We’ve chummed up with the chaps at Psychic Party and, in the run-up to their sixth month anniversary on the 1st of June we’re being thoroughly decent and giving you a mixtape a day. They’ve arranged some of their best buds to compile them and everyday for a week we’ll be dosing you up on dangerous levels of weirdo disco punk. Is that a genre? Here’s what you won’t want to be missing out on.

Tomorrow night Ducktails, Julian Lynch, Big Troubles and several other fine gentlemen and gentlerladies will be jumping around the Alibi in Dalston getting drunk and snogging. You’d feel like a chump if you missed it and considering it’s free then you really have no excuse.

The final instalment in what critics are already hailing as “the most important week in music since last week” (Rolling Stone) and “reely gud “[sic] (NME) is upon us. Henry, who plays one of those guitar things in Lovvers, has put together this shambolic pile of slimy punky loveliness. Henry was brought up in a hippy commune or something. He told me about it once but it was a while ago and I’m not a good listener at the best of times, I’ll double check next time we cross paths. Anyway I think that’s present in this compilation of weirdo pop and scuzzy punk fun. Expect more of this sort of thing tomorrow night. Come say ‘Hi’, maybe buy me a drink, these mixtapes don’t organise themselves you know.

Here’s Henry’s little run through of the tracks:

“The Fall – Leave The Capitol

A hilarious and addictive rant against what Mark E Smith assures us is ‘any capital’, Don’t worry, he is definitely referring to London. From The Fall’s most fertile creative period of 1980-83.

Sun City Girls – Esoterica of Abyssynia

Sound like half the band have been in deep spiritual meditations, while the other half have been off their face on peyote for a week (loathe as I am to invoke drug references in describing rock groups) then there is a part where Take It Or Leave It by the Strokes is channeled. A very interesting group of such maddening potential who are perhaps more wilfully obtuse than any with fun an listenable tunes like this one….

Thinking Fellers Union Local #282 - My Pal The Tortoise

….except perhaps for the Thinking Fellers, the greatest forgotten 90′s Matador Records indie rock group, capable of such winsome tap-along sensations as this one, but infamous for their tendency to dick about for several minutes doing stupid voices and trying to make farting sounds with their guitar. But a truly inventive and loveable group.

Holger Czukay – Cool In The Pool

The closest I ever came to a ‘signature tune’, I wish I was a hard house DJ like Erol Alkan or someone and then I could drop this every single set and show off my truly eclectic tastes. Czukay played bass in Can and made this great album ‘Movies’ making early tape loop experiments and playing along with them.

The Intelligence – Pony People

Seattle experimental popsters cleverly use the metaphor of centaurs to explore the essential futility of humans search for meaning in their souls.

Pere Ubu – Humor Me

An extremely ‘groovy’ song, is it Post-Punk Dub Reggae? Great production that allows equal shrift to sci-fi synth, flexible bass and a very economical guitar solo.

Swell Maps – Big Empty Field [No.2]

A band perhaps better known for a stripped back punk onslaught, this track uses 7/8 time and shimmery harmonics to create a much more ambivalent beast.

Television Personalities – Posing At The Roundhouse

‘They listen to the DJ, they pogo with their best friend, and all the young girls start to cry when they see Billy’. The best song about going out ever!

Tyvek – Air Conditioner

I wish more modern punk music was like this, it has an irresistable skewed approach to songwriting and ironically the next Tyvek LP went down the much more straight up route that I am bemoaning.  Just get the Summer Burns 2×7″ and be done with it.

Homostupids – Flies Die

Three very clever chaps deciding to be stupid, comes off great. They probably work as senior IT Consultants the rest of the week.

The Grifters – Meanwhile

Another forgotten slice of  90s lo-fi, the Grifters were once described as the ‘Rolling Stones to Guided By Voices’ Beatles’  but this song cuts out some of the blues and replaces it with an ambiguously broken heart and excellent guitar outro.

The Membranes – Myths and Legends

Good old noisey 80s band from these shores, I love the repetition on this song and the slow tempo. Hadn’t heard about them until they reformed for ATP, so I suppose that business is good for something. Then I managed to miss the set due to overzealous breakfasting, but i doubt they would’ve sounded as good as this.

The Incredible String Band - The Hedghehog’s song

This is one of my mum’s old LPs, its silly and good fun and hopefully I will play it to my kids one day. Shame one of ‘em ended up a Scientologist, like Peggy from Mad Men.

Fog - The Girl From The Gum Commercial

Multi talented one man show Andrew Broder has his fingers all over the indie and weirdo hip hop treasure maps, even when he crafts a downbeat piano ‘n’ guitar masterpiece such as this he can’t resist a few indulgent DJ-scratches over the top.

Zero Boys – Livin’ In The 80s

I dunno, I thought this is what people would want to hear. It must’ve been hard.

John Cooper Clarke – Twat

Memorise for good putdowns.”