Not that long ago we had a government which refused to listen to the people. Now we are unsure of what is heard by the govt and what isn't. Something coherent has been lost. The date of this show, April 20, is the anniversary of so many "issues." Hitler's birthday, the anniversary of Waco and Oklahoma City and Columbine. (It's also my dad's birthday.) So much of modern experience is beyond any kind of ordinary comprehension, because it is beyond our senses and systems. What it does is use examples of favorite modernist musics (mostly ambient instrumentals but also containing songs) in order to call for revolution. Yes, a call for blood. Listen close or you'll miss it. Each musical piece is a "text" to add to all the other texts.
Produced and engineered by dj bennett (chillroom@killradio.org)
This program presented for education and entertainment. Special thanks to live listeners, Louise, Alan, Dennis. Of course thanks to Jason Berthume. A special salute to Richard Lippe. Thanks to killradio.org and radio4all.net. Comments comments comments.
The Chill Room, 20 April 2013, on killradio.org
160k, 90 minutes, becoming coherent
Set list (long ambient pieces overlapping & incomplete): Kevin Ayers, Robert Wyatt, Francois Bayle-"IT" (We Did It Again) / North Michigan Radio Scan / Led Zeppelin-Ten Years Gone / Robin Wood-The Incoherent Text (excerpt Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan, read by your dj) / Caroliner-Legs Go, Mind Goes, Lungs Go (7") / Frank Dommert-Kiefermusik / Nurse With Wound-Cold / The Hassles-Hour of the Wolf / Merzbow-Another Crash for High Tide / Dusted-Childhood / Asmus Tietchens-Linea / Mort (sung in Spanish, can anyone help me identify this old salsa?) / Molotov Cocktail-New Year's Eve saxophones and UFOs / Donovan-Ferris Wheel / Underworld-Kittens / Cluster-Untitled / THU20-Der Holzweg / Sky Cries Mary-2000 Light Years from Home / MIJ-Two Stars / Yes-And You and I / The Haters-Journey into Pain / Frank Dommert-Das Leben in Sulz / Wendy Carlos-Beethoven's 9th (Scherzo)
Now, what is this madness that invades your fair repeating of your soul? Is it the hour of the wolf?