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| 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 |
