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Top Stuff! Especially good with those first few at home before a night out…………

As well as being a radio station when we do finally kick off, we’re also looking for people to write for the website, about related topics, films; books etc. etc. we’d all have to be reading off the same page, but that may well be why your here anyway.

What we’d love to have is people who have a real desire for the unknown, and can teach us simpleton’s a thing or two about culture, everyone loves a smart arse.

ohhh was’nt that a good film Mr Day-Lewis

A dark, brooding portrayal of early colonial Australia, seen through the story of one mans ultimatum: To chose between the lives of his two brothers.

The ingredients are there: A rich picking of some of the finest actors, a director currently earning the reputation that will carry him through a highly decorated career and a set that boils in intensity.

The story is of the Burns brothers, a group of Irish outlaws led by the psychotic Arthur Burns, played by Danny Huston, ( his character is rumoured to be based on Marlon Brando’s Walter E.Kurtz in Apocalypse Now). Burn’s commits a vile crime and the local law lord (Ray Winstone) see’s himself fit to ‘civilise this land’.

Written by Nick Cave in only his second screenplay, the Australian team of Hillcoat and Cave works to great aplomb, together making a wonderful work of art, whats also a joy and no doubt the duo’s decision is to see Aboriginal actors working in the film.

The story that unfolds is a harsh but truly gripping story that creates an incredible atmosphere, centered around wonderful performances by Huston, Winstone, Guy ‘this is no Prescilla’ Pearce and an inspired cameo from John Hurt. I shall tell you no more, let the film do that.

As a foot note: John Hillcoat’s latest work is in post-production, the film version of Cormac Mcarthy’s book ‘The Road’ for which he won The Pulitzer prize, starring Viggo Mortenson, Robert Duvall and Mr Guy Pearce, sure to be a stunner, out later this year.

So we pick up the latest MAH compilation expecting a combination of fresh dub-step, dark electronica and leftfield dance, all the above boxes get ticked, plus one more: The ”what the fuck is this box?” always a favourite of the boss: John Peel, as soon as he had a passionate reaction against a tune it turned him onto it even more.

Ben Frost couldn’t instigate a bad response, the epic, reverbed guitars and electronica paint an incredibly dense, emotional picture: somewhere between Icelandic skyline and outer space.

So we find ourselves in that perfect place, poised on the verge of discovering his back catalogue of four albums, the best place to be we reckon.

So you say to your sister: ‘no more presents i won’t use ‘em, just get me a book on music’ so she does, and it sits for a few months waiting to be picked up, a whole world just sitting there waiting.

Mark Oliver Everett or ‘E’ as he’s known to those by his side is front-man with the band Eels, this book is a self written look into his life up until now, an autobiography. But it just doesn’t seem to fit in that gap, its much better.

It has been said that alot of biographies are written by fans way too keen on the Artist and involve a little too much awe, detail and ass kissing. Autobiographies on the other hand can be a little too self congratulating and nobody likes that.

This book displays a perfect balance between humour and tragedy, and E truth be told has had his fair share of the bad stuff, but he displays such a refreshing sense of humour along with it and that keeps the pages turning. It certainly doesn’t need an interest in his music, although you’ll be hard pushed not to check the Eels section in the ‘indie(!)’ record shop. It involves many of music’s modern day characters and some hilarious anecdotes. Whats most appealing about the book is E himself, and his modest, humorous individuality.

One of the best books ‘about music’ in ages, so good we quoted it in our ‘why forward thinking section’.

Catch DCR dj’s live on the 25th July at Bardens Boudoir, Stoke Newington.

Bands on the night are : the RGB’s, Stricken City and Fables

Cheers, im looking forward to some dub-step

Yeasayer: A beautifully influenced set from a band that convey so many different styles, this coupled with an epic set at Glastonbury makes this band one of the hottest Brooklyn exports, and that is a big statement, ‘yes maam’.

Danananakroyd: A heavy, unsettling, multi-layered, lyrically pleasing guitar based sound, once you get the name nailed how could you ever go back?

We have band: Possibly the best of the bunch, and we found out after it was their first fucking gig!!! Its dark brooding electronica with a grounded vocal keeping things holy, future music make no mistake.

Banjo or freakout: A welcome more experimental sound, Alessio’s one man show combines reverbed vocals low in the mix with experimantal sounds and a guitar/floor tom mix at the centre.

Keep an eye on here and maybe there’ll be a sneak leak………………………….

Experience definitely not essential

But the ability to record your show at home is (mic/PC/software)

More important than anything is the ability to put together a forward thinking show, however you want it, by looking at our site you’ll understand what we’re about and whether we suit each other, what we want is a presenter with an individual taste they want to pass on to the listeners.

Contact liam@differentclassradio.co.uk

If you can’t record yet, maybe you can help us in another way……………………….

Liam Turner
Started life at Radio 1 with the likes of John Peel before starting the ‘Different Class’ show on The Zone FM in New Zealand, Expect as wide a music range as possible.

10 Rapid
One of the new breed of electronic producers rubbing shoulders with the top dogs, currently globe-trotting and putting the final touches to his show: ‘10 Rapid presents B-sides’.

Nothing
Signed to Cut La Roc’s label, the crunching dance music producer will present an eclectic show with emphasis on the origins of those sweaty techno nights and the future of the genre.

”I don’t set out to dazzle the world with my ‘versatality’.I just have some things in me that need to come out. If you only like one kind of music, sorry but life’s too short. Every record i’ve ever put out has been met with some torrent of angry fan mail because it wasn’t what they expected. If you want what you expect, why not make your own album then? I’m just trying to make mine, and it’s probably not what you’re expecting. i’m glad we had this little talk.”

E

”Why does forward thinking matter?” This question goes round and round, maybe not in the same words but it resonates on so many levels, and those levels i’m not prepared to get into presently, the music i am……………………………….

I wish i was articulate enough to rush out some bullet points explaining the rights and wrongs of ‘good music’, fact is im not. What i do know is when something musically hits me, its hits you in the gut and the back of the mind, and its not involved with money or hype.

Money and hype are two of the less attractive features of the music industry and whenever they become a big part of the music itself invariably the proof is not in the product. With commercial radio stations and the major record labels; they are a business and they have to make money, so independant and major/commercial parties are two entirely different things, working to completely opposite ends: the majors for money and the indies for art.

For alot of us, particularly if your reading this; one of the most exciting things is when you hear something you havn’t heard before; a truly original concept, sound or movement, thats the human touch and we are all afterall…………………………………………….Hal ?

Forward thinking matters because to do, hear, or feel something truly truly ‘new’ is freedom