Transmissions from Echo Beach with Derek Westerholm and DJ Babs:
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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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Music behind DJ: Sounds Of The Ocean |
Beach Sounds
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Ocean Sounds |
Sounds Of The Ocean |
2016 |
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| Cel Ray |
Surf's Up (Garfield Park)
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Surf's Up (Garfield Park) Single | Cel Ray | 2023 | Cel Ray = Cellular Raymond. With an impressively coiled rhythm section that reminds of The Uranium Club, the Chicago band’s propulsive riffs and Maddie Daviss’ animated vocal performance are given room to unfurl with exuberant freedom. The band’s debut album, Cellular Raymond, not only has one of the best titles we can imagine, it’s also boundlessly fun, explosive, and tightly punchy. The rhythms sprint with taut perfection, locked in at warp speed, layering a dense framework for the radiant cleanliness of the guitar’s attack and Daviss’ always captivating performance. There’s a vivid sense of humor balanced by a state of urgency that runs throughout. | 0:01:45 (Pop-up) | |
| Sweeping Promises |
Ideal No
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Good Living Is Coming For You | Feel It Records | 2023 | We had the pleasure of seeing SP live last week and WHAT a joy! They are wonderful on record and absolutely mind blowing live as a 3 piece. Taut, precise, focused...and Lira's vocals are absolutely spectacular. Watch this space for an interview coming soon! | * | 0:03:40 (Pop-up) |
| Current Affairs |
Regardless
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Off The Tongue | Tough Love | 2023 | Glasgow is the heart and hub of the band’s music, musical life and the place where Off the Tongue was solidified and produced. Written from within the world of crumbling services, broken bonds and wounded spirits, Off the Tongue rolls off an ecstatic rage, filled with hope for you, them and everyone else. It’s a rallying cry away from hopelessness, forgiving your fears and laying them to waste. Their album holds a place for you to be angry and to be focussed. In lieu of having anything else, we’ve always got each other, and an uncertain future is open game for us too. | * | 0:06:10 (Pop-up) |
| Ghoulies |
Self Help
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Euro Tour Split Single | Goodbye Boozy | 2023 | Just released last week, this single slaps! Ghoulies are a new-ish band from Perth. Obviously influenced by the likes of Coneheads and Neo Neos, still sound uniquely Australian. The recordings are lo-fi and the synths sound like fleamarket finds, but the melodies are gold. If you like Gee Tee you’ll be sure to enjoy the Ghoulies brand of synth-punk as well. | * | 0:09:30 (Pop-up) |
| Not A Band |
Existential Dread
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Non-EP | Not A Band | 2021 | Toronto's NOT A BAND is not a band, they are so much more. Performance art, theatre, social commentary and excellent grooves. We had the pleasure of seeing the collective open for Sweeping Promises and they are absolutely delightful! They are opening for Luge later this month here in TO...don't miss the spectacle! | 0:11:13 (Pop-up) | |
| Onyon |
Alien Alien
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Alien Alien Single | Trouble In Mind | 2023 | Onyon is from Leipzig, a city with a small-ish punk scene whose other main attraction, Maraudeurs...with synths like the instruments dropped down from space; the band sings like someone who learned from subway announcements, and yet it’s not just the strangeness that’s compelling, but the way this alien aesthetic works in its own terms”). Onyon sits a little more comfortably in the post-punk spectrum: oddball, but not so strange in the context of Kleenex/Lilliput and ESG. Also, while Maraudeur is all women, Onyon is a four-piece divided equally by gender. Ilka Kellner and Maria Untheim sing and play guitar and keyboards, respectively, while Mario Pongratz plays drums and Florian Schmidt plays bass. | * | 0:13:49 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: Piero Piccioni |
Playgirl '70
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Playgirl '70 |
EMI |
1970 |
Piero Piccioni (December 6, 1921 – July 23, 2004) was an Italian film score composer and lawyer. A pianist, organist, conductor, composer, he was also the prolific author of more than 300 film soundtracks. He played for the first time on radio in 1938 with his “013” Big Band, to return on air only after the liberation of Italy in 1944. “013” was the first Italian jazz band to be broadcast in Italy after the fall of Fascism |
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Music behind DJ: Jean-Pierre Mirouze |
Sexopolis
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Le Mariage Collectif (OST) |
Born Bad Records |
2012 |
With the exception of two songs that already came out on a 45, the material on this disk was destined to remain in the trash. In 1971, a very few copies were made on acetate in an attempt to attract the interest of record labels. One was miraculously found in July, 20 In 1971, in a garbage dump. Hervé Lamarre, who had just finished shooting the film Le mariage collectif in Sweden, thought of using the Dim Dam Dom team to create the musical score for his film. This film, which claims to try to justify open relationships and sexual freedom, is actually a botched second-rate picture that combines evocations of the Beat Generation, hippie idealism and softcore nudity, in a work that is -- quite frankly -- uninteresting. Jean-Pierre Mirouze, because of his association with Dim Dam Dom, was expected to bring a trendy touch to the project..and he did..but to no avail since the film was ultimately a flop and the soundtrack along with the film...largely forgotten until redisovered... |
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| Pavement |
Flux = Rad
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Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA's Desert Origins | Matador Records | 1993 / 2004 | R.I.P. Gary Young, last Fri Aug 18, at age 70. This was one of the last songs to feature the original Pavement drummer; it would later be re-recorded 2 albums later for 1995's 'Wowee Zowee'. "Gary Young, the original drummer for US indie-rock band Pavement has died aged 70. His passing was confirmed on social media by the band’s frontman Stephen Malkmus. “Gary Young passed on today,” he wrote... ...Adding: “Gary’s Pavement drums were ‘one take and hit record’…. Nailed it so well. RIP.” Record label Matador Records, which released the band’s 1992 debut album Slanted and Enchanted, also shared a tribute online. “We were exceedingly lucky to know the amazing human, drummer, producer and solo artist Gary Young,” wrote the label. “Much love today to his family, friends and bandmates.” Born in New York in 1953, Young was a former hippie who began drumming for punk bands in the 1980s and working as a talent booker. Pavement started out as a duo consisting of guitarist-vocalists Malkmus and Scott Kannberg. Back in 1989 they were recording a session at Young’s home studio Louder Than You Think, which Young was producing, when he offered to drum for them. The result was the group’s debut EP, Slay Tracks: 1933–1969. After the EP proved a success, Jason Fawkes was brought in as the band’s new drummer, though a reported dispute with Malkmus led to Young returning to produce and drum for their next two EPs, Demolition Plot J-7 (1990) and Perfect Sound Forever (1991). Once they hit the live circuit Young began to gain a reputation to to his wild mid-gig antics which were fuelled by an alcohol problem. The drummer was said to have served food to concertgoers and greeted them at the door, performed onstage headstands during other bandmembers’ songs, and would run around the venue. Young eventually managed to get sober in 1998. He left Pavement in 1992 with his final contribution as the band’s drummer being the EP Watery, Domestic, though he returned to produce two tracks on their 1999 EP Major Leagues. After that he continued to play music, releasing three albums with his own group Gary Young’s Hospital (in 1994, 1999 and 2004) and a solo record titled Malfunction in 2016. In 2010 he delighted fans by joining his Pavement bandmates for a reunion gig in his hometown of Stockton. His life was the subject of the recent documentary Louder Than You Think which had its world premiere at this year’s SXSW film festival in Austin, Texas." | 0:27:48 (Pop-up) | |
| Pavement |
Price Yeah!
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Slay Tracks: 1933 - 1969 / Westing (By Musket And Sextant) | Treble Kicker / Drag City | 1989 / 1993 | One of the first Pavement songs to feature Gary Young on drums. "Pavement was formed in 1989 in Stockton, California, by Stephen Malkmus and Scott Kannberg. Malkmus and Kannberg had previously performed together in the band Bag O' Bones. Pavement had its start playing at open mic nights at clubs and bars. The songs the band played during this time were mostly covers, although they also performed many original songs that would later be released on Slay Tracks. Malkmus recalls, "It was pretty reasonable to be able to make a single for $1,000, so we decided to go for it. We didn't have any real plans because we weren't a real band." Two local studios existed in Stockton, the cheaper and less professionally minded of which was Gary Young's Louder Than You Think Studio. The band decided to record at Young's studio due to their admiration of other local punk bands who had recorded there, including The Young Pioneers and The Authorities. Kannberg reportedly borrowed $800 from his father to record Slay Tracks. //// Slay Tracks was recorded during a four-hour session on January 17, 1989, at Young's studio. Kannberg, describing the studio and the recording process, said, "You go into his house and it's stuff everywhere, old dogs lying around, big pot plants everywhere, and Gary tells us that he got all his equipment by selling pot! It was us going in and pretty much just laying down the songs with a guide guitar and a detuned guitar through a bass amp and then we'd play drums over the top." Young, though bewildered by the band's sound, contributed by playing drums. He recalled, "[Malkmus and Kannberg] come in and they play this weird guitar noise and it just sounds like noise, with no background. My drums were in there so I said, 'Should I drum?' and they said 'Okay.'" Kannberg said, "We did it really fast. We probably spent one day tracking and one day mixing it. "The title of the EP had been decided prior to its recording, and the pseudonyms S.M. and Spiral Stairs were used to credit Malkmus and Kannberg respectively." | 0:30:04 (Pop-up) | |
| The Fall |
Glam-Racket / Star
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Cerebral Caustic [Expanded] | 1994 | Pavement borrowed a fair amount from The Fall, which made them a favourite target of Mark E Smith's, occasionally via his lyrics, and especially through the press. Since the vague theme of this show is to do with "racket", here is a version of Glam-Racket. In fact, it features a newly-re-joined Brix E Smith, who was in the band for a couple more mid-nighties albums. This is from John Peel Session #18, Dec 19, 1994. | 0:33:12 (Pop-up) | ||
| Blue Orchids |
The Face Of Time
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Magpie Heights | Tiny Global Productions | 2023 | Releases November 17, 2023. "Continuing the mystical thread and acid explorations which were a hallmark of The Fall's initial line-up, Martin Bramah has quietly crafted a trove of psychedelic visions unparalleled among musicians of his generation. //// Despite never quite cracking mainstream public consciousness, Blue Orchids endure as a living treasures of head music for post-punks, with a series of deeply-magical recordings." Blue Orchids (Bandcamp) | * | 0:36:31 (Pop-up) |
| Upchuck |
Freaky
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Bite The Hand That Feeds | Famous Class Records | 2023 |
“Freaky” appears on Upchuck’s new album ‘Bite The Hand That Feeds' - out October 13th, 2023. //// "Atlanta punk crew Upchuck, fronted by Kalia “KT” Thompson, have announced a new album, Bite The Hand That Feeds, which follows up last year’s debut, Sense Yourself. Out October 13, Bite The Hand That Feeds features production from Ty Segall and was recorded at his Topanga Canyon home studio. Today, Upchuck have shared a rabble rousing lead single, “Freaky,” which comes with a video that pays homage to the late Paul Reubens... //// [ |
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| The Mystery Lights |
Someone Else Is In Control
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Too Much Tension! | Wick Records | 2019 | From their sophomore release "Too Much Tension!" on Wick Records (a Daptone Records Subsidiary)... Video: The Mystery Lights - Someone Else is in Control [Official Video] "Originally from the small town of Salinas, California and now based in NYC, The Mystery Lights' live shows gradually became the stuff of legend as the quintet won their following one fan at a time in dives from Brooklyn to the Bowery. The Lights’ sound has evolved into a fuzz-fueled hopped-up 21st Century take on 60s garage pebbles, and artful 70s punk, that is all their own." The Mystery Lights (Bandcamp) | 0:41:41 (Pop-up) | |
| Sunglaciers |
Kafka - Mixtape Version
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Sounds from Mothland, Vol. II | Mothland Records | 2023 | A Calgary, Alberta quartet... "Like their name might suggest, Sunglaciers’ music blurs the boundaries between dazzling indie-rock melodicism and icy post-punk experimentation... Sunglaciers initially came together in 2017 as a collaboration between Blanchard and lead vocalist Evan Resnik, both of whom handle an array of instruments and co-production duties on Subterranea. As Blanchard completed his studies to become a doctor working in family medicine and addiction, and Resnik returned from a hitchhiking trip through France, the duo decided to form a new musical project. The past five years have found them steadily growing in popularity, sharing stages with acts such as Omni, Preoccupations, and Daniel Romano, while topping the charts of campus radio stations in Western Canada." | * | 0:43:40 (Pop-up) |
| Hot Face |
Dura Dura
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Dura Dura [Single] | Speedy Wunderground | 2023 | Released May 3, 2023. "he 45th entrant to the prestigious speedy wunderground singles series, Hot Face’s debut arrives with thunderous intentions. ‘you’ll either love it or run from it’. Such is the brazen war-cry of emergent London psych-punk trio Hot Face, the latest unearthed gem to drift menacingly into the devilish, dial-twisting fingers of producer overload suprême Dan Carey. A band seen wearing French Monster Masks, have come, like from an early Disney nightmare sequence, with no other motive than to strike into our hearts a theatrical, playful, yet deeply soul-shaking fear. Electric and delicious, and dribbling with power, ‘dura dura’ thwacks out a whiplash riptide of psych-punk adrenaline. Riffs up to here, shreds with enough friction to start small house fires, parkours from one tempo to next without any regard for personal safety… the falls down are fatally far but the heights are so euphoric high…. Bringing Osees’s manias south of the Thames, making over King Gizzard and Lizard Wizard with Mod haircuts and Fred Perry polos, ‘dura dura’ provides enough uprooting force to unthread jumpers, unpair shocks or send raincoats flying off their hooks. Which is to say, a lot." | * | 0:45:30 (Pop-up) |
| Flat Worms |
Sigalert
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Witness Marks | God? / Drag City | 2023 | "Flat Worms announced their new LP, Witness Marks, which is coming out on Ty Segall's Drag City imprint GOD?, with their first single, "Time Warp In Exile" late last month. Their second single, “Suburban Swans,” was a punchy, grinding post-punk track about our perceptions of reality, free will, and watching voracious housing developments swallowing your hometown. Their third single, “Sigalert,” out [yester]day, is an existential hardcore-influenced ripper. The new single came to lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter Will Ivy while stuck in infamous Los Angeles traffic, tuned into the traffic and weather AM radio station. //// The song transposes the maddening mundanity of stop-and-go traffic onto the pitfalls of modern life; Ivy alludes to grief, progress and healing as this non-linear, stop and start process, always trying to move towards a goal but feeling like nothing is in your control. Flat Worms recently announced their hometown release show in LA at Permanent Records Roadhouse on October 6th with Shannon Lay and QWOS. //// Speaking to "Sigalert", Will Ivy writes, "I moved out of the city in 2020, and as a result now spend a lot of time in traffic. I started listening to the traffic and weather AM radio station, at first because I thought it was amusing but then religiously to check routes. A sigalert is a warning broadcast by radio stations telling of unusual or hazardous traffic conditions. Stuck motionless on the freeway, the mind spins into the existential: just when I get going I get stuck. Every time I move I come back again like I never was.“ //// Flat Worms’ new record includes hints of the garage-punk of their past work but looks to 80s hardcore, as well as contemporaries like Viagra Boys, Fontaines DC, and Parquet Courts, to create an urgency that undergirds the emotional turmoil and loss that connects these songs and the three longtime friends and bandmates. //// Flat Worms are looking inward this time, outlining personal space in relation to themselves and others – sometimes, even people they barely know. Among the slabs of slate-grey discontent, the flowers of compassion are blooming, and the simmering power of their trio grows exponentially. //// Each member of Flat Worms, lead singer, songwriter, and guitarist Will Ivy, drummer Justin Sullivan (Kevin Morby) and bassist Tim Hellman (OSEES) have navigated through the depths of their personal hardships in the four years since the band released Antarctica in early 2020. The democracy of working together, so often messy and frustrating, was found to be a powerful release for the trio. //// Acting as one, Flat Worms navigated their personal burdens by coming together, finding release in the clockwork repetitions of practice and the shared creative space they occupied together against the encroaching world." | * | 0:49:21 (Pop-up) |
| The Hives |
Trapdoor Solution
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The Death Of Randy Fitzsimmons | Disques Hives | 2023 | "The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons is the sixth studio album by Swedish rock band The Hives, released on 11 August 2023 through the band's Disques Hives label. The album marks the first studio release in over 11 years, since 2012's Lex Hives, marking the longest gap between two Hives albums. //// The album was recorded in a studio owned by ABBA member Benny Anderson in Stockholm. Announced on 2 May 2023, the day also saw the release of the first single "Bogus Operandi". The trademark "suave sound" fizzling with "wild energy" of the song was seen as setting the tone for the whole project. According to Rolling Stone, the album is a "a collection of 12 high-energy punk-ish songs reminiscent of their best work from the early 2000s". Lead singer Pelle Almqvist reflected on the intention of the record, saying, "Rock'n'roll can't grow up, it is a perpetual teenager and this album feels exactly like that". According to a press release, the "macabre title" hints at the extended break the band took from recording, described as a "horror story". "Randy Fitzsimmons" refers to the fictional sixth member of the Hives who supposedly served as the band's manager and sole songwriter. The album is the first release to feature bassist The Johan and Only, following the departure of Dr. Matt Destruction in 2013." | * | 0:51:53 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: Los Bitchos |
Trapdoor
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Pah! |
City Slang |
2023 |
Cover of King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard... "Los Bitchos is a band based in London, England. The band consists of Serra Petale (guitar), Agustina Ruiz (keytar; synthesisers), Josefine Jonsson (bass guitar), and Nic Crawshaw (drums; percussion). They predominantly play instrumental music in the style of cumbia from the 70s and 80s" |
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Music behind DJ: The Turbans |
Minotaur - Thee Oh Sees Cover
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Minotaur (Thee Oh Sees Cover) |
The Turbans / Kame'a |
2006 |
One of my favourite Oh Sees songs, a rather fantastic version of it, in my estimation... Some rather excellent & playful attention to detail... |
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Music behind DJ: 16BIT |
In The Death Car
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In The Death Car EP |
Boka Records |
2009 |
A rather unexpected and curious cover of what may or may not be an unlikely song in terms of source material. "Arizona Dream is the soundtrack album from the 1993 film of the same name directed by Emir Kusturica. The soundtrack was written by Goran Bregović and features original contributions from vocalist/lyricist Iggy Pop, also uses three songs of jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt." Pop sang and wrote lyrics for this track; though this version is clearly lo-res instrumental. "16bit were composed of Eddie Jefferys from South London and Jason Morrison from Bath, Somerset. Both became interested in electronic music at an early age, citing jungle, and garage as their main influences. They were best known for producing dubstep and made their debut release in January 2008 with In The Death Car EP featuring the track "Chainsaw Calligraphy" which was recognised for its innovative qualities at the time. //// Fourteen of 16bit's songs were used as the soundtrack for the iOS and WiiWare video game Lilt Line. //// The duo co-produced "Crystalline" and "Mutual Core" off Björk's 2011 album Biophilia. They subsequently remixed both "Mutual Core" and "Hollow". The album was nominated for two Grammy awards. Jefferys and Morrison went to Brooklyn where they worked with the artist for a week. Björk explained that "I was really torn about whether to use their version of 'Hollow' on the album. Their beats for 'Crystalline' and 'Mutual Core' made it on there, but in the end 'Hollow' wound up on the remix album". While Jefferys said of the collaboration that "working with such abstract time signatures was definitely a strange mix of confusing and enjoyable. She has been so successful without compromising her music or herself". They produced the single "At Your Inconvenience" from the eponymous album of Professor Green. In 2012, the duo had also produced the track "I Am the Narrator" from Plan B's third studio album iLL Manors. //// Their 2010 remix of Noisia's "Machine Gun" was used in a trailer and various TV spots for Transformers: Dark of the Moon. The remix was also used in the trailer for Far Cry 3. //// In 2010, their track 'Jump' was featured in the Nike commercial 'Hit The Target'. //// 16bit won 'Best Mix' at the 2010 Dubstep Forum Awards for their 'Milky Pie Mix' and came second top in the Best Producer category. Although they stated that the intention was to release an album, it never materialised. In mid-2012, the duo split to pursue solo production careers for unknown reasons. Jefferys relocated to Chicago. //// Eddie Jefferys has since released music under the alias "Moody Good". He released his debut album with MTA Records and Owsla on 2 June 2014. Jefferys also produced a single for the rap group Foreign Beggars entitled "Anywhere", provided additional production for the Chase & Status track "Gangsta Boogie" and remixed Yogi's single featuring Pusha T 'Burial'. //// Jason Morrison was also working on his own solo project known as The 13, but he eventually decided to retire the project. He is currently working under the alternative alias "jaswan", which he has released solo music on Bandcamp as, and has all of his tracks listed on SoundCloud and S[***]ify." |
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Music behind DJ: 8-Bit Misfits |
Sabotage
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8-Bit Versions Of Beastie Boys |
Roma Music Group |
2018 |
Pretty self-explanatory |
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| Thank |
Good Boy
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Thoughtless Cruelty | Box Records | 2022 | This track could very easily be mistaken for a Gilla Band song...with perhaps a little more care taken in the hook department. But it's not...It's THANK. Pummelling, angsty expressions of distress which are their calling card. 'Thoughtless Cruelty' is a stark observation of human cruelty filtered through the band’s grim fascinations including long term nuclear warnings, the writings of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, and the "business as usual" liberal politics which has given way to the global rise of the far right. | 1:07:31 (Pop-up) | |
| Terry |
Excuses
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Call Me Terry | Upset The Rhythm | 2023 | Five years on from the last record, “I’m Terry”, the Australian four-piece welcome their new album, “Call Me Terry”, released in April 2023. Lyrically, in true Terry fashion, the record wastes no time in scrutinising Australia’s corrupt, colonial history. They sing it loud and sprawl it across the jacket of this record, highlighting the greed, privilege and entitlement of white, wealthy “Australia”. Musically, “Call Me Terry” has the classic Terry punk sound; four vocals singing as one, sharp guitars and quirky synths, rolling bass and drums. But the sugar on top here may just be some of their finest horn, string and piano performances to date – all of which never feel crowded, cluttered or over-involved. | 1:10:25 (Pop-up) | |
| Neon Hearts |
Regulations
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Ball & Chain | Neon Hearts | 1978 | Neon Hearts were Wolverhampton's first punk band that had a short lived existence from 1977 to 1981 at the height of the punk movement. The band was founded in the summer of 1977 by Steve Heart when he quit Birmingham-based Suburban Studs after being told a sax player was inappropriate in a punk band. The initial line up included Steve, his cousin, a bass player called Paul Raven, a drummer friend of Paul's, Keith Allen, and Martin Ratcliffe, a guitarist friend of Keith's. The band recorded a John Peel Session on 21 March at the Maida Vale Studios in London. By chance the five band members met up in August 2002 and ended up recording two new songs written by Tony, "Retrograde" and "Heart of Darkness". This was the last time the band played together due to the tragic death of bass player Paul Raven in October 2007. Paul had become a highly influential musician best known for his work in the seminal punk/goth/metal/electronic group Killing Joke. He later played in the alternative rock/industrial rock bands Prong & Ministry. Tony Dial later changed his name to Vael Deary and is now writing songs towards entertaining an audience. Vael won't do the retro thing with the Neon Hearts. He's busy playing to unsuspecting audiences across the UK. | 1:11:34 (Pop-up) | |
| GLAAS |
Concrete Coffin
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Qualm | Static Shock | 2022 | Berlin's GLAAS effortlessly blends equal parts punk and darkened post-punk to create an energetic sound while maintaining an ambiance of melancholic dismay. Vocals sound like they’re screaming from the bottom of a pit while the guitars and drums want to continually attempt to bury them. The punk influence seemingly draws from a 1977-style revival sound like the HATEPINKS, but it’s all filtered through the post-punk of JOY DIVISION. A sort of beautified noise annoys approach that pairs well with a pint or a molotov. | 1:14:12 (Pop-up) | |
Music behind DJ: Cal Tjader & Lalo Schifrin |
The Fakir
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Several Shades of Jade |
Verve |
1968 |
Stewart Mason reviewed the album for Allmusic and wrote that of Tjader and Schifrin's collaboration that it was "...no more traditional Asian music than Tjader's similar albums from this period are traditional Latin American music, but the pair wisely avoids the standard clichés of Asian music (no smashing gongs after every musical phrase or melodies that sound like rejects from The Mikado). Instead, Schifrin frames Tjader's meditative vibraphone solos in arrangements that strike a cool balance between western kitsch and eastern exotica, never tipping too far in either direction. ...Several Shades of Jade is actually an interesting experiment that succeeds more often than it fails." |
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Music behind DJ: Herbie Mann |
Turkish Coffee
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Impressions of the Middle East |
Atlantic Records |
1967 |
Herbie Mann was an American jazz flute player and important early practitioner of world music. Early in his career, he also played tenor saxophone and clarinet (including bass clarinet), but Mann was among the first jazz musicians to specialize on the flute. His most popular single was "Hi-Jack", which was a Billboard No. 1 dance hit for three weeks in 1975. Mann emphasized the groove approach in his music. Mann felt that from his repertoire, the "epitome of a groove record" was Memphis Underground or Push Push, because the "rhythm section locked all in one perception." |
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| Les Rallizes Dénudés |
眩暈 / Vertigo otherwise My Conviction
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'67-'69 Studio et Live | The Last One Musique / Tuff Beats | 2022 | The 2022 remaster. "Temporal Drift presents the first-ever officially sanctioned reissue of celebrated Japanese cult band Les Rallizes Dénudés’ three albums, originally compiled and released in limited quantities on CD in 1991. These reissues follow the label’s release of The OZ Tapes in 2022, as part of the label’s ongoing series of Les Rallizes Dénudés reissues. //// Led by the enigmatic Takashi Mizutani, Les Rallizes Dénudés has gained an almost mythical status the world over with their delicate balancing act between transcendent psychedelia and pure sonic assault, maintaining its status as an underground phenomenon throughout their three decade existence and beyond. //// ‘67-’69 STUDIO et LIVE, MIZUTANI / Les Rallizes Dénudés, and ‘77 LIVE are the only albums released during Les Rallizes Dénudés’ lifetime, between its formation in 1967 at Doshisha University in Kyoto to its last-ever show in 1996 at Club Citta in Kawasaki. Produced by Mizutani, the three discs collectively provide a window into the (in)famously impenetrable band’s first decade of existence. //// ‘67-’69 STUDIO et LIVE features early recordings that capture the reckless energy of the band’s formative years in Kyoto. Includes early takes of Rallizes staples “Memory is Far Away” and “The Last One,” the rare tender ballad “Bird Calls in the Dark,” possibly Mothers of Invention-inspired (complete with a kazoo solo) “Vertigo otherwise My Conviction.” CD edition includes two previously unreleased bonus tracks, including a take on the classic stomper “Tobacco Road” (more Blues Magoos than Nashville Teens.) //// Produced in collaboration with The Last One Musique, the new label set up by former members and associates of Les Rallizes Dénudés, ‘67-’69 STUDIO et LIVE features newly remastered audio by former Rallizes member Makoto Kubota and new liner notes by Manabu Yuasa." | 1:25:52 (Pop-up) | |
| Les Rallizes Denudes Cover Band (John Dwyer, Drew St. Ivany, Tom Dolas & Bill Roe) |
The Night Collectors
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Les Rallizes Denudes Cover Band Live | Castle Face | 2023 | Recorded live in a Cemetery on June 17, 2023 & Released August 4, 2023... "You could call Les Rallizes Dénudés a “cult band’s cult band,” but I suspect that this Japanese group’s subversive energy and mysterious mythos could lure any curious weirdo into their orbit. Led by guitarist and vocalist Takashi Mizutani, the group formed in Kyoto in 1967, and in their early years they mixed the Velvet Underground’s lo-fi avant-pop experimentalism with transcendent psychedelic rock and dreamy folk. According to the lore that surrounds the band, they never played their songs the same way twice, and their shows were often punishing, disorienting sonic and visual assaults as intense as their radical left-wing politics. Founding bassist Moriaki Wakabayashi has remained in self-imposed exile in North Korea since assisting in the 1970 hijacking of Japan Air Lines Flight 351 by a militant communist group, and Mizutani had a history with members of the same organization. It’s widely assumed that paranoia and anguish about the hijacking led Mizutani to go into hiding for years, but Les Rallizes Dénudés nonetheless continued to perform on and off until the mid-1990s. They never released a studio album, so that the main way their fervent international fan base grew was via myriad live bootleg recordings. Writing for NPR last year, Matt LaJoie acknowledged that the bootleggers may not all have been crass profiteers—some of them may have genuinely wanted to share amazing music that would otherwise be nearly impossible to hear. But for Mizutani, LaJoie concluded, the result was the same either way: “an insatiable international fanbase buying up recordings he never wanted released; his visionary work stripped from his hands without control or compensation.” //////// In 2021 the first official Les Rallizes Dénudés website appeared, and soon it posted an announcement that Mizutani had passed away in 2019 and that former members of the group had created a company called the Last One Musique. In an interview with the Quietus, producer and former LRD bassist Makoto Kubota explained that the company’s purpose is twofold: to remaster and reissue the archival live recordings Les Rallizes Dénudés had released via the Rivista label in the early 90s and to preserve Mizutani’s musical legacy (a large cache of tapes was discovered in his Kyoto home after his death). //////// Last year, Kubota collaborated with Temporal Drift to officially release the Rivista material and more, and in celebration, the Los Angeles label has teamed up with Empty Bottle Presents for this concert outside the mausoleum at Bohemian National Cemetery. The evening will feature LRD-inspired sets by a mix of unconventionally minded artists, including prolific local electronic explorer Oui Ennui, Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Steve Gunn, Chicago psych rockers Cafe Racer, midwest noise-blues collective Who Is the Witness? (Tim Kinsella, Jenny Pulse, Whitney Johnson, and Jon Mueller), and Toronto noise-pop artist Cindy Lee. The climax of the night will be a Les Rallizes Dénudés covers set by a band of psychedelic fuzz adventurers: John Dwyer (Osees), Tom Dolas (Mr. Elevator), Drew St. Ivany (the Psychic Paramount), and Trouble in Mind co-owner Bill Roe (CoCoComa)." -------- If purchasing this release through the John Dwyer Bancamp site: "ALL PROCEEDS FROM THIS RECORDING WILL GO TO LOCAL CHICAGO CHARITIES //// THE FIRST: www.chicagohomeless.org //// RECORDED BY MIKE LUST //// MIXED AND BURNT BY JPD //// THANKS MUCH TO BRENT HEYL & THE WHOLE CREW" https://johndwyer.bandcamp.com/album/les-rallizes-denudes-cover-band-live (Bandcamp) | * | 1:29:29 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: Les Rallizes Dénudés |
The Last One 1969 (Live Version)
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'67-'69 Studio et Live |
The Last One Musique / Tuff Beats |
2022 |
The 2022 remaster. "It's an expensive business keeping up with Les Rallizes Denudes. Not many bands can lay claim to having spent less on recording their music than their fans have on purchasing it. And yet here we are staring down these latest reissues by Temporal Drift, struggling to not make a case for the completists. As with the Oz Tapes set, what's most notable here is these are official releases, put together with the blessing of surviving members & family - ie the money is back flowing in the right direction. No complaints there. And the music itself? The first thing to say is that these were the only records to be released during the time the band were active. With a band so consciously shrouded in mystery and concerned with their own mythos, it's tricky to know what to infer from that, though i'd assume they carry some kind of approval - might we then surmise that this is the most accurate representation of Les Rallizes Denudes? Again, tricky: i think we're about done with making concessions to the sovereignty of the author. What i will say is that there is a lot of music spanning a wide period of time, and through that we're provided a map of the group's evolution, something that's easy to parse when you consider that there's not actually that many different songs, instead different versions. With that comes a sense of a continuous re-evaluation of approach, that this was a band that didn't stand still, as likely to pull it apart as they were to put it together. If you're flush, then it's a no brainer. But if you must make a choice, the general consensus seems to lean towards '77 Live. Contrary as i am, though, i'd opt for '67-'69 Studio et Live, an early collection that seems to simultaneously capture their rock devotionalism and radical outre instincts across 50 absurdly ecstatic minutes, where they were coming from and where they were going held in brilliant white light." |
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| WET MAN |
Swimming With Sharks
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Swimming With Sharks Single | Desolate Spools | 2023 | BRAND SPANKIN' NEW WET MAN! Desolate Spools first single release is by a Sheffield based artist who goes under the name Wet Man aka Jack Clayton - his single “Swimming with Sharks” is an exciting blast of post punk DIY electronics and new wave thrills - produced by The Eccentronic Research Council and mixed by Dean Honer. Jack comes from a lineage of Sheffield outsider weird pop royalty, His dad John Clayton was the bass player in Peel favourites (and a teenage Jarvis Cocker’s favourite group) Artery, and also played live bass occasionally for the legendary Cabaret Voltaire. Jack Clayton explains the origins of the song “Swimming with Sharks”: “Originally the song was about a gameshow host / comedian in the 90s who got in to hot water over a scandal and my nan (as well as the nation) absolutely adored this man because he used to make risky remarks about people on ITV. For me, targeting this person summises attitudes we see amongst politicians and so called ‘infleuencers’. And, although the invite to a pool party sounds great, it will probably end in tears (or blood rather). Now that you have pieced together what I’m talking about, the title now becomes hilarious, but also heeds a warning because we’re gonna need a bigger boat.” | * | 1:45:22 (Pop-up) |
| Palais Schaumburg |
Gute Luft
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Palais Schaumburg | Virgin France | 1981 | Palais Schaumburg was a German new wave band from Hamburg, Germany. The style was classified as Neue Deutsche Welle, and strongly characterized by their avant garde music and dadaistic attitude.While their eclectic records display obvious oddball/new wave influences, they seem to have also listened to their share of jazz and 20th-century European composers. Palais Schaumburg, their first LP, is a strong collection of smartly arranged dance tracks, with sounds and harmonies that get more bizarre as the album progresses. Their only record released in England and the last before lead singer Holger Hiller left the group. | 1:48:41 (Pop-up) | |
| Asphixiation |
L'acrostique D'Amour
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What is this thing called 'Disco'? | Innocent | 1981 | Australian provocateur Philip Brophy, best known for his work with → ↑ → (pronounced with three clicks of the tongue), whose decade-long investigation into the aesthetics of punk and electronic and dance music began in the late 1970s. Created a fake disco band, Asphixiation, that played at Melbourne University’s George Paton Gallery in July of 1980. The ensuing exhibition presented paintings lifted from Italian Vogue, single instruments displayed on plinths, tape loops playing minimalist ambient sounds, and a synthesizer pulsing a loud thump throughout the space. “What Is This Thing Called ‘Disco’?,” a 12-track no-wave/disco/not disco record that accompanied the installation, should be regarded as a classical feat, reflective of the emerging sounds at that time. It encapsulates the downward descent of “mainstream” disco and the uprising of new wave and post-punk, while borrowing certain elements from other dance-floor genres. Now “What Is This Thing Called ‘Disco’?” is recognised as one of Australian post-punk’s most iconic, playful and sought-after records. | 1:51:17 (Pop-up) | |
Music behind DJ: Sly & Robbie |
Satan Fall
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Sly & Robby + Groucho Smykle - Dubrising |
Tabou 1 |
2014 |
Sly and Robbie were a prolific Jamaican rhythm section and production duo, associated primarily with the reggae and dub genres. Drummer Sly Dunbar and bassist Robbie Shakespeare teamed up in the mid-1970s after establishing themselves separately in Jamaica as professional musicians.Shakespeare died in December 2021 following kidney surgery |
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| Getdown Services |
Get Back Jamie
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Get Back Jamie Single | Getdown Records | 2023 | This little earworm comes courtesy of Getdown Services, described as "UNDEFINED BY GENRE, UNINSPIRED BY LIFE AND UNIMPRESSED WITH LANDLORDS" The two piece offer some insight into what fuels their music...“Essentially boredom and things that we find annoying,” they tell us. “Life is basically boring all of the time and making music is a good way to try and make light of that. Also most of the time we’re driven by trying to make each other laugh.” | * | 1:58:20 (Pop-up) |
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