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Drive Like Jehu
The Hi-Speed Mix Tape this week moves into an expanded two-hour slot, now from 2 to 4 on Friday afternoons. Thanks to the excellent blog at Raven Sings The Blues for revealing a lot of the great music played on today's show.
SUNROOF! - White Stairs
BATTLES - Tras
THE ANOMOANON - Planet Caravan (Black Sabbath cover)
OM - Bedouin's Vigil
THE DEAD C - Power (see some footage from late '90's NZ tv here)
SANDOZ LAB TECHNICIANS - It's All Just
SUN CITY GIRLS - Batman Theme
SHADOWY MEN ON A SHADOWY PLANET - Three Piece Suit
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE - Christian Brother (Elliot Smith cover)
REVERIE SOUND REVUE - An Anniversary Away
LAURA VEIRS - Riptide
PAPERCUTS - Just Another Thing To Dust
THE OCTOPUS PROJECT - The Adjustor
AUGUSTUS PABLO - Hot and Cold Version
GRAILS - Soft Temple
ALAN WATTS - Onion Chant
THE MICROPHONES - Oh Anna
ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI - Maybe You Can Owe Me
DRIVE LIKE JEHU - Spikes To You
BEEHIVE AND THE BARRACUDAS - Maximum Detail
MY BLOODY VALENTINE - Sometimes
COMETS ON FIRE - Jaybird
William S. Burroughs
This week's Hi-Speed Mix Tape showcases new music from Eluvium, PJ Harvey, Thurston Moore, Voice of the Seven Woods and Prefuse 73, alongside some classic tropicalia sounds from Brazil's Os Mutantes. A distinctly dub focus rounds out the show, with cuts from Pan-American, Twilight Circus Sound System, Material and Dunedin heavyweights Zuvuya.
ELUVIUM - Indoor Swimming At The Space Station
PJ HARVEY - When Under Ether
PREFUSE 73 - Class of 73 Bells (featuring School of Seven Bells)
THURSTON MOORE - Wonderful Witches
OS MUTANTES - Baby
ORION RIGEL DOMMISSE - Drink Yourself To Death
VOICE OF THE SEVEN WOODS - Silver Morning Branches
PAN-AMERICAN - Code
TWILIGHT CIRCUS DUB SOUND SYSTEM - Acetate
MATERIAL/WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS - The Western Lands (A Dangerous Road Mix)
ZUVUYA - San Pedro Sunrise
Chantal Goya, in Masculin, Féminin.
The Hi-Speed Mix Tape this week brings you some goodies from the present and from the past. Italian post-rockers Larsen open proceedings with a cut from their album Play. For this release, they improvised around themes and melodies cribbed from Autechre records, creating instrumental music that is infused with a feel reminiscent of the Sheffield IDM duo, yet something entirely their own at the same time. The Tren Brothers are none other than Mick Turner and Jim White, two-thirds of Australia's Dirty Three. New York psych-rockers Oneida follow up with a moody track that channels a particularly apocalyptic vibe, which is carried on by This Heat from their 1981 album Deceit. Steven R. Smith's Hala Strana project is an outlet for his interests in Eastern European folk music, filtered through the aesthetics of drone and noise. Expo '70 (a.k.a. Justin Wright) sounds like SunnO))) if they hailed from the early seventies and were into folk rather than black metal; this cut comes from his latest album Animism. Brooklyn band the Fiery Furnaces are incredibly musically diverse; this song from their 2004 album Blueberry Boat veers between lurching hip-hop influenced beats, orchestral rock, and folk over the course of ten minutes. Ohio punk legends Pere Ubu certainly need no introduction and "Final Solution" is one of their greatest songs. Oakland psychedelic band the Gris Gris take the more sedate and particularly Californian route to musical expansion, with a strong folk and Latin influence in their music. Finally, the show closes with a slice of mid-sixties French pop from Chantal Goya, lead actress in Jean-Luc Godard's 1966 film Masculin, Féminin.
LARSEN - C
TREN BROTHERS - Swing pt. 1
ONEIDA - Tennessee
THIS HEAT - Cenotaph
KEVIN DREW - Tbtf
HALA STRANA - The Loss Of What We Keep
EXPO '70 - Eagle Talons
THE FIERY FURNACES - Quay Cur
PERE UBU - Final Solution
THE GRIS GRIS - Me Queda Um Bejou
CHANTAL GOYA - Tu M'as Trop Menti
Grails
This week's show is a look back on some of the more compelling releases of the year gone so far.
MARNIE STERN - Vibrational Match (from In Advance of the Broken Arm, on Kill Rock Stars)
BATTLES - Leyendecker (from Mirrored, on Warp)
BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW - Drippy Eye (from Dandelion Gum, on Graveface)
DALEK - Abandoned Language (from Abandoned Language, on Ipecac)
EARTH - Miami Morning Coming Down (from Hibernaculum, on Southern Lord)
GRAILS - Silk Road (from Burning Off Impurities, on Temporary Residence)
EFTERKLANG - Jojo (from Under Giant Trees, on The Leaf Label)
DEERHUNTER - Hazel St. (from Cryptograms, on Kranky)
BIG BUSINESS - Hands Up (from Here Come The Waterworks, on Hydra Head)
SHELLAC - Be Prepared (from Excellent Italian Greyhound, on Touch and Go)
TRANS AM - Shining Path (from Sex Change, on Thrill Jockey)
EARTHLESS - Cherry Red (Groundhogs cover, from Rhythms From A Cosmic Sky, on Tee Pee)
The Human Instinct's Stoned Guitar (1970).
This week's show revolves around some of the finer American rock'n'roll that has been released over the last few years. Black Mountain and the Black Angels start things off with a hefty psych influence that segues nicely into the Warlocks' tribute to Velvet Underground chanteuse, Nico. San Francisco's finest, Comets On Fire take rock'n'roll to the brink, a relentless high energy assault that never lets up. Seattle's Murder City Devils had a hardcore attitude and some great players, the likes of whom can be found today in bands like Big Business and Pretty Girls Make Graves. San Diego's heavyweights Hot Snakes sadly called it a day back in 2005, but their idiosyncratic and fast-paced take on rock'n'roll lives on in records like Automatic Midnight and Suicide Invoice. Russian Circles exist at the point where post-rock and metal bleed together, dynamic and subtle in some parts, explosive and full of bombast in others. The last word, however, is given to late 60's New Zealand legends, the Human Instinct, with a couple of cuts from their fantastic 1970 album Stoned Guitar. The group's guitarist, Billy T. K. was dubbed "the Maori Hendrix", and from this album its easy to see why; stellar effects-laden psychedelic guitar leads, infused with a massive dose of soul and expression. Anyone interested the history of New Zealand's music culture owes it to themsevles to check this band out.
BLACK MOUNTAIN - Don't Run Our Hearts Around
THE BLACK ANGELS - The First Vietnamese War (download the mp3 here)
THE WARLOCKS - Song For Nico (download the mp3 here)
COMETS ON FIRE - Antlers Of The Midnight Sun (download the mp3 here)
MURDER CITY DEVILS - I Drank The Wine
DOOMRIDERS - Black Thunder
THESE ARMS ARE SNAKES - Horse Girl (download the mp3 here)
HOT SNAKES - U.S. Mint
BEAR VS. SHARK - 5, 6 Kids
RUSSIAN CIRCLES - Death Rides A Horse (download the mp3 here)
THE HUMAN INSTINCT - Stoned Guitar/Midnight Sun
Funkadelic's 1971 masterpiece, Maggot Brain.
This week's show delves into some classic tracks from Funkadelic, Kyuss, Pink Floyd, Alice Coltrane and the Velvet Underground, alongside works by Argentinian saxophonist Gato Barbieri, Beat writer turned sampledelic prophet William Burroughs and a Four Tet remix of one of Texan post-rockers Explosions In The Sky latest tracks.
FUNKADELIC - Maggot Brain
KYUSS - Phototropic
PINK FLOYD - Careful With That Axe, Eugene (live - watch the video here)
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS - Words Of Advice For Young People (watch a video here)
GATO BARBIERI - Juana Azurday
ALICE COLTRANE - Journey In Satchidananda (download the mp3 here via Motel de Moka)
EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY - Catastrophe and the Cure (Four Tet Mix - download the mp3 here)
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND - After Hours
