendance, great bands, great people running things. My mum even came. What more could you want?

I fell off my scooter on the way home from work beforehand, so I loaded up with ibuprofen and played records for a couple of hours (before and between bands), and then took yesterday off to recuperate, giving me a chance to record some of the songs from Thursday’s set. A few didn’t make it in: Crayon Fields, Os Mutantes, Architecture in Helsinki, Incorporated Thang Band, Ballistic Brothers, John Cale, Gregory Isaacs, Dizzy Gillespie, Sheila Hylton, Caetano Veloso, but the rest did… I’ve split it in two.

I hope it soundtracks something great.

[Part 1 - With Caribou] (128kbps MP3)

01. Butthole Surfers ‘Barking Dog’ from Hurdy Gurdy Man [Rough Trade 7", 1990]
02. The Dream Syndicate ‘When You Smile’ from The Days of Wine and Roses [Slash LP, 1982]
03. Tooth ‘Shift’ [Soft Records 12", 2002]
04. Primal Scream ‘Loaded’ from Screamadelica [Creation LP, 1991]
05. Fat Jon ‘Wood Grained Love Stain’ from A Side of Counterflow [Counterflow LP, 2004]
06. Terry Callier ‘Love Theme from Spartacus (4 Hero Main Mix)’ [Talkin' Loud 12", 1998]
07. Del Dongo ‘Samiscience’ [F Communications 12", 2002]
08. The Y2Ks ‘Sydney Harbour Bridge’ from Nicht Sushi EP [LADO 12", 2000]
09. Scattered Order ‘Sheer Remix’ [Volition white label 12", 1992]
10. Ryuichi Sakamoto ‘Riot in Lagos (Creative Use re-edit)’ [white label 12", 2004]

[Part 2 - With Caribou] (128kbps MP3)

11. Captain Comatose ‘Pricegun Baby’ from Acapulco 2001 [Playhouse 12", 2001]
12. Uter ‘Ohm Sweet Ohm’ from Tomorrow’s Clown’s [OSCARR 12", 2003]
13. The B-52s ‘Loveland’ from Mesopotamia [Warner Bros LP, 1982]
14. Joakim ‘Teenage Kiss (vocal)’ [Kitsune 12", 2005]
15. Air ‘Don’t Be Light (Neptunes Remix)’ from Everybody Hertz [Source LP, 2002]
16. Can ‘Soul Desert’ from Can Soundtracks [Liberty LP, 1971]
17. Soul Kid Allstars ‘Take 1’ from Turntables on the Hudson Vol 1 sampler [Rhythm Love 12", 1999]
18. Eddie Henderson ‘Inside You’ from Heritage [Blue Note, 1976]

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3 Responses to “With Caribou”

  1. mr razzle dazzle Says:
    February 5th, 2008 at 12:40 pm

    wow, what a mix. i wish i came on the night. this is one of the most refreshing mixes i have heard in a long time. best set i have heard since chris rogers at a bodega party in march.

    well done.

    chris

  2. matt Says:
    February 11th, 2008 at 11:31 am

    Thanks, Mister RD. Great to get a bit of feedback!

  3. matt Says:
    February 15th, 2008 at 8:20 am

    Here’s legal_affairs’ lovely take at ITM:

    Arriving bright and early at the Barracks usually allows you to catch the last of the evening sun, but tonight, heavy cloud put paid to that ambition. But it did allow me to catch Matt Levinson, playing under his own name rather than his nom de vinyl of Calico. Had he been playing as Calico, I would have observed that it doesn’t take long to cotton on to the fact that this he is a DJ cut from a different cloth. I would have observed that he was expertly canvassing a variety of musical styles, and that if you wanted to seersucker DJ, it wouldn’t be this one. But as he was playing as Matt Levinson, I have to talk about the music instead. He started off with a little jazz, and then went cinematic – not world music, but worldly music, or to borrow a line from somewhere, music from home, if you live in the world. It was an excellent soundtrack to watch the crowd gently rolling in, and Levinson’s later interlude sets between the live acts confirmed what an excellent choice he was to play this gig.

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