A couple of birthday celebrations: Arthur Lee, who would have turned 68 on March 7, 2013; and Tom Rapp, who turned 67 on March 8, 2013. So we hear a couple of tracks by Love and Pearls Before Swine along with a mix of old and new, featuring Chilean spacerockers Föllakzoid.
Playlist:
Föllakzoid: 99 | Los Thyssen: Only In Your Mind | The Loud Family: A Horse With No Name | Love: Seven And Seven Is | Love: The Red Telephone | Psychic Ills: Drop Out | Neu! Hallogallo | Mogwai: You're Lionel Richie | Moon Duo: In The Trees | Pearls Before Swine: Ballad To An Amber Lady | Pearls Before Swine: I Saw The World | Implodes: Hands On The Rail | Ethernet: Monarch | Spacemen 3: Feels So Good | Primordial Undermind: Simple Yes I Know | The Asteroid No. 4: Hail To The Clear Figurines | Solar Bears: Division | kandodo: kandodo
White Hills: Glitter Glamour Atrocity | Rhyton: Revert To Daze | Ulrich Schnauss: Medusa | Kinski: I Think I Blew It | The Warlocks: So Paranoid | Sonic Youth: In & Out | MV & EE: Turbine | Horseback: The Golden Horn | My Bloody Valentine: In Another Way | Eternal Tapestry & Sun Araw: Night Gallery III | Steve Hauschildt: Vegas Mode | Kandodo: Lord Hyena, 3AM | Small Black: Invisible Grid | Landing: Following Daylight Master | Hangedup & Tony Conrad - Flying Fast n Furious | Mogwai: Rano Pano (Tim Hecker Remix)
Back after a week away. We celebrate what would have been Florian Fricke's 69th birthday (February 23) by playing the tremendous epic "Vuh" from their 1971 album In den Gärten Pharaos. Plus new and new-ish tracks from Emeralds, My Bloody Valentine, and Landing.
Playlist:
Emeralds: Adrenochrome | Tangerine Dream: Love On A Real Train | Schoolhouse Rock: Figure Eight | White Hills: Radiate | Popol Vuh: Vuh | My Bloody Valentine: Wonder 2 | Wooden Shjips: Ursus Maritimus (Last Bear's Lament) (kandodo w/Ripley) | Implodes: Marker | Pearls Before Swine: Look Into Her Eyes | Primal Scream: A Scanner Darkly | Landing: Migration | Steve Hauschildt: Kept | Oneohtrix Point Never: A Pact Between Strangers | Moon Duo: I Can See | Mercury Rev: Endlessly | Tim Blake: Midnight
Llorando-Rebekah del Rio, Telstar-The Tornados, Do It-Pink Fairies, Stairway to Croydon-Dan Melchoir, River of Shit-The Chinese Restaurants, Testicle Rider-Flying Testicle, Sweatpant no Underwear-Athletic Automation, Crawling-Attrition, New York Girls-Angels of Light, Ursa Minor-Aun, The Obsidian Pyramid-Eric Zann, Excerpt from 'Dead Pharaoh Vs Smeared on Monkey's Eyeball'-Dylan Nyoukis, Sisprum Vish-Sisprum Vish, Coasters+Throat Violence-Lemon Kittens, Rusty Crane Keelong-Fish, His New Look-Bongwater, Scream Thy Last Scream-Syd Barrett, Beat Bop-Rahmelzee Vs K. Rob, The Great Annihilator-Swans, Upside Down-The Jesus and Mary Chain, Clair de Lune- Hotel Commodore Ensemble
Eternal Tapestry & Sun Araw: Night Gallery IV | Implodes: Meadowslands | Flying Saucer Attack: Up In Her Eyes | Ghost: Feed | SIANspheric: I'm Feeling Better | This Mortal Coil: Tarantula | My Bloody Valentine: Who Sees You | The Warlocks: The Dope Feels Good | Wooden Shjips: Home | Mountains: Backwards Crossover | Surface Of Eceon: The Open Sea | Oneohtrix Point Never: Ships Without Meaning | Grouper: STS | Pan American: Are You Ready? | Windsor For The Derby: Heard Worse | Moon Duo: Free Action
David is back after two weeks away from the controls. Lots of tasty new and new-ish tracks, plenty of them from the fine folks at kranky records.
Playlist:
White Hills: Oceans Of Sound (Antrønhy Øh Remix) | Sun Dial: Plains of Nazca | Farflung: See You Up There | Goblin: Profondo rosso | Landing: Decades | Implodes: White Window | Les Momies de Palerme: Rivière du non-retour | Plankton Wat: See You Up There | Steve Hauschildt: Interconnected | Emeralds: Everything Is Inverted | loscil: Hastings Sunrise | Wooden Shjips: Wiking Stew (aka Red Krayola-ing) (Sonic Boom Remix) | A Winged Victory For The Sullen: Steep Hills Of Vicodin Tears | Primal Scream: Autobahn 66 | Neu!: Cassetto | Windy & Carl: A Thousand Miles From Nowhere | Moon Duo: Zoned | Spacemen 3: Starship | Mercury Rev: Arise | Tim Hecker: Studio Suicide, 1980
Annea Lockwood: Sound map of the Housatonic River(excerpt) Hildegard Westerkamp: Beneath the Forest Floor Thomas Köner: Daikan Ghedalia Tazartes: Repas Froid Roky Erickson: Don't Slander Me
In my Spaceship-Jan Turkenburg, Telstar-The Tornados, Freestyle (the Art of Rap)-Grandmaster Caz, Act III (The Photographer)-Philip Glass, 35° 40'N 139° 42'E (Hour One)-Thomas Koner, Face the Antagonish-Tats Lau, Esoterica of Abyssynia-Sun City Girls, Race Graphics-Mark Lord, Lime Jelly Grass-Renaldo and The Loaf, They Schools-Dead Prez, Reading from her Autobiography-Alice B Toklas, Molly Brannigan-Colm O' Donnell, Points, Mouvements-Claude Ballif, No White Pants (excerpt)-16 Bitch Pile-Up, Step Across The Border-a documentary about Fred Frith-Nicolas Humbert & Werner Penzel
This week David features a handful of recent releases from Constellation Records out of Montreal.
Moon Duo: Circles | Plankton Wat: Broken Slumber | Eternal Tapestry & Sun Araw: Night Gallery I | Scott Walker: Plastic Palace People | Godspeed You! Black Emperor: Their Helicopters Sing | Kanada 70: Delivery | Les Momies de Palerme: Incarnation | Pacha: Modern Malaise | Tindersticks: Show Me Everything | Elfin Saddle: The Wind Come Carry | Eric Chenaux: However Wildly We Dream | Hangedup & Tony Conrad: Principles | Efrim Manuel Menuck: I Am No Longer A Motherless Child | Esmerine: A Dog River | Ethernet: Dodecahedron | Flaming Lips With Stardeath & White Dwarfs: Borderline | Warm Ghost: PLY7
First show of 2013... back to the same old tricks.
Playlist:
Peter Hammill: Red Shift | Mercury Rev: The Funny Bird | Cocteau Twins: Iceblink Luck | Farflung: The Raven That Ate The Moon | Primal Scream: Deep Hit Of Morning Sun | Slowdive: Some Velvet Morning | Gila: This Morning | Ride: Today | White Hills: H-p1 | Solar Bears: Hidden Lake | Labradford: Comfort | Efrim Manuel Menuck: A 12-pt. Program For Keep On Keepin' On | Oneohtrix Point Never: Ruined Lives | Warm Ghost: I Will Return | Neon Indian: Psychic Chasms | Vocokesh: Mood Piece 1
The Pointed Stick Variations-The Flying Luttenbachers, Telstar-The Tornados, Intro, Col de Vence-Thomas Koner, Information on Canadian Federal Legislation currently being passed-Dr. Pamela Palmater, History of the White Paper and the Red Paper-Tanya Kappo, International Avenues of Asserting Nationhood-Janice Makokis, Nehiyaw Weyeswewna (Cree Laws)-Revitalizing Okicitaw-Sylvia McAdam, Chief Theresa Spence-In conversation with Chris Rands(cbc), Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo speaking at Idle No More rally, Nina Wilson-In conversation with Trevor Grey Eyes, Jobs and Growth act (Bill C-45)-Elizabeth May, National Chief's letter on Bill C-38 (June 19, 2012), National Chief's letter on Bill C-45 (Nov. 21, 2012), Letter to all First Nations - December 29, 2012, Idle No More-Metrotown Burnaby B.C., Idle No More-Billing Round Dance Flash Mob, One More Time! Saskatoon Flash Mob Round Dance-Idle No More
Landing: Coming Down | Yume Bitsu: I Wait For You | Stars Of The Lid: Another Ballad For Heavy Lids | Tim Hecker: In The Air (Parts I, II, & III) | Pink Floyd: Remember A Day | Pale Saints: Mother Might | White Hills: Visions Of The Past, Present And Future | SIANspheric: The Stars Above | Oneohtrix Point Never: Submersible | Wooden Shjips: Crossing (Remixed by Andrew Weatherall) | Moon Duo: Sleepwalker | The Telescopes: Spaceships | Yo La Tengo: The Fireside | Tame Impala: Apocalypse Dreams | A Place To Bury Strangers: The Falling Sun | Bowery Electric: Freedom Fighter
The world didn't end after all, so here is a fine selection of tunes to help you cope with the continuing existence of all of this nonsense.
Playlist:
Skeeter Davis: End Of The World | Godspeed! You Black Emperor: Strung Like Lights At Thee Printemps Erable | Bowery Electric: Slow Thrills | Scott Walker: The Amorous Humphrey Plugg | Youngsbower: Opaline Retrieval | Tim Hecker: Hatred Of Music (Parts I & II) | Efrim Manuel Menuck: Our Lady Of Parc Extension And Her Munificent Sorrows | Flying Saucer Attack: Forever | Eternal Tapestry: Wholeodome | Moon Duo: Trails | Loop: Black Sun | Tame Impala: Jeremy's Storm | Highspire: Just Begun | The Asteroid No. 4: I Look Around | White Hills & Gnod: Drop Out | The Warlocks: Cocaine Blues | Ghost: Hazy Paradise