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So we made it all 13 Days are here for you to enjoy at your leisure, to conclude the series we’d like to give a warm welcome back to our podcast producer Rich Elms. For a special final show Rich welcomes three guests in the form of Danny James from the Addvoid blog and Simon & Ben from the wonderful band Bleeding Heart Narrative, they cover subjects such as Science, living forever, Stephen Hawkings being hip and of course Christmas music from Ryuichi Sakamoto, LCD Soundsystem & Tom Waits.

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND THANKS xxx

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So we understand it’s a bit of a ballache to download every show every day so we’ve done the hard work for you, by downloading the link above you get over two hours of the best music and chat from all our 13 shows with an exclusive from tomorrow’s Christmas Eve show. Inside you’ll find plenty to keep you busy at Crimbo with DJ’s, guests and of course excellent music including Tom Waits, Can, Lou Reed, Summer Camp, Yellowman, Procol Harum and much more!

Available from 7pm Decmeber 23rd

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Having had a quick scan of the Christmas Radio Times it seems that listening to music and reading books, rather than watching telly, will be the order of the day this festive season. So here are three lovely tracks to roast your chestnuts, as it were.

O Tannenbaum – Wooden Shjips
Stolen by Sailors – Golau Glau
Christmas Dinner – Lilian Hak (featuring Wouter Hamel)

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For the second installment of my Words into Wires xmas specials I have
chosen three short but sweet tracks to inspire some festive cheer.
I start off with some Lou Reed from 1989 and then onto one from Jacob
Golden’s debut album and finally finishing up with the only track I’ve
ever liked from Lightspeed Champion. If you blend all those up with
some mulled wine induced banter from me , then you get a merry old
show indeed.
Raise a glass to DCR !!!

Lou Reed – Xmas In February – New York

Jacob Golden – Feeling Like Christmas – Self Titled

Lightspeed Champion – Xmas Song – Unknown

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For Digby’s second festive Debris Slide show he runs through some
alternative Christmas numbers that show that Christmas songs don’t just
have to be novelty tracks. Starting off with Summer Camp’s twee pop
cover of The Waitresses’ Christmas classic and then taking in some
wintery modern classical from Peter Broderick, the show ends up with a
nine minute techno dub track by Nathan Fake.

Summer Camp – Christmas Wrapping

Peter Broderick – Family, Giving

Nathan Fake – Xmas Rush (Dub)

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In this the second episode from Liam & Gemma it’s Liam’s turn to pick the tunes and he’s rather more far fetched in his festive choices. In this the second year of The 13 Days a lot of the songs have already been used so Liam chose to pick songs that reminded him of Christmas or just had vaguely jingly titles, which just happens to mean some cracking music.

Sleighbells – A/B Machines

Riad Michael - Lights

Can – O Little Town of Bethlehem

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A mixed bag of tunes here for your listening pleasure. Starting off with a tune that reminds me of Christmas through the association of who made the record – Obima was a band that was made up by some of my friends back in early 90’s in Essex/Suffolk – I have included one of their best dub excursions ‘Roar Dub’  which was on the only record they released – a four track 12” in 1993, various issues forced them to split into a succession of other bands, the most recent of which is ‘So Called Humans’ which features the singer and original guitarist of Obima.

The next tune is a typically cheesy version of ‘We wish you a merry christmas’ by 1980’s dancehall legend Yellowman but with the word ‘reggae’ inserted instead of ‘merry’ – that is about as dynamic as the vocal gets but its good fun

Next batch of tunes is a medley of some 2009 Jamaican dancehall Christmas tunes, topics in the lyrics range from the positive to the super negative (shooting santa!) but the take on some of the well-known Christmas carol melodies has to be heard to be believed. The medley finishes up with Gally Christmas which takes the tune of Jingle Bells to sing about getting a christmas girl to ride on your ‘sleigh’.

Listener beware some of these later tracks are pretty full on and represent a certain side of Jamaican ghetto culture; Mavado and VybzKartel represent two different crews from different parts of Kingston ‘Gullyside’ and ‘Gaza’ and this is a very real war situation on the streets – if you are easily offended then you might not be too keen.

Obima – Roar Dub

Yellowman – We Wish you a Reggae Christmas (wish you a merry christmas)

Assassin – Christmas is Here (Come all ye faithful)

Elephant Man – Badman Christmas (Hark the herald angel sing)

Mavado – Gully Christmas

VybezKartel – Gaza Christmas (12 days of christmans – partridge in a pear tree)

Torch &Slu – Gally Christmas (jingle bells)

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So what is an electronic music presenter supposed to do when asked to present a Christmas show? Well Electronic Steve went all ‘conventional Christmas’ last year; but not this one!! Here is 15 minutes of truly alternative Christmas  music, Christmas music that surely should be heard more this time of year?

Tracklisting:

1. Less Affair – Rudolph Red Nose Reindeer (2008 Club Version)
2. Snow Patrol – We Wish You A Merry Christmas Dance Version
3. Alternate X-mas – Jingle Bells Techno Bells
4. Hardcore  Nation – All I Want For Christmas (Hardcore X-Mas)

With just over one week left to go, T packs in some reggae, rock and reindeer in a short Christmas cracker. You don’t even need to like Christmas to give it a listen; tunes from Winston Groovy, Cocteau Twins and The Knife.

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So 2010 is drawing to a close and so here at DCR we’re considering the year round up shows and personally I’m trying to get my head around exactly what has happened to electronic music/my taste in music over the past year.

It only feels like a short time ago that I was saying on my show how I didn’t get dubstep – that I didn’t get its moodiness and more importantly its beat; it felt really quite alien to me and that still holds true with the earlier dubstep sound. But bloody hell, how things have changed……..

Its influence on electronic music cannot be overstated – well it would be a little over the top to say that it has shaken the very foundations of dance music but you know what I’m getting at. Genres have crumbled; techno, house, garage, dubstep etc are now all one. It seems like dubstep has been the catalyst for artists such as Untold, Pariah, James Blake, Ramadanman, SBTRKT, Mount Kimbie, 2562 to really push the boundaries and throw some different beats out there and personally I have lapped it up.

The main reason for this post was to share this website which attempts to get some hold on exactly what is going on in the post-dubstep world (and whatever you think of genres it’s too simplistic and not fair on the artists to blanket them all as ‘post-dubstep’ or ‘Future Bass’ etc).

It’s worth noting that drum and bass hasn’t been untouched, just check out dBridge, Instra:mental, ASC etc for some mind blowing, inspired music.

So at the close of 2010 I am finding that I am listening to music that from as little as a year ago I never thought I would be in to, but not only that, I don’t know if I have ever loved music so much, finding inspiration in so many different beats. 2010 has been the year where my electro/techno bubble has well and truly been burst and it feels amazing and truly inspiring. Who knows what I’ll be listening to this time next year?

Electronic Steve x