The Cockpit Radio Blare

2012-01-31T22:56:00.000-06:00

Eventually, I believe, everything evens out. Long ago, an asteroid hit our planet and killed our dinosaurs. But, in the future, maybe we'll go to another planet and kill their dinosaurs.

1. Danny Norbury - Aspen Trees
2. The Boats - The Ballad for the Girl on the Moon
3. Esmerine - Walking Through Mist
4. Beef Terminal - Energy Crisis
5. Vela - Apollo
6. Bvdub - When We Saved the World
7. Johann Johannsson - End (Snowing)

2012-01-25T09:55:00.000-06:00

A big man with a belly round enough that the general belief was that his suspenders not only held up his trousers but kept him from exploding.

1. Beef Terminal - Daydreams of Wasted Time
2. Tim Hoover - Part 1: Voices
3. Oliveray - Dreamer
4. Ilyas Ahmed - By the Light
5. Thisquietarmy - A Spanish Galleon
6. Dustin O'Halloran - Opus 43
7. Mogwai - Burn Girl Prom Queen

2012-01-17T22:59:00.001-06:00

You name it, I've failed at it. Go ahead and name something. Anything at all.

1. Julianna Barwick - Vow
2. Faunts - Gone With the Day
3. Aquarelle - With Verticals
4. Tangerine Dream - Movements of a Visionary
5. Oneohtrix Point Never - Power of Persuasion
6. The Boats - The Ballad for Achievement
7. Blunderspublik - Adaption

2012-01-10T23:08:00.002-06:00

In this way, they are unsettling as human children, only with tentacles.

1. Tim Hecker - Hatred of Music: I
2. Tim Hecker - Hatred of Music: II
3. Autechre - Slip
4. Johann Johannsson - The Cause of Labour is the Hope of the World
5. Oliveray - Piano in the Pond
6. Jacaszek - Windhover
7. Last Days - Hanami
8. M. Mucci - The Secret is Knowing When to Close Your Eyes
9. Casino vs. Japan - Manic Thru Tone
10. Vela - Dear Ripley

2012-01-02T22:09:00.002-06:00

No show tomorrow night (still holidaying) but you should do yourself a solid and go to see a Cockpit Radio Blare favourite -- Gregor is playing at the Exchange Community Church. It starts early (7pm, good for a weeknight) and has other good music, albeit rock n roll music. More details here.

2011-12-26T18:57:00.002-06:00

There is no show tomorrow because I need a holiday. Maybe this will tide you over.

The Top 13 of 2011

Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972/Dropped Pianos
Ricardo Donoso - Progress Chance
*AR - Wolf Notes
Grouper - AIA: Alien Observer/AIA: Dream Loss
Godspeed You! Black Emperor @ Lee's Palace
Mark Kozelek @ WECC
The Deep Dark Woods - The Place I Left Behind
Louie
Celebrity Hot Tub
Brandon Westgate
Charlie Adam
Burrito Del Rio
Too Much Information on WFMU

2011-12-20T23:02:00.000-06:00

They did a lot of feasting in bygone years: Now we just eat constantly, but it's never special.

1. Holy Other - Touch
2. Tim Hoover - Part 2: Numbers
3. Burial - NYC
4. Infinite Light Ltd. - The Bullet Sent to Kill Me is Already on Its Way
5. Efrim Manuel Menuck - August Four, Year-of-our-Lord Blues
6. Danny Paul Grody - Skylark
7. The Appleseed Cast - Three Rivers

2011-12-13T23:44:00.001-06:00

There are, indeed, countless personal stories, almost all unheard and unseen.

1. Godspeed You Black Emperor - Providence
2. Ricardo Donoso - The Deck of an Ancient Ship
3. An Ant and an Atom - Funeral
4. This Will Destroy You - Black Dunes
5. Two Bicycles - Swim in the Light
6. LOOM - It Is Love

2011-12-06T22:54:00.001-06:00

And we will have new generations of mufflers or toothpaste or footwear.

1. The Hylozoists - The Man Who Almost Was
2. Esmerine - Trampolin
3. Nils Frahm - Old Thought
4. Jacaszek - Evening Strains To Be Time's Vast
5. *AR - Decline
6. Tim Hecker - Sketch 5
7. Jack Rose - Road
8. Aarktica - Aura Lee
9. Blunderspublik - The Warsaw Caves

2011-11-30T12:53:00.001-06:00

Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind, a watershed of thought, an ecosystem of spiritual possibilities.

1. Tycho - Adrift
2. Tim Hoover - Part 5: Finale
3. Blueneck - Sleeping Through the Storm
4. David Wenngren & Christopher Bissonnette - A Deceptive and Distant Howl
5. Talkdemonic - Dust and Heat
6. Two Bicycles - Alone at Sea

2011-11-22T23:04:00.000-06:00

The gas ration coupon business, you know, is very competitive. It's no bowl of cherries.

1. Mains de Givre - Un choeur d'ames en detresse
2. Danny Paul Grody - Union
3. Danny Paul Grody - Ohr
4. Motion Sickness of Time Travel - Eight Nineteen
5. Osakan - Infinite in All Directions/An Ocean of Stars
6. Piano Magic - Bad Patient (Apillow remix)
7. Amuse - Carte Blanche

2011-11-15T23:00:00.000-06:00

Life took shape about them, the shape of yesterday and of tomorrow.

1. The Sales Department - On Baseline
2. Crabskull - untitled
3. Lawrence English - The Peregrine Side B
4. Ricardo Donoso - Morning Criminal
5. Jon Hopkins - Abandon Window
6. Blueneck - Barriers Down
7. Hrsta - Saturn of Chagrin

2011-11-08T23:00:00.002-06:00

The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.

1. Readymade - A Blind Tomorrow
2. Bvdub - What Happened to Us
3. Osakan - Single Grains Adrift, Far Out On The Dark Blue Sea
4. Tim Hoover - Part 2: Numbers
5. Mitchell Akiyama - Contrapuntal Lung Apparatus
6. Jacaszek - Dare-Gale
7. Aphex Twin - Schottkey 7th Path

2011-11-01T22:47:00.000-05:00

All your waves and your billows; have gone over me.

1. Lahto - Time
2. Loscil - Neve
3. Lawrence English - Organs Lost at Sea
4. Nathan Blanchard - Untitled
5. Simon Scott - Honeymoon
6. David Wenngren & Christopher Bissonnette - Their Hunted Expression
7. Windy & Carl - I Have Been Waiting to Hear Your Voice

2011-10-25T22:53:00.001-05:00

No matter how big or how little your place in life may be, you have a grindstone, and people will bring axes to you.

1. Talk Talk - New Grass
2. Efrim Manuel Menuck - Heaven's Engine is a Dusty Ol' Bellows
3. Redsayno - Ballad for the Mining Town
4. Labradford - C. of People
5. Motion Sickness of Time Travel - Day Glow
6. Nils Frahm - More
7. SubtractiveLAD - Those Who Lose Dreaming are Lost
8. Arc Lab - Departure Music Part Two
9. Red House Painters - Trailways

2011-10-18T23:08:00.001-05:00

There is nothing wrong with inventing words, especially in a business.

1. LOOM - Wholesome
2. Two Bicycles - Exiled
3. Colin Kenniff featuring Hollie Kenniff - Wind and Distance
4. Bvdub - This Place Has Only Known Sadness
5. Simon Scott - Radiances
6. Tim Hoover - Part 5: Finale

2011-10-11T23:02:00.001-05:00

You're always a child of your time, and you cannot step out of that.

1. Helios - Coast Off
2. Boards of Canada - Aquarius
3. Telefon Tel Aviv - Bubble and Spike
4. Ricardo Donoso - Chrome Decadence
5. An Ant and an Atom - Funeral
6. Tim Hecker - Sketch 1
7. M. Mucci - Having to Leave is the Hardest Part
8. Infinite Light Ltd. - December 12
9. Roy Montgomery - Escape Velocity
10. Noveller - Entering
11. Japancakes - And Begun

2011-10-04T23:14:00.001-05:00

Simplicity is not the goal.

1. Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra - Blindblindblind
2. Esmerine - Last Waltz
3. Balam Acab - Expect
4. Motion Sickness of Time Travel - Late Day Sun Silhouettes
5. Slowdive - Trellisaze
6. Lawrence English - Figure's Lone Static
7. Blunderspublik - 1sixty8

2011-09-27T23:12:00.001-05:00

For the astronomers of the invisible, it was something to see.

1. City of a Hundred Spires - Empress
2. Efrim Manuel Menuck - I am no longer a motherless child
3. Jack Rose - Tex
4. Mark McGuire - Firefly Constellations
5. A Winged Victory for the Sullen - Requiem for the Static King pt 2
6. Ricardo Donoso - Conditional Formatting (Descent)
7. Milk - Instrumentally Disabled

2011-09-26T23:20:00.002-05:00

No more in life would that face be free of care. No more would Danny break windows now that he had windows of his own to break.

1. Mark McGuire - A Matter of Time
2. Fennesz - Reshift
3. Olafur Arnalds - Loftid Verdur Skyndeliga Kalt
4. Natural Snow Buildings - Wisconsin
5. LOOM - There is Blood in My Body
6. Memoryhouse - To the Lighthouse
7. Guitaro - Plastic Bags

2011-09-13T23:08:00.001-05:00

No style is higher or lower, hermetic or impermeable.

1. People Press Play - Studio
2. The World on Higher Downs - Alpine Low
3. Leyland Kirby - Polaroid
4. Kyle Bobby Dunn - Movement for the Completely Fucked
5. Gregor - Me and You, Antarctica Baby
6. LOOM - Intro
7. Explosions in the Sky - Have You Passed Through This Night?

2011-09-06T22:57:00.000-05:00

My friends, after so many sacrifices, we are here. Long life to freedom.

1. Bvdub and Ian Hawgood - Lie in Lone
2. Fourcolor - Snow Petal
3. Efterklang - Frida Found a Friend
4. Pawa Up First - Inuit Wedding
5. Years - The Assassination of Dow Jones
6. Sinewave - A Ton of Automatons

2011-08-30T22:43:00.001-05:00

The easy assumption that we have remembered the most important people and events and have preserved the most valuable evidence is immediately trumped by our inability to know what we have forgotten.

1. Port Royal - Leitmotiv/Glasnost
2. Naw - Potholes, Railroad Cracks and Sidewalk Smack
3. An Ant and an Atom - Gangnam
4. Evan Abeele - Elena
5. *AR - Rise
6. Hannu - Maniac Moshers

2011-08-24T17:21:00.001-05:00

Ah, but never underestimate the power of the irrational in human history.

1. Mono & World's End Girlfriend - Part Five (Palmless Prayer/Mass Murder Refrain)
2. Rafael Anton Irisarri - Moment Descend on My Windowspace
3. Esmerine - Au Crepuscule, Sans Laisse
4. Precious Fathers - Swells
5. Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Halo
6. Noveller - Ends
7. Absent Sound - Raggamuffin (The New Raggae)

2011-08-17T00:30:00.002-05:00

Sometimes someone would speak in a boat. But most of the boats were silent except for the dip of the oars.

1. Holy Other - With U
2. Thisquietarmy + Yellow6 - Furnace
3. Fourcolor - Ecru Driver
4. Fennesz - Shift
5. Jesse Hill - Fragments
6. Whisper Room - untitled 7 (White Birch)
7. Electroluminescent - Road Behind
8. Julianna Barwick - Flown

2011-08-09T23:43:00.000-05:00

Nothing now was visible but the starry sky.

1. Bvdub and Ian Hawgood - Nothing You Want Will Ever Come True
2. Mark Templeton - February 23rd
3. Demdike Stare - Nothing But the Night 2
4. Biosphere - Genkai-1
5. Christina Vantzou - 11 Generations of My Fathers
6. Greenhouse - Accept This
7. Beef Terminal - Losing

2011-08-02T22:45:00.001-05:00

I take my learning where I can find it.

1. Hammock - Floating Away in Every Direction
2. Esmerine - Little Streams Make Big Rivers
3. Grouper - Alien Observer
4. Mountains - Thousand Square
5. Oneohtrix Point Never - Where Does Time Go
6. SubtractiveLAD - Embers and Snow
7. DJ Brace - NH Six

2011-07-27T00:08:00.000-05:00

We have responded by continuing our elaborately rationalized destructions.

1. A Northern Chorus - Let the Parrots Speak for Themselves
2. *AR - Decline
3. Kyle Bobby Dunn - Canyon Meadows
4. Blue T-Shirt - A Bike Ride
5. Limp - Night Clouds
6. Burial - NYC
7. Noveller - Glacial Wave

2011-07-12T23:00:00.001-05:00

Because only one thing counts in this life! Get them to sign on the line which is dotted!

1. My Dad vs. Yours - Nonno
2. White Rainbow - All the Boogies in the World
3. My Dad vs. Yours - (Ending)
4. Brock Van Wey - A Chance to Start Over
5. Crabskull - Corpsicle
6. Talkdemonic - Shattered Into Dyes
7. Piano Magic - I am the Teacher's Son

2011-07-06T09:59:00.001-05:00

What does it say, this withholding, this refusal?

1. Talk Talk - After the Flood
2. Grails - Deep Snow
3. The Dead Letters - Cathedral of Leaves
4. Gregor Samsa - Young and Old (live)
5. Christopher Bissonnette - Comfortable Expectations
6. Set Fire to Flames - Steal Compass/Drive North/Disappear
7. Mark McGuire - The Marfa Lights

2011-06-28T23:00:00.001-05:00

At night one can hear the sound of the ocean as it nudges the land.

1. Tortoise - Gamera
2. Bitcrush - Fray the Middle to Meet the Ends
3. Deaf Center - New Beginning (Tidal Darkness)
4. Le Chat Blanc Orchestra - Not Another Elvis
5. Esmerine - Sprouts
6. Blunderspublik - Aubile Borders
7. Balmorhea - Truth (Helios Remix)

2011-06-21T23:01:00.001-05:00

He turned the page. For several moments he studied it's blank pages, wondering if he was not a bloody fool.

1. Do Make Say Think - Say
2. Pan American - How Much Progress One Makes
3. Ous Mal - Marraskuu
4. An Ant and an Atom - Gangnam
5. Mountains - Backwards Crossover
6. Tristeza - Liquid Pyramids
7. Hitori Tori - Stutter

2011-06-14T22:47:00.001-05:00

Inevitably, there is some loss.

1. Early Day Miners - Centralia
2. Beans - Boston RWA
3. The Fun Years - Garbage Man, Poet
4. Greenhouse - Learning Curve
5. Grouper - Moon is Sharp
6. Mark Templeton - West of Fabric pt.1
7. Mogwai - How to be a Werewolf

2011-06-07T23:13:00.001-05:00

Everything's a cult, son. If it's not a cult, it's a man sitting alone in a room.

1. Juno - Killing It In a Quiet Way
2. Giant Sons - Pronouncing the Sentence
3. The Appleseed Cast - Middle States
4. Tom Recchion - A Complex Shape in the Sky
5. Tim Hecker - In the Air I
6. Tim Hecker - In the Air II
7. Tim Hecker - In the Air III
8. Simon Scott - She Came From the Sea
9. Whisper Room - untitled 8
10. Zelienople - Little Little Eye-Full

2011-06-01T17:00:00.001-05:00

We make terribly defensive husbands and wives, but we do have great taste. Seriously... you should see the shoes I wear.

1. Mountains - Sequel
2. Loren Dent - Love Song: Kinetics and Hope
3. Explosions in the Sky - Be Comfortable Creature
4. Arc - Klangwand
5. Redsayno - Open Spaces Nothing Holy!
6. Jasper TX & Anduin - Like the Footprints of an Invisible Man
7. Broken Social Scene - Pacific Theme

2011-05-24T22:59:00.001-05:00

But the thing I want to stress the most is, everybody owes the funk to the funky.

1. Thisquietarmy - Mercenary Flags
2. This Will Destroy You - Communal Blood
3. An Ant and an Atom - There Are Too Many People Here
4. Dirty Three - I Knew It Would Come to This
5. Slow Six - These Rivers Between Us
6. Red Sparowes - In Illusion of Order
7. My Dad vs. Yours - Born Upward (Time Flies)

2011-05-19T17:39:00.002-05:00

Godspeed.

2011-05-17T23:01:00.001-05:00

The floor tilts and becomes the wall.

1. Eluvium - Indoor Swimming at the Space Station
2. Polmo Polpo - Requiem for a Fox
3. Emeralds - It Doesn't Arrive
4. Deaf Center - The Day I Would Never Have
5. Vitaminsforyou - Ecologie + Histoire pt. 2
6. Aidan Baker - Substantiated
7. Vitaminsforyou - BHOMa
8. Biosphere - Chukhung

2011-05-10T22:46:00.001-05:00

I felt very light, completely unmoored, unconnected with everything: I'd become ghostly.

1. My Dad vs. Yours - Against Tide and Wind
2. Vessels - The Trap
3. The Appleseed Cast - Three Rivers
4. Clouwbeck - Gossan
5. Beef Terminal - The Hell in Hello
6. Mountains - Live at the Triple Door
7. Gregor - Waves of Mediocrity

2011-05-03T22:50:00.001-05:00

Have you been hearing a persistent ringing in your ears? Almost an agreeable ringing?

1. This Will Destroy You - Glass Realms
2. Evan Abeele - Everyone Hears the Voice
3. Klimek - Sound of Confusion
4. Tim Hecker - Hatred of Music pt. II
5. Final - To the Heavens
6. Grouper - A Lie
7. Dissection Silence - First Daylight
8. Mains de Givre - Cauchemar Noir et Rouge
9. Fennesz - The Colour of Three

2011-04-19T22:47:00.000-05:00

I was beginning to understand something I couldn't articulate. It was a jazzy feeling in my chest, a fluttering, a kind of buzzing in my brain.

1. Godspeed You Black Emperor - Motherfucker = Redeemer pt.1
2. Godspeed You Black Emperor - Motherfucker = Redeemer pt.2
3. Motion Sickness of Time Travel - Mental Projection
4. Jesse Hill - Guarded Work
5. Johann Johannsson - Escape
6. Mogwai - You're Lionel Richie

2011-04-12T22:53:00.001-05:00

Poyekhali!

1. Raising the Fawn - ETA
2. This Will Destroy You - Hand Powdered
3. The Appleseed Cast - End Frigate Constellation
4. Explosions in the Sky - Last Known Surroundings
5. Grouper - Vapor Trails
6. Guitaro - Plastic Bags
7. SubtractiveLAD - Boy

2011-04-06T11:07:00.002-05:00

April Fools'!
I like pop songs, too, of course in reasonable doses.

1. Built to Spill - Randy Describes Eternity
2. Royal City - My Body is Numbered
3. Phosphorescent - The Mermaid Parade
4. Belle and Sebastian - Ease Your Feet Off in the Sea
5. Pinback - AFK
6. Minus the Bear - Absinthe Party at the Fly Honey Warehouse
7. The Russian Futurists - Let's Get Ready to Crumble
8. Wilderness of Manitoba - November
9. The Deep Dark Woods - Charlie's (is Coming Down)
10. Christine Fellows - Regrets
11. Kurt Vile - Society is My Friend
12. Bill Callahan - Baby's Breath

2011-03-22T22:51:00.002-05:00

The universe was not precise when reduced to his scale; it was vague and fuzzy, full of unexpected movements and changes.

1. Gas - track 2 (Pop)
2. Bvdub - Morning Rituals
3. Tim Hecker - Hatred of Music I
4. Windsor for the Derby - Let Go
5. Dif Juz - Diselt/Gunet
6. Absent Sound - Raising the Heavy Veil
7. Memoryhouse - Lately (Deuxieme)

2011-03-16T11:35:00.000-05:00

We learned to negotiate the labyrinth of his prejudices blind, and blindly.

1. Mogwai - Music for a Forgotten Future (The Singing Mountain)
2. Gentleforce - The Desert Song
3. Solo Andata - Live in Melbourne (excerpt)
4. Esmerine - Where There is No Love There is No Justice
5. Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Where You End and I Begin
6. Destroyalldreamers - Ghost Guitar in the Shell
7. Projektor - Silver Circles

2011-03-09T10:09:00.001-06:00

You don't get any insight, you know, just because it's night. Just because some buildings have their lights on.

1. Tim Hecker - In the Fog I
2. Tim Hecker - In the Fog II
3. Tim Hecker - In the Fog III
4. Jet Black Crayon - Life Vest
5. Animal Hospital - A Safe Place
6. Bark Psychosis - INQB8TR
7. Mikkel Metal - Blue Items
8. Arms and Sleepers - The Catcher Elsewhere
9. The Dead Letters - War

2011-02-16T10:06:00.002-06:00

The very thing one needs one does not know, and what one knows is useless information.

1. Kiln - Airplaneshadows
2. Near the Parenthesis - Inertia (Stay Right Here)
3. Blue T-Shirt - Rise and Fall
4. Mitchell Akiyama - Resists Change Nicely
5. SubtractiveLAD - What You See
6. Mark McGuire - Backdraft
7. Mogwai - Death Rays

2011-02-09T14:52:00.002-06:00

Just as one cannot say, "Stop the world, I want to get off," likewise one cannot escape the Library.

1. Sparrow Orange - Painting Walls
2. Do Make Say Think - Executioner's Blues
3. Amuse - Paisible
4. Silvercord - Rapture
5. Grouper - Sick
6. Brian McBride - Several Tries (in an Unelevated Style)

Download the excellent Silvercord album for free.

2011-02-02T11:34:00.001-06:00

"Reading, where it exists at all, has largely become an unprofitable wing of the diversion industry."

1. Valley of the Giants - Back to God's Country
2. Faunts - Of Nature
3. Marcus Fischer - Mossbank
4. Motion Sickness of Time Travel - Clairvoyance
5. Zelienople - Parts are Lost
6. Sawako - White Sky Winter Chicada
7. Vitaminsforyou - Ecologie + Histoire, pt. 3

2011-01-26T10:31:00.000-06:00

"Even if it's strange drones and just the percussion, no kicks, those are the points where I personally would be flipping out."

1. Godspeed You Black Emperor - Sleep
2. Motion Sickness of Time Travel - Auto Suggestion
3. Bvdub - The Past Disappears
4. Burial - Broken Home
5. Milk - Instrumentally Disabled

2011-01-18T23:22:00.001-06:00

"Them men wanted a decent burial, they should have got themselves killed in the summer."

1. Sinewave - Gravity-Vortex Vertigo
2. The Fun Years - Makes Sense to Me
3. Yellow6 - Orderfromnothing
4. Precious Fathers - Brad Quinn Medicine Man
5. Our Sleepless Forest - White Bird
6. Kyle Bobby Dunn - Dissonant Distances
7. Mains de Givre - Le Cercle Des Moeurs
8. Danny Norbury - The Evening Star
9. Pillowdiver - Seven

2011-01-11T23:46:00.001-06:00

"Canned food is a perversion, I suspect that it is ultimately very damaging to the soul."

1. Below the Sea - Careful Confrontations
2. Whisper Room - track 5 (Birch White)
3. Tarentel - Steede Bonnet
4. Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - White Dwarf Butterfly
5. Noveller - Same
6. Bvdub - Sanctuary
7. Blunderspublik - Skeuomorph (guitar)

2011-01-04T23:47:00.002-06:00

We waited until 2010 actually passed to do this, but here are the best albums of 2010 with links.

Bvdub - The Art of Dying Alone
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Love is a Stream
Danny Paul Grody - Fountain
Koen Holtkamp - Gravity/Bees
Loscil - Endless Falls
Mark McGuire - Living With Yourself
Noveller - Desert Fires
Phosphorescent - Here's to Taking it Easy
Richard Skelton - Landings
Sun Kil Moon - Admiral Fell Promises
Woodworkings - We Sit on Floors, We Stand on Chairs

2011-01-04T23:43:00.001-06:00

"No matter what I have accomplished and whom I have loved, how much I have lost by missing the stars for so many nights."

1. Pelican - Angel Tears (JK Broadrick remix)
2. Thisquietarmy - Melted Lead on Ashen Canvas
3. Simon Scott - The Water Loop
4. Fripp and Eno - Evening Star
5. Evan Abeele - In Mothlight
6. Greenhouse - Orchestrar
7. Evan Abeele - Driving Lessons
8. Grouper - Hold

2010-12-21T23:38:00.000-06:00

This is great.

2010-12-21T23:33:00.002-06:00

"Sometimes we needed no words at all, but merely shared the flow of imagery in our two minds."

1. Redsayno - Wish We Were There
2. The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-la-la Band - C'mon Come On (Loose an Endless Longing)
3. Mark McGuire - Brain Storm (for Erin)
4. Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Stained Glass Body
5. Richard Skelton - Threads Across the River
6. Loscil - Erit
7. Mark Templeton - Drowning in Memories
8. Sun Kil Moon - The Leaning Tree

2010-12-14T23:40:00.001-06:00

"My heart, let me remark parenthetically, has always functioned quite well."

1. Giant Sons - The Motive for Metaphor
2. City of a Hundred Spires - Solaris
3. Early Day Miners - A Common Wealth
4. Marcus Fischer - Shape to Shore
5. Tim Hecker - Apondalifa
6. Woodworkings - We Sit on Floors, We Stand on Chairs
7. Low - Little Drummer Boy

2010-12-07T23:42:00.000-06:00

"You don't like Barry Manilow, d-do you?"

1. Loscil - Dub for Cascadia
2. White Rainbow - Major Spillage
3. 1 Mile North - Life Indoors
4. Koen Holtkamp - Loosely Based on Bees
5. Evan Abeele - Minor White
6. An Ant and an Atom - A Roach That Smiles
7. Hannu - Harhailu

2010-11-30T22:58:00.001-06:00

"Enoch had got over his fear and was trying frantically to think of an obscene remark that would be suitable to insult him with."

1. Boards of Canada - Dandelion
2. Boards of Canada - Sunshine Recorder
3. Crabskull - Black Meat
4. Beef Terminal - Say It To My Face
5. The Fun Years - Breech on the Bowstring
6. Bvdub - Descent to the End
7. Godspeed You Black Emperor - Moya
8. My Dad vs. Yours - Habla Paisano

2010-11-23T23:35:00.001-06:00

"But that doesn't mean the fascination is good, or even feels good. Aren't there parts of ourselves that are just better left unfed?"

1. Mogwai - 2 Rights Make 1 Wrong (live)
2. Gregor - Cacauphonetics
3. Evan Abeele - Elena
4. The North Sea & Rameses III - Death of the Ankou
5. Apillow - Travel Log
6. Jacaszek - Zal
7. Danny Paul Grody - Fountain

2010-11-17T00:05:00.002-06:00

"If I die I can't get any stupider."

1. Mark McGuire - Clear the Cobwebs
2. Jesse Hill - Nearwater
3. Clouwbeck - Come the Aegir
4. Woodworkings - For Those Found
5. SubtractiveLAD - Ne Plus Ultra
6. Mark Templeton - Horizon
7. Bitcrush - Of Embers

2010-11-12T11:26:00.003-06:00

I am starting to get the backlog of podcasts loaded up. If you have missed them, they can be found here.

2010-11-10T09:19:00.002-06:00

"Death was a battering ram. My fortress doors creaked with each strike."

1. Brian Eno - Lesser Heaven
2. Slowdive - Miranda
3. Koen Holtkamp - In the Absence of Gravity Please Note the Position of the Sun
4. The Fun Years - Little Vapors
5. Mains de Givre - Un Choeur D'ames En Detresse
6. Blue T-Shirt - A Bike Ride
7. Tim Hecker - 200 Years Ago

2010-11-02T22:12:00.002-05:00

"I was dying, surely, sugar-ly."
droooooooooOOOOOOOOoooone.

1. Gas - Track 7 (Zauberberg)
2. Brian McBride - Mélodrames Télégraphiés (In B Major 7th) Part 1
3. Electroluminescent - Candela
4. duul_drv - A Place Not Too Far Out, Just Close to the Perimeter
5. Le Chat Blance Orchestra - Torréadors De L'Ancienne Époque
6. Philip Jeck - Twentyninth
7. The Sight Below - Stagger

2010-10-27T08:57:00.002-05:00

"Industrial disinfectants are hardcore; I think that's what finally killed John Wayne."

1. Mark McGuire - The Vast Structure of Recollection
2. Mokira - Lord, Am I Going Down?
3. Pjusk - Glimt
4. Mono - Are You There? (live)
5. Do Make Say Think - Reitschule
6. Akufen - Even White Horizons
7. Blunderspublik - 8ninty1

2010-10-20T09:14:00.002-05:00

"So you're already one-fifth immortal and possess nigh superhuman stamina just by taking pills, but wait! There's more!"

1. Eluvium - One
2. Woodworkings - Sinking or Swimming
3. Jesse Hill - The Lesson
4. Aarktica - Welcome Home
5. Thisquietarmy - Unearthing the Past
6. The Beans - Boston RWA
7. Pale Sketcher - Plans that Fade (Faded Dub)

2010-10-13T09:00:00.001-05:00

"In the past, trying to listen to everything has almost destroyed my desire to listen to anything."

1. Godspeed You Black Emperor - Dead Flag Blues
2. Destroyalldreamers - Ghost Guitar in the Machine
3. The Dead Letters - Cathedral of Leaves
4. Emeralds - The Cycle of Abuse
5. Mark McGuire - Brain Storm (for Erin)
6. Philip Jeck - The All of Water
7. Dirty Three - Some Things I Just Don't Want to Know

2010-09-29T13:51:00.004-05:00

There was no show September 28, as I was getting my ears blessed by Emeralds. There may not be a show next week either. But after that, things should return to normal. Do stay tuned, and listen to a podcast or check out Katharsis, a great radio show from Edmonton featuring a website with plenty of nice listening.

2010-09-21T22:25:00.002-05:00

"Being dead didn't excuse your responsibility to the ones still alive."

1. Boards of Canada - Telephasic Workshop
2. DJ Brace - Delire a Deux
3. Mark Templeton - February 23rd
4. Olafur Arnalds - Gleypa Okkur
5. Gregor Samsa - Even Numbers
6. Hammock - In the Nothing of a Night
7. Wolfgang Voigt - Zither Und Horn
8. Bell Orchestre - Water Lights Shift
9. Emeralds - Now You See Me
10. Caribou - Jamelia

2010-09-14T22:05:00.003-05:00

"When you spot a jackrabbit it automatically spots you back; it's a fact of nature, in case you don't know."

1. Readymade - Sam
2. Pale Sketcher - The Playgrounds are Empty (Slumber Mix)
3. Animal Hospital - His Belly Burst
4. Bvdub - No One Will Ever Find You Here
5. Loscil - Showers of Ink
6. Burial - Forgive
7. Vitaminsforyou - Ecologie + Histoire, pt. 2

2010-09-07T21:56:00.002-05:00

"They can withstand forces of distraction that would break a mind prone to self-conscious fear in two."

1. Tortoise - Gigantes (Mark Ernestus Version)
2. This Will Destroy You - The Mighty Rio Grande
3. Slowdive - Blue Skied an' Clear
4. Mark Templeton - Horizon
5. Tim Hecker - Apondalifa
6. Jesu - Tired of Me
7. High Watt Electrocutions - Tut Will Have His Revenge

2010-08-31T22:16:00.002-05:00

"Did they not test it on any, y'know, plants?!"

1. The Hylozoists - La Fin du Monde
2. Guitaro - Ace Faced on the Scene
3. Auburn Lull - Light Through the Canopy
4. Nadja - Disambiguation
5. Roy Montgomery - Fantasia on a Theme by Sandy Bull (Slight Return)
6. Noveller - Almost Alright
7. Near the Parenthesis - Designing this Building

2010-08-24T22:04:00.002-05:00

"A shoe is a shoe. A triangular shoe is not going to work."

1. Mountains - Choral
2. Bvdub - To Finally Forget it All
3. Christopher Bissonnette - In Accordance
4. Mono - 2 Candles 1 Wish (live)
5. A Northern Chorus - Subjects and Matter
6. Sinewave - A Ton of Automatons

2010-08-17T21:58:00.005-05:00

"The Aleph's diameter was probably more than an inch, but all space was there, actual and undiminished."

1. Broken Social Scene - No Smiling Darkness/Snake Charmers Association
2. Marsen Jules - Datura
3. Redsayno - Ocean Song
4. Mark McGuire - The Invisible World
5. Thisquietarmy - Finding the Fallen
6. Danny Paul Grody - Hungry/Haunted

2010-08-10T22:57:00.002-05:00

Too Much Information is a radio show/podcast from Benjamen Walker, creator of past podcast excellence with Theory of Everything. Listening to Noise is a recent episode featuring Noveller. Listen to it. It's good.

2010-08-10T22:05:00.006-05:00

"Imperfect improvements upon unsatisfactory circumstances are the best that we can hope for, and probably all we should seek."

1. Zelienople - I Can Put All My Faith in Her
2. Hammock - Andalusia
3. Esmerine - There Were No Footprints in the Dust Behind Them
4. SubtractiveLAD - Those Who Lose Dreaming Are Lost
5. Rameses III - All Shall Be Well
6. Noveller - Three Windows Facing Three Doors
7. Gregor - The Bassplayer From Van Halen

2010-08-03T21:59:00.009-05:00

"Ahh. I'm feeling the impulse to do something unwise."

1. Clann Zu - There Will Be No Morning Copy
2. Amuse - Paisible
3. The Books - Chain of Missing Links
4. Lights Out Asia - Shifting Sands Wreck Ships
5. Proem - Seafaring Velvet Waltz
6. Bitcrush - Fray the Middle to Meet the Ends
7. Caribou - Bowls

2010-07-27T22:06:00.008-05:00

"Nothing is more beautiful than a great humming central electric station that holds the hydraulic pressure of a mountain chain and the electric power of a vast horizon."

Islendingadagurinn!

1. Blue T-Shirt - It's Not So Bad
2. Memoryhouse - To the Lighthouse
3. Tunturia - Satellites
4. Jonsi & Alex - Happiness
5. Stafraenn Hakon - Jarn
6. Johann Johannsson - End (Snowing)
7. Ólafur Arnalds - Hægt, Kemur Ljósið
8. Hildur Guðnadóttir - Erupting Light
9. Bjork - Joga

2010-07-20T21:57:00.009-05:00

"Can you get fat in a weightless environment?"

1. Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place
2. Fennesz - Chateau Rouge
3. Clouwbeck - Wolfrahm
4. The Ascent of Everest - Sword and Shield
5. City of a Hundred Spires - Pequod
6. Milk - Track 16
7. Kyle Bobby Dunn - Sets of Four (Its Meaning is Deeper Than Its Title Implies)
8. Sun Kil Moon - Half Moon Bay

2010-07-13T22:53:00.001-05:00

Download the excellent Silvercord album here for free.

2010-07-13T22:03:00.010-05:00

"Life is easier as a crusade."

1. Mogwai - I Love You, I'm Going to Blow Up Your School
2. Giant Sons - Coniferous
3. Millimetrik - La Sonata de L'Homme Bon
4. Isan - 64 Fire Damage
5. Silvercord - Within My Heart's Slumbering Soul
6. Aidan Baker - Liminoid pt.III
7. Danny Norbury - The Evening Star
8. Oneohtrix Point Never - Where Does Time Go

2010-07-06T22:03:00.008-05:00

"We students looked at each other with varying degrees of confusion, panic, and anger. And like idiots, we set to work."

1. Pillowdiver - Twenty-Seven
2. Jan Jelinek - Lithiummelodie 1
3. Autechre - Treale
4. Crabskull - Dream Machine
5. The Sales Department - Wrong Place to Start
6. Readymade - Terminal Sounds at Night
7. Slow Six - These Rivers Between Us
8. Hammock - Dust in the Devil's Snow

2010-06-29T22:10:00.007-05:00

"Now I don't know what to say. It was easier when I just imagined you."

1. Godspeed You Black Emperor - Storm
2. Near the Parenthesis - Lambent Traces of the Day
3. Rameses III - No Moon, No Water
4. Greenhouse - Cascades
5. To Rococo Rot - Bells

2010-06-22T22:02:00.008-05:00

"This was when my life again became essentially a wildlife film, in the way that it worked itself out as something of a vast morality play, where the strong survive and the maintenance of social conventions seems the most certain and steadiest hedge against the harsh and unforgiving environment."

1. Juno - Up Through the Night
2. Dif Juz - Heset
3. Mark McGuire - Backdraft
4. Aarktica - Corpse Reviver No. 2 (Remixed by Thisquietarmy)
5. Popol Vuh - Engel der Gegenwart
6. Jacaszek - Rytm to Niesmiertelnosc
7. duul_drv - Those Birds Are Very Far Away
8. Kepler - Vociferous Designs

2010-06-15T22:00:00.009-05:00

"Like most people I am smarter than some, dumber than others, skinnier than most, and fatter than a few, but none was ever more confused than I was."

1. Brian Eno & Daniel Lanois - Weightless
2. Daniel Lanois - The Deadly Nightshade
3. An Ant and an Atom - If I Were Lucky as the Old Man
4. The Fun Years - My Lowville
5. Red Sparowes - A Swarm
6. Dirty Three - Warren's Lament
7. Bark Psychosis - Absent Friend
8. Apillow - The Dark

2010-06-08T21:59:00.011-05:00

"He wished he could crawl inside the receiver and float on his back in the dial tone and let the hum of it wash over his nerve endings."

1. Mono - Halcyon (Beautiful Days) (live)
2. The Dead Letters - Cathedral of Leaves
3. Hammock - The Backward Step
4. Thisquietarmy - Melted Lead on Ashen Canvas
5. Paranerd - Slumber Lovers
6. Murcof - Mes
7. Isan - Dapperling
8. Autechre - Os Veix3
9. Tim Hecker - Spring Heeled Jack Flies Tonight

2010-06-01T21:59:00.006-05:00

"Plato fancied that we see by shooting light rays from our eyes."

1. Near the Parenthesis - Pollarding Trees
2. Loscil - Dub for Cascadia
3. Tim Hecker - Norberg, Sweden
4. Mountains - Paper Windmill
5. Danny Norbury - Goodnight
6. Guitaro - Find You Out Part 4

2010-05-25T22:03:00.007-05:00

"And since you are so observant, you will also observe that I do not have eyes in the back of my head."

1. Sparrow Orange - The Gasoline Sunrise
2. Kiln - Fyrepond
3. Whisper Room - Track 7 (Birch White)
4. Radian - Kinetakt
5. Redsayno - Minutes Near Morning
6. Johann Johannsson - Dying City
7. Richard Skelton - River Song
8. My Education - City Woman

2010-05-18T22:02:00.006-05:00

"The universe, he contended, is actually beige."

1. Arc - Sparked
2. White Rainbow - Monday Boogies Forward Forever
3. The Dead Letters - War
4. Eluvium - The Motion Makes Me Last
5. Radian - Nord
6. Tim Hecker - Paragon Point
7. To Rococo Rot - Horses

2010-05-11T22:02:00.011-05:00

"There is a difference between a great leader and a great salesman."

1. Fasacde@137db - Won't Make Me Give In (ft. Leigh Myles)
2. Desormais - If People Could Fly They'd Likely Have Talons
3. ...Of Sinking Ships - The Circumstances
4. Precious Fathers - alluvial fan=bone
5. Biosphere - Kobresia
6. Pjusk- Sus
7. Danny Paul Grody - Natural West
8. A Silver Mt. Zion - 13 Angels Standing Guard Round the Side of Your Bed
9. Peter Broderick - Patient Observation
10. Low + Dirty Three - I Hear... Goodnite

2010-05-04T22:09:00.006-05:00

Drone Out!
"It never once occurs to him, though, that the reason he's so unhappy is that he's an asshole."

1. Shuttle358 - Ash
2. Brock Van Wey - Forever a Stranger
3. Oneohtrix Point Never - Immanence
4. An Ant and an Atom - Icons
5. Kyle Bobby Dunn - Empty Gazing
6. Chihei Hatakeyama - Images of Broken Light
7. SubtractiveLAD - Always Ending

2010-04-27T23:39:00.000-05:00

The backlog of podcasts is up! Go listen or hate yourself forever!

2010-04-27T22:06:00.005-05:00

"His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then its mausoleum."

1. Beef Terminal - Red Sky Take Warning
2. Tortoise - Gigantes
3. Gas - Track 4 (Pop)
4. Loscil - Endless Falls
5. Gregor - Spring Break
6. Slow Six - The Night You Left New York
7. Six Parts Seven - Stolen Moments
8. Radiohead - All I Need

2010-04-20T22:21:00.002-05:00

"Dust may be a nuisance around the house but it plays a vital role in the formation of the key ingredient for life on Earth."

1. Paik - Tall Winds
2. Red Sparowes - As Each End Looms and Subsides
3. M83 - Run Into Flowers
4. Eluvium - Making Up Minds
5. Kyle Bobby Dunn - Promenade
6. Papa M - Krusty
7. Bell Orchestre - Icicles/Bicycles
8. The Dead Letters - Cathedral of Leaves

2010-04-13T22:24:00.008-05:00

"At the moment of impact he'd turned and begun to walk down the drive, but knew well enough that he was the only visible entity capable of stone-propulsion."

1. Godspeed You Black Emperor - Rockets Fall on Rocket Falls
2. The Beans - Hollow Stars
3. To Rococo Rot - Place It
4. Dif Juz - No Motion
5. Tristeza - Mr. Beat/Street Tax
6. Limp - Orion
7. Projektor - Continental

2010-04-07T11:14:00.003-05:00

"All of a ship's functions had to be understood in advance. If you were unrealistic, you sank."

1. Aphex Twin - Rhubarb
2. Pjusk - Skodde
3. Whisper Room - track 2 (Birch White)
4. Absent Sound -Ragamuffin (The New Raggae)
5. Grizzly Bear - Ready, Able
6. Memoryhouse - To the Lighthouse
7. Natural Snow Buildings - Wisconsin
8. Labradford - Up to Pizmo

2010-04-03T14:54:00.001-05:00

Brian Eno from Fjb on Vimeo.

2010-03-31T00:52:00.002-05:00

April Fools'!
"I noticed that a sign was hanging from a galaxy a hundred million light-years away."

1. Built to Spill - Life's A Dream
2. Barzin - Queen Jane
3. A. A. Bondy - A Slow Parade
4. Nathan - Measure Me
5. The Be Good Tanyas - Only in the Past
6. Califone - 1928
7. Chad VanGaalen - Human Totem
8. Neutral Milk Hotel - Ghost
9. Frog Eyes - One in Six Children Will Flee in Boats
10. The Dismemberment Plan - The City
11. Surfer Blood - Swim
12. The Polyphonic Spree - It's the Sun

2010-03-23T22:39:00.003-05:00

"This city is just a lot of brickwork and stonework and people bearing down on nothing at all."

1. Stereolab - Refractions in the Plastic Pulse
2. Thisquietarmy - A Hammer Parade Falls From the Sky
3. Danny Paul Grody - Route 1
4. Mark Templeton - Sleep In Front Of
5. Zelienople - Can't Stop
6. Eluvium - Weird Creatures
7. Library Tapes - Fragment VI
8. Sinewave - Smarm School

2010-03-16T22:35:00.003-05:00

"You hate salamanders! Why?"

1. Giant Sons - Pronouncing the Sentence
2. Jakob - Semaphore
3. Lift to Experience - With Crippled Wings
4. Red House Painters - Mistress
5. Slowdive - Crazy for You
6. Loscil - The Making of Grief Point
7. Jonsi and Alex - Indian Summer
8. SubtractiveLAD - Nautilus