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)