guest
Hybernation

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playlist
Ido Govrin- Ground (Moraine on Interval Recordings)
Billy Paul- Let ‘em In (Let ‘em In on Sony)
To Rococo Rot- Friday’s (Shackleton’s West Green Rd Remix)(Forwardness Fridays EP on Domino)
Galaxie 500- Blue Thunder (On Fire on Domino)
Pietro Grossi- Sei Canoni (J.S. Bach) Dall Offerta Musicale (Computer Music on Creel Pone)
The Advisory Circle- Mind How You Go (Mind How You Go EP on Ghost Box)
The Beatles- Julia (The White Album on EMI)
Autechre- 0=0 (Oversteps on Warp)
Scritti Politti- Petrococadollar (White Bread  Black Beer on Rough Trade)
Buraka Som Sistema- General (Black Diamond on Fabric Integral)
Tim Catlin & Machinefabriek- Haul (Glisten on Low Point)
Shaunise- Kingdom (on Eglo)
Scuba- Tracers (Triangulation on Hotflush Recordings)
Toro Y Moi- You Hid (Causers of This on Carpark)
Ikonika- They Are All Losing the War (Contact, love, want, have on Hyperdub)
Rossi B and Luca feat. Killa P- E10 Riddim (Police Ar Come Run) (ZIQ267 on Planet Mu)
Clang Sayne- Grain of Sand (Winterlands on Clang Sayne)
Lightning Bolt- The Sublime Freak (Earthly Delights on Load)
Time Attendant- untitled

as of 7pm 06/03/10 the online stream for resonance is not working so most listeners may not be able to pick up exotic pylon- we are still broadcasting at 10 though and it will be downloadable asap after we finish- many apologies (and irritations)

well, it’s all happening…

Pylon favourite and Weird Tales star, the incomparable Moon Wiring Club (http://blankworkshop.co.uk) will be Jonny Trunk’s guest on the equally incomparable OST show on Resonace FM (http://resonancefm.com) this Saturday (06/03/10) from 4.30 to 6.30pm (repeated Wednesday 3pm to 5pm). Expect strange sonics, crazy chat and words of wisdom from the Clinkskell Tourist Board.

Tonight at 10pm is exotic pylon of course and it’s just me playing some old stuff and some forthcoming magic from Ikonika, Autechre, Fursaxa, wonderfully melancholy Galaxie 500 (reissues) and one almighty ALMIGHTY Shackleton remix of forthcoming To Rococo Rot amongst plentiful other things. 10 to 11.30pm http://resonancefm.com- we might even get a bit of banter too (but not too much).

Then on Sunday (07/03/10), Radio Joy (http://bohj.co.uk) will be putting on a live event at the Foundry in London and I shall be there spinning weird shit, drones and pop- do drop by and say hello if you’re in town. This will be broadcast live from 8 til 11 so to tune in follow the instructions from here:http://bohj.co.uk/radio.html. The event is a really special one and this is what Johny Brown has to say:

Ten years ago Tracey Moberly produced a show at the Foundry in Hoxton whose title LOVES DIRTY HABIT came from a Band of Holy Joy song. The premise as I remember it was that we set a thousand pink balloons up in to the night sky with a mobile phone number on and a request for any balloon finders to text in their ‘Love’s Dirty Habit’. The answers would be stuck on the gallery walls in the basement of the Foundry. The new language and future of communication was uppermost in our minds but we also wanted to throw a great party. The opening night was a blur of pink balloons and scuzzy texts that were zapped in from the hinterlands of London. It was a great night and a supreme show if memory serves.
Tracey has kept the project very much alive and a decade on we revisit the notion. Nicola Jayne Maskrey and Inga Tillere will take Tracey’s texts and set about visualising them from a new perspective. The Band Of Holy Joy will play a live set from a collection of songs they are about to release called PARAMOUR, songs which are very much about Love’s Dirty Habits: Betrayals, lustings, casual sexualised murderings that kind of low and grand déclassé behaviour. As the Foundry is about to close its doors soon we would love to make this event as memorable as the first. Indeed… We want your texts and we want you to come. 7th March is the date 8pm is the time and the Foundry is the place. On Valentines Day we will issue a number (07951608787). We want you to use it.

Radio Joy will broadcast the entire evening. The DJ’s Gavin Martin and Jonny Mugwump will spin the songs to keep the night flowing. James S Finn will supply a soundscape. The immense Andrew Bailey will perform a twenty-minute set.

There is a facebook page for that event here:http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=342721843322#!/event.php?eid=342721843322&index=1

the only appropriate sunday night activity is to tune in to the always sublime Radio Joy.
Tonight’s broadcast has Mischa Twitchin reading from Alfred Jarry’s Supermale with Radio Joy’s always out-there head-noise.
This IS what radio should be…

monastic rave maestro and entrepreneur Subeena and bass psychologist Melissa ‘Carrie’ Bradshaw are going to get the pylon in a sleazy rythmic sweat this saturday as they put saint valentine through their own skewed mirror-vision

do join us and if not do download sunday evening…

http://exoticpylon.com?

the wonderful pontone website has just made the third spectral cassette available here- a distorted and divine trawl through hypnogogic nu-distorted tropics- this is such a rich vein of sound endlessly fascinating- the bastard offspring of boards of canada and ariel pink, bizarrely in parallel with UK hauntology…

guests
DJ Vamanos from Ghetto Bassquake

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playlist
Vex’d- Remains of the Day (Cloud Seed on Planet Mu)
Ivor Cutler- Pickle Your Knees (An Elpee and Two Epees on Decca)
Zun Zun Egui- Chunk & Swirl
Janka Nabay- Eh Congo
Raymond Scott- Portofino 1 (Manhattan Research Inc. on Basta)
Milyoo- Dasein (forthcoming on Opit)
DJ Moisés- Single Ladies
Omar Souleyman- Leh Jani ()
Terror Danjah- Acid (HDB031 on Hyperdub)
Debby Blackwell- Once You Got Me Going (Bob Blank- The Blank Generation- Blank Tapes NYC 1975-1987 on Strut)
Hechizeros Band- El Sonidito
Normal Nada- Kukiza K Kula
Wooden Veil- Moon and Hamburg (Wooden Veil on Dekorder)
The Science Fiction Corporation- End Of A Robot (Science Fiction Dance Party on Finders Keepers)

DJ Vamanos Mix

Not content with being one of the country’s finest music writers, joseph stannard has been kicking social portals open with way-out sonics. The fourth edition of The Outer Church takes place this wednesday (10th) february.

he say this:  Come taste the fruits of the Forbidden Zone… Prog, Psych, Kraut, Cosmic, Electronic, Glo-Fi, Post-Noise, Haunted Audio, Avant-AOR and all things OUTER.

“He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrini, the traveler came as a large and moving Torg! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slor! Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!” – Louis Tulley, 1984

i say: go!!!

guests
Gagarin

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playlist
Citadels of Mystery- Captain Awesome (unreleased)
Ceephax Acid Crew- Castillian (United Acid Emirates on Planet Mu)
Akira Rabelais- Hollywood (excerpt)

Gagarin #1

Kim Cascone- Anti-Musical Celestial Forces (Anti-Musical Celestial Forces on Storung)
Legendary Pink Dots- Man or Mouse (Twisted Cabaret Vol. 1 on Volvox Music)
Misty Roses- Nicht Plus Ultra (Villianess on Aagoo)
Kyle Bobby Dunn- The Tributary (for Voices Lost) (A Young Persons Guide To… on )

Gagarin #2

Nite Jewel- Universal Mind (Good Evening on  No Pain in Pop)
Dr. Buzzards Original Savannah Band- Cherchez Le Femme (from Dr. Buzzards Original Savannah Band on )
Starkey- Starting Gates (Stars on Planet Mu)

Gagarin #3

Newsletter #10

I first encountered Vanessa Daou in the strangest of situations. I had been aimless and adrift for a few years in Manchester in the north of England. In fact, I’d been forced to abandon Manchester for the vacant industrial satellite town of Bolton as I made a final attempt at finishing a bachelors in Philosophy. A shopping centre had been opened- pure chrome and harsh electric light, a giant bunker, a ‘designer’ fortress dropped in the abandoned heart of Salford. The launch and subsequent management of the centre had been entirely botched so that my 10 hour shifts would involve contact with only 10 customers a day (and that was on a good day). Nobody ever showed. I spent nearly 2 years in a bleakly over lit trance- you see, I have my reasons for obsessing about Ballard.

There was a music store there specialising in discounted music- the usual array of budget classics, nothing unexpected- no surprises. One day, bored to the point of dementia, I wandered off my patch to leaf through the same cod’s just for something to do and this one fortuitous time, I found a new neon-blue artefact staring back up at me. Zipless by Vanessa Daou.

I recalled seeing something favourable about it in The Wire magazine. There was one copy, it looked out of place, surely some mistake… A collaboration between New Yorkers Vanessa and her then husband Peter with words adapted by Vanessa from Peter’s aunt Erica Jong, Zipless is a beautiful trove of sublime erotic electronic pop. And as anybody who loves pop music knows, there can be more subversiveness in the space of a 3 minute adrenaline shot of pop than in vast swathes of avant-garde investigation. What gave the album an edge was the sheer surreal intimacy of Vanessa’s voice and delivery- like an Yves Tanguy painting, every vocal shape seemed to take on an alien quality- strange and familiar all at once.

Cut to 2010, with a succession of always morphing productions exploring a weird ambient hinterland between pop, jazz, soul and electronica, Vanessa has moved into multimedia production, dance, computer coding and released her first self-produced album Joe Sent Me, a strange riff on the speakeasy that spirals into explorations of love and loss…

Tonight’s penultimate Weird Tale is a gothic tone poem from a wintry New York City- a blurring of song, poetry, sound with her trademark intensely soft intimacy. You can check Vanessa’s own web hub for the Weird Tales series here.

I look forward to joining you at the witching hour…

jonny mugwump