No Filler Music Podcast - Whatcha Heard? The Complete 180 Edition

Episode Date: April 5, 2021

On this month's edition of Whatcha Heard, we start with the latest single from our favorite disco, electronic, dream pop group Mr. Twin Sister. We keep the flow going with a couple more shoegazey, psychedelic indie rockers but then the inevitable happens when Travis throws in some metal to mix things up a bit. Quentin is still not ready to take the plunge into the deep end of metaldom, and pulls perhaps the most whiplash-inducing 180 so far in Whatcha Heard history and plays a song from French pianist Jean-Pierre Mas. From djent metal to French jazz? Tune in to hear the monthly mixtape that always keeps you on your toes, it's April's Whatcha Heard on No Filler. Tracklist: Mr. Twin Sister - Expressions Cat Hoch - Celestian Japanese Breakfast - Diving Woman Domenique Dumont - +371 Domenique Dumont - Comme Ça Slint - Noserfatu Man Beachy Head - Destroy Us Meshuggah - Combustion Meshuggah - Ritual Jean-Pierre Mas - (H)ombre DJ Alina - Loyalty Shadow Community 그림자 공동체 - Restless Song 동요 Swirlies - San Cristobal De Las Casas The Jesus and Mary Chain feat. Hope Sandoval - Sometimes Always This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Pantheon is a proud partner of AKG by Harman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We're kicking it off with a brand new track for Mr. Twin Sister. This song is called Expressions. It just fills me with joy, dude. Yeah, dude. We've talked about these guys before. They've shown up in many different ways on this podcast. Like, we had a full episode on them, obviously. And that's Mr. Twin Sister, as you said.

They were an early, early, What you heard. I think for you. I think it was a Tyco. Yeah. So episode three, I think. Yes, sir. Echo Arms was, which was their last single that they put out back in, I guess there was 2019, I think, was on my year-end wrap-up list, probably top ten.

Yeah. It could have been top ten for our decade-long playlist. Either way, we love these guys. So it was really surprising and amazing when we got this great. single. It's been a few years since they've dropped anything. Yeah, their last record was Salt came out in 2018. Their last full-length record.

And that had some great stuff on it. I'm wrong about Echo Arms and Power of 2. That was a single that came out in August of 2018. So yeah, Salt was their last record. So yeah, they, you know, so I followed them on Instagram. So I know that they've been like in the studio. You know, they tease stuff like that. Yeah.

I've been waiting for new material because I know that they've recorded it and here it is. So, yeah, it was a two-track EP, Diary was Side A, Expressions with Side B. They're bringing some funky disco jams, dude. Yeah, and that's the thing about these guys. They're so versatile, you know, and they're just so damn talented, man. The way they write songs, the producing, like the level of producing and stuff. Like, I don't know if they actually produced it or not, but I know that like these guys are, I've talked about them being like the real McCoy,

if that's the right term to use. Like, these guys are no joke, man. They're the real deal. All right. So, if this is your first time joining us, welcome. It's the No Filler podcast. This is our What You Heard episode. We decided to just jump right into it today.

This is our monthly mixtape, as we're calling it now, where each of us bring five songs to the table of just songs we've been listening to in between recordings. If this is your first time listening to us at all, usually we pick an album or pick a genre

and dive into the non-singles from that artist and spend an entire episode doing that. But we just started doing these What You Heard episodes just as a way to bring more tunage to the table every month.

But yeah, man, back to Mr. Twin Sister. Yeah. Anytime they draw, anything it's a goddamn treat it's a it's a fucking jam did but dude let me let me throw this by real quick before we go into our the rest of our picks here I was trying to think of who I could compare them to and I know that this is not like a one-to-one direct comparison at all but I feel like the stuff that Miami Sound Machine was doing with with Gloria Estefan is in the same vein of like dancey poppy you know obviously

there's no Latin influence. Although... Yeah, there's no Latin themes. Although on... There is a track by Mr. Twin Sister where she sings in Spanish. It's actually from their last record called Salt. But no, it does have...

They do have that 80s kind of... Like dance pop vibe. At least their last few records have been more like that, I feel like. Yeah. The bottom line is they... They are just super versatile, but have really mastered that dancey, funky, disco-infused pop. They started as kind of like a dream pop band, just like everybody else was when they first started.

But then they've sort of morphed into this like dancey electronic act. And they're just, they're amazing at it. And she's got one of the best vocals, I think, like one of the best voices to come out in a long time. And especially in this recording, I don't know if they record their own stuff or if they bring producers in, but her vocals are just right there. Like there's nothing masking it. It doesn't seem like they're really adding any effects at all. It's just right there. And it's just so, I just love it, dude.

She did the album art too. So she's a very talented person. Cool. She made the doll on the front of the salt record, too, by the way. Nice. Anyway, all right. Let's get right into it here. That was a little bit of a different take on this episode format.

We wanted to start right out the gate with a tune. And that was actually one that both of us were going to bring to the table as a pick. So we kind of compared notes, I guess, and decided, let's just play that at the top of the show. So you're getting 11 songs today, friends. That's right. Well, actually, 12, if you count our outro, which we'll talk about later. Oh, man. Later.

All right, Q, so you're going to go first. Yeah, so I got a treat for you, friend. Okay. So two weeks ago on our shoegaze episode, we were trying to remember the name of this artist. We had thought that I had brought one of her songs to the table as a what you heard, but turns out I didn't. That was just an artist that I shared with you off the mic. So I had heard one of her songs on K-E-X-P a while back. She goes by Kat Hoach, or Hoag.

Okay, yep. really great, like psychedelic, shoegaze dream pop artist. I'm pumped in. Uh-huh. Yeah, so she is from Portland, Oregon, and she's got a little EP that came out in 2015 called Look What You Found.

It's a little four-track EP that I absolutely love. I remember digging the hell out of this when you showed it to me first. Yeah, I did. So I'm going to bring the track that I heard on K-E-X-P. So this is track two on this. the album. It is called Celestian. Yeah, it's great, man. It's kind of, I think the way I described it was psychedelic shoegaze, right? Yeah, I think so. Because it is definitely psychedelic, and her vocals are soups shoegazy. Um, no, this is, we try to do this when we can. We try to

pick a song that flows well from the previous one. Yeah. I've got the perfect, This is unbelievable, dude. How perfect this is. Oh, dude, we're going straight into it, huh? All right. So perfect that I'm just going to read from Cat Hokes bio here on Spotify. I started reading up on it. It says here, she has recently, now this was written, who knows when, 2017, maybe.

She has recently played shows with Portugal the Man, the horrors, television, and it says in parentheses, as in the band from 1977 television, right? Right. The Brian Jones Town Massacre. Parquet Courts. Hey, there's Parquet Courts. Ooh. Japanese Breakfast.

Hey, what do you know, Q? My pick is Japanese Breakfast. This is crazy. We did not coordinate this. Okay. So anyway, this album also came out around that time, 2017. This is an artist who, again, she goes by Japanese Breakfast. Her real name is Michelle Zoner.

and this record is called Soft Sounds from Another Planet. And it showed up on several different digital publications, best albums of 2017 list number 10 on Under the Radar from their Top 100. So this got a lot of love when it came out. All right. This song is called Diving Women. Yeah, I'm a huge sucker for for these kind of songs, man. Yeah.

Female vocals, dream pop. Definitely in the same vein as Cat Hoke. So much so that they've toured together. They played shows together. But yeah, it's kind, you know, I would put Japanese breakfast in, like, the dream pop indie, indie rock dream pop camp of, of, of, uh, shoegays. if you wanted to call her a shoe gaze band. But I love that baseline, man. That baseline's great.

Yeah, that's good stuff. I feel like we're just throwing shoe gaze on everything now, dude. I know. It is very versatile. That is what we're doing. Yes. I guess what we should say is that the building blocks of shoe gaze can be used in many different ways, you know? Oh, yeah.

You can build many structures with the shoe gaze building blocks. All right. I'm going to throw it back to you Q what you got for our next pick here All right so I'm going to change it up a little bit here So this is a group that goes by Dominique Dumont A collaboration between Latvian producer

I'm not even going to try it in Arturse something And singer Annette Stucci God As well as an unnamed possibly fictional French artist So Yeah I guess there's

is this some mystery behind this group? Really catchy, kind of dancey pop stuff. This song of theirs is a little bit different than the rest of it that I'm going to play here. It shows up on a compilation record for the record label Loving Notes, but this one's more instrumental than their other stuff, and I just fell in love with it when I heard it, dude. I think you'll really like it. Some really interesting things happen in this song.

So again, this is a group. that goes by Dominique Dumont. This song is called Plus 371. I wish all hold music sounded like that cute. Because it kind of had that like music vibe to it. It did, yeah. But not in a bad way because like, so you said that this was more instrumental than their other stuff. Are they not typically instrumental?

Let me, you know what, dude? Now that you mention it, I kind of want to play another one of their song. just real quick. Give you a little taste of what else they do. You're trying to sneak in another song, dude. I just did, yep, I'm doing it. Just a little sneaky peek, all right? This one is called Komeka.

Yeah, it's really interesting. It's got like a 60s, like, mod kind of vibe to it. I was trying to think of the right word for it, dude. Like, Bossa Nova maybe. Yeah, like it's interesting. Like, it's very passive kind of music. Like, I could see that being in, like, the, you know, the lobby of some like boutique hotel or something like that or some cool bar somewhere.

Kind of like that. What was that hotel that our dad took us to in Scottsdale that looks like it hasn't changed since the 60s? I don't think I was there with you in this moment. It's a really cool spot. I wish I knew what it was called. But no, yeah, like that very sleek, what is it, like mid-century modern. Yeah, yeah, yeah, dude. That's what most of their stuff sounds like.

So yeah, again, that's a group called Dominique Dumont. Got it be in the right mindset for stuff like this, but like it hits that spot whenever you need. Oh, yeah. Something like that. Definitely. Which is cool. All right. All right, brother.

Okay. I'm going to really mix it up here, okay? Dude, I got nothing but slow, jams. Yeah. I feel like the last four songs we played have been pretty chill laid back tunes, right? I'm going to switch it up here. So I'm going to talk about this band. that I kind of just stumbled upon probably when I was listening to like a helmet or something

like that and they were like a recommended artist. This is a band called Slint. And it is my experience cue with bands from the 90s. Alternative rock post-rock bands from the 90s that have one syllable names are always solid. That's a rule that you can take that to the bank. and that check will get cast. Can I quote you on that, dude? Yes, you can.

All right. So this band is called Slent. They formed in 1986. The guys met as teenagers in the playing shows in the Midwestern punk scene. And they formed this band Slent. And we're going to talk about their record, Spider-Land, came out in 1991. So this record, Q, didn't get much, you know, noticed. when it was released.

And the band actually broke up shortly before the album came out. But it has gone on over the last two decades to garner a lot of attention and has sort of become this milestone record in experimental rock. And a lot of people say that this album sort of anticipated what was around the corner with math rock and post rock. Well, specifically math rock, because... You know how with Math Rock, it's a lot of like the fast tempo changes and stuff like that. Oh, yeah.

Very, like, sophisticated guitar picking and stuff. Yeah. So these guys, that's what this record is kind of known for, these angular rhythms, guitar rhythms, dramatically alternating dynamic shifts between time signatures and stuff. Really cool. So here we go. We're going to play a song off of Spider-land. This song is called Nospharatu Man. liked his vocal delivery a lot

Yeah so here's I like this description of it So um Will Hermes of Spin magazine wrote in 2005 that the album's sound was mid-70s

King Crimson Gone Emo Oh that's perfect Screeching guitar chords And gorgeous note to spinning And odd metered instrumentals speckled with words both spoken and sung. Yeah, I thought that was a great description. I like the spoken word kind of stuff that he was doing.

That was cool. Right. Am I nuts or did he kind of, he sounded like the singer from Butthole Surfers to me. Well, yeah, like there are other 90s bands that did that. Like, yeah. God, what were they called, man? I can never pull it when I need it.

But there's a, there's a, say what? Presidents. No, not presidents. The USA? No. They had that song, dude. They had that one song. You talk about a race car driver, race car driver.

Race car driver. No, that's not the name of the song. Jerry was a race car driver. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, dude. By Primus. Yeah, it's very much like Primus. So, yeah, it's not like they were the only ones doing that. But I don't know if this record or that song that I picked showcased the dynamic

time signature change and stuff as well as some of the other songs on the record but sure that's kind of what they were known for is like uh usuring rock into the math rock post rock kind of because it's 91 91 pretty pretty you know that's before grunge really took off right I feel like everything when we talk about 90s rock it's it always revolves around well when did it when did it what did it happen you know I mean it's always I mean 91 was the year right true but I'm saying like it you know but yeah yeah I get you this came out in um if we wanted to get soups technical i don't want to i can't be saying soups all the time i can only you just did man got to use it sparingly came out in march of 91 march of 91 let's see when

i mean this is when never mind let's see when never mind came out though cue because this is an important stop here all right april dude no i'm sorry released in september so never mind hadn't come out yet but you got to think like how long was slint a band before they released this album 86 is when they formed okay yes when they met Yeah, so anyway, it's a, it's a, it's a pivotal record in some, in some aspects of it. And the landscape is just ripe for some grungy. 90s is the last decade for good rock and roll, dude. That's just the way it is.

Yeah, dude. All right. Q, back at you here. Are we going to, are we going to have whiplash? You know what? It's kind of a happy medium. Okay. And, dude, I was so stoked when I found out about this.

So a little peek behind the curtain. It is Thursday, March 25th. Two days ago, I believe is when this song was released. And I found out that two of the members of Slow Dive, so Rachel Gauswell. Shoe gaze again? Well, dude, this is a little different. But Rachel Goswell, who shows, she's one of the singers in Slow Dive.

And Christian Seville, or Saville, he plays guitar. He's one of the guitar players in slow dive. They joined forces with Matt Duckworth, the drummer for Flaming Lips. Okay. And so a couple more members here, and they're also in bands I'm not too familiar with. Ryan Greyface plays in bands Casket Girls and Dream End. I haven't heard of them, dude. And another fourth member, Steve Clark, I'm sorry, fifth member?

Fifth member. Steve Clark, he plays in a band called the Soft, the Soft, Cavalry They are starting a band Called Beachy Head It's very It is a little shoegazy I mean it's got to be

With two members from Slow Dive You know what I mean Sure But I'm gonna let you decide What you think about it dude It's almost like I'm gonna say night drive Okay

You know what I'm saying So are you saying like The lofi kind of You're saying night drive Are you saying like Outrun Synthwaavy Let's just play it.

Okay. So they dropped one song so far. And the full album, which is going to be a self-titled, is set to be released on April 30th. So we've got a month to go. This song is called Destroy Us. So if somebody held a gun to my head and said, what decade did this come out in? I'd be dead, dude, because I would have said the 80s. It sounds so 80s.

Like, I love it. Not just like 80s influence. Like it just sounds like it came out of that decade. The voice. So the way it's recorded. The synths. Yeah. It's great.

Yeah. It's great. And you say that came out like two days ago? Yeah. That's crazy. Yeah, dude. That's cool. So it makes you wonder if the rest of the record is like that.

I can't wait to hear more, dude. I can't wait. Because, you know, it's one thing to put out a song on a record that is obviously a nod to the 80s. Dude, with two members from slow dive, it's going to sound like this, man. Because it sounds very much like slow dive to me. Yeah, sure, sure. I mean, a little, the voice. And I don't even know if, I mean, I know they got, I know they got Rachel in the mix,

but I didn't think that Christian sang for slow dive. There's another guy, I can't remember his name, who is the main singer in slow dive. And he's not in this group, but it sounds very much like slow dive to me. And I don't know why, dude, but there's just like a heightened level of excitement for me. anytime members from bands come together and write music, you know? Yeah, usually it goes well. It just makes me excited and happy. Yeah.

Because it's like, man, that means that they're like, you know, they're probably fans of each other. And I mean, at the very least, they know each other. I don't know. It just makes me like giddy. Yeah. Like, wow, I know both of them. Yeah. They're making songs together.

It's like when your two favorite actors appear in a movie together. Right, dude, it's exactly that. Anyways, man. So, again, that is Beachy Head. They've got an album set to release April 30th. That song was called Destroy Us. And I'm going to pass it on to you, brother. Are we going to stay in the shoegaze vein, dream pop stuff like all night?

Dude, it's time to crank it up. We're going to crank it up even more than slint. Yes. All right, Q, so here's the thing. You told me a couple of episodes ago on our, our doom, I guess there's three episodes ago, our doom metal album or episode, you know, you're slowly coming around to metal, right? There's parts of metal that you like.

I want to give a quick shout out to Mitch, dude, and I'm going to share something with you here. Okay. So Mitchell is just as gung-ho about getting me on that, that doom train, or getting me on that metal train. Yeah. Okay. So he, so let me just, he shared a couple albums with me. said, his words exactly, he said, this should tickle your metal spots just right. The two albums that he shared, just as the day was dawning by Big Business, do you know them?

Nope. That's something new for you, too, then. And Gravity X by Truck Fighters. Truck Fighters, I know. They're like a stoner metal band, desert rock band. Well, I'm stoked, dude. Well, Mitchell, I'll tell you, Mitch, I'm going to jump into these albums. pretty soon here.

Next time I got to mow this goddamn lawn because it's starting to get that time of year, man. It's lawn mowing time. I want to throw some headphones on and listen to those, dude. Dude, that's like, isn't that just such, like, that's an American bumper sticker. It's lawn mowing time. It's lawn mow in time.

And, dude, what better music to mow a lawn to do in some fucking metal? That's what I'm talking about. All right, cute. Well, you've been sort of like, you're in the wading pool right now, you know, just got your floaties on. I still got the floaties on.

Well, now, you know, what I want to do here is just push right into the deep end, okay? Okay. Sometimes you got to, you got to take big steps. Are you ripping off the floaties? Are you going to at least... You give the floaties on. I don't want you to drown. No, dude, I'll take them off.

Okay. What's the point of being in the deep end if you still got the floaties on, you know? Good point. But this is either going to make progress with this song or we're going to take two steps back. So here we go. This is a band, very, very well-known. metal band, named by Rolling Stones as one of the 10 most important hard rock and heavy metal bands of all time, and listed as the most important band, the most important band in metal

by a publication called Alternative Press. Okay. They are called Mashuga. They're a Swedish extreme metal band formed in 1987. Is this one of those bands that they all wear weird, like pig head masks? and stuff. Nope. Okay. This is not Slipknot. This is some of sugar. Okay. Anyway, so how I kind of got turned on to these guys, I talked about this guy, Mick Gordon,

and our year-end recap episodes last year. He was a guy that does, he does the Doom soundtracks. He did the Doom Eternal soundtrack. And he incorporated this guitar technique that's referred to as Gint, D-J-E-N-T. It's basically like an anatomopoeia for the sound, right? So it's this high gain, distorted, palm-muted,

like a very low-pitched, like guitar sound, right? So the guitar player from Mushuga is considered to be the originator of this technique. So much like the guy from My Bloody Valentine that created that guitar sound for Shugays. Glad guitar. This guitar player,

Yeah, glide guitar. This guitar player sort of created this sound, which has become its own subgenre. Jint guitar has become its own sound of metal. Anyway, so we're going to play a song off of their 2008 record, Obzin. This song is called Combustion. Are you drowning? Dude, I just beeline for the kitty pool, man. You went back. You're like, I need the safety of the kitty pool. Dude.

All right. Well, you know, hey, you play two tracks from that one band. Let me, let's step back a few years here a decade. I'm indifferent to it. I don't hate it. But is it the vocals that are turning you off? Because for a lot of people, it's the vocals that you got to get over. I think it's the thrashy metal, the fast-paced stuff.

That's fine. Can't do it. Maybe you're not a thrash metal guy, and that's why you'd like to do metal. Do metal is, you know, the slower-paced. version of metal. You know, you don't got to jump back into the kitty pool just yet, okay? Well, let me just say at least put my floaties back on. I'll wait around in the deep end.

And let me just say, dude, I know for sure that we've got a lot of fans, a lot of listeners that are heavy metal fans. Well, there's probably a lot of listeners that absolutely hate this as much as you do. So. It's fine. Just there's skip buttons. I know there's like jump 10 seconds. Yeah, yeah.

If you need to skip. There's jump 10 seconds ahead, jump 15 seconds ahead, depending on whatever. platform you're using. Hit that button a few times. Yeah. But we're going to listen to one more track. So that was from 2008. These guys have been around for a while.

Let's jump back to their debut record. This is from their 1994 album, None. This song is called Ritual. See? Now we're meeting in the middle. I'm keeping those floaties on though, dude. Yeah, that's fine. But it's about making baby stepsque.

I shouldn't have pushed you out of the nest. that with that last song. You got to ease into this. You should have known. Anyway, there's a really interesting guitar part that happens in this song a little bit later that's almost like a fusion rock lick. Is that what makes these guys so, uh, respected and, and the arena of metal? I, I can't, I'm not, I'm by no means a metal expert. I just know that these guys are considered, you know, among the best and most influential and respected metal bands of all time. But as you could see from those two songs, a lot of different sounds, right, or a lot of different whatever I'm trying to say, you know.

I liked it, man. That was over a decade difference between those two tracks. And that last one I played, you can tell I came out in the 90s. It had a lot of that, it had some 90s grunge. I don't want to say grunge, but 90s rock sound to it, right? So that's a metal band making metal in the 90s. It kind of sounded like that, right? And then in 2008, this is the freaking new metal has happened, right?

Corn is out there doing corn stuff. So, you know, you can hear that change. All right, Q, enough metal. I just wanted to, you know, I like to bring you into the fold, you know. You got to wet the whistle every now and then. Yeah. We had our doom metal episode a couple, a couple weeks ago. I got excited because you were.

You liked it. And I said, you know what? Let me just, let me try some of sugar on him, see what he thinks about my sugar. And it sounds like I should have, I should pump the brakes a little bit. But, you know, there's still hope. You liked that last one. So we're making progress here. There's hope for Quentin is a metalhead still.

Between you and Mitch and she even maybe, um, Ronnie, I bet Ronnie can help me out here. Ronnie's a metal head? I think she's more into the, to the heavy stuff. That's true. Desert sessions a month. Yeah. Ronnie, if you got any metal recommendations, send it my way. All right.

I need help. I want to know joy. Dude, all I can say is you put that combustion song on. That lawn is moat, dude, like that. It's done. All right, Q. So I'm going to pull, I think, I mean, this is one step away from a complete 180. Because I think a complete 180 would be classical music.

Yeah. Although metal has some crossover with classical arrangements, Q. Just talk to Metallica. That's a can of worms that we shouldn't even open right now, dude. Tell that to Michael Cayman. Michael Cain? Michael Caman. So I'm bringing a, okay, actually, I got to give a shout out to, as everyone knows,

I'm a huge fan of the local public radio stations up here in Washington. You already mentioned him earlier, and no, this is KNKX. This is the jazz. Oh, sorry. They're the ones that bring jazz, blues, and NPR News. Wow. K and KX 88.5. And I heard this song on there, I think, last week.

And it just, I was blown away, dude. So this is a guy named Jean-Pierre Moss, or Mass, I don't, Mos, Jean-Pierre Maas, French pianist and composer of film scores. All the movies are French. I didn't recognize any of them. But he's got an album that came out in 2003. I don't know how to pronounce this, because there's a parenthesis around the first letter.

Ombre, I think, is how it's pronounced. Okay. And you're going to love this, dude. You're going to fucking love this. All right, so, again, this is Jean-Pierre Maas. The song is called, oh, it's the title track. song is called Ombray that song just made me grand dude

from ear to ear I just love that shit when I heard it dude I just had to like pause for a moment you just gotta yeah you just gotta just let that that kind of stuff

soak in man yeah you know what I mean just like close your eyes and you're just sitting in fucking Paris or whatever

right you know what I mean yeah and you're fucking crustal you know that was that was really well pronounced

brother that's because I just listened that song I can speak fluent French. That was great. So when did that come out? 2003.

Okay. Again, dude, I'd be dead if somebody had a gun. But that was great. Is that whole, I mean, I'm guessing that whole record is like that. It's exactly like that. Dude. There's some vocals on a few of the tracks, too. I feel so cultured.

So this is what's great about, this is what's great about what you heard, man. when I would wager that never in the history of mankind has Musuga been played followed by Jean Michael

Jean Pierre or John Pierre yeah that's never happened before dude only here you're right only here and then this next pick is going to be

can I have to say real quick dude just real quick if you could have heard that song in these AKG headphones, dude. The way it is recorded is just... I bet you it was great. Man, just sounds so lovely. Buttery smooth?

Buttery, dude. Buttery. And yeah, just dancing back and forth in my lobes, bro. Why don't you tell us about that, those headphones you got on Q? Well, we got the hookup, man, from AKG. Not that long ago. They've got this podcaster essential. kit comes with a dope-ass microphone and literally the comfiest pair of headphones I've ever worn.

And yeah, dude, I got nothing but love for it. If you are thinking about starting your own podcast, it's a no-brainer, dude. Grab this AKG podcaster essentials kit. It's got everything you need. No joke. It even comes with the light version of Ableton, which is what I use to record. This is what I used to edit our episodes together. It's got everything, dude. And if you're not about to get to potten and you just need a good pair of headphones or just a mic, they sell these separately. Here's the thing. A lot of people are working remotely still to this day.

And that might continue for a long time. Even after we're back to normal, a lot of companies, mine included, have said, hey, if you want to work remotely for the rest of time, you're able to do that. So a lot of companies are doing that. Yeah, do you want to sound better than all your other dopey coworkers? Get yourself one of these microphones, man. Well, and if you're sharing, you know, if you're in a shared living space, you're probably going to want to have some headphones on when you're in your, you know,

two-hour conference call or whatever. Right. Yes. Anyways, that's all I'm going to say. Just Google AKG podcaster essentials kit. I'm not going to give you model numbers and stuff. You can find that on the internet. And that's the thing.

We're not telling you to get some like Joe Schmo brand. Like this is AKG. It's AKG, man. It's one of the most trusted brands in audio. It's Harmon. It's Harmon Cardin, right? Yeah. Our dad used an AKG microphone when he was on the radio back in the 70s.

So like this is like trusted by professionals and stuff. Has been for decades. For decades. Yeah. Yeah. All right. All right. All right.

So you bring in some jazz, brother? No. You asked me if I was bringing jazz. Are you bringing some jazz, brother? No. I'm going to play, let's just jump right into it here. This is an artist that goes by DJ Alina. And I don't know if you remember this, but two what you heard episodes ago. So this would have been our January of what you heard episode. I brought a artist to the table called Dark Pyramid. And I talked about the label and the group of artists. that this person kind of runs in circles with is this subgenre of vapor wave called Dream Punk that this guy started 2418, right? You know them, right, Q? Yep, yep. It's a collective.

Anyway, so another offshoot of vapor wave and Dreampunk is what this artist falls under, which is considered hard vapor. It's called hard vapor. So it's vapor wave, but it's got some heavier beats to it, which is interesting. So this album is called Classics. It came on 2016 by DJ Alina. The song is called loyalty. I want to paint a picture for you, this is exactly, this is what came to mind when I was listening to that.

So picture like the first Doom game or like Wolfenstein or whatever. You know that. Yeah. The classic, like, shoot them up first person. First person, yep. I know. Imagine that, but like in a cyberpunk world, this would be the music for that, dude. I would love to play that game.

Can you imagine? Like super neon, you know, like very industrial. Anyways, that's the world I was living in, dude. There's lots of neon in Doom Internal. I wouldn't know the first thing about it. You wouldn't. But you have a PS4, so what's your excuse? Oh, I'm a cheap pastor, dude.

Oh, it's a great game. So DJ Alina, she is considered and considers herself the first female of hard vapor. She wears that batch proudly, I'm sure. Yeah. So, yeah, I'm reading this article actually in this magazine called Fact. FactMag. Says, here, if you've been following what's happening in the endlessly entertaining and entertainingly endless internet world of vapor wave, I love the way that's phrased, you may have noticed a rift this year. So this article is just talking about hard vapor and how it's this hyperaggressive, grotesquely masculine sound.

She's like, oh, yeah, grotesquely masculine? Fuck you. Yeah. Listen to this shit. Right. And anyway, so that record was called classics. A lot of it is very similar to that. So what I like about that, it's got the cool kind of 80s synths sound.

It's like that the vapor wave kind of has, but it's got those really heavy beats, you know. that make you a fucking get your head to do some banging and stuff, you know. So she actually collaborates with HKEE, Hong Kong Express, who we've talked about before as well, on that record. So, anyway. The who's who of vapor raved, dude. Yeah, they're all, they're all the offshoots of it. Yep. All right, Q.

Is this your last pick? This is my last pick. All right. I'm going to bring it down a little bit. I think we're going to keep it in the, like, dreamy, electronic kind of. This is a little more warm, though. It's not so, like, cold and industrial. Okay.

So this is a guy that goes, well, he's got a few projects. One is mid-air thief. Another one is high you. And this is a new project called Shadow Community. So it's one guy. There is a female artist that sings on this song, but she is uncredited. So this is just a little two, I believe it was a two song. Yeah, this is a little single that came out in 2019, which actually, it's a couple of years old.

But man, this song is so good, dude. So, again, this is Shadow Community. This song is called Restless Song. Every second of that. Dude, I could see it in your face, man. And this little zoom window. Yeah, I know. I just saw the warmth and euphoria just envelop you.

Yeah, the vocals are fan fucking dead. I love those vocals. Unnamed artist, dude. We don't know who she is. That's a fucking shame. But I'll tell you who I want to hear, I want to hear a collaboration between Ireland to Oria in this artist. Orr, I want to hear Kings of Convenience

cover that song. That would be great. Because it's got the same kind of Kings of Convenience vibe to it. Yeah, with that guitar styling. Yeah, and the vote. I could even hear Ireland singing that. That was great. I miss those boys, dude. I miss those boys. One of these days, we got the tease from the Whitest Boy Alive single that came out last year and then COVID hit.

Yeah. And then we got quarantine at El Gato or whatever it was called. Algonzo? We talked about, Algonzo, which we talked about. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, yeah, that was great. So that was Restless Song?

Restless Song by Shadow Community. Yeah, and I'm looking on Spotify. That's the only material released. Yeah, that single. Yeah. Well, that was awesome. I'll have to cue that up. All right, man.

Bring us home. All right. I have not fallen in love with the record, or at least a couple of songs on a record, as much as I have with this in a long time, dude. Have you ever listened to push play on a record and instantly, you know. Happens a lot, dude. I'm going to fucking love this.

Okay. This is a band from the 90s called Swirlies. Let me just say, dude, I really appreciate that you're digging deep into the 90s, man, because you're bringing a lot of good stuff. Yeah, there's so many, there's so many bands that they have just no, no goddamn clue about from the 90s that are great. These rock, sort of more underground rock records and stuff like that. And this is one of those bands.

So they're called the Swirlies. They've been around for a while. They formed in early 90s, Boston, Massachusetts. it's and they're considered a noise pop, uh, low-fi indie rock shoe gaze band. Oh. And, uh, this record that we're going to play sounds like,

the name of it is like an emo record. The name of this record is called, they spent their wild, youthful days in the glittering world of the salons. What is that of my chemical romance? I know. B-side. Right, right. But anyway, so this song comes in hot and heavy,

so I'm just telling you right now I'm warning right now, but it's great. All right. And I'll just say this before we hit play. In 2014, music writer Andrew Earls placed this record on his list of 500 essential American underground rock albums. All right. What more do you need to know? All right.

This is a great way to end the show, too. This song is called San Cristobal de las Casas. Scratches all the itches, man. Yes, it does. There's actually a female singer on this band too, and it was very, very hard for me to pick between these two songs. So if you want to hear another great track, listen to Sounds of Seabring. It's a track right before that one, and it's got the female vocalist.

It's a lot more shoegazy than the song that I played. But yeah, that's what's great about this record. It's got a lot of different sounds to it. That's why they're kind of like considered a noise pop experimental rock band too because they have a lot of different things going on. But man, this is the kind of stuff where it's just like, this is why I think we talk about this all time, this is why we love music and just digging, right?

It's all about just, there's so many, you're never going to hear. This is something I was thinking about, man. And I was like kind of upset, not upset, but bombed out by it. It's like, there was a time. 96 when the swirleys were on stage in some club playing this music and and it's never going to be that again you know what I'm saying yeah dude I know but at least we've got these recordings dude I know know but I'm just saying like there are moments in time it's like seeing the Beatles and at a certain time period where nirvana that that's never going to happen again you know what I mean yeah if the

swirlies are playing if the swirlies are if the swirlers are still playing live which they probably are Maybe it'll sound like this still, but it probably won't because that was 96. Dude, I feel that way about the pixies, man. Can you imagine seeing the pixies back on the day? That's what I'm saying. Yeah. These moments are gone. But hey, you know what, dude?

I've seen some pretty magical moments up on stage. Me too. Over the years, dude. Me too. All right, man. Well, that was it. Hoof, this is a lengthy sewed, my friend. Yeah, that was a lot.

I feel like we jumped around quite a bit, which is the goal of the monthly mixtape of what you heard is to bring a lot of different sounds to the table. And I know this happens to me at least once a week. I, on Spotify, will heart or favorite, as you will, as you call it, one of the albums that you bring to the table. Hopefully that happens to our listeners. They're like, man, I got to check out more of that. Yeah. And, you know, they circle back to it later. This is why we do this, man. That is the goal is to just share tunes with our listeners because that's what we're doing with each other right now, just sharing tunes with each other. So this is it. And it's the beauty of the podcast format, dude. Yeah. And speaking of sharing tunes, we have an outro

song. Yes. By a fellow Pantheon podcaster, part of our network, our podcast network. So, Q, you were, you were gifted with a tune from somebody in our network. Yep. Mark Shea is his name. He's got a podcast called Performance Anxiety. It's just a, like, an interview format kind of, show. He has a lot of great guests on his podcasts. Basically, he just sits down with his favorite artists and talks about what happens behind the scenes. And he's got, so he reached out and told me that he, you know, really enjoyed our shoegaze episode. And the December sound is now a favorite of his, which, I mean, yeah, dude, the December sounds that shit. I still can't get over the stuff I heard on the silver album. Anyways, go back and listen to our show.

Shoe gaze episode, if you don't know what I'm talking about. Not to be confused with our DoomGaze episode, which was last week. We've been gazing at our navels a lot over the last few weeks, dude. That's true. And anyways, so he let me know that he's actually got quite a few heavy hitters in the Shugays world that are going to be popping up on his show for the next few months. One of them being Scott von Riper from the Jesus and Mary Chain. That's the, I mean, those are the big guns right there.

Yeah, dude, they're like OG shoegaze. So I asked him, well, hey, what's one of your favorite songs of theirs? And he mentioned a song called Sometimes Always, which features vocals by Hope Sandoval from Massey Star, another dream pop band from the 90s. So anyways, yeah, it's a great song, dude. It's just a lovely little duet. So that's what we're going to outro out with today. Thank you, Mark, for sharing that with us. And again, check out his podcast on the Pantheon Podcast Network, Performance Anxiety.

Speaking of, that is our home. We are proud members of the Pantheon Podcast Network. It is a music-centered network filled to the brand, dude. We're overflowing with good, awesome music-centered podcast, dude. We have a lot of great hosts. diving deep into rock and all other kinds of genres, dude. It's a fun bunch, man. I know you will find a show that you will love.

It's a fun bunch. It's a fun bunch, dude. We're part of it. I like to think I'm a pretty fun guy. Anyways, pantheonpodcasts.com is where you can find us. You can also reach out to us on Twitter if you'd like. At No Filler Podcast is the handle. Reach out to us.

Let us know what you like. what you don't like, give us some band suggestions to share with you. Share us along with us, and if we like it, we'll play it as an outro on a watch-your-heard episode. There you go. We're just Jonzen for some communique.

Reach out to us on Twitter. We would love to hear from you. Again, that's at No Filler Podcast. And that's it, dude. I have no idea what we're doing next week, do you? Did we figure out something? We're sticking in the 90s for a little bit. We're going to do,

we even mentioned presidents of the United States of America. We're going to talk about their record. Well, I think it's... Is it self-titled? Self-titled. Yeah, so we're going to do... You know they're from Seattle, dude? I didn't know that.

I'm not surprised. Dude, I can't wait. Yeah, it's going to be fun. So, yeah, that'll be next week. We're going to be coming at you with the presidents of the United States of America. All 46 of them, dude. And that's going to do it for us today. And again, we're going to outro out with Sometimes Always by the Jesus and Mary Jane.

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