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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| PIxies |
Subbacultca
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Pixies at the BBC, 1989-91 | 4AD / BBC | 1991 / 2024 | Comp released March 8, 2024. "A new Pixies collection gathers all the tracks from the BBC radio sessions recorded by the band between 1988 and 1991. Originally released on CD in 1998, with 15 songs included, the latest version of At the BBC presents all 24 session tracks in chronological order and is available on CD and vinyl in March this year. //// Between 1988 and 1991, when the alternative American rock band were signed to 4AD, Pixies recorded six sessions for the BBC – five for John Peel and one for Mark Goodier." This is from the last of their Peel Sessions, and though the song found release on the last Pixies album, it actually hails from the earlier days of the band. | * | 0:01:23 (Pop-up) |
| Drahla |
Talking Radiance
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angeltape | Captured Tracks | 2024 | Released last week, April 5, 2024. "This year, Drahla make their long-awaited return with their astounding second record angeltape. It’s an offering that was not only interesting for the Leeds-based art-rock experimentalists to make, but offers an intriguing world for audiences to explore with a similar curiosity that informed the songwriting process. This inclination to eschew conventional melodic structures and embrace uncertainty across their latest material gives fans an unfiltered insight into a challenging transitional period the band found themselves in following the release of their 2019 critically acclaimed debut, Useless Coordinates. /// angeltape is an avant garde document of the events that unfolded over the five-year gap between records which saw a variety of changes – good and bad – steer their professional and personal lives down unfamiliar territories. Instead of succumbing to adversity, however, Drahla re-emerge sounding creatively rejuvenated and examine this time with deeply reflective perspectives. Over the last few years, they suffered devastating losses and expanded their sound with guitarist Ewan Barr joining vocalist and guitarist Luciel Brown, bassist Rob Riggs and drummer Mike Ainsley. These recent experiences – collective and individual – culminate in a sound that is considerably darker and tonally more complex and conceptual in its essence. Delving into themes of grief and trauma whilst simultaneously celebrating moments of sentimentality and support during difficult times, angeltape shifts between being a challenging, comforting and ultimately rewarding record for both artist and audience." Drahla (Bandcamp) | * | 0:03:29 (Pop-up) |
| W.A.T. |
Wax
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World According To | Stroom | 1985 / 2023 | Originally released on WAT's 1985 album "We", and more recently on the 2023 "World According To" compilation album on the Stroom label out of Belgium. "... Two years after Ad van Meurs met Frank van den Nieuwenhof in the famous ‘Happy End’ in Eindhoven, the first album of the World According To (W.A.T) was released. // The foundation for Defreeze, a six-track mini album, was laid in the living room of Ad and Ankie Keultjes, where Ad’s guitar riffs and screaming lap steel guitar formed a wonderful amalgam with the delayed Boss Dr. Rhythm and the arpeggios of the analogue Pro One synthesizer that was programmed by Ankie, who took care of most of the vocal parts. Frank’s melodic, bouncy bass lines bound it all together. Ad’s lyrics varied from abstract language puzzles like Ivanhoe and Vive la Vie to personal musings like Wax and Sangatte, which is actually a waltz. There were intense rehearsals where the band often lost track of time, creating a whole new repertoire somewhere between dance music and anarchistic punk wave. The more the groove repeated, the more you felt it. But in that groove melodies sometimes three-part choruses remained. The band was figuring out a style that didn’t exist at the time. Defreeze, released in 1983, got great reviews because of its original and innovating sound. The band ended up playing the bigger venues and festivals like Music des Traverses at Reims and the first edition of the legendary Pandora’s Music Festival in 1983. A W.A.T concert was always exciting, with steaming energy, sturdy beats and synths, screaming guitars and outspoken lyrics, but vulnerable at the same time. And of course, there was the dancing. A W.A.T. concert was a rave avant la lettre. // After their first album W.A.T released two more: ‘We’ and ‘Thin Blue Notes’ the last album that not only contained Thin Blue Notes, one of W.A.T’s best songs, but also songs like Heartbreak to weld that turned out to be the first impetus for Ad van Meurs’ new project: The Watchman." https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/world-according-to | 0:08:07 (Pop-up) | |
| BRNDA |
Service Loser
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Do You Like Salt? | Crafted Sounds | 2021 | "bio //// brendatheband@gmail.com //// BRNDA is a four-piece from DC, with a few rules: No covers, No love songs. Simple, right? Think again. After perusing the late 70s, 80s and 2010s for musical detritus, it was discovered that only the least ostentatious, most off-kilter sound is fit for BRNDA. And so, if you find yourself unable to put your finger on just what you’re hearing, it is because BRNDA is not just some rehashed comfort listening. //// Since their genesis in 2012, BRNDA has released 3 albums (2014, 2015, 2021) and an EP (2018). One could say that the stream of consciousness featured in 2021’s Do You Like Salt? (on Crafted Sounds) is arguably BRNDA’s richest yet. Topics of interest include salt, tennis, existentialism, poached avocado, your 45-year plan, tea, incorrect orders… all of which are expressed through a carousel of honest vocal performance (singing, shouting, speaking, radio static) from all members of the band. Above all, BRNDA pulls off an unpredictable and incredibly entertaining sound that can shift between testy art punk, noisy no wave, and groovin’ indie rock at any given moment. Not to mention, there is also a tasteful dusting of saxophone on the record. What is there not to like about all of that in a 10-track, sub-thirty-minute package?" -------- HEY! You can find their entire 2021 album on Bandcamp for 1 American dollar, or more if you wish... here: BRNDA (Bandcamp) | 0:11:47 (Pop-up) | |
| Gustaf |
Produce (Package Pt. 2)
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Package Pt. 2 | Royal Mountain Records | 2024 | Released last week, April 5, 2024. There is a breakdown of the album, courtesy of the band’s Lydia Gammil... Here's today's excerpt: "Before we dig in, I’d love to take a second to give some context to this album and its title. This record is essentially a continuation/resolution of the problems ignited by our ego slob in our first record, Audio Drag for Ego Slobs (an ego slob being someone who does a bad job of translating the outside world within the context of themself). The album’s title, Package Pt. 2, is a reference to the song “Package” off that first record. It opens with the lines “My package is rotting and there’s not a product/ I have a package forgotten, no chance to remodel.” While in the first album our troubled anti-hero found themself screaming at their surroundings, trying to coax the earth to bend to their feet, on this record, that defense mechanism reaches a breaking point and they are forced to turn inward and actually assesses the cause and the root of their incredulous demands, learning to release the insecurities surrounding their projected self and learn how to actually be themself... //// ...“Produce (Package Pt. 2)”: This song had two winding paths that converged into its final form. When we started working on new material for the record we made up an exercise where we’d play one of our old songs and then when Tarra blew a whistle we’d scramble it/do a weird alternate of the instrumental. This track is an inversion of our song “Book.” I ended up combining that with some lyrics I wrote back in 2016 as a riff on the Ginsberg poem A Super Market in California. It’s one of those things that sort of just fell together but when you step back and look at it as a whole, patterns start to emerge. // The song “Book” that inspired the music is about someone feeling like their words are being used against them unfairly and are upset that their projection doesn’t match up to how they feel about themselves. Drowning in a need to be seen, they feel like they haven’t fully reached the place they want to be. This new track “Produce (Package Pt. 2)” represents a loosening of that grip, a moment in the narrator’s day to day when they are finally able to get a glimpse at a world outside of themself and the actual imprint of their actions within a larger context. They’re making space to appreciate how they did and didn’t succeed, learning how they made people feel and releasing a need to control it. It reflects the bigger lesson of this album that you can’t insist that others see you a certain way." https://gustaf-nyc.bandcamp.com/ | * | 0:13:50 (Pop-up) |
| Billiam |
I Got A Girl (And She's Got A Problem With You)
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Jump to 3D | Cow Tool Records / Discos De Muerte | 2024 | February 1 2024 saw the release of this 5 song EP, available perhaps on your favourite format at a price, or digitally via Bandcamp at "Name Your Price." https://hiimbilliam.bandcamp.com/album/jump-to-3d //////////// ----------- "Hailing from the sunny loveliness of Melbourne, Australia, Billiam comprises principal songwriter Billy Twyford and a revolving door of musicians from bands such as The Vovos, TOR, and Revv. They’re bringing back the silliness in punk, the kookiness, and hilarity that stems from the freedom of the genre. In fact, they’re proponents of egg punk, a little-known subgenre that aims to negate any possible air of blustery seriousness. With Jump To 3D, Billiam has crafted a distorted speedball of a 5-track album, so you can confidently put all your eggs in this basket case of a band." | * | 0:16:06 (Pop-up) |
| Wine Lips |
Six Pack
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Super Mega Ultra | Stomp Records | 2024 | Released April 5, 2024. Toronto's Wine Lips fully unveiled their fourth album last week. Super Mega Ultra finds lead vocalist and guitarist Cam Hilborn, bassist Simon Larochette and heavy hitting Toronto drum legend Aurora Evans in fine form, indeed.Thriving in Toronto's mid-2010s psych rock scene, Wine Lips quickly established themselves as one of the tightest, most reliable garage-psych groups. All songs written by Cam Hilborn / Recorded and mixed by Simon Larochette at the Sugar Shack in London, Ontario / Produced by Cam Hilborn with Simon Larochette / Mastered by Harris Newman // Cam Hilborn - Guitar, Vocals // Aurora Evans - Drums, Vocals // Simon Larochette - Bass, Percussion. https://winelips.bandcamp.com/ | * | 0:17:47 (Pop-up) |
| The Scaners |
Satellite Rain
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III | Adrenalin Fix Music, Beluga Music, Dangerhouse Skylab, Folc Records, No Place In Space, Wanda Records | 2024 | Released Mar 15, 2024. The Scaners are from Lyon, France; as they should be. Their FB proclaims them to be a "Sci-Fi gonzo synth garage punk band from France." Seems accurate. This is by far the shortest song on their third album, and it's a good starting point, as it's the first (and definitely not last) I've heard of them thus far. Time to dive into the catalogue... https://linktr.ee/thescaners | * | 0:19:31 (Pop-up) |
| Ismatic Guru |
Mind Fever
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III | Self-Released (Bandcamp) | 2023 | That's right, two songs in a row from albums titled "III", by two completely different bands. This was released Nov 16, 2023. Mind Fever is the opener & also the longest song on the 5 song EP. You wouldn't know it was the longest if I didn't tell you. //// Ismatic Guru are an American post-punk / punk duo from Buffalo, New York. /// Steak and Cake + Swimming Faith //// Guitar Music by Bran + John //// ISMATIC GURU - III //// Part 3 of the ongoing recording project between John Toohill (Science Man) and Bran Schlia (Helmsley). Groovy, freaked out, new wave/post-punk littered with psychedelic flashes, punctuated by snarky lyrics revolving around hatred of the sun, urban legends about drugs, nice people that everyone loves, emotional dealers, and white rabbits. A short, but wildly dense and weird scrambled-egg, idiot-prog punk journey. Even more freaked and free. The headiest of the bunch yet. //// Limited to 100x cassettes //// https://ismaticguru.bandcamp.com/ | 0:20:39 (Pop-up) | |
Music behind DJ: The Limiñanas |
Primitivism
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Un Autre Monde (Various Artists) |
Contouirs |
2024 |
This track released April 4, ahead of the April 24 compilation from which it is drawn...'Un Autre Monde' -- "This record invites you on an extraordinary journey, in the form of a spatio-temporal and transgenerational sound collage, into the parallel and singular universe of one of the major counter-culture movements of the 1960s fantastic realism. A cross between thematic compilation and sound creation, it offers a selection of rarities and nuggets with psychedelic and esoteric tonesby groups from the late 60's - early 70's French psychedelic scene, such as Haira, Guy Skornnik and Martin Circus, as well as previously unreleased tracks by major current and emerging bands such as The Limiñanas, Zombie Zombie featuring Pacôme Thiellement, The Penelopes or Terrains vagues, Rubin et le paradoxe featuring Brigitte Fontaine, Tuxedomoon or Exotourisme (Perez and Dominique Gonzalez Foerster). These tracks were created especially for the occasion. All mixed and interspersed with audio archives by Jacques Bergier, Louis Pauwels or Eugène Canseliet and sounds from installations designed by visual artists (Veronique Belland, Alexis Chapelain). At once cutting-edge and accessible to the uninitiated, between fantasy and science fiction, esotericism and occultism, popular culture and contemporary art, avant-garde and pop music, this disc offers a poetic ode to the Strange, to curiosity, to the capacity for wonder and the desire for knowledge, with a view to re-enchanting reality. Conceived by Jean-François Sanz (author, director and curator) and Hermione Volt (visual artist), in collaboration with Laurent Paulré (founder of the Contours label and producer at Radio France), and with the complicity of Céline Du Chéné (author and journalist), this album, an atypical sound object, is the musical extension of the eponymous group exhibition UN AUTRE MONDE ///DANS NOTRE MONDE, which opened at Galerie du Jour in Paris." |
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| Girls At Our Best |
Waterbed Babies
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Pleasure | Happy Birthday Records | 1981 | You can make a baby in a waterbed, but don't put a baby in a waterbed. Do people even waterbed anymore? A quick internet scan says "no". Girls at Our Best! were an English post-punk band, founded in Leeds, England in 1979 under the name The Butterflies. They took their new name from a line in their track "Warm Girls", released as the B-side to their self-financed 1980 debut single "Getting Nowhere Fast". Girls at Our Best! split in 1982. | 0:34:51 (Pop-up) | |
| Model Citizens |
Foreign Tongue
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NYC 1978-1979 | Modern Harmonic | 2023 | Largely unknown New York new wave group that spun off some important bands when they split into The Dance and Polyrock, and a side project of The Dance backing 12 year old Chandra. John Cale produced the Model Citizens EP after he lost out on the chance to produce Television to Brian Eno. Model Citizens and its offshoots reflect an awareness of NY's minimalists - Cale played with La Monte Young's early Dream Syndicate, and Philip Glass went on to produce Polyrock. One of the highlights of the band is Eugenie Diserio's voice. There's a repetitive keyboard groove to these bands that hints at Glass and a slight dissonance but danceable groove that makes them sound fresh years later. | 0:38:08 (Pop-up) | |
| YACHT |
Eve Babitz
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Eve Babitz Single | Paris By Night | 2024 | For a brief moment in the winter of 1963, Los Angeles—at the time still more or less considered a cultural backwater—became the center of the art universe. That’s because Marcel Duchamp, who had retired from art 40 years earlier in order to dedicate his life wholly to chess, came to town to stage a retrospective of his career at the tiny Pasadena Art Museum. The opening was the art event of 1963, and the wild afterparty at the Castle Green Hotel, during which Andy Warhol puked up pink champagne and Dennis Hopper stole the tablecloth, has spawned several oral histories and at least one documentary. But the image most indelibly associated with Duchamp’s time in Los Angeles was not taken at the opening, nor at the legendary party that followed—it was taken several days later, on a cold morning before the museum opened, by photographer Julian Wasser. The nude woman playing chess with Duchamp is, of course, the late writer Eve Babitz, one of the great literary voices of Los Angeles. She was barely 20 at the time, but already a fixture of the LA party scene. In her dishy behind-the-scenes essay for Esquire, “I Was a Naked Pawn for Art,” she revealed that she agreed to pose nude, mostly, to settle a score with her on-again, off-again boyfriend, the curator Walter Hopps, who had brought Duchamp to California. We’ll let Eve tell it: I sat down quickly at the chess set and wondered if we could just pose or did we actually have to play, but Marcel—whose obsession with chess made him give up not only art but girls—was waiting for me to make the first move. “Et alors,” he said. “You go.” I, of course, had youth and beauty over him, but he had brains on his side—or at least chess brains—and though I tried my best, moving a knight so at least he knew I had some idea what a knight was, he moved his pawn and the next thing I knew, I was checkmated. “Fool’s mate,” they call it when you’re so stupid that the game hasn’t even begun and you’ve lost. I became interested in playing and tried to stop thinking about holding in my stomach, but every time I thought I was so brilliant, like taking his queen on the fourth move, I’d lose. Of all the things that have ever gone on between men and women, this was the strangest, in my experience. | * | 0:41:15 (Pop-up) |
| Twelve Cubic Feet |
Blob
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Straight Out Of The Fridge RE | Sealed Records | 2024 | Suddenly it’s ok to be a square” - Twelve Cubic Feet, a clear case of a band which should have been bigger than the Beatles but, for some malignant reason, became a blurry foot note on the underground music history. Formed from the ashes of Exhibit A in the Spring of 1981 the band disappeared leaving no trace shortly after 1983. During their brief existence they released a series of stickers, a monthly newsletter, two cassette tapes and their incomparable Straight Out Of The Fridge 10”. Twelve Cubic Feet released this perfect 22 minute 7 track album in 1982 on Namedrop Records (home to Doof, Philip Johnson and Cold War and ran by Philip Johnson and 12CF guitarist Paul Platypus). It is a a glorious scratchy DIY indie pop gem with a post punk spirit. The sound is naive and fragile yet very addictive. Based around jangly clean guitars, drums that are on the edge of falling apart, haunting keyboards and a female vocalist that has a knack for a golden pop hook. Hard not to fall in love with. It’s beautiful with a ragged charm that deserves to be heard by the masses. Anarcho Indie pop anyone?? The band played a lot of the anarcho punk haunts of the early 80’s - Autonomy Centre in Wapping, Centro Iberico and London Music Collective and were equally heralded by punks (Andy Martin from The Apostles released one of their tapes) and the DIY music crowd. The line up changed after the 10” and they recorded a Joe Foster produced demo and fell in with Alan McGee's Communication Club crowd. Twelve Cubic Feet burned bright for just a handful of years and now it’s time to burn bright again. Hopefully this reissue will help them reverse one of their sticker statements “today we’re nobodies but tomorrow you’ll know who we are”. | * | 0:44:29 (Pop-up) |
| Sophisticated Boom Boom |
Boom Boom Rap
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Sophisticated Boom Boom | Sophisticated Boom Boom | 1982 | When a band names itself after one of the best songs of one of the best bands of all time, namely "Sophisticated Boom Boom" by the Shangri-Las, that's quite an statement. Or rather a promise. Sophisticated Boom Boom transported the Brill Building/Red Bird/Girl Group sound from the Sixties into the New Wave year of 1982. Their sound was probably too cheerful, too bubblegum and too life-affirming, and that's probably why they stopped after just one album. Their uncomplicated, life-affirming songs, which, however, never slip into the embarrassingly banal, like so much else these days, but on the contrary have an astonishingly high standard and are all able to grab you spontaneously, stand in stark contrast to all the fashionably depressive sounds. Reissued in 2022 on Tapete records. | 0:47:06 (Pop-up) | |
| American Cream Band |
Banana
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Presents | Quindi Records | 2023 | American Cream Band was formed by Twin-Cities musician Nathan Nelson around 10 years ago, taking the form of improvised live shows and albums Frankensteined from these sessions into exultant, fully-formed records you can sink your teeth into. The trick with improvised music is to start with intentions, however abstract they might be, and Nelson leads his rolling cast of collaborators into the creative fray with subtle guidance which drives the impulsive musical moment forward. Presents arrives in a freewheeling flash of snappy new wave, skronky sax, call and response sass and some krautrock-minded sonic cosmology. ‘Banana’ celebrates nonsense and holds down the most serious of beats - a disco-not-disco deadeye dripping in late night sleaze and lysergic potential. | 0:49:09 (Pop-up) | |
| The Cosmopolitans |
(How To Keep Your) Husband Happy
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Party Boy (1979-1982) | Beloved | 2022 | The Cosmopolitans, a dance-troupe-turned-rock-combo, surfed the New Wave as a leader of the pack of party bands as the 1970s bled into the 1980s. With their Shangri-Las attitude, Hullabaloo choreography, Sam the Sham spirit, & deadpan lyrics, the group delivered dance music, frantic and fun, decked out in matching outfits with fringe, sequins, chartreuse fake furs and Keds. The group is best remembered for cutting one of the most infectious singles of the era: "(How to Keep Your) Husband Happy" backed with "Wild Moose Party" and "Dancin' Lesson". As Brad Reno wrote in Trouser Press, "This combo lived fast, died young, and left a great-sounding corpse." credits | 0:51:43 (Pop-up) | |
Music behind DJ: Montefiori Cocktail |
So, What's New?
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Classics Compilation 1997-2000 |
Kaleidofon Records |
2022 |
Montefiori Cocktail is an Italian lounge music duo , composed of the Montefiori brothers Francesco (keyboardist) and Federico (saxophonist, flautist and vocalist), sons of saxophonist Germano Montefiori. Over the course of their career they have released eight albums. Some songs are Lazy Busy , Anamaria , Another B , Gne Gne Gne . Their compositions have been used for numerous commercials, jingles and radio and television theme tunes; among them the theme song of the Rai Radio 2 radio program Ultrasuoni Cocktail , Hu Ha , the theme song of the program Affari Tui (hosted by Paolo Bonolis ), participation in the soundtrack of the film The Last Kiss and that of the series Sex and the City . |
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Music behind DJ: Montefiori Cocktail |
Another B
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Classics Compilation 1997-2000 |
Kaleidofon Records |
2022 |
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| HOUSE Of ALL |
Cuckoo In The Nest
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Continuum | Tiny Global Recordings | 2024 | "Not even a year since their debut album and offshoot album Bay City Pistols, HOUSE Of ALL are back in all their glory with another nugget of magic sound from the minds of Bramah, The Hanley Brothers, Wolstencroft and Greenway. //// This album was recorded at the same time as the debut, yet it’s a lot more darker and sounds like most of the tracks have been cleverly left out for the next chapter. //// Cuckoo In The Nest is just a top slice of slow rockabilly machine gun guitar and bass with Bramah pronouncing “Yes I was born here, no choice no memoreh, no rights no history” Greenway is exemplary on this one with his signature sound from the late Fall albums warping into this unique platter of Si and Paul stealing the show with their drums and Ste keeping the bass flowing. “I stuck an onion in my mouth, I’m not Jack The Ripper” Yes Martin, we know… Under A Crooked Sky goes all Joy Division dark and hits the spot with Bramah actually singing in monotone against a dark bass line and Greenway’s plucking guitar complimenting those tender yet thundering drums. The best bit of psych I’ve heard for years that crashes in and out of wonk with ease." //////// HOUSE Of ALL (Bandcamp) | * | 1:04:35 (Pop-up) |
| The Fall |
Green Eyed Loco-Man (Original Version)
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The Real New Fall LP Formerly 'Country On The Click' (20th Anniversary Expanded Edition) | Cherry Red Records | 2003 / 2024 | The original (Country On The Click) version of this song; massively different than the eventually released "official" version. I much prefer this version, basically because I'm not too fond of the 'proper album' track, and this version, frankly, makes no sense. It makes so little sense, that I like it much more. Consider it a remix, or a premix, or whatever you will... ‘The Real New Fall LP (Formerly 'Country on the Click')’ is the 23rd studio album by The Fall. Originally released in the United Kingdom in 2003, Cherry Red Records is delighted to present this 20th anniversary re-issue. / Originally recorded at Lisa Stansfield’s Gracieland Studios in between December 2002 and January 2003 with producer Grant Showbiz. The subtitle is explained by the fact that the tracks were originally scheduled for release in April 2003 under the title ‘Country on the Click’. Promotional copies were sent out and three of the new songs were previewed in the band’s 23rd Peel Session, but Mark. E Smith was unhappy with the mix and decided it needed further work." ("The promo CD carried the warning: "For promotional use only - anyone abusing this will have Mark E Smith to contend with and may God have mercy on your soul!!!".") | 1:08:47 (Pop-up) | |
| Imperial Wax |
Tranquilliser
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Post Lobotomy | Guesswork! | 2024 | The initial impetus for Imperial Wax came from former The Fall members guitarist Pete Greenway, drummer Keiron Melling and bassist Dave Spurr who then teamed up with Sam Curran, guitarist and vocalist from Leeds based punk band Black Pudding. What was clear right from the outset was that this was not going to be The Fall mark II. That era had now ended with the death of its creator. Whilst the debut album Gastwerk Saboteurs released in 2019 appeared to be a natural extension of their previous work, it ventured into heavier sound territory with the addition of a second guitarist, whilst still retaining that strong sense of attitude and intensity that was always at the core of their previous work. It was a sound that needed time to evolve further but instead, and somewhat typically, got derailed for a while. //// As lockdown gripped the nation, Keiron and Sam started to sow the seeds for the second album, providing more time for ideas to evolve and develop, with Pete and Dave then adding their own stamp to the proceedings. But then Dave made the decision to leave which prompted the recruitment of former Black Pudding bass player Shane Standrill and, given his different style, whatever initial recordings had been put down were completely scrapped prompting the re-recording of all the songs in a different studio. //// As if this vibrant sonic melting pot wasn’t enough, the band ended up setting up their own label to release the album on due to a number of failed label offers, even though they didn’t have much idea what that entailed, hence the name Guesswork! But thankfully here we are now celebrating the release of their second album, Tranquilliser. And if this whole story line put any doubts in your mind about what was to unfold, then all you have to do is to put on the opening song, Less I Need, turn it up, sit back and just try and take in the sheer barrage of noise that graces your ears and realise all is well with the world now Imperial Wax are back. | * | 1:12:51 (Pop-up) |
| Brix & The Extricated |
Wasteland
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Super Blood Wolf Moon | Grit Over Glamour | 2019 | Brix & the Extricated are a British post-punk band, formed in 2014 in Manchester, by ex-Fall members Brix Smith Start (vocals/guitar) and Steve Hanley (bass guitar). //// The band formed in 2014 in Manchester, following the launch event for Steve Hanley's autobiography The Big Midweek, to which Brix Smith was invited. Four of the five members were one-time members of The Fall: Songwriter, guitarist and vocalist Brix Smith, long-term Fall member Steve Hanley (bass guitar), his brother Paul Hanley (drums) and Steve Trafford (guitar and vocals). A fifth member, Irish guitarist Jason Brown completes the line-up. Though their live set initially consisted of Fall songs they had co-written, this quickly expanded to include the new material which featured on their debut album. //// They performed four live sessions for fellow ex-Fall member Marc Riley's 6 Music show, played the Latitude and Rebellion festivals and completed several successful tours of the UK. //// Their debut album, Part 2, was financed by fundraising including charging £1000 to cook a meal, or £7500 to perform at a private function. The album was released in September 2017 on Blang records, which was described as "One of the great indie-rock releases of the year" by Drowned In Sound. Their Autumn 2017 tour concluded with a gig at the Manchester Apollo supporting The Charlatans. //// Their second album, Breaking State, was released on 26 October 2018 on the Grit Over Glamour label. Almost exactly a year later, on 25 October 2019, they released their final album, Super Blood Wolf Moon, on the same label." | 1:17:46 (Pop-up) | |
| Blue Orchids |
Overreactor
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Overreactor / Music Of A Werewolf | Tiny Global Productions | 2024 | Released March 18 2024. //////// Martin Bramah's astonishingly productive phase continues: one super-brand new Blue Orchids single (covering a couple of favs by The Nightingales & Subway Sect); one incredibly recent Blue Orchids full-length; one long overdue Blue Orchids reissue; one new HOUSE oF ALL album; touring to support it all... This just in the first few months of 2024! Every several weeks it seems there is a new "something" up his sleeve. This one is the cover of a track originally by The Nightingales... //////// "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) | * | 1:22:31 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: Memorials |
Merci Mercy
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Centre Pompidou EP |
Memorials |
2024 |
Released last week, April 5, 2024. Oh, we'll hear more of this fantastic 5 song EP, I'm sure. "MEMORIALS is the new band of Verity Susman (Electrelane) and Matthew Simms (Wire, Better Corners, It Hugs Back). Their music is a wide ranging combination of songs, psychedelic drones, free jazz freakouts and live tape looping." //// This EP was "Commissioned by the Centre Pompidou in Paris earlier this year to create a piece of music in response to an artwork of our choice from their collection. We chose Louise Bourgeois’ 1992 installation ‘Precious Liquids’. This intimate and darkly poetic work ended up inspiring us to create five new tracks for this cassette."Centre Pompidou EP / Cassette + Digital Album / LTD of 500 / only 100 available outside of the gallery. / Hand Stamped / Numbered / Red Cassette https://memorialsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/centre-pompidou-ep |
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| Einstürzende Neubauten |
Total Eclipse of the Sun
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Total Eclipse of the Sun EP | Mute | 1999 | A tender, eviscerating song, staggering in its intent and simplicity. Said Blixa of this release "Oh yes, total accident. You wait 75 years for a total eclipse of the sun and bingo! It just happens to coincide with your first single in three years. Spooky! Ah well…" The packaging of this single was extremely unique and fitting...all of the times and locations of the total eclipses are printed on the cd itself and can be seen through 2 slits in the digipack's front cover by spinning the cd and lining up the text. | 1:33:54 (Pop-up) | |
| Joy Division |
Ice Age
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Still | Factory | 1981 | Without the Sun, the earth would be plunged into an ice age. Within a few days the temperatures would begin to drop, and any humans left on the planet's surface would die soon after. Within two months, the ocean's surface would freeze over, but it would take another thousand years for our seas to freeze solid. By then, however, the atmosphere would collapse, radiation would seep in, and Earth would be an inhospitable wasteland drifting aimlessly through space. | 1:38:00 (Pop-up) | |
| Klaus Nomi |
Total Eclipse
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Klaus Nomi | Spindizzy Music | 1981 | In this song, Klaus warns us of society's impending doom. Greed, indifference, wealth disparity, abuse of the environment, all under the tyranny of Reaganomics and a time when nuclear war was very much a possible reality. The eclipse is a harbinger of doom...and clearly in 2024 we have learned...nothing. The nuclear panic of “Total Eclipse” wouldn’t feel out of place on a Devo record, except of course for the singing. Terror about the seemingly inevitable atomic apocalypse was thick on the ground in those early Reagan years, but Nomi was one of the few artists who could sound like an air-raid siren when he sang about it. Which is not to say the song’s sentiment is at all dated. Exhibit A, the opening line: “Big shots argue about what they’ve got, making the planet so hot, hot as a Holocaust.” | 1:40:13 (Pop-up) | |
| Empanadas Ilegales |
Luna Modular (En Vivo)
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Creepy Mambo: Rooftop Sessions | We Are Time | 2024 | The We Are Time label release this fine collection of songs recorded live by Empanada Ilegales. “We start super quiet. And all the effects and instruments begin to emulate the sounds of the jungle. And it would build up. And when we all fully start, the crowd just explodes. It makes this mess of cacophony. Literally just a sludge of fucking sound, not even music.” Their style is heavily influenced by the Latin music genres of cumbia and, increasingly, salsa. The band’s incorporation of dissonant tones, eerie atmospherics, and haunting guitar leads are stylistic signifiers of their ‘spooky’ undertone that blends into their psychedelic sound. Get this record now! You won't be disappointed! | * | 1:43:39 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: Jason Sax, Giacomo Bondi |
Total Eclipse of the Heart
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Restaurant Saxophone Covers |
Smoothnotes |
2021 |
There's a TEOTH for ALL occasions. This one seemed most fitting for a smooth ending to the show... |
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| Absolutely Free |
The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)
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The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore Single | Boiled Records | 2017 | The Toronto 'astro-beat' trio gives a celestial tint to the song originally recorded by Frankie Valli in 1965 and later popularized by The Walker Brothers. This version for August 21, 2017 is auspicious and serene, tape degraded yet futuristic, shot skyward by starry synthesizers, cavernous bass, shimmering highs, and Matt King's atmospheric vocals. | 1:54:35 (Pop-up) |
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