Merry Christmas! Here are some notes (when I can be arsed to write them) on the twenty-third 'Secret Sauces Radio' mix - a fun-filled Christmas spectacular - which can be listened to on Mixcloud here ... SECRET SAUCES RADIO INTRO IDENT Jackass "Santa Colonic" sample 1) R.E.M. - Ghost Reindeer In The Sky 2) THE FLAMING LIPS - Christmas At The Zoo 3) ZOOGZ RIFT - Santa's On A Diet 4) DESCENDENTS - Christmas Vacation 5) X - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town 6) THE FALL - No Xmas For

The tale of the unreleased album from Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong as seen in the pages of the NME... If you read the NME cover-to-cover every week in the mid-to-late-noughties, you’d be familiar with the music now known - uncharitably - as 'landfill indie'. Some take offence to this term - whether it be the bands themselves (understandably), or the fans who grew up with these tunes as their soundtrack. It’s somewhat of an unfair categorisation, as the timeframe includes s

Or ‘How Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys botched their 90s revival’... The Beach Boys’ career is littered with unreleased and unfinished albums, as is many of the individual members’ solo careers. A few of these albums have taken on legendary status, no more so than 1967’s Smile , which still receives rabid attention and discussion despite it being ‘finished’ in 2004 by Brian Wilson, and given an official reconstruction from the original Beach Boys recordings in 2011. Other un

To celebrate the two month anniversary of SECRET SAUCES: ISSUE TWO, we present a 3-zine box set. Including a remastered edition of Issue Two, another zine of outtakes, handwritten early 'demo' drafts and alternate versions, and a third zine of a transcript of Issue Two being performed live at Brixton Academy (men's toilets) in London, September 2025. Out on November 15th, you can pre-order at the shop here . Here's a run-down of the four different editions you can purchase...

Five whole months on from Issue One, the second issue of SECRET SAUCES music fanzine... SECRET SAUCES: SECOND COMING is back from the...

I’m very excited to say that the great RRPL magazine has used my Secret Sauces fanzine article about their March exhibition at the...

Here are some notes (when I can be arsed to write them) on the twenty-second 'Secret Sauces Radio' mix, which can be listened to on Mixcloud here ... SECRET SAUCES RADIO INTRO IDENT 1) DJ SHADOW - Hardcore (Instrumental) Hip Hop 2) ASIA BORN - Send Them (Instrumental) 3) BEASTIE BOYS - 33% God 4) PUBLIC ENEMY - War At 33⅓ 5) BOO-YA T.R.I.B.E. - Psyko Funk (Remix) 6) TWIGY FEAT. DEV LARGE - 聖戦 Part II 7) DJ KRUSH - A Whim 8) DE LA SOUL - Millie Pulled A Pistol On Santa (Full M

Here's a 'demos' special - one hour of demos mainly found on deluxe editions, box sets and compilations. Many of these didn't progress past the demo stage, and the ones that did get re-recorded were often changed drastically. Here are some notes on the twenty-first 'Secret Sauces Radio' mix, which can be listened to on Mixcloud here ... SECRET SAUCES RADIO INTRO IDENT Chris Morris 'Loose Ends' 1988 Demo sample In 1988, Chris Morris sent in an eight minute demo tape to BBC R

Here are some notes on the twentieth 'Secret Sauces Radio' mix, which can be listened to on Mixcloud here ... SECRET SAUCES RADIO INTRO IDENT The La's German interview excerpt A bizarre interview after a performance of Feelin' on German TV. What do they think about Beebra? Watch it here . 1) JONI MITCHELL - Cotton Avenue The opening track on Joni's 1977 LP 'Don Juan's Reckless Daughter', this track has an overture at the beginning on the album, which has been snipped off here

Outtakes are a lot of fun for record nerds. Tracks recorded during sessions, passed on for the album or b-side and often abandoned until years later when a compilation or box set is being compiled. Some were clearly abandoned for a reason, but a lot of them are actually great. Here's an hours' sampling of some good ones. Here are some notes on this special nineteenth 'Secret Sauces Radio' mix, which can be listened to on Mixcloud here ... SECRET SAUCES INTRO IDENT Trigger Ha

Here are some notes (when I can be arsed to write them) on the eighteenth 'Secret Sauces Radio' mix, which can be listened to on Mixcloud here ... SECRET SAUCES RAIO INTRO IDENT Drew Steele - Don't Worry We Won't Blow It 1) RIDE - Like A Daydream 2) THE STONE ROSES - Daybreak 3) TAKAGI KAN - Koi No Formula (Brixton Bass 12" Mix) Velvert Turner - L.A. (A Reminder) 4) SAVAGE REPUBLIC - Mobilization 5) THOMAS LEER - Kings Of Sham 6) THE LAST EMPEROR - The Monolith 7) VIVIEN GOLD

The story of the short-lived Prince Paul imprint from 1991... Prince Paul, the Stetsasonic DJ and legendary producer with De La Soul, was...

A swarm of bees! One hour of some good b-sides. Here are some notes on the seventeenth 'Secret Sauces Radio' mix, which can be listened to on Mixcloud here ... SECRET SAUCES RADIO INTRO IDENT Jackass "The Beekini" sample A very early Jackass clip, from the first season on MTV back in 2000. Johnny Knoxville gets his crotch covered in bees! Watch the full clip here . 1) BUZZCOCKS - Oh Shit! The b-side to the 1978 classic single 'What Do I Get?'. Both sides of the single subseq

Here are some notes on the sixteenth 'Secret Sauces Radio' mix, which can be listened to on Mixcloud here ... SECRET SAUCES RADIO INTRO IDENT Some Kind Of Monster sample In 2001, Metallica's bassist Jason Newsted focking left the band, just before they were about to record their next LP. Initial recording sessions at the Presidio barracks proved fruitless, and James Hetfield soon entered rehab for a long period. Upon his return, the band started their next LP from scratch as

"Now That's What I Call Feel-Good Summer-Time Sing-Along Anthems!" This one's for anyone else who is dying in this disgusting UK heat. Here are some notes on the fifteenth 'Secret Sauces Radio' mix, which can be listened to on Mixcloud here ... SECRET SAUCES RADIO INTRO IDENT Sexy Beast opening scene sample A snippet from the opening scene of Jonathan Glazer's directorial debut, the classic Sexy Beast from 2000 starring Ray Winstone and Ben Kingsley. Watch the trailer here .

Here are some notes on the fourteenth 'Secret Sauces Radio' mix, which can be listened to on Mixcloud here ... SECRET SAUCES RADIO INTRO IDENT Pete Townshend angry onstage at the Long Beach Arena 1971 To open up their four-CD thirty year retrospective box set, 'Thirty Years of Maximum R&B', The Who chose a snippet of Pete Townshend angry on stage at Long Beach Arena in Long Beach, CA on the 10th December 19871. Here 'Tis. 1) CHRIS BELL - I Got Kinda Lost Chris Bell co-founded

It's a live special for the thirteenth 'Secret Sauces Radio' mix, a nice head-gig with 15 bands on the bill on a revolving stage like they had at Live Aid (that also time travels)... or, if you lack the imagination... a selection of live tracks from various records with edits covered up by crowd noise from a rip of a Neil Young live DVD. Here are some notes on the show, which can be listened to on Mixcloud here ... 1) THE CLASH - Complete Control Live at Bonds International

Here are some notes on the twelfth 'Secret Sauces Radio' mix, which can be listened to on Mixcloud here ... SECRET SAUCES RADIO INTRO IDENT Man With A Pigeon Living On His Head sample He has a pigeon who lives on his head and he has resigned himself to that fate. I first saw this uploaded by the BBC Archive a few years back, but I can't find an upload from them anymore. Here 's someone else who has uploaded it. 1) THE SONICS - Good Golly Miss Molly First made famous by Little

Here are some notes on the eleventh 'Secret Sauces Radio' mix, a special 'covers' edition, which can be listened to on Mixcloud here ... SECRET SAUCES RADIO INTRO IDENT Dawn Of The Dead (2004) Sample A sample from Zack Snyder & James Gunn's 'cover' of George A. Romero's 'Dawn of the Dead'. It's very different from the original, and nowhere near as good. Make your own mind up and watch it all on YouTube here . 1) THE BREEDERS - Shocker In Gloomtown From The Breeders' 1994 EP '

A (very) brief history of SST: SST Records was founded by Black Flag leader Greg Ginn to put out their first 7” (Nervous Breakdown)...