Thursday, November 12, 2009

Sound of Music 11/11/09

Here's last night's playlist!

Dreaming – Blondie – SLC Punk

Chip on my Shoulder – Legally Blonde: The Musical

Can’t Say No – Oklahoma

Many a New Day - Oklahoma

December 1963 – Jersey Boys

Keen on Boys – The Radio Dept. – Mare Antoinette

Maria – West Side Story

America – West Side Story

If I Can’t Love Her – Beauty and the Beast

The Children’s Hour – Batman Returns

16 Going on 17 – Sound of Music

My Favorite Things – Sound of Music

Silence of the Lambs – Silence! The Musical

It’s Me! – Silence! The Musical

I’ve Gotta Crow – Peter Pan

Never Never Land – Peter Pan

Every Story is a Love Story ~ Aida
Fortune Favors the Brave ~ Aida
Not the Boy Next Door ~ The Boy From Oz

I'm Alive ~ Next to Normal
Without You ~ Rent
Opening/You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown ~ You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown

I Could Have Danced All Night ~ My Fair Lady
That's How You Know ~ Enchanted
Astonishing ~ Little Women

Farewell, Good Angel ~ Jane Eyre
Empty Chairs At Empty Tables ~ Les Miserables
Sailor Moon Theme


I'll put up the previous week's extended Disney playlist as soon as I find it o_0

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Weird Noises 11/11/09

Ross Lambert and Michael Rodgers - Lucky Hands
Earle Brown - Music for Cello and Piano (1955) (performed by David Soyer and David Tudor)
Borbetomagus & Voice Crack - Cracked Magus
Arthur Russell - Tower of Meaning
Edgar Varese - Integrales (1924-1925) (performed by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra)
Kenneth Kirschner - May 16, 2006

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Ambient Signal - 11/10/09

WRPI 91.5fm!
http://www.wrpi.org/ for webcast
Tuesdays 4-6pm

Lovely weather we're having today...

Headlights - TV (Son lux remix)
School of seven bells -Half Asleep (Alternate version)
Stars - Your ex-lover is dead (Final Fantasy reworking)
Karen O and the Kids - Hideaway
O+S - New life
Portishead - Cowboys (Live)
-4:30-
The Notwist - Chemicals
Clare and the reasons - Ooh you hurt me so
We are the willows - A funeral dressed as a birthday
Lee Fields - Could have been
El Perro del Mar - Change of heart
Thao with the get down stay down - Burn you up
King khan and the BBQ show - Anala
Lightning bolt - Sound guardians
William Blakes - On fire
Growlers - Someone Jr.
Real Estate - Beach Comber
Lackthereof - Tongues o fire
Maps - The note (the voices)
Jay ferrar and Ben Gibbard - These roads don't move
M83 - Don't save us from the flames
St. Vincent - Save me from what I want
Radical face - Wrapped in piano strings
Swan lake - All fires
Margot and the nuclear so and so's - Dress me like a clown
Maria Taylor - Clean Getaway
Olafur Arnalds - Fok

Darling Tuesday - 11/10/2009

Playlist:
New Order - Blue Monday
Crystal Method - Born Too Slow
Starecase - Come In
New Order - Crystal

Four Tet - She moves she
Jogger - Master and Student
Schiller - The Smile (with Sarah Brightman)
Squarepusher - Tomorrow World
Jaqui Hunt - Reach

Radiohead - Idioteque

Third Ear Audio - Up In Smoke
Pitch Black - Bird Soul
Squarepusher - Mind Rubbers
Caspa - Marmite
Hudson Mohawke - Gluetooth

LCD Soundsystem - Time To Get Away
Franz Ferdinand - Lucid Dreams
Daft Punk - Around The World
Vitalic - Terminateur Benelux
Parov Stelar - Hurt

Monday, November 09, 2009

Plan B, 11/9/09

Woo playlist. Stuff I'm feelin' this week includes the new Thao with The Get Down Stay Down and the new El Perro Del Mar. Also, I've been incessantly listening to the new Twin Atlantic album, although it doesn't really fit my show too well. (I'm forcing it in tonight, anyway, but whatever.)

Also, if you feel like becoming overly familiar with my taste in music, I'm on Last.fm aquí.

-- Pete


Title - Artist (Album)

Postcards - An Horse (Rearrange Beds)
The Colors Aren't You Or Me - Letting Up Despite Great Faults (s/t)
Know Better Learn Faster - Thao with The Get Down Stay Down (Know Better Learn Faster)
Beleriand - The Middle East (s/t)
Telephones - Headlights (Wildlife)
Violent God - The William Blakes (Wayne Coyne)
Human After All - Twin Atlantic (Vivarium)
Cosmic Love - Florence + The Machine (Lungs)
Shh - Frou Frou (Details)
Phillip's Van - Rubblebucket (s/t)
Generosity - Mirah ((A)spera)
Heavenly Arms - El Perro Del Mar (Love Is Not Pop)
Hollow Talk - Choir of Young Believers (This Is For The Whites In Your Eyes)
Our Space - The Cardigans (Emmerdale)
Fine For Now - Grizzly Bear (Veckatimest)
Large Cities - The William Blakes (Wayne Coyne)
She Spider - Mew (Frengers)
Cool Yourself - Thao with The Get Down Stay Down (Know Better Learn Faster)
Landing - Rubblebucket (s/t)
Folding Under Stories Told - Letting Up Despite Great Faults (s/t)
Tessellate - Tokyo Police Club (Elephant Shell)
Secrets - Headlights (Wildlife)
Make It Gold - Ohbijou (Beacons)
Change of Heart - El Perro Del Mar (Love Is Not Pop)
Little Black Sandals - Sia (Some People Have Real Problems)
Russia - Ramona Falls (Intuit)
This Time Is The Last Time - Mae (Destination: Beautiful)

Wednesday, November 04, 2009

Weird Noises 11/04/09

Gordon Mumma - Schoolwork
Sebastian Lexer - Rapprochement
Phosphor - P11
Radu Malfatti & Klaus Filip - Ima
Latin American Deaf Squad - Initial Outburst
Velvet Underground - White Light, White Heat
Phill Niblock - Four Arthurs superimposed with Two Octaves and a Fifth
Evan Parker & Barry Guy - Tai Kyoku (excerpt)
Yoshi Wada - The Lament for the Rise and Fall of the Elephantine Crocodile (excerpt)
Kai Fagashinski & Burkhardt Stangl - Illusions

Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Ambient Signal - 11/3/09

WRPI 91.5fm!
http://www.wrpi.org/ for webcast
Tuesdays 4-6pm

Headlights - Market Girl (The Album Leaf remix)
Bright Eyes - I must belong somewhere
Eric margan and the red lions - Bay of Naples
Efterklang - Mirador
Dosh - Kit and Pearls
Dntel - To a Fault (ft. Grizzly Bear)
World's End Girlfriend - 100 years of choke
Grizzly Bear - Slow life
Maps - Let go of the fear
Middle East - Blood
King khan and BBQ show - Invisible Girl
Brilliant Colors - I searched
Joe Gideon - Harum Scarum
Lackthereof - Every kind word
El perro del mar - Let me in
Etienne Jaumet - Entropy
Flight of the conchords - You don't have to be a prostitute
Hammock - Mono no aware
Mice parade - The Boat Room
Neva Dinova - Clouds
Doves - Winter Hill
The Dodos - Fools
Denali - French Mistake

Darling Tuesday - 11/03/2009

Darling Tuesday!
Listen at wrpi.org/listen

The Playlist:
Between The Buried And Me - Obfuscation

Grafton Primary - Telling Lies
Infected Mushroom - Saeed
Justice - Newjack
The Prodigy - Take Me To The Hospital (Josh Hombre and Liam H's Wreckage Mix)
Boys Noize - Power
Royksopp - Sparks

Air - Be a Bee
Parov Stelar - Let's Roll feat. Blaktroniks
Royksopp - Miss It So Much
Jogger - Napping Captain / Gorilla Meat
Moby - Mistake (Funkagenda Remix Radio Edit)
Interpol - The Heinrich Maneuver

Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar
(from Armin Van Buuren's Universal Religion Chapter 4) Espen Gulbrandsen vs. DJ Julian Vincent feat. Maria Nayler - Perfect Sky
Claude VonStroke - California
Vitalic - Flashmob
Fever Ray - When I Grow Up (Bassnectar Remix)
Caspa - Low Blow
Scooter - Second Skin
Hot Chip - Touch Too Much (Fake Blood Remix)
(from fabric 47: Jay Haze) Gill Scott Heron - Living In A Bottle / Gene Hunt - Inspire (Abicah Soul Remix)

Monday, November 02, 2009

Plan B, 11/2/09

Finally, I have the ability to produce the kind of show I want to produce again, for I have returned to the land of functional laptop ownership. This means I can actually comfortably playlist and produce a reasonably coherent show! Woo! (I seriously find this exciting.)

Anyway, here's this week's playlist. The good stuff is Octopus by The Fear and Trembling out of Nashville and The Middle East's self-titled release (for once I'll agree with Pitchfork). I'd highly recommend checking out some more from them.

As usual, Track - Artist (Album):

Movement III - Sufjan Stevens (The BQE)
Red Panda - The Fear and Trembling (Octopus)
Shoes Watch - An Horse (Rearrange Beds)
Of Foam and Wave - Caspian (Tertia)
Worm Mountain - The Flaming Lips feat. MGMT (Embryonic)
November - Rubblebucket (Rubblebucket)
The Darkest Side - The Middle East (The Middle East)
Why Is The Couch Always Wet? - Don Caballero (Punkgasm)
Trojan - The Nocturnes (A Year of Spring)
Don't Go Awash In This Digital Landscape - Codes In The Clouds (Paper Canyon)
Killer Legs - Valleys (Sometimes Water Kills People)
Bad Mr. Kurtz - Rubblebucket (Rubblebucket)
Watching The Planets - The Flaming Lips (Embryonic)
Florida Logic - Cougar (Patriot)
Bug Eyes - Dredg (Catch Without Arms)
The Octopus - The Fear and Trembling (Octopus)
Camp Out - An Horse (Rearrange Beds)
Ghosts of the Garden City - Caspian (Tertia)
Cartoons and Macramé Wonds - Mew (No More Stories[…])
Justine - The Nocturnes (A Year of Spring)
Blood - The Middle East (The Middle East)

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Weird Noises 10/28/09

Alison Knowles - The Bean Sequences
The Make-Up - We're Having a Baby
John Zorn - Pool (excerpt)
Burkhard Stangl, Oswald Egger - Venusmond (excerpt)
The Germs - Dragon Lady
John Zorn - Archery (excerpt)
Christian Wolff - Percussion and Flute (performed by the S.E.M. Ensemble)

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Ambient Signal - 10/27/09

WRPI 91.5fm!
http://www.wrpi.org/ for webcast
Tuesdays 4-6pm

Le Loup - A Celebration
Memory Tapes - Swimming field
Bright Eyes - Down in a rabbit hole
School of seven bells - Half asleep
Lisa Papineau - Power and Glory pt. 1 (Son Lux Remix)
Alias and Ehren - Eman Ruosis Iht
Khoiba - No Feedback
My Brightest Diamond - To Pluto's Moon
Ambulette - When I see you
Ramona Falls - Diamond Shovel
Mew - Sometimes life isn't easy
Bon iver & St. Vincent - Roslyn
Osso - Year of the dragon
Thao with the get down stay down - Know better, learn faster
Flight of the conchords - Hurt Feelings
Air - Do the joy
Dawes - When you call my name
Temper trap - Sweet disposition
Swell season - Back broke
Wallpaper - Indecent
Hidden Cameras - In the NA
Via Tania - Fields
Annuals - Always Do
Azure Ray - Displaced
Amiina -Hilli
Mugison - 2 birds
Midlake - It covers the hillsides
Iron and Wine - Woman king

Thursday, October 22, 2009

That Generic Vareity Show 10-22: THROUGH THE DECADES

On for FOUR!!!! hours tonight!

Aileen's picks are in PURPLE. Victor's picks are in GREEN. Requests are in BLACK.


The 60's: YAY HIPPIES
The Velvet Underground - Heroin
Tommy James & The Shondells - I Think We're Alone Now
The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
The Temptations - My Girl
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Blind Faith - Can't Find My Way Home
The Beach Boys - Wouldn't It Be Nice?
The Lovin' Spoonful - Do You Believe In Magic
The Searchers - Love Potion Number Nine
The Monkees - I'm A Believer

The 70s:
Yes - Siberian Khatru
Carl Douglas - Kung Fu Fighting
Mike Heron - Warm Heart Pastry
Harry Chapin - Cat's in the Cradle
The Flying Burrito Brothers - Hot Burrito #1
Rush - The Twilight Zone
Kansas - Carry On My Wayward Son
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
The Ramones - Sheena Is A Punk Rocker
The Clash - London Calling
Charlie Rich - The Most Beautiful Girl

The 80s:
Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - Bad Reputation
Fugazi - Waiting Room
Dinosaur Jr - In A Jar
House of Freaks - 40 Years
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come on Eileen
Queen & David Bowie - Under Pressure
Olivia Newton-John - Physical
Elton John - I'm Still Standing
The Pixies - Break My Body
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Rick James - Super Freak
Nine Inch Nails - Head Like A Hole

The 90s:
Nirvana - Lithium
Backstreet Boys - I Want It That Way
N'Sync - Bye Bye Bye
Nirvana - Drain You
Soundgarden - Jesus Christ Pose
Hanson - Mmmbop
Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland, 1945
Blur - Song 2
Matchbox Twenty - 3AM
Sunny Day Real Estate - Seven
From Rent - One Song Glory

Y2K:
Aaron Carter - Aaron's Party (Come Get It)
Radiohead - Everything In It's Right Place
Jessee McCarthney - What's Your Name?
The Academy Is... - Sputter
At The Drive-In - One Arm Scissor
Avril Lavigne - Sk8er Boi
Converge - The Broken Vow
The Fall of Troy - Laces Out, Dan!
Mitchel Musso - Hey

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Weird Noises 10/21/09

Paul Panhuysen - Partita for 16 Strings of Diminishing Length
Derek Bailey - From Writing is an Aid to Memory (text by Lyn Hejinian)
Nathaniel Catchpole - Maurice Brinton
Carl Zingaro/Voicecrack - Ba Kagpja
Robin Hayward - Dial (excerpt)

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Darling Tuesday - 10/20/2009

The Playlist:
The Bad Plus - Everybody Wants To Rule The World

Yo La Tengo - Periodically Double Or Triple
Mew - Special
Vivian Girls - Can't Get Over You
Interpol - Say Hello To Angels
HEALTH - Die Slow

Cut Copy - Hearts On Fire
CSS - Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above
Phantogram - Mouthful of Diamonds
Simian Mobile Disco - Cruel Intentions
TV On The Radio - Staring At The Sun

Gorillaz - Rock The House
The Strokes - Last Nite
The Rapture - House of Jealous Lovers
Gotan Project - Last Tango In Paris

Rebotini - 1314
Kraftwerk - Radioactivity
Picture Plane - Solid Gold
Infected Mushroom - Smashing The Opponent (J. Views Remix)

Lindstrøm - I Feel Space
Vitalic - La Rock 01
Deadmau5 - Sometimes Things Get, Whatever
DJ Hell - I Prefer Women To Men Anyway

Monday, October 19, 2009

...And the Battle Begun 10-19

Artist - Song

Mew - Fox Club / Apocalypso / Special / The Zookeeper's Boy
Thrice - In Exile
Horse the Band - Shapeshift
RX Bandits - Hope is a Butterfly, No Net it's Captor
The Flaming Lips - The Sparrow Looks Up at the Machine
New Found Glory - Boy Crazy
Russian Circles - Melee
Polar Bear Club - See The Wind
The Fall of Troy - Single
Baroness - Jake Leg
AFI - Sacrilege
Thao with the Get Down Stay Down - When We
Everytime I Die - The Marvelous Slut
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Between the Buried and Me - Mirrors / Obfuscation
Orba Sqara - The Trouble With Flying
Streetlight Manifesto - That'll Be the Day
Strike Anywhere - Failed State
Strung Out - Black Crosses
Thrice - Kill Me Quickly
The Fall of Troy - Chapter IV: Enter the Black Demon

Titles are hard to come up with

I'm pretty sure this is my last time on the air ever.

5.58am

Al Green - I'm Still in Love with you (the whole album)

Cuban Cowboys - El Capitan
Ravi Bal & Daljit Mattu - Captain Bhangre Da
Vieux Farka Toure - Ma Hine Cocore (Yossi Fine's 3rd bass remix)
Ozomatli - La Gallina
Wayne Gorbea - Prakatun
Vieux Farka Toure - Wosoubour

7.02am

Kokolo - Our Own Thing
Sergio Mendes - Magalenha

Neville Brothers - Shake Your Tambourine
Neville Brothers - Voodoo
Neville Brothers - the Dealer
Neville Brothers - Junk Man

7.31am
Animal Collective - Bluish
Camera Obscura - Let's get out of this country
Nicole Atkins - Brooklyn's on fire
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane over the sea
Decemberists - Legionnaire's Lament

Death Cab for cutie - Bixby Canyon Bridge
Black Keys - Strange Times
Black Keys - Psychotic Girl
Spoon - Don't Make me a target
the Avett Brothers - Kick Drum Heart
the Decemberists - July, July!
Toots & the Maytals - Dreams to Remember
Tribali - Never Give Up
Geraldo Pino & the Heart Breaks - Let them talk
Len 'Boogsie' Sharpe & Pelham Goddard - Dorothy went to bathe
George Clinton & his Gangsters of Love - Ain't that Peculiar
Noah & the Whale - For the love of an Orchestra

George Clinton & his gangsters of love - Never Gonna Give you up
Camera Obscura - Hey Lloyd I'm ready to be heartbroken
Len 'Boogsie' Sharp & Pelham Goddard - Iron Bazodee
She & Him - This is not a test

Toots & the Maytal - Pomp & Pride

Thursday, October 15, 2009

That Generic Variety Show 10-15 HAPPY & SAD

Aileen is YELLOW. Victor is BLACK.

song - artist

Do You Believe in Magic - The Lovin' Spoonful
The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows - Brand New
Kokomo - The Beach Boys
Crowquill - Circle Takes the Square
I Was Made For You - She & Him
Pillars - Sunny Day Real Estate
Happiness - From You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Easy/Lucky/Free - Bright Eyes
Good Guys Win - Jimmy Buffet
Kettering - The Antlers
Bubbly - Colbie Caillat
Now The Sun Is Out - Greg Johnson
The Great Below - Nine Inch Nails
Happy Together - The Turtles
L-O-V-E - Nat King Cole
Autobiography of a Nation - Thursday
Best Beating Heart - Sing it Loud
If I Had $1000000 - Barenaked Ladies
The Eternal - Joy Division
I'll Cover Your - From Rent
Wild at Heart - Gloriana

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Weird Noises 10/14/09

Philip Glass and Robert Wilson - Einstein on the Beach (excerpt)

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Ambient Signal - 10/13/09 - 5th anniversary show

WRPI 91.5fm!
http://www.wrpi.org/ for webcast
Tuesdays 4-6pm

I am counting this as my 5th anniversary show. I started having a show on WRPI in mid-October of 2004, and I have been broadcasting pretty consistently ever since. I used to have a tiny 1 hour slot from 12-1 on tuesdays, and I've done shows on mondays and wednesdays, but tuesdays have always been my favorite. I'm not doing anything particularly different today..it's cloudy and rainy and cold out, so I'm doing what I try to do best and match the mood of these somber afternoons with some great music.

Larytta - Promises
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah (Request)
Memory Tapes - Run out
The Album Leaf - Streamside
Bon Iver - Flume

6:30-
Camera Obscura - Country Mile
Bright Eyes - Lime Tree
Faunts - Of nature
Ramona Falls - Bellyfulla
Lackthereof - Safely in jail
Flight of the conchords - Carol Brown
Noah and the whale - Instrumental I and Love of an orchestra
Monsters of Folk - Map of the world
Volcano Choir - Dote
Flaming Lips - Evil
Via Tania - Fields
Bear in heaven - Whole hearted mess
Raveonettes - Breaking into cars
The Temper Trap - Sweet disposition
7:30-
Orenda Fink - High ground
Frontier Ruckus - Foggy lilac windows
Neva Dinova - Spring Cleaning
Land of talk - A series of small flames
The Velvet Teen - Noi Boi
Sigur Ros - Gong


Darling Tuesday - 10/13/2009

Hey! Darling Tuesday is back again today! Listen online at wrpi.org/listen.
Tuesdays 2pm on WRPI.

Playlist:
Teleseen - Black Monday feat. Jah Sight

Os Mutantes - O Careca
Bozoo Bajou - Grains
Pacha Massive - Pachangueando
Television - Marquee Moon

Parov Stelar - Hurt
Miles Davis Quintet - Budo
Thievery Corporation - Lebanese Blonde

Teleseen - The Echo Will Triumph Over the Voice
Easy Star All-Stars - With a Little Help from My Friends feat. Luciano
port-royal - Balding Generation (Losing Hair as We Lose Hope)

Rival Consoles - Preoccupied
Kleerup - 3 AM
MSTRKRFT - 10,000 Cigarrettes
Boys Noize - Kontact Me

Brazilian Girls - Dance Till The Morning Sun
Imogen Heap - Wait It Out
Aphex Twin - Heliosphan
UNKLE - Celestial Annihilation

Daisy Daisy - Michelle Plays Ping Pong (Vicarious Bliss Match Point Remix)