FYI - from the NME today!
BABY DIDDY
CHRIS MORRIS' controversial radio series BLUE JAM is finally set to be
released on CD for the very first time.
As well as being something of a unique event in its original broadcast slot
on Radio 1, this represents something of a departure for the normally
exclusively musical Warp label. "All the people over here have been fans for
a long time," explained a spokesman for the label. "It was long process
getting it licensed - it's taken over three years. His musical taste is very
well-informed, however, and he was quite open to the kind of stuff that we
do here."
"We're not looking at it just a Warp record," added the spokesman. "It's
much wider than that. It's a thinking person's comedy album."
The show, which was originally commissioned and broadcast in the wake of
Morris' Channel 4 current affairs satire show 'Brasseye', represented one of
the first spoken word programmes on Radio 1 for quite some years. Featuring
a collage of ambient tracks from the likes of Labradford, Brian Eno and
Aphex Twin, the electronic music acts as an atmospheric backdrop to Morris'
increasingly surreal sense of humour. The album, a compilation of the best
sketches from the original Radio 1 broadcasts, also includes a number of
skits on famous Radio 1 DJs. "The Chris Moyles one is a killer," said the
spokesperson. "They're all there - Mary Anne Hobbs, Steve Lamacq, Jo Whiley.
It's a surreal vision of that DJ."
However, the possibility of Warp branching out into light entertainment in a
big way remains unlikely. "It's a one-off; we're still very much a music
company," said the spokesperson. "Because he's such an original he seemed
like one of our artists. He's a bit of a maverick." Blue Jam is released
through Warp on October 23rd
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