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Noise to Annihilate a Few Seconds
Playlist for July 28, 2003. 7-10pm

Background: The User - Symphony no. 2 for Dot Matrix Printer - Asphodel

C - The Melodians - Rivers of Babylon - Reggae Box - Hip-O

N - Polysics - Go Ahead Now - Neu - Asian Man
N - Prey - Save Yourself - Always Ahead of the Game 12”
DJ Spooky - It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad World - Optometry - Thirsty Ear
N,C - Amsterdam Klezmer Band - Limonchiki - Russendisko Hits - Trikont
Rael Rean - Weekdays - Weekdays 7” - Flying Bomb

Dr Octagon - Blue Flowers - Dr Octagonacologist - Dreamworks
Joe McPhee with the Bill Smith Ensemble - Exuma - Visitations - Boxholder
Dream Syndicate - That’s What You Always Say - s/t 12” - Down There
Red Krayola - Sheriff Jack - God Bless the Red Krayola and All Who Sail With Us - Decal
N - Michael Yonkers Band - Boy in the Sandbox - Microminiature Love - Sub Pop
R - Guided By Voices - Tractor Rape Chain - Bee Thousand - Matador

Live Music from the Threats

Celtic Frost - The Usurper - To Mega Therion - Combat Noise
N - Black Elf Speaks - Creation Story - Elvish Presley - Bulb
N,C - ?? - track 23 - Low Noise Quality Tape - Kraag
Fred Lane and His Hittite Hot Shots - White Woman - Car Radio Jerome - Shimmy Disc
Marvin Gaye - Main Theme - Trouble Man - Motown
N - Voltaire Brothers - Transparabolic… - I Sing the Booty Electric - Fall of Rome
OUTHUD - Hair Dude, You’re Stepping on My Mystique - S.T.R.E.E.T. D.A.D. - Kranky

Beans - Slow Broken - Tomorrow Right Now - Warp
C - Dave Barker - Only the Strong Survive - Solid Gold From the Vaults 3 - Trojan
Plunderphonics - Mother - 69 Plunderphonics 96 - Seeland
Neu - After Eight - Neu 75 - Astralwerks
Modern Lovers - Astral Plane - s/t - Beserkly
N - Curse ov Dialect - Multicultural Markets - Lost in the Sky - Mush
N - Raksmey Khemura - Kmer Bettisatv(The Cambodian Bodhisattva) - Light From Heaven
Forcefield - #74 - Roggaboggas - Load

C - Joe Hill Louis - Tigerman - Sun Box - Sun
Zoo Bombs - Gimme Some Money - Let it Bomb - Emperor Norton
Echo and the Bunnymen - Do it Clean - Crocodiles - Norova
Tie Reds - Get it in Your Head - Holy Crap! It’s the… - s/r
N - The Rip-Off Artist - In and Out - In Through the Out Door - Tigerbeat6
Elliot Sharp - Anklung - The Seventies - Atavistic
N - Jimmy Cliff - Time Will Tell - Anthology - Hip-O
C - Rhino 39 - Prolixin Stomp - Me Want Breakfast - Dangerhouse
C - Bootsey X and the Lovemasters - Genius from the Waist Down - End of the World A Go Go - Tremor
Frail - Firecracker - Make Your Own Noise - Bloodlink
N - Aspera - Who’s Gonna Grow - Oh Fantastica - Jagjaguwar

N - Envy - Chain Wandering Deeply - A Dead Stinking Story - Level Plane

notes:
-I need to get me more rock steady. that stuff is so great.
-got another call from the discharge guy. he wanted to request discharge. I reminded him that he had done so last week. then he requested the residents. I ignored him.
-dr octagon into joe mcphee into dream syndicate was the most amazing series of segues I think I've had. the dream syndicate started on the note that the joe mcphee stopped on. it was just one of those nights.
-I finally got around to playing celtic frost, after pulling it for almost a month and not actually playing it.
-the thing from the kraag cd sounded almost hauntingly like the black elf speaks that proceeded it. I hadn't even planned it that way. it just kinda happened. like I said, it was one of those nights.
-fred lane sure has some killer sax players. great song
-the voltaire brothers is mick collins of the gories/dirtbombs doing funk. it's a totaly p-funk homage, but it's absolutely wonderful. definitely the most summery album of the summer
-curse of dialect makes me remarkably happy. there's something about the off-kilter usage of samples, odd vocals, and just general strangeness that is totally appealing. one of the coolest hiphop albums I've heard recently.
-the last set was about 10 minutes too long, but had some pretty great songs in it nonetheless.
-overall, I'm pretty happy with this show. definitely one of my better shows of the summer, perhaps all-time. and it wasn't even overly noisy... 
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You can't see me, but I can you

Noise to Annihilate a Few Seconds
Playlist for July 21, 2003, 7-10pm

Background: Herschel Gordon Lewis - Soundtrack to Blood Feast and Two Thousand Maniacs - Rhino

N - Blue Series Continuum - Close Call - Good and Evil Sessions - Thirsty Ear

PJ Harvey - Big Exit - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea - Island
R - Discharge - Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing - Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing - Clay
Golden - Side B - Golden Jazz and Rhythm Beat 12” - Slowdime
Os Mutantes - Bat Macumba - Os Mustantes - Polydor
David Bowie - What in the World - Low - RCA
N - Michael Yonkers Band - Jasontown - Microminiature Love - Sub Pop
N - Essential Logic - Popcorn Boy - Fanfare in the Garden - Kill Rock Stars
Girls at Our Best - Pleasure - Pleasure - Vinyl Japan

N,C - Dezurik Sisters - I Left Her Standing There - Flowers in the Wildwood - Trikont
Gary Lucas - Pretense - The Edge of Heaven - Indigo
Nikki Sudden and Rowland S Howard - Debutante Blues - Kiss You Kidnapped Charabanc - Secretly Canadian
Dmitri Shostakovich - Cello Concerto in E Flat, Mvt 1 - Columbia
e e cummings - assorted poems - e e cummings reads
First Avenue - Proof - Shreds of Evidence - 0O Discs
Grand Nubian - Dance to my Ministry - One for All - Elektra
N - Bob Marley and the Wailers - Keep on Moving - African Herbsman - Trojan

Penthouse - Night Jar - 7” - Space Baby
N - Sightings - Infinity of Stops - Absolutes - Load
Hair and Skin Trading Co - K-Funk - Over Valence - Beggars Banquet
N - Lonesome Organist - The Moon Fugue - Forms and Follies - Thrill Jockey
Vitamin L - Breathe in - 7”
Yeska - Dance Cleopatra - Greyhound Chiapus 7”
John Schnall - Herbert, You’re Insane - Songs from Midnight Matinee
This Kind of Punishment - Two Minute Drowning - s/t - Roof Bolt

Momus - MC Escher - Little Red Songbook - Le Grand Magistery
N - Liars - Every Two Hours with a Ducks Fan - We No Longer Knew Where We Were EP - Hand Held Heart
N - Melt-Banana - Key is a Fact That a Cat Brings - Cell-Scape - A-zap
N - Friends Forever - Linebacker Blitz - Killball - Load
Chocolate Watchband - No Way Out - Best of… - AVI
N - Radar Secret Service - Shut In - Stop Communication - On/On Switch
Cheater Slicks - Everybody Knows One - Forgive Thee - In the Red
Henry Cow - Upon Entering Hotel Aldon - Unrest - Red

N - U Can Unlearn Guitar - Dreamhouse - No Strings - Little Mafia
Knoxville Girls - Kung Pow Chicken Scratch - s/t - In the Red
N,C - Push Button Objects - ATP Track - ATP 3.0 - ATPR
N - Mr Dibbs - Judeas Transmission - The 30th Song - Rhymesayer

N,C - Sir Richard Bishop - Corpuscule - Wooden Guitar - Locust

notes:
-someday I think thirsty ear will figure out how to make jazz and hiphop work together (maybe in the forthcoming el-p album they're putting out this fall), but the blue series continuum sure doesn't.
-I first heard pj harvey opening for u2 while sitting in the very last row of an arena. her sound was a muddy indecipherable mess. I was fairly disappointed when I got the cd and it was nice and clean production-wise. that's still a great song, though.
-listening to david bowie's low for the first time yesterday, I realized you can directly trace the lineage of Nikki Sudden through the first half of low. debutante blues, by the way, is the best song ever, no questions asked.
-shotakovich and cummings were played at the same time, to excellent effect. the opening movement of that concerto is nicely ominous, perfectly complimenting the dark overtones of the cummings.
-a caller called in thinking the sightings was merzbow (he actually named a record). not too far off, though...
-upon giving piper at the gates of dawn a good listen in the past couple days, I've decided that momus is almost directly influenced by syd barret's songwriting style. that is my favorite playable momus track, though. we had tickets to give away, which were snatched up.
-the radar secret service was pleasantly dark. nice to hear new music from ohio that's good!
-u can unlearn guitar is (according to don rettman) andy from the bunny brains. this explains a lot.
-richard bishop is a mean acoustic guitar player.
-overall a pretty good show, after a slightly uneven start
-live music from the threats next week, so tune in! 
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Let the Bastille Day celebrations begin!

Noise to Annihilate a Few Seconds
Playlist for July 14, 2003, 7-10pm

Background: Ry Cooder - Soundtrack to Paris Texas

N,C - Nogu Svelo - The Little Chinese Bell - Russendisko - Trikont

Buffy Sainte-Marie - Better to Find Out For Yourself - Illuminations - Vanguard
Max Roach and Anthony Braxton - Rebirth - Birth and Rebirth - Black Saint
N,C - OvO - Qui e Là - Simply Good Taste - Gulcher
N - Electric Turn to Me - Watch out for the Witch - s/t - No Quarter
Holger Hiller - We Don’t Write Anything on Paper or So - Oben Im Eck - Mute
Monotrona - Tekal - Hawkeye & Firebird - Menlo Park
N - Prefuse 73 - Choking You - One Word Extinguisher - Warp
N,C - Omar Faruk Bekbilek - Hijaz Raks - Rough Guide to the Music of Turkey - World Music Network

The Fall - The Container Driver - Fall in a Hole Plus - Cog Sinister
C - Jack Earls - Let’s Bop - That Rockabilly Craze 10” - Sun
N,C - Galen - The Detective - Singles #2 - Bulb
Comets on Fire - Beneath the Ice Age - Field Recordings from the Sun - Badabing
Samiam - Too Many Buttons - I am 7” - Lookout!
Eleventh Dream Day - Sunflower - After this Time is Gone
Calypso King and the Soul Investigators - Soul Strike! - Soul Strike - Soul Fire
Davey Williams and John Corbett - Playing Along - Humdinger - Atavistic

Ruins - Black Sabbath Medley Reversible - Tzamborgha - Ipecac
N,C - Vibracathedral Orchestra - Sunset Eye - Trighplane Terraforms vol.1 - Mental Telemetry
R - Radio Birdman - Descent into the Maelstrom - The Essential - Subpop
R - Buzzcocks - Autonomy - Operators Manual - IRS
Paris - Wretched - The Hate that Hate Made 12” - Tommy Boy
Primatives - Spacehead - s/t - RCA
The Aesthetics - Sufi - Off - Mental Telemetry
Crime and the City Solution - Five Stone Walls - Just South of Heaven - Mute
N - Terry Callier - 900 Miles - The New Folk Sounds of… - Fantasy

N - Kamikaze - What’s Going On - Destroy Everything You Think You Know
N - Black Eyes - Someone has His Fingers Broken - s/t - Dischord
Lucky Dragons - 11-12 - Dark Falcon - 555
R - Subhumans - Wake Up Screaming - From the Cradle to the Grave - Bluurg
Cobra Killer - Camera Eye - s/t - DHR
N,C - Buffo - Metavirulent - Buffo/Happy Grindcore split 7” - Little Mafia
R - Fugazi - Cashout - The Argument - Dischord
N - Kill Me Tomorrow - Rats for Sale - 7” - GSL
N - Sick Lipstick - Zombie Cookie - Sting Sting Sting - Tiger Style

Third Bass - Sons of 3rd Bass - The Cactus Cee/D - Def Jam
Jimmy Rogers - That’s All Right - The Complete Chess Recordings - Chess
C - Flying Luttenbachers - Total Assymmetry - Troubleman Mixtape - Troubleman
Lync - Pathetic - Remember the Fireballs (pt. 8) - K/Troubleman
N - Vertebrae - Ask the Dust - Pinafore - Collision/Collider
Sparklehorse - Too Late - 7”
N - Colossamite - (title unknown) - Camp Skin Graft - Skin Graft

N - Cinematic Orchestra - Work it! (Man with the Movie Camera) - Man with the Movie Camera - Ninja Tune

notes:
-back at my normal time after a few weeks of flux. twas a good show, I believe.
-the russendisko comp is yet another fine compilation of oddities from trikont. what this proved to me is that ska-punk never really died, it just went east. somehow russian singing makes it that much more fun.
-the roach/braxton is some of the best jazz I've heard in a while. roach provides a really solid base without being constricting, and braxton just fills up the space around. what a great album.
-holger hiller is formerly of palais schaumburg. this 1986 album finds him making really dark, sample based songs with some semblance of a band there too. the songs are really strange, but pretty great at the same time. I highly recommend it.
-nobody does black sabbath better than the ruins.
-the radio birdman and buzzcocks requests came from a barbeque going on at greg's and my house (which I would go to after my show) involving a bunch of prb folk.
-I find myself strangely attached to that british post-rolling stones glam scene. I just can't get enough of nikki sudden and the various projects surrounding him. crime and the city solution were roland s howard (formerly of the birthday party and a sudden collaborator), epic soundtracks (sudden's brother) and a few other folks. pretty great gloom rock.
-terry callier has the most amazing voice I've ever heard on a folk singer. that record is pretty awesome.
-fugazi's the argument is a fucking great album. there's no denying this fact.
-I will have a live set from the old scottish punk band, the threats, on my show on the 28th. they've reunited after 20 years and are just finishing a tour in the states, playing all material from their late 70s-early 80s hayday. pretty great stuff, so be sure to tune in! 
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Arcana Playlist for July 14, 2003, 11am-1pm

C - William Albright - Four Fancies for Harpsichord - 20th Century Harpsichord Works - CRI

N,C - Vladamir Ussachevsky and Otto Luening - Incantation for Tape - Anthology of Noise and Electronic Music/Second a Chronology - Sub Rosa
N - Joan La Barbara - “q-/-uatre petites bêtes” - Voice is the Original Instrument - Lovely
N - Ekkhard Ehlers - Blind I - Politik aught Keinen Fein - Staubgold

C - Edgar Verèse - Deserts - Columbia Princeton Music Center 10th Anniversary Album - CRI

Giacinto Scelsi - Okanagon - Okanagon - hatNOW
Ernö Király - Perpetuum Mobile - Phoenix - ReR
Conlon Nancarrow - Prelude - Piano Music - ECM

Tom Johnson - 9-13 Note Chords - The Chord Catalog - XI
Jessica Pavone and the String Army - Landscape (For 11) - s/t - Peacock

John Cage - Part 3 - Bird Cage - EMF
N,C - Incapacitants - Head Butt the Railroad - Japanoise - Little Mafia

Jacque-Louis Monod - Cantus Contra Cantum IV - New Cantatas and Madrigals - CRI

notes:
-arcana=late 20th century avant-garde composition
 
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Jazz Playlist for July 8, 2003, 11am-1pm

N - Assif Tsahar, Peter Kowald, and Sunny Murray - Da - Ma - Hopscotch

Revolutionary Ensemble - New York - People’s Republic - A&M
Joe McPhee Po Music - Say That to Say This - Linear B - hatHUT
Khan Jamal Quartet - Speak Easy - Speak Easy - Gazell
Sun Ra and His Intergalactic Solar Arkestra - Discipline 33 - Space is the Place Soundtrack - Evidence

Matthew Shipp - U Feature - New Orbit - Thirsty Ear
David S Ware - 5th Dimensional - Live in the Netherlands - Splasc(h)
Flaherty/Colbourne/Froc/Downs - Descending into Matter - Prana - Zaabway

Billy Bang Quartet - Yaa-Woman born on Thursday - Rainbow Gladiator - Soul Note
R - Duke Ellington - Wig Wise - Money Jungle - Blue Note
Ray Russel - Tip Roote Pt. 1 - Live at the ICA - Moikai
Gold Sparkle Band - Zodiac Attack - Fugues and Flowers - Squealer

Bruckman/Diaz-Infante/Shiruba/Stackpole - Spatial Agnosis - Grand Mal - Pax
N - Peter Brötzmann, William Parker, Hamid Drake - Never Run But Go 3 - Never too Late But Always Too Early - Eremite
Adam Rudolph - Affirmation - Go:Organic Orchestra:1 - Meta
Susie Ibarra Trio - Dreams - Radiance - Hopscotch

Fellaheen - Namleda - Unrelated 7” - Little Mafia
ICP Orchestra - Kachel - Forest Path Rabbithole - ICP

Notes:
-jazz is fun. still bmi logs, so hopefully they guys'll get some cash
 
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Playlist for July 7, 2003, 1-3pm

Background: Fela Kuti and Ginger Baker - Live!

Paul Lansky - Alphanumeric Song - Alphabet Book - Bridge
Nathan Michel - Where do Small Birds Live? - ABC DEF - Tigetbeat6
Mike Langlie - Whoop-de-doodle - Twink - Acid Soxx

Gaunt - Hit the Ground - Yeah, Me Too - Amphetamine Reptile
Stick Men With Ray Guns - Grave City - Some People Deserve to Suffer - Emperor Norton
N - Melt-Banana - Lost Parts Stinging Me So Cold - Cell-Scape - A-zap
N,C - Erase Errata - OMSFN - Night School 7” - Kill Rock Stars
N - Lost Sounds - There’s Nothing - Demos 2 - On/On Switch
Mr Quintron - Fever - IF 001-011 - Bulb
N - Jackie Mittoo - Drum Song - Champion in the Arena - Blood and Fire
Ken Vandermark 5 - Roulette (For Nate McBride) - Burn the Incline - Atavistic

Gizmos - Human Garbage Disposal - 1976-77 - Gulcher
Techno Animal - Sub Species - Brotherhood of the Bomb - Matador
Palais Schaumburg - Wir Bauen Eine Neue Stadt - s/t - Tapete
Sonic Youth - Becuz - Washing Machine - Geffen
N - Comets on Fire - Graverobbers - s/t - Alternative Tentacles
Lozenge - Bambam - Mishap - Sick Room
N - Animal Collective - Two Sails on a Sound - Here Comes the Indian - Paw Tracks
Sightings - Leather Pants Couple - s/t - Load

RL Burnside - Miss Maybelle - Burnside on Burnside - Fat Possum
Nikki Sudden - Rolling of the Hearse - Crown of Thorns - Secretly Canadian
N - Danny and the Nightmares - Lost Hero of Rock n Roll - The End is Near Again
N - Dead C - Hell is Now Love - Trapdoor Fucking Exit - Siltbreeze
N - Parts & Labor - Autopilot - Groundswell - JMZ
N - Black Lips - Fad - s/t - Bomp
Seconds - X - Y - 5RC
Uzeda - It Happened There - Waters
N - A Frames - Test Tube Baby - s/t - S-S
Dancing Cigarettes - Best Friend - 1980-81 - Gulcher

Cannibal Ox - Stress Rap - The Cold Vein - Def Jux

notes:
-not my normal show as I was going to see the fall later that night
-bmi logs were going on during this show, so I played people in hopes that they might hypothetically get some money 
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Playlist for July 3, 2003, 11pm-1am (with Narin)

Galaxie 500 - Ceremony
N - Animal Collective - Panic - Here Comes the Indian
Shadow Ring - Side 2 - Lindus
Alvin Lucier - Duke of New York - Bird and Person Dyning
Wolf Eyes - 1 - Slicer
N - Yasunao Tone - Wounded Soutai Maiyo - s/t
Shooting Pool…
Zurich 1916 - Sunday Morning - Creative Nihilism
Butthole Surfers - Going to Miami (played at 33 instead of 45) - Cream Corn from the Sock of Davis
KK Null - 2 - ERG Per Galaxy
Menstruation Sisters - Sucking on a Polock - Dead at Slugs
N - Robert Ashley - The Fox - Wolfman
Alvin Curran - Animal Behavior - Animal Behavior
Fred Frith - The Blood is Yellow and Black - Accidental
David Shea - Alpha - s/t
N - Infided? Castro! - The 49-day Period Between Lives - Split 12” w/ Friendly Bears
John Zorn - Metamrfos - The Big Gun Down
N - Philip Sanderson - Nein Nein Nein - Reprint
Peple Like Us/Coil - The Gimp/Sometimes - Hate People Like Us
Ennio Morricone - Electric Chair - Sacco and Vanzetti Soundtrack
N,C - Cornelius - Untitled - Ikebana
C - Alice Shields - Transformation of Ani - 10th Anniversary of the Columbia Princeton Music Center
Jorge Antunes - Valsa Sidereal - Savage Songs
C - Lydia Lunch - What Is It - Better an Old Demon than a New God
Sonic Youth - Silver Sessions for Jason Knuth
C - Yoko Ono - Cambridge 1969
Ground Zero - Consume Red - Consume Red
Christian Marclay - Jane Berkmin and Serge Gainsbourge - More Encores 10”

notes:
-this show was the result of me walking in while Narin was playing the shadow ring and alvin lucier at the same time. songs often played at the same time. no set breaks, no song titles announced. it was a glorious pretentious noise sculpture. totally fun
 
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