Top 20 of 2003
here's my list. enjoy!
Top 20 New Releases
1. A Frames - 1, 2 - SS/The Dipers - How to Plan Successful Parties - Omnibus
2. US Maple - Purple on Time - Drag City
3. Aesop Rock - Bazooka Tooth - Def Jux
4. Matmos - Civil War - Matador
5. John Fahey - Red Cross - Revenant
6. Various - Flowers in the Wildwood - Trikont
7. William Parker Violin Trio - Threads - Thirsty Ear
8. Hospitals - s/t - In the Red
9. The User - Symphony no. 2 for Dot Matrix Printer/Abandon - Asphodel
10. Ex Models - Zoo Psychology - French Kiss
11. Shoup/Flaherty/Corsano/Moore - Live at Tonic - Leo
12. Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow - Load
13. Autechre - Draft 7.30 - Warp
14. Kinski/Acid Mothers Temple - Split - SubPop
15. Various - Miami Sound - Soul Jazz
16. Six Organs of Admittance - Compathia - Holy Mountain
17. Fe-mail - Syklubb fra Haelvete - TV5
18. Scout Niblett - I am - Secretly Canadian
19. Starvations - Get Well Soon - Gold Standard Labs
20. Erik Friedlander - Maldoror - Brassland
Top 10 Reissues
1. Henry Flynt - Back Porch Hillbilly Blues Vol. 1 and 2 - Locust
2. Eleventh Dream Day - Prairie School Freakout - Thrill Jockey
3. Essential Logic - Fanfare in the Garden - Kill Rock Stars
4. Liaisons Dangereuses - s/t - Hit Thing
5. Laddio Bolocko - The Life and Times of - No Quarter
6. Epileptics/Flux of Pink Indians - Fits and Starts - Dr Strange
7. Michael Yonkers Band - Microminiature Love - SubPop
8. Joe McPhee with the Bill Smith Ensemble - Visitations - Boxholder
9. Sun Ra - Spaceship Lullaby - Atavistic
10. Stark Reality - Now - Stones Throw
sometimes, late at night, when I'm all alone, I start to see things
Noise to Annihilate a few Seconds
Playlist for December 5, 2003, 1-3am
Background: Manitas di Plata - at Carnegie Hall - Vanguard
N - Guido Diero - Tempermental Rag - Vaudeville Accordian Classics - Bridge
N - The Dipers - Ponch's Boyfriend - How To Plan Successsful Parties - Omnibus
The Feelies - Original Love - Crazy Rhythms - A&M
Amon Duul II - Cerberus - Yeti - Mantra
N,C - Walter "Furry" Lewis - Turkey in the Straw Jim Dickinson - Field Recordings: The Delta Experimental Project vol. 3 - Birdman
N - Neung Phak - Fired by the King - Neung Phak - Abduction
Scene Creamers - Bag Inc - I Suck on that Emotion - Drag City
William S Burroughs/Gus Van Sant - The Hipster Bebop Junkies - Millions of Images 7"
Scott Bond - Bond Boogies - split 7" with monade
Nobukazu Takemura - Let My Fish Loose, Aphex Twin Remix - 26 Mixes for Cash - Warp
The Lefte Bank - Pretty Ballerina - Walk Away Renee/Pretty Ballerina - Smash
N -The Creatures - Around the World - Hai
N - Babbletron - Birds - Mechanical Royalty - Embedded
Slick Rick - Street Talkin' (featuring Outkast) - The Art of Storytelling - Def Jam
Einsturzende Neubauten - Tanz Debil - Strategies Against Architecture - Mute
N - The Epileptics - Hitler's Still a Nazi - Fits & Starts - Dr Strange
The Miracle Mile - What This Means - Where the Heart is - Western Front
N - The Hospitals - Hazmat - s/t - In the Red
Devo - Mongoloid - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo - Warner Brothers
R - NWA - Gangsta Gangsta - Single
N,C -Hi-Tension - British Hustle - British Hustle: The Sound Of British Jazz Funk 1974-1982 - Soul Jazz
C -Screaming Trees - What Goes On - Heaven and Hell Vol. 1 - The Communion Label
N - Espers - Voices - s/t
N - J.D. Robb - Spatial Serenade - Rhythmania: Electronic Music from Razor Blades to Moog - Locust
Billy Childish and the Blackhands - Evil Thing - The Original Chatham Jack - SubPop
King Missle - Pygmies & Drums/Fluting on the Hump - Fluting on the Hump - Shimmy Disc
R -Fennesz, O'Rourke, Rehberg - Floating My Boat - The Return of Fenn'O'Berg - Mego
Skull Kontrol - Satan is Jesus to Me - Deviate Beyond All Means of Capture - Touch and Go
Rorschach - Lightning Strikes Twice - Autopsy - Gern Blandsten
High On Fire - Nemisis - Surrounded by Thieves - Relapse
N - Trumans Water - Sad Sailor Story - The Singles 1992-1997 - No Sides
N - Forcefield - selections - Lord of the Rings Modulator - Bulb
notes:
-filling in for carolyn today since I couldn't do my regular show. and it was a solid 2 hours of radio. one of the highlights was a call from miss julia factorial, freshly back from chicago.
-guido diero was the first real accordion virtuoso of the 20th century. he was a huge vaudeville star and composed a whole bunch of pieces when he wasn't secretly marrying mae west. while not original recordings (the songs are played on this cd by henry doktorski), the songs are all fairly awesome, though I imagine listening to the full 2 disk set of this will melt your brain.
-the dipers are somehow related to the a frames and therefore rock. I love the guitar tone on that song.
-I've just started listening more to the aphex twin 26 mixes for cash and have realized that they're really good.
-it's amazing to me that the epileptics and the flux of pink indians are essentially the same band. though they existed nearly simultaneously in 1981, the epileptics did pounding uk punk while the flux of pink indians are post-punk to the core.