The order of every song played on every episode of radio slipstream is archived here. 99% of the episodes have links to mp3s of recordings. The episodes also all have generally random but potentially interesting titles created by myself with maximum wordplay and varying levels of applicability.
Up until summer 2007, the recordings are in 32 kbps (which means quite low quality, but still quite listenable unless you are a major audiophile, and depending on your speakers) and for the early part of 2005 there was somehow a lot of static on the webstream. Post summer 2007 (and summer 2006) the recordings are all straight from my hard-drive and should be totally free of glitches.
Ugh. This isn’t music. It’s like the same thing over and over again. And then all this.. what is that sound! This is all vaguely unsettling. But. Uhh hurting my ears. That incessant… banging! It’s annoying. Can you turn it off? I can’t even tell what that guy is saying, it’s so distorted and cut up. Is it important? Is this what you call dubstep? Ok that’s a bit funky. But there’s no way I can last more than 1 minute of any song. You should just get the itunes samples and mix those together. It would be over sooner. Dzh! Dzsh! Dzsh! How are you even supposed to dance to this? I feel like I’m on drugs. Hrm. That’s a little better. Oh no. Oh no. Could you at least turn it down? That sounds a lot like Blade Runner but worse. What! Trance music? Huh. Well, at least the last 3.5 songs are almost tolerable. Please just do some straight up indie rock next time.
Shackleton / Mountains Of Ashes / Three EPs LP (2009)
Legion Of Two / It Really Takes Time / The Mu School (2009)
Perc / London, We Have You Surrounded / Wicker & Steel (2011)
Lucy / Eon / Wordplay For Working Bees (2011)
Joy Orbison / BRKLN CLLN (2009)
Vex’d / Lion V.I.P. / Degenerate (2005)
Altered Natives / Body Gal / Tenement Yard (2010)
Actress / Hazyville / Hazyville (2008)
Blawan / Getting Me Down / Getting Me Down (2011)
Instra:mental / When I Dip / Thomp/When I Dip (2011)
Cheezy synthsophone introduces a liquid languid squiddy sent surreal sandwich (Sp? Sic!). A layer of dark and purple spooky glowing tentacles under a layer of bright and pulsing sunshine ventricles. A sauce made of tears, heath gas and the sweat off forlorn entrails. All of this rapped between a solid old school kaiser top and a fresh twisted hip hop beat or two. Ingredients harvested fresh from the solitary rays of sunshine at the edge of a nightmare.
What?
I know this sounds pretty fucked up, but it’s actually pretty incredible. Dive in, yo!
Guido / Mad Sax / Anidea (2010)
Freddie Gibbs / Oil Money feat. Chuck Inglish, Chip Tha Ripper, Bun B & Dan Auerbach / Str8 Killa EP (2010)
ASAP Rocky / Leaf (feat. Main Attrakionz) / LiveLoveA$AP (2011)
Zola Jesus / Night / Stridulum II (2010)
Kate Wax / Maze Rider (Live From The Cave) / Dust Collision (2011)
Monkey Mafia / Work Mi Body / Shoot the Boss (1998)
Azari & III / Reckless With Your Love (Tensnake Remix) / Reckless With Your Remixes 1 (2010)
Glass Candy / Rolling Down the Hills / B/E/A/T/B/O/X (2007)
Maceo Plex / Aint That Love / High & Sexy EP (2011)
Hyetal / Phoenix / Phoenix 12″ (2010)
Author / Sun / Author (2011)
Scott Walker / It’s Raining Today / Scott 3 (1969)
Jacques Brel / Ne Me Quitte Pas / Jacques Brel Nº 4 (1959)
Lana Del Rey / Video Games / Video Games EP (2011)
Kate Bush / 50 Words For Snow / 50 Words For Snow (2011)
You are at a raucous party hosted by a troupe schizophrenic gnomes who can’t stop hitting things and tossing multicolored rags at you amidst unintelligible freakouts. The host, J-jjj-johntanon, demonstrates how everything in the world is a drum and it doesn’t matter if you have to shatter it to make it beat. The guests join in and the cacophony is thrilling.
Later, things get weird.
The rest of the night is a tesselated gaussian blur.
As the autumn sun rises faint pink, you find yourself lying on the driveway covered in a layer of frost. Tears you can’t remember crying are frozen to your cheeks.
You realize that somewhere around 5:14am you became self-actualized.
Antibalas / Big Man / Who is This America? (2004)
Tune-Yards / Gangsta / W H O K I L L (2011)
Tom Waits / Hell Broke Luce / Bad As Me (2011)
Man Man / Life Fantastic / Life Fantastic (2011)
Boy Eats Drum Machine / Booomboxxx / Booomboxxx (2008)
The Mae Shi / Run To Your Grave / Hlllyh (2008)
DJ /rupture & Andy Moore / Is it Going / Patches (2008)
Micachu & The Shapes / Golden Phone / Jewellery (2009)
John Maus / Keep Pushing on / We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves (2011)
Snowman / Memory Lost / Absence (2011)
Laurel Halo / Supersymmetry / King Felix (2010)
Gang Gang Dance / Thru and Thru / Eye Contact (2011)
Balam Acab / Oh, Why / Wander / Wonder (2011)
James Blake / I Only Know (What I Know Now) / Klavierwerke EP (2010)
The Flamingos / I Only Have Eyes For You / The Best of the Flamingo (1959)
More saxaphones than normal, that’s for sure. This episode is a little bit sexy in parts; at least I think so. Oh.. and hey. That’s me. Still existing now and then!
Back for more! Still without the use of adequate microphone, this episode continues the trend of letting the music speak for itself.
Still playing catch-up as well, following that yearlong drought. So this episode features a bit of an exploration of the Chill-wave fad from last year (unless you want to call it Glo-Fi… no comment). That whole movement, thanks mostly to its bloggy pushers, steams of calculated hipster holier-than-thou pretension; but there’s a great deal of nice sounds in there as well, so don’t worry about it. After the nostalgic summer bits, you’re going to hear some low-key hip-hop, which might be labelled backpacker-rap by your snobby friends (which means it’s for college kids and not drug dealers, or something). Broadly, this set of tunes is meant to serve as a celebration and farewell to hot summer sun and vacation. So whether it’s night or day, in the basement or the beach, close your eyes and lie in the sun.
Memoryhouse / Lately (Deuxième) / The Years EP (2009)
Twin Sister / All Around and Away We Go / Color Your Life (2010)
Caribou / Sun / Swim (2010)
Delorean / Deli / Ayrton Senna EP (2009)
Memory Tapes / Bicycle / Seek Magic (2009)
Neon Indian / Deadbeat Summer / Psychic Chasms (2009)
Ceo / Come with Me / White Magic (2010)
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti / Round and Round / Before Today (2010)
Cocteau Twins / Lorelei / Treasure (1984)
Glasser / Apply / Apply EP (2009)
jj / Ecstasy / jj n° 2 (2009)
Wild Beasts / We Still Got The Taste Dancing On Our Tongues / Two Dancers (2009)
Beach House / Lover of Mine / Teen Dream (2010)
Fashawn / When She Calls (feat. Joanna Newsom) / Boy Meets World (2009)
Janelle Monae / 57821 (feat. Deep Cotton) / The ArchAndroid (2010)
CunninLynguists / Don’t Leave (When Winter Comes) (feat. Slug) / Strange Journey Volume One (2009)
Mos Def / Auditiorium Ft. Slick Rick / The Ecstatic (2009)
Shad / Rose Garden / TSOL (2010)
Blu & Exile / My World Is.. / Below The Heavens (2007)
Big Boi / Shine Blockas (feat. Gucci Mane) / Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty (2010)
The Roots / Radio Daze (feat. Blu, P.O.R.N & Dice Raw) / How I Got Over (2010)
Ok. A few bits of news: First! New Radioslipstream finally after more than a year. Good. Second! No narration on this puppy, just music. Having some sound issues with the PC right now and not bothering with hooking up a mic. Would rather just get you the music. Because there’s no talking, I made this episode perfect length for a CD, so I guess it’s also a mix CD. Third! This is not the history of hip hop episode. Don’t worry about that. It’ll come when I feel like it and is dependent on resolving some issues with my hard drive. In the meantime we pick up right where we left off.
The last episode ended with a feeble attempt at playing some dubstep. At the time, I had some tracks but didn’t know which ones I loved enough to represent the genre so I played a few tracks that sounded kinda like it. A year later, I’ve got a much more of a handle on the genre. We start with general murky electronics with a pretty ominous bent, then move into a variety of dubstep sounds where we stay for a time. The run of Pangaea through to Scuba is the dubstep bit: I guess it’s something like the dawn of land through to a post-human Waterworld. Very epic indeed. After that it’s a bit of epic artpop at its most oddly delicate, then some poetry and a dash of ambient.
Ben Frost / Killshot / By The Throat (2009)
Redshape / Man out of Time / The Dance Paradox (2009)
Actress / Maze / Splazsh (2010)
Laurent Garnier / The Man With The Red Face / Unreasonable Behaviour (2000)
Pangaea / Why / Pangaea EP (2010)
Débruit / Nigeria What? / Spatio-Temporel EP (2009)
Ramadanman / Work Them (2010)
LD / Shake It / 5 : 5 years of Hyperdub (2009)
Toasty / The Knowledge (2004)
Adele / Cold Shoulder (Rusko Remix) (2008)
Zomby / Euphoria / Where Were U in ’92? (2008)
Kingdom / You (2010)
James Blake / CMYK / CMYK EP (2010)
Mount Kimbie / Maybes / Maybes EP (2009)
Scuba / So You Think You’re Special / Triangulation (2010)
The Knife / Colouring of Pigeons / Tomorrow, In A Year (2010)
Laurie Anderson / Transitory Life / Homeland (2010)
Leonard Cohen / Recitation w/N.L. / Live in London (2009)
Biosphere / Poa Alpina / Substrata (1997)
Starting out about as mainstream as obscure music can get, moving into a dreamy synthpop throwback place, a right turn through some right twisted electronic sounds and then some raggadubbadancehall business, and a sinister coda. (feat. the 2500th unique radio slipstream approved tune)
Bat For Lashes / Daniel / Two Suns (2009)
Animal Collective / My Girls / Merriweather Post Pavillion (2009)
Grizzly Bear / Two Weeks / Veckatimest (2009)
Phoenix / Rome / Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (2009)
M83 / We Own The Sky / Saturdays = Youth (2008)
David Holmes / I Heard Wonders / The Holy Pictures (2008)
Barry Adamson / The Swinging Detective / Moss Side Story (1988)
Major Lazer / Hold the line (feat. Mr. Lexx & Santigold) / Guns Don’t Kill People… Lazers Do (2009)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs / Zero / It’s Blitz! (2009)
Pan Sonic / Mayhem I / Kesto (2004)
Clark / Growls Garden / Totems Flare (2009)
Mouse on Mars / Subsequence / Idiology (2001)
South Rakkas Crew / Mad Again (Boy 8-Bit Remix) / Mad Again 12″ (2008)
The Bug / Skeng (feat. Killa P & Flowdan) / London Zoo (2008)
Two Fingers / Whatuknowabout (feat. Sway) / Two Fingers (2009)
Dälek / No Question / Gutter Tactics (2009)
It’s time to rock. A lot of the time on deh sleepstreeeaaammm you’re hearing all this whispy melodic minimal ambient stuff, or funky grooves, or whatever. This time it’s all about the dirty guitars, pounding drums and err… machismo? (though not much screaming, not really my bag). After some of the last 5 years rockingest offerings, I have a sex change (ah modern technology) and travel back to the 90s and get to know some of the mainstays of the riot grrrl movement. I’ll explore my feminine side even deeper by travelling back to the end of the 70s for some original woman-at-the-helm proto-punk, punk and post-punk etc. Remember like 3 or 4 episodes when I said I should play more non-current music? This is where I finally take my own advice. Hope you like it! (Note: This episode has some cussin’ so you might not want to blast it at work. or by that same token, you might!)
Manic Street Preachers / Marlon J.D. / Journal For Plague Lovers (2009)
Boris / Pink / Pink (2005)
Future Of The Left / Arming Eritrea / Travels With Myself And Another (2009)
Art Brut / The Passenger / Art Brut Vs. Satan (2009)
Dinosaur Jr / Pieces / Farm (2009)
The Drones / Baby² / Wait Long By the River And The Bodies Of Your Enemies Will Float By (2005)
PJ Harvey / Rid Of Me / Rid Of Me (1993)
Sleater-Kinney / Words And Guitar / Dig Me Out (1997)
The Gits / Another Shot Of Whiskey / Frenching The Bully (1992)
Bikini Kill / Rebel Girl / Pussy Whipped (1993)
Patti Smith Group / Rock n Roll Nigger / Easter (1978)
The Slits / Typical Girls / Cut (1979)
Au Pairs / Headache for Michelle / Playing With a Different Sex (1981)
Pylon / Cool / Pylon!! (1980)
Black Tambourine / For Ex-Lovers Only / Throw Aggi Off the Bridge (1992)
Siouxsie and the Banshees / Happy House / Kaleidoscope (1980)
Witness! The fastest turnaround since going off the air of CFMU on 10/27/07. Some stranger sounds kicking things off. Dense, odd and awesome, then some slightly experimental folky sort of things, moving toward some general pop rocking. A bit of an eclectic beast for you this time, but if you keep it fed it will give you years of joy.
Sunset Rubdown / Nightingale / December Song / Dragonslayer (2009)
Dirty Projectors / Stillness is the Move / Bitte Orca (2009)
Passion Pit / Sleepyhead / Manners (2009)
Gang Gang Dance / Blue Nile / Saint Dymphna (2008)
Yppah / Gumball Machine Weekend / They Know What Ghost Know (2009)
J Dilla / Mythsysizer / Jay Stay Paid (2009)
Flying Lotus / Camel / Los Angeles (2008)
Juana Molina / Un Día / Un Dia (2008)
Lhasa / Rising / Lhasa (2009)
Bill Callahan / The Wind and the Dove / Sometimes I Wish I Were An Eagle (2009)
Grizzly Bear / Foreground / Veckatimest (2009)
St. Vincent / The Strangers / Actor (2009)
Camille / Home Is Where It Hurts / Music Hole (2008)
Plaid / Eyen / Double Figure (2001)
Phoenix / 1901 / Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (2009)
Handsome Furs / I’m Confused / Face Control (2009)