after a few weeks delay whilst  i worked myself in to the ground, we are FINALLY hitting the airwaves again not once, but twice this week.

on Wednesday 1st September we debut our new show on FNOOB Underground at 10pm (after Alex Patterson (yes, The Orb!!) and Dom Beken’s Ash Wednesdays). this show will be in a similar format to the 12 pyloncast’s focussing primarily on new music with guest mixes and presenters. however, this show will be live from our living room so i get a chance to exercise my incompetence in the salubrious dwelling space of mugwump towers.

our first guest mix comes from the sublime internet- based Phantom Circuit who really couldn’t be closer to the pylon philosophy. This is what they have to say for themselves, “Phantom Circuit is a programme of strange and wonderful sound waves that you can hear streamed over the internet. Since October 2008 Phantom Circuit has promoted and supported music that is alien, electronic, exotic or overlooked… plus familiar objects viewed from unusual angles…”

Over the last couple of years they’ve covered artists as diverse as South Bank Gamelan Players, Charlemagne Palestine and our allies and Weird Tales for Winter contributors Moon Wiring Club and Ghost Box. Phantom Circuit’s mix for the Pylon leaps across boundaries and genre’s like a sonically intelectual tazmanian devil and even the playlist is a work of art itself (seriously, study it once i put it here on thursday). Make sure you dive into their archives- it’s a brilliant show, following it’s own uncompromising personal trajectory and well, we just love it here.

i’m doing my thing, you do yours and we’re all bound to have a bloody good time. you will be able to download the show from the usual place from thursday night (2nd).

you can check the ludicrous breadth of forthcoming guest artists here.

cheers

jonny

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ps- we’re back on Resonance FM this saturday too- more news damn soon…

saturday 10pm at the exotic pylon…

To celebrate the release of his new KILLER 12 on our dancing partner’s West Norwood Cassette Library label, this weeks guest mix is a hyper-exuberant overload of ecstatic bass from the progenitor of the Boston Bounce sound and overlord of the Mashit label, DJ C. C has been honing his craft for nearly a decade now and while he runs rampantly across genre the focus is on tearing out your ribcage whilst putting a cheesy grin on your feet.

Before that, it’s myself, doing the new music thing in somewhat thoughtful mode.

This is actually the final Pyloncast as such. On Wednesday next week at 10pm we start a new sonic adventure on internet station FNOOB which will be in a similar vein to the pyloncasts with guest mixes and the like with the main difference being that there will be a lot more mistakes and chatter since we will be broadcasting this live from my living room. Then on September 4th we’re back at Resonance where the focus will be on live performance and improvisation. Anyway, more of this soon but you can check out the frankly rammed schedule here.
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we would be nothing without you- thanks for listening and ENJOY !

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guests
Radioolio

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playlist
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tracklisting to follow shortly

Radioolio
1. the hafler trio – the limitations of silence
2. ben vida – patch eleven
3. cecil leuter – pop electronique
4. william onyeabor – beautiful baby
5. tod dockstader – eight electronic pieces, 6
6. the sounds and music of the rca electronic music synthesiser – stephen foster medley
7. vladimir ussachevsky – suite from no exit in six parts part vi
8. asmus tietchens – s.8
9. the residents – diskomo
10. no balls – come clean
11. gato libre – dune and star
12. seijiro murayama / eric la casa – supersedure part 1
13. jim nollman – orcas and waterphone
14. the elisabeth waldo group – siembra
15. o’lyn callahan – quiet village
16. dolphins into the future – observations through the halocline of the worlds 3
17. enne velthuys – vreemde landen part 1, 9
18. imaginary softwoods – pond tripping
19. patrick vian – grosse nacht Musik
20. unknown artist – the computer says goodbye
21. onna – mune o tsutsunde

i’m going to post a full report this forthcoming weekend on what ended up being an absolutely extraordinary night last Friday. The Vortex ended up being completely rammed (a table embargo will be required next time) with a really magnificent and enthusiastic crowd and incredible performances from Cindytalk, Position Normal, Time Attendant and Mark Dicker (reading sections of Lovecraft’s At The Mountains of Madness) with glorious DJ support from Doug Shipton.

I’ve set up a tumblr account here which will link to selections of footage from the night which are scattered all over the net (depending on file size and all that crap). Eventually i’ll move everything to the main site but i’m actually quite taken with tumblr anyway.

PLEASE NOTE: this weeks show will be available from SUNDAY at 10pm at exotic pylon and not the usual Saturday to allow for a hangover of enormous proportions.

Radioolio encompasses wildly eclectic and exotic mixes, a visually sumptuous blog and live events in London and they have contributed a beautifully mindblowing mix for this weeks exotic pyloncast.

this is what they have to say for themselves:

“ra·di·o n. medium for communication.
o·li·o n. collection of various artistic or literary works or musical pieces; a miscellany.

RADIOOLIO present an adventurous collage of raw and intoxicating sounds & images from the last century and beyond.

Broadcasting the obscure – a mesmerising mix of eastern roots rock to psychedelic folk oddities; vintage Mississippi bluegrass to wild jug-band funk..and everything before, after and in between!”

I’m taking the reins for the first hour and i’m not sure quite what i’m going to do in case i manage to incorporate some sounds from this weeks live event at The Vortex.

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jm

guests
Raime

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playlist
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OFWGKTA – Up Chopped and Screwed (download from Odd Future, 2010)
School Tour – Skating With Another (unreleased, 2010)
Gen Ken Montgomery – Birds & Machines (Bird Suite) (Birds + Machines, Pogus, 2010)
High Wolf – Diego (Ascension, Not Not Fun, 2010)
The Jet Age of Tomorrow – Submarine (Voyager, download from Odd Future, 2010)
Kristin Miltner – Aquarium (Library Catalog Music Series: Music for Dreaming and Playing, Asthmatic Kitty, 2010)
Kristin Miltner – Dirty Aquarium (Library Catalog Music Series: Music for Dreaming and Playing, Asthmatic Kitty, 2010)
Terror Danjah – Reppin (feat. Redz, Doom Man, Loudmouth Melvin & Fumin) (Shock to the System, free download, 2010)
Dara Psupita – Mabuk Laut (Sea Sick) (1966-68, Sublime Frequencies, 2010)
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Fright Night (Nevermore) (Ariel Pink Before Today, 4AD, 2010)
The Legendary Pink Dots – Part Two (Alchemical Playschool, Caciocavallo, 2006)
Eddie Henderson – Discoveries (Inside Out, Capricorn Records, 1974)
The Lowland Hundred- The Bruised Hill (Under Cambrian Sky, Victory Garden Records , 2010)
Thomas Köner – Permafrost (Permafrost (reissue), Type, 2010)

Raime
AC Marias – Some Thing [Mute, 1988]
Konstruktivits – Shadows Of White Sand (edit for bridge) [Third Mind, 1984]
The Danse Society – There Is No Shame In Death (reduced edit) [Pax, 1981]
Konstruktivits – Shadows Of White Sand (edit for bridge) [Third Mind, 1984]
Cabaret Voltaire – The Voice of America / Damage Is Done [Rough Trade, 1980]
Psyche – On The Edge [New Rose, 1985]
The German Shepherds – I Adore You [M&S Music, 1985]
Arto Lindsay – Locus Coruleus [Editions EG, 1984]
Ike Yard – NCR [Factory America, 1982]
Metabolist – Tizhoznam [Drömm, 1980]
Rema-Rema – Fond Affections [4AD, 1980]

this saturday 10pm at exotic pylon, we’ve got something really special for you this week…

Raime are a shadowy production duo who will be releasing their debut self-titled EP for new label Blackest Ever Black on September 6th. They have the vaguest of links to contemporary electronic music (the spaciousness and pace of prime dubstep) but any channels to now are entirely warped by their indebtedness to early 80′s goth, industrial and synthwave. Dread heavy, eerie, austere- it’s pretty fucked-up and nicely original. It is, in fact, bass music for Cenobites…

So we’re thrilled to present their debut mix, the er, oddly-titled “You Can’t Hide Your Headcrack” which acts as a kind of Raime manifesto. Seriously, you’re going to love this (albeit in a cold weird primeval way).

I’ve got control of the first part of the show- new music from Gen Ken Montgomery, The Lowland Hundred, School Tour and many others including some deeply weird shit from Odd Future, a hip hop collective who will blow your minds and who we’ll be featuring in depth in the very near future.

well, i’m excited and you should be too.

thanks for listening- you’re all goddamn cooler than cool

jm

ps- major props to Woebot at Cybore for first bringing Raime to my attention and to Derek Walmsley for hipping my to Odd Future…

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Rob Young on Electric Eden

playlist
Talk Talk – Eden (Spirit of Edent)
Peter Bellamy – Oak, Ash and Thorn (Oak, Ash and Thorn)
Steeleye Span – The Lark in the Morning (Please to See the King)
John Lenehan – Decorations: The Scarlet Ceremonies (Ireland Piano Works, Volume 2)
Dave Cousins – Two Weeks Last Summer (Two Weeks Last Summer)
Archie Fisher – Reynardine (Archie Fisher)
Mandy Morton & The Spriguns – Witchfinder (Magic Lady)
Robin Williamson – The Iron Stone (The Iron Stone)
Alasdair Riberts – Ned Ludd’s Rant (For A World Rebarbarised) (Spoils)

(apologies for any repetition from the blog)

Hello listeners,

Welcome to the first of our exotic pylon newsletters. Well, it’s not the first really (well not by a mile) but it is the first to have a dedicated banner and this will now be a weekly endeavour so it feels like a beginning of sorts so there we have it, it’s number one and let’s not hear anymore about it. And they won’t usually be as long as this either.

Exotic Pylon at The Vortex
Well¸this is nothing short of a dream come true for me really and has been a long-term plan ever since we first went on air (that i can’t seriously believe has actually happened) but i’m delighted to announce the first of what will be a bi-monthly series of live events to take place at The Vortex in Dalston, London. We’re ecstatically proud to be presenting live performances from Cindytalk and Position Normal and a DJ set from Doug Shipton of Finders Keepers Records at the first of these on August 13th (yes it’s a Friday but it’s only bad luck if you don’t come). One of the principle motivations behind the evening is to try and move the format of the radio show into a live setting and so we’ve set up the Exotic Pylon Radio Orchestra and this is basically a morphing umbrella of participants who will be responsible for tyring to make an immersive experience as possible. Every event will feature unbilled artists and interventions with lights and projections and in my head this is all amazing…  Hopefully we will sort out some documentation of the evening and if you do come then please come up and say hello. And as ever, an enormous thank you to Scott at Schema Film  for the breathtaking artwork. Everything you need to know is here.

Resonance FM
We finally return to the most out-there station in this (or any other) world on Saturday September 4th due to a summer shutdown and an increasingly hectic schedule. Exotic Pylon will now be running from 9.30 to either 11 or 11.30pm- we’re not quite sure which yet. All i can say is that we’re itching to work in a live environment again. For reasons which i will explain in a moment, we’re going to push the Resonace show in an entirely live direction now- more improvisation and experimentation but hopefully still entirely listenable (in my head again). We have some incredible artists coming in between then and the end of the year- you know where to look.

FNOOB
This delightful word is the name of an internet radio station that will be the home of a NEW exotic pylon radio show, broadcasting live on Wednesday’s from 4 to 6pm! Yes, i have a drive-time show! Except people don’t really have the internet in their cars (do they?) and that’s probably for the best. This show will be focussing on new music with guest presenters and mixes, somwehat similar to the pyloncasts we’ve been producing since June except i might actually talk and do the occasional interview but don’t worry, i’m not about to attempt to become a propper DJ or anything like that. The first show is on August 18th and features an amazingly eclectic and brilliant guest mix from Phantom Circuit and all the shows will be available for download at the usual place. I will be uploading further details to the website shortly. My show is altenately going out before shows by Alex ‘The Orb’ Patterson and Kris ‘Sugar Daddy’ Needs. That’s pretty cool.

Weird Tales for Winter
Yes there will be a second season, the line-up is stunning AND there will be a Weird Tales live event at The Vortex on December 3rd that will BLOW YOUR MIND. I’ve not even booked everyone yet either. I’m not messing around here, it’s going to be AMAZING…

Pyloncast #9- Rob Young on Electric Eden
So, very much on a Weird Tales tip, this weeks pyloncast (which will receive a re-edited Resonance broadcast is with Rob Young editor-at-large for The Wire magazine on his astonishing new book Electric Eden- read all about it…  just below actually.

And finally… news regarding two of our very favourite comrades in sound
Pylon heroes Band of Holy Joy have just released their gorgeous song cycle Paramour- i reviewed it for The Quietus here and the incomparable Den Browne wrote about it at Mudkiss here. You can read the reviews after you’ve bought it here.

DJ Superstar West Norwood Cassette Library finally launched his own label with the huge ‘What it Is’ (backed with a superb Brackles mix) and the forthcoming second release by DJ C is a giant eruption of jump-up ecstasy. Keep abreast of all things Norwood here.

Thanks for listening