Saturday, September 29, 2007

Episode #36 - Not In Kansas Anymore

1. Song: Built for Sin , Artist: The Black Dahlia Murder , Album: Miasma (Metal Blade)
2. Song: Death Rides a Horse , Artist: Russian Circles , Album: Enter (Flameshovel)
3. Song: White Cadillacs , Artist: Double Leopards , Album: A Hole is True (Troubleman Unlimited)
4. Song: Smack , Artist: Alec Empire , Album: Generation Star Wars (Mille Plateaux)
5. Song: Ostia (The Death of Pasolini) , Artist: Coil , Album: Horse Rotorvator (Some Bizarre)
6. Song: Panic , Artist: Animal Collective , Album: Here Comes the Indian (Paw Tracks)
7. Song: Dorothy Taps the Toe of the Tinman , Artist: Liars , Album: Atheists, Reconsider (Arena Rock Recording)
  • Split with Oneida.

8. Song: Skin's Getting Weird (Subtitle Remix) , Artist: Kill Me Tomorrow , Album: Skin's Getting Weird (Gold Standard Laboratories)
9. Song: Wild World , Artist: Error , Album: Release the Bats: The Birthday Party as Heard Through the Meat Grinder of Three One G (Three One G)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #36 2007-9-29

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Episode #35 - End Transmission

1. Song: New In Town , Artist: Clockcleaner , Album: Babylon Rules (Load)
2. Song: Mantra 3 , Artist: Merzbow , Album: Merzbuddha (Important)
3. Song: In the Multi-Purpose Room , Artist: East West Blast Test , Album: Popular Music for Unpopular People (Ipecac)
  • Comprised of duo Chris Dodge (No Use for a Name) and Dave Witte (Discordance Axis, Municipal Waste, Anodyne, Birds of Prey, Phantomsmasher), East West Blast Test's Popular Music for Unpopular People is a cross-country collaboration (Witte and Dodge live on separate coasts) akin to something Fantômas might put out - xylophones, death metal guitars, and this strange German spoken word track.

4. Song: The Cable Has No Name , Artist: Agata , Album: Spike (Tzadik)
5. Song: Assembler Mix , Artist: Nobukazu Takemura , Album: Ikebana: Merzbow's Amlux Rebuilt, Reused and Recycled (Important)
6. Song: Babylero , Artist: Coil , Album: Horse Rotorvator (Some Bizarre)
7. Song: Wrawblow , Artist: White Mice , Album: BLasssTPhlEgMEICE (Load)
8. Song: The Wrong Coat for You Mt. Heart Attack , Artist: Liars , Album: Drum's Not Dead (Mute)
9. Song: Afgamistam , Artist: Botch , Album: An Anthology of Dead Ends (Hydra Head)
10. Song: Micaragua , Artist: Botch , Album: An Anthology of Dead Ends (Hydra Head)

  • The perfect one-two punch (quiet to loud; the tracks flow into each other without a break) ending for Botch's last album before they broke up.

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #35 2007-9-22

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Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Episode #34 - Back from the Dead

1. Song: Native Belle , Artist: Animal Collective , Album: Here Comes the Indian (Paw Tracks)
2. Song: 4-Indolol, 3-[2-(Dimethylamino)Ethyl], Phosphate Ester (Psilocybin) , Artist: Coil , Album: Time Machines (Eskaton)
3. Song: Cold Hands , Artist: Black Dice , Album: Cold Hands (Troubleman Unlimited)
4. Song: Demai , Artist: John Zorn , Album: The Unknown Masada (Tzadik)
5. Song: Untitled , Artist: 16 Bitch Pile Up , Album: Bury Me Deep (Troniks)
  • Fifth track off the album.

6. Song: Man the Ramparts , Artist: Botch , Album: We Are the Romans (Hydra Head)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #34 2007-9-15

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Monday, August 27, 2007

Episode #31 - Firestorm

1. Song: I Put a Spell On You , Artist: Arthur Brown , Album: The Crazy World of Arthur Brown (Touchwood)
  • Screamin' Jay Hawkins cover.

2. Song: The Imperial March (Darth Vader's Theme) , Artist: John Williams , Album: Star Wars Episode V: Empire Strikes Back (Sony)
3. Song: Turning Sand Into Glass , Artist: Conifer , Album: Conifer (Not Common)
4. Song: Randbient Works (Tralphaz Blue Gummy Shark Mix) , Artist: Mochipet , Album: Girls Love Breakcore (Daly City)

  • Features mixes and contributions from Weasel Walter (The Flying Luttenbachers), Otto Von Schirach, and Aaron Spectre (Drumcorps), among others.

5. Song: Lypse , Artist: Excepter , Album: Alternation (5 Rue Christine)
6. Song: Vous le Saurez en Temps Voulu , Artist: Univers Zero , Album: Heresie (Cuneiform)
7. Song: Automaton , Artist: Nursing Home , Album: Everyday Is Halloween (Self-Released)
8. Song: Superstar , Artist: Mouse On Mars , Album: Ikebana: Merzbow's Amlux Rebuilt, Reused and Recycled (Important)
9. Song: Blood From the Air , Artist: Coil , Album: Horse Rotorvator (Some Bizarre)
10. Song: Brighteyes , Artist: Jesu , Album: Conqueror (Hydra Head)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #31 2007-8-25

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Saturday, August 18, 2007

Episode #30 - End Times

1. Song: One of These Days , Artist: Pink Floyd , Album: Meddle (Capitol)
2. Song: The Long Road To the 4th Dimension , Artist: Psyopus , Album: Ideas of Reference (Black Market Activities)
3. Song: Mantra 2 , Artist: Merzbow , Album: Merzbuddha (Important)
4. Song: The Golden Section , Artist: Coil , Album: Horse Rotorvator (Some Bizarre)
5. Song: Granny's House , Artist: Jennifer Gentle , Album: The Midnight Room (Sub Pop)
  • Recorded solo by vocalist/guitarist Marco Fasolo after drummer Alessio Gastaldello left the band, Italian group Jennifer Gentle's The Midnight Room lies in contrast to 2005's Valende - darker, spacier, even creepy at times, channeling the spirit of Syd Barrett and '60s psychedelia.

6. Song: The Jogger , Artist: Pissed Jeans , Album: Hope For Men (Sub Pop)
7. Song: Intermission , Artist: Wolf Eyes , Album: Wolf Eyes (Hanson)
8. Song: How Is It Gonna End , Artist: Tom Waits , Album: Real Gone (Anti-)
9. Song: Otterley , Artist: Cocteau Twins , Album: Treasure (4AD)
10. Song: Weightless & Horizontal , Artist: Jesu , Album: Conqueror (Hydra Head)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #30 2007-8-18

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Monday, August 13, 2007

Episode #29 - Dementia

1. Song: Chrome Panthers , Artist: Ex Models , Album: Chrome Panthers (Troubleman Unlimited)
2. Song: Vow of Silence , Artist: Throbbing Gristle , Album: Part Two: Endless Not (Mute)
3. Song: 7-Methoxy-β-Carboline:(Telepathine) , Artist: Coil , Album: Time Machines (Eskaton)
4. Song: Invisible City , Artist: Tussle , Album: Telescope Mind (Smalltown Supersound)
5. Song: Decomposition , Artist: K.K. Null , Album: Ikebana: Merzbow's Amlux Rebuilt, Reused and Recycled (Important)
6. Song: - , Artist: Hair Police , Album: Drawn Dead (Hanson)
  • 2nd track off the album.

7. Song: Winter Vacation , Artist: John Wiese , Album: From the Lips of Lepers (Chocolate Monk)

  • CD-R compilation also featuring the likes of Aaron Dilloway (Wolf Eyes), Ashtray Navigations, Skaters, Justin Meyers (Devillock/Panther Skull), Dylan Nyoukis, and more.

8. Song: I'm Insane , Artist: Sonic Youth , Album: Bad Moon Rising (DGC)
9. Song: Chemical Wedding , Artist: Double Leopards , Album: A Hole is True (Troubleman Unlimited)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #29 2007-8-11

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Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Episode #27 - Black Hole

1. Song: Foetal Castro , Artist: White Mice , Album: BLasssTPhlEgMEICE (Load)
2. Song: Mantra 1 , Artist: Merzbow , Album: Merzbuddha (Important)
3. Song: Sweet Dreams (Of You) , Artist: Patsy Cline , Album: The Departed (Warner Sunset)
4. Song: Surrender , Artist: Suicide , Album: A Way of Life (Wax Trax!)
  • I always imagine this track as '50s prom song.

5. Song: Lyre Liar , Artist: Throbbing Gristle , Album: Part Two: Endless Not (Mute)
6. Song: The Black Pope , Artist: No Neck Blues Band , Album: Qvaris (5 Rue Christine)
7. Song: Creeping Hand , Artist: Landed , Album: The Summertime Comp (Kordova Milk Bar)

  • Live track with some fucked jazz drumming/hip-hop beats/saxophone. First release for Kordova Milk Bar Records, - put out as a benefit to raise money to send inner-city kids to camp based on a sliding scale - which also features contributions from the likes of Usurp Synapse, Thursday, Racebannon, Knives and Greenwater, The Assistant (ex You and I), Pg. 99, The Scarlet Letter, and others.

8. Song: Herald , Artist: Coil , Album: Horse Rotorvator (Some Bizarre)
9. Song: Ten Cents , Artist: Converge , Album: When Forever Comes Crashing (Equal Vision)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #27 2007-7-28

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Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Episode #20 - Mushroom Cloud

1. Song: Sysyphus: Part I , Artist: Pink Floyd , Album: Ummagumma (Capitol)
  • Double live album from 1969. First disc features live cuts from Piper At the Gates of Dawn, such as a double-length version of "Astronomy Domine", as well as tracks that are also featured on the Live At Pompeii DVD, while the second disc showcases some of Pink Floyd's stranger numbers ("Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In a Cave and Grooving With a Pict" comes directly to mind).

2. Song: Akuma No Kuma , Artist: Sunn O))) & Boris , Album: Altar (Southern Lord)
3. Song: 5-Methoxy-N, N-Dimethyl:(5-Me0-DMT) , Artist: Coil , Album: Time Machines (Eskaton)
4. Song: 20[1] , Artist: Alec Empire , Album: Low On Ice (The Iceland Sessions) (Mille Plateaux)
5. Song: Zeros and Ones (Aphex Twin Reconstruction) , Artist: Aphex Twin , Album: 26 Mixes for Cash (Warp)
6. Song: Blood Red and True, Pt. 3 , Artist: Leviathan , Album: Tentacles of Whorror (Moribund)
7. Song: Nocturnal Poisoning , Artist: Xasthur , Album: Nocturnal Poisoning (Blood Fire Death)
8. Song: Window Skeleton , Artist: King Wheat , Album: Everyday is Halloween (Self-Released)

  • Compilation curated and presented by Nursing Home.

9. Song: - , Artist: Pig Destroyer , Album: Phantom Limb (Relapse)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #20 2007-6-9

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Sunday, March 11, 2007

Episode #7 - A Black Wind Blows

1. Song: ...And the Gods Made Love , Artist: The Jimi Hendrix Experience , Album: Electric Ladyland (MCA)
2. Song: Stolen , Artist: Isis & Aereogramme , Album: In the Fishtank, Vol. 14: Isis & Aereogramme (In the Fishtank)
3. Song: Mauritian Giant Skink: Part I , Artist: Uton , Album: The Invisible Pyramid: Elegy Box (Last Visible Dog)
  • Six-disc set with each track dedicated to a recently extinct species. Comes with an essay written by Jeff Knoch (Urdog).

4. Song: 2,5-Dimethoxy-4-Ethyl-Amphetamine:(DOET/Hecate) , Artist: Coil , Album: Time Machines (Eskaton)
5. Song: Roar of the Forest Rose to Thunder , Artist: Old Man Gloom , Album: Seminar II: The Holy Rites Of Primitivism Regressionism (Hydra Head)
6. Song: Forcefieldiamond , Artist: Forcefield, Album: Pick a Winner (Load)
7. Song: Great White Death , Artist: Whitehouse , Album: Great White Death (Come Organisation)
8. Song: A Golden Cow On the Bridge , Artist: Staalplaat Sound System , Album: Ikebana: Merzbow's Amlux Rebuilt, Reused and Recycled (Important)
9. Song: Disharmonic Convergence , Artist: Xasthur , Album: Subliminal Genocide (Hydra Head)
10. Song: Omit , Artist: Ink & Dagger , Album: Ink & Dagger (New American Dream)

LINK: Sounds of the Apocalypse Episode #7 2007-3-10

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