Playlist: 07.09.07

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

Playlist: 31.08.07

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

Playlist: 24.08.07

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

Playlist: 17.08.07

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)

Playlist: 10.08.07

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

Playlist: 27.07.07

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

Playlist: 20.07.07

OOIOO

A less thematic playlist this week, with psychrockers Akron/Family leading the charge. Battles, soon-to-be visitors to these faraway shores (they play Wellington on September 22nd at the San Francisco Bath House), follow up with another track from their fantastic new album, Mirrored. The show also features new music from Iceland's Múm, who have a new album coming out soon. Electrelane, Fujiya and Miyagi, Trans Am and Cul De Sac are all keepers of the Krautrock flame, from subtle sonic flourishes, to out-and-out motorik rhythms. Up next are Japan's OOIOO and Ruins; the former performing tribal psychrock with a distinct Boredoms influence (perhaps not surprising considering the presence of Boredoms drummer Yoshimi P-We), the latter a drum-and-bass two piece in this case performing a medley of fragments of '70's fusion maestros the Mahavishnu Orchestra. Chicago post-rockers Shipping News conclude this weeks programme.

AKRON/FAMILY - Blessing Force (download the mp3 here via Motel de Moka)
BATTLES - Tonto (download the mp3 here)
múm - They Made Frogs Smoke 'Til They Exploded
ELECTRELANE - Two For Joy
FUJIYA AND MIYAGI - Conductor 71
TRANS AM - Carboforce (watch a live video here)
CUL DE SAC - Nepenthe
OOIOO - UMA (watch the video here)
RUINS - Mahavishnu Orchestra Medley (watch some live footage here)
THE SHIPPING NEWS - Paper Lanterns

Playlist: 13.07.07

Can

This week's show focuses on some of the experimental/psychedelic rock that came from Germany in the 1970's, a phenomenon dubbed "Krautrock". Taking musicalchemical inspiration from bands such as the Pink Floyd, the Velvet Underground and the Soft Machine, as well as from new musical technology, bands such as Can, Neu!, Faust and Kraftwerk created forward-thinking music that departed from the blues-based templates of their British and American contemporaries and set the foundations for a whole host of different styles: the influence of many of these bands can be heard throughout hip-hop, punk, electronic, dance, and post-rock scenes.

FAUST - Krautrock (download the mp3 here)
AMON DÜÜL II - Kannan
ASH RA TEMPEL - Look At Your Sun
AGITATION FREE - Malesch
GURU GURU - Der LSD Marsch
NEU! - Negativland
CAN - Mother Sky

Playlist: 06.07.07

Boredoms' Eye conducts 77Boadrum, New York (more here)

If you want space rock, low-fi rock'n'roll, wailing guitars, exquisite drone, Finnish free folk, Japanese psych- rock epics, or Neil Young covers - the Hi-Speed Mix Tape provides!

LA OTRACINA - Sailor Of The Salvian Seas
PUMICE - Stopover
DEERHUNTER - Strange Lights (download the mp3 here)
HOT SNAKES - Suicide Invoice
MARNIE STERN - Every Single Line Means Something (download the mp3 here)
GROUPER - Cover the Windows and the Walls
SYD BARRETT - Golden Hair
ISLAJA - Syndanten Ahmija
HOLGER CZUKAY AND ROLF DAMMERS - Mellow Out
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE - Banshee Beat (download a live mp3 here)
BOREDOMS - Spiral
LOW AND DIRTY THREE - Down By The River (Neil Young cover)

Playlist: 29.06.07

Vibracathedral Orchestra

Another mix of new experimentation and the old-school pioneers this week. Vibracathedral Orchestra, Six Organs of Admittance, and the Sunburned are following the no-holds barred approach of past masters such as Amon Duul II, Yoko Ono and the 13th Floor Elevators.

VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA - A Natural Fact (watch some live footage here)
SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE - Eighth Cognition/All You've Left
AMON DUUL II - Eye Shaking King
DEAD MOON - Fire In The Western World (watch a live video here)
COLLEEN - Blue Sands (download the mp3 here)
THE SUNBURNED - (Infinity 5)
YOKO ONO - Why?
FENNESZ & SAKAMOTO - Haru
FOUR TET - Iron Man (Black Sabbath cover - download the mp3 here)
THE 13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS - Slip Inside The House (download the mp3 here)

Playlist: 15.06.07

Battles

This week's show explores a wide variety of music, from the folk ramblings of Wooden Wand, to the raucous rock of Part Chimp and Shellac, as well as the more experimental fodder of the No-Neck Blues Band, Blues Control and Aa (Big A Little a). New music from Battles, Gang Gang Dance and Fridge also feature, as well as a couple of gems from a couple of classic 70's albums: Brian Eno's Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) and Gary Higgins' Red Hash.

GARY HIGGINS - Thicker Than A Smokey (download the mp3 here)
WOODEN WAND - Delia (download the mp3 here)
NO-NECK BLUES BAND - Four Head Food
FRIDGE - Eyelids (download the mp3 here)
RACOO-OO-OON - Invisible Sun
PARTS AND LABOR - Fractured Skies
PART CHIMP - New Cross (download the mp3 here)
Aa - Manshake
BRIAN ENO - The Fat Lady Of Limbourg (download the mp3 here)
GANG GANG DANCE - Untitled #3
MINUS THE BEAR - Fulfill The Dream (Old Italy remix - download the mp3 here)
BATTLES - Bad Trails
BLUES CONTROL - End Zone
SHELLAC - Mouthpiece (download the mp3 here)

Playlist: 08.06.07

Gang Gang Dance

Setting the controls for the heart of modern experimental music, this week's edition of the Hi-Speed Mix Tape features some of the bands who are pushing things in the right direction. Gang Gang Dance, Liars, Efterklang, and Birdy Nam Nam's common thread is their willingness to try anything and have fun at the same time, resulting in a sonic freedom that positively drips from each of their idiosyncratic musics. Alongside these modern day Prometheans, are some classic trailblazers from years past: Can, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and Autechre.

GANG GANG DANCE - Egowar (download the mp3 here)
CAN - Quantum Physics
AUTECHRE - Flutter
EFTERKLANG - Bright
CRESCENT - Desert Rose
LIARS - Let's Not Wrestle Mt Heart Attack (download the mp3 here)
BIRDY NAM NAM - Too Much Skunk Tonight (watch some live footage here)
FELA ANIKULAPO-KUTI AND AFRICA 70 - Gentleman

Playlist: 25.05.07

OM

This week's Hi-Speed Mix Tape features some of the more progressive music flowing forth from such diverse artists as Big Business, Mammatus, Birchville Cat Motel and Jana Hunter. Also featured are Al Cisneros and Chris Hakius, stoner-rock pioneers with Sleep, who have forged a new identity with OM, more expansive and minimal than Sleep, with a distinct mystical element in the lyrics and meditative tones.

OM - At Giza (download the mp3 here)
BIG BUSINESS - O.G.
BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL - 55 000 Flowers For The Hero
MAMMATUS - Dragon Of The Deep, Part 3 (Excellent Swordfight)
BARDO POND - Cry Baby Cry (Beatles cover)
JANA HUNTER - Farm, CA (download the mp3 here)
LARD - The Power of Lard (download the mp3 here)

Playlist: 18.05.07

Boris


sunnO)))

This edition of the Hi-Speed Mix Tape features a slightly narrower focus upon American drone doom group sunnO))) and Tokyo heavy rock'n'rollers Boris, both recent visitors to Australia. Live, these bands are incredible, and in the case of sunnO))), volume becomes a purely physical sensation. Truly intense performers, the two bands have released a collaborative album, Altar, which combines their forces into a radically new direction. Also featured on the show are Japanese noise-rockers Mainliner, the cosmically sonic rock'n'roll of Comets On Fire, San Diego acid rock heroes Earthless and Dylan Carlson's Earth who, alongside the Melvins, helped to pioneer the drone doom sound.

sunnO))) & BORIS - Etna (download the mp3 here)
BORIS - Pink (download the mp3 here)
MAINLINER - Cockamamie
TITAN - Annals Of The Former World (download the mp3 here)
COMETS ON FIRE - Jaybird
EARTH - Coda Maesto In F (Flat) Minor
sunnO))) - It Took The Night To Believe (download the mp3 here)
EARTHLESS - Flower Travellin' Man (download the mp3 here)

Playlist: 27.04.07

After a couple weeks downtime while the VBC studio got a facelift, the Hi-Speed Mix Tape returns. This week's edition sees a nice mix between some psychedelic folk (Hush Arbors, Grails), metal (Russian Circles, Big Business) and some older bands returning with some great new material (Earth, Bardo Pond).

BARDO POND - Destroying Angel (watch a live video here)
GRAILS - Dead Vine Blues (download the mp3 here)
HUSH ARBORS - Clothed With Sun
EARTH - Ouroboros Is Broken (download the mp3 here)
BORIS - Woman On The Screen
BIG BUSINESS - Just As The Day Was Dawning (download the mp3 here)
RUSSIAN CIRCLES - Death Rides A Horse download the mp3 here)
ZODIACS - Road Star Blues (download the mp3 here)
DEERHUNTER - Like New (download the mp3 here)
CAN - Tango Whiskeyman (download the mp3 here)

Playlist: 13.04.07

The Hi-Speed Mix Tape is go!

BORIS WITH MICHIO KURIHARA - Rainbow
BATTLES - Atlas (watch the video here)
GRAILS - Origin-ing
TALL FIRS - The Woods (download the MP3 here)
BADGERLORE - Mountain Wine
CALIFONE - The Orchids (Psychic TV cover - download the MP3 here)
EFTERKLANG - Jojo (download a live MP3 here)
KIEREN HEBDEN/STEVE REID - The Sun Never Sets
DALEK - Paragraphs Relentless (download the MP3 here)
AESOP ROCK - None Shall Pass (download the MP3 here)
TRANS AM - Conspiracy Of The Gods (watch the video here)
GROUPER - Giving It To You
KING LOSER - Cyclonic Vibration

Welcome!

This is the online companion to a radio show you may hear on Wellington's latest student/community radio station, The VBC (Victoria University Broadcasting Club), located at 88.3FM. The Hi-Speed Mix Tape is dedicated to bringing the listening audience a wide selection of new music, obscure gems, cult classics and much more, with a distinct focus on the experimental, avant, and frontier-pushing side of things. This site will hopefully provide some textual relief in the form of reviews, interviews, links to the bands as well as mp3's and playlists. The show airs Friday afternoons 3-4PM on the VBC, 88.3FM. Turn on, tune in, drop out...

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