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Thank you Zaph for playing “Waking Up With A Cat On My Face” from ISOLATION & REJECTION Volume 1 on the newest In Memory of John Peel! There are now FIVE VOLUMES of this excellent compilation available, with proceeds going to The Brick in Wigan so you can feel good about yourself while getting a gazillion fantastic tunes.
Catch the latest In Memory of John Peel on the website or below.
A few spins of Alka’s “King Card,” featuring me as a guest vocalist, on the radio:
Yesterday Joint Venture Radio played three songs from the album on the Alien Disco versus Waverider Show. Catch the archive on Dropbox.
Tonight, Kate Bosworth includes “Baleen Executioner” off Farewell, Doomed Planet! as well as “King Card” on Warminster Community Radio’s Dark Train.
Farewell, Doomed Planet! is once again on the WTUL Electronic Charts, this time at #10. Can’t thank WTUL’s DJs enough for playing the album so much.
Airing today Sunday: a somewhat electro-acoustic-themed episode of ElectroJunkyard, my bi-monthly show on Camp Radio in France. Homespun mixes of underground electronic music from the past, present, and maybe even the future. Airs at 7pm CET / 12pm CST. Listen at Camp Radio.
Episode 2 tracklist:
0:00 Flutronix – Life Lines [2.0, Flutronix Records]
5:55 Nina Keith – Hereditary Trauma Dream Sprinting (Oxford Circle) [MARANASATI 19111, Grind Select]
9:27 Klein – Never Will I Disobey [Lifetime, ijn inc.]
13:02 White Boy Scream – Glass Games (excerpt) [Below the Radar 34, The Wire]
18:56 Kieran Mahon – Solitary Jazz Fumble [ISOLATION AND REJECTION VOLUME 3, Front and Follow]
22:16 Wizard Apprentice – Desire to Learn [Dig a Pit, Cruisin Records]
25:27 Pantayo – Bronsé [Pantayo, Telephone Explosion]
28:00 Sultana – Blood Moon [BLOOD MOON, self-released]
32:22 Library Tapes – Where a Yellow Light Still Means Slow Down [The Quiet City, 1631 Recordings]
34:40 Mary Lattimore & Paul Sukeena – Dreaming of the Kelly Pool [single, Mexican Summer]
38:24 Forest Robots – Glacial Architecture Of The Mountain Corridor [After Geography, Wormhole World]
42:38 Whettman Chelmets – My Presence Will Go With You [The Rain, The Pour, self-released]
46:24 Lamin Fofana – Blues [Blues, BLACK STUDIES]
50:26 Nailah Hunter – White Flower, Dark Hill [Spells, Leaving Records]
52:48 Lyra Pramuk – Mirror [The Fountain, Bedroom Community]
55:47 Haruomi Hosono, Shigeru Suzuki & Tatsuro Yamashita – 最後の楽園 (The Last Paradise) [Pacific, CBS/Sony; reissue by Light in the Attic]
Airing tomorrow, October 3 at 7pm CET / 12pm CST: ElectroJunkyard, my bi-monthly show on Camp Radio in France. Episode 2 is quasi-electro-acoustic themed, with music by Flutronix, Nina Keith, Klein, White Boy Scream, Kieran Mahon, Wizard Apprentice, Pantayo, Sultana Isham, Library Tapes, Mary Lattimore & Paul Sukeena, Forest Robots, Whettman Chelmets, Lamin Fofana, Nailah Hunter, Lyra Pramuk and Haruomi Hosono, Shigeru Suzuki & Tatsuro Yamashita. ICYMI, you can listen to Episode 01 on Mixcloud.
Author Tyler Weaver of Parenthetical Recluse, a fascinating blog about music, movies, literature, running, Ohio election signage, and so much more, has asked me to contribute a monthly recommendation (probably, mostly, music, but maybe other stuff?) for his MacroParentheticals newsletter. The newsletter comes out every Sunday and is chock full of Tyler’s own current media consumption, musings, “fascinations, perspirations, and whatever else comes to mind,” plus pictures of Tyler’s adorable dogs. For September and October, Tyler asked me for some of my virtual venues to find new music. Part 1 covers my favorite radio programs, and here’s part 2, published last Sunday:
While there’s a seemingly endless array of spaces in which to find new music, it can quickly become overwhelming. Luckily, there are expert curators of indie music who continually introduce me to new and wonderful sounds. So, in this second chunk of recommendations, I’m going to share some of my must-listen podcasts – most focus on electronic music since that’s my jam but some also cover folk, jazz, blues, and classical.
Is This Thing On… Yeah I Know It Sucks… Synth Redneck… Anticipating Nowhere… Vital Weekly… Phantom Circuit (also sometimes on Resonance Extra, Resonance FM)… Ambient Atomic Orbitals… The Independent Music Podcast… Hypnagogue… and, finally, the finest of college and community radio: WTUL, KALX, WFMU, CJSW, CFBX, CFUR.
As always, signup for the newsletters, and you won’t regret it. I’ve heard much wonderful new music thanks to Tyler’s discerning ear, and you certainly will too.
I bookmarked this and somehow lost track of it, but DJ Bleek (one of the Strange Selectors!) played a number of tracks off the just-released Strange Selectors compilation on Hollow Earth Radio’s Urban Mutant show on September 2 alongside loads of other “Haunted and Damaged radio” selections. Catch the recap on Mixcloud or below.
Airing next Saturday, October 3 at 7pm CET / 12pm CST: EletroJunkyard, my bi-monthly show on Camp Radio in France. Episode 2 is quasi-electro-acoustic themed, with music by Flutronix, Nina Keith, Klein, White Boy Scream, Kieran Mahon, Wizard Apprentice, Pantayo, Sultana Isham, Library Tapes, Mary Lattimore & Paul Sukeena, Forest Robots, Whettman Chelmets, Lamin Fofana, Nailah Hunter, Lyra Pramuk and Haruomi Hosono, Shigeru Suzuki & Tatsuro Yamashita. ICYMI, you can listen to Episode 01 on Mixcloud.
I’m still clinging on for dear life to WTUL’s charts, with Farewell, Doomed Planet! at #29 overall and #5 electronic.
Thanks to Duane Williams for giving me my first ever play (I think, anyway) on WWOZ here in New Orleans! Duane played two tracks by the indomitable Geiger von Müller including my remix of “Blue Moon Frequency #2b [Summer Mix].” Listen over on the WWOZ website.
Browsing the WWOZ playlist on Spinitron led to me realize that I missed a couple of wonderful radio shows last fall that featured tracks from Farewell, Doomed Planet!, so a very belated thank you to KVSC’s Beats N’ Pieces and Radio Free Brooklyn’s Bushwick Garage (episode 200, to be exact).
WTUL’s charts are back after a long, COVID-19 hiatus. Farewell, Doomed Planet! is still there, clocking in at #16 overall and #4 Electronic. See the full charts on the WTUL website.
Elizabeth Joan Kelly 