Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Episode #53 - Ends of the Earth

1. Song: The Universe Is Designed to Break Your Heart , Artist: Burning Star Core , Album: Blood Lightning 2007 (No Fun Productions)
2. Song: Your Beauty Is a Carwreck, I Do Concur , Artist: As the Sun Sets , Album: 8949 (Trash Art!)
3. Song: Round Trip Ticket On a One Way Express , Artist: Noggin , Album: Inspected by Nekrase (Endsound)
4. Song: Kehaar , Artist: Valet , Album: Naked Acid (Kranky)
5. Song: You Injured Me , Artist: HTRK , Album: Nostalgia (Fire)
6. Song: Night Bus , Artist: Burial , Album: Burial (Hyperdub)
7. Song: Track 3 , Artist: Formication , Album: Agnosia (Dark Winter)
8. Song: At All Ends , Artist: Yellow Swans , Album: At All Ends (Load)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #53 2008-1-26

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Saturday, January 19, 2008

Episode #52 - Drums of War

1. Song: Trace Essential , Artist: Jon Mueller , Album: Metals (Table of the Elements)
  • Three long tracks of tribal drumming and impending doom from Jon Mueller (Pele, Telecognac, Collections of Colonies of Bees, Raccoons). The name of the albums says it all. Love the buildup and silences between drum hits on the opening track, and the fade into nothingness at the end. Perfect for the end of the world.

2. Song: Tomorrow Is So Far Away , Artist: Chromatics , Album: Night Drive (Italians Do It Better)
3. Song: Whereweleftoff (Fortune Cookie Rmx by Atom) , Artist: Kid 606 , Album: PS I Dub Ya E.P. (Force Lab)
4. Song: After Nature , Artist: Eluvium , Album: Copia (Temporary Residence)
5. Song: Protect Me You , Artist: Sonic Youth , Album: Confusion Is Sex (SST)
6. Song: You Thought I Was Dead , Artist: Videohippos , Album: Unbeast the Leash (Monitor)
7. Song: Meditations In B Part V & VI , Artist: Old Man Gloom , Album: Seminar II: The Holy Rites of Primitivism Regressionism (Hydra Head)
8. Song: Hate Rock Trio , Artist: HTRK , Album: Nostalgia (Fire)
9. Song: Cold , Artist: The Cure , Album: Pornography (Elektra)
10. Song: Cleanse , Artist: Neurosis , Album: Enemy of the Sun (Alternative Tentacles)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #52 2008-1-19

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Monday, January 14, 2008

Episode #51 - None More Black

1. Song: Mantis , Artist: Agoraphobic Nosebleed , Album: The Poacher Diaries (Relapse)
2. Song: Sonata McGrath , Artist: Cave In , Album: Creative Eclipses (Hydra Head)
3. Song: Black On Black and So Much Class , Artist: As the Sun Sets , Album: 8949 (Trash Art!)
  • Pre-Daughters grindcore band from Providence, Rhode Island, with a bit rawer sound than Daughters. Aside from the singer, bassist, and drummer (who went on to form Daughters), other one-time members ended up in bands Bury Your Dead , She Rides (formerly known as Playgirl), and fellow Rhode Islanders (Pawtucket, to be exact) Suffering Bastard.

4. Song: Flood , Artist: Neurosis , Album: Sovereign (Neurot)

  • EP that was Neurosis' first release on their own label, and produced by Steve Albini to boot.

5. Song: The Lewdness and Frenzy of Surrender , Artist: Tusk , Album: The Resisting Dreamer (Hydra Head)
6. Song: Seeing You Off the Edges , Artist: Eluvium , Album: Copia (Temporary Residence)
7. Song: Don't Dream It , Artist: Jesu , Album: Pale Sketches (Avalanche)
8. Song: Track 1 , Artist: Formication , Album: Agnosia (Dark Winter)
9. Song: PS I Love You (Autobahn Rmx by Rechenzentrum) , Artist: Kid 606 , Album: PS I Dub Ya E.P. (Force Lab)
10. Song: Dog Shelter , Artist: Burial , Album: Untrue (Hyperdub)
11. Song: When Acting As a Particle , Artist: Dillinger Escape Plan , Album: Ire Works (Wea/Relapse)
12. Song: Maaneskyggens Slave , Artist: Gorgoroth , Album: Pentagram (Century Media)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #51 2008-1-12

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Monday, January 7, 2008

Episode #50 - Death Ray

1. Song: Pentascam Constellation , Artist: Agoraphobic Nosebleed , Album: The Poacher Diaries (Relapse)
  • Split album with Converge.

2. Song: Track 2 , Artist: Formication , Album: Agnosia (Dark Winter)

  • Five-track (all untitled) album of minimalist ambient noise from the Dark Winter net label.

3. Song: Spirale Malax , Artist: Lard Free , Album: III / Spirale Malax (Spalax)

  • Progressive French band from the '70s Lard Free (terrible band name) serves up this jazz/krautrock mess, along with the four-part "Synthetic Seasons" on their third album.

4. Song: Wash It All Away , Artist: Jesu , Album: Pale Sketches (Avalanche)

  • Collection of unreleased Jesu tracks from 2000-2007 released on Jesu's own label.

5. Song: Scarlet , Artist: Unearthly Trance , Album: The Trident (Relapse)
6. Song: The Last Seed , Artist: Sightings , Album: Arrived In Gold (Load)
7. Song: Sonata Brodsky , Artist: Cave In , Album: Creative Eclipses (Hydra Head)
8. Song: Bound to the Wheel , Artist: Long Live Death , Album: Secret Eye Sampler 2005 (Secret Eye)
9. Song: Headhunter , Artist: High On Fire , Album: Death Is This Communion (Relapse)
10. Song: Mandied (Self Reborn) , Artist: Old Man Gloom , Album: Seminar II: The Holy Rites of Primitivism Regressionism (Hydra Head)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #50 2008-1-5

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