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The Downer Party

Jun 13, 2021 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Music

With Casey

Summer season premiere

Go Phillies! This is a Yankee free zone

6:00 PM		Stereolab Super-Electric Switched On Too Pure 1991 Title track to the 1991 EP, also released on the first installment of the Switched On series Bandcamp \| Vinyl
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6:08 PM		black midi Chondromalacia Patella N Cavalcade Rough Trade 2021 Remarkably similar to their 2018 debut single Bandcamp \| Vinyl \| Video
6:12 PM		The Fall Just Step S'Ways Hex Enduction Hour Kamera 1982 Having spent over a year now educating myself on The Fall, this is probably my favorite album of theirs.
6:16 PM		Stef Chura Scream Midnight Saddle Creek 2019 Last headliner I saw at PhilaMOCA before it closed in 2019. Though thankfully it is reopening next month with a screening of Mausoleum. Bandcamp \| Vinyl
6:18 PM		French Vanilla Protective How am I not myself? Danger Collective 2019 Opened for Stef Chura in July 2019 when I saw them. Despite a thinly attended show, they got more people dancing than I had ever seen in that room. Afterward I went to my friend's house and we played incidental music for 2001: A Space Odyssey at a house party. Bandcamp \| Vinyl
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6:25 PM		Unknown Mortal Orchestra Swim And Sleep (Like A Shark) II Jagjaguwar 2013 Possibly working on a new record, based on nothing but this uncaptioned Facebook post Bandcamp \| Vinyl
6:28 PM		Thundercat Fair Chance feat. Ty Dolla $ign & Lil B It Is What It Is Brainfeeder 2020 All praise be to Lil B the Based God Bandcamp \| Vinyl
6:32 PM		David Bowie Young Americans Young Americans RCA 1975 Got this for a steal at Siren Records in Doylestown, PA even in spite of the water damaged sleeve) when I was a teenager just getting into Bowie. Transferred from vinyl for you dear listener. Recorded at Sigma Sound in Philadelphia and co-written by Luter Vandross at the height of the Philadelphia Soul era. My mixing teacher at Temple said he worked on the sessions for this, recorded overnight during a residency at the Tower Theater in Upper Darby. Supposedly, Bowie dropped a massive bag of cocaine on the desk and said "Mi casa es su casa." My teacher's first thought at this was, "My god. We're all gonna go to jail."
6:38 PM		Now Lovin' You Is Easy Rust Side Story Vol. 24 V/A Numero Group 1976 Self-released in 1976 by Ohio soul group Now and newly reissued on Numero Group's Rust Side Story Vol. 24 compilation Bandcamp \| Vinyl
6:40 PM		Curtis Mayfield Little Child Runnin' Wild Superfly Curtom 1972 Opening track to what was rightfully named by Pitchfork as the greatest soundtrack album of all time
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6:49 PM		Dehd Month Flower of Devotion Fire Talk 2020 Another cut transferred at home from a vinyl record Bandcamp \| Vinyl
6:52 PM		Japanese Breakfast Sit N Jubilee Dead Oceans 2021 Fantastic new record from the Philly band. New Jersey tour dates already sold out along with 2 of 3 dates in Brooklyn and 3 of 4 in Philly. Bandcamp \| Vinyl
6:55 PM		So Totally Attention Live at WPRB 2019 Live-in-studio recording from 2019 of a track from their album in the shape of..., free to listen and download at the Internet Archive Bandcamp \| Label
6:59 PM		Cigarettes for Breakfast Wait N Wait 2021 More local shoegaze from Philadelphia Bandcamp
7:03 PM		Slowdive Celia's Dream Just For A Day Creation 1991 Singer/keyboardist Rachel Goswell released an album in April with Flaming Lips drummer Matt Duckworth under the name Beachy Head on Savannah, GA's Graveface Records
7:07 PM		Godspeed You! Black Emperor Cliffs Gaze / cliffs’ gaze at empty waters’ rise / ASHES TO SEA or NEARER TO THEE N G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! Constellation 2021 Like your Godspeed You! Black Emperor with 20 minute long tracks and titles to match? You're in luck with their newest. Bandcamp \| Vinyl
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7:19 PM		Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra Movement 7 N Promises Luaka Bop 2021 An unlikely but very rewarding collaboration Bandcamp \| Vinyl
7:29 PM		Big Liquid A Genuine Swamp N An Old Backpack Sound As Language 2021 Second LP from NYC producer Keenan Novi Bandcamp
7:33 PM		Throbbing Gristle Still Walking 20 Jazz Funk Greats Industrial 1979
7:38 PM		Squid Paddling N Bright Green Field Warp Records 2021 Very pleased to finally get a proper LP from this UK art rock band Bandcamp \| Vinyl
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7:46 PM		Writhing Squares Ganymede N Chart for the Solution Trouble In Mind Records 2021 Bandcamp \| Vinyl
7:49 PM		taqbir Sma3 N taqbir / Victory Belongs To Those Who Fight For A Right Cause La Vida Es Un Mus 2021 Debut self-titled EP from this Moroccan hardcore band, also called Victory Belongs To Those Who Fight For A Right Cause Bandcamp \| Vinyl
7:51 PM		Jessy Bulbo La Razón Saga Mama Nuevos Ricos 2006 Mexican singer also of the band Las Ultrasonicas, probably best known for her song "Maldito" used for the Latin radio station in Grand Theft Auto V
7:53 PM		Rata Negra En La Playa N Una Vida Vulgar Humo Internacional 2021 Madrid band, a name-your-price download from their Spanish label Bandcamp \| Vinyl
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7:56 PM		yumbo ケーキ (Cake) The Fruit Of Errata 間違いの実 Morr Music 2021 New compilation from Japanese twee pop group Yumbo, song originally released in 2004 on the Australian Songs for Nao compilation of contemporary Japanese bands Bandcamp \| Vinyl

Chat is archived.

What is up everybody?!

you were sorely missed , my good man, bought countless cds listening to this show last summer

Hey thanks for saying so! Happy to say I'm a regular once again

A regular irregular :) Yeoooooo Casey!

many times I had to pull over and jot down the times the tracks were played, so I could look up the playlist, before the new setup

☺️

Perfect "coming home from picking strawberries" music

How many gallons Krista? 🍓

Just 1.5, only making some strawberry sauce and fresh eating and strawberry shortcake

Nice!

1.5 gallons that is. Now we are watching Kiki's Delivery Service and eating leftover birthday cake and listening to the radio

What else did you learn in your year's study about The Fall

Perverted By Language is hugely underrated.

Did what I usually do when I'm ready to take a deep dive into a band like that and looked up documentaries on YouTube. Took maybe an unconventional approach cause the BBC one I found used "Eat Y'self Fitter" and "Victoria" for their 80s material

Teachers second thought...

"If I'm gonna go to jail I might as well..."

😂

Only joking. I'm sure he was very professional (although it was the 70s...)

I’ve read Bowie doesn’t even remember recording Station to Station cause of the massive coke intake at the time

*didn’t i should say i suppose

He basically said as much in the title track

It's not the side effects (it's the primary effects)

His whole " thin white duke" era is something he doesn't remember

Bill Ward similarly doesn't remember recording Vol. 4 I think. Although his drumming absolutely whips on that album

I really like this new Japanese Breakfast album. So many different styles. Some of the songs are very city pop. I'm also enjoying her memoir, Crying in H Mart

I haven't delved into the memoir yet but I was almost shocked at how much I liked the more pop tracks on it.

I had "Be Sweet" on repeat in my head for about 4 days straight

Oh the show mix!! That's gotta still be on the prod computer, hopefully

forgot we recorded that show...

Me too until I sat down this week to do some final touch ups

Artist who did the Floating Points cover art (Julie Mehretu) has a huge exhibit at the Whitney...pretty incredible. HUGE paintings.

😯

Not enough appreciation for the broader community of people who provide artwork for records

So true.

Really the reverse of "I'm gonna buy a painting, but can only hear a loosely related sound snippet instead of actually seeing said painting before purchase". Wait...that's all of advertising.

Lol the whole recording industry is a racket to sell prints

Yesssssss

sick show, writing down all kinds of bands for future listening

Thank you!

Appreciate the bandcamp & vinyl links...makes bankruptcy ever so convenient!

Always one of the things I liked about of Spinitron over our old playlists

This one you can get for free I promise

Whoa...taqbir.

Commie really sold me on Rata Negra!

They may have reawakened my love of surf rock

A lot of this label's releases are PWYW avtually