ROCKITTOTHEMOON

Sélection musicale et commentaires par Glen Johnson de Piano Magic.

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1. Here Comes Everybody / The Wake
"One of those bands on Factory Records that were destined to be overshadowed by the bigger names but ’Here Comes Everybody’ is like an oil rainbow in a Manchester puddle on a hot Summers day. Absolute dream pop."

2. The Perfect Murder / The Glove
"Robert Smith + Steve Severin + a bag of acid = one the best, most psychedelic albums of the 80s. It’s like Alice In Wonderland done by Passolini. "

3. Passionless, Pointless / PJ Harvey & John Parish
"PJ Harvey gets better and better with time. Her last two records are simply blinding. Her emotions couldn’t be rawer if you could physically see her nerve endings."

4. Something Against You / The Pixies
"I’ve come back to The Pixies recently, particularly to tracks like this that burn your cranium. I never liked them much beyond the Surfer Rosa but their energy is absolutely undeniable."

5. Mallo Cup / The Lemonheads
"I liked The Lemonheads when they still had one foot in the US hardcore scene and one foot in this proto-"emo-core." Like Dinosaur Jr, they seemed to be in touch with their feminine side as much as with their pig."

6. Too Happy / Tracey Thorn
"This solo album by the Everything But The Girl singer touches me so deeply that I couldn’t bear to hear the more recent follow-up. It reminds me of being in love at college in the late 80’s - that first gush of desperate adoration for someone."

7. All Your Women Things / Smog
On a good day, my favourite songwriters and this, one of the simplest songs imaginable is the perfect showcase of poetry over ability. You don’t need to be a technician to make music. You just need heart.

8. Game & Performance / Deux
"Brendan Perry from Dead Can Dance introduced me to this, from the excellent Bippp compilation of obscure early 80’s French synthpop. I had it on repeat for weeks but don’t really know why I find it so magical. Just the overall mood of it, I guess."

9. Here (Demo) / Vashti Bunyan
"I just love Vashti. I can’t say anymore than that."

10. Over and Over / Disco Inferno
"I hate using the term but they simply were the most under-rated group of modern times. Chronically ignored by the masses who didn’t know what was good for them. Innovative, emotional, intelligent pop music. This is the way things should’ve gone."

Glen.

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Podcast réalisé par Sleepyard. Commentaires par Oliver.
Un grand merci à eux.

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1. The beginning / Sun Ra
"A nifty little opening from Sun Ra and his groundbreaking Futuristic sounds of Sun Ra"

2. Busy doing nothing / The Beach Boys
"This is one of my favorite Beach boys songs. Written by Brian Wilson for the Friends album (1968) It is so catchy and strange at the same time. A little bossanova about having not too much to do. He even gives directions to his house ! he must be bored.."

3. Pandoras golden heebies jeebies / The Association
"This underrated 60`s band had some of the greatest harmonies of its era and also had a great knack at writing pop songs. This however is not one of them. This is one of the most powerful psychedelic songs ever."

4. Inner space : sound of the deep / Sven Libaek
"Norway`s lost treasure. Not even well known here. He wrote film music in the US for Hanna-Barbara and lots of nature films."

5. Mr Songbird / The Kinks
"One of my favorite Kinks songs. It is an outtake from their masterpiece ’We are the Village Green Preservation society’. Ray Davies sounds a bit like Paul McCartney on his vocals."

6. Jungfrau - Virgo R1 / Karl Heinz Stockhausen
"When i first heard this track, i did feel a strange feeling of Deja vu. It is very lovely and melancholic with its cluckenspiel. I did get permission from the composer to do a version of this and i am hoping to do a version this year with an orchestra."

7. Mr Farmer / The Seeds
"The Seeds were such a great band. If there ever was a pre punk band, The Seeds were it. Making really cool music and grooves with their limited musical skills. Sky Saxon was a beautiful frontman who wrote quite strange lyrics at times. We are going to contribute a song to a tribute album for Sky."

8. Pick it up / Freelovebabies
"This song is by Will Caruthers former bassplayer in Spacemen 3. It really blew me away how melodic his songs are, perhaps even surpassing his former peers. This song is the most beautiful on the album. Really cool vibe and great singing."

9. Je suis venu te dire que je m’en vais / Serge Gainsbourg
"We love Serge !"

10. Heimat klange / Kraftwerk
"This is one of Kraftwerks earlier songs from Ralf und Florian. I love Kraftwerk, but i prefer their earlier works. This one feature serene flute with lots of delay from Florian Schneider. They create something that has a very feeling of HOME."

11. AP special / Augustus Pablo
"AP Special is my favorite tune by Augustus Pablo. Wonderful trippy production."

12. Hungarian sketches : an evening in the village / Bela Bartok
"This is so beautiful. Cannot be described in words."

13. Big black car / Big Star
"Favorite Big star song. This is a wonderful song about escapism and Big, black car is a great metaphor for that. The track is from their best album (though it was not released before much later) Sister/lovers. The feeling is so mellow you just want to flow away with the song."

14. Then I just drifted away / Spectrum
"Sonic Boom at his best. Perfect production of a dream."

15. ’Till the following night / Screaming Lord Sutch
"Screaming Lord Sutch is the original Alice Cooper. He was singing horror rock in the early 60`s and dressed as an undertaker, scaring the teenie crowd. This song is produced by legendary producer Joe Meek. Mr Meek recorded the intro of the song on a graveyard late at night, which definitely sets the chilling tone for the song before the blood curling scream that kicks it all down with the meanest groove ever."

16. Deluxe (immer wieder) / Harmonia
"This is one of my favorite Krautrock tracks (sorry germans, you are stuck with the term). Great motorik groove and beautiful, blissed out guitar by Michael Rother."

Oliver.

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For this podcast, I decided to focus on local music from my hometown of Chicago. This mix is obviously not comprehensive, rather I tried to limit my selections to the more "out sounds" of the city. So this is a tiny portion of examples of Chicago sounds created by experimental musicians, i.e. electro-acoustic, ambient, noise, free-jazz, improvised, free-folk, etc. I found that I had to narrow down selections even when limiting my reach to this small corner of the city’s music scene, especially when it came to musicians that create long-form pieces like Haptic, Brent Gutzeit, Illusion of Safety, TV Pow etc. I also didn’t want to have too many tracks from one sub-genre (I could have devoted the whole podcast to artists from the fertile Free Jazz scene). I’m sure there are many that I forgot to include, others that I don’t know about and still those that I only have music by on the vinyl format (I don’t have the means to make digital files from LP’s) but this is a sample of what I have in my digital collection of music from Chicago.

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1. Equus Haar : Spires That In The Sunset Rise (Curse The Traced Bird Secret Eye, 2009)
2. Hail To Thee, Malthusia : Baker/ Hunt/ Sandstrom / Williams - Extraordinary Popular Delusions (Okkadisk, 2008)
3. Three Henries VI : Pillow - Three Henries (Hapna, 2001)
4. Cloudy : Kevin Drumm - Sheer Hellish Miasma (Mego, 2002)
5. Live recording : Scott Tuma & Jason Ajemian - Live at 3030 (unreleased, 2003)
6. Both Literally and Figuratively : Pan•American - White Bird Release (Kranky, 2009)
7. Used to be a guy : Male / All Are Welcome (Other Electricities, 2009)
8. Obsolete Elegy in Cast Concrete : Locrian - Drenched Lands (At War With False Noise, 2009)
9. MudSaltCrystalsRocksWater : The Zoo Wheel - First Born, Grand Days (Lucky Kitchen, 2004)
10. Night Bear : Ill Professor / The Miracle of Luck - Plustapes (upcoming, 2010)
11. Thème de l’Amour Universel : Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Les Stances a Sophie (Universal Sound, 1970)
12. Fading Cold : Boxhead Ensemble - The Last Place to Go (Atavistic, 1998)
13. Signposts (For Lee Friedlander) : Vandermark - Beat Reader (Atavistic, 2008)
14. 5th One Is The Dark : Mako Sica / Dual Horizon - La Société Expéditionnaire (upcoming, 2010)
15. Heisenberg Boulevard : Neil Jendon - Grand Omega Minus (unreleased, 2005)

Fin d’année rime avec Grande Vadrouille, foie gras, champagne, grand mère, cadeaux, bêtisiers en tout genre ET classement ou "top". On ne pouvait échapper à la règle.

Voilà les albums et EP qui nous ont fait vibrer cette année. Pas d’ordre particulier : 11 albums et 7 EP, la dream team. J’en profite pour introduire Laure (oui, une fille) qui rejoint l’équipe rock it to the moon. 2010 sera féminin et gnangnan (elle a failli caser Phoenix).

Fuck Buttons - Tarot sport
HTRK - Marry me tonight
Real Estate - s/t
Atlas Sound - Logos
Zelienople - Give it up
Subway - Subway II
Kings of Convenience - Declaration of dependance
Ben Frost - By the Throat
Broadcast & The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age
Animal Collective - Merriweather post pavilion
The Warlocks - The mirror explodes

Epic45 - In all the empty houses
Spacemen 3 / Wooden Shjips - Big city (demo) / I believe it (Spacemen 3 cover)
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Smoking acid EP / the "ONE" EP
Spectrum - War Sucks EP
Animal Collective - Fall be kind
Olafur Arnalds - Found songs
Deerhunter - Rainwater cassette exchange

ET AUSSI !!!!!!!!!

LE Podcast 2009 Rock it to the moon Notre compilation de l’année (pas forcément des morceaux issus de ce top d’ailleurs, on aime vous surprendre).

Podcast Rockittothemoon

1. Spectrum - War sucks
2. Lotus Plaza - Sunday night
3. Best Coast - Sun Was High (So Was I)
4. Sin Fang Bous - Carry Me Up To Smell Pine
5. Sleepyard - Saturation
6. Girls - Lust for life
7. The Mantles - Don’t lie
8. Dan Deacon - Snookered
9. Animal Collective - Daily Routine (Phaseone Remix)
10. Gus Gus - Add This Song
11. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Tempo 116.7 [Reaching for Dangerous Levels of Sobriety]
12. Papercuts - Future Primitive
13. Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse - Everytime I’m With You (feat. Jason Lytle)
14. Glen Johnson - My Horror Mask
15. Hannu - Valtameri
16. Tim Hecker - Sea of Pulses

A bientot

Jérome, Boog, Laure (un peu), Pierre.