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)

Silliness and Seriousness: Playlist for August 3, 2009

This week's show started off on a very straightforward note, just as any regular Juxtaposition Jukebox episode. Yet, when my good friends Chris Kerr and Chris Genovesi came in to guest on the show, things got very interesting to say the least, and a giggle fit between all of us occurred after one song (you'll have to listen to the show to find out which song it was). Featured on this week's program were sets of experimental music with CJAM music director Chris White's Fortunately Everything Dies project, essential industrial, classic jazz from two Miles Davis proteges and another innovator, two requests from both Chrises from the golden era of hip-hop (or the golden hip-hop era of our childhoods), and a black metal essential.

Here is the playlist:
1) Fortunately Everything Dies- This is the Dream of Eno and Vangelis (Censored)
2) Fortunately Everything Dies- Girls Heart Noisecore (Censored)
3) Scottie's Cut and Paste Project- I Never Get Enough [The Greedy] (S/T)
4) Loop 2.4.3- Zodiac Dust (Zodiac Dust)
5) Throbbing Gristle- Hot on the Heels of Love (20 Jazz Funk Greats)
6) Pigface- The Good, The Bad, and the Druggly (6)
7) Wire & Light- Fading AM Radio Signal (S/T)
8) Eleazar vs John- When You're Built Like That (Pits in the Sandblaster)
9) Thelonius Monk with John Coltrane- Epistrophy (Live at Carnegie Hall)
10) Herbie Hancock- Watermelon Man (Headhunters)
11) Duke Ellington- Warm Valley (Money Jungle)
12) Lost Boyz- Renee (Legal Drug Money)
13) Dead Prez- Hip-Hop (Lets Get Free)
14) Melanie Fiona- Bang Bang (The Bridge)
15) Bathory- Equimanthorn (Under The Sign...The Sign of the Black Mark)
16) Thor- Vancouver Millionaires (Sign of the V)

Coming in two weeks to the Jukebox is the 50th anniversary of Miles Davis- Kind of Blue. I suggest you folks check it out, because it will be a golden jubille worth listening to.

Live from the CAW main floor. Playlist for June 01, 2009

Today was a unique broadcast for the juxtaposing jukebox, as I broadcast the show from the main floor of the C.A.W. Centre instead of 'the fathomless depths of the C.A.W. basement' where CJAM usually broadcasts. The experience was interesting, and I really enjoyed interacting with other people from various University clubs. Drawbacks from simulcasting were mostly with regards to timing and operating the microphones in a perfectly rhymic fashion.

Here is the playlist, consisting mostly of favourite artists that most of you know and love (or I assume you would, if you listen to the show and whatnot). However, I will mention the new album from Productive Confusion's DJ Me, under his musical alias (wh) y.m.e. (??), which is worth a spin for any fans of electronic music or any type of music to sit back and reflect upon things with. Also, the new Sunn O))) album Monoliths & Dimensions is my current favourite of 2009, and will likely top the list of best releases from this year. It's a stunning album that ranks among the best of this decade.

1) Hella- Biblical Violence (Hold Your Horse Is)
2) Don Caballero- June is Finally Here (What Burns Never Returns)
3) Land of Kush- Light Over Ranges (Against the Day)
4) Kronos Quartet- Raga Mishra Bharavi (Floodplan)
5) Fly Pan Am- Brûlez suivant, suivante! (N'ectoutez pas)
6) Sunn O)))- Big Church [[megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért] (Monoliths & Dimensions)
7) Torche- Across the Shields (Meanderthal)
8) Golgo Bordello- Let's Get Radical (Multi Kontra vs. Irony)
9) Portishead- All Mine (Portishead)
10) Tim Hecker- Borderlands (An Imaginary Country)
11) (wh)y.m.e. (??)- A Shadows Play (new album)
12) Download- Possession (The Eyes of Stanley Pain)
13) Hocico- Born to be Hated (Wrack and Ruin)

Next Week is one not to miss, I will be celebrating the 30th anniversary of the iconic Joy Division- Unkown Pleasures. Many tracks from this seminal album will be played.