{"id":16999,"date":"2016-01-08T06:00:56","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T06:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=16999"},"modified":"2016-01-15T22:07:29","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T22:07:29","slug":"the-essential-weekly-playlist-of-sean-hocking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2016\/01\/the-essential-weekly-playlist-of-sean-hocking\/","title":{"rendered":"The Essential Weekly Playlist of: Sean Hocking"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Based in Hong Kong, Sean Hocking is the founder and owner of Metal Postcard Records. An avid listener of John Peel from the late 1970s onwards, Sean discovered, between the hours of 10pm and midnight when Peel’s show was aired, the true breadth of music available. Inspired by Peel (as well as impressario and label owner Tony Wilson), Metal Postcard Records follows the philosophy of, “play it, release it, and don’t worry about other people’s opinions too much; they all come around eventually.”<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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“My first DJ experience aged 15 was being asked by older schoolboy Simon Raymonde (Cocteau Twins\/Bella Union) to play a six form dance in the dim distant days of Dexy\u2019s Midnight Runners and a three-piece Cure. Since then I have played Sydney warehouses, West Sussex fields, Brooklyn Bars, Cambodian restaurants, Vietnamese Riverbanks, Hong Kong rooftops and too many empty houses with dodgy fuse boxes to mention.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We asked Sean to give us his Essential playlist – well, actually, we asked him to narrow down his playlist to just ten songs – and this is what he came up with.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We should also point out that it’s David Bowie’s 68th birthday today – as well as what would have been Elvis Presley’s 81st – so it’s only fitting that both should receive a mention.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Siouxsie & The Banshees – \u2018Metal Postcard\u2019<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

So good I named a label after it. It’s punk, it’s post punk , it’s about a German anti-fascist artist and collagist who angered the Nazis so much he had to escape to England in the mid 1930s. It’s sounds as good sung in German as it does in English and by the band who defined my teenage years.<\/span><\/p>\n

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