Playlist 04/27/08

Song - Artist - Album

First Hour
1. Blue Fly Green Fly - Sleeping People - Sleeping People
2. On This Hand - Questions In Dialect - The Ghost Wishes To Speak To You
3. Antler Mask - Raccoo-oo-oon - Behold Secret Kingdom
4. You Will Be Reincarnated As An Imperial Attack Spaceturtle (Pt 1) - Behold... The Arctopus - Arctopocalypse Now... Warmageddon Later
5. The Dutch Fist - A Minor Forest - Inindependence

Second Hour
6. By The Kiss - M83 - Digital Shades [Vol 1]
7. No 1 - Knot Feeder - 3 Song Demo
8. Vein Harvest - Disappearer - Winter Sessions
9. Surry II - Soporus - Atomove Elektrarne
10. Environmental Science - Wayne Western - Grattan Heights
11. Weak Wrists - Beware Of Safety - It Is Curtains
12. Sisters! Brothers! Small Boats Of Fire Are Falling From The Sky - Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band - Born Into Trouble As The Sparks Fly Upwards
13. The Dead Flag Blues - Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F#A#∞
14. Breadcrumb Trail - Slint - Live in Chicago, IL 03/03/89
15. 02:28 - Byla & Jarboe - Viscera
16. Brown Medal 2003 - Hella - The Devil Isn't Red

Playlist 04/20/08

Song - Artist - Album

First Hour
Herald Of The Roggaboggas/Bass Gnm2 - Forcefield - Roggaboggas
ASA - Caspian - The Four Trees
Groove Vs. The Ill - Infradig - Kinetic Transfer
Next Year, I Want To Be Batman For Christmas - Dakota/Dakota - Redline Distribution 2004 Sampler
Assassins - Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow
Sleep Decayer - Dysrhythmia - Barriers And Passages
Spell For A Sweeter Past - Evan Miller - Beeswax Ephemera
Rainbow Silhouette of the Milky Rain - Deerhoof - Milk Man
No One Gives A Hoot About Faux-Ass Nonsense - Don Caballero - Don Caballero 2
I - Indricothere - Indricothere
Requiem For Dying Mothers, Part 1 - Stars Of The Lid - The Tired Sounds Of Stars Of The Lid
6 - Ocrilim - Anoint
Storm Of Shit - The Flying Luttenbachers - Revenge

Second Hour
Etna - Sunn & Boris - Altar
Chrome Corridors - Frodus - Conglomerate International
Silence Lends a Face to the Soul - Saxon Shore - The Exquisite Death Of Saxon Shore
Apres Un Reve - Timbre - Timbre
The Universe! - Do Make Say Think - You, You're A History In Rust
Movements Of A Visionary - Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
A Warm Wind - Oceans - Demo 2007
Off The Grid - Beastie Boys - The Mix Up
Daft Krunked - Noumenon - The Megalodon vs. The Blue Whale
Panda Strong - Oxes - Oxes
Apartment Over The Peninsula - Roadside Monument - Eight Hours Away From Being A Man
I Can't Concentrate - Zs - Arms

Playlist 04/13/08

Song - Artist - Album

First Hour
1. A Cold Day In Hell - Winds Of Plague - Decimate The Weak
2. Air On G-String - The Fucking Champs - V
3. Keep It Gold - Maserati - The Language Of Cities
4. Aurora - Unwed Sailor - Little Wars
5. Simple Reminder (Anger Is Not a Motive) - UpC DownC LeftC RightC ABC + Start - The Jangling Dischords of Our Nation
6. Dreamland Precipice - Latitudes - Bleak Epiphanies In Slow Motion
7. Stolen Moments - The Six Parts Seven - Casually Smashed To Pieces
8. Treefingera - Radiohead - Kid A
9. Flat Panda - Dianogah - Millions of Brazilians
10. Breeze - Velour 100 - Fall Sounds
11. I PT 2 - Battles - B EP
12. Modernation - Hunab - Random Coincidences
13. In My Room - Mercury Radio Theater - The Death and Life of the Undead Boy
14. Seoul - Amina - Seoul

Second Hour
15. Am Meer - Bellador - The Day's Intent
16. Kisses Men On the Mouth On the Mountain - Breadwinner - Burner
17. Upper Ninety - Russian Circles - Upper Ninety
18. Goob Tooblies - Neon Hunk - Smarmy Mob
19. Pithot 1 - Orthrelm - Orthrelm/Behold... the Arctopus Split
20. Threads - This Will Destroy You - This Will Destroy You
21. A Meaningful Moment Through A Meaning(Less) Process - Stars Of The Lid - And Their Refinement Of The Decline
22. Moonlight - Mono - You Are There
23. Panoramic Long-Range Vertigo - Canvas Solarie - Penumbra Diffuse
24. Part I No. 4 - The Bird Ensemble - Migration
25. The End of Dying - Foxhole - We the Wintering Tree

Stars Of The Lid play Arvo Part's "Fratres" live in Utrecht, Netherlands, December 2007

These guys have quickly become one of my favorite ambient artists. I'm seeing them play at Grinnell College on April 23!



PS: the show is free, so you should go too.

Song - Artist - Album

First Hour
Misirlou - Dick Dale and the Del-Tones - Greatest Hits 1961-1976
Eyelids - Fridge - The Sun
The Sound Of Staticn - Oceans - Demo 2007
Attack Sequence - The Flying Luttenbachers - Retrospektiw III
Meditational Flaws - Ativin - Pills Versus Planes
Axiomatic Fragment - Collapsar - Integers
Goob Tooblies - Neon Hunk - Smarmy Mob
Brown Metal - Hella - Hold Your Horse Is
Magic Hours - Explosions In The Sky - How Strange, Innocence
Fusion for Suckers - Continuo Renacer -Continuo Renacer
The Great Leap Foward Poured Down Upon Us One Day Like a Mighty Storm, Suddenly and Furiously Blinding Our Senses - Red Sparowes - Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun

Second Hour
...Of All This - Ahleuchatistas - Even In The MIdst
Ostinato - Eluvium - Copia
The Difference Between Wind And Rain - Beware Of Safety - It Is Curtains
City Of Echoes - Pelican - City Of Echoes
Rhoda - Slint - Tweez Outtakes
Grattan Heights - Wayne Western - Grattan Heights
Surry II - Soporus - Atomove Elektrarne
Moya - Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada
Expiration (Alaska, My Darkness) - Upsilon Acrux - Galapagos Momentum
Cetus - Zombi - Cosmos
The Death Of Paradigm - If These Trees Could Talk - If These Trees Could Talk