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DJ Triple XXX That’s Three X’s Y’all here. I am your new host of equinox, along with former music director Nate Ülrich. Every other week you’ve got me spinnin the tunes.

Early on in the set, I played a song off local improviser Eric Hind’s (aka Killick) recreation of Slayer’s “Reign in Blood”. It is a really interesting album, as he plays it on the H’arpeggione. It’s essentially a deconstruction of the album, played piece by piece with the rhythms and melody intertwining to create a completely new listening experience that is still traceable back to the original.

I also got my guitar-geek on with a set of Robert Fripp, Bill Frisell, Fred Frith and Nels Cline. Perhaps next time I will throw in some Henry Cow and Derek Bailey. The end of the set continued this trend, with the heavy drone of Sunn O))) and Harvey Milk’s Oppressive F.S.T.P.

Full set list below, as well as a stream of the recording. Music starts at 3:11.

Artist Song Album

Sun Araw Deep Temple Off Duty
Erik Hinds Angel of death Reign in Blood
Rafael Toral IIa Space
Steve Riech/Kronos Quartet After the War Different Trains
Owl Xounds Stoned

Robert Fripp Radiophonic I Radiophonics
Bill Frisell Ron Carter blues dream
Fred Frith Ghosts Guitar Solos
Nels Cline/Gregg Bendian Saturn Interstellat Space Revisited: The Music of John Coltrane

Sunn O))) & Boris Etna Altar
Harvey Milk F.S.T.P. My Love is Higher Than Your Assessment of What My Love Could Be

I’m excited about tonight’s show. I’m starting out with the latest Buffalo Stance record, Sugar Glider. Buffalo Stance is Jamey Robinson of Need New Body, which shared members with what would go on to be Man Man. John Fernandes over at wuxtry was playing this in the store and I had to pick it up, as I have yet to come across it anywhere else sans online.

The main course, however is this Klaus Nomi record I found recently. It’s called Za Bakdaz and is his attempt at a futuristic electro-pop-opera. His use of analogue synthesizers kinds of makes it oddly familiar, given the recent revival and obsession with these early devices (see Animal Collective, Black Dice, Gang Gang Dance, that scene and others).

Regardless, it fits in well with the whole mission statement of this show: to play the most bizarre collection of musical pieces we can get our hands on.

I’m going to try really hard this semester to keep digging up the older experimental stuff. There is a self-filtering process that goes on when looking for old experimental music, for the only stuff that I am going to be able to get my hands on are those works which someone has deemed relevant enough to keep around. Unfortunately that means, I guess with any aging process, that a lot gets left behind that I’ll never even know about.

But for those interested in this stuff, I can always post where I gather this material. For now, though, you’ll have to be content with listening!

(this an unedited podcast: the first few minutes of the recording have the tail end of wuog’s psychedelic show, sundialing- a  great show as well, and then EQUINOX begins shortly thereafter. and my show starts out a little quiet as well, sorry)

PLAYLIST: http://old.wuog.org/dj/world/index.php?page=printplaylist&show_id=11913

Laurie Spiegel- composer of electronic-music compositions back in the ’70s and onward. she switched from writing music to working more with technology and coming up with material on the synthesizer as opposed to just writing down notations. check out these cool videos (one, where she’s playing in the Bell Laboratories on a Hal Alles synthesizer) and the interview.

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MARYANNE AMACHER- installation artist and composer; just recently carried on:

http://www.artsjournal.com/postclassic/2009/10/maryanne_amacher_1943-2009.html

here’s some material and  a clip from a documentary (Daytrip Maryanne) w/ Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore:

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O’rourke:

http://lostmonster.blogspot.com/2008/12/jim-orourke-happy-days.html