Music That Matters, Vol. 283 - The Perfect Prescription
PhDJ Shani is back with a new Music That Matters podcast! Dosage: 1 to 2 listens with beverage of choice. No negative interactions with alcohol. Directions: 1st set: dance and flail around. 2nd set: contemplate nostalgic emo things. 3rd set: get comfortable and doze off feeling content. Please consult a doctor if you have any conditions related to being unadventurous.
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Tracklist:
1. Rustie - Flash Back
2. John Maus - Keep Pushing On
3. Oneohtrix Point Never - Sleep Dealer
4. Laurel Halo - Constant Index
5. Sepalcure - See Me Feel Me
6. Keep Shelly in Athens - Cremona Memories
7. Grimes - Vanessa
8. Patten - Blush Mosaic
9. Amen Dunes - Baba Yaga
10. Gauntlet Hair - Showing
11. Real Estate - Green Aisles
12. Active Child - You Are All I See
13. Tim Hecker - Hatred of Music I
14. Noveller - Alone Star
15. Braids - Lammicken
16. Welder - Be My Light
17. Blue Light Curtain - Night Falls In
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Warm Moving Bodies: KEXP Playlist 12/15/2011
Playlist
Thursday, December 15, 2011 (LISTEN TO THIS SHOW)
Time | Artist | Song | Album | Label |
1:00 | Chris and Cosey | Confession | Exotika | Play It Again Sam |
DJ Comments: Conspiracy International reissued both Exotika (1987) and Songs of Love and Lust (1984) this past year | ||||
1:06 | Mux Mool | Raw Gore | Planet High School | Ghostly |
DJ Comments: Drops Feb. 7th | ||||
1:09 | Dyme Def | Dreamin | Yuk the World | self-released |
DJ Comments: New release from Seatown rap group Dyme Def, prominent players in the exploding 206 hip hop scene. Learn more here! - http://blog.kexp.org/blog/2010/07/28/kexp-documentaries-hip-hop-the-new-seattle-sound-dyme-def/ | ||||
1:13 | Sweet Exorcist | Testtwo | RetroActivity | Warp Records |
DJ Comments: Warp issued a compilation of Sweet Exorcist's back catalogue - the collaboration between Richard Kirk of Cabaret Voltaire and fellow Sheffield musician DJ Parrot - just last month | ||||
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1:18 | Modeselektor | Berlin | Monkeytown | Monkeytown Records |
DJ Comments: New picture disc 12" from Modeselektor out Jan. 12th - "Evil Twin" b/w "German Clap" | ||||
1:23 | Eligh + Amp Live | First Contact | Therapy At 3 | Legendary Music/Live Up Records |
DJ Comments: Playing tonight in Sacramento with Zion I, The Grouch, Evidence and DJ Fresh | ||||
1:27 | Kuedo | Scissors | Severant | Planet Mu |
DJ Comments: Kuedo is the alias of Briton Jamie Teasdale, one half of Vex'd along with Roly Porter. He expressed a desire to explore futuristic themes while incorporating the sound and feel of US trap-rap for Severant | ||||
1:30 | Gui Boratto | Soledad | III | Kompakt |
DJ Comments: His remix of Trentemoller's "Sycamore Feeling" - http://soundcloud.com/fxist/trentem-ller-sycamore-feeling | ||||
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1:35 | Wire | Marooned | Chairs Missing | Pinkflag |
DJ Comments: Wire are featured on Live at KEXP Vol. 7 and boy did they ever bring it! - http://kexp.org/cd | ||||
1:38 | The Big Pink | Hit the Ground (Superman) [Forest Swords Remix] | Future This | 4AD |
DJ Comments: The Big Pink (whose new album Future This comes out Jan. 16th) as remixed by mysterioso English musician Forest Swords (his Dagger Paths album from last year is well worth seeking out) | ||||
1:43 | Yellow Magic Orchestra | Behind the Mask | YMO Go Home! (disc 1) | EMI Music Japan |
DJ Comments: YMO, along with Kraftwerk, are pretty much THE trailblazers of electronic pop music; Ryuichi Sakamoto, Yukihiro Takahashi and Haruomi Hosono formed the band in 1978 and went on to release dozens of LPs, EPs and singles over the years | ||||
1:46 | James Ferraro | Fro Yo and Celluar Bits | Far Side Virtual | Hippos in Tanks |
DJ Comments: Some labelled James Ferraro's earlier work "hypnogogic" while others prefer the term "acid-scorched" | ||||
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1:50 | Vladislav Delay | Lauma | Vantaa | |
DJ Comments: 10th album from Vladislav Delay, out now on drone / noise / ambient label Raster-Noton | ||||
1:57 | Zomby | Labyrinth | Nothing | 4AD |
DJ Comments: New EP release from Zomby, who describes his approach to making music thusly: “I roll a spliff of high grade skunk and get wonky” | ||||
2:01 | Jacaszek | Dare-Gale | Glimmer | Ghostly International |
DJ Comments: “All my artistic activity is based on the intuition that there is a hidden reality existing behind or beside the material world,” [Jacaszek] says. “And on a big desire to touch it, show it, [and] feel it.” | ||||
2:06 | Nick Cave & Warren Ellis | The Road | White Lunar (disc 1) | Mute |
DJ Comments: I wonder if Nick Cave is listening to this on repeat in light of Grinderman breaking up... | ||||
2:10 | Cass McCombs | County Line | Wit's End | Domino |
DJ Comments: Vote for your favourite albums of 2011 ASAP as voting ends Monday, Dec. 19th! Cass McCombs put out two records this year, so which one are you voting for? - http://kexp.org/events/polls/EndOfYearCountdown-2011.aspx | ||||
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2:15 | James Blake | Love What Happened Here | Love What Happened Here | R&S |
DJ Comments: The Love What Happened Here EP is out now digitally and should see a physical release sometime in early 2012 courtesy of R&S | ||||
2:21 | Washed Out | Call it Off | Amor Fati 12" | Weird World |
DJ Comments: Along with this 12" release with remixes by Clams Casino and Au Revoir Simone, Weird World have also released the Eyes Be Closed 12" with remixes from Grimes (!), Star Slinger and Lovelock | ||||
2:24 | Depeche Mode | Tora! Tora! Tora! | Speak & Spell | Sire Records |
DJ Comments: Depeche Mode's debut LP, from 1981 | ||||
2:29 | Blackout Beach | Be Forewarned, the Night Has Come | Fuck Death | Dead Oceans |
DJ Comments: New full-length from Carey Mercer, also of Frog Eyes and Swan Lake | ||||
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2:34 | Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie xx | My Cloud | We're New Here | XL Recordings |
DJ Comments: Jamie xx also reworked Radiohead's "Bloom" on the TKOL RMX 1234567 album from this year (remixes of The King of Limbs) | ||||
2:38 | Darkside | A2 | EP | Clown & Sunset |
DJ Comments: Project of Nicolas Jaar and guitarist/bassist Dave Harrington. Stream it here! - http://soundcloud.com/clownandsunset/sets/darkside-darkside-ep/ | ||||
2:43 | Ill Cosby | Gold | Gold EP | Car Crash Set |
DJ Comments: New stuff from Seattle's Ill Cosby. Check him out - http://blog.kexp.org/blog/2011/09/30/song-of-the-day-ill-cosby-ceu-ritmo/ | ||||
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2:47 | Orchestre CVD | Rog Mik Africa | Bambara Mystic Soul | Analog Africa |
DJ Comments: Read up on the positive benefits of Burkina Faso's wandering musicians and how they incorporated Islamic rhythms, Afro-Latin grooves, Malian guitar and more into their music - http://analogafrica.blogspot.com/ | ||||
2:52 | XTC | The Meeting Place | Skylarking | Caroline Records |
DJ Comments: Todd Rundgren produced this album! | ||||
2:55 | Of Monsters and Men | King and Lionheart | My Head Is an Animal | Record |
DJ Comments: Translating this Icelandic band's English name into Icelandic proved disappointing...BUT, their live performance from this year's Iceland Airwaves Festival was anything but - http://blog.kexp.org/blog/2011/10/31/live-video-of-monsters-and-men-at-iceland-airwaves/ | ||||
2:59 | Atlas Sound | Flagstaff | Parallax | 4AD |
DJ Comments: Playing TONIGHT in Richmond, VA! | ||||
3:00 | Atlas Sound | Flagstaff | Parallax | 4AD |
DJ Comments: Playing TONIGHT in Richmond, VA! | ||||
3:05 | Tunng | Tale From Black | Mother's Daughter and Other Songs | Static Caravan |
DJ Comments: This is Tunng... Live from the BBC is out now on Full Time Hobby; it includes rare cuts from Tunng's many appearances at BBC's Maida Vale Studios, including one-offs with Tinariwen | ||||
3:10 | Snorri Helgason | Boredom | Winter Sun | Kimi |
DJ Comments: Snorri Helgason would be a pretty good pseudonym... (he was also featured in yesterday's Song of the Day) - http://blog.kexp.org/blog/2011/12/13/song-of-the-day-snorri-helgason-mockingbird/ | ||||
3:15 | PJ Harvey | Grow Grow Grow | White Chalk | Island Records |
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3:18 | Disco Inferno | The Last Dance | The 5 EPs | One Little Indian Records |
DJ Comments: combines 5 rare EPs produced from 1992-1994 | ||||
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3:23 | Lula Cortes e Ze Ramalho | Harps Dos Ares | Paebiru | Shadoks Music |
DJ Comments: RIP. Brazilian legend Lula Cortes passed away earlier this year | ||||
3:26 | The Durutti Column | Sketch for Winter | The Return of The Durutti Column | Factory Once |
3:29 | Kurt Vile | It's Alright | So Outta Reach | Matador Records |
DJ Comments: reworked outtakes from recording sessions for Smoke Ring For My Halo + a Bruce Springsteen cover! | ||||
3:34 | Tropic of Cancer | Awake | The End of All Things | Downwards |
DJ Comments: collecting their two 10"s for the label | ||||
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3:41 | Real Estate | Out of Tune | Days | Domino |
DJ Comments: NJ in the house! | ||||
3:46 | Blouse | White | Blouse | Captured Tracks |
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3:48 | Fad Gadget | The Box | Best of Fad Gadget (disc 1: The Singles & B-Sides) | Mute |
DJ Comments: the stage name of Francis John (Frank) Tovey, a British avant-garde electronic musician and vocalist in the 80s | ||||
3:52 | Nothing People | Cathode Ray Tube/Gut Wind | Smells Like Metal | Captcha |
3:57 | The Units | Warm Moving Bodies | History of the Units: The Early Years 1977-1983 | Community Library |
DJ Comments: late 70s post punk/new wave band from San Francisco | ||||
4:00 | Cloud Control | Death Cloud | Bliss Release | Ivy League Records |
DJ Comments: debut from this Australian band | ||||
4:04 | Tame Impala | Alter Ego | Innerspeaker | Modular Recordings |
4:09 | Tomten | Ta Ta Dana | Wednesday's Children | self-released |
DJ Comments: this Saturday December 17 @ Vera Project! | ||||
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4:13 | Diamond Rings | Mellow Doubt | You & Me/Mellow Doubt 7" | Astralwerks |
DJ Comments: Teenage Fanclub cover! | ||||
4:18 | Desire | Under Your Spell | Drive | |
4:22 | Florence + the machine | You've Got the Love | XX remixes | |
DJ Comments: Florence and the Machine has a track on our latest Live at KEXP Volume 7! What a great present for your friends and family over the holidays. Check it out at http://kexp.org/cd where you can preview the tracks! | ||||
4:27 | Oneohtrix Point Never | Sleep Dealer | Replica | Mexican Summer/Software |
4:30 | Amy Winehouse | Like Smoke | Lioness: Hidden Treasures | Universal Republic |
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4:34 | Morrissey | You're Gonna Need Someone on Your Side | Your Arsenal | Sire Records |
4:38 | Plastic Bertrand | Ça plane pour moi | Just Can't Get Enough: New Wave Hits of the '80s, Volume 1 | |
4:41 | The Boys | Do the Contract Hustle | Alternative Chartbusters | Anagram Records |
4:43 | Girls | Magic | Father, Son, Holy Ghost | True Panther |
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4:46 | Radiohead | Lotus Flower (Jacques Greene Remix) | Little By Little (Caribou Remix) / Lotus Flower (Jacques Greene Remix) | Ticker Tape Ltd. |
DJ Comments: TKOL RMX 1234567 features King of Limbs remixes from Nathan Fake, SBTRKT, Modeselektor, Mark Pritchard, Blawan and your mother! (oooooohhhhhh) | ||||
4:53 | Dauwd | Acireams | What's There | Pictures Music |
DJ Comments: Debut 12" from Brighton's Dauwd. You can stream it here - http://www.thefader.com/2011/11/14/stream-dauwds-whats-there/ | ||||
5:00 | Burial & Four Tet | Moth | Moth / Wolf Cub | Text Records |
DJ Comments: Glides along at a gentlemanly 118 BPM. Burial was, by his standards, insanely busy this year, putting out split 12"s with Massive Attack and Four Tet / Thom Yorke | ||||
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5:08 | The Books | Cello Song (feat. José González) | Dark Was the Night | 4AD |
DJ Comments: Nick Drake cover! | ||||
5:11 | Apparat Organ Quartet | Konami | Pólýfónía | 12 Tónar |
DJ Comments: Theory: this track subliminally intended to make listeners play Castlevania - http://blog.kexp.org/blog/2011/10/12/song-of-the-day-apparat-organ-quartet-123-forever/ | ||||
5:16 | Niki & the Dove | The Drummer | The Drummer | Sub Pop |
DJ Comments: More from Sweden's Niki & The Dove - http://soundcloud.com/nikiandthedove | ||||
5:20 | Björk | It's Not Up to You | Vespertine | One Little Indian Records |
DJ Comments: Lotsa Nordic energy in this set so far | ||||
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5:26 | Sea Lions | I Should Be Sleeping | Everything You Wanted To Know About Sea Lions, But Were Afraid To Ask | Slumberland |
DJ Comments: These Slumberland darlings must really like Woody Allen | ||||
5:28 | Cults | Abducted | Cults | Sony Music Entertainment |
DJ Comments: Swinging back through town April 7th at the Neptune Theatre. That should be enough advance notice to plan things, right? | ||||
5:31 | Johnny Boy | You Are the Generation That Bought More Shoes and You Get What You Deserve | You Are the Generation That Bought More Shoes and You Get What You Deserve | Vertigo |
DJ Comments: James Dean Bradfield of the Manic Street Preachers co-produced this and then bought hella shoes with the royalty monies | ||||
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5:34 | M83 | Midnight City | Hurry Up, We're Dreaming. | Mute |
DJ Comments: A certain online music publication (it rhymes with 'snitch-spork') named "Midnight City" as the best song of 2011. M83 are already planning their victory lab by going on tour again. This go-around they'll be playing the Neptune Theatre on April 26th. I guess your April is already looking pretty busy... | ||||
5:38 | USF | Let's Just Hide It (feat. Big Spider's Back) | The Spray | Circle Into Square/Fake Four Inc. |
DJ Comments: Season's Greetings from (Seattle) duo USF! - http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=474526657103&set=a.438096857103.229632.42247557103&type=3&theater | ||||
5:42 | John Maus | Head for the Country | We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves | Upset the Rhythm |
DJ Comments: Ecclesiastical chase music from the future? PERHAPS, but you can vote for Mr. Maus right now in KEXP's top albums of 2011 countdown! Vote by Dec. 19th to be eligible. No ink-stained fingers required - http://kexp.org/events/polls/EndOfYearCountdown-2011.aspx | ||||
5:45 | Dreams | Feelings 4 U | Feelings 4 U EP | self-released |
DJ Comments: Salient facts acquired from this KEXP capsule review: Dreams = 20 year-old, Brazilian-born, LA-based beatmaker Jesse Pimenta AND he's the son of the guitarist in Sergio Mendes' band - http://kexp.org/reviews/albumreview.aspx?reviewid=4363 | ||||
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5:50 | Unknown Mortal Orchestra | FFunny FFrends | Unknown Mortal Orchestra | Fat Possum |
DJ Comments: Best album cover of the year? Good candidate, at least - http://unknownmortalorchestra.com/ | ||||
5:54 | Washed Out | Eyes Be Closed | Within and Without | Sub Pop Records |
DJ Comments: Sexiest album cover of the year? This is the kind of minutiae that must be considered in any sort of end-0f-2011 type discussion |
Monday, December 5, 2011
New Ways of Living: KEXP Playlist 12/04/2011
Playlist
Sunday, December 04, 2011 (LISTEN TO THIS SHOW)
Time | Artist | Song | Album | Label |
3:01 | Panda Bear | Alsatian Darn | Tomboy | Paw Tracks |
3:05 | Tinariwen | Tenere taqqim tossam (Four Tet remix) | ||
3:11 | The Drums | I Can't Save Your Life | How It Ended | Moshi Moshi |
3:15 | Destroyer | New Ways of Living | Your Blues | Trifekta Records |
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3:20 | Oddisee | Skipping Rocks | Rock Creek Park | Mello Music Group |
3:24 | Korallreven | As Young As Yesterday | An Album by Korallreven | Acéphale |
3:30 | John Maus | Believer | We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves | Domino |
3:33 | Killing Joke | Requiem | Killing Joke | |
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3:38 | Disco Inferno | The Last Dance | The 5 EPs | One Little Indian Records |
3:42 | The Antlers | French Exit | Burst Apart | Frenchkiss Records |
DJ Comments: vote for your favorite releases of 2011 and we'll count them down on Dec 30! http://kexp.org/events/polls/ | ||||
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3:47 | Atlas Sound | Lightworks | Parallax | |
3:50 | The Rosebuds | Hold Hands and Fight | Birds Make Good Neighbors | Merge Records |
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3:54 | Still Corners | Cuckoo | Creatures of an Hour | Sub Pop Records |
3:57 | Pale Saints | Throwing Back the Apple | In Ribbons | Warner Bros. Records |
4:00 | Tycho | Coastal Brake | Dive | Ghostly International |
4:06 | M83 | Raconte-moi une Histoire | Hurry Up, We're Dreaming. | Mute |
4:10 | Gauntlet Hair | Mop It Up | Gauntlet Hair | Dead Oceans |
4:12 | Consignment | Not My Home | New Low | ggnzla |
4:15 | Kurt Vile | Downbound Train | So Outta Reach | Matador Records |
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4:21 | Pixies | Where Is My Mind? | Wave of Mutilation: Best of Pixies | 4AD |
4:24 | Yellow Ostrich | WHALE | The Mistress | |
4:28 | The Undertones | Teenage Kicks | The Very Best of The Undertones | |
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4:31 | Wire | Kidney Bingos | Wire 1985-1990: The A List (Best Of) | |
4:35 | Real Estate | Out of Tune | Days | Domino |
4:40 | The Moondoggies | What Took So Long | Tidelands | Hardly Art |
4:46 | Ana y Jaime | Nina Nana | Forge Your Own Chains: Heavy Psychedelic Ballads and Dirges 1968-1974 | |
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4:49 | Star Slinger | Moet & Reese | ||
4:52 | Sepalcure | See Me Feel Me | Sepalcure | Hotflush Recordings |
4:57 | Air | Le soleil est près de moi | Premiers Symptômes | Virgin |
5:02 | Cloud Control | Ghost Story | Bliss Release | Ivy League Records |
5:06 | Pollens | New Lazarus | Brighten and Break | self-released |
5:09 | The Black Keys | Lonely Boy | El Camino | Nonesuch |
5:12 | T. Rex | Metal Guru | The Slider | Mercury |
5:15 | The Velvet Underground | I Found a Reason | Loaded | Cotillion |
5:19 | Built to Spill Caustic Resin | She's Real | Built to Spill Caustic Resin | Up Records |
DJ Comments: Kicking Giants cover | ||||
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5:28 | Thee Oh Sees | ContraptionSoul Desert | Carrion Crawler/The Dream | In the Red |
5:34 | The Libertines | What Katie Did | The Libertines | |
5:37 | Arthur Russell | Habit of You | Love Is Overtaking Me | Rough Trade |
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5:42 | Gold Panda | An Iceberg Hurled Northward Through Clouds | DJ-Kicks | !K7 |
5:46 | Rustie | Flash Back | Glass Swords | Warp Records |
5:50 | RJD2 | The Horror | The Horror | Definitive Jux |
5:54 | Grimes & d'Eon | Vanessa | Darkbloom | Hippos in Tanks/Arbutus Records |
Friday, December 2, 2011
My Shadow in Vain: KEXP Playlist 12/01/2011
Thursday, December 01, 2011 (LISTEN TO THIS SHOW)
Time | Artist | Song | Album | Label |
1:00 | Marc Hellner | Asleep on the Wing | Asleep on the Wing | Peacefrog Records |
DJ Comments: Read up on Marc Hellner and "pulseprogramming" - http://www.allmusic.com/artist/pulseprogramming-p380344 | ||||
1:05 | Tim Hecker | Dungeoneering | Harmony in Ultraviolet | Kranky |
DJ Comments: His very affecting video for "Piano Drop" from Ravedeath, 1972 - http://youtu.be/EE9mT4JaW_0 | ||||
1:09 | Zomby | Natalia's Song | Dedication | 4AD |
DJ Comments: Zomby just released an EP entitled Nothing | ||||
1:13 | Sepalcure | Pencil Pimp | Sepalcure | Hotflush Recordings |
DJ Comments: London label Hotflush put out this 12" last month, a preview of the upcoming full length from Travis Stewart of Machinedrum and Praveen Sharma | ||||
1:19 | Caribou | Jamelia | Swim | City Slang |
DJ Comments: Caribou is curating ATP's Nightmare Before Christmas on Dec. 11th; DJ Rashad, Four Tet, Junior Boys, Silver Apples and more are slated to appear | ||||
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1:23 | Aphex Twin | Windowlicker | Windowlicker | Warp Records |
DJ Comments: Allmusic describes this album as "eerie lounge-porn music." Here's an image to set the mood: http://www.technodisco.net/img/tracks/a/aphex-twin/532764-aphex-twin-windowlicker.jpg | ||||
1:29 | Dyme Def | Dreamin | Yuk the World | Self-Released |
DJ Comments: Drops Dec. 6th! | ||||
1:33 | Grimes | Oblivion | Visions | Arbutus |
DJ Comments: out 1/31! | ||||
1:38 | Tubeway Army | My Shadow in Vain | Tubeway Army | Beggars Banquet |
DJ Comments: Gary Numan's band - he started fiddling with synthesizers in 1978 after finding one lying around in the studio | ||||
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1:41 | Oneohtrix Point Never | Sleep Dealer | Replica | Mexican Summer/Software |
DJ Comments: Will OPN be on YOUR Top 10 of the year? Vote now! - http://kexp.org/events/polls/EndOfYearCountdown-2011.aspx | ||||
1:44 | Washed Out | Call it Off | Amor Fati 12" | Weird World |
DJ Comments: Also playing ATP, but on Dec. 10th. He's married too, so don't flirt too aggressively | ||||
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1:48 | Korallreven | As Young As Yesterday | An Album by Korallreven | Acephale |
DJ Comments: Hard to spell, but easy to listen to. They put out the "As Young As Yesterday" 12" single in September with remixes by Panda Bear (!) and Night Slugs heavy hitter Girl Unit | ||||
1:54 | Yoin | Wrong to Feel This Way | ||
DJ Comments: Check out more from Aberdeen artist ¥oin (on the burgeoning Tuff Wax Records) - http://soundcloud.com/yoin | ||||
1:57 | Maria Minerva | Unchain My Heart | Tallinn At Dawn | Not Not Fun |
DJ Comments: This Latvian by way of London songstress has had a busy 2011, releasing two albums and two EPs, the most recent of which JUST came out - http://www.listentosilk.com/2011/11/more-maria-please.html | ||||
2:00 | M83 | Wait | Hurry Up, We're Dreaming. | Mute |
DJ Comments: M83 are in the midst of touring, including a scheduled date at the Kulturbolaget in Sweden. It's just fun to say, innit? - http://ilovem83.com/live/ | ||||
2:06 | Pinback | Tripoli | This Is a Pinback CD | Southern Lord |
DJ Comments: Playing tonight in Dublin! | ||||
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2:10 | Hypatia Lake | Suicide | Ouroboros | self-released |
DJ Comments: Dave Foley plays drums for Hypatia Lake. Pretty certain it's not THE Dave Foley, however. BUT, this Seattle band's new one is out now and they'll be playing the Cumulus Festival Jan. 24th | ||||
2:15 | Big in Japan | Suicide a Go Go | From Y to Z and Never Again | Zoo |
DJ Comments: From a 1978 7" on Liverpool's Zoo Records | ||||
2:18 | Kurt Vile | (so outta reach) | So Outta Reach | Matador Records |
DJ Comments: Some background on the So Outta Reach album cover (preview: Kurt Vile passes out easily and likes tequila) - http://pitchfork.com/features/take-cover/8708-kurt-vile-so-outta-reach-ep/ | ||||
2:22 | 200 Years | Partin Wayz | 200 Years | Drag City |
DJ Comments: Ben "Six Organs of Admittance" Chasny and Elisa "Magik Markers" Ambrogio. | ||||
2:25 | Kate Bush | Snowflake | 50 Words for Snow | ANTI- |
DJ Comments: Her first album since 2005's Aerial. Dave Gilmour helped her sign to EMI at age 16 | ||||
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2:25 | My Bloody Valentine | Soon | Loveless | Sire |
DJ Comments: A recollection of Loveless and Kevin Shield's chinchilla fixation - http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2004/mar/12/2 | ||||
2:42 | A Place to Bury Strangers | To Fix the Gash in Your Head | A Place to Bury Strangers | Killer Pimp |
DJ Comments: Here's them playing "Exploding Head" live at KEXP - http://youtu.be/K6bSPHTPbbs | ||||
2:46 | Total Control | Retiree | Henge Beat | Iron Lung Records |
DJ Comments: Just came through town with Thee Oh Sees. Anybody check them out? | ||||
2:48 | Zola Jesus | Avalanche | Conatus | Sacred Bones |
DJ Comments: Grew up in small town Wisconsin, believe it or not. So any rural Goth teenangers out there, take heart: you can be mopey and dramatic and achieve great things | ||||
2:52 | Noveller | Alone Star | Glacial Glow | Weird Forest/Saffron |
DJ Comments: Noveller is the project of filmmaker / drone head Sarah Lipstate. Listen to the whole thing here - http://noveller.bandcamp.com/album/glacial-glow | ||||
2:57 | Talk Talk | I Believe in You | Spirit of Eden | EMI |
DJ Comments: Ba Da Bing reissued Talk Talk's 1991 album Laughing Stock last month as well as Mark Hollis' S/T debut | ||||
3:02 | Disco Inferno | Second Language | The 5 EPs | One Little Indian Records |
DJ Comments: Disco Inferno are a criminally under-recognized band from England that put out a string of superb EPs in the early 90s (plus two excellent LPs) that blended dark subject matter with skronky samples | ||||
3:07 | Girls Names | Black Saturday | Black Saturday [SINGLE] | Slumberland/Tough Love |
DJ Comments: From Belfast! | ||||
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3:10 | The Soft Moon | Total Decay | Total Decay EP | Captured Tracks |
DJ Comments: The Soft Moon used to be the one-man project of Luis Vasquez, but since the release of the full length S/T he's assembled a full band | ||||
3:14 | Joy Division | Day of the Lords | Unknown Pleasures | Factory |
DJ Comments: Ian Curtis reputedly assembled the sandpaper sleeves for Durutti Column's first album whilst the rest of Joy Division watched a porno in the same room | ||||
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3:19 | Low | Canada | Trust | Kranky |
DJ Comments: Low were featured in the newly resuscitated MTV series 120 Minutes, with Matt Pinfield (it's episode 4) | ||||
3:23 | Jacaszek | As Each Tucked String Tells | Glimmer | Ghostly International |
DJ Comments: New album from this Polish artist is out Dec. 6th! The album is streaming now on NPR - http://www.npr.org/2011/11/27/142705348/first-listen-jacaszek-glimmer?ps=mh_fl | ||||
3:27 | Patten | Fire Dream | GLAQJO XAACSSO | No Pain in Pop |
DJ Comments: I have it on good authority that it's pronounced "glack-geut zack-so." | ||||
3:32 | Gonjasufi | Candylane (Bibio remix) | The Caliph's Tea Party | Warp Records |
DJ Comments: Sumach Ecks a.k.a. Gonjasufi is cousins with Ish of Shabazz Palaces / Digable Planets. Cool family, that. | ||||
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3:39 | The Tallest Man on Earth | A Field of Birds | Live At KEXP Volume Seven | KEXP |
DJ Comments: Live at KEXP Vol. 7 is out NOW and makes a great stocking stuffer (and, indeed, fits nicely into most hosiery) | ||||
3:42 | Spell | Big Red Balloon | Seasons in the Sun | Mute |
DJ Comments: Lee Hazlewood cover! Spell was the shortlived collaboration between noise legend Boyd Rice and Strawberry Switchblade's Rose McDowall. They release an LP and an EP in 1993 | ||||
3:45 | Spectrals | Get a Grip | Bad Penny | Wichita Recordings |
DJ Comments: Spectrals is the plucky, one-man band of Leeds' Louis Jones. A contemporary of Best Coast, Ducktails and such | ||||
3:48 | The Fresh & Onlys | Waterfall | Play It Strange | In the Red Records |
DJ Comments: Playing this Saturday in San Francisco (Rickshaw Stop) with Dominant Legs, Papercuts and Tim Cohen's Magic Trick (he's in Fresh & Onlys too) | ||||
3:51 | The Pica Beats | God of All Liars | Better In Color | self-released |
DJ Comments: Live on KEXP this Saturday, the 3rd, at 6 PM! They'll be at the Black Lodge the same night with Portland's AU as well. | ||||
3:55 | 13th Floor Elevators | You're Gonna Miss Me | 7th Heaven: Music of the Spheres, the Complete Singles Collection | |
DJ Comments: They should form a supergroup with 11th Dream Day and call themselves "24 Elevator Dreams" | ||||
3:58 | The Zombies | Can't Nobody Love You | Begin Here | Decca |
DJ Comments: Got their start by winning a local contest in St. Albans, near London, that allowed them to court major labels with their demo | ||||
4:00 | Still Corners | Into the Trees | Creatures of an Hour | Sub Pop Records |
DJ Comments: Featured in our Song of the Day podcast! Fun fact: (in the photo) they're standing next to where we keep all the office supplies here at KEXP. EXCITEMENT - http://blog.kexp.org/blog/2011/11/15/song-o | ||||
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4:04 | Throwing Muses | Not Too Soon | The Real Ramona | 4AD |
DJ Comments: Like Talking Heads, Throwing Muses attended the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design | ||||
4:07 | Atlas Sound | Lightworks | Parallax | 4AD |
DJ Comments: Bradford used to post mixes on his blog, but no longer it seems. Still, tons to check out - http://deerhuntertheband.blogspot.com/2009/11/micromix-23-featuring-fever-dream-field.html | ||||
4:11 | Roy Orbison | Dream | In Dreams | Monument |
4:13 | The Louvin Brothers | Satan Is Real | Satan Is Real | Light in the Attic |
DJ Comments: 1960 - reissued by Seattle label Light in the Attic recently, check out the backstory: http://lightintheattic.net/releases/621-satan-is-real-handpicked-songs-1955-1962 | ||||
4:17 | Simon Joyner | Hotter Than Satan's Heels | Beautiful Losers | Jagjaguwar |
DJ Comments: BBC DJ (and legend) John Peel once played Joyner's The Cowardly Traveller Pays His Toll from beginning to end on his show | ||||
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4:21 | Nudge | Two Hands | As Good as Gone | Kranky |
DJ Comments: Nudge is Brian Foote, Honey Owens (Valet, Miracles Club, Jackie O Motherfucker), Jon Pyle and Paul Dickow | ||||
4:26 | El Rego | Zon Dede | El Rego | Daptone |
DJ Comments: Born in Benin, Theophile Do Rego struck it big in 1966 with his group Rego & The Commandos | ||||
4:29 | JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound | I Am Trying To Break Your Heart | Want More | Bloodshot |
DJ Comments: Wilco cover | ||||
4:33 | Norvells | Why Do You Want To Make Me Sad | V/A: Eccentric Soul: The Nickel & Penny Labels | Numero Group |
DJ Comments: 1968-1973 Ace release by Numero Group out now! Read about the album's provenance here - http://numerogroup.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/eccentric-soul-the-nickel-penny-labels-revealed/ | ||||
4:36 | The Idle Race | Morning Sunshine | Back to the Story | Caroline |
DJ Comments: 1966-1971 From Birmingham, but never quite 'made' it | ||||
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4:38 | The Field | Then It's White | Looping State of Mind | Kompakt |
DJ Comments: This album is a real grower | ||||
4:46 | Goldmund | Johnny Has Gone For a Soldier | All Will Prosper | Western Vinyl |
DJ Comments: aka Helios. a collection of 14 traditional Civil War-era folk songs | ||||
4:49 | Oliveray | Harmonics | Wonders | Erased Tapes |
DJ Comments: Peter Broderick & Nils Frahm | ||||
4:53 | Marissa Nadler | Bird on Your Grave | Songs III: Bird on the Water | Peacefrog Records |
DJ Comments: Also attended Rhode Island School of Design...kind of Rhode Island heavy tonight...DISTRACTION - here's her new album for purchase! http://www.etsy.com/listing/85276279/marissa-nadler-new-full-length- | ||||
4:58 | Rogue Wave | Bird on a Wire | Descended Like Vultures | |
DJ Comments: Contributed "Jingle Bell Rock" to the benefit album This Warm December - A Brushfire Holiday Volume 2 | ||||
5:02 | Radiohead | My Iron Lung | The Bends | Parlophone |
DJ Comments: Playing TWO dates in Missouri next year but barely swinging through the West Coast. What gives?!? | ||||
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5:06 | Tycho | Hours | Dive | Ghostly International |
DJ Comments: Tycho is an eligible vote-receiver for best albums of the year. Vote now! - http://www.kexp.org/events/polls/EndOfYearCountdown-2011.aspx | ||||
5:12 | Real Estate | Green Aisles | Days | Domino |
DJ Comments: Check out video of their superb in studio session! Martin Courtney has some cool frames, wouldn't you say? - http://blog.kexp.org/blog/2011/11/23/live-video-real-estate/ | ||||
5:17 | Ride | Taste | OX4_ The Best of Ride | |
DJ Comments: KEXP listeners probably don't need an education in Ride (cuz they're smart like that), so none will be provided | ||||
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5:21 | How To Dress Well | Suicide Dream 2 | Love Remains | Lefse Records |
DJ Comments: Check out HTDW's favourite albums from 2011. Some cool picks! (a not so clever reminder to vote for yours on the KEXP site) - http://howtodresswell.blogspot.com/2011/11/fave-20s.html | ||||
5:26 | Sigur Ros | Glosoli | Inni (Disc 1) | XL |
DJ Comments: Their first ever live album | ||||
5:32 | Grizzly Bear | Eavesdropping (Simon Bookish) | Horn of Plenty Remixes | Kanine |
DJ Comments: Featured on the soundtrack to Blue Valentine, the Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams film about a failed (yet torrid!) marriage | ||||
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5:38 | Gold Panda | Marriage | Lucky Shiner | Ghostly International |
DJ Comments: Gold Panda curated the most recent DJ-Kicks entry - http://www.dj-kicks.com/goldpanda-dj-kicks/ | ||||
5:42 | State of the Artist x Ski Team | Vacation | Slopes | Members Only |
DJ Comments: Offering a free download of their Slopes album. Well, what are you waiting for?!? A link? Oh wait, that's a good point, my bad - http://stateoftheartist.bandcamp.com/ | ||||
5:46 | DJ Shadow | Midnight in a Perfect World | Endtroducing..... | Mo Wax |
DJ Comments: DJ Shadow's formative years, where his mixes got play on Bay Area station KMEL, are bunded here for your listening (and scholarly) pleasure - http://www.discogs.com/DJ-Shadow-The-4-Track-Era-Collectio | ||||
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5:51 | Mazzy Star | Lay Myself Down | Common Burn/Lay Myself Down | Rhymes of an Hour |
DJ Comments: Did anybody else flip out when they watched Starship Troopers for the first time and "Fade Into You" started playing?!? | ||||
5:56 | The National | Slow Show | Boxer | Beggars Banquet |
DJ Comments: Playing TONIGHT at the Neptune Theatre! |
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Halber Mensch: KEXP Playlist 11/24/2011
"When I eat like I do it,
I use not fork nor spoon
No grace or culture to it
When I call my own tune." --Jonathan Richman
Playlist
Thursday, November 24, 2011 (LISTEN TO THIS SHOW)
As always, beware of 'a perpetual state of almost-deciding': a vacillatory suspension of skipping and skimming that offered 'the illusion of action and decision' but [i]s really an insidious form of paralysis" (Matthew Cole, Simon Reynolds).
I use not fork nor spoon
No grace or culture to it
When I call my own tune." --Jonathan Richman
Playlist
Thursday, November 24, 2011 (LISTEN TO THIS SHOW)
Time | Artist | Song | Album | Label | |||||
1:02 | Real Estate | Green Aisles | Days | Domino | |||||
DJ Comments: We're giving you the keys, it's free real estate! - http://video.adultswim.com/tim-and-eric-awesome-show-great-job/free-house-for-you-jim.html | |||||||||
1:07 | David Bowie | Warszawa | Low | RCA Victor | |||||
DJ Comments: Brian Eno plays piano on this track | |||||||||
1:13 | Radiohead | Bloom (Jamie xx Rework Part 3) | |||||||
DJ Comments: Radiohead recently released their King of Limbs remix album titled TKOL RMX 123457 but were unable to fit in this Jamie xx reworking | |||||||||
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1:21 | Sepalcure | See Me Feel Me | Sepalcure | Hotflush Recordings | |||||
DJ Comments: samples The Who's "See Me Feel Me" | |||||||||
1:26 | Peaking Lights | Birds of Paradise (Maria Minerva's Ooh Aah Ed Edit) | |||||||
DJ Comments: Peaking Lights' 936 album from earlier this year is received the remix treatment courtesy of d'Eon, Dam-Funk, Patten, Main Attraktionz and many more - http://www.weirdworldrecordco.com/2011/11/936-out-today-remixes-limited-edition-12/ | |||||||||
1:29 | Gold Panda | An Iceberg Hurled Northward Through Clouds | DJ-Kicks | !K7 | |||||
DJ Comments: Gold Panda's DJ Kicks submission, for your listening pleasure; his mix includes some Ramadanman, matthewdavid, SND, Zomby, Muslimgauze and more | |||||||||
1:35 | M83 | Claudia Lewis | Hurry Up, We're Dreaming. | Mute | |||||
DJ Comments: According to the liner notes, a Joey Waronker programmed the drum machines for this track. The more you know... | |||||||||
1:39 | The Human League | Open Your Heart | Dare / Love and Dancing | Virgin | |||||
DJ Comments: Infamous music critic Lester Bangs was listening to this album when he overdosed in 1982 | |||||||||
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1:44 | Steve Hauschildt | Already Replaced | Tragedy and Geometry | Kranky | |||||
DJ Comments: Hauschildt is 1/3 of Cleveland outfit Emeralds; all three members, Mark McGuire, John Elliot (as Mist and Imaginary Softwoods) and Steve Hauschildt have released material under other aliases this year. | |||||||||
1:48 | James Pants | Clouds Over the Pacific | James Pants | Stones Throw Records | |||||
DJ Comments: Started off playing in his hometown Spokane before interning at Stones Throw and wowing the man in charge enough, Peanut Butter Wolf, to be signed the label. I assume most of corporate America works in much the same way. | |||||||||
1:52 | Still Corners | Cuckoo | Creatures of an Hour | Sub Pop Records | |||||
DJ Comments: American Greg Hughes, the band's chief songwriter, met now vocalist Tessa Murray in London en route to London Bridge | |||||||||
1:56 | Hood | The Fact That You Failed | Home Is Where It Hurts | Aesthetics | |||||
DJ Comments: 6 disc catalogue set + singles, rarities, etc will be released soon! | |||||||||
2:02 | Einstürzende Neubauten | Halber Mensch | Halber Mensch | Rough Trade | |||||
DJ Comments: One of the eminent industrial bands to emerge out of Europe in the 80s. In German the name translates to "collapsing new buildings" | |||||||||
2:05 | Von Südenfed | Serious Brainskin | Tromatic Reflexxions | Domino | |||||
DJ Comments: Von Südenfed is the collaborative effort between The Fall's Mark E. Smith and IDM / glitch-heads Andi Toma and Jan St. Werner from Mouse on Mars | |||||||||
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2:09 | Dyme Def | Rollin Stone | Yuk the World | self-released | |||||
DJ Comments: Live on KEXP this Sunday on Street Sounds, 8 PM! The new album drops Dec. 6th | |||||||||
2:13 | DJ Food | Discovery Workshop | Magpies, Maps & Moons | Ninja Tune | |||||
DJ Comments: Performing live Jan. 19th at the London Planetarium in conjunction with astronomers, who will be providing the visuals - http://ninjatune.net/article/2011/nov/21/dj-food-presents-the-search-engine-live-at-london-planetarium | |||||||||
2:16 | Dobie Gray | The "In" Crowd | The In Crowd: The Ultimate Mod Collection (disc 1) | ||||||
DJ Comments: Best known for his 1973 hit "Drift Away" | |||||||||
2:19 | The Beach Boys | Good Vibrations | The SMiLE Sessions | Capitol | |||||
DJ Comments: The definitive SMiLE sessions release (up until now, at least) is a surefire "oh crap, I forgot to get Dad a Christmas gift, this looks pretty good" | |||||||||
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2:24 | Oneohtrix Point Never | Replica | Replica | Mexican Summer/Software | |||||
DJ Comments: Daniel Lopatin has been super busy this year, releasing a new (amazing!) OPN record, starting a record label (Software), banging out some 80s inspired synth jams with Joel Ford (Ford & Lopatin) and collaborating on FRKWYS Vol. 7. | |||||||||
2:29 | Bon Iver | Minnesota, WI | Bon Iver | Jagjaguwar | |||||
DJ Comments: A special deluxe version of Bon Iver is out Nov. 29th with an accompanying video / visual work (makes it sounds more 'deluxe') for each song | |||||||||
2:32 | Amen Dunes | Lower Mind | Through Donkey Jaw | Sacred Bones | |||||
DJ Comments: A strong contender for inclusion in Top 10 albums of the year? PERHAPS. It is that time for such list-making and whatnot | |||||||||
2:36 | The Incredible String Band | Air | Wee Tam | Hannibal | |||||
DJ Comments: Flirted with Scientology as a band not long after this release | |||||||||
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2:40 | Dive | Corvalis | Sometime 7inch | Captured Tracks | |||||
DJ Comments: Side project from Beach Fossils guitarist Zachary Cole Smith. This is off the Sometime 7" out now on Captured Tracks. Unsurprisingly, it's incredibly infectious | |||||||||
2:42 | Woods | Suffering Season | At Echo Lake | Woodsist | |||||
DJ Comments: Read up on Rear House Studios, run by Woods drummer Jarvis Taveniere. Band like Woods, Real Estate, The Babies and Vivian Girls have all recorded here - http://alteredzones.com/posts/832/inside-woodsist-rear-house-studios/ | |||||||||
2:45 | The King Khan & BBQ Show | Why Don't You Lie? | What's for Dinner? | Light in the Attic Records | |||||
DJ Comments: No longer together after a contentious tour through Asia and Australia. Presumably there was a lot of cheap beer and nudity bandied about before it happened. | |||||||||
2:49 | Helene Smith | Willing and Able | Eccentric Soul: The Deep City Label | Numero Group | |||||
DJ Comments: Numero just released Eccentric Soul: The Nickel & Penny labels, a very cool compilation of obscure Chicago soul joints - http://www.numerogroup.com/ | |||||||||
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2:52 | Gui Boratto | Flying Practice | III | Kompakt | |||||
DJ Comments: Check out his in studio performance from 2009 - http://kexp.org/live/liveperformance.aspx?rId=29472 | |||||||||
2:56 | Factory Floor | Two Different Ways (Original) | Two Different Ways | DFA | |||||
DJ Comments: Opened for Chris & Cosey (!) on several occasions this year | |||||||||
3:04 | Trentemøller | Tide (Modeselektor's Last Remix Ever) | Reworked/Remixed | In My Room | |||||
DJ Comments: From the Reworked / Remixed album out now! It's a double album of remixes he's done for other artists and those who've returned the favour, featuring the likes of UNKLE, Modeselektor, Mew and others. | |||||||||
3:09 | Zola Jesus | Seekir | Conatus | Sacred Bones | |||||
DJ Comments: Described her younger self as "delusional" and discusses a love of strange music from an early age - http://pitchfork.com/news/37242-rising-zola-jesus/ | |||||||||
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3:13 | Disco Inferno | The Last Dance | The 5 EPs | One Little Indian Records | |||||
DJ Comments: This English band were at their most fertile from 1992 - 1996 when they issued 5 EPs (assembled together on this reissue) and two stellar LPs. | |||||||||
3:17 | Consignment | Always Tired | New Low | ggnzla | |||||
DJ Comments: New band out of Seattle! They're on local label GGNZLA ('gorgonzola') | |||||||||
3:21 | Afel Bocoum, Damon Albarn, Toumani Diabaté, Ko Kan Ko Sata | Spoons | Mali Music | Honest Jon's Records | |||||
DJ Comments: Damon Albarn travelled to Mali in 2000 for Oxfam and played with a host of musicians in the countryside and in the capital city Bamako, recording and assembling the results for London-label Honest Jon's | |||||||||
3:26 | Snorri Helgason | Mockingbird | Winter Sun | ||||||
DJ Comments: Check out video of him and Ólöf Arnalds playing live at the Iceland Airwaves festival last month - http://blog.kexp.org/blog/2011/10/26/live-video-snorri-helgason-and-olof-arnalds-in-iceland/ | |||||||||
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3:31 | Washed Out | Call it Off | Amor Fati 12" | Weird World | |||||
DJ Comments: Clams Casino and Au Revoir Simone offer their remix talents for Washed Out's "Amor Fati" on this 12" release | |||||||||
3:34 | Patten | Fire Dream | GLAQJO XAACSSO | No Pain in Pop | |||||
DJ Comments: Not only is fairly little known about Patten, but even less is known about how to pronounce the album's title correctly. | |||||||||
3:39 | This Will Destroy You | Black Dunes (Holy Other's Woman in the Dunes Mix) | Black Dunes | ||||||
DJ Comments: This is the B side to a 7" This Will Destroy You is releasing Dec. 5th | |||||||||
3:43 | The Field | Is This Power | Looping State of Mind | Kompakt | |||||
DJ Comments: Last show of the year will be in England (Minehead) for ATP's Nightmare Before Christmas, although this is sounding quite the opposite | |||||||||
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3:51 | The Moondoggies | Changing | Don't Be a Stranger | Hardly Art | |||||
DJ Comments: Request! | |||||||||
3:56 | The Creation | If I Stay Too Long | Our Music Is Red With Purple Flashes | ||||||
DJ Comments: Lead guitarist Eddie Phillips was asked by Pete Townshend to join The Who, but he declined | |||||||||
4:00 | Talking Heads | Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On) | Remain in Light | Sire Records | |||||
DJ Comments: Brian Eno's fingerprints are all over this album; he produced it, mixed it, played keys, sung backup vocals, and even slapped the bass. | |||||||||
4:05 | Active Child | Playing House (feat. How toDress Well) | You Are All I See | Vagrant | |||||
DJ Comments: How To Dress Well's website has a lot going, including nudity and music videos with a Jason Schwartzmann lookalike, but precious little sartorial advice - http://howtodresswell.blogspot.com/ | |||||||||
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4:08 | Youth Lagoon | Afternoon | The Year of Hibernation | Fat Possum | |||||
DJ Comments: Learn more about this young lad from Boise here - http://blog.kexp.org/blog/2011/10/06/song-of-the-day-youth-lagoon-montana/ | |||||||||
4:13 | Kurt Vile | Life's a Beach | So Outta Reach | Matador Records | |||||
DJ Comments: Kurt Vile discusses the cover to this new EP. Long story short? He passed out at a party after some libations. Bam. - http://pitchfork.com/features/take-cover/8708-kurt-vile-so-outta-reach-ep/ | |||||||||
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4:17 | Thee Oh Sees | ContraptionSoul Desert | Carrion Crawler/The Dream | In the Red | |||||
DJ Comments: @ the Croc on Tuesday Nov 29! they are amazing live | |||||||||
4:22 | Wavves | I Wanna Meet Dave Grohl | Life Sux | Ghost Ramp | |||||
DJ Comments: Don't we all Nathan, don't we all... | |||||||||
4:27 | Sonic Youth | Kool Thing | Goo | Geffen Records | |||||
DJ Comments: Sixth album from Sonic Youth, first for a major label (Geffen) and the album that came after Daydream Nation | |||||||||
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4:32 | USF | Let's Just Hide It (feat. Big Spider's Back) | The Spray | Circle Into Square/Fake Four Inc. | |||||
DJ Comments: Check out the band's holiday card in the top right. Festive! - http://youesseff.tumblr.com/ | |||||||||
4:35 | Julia Holter | Goddess Eyes | Tragedy | ||||||
DJ Comments: Scope this blunted video for "Try To Make Yourself a Work of Art" from her debut LP Tragedy - http://vimeo.com/27443938 | |||||||||
4:38 | Dan Deacon | Snookered | Bromst | Carpark Records | |||||
DJ Comments: Playing the Neptune Theatre Sunday, Dec. 4th. He puts on a c-razzz-y (Ron Swanson voice), very crowd-involved show. Here's what you might expect - http://vimeo.com/11795153 | |||||||||
4:46 | Maria Minerva | Pirate's Tale | Cabaret Cixous | Not Not Fun | |||||
DJ Comments: This is the debut LP from London-based Maria Minerva. The album title combines two of her faves: Cabaret Voltaire and writer Hélène Cixous | |||||||||
4:51 | Kate Bush | Hounds of Love | Hounds of Love | EMI Manhattan | |||||
DJ Comments: Her new album 50 Words for Snow is her first since 2005's Aerial | |||||||||
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4:55 | Jónsi | Boy Lilikoi | Live at KEXP Volume Seven | KEXP | |||||
DJ Comments: Makes an excellent stocking stuffer. Indeed, it stuffs into most hosiery with nary a problem - http://kexp.org/cd | |||||||||
4:59 | Desire | Under Your Spell | Drive | Lakeshore | |||||
DJ Comments: Featured oh so prominently in the movie Drive. Haven't seen it yet? Do. | |||||||||
5:00 | Desire | Under Your Spell | Drive | Lakeshore | |||||
DJ Comments: Featured oh so prominently in the movie Drive. Haven't seen it yet? Do. | |||||||||
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5:03 | Star Slinger | Moet and Reese | |||||||
DJ Comments: The Moet & Alizee kept me pissy / Girls used to diss me / Now they write letters 'cuz they miss me - http://soundcloud.com/starslingeruk/star-slinger-moet-reese | |||||||||
5:06 | Air France | It Feels Good To Be Around You | It Feels Good To Be Around You (Single) | Sincerely Yours | |||||
DJ Comments: Free download! http://soundcloud.com/fadermedia/air-france-it-feels-good-to-be | |||||||||
5:10 | M.I.A. | Boyz | Kala | XL Recordings | |||||
DJ Comments: "MIA" is also the airport code for Miami International Airport, in case you're flying there today and hadn't realised it | |||||||||
5:14 | DRC Music | Hallo | Kinshasa One Two | Warp Records | |||||
DJ Comments: Damon Albarn assembled musicians from DR Congo along with Dan the Automator and Actress to record and see what happened for 5 days in Kinshasa - http://warp.net/records/drc-music | |||||||||
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5:19 | Air | Playground Love | The Virgin Suicides | Astralwerks | |||||
DJ Comments: The sultry sax is back! (though did it ever really go away?) | |||||||||
5:22 | Atlas Sound | Te Amo | Parallax | 4AD | |||||
DJ Comments: The sketch for this song has been floating around Bradford's world for a while before appearing on Parallax. Take a listen to an earlier version of it called "Afternoon Drive" on the Bedroom Databank Vol. 1 (there's four of them, all available for free) - http://deerhuntertheband.blogspot.com/2010/11/atlas-sound-bedroom-databank-vol-1.html | |||||||||
5:26 | Tame Impala | Desire Be Desire Go | Innerspeaker | Modular Recordings | |||||
DJ Comments: Played some tunes here at KEXP all the way back in April - http://kexp.org/live/liveperformance.aspx?rId=33270 | |||||||||
5:31 | Love | Andmoreagain | Forever Changes | Elektra | |||||
DJ Comments: Love's third album. Robert Christgau only gave it an "A -" BOOOOOO! | |||||||||
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5:34 | Sea Lions | I Should Be Sleeping | Everything You Wanted To Know About Sea Lions, But Were Afraid To Ask | Slumberland | |||||
DJ Comments: In addition to sea lions they like Woody Allen, evidently | |||||||||
5:37 | The Nerves | When You Find Out | One Way Ticket | Alive Naturalsound Records | |||||
DJ Comments: 1977 | |||||||||
5:38 | Fred Williams & the Jewels Band | Tell Her | Eccentric Soul: Smart's Palace | Numero Group | |||||
DJ Comments: More about Fred Williams here - http://kexp.org/live/liveperformance.aspx?rId=33270 | |||||||||
5:41 | Modest Mouse | Broke | Building Nothing out of Something | Up Records | |||||
DJ Comments: This is a collection of singles and rare tracks | |||||||||
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5:46 | Tycho | Coastal Brake | Dive | Ghostly International | |||||
DJ Comments: Out now! | |||||||||
5:50 | Underworld | Beautiful Burnout | Oblivion With Bells | ATO Records |
As always, beware of 'a perpetual state of almost-deciding': a vacillatory suspension of skipping and skimming that offered 'the illusion of action and decision' but [i]s really an insidious form of paralysis" (Matthew Cole, Simon Reynolds).
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