A wild ride getting this show together but some stuff really came together well.

Opening this week with a track by {{{Sunset}}}. I don't like that name for the same reason I hate typing Sunn0))), too many shifted puncuation marks. That being said, this Austin based project's new CD is great. There aren't too many CDs that walk the line between psychedelic strangeness and traditional modern rock this finely. This CD feels like it has a definite craft to it under all of the chaotic layers. Great rock candy.

Rune Grammophon is one of my favorite labels and Food is yet another excellent release. There are apparently other Food CDs and judging by this one, I need to go on the hunt for the old ones. Jazz techniques and texutures, modern processing and a sense of soundtrack openess, this is an excellent CD. And because the term Molecular Gastronomy was brought up, I give you food porn.

AFCGT is a collaborative project from the good people who brought you the Seattle bands A-Frames and Cliax Golden Twins. Awesome CD that is experimental and improv-ish without totally losing structure. It always feels just at the edge of chaos, while never completely dissolving.

Joakim Skogsberg is sort of a legend, but like a lot of 70s legends he is talked about more than he is heard. Sort of pagan/kraut/folk music from Sweden in the early 70s. I have heard a lot about this CD, including the fact that it is hopelessly out of print. I tracked down this vinyl rip (clean your needle!) and have been waiting to play it. I pop it in this setlist and see someone has a rerelease on the horizon. It is supposed to pretty limited, so hopefully I won't get in too much trouble.

Bardo Pond just keeps improving as evidenced by this new release for Three Lobed. They have been revered by some people for a while now, but traditionally I have thought they never matched on a BP release the intensity and tension they developed on side projects. This new one has got a lot of fire to it and really works on a lot of different levels.

A few months ago I played a track by Random Touch from their Alchemy CD. When I notified them that I was going to play it, they sent me one of their newer CDs. Their lastest (I think) is called A True Conductor Wears a Man and it is a collection of some crazy jazz based experiments. I really love what they are doing.

School of Language is a UK 3 piece doing some interesting work. This track is off their debut CD on Thrill Jockey and they really fit in well with that Thrill Jockey sound. This is piece is more obtuse and instrumental than most of the other tracks on the CD.

Eleanoora Rosenholm is a Fonal artist that is stranger than many of the other Fonal artists in that along with the atmospheric noise pieces are some strange gothic disco sets. Yet another crazy CD from Fonal.

As I approach my 100th show, I am going back to the first episodes, back before I got clearances on tracks. I am finding tracks that I have gotten clearances on since then and playing them as sort of a buildup to the next show. This week I play the first song I played on my first podcast, for 12 people. Jason Forrest is an amazing forger of sound. I first became exposed to him on his CD The Unrelenting Songs of the 1979 Post Disco Crash. This is the third track from that CD and builds from found sound of a helicopter fly by to an ELO sample that slams up side your head. Never boring, that Mr. Forrest.

I love Odd Nosdam, probably THE heavy hitter in a label full of talent, Anticon. This is a piece that popped up in a random a few times and I thought it would go great here. It is from his latest CD, Level Live Wires.

One of my first cleared shows was ended with a track from the Starving Weirdos. I just got their new CD, Summon with Electric Socery and it kills. Long form improv based strangeness from San Francisco.