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ORGAN @ RESONANCE FM, this week's playlist, links, details, words...

Category: Music

Organ on Resonance 104.4FM, 9.00PM Sunday 4th Oct 2009. This week with Sean on DJ duties. On your FM dial all over London and worldwide via www.resonancefm.com.

This week’s playlist..

1/intro: TRANSISTOR SIX – Back Yard Rocketship (Blackbean & Placenta)
2: OMO – Track 1, The White Album (LoAF)
3: LOW TRAMON – 4d Warriors (Demo)
4: FOOT VILLAGE – Energy Runners (Upset The Rhythm)
5: THE KABEEDIES – Petits Filous (NROne)
6: MAGMA – Ka2 (Seventh)
7: HONEY RIDE ME A GOAT – Varicose Jibe (Unlabel)
8: UPSILON ACRUX – Who’s Running Shit (Cuneiform)
9: THE LAZE – Everlife (self release)
10: CHROME HOOF – Circus 9000 (Southern)
11: THE LOW ANTHEM – Charlie Darwin (Bella Union)
12: THE SANS PAREIL – Track 2, Happy Hour (Stone Of Folly)
13: LOUIS LING AND THE BOMBS – Princess Mononoke (ORG)
14: BEATNIK FILMSTARS – Milkshake (Track & Field)
15: WHITEOUT with JIM O’ROURKE & THURSTON MOORE – Fear Of Fear – excerpt (Ecstatic Peace)

Full details, news, links...

Tonight's show was THE TUESDAY DILEMMA SHOW - MAGMA or UPSILON ACRUX? All over town progheads are pulling themselves apart, what to do! Which gig! Who booked the first ever Upsilon Acrux show in London on the same night as a rare appearance in the capital from Magma! I mean people have been waiting for Upsilon and there cutting edge avant-prog to get over here for ages! They’ve made it from L.A at last, they’re one of the very very best bands out there, consistently challenging albums, prog rock time changes that’ll leave you with twisted blood, and if that isn’t good enough they’re touring with two of the finest new prog outfits in the UK in the shape of THE LAZE and HONEY RIDE ME A GOAT, but then CHROME HOOF are opening for Magma with J.P MASSIERA also on the bill... Two of the most exciting gigs to happen in London all year and both on the same night. What are we going to do? The Upsilon Acrux gig happens over at Barden's Boudoir while Magma are at the Barbican Centre. I think I know which one I’m going to... maybe... Both shows happen on Tuesday 6th October, oh the dilemma...

1/intro: TRANSISTOR SIX – Back Yard Rocketship (Blackbean & Placenta) - our adopted theme tune so you know where you are. Transistor Six is Frances Castle, there’s lots of her fine art and creativity to explore from Francis so please please do. You can now get the whole tune downloaded for yourselves and find links to her artwork, albums and lots more over at www.myspace.com/transistorsix

2: OMO – Track 1, The White Album (LoAF) – Advance promos with no covers or track listings, no idea what the name of this track from the new Omo album is called. The track is off The White Album, here’s the recent Organ review of said just released record: A minimal, clean cut, precise kind of everything is white kind of band, white skirt, white top, white trainers... washing powder clean, second serve, overhead smash. Clean precise minimal electronic pop, “domestic pop for domestic occasions”. Clean synthesisers, Laurie Anderson, slightly lo-fi strangely delightful, Kraftwerk, warm sunny buzz, delightful repetitive goodness, strangely good... advantage... deuce... Strange half spoken words over repetitive synth lines and inviting hums, an appreciation of uncluttered space . Electronic patterns, clever words... www.l-o-a-f.com

3: LOW TRAMON – 4d Warriors (Demo) – Another play from the spiky London band’s demo. The frantic new wave no wave prog band have a London gig on Tuesday at the Comedy in Soho. Wild sliced sax and people on the run from Optimist Club and any other dilemma free Tuesday and we’d be first in line – www.myspace.com/lowtramon

4: FOOT VILLAGE – Energy Runners (Upset The Rhythm) – Can’t keep away from this most excellent new Foot Village album. Hardboiled drum ‘n scream acoustic hardcore noise and complex uniqueness and probably one of the albums of the year. Played again this week in celebration of the fact that the Californian band’s UK tour has just been announced and they play Barden’s Boudoir on November 6th – www.myspace.com/footvillage or www.upsettherhythm.co.uk

5: THE KABEEDIES – Petits Filous (NROne) - New single out this week, here’s the Organ review: “A whole load of important questions asked and answered as the girl voice interacts in classic scratchy lo-fi indie pop with the boy voice... Who is your favourite kung fu star? he asks, probably Bruce Lee she answers. Favourite colour...? She’s Katie Allard, he’s guitar player Evan Jones, or maybe he’s bass player Rory Hull (they both get a vocal credit), Fab Bell hits drums. We like The Kabeedies, we’ve told you this before, this new single here is leading up to their debut album. Excellent lead track, excellent interplay, excellent single yet again, feisty indie teen pop, sharp, insanely infectious, the Norwich band done good yet again, fire up the radio, we got another player. And their record label is a post code, the true spirit of Wiiija in several ways then... www.nrone.co.uk or www.myspace.com/thekabeedies - the single is out on Monday, the debut album in early November

6: MAGMA – Ka2 (Seventh) – Seven and a half minute taste of a fifteen minute track from one of the most vitally classic bands of all time, they sound nothing like anyone else and very few have got anywhere near sounding quite like them. The strange France-based aliens are in London for a very rare gig this coming Tuesday at the Barbican – www.myspace.com/magmaofficial

7: HONEY RIDE ME A GOAT – Varicose Jibe (Unlabel) – track from the noise making math rock post something or other thrill ride from Kent just to add to the Tuesday dilemma. You’ll find this fine track on an Unlabel Records compilation, meanwhile their latest releases are to be found on Kitchen Dweller. They’re at Barden’s Boudoir in London with Upsilon Acrux this coming Tuesday... why the same night as Magma? Why!!? – www.myspace.com/hrmag

8: UPSILON ACRUX – Who’s Running Shit (Cuneiform) – A track from the Los Angeles band’s Gallapagos Momentum album. They’ve got a new one out now, there’s a great big review of it on the Organ pages, seriouslt hardboiled forward looking progressive rock is what it is – “Upsilon Acrux simply blow away and set the standard for every other complex, (forwantofabetterterm) mathy band out there.” – Six albums in now and they’re finally on their first UK tour, Barden’s Boudoir, Stoke Newington, London this coming Dilemma Tuesday, Leeds Wednesday, then over to Ireland. You’ll find a free download of a taste over on the Cuneiform page at www.cuneiformrecords.com or go explore www.myspace.com/upsilonacrux

9: THE LAZE – Everlife (self release) – They’re from the North West of England, The Wirral, and they may just be the missing link that glues all current modern crop of cutting edge post-prog avant bands of now and the classic prog bands of the 70’s – they really are that good as this eight minute opening track from their forthcoming self-released concept album called Spacetime Fabric Conditioner should tell you. On tour with Upsilon Acrux right now, we may just have mentioned that already – www.myspace.com/thelaze

10: CHROME HOOF – Circus 9000 (Southern) – Track from the strange and wonderful London band’s Pre Emptive False Rapture, played in anticipation of their show with Magma at the Barbican Centre here in London next Tuesday, all adding fuel to the fire that is the Tuesday Dilemma – www.myspace.com/chromehoof

11: THE LOW ANTHEM – Charlie Darwin (Bella Union) - – Bella Union have just re-issued this gorgeously perfect piece of aching beauty from The Low Anthem, if you missed it first time around then don’t whatever you do, don’t let it pass you by this time. This is just sublimely magical and glowing and I could gush and gush over the slow moving radiant beauty of it all for ages and ages. Those rising falsettos and gentle alt.folkness, the heart trading and a single that’s just about perfect in every single way. Stop everything for four minutes and just drink it in. They’ve got it there on their MySpace - www.myspace.com/lowanthem

12: THE SANS PAREIL – Track 2, Happy Hour (Stone Of Folly) - – They have a new six track EP out of their own label, we made their demo a demo of the week around here at Organ sometime last year and it seems things are coming together rather nicely for the Dalston band. Some kind of scratchy off-hinge multi-voiced bluesy folk-punk barbed-wire mob-rule shouting about not wanting to appreciate something or someone or... well who knows what they’re shouting about out there.... Kind of disturbing, disturbing is good, well here it is. Kind of dark swamps of East London hillbilly music, music of the night and people who know what’s good for you, barking at the moon, strange creatures, roadkill, things in the shadows, you better watch out my friend... just go with them, take all your roadtax, insurance, all the documentation, follow, everything will be alright, everything will be... They play the Shunt Lounge, London Bridge this coming Thursday 8th Oct - www.myspace.com/pariahcabal

13: LOUIS LING AND THE BOMBS – Princess Mononoke (ORG) – The rather explosive French bomb-throwing anarchists (musical bombs of course) finally make it over to London with their very colourful fizz and punk and riot pop and... Cross Kings in Kings Cross as part of the semi-conductor all-dayer this coming October 10th. They have a new single out on Damaged Goods any moment now, haven’t got it yet so back to this old one – www.myspace.com/louislinggandthebombs

14: BEATNIK FILMSTARS – Milkshake (Track & Field) – Track from the ever different Bristol band’s In Great Shape album that came out a few years ago now... They dedicated it to the memory of John Peel, for whom they played something like five radio sessions and got introduced to most of us via his much missed radio shows. Played this week because this was our last show before the annual international John Peel day. Beatnik Filmstars will be playing the John Peel celebration that’s packed with bands, DJs and happens over at the Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes, starts at 4pm, millions of bands playing, more from www.myspace.com/damnablypresents. Meanwhile more on Beatnik Filmstars from www.myspace.com/beatnikfilmstars

15: WHITEOUT with JIM O’ROURKE & THURSTON MOORE – Fear Of Fear – excerpt (Ecstatic Peace) - Five so opening minutes from the forty minute track that occupies disc one of this two disc set called Senso. Out in the UK on 26th October, it appears to be a fine slice of now wave vew wave free jazz based avant adventure, but then we only just got it and we haven’t had time to play the track fully yet... perfect way to end tonight’s show though, more when we’ve explored it – www.whiteoutinc.com

Tonight’s show, all the mistakes and the wrong tracks played that only I know were the wrong tracks (right bands, right albums, wrong tracks), were dedicated to the much missed John Peel and in anticipation of next Saturday’s annual John Peel day. The man influenced us in so many ways, opened our ears and minds to so many bands back in our youth, supported Organ and our label ORG with such enthusiasm when really didn’t have to. He’d call up all excited about some record we’d released, first time he did it we didn’t believe it was him and almost put the phone down. It was one of our proudest moments even the night we were listening to his radio show and heard four or five ORG releases played and his say something about it turning on to an Organ love fest... Thanks John, shame you knew nothing about football... Now what hell are we gonna do on Dilemma Tuesday? Magma or Upsilon?

Next week, Marina in the Chair with her Other Rock show and exploration of Other Rock and things beyond the convention of mere 4/4....