Matmos!

Noise to Annihilate a Few Seconds
Playlist for October 23, 2003

Background: Hindemith - Symphonic Metamorphosis

N - The Broke Review - ALl Those Letters - Oldtime-Futureshock - Smart Guy

Tom Zé - Ma - Brazil Classics 4 - Luaka Bop
Les Thugs - Paranoia - IABF - Alternative Tentacles
N - Vincebus Eruptus - The Shit - s/t - Load
N - Japanther - Critical - Dump the Body in Rikki Lake - Menlo Park
Mark Kozalek - Love at First Feel - Next to the Moon - Badman
N - Tommy McCook - Tommy’s Mood - Blazing Horns/Tenor in Roots - Blood and Fire
Dogbowl - Cyclops Nuclear Submarine Captain - Cyclops Nuclear Submarine Captain - Shimmy Disc
Clinic - The Return of Evil Bill - Internal Wrangler - Domino

N - Lyrics Born - The Last Trumpet - Later that Day - Quannum
Mix Master Mike - Bazooka Canyon - Return of the Cyclops - Asphodel
N - Joe Strummer and the Mescalaros - Long Shadow - Streetcore - Hellcat
N - Kronos Quartet - Leaving Carmel, Californi-el - Harry Partch: US Highball - Nonesuch
N - Stark Reality - Cooking - Now - Stones Throw
N - Brother Ali - Forest Whitiker - Shadows on the Sun - Rhymesayers

Matmos Interview
Björk - Cacoon - Vespertine - Elektra
Sun Ra - Strange Strings (Excerpt) - Strange Strings - Saturn
C - Erase Errata/Matmos - Other Animals - Dancing Machine - Troubleman Unlimited
N - Matmos - Stars and Stripes Forever/Struggle Against Unreality - Civil War - Matador

Naked Raygun - Vanilla Blue - Free Shit - Haunted Town
Yo - Bowl of Cherries - Charm World - Deadbeat
N - USAISAMONSTER - Somehow - Tasheyana Compost - Load
Mocket - Morse Code - Fanfare - K
Rick Rizzo and Tara Key - Good Evening Mr Peckinoah - Dark Edison Tiger - Thrill Jockey
C - Mulata Astatqe - A Man of Experience and Wisdom - Ethiopiques 4 - Buda
N - Sole - Furthermore - Bottle of Humans - Anticon

Gerry Hemingway Quintet - Holler Up - Demon Chaser - HatJazz
You Fantastic - Ciceros - Homesickness - Skin Graft
N - Screaming Mee-Mees - Hot Sody - Live From the Basement - Gulcher
Chris Brokaw - King Ferdinand - Red Cities - Atavistic
Superunit - Two - Nia-Ha 12” - Skin Graft

Prokofiev - Quintet mvt. 1 - True Color - Klavier

notes:
-joe strummer could still write songs even up to the end. that song was pretty great.

-got a couple hecklers over the kronos quartet. someone saying that it wasn't real music and that I should "play more punk." silly close-minded people.

-matmos was in town on october 15 for a colloquim at the princeton music department. I had a chance to interview them beforehand. unfortunately, the first 5-10 minutes of the interview were lost in a tragic minidisk accident. but the rest was still very interesting. martin schmidt and drew daniel are both remarkably intelligent. I may post a transcript of the interview here if I get some time. the songs listed after the interview were actually interspersed between sections of it.

-I had a chance to improvise with gerry hemmingway the day before this show for a class on improvisation that I'm in. definitely one of the more fun/rewarding musical experiences I've ever had.

-other than that, no real comments. some good songs individually, but as a whole, today's show just didn't seem to work quite right. 
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I do it like this

Noise to Annihilate a Few Seconds
Playlist for October 9, 2003

Background: Calypso King and the Soul Investigators - Soul Strike - Soul
Fire

Asha Bhosle - Ina Mina Dika - Bollywood Diva - World Music Network

R - Matching Mole - God Song - Little Red Record - Columbia
Steven Jesse Bernstein - The Sport (part one) - Prison - SubPop
Kid Koala - Earhopper 2 - Carpal Tunnel Syndrome - Ninja Tune
N - Diverse - Explosive - Explosive 12” - Chocolate Industries
Jon Spenser Blues Explosion - Flavor - Orange - Matador
B-52s - Planet Claire - s/t - Warner Bros
N - X-27 - Agent X (i need your...) - 7” - Show and Tell

N - The Gits - Wingo Lamo - Frenching the Bully - Broken Rekids
N - Tyrades - Money Boy, Money Girl - s/t - Broken Rekids
N - Little Killers - How Do You Do It? - s/t - Crypt
Blacktop - Here I Am I Always Am - I Got a Baaad Feeling ‘Bout This - In
the Red
Touchdown - It’s a Slippery Slope - Split with Orthrelm - Troubleman
Unlimited
N - Death Comet Crew - Exterior St.-Instrumental - DCC America -
Troubleman Unlimited
N - David S Ware String Ensemble - Weave II - Threads - Thirsty Ear
Desmond Dekker - Hippo - King of Ska - Trojan

Magro Kuso - Laugh Track Man - 7”
R - Ween - Pork Roll Eggs and Cheese - The Pod - Shimmy Disc
R,C - Gene Marshall - Jimmy Carter Says “Yes” - American Song-Poem
Anthology - Bar/None
N - Winfred E Eye - The Dirt Tier - The Dirt Tier - Luckyhorse Industries
C - Fit and Limo - Stein - Silence of Million Tongues Split 7”
N - US Maple - Dumb in the Wingz - Purple on Time - Drag City
R - Dead Can Dance - The End of Words - Aion - 4AD
N - Scout Niblett - I’ll Be Prince (Shhh) - I am - Secretly Canadian
U-Men - Shoot Em Down - s/t - Bomb Shelter

KRS-One - 5 Boroughs - 12”
N - Nathan Michel - Theme Song - Dear Bicycle - Tigerbeat6
R - Hüsker Dü - Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill - New Day Rising - SST
C - Jonestown - We Were All Prostitutes - The Making of Allied One, Two,
Three - Allied
N - Rope - Routine Mood Swings - Widow’s First Dawn - Family Vineyard
Built to Spill - Big Dipper - There’s Nothing Wrong With Love - Up
N,C - Ismail Haron and the Guys - Bersedia - Steam Kodok - Grey Past
Twenty Miles - The Take Back - Ragged Back Yard Classics 3x7” - In the Red

N - DM and Jemini - Ghetto Pop Life - Ghetto Pop Life - Lex
C - Gokh-bi System - Xaesal - Africa Raps - Trikont
DAF - El Basilon - Die Kleinen Und Die Bösen - Mute
N - Popular Shapes - Outrageous Math Test - Bikini Style - On/On Switch
C - A Witness - I Love You Mr. Disposable Razors - Manchester: Something
to Answer For - Strange Fruit
Laddio Bolocko - The Outro - Life and Times of... - No Quarter
Your Adversary - Delightful - 7”
N - Aesop Rock - 11:35 (Feat Mr. Lif) - Bazooka Tooth - Definitive Jux

Sleepyhead - Too Much Fun - 7”

notes:
-I too was happy with my show today. I agree with the general concensus
that there's more really good new stuff now than there's been in a
while. I liked all the new stuff I played today, especially the us
maple, tyrades, rope, winfred e eye, popular shapes, and scout niblett.

-steven jesse bernstein was a poet who died in 1991, but recorded some
of his poetry before dying. he then gave the tapes to steve fisk of
pell mell who made music to go with it. only one song was finished
before bernstein's death (not the one I played), but he approved of it
and the project went ahead. the results are brilliant, one of the
better music/poetry combinations I've heard.

-blacktop was mick collins band between the gories and the dirtbombs.
the song was a beefheart cover. eventually I'll be reviewing that for
dusted.

-now for my matthew shipp rant: matthew shipp needs to not play on
every album on thirsty ear. he's run out of ideas and interesting
contributions. case in point, the new david s ware record. all the
players (beyond shipp) are phenomenal. mat maneri is probably the best
non-bass sting player in jazz today. but then shipp has to come in with
his korg synthesizer and drench almost every song in lots of cheesy fake
string sounds. I can imagine really loving this album if shipp were
even to just play on a regular piano. but I just can't get past the
awful fake string tones. shipp needs to either step away from the piano
for a while or just ditch those fucking synthesizers. I don't want him
to butcher any more potentially good records. end rant. the song I
played was saved because it's just david s ware and guillermo e brown.

-the jonestown song is a pop group cover. 
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Machine Gunning

Noise to Annihilate a Few Seconds
Playlist for October 2, 2003

Background: Gamelan Semar Pegulingan - Nonesuch Explorer

C - Joey Irving - Don’t Throw Our Love Away - Chicago One-Stop - Aestuarium

R - Arab on Radar - Running for Asthma - Stolen Singles - Three One G
Undertones - Nine Times Out of Ten - Hypnotized - Sire
N - Matmos - Z.O.C.K. - Civil War - Matador
Sadies - A#1 - Stories Often Told - Yep Roc
Fly Ashtray - Tent - Let’s Have Some Crate 10” - Hemiola
R - Interpol - Say Hello to the Angels - Turn On the Bright Lights - Matador
N - Eleventh Dream Day - Through My Mouth - Prairie School Freakout - Thrill Jockey

C - Faust and Dälek - T-electronique - Wire Tapper 10 - Wire
Pole - Fohlenfurz - 3 - Matador
Aesop Rock - No Jumper Cables - Bazooka Tooth - Def Jux
Neon Hunk - Nugglies/Beefmastor - Smarmy Mob - Load
Country Teasers - Hairy Wine 2 - Full Moon Empty Sportsbag - In the Red
JR Ewing - Repetition is Failure - Ride Paranoia - GSL
N - Mexican Blackbirds - Did It Anyway - Just to Spite You - Dirtnap
C - La Monte Young - Dream House - Fluxus Anthology
N - Linda Perhacs - Porcelain Baked Cast Iron Wedding - Parallelograms - Wild Places

Jemeel Moondoc with Dennis Charles - We Don’t - We Don’t - Eremite
R - Gamelan Batel - Gending Petangkilan - Wayang Ramayana - CMP
Betty Davis - Walking Up the Road - s/t - MPC
N - Jackie-O Motherfucker - Black Squirrels - Magick Fire Music/Wow! - ATPR
N - Portastatic - You Know Where to Find Me - Autumn Was a Lark - Merge
Johnny Cash - Thirteen - American Recordings - American

Cramps - Beautiful Gardens - Psychedelic Jungle
R - New York Dolls - Personality Crisis - Night of the Living Dolls - PolyGram
N,C - Functional Blackouts - Coffin Cheater - Digital Sampler - Criminal IQ
N - Paint it Black - CVA - CVA - Jade Tree
N - An Albatross - The Revolutionary Politics of Dance - We are the Lazer Viking - Ace Fu
Ink and Dagger - Frigid Shortcomings - 7”
C - Daggers - Lines and Crimes - Midwest Rules vol. 2 - Haunted Town
Boredoms - Jet Net - Wow 2 - Avant
999 - Scandal in the City - Wild Sun 12” - Albion
N - Nathan Michel - Rings - Dear Bicycle - Tigerbeat6
N,C - Jacopo Andreini - Forget - No Tribute: Music of the Nihilist Spasm Band - Little Mafia, Carbon, etc

C - Marty Gold and His Orchestra - High on a Windy Hill - Space Age Pop vol. 3: Stereo Action Dimension - RCA
Arto Lindsay - Simply Are - Noon Chill - Bar/None
N,C - J-Live - School is in - We Came From Beyond vol. 2 - Razor and Tie
R - Blonde Redhead - Missile ++ - In an Expression of the Inexpressible - Touch and Go
Sister Ray - Virgil Red - No Way to Express - Resonance
Eyeliners - It Could Have Been You - Sealed With a Kiss - Lookout!
N - Lifesavas - Skeletons - Spirit in Stone - Quannum

Peter Brötzmann Octet - Machine Gun - Machine Gun - FMP

Notes:
-the aestuarium comp is a triple 7" comp, each 7" with their own obscure midwestern funk/soul group. I reviewed this album for dusted magazine and it's pretty damn good. nothing like finding obscure early 70s funk. I hope aestuarium sends us a copy of it...

-I'm very excited to hear the full faust/dalek album. from talking with the dalek guys at the fall show last year, it sounds like it was a really interesting and fun project. this one song was definitely more dalek than faust, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. dalek has a way of making the floor rumble like no other hiphop group.

-after a year and a half of staring at me, I finally broke down and got the fluxus anthology (for samples, go here). good stuff all around. WPRB needs more la monte young.

-every time I've played the linda perhacs, I've gotten callers asking about it. it's uncanny.

-lots of good, new underground hiphop being released right now. I really like the new aesop rock, and I liked the tracks I played from the lifesavas and j-live. there's a new record from danger mouse that I forgot to play this week, and other good stuff to come soon on def jux, quannum, etc. very exciting.

-peter brotzmann came as a response to art, who ended his show with jimi hendrix doing machine gun with the band of gypsies. so I ended with brotzmann's (decidedly different) version. I also couldn't figure out what to play next, so I just killed 10 minutes with one song. 
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