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January 29, 2006
Podcast Volume Three
My third podcast has been uploaded. Here is the tracklist:
Venetian Snares / Hiszékeny
Music A.M. / Big Wheel
Sketch Show / Chronograph
Broadcast / America’s Boy
Luke Vibert / Negresco
キセル / 近未来
John Frusciante / Anne
志人 / 玉兎 / Fuji Classics
Anne Laplantine / Video Game
Pia Fraus / Deep Purple Girl
Piana / Snow Bird
Aoki Takamasa + Tujiko Noriko / Vinyl Words
A Hawk and a Hacksaw / Portland Town
Notes on this selection:
1. A small selection from the ever-mad Venetian Snares’ newest album Rossz Csillag Alatt Született which I picked up from Aquarius Records on my visit to California in Dec / Jan. You’d think his music would start to get repetitive or boring with the pace of his releases, but it doesn’t, honestly. As can be said of many of his songs, this is the only song of his which sounds like this.
2. If there was a single from this Music A.M. album, A Heart & Two Stars, this would be it. I first heard Music A.M. via the excellent Quartermass site.
3. Sketch Show is Yukihiro Takahashi and Haruomi Hosono, formerly of YMO fame. This is a nice song from Loophole mixing male / female vocals and Japanese / English / some-unidentified-Scandinavian-language. This song (and this album...this whole group in fact) reminds me of Fukuoka, as I was traveling there at the time when my friend Kenji bought the album and gave it to me.
4. Nice song from Broadcast’s newest album, Tender Buttons. The album is really solid (like all their albums).
5. This is taken from Luke Vibert’s lovely disco revival record, Kerrier District from a couple years ago on Rephlex.
6. I honestly don’t know much about this band キセル, though their music is quite beautiful and kind of reminds me of Shugo Tokumaru. I should actually be saying that Shugo’s music reminds me of them of course, as their discography goes back to 2001, though I just heard them last year. This song is the title track of 近未来 (Kinmirai, near future), which came out in 2002.
7. Lately I’ve been totally absorbed by the two John Frusciante albums I have, Curtains and Shadows Collide With People. This is a great song from the former, released almost exactly 1 year ago.
8. I mentioned 志人 (Shibito)’s new solo album on this blog recently. This is one of my favorite songs from it.
9. This is a song by Anne Laplantine from the album Nordheim that has a lo-fi videogame aesthetic. Sandwiched in here as a bit of a transitional / diversional texture between the sound of Shibito and Pia Fraus.
10. I mentioned Pia Fraus on this blog as well when I first heard them. Of all the contemporary bands trying to bring back shoegazer (whether intentionally or not) they are easily the best in my opinion. This was initially one of my favorite songs from Sailing on a Grapefruit Lake, a compilation, and a Japan only release.
11. Maybe I’ve been mentioning Piana too often lately. I guess its because I have seen her live twice in the last couple months, most recently this past week. This song is the title track from her first album, Snow Bird. If you read Japanese and follow her blog, you can quite easily keep up with her career, which seems to be aiming higher and higher.
12. Of course I eventually had to introduce a track from this album, last year’s collaboration between Tujiko Noriko and Aoki Takamasa. While I don’t like this album nearly as much as RATN’s J there are a couple really nice songs, and this is one of them.
13. Admiteddly, I know nothing about this band. I grabbed this song off the latest Leaf compilation double album, Check the Water, as it really stood out to me for it’s narrative. A bit of a dark note to end this mix on.
Posted by shane at January 29, 2006 12:40 AM