HOLY donkey crap.

This mix is broken into 3 nondistinct parts.
1. Rap. Some of this is what might be called ‘trap rap’ which is rap whose production has some trappy characteristics. See below.
2. Trap. aka music that will make your neighbours hate you and may cause one or two of your buttocks to involuntarily quake. Trap music is a genre that replaces vocal melodies with screwed up vocal samples and instrumentation with obnoxiously loud, frantic drum machine beats. It is the worst. Thankfully the songs are generally pretty short.
2.5 Garage/2step/UK Funky/African rhythms that are like Trap’s less annoying cousin, and generally more funky and less directly right in your face. There’s even some Cuban piano dubstep kinda bullshit in there.
3. House. Or techno. Or whatever. I don’t fucking care. Still no verse/chorus/vocal normalcy, but some of this is actually downright cheery and sounds like spring has sprung (it has, fwiw). If you make it this far, congrats… that’s fairly stellar of you.

• Kendrick Lamar / Look Out for Detox (Freestyle) (2010)
• Ace Hood / December 31st / Starvation II (2013)
• Kanye West / Mercy (feat. Big Sean, Pusha T & 2 Chainz) / Mercy (2012)
• A$AP Rocky / Goldie / Long.Live.A$AP (2013)
• Hudson Mohawke / Overnight / Polyfolk Dance EP (2009)
• Flosstradamus / UNDERGR☢UND ANTHEM (2012)
• Baauer / Harlem Shake (2012)
• TNGHT / Higher Ground / TNGHT EP (2012)
• Melé / Gold Casio / Melé Vanelé Vol 1 (2012)
• ƱZ x CRNKN / Booty 2 The Ground / Balltrap Muzic: Vol. 1 (2013)
• BRANKO / Going In Hard (feat. Dominique Young Unique) (2012)
• His Majesty Andre / Dry Tool (Elisa Bee “Crazy Sisters” Bootleg) (2012)
• Okmalumkoolkat / Boomslang / (2010)
• LV / Nothing Like Us (feat. Ruffest) / Sebenza (2012)
• Randomer / Zabu / Be Electric (2010)
• Bookworms / African Rhythms / Love Triangles (2012)
• Mala / Mulata / Mala in Cuba (2012)
• MMM / MMM Meets Tshetsha Boys / Shangaan Shake (2012)
• Kidnap Kid / Vehl / Alphaville EP (2012)
• Julio Bashmore / Au Seve (2012)
• Andrés / New For U (2012)
• Wiley / Heatwave (feat. Ms D) (DEVolution Extended Mix) (2012)
• Anthony “Shake” Shakir / Plugged In / Frictionalism (2009)
• Daphni / Yes, I Know / Jiaolong (2012)
• Pepe Deluxé / A Night and a Day / Queen of the Wave (2012)

some jazzy soulful kinda stuff off the top, echoing off into some creepier fare – like if you could dance to a nightmare, then waking into some glistening dancepop, with a bit of soul. This one’s a keeper, folks.

• Jose James / Warrior / Blackmagic (2009)
• Bobby Womack / Please Forgive My Heart (Funk Version) / The Bravest Man In the Universe Single (2012)
• Perfume Genius / Hood / Put Your Back N 2 It (2012)
• Darkstar / Gold / North (2010)
• Jai Paul / Jasmine (Demo) / Jasmine (2012)
• Burial / Truant / Truant / Rough Sleeper (2012)
• Cooly G / What Airtime / Playin Me (2012)
• Dusk & Blackdown / Focus (Blackdown VIP) / High Road (2012)
• Purity Ring / Fineshrine / Shrines (2012)
• Katy B / Katy On A Mission / On A Mission (2011)
• The Knife / Full Of Fire / Full Of Fire (2013)
• Blawan / Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage? / His He She & She (2012)
• Andy Stott / Sleepless / Luxury Problems (2012)
• Maya Jane Coles / Back to Square One / Easier to Hide (2012)
• Sky Ferreira / Everything Is Embarrassing / Ghost – EP (2012)
• Vybz Kartel / Beautiful Girl / Kingston Story (2011)
• HAERTS / Wings / HAERTS EP (2012)
• Niki & The Dove / Mother Protect (Goldroom Remix) (2010)
• Jessie Ware / 110% / Devotion (2012)

Check out the youtube playlist, or let me know if you’d like a link to the download. A couple tracks weren’t on youtube, but 108/110 ain’t bad.

Hope you enjoy and let me know what I missed!

• A.C. Newman – I’m Not Talking
• Action Bronson – Bird on a Wire (feat. Riff Raff)
• Aesop Rock – Zero Dark Thirty; Gopher Guts
• Andy Stott – Sleepless
• Angel Haze – Cleaning Out My Closet
• Autre Ne Veut – Counting
• Azealia Banks – 212 (feat. Lazy Jay)
• Baauer – Harlem Shake
• Bat for Lashes – Laura
• Beach House – Myth; Wishes
• Big K.R.I.T. – Rich Dad, Poor Dad
• Blawan – Why They Hide Their Bodies under My Garage?
• Bobby Womack – Please Forgive My Heart (Funk Version)
• Bookworms – African Rhythms
• Brother Ali – Not A Day Goes By
• Burial – Ashtray Wasp; Truant
• Calexico – Para
• Cat Power – Cherokee
• CFCF – Exercise #5 (September)
• Chromatics – These Streets Will Never Look The Same; Kill For Love
• Cloud Nothings – Stay Useless
• Cooly G – Landscapes; What Airtime
• Cousin Fik – Knocka Nigga Down
• Danny Brown – Grown Up
• Daughn Gibson – Dandelions
• Death Grips – Hacker
• DIIV – Doused
• Disclosure – What’s In Your Head
• Double Helix – Chamber Of Light
• Dr. John – Big Shot; Getaway
• Elephant Micah – My Cousin’s King
• El-P – The Full Retard
• Fiona Apple – Every Single Night
• Frank Ocean – Thinkin Bout You
• Frankie Rose – Know Me
• Freddie Gibbs – Kush Cloud (feat. Krayzie Bone & SpaceGhostPurrp)
• Future – Turn On The Lights
• Goat – Goatman
• Grimes – Genesis; Oblivion
• Grizzly Bear – Yet Again
• HAERTS – Wings
• Haim – Forever
• How To Dress Well – & It Was U
• iamamiwhoami – sever
• Jacques Greene – Ready
• Jai Paul – Jasmine (Demo)
• Jamie Lidell – What A Shame
• Japandroids – The House That Heaven Built
• Jessie Ware – Wildest Moments
• Joey Bada$$ – Survival Tactics (feat. Capital STEEZ)
• John Talabot – Destiny (feat. Pional); When The Past Was Present
• Julia Holter – Our Sorrows
• Kanye West – Mercy (feat. Big Sean, Pusha T & 2 Chainz)
• Kate Boy – Northern Lights
• Kendrick Lamar – Sing About Me, Im Dying Of Thirst; Cartoon & Cereal
• Killer Mike – Untitled (feat. Scar); Big Beast (feat. Bun B, T.I., Trouble)
• Le1f – Wut (5kinAndBone5)
• Lotus Plaza – Monoliths
• M.I.A. – Bad Girls
• Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – Thrift Shop (feat. Wanz)
• Main Attrakionz – Do It for the Bay (feat. DaVinci)
• Major Lazer – Get Free (Original Mix)
• Mala – Mulata
• Marissa Nadler – The Wrecking Ball Company
• Matthew Dear – Her Fantasy
• Max Richter – Spring 1
• Maya Jane Coles – Back to Square One (Original Mix)
• Melé – Gold Casio
• Menomena – Pique
• Miguel – Adorn
• Miike Snow – The Wave
• Missy Elliott – Triple Threat (with Timbaland)
• Mount Eerie – the Place I Live
• Mr OIZO – TOODOO (feat. Carmen Castro)
• MS MR – Hurricane
• Mystikal – Hit Me
• Nas – Loco-Motive (feat. Large Professor)
• Neneh Cherry & The Thing – Dream Baby Dream
• Perfume Genius – Hood
• Purity Ring – Fineshrine
• Saukrates – Remember Me
• ScHoolboy Q – Hands on the Wheel (feat. A$AP Rocky)
• Scott Walker – Epizootics!
• Scuba – July
• Shad – new Don
• Sharon Van Etten – Serpents
• Sky Ferreira – Everything Is Embarrassing
• Susanne Sundfør – White Foxes
• Swans – Avatar
• T.I. – Sorry (feat. André 3000)
• Tame Impala – Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
• The Mynabirds – Body of Work
• The Tallest Man On Earth – To Just Grow Away
• The XX – Angels
• Tindersticks – This Fire of Autumn
• TNGHT – Higher Ground
• Twin Shadow – Five Seconds
• Ty Segall Band – I Bought My Eyes
• Voices from the Lake feat. Donato Dozzy & Neel – S.T. -VTFL Rework-
• XXXY – I Know This (Can’t Be Love)

Call me Casey Kasem. These here tunes are downright high-energy! catchy! melodic! mostly-with-vocals! spunky! accessible! (except for the darker, more intense kinda stuff grooving at the beginning, the extended “electronic techno type” tunes in the middle, and the end is poppy… but it’s art poppy.)

Slick and colourful, smooth and upbeat, catchy and warm : magnetic orange.

• Jamie Lidell / What A Shame / Jamie Lidell (2013)
• Kendrick Lamar / M.A.A.D City (Feat. MC Eiht) / Good Kid M.A.A.D City (2012)
• Black Devil / We Never Fly Away Again / Disco Club (1978)
• Grimes / Nightmusic (feat. Majical Cloudz) / Visions (2012)
• Matthew Dear / You Put A Smell On Me / Black City (2010)
• Kate Boy / Northern Lights / (2012)
• Cut Copy / Need You Now / Zonoscope (2011)
• kamp! / Breaking a Ghost’s Heart / (2009)
• Metro Area / Miura / Metro Area (2002)
• Frivolous / Serenade Des Excentriques / Meteorology (2011)
• John Talabot / Last Land / ƒIN (2012)
• Family / Nadadora / Un Soplo En El Corazón (1993)
• Frankie Rose / Know Me / Interstellar (2012)
• Frank Ocean / Thinkin Bout You / channel ORANGE (2012)
• Blood Orange / Champagne Coast / Coastal Grooves (2011)
• Gorillaz / On Melancholy Hill / Plastic Beach (2010)
• Beach House / Myth / Bloom (2012)
• Austra / Lose It / Feel It Break (2011)
• Miike Snow / The Wave / Happy to You (2012)
• Autre Ne Veut / Counting / Anxiety(2013)

Similar mixes: 123, The Neon Drift, The Citrus Advantage

Hip to the hop to the women spitting fire, to the grimy indie NY, hi concept trippin’, waxing political over smooth soulful grooves, harsh or melodic, driving hard and fast, drug dealing and inhaling, jailing, banging bangers and introspective next level mind bending horny bullishittt. Sexy, dangerous and sometimes weird.

Err. NSFW.

• Mr OIZO / TOODOO (feat. Carmen Castro) / STADE 3 (2012)
• Azealia Banks / 212 (feat. Lazy Jay) (2012)
• Angel Haze / Werkin’ Girls / Reservation (2012)
• M.I.A. / Bad Girls / Bad Girls Single (2012)
• Kendrick Lamar / Swimming Pools (Drank) / good kid, m.A.A.d. city (2012)
• Missy Elliott / Triple Threat (with Timbaland) (2012)
• Freddie Gibbs / Kush Cloud (feat. Krayzie Bone & SpaceGhostPurrp) / Baby Face Killa (2012)
• Nas / Loco-Motive (feat. Large Professor) / Life Is Good (2012)
• Brother Ali / Not A Day Goes By / Not A Day Goes By (2012)
• Killer Mike / Big Beast (feat. Bun B, T.I., Trouble) / R.A.P. Music (2012)
• Money Making Jam Boys / Tear It Down / Money Making Jam Boys (2011)
• Action Bronson / Steve Wynn / Blue Chips (2012)
• Macklemore & Ryan Lewis / Thrift Shop (feat. Wanz) / The Heist (2012)
• Clipse / Young Boy / Lord Willin’ (2002)
• Jay Electronica / Exhibit A (Transformations) / Best Of So Far (2010)
• Raekwon / Penitentiary (feat. Ghostface Killah) / Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… Pt. II (2009)
• Le1f / Wut (5kinAndBone5) / Dark York (2012)
• Blu / Doin’ Nothin’ (Feat. U-God) / N O Y O R K . (2011)
• Cadence Weapon / 88 / (2012)
• Joey Bada$$ / Killuminati (Feat. Capital STEEZ) / 1999 (2012)
• Edan / Making Planets (feat. Mr. Lif) / Beauty and the Beat (2005)
• Saukrates / Remember Me / Season One (2012)
• Shad / new Don / Melancholy and the Infinite Shadness (2012)
• Strong Arm Steady / Best of Times (feat. Phonte) / The Search For Stoney Jackson (2010)
• Kanye West / White Dress / Man With The Iron Fists Soundtrack (2012)
• Big K.R.I.T. / Dreamin’ / Return Of 4Eva (2011)
• Little Brother / The Listening / The Listening (2002)
• Main Attrakionz / Do It For The Bay (feat. DaVinci) / Bossalinis & Fooliyones (2012)

It’s autumn. Falling leaves brush guitar strings as some hippy sings about his bursting heart. twank twank twank. OH GAWD I CAN HAS EMOTIONS. Good for you!(?). It starts to rain and the wind turns cold. Cloud grey, dying leaf yellow, deadleaf rot brown. Misery, hope and ennui. Together in this slow dance of tired metaphors (<-- laaaame). AKA. Autumn birthed folk music and that mmm deep feeling of suspended nostalgia and disembodied sadness.

• Sharon Van Etten / Don’t Do It / Epic (2010)
• Soap&Skin / Thanatos / Lovetune For Vacuum (2009)
• DM Stith / Thanksgiving Moon / Heavy Ghost (2009)
• Fleet Foxes / Tiger Mountain Peasant Song / Ragged Wood (2008)
• Calexico / Para / Algiers (2012)
• David Sylvian / The Boy with the Gun / Secrets of the Beehive (1987)
• Bat for Lashes / Laura / The Haunted Man (2012)
• Scott Walker / Plastic Palace People / Scott 2 (1968)
• Vic Chesnutt / Flirted With You All My Life / At the Cut (2011)
• Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds / Sad Waters / Your Funeral… My Trial (1986)
• Laura Marling / Devil’s Spoke / I Speak Because I Can (2010)
• Tindersticks / This Fire of Autumn / the something rain (2012)
• Talk Talk / Ascension Day / Laughing Stock (1991)
• Bark Psychosis / Absent Friend / Hex (1994)
• Bill Callahan / Jim Cain / Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle (2009)
• Nick Drake / Fly / Bryter Later (1970)
• Gillian Welch / Everything Is Free / Time (The Revelator) (2001)
• Neil Young / Ambulance Blues / On The Beach (1974)

A lot of songs on parade here that have been in the queue for a long time (Yea, I got a queue of songa waiting for their time to shine. It goes back 5 years, and not as much has been coming out of it lately; you could say there was a bit of a blockage, but please don’t).

A bit of a gamut, but mostly I think you could call it electronica and indie pop/rock.

• Warsaw Village Band / 1,5 H / Infinity (2008)
• Kno / The New Day (Death Has No Meaning) / Death Is Silent (2010)
• Jessie Ware / Wildest Moments / Devotion (2012)
• Cults / Walk At Night / Cults (2011)
• CFCF / You Hear Colours / Continent (2009)
• Pariah / Railroad / Safehouses EP (2010)
• The KLF / Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard / Chill Out (1990)
• Twin Shadow / When The Movie’s Over / Confess (2012)
• Matthew Dear / Her Fantasy / Beams (2012)
• Menomena / Pique / Moms (2012)
• The New Pornographers / Crash Years / Together (2010)
• Owen Pallett / E Is for Estranged / Heartland (2010)
• Arcade Fire / Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) / The Suburbs (2010)
• Brian Eno / Under Stars / Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks (1983)
• Burial / Ashtray Wasp / Street Halo Kindred (2012)
• Radiohead / Codex / The King Of Limbs (2011)

Just flat out rocking, really.

Raw, amped, riffed, squelching, howling, rocking, rolling, kicking.

• Grinderman / Mickey Mouse and The Goodbye Man / Grinderman 2 (2010)
• Ty Segall / Girlfriend / Melted (2010)
• The King Khan & BBQ Show / Zombies / What’s For Dinner? (2006)
• Oblivians / Mary Lou / Play 9 Songs With Mr. Quintron (1997)
• The Sonics / Have Love Will Travel / Here Are The Sonics (1965)
• Reigning Sound / Stormy Weather / Time Bomb High School (2002)
• Thee Oh Sees / The Dream / Carrion Crawler/The Dream (2011)
• Sleater-Kinney / Jumpers / The Woods (2005)
• Japandroids / The House That Heaven Built / Celebration Rock (2012)
• Titus Andronicus / A More Perfect Union / The Monitor (2010)
• DIIV / Doused / Oshin (2012)
• The Fresh & Onlys / Waterfall / Play It Strange (2010)
• The Gaslight Anthem / The Queen of Lower Chelsea / American Slang (2010)
• Iggy & The Stooges / Gimme Danger / Raw Power (1973)
• The Constantines / Long Distance Four / The Constantines (2001)
• The Walkmen / Blue as Your Blood / Lisbon (2010)
• Grizzly Bear / Yet Again / Shields (2012)
• Dirty Projectors / Gun Has No Trigger / Swing Lo Magellan (2012)
• Deerhunter / Helicopter / Halcyon Digest (2010)
• Swans / Avatar / The Seer (2012)

As far as invalidating genres, there’s two types of rather divergent ‘garage’ music on here. Mostly though it’s a half of dubby techno and a half of darkish hip hop bookended by proto and posto punkishness. The overall feeling is a bit heavy and unnerving. In a good way of course.

Special shout out to Clams Casino for his production on ‘The Fall’ (and a number of tracks in previous episodes), El-P for his production on Untitled and all of the fantastic R.A.P. Music (and his own track two songs later), and Suicide for showing up to do the original version of the song Neneh Cherry and The Thing covered last time.

• Monks / Monk Time / Black Monks Time (1966)
• Big Black / Bad Penny / Songs About Fucking (1987)
• Porter Ricks / Nautical Dub / Biokinetics (1996)
• Cut Hands / Impassion / Afro Noise I (2011)
• Sandwell District / Falling The Same Way / Feed Forward (2011)
• Ramadanman / Don’t Change for Me / Ramadanman EP (2010)
• Instra:mental / Watching You / Single (2009)
• Engage / Helium / The Future Sound Of Russia (2009)
• Scuba / July / Personality (2012)
• The Weeknd / The Fall / Echoes Of Silence / (2011)
• Killer Mike / Untitled (Feat. Scar) / R.A.P. Music (2012)
• Aesop Rock / Zero Dark Thirty / Skelethon (2012)
• El-P / Drones Over Bklyn / Cancer For Cure (2012)
• Shabazz Palaces / Swerve… The reeping of all that is worthwhile (Noir not withstanding) / Black Up (2011)
• Dr. Octagon / Blue Flowers / Dr. Octagonecologyst (1996)
• Freddie Gibbs / National Anthem (Fuck The World) / Str8 Killa EP (2010)
• Suicide / Dream Baby Dream / Single (1979)
• The Horrors / Sea Within A Sea / Primary Colours (2009)

Just think about the title intently as you listen to each song on this. It will all eventually make sense. No. Not that.

Highlights include: Damon finally pulls out the Mingus, real good groovin’, 2 very hard to beat covers right in a row after the dead boy, plus Dr John’s latest album is everything I could ask for.

• Erykah Badu / Window Seat / New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh) (2010)
• Chet Faker / Terms and Conditions / Thinking In Textures (2012)
• Freestyle Fellowship / Park Bench People / Innercity Griots (1993)
• Charles Mingus / Group Dancers / The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady (1963)
• Miles Davis / All Blues / Kind of Blue (1959)
• Machine Drum / She Died There / Room(s) (2011)
• XXXY / I Know This (Can’t Be Love) / Everything EP (2012)
• MJ Cole / Sincere (Re-Cue’d) / Sincere (2006)
• Cooly G / Landscapes / Playin Me (2012)
• Disclosure / What’s In Your Head / The Face EP (2012)
• Maceo Plex / Can’t Leave You (Original Mix) / Sweating Tears EP (2011)
• Deadboy / Wish U Were Here / Here (2011)
• CFCF / Exercise #5 (September) / Exercise (2012)
• Neneh Cherry & The Thing / Dream Baby Dream / The Cherry Thing (2012)
• Dr. John / Big Shot / Locked Down (2012)
• The Music Machine / Talk Talk / (Turn On) The Music Machine (1966)
• The Undertones / Teenage Kicks / EP (1978)

Dreamy space women, then some tender dubstep and some classic post-punk. Then a couple more dreamy space women.

• Julia Holter / Our Sorrows / Ekstasis (2012)
• Iamamiwhoami / Sever / Kin (2012)
• Fiona Apple / Every Single Night / The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do (2012)
• St. Vincent / Year Of The Tiger / Strange Mercy (2011)
• Beach House / Wishes / Bloom (2012)
• Bear in Heaven / You Do You / Beast Rest Forth Mouth (2009)
• Peaking Lights / All The Sun That Shines / 936 (2011)
• Floating Points / Myrtle Avenue / Shadows (2011)
• Kevin McPhee / I Will / Blue Organ EP (2011)
• Mim Suleiman / Flava / Tungi (2009)
• Glasser / Home / Ring (2010)
• Аукцыон / Огонь / Юла (2011)
• Colin Stetson / Judges / New History Warfare Vol.2: Judges (2011)
• Cranes / Everywhere / Forever (1993)
• Wipers / When It’s Over / Youth of America (1981)
• Magazine / Shot By Both Sides / Real Life (1978)
• The XX / Crystalised / XX (2009)
• Julee Cruise / Into The Night / Floating Into The Night (1989)
• Ann Peebles / I Can’t Stand the Rain / I Can’t Stand the Rain (1974)

Things to consider:

Chances of me getting the mic and taking the time to record audio commentary ever again? Dwindly. Though I do miss being a smartass about music.

This episode is about:
The damp
Forest floor after a rain storm
The edge of a marsh in the late evening
Where the cold air meets the warm breeze
Where travellers see strange lights flickering

• Mount Eerie / The Place I Live / Clear Moon (2012)
• David Thomas Broughton / Ever Rotating Sky / The Complete Guide To Insufficiency (2005)
• Timber Timbre / Lonesome Hunter / Creep On Creepin On (2011)
• The Tallest Man On Earth / To Just Grow Away / There’s No Leaving Now (2012)
• The Walkmen / Torch Song / Lisbon (2010)
• Dan Auerbach / Trouble Weighs A Ton / Keep it Hid (2009)
• Bonnie “Prince” Billy / New Whaling / Wolfroy Goes To Town (2011)
• The Rural Alberta Advantage / Frank, AB / Hometowns (2008)
• The National / Conversation 16 / High Violet (2010)
• PJ Harvey / In The Dark Places / Let England Shake (2011)
• Wilco / Art of Almost / The Whole Love (2011)
• Tim Hecker / The Piano Drop / Ravedeath, 1972 (2011)
• Leyland Kirby / They Are All Dead, There Are No Skip At All / Eager To Tear Apart the Stars (2011)
• Kreng / Girl in a Fishtank / Grimoire (2011)
• The Caretaker / All You Are Going To Want To Do Is Get Back There / An Empty Bliss Beyond This World (2011)
• Oneohtrix Point Never / Replica / Replica (2011)
• Julianna Barwick / White Flag / The Magic Place (2011)

hip hop hip hop hip hop hip

• Dead Prez / Hip-Hop / Let’s Get Free (2001)
• Clipse / Hello New World / Hell Hath No Fury (2006)
• Finale / The Waiting Game (feat. Invincible) / A Pipe Dream and A Promise (2009)
• Black Milk / Losing Out (feat. Royce da 5’9”) / Tronic (2008)
• Danny Brown / Scrap Or Die / XXX (2011)
• Big Boi / Lookin’ For Ya (feat Andre 3000 & Sleepy Brown) / Unreleased (2010)
• Random Axe / Everybody Nobody Somebody / Random Axe (2011)
• J-Live / Them That’s Not / The Best Part (2001)
• Raekwon / New Wu (feat. Ghostface Killah & Method Man) / Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… Pt. II (2009)
• A Tribe Called Quest / We Can Get Down / Midnight Marauders (1993)
• Big L / MVP / Lifestylez Ov Da Poor & Dangerous (1995)
• Nas / The World Is Yours / Illmatic (1994)
• CunninLynguists / Georgia / Dirty Acres (2007)
• Big K.R.I.T. / Another Naive Individual Glorifying Greed and Ecouraging Racism / Return Of 4Eva (2011)
• Jay Electronica / Theh Ghost of Christopher Wallace (feat. Diddy) / Best Of So Far (2010)
• Saigon / The Greatest Story Never Told / The Greatest Story Never Told (2011)
• Freeway & Jake One / Throw Your Hands Up / The Stimulus Package (2010)
• People Under The Stairs / Selfish Destruction / Highlighter (2011)
• Curren$y / The Day (feat. Mos Def & Jay Electronica) / Pilot Talk (2010)
• Kendrick Lamar / HiiiPower / Section.80 (2011)
• Kanye West / POWER / My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010)

The electronic synthesizer
Highways
2am
Harvey Wallbangers
Italian Disco
Nicolas Winding Refn’s “Drive”
Neon lights
Bromance 2012
Glistening pavement
Music piracy
The 80s
You

• Symmetry / Over The Edge / Themes For An Imaginary Film (2011)
• Cerrone / In the Smoke / Cerrone 3: Supernature (1977)
• Cliff Martinez / Bride of Deluxe / Drive (2011)
• Global Communication / 8:07 / 76:14 (2005)
• Voices from the Lake / S.T. (VFTL Rework) / Voices from the Lake (2012)
• John Talabot / Depak Ine / ƒIN (2012)
• Chromatics / These Streets Will Never Look The Same / Kill For Love (2012)
• Kavinsky (feat. Lovefoxxx) / Nightcall (2010)
• Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark / Souvenir / Architecture & Morality (1981)
• Jamie Woon / Lady Luck / Mirrorwriting (2011)
• Mr Flagio / Take A Chance (1983)
• Giorgio Moroder / From Here To Eternity / From Here To Eternity (1977)
• Grimes / Oblivion / Visions (2012)
• ScHoolboy Q / Hands On The Wheel (Feat. A$AP Rocky) / Habits & Contradictions (2012)
• A$AP Rocky / Palace / LiveLoveA$AP (2011)
• Woodkid / Iron / Iron EP (2011)
• Austra / Beat And The Pulse / Feel It Break (2011)
• M83 / Midnight City / Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming (2011)
• Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons / The Night (1972)

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)
• Azari & III / Manhooker / Azari & III (2011)
• Kuedo / Flight Path / Severant (2011)
• Salva / Icey / Complex Housing (2011)
• Araabmuzik / Streetz Tonight / Electronic Dream (2011)
• LV & Joshua Idehen / Primary Colours (Extended Remix) / Northern Line (2011)
• Machine Drum / Come1 / Room(s) (2011)
• Sepalcure / Pencil Pimp / Sepalcure (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.

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)
• Organized Konfusion / Stray Bullet / Stress: The Extinction Agenda (1994)
• Mobb Deep / Shook Ones Pt. II / The Infamous (1995)
• Method Man / Release Yo’ Delf (Prodigy Remix) / Release Yo’ Delf (1996)

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.

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)
• Fredrik / Ava / Trilogi (2010)
• Menomena / Tithe / Mines Final (2010)
• Washed Out / Far away / Within and without (2011)
• Local Natives / Airplanes / Gorilla Manor (2009)

Ugh. Last episode was way majorly too slick. This one is dirty. Twangy. Plucky. Plurpy. Gutted. Raw. Ecstatic.

• Bill Callahan – Drover
• Paul Cary – Ghost Of A Man
• Gillian Welch – Revelator
• Ryan Adams – Bartering Lines
• Carrie Rodriguez – Absence
• Neko Case – Blacklisted
• Dirty Three – I Remember a Time When Once You Used to Love Me
• The Walkabouts – Grand Theft Auto
• The Waterboys – We Will Not Be Lovers
• Florence And The Machine – Dog Days Are Over
• Charlotte Gainsbourg – Voyage
• Lykke Li – Get Some
• Bruce Peninsula – Crabapples
• Anaïs Mitchell – Way Down Hadestown
• Bar Kokhba Sextet – Sother
• Dr. John – Blow Wind Blow
• The Skatalites – Guns of Navarone
• Emir Kusturica & No Smoking Orchestra – Black Cat, White Cat
• Gogol Bordello – Pala Tute

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!

• Serge Gainsbourg – Ballade De Melody Nelson
• Wild Beasts – Lion’s Share
• Robag Wruhme – Pnom Gobal
• Nicolas Jaar – Keep Me There
• Destroyer – Suicide Demo For Kara Walker
• Twin Shadow – Tyrant Destroyed
• Gil Scott-Heron – Me And The Devil
• Clams Casino – Motivation
• Demdike Stare – Bardo Thodol
• King Midas Sound – Meltdown
• The Weeknd – What You Need
• Burial & Four Tet & Thom Yorke – Mirror
• Moderat – Rusty Nails
• Super Collider – Darn (Cold Way O’ Lovin)
• Emika – Double Edge
• Massive Attack – Paradise Circus
• Jamie Woon – Night Air
• Bon Iver – Calgary

Hope you find something you were missing, and have an awesome 2011.

Actress – Hubble
Addison Groove – Footcrab
Anaïs Mitchell – Way Down Hadestown
April Smith & The Great Picture Show – Colors
Arcade Fire – Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Round and Round
Autre Ne Veut – New Depth
Balam Acab – Dream Out
Beach House – 10 Mile Stereo
Big Boi – Lookin’ For Ya (feat. Andre 3000 & Sleepy Brown)
Big K.R.I.T. – Hometown Hero
Black Milk – Deadly Medley (feat. Royce Da 5’9, Elzhi)
Bonobo – Black Sands
Broken Social Scene – Chase Scene
Caribou – Odessa
Carmen Souza – Sodade
Paul Cary – Ghost Of A Man
Cee-Lo Green – No One’s Gonna Love You (Paul Epworth Mix)
Ceo – Come With Me
Charlotte Gainsbourg – Voyage
Crystal Castles – Not In Love (feat. Robert Smith)
Curren$y – The Day (feat. Mos Def & Jay Electronica)
Darkstar – Deadness
Destroyer and Loscil – Grief Point
Doc Daneeka – Hold On
Dr. Dog – Stranger
Emika – Double Edge
Erykah Badu – Window Seat
Flying Lotus – Do The Astral Plane
Forest Swords – Rattling Cage
Four Tet – Angel Echoes
Frank(just Frank) – Mr. Itagaki
Freddie Gibbs – Oil Money (feat. Chuck Inglish, Chip Tha Ripper, Bun B & Dan Auerbach)
Fredrik – Ava
Gil Scott-Heron – New York Is Killing Me
Girl Unit – Wut
Girls – Alright
Glasser – Apply
Gogol Bordello – Pala Tute
Grinderman – Palaces of Montezuma
Guido – Way U Make Me Feel
Harmonious Thelonious – Angewandte Muziek
Hot Chip – Take It In
Hyetal – Phoenix
Instra:mental – Watching You
James Blake – CMYK
Jamie Lidell – Compass
Jamie Woon – Night Air
Janelle Monae – Tightrope (feat. Big Boi)
Joanna Newsom – Good Intentions Paving Company
John Roberts – Porcelain
Joker – Tron
Kanye West – POWER
Kingdom – That Mystic
The Knife – Colouring of Pigeons
Kno – The New Day (Death Has No Meaning)
Laurel Halo – Supersymmetry
Laurie Anderson – Transitory Life
LCD Soundsystem – Dance Yrself Clean
Lissie – Little Lovin’
The Magic Kids – Hey Boy
Massive Attack – Paradise Circus
Matthew Dear – Slowdance
Mavis Staples – You Are Not Alone
Menomena – Tithe
MISTAH F.A.B. – Ungreatful (feat. Lil Kev)
The National – Conversation 16
The New Pornographers – Crash Years
Okmalumkoolkat – Boomslang
Omar Souleyman – Mandal/Metel Il Sukkar Ala Il Shai
Owen Pallett – E Is for Estranged
Pangaea – Why
Pariah – Prism
Phosphorescent – The Mermaid Parade
Prins Thomas – Nattonsket
Ramadanman – Work Them
Rana Santacruz – Cajita de Barro
The Roots – Radio Daze – feat. Blu, P.O.R.N & Dice Raw
Salem – King Night
Scuba – Lights Out
Shackleton – Man On A String Part 1 And 2
Shad – Rose Garden
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – The Game Gets Old
Shed – Keep Time
Sleigh Bells – Rill Rill
Strong Arm Steady – Best of Times (feat. Phonte)
Sufjan Stevens – I Walked
Sun Kil Moon – Alesund
Surfer Blood – Floating Vibes
Swans – No Words/No Thoughts
The Tallest Man On Earth – The Wild Hunt
Teengirl Fantasy – Cheaters
Titus Andronicus – A More Perfect Union
Twin Shadow – I Can’t Wait
Twin Sister – All Around and Away We Go
The Walkmen – Blue as Your Blood
Warpaint – Undertow
Wild Nothing – Summer Holiday
Zinja Hlungwani – N’wagezani My Love
Zola Jesus – Night

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)

(Edit: Looks like the links did their expiring thing, so no dice. If you disagree with this situation lemme know and maybe we’ll see if we can provide an alternate solution)

Akron/Family – River
Alasdair Roberts – You Muses Assist
Alela Diane – White As Diamonds
Andrew Bird – Not a Robot, But a Ghost
Animal Collective – Bluish
Annie – Don’t Stop
Antipop Consortium – Volcano
The Antlers – Bear
Antony And The Johnsons – Another World
Art Brut – The Passenger
Bat For Lashes – Daniel
Bear in Heaven – Lovesick Teenagers
Ben Frost – Killshot
Bibio – Ambivalence Avenue
Big Boi – Shine Blockas (feat. Gucci Mane)
Bill Callahan – The Wind and The Dove
Bon Iver – Blood Bank
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Beware Your Only Friend
Brother Ali – The Believers (feat. Slug
Bruce Peninsula – crabapples
Burial & Four Tet – Moth
Camera Obscura – Swans
Carter Burwell – A Serious Man
Cass McCombs – You Saved My Life
Circlesquare – Dancers
Clark – Rainbow Voodoo
Dälek – No Question
Dan Auerbach – Trouble Weighs A Ton
Dan Deacon – Snookered
The Decemberists – The Rake’s Song
Delorean – Deli
Destroyer – Bay of Pigs
Dinosaur Jr – Pieces
Dirty Projectors – Stillness is the Move
DJ Sprinkles – Sisters, I Don’t Know What This World Is Coming To
DM Stith – Thanksgiving Moon
DOOM – That’s that
Doves – Jetstream
Fashawn – When She Calls
Fever Ray – Triangle Walks
Finale – The Waiting Game (feat. Invincible)
Flaming Lips – Silver Trembling Hands
Four Tet – Love Cry
Future Of The Left – Arming Eritrea
Girls – Lust For Life
Grizzly Bear – Ready, Able
Handsome Furs – I’m Confused
Here We Go Magic – Fangela
The Horrors – Sea Within a Sea
Hudson Mohawke – Overnight
J Dilla – Mythsysizer
jj – Ecstasy
Joker – Digidesign
Junior Boys – Work
Kid Sister – Right Hand Hi
King Midas Sound – Meltdown
Kreng – Na De Sex
Lhasa – Rising
Mamer – Man
Manic Street Preachers – Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
Marissa Nadler – Brittle, Crushed & Torn
Matias Aguayo – Menta Latte
Matt & Kim – Daylight
Me’Shell Ndegéocello – Love You Down
Memory Tapes – Bicycle
Micachu & the Shapes – Golden Phone
Moderat – Seamonkey
Mos Def – Auditiorium (feat. Slick Rick)
Mr. Lif – The Sun
Mr. SOS – Die For You
Neko Case – This Tornado Loves You
Neon Indian – Deadbeat Summer
P.O.S. – Goodbye
Passion Pit – Sleepyhead
Patrick Watson – Big Bird In A Small Cage
Raekwon – New Wu (feat. Ghostface Killah & Method Man)
Redshape – Man out of Time
Röyksopp – True To Life
Shackleton – Mountains of Ashes
Soap&Skin – Thanatos
St. Vincent – The Strangers
Sunset Rubdown – You Go on Ahead (Trumpet Trumpet II)
Super Furry Animals – Inaugural Trams
Thee Oh Sees – Tidal Wave
Tim Hecker – Paragon Point
Timber Timbre – Magic Arrow
Tinariwen – Tahult In
The Very Best – Julia
Vitalic – See The Sea (Red)
Volcano Choir – Island, IS
Warsaw Village Band – 1,5 H
Washed Out – Feel It All Around
Wilco – Bull Black Nova
Wild Beasts – We Still Got the Taste Dancing On Our Tongues
The XX – Crystalised
YACHT – Psychic City (Voodoo City)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Zero
Yeasayer – Tightrope
Yo La Tengo – Here to Fall
Yppah – Gumball Machine Weekend

“Basically, it turns out that I don’t actually like hip hop at all,” he confesses. “I’ve been listening to a lot of it to put this show together and I basically just feel like killing myself now. It’s not really music. It’s just crap.” He slumps forward slightly and wheezes. “But I’ve been promising this episode for a while now, and since my fans are truly important to me, instead of releasing a new episode that isn’t the hip hop one… I’m just going to cancel the whole show.”

“Really?”

“No.” He laughs cruelly but goes on to assure us that he is working on the show, albeit sporadically. He claims that school, a few web design clients, part-time soulcrushing call centre work, biweekly social activities and internet addiction have been taking most of his time.

The show itself has also been taking up more time than the norm. “There’s been a lot of research goin on here. Just look at my last.fm!” Damon reports that as of now plans are to break the show up into several releases to get it into fan’s ear quicker, but also for practical reasons. “It’s at like 70 songs and 5.5 hours right now and I haven’t even started rambling about why the songs are important and how hip hop came together and all that… which is going to be a pretty important part of this show.”

To add insult to injury, those 70 songs are all from 1993 and earlier. “Old school is a pretty nebulous term, but I’ve decided to cut it off at 1993… I wanted the last song to be ’93 til Infinity’ by Souls of Mischief. I wanted to make a bold statement.” He sits back proudly, then adds, “I might do another episode sometime to cover like 93-99 or something.” Maybe. If he ever gets through this one.

Research won’t only consist of listening to ridiculous amounts of old school hip hop and reading the inane opinions of online music nerds, either. He reports that he will be watching hip hop related movies such as Wildstyle and incorporating lame ‘ghetto-isms’ into his everyday speech. Moreover, he hopes to really “get to the source”. He has booked a week off of work and hopes to travel to New York, rob a few liquor stores, and use cocaine.

It sounds like he’s pretty passionate about this stupid little podcast, but as he starts running some raps he’s been working on by me I can’t help but worry. He’s a perfectionist working on this podcast in his his limited spare time. As the scope inevitably widens, the possibility of the project holding his interest long enough for it to actually be completed shrinks.

Damon insists that it’s coming, though, even if he can’t say exactly when, and he assures us that when it’s online it will be “the hot butter on the popcorn, rockin’ you on and on until the early morn.”

–
Bertrand Imapretentiousasshole

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)

…

YES!

(here’s a cue file, and an mp3)

We’ve been mostly steering away from the synthesizers for a while, so this time I’m going to unbridle a whole mess of smooth/tasty/euro/banging/sexy beats on you fools. The music starts off like a celebration of the edge between cool and hot on a sultry summer night perfect for top down cruising. Then it explores the territory and comes back with some pounding classics, noodly newness and generally steady beatings. I apologize I am definitely getting behind on the show. So so many awesome tracks lounging around in the queue waiting to be heard. I will try to get these gems out to you at a better rate. The slipstream is supposed to be new and great and it’s struggling with the former (but at least the great bit is what’ll count in the long run and it’s looking tip top in that respect).

Moloko / Pure Pleasure Seeker / Things To Make And Do (2000)
DJ Paleface / Do You Mind (Crazy Cousins Mix) (feat. Kayla) / Do You Mind (2008)
Crystal Castles / Untrust Us / Crystal Castles (2008)

Annie / Anthonio (Fred Falke Remix) / Anthonio (2009)
Junior Boys / Work / Begone Dull Care (2009)
Fever Ray / Triangle Walks / Fever Ray (2009)

The Field / The More That I Do / Yesterday and Today (2009)
Dan Deacon / Snookered / Bromst (2009)

Underworld / Rez/Cowgirl / Everything, Everything (2000)
Zazen Boys / Asobi / Zazen Boys 4 (2008)

To make it a little more relevant to Radio Slipstream, the song in the first part of the video is Motiivi Tuntematon – Mankind Failed, which was featured in a rather more silly than usual episode of the slipstream (which is to say you should probably check this one out if you haven’t before).

Thought we missed it, but Spring is in the air. Chartreuse is gradually taking over the palette outside my window. So today the sounds are light (as in lumens) and wispy and/or buoyant. Some great glittering oldies, a few delicate shimmery numbers in the vein of folk, and then some positive, gleeful hip hop (not two words normally associated with the genre, huh). So do please grab a hammock, a pencil and a book of blank pages, and an earful of blooming… Radio Slipstream style.

The Free Design / Kites Are Fun / Kites Are Fun (1967)
The Kinks / The Village Green Preservation Society / The Village Green Preservation Society (1968)
Disco Inferno / The Last Dance / The Last Dance (1993)

Erik Enocksson / The Joy of D.H. Lawrence / Farväl Falkenberg (2006)
1900 / Den Minsta Av Segrar (1900 (2008)
Pram / Mother Of Pearl / The Museum of Imaginary Animals (2000)

Andrew Bird / Not A Robot, But A Ghost / Noble Beast (2009)
Patrick Watson / Big Bird In A Small Cage / Wooden Arms (2009)
Emiliana Torrini / Birds / Me And Armini (2008)

CunninLynguists / Thugged Out Since Cubscouts (feat. Jugga the Bully & Mr Raw) / Will Rap for Food (2001)
Brother Ali / The Believers (feat. Slug) / The Truth Is Here (2009)
P.O.S. / Goodbye / Never Better (2009)
Mr. Lif / The Sun / I Heard It Today (2009)

Röyksopp / True To Life (feat. Anneli Drecker) / Junior (2009)

On today’s show, we mainly look at another side of folk music; a side that is defined as such only for having minimal distortion on its guitars. That, of course, is indie-folk. Since genres mean little, there are a variety of tinges here; from country, to psych, to avant and… beyond?

Bat For Lashes / Glass / Two Suns (2009)
Yeasayer / Tightrope / Dark Was The Night (2009)

Silver Jews / Smith & Jones Forever / American Water (1998)
Walkabouts / Forever Gone / Nighttown (1997)
Willard Grant Conspiracy / The Trials Of Harrison Hayes / Regard The End (2003)
Bonnie “Prince” Billy / Beware Your Only Friend / Beware (2009)

Midlake / Young Bride / The Trials of Van Occupanther (2006)
Akron/Family / River / Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free (2009)
Mirah / Country Of The Future / (A)Spera (2008)
Plants and Animals / Good Friend / Parc Avenue (2008)

Bon Iver / Blood Bank / Blood Bank (2009)
Sam Phillips / Don’t Do Anything / Don’t Do Anything (2008)
Mount Eerie / I Hold Nothing / No Flashlight (2005)
Califone / Pink & Sour / Roots & Crowns (2006)

Here We Go Magic / Fangela / Here We Go Magic (2009)

20. Gang Gang Dance – Saint Dymphna
19. Plants and Animals – Park Avenue
18. Fucked Up – The Chemistry of Common Life
17. Quiet Village – Silent Movie
16. Bonnie Prince Billy – Lie Down in the Light
15. Lykke Li – Youth Novels
14. The Walkmen – You & Me
13. Erykah Badu – New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)
12. Shearwater – Rook
11. DJ/Rupture – Uproot
10. The Tallest Man on Earth – Shallow Graves
9. Lindstrom – Where You Go I Go Too
8. The Bug – London Zoo
7. The Rural Alberta Advantage – Hometowns
6. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Dig Lazarus Dig
5. Fleet Foxes
4. Portishead – Third
3. Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit are the Very Best Mixtape
2. Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours
1. TV on the Radio – Dear Science

So maybe ‘world’ music would be more descriptive, but what comparably lame puns could be made with that? … I rest my case. And anyway, why would the traditional music of British and Americans be called folk and that of Nicaraguans be called worldbeat? That’s not exactly fair. That may all be beside the point, though, because while all the music this episode is infused with the musical traditions of cultures all around the world, it’s not necessarily the traditional sort of stuff. Some of it with the modern production and arrangement. Call it worldly folk. And give it a listen, because there are some real gems here.

A. R. Rahman / Mausam & Escape / Slumdog Millionaire OST (2008) / India
Les Negresses Vertes / Face à la mer (Massive Attack Remix) / 10 Remixes (1993) / France

Lô Borges / Não Se Apague Esta Noite / Lô Borges (1972) / Brazil
Jorge Ben / O Plebeu / África Brasil (1976) / Brazil
Femi Kuti / Tension Grip Africa / Day by Day (2008) / Nigeria
Umalali / Anaha Ya (Here I Am) / The Garifuna Womens Project (2008) / Belize

Tinariwen / Matadjem yinmixan / Aman Iman: Water Is Life (2006) / Mali
Justin Adams & Juldeh Camara / Yo Lay Lay / Soul Science (2007) / The Gambia
The Very Best (Esau Mwamwaya & Radioclit) / Get It Up (feat. M.I.A.) / ‘The Very Best’ Mixtape (2008) / Malawi

Taraf de Haidouks / Carolina / Band of Gypsies (2001) / Romania
Astor Piazzolla / Michelangelo / Tango: Zero Hour (1986) / Argentina
Crucible / Three Maidens / Love & Money (2008) / UK

Lúnasa / The Miller of Drohan / Otherworld (1999) / Ireland
Yat-Kha / Oy Adym (My Gray Horse) / Aldyn Dashka (2000) / Tuva (Russia)

Oumou Sangare / Saa Magni (Death Is Terrible) / Oumou (2004) / Mali
Mari Boine / Gula Gula / Gula Gula (1989) / Sámi (Norway)

A. R. Rahman – Mausam & Escape
Air France – Collapsing At Your Doorstep
Alejandro Escovedo – Nuns Song
Amadou & Mariam – Sabali
Atmosphere – You
Azeda Booth – Big Fists
Barry Adamson – The Beaten Side Of Town
Beach House – D.A.R.L.I.N.G.
The Black Keys – Things Ain’t Like They Used to Be
Black Mountain – Wucan
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – For Every Field There’s a Mole
Bruno Pronsato – Slowley Gravely
The Bug – Murder We (feat. Ricky Ranking)
Cadence Weapon – True Story
Calexico – Man Made Lake
The Chap – Fun and Interesting
Clark – Volcan Veins
The Constantines – Our Age
Crystal Castles – Courtship Dating
Cut Copy – So Haunted
David Byrne and Brian Eno – Strange Overtones
Death Cab For Cutie – Grapevine Fires
Deerhunter – Nothing Ever Happened
Department Of Eagles – No One Does It Like You
Destroyer – Shooting Rockets (From the Desk of Night’s Ape)
DeVotchKa – The Clockwise Witness
DJ Rupture – Quest, Team Shadetek – Mirage, Brooklyn Anthem (acapella)
The Dodos – Winter
Drive-By Truckers – Two Daughters And A Beautiful Wife
The Drones – Nail It Down
Elbow – The Fix
Ellen Allien – Elphine
Erykah Badu – Soldier
Frightened Rabbit – I Feel Better
Fuck Buttons – Sweet Love for Planet Earth
Fucked Up – Son the Father
Gang Gang Dance – House Jam
The Gaslight Anthem – Great Expectations
Grails – Predestination Blues
Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks
Grouper – Stuck
Hercules & Love Affair – Blind
The Hold Steady – One for the Cutters
Jacaszek – Lament
James Blackshaw – Past Has Not Passed
Jamie Lidell – Another Day
Kleerup – Thank You for Nothing
Koushik – Be With
Lindstrom – Where You Go I Go Too
Louis Guilliaume – Fucked Up
Love Is All – New Beginnings
Luomo – Have You Ever (feat. Cassy)
Lykke Li – Breaking It Up
M83 – Kim & Jessie
Man Man – The Ballad Of Butter Beans
Marlena Shaw – California Soul (Diplo/Mad Decent Remix)
Max Tundra – Which Song
MGMT – Time to Pretend
Mount Eerie With Julie Doiron And Fred Squire – You Swan Go On
The Mountain Goats – Lovecraft In Brooklyn
The Neighbourhood Council – Liver and Tan
Neon Neon – Trick For Treat (Feat. Spank Rock & Sean Tillmann)
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds – Lie Down Here (And Be My Girl)
Nico Muhly – Mothertongue Pt. 1: Archive
No Age – Things I Did When I Was Dead
Okkervil River – Lost Coastlines
Osborne – Downtown
Paavoharju – Kevatrumpu
Parov Stelar – Fleur De Lille – Original Mix
Pete And The Pirates – Come On Feet
Plants and Animals – Bye Bye Bye
Ponytail – Beg Waves
Portishead – We Carry On
Prosumer and Murat Tepeli – Serenity
Quiet Village – Free Rider
Ricardo Villalobos – Enfants (Chants)
Roots Manuva – Let the Spirit
The Ruby Suns – There Are Birds
The Rural Alberta Advantage – Don’t Haunt This Place
Sam Phillips – Don’t Do Anything
Shearwater – Rooks
Shed – Estrangé
Sigur Ros – Gobbledigook
Silver Jews – Aloyisius, Bluegrass Drummer
Snowman – We Are The Plague
Son Lux – Break
Sons & Daughters – Gilt Complex
Subtle – Unlikely Rock Shock
Sun Kil Moon – Lost Verses
Syclops – NR17
The Tallest Man On Earth – The Gardner
Thomas Brinkmann – Meadow
Thomas Function – Snake In The Grass
TV on the Radio – DLZ
Vampire Weekend – Walcott
The Very Best (Esau Mwamwaya & Radioclit) – Wena
The Walkmen – I Lost You
The Week That Was – The Airport Line
Wolf Parade – Fine Young Cannibals
Zazen Boys – Asobi

Continuing right where we left off, 80s tinged synthpop gives way to strangely catchy psychedelic folkpop, and it all caps off with an opulent synthesizer soundtrack finish.

Cut Copy / Lights And Music / In Ghost Colours (2008)
The Source / You Got The Love (feat. Candi Staton) / You Got The Love (1996)

Luomo / Have You Ever (feat. Cassy) / Convivial (2008)
Thomas Brinkmann / It’s Just / When Horses Die (2008)
Knife / Heartbeats / Deep Cuts (2004)

Of Montreal / Rapture Rapes The Muses / Satanic Panic In The Attic (2004)
Shugo Tokumaru / Parachute / Exit (2008)
Fredrik / Alinas Place / Na Na Ni (2008)
Lykke Li / Breaking It Up / Youth Novels (2008)
Animal Collective / Bluish / Merriweather Post Pavillion (2009)

Vangelis / Blush Response / Blade Runner (1982)
Lindstrøm / Where You Go I Go Too (Part 2) (Edit by Prins Thomas) / Where You Go I Go Too (2008)

The first episode of 2009 and the first episode featuring brand new fractionized length! Content-wise wes is tying up some loose ends of 2008. And you know when the last episode is all dancing and electronics that you’re soon due for some REAL pounding drums and some scratchy guitars and bellowed vocals. So today it gets down pretty gritty at first but it does mellow out to the middle and eventually even betrays faint whiffs of synth-pop, chamber-pop and doo-wop.

Fuck Buttons / Sweet Love for Planet Earth / Street Horrrsing (2008)
Grails / Predestination Blues / Doomsdayer’s Holiday (2008)
Snowman / We Are The Plague / The Horse, The Rat And The Swan (2008)
Holy Fuck / Royal Gregory / LP (2007)

Fucked Up / Son the Father / The Chemistry of Common Life (2008)
Love Is All / New Beginnings / A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night (2008)
Thomas Function / Snake In The Grass / Thomas Function (2008)

The Gaslight Anthem / Great Expectations / The ’59 Sound (2008)
The Rural Alberta Advantage / Don’t Haunt This Place / Hometowns (2008)

Okkervil River / Lost Coastlines / The Stand-Ins (2008)
The Week That Was / The Airport Line / The Week That Was (2008)
Department Of Eagles / No One Does It Like You / In Ear Park (2008)
Brian Eno & David Byrne / Strange Overtones / Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (2008)

Just, you know, so you know.

Questions? Comments? Snide remarks?

So a new computer and the semi-annual end of term procrastinator-punishment-derby may have contributed to this most unprecedented of podcast interims. But fuck that. Cause now it’s up! This guy is my sham summer within this dullest of seasons… you will find blissed out psychedelia, hard-hitting dub grooves, hip hop chills and flows, club beats (not as dangerous as it sounds), and quirky catchy experimental chamber pop. All for the price of 2 hours in the background of whatever vastly important business you’re involved with on the internet/your ipod today.

Brian Eno + David Byrne / Mountain Of Needles / My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts (1981)
Disco Inferno / Starbound: All Burnt Out & Nowhere To Go / D.I. Go Pop (1994)
Koushik / Be With / Out My Window (2008)
Caribou / Pelican Narrows / The Milk Of Human Kindness (2005)

Diplo / Summer’s Gonna Hurt You / Florida (2004)
Air France / Collapsing At Your Doorstep / No Way Down (2008)

Quest, Team Shadetek / Mirage, Brooklyn Anthem / Uproot (2008)
The Bug / Poison Dart (feat. Warrior Queen) / London Zoo (2008)
Ghislain Poirier / No More Blood feat. Zulu / No Ground Under (2007)
Tanya Stephens / Put It On You / Rebelution (2006)
Lady Saw / Chat To Mi Back / Walk Out (2007)

Santogold / Anne / Santogold (2008)
Rihanna / Don’t Stop the Music / Good Girl Gone Bad (2007)
The Very Best (Esau Mwamwaya & Radioclit) / Wena / ‘The Very Best’ Mixtape (2008)
Outkast / Return of the “G” / Aquemini (1998)

Binary Star / Honest Expression / Masters Of The Universe (2000)
One Be Lo / Axis / s.o.n.o.g.r.a.m. (2005)
Zion I / One / Mind over Matter (2000)
Atmosphere / You / When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold (2008)
k-the-i??? / Before The Session / Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow (2008)

The Chap / Fun and Interesting / Mega Breakfast (2008)
Sparks / (Baby Baby) Can I Invade Your Country / Hello Young Lovers (2006)
Pop Levi / Blue Honey / The Return To Form Black Magick Party (2007)
Max Tundra / Will Get Fooled Again / Parallax Error Beheads You (2008)

Amadou & Mariam / Sabali / Welcome To Mali (2008)
Parov Stelar / Fleur De Lille / The Flame Of Fame (2008)
Noze / Albert / How To Dance (2006)

ESG / Dance / Come Away With ESG (1983)

So uhhh. Check it out. See if I was successful in bottling up a bit of the latter days of fall. mp3 / cue

1. Azeda Booth – Big Fists
2. Beach House – Tokyo Witch
3. Marissa Nadler – Thinking of You
4. Angels of Light – Evangeline
5. Akron/Family – Before And Again
6. Mirah – Cold Cold Water
7. Bon Iver – Flume
8. Phosphorescent – Endless
9. James Blackshaw – Past Has Not Passed
10. A Silver Mt. Zion – The Triumph Of Our Tired Eyes
11. Sunset Rubdown – Us Ones in Between
12. Devendra Banhart – Heard somebody say
13. The Walkmen – Red Moon
14. Paavoharju – Musta Katu
15. Espers – Meadow
16. Augie March – Sunset Studies
17. Radiohead – Reckoner
18. The National – The Geese of Beverly Road
19. Shearwater – Rooks
20. The Elected – Greetings In Braille

Starts sparse and wisftul with acoustic and electronic turns, then it hip hops, then it gets down and dirty out in the countryside and town. I would say this episode can generally be described as gritty but still captures a wide array of different sounds. I would also say that it’s a pretty killer selection of tunes and you’d do well to be listening in! … Please?

The Neighbourhood Council / Liver and Tan / Set Pieces EP (2008)
Sparklehorse / Maxine / Gold Day EP (2001)
Azeda Booth / Big Fists / In Flesh Tones (2008)
Bark Psychosis / Rose / Codename: Dustsucker (2004)

Boards of Canada / In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country / In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country (2000)
Air / La Femme d’Argent / Moon Safari (1998)
Gang Gang Dance / House Jam / Saint Dymphna (2008)

Erykah Badu / The Healer / New Amerykah Part One (4th World War) (2008)
Outkast / Ms. Jackson / Stankonia (2000)
Elzhi / Motown 25 (feat. Royce Da 5’9″) / The Preface (2008)
Count Bass D / Seven Years (feat. Dionne Farris) / Dwight Spitz (2002)

Saul Williams / Tao of Now / Amethyst Rock Star (2001)
Barry Adamson / The Beaten Side Of Town / Back To The Cat (2008)
Alejandro Escovedo / Nuns Song / Real Animal (2008)
John Vanderslice / White Dove / Emerald City (2007)

Augie March / Tulip / Sunset Studies (2000)
Tindersticks / Here (Donkey’s Version) / Working For The Man (2004)
Love / Alone Again Or / Forever Changes (1968)
Mount Eerie With Julie Doiron And Fred Squire / You Swan Go On / Lost Wisdom (2008)
The Black Keys / Things Ain’t Like They Used to Be / Attack & Release (2008)

The Drones / Nail It Down / Havilah (2008)
The Kills / No Wow / No Wow (2005)
This Heat / The Fall of Saigon / Made Available (1997)
Deerhunter / Nothing Ever Happened / Microcastle (2008)

The Walkmen / I Lost You / You & Me (2008)

This is a dark, grimy, evil, frightening, loud, intense collection of songs. Best served with satanic rituals, vampire raves, maniac yells, grisly deaths, and that which man was never meant to know. It also has some beats of the musical variety, so feel free to see if you maybe can’t get your partially severed arm to twitch along in the groove.

If you haven’t had your Halloween party yet, you know what to do! Get the mp3, get the cue file (tells your music player where the track breaks are) and get evil.

1. Crystal Castles – Courtship Dating
2. Tomas Andersson – The Other Day
3. Justice – Stress
4. Various – The World Is Gone
5. The Bug – Murder We (feat. Ricky Ranking)
6. Paula Nazca – Surface
7. Motiivi Tuntematon – Mankind Failed
8. MIA – So I Felt
9. Peace Division – Blacklight Sleaze (Radio Slave Vocal Mix)
10. Kode9 & The Space Ape – Victims
11. Burial – Ghost Hardware
12. Alex Smoke – Brian’s Lung
13. Edan – Torture Chamber (feat. Percee-P)
14. El-P – Deep Space 9mm
15. Plump DJs – Scram
16. Clint Mansell – We Got The Gun
17. Sage Francis – Clickety Clack
18. TV on the Radio – DLZ
19. Ulrich Schnauss – Medusa

Hellohihey.. time for some more MUSIC. This baby is muchamore synthesized than the last episode. It starts out tempered and dreamy, then layers on serious doses of funk. Then it scurries around the world, goes into the future and has a little apocalypse (albeit a fairly funky one) before sitting under a tree in the late evening and thinking about what its done.

Also just because I can, I thought it would be neat to give you the option of hearing the show with only the music. An instrumental version of the program if you will… so if you’re interested in that, click on the corresponding little box up top there, or get the file here, along with the cue sheet.

Klute / Hell Hath No Fury / The Emperor’s New Clothes (2007)

Annie / Marie Cherie / Don’t Stop (2008)
Kleerup / Until We Bleed (feat. Lykke Li) / Kleerup (2008)
Jason Sparks / Gangsters / Heroes And Villains (2003)
Olav Basoski / Mango Tree / Samplitude Vol. 9 (1998)
Seatbelts / Cats On Mars (DMX Krew Remix) / Cowboy Bebop: Music For Freelance (1999)

Steinski / Lesson 2 (James Brown Mix) / What Does It All Mean? (1984/2008)
Marlena Shaw / California Soul (Diplo/Mad Decent Remix) / Verve Remixed 4 (2008)
Roots Manuva / Let The Spirit / Slime & Reason (2008)
TV on the Radio / Golden Age / Dear Science (2008)

Massive Attack / Inertia Creeps (Manic Street Preachers Remix) / Inertia Creeps (1998)
Holger Czukay / Sudetenland / Rome Remains Rome (1987)
Orchestra Baobab / Sibam / Made In Dakar (2007)
Bajofondo Tango Club / Pa’ Bailar (feat. Ryota Komatsu) / Mar Dulce (2007)

Shed / Estrangé / Shedding The Past (2008)
Syclops / NR17 / I’ve Got My Eye On You (2008)
Louis Guilliaume / Fucked Up / Soulpoint I (2008)

TV on the Radio / DLZ / Dear Science (2008)
The Bug / Murder We (feat. Ricky Ranking) / London Zoo (2008)
Crystal Castles / Courtship Dating / Crystal Castles (2008)
Gus Gus / Believe / Polydistortion (1997)
Shy Child / The Volume / Noise Won’t Stop (2007)

TV on the Radio / Family Tree / Dear Science (2008)

So, new episode on the way soon (and I’ve also been working on some new mix cds which will see the light before too long).

Thanks for being here.

Maybe we’re getting into a bit of a groove with the long delays. I apologize. But hopefully you shan’t be disappointed with the wait. Hopefully the wait will even be seen to have been well worth it? This one starts off in the sun in the country and moves slowly through the quirky rural outskirts and then to the bustle and grime in the center of the city and finally up to the top of a tall building to leap off of.

Fleet Foxes / White Winter Hymnal / Fleet Foxes (2008)
Shearwater / The Hunter’s Star / Rook (2008)
Plants and Animals / Bye Bye Bye / Parc Avenue (2008)
The Tallest Man On Earth / The Gardner / Shallow Graves (2008)

Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy / For Every Field There’s A Mole / Lie Down In The Light (2008)
Phosphorescent / Wolves / Untitled Playlist (2007)
Sun Kil Moon / Heron Blue / April (2008)
Calexico / Man Made Lake / Carried To Dust (2008)

The Dodos / Fools / Visiter (2008)
Frightened Rabbit / The Modern Leper / The Midnight Organ Fight (2008)
Radiohead / Airbag / OK Computer (1997)
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds / Jesus Of The Moon / Dig Lazarus Dig (2008)
DeVotchKa / The Clockwise Witness / A Mad And Faithful Telling (2008)

Vampire Weekend / Walcott / Vampire Weekend (2008)
Grizzly Bear / Two Weeks / Live at Letterman (2008)
Grandaddy / Hewlett’s Daughter / The Sophtware Slump (2000)
Wolf Parade / Fine Young Cannibals / At Mount Zoomer (2008)

Man Man / Harpoon Fever (Queequeg’s Playhouse) / Rabbit Habits (2008)
Spoon / Don’t Make Me A Target / Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (2007)
The Hold Steady / One for the Cutters / Stay Positive (2008)
Pete And The Pirates / Come On Feet / Little Death (2008)
The Ponys / Small Talk / Turn the Lights Out (2007)

Constantines / Trans Canada / Kensington Heights (2008)
No Age / Things I Did When I Was Dead / Nouns (2008)
Sunset Rubdown / Winged/Wicked Things / Random Spirit Lover (2007)
Crystal Antlers / Until the Sun Dies (Part 2) / Crystal Antlers (2008)
Ponytail / Beg Waves / Ice Cream Spiritual (2008)
British Sea Power / Waving Flags / Do You Like Rock Music? (2008)

So what are you waiting for? Grab the mp3 file and the cue file, throw ‘em on a CD burning app, pop that disc in your car, and drive around town dangerously enthusiastically!

1. Pendulum – Fasten Your Seltbelt (feat. The Freestylers)
2. The Klaxons – Golden Skans (SebastiAn Version 1.2.0 Remix)
3. Simian Mobile Disco – I Believe
4. DJ Mehdi – I Am Somebody
5. Groove Armada – Get Down
6. Shantel – Disko Partizani
7. Balkan Beat Box – Hermetico
8. Planningtorock – Bolton Wanderer
9. Roisin Murphy – Ruby Blue
10. PM Dawn – Set Adrift (Tittsworth Neutron Dance Remix)
11. M.I.A. – World Town
12. TTC – Telephone
13. Blood on the Wall – Rize
14. Jay Reatard – My Shadow
15. The Exploding Hearts – Sleeping Aides And Razorblades
16. Le Tigre – Deceptacon
17. White Williams – New Violence
18. Lady Sovereign – Blah Blah
19. Dizzee Rascal – Sirens
20. Cadence Weapon – True Story
21. Mouse On Mars – Wipe That Sound
22. Amon Tobin – Verbal (feat. MC Decimal R)
23. Modeselektor – Silikon (feat. Sasha Perera)
24. Beastie Boys – Intergalactic
25. Electric Six – Danger High Voltage
26. Pop Will Eat Itself – Not Now James, We’re Busy…

I know, I know… it’s been an awful long while. I have my reasons of course, but you’ll have to listen to find out. At any rate, this episode focuses on slow, beautiful experimental and modern classical works at first and then settles into ambience and summer dreaming before a bit of summer fun with a hint of pop.

Nico Muhly / Mothertongue Pt. 1: Archive / Mothertongue (2008)

Jacaszek / Lament / Treny (2008)
James Blackshaw / Past Has Not Passed / Litany Of Echoes (2008)

Grouper / Stuck / Dragging a Dead Deer Up A Hill (2008)
Portishead / The Rip / Third (2008)
Paavoharju / Kevätrumpu / Laulu laakson kukista (2008)
Sigur Ros / Gobbledigook / Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust (2008)
Dday One / At The Village Gate / Heavy Migration (2008)

Bruno Pronsato / Slowley Gravely / Why Can’t We Be Like Us (2008)
Sascha Funke / Mango / Mango (2008)
Efdemin / April Fools / Efdemin (2007)
Ellen Allien / Elphine / Sool (2008)

The Orb / Little Fluffy Clouds / Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld (1991)
Quiet Village / Can’t Be Beat / Silent Movie (2008)
Sweet Trip / Velocity / Velocity:Design:Comfort (2003)
Air France / No Way Down / No Way Down (2008)
Osborne / Downtown / Osborne (2008)

Cut Copy / Feel The Love / In Ghost Colours (2008)
Kleerup / Thank You for Nothing / Kleerup (2008)
Hercules & Love Affair / Athene / Hercules & Love Affair (2008)
Kelley Polar / Chrysanthemum / I Need You to Hold On While the Sky Is Falling (2008)
Lykke Li / Hanging High / Youth Novels (2008)

Grizzly Bear / He Hit Me / Friend EP (2007)

What better way to spend my birthday than slaving away in the basement on my podcast, with an ear infection? That was a rhetorical question! But it’s sweet. y’all… some melty, spacey, stuff after the git go, then it all goes south. What does that mean? Just listen, aight.

Hans-Joachim Roedelius & Tim Story / Houses Of Glances / Inlandish (2008)
Ulrich Schnauss / Blumenthal / A Strangely Isolated Place (2003)
Everything But The Girl / Missing (Ultramarine Remix) / Missing (The Full Remix EP) (1995)

Dominique Leone / Clairevoyage: A Medley Performed By The 16th Rebels Of Mung / Dominique Leone EP (2007)
MGMT / Time to Pretend / Oracular Spectacular (2008)
M83 / Kim & Jessie / Saturdays = Youth (2008)

Yeasayer / Sunrise / All Hour Cymbals (2007)
Studio / West Side / Yearbook 1 (2007)
Talking Heads / Once in a Lifetime / Remain in Light (1980)
Menomena / Cough Coughing / I am the Fun Blame Monster (2003)

Matthew Herbert Big Band / Misprints / Goodbye Swingtime (2003)
The Quantic Soul Orchestra / Stampede / Stampede (2003)
Seatbelts/Yoko Kano / Tank! (TV Stretch) / Cowboy Bebop – Tank! The! Best (2004)

The Tallest Man On Earth / Shallow Grave / Shallow Graves (2008)
Langhorne Slim / Restless / Langhorne Slim (2008)
Wilco / Forget The Flowers / Being There (1996)
Old Crow Medicine Show / James River Blues / Big Iron World (2006)
Ezra Furman & The Harpoons / I Wanna Be Ignored / Banging Down The Doors (2007)

Elbow / The Fix / The Seldom Seen Kid (2008)
Death Cab For Cutie / Grapevine Fires / Narrow Stairs (2008)
Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglo / This Low / The Swell Season (2005)
Bon Iver / Re: Stacks / For Emma, Forever Ago (2007)

The National / About Today / The Virginia EP (2008)

This is a centennial celebration of sorts. If to you an episode is a year… at any rate… one hundred 2-3 hour episodes ago, the little radio slipstream breathed its first breath. Of course if you consider that was 40 months ago, that’s not extremely impressive. But whatevs. It’s basically business as usual, although a little more upbeat: Some screaming guitar kicks, somehow mellowing out to eastern strains of trip and hip hop, some happy summery ditties, and then bringing the party back with some party rap and some quirky, peppy dance tunes. Lame longwinded explanations of moodshifts aside, one thing you can count on and that thing is this: awesomeness abounds.

Jay Reatard / My Shadow / Blood Visions (2006)

The Exploding Hearts / Sleeping Aides And Razorblades / Guitar Romantic (2003)
Les Savy Fav / Patty Lee / Lets Stay Friends (2007)
Blood on the Wall / Rize / Liferz (2007)
The Pixies / Monkey Gone To Heaven / Doolittle (1989)
The Clash / The Guns Of Brixton / London Calling (1979)
DeVotchKa / Head Honcho / A Mad and Faithful Telling (2008)
Max Harris & His Novelty Trio / Peg O’ My Heart / The Singing Detective (1986)

Portishead / We Carry On / Third (2008)
The Notwist / Alphabet / The Devil, You + Me (2008)
Me’shell NdegeOcello / The Sloganeer/ Paradise / The World Has Made Me The Man Of My Dreams (2007)

Bonobo / Flutter / Dial M for Monkey (2003)
Felt / Morris Day / Felt 2: A Tribute to Lisa Bonet (2005)
J Dilla / Time: The Donut of the Heart / Donuts (2006)
Erykah Badu / Soldier / New Amerykah Part One (4th World War) (2008)

Quiet Village / Free Rider / Silent Movie (2008)
Jamie Lidell / Another Day / Jim (2008)
Gonzales / Working Together / Soft Power (2008)
Saturday Looks Good To Me / Meet Me By The Water / All Your Summer Songs (2003)

The Honeydrips / (Lack Of) Love Will Tear Us Apart / Here Comes The Future (2007)
Mystery Jets / Young Love / Twenty One (2008)
Cut Copy / So Haunted / In Ghost Colours (2008)
Grace / Not Over Yet / If I Could Fly (1996)
Robyn / Be Mine! / Robyn (2005)

Dizzee Rascal / Sirens / Maths+English (2007)
Cadence Weapon / True Story / Afterparty Babies (2008)
Neon Neon / Trick For Treat (Feat. Spank Rock & Sean Tillmann) / Stainless Style (2008)
Lyrics Born / The World Is Calling / Everywhere At Once (2008)

TTC / Travailler (Orgasmic Remix) / You Don’t Know: Ninja Cuts CD (2008)
Best Fwends / Aaww-some (Johnny Siera Remix) / Alphabetically Arranged (2007)
Crystal Castles / Air War / Crystal Castles (2008)

Need New Body / Show Me Your Heart / UFO (2003)

Another one for y’all, finally. This puppy starts off drenched in 80s synths and melodrama, shakes that off at a circus and then wanders around in seasons of languid acoustics before briefly assaulting a cowboy.

Kate Bush / Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) / The Hounds of Love (1985)
Hooverphonic / Eden / Blue Wonder Power Milk (1998)
Maxïmo Park / Acrobat / A Certain Trigger (2005)
Why? / By Torpedo Or Crohn’s / Alopecia (2008)

The Deadly Snakes / High Prices Going Down / Porcella (2005)
Patrick Watson / Weight of the World / Close To Paradise (2006)
Man Man / The Ballad Of Butter Beans / Rabbit Habits (2008)
Frightened Rabbit / I Feel Better / The Midnight Organ Fight (2008)
The Dodos / Winter / Visiter (2008)

The Microphones / I Want Wind To Blow / The Glow, Pt. II (2001)
Adem / Bedside Table / Takes (2008)
Sun Kil Moon / Lost Verses / April (2008)
Maritime / Calm / We, the Vehicles (2005)
The Weakerthans / This Is a Fire Door Never Leave Open / Left and Leaving (2000)

The Cinematic Orchestra / Time And Space (feat. Lou Rhodes) / Ma Fleur (2007)
My Brightest Diamond / The Ice & The Storm / A Thousand Shark’s Teeth (2008)
Boy In Static / First Love / Violet (2007)
Working For A Nuclear Free City / Quiet Place / Businessmen & Ghosts (2007)

Caribou / Melody Day (Four Tet Remix) / Melody Day (2007)
Bon Iver / Skinny Love / For Emma, Forever Ago (2007)
Nina Nastasia And Jim White / The Day I Would Bury You / You Follow Me (2007)
Brakes / If I Should Die Tonight / The Beatific Visions (2006)
Silver Jews / Aloyisius, Bluegrass Drummer / Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea (2008)

Songs: Ohia / Farewell Transmision / The Magnolia Electric Co (1997)

In the meantime, pitchfork.tv is live, and, say what you will about pitchfork, this new extension of theirs is a pretty sweet place on the internet. Ever wished MuchMusic/MTV would actually cover good/interesting music? This is basically the equivalent to that in high quality whenever you want it on the old internet.

Apologies for the delay… working 8.5 hour days really reduces the amount of time I have to comb through old music and listen to new tunes and carefully (+ocd-ishly) arrange them into podcast playlists. Don’t you wish I was still a bum? At any rate, until I find a job where I can bring in my own tunes, I’m not fully confident I can keep up the bi-weekly episodes. But I will try!

This week’s selections run quite opposite to the electronicness of last time. We start with some manic, experimental pieces and then settle down into a king-size bed of vaguely folksy reverb that eventually expands into various forms of slightly surreal ballading, before being buried in a grim avalanche of craggy rock and roll.

Kim Hiorthøy / Beats Mistake / My Last Day (2007)
Gang Gang Dance / Nicoman / Rawwar EP (2007)
Kemialliset Ystävät / Superhimmeli / Kemialliset Ystävät (2007)
Liars / Sailing To Byzantium / Liars (2007)
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Black Mountain / Wucan / In The Future (2008)
The Ruby Suns / There Are Birds / Sea Lion (2008)
Son Lux / Break / At War With Walls & Mazes (2008)
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Plants and Animals / Lola Who? / with/avec EP (2007)
Band Of Horses / No One’s Gonna Love You / Cease To Begin (2007)
Fleet Foxes / English House / Sun Giant (2008)
Shearwater / Rooks / Rook (2008)
My Morning Jacket / Dondante / Z (2005)
Samamidon / Saro / All Is Well (2007)
Ola Podrida / Instead / Ola Podrida (2007)
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Joanna Newsom / Bridges and Balloons / The Milk-Eyed Mender (2004)
Orion Rigel Dommisse / Alice And Sarah / What I Want From You Is Sweet (2007)
Mountain Home / Comes, the Winter / Mountain Home (2007)
Frida Hyvönen / Came A Storm / Music From The Dance Performance Pudel (2007)
She & Him / Sentimental Heart / Volume One (2008)
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Robert Wyatt / Beautiful Peace / Comicopera (2007)
Deer Tick / Art Isn’t Real (City of Sin) / War Elephant (2007)
Richard Hawley / Serious / Lady’s Bridge (2007)
Drive-By Truckers / Two Daughters And A Beautiful Wife / Brighter Than Creation’s Dark (2008)
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss / Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us / Raising Sand (2007)
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Constantines / Our Age / Kensington Heights (2008)
Autolux / Angry Candy / Future Perfect (2004)
Evangelicals / Skeleton Man / The Evening Descends (2008)
The Gutter Twins / Idle Hands / Saturnalia (2008)
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds / Lie Down Here (And Be My Girl) / Dig Lazarus Dig (2008)

Perhaps this is a lame excuse for not having a show ready.. but in my defense I’ve been working full time for the first time in a while and all my musically fiddly energy went into knocking out these little mix cds to have with me in the car.. so I thought why not let other peoples in on the fun.

The Sweetness of the Beatness (mix cd edit)

all sweet beats, all the time
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1. Prosumer and Murat Tepeli – Serenity
2. Plej – Lay Of The Land)
3. Thomas Brinkmann – Meadow
4. PM Dawn – Set Adrift (Tittsworth Neutron Dance Remix)
5. M.I.A. – World Town
6. Hot Chip – Shake A Fist (.d. edit)
7. Kelley Polar – Entropy Reigns (in the Celestial City)
8. Hercules & Love Affair – Blind
9. Portable – Albatros
10. Georges Vert – Electric Bird
11. Zoo Brazil – Face
12. Stephan Bodzin – Kerosene
13. Gebr. Teichmann – Whateverman
14. Mu – Out Of Breach
15. Jackson And His Computer Band – Utopia
16. Mouse on Mars – Bib
17. Boxcutter – Fieldtrip
18. Luke Vibert – Comphex
19. Stendeck – Like Falling Crystals
20. Ricardo Villalobos – Enfants (Chants)
21. Mr. Raoul K – Le Cercle Peul (Original Mix)
22. Kenge Kenge – Kenge Kenge

Always Less Like Lasting (mix cd edit)

maybe mostly midtempo indie rock, but starts dancey, moves to spacey and then sparser anthemic stuff, before going a bit grimey.
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1. Simian Mobile Disco – I Believe
2. DJ Mehdi – I Am Somebody (feat. Chromeo)
3. Groove Armada – Get Down
4. Shantel – Disko Partizani
5. Vampire Weekend – M79
6. Celebration – Evergreen
7. Charlotte Hatherley – Be Thankful
8. Beach House – D.A.R.L.I.N.G.
9. Islaja – Pete P
10. Gravenhurst – Song Among the Pine
11. Ned Collette – The Country With A Smile
12. Destroyer – Shooting Rockets (From the Desk of Night’s Ape)
13. Yeasayer – 2080
14. Final Fantasy – Song Song Song
15. The Bird & The Bee – Polite Dance Song
16. Marnie Stern – Every Single Line Means Something
17. Sons & Daughters – Gilt Complex
18. King Khan & The Shrines – Welfare Bread
19. The Mountain Goats – Lovecraft In Brooklyn
20. Mewithoutyou – In A Sweater Poorly Knit

Nebulanemone (mix cd edit)

a smooth, trippy start, then some rockin beats, before a lot of hip hop
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1. Biosphere – Kobresia
2. Future Sound Of London – Everyone In The World Is Doing
3. Fatima Meets Kuriaki – Skyline
4. Shape of Broad Minds – Electric Blue
5. Junior Boys – First Time
6. LCD Soundsystem – North American Scum
7. Von Südenfed – The Rhinohead
8. The Chemical Brothers – The Private Psychedelic Reel
9. Luke Vibert – Mate Tron
10. Burial – Raver
11. Alias – Angel of Solitude
12. Earthling – 1st Transmission
13. Sole and the Skyrider Band – The Bones Of My Pets
14. Subtle – The Mercury Craze
15. K’naan – What’s Hardcore?
16. Kanye West – Flashing Lights (feat. Dwele)
17. CunninLynguists – Dance For Me
18. Quantic – Absence Heard, Presence Felt
19. Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings – 100 Days, 100 Nights
20. Pharoahe Monch – Push (feat. Showtime, Mela Machinko, Tower Of Power)
21. Lupe Fiasco – Dumb It Down

Jacked Up Hobos on the 10:15 (mix cd edit)

Rock n roll moving from raw kinda stuff to uppity indie rock pop
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1. Les Savy Fav – Brace Yourself
2. 12 Rods – Red
3. Black Heart Procession – Not Just Words
4. The La’s – Feelin’
5. Black Lips – Bad Kids
6. Primal Scream – Rocks
7. Dillinger Escape Plan – Milk Lizard
8. Klaxons – Gravity’s Rainbow
9. Future Of The Left – Manchasm
10. Saul Williams – Tr(n)igger
11. Le Tigre – Deceptacon
12. White Williams – New Violence
13. Cut Copy – Going Nowhere
14. Whitey – Wrap It Up
15. Cassius – Toop Toop
16. White Rabbits – Kid on My Shoulders
17. Pale Young Gentlemen – Clap Your Hands
18. Josh Ritter – Rumors
19. A.C. Newman – The Town Halo
20. Bees – Left Foot Stepdown
21. Born Ruffians – Hedonistic Me
22. Lucky Soul – Lips Are Unhappy
23. The Tough Alliance – First Class Riot
24. Of Montreal – Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse
25. Loney, Dear – I Will Call You Lover Again

This one: much less with the jibber jabber as it’s a 2 hour nonstop electronic dancing music experience! House, techno, breaks, some hip hop and pop, and a whole lot of goodness. Watch in astonishment as the songs flow together like orange juice and grape juice swirling in a river of fruity bliss!! Marvel at the sweetness of the beatness!!! OH! DEAR! GOD! YES!

Phil’s torrent of songs is here (his 2006 one gave me the idea to do my own), and I’d also like to mention that this episode includes the 1000th (and 1001st!) unique artist to be featured on Radio Slipstream.

Prosumer and Murat Tepeli / Serenity / Serenity (2008)
Plej / Lay Of The Land / Electronic Music From The Swedish Left Coast (2003)
Thomas Brinkmann / Meadow / When Horses Die (2008)
PM Dawn / Set Adrift (Tittsworth Neutron Dance Remix) (2007)
M.I.A. / World Town / Kala (2007)
Subtle / Unlikely Rock Shock / ExitingARM (2008)
Clark / Volcan Veins / Turning Dragon (2008)
Klute / Learning Curve / The Emperor’s New Clothes (2007)
Hot Chip / Shake A Fist (.d. edit) / Made In The Dark (2008)
Kelley Polar / Entropy Reigns (in the Celestial City) / I Need You to Hold On While the Sky Is Falling (2008)
Hercules & Love Affair / Blind / Hercules & Love Affair (2008)
Portable / Albatros / Powers Of Ten (2007)
Georges Vert / Electric Bird / Milky Disco (2007)
Zoo Brazil / Face / Face (2007)
Stephan Bodzin / Kerosene / Liebe Ist … (2007)
Gebr. Teichmann / Whateverman / The Number Of The Beat (2007)
Mu / Out Of Breach / Out Of Breach (Manchester’s Revenge) (2005)
Jackson And His Computer Band / Utopia / Smash (2005)
Mouse on Mars / Bib / Iaora Tahiti (1995)
Boxcutter / Fieldtrip / Glyphic (2007)
Luke Vibert / Comphex / Chicago, Detroit, Redruth (2007)
Stendeck / Like Falling Crystals / Faces (2007)
Ricardo Villalobos / Enfants (Chants) (2008)
Mr. Raoul K / Le Cercle Peul (Original Mix) (2008)
Kenge Kenge / Kenge Kenge / Introducing Kenge Kenge (2007)

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Back into the swing of things! As per Mr Normal, a delectable selection of that what’s been making my ears dream. Chilled electronica to danceybits to quirky poky pop and mellowed out epics, with a bit of dirt (delicious dirt!) tossed on the tail end.

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Aphex Twin / Xtal / Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (1992)
SCSI-9 / Elegia / The Line Of Nine (2006)
Gustav / One hand Mona / Rettet die Wale (2004)
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Knife / Pass This On / Deep Cuts (2004)
Simian Mobile Disco / I Believe / Attack Decay Sustain Release (2007)
DJ Mehdi / I Am Somebody (feat. Chromeo) / Lucky Boy (2006)
Groove Armada / Get Down / Soundboy Rock (2007)
Shantel / Disko Partizani / Disko Partizani (2007)
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The Boggs / Poor Things / Forts (2007)
Vampire Weekend / M79 / Vampire Weekend (2008)
Celebration / Evergreen / The Modern Tribe (2007)
Charlotte Hatherley / Be Thankful / The Deep Blue (2007)
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Beach House / D.A.R.L.I.N.G. / Devotion (2008)
Islaja / Pete P / Ulual Yyy (2007)
Gravenhurst / Song Among the Pine / The Western Lands (2007)
Ned Collette / The Country With A Smile / Future Suture (2007)
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Destroyer / Shooting Rockets (From the Desk of Night’s Ape) / Trouble in Dream (2008)
Yeasayer / 2080 / All Hour Cymbals (2007)
Final Fantasy / Song Song Song / He Poos Clouds (2006)
The Bird & The Bee / Polite Dance Song / Please Clap Your Hands (2007)
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Marnie Stern / Every Single Line Means Something / In Advance of the Broken Arm (2007)
Sons & Daughters / Gilt Complex / This Gift (2008)
King Khan & The Shrines / Welfare Bread / What Is?! (2007)
The Mountain Goats / Lovecraft In Brooklyn / Heretic Pride (2008)
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Mewithoutyou / In A Sweater Poorly Knit / Brother, Sister (2006)

Radio Slipstream counts down what it sees as the best albums of 2007! The tip top of my top albums of 2007 list that was fiddled with constantly throughout the year (and in its entirety went up to 280…uhps). Sure it’s a bit late, but that just means it’s more accurate a list than everyone else’s, right? Yeahuh.

Read on for the results

25: Curses (Future of the Left)

24: You Follow Me (Nina Nastasia and Jim White)

23: 23 (Blonde Redhead)

22: Armchair Apocrypha (Andrew Bird)

21: The Stage Names (Okkervil River)

20: Five Roses (Miracle Fortress)

19: I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead (El-P)

18: Dirty Acres (Cunninlynguists)

17: Emotionalism (The Avett Brothers)

16: Night Falls Over Kortedala (Jens Lekman)

15: Sole and the Skyrider Band (Sole and the Skyrider Band)

As with anything released on the Anticon label, this disc explores a (non)brand of hip hop that’s likely to rough up your understanding of the genre a bit (broad as that genre might be). Sole spits the lyrics in a rapid, arrhythmic staccato stream that’s not particularly musical but suits his rough voice and irritable mood. The beats from Skyrider are murky, drenched in back alleys and samples of violins, rock, ye oldies, and even opera; layered together it sounds not unlike DJ Shadow or Amon Tobin united with Current 93. Between pounding and sparse, angry and bemoaning, the sound is processed to be raw and the meaning only dimly aware of hope.

14: Spiderman of the Rings (Dan Deacon)

This album is particularly defined by the character of its creator. If I hadn’t seen this video, I might not have put in the effort to see it as pure unadulterated glee rather than something cheap and/or annoying. So he seems all kinds of zany DIY madness, with possible overtones of insanity. In reality, Dan’s got a Masters in musical composition; he’s just coming at things from a unique angle and has quite a wonderful sense of humour. There’s something so unpretentious about this that it can’t help but get me grinning. And championing fun and innocence so honestly without coming off like a self involved ass is pretty awesome. Catchy, in-your-face, retro futuristic absurdist fantasy techno for 6-year-olds. Or something.

13: From Here We Go Sublime (The Field)

Track 7, The Deal, is ten minutes long and essentially repeats the same 15 second phrase over its entire length with minor variation (after a one minute build). It’s also one of the most compelling songs I heard this year. The base sample is so utterly beautiful it becomes enchanting and the minor variations are effortless, but exciting. The other songs follow a similar pattern, though they’re all a bit more active about it. Combining multitudes of bright samples cut down and glitched up over steady backbeats and dripping with airy, ethereal synths, or are those samples, too? You could define it as microhouse, glitch, techno, or even look toward the subtle trance-like epic builds for categorization inspiration. It sounds to me like the brightest sun in the clearest sky shining warmth on the coldest winter ice.

12: Foley Room (Amon Tobin)

A concept album in the vaguest sense, Foley Room sees Amon Tobin setting aside the samples that defined his first four albums and setting out with a mic to record all manner of natural sounds from a variety of sources. The album ends up as a channelled cacophony, drilling itself even deeper into paranoid atmospherics than its predecessors, but occasionally dipping into the melodies of dusty gramophone music. Foley Room is not entirely comprised of conceptually themed samples in the style of Matthew Herbert, rather, it’s a broad exploration and celebration of the varied noisemakers all over our world and how they relate to music. As a collection of music, though, the album is equally successful, sounding almost like a soundtrack for some hundred year old steampunk industrial revolution.

11: Rumpelzirkus (Kalabrese)

Minimal house is a big thing these days. Long, repetitive sleepy dance tunes with little clicks and a light hint of melody. It can be good, even awesome, but no one can ever be blamed for not liking it. Kalabrese (Zurich-based producer Sascha Winkler) takes the template of spaced out house music and decorates it with ample touches of funk, a smattering of dub and techno and some wtf that makes semiminimal music much more fun. He opines about (among other things) chicken farms and the pain of losing his chair, and the tone is irreverent but serious. There are some downright danceable grooves, mixed with quirky experiments and even some compelling melodic swells to satiate most people’s need for purebred enjoyment.

10: Untrue (Burial)

A steady clacking beat carries most of this record by anonymous dubstep producer Burial through the scary, uneasy side of squalid urban nightlife. Ghostly voices of manufactured radio passion fall against the murky thuds and strains of eerie darkness. The songs here often flow together, often seem not too different one from another, but throughout they build on the same compelling atmosphere. It is cold, lonely and somewhat uneasy. Possibly meant for dancing, to me it could only soundtrack a trip onto the dancefloor if it was lost in a hazy, slow motion stupor. The album sounds more like it’s heard from outside the club on the way back home, the cheesepop R&B samples muffled like a fragment of a memory.

9: Andorra (Caribou)

Andorra was carefully constructed entirely on the computer of Hamilton, Ontario native Dan Snaith, who now lives in Britain and has a master’s degree in mathematics. His live shows, and aspects of previous albums, are basically an orgy of frantic drumming and not overly concerned with melody. On Andorra, though, that spastic madness is dipped in a gloopy coat of sunshine and glee—giving us a bright pop record that sounds like it might have come out of a drug trip in the swingin’ 60s. And it’s great! Layers and layers of carefully arranged sounds: catchy, immense, grandiose, sparkling joy. Definitely a record for the summer.

8: Kala (M.I.A.)

Arular, Maya Arulpragasam’s first album, was a miniature sensation. It fused the rhythms of her homeland (Sri Lanka) with the electronics of modern dance clubs while sounding ultra-chic instead of like an awkward experiment in worldbeat. That her father is a Tamil Tiger and her incisive lyrics reflected a view of the world unfamiliar to many also certainly helped to draw attention. Kala continues in much the same way, perhaps moving slightly toward a more Western sound (there’s even almost a Pixies cover). But it’s still heavily informed by musics made to make you move your body, and perfected over centuries (that is, non-western). It can be noticeably repetitive, but if you concentrate on shakin’ that thang you really shouldn’t mind. Maya’s confidence and the swagger in her lyrical delivery is almost as infectious as the lively backing tracks.

7: For Emma, Forever Ago (Bon Iver)

Justin Vernon’s self-released solo record (which he mostly wrote and recorded over four months hidden away in a remote cabin) is a delicate, haunting beauty. It takes the common palette of a guitar-toting folk balladeer (Will Oldham is an obvious point of reference) and spreads it lightly toward soul and gospel, wearing its emotion proud and poignant. Vernon’s voice is raw, even shrill; the melodies, his ardent wails and occasional layers of overdub render it remarkably affecting. Even if the obtuse lyrics leave few clues about many of the songs’ subject matter, the album title itself succinctly conveys the loss and longing contained in the ragged guitar swells, fragile melodies, and straight-up beauty found within.

6: Hissing Fauna, You are the Destroyer (Of Montreal)

The third Of Montreal album since they went ‘hi-fi’ by adding liberal dabbling in synthesized sound to their palette (and 8th overall), Hissing Fauna is a psychedelic and deceivingly upbeat collection of bubbling and catchy tunes. Under that, though, is a starkly engaging retelling of Kevin Barnes’ break-up and trip to Norway, “trying to restructure my character, because it had become vile to its creator.” He speaks with eloquent forthrightness about his emotional turmoil, leaving the listener alternating between empathy, pity, amazement and amusement. Happily, the album isn’t a wallowing, sorry-for-itself tearfest, but rather a celebration of life with all its inherent scratches and scars intact. The hopeful tone only hinted at by the lyrics is reflected in the lilting, squelching arrangements and infectious melodies.

5: The Shepherd’s Dog (Iron and Wine)

Sam Beam’s voice is like cedar smoke from a campfire buried somewhere in the Ozarks. On his last albums that voice combined with gentle swooshes of acoustic guitar, like the song of crickets and warblers. Then it did it again. And again. It was beautiful, but a bit too repetitive. This time around (following stylistically on 05’s Woman King EP), he diversifies the backing band, and to great effect: getting us out of that faraway forest and taking us through households and wilderness, city and country. It all still sounds very rustic and dusty, but with a real drive and energy to get us from one place to the next. The arrangements (lots of pedal steel, organs, accordion, quiet drumming, piano, and still those acoustic strums) give the songs a perfect bed as they lilt, swell and sway through open fields, natural aromas, breezes and candlelight. Shepherd’s Dog gently carries you into another world, one I sometimes wish I could stay in.

4: Random Spirit Lover (Sunset Rubdown)

These songs are unconventionally orchestrated, paced and sung; my brother actually thought it was meant to be funny when I played it for him. It’s a bit like a twisted carnival somehow exploding into music. If you can get past the potentially off-putting uniqueness, though, there are intricate and surprisingly catchy songs with lyrics that are very much worth paying attention to. It’s a bit hard to describe why I like this album so much, but I think it’s mainly the energy, the wild abandon with which the band approaches the strangely epic songs, even through the quiet moments. The grunts, squeals and yelps from instruments and voices alike are touching and invigorating; a display of beauty from an organized caterwaul and a meditation on humanity and society laced with complex metaphor and mythological imagery.

3: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Spoon)

Spoon has a singular sound, but they’re always able to find a slightly new angle to explore those punchy, syncopated beats from. Gax5 (reportedly named for the sound of staccato piano chords) shows Brit Daniel and friends at the top of their game, sticking to their signature sound but expanding it significantly. It’s more direct than Gimme Fiction and more varied – giving us some nice bouncy horns and also recalling the raw sound of their earlier albums. Discarding any silly comparisons, what GaGaGaGaGa’s really all about is catchy as hell, fun funky piano guitar pop with a deliciously rough edge hiding out below. It’s both a succinct summary of Spoon’s talent and possibly their best album yet—and that’s no mean feat.

2: In Rainbows (Radiohead)

Put simply, In Rainbows is full of great songs. There’s a revelatory joy and soulfulness not traditionally associated with the band flowing through most of the tracks. It is an album by a band who is comfortable with their sound, not trying to shock or surprise us, just playing naturally. The songs are diverse yet contained, rambunctious and climactic or delicate and haunting—sometimes at the same time. That In Rainbows strikes a perfect balance between these extremes and defies easy categorization is a definite part of what makes it a great album. The production helps, too, bringing out a bright, organic sound that sounds to me something like fresh-cut veggies. Just generally brilliant.

1: Boxer (The National)

The National really hit it big in 2007. Their last (and third) album Alligator was a sleeper-hit in 2005; it was largely ignored initially, but steadily picked up fans and accolades over the following couple years until eventually becoming a mini indie sensation (even getting them an opening spot for hipster favourites the Arcade Fire). Anticipation and expectation (hype!) were high for their next album and when Boxer hit the ears of the world, it quickly garnered critical and popular acclaim. The National played at sold out venues, appeared on Letterman, and probably even sold some copies of their new album (research pending).

That’s the macrocosm of the story of The National within the independent music community. My personal experience isn’t all that different. I heard Alligator on recommendation, liked it enough to rank it #5 on my top albums of 2005, then liked it more and more. I fell in love with the band and their strange mystique: the smoky, urban middleclass placelessness. They seemed to me more honest, more listenable and more intriguing than just about anybody else putting out music.

I was anticipating Boxer BIGtime, but prepared for disappointment (because when you follow the number of bands I do, it happens a lot). Boxer, however, did everything exactly right to fuel my fandom even further. So I listened to it constantly and loudly, saw the band twice in concert, hummed and sang along at all hours, and wondered at how I could find such strong emotional connections between myself and the lyrical and musical content of the songs. Ya can’t really ask for much more from an album.

So what is it that makes me spill out such gluts of praise?

First off, the arrangements and musicianship are brilliant. Each drum hit, sigh of distortion, rich bass note… every feathery guitar arpeggio, piano chord, violin tremolo, horn spike… they all rise and fall together perfectly, creating tension, softening, tightening. And despite the rich, multi-layered arrangements barely a note is wasted.

The atmosphere created by the instruments is a consistent one, (and for this, Matt Berninger’s deep voice counts as well). It’s dark; not in the way absence of light creates darkness, but in the way layers of paint create darkness. A darkness made with lightness, richness, and colour still swilling under the surface. Much like the heady and strangely sweet air of the city at night. While consistent tones give the risk of blandness, Boxer keeps moving just enough, between urgent charging and delicate floating, to keep interest piqued and still seem like a cohesive whole.

Lyrics are a very important part of Boxer. Berninger never quite says it straight—he’s got a real knack for nebulous little images that could mean a number of different things, but mean them all very well. “I’ve been dragging around from the end of your coat for two weeks; everywhere you go is swirling, everything you say has water under it,” he sings on Brainy. He dabbles in the details of implied feelings and undefined moments, and applies great number of really wonderful turns of phrase.

It’s a very impressionistic approach, but the picture it builds in the end, for me at least, is one of listlessness in a suburban existence defined by a pre-delineated way of life, and a half-hearted struggle to break that tedium or at least navigate through it toward something partly meaningful or fulfilling. “Another uninnocent elegant fall into the unmagnificent lives of adults.” There are references to growing up and losing the innocent fun of childhood in several tracks. No wonder that, as a recent university graduate confusedly hanging on to the last corner of irresponsibility, I feel I can relate.

My favourite thing about The National’s lyrics on this, and other albums, is the way glints of optimism and humour shine through, even when it’s dry, confusing and absurd, or ironic optimism turned around at the last minute. It’s a lot like life, that way. “So worry not; all things are well. We’ll be alright. We have our looks and perfume on.” The songs feel very real. No posturing, proselytizing or trying too hard. It is what it is, nothing more.

Berninger’s low, languorous voice and delivery fit the lyrics and subject matter, which fits the heaviness and resonant intricacy of the arrangements. It all fits snugly together, both aesthetically and thematically, in a way that’s a rare accomplishment. Some might find the sound of the album consistent to the point of dullness, but Boxer excels because the National adhere to their fairly strict formula and explore it completely. It is a truly wonderful album.

And the drums!

ANYWAY

in the meantime, here is, sans any sort of commentary, my 101 favourite songs of 2007, unordered, 1 per artist. Now it would be pointless to just list ‘em… unless of course I provided means for procurement, and I have done exactly that, in the form of this torrent which contains all of the songs (in roughly 818 mb)

2080 (Yeasayer)
23 (Blonde Redhead)
Always (Amon Tobin)
Apnea Obstructiva (Savath & Savalas)
Atom (British Sea Power)
Back On The Calder Line (Bracken)
Bad Kids (Black Lips)
Beautiful Burnout (Underworld)
Brace Yourself (Les Savy Fav)
Bubbles (Dizzee Rascal)
Chainsaw (Aidan Baker)
Clickety Clack (Sage Francis)
Cold Days From the Birdhouse (The Twilight Sad)
Colleen (Joanna Newsom)
Conqueror (Jesu)
D.A.N.C.E. (Justice)
Dance For Me (CunninLynguists)
Deserter (Matthew Dear)
Disaster (The Besnard Lakes)
Dumb It Down (Lupe Fiasco feat. Gemstones & Graham Burris)
Ed Is A Portal (Akron/Family)
Electric Blue (Shape of Broad Minds)
Elephant Gun (Beirut)
Family Feud (Von Südenfed)
Fancy Footwork (Chromeo)
Fiery Crash (Andrew Bird)
First Class Riot (The Tough Alliance)
Flashing Lights (Kanye West feat. Dwele)
For Reverend Green (Animal Collective)
Forces Of Victory (Gogol Bordello)
Heart it Races (Architecture In Helsinki)
Heart Of Hearts (!!!)
House by the Sea (Iron and Wine)
Houseclouds (Liars)
I Need You (Kathy Diamond)
Impossible Germany (Wilco)
In Our Talons (Bowerbirds)
In The City (Chromatics)
Isn’t Life Strange (The Clientele)
I’ve Been Out Walking (Nina Nastasia And Jim White)
Kanske Ar Jag Kar I Dig (Jens Lekman)
Left Foot Stepdown (Bees)
Lips Are Unhappy (Lucky Soul)
Manchasm (Future Of The Left)
Mankind Failed (Motiivi Tuntematon)
March Into the Sea (Modest Mouse)
Mate Tron (Luke Vibert)
Maybe Lately (Miracle Fortress)
Medusa (Ulrich Schnauss)
Melody Day (Caribou)
Murderer (Low)
None Shall Pass (Aesop Rock)
Not The Same Shoes (Kalabrese feat. Kate)
Numbers (Booka Shade)
Oh Yeah (The Cliks)
One Two Three Four (Feist)
Out There (Studio)
Overpowered (Roisin Murphy)
Overture (Patrick Wolf)
Paper Planes (M.I.A.)
Paranoia In Bb Major (The Avett Brothers)
Paris Is Burning (St. Vincent)
Pioneer To The Falls (Interpol)
Premier Encuentro Latino-Americano (Ricardo Villalobos)
Rainbowarriors (Cocorosie)
Raver (Burial)
Re: Stacks (Bon Iver)
Reckoner (Radiohead)
Rotten Hell (Menomena)
Rumors (Josh Ritter)
Saints (Gravenhurst)
Same Old Drag (The Apples In Stereo)
Saturday Waits (Loney, Dear)
Saturn Strobe (Pantha du Prince)
Silvia (Marissa Nadler)
Sin Exagerar (Calle 13 feat. Tego Calderón)
Singer Sing (Dean & Britta)
Slow Show (The National)
Snakes and Ladders (Basia Bulat)
So I Felt (MIA)
Someone Great (LCD Soundsystem)
Sweet Decay (Gabriel Ananda)
Swimming In The Swamp (The National Lights)
Take Your Medicine (Cloud Cult)
The Bones Of My Pets (Sole and the Skyrider Band)
The Deal (The Field)
The Lost Brigade (Ted Leo and The Pharmacists)
The Overly Dramatic Truth (El-P)
The Past Is a Grotesque Animal (Of Montreal)
The Troglodyte Wins (Busdriver)
To Build A Home (The Cinematic Orchestra feat. Patrick Watson)
Unless It’s Kicks (Okkervil River)
Warmer Climes (Boat Club)
Weight of My Love (David Thomas Broughton vs. 7 Hertz)
Welcome Home, Son (Radical Face)
Wham City (Dan Deacon)
Whatever you want (Club 8 )
Winged/Wicked Things (Sunset Rubdown)
You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb (Spoon)
You! Me! Dancing! (Los Campesinos!)
Your Lips And You (Bikeride)

ALREADY OUT…ISH
A couple important 2008 albums have already dribbled out onto the internet. We are not surprised, nor particularly displeased. The most notable for me is the new British Sea Power disc entitled Do You Like Rock Music? (2.12 on rough trade) It’d definitely worth a listen and a thankful change of pace from their last one, the beautiful but plodding Open Season. The Mountain Goats’ Heretic Pride (2.19 on 4ad) is also a notable one; though I haven’t spent much time with it, it seems to be more of the same (which is usually a good thing where John Darnielle is involved) with production flourishes expanding a bit beyond The Sunset Tree and trademark thoughtful lyrics.

Goldfrapp’s Seventh Tree (2.26 on mute) sees her going back to more ethereal territory than her last two albums, a welcome return to some approximation of her brilliant debut Felt Mountain. Beach House’s Devotion (2.26 on carpark) seems a bit more lush and busy than their rather haunting debut. Magnetic Fields’ Distortion (1.15 on nonesuch) was definitely enjoyable on a cursory listen. And Sons and Daughters’ This Gift (1.28 on domino) started off wicked strong but had trouble keeping the awesome on till the end.

SOME THINGS TO LOOK FORWARD TO
There are albums coming out every week. Tons of ‘em. And despite all the people too eager to proclaim that music these days is crappy, if you ignore the radio and just throw yourself into the bottomless pit of musical obsession, there are many, many gems to be found. It’s basically futile trying to predict which albums will end up being the best, and with the number of bands I love, it’s just as pointless to talk about all the upcoming releases I’m interested in. So, I’m going to touch on what’s coming out of the hands and mouths of some of the bands that have been with me for a while, on my top bands list for many years now.

Although I tend to forget about it more than I should, there is a new Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds album itching to get out there. It’s called Dig, Lazarus, Dig and you can already listen to the title track on the official seedy site. It’s sounding rough and grimy not unlike Grinderman with some throwbacks to garage rock of yore and some wonderful lyrics. It’ll be officially out on March 8th, so that means it’ll probably leak somewhere around tomorrow? And then with any luck Nick and his Seeds will finally stage some concerts in North America—something I’ve been waiting for with varying degrees of patience since he became one of my most revered artists 4.5 years back.

It’s been almost six years since the release of The Notwist’s latest album Neon Golden. They’re finally giving us something new in late spring (if you’re not counting 13+God). The Wrens, who gave us The Meadowlands and in so doing gave me one of my very favourite rock albums of all time (and were, unknown to me at the time, playing in the same building the night I saw Notwist live in Toronto), might give us a new album this year—they’ve been saying that for a while now though, so don’t get too excited.

R.E.M.’s new album Accelerate is being hailed as a return to their rocky roots and a lot of the songs have already been played live so we can have an idea of what to expect. Jacknife Lee is producing, though, and he’s not got the best track record: from all I can tell, stripping both U2 and Bloc Party of their interesting qualities, and giving us Kasabian, Snow Patrol and the Editors (a.k.a. oh so mediocre) is the best thing he’s done. I’m not gonna bother getting my hopes up, but ya never know.

Elbow and Doves are two bands I tend to think of together, and just like 2005, they both have albums coming out this year. Elbow’s well-titled The Seldom Seen Kid comes out in March, but information on Doves new disc is sparse, so probably not till a bit later. Sigur Ros are also expected to release a studio album this year, and it’s being produced by Flood. I can only hope they can reclaim the heights of Agaetis Byrjun. I suggest a little more intricacy and creativity, a little less bombast and whining. I hope they can do me proud.

On the oft overlooked hip hop side of things, Big Boi (of Outkast) has a solo disc allegedly coming up, though there’s not too many details, other than that the first single was supposed to be out by now. Andre 3000 might also have new stuff, but let’s face it these guys are taking it real slow these days. The hip hop I’m most looking forward to, personally (if Anticon even counts as hip hop), is ExitingArm, the new album from Subtle due out in May. It will complete the Hour Hero Yes trilogy that began with A New White.

Electronic music for me tends to not work the same way. I don’t find myself anticipating too many techno/house/ambient etc releases… I am more likely to hear about tracks/albums after they’ve already leaked and gotten approved by some series of random internet music junkies. This is a bit of a new policy since I was hotly anticipating Twine’s new album that someone said was going to come out last year, and then I suddenly couldn’t find any info on it anywhere. I’m sure there’ll be great stuff, though, because my anticipation or lack thereof won’t change that.

There are some synth driven releases I do need to tip, though. One of my favourite aspects under the whole umbrella of electronic music (one might call it a subgenre) is trip-hop, even though there’s not all that much linking it to electronica. While the genre per se has largely died, elements of its aesthetic are still making appearances (such as Burial and Various). But! If trip hop is dead then why are Massive Attack and Portishead both releasing albums this year? (Allegedly MA’s The Weather Underground will be released in the summer, though I’m not crossing any fingers, and Portishead’s first album in 11 years is reportedly complete and will be finally released in April). Not to mention The Prodigy… no seriously, there’s not really any reason to mention them.

OUR HOME AND NATIVE LAND
As a proud Canadian, it’s important to turn an inward eye at my own country’s burgeoning indie scene, because there are a number of things to keep an eye on (even if, like me, you’re not that excited about Jason Collett and Islands).

First (and in this case in very particular order), The Constantines have a new album coming out (April, allegedly, on Arts&Crafts)! They’re a strong three for three so far, with the middle one being one of my favourite albums of all time. If they can approach the heights of Shine a Light, I will be ecstatic. I’ll also probably get the chance to see them live for the seventh time.

Ever since his performance at LOLA, I’ve been a bit in love with Owen Pallet (aka Final Fantasy), and his new album tentatively titled Heartland (which was first announced in 2006) should find its way into our ears this year. Owen’s one of those dudes whose live show really gels in a way that his recorded output doesn’t quite manage to (hopefully not just because his looping pedal talent is so uber), so I’m looking at this one as a big opportunity.

Since a year can’t go by in which Spencer Krug doesn’t release some sort of album (or Dan Boeckner either), look for a new Wolf Parade in the first half of the year (hopefully!). This one has seen some delay, too, as most of the songs have been played on tour and it was mostly recorded in May of last year. The problem with record labels and their outdated methods of distribution is much apparent for Mr. Krug: when he does interviews he’s almost always put the material up for discussion out of his mind months before to work on something new. And it’s almost always rather good.

13 Blues for Thirteen Moons by Thee Silver Mt. Zion, or whatever they’re calling themselves now, will come out March 11 on Constellation. Efrim seems to have left Godspeed You Black Emperor out in the cold, but that’s fine by me because I actually like these guys better. Even though they sound really pretentious on paper, their live shows are one of the most ridiculously inspiring experiences experiencable. You feel like you’re freaking part of them and they’re part of the world, man. On CD, they struggle a bit, but there’s usually enough awesome moments to make it oh so very worthwhile.

The Born Ruffians, who I had the pleasure of seeing opening up for Caribou earlier this year, are releasing Red, Yellow And Blue (2.26, warp). It’s their debut album, and while it could go either way, I’m really looking forward to it, because they’re a really fun bunch of guys with oodles of potential.

And that’s about it for now, except to mention that hometown heroes the Junior Boys (who are absolutely brilliant) have hinted that some kind of release will be revealed very soon. Knowing them it could be just some EP full of remixes, but it’s been a few years, they might have another album up their sleeves.

And that’s it for now.

[NOTE: As of Jan 3, 2008, the mp3 has been fixed so it is no longer full of blips and artifacts]

This one’s got a flow, yo! Bit of a counterpoint to the pop and rocking of the last episode… Starting electronic with some ambient and spacey stuff, then into some more thomping dancey tunes, easing back a bit and moving into some odd mellow/raw hip hop, and then into some more polished, poppy melodic hip hop, and why not cap it off with an absolute banger.

Happy Everything.

Biosphere / Kobresia / Substrata (2001)
Future Sound Of London / Everyone In The World Is Doing / Dead Cities (1996)
Fatima Meets Kuriaki / Skyline / Intelligent Toys 4 (2007)
Shape of Broad Minds / Electric Blue / Craft of the Lost Art (2007)
Junior Boys / First Time / So This Is Goodbye (2006)

LCD Soundsystem / North American Scum / Sound Of Silver (2007)
Von Südenfed / The Rhinohead / Tromatic Reflexxions (2007)
The Chemical Brothers / The Private Psychedelic Reel / Dig Your Own Hole (1997)
Luke Vibert / Mate Tron / Mate Tron (2007)
Burial / Raver / Untrue (2007)

Pantha du Prince / Steiner im Flug / This Bliss (2007)
Underworld / Glam Bucket / Oblivion With Bells (2007)
Booka Shade / Numbers / DJ Kicks (2007)
Gorro / Seventeen / No Western (2007)

Alias / Angel of Solitude / The Other Side of the Looking (2002)
Earthling / 1st Transmission / Radar (1995)
Sole and the Skyrider Band / The Bones Of My Pets / Sole and the Skyrider Band (2007)
Subtle / The Mercury Craze / For Hero: For Fool (2006)

K’naan / What’s Hardcore? / Dusty Foot Philosopher (2005)
Kanye West / Flashing Lights (feat. Dwele) / Graduation (2007)
CunninLynguists / Dance For Me / Dirty Acres (2007)
Quantic / Absence Heard, Presence Felt / An Announcement to Answer (2006)
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings / 100 Days, 100 Nights / 100 Days, 100 Nights (2007)
Pharoahe Monch / Push (feat. Showtime, Mela Machinko, Tower Of Power) / Desire (2007)

Lupe Fiasco / Dumb It Down / The Cool (2007)

Ok, I know not everyone likes making lists of things, but most hardcore music fans will make themselves one as the year comes to an end, or at the very least read about 30 of them. It’s odd because the more I think about them, the more kinda lame they are for various reasons. Especially the music review sites, because for an album to do well by consensus it has to be one that everybody on staff already likes, therefore many of us will have already heard of. Not to mention, what more meaningless thing can be said about a work of art than ‘it is #4 on our top albums list this year.” But quite a few people and admittedly myself really do care for some reason. Metacritic has already started collecting the top tens of all the major music publications.

And yes you will have one from me soon enough, too. But mine will be different… although I’ve actually been working on it since before the end of last year-adding and shuffling albums as they were heard, reheard or reevaluated, I’m going to wait till the year is totally done to put it up, because I want to make sure I’ve heard as much as I can from other people’s lists (those of individuals are almost always more interesting than those in magazines), especially considering Lupe Fiasco’s new and quite good album isn’t even out yet and has barely even leaked.

I still haven’t decided how many albums to include.. probably 50 just to keep it long but not ridiculous (the list currently under construction goes up to 225).

Anyway, I would like to be able to see people’s best albums of 2007 lists as written 20 years from now. I think they would be very different (not just significantly shorter). I wonder, though, if they would be more diverse as people forget the hype and focus on what moves them personally, or more similar as certain albums are accepted into the elite. Then I have to wonder if I’ll care in 10 years.

Here we go.. a new episode to go with the new site! This is a pretty awesome collection of songs moving from weird spacey rock into hard, crazy, boppin rock and dance rock, then going all indie-pop (in a good way) on yo ass. Enjoy!

Shellac Of North America / The End Of Radio / Excellent Italian Greyhound (2007)
Jesu / Conqueror / Conqueror (2007)

Les Savy Fav / Brace Yourself / Lets Stay Friends (2007)
12 Rods / Red / Gay? (1997)
Deerhunter / Fluorescent Grey / Fluorescent Grey EP (2007)
Black Heart Procession / Not Just Words / The Spell (2006)
The La’s / Feelin’ / The La’s (1990)

Black Lips / Bad Kids / Good Bad Not Evil (2007)
Primal Scream / Rocks / Give Out But Don’t Give Up (2001)
Dillinger Escape Plan / Milk Lizard / Ire Works (2007)
Klaxons / Gravity’s Rainbow / Myths of the Near Future (2007)
Future Of The Left / Manchasm / Curses (2007)

Saul Williams / Tr(n)igger / The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust! (2007)
Le Tigre / Deceptacon / Le Tigre (1999)
White Williams / New Violence / Smoke (2007)
Cut Copy / Going Nowhere / Bright Like Neon Love (2004)
Whitey / Wrap It Up / Great Shakes (2007)

Cassius / Toop Toop / 15 Again (2006)
White Rabbits / Kid on My Shoulders / Fort Nightly (2007)
Pale Young Gentlemen / Clap Your Hands / Pale Young Gentlemen (2007)
Josh Ritter / Rumors / The Historical Conquests Of Josh Ritter (2007)
A.C. Newman / The Town Halo / The Slow Wonder (2004)

Bees / Left Foot Stepdown / Octopus (2007)
Born Ruffians / Hedonistic Me / Born Ruffians EP (2006)
Lucky Soul / Lips Are Unhappy / The Great Unwanted (2007)
The Tough Alliance / First Class Riot / A New Chance (2007)
Of Montreal / Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse / Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? (2007)

Loney, Dear / I Will Call You Lover Again / Loney, Noir (2007)

Yeah, didn’t think so. Anyway, I’ve always thought some kind of diatribe of my own was necessary at some point; I got a bit of one in responding at length to a friend’s facebook note about the sorry state of music these days, and I briefly entertained the notion of codifying my beliefs about music etc.. but then I found a link to this blog post, and I read it, and I thought it would be much more practical just link to it and save myself some effort! It’s a long read, but it’s very much worthwhile. I don’t entirely agree with all of the points, but the vast majority are solid enough that I can feel pretty happy championing its message. check it out.

The Slipstream began in January 2005 as a weekly mixed genre radio show on 93.3 CFMU, which ran until October 2007 when my relocation to London kept me from filling the station’s hosting requirements. It is now about to continue as a web-only podcast, which, so long as you have already found it is probably a good thing as it allows me to be more much rigorous with quality assurance.

The format of the program remains unchanged, but you will see fewer new episodes (roughly every other week). That might be a net benefit, because it means that each episode will be better! The website also allows me to focus more on commentary, reviews, links and features, which will grow to be a more integral part of Radio Slipstream. Hopefully there will be enough content to keep you coming back, and if not there’s always RSS feeds!

Content aside, the site itself has changed dramatically, both aesthetically (now it actually has aesthetics!) and functionally (note the easy to use sound players in each post!). And because the increased functionality is especially present behind the scenes, it will be much easier for me to add and update content. The new site is run by WordPress and the extremely helpful podPress plugin. The design is based on the shades of gray template of the sandbox theme. It has been customized heavily, as you can probably see. All the graphic design is my work and the recoding also, though with help from friends and people at various forums. Big ups.

If you have any comments on the new site or any suggestions on what you want to see me doing with this little corner of the internet, do let me know! While the site is ready for public consumption, there still may be a few glitches, so if you run into any please don’t hesitate to tell me!

Look for a new episode of Radio Slipstream shortly.

This is one of my most anticipated releases of the year, partially because I have to make most of the hype for myself cause I’m not seeing it much place else (probably because the name of the group scares people away). But when the retail version (sans annoying promo voiceovers) popped up on the filesharing circuit, I got an uncharacteristically intense giddy rush. The lush rhymes and vibes from Deacon The Villain, Natti and Kno’s conceptual A Piece of Strange made it my favourite hip hop album last year. Its follow-up continues on in a very familiar manner. On first impression, it starts quite good, gets slightly dull toward the middle and ends like a fucking monolith. And then it’s back to the beginning to find everything growing a bit more warm and lovable.

Dirty Acres starts the same way my favourite rap album of all time (Outkast’s ATLiens) ends with Big Rube’s rich bassy voice rapping languorously over delicate piano chords, though the subject has shifted from religion (a topic that would definitely feel very appropos on this disc) to black identity and the state of hip hop: “as long as we breathe, hip hop is gonna breathe with us. As long as we real, folk can’t help but feel us.” This intro provides a calm expanse for the triumphant explosion of ‘Valley of Death’ to rip up and fling into the air like confetti. From there the album continues on, with moments both upbeat and slow, and is consistently not afraid to be soulful, melodic and even emotional; usually without coming off as schmaltzy.

That accomplishment is in the hands of Kno, who provides production duties on all of the tracks and is to me the real hero of the album—or at least what gets me gobbling it up. His sound is quite distinctive. It is very lush and organic, rather like a jungle near Rio Di Janeiro might be, often layered with music that would sound at home behind the crooning of Barry White, and interspersed with plenty of soaring gospel voices and old soul samples. I’m seeing a lot of comments that this album is dark. Darker even than their previous album. Maybe I don’t share this interpretation because I already listen to plenty of trip hop and twisted, haunting electronica. To me the vibe I get from this disc is heat; not exactly a soothing warmth, but more the bright heavy sunshine of the summer, and maybe a bit like a conscientious and understanding friend in a dark place (like the hood, I suppose).

The rapping from Deacon and Natti is in fine form, though to me the album is all about Kno’s production. I don’t know enough to know who is who, but both rappers boast beautiful, deep and expressive voices, which isn’t at all a necessity for spittin’ flows, but certainly helps in the context of this music. The subject matter is generally not the bitches’n’bling of popular hip hop, nor does it follow the independant hiphop trend of pessimism and elaborate wordplay. The songs often touch on beauty and pain, religion and hope, most often by telling stories about characters struggling through various hardships. Perhaps due to their somewhat impressionistic nature, the stories often seem somewhat sensationalized, so when I hear “if you knew where my head is when I’m doing these records you’d never listen to my music again; I can’t let you see the things I dream” I can’t help but think that the dark and twisted things happening in the narrative are more a part of some parable than reality. That is not necessarily a negative criticism, though it might be, but the way the two weave their words together is impressively skilful.

As with most hip hop albums, there are several skits in between tracks. Thankfully, they are more about themes and less about random recorded conversations while the artists were high. They manage to be sonically satisfying and mostly contribute to the flow of the album rather than breaking it up. While they are more pleasing than most hip hop interludes, they could easily have lead into the tracks they set up more smoothly. The flow is injured because the brief skits can’t quite generate enough momentum to get over the blank spaces, and that problem might have been easily remedied. Somewhat related to the above quibble, a few of the real energetic tracks (like KKKY and Valley of Death) are cut off perhaps too abruptly.

While we’re discussing some shortcomings of the album, let’s talk about its biggest. The middle. There is a series of about four songs at the centre of the disc that get gradually more the same, and end up being too smooth and saccharine to the point of near boredom. My appreciation of this suite of songs is not helped by the fact that many of them deal with the rappers (usually guest spots) trying to suavely get sex with various ultra hot women—an all-too-common trope of hip hop which is thankfully absent from the rest of the album. I’ll admit that Devin the Dude’s guest spot on Wonderful is actually quite fine and really only guilty of setting the mould that makes the following seem a bit dull. The worst offender, though, is Yellow Lines, which, while boasting ultra-smooth soulful production, is the source of the albums most remarkable chorus: “Yeah. I put a spell on dem hoes, forgive me lord but I’m hell on dem hoes. Yeah. I put a spell on dem hoes, forgive me lord but I’m hell on dem hoes. Heyeah. I put a spell on dem hoes, forgive me lord but I’m hell on dem hoes. Yeah. I jus… I put a spell on dem hoes, forgive me lord but I’m hell on dem hoes.” I don’t think I need to explain what I find irritating about that one. Those two tracks are followed by a couple of very nice, positive jams, that are really well done, but maybe too subdued to keep me interested; nonetheless it’s still interesting to hear rapping about the simple joys of summer barbeques.

I do really, really like this album, though, and its real power reveals itself toward the end. After Summer’s Gone, Gun picks things back up a bit and gets us ready for the final four songs which are my favourites on the album. Dance for Me is a crooning, slow jam about a stripper, and it is utterly beautiful. Hearing both rappers caress the words they drop is a joy, and the production is perfect, featuring a wonderful, touching old sample that google won’t help me find. While the song is a heartstring-tugger and generally downbeat, the driving rhythm of words and beats keeps it constantly riveting and downright addictive. After that, Georgia is a soulful gospel-inflected lament for poverty and violence. Then Things I Dream throws us straight into that dark, desperate world, describing the violence and greed first-hand. Mexico ends the album on a wistful note as a man muses on goals and dreams and relationships. These four tracks perfectly illustrate how beautifully the production suits the subject matter on all these songs, and the general effect of that is a hip hop album that can be extremely affecting.

Despite my occasional qualms with the middle of the album, almost all the songs are excellent and extremely listenable; it’s easy to come back to them over and over. This is a quality product. So what makes this different from their last album? All-in-all it’s actually very similar (which is sure as hell not a bad thing). But they do make some changes; for example there are far fewer chipmunk samples, which is a definite improvement. It also seems more single-minded and more cohesive to these ears, a little smoother, but still leaves room for improvement. Is it a better album? I’ll need some more time to figure that out. Overall, this is a standout disc. If you want it in mathematics, I guess I’d call it 8.5 over 10.

There are 4 sample tracks on the band’s myspace page (including my favourite, Dance for Me)

I get exposed to a lot of talk about zombies… zombocalypses, survival tactics, discussions on what technically constitutes such a beast. And why shouldn’t I? I am a geek after all!  Sometimes I try to be too cool for all the zombie talk, and then I hear a song like this one.

From Exuma’s 1970 self titled debut album of “voodooed-out Bahamian folk,” this is a weird, tribal footstomper of a tune… and yes, it is most definitely about zombies.

There is no star in the sky, I see fire in the dead man’s eye.

have a listen. 

That’s how I see it for now at least. Just on my second (and first intent) listen.

The final episode of Radio Slipstream aired on CFMU. Nothing new here (except one old favourite that somehow never got featured on the show), just a selection of my most favourite songs. Like a flashback episode I suppose. I worked pretty hard on this, both the show in general, and on squeezing down 3 and a half hours of music into 2 for my final radio program. I hope you like it.

All in all, The Slipstream on 93.3 CFMU occupied 3 separate timeslots and delivered 2037 uniquely excellent songs (and 13 repeat excellent songs, repeated for theme shows or by accident) from 948 unique artists (not including the epic 5 episode 111 song best albums of 2005 countdown -which I’ve disowned because they’re not sequenced quite nicely enough to be up to standard and some of the songs have been repeated since). Now it is no more. It was deemed by ‘the powers that be’ (who are actually pretty cool once you get to know them) that being in London but remotely doing a show on a Hamilton community radio station isn’t in the spirit of things or practical. So, I’m going to take some time off and then bring back the podcast (probably bi-weekly) because I really do enjoy doing this. And then who knows. I also really want to get this website off its ass and turn it into something good-like.

Twine / Kalea Morning / Twine (2003)
U2 / Zooropa / Zooropa (1993)
Underworld / Dirty Epic / Dubnobasswithmyheadman (1993)
The Field / The Deal / From Here We Go To Sublime (2007)
Ada / Cool My Fire (I’m Burning) / Blondie (2004)

Architecture in Helsinki / Like A Call / Fingers Crossed (2003)
Lamb / Gorecki / Lamb (1997)
Evil 9 / Crooked (feat. Aesop Rock) / You Can Be Special Too (2004)
Dub Pistols / soul shaking (conduct disorder) / Six Million Ways To Live (2001)
Saul Williams / Act III Scene 2 (Shakespeare) / Saul Williams (2004)

Moloko / Forever More / Statues (2003)
Dan Deacon / Wham City / Spiderman of the Rings (2007)
Spoon / I Summon You / Gimme Fiction (2005)
M.I.A. / Paper Planes / Kala (2007)
TTC / Telephone / 3615 TTC (2007)

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds / Papa Won’t Leave You, Henry / Henry’s Dream (1992)
Doves / Pounding / The Last Broadcast (2002)
John Vanderslice / Coming and Going on Easy Terms / Cellar Door (2004)
The Flaming Lips / Waitin’ for a Superman / The Soft Bulletin (1999)

Alias & Tarsier / Dr. C / Brookland/Oaklyn (2006)
Outkast / Jazzy Belle / ATLiens (1996)
Gustavo Santaolalla / Iguazu / Ronroco (1998)
Alan Stivell / Eliz Iza / Renaissance of the Celtic Harp (1972)
The Decemberists / You’ll Not Feel The Drowning / The Crane Wife (2006)
The National / All Dolled-Up In Straps / Cherry Tree (2004)

Talk Talk / I Believe In You / Spirit Of Eden (1988)
Bonnie Prince Billy & Matt Sweeny / Beast for Thee / Superwolf (2005)
Sufjan Stevens / John Wayne Gacy, Jr / Illinois (2005)
Sigur Rós / Staralfur / Agaetis Byrjun (1999)

Tom Waits / Time / Rain Dogs (1985)
Augie March / There Is No Such Place / Sunset Studies (2000)
Radiohead / No Surprises / OK Computer (1997)
The New Pornographers / The Bleeding Heart Show / Twin Cinema (2005)
Sunset Rubdown / Shut Up I Am Dreaming of Places Where Lovers Have Wings / Shut Up I Am Dreaming (2006)

Junior Boys / FM / So This is Goodbye (2006)

And to round out the Slipstream Top 40, the following songs were heard competing for attention behind my narration:

Wilco – Impossible Germany (Sky Blue Sky, 2007)
Orbital – The Box (In-Sides, 1997)
British Sea Power – Carrion (The Decline Of…, 2003)
Cocteau Twins – Cherry Coloured Funk (Heaven or Las Vegas, 1990)
Iron and Wine/Calexico – 16, Maybe Less (In The Reins, 2005)

Murcof / Reflejo / Remembranza (2005)
Polmo Polpo / Rottura / The Science of Breath (2002)

Aidan Baker / Davey Jones’ Locker / The Sea Swells A Bit… (2006)
Radiohead / Reckoner / In Rainbows (2007)

Paavoharju / Musta Katu / Yhä Hämärää (2005)
Neotropic / New Cross / White Rabbits (2004)
David Thomas Broughton vs. 7 Hertz / Weight of My Love / David Thomas Broughton vs. 7 Hertz (2007)
PJ Harvey / Dear Darkness / White Chalk (2007)

Laurie Anderson / Big Science / Big Science (1982)
Stereolab / Cybele’s Reverie / Emperor Tomato Ketchup (1996)
Broadcast / Papercuts / The Noise Made By People (2002)
Metallic Falcons / Airships / Desert Doughnuts (2006)
Goldfrapp / Pilots / Felt Mountain (2000)

A Sunny Day In Glasgow / No. 6 Von Karman Street / Scribble Mural Comic Journal (2007)
The Books / An Animated Description Of Mr. Maps / Lost And Safe (2005)
Manitoba / Jacknuggeted / Up in Flames (2003)
Four Tet / Hands / Rounds (2003)
Psapp / Hi / The Only Thing I Ever Wanted (2006)

Magnetic Fields / The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side / 69 Love Songs, Pt. 1 (1999)

Stars of the Lid / Mullholland / The Tired Sounds Of (2001)
Radiohead / All I Need / In Rainbows (2007)

The National / Mistaken For Strangers / Boxer (2007)
The Constantines / Young Offenders / The Constantines (2001)
Fugazi / Argument / The Argument (2001)
At the Drive In / One Armed Scissor / Relationship of Command (2000)
And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead / How Near How Far / Source Tags and Codes (2002)

Frog Eyes / “Stockades” / Tears of the Valedictorian (2007)
Wolf Parade / Dinner Bells / Apologies To The Queen Mary (2005)
Swan Lake / All Fires / Beast Moans (2006)
Sunset Rubdown / The Taming of the Hands That Came Back To Life / Random Spirit Lover (2007)

British Sea Power / Men Together Today / The Decline of… (2003)
!!! / Me and Giuliani Down by the School Yard (A True Story) / Louden Up Now (2004)
Noze / Love Affair / How To Dance (2006)

Chromatics / In The City / After Dark (2007)
The Brunettes / Her Hairagami Set / Structure & Cosmetics (2007)
Club 8 / Whatever you want / The Boy Who Couldn’t Stop Dreaming (2007)
Jens Lekman / Your Arms Around Me / Night Falls Over Kortedala (2007)

Hayden / Dynamite Walls / Skyscraper National Park (2001)
Bon Iver / Skinny Love / For Emma, Forever Ago (2007)
Phosphorescent / Endless / Aw Come Aw Wry (2005)

David Holmes / Gone (remixed by Kruder & Dorfmeister) / The K&D Sessions (1998)
Underworld / Beautiful Burnout / Oblivion With Bells (2007)

Groove Armada / Suntoucher / Goodbye Country (Hello Nightclub) (2001)
Moka Only / More Soup (feat. M.F. Doom) (Remixed By Sixtoo) / Desired Effect (2006)
Presage / Divide and Conquer / Outer Perimeter (1998)
Adrian Orange and Her Band / Window (Mirror) Shadow / Adrian Orange and Her Band (2007)

Jamie Lidell / Multiply / Multiply (2005)
Little Dragon / Forever / Little Dragon (2007)
Aim / Walking Home Through The Park / Flight 602 (2006)
Capitol K / Hong Kong / Nomad Junk (2005)
Ricardo Villalobos / Premier Encuentro Latino-Americano / Fabric 36 (2007)

Massive Attack / Group Four / Mezzanine (1998)
British Sea Power / Atom / Krankenhaus? EP (2007)
Broken Social Scene / Almost Crimes (Radio Kills Remix) / You Forgot it in People (2002)
Animal Collective / Peacebone / Strawberry Jam (2007)

The Mountain Goats / Nine Black Poppies / Nine Black Poppies (1995)
Okkervil River / Another Radio Song / Black Sheep Boy Appendix (2005)
Gravenhurst / Saints / The Western Lands (2007)
Iron and Wine / Carousel / The Shepherd’s Dog (2007)
Doveman / Honey / The Acrobat (2005)

Radiohead / Exit Music (for a Film) / OK Computer (1997)

With apologies for the late update of the site, here is probably the most unique and potentially most exciting episode of the slipstream to date. This past weekend I trawled around the sights and sounds of the LOLA festival, with my digital camera in tow, which turned out to have a sound recorder for its damn decent mic. So as it turned out I used my status as a community radio host to get some interviews with various folks. The interviews are occasionally of subpar quality, but I did learn a lot about the process from a technical and theoretical standpoint. I also managed to record a few special LOLA performances, which crop up also (see tracklisting for details of course). And just to keep things lively, behind my inane ramblings, you can hear snatches of many live performances recorded throughout the weekend at Victoria Park. It was thrown together in a bit of a mad panic on Sunday as I was leaving in the evening for Toronto, but I think it’s still worth a listen, and hope you will to. So what are you waiting for.. check it out (on the podcast, or the link above). Also, LOLAfest is a really exciting event and one of my most favourite things of a long while, so it’s worth looking into and encouraging similar endeavours.

Holy Fuck / The Pulse / Holy Fuck (EP) (2007)
My Brightest Diamond / Golden Star (Stop Die Resuscitate Remix) / Unreleased (2007)

*DJ TLO / Scratching Solo / Live at LOLA (2007)
Sixtoo / Sidewinders / Chewing on Glass & Other Miracle Cures (2004)
OK Cobra / Child In Rhyme / OK Cobra (2006)
Prefuse 73 / One Word Extinguisher / One Word Extinguisher (2003)

Interview with LOLA festival director Andrew P Francis

Beach House / Apple Orchard / Beach House (2006)
Sandro Perri / Family Tree / Tiny Mirrors (2007)
Torngat / Minute By Minute / You Could Be (2007)

Interview with artist Mr Ghosty

*Final Fantasy / Paris 1919 (John Cale cover) / Live at LOLA (2007)
Ohbijou / Steep / Swift Feet For Troubling Times (2006)
Basia Bulat / Snakes and Ladders / Oh My Darling (2007)
Meligrove Band / Planets Conspire / Planets Conspire (2005)

Akron/Family / Lake Song/New Ceremonial Music For Moms / Love Is Simple (2007)
The Acorn / Flood Pt.1 / Glory Hope Mountain (2007)
The Hylozoists / Strait Is The Gate / La Fin Du Monde (2006)

Interview with Constantines singer Bryan Webb

*Constantines / Million Star Hotel / Live at LOLA (2007)

Old Man Luedecke / Roustabout / Hinterland (2006)

Read on for an assortment of videos and pictures that i managed to grab while I was hanging around…

The photos were taken with my Canon S3 IS… and it’s really the first time I’ve taken concert photos with a decent camera, so there was a bit of a learning curve. I wish I’d remembered about changing the ISO setting a bit earlier in the night.

And some brief video clips! more are available throughout youtube with some clever searching.

Akron/Family:

Grizzly Bear:

Meligrove Band:

Final Fantasy:

Si Begg / River (Featuring Jinadu) / Director’s Cut (2003)
Orang / Little Brother / Herd Of Instinct (1995)
Röyksopp / Sparks / Melody AM (2001)

John Tavener / Fragments of a Prayer / Children of Men (2006)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Metha, Luciano Pavarotti / Nessun dorma! / Turandot (1972)

M83 / The Highest Journey / Digital Shades Vol. 1 (2007)
A Reminiscent Drive / Two Sides To Every Story / Mercy Street (1997)
Odawas / Love Is… (The Only Weapon With Which I Got To Fight) / Raven And The White Night (2007)
The KLF / Last train to Trancentral / The White Room (1991)

Dan Deacon / Intro, Okie Dokie / Live at The Waiting Room in Omaha, 06/30/2007, Spiderman of the Rings (2007)
The Fiery Furnaces / Ex-Guru / Widow City (2007)
Pop Will Eat Itself / Not Now James, We’re Busy… / This Is the Day… This Is the Hour… This Is This! (1989)

The Afghan Whigs / Debonair / Gentlemen (1993)
David Vandervelde / Nothin’ No / The Moonstation House Band (2007)
Strokes / Hard to Explain / Is This It (2001)
Mary Weiss with the Reigning Sound / Don’t Come Back / Dangerous Game (2007)

Emma Pollock / Limbs / Watch The Fireworks (2007)
Miracle Fortress / Maybe Lately / Five Roses (2007)
Marla Hansen / All Clear / Wedding Day (2007)
Pelle Carlberg / I Love You, You Imbecile / In A Nutshell (2007)

The Avett Brothers / Die Die Die / Emotionalism (2007)

back on 93.3 FM! (At least for the time being).

Odd Nosdam / Fat Hooks / Level Live Wires (2007)
cLOUDDEAD / Apt. A (2) / cLOUDDEAD (2001)
Oh No / Ox Broil / Dr. No’s Oxperiment (2007)

Primal Scream / Kill All Hippies / Xtrmntr (2000)
Tomahawk / Red Fox / Anonymous (2007)
Liars / Plaster Casts of Everything / Liars (2007)
Shellac Of North America / Steady As She Goes / Excellent Italian Greyhound (2007)

Le Fly Pan Am / Très très «Rétro» / N’Ecoutez Pas (2004)

Alamo Race Track / Kiss Me Bar / Black Cat John Brown (2006)
White Rabbits / Dinner Party / Fort Nightly (2007)
Against Me! / Walking is Still Honest / Reinventing Axl Rose (2002)
The Pogues / Turkish Song Of The Damned / If I Should Fall From Grace With God (1988)
Gogol Bordello / Forces Of Victory / Super Taranta! (2007)

St. Vincent / Paris Is Burning / Marry Me (2007)
Bishop Allen / Rain / The Broken String (2007)
Cat Power / Free / You Are Free (2003)
Suzanne Vega / Zephyr & I / Beauty & Crime (2007)
Sambassadeur / Between The Lines / Sambassadeur (2005)

PJ Harvey / The Devil / White Chalk-(Advance) (2007)
Espers / Meadow / Espers (2003)
Grizzly Bear / On a Neck, On a Spit / Yellow House (2006)
Bowerbirds / My Oldest Memory / Hymns for a Dark Horse (2007)
Justine Electra / Blues & Reds / Soft Rock (2006)
Nina Nastasia / Bird Of Cuzco / On Leaving (2006)

Sole / Bottle Of Humans / Bottle Of Humans (2003)

The first hour is commentary-free due to extreme laptop fuckups at the beginning of the show.

Colleen / The Happy Sea / The Golden Morning Breaks (2005)
Thomas Fehlmann / Soziale Wärme / Honigpumpe (2007)
Apparat / Arcadia / Walls (2007)

Múm / A Little Bit, Sometimes / Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy (2007)
Mirah and Spectratone International / Gestation of the Sacred Beetle / Share This Place (Stories and Observations By) (2007)
Beirut / Nantes / The Flying Club Cup (2007)
Bat For Lashes / Horse And I / Fur And Gold (2006)
Apparat Organ Quartet / Romantica / Apparat Organ Quartet (2002)

Gabriel Ananda / Sweet Decay / Bambusbeats (2007)
Luke Vibert / Brain Rave / Chicago, Detroit, Redruth (2007)
Kalabrese / Auf Dem Hof / Rumpelzirkus (2007)
Blockhead / Put Down Your Dream Journal And Dance / Uncle Tony’s Coloring Book (2007)
The Herbaliser / The Hard Stuff / Something Wicked This Way Comes (2002)

Beth Gibbons & Rustin’ Man / Tom The Model / Out Of Season (2002)
Calexico / Black Heart / A Feast of Wire (2003)
Nina Nastasia And Jim White / I’ve Been Out Walking / You Follow Me (2007)
Elbow / Red / Asleep In The Back (2001)

Alan Stivell / Eliz Iza / Renaissance of the Celtic Harp (1972)
Augie March / Little Wonder / Strange Bird (2002)
Radiohead / How To Disappear Completely / Kid A (2000)
The National / Daughters Of The Soho Riots / Alligator (2005)
The Devlins / Waiting / Waiting (1997)

Junior Boys / Last Exit / Last Exit (2004)

DJ Shadow / Midnight in a Perfect World / Endtroducing… (1996)

Cannibal Ox / Iron Galaxy / The Cold Vein (2001)
Cadence Weapon / Sharks / Breaking Kayfabe (2005)
Sixtoo / Jackals and Vipers in Envy of Man, Pt. 2 / Jackals and Vipers in Envy of Man (2007)
Amon Tobin / Keep Your Distance / Foley Room (2007)
Blockhead / the strain / Uncle Tony’s Coloring Book (2007)
Capitol K / Pan Continental / Nomad Junk (2005)

Aesop Rock / Coffee (feat. John Darnielle) / None Shall Pass (2007)
Cloud Cult / Take Your Medicine / The Meaning of 8 (2007)
Akron/Family / Ed Is A Portal / Love Is Simple (2007)
The Olivia Tremor Control / Jumping Fences / Dusk at Cubist Castle (1996)

Buck 65 / Heather Nights / Porch EP (2007)
Marissa Nadler / Silvia / Songs III: Bird on the Water (2007)
Apostle of Hustle / NoNoNo / The National Anthem of Nowhere (2007)
Bonnie Prince Billy & Matt Sweeny / Lift Us Up / Superwolf (2005)

Radiohead / Let Down / OK Computer (1997)
Okkervil River / Plus Ones / The Stage Names (2007)
The Weakerthans / Night Windows / Reunion Tour (2007)
The Elected / Greetings In Braille / Me First (2003)
Elliott Smith / Riot Coming / New Moon (2007)

Broken Social Scene / Anthems for A Seventeen Year-Old Girl / You Forgot it in People (2002)
Cocorosie / Werewolf / The Adventures Of Ghosthorse And Stillborn (2007)
Bjork / Hyper-ballad / Post (1995)
TV on the Radio / Province / Return to Cookie Mountain (2006)

Jens Lekman / Kanske Ar Jag Kar I Dig / Night Falls Over Kortedala (2007)

World’s End Girlfriend / 100 Years Of Choke / Hurtbreak Wonderland (2007)

Mary Timony Band / Sharpshooter / The Shapes We Make (2007)
Howling Bells / Low Happening / The Howling Bells (2005)
Fiona Apple / Get Him Back / Extraordinary Machine (2005)
St. Vincent / Now, Now / Marry Me (2007)
Mia Doi Todd / 88 Ways / The Golden State (2002)

Kathy Diamond / Between the lines / Miss Diamond To You (2007)
Boat Club / Warmer Climes / Caught The Breeze (2007)
M.I.A. / Paper Planes / Kala (2007)
Modeselektor / Happy Birthday / Happy Birthday (2007)

Kid Sister / Pro Nails (2007)
Balkan Beat Box / Hermetico / Nu Med (2007)
The Go! Team / The Wrath Of Marcie / Proof of Youth (2007)
Björk / Innocence / Volta (2007)
Laurie Anderson / From The Air / Big Science (1982)

Brian Eno / Deep Blue Day / Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks (1983)
Fennesz / Caecilia / Endless Summer (2001)
Terry Callier / Dancing Girl / What Color Is Love (1973)

Savath & Savalas / Apnea Obstructiva / Golden Pollen (2007)
Iron & Wine / House by the Sea / The Shepherd’s Dog (2007)
Joan As Police Woman / I Defy (feat. Antony) / Real Life (2006)
Sunset Rubdown / The Courtesan Has Sung / Random Spirit Lover (2007)

The Blow / True Affection / Paper Television (2006)

PJ Harvey / Catherine / Is This Desire? (1998)
Menomena / Rose / I am the Fun Blame Monster (2003)

Do Make Say Think / Fredericia / Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn (2003)
Bjork / Isobel / Post (1995)
Caribou / Sandy / Andorra (2007)

Simon & Garfunkel / Cecilia / Bridge over Troubled Water (1970)
Jens Lekman / Silvia / When I Said I Wanted To Be Your Dog (2004)
Air / Jeanne (feat. Françoise Hardy) / Sexy Boy CDS (1998)
Scott Walker / Jackie / Scott 2 (1968)

Rage Against The Machine / Maria / The Battle Of Los Angeles (1999)
The Zutons / Valerie / Tired of Hangin’ Around (2006)
Jon Auer / Josephine / Songs From The Year Of Our Demise (2006)

Grizzly Bear / Marla / Yellow House (2006)
Yann Tiersen / Mary (feat. Liz Fraser) / Les Retrouvailles (2005)
Tom Waits / Alice / Alice (2002)
Elvis Costello / Alison / My Aim Is True (1977)

Iron & Wine / Jezebel / Woman King (2004)
Bert Jansch / Veronica / Bert Jansch (1965)
Joanna Newsom / Emily / Ys (2006)

Angels Of Light / Evangeline / How I Loved You (2001)
John Cale / Andalucia / Paris 1919 (1973)
The National / Karen / Alligator (2005)

Leonard Cohen / Suzanne / Songs of Leonard Cohen (1968)

REM / Leave / New Adventures in Hi Fi (1996)
Wilco / Misunderstood / Being There (1996)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs / Maps / Fever to Tell (2003)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds / Do You Love Me / Let Love In (1994)

Arctic Monkeys / Flourescent Adolescent / Favourite Worst Nightmare (2007)
Tim Armstrong / Into Action / A Poet’s Life (2007)
Danielson / Cast It At The Setting Sail / Ships (2006)
Sunset Rubdown / Up On Your Leopard upon The End Of Your Feral Days / Random Spirit Lover (2007)

Los Campesinos! / You! Me! Dancing! / Sticking Fingers into Sockets (2007)
Justice / D.A.N.C.E. / † (2007)
10cc / Dreadlock Holiday / Bloody Tourists (1978)
Studio / Self Service (Short Version) / Yearbook 1 (2007)

Radical Face / Welcome Home, Son / Ghost (2007)
Field Music / Closer At Hand / Tones Of Town (2007)
The Rosebuds / When the Lights Went Dim / Night of the Furies (2007)
The Nightwatchman / One Man Revolution / One Man Revolution (2007)

Lifesavas / A Serpent’s Love (Feat. Ish) / Gutterfly (2007)
Dilated Peoples / Worst Comes to Worst / Expansion Team (2001)
CunninLynguists / Lynguistics / Will Rap for Food (2001)
Common / Drivin’ Me Wild (feat. Lily Allen) / Finding Forever (2007)

Pepe Deluxe / The Mischief Of Cloud Six / Spare Time Machine (2007)
Feist / My Moon My Man / The Reminder (2007)
Spoon / Black Like Me / Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (2007)

The Avett Brothers / Paranoia In Bb Major / Emotionalism (2007)

Motiivi Tuntematon / Mankind Failed / Speicher 46 (2007)

Pantha du Prince / Florac / This Bliss (2007)
Agnes / Hi Murda / Dumbles Debuts (2007)
Stewart Walker / We Welcome Utopia!!! / Concentricity (2007)
Efdemin / Lohn & Brot / Efdemin (2007)

Underworld / Pearls Girl / Second Toughest in the Infants (1996)
Sarah McLachlan / Angel (Dusted Remix) / Remixed (2001)

Stars / Today Will Be Better, I Swear! / In Our Bedroom After The War (2007)
Morcheeba / The Sea / Big Calm (1998)
The Delgados / The Light Before We Land / Hate (2002)

Ulrich Schnauss / Medusa / Goodbye (2007)
Matthew Dear / Deserter / Asa Breed (2007)
Hot Chip / My Piano / My Piano (2007)

Ladytron / Flicking Your Switch / Light & Magic (2002)
Annie / Always Too Late / Anniemal (2004)
John Lord Fonda / So Far Away / DeBaSer (2006)
Hexstatic / Prom Night Party / When Robots Go Bad (2007)

Miracle Fortress / This Thing About You / Five Roses (2007)
Caribou / She’s The One / Andorra (2007)
Kalabrese / Body Tight / Rumpelzirkus (2007)

Róisín Murphy / Sweet Nothings / Overpowered CDM (2007)

Interpol / Pioneer To The Falls / Our Love To Admire (2007)
The Constantines / Shine a Light / Shine a Light (2003)

Battles / Atlas / Mirrored (2007)
Alex Delivery / Sheath-Wet / Star Destroyer (2007)

Animal Collective / For Reverend Green / Strawberry Jam (2007)
Frog Eyes / Caravan Breakers, They Prey on the Weak and the Old / Tears of the Valedictorian (2007)
Cloud Cult / Hope / The Meaning of 8 (2007)

Low / Murderer / Drums And Guns (2007)
Elliott Smith / King’s Crossing / From A Basement On The Hill (2004)
Elvis Perkins / While You Were Sleeping / Ash Wednesday (2006)
The National / Green Gloves / Boxer (2007)

Augie March / Men Who Follow Spring The Planet Round / Sunset Studies (2000)
Joanna Newsom / Ca’ the Yowes to the Knowes / Live at Bottletree (2006)
The Decemberists / The Crane Wife 1 And 2 / The Crane Wife (2006)

Andrew Bird / Heretics / Armchair Apocrypha (2007)
M. Ward / Chinese Translation / Post-War (2006)
Devendra Banhart / Long haired child / Cripple Crow (2005)

Patti Smith / Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect / Two More (2007)

Susumu Yokota / Kodomotachi / Sakura (2000)
The Field / Over The Ice / From Here We Go To Sublime (2007)

Nits / The Rising Sun / Les Nuits (2005)
John Vanderslice / The Tower / Emerald City (2007)
Bowerbirds / In Our Talons / Hymns for a Dark Horse (2007)
Souled American / Make Me Laugh Make Me Cry / Fe (1988)

The Cliks / Oh Yeah / Snakehouse (2007)
Noisettes / Sister Rosetta (Capture The Sprint) / What’s The Time Mr Wolf? (2007)
Okkervil River / Unless It’s Kicks / The Stage Names (2007)
The Wrens / Boys, You Won’t / The Meadowlands (2003)

dEUS / Instant Street / The Ideal Crash (1999)
Magazine / A Song From Under The Floorboards / The Correct Use of Soap (1980)
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich / Hold Tight / Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich (1966)

El-P / EMG / I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead (2007)
Aesop Rock / None Shall Pass (Album) / None Shall Pass CDS (2007)
Mr. Lif / Home Of The Brave / Emergency Rations EP (2002)
Cage / Stripes / Hell’s Winter (2005)

Calle 13 / Sin Exagerar (feat. Tego Calderón) / Residente o Visitante (2007)
Tanya Stephens / Who Is Tanya / Rebelution (2006)
The Streets / Turn the Page / Original Pirate Material (2002)
Lily Allen / Knock ‘Em Out / Alright Still (2006)
Lamb / Sweet (Soulchild Radio Mix) / Sweet CDS (2002)

The Chrysler / Blue Gold / Cold War Classics (2005)
Electric Light Orchestra / Can’t Get it Out of My Head / Eldorado (1974)
Caribou / Melody Day / Andorra (2007)
The Beach Boys / Sloop John B / Pet Sounds (1966)

Bert Jansch / Courting Blues / Bert Jansch (1965)

Stars Of The Lid / Dungtitled (In A Major) / And Their Refinement Of The Decline (2007)
Eluvium / Amreik / Copia (2007)

T.I. / What You Know / King (2006)
Lifesavas / Gutterfly (Feat. Camp Lo) / Gutterfly: The Original Soundtrack (2007)
Danger Mouse and Jemini / Ghetto Pop Life / Ghetto Pop Life (2004)
Dizzee Rascal / Bubbles / Maths + English (2007)
Clipse / Trill / Hell Hath No Fury (2006)

The White Stripes / Little Cream Soda / Icky Thump (2007)
PJ Harvey / Big Exit / Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea (2000)
Handsome Furs / What We Had / Plague Park (2007)
U2 / Like A Song / War (1983)

Go-Betweens / Cattle & Cane / Before Hollywood (1983)
Yo La Tengo / Everyday / And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out (2000)
Arcade Fire / Ocean Of Noise / Neon Bible (2007)
The National / All The Wine / Cherry Tree (2004)

The New Pornographers / All the Old Showstoppers / Challengers (2007)
Whitey / Sweet Words For the Sour / Great Shakes (2007)
Liars / Houseclouds / Liars (2007)
The Beta Band / Assessment / Heroes To Zeros (2004)

Metallic Falcons / Berry Metal / Desert Doughnuts (2006)
Vetiver / Been So Long / To Find Me Gone (2006)
The National Lights / Swimming In The Swamp / The Dead Will Walk, Dear (2007)
The Mountain Goats / No Children / Tallahassee (2002)

Iron and Wine / Flightless Bird, American Mouth / The Shepherd’s Dog (2007)

Trentemoller / Take Me Into Your Skin / The Last Resort (2006)
Dan Deacon / The Crystal Cat / Spiderman of the Rings (2007)

Caribou / Niobe / Andorra (2007)
Apparat / Useless Information / Walls (2007)
Blonde Redhead / SW / 23 (2007)

Lyrics Born / I Changed My Mind (Stereo MC’s Rattlesnake Remix) / Same Shit Different Day (2005)
Primal Scream / If they move, kill ‘em / Vanishing point (1997)
Miracle Fortress / Whirrs / Five Roses (2007)
Spoon / The Underdog / Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (2007)

Kevin Muma / Untitled DJ Mix 06-10-2007 (2007)
Dino Lenny vs The Housemartins – Chage the World (Dino Lenny Mix)
Random Factor – Rewire
Trentemoller – Le Champagne
Miles Maeda – Brother Dan Says… (Firm Mix)
Moreno – Firebird (Ocean Beach Mix)
Christian Alvarez – Sunshine Over Seville
John Larner & Slater Hogan – Top of the World
The Littlemen – Down with it
Bionic Bump Band – Bitch
Off the Cuff – Shake (Solid Purpose Main Mix)
Troydon – Pushing on Strong
The Littleman – On Time
Puddu Varano – Blue Sky White Sand (Raw Deal Remix)
Soul Tan & Tone Depht – Please (Original Mix)
Jeff Samuel – Knob (Steve Bug Remix)
16B feat. Morel – Escape (Driveing to Heaven) (Omid’s Full Vocal Mix)

The Cinematic Orchestra / To Build A Home (feat. Patrick Watson) / Ma Fleur (2007)

Mouse On Mars / Wipe That Sound / Radical Connector (2004)
Justice / Stress / † (2007)
Simian Mobile Disco / It’s The Beat / It’s The Beat (2007)
Vitalic / No Fun / Ok Cowboy (2005)

The Twilight Sad / Cold Days From the Birdhouse / Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters (2007)
Angels Of Light / Untitled Love Song / How I Loved You (2001)
My Bloody Valentine / Sometimes / Loveless (1991)

The Wrens / Ex-Girl Collection / The Meadowlands (2003)
The National / Fake Empire / Boxer (2007)
Modest Mouse / March Into the Sea / We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank (2007)
Spiral Beach / New Clouds / Spiral Beach (2006)

Joanna Newsom / Colleen / Joanna Newsom & The Ys Street Band (2007)
Beirut / Elephant Gun / Lon Gisland E.P. (2007)
Balkan Beat Box / BBBeat / Nu Med (2007)

Lhasa / Decara A La Pared / La Llorona (1998)
Marsmobil / Mangia Amore / Minx (2006)
Lamb / Cotton Wool / Lamb (1997)
Caribou / After Hours / Andorra (2007)

Elizabeth Fraser and Jeff Buckley / All Flowers In Time / Unreleased (199?)

In my youth, these songs on London’s FM96 shaped my appreciation of music to a large extent. Then I branched way the fuck out.

U2 / Until The End Of The World / Achtung Baby (1991)
Butthole Surfers / Pepper / Electriclarryland (1996)

Collective Soul / The World I Know / Collective Soul (1995)
Radiohead / High and Dry / The Bends (1995)
Alanis Morissette / Head Over Feet / Jagged Little Pill (1995)
Phish / Free / Billy Breathes (1996)

Soul Asylum / Runaway Train / Grave Dancers Union (1992)
R.E.M. / Losing My Religion / Out of Time (1991)
Gin Blossoms / Hey Jealousy / New Miserable Experience (1992)
Dishwalla / Counting Blue Cars / Pet Your Friends (1995)

The Cardigans / Erase/Rewind / Gran Turismo (1998)
Beck / Loser / Mellow Gold (1994)
Space / The Female Of The Species / Spiders (1997)

Matthew Good Band / Apparitions / Underdogs (1998)
The Verve Pipe / The Freshmen / Villains (1996)
Pearl Jam / Jeremy / Ten (1991)
The Wallflowers / One Headlight / Bringing Down the Horse (1996)

Garbage / Only Happy When It Rains / Garbage (1995)
The Cranberries / Zombie / No Need to Argue (1994)
The Smashing Pumpkins / 1979 / Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (1995)

Eels / Novocaine for the Soul / Beautiful Freak (1996)
Sneaker Pimps / Six Underground / Becoming X (1996)
Primitive Radio Gods / Standing Outside A Broken Phonebooth With Money In My Hand / Rocket (1996)

Red Hot Chili Peppers / Under the Bridge / Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991)

Originally aired 0:00-2:00 May 21-22, 2007 on CFMU

Enjoy it as if it was happening right now by following the following link

John Murphy / In the House – In a Heartbeat / 28 Days Later OST (2003)
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The Besnard Lakes / Disaster / Are The Dark Horse (2007)
Radiohead / A Wolf at the Door / Hail To The Thief (2003)
The National / Brainy / Boxer (2007)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds / Where the Wild Roses Grow (feat. Kylie Minogue) / Murder Ballads (1996)
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John Vanderslice / Exodus Damage / Pixel Revolt (2005)
Blonde Redhead / This Is Not / Melody Of Certain Damaged Lemons (2000)
New Pornographers / Testament To Youth In Verse / Electric Version (2003)
Spoon / You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb / Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (2007)
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The Flaming Lips / Feeling Yourself Disintegrate / The Soft Bulletin (1999)
Patrick Wolf / Bluebells / The Magic Position (2007)
Doves / Satellites / The Last Broadcast (2002)
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Camille / Assise / Le fil (2005)
Cocorosie / By Your Side / La Maison De Mon Reve (2004)
The Blow / “Come On Petunia” / Poor Aim: Love Songs (2007)
Aimee Mann / One / Magnolia OST (1999)
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CunninLynguists / Rain / Southernunderground (2003)
Devin The Dude / Lil Girl Gone (feat. Lil’ Wayne & Bun B) / Waiting To Inhale (2007)
The Roots / You Got Me (feat. Erykah Badu) / Things Fall Apart (1999)
Outkast / Wheelz of Steel / ATLiens (1996)
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Roisin Murphy / Overpowered (Radio Edit) / Overpowered (2007)
Sally Shapiro / I’ll Be By Your Side / Disco Romance (2006)
Kathy Diamond / I Need You / Miss Diamond To You (2007)
Kalabrese / Hide (feat. Guillermo Sohrya) / Rumpelzirkus (2007)
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Feist / One Two Three Four / The Reminder (2007)

1. Blur – Sweet Song
2. Ilya – Soleil Soleil
3. Beirut – Scenic World
4. The Radio Dept. – Lost and Found
5. Mazarin – Another One Goes By
6. Bikeride – Your Lips And You
7. Dan Deacon – Snake Mistakes
8. Dr. Dog – Ain’t It Strange
9. Guillemots – Trains To Brazil
10. Patrick Wolf – Overture
11. Blonde Redhead – The Dress
12. Dean & Britta – Singer Sing
13. Loney, Dear – Saturday Waits
14. James Yorkston – As Steady As She Goes
15. Wilco – Impossible Germany
16. Shearwater – Johnny Viola
17. Nits – The Eiffel tower
18. My Brightest Diamond – We Were Sparkling
19. The National – All Dolled-Up In Straps
20. The Clientele – Isn’t Life Strange
21. Laura Veirs – Through The Glow
22. Studio – Out There

In short(ish):

Missed regular radio show last week, was supposed to be at CocoRosie concert but band got arrested, stayed in London instead.

Did stand in radio show.

Stand in radio show (sans tongue wagging) was essentially a mix cd I’ve been working on extensively of late padded out to fill the 2 hours.

Asterisk means not on the “cd version” lol. Listen to it here: ____

It took so hella long to post ‘coz I couldn’t think of a name for the mix. But now I did I guess.

1. Blur / Sweet Song / Think Tank (2003)
2. Ilya / Soleil Soleil / They Died For Beauty (2003)
3. Beirut / Scenic World / Gulag Orkestar (2006)
4. The Radio Dept. / Lost And Found / Lesser Matters (2003)
5. Mazarin / Another One Goes By / We’re Already There (2005)
*The Tiny / Kind of Like You / Starring Someone Like You (2007)
*Cocorosie / Rainbowarriors / The Adventures Of Ghosthorse And Stillborn (2007)
6. Bikeride / Your Lips And You / The Kiss (2007)
7. Dan Deacon / Snake Mistakes / Spiderman of the Rings (2007)
*GoodBooks / Leni (Crystal Castles Vs GoodBooks) / Leni Remixes (2006)
*Emmanuel Splice / Meatball / VA-Back_To_Mine_Royksopp-2007-SAW (2007)
*RSL / The Mast (Love Will Be Strong) (Joey Negro Remix) / Joey Negro in the House (2005)
*The Apples In Stereo / Same Old Drag / New Magnetic Wonder (2007)
*Field Music / In Context / Tones Of Town (2007)
8. Dr. Dog / Ain’t It Strange / We All Belong (2006)
9. Guillemots / Trains To Brazil / Through The Windowpane (2006)
10. Patrick Wolf / Overture / The Magic Position (2007)
11. Blonde Redhead / The Dress / 23 (2007)
12. Dean & Britta / Singer Sing / Back Numbers (2007)
*Architecture in Helsinki / Like A Call / Fingers Crossed (2003)
13. Loney, Dear / Saturday Waits / Loney, Noir (2007)
14. James Yorkston / As Steady As She Goes / The Year Of The Leopard (2006)
15. Wilco / Impossible Germany / Sky Blue Sky (2007)
16. Shearwater / Johnny Viola / Palo Santo (2006)
17. Nits / The Eiffel tower / Les Nuits (2005)
18. My Brightest Diamond / We Were Sparkling / Bring Me The Workhorse (2006)
19. The National / All Dolled-Up In Straps / Cherry Tree (2004)
*Menomena / Rotten Hell / Friend and Foe (2007)
20. The Clientele / Isn’t Life Strange / God Save The Clientele (2007)
21. Laura Veirs / Through The Glow / Year Of Meteors (2005)
22. Studio / Out There / Yearbook 1 (2007)

LCD Soundsystem / All My Friends / Sound Of Silver (2007)
Mr Hudson & The Library / Brave The Cold / A Tale Of Two Cities (2007)
Joakim / Lonely Hearts / Monsters & Silly Songs (2006)
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Architecture In Helsinki / Heart it Races / Places Like This (2007)
Junior Boys / In The Morning (Hot Chip Remix) / Dead Horse EP (2007)
Chromeo / Fancy Footwork / Fancy Footwork (2007)
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Dan Deacon / Lion with a Sharks Head (demostration version) / Twacky Cats (2004)
Beck / Girl / Guero-(Retail) (2005)
DAT Politics / Turn My Brain Off / Wow Twist CD CD (2006)
TTC / Une Bande de Mec Sympa / 3615 TTC (2006)
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The Long Blondes / Giddy Stratospheres / Someone to Drive You Home (2006)
Albert Jr. Hammond / In Transit / Yours to Keep (2007)
Tokyo Police Club / Nature of the Experiment / A Lesson in Crime (2007)
Test Icicles / Circle Square Triangle / For Screening Purposes Only (2005)
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Carina Round / Into My Blood / Disconnection (2003)
Rilo Kiley / Paint’s Peeling / The Execution of All Things (2002)
Young And Sexy / Conventional Lullabies / Panic When You Find It (2006)
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Talk Demonic / Bering / Beat Romantic (2006)
Cogentics / Storybook / Storybook EP (2007)
Faunts / Twenty-Three / High Expectations/Low Results (2005)
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Thee, Stranded Horse / Churning Strides / Churning strides (2007)
Marissa Nadler / Thinking of You / Songs III: Bird on the Water (2007)
Cibelle / Phoenix / The Shine Of Dried Electric Leaves (2006)
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Wilco / Impossible Germany / Sky Blue Sky (2007)

(Und on ze right, ve hav a brand neu freshly enkoded em pay drei)
-midnight:05-
Bark Psychosis / Miss Abuse / Codename: Dustsucker (2004)
Aidan Baker / Chainsaw / Green & Cold (2007)
Sunset Rubdown / The Empty Threats of Little Lord / Shut Up I Am Dreaming (2006)
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Wilco / Poor Places / Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
The Twilight Sad / That Summer, at Home I Had Become the Invisible Boy / Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters (2007)
Augie March / Sunset Studies / Sunset Studies (2000)
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Grizzly Bear / Colorado / Yellow House (2006)
Manitoba / Skunks / Up in Flames (2003)
Panda Bear / I’m Not / Person Pitch (2007)
Of Montreal / Kissing in the Grass / Aldhils Arboretum (2002)
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Studio / Out There / Yearbook 1 (2007 )
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GoodBooks / Leni (Crystal Castles Remix) / Leni Mixes (2006)
Emmanuel Splice / Meatball / Back To Mine: Röyksopp (2007)
RSL / The Mast (Love Will Be Strong) (Joey Negro Remix) / Joey Negro in the House (2005)
Lindstrom / Another Station (Todd Terje Remix) / (2006)
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El-P / The Overly Dramatic Truth / I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead (2007)
Sage Francis / Clickety Clack / Human The Death Dance (2007)
Bonde Do Role / Melo Do Tobaco / Melo Do Tobaco (2006)
Von Südenfed / Family Feud / Tromatic Reflexxions (2007)
-2 am-
Notwist / Trashing Days / Neon Golden (2002)

(Hrrrm. Marglespirt. Effrindaddlegibbet mick chooli. Spladgot oofen hyszen. … . Listen!)
-12:14ish-
Pole / Warum / Steingarten (2007)
My My / Clean Break / Songs for the Gentle (2006)
Kalabrese / Not The Same Shoes (feat. Kate Wax) / Rumpelzirkus (2007)
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MIA / So I Felt / Bittersuss (2007)
Peace Division / Blacklight Sleaze (feat. Pleasant Gehman) (Radio Slave Vocal Mix) (2006)
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Skalpel / Theme From Behind the Curtain / Skalpel (2004)
Marsmobil / Astralbody / Minx (2006)
Lamb / Fly / Fear of Fours (1999)
Aim / Birchwood / Flight 602 (2006)
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Cocorosie / Promise / The Adventures Of Ghosthorse And Stillborn (2007)
TTC / Bâtard Sensible / Bâtards Sensibles (2004)
Planningtorock / Have It All / Have It All (2006)
Dan Deacon / Snake Mistakes / Spiderman of the Rings (2007)
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Architecture in Helsinki / Souvenirs / Fingers Crossed (2003)
Britta Phillips & Dean Wareham / Singer Sing / Back Numbers (2007)
Loney, Dear / Saturday Waits / Loney, Noir (2007)
Belle & Sebastian / Sleep The Clock Around / The Boy With The Arab Strap (1998)
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Faun Fables / House Carpenter / The Transit Rider (2006)
Jeff Buckley / Lover, You Should’ve Come Over / Grace (1994)
Nick Drake / Things Behind The Sun / Pink Moon (1972)
Bonnie “Prince” Billy / Cursed Sleep / Then The Letting Go (2006)
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The Clientele / Isn’t Life Strange / God Save The Clientele (2007)

(Boy! Yes you! Come hither with the auditory evidence of this supposed radio broadcast you keep harping about! And for the love of Jupiter, stop lallygagging about with that inept turtle of yours!)
-midnight-
El-P / Tasmanian Pain Coaster / I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead (2007)
Various / Hater / The World is Gone (2006)
µ-ziq / Autumn Acid / Royal Astronomy (1999)
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Amon Tobin / Esther’s / Foley Room (2007)
Kode9 & The Space Ape / Victims / Memories Of The Future (2006)
Apollo 440 / Pain in Any Language / Electro Glide in Blue (1997)
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Bikeride / Your Lips and You / The Kiss (2007)
Of Montreal / My British Tour Diary / Satanic Panic in The Attic (2004)
The Velvet Teen / Caspian Can Wait / Out Of the Fierce Parade (2002)
The Go! Team / Ladyflash / Thunder Lightning Strike (2004)
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Marconi Union / Sleepless / Distance (2006)
Helios / Bless This Morning Year / Eingya (2006)
Fennesz / Rivers Of Sand / Venice (2004)
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The Field / The Deal / From Here We Go To Sublime (2007)
Ada / Each and Everyone (Blindhouse Mix) / Blondie (2004)
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Arvo Pärt / Spiegel im Spiegel 2 / Alina (1999)
Gonzales / Gogol / Solo piano (2004)
Eluvium / Prelude for Time Feelers / Copia (2007)
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The Clientele / Since K Got Over Me / Strange Geometry (2005)
The Church / Under the Milky Way / Starfish (1988)
The National / Slow Show / Boxer (2007)
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Tom Waits / Long Way Home / Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards [disc two {Bawlers}] (2006)

1. Elbow – Strangeways To Holcombe Hill In 4.20
2. Doves – Darker
3. Amon Tobin – Esther’s
4. Calla – Swagger
5. Asobi Seksu – Thursday
6. Sonic Youth – Pattern Recognition
7. Serena Maneesh – Don’t Come Down Here
8. The Constantines – You Are a Conductor
9. U2 – Night and Day
10. TV on the Radio – Province
11. Massive Attack – Aftersun (feat. Dot Allison)
12. Lamb – Bonfire
13. Tricky – Bury The Evidence
14. Booka Shade – Night falls
15. RJD2 – True Confessions
16. Dub Pistols – Soul Shaking (Conduct Disorder)
17. Omar Faruk Tekbilek – Shashkin (Hefner Remix)
18. Evil Nine – Crooked (feat. Aesop Rock)

(mp3? ¿mp3 mp3! [ess lakk a re:chordin uv tha shosho])
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Pillow / Cut-Out-and-Keep Quarrels / Flowing Seasons (2006)
Sébastien Schuller / Weeping Willow / Happiness (2005)
Benoît Pioulard / Palimend / Précis (2006)
-12:19-
Kammerflimmer Kollektief / Palimpsest / Jinx (2007)
Augie March / O Mi Sol Li Lon, Song In The Key Of Chance / Strange Bird (2002)
Arcade Fire / Intervention / Neon Bible (2007)
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These Arms Are Snakes / Gadget Arms / Oxeneers or The Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home (2004)
Battles / Race:In / Mirrored (2007)
The Eternals / Astra 3b / Heavy International (2007)
-12:53-
Four Tet / She Moves She / Rounds (2003)
Panda Bear / Take Pills / Person Pitch (2007)
Cocorosie / Rainbowarriors / The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn (2007)
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Amiina / Hilli / Kurr (2007)
Okkervil River / It Ends with a Fall / Down The River of Golden Dreams (2003)
Adem / Everything You Need / Homesongs (2004)
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The National / All Dolled-Up In Straps / Cherry Tree (2004)
The National / Cherry Tree / Cherry Tree (2004)
The National / About Today / Cherry Tree (2004)
-1:42-
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds / Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere / Boatman’s Call (1997)
Howe Gelb / Paradise Here Abouts / ‘Sno Angel (2006)
Holopaw / Hoover / Holopaw (2003)
Creedence Clearwater Revival / Lookin’ Out My Back Door / Cosmo’s Factory (1970)
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Regina Spektor / Samson / Begin to Hope (2006)

beyond this link trembles a tiny mite of an audio recording that ye might easy miss were ye not to be lookin for’t
-midnight-
Ellen Allien / Sehnsucht / Berlinette (2003)
Claude Vonstroke / Beware of the Bird / Beware of the Bird (2006)
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Blonde Redhead / 23 / 23 (2007)
Subtle / She / A New White (2004)
Grinderman / Electric Alice / Grinderman (2006)
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Spoon / Stay Don’t Go / Kill the Moonlight (2002)
The Apples In Stereo / Same Old Drag / New Magnetic Wonder (2007)
The Rapture / The Devil / Pieces Of The People We Love (2006)
!!! / Heart Of Hearts / Myth Takes (2007)
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The Avalanches / Ray of Zdarlight (Wham! vs Digitalism) / Theavalanches.com (2007)
Justice Vs Simian / Never Be Alone / CDS (2004)
CSS / Let’s Make Love and Listen to Death From Above / Cansei de Ser Sexy (2005)
LCD Soundsystem / Someone Great / Sound Of Silver (2007)
Mylo / Drop the Pressure / Destroy Rock & Roll (2004)
TTC / Telephone / 3615 TTC (2006)
Robyn / Konichiwa Bitches (Trentemoller Remix) / Konichiwa Bitches (2007)
Amon Tobin / Always / Foley Room (2007)
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Jim Noir / Turbulent Weather / Tower Of Love (2005)
Dr. Dog / Ain’t It Strange / We All Belong (2006)
Field Music / In Context / Tones Of Town (2007)
James Yorkston / As Steady As She Goes / The Year Of The Leopard (2006)
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Elbow / Not A Job / A Cast of Thousands (2003)
Moloko / Statues / Statues (2003)
The National / The Geese of Beverly Road / Alligator (2005)
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Menomena / Rotten Hell / Friend and Foe (2007)

Part the 0th: “A Link” (in which an mp3 of the above and below-mentioned show is uploaded, and browsers of questionable moral standing are assumed to download it, so long as they want to)
-midnightish-
Murcof / Ulysses / Utopia (2004)
-12:15-
Dan Deacon / Wham City / Spiderman of the Rings (2007)
Of Montreal / The Past Is a Grotesque Animal / Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer (2007)
-12:42-
The Decemberists / The Island / The Crane Wife (2006)
-12:58-
Guillemots / Sao Paulo / Through The Windowpane (2006)
-1:17-
Joanna Newsom / Only Skin / Ys (2006)
-1:38
Godspeed You Black Emperor! / Sleep / Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven (2000)
-2am-

Tonight’s special episode is brought to you in accordance with and through the support of:
-The International Society For The Furtherance Of Particularly Lengthy Songs.
-The Whitfield Chapter Of The Amalgamated Third Brigade Of Long Song Lovers
-Those Preferring Songs In Temporal Excess Of What Is Normally Preferred, Esquire
-RLSARPTETTA (Really Long Songs Are People, Too, Even Though They Aren’t)
-Take Your 3 Minute Commercial Pop Drivel And Stick It, Inc

The annual fundraising show. And I got my goal of getting more than both previous years’ totals combined .. (by getting 2 pledges, heh.. big ups to brian and lyanne!!). Lots more blathering than most shows, but some pretty awesome tunes, too. Check it, sons.
-midnight-
Aphex Twin / Windowlicker / Windowlicker (1999)
Subtle / Red, White, & Blonde / A New White (2004)
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Does It Offend You, Yeah? / We Are Rockstars / Does It Offend You, Yeah? (2006)
Para One / Dudun-Dun / Epiphanie (2006)
SquarePusher / fat controller / Hard Normal Daddy (2000)
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Busdriver / The Troglodyte Wins / Roadkillovercoat (2007)
M.I.A. / Pull Up The People / Arular (2005)
TTC / Dans Le Club / Bâtards Sensibles (2004)
Clipse / Momma I’m So Sorry / Hell Hath No Fury (2006)
Modeselektor / Silikon (Feat. Sasha Perera) / Hello Mom! (2005)
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Ted Leo/Pharmacists / The Lost Brigade / Living With the Living (2007)
The National / Secret Meeting / Alligator (2005)
Guillemots / Trains To Brazil / Through The Windowpane (2006)
-1:07-
The Constantines / Working Full-Time / Tournament of Hearts (2005)
Sunset Rubdown / Shut Up, I’m Dreaming of Places Where Lovers Have Wings / Daytrotter Sessions (2006)
TV on the Radio / Staring at the Sun / Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes (2004)
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The Tiny / Kind of Like You / Starring; Someone Like You (2007)
Beirut / Napoleon on the Bellerophon / Pompeii EP (2007)
Blonde Redhead / The Dress / 23 (2007)
-1:40-
Dungen / C Visar Vägen / Tio Bitar (2007)
Amon Tobin / The Killer’s Vanilla / Foley Room (2007)
Andrew Bird / Dark Matter / Armchair Apocrypha (2007)
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Wilco / On and on and on / Sky Blue Sky (2007)
-2:00-

(where oh where did the little recording go?)
-midnight-
Clint Mansell / We Got the Gun / Pi (1998)
Gui Boratto / The Blessing / Chromophobia (2007)
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Lupe Fiasco / Daydreamin’ F. Jill Scott / Food & Liquor (2006)
Blur / Sweet Song / Think Tank (2003)
Ilya / Soleil Soleil / They Died For Beauty (2003)
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Hayden / Street Car / Skyscraper National Park (2001)
Mazzy Star / Into Dust / So Tonight That I Might See (1993)
Elliott Smith / Waltz #1 / XO (1998)
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Khonnor / A Little Secret / Handwriting (2005)
Bracken / Back On The Calder Line / We Know About The Need (2007)
Patrick Wolf / Overture / The Magic Position (2007)
-1:00-
Mates Of State / Goods (All In Your Head) / All Day [EP] (2004)
Hot Chip / Over And Over / The Warning (2006)
Thomas Brinkmann / Thirty 2 / Lucky Hands (2005)
Nelly Furtado / Say It Right / Loose (2006)
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The Sounds / Tony The Beat / Dying To Say This To You (2006)
New Young Pony Club / The Get Go / New Young Pony Club (2005)
Love Is All / Busy Doing Nothing / 9 Times That Same Song (2005)
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Man Man / Van Helsing Boombox / Six Demon Bag (2006)
Modest Mouse / Spitting Venom / We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank (2007)
Oh No! Oh My! / The Backseat / Oh No! Oh My! (2006)
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The Housemartins / Flag Day / London 0 Hull 4 (1986)

mp3

Hooverphonic / Magenta / Blue Wonder Power Milk (1998)
Booka Shade / In White Rooms / Movements (2006)
The Residents / Moisture / The Commercial Album (1980)

Out Hud / The L Train Is A Swell Train And I Don’t Want To Hear You Indies Complain / S.T.R.E.E.T. D.A.D. (2002)

Roisin Murphy / Live at the Paradiso in Amsterdam (July 1, 2005):*
Dear Diary
Sinking Feeling
Through Time
Sow Into You
Ramalama (Bang Bang)
Love in The Making
If We’re In Love
Ripples
Night of The Dancing Flame
Ruby Blue
Leaving The City
Off on It
The Closing of the Doors

mp3

Rockers Hi‐Fi / Going Under (Main Version) / Going Under (The Kruder & Dorfmeister Sessions EP) (1997)
Esem / Dispehrse / Scateren (2005)
Radiohead / Everything In Its Right Place / Kid A (2000)
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Bark Psychosis / The Black Meat / Codename: Dustsucker (2004)
TV on the Radio / Wolf Like Me / Return to Cookie Mountain (2006)
Subtle / A Tale Of Apes I / For Hero: For Fool (2006)
Yppah / Again with the Subtitles / You Are Beautiful at All Times (2006)
Amon Tobin / Track 5 / Taxidermia Score (2006)
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Amute / Hit my country / The sea horse limbo (2006)
Do Make Say Think / The Universe! / You, You’re A History In Rust (2007)
Deerhunter / Strange Lights / Cryptograms (2006)
Camera Obscura / if looks could kill / Let’s get out of this Country (2006)
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The Go! Team / Huddle Formation / Thunder Lightning Strike (2004)
Mint Royale / Don’t Falter / On the Ropes (2000)
The Blow / Parentheses / Paper Television (2006)
Kudu / Back for More / Death of the Party (2006)
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Busdriver / Casting Agents and Cowgirls / Roadkillovercoat (2007)
Whitey / Tantrum / The Light At The End Of The Tunnel Is A Train (2005)
The Klaxons / Golden Skans (SebastiAn Version 1.2.0 Remix) / Golden Skans CDS (2007)
Blackalicious / Ego Sonic Wardrums / The Craft (2005)
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Arcade Fire / No Cars Go / Neon Bible (2007)
!!! / A New Name / Myth Takes (2007)
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists / The Sons Of Cain / Living With The Living (2007)
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Andrew Bird / Fiery Crash / Armchair Apocrypha (2007)

(A special (I guess) edition of the slipstream where I play an assortment of cover songs and related musics.)

Ada / Maps / Blondie (2004)
   [original: Yeah Yeah Yeahs (2003)]
U2 / Night and Day / Red Hot + Blue (1990)
   [original: Cole Porter (1932)]
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José Gonzáles / Heartbeats / Veneer (2003)
   [original: The Knife (2002)]
Smashing Pumpkins / Landslide / Pisces Iscariot/Disarm (1994)
   [original: Fleetwood Mac (1975)]
Cat Power / (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction / The Covers Record (2000)
   [original: The Rolling Stones (1965)]
Tom Waits / Sea Of Love / Orphans (2006)
   [original: Phil Phillips (1959)]
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Dani Siciliano / Come as You Are / Likes… (2004)
   [original: Nirvana (1991)]
Petra Haden / I Can See for Miles / Petra Haden Sings: The Who Sell Out (2005)
   [original: The Who (1967)]
Cibelle / London, London / The Shine Of Dried Electric Leaves (2006)
   [original: Caetano Veloso (1971)]
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Calexico / Alone Again Or / Convict Pool (2004)
   [original: Love (1968)]
Gipsy Kings / Hotel California / The Big Lebowski (1998)
   [original: The Eagles (1976)]
Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins / Handle with Care / Rabbit Furcoat (2005)
   [original: The Traveling Wilburys (1988)]
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Massive Attack / Be Thankful For What You Got / Blue Lines (1991)
   [original: William DeVaughn (1974)]
EASY STAR ALL*STARS / Let Down / RADIODREAD (2006)
   [original: Radiohead (1997)]
Johnny Cash / The Mercy Seat / American III: Solitary Man (2000)
   [original: Nick Cave (1987)]
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Tricky / Black Steel / Maxinquaye (1995)
   [original: Public Enemy (1988)]
The Futureheads / Hounds Of Love / Single (2005)
   [original: Kate Bush (1986)]
The Jimi Hendrix Experience / All Along The Watchtower / Electric Ladyland (1968)
   [original: Bob Dylan (1967)]
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds / The Carnival Is Over / Kicking Against the Pricks (1986)
   [original: The Seekers (1968)]
Cowboy Junkies / Sweet Jane / The Trinity Session (1988)
   [original: Velvet Underground (1970)]
Jeff Buckley / Hallelujah / Grace (1994)
   [original: Leonard Cohen)]
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Laura Barrett / Smells Like Nirvana / Earth Sciences (2005)
   [original: Weird Al Yankovic (1992)]
Monty Python / Oliver Cromwell / Monty Python Sings (1989)
   [original: Chopin's Polonaise in A‐flat major (1842)]
Badesalz / I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For / Nicht Ohne Meinen Pappa (1991)
   [original: U2 (1987)]
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Pulp / Bad Cover Version (Video Mix)

(I’d like to see Ülo record webstreams and post mp3s of them on a website. What a little shit.)

Doves / Firesuite / Lost Souls (2000)
The Cinematic Orchestra / All That You Give / Every Day (2002)
+/- / Let’s Build A Fire / Let’s Build A Fire (2006)
-
Nits / The Eiffel tower / Les Nuits (2005)
Shearwater / Hail Mary / Palo Santo (2006)
The Radio Dept. / Lost And Found / Lesser Matters (2003)
-
Feist / La Même Histoire / Paris Je T’aime OST (2006)
Yo La Tengo / Black Flowers / I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass (2006)
Menomena / Evil Bee / Friend and Foe (2007)
Beach House / Master of None / Beach House (2006)
-
Rachel’s / An Evening Of Long Goodbyes / Selenography (1999)
Pantha du Prince / Saturn Strobe / This Bliss (2007)
-
Sally Shapiro / I Know / Disco Romance (2006)
Junior Boys / Double Shadow / So This Is Goodbye (2006)
Champion / No Heaven / Chill’em all (2004)
-
Ladytron / Destroy Everything You Touch / Witching Hour (2005)
Kelley Polar / Here in the Night / Love Songs of the Hanging Gardens (2005)
The Knife / We Share Our Mother’s Health / Silent Shout (2006)
-
Radiohead / Idioteque / Kid A (2000)
The Prodigy / Climbatize / The Fat of the Land (1997)
Coldcut / Timber / Let Us Play (1997)
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Various / Fly / The World is Gone (2006)

here for you for first time for only time… mp3 of show for you for listening

-midnight:05-
Tim Hecker / Chimeras / Harmony In Ultraviolet (2006)
Massive Attack / Future Proof / 100th Window (2003)
-
The Essex Green / Don’t Know Why (You Stay) / Cannibal Sea (2006)
Peter Bjorn & John / Amsterdam / Writer’s Block (2006)
The Stranglers / Golden Brown / La Folie (1981)
-12:30-
Britta Persson / You Are Not My Boyfriend / Top Quality Bones and a Little Terrorist (2006)
Nellie McKay / Columbia Is Bleeding / Pretty Little Head (2006)
Planningtorock / Bolton Wanderer / Have It All (2006)
Roisin Murphy / Ruby Blue / Ruby Blue (2005)
-
McLusky / She Will Only Bring You Happiness / The Difference Between You And Me Is That I’m Not On Fire (2004)
Deerhoof / Cast Off Crown / Friend Opportunity (2007)
Dappled Cities Fly / Holy Chord / Granddance (2006)
-12:57-
The Thermals / A Pillar Of Salt / The Body, The Blood, The Machine (2006)
The Hold Steady / Stevie Nix / Separation Sunday (2005)
Jarvis Cocker / Don’t Let Him Waste Your Time / Jarvis (2006)
-1:12-
Charlotte Gainsbourg / The Operation / 5 55 (2006)
Notwist / Consequence / Neon Golden (2002)
CunninLynguists / Nothing to Give / A Piece of Strange (2005)
-
Talk Talk / Wealth / Spirit Of Eden (1988)
Sigur Ros / Ny Batteri / Ágætis byrjun (1999)
-1:45-
World’s End Girlfriend / We Are the Massacre / The Lie Lay Land (2005)
The Wrens / She Sends Kisses / The Meadowlands (2003)
Radiohead / Fake Plastic Trees / The Bends (1995)
-2:03-
The Decemberists / Red Right Ankle / Her Majesty (2003)

(surprise! (WARNING!!! ACHTUNG! SURPRISE MAY OR MAY NOT BE MP3 OF LAST NIGHT’S SHOW. THE OWNERS OF THIS WEBSITE ASSUME NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY DAMAGES TO YOUR COMPUTER AS A RESULT OF DOWNLOADING OR LISTENING TO WHATEVER HAPPENS TO BE AT THE END OF THE PRECEDING LINK, OR FOR THE 2×4 THAT’S ABOUT TO HIT YOU IN THE.. OWW. OH. … WOW.))

-midnight-
Anders Ilar / Clouds Are Made In Factories / Nightwidth (2006)
Amon Tobin / Big Furry Head / Foley Room (2007)
-
Squarepusher / Tommib / Lost in Translation (2003)
Man / 17H05 / Main Gauche (2002)
Xela / Linseed / The Dead Sea (2006)
Tied & Tickled Trio / Like Armstrong + Laika / Observing Systems (2003)
-0:27-
Busdriver / Sun Shower / Roadkillovercoat (2007)
American Watercolor Movement / C’est La Vie Gueule De Fuch / It Takes Fifteen To Tango In My Book, What Book Do You Read? (2006)
Mahogany / Tesselation, Formerly Plateau One / Connectivity! (2006)
-0:40-
My Morning Jacket / The Way That He Sings / At Dawn (2001)
Hot Chip / Colours / The Warning (2006)
Death Cab For Cutie / Soul Meets Body / Plans (2005)
-0:57-
Hello Saferide / The Quiz / Would You Let Me Play This EP 10 Times a Day? (2006)
Lou Rhodes / Each Moment New / Beloved One (2006)
The Mountain Goats / Woke Up New / Get Lonely (2006)
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Josh Ritter / Thin Blue Flame / The Animal Years (2006)
Neutral Milk Hotel / Oh Comely / In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998)
-1:29-
Rock Plaza Central / Our Pasts, Like Lighthouses / Are We Not Horses (2006)
Jolie Holland / Springtime Can Kill You / Springtime Can Kill You (2006)
Patricia Barber / The Moon / Mythologies (2006)
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Stars / My Radio (AM Mix) / Nightsongs (2000)
Love Unlimited Orchestra / Love’s Theme / Rhapsody in White (1974)
Europe / The Final Countdown / The Final Countdown (1986)
-1:59-
Ohbijou / Misty Eyes / Swift Feet For Troubling Times (2006)

These are not necessarily endorsements, but I don’t usually see an artist I don’t like. It does happen though, from time to time, for one reason, or another (and those more embarassing ones tend to be toward the bottom of the list…).

(Last updated November 25, 2007)

U2 x 5
The Mountain Goats
Sigur Ros x 2
The National x 2
The Constantines x 6
Wilco
A Silver Mt. Zion
Akron/Family
Final Fantasy
Saul Williams
Junior Boys x 5
The Arcade Fire
Royksopp
Radiohead
The Decemberists x 3
The Hidden Cameras
Ted Leo/Pharmacists x 3
TV On the Radio
Spoon
The Sadies x 3
Spiral Beach
Andrew Bird
Ohbijou
The Weakerthans x 2
Cuff the Duke x 2
The Notwist
Subtle
Caribou/Manitoba x 2
PJ Harvey x 2
Garbage
Do Make Say Think
Bowerbirds
The Hold Steady
Annie
Of Montreal
Grizzly Bear
Stars
David Bowie
British Sea Power
Joseph Arthur
Moby
Death From Above 1979
Iron and Wine
Calexico
The Unicorns
Shapes and Sizes
The Organ
R.E.M.
Dead Can Dance
Dan Deacon
Girl Talk
The Prodigy
Controller.Controller x 2
Merkury Burn x 2
Jon Rae and the River
Hylozoists
Laura Barrett
Head of Femur
Magneta Lane
Howie Beck
Matthew Barber
Matt Pond PA
Mary Timony
Meligrove Band
Moneen
Bell Orchestre
The Reputation
The Matadors x 5
Blackalicious
DJ Shadow
Latyrx
LAL
Maroons
Lifesavas
Joyo Velarde
Tiesto
Dieselboy
Adam Freeland
Max Graham x 2
Kid Koala x 2
Blockhead
Bonobo
Sixtoo
Amon Tobin
The New Deal
The Birthday Massacre
Sanseiru
The Gurriers
Alexisonfire
From Fiction
Spirit of the West
Sam Roberts
Pilate
Treble Charger
Turn Off The Stars
Avril Lavigne
Swollen Members
Elephant Man
Bif Naked
Theory of a Deadman
High Holy Days
Third Eye Blind
Kazzer
The Junction

Last but not least.. a whole slew of world class celtic musicians whose names would be impossible to all list, and you haven’t heard of them anyway. But my oh my there’s some gold in them hills.

cue file

1. Firefox AK – The Draft
2. Love Is All – Felt Tip
3. Of Montreal – A Sentence of Sorts in Kongsvinger
4. Awesome New Republic – Wheels, No Engines
5. Hot Chip – Boys From School
6. Fujiya & Miyagi – Ankle injuries
7. Mates Of State – Think Long
8. Gnarls Barkley – The Last Time
9. Herbert – Harmonise
10. Grandadbob – Hide Me (Al Usher Mix)
11. Daniela Mercury – Preto e Branco
12. Ellen Allien & Apparat – Do Not Break
13. Simian Mobile Disco – Hustler
14. Kelley Polar – In Time
15. Superpitcher – Even Angels
16. Swayzak – Sob 1
17. Scritti Politti – The Boom Boom Bap

This disc sort of has a theme, but definitely has a flow. It starts off gentle, ramps up in intensity, gets rather forceful, eases off with a bit of dance-club frivolity, and then enters into a sweeping streak of cinematic epicosity where you get self-actualized and have suns exploding in your heart.

I also found that a lot of the songtitles seem to go together… having to do with time and loss and new beginnings. but that is almost purely coincidental. Also, in retrospect, this is not my most favourite of mixes at all, but all the songs are good!

MP3 – CUE

1. Shearwater – Nobody
2. Califone – The Orchids
3. Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Strange Form of Life
4. Augie March – One Crowded Hour
5. Baby Eagle – Some Things We Lose
6. The Decemberists – Culling of the Fold
7. Band of Horses – The Funeral
8. TV on the Radio – Hours
9. Killer Mike – That’s Life
10. Saul Williams – Act III Scene 2 (Shakesphere)
11. Herbert – Something Isn’t Right
12. Busdriver – Sun Shower
13. Junior Boys – In the Morning
14. Alex Smoke – 6am
15. Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté – Hawa Dolo
16. Underworld and Gabriel Yared – Happy Toast
17. Sofian Rouge – El Wahrania
18. CunninLynguists – Nothing to Give
19. Sunset Rubdown – Shut Up I Am Dreaming of Places Where Lovers Have Wings

.mp3/.cue

1. Camera Obscura – Lloyd, I’m Ready to be Heartbroken
2. The Pipettes – Pull Shapes
3. New Pornographers – It’s Only Divine Right
4. Peter Bjorn & John – Young Folks
5. Spoon – Me and the Bean
6. Tindersticks – Her
7. Midlake – Roscoe
8. Joseph Arthur – Too Much to Hide
9. Neko Case – Hold On, Hold On
10. Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton – Doctor Blind
11. Regina Spektor – Fidelity
12. Tom Waits – I’m Still Here
13. Sparklehorse – Hundreds of Sparrows
14. The National – 90-Mile Water Wall
15. Smog – Rock Bottom Riser
16. Maria Taylor – Song Beneath the Song
17. Malajube – Étienne d’Août
18. Alias & Tarsier – Dr. C
19. The Notwist – Solo Swim
20. Trembling Blue Stars – Sometimes I Still Feel the Bruise
21. American Watercolor Movement – C’est La Vie Gueule De Fuch
22. My Morning Jacket – Knot Comes Loose

(it has been scientifically proven that 1 in 4.3 people prefers __ to __.)

-midnight-
Paul Nazca / Surface / Alchimie (2001)
Alex Smoke / Lost In Sound / Incommunicado (2005)
-12:11-
Röyksopp / Remind Me (Someone Else’s Club Mix) / Remind Me (Single) (2002)
Vitalic / My Friend Dario / Ok Cowboy (2005)
Spank Rock / Backyard Betty / YoYoYoYoYo (2006)
Para One / Turtle Trouble / Epiphanie (2006)
-12:28-
Alan Braxe & Fred Falke / Intro / The Upper Cuts (2005)
Chromeo / Needy Girl / She’s In Control (2004)
Moloko / Familiar Feelings / Statues (2003)
-12:49-
Ratatat / Wildcat / Classics (2006)
Of Montreal / Cato as a Pun / Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? (2007)
Super Furry Animals / Slow Life / Phantom Power (2003)
-1:05-
Architecture In Helsinki / Wishbone / In Case We Die (2005)
Ulrich Schnauss / On My Own / A Strangely Isolated Place (2003)
Massive Attack / Hymn Of The Big Wheel / Blue Lines (1991)
-1:21-
Bright Eyes / Bowl Of Oranges / Lifted (2002)
Spoon / Everything Hits At Once / Girls Can Tell (2001)
Final Fantasy / This Lamb Sells Condos / He Poos Clouds (2006)
Thievery Corporation / Lebanese Blonde / The Mirror Conspiracy (2000)
-1:39-
The Books / Tokyo / The Lemon of Pink (2003)
Aphex Twin / Girl/Boy Song / Richard D. James Album (1996)
CunninLynguists / Since When / A Piece of Strange (2005)
-1:55-
Outkast / 13th Floor/Growing Old / ATLiens (1996)
-2:00-

(Oh sorry ma’am, did you want an mp3 with your sandwich?)

Luomo / Really Don’t Mind / Paper Tigers (2006)
Herbert / Addiction / Bodily Functions (2001)
-12:15-
Bjork / New World / Selmasongs (2000)
Brian Eno / An Ending (Ascent) / Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks (1983)
Cibelle / Lembra / The Shine Of Dried Electric Leaves (2006)
-12:32
fUNCTION / The Red Hook Overview / The Secret Miracle Fountain (2006)
Carla Bozulich / Pissing / Evangelista (2006)
Do Make Say Think / Horns of a Rabbit / Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn (2003)
-12:52-
Slint / Good Morning, Captain / Spiderland (1991)
The Drones / Jezebel / Gala Mill (2006)
Broken Social Scene / Late Nineties Bedroom Rock for the Missionaries / You Forgot it in People (2002)
-1:11-
Dismemberment Plan / A Life of Possibilities / Emergency & I (1999)
The Black Angels / The Prodigal Sun / Passover (2006)
The Constantines / Hotline Operator / Tournament of Hearts (2005)
-1:27-
The Hold Steady / Stuck Between Stations / Boys and Girls In America (2006)
Persephone’s Bees / Muzika Dlya Fil’ma / Notes From The Underworld (2006)
Art Brut / Nag Nag Nag Nag / Nag Nag Nag Nag CDM (2006)
-1:43-
My My / Got It / Songs for the Gentle (2006)
Jahcoozi / Fish / Pure Breed Mongrel (2005)
Cujo / Cat People / Adventures in Foam (1997)
-2:00-
Tunng / Woodcat / Comments Of The Inner Chorus (2006)

(If you look, you might not see. If you fill two, you’ll mp3. I’m obtuse.)

-midnight-
Murcof / Recuerdos / Remembranza (2005)
Clint Mansell / Tree of Life / The Fountain (2006)
-12:15-
Howie B / Angels Go Bald:Too / Turn The Dark Off (1997)
The Clash / London Calling / London Calling (1979)
John Vanderslice / Up Above the Sea / Cellar Door (2004)
-12:28-
Man / Belem / Main Gauche (2002)
Gotan Project / Diferente / Lunático (2006)
Malajube / Étienne d’Août / Trompe-L’Oeil (2006)
-12:47-
Hidden Cameras / Awoo / Awoo (2006)
Jens Lekman / Black Cab / Oh You’re So Silent Jens (2005)
Peter Bjorn & John / Paris 2004 / Writer’s Block (2006)
-12:59-
Animal Collective / The Softest Voice / Sung Tongs (2004)
Múm / Green Grass of Tunnel / Finally We Are No One (2002)
Joanna Newsom / Cosmia / Ys (2006)
-1:20-
The Arcade Fire / Cold Wind / Cold Wind (2005)
The National / 90-Mile Water Wall / Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers (2003)
Los Lobos / The Town / The Town And The City (2006)
-1:33-
Bob Dylan / Ain’t Talkin’ / Modern Times (2006)
Solomon Burke / None Of Us Are Free / Don’t Give Up On Me (2002)
-1:48-
They Shoot Horses Don’t They / Lowlife / Boo Hoo Hoo Boo (2006)
Tom Waits / Rain Dogs / Rain Dogs (1985)
Grinderman / No Pussy Blues / Grinderman (2006)
be Your Own PET / Adventure / Be Your Own PET (2006)
-2:03-
Sun Kil Moon / Floating / Ghosts of the Great Highway (2003)

(It’s a .aiff! No.. It’s a .ra! No.. it’s… it’s… it’s.. thing)

-midnight-
Bent / Exercise 1 / Programmed To Love (2001)
Ellen Allien & Apparat / Do Not Break / Orchestra Of Bubbles (2006)
Simian Mobile Disco / Hustler / Hustler 12” (2006)
-12:19-
Balkan Beat Box / Sunday Ark / Balkan Beat Box (2005)
Daniela Mercury / Maimbê Dandá / Carnaval Eletrônico (2004)
Lily Allen / LDN / Alright Still (2006)
-12:34-
A Hawk and a Hacksaw / Song for Joseph / The Way the Wind Blows (2006)
Beirut / Scenic World / Gulag Orkestar (2006)
The Decemberists / Culling of the Fold / The Crane Wife (2006)
-12:47-
Augie March / Heartbeat And Sails / Sunset Studies (2000)
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! / In This Home On Ice / Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! (2005)
Belle And Sebastian / Another Sunny Day / The Life Pursuit (2006)
-1:00-
Sparklehorse / Shade and Honey / Dreamt For Light Years In the Belly of a Mountain (2006)
Spoon / The Two Sides Of Monsieur Valentine / Gimme Fiction (2005)
Yo La Tengo / Mr. Tough / I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass (2006)
-1:13-
Groove Armada / Pre 63 / Vertigo (1999)
Superpitcher / Träume / Here Comes Love (2004)
CunninLynguists / The Gates (feat. Tonedeff) / A Piece of Strange (2005)
-1:29
Castanets / Three Days, Four Nights / Cathedral (2004)
The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band with Choir / American Motor Over Smoldered Field / “This Is Our Punk-Rock,” Thee Rusted Satellites Gather+Sing (2003)
-1:46-
Sonic Youth / Do You Believe In Rapture / Rather Ripped (2006)
PJ Harvey / One Line / Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea (2000)
Regina Spektor / Fidelity / Begin to Hope (2006)
-1:59-
My Morning Jacket / Knot Comes Loose / Z (2005)

(Mysterious hyperlink leads to recording of community radio show, local DJ says)

-midnightish-
Kammerflimmer Kollektief / Mantra / Cicadidae (2003)
-12:10-
Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté / Hawa Dolo / In The Heart Of The Moon (2005)
Akron/Family / Before And Again / Akron/Family (2005)
Wilco / How to Fight Loneliness / Summerteeth (1999)
-12:24-
Mark Lenover / We Crush Little Bones in the Dust / The Arsonists (2006)
Emmanuel Jal & Abdel Gadir Salim / Aiwa / Ceasefire (2005)
Underworld / 8 Ball / The Beach Soundtrack (2000)
-12:43-
Talk Talk / Time It’s Time / The Colour Of Spring (1986)
Guillemots / Come Away With Me / Through The Windowpane (2006)
Peter Bjorn & John / Young Folks / Writer’s Block (2006)
-1:00-
The Shins / Australia / Wincing the Night Away (2007)
Ray LaMontagne / Within You / Til The Sun Turns Black (2006)
Midlake / Roscoe / The Trials of Van Occupanther (2006)
-1:16-
Tiger Lou / Like My Very Own Blood / The Loyal (2005)
The Futureheads / Fallout / News And Tributes (2006)
The Thermals / I Might Need You To Kill / The Body, the Blood, the Machine (2006)
The National / Mr November / Alligator (2005)
-1:32-
Viva Voce / When Planets Collide / Get Yr Blood Sucked Out (2006)
Swan Lake / Bluebird / Beast Moans (2006)
Islands / Rough Gem / Return to the Sea (2006)
Baby Eagle / Some Things We Lose / Baby Eagle (2006)
-1:46-
Bert Jansch / The Black Swan / The Black Swan (2006)
Giant Sand / Inner Flame / The Inner Flame: Rainer Ptacek Tribute (1997)
Benoît Pioulard / Triggering Back / Précis. (2006)
-2:04-
Nick Drake / Place To Be / Pink Moon (1972)

And get this! the mp3 is (at least for now) APS; so you can hear my beautiful voice at high quality.

-midnight-
Alias & Tarsier / Cub / Brookland/Oaklyn (2006)
Alpha / I just Wanna Make You / Stargazing (2003)
-0:10-
Shearwater / La Dame Et La Licorne / Palo Santo (2006)
Guillemots / If The World Ends / Through The Windowpane (2006)
A Silver Mount Zion / 13 Angels Standing Guard ‘Round the Side of Your Bed / He Has Left Us Alone, But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms (2000)
-0:28-
Wilco / At Least That’s What You Said / Kicking Television : Live in Chicago (2005)
My Morning Jacket / Anytime / Okonokos (2006)
Radiohead / Like Spinning Plates / I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings (2001)
-0:43-
Matmos / Roses And Teeth For Ludwig Wittgenstein / The Rose Has Teeth In The Mouth of the Beast (2006)
The Avalanches / Since I Left You / Since I Left You (2001)
AFX / PWSteal.Ldpinch.D / Chosen Lords (2006)
-0:56-
LFO / LFO / Frequencies (1991)
Alex Smoke / Chica Wappa (Mejor Edit) / Incommunicado (2005)
Dub Pistols / Revolution / Six Million Ways To Live (2001)
Basement Jaxx / Hey You / Crazy Itch Radio (2006)
Pendulum / Slam / Hold Your Colour (2005)
Massive Attack / I Against I / Collected (2006)
-1:29-
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis / Martha’s Dream / The Proposition OST (2005)
Gustavo Santaolalla / De Ushuaia A La Quiaca / The Motorcycle Diaries OST (2004)
James Newton Howard / Gravel Road / The Village OST (2004)
-1:41-
Stuart A. Staples / That Leaving Feeling (feat. Lhasa) / Leaving Songs (2006)
Lambchop / Give Me Your Love (Love Song) / What Another Man Spills (1998)
El Perro Del Mar / God Knows (You Gotta Give To Get) / El Perro Del Mar (2006)
-1:55-
The Mountain Goats / Moon Over Goldsboro / Get Lonely (2006)

(This is a special edition mp3 (”emm-pea-threa”) that features, or rather doesn’t feature depending on how you look at it, a missing section that occurs at 74′51.83 (59%). I would also like to apologize for my speaking being way too loud compared with the music on the recording, and blame the mixer at the station which seems to not quite be displaying everything right)
(I fixed the link now so it’s actually linking to the right show.. whoo! -nov 4)

-12:18-
Venetian Snares vs Bong Ra / Felbomlasztott Mentökocsi (Bong-Ra Remix) / 4 Adaptations of Rossz Csillag Alatt Született (2006)
Various / Thunnk / The World is Gone (2006)
-12:25-
Echo & The Bunnymen / The Killing Moon / Ocean Rain (1984)
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds / Red Right Hand (Scream 3 Version) / B-Sides And Rarities (2005)
The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster / Puppy Dog Snails / Royal Society (2004)
The Matadors / Let’s Ride / Hellblazin’ (2002)
-12:46-
Outkast / Dracula’s Wedding (feat. Kelis) / Speakerboxxx / The Love Below (2003)
Gnarls Barkley / The Boogie Monster / St. Elsewhere (2006)
Siouxsie & The Banshees / Cities In Dust / Tinderbox (1986)
David Bowie / Scary Monsters (& Super Creeps) / Scary Monsters (& Super Creeps) (1980)
-1:00-
Residents / Arctic Hysteria / Eskimo (1979 )
Nouvelle Vague / Bela Lugosi’s Dead / Bande A Part (2006)
UNKLE / Celestial Annihilation / Psyence Fiction (1998)
-1:15
The Knife / Silent Shout / Silent Shout (2006)
Pendulum / Fasten Your Seltbelt (feat. The Freestylers) / Hold Your Colour (2005)
Goldenboy with Miss Kittin / Rippin Kittin / Or (2004)
-1:31
Burial / Gutted / Burial (2006)
Amon Tobin / Searchers / Out From Out Where (2002)
Boxcutter / Brood / Oneiric (2006)
-midnight-
Massive Attack / Inertia Creeps / Mezzanine (1998)
Cadence Weapon / Grim Fandango / Breaking Kayfabe (2005)
King Geedorah / Monster Zero / Take Me To Your Leader (2003)
-1:46-
Medeski Martin & Wood / Dracula / Shack-man (1996)
Tom Waits / Army Ants / Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards [disc three {Bastards}] (2006)
Sufjan Stevens / They Are Night Zombies!! They are Neighbours! They have Come Back from the Dead! / Illinois (2005)
-2:00ish-
Current 93 / Black Ships in the Sky / Black Ships Ate The Sky (2006)

(Want it? Can’t have it! Want it? Can’t ha.. oh fine [eesta mp3, meesta])

-midnight-
Max Richter / Song / Songs From Before (2006)
Sigur Rós / Untitled 3 (Samskyeti) / ( ) (2002)
-
Talk Talk / Inheritance / Spirit of Eden (1988)
The Mountain Goats / Song For Lonely Giants / Get Lonely (2006)
Calexico / Pepito / A Feast of Wire (2002)
Shearwater / Johnny Viola / Palo Santo (2006)
-
Lhasa / La Marée Haute / The Living Road (2003)
Alias & Tarsier / Dr. C / Brookland/Oaklyn (2006)
Beach House / Tokyo Witch / Beach House (2006)
-12:42-
Lamb / Merge / Lamb (1997)
Konono Nr. 1 / Lufuala Ndonga / Congotronics (2005)
OOIOO / Umo / Taiga (2006)
-
Ali Farka Touré / Beto / Savane (2006)
Emmanuel Jal & Abdel Gadir Salim / Gua / Ceasefire (2005)
Tom Zé / Ave Dor Maria / Estudando O Pagode (2005)
-1:19-
Future Sound Of London / Calcium / Accelerator (1991)
Squarepusher / Hello Meow / Hello Everything (2006)
Out Hud / How Long / Let Us Never Speak of It Again (2005)
-
Philip Glass / Etude No.2 [Luciano Supervielle] / Glasscuts (2005)
Matias Aguayo / New Life / Are You Really Lost (2005)
Charles Manier / Bang Bang Lover / Idol Tryouts Two: Ghostly International Vol. Two (2006)
-
R.E.M. / 7 Chinese Brothers / Reckoning (1984)
Serena Maneesh / Don’t Come Down Here / Serena Maneesh (2005)
PJ Harvey / Shame / Uh Huh Her (2004)
Tom Waits / Hang Down Your Head / Rain Dogs (1985)
-
Songs: Ohia / Soul / Nor Cease Thou Never Now… 7″ (1995)

Is four phone calls during one show a record? I dunno.
Two were actually from people listening to and enjoying the show.
Though none were from people that I didn’t already know.

(Receive digitally encoded sound vibrations roughly in accordance with live broadcast experience)

-midnight-
Twine / Plectrum / Twine (2003)
Loscil / Motoc / Plume (2006)
Moby / The Sky Is Broken / Play (1999)
-
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds / West Country Girl / Boatman’s Call (1997)
Los Lobos / Little Things / The Town And The City (2006)
Procol Harum / A Whiter Shade of Pale / Procol Harum (1967)
-
Chords / Sh-Boom (1954)
Dion & The Belmonts / I Wonder Why (1958)
M.I.A. / Bingo / Arular (2005)
Lily Allen / Smile / Alright Still (2006)
-12:52-
Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton / Doctor Blind / Knives Don’t Have Your Back (2006)
Hem / Great Houses Of New York / Funnel Cloud (2006)
Nina Nastasia / On Teasing / Run to Ruin (2003)
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Dusty Springfield / Spooky / “How Can I Be Sure” B-Side (1970)
Califone / Spider’s House / Roots & Crowns (2006)
Yo La Tengo / Autumn Sweater / I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One (1997)
-1:18-
Subtle / Midas Gutz / For Hero: For Fool (2006)
13 + God / perfect speed / 13 + God (2005)
Saul Williams / Black Stacey / Saul Williams (2004)
Lupe Fiasco feat Matthew Santos / American Terrorist / Food & Liquor (2006)
-
The Deadly Snakes / I Can’t Sleep At Night / Ode To Joy (2003)
The Constantines / Tank Commander (Hung Up in a Warehouse Town) / Shine a Light (2003)
PJ Harvey / Sheela Na Gig / Dry (1992)
-1:47-
My Brightest Diamond / We Were Sparkling / Bring Me The Workhorse (2006)
Various / Deadman / The World is Gone (2006)
Isobel Campbell / Willow’s Song / Milkwhite Sheets (2006)
-
Sufjan Stevens / For the Widows in Paradise, for the Fatherless in Ypsilanti / Greetings from Michigan The Great Lakes State (2003)

(This is where you listen when you want to listen to this show when it is not when it is on)

David Holmes / Out Run / Bow Down To The Exit Sign (2000)
St. Germain / Land Of… / Tourist (2001)
-
Architecture in Helsinki / One Heavy February / Fingers Crossed (2004)
Caribou / Barnowl / The Milk Of Human Kindness (2005)
DJ Koze / Estrella / Kosi Comes Around (2005)
-12:34-
Fujiya & Miyagi / Collarbone / Transparent things (2006)
Mew / Comforting Sounds / Frengers (2003)
Lupe Fiasco / The Instrumental (ft Jonah Matranga) / Food & Liquor (2006)
-
Alpha & Omega / But Roots / City Of Dub (2006)
Underworld / Confusion the Waitress / Second Toughest in the Infants (1996)
Moloko / Sing It Back / I Am Not A Doctor (2001)
-1:07-
Grizzly Bear / Plans / Yellow House (2006)
Os Mutantes / Baby / Os Mutantes (1968)
Stars / your ex-lover is dead / Set Yourself on Fire (2004)
-
Bell Orchestre / Throw it on A Fire / Recording A Tape the Colour of the Light (2005)
Patrick Wolf / Teignmouth / Wind In The Wires (2005)
U2 / Ultra Violet (Light My Way) / Achtung Baby (1991)
-1:37-
Dismemberment Plan / Time Bomb / Change (2001)
dEUS / Fell Off The Floor, Man / In A Bar, Under The Sea (1993)
Cadence Weapon / Oliver Square / Breaking Kayfabe (2005)
-
The Kinks / Waterloo Sunset / Something Else By The Kinks (1968)
OK Go / A Million Ways / Oh No (2005)
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists / The High Party / Hearts Of Oak (2003)
-2:03-
Junior Boys / FM / So This Is Goodbye (2006)

(One Time and ONE time only. MP3! Mp3! MP3!)

Various / Today / The World is Gone (2006)
Portishead / Only You / Portishead (1997)
-
Quantic / Blow Your Horn (Feat Ohmega Watts) / An Announcement to Answer (2006)
Drum Island / La danse electrique / Drum Island (1997)
Mark Hollis / Watershed / Mark Hollis (1998)
-
Califone / The Orchids / Roots & Crowns (2006)
Cat Power / He War / You Are Free (2003)
iron and wine | calexico / he lays in the reins / in the reins (2005)
The Sadies / Higher Power / In Concert Vol. 1 (2006)
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The Decemberists / Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then) / The Crane Wife (2006)
Bob Dylan / Spirit On The Water / Modern Times (2006)
Augie March / Stranger Strange / Moo, You Bloody Choir (2006)
-1:08-
My Brightest Diamond / Something Of An End / Bring Me The Workhorse (2006)
Under Byen / Den Her Sang Hander Om At Få Det Bedste Ud Af Det / Samme Stof Som Stof (2006)
TV on the Radio / Hours / Return to Cookie Mountain (2006)
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Yo La Tengo / Beanbag Chair / I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass (2006)
Joseph Arthur / Too Much To Hide / Nuclear Daydream (2006)
The Pipettes / Pull Shapes / We Are The Pipettes (2006)
-
Firefox AK / The Draft / Madame, Madame! (2006)
Love Is All / Felt Tip / 9 Times That Same Song (2006)
Of Montreal / Reject the Frequency / Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer (2007)
-
Bonnie Prince Billy & Matt Sweeny / Bed is for Sleeping / Superwolf (2005)
The National / Cardinal Song / Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers (2003)
Stuart A. Staples / Old Friends / Leaving Songs (2006)
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Shearwater / Nobody / Palo Santo (2006)

(New, exciting, compressed audio, technology allows you to “re-experience” episode)

-midnightish-
Junior Boys / Under the Sun / Last Exit (2004)
Orbital / The Girl with the Sun in Her Head / In Sides (1996)
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My Morning Jacket / Gideon / Z (2005)
Pulp / She’s A Lady / His ‘N’ Hers (2006 remaster) (1994)
Doves / The Sulphur Man / The Last Broadcast (2002)
-12:39-
The Hold Steady / Chips Ahoy! / Boys and Girls in America (2006)
Art Brut / Emily Kane / Bang Bang Rock And Roll (2005)
McLusky / To Hell With Good Intentions / McLusky Do Dallas (2002)
The Wrens / Per Second Second / The Meadowlands (2003)
-
Scott Walker / Cossacks Are / The Drift (2006)
Tom Waits / Step Right Up / Small Change (1976)
Amon Tobin / Marine Machines / Supermodified (2000)
-1:10-
The Books / Enjoy Your Worries, You May Never Have Them Again / Thought for Food (2002)
Bonobo / Nightlite (Feat. Bajka) / Days To Come (2006)
LTJ Bukem / Atlantis (I Need You) / Apollo Two – Vol 1: Return To Atlantis (1993)
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Sunset Rubdown / I’m Sorry I sang on your Hands That Have Been in the Grave / Shut Up I Am Dreaming (2006)
Guillemots / Made Up Love Song #43 / Through The Windowpane (2006)
Grizzly Bear / Knife / Yellow House (2006)
-1:43-
Badly Drawn Boy / Once Around the Block / The Hour Of Bewilderbeast (2000)
The Delgados / The Past That Suits You Best / The Great Eastern (2000)
The Flaming Lips / Morning Of The Magicians / Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (2002)
-2:00-
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds / The Ship Song / Live Seeds (1993)

1. Orbital – Halcyon & On & On
2. Pantha Du Prince – Saturn Strobe
3. Lamb – Heaven
4. Goldfrapp – Utopia
5. Bjork – All Is Full Of Love
6. The Knife – Marble House
7. Future Sound Of London – Papua New Guinea
8. Junior Boys – Caught In A Wave
9. Primal Scream – Shine Like Stars
10. Herbert – Those Feelings
11. William Orbit – Water From A Vine Leaf
12. Sebastien Tellier – La Ritournelle
13. Bird York – In The Deep
14. Sia – Breathe Me
15. Frou Frou – Let Go
16. Jon & Vangelis – So Long Ago, So Clear

Yes.

Some I want to see more than others.

Italicized shows have been attended. (Parenthesized shows mean I probably won’t go, but are noteworthy). Starred shows I have tickets to.

Here’s a brief, in progress, rundown (this list will hoperfully be kept uptodate, also some weblistings contradict each other, so I might not be sure wtf):

Oct 02: Yo La Tengo – Phoenix – Toronto – $22.50
Oct 09: Under Byen (w/Giant Sand) – The Horseshoe – Toronto – $15.00
Oct 11: The New Pornographers – Kool Haus – Toronto – $20.50
Oct 12: TV on the Radio (w/ guests, Grizzly Bear?) – The Opera House – Toronto – $17.50 – sold out.
Oct 14: Art Brut (w/ We Are Scientists, Spinto Band) – The Opera House – Toronto – $17.50 – Doors 2030
Oct 28: The Hold Steady – The Horseshoe – Toronto – $15.00 Adv
Oct 29: Love is All – The Horseshoe – Toronto – $10.50 Adv
Nov 05: Califone – The Horseshoe – Toronto – $10.00 Adv
Nov 06: The Decemberists (w/ Alasdair Roberts) – Kool Haus – Toronto – $22.50

(available for your listening pleasure, digitally downloadbly)

-midnight-
Superpitcher / Even Angels / Here Comes Love (2004)
Underworld and Gabriel Yared / Happy Toast / Breaking and Entering (2006)
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Laura Barrett / Robot Ponies / Earth Sciences (2005)
Spiral Beach / Voodoo / Spiral Beach (2006)
Hidden Cameras / She’s Gone / Awoo (2006)
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Venetian Snares / Swindon / Cavalcade Of Glee And Dadaist Happy Hardcore (2006)
Roman Flugel Presents Soylent Green / La Forza Del Destino / La Forza Del Destino (2006)
Squarepusher / Welcome to europe / Hello Everything (2006)
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Scritti Politti / The Boom Boom Bap / White Bread Black Beer (2006)
The Elected / Sun, Sun, Sun / Sun, Sun, Sun (2006)
Yann Tiersen / Kala / Les Retrouvailles (2005)
-12:57-
The Mountain Goats / Maybe Sprout Wings / Get Lonely (2006)
Radiohead / Nice Dream / The Bends (1995)
Menomena / Wet and Rusting / Friend and Foe (2007)
Shearwater / Red Sea Black Sea / Palo Santo (2006)
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Death From Above 1979 / Sexy Results (MSTRKRFT Edition) / Romance Bloody Romance (2005)
Blues Explosion / Mars Arizon (DFA Remix) / Crunchy EP (2005)
-1:29-
Bonnie “Prince” Billy / Love Comes To Me / Then The Letting Go (2006)
The Constantines / Hyacinth Blues / The Constantines (2001)
TV on the Radio / Tonight / Return to Cookie Mountain (2006)
-
PJ Harvey / To Bring You My Love / To Bring You My Love (1995)
The Dresden Dolls / Sex Changes / Yes, Virginia (2006)
Fiona Apple / Not About Love / Extraordinary Machine (2005)
-2:00-
Loose Fur / Answers To Your Questions / Born Again in the USA (2006)

(you can now relive the moments in glorious low definition “MP3″!)

-midnight-
Jürgen Paape / So Weit Wie Noch Nie / So Weit Wie Noch Nie (2003)
Kelley Polar / In Time / Love Songs of the Hanging Gardens (2005)
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Barbara Morgenstern / Nichts Muss [part 1] / Nichts Muss (2003)
Laub / Wortspur / Filesharing (2002)
Barbara Morgenstern / Nichts Muss [part 2] / Nichts Muss (2003)
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Sofian Rouge / La Marche Du Vent / Mediterranean Excursions (2006)
Junior Boys / Caught In A Wave / So This Is Goodbye (2006)
Daniela Mercury / Preto e branco / Carnaval Electronico (2004)
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Jamie Lidell / Music Will Not Last / Multiply (2005)
Roisin Murphy / Night of the Dancing Flame / Ruby Blue (2005)
Busdriver / Reheated Pop! / Fear Of A Black Tangent (2005)
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Latyrx / The Quickening (The Wreckoning PartII) / The Album (1999)
Hieroglyphics / Oakland Blackouts / 3rd Eye Vision (1998)
Aesop Rock / The Next Best Thing / The Next Best Thing (7″ Vinyl) (2006)
-1:05 am-
P.O.S. / Stand Up (Let’s Get Murdered) / Audition (2006)
Killer Mike / That’s Life / I Pledge Allegiance (2006)
The Roots / In The Music (Feat. Malik B. & Porn) / Game Theory (2006)
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Asobi Seksu / Thursday / Citrus (2006)
Sonic Youth / Incinerate / Rather Ripped (2006)
Califone / A Chinese Actor / Roots & Crowns (2006)
-
Mirah / The Dogs Of Buenos Aires / C’mon Miracle (2004)
Clinic / Distortions / Internal Wrangler (2000)
Liars / It Fit When I Was A Kid / Drum’s Not Dead (2006)
-1:50am-
M. Ward / To Go Home / Post-War (2006)
Beirut / Brandenburg / Gulag Orkestar (2006)
The Decemberists / The Crane Wife 3 / The Crane Wife (2006)
-2:04 am-
Bonnie “Prince” Billy / Strange Form Of Life / Then The Letting Go (2006)
–

THE SLIPSTREAM, with your delicious host Damon Muma
from MIDNIGHT Monday to TWO on Tuesday
on CFMU 93.3 …follow link to discover lo-bitrate webcast of radio!

So I thought in honour of the new season, and because I take this little radio gig perhaps far too seriously, I’d formalize the structure of my radio program, by way of -

THE MANIFESTO. [scrawled with half a pen on the back of your tim horton paper muffin bag].

Programming:
Music is art. Art is communication. Art should move us, spiritually and intellectually. Maybe moreso spiritually, but in a way they are one and the same. I aim to present, each week, a collection of songs that acheive small greatness in the field of musical endeavor, no matter the genre. What that really means is that I play the songs I like. I just choose them very carefully from a veritable slew (to illustrate this slew, I’ve so far listened to more than 150 albums that were released in 2006; and no, of course I don’t pirate music). I aim to play only songs that have a lot to offer, and of course what exactly that is can change wildly from song to song. I also want to make the best of what time I have, so I have determined not to repeat the same artist within one show, nor the same song within the same few years, except by accident. Of course taste is subjective, but I believe there is a large amount of objectivity in the analysis of art. There is good art and less good art, and of course a rather extensive middle ground. The Slipstream tries its darndest to be a place for good art. I want every person who listens to the program to hear and be moved by music they have not heard before or did not take note of on the first go round. A sort of goal for the show is to create for myself the ultimate playlist for my Ipod or Winamp or what have you.

Engineering:
The songs are selected well in advance, by being sent to my special playlist in winamp. Then they are arranged into a coherent order, shuffled around for a while, mixed and matched and blended (using mixmeister) so that they flow smoothly into each other. Also, the last song of a set will link sounways somehow to the next song. If the talking were removed one would hear a coherent mix. I do this all in advance and show up at the station with a few CDs full of each set as one track. Each show takes at least 2-3 hours to sequence, not including all the music listening or the burning, playlist writing, webposting, mp3 recording tagging and posting, manifesto writing, etc. The mp3s that show up here are recorded from the CFMU webstream and are therefore not particularly good quality. I apologize.

Hosting:
I basically sit in the studio, say some stuff and then press play. This year I’ll probably be bringing my shiny new laptop with me so that I can look stuff up if I need to and also lurk on msn and harass people into listening. Previously, everything I said about the show was just from trivia I have accumulated and stored in my indie-musically-overwhelmed mind. I like to be a big goofy now and then, but ultimately the me talking part is only so that you can know who these cool music making cats are.

So in the end, ignore all that jibber jabber up top, and what you get is a series of really good songs from a variety of genres flowing together for two hours every week around islands of Damon talking. What I get is something that I am almost always quite proud of.

Full stop.

Music: tonight’s show
Mood: pretentious

By special request (well, that’s what I’m calling it) I was invited to fill the prestigious 6-9 am slot on CFMU this wednesday morning. And this is no ordinary gig. This was live in the student centre with all manner of life swarming around me, and visions also. This was a bit last minute (when factored in the whole moving thing) so I just went with a selection of my favourite sections from the summer shows I did, with special emphasis on the last one, since it was only aired at a really odd time and is one of my personal favourite playlists.

The mp3 of the show that I know I had at some point seems to have disappeared from the face of all of my harddrives..

6 am
Alex Smoke / 6am / Incommunicado (2005)
Boards Of Canada / Olson / Music Has The Right To Children (1998)
Ochre / 111 / Lemodie (2006)
Björk / Domestica / Pagan Poetry CDS (2001)

Earth Leakage Trip / No Idea / Psychotronic EP (1991)
Goldfrapp / Lovely Head / Felt Mountain (2000)
U2 / Lemon / Zooropa (1993)

Isolée / Today / Wearemonster (2005)
Ada / Lifedriver / Blondie (2004)
Tomas Andersson / The Other Day / Copy Cat (2006)

7 am
Hot Chip / Boys From School / The Warning (2006)
Fujiya & Miyagi / Ankle injuries / Transparent things (2006)
Mates Of State / Think Long / Bring It Back (2006)

The Mountain Goats / Broom People / The Sunset Tree (2005)
The Decemberists / July, July! / Castaways and Cutouts (2002)
Camera Obscura / Lloyd, I’m Ready to Be Heartbroken / Let’s Get Out of This Country (2006)
New Pornographers / It’s Only Divine Right / Electric Version (2003)

Sunset Rubdown / Stadiums and Shrines II / Shut Up I Am Dreaming (2006)
Spoon / Me And The Bean / Girls Can Tell (2001)
Tindersticks / Her / Tindersticks (1993)

Band of Horses / The Funeral / Everything All The Time (2006)
Augie March / The Drowning Dream / Strange Bird (2002)
Tom Waits / I’m Still Here / Alice (2002)
Sparklehorse / Hundreds of Sparrows / Good Morning Spider (1999)

8 am
Smog / Rock Bottom Riser / A River Ain’t Too Much to Love (2005)
Maria Taylor / Song Beneath the Song / 11:11 (2005)
Hidden Cameras / Follow These Eyes / Awoo (2006)

Lhasa / Anywhere On This Road / The Living Road (2003)
Daniela Mercury / Vou batê pá tu / Carnaval Electronico (2004)
Dizzy Gillespie / Manteca (Funky Lowlives Remix) / Verve Remixed 2 (2003)

Mr. Lif / Mo’ Mega (Feat Akrobatik & Blueprint) / Mo’ Mega (2006)
Ghostface Killah / The Champ / Fishscale (2006)
Lady Sovereign / Blah Blah / Blah Blah EP (2006)

Junior Boys / In The Morning (ft. Andi Tomi) / So This Is Goodbye (2006)
Lali Puna / Faking the Books / Faking the Books (2004)
Herbert / Those Feelings / Scales (2006)

Bonnie “Prince” Billy / Strange Form Of Life / Then The Letting Go (2006)

(mp3)

2 am
Boards of Canada / Olson / Music Has The Right To Children (1998)
Ochre / 111 / Lemodie (2006)
Björk / Domestica / Pagan Poetry CDS (2001)
Smog / Rock Bottom Riser / A River Ain’t Too Much to Love (2005)
Maria Taylor / Song Beneath the Song / 11:11 (2005)
Hidden Cameras / Follow These Eyes / Awoo (2006)
Lhasa / Anywhere On This Road / The Living Road (2003)
Daniela Mercury / Vou Batê Pá Tu / Carnaval Electronico (2004)
Dizzy Gillespie / Manteca (Funky Lowlives Remix) / Verve Remixed 2 (2003)
Moloko / Absent Minded Friends / Things To Make And Do (2000)
Grandadbob / Hide Me (Al Usher Mix) / Recordings (2006)
Dani Siciliano / She Say Cliché / Likes… (2004)

3 am
Magnetic Fields / Sweet-Lovin’ Man / 69 Love Songs, Pt. 1 (1999)
Danielson / Did I Step On Your Trumpet / Ships (2006)
Wolf Parade / You are a Runner and I Am My Father’s Son / Apologies To The Queen Mary (2005)
Aesop Rock / Fast Cars / Fast Cars, Danger, Fire & Knives EP (2005)
Buck 65 / Kennedy Killed The Hat / Secret House Against The World (2005)
Hieroglyphics / At the Helm / Third Eye Vision (1998)
P.O.S. / Audition Mantra / Audition (2006)
The Mountain Goats / Broom People / The Sunset Tree (2005)
The Decemberists / July, July! / Castaways and Cutouts (2002)
Camera Obscura / Lloyd, I’m Ready to be Heartbroken / Let’s Get Out of this Country (2006)
New Pornographers / It’s Only Divine Right / Electric Version (2003)
Dios / You Make Me Feel / Dios (2004)
Plej / Blue / Electronic Music From The Swedish Leftcoast (2003)
Alpha / Lipstick From the Asylum / Stargazing (2003)
Wilco / Impossible Germany / Live Summerfest (2006)

So it still didn’t air, even though I have the next episode all ready to go. Ridiculous? Yes. However, the Agression Session guy mentioned that tonight was their second last show. I don’t know if that has anything specific to do with the programming director being extremely pissed at them. Maybe their replacement will know how to do simple operations with winamp. One can only hope. Maybe their replacement should be me… (edit: my wish seems to have come true)

(mp3)

2 am
Underworld / Dirty Epic / Dubnobasswithmyheadman (1993)
Band of Horses / The Funeral / Everything All The Time (2006)
Augie March / The Drowning Dream / Strange Bird (2002)
Tom Waits / I’m Still Here / Alice (2002)
Sparklehorse / Hundreds of Sparrows / Good Morning Spider (1999)
Aloha / Brace Your Face / Some Echoes (2006)
Stereophonics / Maybe Tomorrow / You Gotta Go There To Come Back (2003)
Orbital / The Box (slipstream epic version) / In Sides (1996)

3 am
Keren Ann / Surannee / La Disparition (2002)
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists / The Gold Finch and the Red Oak Tree / The Tyranny of Distance (2001)
Neko Case / Hold On, Hold On / Fox Confessor Brings The Flood (2006)
Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins / Rise Up with Fists / Rabbit Furcoat (2006)
Juana Molina / Micael / Son (2006)
Esem / Microessen / Scateren (2005)
Thom Yorke / Analyse / The Eraser (2006)
Junior Boys / In The Morning (ft. Andi Tomi) / So This Is Goodbye (2006)
Lali Puna / Faking the Books / Faking the Books (2004)
Herbert / Those Feelings / Scale (2006)
Vangelis / So Long Ago, So Clear (ft John Anderson) / Cosmos (1974)

(mp3)

2 am
Earth Leakage Trip / No Idea / Psychotronic EP (1991)
Goldfrapp / Lovely Head / Felt Mountain (2000)
U2 / Lemon / Zooropa (1993)
Sunset Rubdown / Stadiums and Shrines II / Shut Up I Am Dreaming (2006)
Spoon / Me And The Bean / Girls Can Tell (2001)
Tindersticks / Her / Tindersticks (1993)
Amon Tobin / El Cargo / Splinter Cell Chaos Theory Sou (2005)
Alex Smoke / Brian’s Lung / Incommunicado (2005)
Burial / You Hurt Me / Burial (2006)
The Birthday Party / Junkyard / Junkyard (1982)
Bauhaus / Dark Entries / Press the Eject and Give Me the Tape (1982)
Interpol / Leif Erikson / Turn on the Bright Lights (2002)

3 am
Young and Sexy / Television / Stand Up for Your Mother (2002)
Destroyer / Rubies / Rubies (2006)
Infected Mushroom / Dancing With Kadafi / BP Empire (2001)
Daedelus / Samba Legrand / Denies the Days Demise (2006)
Awesome New Republic / 2K3012 / ANR So Far (2005)
Xiu Xiu / Save Me / The Air Force (2006)
Phoenix / Long Distance Call / It’s Never Been Like That (2006)
Flaming Lips / Fight Test / Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (2002)
Air / Venus / Talkie Walkie (2004)
R.E.M. / I’ll Take the Rain / Reveal (2001)

(mp3)

2 am
Outkast / Atliens / ATLiens (1996)
Rae & Christian / Now I Lay Me Down / Northern Sulphuric Soul (1998)
RJD2 / F.H.H. (feat. Jakki) / Deadringer (2002)
Prefuse 73 / Plastic (feat. Diverse) / One Word Extinguisher (2003)
Cadence Weapon / Julie Will Jump the Broom / Breaking Kayfabe (2005)
Edan / Torture Chamber Ft. Percee-P / Beauty and The Beat (2005)
Murs & 9th Wonder / Murray’s Law / Murray’s Revenge (2006)
Mr. Lif / Mo’ Mega (Feat Akrobatik & Blueprint) / Mo’ Mega (2006)
Ghostface Killah / The Champ / Fishscale (2006)
Lady Sovereign / Blah Blah / Blah Blah EP (2006)
Gorillaz / DARE / Demon Days (2005)
Ohmega Watts / Groovin’ On Sunshine / The Find (2005)
Basement Jaxx / Lucky Star (Feat Dizzee Rascal / Kish Kash (2003)
Roots Manuva / Stone The Crows / Run Come Save Me (2001)
Quannum / Concentration (feat. Jurassic 5) / Quannum Spectrum (1999)

3 am
The Roots / The Next Movement / Things Fall Apart (1999)
Buck 65 / 463 / Talkin’ Honky Blues (2003)
Dub Pistols / Soldiers / Six Million Ways To Live (2001)
Massive Attack / Five Man Army / Blue Lines (1991)
Gil Scott-Heron / The Revolution Will Not Be Televised / Pieces of a Man (1971)
The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy / Television, the Drug of the Nation / Hypocrisy Is the Greatest Luxury (1992)
P.O.S. / P.O.S. is Ruining My Life / Audition (2006)
Latyrx / Balcony Beach / The Album (1997)
Aesop Rock / No Regrets / Labor Days (2001)
Blackalicious / Cliff Hanger / Nia (2000)
Sage Francis / Crack Pipes / Personal Journals (2002)
Dert / José González – The Light + Common & Erika Badu – Heartbeats / Sometimes I Rhyme Slow (2006)

(mp3)

2 am
Nitin Sawhney / Homelands / Beyond Skin (1999)
Sofian Rouge / Amaravatti / Mediterranean Excursion (2006)
Shpongle / Dorset Perception / Tales of the Inexpressible (2001)
Conjure One / Redemption / Conjure One (2002)
Isolée / Today / Wearemonster (2005)
Ada / Lifedriver / Blondie (2004)
Tomas Andersson / The Other Day / Copy Cat (2006)
Alex Smoke / Something’s Gone / Paradolia (2006)
tunng / tale from black / mother’s daughter and other songs (2004)

3 am
The Velvet Underground / Venus in Furs / The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
The Deadly Snakes / So Young and So Cruel / Porcella (2005)
Tindersticks / Marbles / Tindersticks (1993)
Belle and Sebastian / Stars Of Track And Field / If You’re Feeling Sinister (1996)
The Weakerthans / Without Mythologies / Left and Leaving (2001)
Sufjan Stevens / Casimir Pulaski Day / Illinois (2005)
Amy Millan / Wayward and Parliament / Honey from the Tombs (2006)
Barbara Morgenstern / The Operator / The Grass Is Always Greener (2006)
Zita Swoon / Intrigue / A Song About A Girls (2004)
Wilco / Pieholden Suite / Summerteeth (1999)
Talk Talk / Living In Another World / The Colour Of Spring (1986)
Gnarls Barkley / The Last Time / St. Elsewhere (2006)
A Camp / I Can Buy You / A Camp (1999)

(mp3)

2 am
Booka Shade / Night falls / Movements (2006)
The Microphones / You’ll Be in the Air / The Glow, Pt. 2 (2001)
Modest Mouse / The Ocean Breathes Salty / Good News For People Who Love Bad News (2004)
The Constantines / Nighttime Anytime (It’s Alright) / Shine a Light (2003)
Console / Mount Everest Horizontal / Solo Swim OST (2004)
Arovane / Theme / Tides (2000)
Waldeck / Wake Up / Balance of the force (1998)
Archive / Nothing Else / Londinium (1996)
Sigur Rós / Hafsól / Hoppipolla (Single) (2005)
Orbital / Dwr Budr / In Sides (1996)

3 am
Amina / Hemipode / Animamina (2004)
Beirut / Postcards From italy / Gulag Orkestar (2006)
Bruce Springsteen / Mrs. McGrath / We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions (2006)
The Commodores / Zoom / Commodores (1977)
Air / All I Need / Moon Safari (1998)
ELO / Mr. Blue Sky / Out of the Blue (1977)
Outkast / The Rooster / Speakerboxxx / The Love Below (2003)
Balkan Beat Box / Cha-Cha / Balkan Beat Box (2005)
Amon Tobin / Verbal (feat. MC Decimal R) / Out From Out Where (2002)
Massive Attack / Silent Spring / Collected (2006)
Stars Of Track And Field / Let Ken Green / You Came Here For Sunset Last Year (2005)
Junior Boys / Like A Child / So This Is Goodbye (2006)
Portishead / It’s A Fire / Dummy (1994)

(mp3)

2 am
Alex Smoke / Intro, 6am / Incommunicado (2005)
Nathan Fake / Charlie’s House / Drowning In A Sea Of Love (2006)
The Flaming Lips / It’s Summertime / Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (2002)
Tom Vek / Nothing But Green Lights / We Have Sound (2005)
Pinback / Non Photo-Blue / Summer In Abaddon (2004)
PJ Harvey / A Place Called Home / Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea (2000)
The Shins / Caring Is Creepy / Oh, Inverted World (2001)
The Hidden Cameras / Doot Doot Ploot / Mississauga Goddam (2004)
Of Montreal / Your Magic Is Working / Satanic Panic In The Attic (2004)
Hot Chip / Boys From School / The Warning (2006)
Fujiya & Miyagi / Ankle injuries / Transparent things (2006)
Mates Of State / Think Long / Bring It Back (2006)

3 am
Pavement / Range Life / Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (1994)
Wilco / Heavy Metal Drummer / Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
The Figurines / Other Plans / Skeleton (2005)
M. Ward / Big Boat / Transistor Radio (2005)
The Ponys / Get Black / Celebration Castle (2005)
dEUS / Everybody’s Weird / The Ideal Crash (1999)
The Walker Brothers / Once Upon A Summertime / Images (1967)
Scott Walker / Cue / The Drift (2006)
The National / Val Jester / Alligator (2005)
Current 93 / All The Pretty Little Horses / All The Pretty Little Horses (1997)
Doves / Friday’s Dust / The Last Broadcast (2002)
DJ Shadow / Building Steam With a Grain of Salt / Endtroducing….. (1996)
The Decemberists / Grace Cathedral Hill / Castaways and Cutouts (2002)

So much for summer reruns. Or more accurately, summer silence. I’m working my witty bitty pwaywists to the bone all through the summer holidays. Doing up the show in my basement in London with my dad’s studio mic and sending it through the internet to Hamilton. Of course it’s not up to me to actually put it on the radio, so I can’t guarantee you’ll actually hear it. Like this week.. nada. Those Agression Session dudes don’t like to do what they’re told or something? I guess it’s appropriate..topically? Anyway. I wonder should I bother with a new one for next week or just get this one put on? I’ll let YOU decide.

I’m going to be leaving the high quality mp3s I upload for the station up until the next showis ready, which will be less than a week after this page goes up (probably 2-3 days), so if you want it, get it fast. Someone wants these… I’ve somehow been getting hundreds and hundreds of downloads (confused! but happy!) After that I’ll put up lower quality versions (though I haven’t decided how low.. i might let YOU decide).

As noted in the show, The Slipstream has changed it’s rules somewhat, as summarized below
I, Damon Muma, host of said radioprogram do glibly swear:
1. only play gobsmackingly awesome songs that I heartily endorse the checking out of – UNCHANGED
2. make all the songs flow into each other with ease and beauty – UNCHANGED
3. never repeat an artist in a show unless there is compelling and noted reason – UNCHANGED
4. never play any song that has been played on the show before, ever, unless it is for a ‘theme’ show, and even then proceed with caution (i broke this once or twice by accident) – NOW: never play any song that has been played on the show within the last year.

I want to do some research and find out if my 20-24 new songs a week gives my show’s 2 hours a week more total songs in rotation than your typicalcrapcommercialradio station’s 168 hours a week. I wouldn’t be surprised.

(mp3)

2 am
Infantjoy / Departure / Where the Night Goes (2005)
Sunset Rubdown / Us Ones in Between / Shut Up I Am Dreaming (2006)
Adem / Warning Call / Love and Other Planets (2006)
The Decemberists / The Gymnast High Above the Ground / Her Majesty (2003)
The Notwist / Solo Swim / Solo Swim OST (2004)
Trembling Blue Stars / Sometimes I Still Feel the Bruise / Broken by Whispers (2000)
Hanne Hukkelberg / Searching / Little things (2005)
LFO / Blown / Sheath (2003)
Boxcutter / Tauhid / Oneiric (2006)
TV On the Radio / I Was a Lover / Return to Cookie Mountain (2006)
Sofian Rouge / El Wahrania / Mediterranean Excursion (2006)

3 am
Massive Attack / Unfinished Sympathy / Blue Lines (1991)
The Delgados / Woke From Dreaming / Hate (2002)
Lou Reed / Perfect Day / Transformer (1972)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds / Into My Arms / Boatman’s Call (1997)
Radiohead / No Surprises / OK Computer (1997)
Wilco / Nothing’severgonnastandinmyway(again) / Summerteeth (1999)
The Cardigans / Carnival / Life (1995)
Gnarls Barkley / Crazy / St. Elsewhere (2006)
Herbert / Something isn’t Right / Scales (2006)
Augie March / Bolte And Dunstan Talk Youth / Moo, You Bloody Choir (2006)
My Morning Jacket / One Big Holiday / It Still Moves (2003)
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists / Parallel or Together? / The Tyranny of Distance (2001)
U2 / A Sort of Homecoming / Unforgettable Fire (1984)

So this was the last show of the year, ostensibly until the autumn, when I shall return to Hamilton. And it turned out to be more interesting an experience than most.

First I got a call in for a request that I felt bad about not being able to fill, cause I’m just that pretentious that I don’t do requests. Or really because I spend hours getting the tracklist just so before the show and it’s fairly unstraightforward to change. Ah well, it was the only request I got and had to deny all year anyway. Then I get another call.. I think it was the same guy, sounding more obviously drunk this time, asking if I wanted to go out for a latte and a haircut. I wasn’t sure if he was making fun of me or it was a joke or what, so I was just confused. I don’t like being confused. But no matter. The sweet tunes are bomping.

Things took a marked turn for the better when during El Wahrania the middle aged Mediterranean (olive-complective) janitor gave me sign language big-ups from outside the studio window. That made me happy. Damn right more people should not be scared off by music that sounds nonwestern, and thanks to Phillip for hooking me up with that and so much other music.

Then during the last set (Augie Morning Pharmacists) Daddy P, (who hosts Dope FM on CFMU and has self-reportedly been involved with various community radio stations for 15 years and I see fairly often because he’s often in the production room during my show (as he was today)), gave me a call because he was really excited that I played Gnarls Barkley (Danger Mouse + Cee Lo if that means anything) and then we chatted more and he said he thinks my show is really awesome and I should do it over the summer (sent in via mp3 upload type deal) so he can listen to it cause he likes it a lot. That made me happy. And I thought heck, why not? The roster is a bit lacking in the summer cause most people just eff off like me. It could do well for weaseling me into a better timeslot. Also, it’s what I like.

So the slipstream might just be continuing over the summer in some form or other. Prerecording doesn’t seem quite as authentic somehow, but it does allow me to be more creative I suppose. Heck, I could be downright silly if I wanted to (do I smell a mumareuther in the works?). Anyway, more news as it comes. And maybe I’ll start posting things besides radio playlists again, wouldn’t that be lovely? Cause oh yeah.. School’s Out For Summer!

(mp3)

2 am
Coldcut / Everything Is Under Control / Sound Mirrors (2006)
Bloc Party / Banquet / Silent Alarm (2005)
Plump DJs / Scram / A Plump Night Out (2001)
Leftfield / Afro-Left / Leftism (1995)
Kano / Ps & Qs / Home Sweet Home (2005)
Lady Sovereign / Random / Vertically Challenged (2005)
Camouflage Nights / It Could Be Love / In the Summer of 2004 (2004)
Robyn / Konichiwa Bitches / Robyn (2005)
Roisin Murphy / Ramalama / Ruby Blue (2005)
Ladytron / Discotraxx / 604 (2001)
The Go! Team / Bottle Rocket / Thunder Lightning Strike (2004)
Kanye West / Gold Digger / Late Registration (2005)
Madonna vs. M.I.A / UR Hung Up / DJMonsterMo (2005)
Vitalic / Poney Part 1 / Ok Cowboy (2005)

3 am
Pnau / Again / Again (2003)
The Prodigy / Poison / Music for the Jilted Generation (1995)
Nelly Furtado / Promiscuous Girl / Loose (2006)
The Roots / Thought @ Work / Phrenology (2002)
Starsailor / Four To The Floor (Thin White Duke mix) (2004)
Junior Boys / Bellona / Last Exit (2004)
Felix da Housecat / What Does it Feel Like (Royksopp Remix) (2001)
Frost / Endless Love (Röyksopp Remix) (1999)
Annie / The Greatest Hit / Anniemal (2004)
The Decemberists / I Was Meant For the Stage / Her Majesty (2003)

This is sorta based around the DJing gig I did for the theatre and film semi formal (with the help of Marco. or really it was more like I was helping him). Only about half the songs here actually got played, but the other half I would sure have liked to. And man.. if people in general aren’t a little more close-minded than I thought. Unless I’m close minded for not thinking the black eyed peas are awesome. and thinking that lcd soundsystem’s tribulations is hella danceable. Oi. But maybe the regular joes are more discerning.. I mean they like only a specific group of carefully selected songs, whereas us indie blokes will like almost anything that they don’t! Well, that’s oversimplification and digression at their worst.. just enjoy the damn tracklist arright?

(mp3)

2 am
Primal Scream / Kowalski / Vanishing point (1997)
Ellen Allien & Apparat / Jet / Orchestra Of Bubbles (2006)
Elbow / Any Day Now / Asleep In The Back (2001)
Augie March / Asleep in Perfection / Sunset Studies (2000)
Jeff Buckley / Grace / Grace (1994)
Modest Mouse / A Different City / The Moon And Antarctica (2000)
Tapes ‘n Tapes / Insistor / The Loon (2005)
British Sea Power / Fear of Drowning / The Decline of… (2003)
Under Byen / Heftig / Samme Stof Som Stof (2006)
Massive Attack / False Flags / Live With Me Single (2006)
Radiohead / The Bends / The Bends (1995)

3 am
PJ Harvey / It’s You / Uh Huh Her (2004)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds / City of refuge / Tender Prey (1987)
Neutral Milk Hotel / Ghost / In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998)
John Cale / The Endless Plain Of Fortune / Paris 1919 (1973)
Badly Drawn Boy / Bewilderbeast / The Hour of Bewilderbeast (2000)
The Wrens / Hopeless / The Meadowlands (2003)
Notwist / Neon Golden / Neon Golden (2002)
Ron Sexsmith / Gold In Them Hills (Remix feat Chris Martin) / Cobblestone Runway (2003)
My Morning Jacket / Golden / It Still Moves (2003)
Imogen Heap / Hide and Seek / Speak For Yourself (2005)
Røyksopp / Alpha Male / The Understanding (2005)
Adem / Love and Other Planets / Love and Other Planets (2006)

(mp3) [the last 1.5 songs are missing due to inexplicable winamp crash while I was elsewhere]

2 am
Morcheeba / Over and Over / Big Calm (1998)
Aim / Ain’t Got Time to Waste (feat. YZ) / Cold Water Music (2001)
David Thomas Broughton / Unmarked Grave / The Complete Guide to Insufficiency (2005)
Broken Social Scene / 7/4 (Shoreline) / Broken Social Scene (2005)
Sun Kil Moon / Duk Koo Kim / Ghosts of the Great Highway (2003)
José Gonzáles / Slow Moves / Veneer (2003)
Gustavo Santaolalla / Coyita / Ronroco (1996)
Red Hot Chili Peppers / Cabron / By the Way (2002)
Jan Jelinek / Universal Band Silhouette / Kosmischer Pitch (2005)

3 am
Lamb / God Bless / Lamb (1997)
Diplo / Way More Brazil / Big Dada Sound 2005-2006 (2005)
Bloc Party / This Modern Love / Silent Alarm (2005)
Tom Vek / C-C (You Set The Fire In Me) / We Have Sound (2005)
Of Montreal / Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games / The Sunlandic Twins (2005)
Rapture / I Need Your Love / Echoes (2003)
A.C. Newman / Miracle Drug / The Slow Wonder (2004)
The Dresden Dolls / Backstabber / Yes, Virginia (2006, Apr 18)
Sia / Breathe Me (Mylo Remix) / Breathe Me (12″) (2004)
Leftfield / 21st Century Poem / Leftism (1995)
The Arcade Fire / Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) / Funeral (2004)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds / People Ain’t No Good / Boatman’s Call (1997)

Special Behind the Scenes Featurette:
So just as I was about to head to the station I realized I never actually burned the second CD I was going to use for the show tonight. See, I pre crossfade all the tracks and everything so it can sound delicious and nice.. as long as it’s done. So I burned it a little last minute, decided to make use of my seatless bicycle to get to the station sooner, and upon getting there the CD player didn’t accept it. So during the David Broughton set I raced home to start a new CD-RW burning (just out of the wrapper to try and guarantee no funny stuff). I managed to get back to the station with just a tad of dead air. It appears my bicycle muscles have atrophied. Then during the Jelineklambdiplo set I did the whole thing again to grab the freshly burned and thankfully working CD. That all goes to explain the out of breathiness and lack of anything interesting to say due to high levels of fatigue. Yeah I’m probably insane and take the radio thing a tad too seriously. Oh well. More interesting than anything else that happened today! The unintellibility of the above is entirely related to the absence of my mind. Sleeptimeyes?

(mp3)

2 am
Peace Orchestra / Who Am I / Peace Orchestra (1999)
Herbert / Harmonise / Scales (2006: May 30)
Walker, Scott / Farmer In The City / Tilt (1995)
Nine Horses / Wonderful World / Snow Borne Sorrow (2005)
Isobel Campbell And Mark Lanegan / Ballad Of Broken Seas / Ballad Of Broken Seas (2006)
Bonnie Prince Billy / Another Day Full of Dread / I See a Darkness (1999)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds / Lament / The Good Son (1990)
Lamb / Bonfire / Fear Of Fours (1999)
The Decemberists / Oceanside / 5 Songs [EP] (2000)
The Mountain Goats / Lion’s Teeth / The Sunset Tree (2005)
Augie March / Just Passing Through / Moo, You Bloody Choir (2006)

3 am
Shining / Goretex Weather Report / In the Kingdom of Kitsch You Will Be A Monster (2005)
Bomb the Bass / Bug Powder Dust (feat. Justin Warfield) / Clear (1995)
Apsci / Tirade Highway / Thanks For Asking (2005)
Obscure Celebrities / Fahreinheit (Ulrich Schnauss Remix) / Microatlas E.P (2003)
The Knife / Marble House / Silent Shout (2006)
Adem / Launch Yourself / Love and Other Planets (2006: Apr 24)
Arab Strap / Don’t Ask Me To Dance / The Last Romance (2005)
Saul Williams / Telegram / Saul Williams (2004)
A Silver Mount Zion / The Triumph Of Our Tired Eyes / Born Into Trouble As The Sparks Fly Upward (2001)
Sigur Ros / Viõrar Vel Til Loftárasa / Agaetis Byrjun (1999)
Sunset Rubdown / Shut Up I Am Dreaming of Places Where Lovers Have Wings / Shut Up I Am Dreaming (2006: May 2)

Spencer Krug!!

(mp3)

2 am
Sufjan Stevens / Come on! Feel the Illinoise / Illinois (2005)
The Herbaliser / Gadget Funk / Take London (2005)
Lyrics Born / I’m Just Raw / Same Shit Different Day (2005)
LCD Soundsystem / Tribulations / LCD Soundsystem (2005)
Sleater-Kinney / Modern Girl / The Woods (2005)
Wolf Parade / Modern World / Apologies To The Queen Mary (2005)
Black Mountain / Modern Music / Black Mountain (2005)
Art Brut / Modern Art / Bang Bang Rock And Roll (2005)
John Vanderslice / plymouth rock / Pixel Revolt (2005)
Architecture In Helsinki / Maybe You Can Owe Me / In Case We Die (2005)
Røyksopp / Only This Moment / The Understanding (2005)
A.C. Newman / On The Table / The Slow Wonder (2004)
Destroyer / European Oils / Rubies (2006)
Neko Case / Star Witness / Fox Confessor Brings The Flood (2006)

3 am
The Mountain Goats / Oceanographer’s Choice / Tallahassee (2002)
Elbow / Picky Bugger / Leaders Of The Free World (2005)
The Eels / Trouble With Dreams / Blinking Lights and Other Revelations (2005)
Cat Power / The Greatest / The Greatest (2006)
Beth Orton / Shopping Trolley / Comfort Of Strangers (2006)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds / Henry Lee / Murder Ballads (1996)
Mogwai / Friend of the Night / Mr Beast (2006)
Tortoise / Along The Banks Of The River / Millions Now Living Will Never Die (1996)
Clogs / 5/4 / Lantern (2006)
Calla / Pulverized / Collisions (2005)
Stars / Heart / Heart (2003)

4 am
The New Pornographers / The Bleeding Heart Show / Twin Cinema (2005)

(mp3)

2 am
Okkervil River / So Come Back, I Am Waiting / Black Sheep Boy (2005)
British Sea Power / Apologies to Insect Life / The Decline of… (2003)
The Constantines / Insectivora / Shine a Light (2003)
Primal Scream / Insect Royalty / Xtrmntr (2000)
Blur / Badhead / Parklife (1994)
The New Pornographers / Letter from an Occupant / Mass Romantic (2000)
The Flaming Lips / A Spoonful Weighs A Ton / The Soft Bulletin (1999)
Talk Talk / New Grass / Laughing Stock (1991)
Calexico / Woven birds (Cinematic Orchestra Remixico) / Alone Again Or CDM (2003)
Dead Can Dance / Song of the Dispossessed / Spiritchaser (1996)

3 am
Pulp / I Spy / Different Class (1995)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds / The Weeping Song / Live At The Royal Albert Hall (1997)
Massive Attack / Live with Me / Live with Me CDS (2006)
Coldcut / Mr Nichols / Sound Mirrors (2005)
Outkast / Da Art of Storytellin’ (Part 1) / Aquemini (1998)
Martina Topley Bird / Anything / Quixotic (2003)
Bent / Cylons in Love / Programmed to Love (2001)
Her Space Holiday / You And Me / The Past Presents The Future (2005)
Feist / One Evening / Let it Die (2004)
Sub Sub / Past / Full Fathom Five (1995)
Zero 7 / Destiny / Simple Things (2001)

4 am
Augie March / One Crowded Hour / Moo, You Bloody Choir (2006)

Next week is the annual fundraising hullaballoo, so it will be a special show. what’s so special about it? i dunno like.. the best song of 2005 and some other fun bits of bats. not gonna do a full show countdown of anything cause i’m overquota on countdowns already.

(mp3)

2 am
Elbow / Strangeways To Holcombe Hill In 4.20 / Forget Myself (2005)
Doves / Darker / Sea Song (1999)
Radiohead / The Trickster / My Iron Lung (1994)
Pearl Jam / Yellow Ledbetter / Jeremy (1994)
Interpol / Specialist / Interpol (2002)
U2 / Walk to The Water / With Or Without You (1987)
Massive Attack / Home Of The Whale / Hymn Of The Big Wheel (1992)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds / Little Empty Boat / Into My Arms (1997)
Suede / My Dark Star / Stay Together (1994)
The Stone Roses / Standing Here / She Bangs the Drums (1989)
My Bloody Valentine / Don’t Ask Why / Glider (1990)

3 am
Belle And Sebastian / Your Cover’s Blown / Books (2004)
Clash / Armagideon Time / London Calling (1979)
Pixies / Into The White / Wave Of Mutilation (1989)
Orbital / What Happens Next / One Perfect Sunrise (2004)
Underworld / Cherry Pie / Pearl’s Girl (1997)
Kate Bush / Under The Ivy / Running Up That Hill (1985)
Goldfrapp / White Soft Rope / Strict Machine (2004)
Cocteau Twins / Those Eyes, That Mouth / Love’s Easy Tears (1986)
Aphex Twin / Flim / Come to Daddy (1997)
Radiohead / Fog / Knives Out (2001)
Super Furry Animals / Arnofio’ / Glo In The Dark / Something for the Weekend (1996)
The Mountain Goats / Raja Vocative / Orange Raja, Blood Royal (1994)
Augie March / Rich Girl / Waltz (1999)
The Smiths / Asleep / The Boy With the Thorn in His Side (1985)

(mp3)

2 am
Deltron 3030 / 3030 / Deltron 3030 (2000)
Grandaddy / He’s Simple, He’s Dumb, He’s The Pilot / The Sophtware Slump (2000)
Doves / A House / Lost Souls (2000)
Ry Cooder / El U.F.O Cayo / Chavez Ravine (2005)
RJD2 / True Confessions / RJD2 Is God (2003)
Dub Pistols / soul shaking (conduct disorder) / Six Million Ways To Live (2001)
Kanye West / Diamonds From Sierra Leone / Late Registration (2005)
Sebastien Tellier / La Ritournelle / Politics (2004)
Coldcut / Walk A Mile / Sound Mirrors (2006)

3 am
Rosanne Cash / Black Cadillac / Black Cadillac (2006)
R.E.M. / Nightswimming / Automatic for the People (1992)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds / New Morning / Tender Prey (1988)
Bonnie Prince Billy / Death to Everyone / I See a Darkness (1999)
Glenn Richards / Middle Of The Road Class War Terra Nullius Blu-Hoos / Closed Off, Cold & Bitter – Life As A Can Of Beer (2005)
stuart a staples / say something now / lucky dog recordings (2005)
Ms. John Soda / Hands / Notes and the like (2006)
Awesome New Republic / Wheels, No Engines / ANR So Far (2005)
Electric President / Insomnia / Electric President (2006)
Royksopp / Sparks / Royksopps Night Out EP Live (2006)
Ada / Lovelace / Lovelace (2004)
Ellen Allien & Apparat / Way Out / Orchestra Of Bubbles (2006)

4 am
Of Montreal / City Bird / Satanic Panic In The Attic (2004)

I started working on this list in December 2004 when the 2005 crop started leaking out into netlandia and since then I’ve been constantly tweaking, adding, removing and rearranging. Until airtime, at which point it all gets set in stone. The actual list that this was culled from goes up to 180, which represents all the albums I heard this year that I enjoyed enough to consider them list-worthy. There are plenty of others that were never considered. The ones that made it on I have heard and enjoyed and usually multiple times, with increasing as you get nearer to the top.

As with all lists, it is inherently wrong. I disagree with several parts of it already, and have for a while. Most annoyingly, Bright Eyes is too high and I don’t know why the hell I pushed Beck off at the last minute. As unrevolutionary as Guero might have been, I quite enjoy it from time to time and it deserves to be here. So there, now that I’m not fully behind this list, you shouldn’t even give two and a half craps about what’s on it. But if you do anyway, more’s the power to ya!

This was originally aired on CFMU on my radioshow. The songnames in parentheses with each album correspond to the song that I played on the show. You can listen to the 5 parts (2 hours each) by dealing with the following links as you see fit: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5.

111: Nick Cave and Warren Ellis – The Proposition Original Soundtrack (The Proposition #1)
Atmospheric, at times pretty and others creepy as Nick Cave and Warren Ellis (a violinist who has worked with Cave on several albums) are so good at. It has a real character, and though I haven’t seen the movie yet, it builds a mood quite clearly and effectively on its own.

110: Maxïmo Park – A Certain Trigger (Acrobat)
Another in the parade of British nu-wave seemingly cashing in on the success of Franz Ferdinand. This is a cut above the likes of the Kaiser Chiefs and The Bravery, though. Maximo Park take the sound and make it theirs.

109: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Howl (Shuffle your Feet)
A huge departure for the band; turning from somber and gritty guitar-rock to gospel-tinged blues. Good to see a band progressing somehow, but this one was close. At first I hated it, but the craft is there and I eventually found myself actually wanting to listen to the album.

108: Why? – Elephant Eye Lash (Crushed Bones)
An intriguing blend of indie rock and indie hip hop. Valuable, if only for the interesting sound it exudes, but listenable beyond that as well. Worth a listen.

107: Boards Of Canada – The Campfire Headphase (Satellite Anthem Icarus)
Ambient electronicery by Scotland’s famed duo. Can feel a bit repetitive and uninspired at times, but there’s some beautiful stuff going on here.

106: Metamatics – 3 Jak and Dive (vlokal)
Glitchy ambience almost in the style of BoC.

105: Jason Collett – Idols of Exile (Fire)
Folk rock from the lead singer of Broken Social Scene. Pleasing to the ears, and some brilliant melodies.

104: Xiu Xiu – La Foret (Ale)
Eerie minmalist and sometimes hard to listen to rock. Lead singer sounds pretty bent out of shape sometimes. A difficult listen, but let it weasel its way in and you may well find something valueable.

103: Lemon Jelly – 64-95 (’64 aka Go)
A bit of a departure for the group. Each song uses a sample from the year in the title. Sounds a little more traditional than previous Lemon Jelly offerings, but at the same time mature and accomplished. The DVD that comes with videos for every track is a treat.

102: Pendulum – Hold Your Colour (Fasten Your Seltbelt Feat. The Freestylers)
Wicked drum and bass from Australia. Shades of Apollo 440. A ripping good time.

101: Thomas Brinkmann – Lucky Hands (THIRTY2)
Delicate ambience. Sounds both natural and heavily computerized at the same time. Beautiful and subtle.

100: Ry Cooder – Chavez Ravine (Poor Man’s Shangri-La)
A concept album from the veteran performer about the destruction of the titular community, a sort of commemoration of their unique way of life. Many different styles and very rich, Chavez Ravine has a lot to offer and it’s definitely one I feel would place a higher given some more time to sink in.

99: M83 – Before the Dawn Heals Us (Teen Angst)
Bombastic synthesizer anthems. If you excuse how seriously it seems to take itself, very fun and at times profoundly beautiful.

98: The Clientele – Strange Geometry (Since K Got Over Me)
Gentle guitar rock. Not much else to say. Quite well crafted.

97: Espers – The Weed Tree (Rosemary Lane)
Medieval sounding psychfolk covers of everything from traditional ballads to Blue Oyster Cult, and an original.

96: The Lucksmiths – Warmer Corners (A Hiccup in Your Happiness)
Sunshine and simple catchy pop melodies.

95: The Rosebuds – Birds Make Good Neighbors (Hold hands and fight)
Not so different from Warmer Corners, a little more airy and straightforward.

94: Common – Be (Testify)
Straightforward but certainly high quality hip hop from one of the genres notables.

93: Stephen Malkmus – Face The Truth (I’ve Hardly Been)
Fun, catchy all-over-the-place light indie rock.

92: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! (Details Of The War)
Nice arrangements. Get a new singer.

91: Keith Fullerton Whitman – Multiples (Stereo Music for Acoustic Guitar, etc – Part One)
Nice experimental ambience. Surprisingly complex and easy on the ears though it sounds strangely mathematical.

90: The Herbaliser – Take London (Song for Mary)
Hiphop, reggae, soul and electronica flounce together in this rather lovely bit of music. Electronic music played on live instruments.

89: Of Montreal – The Sunlandic Twins (The Party’s Crashing Us)
No Satanic Panic in the Attic, but there’s certainly some delicious gems here. Fantastic as a quantitative judgement (as in, the realms of fantasy), but not so much as previous offerings, and much more disco involved.

88: Robyn – Robyn (Be Mine!)
A variety of styles and speeds, but all well-crafted electropop as always seems to be big in Europe.

87: Menomena – Under an Hour (Flour)
A set of three extended tracks created for a dance performance. Repeating arrangements weave in and out, build, denoue, and make for great listening

86: Kate Bush – Aerial (Somewhere in Between)
Kate’s first album in 12 years is a double one, though it could fit on one CD. Exhibits the fanciful, lush, dark atmosphere of her best work, but more restrained and not quite as sharp.

85: Ladytron – Witching Hour (Destroy Everything You Touch)
Hard-hitting, brooding electro, a little bit gothy. Gets a bit repetitive after a while, but a very worthy effort.

84: Roots Manuva – Awfully Deep (colossal insight)
One of hip-hop’s best and most distinctive voices comes out with a pessimistic, worried album tinged with techy elements of the booming UK garage scene.

83: Gang Gang Dance – God’s Money (Egowar)
Pygmy children locate whistles, helium, and a variety of drums and crunchy things. The result is somehow very appealing (at least to these ears). Psychedelic, insane and a little bit spastic.

82: Busdriver – Fear Of A Black Tangent (Reheated Pop!)
Extra-speedy rapper Busdriver delivers a disc of cynical rhymes backed with loopy, chirpy production. If you can decipher what he’s saying there’s good stuff in there!

81: The Kills – No Wow (No Wow)
Grimy guitar rock with male and female lead voices. A little reminiscent of Damon-favourite PJ Harvey.

80: Out Hud – Let Us Never Speak of it Again (How Long)
Sharing some members with !!! (and that’s what you get when you capitalize the number of albums in this here countdown), Out Hud delivers an album of whacky indie disco psych techno riddled with some excellent songnames.

79: Serena Maneesh – Serena Maneesh (Selina’s Melodie Fountain)
Murky guitar rock that drones at times and sometimes learns to fly—in an anthemic, epic sort of way. M83 for those who like to rawk? No. But I just name-dropped, so I am elite.

78: Matias Aguayo – Are You Really Lost (De Papel featuring Max Turner)
Some goshdarn excellent micro-house. Subtle in its way, it creeps along with a steady rhythm and buries itself inside you.

77: Kelley Polar – Love Songs of the Hanging Gardens (Here in the Night)
The Junior Boys have already spawned an Imitator! Monsieur Kelley, though delivers great variety on this disc, expertly crafted productions back succulent and surprisingly complex pop cherries, crooned over with a sweet voice.

76: Fiona Apple – Extraordinary Machine (Extraordinary Machine)
Caused a little bit of controversy when Fiona abandoned producer Jon Brion for . No one can definitively decide which version is better, but they’re both good. It sounds a little bit out of its time but it all fits together quite beautifully.

75: The Drones – Wait Long By The River And The Bodies Of Your Enemies Will Float By (Baby²)
Australian band delivers longest album title of countdown! One of best also! Manly, dense and dirty rock and roll. Grrr.

74: Richard Hawley – Coles Corner (Just Like The Rain)
Some lovely and warm tunes involving lush instruments and melodies, with Richard’s pleasant croon to make you smile. This is an album you can play for your parents. Good, old fashioned songcraft.

73: Cage – Hell’s Winter (Stripes)
Chris Palko’s troubled life gets the focus on his album. Cage explores how his abusive, heroin-addicted father, violent upbringing, and time in a mental institution (etc) made him who he is. Dark stuff, finely produced by Def Jux regulars like Blockhead. And Eminem thought he had it bad…

72: Buck 65 – This Right Here is (Bandits)
Canadian rapper’s big label debut collects some of his previous tracks and some new ones and re-jigs them for a theoretically larger audience. That audience includes me, so I won’t complain about any of that selling out crap. He could almost come from the south, probably the most un-urban hiphop I’ve run into.

71: esem – scateren (dispehrse)
A free web-release that breaks from traditional albumic conventions. Beautiful electronic ambient music of various types.

70: Blackalicious – The Craft (Ego Sonic Wardrums)
Independent hip-hop’s flagship (Gift of Gab and Chief Xcel) delivers their third album, and it’s a much more polished affair. More consistent in sound than previous offerings and therefore less noticeable, but expertly put together and there’s some delicious offerings within.

69: Devendra Banhart – Cripple Crow (Chinese Children)
Sad-voiced Devendra delivers another long, dusty album of folky songs, sometimes Mexicanally affected, sometimes straight ahead strum. He knows how to write some fine lyrics and tunes.

68: Thee Silver Mt. ZionMemorial Orchestra& Tra-La-La Band – Horses in the Sky (Mountains Made of Steam)
The ex-Godspeed You Black Emperor side project (too big to be a side project now, i’faith) delivers number 4. Unfortunately a step down from other albums, but brilliant, moving and honest nonetheless, if you can get used to Efrim’s voice (cause oh boy does he like to sing now!) Still no substitute for their mindboggling live show.

67: Castanets – First Light’s Freeze (A Song is Not The Song Of The World)
Unique spare electronic indie folk rock… or something. Clackety beats, building atmospheres of organic sounding synths create the bed for dramaric dual-voiced lyrics.

66: John Vanderslice – Pixel Revolt (trance manual)
Following up Cellar Door with another album of pleasantly catchy often beautiful melodies, a variety of narrative lyrics and extremely eclectic instrumentation.

65: Okkervil River – Black Sheep Boy (For Real)
Ragged voiced folk-rock. I don’t want to say emo, but this guy doesn’t sound happy. He still manages for some excellent lyrics and a true emotional punch now and then. It often gets pretty intense.

64: Caribou – The Milk Of Human Kindness (Yeti)
Formerly Manitoba, Dan Snaith (a Dundas native!) doesn’t let Handsome Dick cramp his style, delivering a superb set of wild and psychedelic songs that stretch the mind with sounds you’ve never heard before.

63: Iron & Wine – Woman King EP (In My Lady’s House)
Sam Beam presents a collection of 6 songs backed by his unique and utterly wondful voice. The arrangements are much expanded from the simple palette of his sparser previous offerings, now offering various layers of rattling and dinging, but still in that dusty back forty sort of way.

62: Deerhoof – The Runners Four (Spirit Ditties Of No Tone)
A sprawling, strange collection of lopsided, loopy somewhat psychedelic indie rock. With 20+ tracks to choose from there’s a lot of variety.

61: Danger Doom – The Mouse and the Mask (A.T.H.F.)
Danger Mouse and MF Doom team up with Adult Swim to create a rather interesting collection of raps about immature adult cartoons. Dark and layered yet spare production and MF Doom’s weathered sounding raps create a murky atmosphere and the Adult Swim samples make it rather demented. Cool.

60: Yann Tiersen – Les Retrouvailles (Kala)
A collection of sparkling and gentle decidedly French sounding melodies from the man who brought us the Amelie soundtrack. Guest spots from Liz Fraser (Cocteau Twins) and Stuart Staples (Tindersticks) give a few of the finest songs of the year, and the rest of the album is infinitely listenable, if a little repetitive

59: Cuff The Duke – Cuff The Duke (I Really Want To Help You)
Oshawa natives deliver a highly enjoyable album of countryrockbluegrass. A simple album, and not even deceptively simple: You’ve got your catchy hooks, jangly instrumentation, and lyrics about the travails of working class life. An album for the common people.

58: Calla – Collisions (So Far, So What)
New album is fortunately much less aimless than previous offerings. There’s louder guitars and more straightforward melodies, and it’s all pretty bleak. Most of the music ends up being processed into a haunting, uneasy delivery. Quite good, but doesn’t fully realize its potential.

57: The Magic Numbers – The Magic Numbers (Mornings Eleven)
British popsters recall the days of the shiny pop tunes of the sixties where harmonizing voices lament the complexity of relationships. Simple, but delightful.

56: Røyksopp – The Understanding (Someone Like Me)
Follow up to 2001’s spectacular Melody AM sees this Norwegian production duo straying away from ethereal chill-out to more traditional Euro Electro, or something. They definitely know their way around a pair of synthesizers and the result is lovely. The live show is definitely notable.

55: Gorillaz – Demon Days (O Green World)
The animated dudes are back with another album, and it is just as fun and eccentric as their first. The formula remains basically the same – hip hop and alternative and rock all filtered together into a batch of catchy, danceable tunes.

54: Depeche Mode – Playing the Angel (A Pain that I’m Used to)
A comeback of sorts for these dudes who are primarily associated with 80s nu-wave movement. They sound like themselves, and may be accused of rehashing, but they are pretty near the top of their game. The electronic beats sound manufactured and vicious as they should, matching David Gahan’s voice perfectly.

53: Sage Francis – A Healthy Distrust (Agony in Her Body)
Some very fine hip hop from the Sage. Songs both political and personal generally communicate an atmosphere of anxiety, mostly thanks to Sage’s voice and lyrics (there’s some awesome lines in here). The production is fittingly dark, lurking in the dark streets and slamming us with intensity as required.

52: Cristian Vogel – Station 55 (Neon Underground)
Electronic pioneer monsieur Vogel operates on his own terms, and it’s rather hard to place him in any specific category. As is often not the case on full length electronic releases, there’s a huge amount of variety here and a healthy dose of bizarre, dark, infectious and jazzy productions.

51: The Boy Least Likely To – The Best Party Ever (Be Gentle With Me)
A rather lurvely little collection of unabashedly hyperhappy indie-pop. “I’m happy ‘cause I’m stupid.” Well, we’re happy you’re stupid then, because my day is made that little bit more bearable by your chirpy, chipperness-inducing melodies.

50: The Books – Lost And Safe (An Animated Description Of Mr. Maps.)
A more conventional album from one of the least conventional groups going. Some melody and sometimes logical lyrics get added to the reversed guitars and mangled samples from here, there and everywhere. For some reason all these strange sounds sound really excellent together, and this is certainly a highly unique album.

49: Edan – Beauty and The Beat (Rock and Roll)
Edan reminds us of the classic hip hop of the mid or even nearly 90s. A more organic production style, though it’s very layered and a little bit psychedelic. For some reason I feel this album should be tie-dyed.

48: Franz Ferdinand – You Could Have It So Much Better With (Walk Away)
Sophomore release from the indie bozos that split the world in half in 2004. They progress somewhat with fuller productions, and some (more accurately one) slower ballads (done quite well, too), but the formula remains largely intact; but it’s a rather infectious and successful formula so that’s no reason to complain.

47: Architecture In Helsinki – In Case We Die (Do The Whirlwind)
At times goofy, but incredibly tight little bits of pop. There’s a couple songs on here that just won’t get out of your head, even if you beat it with a stick (your head I mean). Horns, synths, even sitars, guitars and sound effects create a sort of carnival atmosphere like an incredibly colourful acid trip.

46: Animal Collective – Feels (Banshee Beat)
More acid! Yay! I think they call this psychfolk. A bit like an acoustic Four Tet with lyrics; all sprawling, textured, untraditionally structured bits of this and that. It’s all quite complex and compelling and these guys clearly have leet skill; I just can’t quite get it to give me an emotional connection

45: The Eels – Blinking Lights and Other Revelations (Railroad Man)
A double album from the band that managed one mainstream hit. Remember Novocaine for the Soul? This is a really wonderful listen. Not all the songs are gems, but there’s 33 of them and there’s a whole wealth of interesting things to discover; from country, to happy pop, to folky approaches, and yet it all hangs together pretty well.

44: Black Mountain – Black Mountain (Druganaut)
Gritty bluesrock from Jupiter. Actually it’s from British Columbia (that’s where I’m from!) This album is one I often enjoyed significantly while listening to and then forgot about until a few months later when I would appreciate it again. An intriguingly different collection of songs.

43: Fiery Furnaces – EP (Sing For Me)
Not exactly sure this fits my own criteria for inclusion, but I put it on back in February and after so long one can’t cut it. This is a sort of collection of odds and ends from the Fiery Furnaces previous, overlong albums. I find this concise picture of their unique sense of melody and arrangement much more listenable than their rather overwhelming LPs. And 40 minutes sure ain’t bad for an EP.

42: Broken Social Scene – Broken Social Scene (Superconnected)
Hotly anticipated followup to 2002’s You Forgot It In People. There’s some awesome guitars and tunes here no doubt, and I find it more immediately accessible than their aforementioned hypemachine, but it is lacking some of its subtlety. The barrage of 50 odd instruments can be a bit overwhelming, but there’s some wicked songs at the core.

41: The White Stripes – Get Behind Me Satan (Take, Take, Take)
A radical departure from Elephant. When you’re one of current popular music’s most well regarded guitar players, recording an album largely on marimba and piano is a … well, Jack White thing to do. It works quite well, though. Their signature style remains intact, but it’s lovely to see it from a rather different angle.

40: The Hold Steady – Separation Sunday (Stevie Nix)
Badass dirty guitar rock backs half-sung tirades about growing up and being a part of the music scene. Clever lyrics and quite excellent music combine for a rather unconventional but engaging and really quite awesome experience.

39: Mew – And The Glass Handed Kites (The Zookeeper’s Boy)
An all-out progrockathon with guitars spidering in and out and elevated vocal melodies soaring above with rambunctious joy. All the tracks flow into one another and despite a few overwrought moments it’s all fun as hell.

38: Doves – Some Cities (One Of These Days)
Third time’s the charm? Not quite, but given what they were putting themselves up against, we don’t expect them to necessarily surpass past genius (Lost Souls, Last Broadcast), but what we get is an evolved, very solid offering of power-hungry anthemic Britpop.

37: Sigur Rós – Takk (Saeglopur)
Another third album, if we choose to ignore the oft-ignored Von, and it functions in a similar way to Some Cities, offering us with the power, delicacy and beauty we have come to expect from Icelandic twins Sigur and Ros. It gets a tad bit predictable in patches, but it’s a wonderful journey nonetheless.

36: The Deadly Snakes – Porcella (Gore Veil)
Toronto natives give us a delightful modern cross between Tom Waits and Nick Cave. There is plenty of variety here, and a whole bucket of songs which are fantastically catchy in their own untraditional way. Just very well done, really.

35: M. Ward – Transistor Radio (Fuel For Fire)
Matt Ward is a seemingly rather dour fella, and he lets his disenchanted outlook bleed through his music. Well he can’t really help it because his voice is just so beautifully ragged, but the bluesy tunes he spins certainly compliments very well and creates a beautiful atmostphere. Not notably different from previous albums, but that’s a good thing.

34: Camille – Le Fil (Ta Douleur)
French electronic folk or something like that. Most of the sounds on the album seem to come from Camille’s lips and be mussed up somehow or other. But mostly it’s a collection of diaphanous melodies that bob around and hang together like a bit of cheery abstract tapestry.

33: 13 + God – 13 + God (low heaven)
A quite successful collaboration between The Notwist (dreamy German electronica) and Themselves (murky American hip hop). The bands’ sounds suit each other surprisingly well, and there’s definitely some marvellous tracks in here. Not for all, though, it can easily be a little strange. Themselves have a knack for that.

32: Sons and Daughters – The Repulsion Box (Rama Lama)
Another entry that might only be on here as a result of its similarity to Nick Cave. But seriously, a rip-roaring batch of… rock, I guess. Very Scottish, quite fierce, and a covered in a nice caking of dried mud. This ain’t the music of the sleekly polished innercity, but rather… pirates, I guess.

31: Go-Betweens – Oceans Apart (Here Comes A City)
Juicy British guitar pop with an occasional sprig of folksy leanings (and remember, folk is not a dirty word!). The Go-Betweens were big in the eighties, disappeared for a stint, but now they are back! It is exciting to see older bands at the top of their game. They pound out quite a few killer riffs and tunes and certainly keep us interested. It has a bit of the bright jangle a la Unforgettable Fire era U2. That is a good thing.

30: Sleater-Kinney – The Woods (Entertain)
Grrr. L. Grimy and a little angry. Sleater-Kinney are back for another helping of distorted rawk. This is all pounding drums and words in a not particularly pleasant singing voice, but the fever is infectious and seductive. Ragged and rough, but in all the right places.

29: Art Brut – Bang Bang Rock And Roll (Formed A Band)
I keep thinking of Art Brut like a Rock n Roll version of the Streets, but they’re much more than some version of something else (though a comparison to The Hold Steady might be more apropos). They have their own very unique style, and even if you don’t get into the hilariously simplistic talky lyrics, the music itself should have you rocking in no time.

28: Underworld – RiverRun Project (Food A Ready)
Underworld is back! After their quite disappointing 100 Days Off back in ’02, they’ve started releasing internet only Eps of sorts, and they are delightful to the ears. A great variety of sounds, all intriguing, moving, or relaxing, just like the excellent old days. It’s much like meeting an old friend after 5 years, and got this little radio DJ very excited.

27: Patrick Wolf – Wind In The Wires (Teignmouth)
A collection of airy, violin-driven pop-tunes, run through the electro/glitch filter. A cloudy day in spring, a strong, fresh wind blowing in from somewhere else, beckoning you along with it… this album captures that certain reflective, pregnant mood that is one of my favourites, and so it’s rather difficult to not like it quite a bit.

26: System Of A Down – Mezmerize (Revenga)
I’m no metal-head. If I was, perhaps I’d hate this album. But damn if it doesn’t just push a few great buttons. A wide variety of soaring melodies, frantically hammering guitars, and even something like polka in there somewhere. These guys are a little unhinged, but if you can tolerate their mainstream oddness, quite a listen.

25: LCD Soundsystem – LCD Soundsystem (Too Much Love)
James Murphy gives us a fine collection of dancefloor friendly, indie-rock-dance. You don’t realize how indie-rock this album is until you hear Never as Tired as When I’m Waking Up. Also, his voice sounds a lot like Ted Leo to me, which is good, but not in a particularly noteworthy fashion. Some of the year’s finest dance beats all on el CD..

24: British Sea Power – Open Season (It Ended On An Oily Stage)
Sophomore album from British Sea Power sees them abandoning a lot of their quirkiness and focusing those wonderful elegiac choruses that made Carrion one of my favourite songs of ever. This is a bit disappointing in a way, but in the end largely successful, I just hope they switch it up for the next album or I might find myself not caring. Like ‘Wind in the Wires,’ it creates a certain mood. That expectant lethargy brought on by the pre-dawn black summer sky-tinged dark blue. Prowling at night when your mind and body tell you you should be sleeping, but another bit of your mind and body disagree. And again, a lovely mood.

23: Vitalic – Ok Cowboy (La Rock 01)
Easy to lump in with that European electro trend, but Vitalic has a character their own. Their grinding, obviously processed synths have a certain down to earth feeling that makes them feel deceptively organic. And it definitely has that French sound, which gives it a lot of life. Lush, in a sparse sort of way… which is a contradiction, but that’s just how I see it.

22: Super Furry Animals – Love Kraft (Atomik Lust)
A delightful and somewhat whacky dish of muuusic. Not sure what all to say about this here. There’s lots of very catchy summery melodies, and some strangeness. I dunno. I like it.

21: Isolée – Wearemonster (Schrapnell)
Some latenight textured house beats. Some more acoustic sounding instruments are thrown into the mix and mangled, along with some samples and none of it seems out of place. It’s a largely dark piece of work but full of intriguing eccentricities and immaculate production. Just get in the right mood and get some nice speakers and enjoy.

20: Vashti Bunyan – Lookaftering (Turning Backs)
Vashti’s last album came out more than thirty years ago, so she’s been out of the loop for a while. What we get here is a collection of delectable delicate strains of folk melody. They are charming in their quiet pastoral beauty, something of Keren Ann or Espers. This is sunlight dappling over a field swelling in the gentle breeze music; the sweet melodies calming like the bite into a perfect apple.

19: Bright Eyes – I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning (We Are Nowhere And It’s Now)
I was originally wary of Bright Eyes. I didn’t give Conor Oberst a chance because he was lumped in with emo and that whole scene (along with metal) is one that I generally give a pass despite my attempted inclusiveness. I realise eventually that this is really indie-folk, not emo. And that is one of my favourite genres of all. One of Two 2005 Releases by Bright Eyes, I’m Wide Awake… is a fairly straightforward, rootsy affair with beautiful melodies, notable guests and young Conor’s notably distressed sounding voice

18: Antony & The Johnsons – I Am a Bird Now (Man Is The Baby)
Antony’s unique, beautiful voice haunts the lush string arrangements of these beautiful melodies, well, beautifully. There aren’t a lot of albums these days that sound exactly like this, or really anything at all like this unabashed soulful crooning. It’s just beauty, dudes, take it or leave it.

17: Kanye West – Late Registration (Gone (Feat. Consequence & Cam’Ron))
Second album in as many years from the new star of hip-hop. Kanye is everywhere. The media loves him, the radio loves him, even the indie kids are buying in. Not without reason, this one is a doozy. Late Registration, produced with some help from Jon Brion, is a more fleshy, direct doozy of an album. Highlights galore, and while Kanye’s rapping is very commendable, the lush arrangements take centre stage.

16: M.I.A. – Arular (Bucky Done Gun)
Maya Arulpragasam is the daughter of a Sri Lankan Tamil, a revolutionary group that sometimes uses violence as a tool to affect change. Considering the climate of the world these days, Maya has a very unique view of the world, even if she does not embrace the views of her father. “I’ll fight you just to get peace” she proclaims. Mean, gritty, born of the jungle and transplanted into an immaculately produced beast of a dancefloor album, Arular is not for all ears… it is abrasive and frenetic more than it is melodic, but it is technically and ideologically ahead of almost any competition.

15: Bloc Party – Silent Alarm (Positive Tension)
2005′s flagship band of the British press, Bloc Party deliver a mean rocking album. A subtly synthetic sheen over its hard-rocking exterior, the Bloc deliver catchy and compelling riffs from tip to tail. The base sound of these songs is intense and paranoid, coiled up around your leg with a snarl. Many move toward more delicate territory, but they never leave home completely.

14: Elbow – Leaders Of The Free World (An Imagined Affair)
Elbow hit the 3rd album masterstroke with this fine collection of songs. Alternating between fast and slow for much of its duration, Leaders… consistently delivers. Guy Garvey’s wispy lyrics are personal and effective; the arrangements either fist mashingly intense or plaintive and simple. Though there are better things about Cast of Thousands and Alseep in the Back, Leaders… is more cohesive, direct and passionate.

13: My Morning Jacket – Z (Wordless Chorus)
More produced than previous albums, which were quite sparse, Z is a joyful collection of sunsoaked melodies that bleed out through the instruments and singing. Every song is catchy and remarkable in its own way. It is always wonderful to see such remarkable craft on display for all to see. This is more accessible than older albums, which were perhaps more personal, but here it really works.

12: Wolf Parade – Apologies To The Queen Mary (Dinner Bells)
The next Arcade Fire. Hailing from Montreal, produced by Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock (and it shows), these world worn youngsters deliver a murky, grimy arrangements with ragged lead vocals that are counterracted or maybe contradicted by soaring anthems of melodies and stir-the-populace lyrics. It doesn’t work as well as it did for the Arcade Fire, but it sounds to me like it’s coming from an honest place, and it’s a very wonderful experience to hear them trying.

11: The Constantines – Tournament of Hearts (You Are a Conductor)
Third album from Guelph based rockers. And this is rock. The where, how and why of rocking. It comes from the travails of the street and is channelled into searing, roaring cries. This album past by most critics, and even disappointed a large number of devoted fans. Well, I pity the fool. I love this thing start to finish. It’s not as immaculate or as experimental, or as brutally raw as the first two albums, but it delivers, and it rocks.

10: Spoon – Gimme Fiction (The Beast And Dragon, Adored)
5th album from Britt Daniel and his Cronies, well, 4th if you don’t count Telephono (which no one does, really) is more of the same and more on top of it. Indie rock with an uncharacteristic zip and fuck added to the rhythm section. Stylistically, it’s easily to tell a song that Brit has had his paws on, but these songs are often excellent and earn their high place in Spoon’s utensilarian pantheon.

9: Jamie Lidell – Multiply (Multiply)
Jamie Lidell made aname for himself in the electronic world as one half of Super_Collidor (with Cristian Vogel). On multiply, he somewhat abandons his electronic leanings and turns his eye to mo-town… with much success. I often complain that what these days we call R&B, is largely a load of crap and doesn’t have half the soul of the “black” music (for lack of a better term) of the 70s did. Maybe that’s a strong argument for synthesizers taking the soul out of music. I respect this album a whole lot because it does a lot to revitalize and modernize a genre without killing it. James goes back to the source material, and proves very soulful indeed (and includes a whole whack of synthesizers anyway!)

8: Sufjan Stevens – Illinois (Jacksonville)
The objective album of the year. For my tastes however, it is a bit too saccharine to be at the top of the heap. It is heaps of awesome, though. From the bleak heart-rending beauty of John Wayne Gacy, Jr to the hyperactive broadway musical bliss of the title track, there are a whole whack of stupendous songs on this album. Clever turns of phrase, and twinkly turns of ivory and strings. Cut out 20 minutes and you might get into the top 5 of my subjective list.

7: The New Pornographers – Twin Cinema (Use It)
Despite two very solid albums coming before, the third album from the Pornos is their best yet. In my mind there is no hint of a question about it. These songs are so tightly wrapped, so deliciously filled with hooks and bubbling with melody; it just goes hard and never lets up until the end. Leaving you wanting more. Pop/rock is the biggest, least defined genre at most CD stores. This (Canadian!) album comes close to a definition.

6: iron and wine | calexico – in the reins (he lays in the reins)
When 2 of my favourite artists get together to do a collaboration, it is an exciting thing. When it turns out that together they are even better than individually, it is great cause for celebration and hollering. This 7 song EP is chalk full of spanishly influenced country folk narrated by Sam Beam’s incomparable voice. Every song is notable, and it is over much to quick, but sometimes it’s nice to hear such a succinct statement made and not belaboured.

5: The National – Alligator (Daughters of the Soho Riots)
Maybe this is just straightforward indie-rock. A collection of slow and fast songs, with lyrics, driven by guitar.. acoustic for the slow songs, distorted for the fast songs. Not particularly interesting, right? Well maybe I fuckin’ love it! It is a beautiful meeting of country-rock, Britpop, and alternative, just keeping the best parts of each. Matt Berninger’s deep voice caresses the occasionally jaw-dropping lyrics that accompany these consistently brilliant songs.

4: Roisin Murphy – Ruby Blue (Through Time)
When one of my favourite bands breaks up, it is a sad thing. When the lead singer goes on to make a solo album that’s better than any of that band’s albums, it is great cause for celebration and “oh yeah”ing. Such is the story of Moloko and Roisin Murphy. After the demise of Moloko, (when she and …, whose romantic partnership basically formed the band, broke up) Roisin teamed up with famed (in some circles) producer Matthew Herbert, whose warm, jazzy, electronic yet startlingly organic productions fit Roisin’s sultry voice beautifully. A perfect variety of subtly gorgeous jazz numbers and rambunctious and delightfully strange experimentalism. Also look out for the delicious live show.

3: The Decemberists – Picaresque (The Bagman’s Gambit)
Colin Meloy’s Decemberists are the band that made me go from thinking it would be cool to play guitar, to picking one up and learning about 8 or so chords badly. Hey, it’s a start, alright? Their story-driven songs are expansive and delightful, whetting the imagination and the emotions with moving tales from all walks of life, though mostly the downtrodden (which is usually more interesting anyway). Picaresque is more boisterous and garish than its predecessors, with the layers of violins, stand-up basses, 12 string guitars being applied liberally. Somehow, it stands an equal alongside their previous completely brilliant albums. It is joy to behold.

2: The Mountain Goats – The Sunset Tree (This Year)
John Darnielle is quite a prolific writer of music. The Sunset Tree is something like his 13th album since 1995, depending on how you count them. Only on the last couple albums of his, though, has he turned his lyrical eye inwards where, thanks to his abusive stepfather, there resides a wealth of poignant material. Using professional production techniques instead of a Kmart boombox is also a new development, and to these ears a very welcome one. These songs are delicately haunting at times and often painfully true. Darnielle’s lyrics stay to smaller details that paint a more complete picture (running to his room to escape an outburst.. “so this is what the volume knob’s for”). Honest and compelling.

1: Andrew Bird – The Mysterious Production of Eggs (Measuring Cups)
Andrew Bird is somewhat of a virtuoso. He is a classically trained violinist, whose first releases were straightforward classical and folk songs. He also whistles and sings and plays guitar, and his newer releases have expanded into some sort of mostly mellow indefinable amalgam of any musical style you can make on his instruments. His awareness of music convention is acute and you can tell from the first few notes that everything on this album is put together precisely and expertly. Whether you like it or not is then up to you. Bird fills the album with a generous helping of wit, unpredictability, and at the core great tunes. The Mysterious Production of Eggs is a unique creature whose song is truly delightful to hear.

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One last kick at the can…

19: Bright Eyes – I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning (We Are Nowhere And It’s Now)
I was originally wary of Bright Eyes. I didn’t give Conor Oberst a chance because he was lumped in with emo and that whole scene (along with metal) is one that I generally give a pass despite my attempted inclusiveness. I realise eventually that this is really indie-folk, not emo. And that is one of my favourite genres of all. One of Two 2005 Releases by Bright Eyes, I’m Wide Awake… is a fairly straightforward, rootsy affair with beautiful melodies, notable guests and young Conor’s notably distressed sounding voice

18: Antony & The Johnsons – I Am a Bird Now (Man Is The Baby)
Antony’s unique, beautiful voice haunts the lush string arrangements of these beautiful melodies, well, beautifully. There aren’t a lot of albums these days that sound exactly like this, or really anything at all like this unabashed soulful crooning. It’s just beauty, dudes, take it or leave it.

17: Kanye West – Late Registration (Gone (Feat. Consequence & Cam’Ron))
Second album in as many years from the new star of hip-hop. Kanye is everywhere. The media loves him, the radio loves him, even the indie kids are buying in. Not without reason, this one is a doozy. Late Registration, produced with some help from Jon Brion, is a more fleshy, direct doozy of an album. Highlights galore, and while Kanye’s rapping is very commendable, the lush arrangements take centre stage.

16: M.I.A. – Arular (Bucky Done Gun)
Maya Arulpragasam is the daughter of a Sri Lankan Tamil, a revolutionary group that sometimes uses violence as a tool to affect change. Considering the climate of the world these days, Maya has a very unique view of the world, even if she does not embrace the views of her father. “I’ll fight you just to get peace” she proclaims. Mean, gritty, born of the jungle and transplanted into an immaculately produced beast of a dancefloor album, Arular is not for all ears… it is abrasive and frenetic more than it is melodic, but it is technically and ideologically ahead of almost any competition.

15: Bloc Party – Silent Alarm (Positive Tension)
2005’s flagship band of the British press, Bloc Party deliver a mean rocking album. A subtly synthetic sheen over its hard-rocking exterior, the Bloc deliver catchy and compelling riffs from tip to tail. The base sound of these songs is intense and paranoid, coiled up around your leg with a snarl. Many move toward more delicate territory, but they never leave home completely.

14: Elbow – Leaders Of The Free World (An Imagined Affair)
Elbow hit the 3rd album masterstroke with this fine collection of songs. Alternating between fast and slow for much of its duration, Leaders… consistently delivers. Guy Garvey’s wispy lyrics are personal and effective; the arrangements either fist mashingly intense or plaintive and simple. Though there are better things about Cast of Thousands and Alseep in the Back, Leaders… is more cohesive, direct and passionate.

13: My Morning Jacket – Z (Wordless Chorus)
More produced than previous albums, which were quite sparse, Z is a joyful collection of sunsoaked melodies that bleed out through the instruments and singing. Every song is catchy and remarkable in its own way. It is always wonderful to see such remarkable craft on display for all to see. This is more accessible than older albums, which were perhaps more personal, but here it really works.

12: Wolf Parade – Apologies To The Queen Mary (Dinner Bells)
The next Arcade Fire. Hailing from Montreal, produced by Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock (and it shows), these world worn youngsters deliver a murky, grimy arrangements with ragged lead vocals that are counterracted or maybe contradicted by soaring anthems of melodies and stir-the-populace lyrics. It doesn’t work as well as it did for the Arcade Fire, but it sounds to me like it’s coming from an honest place, and it’s a very wonderful experience to hear them trying.

11: The Constantines – Tournament of Hearts (You Are a Conductor)
Third album from Guelph based rockers. And this is rock. The where, how and why of rocking. It comes from the travails of the street and is channelled into searing, roaring cries. This album past by most critics, and even disappointed a large number of devoted fans. Well, I pity the fool. I love this thing start to finish. It’s not as immaculate or as experimental, or as brutally raw as the first two albums, but it delivers, and it rocks.

Wilco – Kicking Television: live in Chicago (Handshake Drugs)
Kraftwerk – Minimum Maximum (Tour de France)
A pair of live double albums that are notable for their high quality and notability.

10: Spoon – Gimme Fiction (The Beast And Dragon, Adored)
5th album from Britt Daniel and his Cronies, well, 4th if you don’t count Telephono (which no one does, really) is more of the same and more on top of it. Indie rock with an uncharacteristic zip and fuck added to the rhythm section. Stylistically, it’s easily to tell a song that Brit has had his paws on, but these songs are often excellent and earn their high place in Spoon’s utensilarian pantheon.

9: Jamie Lidell – Multiply (Multiply)
Jamie Lidell made aname for himself in the electronic world as one half of Super_Collidor (with Cristian Vogel). On multiply, he somewhat abandons his electronic leanings and turns his eye to mo-town… with much success. I often complain that what these days we call R&B, is largely a load of crap and doesn’t have half the soul of the “black” music (for lack of a better term) of the 70s did. Maybe that’s a strong argument for synthesizers taking the soul out of music. I respect this album a whole lot because it does a lot to revitalize and modernize a genre without killing it. James goes back to the source material, and proves very soulful indeed (and includes a whole whack of synthesizers anyway!)

8: Sufjan Stevens – Illinois (Jacksonville)
The objective album of the year. For my tastes however, it is a bit too saccharine to be at the top of the heap. It is heaps of awesome, though. From the bleak heart-rending beauty of John Wayne Gacy, Jr to the hyperactive broadway musical bliss of the title track, there are a whole whack of stupendous songs on this album. Clever turns of phrase, and twinkly turns of ivory and strings. Cut out 20 minutes and you might get into the top 5 of my subjective list.

7: The New Pornographers – Twin Cinema (Use It)
Despite two very solid albums coming before, the third album from the Pornos is their best yet. In my mind there is no hint of a question about it. These songs are so tightly wrapped, so deliciously filled with hooks and bubbling with melody; it just goes hard and never lets up until the end. Leaving you wanting more. Pop/rock is the biggest, least defined genre at most CD stores. This (Canadian!) album comes close to a definition.