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James Acaster鈥檚 mixtape

Verity Sharp shares a mixtape from stand-up comedian, record producer and head honcho behind the 40-strong international music collective Temps, James Acaster.

Verity Sharp shares a mixtape from stand-up comedian, record producer and head honcho behind the 40-strong international music collective Temps, James Acaster. As a child, Acaster grew up 鈥渙bsessed with wanting to record an album one day鈥� before pursuing a career as a stand-up comedian. The opportunity to revisit that desire arose during the first UK lockdown, when he found himself sitting on a wealth of drum tracks recorded on his childhood kit, material initially conceived as being part of a would-be mockumentary about a naive comedian-turned-musician. Stuck at home, the project morphed, and Acaster enlisted the help of some of his favourite artists - including drummer Seb Rochford and vocalists Xenia Rubinos and Quelle Chris - to realise the record. The resulting album, PARTY GATOR PURGATORY (named after a human-sized toy alligator that Acaster won at a county fair when he was 7), disregards genres in favour of experimentalism, packing all his favourite sounds into a singular melting pot of ideas. For his Late Junction mixtape, James Acaster picks out tracks from the likes of Brazilian vocalist Elza Soares, American singer-songwriter and guitarist Marnie Stern and experimental hip hop trio The Sooper Swag Project.

Elsewhere in the show, an intimate, stripped-down approach to Malian praise songs from Namian Sidib茅 and a piece by Guatemalan avant-garde composer Joaqu铆n Orellana created using his 脷tiles Sonoros, a series of custom-built instruments that sit somewhere between sculpture and sound installation.

Produced by Gabriel Francis
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Music Played

  • Alabaster dePlume

    Salty Road Dogs Victory Anthem

    • Salty Road Dogs Victory Anthem.
    • International Anthem.

  • Myst

    Myst

    • Apere Oredxer.
    • Ored Recordings.

  • Martin Hayes & The Common Ground Ensemble

    Toss the Feathers

    • Peggy's Dream.
    • Faction Records.

  • Temps

    lookaliveandplaydead

    • PARTY GATOR PURGATORY.
    • Bella Union.

  • Temps, Joana Gomila, NNAMD脧, SHAMIR & Quelle Chris

    bleedthemtoxins

    • Temps.
    • Bella Union.

  • Yoni Wolf, Quelle Chris, Shamir, Montaigne, Ami Dang & Temps

    ificouldjust

    • PARTY GATOR PURGATORY.
    • Bella Union.

  • DJ Danifox

    笔补谤莽鈥媋

    • Ansiedade.
    • 笔谤铆苍肠颈辫别.

  • Mun Sing

    Spirit And Legacy And Muckiness (feat. MX World)

    • Inflatable Gravestone.
    • Planet Mu.

  • Joaqu铆n Orellana

    Sacrat谩vica (Las Voces de R铆o Negro)

    • 厂补肠谤补迟鈥嬅♀赌媣颈肠补.
    • Identidata.

  • O YAMA O

    Hakushon

    • Galo.

  • Cosmo Sheldrake

    Plankton

    • Wild Wet World.

  • Johan Arrias

    With Hoses

    • Self Portraits.

  • Temps, Quelle Chris, Wheelchair Sports Camp & Mal Devisa

    at (moves)

    • PARTY GATOR PURGATORY.
    • Bella Union.

  • Elza Soares

    O Canal

    • The Woman At The End Of The World (A Mulher Do Fim Do Mundo).
    • Mais Um.

  • James Acaster鈥檚 mixtape

    • Lonnie Holley

      Looking for All

      • Just Before Music.
      • Dust-to-Digital.

    • katie dey

      data

      • mydata.

    • Kiki Hitomi

      Yellow Story

      • Karma No Kusari.
      • Jahtari.

    • Elza Soares

      顿补苍莽补

      • The Woman At The End Of The World (A Mulher Do Fim Do Mundo).
      • Mais Um Discos.

    • Marnie Stern

      Nothing Left

      • Marnie Stern.

    • THE SOOPER SWAG PROJECT

      Dunk On A Yunk

      • BADD TIMING.

    • The Doyenne

      End Chaos Pt.1

      • END: CHAOS PT. 1.

    • Tredici Bacci

      Vendetta Del Toro (feat. Charlie Looker)

      • 'Amore Per Tutti'.

  • Namian Sidib茅

    Souna

    • Namian Sidib茅.
    • Sahel Sounds.

  • Nakibembe Embaire Group

    160 (with Gabber Modus Operandi & Wahono)

    • Nakibembe Embaire Group.
    • Nyege Nyege Tapes.

  • Conjunto Media Luna

    Conjunto Media Luna

    • Noches de Media Luna.
    • Little Beat More.

  • A wave, a mouth

    A Kiss and a Sting

    • King Lee.
    • Dragon鈥檚 Eye Recordings.

  • Acoustic studies for Sardinian Bells

    1 (Acoustic studies for Sardinian Bells)

    • Giacomo Salis & Paolo Sanna.

  • Gonxlae

    Trance Induction Song

    • Taa! - Our Language May Be Dying, but Our Voices Remain.
    • Glitterbeat Records.

  • Ib茫 Huni Kuin & Marco Scarassatti

    Haw膿 Matsi Kawanai

    • Ni yuxib奴 xin茫 rewe.
    • sirr-ecords.

  • Mt Fuyu

    Close2U

    • A Mirror To Weave.

  • Martin K眉chen & Sophie Agnel

    The Gould Passage

    • Detour Tunnels of Light.
    • thanatosis.

Broadcast

  • Fri 19 May 2023 23:00
    麻豆约拍 Radio 3

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