No Filler Music Podcast - The Mostly Dream Pop Edition

Episode Date: August 17, 2023

We hit the snooze button a couple of times on this one, but our monthly mixtape is back with a batch of laid-back, ethereal dream pop gems (with some punk, emo, IDM, and psychedelic tossed in for good measure). Beck, Phoenix - Odyssey Slowdive - Kisses Pia Fraus - Fog on the Hills Polaris - Slow Motion Brandtson - Days End Happy Diving - Mikey's Rules Tiger Trap - Supreme Nothing Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - If You Insist RAMZi - foggi (ft. Priori) Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin - Tongo Barra The Durutti Column - Future Perfect Aaron Taos, Jordana - Under Control (Strokes Cover) This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm Quentin. And I'm Travis. And on this month's episode, we're kicking things off with a brand new single from Beck and Phoenix. This song is called Odyssey. Find my mind. Don't have time Go back to See

And fortune run the course Across the track Cross my back As your mo If there was ever a collaboration That was just Destined to one day happen It's perfect

You know When you think about it Like Yeah of course Of course they're going to collaborate together That makes total sense Yeah Like with the trajectory

Of both bands Over the years Well Beck If you want to say Beck is a band But you know Beck as the artist and Phoenix as the group. I've been a huge fan of both of these artists forever.

And I don't know if you really remember in like the United Days back in that album that came out in 2000. Phoenix, they were still poppy, but they weren't like they are now. And of course, Beck has been all over the map for years, but he's been slowly, ever since like maybe modern times, He's slowly been creeping towards that, you know, pop sound. Poppy dancey kind of stuff. Yeah, yeah. I mean, Beck is just, he's one of those artists that can do just about any genre, any style. Yeah, dude.

You know what I mean? And we've, I mean, we covered one of his early, early records, right? Actually, I think we've done at least a couple episodes on Beck. We did C-Change, right? Yeah, I think we did one. And we did one that was like a folky kind of thing. Yeah, one foot in the grave. Came out in 94.

So who's he collaborating with on that one? You're talking about the dude on the left? Yeah. I don't know. It's just a bad problem. But it was his early, early stuff. Yeah. When he was super, he was dirty blues, you know?

Yeah. Meady, gertie blues. But yeah, man, they've got a tour coming up together. And so in like anticipation of the tour, they dropped this single. So does that mean a full album of materials coming out? Or is Beck's just like they're opening for Beck or vice versa? Is that what is that what I mean?

It's like a double. A double headliner? Yeah. Okay. Gotcha. Okay. It's co-headlining tour. Yeah.

It's going to be huge. I mean, that's the thing about these two groups is, you know, either one could join the other on stage and perform some tracks, you know. I mean, how cool would it be to have. to have like Phoenix as Beck's backing band or something. Oh, I bet they're going to do all kinds of stuff, dude. Yeah, that'd be dope. It's a co-headlining tour.

They're going to be all over it. Yeah, that'd be, that sounds like a good time. Yeah, man. Well, that was cool. Good way to start the show. For sure. This is our August episode. Happy birthday, Q.

I think we teased it last episode that our birthday would be falling in between recordings, and it sure did. It sure did. That's how time works. Mm-hmm. And yeah, we actually are recording this just a few days after our birthday. So it's not yet August at the time of this recording. But, you know, another year came and went inching towards 40.

Slowly inching. But still a ways away, yeah. Let's see how long we can keep it going, Q. We need to be saying happy birthday on this podcast for at least another five years. Got to hit 40. I think we can make it happen. I think so too. And dude, by that time, I can have my son Ronan on as a guest.

He'll be speaking. Sure. At four. Maybe we could have a little segment where he tells a joke or something. Dude, that guy cracks me up, man. He's starting to do it on purpose too, which is awesome. Well, I'm going to be staring face-to-face with you, Q, in a little less than a month here. Maybe we can flip the mic on and record a little something, something.

I thought about it. While we're together, not a full episode necessarily, but, you know, while we're together, we should do something. We got to do something, dude. All right, we'll see. All right. So this is, you know, the same format that it has been all year. This is our monthly mixtape. We each bring five tracks to the table.

Any decade, any genre, that's basically the rules. Thank you. Let me tell you something. My what you heard cup overfloweth this month. Dude, I got a lot of stuff. So I'm going to have to, you know, depending on what you play, I might mix it up a little bit. But I've got a few that I'm definitely going to play. And then we'll see what happens.

Because remember I messaged you the other day, I was like, dude, I got a great track for you. You were pretty excited about it. I don't know. I don't know if I'm going to play or not. I guess it depends on what I play, huh? It could be an outro track. I definitely want to play it. I don't know if I want to give up one of my coveted five spots for this track.

But maybe we'll have it as the outro if I don't play it. But either way, I believe you are up first this month, Q. I think I'm just going to go straight into another super exciting single. Okay. That was recently released from Slow Dive. And A, when Slow Dive puts something out, you got to listen to it. You got to listen to it. If there was a Mount Rushmore, if you gave, they would be on that.

hands down right they're like they're like one of the top like the goats you know have the genre yeah definitely and i feel like they really i don't want to say redefine themselves but what they did with their self-titled like comeback album that came out i think 2017 uh i think we did an episode a full episode we did yeah yeah it's just so cool dude to that because they didn't release anything i think they legitimately split up and they didn't drop anything for 20 years, you know. And it's just so cool that they're back, like the band is back, the full group is back, and they're making music again. It makes me happy, dude.

And I know that they've got a full length on the way. I just don't know much more about it when it's coming, but that's, it doesn't matter, dude. All we know, all we have to know is the only thing that matters is slow dive is making new music. And here is a single that they dropped on June 20th. This song is called Kisses. So tell me, is this different than their self-titled stuff? A little bit. It's a little cleaner.

Yeah. Yeah. It's got sort of a, I don't know, sort of like a, I don't know, sort of like a, I don't want to say new wave, but like a darker pop kind of sound to it. Dark wave. Let's just say dark wave. Sure. I love the reverb with that nice clean reverb.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's definitely different from their, from their, you know, early 90s stuff. But it's, it's a progression of, of their self-titled from 2017. Okay. It's great, dude. I love, I love their harmonies together. So, you know, in terms of like, is it, or is it not Shugays, I wouldn't call Shugays at all. Maybe Dream Pop.

I mean, if we want to have that. Let's not even go there again, dude. I'm just saying, you know, the vocal delivery is, at least her vocal delivery, you know, kind of. Rachel Goswell. Yeah, Rachel Goswell maybe touches, you know, on some of the shoegays trubs. But aside from that, it's just a solid kind of clean alt rock track, you know, if you had to put it somewhere. I mean, they're the OGs, brother. They want the shoe gaze OGs, dude.

So whatever it is, it's shoe-gay. That's the funny thing. It's like, well, you know, because it's slow dive, like, you just want to put them in the shoe-gays camp, you know, like, you just like you assume it's shoegaze. It's like, well, this is slow dive. Like, anything they do is shoegaze. Yeah. Right?

But, you know, if you wanted to really get down. It's in their blood, dude. To it, yeah. But it's not, you know, there's no wall of sound, right? There's no wall of sound, but that's okay. Not every shoegays track has to be loveless, you know. Well, you know, we did a whole episode on Doomgays, which is a darker, slower form of shoe gaze. This wouldn't go that far, but, you know, somewhere in between maybe.

Because it's a little bit darker, which I like. But yeah, good stuff. Definitely something to look forward to. So when is the record coming out? September 1st. It's called Everything is Alive. So we got a few months or, well, we have a month, because since this episode came out on August. That's exciting.

Yeah, I'm sure they'll put out a couple more singles between. and then. I hope so. Yeah, good stuff. Well, since we're in the business of rapid fire now, Q, because we did that last month. No point in Daily Dally in Q. We're just going to jump right into my first pick.

And I've got a great, I've got a great one. So, you know, since we're talking about Shuegays, there is another great band that I discovered earlier this year. They actually were on my January, what you heard picks. So this is the second time that this artist has appeared on this podcast this year.

But they just put out a new record. I should say, yeah, they just put out a new record because it came out July 28th, which was just a few days ago, right? But P.F, okay, I'm going to see if I can pronounce it correctly. I probably broachied it last time. Pia Frauss, or frow i don't know either way this is a a dream pop slash she gaze group from estonia

that formed in 1998 so they've been around for for a while not as long a slow dive but for a while right and they just put out a new record and i've heard by the time of this episode drops i'll for sure have listened to their whole record but i've listened to the four singles that had dropped at the recording of this episode. And man, it's great, dude. So I'm going to cue up one of the singles of this upcoming record past and present. Dude, it's way harder. It's hard to do that.

Because we're not recording every week now. Yeah, we keep playing these albums that literally drop like days before the episode drops. Anyway, here we go. This band, again, is called Pia Frouse. And this song is called Fog on the Hill. That was awesome, man. That was maybe the most subtle use of Kevin Shields' slide guitar method that have ever heard on a shoegays record. And it's really done really well.

Dude, thank you for noticing that. Because, yeah, that's what I heard too. And I thought that was so cool because it's like they're still giving us that shoegaze sound, but it's very subdued, you know, and like soft. Yeah. It's like letting up despite great faults. And muted, right? Or the sound carriers even, which they're not a shoegaze band, but, you know, like, it's

got that very classic, like 70s, maybe 60s, pop sound. That was great, dude. Yeah, it's just, you know, where, if you're a shoegaze fan, like, you're primed to hear it, you know, like when you hear it. Yeah, right. So even when it's, like, very subtle like that, it's like, oh, there it is. Thank you for, you know, it's like a nod to it, you know, without being it. You know what I mean?

Yeah. Anyway, I'm really looking forward to this record. It's out right now and go listen to it. It's called Evening Colors. It should be on Spotify. You can also listen to it on Bancaf. Obviously, I don't know what to say that. You guys know where to find music.

Anyway, so that was Pia Frouse. That was called Evening. Actually, the song was called Fog on the Hills. And I'm going to pass it back to you, Q. Where do we go from here? We got two back-to-back shoegays. So are we going to mix it up a little bit here? A little bit.

but this is a perfect segue. Okay. All right. So I just found out a bit more about this band. I was trying to figure out why they popped up in my Spotify. So the group was called Polaris. And when I saw an album cover that I didn't recognize by a band called Polaris, I got super excited because I thought, you know, the band from The Adventures of Pete and Pete had reunited.

Well, they did put out a single in 2017. It was called Great Big Happy Green Moonface. Oh. Well, maybe that should be our outro. So I didn't know that. I mean, it's all right. Is this not the band? This is the band that you...

No. Is this a different Pallaris? This is a different Pallaris. Okay. Yeah, this is a different Pallaris. Their Japanese rock group formed in 2000. By a duo, it's a duo. And one of them,

Yuzuru Kashiwabara was also the bassist for fishmen's, which is another group I've brought probably sometime last year or the year before, which I really, really likes. So that's probably why they popped up on my Spotify, because I've heard stuff from members of the group before. Anyways, man, I just thought, you know what? This is funny. Polaris.

It's not the Polaris that I know. Let's see what they're all about. And they're, dude, so great, man. They're so great. They had to. known, right? That they were naming themselves after iconic and beloved indie group, right? I mean, did The Adventures of Pete and Pete play in Japan? Was Nickelodeon, you know, probably? Great questions, cue. So, and say how to mama cat? She's making an appearance.

As per usual. Really just talking it up right now. So I will also say, now, apparently there's a Polaris from Australia as well. Okay, so there's lots of Palaces out there. Yeah, it's a metal core band. Oh, God. So. All right, so this album is called Home, came out in 2002, and they've got 10-minute tracks, 11-minute tracks, sprinkled in with, like, some songs that are less than a minute long.

And you don't realize that the songs are so long. Like, they're just so pleasant. And it's really good. And they take them to, you know, different directions throughout the, song. We're going to have to split this one up into two because it's 11 and a half minutes long. It's just a, it's just a great track, dude. All right. Here we go. This is Polaris. The song is called Slow Motion. This just came to me to you and probably because I literally just read the name on an article that I was scrolling through. But I feel like that could have, I could have played on like a John Hughes film.

I could see that. No, seriously. I'm literally, I'm reading an art. article right now that mentioned the name John Hughes. Maybe that's why I'm saying that. Like, I could see that being like a, you know, during one of his like Dream Academy type scenes, you know. Yeah, he digs. He was a crate digger for sure, you know what I mean? Yeah, exactly.

And he showcased some really under the radar new wave bands from the 80s. So yeah. I mean, this came out in 2000, but yeah, dude, it does have that vibe. Very good background music. Very chill. yeah i love japanese rock dude there's such a there's that's one of those again like

how would i have you know had exposure to japanese rock bands back when we were growing up you know so there would have had to fly over to japan yeah or just you know stumble upon something well you know there could have been flipping through the bins in the u.s this stuff pops up right but i'm just saying like it wasn't going to be anywhere near our radar, right? So it's just great to stumble upon.

You know, over the last few years, we brought so many Japanese shoegays artists, Japanese math rock artists. There's just an endless supply of just Japanese rock bands out there that are amazing, you know? Yeah, man, for sure. And they've been doing it all alongside. Yeah, exactly.

I mean, yeah, the whole time they've been there. You want to have a great band. Just use the name Pilaris. I wonder how good the metal core Pallaris, Band is. You can have to give them a spin, dude. That's your one. I mean, I know you won't.

So maybe I'll do that. I'll report back. All right, man. So that was Polaris. The song was called Slow Motion. Pass it back to you, brother, what you got? So what I was about to play, I'm going to hold on it just a little bit because I feel like we got to pick it up a little bit here.

You know, maybe we can circle back to this kind of slow, chill vibe that we've been in. But I'm going to pick up with a piece a smidge just to give us something. to bounce from here, Q, so this mixtape can flow a little bit. Okay, so I know you have your, and probably some other people listening, have problems with Reddit lately, right? I will be bringing it up for one of my picks. Forgive me, Q, but as you know, I posted on the vinyl subreddit a couple weeks back. because, you know, my record collection is growing,

and I have amassed a pretty good, maybe like 16, really good 90s, shoegays, Grand Rock record. So I posted some pictures of my collection and got some pretty good comments and reactions from people. And what I liked about it is a lot of people had some suggestions, like, oh, you got to check out this band and that band. There's nothing like that subreddit, man. They're one of the best.

Yeah. And of course, they delivered, right? So several people mentioned this group called Branson, B-R-A-N-D-T-S-O-N, Brantzden. So this was another 90s, not really a grunge band, they're more of like a emo in terms of like the second wave version of email, right? But they flirted with some heavier guitar riffs and stuff, which made them, you know, kind of like somewhere between, emo and grungeo would say but you know they would be considered a midwestern emo band right

so anyway i'm just going to keep this track because it's really good and it is off their 1998 record letterbox so again this band is called brantston and this song is called days end that was great dude it was like a just a snapshot of rock in 98 like where it was headed Yeah, where it was heading. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. But you could still hear that, you can hear that grunge influence on them, you know. That was cool, dude.

I like the way it was recorded, too. Like, was sonically really pleasing with their, like, harmonizing and everything. But it had, you know, it did have kind of a rough around the edges, like, production quality. But, yeah, you could hear. You could hear some, like, you can hear, like, if that was, you know, recorded at, like, a, on a proper, label, you know, like that could have sounded pretty damn good. They've had a better producer behind it. It reminded me of

Bush's album. The chemicals 16 stone. Oh, chemicals between us. That wasn't the science of science of things. I think that's what it's called. Yeah, the science of things. That, like the sound that that record had. Yeah, reminded me that. When did it come out? Because I remember listening to it when it dropped. I bought it. I was one of the cities I bought, dude.

It must have been. Let's see. Napster days. The Science of Things came out in 1999, so right around the corner from this record. Yeah. Yeah. So like you said, this is kind of like the end, you know, the end of the 90s in terms of like the rock sound. We're beyond grunge.

We're heading into like 2000s era rock, which is, was something, you know, something else. But yeah, you know, the emo, the third wave emo was about to kick off, you know. So anyway. So that band was called Brantston. That song was called Days End off their debut 98 record, Letterbox. Okay. I feel like we're still kind of slow. I mean, this was, at least had some, some fuzz and some, some, you know, gain.

It was kind of, yeah, it was kind of dragging on in the, in the tempo, dude. I got, I got to pick up the pace of it. Although, I will say, you know, back in Phoenix had a nice upbeat tempo. So at least we haven't been dragging this whole, this whole episode. But yeah, what do you got? Where do you go from here, Q? All right, man. So yeah, as you mentioned, not a lot of love for Reddit these days.

And you know what, dude, let me tell you. I still love Reddit. I loved that website. But it's dead to me now. And that's because of the CEO and what he. I admire your integrity, you know. well there was a mass exodus of users from reddit to a lot of us ended up on lemmy and that's where i i migrated to it's a very similar format uh and so naturally i started looking for subredits that were similar

i say subredits due because i'm so used to they're called communities on lemmy uh and i found a shugay's community so you know how to give them i had to give them a spin you know and here's the thing dude Lemmy is like in its infancy. So it's kind of cool because you're also like part of the creation of it. Yeah, yeah. And anyways, so I just, I gave a few posts a listen just to see if like, all right, let's, how do these guys compare to the gang on the old subreddit, shoe gay subreddit? And you know what?

This funny thing is most of the people from Reddit have now hopped on to Lemmy. So it's going to be building up, and it's going to be great, dude. All right, so this is a group. Now, this is not so much shoegays as it is. And I'm so glad you played that last track, dude. It's got some good emo vibes to me. I'm just going to let it speak for itself.

This group is called Happy Diving. A formed in 2013, really good mix of like 90s indie, early 2000s emo, a little bit of shoegaze. Great stuff, dude. this album I'm playing a track from it's called Big World from 2014 this song is called Mikey's world yeah I liked it so a little bit of punk in there you know a little bit a little bit email so that came out when 2014 2014 wow okay cool yeah I don't know much else about him but I'm

definitely going to dive a little bit deeper I'm gonna happy dive right we would have played them on on new desk for sure did oh yeah man um that was our music blog by the way if you we just missed listening long enough yeah we just missed him i feel like yeah because it was the blog started what 2014 2019 2009 2009 yeah yeah yeah i don't we didn't we weren't around for that long i don't think no 34 years yeah yeah yeah cool happy diving that was happy diving the song was called Mikey's Rules. Rapid Fire, back to you, brother. Poo, p, p, pume. All right, I'm going to play a, I got a great, great segue. Now, this is a, this is another 90s band. This is an indie band from the 90s.

But they definitely flirt with punk. So this band is called Tiger Trap. I had never heard of him. This record's amazing. Came out in 1993. I love it. This is a, an all-girl outfit, all-female outfit. a punk outfit out of California that is comprised of three, I believe it's a trio, Rose Melberg

and Angela Loy and Jin Braun. So it's a three, nope, sorry, it's a four piece. Anyway, whatever. It doesn't matter how many members in the bank, you. But yeah, there's this,

you know, I kind of put them in the same vein as like the breeders, right? So think, like, I think Kim Deal of the breeders, that kind of, that kind of style of punk, right? So here you go, I'm going to play a song off of their self-titled record. Again, this band is called Tiger Trap, and the song is called Supreme Nothing. Punk song. No complaints, right?

Perfect track. No complaints, dude. I love it. Just a perfect little track, you know. So I think I just, just by clicking around on the old Spotify, I think, I think, I must have shazamed a track of theirs on this movie that I watched the other day called But I'm a cheerleader. I don't know if you've ever heard of you to 1999 satirical teen romantic comedy starring Natasha Leone, which you may know her. Yeah.

She's great. Orange is the New Black Fame and a bunch of other stuff. She's in a new show. Russian doll, I think, is something that she's on. No, Russian doll's fucking great. But she's in an even newer. I think it was on Peacock. I just, I watched the whole thing.

Yeah, I got to give it a shout out, dude, because it's a great show. And I want you to watch it. Poker face? Poker face. Yeah, give it a watch, dude. That's great. It's like a mystery, you know, she solves a mystery in every episode. It's all I got to know.

Gotcha. Okay. Anyway, so again, that band was called Tiger Trap. That song was called Supreme Nothing. And all right, Q, what are you going to, where are you going to take us? from here. Okay. This is a true 180, which we haven't done in a while.

Okay. A really good one. Like a legit. You know, I'll be the judge of that. This is Jason Isbell and the 400 unit. Am I supposed to know who that is? No. I didn't.

Did you find him on Lemmy? No. He was interviewed on NPR recently. and it just got me, dude. And we don't really listen to a lot of this kind of music on here. Where did it get you? He falls under like Americana, folk, southern rock. I don't know if country is the right word.

Mitchell, if you're listening, set me straight. He used to be in the Drive by Truckers, which is another really huge southern rock band that I never really got into. But yeah, man, really great song. writer. In the interview, he said something like, I really liked how he put this. You know, he likes to, he likes to tell stories. And, you know, he always likes to, like, he makes up a character and then he'll quote, like, spin the day with that person. And then he'll write a song based on that day that he spent. Okay. Something along those lines. It's a cool way to think about it. Because, you know, so then he'll put in a lot of really subtle details about this character that he's created in, So, anyways, man. This is a fantastic song. Really, really good record just came out in June called Weather Vanes.

Again, this is Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit. This song is called If You Insist. If You Are A Stranger Anymore. We can talk about the rain. How it can't seem to stop. Something stupid like the football game. I can tell you where to shop We're running up

It's time to close the tab If you insist on being lonely Let me put you in a can Looking for something easy Do you need insist on being lonely It was just the slightest twang cue Just a whisper of twang It had like all the

Yeah it was like a watered down country song I liked it. I actually liked it. What's funny is I think what that falls under is like Americana or fall. Yeah. We just don't know the subtle, you know, the subgenres of country. Yeah, we consider and talk about.

Because we really don't listen to this stuff a lot. We could talk about melodic grandcore all day long cute. We don't know all the, you know, all the different subgeners of country music. So yeah, you're right. Yeah, Americana. I think that's right. And I liked it. A really good song, man.

I like the lyrics. It is the easiest thing in the world for me to make fun of country music lyrics because they're so predictable and cliche. That's pop country, man. That's what I'm learning. Yes, yes. That's pop country. It's your barbecue. Yes.

Barbecue stains on T-shirts. Yeah. It's your pickup truck. Mini skirts. Dirt roads. All that crap. But yeah, this still had the hallmarks of like talking about family and talking about mama, you know. I think he's mentioned mama in there.

Dude, this one line got me, dude. She got so tired of putting out fires, she just laid down in the flames. Yeah, it hit you. We've all been there, you know. If you insist on being lonely, can you leave a couple smokes? Dude, I got to give country another spin. I just can't. You got to dig.

You got to dig. It's the same, you know, if you turn on your radio and go to the, the rock station, you're not going to hear, you're probably not going to hear good music, right? You got to know where to look. Well, the rock stations are going to, I guess it depends on that type. They don't have like niche country radio, you know, like they do like rock. There's alt rock radio. Sure.

There's grungy 90s or classic rock radio. Maybe in Seattle, do you, but not hearing it else. Oh, okay. As far as I know, I don't think there's different levels. of country music. You go on the country station, it's going to be your top... It's going to be... Your top 100 country hits or whatever. Yeah, it's going to be the crap.

It's going to be garbage. Yeah, that's possibly a whole new frontier for you, Q. Frontier. I like that, dude. Well done. See? All right, man. I got a pass back to you because we got a rapifier, dude. It's late in your neck of the woods. Yeah, it is. All right. Well, I'm going to follow up your 180 with another 180. So I've been sitting on this one, Q, this was a song that I passed over

on last month's watcha in place of another song. But I'm still listening to this track. It's that good. So this is a, I would call it an IDM electronic song. And this is a artist that goes by

the name of Ramsey. R-A-M-Z-I. Not Gordon Ramsey, the chef, but Ramsey with a Z-I. And on this particular track, He is collaborating with somebody

I say he I'm not sure of the gender. This artist is going is collaborating with another artist named Priory so here we go I'm going to play this track it's off of a 22 record called Haifa. This song is called

Foggy. I needed that I haven't listened to good stuff like that in a while in that vein of electronic music. That was good shit, dude. my bread and my butter, dude. I listen to this stuff all the time. Love it.

So, you know, that's definitely hypnotogic, right? So it's very boards of Canada, you know, sounds a lot like this artist that, you know, it would be a shocker if they weren't influenced by boards of Canada stuff. But yeah, I just, I love that kind of stuff, man. I've been a fan of it forever. And there's just, it just hits the right notes from me, dude. Like it just. tickles all the bones that need to be tickled, you know.

I'm going to have to queue that up. Do it? The whole record's great. There's another record of this artist that I listened to called Kakan. Co-Kan, I don't know. Also really good. It's all good. But yeah, it's just one of those records you can put on and just kind of, you know, just kind of chill.

That's the whole point of it. All right, Q. I feel like this episode has been very laid back, you know. We're in a relaxed state right now. Even with the punk songs we play, they're all very kind of leadback rock songs. I agree with that. And my last track is going to follow the same formula here, dude.

So anyway, what do you got? Well, we're just going to keep trucking along in that vein, dude, because I got it's not going to be IDM, but it's going to be very laid back and chill. So this is an artist. named Vu Farka Torre. Bless you. And he is the second son of legendary Malian guitarist, Ali Farca Torre.

His father was one of the most internationally successful West African musicians of the 90s. And this guy definitely brings that style. You know, he keeps those roots. and he did a collaboration with Kronben in 2022. This somehow stayed under my radar. I did not know about this. Collaboration with Kronkben. With Kronbend, dude.

You want to talk about a perfect pairing, man. It is, here's what happened, dude. I saved this album a while ago, forgot about it. And, you know, scrolling through my albums on Spotify's like, this is one I haven't listened to yet. I didn't really give it much of it. attention, you know, when I was looking at it. So all I saw was Vau Farca Torre. So I pressed play. I didn't realize Cronbin was on it. But like

for a good chunk of the first song, I mean, just the music pairs so well with Crong Bain. I didn't realize that all I thought was, man, this sounds just like Cron B. Yeah, they have a sound for sure. Yeah. And I thought surely Crongbin was influenced by this guy. And then, because I thought as well, this album must have come out. I'm like, I don't know. early 90s, early 2000s. And then I kept listening and I was like, this has to be crumbent.

And then I finally looked at my screen and I saw the crongban was listed in there as well. So anyways, it was a fun discovery. What a journey he went on. What a journey, dude. The album is called Ali, so it was named after his father. And we're going to play one of my favorites off the record.

You got my ears perked at. All right, this song is called Tango Barra. That's a tasty jam. Dude, no one does it like Crona band, man. And he is such an awesome guitar player to you. Like his guitar work just paired so well with their music. Yeah, I mean, it's, you know, it says a lot about Cronbin that like when you, when you heard that, this can be nobody but Cronk band. Like, there's nobody else that can do this, except for Cronham Band.

Like, Laura Lee's bass playing. It's almost unmistakable. Same with Mark's guitar. She might go down. She probably already is, you know, considered one of the best bass players of all time. I mean, she's definitely in my top ten. She's awesome.

She's got the grooves. Their grooves are so awesome. She's great. She's got like an iconic style. They all think, there's no one that looks like crime. There's just such a coolness about those three people, man. They're great. When I saw them, man, it was a long time ago now. You saw them live?

Yeah, we've been through this before, dude. We have. Just as surprised and jealous. Yeah, I saw them come through Seattle. Not too long after, what was it, contoto El Mundo? Yeah, yeah. Man, I must be. Dude, DJ, it was amazing, dude.

DJ, the drummer, he gives you, like, this death stare. And it's one of those things where, you know, like in the haunted houses where you walk down the hallway and the eyes follow you. in the pictures, in the paintings, wherever you go. He just gives you a death stare. He doesn't change the way his expression doesn't change. He doesn't move his face at all. He's just sitting there playing the whole time. Not once did he make any sort of expression in his face.

I don't know if that's just his thing. But anyways. Wow. Just something about them. And again, like this album, I mean, what an awesome pairing, dude. Really cool that they did this collab. And that's another thing. that shows how versatile crong been in as well and how like their sound how sought after they are too

so well yeah dude yeah anyways awesome great album all the way through give it a spin for sure and we got to wrap it up dude what you got for your last pick okay um so i guess i have to have to ask if you've seen i know the answer is going to be now but have you have you in the three days or five days, four days since we've talked. Have you watched season two of the bear yet? No. No, dude. It's going to be a while since then before we get to that. So this song is from an episode and I was going to play the scene from the episode and I don't think it spoils anything. Don't do it, dude. I don't want to know. Okay. Well, I'll still play the song. So you just won't. but anyway

this might make it even more special when the scene starts playing but it's the it's you know this is one thing about the bear so if you haven't watched the show I highly recommend it it's called the bear came out last year I believe and then season two came out

just like a month or two ago perfect show man it's so great season two picks up and takes it right where you kind of want it to go I think but anyway if you have worked at all in the restaurant industry give it a watch you'll like it but fair warning you could suffer from some PTSD yeah that's what I've

heard is it like it's it's so accurately yeah yeah it's it's so real yeah so anyway I'm not gonna give too much detail about the show but I am gonna play this song here so this is a an artist or a group that I've never actually heard of had never really stumbled upon them ever like it that didn't ring a bell but I shazamed it in pretty pretty pretty quickly because it was such an interesting sound, the song. So this record came out in 1996. It is a band called the Duretti Column. And they formed in 1978, so I've been around for a long time. I'm familiar with Fidelity? Fidelity. Okay. Well, all right. Well, you might know the song then. Well, they're all over the place, even just on this album. Like, yes, track to track. It's very different.

Okay. I don't remember which song I've listened to. But yeah. Okay. So, yeah. So Q, you're familiar with this band, apparently, and this record. But, man, that's one thing about this show. The soundtrack is amazing.

Like, whoever's in charge of picking songs is pretty damn good at pairing a song with a mood, a scene. And a lot of times it has kind of tie-ins to Chicago because the show's based in Chicago. Yeah, it's in love to Chicago. Yeah, 100%. Kind of like Fair Spiegelish Day off. Yeah, 100%.

And I was starting to pick up on a lot of the musicians that they play are from Chicago. There's a lot of Wilco in the show. They're from Chicago. Derrida column is from Manchester, England. But anyway, so here you go. If you're familiar with the season, like if you've watched season 2, you'll probably remember the scene. I'm not going to describe it because I don't know spoil anything for Q.

But here we go. This song is called Future. Perfect. That's the song I'm familiar with. I love it, dude. What a great song. Great track. The scene that this plays with is just perfect, dude.

Perfect. Awesome. That makes me curious. I would love to hear that in a scene and see what they do with it. Perfect, dude. Anyway, great show. One of my favorites, for sure, of the last decade. So yeah, go watch the bear if you haven't already.

one of my favorite shows. And there's another, another episode, dude. You remember on the season one, that episode that was kind of like a one shot episode. It was like maybe less than 20 minutes long. There's another kind of infamous episode, I should say, for reasons I won't get into. But awesome. You'll know which one I'm talking about. All right.

So, well, I mean, that's it, Q. That is it for this episode. I actually have. an outro track for us that I'll tee up here in a second. But yeah, man, I feel like this was a very, this was no filler on, on, on, on, on, on, on, what's a quailude? I've heard that. It's not like a, I think that's the date rape drug.

What? No, I don't know. It's a, it's a sedative. Yeah. Hyponic sedative. There you go. very laid-back chill episode. So maybe I'll have to bring some metal next month to get us back,

you know, get the tempo back up a little bit. I've got something that I said on that I could bring next month to really bring out the jams. I sat on a bunch of stuff. So anyway, we'll see if I'm still spinning these tunes or if I got another batch. But I've got a really interesting outro track for SQ. I do not want to spoil it for you. I want to just hit play and get your fresh reaction. All right.

So no one on Dips is going to know who it is? I'll say who the artist is because that's not what the surprise is. It's the song itself. But anyway, go follow us on Instagram for no other reason than to maybe connect with us, send us a message. Tell us what you've been listening to. For all I know, we've been getting tons of messages. I don't go on there anymore.

I don't either do. But I'm pretty sure I would get it. I would get an email if somebody, you know, what do you want for me, you know? It doesn't matter. As long as you and I are talking once a month, that's all that matters. That's what this is about, brother. Sharing tunes with the world. Exactly.

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And yeah, that's going to do it for us this month. We'll come at you again next month with another mixtape for you. And all right, so this outro track cube. I'll say the two artists. So it's a collaboration between an artist named Jordana, who I've actually brought one of her songs. She did a collaboration with this indie pop group called TV Girl. So not the first time she's appeared on this show.

But she released a song, I'll just say that, with another guy named Aaron Teos. And I think you're going to know if you're a fan, of, let's just say this, if you're listening to indie music in the early 2000s, it won't take you long to know what this song is.

So yeah, we're going to outro out with that. Perhaps, hey, we'll find out here in a second. Awesome. All right, so, Q, over your eyes when I share my screen. I don't want you to get spoiled. I'm just minus soon. There you go.

All right, Q. Well, that's going to do it for us. My name is Travis. And I'm Quinn. We'll see you guys next month. It's your time. I just want to say. I've got to say we don't.

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