My Station's End of the Year ballot

Ugh! I didn't find much time to keep posting songs on here. Maybe I'll have some more up before the year officially ends. Anyway, here's the list I made for the station of my favorite things we received this year.

Here it goes (the bottom 20 aren't really in any particular order):

1) Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem
2) Sunn O))) - Monoliths and Dimensions
3) The Clientele -Bonfires on the Heath
4) Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
5) Talibam! - Boogie in the Breeze Blocks
6) OOIOO - Armonico Hewa
7) Gary War - New Raytheonport
8) James Blackshaw - The Glass Bead Game
9) Zu - Carboniferous
10) Lotus Plaza - The Floodlight Collective
11) The Gaslamp Killer - All Killer...
12) Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
13) Black Dice - Repo
14) 400 Lonely Things - Tonight of the Living Dead
15) Boredoms - Super Roots 10
16) David S. Ware - Shakti
17) Buraka Som Sistema - Black Diamond
18) David Sylvian - Manafon
19) Gui Boratto - Take My Breath Away
20) Ducktails - Landscapes
21) Valerio Cosi - Heavy Electronic Pacific Rock
22) Jandek - Portland Thursday
23) Arrington de Dionyso - Malaikat dan Singa
24) Brian Harnetty & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Silent City
25) Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
26) Hudson Mohawke - Butter
27) Steve Lehman Octet - Travail, Transformation and Flow
28) Nomo - Invisible Cities
29) Julianna Barwick - Florine
30) Bohren & Der Club of Gore - Dolores

Best of 2009 part 9

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1) Jack Rose & the Black Twig Pickers - Revolt
2) Jack Rose & the Black Twig Pickers - Kensington Blues

Famed fingerstyle guitar player Jack Rose passed away at the age of 38 on the 5th, so I feel it's appropriate to include tracks from one of his recent discs, Jack Rose & the Black Twig Pickers. His music will be missed.

3) OOIOO - Uda Ha

Yoshimi P-We's project OOIOO is sorely underrated. Sure, they're not the cosmic psych-out music of the Boredoms, but that's no reason to hate them. I found their latest record, Armonico Hewa to be one of the most interesting records I've heard this year. Check it out if you like polyrhythmic drums, chanting, weird guitar lines, et cetera.

4) Steve Lehman Octet - Echoes

Steve Lehman is sorely underrated in the jazz world. His latest record, Travail, Transformation and Flow claims to be the first jazz recording to utilize Spectralist composition methods. The Octet's music creates this really weird floating sound, feeling as if the horns' presence is still lingering like a phantom after they've played. Plus, the drumming on this record is amazing, and there is a GZA cover.

Station Record Reviews: November part 1

This covers everything I did for the first week of November.

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1) Arrington de Dionyso - Mani Malaikat

Ever since the first time I heard Old Time Relijun, I knew I would always love the music of frontman Arrington de Dionyso. Even lately, when he's been incorporating reed instruments and throat singing into his music, the utter eccentricity of it keeps me absolutely riveted. His latest album might be among his best. Malaikat dan Singa is sung entirely in Indonesian, and de Dionyso plays every instrument himself. The resulting album is a bizarre fusion of the angular, primitive rock of Old Time Relijun with his later weird tendencies; it's probably the best summation of his works in general (but not his best album).

2) Jimi Tenor/Tony Allen - Darker Side of Night

Strut Record's Inspiration Information series brings together two artists who have never collaborated before to create a one-off album. This is volume four of it, and a classic. Tony Allen is one of the founding members of Fela Kuti's Africa 70 band, and one of the best drummers I've ever heard. Jimi Tenor is a Finnish multi-instrumentalist who has put out records with a range of sounds, from industrial, to lounge, to afro-beat (with his group Kabu Kabu). On this disc, members of both of their bands collaborate to do a slight twist on the afro-beat genre; the main difference being that Jimi Tenor sometimes uses his electronics to create some odd sounds within the mix.

3) Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - The Sound

MBAR represents everything that's wrong with singer/songwriters in general. The lyrics are overtly direct in a way that's incredibly banal. So banal, in fact, that it just emphasizes the perfectly bored "tragedies" that happened in his life. Oooooh, he got drunk alot and had some relationship problems. So did Dylan (whom this asshole is often claimed to be the next version of), but instead of straightforwardly describing his angst, he'd at least have a variety of images, use some metaphors, and in general sing in a way that didn't sound like he had some sort of constipation. MBAR's latest album, Summer of Fear, is fucking terrible, and probably the worst thing I've had to review for the radio station.

Best of 2009, Part 8

Moar (with tiny blurbs):

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1) Gary War - Edge of Mess

This record, New Raytheonport is amongst my favorites of the hypnagogic style, and this track is my favorite off of it (second is the Alan Parsons Project cover).

2) Boredoms - Ant 10 (Remix by DJ Finger Hat)

Super Roots 10 is amazing. The entirety of the album comes off as some amazing mix of minimal techno and The Holy Mountain (the movie).

3) Bon Iver - Woods

I hate Bon Iver. Hate hate hate. But this track off of The Blood Bank ep may be the best thing he's done, thanks to the great usage of a capella auto-tune. Almost as good as T-Pain.

4) Brian Harnetty & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Under the Winesap Tree

Please, please please listen to their album Silent City and Harnetty's earlier album, American Winter. Very few people make music as haunting as Brian Harnetty.

Reviews, Part 4

This covers the extent of the albums I had to review for the second half of October: a grand total of three CDs. So I'm playing two off of one of the discs.

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1) Tickley Feather - Club Rhythm 96 and Cell Phone

Much has been written, on blogs and in The Wire magazine in specific, about the so called "hypnagogic" pop sound. First explored by people like Ariel Pink then developed even more by Gary War and others, the sound is so named because it explores some half-state between sleeping and being awake. Or, in terms of music, it's pop songs that are barely present, surrounded instead by lo-fi sound production. Tickley Feather, the project of Annie Sachs, hasn't been written about very much when it comes to this sound, and it may be for good reason. Her songs don't always seem too fleshed out. However, this one is seriously the jam. It's off her second album Hors D'Oeuvres, which just came out on Paw Tracks

2) Joe Morris Quartet - Animal

Our music director, Stone, said he still wanted to phase me a bit when he gave me this CD, somehow implying that I hadn't been tested fully enough in my skillz. Joe Morris is one of the best known (maybe among the best?) jazz guitar players, but I've only listened to a couple albums he's played on. Today on Earth is the second album he has recorded with his current quartet, which consists mostly of members of the group The Fully Celebrated Orchestra. In general, the album switches between two modes. Half the songs are free-bop inspired by early Ornette Coltrane, and the other half is a group of moody tracks which seem just as inspired by "rock music" as by jazz. This track falls into the second category, and may be amongst my favorite jazz pieces.

3) Lake - Gravel
4) Lake - Loose Wind

Lake are a collective of musicians from the Washington State area who've been putting together some absolutely gorgeous pop tunes. Let's Build a Roof never really fails to please. The pieces all have a very 60's feel to them, in a way that Belle & Sebastian usually does, but then the songs also have these horn arrangements (done by Karl Blau) which belie influences from elsewhere. Basically, this disc feels like the perfect autumn album, and you should listen to it.

Best of 2009, part 7

Eep! I only just realized how closely the end of the year looms upon us. So I'll be updating this more frequently...maybe at least twice per week? Who knows.

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Tracklisting:
1) Kevin Blechdom - Face the Music

One of the greatest pleasures I had this year was meeting Kristin Erickson, aka Kevin Blechdom. Had I not been introduced to her by Irene Moon (another great artist that I was fortunate enough to meet) and Jonathan Dean, I probably would have never discovered either her solo work, or her collaboration with Bevin Kelley as Blectum from Blechdom. Her latest album, Gentlemania, might surprise people who were expecting some sort of electronic music. Instead, this is a break-up album, seemingly directly influenced by Tin Pan Alley. Seeing her play these tracks live (several times, actually) could definitely be included in one of my favorite experiences of the year. This song was my favorite.

2) Atlas Sound - Quick Canal

I never really understood the hype for Deerhunter; however, the solo projects that Bradford Cox and Lockett Pundt have released I absolutely adore. This is probably my favorite track on Logos, the latest Atlas Sound release. Admittedly, I haven't heard the whole album, but this song gets stuck in my head. That might sound like a bizarre statement when you listen to the song - it seems to exist in the state between sleep and awakeness. The presence of Laetitia Sadler of Stereolab only gives it a more breathy quality. Hopefully, the rest of the album is as good as this track.

3)Zu - Obsidian

I'm having trouble determining if this disc came out this year or last year...either way, Carboniferous was my first encounter with the Italian jazz-metal trio Zu. Interestingly, they don't have a guitar player - they only have a baritone sax, bass, and drums (who also will play mellotron and synths). For only about 4 or so tracks on the album, they used a guitar player, this being one of them.

4) Julie Doiron - Blue

I had to begin and end with two songs of heartbreak. This is definitely another one of the best sad songs I've heard this year, even if it wasn't written by Julie. It's off of her album I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day, which is definitely worth a listen.

Extended: Run Rabbit Run performed by Osso

Sufjan Stevens has long been acclaimed as the future of Americana music, and it's easy to see why. His music has always been slightly more complex than many of the other people working in his field; his influences have also extended beyond just folk music. Check out the minimalist tendencies in the arrangements for tracks like "Detroit! Lift Up Your Weary Head!" (neat time signature as well) or "The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades is Out to Get Us!"; you could also note the delicate nature of some of his piano compositions, which suggest the bedroom music of Erik Satie. It's his combination of this with basic folk/country/indie pop tropes that have brought him the audience that he has today; the fact that he's able to wrap this all up in a very pretty package proves more than anything his success as a popular composer.

So to cut to the chase, I was surprised when I was given Run Rabbit Run to review. My immediate thought was that Sufjan Stevens was trying to make what's probably his least accessible work, Enjoy Your Rabbit, more palatable for his NPR-listening audience. Enjoy Your Rabbit is easily his most eclectic and "experimental" (which I use very loosely here) disc. It is filled to the brim with complex pieces based around the Chinese Zodiac, which might better fit on Warp Records' current roster than on his own label. But I was wrong with my assumption; this disc's origins lie with Bryce Dessner of the National. He commissioned Osso (who have worked with a slew of musicians including Kanye, Antony and the Johnsons, and Alice Coltrane) to reinterpret the album; they debuted four tracks off of Enjoy Your Rabbit for the Music Now Festival in Cleveland, Ohio back in 2007. Two years later, the arrangements have been completed and released on Asthmatic Kitty.

However, with the end product, it still feels as though Sufjan's original album has been dumbed down for the NPR crowd. I can't tell if this is due to the nature of the arrangements or the limitations of the string quartet. Many times, the dissonance in some of the compositions seem completely sanded down; other times, the arrangements are much less complex than the original pieces. This isn't always true: Michael Atkinson's arrangement of "Year of the Ox" contains probably the most riveting performance on the disc; Osso violinist Olivier Manchon also contributes a relatively accurate (yet somehow more interesting) version of "Year of the Rat". But many times, the original goal of arranging these pieces relatively accurately comes up short; many times, the percussive elements aren't even approached. I wouldn't even note this failing if it wasn't present in Atkinson's "Year of the Ox", but since one arranger had done it, I would assume that the others might have attempted something similar. Instead, what we are given is a set of very similar abbreviated versions of Sufjan Stevens' album.

This doesn't necessarily mean that the album fails though. What Run Rabbit Run manages to do is indicate more clearly the characteristics (both the strengths and weaknesses) of Stevens' compositions. By removing the particular timbres/textures of the sounds on the original album (as well as the eccentricities, regrettably), the disc brings to light a similar composer: that great American Charles Ives (especially at his most populistic).

Sufjan Stevens stated that his greatest regret for his Enjoy Your Rabbit album is that there is very little human element in the disc; nearly all of the pieces are recorded using synthesizers and other electronic devices. On Run Rabbit Run, we get a good glimpse of what it may have sounded like. However, the disc might have proven stronger if he himself had performed it; especially if the broad nature of his original piece was allowed to be present.

Reviews, Part. 3

I made a mistake! I thought I had gone through all the material I had to review for September, but I missed one item. So I'll cover that here, as well as the first half of October. I hope you enjoy.

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1) Joey Casio - Artists in Times of War
This is the b-side to a K Records 7" called "Debtor's Prism". Both sides are very similar - bedroom styled acid house with post-punk styled singing on top. If you got the reference to Howard Zinn in the title of the song, then you've realized how political this guy's material is. Still, pretty fun stuff.

2) Le Loup - A Celebration
Sam Simkoff is Le Loup. Or was, rather. His first album was recorded by himself and was largely focused upon synths and banjos (an odd combination, to be sure). But when he decided to tour for that album, he needed a band...so he used Craigslist to gather together similar minded musicians. On their latest album, Family, nearly every track seems like Akron/Family doing an impersonation of Animal Collective. I don't know if that's a bad thing or not. This track might be the best example of the tribal feel that they have throughout the whole album. Out on Hardly Art.

3) Karl Blau - Apology to Pollinateurs
I've loved Karl Blau ever since I became obsessed with Phil Elverum's work as The Microphones. He seems more wholesome in general than alot of the Anacortes recording folks; taking influence from Beatnik-related Buddhism and world music, his works always have seemed really pure. His latest album, Zebra, might be among his best. Almost every instrument was played by him; and while sometimes his ideas don't come across as well as they might have if a full band was playing, the ideas in themselves are strong enough to carry the songs along. This is the only track to feature other people (Arrington de Dionyso of Old Time Relijun and the lady from Tender Forever). Out on K.

4) BK-One with Benzilla - Eighteen to Twenty-One (featuring Murs)
BK-One is best known as Brother Ali's DJ...which (to me anyway) seems more like a detriment than anything else. Brother Ali, along with almost everyone else on Rhymesayers, is a horrible MC. Fortunately, BK-One isn't as bad at producing and DJing as compared to the rest of the Rhymesayers crew. On his first "solo" album (Benzilla helps produce more than half the tracks), Radio Do Canibal, the music is entired created from samples off of Brazilian records. The Brazilian influence does not show on this track...however, Murs has one clever metaphor in this otherwise kitschy track about sex.


5) The Mountain Goats - Phillipians 3:20-21

John Darnielle has been disappointing me almost consistently after he moved into a studio. His latest album for 4AD, The Life of the World to Come, is still not that good. Despite the occasional string work by Final Fantasy, he's still slumped in his MOR-styled production, whispering what seems to be imitation Darnielle lyrics. This disc has better lyrics, but the songs themselves still seem underwritten. This track is the one of very few that has any sort of melodic hook in the actual instrumentation. And the lyrics aren't bad either.

Scott Walker

I just want to remind you, all of you, of the looming presence that Scott Walker has and will have over your life if you listen to his voice. His voice, tremulous as a river, yet totally unique unlike most rivers, cannot be replaced by anyone else's when he passes on. It seems totally disembodied from the rest of his being; even he seems to refer to it as something outside of him, whose will he must submit to.

But all this talk about his voice does harm to the most unique thing about him: his music. Most people know he was involved with The Walker Brothers during the 60's, and many people know of his early solo career as some sort of orchestral pop singer. But over time, his music seems to have both devolved and evolved. Devolved, in that his music now seems to be some sort of bizarre disintegration of the orchestral pop he was once known for; and evolved in that his current style is totally unique, like the next evolution in classical music/the art song.

Here's a tour through Scott Walker's solo career via youtube videos:


Montague Terrace (In Blue) from his first solo album, Scott:



Plastic Palace People from his second solo album, Scott 2



Angels of Ashes from his fourth solo album, Scott 4



...jump forward to 1995...

The Cockfighter off of his eleventh solo album, Tilt



Jesse off of his twelfth solo album, The Drift



If you are interested by this, Jonathan Dean is hosting an artist feature on his music this Sunday on WVFS Tallahassee from 10pm to midnight. You should listen.

Reviews, Part 2

The next batch of reviews covers everything I reviewed for the radio station for the last two weeks of September.

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1. Julianna Barwick - Anjos

In a world where Britney Spears could be called a great singer, shouldn't we honor those with even better voices? Julianna Barwick is nowhere near as famous as anyone in the pop world (she self-releases her music in limited runs), nor does she sound anything like what is popular. But Julianna, I can say without a doubt, sings and writes better songs than almost anyone in popular music. This EP, Florine, is based around her voice, which she loops and overlaps into dense yet minimal soundscapes. The song featured here is an oddity for her - it barely features her voice - but its beauty is exceptional.

2. múm - Show Me

I know that many people were disappointed when múm started transitioning away from their Aphex Twin influenced electronica to a more organic, live instrument sound. I personally still enjoy their music just as much as before. Some might be pleased to hear that on their 5th album, Sing Along to Songs You Don't Know, there is a very, very faint return to electronica, albeit through (what sounds like) cheap casio keyboards. I preferred the tracks without those - these tracks produce still, serene beauty.

3. The Pastels/Tenniscoats - Boats

Best known as a twee pop band, The Pastels have been shying away from that description since the early 1990's. True, Stephen Pastel can't sing very well (in an adorable way), nor can he play guitar all that well, but their music has been much more sophisticated and well written than, say, Beat Happening. On this collaboration with the Japanese duo Tenniscoats, the group shines at creating atmospheric ballads. Two Sunsets feels like a perfect album for a sad autumn evening.

4. A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Shy

I'm not going to lie - the latest A Sunny Day in Glasgow was painful to sit through. Every track seemed like some sort of interlude to another song, but it seemed like there weren't that many fully formed songs. Ashes Grammar almost seemed like a half hearted attempt at dream pop.

5. Darlings - Eviction Party

I also wasn't thrilled to review Darling's debut album, Yeah, I Know, whose blatant overusage of the Helvetica font and semi-ironic black and white photos of various domestic scenes. I mean, how many mediocre hipster bands do we need? Even worse, how many do we need that are co-opting Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers? But still, I have to admit, this song gets stuck in my head quite frequently.

6. Six Organs of Admittance - Actaeon's Fall

At first, I was kind of disappointed by the latest release by Ben Chasny's solo project. Luminous Night seemed to continue the more drab sounds of his last album, Shelter From the Ash. But after further listens, I realized that Chasny is using minimal finger picking to create a different sort of psychedelic music than his earlier albums. Here, he doesn't even bother with guitar drones that often, instead relying on Eyvind Kang's viola and keyboards. Still, a really solid album.

7. Castanets - Dance, Dance

What can I say? Ray Raposa knows how to write a good country tune. Maybe Texas Rose, The Thaw, and the Beasts isn't as diverse in sound as his earlier albums, but it's still worth listening to.

A Different Sort of Best Of

Instead of what I usually do, this is a post summarizing several of the albums I had to review for the radio station in chronological order. Everything is still lumped together into one mp3 file, but this time (and probably from now on) I won't say anything on the track. Here goes nothing:

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1. Pens - Freddie

They always start new reviewers with albums that aren't particularly great, and "Hey Friend! What You Doing" is no exception to this rule. The hot new thing these past couple of years has been lo-fi, either in the vein of Ariel Pink or of the Siltbreeze catalog. Pens tries to write cutesy, nonchalant pop songs, but jesus, they can't write songs worth a damn. It just seems like they're not even trying at times. Other people do the lo-fi thing much better - check out the aforementioned Ariel Pink, Dum Dum Girls, or Vivian Girls. Out on De Stijl records.

2. Shonen Knife - Super Group

Okay, so Shonen Knife have been irrelevant for how long now? Even when they were big, they always seemed to be kind of a joke - they seemed incapable of playing their instruments at times, and they definitely didn't have the best grasp of the English language. "Super Group" is the band's 16th album, and they have yet to change their formula at all - loud guitars, catchy vocals, lyrics written in Engrish about the goofiest things. Out on Good Charamel.

3. Frida Hyvonen - Jesus Was a Cross Maker
4. The Bye Bye Blackbirds - There's a Rugged Road

My good friend Jonathan introduced me to 70's singer/songwriter Judee Sill about a year ago. I was amazed that she even got a record deal at all - her songs, while they are incredibly catchy, aren't the most accessible. A talented musician, she would often include sections in her songs that had a different time signature, or occasionally have odd arrangements. Then there's the lyrics - nearly every song is about Christianity. This in and of it self wouldn't be a big deal, but all of the Christian images are seen through a gnostic or mystic point of view. So when American Dust announced that they were releasing a tribute album to her, I was excited. The album is pretty great, even though many of the artists temper down Sill's eccentricities. Frida Hyvonen's much-lauded cover of Sill's greatest single is an example of this when it works - beautiful choir vocals and a minimal piano make her song become like a classic hymn. I included the Bye Bye Blackbirds track because it was my personal favorite from this album. The disc is called "Crayon Angel: A Tribute to the Music of Judee Sill"

5. Vivian Girls - Can't Get Over You

If there's one thing I love, it's noise-pop, and Vivian Girls have been conjuring up some of the better tunes in that sub-genre for the past year or so. That being said, their second album, "Everything Goes Wrong", doesn't really live up to the standards of their self-titled debut. The songs seem underwritten in some spots, hoping to ride merely on velocity and noise. This track might be the most solidly written track on the album (although it might not be the best). Out on In the Red.

6. Ramona Falls - Always Right

Since Menomena is on a temporary break, Brent Knopf took some time to record a solo album, "Inuit". This can barely be called a solo album though - he has over 30 guests on this album. The recording process is slightly odd - Knopf had some ideas for songs, took them to individual friends of his and recorded with them for three hours. He did this many, many times. The results were then edited together (similar to Menomena's editing style) into cohesive, swelling songs. This track may not be the best one on the album, but it's been the favorite of mine since I first heard it because of it's cobbled-together style. If you like this, you'd probably really love the rest of this album. Out on Barsuk Records.

Best of 2009 Part 6

Sorry to keep delaying these posts, but I've been busy with all sorts of random things now. There's good news though! I'll probably be doing this more often, even though my schedule will be more packed than ever. Why's that, you ask? Because now I'll be reviewing CD's for WVFS Tallahassee, so I'll at the least post extended reviews of those on here.

Today's mix is kinda different than usual:

1) Isis - Stone to Wake a Serpent (off of Wavering Radiant)
2) Eric Copeland - Auto Dimmer (off of Alien in the Garbage Dump)
3) Bibio - Fire Ant (off of Ambivalence Avenue)
4) The Field - Leave It (off of Yesterday and Today)
5) Junior Boys - Parallel Lines (off of Begone Dull Care)

bed music: Le Mans - Cancion de Todo Va Mal

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Mount Eerie artist feature

Hey everyone,
Sorry I haven't been updating lately! I just got a job not too long ago, so I've been focusing most of my time on that lately. I thought I would post this though: the Mount Eerie artist feature I did for the radio station tonight.

A playlist is available here

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Epic songs of 2009

Hey everyone,
Sorry for the lack of updates lately! I've been out of town, I just finished moving, and I still haven't really had time to listen to much music. So instead of taking extra time out to compile another round of seven or eight songs, I thought I would just play three longer ones that I've been enjoying lately.

The first two are slightly different than normal for the artists. Sunn O))) usually are straight up drone metal, but here, they are augmented by horns, double basses, and harp (among other things) which gives it a vibe reminiscent of Alice Coltrane. James Blackshaw is best known as a guitarist along the lines of John Fahey or Robbie Basho - lots of fingerpicking. But on Cross, there's also a vocalist, cellist, and violinist, which all comes together to create a swirling, beautiful chamber piece. Then there's Lotus Plaza - side project of one of the guitar players of Deerhunter. This song is typical of the album - hazy, slightly lo-fi, autumnal, almost shoegaze - but here, instead of creating a straightforward pop song, Lockett Pundt makes almost a blur of a song - the structure is almost as hazy as the guitars.

All three of these develop slowly, so have patience - you'll be rewarded:
1. Sunn O))) - Alice (off of their album Monoliths & Dimensions)
2. James Blackshaw - Cross (off of his album The Glass Bead Game)
3. Lotus Plaza - Antoine (off of his album The Floodlight Collective)

Bed music - Paul Bley Trio - Figfoot

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Best of 2009 Part 4

More beats than usual. Has beats! Beats.

Playlist:
1. Dirty Projectors - Useful Chamber
2. Dirty Projectors - Stillness is the Move (Lucky Dragons remix)
3. Nomo - Bumbo
4. Lee Fields & the Expressions - My World
5. Donovan Quinn & the Thirteenth Month - The Rabbit Tracks
6. Black Joe Lewis & the Honey Bears - Please Pt. 2

bed music - Charles Mingus - Bird Calls

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Best of 2009 Pt. 3

This one seems to be kind of a downer. Maybe because I'm not in the best of moods? So to alleviate the mood, I added Happy House, a fun dance song. Yay!

Playlist:
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - Inspiration Information
Bill Callahan - Eid Ma Clack Shaw
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Man O'War
Fever Ray - If I Had a Heart
Fever Ray - When I Grow Up
The Juan Maclean - Happy House

bed music - John Fahey's Dance of the Inhabitants of the Invisible City of Bladensburg

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...and is anyone still reading or listening? Because if you are, I'm still working on the podcast part of the podcast...yeah...I know how that sounds. I'm working on finding a host for this - it's just that the files are so big, that I'll need to buy space or find another host. Bummer.

Amber's Mix Tape

Today, I'm uploading both sides to a mix tape that I made for my good friend Amber during two DJ sessions at the radio station. It's divided into two sides. The first side was originally completely different - I will upload that one in the future.

Side Psych:
1. Cat Power - Werewolf
2. Love - A House Is Not a Hotel
3. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Happy Melted City
4. Alice Coltrane - A Love Supreme
5. Here We Go Magic - Only Pieces
6. Brian Eno & David Byrne - Mea Culpa

Side Pop:
1. David Byrne & Brian Eno - The River
2. Camera Obscura - You Told a Lie
3. Marissa Nadler - Famous Blue Raincoat
4. Vanilla Fudge - Keep Me Hanging On
5. Robert Wyatt - Stay Tuned
6. Lee Fields & The Expressions - Love Comes and Goes
7. Yoko Ono - Walking On Thin Ice
8. Michael Hurley - The Werewolf Song

Let me know if there are any problems with the download or the podcasting part. I haven't tried it for myself, so uhhh...I really hope it works.
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How to Subscribe:

Instead of having to go to this website to download the podcast everytime, you can now subscribe to it through itunes so you no longer have to sit around and wait for it to download. It'll download automatically, starting with the next one.
Just go here and click the link for iTunes.
-Bradley

Podcast #2

This time around, I try to keep it more varied - the last one was all kind of similar, non? This one still sticks to stuff that we have at the radio station, yet again. I just don't get out enough to hear other music :( :( :(

Playlist:
1. Buraka Som Sistema - Sound of Kuduro
2. {{{Sunset}}} - Loveshines II
3. The Books Featuring Jose Gonzales - Cello Song
4. Bell Orchestre -Bucephalus Bouncing Ball
5. Gui Boratto - No Turning Back
6. St. Vincent - Marrow
7. St. Vincent - The Bed

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Expect a new one in the next week of a bunch of older 45's that I found in my dad's thrift shop!
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Welcome and First Podcast

Hi everybody,
My name is Bradley, I work for a radio station in Tallahassee, Florida, where we play just about anything. Really. So I thought...hey? Why not make a podcast documenting what songs I particularly like as the year rolls on? These podcasts will almost exclusively be new music - although there might be some exceptions - such as if there's a rare, vinyl only track or something. Shrugs!

Here's the first one...it's a rerecording, because I totally fucked up the first one. If there's any problems with it, leave me a comment! Also, if you need help, just let me know.

Tracklist:
1. Venice is Sinking - Ryan's Song
2. The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - This Love is Fucking Right!
3. Rokia Traore - A Ou Ni Sou
4. Speck Mountain - I Feel Eternal
5. Phosphorescent - Can I Sleep In Your Arms?
6. Sholi - Hejrat
7. Antony and the Johnsons - Kiss My Name
8. Antony and the Johnsons - Her Eyes Are Underneath the Ground

Let me know if you have any requests or anything of that nature!
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