playlist 3.7 [11/01/09]
This evenings blog.cast is a selection of some darker & more contemplative music to accompany the cold and rainy weather we've been having this past week in Baltimore. Enjoy.
[HOUR.ONE]
He Said: Pump [1986]
East Ash: Australian Beaches [1990]
Gilbert & Lewis: Like This For Ages [1980]
The Field: The Deal [2007]
He Said: To & Fro [1986]
Nocturnal Emissions: Bird Position [1987]
Tuxedomoon: 59 to 1 [1980]
East Ash: Break Your Back [1991]
He Said: Com'era Dov'era [1986]
Tuxedomoon: In A Manner Of Speaking [1986]
The Field: From Here We Go Sublime [2007]
[HOUR.TWO]
Rapoon: This Side Of Zero [2009]
Tuxedomoon: Dark Companion [1984]
Rapoon: Hey... Drifting [2009]
Nocturnal Emissions: Vegetation Narration [1987]
Tones On Tail: Real Life [1985]
Bauhaus: Silent Hedges [1982]
Love & Rockets: Judgement Day [1996]
The Wake: Torn Calendar [1985]
Tuxedomoon: I Heard It Through The Grapevine [1977]
The Wake: Here Comes Everybody [1985]
Dome: Cruel When Complete [1981]
playlist 3.6 [09/10/09]
this is a totally impromptu blog.cast. digging into the archives for lots of old school underground alt from the 80's and 90's.
keep refreshing your browser for songs as their added.
enjoy and i'll see you at the end of the month.
east ash - australian beaches [1990]
pale saints - porpoise [1991]
spoonfed hybrid - heaven's knot [1993]
throwing muses - a feeling [1987]
this ascension - august rain [1991]
east ash - milk and honey [1990]
the chameleons - view from a hill [1983]
underground lovers - holiday [1992]
the wolfgang press - cut the tree [live-london] [1987]
east ash - break your back [1991]
handful of snowdrops - white dominos [unreleased] [1989]
the cure - forever [live] [1980]
seofon - rev. 20:13 teknos (the seeding) [edit] [2001]
playlist 3.5 [8-31-09]
there isn't any special theme or focus with this months play.list. just a few things i've been listening to a lot recently. if you have not heard kaffe matthews work before i highly suggest you check it out. i had the good fortune to see her live about 11 years ago. really amazing work. she was using a laptop with
LiSa sampling software & a violin. this was long before laptops were considered the "norm" in most electronic or experimental music performances and quite bit before ableton's LIVE really took off.
enjoy.
HOUR [ONE]
A Custom Skylark
Kaffe Matthews
Spider And I
Brian Eno
Advent Herring
Kaffe Matthews
Instrument 1
Christian Fennesz
Advent Herring 2.
Kaffe Matthews
Hair Shoes (demo)
Pale Saints
Untitled I. [FUCK]
The Hafler Trio
Untie My Hands
Geniuser
Instrument 3
Christian Fennesz
HOUR [TWO]
Kinky Love
Pale Saints
Parallels
Fragment
Instrument 4
Christian Fennesz
Wild Mountain
Crash Worship
Porpoise
Pale Saints
Hunted
Pale Saints
Advent Herring III.
Kaffe Matthews
Instrument 2
Christian Fennesz
Music For Tundra Pt. 1
Tim Hecker
Like the Ocean
Geniuser
Julie With ...
Brian Eno
Outro (Russian Version)
The Morningside
HOLIDAY
there will be no june-july broadcast since i will be away on vacation/holiday. the blog.cast will return on AUGUST 30, 2009 at the regular time.
see you then.
playlist 3.4 [5-31-09]
SOME OLD SCHOOL EBM AND SOME NEW SCHOOL ELECTRONICthoughts on this playlist forthcoming...
HOUR ONE //Skinny Puppy: One Time One Place [1986]
Chris & Cosey: Hypnotika [1990]
Click Click: Hands Fall Backwards [1985]
Severed Heads: Petrol [1987]
Moev: Open Mind [1988]
Click Click: I Rage, I Melt [1988]
Chris & Cosey: Deep Velvet [1990]
Cyberaktif: Nothing Stays The Same [1993]
Moev: Crucify Me [1988]
Click Click: Headfuck [1990]
HOUR TWO//Severed Heads: LFM [1988]
Suicide: Misery Train [2002]
Doubting Thomas: Hiding [1991]
Arovane: Instant God Out Of The Box [2004]
Throbbing Gristle: PreMature [2009]
Arovane: Cry Osaka Cry [2004]
Cabaret Voltaire: Yashar [1982]
Arovane: The Storm [2000]
Syzygy: Life Field [1994]
Robert Henke: Signal To Noise II [2004]
playlist 3.3 [4-26-09]
Lots of great new music and some old favorites. I've decided to play much of the new and old back to back since so a lot of it, despite being released decades apart, sounds very retro. I suppose it's the "influences" showing through. Bat For Lashes [aka: natasha kahn] for example REALLY recalls kate bush in my opinion. You decide... enjoy.
More notes to come. It's just too hot in here to write at the moment. We're having some freaky Baltimore heatwave in April. [it's almost 90º at the moment].
enjoy.
HOUR ONE //
Bat For Lashes - What's A Girl To Do [2007]
The Wolfgang Press - My Life [1985]
The Prids - Not Even Sometimes [2003]
The Danse Society - Somewhere [1984]
Depeche Mode - Peace [2009]
Bat For Lashes - Glass [2009]
The Wolfgang Press - Hammer The Halo [1986]
The Prids - All That You Want [2006
Silversun Pickups - Growing Old Is Getting Old [2009]
Nico - Das Lied Einsanen Madchen [1985]
The Wolfgang Press - I'm Coming Home [Mama] [1985]
The Prids - The Problem [2003]
The Knife - Girl's Night Out [2003]
HOUR TWO //Saul Stokes - Hello Radar [2008]
The Knife - Silent Shout [2006]
Silversun Pickups - Draining [2009]
Bat For Lashes - Daniel [2009]
Kate Bush - King Of The Mountain [2007]
Blonde Redhead - Bipolar [1997]
Cocteau Twins - Musette And Drums [1983]
The Chameleons - Is It Any Wonder? [1987]
Bat For Lashes - Travelling Woman [2009]
Saul Stokes - Interrupted By Time [2008]
jason.sloan - movement [2009] [from my new album, gotta do some self.promo ;-) ]
play.list 3.2 [3-29-09]
for those that know me personally, you've heard my many stories about how i grew up in the middle of nowhere, USA. culture for many was a steady diet of
winger,
skid row,
skoal and a
mullet. if you were into
new wave,
punk,
DIY culture or anything slightly off center, chances are you got called a "fag" and people always wanted to fight you or you would just get attacked.
seriously! it's still hard for me to understand how something offering a different point of view from the majority can cause such upheaval in peoples lives. but looking back throughout society's history it seems to have always been that way. but for whatever reason, as a teenager, living an hour and half from any major metropolitan center, life was dark indeed ;-)
music was always an escape for me and like for many, saved me many times. i owe a big debt to my aunt patty who introduced me to new wave back in the early 80's. she would make me cassette copies of
flock of seagulls,
duran duran,
split enz,
the cars,
inxs and other staples of that period (circa 82-85). i became aware a bit early that there was more out there that was edgier and sounded very different than what was being offered by the garbage
kasey kasem and mainstream commercial radio were serving up. in these pre-internet days, there was really no way to hear what else was out there. it's kind of hard to fathom today when almost nothing is rare or inacessable, but it's very true.
then in the summer of 87 while laying in bed late one night listening to the radio on some cheap sony walkman knock-off, i came across a weak signal that was playing something that was VERY different than anything else i had ever heard on the radio. it turned out to be the
pet shop boys "it's a sin" single which was just released a few weeks prior. every night after that i kept flipping the dial trying to find that station and see whatelse i could discover. fortunately over the course of the summer i was able to lock in on the station number with a better radio and was sure to preset 100.7 on the dial. i was exposed to so much great new music that summer. new order,
guadalcanal diary,
flesh for lulu,
kate bush,
love & rockets,
jesus & mary chain and the list goes on. little did i know that when i went back to school that fall, very few people (probably under 10) were actually into the new wave scene or even knew what it was. but for the most part we stuck together and i have some pretty great memories from that time. we stuck out like a sore thumb amongst the mullets with our hair cuts, vision street wear and cure t-shirts, but in retrospect it was quite a bit of fun.
this months blog.cast is a big trip down memory lane with a 3 hour playlist assembled from requests from my friends that were rabid
WXXP listeners and some of my favorite bands and tunes that were played by the station. i've been meaning to do this particular broadcast for a few years now, but with all the recent reconnections i've made with many of my friends from those years and our frequent mentions of "XX" this seemed like as good a time as any to pay my tribute to the station "that dared to be different."
WXXP 100.7 RIP 1986-1988.
enjoy.
SOME "WXXP" LINKS:
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WXXP LEGACY+
WXXP OFF AIR [FROM 1988]+
WXXP MYSPACE TRIBUTE+
DJ BIRD'S DIATRIBEPLAYLIST: [subject to change]
• Alphaville: Big In Japan [Single Version]
• Voice Of The Beehive: I Say Nothing
• The Primitives: Crash [For Kelly who made me cassette copy of this album nearly 21 years ago]
• Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers: Tumblin' Down
• Gene Loves Jezebel: Twenty Killer Hurts• Flesh For Lulu: Postcards From Paradise
• The Godfathers: Birth, School, Work, Death
• The Housemartins: There Is Always Something There To Remind Me
• The Cure: One More Time
• New Order: 1963
• The Church: Under The Milkyway
• XTC: Dear God [For Sheep]
• Shona Laing: Glad I'm Not [A Kennedy] (for Jennifer)
• The Jesus And Mary Chain: Sidewalking
• Julian Cope: World Shut Your Mouth
• Karel Fialka: Hey Matthew
• Depeche Mode: Get The Balance Right
• China Crisis: Arizona Sky
• Pet Shop Boys: It's A Sin (XX Mix)
• Love & Rockets: No New To Tell [For Kirk]
• Men Without Hats: O Sole Mio
• Midnight Oil: The Dead Heart
• Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians: Flesh No. One [Beatle Dennis]
• The Railway Children: A Pleasure
• The Mighty Lemon Drops: Fall Down Like The Rain
• The Mission UK: Wasteland
• Morrissey: I Know Very Well How I Got My Name
• Siouxsie & The Banshees: Song From The End Of The World
• Balaam and the Angel: I Love The Things You Do To Me
• Black: Everything's Coming Up Roses
• Jon Astley: Jane's Getting Serious
• Public Image Ltd: Seattle
• Shriekback: Go Bang!
• Tonio K. I'm Suppose To Have Sex With You
• The Soup Dragons: Head Gone Astray [For Frank]
• Stump: Charlton Heston
• The Sugarcubes: Birthday
• T-Bone Burnett: The Talking Animals
• Guadalcanal Diary: Litany (Life Goes On)
• The Wooden Tops: Stop This Car
• Kate Bush: Running Up That Hill
• Talking Heads: Blind
• The Screaming Blue Messiahs: I Wanna Be A Flintstone
• Big Pig: Breakaway
• The Affordable Floors: Wedding Ring
• Echo & The Bunnymen: People Are Strange
• Faith No More: We Care A Lot
• REM: It's The End Of The World As We Know It [And I Feel Fine]
Labels: 100.7, darren smith, deb brady, dj bird, new wave, pittsburgh, post-punk, WXXP
play.list 3.1 [2-22-09]
Lots of new stuff this month and well as some nostalgia.
I'm also really loving the new Morrissey album. In my opinion, it's his best since 1995's "Southpaw Grammer" He's put on a few pounds, but if it helps him put out a decent record, then I'm all for it.
In the second hour there are two live tracks from Mick Zimmerman and Justin Espinas. These are two of my students that gave some great live performances this week in class. Thanks guys.
See You Next Month.
[Hour.One]Morrissey - Something Is Squeezing My Skull [2009] [FOR PAT]
The Ocean Blue - Between Something and Nothing [1989]
Morrissey - I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris [2009]
The Mighty Lemon Drops - Hollow Inside [1988]
New Order - Ceremony [Live 5/81 S.O. Club Berlin] [Thanks Jessica]
Luxúria - Luxúria [1988]
Macbeth - Help Me Lift You Up [1988]
Cocteau Twins - Feathers Oar Blades [Live1/83 Amsterdam] [Thanks Jessica]
Sinéad O'Connor - Jerusalem [1987]
Luxúria - Redneck [1986]
Morrissey - When Last I Spoke To Carol [2009]
[Hour.Two]New Order - Everything's Gone Green [Live 5/81 S.O. Club Berlin] [Thanks Jessica]
Luxúria - Beast Box Is Dreaming [1988]
Morrissey - I'm Okay By Myself [2009]
Cocteau Twins - Wax and Wane [Live1/83 Amsterdam]
Psychic TV/PTV3 - Pickles and Jam [2009]
The Cars - Strap Me In [1987]
The Mighty Lemon Drops - Fall Down (Like The Rain) [1987]
The Cars - Breakaway [1987]
Psychic TV/PTV3 - The Thin Garden [2009]
Mick Zimmerman - Untitled [LIVE 2/09]
CINdYTALK- Vitriol In Memoriam [For Matt Kinnison] [2008]
CINdYTALK - It's Luxury [Demo] [1983]
CINdYTALK - By This River [Brian Eno cover, date unknown]
CINdYTALK - Inter Alia [2006]
Justin Espinas - Untitled [LIVE 2/09]
jason in london