Friday, November 30, 2018

Oneohtrix Point Never's Age Of & Love in the Time of Lexapro

Hi everyone,

Daniel Lopatin's Oneohtrix Point Never is a weirdly charming electronic project, trippy, ghostly, moving underneath it all. This show is devoted to two of his 2018 releases. Here's a good section of Wikipedia's entry on Age Of:


Influences on Age Of included the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, and William Strauss's The Fourth Turning, a favorite book of former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, which Lopatin described as "insidious, like the voice of a computer insisting on the truth about history without any sensitivity given to how complex and non-linear systems might be"; Lopatin was subsequently inspired to "[use] that sort of taxonomy as a kind of farce to then create these little frameworks for understanding". Other inspirations included the writings of the 1990s multidisciplinary collective Cybernetic Culture Research Unit and the works of singer-songwriters such as Bruce Cockburn, Bob Dylan, and Paul Simon.


The Love in the Time of Lexapro EP fills out the hour & extends the feel of Age Of nicely :)

PeaceNstarZ,
R

Friday, October 5, 2018

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard's Sketches of Brunswick East!

Hi everyone,

Catching up with this strange Aussie psych band that put out 5 records in 2017, this one the third of them. Collaboration with the Mild High Club. It's a little more coherent than the others, less completely out of its gourd, & they prove they can do well this too!

Since the band said that Miles Davis's Sketches of Spain was part of their inspiration, this show closes with a couple of great tracks from that album :)

PeaceNstarZ,
V

Saturday, September 29, 2018

Aphex Twin's Field Day LP & Collapse!

Hi everyone,

Catching up with the great, crazed, one of a kind Richard D. James. Field Day LP is from 2017 and the Collapse EP is just released this year. Noisy, melodic, mechanical, weirdly beautiful. Not quite like anything else & the world is better for him & his music! :)

PeaceNstarZ,
V

Friday, September 7, 2018

Juno Reactor's The Mutant Theatre!

Hi everyone,

I've been a fan of Ben Watkins and Juno Reactor for a lot of years. Their new album roots in a stage show Watkins conceived. The review below gives more information on this and even some video clips.

Even with the visuals, the music is great. Music to whirl away in, forget the day & the troubles of one's own & the world for awhile. Find another kind of intensity to enjoy. Enjoy! :)

Review of Juno Reactor's The Mutant Theater

PeaceNstarZ,
V

Saturday, August 25, 2018

Grateful Dead's Grayfolded (Part 2)

Hi everyone,


Here is Part 2, "Mirrored Ashes" of this album. Something to groove to, smoke to, lie back & enjoy.

Reminder of the details:
Grayfolded is a two-CD album produced by John Oswald featuring the Grateful Dead song "Dark Star." Using over a hundred different performances of the song, recorded live between 1968 and 1993, Oswald, using a process he calls "plunderphonics," built, layered, and "folded," all of them to produce two large, recomposed versions, each about one hour long.


PeaceNstarZ,
V

Friday, August 17, 2018

Show #150! Grateful Dead's Grayfolded (Part 1)

Hi everyone!

This show has been on the air for nearly 10 years, and here it is hitting show #150! Pretty cool. Celebrating with a fat joint and Part 1 of this strange & charming record. Check out what the ol' Wikipedia says:


Grayfolded is a two-CD album produced by John Oswald featuring the Grateful Dead song "Dark Star." Using over a hundred different performances of the song, recorded live between 1968 and 1993, Oswald, using a process he calls "plunderphonics," built, layered, and "folded," all of them to produce two large, recomposed versions, each about one hour long.

Just hit your pipe, & go :)

PeaceNstarZ,
V

Friday, August 3, 2018

Jon Hopkins' Singularity!

Hi everyone,

Pitchfork said this: "Singularity is a beat-music odyssey pitched between acid house and introspective ambient bliss, constant change and eternal return, sublunary and sublime. It also combines many other opposites into thrillingly unstable wholes. The producer’s distinctive techno is coarse and granular, as if electricity were a solid you could grind in a mill, yet it flows in a graceful stream. It squelches like muck and shines like crystal. It beats like a body, but it moves like a mind."

Lotta words. And I like words. But this music is water, weird time, and being lost happy. Not much else.

PeaceNstarZ,
V

Thursday, July 12, 2018

The Orb's No Sounds Are Out Of Bounds!

Hi everyone,

This is just a damned fun album, with all sorts of collaborations. It's bouncy and raucous, will make you dance round your place! :)

PeaceNstarZ,
V

Friday, June 22, 2018

Infected Mushroom's Return to the Sauce!

Hi everyone,

Infected Mushroom is an Israeli psychedelic trance band, been around for about 20 years. Their music is a lot of fun, good for deep journeys, for dancing, for whatever you like. 5 g of shrooms in silent darkness or the rainbow glow of the dance party. Give a listen on my show, try it out!

PeaceNstarZ,
V

Friday, June 15, 2018

Paul Schütze's The Sky Torn Apart!

Hi everyone,


I like this explanation of this long ambient piece from: http://freq.org.uk/reviews/paul-schutze-the-sky-torn-apart/

Paul Schutze is an Australian sound composer who has been producing music since the late 1980s. This album, his first in eight years, is released on the extremely apt Glacial Movements Records from Italy and is one long, gradually unfolding treasure that is almost like an attempt at prehistoric music; constructing sounds that pre-date what we understand and go back to the formation of the earth.

I think it's just a matter of climbing into the flow and go-just-going :)


PeaceNstarZ,
V

Friday, June 8, 2018

John Zorn's Insurrection!

Hi everyone,

My favorite horn player and producer John Zorn releases more albums than President Clusterfuck tells lies. And that's saying something!

This new release he writes and produces the music and has a quarter of players make it. The first song is loud & not my favorite not a hint at all for the variety to come. Lots of pretty stuff here, strange by-ways, & music to lure you into less known nooks in yer mind. I just like it alot! :)

PeaceNstarZ,
V

Thursday, May 31, 2018

Colin Currie Group's Steve Reich Drumming!

Hi everyone,

I'm a great fan of Steve Reich, a modern classical composer sometimes grouped with Terry Riley & Philip Glass as "minimalists." This album by the Colin Currie Group is an interpretation of Reich's early 1970s' African-inspired piece of the same name. I read that Reich himself felt this was an excellent version of his piece. It starts so . . . mildly . . . but pretty madness ensues. Really really good! :)

PeaceNstarZ,
V

Friday, May 11, 2018

Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band!

Hi everyone,

Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band was around for most of the 1960s, taking an old timey kind of music & making it their own. Great players, funny, versatile, playing delightful little bursts of song. I found this band just by chance, reading a book about the psychedelic scene back in Boston 1960s, called Astral Weeks. Recommended by my friend who runs SPR. Thanks for the rec!

Enjoy these tunes!

PeaceNstarZ,
V

Friday, May 4, 2018

Sync24 Mix!

Hi everyone,


Here's a great description from last.fm: "SYNC24 is Daniel Segerstad (born Ringström) from the already famous Carbon Based Lifeforms. Started in early years experimenting with tape recorders and simple music players on the Commodore 64 and gradually upgrading equipment and techniques. Having Carbon Based Lifeforms as his main focus with a couple of projects on the side, there's always room for personal reflections. SYNC24 is the result of sudden impulse of inspiration, late nights without interference from others."

I didn't know about the Carbon Based LifeForms connection but this flowy dreamy catch music just catches me up and rides me along like a wave beneath me. I created a mix from a few of their albums, an hour of fun :)


PeaceNstarZ,
V

Saturday, April 14, 2018

John Zorn's The Urmuz Epigrams!

Hi everyone,


Here's the online description of this wonderful record "With the collaboration of percussionist Ches Smith, John Zorn creates a magnificent and dreamlike series of parallel tracks, a 'modern reconstruction' and a set of faux 78rpm albums purportedly from 1923, as an homage to pre-dada absurdist, Romanian writer Urmuz (Demetru Dem), using the studio and card-file composition to create a bizarre and astonishing set of 8 x 2 pieces."

Love me some Zorn!


PeaceNstarZ,
V

Friday, April 6, 2018

Johnny Jewel's The Key & Digital Rain!

Hi everyone,

Johnny Jewel is a multi-instrumentalist and producer whose most famous band is Chromatics, a brooding, eccentric band, featured famously on Twin Peaks last year. His solo work is instrumental, dark, lovely, enigmatic. This show features The Key, an EP released in 2017, and Digital Rain, which is new. Sweet stuff to enjoy in the smoky darkness :)

PeaceNstarZ,
V

Friday, March 16, 2018

Rainbow Spiritual Enslavement's Water Witches!

Hi everyone,

A few shows ago, I played the more recent album by Dominick Fernow's RSE. Now stepping back to play an amazing 4.5 hours of RSE's earlier material. I can only say that a deep immersion in this music is best. Like NY said it long ago, "Once you're gone, you can't go back."

PeaceNstarZ,
V

Friday, March 9, 2018

Moby's Everything Was Beautiful, and Nothing Hurt . . .

Hi everyone,

Moby's new album is lovely & sad & feels like he's slowly slipped more comfortably into his own soul, & at the same time he's looking about the world with fear & melancholy. For evening listening, & again.

PeaceNstarZ,
V

Saturday, March 3, 2018

Years of Rice & Salt's Service Bell & Live too!

Hi everyone,

Played this English band's full-length LP, 2011's Nothing of Cities, a few shows ago; now digging back to 2009 for their EP. Just as wonderful, pretty & haunting. And a 30 min live set from around the same time! Enjoy! :)

PeaceNstarZ,
V

Friday, February 9, 2018

Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement's Green Graves!

Hi everyone,

RSE is one of the projects of a dude named Dominick Fernow. He's new to me. So much music I don't know! Anyway, this 2016 release just floored me, like some kind of electronic float down an ancient jungle river. Just fantastic, trippy, beautiful, sweet in a way. I bet more of his work will show up on this show :)

PeaceNstarZ,
V

Saturday, February 3, 2018

Afro Celt Sound Sytem's The Source!

Hi everyone,

This English group nearly fell apart in 2016, went to court, finally reconciled enough such that some of the members are carrying on with the name in tact. The Source was made during this year of schism &, despite all that, it is a wonderful, sweet, high, infectious, dancy record.

It's good they came together & buried the hatchet, & maybe the high spirit of this record too says that it was somehow for the best. Enjoy :)

PeaceNstarZ,
V

Friday, January 26, 2018

John Zorn's There Is No More Firmament!

Hi everyone,

Time to catch up with one of my favorite experimental jazz guys. This album came out last year and has all sorts of Zornzy treats. Some of his music is more traditional sounding, some are just crazy good weirdness! Enjoy!

PeaceNstarZ,
V

Friday, January 12, 2018

Years Of Rice & Salt's Nothing of Cities!


Hi everyone,


Soundcloud says, "Years of Rice & Salt is a 6-piece instrumental rock / folk band based in London, United Kingdom. They were formed in Summer ‘08 and released their debut EP entitled Service Bell EP on 31st January 2009. The EP is a themed collection of songs navigating the timeline of a shipwreck through music. The first full-length album, Nothing of Cities was released in June 2011."

That's about it. Their album is great, a slow ambient acoustic burn that sometimes shouts! Enjoy!

PeaceNstarZ,
V