Mixing It: Classic or Dud?

its pretty good. very soothing anyway.

definately worth giving a go. guess it is a bit wire ish, but for national radio, its still nice toh ave access to this stuff. the problem with the witre is that you only have text based desciprtions of the msuic, obviously, so you cant decide then and there whether its shitm, at lewast with mixing it theres no deception about it.... late junction is ok but gets a bit ethno.

i used to listen to it on Mondays, but i think it's on Saturdays now which is super-inconvient. they used to play a good range of stuff, and the two presenters were hilarious in an unintentional way.

I regularly listened to Mixing It from about circa Autumn 1993 onwards - throughout the rest of the 90s when it was on a weekday: on Monday evenings at 10.45pm.

It can be described as a sort of The Wire on the radio, they play a track then some analysis and background info/ and chat between the two DJs - sometimes I enjoyed the friendly banter to why one of them liked something and the other didn't - they also do interviews with artists, and special scene reports like going to Berlin or Vienna - and some weeks there are recordings of recent live events.

Then Mixing It switched to Saturday night around 1999 or 2000 - and I did not listen to many shows.

Then it switched to Sunday evenings - earlier this year - however it now clashes with one of the few decent shows on Xfm radio station - Flo-Motion with Nick Luscombe: Xfm Flo-Motion 3 hours of electronic music - IDM, ambient, deep house and some drum n bass. From 9pm to Midnight.

Christ... what DJ Martian said.

Listened intermittently from '92 to '99, gave up when they switched it to weekends. Introduced me to Aphex, Penderecki, Stina N, etc. There was a fabulous film music special back in '98 or so which I still have on MD somewhere. They're over-fond of Peter Gabriel though.

Also Robert Sandall is a fuckwit retard scumbag peabrain. Other guy's OK. Title = dire. I never listen, to be honest. But it's a good thing, I guess.

There's a hilarious Nurse With Wound track called "Think jazz, think punk attitude" (its on the John Balance 'benefit' rec 'Foxtrot') that samples Sandall talking utter shite abt NWW. I don't think his studio chum is much better, to be honest. I always assumed that these two fuckwits got the gig not because they know much abt music but because they have acceptably posh middle-class Radio 3 voices.

Isn't Sandall the pop music correspondent for one of the broadsheets? This should tell you all you need to know (cf. Tom Cox, Caroline Sullivan). Mark Russell is some kind of musicologist who pays the rent by doing TV ad music (if you hear something that's a touch Ovally, or a teensy bit Portishead, or has a whiff of Grooverider about it, without it being any of those people, it's likely to be something he's cooked up).

>>> Christ... what DJ Martian said.

Grate comedy moment of 2001.

Mixing It is gone as of February 9th. I'm going to miss it, haven't been listening for more than 2 years on and off but I really got into it, great little selection of acts etc. The presenters could grate, but they weren't afraid of playing something. Anyone else tune in regularly?

Suppose I'll have to tap in Resonance for something similar now. Is there anything else on the Beeb that's good for new music? What's Stuart Maconie like?

I BLAME MARCELLO

It's back

NOW !

11pm on Resonance FM
http://www.resonancefm.com/listings/20070228.html