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Mange Blight PlaylistWednesday, March 9, 2011 Hour 1 Gabe played a whole buncha oldies. Frankly,...

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:26:00 -0500

Mange Blight Playlist
Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Hour 1

Gabe played a whole buncha oldies. Frankly, I’m too lazy to go through and format them all. Check out his set on the playlist at WMUA.org.

Hour 1

The Dubs, “Don’t Ask Me (To Be Lonely),” Don’t Ask Me (To Be Lonely) / Darling [7” / Gone / 1957]
Alvin Robinson, “Something You Got,” Red Bird Goldies (Comp.) [LP / Red Bird / 1965]
The Ronettes, “Is This What I Get For Loving You?,” The Best of the Ronettes [CD / EMI / 1992]
Bibio, “More Excuses,” Mind Bokeh [CD / Warp / 2011]
Dimlite, “Elbow Flood,” Prismic Tops [LP / Now-Again / 2010]
Coppertone, “Paxton Boys,” Best of the First Six Months [C32 / Night People / 2010]
Terror Danjah, “Solar (Selassi Mix),” Undeniable [CD / Hyperdub / 2010]
Hype Williams, “Warlord,” One Nation [12” / Hippos In Tanks / 2011]
Panabrite, “Black Hole,” Frequency Bath [Digital / panabrite.bandcamp.com / 2011]
Harald Grosskopf, “Emphasis,” Synthesist (Reissue) [LP / Rvng. Intl. / 2011, orig. 1980]
James Pants, “Clouds Over the Pacific,” James Pants [CD / Stones Throw / 2011]
Ital, “One Hit,” Ital’s Theme [12” / 100% Silk / 2011]
Games, “Planet Party,” That We Can Play [12” / Hippos In Tanks / 2010]

sometimes we play dance music on the radio. double dad hits the...

Wed, 06 Oct 2010 12:34:52 -0400

sometimes we play dance music on the radio. double dad hits the decks, tonight from 10 to 12. stream at http://wmua.org/listen

Mange Blight PlaylistWednesday, September 29, 2010 Hour 1 High Wolf, “Meeting of the Three...

Fri, 01 Oct 2010 19:12:00 -0400

Mange Blight Playlist
Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Hour 1

High Wolf, “Meeting of the Three Seas,” Ascension [LP / Not Not Fun / 2010]
Steve Tibbetts, “The X Festival,” Exploded View [LP / ECM / 1986]
El Guincho, “Antilles,” Alegranza [LP / Young Turks / 2008]
Mi Ami, “New Guitar,” Watersports [LP / Quarterstick / 2009]
Gang Gang Dance, “Glory in Itself/ Egyptian,” God’s Money [LP/ Social Registry / 2004]
Sun City Girls, “Ben’s Radio,” Funeral Mariachi [LP / Abduction / 2010]
Sejayno, “Seeing Trailz Burnd: ‘Black Hole Mouth,White Noise Eyes’,” Sedainty [LP / Heresee / 2010]
Silk Flowers, “Falling Palms,” As Above So Below [12” / Captured Tracks / 2010]
Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase, “Iunozmyerts In Flight (Interior View),” Beatings With Gimpy Flighted Wings Entrapped By Post-Fence Of Garish-Land [LP / Menlo Park / 1999]
Explorers, side B selection, Bermuda Telepaths [LP / Not Not Fun / 2009]

Hour 2

Gonjasufi, “My Only Friend (Hezus Remix),” The Caliph’s Tea Party [ CD / Warp / 2010]
John Carpenter, “Seasons,” Seasons / Haunt My Home [7” / Mexican Summer / 2009]
Silver Apples, “Program,” Silver Apples [LP / Scorpio / 1968]
Excepter, “House Party,” The Troglodytes [12” / Hoss / 2006]
Tristan Perich, “Movement 1,” 1-Bit Symphony [Microchip / Cantaloupe Music / 2010]
White Rainbow, “For Terry,” Prism of Eternal Now [LP / Marriage / 2007]
Stellar Om Source, “Gamers,” Shabazz Palaces / Stellar Om Source split [7” / I Want You / 2010]
Mudboy, “Philip K. Dick - The Martian Time Slip,” Impossible Duets [LP / Hundebiss / 2009]
Moritz Von Oswald Trio, untitled track 2, Live In New York [CD / Honest Jon’s / 2010]

Mange Blight PlaylistWednesday, September 22, 2010 Hour 1 John Borowicz, “Witch Hunt...

Fri, 01 Oct 2010 18:27:00 -0400

Mange Blight Playlist
Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Hour 1

John Borowicz, “Witch Hunt 1692,” Electronic Music Laboratories Demo [7”, Electronic Music Lab, ?]
Alien Radio, “Gedanke Und Ahnung,” Lune Atroce / Soleil Amer [7”, Kraak, 2010]
Black Dice, “Untitled #5.5,” Black Dice / Erase Errata split [7”, Troubleman Unlimited, 2001]
Schurt Kwitters, “Take Up Ever,” Schurt Kwitters [LP, Open Mouth Records, 2010]
Dead Luke, “Not Tonight,” Record Two [7”, Sacred Bones, 2008]
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, “Messages,” Messages [7”, Dindisc, 1980]
The Cravats, “Terminus,” Terminus / Yellow Little Froggy [7”, Glass Records, 1982]
Indian Jewelry, “Pentecostal,” Indian Jewelry / The Sugarbeats split [7”, Girlgang, 2005]
Daphne Oram, “Food Preservation,” Oramics [2xCD, Pradigm, 2010]
White Noise, “Movement II (Continued),” White Noise 2: Concerto for Synthesizer [LP, Virgin, 1975]
Brett Naucke, “Channel: (Desert),” Southern California [c30, Arbor, 2010]
Outer Space, “Scanlon,” Outer Space [LP, Arbor, 2010]
Instruments of Science & Technology, “SH/LN,” Music for Paradise Armor [CD, Asthmatic Kitty, 2010]
Belbury Poly, “The Moonlawn,” The Owl’s Map [CD, Ghost Box, 2006]

Hour 2

Laurie Anderson, “Big Science,” Big Science [LP, Warner Brothers, 1982]
So Percussion & Matmos, “Water,” Treasure State [CD, Cantaloupe Music, 2010]
Free Design, “Dorian Benediction (Caribou Remix),” Free Design Redesigned Vol. 2 [LP, Light in the Attic, 2004]
Hrvatski, “Une Drôle de Journee,” DIV/ORCE Series #3 [7”, Ache, 2005]
J Dilla, “Bars & Twists,” Donut Shop [2x12”, Stones Throw, 2010]
Expressway Yo-Yo Dieting, untitled side c, Bubblethug [2xLP, Weird Forest, 2010]
Cluster, untitled track #2, Cluster [LP, Philips, 1971]
Morton Subotnick, “Butterfly No. 4,” 4 Butterflies [LP, Columbia, 1973]

Mange Blight Playlist for Wednesday, September 15 A new season, a new show. I’ve...

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 01:11:00 -0400

Mange Blight Playlist for Wednesday, September 15

A new season, a new show. I’ve combined forces with good buddy Gabe “Gnarlfield” Chicoine to create Mange Blight. (That’s Mynd Blyndrz plus Strange Light, hyuck hyuck.) Began the first official show of the autumn with some jazz/world/world-inspired musics before diving into the usual weirdo electronics thing… check the playlist below.

Hour 1

Anthony Braxton, “What’s New,” In The Tradition Volume 2 [Inner City, 1976]
Abol-hasan Sabā, “Chaopan,” Excavated Shellac - Strings (Comp.) [Parlortone, 2010]
Sir Richard Bishop, “Ibn Arab,” Knucklehead Freefall [self-released, 2010]
Group Inerane, “Boghassa,” Under the Radar Vol. 4 (Comp.) [thewire.co.uk, 2010]
Soreng Santi, “Dub Fai Kei Gun,” Radio Galaxia (Comp.) [Finders Keepers 2010]
Abreaktor, “Flagg,” Any Day Now And [Brigade Music, 2009]
Lucifer, “The Philosopher’s Stone,” Black Mass [A&M, 1971]
Minimal Man, “Two People,” The Shroud Of [Subterranean Records, 1981]
Gary Numan, “M. E.,” The Pleasure Principle [Beggars Banquet, 1979]
Felix Kubin & Pia Burnette, “Blind in Manhattan,” Tesla’s Aquarium [Storage, 2000]
Broadcast, “Test Area,” The Future Crayon [Warp, 2006]

Hour 2

Fifty Foot Hose, “If Not This Time,” Cauldron [Limelight, 1968]
Teeth Mountain, selection from unnknown self-released CDR
Nuno Canavarro, “Crimini,” Plux Quba [Ama Romanta, 1988]
Caboladies, side B track 4, Live Anywhere [Aguirre, 2010]
Franco Battiato, “Ti Sei Mai Chiesto Quale Funzione Hai?,” Pollution [Bla Bla, 1972]
Klaus Roeder, “Kristillisation I” [klaus-roeder.org, 1981]
Pierre Henry, “Limonaire,” Mise En Musique Du Corticalart De Roger Lafosse [Prospective 21e Siècle, 1971]
Fat Worm Of Error, “Cicadas,” Pregnant Babies Pregnant With Pregnant Babies [Load, 2006]
Cluster, “One Hour (part 5),” One Hour [Caroline, 1994]
Vas Deferens Organization, “Whirling Dervish,” Sweat Your Cheeses but Not In My Salad [Charnel, 1997]
Lucky Dragons, “New Homes,” Dark Falcon [Marriage, 2002]
Fat Day, “Iguanadonaland (Selection),” Iguanadonaland [Spirit of Orr, 2008]
Fielded, “Come the Day,” Terrageist [Catholic Tapes, 2009]
Tenko, “In The Infinite Garden,” Slope [RecRec, 1987]

Jeff Parker of Tortoise. September 6, 2010 at the Iron Horse...

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:30:52 -0400

Jeff Parker of Tortoise. September 6, 2010 at the Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton, Massachusetts.

John Herndon of Tortoise. September 6, 2010 at the Iron Horse...

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:29:48 -0400

John Herndon of Tortoise. September 6, 2010 at the Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Emeralds - “Lasting” Various Artists - Lasting c90...

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:54:00 -0400

Emeralds - “Lasting”

Various Artists - Lasting c90 [Pineapples Tapes, 2009]

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Few things give me greater pleasure in life than a solid compilation. What better way to discover something new than from a lovingly crafted mix of various artists and styles. Lasting, the final release from now-defunct Swill Radio sub-label Pineapple Tapes, has gotten heavy tapedeck love since its release last year. Clocking in at ninety minutes, Lasting presents tracks from many of Scout Foust’s various collaborators and label musicians, plus a few outsiders and no doubt fans.

Above is the titular piece courtesy of Emeralds, a real doozy that comes on suddenly with synth burst and bubble, before making room for a few minutes of McGuire guitar and then disintegration into noise.

Solo piano plays a large role elsewhere on the tape, from Karla Borecky’s sublime, minimal “Structure” (which I’ve played many times on the radio), to Vikki Jackman’s slightly more whimsical “A Night Sketch,” to birdcall and repeated keys from BRRR (a.k.a. outspoken sociology professor Dr. Timothy Shortell).

Tim Goss displays some evil beats with his shamanistic “Thunder-rum,” while the prolific Asmus Tietchens summons trance music from Jupiter with “S.17.A.” Philadephian Weyes Bluhd brings the creep with mournful, wordless evocations over ethereal creaks and the sounds of some midnight lake.

I could describe every piece on here, but I suggest just downloading the damn thing and listening to these sixteen tracks. The MP3s are encoded at 256 kbps to preserve some of the great sound from the chrome tape. It’s a wonderful sampling of minimalism, field recordings, synthesizer exploration, and discreet noise. Well worth checking out. Tracklist and download link below.

Side A

1. Foust!, “Jungle Fever (Goldfish Mix)”
2. Karla Borecky, “Structure”
3. Graham Lambkin, “Recycle 19”
4. Emeralds, “Lasting”
5. BRRR, “Ditmas Park Excerpt”
6. Dead Girl’s Party, “The First Pill”
7. Tim Goss Featuring Beverly’s Records, “Thunder-rum”
8. Frans de Waard, “Nijmegen Hiss”

Side B

9. Asmus Tietchens, “S.17.A”
10. Ian Middleton, “Forest Walk”
11. Vikki Jackman, “A Night Sketch”
12. Weyes Bluhd, “All And Over”
13. Matt Krefting “Maiden Voyage”
14. The Collection Of The Late Howell Bend, “Long Fields”
15. Andrew Chalk, “The Last Rose Falls”
16. Idea Fire Company, “The Sinking Ship”

Listen to “Lasting” by Emeralds above, and download the full tape here.

Mount Eerie. October 6, 2005 at the Shed in Palmer,...

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 01:09:10 -0400

Mount Eerie. October 6, 2005 at the Shed in Palmer, Massachusetts.

Sean McCann - “Ocean Lamp” (excerpt) Sean McCann -...

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 23:17:00 -0400

Sean McCann - “Ocean Lamp” (excerpt)

Sean McCann - Fable Shop c49 [Cylindrical Habitat Modules, 2010]

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Grabbed this in a batch of tapes from Cylindrical Habitat Modules a couple months back. McCann’s Open Resolve tape got a fair amount of attention in blogland earlier this year, and the dude’s got much, much more to offer. (Discogs says 35 releases since 2008, and those numbers are usually low.)

Fable Shop is two side-length pieces with a lil’ one thrown in the middle, and they’re both pretty, meditate takes. McCann’s hushed string-sounding drones are particularly sparse in A-side “After the Spring,” laying atop comforting sounds of unknown object manipulation. All a bit thin and distant, like listening through an ear horn. Your grandfather listening to a small string quartet accompanying the kitchen sounds of making breakfast, maybe? Side B’s squawky “Gaslit Statues” makes way for more bowed beauty with “Ocean Lamp,” the sound now a little lusher, a little more powerful. A potential oboe emerges from the mix. There’s a definite sense of renewal sparked by major keys. Good vibrations.

All in all, a beautiful tape of calm, wheezy, wave-like string drones, with pleasant foreground mystery noises and an overall imparted feeling of purpose and positivity. Mix with summer sunrises for feelings of hope. (Cheesy line, totally uncheesy music.)

Listen to an excerpt of “Ocean Lamp” above, and download the full tape here.

Sean McCann at Myspace and Discogs.

David Byrne plays the songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno....

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 13:22:14 -0400

David Byrne plays the songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno. December 2, 2008 at the Calvin Theater in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Thursday, June 17 Strange Light Playlist Hour 1 Onra, “Send Me Your Love,” Long...

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:34:08 -0400

Thursday, June 17 Strange Light Playlist

Hour 1

Onra, “Send Me Your Love,” Long Distance [All City, 2010]
Mist, “Dusk,” Mist [Amethyst Sunset, 2009]
Belbury Poly, “A Thin Place,” The Willows [Ghost Box, 2004]
Moebius & Beerbohm, “Minimotion,” Double Cut [Sky, 1984]
Dirty Beaches, “White Sand,” Dirty Beaches c22 [Night People, 2009]
Herbie Hancock, “Rain Dance,” Sextant [Columbia, 1973]
Love Cry Want, “Tomorrow, Today Will Be Yesterday,” Love Cry Want [Weird Forest, 2010]
Alesia Cosmos, “H-Co,” Exclusivo! [Planetarium, 1983]
Scratoa!, untitled track 3, Live En San Antón [Killer Pimp, 2010]

Hour 2

Vindicatrix, “A Long Straight Road In A Cold City,” Die Alten Bosen Lieder CDR [Mordant Music, 2009]
Craig Leon, “Ring With Three Concentric Circles,” Nommos [Takoma, 1981]
Spine Scavenger, “Weighted Ghost,” Wierd Compilation Volume II: Analogue Electronic Music (Comp.) [Wierd, 2008]
Nosaj Thing, “Voices,” Drift [Alpha Pup, 2009]
Sun Araw, “Deep Cover,” On Patrol [Not Not Fun, 2010]
Indian Weapons, “Maleficent,” Parousia c30 [Digitalis Limited, 2010]
J D Emmanuel, “Part II: Prayer,” Wizards [North Star Productions, 1982]

Thursday, June 10 Strange Light Playlist When I came rushing into the studio last week, Rich was...

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:06:00 -0400

Thursday, June 10 Strange Light Playlist

When I came rushing into the studio last week, Rich was closing out End of Radio with Freddie Hubbard. It made sense, then, to start the show with some jazz of my own before diving into blasted pysch-rock zones for the rest of the first hour. I picked up that Pharoah Sanders record at Mystery Train earlier in the week, where they’ve recently had a bunch of great jazz, specifically of the avant-leaning early seventies camp (grabbed that Alice Coltrane record from a few weeks back there).

Hour 2 kicked off with a cut from the recently reissued Mark McGuire Tidings/Amethyst Waves. Buy this thing from Weird Forest, please! It’s such a great package, especially if you can manage to snag the turquoise/purple marbled vinyl. Plus they included that Inca Ore album for free with my order. How great is that. (Really great!)

Hour 1

The Soft Machine, “Virtually Part 2,” Fourth [Columbia, 1971]
Pharoah Sanders, “Spiritual Blessing,” Elevation [Impulse!, 1974]
Jimmy Lyons, “Push Pull,” Wildflowers: The New York Loft Jazz Sessions Vol. 4 (Compilation) [Douglas, 1977]
Psychic Ills, “4AM,” Early Violence [The Social Registry, 2006]
Indian Jewelry, “Temporary Famine Ship,” Free Gold! [We Are Free, 2008]
Loop, “I’ll Take You There,” The World In Your Eyes [Reactor, 1987]
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, “Butthouse Blondies,” Until Today [4AD, 2010]
Agent Side Grinder, “Kneivel Claustrophobia,” Debut [Kill Shaman, 2010]
Silk Flowers, “Night Shades,” Silk Flowers [PPM, 2009]
Silver Apples, “Program,” Silver Apples [Phoenix, 1968]

Hour 2

Mark McGuire, “Along the Coral Reef,” Tidings/Amethyst Waves (LP Reissue) [Weird Forest, 2010]
Andrew Chalk, “The Last Rose Falls,” Lasting c90 (Compilation) [Pineapple Tapes, 2009]
Geoff Mullen & Keith Fullerton Whitman, “#01.1.5,” November 28 2009 [Upstairs CDR, 2010]
Inca Ore, “546-47-8539 Solo For the Voice of Tupac,” Brute Nature Versus Wild Magic [Weird Forest, 2009]
Harmonizer, untitled side B, Harmonizer c30 [NNA Tapes, 2009]
Dylan Ettinger, “Gordons Theme,” New Age Outlaws [Not Not Fun, 2010]

Thursday, May 27 Strange Light Playlist Catching up on some old shows. Purely archival purposes....

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 18:15:00 -0400

Thursday, May 27 Strange Light Playlist

Catching up on some old shows. Purely archival purposes. Nothing to see here. Move along.

Hour 1

Roll the Dice, “Into the Ground,” Roll the Dice [Digitalis, 2010]
Mi Ami, “Ark (Version),” Ark of the Covenant 12” [Lovers Rock, 2008]
Youth of the Beast, “Grackle Will Follow,” Lantern 7” [Arbor, 2007]
Predator Vision, “Real Aliens” (excerpt), Predator Vision/Sun Araw Split LP [Not Not Fun, 2009]
Color Rabbit, “Winged Out” (excerpt), A Live Once & Reincarnations 3” CDR [Darbolistic Rex, 2009]
Baroque Bordello, “I’m God,” 1st Trip [Qbico, 2002]
Sightings, “Hush,” City of Straw [Brah, 2010]

Hour 2

Nate Young, “Sweating Sickness,” Regression [iDEAL, 2009]
Dick Raaijmakers, “Contrasts,” Evolutions & Contrasts [Limelight, 1968]
Jeff Greinke, “Oceanic Lift,” Places of Motility [Hypnos, 1987]
Lorn, “None An Island,” Nothing Else [Brainfeeder, 2010]
Oneohtrix Point Never, “Ouroboros,” Returnal [Editions Mego, 2010]
o0o00, “No Summer4U,” o0o00 CDR [Disaro, 2010]
Rob Walmart, “Weenie Roast On Buttfuck Island,” Everybody Hurts [Marriage, 2010]
Foxy Baby, “L.A. Skyline,” Foxy Baby c46 [Outer Limits, 2009]
Loop, “Circle Grave,” Black Sun 12” [Chapter 22, 1988]
Lunar Miasma, “Purple Oscillator,” Crystal Covered [Basses Frequencies, 2009]

Sébastien Tellier. April 4, 2009 at the Paradise in Boston,...

Thu, 27 May 2010 20:12:00 -0400

Sébastien Tellier. April 4, 2009 at the Paradise in Boston, Massachusetts.

Mark McGuire - “Home Again”

Thu, 27 May 2010 12:40:00 -0400

Mark McGuire - “Home Again”

inner cover, Henk Badings & Dick Raaijmakers - Evolutions...

Wed, 26 May 2010 12:18:00 -0400

inner cover, Henk Badings & Dick Raaijmakers - Evolutions & Contrasts [Limelight, 1968]

Brett Naucke - “Clouded Sky: (East)” Above, a cut...

Tue, 25 May 2010 23:56:00 -0400

Brett Naucke - “Clouded Sky: (East)”

Above, a cut off Southern California, a cassette from Catholic Tapes head honcho Brett Naucke. The first release under his own name, Naucke uses analogue synthesizer, organ and various electronics to create shimmering sound portraits of the Californian flatlands. The light refracts over the heated surface of Route 1; the sun sets over the Anza Borrego desert. Evocations of black tar, yellow lines and blue skies. The tape’s been out on Arbor for the better part of 2010 and there are still copies available. Buy it for your car and the next time you drive to Big Y you can imagine you’re along the Pacific coast.

Purchase tape: Arbor catalog.

Brett Naucke: discogs.

Felix Kubin at the Atomium in Brussels. As featured in the June...

Tue, 25 May 2010 13:19:37 -0400

Felix Kubin at the Atomium in Brussels. As featured in the June 2010 issue of The Wire.

Taterbug - “Keep On Creeping On” Treetops / Abelar...

Mon, 24 May 2010 17:16:00 -0400

Taterbug - “Keep On Creeping On”

Treetops / Abelar Scout / Evan Miller / Taterbug - Split 2xc20 [Young Tapes, 2009]

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