Rare Frequency Podcast

  I take on the guise of DJ Top Hush for this relatively relaxed podcast, which is loosely based on a set I played out in April at an ambient night here in the Boston area called Furniture Music (sadly, now defunct). This is an unusually mellow podcast, so sit back, listen in and calm down just a tad. Full tracklisting below. Rare Frequency Podcast 9: Furniture Music 1 Tod Dockstader, "Soft Aurora" Recorded Music for Film, Radio & Television (Creel Pone) CD-r 2006 2 Moebius, "Falsche Ruhe" Blue Moon: Original Soundtrack" (Sky Records) 1986 3 Biosphere, "The Things I Tell You" Substrata 2, disc one (Touch) 2CD 2001 4 Toshiya Tsunoda, "Seashore, Venice Beach_31 Jul 01" Ridge of Undulation (Hapna) CD 2005 5 Chris Watson, "Runway 02E" An Evening at Room40 (Room40) CD 2006 6 Tim Hecker, "Spectral" Radio Amor (Mille Plateaux) CD 2003 7 Keith Fullerton Whitman, "2nd Early Monolith" An Evening at Room40 (Room40) CD 2006 8 Robert Fripp & Brian Eno, "Evening Star" Evening Star (Editions EG) CD 1989 9 Laurie Spiegel, "4 Short Visits To Different Worlds: A Garden (C 1970)" Obsolete Systems (EMF) CD 2001 10 Thomas Koner, "Une Topographie Sonore: Col De Vence" Zyklop (Mille Plateaux) 2CD 2003 11 Biosphere, "The Silent Orchestra" Substrata 2, disc two (Touch) 2CD 2001 12 COH, "Between Heaven and Earth" Above Air (Eskaton) CD 2006 13 Philip Jeck, "Wipe" 7 (Touch) CD 2003 14 Biosphere/Deathprod, "Katedra Botaniki" Nordheim Transformed (Rune Grammofon) CD 1998 15 Pan Sonic, "Vaihtovirta" Aaaltopiiri (Mute) CD 2001 16 Aphex Twin, "Curtains" Selected Ambient Works Volume II (Warp) 2CD 1994

This special edition RF podcast features an immersive, extended live set by Asher, which was originally recorded and broadcast in the WZBC FM studio on April 13, 2006. Asher has releases on the Con-V, Term, and Earlabs labels. Rare Frequency Podcast (Special Ed. 04): Asher Live on RF 04.13.06 Note: the recording begins a few minutes into Asher’s set. Comments? Do tell!

Nothing fancy with this early spring podcast: just an extended mix laced with abstract techno, feedback experiments, vintage ’70s electronics, and burbling drones. Features tracks by the following artists: Sleeparchive, Ø, CoH, alva.noto, Henrik Rylander, Laurie Spiegel, and Alexander Rishaug. Enjoy! Rare Frequency Podcast 8: April Mix Any questions? Ask. Any comments? Tell.

With lucky Podcast Number 7, we leave the abstract electronics on the shelf in favor of some our favorite heavy, Anatolian grooves from the sixties and seventies. The show contains songs by some of the best-known Turkish psych artists, such as Erkin Koray, Mogollar (pictured here), and 3-Hurel, as well as Edip Akbayram, Bulent Ortacsil, Mazhar & Fuat, Ozemir Erdogan & his Orchestra, and the wonderful protest singer, Selda. Rock on and fuzz out! Rare Frequency Podcast 7: Turkish Psych

This very special podcast features an interview with a Rare Frequency favorite, Janek Schaefer. The interview was originally broadcast on 02.23.06 on the Rare Frequency radio program on WZBCand in it Janek and I discuss his latest release, Migration, as well as projects past, present, and future! Enjoy! You can find a transcript of the interview here and my review of Migration here. Rare Frequency Podcast (Special Ed. 02): Janek Schaefer Interview 02.23.06

This installment of the show features the ultra-quiet and near silent sounds of Onkyo, microsound, and lowercase sound with selections by Filament, Jazzkammer, nmperign, Richard Chartier, Asmus Tietchens, and (naturally) Francisco Lopez. Don your headphones and listen carefully.... The opening music is Alva Noto, Track 3 [Untitled], Prototypes (Mille Plateaux). Rare Frequency Podcast 6: The Quiet One You can subscribe to the Rare Frequency podcast through iTunes or Odeo.

Why choose a picture of a Shriner playing a calliope from a 2005 July 4th parade as the visual corollary to RF podcast 5? Isn't it obvious? This edition of the show features selections by Kohn, COH, Pan Sonic, My Fun, Alog, Christian Wolfarth, and Bruce Haack. Theme music: P.A. Dahan and M. Camison, "Super Carousel," The Music Library: Graphic Art and Sound (Fuel Publishing) 2005. Rare Frequency Podcast 5: Music Enshrined

This first special edition podcast features a live set by Boston's own Rise Set Twilight (Linda Aubry and Mike Bullock). Linda and Mike performed live in the WZBC studio on Thursday, January 12, 2006. Check out my interview with Linda and Mike here and take a look at some photos from the performance here. Rare Frequency Podcast (Special Ed. 01): Rise Set Twilight Live!

This fourth edition of the RF podcast features music from Yuko Nexus6, KFW, Sawako, Antti Rannisto, Jessica Rylan, Jon Tulchin, and AFX. Rare Frequency Podcast 4: "Lesson 4"  

At long last, it's the third Rare Frequency podcast!! This long-awaited third edition features music from three local Boston-area experimental labels: Sedimental, Intransitive, and Chloe. Rare Frequency Podcast 3: The Strange Sounds of the Bean and the Cod  

This second RF podcast, titled simply "Some Toys Never Lern," features music by Blutsiphon, Satanicpornocultshop, Christian Marclay & Gunter Müller, Felix Kubin, Douglas Lilburn, Don't Dolby 05, and Lasse Marhaug & Kevin Drumm. What happened to the first? You may never know... Oh wait, it's here. Rare Frequency Podcast 2  

Oddly enough, we think you'll find this "first" RF podcast sounds a tad better than the "second." How did we do it? Well, who says you never get a second chance to make a first impression.... Take a step back in time with "984 Precedent," which features electro-acoustic classics by Else Marie Pade, Marino Zuccheri, Pierre Henri, and Desmond Leslie (intro by Tod Dockstader; outro by Tom Dissevelt). Rare Frequency Podcast 1: 984 Precedent