Barry Can’t Swim has announced his own ‘Late Night Tales’ compilation and shared the single ‘Chala (My Soul Is On A Loop)’.
Ther Scottish electronic producer and DJ – real name Joshua Mainnie – will released the latest in the long-running and acclaimed artist-curated mix series on March 6, and you can pre-order it here.
Late Night Tales launched in 2001 and has featured a glittering array of curators over the years, including Four Tet, Fatboy Slim, Belle & Sebastian, MGMT, Metronomy, Franz Ferdinand, Jon Hopkins and Hot Chip. Mainnie’s mix will be the first full entry in the series in five years and marks the start of its 25th anniversary year.
His mix will include some of his own material, including ‘Chala (My Soul Is On A Loop)’, which he has released as a single now via Ninja Tune/Late Night Tales, as well as ‘Sometimes I Feel So Alone’.
Otherwise, the mix will span the full range of energy and emotion associated with a classic night out, from the classic house of Lance DeSardi’s ‘Power Of Suggestion’ and Daniel Avery remixing Factory Floor, to the rich, delicate comedown of This Mortal Coil’s ‘The Lacemaker’.
Mainnie has said: “I was absolutely buzzing when I got asked to do Late Night Tales. Over the moon. It was such a significant thing for me. It’s a series that works consistently with really great artists, so it felt like a massive privilege to even be considered to be among the kind of people that Late Night Tales typically works with.”
“I have this Spotify playlist that’s called Barry Can’t Curate. I’d always put electronic music and different things in there that maybe I wouldn’t get to play in DJ sets. Late Night Tales is in the same world really – another place where you can share the music you love, but not necessarily music you’d play on a dancefloor.”
Barry Can’t Swim’s ‘Late NIght Tales’ tracklist:
1) Jackson Mico Milas – ‘Sea, Interior’
2) Majid Bekkas & Magic Spirit Quartet – ‘Annabi’
3) Jesse Bru – ‘The Coast’
4) Loket – ‘Afternoon At Barenquell’
5) Superpitcher – ‘Yves (Exclusive Edit for LateNightTales)’
6) Scott Orr – ‘Scott’
7) Barry Can’t Swim – ‘Sometimes I Feel So Alone (Exclusive)’
8) Marigold Sun – ‘Here Lies Love’
9) Barry Can’t Swim – ‘My Soul Is On A Loop (Exclusive)’
10) Freddy da Stupid – ‘Back To Pangea Part II (Jazzapella Version)’
11) Factory Floor – ‘How You Say (Daniel Avery Remix)’
12) Ronald Langestraat – ‘Lowdown’
13) Lance DeSardi – ‘The Power Of Suggestion’
14) O’Flynn – ‘Kola’
15) Accelera Deck – ‘This Bliss’
16) Pépe – ‘Goma (A-Mix)’
17) This Mortal Coil – ‘The Lacemaker’
18) St. Francis Hotel – ‘Dawn’
19) Barry Can’t Swim – ‘Ferdinand Magellan (Exclusive Felt Cover Version)’
20) Seamus – ‘Ultrasound (Spoken Word)’
Barry Can’t Swim released his second studio album ‘Loner’ last year, including the singles ‘Still Riding’, ‘The Person You’d Like To Be’, ‘Different’ and ‘Kimpton’.
He also curated his own line-up for a day at All Points East 2025, featuring Orbital, Avalon Emerson, The Blessed Madonna, Confidence Man and Shygirl.