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.

Playlist for March 16, 2009

Lots of goodies from a wide range of musicians this week. In the heavy set, classic Carcass was played in conjunction with their reunion tour, which hit the Majestic Theater last night (I went, and they were a sight to see live), plus a request for Empty Hands, who will be playing at this years Smash the Glass festival on March 27th at the Chubby Pickle. New music from the great Constellation Records came in the form of Land of Kush's Against the Day, paying homage to the reclusive post-modernist writer Thomas Pynchon, author of the nearly impenetrable and grandiose novel Gravity's Rainbow. Sun Ra speaks for himself, as his album Space is the Place is one of the finest and weirdest jazz records ever recorded. Music from Cat Power, Neko Case (her new album is one of the best of this year), and Boris showcased more great musical contributions from female performers that I couldn't fit in one last week's show, and hip-hop legend Grandmaster Flash featuring fellow legendary MC KRS-One spoke hip-hop, as they claim in the song-title.

The Playlist:
1) Carcass- Inpropogation (Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious)
2) Amorphis- Better Unborn (Elegy)
3) Wolves in the Throne Room- Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog (Black Cascade)
4) Empty Hands- The Throne (Winter Demo)
5) Land of Kush- Against the Day (Against the Day)
6) Sun Ra- Rocket Number Nine (Space is the Place)
7) Faust- Apokalypse (Ravvivando)
8) Blah Blah 666- Home Sexuality (It's Only Live)
9) Jeff Presslaff Trio- Having Met Ms. Jones (Red Goddess)
10) Cat Power- The Moon (The Greatest)
11) Neko Case- Vengeance is Sleeping (Middle Cyclone)
12) Boris with Muchio Kurihara- Rainbow (Rainbow)
13) Cale Simpson- The Human Genome Project (S/T)
14) Grandmaster Flash feat KRS-One- We Speak Hip-Hop (The Bridge)