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Born Too Late Radio Show # 3.

So I knocked out another one of these radio shows last weekend.

Featuring a semi-accidental law & order / crime & punishment theme, this show delves into the extraordinary world of ‘70s Italian crime movie soundtracks. Also featuring big hitters like Slab City, Fealty, Obnox and Melting Hand, alongside such plucky newcomers as The Beatles, John Coltrane and Neil Young.

Being that Mixcloud is a modern thing, when you upload a file they naturally make you pick a “primary tag” from a list of about thirty entirely inappropriate options. I played safe with “OTHER” this time, but I was really tempted to go for “BUSINESS”, such is my confidence that the music herein will assist you in takin’ care of such.

I threw this one together pretty quickly, so as a result a few corrections and clarifications are in order:

1. Due to some confusingly labelled MP3s, I misidentified the title of the Emerald Web track that closes the show. How could I forget that it is actually called CHASING THE SHADOW BEAST?

2. I also forgot to mention that the Obnox album ‘Templo del Sonido’ is out on the Astral Spirits label, who can be visited here.

3. Perhaps most importantly, I should clarify that when I casually referred to actor Maurizio Merli as the “bitch-slapping don of Italian cop movies” at one point, I was not in fact making some horrendously misogynistic comment, but was using the term in it’s urban dictionary defined form to refer to Merli’s endearing habit of slapping (predominantly male) suspects open-handed whilst playing crusading cop characters.

4. Likewise, we should note that Ice-T’s description of the late Barbara Bush is ill-mannered at best, but I certainly wasn’t going to tell him that to his face. My apologies for any offence caused.

5. I also implied during the show that Sleep’s ‘Dragonaut’ has some connection to cars. Upon closer inspection of the lyrics, this does not seem to be the case. I'd just assumed, y'know, drag = dragsters, drag-racing, etc. I was quite tired. I was wrong.

6. And finally, my apologies too to any Italian speakers for the wide variety of names, titles and phrases I no doubt mangled over the course of these two hours of live-ish radio.

With all that out of the way then, here’s a mixcloud box and full track-list. (Where applicable, I’ve added bandcamp links in brackets for anyone who wishes to buy or investigate further.)



00:00 Lee Hazlewood - The Girl On Death Row
02:36 Slab City - Tu Historia [link]
04:09 Obnox - America in a Blender [link]
07:09 The Bevis Frond - Termination Station Grey [link]
12:16 Blather # 1
17:55 Luis Bacalov - Summertime Killer
21:30 Ice-T - Pulse of the Rhyme / Ya Shoulda Killed Me Last Year
27:30 Aggressive Perfector - Infernal Raids [link]
30:42 Blather # 2
32:45 Guido & Maurizio De Angelis - New Special Squad
36:27 Fealty - Death Penalty [link]
39:28 Obnox - Names (feat. Kisha Nicole Foster & Ngina Payola) [link]
43:30 Melting Hand – Dust [link]
50:43 Blather # 3
53:40 John Coltrane - Compassion
60:00 Warp Transmission - Crash Like Waves [link]
67:24 The Beatles - She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
69:19 Franco Micalizzi / Bulldog - Man Before your Time
73:02 Blather # 4
77:28 Guido & Maurizio De Angelis - Driving All Around
80:22 Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Trans Am
84:28 Sleep - Dragonaut
90:03 Blather # 5
95:18 Guido & Maurizio De Angelis - Goodbye My Friend
99:19 Earthling Society - Super Holy Monk Defeats Black Magic Motherfucker [link]
106:16 Ian Helliwell - Water Gardens [link]
109:41 Blather # 6
114:31 Emerald Web - Chasing The Shadow Beast [link]

(Sneaky MP3 download link.)