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"

Show: 1/21/09 - A little mainstream, a little poppy

The first show of Stereopathetic Soulmanure went off without a hitch - thanks to those who listened and called in. Here's the playlist:

1. TV on the Radio - Satellite
2. Blonde Redhead - Missile ++
3. Deerhoof - Our Angel's Ululu
4. The Fiery Furnaces - Birdie Brain
5. Marnie Stern - Prime
6. Le Loup - To the Stars! To the Night!
7. Of Montreal - Cato as a pun
9. Animal Collective - Guys Eyes
10. The Flaming Lips - In The Morning of Magicians
11. Caribou - Melody Day
12. Bjork - Wanderlust
13. Battles - Atlas
14. The Books - An Animated Description of Mr. Maps
15. Mice Parade - Sneaky Red
16. Benoit Pioulard - Hesperus
17. Remember Remember - The Dancing
18. Sigur Ros - Gong
19. Panda Bear - Take Pills
20. Deerhunter - Red Ink
21. Radiohead - Treefingers
22. Stereolab - Fractal Dream of a Thing
23. The Holy Roman Empire - Before You Settle
24. The Octopus Project - Tuxedo Hat
25. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Sun Lips
26. Black Moth Super Rainbow + The Octopus Project - Spiracle
27. Tunng - Hanged
28. My Morning Jacket - Wordless Chorus
29. Fuck Buttons - Ribs Out
30. The Big Sleep - Menemy
31. Efterklang - Monopolist
32. Indian Jewelry - Temporary Famine Ship
33. Burning Star Core - Me & My Arrow

I liked ending the show with Burning Star Core because the album that song is from is called "Operator Dead... Post Abandoned" and since I left you in the cold robotic hands of KZSC's all-night mixer, I felt the title to be poingant and apt.

In this first episode I wanted to give a good width and breadth of the type of music I want to feature in later episodes. I played some of the more accessable, more mainstream music that I would still consider to be experimental in the first hour (Animal Colective, Of Montreal) along with some noiser things (Marnie Stern, Battles) and in the second hour paying my dues to the more ethereal post-rock layering and droning that is much more apt to the late-night hours. I want someone to be able to tune into SPSM past 2 AM and here some seriously out-there stuff.

Anyways, I'm going to begin assembling next week's playlist with a more math/noise-rock direction in mind, so stay tuned here for more information and KZSC for more great music!

Welcome

Welcome to the blog for Stereopathetic Soul Manure, an Experimental rock show on KZSC 88.1FM Santa Cruz, from 12:30 to 3AM every wednesday. If you're reading this it means that you A) liked my show and B) listened to my show, at least for a little bit, and for that I am happy. I hope you will check back here for playlists, further information on bands that I play, and insights into the show and why I play what I did.

Thanks for listening!
-Daniel