Detailed playlist, with listening links.
1. Rockin’ Horse – “Oh Carol, I’m So Sad” – Biggest Gossip In Town 7-inch (Voxx)
2. “The Indian Beatles” – “I Want To Hold Your Hand” [via YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5ky5ClIjL8]
3. M. Ashraf – “Too Bhi Piala Chum” – Dekha Jaye Ga OST (Finders Keepers)
4. Zs – “Except When You Don’t Because Sometimes You Won’t (Remix by Excepter)” – Remixed EP (Planaria/Sockets)
5. Inca Ore – “Valley of Sherbet Cathedrals” – Grouper/Inca Ore 12-inch
6. Tom Waits – “Jersey Girl” – Heartattack and Vine (Asylum) [Mazel tov, Aaron & Deanna!]
7. Michael Hurley – “Valley of Tears” – Ida Con Snock (Gnomonsong)
8. Volcano Choir – “And Gather” – Unmap (Jagjaguwar)
9. Pan Sonic – “Kahalaus” – Kuvaputki (Blast First)
10. Eno, Moebius, Roedelius – “Broken Head” – After the Heat (Sky)
11. Yoga – “The Hidden People” – Megafauna (Holy Mountain)
12. Ducktails – “Neptune City, NJ” – II c30 (Future Sounds) [feat. “Decaying Ships” by Pulse Emitter, from “Decaying Ships” 12-inch (Ultra Eczema)]
13. Yo La Tengo – “By Two’s” – Popular Songs (Matador)
14. – “Sea of Mud” – Anthology of Japanese New Folk 1960-1976: Janitor from Mars 2005 WFMU Marathon Premium
15. Mark Eitzel – “Sun Smog Seahorse” – Caught In A Trap and I Can’t Back Out ‘Cause I Love You Too Much, Baby (Matador)
16. Yoko Ono & Plastic Ono Band – “Watching the Rain” – Between My Head and the Sky: Chimera Music No. 1 (Chimera Music)
17. Mudboy – Summer of Saucers cassette (DNT) [feat. John Turturro reading “The False Grandmother” by Italo Calvino & “Tsuro no Sugomori” by Kohachiro Miyata from Shakuhachi: The Japanese Flute (Nonesuch)]
18. Foust! – “Jungle Fever” – Jungle Fever (Swill Radio) [feat. frogs & “Forever A Stranger” by Brock Van Wey from “White Clouds Drift On and On” (Echospace)]
19. Keiji Haino – “Track 3” – Uchu Ni Karamitsuiteiru Waga Itami (PSF) [feat. “Ride of the Valkyrie” by Curd Duca from Switched-On Wagner: Minimalistic Mood Music (Mille Plateaux)]
20. The Persuasions – “Black Muddy River” – Might As Well… The Persuasions Sing Grateful Dead (Grateful Dead Records)
21. Teeth Mountain – 14 August 2009 Voice of the Valley Festival
22. Hassara – “Messin’ Up” – Backyard I-III (Three Lobed) [feat. “A O B A” by Bill Bissett and the Mandan Massacre from Awake in th Red Desert (Gear Fab)]
23. Pulse Emitter – “Side A” – Decaying Ships (Ultra Eczema)
24. John Schneider – “Scenes From Nek Chand (The Leaning Lady, The Rock Garden, The Sinuous Arcade with Swings and Arches)” – Just Guitars (Bridge)
25. Sandy Bull – “Blend” – Fantasias for Guitar and Banjo (Sutro Park)
26. Why? – “Into the Shadows of My Embrace” – Eskimo Snow (Anticon)
27. Jackie-O Motherfucker – “Dark Falcon” – Ballads of the Revolution (Fire)
28. Slasher Risk – “Eight Belles” – Surashiarisuku (Obsolete Units)
29. Sundays & Cybele – “Track 2” – Sundays & Cybele (Gyuune Cassette)
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Detailed playlist, with listening links.
1. Dwight Yoakam – “Train In Vain” – Under the Covers (Reprise)
2. Kurt Vile – “Freeway In Mind” – Constant Hitmaker (Gulcher)
3. Thee Oh Sees – “She Said To Me (demo)” – In The Shadow of the Giant 7-inch (Sub Pop)
4. Frank Zappa – “Your Mouth” – Waka/Jawaka (Ryko)
5. Hampton Grease Band – “Six” – Music To Eat (Columbia)
6. Seabrook Power Plant – “Occupation 1977” – Seabrook Power Plant (Loyal Label)
7. Lightning Bolt – “Colossus” – Earthly Delights (Load) [feat. track 1 from Mist From the Random More by Gog (Utech)]
8. Pax Nicholas and the Nettey Family – “Na Teef Know De Road of Teef” – Na Teef Know De Road of Teef (Daptone) [feat. “Mbira” from More Drums of Passion by Olatunji! (Sony Legacy)]
9. Smokey Hormel – “Banaketwe” – Smokey’s Secret Family (Afro Sambas)
10. Akron/Family – “Turn On Your Lovelight” – Crust Never Sleeps: Jesse’s 2009 Marathon Premium
11. OLAibi – “tower” – Humming Bird Drip (Felicity)
12. Faust – “It’s a Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl” – So Far (Polydor)
13. Tenorman – “between Bedford & 1st” – 23 August 2009 L-train
14. Roland P. Young – “Curls” – Istet Sernade (Flow Chart)
15. Yann Tomita – “Magic Music of the Spheres” – Music For Living Sound: Cool Sounds From Real Life (Yann Tomita)
16. Nadia Ratsimandresy – “Suite Karnatique (Jacques Charpentier)” – Messiaen et Autour de Messiaen for Onde Martenot and Piano (ReR)
17. Sergeeo – “Blue In Green” – Kind of Bloop (KindOfBloop.com)
18. Chopstick – “…Forgiveness Please” – …Forgiveness Please (Love Earth) [feat. Samuel Eliot Morrison on “Harvard and the American Education”]
19. Olivia Tremor Control – “Cycle 4” – Explanation II: Instrumental Themes and Dream Sequences (Flydaddy) [feat. “Stan the Man’s Hit Record” by Stan Musial (Phillips 66)]
20. maurizio bianchi – “Menstruum (Hematogenous Paraoxysm)” – Menstruum Regles (Silentes Minimal Editions) [feat. “Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany (1949)” by Colin Anderson]
21. Carl Simmons – “Scotty Guffy Sings” – Yeti, v. 7 (Yeti Publishing)
22. Rolling Stones – “2000 Light Years From Home” – Their Satanic Majesties Request (Abkco)
23. Bert Jansch – “Needle of Death” – L.A. Turnaround (Drag City)
24. Arnold Dreyblatt and the Orchestra of Excited Strings – “Live at Federal Hall National Memorial, 1981” – Live at Federal Hall National Memorial, 1981 (Table of the Elements)
25. Elf Power – “Princess Knows” – Treasures From the Trash Heap
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Detailed playlist, with listening links.
1. Pink Floyd – “Bike” – The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Capitol)
2. – “Ringing In 2009” – Let Freeform Ring: 2009 Marathon Premium for Stochastic Hit Parade [feat. “Fugitive” by Torturing Nurse from An Anthology of Chinese Experimental Music, 1992-2008 (Sub Rosa)]
3. Negtivland – “Helter Stupid” – Helter Stupid (Seeland) [feat. “Helter Skelter” on stunt turntable]
4. Alan Licht – “Side A (excerpt)” – YMCA (Family Vineyard)
5. Glenn Jones – “Dead Reckoning” – Barbecue Bob in Fishtown (Strange Attractor)
6. Robert Hunter – “It Must’ve Been The Roses” – Tales of the Great Rum Runners (Round)
7. Los Gatos Negros – “Hey, Hey Bunny” – Sensacional Soul, v. 2 (Vampisoul)
8. Los Peyotes – “Bdaaa!!!” (Dirty Water)
9. Dark Meat – “Faint Smell of Moss” – When the Shelter Came 7-inch (Emergency Umbrella)
10. VagusNerve – “In the Summer of 2006, Li Made a Dream About a Lopan and a UFO” – Lo Pan (Utech)
11. Rashied Ali and Frank Lowe – “Exchange part 1” – Duo Exchange (KnitMedia)
12. Bablicon – “Chunks of Syrup Amidst Plain Yoghurt” – In A Different City (Misra)
13. – “beachtown, 15 August 2009”
14. Climax Golden Twins – “Noon, About Noon” – Session 9 OST (Milan)
15. A Hawk and a Hacksaw – “Vassalisa carries a flaming skull through the forest” – Delivrance (Leaf)
16. Alireza Mashayekhi – “Iranian Aesthetic (opus 77)”
17. Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. – “Dark Side of the Black Moon” – Dark Side of the Black Moon: What Planet Are We On? (Important)
18. Sir Richard Bishop – “Blood-Stained Sands” – The Freak of Araby (Drag City)
19. Bad Weather California – “Good Things Will Happen” – Young Punks (States Rights)
20. Wooden Wand and The Vanishing Voice – “Dread Effigy” – Gipsy Freedom (5 Rue Christine) [feat. “The Ocean of Milk, part one” by Jon Wesseltoft and Lassie Marhaug (Important) & Spanish Jehovah’s Witnesses Bible cassettes I found on Bedford Avenue]
21. Hallgrímur Valjálmsson – “Serenade for Six German Sirens Op. 43”
22. Luc Ferrari – “Tautologos 2” – L’Oeuvre Electronique 10 CD Box (INA GRM)
23. Pantaleimon – “At Dawn” – Transmissions From Sinai (Arthur)
24. Lee Hazlewood – “Come On Home To Me” – Movin’ On
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Detailed playlist, with listening links.
1. Merle Haggard – “Sing Me Back Home” – Sing Me Back Home (Koch)
2. David Grisman, John Hartford, & Mike Seeger – “Room at the Top of the Stairs” – Retrograss (Acoustic Disc) [Mike Seeger, 1933-2009.]
3. Ellen Fullman – “Change of Direction (excerpt)” – Orbitones, Spoon Harps & Bellowphones (Ellipsis Arts)
4. Bernard Szajner – “Superficial Music 1” – Superficial Music (LTM)
5. Solid Eye – “Gilbert” – Fruits of Automation (WIN)
6. Gil Trythall – “Yakety Moog” – Electronic Toys 2 (QDK Media)
7. Brown Recluse – “Rotten Tangerines” – The Soft Skin EP (Slumberland)
8. Neon Indian – “Should Have Taken Acid With You” – Psychic Chasms (Lefse) [feat. “Arcade Ambiance” (Good Deal Games) & “Thunderstorm” (Ryko)]
9. Jeff Pressing – “Study Number One” – Machine Messages (ACMA)
10. Harmonizer – 10 July 2009 Gezellige Theatre, Burlington, VT [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39hkRYfGyuo]
11. Pink Floyd feat. Frank Zappa – “Interstellar Overdrive” – 24 October 1969 Actuel Festival, Amougies, Belgium
12. Coconut – “Te Tenía en Cinta” – Cosa Astral (Bcore)
13. Loudspeaker Speaker Meets Clearly Human – “Two Day Morning” – 20 Rock Glitter Kaka (Broken Twilight)
14. Manorexia – “The Harpoon Jockey” – Radiolarian Ooze (Ectopic Ents) [feat. “Change Is The Only Evidence of My Life,” Jon Mueller, from Physical Changes (Radium) & “Duet” by Moondog and Sam Ulano, from The Story of Moondog (4 Men With Beards)]
15. Moritz von Oswald Trio – “Pattern 2” – Vertical Ascent (Honest Jon’s)
16. Terry Day – “Bamboo Solo” – Interruptions (Emanem) [feat. Patricia & Ellen reading Jean Baudrillard’s “Le Xerox et l’Infini” (The Tapeworm cassette)]
17. Otomo Yoshihide – “Anode 1” – Anode (Tzadik)
18. Alain de Filippis – “Toka Tameka” – Petites Musiques de Bruits (Ground Fault)
19. Lesley Flanigan – “Feeding” – Speaker Synth
20. Bass Communion – “Haze Shrapnel” – Haze Shrapnel (My Own Little Label)
21. Cheapmachines – “3” – Secede (Entr’acte)
22. Ghedalia Tazartes – “Mourir Un Peu” – Diasporas/Tazartes (Alga Marghen)
23. Boards of Canada – “Sunshine Recorder” – Geogaddi (Warp)
24. Hush Arbors – “Sand” – Hush Arbors (Ecstatic Peace)
25. The Urinals – “Black Hole” – Negative Capability (Warning Label)
26. Yoni Wolf – “Shoot The Singer (1 Sick Verse)” – 20 May 2009 New, Improved Recording, Oakland, CA (thebaybridged.com)
27. Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey – “Four In One” – One Day In Brooklyn (Kinnara)
28. The Flaming Lips – “Sunrise” – 28 September 1998 Wetlands Preserve, NYC (Boom-Box Experiment No. 19)
29. Black To Comm – “Bees” – Ruckwarts Backwards (Deokorder)
30. Ganglians – “Radically Inept Candy Girl” – Ganglians 12-inch (Woodsist)
31. Cheval Sombre – “Little Bit of Heaven” – Cheval Sombre (Double Feature)
32. Grateful Dead – “Sing Me Back Home” – 27 August 1972 Old Renaissance Faire Grounds, Veneta, OR
33. New Lost City Ramblers – “No Depression In Heaven” – The Early Years, 1958-1962 (Smithsonian Folkways)
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Detailed playlist, with listening links.
1. Departmentstore Santas – “Surfboards, Convertibles, and Dark, Lonely Beaches” – At the Medieval Castle Nineteen 100-Year Lifetimes Since (Top Shelf)
2. Ducktails – “Island Flavor” – II c30 (Future Sounds)
3. Marina Hardy – “Apple Sauce Pudding” – Pink Violin (Et Tu, Brute?) [feat. “Interstate 81, West Virginia. June 2008” by Myroslaw Bytz]
4. Plastic Crimewave – “Projection” – Projection (PCW)
5. Lambchop – “I Believe” – OH (Ohio) (Merge)
6. Dave and the Wanderers – “My Heart Is In Pain” – Train To Nowhere! Unissued Garage Acetates, v. 3 (Norton)
7. Ken Boothe – “Your Feeling and Mine” – Freedom Street (Culture Press)
8. The Exciters – “Blowing Up My Mind” (MCA)
9. Stereo Total – “I Love You Ono (Plastics)” – Amps Across the Hudson: Liz Berg’s 2009 Marathon Premium
10. Lou Harrison – “Canticle No. 3 (1942)” – The View From the Edge (El)
11. Chris Weisman – “Day Sleeper” – Tape Walk (Autumn)
12. Steve Gunn/Tom Carter/Marc Orleans/Shawn David McMillen – “Wharf Rat” – 23 June 2009 Cake Shop
13. Morton Subotnick – “Touch” – Touch (Columbia) [feat. Carl Sagan explaining the 4th dimension (via YouTube)]
14. Bastion – “69, blau und weiss” – Bastion (Interregnum)
15. Arcane Device – “Movement Two: Engagement” – Devices 1987-2007: Feedback Symphony (Monochrome Vision) [feat. “Oberhausen” by Gesellchaft Zu Emanzipation Des Samples, from Circulations (Faitiche)]
16. Gunter Mass – “Reise” – Klangbilder
17. Pain Jerk – “Berserker – Live at 20000V, Tokyo, 11 Nov 2006” – European Tour 2009 [feat. “10 Miles High Over Albania” by Robert Moran]
18. Bivouac Recording – “Pudong Promenade Toy” – Sounds of Shanghai
19. Buddy Holly – “Love Is Strange”
20. The Soundcarriers – “Been Out To Sea”
21. Margaret Leng Tan – “Suite For Toy Piano (John Cage)” – Other Minds 5, 1999
22. – “A Soundscape of Ocean, City, and Music” [KPFA, 16 August 1970]
23. Tortoise – “The Fall of Seven Diamonds Plus One” – Beacons Of Ancestorship (Thrill Jockey)
24. Cluster – “Lerandis” – Qua (Nepenthe)
25. Lee Hazlewood – “Come On Home To Me” – Movin’ On (Ace)
26. Ortolan – “Me N U” – Ortolan EP (Sounds Familyre)
27. Link Wray – “Fallin’ Rain” – Link Wray (Polydor)
28. Billie Holliday – “Body and Soul” – Lady Day: The Master Takes and Singles (Sony)
29. Ty Segall – “Dropout Boogie” – Lemons (Goner)
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Detailed playlist, with listening links.
1. Nora Guthrie – “Emily’s Illness” – Emily’s Illness 7-inch (Mercury)
2. All Tiny Creatures – “Street Lights Ten Thousand Feet” – Segni EP (Hometapes)
3. Black Mold – “Swimming To Food” – Snow Blindness is Crystal Antz (Flemish Eye)
4. Kim Fowley – “Energy” – Good Clean Fun
5. Grasshopper – “Forest Jihad” – Kindertotenlieder (Bloodfist Karate School)
6. Arlo Guthrie – “If Ever I Should See the Mountain” – Tales of ’69 (Rising Son)
7. New Riders Of The Purple Sage – “Portland Woman” – 29 April 1971 Fillmore East [RIP John “Marmaduke” Dawson: http://www.arthurmag.com/2009/07/24/new-riders-marmaduke-rip/]
8. New Riders Of The Purple Sage – “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” – 18 March 1973 Felt Forum [feat. “Mansfield Rain” recorded by Simon James French]
9. Doc Watson Family – “The Lone Pilgrim” – The Doc Watson Family (Smithsonian Folkways)
10. DeYarmond Edison – “Four Keyboard Phase In A” – The Bickett Residency [feat. “Floating Icicles Rocked By Waves” recorded by Peter Cusack (from Baikal Ice (Spring 2003)) (ReR)]
11. Robert Wyatt – “Born Again Cretin” – Radio Experiment Rome, February 1981 (RAI Trade)
12. Chubby Checker – “Stoned In The Bathroom” – Chubby Checker (1971)
13. Louis Nye – “Teenage Beatnik” (Wig)
14. Don Cherry Quintet – “Cocktail Piece” – March 17, 1966-Jazzhus Montmartre (ESP-Disk)
15. Mum – “Kay-Ray-Kú-Kú-Kó-Kex” – Sing Along To Songs You Don’t Know (Morr Music)
16. Steve Bernstein/Marcus Rojas/Kresten Osgood – “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” – Tattoos and Mushrooms (Ilk)
17. Bill Withers – “Hope She’ll Be Happier” – Soul Power documentary
18. Gary Wilson – “Groovy Girls Make Love at the Beach” – You Think You Really Know Me? (Motel)
19. Risil – “This Air I Breathe” – Non Masters, v. 1 (Important)
20. Atlas Sound feat. Panda Bear – “Walkabout” – Logos (Kranky)
21. Arklight – “Track 05” – Shards and Ashes (Little Fury Things)
22. Hiens Hoffman-Richter – “Symphony For Tape Delay, IBM Instruction Manual, & Ohm Septet, 3d mvmt.” [feat. “LOE (The Vision)” by Chaos Majik, from Cry of the 12th Aethyr cassette (Baked Tapes)]
– “Bohemian Rhapsody (old school computer mix)” [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht96HJ01SE4]
23. Terence LLoren – “Bug Market, Xizang Lu” [Recorded March 31, 2009, 12:26pm]
24. Fred Bigot/Vincent Epplay/Arnaud Maguet – “Passee La Saison Du Pandanus Dansons L’iboga Boogie Sous Le Volcan Exactement” – Musique Pour Les Plantes Des Dieux (Les Disque En Rotun Reuinis)
25. Oneida – “Saturday” – Rated O (Brah)
26. – “Paul Is Dead” – Degraded Teen: Bob Brainen’s 2009 WFMU Marathon Premium
27. Dump – “Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey” – DOG: A Best Show Tribute to RAM
28. Spooky Tooth/Pierre Henry – “Credo” – Ceremony (Edsel)
29. Maxi-Music – “Christopus Colombus” – Space Oddities, v. 2: A Psychedelic Journey Through Libraries (Permanant Vacation)
30. The Folklords – “Don’t Hide Your Love From Me” – Release the Sunshine (Lion Productions)
31. Purple Rhinestone Eagle – “Sleep, Golden Sleep” – Amorum Tali (Eolian)
32 Genevieve Waite – “Yesterday I Left The Earth” – Andy Warhol Presents Man on the Moon: The John Phillips Space Musical (Varese Sarabande)
33. Nico – “These Days” – Chelsea Girl (Polydor)
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Feature:
Of Proust & Potter (Paste)
Albums:
Gather, Form, and Fly – Megafaun (Indy Week)
Indie-Weirdo Round-Up featuring: Assemble Head in Sunburtst Sound, Ducktails, Omar Souleyman, Talibam!, Woods (JamBands.com)
Live:
Wilco/Yo La Tengo at KeySpan Park, 13 July 2009 (Village Voice)
Paul McCartney at Ed Sullivan Theater Marquee, 15 July 2009 (Village Voice)
Columns:
What Machine Do You Use To Kill Fascists? (Faster Times)
BRAIN TUBA: The Ydbbbbkk of Bob Weir (JamBands.com)
BRAIN TUBA: Hevdepping with HijuM’mp (JamBands.com)
BRAIN TUBA: A Masked Stranger (JamBands.com)
Print:
o Signal To Noise #54 (Sonic Youth cover): cover feature on Sonic Youth, “Meet the Eternals”
o Paste #54 (Stuart Murdoch cover): feature on Yonlu, interview with Gilberto Gil.
o July Relix (Dave Matthews Band cover): profile of Dirty Projectors, album reviews of Sonic Youth, Gamehenge 09, Bob Dylan, Wooden Shjips, Sir Richard Bishop, Grateful Dead live releases (Road Trips Vol. 2, No. 2, To Terrapin).
Detailed playlist, with listening links.
1. Aero Sound – “Ready For Take Off” – kraut! demons! kraut! german psychedelic underground 1968-1974 (Gema)
2. Fennesz – “Happy Audio” – Endless Summer (Mego)
3. Robe – “The Dying Light” – The Dying Light (Little Fury Things)
4. Lee Johnson/Russian National Orchestra – “Mountains of the Moon” – Dead Symphony No. 6 (OMI) [feat. “Mountains of the Moon” (1 March 1969, 26 April 1969, angel choir mix) + Yellow Tears, “Don’t Cry” 12-inch (Hospital Productions) + moon landing recordings]
5. Circulatory System – “Until Moon Medium Hears the Message” – Signal Morning (Cloud)
6. Los Peyotes – “Bdaaa!!!” – Bdaaa!!! 7-inch (Dirty Water)
7. Sabor a Fresa – “Zorongo” – La Nueva Banda de Santisteban (Vampisoul)
8. Turbo Fruits – “20th I Was Blue” – Turbo Fruits (Ecstatic Peace)
9. Moon Duo – “Love on the Sea” – Love on the Sea 12-inch (Sick Thirst)
10. Insect Joy – “Cursoria” – Tarantismo Summit, v. 1 (Rampage)
11. Paul Rubenstein’s PS 288 kids – “Heavy Drone Rock” [http://ubertar.com/kids9/]
12. Hermeto Pascoal – “Sinfonia do Alto Ribeira” [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTgGc0YMTX4]
13. Ganglians – “Lost Words” – Eat Skull/Ganglians 7-inch (Dulc-i-Tone)
14. Aran Ruth – “Flying On Silver Wings” – To A Distant Sun Flying on Silver Wings 7-inch (Beehive Recording Co.)
15. Radiohead – “Faust Arp” – Thumbs Down webcast
16. Connie Converse – “Talkin’ Like You (Two Tall Mountains)” – How Sad, How Lovely (Lauderette)
17. Rodriguez – “Silver Words?” – Coming From Reality (Light in the Attic)
18. Delia Derbyshire – “The Wizards Labratory”
19. Xex – “St. Vitus’ Dance” – Group: Xex
20. Dr. Zilog – “My Girls (8 bit version)”
21. Zach Wallace – “We Are Here” – Matt Wellins/Zach Wallace split 12-inch (What the…?)
22. 8 – 7-inch
23. Vulcanus 68 – “#3” – 2 (Gigante Sound)
24. Flourescent Vibes – “Side A” – Weight of the Clouds cassette (Baked Tapes) [feat. the Legendary Criswell Predicts!]
25. Bill Orcutt – “Big Ass Nails” – Big Ass Nails / High – Waisted 7-inch
26. Sir Plastic Crimewave – “Boudoir Blues Raga” – Bait/Switch Banjo Raga/Rags cassette (As Above, So Below)
27. John Cage – “Rozart Mix (1965)” – An Anthology of Noise & Electronic 28. Music: First A-Chronology 1921-2001 (Sub Rosa)
Postal Workers, University of Ghana Post Office – Worlds of Music: An introduction to the Music of the World’s Peoples (SCHIRMER Thomson Learning) [field recording by James Koetting, 1975]
29. Zs – “Except When You Don’t Because Sometimes You Won’t” – Arms (Planaria)
30. Excepter – “Wrong Ring” – La Sala Rossa Steps (Abandon Ship)
31. Jerome Pergolesi – “Feu follet” – Talking to Ghosts (Palacmusic)
32. Bjorn Fongaard – “EleRtrofonia no. 1” – Arkivalia: Music from the Henie-Onstad Art Center Archives (Henie Onstad)
33. Greg Davis – “Hall of Pure Bliss” – Mutually Arising (Kranky)
34. Sleepy Sun – “Golden Artifact” – Embrace (ATP)
35. Gillian Welch – “Everything is Free” – Time (The Revelator) (Acony)
36. Karen Dalton – “Are You Leaving For the Country?” – In My Own Time (Light in the Attic)
37. Jackson Browne – “The Fairest of the Seasons” – The Nina Demos, 1966-1967
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Detailed playlist, with listening links.
1. Richard Ranft – “Frog chorus” – August 1981, Foz de Jutai, Jutai, Brazil (British Library) [http://www.bl.uk/listentonature/soundstax/frogs.html]
2. Matt Shoemaker – “The Analogous Eye” – Erosion of the Analagous Eye (Human Faculties)
3. Harry Smith – “excerpts from Cajun Music” – July 15, 1988 [http://www.archive.org/details/naropa_harry_smith_cajun]
4. Banda El Limon – “Mazatlan” – Musica Tambora (Arhoolie)
5. Thomas Chalmers and Elizabeth Spencer – “Star Spangled Banner” (Edison BA)
6. – “Drums, Sun, Birds, Bells” – 4 July 2007
7. Bongwater – “The Porpoise Song” – Double Bummer (Shimmy-Disc)
8. Baiano & Os Novos Caetanos – “Vô Batê Pá Tu” – Baiano & Os Novos Caetanos (Barclay)
9. Liverpool – “Por Favor Sucesso” – Por Favor Sucesso (Shadoks)
10. Cornelius – “Surf Rider Blue + Surf Rider Green” – Star Fruits Surf Rider EPs 1 & 2 (Matador)
11. Universal Studios Florida feat. Blind Man’s Colour – “Moon Bungalow” – Ocean Sunbirds (Little Fury Things)
12. AOA – “Track 3” – Domegapease
13. Tony Allen Vs. Elewedu Of Agege – “Awa Na Re (Bonde Do Role Remix)” – Lagos Shake, A Tony Allen Chop Up (Honest Jon’s) [feat. the Brazilian frogs]
14. Lizzy Mercier Descloux – “Hard-Boiled Babe” – ZE 30 – ZE Records 1979-2009 (Ze)
15. Robert Pollard – “Here Comes Garcia” – Standard Gargoyle Decisions (Merge)
16. Grateful Dead – “Feedback” – 11 February 1969 Fillmore East (Warner Brothers)
17. Grateful Dead – “Beautiful Jam (18 February 1971 Capitol Theater)” – So Many Roads (Arista)
18. Fenn O’Berg – “We Will Diffuse You” – The Magic Sound & Return Of… (Editions Mego)
19. Goh Lee Kwang – “The night as it was raining (aka 26 sunigrai)” – Beyond Ignorance and Borders (Syrphe) [feat. cicada, tymbal vibrations, recorded by Ron Kettle, Melbourne, Australia]
20. Gregg Kowalsky – “I-IV” – Tape Chants (Kranky)
21. Megafaun – “Darkest Hour” – Gather Form and Fly (Home Tapes)
22. Bonnie Prince Billy – “New Wedding” – The Present OST (Brushfire)
23. George Harrison – “Beware of Darkness (demo)” – Beware of ABKCO [Allen Klein, 1931-2009]
24. Devo & Neil Young – “Hey Hey My My” – Human Highway OST
25. Pocahaunted – “Palm” – Passage 12-inch (Troubleman Unlimited)
26. Weegee & Henri Cartier-Bresson – Famous Photographers Tell How (Candid Recordings)
27. Dary John Mizelle – “Metal” – New Percussion Music (Lumina)
28. Red Zao – “Piam Zat” – Black and Red Dao in Vietnam (King Gong)
29. Philip Corner – “Belum” – 3 Pieces for Gamelan Ensemble (Alga Marghen) [feat. “Iron Man” performed by Lincoln Barron, 5 July 2009]
30. Tomutonttu – “Kohtublues” – Tomutonttu (Fonal)
31. Gong – “Hope You Feel OK” – Magick Brother (Snapper UK)
32. Ovens – “Stuck” – Ovens (Tumult)
33. Satwa – “Can I Be Satwa” – Satwa (Time Lag)
34. Analfabitles – “It’s Been Too Long” – Shake 7-inch (RCA Victor)
35. The Treepeople – “Grandfather” – Human Voices (Guersen)
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Steal Global, Buy Local
by Jesse Jarnow
Faster Times, July 2009
The music biz ain’t dead. It doesn’t even smell funny. Not even jazz. Sure, labels are tanking, magazines are closing, and–like Gillian Welch sang in one of the most effectively heartbreaking laments about modern culture–everything is free. But music itself is perhaps more present at every level of society than any other time in human history. It is more disposable, too, achieving a level of ephemera not known since before recorded sound.
For musicians, it brings new creative challenges, to create something that requires an experience greater than itself, more three-dimensional than a simple recording can allow. For listeners, especially voracious ones, it brings new moral bounds. But, mostly, delicious, awesome gluttony.
It is, of course, a cosmic dick move to never pay for one’s tunes. On the other hand, it’s a total rube job to always fork over cash. (Parking lot hippies slinging grilled cheese and nitrous call square people “custys.” No one likes a custy.) But where is the line? What is the line? The problem is no longer whether or not it is permissible to download music–of course it is–but who to steal from. Or, more practically speaking, who to pay.
If one’s goal (as it should be) is a sustainable musical ecosystem, the answer is–as with food–to go local. Given music’s now usual expression as bits, usually housed on some distant server, the definition of “local” is entirely up in the air, gone to the ether.
It could be you are a resident (in Bill Wasik’s terminology) of the hipster archipelago. Maybe global psychedelic weirdoes like the recently reunited Os Mutantes seem like kindred spirits, or maybe cough syrup-chugging Houston hip-hoppers. Perhaps your Facebook network describes the arc of your locality. Perhaps your apartment building, your block, your college friends. Maybe you belong (in Kurt Vonnegut’s phrasing) to a karass, its fellow members unknown to you until spontaneous discovery. What’s your scene, man?
No matter where you are (or they are), it is more fun and satisfying to buy your friends’ albums than to spend money on (say) the new Wilco record or a Rolling Stone subscription. Unless you happen to be friends with Wilco, of course, or strongly identify with their mission. (One of the reasons I was happy to pay $10 for Radiohead’s In Rainbows is because their pay-what-you-will gesture seemed a clear indication that we were of the same locality.) Local could be local, spending money on music that is only available in your immediate vicinity — like buying a neighbor’s home-pressed CD-R, or going to one of his gigs, checking out the other acts he’s playing with.
It is not that one’s immediate vicinity is better than anywhere else (which would be nationalist) or that he should exploit the music of musicians in far away countries (which would be imperialist). Simply, it is never bad to think about one’s consumption. In the case of music–as opposed to say, wondering how the proverbial sausage gets made–thinking local can only make the experience richer.
Very often, especially now that one doesn’t have to enter the commerce-based community of a record store to acquire it, music can feel beamed in, created someplace far away, by other people. The internet is more than the celestial jukebox, it is the celestial big box store, sucking everybody into the vast Everywhere. The disappearance of regionalism in American culture is as old as the interstates, but it is a mistake to think of that transformation as anywhere near complete, that life is effectively the same all over the place. Of course it’s not. But only you know where you’re at.
