Owt... DJ's Playing Owt They Like All Night.

From the ashes of Kraut und Owt comes our new night called Owt. We will still be playing left-field music but Krautrock won't be the focus... less Kraut more Owt if you like. We will simply be playing tracks we like from across the musical spectrum. I'm sure some of the old Kraut und Owt favourites will crop up from time to time but we will have a much more open music policy. As ever Andy Memery and Saint Neon will be providing the audio and visual delights.

If you want to get a taster of what we will be playing check out our Mixcloud site or simply press play above. 

Owt Mix Vol. 1
01) Shigeo Sekito - The Word II [Columbia, 1975]
02) Yuri Morozov - Inexplicable Pt. 4 [Morozov, 1978]
03) Jonny Greenwood - Dark Streets (Reprise) [Lakeshore, 2018]
04) Group Home - Up Against The Wall (Getaway Car Mix) [Payday, 1996]
05) Boards of Canada 0 Rue The Whirl [Warp, 1998]

06) May East - Maraka [EMI Brazil, 1985]
07) Tirzah - Make It Up [Greco-Roman, 2015]
08) Sylvester - I Need Someone To Love Tonight [Fantasy, 1979]
09) Hitomi Tohyama - Wanna Kiss [Columbia, 1983]
10) Saadia Bonaire - Invitation [EMI Electrola, 1982]

11) Natureboy Flako - Movement II (Five Easy Pieces, 2017)
12) Mariah - Shinzo No Tobria [Columbia, 1983]
13) William Onyeabor - Better Change Your Mind [Wilfilms, 1978]
14) Burial - Stolen Dog [Hyperdub, 2011]
15) The Walker Brothers - Nite Flights [GTO, 1978]
16) Emerson - Sending All My Love Out [L.A.S Records Co, 1988]
17) Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Hunnybee [Jagjaguwar, 2018]
18) Dee Sharp - Let's Dub it Up [Fashion Records, 1980]
19) Carrie Cleveland - Love Will Set You Free [Cleve/Den, 1980]
20) Rosie Lowe - Lifeline [Wolf Tone, 2019]

Flash Back Friday - Electric Elephant

As the nights are drawing in we have become nostalgic for those heady summer nights. In the not so distant past we spent a few summers in Croatia, swimming in the Adriatic by day and donning our creative caps in the evenings, at the Electric Elephant festival. The Electric Chair boys swapped the basement for the sunshine and nobody was complaining. We even got involved with the promotional side of things too by creating viral videos as seen above. Curating the festival cinema was a highlight especially when there was a big cheer at the end of Jaws when the shark got his comeuppance. I'm not sure if it was a coincidence or not but there were definitely less swimmer in the sea the following day! Special mention should go out to Andrew Weatherall who is a true gent and of course the Electriks team. 

We collected loads of super 8 and digital footage that never saw the light of day... until now. Here's some behind the scenes footage that didn't make the final cut and some super 8:

Derrick Carter on the ones and twos and the Broken Biscuit Club boys on VJ duties.

Saint Neon's turn on the ones and zeros.

Super 8 footage:

This Love Has No Boundaries - Coming Soon

We have joined forces with DJ Wondergupta to start a night called 'This Love Has No Boundaries'. We will be mining our collective record collections to bring you some global beats from the outer limits. Expect to hear everything from Ethiopian jazz to Turkish psychedelia and everything in between.

To get a flavour of what to expect check out the YouTube clip above. Audio & visuals mixed by the Broken Biscuit Club residents.

Dancing In Outer Space - Coming Soon

An audio visual mix from the Broken Biscuit Club.

Poto and Cabengo

'Poto and Cabengo' Digital restoration from Criterion Films (Jean-Pierre Gorin, 1979, USA)

The above clip is from a documentary that follows twins Poto and Cabengo, as the two children called each other, who spoke to each other in a private language they'd made up. This unique patois developed because the girls had very little contact with the outside world. Their parents left them in the care of their grandmother who did not play or interact with the them.

This film shows us what happened when the twins were picked up by social services. The story made all the American papers at the time and resulted in a struggle. Scientists wanted to study the language whereas social workers were keen for them to leave their secret language world and enter the mainstream. 

The times they are a changin'

It has been a while but the broken biscuit club blog is coming out of retirement. Our focus shifted towards Facebook, and other social media sites, and we neglected good old blogger. Some folk have turned to dusty vinyl, reached down the back of old sofas for forgotten tapes or pulled fax machines out of skips to get their retro fix. Whereas we have just clicked on a webpage we haven't been on in a while. 

We have a number of musical and visual adventures set to start in the coming weeks and months covering a whole heap of genres and styles. We've always been an eclectic bunch and these nights will illustrate that. Each night will have its own theme and tone but will still follow our ethos - audio & visual delights to enrich the soul.

Look out for the following nights:
Owt - good quality underground music regardless of genre from the past to the present
This Love Has No Boundaries - beats from around the globe
Dancing In Outer Space - dance music from the left of centre.

To get a sense of what we will be playing keep an eye out for mixes and videos that we will be posting here.

In the mean time here's what we have been listening/re-listening to recently:
Music from the DRC:

Music from London:

Music from Trane:

Outernational Sounds:

Music from 2019:

Music from a boiler room:

Musik von Deutschland:

Alsatians Fall Unconscious At The Shadow Of Your Call

Alsatians Fall Unconscious At The Shadow Of Your Call... possibly some of the strangest pop lyrics of all time. Although the Human League had form with songs like Being Boiled. David Bowie  was so enamoured with the track that he declared it to be "the future of music'. Little did he know that the future of music was in fact K-Pop!!!