The honest truth this time? You want gleam in the gloam? My child I am old and no less difficult than I was as a youth. If you must know I was cleaning up the old lighthouse at Milson’s point, bequeathed to me by the Macquarie family before the second world war (if you didnt know). I found myself one evening in the bulb of said house. There is a rudimentary office in an ingress to the side of the spinning torch, which gives the helmet of the building it's peculiar shape. That night i was picking through the old letters, records and tapes i had stored up there and I was overcome (as much as an autistic little serpent may be) by a crushing sense of both nostalgia and the undone. The achingly beautiful emptiness of this malaise led me to abort the glans of the tower and pace the circular track of the room, in desperate absolution, and then, at its height, it pinned me to the leaded pericarp of the inverted globe itself. The light swung by again and again like the eye of a mentally disabled cyclops trying to peer into my heart or butthole (dependent on the gain of my weep), yet lacking the concentration to get beyond my own carapace. So stuck, surface layer to surface layer, like warm child skin on the burning hot leatherette of mother's old DAF, I stayed, staring out beyond the harbour and the headland into the bright gloom of the warm, depthless Pacific...

Designed and composed by Simon Saint-Simon

The abyss is alive with perversity and inflammation!

Sounds:

Fasti II
-
01 You Lost Your Neon Haze - Altar Eagle
02 Sunday - Echo Lake
03 I Was A Prisoner In Your Skull - Swans
04 Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
05 Thrusty Bob's Hardcore Lounge - Miranda Sex Garden
06 Discipline - Throbbing Gristle
07 Surface - Pure X
08 Purple Splashz - Actress
09 Dr. Seuss - James Ferraro
10 Conjoined - Demdike Stare
11 Boggy Creek - Bourbonese Qualk
12 Congo - Peter Gordon and the LOLO
13 A Walk - Belong
14 See Birds - Balam Acab
15 In Violet (Salem Remix) - Health

Designed and composed by Simon Saint-Simon
'Posse' by Brothers Bear Arms and their groopies.

Simon Saint-Simon and pals are accompanied by the self-styled executioners of 'guilt-edge' pre-hardcore Brothers Bear Arms for a rambunctious re-live of TwentyLeven. Hold on to your twats! It's going to be a zany, zip open funride to Gagtown!

Sounds:

Fasti I
-
01 Yonkers - Tyler The Creator
02 Where Did The Night Go - Gil Scott Heron
03 Infinity - Jesu
04 Omens And Portents: The Driver - Earth
05 Infinity - Jesu
06 Hoylake Mist - Forest Swords
07 Dancing Gods - Silver Apples
08 In Khartoum - Men's Recovery Project
09 Good Morning Story - Holgar Czukay
10 Showstopper - Gonjasufi
11 Showstopper - Magic Latern
12 You Lost Your Neon Haze - Altar Eagle

1. Public Enemy - Live at The Ritz, Manchester
   Still got the flavour. Still the kings.
    
2. Iceage - New Brigade LP
   It only takes 25 minutes girl, if you're punk enuff, if yer punk! These kids just want everything now. You have to applaud their desire when their hit list seems to include the back catalog of Uniton and G.B.H. The Danes are alright for fighting. Oh yeah even if I missed the manc gig by these Warsaw loving youths. They'll be back.
   
   Buy it at Piccadilly.
   Watch a daft viddy fer a bit doe.
    
3. Baxter Dury - Happy Soup
   Dunno if it 'its the 'eights of Cocaine Man but is in the same vein i.e twee, deadpan, kitchen sink romance delivered with a derivative (if more downbeat) kinks-y cockernee eccentricity. Fack orf 'how's yr father?' this is pretty good on it's own, despite the same accent. Catchy as fuck, like a more 'old boozer', less Shoreditch Metronomy. Get. Innit tho.
    
4. Tiger & Woods - Gin Nation - Through The Green Lp - Running back
   
   You know when you REALLY love Tensnake and hoped there were other disco and house heads making music like Tensnake but maybe a bit different and a bit more classic filter-y and sexy repetitive...
   ...I mean if a girl tells you how much she likes your cock repeatedly then that's in no way boring is it?
   
   
5. Mike Simonetti - Song For Luca - Capricorn Rising Lp - Italians Do It Better.
   
   My man. Nobody does it better, cappice? 
6. Wild Nothing - Live At Deaf Institute, MCR.
   
   Full band rounded out the sound beautifully including the heckle 'Everybody's is getting wet'. Never mezzanine snog is the lesson.
   
7. Mass - Cross Purposes - Labour Of Love LP - 4AD
   
   LP about to be re-released and about fucking time. More brit old school new wave doom pls. Black laughs.
   
   
8. Mission Of Burma - Wounded World - onOFFon LP
   
   I love these old cunts so much it makes me want to vom.
   
   
9. Keith Hudson - Flesh of My Skin, Blood Of My Blood
   
   John Peel serialised a Keith Hudson LP when I was a smaller cunt and he has never disappointed me. Shove Bob Marley up your ass pipe, pop reg twats.

Designed and composed by Simon Saint-Simon

C Ya Simon Pukey

It is with deep regret and sadness that we must confirm to the listenership the departure from The Ark of Simon Clifford Pukey. Not only was he the chief engineer of Black Box and an expert in his field but he was also a dear friend.

Not citing ill health as a reason he referred to a desire to pursue more pure and consistent political and philosophical aims with his group Brothers Bear Arms. With this in mind Simon has issued the following statement (referenced in part below) on his Facebook account

'I hereby recognise myself as a sovereign state and here forth remove myself from the digital media light district, severing all ties forthwith. Like all organic creatures I find repose in shadows. I find myself an auratic, autonomous and uncommodifiable individual and refuse any longer to support exploitative frameworks in exchange for vicarious identity & second hand love. Safe voyage my brothers and sisters. The night is long but i will be at your shoulder always. Dont forget.'

This is my musical farewell (i only know how to party not how to grieve) at a loss of a dear brother as relevant as Ersnt, Mayakovsky, Bakunin, Cendrars, Kerouac, Levan, Alkan, Fellini, Prince and every other anarcho-disco legend not mentioned.

Sounds:
01 Loose Joints - Is It All Over My Face
02 Bobby Konders - Nervous Acid
03 DJ Hell ft. Bryan Ferry - You Can Dance (Carl Craig Remix v.2)
04 Errorsmith and Fiedel - Nous Sommes (MMM Original Mix)
05 Mattias Aguayo - Walter Neff
06 Sandwell District - Silent Servant (Regis edit)
07 Casioware, Chip E and the OGs - I Wanna See You Freak (Like Dis)
08 Allez Allez - Allez Allez (Lindstromm and Prins Thomas Mix)
09 Fresh - Dum Dum Part 2
10 CLS - Can you Feel It
11 Anthony 'Shake' Shakir - The Floor Filler
12 Tensnake - Keep Believin'
13 Hercules and Love Affair - My House
14 Motor City Drum Ensemble - Shine On (Warehouse Dub)
15 Anthony 'Shake' Shakir - Plugged In
16 Rick Wilhite - Drum Pattern and Memory (MM mix)

Illustrated by Milla Galea
Composed by Simon Saint-Simon

On a wintry and treacherous December 17 2010 Simon Saint-Simon was joined by Harrison Prickles in the overtly comfortable, air-conditioned halls of the Heyward Gallery, South Bank, London. Here in front of a partially live audience they met to discuss the years highlights thus far. However neither expected the dead air that ensued to result in their incarceration. A breif relaxation of the ancient sphinctal libel laws means that a show that was quickly banned can now have the first putrescent corpse of its visi-gogging aired here today now. FREE THE RACECASTE 2!!

Sounds:
(Intro) Daphne Oram - Power Tools

Forest Swords - Rattling Cage
Gil Scott Heron - I came from a broken home
Oneohetrix Point Never - Betrayed in the Octagon
Organ Freeman - Laura Jones
The Good, The Bad and The Queen - Herculean
Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band - Electricity

(Beds) Stan Getz - I remember When