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THE CREEPHAMMER

January 21, 2012 – 22:11
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Episode 122. mp3. Released January 21, 2012.


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)
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RADIO ON THE INTERNET.

September 13, 2008 – 20:44
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Episode 104. mp3. cue. Released September 13, 2008

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)

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Updates and science

September 9, 2008 – 0:08

It’s been a while, but things are percolating nicely; have no fear! I realized yesterday that the real reason I was being so sloppy at actually getting the next show done was somewhere in my subconscious I was waiting for TV on the Radio’s Dear Science to leak before I carried on with things. Now that it has, I will seclude myself away for several days to soak it up like a sea sponge in the sea breeze underwater. And then I’ll figure out how to perfect next show’s playlist without just playing the whole album.. cause gosh darn it… it’s really fucking good, guys. Rly fukin gud.

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.

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COURTING RUST PUPPETS

August 7, 2008 – 23:15
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Episode 103. mp3. cue. Released August 07, 2008

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)

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PlastikSpastik

July 18, 2008 – 16:40
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If there’s one thing Valerie doesn’t like, it’s driving in the car with measured or meandering music blaring outta tha speakers. This mix CD was designed expressly to neutralize such occurences. Mixed and beaten from only the most energetic of ingredients, this delightful musical confection will surely stir you to “dance-action”(tm)! Balls to the wall, son!

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…

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SKY AS MASTER, SKY AS SON

June 29, 2008 – 20:59
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Episode 102. mp3. cue. Released June 29, 2008

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)

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NO. ORNITHOPTERS. YES.

May 19, 2008 – 1:01
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Episode 101. mp3. cue. Released May 19, 2008

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)

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INCONSEQUENTIAL CONSENSUAL SENTINAL.

April 29, 2008 – 20:36
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Episode 100. mp3. cue. Released April 29, 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)

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OVER FELT TIP FEELINGS.

April 9, 2008 – 22:53
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Episode 99. mp3. cue. Released April 9, 2008

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)

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indie music tv, and an E.T.A.

April 8, 2008 – 14:24

I’ve been running a bit late with the show for this week. Well, for this 3 weeks I suppose. I got a little overzealous in my song selection period, and left the actual making of the show a bit late. The tracklist is almost finalized, though. So expect to see it very soon. And then expect the next couple shows to come quicker than we’ve been seeing because they’re nearing tracklist selection completion as well. I’m doubtful anyone’s on the edge of their seat about this delay, but I don’t want to make it into a habit.

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.

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CRICKETS IN MY LATE NIGHT TENNIS.

March 17, 2008 – 19:32
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Episode 98. mp3. cue. Released March 17, 2008

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)

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