SOTAK Setlist - 06/29/11

The metal just keeps coming:

1. Blut Aus Nord - Epitome I
2. Baroness - Rays on Pinion
3. Ramesses - Towers of Silence
4. Mitochondrion - Kathenotheism
5. Agalloch - The Watcher's Monolith
6. Ahab - The Hunt
7. Kongh - Adapt the Void
8. High on Fire - Death is this Communion
9. Eyehategod - Dixie Whiskey
10. Neurosis - Eye
11. Nasum - Worldcraft
12. Ares Kingdom - Abandon in Place
13. Ghost - Satan Prayer
14. Mercyful Fate - Satan's Fall

PFP Setlist - 06/28/11

This week, in prog:

1. John Coltrane/Alice Coltrane - Cosmic Music (Side 1)
2. Kraftwerk - Autobahn (Side 1)
3. Max Roach/Cecil Taylor - McMillin Theater, December 15, 1979 (Side 2)
4. Magma - Live (Side 4)
5. The Don Ellis Orchestra - Electric Bath (Side 1)
6. Triumvirat - Illusions on a Double Dimple (Side 1)
7. Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (Side 2)
8. Frank Zappa - Weasels Ripped My Flesh (Side 1)
9. Marvin "Hannibal" Peterson - Hannibal in Antibes (Side 2)
10. Soft Machine - Volume Two (Side 2)
11. Caravan - L'Auberge du Sanglier/A Hunting We Shall Go/Pengola/Backwards/A Hunting We Shall Go (Reprise)

SOTAK Setlist - 06/22/11

This week in metal:

1. Hammers of Misfortune - The August Engine, Part 1/Rainfall
2. Enslaved - Ethica Odini
3. Opeth - Bleak
4. Megiddo - The Heretic
5. Triptykon - Myopic Empire
6. Head of David - I'll Fall at Your Feet
7. Godflesh - Life is Easy
8. Ministry - Just One Fix
9. O.L.D. - Client Null
10. Neurosis - Purify
11. Ufomammut - Hellectric
12. Lento - Currents
13. Toxic Holocaust - Nowhere to Run
14. Evile - Burned Alive
15. Impetigo - Boneyard
16. Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Manual Trauma
17. !T.O.O.H.! - Ja Samaritan
18. Discordance Axis - The Third Children
19. Sadus - False Incarnation
20. King Diamond - Black Horsemen

Song of the Week #6

Better late than never, I suppose:

Theoretical Girls - Computer Dating

Album: N/A. You can find it on Theoretical Record, a compilation

Year: Some time between 1977-1981

Genre: No Wave

I'm not going to call myself an expert on the no wave scene by any stretch of the imagination, but it was definitely a revolutionary movement, and Theoretical Girls were a very creative group. Some people might know them as the first home for Glenn Branca, who later developed a big name for himself as an avant-garde composer. This song puts the band's talent to use, creating a tapestry that mocks the advent of computer dating in a gloriously before its time piece. It 's repetitive and tense, raw and energetic, quirky and creative all in one song.

PFP Setlist - 06/21/11

And surprise, surprise, another setlist! These things just keep coming, don't they?

1. Chick Corea and the Return to Forever - Live (Side 1)
2. Atomic Rooster - Made in England (Side 1)
3. Alice Coltrane - World Galaxy (Side 2)
4. Faust - Return of a Legend (Side 1)
5. The Cecil Taylor Unit - Live in Bologna (Side 2)
6. Guru Guru - Mani & Seine Freunde (Side 1)
7. Albert Ayler - Witches & Devils (Side 1)
8. Van der Graaf Generator - Godbluff (Side 2)
9. Keith Jarrett - Sun Bear Concerts (Side 1)
10. King Crimson - Islands (Side 2)

Talk-Over Music: Frank Zappa - Didja Get Any Onya?

Schizo Setlist - 06/20/11

This week on Schizo:

1. Subhumans - Nothing I Can Do
2. Gang Green - Protect and Serve
3. Circle Takes the Square - In The Nervous Light of Sunday
4. Nausea - Clutches
5. Toxic Reasons - Riot Squad
6. Negative Approach - Tied Down
7. Orchid - New Jersey vs. Valhalla
8. Buzzcocks - What Do I Get?
9. Wipers - Potential Suicide
10. Rezillos - Top of the Pops
11. Shoulder - Water Level
12. Gray Matter - Crisis and Compromise
13. The Germs - Land of Treason
14. Jello Biafra & D.O.A. - Full Metal Jackoff

SOTAK Setlist - 06/15/11

This week:

1. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Farewell, Mona Lisa
2. Napalm Death - Scum
3. Municipal Waste - Radioactive Force
4. Gama Bomb - Return to Blood Castle
5. Cadaver - Evil is Done
6. Autopsy - Bridge of Bones
7. Atheist - Animal
8. Artillery - Bombfood
9. Celtic Frost - Visions of Mortality
10. Emperor - I Am the Black Wizards
11. Bathory - Enter the Eternal Fire
12. High on Fire - Speedwolf
13. Boris - Afterburner
14. Indian - The Fate Before Fate
15. Tombs - Cold Dark Eyes
16. Swarm of the Lotus - Call to Abandon
17. Acid Bath - What Color is Death?
18. Baroness - Vision
19. Strapping Young Lad - Aftermath
20. Torche - Amnesian
21. Toxic Holocaust - City of a Million Graves

PFP Setlist - 06/14/11

First official episode of Profoundly Layered Passion? Why not! I dig playing the avant-garde on this show with some classics thrown in for good measure. This week:

1. Don Cherry - Hear & Now (Side 1)
2. Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother (Side 1)
3. Anthony Braxton - The Aggregate (Side 2)
4. Frank Zappa - The Grand Wazoo (Side 1)
5. Miles Davis - Filles de Kilimanjaro (Side 2)
6. Hawkwind - Hall of the Mountain Grill (Side 1)
7. Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch (Side 1)
8. The Residents - Third Reich 'n' Roll (Side 2)
9. Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz (Side 1)

Talk-Over Music: Dexter Gordon - Scrapple in the Apple

Song of the Week #5

Hunx and his Punx - You Don't Like Rock 'n' Roll

Album: Gay Singles

Year: 2009

Genre: Punk, Pop

Hunx and his Punx are fun as hell and this song is, in my mind, the epitome of that. You Don't Like Rock 'n' Roll is a catchy, upbeat anthem for rock fans to get behind. The song has enough of an edge to it to make it great to chant along with. I can play this song at any time and it will bring a smile to my face.

Prog and Jazz

First off, unfortunately there was no Radio Schizo today due to technical difficulties. But on the upside, I've got a kind of new show coming up for the summer semester! If you've payed attention to the radio on 2-6PM tuesday, I've got a prog/jazz show that extends a full four hours!

Tuesdays, 2-6PM

Profoundly Layered Passion:

Format: Progressive Rock/Jazz

This show is four hours switching up between record sides of classic progressive rock and jazz music of all varieties. From the tame and masterful to the adventurous avant-garde and experimental. From Yes and Univers Zero to Dizzy Gillespie and Ornette Coleman.

SOTAK Setlist - 06/08/11

Yet another setlist, for old times sake:

1. Harvey Milk - Death Goes to the Winner
2. Unearthly Trance - The Tesla Effect
3. Trap Them - The Facts
4. Nasum - No Sign of Improvement
5. Phobia - Continue Insane
6. Coalesce - The Comedian in Question
7. Rotten Sound - Ritual
8. Aura Noir - Wretched Face of Evil
9. Obscura - Vortex Omnivium
10. Death - Overactive Imagination
11. Sadus - Powers of Hate
12. Demolition Hammer - Omnivore
13. Grave Miasma - Amorphous Noumenon
14. Darkthrone - Skald av Satans sol
15. Austere - To Fade with the Dusk
16. Electric Wizard - Patterns of Evil
17. YOB - Grasping Air
18. Kongh - Unholy Water
19. In Solitude - Serpents Are Rising
20. Lizzy Borden - Abnormal
21. The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Death Machine
22. Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman

Schizo Setlist - 06/06/11

This week in commentless setlists:

1. City of Caterpillar - Maybe They'll Gnaw Right Through
2. Black Uniforms - Trapped
3. Government Warning - Jocks & Cops
4. The Virus - Vicious Rumors
5. The Queers - You Make Me Wanna Puke
6. Circle Jerks - Product of my Environment
7. Adolescents - Word Attack
8. Minutemen - Spoken Word Piece
9. Agent Orange - A Cry for Help in a World Gone Mad
10. Flipper - Life
11. Urinals - Ack Ack Ack Ack
12. Jawbox - Chump
13. Make Do and Mend - Transparent Seas
14. Cap'n Jazz - Basil's Kite
15. I Hate Myself - This Isn't the Tenka-ichi-Budôkai
16. Zegota - Open Disobedience, Bold Resistance
17. Antisect - Tortured and Abused
18. His Hero is Gone - The End Result of 11 Days in Prison
19. Dead Milkmen - Tugena

Song of the Week #4

Kongh - Pushed Beyond

Album: Counting Heartbeats

Year: 2007

Genre: Sludge Metal

As odd as it sounds, this was the first sludge metal band I ever listened to. Not Mastodon, not Acid Bath, but Kongh. This album does hold a fair bit of nostalgia for me, but this is not one of those albums that faded out as part of some short-lived phase. Counting Heartbeats embodies everything that I love about sludge metal. Pushed beyond is relentlessly slow-paced, but it is by no means static. It's dark and brooding and heavy as all hell. I can't help but find a beauty in it, though. It embraces the magnificence of darkness and alienation. Truly a fantastic song.

SOTAK Setlist - 06/01/11

Not quite the debut, but close enough, Sounds of the Animal Kingdom went a little like this:

1. Horrific - Death Rock
2. 16 - Skin & Bones
3. Carcass - Carneous Cacoffiny
4. Morbid Saint - Crying for Death
5. Destruction - Creations of the Underworld
6. Death Breath - Reduced to Ashes
7. Kreator - Betrayer
8. Nifelheim - Black Curse
9. Skeletonwitch - The Despoiler of Human Life
10. Magrudergrind - Cranial Media Parasite
11. Insect Warfare - Nuclear Deterrence
12. Brutal Truth - Hypocrite Invasion
13. Gorod - Life Controller
14. Mitochondrion - Trials
15. Possessed - Holy Hell
16. Runemagick - Doomed
17. Jucifer - Throned in Blood
18. Minsk - Three Moons
19. Eagle Twin - And it Came to Pass That Birds Fell to Earth as Black Snakes
20. Black Cobra - Thrown from Great Heights
21. Peste Noire - Le Mort Joyeux
22. Wolves in the Throne Room - Vastness and Sorrow
23. Woe - Alone With Our Failures
24. Bone Awl - The King is Red
25. Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss

Talk-Over Music: Kyuss - Apothecaries' Weight