Episode 129. mp3. Released September 8, 2012.

Just flat out rocking, really.

Raw, amped, riffed, squelching, howling, rocking, rolling, kicking.

• Grinderman / Mickey Mouse and The Goodbye Man / Grinderman 2 (2010)
• Ty Segall / Girlfriend / Melted (2010)
• The King Khan & BBQ Show / Zombies / What’s For Dinner? (2006)
• Oblivians / Mary Lou / Play 9 Songs With Mr. Quintron (1997)
• The Sonics / Have Love Will Travel / Here Are The Sonics (1965)
• Reigning Sound / Stormy Weather / Time Bomb High School (2002)
• Thee Oh Sees / The Dream / Carrion Crawler/The Dream (2011)
• Sleater-Kinney / Jumpers / The Woods (2005)
• Japandroids / The House That Heaven Built / Celebration Rock (2012)
• Titus Andronicus / A More Perfect Union / The Monitor (2010)
• DIIV / Doused / Oshin (2012)
• The Fresh & Onlys / Waterfall / Play It Strange (2010)
• The Gaslight Anthem / The Queen of Lower Chelsea / American Slang (2010)
• Iggy & The Stooges / Gimme Danger / Raw Power (1973)
• The Constantines / Long Distance Four / The Constantines (2001)
• The Walkmen / Blue as Your Blood / Lisbon (2010)
• Grizzly Bear / Yet Again / Shields (2012)
• Dirty Projectors / Gun Has No Trigger / Swing Lo Magellan (2012)
• Deerhunter / Helicopter / Halcyon Digest (2010)
• Swans / Avatar / The Seer (2012)

Episode 128. mp3. Released July 14, 2012.

As far as invalidating genres, there’s two types of rather divergent ‘garage’ music on here. Mostly though it’s a half of dubby techno and a half of darkish hip hop bookended by proto and posto punkishness. The overall feeling is a bit heavy and unnerving. In a good way of course.

Special shout out to Clams Casino for his production on ‘The Fall’ (and a number of tracks in previous episodes), El-P for his production on Untitled and all of the fantastic R.A.P. Music (and his own track two songs later), and Suicide for showing up to do the original version of the song Neneh Cherry and The Thing covered last time.

• Monks / Monk Time / Black Monks Time (1966)
• Big Black / Bad Penny / Songs About Fucking (1987)
• Porter Ricks / Nautical Dub / Biokinetics (1996)
• Cut Hands / Impassion / Afro Noise I (2011)
• Sandwell District / Falling The Same Way / Feed Forward (2011)
• Ramadanman / Don’t Change for Me / Ramadanman EP (2010)
• Instra:mental / Watching You / Single (2009)
• Engage / Helium / The Future Sound Of Russia (2009)
• Scuba / July / Personality (2012)
• The Weeknd / The Fall / Echoes Of Silence / (2011)
• Killer Mike / Untitled (Feat. Scar) / R.A.P. Music (2012)
• Aesop Rock / Zero Dark Thirty / Skelethon (2012)
• El-P / Drones Over Bklyn / Cancer For Cure (2012)
• Shabazz Palaces / Swerve… The reeping of all that is worthwhile (Noir not withstanding) / Black Up (2011)
• Dr. Octagon / Blue Flowers / Dr. Octagonecologyst (1996)
• Freddie Gibbs / National Anthem (Fuck The World) / Str8 Killa EP (2010)
• Suicide / Dream Baby Dream / Single (1979)
• The Horrors / Sea Within A Sea / Primary Colours (2009)

Episode 127. mp3. Released June 29, 2012.

Just think about the title intently as you listen to each song on this. It will all eventually make sense. No. Not that.

Highlights include: Damon finally pulls out the Mingus, real good groovin’, 2 very hard to beat covers right in a row after the dead boy, plus Dr John’s latest album is everything I could ask for.

• Erykah Badu / Window Seat / New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh) (2010)
• Chet Faker / Terms and Conditions / Thinking In Textures (2012)
• Freestyle Fellowship / Park Bench People / Innercity Griots (1993)
• Charles Mingus / Group Dancers / The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady (1963)
• Miles Davis / All Blues / Kind of Blue (1959)
• Machine Drum / She Died There / Room(s) (2011)
• XXXY / I Know This (Can’t Be Love) / Everything EP (2012)
• MJ Cole / Sincere (Re-Cue’d) / Sincere (2006)
• Cooly G / Landscapes / Playin Me (2012)
• Disclosure / What’s In Your Head / The Face EP (2012)
• Maceo Plex / Can’t Leave You (Original Mix) / Sweating Tears EP (2011)
• Deadboy / Wish U Were Here / Here (2011)
• CFCF / Exercise #5 (September) / Exercise (2012)
• Neneh Cherry & The Thing / Dream Baby Dream / The Cherry Thing (2012)
• Dr. John / Big Shot / Locked Down (2012)
• The Music Machine / Talk Talk / (Turn On) The Music Machine (1966)
• The Undertones / Teenage Kicks / EP (1978)

Episode 126. mp3. Released June 19, 2012.

Dreamy space women, then some tender dubstep and some classic post-punk. Then a couple more dreamy space women.

• Julia Holter / Our Sorrows / Ekstasis (2012)
• Iamamiwhoami / Sever / Kin (2012)
• Fiona Apple / Every Single Night / The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do (2012)
• St. Vincent / Year Of The Tiger / Strange Mercy (2011)
• Beach House / Wishes / Bloom (2012)
• Bear in Heaven / You Do You / Beast Rest Forth Mouth (2009)
• Peaking Lights / All The Sun That Shines / 936 (2011)
• Floating Points / Myrtle Avenue / Shadows (2011)
• Kevin McPhee / I Will / Blue Organ EP (2011)
• Mim Suleiman / Flava / Tungi (2009)
• Glasser / Home / Ring (2010)
• Аукцыон / Огонь / Юла (2011)
• Colin Stetson / Judges / New History Warfare Vol.2: Judges (2011)
• Cranes / Everywhere / Forever (1993)
• Wipers / When It’s Over / Youth of America (1981)
• Magazine / Shot By Both Sides / Real Life (1978)
• The XX / Crystalised / XX (2009)
• Julee Cruise / Into The Night / Floating Into The Night (1989)
• Ann Peebles / I Can’t Stand the Rain / I Can’t Stand the Rain (1974)

Things to consider:

This mix is best experienced following right after the previous one. I always meant for Julianna and Julia to be neighbours. So if you’ve got 2.7 hours to kill then that’s a winning ticket right there! In your hand! Literally! Don’t lose it!

Gotta love these dreamy space women, right? (ethereal, dream-poppy, spacey girlvocals)

Does Iamamiwhoami rhyme with salami?

Peaking Lights is proggy and noodly but actually good (for at least one song).

There’s not actually any dubstep on here, but that’s just what you call electronic music now, right?

Аукцыон’s English name is Auktyon.

Colin Stetson makes all of his sounds with a bass saxaphone and a bunch of strategically placed microphones. If that’s not sexy…

Julee Cruise’ album was co-written by David Lynch

Before there was Missy Elliot, there was MFing Ann Peebles to not stand the rain, and she (the Peebs) has a discography worth checking out.

I dunno if it’s weird that I kinda have to focus to get a 2:1+ female:male vocal ratio like this. I hope you appreciate it.

Chances of me getting the mic and taking the time to record audio commentary ever again? Dwindly. Though I do miss being a smartass about music.

Episode 125. mp3. Released June 03, 2012.

This episode is about:
The damp
Forest floor after a rain storm
The edge of a marsh in the late evening
Where the cold air meets the warm breeze
Where travellers see strange lights flickering

• Mount Eerie / The Place I Live / Clear Moon (2012)
• David Thomas Broughton / Ever Rotating Sky / The Complete Guide To Insufficiency (2005)
• Timber Timbre / Lonesome Hunter / Creep On Creepin On (2011)
• The Tallest Man On Earth / To Just Grow Away / There’s No Leaving Now (2012)
• The Walkmen / Torch Song / Lisbon (2010)
• Dan Auerbach / Trouble Weighs A Ton / Keep it Hid (2009)
• Bonnie “Prince” Billy / New Whaling / Wolfroy Goes To Town (2011)
• The Rural Alberta Advantage / Frank, AB / Hometowns (2008)
• The National / Conversation 16 / High Violet (2010)
• PJ Harvey / In The Dark Places / Let England Shake (2011)
• Wilco / Art of Almost / The Whole Love (2011)
• Tim Hecker / The Piano Drop / Ravedeath, 1972 (2011)
• Leyland Kirby / They Are All Dead, There Are No Skip At All / Eager To Tear Apart the Stars (2011)
• Kreng / Girl in a Fishtank / Grimoire (2011)
• The Caretaker / All You Are Going To Want To Do Is Get Back There / An Empty Bliss Beyond This World (2011)
• Oneohtrix Point Never / Replica / Replica (2011)
• Julianna Barwick / White Flag / The Magic Place (2011)

Episode 124. mp3. Released April 27, 2012.

hip hop hip hop hip hop hip

• Dead Prez / Hip-Hop / Let’s Get Free (2001)
• Clipse / Hello New World / Hell Hath No Fury (2006)
• Finale / The Waiting Game (feat. Invincible) / A Pipe Dream and A Promise (2009)
• Black Milk / Losing Out (feat. Royce da 5’9”) / Tronic (2008)
• Danny Brown / Scrap Or Die / XXX (2011)
• Big Boi / Lookin’ For Ya (feat Andre 3000 & Sleepy Brown) / Unreleased (2010)
• Random Axe / Everybody Nobody Somebody / Random Axe (2011)
• J-Live / Them That’s Not / The Best Part (2001)
• Raekwon / New Wu (feat. Ghostface Killah & Method Man) / Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… Pt. II (2009)
• A Tribe Called Quest / We Can Get Down / Midnight Marauders (1993)
• Big L / MVP / Lifestylez Ov Da Poor & Dangerous (1995)
• Nas / The World Is Yours / Illmatic (1994)
• CunninLynguists / Georgia / Dirty Acres (2007)
• Big K.R.I.T. / Another Naive Individual Glorifying Greed and Ecouraging Racism / Return Of 4Eva (2011)
• Jay Electronica / Theh Ghost of Christopher Wallace (feat. Diddy) / Best Of So Far (2010)
• Saigon / The Greatest Story Never Told / The Greatest Story Never Told (2011)
• Freeway & Jake One / Throw Your Hands Up / The Stimulus Package (2010)
• People Under The Stairs / Selfish Destruction / Highlighter (2011)
• Curren$y / The Day (feat. Mos Def & Jay Electronica) / Pilot Talk (2010)
• Kendrick Lamar / HiiiPower / Section.80 (2011)
• Kanye West / POWER / My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010)

Episode 123. mp3. Released April 06, 2012.

The electronic synthesizer
Highways
2am
Harvey Wallbangers
Italian Disco
Nicolas Winding Refn’s “Drive”
Neon lights
Bromance 2012
Glistening pavement
Music piracy
The 80s
You

• Symmetry / Over The Edge / Themes For An Imaginary Film (2011)
• Cerrone / In the Smoke / Cerrone 3: Supernature (1977)
• Cliff Martinez / Bride of Deluxe / Drive (2011)
• Global Communication / 8:07 / 76:14 (2005)
• Voices from the Lake / S.T. (VFTL Rework) / Voices from the Lake (2012)
• John Talabot / Depak Ine / ƒIN (2012)
• Chromatics / These Streets Will Never Look The Same / Kill For Love (2012)
• Kavinsky (feat. Lovefoxxx) / Nightcall (2010)
• Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark / Souvenir / Architecture & Morality (1981)
• Jamie Woon / Lady Luck / Mirrorwriting (2011)
• Mr Flagio / Take A Chance (1983)
• Giorgio Moroder / From Here To Eternity / From Here To Eternity (1977)
• Grimes / Oblivion / Visions (2012)
• ScHoolboy Q / Hands On The Wheel (Feat. A$AP Rocky) / Habits & Contradictions (2012)
• A$AP Rocky / Palace / LiveLoveA$AP (2011)
• Woodkid / Iron / Iron EP (2011)
• Austra / Beat And The Pulse / Feel It Break (2011)
• M83 / Midnight City / Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming (2011)
• Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons / The Night (1972)

Episode 122. mp3. Released January 21, 2012.

Ugh. This isn’t music. It’s like the same thing over and over again. And then all this.. what is that sound! This is all vaguely unsettling. But. Uhh hurting my ears. That incessant… banging! It’s annoying. Can you turn it off? I can’t even tell what that guy is saying, it’s so distorted and cut up. Is it important? Is this what you call dubstep? Ok that’s a bit funky. But there’s no way I can last more than 1 minute of any song. You should just get the itunes samples and mix those together. It would be over sooner. Dzh! Dzsh! Dzsh! How are you even supposed to dance to this? I feel like I’m on drugs. Hrm. That’s a little better. Oh no. Oh no. Could you at least turn it down? That sounds a lot like Blade Runner but worse. What! Trance music? Huh. Well, at least the last 3.5 songs are almost tolerable. Please just do some straight up indie rock next time.

• Shackleton / Mountains Of Ashes / Three EPs LP (2009)
• Legion Of Two / It Really Takes Time / The Mu School (2009)
• Perc / London, We Have You Surrounded / Wicker & Steel (2011)
• Lucy / Eon / Wordplay For Working Bees (2011)
• Joy Orbison / BRKLN CLLN (2009)
• Vex’d / Lion V.I.P. / Degenerate (2005)
• Altered Natives / Body Gal / Tenement Yard (2010)
• Actress / Hazyville / Hazyville (2008)
• Blawan / Getting Me Down / Getting Me Down (2011)
• Instra:mental / When I Dip / Thomp/When I Dip (2011)
• Azari & III / Manhooker / Azari & III (2011)
• Kuedo / Flight Path / Severant (2011)
• Salva / Icey / Complex Housing (2011)
• Araabmuzik / Streetz Tonight / Electronic Dream (2011)
• LV & Joshua Idehen / Primary Colours (Extended Remix) / Northern Line (2011)
• Machine Drum / Come1 / Room(s) (2011)
• Sepalcure / Pencil Pimp / Sepalcure (2011)

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