TRACKLISTING. MONDAY 19/12/2011

Ahead of Tom playing his favourite picks from the Introducing archive next week, we’ve got one last normal show of 2011 to bring you. However, ‘normal’ is a word we like to avoid at Introducing, given that it is often conjunctive with dullness and drudgery- exactly the opposite of what we offer on Fresh On The Net.

So that’s why on tonight’s show you’ll hear an array of weird and wonderful sounds, right through from Crash & The Bandicoots’ twisted electro-pop on ‘Emily’ to Mount Fabric’s impressive proggy adventurism on ‘Squelettes’.

Taking the biscuit tonight though has to be Mishaped Pearls, who bring a swooning piece of mythical escapism to the table in ‘Creature Of Compromise’, with verses sung in medieval Italian by the beguiling voice of Manuela Schütte.

As esoteric a mix as you’re likely to find on the radio in tonight’s show then- where else are you going to hear a track featuring medieval Italian next to the positively hyper-active Dub Sharma remix of Dhanush’s ‘Why This Kolaveri Di’? (Props to the unfailing brain of Asian Network’s Bobby Friction for recommending that to us).

Other tracks for your gratification include ‘Timber! Timber!’ from Midnight Mile, which inspires equal amounts of joy and despair in our hearts– joy because it’s a superbly strong song but despair because it heralds a, hopefully brief, break in the band’s activities.

Elsewhere there’s ‘Drunk Wine Bluff’, a vintage offering from The Good Rebels, a band out of LA who know exactly how to pillage the classic British rock canon in all the right ways.

And ‘Jellyfish’ a typically irresistible piece of fuzz-drenched garage rock from the Glaswegian three-piece Paws- you can practically smell the sweaty room in which it was no doubt created coming through the speakers. Delicious.

Don’t forget you can catch up on iPlayer via the links on our home page, as well as subscribe to our podcast to get an albums worth of tracks from this weekend’s two terrific shows.

Nico Franks, Intern
BBC 6 Music Introducing

TOTEM TERRORS - 142083 (Trains)
http://totemterrors.bandcamp.com

THE TWILIGHT SAD - Sick
http://stereogum.com/848871/the-twilight-sad-sick-stereogum-premiere/mp3s

HAILEY BEAVIS - Patience
http://www.myspace.com/haileybeavis

KING OF SPAIN - Fighting Bears
http://kingofspainuk.bandcamp.com

ICKY DOOME - Epikoininoun
http://soundcloud.com/ickydoome

CROWNS - Kissing Gates
http://crownsband.com/music

MOUNT FABRIC - Squelettes
http://soundcloud.com/mount-fabric

MOTHERHOOD - Heat Within Mourning
http://soundcloud.com/motherhood-music

PHANTOM LIMB - The Pines
http://soundcloud.com/naimedge

BROKEN HANDS - Brother
http://soundcloud.com/aedrecords/broken-hands-brother
http://brokenhands.co.uk

FEARNE - Closer
http://facebook.com/fearnemusic

FANTASY RAINBOW - Youth Forever
http://fantasyrainbow.bandcamp.com

THE GOOD REBELS - Drunk Wine Bluff
http://soundcloud.com/thegoodrebels

HUW STEPHENS TIP
DECIBELS - The Lesser
http://decibels.tv

HERO & LEANDER - Collider
http://heroandleander.org

MIDNIGHT MILE - Timber! Timber!
http://istartedthefire.co.uk

RKC - Kittens Become Cats
http://rkcmusic.com

CRASH AND THE BANDICOOTS - Emily
http://crashandthebandicoots.bandcamp.com

BOBBY FRICTION TIP
DHANUSH - Why This Kolaveri Di (Dub Sharma Remix)
http://soundcloud.com/dubsharma

MISHAPED PEARLS - Creature of Compromise
http://mishapedpearls.org
http://soundcloud.com/ospcad-hotmail-com

THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT
THE LAKE POETS - 1996
http://thelakepoets.com

EDDY TOURBILLION - Rain Drops
http://eddytourbillion.bandcamp.com

RUTH BARNES TIP 1
DEATH RATTLE - The Dig
http://deathrattle.tv

RUTH BARNES TIP 2
DOMINIQUE YOUNG UNIQUE - Life Of A Party
http://dominiqueyoungunique.com

THE SOAP COMPANY - Danger
http://soundcloud.com/thesoapcompany

PAWS - Jellyfish
http://facebook.com/wehavepaws

OUR PEOPLE VERSUS YOURS - Lights
http://facebook.com/ourpeopleversusyours

MOSCOW YOUTH CULT - Iris
http://soundcloud.com/myc