Episode 7: Best of 2012

Retro Futurism Episode 7: Best of 2012 aired 6pm, Sunday 30 December. Playlist below and download here and here.

William Basinski: Disintegration Loop 1.2
John Cage: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) (excerpt)
Sun Ra: On Jupiter
Laurie Spiegel (pictured): Clockworks
Oneohtrix Point Never: Time Decanted
Kevin Gorman: Frequency Phase Parts 1 & 2
Bernard Parmegiani: Passage d'Insectes
Bernard Parmegiani: Transition
Bee Mask: Pink Drinq
James Ferraro: Jumpshot Earth
Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury: Scope the Block
John Carpenter and Alan Howarth: This is Not a Dream
John Carpenter and Alan Howarth: Prince of Darkness End Titles
Disco Inferno: The Atheist's Burden
Felix Kubin: I'm Still Calling You My Brain
DJ Spinn: 4 A $5 Bag
DJ Sprinkles and Mark Fell: Say It Slowly (N.U.M. Mix)
Mark Fell: SOA-7
Starship Commander Woo Woo: Master Ship (excerpt)
Octo Octa: I Can Feel You (Dub Version)
US: Born in the North
Mannheim Rocket: Eora Part 1
Lee Gamble: ExpRand Trace
Actress: Ascending
Lorenzo Senni: Digital Tsunami
Yvonne Archer: 'Aint Nobody

Thanks for listening. Next Sunday 6 January will be Episode 8: Recent Australian Music, featuring music mostly by Australian artists.

Episode 6: Dubs, Versions, Copies and Covers

Retro Futurism Episode 6: Dubs, Versions, Copies and Covers aired at the new summer time of 6pm, Sunday 23 December. Playlist below, and the program should still be listenable via the stream at the Under The Sun page (who I'm covering for) and downloadable here and here.

Sex Pistols: Holiday in the Sun
Alton Ellis: It's a Shame
King Tubby: Fat Thing Version
Pulshar: Golden Brown
Fennesz: Don't Talk (Put Your Head on my Shoulder)
Claude Debussy: Gymnopedie #1 (Satie)
Akira Rabelais: Gnossienne #3 (Satie)
Wendy Carlos: Two Part Invention in D Minor (Bach)
Ekkehard Ehlers: Spaten
Blood Sisters: Ring My Bell
Jennifer Lara: I'm In Love
Carl Craig: Angola
Lee Perry: Chim Chim Cherie
Pauline Oliveros: Bye Bye Butterfly
Christian Marclay: Maria Callas
Michael Mayer: Frost
Dean Blunt feat. Inga Copeland (pictured): The Narcissist
Sonic Youth: Piece Enfantine (Slominsky)
Sun Ra: UFO (Mike Huckaby's Reel to Reel Edit)
Charlie Parker: Loverman
Derek Bailey: What's New
The Dirtbombs: Jaguar
The Field: Action
Felix Kubin: Hello
Oneohtrix Point Never: Adagio in G Minor (Albinoni)
V/VM: The Lady in Red (Is Dancing with Meat)
Oneohtrix Point Never: Nobody Here
John Fahey: What Child Is This

Next Sunday 30 December will feature Episode 7: Best of 2012. Unoriginal, but plenty of reissued futurist and new retro gold worth hearing again.

More Retro Futurism

Retro Futurism will return to Triple R 102.7FM 6.00pm this Sunday 23 December. I'll be filling in for Jonathan Alley's Under The Sun for three weeks while he's on summer vacation.

Episode 6: Dubs, Versions, Copies and Covers will celebrate my role as 'cover' by playing 'covers'. Stream it here.

Episode 5: Contemporary Futurism / Postmodern Hopelessness

Retro Futurism's final program Episode 5: Contemporary Futurism / Postmodern Hopelessness was broadcast 30 November 2012 and is available to stream here and download here and here. This was what was played:

Kraftwerk - Computerwelt
Parliament - Placebo Syndrome
Disco Inferno - A Crash At Every Speed
Pole - Modul
Ryoji Ikeda - Data.Multiplex
Alva Noto - Neue Stadt (Skizze B)
Sturm - Untitled
Mark Fell - Multistability 7a
Hecker - Piste03
John Chantler - Untitled 05
John Chantler - Untitled 03
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Disingenuousness
Burial - Archangel
The Advisory Circle - Modern Through Movement
Broadcast and the Focus Group - You Must Wake
Philip Jeck - Chime Again
The Caretaker - Everything is on the Point of Decline
Tropical Contact High - ... And With Whom?
James Ferraro - Palm Trees, WiFi and Dream Sushi
Toro Y Moi - Fax Shadow
Clams Casino - The World Needs Change
Oneohtrix Point Never - Nobody Here
Oneohtrix Point Never - Demerol
Ford and Lopatin - Voices
Oneohtrix Point Never - Angel
Games - Heartlands
DJ Rashad - Itz Not Rite
Dro Carey - Motorvibe
Traxman - Brainwash
Cooly G - Sunshine
MMM - Nouse Somme MMM
Evol - Wormhole Shubz 1
Lee Gamble - Pandemonium Institute
Julee Cruise - The World Spins

Thanks for listening. More on Retro Futurism here soon, we've only scratched the surface...

Episode 4: Urban Machines

Episode 4: Urban Machines can be streamed here and downloaded (2 parts) here and here. Playlist below:

Protect and Survive - Future Prison (EFNY)
John Carpenter - Escape From New York - Main Title
Kraftwerk - Schaufensterpuppen
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Cosmic Surfing
Shuggie Otis - XL-30
Afrika Bambaataa - Bambaataa's Theme
Man Parrish - Boogie Down (Bronx)
Oren Ambarchi - Girl With Silver Eyes
Giorgio Moroder - Baby Blue
Space - Magic Fly
Sylvia Love - Extraterrestrial Lover
Adonis - No Way Back
NY Housing Authority - Apartment 2a
Denis Garcia - Door to Dimension 4 (Inverto Remix)
Charanjit Singh - Raga Megh Malhar
Phuture - Acid Tracks
Tin Man - Museum of Acid
Cybotron - Cosmic Cars
Derrick May - Spaced Out
Model 500 - Starlight
Drexciya - Devil Ray Cove
Dopplereffekt - Satellites
Anthony Rother - Nacht Der Gotter
The Normal - T.V.O.D.
Oren Ambarchi - Remedios the Beauty
South Rakkas Crew - Red Alert
Ly Ngua O - Vo Chang Lam Bieng
Tshe Tsha Boys - Anidyi Nyama
Connie Francis - Robot Love

Episode 5: Contemporary Futurism / Postmodern Hopelessness, the final episode of Retro Futurism, will air midnight Friday 30 November. It will look at the decline of futurism, the rise of machines and the pessimism that has crept into contemporary experimental music making. Stay tuned...

Urban Machines

Tonight's program - Episode 3: Urban Machines will look at the advent of consumer electronics and the futuristic music made by urban youth on these newfangled gadgets. This made for a period of considerable experiment and invention, loads of great music, and images. Here's to the latter:

Roland 303

Oscar Peterson on the 303

Kraftwerk

Yellow Magic Orchestra

Giorgio Moroder

Space

Sylvia Love

Cybotron

Frankie Knuckles

Jesse Saunders

Kevin Saunderson, Derrick May & Juan Atkins

Drexciya

909

Their future?

Episode 3: Improvisation and Indeterminacy

Episode 3: Improvisation and Indeterminacy aired midnight Friday 15 November - available to stream here and download here and here. The great Sun Ra pictured above. This is the music:

Herbie Hancock - Rain Dance
John Cage - Williams Mix
Sun Ra - The Door of the Cosmos
Anthony Pateras - 76755
Duke Ellington - Spacemen
Alice Coltrane - Galaxy Around Oldumare
Alan Lamb - Infinity Machine
Robert Rockwell III - Androids
Oren Ambarchi - As Far As The Eye Can See
Sa Ra Creative Partners - Space Fruit
Christian Wolff - Exercise 15
Sun Ra - Love in Outer Space
Anthony Pateras - Mutant Theatre 1
Miles Davis - Little Church
Supersilent - 6.1
Wadado Leo Smith - Radiant Light Gushing from the Sun
Cornelius Cardew - Material
Ekkehard Ehlers - Cornelius Cardew (ii)
Jon Hassel / Brian Eno - Rising Thermal
Protect and Survive - Casualties
Sun Ra - Disco 3000
The Sun God - Analog Codes
Terry Riley - Music for the Gift 1
Michael Hurley - O My Stars

Thanks for listening. Next week Friday 23 November is Episode 4: Urban Machines, looking at the small electronic boxes, gadgets and computers used by inner city dwellers to create rhythms, bleeps and pulsars to transcend urban reality.

Stay tuned...