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This week Tony Dushane came down with that cold that everyone seems to be getting around here lately, so he called out for a sub to host his regular show Drinks With Tony. I stepped up to the challenge, and a couple friends came down to hang out and pitch in. For the first two hours I was joined by vintage psych aficionado Koll The Polar Bear and DJ Aslan Moonbeam (host of S.C.R.E.A.M. For P.E.A.C.E. here on Radio Valencia), both of whom played selections from their respective music libraries and helped me polish off a fifth of Jameson’s Irish Whiskey here in the studio. At 8:00 PM Juan Rapido showed up for his scheduled broadcast of Dante’s Hot Tub, and he kindly let us three hooligans stick around to play some tunes. A fun time was had by all.

As for a playlist, well… I was too busy pouring shots and shooting the shit with me mates to keep notes of what we played (or even remember half of it when we did the track announcements in between sets). Sorry!

This week’s broadcast wrapped up the year with one final edition of Mindtrain. I played some new and interesting music from Daniel Padden and Jac Berrocal, along with old and treasured classics by Frank Zappa, Faust, ZNR, Cockney Rebel, Julee Cruise, Chrystal Belle Scrodd and others, including rather long tracks by Nurse With Wound, Current 93 and Jean-Luc Ponty.

Mindtrain may have gone off the rails, but I’m not leaving Radio Valencia. Tune in next Monday night at the same time for an all-new adventure in underground radio. More will be revealed…

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Playlist for Mindtrain 22 – 27 December 2011

• Dr. John, The Night Tripper – Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya – Gris-Gris

• Comus – Down (Like A Movie Star) – To Keep From Crying
• Andrew Liles – Auto Manipulator (Gong Mix By Aranos) – In My Father’s House Are Many Mansions
• Angelo Badalamenti – Frank Returns – Blue Velvet (Original Soundtrack)
• 6 Comm – Winter Sadness – Content With Blood
• Daniel Padden – Dancer’s Reverse – Ship Chop
• Fred Frith / Rova Saxophone Quartet – Void Where Prohibited / The Up And Up – Freedom In Fragments
• Daniel Padden – Rattling Belt – Ship Chop
• The GTO’s – The Ghost Chained To The Past, Present, And Future (Shock Treatment) – Permanent Damage
• Chrystal Belle Scrodd – Two Hot Pricks – The Inevitable Chrystal Belle Scrodd Record
• Naked City – Rend Fou – Absinthe
• Big Star – Downs – Third: Sister Lovers
• Tor Lundvall – Night Walk – Seasons Sketches

• Jean-Luc Ponty – Music For Electric Violin And Low Budget Orchestra – King Kong: Jean-Luc Ponty Plays The Music Of Frank Zappa
• Jac Berrocal / David Fenech / Ghedalia Tazartes – Human Bones / Cochise – Superdisque
• Amon Duul II – Deutsch Nepal – Wolf City
• Faust – Untitled / Stretch Out Time – The Faust Tapes
• Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel – Mr. Raffles / It Wasn’t Me – The Best Years Of Our Lives
• Smooth Quality Instrument – Estrogeny Of A Thong – Audio Odditions Magazine CD Kompilation #1 (Compilation)
• John Cale – Legs Larry At Television Centre – The Academy In Peril
• Jac Berrocal / David Fenech / Ghedalia Tazartes – Zilveli – Superdisque

• ZNR – Seynete – Barricade 3
• Nurse With Wound – A Handjob From The Laughing Policeman – A Handjob From The Laughing Policeman
• Julee Cruise – Rockin’ Back Inside My Heart (Tibetan 12″ Mix) – Peaks Mania EP

• Current 93 – I Have A Special Plan For This World – I Have A Special Plan For This World
• Slapp Happy – Mono Plane – Sort Of
• Andrew Liles – Something To Do With Hans Bellmer In A Pub At Last Orders Using 15th Century Rural Magic By Bass Communion – In My Father’s House Are Many Mansions
• Tor Lundvall – Ghost Girl (Re-Recorded Single Version) – Seasons Sketches
• Darmstadt Pharmacy – Dead At The Exotica Museum – Audio Odditions Magazine CD Kompilation #1 (Compilation)
• Dr. John, The Night Tripper – I Walk On Gilded Splinters – Gris-Gris
• Nick Drake – Northern Sky – Bryter Later

• Jean-Luc Ponty – America Drinks And Goes Home – King Kong: Jean-Luc Ponty Plays The Music Of Frank Zappa

This week’s edition of Mindtrain featured some music associated with the winter solstice, as recorded by Coil, Sorrow and Tor Lundvall, along with new releases from The Fall, Chrysta Bell and David Lynch. I also played some amazing psychedelic prog jazz-rock by Drum Circus, a Swiss outfit who put out one great record in 1971, included on Brainticket’s The Vintage Anthology (1971-1980) 4-CD box set which reissued that group’s three studio albums alongside other music projects by Joel Vandroogenbroeck, the leader of Brainticket.

The featured release was The Nude Paper Sermon by Eric Salzman, an avant-garde classical work (subtitled “Tropes for Actor, Renaissance Consort, Chorus And Electronics”) originally released on the Nonesuch label in 1969 and presently made available as a free download through the Avant-Garde Project.

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Playlist for Mindtrain 21 – 20 December 2011

• Sorrow – Petite Cloche Faict Grand Son / The Final Solstice – The Final Solstice II (Compilation)

• Joel Vandroogenbroeck & Santucci Scoppa – Tangana – Brainticket: The Vintage Anthology (1971-1980) (Compilation)
• The Fall – I’ve Seen Them Come – Ersatz GB
• Drum Circus – Magic Theatre – Brainticket: The Vintage Anthology (1971-1980) (Compilation)
• Herbie Hancock – You’ll Know When You Get There – Mwandishi
• Joni Mitchell – Rainy Night House – Miles Of Aisles

• David Lynch – Strange And Unproductive Thinking – Crazy Clown Time
• Coil – A White Rainbow – Winter Solstice (North)
• Chrysta Bell – This Train – This Train
• Cave Dwellers – At The Stroke Of Nine – Cave Dwellers
• Henry Cow – Guider Tells Of Silent Airborne Machine: Olwyn Grainger / Betty McGowan / Lottie Hare – 40th Anniversary Box: The Road, Vol. 1 (Beginnings)
• Drum Circus – La-Si-Do – Brainticket: The Vintage Anthology (1971-1980) (Compilation)
• Mick Farren & The Deviants – Last Man – On Your Knees, Earthlings!!! (1967-2001)
• The Fall – Happi Song – Ersatz GB
• Larsen & Nurse With Wound – Cob-Kite Toy – Erroneous: A Selection Of Errors (Compilation)
• Grace Slick – Come Again Toucan – Manhole

• Eric Salzman – The Nude Paper Sermon: Tropes for Actor, Renaissance Consort, Chorus And Electronics (Parts I & II) – The Nude Paper Sermon (Avant-Garde Project AGP118)

• Cyclobe – Red Demise – Luminous Darkness
• Chrysta Bell – Polish Poem – This Train
• Tor Lundvall – Ice – Ice
• Beck – Black Tambourine – Guero
• The Threshold Houseboys Choir – Distonto – The Threshold Houseboys Choir Amulet Edition
• Coil – North / Magnetic North – Winter Solstice (North)
• Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto / Ensemble Modern – Transition / Broken Line 1 – Utp
• Joni Mitchell – Both Sides Now – Both Sides Now
• Coil – Christmas Is Now Drawing Near – Winter Solstice (North)

• Claudine Longet – Snow – Hello, Hello: The Best Of Claudine Longet

This month marks the release of a new record from Kate Bush. Entitled 50 Words For Snow, it’s her first album of new material since Aerial came out six years ago. This is another conceptually articulated work in the thematic sense she’s become known for, and it got me thinking of a theme to base this week’s show on. Along with Kate’s new album in its entirety, I tracked down a wide range of snow-themed music to fill up the whole four hours of the program (and then some), from avant-rock to electronic to neo-folk and chamber music and all manner of pop and indie sounds. including selections from Michael Cashmore, Elliot Smith, Lisa Germano, Shirley Collins, Coil, Cindytalk, the Trash Can Sinatras and much more…

This program is the closest I’m going to come to doing a Christmas-themed edition of Mindtrain. And, due to imminent personal adversities on the event horizon, it may also turn out to be my last program of the year. So I wish you all Happy Holidays – 2012 is fast upon us!

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Playlist for Mindtrain 20 – 13 December 2011

• Myrmyr – Hot Snow 1 / Hot Snow 2 / Hot Snow 3 – Fire Star

• Michael Cashmore – My Eyes Open / The Snow Abides – The Snow Abides
• Cindytalk – Memories Of Skin And Snow – Camouflage Heart
• Joolie Wood – Melt With The Snow – Tales Of Colour And White
• Cindytalk – Snowkisss – Wappinschaw
• Death In June – Peaceful Snow – Peaceful Snow
• Nico – Roses In The Snow – The Marble Index
• Elliott Smith – Angel In The Snow – New Moon
• Pluramon – Snow Bow – The Monstrous Surplus
• Tor Lundvall – Snowy Morning – Yule
• Rosa Mundi – The Snow Man – The Final Solstice II (Compilation)
• Michael Cashmore – Snow No Longer – The Snow Abides

• Anne Briggs – The Snow It Melts The Soonest – A Collection
• Appliance – All The Words For Snow – Re-Conditioned
• Michael Cashmore – Passed To Snow – Sleep England
• Cocteau Twins – How To Bring A Blush To The Snow – Victorialand
• Tor Lundvall – Blankets Of Snow – The Seasons Unfold
• Coil – Driftmix – The Snow
• Nine Horses – Snow Borne Sorrow – Snow Borne Sorrow
• U2 – White As Snow – No Line On The Horizon
• Michael Cashmore – Flowers Under Snow – Sleep England
• Shirley Collins – Polly Vaughan – Fountain Of Snow
• Pearls Before Swine – Snow Queen – Constructive Melancholy: Thirty Years Of Pearls Before Swine
• Lisa Germano – Snow – Magic Neighbor
• Pentangle – Rain And Snow – Reflection
• Yoko Ono & The Plastic Ono Band – Listen, The Snow Is Falling – Some Time In New York City

• Kate Bush – Snowflake / Lake Tahoe / Misty / Wild Man / Snowed In At Wheeler Street / 50 Words For Snow / Among Angels – 50 Words For Snow

• Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band – Steal Softly Thru Snow – Trout Mask Replica
• The Pop Group – Snowgirl – Y
• Coil – Snow Falls Into Military Temples – And The Ambulance Died In His Arms
• David Sylvian – Snow White In Appalachia – Died In The Wool / Manafon Variations
• Swing Out Sister – Alpine Crossing – Somewhere Deep In The Night
• Cindytalk – On Snowmoor – The Wind Is Strong
• Modern English – After The Snow – After The Snow
• Coil – The Snow – The Snow
• Nature And Organisation – Tracks 05-08 (Untitled) – Death In A Snow Leopard Winter
• Tor Lundvall – The Falling Snow (Full-Length Version) – Yule

• The Trash Can Sinatras – Snow (Original Mix) – Snow

This week on Mindtrain I chose to feature the music of Iggy Pop, in honor of the two Stooges concerts at the Warfield on Sunday and Tuesday (wrapping up the 2011 tour, these dates were pushed back due to a broken foot sustained three months ago onstage in Romania). Aside from rare and essential outtakes from the first two Stooges albums (including selections from the 1970: The Complete Fun House Sessions box set), I included a couple odd spoken word recordings by Iggy as well as a duet with Francoise Hardy.

Mixed in with these tracks were the usual eclectic array of strange and forgotten sounds, from the likes of Alva Noto, Waldteufel, Lady June, Sonic Youth and the Paris Sisters, among others. Around the bend and back again…

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Playlist for Mindtrain 19 – 06 December 2011

• The Stooges – Freak (Later Titled “L.A. Blues”), Take 1 – 1970: The Complete Fun House Sessions

• Alva Noto – Postfabric – Transvision
• Eve Libertine & Nemo Jones – Skating / I Took A Bus – Skating The Side Of Violence
• John Moran – Act 1: The Murders (“The Prosecutor” At Death-Train Station Five, The Tate House) – The Manson Family (An Opera)
• Mogwai – Chocky – Come On Die Young
• Alva Noto – 10 – Transvision
• Theandria – Small Satori Sips – Return And Change
• Merry Clayton & Bernard Krause – Performance – Performance (Original Soundtrack)
• Mimi – Fire And Roses – Soak

• Larry Marotta – Anemic Cinema – Smatterings, Volume One (Compilation)
• Mika Vainio – Open Up And Bleed – Life (…It Eats You Up)
• Lady June – Touch-Downer – Lady June’s Linguistic Leprosy
• The Leather Nun – Prime Mover / Death Threats – Force Of Habit
• Iggy Pop – The Tell-Tale Heart – Closed On Account Of Rabies: Poems And Tales Of Edgar Allan Poe (Compilation)
• Waldteufel – Das Wilde Heer Vom Horselberg – Rauhnacht
• Pluramon – Difference Machine – Dreams Top Rock
• Mogwai – Punk Rock – Come On Die Young

• Psychic TV – This Is The Final War – Themes 4: Lady Jaye
• The Stooges – Ann (Full Version) – The Stooges (Deluxe Edition)
• The Paris Sisters – I’m Me – The Paris Sisters Sing Everything Under The Sun!!!
• 400 Lonely Things – Wicklow Wood (For Boorman) – Be Still Life
• Monica Richards – I Am Warrior – Infra-Warrior
• Aphrodite’s Child – (Lemniscate) – 666
• Big City Orchestra – For Ape Father – Reach For The Moon
• Pixyblink – Charmed Whore – Withered Leaves
• The Rolling Stones – Citadel – Their Satanic Majesties Request

• Pere Ubu – Heart Of Darkness – Terminal Tower (An Archival Collection)
• Scott Walker – The Church Of The Apostles – Pola X (Original Soundtrack)
• Sonic Youth – Blink – Pola X (Original Soundtrack)
• Ry Cooder & Buffy Sainte-Marie – The Hashishin – Performance (Original Soundtrack)
• Lemon Kittens – Part Of Hettie’s Tradition – Spoonfed And Writhing
• The Pop Group – Springer – We Are Time
• Phillip Greenlief – Epitasis (For Rainer Werner Fassbinder) – Stalking Andrei
• Can – Uphill – Delay 1968
• The Stooges – Studio Dialogue / Fun House, Take 4 – 1970: The Complete Fun House Sessions

• Francoise Hardy & Iggy Pop – I’ll Be Seeing You – 100 Chansons
• The Stooges – We Will Fall – The Stooges (Deluxe Edition)

This week on Mindtrain I featured selections from Gavin Friday’s recent CD Catholic. His first solo album in sixteen years, in its best moments it harkens back to his 1989 Hal Wilner-produced masterpiece, Each Man Kills The Thing He Loves. Then there were numerous excerpts from a couple of my favorite soundtracks: Ry Cooder’s score for Paris, Texas and Simon Fisher Turner’s ambient soundtrack to Derek Jarman’s Caravaggio. I also included a 30-minute recorded live performance from 1977 of an early orchestral work by Pauline Oliveros, To Valerie Solanas And Marilyn Monroe In Recognition Of Their Desperation, released on LP a couple of years back. The rest of the show was comprised for the most part of bittersweet ballads and doleful dirges by the likes of This Mortal Coil, Red House Painters, Swans, Lisa Germano, Leonard Cohen and others: The perfect music to slit your wrists by…

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Playlist for Mindtrain 18 – 29 November 2011

• The Jimmy Cake – Red Tony – Spectre & Crown

• Ry Cooder – Paris, Texas – Paris, Texas (Original Soundtrack)
• Swans – Miracle Of Love – Various Failures
• Simon Fisher Turner – The Hills Of Abruzzi / The Dog Star / All Paths Lead To Rome / Fantasia & Childhood Memories / How Blue Sky Was / Light And Dark / Umber Wastes / Cafe Of The Moors – Caravaggio 1610 (Original Soundtrack)
• Beck – Nobody’s Fault But My Own – Mutations
• Red House Painters – Medicine Bottle – Down Colorful Hill
• Scivias – Salvator – Lichttaufe 2 (Compilation)

• Marc Almond & Michael Cashmore – The Lunatic Lover – Feasting With Panthers
• Gavin Friday – A Song That Hurts – Catholic
• Lisa Germano – All The Pretty Lies / Lullaby For Liquid Pig – Lullaby For Liquid Pig
• Ry Cooder – No Safety Zone – Paris, Texas (Original Soundtrack)
• Brian Eno & Rick Holland – West Bay – Panic Of Looking
• Illusion Of Safety – Sedation / Quell – Sedation & Quell
• Gavin Friday – Able – Catholic
• U2 – With Or Without You – The Joshua Tree

• Swans – I Remember Who You Are – Various Failures
• Simon Fisher Turner – In The Still Of The Night / Michele Of The Shadows / The Waters Of Forgetfulness / Running Running / Frescobaldi: The Greatest Organist Of Our Time / The Hourglass / I Love You More Than My Eyes – Caravaggio 1610 (Original Soundtrack)
• Swans – God Damn The Sun – Various Failures
• Pauline Oliveros – To Valerie Solanas And Marilyn Monroe In Recognition Of Their Desperation (1977 Performance, Parts 1 & 2) – To Valerie Solanas And Marilyn Monroe In Recognition Of Their Desperation
• Gavin Friday – It’s All Ahead Of You – Catholic
• John Cale – I’m Not The Loving Kind – Slow Dazzle
• Swans – Can’t Find My Way Home – Various Failures

• Current 93 – Riverdeadbank – Thunder Perfect Mind
• This Mortal Coil – Holocaust – It’ll End In Tears
• Cave Dwellers – There Is A Quietening Now – Cave Dwellers
• Ry Cooder & Harry Dean Stanton – I Knew These People – Paris, Texas (Original Soundtrack)
• Brendan Perry – The Captive Heart – Eye Of The Hunter
• Mono – Life In Mono (Alice Band Mix) – Formica Blues
• Swans – Love Will Tear Us Apart (Jarboe Version) – Various Failures
• Gavin Friday – Lord I’m Coming – Catholic
• This Mortal Coil – A Single Wish – It’ll End In Tears
• Swans – Blind – Various Failures

• Leonard Cohen – Seems So Long Ago, Nancy – Songs From A Room

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The Turkey Turntable Throwdown took place this past Thanksgiving Night on November 24, 2011, beginning at 8:00 PM and going till 4:00 AM the next morning. This eight-hour broadcast was a live and unscripted experimental DJ collaboration involving multiple conspirators with unpredictable results, featuring the following perpetrators:

• Ferrara Brain Pan of Forms Of Things Unknown (host of Mindtrain here on Radio Valencia each Monday at midnight) holding the fort down at Chez Poulet, home studio of Radio Valencia in San Francisco
• Das & Ninah of Big City Orchestra (Das being the host of the Radio TroUBle program here every Thursday at midnight) transmitting remotely from the Chakra Chimp audio facility across the bay in Alameda
• TradeMark G. & Frilly of The Evolution Control Committee (also hosts of their own Radio Valencia show The Sound Of Plaid on Thursdays at 9:00 AM) feeding into the remote stream from somewhere in Ohio
• Univac (circuit-bending wizard extraordinaire) breaking the sound barrier out of Orange County, California

Plus cameo appearances by Radio Valencia DJs Bunnywhiskers and Mikl Em of Can Haz DJ.

One year ago this week I awoke on a clear, chilly Thanksgiving morning, turned on my computer and logged in to Brainwashed.com to discover with shock and dismay that Peter ‘Sleazy’ Christopherson had passed away in his sleep the previous night at his home in Bangkok. This week’s Mindtrain was loosely dedicated to the memory of this most seminal and influential Industrial musician, graphic designer and video director. Sleazy was a genius of musical production and pioneer in the art of sampling and programming procedures in experimental electronic music, beginning with his membership in Throbbing Gristle in 1975 and continuing on in the 1980s with his involvement in Psychic TV and his own long-running duo Coil with his late partner John Balance (whose death by accident in 2004 put an end to the band). After Coil, Sleazy moved to Thailand and remained busy and inventive, putting out a couple recordings each by the late projects SoiSong and The Threshold Houseboys Choir. Rather than ever compromise his own musical efforts, he made his bread and butter as a graphic designer with the British Hipgnosis firm in the 1970s and then as a music and commercial video director during the 80s and 90s.

The program featured about an hour’s worth of selections from Coil’s extensive discography, along with a variety of music old and new which evoked themes of departure, loss and separation as I remembered one of my favorite musicians. I played new music by Brian Eno, Haujobb and Suzanne Vega, alongside older releases from Lou Reed, Brainticket, Matching Mole, Keiji Haino, Red House Painters and others.

And with our newly improved podcast system I have capture the full four and a quarter hours of the show on my podcasts page, for those of you who chose not to stay up all night for the live broadcast.

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Playlist for Mindtrain 17 – 22 November 2011

• Scott Walker – Farmer In The City – Tilt

• Haujobb – New World March – New World March
• Brian Eno & Rick Holland – Watch A Single Swallow In A Thermal Sky, And Try To Fit Its Motion, Or Figure Why It Flies – Panic Of Looking
• Matching Mole – Gloria Gloom – Little Red Record
• Brian Eno & Rick Holland – Panic Of Looking – Panic Of Looking
• Cyclobe – Replaced By His Constellation – The Visitors
• Psychic TV – I’m Making A Mirror – Themes 4: Lady Jaye
• Illusion Of Safety – The False Mirror / Seven Years Later – The False Mirror
• Lizzy Mercier Descloux / Rosa Yemen – Herpes Simplex – Press Color
• Suzanne Vega – Language – Close-Up, Vol. 3: States Of Being

• Pink Industry – What I Wouldn’t Give – New Naked Technology (2010 Remasters)
• Peter Christopherson – In My Head A Crystal Sphere Of Heavy Fluid – Foxtrot (Compilation)
• Keiji Haino – Track 8 (Untitled) – Tenshi No Gijinka
• Brainticket – Egyptian Kings – Celestial Ocean
• Cast (7) – Sounds And Dialogues – Kosmos: Soundtracks Of Eastern Germany’s Adventures In Space (Compilation)
• Andrzej Morkowski – Der Schweigende Stern: Meteoritenschwarm – Kosmos: Soundtracks Of Eastern Germany’s Adventures In Space (Compilation)
• Ruth Hohmann & Erbe Chor – Im Staub Der Sterne: Der Mensch (Part 2) – Kosmos: Soundtracks Of Eastern Germany’s Adventures In Space (Compilation)
• Harmonia – Sehr Kosmisch – Musik Von Harmonia
• Antlers Mulm – Filth In Several Styles – Of Withered Sparks
• Bowery Electric – Fear Of Flying – Beat
• Red House Painters – Rollercoaster – Red House Painters (Rollercoaster)

• Beautiful Pea Green Boat – Paper House – Still Life
• Tactile – Grief – Borderlands
• Thomas Tallis / Kronos Quartet – Spem In Alium (Sing And Glorify) – Black Angels
• Muszikas – Hidegen Fujnak A Szelek (Cold Winds Are Blowing) – The Prisoner’s Song
• Scivias – Momotaro – Eisiges Licht (Compilation)
• Marek Zebrowski & David Lynch – Night: City Back Street – Polish Night Music
• Higher Intelligence Agency / Biosphere – Countdown To Darkness (Remix By Craig Morse) – Unreleased
• Jane Birkin & Bryan Ferry – In Every Dream Home A Heartache – Rendez-Vous

• Lou Reed – The Bed – Berlin
• Coil – Remote Viewing 1 – The Remote Viewer
• Coil – Escalation – The Angelic Conversation
• Coil – Going Up – The Ape Of Naples
• Nico & The Faction – Das Lied Von Einsanen Madchens – Camera Obscura

• Suzanne Vega – Instant Of The Hour After – Close-Up, Vol. 3: States Of Being
• ELpH vs. Coil – Ended – Worship The Glitch

This week’s premiere edition of The Backwards Music Station focused on : Hits Of The 80s: Music for the MTV Generation. Songs you hated, songs you loved, songs you loved to hate. From cool bands like Captain Sensible and Wall Of Voodoo to wretched crap (Eddy Grant and Huey Lewis) and in between. You’ve heard it all before, but not like this…

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Playlist for The Backwards Music Station – 17 November 2011

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• kroW tA neM – ynnhoJ dooG eB – lausU sA ssenisuB
• ruoF fO gnaG – mrofinU A nI naM a evoL I – !tnemniatretnE
• sruF ciledehcysP – yaW yM evoL – woN reveroF
• tellaB uadnapS – eurT – eurT
• srennuR thgindiM s’yxeD – neeliE nO emoC – yA-eyR-ooT
• sweN ehT dnA siweL yeuH – erauqS eB oT piH – !eroF
• elsilraC adnileB – dnaS ehT nI elcriC – htraE nO nevaeH
• CBA – evoL fO kooL ehT – evoL fO nocixeL ehT
• !mahW – repsihW sseleraC – giB tI ekaM

• doowylloH oT seoG eiknarF – xaleR – emoderusaelP ehT oT emocleW
• elbisneS niatpaC – toW – tsriF sniatpaC dnA nemoW
• bulC erutluC – noelemahC amraK – srebmuN yB ruoloC
• annodaM – traeH ruoY nepO – eulB eurT
• sniwT nospmohT – evoL fO emaN ehT nI – teS
• selgnaB – naitpygE nA ekiL klaW – thgiL tnereffiD
• eciloP – ennaxoR – ruomA’D sodnaltuO
• 04BU – eniW deR deR – evoL fO ruobaL
• segamI deretlA – yadhtriB yppaH – yadhtriB yppaH

• derdnuH enO tucriaH – )lriG steeM yoB( strihS etiruovaF  – tseW nacileP
• hcivoL eneL – rebmuN ykcuL – sseletatS
• tnarG yddE – eunevA cirtcelE – egapmaR ehT nO relliK
• srelgnartS – peeD nikS – erutplucS laruA
• xovartlU – seyE yM nI sraeT htiW gnicnaD – tnemaL
• gnuhC gnaW – syaD llaH ecnaD – evruC ehT nO stnioP
• oodooV fO llaW – oidaR nacixeM – tseW ehT fO llaC

• aneN – snoollaB deR 99 – snollabtfuL 99

This week on Mindtrain I played a track from Univrs, the latest CD release by Alva Noto (still one of my favorite artists working the vein of minimalist glitch electronica). It’s another fine recording from this German musician, more beat-oriented than some of his other recent albums.

The featured album this time was Les Quatres Directions by French avant-rock multi-instrumentalist Dominique Grimaud. This is surely one of the strangest recordings from the past decade I’ve come across. Released in 2008, it’s an hour-long ritualistic post-modern journey through unfamiliar territory, employing a most atypical assemblage of acoustic and electronic sound sources and instruments.

The program was rounded out by the first side of the debut album from Sweden’s Algarnas Tradgard (Garden of the Elks), released in 1972 and still a psychedelic world-folk classic of avant-garde experimentation, along with extended works from Frank Zappa and Henry Cow, and the usual eclectic assortment of tracks from my library, ranging from Blood Axis to Rahsaan Roland Kirk.

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Playlist for Mindtrain 16 – 15 November 2011

• Algarnas Tradgard – Two Hours Over Two Blue Mountains With A Cuckoo On Each Side (Of The Hours, That Is) / There Is A Time For Everything, There Is A Time When Even Time Will Meet – Framtiden Ar Ett Svavande Skepp, Forankrat I Forntiden

• Fovea Hex – A Hymn To Sulphur – Here Is Where We Used To Sing
• A.C. Marias – There’s A Scent Of Rain In The Air – One Of Our Girls (Has Gone Missing)
• Chris & Cosey – Cowboys In Cuba – Trance
• Alva Noto – Uni Rec – Univrs
• Gastr Del Sol – Our Exquisite Replica Of Eternity – Upgrade & Afterlife
• John Cale – In The Library Of Force – Music For A New Society

• Psychic TV – Eden 1 / Eden 2 / Eden 3 – Dreams Less Sweet
• Henry Cow – Erk Gah (Hold To The Zero Burn), Parts 1-5 / A Bridge To Ruins – 40th Anniversary Box: The Road, Vol. 8 (Stockholm & Goteborg)
• Edmund Welles – Curtains – Imagination Lost
• Mick Farren & The Deviants – Arts Of Darkness – On Your Knees, Earthlings!!! (1967-2001)
• Frank Zappa – The Gumbo Variations – Hot Rats
• Rahsaan Roland Kirk – Celestial Bliss – Prepare Thyself To Deal With A Miracle

• Dominique Grimaud – Les Quatre Directions – Les Quatre Directions

• Coil – Enochian Calling II – The Angelic Conversation
• Was (Not Was) – Zaz Turned Blue – Born To Laugh At Tornadoes
• Angelo Badalamenti – Theme From The Comfort Of Strangers (Main Title) – The Comfort Of Strangers (Original Soundtrack)
• Lisa Germano – Angels Turn To Devils – Rare, Unusual Or Just Bad Songs
• Blood Axis – Between Birds Of Prey – The Gospel Of Inhumanity
• Scott Walker – Cue – The Drift
• Gavin Friday & The Man Seezer – Another Blow On The Bruise – Each Man Kills The Thing He Loves

• Propaganda – Strength To Dream – A Secret Wish