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).
