Crawled and Sprawled (pre-Supercrawl show)

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Playlist for 28 August 2013:

• Chelsea Light Moving "Mohawk" from s/t (Matador, 2013)
• Disappears "Weird House" from Era (Kranky, 2013)
• Julia Holter "He's Running Through My Eyes" from Loud City Song (Domino, 2013)
• Samara Lubelski "Hang of Summer" from Wavelength (De Stijl, 2012)
• Sylvester Anfang II "Lof der Zotten" from Van Stekene Tot Zomergem (SicSic Tapes, 2013)
• Sleeper Gracias [side B] from s/t (Cloud Valley, 2009)
• Uuhuu "Vibrating Transatlantik Odyssey" from Palais De Ilil (Beyond Repair, 2007)
• Dreamers Cloth [side A] from Pearl Divers (Relax With Nature, 2008)
• Thaniel Ion Lee [side A] from Ambiguity Makes the Confusing Seem Normal (Water Starve, 2013)
• Hobo Cubes "Live - La Brique 25.10.10" from Climax #3 (Cloud Valley, 2011)
• Sun Circle [side A] from Sun Circle/Pregnant Moon split (NNA Tapes, 2008)
• Misner Space "Bake the Hall in the Candle of Her Brain" from Golorium (Tranquility Tapes, 2012)
• Julee Cruise/Angelo Badalamenti/David Lynch "The Nightingale" from Music from Twin Peaks (WB, 1990)

New Directions 24 July 2013

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Playlist for 24 July 2013:

• The Haunted "Purple Haze" [Hendrix] from Vapeur Mauve b/w Pourquoi (Marque XII, 1967)
• Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band "Mirror Man" from Mirror Man (Buddah, 1971)
• Tonetta "Drugs Drugs Drugs" from 777 (Black Tent Press, 2010)
• Vanilla Fudge "You Keep Me Hanging On" from Vanilla Fudge (ATCO, 1967)
• The Dead Beat "Heavy Set" from Boss Sound (self-released, 2012)
• Familiar Fiends "Shut Up, Little Man!" from BTFD Rock Volume 1 (Backroom, 2012)
• Woods "Be All, Be Easy" from Be All, Be Easy b/w God's Children (Woodsist, 2013)
• David Lynch "We Rolled Together" from The Big Dream (Sacred Bones, 2013)
• Gil Scott-Heron "Me and the Devil" from I'm New Here (XL, 2010)
• White Poppy "Daydreaming/Drifter's Gold" from Drifter's Gold (Constellation Tatsu, 2013)
• Tuluum Shimmering "Orange" from Orange & White Feathered String (Old Frontiers, 2013)
• Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier "Broken Drum" from Dark Morse (Shelter Press, 2013)
• White Rock [side A] from Tarpit (Troubleman, 2006)

Delicious dish

Tonight show was all about getting into your comfort zone in terms of the audio selections this week, but things got exciting and awkward with my friend Hailey co-hosting the show.  Somehow we purely channelled Margaret Jo McCullen and Teri Rialto and resonated our own Delicious Dish vibes (SNL nerd alert!). We couldn't deny it so we just went with it. Possibly one of the best shows ever.  Enjoying what Sloow Tapes has been putting out lately.

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Playlist for 10 July 2013:

• Itasca "Following/Four At Rest/Altar At Night" from Proto (Sloow Tapes, 2013)
• Aloonaluna "Shutter Sleep Dance" from split cassette with Motion Sickness of Time Travel (Constellation Tatsu, 2013)
• Emerald Web "Waterlust" from Dragon Wings and Wizard Tales (Stargate, 1979)
• Bird People "Oya's Dance" from Water Buffalo (Sloow Tapes, 2013)
• Forming "Eye Appeal - Valid Days" from Variation on One Essence (Worn Habit, 2013)

No Canada

This week's show was somewhat of a Canada Day edition with some Nihilist Spasm Band to set things off.  However, I would have to say my favourite part of this show was how well the Paul Bowles piece worked layered against UUUUUU.  Layering spoken word with ambient/experimental sounds has been something I have done on the show before and it is always exciting to see how things work out in the live setting.  Paul Bowles was celebrated for his contributions as a composer and later as a writer and traveler who drew many other writers and artists to Morocco along with his wife, Jane.  Jane Bowles also tops my list as one of my favourite female authors.  You can find audio material by Paul Bowles, including what was played on the show, on ubu.com here completely for free.  Just to mention that "UbuWeb is a completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts." The site offers an endless amount of material and is a great resource.

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Playlist for 3 July 2013:

• Nihilist Spasm Band "Stupidity + Meateater" from split with Fossils (Wintage, 2007)
• Adderall Canyonly "From Below We Reach Above" from From Below We Reach Above (Tranquility Tapes, 2013)
• Jean Michel Jarre "Oxygene Part IV" from Oxygene (Polydor, 1976)
• Paul Bowles "An Inopportune Visit" from Black Star at the Point of Darkness // UUUUUU "The Bridal Arrangement" from Untouched by Morning, Untouched by Noon (Old Frontiers, 2012)
• The Microphones "Sand" (Eric's Trip cover) from It Was Hot, We Stayed in the Water (K, 2000)

On the road edition part II

My favourite guy, Andy, decided to return the favour and visit Canada and New Directions as my co-host for the evening.  Of course he needed to see the CFMU vinyl archives and do a bit of digging through their record-filled walls.  We unearthed a couple of great Chrome records and started off the show with something from Alien Soundtracks.  Andy also selected a nice colab lp to play - Aaron  Dilloway and C Spencer Yeh's Squid LP as a pick from my own record collection.  Despite the nerves of doing it live we had a nice time and I hope he'll be back again soon.

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Playlist for 26 June 2013:

• Chrome "Chromosome Damage " from Alien Soundtracks (Siren, 1977)
• Aaron Dilloway & C Spencer Yeh "The Hydra" from The Squid (Hanson, 2007)
• Hunting Rituals [side A] from Avara Cadaver (Cloud Valley, 2010)
• Mordecai "Put" from College Rock (Richie, 2013)
• White Fence "White Cat" from Cyclops Reap (Castle Face, 2013)
• Loud & Sad "Overture" from Unknown Species (Greenup Industries, 2012)
• Rashied Ali Quartet "Akela" from New Directions In Modern Music (Survival, 1973)
• Ambrose Oak "Buried Visage" from v/a Climax #3 (Cloud Valley, 2011)

New Directions 19 June 2013

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Playlist for 19 June 2013:

• Odd Clouds [side A] from Nightshade (Fag Tapes, 2006)
• The Cosmic Dead "Djamba" from Live at The Note (Stabbed in the Back, 2013)
• Ylangylang "Caribbean Blue" from Neopaganism for Teenage Wanderers (Jeunesse Cosmique, 2013)
• Aerosol Constellations "Dried Up in the Sun" from Within the Beyond (Prairie Fire Tapes, 2013)
• Mary Lattimore "Pluto the Planet" from The Withdrawing Room (Desire Path, 2013)
• Hobo Cubes "Astro Infinity" from Mirror & Gate Vol. II (Opal Tapes, 2013)
• Twinsistermoon "Black Nebulae" from Then Fell the Ashes (Primary Numbers, 2011)
• Austra "You Changed My Life" from Olympia (Paper Bag, 2013)

Post-Vacation Relaxation

This week's show marks the return of New Directions after a three week hiatus while I was in Greece.  I snapped the picture of this cool calico under a rock near the top of the Acropolis in Athens.  Gripped the Aphrodite's Child (prog band formed by Vangelis) at a great store called Off the Record located in Piraeus.  Also played some of my favourite artists I was listening to during the trip.

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Playlist for 12 June 2013:

• Aphrodite's Child "End of the World" from End of the World (Mercury, 1968)
• Reedbeds [side A] from Heirloom Rust Garden (Old Frontiers, 2012)
• Lau Nau "Tulkaa!" from Kuutarha (Locust, 2004)
• Inca Ore "Natural High (Keeping It Up)" from v/a My Estrogeneration (Not Not Fun, 2009)
• Laurie Spiegel "Riding the Storm" from Unseen Worlds (Scarlet, 1991)
• Actress "Marble Plexus" from R.I.P. (Honest Jon's, 2012)
• Phedre "Aphrodite" from Phedre (Daps, 2012)
• Half Moon Run "Drug You" from Dark Eyes (Indica, 2012)

New Directions 15 May 2013

This week's podcast download link was lost in the ether, but it's up on Soundcloud.

Playlist for 15 May 2013:

• Marko Melkon Alemsharian "Shed Araban Taksim (Chicago - C. 1926)" from v/a Rembetika B (Greek Music from the Underground) Vol. 1 1908-1930 (2008)
• The 4 Levels of Existence "Our Fight" from The 4 Levels of Existence (Venus, 1976)
• Wolf Eyes "Choking Flies" from No Answer/Lower Floors (De Stijl, 2013)
• Sundrips [side A track 3] from Dream Studies (Koppklys, 2012)
• Pelt [side A] from The Eighth Day, The Eleventh Month, The Two-Thousand & Twelfth Year (Brave Mysteries, 2012)
• Robedoor "Stagnant Venom" from Primal Sphere (Hands in the Dark, 2013)
• White Poppy "I Had a Dream" from I Had a Dream (Not Not Fun, 2012)
• Motion Sickness of Time Travel "Black Umbrella" from Oust (SicSic, 2013)

New Directions 1 May 2013

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Playlist for 1 May 2013:

• Sunil Ganguly "Are Diwano Mujhe Pehchano" from Bollywood Steel Guitar (Sublime Frequencies, 2008)
• Paul Metzger "Of the Passing" from Tombeaux (Nero's Neptune, 2013)
• Not the Wind, Not the Flag "Autoharp/Drums" from Live @ 6 Nassau (Healing Power, 2010)
• Pumice "Eyebath" from Pebbles (Soft Abuse, 2007)
• Pumice "Bold / Old" from Pebbles (Soft Abuse, 2007)
• Sarah Good "Goodbye" from My Fashion Cape Has Two Heads (self-released, 2013)
• The Children's Hour "SOS JFK" from SOS JFK (Fire Records, 2003)
• Thoughts On Air "Adhesive Memories" from Softlight FM (Space Slave Editions, 2012)

New Directions 17 Apr 2013: Stranger in a strange land/SPRANG BREEAAK

A lot has been happening that I am excited to share.  I spent a week in the Twin Cities (St. Paul/Minneapolis, MN) and had a great time checking out the cities, the beautiful Mississippi River and seeing Julia Holter, Paul Metzger, M. Geddes Gengras  and Akron/Family.  I also got to hang out with Andy and record the very first ON THE ROAD edition of New Directions.  For this show Andy and I geeked out over our mutual addiction to music and played some of the records from his collection.

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Playlist for 17 Apr 2013:

• Wordman Z "Cat in a Hat" from his myspace (2005)
• Fuzzhead "Stay Sane" from LSD (Twisted Village, 1993)
• Andy Giorbino "Motor Im Kopf" from Lied an Die Freude (Zickzack, 1981)
• Alice Coltrane feat. Pharoah Sanders "Journey in Satchidananda" from Journey in Satchidananda (Impulse, 1971)
• Gil Trythall "Last Date" from Switched On Nashville: Country Moog (Athena, 1972)
• Perth County Conspiracy "You Have the Power" from (Does Not Exist) (Columbia, 1970)
• The Litter "Mind Breaker" from $100 Fine (Hexagon, 1968)
• Damon "The Road of Life" from Song of a Gypsy (ANKH, 1970)
• Endless Boogie "On Cryology" from Long Island (No Quarter, 2013)
• The Invisible Hands "The Same" from The Invisible Hands (Abduction, 2013)
• The Index "Feedback" from The Index (DC, 1967)

New Directions 3 Apr 2013

The podcast cut off a bit of the first and last tracks. The CFMU site's clock was set a few minutes too fast.

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Playlist for 3 Apr 2013:

• Sagas "The Hidden Variable" from Between Worlds (Greenup Industries, 2012)
• Inez Lightfoot "Black Dogs" from Three Weaving at the Well cassette (No Kings, 2013)
• The Garbage & the Flowers "Alamo Rose" from Stoned Rehearsal (Quemada, 2011)
• Fortner Anderson/Andy Williams "Echo Chamber" from Annunciations (Les Blocs Errants, 2012)
• Knurl "Ampestra" from Chromosytoma (Panta Rhei, 2005)
• Nadja "Perichoresis" from Excision (Important, 2012)

New Directions 27 Mar 2013: Eclectic Lady Land

This week I was joined by my friend and former CFMU Spoken Word Director, Sandy Gill, to play some of my recent and past favourite experimenters - who happen to be female.  We had an organically drawn out discussion about the feminine perspective or alleged female 'sound' in outsider/experimental music and biases in other forms. We ended things off with a special selection by Sandy with Pray for Minge.

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Playlist for 27 Mar 2013:

• JLK "Hortus Conclusus Part 1" from her soundcloud page
• Inca Ore "Silver Wings" from Birthday of Bless You (Not Not Fun, 2008)
• Annie Shaw "Black Is the Colour" from Shanty Awe cassette (Old Frontiers, 2012)
• Birds of Passage "Dead Flowers" from Taxidermy of Unicorns dbl-cassette compilation (Watery Starve, 2013)
• Pray for Minge "Molly" from The Dirty Funk Rock Extravaganza from their soundcloud page

New Directions 20 Mar 2013: Relieve the Kraken

Double-length New Directions show this week! Listen below:

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Playlist for 3/20/2013:

• Electroluminescent "21 & 2237" from Old Frontiers 2011 Sampler (Old Frontiers, 2011)
• Quiet Evenings "Blue Dream" from Impressions (Aguirre, 2013)
• Atlas of the Universe "Betelgeuse" from Old Frontiers 2011 Sampler (Old Frontiers, 2011)
• Derek Rogers "Apparent Weight" from Saturations (Greenup Industries, 2012)
• Ocra "2029" from Ramshackle Day Parade 2012 (Ramshackle Day Parade, 2012)
• Potier "Untitled" from Ramshackle Day Parade 2012 (Ramshackle Day Parade, 2012)
• Evan Parker "Vaincu.Va! Part 1" from Vaincu.Va! Live at Western Front 1978 (Western Front, 2013)
• Kevin Drumm "Dimming the Gas Lights" from Tannenbaum (Hospital Productions, 2013)
• M.C.2 "My Mind Goes High" [1967] from My Mind Goes High: Psychedelic Pop Nuggets from the WEA Vaults (WB, 2005)
• The Monkees "Porpoise Song" [1968] from My Mind Goes High: Psychedelic Pop Nuggets from the WEA Vaults (WB, 2005)
• Tall Dwarfs "Clover" [1985] from Time To Go: The Southern Psychedelic Moment 1981-86 (Flying Nun, 2012)
• Sneaky Feelings "Not to Take Sides" [1983] from Time To Go: The Southern Psychedelic Moment 1981-86 (Flying Nun, 2012)
• Eric's Trip "Forever Again" from Forever Again (Sub Pop, 1994)
• Eric's Trip "This Way Out" from Forever Again (Sub Pop, 1994)
• White Fence "Stranger Things Have Happened (To You)" from Is Growing Faith (Woodsist, 2011)

New Directions 6 Mar 2013: Capricorns & Cosmic Vibrations

On this week's special fundraising show, New Directions was joined by Scott Johnson of Hamilton's Thoughts On Air and CFMU's music director Jason Rule.

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Playlist for 6 Mar 2013:

• Pulp Music/Anne Bean & P.D. Burwell "Low Flying Aircraft" from Low Flying Aircraft 7-inch (1979)
• Vampire Can't "The Rat" from Key Cutter (Load, 2006)
  
• Cotton Museum [side] from Thurston Moore/Cotton Museum split 12-inch (Tasty Soil, 2007)
• Trailing [side] from Opacities & Allures cassette (No Kings, 2012)
• JLK [side] from Empty Spaces cassette (Los Discos Enfantasmes, 2011)

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