The Voice of Doom

This is the playlist for a substitution pickup show broadcast on KZSU on August 31st, 2000 at 9pm

preamble

As I was getting started on this show, another old-time DJ started telling me how I should really be doing a regular show, since Gabe was really the last of the DJs-like-me (the Faustiana generation?) around: Eclectic in a "swirly" sort of way.

So let's swirl out, eh?

sound bed

As is my wont, lately I use the same music as background music throughout the show: a double LP by Zoviet France called Shouting at the Ground. So whenever there's something mixed in, if it seems like there's a little more droney ambience in the texture than there probably was in the original... you're probably hearing a little more of Zoviet France.

the playlist

set the first

Zoviet France -: Shouting at the Ground
Side 3
Mistress of Strands - "Carnival of Sighs/Strands End": off of Mistress of Strands
tracks 6 & 7; slow, atmospheric, female vocal goth music
Steve von Till - "Stained Glass": off of as the crow flys
Chopin - "Nocturn in E Minor, Op 72 No. 1": peformed by Idil Biret; off of Nocturnes (complete) Vol 2

set the second

Tom Nunn - "Streaming": off of Burning Palms
track 7; solo performance on Tom Nunn's custom built percussive instruments (electro-acoustic percussion boards).
Spirtpark - "3x3"
(Ron Thompson, Karen Stackpole, Larry Ochs): off of Spiritpark Volume 3
track 3
Juliette Greco - "Deshabillez - Moi": off of La Femme; a tune from "the thinking man's Bardot" that's been running through my head for months.

set the third

Diego Cortez - "Dead Sea"
(with Ryuichi Sakamoto): off of Stuzzicadenti 1997-1999
A mix of the following:

Lustmord - "The Fourth & Final Key"
off of The Monstrous Soul
One of the old masters of the industrial ambient: this is a slowly evolving piece, the slow ringing of bells, ominous horrorshow tones, lovecraftian cults chanting, etc.
Ernesto Diaz-Infante - "3:11" & "2:55"
off of Solus
a release of short solo piano pieces: rapid, precise, complex.
Edward Murrow - "Winston Churchill"
off of Winston Churchill
unknown street performers - "totensong"
off of ho`! #1: roady music from Vietnam

set the fourth

Ordnance - "intravenous": off of Buckshot; heavy industrial drone/dance with evil male vocals
Macha/Bedhead - "Only the bodies survive": off of Macha Loved Bedhead; Collaborative work between Macha and Bedhead. This is like a slowish rock/pop song with lots of drone and touches of synth, and I'm told it's "a lot like Bedhead".
Axiom of Choice - "Calling"
(lyrics from Rumi's poem #383): off of Niya Yesh; New stuff from this modern persian group (rooted in their own culture, but not afraid to experiment: I wish more "world" music was like this)
Artie Shaw - "Nightmare"
(performed by the Frankie Capp Percussion Group): off of Percussion in a Tribute to the Big Band

set the fifth

Sabah Habay Mustapha & the Jugala All Stars - "seuri": off of So La Li
Salteens - "Caught at the Cusp": off of Short Term Memories
Juliette Greco - "Dans Ton Lit": off of La Femme
Mary Jane Lammond - "Seinn O": off of Suase!

set the sixth: Frozen Wastelands

Tom Nunn - "Streaming": off of Burning Palms
Modest Mouse - "the Cold Part": off of Moon & Antarctica
Tiara - "Snowmonsters": off of Again Castin
Lycia - "Frozen": off of Cold
Richard Davis - "coldest day": off of Barbarians
Glossary - "frozen satisfaction": off of this all we've learned about living
Leonard Cohen - "winter lady": off of Songs of Leonard Cohen; (I had two copies of this running simultaneously, about half a line out of synch)
curve - "frozen": off of Frozen; CD EP
Pat Green - "When Winter Comes to Town": off of Carry On
W.H. Stepp - "Napoleon's Retreat": off of American Fiddle Tunes; a collection of american folk music (that's really folk music, no one knows who wrote it, as far as I know)
The No-no's - "adorable combustible": off of Tinnitus; track 4; (played by mistake)
The No-no's - "wintertime": off of Tinnitus; track 5; (more like it)
Coil - "Out in the Cold": off of Snow; 12" EP
John Cale - "Antarctica Starts Here": off of Paris 1919

Appendix

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