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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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| Sounds of the Ocean |
Relaxing Beach Sounds
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Sounds of the Ocean | Sounds of the Ocean | 2017 | 0:00:00 (Pop-up) | ||
| Lassie |
Modern Vacation
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The Golden Age Of... | Peroquebien | 2021 | "Slithering out from the radioactive waste, we are once again blessed by the glorious creeps from Leipzig known as Lassie. This aberrant hit machine strikes again and again with more of their clever, punchy wacked flavor of synth-punk. Loaded with wacky samples, synth and guitar harmonies, riffs and, of course, a fucking shitload of ear worm melody packed and densely arranged for your listening pleasure. Don’t miss the boat. Pick up this outstanding ripper. For fans of a werewolf who can only be killed by piss." | 0:01:57 (Pop-up) | |
| Dancer |
Chill Pill
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As Well EP | Self Released | 2023 | Dancer is Gemma Fleet (Voice/Words), Chris Taylor (Guitar/Keytar), Andrew Doig (Bass) and Gavin Murdoch (Drums). They also play in other bands such as Nightshift (Trouble in Mind), Order of the Toad (Gringo Records) and Robert Sotelo (Upset the Rhythm) 5 new songs recorded at Green Door Studio in Glasgow, live to tape with Ronan Fay, the group has heightened some still burgeoning characteristics this time. The harsh songs are harsher, the considered warmth of slower efforts chime more melodically. | 0:03:52 (Pop-up) | |
| GLAAS |
Easy Living
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Qualm | Static Shock | 2022 | Anarcho-post-punk from Berlin. The quintet, which features members of Clock of Time, Exit Group, and Idiota Civlizzatto, among others, released Qualm in 2022, their full length debut via Static Shock Records (Warthog, Lasso, The Flex). The record is dense and corrosive, a sonic assault pushed into the red but lead by the heavy clamor of the rhythm section and a guttural dirge of harsh barked synth punk and oft motorik hardcore. Throughout Qualm, the band keep the aggression at the forefront, but there’s an inescapable nod to psychedelic side, as the band slide and careen from one dark shadow to the next. Led by a thick cloud of feedback and locked in grooves, the band peel the paint from the walls with a disorienting framework and a healthy societal disdain. | 0:06:34 (Pop-up) | |
| Big Bill |
Coma
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Public Freakout Companion | Spaceflight Records | 2022 | Hailing from Austin, Texas, Big Bill are influenced by the deadpan irreverence of The Monks and Talking Heads, Big Bill is known for their darkly comic, nervy take on punk rock. Though their brain-altering live show remains a huge part of their DNA, Big Bill's music has evolved across many lineup changes, stretching from the rawest, weirdest punk into shades of country, new wave and even quasi-classic rock. | 0:08:53 (Pop-up) | |
| Doc Flippers |
Slugheads
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Human Pork | Self Released | 2022 | If Captain Beefheart kept playing punk music and joined Marbled Eye or something, wearing modern, youthful clothes with an iPhone to hang out with some of the deranged, loveable, lust-for-lifers of Leipzig, maybe it would sound like this, but only after pulling him apart and putting him back together as Robocop with a Country Teasers bumper sticker on his metal arse. These new-age space cowboys take us to the other side of the galaxy with a space shuttle of punk-fuelled psychedelic country… and drop you off into a black hole. The riffs bring the good news of the apocalypse to the new world from the one they left behind. US Maple lightsaber guitars fighting in a Uranium Club? Singer running out of oxygen. | 0:10:51 (Pop-up) | |
| LIIEK |
Regressed Over Time
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Deep Pore | Self Released | 2022 | Post-punk rhythms can get decently funky, though you wouldn’t confuse this for quote-unquote dance music; basslines have a tonal depth that borders on gloomy, but the three-piece is too peppy to be goths or anarchos...they are from the Leipzig family of excellent post punk bands... | 0:12:58 (Pop-up) | |
| Neon Kittens |
Shroedinger's Party Animal
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Shroedinger's Party Animal EP | Metal Postcard Records | 2023 | The endless struggle of wanting to go out but also not wanting to go out...Release just earlier this month, Neon Kittens share three new songs that give a glimpse of the next album, due in 2024! credits released December 8, 2023 Nina: vocal / guitar Andy: guitar / bass Hope: Drums Written, recorded and produced by Neon Kittens November 2023 at Round Trees, York, UK | 0:15:16 (Pop-up) | |
| Heavy Petting |
Bier
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Anfahr'n Am Berg | Sabotage Records | 2022 | What's that yet ANOTHER band from Leipzig?! There are several Heavy Pettings out there but this one is the best. Harkening back to the classic German Neue Welle...it's angular and yelly but not without a wonderful sense of humour. | 0:17:34 (Pop-up) | |
| Cuticles |
Cheese In My Brain
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Major Works | Slitbreeze | 2023 | Oamaru, located about 80 miles north of Dunedin on New Zealand's south island, might seem like the last place you expect to find a prodigious racket like Cuticles, but ain't that a kick? You just never know. Formed around the nucleus of Austen McMillian, Matthew Plunkett (ex Trendees) & Lisa Preston (Nux Vomica, The Portage) a couple years back, they've been stacking up the hits & on 'Major Works', it's time to cash in. There's 18 tracks here & Cuticles chew through'em w/abandon. Someone just yelled out from the tree next door, "Sounds like the Pastels! With guns!" One could make a case for the South Island Sound coursing through their veins (they do live there after all), for the sheer abandon-pop that gushes off these grooves, but to these ears is heard a mutant strain of Shoe This High meets The Swingers. But there are no wrong answers, just bathe in the Cuticles hyper-mesmerizing aural swirl. | 0:20:43 (Pop-up) | |
Music behind DJ: Toad Blood |
Cheese Dreams
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Groblins |
Self Released |
2023 |
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Music behind DJ: Sapient Ape |
Double Cheese Dreams
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Double Cheese Dreams EP |
Quicksand Records |
2014 |
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| Moon Goose |
2023 AD
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Murmurations | Fruits de Mer / Inflatable Tarmac Records | 2023 / 2024 | Released Dec 4, 2023, in advance of Moon Goose's 4th LP, Murmurations, to be released on 27th January 2024. //// Ok, so we played them back on Nov 18, 2021... Not only is it surprising that we haven't played them since, but we seem to be the only ones playing them? How can this happen? Who doesn't love Moon Goose? Why aren't Moon Goose bigger than Birdsongs of the Mesozoic? So many questions... Also "snowflake snow" is an excellent lyric to multitrack. / You can find the excellent dizzying collage-based video here: 2023 AD by Moon Goose video (official) //// "2023 AD is Moon Goose’s first Christmas Song, sort of. It is a twisted portrait of the grim year we’ve just had as seen through a slightly distorted cheese lens, opening the door to fantasised images of strange fairies alongside the usual a parade of monsters that populate our media channels. //// This is one of 3 tracks that are not instrumental on the album, which is quite unusual for us, but brings another dimension to the preaching of the Goose. Now you will get the whole story at last and not just the implied journey of the song titles.. //// You can stream the song on Spotify and all those low-royalties modern streaming platforms, or you can head over to BandCamp and either buy it on its own, or better pre-order the new album and get 2023 AD straight away! //// "https://moongoosecult.bandcamp.com/" | * | 0:33:41 (Pop-up) |
| Beak> |
RSI
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>>> | Temporary Residence Limited | 2018 | "Beak 3 (stylized as >>> or Beak>>>) is the third studio album by British band Beak. It was released on 21 September 2018 under Temporary Residence Limited... Beak (stylized as BEAK>) is an English experimental electronic rock music band, consisting of Geoff Barrow (of Portishead), together with Billy Fuller (Robert Plant's Sensational Space Shifters) and Will Young (Moon Gangs), who replaced Matt Williams (MXLX, Fairhorns) in 2016." | 0:37:46 (Pop-up) | |
| MISZCZYK (feat. Simon Oates) |
Immediate Needs
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Thyrsis Of Etna | We Are Time Records | 2022 | Ok, so we played this song back on June 9, 2022; but it's still our favourite thing that happened in 2023. We Are Time is one of our favourite labels. (Thank-you Chandra Oppenheim & Jesse Locke + crew.) MISZCZYK is one of our favourite artists. There are a host of wonderful & talented contributors to this debut alubm; including this track w/ Simon Oates (Panic, Starkweather Fix.) Their first show happened earlier this month in Toronto. It included this song w/ a guest performance (amongst many other guests) by same-said Simon Oates. One of the highlights of many highlights of the year. | 0:41:26 (Pop-up) | |
| Portishead |
Chase The Tear
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Chase The Tear | Amnesty International | 2009 | "Chase the Tear" is a single released by the band Portishead on 10 December 2009, as a download-only for Human Rights Day to raise money for Amnesty International UK. It reached number 164 in the UK charts, and was later released as a limited edition 12" vinyl single on 14 November 2011, again for Amnesty UK | 0:43:37 (Pop-up) | |
| AUS!Funkt |
That's a Fact - RADIOactive EDT
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That's A Fact [EP] | Disco Devil | 2023 | Released Dec 21, 2023. "AUS!Funkt is a Montreal/Toronto based art-disco-post-punk quartet conceived in the jam session neo-laboratory. //// Rejecting the lyrical and musical excesses of rock music, AUS!Funkt combines the groove of electronic music with the subversive aggression of post-punk. The lyrics, spoken and sung, provoke the mind with their realism and repetition. Electronic beats seduce the body into movement, freeing it from its torpor. On top, the guitar spurts out clouds of noise, while the bass supplies the melody. AUS!Funkt assaults the senses and uneases the mind while you dance to its unsettling disco beats." AUS!Funkt (Bandcamp) | * | 0:48:55 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: Brian Eno [Passengers] |
Beach Sequence (Alternate Edit)
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Film Music: Europa |
UMG Recordings |
1995 / 2021 |
Who knew a U2 site would be helpful for info, but here some is... "Film Music: Europa" - Eno, Brian Streaming EP //// U2 Related Content: "Beach Sequence" (Alternate Edit) - Passengers (03:37) //// Full Track Listing: Sky Saw (2004 Digital Remaster) – Brian Eno (03:27) // Design As Reduction – Brian Eno (04:18) // The Lost Day (Remastered 2004) – Brian Eno (09:12) // Beach Sequence (Alternate Edit) – Passengers (03:34) // Taking Tiger Mountain (2004 Digital Remaster) – Brian Eno (05:32) //// Background Information Following on the heels of the album Film Music 1976 – 2020 Brian Eno released a series of digital only streaming EPs to various services including Tidal and Deezer. The tracks are not available to purchase or download, but can be streamed. The EPs feature additional songs not featured on the album, taken from a variety of soundtracks. //// The following EPs were released: 2020-12-18: Film Music: Crime Pays (Includes “Always Forever Now”) // 2021-01-08: Film Music: Interior // 2021-01-14: Film Music: Voices and Words (Includes “Your Blue Room”) // 2021-01-29: Film Music: Jarman > Stillness // 2021-02-05: Film Music: Europa (Includes “Beach Sequence”) // 2021-02-12: Film Music: Science / Fiction (Includes “One Minute Warning”) ///// This EP, “Europa” features the track Eno did with Passengers, “Beach Sequence” – it is the same edit as released on the Film Music 1976 – 2020 album with a bit more silence removed at the start and end of the track." + "Original Soundtracks 1 is a studio album recorded by rock band U2 and Brian Eno under the pseudonym Passengers as a side project. Released on 6 November 1995, the album is a collection of songs written for mostly imaginary films (the exceptions being songs for Ghost in the Shell, Miss Sarajevo, and Beyond the Clouds). Owing to Eno's involvement as a full songwriting partner and the album's experimental nature, the moniker "Passengers" was chosen to distinguish it from U2's conventional albums. It was commercially unnoticed by the band's standards and received generally mixed reviews. Guest musicians on the record included Italian opera singer Luciano Pavarotti (on "Miss Sarajevo") and producer Howie B, who would co-produce U2's following album, Pop (1997)." |
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| Optic Sink |
Soft Quiet Life
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Optic Sink | Goner Records | 2020 | OPTIC SINK is the latest project from Natalie Hoffmann of NOTS, giving her an opportunity to explore some of the darker electronic influences that have been brought into that band’s wiry post-punk approach over the course of their last few records. Pairing up with percussionist Ben Bauermeister for this debut LP, Hoffmann creates strobing, analog synth-driven soundscapes guided by early minimal wave and electro-industrial outfits like the NORMAL and CABARET VOLTAIRE...hen the term “dystopian” gets thrown around at seemingly every turn to describe music that in any way reflects the harsh truths of the countless oppressive systems governing our daily realities, this is one record that truly earns that qualifier—if you’re up for it, embrace the void. | 1:00:10 (Pop-up) | |
| Italia 90 |
Leisure Activities
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Living Human Treasure | Brace Yourself Records | 2023 | South London based four-piece Italia 90 have been making a name for themselves via a string of critically acclaimed singles and EPs, while also building a reputation as one of the most formidably intense live acts on the circuit right now. Originally hailing from the South Coast of England, the four members – Les Miserable (singer), Unusual Prices (guitar), Bobby Portrait (bass) and J Dangerous (drums) - relocated to London prior to forming the band almost a decade ago. " think our relative lack of success has probably helped with that as well. We don’t have many people making any demands of us. We’re basically left to our own devices, and every once in a while, we come up with something new and it gets released and we are lucky enough now to be having stuff put out by a label. But there’s no one hammering on the door asking where’s the new music and why doesn’t it sound like this? And I think that helps. I don’t think we’ve ever felt under pressure to do anything. So, we’ve never really done anything that we weren’t keen on, or at least at the time we did it." | 1:04:44 (Pop-up) | |
| Holy Wave |
Path of Least Resistance
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Five Of Cups | Suicide Squeeze | 2023 | Austin psych rock band Holy Wave has a long history of making music. The band, made up of Ryan Fuson, Kyle Hager, Joseph Cook, and Julian Ruiz, grew up together in the southwestern US, eventually making their way to Austin, Texas. Looking back at the band’s catalog, it’s a collection of surf-rock, lo-fi garage, and dream pop. The four-piece layers structured pop songwriting over experimental instrumentation, making their music some of the most exciting psych rock today. The band makes it look easy to compose mind-altering music that shifts and shapes throughout each track. | 1:09:29 (Pop-up) | |
| The Intelligence |
Futility Clinic
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Futility Clinic Single | Vapid Moonlighting | 2023 | And yet another single teased from the upcoming release from The Intelligence. Definitely one of my top bands of the year...they are creepy, wonky, weird and wonderful...this album will be topping many 2024 lists to come.... | * | 1:13:50 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: Jazz Instrumental Relax Center |
Black Hole's Unknown Stories
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Central Park Journeys |
Jazz Tales from NYC |
2023 |
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1:19:07 (Pop-up) |
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| Rocket Science |
Heroes On The Wall
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Push Play | Cheersquad Records & Tapes | 2023 | Right off the top lyrics include "...It isn't sunny, nor is it beach, it can be damn cold in fact..." which works for us here on Echo Beach in our December holding pattern of above-normal temperatures, w/ Winter in wait... Released Sep 22, 2023. "The long awaited sixth studio album ‘Push Play’from Rocket Science, now in their 25th year together... Conceived and nurtured in NAARM (Melbourne) during the long dark nights of lockdown, ‘Push Play’ reveals the many faces of Rocket Science's myriad influences, musical, social, sartorial, and chemical. //// Recorded and produced by the band and guitarist Paul Maybury at his A Secret Location Sound Recorders studio and mixed by Paul ‘Woody’ Annison, nothing was left unexplored, no flight of imagination unfollowed in the creation of this work! https://cheersquadrecordstapes.bandcamp.com/album/push-play | * | 1:26:05 (Pop-up) |
| Disturbed |
Betrayed
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I Don't Believe b/w Betrayed (7") | Parole Records | 1979 | From Jul 1979. Seemingly, this is the only thing the band released. //// Vocals – Josi Munns / Guitar – Ian Willcock / Bass – Steve Strand / Drums – Trevor Warburton. //// Double A-sided 7" (track A on Side AA, track B on side A) -- As is my ongoing theory, there's something about this 1979 track that seems very 'today'. [Not always, of course, but still...] -- The intro to this seems like it would work next to a busy eggpunk song, ie. | 1:28:54 (Pop-up) | |
| Todd Briefly |
Maps
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Demos 3 (Two new songs) | Just Step Sideways | 2023 | Released June 16, 2023 on a label that references a Fall song. Info from his Bandcamp at the time... "Guess who's back? Yes, Todd is back. 'Demos' Volumes 1 & 2 tape out 5th July 2022 on Just Step Sideways... Todd found 2 tracks which were going to be the start of an album. // But now its not going to be an album. // So Todd released these 2 tracks. // Enjoy." -- Excellent! -- Other info: "Who is Todd Briefly? You ask again. Well, Todd is an inside joke that no one gets. Todd plays lo-fi garage pop songs that are equal parts painful and hilarious. Todd is the solo project, alter ego and writing tool for Beige Banquet’s T.E. Brierley. Todd is currently hiding somewhere in East London." Todd Briefly (Bandcamp) | 1:31:14 (Pop-up) | |
| MAZES |
Salford
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Wooden Aquarium | Fat Cat Records | 2014 | "Mazes were an English indie rock band, formed in Manchester in 2009. The band consisted of Jack Cooper on vocals and guitar, Conan Roberts on bass and Neil Robinson on drums." MAZES (Bandcamp) "Their third album, Wooden Aquarium, was released on 16 September 2014. Following the release of the album, frontman Jack Cooper formed Ultimate Painting which he co-fronted with Veronica Falls member Jack Hoare. Drummer Neil Robinson toured with the band and appeared on some of their studio recordings. Bassist Conan Roberts went into video and film production, working for the likes of MTV and Disney" //// ++ "Mazes have a video for ‘Salford’. As taken from their latest full-length ‘Wooden Aquarium’, the track itself is a bold cut packed with jagged guitars and stampeding riffs. The video, however, is a little different: set in a rather downbeat-looking pub - complete with Kiss memorabilia on the walls and some rather strict pool table rules - the clip boasts a tremendous performance from, well, a hairy bunch of old metallers with rather strangely functioning mouths. Watch: MAZES 'Salford' (Official Video) //// The track is from their third album, which was recorded in New York with Parquet Courts producer Jonathan Schenke. | 1:33:44 (Pop-up) | |
| Mekons |
Where Were You
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Where Were You / I'll Have To Dance Then (On My Own) | Fast Product | 1978 | "The band was formed in 1976 by a group of University of Leeds art students: Jon Langford, Kevin Lycett, Mark White, Andy Corrigan and Tom Greenhalgh—Gang of Four and Delta 5 formed from the same group of students. They took the band's name from the Mekon, an evil, super-intelligent Venusian featured in the British 1950s–1960s comic Dan Dare (printed in the Eagle). The Mekons were described as a more chaotic version of Gang of Four; Lycett stated the band operated on the principle that "anybody could do it ... anybody could get up and join in and instruments could be swapped around; that there'd be no distance between the audience and the band." //// By their second show, supporting the Rezillos at the F Club, they were approached with a record deal by Bob Last of Fast Product. The Mekons were the first band signed to the label. The band's first single was "Never Been in a Riot", a satirical take on the Clash's White Riot. The release was made Single of the Week in NME.[6] Their second single, "Where Were You?" was released by the end of 1978 and sold out of its 27,500 copies. At this time, Last convinced the band to sign to a larger label—Virgin. The Mekons’ popularity peaked as they played on the same bill as other "new music" groups like Gang of Four, the Fall, the Human League, and Stiff Little Fingers. //// For several years the band played noisy, bare-bones post-punk, releasing singles on a number of labels. The Mekons' first album, The Quality of Mercy Is Not Strnen, was recorded using Gang of Four's instruments, and due to an error by the Virgin Records’ art department, featured pictures of Gang of Four on the back cover. After 1982's The Mekons Story, a compilation of old recordings, the band ceased activity for a while, with Langford forming The Three Johns. Corrigan became a tour manager for many years before founding a company that provides visa and immigration services specialising in the entertainment industry." | 1:36:04 (Pop-up) | |
| The Mekons 77 |
Still Waiting
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It Is Twice Blessed | Slow Things | 2018 | Took me over 5 years to find out that the original Mekons reformed & made a new album. (In tandem with the existing Mekons doing their own thing, sharing two members without incidence.) From... "GLEN SARVADY on August 12, 2018 at 3:36 pm - From their origins at the University of Leeds’ art school, the Mekons have fashioned themselves as an artist collective. It Is Twice Blessed extends this notion to a new (old) level. The original six celebrated their 40th anniversary in the English countryside last summer by woodshedding some new songs. With minimal fanfare the results have been issued under the Mekons 77 moniker, the group going so far as to set up a separate (but linked) website to draw a distinction between the legacy and go-forward units. It’s almost certainly not a rights issue, given the troupe’s longstanding anti-capitalist stance. //// The cover artwork consciously references that of 1979 debut album The Quality of Mercy Is Not Strnen, which also serves as Twice Blessed’s musical and spiritual antecedent. It would be silly to expect this lineup to have remained frozen in time stylistically, however. The Mekons rather famously shifted gears after a brief hiatus with 1984’s Hank Williams-inflected classic Fear and Whiskey and despite plenty of evolution and countless detours, the roots of today’s ongoing band of merrymakers can be traced to that configuration. Often lost in the narrative, though, is the fact that the v1.0 punk primitives had already morphed in their own right, pivoting toward dense and abstract synth-driven pieces by the early ’80s. //// These Mekons sound more muscular and sure-handed than their 40-years-ago selves, particularly in the rhythm section – or perhaps they simply have access to better recording gear. This is somewhat surprising given that at least half the band abandoned music performance ages ago, though it may also explain their ability to preserve a DIY feel. The only constants across lineups are guitarist Tom Greenhalgh (who adds occasional vocals in both iterations) and present-day frontman Jon Langford, who moves behind the drum kit and cedes the mic for Mekons 77. (Kevin Lycett soldiered on for portions of the ’80s, but eventually left the fold.) //// Although hints of the later-day Mekons roots influences seep in – as well as the dub reggae that spans both eras – the prevailing theme here is buzzing guitars, simple riffs and chanted repetition-with-a-purpose. Boomerang vocalist Mark White deploys a quintessentially British, craggy rant that sounded wizened beyond his years back in the day and hasn’t changed much since. It’s a quite different kettle of fish, but an effective one. //// The hands-down standout is “Still Waiting,” a lyrical sequel to the Mekons’ seminal 1978 single “Where Were You,” bringing back the girl with yellow hair pined for in the original and declaring “we’re still here!” while reciting a litany of social grievances unresolved since 1977. The urgent “In the Red” is nearly as good, and the group’s political fury hasn’t receded – as best evidenced on the Trump-directed “You Lied To Us” and the more globally pointed “Borders.” //// It Is Twice Blessed feels intentionally low stakes, more a document of a weekend among friends than an ambitious comeback effort. It’s hardly an ideal entry point, but those smitten with the Mekons’ winding path – particularly its early portion – will find enough to enjoy here." | 1:38:44 (Pop-up) | |
| KIBBO KIFT |
Punky
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V.87 | KIBBO KIFT | 2019 | From the first official EP by KIBBO KIFT, released Oct 19, 2019. They play No Wave, Punk from Alajuela, Costa Rica. //// Guitar and vocal by Sebastian Alvarez / Bass and vocal by Katherine Ortiz / Guitar by Fernando Murillo / Drums by Andres "Chiri" Sanchez //// Recorded, mixed and mastered by Guillermo Hernandez at Studio 33H. Alajuela, Costa Rica. //// Probably named after this: "The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift was a camping, hiking and handicraft group with ambitions to bring world peace. It was the first of three movements in England associated with the charismatic artist and writer John Hargrave (1894–1982). The Kindred was founded in 1920. Some members continued into Hargrave's Green Shirt Movement for Social Credit, which was established in 1931–32, and which became in 1935 the Social Credit Party of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. This was wound up in 1951. //// Hargrave claimed all three organisations to be part of one mission, telling his followers after the last title-change: 'We are the Green Shirts – indeed we are the Kindred – calling ourselves the Social Credit Party of Great Britain officially, but knowing full well who and what we are. "Whelm on me ye Resurrected Men!" – I give you that outcry of the Kin in 1927.' //// The mission was the belief that Kibbo Kift training would produce a core of healthy and creative individuals through whom the human race would evolve into a society without war, poverty and wasted lives. The Kibbo Kift held that individual character strengthened by mental discipline was the key to the future, not mass movements based on groups defined by class, race or nation states." //// KIBBO KIFT (Bandcamp) | 1:42:36 (Pop-up) | |
| LA ÉLITE |
Gran Noche
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Gran Noche [Digital single] | Discos Gele | 2023 | Released Dec 22, 2023. "La Élite is the project of two good friends from Lleida... [a city in the west of Catalonia, Spain; though their Bandcamp shows El Paso, Texas.] ...Nil Roig (AKA Yung Prado) and David Burgués drink from 80's punk, new wave and electronic sounds with drum machines and synthesizers. The Elite is punk, The Elite is pop, The Elite is what we needed and didn't know." LA ÉLITE (Bandcamp) Next show: Mar 28, SanSan Festival, Benicassim, Spain. | * | 1:44:54 (Pop-up) |
| Savak |
My Book On SIblings
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Human Error / Human Delight | Peculiar Works Music | 2022 | Released April 15, 2022. SAVAK was formed in 2015 by Sohrab Habibion (Obits, Edsel) and Michael Jaworski (The Cops, Virgin Islands), who play guitars and trade off singing songs, along with drummer Matt Schulz (Holy Fuck, Enon). The live band features Jeff Gensterblum (Small Brown Bike, Her Heads On Fire) on drums and bassist Matt Hunter (New Radiant Storm King, Silver Jews). You can also visit the WFMU archives to find their live set on WFMU’s Evan “Funk” Davies show from Wednesday, April 13 2022; during which they played many songs from this album. In the meantime, find them here: Savak (Bandcamp) | 1:47:19 (Pop-up) | |
Music behind DJ: Brian Eno |
The Lost Day (Remastered)
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Film Music: Europa |
UMG Recordings |
1982 / 2021 |
Originally from 1982's "Ambient 4: On Land" -- "Ambient 4: On Land is the eighth solo studio album by Brian Eno, released in March 1982 by EG Records. It was the final edition in Eno's ambient series, which began in 1978 with the release of Ambient 1: Music for Airports. The album was released to critical acclaim, and is, along with the rest of the ambient series, recognised as a landmark album in the history of the ambient music genre." --- "On Land is a mixture of synthesizer-based notes, nature/animal recordings, and a complex array of other sounds, most of which were unused, collected recordings from previous albums and the sessions that created them. As Eno explained, "... the making of records such as On Land involved feeding unheard tape into the mix, constant feeding and remixing, subtracting and "composting". //// Eno actually found, in the three-year process of making the album, that the synthesizer came to be of "limited usefulness" and that his "instrumentation shifted gradually through electro-mechanical and acoustic instruments towards non-instruments like pieces of chain and sticks and stones ... I included not only recordings of rooks, frogs and insects, but also the complete body of my own earlier work". //// Eno, cognizant of the deeper aural qualities, said, "On the whole, On Land is quite a disturbed landscape: some of the undertones deliberately threaten the overtones, so you get the pastoral prettiness on top, but underneath there's a dissonance that's like an impending earthquake". //// Eno also had something to say about how music—this album in particular—should be listened to. In the liner notes, he suggested (even going so far as to draw a diagram) "a three-way speaker system that is both simple to install and inexpensive, and which seems to work very well on any music with a broad stereo image"." |
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| The Walkmen |
In The New Year
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You & Me | Gigantic | 2008 | One of my favourite New Year's related songs... "Oh, I'm still living At the old address And I'm waiting on the weather That I know will pass I know that it's true It's gonna be a good year Out of the darkness And into the fire I tell you I love you And my heart's in the strangest place That's how it started And that's how it ends" | 1:57:56 (Pop-up) |
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Listener comments!
DJ Babs:
Scott_Oz:
🌏🌞🍻😎🤙💨🍺🍺🌊🏖️🌴
Your Pretend Boyfriend:
ultradamno:
Derek Westerholm:
Robm:
ultradamno:
DJ Babs:
Feldy:
ultradamno:
Tom P:
DJ Babs:
DJ Babs:
ultradamno:
Your Pretend Boyfriend:
tom tom the pipers son:
DJ Babs:
Aitch:
DJ Babs:
DJ Babs:
Robm:
have not seen him on the accu all week
Aitch:
DJ Babs:
DJ Babs:
lesliehastonhurst:
DJ Babs:
lesliehastonhurst:
DJ Babs:
Your Pretend Boyfriend:
tom tom the pipers son:
Bob Barth:
DJ Babs:
Robm:
ultradamno:
tom tom the pipers son:
Aitch:
DJ Babs:
Robm:
ultradamno:
DJ Babs:
ultradamno:
Feldy:
shellioh:
DJ Babs:
WR:
DJ Babs:
shellioh:
tom tom the pipers son:
DJ Babs:
DJ Babs:
ultradamno:
Tom P:
Robm:
Your Pretend Boyfriend:
DJ Babs:
ultradamno:
DJ Babs:
DJ Babs:
Your Pretend Boyfriend:
Scott_Oz:
ultradamno:
northguineahills:
Scott_Oz:
Mr Fab:
tom tom the pipers son:
Robm:
@NGH getting ready for the big move
northguineahills:
Aitch:
ultradamno:
WR:
northguineahills:
northguineahills:
northguineahills:
Robm:
northguineahills:
northguineahills:
northguineahills:
Robm:
ultradamno:
Robm:
northguineahills:
Tom P:
northguineahills:
Robm:
WR:
Bob Barth:
northguineahills:
DJ Babs:
northguineahills:
Tom P:
DJ Babs:
gsdoubleu:
northguineahills:
DJ Babs:
Derek Westerholm:
DJ Babs:
northguineahills:
gsdoubleu:
Scott_Oz:
🍻😎🤙💨🍺
DJ Babs:
northguineahills:
Bob Barth:
DJ Babs:
Bob Barth:
DJ Babs:
DJ Babs:
Bob Barth:
Derek Westerholm:
DJ Babs:
ultradamno:
Bob Barth:
DJ Babs:
DJ Babs:
Scott_Oz:
🍻😎🤙
DJ Babs:
ultradamno:
Derek Westerholm:
Derek Westerholm:
Tom P:
Robm:
Derek Westerholm:
northguineahills:
DJ Babs:
Tom P:
Derek Westerholm:
Derek Westerholm:
DJ Babs:
northguineahills:
northguineahills:
ultradamno:
Scott_Oz:
ultradamno:
Derek Westerholm:
DJ Babs:
northguineahills:
DJ Babs:
ultradamno:
Tom P:
DJ Babs:
northguineahills:
northguineahills:
northguineahills:
Robm:
Tom P:
DJ Babs:
Scott_Oz:
💻🎙️🦥🍻
DJ Babs:
northguineahills:
Bob Barth:
ultradamno:
DJ Babs:
northguineahills:
Robm:
DJ Babs:
Androu B.:
Been listening in since the start and have to echo Tom P's sentiments, you are KILLING IT tonight!
DJ Babs:
northguineahills:
DJ Babs:
It’s true. DJing and drinking are a thing.
Kristine:
DJ Babs:
ultradamno:
Robm:
howdy kristine
Kristine:
Kristine:
DJ Babs:
DJ Babs:
ultradamno:
northguineahills:
Robm:
Tom P:
northguineahills:
Kristine:
northguineahills:
Kristine:
ultradamno:
Robm:
@NGH i agree
ultradamno:
Kristine:
northguineahills:
ultradamno:
northguineahills:
/glass ref...
northguineahills:
Kristine:
Derek Westerholm:
Robm:
DJ Babs:
coelacanth∅:
DJ Babs:
ultradamno:
Tom P:
DJ Babs:
Kristine:
coelacanth∅:
DJ Babs:
northguineahills:
northguineahills:
ultradamno:
Robm:
@Babs which is why i love the internet streams bad language all around
DJ Babs:
Robm:
ultradamno:
DJ Babs:
Robm:
DJ Babs:
coelacanth∅:
DJ Babs:
northguineahills:
ultradamno:
DJ Babs:
northguineahills:
Derek Westerholm:
northguineahills:
Derek Westerholm:
Tom P:
ultradamno:
Robm:
v-dawg:
Oh and good evening everyone.
ultradamno:
northguineahills:
DJ Babs:
Androu B.:
DJ Babs:
northguineahills:
ultradamno:
DJ Babs:
northguineahills:
Kristine:
moniker:
Derek Westerholm:
DJ Babs:
v-dawg:
northguineahills:
northguineahills:
Androu B.:
northguineahills:
moniker:
northguineahills:
DJ Babs:
northguineahills:
ultradamno:
DJ Babs:
Androu B.:
Your Pretend Boyfriend:
DJ Babs:
northguineahills:
.....sooon....
Derek Westerholm:
DJ Babs:
ultradamno:
Androu B.:
DJ Babs:
northguineahills:
DJ Babs:
DJ Babs:
coelacanth∅:
ultradamno:
northguineahills:
tom tom the pipers son:
DJ Babs:
moniker:
ultradamno:
Waltz would be a lock, yes.
coelacanth∅:
moniker:
Your Pretend Boyfriend:
Bob Barth:
Tom P:
tom tom the pipers son:
Androu B.:
Scott_Oz:
🌏🌞🍻😎🤙💨🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺
Kristine:
moniker:
Androu B.:
Kristine:
coelacanth∅:
in any case he's worth checking out.
(and regarding the original question up there, i never got the impression he's into goth at all, for better or worse)
DJ Babs:
Kristine:
coelacanth∅:
Derek Westerholm:
Androu B.:
Derek Westerholm:
coelacanth∅:
WR: