Playlist for January 22, 2011

Got to chat very briefly with cEvin Key after the Download/PlatEAU show here in Vancouver last weekend, aired that with some new-ish Download and PlatEAU and some other stuff from cEvin's label, Subconscious Communications.

Here's what I played tonight:


Download
From Helicopter [2009, Subsconscious Communications]:
Decadance
Message From Gort
Radio Silence


Plateau
From Gort Spacebar [2009, Subsconscious Communications]:
Gort
Mole Twitch


cEvin Key
From Music For Cats [1998, Metropolis Records]:
Herbalist Rule
Greenhouse Gasses


Phil Western
From DAT Hell [2008, The Record Company]:
Horsey
Untitled


DJOTO
From Slow Motion Burn [2009, Subsconscious Communications]:
Nurse Witch II
Relationship Therapy


Otto von Schirach
From Magic Triangle [2008, Subconscious Communications]:
Mother Fucking Punk
My Supernatural Motorcycle Gang Will Knife You


BananaSloth
From Zombie Battle 2019 [2009, Subconscious Communications]:
Dinosaurs Will Eat Your Brain
Booty Park


Baseck and Sonic Death Rabbit
From Creatures [2009, Subconscious Communications]:
It Could Be Worse, You Could Be Human
Unhinged
Dead Rabbit Lullaby
Things That Go Braaah! In the Night


Wet Mango
From Portland Demo 2010 [2010, self-released]:
Drip and Slip
I'm A Bleeder, Not A Breeder


Podcast part 1 of the Vampire's Ball for January 22, 2011.


The Rabid Whole
From Autraumaton Remixed [2011, Synthetic Sounds]:
Faith In Yesterday (Kevvy Mental Dead Sould Mix)
Tell Me Lies (Elmer J. Fudd Mix by Virtual Terrorist)


16Volt
From American Porn Songs Remixed [2010, Metropolis Records]:
American Porn Song (SKOLD Remix)
Become Your None (SMP vs. Stiff Valentine Mix)


Combichrist
From Noise Collection vol. 1 [2010, Out of Line]:
Anatomy
Sex, Drogen und Industri (Lowtech Mix)


Killing Joke
From Absolute Dissent [2010, Spinefarm Records]:
Endgame
Honour The Fire


Einstuerzende Neubauten
From Strategies Against Architecture IV - 2002-2010 [2010, Mute]:
Good Morning Everybody
Waiting for the Call


The Tear Garden
From Have a Nice Trip [2009, Subconscious Communications]:
Nowhere to Land
Nothing's Set In Stone


Edward Ka-Spel
From The Minus Touch [2010, Beta-Lactum Ring Records]:
Bad Mood
Absolution


Dead Voices On Air
From From Afar All Stars Spark and Glee [2010, Lens Records]:
This Silence Where the Mumours Lie
Eyes I Dare Not Meet In Dreams


Conjure One
From Exilarch [2010, Nettwerk]:
Like Ice
I Dream In Colour


Podcast part 2 of the Vampire's Ball for January 22, 2011.


This week's post-show mix CD was Mix CD 8.


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.)

Be aware that things are hectic and it can take a good long while before I get a chance to listen.

There's a Facebook group for the Vampire's Ball.

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

As always, thanks for listening. Enjoy the show.

24 Hours of Radio Art: The Maqlu Tarot

Today at noon PST I did an hour long set on CiTR's annual 24 Hours of Radio Art, in which I debuted my series of short compositions, The Maqlu Tarot.

22 short compositions loosely inspired from meditating on the 22 cards of the Major Arcana of the Tarot, designed to be played at random to see what it evokes.

Sonically it ranges from mutilated spoken word and distorted guitar to lovely little MIDI brass compositions to carefully arranged birdsong samples that almost sound plausibly natural to pseudo-club 1990s industrial.

The Maqlu Tarot is available as a free download from my website (a .zip of all 22 MP3s) or you can grab individual tracks off my last.fm profile.

This is the order in which they were played on 24 Hours of Radio Art. The randomization was set by putting the tracks on shuffle through an iTunes playlist.

XVI TEMPERANCE
VII THE CHARIOT
I THE MAGUS
II THE PRIESTESS
VI THE LOVERS
XVII THE STAR
XIX THE SUN
IX THE HERMIT
IV THE EMPEROR
XI JUSTICE
V THE HIEROPHANT
XV THE DEVIL
III EMPRESS
0 THE FOOL
XVIII THE MOON
VIII STRENGTH
XX JUDGEMENT
XII THE HANGED MAN
XIV TEMPERANCE
XVI THE TOWER
X THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE
XXI THE UNIVERSE

More information: http://maqlu.com

Podcast of my timeslot on 24 Hours of Radio Art.

Back on-air on Friday

After an imposed two-week hiatus due to the holidays, the Vampire's Ball returns to the airwaves on CiTR Radio this Friday January 7th at midnight.

Guests for the show will be kAINE D3l4y of Left Spine Down (and possibly Jeremy Inkel as well) and Kevvy Mental of Fake Shark Real Zombie chatting about their show at the Rickshaw Theatre with NinjaSpy and the Wrecktals on January 14th. We'll also be spinning all sorts of random weirdness.

See ya then!

New date for Maqlu @ the Media Club

The show that had been scheduled for tonight was postponed due to illness, it will now take place on Wednesday February 2nd. Location and line-up is still the same, for more info check out the Facebook event here:

Maqlu + Frederick + Friday Mortimer & the Beautiful Monsters @ the Media Club, February 2nd

Or if you prefer, it's also listed on last.fm here: Maqlu @ the Media Club, last.fm listing

Artists:

Maqlu

Frederick

Friday Mortimer & the Beautiful Monsters

Maqlu show postponed

Since I know I mentioned this show ad nauseum in my concert listings for the last couple months, and since I won't be on-air again til after it was supposed to happen, I figure I'd best mention that the Maqlu/Frederick/Friday Mortimer & the Beautiful Monsters show that was supposed to happen Wednesday January 5th at the Media Club in Vancouver has been postponed due to illness, waiting to hear what the make-up date will be.

I wasn't gonna say anything, really, BUT...

So, the Jakalope/Marianas Trench show I went to on Saturday got roasted by the Georgia Straight. No surprise, they do hate 604 Records acts, and I was going to just ignore it but then again, I never can shut up. Here's what I posted on their comments board, in amongst the ocean of Trenchies saying "Oh yeah, well... fuck you!" and the occasional well-thought out rebuttal to the article.

I actually wrote for Discorder for years off and on, was even a section editor and production manager too, so I do get the whole "we're serious music critics and therefore pop music or anything that moves more than 15 units SUCKS" vibe, really I do, so I tried to leave that sort of aspect out of it lest I start sounding like a hysterical fan girl defending a band I like from evildoers. (Technically speaking, Jakalope are friends of mine, not just a band I like from afar, but they're big boys and girls and don't need defending.)

Wow, talk about a shitstorm... but having been around the college radio and music critic scene for 10 years (CiTR Radio and Discorder), I know that's exactly what you were hoping for.

First up, I'll say I didn't see Marianas Trench's set, only Jakalope's. I'll grant you that Marianas Trench's fans get a little hyper, but so what? Nothing worse than I remember seeing at Nine Inch Nails shows back in the day, and the NIN fans were hardly tweens so age doesn't come into this at all. Actually, Trench fans are far less bat-shit insane than NIN or Marilyn Manson fans, so really your criticism of the audience is moot.

Hard core fans tend to be the same across all genres, and you can't fault them for that: they're what this business needs now more than ever in the current music climate. Hell, the kids cleaned out the merch booth of all Marianas Trench stuff (save one lonely unliked t-shirt design) by the end of the opening act's set. Most artists would kill for those sort of results.

Let me get this straight - everyone's bellyaching about a lack of strong fan support for artists, but when you see an example of strong fan support you mock it?

I will say it's strange to me to see 6 year olds at a rock show, but that's more on account of how 99% of the shows I go to are in clubs. The kids were pretty well-behaved and appreciative of being able to go to a concert, cut them some slack - they're your future readers.

Is this really about the fans and the show or is it about how the "Serious Music Press" has it in for 604 Records on account of the Nickelback connection? (You know, God forbid you sell music that people seem to wanna hear on the radio...)

Now, onto Jakalope's performance. You do understand that grinding feedback is not intended by the band, right? Maybe if we were talking Einstuerzende Neubauten it would be intentional but here it's a technical accident of walking an inch too close to a monitor and every time it happened people moved back to stop it immediately. It happens at the Biltmore for hipster bands, it happens at the Backstage Lounge for singer-songwriters strumming acoustic guitars, it happens at the Cobalt for the hot new punk trio. Get over it.

I don't know where you were seated and I do believe the Orpheum, like the Queen E, has some acoustic dead spots where things sound screwed up, but from down in the front nothing sounded tinny at all, it was a pretty full sound. I didn't find Chrystal's voice too shrill, there were a couple points where she used a screaming tone for effect. Big deal.

As for "industrial waste," you really don't know, do you? Go listen to Neubauten and Puppy and FLA. Jakalope pretty much play straight up electro-rock, it's not actually the same thing.

Was it perfect? Nothing ever is. But I'd hardly call it a clusterfuck either and I've seen plenty of those for comparison. Some of which involved actual "industrial waste" acts, which you might well consider brilliant on account of them being on a different label and only having 20 fans in any given city.

PS: Platinum records tend to be garishly framed these days. The days of the simple plain frame were in the 1970s when there were a lot more of them being given out. If you don't like the frame or presentation, be thankful you don't have to hang it in your own living room. From what I understand, Marianas Trench's album has now been released in the USA, perhaps there will be an American gold or platinum soon enough. Because clearly Canadian bands are only valid after the Americans pay attention.

Playlist for December 4, 2010

Nine Inch Nails
From The Fragile [1999, Nothing/Interscope]:
Somewhat Damaged
The Wretched
No, You Don't


Front Line Assembly
From Provision [1990, Wax Trax!]:
Overkill [Surge Mix]
From Iceolate [1990, Wax Trax!]:
Iceolate
From Virus [1990, Third Mind Records]:
Virus [Aggro Mix]


Front 242
From Front By Front [1988, Nettwerk]:
Until Death (Do Us Part)
Circling Overhead
Im Rhythmus Bleiben
Felines


Killing Joke
From Fire Dances [1983, E'G Records]:
Feast of Blaze
Song & Dance
Dominator
Let's All Go
Lust Almighty


Clock DVA
From Buried Dreams [1989, Wax Trax!]:
The Unseen
The Reign
The Act
The Hacker


Podcast part 1 of the Vampire's Ball for December 4, 2010.


Chris & Cosey
From Reflection [1990, Wax Trax!]:
Re-Education Thru Labour
Gates of Ancient Cities
Heartbeat
Put Yourself In Los Angeles


Einstürzende Neubauten
From Fünf auf der nach oben offeren Richterskala [1987, Some Bizarre]:
Zerstörte Zelle
Morning Dew
Ich bin's
MoDiMiDoFreSaSa



Controlled Bleeding
From Trudge [1990, Wax Trax!]:
Words (Of the Dying Body)
Crimes of the Body
The Front
The Fodder Song


Nurse With Wound
From Automating Volume Two [1989, United Diaries]:
The Strange Play of the Mouth
Elderly Man River/Dance of Fools


Coil
From The Snow EP [1991, Wax Trax!]:
Driftmix
Answers Come In Dreams
Out in the Cold


Podcast part 2 of the Vampire's Ball for December 4, 2010.


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.)

Be aware that things are hectic and it can take a good long while before I get a chance to listen.

There's a Facebook group for the Vampire's Ball.

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

As always, thanks for listening. Enjoy the show.

Playlist for November 27, 2010

This week I aired my interview with Rhys Fulber of Conjure One [ex- Front Line Assembly and Delerium].

Here's what I played tonight:


Mixed in with the interview segments:

Conjure One
From Exilarch [2010, Nettwerk]:
I Dream In Colour
Like Ice
Places That Don't Exist
The Distance

Delerium
From Remixed: The Definitive Collection [2010, Nettwerk]:
Silence [DJ Tiesto Mix]

Conjure One
From Conjure One [2002, Nettwerk]:
Centre of the Sun


Front Line Assembly
From Disorder [1988, Third Mind Records]:
Lurid Sensation
Die-Sect
TheWrack


Raggedy Angry
From How I Learned to Love Our Robot Overlords [2010, Synthetic Sounds]:
Burn Your Gods
Fire Engine Red
Digital Hell


Chemlab
From Oxidizer [2004, Underground, Inc.]:
Monkey God
Black Snake Voodoo Hiss
Queen of Despair [Ode to the Diode]


In Strict Confidence
From Mistrust the Angels [2002, Minuswelt Musikfabrik]:
Herzattacke
Horizont


Podcast part 1 of the Vampire's Ball for November 27, 2010.


Faderhead
From Black Friday [2010, L-Tracks]:
The Moth and the Fire
Destroy Improve Rebuild


iVardensphere
From Bloodwater [2010, Synthetic Sounds]:
Sick
Bloodwater
Grey Walls


cEvin Key
From Music For Cats [1998, Metropolis Records]:
Wind On Small Paws
Meteorite


Skinny Puppy
From The Process [1996, American Recordings]:
Hard Set Head
Amnesia


Cool upcoming shows:


Thursday December 2nd: Front Line Assembly (+ Conjure One) @ Venue
Friday January 14th: Fake Shark Real Zombie (+ Left Spine Down + Ninjaspy + Wrecktals) @ Rickshaw Theatre


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.)

Be aware that things are hectic and it can take a good long while before I get a chance to listen.

There's a Facebook group for the Vampire's Ball.

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

As always, thanks for listening. Enjoy the show.

Playlist for November 20, 2010

This week was our annual FunDrive at CiTR Radio, so I focussed on Vancouver-launched acts [even moreso than usual] and how CiTR has helped launch local artists.

Thanks to my donors!

Here's what I played tonight:


Images In Vogue
From Images In Vogue [1983, WEA]:
For Germans
Breaking Up


Skinny Puppy
From Censor [1988, Nettwerk]:
Censor [Ext. Mix]
Punk In Park Zoo's


Cyberaktif
From Nothing Stays [1990, Wax Trax!]:
Black + White
Nothing Stays


Hilt
From Get Stuck [1989, Nettwerk]:
Get Stuck [Ext. Mix]
Septic [Remix]


cEvin Key
From The Ghost of Each Room [2001, Metropolis Records]:
15th Shade
Sklang


Doubting Thomas
From The Infidel (Special Edition 20 Year Anniversary) [2007, Sub-Conscious Communications]:
Make Me Laugh
Blink and It's Gone
Love Somebody


Download
From Sidewinder [1996, SPV]:
Chalice
IM5


Podcast part 1 of the Vampire's Ball for November 20, 2010.


Mixed set:

"Krenkel" - Plateau from Dutch Flowers [1997, Sub-Conscious Communications]
"Where" - Phil Western from 4am [2007, The Record Company]


"Lusid" - ohGr from Welt [2001, Spitfire Records]
"Stormy" - Jakalope from Things That Go Jump in the Night [2010, 604 Records]
"Innocente [Falling in Love] - Deep Dish Gladiator UK Edit" - Delerium from Remixed: The Definitive Collection [2010, Nettwerk]


"Vexation" - Front Line Assembly from Digital Tension Dementia [1988, Third Mind Records]
"Reset [Maqlu Mix]" - Left Spine Down from Smartbomb 2.3: The Underground Mixes [2009, Synthetic Sounds]
"Industrial Metal Disco" - Stiff Valentine from Industrial Metal Disco [2009, Traffik Records]


"Running For the Razors" - Fake Shark Real Zombie from Meeting People Is Terrible [2010, self-released]
"Ultraviolence [Radio Edit]" - Post Death Soundtrack
"March On" - Maqlu from Black [2010, self-released]


"Family [Broken Remix]" - Friday Mortimer & the Beautiful Monsters
"Out of Order" - Gore-Tek from Sick Machine [2006, Itsalive Network Enterprises]
"Respect" - M13


"Aorta/Jugular/Krishna" - Hellenkeller from Demonstration [1999, 20rm Recordings]
"Blue Light, Black Candle" - Numb from Numb [1987, Edge Records]


"Sweet Nothings" - Moev from Dusk and Desire [1986, Nettwerk]
"All That's Needed" - Kooper Kain from Turning Cities to Salt [2004]
"Parish" - The Hope Slide from The Hope Slide [2010, self-released]
"One Last Binge" - Frederick


"Underneath" - The Thick of It from First Day of Death [2010, self-released]


Podcast part 2 of the Vampire's Ball for November 20, 2010.


Cool upcoming shows:

Thursday December 2nd: Front Line Assembly (+ Conjure One) @ Venue
Friday January 14th: Fake Shark Real Zombie (+ Left Spine Down + Ninjaspy + Wrecktals) @ Rickshaw Theatre


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.)

Be aware that things are hectic and it can take a good long while before I get a chance to listen.

There's a Facebook group for the Vampire's Ball.

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

As always, thanks for listening. Enjoy the show.

Playlist for November 13, 2010

I was lucky enough to get in a brief interview with En Esch and Mona Mur during the Slick Idiot vs. Mona Mur and En Esch show the other night in Vancouver. They're playing several dates across Canada in the next week or so, go check 'em out!

Here's what I played tonight:


Mixed in with the interview segments:

Slick Idiot
From Sucksess [2009, Itchy Records]:
I.I.W.I.I.
Mona Mur and En Esch
From 120 Tage - The Fine Art of Beauty and Violence [2010, Artoffact]:
120 Tage
The Thin Red Line
Slick Idiot
From Dicknity [2001, Itchy Records]:
It Won't Do
From Sucksess [2009, Itchy Records]:
Die Schabe [Halb und Halb] Mona Mur Remix
From Dicknity [2001, Itchy Records]:
Merci Beaucoup


Front Line Assembly
From Improvised Electronic Device [2010, Metropolis Records]:
Downfall


Psyche
From Thundershowers [1985, Mass Production]:
Thundershowers [Extended Mix]
Lead Me Astray [Magnum Mix]


Moev
From Wanting 12" [1987, Nettwerk]:
Wanting [Remix]
From Alibis 12" [1984, Nettwerk]:
Alibis
From Yeah Whatever 12" [1988, Nettwerk]:
Yeah Whatever [Extended Remix]


Jakalope
From Born4 [2006, The Orange Record Company]:
Instigator
From Things That Go Jump in the Night [2010, 604 Records]:
No Shame
Stormy


Podcast part 1 of the Vampire's Ball for November 13, 2010.


Fake Shark Real Zombie
From Meeting People Is Terrible [2010, self-released]:
Six Sick Suck
Running For the Razors
Puke Rawk


Raggedy Angry
From How I Learned to Love Our Robot Overlords [2010, Synthetic Sounds]:
Sick Thoughts
My Escape
Superjet



Chemlab
From East Side Militia [1996, Invisible Records]:
Jesus Chris Porno Star
Pyromance
Pink


Mixed set:

"Houston" - Faderhead from Trilogy [2010, L-Tracks]
"Why Me?" - The Art of Noise with Max Headroom from Paranoimia [1986, Chrysalis Records]
"Martyr" - Maqlu from Black [2010, self-released]
"Massive Retaliation" - Sigue Sigue Sputnik
from Flaunt It [1986, EMI]
"Rosegarden Funeral of Sores" - Bauhaus from In the Flat Field [1980, 4AD]
"Death of a Curbcrawler" - Copyright from The Hidden World [2001, Vik Recordings]
"Lamb of God" - Marilyn Manson from Holy Wood: In the Shadow of the Valley of Death [2000, Nothing/Interscope]


Numb
From Numb [1987, Edge Records]:
God Is Dead
Eat Me
Lies
Guilt


Skinny Puppy
From Cleanse, Fold and Manipulate [1987, Nettwerk]:
First Aid
Addiction
Shadow Cast
Draining Faces
The Mourn


Podcast part 2 of the Vampire's Ball for November 13, 2010.


This week's post-show mix CD was Mix CD 10.


Cool upcoming shows:

Thursday November 25th: Hello World @ Waldorf Hotel
Thursday December 2nd: Front Line Assembly (+ Conjure One) @ Venue
Wednesday January 5th: Maqlu (+ Frederick + Friday Mortimer & the Beautiful Monsters) @ Media Club
Friday January 14th: Fake Shark Real Zombie (+ Left Spine Down + Ninjaspy + Wrecktals) @ Rickshaw Theatre


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.)

Be aware that things are hectic and it can take a good long while before I get a chance to listen.

There's a Facebook group for the Vampire's Ball.

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

As always, thanks for listening. Enjoy the show.