This show I was experimenting with taking notes directly as HTML code, so it's possible (oh joy) to see my thinking in various stages of development... Below, there's a list of what I actually played. You can also see
Null Zen Walker (5-4:44) Endless 2 (collection) Some cool, deep delicate droney stuff...
Malcolm Clarke Earthshock (7 - 8:24) Doctor Who, Vol 1 (soundtrack)Ominous, and not too cheesy. Too bad I don't have any Blake's Seven music... Avon would fit right into the theme of the 45 minute set.
Zoviet France Shouting at the GroundThe old reliable vinyl drone.
New York Tango Cuando Llora la Cabarute Trio Milonga (2-3:25) (706)Slower tango, not too happy happy, if not as somber as I'd like...
Sun Ra Someday my (2-7:53) Salute to Walt Disney price will comeLeads with applause, and light piano that could've been recorded better. Used tape echo to fill in the sound of the lousy recording at the beginning.
Pain Teens Swimming (1-2:51) Beast of Dreams (528)Beautiful, not as noisy as usual for them... begins with an almost african sound, not quite like a thumb piano. "I'm drowning in ecstasy/sinking into a sea of bliss/we are transfixed..." wow, these lyrics would sound awful if her vox wasn't perfect.
Francis Wong 1:03 (4-2:29) Chicago Time Code <661)Weird, singing into the flute with steady bass rhythm in background... this will do for a "gothic" jazz pick.
Miss Murgatroid track 9 Methyl Ethyl Key TonesA nice, spooky accordion piece.
Aloof Proof The Ghost Ship Swarm of Drones (coll.) (590) (I10-9:10?) (excerpt)Sense of release, dark but relaxed, harpsichord like? Good for following murky accordion music?
Peter Saint James Infirmary (2-4:07) Die Like a Dog Brotzmann (708)Nice, mournful jazzy stuff. About Albert Ayler.
Miranda Sex The Wooden Boat Fairlytales of Slavery GardenBasic Miranda Sex Garden, somewhat ethereal female vocal gothic stuff.
Allegory Intro (Allegory of When Angels Fall Chapel Ltd. the Frozen Heart)A request. This track begins with a hissing staticy sound like the ocean, and goes into a goth-classical sound.
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Malcolm Clarke Earthshock Doctor Who, Vol 1. (soundtrack)
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The Play Along With Doom feature: Spring and exercise ball percussion,
with some rusty metal tape scrapping and a little breathing
through a toy harmonica. Plus a little percussion on a
fragment of a shopping cart twisted by railroad impact,
using my favorite piece of rebar.
Mandible Burn Down the Endless 2 (compilation) Chatter Sky (8-8:07) (628)The local organic industrial masters have outdone themselves on this track: a very rapid throbbing piece, the climax of the Endless 2 compilation. (How would this go with the Dr. Who theme? Hm.)
Switchblade Gutter Glitter (9-3:47) Serpentine Gallery Symphony (641)Leads with chime like (harpsichord?) melody. "Irridescent eyes of the seahorse rise/Treasures she loves others despise/a shooting star shan't fall very far/dim fireflies held in glass jars"
Gravediggaz Mommy, What's A 12" Gravedigga? (~5?) Clean RZA MixNice gothic hip-hop, (with mildly cheesy spooky whistle loop). Cool babble. Flatlinerz has some possibilities too, even if real hiphopers think they're bunk.
Trio De Intineraire Bis (6-5:00) Trio de Clainettes-Live Clarinettes (660)Leads with high, spooky, almost annoying tones... these are clarinets?
Ann Magnuson It's a Great Feeling (6-3:00) The Luv Show (460)"...this brain dead feeling", another upbeat ironic song about being a happy zombie.
Rolling Stones Good Times (A5-1:55) Out of Our HeadsEek. Another record I've been seeking for years... A really nice, desperately sad version of the old Sam Cooke tune, with some perfect tubular guitar. It only sounds a little tinny in glorious mono vinyl, but hey, I got it for free...
Bing Crosby Swinging on A Star ( -3?) Swinging on a StarA recent acquisition I should really try and use. I've been looking for it for years. I think my original idea was to pair that with a reading from Bester's _Stars My Destination_.
Charles Mingus Myself When I am Real (2-7:34) Thirteen Pieces (326)Nice, slow, contemplative stuff, fills in with some almost spanish rhythms in places. But is it dark enough?
Switchblade Dissolve (2- ) Serpentine Glitter Symphony (641)"Can you see me going down/I am screaming out loud/and the fear of god is in me now/dissolve/in the moonshine/I leave no trace/my visions have gone/far away from this place/ they've dissolved" slower.
Clock DVA Anti-Chance (9-5:50?) White Souls in Black SuitsIndustrial strangeness with clarinet/electronics duet. Cool. No vox. Rhythm emerges from the chaos? And then receedes.
Couldn't find any Johnny Cash around the station, couldn't find the Dead Can Dance I wanted at Tower records, ah what an imperfect world we struggle with...
Jimmy Dorsey As Time Goes By Dorsey, Then & Now & Carole TeranHm, a comeback album form 1987.
John Zorn Spillane (1 - 25:12) Spillane/Two-Lane Highway/ Forbidden FruitA piece also from back in 1987. Kicks with a woman screaming, goes off into private eye jazz with lots of quotes from Mickey Spillane.
The Last Poets Illusion of Self (8 - 8:16) Holy TerrorKicks with a nice "cool" organ lead. "The holy terror becomes the holy blessing/family values caught in the act of undressing..." The whole urban grittyness thing goes well with the Spillane (I hope)...
Marshal Cynical Girl (5-2:34) A Collection CrenshawAn old favorite.
Teresa Brewer As Time Goes By On The Road Again & Stephane (B4-5:48) GrappelliI actually don't think all that much of Teresa Brewer, so I cranked up the 3 second echo a bit during this piece.
Terminal Sect Gun Worship (5-4:45) The Gun Worship EP (591) suprisingly festive mixJust played the beginning of this, trying to get at the "Danger, Danger" sample near the beginning, but all the violent talk went well enough with the political intro I gave it, I suppose.
Legendary A Velvet Resurrection (4-5:55) from here you'll Pink Dots watch the world go by (407)Full lush sound, zooms in and around. Vox, spoken list: "I want to believe in the nobility of the human spirit..." Thought it would do well as a close on the "Romantic Cynicism" bit.