All over the place...

[pheloniusfriar]

Here's the playlist, etc. for my ninth show (Mar. 28, 2011)... which also went for a double shift because there is apparently no host for "Mid-Day Mind Control" which runs after "The Dollar Bin". Now, I have to come clean here... it's the end of the term and I've been seriously fried. So fried that I forgot that I had to do my show until an hour before it was time to go on air! Praise be to Harris (a co-op über student from Waterloo [Engineering] that I've been working with over the past few months in the labs at Carleton) for loaning me his USB stick so I could pull the show together as well as I did. Thankfully I'm also a techno wienie and have an Internet server in my living room that I use as my web and file server that I was able to pull MP3 off of (I rip my CDs as I get them so I can listen to them easily for pleasure and for picking for the show, but use the CDs themselves when I go to air). This show was all MP3s... and all things considered, I thought it turned out pretty well. Instead of a spotlight per se (I had some of the show already picked out), I did a mini-spotlight where I played two songs (by Canada's Crash Vegas and Iceland's The Sugarcubes) that always reminded me of each other (even thought they don't really sound the same). They do lead nicely from one to the other though: "Moving Too Fast" to "Motorcrash", heh. As a reminder, my show is broadcast live and prone to mind-altering chaos every second Monday (until April 25th, then it will be going WEEKLY, woot!) from 2PM to 3PM (Eastern Time) on 93.1FM in Ottawa or streaming audio on http://www.ckcufm.com/. You can always go here to find out when the next show will be (or read my playlists). Of this show, I wrote:

From art house to a full punk set and songs that kinda sound the same to songs that are radically different. More music less talk today and awesome music from end to end.

Now, to my credit, I'd already picked the Skirt, Speedbumps, and Pablo's Eye tracks to play and had the punk set pretty much together with The Marshes, 7 Seconds, and O-Matic (loooove that track!), and had flagged the Chimera tracks for eventual play (they just got lumped in because it was easier)... but I had to put the rest of the tracks together from memory and then had to do the "research" for the tracks "on the fly" as I did my show... yikes! Live radio indeed! Without further ramblings, here is the playlist for The Dollar Bin:

Pablo's Eye, Grass of '96, "Les Larmes du Tigre"
Pablo's Eye, Grass of '96, "Gone By Night"
The Marshes, Grass of '96, "Offshore"
Suicidal Tendencies, Join The Church of Suicidal, "War In My Head"
7 Seconds, The Music The Message, "The Kids Are United"
O-Matic, Grass of '96, "No Pinky, No Leather"
Crash Vegas, Red Earth, "Moving Too Fast"
The Sugarcubes, Life's Too Good, "Motorcrash"
Skirt, Choking On Sugar, "Speed Under Her Feet"
Cosmik Connection, Electrojazzset, "Rootsman"
Baba, Mind Music, "Mind Music"
Chimera, Grass of '96, "Catch Me"
Chimera, Grass of '96, "Night Song"
Speedbumps, Crayon Box, "Thursday's Chicken"

The Pablo's Eye tracks were particularly interesting... beautifully arthouse/creative. I tried to look for tracks on the Intertubes to listen to, but nothing was quite as good as the ones that were on the Grass Records label sampler. The Cosmik Connection track, "Rootsman", was pretty sweet as well! And then my spontaneous (read: panicked) play list I put together for "Mid-Day Mind Control" on the fly:

Paddy Ryan, Chain Link Fence, "Rise"
Kurt Swinghammer, Vostok 6, "Dark"
Pomplamoose, Pomplacovers, "La Vie En Rose"
Pomplamoose, Pomplacovers, "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)"
Jarett Norton and Danny Dodge, N/A, "Death Metal Friday"
Triptaka, Second War, "Suspended"
Ancient Obliteration, A Menacing Reality, "Radiated Overlords"
Voivod, Nothingface, "Astronomy Domine"
Beautiful Nubia and Roots Renaissance Band, Sun No Dey Sleep, "Eyes Always Open"
Tru Rez Crew, I'm A Lucky One, "I'm A Lucky One"

Now, I was a little punchy I think and played a few wtf tracks for sure (notably "La Vie En Rose" and "Death Metal Friday", lol... and threatened listeners with more of the same if they didn't call in with requests... nobody did so either: nobody was listening, or people actually enjoyed that shit, heh). There was a bit of a "prog rock" opening to the show. I wanted to allow Paddy Ryan to redeem himself after the "throw me on the floor and group fuck me" incident when we played a track at random off his album (eep... the only track on they album like it, of course). Kurt Swinghammer's album "Vostok 6" is one of my favorite albums of all time (a tribute concept album to cosmonaut Валентина Терешкова [Valentina Tereshkova]) and it was great to play a track off of it. My friend Robotika pointed out "Death Metal Friday" and it was too good (read: bad) not to inflict share with people (look it up on YouTube... well worth the visit, heh). I am also glad I played Tru Rez Crew (awesome aboriginal band) and you can't go wrong with Montreal's Voivod. The Triptaka, Ancient Obliteration, and Beautiful Nubia and Roots Renaissance Band were all new Canadian CDs that I pulled at semi-random (I didn't know what they sounded like before I played them)... awesome stuff as usual! The Ancient Obliteration album was particularly wack with track titles like "Pagan Rape" and "Seeking the Slimegod" I read the lyrics for the track I played at least before I spun it ;). Well, always eager to promote Canadian bands... I'll leave you with one Ancient Obliteration track ("Portal Beast (live)" ... maybe this will help dispel the notion that Canadians are "nice") and one from The Dollar Bin band Chimera, "Night Song"... there are so many bands and albums and tracks named "Chimera" that this stuff is almost impossible to find in the noise ;).

Not all Canadians are "nice":

These people are nice, but they're not Canadian:

Comments

[popelaksmi]

I'm bummed out I have missed so many of your shows. If I could listen I would but it's not very realistic at work (call centre) and I currently do not own a clock radio that I could bring in. I think the phone kallisti lent me has a radio option, I will see if I can get it to work. Other than that I may have some other devide that has a radio function.

Might be an option for me over the summer if you don't take a break before Autumn because summertime tends to be a little less busy in the office.

[pheloniusfriar]

Don't despair ;). I will be putting my shows up for download soon, or I can just cut a disk and give it to you the next time I see you. I just have to wait until exams are over on Monday, then I will be doing the final edits and posting them on my web server. Then you can listen at your leisure at work or at home :).

[popelaksmi]

I would love that!

Curious though, will these disks include your in between song chat time? Or just the songs?

[pheloniusfriar]

Yes, I'm lazy and just record the whole show ;).

Jeff Green makes me copies of his shows, and I've asked him to leave the spoken parts in because I find it helps give the show context... otherwise, the playlist and access to a torrent would give the music with no monologue.