...but not in SPACE. Out here all you have is vast expanses of distance, the better to fill with the very best in mind-expanding music. This month's installment blasts off scattering red-hot shards of shoegaze, both original-era and 21st century, then careens throughout an asteroid field of psychedelia in all its guises, from underground garage psych to Madchester rave-psych to vintage krautrock and modern motorik... get the idea? If you don't, you will. So just sit back, smoke 'em if you got 'em, and enjoy your journey!
The following tracks should appear in the player below:
Need - Pacific UV - Longplay 2
Come In Alone - My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Sugar Crystals - Airiel - The Battle of Sealand
Everso - The Telescopes - As Approved by the Committee to Keep Music Evil
Drain Cosmetics - Serena-Maneesh - s/t
Hurricane Heart Attack - The Warlocks - Phoenix LP
That Timothy Leary Shit - The Volta Sound - This Is the Yin and the Yang
Brainstorm Interlude - The Verve - A Northern Soul
The Woods - Tall Firs - s/t
Mars Ascendent - Souvenir's Young America - An Ocean Without Water
Mosquito Lantern - Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound - Ekranoplan
Forever - Racoo-oo-oon - The Cave of Spirits Forever
Raw Backwards - Sunburned Hand of the Man - Fire Escape
Pulses - White Rainbow - Prism of Eternal Now
We'll Never Make It Out of Here Alive - The Shalabi Effect - Pink Abyss
Slip Inside This House - Primal Scream - Screamadelica
Donkey - Working for a Nuclear Free City - Businessmen & Ghosts
Don't Mind If I Don't - The Turing Machine - Zwei
Will You Smile Again for Me - And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Worlds Apart
Amboss - Ash Ra Tempel - s/t
May 4, 2008
April 4, 2008
Okay, we're back!
No theme this time, just a random assortment of tunes representing the spectrum of spacerock, chosen and sequenced for maximum listening pleasure. We start with some blissed-out Pacific Northwest artists, from Portland's sadly defunct Yume Bitsu, to their spinoff collaboration with members of Landing heavily-conceptualized as Surface of Eceyon, to their homegirl Honey Owen's enthralling Valet (look for her video at the bottom of this post!), to former Yume Bitser Franz Pritchard's solo work as Version (keep an eye out next time for White Rainbow, featuring his Yume co-conspirator Adam Forkner, who also plays with the aforementioned Eceyon gang), to Seattle's Voyager One's take on Spacemen 3-inspired rawk. A foray north of the border for Canada's finest including Valley of the Giants (a supergroup featuring members of Montreal's postrock elite), The Besnard Lakes and Sam (Osama) Shalabi's Shalabi Effect. A quick side trip to Norway for Salvatore's tribal stomp and down to Belgium for the strangest-ever nonamerican New Weird Americana from Ignatz. We then venture into a somewhat motorik set from artists both new and old, San Francisco's Tussle and Wooden Shjips, krautrock OGs Can (with Malcolm Mooney's stream-of-consciousness vocal ranting, straight outta 1969!), and the mighty motorik triple-threat of Trans Am, The Turing Machine and Quickspace, followed by the "8-bit shoegaze" of the Depreciation Guild. Then things get weird, with the loopier side of psychedelia from Black Moth Super Rainbow, Animal Collective, and a kraut-psych gem from 1972 by Guru Guru. Whew! That should keep you busy for a bit! Expect another installment sooner than later - we've got to make up for lost time!
The following tracks should appear in the player below:
Song One - Yume Bitsu - Golden Vessyl of Sound
The Open Sea - Surface of Eceyon - The King Beneath the Mountain
Kehaar - Valet - Naked Acid
Come Out (K-Hole Version) - Version - Comeoutoshowdem
Asleep In A Stereo Field - Voyager One - From the New Nation of Long Shadows
Westworld - Valley of the Giants - s/t
Devastation - The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are the Dark Horse
Imps - The Shalabi Effect - Pink Abyss
Roots and Weather - Salvatore - Luxus
The Dreams - Ignatz - II
Kindermusik - Tussle - Telescope Mind
Father Cannot Yell - Can - Monster Movie
Losin' Time - Wooden Shjips - s/t
Cologne - Trans Am - Surrender to the Night
Bleach It Black - The Turing Machine - Zwei
Coca Lola - Quickspace - Precious Falling
Digital Solace - The Depreciation Guild - In Her Gentle Jaws
Sun Lips - Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum
Peacebone - Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
Oxymoron - Guru Guru - Kanguru
Valet - "Kehaar" Live 2-19-08 in Atlanta @ drunken unicorn from analogmonkey.tv on Vimeo.
The following tracks should appear in the player below:
Song One - Yume Bitsu - Golden Vessyl of Sound
The Open Sea - Surface of Eceyon - The King Beneath the Mountain
Kehaar - Valet - Naked Acid
Come Out (K-Hole Version) - Version - Comeoutoshowdem
Asleep In A Stereo Field - Voyager One - From the New Nation of Long Shadows
Westworld - Valley of the Giants - s/t
Devastation - The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are the Dark Horse
Imps - The Shalabi Effect - Pink Abyss
Roots and Weather - Salvatore - Luxus
The Dreams - Ignatz - II
Kindermusik - Tussle - Telescope Mind
Father Cannot Yell - Can - Monster Movie
Losin' Time - Wooden Shjips - s/t
Cologne - Trans Am - Surrender to the Night
Bleach It Black - The Turing Machine - Zwei
Coca Lola - Quickspace - Precious Falling
Digital Solace - The Depreciation Guild - In Her Gentle Jaws
Sun Lips - Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum
Peacebone - Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
Oxymoron - Guru Guru - Kanguru
Valet - "Kehaar" Live 2-19-08 in Atlanta @ drunken unicorn from analogmonkey.tv on Vimeo.
March 17, 2008
Curses!!!
Foiled by technology again! Why is it that I am eternally battling that which mankind has made to help mankind?!?!? My external hard drive (the LaCie d2 Quadra), the one that contains my entire space rock library, has CRASHED! Is this, as my lovely wife asserts, some sort of karmic retribution? What have I done to deserve THIS?!?!? I've got my orbiting tech support satellite working on it, but, obviously, there will certainly be a delay in my delivery of the next installment of the Spacerock Continuum. I sincerely apologize. Tune in again soon! In the meantime I hope to quench your endless thirst for quality space rock with this, THE greatest space rock song OF ALL TIME, by the almighty godfathers Pink Floyd, shown here shirtless and unwashed in the dust of the ancient coliseum, 'Live at Pompeii':
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February 18, 2008
What IS Space Rock?
Space Rock means many things to many people, but here it will be our blanket term for rock music that, sonically, takes the listener to outer realms... takes the listener on journeys, not to urban conflagrations or pastoral settings, not wild jungles, glacial wastelands, desert highways nor epic mountaintops, for, while those are all well and good, as the true devotee knows, "space is the place."
Space rock takes you to the cosmos and back again, and while the subgenres abound... psychedelic, acid rock, post rock, progressive rock, shoegaze, experimental, et al... the Germans had a term to encompass it all: KOSMISCHE. And that's where we're aiming for here in the Spacerock Continuum: sharing the truly COSMIC music of this world with the eyes-and-ears-wide-open listeners who are ready to ride that rocket into outer space.
We start, of course, with the Spacemen 3 and their progeny, Spiritualized and Spectrum, who, while they didn't invent it by any means, managed to create the best-ever simulacrum of space rock of the post punk generation: "Taking Drugs To Make Music To Take Drugs To", although the music is all the drugs one really needs. Going back further, the obvious choice is Pink Floyd, who took us to the dark side of the moon, as well as their peers in the 1970's, the krautrockers, who skewered the po-faced psychedelians with a healthy dose of the absurd (Faust, Amon Duul) and the transcendent (Can, Tangerine Dream).
In the 90's we had a dose of fashionable space rock with the "shoegazers" (My Bloody Valentine, Chapterhouse, Ride, Slowdive), introverted noisemongering British stoodents who worshiped the Velvet Underground and never left home without their fuzz pedals. Throughout the post-rave era a handful of electronic artists, especially those lumped in the unfortunately-monikered IDM (Intelligent Dance Music?!?!? an oxymoron?!?!?) movement, endeavored to "take you there" without a guitar in sight. The new millennium brought us the dreaded journalist's coinage POST ROCK, a meaningless yet somewhat apt classification to describe new instrumental music (from Tortoise to Mogwai to Godspeed You! Black Emperor) whose sole similarity is a complete lack of concern for the pop charts, as was true with their predecessors. And of course, experiMENTAL music has always been around - say no more!
All in all, it's all SPACE ROCK. Here's a snippet, a taste, a wholly inadequate 2-hour representation of where space rock came from, and where it's going. It's only the tip of a vast iceberg, as subsequent episodes of the Spacerock Continuum will illustrate. But it gives this silly podcast some sorely needed CONTEXT, in case there was any confusion. Enjoy!
The following tracks should appear in the player below:
Revolution - Spacemen 3 - Playing With Fire
If I Were With Her Now - Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies
A Housewife Love Song - Starflyer 59 - Gold
Tall Winds - Paik - The Orson Fader
Sad and Lonely - Secret Machines- Now Here Is Nowhere
Young Men Dead - The Black Angels - Passover
Interstellar Overdrive - Pink Floyd - Relics
Run Run Run - The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
We Ask You To Ride - Wooden Shjips - s/t
The Chocolate Maiden's Misty Summer Morning - Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound - Ekranoplan
Oh Yeah - Can - Tago Mago
Christmas Steps - Mogwai - Come On Die Young
Over The Wall - Echo and the Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here
Rave Down - Swervedriver - Raise
Soon - My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Le'espalace - Do Make Say Think - s/t
Belgian Wake-Up Drill - Grails - Black Tar Prophecies
One Million-Billionth of a Millisecond on a Sunday Morning - The Flaming Lips - Oh My Gawd!
Arctic - Pan Sonic - Kesto
Space rock takes you to the cosmos and back again, and while the subgenres abound... psychedelic, acid rock, post rock, progressive rock, shoegaze, experimental, et al... the Germans had a term to encompass it all: KOSMISCHE. And that's where we're aiming for here in the Spacerock Continuum: sharing the truly COSMIC music of this world with the eyes-and-ears-wide-open listeners who are ready to ride that rocket into outer space.
We start, of course, with the Spacemen 3 and their progeny, Spiritualized and Spectrum, who, while they didn't invent it by any means, managed to create the best-ever simulacrum of space rock of the post punk generation: "Taking Drugs To Make Music To Take Drugs To", although the music is all the drugs one really needs. Going back further, the obvious choice is Pink Floyd, who took us to the dark side of the moon, as well as their peers in the 1970's, the krautrockers, who skewered the po-faced psychedelians with a healthy dose of the absurd (Faust, Amon Duul) and the transcendent (Can, Tangerine Dream).
In the 90's we had a dose of fashionable space rock with the "shoegazers" (My Bloody Valentine, Chapterhouse, Ride, Slowdive), introverted noisemongering British stoodents who worshiped the Velvet Underground and never left home without their fuzz pedals. Throughout the post-rave era a handful of electronic artists, especially those lumped in the unfortunately-monikered IDM (Intelligent Dance Music?!?!? an oxymoron?!?!?) movement, endeavored to "take you there" without a guitar in sight. The new millennium brought us the dreaded journalist's coinage POST ROCK, a meaningless yet somewhat apt classification to describe new instrumental music (from Tortoise to Mogwai to Godspeed You! Black Emperor) whose sole similarity is a complete lack of concern for the pop charts, as was true with their predecessors. And of course, experiMENTAL music has always been around - say no more!
All in all, it's all SPACE ROCK. Here's a snippet, a taste, a wholly inadequate 2-hour representation of where space rock came from, and where it's going. It's only the tip of a vast iceberg, as subsequent episodes of the Spacerock Continuum will illustrate. But it gives this silly podcast some sorely needed CONTEXT, in case there was any confusion. Enjoy!
The following tracks should appear in the player below:
Revolution - Spacemen 3 - Playing With Fire
If I Were With Her Now - Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies
A Housewife Love Song - Starflyer 59 - Gold
Tall Winds - Paik - The Orson Fader
Sad and Lonely - Secret Machines- Now Here Is Nowhere
Young Men Dead - The Black Angels - Passover
Interstellar Overdrive - Pink Floyd - Relics
Run Run Run - The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
We Ask You To Ride - Wooden Shjips - s/t
The Chocolate Maiden's Misty Summer Morning - Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound - Ekranoplan
Oh Yeah - Can - Tago Mago
Christmas Steps - Mogwai - Come On Die Young
Over The Wall - Echo and the Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here
Rave Down - Swervedriver - Raise
Soon - My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Le'espalace - Do Make Say Think - s/t
Belgian Wake-Up Drill - Grails - Black Tar Prophecies
One Million-Billionth of a Millisecond on a Sunday Morning - The Flaming Lips - Oh My Gawd!
Arctic - Pan Sonic - Kesto
January 1, 2008
Testing... testing... are we reading...?
Welcome, everyone, to the new home of BeeDub's Spacerock Continuum! By popular demand - and because of the limitations of my previous home as a weekly netcast - I've decided to go podcast! First off, the motto around is here is still NOT ALL SPACEROCK, AND NOT ALL THE TIME. That's because I focus on a wide variety of music that may or may not fall under the wide blanket of the term spacerock. But the vast majority of the music will fit just fine within that categorization, be it PSYCHEDELIC, PROG ROCK, POST ROCK, KRAUTROCK, NOISE ROCK, SHOEGAZE, NO WAVE, EXPERIMENTAL, AVANT GARDE, etc.
I hope to do this monthly. Or semi-monthly. Or whenever I can. The difference is, here you won't get to hear my charming voice periodically describing the music you've just heard. That's okay - I'm no DJ, and I think the music will speak for itself.
The first installment is a little different in that it includes a wider variety (less "spacey", if you will) of musical styles than usual. For January we take a look back at the very best music of last year. One song each from the very best albums to hit my ears in 2007. So hold onto yer hats and glasses ladies and gentlemen - it's gonna be a wild ride, here on... THE SPACEROCK CONTINUUM-UM-UM-UM-UM...!
The following tracks should appear in the player below:
Is There A Ghost - Band Of Horses - Cease To Begin
Welcome To My Room - Vietnam - s/t
Myth Takes - !!! - Myth Takes
Atlas - Battles - Mirrored
+81 - Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
Plaster Casts Of Everything - Liars - s/t
Melody Day - Caribou - Andorra
Mermaid In A Manhole - Airiel - The Battle Of Sealand
Super Inuit - Holy Fuck - s/t
Melt Me - Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum
Visage Sous Nylon - Feu Thérèse - Ca Va Cogner
To Fix The Gash In Your Head - A Place To Bury Strangers - s/t
Fuzzy Reactor - Boris with Michio Kurihara - Rainbow
No Pussy Blues - Grinderman - s/t
Bodysnatchers - Radiohead - In Rainbows
Spring Hall Convert - Deerhunter - Cryptograms
LLL - Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter - Like, Love, Lust & The Open Halls Of The Soul
Bros - Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Come Ahead Then - Society of Rockets - Our Paths Related
Ed Is A Portal - Akron/Family - Love Is Simple
Shrinking Moon For You - Wooden Shjips - s/t
Silk Rd - Grails - Burning Off Impurities
Seahorse - Devendra Banhart - Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon
I hope to do this monthly. Or semi-monthly. Or whenever I can. The difference is, here you won't get to hear my charming voice periodically describing the music you've just heard. That's okay - I'm no DJ, and I think the music will speak for itself.
The first installment is a little different in that it includes a wider variety (less "spacey", if you will) of musical styles than usual. For January we take a look back at the very best music of last year. One song each from the very best albums to hit my ears in 2007. So hold onto yer hats and glasses ladies and gentlemen - it's gonna be a wild ride, here on... THE SPACEROCK CONTINUUM-UM-UM-UM-UM...!
The following tracks should appear in the player below:
Is There A Ghost - Band Of Horses - Cease To Begin
Welcome To My Room - Vietnam - s/t
Myth Takes - !!! - Myth Takes
Atlas - Battles - Mirrored
+81 - Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
Plaster Casts Of Everything - Liars - s/t
Melody Day - Caribou - Andorra
Mermaid In A Manhole - Airiel - The Battle Of Sealand
Super Inuit - Holy Fuck - s/t
Melt Me - Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum
Visage Sous Nylon - Feu Thérèse - Ca Va Cogner
To Fix The Gash In Your Head - A Place To Bury Strangers - s/t
Fuzzy Reactor - Boris with Michio Kurihara - Rainbow
No Pussy Blues - Grinderman - s/t
Bodysnatchers - Radiohead - In Rainbows
Spring Hall Convert - Deerhunter - Cryptograms
LLL - Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter - Like, Love, Lust & The Open Halls Of The Soul
Bros - Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Come Ahead Then - Society of Rockets - Our Paths Related
Ed Is A Portal - Akron/Family - Love Is Simple
Shrinking Moon For You - Wooden Shjips - s/t
Silk Rd - Grails - Burning Off Impurities
Seahorse - Devendra Banhart - Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon
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