Radio One 91FM

Today we explored bands and projects with interesting, unique, or just plain odd singers. The music itself was a mix of weird folk and nasty blues, some punky stuff, and kraut. I was getting over a cold so my voice sounds yuck. Sorry. The bookend was Real Gone (the original mix/master) by Tom Waits.

Tom Waits - Hoist That Rag

Circuit des Yeux - Philo
:: Wet Marble - White Strawberries
Animal Collective - It's You
Thee Oh Sees - Sucks Blood

Animal Collective - La Rapet
Neutral Milk Hotel - Three Peaches
Moor Mother - Creation Myth
Scott Walker - Corps De Blah

Oxbow - Yoke
Christeene - BEAUCOUP MORROCCO
Big Black - Cables
The Shadow Ring - Heart, Liver, & Lungs

CAN - Spoon
Gnod - People
Amon Düül II - Flesh-Coloured Anti-Aircraft Alarm

Björk - Where Is The Line

Recommended listening: Christeene - MIDNITE FUKK TRAIN

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Today I brought on a friend and frequent collaborator of mine named DJ Dead Hog. We played heaps of electronic music across various energies and genres with the aim to avoid any acoustic instruments. It was pretty hectic. We also talked about upcoming music releases from the both of us. The bookend was Back On Time by Plug.

Plug - Come On My Skeleton

Andy Stott - Faith In Strangers
Actual (dn) - Teviot
Massive Attack - Be Thankful For What You've Got

The Bug (ft. Nazamba) - War
Blackstar - Emperor Selassie I
Matt Rapid (nz) - Amen Dyon Anaswa
Om - Garden of Dub

Bowery Electric - Fear of Flying
Hype Williams - Your Girl Smells Chung When She Wears Dior
cLOUDDEAD - I promise never to get paint on my glasses again (1)
Hype Williams - blue dream

Perishing Goods (dn) - Success

Plug - Flight 78

Recommended listening: Plug - Back On Time
Background music: Bone Chapel at Yours February 2024
Background music: A Dream Is Like A Magic Cloak at Yours February 2024

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Today we explored 3 different subgenres of Black Metal, neatly packaged into 3 blocks made up of 3 songs each. These were Atmospheric Black Metal, Blackened Noise, and War Metal. I really enjoyed doing the research for this playlist and I hope you enjoyed listening to it. This was by far the least American AP, only 1 band was from the US. Normally I play a lot of American bands so just an interesting thing. Intro/outro for today was Il était une forêt by Gris.

Gris - Il était une forêt...

Wolves In The Throne Room - I Will Lay Down My Bones Amongst The Rocks And Stones
Mistchaser (dn) - Kindred Spirits
Feigur - Die Herrschaft des Eises / Leichenschmaus

Μνήμα - Cosmic Lunacy
La Torture des Ténèbres - The Enigma Of The Intergalactic Canyon
Draugur (nz) - eymd

Blasphemy - Goddess of Pervasity
Deathmodulation (nz) - Abyssic Convocation 
Revenge - Vengeance Absolute

Methchrist (dn) - Anthropic Dysecdysis

Gris - Cicatrice

Recommended listening: Gris - Il était une forêt...

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Today's theme was industrial, which I know not very much about. A lot of the playlist was actually post punk with industrial influence, but it's hard to avoid that on an Aotearoa focused radio station because it seems that's what most of our industrial music (especially the older stuff) is. I liked the way the playlist worked out this week though. D.O.A. by Throbbing Gristle bookended our show today.

Throbbing Gristle - E-Coli

Suicide - Che
Cabaret Voltaire - She Loved You
Xiu Xiu - Wig Master

Skeptics (nz) - For Silos
girls pissing on girls pissing (nz) - Eeling
A Frames - Black Forest III
Curse of the Birthmark - monster imitates car

Children's Hour (nz) - Slaughter House
YHWH Nailgun - Tear Pusher
S.P.U.D. (nz) - Jimmy Ray
Zeigenbock Kopf - Hot Cocks on Fire

Merzbow, Genesis P-Orridge - Flowering Pain Give Space
Current 93 - Dögun
This Heat - The Fall of Saigon
The Mercy Cage (nz) - Another New Machine

Coil - the Mothership and the Fatherland, Pt. 2 - Prescription Edition
Puce Mary -  A Feast Before The Drought
Uboa - Endocrine Disruptor
Low - The Price You Pay (It Must Be Wearing Off)

Throbbing Gristle - Weeping

Recommended listening: Puce Mary - The Drought

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On the show today we had the amazing Keira Wallace on to talk about their new single, upcoming shows, and what curry would be like if it was Italian food. We also did a small kind of interview and a live to air featuring songs fresh off the petri dish! The bookend album this week was Whatever We Probably Already Had It by Frog.

Frog - Journey to the Restroom

Bedbug - how to live a happy life <3
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Boxphones
Hooky - Shrinkmaster
Frog Power (dn) - saw an angel

Deadharrie - Tango
Neutral Milk Hotel - Everything Is...
German Error Message - Hand Comes Down
Low - I Started A Joke

Keira Wallace - Seabeds / Clearing

Sometimes Winter (dn) - Break

Black Belt Eagle Scout - Salmon Stinta

Little Wings - Fall Flood
Bill Callahan - Too Many Birds
Womb (nz) - When the Night Breaks Up
Animal Collective - The Softest Voice

Frog - God Once Loved a Women

Recommended listening: Frog - Whatever We Probably Already Had It
Background music: Kinloch Nelson - Partly on Time 

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Today's theme was really really really hard to explain. I tried. I really did. But I couldn't, so I hope the music speaks for itself. The songs on today's playlist share a few things in common, they are otherworldly sounding, have a bit of a spiritual theme going on, and are all super riffy and heavy. Also they are all looong. This playlist sets the record for the least songs in an action paddle or actual paddock show, with only 6! This was a really fun show to do and I think I will definitely do more metal/doom themed actual paddocks in the future. Intro / outro album was Conference of the Birds by OM.

OM - At Giza
Bong - The Golden Fields
Zaum - Omen
Shape Of Despair - Sylvan-Night
YOB - Marrow
OM - Flight of the Eagle

Recommended listening: YOB - Clearing the Path to Ascend

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Back by popular demand today we had Jimmy T. back on the show to play tracks he likes and chat with me. We got a lot of requests this show, and only actually had 2 proper blocks of music because we were doing so much of everything else. This show's intro/outtro album was All Hail West texas by The Mountain Goats.

The Mountain Goats - Color in Your Cheeks
Laurie Anderson - Big Science
Low - Drag
Thee Silver Mountain Reveries - More Action! Less Tears!
Beings - God Dances In Your Eyes

Women - Can't You See

Bob Dylan - I Pity The Poor Immigrant

Animal Collective - Bees
Cap'n Jazz - Troubled By Insects
Rainer Maria - Breakfast of Champions
Jets To Brazil - Sweet Avenue
Parquet Courts - Back To Earth

Angelica Archangelica (dn) - At Yours 30/6/23

The Mountain Goats - Pink and Blue

Background music: Monolord - Vaenir
Recommended listening: Women - Public Strain

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Today we had a brand new episode of Mini Themes, and this time the themes were shorter and a bit different, focusing mostly on capturing a specific transition between vibes of music through similar instrumentation or themes. The Mini Themes were "a kind of beat", "different kinds of drones and animals", "capturing a change through one kind of beat and one vibe of "indie rock"", "if you told a tiny robot to make a playlist for you", and "kind of noisy but like in a room instead of in a mixer". It was really fun doing mini themes again and I will definitely make it a regular thing from now on. Have you got any ideas for other kinds of shows that could become a regular thing? Bookending the playlist was 50hz by the bug and Dabby You by Al Cisneros, from their vs album Rosin.

The Bug - 50hz

Merzbow - Looping Jane (beat mix)
Gnod - Stick In the Wheel

Yellow Swans - New Life
Cave Sermon - Birds and Machines in Brunswick East
Uboa - Sleep Hygiene

Bowery Electric - Coming Down
Mount Eerie - Huge Fire
Yo La Tengo - Everyday

Sogar - monohr
Kubutogani, Sogar - Book Gills
koronba - Etgrre 

Gris - Samsara
Sly & The Family Drone - Ankle Length Gloves
Jackie O Motherfucker - Loud and Mighty

Al Cisneros - Dabby You 

Background music: Earth - Hex; Or Printing In The Infernal Method
Recommended listening: Bowery Electric - Beat

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A one week delated birthday show, I fuel my ego by hosting myself as my own guest and only playing my favourite songs with no regard for how well they fit together in a playlist. Naturally there was a tonne of Osees, and a pretty wide spread of stuff honestly. It was hard to figure out what my favourite songs were hahaha. Knife Play by Xiu Xiu was today's bookend.

Xiu Xiu - Hives Hives

Big Black - Colombian Necktie
Coachwhips - You Gonna Get It
Lightning Bolt - Crown of Storms
Night Lunch - Hot Cops

Alabama Sacred Harp Singers - 300 Calvery
OCS - If I Had A Reason
Animal Collective - Kids On Holiday
Spiritualized - Broken Heart
Thee Oh Sees - Palace Doctor

Tricky - Ponderosa 
OM - Gethsemane
Low - The Price You Pay (It Must Be Wearing Off)
The Drones - And Then They Came For Me

Why? - The Wig Master
Tyrannosaurus Rex - The Seal Of Seasons
Marlon Williams (nz) - I'm Lost Without You
Thee Oh Sees - Moon Bog

Xiu Xiu - Suha

Background music: Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull
Recommended listening: OCS - Songs About Death and Dying Vol. 3

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This week was NZ music week, and so Radio 1 was playing entirely music from Aotearoa. The playlist this week was themed around the evolution of noise rock in NZ over the decades, and featured some more well known and influential bands as well as some I feel deserve more recognition in the NZ noise scene. Bookending the playlist was THE proto noise rock band (at least in my opinion), Gordons.

Gordons (nz) - Coalminers song

Skeptics (nz) - Divine Muscles Flex
S.P.U.D. (nz) - Motorway
The Dead C (dn) - Children
Wreck Small Speakers On Expensive Stereos (dn) - Alice In Wonderland

Plagal Grind (dn) - Marquesite Lace
Bailter Space (nz) - Robot World
H.D.U. (dn) - Simple
Superette (nz) - I Got It Clean

Alastair Galbraith (dn) - i'm rich and p.d. lyte
The Mint Chicks (nz) - The Perfect Machine
The Aesthetics (dn) - Christian Minimalist

A Handful of Dust (dn) - Consider Plebas Part 2
Vow Cave (nz) - Audio Foundation 11/07/19
L$D Fundraiser (dn) - Home and Hosed
Peter Porteus (dn) - rdc 25/05/25

The Stumps (nz) - The Black Wood 3

Dale Kerrigan (dn) - scene of the crime

Gordons (nz) - Right On Time

Recommended Listening: Plagal Grind self titled

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This Actual Paddock I decided to venture out into a theme that I hadn't gone far into before, post rap and the greater experimental hip-hop scene. The bulk of the playlist was centred around the Anticon label and projects of Adam Drucker and Yoni Wolf, like Doseone, WHY?, and cLOUDDEAD. The rest of the playlist was split up into blocks of experimental hip-hop, weird dub and trip hop, and ambient / spoken word. I really enjoyed running this show and having it be informed by some friends, especially Tomas Middleton who recommended me a lot of the artists I played. Bookending the playlist this time was both the A and B sides of two singles that form part of the self-titled debut compilation album by cLOUDDEAD

cLOUDDEAD - I Promise To Never Get Paint On My Glasses Again (1 and 2)

Cities Aviv - Gestures
dälek - Three Rocks Blessed
Dean Blunt - X

Roots Manuva - Styles Dub
Earth, The Bug ft. Flowdan - Angels
Slauson Malone 1 -  —Fred Hampton's Door, Farewell Sassy— ...na
Billy Woods - Spongebob

Doseone - Midas Gutz
Tricky, Alison Goldfrapp - Pumpkin - Ambient Mix
DJ Shadow - Napalm Brain / Scatter Brain / Medley

WHY? - The Wig Master

cLOUDDEAD - Bike (1 and 2)

Background music: Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
Recommended listening: Doseone - Softskulls

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- No podcast this time, the computer crashed :( -

My guest this time was Tane Cotton, another good friend of mine. It was great to just have a yarn on air and play music for eachother, even if again there was no kind of "interview" proper. The playlist moved from trash rock to noise rock and pretty much stayed there until the end. Bookending the playlist was Clot by Wax Chattels. Fun times.

Wax Chattels (nz) - Efficiency

Coachwhips - You Gonna Get It
Fugazi - Shut The Door
The Tape Wolves (nz) - Space Ghost
Osees - Drug City (live)

Dale Kerrigan (dn) Yuck and Stormy I
Lungbutter - Flat White
Just Mustard - Seed
Big Black - Passing Complexion

Twine - My God
The Jesus Lizard - Mouth Breather
Gilla Band - Sports Day
Voyeur - Velvet

black midi -  Of Schlagenheim
Tropical Fuck Storm - Chameleon Paint

Viagra Boys - Man Made of Meat
Heinous Coup (dn) - Pasta Fucker (single version)

Wax Chattels (nz) - Cede

Background music: Fripp and Eno - No Pussyfooting (expanded edition)
Recommended listening: Heinous Coup - Singles Collection 2003 - 2007 (it's our old band)

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