Saturday, January 30, 2010

Playlist for January 30, 2010

Heh heh - I forgot how the actual iVardensphere "Jigsaw" goes outside of the main riff because once I know I'm going to remix a track I stop listening to it to try to have as clean a slate as possible. When I did this for Left Spine Down's "Reset" I was stunned to (re-)discover after the remix was done and submitted that there was a third verse!

Anyway, you'll get to hear my version of "Jigsaw" sometime next month when it gets released on an EP.

This is what I played tonight:


cEvin Key and Ken Hiwatt Marshall
From The Dragon Experience [2003, Subconscious Communications]:
Ambient Fruit
Maniac Shuffle
Destructor Beam
Shortwave Connector


Download
From The Eyes of Stanley Pain [1996, Subconscious Communications/Nettwerk]:
Suni C
Possession
The Turin Cloud


iVardensphere
From Scatterface [2009, Synthetic Sounds]:
Tesseract
Jigsaw
Diatribe
Box of Monsters


Landscape Body Machine
From Revolution [2002, Interdimensional Industries]:
Lunar Informant
Humans
Revolution (Repliderium Mix by Urceus Exit)


Phil Western
From The Escapist [1998, Map Music]:
Poison
Sun Is Round
Full Moon


Hellen Keller
From Demonstration [1997, 20rm Records]:
Smackwave
Communicating @ 28.8
Clouds On Ground/2DW


Podcast part 1 for the Vampire's Ball, January 30, 2010.


Doubting Thomas
From The Infidel (Special Edition 20 Year Anniversary) [2007, Subconscious Communications]:
Cryland
Make Me Laugh
Blink and It's Gone


Rx
From Bedside Toxicology [1998, Invisible Records]:
K Y Re:amin
Idle Contact
For Dusts and Mists


Skinny Puppy
From Mythmaker [2007, SPV]
Magnifishit
Haze
Ugli


Fake Shark Real Zombie
From their last.fm page:
Angel Lust (Ghost Frequency Remix)
Panty Party Hand Cramp
Monday Tuesday What the Fuck
From Angel Lust [2009, self-released]:
Running For the Razors


Raggedy Angry
From Pestilence [2008, self-released]:
Dance Party
Chest Pains
Make Me Feel
Sick and Twisted


Left Spine Down
From Smartbomb 2.3: The Underground Mixes [2009, Synthetic Sounds]:
Hang Up (Klaxxon Mix)
Prozac Nation (Psy'Aviah Mix)
Reset (Maqlu Mix)
Controlled Voltage (kAINE-O-Matic Mix by Decree)


The Rabid Whole
From Autraumaton [2009, Synthetic Sounds]:
All the Same
Selfish nature
My Love, My Blood
Tell Me Lies


Jakalope
From It Dreams [2004, Orange Record Label]:
Creeper
Screecher


Podcast part 2 for the Vampire's Ball, January 30, 2010.


Post-show mix CD is Mix CD 6.


Upcoming Coolness:

iVardensphere: January 30th at Club 23 West (part of Sanctuary).


And now for my weekly end notes:

You can now subscribe to the Vampire's Ball on iTunes. Just search for "CiTR" and you'll find The Vampire's Ball listed along with 20 or so other cool shows here on CiTR Radio.

Or grab the podcast off of this page:

Podcast page for the Vampire's Ball.

You can email requests and comments to thevampiresball@gmail.com. You can also send me MP3 links if your stuff fits the show, or for old fashioned CD submissions, those can either be mailed to my post office box (see sidebar) or dropped off at CiTR Radio (or mailed c/o CiTR Radio. The address is in the sidebar of this blog.)

There's now a Facebook group for the Vampire's Ball. Join us!

Likewise, there is also now a MySpace page for the Vampire's Ball on CiTR.

As always, thanks for listening. Enjoy the show.

Friday, January 29, 2010

DJMix.net link

As I mentioned last week, I did a guest spot on ProtonRadio.com, which is now permanently up on DjMix.net.

Check it out here:

http://djmix.net/DJMixPresents/PyraDraculea-Jan222010

Listen on the site or download it, just be sure to spread it around.

Music from assorted artists near and dear to the hearts of the Vampire's Ball, including Left Spine Down, iVardensphere, Raggedy Angry, Jakalope, RevCo, Ministry, ohGr, Fake Shark Real Zombie, and Maqlu. Plus various others.

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Playlist for January 23, 2010

All talked out this week for some reason. Back your regularly scheduled pre-playlist rambling commentary next week. T

This is what I played tonight:


Love and Rockets
From Ball of Confusion 12" [1985, Beggars Banquet]:
Ball of Confusion
Haunted When the Minutes Drag


Bauhaus
From The Sky's Gone Out [1982, Beggars Banquet]:
Lagartija Nick
Kick In the Eye


Depeche Mode
From It's Called A Heart/Fly On the Windscreen 12" (special limited edition twin set) [1985, Mute]:
It's Called a Heart (Slow Mix)
Fly on the Windscreen (Death Mix)


Ministry
From The Nature of Love 12" [1985, Wax Trax!]:
The Nature of Love (Cruelty Mix)


Chris & Cosey
From Obsession 12" [1987, Nettwerk/Capitol]:
Obsession (Extended Mix)


Severed Heads
From Big Car Remix [1990, Volition/Nettwerk]:
Big Car (Limo Mix)


Duran Duran
From My Own Way 12" [1981, EMI]:
My Own Way (Night Version)


Cabaret Voltaire
From Drinking Gasoline [1985, Caroline Records/Virgin]:
Kino


Meat Beat Manifesto
From Radio Babylon/Helter Skelter 12" [1990, Play It Again Sam Records]
Radio Babylon
Helter Skelter


ohGr
From Welcome to Collidoskope Remixes [2010, self-released]:
Welcome to Collidoskope (Memix by SuperImposed Media)


Pigface
From Spoon Breakfast 12" [1990, Invisible Records]:
Winnebago Induced Tapeworm Remix


PTP
From Rubber Glove Seduction [1989, Wax Trax!]:
My Favorite Things


Podcast part 1 of the Vampire's Ball for January 23, 2010.


Skinny Puppy
From Tormentor 12" [1990, Nettwerk/Capitol]:
Tormentor (Extended Re-Edit)
From Remission [1984, Nettwerk/Capitol]:
Smothered Hope


Revolting Cocks
From Let's Get Physical [1989, Wax Trax!]:
(Let's Talk) Physical


KMFDM
From Extras, Vol. 1 [2008, Metropolis Records]:
Friede (Original 12" Mix)
Naive (My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult Mix)


Front 242
From Official Version [1987, Nettwerk/Capitol]:
Master Hits (Parts 1 & 2)


Keith LeBlanc
From Stranger Than Fiction [1989, Nettwerk/Capitol]:
Steps
Count This


The Legendary Pink Dots
From Princess Coldheart [1990, Play It Again Sam Records]:
Princess Coldheart


Sex Gang Children
From Song and Legend [1983, Illuminated Records]:
Draconian Dream


Gary Numan
From Metal Rhythm [1988, Illegal Records]:
Cold Metal Rhythm
Don't Call My Name


KetVector
From The Infinite Regress [2008, Rustblade]:
E-Prime


Diamanda Galas
From You Must Be Certain of the Devil [1988, Mute]:
Birds of Death


Download
From Sidewinder [1996, Off Beat]:
Chalice


Foetus
From Hole [1984, Self Immolation]:
Street of Shame
Satan Place
White Knuckles
Water Torture
Cold Day in Hell


My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult
From A Daisy Chain For Satan 12" [1988, Illegal Records]:
'Cuz It's Hot


Podcast part 2 of the Vampire's Ball for January 23, 2010.


Post-show mix CD is Mix CD 5.


Upcoming Coolness:

Fake Shark Real Zombie et al: January 28th at the Lamplighter.
iVardensphere: January 30th at Club 23 West (part of Sanctuary).


And now for my weekly end notes:

You can now subscribe to the Vampire's Ball on iTunes. Just search for "CiTR" and you'll find The Vampire's Ball listed along with 20 or so other cool shows here on CiTR Radio.

Or grab the podcast off of this page:

Podcast page for the Vampire's Ball.

You can email requests and comments to thevampiresball@gmail.com. You can also send me MP3 links if your stuff fits the show, or for old fashioned CD submissions, those can either be mailed to my post office box (see sidebar) or dropped off at CiTR Radio (or mailed c/o CiTR Radio. The address is in the sidebar of this blog.)

There's now a Facebook group for the Vampire's Ball. Join us!

Likewise, there is also now a MySpace page for the Vampire's Ball on CiTR.

As always, thanks for listening. Enjoy the show.

Friday, January 22, 2010

ProtonRadio.com Mix

Pyra Draculea on ProtonRadio.com

In case anyone happens to see this instantly, it's live on ProtonRadio.com until 4AM PST January 22nd, 2010. After that you can listen on demand.

This will be exclusive to ProtonRadio for a couple of weeks and then it'll go up on DJMix.net. Once on DJMix.net I think anyone can listen for free, but on Proton it's a pretty cheap subscription. I'll post the links as I get them.

In the meantime, here's the tracklisting:

01. Nurse With Wound - Astral Dustbin Dirge (Original Mix; Digital Manipulation by Pyra Draculea) [United Dairies]
02. Boyd Rice - Assume the Position (Original Mix; Digital Manipulation and Editing by Pyra Draculea) [Caciocavallo]
03. Maqlu - Trouble Thing (ProtonRadio Edit by Pyra Draculea) [ID]
04. Raggedy Angry - Chest Pains (Original Mix; Edit by Pyra Draculea) [ID]
05. Maxwell Maxwell feat. Peter Breeze - Fuck Talk (Original Mix; Edit by Pyra Draculea) [ID]
06. Ministry - The Nature of Love (Cruelty Mix; Digital Manipulation by Pyra Draculea) [Wax Trax! Records]
07. Landscape Body Machine - The New Deal (Original Mix; Edited by Pyra Draculea) [Interdimensional Industries]
08. I, Braineater - Hammerhead (A Capella version from an interview with Jim Cummins on the Vampire's Ball; Edit by Pyra Draculea) [ID]
09. Pailhead - Man Should Surrender (Original Mix) [Wax Trax! Records]
10. Excessive Force - Queen Bitch (Original Mix; Edit by Pyra Draculea) [Wax Trax! Records]
11. Fake Shark Real Zombie - Angel Lust (Ghost Frequency Remix) [ID]
12. Pigface - Work to Come (Original Mix; Edit by Pyra Draculea) [Full Effect Records]
13. Maqlu - Whore (ProtonRadio Edit by Pyra Draculea) [ID]
14. iVardensphere - Wormtongue (Original Mix; Digital Manipulation by Pyra Draculea) [Synthetic Sounds]
15. Nickelback - Figured You Out (Original Mix; Digital Manipulation by Pyra Draculea) [Roadrunner Records]
16. Left Spine Down - Reset (Maqlu Mix) [Synthetic Sounds]
17. ohGr - Collidoskope (Original Mix; Digital Manipulation by Pyra Draculea) [ID]
18. Maqlu - Writhe (ProtonRadio Edit by Pyra Draculea) [ID]
19. SKOLD vs. KMFDM - It's Not What (Original Mix) [KMFDM Records]
20. Revolting Cocks - I'm Not Gay (I'm So Gay Club Mix by Dave "Rave" Ogilvie and Colin Janz) [13th Planet]
21. Rammstein - Pussy (Original Mix; Digital Manipulation by Pyra Draculea) [Pilgrim/Universal]
22. Jakalope - aka Cupcake (Original Mix; Digital Manipulation by Pyra Draculea) [ID]
23. Betty Hutton and Howard Keel - Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better (Original Mix; Digital Manipulation by Pyra Draculea) [Rhino Records]
24. Boyd Rice - Assume the Position (Original Mix; Digital Manipulation by Pyra Draculea) [Caciocavallo]
25. Maqlu - Dream Come True (ProtonRadio Edit by Pyra Draculea) [ID]

Monday, January 18, 2010

24 Hours of Radio Art Setlist

Pyra Draculea: 24 Hours of Radio Art set podcast

Well, this was the first year I got a slot on CiTR's annual 24 Hours of Radio Art. I played a few of my noise pieces, one of my songs which kinda of fit [maybe], and a long mash-up/collage I decided to call "The Obvious Thing To Do."

Noise pieces/collages/weird "songs" [I guess the terms vary based on your definitions]:
"Os Invidus"
"Dream Come True"
"Tim's Beneath My Feet"

"Os Invidus" and "Dream Come True" will be released on the triple EP I'm working on. "Tim's Beneath My Feet" I'll probably hold for another project, in the meantime it's up on my MySpace.

Mash-Up "The Obvious Thing To Do" includes parts of the following songs, plus some different samples I have:

Mormon Tablenacle Choir: selections from Handel's Messiah.
Anton Szandor LaVey: "Satanis Theme" Satan Takes A Holiday.
Sesame Street: "One of these things is not like the others."
The Electric Hellfire Club: "I Dream of Demons" from Electronomicon.
Nelson Eddy: "Ave Maria" The Lord's Prayer.
Boyd Rice: "Hatesville" Hatesville.
Duran Duran: "Notorious [Live Version]" from Do You Believe In Shame? 12".
Marilyn Manson: "Antichrist Superstar" from Antichrist Superstar.
Rocky Horror Show [Original Roxy Cast]: "Sweet Transvestite" from The Rocky Horror Show.
My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult: "Kooler Than Jesus" from Kooler Than Jesus.
Boyd Rice: "Mr. Intolerance" from Hatesville.
Duran Duran: "Do You Believe In Shame?" from Do You Believe In Shame? 12".
Marilyn Manson: "I Don't Like the Drugs [But the Drugs Like Me]" from Mechanical Animals.
The Electric Hellfire Club: "Hymn to the Fallen" from Electronomicon.
Duran Duran: "Drug [Alternate Mix]" from Do You Believe In Shame? 12".
Raggedy Angry: "Chest Pains" from Pestilence.
Elvis Presley: "I Want You I Need You I Love You".

Inspired by the fact that my slot was on a Sunday morning. Also maybe a little bit of the notion of a religion becoming like a drug for some people.

People will probably get the wrong idea about the back half of that. And by people I mean any of my relatives Googling me looking for dirt.

Plus my parents have the weirdest record collection, albeit unintentionally so. Most of it's my music, though. [And my music collection is intentionally weird.]

Much of this stuff was messed up through a Behringer mixer, using its aux sends to go to a Big Muff distortion pedal and a separate send to a Guvnor overdrive. I was originally going to live mix prepared tracks on air, but then I got going on preparing those tracks and before you know it I was done.

And yeah, I realize the really obvious thing to do would be to juxtapose that Marilyn Manson track with a certain Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, but I didn't find all of my parents' vinyl collection, just a couple pieces. I swear by next year I'll have dug more of it up.

There were also Librivox recordings of public domain works: "A Freeman's Worship" by Bertrand Russell, "Of Truth" by Francis Bacon" and Humboldt's "Degrees of Enjoyment." And yes, I did swipe a sample from "Os Invidus." What can I say - I needed a guy saying something like "that's all I ask" in both.

There were also two songs: at the beginning CiTR's music director Luke Meat requested that I start with the Birthday Party's song "Happy Birthday." And at the end I had enough time to squeeze in a song of mine called "Lord of the Flies." In order to mess it up more for the noise/collage motif, I layered a couple of Controlled Bleeding LPs under it. I forgot to note which ones.

So, that's that. Until next year, back to your usual Vampire's Ball programming on Friday nights.

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Playlist for January 16, 2010

My guest on the show this week was Phil Western. Phil brought some of his vinyl collection as well as a few things off of his laptop and we set to making some sets.

And hey, I threw on a few of my tracks, too [all the Maqlu stuff].

Here's what we played:

Lustmord: "Dog Star Descends" from The Place Where the Black Stars Hang
Lou Reed: "Metal Machine Music" from Metal Machine Music
Acid Mothers Temple: "Space Age Ballad" from New Geocentric World
Jah Wobble: "Fading" from Fading 12"
Chris & Cosey: "The Gates of Ancient Cities" from Trance
Spectrum: "If I Should Die" from Sonic Boom
Yoko Ono: "Greenfield Morning I Pushed Over And Empty Baby Carriage All Over the City" from Plastic Ono Band
Spectrum: "Whirlwind" from Silver Apples
I, Braineater: "Hyde Park School Girl" from Hyde Park Schoolgirl 7"

Maqlu: "Dream Come True"
Harmonia: "Watussi" from Musik von Harmonia
Boards of Canada: "Zoetrope" from In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country
Severed Heads: "Casey's Ion" from Come Visit the Big Bigot
Severed Heads: "Spitoon Thud" from City Slab Horror
Dome [Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis]: "To Walk To Run" from Will You Speak This Word: Dome 4
Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis: from 3R4
Dome [Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis]: "Lineasixup" from Dome
Zoviet France
Martin Rev: "Asia" from Martin Rev
Circus Devils: "Dragging the Medicine" from Pinball Mars Act II

Maqlu: "Whore"
Maqlu: "Tim's Beneath My Feet"
Vincent Gallo: "A Wet Cleaner" from Recordings of Music For Film
Mogwai: "Fear Satan [My Bloody Valentine remix]" from Fear Satan Remixes
Maeror Tri: from Hypnotikum II
Jessamine: "I'm Not Afraid of Electricity" from Another Fictionalized History
The Braineaters: "Kidstuff"


Podcast Part 1 for the Vampire's Ball, January 16, 2010


Maqlu: "Os Invidus"
Lustmord: "Pure" from Paradise Disowned
Deerhunter: "Red Ink" from Cryptograms
Terry Riley: "Celestial Valley" from Shri Camel
Drome: "Castler Kestle"
Coil: "Queens of the Circulating Library"
Godspeed You Black Emperor: "Rockets Fall on Rocket Falls"
Einsturzende Neubauten: Tabula Rasa

Nurse With Wound: "A Piece of the Sky Is Missing" from Cooloorata Moon


Podcast Part 2 for the Vampire's Ball, January 16, 2010

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Girl [who is doing her class write-up on Switchfoot, this becomes important in a second] sees the Ministry C U LaTour 08 sticker on my laptop.

I mention I got it in a goodie bag at the RevCo show in September.

"Oh, their audio is terrible!"

What? RevCo has awesome production.

"No, I mean their audio is terrible."

Well, maybe she meant at the actual show, there were a few issues with bass dropping out, some other technical snafus.

"No... I mean, they're phenomenal, but I don't care for what they stand for."

Oh. I get it now.

Tell it to someone who cares, toots.

And FYI: Lyrical content isn't actually the same thing as audio.

Saturday, January 9, 2010

Playlist for January 9th, 2010

We begin 2010 with a little retrospective of 2009, then a bit of taste of the music shopping sprees I went on over the break.

This is what I played tonight:

First up, the best of 2009. In order of best song flow, not in order of anything else.

iVardensphere
From Scatterface [2009, Synthetic Sounds]:
Jigsaw
Wormtongue


Landscape Body Machine
From Manifest Destiny [2009, Interdimensional Industries]:
The New Deal
Unperson


Left Spine Down
From Smartbomb 2.3: The Underground Mixes [2009, Synthetic Sounds]:
Welcome to the Future [Electro Mix by Decoded Feedback]
Hang Up [Angelspit Remix]


The Rabid Whole
From Autraumaton [2009, Synthetic Sounds]:
All the Same
Tell Me Lies


Fake Shark Real Zombie
From Angel Lust [2009]:
Angel Lust
Running For the Razors


Stiff Valentine
From Industrial Metal Disco [2009, Trafik Records]:
Breaking Point
Subsonic


Revolting Cocks
From Sex-O MiXXX-O [2009, 13th Planet Records]:
Lewd Ferringo [Club On Mix by Andy LaPlagua of Combichrist]
I'm Not Gay [I'm So Gay Club Mix by Dave "Rave" Ogilvie and Colin Janz]


Rammstein
From Liebe ist fur alle da [2009, Pilgrim/Universal]:
Wiener Blut
Pussy


Pigface
From 6 [2009, Full Effect Records]
Work to Come
I Hate You In Real Life Too


Phil Western
From Red Eyed Stalker [2009]:
Red Eyes [Phil Western Original Mix]
Stalker [Let's Go Outside Mix]


Part 1 of the Vampire's Ball podcast for January 9, 2009.


And then after the best of list, the show continued thusly:

KMFDM
From Tohuvabohu [2007, Metropolis Records]:
I Am What I Am
Spit or Swallow


Raggedy Angry
From Fuck to This [2008]:
Dance Party [Alkatraz Mix]
Hate Is Fashionable [Feat. Jakalope]


Puscifer
From C Is For [Please Insert Sophmoric Genitalia Reference Here] [2008]:
The Mission [M Is For Milla Mix]
Portions [Deliverance Mix]


Nine Inch Nails
From Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D [2007, Interscope]:
My Violent Heart [Remixed by Pirate Robot Midget]
The Beginning of the End [Remixed by Ladytron]



Skinny Puppy
From Censor [1988, Nettwerk/Capitol]:
Yes He Ran
Censor


Portion Control
From Rough Justice [1984, Illuminated Records]:
Justice
The Man Who Did Backwards Somersaults


Moev
From Suffer [2000, COP International]:
Complications
Suffer [Mindfuck Mix]


Lustmord
From Paradise Disowned [1986, Side Effects]:
Beckoning
Utterance
Dreams of Dead Names
Pyre [Necro Christi]
Purge [Banishing]


Depeche Mode
Strangelove [The Fresh Ground Mix, remix by Phil Harding]


Part 2 of the Vampire's Ball podcast for January 9, 2009.


Post-show mix CD is Mix CD 3.


Upcoming Coolness:

Fake Shark Real Zombie et al: January 28th at the Lamplighter.
iVardensphere: January 30th at Club 23 West (part of Sanctuary).


And now for my weekly end notes:

You can now subscribe to the Vampire's Ball on iTunes. Just search for "CiTR" and you'll find The Vampire's Ball listed along with 20 or so other cool shows here on CiTR Radio.

Or grab the podcast off of this page:

Podcast page for the Vampire's Ball.

You can email requests and comments to thevampiresball@gmail.com. You can also send me MP3 links if your stuff fits the show, or for old fashioned CD submissions, those can either be mailed to my post office box (see sidebar) or dropped off at CiTR Radio (or mailed c/o CiTR Radio. The address is in the sidebar of this blog.)

There's now a Facebook group for the Vampire's Ball. Join us!

Likewise, there is also now a MySpace page for the Vampire's Ball on CiTR.

As always, thanks for listening. Enjoy the show.