last shift
By request, here's an on-demand stream of my last shift on KSCR. Not my best set, but reasonably representative, except for some of the older classics I played for my last show. It's split into two one-hour sets.
Keep reading for tracklist + some commentary.
set 1, 0:00Do Make Say Think
"Ontario Plates"
from Winter Hymn, Country Hymn, Secret Hymn
Post-rock goodness. Two drummers = twice as good!
set 1, 6:50edIT
"Ashtray"
from Crying Over Pros for No Reason
Live set should be up on kscr.org soon.
set 1, 11:43The Dirty Projectors
"I Will Truck"
from The Getty Address
set 1, 16:40The Books
"Smells Like Content"
from Lost and Safe
set 1, 20:19Les Mouches
"Carload of Whatever"
from You're Worth More to Me Than 1,000 Christians
Hard to beat that album title. This is another great project from Owen Pallett (The Arcade Fire, Final Fantasy).
set 1, 25:29The Dismemberment Plan
"Spider in the Snow"
from Emergency & I
"How can a body move the speed of light but still find itself in such a rut?"
set 1, 29:12The Appleseed Cast
"Mile Marker"
from Low Level Owl, Vol. 1
set 1, 33:01The Dismemberment Plan
"The Jitters"
from Emergency & I
So apropos, I decided at the last minute to play another track. "They glow as they near, then disappear. Like highway signs on a starless night. And it's so hard to tell who's being fled, and who's in flight."
set 1, 37:17Iron & Wine
"Communion Cups and Someone's Coat"
from Passing Afternoon
Recorded between Our Endless Numbered Days and Woman King.
set 1, 39:13Astrud Gilberto
"Gentle Rain (Rjd2 remix)"
from Verve Remixed 3
The new Verve Remixed has a lot of indietronic remixes—Postal Service, Album Leaf, Brazilian Girls, etc.
set 1, 44:38Rjd2
"Poorboy Lover" (part 14-16)
from Your Face or Your Kneecaps
Some of Rjd2's best work is on this little OOP CD mix. Get it if you can.
set 1, 50:35Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
"How Do You Let a Good Man Down?"
from Naturally
From the KSCR new hotness funk bin.
set 1, 53:23Ebo Taylor
"Atwer Abroba"
from Ghana Soundz v.2
Compilation of '70s funk from Ghana. Awesome.
set 2, 0:00M83
"Run Into Flowers (Midnight Fuck remix by Jackson)"
from Run Into Flowers
The broadcast processing really tripped up on all the glitch sounds in this one. It still sounds OK, but definitely different from how it's supposed to be. Strange. How do you make a processor that knows the difference between real clipping/glitching and intentional glitches?
set 2, 8:44Prefuse 73
"Gratis (Prefuse vs. Pedro)"
from Surrounded by Silence
set 2, 13:22Archer Prewitt
"Leaders"
from Wilderness
Archer is one half of The Sea and Cake.
set 2, 17:45Sam Prekop
"Dot Eye"
from Who's Your New Professor
...and Sam is the other half.
set 2, 22:19Sufjan Stevens
"Come on! Feel the Illinoise!"
from Illinois
The new album is amazing. 74 minutes of pure Soof.
set 2, 30:44Broken Social Scene
"Jimmy and the Photocall"
Live in Stockholm 7/8/04
Supposedly this track will not appear on the new album(s) coming out this Fall, which is too bad. I think it's the best I've heard of the new songs.
set 2, 36:03The Decemberists
"Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect"
from Castaways and Cutouts
"I am nothing of a builder, but here I dreamt I was an architect." If Colin Meloy had a College of Metaphors I would enroll immediately.
set 2, 41:30Jets to Brazil
"Chinatown"
from Orange Rhyming Dictionary
I could quote every line from this song and they would all be absolutely relevant. I was on AIM a few weeks ago and there were 5 people simultaneously quoting JTB in their away messages, 2 from this song. I joined in to make 6.
set 2, 47:00Karate
"Cacophony"
from Pockets
Great lyrics. "Possibilities permanently sealed... atrophied after their purpose revealed—to keep you at work."
set 2, 53:29Mark Kozelek
"Rock 'n' Roll Singer", "Cruiser"
from White Christmas
Beautiful stuff. Cruiser is my essential LA song.
May 30th, 2005 at 5:49 am
Finally having a chance to tune in. Thanks for archiving this one! From your under-served fans in the far-right time zone.