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Triumphant tragedies, of a spin doctor, specializing in emotional outbursts, psychedlic psychosis, astral channeling, divine intervention and post traumatic stress induction.

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16.2.11

Mira Calix - One On One -[Warp 2000]

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Chantal Passamonte aka Mira Calix, moved to London in the 90's. Both she and her husband have worked with Warp, she as a press officer and he, Sean Booth, as one-half of Autechre. As a DJ she played with Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Aphex Twin, and Radiohead. In 2009, she received a British composer Award & the Royal Philharmonic Society Award. This album was released six ways and this is the CD release on Warp in 2000.

The minimalism is driven by noise/field/foley recordings. Tracks include slow building beats with her vocals sparse and drowned in velvet. Each track transforms and makes use of it's essence. Some are built around glitch & beats touching on ambient neo-classical. Others are awash in ethereal, bass heavy, and sample layered vox. Definitely for fans of Aphex Twin, Richard Devine, and the like.

P.s. the release includes two bonus tracks. Track 17 is a Boards of Canada of 'Sandsings' and the original is featured on track 18. The two vary quite a bit; with more glitch and beat in the remix & the original has a field recording ambience of static, bells, and looping vox.



3WR: lady cinder donna

14.2.11

Fool for Love

^^ CLICK THE TITLE FOR PLAYLIST ^^

It's not every year I do a Valentine's Day show, but since my show happened to land on the holiday, I thought I'd give love a chance. So here's just an hour of the show at soundcloud. You can always grab the airchecks for two weeks at kfjc.org/broadcast_archives.
for your listening pleasure, download or listen to the whole show in four parts:
pt. 1



pt.2



pt. 3



pt 4.



12.2.11

FM - BX Tape Society 001




FM-BX Society Tape 001
S.S. Records

This was originally released in a 200 copy run on tape for radio promotion out of Belgium. This vinyl issuing is limited to 500 unnumbered copies. Isolation Ward and Unit 4 are from Belgium and the Scottish band the Topplers are the three bands featured. Alan Henry of the Topplers runs Toppler Records now, but during the time of this recording played some straight forward garage punk. They might not Topple(r) you over, but if it weren’t one of the band memebers, Alan Henry, we may not have seen this release. Both Isolation Ward and Unit 4 feature females and similar sounds. Isolation Ward releases cold wave post punk and continued to record and release after this comp. As the notes read, the Topplers thought that they were the cutting edge band on this comp, but as you listen it is obvious that Unit 4 is the stand outs. Four females who have seemed to disappear made post punk no wave sounds that were far ahead of it’s time, at least in Belgium. This begs the question that is printed on the note from Alan Henry, WHERE ARE YOU UNIT FOUR???

11.2.11

Garden of Morming

Click the link above for the complete list of tracks. check out the show here

10.2.11

Yole Boys - “Megakut #1″ - [Megakut Records]





This cassette release is limited to 250 copies. It’s a mega mix from your faves DJ Quest(SF) on cuts and “records” alongside Fatees(OAK) with his “Bay”ami Bass style. These two hold it down with samples and beats that make you want to whip your hair back and forth. Keep a lookout for Megakut Records. They are taking back cassette culture by releasing mixtapes and local side projects from Hip Hop greats; including a slice of pulp fiction. Don’t sleep on this!