Playlist for November 2, 2009

Wow, I am actually posting it a day after the show, fastest post since the summer!

Today's show was one I am very pleased with, has a nice variety, and many great artists with very different sounds are crammed within 90 minutes. My favourite part is the juxtaposition between Gogol Bordello and This Mortal Coil, which really embodies what I aimed to create with this program.

1) Om- Thebes (God is Good)
2) Ensemble Plolaris- Klosterjungfurun (Vikings on Vacation)
3) Satomi Sakei- Matsuri No Taiko (Japanese Koto Music)
4) Nudge- Harmo (As Good As Gone)
5) Gogol Bordello- American Wedding (Live From Axis Mundi)
6) This Mortal Coil- Another Day (It'll End in Tears)
7) Tegan and Sara- The Ocean (Sainthood)
8) Language Arts- Where Were You in the Wild (Where Were You in the Wild)
9) We Are Wolves- Dreams (Invisible Violence)
10) The Slits- Reject (Trapped Animal)
11) Throbbing Gristle- Convincing People (20 Jazz Funk Greats)
12) Air- So Light is Her Footfall (Love 2)
13) More or Les & Fresh- Crossbow (The Les Kills EP)
14) A Tribe Called Quest- Steve Biko [Stir it Up] (Midnight Marauders)

Happy Halloween! Playlist for October 26, 2009

So, I have been absent from posting for the past few weeks. I have no real excuses, just been lazy and swamped at the same time. But the celebration of Halloween, the best holiday (it is a holiday for me!) of the year is the perfect time to come back.

Today's show was a celebration of all things horror, and horror-themed punk, metal, and soundtracks. Genres will be colour-coded, punk/psychobilly selections are in red, metal selections are in green, and soundtracks are in yellow. Psychobilly selections came from the great Zombie Night in Canada compilation, a fine selection of Canadian rockabilly and psychobilly bands.

1) The Howling Hound Dogs- Cat by the Tail (Zombie Night in Canada Volume 2)
2) Krazy 8s- Phantom car (Zombie Night in Canada Volume 2)
3) Zombie Riot- Pet Cemetary (Zombie Night in Canada Volume 2)
4) The Meathookers- Dodging Bullets (Zombie Night in Canada Volume 2)
5) The Devil's Hotrod- Baby, if you Leave Me (Zombie Night in Canada Volume 2)
6) The Weirdies- Knife Fight at the Planetarium (The Weirdies in 3D)
7) Vampires of Dartmoore- Die Folter Kammer des Dr. Sex/The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sex (Dracula's Music Cabinet)
8) Deadguy- Horror Business [Misfits cover] (Misfits Truibute Album)
9) Nekromantix- Panic at the Morgue (Life is a Grave...and I Dig it)
10) Entombed- Evilyn (Clandestine)
11) Lord Gore- The Forgotten Flesh (The Autophagus Orgy)
12) Hooded Menace- The Eyeless Horde (Fulfill the Curse)
13) Electric Wizard- I, the Witchfinder (Dopethrone)
14) Anton Garcia Abril- Tombs of the Blind Dead Theme (Tombs of the Blind Dead)
15) Angelo Badalamenti- Laura Palmer's Theme (Twin Peaks Soundtrack)
16) Goblin- Death Dies (Profondo Rosso Soundtrack)

And what would Halloween be without horror movies. Below are some badass trailers for films that are required horror viewing.

Playlist for September 7, 2009

I'll be upfront first and say that for those who loyally read this blog (are there any?) that playlist posts will come on Thursday. School is going to be quite busy this year, and I have quite the juggling act ahead of me. Sorry for the discrepancies between air date and playlist posting. This week's show was a solid one though, especially if you are into experimental music. Highlight comes from the underappreciated Flying Saucer Attack, whose self-titled album is one of the best space rock/psychedelic influenced rock albums from the 90s. It's very soothing and overly dreamy. Listen to the whole thing if you never heard it, it's a masterpiece!


A great album!

I also highly recommend Virt's 8-bit Nintendo remix of Freddie Freeloader. A great jazz tune gets a stunning re-interpretation. And speaking of great jazz, the legendary Alice Coltrane shows up this week! Plus, Battles vocalist Tyondai Braxton has a solid new solo album out, hopefully the new Battles album will follow suit.

Here is the playlist:
1) Virt- Freddie Freeloader (Kind of Bloop: 8-bit Remixes of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue)
2) Fortunately Everything Dies- I Don't Wear White Jeans (Censored)
3) Skinny Puppy- Hospital Waste (VIVISectVI)
4) Nadja- Absorbed in You (The Bungled and the Botched)
5) Flying Saucer Attack- The Season is Ours (S/T)
6) Tyondai Braxton- Opening Bell (Central Market)
7) Alice Coltrane- Walk With Me (Translinear Light)
8) Andy Milne and Benoit Delbecq- Task Sharing (Where is Pannonica)

Playlist for August 31, 2009

A standard program, with music to dance to, music to weep to, music for a revolution, or music for a daydream.

1) Black Mold- Toxic Lake (Snow Blindness is Crystal Antz)
2) Dancehall Free For All- 9-5 Lives (9-5 Lives)
3) Kids on TV- Still on About Kieth Cole (Shape Shifting Mutants)
4) Major Lazer- When you Hear the Baseline (Guns Don't Kill People...Lazers Do)
5) KMFDM- Light (Angst)
6) Coil- Blood From the Air (Horse Rotovator)
7) Silk Flowers- Night Shades (S/T)
8) Helado Negro- Santero (Awe Owe)
9) Voivod- A Room With A V.U. (Infiniti)
10) Augury- Brimstone Landscapes (Fragmentary Evidence)
11) Anaal Nathrakh- I am the Wrath of God and the Desolation of the Earth (In the Constellation of the Black Widow)
12) Comets on Fire- The Antlers of the Midnight Sun (Blue Cathedral)
13) Cocteau Twins- Pitch the Baby (Heaven or Las Vegas)
14) Neu!- Fur Immer (Neu! 2)

Playlist for August 24, 2009

A standard episode of the jukebox, but it has a good variety of genres. Or maybe not, the genres in today's program include country, metal, and indie rock. But look at the playlist, there's bound to be something you'd dig :P.

The highlight from today's show is the beastly 21 minute track from Bloody Panda titled Miserere. It's a gargantuan doom track that really crawls under one's skin.

Playlist:
1) Bloody Panda- Miserere (Summon)
2) Panda Bear- I'm Not (Person Pitch)
3) Paper Moon- The Spaces Where Your Paintings Once Hung (Only During Thunderstorms)
4) Lightning Dust- Waiting for the Sun to Rise (Infinite Light)
5) Extra Happy Ghost- Hot Time Sartre in the City (How the Beach Boys Sound to Those With no Feelings)
6) The Smiths- Some Girls are Bigger than Others (The Queen is Dead)
7) Leonard Cohen- Diamonds in the Mine (Songs of Love and Hate)
8) Swans- Blood & Honey (Children of God)
9) Converge- My Unsaid Everything (When Forever Comes Crashing)
10) Coalesce- Wild Ox Moan (Ox)
11) Amelia Curran- Bye Bye Montreal (Hunter-Hunter)
12) Deer Tick- Houston, Texas (Born on Flag Day)
13) Diana Catherine & The Thrusty Tweeters- Come With Me Baby (The Spirit Ranch Sessions)

Kind of Blue turns 50 today! Playlist for August 17, 2009

Another birthday celebration, this one is for 50 years of Miles Davis' seminal jazz recording Kind of Blue, an album that helped launch the career of John Coltrane, and was a cornerstone in the development of modal jazz. Davis himself was responsible for the creation of many sub-genres of jazz, and is arguably the most innovative and influential jazz musician of all time, while Kind of Blue is arguably his best album. Whether Kind of Blue is the best Miles Davis album is eternally open for debate, since he has at least five essential recordings in his discography. But today belongs to Kind of Blue (released on August 17, 1959), and I intend on giving the album more dues that it very much deserves.

Other highlights include new music from Wolf Eyes and Bloody Panda, and my guest Tara, who sat in for training, and requested the wonderful The Paint Movement. They are coming to Phog this September, and Id recommend any Windsorites into jazzy-rock to check it out.


John Coltrane with Miles Davis in the background. Image speaks for itself!

The Playlist (Kind of Blue selections in Blue, what else would they be in)

1) Miles Davis- So What (Kind of Blue)
2) Simon Fisk Trio- In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning (Unless)
3) Kieth Smith Trio- Karumba (Afterthought)
4) Miles Davis- Blue in Green (Kind of Blue)
5) Johnny West- Pre-Prom Plastic Surgery (Creative Nightmares)
6) Wolf Eyes- Free (Moods in Free Time)
7) The Paint Movement- Eternity Seems to Lie Here (Our Eurythmy)
8) Bloody Panda- Grey (Summon)
9) Bauhaus- Dark Entries ("Dark Entries" Single)
10) Miles Davis- Flamenco Sketches (Kind of Blue)

Playlist for August 10, 2009

I'm really procrastinating here, damn. While today's show has no theme, next weeks is the big 50th anniversary of Miles Davis- Kind of Blue. One of the best albums eva! This week had some good albums, among them is Serge Gainsbourg's controversial Histoire De Melody Nelson, a concept album about a middle-aged man obsessing over a young girl after he hits her with his Rolls Royce. Despite the lurid content, the album has stunning string arrangements by Jean-Claude Vannier.

Here is the playlist, was pretty good, and it covered many emotional bases.

1) Katatonia- Leaders (The Great Cold Distance)
2) Opeth- April Ethereal (My Arms, Your Hearse)
3) Agalloch- I am the Wooden Doors (The Mantle)
4) Strapping Young Lad- Underneath the Waves (City)
5) Dillinger Escape Plan- Horse Hunter (Ire Works)
6) Serge Gainsbourg- Melody (Histoire De Melody Nelson)
7) Ohbijou- Wildfires (Beacons)
8) The Junction- Pick Your Battles (Another Link in the Chain)
9) Electric Kool-Aid Slideshow- Rare Exotic Vermin (A Tall Luscious Drink of Kool-Aid Flavoured Rock)
10) Little Girls- Youth Tunes (Tamborine)
11) Radiorama- Yeti
12) Scooter- Nessaja (Nessaja single)
13) Frontline Assembly- Gun (Tactical Neural Imprint)