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I have been pretty lazy this year and haven't put up any play lists, but here are the 25 bands that I have listened to the most over the first 6 months of 2014. Top 25 first half 2014 by jim_bomb on Grooveshark http://grooveshark.com/playlist/Top+25+First+Half+2014/99142522 1 Arctic Monkeys - Brainstorm 2 Dutch Uncles - Flexxin 3 The Stone Roses - Fools Gold 4 The Orb - Perpetual Dawn 5 Ronni Size - Sound Advice 6 The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Food for Clouds 7 Boards of Canada - Chinnook 8 1990s - You Made me Like it 9 Modern Baseball - @chl03k 10 Fujiya & Miyagi - Knickerbocker 11 Beastie Boys - Sabotage 12 The Courteeners - Save Rosemary in Time 13 New Order - True Faith 14 We are Scientists - The Scenes is Dead 15 The Twang - Encouraging Signs 16 The Sunshine Underground - The Way it is 17 Thee Oh Sees - Maze Fancier 18 Underground Resistance - Sonic Destroyer 19 Blur - Charmless Man 20 The Fall - Mr Pharmacist 21 Echobelly - King of the Curb 22 ...

What's left of it, around by Potsdamer Platz.

Germany's parliament building.

The former city gates to Berlin and probably the most famous of German landmarks.

The Holocaust memorial was built by Peter Eisenmann, who claims it has no symbolism, although it is to mark the genocide of the Jewish people during the war. It was built between 2003 and 2004 and was opened in 2005 to mark the 50th anniverssary of the end of the war.

The Television tower that was built by the GDR in the period 1965-1969. It has the weird quality of looking very small and very big at the same time.

I didn't see that much of Berlin as I was there for work and only there for a couple of days, but I still managed to see a few places.

Here is what I have been listening to over the first 3 months of 2011 on one nice Spotify play list. On some occasions I have listened to a band for an equal amount of times in a week (Fang Island and Squarepusher) and on others the first place band wasn’t available on Spotify, for example Clorofila Azul had more plays than Cruyff in the Bedroom in that week. Here’s the play list with the links below: 1 Sigur Ros - Hoppipolla The year started off with the Icelandic nutters, although I think that most of the plays were on the morning of New Year’s Eve. 2 Deer hunter - Basement Scene Another band who are a bit off the wall. I think that the last time I listened to them on a regular basis had been when I was in Korea and had also been listening to Sigur Ros, so I think it was probably a bit of an association of ideas that led me to putting these on again. 3 Fang Island - Careful Crossers I think this band came as a recommendation on Last Fm. They are alright, but are never going to be my...

This weeknd I decided to do a bit of research into a few bands who give away their music and here are my favourites Pope John Paul iii Pope John Paul iii are a band from California and their innovative folk, lo-fi, tongue in cheek crapcore is well worth a listen. The band members are Adam and Ryan Beebe who claim to record on some of the World's worst recording equipment, hence them wanting to swap their studio for Paul Mc.Cartney's in the song Paul Mc.Cartney's studio . Your guess is as good as mine for the inspiration of the song Booze . For a selection of free tracks click on the albums at http://www.last.fm/music/Pope+John+Paul+III dress up like a hooker, i'll be charlie sheen I don't know much about this band, but their songs are lo-fi classics, with European Soul being my favourite. You can download their album Hi five for lo-fi at http://dulahibcs.bandcamp.com/album/hi-five-for-lo-fi Harperative Harperactive is James Harper who was born in Bangkok but now l...

As usual I've made a mix for New Year's Eve and here it is. This time available on Spotify. It's going to be the year of the Tiger and they have this beer on in the Minster at the moment (pub not the actual Minster), so I dare say I will see the New Year in with a few pints of it. Fluke – Atom Bomb Deadmau5 – Strobe The Chap – I Got Flattened By a Pig Farmer Hot Chip – Shake A Fist New Order – Confusion A Certain Ratio – The Big E Friendly Fires – Paris Kraftwerk – Musique Non Stop LCD Soundsystem – Daft Punk Is Playing At My House Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll Mexican Institute Of Sound – Dub-A El Tiempo Es Muy Largo Booka Shade – Outskirts Fever Ray – Keep The Streets Empty For Me Little Boots – Stuck On Repeat Ellen Allien – Einsteigen Apparat – Can't Computerize It Future Prophecies – Thunder & Lightning Burial – Unite No Bra – Super Subway Comedian Mouse On Mars – Wipe That Sound Passion Pit – I've Got Your Number Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Love Burn...

Here's my second playlist on Spotify that I put together yesterday: Slowdive – Alison Chapterhouse – Mesmerise My Bloody Valentine – Soon Ride – Vapour Trail Drop Nineteens – Winona Moose – Play God Curve – Coming Up Roses Catherine Wheel – Eat My Dust You Insensitive F*** Amusement Parks On Fire – You Made Me Realise Amusement Parks On Fire – Blackout Flying Saucer Attack – In The Light Of Time The Airfields – The Long Way Home Lush – Ladykillers Pale Saints – Throwing Back The Apple Stereolab – Ping Pong - 2006 Remastered LP Version Spiritualized – Soul On Fire The Telescopes – High On Fire Cocteau Twins – Iceblink Luck Asobi Seksu – It's Too Late Deerhunter – Rainwater Cassette Exchange The Boo Radleys – Barney (...And Me) Kitchens Of Distinction – Drive That Fast M83 – Violet Tree Sigur Ros – Gong Architecture In Helsinki – Tiny Paintings Cranes – Sleepwalking http://open.spotify.com/user/jim_bomb/playlist/6oLoMl1qFJ09KcaRaxqmNp spotify:user:jim_bomb:playlist:6oLoMl1qFJ09Kc...

I've just had a free afternoon, so I decided to put a krautrock playlist together on spotify. Here's the info: Here's a littl playlist I put together on Spotify: Faust − Giggy Smile Neu! – Gedenkminute Kraftwerk – Pocket Calculator Amon Duul 2 – Gala Gnome Kraan – Sarah’s Ritt Durch Den Schwarzwald Triumvirat – A Bavarian in New York Can – Vitamin C Hoelderlin – Schwebebahn Brainticket – Jardins Grobschnitt – Solar Music Berlin Hoelderlin – Die Stadt Agitation Free – Kahn El Khalili Eloy − Awakening And here's the URL: spotify:user:jim_bomb:playlist:46YYYKZFew5kCBJkLT6yZm http://open.spotify.com/user/jim_bomb/playlist/46YYYKZFew5kCBJkLT6yZm

Tomorrow I'll be off on my holiday, so here's a little mix tape I've put together for the occassion. I should really get round to doing a spotify mix at some point, but as I'm not taking my laptop here's an eclectic selection of some of the stuff that I've got on my computer at the moment, and transferring to my mp3 player. Tracklist: 1. Slag Boom Van Loon -- Poppy Seeds (Boards of Canada remix) 2. 65days of static -- the Fall of Math (65 dos remix) 3. Bibio -- Fire Ant 4. Venetian Snares -- Vokeheads 5. Boredoms -- Ant 10 (Lindstrom remix) 6. The Lea Shores -- Brand New Day 7. Kraftwerk -- Trans Europe Express 8. BMX Bandits -- Milky Way 9. Pissed Jeans -- False Jesii Part 2 10. Black Moth Super Rainbow -- Born on a day the sun didn't shine 11. Ruthless Rap Assasins -- Crew from the North 12. Everything is Made in China -- Buy 4 get one free 13. Felt -- Red Indians 14. Hartfield -- Nine Ball 15. House of Love -- Destroy the Mind Listen and then delete it: h...

Here's the third and final installment of the Easter mix tapes. You can get it at: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=307HKJUY The image is from a Kahni Collective cover, where you can download a lot of decent tracks for free. Two of their artists are covered here with tracks from Moroza Knozova and Younnat. the picture is from a Moroza Knozova cover. Here's the track list: 1. Clorofila Azul -- I am a cloud in the open sky 2. Shaduz -- Fucking Mondays 3. Supermayer -- the Art of Letting Go 4. Wacker & Zittrich -- Poetry Slam 5. Deadbeat - Xberg Ghosts 6. AFX -- Analogue Bubblebath 5a4 7. Mass Prod -- a Night for You 8. Luke Vibert -- I Love Acid 9. Alexsi Perala -- Lagrange Points 10. Ceephax -- Northern Spirit 11. Claude Von Stroke -- Who's Afraid of Detroit? 12. Younnat -- Old Movies Not Terrible 13. Moroza Knozova -- Zvuki 14. Moscow Youth Cult -- Sandpits

Well here's another mixtape I've put together this time with a newer collection of stuff that's often described Indie. The picture is the logo of the 1980 Olympics in Moscow and has nothing to do with the band from the Philippines known as Moscow Olympics, who are featured here. Tracklisting: 1. Air France -- Maundy Thursday 2. The Dilettantes -- Subterranean bizarre 3. Throw Me The Statue -- Lolita 4. Hello saferide -- Lund 5. Moscow Olympics -- Oceansign 6. Cruyff In The Bedroom -- Twinkle, twinkle 7. Wavves -- Surf goth 8. Half Man Half Biscuit -- National Shite Day 9. Coltrane Motion -- The end of every movie 10. Men Without Pants -- My Balloon Link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0TRGKLOI

No games this week, due to extra work and a lack of cash. So here's a mix tape of some golden oldie tunes, I've put together. Ely v Leiston on Tuesday night. The track list is: 1. The Frank and Walters -- Afterall 2. The Family Cat -- Remember what it is that you love 3. Power of Dreams -- slowdown 4. Kingmaker -- When Lucy's down 5. Carter USM -- This is how it feels 6. Thousand Yard Stare -- Buttermouth 7. New FADs -- Fishes eyes 8. Teenage Fanclub -- I don't care 9. The Charlatans -- Polar bear 10. Ride -- I don't know where it comes from 11. The Pale Fountains -- Bicycle thieves the link is: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BYW4CRID

Well, I have a tradition with the lads from TVset Under Repair that each New Year we make a playlist for each other. Here's my playlist for this year: 1. Air France - June Evenings Electro indie pop from Gothenburg, this track was taken from their recent 'No Way Down EP'. 2. Squarepusher - The Coathanger a track taken from this year's album 'Just a Souvenir' by the Warp Records stalwart. 3. Cruyff In The Bedroom - Hakuchume Another track from an album that came out this year. This one is from everyone's favourite Japanese shoegazers and sees them return to form with their third album, 'Saudargia' 4. Gordon's Tsunami Week - Seldom Gordon's Tsunami Week are a German post rock band, I heard them first on Last FM at work. They've been going since 2001, as far as I know, but don't seem to be that prolific. This track was taken from a demo produced then. 5. Paavoharju - Alania This track by the Finish folk band comes from this year's al...

Last month I looked at Ninja Tunes and Kompakt Records and this month another dance label is in the spotlight, Warp records. Warp were founded in Sheffield in 1989 by Steve Becket and Rob Mitchell who worked together at the FON record store. They were joined in their venture by producer Robert Gordon, who produced their first record. The first release was called 'Track with no name' and was funded by the Enterprise Allowance Scheme and sold out of the back of a car. The second release by the now internationally famous Nightmares on Wax was called 'Dextrous' and sold 30,000 copies despite a complete lack of promotion. Warp records were now becoming well known on the dance music theme and their fifth release LFO's eponymously titled single sold 130,000 copies and resched number 5 in the UK charts. In 1992 several more acts from the genre that is sometimes called 'Intelligent techno' were added to the label icluding Aphex Twin, Black Dog and Autechre. They were...

....... and then we can get back to the football. Live session from the label's founder, Reinhard Voigt. It was recorded at Dry Rock in Naples in 2006. There is a double CD available here, but again it isn't my link: www.ponticelli.com/voigt.zip

This was the 8th release from Kompakt records and continues the Kompakt records special, that has temporarily moved the website away from being a football site, but don't worry there'll be plenty of football related stuff soon. Anyway, although it's 8 years old it still sounds great: Tracklisting: 1a Wolfgang Voigt Diskoschleifen 2000 A1 (Intro) (0:56) Written-By, Producer - Wolfgang Voigt 1b M:I:5 Maßstab 1:5 (4:17) Written-By, Producer - Wolfgang Voigt 2 Sensorama Star Escalator (5:42) Written-By, Producer - Jörn Elling Wuttke , Roman Flügel 3 Superpitcher Softmachine (5:13) Written-By, Producer - Aksel Schaufler 4 Freiland Rot (5:29) Written-By, Producer - Wolfgang Voigt 5 Eight Miles High In This Place (5:57) Written-By, Producer - Roman Flügel 6 Christian Morgenstern Gem Club Pt. 1 (6:49) Written-By, Producer - Christian Morgenstern 7 Thomas Gwosdz Reinaufwärts (5:21) Written-By, Producer - Thomas Gwosdz 8 Doppel Galoppm...