For a moment, I thought that was I going to have one of those frantic shows whereby I had too much music to spin in my time slot. Things turned out differently; despite the fact I was running late, I wound up playing earlier than usual since the usual host ahead of me was gone, leaving one of the gravest sins radio can have: dead air (unless you're on a John Cage or Pootie Tang kick).
As I scrambled to get something on air quickly, I wound up starting a bit early after playing a boatload of cart material as I set up, diving into the Disco Italia track as I dug up the other albums queued up. After doing some quick math, I located two additional tracks to fill out the extra time: Crystal Castles and a track from the Canadian Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective compilation.
Otherwise, the show was heavily electro, starting off with Steinski (check out his WFMU playlists), an artist I'd never expect to find anything outside of low-bit MP3's passed from filesystems. Big props to Illegal Art for compiling his works together, and if you've never heard of them, your gateway artist is Girl Talk, then dive further into musical re-appropriation.
I could've easily devoted more time to the various soundtracks and scores to the film Children of Men. The first soundtrack features more of the pop tunes, though I'm more tempted to say the secular music when compared to the might of the original score, which is so overwhelmingly emotional, it can get a bit heavy. Of course, I couldn't ignore John Tavener's work, including the 15 minute Fragments of a Prayer – a holy, stirring work you probably won't encounter elsewhere on the radio. I recommend finding both albums if you can, just to contrast the rage of Jarvis Cocker's Running the World and Krzysztof Penderecki's contemplative Threnody For The Victims Of Hiroshima.
Meanwhile, here's this episode's playlist:
Red Dragon Band: Let Me Be Your Radio Pt. 1 (Disco Italia, 2008) Strut Records
Steinski: Swingset [10 Beautiful Girls Mix] (What Does It All Mean?, 2008) Illegal Art
Hercules and Love Affair: Raise Me Up (Hercules and Love Affair, 2008) DFA
The Presets: My People (Apocalypso, 2008) Modular
Kavsinky: Wayfarer (1986 12", 2007) Record Makers
Klaxons: Gravity's Rainbow [Soulwax Remix] (Most of the Remixes, 2007) EMI
Siriusmo: Mein Menu Fahrrad [Boys Noize Edit] (Diskoding EP, 2008) Boysnoize
Thunderheist: Jerk It [Nasty Nav & JFK Remix] (Myspace, 2008) ?
Ghislain Poirier: No More Blood featuring Face-T [Megasoid Remix] (No More Blood - Megasoid Remix 7" single, 2008) Ninja Tune
Cadence Weapon: Tattoos and What They Really Feel Like (Afterparty Babies, 2008) Upper Class/Anti-
Crystal Castles: 1991 (Crystal Castles, 2008) Last Gang
Kode9 and the Spaceape: Backward (Children of Men OST, 2006) Hip-O
King Crimson: The Court of the Crimson King (Children of Men OST, 2006) Hip-O
John Tavener: The Lamb [for String Orchestra] (Children of Men Original Score, 2006) Varese Sarabande
John Tavener: Fragments of a Prayer (Children of Men Original Score, 2006) Varese Sarabande
Yo-Yo Ma, David Zinman & the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: The Protecting Veil: II. Annunciation (The Protecting Veil/Wake Up ...and Die, 1998) Sony
Franco Micalizzi: Flute Sequence (Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective, 2008) Public Transit
The backing track which got a bit short shrift is the theme from the TV series I-Spy, written by the recently deceased Earle Hagen.
And if you're curious, I didn't announce what next week's show honed in on, mostly since I'm sorting it out and there's no obvious theme. It's sounding a bit lo-fi in a preliminary playlist, but that will totally change as I root through the music I find this week.
You can download The future teaches you to be alone as an MP3 (podcast link is borked as of time of writing) [85.6 Mb, 93:34]
