This show went through several variations but ended up with clearances from all of the artists I originally wanted, save one. There are several triphop like songs that really give this one a winter feel, just as chilly fall weather finally hits me here.

Sankt Otten was described to me as "like Trip Hop except it's not lazy and boring." They have been really great to work with on clearance, getting hold of their label for me. Hidden Shoal, their label, has also been great, hooking me up with a media pass to sample their other artist. But most importantly, the album is awesome. It is reminiscent of trip hop but has a sort of gritty cinematic style that really impresses, like a more intense Portishead. They have a new CD coming out next month that I can't wait to hear.

I have really liked what I have heard by the Sun City Girls. It is all been really crazy. I am almost scared of diving into buying up their stuff, since they are amazingly prolific. Half of Wizard Prison is Scott Colburn, a longtime member of of SCG. He also has a pretty impressive resume as a recording engineer, working on the new Arcade Fire and Animal Collective. I heard Wizard Prison was new rock project and had opened shows for Animal Collective so I had to track his CDs down. It has some really good noisy songs on it.

I have played a couple of Circle tracks and a couple of Sunburned Hand of the Man lately. So when I picked up the collaborative CD between the two groups it was a no-brainer to play. The combination of Circle's Finnish Krautrock aesthetic and Sunburned's chaotic psychedelia makes for a thoroughly satisfying release. The music was actually a live performance with a grand total of 11 musicians on stage in Tampere, Finland. I promise no more Circle for a while. I don't want to play them out.

Acid Eater is another project of project of Maso Yamazuki, the man behind the wall of noise known as Masonna. He did a space rock CD under the name of Christine 23 Onna that was titled Acid Eater. The band Acid Eater, however, has a classic garage rock sound. The title of the CD is Virulent Fuzz Punk A.C.I.D. and that sums it up entirely. With layer of tape hiss across the top and Sundazed could release it as some awesomely intense obscurity from the 60s.

Black Dice are almost legendary now in the noise band world. I have played a track from them before (the first track I played that inspired the wife to ask if the radio was between channels) but since I have gone to playing cleared tracks I haven't. I am sure the guys in BD wouldn't have a problem with it but they were on Caroline via DFA, meaning that they are on a sub sub sub label of EMI so I haven't even bothered. This release however is on Paw Tracks and they are great to me. I think Black Dice have their own brand of noise. It has more space in it that lots of noise artists and I am glad to have them on a label I can play.

I first hear a preview of the new Kiln EP on the OtherMusic download store. It has a great feel to it. They are on Ghostly, another label that told me they didn't care if I played their stuff. The band also responded enthusiastically. This grimey and dubby track from Vaporbend is really awesome. It is different from the three other, much shorter tracks on the EP and I really hope this is the direction they are headed in.

Working for a Nuclear Free City is one of the first bands I ever secured a clearance from. I had been sent some MP3s from a friend in the UK and one of their tracks was on it. I really loved it, but since it was an MP3 that I didn't own the CD to, even my rule breaking self felt like I should ask permission. Afterwards, Melodic let me play their releases, the self-titled CD and the Rocket EP. This new release is on Deaf, Dumb and Blind and they likewise are really receptive. The new release is a double CD full of great tracks. This track is a sort of space pop song that really works. WFANFC has been featured on other podcasts, most especially JC Hutchins' Seventh Son, where one of the tracks served as a theme. Great band in the long line of Manchester greatness.

Yeasayers are a New York band with a bunch of obvious infuences. Many kinds of eastern sounds creep into their proggy, psychedelic, ritual music stew. For you more traditional rock guys, there are a lot of amazing pieces to be heard on their debut, All Hour Cymbals. Hopefully a tour will bring them to my part of the country. I have a feeling their live shows are intense.

Arp is a solo project of Alexis Georgopoulos. Alexis is one of the founders of the amazing band Tussle, who I played a few months ago. Apparently during the recording of the last Tussle CD, Alexis left under less than amicable terms. Arp is his solo project and I love this minimalistic bent he is on. Tussle was like a minimalist post rock dance band. On the In Light CD, Alexis' minimalist tendencies is full on. "Potentialities" has this Krautrock bubbling going on, very Cluster like. This was also the CD that broke my cherry on Fina, the new download store from Thrill Jockey.

Holy Fuck is going to be huge. I have the vinyl EP, called Holy Fuck, which has some amazing tracks. I was trying to play a track from it and was having trouble getting clearance on it. So I got the new, also self titled, CD off of emusic, contacted the Young Turks label and had clearance within 24 hours. HF is really a great band. They have been receiving accolades for their live show and their releases are just amazing. There is an eighties retro feel to this particular track, but with the noise level and intensity turned up.

Venetian Snares is one of those acts I am in danger of overplaying. With Aaron Funk's ultra-prolific release schedule and his consistent high quality, I just want to play tracks every week. His new CD, My Downfall, finds him revisiting the strings motifs that have popped up on earlier CDs. I love the way he combines the smooth lush strings with his hyperedited breakbeats. Chaotic and edgy with a smooth sheen, he is a master of this genre schizophrenia.

Supersilent has been doing its version of deconstructed drone jazz for years now. 8 is their newest CD and is back to their formula of minimalist builds and mood pieces. This is the first track of the CD, and starts with a long slow build so don't think your iPod is broken. I love how it goes from the minimals to the distorted bass rumbles.

There was something about "Working for a Nuclear Free City" that I really liked. Grabbed the album and it fails to disappoint. Very good stuff. I'll have to check out some of their older albums

Kiln..at times their music almost a fluffer track feel to it, then it changes directions. Excellent