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