The Voice of Doom
This is the playlist for a substitution pickup show
broadcast on KZSU on July 25th, 2001
at 6pm. In theory I was taking Gabe's place... in reality
we know that this is not actually possible.
preamble
Very little prep got done for this one, except for some
database searches for things that might fit my theme set:
"The Deflation of Space". Plenty of technical errors and
awkward seques were had by all, most of them covered up with
judicious application of doom sludge: droney industrial
sounds and the good old 3.5 second echo delay loop.
sound bed
The background sounds for this show were usually the
Zoviet France album "A Flock of Rotations", often with some
of Danielle DeGruttola's CD "Oaktown Dreams": the
dark, murky track "Earthworms".
the playlist
set the first
- Blue Aeroplanes - "Pre-Fab Buildings"
- off of Weird Shit
track 7
-
- From the the
A-file
- Graham Connah & Jettison Slinky - "escape
from theme park pokey"
- off of Because of Wayne
disk III, track 3
- Deep jazz with Nancy Clarke doing some of Graham's
characteristic twisted, nonsense (?) lyrics
- From the the
A-file
- Halkias Family Orchestra - "Miroloi (excerpt)"
- off of New York City: The Global Beat of the Burroughs
- Greek music, off of a nifty compilation of some of the
different forms of ethnic music present in the New York
area.
- From the the
A-file
set the second
- Danielle DeGrutolla - "Eastern Contemplation"
- off of Oaktown Dreams
track 1
-
- From the the
A-file
- Fisner Augutra - "Rara Processional (Haitian)"
- off of New York City: Global Beat of the Burroughs
track 9
-
- From the the
A-file
- Hibari Misora - "?"
- off of ?
side B
- 7" 45 RPM
- This is a 7" probably from the early 60s, a Japanese
release, with very little text on it that I can read.
- Slow, spooky, profound, sultry... in the direction of
a James Bond movie theme, ala Nancy Sinatra's "You Only Live Twice".
- Clock DVA - "Non"
- off of White Souls in Black Suits
track 5
- sparse, spooky, echoy... some male vocal intonations
about 2:50 in about "silence"; "distortion/reflection"
set the third
- Alboth! - "Kirkpinar"
- off of Collection: Knormalities Volume 2
side A
- 45 RPM (or so I believe)
- 7" EP collection from Knormal.
- This track has some really peculiar sounding
high vocals on it... Smurph actually questioned by
decision to play it at 45 RPM, if you can believe it.
- From the the
A-file
- Faith & the Muse - "The Silver Circle"
- off of Annwyn, Beneath the Waves
- (Note: this set had lots of overlap, many of these
things here were mixed together).
- Maybe Monday - "Beyond the Hard Darkness"
- off of Saturn's Finger
track 3
- A super-trio: Miya Masaoka, Fred Frith, Larry Ochs.
- Andrew Vasquez - "Spirit Mountain"
- off of the collection:Tribal Dreams
track 6
- Apache music
- From the the
A-file
- Carlos Nakai & Peter Kater - "Becoming Human"
- off of the collection:Tribal Dreams
track 13
- Navajo/Ute music
- From the the
A-file
set the fourth
- Tom Heasley - "Ground Zero"
- off of Where the Earth Meets the Sky
track 1
- Soft, almost ambient work from the master of
extended Tuba techniques.
- The Machine in the Garden - "Falling Softly"
- off of the collection: What is Eternal
track 1
- On the Middle Pillar label, distributed by World Serpent
- Music from China - "Xing Jie"
- off of the collection:New York City: The Global Beat
of the Burroughs
disk I, track 8
- Chinese traditional music (with an almost celtic lilt
to it)
- From the the
A-file
set the fifth
- Ass Babboons of Venus - "?"
- off of Phuket a la Bum Bum
track 5
- pre-release CDR
- From the the
A-file
- Ernesto Diaz Infante & Chris Forsythe - "to place
in...."
- off of Wires & Wooden Boxes
track 9
- From the the
A-file
- The Album Leaf - "the mp"
- off of One Day I'll Be On Time
track 2
- (nice, but a little on the dull side, to tell you the truth)
- From the the
A-file
- Shriekback - "Lined Up"
- off of The Y Records Years
Disk I, Track 1
- mixed with the above
- (I was really going for Disk II, track 1 here... ah well.)
- From the the
A-file
- Nils Kline
- off of Knormalities Volume 2
track 1, side B
- From the the
A-file
- Moekestra!
- off of Knormalities Volume 2
track 2, side B
- From the the
A-file
set the sixth
- Nitin Sawhney - "Oceans & Rain"
- off of Mystic Groove
track 1
- Yao Su-Yong - "Goodbye in Spring"
- off of the collection Asian Takeaways
track 4
- Malaysian
- Nifty compliation of pop-music from different countries
in Asia (funny, no Vietnamese, though)
- From the the
A-file
- Merita Halili w/ Raif Hyseni Orchestra - "Doli Goca N'Penchere"
- off of the collection:New York City: The Global Beat
of the Burroughs
track 7, Disk I
- Albanian Urban folk song. Cool female vox.
Some clarinet in the mix.
- From the the
A-file
set the seventh
- John Adams - "Century Rolls, 1st Movement"
- off of Century Rolls
- - "Godzilla vs. King Kong"
- off of the Best of Godzilla
track 10
- Danielle DeGrutolla - "Earthworms"
- off of Oaktown Dreams
- From the the
A-file
- Bonfire Madigan - "Batty's Wish"
- 7"
staggering into the long theme set: "the Deflation of Space"
- Skullflower - "Shiney Birds of Doom"
- off of something-or-other Roses
- Flying Saucer Attack - "Space (1999)"
- off of Mirror
track 1
- Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - "In the Starts
I Can Sizzle Like Battery"
- off of Bob Dinners & Larry Noodles present Tubby
Turdner's Celebrity Avalance
track 9
- Now this is an odd piece of music, even for the
Thinking Fellers.
- From the the
A-file
- Bonfire Madigan - "Begin @ the Beginning"
track 2, side B
- 7"
- Robert Earl Keen - "Gravitational Forces"
- off of Gravitational Forces
track 11
- From the the
A-file
- David Bowie - "Moon Age Daydream"
- a live version, on vinyl... begins with Bowie saying
"This one was written by Ziggy."
- Faith & Disease - "Space Song 2"
- off of Insularia
track 6
- Ed Sanders - "Beer Cans on the Moon"
- off of Beer Cans on the Moon
- Brown 25 - "Space ship"
- off of Lunar Modular Unit
track 6
- (Note, also has a track titled "Gotherific"... a goth
put down song, I guess)
- Patti Smith - "Space Monkey"
- off of Easter
- Photon Band - "Saturn Returns Again"
- off of Oh the Sweet Sweet Changes
track 8
- Seksu Roba - "Space Race"
- off of Seksu Roba
track 4
tag: closing track before WNL
- Ernesto Diaz Infante & Chris Forsythe
- off of Wires & Wooden Boxes
track 1
- From the the
A-file
Appendix
KZSU
That is to say, KZSU, the Stanford radio station,
available at 90.1 FM in the SF Bay Area and at
realaudio.stanford.edu everywhere there's
a sound card. More about that over at
kzsu.stanford.edu
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