Episode 117. mp3. cue. Released August 25, 2010.
Back for more! Still without the use of adequate microphone, this episode continues the trend of letting the music speak for itself.
Still playing catch-up as well, following that yearlong drought. So this episode features a bit of an exploration of the Chill-wave fad from last year (unless you want to call it Glo-Fi… no comment). That whole movement, thanks mostly to its bloggy pushers, steams of calculated hipster holier-than-thou pretension; but there’s a great deal of nice sounds in there as well, so don’t worry about it. After the nostalgic summer bits, you’re going to hear some low-key hip-hop, which might be labelled backpacker-rap by your snobby friends (which means it’s for college kids and not drug dealers, or something). Broadly, this set of tunes is meant to serve as a celebration and farewell to hot summer sun and vacation. So whether it’s night or day, in the basement or the beach, close your eyes and lie in the sun.
- Memoryhouse / Lately (Deuxième) / The Years EP (2009)
- Twin Sister / All Around and Away We Go / Color Your Life (2010)
- Caribou / Sun / Swim (2010)
- Delorean / Deli / Ayrton Senna EP (2009)
- Memory Tapes / Bicycle / Seek Magic (2009)
- Neon Indian / Deadbeat Summer / Psychic Chasms (2009)
- Ceo / Come with Me / White Magic (2010)
- Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti / Round and Round / Before Today (2010)
- Cocteau Twins / Lorelei / Treasure (1984)
- Glasser / Apply / Apply EP (2009)
- jj / Ecstasy / jj n° 2 (2009)
- Wild Beasts / We Still Got The Taste Dancing On Our Tongues / Two Dancers (2009)
- Beach House / Lover of Mine / Teen Dream (2010)
- Fashawn / When She Calls (feat. Joanna Newsom) / Boy Meets World (2009)
- Janelle Monae / 57821 (feat. Deep Cotton) / The ArchAndroid (2010)
- CunninLynguists / Don’t Leave (When Winter Comes) (feat. Slug) / Strange Journey Volume One (2009)
- Mos Def / Auditiorium Ft. Slick Rick / The Ecstatic (2009)
- Shad / Rose Garden / TSOL (2010)
- Blu & Exile / My World Is.. / Below The Heavens (2007)
- Big Boi / Shine Blockas (feat. Gucci Mane) / Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty (2010)
- The Roots / Radio Daze (feat. Blu, P.O.R.N & Dice Raw) / How I Got Over (2010)
Episode 116. mp3. cue. Released July 24, 2010.
Ok. A few bits of news: First! New Radioslipstream finally after more than a year. Good. Second! No narration on this puppy, just music. Having some sound issues with the PC right now and not bothering with hooking up a mic. Would rather just get you the music. Because there’s no talking, I made this episode perfect length for a CD, so I guess it’s also a mix CD. Third! This is not the history of hip hop episode. Don’t worry about that. It’ll come when I feel like it and is dependent on resolving some issues with my hard drive. In the meantime we pick up right where we left off.
The last episode ended with a feeble attempt at playing some dubstep. At the time, I had some tracks but didn’t know which ones I loved enough to represent the genre so I played a few tracks that sounded kinda like it. A year later, I’ve got a much more of a handle on the genre. We start with general murky electronics with a pretty ominous bent, then move into a variety of dubstep sounds where we stay for a time. The run of Pangaea through to Scuba is the dubstep bit: I guess it’s something like the dawn of land through to a post-human Waterworld. Very epic indeed. After that it’s a bit of epic artpop at its most oddly delicate, then some poetry and a dash of ambient.
- Ben Frost / Killshot / By The Throat (2009)
- Redshape / Man out of Time / The Dance Paradox (2009)
- Actress / Maze / Splazsh (2010)
- Laurent Garnier / The Man With The Red Face / Unreasonable Behaviour (2000)
- Pangaea / Why / Pangaea EP (2010)
- Débruit / Nigeria What? / Spatio-Temporel EP (2009)
- Ramadanman / Work Them (2010)
- LD / Shake It / 5 : 5 years of Hyperdub (2009)
- Toasty / The Knowledge (2004)
- Adele / Cold Shoulder (Rusko Remix) (2008)
- Zomby / Euphoria / Where Were U in ’92? (2008)
- Kingdom / You (2010)
- James Blake / CMYK / CMYK EP (2010)
- Mount Kimbie / Maybes / Maybes EP (2009)
- Scuba / So You Think You’re Special / Triangulation (2010)
- The Knife / Colouring of Pigeons / Tomorrow, In A Year (2010)
- Laurie Anderson / Transitory Life / Homeland (2010)
- Leonard Cohen / Recitation w/N.L. / Live in London (2009)
- Biosphere / Poa Alpina / Substrata (1997)
Episode 115. mp3. cue. Released July 9, 2009.
Starting out about as mainstream as obscure music can get, moving into a dreamy synthpop throwback place, a right turn through some right twisted electronic sounds and then some raggadubbadancehall business, and a sinister coda. (feat. the 2500th unique radio slipstream approved tune)
- Bat For Lashes / Daniel / Two Suns (2009)
- Animal Collective / My Girls / Merriweather Post Pavillion (2009)
- Grizzly Bear / Two Weeks / Veckatimest (2009)
- Phoenix / Rome / Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (2009)
- M83 / We Own The Sky / Saturdays = Youth (2008)
- David Holmes / I Heard Wonders / The Holy Pictures (2008)
- Barry Adamson / The Swinging Detective / Moss Side Story (1988)
- Major Lazer / Hold the line (feat. Mr. Lexx & Santigold) / Guns Don’t Kill People… Lazers Do (2009)
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs / Zero / It’s Blitz! (2009)
- Pan Sonic / Mayhem I / Kesto (2004)
- Clark / Growls Garden / Totems Flare (2009)
- Mouse on Mars / Subsequence / Idiology (2001)
- South Rakkas Crew / Mad Again (Boy 8-Bit Remix) / Mad Again 12″ (2008)
- The Bug / Skeng (feat. Killa P & Flowdan) / London Zoo (2008)
- Two Fingers / Whatuknowabout (feat. Sway) / Two Fingers (2009)
- Dälek / No Question / Gutter Tactics (2009)
Episode 114. mp3. cue. Released June 20, 2009.
It’s time to rock. A lot of the time on deh sleepstreeeaaammm you’re hearing all this whispy melodic minimal ambient stuff, or funky grooves, or whatever. This time it’s all about the dirty guitars, pounding drums and err… machismo? (though not much screaming, not really my bag). After some of the last 5 years rockingest offerings, I have a sex change (ah modern technology) and travel back to the 90s and get to know some of the mainstays of the riot grrrl movement. I’ll explore my feminine side even deeper by travelling back to the end of the 70s for some original woman-at-the-helm proto-punk, punk and post-punk etc. Remember like 3 or 4 episodes when I said I should play more non-current music? This is where I finally take my own advice. Hope you like it! (Note: This episode has some cussin’ so you might not want to blast it at work. or by that same token, you might!)
- Manic Street Preachers / Marlon J.D. / Journal For Plague Lovers (2009)
- Boris / Pink / Pink (2005)
- Future Of The Left / Arming Eritrea / Travels With Myself And Another (2009)
- Art Brut / The Passenger / Art Brut Vs. Satan (2009)
- Dinosaur Jr / Pieces / Farm (2009)
- The Drones / Baby² / Wait Long By the River And The Bodies Of Your Enemies Will Float By (2005)
- PJ Harvey / Rid Of Me / Rid Of Me (1993)
- Sleater-Kinney / Words And Guitar / Dig Me Out (1997)
- The Gits / Another Shot Of Whiskey / Frenching The Bully (1992)
- Bikini Kill / Rebel Girl / Pussy Whipped (1993)
- Patti Smith Group / Rock n Roll Nigger / Easter (1978)
- The Slits / Typical Girls / Cut (1979)
- Au Pairs / Headache for Michelle / Playing With a Different Sex (1981)
- Pylon / Cool / Pylon!! (1980)
- Black Tambourine / For Ex-Lovers Only / Throw Aggi Off the Bridge (1992)
- Siouxsie and the Banshees / Happy House / Kaleidoscope (1980)
Episode 113. mp3. cue. Released June 3, 2009.
Witness! The fastest turnaround since going off the air of CFMU on 10/27/07. Some stranger sounds kicking things off. Dense, odd and awesome, then some slightly experimental folky sort of things, moving toward some general pop rocking. A bit of an eclectic beast for you this time, but if you keep it fed it will give you years of joy.
- Sunset Rubdown / Nightingale / December Song / Dragonslayer (2009)
- Dirty Projectors / Stillness is the Move / Bitte Orca (2009)
- Passion Pit / Sleepyhead / Manners (2009)
- Gang Gang Dance / Blue Nile / Saint Dymphna (2008)
- Yppah / Gumball Machine Weekend / They Know What Ghost Know (2009)
- J Dilla / Mythsysizer / Jay Stay Paid (2009)
- Flying Lotus / Camel / Los Angeles (2008)
- Juana Molina / Un Día / Un Dia (2008)
- Lhasa / Rising / Lhasa (2009)
- Bill Callahan / The Wind and the Dove / Sometimes I Wish I Were An Eagle (2009)
- Grizzly Bear / Foreground / Veckatimest (2009)
- St. Vincent / The Strangers / Actor (2009)
- Camille / Home Is Where It Hurts / Music Hole (2008)
- Plaid / Eyen / Double Figure (2001)
- Phoenix / 1901 / Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (2009)
- Handsome Furs / I’m Confused / Face Control (2009)
For those of you who love music (who doesn’t?) but hate the sound of my voice and/or what I have to say (see previous parantheses please!).. here’s the most recent 3 episodes of the slipstream with only the sweetness of the music intact. And how sweetly intact it is!
This is perfect for those times when it’s preferable not to hear me blathering (including, but not limited to: dinner parties, romantic evenings at home, anywhere I currently am, romantic dinner parties at my house, all the time). Srsly guys, this is 3 hours of uncut musical bliss! You know you want it, even if you’ve had it before! Experts agree your first time’s never the best! Listen to those awesome transitions! That sweet flow of mood! Just do it! Hit that play button and go clean the house or write your genrebusting screenplay or move to Chicago to fall in love! I know you got it in you, baby!
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YES!
- Bat For Lashes / Glass / Two Suns (2009)
- Yeasayer / Tightrope / Dark Was The Night (2009)
- Silver Jews / Smith & Jones Forever / American Water (1998)
- Walkabouts / Forever Gone / Nighttown (1997)
- Willard Grant Conspiracy / The Trials Of Harrison Hayes / Regard The End (2003)
- Bonnie “Prince” Billy / Beware Your Only Friend / Beware (2009)
- Midlake / Young Bride / The Trials of Van Occupanther (2006)
- Akron/Family / River / Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free (2009)
- Mirah / Country Of The Future / (A)Spera (2008)
- Plants and Animals / Good Friend / Parc Avenue (2008)
- Bon Iver / Blood Bank / Blood Bank (2009)
- Sam Phillips / Don’t Do Anything / Don’t Do Anything (2008)
- Mount Eerie / I Hold Nothing / No Flashlight (2005)
- Califone / Pink & Sour / Roots & Crowns (2006)
- Here We Go Magic / Fangela / Here We Go Magic (2009)
- The Free Design / Kites Are Fun / Kites Are Fun (1967)
- The Kinks / The Village Green Preservation Society / The Village Green Preservation Society (1968)
- Disco Inferno / The Last Dance / The Last Dance (1993)
- Erik Enocksson / The Joy of D.H. Lawrence / Farväl Falkenberg (2006)
- 1900 / Den Minsta Av Segrar / 1900 (2008)
- Pram / Mother Of Pearl / The Museum of Imaginary Animals (2000)
- Andrew Bird / Not A Robot, But A Ghost / Noble Beast (2009)
- Patrick Watson / Big Bird In A Small Cage / Wooden Arms (2009)
- Emiliana Torrini / Birds / Me And Armini (2008)
- CunninLynguists / Thugged Out Since Cubscouts (feat. Jugga the Bully & Mr Raw) / Will Rap for Food (2001)
- Brother Ali / The Believers (feat. Slug) / The Truth Is Here (2009)
- P.O.S. / Goodbye / Never Better (2009)
- Mr. Lif / The Sun / I Heard It Today (2009)
- Röyksopp / True To Life (feat. Anneli Drecker) / Junior (2009)
- Moloko / Pure Pleasure Seeker / Things To Make And Do (2000)
- DJ Paleface / Do You Mind (Crazy Cousins Mix) (feat. Kayla) / Do You Mind (2008)
- Crystal Castles / Untrust Us / Crystal Castles (2008)
- Annie / Anthonio (Fred Falke Remix) / Anthonio (2009)
- Junior Boys / Work / Begone Dull Care (2009)
- Fever Ray / Triangle Walks / Fever Ray (2009)
- The Field / The More That I Do / Yesterday and Today (2009)
- Dan Deacon / Snookered / Bromst (2009)
- Underworld / Rez/Cowgirl / Everything, Everything (2000)
- Zazen Boys / Asobi / Zazen Boys 4 (2008)
Episode 112. mp3. cue. Released May 22, 2009.
We’ve been mostly steering away from the synthesizers for a while, so this time I’m going to unbridle a whole mess of smooth/tasty/euro/banging/sexy beats on you fools. The music starts off like a celebration of the edge between cool and hot on a sultry summer night perfect for top down cruising. Then it explores the territory and comes back with some pounding classics, noodly newness and generally steady beatings. I apologize I am definitely getting behind on the show. So so many awesome tracks lounging around in the queue waiting to be heard. I will try to get these gems out to you at a better rate. The slipstream is supposed to be new and great and it’s struggling with the former (but at least the great bit is what’ll count in the long run and it’s looking tip top in that respect).
- Moloko / Pure Pleasure Seeker / Things To Make And Do (2000)
- DJ Paleface / Do You Mind (Crazy Cousins Mix) (feat. Kayla) / Do You Mind (2008)
- Crystal Castles / Untrust Us / Crystal Castles (2008)
- Annie / Anthonio (Fred Falke Remix) / Anthonio (2009)
- Junior Boys / Work / Begone Dull Care (2009)
- Fever Ray / Triangle Walks / Fever Ray (2009)
- The Field / The More That I Do / Yesterday and Today (2009)
- Dan Deacon / Snookered / Bromst (2009)
- Underworld / Rez/Cowgirl / Everything, Everything (2000)
- Zazen Boys / Asobi / Zazen Boys 4 (2008)
Episode 111. mp3. cue. Released May 4, 2009.
Thought we missed it, but Spring is in the air. Chartreuse is gradually taking over the palette outside my window. So today the sounds are light (as in lumens) and wispy and/or buoyant. Some great glittering oldies, a few delicate shimmery numbers in the vein of folk, and then some positive, gleeful hip hop (not two words normally associated with the genre, huh). So do please grab a hammock, a pencil and a book of blank pages, and an earful of blooming… Radio Slipstream style.
The Free Design / Kites Are Fun / Kites Are Fun (1967)
The Kinks / The Village Green Preservation Society / The Village Green Preservation Society (1968)
Disco Inferno / The Last Dance / The Last Dance (1993)
Erik Enocksson / The Joy of D.H. Lawrence / Farväl Falkenberg (2006)
1900 / Den Minsta Av Segrar (1900 (2008)
Pram / Mother Of Pearl / The Museum of Imaginary Animals (2000)
Andrew Bird / Not A Robot, But A Ghost / Noble Beast (2009)
Patrick Watson / Big Bird In A Small Cage / Wooden Arms (2009)
Emiliana Torrini / Birds / Me And Armini (2008)
CunninLynguists / Thugged Out Since Cubscouts (feat. Jugga the Bully & Mr Raw) / Will Rap for Food (2001)
Brother Ali / The Believers (feat. Slug) / The Truth Is Here (2009)
P.O.S. / Goodbye / Never Better (2009)
Mr. Lif / The Sun / I Heard It Today (2009)
Röyksopp / True To Life (feat. Anneli Drecker) / Junior (2009)
Episode 110. mp3. cue. Released March 29, 2009.
On today’s show, we mainly look at another side of folk music; a side that is defined as such only for having minimal distortion on its guitars. That, of course, is indie-folk. Since genres mean little, there are a variety of tinges here; from country, to psych, to avant and… beyond?
Bat For Lashes / Glass / Two Suns (2009)
Yeasayer / Tightrope / Dark Was The Night (2009)
Silver Jews / Smith & Jones Forever / American Water (1998)
Walkabouts / Forever Gone / Nighttown (1997)
Willard Grant Conspiracy / The Trials Of Harrison Hayes / Regard The End (2003)
Bonnie “Prince” Billy / Beware Your Only Friend / Beware (2009)
Midlake / Young Bride / The Trials of Van Occupanther (2006)
Akron/Family / River / Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free (2009)
Mirah / Country Of The Future / (A)Spera (2008)
Plants and Animals / Good Friend / Parc Avenue (2008)
Bon Iver / Blood Bank / Blood Bank (2009)
Sam Phillips / Don’t Do Anything / Don’t Do Anything (2008)
Mount Eerie / I Hold Nothing / No Flashlight (2005)
Califone / Pink & Sour / Roots & Crowns (2006)
Here We Go Magic / Fangela / Here We Go Magic (2009)
Episode 109. mp3. cue. Released March 6, 2009.
So maybe ‘world’ music would be more descriptive, but what comparably lame puns could be made with that? … I rest my case. And anyway, why would the traditional music of British and Americans be called folk and that of Nicaraguans be called worldbeat? That’s not exactly fair. That may all be beside the point, though, because while all the music this episode is infused with the musical traditions of cultures all around the world, it’s not necessarily the traditional sort of stuff. Some of it with the modern production and arrangement. Call it worldly folk. And give it a listen, because there are some real gems here.
A. R. Rahman / Mausam & Escape / Slumdog Millionaire OST (2008) / India
Les Negresses Vertes / Face à la mer (Massive Attack Remix) / 10 Remixes (1993) / France
Lô Borges / Não Se Apague Esta Noite / Lô Borges (1972) / Brazil
Jorge Ben / O Plebeu / África Brasil (1976) / Brazil
Femi Kuti / Tension Grip Africa / Day by Day (2008) / Nigeria
Umalali / Anaha Ya (Here I Am) / The Garifuna Womens Project (2008) / Belize
Tinariwen / Matadjem yinmixan / Aman Iman: Water Is Life (2006) / Mali
Justin Adams & Juldeh Camara / Yo Lay Lay / Soul Science (2007) / The Gambia
The Very Best (Esau Mwamwaya & Radioclit) / Get It Up (feat. M.I.A.) / ‘The Very Best’ Mixtape (2008) / Malawi
Taraf de Haidouks / Carolina / Band of Gypsies (2001) / Romania
Astor Piazzolla / Michelangelo / Tango: Zero Hour (1986) / Argentina
Crucible / Three Maidens / Love & Money (2008) / UK
Lúnasa / The Miller of Drohan / Otherworld (1999) / Ireland
Yat-Kha / Oy Adym (My Gray Horse) / Aldyn Dashka (2000) / Tuva (Russia)
Oumou Sangare / Saa Magni (Death Is Terrible) / Oumou (2004) / Mali
Mari Boine / Gula Gula / Gula Gula (1989) / Sámi (Norway)
Episode 108. mp3. cue. Released January 17, 2009.
Continuing right where we left off, 80s tinged synthpop gives way to strangely catchy psychedelic folkpop, and it all caps off with an opulent synthesizer soundtrack finish.
Cut Copy / Lights And Music / In Ghost Colours (2008)
The Source / You Got The Love (feat. Candi Staton) / You Got The Love (1996)
Luomo / Have You Ever (feat. Cassy) / Convivial (2008)
Thomas Brinkmann / It’s Just / When Horses Die (2008)
Knife / Heartbeats / Deep Cuts (2004)
Of Montreal / Rapture Rapes The Muses / Satanic Panic In The Attic (2004)
Shugo Tokumaru / Parachute / Exit (2008)
Fredrik / Alinas Place / Na Na Ni (2008)
Lykke Li / Breaking It Up / Youth Novels (2008)
Animal Collective / Bluish / Merriweather Post Pavillion (2009)
Vangelis / Blush Response / Blade Runner (1982)
Lindstrøm / Where You Go I Go Too (Part 2) (Edit by Prins Thomas) / Where You Go I Go Too (2008)