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Black Box
Hosted by Simon Saint-Simon · ENGLISH
Failed 80's French pop star Simon Saint-Simon takes you a'rambling along the primrose path of his media landscape, if you can find your way through the rêves of a dribblling idiot with a leaky gusset. In this black sex comedy let mistakes become magic and destinations dissolute oasis'
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Black Box 22. The Gelding Of the Lily.
Jun 27, 2012Tap to summarizeBB22. The Gelding of the Lily by Simon Saint-Simon Designed and composed by Simon Saint-Simon Peni-ultimato. The beginning of the end. Second to last of the interstellar mohawks. Enjoy before the impending instruction to leave earth, surfing the solar slagheap on an endless cosmic vacation...aww \/\/hatever! just bang up & slay the shits. Sounds: 01 Bandulu - Revelation 02 Peter Dundov - Distant Shores 03 The KLF - Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard 04 D'Eon - Prochaine Station 05 Glass Candy - Warm in the Winter 06 Lou Reed - Real Good Time Together 07 Machinedrum - Come 1 08 Tiger & Woods - Gin Nation
Transcribe →Black Box 21 :: Numéro Deux (part deux!)
Apr 5, 2012Tap to summarizeBB21 :: Numero Deux (Part Deux!) by Simon Saint-Simon Designed and composed by Simon Saint-Simon The abyss is alive with perversity and inflammation! Sounds: Fasti II - 01 You Lost Your Neon Haze - Altar Eagle 02 Sunday - Echo Lake 03 I Was A Prisoner In Your Skull - Swans 04 Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica 05 Thrusty Bob's Hardcore Lounge - Miranda Sex Garden 06 Discipline - Throbbing Gristle 07 Surface - Pure X 08 Purple Splashz - Actress 09 Dr. Seuss - James Ferraro 10 Conjoined - Demdike Stare 11 Boggy Creek - Bourbonese Qualk 12 Congo - Peter Gordon and the LOLO 13 A Walk - Belong 14 See Birds - Balam Acab 15 In Violet (Salem Remix) - Health
Transcribe →Black Box 20 :: Numéro Deux
Jan 15, 2012Tap to summarizeDesigned and composed by Simon Saint-Simon 'Posse' by Brothers Bear Arms and their groopies. Simon Saint-Simon and pals are accompanied by the self-styled executioners of 'guilt-edge' pre-hardcore Brothers Bear Arms for a rambunctious re-live of TwentyLeven. Hold on to your twats! It's going to be a zany, zip open funride to Gagtown! Sounds: Fasti I - 01 Yonkers - Tyler The Creator 02 Where Did The Night Go - Gil Scott Heron 03 Infinity - Jesu 04 Omens And Portents: The Driver - Earth 05 Infinity - Jesu 06 Hoylake Mist - Forest Swords 07 Dancing Gods - Silver Apples 08 In Khartoum - Men's Recovery Project 09 Good Morning Story - Holgar Czukay 10 Showstopper - Gonjasufi 11 Showstopper - Magic Latern 12 You Lost Your Neon Haze - Altar Eagle
Transcribe →Black Box 19 :: Efil4Onket
Aug 7, 2011Tap to summarizeBB19 :: Efil4Onket by Simon Saint-Simon Efil4OnketDesigned and composed by Simon Saint-Simon C Ya Simon Pukey It is with deep regret and sadness that we must confirm to the listenership the departure from The Ark of Simon Clifford Pukey. Not only was he the chief engineer of Black Box and an expert in his field but he was also a dear friend. Not citing ill health as a reason he referred to a desire to pursue more pure and consistent political and philosophical aims with his group Brothers Bear Arms. With this in mind Simon has issued the following statement (referenced in part below) on his Facebook account 'I hereby recognise myself as a sovereign state and here forth remove myself from the digital media light district, severing all ties forthwith. Like all organic creatures I find repose in shadows. I find myself an auratic, autonomous and uncommodifiable individual and refuse any longer to support exploitative frameworks in exchange for vicarious identity & second hand love. Safe voyage my brothers and sisters. The night is long but i will be at your shoulder always. Dont forget.' This is my musical farewell (i only know how to party not how to grieve) at a loss of a dear brother as relevant as Ersnt, Mayakovsky, Bakunin, Cendrars, Kerouac, Levan, Alkan, Fellini, Prince and every other anarcho-disco legend not mentioned. Sounds: 01 Loose Joints - Is It All Over My Face 02 Bobby Konders - Nervous Acid 03 DJ Hell ft. Bryan Ferry - You Can Dance (Carl Craig Remix v.2) 04 Errorsmith and Fiedel - Nous Sommes (MMM Original Mix) 05 Mattias Aguayo - Walter Neff 06 Sandwell District - Silent Servant (Regis edit) 07 Casioware, Chip E and the OGs - I Wanna See You Freak (Like Dis) 08 Allez Allez - Allez Allez (Lindstromm and Prins Thomas Mix) 09 Fresh - Dum Dum Part 2 10 CLS - Can you Feel It 11 Anthony 'Shake' Shakir - The Floor Filler 12 Tensnake - Keep Believin' 13 Hercules and Love Affair - My House 14 Motor City Drum Ensemble - Shine On (Warehouse Dub) 15 Anthony 'Shake' Shakir - Plugged In 16 Rick Wilhite - Drum Pattern and Memory (MM mix)
Transcribe →Black Box 18 :: Annual Report 2010 (Part Un)
Dec 28, 2010Tap to summarizeAnnual Report 2010 Part UnIllustrated by Milla Galea Composed by Simon Saint-Simon On a wintry and treacherous December 17 2010 Simon Saint-Simon was joined by Harrison Prickles in the overtly comfortable, air-conditioned halls of the Heyward Gallery, South Bank, London. Here in front of a partially live audience they met to discuss the years highlights thus far. However neither expected the dead air that ensued to result in their incarceration. A breif relaxation of the ancient sphinctal libel laws means that a show that was quickly banned can now have the first putrescent corpse of its visi-gogging aired here today now. FREE THE RACECASTE 2!! Sounds: (Intro) Daphne Oram - Power Tools Forest Swords - Rattling Cage Gil Scott Heron - I came from a broken home Oneohetrix Point Never - Betrayed in the Octagon Organ Freeman - Laura Jones The Good, The Bad and The Queen - Herculean Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band - Electricity (Beds) Stan Getz - I remember When
Transcribe →Black Box 17 :: Swallows' Pit
Dec 27, 2010Tap to summarizeSwallows' PitIllustrated by Milla Galea Composed by Simon Saint-Simon 3/3 recorded live at Westminster Road Necropolis. Twilight has fallen upon the terminal dawn and no day to speak of lies crooked between atrium panes. Feathers have been spilled upon lost marble flooring but before these petrifications, a lively August swaying brought to fruit the globular and monal last spits of Simonhain which was accompanied, as is the tradition, by the bearing aloft of chairs, arms and other instruments of love. This year the females and males played in honour of Dickie Hyde who came northwards to suprise himself square within the pyramid, laid-bare as he was with gauntlets and down-laden with dumb number. Sounds: 01 Fuck Buttons - Surf Solar 02 Coil - The Snow 03 Sorcerer - Surfing At Midnight (Prins Thomas Miks) 04 LCD Soundsystem - Bye Bye Bayou 05 Moodymann - It's 2 Late 4 U and Me 06 Nosaj Thing - Heart Entire 07 John Robie - Vena Cava 08 Pacific and Loverman - From Outer Space (Moxie edits John Cooper Clarke) 09 Omar feat. Stevie Wonder - I'm Feeling You (Henrik Schwarz Remix) 10 Rocha - Hands of Love 11 Phenomenal Handclap Band - You'll Disappear (Horse Meat Disco Remix) 12 Phoreski - Slow Me Down 13 Professor Genius - Night Games 14 Subway - DBO 15 Holy Fuck - SHT MTN 16 Wire - Three Girl Rumba 'Now summer's tumult through sweet clover has been clasped to the hold I ask you, sizzled brethren, to drop your rates, break water, cease your faring and bubble up sotto voce to just touch Saturn's ring of hearts'. xxx sss
Transcribe →Black Box 16 :: L'Eternel
Nov 7, 2010Tap to summarizeIllustrated by Milla Galea Composed by Simon Saint-Simon 2/3 recorded LIVE at the Frog and Nightmare, as part of Chester's 'Simonhain' festivities celebrating the end of summer, the dead and the return home of a heavily corrupt and compromised political careerist who cares not a jot about the Wales he isn't from. Local bumfunsters 'What Do You Do?' egg-on Simon to loosen the swelling gourd of his glans into the divinely unbalanced ampola of bass bin and tweeter and then leer in character at the salivating throng as they lasciviously ululate at the trough. In a heavy trance this is the midpoint of the rite. Sounds: 01 Justin Vandervolgen - Better Middlands 02 Village People - Fire Island (Horse Meat Disco edit) 03 Everything Everything - Suffragette Suffragette 04 Eyeko Syko - Loverde (Horse Meat Disco 'Eyeko Dyko' edit) 05 Mindless Boogie - Hot Boogie 06 Wu-Tang Clan - Rush 07 Mobb Deep - Shook Ones Pt.II 08 Whitesnake - Still of the Night 09 Todd Rundgren - International Feel 10 Massive Attack - Paradise Circus (Gui Boratto remix) 11 The Crystal Ark - The City Never Sleeps 12 Charlotte Gainsbourg - The Operation (Superpitcher Remix) 13 Ron Hardy - Sensation 14 Ministry - I Wanted To Tell her (Naum Gaubo edit) 15 Moxie - Use Me John 16 C2C4 (Carl Craig) - Specimen 2 (Talking Heads) (Moxie) 17 Radiohead - Reckoner (Nosaj Thing remix) 18 Fuck Buttons - Surf Solar '...And as the universe was spat out circular, with no legs or feet, so it was St.Simon who tore asunder the annular muscle, passed through the mirror and man-made the mortals dance, in the image of the Olympian gods'. xxx sss
Transcribe →Black Box 15 :: No-Place
Oct 17, 2010Tap to summarizeImage by Milla Galea Presented by Simon Saint-Simon There's no place like home, only the wild productions of caves and islands. I hope this helps you sleep in shadows, bathed eyeless in the fire. Recorded live at the Frog and Nightmare (defunct), Chester. Part 1 of 3. Sounds: 01 Space Art - Folkstone Hovercraft 02 Daniel Wang - Like Some Dream 03 Bottin - Sage Oil 04 Heaven 17 - Penthouse To Pavement 05 Blackway - A New Life 06 Bottin - Hot Lizard 07 DJ Kaos - Way Out Pleasure 08 DJ Mujave - Township Funk (Crazy P Remix) 09 Dr. Dunks - Hold me 10 Justin Vandervolgen - Better Middlands xxx sss
Transcribe →Black Box 14 :: La Concha Mi Madre
May 31, 2010Tap to summarizeLa Concha Mi Madre Image by Milla Galea Presented by Simon Saint-Simon Simon Saint-Simon returns to the sanatorium and spa at Bell's End for some r & r after his ordeal at the hands of brown pirates in foreign climbs and stranger waters She sells sea shells... Sounds: 01 Man O'War - The Crown and The Ring (Lament of the Kings) 02 Kavinsky - The Crash 03 Joy Division - Interzone 04 Bizarre Inc. - Such a Feeling 05 Skullflower - I Live in the Bottomless Pit 06 Del Tha Funky Homosapien - Mr. Dobalina 07 The Fall - Printhead 08 Tony Allen - Kilode (Carl Craig Remix) 09 Culoe de Song - The Fallen Siren 10 Bernard Badie - Time Reveals 11 Matias Aguayo - Walter Neff 12 Rocking Horse - Love Do Me Right (rub`n`tug`s rocking arse re-edit) 13 DAF - Der Mussolini Sleep tight my loves. xxx sss
Transcribe →Black Box 13 :: Death Trip Logic
Apr 3, 2010Tap to summarizeDeath Trip Logic (Dance of the Tutuguri) Image by Milla Galea Presented by Simon Saint-Simon Excerpts from 'To have done with the judgement of God', a play by Antonin Artaud. A little death music... Sounds: 01 Harmonia and Eno 76 - Welcome 02 Kristen Hersh - Your Ghost 03 Iron & Wine - Carousel 04 Onoehetrix Point Never - Nobody here (echo jam) 05 Chris Rea - Rain (Peter Visti edit) 06 Fleetwood mac - Keep on Going (Cosmo Vitelli edit) 07 Tame Impala - H.F.G.W. (Canyons drunken rage) 08 Invisible Conga People - Cable Dazed 09 Demdike Stare - Jannisary 10 Ghost Note - Holy Jungle 11 Patti Smith - Ghost Dance (Pocketknife's Arms Out Remix) 12 Exuma - Thirteenth Sunday 13 Faust - The Sad Skinhead 14 Lindstrom and Prins Thomas - I Love You + 100 Love you. Sleep tight. xxx sss
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