Playlist
Thursday, September 22, 2011 (LISTEN TO THIS SHOW)
| Time | Artist | Song | Album | Label |
| 1:00 | Apparat | Goodbye | The Devil's Walk | Mute |
| DJ Comments: Stream it here (out Sept 27) [you may recognize the article's author as well] - http://www.npr.org/2011/09/18/140474199/first-listen-apparat-devils-walk | ||||
| 1:04 | Oneohtrix Point Never | Returnal (Antony Remix) | Returnal: Antony/Fennesz Remixes | |
| DJ Comments: Antony Hegarty's reworking of "Returnal" from OPN's album of the same name. | ||||
| 1:08 | Portishead | It's a Fire | Dummy | Go! Beat Records |
| DJ Comments: Starting work on a new album in January, so says Geoff Barrow (and yes I'm linking to Rolling Stone) - http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/portishead-to-start-work-on-new-album-in-january-20110920 | ||||
| 1:12 | Sepalcure | Love Pressure (XI Remix) | Love Pressure Remixed EP | Hotflush Recordings |
| DJ Comments: Sepalcure is the Brooklyn duo of Travis Stewart (a.k.a. Machinedrum) and Praveen Sharma (a.k.a. Braille). | ||||
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| 1:18 | CHLLNGR | Ask For | Haven | Green Owl |
| DJ Comments: Based in Copenhagen. They have a cool squatter city there called Christiania - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freetown_Christiania | ||||
| 1:21 | Balam Acab | Motion | Wander/Wonder | Tri Angle |
| DJ Comments: Debut full-length from 20 year old Alec Koone. | ||||
| 1:25 | The Chemical Brothers | Swoon | Further | Parlophone |
| DJ Comments: Got their start by DJing in a Manchester club called Naked Under Leather in 1991. | ||||
| 1:31 | Neon Indian | Hex Girlfriend | Era Extraña | Mom + Pop |
| DJ Comments: Neon Indian recorded this, his second album, during Winter in Helsinki where he experienced what it's like to live in a super cold environment - "I had this specific moment where I watched 'Blade Runner' at 4 in the morning on a bunch of painkillers, because I was having this crazy wisdom-tooth freakout thing, and I was hanging out with my friend and just having my mind blown." | ||||
| 1:34 | Nick Nicely | Treeline | Psychotropia | |
| DJ Comments: Revered British psych-pop artist from the early 80s; NY label Captured Tracks is reissuing parts of his back catalogue Nov 29th - http://alteredzones.com/posts/1954/nick-nicely-gets-re-issue/ | ||||
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| 1:38 | Annie | Heartbeat | Anniemal | 679 Recordings |
| DJ Comments: Co-written by fellow Norwegians Röyksopp. | ||||
| 1:41 | patten | GLAQJO XAACSSO | Fire dream | |
| DJ Comments: No Pain In Pop is releasing Patten's GLAQJO XAACSSO (try and pronounce that one...OK, it's “glack-geut zack-so”) September 26. Here's a free download - http://www.factmag.com/2011/09/09/patten-fire-dream/ | ||||
| 1:46 | The Physics | Coronas On Madrona | Love Is A Business | self-released |
| DJ Comments: Seattle's own! - http://blog.kexp.org/blog/2011/08/26/song-of-the-day-the-physics-%E2%80%93-caronas-on-madrona/ | ||||
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| 1:52 | Erkin Koray | Ve... | Meçhul : Singles & Rarities | Sublime Frequencies |
| DJ Comments: Rock and roll legend in Turkey who started incorporating sounds from Egypt, Lebanon and the Anatolian interior in Turkey that came to be known as "Arabesque." music - http://www.sublimefrequencies.com/item.asp?Item_id=81&cd=Erkin-Koray:--Mechul-(Singles-and-Rarities) | ||||
| 1:56 | Gems | Sapphire | Gems | |
| DJ Comments: Seattle band, playing in Port Angeles October 14th - http://www.reverbnation.com/musicalgems | ||||
| 2:00 | Sky Cries Mary | Breathe In | Moonbathing on Sleeping Leaves | WEA Records |
| DJ Comments: So Allmusic says this Seattle band's "Appearances on network television were followed by what history now remembers as the first ever rock concert to be broadcast over the Internet ..." Can anybody confirm that? Would be interesting to learn more... | ||||
| 2:04 | Widowspeak | Half Awake | Widowspeak | Captured Tracks |
| DJ Comments: This Brooklyn band is drawing favourable comparisons to Mazzy Star. BUT, they don't have the distinction of being featured in the movie Starship Troopers. So point Mazzy Star on that front - http://blog.kexp.org/blog/2011/09/16/song-of-the-day-widowspeak-%E2%80%93-puritan/ | ||||
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| 2:08 | Atlas Sound | Te Amo | Parallax | |
| DJ Comments: Out November 8th! So close yet so far! Bradford used this beat for last year's Bedroom Databank Vol. 1 also - http://youtu.be/YbdffICwGBg | ||||
| 2:12 | Pinback | Offline P.K. | Blue Screen Life | Ace Fu Records |
| DJ Comments: Second album from this San Diego band. | ||||
| 2:15 | John Maus | Do Your Best | Love Is Real | Upset the Rhythm |
| DJ Comments: Video of his spasmodic live performances + Rough Trade mix - http://tinyurl.com/62dwjf4 | ||||
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| 2:19 | Veronica Falls | Misery | Veronica Falls | Slumberland |
| DJ Comments: They'll be at The Crocodile October 10th with The Drums. You can stream their album here (also, this would be good music to soundtrack some sort of innocently romantic or quirky behaviour) - http://stereogum.com/816941/stream-veronica-falls-veronica-falls-lp/mp3s/ | ||||
| 2:22 | Amen Dunes | Good Bad Dreams | Through Donkey Jaw | |
| DJ Comments: Read an interview with Amen Dunes. It's funny - http://alteredzones.com/posts/1931/artist-profile-amen-dunes/ | ||||
| 2:25 | Iggy Pop | Baby | The Idiot | RCA Records |
| DJ Comments: Recorded, produced at France's famous Château d'Hérouville studio and described then as a cross between Kraftwerk and James Brown. | ||||
| 2:28 | Kuedo | Scissors | Severant | Planet Mu |
| DJ Comments: Kuedo is Jamie Teasdale, one half of Vex'd; take a listen to his album in full, due out October 17th - http://www.planet.mu/discography/ZIQ309 | ||||
| 2:31 | Julia Holter | Goddess Eyes | Tragedy | |
| DJ Comments: Beguiling debut from LA's Julia Holter. This is out now on Leaving Records - http://leavingrecords.com/ | ||||
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| 2:35 | Active Child | You Are All I See | You Are All I See | Vagrant |
| DJ Comments: Active Child and Chad Valley are both playing The Crocodile Friday night and both doing an in studio here at KEXP earlier in the day at 11 AM and 1 PM, respectively | ||||
| 2:39 | James Blake | Unluck | James Blake | Polydor |
| DJ Comments: this Saturday @ Showbox! (go early to see openers Teengirl Fantasy as well; your hips will thank you) | ||||
| 2:43 | Jono McCleery | She Moves | There Is | Ninja Tune |
| DJ Comments: Count Vashti Bunyan as a fan (that's a pretty good endorsement, wouldn't you say?) - http://ninjatune.net/artist/jono-mccleery | ||||
| 2:46 | Tape | A Spire | Rideau | Häpna |
| DJ Comments: Recorded, produced and mixed by Markus Schmickler of M.I.M.E.O. | ||||
| 3:00 | Washed Out | Amor Fati | Within and Without | Sub Pop Records |
| DJ Comments: October 6 at The Neptune and it's all ages! Bring your lousy kids! (kidding, kidding...). Does he sample the sound of a highlighter on this track, by the way? | ||||
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| 3:03 | St. Vincent | Cheerleader | Strange Mercy | 4AD |
| DJ Comments: October 13th at The Neptune. Take a listen to her interview on NPR (she's a good talker too) - http://www.npr.org/2011/09/15/140463596/for-st-vincent-music-is-the-easy-part | ||||
| 3:06 | Handsome Boy Modeling School | I've Been Thinking (feat. Cat Power) | White People | Atlantic |
| DJ Comments: The rap duo of Dan the Automator and Prince Paul. The group got their name from Chris Elliott's bizarre and short-lived sitcom Get A Life. | ||||
| 3:12 | Jenni Potts | I Need to Move On | Belonged | |
| DJ Comments: From Bellingham, the "City of Subdued Excitement." I guess that makes her a bellebrity - http://jennipotts.bandcamp.com/album/belonged | ||||
| 3:14 | Canon Blue | Heavy Heart (Minneapolis A) | Rumspringa | Temporary Residence Limited |
| DJ Comments: October 21st at The Crocodile. Also featured on the KEXP Blog recently - http://blog.kexp.org/blog/2011/09/14/song-of-the-day-canon-blue-indian-summer/ | ||||
| 3:18 | Welder | Be My Light | Florescence | Ancestor |
| DJ Comments: Brendan Angelides also records under the Eskmo alias and he's releasing Florescence September 26th in very limited quantities - http://weldersounds.com/run/ | ||||
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| 3:23 | Blood Orange | Instantly Blank (The Goodness) | Coastal Grooves | Domino |
| DJ Comments: From Dev Hynes of Lightspeed Champion and Test Icicles. Here are some adjectives I would use to describe this album: smooth, velvety, slick, toothsome, bodacious and so on. | ||||
| 3:26 | Ricardo Donoso | The North Quadrant (Ascension) | Progress Chance | |
| DJ Comments: Came out last month on the excellent Digitalis label. He's originally from Brazil but now hangs his head in Boston. Get lost in his arpeggios here - http://www.foxydigitalis.com/digiv006.html | ||||
| 3:30 | Zola Jesus | Vessel | Conatus | Sacred Bones |
| DJ Comments: Out October 4th in the US. Check out her live Daytrotter session here - http://www.daytrotter.com/dt/zola-jesus-concert/20054954-3738503.html | ||||
| 3:34 | Pantha du Prince | A Nomad's Retreat | Black Noise | Rough Trade |
| DJ Comments: A remix of this song by Seattle's The Sight Below (Rafael Anton Irisarri) - http://soundcloud.com/fadermedia/pantha-du-prince-a-nomads | ||||
| 3:40 | Massive Attack | Risingson | Mezzanine | Virgin Records Australia |
| DJ Comments: Horace Andy, Sara Jay and Cocteau Twins' Liz Fraser all contributed vocals to this 1998 album. | ||||
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| 3:47 | Tom Waits | Rain Dogs | Rain Dogs | Island Records |
| DJ Comments: Request! Feel better Hugo! (une gueule de bois?) | ||||
| 3:49 | Liars | Scissor | Sisterworld | Mute |
| DJ Comments: Dude, there's like SIX fingers! - http://www.liarsliarsliars.com/ | ||||
| 3:53 | Uusitalo | Satumaa | Karhunainen | |
| DJ Comments: From the Finn's 2007 album. I wonder if Neon Indian listened to him for inspiration... | ||||
| 4:00 | Fatoumata Diawara | Sonkolon | Fatou | World Circuit |
| DJ Comments: Born in Cote d'Ivoire, raised in southern Mali and now living in France. She's singing in the Wassoulou language. | ||||
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| 4:05 | Cataldo | Rock Of Calvary | Prison Boxing | Red Pepper |
| DJ Comments: Third full-length from Seattle's Eric Anderson. He'll be playing The Showbox October 20th with The Long Winters and Campfire OK, part of City Arts Festival. | ||||
| 4:09 | Death Cab for Cutie | Transatlanticism | Transatlanticism | Munich Records |
| DJ Comments: Request! | ||||
| 4:17 | Kurt Vile | The Creature | So Outta Reach EP | Matador |
| DJ Comments: Bringing his ramblin' man ways to The Paramount September 28th! | ||||
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| 4:22 | DJ Theory | Shelter | Heartbreak presents Moombahsoul Vol. 2 | n/a |
| DJ Comments: Compilation from Mad Decent, a free download - http://www.maddecent.com/blog/heartbreak-presents-moombahsoul-iii-the-finale | ||||
| 4:28 | Sleep 8 Over | Casual Diamond | Forever | Hippos in Tanks |
| DJ Comments: New album from Austin band Sleep Over. They put out a great 7" last year as well ("Outer Limits"). | ||||
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| 4:31 | Girls | Magic | Father, Son, Holy Ghost | True Panther |
| DJ Comments: Although Christopher Owens' back story gets a lot of play, it truly is a very interesting and revealing tale. Plus he's a big fan of Suede so, you know, DUH! - http://www.faqmagazine.org/ChristopherGirls.htm | ||||
| 4:35 | The Modern Lovers | Hospital | The Modern Lovers | Sanctuary Midline |
| DJ Comments: Jojo is at the Tractor Sunday and Monday! | ||||
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| 4:41 | Tinariwen | Tenere Taqhim Tossam | Tassili | V2 Records International |
| DJ Comments: Check out their live performances in a desert. Spellbinding! - http://www.tinariwen.com/ | ||||
| 4:45 | The Birthday Party | Mr. Clarinet | Hits | |
| DJ Comments: Happy 54th birthday Nick Cave! | ||||
| 4:49 | Battles | Futura | Gloss Drop | Warp Records |
| DJ Comments: Wed Oct 12 @ Neptune! | ||||
| 4:55 | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | Enola Gay | Organisation | Virgin |
| DJ Comments: OMD at Showbox SODO Thursday Sep 29! | ||||
| 4:58 | Lemon Jelly | Stay With You (radio version) | Stay With You | Impotent Fury |
| DJ Comments: Request! Stay fly in Ann Arbor. | ||||
| 5:01 | Mayer Hawthorne | The Walk | How Do You Do | Universal |
| DJ Comments: Mayer Hawthorne hails from Ann Arbor and he'll be rolling through Seattle October 10th at the Showbox SODO with Chromeo. | ||||
| 5:05 | T. Rex | Metal Guru | The Slider | Mercury |
| DJ Comments: Recorded their debut album with producer Tony Visconti who also produced Iggy Pop's The Idiot. | ||||
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| 5:09 | Dum Dum Girls | In My Head | Only in Dreams | Sub Pop Records |
| DJ Comments: Neumos, October 9th! Go a little early to check out Colleen Green too! | ||||
| 5:12 | Shimmering Stars | Sun's Going Down | Violent Hearts | Hardly Art |
| DJ Comments: From Vancouver; shout out to Dandelion Records in Vancity! | ||||
| 5:15 | Big Troubles | Never Mine | Romantic Comedy | Slumberland |
| DJ Comments: New full-length out next week from this NJ band. They're playing The Crocodile with Pains of Being Pure at Heart October 4th. | ||||
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| 5:20 | Twin Shadow | When We're Dancing | Forget | Terrible Records |
| DJ Comments: Facial hair enthusiasts would do well to make an appearance at Twin Shadow's "Clean Cuts Tour" at The Crocodile September 27th. | ||||
| 5:24 | Talking Heads | This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) | Speaking in Tongues | Sire |
| DJ Comments: one of my fave songs ever: vote for yours here! http://kexp.org/events/polls/Top500SongsFall2011.aspx | ||||
| 5:29 | The Necessaries | State of Art | The Blank Generation: Blank Tapes NYC 1975-1985 | Strut |
| DJ Comments: The Necessaries were composed of disgruntled ex-Modern Lovers bassist Ernie Brooks, Chris Spedding and Arthur Russell. Great lineup and a great band. | ||||
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| 5:33 | Memoryhouse | Sleep Patterns | The Years | Arcade Sound Ltd. |
| DJ Comments: They'll be stopping Neumos, along with The Radio Dept., November 12th. Sure to be a swoon-worthy show. | ||||
| 5:37 | Talkdemonic | Ruins | Ruins | Glacial Pace |
| DJ Comments: Out October 4th on Isaac Brock's label Glacial Pace. Here's another cut off the album - http://pitchfork.com/forkcast/16237-revival/ | ||||
| 5:41 | Gauntlet Hair | Top Bunk | Gauntlet Hair | Dead Oceans |
| DJ Comments: Denver duo's debut due October 18th. In other news, I make a terrible attempt at alliteration - http://www.deadoceans.com/artist.php?name=gauntlethair | ||||
| 5:45 | Cap'n Jazz | Little League | Analphabetapolothology | Jade Tree |
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| 5:51 | LCD Soundstystem | Losing My Edge | LCD Soundsystem | DFA |
| DJ Comments: The Muppets perform LCD Soundsystem (that's a win win 100% of the time) - http://blog.kexp.org/blog/2011/02/24/watch-the-muppets-perform-lcd-soundsystem/ | ||||
| 5:58 | Star Slinger | Close to Me | Collected Works | self-released |
| DJ Comments: At Decibel Fest Friday, September 30th with Beat Connection, OoOoO and Mux Mool (Crocodile) | ||||
