Shock World Service

Shock World Service

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  • 073: A Beatless Drift (The Drifter)
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    Shock World Service 073:
    A Beatless Drift (The Drifter)
    5/12/17 Wicklow, Ireland
    1. Roman Flügel - Fantasy
    Brian Enoesque opener.
    2. Mental Overdrive - Opening
    The second opener.
    3. Tim Engelhardt - Endless
    Endless beauty in them machines.
    4. Nathan Jonson - Softly
    Make more ambient Nathan! Both tracks on this EP are beauties.
    5. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Who I Am & Why I Am Where I Am
    Best tune from her new album.
    6. Colleen - One Warm Spark
    Let the warm sparks wash over you.
    7. Deru - Midnight in the Garden with Ghosts
    From the amazing album 1979. I could have picked any of them.
    8. Caterina Barbieri - Gravity That Binds
    Bask in the distortion build.
    9. NV - Nobinobi
    From an interesting japanese LP Binasu. From pop to ambient to all over the place.
    10. Lord Of The Isles - Beatha
    He's been making some great music lately. This from an EP on Firecracker that came very soon after his ESP LP.
    11. nonkeen - The Invention Mother
    I'm just gonna say it....I absolutely adore this song :)
    12. Bwana - Kiyoko's Vision
    Taken from Bwana's album hommage to Akira. Check it!
    13. The Prince of Denmark - Ambient 004
    He made very nice ambient music too!
    14. Alex Menzies - 02 Disorder 14A
    Alex Smoke in ambient/new classical mode. He's got some amazing music under his own name, he'll be soundtracking movies very soon i'd say.
    15. Olafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm - Four
    2 heavyweights = Four. Some great subtle music they've made together.
    16. Mental Overdrive - Repeat: Then: Repeat
    Second one by him, nice bells from his new album
    17. Lusine - Chatter
    Glassesque from Lusine. He has made some great music over the years.
    18. Stimming x Lambert - Trafic Aerien
    Great collaboration from a new Life & Death compilation.
    19. Johan Johansson - The Suns Gone Dim and the Sky's Turned Black
    I had to have a bit of a dramatic ending!
    1 hr 3 min
  • 072: Constellation Swan (Chloe Frieda, Alien Jams)
    Shock World Service 072:
    Constellation Swan by Chloe Frieda (Alien Jams)
    22/11/17 London, United Kingdom
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    1. Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Ariel Kalma - Miracle Mile
    This whole album is amazing, a collaboration between Robert A. A. Lowe and Ariel Kalma called "We Know Each Other Now Somehow." It was released on RVNG in 2015.
    2. Xordox - Diamonds
    This release came out this year on Editions Mego, a project helmed by JG Thirlwel with Noveller featured in three of the tracks. Shimmering synths morph into an intense horror soundtrack.
    3. recsund - Hall of Waits
    This one is by my partner Clifford Sage, I also included a glimmer of this track at the very beginning of the mix, It's from his release Deadsounds V.
    4. Charles Manier - Mesrop
    I have a few of Manier's records (an alias of Tadd Mullinix) and I always go back to them! Gritty, weird, EBM, industrial goodness, it's hard to pick one track from the record as there are so many great tracks to choose from.
    5. Alek Stark - GC 4406
    Alek Stark has an impressive discography, dating back to 2002, many of which I have yet to check out. This release on CPU is pretty solid, some beautiful electro here.
    6. Reckonwrong - Morton
    This track is from Reckonwrong's release on Pinkman, it's a hard one to categorise. I love how this track unfolds, especially with the "I feel that my music is important" vocal sample.
    7. Rings Around Saturn - Synchrotron
    Synthy perfection from this electro gem.
    8. Jensen Interceptor- Carter's Green Factory
    Another one from the mighty Central Processing Unit, a Drexcyan beauty.
    9. Dreams - Gut Bounce
    This one fits well amongst the Apron back-catalogue, with chugging acid lines and floating melodies.
    10. Morphology - Darkstar (The Hacker Remix)
    This track is from a remix record with The Exaltics, JTC, Sync 24 and Deixis on the label Cultivated Electronics. Dark and brooding electro remix by the Hacker.
    11. Echo 106 - From Brunnen to the Nile
    Euphoric electro, this is one of my favourites.
    12. Wilted Woman - Heating Problem
    New record on Alien Jams :)
    13. Terribilis - Alucarda
    Released on a Quantum Natives compilation "Seize the Means of Production," her set at the ICA this year was wonderful.
    45 min
  • 071: Mix for Milarepa (ELLLL)
    Shock World Service 071:
    Mix for Milarepa (ELLLL)
    20/9/17 Cork, Ireland
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    1. Eliane Radigue - Mila’s Song in the Rain
    Queen of meditative drone.
    2. Black Merlin - Somewhere in Ubud
    Taken from ‘Hipnotik Tradisi'. Washes of Gamelan and field recordings with sinister and broody hues.
    3. Dickie Landry - Fifteen Saxophones
    An intense densely layered, free flowing study using tape delays.
    4. Minced Oath - Quelle Décalotage
    Soft, warm, shimmering pools of sound.
    5. Holger Czukay - Longing for Daydreams
    Apt title for clever use of sampling to lull the listener into a trance like state.
    6. Midori Takada - Mr. Henri Rousseau’s Dream
    Percussionist and composer Takada melds traditional African and Asian motifs to form a delicate, airy narrative in homage to post-impressionist painter Henri Rousseau.
    7. Haruomi Hosono - Growth
    Slightly uneasy yet stoic extract taken from ‘Watering a Flower’, a series of compositions commissioned to be played as background music in household goods store, Muji in 1983.
    8. Andrea Belfi - Statico
    An abstract composition for drums, percussion and synthesiser. From the 2017 record ‘Alveare’.
    9. ASDA - Bells
    Noise by Sebastian Gainsborough (Vessel) and words Chester Giles.
    10. Holger Czukay - Floatspace
    An ethereal cloud to carry you away.
    11. Patricia Escudero - Gymnopedie I
    Unique interpretation of Erik Satie’s ‘Gymnopedie I’.
    12. Giusto Pio - Motore Immobile
    Stunning piece of 1970’s Italian minimalist composition.
    13. Nadia Khan - Milky Sweat
    Taken from ‘Open Interior’ on Where to Now?
    14. Johann Johannsson - Melodia (III)
    Distant piano solo vignette from the album ‘Fordlandia’
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    58 min
  • 070: Strange & Torturous Customs Practiced In Our World Today (Seminal Wave)
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    Shock World Service 070:
    Strange & Torturous Customs Practiced In Our World Today by Shawn Renaud
    9/8/17 Ontario, Canada
    1. Cold Cave - The Idea Of Love
    Latest single from 'Heartworm Press'. Check the video by Amy Lee
    2. Asphixiation - L'Acrostique D'Amour
    Dancey post-punk from Australia, recently reissued on Chapter Music.
    3. Bronze Age - Coupling Symbols
    Alberich's (Kris Lapke) alter-ego. This was put on Bed of Nails which is a label run by Dominick Fernow who's previously featured on the podcast in his Vatican Shadow guise.
    4. ZYX - Trust No Woman
    One album wonders, recently reissued by Dark Entries.
    5. Prurient - Washed Against The Rocks
    Ambient piece by the previously mentioned Dominick Fernow this time under his Prurient alias
    6. Nine Circles - Twinkling Stars
    1982 classic from long time Dutch minimal faves
    7. KWC 92 - Dreaming Of You
    Left field ambient opener from ‘Dream Of The Walled City (O​.​S​.​T​.​)’ on L.I.E.S. The soundtrack to a movie that doesn't exist.
    8. Modern Art - Hello/Goodbye
    Longtime psychedelic synth project from Gary Ramon
    9. Lussuria - Viper Room Vigil
    Dark ambiance from Italy, released on Hospital Productions.
    10. Bene Gesserit - Nobody Can Know
    Long time Belgium faves featuring Alain Neffe
    11. Whilst - Goya's Skull
    Left field dance on Glasgow’s Optimo Music.
    12. Death In June - Come Before Christ & Murder Love
    Early synth-laden track from neofolk giants
    13. Brusque Twins - Speaking In Colour
    Lovely minimal synth track from their album 'A Voice In The Night; on Visage Musique.
    14. Tomo Akikawabaya - The Invitation Of The Dead
    Japanese minimal wave from 1984
    15. Black Rain - Protoplasm
    Ambient industrial freak out project from Stuart Argabright (Dominatrix, Death Comet Crew) on Blackest Ever Black'
    16. Ende Shneafliet - Session Zeitgeist
    We finish with Dutch experimental giants Ende Shneafliet.
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    1 hr 4 min
  • 069: The New Objectivity (Jon Averill)
    Shock World Service 069:
    The New Objectivity (Jon Averill)
    24/7/17 London, United Kingdom
    1. Oxford Street Saxophone Man – Unknown
    Part of my listening experience when I 1st moved to London was about how much background noise overtook music on my headphones, i’ve always tried to reflect this back into podcasts.
    2. Wagner - Das Rheingold, Vorspiel
    Powerful piece of music i’ve never quite been able to get into a podcast, until now!
    3. Mark Franklin - Release To The System (Beaumont Hannant Remix)
    From Warp’s amazing 1994 compilation Artificial Intelligence 2
    4. Delicate Features - Prologue
    St Petersburg's Delicate Features. Like listening to an opera backwards, in space!
    5. Bruce - Before You Sleep
    A cold hammering drumbeat gives way to emotive electronic shimmers.
    6. Visible Cloaks & Dip in the Pool – Valve (Revisited)
    A crystalline polished soundscape from the Portland duo previously known for the mix; ‘Fairlights, Mallets & Bamboo’
    7. Ben Frost - Venter (HTRK Remix)
    Understated lo-fi textures from Ben Frost
    8. Wyatt/Atzmon/Stephen - The Ghosts Within
    The avant-pop legend Robert Wyatt from his collaborative album ‘For the Ghosts Within’.
    9. Gora Sou – Choreography
    Pristine electronic droplets give way to breathy textures & polyrhythms
    10. Aphex Twin - With My Family [48k]
    Rare Aphex track that’s not so rare now as he’s just put it up to buy on his new site.
    11. Afro-Disiak - Tambours D'Eau
    Belgium world music from 1988 just given a fresh release on Optimo Music.
    12. Seefeel - Spangle
    2nd track from Warp’s Artificial Intelligence 2 compilation.
    13. O'Flynn - Desmond's Empire
    The mysterious ‘O Flynn’ with one of my favourites so far this year. Ethnographic, emotional house music!
    14. Ryuichi Sakamoto - Elephantism Theme (edit)
    2002’s oddly titled ‘Elephantism Theme’ winding up this episode.
    15. Oxford Street Saxophone Man – Rivers of Babylon [Extract]
    Part of the same recording that intro’d the podcast. Recorded on phone on Oxford St last year.
    1 hr 2 min
  • 068: Swelling Progress (BandCloud)
    068: Swelling Progress (Bandcloud)
    20/3/16 Dublin, Ireland
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    1. Jana Irmert – Altitude Adjustment
    From a compilation called self​-​identified non​-​male artists making experimental electronic music. Irmert is a Berlin-based sound artist, “interested in the vague, irrational, less tangible aspects of existence”.
    2. Head Dress – Devil's Triangle
    LA-based Ted James Butler, who also records cassette-only podcast Norelco Mori. This experimental track was released on Castle Bravo.
    3. CUBOP – Nocturnal Panacea
    CUBOP shared this track as an "aural gift". A nice clash of experimental noise & more earthly sounds.
    4. Vlasta Burian – Vlasta Burian v Obrazarne (in the Picture Gallery)
    This excerpt comes from a compilation of tracks related to The Okeh Laughing Record. It's a 1930 recording of a Czech comedian.
    5. Leaaves – The Only One Who Knew
    Leaaves makes lush music fuelled by melancholy; this track comes from a release called We Will Forget Our Sadder Days In Summers That Never End. Apt.
    6. David Fyans – In An Object
    Sign up to this guy's Bandcamp sub. He drops beautiful ambient modulations all the time.
    7. Mr Mitch – The Man Waits (Talbot Fade's Extension Cord To The Abyss Mix)
    I first got to know Talbot Fade when he shared his debut self-released album with me on Twitter. I was blown away. The first time we met was going to Boxed, where Mitch was playing. Now he's remixing Mitch & collaborates with him as Yaroze Dream Suite. <3
    8. Linda O'Keeffe – Slowly Moving Out From The Centre
    Somehow this piece was created on an iPad. It featured on a compilation by British artists in the noise sphere that raised funds for the homeless at Christmas.
    9. Agnes – 02
    The excellent Aught project, which released 10 tapes by 5 artists, has expanded into a new realm. 012016002001 is a two-track vinyl release from Agnes, an unknown quantity, that features rhythmic patterns of non-musical noise.
    10. Manuel Senfft – A Singing Comet
    Researchers noticed that the 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko comet was emitting 'music' in the form of oscillations in the magnetic field in its comet environment. German composer Manuel Senfft helped transform the data into the music we have here.
    11. doepf fm2
    Honestly, I can't remember where I got this. That's the problem with wav downloaded files from SoundCloud. TAG YOUR MUSIC, folks!
    12. TANS – Queer Nation
    An Italian artist whose debut tape, Die Unsichtbare Überall, appeared on Seagrave.
    13. Edna King – Tracing
    This is a beautiful, almost choral track from Toronto’s Edna King. It fits perfectly with Call Super’s track, adding haunting layers to an already beguiling piece.
    14. Call Super – Leosengor
    Call Super is my favourite DJ and producer. This comes from his first release for Houndstooth, with whom he's enjoyed a fruitful relationship over the past few years. It’s deeply haunting & emotive, & encapsulates his ability to imbue straightforward structures with untold depth.
    15. Line Idle – Woodblocks (Short Edit)
    Just a nice short track that sounds nice. I found it & never went further with the artist & hey, that’s okay.
    16. Beatrice Dillon – Curl
    One of the most forward-thinking artists out there. This is just the intro to a track on Alien Jams, something I could listen to for hours on end.
    17. Jorge Velez – Second
    Jorge Velez has been dropping a lot of archival stuff on Bandcamp, such as this piece, from a live recording in 2001. A world away from the gnarly techno he releases on labels like L.I.E.S.
    18. Kara-Lis Coverdale – ICON -C
    I can’t put into words how this incredible piece stops my heart every time. KLC has an incomparable ability to build worlds with sound.
    19. Diane Valence – Marion Vizenta
    I love foggy, melancholic ambient sounds, & this piece fits that bill better than most.
    20. Jane Cassidy – Exit To The Shallows
    Irish artist Jane Cassidy released my favourite album of 2015, a sleeper release that deserves more attention.
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    1 hr 1 min
  • 067: Continental Drift (Jon Averill)
    Shock World Service 067: Continental Drift (Jon Averill)
    4/2/16 London, United Kingdom
    1. Razen - Sleeper
    Electronic trad?
    2. Dean Blunt – Papi
    A fleeting piece from album ‘The Redeemer’
    3. John Cooper Clarke - Health Fanatic
    Been a while since Dr Cooper Clarke made a world service appointment. Obvious lyrical prowess aside this is a unique & extraordinarily original piece.
    4. 2 8 1 4 - Recovery
    Very tricky release to find, on vinyl at least. Telepath テレパシー能力者 & HKE are 2 8 1 4. Can’t recommend their album ‘Birth of a New Day’ highly enough.
    5. Chassol - Music Is God
    Christophe Chassol want to Calcutta to record sounds & dialogue for his album Indiamore. Gilles Peterson fodder.
    6. Spiritualized – I Didn’t Mean To Hurt You (Instrumental)
    Caught Spiritualized performing ‘Ladies & Gentleman…’ with full choir & orchestra late 2016, a reminder of how amazing they are in full flow. This is an instrumental version of a track from 2001’s ‘Let It Come Down’.
    7. Zazou Biyake – M’Pasi Ya M’Pamba
    Plinky plonky Afro electronic record I picked up that came out back in 1984
    8. Sera Arreza - Bohol
    A piano piece I came across on Soundcloud, thanks to Sera for letting me include it in this episode.
    9. Deaf Center – Thread
    Norwegian duo Deaf Center sounding a little like William Basinski on ‘Thread’
    10. Die Unbekannten – Radio War
    Taking from the soundtrack to 'Lust & Sound In West-Berlin 79-89’. Which as the title suggests is a homage to the walled-in city.
    11. Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending
    One of my favourite ever pieces of music. From the cold war to Great War – this was written just before the outbreak of the 1st World War.
    12. TS Elliot - Journey of the Magi (Extract)
    A poem by TS Elliot from 1927
    13. Soft as Snow - Black Birds (Maria Minerva Rework)
    This Maria Minerva mix segues very nicely over the previous track
    14. Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - Down From Dover
    You can’t accuse me of not supporting Lee on this podcast
    15. R2DJ - Clean Living
    Rescued off a scratched & dusty CD in my drawer. Beautiful slice & cut emo-hop from the album ‘Since We Last Spoke’
    16. Elvis Presley - Black Star
    An unreleased Elvis track dealing with the inevitable state of demise.
    Rumoured to be where Bowie took inspiration for the title of his final album.
    ‘& when a man sees his black star he knows his time has come’ & so dear listeners has ours for another podcast…
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    1 hr

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The Shock World Service is a 100 episode collection of painstakingly assembled audio collages of soundtracks, electronic oddness & spoken word.