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Description: Exuberance/Ebullience, banter, possibly an interview, context and connection, the familiar, the strange.
Find: Symphonies of Treble, Words Of Expectation, stab, skronk, shimmer, sheen, The New Sound of Now, Ideas for Walls, pleasure, pith, Flutter and Wow, Motorik, cowbells, disco akimbo, at least one Cantankerous Singer, The German Language, shards of glass, Ethiopian Punk, organic, synthetic, sawtooths & squarewaves, Library Riffage, yesterday's recipes, the wrong speed, intentional static, floating, ethereal, time and timelessness.
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Artist | Track | Album | Label | Year | Format | Comments | New | Approx. start time |
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Robert C. Wayne | Welcome | Scary Sound Effects: Nightmarish Noise For Halloween | Rhino | 1994 | CD | From the "Front Door Greetings" section of this release. | 0:00:00 (Pop-up) | |
Broadcast and The Focus Group | A Seancing Song | Broadcast and the Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age | Warp | 2009 | CD | The much missed Broadcast (R.I.P. Trish Keenan at too early an age) + The Focus Group; the latter project being that of Primal Scream, Stereolab, Broadcast sleeve designer Julian House, who 'brings out the latent and intrinsic sΓ©ance-like aspect of sampling' ie. "a collection of individuals.. an empty church hall, hoofprints, mirrors, echoes, sequences of ordered greenery, televisual images, fonties and ortres" | 0:00:19 (Pop-up) | |
Music behind DJ: Broadcast and The Focus Group |
Mr Beard, You Chatterbox |
Broadcast and the Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age |
Warp |
2009 |
CD |
See Above |
0:02:39 (Pop-up) |
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Jan Terri | Get Down Goblin | The Wild One | Jtrecords | 2012 | MP3 | It's Jan Terri. C'mon. C'MON. | 0:04:20 (Pop-up) | |
Tuxedomoon | No Tears | No Tears EP RE | Superior Viaduct | 2013 | Vinyl | This song hurts my ears so, so much but I absolutely love it. | 0:08:11 (Pop-up) | |
Siouxsie and the Banshees | Halloween | Juju | Polydor | 1981 / 2006 | CD | 0:13:45 (Pop-up) | ||
Toto Coelo | I Eat Cannibals | Man O' War | Powderworks | 1983 | MP3 | The video for this song is very much of its time. | 0:17:08 (Pop-up) | |
Music behind DJ: Ultimate Spinach |
Death of the Hip Death Goddess |
Ultimate Spinach |
MGM |
1968 |
MP3 |
Enchanting vocals by Barbara Hudson, this band was Boston's answer to San Francisco Psych and part of the "Bosstown Sound". |
0:20:53 (Pop-up) |
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Terry Hall (with Tricky) | Ghost Town (Live) | Rainbows EP | Anxious Records | 1995 | CD | Terry Hall de- & re- constructs The Specials' song he had sung w/ Tricky, in front of a live audience. Recorded live with Tricky at The Shepherd's Bush Empire, London, 3rd of August 1995. | 0:26:43 (Pop-up) | |
BC Camplight | Cemetery Lifestyle | Shortly After Takeoff | Bella Union | 2020 | WAV | Everyone in the world should listen to BC Camplight immediately. | 0:30:44 (Pop-up) | |
CIVIC TV | Black Moon | Black Moon | Flemish Eye | 2021 | WAV | New (last week) debut release from Toronto artist Toronto songwriter Lowell Sostomi. CIVIC TV Bandcamp> | * | 0:34:23 (Pop-up) |
The Heavy | Can't Play Dead | The Glorious Dead | Counter Records | 2012 | CD | "The Heavy are Kelvin Swaby (lead vocals), Dan Taylor (guitar), Spencer Page (bass guitar) and Chris Ellul (drums). Taylor and Swaby became friends in 1998 when they bonded over vintage R&B music and Jim Jarmusch films and soon formed the band." | 0:37:51 (Pop-up) | |
Richard Dawson & Circle | Lily | Henki | Weird World | 2021 | CD | Newcastle singer-songwriter enlists one of his favourite Finnish bands to make an album drawing from Heavy-Metal & folk leanings. Falsettos abound! | * | 0:42:00 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: Tricky |
Pumpkin (Ambient) |
Pumpkin (EP) |
Fourth & Broadway |
1995 |
CD |
Unavailable on the recent expanded re-issue of Maxinquay (the original's parent album), this B-Side is now a bit of an obscurity in the Tricky catalogue. Vocals by Alison Goldfrapp. |
0:47:53 (Pop-up) |
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The Five Blobs | The Blob | The Blob/Saturday Night In Tijuana 7" | Columbia | 1958 | MP3 | 0:54:20 (Pop-up) | ||
Claudine Clark | Walkin' Through a Cemetery | Walkin Through a Cemetery/The Telephone Game 7" | Chancellor | 1962 | 7" | That's Claudine Clark of "Party Lights" Fame...which it turns out, was a self-penned tune! | 0:56:57 (Pop-up) | |
Sharon Tandy | Daughter of The Sun | Hold On 7" | Atlantic | 1968 | MP3 | The B-Side of the single "Hold On"... | 0:59:30 (Pop-up) | |
The Mystrys | Witch Girl | Witch Girl 7" | Orbit | 1966 | MP3 | Apparently their only release, there are two copies of this currently for sale on Discogs. The cheaper of the two can be had for the low, low prices of $2600. | 1:03:18 (Pop-up) | |
Christine Pilzer | Dracula | Dracula 7" | Eplektrik Audio | 1966 | MP3 | There's an instrumental version of this tune by Monks...not that Monks...or The Monks...another Monks. Interesting! | 1:05:25 (Pop-up) | |
King Horror | Dracula, Prince of Darkness | Dracula, King of Darkness/Honky 7" | Duke Records | 1969 | MP3 | King Horror was presumably a relocated Calypsonian by the name of Lord Davey. Confusingly, another voice by King Horror often snarled out on rival discs, this is believed to be Laurel Aitken standing in when Mr Davey was unavailable to lend his growl to the rhythm track. | 1:07:15 (Pop-up) | |
Music behind DJ: Gorillaz |
Dracula |
Gorillaz |
Parlaphone |
2001 |
MP3 |
1:10:36 (Pop-up) |
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Music behind DJ: The Don |
Soul Dracula |
Thai Beat A Go-Go Volume 3 (Groovy Sounds From The Land Of Smile!) |
Subliminal Sounds |
2010 |
MP3 |
There's a Red Blood...and a Hot Blood version but I like The Don's version |
1:15:17 (Pop-up) |
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Pony Da Look | Dirty Nails | Pony Da Look | Self-Released | 2001 | CD | Much missed Toronto band: Temple Bates, Amy Bowles, Rebecca Mendoza, Catherine Stockhausen in its final form, this, though, from the 2001 self-released CD. | 1:18:29 (Pop-up) | |
Marie MΓΆΓΆr | Pretty Day | BIPPP : French Synth-Wave 1979-85 | Everloving Records | 1982 / 2008 | CD | French singer and songwriter. Collaborated with Barney Wilen in the early 1980s. Together they founded the label 4As a.k.a. AAAA. She released Pretty Day in 1982 on 4As, | 1:19:44 (Pop-up) | |
Anni Calvi | Ghost Rider | Strange Weather | Domino | 2014 | Vinyl | Suicide cover -- Rev/Vega | 1:22:41 (Pop-up) | |
The Birthday Party | Release The Bats | Hits | 4AD | 1981/1992 | CD | Produced by the Birthday Party and Nick Launey in London April 1981. | 1:25:29 (Pop-up) | |
Pogues | Connemara, Let's Go! (aka Down In The Ground Where The Dead Men Go) | Just Look Them Straight In The Eye And Say... "Pogue Mahone!!" | Rhino / Pogue Mahone | 1984 / 2008 | CD box set | Demo of "Down In The Ground Where The Dead Men Go", 1984. | 1:27:53 (Pop-up) | |
Music behind DJ: Crass (Remixed by Youth) |
Living Asylum (Youth Remix) |
Normal Never Was VI |
Crass Records |
2021 |
WAV |
Youth of Killing Joke remixes CRASS in 2021! Releases November 26, 2021. Last in a series of six remixes from stems CRASS provided of their debut 1978 album βThe Feeding of the Five Thousandβ... For all the world to remix. |
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1:30:54 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: New Age Doom & Lee "Scratch" Perry |
Step In Space |
Lee "Scratch" Perry's Guide to the Universe |
We Are Busy Bodies |
2021 |
CD |
Toronto collective teams up with (sadly recently deceased) legendary Lee "Scratch" Perry, just before his demise, to create this magestic slice of Dub & Improvisation |
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1:37:17 (Pop-up) |
The Wytches | Gravedwelller | Annabel Dream Reader | Heavenly | 2014 | MP3 | 1:41:08 (Pop-up) | ||
The Fall | I'm a Mummy | Levitate | Artful Records | 1997 | MP3 | I'm sure Derek can tell us all about this one. (Cover: Original by Doc McFadden) | 1:43:53 (Pop-up) | |
Yachts | Ghost In My House | Ghost In My House 7" | Radar Records | 1980 | 7" | This song was also covered by the Fall. Original artist is R. Dean Taylor. (Canadian artist who was a producer for Motown back in the day!) This tune is one universally embraced by Northern Soulies. The Fall version...not so much. | 1:46:28 (Pop-up) | |
The Adverts | Gary Gilmore's Eyes | Gary Gilmore's Eyes 7" | Anchor | 1977 | MP3 | This song recounts the story of a transplant victim waking up from surgery to learn that he has received new eyes courtesy of a serial killer. Hooray! | 1:49:26 (Pop-up) | |
The Growlers | Graveyard's Full | Hot Tropics | Everloving | 2010 | MP3 | 1:51:42 (Pop-up) | ||
Music behind DJ: The Ventures |
Twilight Zone |
The Ventures In Space |
Dolton Records |
1964 |
MP3 |
1:53:42 (Pop-up) |
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Music behind DJ: The Cords |
Ghost Power |
Ghost Power 7" |
Cuca |
1970 |
MP3 |
The Cords were a group of Franciscan monks based in Pulaski, WI and formed the band in 1964. They recorded the album 'The Franciscan Cords β Spiritual Troubadours' and two 45's for release on the Cuca label in 1969. |
1:56:18 (Pop-up) |
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TEKE:TEKE | Corpse Pose | Corpse Pose EP | Kill Rock Stars | 2021 | MP3 | Brand new! This is a band from Montreal! Teke Teke is a Japanese ghost story/urban myth. She comes to haunt those who have been told the story...soooo better watch your back!!!! | * | 1:57:38 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: Aphex Twin |
Come to Daddy (Little Lord Faunterloy Mix) |
Come To Daddy 12" |
Warp |
1997 |
MP3 |
This shit creeps me out just as much as the original. |
2:01:42 (Pop-up) |
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