VARIOUS – Unlock Your Mind With Morning Glory Compiled by James Endeacott – 2LP – ‘Sunbeam Orange’ Colour Vinyl [SEP 12]

2LP – Limited Edition ‘Sunbeam Orange’ Colour Vinyl with colour insert.

Crate digger and music enthusiast James Endeacott compiles Unlock Your Mind With Morning Glory for Two-Piers Records A glorious heady mix of the weird and wonderful eclectic music from his radio show Morning Glory

One weekday afternoon towards the end of 2017 I sat in The Lyric pub on Great Windmill Street, Soho with my dear friend Raf. Id just finished another of my weekly Soho Radio shows and was starting to think about the next one. Raf had been on as a guest playing some of his favourite tunes of the day. We had a few drinks, told a few stories and started to plot and scheme. It was always a dream of mine to have a daily radio show. Radio had always informed and excited me from my early teens listening to John Peel under the blanket when I shouldve been either sleeping or revising right up to the present-day musical excursions of NTS, WFMU and numerous internet based stations.

We decided to speak to Adrian and Dan who ran Soho Radio to see if theyd be up for us doing a daily morning show. To our surprise they were into the idea and within 5 minutes Adrain came up with the name Morning Glory. We all liked it. We were all excited. It was all systems go. In December 2017 Raf and myself started a daily 2 hour show. We did the show together, got guests in and the musical policy was whatever we felt like that day. After several months Raf found the mornings too much. Off he went into the distance occasionally coming back with a smile, and a bag of new music. I carried on alone and then suddenly in March 2020 the world stopped, and we went into lockdown.

We set up in my house in Catford, Southeast London and carried on. The show became 3 hours a day and I started to invite friends, record labels, record shops, bands etc.. to supply me with hour long mixes that I played every day. The show took off during this time. My musical tastes expanded as I spent all day long searching for new sounds from around the globe. People started to send me more and more music. I became obsessed with the show. The audience started to take to social media and ask for certain tracks or artists to be played. I got listeners to make me mixes to play on the show and I did several phone interviews with musicians while playing some of their favourite tunes.

I was grateful that Soho Radio left me to my own devices. They never told me what to do or what to play they trusted ma and I trusted my instincts.

The music on this compilation is not a best of its just how I felt when I compiled it at the start of 2025. Apart from a couple of tracks they are all things Ive come across since the show started in December 2017. If I did a list of tracks now Im sure it would be completely different. Surely thats the point. We never stick in one place. We are always moving and searching. Always trying to unlock our minds. Put it on. Take your time and let it take you somewhere James Endeacott 2025

Tracklist:

A1) Anuradha Paudwal Gayatari Mantra
A2) Baba Zula Arsiz Saksagan (Cheeky Magpie)
A3) Orchestra Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp So Many Things (To Feel Guilty About)
A4) Christopher Martin Playing Games With My Heart

B1) Geir Sundstl Cest Vide En Ville
B2) Brother Ah Transcendental March (Creation Song)
B3) Les Abranis Therrza Rathwenza
B4) Sparkels That Boy of Mine

C1) Maximum Joy Stretch (7 Mix)
C2) Chillera SCHAX
C3) Elijah Minnelli I Hope the Goats Come Back (ze-hood de-sham lichdal)
C4) Siti Muharam Pakistan

D1) Muriel Grossmann Traneing In
D2) Catford Gyrations Land of 1000 Presets **
D3) Living Daylights Lets Live For Today
D4) Natalie Bergman Shine Your Light On Me

** = Exclusive track on Vinyl