Program 1: Into the Unknown

Hello. I hope you enjoyed the show. Firstly, I apologize for posting this so late. In the future it is likely I'll be able to update the blog live while doing the show, but in this first episode I was still learning to use the equipment. Next week should be a lot better now that I have a better handle on how to do this stuff. There was a bit of dead air, mispronunciations, general voice awkwardness, etc, but I'll be sure to work on that next week. Still though, I think the first show went relatively well. The playlist from the KTRM website is below.

I'll say a few things about the more difficult to find tracks that aired. For the rest you can easily find information with google or wikipedia. Chris Zippel is a German electronic artist that writes various styles from more upbeat house and trance to more downtempo ambient. Hedfunk's song Inosan is difficult to track down because it only appeared on the compilation album Earthrise.Ntone.1, which is a collection of songs by various electronic artists. Hedfunk is already rather unknown, but I'd highly recommend them. Their self-titled album is quite good. You may already know Port Blue by a different name. Recording artist Adam Young uses the Port Blue pseudonym for his pop-ambient side project, but his main project is recorded under the name Owl City, and has achieved an incredible amount of mainstream success. Finally, The Tumbled Sea has not, as far as I know, signed to any recording label yet, but has achieved a decent amount of internet fame. He released his album on a post-rock forum. You can see the thread and download his album Songs from the Tumbled Sea here: http://afterthepostrock.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=14221

A couple other interesting notes; if you found that Hopkins' Light Through the Veins sounded familiar, it's probably because it was used on rock megagroup Coldplay's recent album Viva la Vida on the first and last tracks: "Life in Technicolor" and "Death and All His Friends". Hopkins has also toured with and opened for Coldplay. He has also worked closely with Brian Eno, producer of Viva la Vida. You may also have found Chicane's "Poppiholla" sounding familiar if you are fan of Icelandic post-rock group Sigur Ros. It was a trance remix of their song "Hoppipolla" from the album Takk. Port Blue's album Arctic was, as far as I know, never officially released, but it nonetheless surfaced on the internet.

12:06am	Death Cab for Cutie “Brothers On a Hotel Bed (Bachelors of Science remix)” from Plans CD ALBUM(Atlantic Records 2005) Buy it!
12:08am	Boards of Canada “Roygbiv” from Music Has the Right to Children (Warp Records 1998) Buy it!
12:11am	Chris Zippel “Around, Arrived” from Genuine Horizon (Elektrolux 2007) Buy it!
12:20am	Deadmau5 “Slip” from Random Album Title (Ultra Records 2008)Buy it!
12:38am	Jon Hopkins “Light Through the Veins” from Insides (Domino Recording Co. LTD 2009) Buy it!
12:38am	Justice “Let There Be Light” from Cross CD ALBUM (Ed Banger/Because Music/Vice 2007) Buy it!
12:45am	Prefuse 73 “One Word Extinguisher” (Warp Records 2003) Buy it!
12:48am	Chicane “Poppiholla (Thrillseekers remix)” from Poppiholla  Buy it!
12:56am	Hedfunk “Inosan” SINGLE  Buy it!
1:02am	Port Blue “Snow Fox on Glacier Coast” from Arctic  Buy it!
1:10am	Brian Eno “Stars” from Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks (CAROLINE ASTRALWERKS - CAT2005) Buy it!
1:15am	Explosions in the Sky “Your Hand in Mine” from The Earth is not a Cold Dead Place  Buy it!
1:22am	Brian Eno “Always Returning” from Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks (CAROLINE ASTRALWERKS - CAT 2005) Buy it!
1:34am	Brian Eno “An Ending (Ascent)” from Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks (CAROLINE ASTRALWERKS - CAT 2005) Buy it!
1:35am	Steve Roach “The Other Side” from Dreamtime Return  Buy it!
1:46am	Jonn Serrie “Fantasy Passages” from And the Stars Go With You (New World Music2002) Buy it!
1:56am	Jonn Serrie “And the Stars Go With You” (New World Music 2002)Buy it!
1:57am	God Is an Astronaut “Fragile” from All Is Violent, All Is Bright (Revive Records 2005) Buy it!
2:01am	The Tumbled Sea “We're Turning into Regular People” from Songs From the Tumbled Sea Buy it

For next week, I'm tentatively playing around with the idea of doing a more 'world-music'-like show. Of course, it will still be ambient beats and soundscapes, but reflective of our planet Earth and the different world cultures that inhabit it. We'll see how the music-collecting process goes this week, but it will probably be something like this. Last night was supposed to be kind of outer-space themed. Hopefully each week will have some sort of theme to it.

That's it for now. Hope to see you again in The Void....