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Playlist | Listening Parties #1 Music for Hibernation

Posted on April 17, 2023 - 10:06 am by
EDITION 1 MUSIC OF HIBERNATION

Edition #1: Music for Hibernation

23/01 at the Common Ground

 

What What What – Caoimhin O Raghallaigh

Rag Yaman – Stephen Day

Aguas de Marco – Antonio Carlos Jobim, Elis Regina

Le onde – Ludovico Einaudi

Al Mediodia – Erik Truffaz, Murcof

The Sweetest days of September – The Stockholm Quartet

Two Thousand and Seventeen – Four Tet

Until the Morning – Thievery Corporation

Kenaston – Chilly Gonzales

Cuatro Piezas del Ballet Cascanueces op.71: Danza del Hada de Azucar (Tchaikovsky) – Ira Levin

Miss You – Trentemoller

Blackwaterside – Sandy Denny

Learig – Sophie Janna

Torsa – Lau

Get Direct – Joan as Police Woman

Happiness is Easy – Talk Talk

Lonely (feat. Lorine Chia) – Jamila Woods, Lorine Chia

We Could Have a Meadow – Rosie Caldecott

Kumiutamu – Tadao Sawai *

La Mer – Samarabalouf *

Yeti – Theo *

*Not available on Spotify but played on the night

Playlist I Listening Parties #9 Music of the Screen

Posted on March 1, 2021 - 2:43 pm by
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Listening Parties are a space to share the music you’re passionate about. Here's the playlist with the music played at the February 2021 Edition: Music of the Screen.

If, like us, you’ve been watching more films than usual during lockdown, get listening to the music that makes them. We’re partnering with two local film heroes, The Ultimate Picture Palace and Film Oxford, to delve into the treasure trove of music for & from the movies. What film soundtracks have made it into your top playlists? What tracks from films do you wish were better known? Share with us your best film music finds! Our track for starters, chosen by The Ultimate Picture Palace, is “Love” by Mica Levi from the soundtrack to Under The Skin.

Playlist I Listening Parties #8: Alternative Midwinter Tunes

Posted on December 16, 2020 - 9:00 pm by
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Listening Parties are a space to share the music you’re passionate about. Here's the playlist with the music played at the December 2020 Edition: Alternative Midwinter Tunes (online).

‘Tis the season for those same old festive classics to be rolled out, when Slade suddenly becomes inescapable on every supermarket foray, met with delight and dismay in equal parts. 

We’re countering this by asking for your favourite alternative seasonal songs – ridiculous remixes, anti-festive anthems, unusual family classics…

Our track for starters is: Let It Snow by Tin Men & The Telephone

 

 

Not on Spotify;

 

Playlist Jun’20 I Listening Parties #7

Posted on June 19, 2020 - 10:34 am by
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Listening Parties are a space to share the music you’re passionate about. Here's the playlist with the music played at the June 2020 Edition: Music of Laughter (online)
 

I Am The Walrus  – The Beatles
The Elements  –  Tom Lehrer
Little Cloud  –  The Incredible String Band
Shake It Up  –  Divine
Ivor Cutler –   Gravity begins at home
Jordan For President  –  Louis Jordan
Homegrown Tomatoes  –  Guy Clarke
Particle Man  –  They Might Be Giants
The Dawn – Osibisa
Endless – Kurt Elling
Jesus Was Way Cool  –  King Missile
Greatest Mother Fucker – John Grant
B For Bang Rewires The Beatles – Being for the benefit of Mr.Kite
Apanhei te Cavaquinho (Ernesto Nazareth cover)  –  Bollani and Carstensen
Adriano Adawale with AKA Trio   

Playlist Apr’20 I Listening Parties #6

Posted on April 14, 2020 - 10:20 am by
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Listening Parties are a space to share the music you’re passionate about. Here's the playlist with the music played at our April 2020 Edition #6 Music of Resiliance (online)

 

Joy Division – Love Will Tear us Apart

Calle 13 – Latinoamérica

Rafiq Bhatia – Lonely Woman

Nan Ajram – Aam Betaala' Feek

Purple Mountain – That's just the way I feel

Bjork – Jóga

Macklemore – Good Old Days (feat. Kesha)

Jurgen Paape – So Weit Wie Noch Nie

Natacha Atlas – Desh: Hallelujah

Public Enemy – Fear of a Black Planet

Midnight Oil – Maranlinga

Mariza – Melhor de Mim

Blog Apr’20 | Tips For Great Listening

Posted on April 3, 2020 - 3:06 pm by
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We're looking forward to taking Listening Parties online. Normally we have our fabulous event partners Oxford Audio Consultants there making all your tracks sound amazing, so we've asked them to share their top tips on how you can get the best out of what you have at home.

7 – FREE TIPS

  1. Clean connections by plugging and unplugging all cables a few times – turn off equipment first!
  2. Make sure speakers are solidly supported and don’t wobble about.
  3. Use decent quality cables for interconnects and speakers, even digital cables make a difference.
  4. Streamers, Amps, CD players and especially Turntables need to be on rigid supports away from speakers too.
  5. Don’t stack equipment on top of each other, give it space.
  6. Use a good quality mains block if you are plugging multiple components into one mains socket.
  7. Listen in a triangle! Sit centrally and the same distance away as the speakers are apart – and same height.

7 – VALUE UPGRADES

  • Add a headphone amp between your phone or laptop and headphones.  

Dragonfly Black £89.  Dragonfly Red £169 £149 Special OFFER.  Chord Mojo £399 £299 Special OFFER.

  • Upgrade your record player cartridge.

Ortofon 2M Red £95. Ortofon 2M Blue £185.  Dynavector MC10X5 Mk2 £549.

  • Upgrade your headphones.

Sennheiser True Wireless In-ear £269 £179 Special OFFER.  Bowers & Wilkins PX noise-cancelling wireless Over-ear £329.  Focal Elegia Audiophile Over-ear  £799.

  • Upgrade your speaker cables.

Chord C-Screen Speaker Cable 2 x 3metres with plugs  £39.  Chord Odyssey X Speaker Cable 2 x 3metres with plugs  £122.  Chord SignatureXL Speaker Cable 2 x 3metres with plugs  £900.

  • Upgrade your Interconnect cable to your amp.

Audioquest Tower RCA phono 1metre pair.  £25.  Chord Clearway RCA phono 1 metre pair.  £89.  Chord Epic Analogue RCA phono 1 metre pair.  £400.

  • Add a turntable.

Rega Planar 1 complete  £249.  Rega Planar 3 complete  £649.  Michell Gyro SE  £1,836.

  • Add a Wireless Speaker.

Naim Mu-so Qb  £649  £399 Special OFFER.  Devialet Phantom Reactor 600  £990.  Bowers & Wilkins Formation DUO Pair.  £3,499.

 

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Playlist Jan’20 | Listening Parties #5

Posted on January 22, 2020 - 3:25 pm by
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Listening Parties are a space to share the music you’re passionate about. Here's the playlist with the music played at our January 2020 Edition. Edition #5 Music of Transitions

Kroke – Time

Neu! – Dancing

Christina Pluhar – Via Crucis

Kano – Got My Brandy, Got My Beats

Alexis Ffrench – The Last Post

Mark-Anthony Turnage – Bellamy

Jozef Van Wissem, SQURL – The Taste of Blood

Rev Magnetic – Sunny Winfy Winter Morning (Rainbows Spanning The Valley)

New Order – In A Lonely Place

Young Jesus – For Nana

Aimee Mann – Invisible Ink

 

(Not on Spotify)

Wolfgam Voigt – Peter Michael Hamel's Colours of Time (Deepchord's Carolina Forest Mix)

The Plastic People of The Universe – Prasinec

Terre Thaemlitz – A Crippled Left Wing Soars With The Right (Steal This Record remix)

Forest 404 – Episode 1. The Sumatran rainforest

Clams Casino – One Last Thing

 

 

 

 

 

 

Playlist August’19 | Listening Parties #3

Posted on August 5, 2019 - 10:50 am by
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Listening Parties are a new series of regular events, inviting you to share your favourite music with us and other music enthusiasts. Here you can follow what is played and listened at each Listening Party, as we'll be uploading the Playlists that were born out of each event. You can see the tracks listed below and listen to the playlist by clicking on the player on the right. And if you get inspired, join us next time and share the music you are passionate about.

Edition #3: Music of Adventure
Upcycled Sounds Studio (31/07/2019)

Suprachiasmatic Nuclei (SCN) – Zeitgeber

Northwest Passage – Stan Rogers

Never Stops, Never Rests, Never Ends – Misty's Big Adventure

Observer (Natalie's Song) – Joni Void

Hatur – Hekla

A Huge Evergrowing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre Of The Ultraworld – The Orb

Butterflies – Little Dragon

Flight From Ashiya – Kaleidoscope

Marche Dans Le Temps – Catherine Lara

Before The Beginning – John Frusciante 

Over – GusGus

Aanandam – Debashish Bhattacharya

**Not on Spotify**

Philip Henry: Domino Road (album: Truth North) 

Human Chain (aka Django Bates) Golden Slumbers  (album: Human Chain, 1986)