About this Kane FM story
Feed Your Head hurtling towards your radio, or whatever contraption you use to tune in, this coming Sunday between 11:00 and 13:00.
Your entertainment comes in the form of your hosts, The Hutchinson Brothers (local conjurers) along with The Long Champs, (smoke and mirror expert extraordinaire).
The Long Champs aka Lloyd Jones
It started with … a huge statement of intent with his first release, The Long Champs - Y Llwynog. Which funnily enough translates into ‘I love FYH with the Hutchinson Brothers”.
It’s an acid house/hollywood/boy done good type of deal in becoming the brains and genius behind one of the biggest soundtracks and styles to explode in 2016. The track was initially a bit of a secret, that couldn’t be stopped and grew everywhere like a massive grin.
Grant Williams of eclectics, recently interviewed the main characters involved in the release of Y Llwynog, he captured the essence, the build up pre-release and the subsequent joy post release… fuller versions on the interviews below can be read in more detail here.
Duncan Gray-Tici Taci.
” I get sent quite a lot of tracks by artists who would like to release on tici taci, and of course that’s very flattering, but a lot of the time I have to turn those tracks down because they sound too straightforward. It’s great that technology is giving a greater number of people the opportunity to make tracks but that doesn’t always translate to really original material. With Lloyd that’s not an issue. Y Llwynog is just the first of many great and very original sounding tracks he’ll be releasing - I am grateful to Delyth for giving the process a helping hand. As soon as I heard Y Llwynog I knew it was ideal for the label - and right away I could hear that it was perfect for a remix by Kieran Holden. Then Rich Lane weighed in with his remix and the story was complete. From a hidden demo to Radio 1 airplay in just a few short months, with support from Andrew Weatherall, Sean Johnston, Ewan Pearson and many other fine DJs. It’s a success story to warm the heart.”
Rich Lane - Cotton Bud
“Exactly one year before at the Carcassone festival my good friend Lloyd Jones found out that his sneaky wife Delyth had passed a load of demos of his music to myself for an opinion.
He had mentioned that he ‘dabbled’ before but I had no idea he had been learning his craft so thoroughly, and I was blown away by the range and talent on that memory stick. I had to then sneakily get a second opinion myself from my trusted second set of ears, Duncan Gray from Tici Taci. He was mightily impressed too, and one track in particular ‘Y Llwynog’ was screaming out for release on his fine label. So he and I and label star Kieran Holden all set about doing a remix each.This was the news that Lloyd got whilst in France (on the same day that he also lost his passport - talk about a rollercoaster!).
The original is a quirky masterpiece but also instrumental and I like a bit of vocal on my remixes if possible - so I asked Lloyd and Delyth to record Del saying the last lines of the eponymous foxy poem by R Williams Parry (in English - their choice!). She famously did this in about 10 seconds on Lloyd’s laptop whilst cooking the weekly Sunday roast, and her dulcet South Walian tones fitted the track perfectly.
ALFOS dropped this remix for the first time at Salford in February. That was my personal highlight of the year - Del, the Belle of The Ball, up on the podium whilst her voice rang out of the speakers, and the ever humble Lloyd down on the dancefloor taking it all in. And a massive sense of thankfulness and celebration all round.”
Sean Johnstone - ALFOS
“Other than to say I have played it a fair few times - it has created a lot of happiness, rocks castles and Adriatic boat parties, I’m not sure what more I could add..”
Ed Mahon - Cowbell
“A great track made by great people. Eternally popular and as close to an Alfos anthem as you’ll get, I’ve never heard them play any other track 4 times in one year wherever it is played, whenever and by whomever the reaction is always big love, smiles, grins and great memories.”
Whats in a name?
The name came from that phone call.. Rich Lane and Duncan Gray had ‘Y Llwynog’ they know a thing or two about this stuff… their feedback was WOW get this released. Anyway back to the call, I was sat in a bar in Carcassone, where Andrew Weatherall has his holiday castle and hosts an occasional musical get together… and Dunc rang me, he told me he wanted to release the track on Tici Taci, and he wanted to know what name to release it under. I looked around, the bar we were in was called The Long Champs, so thats what I picked.. Had I known what I know now, and that I would be releasing more tracks, I probably would have picked something else!!
Then what?
After Y Llwynog had taken off The Long Champs have been in demand, on remix duty and also follow up releases, the latest release Smoke & Mirrors is out now on Tici Taci.
Did you miss/hear last weeks show? Catch up now..