I wish this show could've gone a bit longer, but them's the breaks. Seems like any of the programs before me get their time eaten by the show before and I'm left with the tightest 90 minutes to wiggle with.
Nevertheless, this was a solid piece of the genre cake as I stayed mostly electronic. Fittingly, so was the music as most of the discs I found in the library were old and fairly unplayable (compact discs do not age gracefully), so the bulk of the show came off the iPod. However, it was only yesterday that I found a used vinyl of the Thief soundtrack (the trailer as heard during this week's broadcast), which helped greatly since all I had from Tangerine Dream was the Heartbreakers soundtrack, which is nice on its own but that film was rather insignificant, especially in contrast the blazing white glow of Michael Mann's debut film. There was a lot more I could've tackled regarding Mann and his audio æsthete, but you have to hear the music from time to time and not so much from me.
The Modular Recordings snapshot was semi-intentional; I had hoping to drop a remix of The Presets' This Boy's In Love but sometimes, people need to be able to find what song they hear easily. At some point, I'll play you Cut Copy's remix work of the Presets, one long languid day. (As eluded during the show, here's the Exclaim! profile on Cut Copy in wake of their 2008 best-of lists.)
Not sure what else to say but man, I play a lot of Amon Tobin. I need to switch over to Richie Hawtin for Canadian electronic music, or find other sources of fresh national technologies.
This is my playlist; tell me yours.
Entertainment: U 1988 (U 1988, 2008) I'm a Cliché
Cut Copy: Sands of Times (Demo, 2008) Modular
The Presets: This Boy's in Love (Apocalypso, 2008) Modular
Little Boots: Meddle [Designer Drugs 80's Coke Jam remix] (MySpace, 2008) Iamsound
Depeche Mode: Clean [Colder Version] (Remixes 81-04, 2004) Mute
Sunship: Almighty Father featuring Warrior Queen (Almighty Father 12", 2004) Casual
Burial: Forgive (Burial, 2006) Hyperdub
Weird Tapes: Nightstalking (Nightstalking, 2008) self-released
Amon Tobin: Hot Pursuit (Piranha Breaks EP, 1997) Ninja Tune
Matthew Dear: Pom Pom [The Juan Maclean Backup Vox Remix] (Pom Pom - The Juan Maclean Remixes, 2008) Ghostly International
Whomadewho: TV Friends [Hot Chip Remix Tomboy Edit] (TV Friend 12", 2008) Gomma
Tangerine Dream: Heartbreakers (Heartbreakers OST, 1985) Virgin
Tangerine Dream: Footbridge to Heaven (Heartbreakers OST, 1985) Virgin
Tangerine Dream: Scrap Yard (Thief OST, 1981) Virgin
Tangerine Dream: Trap Feeling (Thief OST, 1981) Virgin
Tangerine Dream: Igneous (Thief OST, 1981) Virgin
Amon Tobin: Keep Your Distance (Foley Room, 2007) Ninja Tune
Genghis Tron: Recursion [CFCF Remix] (Board Up The House Remixes Volume 2, 2008) Lovepump United
Getting neglected in all this was the sublime backing track to the wonky concert listings, provided by Patrick Vian. Grosse Nacht Musik is a rad, rad, rad song that WFMU highlighted sometime ago. I hope his sole album Bruits et Temps Analogues gets re-released some day soon. Maybe I'll save up all these weird songs for an instrumental show. I'll file that with every other crazy idea I have.
You can download Neon poinsettia as a stark MP3 you can decorate a room around [80.0 Mb, 87:23]
