Darren Hemmings

Bah – our good fortunes couldn’t last. In a curious turn of events, Fly53 have been forced to move out from their premises that also doubled as our seedy Soho studio. As such, we are now sans-studio and therefore cannot currently do the show unless we find a new home for our setup.

So: if any people out there can offer two rambling buffoons space for a small studio setup (and we mean TINY – broom cupboard size) with access to some ADSL for live streaming, then please do get in touch: trick@rhythm-incursions.com

It may be that Fly53 find new premises in London and still have space for our ramshackle rig. Otherwise, we need your help dear listeners!

We also want to take this opportunity to thank Troy and the team at Fly53 who have been amazing. They put up with our mess in the corner of their stockroom. They threw a swanky party for us. They even got us interviewed by Vice Style section! All power to them; we love the team, we love the clothes and if they get a new spot, we’ll happily return to our roles as errant resident broadcasters.

In the meantime, we need a new home. Can you help? If so, drop us a line!

This week we pay respects to Jimmy Castor, revisit the jazz fusion debate via some Miles Davis, drop some properly dirty dub courtesy of Bully alumni Carlo, drop large bass with Orange Hill & Hint and argue over whether Savoy Brown is “loose 70s rock” or just funk. Go get some.

I was going to write a florid description for this show, but our listener @MarianneStephen said everything that needs to be said with this tweet:

“Just turned up & it’s all about zombie porn. That track sounded pretty groovy to me tho. Now some mum jazz (!) – nice one!”

Indeed. If funky country rock, jazz, dub, skiffle, noisy psyche and more all interspersed with inane banter tickles your fancy then this is another belter. Go get some.

So here it is people: our 2011 Christmas Special. Sporting a Trick in a festive mood and a Tom feeling positively curmudgeonly, we roll out another selection of Christmas-themed treats traversing the lesser-trodden paths that take in anything from the Rhythm & Blues classics of The Debonaires and post-punk of Steel Leg through to the outright creepiness of Pac-Man and straight-up funk of Binky Griptite. Take a listen by the fire with a cup of eggnog.

Its a stellar selection this week (if we say so ourselves) as we drop old-style beats of the J Saul Kane variety in the shape of Red Ninja, get rootsy with The Band covering Marvin Gaye, check Beck channelling Prince’s slowjams, deliver sun-splashed dancehall with Spice & Pinchers and… just a whole load more. Go get some – this one’s a keeper.

This week we kickstart with some ’99 DnB courtesy of Ram Trilogy, then tour acoustic sounds courtesy of Violent Femmes, Infesticons and Hopi-influenced jazz, taking in some dark technoid breakbeats courtesy of Porter Ricks VS Techno Animal, 60′s Cali-Valley vibes from Jack Nitzsche and the straight-up beauty of Sufjan Stevens. Go get some.

Its a belter of a show this week as we tour old-style human beatbox tracks, celebrate Brandy’s finest cut, deliver wub-wub bass classics from yesteryear and discuss just what imagery comes to mind when listening to Scrimshire. As if that isn’t enough we also discuss those glorious lost nuggets of music and movies from the pre-web years and pay tribute to Heavy D. This one’s a keeper, trust us.

This week we trip through psychedelic oscillators and jazz-punk, the songwriting and production genius of Brian Wilson, The Rapture’s sleigh bells Phil Spector moment, Juke-joint R&B, Moroder-esque arpeggio and the timeless brilliance of one of Trick’s favourite bands: Slayer. 72 shows down and only now do we get Slayer. Shocking!

For a while now we’ve contemplated a special where we switched from music you may not have heard to music you have quite probably heard a hell of a lot via commercial radio, TV and more. Yes, this is our Pop Special, drawing on anything from 10cc to Fergie to deliver our personal favourites that have graced the charts in the last 50 years. From the glorious production Brian Wilson (laid bare via an instrumental version of “Wouldn’t It Be Nice”) to the intricacies of freestyle electro in Madonna’s “Into The Groove”, we tour all that is good in pop. Dirty word? Not here. Enjoy!

You’re no doubt well aware we like a bit of a chat here at Trick & Tom HQ, so when we’re visited by equally chatty folk, we couldn’t be happier. Or at least we thought we couldn’t until we were joined by Queen Of The Rapping Scene and former Techno Twin, Bev Sage. Yes, add to the chat the accolade of being the 1st ever female UK MC on vinyl, having performed on the Monty Python song “Every Sperm Is Sacred” and an amazing back catalogue of new wave and synth pop, and we really couldn’t be happier. Couple that with Trick delving into the worlds of power and dream-pop and a brief nod to the late great Ari Up and I think you’ll agree this is a proper pearl of a show.