Category Archives: rock

#182

January 20, 2015

There are plenty of Gulls Window Circus shows that start off or have a few rock songs buried within – this show flips that and has 2 non-rock songs at the start, before progressing to a rock show, with highlights such as Pajama Slave Dancers America cover, a 1973 Foghat track (classic!), a 1975 Pavlov’s Dog track, then to 1977, Mink Deville exhibiting the wide-reaching sounds of NYC CBGB ground zero, and 1981 LA with Gleaming Spires (bassist and drummer of ‘Whomp That Sucker’-era Sparks), then to 1984 late period Edward Ball (The Times).

Breaking Circus

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Artist Song Release Label
Disco Deviance Zulu Nation (Eddie C Edit) Digital Deviance Vol. 4 Disco Deviance
Soul Liberation Who Is Your Friend Muro Diggin’ Ubiquity Ultra-Vybe
ImpLOG On Broadway Holland Tunnel Dive Dark Entries
Timmy’s Organism Sadness Walks Singles & Unreleased Tracks Hozac
Pajama Slave Dancers Horse With No Name Cheap Is Real Pajamarama
Mink Deville She’s So Tough Cabretta Capital
Keith Richards Make No Mistake Talk Is Cheap Virgin
Dinosaurs Mona Dinosaurs Relix
Breaking Circus (Knife In The) Marathon The Very Long Fuse Homestead

Artist Song Release Label
Breaking Circus (Knife In The) Marathon The Very Long Fuse Homestead
The Times Blue Fire Hello Europe Artpop!
Pavlov’s Dog Natchez Trace Pampered Menial ABC
Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel 49th Parallel The best years of our lives EMI
Iggy Pop Turn Blue lust for life 4 Men With Beards
Foghat Long way to go Drivin’ Wheels RAVEN
Gleaming Spires Going Hey Hey Songs of the Spires Futurismo
Devo Smart Patrol / Mr. DNA Miracle Witness Hour Futurismo

#180

January 6, 2015

Holger Czukay project Les Vampyrettes, Seattle 1988 band Vampire Lezbos from the highly-overlooked Soul Jazz comp ‘No Seattle – Forgotten Sounds Of The North-West Grunge Era 1986-97’ (+ 3 more tracks, including shoegaze from Kill Sybil), more shoegaze from Japanese band The Beauty from their only and only release in 2012, Sunshine Jones re-edit of 1975 Jefferson Starship – there is a lot here to love: dig in!

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Artist Song Release Label
New Age Steppers The Worst of Me Love Forever on-u sound
Siria Mingua De Acai Mestre Cupijo E Seu Ritmo Analog Africa
Carlo Lamartine & Águias Reais Bazooka Angola, Soundtrack 2 (Hypnosis, Distortions & Other Sonic Innovations
1969-1978)
Analog Africa
Family Fodder Film Music Schizophrenia Party (Director’s Cut) Staubgold
Luke Wyatt Time for Thick Teen Hawk Emotional Response
Les Vampyrettes Biomutanten Les Vampyrettes Groenland Records
Vampire Lezbos Stop Killing the Seals Soul Jazz Records Presents No Seattle: Forgotten Sounds of the North-West
Grunge Era 1986-97
Soul Jazz Records
Chemistry Set Fields Soul Jazz Records Presents No Seattle: Forgotten Sounds of the North-West
Grunge Era 1986-97
Soul Jazz Records
Pod 123 Soul Jazz Records Presents No Seattle: Forgotten Sounds of the North-West
Grunge Era 1986-97
Soul Jazz Records
Kill Sybil Best Soul Jazz Records Presents No Seattle: Forgotten Sounds of the North-West
Grunge Era 1986-97
Soul Jazz Records

Artist Song Release Label
Kill Sybil Best Soul Jazz Records Presents No Seattle: Forgotten Sounds of the North-West
Grunge Era 1986-97
Soul Jazz Records
The Beauty Breathing Memories Love In the Heart of the World Shout Crue-L Records
Floating Points Nuits Sonores Nuits Sonores Eglo Records
ChannelXXX Rio MF Edits Golf Channel
Sunshine Jones Miracles (Sunshine Jones re edit) Heaven Whiskey Disco
Late Nite Tuff Guy Love Is Tuff Cut #6 Tuff Cut

#175

November 4, 2014

Brooklyn trio Archie Pelago start off with a chilled jazzy track. Biologia (Joe Nunez) give us a modern disco track from their sole release, a 7″. Rx (a collaboration between Benedek and Delroy Edwards) continue with boogie sounds, as do Amsterdam, Netherlands based L33. At that point we start a good and proper rock show with some high-tailed glam (Brett Smiley, Bonnie St. Claire, Apple Pie & Custard), some NYC goodness (The Brats, ImpLOG, Chandra ), German pop on the awesome Firestation Tower label (Hot Rain, Monostars, The Vermont Sugar House, Shy) and who-knows-where-from reggae artist Sheila Rickards – there has been a private detective trying to find her and a documentary about it filmed but not released.

impLOG

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Artist Song Release Label
Archie Pelago The House of Haab Mister Saturday Night – Brothers and Sisters Mister Saturday Night Records
Al Tone Edits Number 4 C’s Lead Al Tone Edits
Biologia Nite Lite Nite Lite Cherries Records
Rx Strung Out Strung Out Peoples Potential Unlimited
L33 & Sven Atterton Sunset Sunset Omega Supreme Records
Brett Smiley Va Va Voom Va Va Voom Sing Sing
Bonnie St. Claire Clap Your Hands And Stomp Your Feet Glam-O-Rama Volume 1 Kiss Kiss
The Brats Be A Man Be A Man Hozac
Apple Pie & Custard Dr. Fantastic Glam-O-Rama Volume 1 Kiss Kiss
Wild Billy Chyldish & CTMF Zero Emission Punk Rock Enough for Me Damaged Goods
The Swimming Pool Q’s The A-bomb Woke Me Up Rat Bait Chlorinated
Gruppo Sportivo Girls Never Know More Mistakes Sire
ImpLOG She Creatures Breakfast LOG. Records

Artist Song Release Label
ImpLOG She Creatures Breakfast LOG. Records
The Jellies The Conversation The Conversation Emotional Rescue
The Sleepers Linda Seventh World Superior Viaduct
The Pop Group She Is Beyond Good and Evil (Alternative Version) Cabinet Of Curiosities Freaks R Us
Hot Rain Maybe That’s Life Why Couldn’t It Be This Way Firestation Tower
Monostars Dresden Neustadt 2 Dresden Neustadt 2 Firestation Tower
The Vermont Sugar House Braveheart Braveheart Firestation Tower
Shy Theme From A Summer Place Theme From A Summer Place Firestation Tower
Chandra Kate Transportation Cantor Records
Sheila Rickards Jamaican Fruit of African Roots Jamaican Fruit of African Roots
Uglyink Watch Out! (Inkwell’s Raw Dub) Watch Out! CFRLTD

#173

October 21, 2014

The first hour is a mostly-rock show, with a Stones cover by Pagans, then soon-after ‘Ode To a Stone’ from the Soul Jazz comp ‘Inner City Beat! Detective Themes, Spy Music And Imaginary Thrillers’. O’ Level and Jook keep us on track before we switch genres with the excellent Quad Throw Salchow track. The second hour is an electronic show. The second hour starts off with African artist but then moves to Quilla’s magical track in the Ricardo Villalobos remix form. I especially like the Solid State track near the end.

O Level

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Artist Song Release Label
Tosca Outta Here Outta Here !K7 Records
Game Theory Another Wasted Afternoon Blaze of Glory Omnivore Recordings
James Williamson & Carolyn Wonderland Open Up and Bleed Open Up and Bleed Leopard Lady
Pagans Heart Of Stone Whats This Shit? 1977/1979 Thermionic
Davie Allan & the Arrows Theme from Thunder Alley devil’s rumble
Reg Tilsley Ode To a Stone Inner City Beat: Detective Themes, Spy Music and Imaginary Thrillers
1967-1977
Soul Jazz Records
Moebius & Plank Conditionierer Kollektion 01: Sky Records compiled by Tim Gane Bureau B
‘O’ Level Many Unhappy Returns Pseudo Punk Munster
Jook Alright With Me Jook Rule Sing Sing
Quad Throw Salchow Unwelcome Guest Notwave. Rong

Artist Song Release Label
Orlando Julius with the Heliocentrics Omo Oba Blues Jaiyede Afro (with the Heliocentrics) Strut
Quilla A Million Broken Bikes (Ricardo Villalobos & Shaun Reeves remix) Beautiful Hybrid Remix Project Part One Visionquest
Tom Of England Cambridge Man Cambridge Man STD Production
Pacific Horizons Bandini (Frisvold & Lindbæk Remix) Remixes EP Pacific Wizard Foundation
Solid State Eddie’s Out Dry Ice All Out War
Sound Stream 3rd Movement Freakin’ Sound Stream

#172

October 14, 2014

This originally aired as a pledge show on WZBC. It is a rock show in the beginning, a hip hop show at the end. The show starts with 1980 Don Christensen (drummer in The Contortions) as ImpLOG, then 1967 David Bowie covering Velvet Underground. James Williamson covers a 1977 Stooges gem with Austin TX artist Carolyn Wonderland, then two NYC bands come next. In the second hour, 7″s from the Originals label are sandwiched by an Athens Of The North 7″ at the start and the 1983 Bileo track at the end.

Originals - DivineForce

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Artist Song Release Label
ImpLOG Breakfast Breakfast LOG.
The Riot Squad Waiting For My Man The Toy Soldier EP Acid Jazz
James Williamson & Carolyn Wonderland Gimme Some Skin Open Up and Bleed Leopard Lady
Konk Soka Loka Moki Soka Loka Moki 99
Snatch All I Want When I’m Bored Lightning
Sadar Bahar Soul Searching Angel Man Sounds Familiar
Herbie Hancock Just Around The Corner (edit) Twilight Clone Boogie Down
Nova Nova & Peter Hook Low Ends (Thierry Criscione Reconstructed Balearic remix) Low Ends (Part 2) Atal
Stevie Wonder Outta Site (Kan Sano remix) Outta Site Razor-N-Tape
Split Decision Band Watchin’ Out Watchin’ Out Athens Of The North

Artist Song Release Label
Split Decision Band Watchin’ Out Watchin’ Out Athens Of The North
The Meters Same Old Thing Same Old Thing Originals
Pete Rock & CL Smooth Good Life Same Old Thing Originals
Syl Johnson Different Strokes Different Strokes Originals
Divine Force My Uptown Beat Different Strokes Originals
Cymande Bra Bra Originals
Gang Starr Movin’ On Bra Originals
James Brown Make It Good To Yourself Make It Good To Yourself Originals
Percee P Lung Collapsing Lyrics Make It Good To Yourself Originals
Brentford All Stars Greedy G Greedy G Originals
BDP Jack Of Spades Greedy G Originals
Maceo and The Macks Parrty Parrty Originals
Gang Starr Who’s Gonna Take The Weight Parrty Originals
Bileo You Can Win You Can Win Watts City