June 29, 2011: Computer Love and Other Stories

It gets exactly that.

The planets aligned this week in terms of a great segue-way from the Hustle to Robot News, with Eruption's Computer Love followed by a story of a man falling for a chat bot. AI is getting there. Check out cleverbot.com and see how easy it is to mimic human responses. 

Yes, that is Kim Mitchell, its as good as he gets

I could do an entire program of Brazilian music, and some day I will. But tonight, following some dronney psych we got into a trio of Milton Nascimento songs about Pablo, prefixed by traditional Portuguese music. All in aid of bringing on Bebeto, a mail order find by way of the less inspiring Last.fm. If anyone knows where to find a cut of Bebeto's Segura Nega, please let me know.

Some pretty smooth music on this platter, reminiscent of Jobim

I also played a pretty funky selection from George Benson's The Other Side of Abbey Road. A garage sale find. CTI, with a great team of supporting artists including Herbie Hancock. Best dollar I've spent in years. Less good was the Ananta purchase, but there will be an entire show dedicated to that fiasco, perhaps next week.

I've heard Abbey Road from Both Sides Now

Played List

Artist - Track - Album 

Eruption (featuring Precious Wilson) - Computer Love - Eruption

Robot News - Computer Love and  Clever Bots

Max Webster - Moon Voices - A Million Vacations

Dark Fog - Out of My Mind - The Ultimate Cult of Psychedelic Psychosis

Moon Duo - In the Trees - Escape

Alexander Tucker - Superherder - Furrowed Brow

Esturdia dos Componeses de Godinhacos - A Vida E Assim Mesmo - Folklore de Mihno

Milton Nascimento - Pablo II- Journey to Dawn

Milton Nascimento - Pablo - Journey to Dawn

Milton Nascimento - Pablo II - Journey to Dawn

Bebeto - Bartuque  - Bebeto

George Benson - Because/Come Together - The Other Side of Abbey Road

Sun Ra - Plutonian Nights - The Nubians of Plutonia

June 22, 2011: For the Benefit

Say what you will about Sgt Pepper, but you must admit the album art  was influential

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This week featured a heavy dose of AMT&MPU.F.O. preceded by "benefit" music from False Face and... the Beatles!


I just can't seem to get enough early German psych. Played my new Magama. I guess I can thank people like Heino for pushing the German youth of the sixties and seventies into the outer limits of creative exuberance.

This Heino picture would probably put a certain CKCU host into a coma. He has yet to wrestle that poodle!

Robot News was about drawing robots. Not sure how much this is initiation or imitation. I think the images are kewl though.

A Robot "drew" this.

Played List
Artist - Track - Album

Yaz - Sweet Thing -


Mountain - Don't Look Around - Nantucket Sleigh Ride

Year of the Benefit of the Doubt Part Two - False Face and Michael Davidge - AC5
For the Benefit of Mr Kite - The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band
Brian Eno - Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch - BBC Sessions


Robot news

Magma - Neber Gudahtt - Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh

Acid Mother's Temple - Pink Lady Lemonade - Part 1 A
Acid Mother's Temple - Pink Lady Lemonade - Part 1B

June 15, 2011: L'Ambiance

This just screams 1991

"Full moon... Just go out and howl at it."- Tree McLicky

The last full moon before the solstice illuminated the sound of the Sand In Your Head during this week's broadcast.

I started off with a random purchase from my very early days of record collecting, when I thought the movie Trianspotting was the greatest thing ever. This was days before I would revisit Smokey and the Bandit (see last week's post).

We heard three very different tracks by Canadian artists, old and new. I must visit Ottawa and pick up more <>>>>, Biker Smell is not enough. Snowblower, is a pretty much defunct Toronto operation featuring the inspired lyrics, if not more reserved style,  of acid toilet rock pioneer, Craig Dean, formerly of satirical metal band "Gash". I am intrigued by Les Cailloux, a thoroughly Outaouais combo, who seemed to have had their moment and are now relegated to Value Village vinyl bins.

Gash with Beauregard Beechcliffe in all their "glory"

I then moved into the ambient from Six Organs of Admittance and Lords of Falconry. Pleased to have found M83's Saturdays= Youth in Vancouver, but sad to find out that the track I played is not typical of the album. I will give it time.

Real lords of falconry

ROBOT NEWS = ROBOT HUMMINGBIRD

Robots.net article

DARPA

Played List

Artist - Track - Album

Leftfield - A Final Hit (Instrumental) - Trainspotting Sampler

[The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol] - Biker Smell -  Pantheon of Fuckery Part 2 - Blues in Goddamn

Snowblower - C'est Dommage - In Fear of Snowblower

Les Cailloux - Envoyons D'L'Avant - Les Cailloux

Six Organs of Admittance - Anasthesia - Luminous Night

Lords of Falconry - Creeping, the Ether - Lords of Falconry

This Will Destroy You - The World Is Our ______ - Young Mountain

Jim O'Rourke - Not Sport, Martial Art - Halfway To A Threeway

M83 - Midnight Souls Still Remain - Saturdays = Youth

Neu!- "Sonderangebot" ("Special Offer") - Neu!

June 8, 2011: Forcast of Racing

Racing's "Flavio" (right in blue shades), races uncomfortably around Monaco.

 It was a dark and stormy night. Tom Waits is called for as well as some Eno and Conifer. These were a salve for the DEEP HURTING that was to follow in this week's program.

Tom Waits

Yes it is Grand Prix racing time in Montreal this weekend, a theme that I approached through the backdoor way of first focusing on songs with "outro's". Did I coin a term? This led us inevitably to "The Chain" by Fleetwood Mac (borderline "In-Line Rock"). The Chain is interesting because it demonstrates that a good outro can make for a great "intro".

Speedy Marie, on this album, has a great "outro".

This of course, leads us into racing and auto music. We hear from, literally, the Father of French electro-new-wave-ambient-music, Maurice Jarre with his soundtrack to 1966's Grand Prix movie.

Truly deeply hurty then was the broadcast of the two Smokey and the Bandit songs from two Smokey and the Bandit movies, each featuring the vocals of a different star from the respective films. The shameless excess of these movies and recordings may have been a herald of end times. I like the Jerry Reed, actually.

Smokey [not pictured here and the Bandit (right).

Shortest Robot News eva. Yes, shuffle board playing bots sure to take over world... of shuffle board.

Played List
Artist - Track - Album
 
Brian Eno - Flint March - Small Craft on a Milk Sea
Brian Eno - Horse - Small Craft on a Milk Sea

Tom Waits - Strange Weather - Big Time
Saffron Sect - Phosphorus Flash - [single]
Fever Ray - When I Grow Up - Fever Ray


Conifer - Surface Fire - Crown Fire

Citizen Cope Easy Star All Stars- Karma Police - Radiodread
Speedy Marie- Frank Black - Teenager of the Year
Fleetwood Mac - The Chain - Rumours


Maurice Jarre - Sarti’s Love Theme (Bossa Nova) - Grand Prix The Motion Picture Soundtrack 
Jerry Reed - Eastbound and Down and Incidental CB Dialogue - Smokey and the Bandit the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Burt Reynolds - Let's Do Something - Let's Do Something Cheap and Superficial - Smokey and the Bandit 2, the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack


Angelo Badalamenti - Dub Drive - Lost Highway, the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Angelo Badalamenti - Red Bats with Teeth - Lost Highway, the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

June 1, 2011: Slice That Hammer and Robot News Gets a Theme!

Chain gangs were not fun for anyone. The despair and suffering of this approach to correctional services is vividly drawn out in Harry Belafonte's re-creation of some of these melodies in the powerful LP "Swing Dat Hammer". We played one track, but stopped there, these songs are intense. 

Ontario of the Future?

I've been waiting to play a significant amount of folk music and this seemed like a great opportunity to play some non-country hurtin' songs. The British/Smithsonian collection of Child songs performed by Jean Ritchie is a real gem. These are old British ditties that survived the migration to America and are still sung with feelin' by the families in the mountains of the US south. Ritchie is a master of the dulcimer and I couldn't resist playing two tracks.

Jean Ritchie

Had to acknowledge Mr Dylan's big 70th birthday. I bought Desire for Hurricane, but I keep it for Isis.

The second hunk of the program featured some selections that were less heavy musically, if not instrumentally.

Someone's shield is hungry.

Robot News was an example of how security bots have become commonplace. The fact that it was a robot that burned down this house was not the news in this story![1] Perhaps the real news today is RB's new theme!

Played List

Artist - Track - Album 

ESG - You Make No Sense - Come Away With ESG

Harry Belafonte - Look Over Yonder - Swing Dat Hammer

Jean Ritchie - British Folkways [Child Songs] - False Sir John

Jean Ritchie - British Folkways [Child Songs] -Hangman

Buffy Ste-Marie - God Is Alive... Magic is Afoot - Best of Buffy Ste-Marie

Ian & Sylvia - Un canadien Errant - Ian & Sylvia

Bob Dylan - Isis - Desire

Marissa Nadler - River of Dirt - Little Hells

Robot News

Judas Priest - Prelude - Hero Hero

Sonic Youth - The Good and the Bad - Sonic Youth

Wooden Shjips - Down By the Sea - Dos

Jimi Hendrix - Long Hot Summer Night - Electric Ladyland

May 25, 2010: The Pacific

This week  I started off with what I've always believed to be a dance track from Stevie Wonder from The Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants. Interesting record.

Plants are alive.

I rounded out the day with all of side 2 of Can's Monster Movie: You Do Right. The show was precorded and I figured that these occasions are ideal for long tracks.

Long songs? Long Cat!

Book-ended by Stevie Wonder and Can are some selections related to the pacific ocean. I am particularly fond of the scratchy record of Maori recordings which features a m ix of  traditional warrior-style chanting and New Zealand's version of aboriginal Schlager. I also threw in some Stan Rogers and percussive schlager from Reader's Digest Records. Recorded in Dynagroove and "pleasure programmed" this six-disc box set is incapable of good music. Count this as a Bad Song that Rocks.

Painting of Potatau Te Wherowhero and two other Maori chiefs

I felt a bit bad about the Reader's Digest Deep Hurting, so I played some Brazilian Psych, Magma and Jesus and Mary Chain, just to keep it Cheddar.

Robot News featured new ideas about Swarm Robots for Mars Exploration, which I found out about by way of the Skeptic's Guide to the Universe podcast. Hello to any new robot news enthusiasts!

Played List 

Artist - Track - Album

Stevie Wonder - Race Babbling - Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants

1979 basd on the 1973 book by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird

Som Imginaro - Super God - Sweet Dandilion

Magma - Gamma - Inedits

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Blues from A Gun

Robot News

Haka: Ringa Pakia - Henare Take - New Zealand "Maori" Concert Party

E Pari Ra - Henare Take - New Zealand "Maori" Concert Party

Haka: Te Peruperu/Whiti Whiti - Henare Take - New Zealand "Maori" Concert Party

Stan Rogers- Rollin' Down to Old Maui - Between the Breaks... Live!

Douglas Gamley (and the Reader's Digest Orchestra?) - Jungle Drums - South Sea Island Magic

The Can - You Do Right - Monster Movie