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: Ocean Waves for Sleep |
Ocean Waves for Sleep
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Ocean Waves for Sleep |
Ocean and Air |
2010 |
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| The Florists |
Hold It Together
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Hold It Together | The Florists | 2020 | While I don't think The Florists had any sort of knowledge of what the world would look like when they released the self-titled single, it's hard to deny the eeriness of putting out the song "Hold It Together" amid a pandemic. The single is primarily rooted around the chanted line "Hold it together / It's gonna be alright." Damn, do they get the most out of those seven words. The track slowly devolves from a simple drum beat and synth bass line to a surrealist look at what noise music can add - I'm pretty sure there's a slide whistle buried it there? The Florists hail from Minnesota and are the trio of Jo Kellen, Jared Hemming, and Luke Michael. | 0:01:57 (Pop-up) | |
| Good News |
New Dawn
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New Dawn Single | Bingo Records | 2024 | city: Sheffield country: UK genre: Rock styles: Post-Punk, Indie, Punk, Wonky-Pop, Wonky-Pop, Wonky-Pop Good News are a band from Sheffield. Beth, Dan and Erin play in this band. They have a record coming out soon. And that's all. | * | 0:04:55 (Pop-up) |
| Hörförståelse |
Dansar Och Le
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Listening Comprehension (1980-1982) | Manufactured Recordings | 2016 | Born out of the instant high of first hearing the Ramones' "Blitzkrieg Bop" and the Sex Pistols, Dan Personne and Klas Björkman threw out their hard rock records and formed a band together with creative/doer Anders Sjölander in suburban Stockholm. Taking advantage of Sweden's close proximity to London, they shuttled back and forth to explore punk and new wave and scoured Rough Trade for the latest sounds. This eventually gave birth to Hörförståelse including new members Mats Wigerdal (formerly of minimal synth legends Kitchen & the Plastic Spoons), Örjan Magnusson and Olle Öfverberg in 1980. Hörförståelse channels bands like The Fall or The Desperate Bicycles but through an intangible yet somehow distinctly Swedish filter. With the punk era starting to wane and Swedish labels increasingly prioritizing English-language bands, there was no one willing to take a chance on Hörförståelse. :-( :-( :-( | 0:06:51 (Pop-up) | |
| Grito Exclamac!on |
La última inocencia
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Grito Exclamac!ón | Grito Exclamac!on | 2024 | It is a movement in search of itself and a counterculture that responds to the social problems experienced today...amazing post punk from Mexico City! | * | 0:09:41 (Pop-up) |
| Japanese Intelligence Mind Control |
I Trusted You
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The Electronic Bible (Chapter 3) | White Label Music | 2006 | 'The Electronic Bible Chapter 1' is the first in the Electronic Bible compilation series curated by Ann Shenton. This is the second to last installment and it slaps. All comps are HIGHLY recommended! This project is one Vicki Churchill..."Photographic artist, experimental musician, published author, creative writer, caterer and community life explorer… Originally from North London I spent my young adult life working with photographers by day, while creating electro indie music, running events and performing live, at night." | 0:12:42 (Pop-up) | |
| 10LEC6 |
Blalabla
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Counselling Orientation | Fiat Lux Recordings | 2006 | 10LEC6 is a shape-shifting project formed around street-artist Simon and DJ-producer Jess (from the duo Jess & Crabbe). What started as a project based on the need and compulsion to play loud and hard music has earned itself a nice reputation as a live act and on the dancefloors. The band has had a song picked-up by the TV series Skins and toured with The Gossip. Influenced by the more danceable side of post-punk but also by disco, house and other electro-deviant sounds, 10LEC6 is back with a new formation that accentuates the unstructured (dyslexic) quality of the project. New singer Nicole has gospel roots and can also rap and shout in Bulu (a Bantou dialect spoken in the South of Cameroon), bringing a quality that is altogether Afro-punk, energetic, tribal, modern and, most of all, dancefloor. A great mix of rhythms and bass carried by traditional sounds and vocal incantations bursting out in a fiery flow. | 0:15:49 (Pop-up) | |
| Mr, Wrong |
Isolation Du Plenty
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Create a Place | Mr. Wong | 2020 | Mr Wrong is our kind of right in every way, super fun in a Devo meets the B-52s kind of way. Inspirations include: politics, healthcare, oppression and rape culture – spirited punk. "‘Isolation du Plenty’” which was written in the winter of 2016/2017. Inspired, in part by, Tomata Du Plenty’s world, via The Screamers and his visual art. The lyrics are about creating a place of stability in your mind, even if it’s just a vision of a someday physical space that you hope to occupy, and drawing inspiration through artists you’ll never meet. I feel that the songs on Create A Place are all, in one way or another, critical of institutions that prevent stability for large portions of the population, the hopeful message we aspire to leave with listeners is that we can change tha...It’s about noticing what we need in the world around us and feeling inspired to create it for ourselves (and anyone who feels connected to it). It can seem scary to take those first steps when no one around you is doing something, but that makes it all the more important to trust your gut and do it." | 0:18:30 (Pop-up) | |
Music behind DJ: The Coconut Monkeyrocket |
Shopping for Explosives
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With Birds |
Coconut Monkeybirds |
2007 |
I desperately wish Big Beat would come back with a vengance. I love this. |
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| Limbo District |
Two Of Screams
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Bombay | Chunklet Industries | 2024 (Unrel. 1982) | From Athens, GA. "Limbo District has always felt like a myth hidden in plain sight. In the early '80s, the band delighted and terrified Athens, Ga., with its provocative avant-garde post-punk performance art. Limbo District's roster fluctuated with Southern bohemians — plus a French exchange student — but its most visible member was drummer Jerry Ayers, who co-wrote The B-52s' "52 Girls" and R.E.M.'s "Old Man Kensey" [& "Windout"] and was part of Andy Warhol's Factory. Ask anyone from that Athens era and they speak of Limbo District as a Vaudevillian unicorn. //// But the group's only known recordings were featured in Carnival, a short film by Jim Herbert — snippets were featured in the Athens, GA: Inside/Out documentary. And, as time has gone by, memories and information about the band have faded — members have died or their whereabouts are unknown — leaving those still curious to follow trails of poor YouTube rips and brief mentions in Grace Elizabeth Hale's book Cool Town. //// But thanks to art director, producer and archivist Henry Owings, Limbo District lives again. "Encased" is the first of a few known studio sessions that will surface over the year. "It's like finding Joy Division 40 years later in tape boxes," Owings tells me. There is a back-to-basics vibe very much line with what was happening in Athens at the time, but where The B-52s played up the party and Oh-OK brought New Wave to the doo-wop, Limbo District reverse-engineered punk's primitive roots to piece together a circus-like surrealism. On "Encased," the parts are easy to identify — howled vocals, thwacked drums, droning organ, spindly guitar, menacingly grooved bass — but the song seems to be in a state of constant spontaneous combustion." //// Excellent article from the 7/22/2024 Guardian here: ‘They taught me how to dress’: Michael Stipe on Limbo District, the greatest band you’ve never heard of /////////// Helpful info for this release from their Bandcamp page: https://chunklet.bandcamp.com/album/bombay //// "Bombay Studios was an 8-track studio located in the sleepy backwoods village of Smyrna, Georgia which briefly operated from 1980 to 1983. During that time, Joe Perry, the proprietor of Bombay was a routine live sound engineer at venues sprinkled across Atlanta including the Agora Ballroom and 688. Most famously, he holds the distinction of recording the first studio session ever by R.E.M. (And no, that session has never been released.) As was often the case, other local bands would record there including Love Tractor, Keith and the Satellites (soon to be called The Georgia Satellites), Guadalcanal Diary, DDT and Oh-OK. Amongst the littany of bands that’d come in for a day or two and commit their material to tape was the upstart Athens five-piece Limbo District. While looking through third guitarist Kelly Crow’s archive, I stumbled across an unmarked cassette tape of a three song session. Jump ahead to famed collector Lo Yo Yo’s Todd Ploharski who had the same session but on the J-card was written “Bombay.” And just like that, the band’s second recording session from the spring of 1982 had been unearthed. This session is, indeed, the band’s second line-up with Art In The Dark’s Tim Lacy on guitar who strengthened the band’s songwriting and performances. The three songs recorded “Fetish This,” “Daydreaming,” and “Two Of Screams” have more in common with the art damaged New York No Wave scene than any oblique pop, rock or jangle in the Classic City at the time. Not coincidentally, Limbo bassist Davey Stevenson’s big brother Gordon was the bassist in Teenage Jesus and the Jerks who would consistently send his kid brother missives from the front line of New York’s scuzzy vanguard. //// Spotlessly restored by Jason NeSmith, ‘Bombay’ celebrates that day in Joe Perry’s studio 42 years ago. “Daydreaming” is included as a digital bonus as it wouldn’t fit on the record." | * | 0:28:47 (Pop-up) |
| Testera | φίδι | Testera LP | Self Released (Bandcamp) | 2018 | From Athens, Greece. Released December 13, 2018 //// drums-lara // guitar, vocals-mandy // bass, vocals-chrysanthi // keyboards, vocals-kopros //// recorded and mixed by chris brito at AUX Studio // mastered by nasos nomikos at VU Productions Studio // sketch [cover art] by fokzaret ---- The song title, it seems, is pronounced fídi, which translates to English as "Snake". | 0:32:59 (Pop-up) | |
| The B-52's |
52 Girls
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The B-52's | Warner Bros. Records | 1979 | From Athens, GA. ""52 Girls" is the second track on the band's debut album. The lyrics are simply a list of women's first names with the question, "Can you name 'em today?" And while the words won't send anyone to the mountaintop, the song is a great example of the unique sound the B-52s created, with a surf-rock rhythm generated by guitarist Ricky Wilson, and harmony lead vocals between Cindy Wilson (Ricky's younger sister) and Kate Pierson. //// Only 25 names are listed in the lyric; the 52 relates to the band name, with the "52 girls" being Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson. If you're looking for a song that really does mention the number of girls promised in the title, check out "88 Lines About 44 Women" by The Nails. //// The B52s were five musically inclined friends from Athens, Georgia, a very artistic community. The group was very communal when they started, accepting contributions from many of their friends in the area. The lyric to "52 Girls" was written by one such friend: Jeremy Ayers, an artist who was a fixture in the Athens community. Ayers also helped out another burgeoning Athens band, R.E.M., contributing lyrics for their tracks "Windout" (1984) "Old Man Kensey" (1985). //// Early on, this was a staple at B-52s concerts. Kate Pierson remembers playing it at the 1979 Valentine's Day party that was their first-ever show."" | 0:35:44 (Pop-up) | |
| The No Futures |
A Mess
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New Old Era | Self Released (Bandcamp) | 2023 | From Athens, Greece. "The No Futures are a four-piece band, formed in 2018 in Athens, Greece. Their sound drifts between many different genres, musical scenes and artistic movements, in a punk-based paradox. With a minimalistic approach and the will to experiment, the band attempts to stretch its limits. On May 2023 they released their debut EP, "New Old Era"" https://thenofutures.bandcamp.com/ | 0:39:17 (Pop-up) | |
| R.E.M. |
Windout
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Dead Letter Office | I.R.S. Records | 1984 / 1987 | From Athens, GA. Another collaboration w/ Charles Ayers. "‘Wind Out’ (or ‘Windout’ as it appears on the album liner notes) is a track included on R.E.M.’s 1987 collection of odds and ends, Dead Letter Office. //// In the album’s entertaining liner notes, written by guitarist Peter Buck with a fair amount of self-deprecating wit (thought not in this case), the song is described this way: "This is one of our earliest songs, written in the summer of 1980. We recorded it for our second album. In retrospect, I think that it would have fit on Reckoning very well, but at the time we decided not to included it. > a soundtrack that shall remain nameless."" //// Born Charles Jerry Ayers, he grew up in Athens, Georgia where his father Robert H. Ayers taught theology at the University of Georgia. He became involved (as "Sylva Thinn") with Andy Warhol's Factory in the 1970s. Ayers wrote for Interview and published three books of photography (Aeronautica, 2011; Today in New York, 2011; and Occupy!, 2012), which featured scenes from Athens, New York City street life, and Occupy Wall Street. / Ayers was credited as co-writer of "52 Girls" from the debut album of The B-52's. He also worked with fellow Athens musicians R.E.M., co-writing the song "Old Man Kensey" from the 1985 album Fables of the Reconstruction. / His father Robert was a civil rights advocate and professor of religion at the University of Georgia. / On October 24, 2016, Ayers died unexpectedly of a seizure at the age of 68. / In 2021 German entomologist Phillip Hoenle discovered a new species of ant, which he sent to Yale University taxonomic expert Douglas Booher. After receiving the blessing of Stipe, Booher decided to name the ant Strumigenys ayersthey after Ayers. The "they" in ayersthey refers to the singular they "in a celebration of gender diversity." According to Booher, Ayers himself identified as a gay man; the "they" suffix was intended to honor both Ayers's LGBT activism and the non-binary community." | 0:41:15 (Pop-up) | |
Music behind DJ: Pat Johnson |
Puddin' Head
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Stumps |
Self Released (Bandcamp) |
2018 |
Pat Johnson is from Athens, Ontario, Canada. "For two decades Pat Johnson has made his living solely from music as a performer, songwriter, instructor, author, recording artist, record producer etc. He has released four full length albums of original songs and participated in various other recording projects. His most recent release “Stumps” (2018) is a commentary on popular culture regionally, globally, in the cosmos." ---- "Stumps - commentary on popular culture that I live in regionally, globally, in the cosmos. Observations on behaviour is the theme that connects the seemingly scattered moods of these songs. Working with the futility of being creative and what it is to share the product of that creativity. What does it mean to write a song? What does it mean to listen to music? Does it mean anything at all? I could have just shared a meme - I choose music - Thank you for listening." https://patjohnson.bandcamp.com/ |
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| Illoogico |
Mogodisco
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Requisiti | Goodfellas | 2010 | Italian No-Wave band from Roma originally formed in October 1981 as Illogical Sound, changed in Illogico in 1982.The ensemble was incredibly ahead of its time, throbbing through that neurotic funk-jazz vibe that was becoming so hip in the mid 1980s and that could and should have caused the band to be much more successful. | 0:52:49 (Pop-up) | |
| sprung aus den wolken |
Komm her Sing Mit
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1981-West Berelin | Bureau B | 2024 | Formed in December 1980 in Berlin as a solo project by Kiddy Citny, who credited himself in the early years Inri Intrigo . Later the project evolved and included several other people as well. Sprung Aus Den Wolken was part of the "Geniale Dilletanten"-movement in the early 80's along with Einstreiche Neuhäusern and MDK They made a couple of records on their own Faux Pas and Les Disques Du Soleil Et De L'Acier. Their song "Pas Attendre" was used on Wim Wenders' "Wings of Desire" movie and became some kind of underground hit. Founder Kiddy Citny is also a painter. His paintings on the Berlin Wall have been exhibited throughout the world and are now in private collections in the USA, France, and Japan. [Bruits Blancs booklet] | * | 0:55:53 (Pop-up) |
| Marilyn & The Movie Stars |
So Disgraceful
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So Disgraceful 12" | Aim Records | 1981 | Singer, actor and writer, Marilyn is one of the underground stars of the fabled Mudd Club. Before striking out on her own, Marilyn had been the lead singer of Kongress, a band formed by Otto von Ruggins and Von LMO. "Sex Means Nothing When You’re Dead", Marilyn’s first single, became an instant cult classic when it was released in 1980. Then came the EP So Disgraceful, released by Marilyn & the Movie Stars in 1982, which charted on Billboard. | 0:57:58 (Pop-up) | |
| Essential Logic |
Wonderful Offer
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Fanfare in the Garden | Kill Rockstars | 2003 | Essential Logic are an English post-punk band formed in 1978 by saxophonist Lora Logic after leaving X-Ray Spex. The band initially consisted of Lora on vocals, Phil Legg on guitar and vocals, William Bennett (later of Whitehouse) on guitar, Mark Turner on bass guitar, Rich Tea (Richard Thompson) on drums and Dave Wright on saxophone. Turner was later replaced by Sean Oliver (later of Rip, Rig & Panic) on bass. The band split in 1981 and reformed in 2001. | 1:01:25 (Pop-up) | |
| The Dance |
Guerilla Love
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Soul Force | Modern Harmonic | 1982 | n April of 1982, The Dance entered Celestial Sound Studios in New York City to self-produce their second LP, Soul Force. Recorded and mixed in an intensive two-week session, Soul Force was comprised of eight songs, many of which were worked up spontaneously in the studio from musical or lyric fragments, and some that had been seasoned through many live performances. The resulting record is The Dance at their most focused moment, confident and at home in the studio, and collaborating with fluidity and openness. The songs on Soul Force are simplified and direct, deeply felt and eloquently articulated. Eugenie’s lyrics, at once emotional and detached, highly personal and universal, cryptic and resonant, are sung with urgency and clarity. The guitar, bass, organ, drums and percussion lock together in a churning, undulating rhythmic flow, exotic and street-savvy. This record was indeed of its time, reflecting the fusion of international sounds and attitudes that was Downtown NYC in 1982. But Soul Force consistently transcends its local scene, achieving a timeless relevance by eschewing the cliché and the familiar in favor of true and essential impulses. | 1:04:33 (Pop-up) | |
| Lizzy Mercier Descloux |
Slipped Disc
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Mambo Nassau | Ze Records | 1981 | 1981’s Mambo Nassau has all the nervy energy of Press Color, but it takes that charge in a slightly different direction. There’s still plenty of the busted-up disco leanings to be found on the record, buried deep in “Sports Spootnicks” and in her cover of Kool and the Gang’s “Funky Stuff”, but the album also moves into other genres, giving Descloux a chance to cut up some new sounds. The album was recorded in the Bahamas at Compass Point Studios, with her long-time collaborator/manager/occasional partner Michel Esteban, some new players including keyboardist Wally Baradou, and engineer Steve Stanley. Descloux and company recorded the album while Grace Jones and Tom Tom Club were recording in the next studio over. The sense of overwhelming creativity and energy of the moment is clear on the record. Descloux still jumps through sounds, from the funk and jazz accents of “Les Baisers D’Amants” to the on-its-head reggae and punk tastes of “Slipped Disc”. | 1:08:18 (Pop-up) | |
| ESG |
Tiny Sticks
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Dance to the Best of ESG | Fire Records | 2010 | The band's name stands for emerald, sapphire, and gold. Emerald and sapphire are Valerie and Renee Scroggins' birthstones, and gold refers to the record certification. Lead vocalist Renee Scroggins has cited James Brown as a major influence, in particular when his songs "take it to the bridge"—Scroggins described these instrumental sections as "that giant bass and the drums and letting it rip for that instant [...] so I said, man, if you could just take a song and make it just the bridge, wouldn't that be hot!" Renee Scroggins has said that ESG's sound is influenced by the Latin music she and her sisters would hear in the neighbourhood when they were growing up. She doesn't define the band as one genre, saying "if I really had to put a label on it, we consider it to be music that makes you dance." | 1:12:22 (Pop-up) | |
| Children and Corpse Playing in the Streets |
Let's Dance but Feel Me Up and Die
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Honey, I'm Home | Children and Corpse | 2009 | There is nothing I can find about this wonderfully named band on the internet except that they may be Finnish/Swedish and may have had members in another band called Slowburn. Discogs says otherwise with it being two women, named Inga-Lill Farstad, Marit Morell...I am so confused. | 1:15:08 (Pop-up) | |
Music behind DJ: Black Saint |
KGB Theremin
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The Electronic Bible (Chapter Three) |
White Label Music |
2007 |
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| Alien Nosejob |
Bird Strike
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Turns the Colour of Bad Shit | Anti Fade / Total Punk / Drunken Sailor | 2024 | New Song! Released in the short hours before tonight's show on 07/25/2024! "Only 10 measly months has passed sinceAlien Nosejob released their Garage Rock record “The Derivative Sounds of…Or… A Dog Always Returns to its Vomit” (Goner / Anti Fade). Since its release, there’s been two international tours, two interstate tours and a bunch of chillaxing on the beach. ANJ is now back in the office and the next record is fast approaching. //// “Turns the Colour of Bad Shit” will be Jake Robertson’s seventh solo record under the extremely vast and evolving umbrella that is Alien Nosejob. On September 20 Anti Fade Records (AU), Total Punk (US) & DrunkenSailor (UK) join forces to split the shit pie into three different shades ofBad Shit and feed the 5000 hungry fans across the globe. //// Taking musical inspiration from the late 70’s punk sounds of J.T. IV, Elton Motello, X-Ray Spex, ‘Bad Shit' came to life in April 2023 when Jake occupied friends’ Mikey and Raven’s home studio for a weekend and took to the controls on his own. //// The album opens with the gut-wrenching terror that is 'Bird Strike’. A song made up of a hypnotic riff, haunting saxophone line (courtesy of Alannah Sawyer) and grotesque lyrical imagery that parallels Revee Bendixen's mutilated album artwork." https://totalpunkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/turns-the-colour-of-bad-shit | * | 1:25:41 (Pop-up) |
| Warmduscher |
Fashion Week
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Too Cold To Hold | Strap Originals | 2024 | On July 9, Warmduscher announced details of a new album, ‘Too Cold To Hold’... "...The project marks the fifth full length album from the British post-punk band, and will be their frist release since signing to Strap Originals. It also stars an impressive list of guest appearances throughout, including contributions from Lianne La Havas, Confidence Man’s Janet Planet, Jeshi, and CouCou Chloe. //// Set to arrive on November 15, the band describe the forthcoming project as their strongest and most ambitious album to date. This comes as it sees them taking on the repetitive and polyrhythmic grooves of gqom (an alluring South African take on house music), and combining it with elements of hip-hop, jazz, punk-funk and more. //// To celebrate the announcement, Warmduscher have also dropped the lead single from the project as a taster of what is yet to come. Titled ‘Fashion Week’, the track is designed as a joyous account of fashion’s die-hard fans. //// “Those that will do anything to become that thing. That creation. And live it. It’s real artistry when you don’t have the means and you’re doing it,” said Clams Baker Jr, describing the inspiration for the song. “You’re hustling to get on the guest list, you get in, you’re done up by means that you can’t really afford, whatever you do… It’s a celebration of people who will do whatever to look good and feel good and step above wherever they are in their own minds.”"" Check out the video here: Warmduscher - Fashion Week (Official Video) | * | 1:29:13 (Pop-up) |
| Ismatic Guru |
Heroes
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IV | Steak & Cake / Swimming Faith / IDIOTAPE | 2024 | Released July 11, 2024. From Buffalo, NY. -- "Part 4 of the ongoing recording project between John Toohill (Science Man) and Bran Schlia (Helmsley). A wildly dense and completely off-leash scrambled-egg, idiot-prog punk adventure. Groovy, freaked out new wave/post-punk littered with psychedelic flashes, punctuated by snarky lyrics about intentionally over inflating a tire, playing in the dirt, a robotic peeping tom, growing some plants, and the thrill of trying something new. // Limited to 100x cassettes on Swimming Faith // If you live overseas IDIOTAPE RECORDS is doing a EU edition. contact them to save on shipping! // Produced, engineered, and mixed by Bran Schlia ///// Bass, organ, drums, and percussion written & performed by Bran Schlia / Guitars, vocals, and lyrics written & performed by John Toohill https://ismaticguru.bandcamp.com/ | * | 1:32:42 (Pop-up) |
| あがた森魚 [Morio Agata] |
サブマリン [Submarine]
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乗物図鑑 [Norimono Zukan] | Vanity Records | 1980 | Artist: あがた森魚 [Morio Agata]; Song: サブマリン [Submarine]; Album: 乗物図鑑 [Norimono Zukan]. ---- Recorded at Studio Sounds Creation on November 1979 / Originally released in 1980 on Vanity Records. ---- Bandcamp has a daily feature right now [July 2024] on Vanity Records and describes this project as follows: "Unlike the inspired amateurs in Aunt Sally, Morio Agata was a known figure to Japan’s pop overground; his 1972 single “Sekishoku Erejī” made the Top 40 and sold hundreds of thousands of copies. For Norimono Zukan, Yuzuru Agi assembled a group featuring members of the Vanity stable (SAB, Normal Brain) and underground bands such as INU, Ultra Bidé, and Ché-SHIZU. With most of the songs composed in the studio, the ad-hoc collective backs Agata with a broad palette of sounds, ranging across straightforward rock ‘n’ roll, détourned not-yet-post-punk classics (“Submarine”) and early examples of the Agi-declared “techno-pop.” Like Phew, Agata is still out there, putting out new music and playing shows. However, in the halls of Vanity, this is a rarity—most of the label’s artists prefer to dwell in the shadows and let the music speak for itself, in its own time, at its own pace." https://daily.bandcamp.com/label-profile/vanity-records-label-profile | 1:34:12 (Pop-up) | |
| Joy Division |
She's Lost Control [12" Version]
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She's Lost Control (Single) | Factory Records | 1980 | ""She's Lost Control" is a song by British post-punk band Joy Division. Released on their 1979 debut album, Unknown Pleasures, "She's Lost Control" was first performed live by the band in June 1978 and draws primary lyrical inspiration from a young woman experiencing a violent epileptic seizure. //// Two separate recordings of the song have been released: the version appearing on the band's debut album, and an extended, more electronic version released in 1980 as a 12" single. This 12" single version contains an additional verse not present on the initial version of the song, and was recorded in March 1980 at Strawberry Studios, Stockport, making this song one of the band's last studio recordings prior to the May 1980 suicide of their lead singer, Ian Curtis. On the US release of the 12" single, "She's Lost Control" appeared as the A-side (with "Atmosphere" as the B-side), as opposed the UK version, where the song appeared as the B-side to "Atmosphere"." //// Curtis primarily drew the lyrical inspiration for "She's Lost Control" from a young woman with whom he had become acquainted through his employment as an Assistant Disablement Resettlement Officer at a Macclesfield occupational rehabilitation centre between 1978 and 1979. The woman had epilepsy and had been desperate to find employment, yet she suffered seizures whenever she came to the exchange, which would greatly disturb Curtis, who himself suffered from epilepsy. At one stage, this young woman ceased attending her appointments at the occupational rehabilitation centre. Initially, Curtis assumed she had found a job, but he would later discover she had died of an epileptic seizure. //// The woman's unexpected death and Curtis' subsequent awareness and experiences of the stigma endured by individuals suffering from neurological impairments formed the lyrical inspiration for the song. //// The hand-written lyrics were included in the new British Pop Archive, housed in Manchester's John Rylands Library, in 2022." | 1:39:30 (Pop-up) | |
| The Fall |
Van Plague?
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I Am Kurious, Oranj | Beggars Banquet | 1988 | From the Annotated Fall website: "A song from I Am Kurious Oranj with all the mad thematic confusion that implies. MES weighs in on the lyrics: "When I was working on _Curious Orange_ [the ballet], I heard or read about the theory that William of Orange brought VD [venereal disease] to England. Ridiculous of course, probably originating from mad Catholics, but it inspired me to writing a song about the question where AIDS originates from. There are several theories. For the tune I wanted an Amsterdamish melody, a dock melody." William of Orange (King William III of England) was born in the Hague, and the "Van" in the title alludes to the Netherlands. //// Acousmetre provides the following helpful remarks: MES seems to be conflating a number of theories about the spread of HIV here. //// The line about Satan's baboon is motivated by the generally accepted idea that HIV began in chimps in West Africa in the early 1900s. The references to Haiti, the Caribbean, and the South Atlantic seem to reference the theory that Haiti was one of the entry points of HIV into the US. //// But the South Atlantic more generally references the link between the Triangle Slave Trade of the 1800s and the further colonial practices of the 1900s, the second of which is often cited as the landscape which made the mass spread of HIV across the globe possible. //// According to Brix, from The Rise, The Fall, and The Rise: "'Van Plague?' is an often forgotten song, but I think it's one of Mark's most touching, a reflection on the origin of AIDS."" | 1:44:24 (Pop-up) | |
Music behind DJ: 808 State |
Contrique
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Gorgeous |
ZTT Records Limited |
1993 |
"Contrique (1993) -- Sampled: She's Lost Control by Joy Division (1979) / Help Me Somebody by Brian Eno and David Byrne (1981)" //// "808 State are an English electronic music group formed in 1987 in Manchester, taking their name from the Roland TR-808 drum machine. They were formed by Graham Massey, Martin Price and Gerald Simpson. They released their debut album, Newbuild, in September 1988 and secured commercial success in 1989, when their song "Pacific State" was picked up by BBC Radio 1 DJ Gary Davies and charted for 11 weeks in the UK. //// The group's early work influenced the UK's burgeoning acid house scene. AllMusic called them "one of the most important dance music acts of all time," and noted their influence on subsequent techno, IDM, and alternative dance artists." |
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| The Soundcarriers |
Already Over
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Through Other Reflections | Phosphonic | 2024 | "The Soundcarriers stunned on a surprise comeback in 2022. Eight years after their previous album, the band continued to push psychedelic pop boundaries, re-establishing themselves as one of the most vital names running. Thankfully, the band hasn’t waited another eight to get back into the studio this time and news of a new album [has surfaced] along with a swirling new single, “Already Over.” Soaked in fuzzed guitars, organ sway, and twined harmonies, the single digs into the hallmarks of The Soundcarriers’ best moments. Summer’s been a slog, it’s nice to have something fizzy for the speakers to get us through. The new album, Through Other Reflections, is out August 16th from the band’s Phosphonic imprint." | * | 1:58:15 (Pop-up) |
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Scott_Oz:
Cheers!😎🤙🍻🍷
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have a slice to go with that beer, mate!
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Alli B:
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Alli B:
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laurapanic:
laurapanic:
DJ Babs:
Derek Westerholm:
DJ Babs:
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Alli B:
DJ Babs:
Also as per prior discussion I would HOPE somehow they have hung with DEVO.
Derek Westerholm:
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Alli B:
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ultradamno:
prof.fuzz:
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laurapanic:
Kristine:
laurapanic:
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To Montreal last weekend!
Kristine:
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ultradamno:
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prof.fuzz:
yup!
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Will thee SG OCNY:
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Will!!!!! You've joined us at the Krauty point!
Kristine:
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Will thee SG OCNY:
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Kristine:
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Will thee SG OCNY:
v-dawg:
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Kristine:
Alli B:
Kristine:
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Alli B:
northguineahills:
Derek Westerholm:
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northguineahills:
/went to the pirate cruise w/ wendy and diane kamekaze. had a blast!
v-dawg:
what kind of wine is your granache/syrah blend?
Derek Westerholm:
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Kristine:
ultradamno:
prof.fuzz:
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Kristine:
northguineahills:
northguineahills:
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v-dawg:
Cool. I recently found a 100% garnacha (la garnacha salvaje) that i like.
Right now, moving on from pinot grigio to horchata+rakija.
ultradamno:
Kristine:
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northguineahills:
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Kristine:
Kristine:
northguineahills:
/ex was mexican...
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northguineahills:
v-dawg:
I have not yet tried anise-flavored liquors; anise is unofficially unwelcome in the house.
Derek Westerholm:
v-dawg:
Kristine:
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v-dawg:
northguineahills:
/great, now i gave bobby brown stuck in my head..
'oh-ee-oh, they're in control!'
DJ Babs:
m.twitch.tv...
Kristine:
northguineahills:
northguineahills:
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v-dawg:
i got this nice sambucca made in sorrento, but...no more.
ultradamno:
ultradamno:
northguineahills:
I once was in CDMX and the cashier asked me a question, and I answered in Japanese. We were both very confused... (wrong foreign language server)
Kristine:
v-dawg:
should i open the berentzen?
northguineahills:
Kristine:
DJ Babs:
Will thee SG OCNY:
Kristine:
northguineahills:
Derek Westerholm:
Kristine:
northguineahills:
/pun intended...
Derek Westerholm:
northguineahills:
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DJ Babs:
That’s the one thing I miss with instaculture…the old underground collective consciousness…people interpreting experiences through a lens that is unique to region and geography
Will thee SG OCNY:
Kristine:
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northguineahills:
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Kristine:
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Will thee SG OCNY:
Alli B:
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Bob Barth:
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Alli B:
Scott_Oz:
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prof.fuzz:
thanks babs and derek!
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northguineahills:
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Andrew Waterloo:
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Kristine:
Will thee SG OCNY:
Will thee SG OCNY:
Kristine:
northguineahills:
Derek Westerholm:
v-dawg:
That is very bad.
northguineahills:
v-dawg:
Will thee SG OCNY:
Will thee SG OCNY: