6/5/16 New Noize on 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

-Hour 1-

1. Bat for Lashes “Sunday Love” parlophone
2. Gotobeds “Why’d You” sub pop
3. GOSH “ Hangin’ Out” guilt ridden
4. the So So Glos “Missionary” votive
5. Death From Above 1979 “Going Steady” thirdman
6. The Claypool Lennon Delirium “Ohmerica” ato
7. Disasterpeace “the Last General” (From the Soundtrack for Hyper Light Drifter)
8. March Prichard feat Bibio “Give It Your Choir” warp
9. Fujiya & Miyagi “To the Last Beat of My Heart” impossible objects of desire
10. the Monkees “Birth of an Accidental Hipster” rhino
11. Ciaran Lavery “Return to Form” believe
12. the Blind Pets “Big Kids” sub pop
13. King Khan “Children of the World” merge
14. Empty Houses “Daydream” sergeant house
15. My Jerusalem “Rabbit Rabbit” washington square

-Hour 2-

16. the Avalanches feat Danny Brown & DOOM “Frankie Sinatra” astralwerks
~~~Japanese Selection BLOCK~~~~
17. Boris “Pink” (Taken off the Live album “Crossing Waltz”) fang anal satan
18. Greenmachine “Punisher” diwphalanx
19. Church of Misery “Soul Discharge” diwphalanx
20. Aki-Ra Sunrise “Fetal Beats”
~~~Japanese Selection BLOCK~~~~
21. M83 “Go” mute
22. Radiohead “Decks Dark” xl
23. BADBADNOTGOOD feat Sam Herring “Time Moves Slow” innovative leisure
24. Gold Panda “Metal Bird” city slang
25. Oddisee “Right Side of the Bed” 
26. Tobacco “God In Heat” ghostly
27. White Lung “Below” domino
28. Thurston Moore & Bernie Sanders “Feel it in Your Guts” joyful noise

owl cafe

KONICHIWA!!! Your boy is back, it was a nice break but its nice to be stateside again, ok thats a LIE I wish I was still in Japan. I will be posting a ton of videos and pictures along with stories about my adventures in the land of the rising sun in the upcoming weeks.

So much amazing music coming out left and right. the big news is the new Avalanches, I am drinking out of the Kool-Aid and am pretty sure this record is gonna be one of the best drops of 2016, we shall see. 

In hour 1 of course Death From Above 1979, IDK who is in charge of mastering these live records that thridman puts out but DAMN GINA they sound fantastic. I preorder and bought Shabazz Palaces but with no turntable at the station (i know I know) and no digital version I could not play it, hopefully in the next few weeks. 

The Claypool Lennon Delirium record is pretty solid, I have to spend more time with it but I dig every track on it so far. The Gotobeds along with the Blind Pets are other albums I have only listened to once which require some more ear love, but I will say this, Sub Pop is killing it right now. 

I also finally got to connect with Disasterpeace who did all the whole soundtrack for Hyper Light Drifter (which is coming out later on the PS4 and hopefully the Vita in the next few months). The soundtrack is extraordinary PLUS iam8bit is doing a special run of these on WAX, scoop em before they are gone here <---Currently in Pre Order Mode. Make sure to check out Disasterpeace jamz here. 

During hour 2 I played a block of music from some of the audio pick ups from Japan. Couldn't play any new vinyls as we don't have turntables at the station but I did buy some CD's. By the way the cd game in Japan is STRONG. 

Boris live with Merzbow in Tokyo. Wata and Takeshi pictured

1st up is Boris, saw them play with Merzbow in Tokyo the 2nd day I was in Japan! They preformed Gensho live and HOLY F*CK it was one of the loudest shows I have ever been to. Anyways the merch table was selling a live Boris album called "Crossing Waltz” and if you are a Boris fan then you will love this double CD. The set list is crazy amazing. Crossing Waltz may have been an exclusive at this show but that detail is unconfirmed. I went ahead and played a live version of "PINK" off of "Crossing Waltz"> Boris is reissuing "PINK" this year via sargent house. The reissue of PINK has a bonus disc called "Forbidden Songs" hopefully I get some to play on an upcoming New Noize. 

I then slid into some Japanese Metal (Greenmachine & Church of Misery) that the clerk at Disc Union recommended and tailed the Japanese Music Block with a cat I saw in Osaka called Aki-Ra Sunrise. Aki-Ra Sunrise was amazing live, he played so many strange instruments all at the same time it was pretty incredible. No worries I will report on Aki-Ra Sunrise later this month. 

Aki-Ra Sunrise jamming out in Osaka

Oh did I mention I also M83 in Japan, they were GREAT! 

M83 LIVE in Tokyo

Until next week my friends...

Gates on gates on gates.

4/24/16 New Noize ALL VINYL SPECIAL on 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

All selections were played on vinyl, no digital, cds or cassette tapes (but to be honest if I had a cassette I would have totally played it.)

1. Autolux “Change My Head”
2. METZ “Eraser” sub pop
3. Glitterbust “Soft Landing “ burger
4. Boris “Bataille Sucre” daymare
5. Buzzcocks “E.S.P.” rhino
6. John Williams Star Wars “Rays Theme”
7. J Dilla feat Bilal “Ex (R&B version)”
8. Bat for Lashes “A Forest” (Cure Cover)
9. Ol Dirty Bastard “Shimmy Shimmy Ya” get loud
10. Prince “Lets Work”
11. David Bowie “I Dig Everything”
12. Two Star Tabernacle “Itchy” thirdman -(VAULT PACKAGE #27 LIVE AT THE GOLD DOLLAR)
13. The  Go “Psycho” thirdman -TAKEN FROM (VAULT PACKAGE #27 LIVE AT THE GOLD DOLLAR)
14. Jack White & the Bricks “One & Two” thirdman -(VAULT PACKAGE #27 LIVE AT THE GOLD DOLLAR) 
15. Thelonious Monk “Not It” 
16- Spider “Boom Boom Boom” (PSYCHEDILLIC TOKYO- Slitherama, Vol. 3)
17. Robert Plant “Whole Lotta Love” (live medley) 

All Wax done, hope you enjoyed this past Sundays selection. I had a fun time doing it, some of my favs were the Prince to Bowie spins and a block of EARLY Jack White Live at the Gold Dollar. Seriously thirdman records knows how to create a moment in time.

Big ups to the Cool Ruler for spinning some of his rare Reggae Vinyls my main dude and fellow DJ at 92.9 KJEE Ricky Biggs for taking some dope pictures and helping out. And most of all the people that skipped Game for Thrones to tune in, you cats rule.

4/17/16 New Noize on 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

1. DJ Shadow (feat: Run the Jewels) “Nobody Speaks” mass appeal
2. Nothing”ACD (Abcessive Compulsive Disorder) relapse
3. King Gizzard and the Lizard King “Gamma Knife”
4. Enter Shikari “Red Shift”
5. Temper Trap “Fall Together”
6. Suuns “UN-NO” secretly canadian
7. Spirit Animal “Regular World” wind-up
8. Andrew Bird “Puma” loma vista
9. Animal Collective “The Burglars” domino
10. Chelsea Wolf “Hypnos” sargent house
11. Plague Vendor “Saturday Night Shakes” epitaph
12. M83 “Bibi the Dog” mute
13. Com Truise “Forgive” ghostly  
14. Bat for Lashes “In Gods House”
15. Kitten Forever “Freak Noise” atlas chair

another killer Sunday in the books kids, check it...

This past Saturday was Record Store Day and you know your boy was out at my local spot, Warbler Records, copping as many specialty records as possible. In celebration of RSD this coming up Sunday I’m going all analog! I set aside a small budget (which I went over) this year as I will be digging through crates of vinyls overseas. By the way if you know of any dope record shops in Japan let me know. To fill out the show I will be dropping some hard to find vinyls from this year and some past RSD selections. The all wax set comes but once a year so set your dials for 92.9 KJEE at 9pm to catch this yearly event.

3/27/16 New Noize on 92.9 KJEE Santa Barbara's Modern Rock

1. Bibio “A Mineral Love” warp
2. Primal Scream” Trippin’ On your Love”
3. Radical Face “Secrets”
4. Policia “Wedding” mom+pop
5. White Lung “Hungry” domino
6. Louis the Child “Its Strange” ultra music
7. Tokyo Police Club “Not My Girl”
8. Bleached “Sour Candy” dead oceans
9. M83 “Do It, Try It” mute
10. Iggy Pop “Vulture” loma vista
11. Glitterbust “Soft Landing” burger
12. Autolux “Soft Scene” 
13. Purple “Mini Van” pias
14. the Kills “Doing it to Death”
15. Bat for Lashes “In Gods House” wb

We are on the cusp of a thickness of interesting shows coming through the area as well as some music drops this month. Autolux and M83 are high on my list this month and NO the label still as not sent me the full lengths, sad face. Talking about labels not being on their game, I reached out to Mad Decent for the new Baauer album but got crickets. Looks like I will have to but this one to spin it, new MIA track on this so its a must.

New Iggy Pop record is very good, it's one of those records where you will notice something new every-time you listen to it 

Seeing Bleached tomorrow night at great little venue here in town, Velvet Jones if your stalking. 

Oh and I watched Batman VS Superman and it was a terrible movie but the beer helped. OK it wasn't THAT bad, if you are a DC fanboy there are a few things that were great about the flick, but at the end of the day it was not a "good" movie, but I had fun. Ben as an older "Frank Miller" Batman was the best thing about this, and for reals Ben can be Batman whenever he wants. I will always prefer Adam West though...