No Pain In Pop

I Think I Lost My Headache

Photo: Peter O’Grady

To clarify, that’s not Dan Avery standing there amid the leaves, staring wist-prone through compromising lids out into the half-light and the near-distance. Dan Avery is Stopmakingme, a favourite DJ and ally of NPIP’s who has gathered what we hope will be the first in a windfall of mixes for us and you this blustery evening.

“It’s nice to be asked to make a series of mixes of stuff that I could never get away with on a dancefloor. I hope for each one to have a slightly different feel.

“/Loveless/ is my favourite record ever made. This first mix I think reflects that.”

We’d say so. ‘I Think I Lost My Headache’ commits nine-strong to one giddy glide, faltering, wallfloral propulsions that ache with the gazing rhythm of a summer in full throe.

Stopmakingme – I Think I Lost My Headache (NPIP0001)

Bound more for the bedroom than the ball, Avery hones a decency common to acts that seem as locked into the gawky pallor of Shields’ outfit as they are the drive of NEU! and Dinger’s motorik beat, jams sliding cooly into each other before lusty paws meet mock-accidental ‘round the half hour mark, fingers clasping tentative together, eyes that don’t dare to look down but will soften and subside, hopelessly, into shared wells of lash-batted recognition.

‘I Think I Lost My Headache’ is made of:

One Little Plane – ‘Lotus Flower’

Eine Kleine Nacht Musik – ‘Besuchen Sie Mich Einmal’

Mark E – ‘Slave 1’

Wooden Shjips – ‘Shrinking Moon For You’

Muscleheads – ‘Phosphorescence’

Death In Vegas – ‘Ein Fur De Damen’

Japancakes – ‘Soon’ (Ricardo Tobar Mix)

A Sunny Day In Glasgow – ‘No.6 von Karman Street’

Primal Scream – ‘Autobahn 66’

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