Amazing thing, amazing thing.
For any of you still relying on the XML feed, you're markedly patient. You may have to remain that way for a while sadly.
rfg #92 - Legendary dapper moustache [83.6 Mb]
Aside from catching up on some Canadiana, this episode features a tribute to the late drummer Jerry Fuchs [1974-2009] along with a brief glimpse of British composer Laurie Johnson's oeuvre. If you listen carefully, you'll hear the symptoms of man who twelve hours later got hit with the flu.
Hot Chip: Take It In (One Life Stand, 2010) Astralwerks
Azari & III: Hungry for the Power (Hungry for the Power EP, 2009) I'm a Cliche
Venetian Snares: Öngyilkos vasárnap (Rossz Csillag Alatt Született, 2005) Planet Mu
Role Mach: Orffesque Three (Orffesques and Fugues, 2009) self-released
The Telepathic Butterflies: Bonhomie (Songs from a Second Wave, 2004) Rainbow Quartz
The Liptonians: Twenty Dollars (The Liptionians, 2008) Head in the Sand
Duotang: Thomas Green (The Cons & The Pros, 1998) Mint
Young & Sexy: The City You Live In is Ugly (Stand Up for Your Mother, 2002) Mint
Turing Machine: Synchronicity III (Zwei, 2003) French Kiss
The Juan Maclean: Tito's Way (The Juan Maclean, 2005) Astralwerks/DFA
Maserati: Monoliths (Passages, 2009) Temporary Residence
!!!: Must Be the Moon (Myth Takes, 2007) Warp
Bibio: Kaini Industries (Warp20 Recreated, 2009) Warp
Bell Orchestre: Dark Lights (As Seen Through Windows, 2009) Arts & Crafts
Laurie Johnson Orchestra: Main Theme from The Avengers (This is Cult Fiction, 1995) Circa
Laurie Johnson: Chase that Car! (Girl in a Suitcase Upgraded, 2009) Winchester Hospital Radio
Laurie Johnson and the London Studio Symphony Orchestra: First Men on the Moon (Brain in the Box, 1964) Rhino
Out Hud: It's For You (Let Us Never Speak of It Again, 2005) Kranky
Six Finger Satellite: Lonely Grave (Law of Ruins, 1998) Sub Pop
rfg #93 - I float like a foetus in suspended disbelief [86.6 Mb]
I wasn't sure what to expect with this broadcast, which was devoted to the new genre called glo-fi, chillwave, dreambeat, hypnagogic pop or whatever. I'm actually impressed how it flows together from dreamy and stark to harsh and extraterrestrial. Artists I left out included Memory Tapes, Delorean and Toro Y Moi.
Washed Out: New Theory (Life of Leisure, 2009) Mexican Summer
Nite Jewel: We Want Our Things (You F O, 2009) self-released
Neon Indian: Mind, Drips (Psychic Chasms, 2009) Lefse
Ceramic Hello: Geometry (The Absence of a Canary, 1981) Mannequin
Iko: Radioactive Mist ('83, 1982) Manhattan - Formula
Animal Collective: Bleed (Fall Be Kind, 2009) Domino
Atlas Sound: Walkabout [featuring Noah Lennox] (Logos, 2009) 4AD/Kranky
Millionyoung: Chlorophyl (Sunndreamm EP, 2009) self-released
Universal Studios Florida: Frozen Bayou [featuring Alaskas] (Ocean Sunbirds, 2009) Little Fury Things
Junior Boys: No Kinda Man (Body Language Six, 2008) Get Physical
Madrid: Iron Ways [XI Remix] (2009) YYZ
Joker: Digidesign (5 Years of Hyperdub, 2009) Hyperdub
Zomby: Tarantula (5 Years of Hyperdub, 2009) Hyperdub
Mount Kimbie: William (Maybes, 2009) Hotflush
Vangelis: Theme from Antarctica (Antarctica OST, 1983) Polydor
Gil Mellé: Theme from The Andromeda Strain (Brain in a Box, 1971) Rhino
Beru: Prophecies of Love & Gravities Power [excerpt] (Infinite Fjords Sampler, 2009) Thor's Rubber Hammer
rfg #94 - Final shots from a twenty aught nine [ABRIDGED] [75.1 Mb]
A sorta besta show for 2009. Originally the playlist went over five hours, so any paring down was to cover flow. The score to the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic The Road, written and composed by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis takes on the back third.
One unfortunate accident with the internet connection took down the podcast server for the first ten minutes of the show, cutting off some happy banter with a couple other show hosts and the entirety of the opening cut: Animal Collective's My Girls off their album Merriweather Post Pavilion through Domino. Although somewhat recoverable, I wouldn't be able to host the file anywhere easily and aside from some joking around, you didn't miss much...at least from a long-term perspective. I recalled that it was the fourth night of Hanukkah, and that was about it.
From my notes:
With the glorious arpeggiated hook from Frankie Knuckles' 1987 house hit Your Love, there's Animal Collective with My Girls, one of the best songs from this year's Merriweather Post Pavilion album. Other than breaking out with the album, along with their sold-out tour and an EP that came out a few weeks ago, part of the former Baltimore crew's appeal this year has been their prodigious performance with the Roland 555 sampler, a powerful though notoriously confusing synth that's normally used only in the studio.
Yep. Here be the songs.
Portishead: Chase the Tear (Chase the Tear, 2009) 7digital
Tamaryn: Mild Confusion (Mild Confusion 7", 2009) True Panther/Matador
Japandroids: Heart Sweats (Post-Nothing, 2009) Unfamiliar
Field Music: Measure (Measure, 2009) Memphis Industries/Revolver
Dirty Projectors: Temecula Sunrise (Bitte Orca, 2009) Domino
White Rabbits: Rudie Fails (It's Frightening, 2009) TBD
Neko Case: Red Tide (Middle Cyclone, 2009) Anti-
The Rural Alberta Advantage: The Deadroads (Hometowns, 2009) Saddle Creek
Grizzly Bear: While You Wait for the Others [featuring Michael McDonald] (While You Wait for the Others single, 2009) Warp
Kutiman: Just a Lady (Thru You, 2009) self-released
The XX: Shelter (XX, 2009) Young Turks
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis: The Road (The Road - Original Film Score, 2009) Mute
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis: The Cannibals (The Road - Original Film Score, 2009) Mute
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis: The House (The Road - Original Film Score, 2009) Mute
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis: The Journey (The Road - Original Film Score, 2009) Mute
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis: The Cellar (The Road - Original Film Score, 2009) Mute
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis: The Boy (The Road - Original Film Score, 2009) Mute
Bell Orchestre: As Seen Through Windows (As Seen Through Windows, 2009) Arts & Crafts
Episodes 88 and 89 strayed from tropical beats, Greek funk and Krautrock.
October's Episodes went all over the place: Piero Piccioni, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, John Barry and Where the Wild Things Are.
Episode 83 focuses on funk with Curtis Mayfield's Super Fly.
Episodes 81, 82 and a Rainbow Groove fill-in, featuring remixed movie queues, some happy house and the cancer-stricken tribute for Patrick Swayze, along with the Rheostatics' work for Whale Music.
Episodes 79 and 80 had the Holy Mountain and Inglourious Basterds.
Episode 78, toasting Michael Jackson and The Wiz in a peculiar fashion.
Episodes 76 and 77, includes Iceland and John Hughes.
Episodes 74, 75 and the Stereoscopic Redoubt swap show, featuring Coraline and an Apollo 11 tribute with the soundtracks to Moon and For All Mankind.
Episodes 72 and 73, toasting Manitoba and Peter Gabriel.
Three regular episodes, with Willie Hutch, The Limits of Control and David Holmes winning, placing and showing.
Two Rainbow Groove fill-ins, so shake your moneymakers.
Episodes 67 and 68, Crank: High Voltage and Franco Godi's Italian commerical work, amongst other mayhem.
Episode 66 and a fill-in for I Like the Scribbles, half Japanese.
Episodes 64 and 65 tackled a lot of things, from space and techno to funk and Italian soundtracks.
Fill-ins for the month of April.
Episodes 60-63 for the month of April.
Episode 59 had the soundtrack to Ghost in the Shell.
Episode 58: hip hop along with the soundtrack to the film Car Wash.
Episode 57: French disco with Daft Punk and the Irréversible soundtrack.
Episode 56: International Women's Day with Delia Derbyshire and Wendy Carlos.
Episode 55 dealt with The Dark Knight and other post-Oscar mayhem.
Episode 54 covered Defiance.
Episode 53 had The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
Episodes 51 and 52 live here.
We have the rest of January 2009's shows along with the archives of 2008's episodes with better written rundown of episodes.
