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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 | Comments | New | Approx. start time |
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| Daphne Oram/The Whispering Frenchman |
Persephone/Pulse Persephone
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Endless Waves: The Dawn of Electronic Noise & Ambient Music, Vol. 2/Greek Myths | Dot Dash Noise | 2021 | We juxtapose the story of Persephone...whispered by a Frenchman and the haunting strains of Daphne Oram's electronic masterpiece. Oram was the creator of the Oramics technique for creating electronic sounds using drawn sound. Besides being a musical innovator, she was the first woman to independently direct and set up a personal electronic music studio, and the first woman to design and construct an electronic musical instrument. In her book An Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics (1971) she explored philosophical themes related to the physics of sound. | 0:00:00 (Pop-up) | |
| Automatic |
New Beginning
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New Beginning Single | Stones Throw Records | 2022 | Automatic’s second album Excess rides the imaginary edge where the ‘70s underground met the corporate culture of the ‘80s – or, as the band puts it, “That fleeting moment when what was once cool quickly turned and became mainstream, all for the sake of consumerism.” Using this point in time as a lens through which to view the present moment, Excess takes aim at corporate culture and extravagance. | * | 0:03:30 (Pop-up) |
| Blonde Redhead |
Spring and by Summer Fall
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23 | 4AD | 2007 | "23 was self-produced by Blonde Redhead. The members of the band stated that while working on 23, they aimed to be more "spontaneous" in their songwriting; "for simplicity and clarity"; and to avoid overanalyzing their compositions. Drummer Simone Pace said that he found it "nerve-wracking" to begin recording the album with only loose ideas for songs." | 0:07:16 (Pop-up) | |
| Pretty Happy |
Sea Sea Sea
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Sea Sea Sea Single | Pretty Happy | 2021 | From the same band that brought you "Salami"...it's not often we play a band two weeks in a row but this song has been on heavy rotation. Pretty Happy are an Art-Punk three-piece from Cork. Drawing on a rebellious tradition of Cork Post-Punk, the band has sculpted their own theatre influenced, all-consuming noise rock sound. | 0:11:30 (Pop-up) | |
Music behind DJ: Midori Hirano |
Rabbits In The Path
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Minor Planet |
Sonic Pieces |
2016 |
Midori Hirano is a Berlin-based musician, composer and producer. She started learning the piano as a child, and this triggered what was to later see her study classical piano at university. Therefore her productions are based on the use of acoustic instruments such as the piano, strings or guitars, but yet experimental and an eclectic mixture of modern digital sounds with subtle electronic processing and field recordings. We have augmented this recording with additional bird call sounds. |
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| Pozi |
Typing
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Typing EP | PRAH Recordings | 2021 | "Typing isn’t a lockdown record, but it has been informed by it. More importantly, though, it’s yet another significant step forward from a band who’ve so far felt like something of an underground secret, despite being championed by BBC Radio 6 Music and in various places by contemporaries such as Sleaford Mods, Squid and Sports Team." Typing EP by Pozi on Bandcamp | 0:24:46 (Pop-up) | |
| Bloodless Pharoahs |
Bloodless Pharoah
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Songs Of The Naked City | Red Star | 1980 | Brian Setzer was in this band before he formed The Stray Cats. Not much in this track to hint at where he was planning to land in his musical future. "The Bloodless Pharoahs were active on the New York and Philadelphia new wave circuits in the late '70s, but never managed to land a recording contract." Produced by Jimmy Destri (Blondie) in 1980 for Marty Thau's 2x5 compilation. | 0:27:08 (Pop-up) | |
| Home Counties |
That's Where The Money's Gone
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Redevelopment - EP | Alcopop! Records | 2020 | “We’re often labelled as a Bristol band but we left uni a few years ago and then found ourselves stuck in our hometown in Bucks for a year during the pandemic. The name Home Counties didn’t hold much significance when we formed, but being back here for the past 12 months made us reflect more about our sense of place here." | 0:33:11 (Pop-up) | |
| Fire Engines |
Discord (Peel Session)
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Teen-age Premonition | Domino | 1981 | "While a product of the same Scottish post-punk movement that also gave rise to Orange Juice and Josef K, Fire Engines were far more abrasive and discordant than their pop revivalist brethren, forsaking melodies and hooks in favor of noise and fury. Fire Engines formed in Edinburgh in 1979; three of its founders -- singer/guitarist Davey Henderson, bassist Graham Main, and drummer Russel Burn -- were previously in the Dirty Reds. Rounded out by guitarist Murray Slade, the quartet took its name from a 13th Floor Elevators song and debuted in late 1980 with the primal "Get Up and Use Me," issued on the Codex Communications label." | 0:36:23 (Pop-up) | |
Music behind DJ: Jackie Mittoo |
Juicebox
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Keep On Dancing |
Sparta Florida |
1969 |
Mittoo, of partial Indo-Jamaicans descent, was born in Brown's Town, Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica, and began learning to play the piano when he was three under the tutelage of his grandmother. In the 1960s, he was a member of The Skatalites, The Sheiks, The Soul Brothers, The Soul Vendors and Sound Dimension.[ In the mid-1970s, he emigrated to Toronto, Ontario, Canada. There he recorded three albums, Wishbone (Summus), Reggae Magic (CTL) and Let's Put It All Together (CTL). He also set up the Stine-Jac record label, as well as running a record store. |
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Music behind DJ: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard |
Flying Microtonal Banana
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Flying Microtonal Banana |
Flightless/ATO Records |
2017 |
Subtitled Explorations into Microtonal Tuning, Volume 1, the album is recorded in quarter tone tuning, where an octave is divided into 24 (logarithmically) equal-distanced quarter tones; it was originally conceived to play on a baglama, so the band members used instruments specifically modified for microtonal tuning, as well as other Middle-Eastern instruments like the zurna. The name "Flying Microtonal Banana" comes from Stu Mackenzie's custom-built yellow guitar, fitted with additional microtonal frets. |
0:43:52 (Pop-up) |
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| Ausmuteants |
Bad Day
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Amusements | Aarght! Records | 2013 | Ausmuteants formed in Geelong in 2009 when Robertson and Billy Gardner, both already members of Geelong’s vibrant garage rock scene, bonded over a mutual interest in The Music Machine and The Golden Dawn. “Billy had a made a Brian Jones-era Rolling Stones MySpace page when he had a broken leg,” Robertson says. “When we started it was just us two, then we got Marc [Dean] on bass. Marc loved post-punk stuff and then we got Shaun [Connor], and he loved hardcore and disco. I like all of that stuff.” | 0:47:35 (Pop-up) | |
| Monks |
Oh, How To Do Now
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Black Monk Time (reissue) | Light In The Attic | 1966 | "The Monks were a garage rock band, formed by American GIs who were based in Germany in the mid-to-late 1960s. They released one album, Black Monk Time, which was characterized by repetitive, primitive music and chanted lyrics." This statement we feel...oversimplifies a band that is essentially high dada art. Which is an oxymoron. We know. | 0:49:49 (Pop-up) | |
| Sharhabeel Ahmed |
Irkos Farfesh
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Habibi Funk (An Eclectic Selection Of Music From The Arab World) | Habibi Funk Records | 2017 | Sharhabeel Ahmed (Arabic: شرحبيل أحمد, b. 1935), is a Sudanese popular musician, known for his distinctive style of singing, compositions, oud and guitar playing. Inspired by Western dance music like rock and roll and adding brass instruments to his electric lead guitar, he has been called "The King of Sudanese Jazz". Sharhabil's wife, Zakia Abdul Gassim Abu Bakr, was the first female guitarist in Sudan, and several of their seven sons and daughters also have become musicians. In 2021, Zakia announced the forthcoming release of an album by her all-female band Sawa Sawa | 0:52:59 (Pop-up) | |
| Fadoul |
Bsslama Hbibti
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Habibi Funk (An Eclectic Selection Of Music From The Arab World) | Habibi Funk | 2017 | The late Fadoul and his accompanying three piece band played energetic & aggressive funk songs in 1970s Casablanca. After a stint in Paris spent soaking up the music of James Brown and other American funk groups, Fadoul returned to Morocco to release records under Fadaul et les Privileges and other monikers. | 0:57:35 (Pop-up) | |
| The Tammys |
Egyptian Shumba
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Egyptian Shumba / What's So Sweet About Sweet Sixteen | United Artists | 1964 | The Tammys were an American girl group made up of sisters Gretchen and Cathy Owens and their friend Linda Jones. As Northern Soul hit Britain in the early 1970s and spurred a renewed interest in girl groups, collectors began searching for all sorts of rare records from the 1960s that should have been hits but weren’t. Looking especially for songs with a dance groove, "Egyptian Shumba" was unearthed and became a cult classic. | 1:02:30 (Pop-up) | |
| Rachid Tacha |
Rock El Casbah
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Tekitoi? | Barclay | 2004 | It was September 1981, and Taha bumped into all four members of the band just before they were due to play at the Théâtre Mogador in Paris. Taha gave them a copy of a demo tape by his band, Carte de Séjour (Residence Permit), an outfit from Lyon who combined Algerian raï with funk and punk rock. "They looked interested," remembers Taha, "but when they didn't get in touch, I thought nothing of it. Then, a few months later, I heard Rock the Casbah." He cackles mischievously. "Maybe they did hear it after all." The incident has since gone down in French rock legend. | 1:04:54 (Pop-up) | |
Music behind DJ: Dub Spencer & Trance Hill |
Rock The Casbah
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The Clashification of Dub |
Echo Beach |
2011 |
Dub, reggae, trance and downtempo band from Luzern, Switzerland, active since 2003. |
1:09:24 (Pop-up) |
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| Springtime |
The Names Of The Plague
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The Night Raver EP | Joyful Noise | 2022 | An Australian collaboration featuring Gareth Liddiard (Tropical Fuck Storm, The Drones), Jim White (Dirty Three, Xylouris White) and Chris Abrahams (The Necks, The Still)... Clocking in at over 40 minutes, Night Raver EP starts with Names of the Plague. A song featuring the lyrics of British poet (and Liddiard’s uncle) Ian Duhig. (Amongst many awards & work, he was also a chair of the final judging panel for the T. S. Eliot Prize awards.) The Night Raver EP by Springtime (Bandcamp link) | * | 1:19:06 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: Colpitts |
Recovery
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Music from the Accident |
Thrill Jockey |
2022 |
Released last week, March 18, 2022. "The music of composer and percussionist John Colpitts is as fearless as it is far-reaching. As one of New York’s most in-demand improvisers and drummers, Colpitts’ prolific list of collaborations speaks to his omnivorous and innovative approach to music. He operates at the vanguard of new music, whether working with pioneering composers like William Basinski and Laurie Anderson, outrock explorers Boredoms, Oneida and Spiritualized, or fellow contemporary sonic adventurers Greg Fox and Jan St. Werner. On new album Music from the Accident, Colpitts eschews his Man Forever and Kid Millions [of Oneida] monikers to present his most vulnerable and resonant work to date, charting an important period of transformation for the composer... As its name implies, Music from the Accident captures an unexpected, life-altering change in the composer’s life. In February 2018, Colpitts was involved in a car crash which severely injured his back and left him unable to work or perform for months. Working on new music became an important means of pushing forward through his recovery, which Colpitts deliberately approached as an opportunity to explore new creative avenues. Colpitts’ expressive grasp of rhythm and space still form the foundation of the album. Drums and percussion are entirely absent for the first half of the record, the composer instead transposing his rhythmic ingenuity to other instruments; with close friend and collaborator Greg Fox acting as producer. The album’s subtle minimalism provides a perfect analogue for Colpitts’ journey to recovery: each repetition or delicate shift in tone and texture is almost imperceptible and yet an important step towards the album’s conclusion." Release: Music from the Accident (Bandcamp) |
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1:34:21 (Pop-up) |
| OHMNO |
Apple Charlotte
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Muscles For President | Self Released | 2022 | New & not-yet-released OHMNO from this Toronto-based outfit's forthcoming album! "We started this record in the summer of 2020. Locked up at home under COVID restrictions there was nothing to do but watch chaos unfold in the outside world and recede further into ourselves than previously thought possible... ...Self produced and tracked from our bedroom studios and occasionally in person at Jakub Bros' Cherry Beach studio this is the most collaborative OHMNO album to date. Instruments and vocal duties are regularly swapped and samples and synthesizers are generously applied to the bands' minimalist indie fuzz rock pallet. Mellotrons, Reverb tanks and Vocoders are treated like the 5th member of the band." OHMNO bandcamp | * | 1:46:19 (Pop-up) |
| Current Joys (Feat. Anika) |
Dancer In The Dark
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Covers From Across The Sea | Current Joys | 2022 | This is the project of LA based musician Nick Rattigan, today releases a brand new covers EP, titled Covers From Across The Sea. It features reimagined versions of tracks from Current Joys’ 2021 album, Voyager, from Anika. | * | 1:53:27 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: [Birds] |
[Birdsong]
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Music behind DJ: CAN |
Vernal Equinox (Edit)
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The Singles |
Spoon / Mute |
1975 |
"CAN are regarded as one of the most influential avant garde rock groups of all time. They were at the forefront of the krautrock movement that evolved in Germany in the late 1960s and early 1970s, along with bands such as Neu! and Kraftwerk. Can's 1969 debut Monster Movie, Tago Mago (1971) and Future Days (1973) are regarded as some of the most groundbreaking in rock history, combining psychedelia with classic pop influences and avant garde compositional methods." / "The March equinox or northward equinox is the equinox on the Earth when the subsolar point appears to leave the Southern Hemisphere and cross the celestial equator, heading northward as seen from Earth. The March equinox is known as the vernal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and as the autumnal equinox in the Southern Hemisphere." |
2:00:01 (Pop-up) |
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| Broadcast |
In Here The World Begins
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Mother Is The Milky Way | Warp | 2009 / 2022 | Officially released this month, this was originally a Tour only release that was limited to 750 copies in a cardboard slipcase. Warp also has re-issued/released their other Tour-Only EPs Microtonics 1+2 & their BBC Maida Vale Radio sessions. | * | 2:01:02 (Pop-up) |
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