New John Carpenter!

Absolutely nothing for the past year or so has gotten me as excited as the new John Carpenter record, out February 3rd. You bet your ass I pre-ordered it immediately. Eye-tunes apparently has a version with many remixes from people I admire (Zola Jesus, ohGr, JG Thirwell), but I hate how Apple does business so I just picked it up on vinyl like a normal, rational fanatic. But I thought I'd pass the info along.

Anyway, this episode is mostly synth-driven atmospheric stuff, with a dash of prog for that authentic retro feel.

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John Carpenter - Halloween (Halloween OST - 1978)
Goblin - Profondo Rosso (Deep Red OST - 1975)
Zombie Zombie (feat. Roman Turzi) - Assault on Precinct 13 (Zombie Zombie Plays John Carpenter - 2010)
Chromatics - Killing Spree (Night Drive - 2007)

Geoff Barrow & Ben Salisbury - Lawmaker / Pursuit (Drokk: Music Inspired by Mega-City One - 2012)
Geoff Barrow & Ben Salisbury - Helmet Theme (Drokk: Music Inspired by Mega-City One -2012)
John Carpenter - Night (Lost Themes - 2015)
John Carpenter - Vortex (Lost Themes - 2015)

Padded Cell - Beautiful Gloom (Night Must Fall - 2008)
Blouse - Ghost Dream (Blouse - 2012)
Holy Other - Yr Love (With U - 2011)
oOoOO - Seaww (Emotions split 7" - 2010)

Soft Moon - Into the Depths (Soft Moon - 2010)
Soft Metals - Interobserver (Lenses - 2013)

In the ultimate tribute to John Carpenter, the band Zombie Zombie created this amazing short film/music video tribute to The Thing. It is FANTASTIC. There is no excuse for not pressing the play button:

Postcard from a Small Town

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Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy (Age of Consent - 1984)
Eurythmics - Here Comes the Rain Again (Touch - 1983)
Thompson Twins - Doctor! Doctor! (Into the Gap - 1984)
Tears for Fears - Watch Me Bleed (The Hurting - 1983)

Soft Cell - Frustration (Non Stop Erotic Cabaret - 1981)
Depeche Mode - Something to Do (Some Great Reward - 1984)
Ramones - I Just Want to Have Something to Do (Road to Ruin - 1978)
Echo & the Bunnymen - Rescue (Crocodiles - 1980)
The Smiths - Nowhere Fast (Meat is Murder - 1985)

Psychedelic Furs - Book of Days (Book of Days - 1989)
New Order - Elegia (Low-Life - 1985)
Japan - Burning Bridges (Gentlemen Take Polaroids - 1980)
Duran Duran - Edge of America (Big Thing - 1988)
Yaz - Winter Kills (Upstairs at Eric's - 1982)

Bonus video time!
Jimmy Somerville performs a stripped-down, acoustic piano version of "Smalltown Boy" in 2014:

Cigarette Traces

A (very) brief Roxy retrospective. Contemporaries, influences, solo projects.

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Roxy Music - Ladytron (Roxy Music - 1971)
Brian Eno - Mother Whale Eyeless (Taking Tiger Mountain - 1974)
Mott the Hoople - Sweet Jane (Velvet Underground Cover) (All the Young Dudes - 1972)
David Bowie - Look Back in Anger (Lodger - 1979)

Roxy Music - While My Heart is Still Beating (Avalon - 1982)
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Sea Breezes (Roxy Music cover) (Through the Looking Glass - 1987)
Japan - Despair (Quiet Life - 1979)
Duran Duran - Tiger Tiger (Seven and the Ragged Tiger - 1983)

Rozz Williams & Gitane Demone - In Every Dream Home A Heartache (Roxy Music cover) (Dream Home Heartache - 1995)
Ultravox - Hiroshima Mon Amour (Ha! Ha! Ha! - 1977)
Bryan Ferry - Loop De Li (Avonmore - 2014)
Bryan Ferry - Avonmore (Avonmore - 2014)

Bonus Link Time!
Learn about Antony Price, the designer who tailored for Roxy Music, David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Annie Lennox, Duran Duran, and more!

Remembering the Future

This episode features songs dealing primarily with technology, simulation, and authenticity. It's co-hosted by Heather, a text-to-speech program.

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David Bowie - Saviour Machine (The Man Who Sold the World - 1970)
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Metal Postcard (Scream - 1978)
Joy Division - Isolation (Closer - 1980)
Kraftwerk - The Man Machine (The Man Machine - 1978)

Depeche Mode - Photographic (Speak & Spell - 1981)
Ultravox - Mr. X (Vienna - 1980)
John Foxx - A New Kind of Man (Metamatic - 1980)
Gary Numan & Tubeway Army - We Have a Technical (Replicas - 1979)

Orchestral Manoevres in the Dark - The Future Will Be Silent (English Electric - 2013)
Pet Shop Boys - Minimal (Fundamental - 2006)
Visage - Lost in Static (Hearts & Knives - 2013)
Duran Duran - Blame the Machines (All You Need is Now - 2011)

Image by Hideaki Kodama, 1987.

Four O'Clock Sunsets

Sorry nothing's been posted in the last few weeks. I've been pre-empted by games and taken the time to work on homework. That time of year.

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Sea Oleena - To Hold (Shallow - 2014)
Cloakroom - Dream Warden (Lossed Over 7" - 2014)
Overseas - The Sound of Giving Way (Overseas - 2013)
Overseas - Hellp (Overseas - 2013)

Ultimate Painting - Ultimate Painting (Ultimate Painting - 2014)
The Velvet Underground - What Goes On (The Velvet Underground - 1969)
Low - Just Make It Stop (The Invisible Way - 2013)
Dean Wareham - Love Is Not A Roof Against the Rain (Dean Wareham - 2014)

Carla Bozulich - Don't Follow Me (Boy - 2014)
Sun Kil Moon - Richard Ramirez Died Today of Natural Causes (Benji - 2014)
Mamiffer - Flower of the Field (Statu Nascendi - 2014)
Grouper - Clearing (Ruins - 2014)

Marianne Faithfull - Late Victorian Holocaust (Give My Love to London - 2014)

4AD Retrospective

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Bauhaus - Dark Entries (In the Flat Field - 1980)
The Birthday Party - Zoo Music Girl (Prayers on Fire - 1981)
Xmal Deutschland - Incubus Succubus II (Tocsin - 1984)

Cocteau Twins - Ivo (Treasure - 1984)
Dead Can Dance - Carnival of Light (Garden of the Arcane Delights - 1984)
Modern English - After the Snow (After the Snow - 1982)
Clan of Xymox - Muscoviet Musquito (Subsequent Pleasures - 1983)

This Mortal Coil - Song to the Siren (It'll End in Tears - 1984)
Lush - Sweetness and Light (Sweetness and Light EP - 1990)
Pixies - Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf Mix) (Here Comes Your Man - 1989)
The Breeders - Do You Love Me Jr. (Divine Hammer EP - 1992)

Unrest - Teenage Suicide (Isabell Bihshop EP - 1993)
Pale Saints - Hair Shoes (Demo) (Flesh Balloon EP - 1991)
Swallow - Cherry Stars Collide (Blow - 1992)
Mojave 3 - Mercy (Strings Version) (Shoe Pie - 1997)

Check out Martin Aston's new(ish) book detailing the history of 4AD records, Facing the Other Way.

Halloween Special

Have a terror-ific Halloween every body. Here's some titillating tunes for all you groovy ghouls:
Scream or Drownload

Siouxsie & the Banshees - Spellbound (Juju - 1981)
David Vanian & the Phantom Chords - Voodoo Doll (S/T - 2004)
Alien Sex Fiend - I Walk the Line (I Walk the Line 12" - 1986)
45 Grave - Evil (Sleep in Safety - 1983)
Misfits - Ghouls Night Out (3 Hits from Hell - 1981)
The Cramps - GooGoo Muck (Psychedelic Jungle - 1981)
The Frantics - Werewolf (Werewolf 7" - 1960)
Round Robin - I'm the Wolf Man (I'm the Wolf Man 7" - 1965)
Bobby Bare - Vampira (Tender Years - 1965)
The Meteors - Corpse Grinder (Don't Touch the Bang Bang Fruit - 1987)
TSOL - Silent Scream (Dance With Me - 1981)
13th Chime - Coffin Maker (Cuts of Love 7" - 1981)
Bauhaus - Of Lilies and Remains (Mask - 1981)
Tones on Tail - Burning Skies (S/T - 1985)
Dancing Did - Wolves of Worcestershire (And Did Those Feet - 1982)
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Curse of Millhaven (Murder Ballads - 1996)