Captain of Outer Space
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So after learning the power of apps such as Shazam and Soundhound, I thought I'd test them out on my old mixtapes from around 1995-2002, back in the days where I used to prolifically record off the radio to tape. After all, you never know when you're ever going to hear a song again, and CBC had these great programs such as "Brave New Waves," "Radiosonic," "Nightlines with David Wisdom" that played stuff you'd never hear anywhere all. Plus I had an addiction to the French-language program "Quatre Chemins" which played some really funky world and new age stuff between a babbling Quebecois lunatic who laughed at his own jokes.
Enough yakkin'! Let's pop open some cassettes and get playing!
Twelve Moons - Jan Garbarek
So remember that "New Age" thing? Yeah, this is one of those. I thought it was a cool tune, so I managed to tape about the last 45 seconds. Now that I hear the whole track, it's... really not that good. Got kind of an awful Kenny G quality to it. Ah well; moving on.
Man Or Astro-Man? U-Uranus
Maximum Radiation Level - Man or Astro-Man? (Experiment Zero)
I was really into Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet in my teen years, partly because of their affiliation with Kids in the Hall, and partly because there was a great deal of appeal to my geeky DIY style. I never got into Man or Astro-man?, probably to my loss, since I feel like I've outgrown that style of music.
David Sylvian and Holger Czukay - Mutability (A New Beginning Is in the Offing)
"Brave New Waves" lasted from around midnight to 4 or 5 in the morning, 5 nights a week, and in 1996, it usually closed with this. Certainly I couldn't listen to the whole thing every night, or barely any night, but the few times I couldn't sleep and listened to the show throughout trying to find some new tune to latch on to, this would greet me at the end. If catharsis had a sound, this is what it would sound like to me.
William Orbit - Hinterland
Now *this* is proper new age shit; not comforting, but actually creepy and menacing, like trip-hop. I was right pissed at the Babbling Quebecois Who Laughed At His Own Jokes for babbling over half the awesome song I heard in the background. Thankfully sixteen years later I identified and caught up with it.
Big'N - Intro/Trophy
Remember what I said about "Brave New Waves" and catharsis? This is the other kind. This was probably the most brutally aggressive thing I ever heard in 1996, and I heard BNW play track from Nick Cave's "Murder Ballads. This is the musical equivalent of wandering into the wrong part of town and getting mugged after midnight: surly, in-your-face, probably shitfaced, and beating you down with you having no idea what's going on. I had no idea who even recorded it until a couple of days ago (originally thought it was a Jesus Lizard B-side) and now I want to know everything there is to know about Big'n.
To be continued.
Enough yakkin'! Let's pop open some cassettes and get playing!
Twelve Moons - Jan Garbarek
So remember that "New Age" thing? Yeah, this is one of those. I thought it was a cool tune, so I managed to tape about the last 45 seconds. Now that I hear the whole track, it's... really not that good. Got kind of an awful Kenny G quality to it. Ah well; moving on.
Man Or Astro-Man? U-Uranus
Maximum Radiation Level - Man or Astro-Man? (Experiment Zero)
I was really into Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet in my teen years, partly because of their affiliation with Kids in the Hall, and partly because there was a great deal of appeal to my geeky DIY style. I never got into Man or Astro-man?, probably to my loss, since I feel like I've outgrown that style of music.
David Sylvian and Holger Czukay - Mutability (A New Beginning Is in the Offing)
"Brave New Waves" lasted from around midnight to 4 or 5 in the morning, 5 nights a week, and in 1996, it usually closed with this. Certainly I couldn't listen to the whole thing every night, or barely any night, but the few times I couldn't sleep and listened to the show throughout trying to find some new tune to latch on to, this would greet me at the end. If catharsis had a sound, this is what it would sound like to me.
William Orbit - Hinterland
Now *this* is proper new age shit; not comforting, but actually creepy and menacing, like trip-hop. I was right pissed at the Babbling Quebecois Who Laughed At His Own Jokes for babbling over half the awesome song I heard in the background. Thankfully sixteen years later I identified and caught up with it.
Big'N - Intro/Trophy
Remember what I said about "Brave New Waves" and catharsis? This is the other kind. This was probably the most brutally aggressive thing I ever heard in 1996, and I heard BNW play track from Nick Cave's "Murder Ballads. This is the musical equivalent of wandering into the wrong part of town and getting mugged after midnight: surly, in-your-face, probably shitfaced, and beating you down with you having no idea what's going on. I had no idea who even recorded it until a couple of days ago (originally thought it was a Jesus Lizard B-side) and now I want to know everything there is to know about Big'n.
To be continued.