Adios!

Well, that's it for Stereopathetic Soulmanure. I'm sad to see her go, but I'm like a proud pappy who's watching his little girl grow up and go off into the big world; this moment is definitely bittersweet.

But never fear, I'll be back on KZSC's spring schedule with a new show! Look out for Recycled Air featuring the very best electro pop sounds every Friday, from 7 to 8:30 pm!


Adios!

Requests/Suggestions?

I'm always open to new ideas. Do you have an idea for a band that I should play on SPSM? Let me know; leave a comment here, or call me/instant message me when I'm on the air!

2/18/09 and 3/3/09

I made today's set with the intention of keeping a rhythm going for as long as I could in each block of music. I think I did pretty well, despite a well-meaning EAS interruption from our good friends at the National Weather Service. Here's the playlist:

1. Bjork - Army of Me
2. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Drippy Eye (Background Music)
3. Xiu Xiu - Clowne Towne
4. Beck - Emergency Exit
5. Blonde Redhead - Elephant Woman
6. Bearsuit - Cookie Oh Jesus
7. Battles - Rainbow
8. Animal Collective - Flesh Canoe
9. Caribou - Every Time she turns around
10. The Octopus Project - Crying at the Awuarium
11. Abe Vigoda - Dead City/Waste Wilderness
12. Lucky Dragons - Givers
13. BoC - Dayvan Cowboy (Background Music)
14. Indian Jewelry - Seventh Heaven
15. The Flaming Lips - One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21
16. Goldfrapp - Deer Stop
17. Deerhunter - Heatherwood
18. The Books - An Owl With Knees
19. Can - Sing Swan Song (Background Music)
20. Kit Clayton - Settler Rework
21. Faust - Take Care
22. Mahjongg - Rise Rice
23. TV on the Radio - The Wrong way
24. Excepter - The Last Dance
25. Beirut - The Concubine (New)
26. Air - Radian (Background Music)
27. My Bloody Valentine - Loomer
28. Radiohead - Like Spinning Plates (Live)
29. Sigur Ros - Dogun
30. Stereolab - Brackhage

The theme of the 18th's show was music of epic proportions. I intentionally chose songs that were 10 minutes or longer to showcase the different kinds of truly bizzare sounds that the "experimental" label encompasses - sounds that typically aren't fit for airplay and only someone in my time slot could really get away with. The Black Dice song, for instance, is 15 minutes of pure field sounds - hardly "music" at all. Here's the lineup from Feb. 18, shamelessly ripped from my playlist webpages at kzsc.org:

12:40am Manitoba “Sundialing” from Andorra CD ALBUM (Merge 2007)
12:44am Beck “Waitin On a Train” from Stereopathic Soul Manure CD ALBUM (Flipside 1994)
12:45am Boards of Canada “Sixtyten” from Music Has the Right to Children CD ALBUM (Warp 1998) — Mixed with Beck over, but then I messed up :(
12:49am Four Tet “Smile Around the Face” from Everything Ecstatic CD ALBUM (Domino 2005)
12:54am Harmonic 313 “Galag-A” from When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence CD ALBUM (Warp 2009) N
12:58am Subtractivelad “Filament” from Where the Land Meets the Sky CD ALBUM (n5MD 2009) N
1:08am The Flaming Lips “All That Jazz/Happy Death Men” from Yeah, I know it's a drag... Wastin' Pigs Is Still Radical CD EP (Warner Bros. 1991)
1:12am Ciccone Youth “Into the Groovey” from The Whitey Album CD ALBUM (Enigma 1988)
1:13am Deerhoof “Jagged Fruit” from Offend Maggie CD ALBUM (Kill Rock Stars 2008)
1:19am TV on The Radio “Blind” from Young Liars LP SINGLE (Touch & Go 2003)
1:37am Feverdreams “Stale” from Words and Music CD ALBUM (Fitual Recordings 2007)
1:37am Mum “Weeping Rock, Rock” from Summer Make Good CD ALBUM (Fatcat Records 2004)
1:49am Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti “Trenpanated Earth” from Worn Copy CD ALBUM (Paw Tracks 2005)
1:56am Black Dice “Trip Dude Delay” from Miles of Smiles CD ALBUM
2:10am Godspeed, You Black Emperor! “Antennas to Heaven” from Lift Your Skinny Firsts Like Antennas To Heaven CD ALBUM (Kranky 2000)
2:21am Can “Soup” from Ege Bamyasi CD ALBUM (Mute 1972)
2:40am Sigur Ros “Track 7” from ( ) CD ALBUM (MCA 2002)
2:47am Burning Star Core “Operator Dead... Post Abandoned” from Operator Dead.,,Post Abandoned CD ALBUM (No Quarter 2007)

2/18/09 Playlist - elctro show

This week's show had a more electronic lean to it as we explored what the experimental side of electronica had to offer; we only scratched the surface, friends. Here's the playlist. I'm a little bit more strapped for time this week, so I only included small annotations:

1. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Raspberry Dawn from Start a People
2. Kit Clayton - A Measure of Loss from Repitition and Nonesense
3. Royksopp - Somber Detune from The Understanding
4. Four Tet - And then patterns from Everything Ecstatic
5. Mahjongg –Teardrops from Kontpab
6. Late of The Pier - Fantasy Black Channel from Fantasy Black Channel (Note: Probably the danciest tune you’ll hear on my show ☺ )
7. Bjork - Declare Indipendance from
8. The Octopus Project - Righteous Ape and Bird from Identification Parade
9. Experimental Dental School - Your Tearz are my Ice Cream from 2 1/2 Creatures
10. Hella - Imaginary Friends from Church Gone Wild
11. Blonde Redhead - This is not from Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons
12. AIR - Don't Be Light from 10 000 Hz Legend
13. Boards of Canada - Gyroscope from Geogaddi
14. Thom Yorke - Skip Divided from The Eraser
15. Blanketship - Attack from Threeps
16. The Books - Motherless Bastard from Thought for Food
17. Portishead - Nylon Smile from Third
18. Radiohead - Kid A from Kid A
19. Abe Vigoda - Endless Sleeper from Reviver New
20. Fuck Buttons - Bright Tomorrow from Street Horrrsing
21. No Age - Escarpment from Weirdo Rippers
22. A.Armada - If Only You Knew What The Lost Soldiers Did to Me from Anam Cara New
23. Beware of Safety - Light of Day from Dogs New
24. Beck - Blackhole from Mellow Gold LP
25. Faust - Carousel II from Ravvivando
26. Benoît Pioulard - Loupe from Temper
27. Beirut - Venice from Realpeople Holland New, Used for background music
28. Sigur Ros - Saeglopur from Takk
29. The Flaming Lips - Once Beyond Hopelessness from Christmas on Mars - From the 30. Soundtrack for The Lips’ new movie of the same name
31. Animal Collective - Fireworks from Strawberry Jam
32. TV on The Radio -Wear You Out from Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babies
33. Explosions in The Sky - First Breath After Coma from The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place

Show: 2/11/09

Playlist, playlist, playlist. Thanks for listening and calling in!

1. Beck - Soul of A Man
2. Liars - Sailing to Byzantium
3. Ciccone Youth - Platinum II
4. Klaxons - It's Not Over Yet
5. Lucky Dragons - Mercy

6. Hanatarash - 77UP
This two-disc compilation coincides with last year's SFMOMA exhibit of the same name, a "listening event documenting the past 50 years of Japanese experimental music," ... Noise, of course, is a focal point, and each of the several noise pieces are quite distinct ... tracks range from minimalist-inspired rhythmic clicks, such as the Nerve Net Noise, Atau Tanaka, and Ryoji Ikeda tracks, which all manage to distinguish themselves with their detailed but disarmingly simple tonal palettes, to more abstract, juxtaposed medleys. Masahiro Miwa's contribution uses plaintive low-fi synths to establish tension; though the sounds are light and playful, the overall feel is heavy and works well with his stated topic of youth violence in Japan. I like I.d.'s supposedly "hacker"-inspired piece. Its discrete bundles of static and waves of digital noise sound almost like information, and it slowly develops into something vaguely repetitive and structured.

Steve Smith, Brainwashed.com

7. Animal Collective - Leaf House
8. Deerhunter - Dot Gain
9. Deerhoof - Basket Ball Get Your Groove Back
10. Andrew Bird - Not A Robot, But A Ghost
11. The Books - Thankyoubranch
12. The Residents - Mr. Bee's Bumble
13. The Flaming Lips - Ego Tripping (Ego In Acceleration) Jason Bently Remix
14. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Envelopes Another Day
15. Asobi Seksu - I Can't See
16. Can - Bring Me Coffee or Tea
17. Bjork - Cvalda
18. Excepter - Greenhouse/Stretch
19. Stereolab - Percolator
20. Sonic Youth - Mote
21. Brian Eno - Somber Reptiles
22. Talking Heads - Animals
23. David Byrne - Poor Boy
24. Experimental Dental School - Zeroeth birthday
25. Menomena - The Pelican
26. Yeasayer - No Need to Worry
27. Portishead - Silence
28. TV on The Radio - Hours
29. Sigur Ros - Glosoli
30. Radiohead - Wierd Fishes/Apreggi
31. A.Armada - Fall-Triumph

Show: 2/3/09 - soundscapes

This week's episode featured a lot of music that was focused more primarily on the construction of sonic landscapes as opposed to melody - this music was focused in the second hour, starting with Deerhunter's "Octet." I took a few requests this time around which was, as always, a plus. Thanks to all those who listened and called in!

1. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots pt. 2
2. Battles - Leyendecker

3. Marnie Stern - Shea Stadium
"Believe it that this is not tape manipulated music, as it sounds very close to the thrilling musical acrobatics of Stern's live performances. All of this said, there isn't a pretentious note on This Is It...; Stern may be ambitious but her songs are grounded in humor, extrapolated hooks, and fragmented pop formulas. ... Admittedly, This Is It... takes a bit of work to get through the first time, but it gets easier, resulting in a compulsive, even obsessive desire to it play again and again, ultimately leading to the assertion that "there is nothing else on the planet remotely like this!"

Thom Jurek, allmusic.com (c)

4. Mahjongg - Kottbusser Torr
5. Bearsuit - Tstm
6. Tunng - Clump
7. Excepter - Burger
8. Feathers - Skara Brain

9. Beck - Satan Gave Me A Taco (request)
"Essentially, [Stereopathetic Soulmanure] was both a palate cleanser, one designed to scare away the "Loser" fans, and a bid for indie credibility, since the music on Stereopathetic is equally as uncompromising and as unlistenable as Sonic Youth or their many imitators at their most extreme."

Stephen Thomas Erlewine, allmusic.com (c)

10.The Fiery Furnaces - In My Little Thatched Hut
11. Deerhoof - The Last Trumpeter Swan
12. Telepathe - Chrome's On It
13. Mice Parade - Snow
14. No Age - Every Artist Needs a Tragedy
15. Benoît Pioulard - Golden Grin
16. My Bloody Valentine - When You Sleep
17. Bjork - Cocoon
18. Deerhunter - Octet
19. Growing - Cutting, Opening, Swimming
20. Ulaan Kohl - Untitled 2 (new)
21. The Books - Smells Like Content
22. Cibo Matto - Crumbs
23. Panda Bear - Search For Delicious
24. TV on The Radio - Tonight
25. Indian Jewelry - Walking on the Water
26. Blonde Redhead - Heroine
27. Animal Collective - Taste (new)
28. Psychic Ills - Fingernail Tea (new)
29. Fuck Buttons - Ribs Out
30. AIR - How Does It Make You Feel? (request)
31. Efterklang - Mirador

Show 1/28/09: dark and droney

With this week's show I got a lot more noise/drone sound into the playlist. I was especially proud with the lineup of the first hour. I felt like the songs flowed into each other, like a river. Thanks to everyone that listened and called in. Here's the playlist:

1. Bjork - Innocence
2. Caribou - Cherrybomb
3. Alexis Gideon - Liophant
4. Mahjongg - Mercury
5. Abe Vigoda - The Garden
6. Giraffes? Giraffes! - When Catholic School Girls go camping, the nicotine vampires reign supreme
7. Experimental dental school - Drum Circuit's Lake
8. Beck - Soul Suckin Jerk
9. Cibo Matto - Beef Jerky
10. Liars - Housecloud
11. Excepter - And And Every
12. Xiu Xiu - Crank Heart
13. The Flaming Lips - Talkin bout the smiling deathporn immortality blues (Everybody wants to live forever)
14. The Microphones - Bass Drum Dream
15. Ciccone youth - Macbeth
16. Indian Jewlery - Health & wellbeing
17. Animal Collective - My Girls

18. Portishead - Machine Gun
Portishead, a band thrust into the lime light for (perhaps accidentally) pioneering the trip-hop genre, took a radical departure from the sound with their 2008 release - Third. The album perfectly captures the disorientation, alienation, and even anger, that arise from themes of loneliness, desperation and confusion in ways that use raw sound to convey actual physical reactions within you. These reactions are just a part of the song as the sound itself, such as with the pounding jackhammer percussion and high-pitched wail of this next track, machine gun.


19. TV on the Radio - Dreams
20. Goldrapp - Utopia
21. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Strange Fires
22. Can - Oh Yeah
23. Mum - Guilty Rocks
24. Rings - Is He Handsome?


25 Beirut - Venice
The high praises of Beirut's baltic-inspired indie folk, typically featuring strings and high-powered brass have been sung from the highest transmitter towers to the most esoteric of music blogs. But his newest release, March of the Zapotec/Realpeople Holland, features on it's latter half Zach Condon's explorations of electronica, which he actually experimented with before he became the act known as Beirut. This next song is called Venice.



26. Menomena - E is Stable
27. Deerhunter - Strange Lights
28. Radiohead - Like Spinning Plates
29. Sonic Youth - I Love You Golden Blue
30. God Is An Astronaut - Post Mortem
31. Do Say Make Think - 107 Reasons Why

And, as always, you can see live-updated playlists for mine (or any other) show on the Great 88 at kzsc.org, under "Schedule & Playlists"