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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