Wednesday, December 14, 2011
While we generally in Freeform also present rather contrasty music choices we (Jeroen and Boukor) selected particularly contrasty ones in this “Extreme contrasts” episode. It’s something that in “normal” radio programming is often absent as is disrupts the gradual flow of fresh and stale pop tunes. In such shows/broadcasts DJ personalities are the ones who add contrast, by speaking fast and loud about everything amidst catchy jingles..
Masonna noise vs Madonna in a contemporary dubstep remix, Greek laments (Diamanda Galas) electronically layered by Khan, Ruins, cartoon music from the 50s and a bit later in avant garde stylee (Zorn) mixed with DJ trio (Erik M / DJ Olive / Christian Marclay) and ambient (The Arc), more noise by Stalaggh, Chinese sample reggae (Monkey: Journey To the Wes) and Lightning Bolt hitting the commercial block at the end.
Xmas edition next week!
Playlist:
- Masonna – Untitled
- Madonna – Like a prayer (Chaos Theory Dubstep Remix)
- Diamanda Galas and Khan – Aman
- Ruins – ruins – vrresto – 02 – warrido
- Carl Stalling, Milt Franklyn, Treg Brown – Ready, Set, Zoom- (1955)
- Stalaggh – Untitled
- Christian Marclay – New York, September 17, 2000 – Erik M / DJ Olive / Christian Marclay
- The Arc – Orphic Mysteries
- John Zorn – Cat o’ Nine Tails
- Monkey: Journey To the West – Monkey Bee (Diplo mix)
- Lightning Bolt – Assassins
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011
As the weather outside became wet, cold and windy – as it should be this time of the year – inside the studio of OogRadio some eclectic sounds were selected by Boukor. Freeform to the extreme, with tracks ranging from psychedelic soundscapes (Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa) to Russian electrorock (Алиса), atmospheric gabber (Neophyte vs The Stunned Guys), melodic synthy metal (Cradle of Filth), experimental electronica (Autechre) and rock (Deerhoof), and strangely mixed eurodance and dubstep/rock (East Clubbers, The Temper Trap). This brew was topped off with DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist’s mix of commercials.
Playlist:
- Pink Floyd – Alan’s Psychedelic Breakfast (excerpt Opening)
- Frank Zappa – St Alphonzo’s Pancake Breakfast
- Алиса – Экспериментатор
- Cradle of Filth – Saffron’s Curse
- Neophyte vs The Stunned Guys – The Soul Collector
- Autechre – No border
- Deerhoof – This Magnificent Bird will Rise
- East Clubbers – Drop (dj free mix)
- The Temper Trap – Sweet Disposition (Doorlys Dubstep Mix)
- Burial – Night Bus
- DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist – Product Placement (excerpt “It’s the real thing”)
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Edge on repeat, yet again, by continuing, prolonging the mantra theme..Boukor in Groningen & remote Jeroen in Leeuwarden continued their search for mantras and found more 70s psychedelic krautrock (Popol Vuh, Zweistein) and 00s electronica (John benj). Then the black metal of Liturgy was mixed live with Terry Riley’s minimalist chance music, a nice combination of guitar and piano mantra music. Nordic atmospheres were introduced after the 10 commandments of how to behave in a cinema. And creepy Ligeti finished of the show, with a composition about spiders filling a bedroom with their webs..
I like repetitive music, we like repetitive music, we sure do. But we also like music with more chaos, contrast. So next week will go wildly astray, in proper Dutch, “van de hak op de tak” (“from the heel to the branch”).
Playlist:
- Popol Vuh – Mantra
- John benj – finding water on another planet
- Zweistein – Track 4
- Liturgy – Generation vs. Terry Riley – In C (part 1)
- Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo’s Film Review – Wittertainment Code of Conduct
- Hauschka & Hildur Guðnadóttir – Black 6 – Hauschka & Hildur Guðnadóttir
- Regurgitator – I Like Repetitive Music
- Yörgy Ligeti – Atmosphères (1961)
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
A submission recorded by Arthur Elsenaar of Maksim Katsnelsona, a street musician playing in Central Park NYC, inspired us (Boukor & Jeroen) to follow up with some more mantric tracks. Accordeon (Pauline Oliveros) and guitar (Sunn O)))) drones, repetition of the word f### (Osho), (abbreviated radio edits of) the inevitable trance-inducing Indian sitar in traditional (La Monte Young) and 70s krautrock (Popol Vuh) stylee..is it all healthy, these repetitive instrumental and vocal tunes? It sure is if you take a “postmodern” approach to the mantra-theme: THE mantra is dead, long live the MANTRA!
More to come next week!
Playlist:
- Maksim Katsnelson – Playing the secret notes (NYC 20-11-2011 Columbus Circle)
- Pauline Oliveros – Fragments
- Popol Vuh – Mantra 2
- Sunn O))) – H&G (Foraging)
- Negură Bunget – Ceasuri Rele
- Osho – The Word “Fuck”
- The Black Ghosts – Repetition Kills You (Diplo Remix)
- La Monte Young – Raga For Ravi
- Henry Flynt – Marines Hymn (1971)
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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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