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| 1:01 | Clams Casino | Illest Alive (Main Attrakionz) | Instrumentals | Type |
| 1:04 | Jean Michel Jarre | Oxygene, Pt. 4 | Oxygene | |
| DJ Comments: RIYD: Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Synergy, etc. |
| 1:08 | Gui Boratto | Flying Practice | III | Kompakt |
| DJ Comments: Before turning into an electronic music savant, Boratto worked as a producer for the likes of Pato Banton, Steel Pulse, Desiree, Gal Costa and Garth Brooks. Yep, you read that correctly. |
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| 1:13 | Grimes | Genesis | Visions | Arbutus |
| DJ Comments: Claire Boucher a.k.a. Grimes just signed to 4AD and is putting out Visions Feb. 21st! Regarding signing to a new label she said "just want 2 say i am so honoured to be releasing my next album with 4AD - a record label I have admired since I was 13 and first heard the cocteau twins and realized girls can make music, and goth is sick" |
| 1:16 | Cocteau Twins | Cicely | Treasure | 4AD |
| DJ Comments: Although critically acclaimed, the band itself weren't entirely happy with Treasure with Simon Raymonde lamenting "...I've always detested Treasure. Not because of the record, but because of the vibe at the time, when we were pushed into all that kind of arty-farty pre-Raphaellite bullshit. And so I was just really ashamed of that record." |
| 1:20 | Linda Miranda | Solo | China Es Otra Cultura | |
| DJ Comments: Check out Nite Jewel's blissed out take on "Solo" here - http://lindamirada.bandcamp.com/track/solo-nite-jewel-remix |
| 1:24 | Kate Bush | Among Angels | 50 Words for Snow | Fish People |
| DJ Comments: Her first album of new material since 2005's Aerial. |
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| 1:31 | Destroyer | My Favorite Year | Trouble in Dreams | Rough Trade |
| DJ Comments: Destroyer covered New Order's "Leave Me Alone" from Power, Corruption & Lies as part of a MOJO Magazine compilation album due out soon. Listen to it (and the other covers) below; no surprise, it's amazing - http://mojomagazine.tumblr.com/post/15238510225/preview-all-the-tracks-from-our-latest-covermount |
| 1:37 | Michael Chapman | Stranger in the Room | Fully Qualified Survivor | Light in the Attic |
| DJ Comments: English singer/songwriter Michael Chapman released Fully Qualified Survivor in 1970 and the album never saw the light of day in the States until Seattle label Light in the Attic reissued it in 2011 (Mick Ronson also plays guitar on many of the tracks) |
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| 1:44 | Shabazz Palaces | Sparkles | Of Light | |
| DJ Comments: Video of their mind blowing in studio session here at KEXP from June - http://youtu.be/djFrCb03-OI |
| 1:46 | Black Moth Super Rainbow | Sun Lips | Dandelion Gum | Graveface Records |
| DJ Comments: Request! |
| 1:50 | Luomo | How You Look | Plus | Moodmusic |
| DJ Comments: Finnish artist Luomo (real name Sasu Ripatti) also records under the monikers Bright People, Conoco, Sistol, Uusitalo and Vladislav Delay. I wonder if his kids will have a super long hyphenated last name... |
| 1:56 | Dinosaur L | Go Bang! | Spaced Out: Ten Original Disco Funk Grooves | Disorient |
| DJ Comments: a.k.a. Arthur Russell. In 1979 he produced the hit club track "Kiss Me Again," the first disco release for Sire records |
| 2:04 | Dyme Def | Blaastin Off | Yuk the World | self-released |
| DJ Comments: Dyme Def are back, along with 206 beatmaker extraordinaire Bean One, on Yuk the World. Stream it here - http://soundcloud.com/diamondmedia360/sets/dyme-def-yuk-the-world-1/ |
| 2:07 | Modeselektor | Berlin | Monkeytown | Monkeytown Records |
| DJ Comments: Releasing a picture disc 12" on Jan. 12th, "Evil Twin" b/w "German Clap" |
| 2:13 | Ernest Gonzales | The Prudence of Evolution | Natural Traits | Friends of Friends |
| DJ Comments: Best known as Mexicans With Guns, Gonzales' new album Natural Traits is due out Jan. 17th |
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| 2:17 | Zomby | Trapdoor | Nothing | 4AD |
| DJ Comments: A surprisingly candid interview with the usually mercurial Zomby - http://www.self-titledmag.com/home/2011/06/29/the-self-titled-interview-zomby/ |
| 2:20 | Oval | Dynamo | O | Thrill Jockey |
| DJ Comments: Reading about Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language proving to be very confusing... |
| 2:23 | Neu! | Hallogallo | Neu! | Brain Records |
| DJ Comments: Guitarist Michael Rother and drummer Klaus Dinger left Kraftwerk in 1971 to pursue a different direction musically, the result being Neu |
| 2:34 | Ricardo Donoso | The North Quadrant (Ascension) | Progress Chance | Digitalis Limited |
| DJ Comments: An overlooked gem from last year, Ricardo Donoso plies his trade in Boston and has released several cassettes and 7" releases on Digitalis. Listen to the whole album here - http://digitalisrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/progress-chance |
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| 2:37 | Burial & Four Tet & Thom Yorke | Ego | Ego/Mirror | |
| DJ Comments: British avant, electronic site FACT Mag disappointed quite a few people on April Fool's Day last year by announcing Burial was set to release his long-awaited third album. Sample track titles included: "Down the Kennel," "Knackered" and "Lampost." Those jokers... |
| 2:44 | USF | Like A Small Rain | The Spray | Circle Into Square/Fake Four Inc. |
| DJ Comments: What Seattle duo USF regretted in 2011 (via The Stranger): "We regret not spending our day at Disneyland on harder drugs. We regret staging the insert shot of Ozzy Osbourne pouring the orange juice in The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years. We regret crashing our Jet Skis into the Miami Beach Bridge in May. We regret fucking up Jason’s sampler somehow right before our attempt at covering “Idioteque” with Haunted Horses at Healthy Times’ Decades Covers Night. We regret postponing our “Let the Memories Begin” tour with Big Spider’s Back. We’re still waiting for our memories to begin. We regret not changing our name to ?$£ and making faded-ass beats. We regret not touring with Born Gold again this year. We regret that we haven’t started our all-bass band, “Bass-mon,” with Stephanie’s Matt Lawson. We regret being too stoned to leave our trailer during the filming of Cat People. We regret lying about half of these regrets..." |
| 2:47 | Studio | West Side | West Coast | Information |
| DJ Comments: Swedish duo Studio have called it a day; they're now officially broken up. In the meantime, check out their sublime remix of Arp's "The Past" - http://pitchfork.com/forkcast/14943-the-past-version-by-studio/ |
| 2:54 | The Cure | Let's Go to Bed | Japanese Whispers | Fiction Records |
| DJ Comments: First came out as a 7" in 1982 on Fiction Records, "Let's Go To Bed" b/w "Just One Kiss." Hmm, seems like the order should have been flipped... |
| 2:58 | The Go-Betweens | Bachelor Kisses | Spring Hill Fair | Jetset Records |
| DJ Comments: This is what happens when you push too hard for what The Cure suggested below... |
| 3:02 | Jakob Olausson | Don't Drown In Sorrows | Morning and Sunrise | De Stijl |
| DJ Comments: His first since 2005 |
| 3:07 | Atlas Sound | Mona Lisa | Parallax | |
| DJ Comments: Check out where he placed on the Top Listener Voted Albums of 2011 Countdown! - http://kexp.org/programming/countdowns/topAlbumsof2011.aspx |
| 3:10 | Brief Candles | The Sentiment | Fractured Days | Guilt Ridden Pop |
| DJ Comments: Appropos of nothing, here's Alice Cooper talking about Milwaukee (Brief Candles are from there) [and it's from Wayne's World, natch] - http://youtu.be/bw1cHykOxqg |
| 3:14 | Veronica Falls | Right Side Of My Brain | Veronica Falls | Slumberland |
| DJ Comments: Coming to Seattle Feb. 21st at the Tractor Tavern with Bleached! |
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| 3:18 | Phantom Payn Days | day is slowly turning into sleep when your bed is upside down | Phantom Payn Daze | De Stijl Records |
| DJ Comments: Phantom Payn Days was the solo project of Juergen Gleue from No Wave outfit 39 Clocks; De Stijl put out the never-released Phantom Payn Daze, recorded at some point in the mid-90s, in 2010 |
| 3:20 | Public Image Ltd. | The Order of Death | This Is What You Want... This Is What You Get | Virgin |
| DJ Comments: The strange back story for this album is too complex to recount here (read: I'm lazy) so check it out at Allmusic - http://www.allmusic.com/album/this-is-what-you-wantthis-is-what-you-get-r15908/review |
| 3:25 | Disco Inferno | A Rock to Cling To | The 5 EPs | One Little Indian Records |
| DJ Comments: A recent compilation of the, uh, 5 EPs British eccentrics Disco Inferno released in the mid 90s. Well worth checking out! |
| 3:29 | Hawkwind | D-Rider | Hall of the Mountain Grill | United Artists |
| DJ Comments: A pretty badass sleeve...http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=613634 |
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| 3:36 | Cloud Nothings | No Future / No Past | Attack On Memory | Carpark Records |
| DJ Comments: Steve Albini helmed production, er, sound engineering duties on the new Cloud Nothings album (he'll get mad if you use the "P" word) |
| 3:40 | Disappears | Guider | Guider | Kranky |
| DJ Comments: Live on KEXP Sunday February 19th @ 1pm |
| 3:44 | Black Mountain | No Satisfaction | Black Mountain | Jagjaguwar |
| DJ Comments: Recorded in the winter and spring of 2004 at The Argyle Hotel and The Hive; if you're heading to Vancouver, check out the newly renovated Save-On-Meats. Ace! |
| 3:47 | Bowerbirds | Tuck the Darkness In | The Clearing | Dead Oceans |
| DJ Comments: New album out March 6th! They'll be swinging through town the next month, April 3rd, with Dry the River at the Crocodile |
| 3:52 | Beirut | Elephant Gun | Lon Gisland | 4AD |
| DJ Comments: That's probably how anybody would spell Long Island after consuming several beverages of the same name... |
| 3:58 | Neutral Milk Hotel | King Of Carrot Flowers Part 2 | In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | Merge Records |
| DJ Comments: Know Ya' Boo! - http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ll7l3c424c1qcd7kg.png |
| 4:00 | The Chemical Brothers | Surface to Air | Push the Button | Virgin |
| DJ Comments: The Chemical Brothers in Lego form - http://www.thechemicalbrothers.com/#photo=the-chemical-brothers-by-brainbikerider- |
| 4:07 | Fujiya & Miyagi | Collarbone | Transparent Things | Deaf Dumb & Blind |
| DJ Comments: Friday, Jan. 27th at Neumos! |
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| 4:12 | The Dø | Slippery Slope | Both Ways Open Jaws | Cinq 7 |
| DJ Comments: New one from the Franco-Finn duo |
| 4:15 | Zoos of Berlin | Haven't Eyes | Pallister Chant | |
| DJ Comments: Stream stream stream! Embed embed embed! - http://zoosofberlin.bandcamp.com/album/pallister-chant |
| 4:18 | Real Estate | Out of Tune | Days | Domino |
| DJ Comments: Daniel Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never) plays synth on this track! |
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| 4:23 | Holy Other | Touch | With U | Tri Angle |
| DJ Comments: Club jam for the sizzurp set |
| 4:27 | James Blake | At Birth | Love What Happened Here | R&S |
| DJ Comments: Playing tonight at Sao Paolo's Sonar Festival. If you can't afford the journey, here's the music video for his cover of Joni Mitchell's "A Case of You," starring British actress Rebecca Hall - http://youtu.be/eJDSueNSMJE |
| 4:32 | Twin Shadow | Tether Beat | Forget | Terrible Records |
| DJ Comments: Request! |
| 4:35 | The Antlers | French Exit | Burst Apart | Frenchkiss Records |
| DJ Comments: Made several DJ's Top 10 of 2011 lists. Find out which one's right here - http://kexp.org/programming/lists/djtopof2011.aspx |
| 4:39 | Diamond Rings | Mellow Doubt | You & Me/Mellow Doubt 7" | Astralwerks |
| DJ Comments: Teenage Fanclub cover! |
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| 4:44 | Ramon Cordero & Augusto Santos | Yo soy pur amor | Bachata Roja: Amor y Amargue | |
| DJ Comments: An important snapshot of Dominican bachata music from the 60s, 70s and 80s. |
| 4:48 | Mikal Cronin | Mikal Cronin | Get Along | Trouble In Mind |
| DJ Comments: I know what you're thinking (I mean, I don't, but bear with me on this one): gee wilikers, another SF lo-fi one-man garage act. BUT! Mikal Cronin is a talented young lad and deserves your attention - http://mikalcronin.bandcamp.com/album/s-t-lp |
| 4:52 | Consignment | Believe | New Low | ggnzla |
| DJ Comments: New release from this Seattle band! LIVE on KEXP Saturday Jan 14 @ 8pm on Audioasis! |
| 4:56 | Split Enz | Bold As Brass | Dizrythmia | Mushroom |
| DJ Comments: Roxy Music's Phil Manzanera helped them secure a recording contract with Chrysalis when they moved to the UK |
| 4:59 | The National | Anyone's Ghost | High Violet | 4AD |
| DJ Comments: Their Austin City Limits performance will be premiering Jan. 15th! (cuz member supported entities got each other's backs like that) |
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| 5:03 | BLOUSE | Time Travel | Blouse | Captured Tracks |
| DJ Comments: Live on KEXP January 12 @ 1pm! (and playing The Sunset Tavern later that night with local band Seapony) |
| 5:06 | Land of Talk | Speak to Me Bones | Applause Cheer Boo Hiss | Dependent Music |
| DJ Comments: http://www.landoftalk.com/ |
| 5:10 | Walls | Raw Umber/Twilight | Coracle | Kompakt |
| DJ Comments: Walls is the London-based duo of Alessio Natalizia and Sam Willis and Coracle is their second album. Since it's one of those difficult names to search for on Alta Vista, here's a direct link - http://www.kompakt.fm/artists/walls |
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| 5:16 | John Maus | Too Much Money | Love Is Real | Upset the Rhythm |
| DJ Comments: Good morning, or should I say "GGGGGBLLLLLLAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHH! BLAAAAAAAWWWWWGHHHHH!" |
| 5:19 | The Normal | T.V.O.D. | Warm Leatherette / T.V.O.D. | Mute |
| DJ Comments: Mute reissued this seminal release by The Normal (Mute founder Daniel Miller's band) last year; it was the label's very first release. |
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| 5:23 | Apparat Organ Quartet | Cargo Frakt | PólýfónÃa | 12 Tónar |
| DJ Comments: Jóhann Jóhannsson formed Apparat Organ Quartet in 1999 |
| 5:28 | M83 | Midnight City | Hurry Up, We're Dreaming. | Mute |
| DJ Comments: April 26th at the Paramount! THE CITY IS MY CHURCH |
| 5:31 | Cut Copy | Hearts on Fire | In Ghost Colours | Modular Recordings |
| DJ Comments: Lotus Plaza (Deerhunter's Lockett Pundt) recently did a cover of Cut Copy's "Where I'm Going" from their Zonoscope album. Check it out here! - http://www.facebook.com/modularpeople?sk=app_178091127385 |
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| 5:36 | Brian Eno | Burning Airlines Give You So Much More | Taking Tiger Mountain (by Strategy) | EG |
| DJ Comments: A who's who of talent behind the scenes here: Phil Manzanera, Robert Ash, Robert Wyatt... |
| 5:39 | Bauhaus | Third Uncle | Swing the Heartache: The BBC Sessions | Beggars Banquet |
| DJ Comments: Hmm...this sound sooooo familiar...wonder where it could be from...(*psst, look below*) |
| 5:44 | Odonis Odonis | Busted Up | Hollandaze | Fatcat |
| DJ Comments: Heavy sounds birthed from Toronto's DIY scene - http://odonisodonis.com/ |
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| 5:48 | Washed Out | Call it Off | Amor Fati 12" | Weird World |
| DJ Comments: Clams Casino and Au Revoir Simone contributed remixes to this 12" while Grimes and Star Slinger mixed it up for the Eyes Be Closed 12", both out now on Weird World |
| 5:52 | Trentemoller | Kasper Bjorke: Does Not Matter feat. The Pierces (Trentemoller Remix) | Reworked/Remixed | In My Room |
| DJ Comments: From a compilation of the Danish artist's remix work for other artists (such as Franz Ferdinand, Depeche Mode and UNKLE) and other musician's takes on Trentemoller's back catalogue |
| 5:56 | Lali Puna | Left Handed | Faking the Books | Morr Music |
| DJ Comments: Lali Puna hail from Munich! |
