Playlist 476 - Jan 30 2018

It’s been a little while since we had a dance set on the show. We had a good mini set in the middle this week.

Charlotte Gainsbourg hooking up with SebastiAn to wonderful French disco effect.
De Lux with the great sunbaked LA disco full of nagging synth lines.
And SlowPlaceLikeHome with some lovely ambient electronica from the Atlantic north west (Donegal).

Also another beautiful cut from the new Spindle Ensemble album. Light as air.
The Sea & Cake giving vent to wonderful breezy jazz pop.
Jon Brion from the Lady Bird OST making gorgeous quixotic music for pictures involving woodwind.

And Django Django making music to make people who don’t know how to dance dance.

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Playlist 476
Tues Jan 30 2018
11.00am-12.00pm
(repeated on Tuesdays 8.30pm)
UCC 98.3FM
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Playlist
Spindle Ensemble – Osier (playing Southbank Centre, London, Mar 16)
Laurence Pike – Life hacks
Virginia Wing/Xam Duo – Yesterday’s guest (playing Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, Mar 3, w/ Hookworms)
Mouse on Mars – Aviation
The Sea & Cake – Starling
Jon Brion – Title credits (from the soundtrack of the film Lady Bird)
Charlotte Gainsbourg – Deadly valentine (playing Village Underground, London, Mar 29)
De Lux – Keyboards cause we’re black and white
SPLH – Shadowcat
John Johanna – Fold in the light
Autorickshaw – Pound for pound
Sin Fang Soley Orvar Smarason – Wasted
Alasdair Roberts – Johnny o’ the brine
Django Django – In your beat (playing Tivoli Theatre, Dublin, Mar 2)
The Scaramanga Six – Man or marionette

*next week's show features music from Brona McVittie, Jim Ghedi & Stuart Turner & the Flat Earth Society, among others

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