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Sunday, 24th of September, 2006

Tonight we start with a gorgeous piece by Edward Droste of Grizzly Bear’s great-aunt Marla Forbes that forms the basis of their wonderful track “Marla”… We’ve got some rare Final Fantasy (who did the strings for that Grizzly Bear track), in this case covering Joanna Newsom; re-released Bola available for the first time on CD, and a variety of other new things…

Marla Forbes - “Of Course You Can’t Go Without That” [found on the internet]
Grizzly Bear - Marla [Warp]
Final Fantasy - Peach, Plum, Pear [Escape Goat Records]
Joanna Newsom - Peach, Plum, Pear [Drag City]
Saddleback - track 4, title unknown, from forthcoming album [Preservation? Or Heavy? Not sure.]
djbc - Stand Up Dance (mash-up of Dizzee Rascal’s “Stand Up Tall” andPhilip Glass’s “Dance I”) [from Glassbreaks, no longer available but you must track this down!]
Cibelle - Flying High [Crammed Discs]
Benge - bambie (evsc version) [Expanding Records]
DCDKDL (Dave Hydatid with Danielle Kirby and David Campbell) - highlights from an improvised ambient performance on Brisbane’s Goodwill pedestrian bridge [unreleased]
Bola - Clockjerk (Trapezoid) [Skam]
Automotive - Juissa [Couchblip!]
Vorpal - parting is such sweet sorrow [Sublight]
N-Type - Tolerance [Tempa]
Skream - Warning (D1 remix) [Tempa]
Zulu & DJ C - Animal Attraction [Community Library]
Timeblind - Ontological Ground of Being [Soot]
Bradbury - nymphs + shepards [Dual Plover]
Bradbury - mary businesscard-foot is back [Dual Plover]
Coil - Things We Never Had [Threshold House]
Swans - Helpless Child [Young God Records]
Cam Butler - Exist [Pharmacy Records]
Radarmaker - Balthazaar [self-released]
Scissor Lock - Sickness [self-released]
Tortoise - CTA [Thrill Jockey]

Sunday, 17th of September, 2006

Tonight, only a few new bits & pieces: we’ve got the album from Automotive, which is a new alias for Funckarma, released on Sydney’s own Couchblip! label… We’ve got a few new and newish dubstep tracks, and some more reissued Coil (of which more next week)… Haven’t had a chance to really delve into the new Xiu Xiu album yet, but played one track off it which I loved when they played here a little while ago.

Grizzly Bear - Marla [Warp]
Gotye - Coming Back [self-released]
Cibelle - Noite de Carnaval (original mix produced by Mike Lindsay of Tunng and Apollo Nove) [Crammed Discs]
Flotel - Bowd (Tunng remix) [Expanding Records]
Automotive - Orirac [Couchblip!]
Pinch - Punisher (V.I.P.) [Planet µ]
Milanese vs Virus Syndicate - Dead Man Walking V.I.P. [Planet µ]
Skream - I [Tempa]
DJ C - Ondtu [Community Library]
Coil - The Gimp (Sometimes) {excerpt running under previous track) [Threshold House]
Timeblind - Copy Copy [Soot]
DJ C feat. Zulu - Ransom the Senator (Version) [Death$ucker]
Coil - The Gimp (Sometimes) [Threshold House]
Ollo - Campaign For Real Bread [Groovescooter/12 Apostles]
Combat Wombat - Corruption Dub (Chasm “Corruption Bounce” remix) [Elefant Traks]
Gauche - Hieroglyph Heart [self-released, distributed by Vitamin]
Inga Liljeström - slowly surfacing [from quiet music for quiet people, entirely improvised works, distributed through Vitamin]
Xiu Xiu - Hello From Eau Claire [5RC/Trifekta]
Radarmaker - Domovoi [self-released]
Tortoise - Waihopai [Thrill Jockey]
maps + diagrams - impte datae [Expanding Records]
Automotive - Jugofu [Couchblip!]
Larvae - What’s Left Of Starting Over [Ad Noiseam]
Wisp - Lyftgeswenced [Sublight]
Enduser - Kill It (Larvae Killed It remix) [Ad Noiseam]
Phthalocyanine - Thesis Essay [Planet µ]
Speed Frame - Japanese Weather Forcast (B) [demo, craziness from Sydney]
Puzahki - Peaker Popper [Puzahki]
Comatone - Not For Years [Feral Media]
Cdatakill - Yesterdays [Ad Noiseam]
Grizzly Bear - On a Neck, On a Spit [Warp]

Sunday, 10th of September, 2006

Evenin’ all. Nice to be back.
Starting the show with a gorgeous track by The Bad Plus that I had stuck in my head for a whole day earlier in the week, and only worked out what it was in the late afternoon. And I was so excited when I realised “F*ck! The Bad Plus! That’s it!!!!!!” And listened to it 5 times in a row. Here’s another time. Hope you love it as much as me.
Also a few new things out this week, including a dope new 12″ from Skream, a highly limited tour 3″ from Matmos, and Tortoise’s box set A Lazarus Taxon. Plus Coil re-release their very limited Remote Viewing CD with extra tracks, Air give us their Late Night Tales and I finally get hold of Gotye’s wonderful album Like Drawing Blood.

The Bad Plus - Prehensile Dream [Sony]
Skream - I [Tempa]
Zulu & DJ C - Animal Attraction [Community Library]
Skream - Midnight Request Line [Tempa]
Gotye - The Only Way [self-released, bless him!]
Mike Patton (Peeping Tom) feat. Kid Koala - Celebrity Death Match [Ipecac]
Thom Yorke - Jetstream [XL Recordings]
Matmos - Enigma Machine for Alan Turing [Vague Terrain Recordings]
Conlon Nancarrow arr Yvar Mikhashoff - Study no 7 (performed by the London Sinfonietta) [Warp]
World’s End Girlfriend - singing under the rainbow [MIDI Creative co.]
Coil - Remote Viewing 4 [Threshold House]
Tortoise - Gamera [Thrill Jockey]
Radarmaker - Sashegyi [self-released]
Because of Ghosts - Let Words Help Pictures [Feral Media]
Inga Liljeström - Fall [from quiet music for quiet people, entirely improvised works, distributed through Vitamin]
Grizzly Bear - Little Brother [Warp]
Tunng - Sweet William [Fulltime Hobby]
The Troggs - Cousin Jane [via Air’s Late Night Tales]
Matmos - Cockles and Mussels (feat. Clodagh Simonds) [Vague Terrain Recordings]
Cibelle - Flying High [Crammed Discs]
Gauche - Winter [self-released, distributed by Vitamin]
Gauche - We Have All The Time In The World [Groovescooter through Vitamin]
Gotye - Heart’s A Mess [self-released]
James Figurine - Apologies [Monika]
Ulrich Schnauss - Wherever You Are [Morr Music]

Sunday, 3rd of September, 2006

Peter’s away in Taswegia this week, so Kit Brash is in for his annual fill-in slot, and updating the playlist periodically throughout the show. Keep listening for a potted history of the Apache break, some hastily bashed-together mashups, and comics writer Alan Moore’s latest musical release.

The Twilight Singers - Verdi-Marte [Columbia]
Cylob - Cut The Midrange [Rephlex]
Future Bible Heroes - Losing My Affection [Instinct]
Modeselektor feat. TTC - Dancing Box [Bpitch Control]
Mikey Dread - Saturday Night Style [Auralux]
Mocky feat. Jamie Lidell - How Will I Know You? [Fine]
Sneeze - Spring [Half A Cow]
Soft Bastard - Tainted Shimmy [FBi]
Dillinja - The Angels Fell [Metalheadz]
The Sleepy Jackson - Good Dancers (Gerling remix) [EMI]
El Michels Affair - C.R.E.A.M. [Truth & Soul]
Dillinja - Thugged Out Bitch [Valve]
Roll Deep - When I’m ‘Ere [Relentless]
Pinch - Qawwali [Planet Mu]
My Bloody Valentine - Glider [Creation]
Scritti Politti - The Boom Boom Bap [Rough Trade]
Suzie Higgie & Conway Savage - The Letter [Anchor & Hope]
The Shadows - Apache [Scamp]
Michael Viner’s Incredible Bongo Band - Apache [Mr Bongo]
The Sugarhill Gang - Apache [Sugarhill]
Nas - Made You Look [Ill Will]
Amy Winehouse - In My Bed [Island]
Missy Elliott - We Run This [Atlantic]
Gonzales - Real Motherfuckin’ Music [Kitty-Yo]
Feist & Gonzales - La Javanaise [Canal+]
The Blue Grassy Knoll - Not A Complicated Person [Candle]
Rex The Dog - I Look Into Mid Air [Kompakt]
The Knife - We Share Our Mother’s Health (Trentemoeller remix) [Brille]
Tom Hall & Alan Moore - Madame October [Builth Balkan Crew]
Depth Charge - Shaolin Buddah Finger [Vinyl Solution]
Renegade Soundwave - Renegade Soundwave [Mute]
73 Soul - Hide Ya Cokane [FBi]
Architecture In Helsinki - AiH vs. Busta [Tailem Bend]
The Go! Team - Bull In The Heather [Memphis Industries]
Prop - Pilot Error [Silent]
Basement Jaxx - We R Computa [Atlantic Jaxx]
The Rolling Stones - Cocksucker Blues [not Decca]
Macaca Mulata - Dancing On A Weeknight [demo]
Willis - Word Up [679]
MC Frontalot - Goth Girls [Level Up]
James Kochalka Superstar - Talk To The Wookie [Tarquin]
Pigeonhed - Marry Me (Dave Ruffy Blissed Out Ambient Mix) [Sub Pop]

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