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Description: Exuberance/Ebullience, banter, possibly an interview, context and connection, the familiar, the strange.
Find: Symphonies of Treble, Words Of Expectation, stab, skronk, shimmer, sheen, The New Sound of Now, Ideas for Walls, pleasure, pith, Flutter and Wow, Motorik, cowbells, disco akimbo, at least one Cantankerous Singer, The German Language, shards of glass, Ethiopian Punk, organic, synthetic, sawtooths & squarewaves, Library Riffage, yesterday's recipes, the wrong speed, intentional static, floating, ethereal, time and timelessness.
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| Artist | Track | Album | Label | Year | Comments | New | Approx. start time |
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| Colder |
Crazy Love
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Again | Output | 2003 | Sounds cold and crisp, but is actually warm and crazy once it settles in. | 0:00:00 (Pop-up) | |
| Section 25 |
Dirty Disco
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Always Now | Section 25 | 1981 | Always Now is the debut studio album by Section 25. It was released in September 1981 through iconic Manchester record label Factory with the catalogue number FACT 45. The album was produced by Martin Hannett, best known for producing both of Joy Division's studio albums. Joy Division front man Ian Curtis has been credited as co-producing the record, in parts produced before his death in May 1980. | 0:07:09 (Pop-up) | |
| The Zoomers |
Give Your Hart
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Exist | Not On Label | 1982 | Kevin Bourgeois: Bass // Bryan Hendrick: Drums, Vocals // George Barr: Guitar, Vocals, Keyboards, Other, Producer // Guy Hanks: Piano // Charles Amar: Saxophone // Bill Triche Producer // | 0:12:30 (Pop-up) | |
| Congotronics International |
Bombo & Sifflets
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Where’s the One + Deerhoof + Argentine singer-songwriter Juana Molina + Swedish psychedelic duo Wildbirds & Peacedrums, and Matthew Mehlan | Crammed Discs | 2022 | "Congotronics International share two new tracks from debut LP ten years in the making “Mulume/Change” and “Bombo & Sifflets” are the fourth and fifth offerings from Where’s the One, due out April 29 via Crammed Discs." | * | 0:14:44 (Pop-up) |
| White Noise |
Love Without Sound
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An Electric Storm | Island Records | 1969 | In June 1969 White Noise released the groundbreaking album An Electric Storm on Island Records. The album was created using a variety of tape manipulation techniques, and used the first British synthesizer, the EMS Synthi VCS3. Amongst many oddities, the first track on the album, Love Without Sound, employed sped-up tape edits of Vorhaus playing the double bass to create violin and cello sounds. Although not initially commercially successful for Island, the album is now considered an important and influential album in the development of electronic music,namechecked by contemporary artists like The Orb and Julian Cope, influencing contemporary acts such as Broadcast, Add N to (X), and Secret Chiefs | 0:17:23 (Pop-up) | |
| Operators |
Blue Wave
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Blue Wave | Last Gang Records | 2016 | Blue Wave is the sound of Dan Boeckner and his latest band discovering the secret ingredient missing from so much of the music meant to reawaken the new wave sound of the 1980s: paranoia. | 0:20:32 (Pop-up) | |
| Mouse On Mars |
Mine Is Yours
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Radical Connector | Thrill Jockey | 2004 | Though reference points like Daft Punk and Prince have rightly been thrown around, Radical Connector is in fact a strange album that doesn't sound like much else. Subversion is still here, but this time it comes in the form of texture, most of which is purely electronic in origin. There is something fundamentally ugly about the sound of Radical Connector, despite its song-oriented tendencies, but it's a quality present for contrast and complexity, and not as a statement on its own. The tension resulting from opposing forces continues to fuel for Mouse on Mars' fire, even when they're experimenting in the realm of pop. | 0:26:03 (Pop-up) | |
Music behind DJ: The Stranglers |
Pawsher
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Feline |
Sony |
1983 |
0:31:03 (Pop-up) |
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| Frank Black |
Bad, Wicked World
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Teenager Of The Year | 4AD | 1994 | Teenager Of The Year falls into the ‘eyeball-slicingly sharp’ category, and it’s also a hurricane of purposefulness. It’s the sound of ideas meeting with musical dexterity and then getting bored and moving swiftly onto the next thing. It rarely pauses for breath. It’s as lean as it is madcap. It’s as though it was all written and recorded in one manic episode. It’s the aural equivalent of the Mark E Smith book Renegade, in that it can be confoundingly conservative one minute and then brazenly outré for the next three. What’s more you can’t put it down. | 0:36:19 (Pop-up) | |
| The Fall |
Put Away - BBC Peel Session
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Live At The Witch Trials Deluxe | Cherry Red | 2016 | Live at the Witch Trials was met with a very positive reception from critics upon its release. Record Mirror's Chris Westwood described the album as "a rugged, concerned, attuned, rebellious jukebox",while Sounds reviewer Dave McCullough called it "an album of staggeringly rich, mature music, inner questioning hand in hand with rock and roll at its fiercest, its finest, its most honest, rock and roll at its naked, most stimulating prime." | 0:38:13 (Pop-up) | |
| The Fall |
Put Away
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Dragnet (Deluxe Edition) | Cherry Red | 2016 | Only Mark E. Smith and Marc Riley remained in the lineup from the band's debut album, Live at the Witch Trials. Drummer Karl Burns left soon after recording and was replaced by Mike Leigh, while founder member Martin Bramah quit mid-tour in April 1979, when some of the material intended for the second album had already been written.[2] Smith quickly recruited guitarist Craig Scanlon and bassist Steve Hanley, who were Fall roadies, members of support band Staff 9 and friends of Marc Riley's; both were just 19 when they joined the group and would form the Fall's musical backbone until the mid-1990s. Riley moved from bass to guitar (his first instrument), and also started to play keyboards following Yvonne Pawlett's departure after recording the "Rowche Rumble" single. | 0:41:44 (Pop-up) | |
| Wire |
Short Elevated Period
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Silver/Lead | pinkflag | 2017 | Musically, Silver/Lead is as straightforward as Wire gets. Every song is streamlined, with solid (mostly mid-tempo) beats, clear melodies, and smooth, subdued vocals (mostly from Colin Newman). There are few surprises in individual songs—some even sound like variations on each other—but each one holds something memorable. | 0:45:14 (Pop-up) | |
| Noonday Underground |
When You Leave
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Self Assembly (Bonus Track Version) | Hands Full Recods | 2001 | As entirely retro as Noonday Underground comes across, Self-Assembly is a completely modern, contemporary album. It certainly evokes the swinging '60s, but it's a vision of retro-futurism informed not by the actual lounge-y, trippy sounds of that era, but by current artistic recreations and fuzzy memories of what the '60s were. | 0:48:12 (Pop-up) | |
| Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds |
Haunted Head
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Haunted Head | In The Red Recordings | 2001 | With The Pink Monkey Birds’ cocktail of fuzz guitars, New Orleans drum beats, soulful strut bass lines and sonic ambrosia at its most potent, Haunted Head offers the purest distillation of the group’s powers. The trip of your dreams includes the “cheap and tawdry” in a tribute to dearly departed actress Susan Tyrell (“Su Su”), the morphing of Jerry Lee Lewis with Phyllis Diller (“Killer Diller”) and the plain ol’ insanity of romantic love (“Dance Me Swamply”). | 0:51:11 (Pop-up) | |
| Deerhunter |
Desire Lines
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Halcyon Digest | 4AD | 2006 | "The album's title is a reference to a collection of fond memories and even invented ones, like my friendship with Ricky Wilson or the fact that I live in an abandoned victorian autoharp factory. The way that we write and rewrite and edit our memories to be a digest version of what we want to remember, and how that's kind of sad." | 0:54:57 (Pop-up) | |
Music behind DJ: The Stranglers |
Pawsher
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Feline |
Sony |
1983 |
1:01:40 (Pop-up) |
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| Primal Scream |
Beautiful Future
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Beautiful Future | B-Unique | 2008 | This album is poorly reviewed, and wrongfully so. It's a great mix of crunch electro, philly soul and Beautiful Future is a perfect, perfect song. | 1:12:30 (Pop-up) | |
| Gorillaz |
Last Living Souls
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Demon Days | Parlophone | 2005 | We saw them play this song live in Toronto in 2017...and it was FANTASTIC. Sometimes, you do feel like you're the last living souls... | 1:16:26 (Pop-up) | |
| Broadcast |
Black Cat
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Tender Buttons | Warp Records | 2005 | "strips [the band's] luminous electronic pop down to its barest essence" and "has a uniquely fresh, modern feel. Sparingly applied beats, intricate but subtle guitars, and hazy synths dominate the album, providing a restrained backdrop for Keenan's quietly commanding voice and crossword-puzzle lyrics." | 1:19:52 (Pop-up) | |
| Blonde Redhead |
Silently
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23 | 4AD | 2007 | The 23rd hexagram of the I Ching is commonly known as "Splitting Apart", the point in a cycle where upheaval and disintegration enters in. The number 23, heralded by many an occultist and rag-tag philosopher is often considered a magical number associated with change, the point in a series where new energy comes in to transform the pre-existing condition and change the trajectory. | 1:23:49 (Pop-up) | |
| The Dears |
Lost In The Plot
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No Cities Left | 6333699 Canada | 2003 | The Dears have had high-profile gigs as opening act for Sloan, The Tragically Hip, Keane, The Secret Machines and Morrissey, to whom Lightburn is often compared. Their music has been described as a cross between The Smiths and Serge Gainsbourg with Lightburn's singing voice being likened to Morrissey as well as Blur's Damon Albarn | 1:27:44 (Pop-up) | |
| Electrelane |
Film Music
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Singles, B-Sides & Live | Too Pure Records | 2006 | Electrelane were an English indie rock band, formed in Brighton in 1998 by Verity Susman and Emma Gaze. The band comprised Susman, Gaze, Mia Clarke, and Ros Murray. Their music drew from a wide range of influences including Neu!, Stereolab, Sonic Youth, and the Velvet Underground. | 1:32:31 (Pop-up) | |
Music behind DJ: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard |
Her & I (Slow Jam 2)
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I'm In Your Mind Fuzz |
Flightless |
Slinky groovy psyche-y love |
1:36:48 (Pop-up) |
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| Prolapse |
After After
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Ghosts of Dead Aeroplanes | Prolapse | 1999 | Prolapse formed in the summer of 1991 at Leicester Polytechnic's Friday night disco, "with the aim of being the most depressing band ever". Of the six members—vocalists Mick Derrick and Linda Steelyard, guitarists David Jeffreys and Patrick Marsden, bassist Mick Harrison, and drummer Tim Pattison—only Harrison and Pattison had performed together. In a 1999 interview, Steelyard stated that the name was chosen "to indicate something undesirable in a miserable sort of way, rather than unsavoury. Unfortunately, we have come to realise that it makes some people think of arses." | 1:42:28 (Pop-up) | |
| CAN |
Tango Whiskeyman
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Soundtracks | Spoon | 2011 | Tango Whiskeyman a quiet, playful track, Damo whispering a beautiful melody. Then uber-drummer-extraordinaire Jaki Liebezeit comes in with a groovy shuffle. No one pounds out a beat like this guy. Genius. | 1:47:22 (Pop-up) | |
| Atlas Sound |
Ativan
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Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel | kranky | 2008 | This medication is used to treat anxiety. Lorazepam belongs to a class of drugs known as benzodiazepines which act on the brain and nerves (central nervous system) to produce a calming effect. This drug works by enhancing the effects of a certain natural chemical in the body (GABA) | 1:51:30 (Pop-up) | |
| Anika |
I Go To Sleep
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Anika | Stones Throw | 2010 | Before she began her singing career, Anika was a political journalist who spent her time between Berlin and Bristol, England. She met producer Geoff Barrow (of Portishead), who was looking for a female vocalist to work with his band Beak. Anika joined the band in the studio and recorded nine songs, including a cover of Yoko Ono's "Yang Yang" in 12 days with no overdubs. The result, Anika, was released by Barrow's Invada imprint in Europe and by Stones Throw Records in the U.S. and Japan in October 2010. | 1:54:23 (Pop-up) | |
| The Fall |
Birthday Song
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The Marshall Suite | BMG | 1999 | It is my birthday. This is Babs' Birthday Song. Thank you Derek. | 2:00:54 (Pop-up) |
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