Monday, January 23, 2012

Things I Rillly Rilly Liked in 2011

ARTIST TITLE LABEL
Alexander Tucker


Madlib


Richard Skelton


Richard Youngs


The Oh Sees


Andy Stott We Passed By Modern Love
Balam Acab Wander/Wonder Tri Angle
Barn Owl & Infinite Strings Ensemble Headlands Important
Big Digits Know Tomorrow Anchor Brain
Christina Vantzou No. 1 Kranky
Conrad Schnitzler Ballet Statique M -- Minimal
Damon & Naomi False Beats & True Hearts 20/20/20
Dead Moon Unknown Passage Mississippi
Deaf Center Owl Splinters Type
Dirty Beaches Badlands Zoo
Efrim Menuck High Gospel Constellation
Esmerine La Lechuza Constellation
Fang Wizard Pure Hex Teenbeat
Frank Ocean Nostalgia, Ultra s/r
Grouper 7" yellowelectric
Higuma Pacific Fog Dreams Root Strata
Hush Arbors Alive Blackest Rainbow
Institut Fein Motorik Abgegriffen Marriage
Invisible Conga People In a Hole DFA
John Maus Hey Moon Upset the Rhythm
Julia Holter Tragedy Leaving
Juliana Barwick Magic Place Asthmatic Kitty
Jurgen Muller Science of the Sea Digitalis
King Krule s/t True Panther
King Midas Sound Waiting for You Hyperdub
Kitchen's Floor Looking Fwd to Nothing Siltbreeze
KWJAZ s/t Not Not Fun
Larry Achiampong Meh Mogya s/r
Meg Baird Seasons of the Earth Drag City
Metal Mountains Golden Trees Amish
Michael Chapman Train Songs Tompkins Square
Mountains Air Museum Thrill Jockey
Oliver $ Granulated Soul 12"

Polyps Ants on the Golden Cone Hello Sunshine
Psychic Paramount 2 No Quarter
Quilt Quilt Mexican Summer
Rene Hell Terminal Symphony Type
Reports Dinamo Cambridge Ride the Snake
Rihanna We Found a Love

Robert Wyatt, Atzmon, Stephen ….For the Ghosts Within Domino
Sad Horse s/t Eggy
Sandwitches Mrs. Jones Cookies Empty Cellar
Seapony Go With Me Hardly Art
Sepalcure Sepalcure Hotflush
Shabazz Palaces Black Up Sub Pop
Surgeon Breaking the Frame Dynamic Tension
Sympathy Nervous Automatism Minimal Wave
Takamba s/t Mississippi
Tara Jane ONeil & Nikaido Kazumi s/t K
Tim Hecker Dropped Pianos Kranky
v/a This May Be My Last Time Singing Tompkins Square
v/a Disco Love 2: More Rare Disco & Soul Uncovered BBE
v/a Joey Negro Presents the Soul of Disco Vol. 3 Z
Weather Station All of It Was Mine Your Choice
White Rainbow/Stag Hare Split Marriage

Saturday, January 21, 2012

KZME: Sunday, January 22, 2012 - The Intra-Nationale Edition

ARTIST | TITLE | RELEASE | LABEL [PDX-Ness]

THEME: Dim Dim | Nutsy in Love | Whip | Audio Dregs [PDX Label]

Set 1
Portishead | Chase the Tear | Amnesty Int'l single
Doldrums | Chase the Tear [Mississippi Studios @ 1/30]
Doldrums | Parrot Talk [Mississippi Studios @ 1/30]
Phil Manzanara | Caracas | Primitive Guitars | Editions EG
Coronation | Go for Gold | http://coronation.bandcamp.com/track/go-for-gold [PDX artist]

Set 2
Jungle Nausea | Turn Off/Eat | s/t | Inner Mystique [PDX artist]
Tiger Trap | Don't Ask | Sour Grass | K [PNW Label]
Reports | Dinamo Cambridge | Dinamo Cambridge | Ride the Snake [PDX label (part-time)]

Set 3
Alela Diane | Alder Trees | Daytrotter Session [PDX label]
Karen Dalton | Katie Cruel | 1966 | Light in the Attic [PNW label]
Richard Youngs | Mercury Lane | Long White Cloud | Grapefruit Record Club

Set 4 - Celebration of The Nationale 3rd Birthday [Holocene @ 1/25] - Artists associated with The Nationale gallery
Tara Jane O'Neil | Two tracks recorded live @ WMBR [PDX artist]
Sun City Girls | Kasper Hauser | Sidereal Rest [PNW Artist]
Ragda | Sarcophogi | s/t | Drag City [PNW Artist]
Memphis Khan | News | We Can't Say | [PDX Artist]

Set 5
Locelle Mare | Untitled [Waypost @ 1/1/12]
Ian Hagwood | Untitled |
Spaceheads | Round the Outside -- Live in the USA | Dark Beloved Cloud [PDX Label]
Jason Urick - women for Jah Shakka

Thursday, January 12, 2012

KZME: Sunday, January 15, 2012 - Gli italiani lo fanno meglio

ARTIST | TITLE | RELEASE | LABEL [PDX-Ness]

THEME: Dim Dim | Nutsy in Love | Audio Dregs [PDX Label]


SET 1
Mariposa | Royaume a Stockholme (Mike Simonetti Mix) [Italians Do It Better Night at Branx, 1/14]
Eli Escobar | Love Thing Part 3 (feat Amanda Blank) [Simonetti mix [See above]
Trilogy | Not Love | Italo Deruggiero | cdr
Roy Psanelli | Playback (Marcello Giordani 12" extended version)

Background music: Mike Simonetti | Capricorn Rising | Capricorn Rising | Italians Do It Better [See above]

Set 2

Glass Candy | Feeling Without Touching (Instrumental) | Italians Do It Better [ex-PDX]
The Soft Moon | We are We (Mike Simonetti Mix Trance-Formation Mix 1992) [Italians do it better @ Branx]
Nite Jewel | Want You Back (vocal Mix) | Italians Do It Better [IDIB @ Branx]
Innergaze | Shadow Disco | 100% Silk
Gino Soccio | Dream On | RFC

Background music: Invisible Conga People | In a Whole [ex-IDIB label]

Set 3
Erotic Drum Band | Love Disco Style [excerpt] [Italo disco]

Set 4
My Cat is An Alien | Antigravitational Sense of Nothingness | The Wire Tapper | The Wire
Fernando Grillo | Flauvine part due | Grillo | Ampersand

Set 5
Matt Carlson | Infinity Canyons | Gecko Dream Level [PDX artist]
White Rainbow | Night Tracer | Bandcamp [PDX artist]

Monday, January 02, 2012

KZME: Sunday, January 1, 2012 - New Year's Resolution: Turn off the Radio

ARTIST | TITLE | RELEASE | LABEL [PDX-Ness]

Set 1
BNJM | Nightvisitor (Andy Scott remix) | eMusic 12"
Invisible Conga Project | Weird Party | Italians Do It Better 12" [Italians Do it Better Party, Branx @ 1/19]
The Sight Below | With Her I'll Kiss the Sky | Glider [Deluxe Ed] | Ghostly Intl [SEA artist; collaborator with Benoit Pioulard of PDX]
Stephen Vitiello | When Miley Met Steve | ubuweb.com

Background music: Emsikta | Autoune | Sahel Sounds [PDX label]

Set 2
Benoit Pioulard & Rafael Anton Issara | Until Then (Broadcast cover) [PDX artist]
Broadcast | The Littlest Bell | Ha Ha Sound | Warp
Bows | Wonderland | Cassidy | Too Pure
Visitor | The Edges | s/t | Social Music [PDX artist/label]

Background music: Clams Casino

Set 3
Antony & the Johnsons | Aeon | The Crying Light | Secretly Canadian [soundtrack to Trey McIntyre Project, performed in PDX in December]
Owain Phyfe | La Prima Vez | Pina soundtrack [Pina to be shown Cinema 21 @ 1/27]
Gorodisch | Moth to the Flame | Thurn & Taxis | Leaf

Set 4
L'Ocelle Mare | 2 | s/t | Sickroom [Waypost @1/1/12]
Cheval de frise | Incline et Chenu | Sans Titre | Sickroom [ex-guitarist, Waypost @ 1/1/12]
The Psychic Paramount | II | No Quarter

Set 5
Agali Ag Amoumine | Hali Diallo, 2011 | Sahel Sounds/Mississippi Records [PDX label/compiler]
Ali Farka Toure | Social Music [PDX Label]
The Mighty Wings | When He Called My Name | This May Be My Last Time Singing | Tompkins Square [PDX compiler]
Darondo | Do You ReallyLove Me | Listen to My Song: The Music City Sessions | Omnivore
Daniel Kroha | Blues | Folk Blues Stylings | Social Music [PDX label]

Set 6
Elephant Micah | If I were a Surfer | Louder Than Thou | Product of Palmyra [Ex-PDX}
One More Grain | Scarborough Fair | eMusic
Lal Waterson & Bob Davenport | Child Among the Weeds

Set 7
Marcus Fischer | Monocoastal (Part 2) | Monocoastal | 12K [PDX artist]

Monday, December 26, 2011

KZME: Sunday, December 25, 2011 - Disco Noel

ARTIST | TITLE | RELEASE | LABEL [PDX-ness]

Bert Kaempfert | Bells | Winter Wonderland | Decca

Set 1
Walter Murphy | Deck the Halls
Sisterhood | Rocking Disco Santa Clause
Charo | Mamacita, Donde Estas Santa Claus?
Mirror Image | Jingle Bell Rock | Disco Noel |Pickwick
Montreal Sound | Gloria medley | Christmas Disco Party | NSB
Disco Beat | Jingle Bell Rock Disco Rock | Christmas Disco Party | Classic Christmas

Set 2

Impressions | I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus | Funky Christmas | Cotillion
Margie Joseph | Christmas Gift | Funky Christmas | Cotillion
Disco Beat | All I Want for Christmas Is a Disco Beat
Super Jay | Santa's Rap Party | Badd Santa | Stone's Throw
Tapper Zukie | Archie, the Rednosed Reindeer
J Lara | Hands of the Lord | Christimas Stylee | Studio One

Set 3
Rockafire Explosion | Disco Party
Salsoul Orchestra | Someone Knocking At My Door | Christmas Jollies | Salsoul

Set 4
Bert Kaempfert | Holiday in Scotland | Let's Go Bowling | Decca
Border Ring | Jingle Bells
Conjunto Bernal | Hoy | Fiestas Navidads
Cotton Top Mountain Sanctified Singers | Christ Was Born on Christmas Morn | Christ Was Born on Christmas Morn
Joseph Spence | Santa Claus is Comin to Town
Caroleers | I Want an Elephant for Christmas -

Set 5
Gold Panda | Snow & Taxis
Dragging an Ox Through Water | Snowbank Treatment | Tropics of Phenomena | Awesome Vistas [PDX Artist]
The Fall | We Wish You a Protein Christmas | Action Records
Maybe Its Reno | Gravestones & Christmas Trees | s/t | Teenbeat [ex-PDX]
Trash Kit | Happy New Year | Teenagers | De Stijl
Bats | Holiday | Social Music 7" [PDX Label]
Free Design | Close Your Mouth | Badd Santa | Stones Throw

Set 6
Fabio Orsi | Dead Christmas Leaves | Last Winter We Didn't Sing
John Lindaman | Depth Body | Teenbeat Holiday Card | Teenbeat

Saturday, December 10, 2011

KZME: Sunday, December 18, 2011

ARTIST | TITLE | RELEASE | LABEL [PDX-ness]

Set 1
Staple Singers | 25th Day of December
Omar Souleyman & Bjork | Crystalline [remix] | [OS affiliated with Sublime Frequencies]
Astral Social Club | Skelp | Happy Horse
Group Bombino | Issitchillane | Guitars from Agadez, Vol. 2 | Sublime Frequencies [PDX label]
Group Inerane| Ikabkaba | Music from Agadez Vol 4 | Sublime Frequencies PDX label]

Set 2
Mark Stewart | Nothing is Sacred
Richard Youngs | Open Ray | Core to the Brave | Root Strata
Alan Vega | No More Christmas Blues | Ze Xmas Record Reloaded 2004 | Ze
Quilt | Children of Light | Quilt | Mexican Summer
Radiation City | Summer is Not Act 1 | Mixed Ape | Tape Apes [PDX artist/label]
Lena Horne & Gabor Szabo | Rocky Racoon | s/t | Skye

Set3
Erkin Koray | Had Hadi Ordan | Mechul: Singles & Rarities | PDX label [Sublime Frequencies]
Wooden Shjips | O Tannenbaum | freemusicarchive.org

Set 4
A Minority of One | Cramby (Hart of the Chyld) | Bathe in Fiery Answer | s/r [PDX]
Robin Crutchfield | When a Faerie Dies | Songs for Faerie Fol & Toadstool Soup | Nigh Eve
Surgeon | Presence | Breaking the Frame | Dynamic Tension
Chord | Progression | Important
Xela | Recitations | Exorcism | Type [Runs Type records, home to several PDX artists]

Set 5
Pete Swanson | Returns | Man With Garbage | Type [Ex-PDX/recorded in Oregon]

Saturday, December 03, 2011

KZME: Friday, December 9, 2011

Set 1
Pleasure | Joyous | Joyous | Fantasy [PDX artist]
Bill Cosby | Boogie On Your Face | Disco Bill | Capitol
Serious Intention | You Don't Know 12"
Pleasure | Dust Yourself Off | Dust Yourself Off | Fantasy [PDX artist]

Background music: Lawrence English | Benefit for Japan release

Set 2
Super Djata Band [Artist released on Mississippi Records, PDX label]
Georgia Sea Island Singers | Adam in the Garden (or Adam & Eve) | s/t | Mississippi Records [PDX label]
Foxdye | Harp Heart | Well I Dont See Why Not, Vol. 1 | [PDX artist/Olympia label]
Heather Woods Broderick | For Misty | From the Ground | Preservation [ex-PDX]

Background: Jefre Cantu Ledesma Moon in a Dewdrop | Japan benefit release

Set 3
A Sunny Day in Glasgow | Shy | Mis Ojos Discos [remixed by PDX artist]

Set 4
A Sunny Day in Glasgow | Nitetime Rainbows (Acid Wash Edit by Benoit Poulard) | Nitetime Rainbows 12" | Mis Ojos Discos [PDX remixer]
Pete Swanson | AXOXO | Man with Potential | Type [ex-PDX]
Indignant Senility | Untitled 11 | Plays Wagner | Type [PDX]
Cristina Carter | Untitled | Live at WMBR

Set 5
Jandek | The Cell | Glasgow Monday | Corwood
Jandek | I asked | Portland Thursday | Corwood [recorded in PDX with Sam Coomes and Liz Harris]