Episode 121. mp3. Released December 05, 2011.

Cheezy synthsophone introduces a liquid languid squiddy sent surreal sandwich (Sp? Sic!). A layer of dark and purple spooky glowing tentacles under a layer of bright and pulsing sunshine ventricles. A sauce made of tears, heath gas and the sweat off forlorn entrails. All of this rapped between a solid old school kaiser top and a fresh twisted hip hop beat or two. Ingredients harvested fresh from the solitary rays of sunshine at the edge of a nightmare.

What?

I know this sounds pretty fucked up, but it’s actually pretty incredible. Dive in, yo!

• Guido / Mad Sax / Anidea (2010)
• Freddie Gibbs / Oil Money feat. Chuck Inglish, Chip Tha Ripper, Bun B & Dan Auerbach / Str8 Killa EP (2010)
• ASAP Rocky / Leaf (feat. Main Attrakionz) / LiveLoveA$AP (2011)
• Zola Jesus / Night / Stridulum II (2010)
• Kate Wax / Maze Rider (Live From The Cave) / Dust Collision (2011)
• Monkey Mafia / Work Mi Body / Shoot the Boss (1998)
• Azari & III / Reckless With Your Love (Tensnake Remix) / Reckless With Your Remixes 1 (2010)
• Glass Candy / Rolling Down the Hills / B/E/A/T/B/O/X (2007)
• Maceo Plex / Aint That Love / High & Sexy EP (2011)
• Hyetal / Phoenix / Phoenix 12″ (2010)
• Author / Sun / Author (2011)
• Scott Walker / It’s Raining Today / Scott 3 (1969)
• Jacques Brel / Ne Me Quitte Pas / Jacques Brel Nº 4 (1959)
• Lana Del Rey / Video Games / Video Games EP (2011)
• Kate Bush / 50 Words For Snow / 50 Words For Snow (2011)
• 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)

Episode 120. mp3. Released October 29, 2011.

You are at a raucous party hosted by a troupe of schizophrenic gnomes who can’t stop hitting things and tossing multicolored rags at you amidst unintelligible freakouts. The host, J-jjj-johntanon, demonstrates how everything in the world is a drum and it doesn’t matter if you have to shatter it to make it beat. The guests join in and the cacophony is thrilling.

Later, things get weird.

The rest of the night is a tesselated gaussian blur.

As the autumn sun rises faint pink, you find yourself lying on the driveway covered in a layer of frost. Tears you can’t remember crying are frozen to your cheeks.

You realize that somewhere around 5:14am you became self-actualized.

• Antibalas / Big Man / Who is This America? (2004)
• Tune-Yards / Gangsta / W H O K I L L (2011)
• Tom Waits / Hell Broke Luce / Bad As Me (2011)
• Man Man / Life Fantastic / Life Fantastic (2011)
• Boy Eats Drum Machine / Booomboxxx / Booomboxxx (2008)
• The Mae Shi / Run To Your Grave / Hlllyh (2008)
• DJ /rupture & Andy Moore / Is it Going / Patches (2008)
• Micachu & The Shapes / Golden Phone / Jewellery (2009)
• John Maus / Keep Pushing on / We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves (2011)
• Snowman / Memory Lost / Absence (2011)
• Laurel Halo / Supersymmetry / King Felix (2010)
• Gang Gang Dance / Thru and Thru / Eye Contact (2011)
• Balam Acab / Oh, Why / Wander/Wonder (2011)
• James Blake / I Only Know (What I Know Now) / Klavierwerke EP (2010)
• The Flamingos / I Only Have Eyes For You / The Best of the Flamingo (1959)
• Fredrik / Ava / Trilogi (2010)
• Menomena / Tithe / Mines Final (2010)
• Washed Out / Far away / Within and without (2011)
• Local Natives / Airplanes / Gorilla Manor (2009)

Episode 119. mp3. Released September 16, 2011.

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

Episode 118. mp3. cue Released August 31, 2011.

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

Episode 117. mp3. cue. Released August 25, 2010.

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)

Episode 116. mp3. cue. Released July 24, 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)