Transmissions from Echo Beach with Derek Westerholm and DJ Babs:
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Description: Exuberance/Ebullience, banter, possibly an interview, context and connection, the familiar, the strange.
Find: Symphonies of Treble, Words Of Expectation, stab, skronk, shimmer, sheen, The New Sound of Now, Ideas for Walls, pleasure, pith, Flutter and Wow, Motorik, cowbells, disco akimbo, at least one Cantankerous Singer, The German Language, shards of glass, Ethiopian Punk, organic, synthetic, sawtooths & squarewaves, Library Riffage, yesterday's recipes, the wrong speed, intentional static, floating, ethereal, time and timelessness.
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| Artist | Track | Album | Label | Year | Comments | New | Approx. start time |
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| Buckhead Shaman |
I'm About It
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I'm About It/Toby's Theme | Buckhead Shaman | 2019 | We kicked if off Twee-styles tonight! Buckhead Shaman, or one Tyler Hobbs, is from Atlanta, GA. The hashtags are "healing soul world groove smooth" I do feel the healing vibes from this song. “I’m About It,” the lead cut from Buckhead Shaman’s new two-song single, sounds like yacht rock on speed. The smooth melodies and breezy rhythms are there, but the delivery is brisk, insistent—almost agitated. To help create the song’s lush grooves, Hobbs enlisted the help of bassist Grandma Stuff and vocalist Zee G whose airy accompaniment brings needed depth to Hobbs’ more stoic, nearly deadpan singing. On the surface, it’s a driving, propulsive number with an elastic funk feel, but it’s hard to shake the aura of unease lurking beneath. No wonder it’s a love song. “[I] wanted to take more of a punk rock approach: record it at home, fast, not spending too much time mulling over the mixes,” says Hobbs. “I’m About It” is plainly and simply a love song. It’s thin and to the point." | 0:00:00 (Pop-up) | |
| African Head Charge |
I'm A Winner
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A Trip to Bolgatanga | On-U Sound | 2023 | A Trip to Bolgatanga is the first album in 12 years from formerly prolific dub collective African Head Charge. Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah, the veteran band’s leader, has relocated to Bolgatanga, a Ghanaian town famed for its craftwork. Inspired by his new surroundings, the vocalist-percussionist has completed 10 new songs in collaboration with On-U production legend Adrian Sherwood. he album is characterised by Ghanaian drumming techniques from local traditions such as the Fante, the Akim, the Ga and the Bolgatanga, which Noah incorporated in his practice. The vocals and strumming of Ghana's most recognised kologo (a traditional two-stringed lute) player King Ayisoba are also very prominent in some songs. This album is definitely more laid back than music of the earlier times....but enjoyable nonetheless! | 0:05:42 (Pop-up) | |
| The Talking Heads |
Slippery People
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Stop Making Sense (Live) | Sire | 1984 | Many interpretations of this song float around. References to living creatures and wheels inside wheels obviously evoke the more ecstatic and visionary books of the Bible, such as Ezekiel and Revelation. The Talking Heads frequently discuss different ways of dealing with the crushing oppressiveness of modernity, of life, of certainty. In this song, they seem to defer to the 'slippery people': the prophets, the uncertains, the extremely crazy, hallucinatory elements that inspire faith, foster religion, and provide a counterpoint to the mundanity and meaninglessness of the day-to-day. Others say this song is about David Byrne's experience from taking hallucinogens at his own house party and the confusion and anxiety it brings...and still other think it's aliens. Where's George Tsoukolous when you need him? | 0:08:56 (Pop-up) | |
| Ian Dury & The Blockheads |
Blockheads
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New Boots And Panties!! | Stiff Records | 1977 | Blockheads, a song by the iconic English musician Ian Dury, holds a significant place in the history of punk and new wave music. Blockheads, both the song and the band, artfully encapsulated the frustrations and disillusionment of the working class in Britain. The lyrics of “Blockheads” showcase Dury’s wit and playfulness while addressing the struggles faced by ordinary people, including unemployment, societal conformity, and the feeling of being stuck in monotonous routines. Ian Dury remains one of the most charismatic anti-heroes of the punk/new wave/pub rock scene, with a distinctive style, razor wit and cheeky sleaze. | 0:12:58 (Pop-up) | |
| The Fall |
The Man Whose Head Expanded
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The Man Whose Head Expanded 7" | Rough Trade | 1983 | MES: "It's about this fellow who's been fucked up by too much misinformation posing as real information. And then it goes into this thing which is an obvious paranoia trip when he thinks the bloke from a soap opera is ripping off his lines and writing them down. But his thoughts are too intense for him to do anything about it. That's why the vocals are doing Burrr! and the song is very untogether. I'm a bit pissed off that people find the song undecipherable. I find it pretty clear...." | 0:16:32 (Pop-up) | |
Music behind DJ: Tonto's Expanding Head Band |
Cybernaut
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Zero Time |
Atlantic Records |
1971 |
Tonto's Expanding Head Band was a British-American electronic music duo consisting of Malcolm Cecil and Robert Margouleff. Despite releasing only two albums in the early 1970s, the duo were influential in the development of electronic music and helped bring the synthesizer to the mainstream through session and production work for other musicians (most notably Stevie Wonder and extensive commercial advertising work. |
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Music behind DJ: Tonto's Expanding Head Band |
Timewhys
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Zero Time |
Atlantic |
1971 |
TONTO is an acronym for "The Original New Timbral Orchestra", the first, and still the largest, multitimbral polyphonic analog synthesizer in the world, designed and constructed over several years by Malcolm Cecil. TONTO started as a Moog modular synthesizer Series III owned by record producer Robert Margouleff. Later a second Moog III was added, then four Oberheim SEMs, two ARP 2600s, modules from Serge with Moog-like panels, EMS, Roland, Yamaha, etc. plus several custom modules designed by Serge Tcherepnin and Cecil himself - who has an electrical engineering background. Later, digital sound-generation circuitry and a collection of sequencers were added, along with MIDI control. All of these are housed in a semi-circle of curving wooden cabinets, 20 feet (6.1 m) in diameter and 6 feet (1.8 m) tall. |
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| The Fall |
Winter [Hostel-Maxi]
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Hex Enduction Hour | Line Records | 1982 | One of my favourite winter songs, of course... Winter (Hostel-Maxi) fades out side one, Winter #2 fades in to start Side two; I love simple but effective ideas like that... I also love the imagery of "entrances uncovered/delivered" & "street signs you never saw"... The idea that a snowscape gives a landscape such a different appearance that you see it & relate to it in a new way. Some songs for Hex were recorded in Iceland, @ Hljorite in Reykjavik. The rest of the album, including “The Classical,” was made in winter 1981 with producer Richard Mazda at a shuttered movie theater (Regal Cinema) in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. "The chill of Iceland followed them, though, for what was England’s coldest winter of the 20th Century. “For half the album we were on the stage of an empty venue the size of Manchester Academy, with no heating,” Paul Hanley... “I cannot overestimate how cold it was!” Inspired by the need to get somewhere warmer, not to mention the chemistry of the road-rehearsed band, the remaining songs were banged out mostly live, and the cavernous room adds to that live feel. The prowling “Winter,” which was split into two parts so it would fit on the album — ending Side 1 and opening Side 2 — was inspired by this." | 0:29:09 (Pop-up) | |
| The Fall |
Winter 2#
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Hex Enduction Hour | Line Records | 1982 | "“Winter (Hostel-Maxi)” and its follow-up “Winter 2” are essentially one song, with the latter serving as a coda of sorts. A slow and relatively racket-free duo, both are dominated by Steve Hanley’s slow heart beat of a bass line, over which Smith talk/sings, “You got Manny in the library/Working off his hangover 3:30/You get the spleen at 3:15/But it’s 3:13,” at which point the drums explode, the guitar kicks in with some intermittent barbed-wire riffs, and the bass moves to the front of the mix as Smith continues to spit out lines like, “Anyway two weeks before the mad kid had said to me/”I’ll take both of you on!, I’ll take both of you on!”/Then he seemed the young one/He had a parka on and a black cardboard Archbishop’s hat/With a green-fuzz skull and crossbones.” //// Then the organ falls in and out, doing a VU thing, until “Winter (Hostel-Maxi) fades out and “Winter 2” enters brushing the snow off its shoulders, with the only apparent difference between the two songs being the latter’s cool instrumental passage followed by some wicked droning “Sister Ray” organ. That and on “Winter 2” there’s slightly more drum crash and Scanlon’s guitar is more frantic as Smith shuts the song down with the lines, “The mad kid had 4 lights, the average is 2.5 lights/The mediocre has 2 lights, the sign of genius is three lights/There’s one light left, that’s the one light/That’s the science law/Courtesy winter.” I’m not certain what science law Smith is referring to, but I suspect he discovered said law inside a bottle of lager." | 0:33:59 (Pop-up) | |
| Gustaf |
Here Hair
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Package Pt. 2 | Royal Mountain Records | 2024 | Full album releases April 5, 2024. In advance of that, their next digital single "is a two-part track called “Here Hair / Hard Hair,” though the two parts of the song work in very different ways. “Here Hair” is a sparse, slow-building work that clangs icily, moving from minimalism to droning intensity and back again... ...Bandleader Lydia Gammill directed the video, which feels like a kitschy celebration of retro beehive hairdos until the surprise reveal..." Gustaf - Here Hair / Hard Hair (Official Video) ------ Gustaf (Bandcamp | * | 0:38:32 (Pop-up) |
| Gustaf |
Hard Hair
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Package Pt. 2 | Royal Mountain Records | 2024 | "...The “Hard Hair” bit is a punk freakout that lasts for less than a minute. The whole thing, taken together, is a lot of fun." //// Package Pt. 2, "which arrives 5th April via Royal Mountain Records is Gustaf’s first album since 2021’s Audio Drag for Ego Slobs, which nabbed the band a Beck cosign, tours with Idles, Sleaford Mods, and Yard Act, and critical acclaim. The album continues the endlessly fascinating world-building exercise of its forbearer. Where Audio Drag for Ego Slobs confronted the struggle to deal with the narrators surroundings, finding ways to behave in a way where their emotions and actions didn’t alienate most everyone, Package Pt. 2 becomes self-aware, wondering what they might change to make life, relationships, and love a little more manageable presented via a dizzying post-punk dream brought with an irrepressible energy with astounding vocal performances throughout. With Package Pt. 2, Gustaf is in full command of a lineage that radiates from obvious touchstones like the B-52s and Talking Heads to DNA and Teenage Jesus and the Jerks. The album was produced by Erin Tonkon, who worked on David Bowie’s Blackstar, the album was recorded at Studio G Brooklyn and Circular Ruin. " Gustaf - Here Hair / Hard Hair (Official Video) ------ Gustaf (Bandcamp | * | 0:43:05 (Pop-up) |
| Simply Saucer |
Here Come The Cyborgs, Pt. 1
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Cyborgs Revisited | In The Red Recordings | 1975 / 2018 | This track closes Side A of Cyborgs Revisited, the now lauded, formerly "lost classic of Canadian music"; by Hamilton's Simply Saucer. -- Note! -- They will be performing this album live in its entirety on March 2, 2024 in Hamilton. (Also to be recorded.) ----- This track was originally recorded live June 28, 1975 at Lloyd D. Jackson Square, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It was released on Cyborgs Revisited, which was originally , released in 1989 on Mole Sound Records and Cargo Records. It was compiled from various archival recordings by the band, who had only ever released one 7" single before breaking up in 1979. The album's first side was an unreleased demo produced by Daniel Lanois and Bob Lanois in 1974, and the album's second side was a 1975 concert recorded on the roof of Hamilton's Jackson Square." //// As for the forthcoming March 2, 2024 upcoming re-performance, it will be happening in Hamilton at The Mule Spinner; 11 Landsdowne Ave Hamilton, ON L8L 6N3. Details: "Simply Saucer - Cyborgs Revisited Live Album Recording & Performance //// Don't miss this rare performance by Hamilton's Legendary Simply Saucer live at The Mule Spinner! The fabled group will perform their highly regarded album Cyborgs Revisited, live and track by track. Saucer will transport you to another dimension with their unique blend of improvised psychedelic protopunk and sci-fi sounds. The Band features original members Edgar Breau, and Kevin Christoff as well as The Killjoys Mike Trebilcock on Guitar and Blue Rodeo's Glen Milchem on Drums. Get your tickets now for this rare musical happening. The show is being recorded." Link to buy tickets for Sat March 2 performance of Simply Saucer - Cyborgs Revisited Live at The Mule Spinner, Hamilton Ontario | 0:43:53 (Pop-up) | |
| Simply Saucer |
Here Come The Cyborgs, Pt. 2
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Cyborgs Revisited | In The Red Recordings | 1975 / 2018 | This track opened side two of "Cyborgs Revisited", the debut Simply Saucer album with '74 studio & '75 live era songs from their archives, released in 1989 after the band had originally called it quits around 1979. This song is the second part of "Here Come The Cyborgs", from a 1975 concert recorded on the roof of Hamilton's Jackson Square." //// As for the forthcoming March 2, 2024 upcoming re-performance, it will be happening in Hamilton at The Mule Spinner; 11 Landsdowne Ave Hamilton, ON L8L 6N3. Details: "Simply Saucer - Cyborgs Revisited Live Album Recording & Performance //// Don't miss this rare performance by Hamilton's Legendary Simply Saucer live at The Mule Spinner! The fabled group will perform their highly regarded album Cyborgs Revisited, live and track by track. Saucer will transport you to another dimension with their unique blend of improvised psychedelic protopunk and sci-fi sounds. The Band features original members Edgar Breau, and Kevin Christoff as well as The Killjoys Mike Trebilcock on Guitar and Blue Rodeo's Glen Milchem on Drums. Get your tickets now for this rare musical happening. The show is being recorded." Link to buy tickets for Sat March 2 performance of Simply Saucer - Cyborgs Revisited Live at The Mule Spinner, Hamilton Ontario | 0:47:51 (Pop-up) | |
Music behind DJ: Thee Oh Sees |
Jammed Entrance
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A Weird Exits |
Castle Face Records |
2016 |
A song with a companion song from an album with a companion album... "A Weird Exits is the seventeenth studio album by American garage rock band Thee Oh Sees, released on August 12, 2016, on Castle Face Records. It is the first studio album to feature drummers Ryan Moutinho and Dan Rincon, who joined the band in 2015 to tour in support of the band's previous album, Mutilator Defeated at Last. //// A Weird Exits was the first of two studio albums released by Thee Oh Sees in 2016, with a companion album, entitled An Odd Entrances, released on November 18, 2016." |
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Music behind DJ: Thee Oh Sees |
Jammed Exit
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An Odd Entrances |
Castle Face Records |
2016 |
Companion piece to "Jammed Entrance" from companion album "A Weird Exits". "An Odd Entrances is the eighteenth studio album by the American garage rock band Thee Oh Sees, released on 18 November 2016 by Castle Face Records. The album was recorded during the same sessions as the band's previous album, A Weird Exits, released three months previously. //// The album is the band's last with the drummer Ryan Moutinho, who left the band two days before its release, and is also their last album released under the name Thee Oh Sees.//// In a positive review for AllMusic, Tim Sendra praised both the album and the band's overall 2016 output. Discussing the songs, "The Poem" and "At the End, On the Stairs", he wrote, "Both these songs, and the sonic experiments that surround them, boast of just how impressively good Dwyer and Thee Oh Sees were in 2016. Packed full of confident exploration, sonic wizardry, expert guitar manipulation, and tight songcraft, this album of "leftovers" is as good as most of their contemporaries' best work." Noting the band's psychedelic shift in tone, Consequence of Sound's Nina Corcoran favorably compared An Odd Entrances to the band's earlier work, "An Odd Entrances, the companion piece to A Weird Exits, not only expands his songwriting, but it solidifies the band’s lineup, showing Dwyer’s ability to steer Thee Oh Sees towards the other end of frenetics."" |
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| Slugbug |
Shirt Man (I Am Working)
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Truck Month | Plastic Waffle & Tapes | 2013 | Slugbug is Paul D. Millar, an electronic artist whose music could be described as prog punk, weird punk, new wave, zolo, or spastic, synth-based chaos. He’s created a number of albums under the name Slugbug, and he occasionally performs live, complete with videos, keyboards, reel to reel, and a fully functioning traffic light. "I like energy, I like directness, but I also like complexity and intricacy, and those things don’t seem to meet too often in popular music. So I liked that everybody was yelling and having a good time in punk rock, but the music was boring, and I don’t know, that’s maybe because my mom listens to classical music or something. So yeah, I wanted to, with maximum energy, put out the highest level of interesting complexity that I could at any given time, and that level has certainly increased I think." He also owns a siamese cat and that makes Slugbug top in our books! | 1:04:52 (Pop-up) | |
| SPASI |
Jerk Squad
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HTCM In Block City EP | Very Famous | 2022 | SPASI are from Seattle Washington. t’s pop as imagined by a timeline where Devo set the blueprint, borrowing elements of punk, krautrock, and plenty of jagged new wave influences. Two of the members of SPASI are also in Telehealth. Also in case you were wondering, SPASI stands for Simplified Psoriasis Area Severity Index...area-weighted assessment of lesion severity composed of the sum of the average redness, thickness, and scaliness of all the psoriasis lesions. | 1:07:43 (Pop-up) | |
| Dr. Sure's Unusual Practice |
Blood Munny
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Scomo Goes To Hawaii/While AUS Burns | Dougal Shaw | 2020 | Ever since Dr Sure’s Unusual Practice first appeared on the local scene back in 2018, the band – which serves as something of a supergroup of sorts comprising musicians from Melbourne and Perth – has felt like a prolific music-making machine. “It’s this idea that they’ll always talk about perpetual growth for things like profit margins and GDP and balance sheets and all these made-up human concepts – it’s trying to redirect that same energy into tangible important shit like the coral reef or sacred trees" Says Frontman Dougal Shaw. Crossing bands and mediums, Dougal Shaw is also a tattoo artist by trade, and much of the attitude and creativity of his body art also goes into the visual design of Dr Sure. | 1:11:08 (Pop-up) | |
| The Gametes |
Calamity
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The Astral Calamities of Comet Jones | Coolin' By Sound | 2018 | Australia's The Gametes inhabit a world much like our own, but littered with sci-fi lore, pulp fiction action, meme humour and a little bit of Japanese dictatorship. They are one of, if not the most, interesting band in Brisbane, certainly most creative. Each word uttered from an individual Gamete adds to the mythos they’ve created in the short time they’ve been on the scene. There’s a level of mysticism that surrounds the band; showing dedication to their art and to their story. There have been no releases past this record, so perhaps they have transcended this dimension and are currently spreading their sound elsewhere in the multiverse.... | 1:14:16 (Pop-up) | |
| Lucid Waters |
One Track Race
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One Track Race Single | Lucid Waters | 2024 | .Lucid Waters are somewhat subtly, one of the finest bands running amok within the dirty alleyways of Stoke’s music scene. The sultry three piece brings chaos and curiosity wherever they go, often finding themselves becoming the life and soul of whatever bar or venue they may so choose to frequent. One Track Race is simplistic in its approach but that fools nobody; the song is hard hitting from the off, and laced with an ironic playfulness which both compliments and defies the melancholic tones in Goodwin’s lyrics. The stomping beat and a pounding bass is soon joined by the sharp jangle of Zuccarelli’s guitar, and here we are given a glance of a sound which might feel right at home on BBC 6 Music. Drummer and singer Josh Goodwin explains the journey behind the song: “‘In terms of writing music we’re quite laid back really, usually one of us has a hook, whether it be lyrically or a riff in our head, which leads to the three of us just smashing our heads together coming up with something until we’re satisfied with the outcome, which is the reason why our songs have a lot of variety. This song in particular was originally a different song, we played it live a few times under another name, until I rewrote the lyrics and we simplified the song structure, and I’m pretty sure you can tell around what time we wrote the lyrics from the first line alone, certain pop culture references of a time period in which there’s no need to delve any further into.’ | * | 1:16:55 (Pop-up) |
| Cor de Lux |
Nail Biter
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Nail Biter - Single | Cor de Lux | 2024 | COR DE LUX grew out of the music scene of North Carolina’s Outer Banks in 2018. The band found each other over a by chance conversation about a love of music between its two founding members (guitarist Tim Lusk, and guitarist and vocalist, Dawn Moraga) while Moraga waited for a phone repair in Tim’s shop. This turned out to be the catalyst for their band’s formation, with John Bliven quickly added on bass and Thomas McNeely stepping in for founding member and drummer Dana Quinn in early 2022. Their music (a mixture of post-punk, goth-tinged pop and shoegaze) has earned the tongue-in-cheek nickname ‘Shoe-Gazi’ by friends. Their music is " A message from our hearts to human civilization...What we experience still needs to be questioned while remembering that conflicting beliefs can end with healthy discourse if we see each other as equals. If we are scared to talk to each other, we have already lost." | * | 1:19:24 (Pop-up) |
| Attic Ted |
Recipe For Success
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13 Select Home Recordings | Atypeek Music | 2022 | Halining from central Texas, Attic Ted is an interactive musical performance artist, playing weirdo gothic carnival musical theater, creepy and funny, utilizing cardboard constructed masks, to create a visual experience compounding the quirky bizarro pop music into a surrealist dream. Using an old Hammond Organ for bass and rhythm loops, distorted guitar, Casio twists, clarinet, and strange noises. Embrace change. Move forward. Crush capitalism. We Have The Power! | 1:23:20 (Pop-up) | |
Music behind DJ: Alan Haven |
Image
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Image 7" |
Fontana |
1965 |
I am obsessed. OBSESSED. Alan Haven (Born 1 April 1935, died 12 Jan 2016), Prestwich, Lancashire, United Kingdom) was an English, self taught, jazz organist. He married Miss World, Lesley Langley in the 60's. Alan Haven enjoyed success with John Barry on the soundtracks to 1960s film classics including The Knack, Goldfinger, From Russia with Love and critical acclaim for his performances and recordings with jazz drumming supremo Tony Crombie. He further scored a surprise single hit with his recording of “Image”. |
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Music behind DJ: Alan Haven |
Flying Free
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St. Elmo's Fire |
Sony Music |
1971 |
In 1969 and 1971 Haven recorded two albums for CBS, a mix of originals by Haven with his arrangements of covers. All benefiting from the distinctive Haven Lowrey Heritage keyboard sounds which he had been developing throughout the 1960s. “Haven For Sale” featured jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson and direction from Keith Mansfield. “St. Elmo’s Fire” saw Haven experiment more with the keyboards and its effects, also producing and including more originals than before. |
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| Wine Lips |
Derailer
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Super Mega Ultra | Stomp Records | 2024 | Wine Lips are from Toronto, Ontario. Their album Releases April 5, 2024. This is the first digital single. //// All songs written by Cam Hilborn //// Recorded and mixed by Simon Larochette at the Sugar Shack in London, Ontario //// Produced by Cam Hilborn with Simon Larochette //// Mastered by Harris Newman //// Cam Hilborn - Guitar, Vocals / Aurora Evans - Drums, Vocals / Simon Larochette - Bass, Percussion / Jordan Sosensky - Additional guitar on New Jazz, Serotonin, Stella, Cash Man / Charles Weare - Bass on New Jazz, Stella, Cash Man" Wine Lips - Derailer (Official Video) -------- Wine Lips (Bandcamp) | * | 1:36:36 (Pop-up) |
| Metz |
99
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Up On Gravity Hill | Sub Pop Records | 2024 | "METZ have announced their new album, Up on Gravity Hill, along with a 2024 headlining tour. The Canadian band’s first full-length in four years arrives on April 12th via Sub Pop, but you can hear the new singles “99” and “Entwined (Street Light Buzz)” now. //// Engineered by Seth Manchester (Mdou Moctar, Lingua Ignota, Battles), Up on Gravity Hill features guest performances from Amber Webber of Black Mountain and composer/string arranger Owen Pallett. It’s described in a press release as “a deep, detailed, and unyieldingly personal collection of songs” that’s simultaneously METZ’s “most powerful record to date” and their most beautiful. //// The supporting international tour kicks off its North American leg in Boston on April 17th and will feature dates in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Toronto, and more before heading over to the UK and Europe beginning in mid-August. //// In a statement, METZ guitarist/vocalist Alex Edkins said the new singles “couldn’t be more stylistically and thematically dissimilar. ‘Entwined (Street Light Buzz)’ is a song about the deep connection humans can foster with one another and how we carry people with us forever, even after death. ’99’ is about the scourge of corporate greed and bottom-line thinking that runs rampant in modern society. Anything for a buck is the message being sent to younger generations.”" | * | 1:38:59 (Pop-up) |
| IDLES |
Hall & Oates
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TANGK | Partisan Records | 2024 | "The pitch for Idles’ fifth album is very straightforward. “This is our album of beauty and power,” wrote frontman Joe Talbot on social media towards the end of last year. “All love songs.” Indeed, it’s so straightforward, you might question the value of announcing it at all: writing love songs is hardly a hitherto-unprecedented move in rock and pop history. //// But context is everything, and this is Idles we’re taking about: authors of I’m Scum, Rottweiler, White Privilege and Never Fight a Man With a Perm, they of the guitarist given to performing onstage clad only in a pair of Y-fronts, who rose to fame on the back of debut album Brutalism, essentially a 41-minute long howl of grief and confusion at the death of Talbot’s mother and fury at the state of the UK. It was the right album for post-Brexit 2017, the year of Grenfell Tower, the Manchester Arena bombing, and of the Red Cross describing the state of Britain’s hospitals as a “humanitarian crisis” – so Idles did not seem like a band terribly likely to release an album of love songs, even one titled Tangk, in an onomatopoeic attempt to describe the impact of its sound. //// And yet, here we are: songs unironically titled Gratitude and Grace, equally unironic paeans to the joys of parenthood, new romance, freudenfreude – taking delight in other people’s success – and strong fraternal relationships, the latter winningly compared to the sound of “Hall & Oates … playing in my heart”. IDLES (Bandcamp) | * | 1:42:15 (Pop-up) |
| Superpunk |
Neue Zähne Für Meinen Bruder Und Mich
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Superpunk / Boy Division | Fidel Bastro | 2012 | Some unclarity here in terms of credits. It is attributed to Boy Division on the Streaming Services (and it indeed sounds 100% like them), but attributed to "Superpunk" on Discogs... There is crossover between the two bands, so likely I just don't know Superpunk well enough to identify them as being separate from Boy Division. Furthermore, tagging on streaming serves claim this song is a "Superpunk Cover" (which it is not)... This is everything an irreverant cover of Tuxedo Moon's 1978 classic "No Tears" should be & more. | 1:44:38 (Pop-up) | |
| TEKE::TEKE |
Bankrobber
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Heats & Minds & Crooked Beats | Kill Rock Stars | 2024 | Released on: 2024-02-07. The Clash classic re-imagined. TEKE::TEKE is a Montreal-based Japanese psych-rock group composed of guitarists Sei Nakauchi Pelletier & Hidetaka Yoneyama, bass player Mishka Stein, drummer Ian Lettre, flutist Yuki Isami, trombone player Etienne Lebel, and visual artist and vocalist Maya Kuroki. / Featuring traditional Japanese instruments, flute and trombone alongside raging guitars and a pulsing rhythm section, TEKE::TEKE creates a sound reminiscent of 1960’s and 70’s era psychedelic Japanese soundtracks, with an experimental approach and a frenetic, modern twist." Composer: HEADON NICHOLAS BOWEN / Composer: JONES MICHAEL GEOFFREY / Composer: MELLOR JOHN / Lyricist: MELLOR JOHN / Composer: SIMONON PAUL GUSTAVE //// Music Publisher: NINEDEN LTD //// From the Clash tribute album "Hearts & Minds & Crooked Beats" for International Clash Day (Feb 7, 2024). ""'Bankrobber' was the first ever song I heard from the Clash, it was on a compilation tape a dear friend of mine had made for me in my early 20s," TEKE::TEKE vocalist Sei Nakauchi Pelletier said in a statement shared by Brooklyn Vegan. "The Clash went on to become one of my favourite and most-inspiring rock bands of all-time, way beyond their musical genius but also for their political stances and DIY approach."" Other contributors to the album feature Brooklyn-based singer Mirah, Dandy Warhols, Smokey Brights, the Gotobeds, Labasheeda and more. A portion of the proceeds from the project will go to the International Rescue Committee." TEKE::TEKE (Bandcamp) | * | 1:47:05 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: Ibrahim |
Forked From Clouds
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Forked From Clouds |
Self-Released (Bandcamp) |
2024 |
Released February 10, 2024. "Crawling but never stumbling or unsteady. / Lurching forwards with purpose. / A strategic retreat. / Live to fight another day." / "Composed and sculpted over an unusually long period using elements spanning different eras. Sources include guitars, multitrack cassettes and field recordings from the Toronto area. Download includes pdf booklet of artwork by Ibrahim." https://ibrahim-sounds.bandcamp.com/ |
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| Nouvelle Vague feat. Alonya |
Should I Stay Or Should I Go?
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Should I Stay Or Should I Go? | PIAS | 2024 | Released: Feb 16, 2024. "Marc Collin, the creator of Nouvelle Vague, never anticipated producing a fifth album for the project, originally envisioning it as a one-off tribute to post-punk through bossa nova. However, the unexpected success of their debut album, featuring unique covers of songs by XTC, Public Image Limited, Josef K, and Joy Division, propelled Nouvelle Vague into unforeseen popularity. Collin attributes their success to the timing of the post-punk revival and the emotional resonance achieved by blending bossa nova with melancholic music. He also suggests that their French identity played a significant role, as their willingness to reinterpret songs without treating them as sacred, along with French vocals, contributed to the project’s appeal. //// Despite initially considering Nouvelle Vague as a short-lived endeavor, Collin reflects on its enduring success over 20 years, marked by diverse albums covering French new wave artists, original compositions, and unique reinterpretations of various musical styles. The latest album, “Should I Stay Or Should I Go,” continues the trend, featuring pop-infused renditions of post- punk classics. Collin sees no reason to end Nouvelle Vague, as streaming keeps their music alive and the audience remains interested, even attracting younger listeners. Additionally, Collin notes the project’s influence on the trend of radically reworked cover versions in advertisements and movies, highlighting the enduring impact of Nouvelle Vague’s innovative approach to music." | * | 1:58:15 (Pop-up) |
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Tom P:
Scott_Oz:
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DJ Blush:
Robm:
Alli B:
Robm:
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Robm:
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Scott_Oz:
WR:
I've been hyping people to listen to last week's episode to hear Derek's memory of being on stage with Damo Suzuki. It is a gem that you shared with us. Thank you DJ Babs for nudging him to share.
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Mr Fab:
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Androu B.:
A bit tardy for the party, but I made it!
Funny yu should touch on this theme this week. Once upon a time, I camre up with the idea to list all the bands in the world of music that had the word "head" in them. So far, you've played most of the bands I had on that list. (Buckhead Shaman likely didn't exist long after I decided to give up accumulating any more bands to list, as it was proving to be too much trouble to follow up on every band.)
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Will thee Sound Guy:
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Will thee Sound Guy:
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Alli B:
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Mr Fab:
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davefromtoronto:
Will thee Sound Guy:
Derek Westerholm:
Alli B:
davefromtoronto:
Derek Westerholm:
Scott_Oz:
🍻😎🤙🍲🫘🧅🧄🌶️🌶️🍅
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Derek Westerholm:
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davefromtoronto:
Feldy:
Alli B:
Kristine:
Scott_Oz:
♨️🔥🌶️🌶️🌶️❤️
WR:
Alli B:
Derek Westerholm:
DJ Babs:
Kristine:
Derek Westerholm:
Feldy:
Derek Westerholm:
Mr Fab:
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Alli B:
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Mr Fab:
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Alli B:
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DJ Blush:
I'm so full
Kristine:
Alli B:
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Kristine:
DJ Blush:
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Derek Westerholm:
Kristine:
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Alli B:
Kristine:
Kristine:
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Feldy:
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Kristine:
Kristine:
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DJ Blush:
I'm looking through records now!
Kristine:
Derek Westerholm:
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Kristine:
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Kristine:
davefromtoronto:
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Feldy:
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Androu B.:
Scott_Oz:
northguineahills:
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going to try to throw some food that way....
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Kristine:
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Kristine:
Derek Westerholm:
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Alli B:
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Alli B:
northguineahills:
Day Book. (kanji semantics)
日 Day
本 Book
日本 Japan
Bob Barth:
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Kristine:
northguineahills:
Alli B:
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Scott_Oz:
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Androu B.:
Thanks Babs & Derek!
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