Gardens are food for the soul.

While up all night in a fevered state this week, I rebuilt the Fracture Gardens. Saturday's show was held there, and my set was food-themed.


Here's the rundown:

Bjork & Tricky--Black Coffee
Memphis Minnie--Pig Meat on the Line
Bessie Smith--Gimme a Pigfoot
Willie Bobo--Fried Neckbones and Some Home Fries
J. Marks and Shipen Lebzelter--Baked Beans
Moxy Fruvous--Green Eggs and Ham
Bearsuit--Cherryade
Godley & Creme--Sandwiches of You
King Crimson--Cat Food
Buddharabbit--Beans With
Squeeze--Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)
Bow Wow Wow--I Want Candy
Weird Al Yankovic--My Bologna
Captured! by Robots--Speed Food Pyramid
Care Bears on Fire--Barbie Eat a Sandwich
Bratmobile--Eating Toothpaste
The Polkaholics--Sauerkraut is Sweet
Man Man--The Ballad of Butter Beans
Larry Groce--Junk Food Junkie
Ballgag N' Chain Gang--Everything is Better with Bacon
Pepe Delux--Salami Fever
The Dragons--Food for My Soul
Soul Coughing--Soft Serve
MadMixMustang--The Ice Cream Mash
Mike Doughty--More Bacon than the Pan Can Handle
Squeeze--Black Coffee in Bed

Bagpipe Set. . .

Jubi challenged me to do this. Warning: don't dare me to do things unless you want them to happen, heh. Actually, the set was a lot of fun to compile, and my most genre-leaping ever, from German metal, to new wave, to Latin jazz, to hip hop.

Barbarina Pipe Band--Tarantarmoricana
The Queen's Own Highlanders--The Magnificent Seven
The Dropkick Murpheys--Amazing Grace
Jori Chisholm--Don't Stop Rockin'
Wicked Tinkers--Dream
Rufus Harley--Bagpipe Blues
Afro Celt Sound System--Anatomic
Rubén Blades--Primogenio
Classified--The Maritimes
DJ Jago Meets Yoshi--Back to the Bagpipes
Honey Blo--Blazin & Steppin Part 1
Ray Stevens--Bagpipes (That's My Bag)
The Animals--Sky Pilot
Red Hot Chilli Pipers--Smoke On The Water set / Thunderstruck / The Fourth floor
Corvus Corax--Venus Vina Musica
SuidAkrA--Scáthach
ACDC--It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)
Neutral Milk Hotel--Untitled
Lacuna Coil--Virtual Environment
The Church--Under the Milky Way
Peter Gabriel--Biko
The White Stripes--Prickly Thorn, But Sweetly Worn

Earworm Set!

I played a set of those tunes you just can't get out of your head, to delight and annoy the crowd:

Los Del Rio--Macarena
Smokey Robinson--Tears of a Clown
Bill Haley & His Comets--Rock Around the Clock
Village People--YMCA
Aretha Franklin--Respect
Commodores--Brick House
Devo--Whip It
Britney Spears--Toxic
DJ Paul V--Tequila Lip Gloss (mashup)
Frankie Goes to Hollywood--Relax
The Isley Brothers--Shout
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts--I Love Rock N' Roll
The Kingsmen--Louie Louie
Wild Cherry--Play That Funky Music
Adam & The Ants--Dog Eat Dog
Kinks--You Really Got Me
Michael Jackson--Billie Jean
The Supremes--Where Did Our Love Go
The Bee Gees--Stayin' Alive
Wilson Pickett--Land of 1000 Dances
Heart--Barracuda
Barrett Strong--Money (That's What I Want)
The Beach Boys--Fun, Fun, Fun
Self--Pattycake
The Rolling Stones--She's So Cold
INXS--Devil Inside
Bobby Darin--Beyond the Sea

Gospel According to Noctis

Attestations of belief, choral swells, a kick to the soul . . .

Infidel--Creator
Dear God--XTC
God Has a Voice, She Speaks Through Me--Cocorosie
Soul Transportation--DJ Me and DJ You
Who's Gonna Save My Soul--Gnarls Barkley
Revival--The Soulsavers
Section 8 (Soldier Girl)--The Polyphonic Spree
Life is Long--David Byrne and Brian Eno
Rabbit Heart (Raise it Up)--Florence & The Machine
Nailed--Hedwig & The Angry Inch
7--Prince
Just a Man--Faith No More
Baked Beans--J Marks and Shipen Lebzelter
I'll Take You There--The Staple Singers
Love the One You're With--Luther Vandross

Annual Songs

I last presented a set of songs with the theme of years:

1916--Motorhead
Leap Year--Maria Taylor with Andy LeMaster
100 Years--Dr. Dog
1989--Clem Snide
Each Year--Ra Ra Riot
1901--Phoenix
Blizzard of '77--Nada Surf
1977--The Clash
This Year--The Mountain Goats
1989--Less Than Jake
1969--Iggy Pop and the Stooges
Cambridge 1969/2007--Yoko Ono & The Flaming Lips
In the Year 2525--Zager & Evans
Space: 1999--Rocket Scientists
Sex Crime (1984)--Eurythmics
Long Was The Year--Broadcast
Holland, 1945--Neutral Milk Hotel

Work

My setlist for today celebrated the fact that I got my grades in for my 350 undergrad students last night (w00t). A bunch of songs about work, avoiding work, weekends, and working it. Also, it gave me a chance to play Dolly Parton at Fracture.

"9 to 5"--Dolly Parton
"She Works Hard for the Money"--Donna Summer
"The Slacker (Sunday Best Nu-Polka Remix)--Bastila
"Watch us Work It"--Devo (produced by the Teddy Bears)
"Working in the Coal Mine"--Devo
"Seven Days of the Week (I Never Go to Work)"--They Might be Giants
"Senses Working Overtime"--XTC
"Model Worker"--Magazine
"This Devil's Workday"--Modest Mouse
"Tina Goes to Work"--Nobunny
"Actor Out of Work"--St. Vincent
"Me, You and the Working Class--Acid Brains
"Working Part Time"--The Henry Clay People
"Out of Work Early"--Excuses for Skipping
"Stop Working"--The Yolks
"Working for Another Song"--Townhall
"Weekend"--Dr. Dog
"Blue Monday (New Order cover)--The Cloud Room
"Manic Monday"--Finn Wallace
"Work Song"--Dan Reeder

Happy solstice, hope you enjoyed your Chanukkah, have a great Kwanza, Merry Christmas, have a festive Saturnalia, and enjoy the end of the Aughties. I'll see you next year.

Lumi

Gettin' Mediaeval on Yer Arse

I played a contempo-mediaeval set on Saturday, while Beta flung avatars around on hir trebuchet.






Dead Can Dance--Saltarello
Mediaeval Baebes--Star of the Sea
Stellamara--Strumica
Vast--Untitled
Corvus Corax--Filii Niedhardi
Faun--Sirena
Irfan--Hagia Sophia
Dead Can Dance--The Arrival and the Reunion
Garmarna--Euchari
Qntal--Hymni Nocturnalis
Enigma--Between Generations
Loreena McKennitt--The Gates of Istanbul
DJ Beardy Boy--O'fortuna (Techno Remix)
Dead Can Dance--Avatar

Not Dead Yet--Still Swinging

Fracture DJs have been musically as active as ever, even if our blogging habits have failed us :P.

My set for 5 September featured classic swing, to wit:

Glen Miller and his Orchestra--A String of Pearls
Count Basie and his Orchestra--Topsy
Shep Fields Orchestra--Harbor Lights
Buddy Rich and his Orchestra--Ya Gotta Try
Bob Crosby and His Bobcats--In a Minor Mood
Ella Fitzgerald & Her Savoy Eight--Opus One
Cab Calloway & His Orchestra--The Old Man of the Mountain
Charlie Barnet And His Orchestra--Cherokee
Duke Ellington Orchestra--Take the A Train
Glen Miller Orchestra--Pensylvania 6-5000
Ray McKinley & His Orchestra--Tumblebug
Cab Calloway & His Orchestra--Aw You Dawg
Count Basie feat. Billie Holiday--I'll Always be in Love with You
Duke Ellington Orchestra--Caravan
Earle Warren & his Orchestra--Tush
Cab Calloway & His Orchestra--Minnie the Moocher
Duke Ellington Orchestra--Satin Doll
Chick Webb And His Orchestra--When I Get Low, I Get High
Benny Goodman Orchestra--Sing, Sing, Sing

Klezmer!

This is a somewhat delayed posting of my klezzie set. Klezmer is eastern European Jewish music, which in the U.S. blended with jazz music in the 1920s-1940s, and then helped spawn surf music. In its more recent revival, it has crosspollinated with other genres from hip-hop to reggae to new age elevator music. I neglected to include any new age elevator music in my set :P.

Dave Tarras--Bridegroom Special
Meshuggah Beach Party--Hava Negila
Laika & the Cosmonauts--C'mon Do the Laika!
Rabbinincal School Dropouts--Cosmic Tree
Balkan Beat Box--Bulgarian Chicks (f. V. Tomova. M. Alexiava)
New Orleans Klezmer Allstars--Klip Klop
David Krakauer's Klezmer Madness!--Alt(dot)klezmer
Balkan Beat Box--Delancey
Koby Israelite--Dance of the Idiots
David Gould--Yigdal Dub
Jamie Saft--Tref
Ta-Shma--Woman of Valor (f. Andy Statman)
Chutzpah--Super Jew
Socalled--Let's Get Wet
Solomon & Socalled--Hiphopkele
Solomon & Socalled--Freylekhs fun der Khupe: Pelt me with rice

Thursday Human Oddities Set

This was a really fun set for me. Thanks for listening, and for throwing on fun avatars! And thanks for the photo Savascha =)

Lucky Day Overture, Tom Waits
Ask the Bearded Lady, Non Credo
Hello Skinny, The Residents
Centaur, Buck 65
Dog Faced Boy, Eels
Christina The Astonishing, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Cryogenic Sleep, Milemarker
Coin-Operated Boy, The Dresden Dolls
If I Owned a Midget (Midget Named Gordo), Benefit
Ballad of Lobster Boy, John P. Strohm
Sealboy, Throneberry
She's Actual Size, They Might Be Giants
Gigantor, Dickies
Stella Was A Diver And She Was Always Down, Interpol
Monkey Man, The Specials
Bride Of The Elephant Man, The Murder City Devils
I Put a Spell On You, Screamin' Jay Hawkins

By hook or by crook

The last couple of weeks have been a little tricky for me, so I felt I needed a set that covered the full range of my world right now. Plus, I am REALLY easily affected by commercialization of music that I love... I think you might understand once you hear it. I hope you all enjoy it.

Yael Naim : Far Far
The Bird and the Bee : Ray Gun
Stereo Total : I Love you Ono
Pomplamoose : Beat the Horse
Nite Jewel : What Did he Say
Deerhoof : Offend Maggie
Crystal Stilts : Crystal Stilts
Chairlift : Bruises
Architecture in Helsinki : Lazy (Lazy)
Portishead : Threads
Brainiac : Nothing Ever Changes
Eels : Prizefighter
Asylum Street Spankers : Wake and Bake
Band of Bees : Go Karts
Dizzee Rascal : Dream
MSTRKRFT : No Wow (The Kills)
Themselves : Rapping 4 Money (ft. Why, Odd Nosdam, and cLOUDDEAD)
Edit: Due to posting early, and our sad loss of Eddie this week and for the next little while, I did not post my entire set that I played. Here are the additional songs and an extra zip for ya'll!
Yeah Yeah Yeah's : Dragon Queen
Peter Bjorn & John : Young Folks (ft. Victoria Bergsman)
St. Vincent : Actor Out of Work
Led Zeppelin : D'yer Mak'er
Kasabian : Thick as Thieves
Dengue Fever : Escape From Dragon House
The Hidden Cameras : Awoo
The Breeders : I Just Wanna Get Along
Siouxsie and the Banshees : Hong Kong Garden
The Damned : Neat Neat Neat
Iggy Pop : Nightclubbing
Devo : Uncontrollable Urge
Plastic Bertrand : Ca Plane Pour Moi

Link to this weeks set at Sendspace. Part 2

Lumi's Comfort Set

This was a set for quieter moods, riding between melancholy and uplift. If you're feeling achy, give these tunes a try.

Massive Attack--Everybody's Got a Family
Low--Two Step
Maria Taylor (with Andy LeMaster)--Time Lapse Lifeline
Sufjan Stevens--Chicago (acoustic version)
Bonnie Prince Billy--Love Comes to Me
Sigur Ros--Staralfur
Dadawa--Himalayans
Beck--Volcano
Cat Power--Cross Bones Style
Portishead--It's a Fire
Radiohead--Lucky
Trembling Blue Stars--Home And Dry
Saul Williams--Noe One Ever Does
Blue-Eyed Son--Upside Down
Sinead O'Connor--The Parting Glass

Fractured for the evening again, June 11th version

Welcome to my thursday set beloved Fracturelings!!

Themselves : Know That to Know This (ft. Aesop Rock)
Crystal Antlers : Vexation
Eels : Tremendous Dynamite
Jens Lekman : You are the Light (by Which I Travel into this and that)
Jeff Hanson : This Time it Will
St. Vincent : Actor Out of Work
T. Rex : Bang a Gong (Get it on)
Flying Lotus : GNG BNG
Cymbals Eat Guitars : Wind Phoenix
Phoenix : 1901
Kasabian : Thick as Thieves
Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse : The Man Who Played God (ft. Nina Persson)
Gang of Four : Natural's Not in it
Iggy Pop : Nightclubbing
Sonic Youth : What we Know
Jarvis Cocker : Fuckingsong
Ramones : Sheena is a Punk Rocker (Was cut due to time restrictions but is still in the zip!)
Dismemberment Plan : Do the Standing Still

I've also again uploaded a file to send space with all the songs! Hopefully this link will work on the first try, if not, let me know! Fracture June 11th

A Xax Set!

Yeah, I knows its been a bit since I posted - but I was prodded to put up this list from the previous' nights efforts - so I hope you all enjoy!

After a couple of straight -technoy mix sets I wanted to go for a bit of a more melodic, out there vibe, with some interesting new pieces - so, lo! The order might not be perfect because traktor kind of fudged it tho

Efdemin -Acid Bells (Martyn's Bittersweet Mix)
Ben Watt - Guinea Pig (Dj Koze Remix)
The Field - The More That I Do (Foals XIII Remix)
Matias Aguayo - Bo Jack (Vocal Version)
Legowelt - Police 303
Louderbach - Nothing More Than A White Poison
Stefann Goldmann - Sleepy Hollow
N/A - Variance (Marcel Dettman Remix)

Sorry its a short one, but tech difficulties kinda beset upon me!

Rieko's GOA/Psytrance Set

This set was a tour of a few GOA Trance/Psytrance subgenres, since there were a few questions about the genres the prior week. I'm not a real expert on categories, so it's just a rough tour, and I'm sure a lot of this could generate pages of debate.

GOA Trance: GOA Trance is named that way because it emerged from groups of hippies (LOL) playing music for each other in GOA, India, a place where they used to congregate as a retreat from society. For me, GOA sounds are dreamy, often other poeple describe them as 'organic'. You ride along with to multiple layers of cascading, pulsing, and meandering synthesizers. The beats set the pace, but aren't pronounced. There are now many subgenres of GOA also, but I'm just sticking with the standard.

1. Astral Project - "Amen"
2. Ethereal - "Moondawn"
3. Shakta - "Ten Times Around the Sun"

Psychedelic Trance: Psychedelic Trance evolved from GOA Trance. The sound is more electronic, and progresses through different varieties of sounds, whereas GOA tends to use layers of similar 'squelches'. Psytrance also has a greater emphasis on the beats.

4. Silicon Sound - "Inner Space"

Morning Full On: A popular subgenre of Psytrance emerged as Psy's popularity grew. Morning Full On focused on catchy, uplifting melodies, drawing a bit of influence from popular club music. There's often a clean synthesizer or an angelic background tone.

5. Protoculture - "Circadians"

Full On: Normal Full On Psytrance focuses on high energy, exciting beats. Full On and Morning Full On are often intertwined, much of both having developed in Israel. Much of Electronic Dance Music runs on 4/4 beats, and Full On frequently squeezes in more base pulses between each beat to make the music seem more rapid and intense.

6. Sesto Sento - "Disconnecting"
7. Psywalker - "Chemical Trance"
8. Xerox & Illumination - "The Vision"
9. Save the Robot - "Robotz"

Night Full On: Night Full On later emerged as an opposite of morning full on (I suppose when it didn't feel appropriate to play happy angelic tunes during late night raves). The tunes are a bit faster, and the melodies are darker and more sinister.

10. Menog - "Digital Feelings"
11. Neuromotor - "Android from Mars"
12. Iron Madness - "Dinak Productions"

Darkpsy (is my personal favorite!): Darkpsy is even faster, but it doesn't always aim to be intense. Rather frequently attempts to immerse you in hypnotic sounds, similar to GOA Trance. There is far less, if any, melodies in DarkPsy, but the tunes get a dose of Industrial influence with sampling and heavy distortion. The sounds are very dense, with the goal of invoking a variety of tones: eerieness, mechanical hollowness, sinister, spooky forests, etc. Much of Darkpsy developed in Russia.

13. Karmazon - "The calling"
14. CPC - "Piter 25"
15. Horror Place - "Empty Space"
16. Kindzadza - "Superstrings"

Pink's set 6/6/2009

1. The Microphones - "The Gleam"
2. Raccoo-oo-oon - "Behold Secret Kingdom"
3. 500mg - "Exegisis"
4. Moondog - "Oo Debut"
5. Click Click Boom - "on the subtleties of class warfare" (via strangers in a tangled wilderness)
6. Starbird - "Dog Fight"
7. The Vaselines - "Dying For It (The Blues)"
8. Blanche - "Wayfaring Stranger"
9. Interkosmos - "Edentrip" (via Clinical Archives)
10. Inverness - "Flood Waves"
11. Silence At Sea - "Gladiators On Repeat" (via the giant isopod compilation)
12. Candy Claws - "Not Strange Winged Snail"
13. Pekko Käppi - "Oli mulla aarre kallis"
14. Angus MacLise - "Heavenly Blue Pt. 4 and 5"
15. Tim Fite - "Change of Heart"

Oh, hai, it's Sav!

Hello darling Fracturelings, I've been sorely remiss in not posting, but to make it up to you, here is my set list... and my set! If you want to download the songs I have made a zip file that will be available for download!

Stephen Malkmus : Church on White
Hot Hot Heat : Outta Heart
Britta Phillips & Dean Wareham : Night Nurse
Birdie : Laugh
Circulatory System : Symbols and Maps
She & Him : Sweet Darlin'
Theresa Andersson : Birds Fly Away
April March : Le Code Rural
Camera Obscura : Lloyd, I'm Ready to be Heartbroken
Suburban Kids With Biblical Names : Seems to be on My Mind
Mates Of State : A Control Group
Of Montreal : Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games
Rollerskate Skinny : Swingboat Yawning
James : Laid
Mason Jennings : Birds Flying Away
The Rumble Strips : Girls and Boys in Love
Elvis Costello & The Attractions : Green Shirt
Persephone's Bees : Way to Your Heart

http://www.sendspace.com/file/n5iabq

(Edit) Beta pointed out that clicking the link might be wonky, so cut and paste is better!

And try as I might, it is not in order, but you get the tunes. Love ya'll, Savascha

Eddie's 5/21 Set

Aka "The Debbie Downer Hour"

1. Indy Go Jones - We Are Different (8:50)
2. Talking Heads - Memories Can't Wait (3:31)
3. REM - Leave (7:17)
4. Smoosh - Massive Cure (1:59)
5. Cat Power - Nude as the News (4:21)
6. The Dears - There Is No Such Thing As Love (10:06)
7. Deerhunter - Never Stops (3:04)
8. Pale 3 - You Can't Find Peace (5:02)
9. Buck 65 - Achilles and the Tortoise (7:20)
10. Cake - Take It All Away (3:57)
11. Pearl Jam - All Those Yesterdays (7:47)

Lumi's Protest Set 16 May 09

I've been feeling feisty this week, Fighting the Power on intersex and trans issues in the blogosphere, so I thought I'd present a rebellious set. I had 90 minutes, as Pink was away, but that is still only enough time to present a sampler of all the politically-energizing music out there. Here it is:

Saul Williams--Banged and Blown Through
Marvin Gaye--Inner City Blues
The Temptations--Ball of Confusion
Edwin Starr--War
Plastic Ono Band--Give Peace a Chance
Gil Scott-Heron--The Revolution Will Not be Televised
James Brown--Say it Loud-I'm Black and I'm Proud
Country Joe and the Fish--The Fish Cheer/I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young--Find the Cost of Freedom
Devo--Ohio
Julian Cope--All the Blowing-Themselves-Up-Motherfuckers
Cake--War Pigs
Dead Kennedies--Holiday in Cambodia
The Clash--Clampdown
Bad Religion--Let Them Eat War
Rage Against the Machine--Killing in the Name Of [Live]
One Day As A Lion--Ocean View
Nine Inch Nails--Letting You
Public Enemy--Fight the Power
Beastie Boys--It Takes Time to Build
Nas--Black President
Prince Cat-Eyez--Bash Back
Elmo Sexwhistle--Genderfuck
The Tom Robinson Band--Glad to Be Gay
A Perfect Circle--Imagine

Sen's playlist 5/14

Another loud and heavy one!

Don Caballero - Celestial Dusty Groove
Fugazi - Epic Problem
Gang of Four - To Hell With Poverty (Go Home Productions Remix)
Lightning Bolt - 13 Monsters
Persona Grata - Exhibit A
Rage Against the Machine - Street Fighting Man
Aloke - Hard Day at Work
Oh My God - The Sneak
Mockba - The Man
Sonic Youth - Kill Yr. Idols
Trans Am - Stereo Situation
Add N To (X) - Sir Ape
The Breeders - Iris (live)
Boris - Ganbou-Ki


..also more amazing bandnames:

Soy Mullet
Edible Wookie

..and super fancy album title: Things that turn you on and fit into a Honda

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