Wednesday, November 9, 2011
This evening remote Jeroen and local Boukor decided it was time for another freeform edition of Edge. This meant we could give the floor to anything recorded, without having to find some link with a theme: we filled the ether with less and more obscure gems we found during our meticulous sonic searches, most of it having a link with the electronic music branch.
And to finish it all off we managed to have a clear skype connection with remote Arthur @a coffee shop wifi, who reported about the current state of affairs in downtown New York – of course referring to the OWS camp who are ready for the winter season. Occupy Radio, Occupy Media, here we come..
Playlist:
- The xx – Infinity (Flufftronix Remix)
- Charles Dodge – He destroyed her image
- Bülent Arel – Postlude from “Music for a Sacred Service”
- A1 Bassline vs Kavs Rave – Lucky Charms
- Dainumo – Pixellated Memories
- Fouad – Arabian Dreams
- Heinz Funk Electric Combo – Scotch Whisky
- Sendai bakemono kikou – rec-20100721-1615
- Sendai bakemono kikou – rec-20100721-1313
- Oren Ambarchi – This Evening So Soon
- A Perfect Circle – The Outsider (Apocalypse Mix)
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Wednesday, November 2, 2011
This week a pre-recorded edition of Edge with Boukor presenting some long classic experimental pieces, too long for an ordinary show. But as this is a home studio created episode such limitations are not in order. By passing the mic to the studio we conclude hereby the mic theme!
Playlist:
- Alvin Lucier – I am sitting in a room
- John Cage – 4’33″
- Dick Raaijmakers – Intona
- Ensemble Linea plays Karlheinz Stockhausen – Mikrophonie I
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Again we (local Boukor&remote Jeroen) pass the radio mic to mic-recordings, with this time quite a lot of short experimental works (mic reverberations, glitch (Richard Devine)), folky (rail road) songs (Henry Grady Terrell, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Mainer Band), blues field recording (Ralph Sheckel) and some beatboxing (Beardyman) & hip-hop (Eric B. & Rakim & Bo Dank).
At the end we also featured several types of microphones: a geophone (recording seismic activity); a hydrophone (recording the recent tsunami in Japan) and a “pyrophone” (recording of burning gas pipes).
Next week a final home recorded episode with long experimental microphone-related pieces.
Playlist:
- Jeff Morris – Tappatappatappa (short mix)
- Richard Devine – Data Transmission Final
- Ross Birdwise – Study for Voice, Space, Microphone and Computer 1
- Henry Grady Terrell – Old John Henry Died On The Mountain
- Ralph Sheckel – Tony Gave a Picnic
- Beardyman – Live in the Underbelly (Edinburgh, 2009) (opening)
- Eric B. & Rakim – Microphone Fiend
- Bo Dank – Microphone Fiend
- Mississippi Fred McDowell – Freight Train Blues
- Mainer Band – Johnson’s Old Gray Mule
- Furi – Seismic crisis in the Gulf of Aden 2010
- NOAA – Underwater Microphone Captures Honshu, Japan Earthquake
- Experiment1 – Gas organ
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011
The mic mike microphone was invented in 1877. Since then sounds have been converted into electric signals, an essential element for making radio and recording sound. This week’s Edge radio episode offers a broad view on this topic: microphone experimentation with mixers/pedals (EBL), “ancient” preserved voice/music recordings, the insertion of a mic in your mouth (Wojciech Kosma) or in a can (Claus Haxholm), a multi-layered Tibetian soundscape (Geir Jenssen), the Human Microphone at Occupy Wall Street, beat boxing hip hop from Slick Rick & Doug E. Fresh remixed more than a decade later by DJ Honda and a remix of Alan Lomax (pioneer in field recording) by Tangle Eye.
This subject, from even more angles..next week.
Playlist:
- EBL – Ambient panic
- Thomas Edison – Thomas Edison’s Voice Resurrected From 80 year old lost recording format
- Orchestra, A. Paganucci – director – 2nd record, Sept. 15, 1924. – A. Paganucci
- Wojciech Kosma – Blow Job
- Claus Haxholm – Tincan and microphone
- Geir Jenssen – Tingri: The Last Truck
- Michael Moore – Michael Moore Tonight at #OccupyWallStreet: “This Is a Historic Day” (Day 19)
- Anonymous – Mic check in Times square
- Slick Rick & Doug E. Fresh – La Di Da Di
- Dj Honda – on the mic
- Tangle Eye – John Henry’s Blues
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Political troubadours from South Africa open the show. Apartheid in the sixties and in the noughties juxtaposed. Then we get the human microphone from Occupy Wall Street reported by NPR, the rapper Immortal Technique and remote NYC-based Arthur Elsenaar in skype conversation with remote Jeroen. Again they discuss about OWS which is getting more organized these days. Also songs by opportunistic and genuine musicians start appearing online, a bit like the musical reactions to “Katrina”. We close off with older American protest songs and a Russian folk song to finalize the troubadour theme. More voices coming week..
Playlist:
- Miriam Makeba – Khawuleza
- Die Antwoord – Enter The Ninja
- Zwitbert – Medieval harp troubadour (interlude)
- NPR – 21st Century Protest Music: Will There Be Another Dylan? Should There Be?
- Immortal Technique – Occupy Wall Street is America’s Awakening
- Remi – Occupy Wall Street Protest Song
- Woody Guthrie – All You Fascists Bound To Lose
- Sons Of The Pioneers – Old Man Atom
- Аквариум – Gorod Zolotoj (Golden town)
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Edge radio knows no limits when it approaches the genre of singer-songwriter music and broadens it to include throat-singing, live beat-boxing with hip hop lyrics, neo-folk, electronic folk etc. which all are part of the ancient troubadour, or even more ancient bard/rhapsode/griot tradition.
Troubadour music according to us is not just some guy playing chord on a guitar singing lyrical poetic epic lyrics, but also girls (Trobairitz – Lisa Germano, a fine example) know this string instrument – and other instruments can be added to the mix, as long as the chanteur/-euse en question is telling a self-composed melodic story..
Then the show suddenly dived into a coffee place in New York City where remote Arthur Elsenaar reported from Wall Street, these days the scene of protestors of all sorts making their voices and unamplified instruments/drums heard.
This skype/wifi/phone report sets the tone for the follow-up of our troubadour theme: more political troubadours coming up next week..
Playlist:
- Huun-Huur-Tu – Sygyt (Whistle)
- Slick Rick & Doug E. Fresh – La Di Da Di
- Zwitbert – Medieval harp troubadour (interlude)
- Beck – Pink Moon
- Spiritual Front – Jesus Died In Las Vegas
- Bjork – Thunderbolt
- Lisa Germano – Red thread
- Lenny Kuhr – De troubadour (live Eurovision version)
- Gérard Lenorman – Et moi je chante (cut in half version)
- Ry Cooder – Humpty Dumpty World
- Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band – Dropout Boogie
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Continuing with retro-sounding bands of the oughties who got Abraham’s mustard from bygone decades gathered by local Boukor.
Technical difficulties with “copper”-wired remote Jeroen meant a partly lofi retro broadcast (Arthur mentioned this was how Negativland used to do it back in the 80s, in the pre-internet era) using the ancient telephone to listen to cinematic nostalgia from Morricone and its jazzy Naked City cover – sounds often heard when waiting on service hot lines, where nowadays robotic voices say “please hold” to start a piece of soothing muzak as long as the wait takeszzz.
Oh, where are the times when telepresence was all the rave..
Playlist:
- Fredrik Segerfalk – Blood Money
- mind.in.a.box – 8 Bits
- Interpol – Evil
- Joy Division – New Dawn Fades
- Mike Mareen – Dancing In The Dark (Galactica Remix)
- La Roux – Bulletproof (Instrumental version)
- Ennio Morricone – The Sicilian Clan The Sicilian Clan
- Naked City – The Sicilian Clan
- Brian Eno & David Byrne – America Is Waiting
- !!! (chk chk chk) – Heart of Hearts
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Music critic Simon Reynolds states in his latest book the last decade – the (n)oughties – has been the most retro ever, speculating we are approaching times with less and less musical innovation. This may be true as the current digital revolution enables lots of cross-fertilization. We at Edge decided to plunge into the history of music and fish out some examples of both “old” tunes and contemporary compositions and play them back to back, in chronological order or non-chronological order. More next week..
Playlist:
- DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist – Product placement
- propellerheads (feat. shirley bassey) – History repeating
- Simon Reynolds – Retromania-Pop Culture’s Addiction to Its Own Past – Introduction
- Buddy Holly – Peggy Sue Got Married
- Kvelertak – Blodtørst
- The Left Banke – Pretty Ballerina
- Arcade Fire – Rococo
- Raymond Scott – Cindy electronium
- DAT Politics – (untitled)
- Air – Le Soleil est Pres de Moi
- Serge Gainsbourg – Sous Le Soleil Exactement
- Robert Johnson – Come On In My Kitchen
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Last week’s connection problems were solved, maybe due to our renewed apocalyptic theme? Lots of guitars and boys noise this evening, providing the soundtrack for a rant from Remote Jeroen on the topic of copyright extension. Local Boukor put some hiphop in the mix, a genre that is relatively new to Edge. But you know: Edge eats everything.
Playlist:
- Petra Schelm – Darker
- Cerebrum Vortex – Das Ende Der Welt
- Kevin Drumm - Turning Point (Sheer Hellish Miasma)
- Wax Audio This Crusade (Mediacracy)
- Immortal Technique – The Prophecy
- Pendulum – Propane Nightmares
- Sunn O))) – Big Church (Monoliths & Dimensions)
- Wax Audio – Sad But Superstitious (Mashopolos II – The Mashening
- Turbonegro – The Age Of Pamparius
- ThundercatBoat – Boat Cruise (The Golden Age Of Apocalypse)
- Shiinya Tsukamoto – Tetsuo – How about turning the whole world into metal
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011
The Summer is gone and Autumn is already around the corner: the first signs of melancholic decay present themselves. We live in turbulent times in which seasons shift and show their respective icy, leafy, scorching and wet teeth when we don’t expect them. The evening of the 6th of September the first autumn storm landed in Groningen. A day later Bouke Mekel (a.k.a. DJ Boukor) did his first ever DJ session, featuring mainly dark tunes (and some light dance tracks about Lalala Pika Girls) and conversation about the APOCALYPSE with remote Jeroen, but unfortunately without his musical contributions due to cursed computer settings of some sort.
Next week part II. Stay tuned.
Playlist:
- Modem – Dial-up sound
- Modem – Dial-up sound 700% slower
- Asphyxia – Digital War
- XZhi – Herfststorm 6 september 2011
- Mobthrow – Iron Tribal
- Herman Yau – Second virus outbreak sequence in Ebola Syndrome – Yi boh lai beng duk
- Atari Teenage Riot – Sick to Death
- Paffendorf – Lalala Girl (Hardstyle Remix)
- S3RL – Pika Girl
- Tom O’Bedlam – The Hollow Men by T.S. Eliot
- Sara Noxx – Colder and Colder
- Current 93 – Thunder Perfect Mind I
- Current 93 – Thunder Perfect Mind II
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