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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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| The Fall |
Fall Sound
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Reformation! Post - TLC (Expanded Edition) | Cherry Red | 2007 / 2020 | "Reformation Post TLC is the twenty-fifth studio album by the Fall, released in the UK on 12 February 2007. The album features Mark E Smith and his wife, Elena, with newcomers Tim Presley and Rob Barbato (of Darker My Love [Presley also of White Fence & Drinks]), Orpheo McCord (of The Hill) and Dave Spurr (of Motherjohn). Presley, Barbato and McCord, all Americans, joined the band as emergency replacements for Ben Pritchard, Spencer Birtwistle and Steve Trafford, all of whom quit the band during an American tour in April 2006. In his 2008 autobiography Smith praised the Americans for revitalizing The Fall, due to their openness to new ideas and not being overly-impressed by influential UK bands (e.g., Oasis and the Stone Roses) that had shaped a generation of young English musicians. //// Smith said in an interview with Q that the "post-TLC" refers to the band after the "traitors, liars and cunts..." had left. //// Reformation Post TLC was reissued by Cherry Red Records in April 2020, both on vinyl and as an expanded 4CD edition." | 0:02:38 (Pop-up) | |
| The Fall |
Fall Sound (Alternate Version)
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The Fall Box Set 1976-2007 | Castle Music/Santuary Records | 2007 | Called the "Alternate" version ON the (Red) Fall Boxset & "Alternative" version on the Expanded Cherry Red Edition of the album, this is from an unreleased early demo mix of the album. From The Annotated Fall (Lyrics) "The opening noises are presumably meant to sound a bit like an alarm clock, waking one up to Fall Sound. Reformation Post TLC is actually the only album recorded with this particular band; it somehow seems like a typical move, perhaps a bit perverse but making its own kind of sense in Fall terms, for MES to pick this moment to proclaim that the Fall aesthetic is now being definitively presented, and to insist on it being a group phenomenon. And indeed, Reformation is an album that sounds like nothing but the Fall; even though it really doesn't sound like any other Fall album, it is probably as typical as any of them can claim to be. MES is emphatically not a solo artist, despite the fact that a lot of solo artists may have as much consistency in terms of personnel as the Fall, and a good many of them have much more. His band members write the majority of the music on each album, and somehow it all comes out sounding like the Fall. It is a fascinating phenomenon--musicians who seemingly aren't brilliant songwriters in their own right, judging by the evidence of non-Fall products by Fall members, bang out some riffs and present them to MES, who shapes them into Fall songs, and more often than not they work. In fact, against all reasonable expectations, a good many classics actually result from this process, and indeed continue to issue forth even to this day, as songs like "Victrola Time" and "Loadstones" demonstrate. MES once insisted that Fall members can't be great songwriters without him, because something will always be missing. He went on to specify, though, that what is lacking isn't his vocals and lyrics--it's just that he knows how to make people write great songs. I don't have a reference for this, but I'm confident I've conveyed the gist correctly. //// MES employs the phrase "Fall sound" in a rather unusual way in a 1980 interview: "[T]he music bit is very important. I mean, I'm not a bloody writer! I am one of the FALL, one of the Fall sound. The music should always represent what the singer is saying." | 0:06:35 (Pop-up) | |
| HOUSE Of ALL |
Ur Mum / Uphill (Live)
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Bay City Pistols | Tiny Global Recordings | 2023 | Martin Bramah & other era members of The Fall live and/or remixed in their HOUSE Of ALL super-group. //////// HOUSE Of ALL's debut album was an immediate and deserved success. Around the time of its release, the band played a limited tour of six shows, part of which were recorded by the legendary Grant Showbiz, who worked with The Fall for many years and who was nominated for a Grammy Award. //////// HOUSE Of ALL decided to release a document of the period in the wake of their debut album. "Bay City Pistols" captures five storming live tracks, including the crowd fave Wet Leg / Can cover, "Ur Mum" / "Uphill", which lasts over 10 minutes, and incredible renditions of four album tracks plus three vastly reworked remixes of songs from the debut by outside producers. ////42 minutes." HOUSE Of ALL ('Bay City Pistols' release via Bandcamp) | * | 0:11:04 (Pop-up) |
| Madness |
What On Earth Is It (You Take Me For?)
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Theatre of the Absurd Introduces C'est La Vie | CTUNN LLP / BMG | 2023 | Preview of the November album, this track released today. "Madness announce their first album in over seven years. While their albums don't come as thick and fast as in their nutty first run in the 1980s, Madness have been knocking out great records in the past couple of decades. And now after a seven-year wait, they've announced their latest studio effort Theatre of the Absurd Presents C'est La Vie. The follow-up to 2016's Can't Touch Us Now is released in various physical and digital formats on November 17, 2023 and is available for pre-order now. Fans who pre-order from the official Madness store will get access to a pre-sale of a soon-to-be-announced London launch show for the album. /// "After a disparate couple of years which saw the band at their most polarised and fragmented, Madness reunited in an industrial unit in Cricklewood at the beginning of the year, where Suggs, Mark, Chrissy Boy, Mike, Lee and Woody realised that what united them was always bigger than what divided them," reads the blurb. "Emerging re-energised and reinvigorated with a fresh bounce in their nutty step, the result was their most harmonious recording experience to date." //// It continued: "For the first time ever, a brand new album came into the world that they were all completely agreed on. Theatre of the Absurd Presents C'est La Vie is the band's inaugural foray into self-producing, working alongside engineer and mixer Matt Galsbey (Ed Sheeran, Maisie Peters, Rag’n’Bone Man). //// "The governing principle behind Theatre of the Absurd Presents C'est La Vie, is: 'Let Madness be Madness'." https://www.madness.co.uk/ | * | 0:22:15 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: Uh Huh, Lammping |
Always Falling
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In My Mind |
Telephone Explosion |
2023 |
Released September 15, 2023. Out now on Telephone Explosion, this 6-song EP sees Toronto's Uh Huh & Lammping join forces. The final track (the only with full vocal treatment) also features Thes One & Moka Only In My Mind by Uh Huh & Lammping (Bandcamp) |
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Music behind DJ: Uh Huh, Lammping |
In My Mind
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In My Mind |
Telephone Explosion |
2023 |
Uh Huh is a reconfiguration of the Excellent band Teenanger. Members swapped instruments, roles, and moved the band to a new name and new direction. "Dub-damaged art rock from Toronto. A potent vision of spaced-out angular rhythms and bass-heavy grooves through layer upon layer of grime-spattered spring reverb" Uh Huh (Bandcamp) |
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Music behind DJ: Uh Huh, Lammping |
Reciprocate
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In My Mind |
Telephone Explosion |
2023 |
Lammping, in the meantime, are also from Toronto. Their Bandcamp offers up several releases and the helpful description: "Psych from Toronto" Lammping (Bandcamp) |
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Music behind DJ: Uh Huh, Lammping |
Somewhere
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In My Mind |
Telephone Explosion |
2023 |
Naturally, you can find out more about the label Telephone Explosion here: Telephone Explosion (Official Web) https://www.telephoneexplosion.com/ |
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| Hotel Lux |
Strut (Live @ The State 51)
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The State Factory 51 Sessions: Hotel Lux | The State 51 Conspiray | 2023 | Once contenders for the mantle of Britain’s most self-conscious band — guilty, by their own admission, of pandering to audiences’ tastes following their move from Pompey to London — Hotel Lux have crafted a bold and bright identity that is truly their own...Now in 2023 Hotel Lux look set to become something their early critics might have not foreseen: a band full of confidence, with the ability to transcend their peers and carve out their own corner of the British music tapestry to confirm a legacy that is their own. Of their non-London roots...bassist Cam Sims says "“I always wonder, if I had lived in London, would I have been happy just being the mate of someone in a band? Would I have bothered even trying? Would I have been happy with the rider beers when my mates were playing?” | * | 0:34:28 (Pop-up) |
| Cheap Time |
People Talk
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Cheap Time | In The Red | 2008 | Cheap Time is (was?) a Nashville-based garage rock band, fronted by Jeffrey Novak. The band, which formed in 2006, has toured with Jay Reatard, Yo La Tengo, Guitar Wolf, and Mudhoney. They cite many influences including Redd Kross, The Kinks, The Saints, Magazine and The Quick. | 0:37:50 (Pop-up) | |
| R.M.F.C. |
The Trap
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The Trap - Single | R.M.F.C. | 2023 | Pretty brand new music from an amazing band, this single was release on Sept 6th. The bandcamp bio reads " Sydney, Australia. extremely talented, intelligent and famous child prodigy." These are the words of writer/performer/genius Buz Clatworthy...who elaborates "The whole child prodigy thing stemmed from the artist description/bio thing on my Bandcamp page which reads: “extremely talented, intelligent and famous child prodigy”. I just thought it was funny at the time and still do. It doesn't annoy me when it gets brought up in interviews/write-ups and people taking it seriously makes it funnier to me. I guess being younger may have influenced the lyrical themes and imagery especially with earlier releases. If I had have started the band now it probably wouldn't be called Rock Music Fan Club but that's life." | * | 0:39:58 (Pop-up) |
| Lung Overcoat |
Internal Silence
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Internal Silence | Scolex | 1983 | Lung Overcoat were a post-punk,darkwave band from San Antonio, Texas that formed in the early 80s. At a time when hardcore punk was springing up in Texas the band took up a style of music that very few in the US played. Their biggest influences were English gothic bands such as Bauhaus. They only had two official releases, one 7" and a second 12" EP "Climbing Up That Hill" | 0:42:37 (Pop-up) | |
| Flipper |
Ha-Ha-Ha
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Sex Bomb Baby | Reppilf Music | 1979 | Flipper was founded in 1979, are definitely one of the most interesting punk bands and arguably the great forbears of noise rock and grunge. The band regularly performed in the San Francisco area and attracted a large following. Simultaneously, their uniquely slowed-down and raucous approach to punk managed to infuriate other members of the local punk scene, especially with the burgeoning popularity of faster-paced hardcore punk. Mark Arm claimed, in the 2006 documentary American Hardcore, that Flipper's charm as a band lay in their ability to upset audiences while attracting their undivided attention and curiosity at the same time. Fans began spray painting "Flipper Rules" in various locations around San Francisco and eventually the world | 0:47:09 (Pop-up) | |
| Sextile |
Plastic
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Push | Sacred Bones | 2023 | Sextile are currently on tour promoting their latest release "Push". This queasy little piece of synth darkness comes to us courtesy of Brady Keehn and Melissa Scaduto. The band takes its name from the aspect of the same name in astrology, that being when noting or pertaining to the aspect or position of two heavenly bodies when 60° distant from each other. When asked about their sound..is it postpunk? darkwave? "I think it’s more like no-wave and then everything it followed from, once everyone was listening to Cabaret Voltaire, Human League, and Suicide, like that kind of stuff. Anytime someone compares us to them it’s awesome. When do you hear Suicide it makes you feel like a badass, and I want people to feel like that when they hear us. Because we feel like fucking tuff and sexy. That is a good feeling to have." | 0:49:27 (Pop-up) | |
| Bob Marley & The Wailers |
Slave Driver (Live)
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Slave Drive Live at The Sundown Theatre Edmonton, UJK | Universal-Island Records Ltd. | 1973 | Originally from the Catch A Fire album released in 1973, this ripping version was recorded live in the UK on the supporting tour. All the songs were originals, and the instrumentation was minimalistic in order to bring out the passionate, often politically charged lyrics. Much of the appeal of the album lies in its sincerity and sense of purpose -- these are streetwise yet disarmingly idealistic young men who look around themselves and believe they might help change the world through music. After finishing a UK tour with Johnny Nash, they had started laying down tracks for JAD Records when a disputed CBS contract with Danny Sims created tensions. The band did not have enough money to return to Jamaica, so their road manager Brent Clarke approached producer Chris Blackwell, who agreed to advance The Wailers money for an album. They instead used this money to pay their fares back home, where they completed the recordings that would make this record... | 0:52:04 (Pop-up) | |
Music behind DJ: Joe Roland |
Indian Summer
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Joltin' Joe |
London Savoy |
1956 |
Roland began as a clarinetist, attending the Institute of Musical Art (later known as the Juilliard School) from 1937 to 1939. He started on xylophone in 1940 and began playing vibraphone in the middle of the decade, playing in jazz clubs in New York City. Influenced by the nascent bebop movement, Roland put together his own ensembles late in the decade, and continued his career until his death playing live in clubs across the US, but mostly in his home of Florida. |
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Music behind DJ: Joe Roland |
Goodbye, Bird
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Joltin' Joe |
London Savoy |
1956 |
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Music behind DJ: Joe Roland |
Soft Winds
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Joltin' Joe |
London Savoy |
1956 |
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| Blonde Redhead |
Sit Down for Dinner, Pt. 1
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Sit Down for Dinner | Section1 | 2023 | On the edge of a new full length release & extensive Oct/Nov/Dec tour... "At the end of this week, the veteran indie rock experimentalists Blonde Redhead will release their first proper album in nine years, Sit Down To Dinner. They’ve been gradually sharing advance tracks all summer, including “Snowman,” “Melody Experiment,” and “Before.” They’re doing one last tease today, and it’s a big one. For their final advance single, Blonde Redhead are actually sharing two songs. At the center of the album sits a pair of title tracks, “Sit Down For Dinner (Part 1)” and “Sit Down For Dinner (Part 2).” A short film by Sebastian Mlynarski out today combines the two songs — the former slow and impressionistic, the latter more upbeat but still soft and dreamy. Like the album itself, the tracks are inspired by a passage from Joan Didion’s The Year Of Magical Thinking: “Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.” //////// Kazu Makino shared this statement:“Sit Down For Dinner” is written like a journal and I suppose it’s confessional. “Part 1” starts with me living on a remote island and contemplating what to do. “Part 2” is me writing to my mother and father alongside inspiration from Ms. Didion’s writing. It touches on death and destiny and how we move through our lives without knowing how and when the end will come (with no pity). I’m excited by the way I was able to put down my rather terrifying thoughts on top of “uplifting” music. You would never guess what I’m singing about." //////// Blonde Redhead - Sit Down For Dinner (Pts. 1 & 2) (Official Video) | * | 1:05:50 (Pop-up) |
| Blonde Redhead |
Sit Down for Dinner, Pt. 2
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Sit Down for Dinner | Section1 | 2023 | Full album out Sep 29, more on the short film: "Directed by long-time Blonde Redhead collaborator Sebastian Mlynarski, “Sit Down For Dinner (Pts. 1 & 2)” collages historical news clips with stunning footage of founding members Kazu Makino and Amedeo and Simone Pace... "The inspiration for the film I made for "Sit Down For Dinner" was the result of long conversations with Kazu. It was important to both of us to create visuals that were deceptively simple. She told me that the song was partially written in honor of her friend's passing and that got us talking about death. We talked about the various types of death we experience in a lifetime, like an ego death, the death of a loved one, or a death of ideals," adds Mlynarski. //////// "Culturally there's been a lot of discussion about the death of masculinity so we were also interested in that. I turned to the footage of conflict, political uprisings, and sports. For every win there's a loss, for every victor, there's a loser. To a certain degree, I think we are always both. Some people die victorious on a hill somewhere, some die doing something they love, but there could also be someone who may die getting ready to sit down for dinner in front of their favourite television show." //////// " Blonde Redhead - Sit Down For Dinner (Pts. 1 & 2) (Official Video) | * | 1:09:02 (Pop-up) |
| Lewsberg |
Angle Of Reflection
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Out And About | Lewsberg Records | 2023 | Lewsberg are from Rotterdam, Netherlands. This was released September 15, 2023. Recorded by Yulya Divakova at Schenk Studio in 2023. Mixed by Yulya Divakova and Michiel Klein. Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk. Lewsberg are Shalita Dietrich (bass guitar, vocals), Michiel Klein (guitar, keys), Marrit Meinema (drums, vocals) and Arie van Vliet (guitar, violin, vocals). They are on tour now, from the US, into Canada for a moment, then eventually back to the Netherlands, before a 2-date jaunt to France and Spain in December. (And London, UK next summer.) Their Toronto show is October 17 @ The Tranzac for the Wavelength Music Series (Website) ---- Find Lewsberg here: Lewsberg(Bandcamp) | * | 1:12:29 (Pop-up) |
| Flat Worms |
See You at the Show
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Witness Marks | Drag City Inc. | 2023 | L.A.'s Flat Worms have released a stunner of a new album, and while this track may be a little atypical of the rest of the album, it seems to be the one I am drawn to play for this week's show. "Flat Worms return with new Ty Segall-produced album Witness Marks, a shape-shifting record that still holds their wired garage sound at its core." "Flat Worms were founded by singer and guitarist Will Ivy, previously a member of Bridez, Wet Illustrated, and Dream Boys. Ivy was working on his debut solo album, 2016's Scrap Plastic, when he found himself listening to some old Swell Maps records and was inspired to make some noisy and frantic rock & roll. Ivy recruited two friends to help him work out some tunes: bassist Tim Hellman, whose résumé includes stints playing with Ty Segall, Thee Oh Sees, and Sic Alps; and drummer Justin Sullivan, who has kept time for the Babies and Kevin Morby. Dubbing the trio Flat Worms, Ivy wasted no time taking Hellman and Sullivan into the studio, and their debut release, a three-song 7" titled "Red Hot Sand," appeared in April 2016." This album was released September 22, 2023. Flat Worms (Bandcamp) | * | 1:15:44 (Pop-up) |
| Luge |
Water Sparkling Everywhere
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I Love It Here, I Live Here | Self-Released | 2023 | Toronto's Luge. The full album was released Sep 8. This song features my most recent favourite lyric: "If you don't put your clothes away they stay awake and watch you sleep..." -- Tour alert! -- "Toronto art punks Luge have announced their first-ever West Coast tour, which will see them make their British Columbia debut at two Vancouver shows and another in Victoria — with a special homecoming gig to follow! /////// Supporting their new album I Love It Here, I Live Here, the quartet hit the road starting November 5, when they'll play their first of two Vancouver concerts. Then, they'll make a detour into the US to perform in cities across Washington, Oregon and California before returning for their second night in Vancity on November 18. //////// Luge will go on to do another BC concert in Victoria before what they describe as an "ultra special homecoming" show in Toronto on November 24 to wrap up the run. //////// Luge 2023 Tour Dates: 11/05_Vancouver,_BC ++ 11/06_Seattle,_WA ++ 11/07_Portland,_OR ++ 11/09_Sacramento,_CA ++ 11/10_San_Francisco,_CA ++ 11/11_Santa_Clarita,_CA ++ 11/12_Los Angeles,_CA ++ 11/14_Oakland,_CA ++ 11/16_Eugene,_OR ++ 11/17_Olympia,_WA ++ 11/18_Vancouver,_BC ++ 11/19_Victoria,_BC ++ 11/24_Toronto,_ON " Luge (Bandcamp) | * | 1:19:35 (Pop-up) |
| Blurt |
Cry
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Cry / I'll Be There Now | AllCity Records Ltd | 2023 | Released Sep 4, 2023. "Following on from the recent Elegiac release - a meeting of two mavericks Blurt's Ted Milton and Wire's Graham Lewis we have teamed up with Blurt for a double sided 45 featuring two new tracks "Cry" & "I'll Be There Now". Milton is a poet, with several volumes under his belt, as well as an avant-garde puppeteer. Yet he's probably best known as vocalist/saxophonist with psycho-funk afro punk fake no-wave pogo jazz trio Blurt. Milton's group has produced an impressive string of albums, not to mention his numerous solo recordings. Brimming with the pogo punk energy the band are known for, the lead side "Cry" is a mesh of raw drums and piercing sax slowing down on the flip side to a head nodding pace with Milton's echoing refrains backed by the raw bounce of the band" Blurt 7inch (via All City Bandcamp) | * | 1:22:46 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: Colleen |
Les parentheses enchantees - Movement I
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Le Jour et la Nuit du Réel |
Thrill Jockey Records |
2023 |
Released Sep 22. "Cécile Schott, aka Colleen, has strolled a fascinating musical path for 20 years’ worth of releases. Her debut, 2003’s Everyone Alive Wants Answers, found her stealthily looping records scored in Paris libraries for tracks that sounded at once ancient and futuristic, perhaps from a hidden Indonesian island or a dream. From there, and before her seven-year recording hiatus in 2007, she created mini-symphonies for classical guitars and zithers, all manner of music boxes, and finally, the viola da gamba, after a trip to Japan had her considering the concept of stillness. Her seemingly boundless incorruptibility made for music that was always in the process of discovery, sometimes strange, other times disturbingly fragile. //////// But in 2017, a few years after re-emerging as a recording artist, she turned her attention to synthesizers. That year’s A Flame My Love, a Frequency, an album inspired partly by the horrors of 2015’s Paris terror attack, uses Critter and Guitari synths for tracks containing almost unbearable breath, light, and space. By 2021’s The Tunnel and the Clearing, she’d added a drum machine and an emphasis on melody for music that occasionally connected to artists who flirt between pop and experimentation, such as Molly Nilsson or Reymour. //////// None of this information is any real preparation for Le Jour et la Nuit du Réel, a double LP of solo instrumental suites composed on a Moog synth and all manner of analog delay. At times relentlessly dense and at others wistful, her back catalog at least hints at what’s on display here. All three movements of opener “Subterranean” feature sometimes frantic flicks of the keys, a soundtrack to a panicked escape on foot, becoming lighter with each pass. The two movements of “The Long Wait” seem to shed colors as the tracks pass. //////// Schlott’s winks in pop’s general direction find a place here as well. “To Hold and be Held’s” second movement sounds almost like an Auto-Tuned voice, while “Mon Coeur” repeats an ascending, then descending melody that, with some tweaks, might underpin some synthetic Kylie Minogue track fit for a boutique clothing store PA. Not only does Schlott re-imagine each track movement by movement, but over the course of the album, the day becomes night; tracks become lullabies for drifting away. The five movements of “Les Parenthèses Enchantées” feel like gentle nudges or whispers." https://colleencolleen.bandcamp.com/ |
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Music behind DJ: Colleen |
Les parentheses enchantees - Movement II
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Le Jour et la Nuit du Réel |
Thrill Jockey Records |
2023 |
Released Sep 22. https://colleencolleen.bandcamp.com/ |
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| Tombeau |
Vision
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Music Songs | Tombeau | 2023 | Tombeau are from Wollongong, Australia and make "idiot music" (self described). “Tombeau & The Idiots’ delirious lo-fi garage punk soars around the building like a deranged loose animal tonight, teeth and claws and fur. Bands like this often try to stay down in the dirt – this one takes it with them and scatters it from the sky. Bloody glorious.” | * | 1:34:31 (Pop-up) |
| Lalalar |
Yarın Yokmuş Gibi
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En Kötü Iyi Olur | Bongo Joe | 2023 | The name arises from ‘Lala’; the wise-man, or teacher of sultans in Ottoman history. “It also has an opposite meaning for being goofy, or dumb,” says principal songwriter, Ali Güçlü Şimşek. “By adding “lar,” to “Lala” their name becomes ‘wiseguys’ “. The album’s name translates to ‘at its worst, it will be good.’ Which the band hope is “a beacon of hope in our ever socially, politically, and climatically challenged world”. “Our music is about building a bridge between the people and the music, being listenable, while being experimental and filling the audio spectrum.” Lalalar do not fuck around when it comes to writing songs, and while this track may just be slightly over the top with all its key changes and wibbly wobbly...that's what makes it great! | * | 1:36:11 (Pop-up) |
| Optic Sink |
Glass Blocks
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Glass Blocks Single | Feel It Records | 2023 | Just released last month, this single is an excellent slice of minmal synth/coldwave/postpunk. It checks all the boxes and features a fantastic delivery by vocalist Natalie Hoffmann also from NOTS. This band hails from Memphis Tenessee and are on tour. They will be in playing Tubby's Kingston in New York on Oct 12th and will be in Cincinnati on Oct 20th! Go see them! | * | 1:39:56 (Pop-up) |
| The Serfs |
Electric Like An Eel
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Electric Like an Eel Single | Trouble In Mind | 2023 | The Serfs have dropped their second single, “Electric Like An Eel,” off their upcoming album Half Eaten By Dogs, coming out next month. Dylan McCartney, Dakota Carlyle and Andie Luman have created a layered, complex electronic track with nods to other musical influences, with blues harmonics and funk basslines complementing their otherworldly vibe. The experimental arrangement invokes the likes of ’80s synth powerhouses The Cure and Depeche Mode, as the robotic sounds are punctuated by a groovy bassline pulsing underneath—creating the perfect dark wave club track. With the intrigue of “Electric Like An Eel” the band coyly elaborates: “An ‘electrophorus electricus’ swimming through a sewer on the moon, taking in the sights and making deals, stunning just to feel real.” | * | 1:44:13 (Pop-up) |
| Marie Möör & The Other Colours |
Les Bêtes
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Les Bêtes/Sauvages Single | LAC | 2023 | Marie Möör is a French singer and songwriter born in Seine-et-Marne. Having collaborated with renowned artists like jazz saxophonist and composer Barney Wilen, singer-songwriter Jean-Louis Murat, electro-crooner Bertrand Burgalat and pop star Christophe, she has been working with composer and musician Laurent Chambert since 2001. Experimenting with new song forms, she writes and performs her lyrics. | 1:48:02 (Pop-up) | |
Music behind DJ: Yohzik |
Track 3
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In The Fog |
Cassette Vision |
2023 |
Yohzik is a drone/ambient musician based in Tokyo. Field Recording is a huge element of his process...his music is creepy, weightless...and timeless. He also runs the Cassette Vision label. I love this. |
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| Crumb, Melody's Echo Chamber |
La Temple Volant
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Le Temple Volant Single | Crumb Records | 2022 | Reflecting on this collaboration, Prochet shares: "I remember the first time I heard Crumb's music, it was the song "Locket" that blew my mind. I think it kind of enlightened that spark in me that loves music so passionately, and made me reach out to them. The love was mutual and once that door was opened, we had to create something together, it’s been a nice flow of ideas back and forth." | 1:58:00 (Pop-up) |
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Alli B:
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Robm:
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Robm:
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Robm:
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Svenna:
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Scott_Oz.still:
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Derek Westerholm:
Robm:
@babs glad your back, did you get your internet straightened out
DJ Babs:
Derek Westerholm:
DJ Babs:
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Scott_Oz.still:
DJ Babs:
Robm:
@Babs that sucks when the wifi bites
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Robm:
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Robm:
Scott_Oz.still:
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Robm:
Robm:
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Scott_Oz.still:
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Robm:
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Robm:
Scott_Oz.still:
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Robm:
but yeah it’s somewhat strange
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ultradamno:
Scott_Oz.still:
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Robm:
Svenna:
ultradamno:
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ultradamno:
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Scott_Oz:
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Tom P:
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Scott_Oz:
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Derek Westerholm:
Tom P:
Scott_Oz:
Ooops!! Banned again!
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Tom P:
Scott_Oz:
Tom P:
Derek Westerholm:
Derek Westerholm:
Derek Westerholm:
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ultradamno:
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Scott_Oz:
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ultradamno:
Derek Westerholm:
Alli B:
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Derek Westerholm:
northguineahills:
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Scott_Oz:
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northguineahills:
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Alli B:
northguineahills:
Scott_Oz:
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Derek Westerholm:
Derek Westerholm:
ultradamno:
Scott_Oz:
VinylVillainSean:
Alli B:
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northguineahills:
Derek Westerholm:
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Scott_Oz:
northguineahills:
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coelacanth∅:
Rich in Washington:
Derek Westerholm:
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Scott_Oz:
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coelacanth∅:
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Rich in Washington:
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Derek Westerholm:
Scott_Oz:
Rich in Washington:
coelacanth∅:
how's it in your world?
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Derek Westerholm:
coelacanth∅:
Barno in Akron:
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Barno in Akron:
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Scott_Oz:
Derek Westerholm:
Bob Barth:
Scott_Oz:
Barno in Akron:
Barno in Akron:
Barno in Akron:
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coelacanth∅:
was that intentional poor judgement or a mistake? or influence from some childish big baby with a trigger finger...
hi Barno!
coelacanth∅:
Bob Barth:
DJ Babs:
Bob Barth:
Barno in Akron:
northguineahills:
Barno in Akron:
Scott_Oz:
www.wfmu.org...
Scott_Oz:
erik-O-vert:
northguineahills:
Derek Westerholm:
northguineahills:
Scott_Oz:
Derek Westerholm:
northguineahills:
Bob Barth:
Scott_Oz:
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Derek Westerholm:
Scott_Oz:
DJ Babs:
Scott_Oz:
ultradamno:
ultradamno:
Derek Westerholm:
DJ Babs:
coelacanth∅:
anyway the show host deleted my message, but not the post so it was just blank... did not delete the troll's many posts, even after Little Danny said she needed to "shut down that racist".
deleted after the show at some point.
but c'mon, just because she didn't like my terminology? but she's apparently okay with racist bullshit. some folks need their eyes checked.
northguineahills:
coelacanth∅:
of course the garments with blood stains all over i've considered other possibilities!
Scott_Oz:
coelacanth∅:
as if someone with an "accent" types their accent out! god people are fucking stupid sometimes!
northguineahills:
Scott_Oz:
Scott_Oz:
coelacanth∅:
that looks like the same one that's around often, saying stupid things that i guess thinks are clever or funny but really are far too juvenile to be either. usually attaches a moniker to the comment, but a different one every time...but sort of *thematic*...
Scott_Oz:
northguineahills:
coelacanth∅:
northguineahills:
northguineahills:
Bob Barth:
coelacanth∅:
Scott_Oz:
northguineahills:
Tom P:
coelacanth∅:
Thanks Derek! Thanks Babs!
Alli B:
Bob Barth:
VinylVillainSean:
northguineahills:
Rich in Washington:
Scott_Oz:
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coelacanth∅:
Scott_Oz:
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Derek Westerholm:
coelacanth∅:
Derek Westerholm: