Monkeys playing synthesizers. All you need to know really.
Heyo,
It’s summer, which means WZBC is shuffling their lineup yet again. Photon Pitch has moved. Instead of early Thursday mornings, I’ll now be on-air Tuesdays 3pm-5pm EDT.
This is a good thing.
While any airtime is good airtime, and I enjoyed talking to some awesome and appreciative listeners on Thursdays these last few months, an afternoon/early evening time slot just works better for a lot of the music I like to play. I adapted to the pre-coffee morning rush hour spot by bringing a slightly more down/mellow vibe to my song selection since the new year, often only bringing in really heavy beats or super dance oriented stuff during the last half hour or so. (It can be really hard to justify Dubstep and Brazilian House at 8:37 in the morning). It was fun working in that way, but it was also a tad limiting. Now, no worries. As with last summer I can pretty much play whatever whenever and I’m pumped about that.
Because of the abruptness of the schedule change I really didn’t a chance to warn listeners of the 8-10a block about the change and unfortunately had to take a one week hiatus for the show. Apologies for any confusion, but I’ll be returning this Tuesday 3/22 with some awesome new tracks and some great plans for the next few months. Stay tuned and thanks for everything.
-Wes
Is…that a custom made child Prince Purple Rain suit???
Thank you Lord, I am not worthy of such glory.
Seriously, best thing ever. We’ve got a one person shortlist for the best parent award 2012 (…or perhaps the worst depending on far they go down this road…)
Definitely a shade late in posting this, apologies. Had a fun show last week as always, but I will admit I never really felt particular settled. Happy with the individual tracks I played but felt unable to establish a uniform vibe throughout…or even a vibe of comfortable randomness…sigh…happens.
Was very happy to finally play some Evian Christ on-air, Kings and Them = a really wonderful release that I’d def encourage you to get.
I’m a huge WhoMadeWho fan and I hadn’t yet played anything off their most recent release Brighter, so I was eager to play Never Had the Time. I might be bringing more cuts off that album to the next show.
I’ve always liked the Hot Chip mix of Breakin’ Up the most off of Rilo Kiley’s release of the single a few years back. Solid track to open with. I think I find it more emotional than most, but it still really holds up for me after several years.
I took a chance on the live Panda Bear version of Daily Routine last week. It’s not something I’d do again. That track might be my fav off of Merriweather Post Pavilion and there was a 2 month period back in 2009 when I was listening to it on a daily basis. I’d never heard the Panda Bear live version before, and in an extremely rare move for Photon Pitch I played a track I had never listened to before. There’s a reason why I almost never do that, and it was reaffirmed. It also reaffirmed a basic tenet of Animal Collective fandom: their albums and their live performances are two VERY different things. If you love their studio stuff you need to know that if you see them live they’re pretty much going to throw the script out the window and launch headfirst into jamming/noodling/experimentation…which is fine…if you’re prepared for it. I saw them on the Feels tour in 2006 and I was one of the 25% of the audience NOT on heavy psychedelics. It was a fun show and all, but it took me about 30 mins to realize that I’d be lucky to hear even 2 actual songs (as in they adhered to any kind of traditional musical structure). Do your thing AC, do your thing, but be warned if you’re a fan and you have hopes of hearing Leaf House in a version even remotely recognizable from the album.
Heard the John Talabot So Will Be Now track on the Wild City #022 mix by Coma last week. I was very glad for that, fantastic cut. Joining Omar-S’ Day as my two favorite tracks with obvious but not uncreative samples of Motown hits. Nice stuff.
The Mano Le Tough RMX of Drop Me a Line? Hellz yes. That’s all I have to say about that.
Photon Pitch (ZBC Rock) with Wes Hazard 05/03/2012 08:00AM to 10:00AM
08:00AM Rilo Kiley “Breakin’ Up (Hot Chip Remix)” from “Breakin’ Up - EP” on Warner Bros.
08:08AM Richard Davis “Honest With You” from “City Sounds Step 1”
08:15AM Interpol “Hands Away” from “Turn on The Bright Lights” on Matador
08:19AM Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn And Ginger Brooks Takahashi “Pure” from “Songs From the Black Mountain Muisc Project”
08:22AM Heinrich Ignaz Franz Von Biber “Harmonia Artificiosa-Ariosa: Partia I: II. Allamande” from “Biber: Harmonia Artificiosa-ariosa”
08:23AM Dolls “Motor City” from “The Dolls”
08:28AM Rod McKuen “EROS” from “Queer Noises 1961 - 1978: from the closet to the charts” on Trikont
08:32AM Panda Bear “Daily Routine” from “Live At Governor’s Island”
08:38AM TV on The Radio “AMBULANCE” from “Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes” on Touch and Go
08:42AM Freddie Scott “(You) Got What I Need” from “Cry to Me - The Best of Freddie Scott” on Sony Music Media
08:46AM Madvillain “Shadows of Tomorrow” from “Madvillainy” on Stones Throw
08:49AM Eric B. & Rakim “Paid In Full (Seven Minutes Of Madness - The Coldcut Remix)” from “Paid In Full (Deluxe Edition)” on ISLAND RECORDS
08:57AM Twin Sister “All Around and Away We Go” from “All Around and Away We Go - EP” on Double Six Records / Hostess
09:02AM Videohippos “Downfall” from “Unbeast the Leash” on Monitor
09:06AM Evian Christ “Fridge, Crank, Gun” from “Kings And Them”
09:09AM John Talabot “So Will Be Now… (feat. Pional)” from “Fin” on Permanent Vacation
09:16AM Metric “Help I’m Alive (The Twelves Tabloid Mix)” from “Kitsune Tabloid by the Twelves”
09:19AM Andre Obin “Cinamon” from “Premonition” on Moodgadget Records
09:24AM Ratatat “Neckbrace” from “LP4” on XL
09:28AM Ava Luna “Ice Level” from “Ice Level” on Infinite Best
09:34AM Whomadewho “Never Had the Time” from “Brighter” on MBO - The Music Business Organisation A/S
09:38AM Midnight Magic “Drop Me a Line (Mano Le Tough Remix)” from “Drop Me a Line” on Permanent Vacation
09:45AM Evian Christ “Thrown Like Jacks” from “Kings And Them”
09:49AM Burial “Archangel” from “Untrue” on Hyperdub
09:54AM Mzkbx “Five Tips” from “Katapult Festival” on Karat Records
THEESatisfaction - Deeper (Live version of my favorite track of their March release awE naturalE)
Felt like God-given 8-bit video game music
recorded by a shaman in the rain,
sampled & laid over with beats by angels.
These angels like cruising through downtown in the popemobile on Saturday nights, but they have their brooding moods too, just like everybody.
Get this.
A fairly mellow first half hour, balanced by a beats/new-disco heavy last quarter. I watched Drive (which I now own) for the second time a few days prior to this show, and I’m shocked that I hadn’t played Desire’s “Under Your Spell” a few months back when I was playing cuts from the soundtrack for several weeks in a row. Somehow, among all the standout cuts on there I’d managed to overlook. Seeing the film again reminded me of how awesome it was and how much I needed to play it.
I did make it out on Record Store Day, but I actually didn’t get any new releases. One of the few vinyl purchases I did make was Speech Debelle’s 2009 release Speech Therapy...which is amazing. Very I glad I got to include Bad Boy in the set.
Purity Ring continues to impress me. Beginning last year, they’ve now released 4 free tracks off their forthcoming debut LP Shrines (7/24). Giving away roughly a 3rd of your first album (all extremely strong tracks btw) is…confident, to say the least. But if all their stuff is of this caliber then they’ve justifiably got confidence to burn.
My track of the week, by far, was most definitely Yacht’s Le Goudron. Straight up disco burner. (I devoted a post to it below). I will be playing that again, no doubt. Def it grab it if you haven’t, worth it in every way.
Good times last week, hard at work on this Thursday’s playlist, lots of great new tracks already.
As always, a nicer looking version of this can be found HERE.
Photon Pitch (ZBC Rock) with Wes Hazard 04/26/2012 08:00AM to 10:00AM
08:01AM Massive Attack “Black Milk” from “Mezzanine” on Circa/Virgin
08:07AM Jono McCleery “TOMORROW” from “Label Love Vol. 2”
08:09AM Kate Bush “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)” from “Hounds of Love” on EMI Records
08:14AM Sebastien Tellier “L’Amour Et La Violence” from “Sexuality” on record makers
08:19AM Everything But the Girl “Before Today” from “Walking Wounded” on Atlantic
08:24AM Desire “UNDER YOUR SPELL” from “Drive (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” on record makers
08:27AM Paperfilm “Geophagy” from “You Should Call it”
08:33AM The Twilight Sad “NIL” from “No One Can Ever Know” on Fat Cat
08:38AM Metamorph “Collide & Collapse (Prologue I)” from “Shredded”
08:41AM New Build “Finding Reasons” from “Yesterday Was Lived and Lost” on Lanark Recordings
08:47AM Part Time “Living In Pretend (My Girl Imagination)” from “What Would You Say?” on Mexican Summer
08:52AM Mtume “JUICY” from “Funk Classics Vol.1”
08:57AM Com Truise “Futureworld” from “Galactic Melt” on Ghostly International
09:00AM Speech Debelle “BAD BOY” from “Speech Therapy” on Big Dada
09:05AM ZZ ward “Overdue” from “Eleven Roses” on Self Released
09:08AM Kindness “CYAN” from “World, You Need a Change of Mind” on Co-operative Music
09:12AM Win Win “Walls” from “SoundCloud”
09:18AM Photocall “Silver Clouds” from “James Fucking Friedman: Go Commando (Compilation)” on Computer Life Recordings
09:21AM Purity Ring “Odebear” from “Single”
09:25AM Grimes “Nightmusic (Ft. Majical Cloudz)” from “visions” on 4AD
09:32AM The Knife “Pass This On (M.A.N.D.Y. Knifer Mix)” from “James Fucking Friedman: Go Commando (Compilation)”
09:35AM Willie Hutch “The Glow” from “The Last Dragon Soundtrack”
09:38AM Telepathe “Chromes On It (Kingdom Remix)” from “Let’s Kiss & Make Up (Slow and Fast)”
09:43AM Star Slinger “Elizabeth Fraser (Cocteau Twins Rework)” from “Stereogum Monthly Mix: January & February 2011”
09:47AM Yacht “Le Goudron (Edit)” from “Le Goudron”
09:50AM The Chain Gang Of 1974 “Undercover” from “Wayward Fire” on Modern Art
10:00AM Christian Scott “The Eraser” from “Yesterday You Said Tomorrow” on Concord Records
There’s a lot going on in this video. Part kabuki homage to The Shining, part private middle school bizzaro world, part threateningly seductive condescension, and part appreciation for the value of a well wounded liberal arts education. Great song, great vid…do not watch if you have a problem with the word bitch.
Zebra Katz - Ima Read (Ft. Reddd Foxxx)
