No Filler Music Podcast - Whatcha Heard? The Good Vibes Bart Edition

Episode Date: August 30, 2021

Our monthly mixtape is back with 13 tracks ranging from 70's funk to a couple of brand new shoegaze tunes, new wave to no wave, and even a dreampop track from a Tokyo horror film tossed in for good measure. Tracklist: Courtney Barnett - Before You Gotta Go Stove - Graduate and Congratulate Strawberry Switchblade - Who Knows What Love Is? Strawberry Switchblade - Michael Who Walks By Night Lucid Express - Prime of Pride The Cleaners From Venus - A Girl With Cars In Her Eyes Southern Energy Ensemble - The Best Part of Me Konk - Cool Out Gar Guerilla Toss - Betty Dreams of Green Men Psymon Spine - Jumprope Modern Color - Dread The Holydrug Couple - Aurora Little Annie - I Think of You 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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You're always on my mind. You're always on my mind. If something were to happen, my dear, I wouldn't want the last words you hear. To be unkind. To be un... Said some careless things. Who was wrong remains unclear.

Pride like poison is keeping score. start a what you heard episode, dude. God, I love Courtney. Yeah, and especially after a month of down tempo, you know, right. Now we're like, you know, we're slowly getting back to our roots, you know, with this nice indie kind of folk sounding song. What a lovely tune. She's great, man. So I remember you, uh, you brought her, she made it to our top 10 of the decade, uh, playlist when we did that episode. So, oh yeah, dude, she's made, uh, you, uh, you brought her. Uh, she made, uh, uh, a few rounds on this podcast. Yeah, she gets a lot of love on this show. So this is off a little EP that just came out a couple weeks ago. The other song on there is called Ray Street, which I haven't

listened to. But yeah, I love it, man. It's so like simple. Really good. And it looks like she's got a new album set to release on November 12th. All right, Kew, it's that time again, man. It's time to do our monthly mixtape here. And, you know, if you're not a a fan of down tempo music, the kind of stuff we've been playing the last four weeks. This is the moment you've been waiting for, you know. Finally, I'm not going to hear something other than down tempo on no filler. It feels like it's been forever since we did a watcher hurt, dude. It really does feel like a long time.

I mean, yeah, it's the same amount of time every month. I mean, that's just, I've just been sitting on these tunes for so long. I think that's why it feels so long, dude. Agreed, agreed. So this is our monthly mixtape. monthly mixtape so you know if you haven't listened to a what you heard episode before it's pretty straightforward basically we each bring five five songs from from bands that we've been listening to since the last time we did what you heard so really it's just an excuse to play a wide range of

genres and because usually it ends up being that you know we have our our go-to styles that we typically bring to the table. But, you know, this is just a good way to, to essentially have a, like a mixtape. A monthly mixtape is what we call it. So we each, we each bring five tracks. And it's, it's pretty straightforward. It's just a really music heavy episode. It's just a segment we've been doing since the beginning of the show, but we, we turn it into a monthly show recently. Basically, there's no rules, right? Any decade, any style, doesn't matter. Yep. I got to say, man, I feel like I have been obsessing over which five songs to bring more so than any, any other what you heard. I just, I was switching him up five minutes before we press record.

Yeah, I mean, if you're like me, which I'm sure you do this cue, I listen to these songs, like just obsessively. Just trying to make sure that like, yeah, this will be good. This will sound good following this song. Mine all feel they're kind of in the same like vein for the most part. Okay. I feel like they go, they go pretty well together. You're going to deliver like a theme, a motif here to us, Q? A little bit, dude. I got songs from the 80s and the 90s.

I'm all over the place, dude. You know, it's just, it's a tough job listening to music all the time. Someone's got to do it, man. But you're kicking us off today, dude. It's all up to you to set the stage. This is, you know, this is a very important responsibility here. First song, you got to set the tone. Last month, I brought in a really dark, brand new song from Gary Newman.

You did. Very dark industrial. Kind of like an industrial, yeah, industrial, techno, dancey kind of thing. About, you know, the failures of humanity when it comes to climate change, basically. It was pretty bleak, dude. It was a pretty bleak start. Well, I'm going to start us off with a song that's guaranteed Q to make you smile. Okay.

Awesome. This came on my radar yesterday. So this is a brand new tune to me, at least. But it's this band called Stove. and I've heard of a band called Avlov. They're kind of in the same vein of like a, I've brought some of these tracks before from these artists, but like a horse jumper of love,

Spirit of the Beehive, right? Oh, yeah. You may remember those names, right? So Avlov's kind of in the same vein. Stove is a solo project of frontman of Obloff, Steve Hartlett. And this record that I'm bringing a song from is called Is a Toeuf. in the rain.

And basically, it sounds like when he first started the stove side project, it took him a while to start to play around with different sounds and styles because he was so used to write music for Avlov and Avlov and Avlov has a very particular sound, right? So anyway, you can definitely tell. He actually talked about how like he, you know, he started to discover that when he was separated from the Avlov project and the expectations of that band, right, and the sound that that band had, he felt free to like experiment and try different things. right and this album is a good example of that because from song to song it's kind of all over the

map but it's a very very solid indie record in my opinion but here we go cue this song is called graduate and congratulate and again the band is called stove hard for some fuzzy bedroom pop yeah man totally there will always be a room for that and um according to the critics or i guess the reviews and stuff like that. This is kind of a gentler side of stuff. So me not knowing that, I kind of figured that this was kind of what they were doing. But, you know, maybe the record before that might have been a little bit heavier, a little bit more distorted and stuff like that. Yeah, I was going to say when you mentioned Spirit of the Beehive, I actually picked up that record, hypnotic jerks. Yeah, dude. I love that record. Yeah, it's great. So I was expecting,

since you mentioned Avlov and Spirit of the Beehive, I was thinking it was going to be a little bit more like weird avant-garde kind of all over the place. But that's the thing. Like there is a lot of that though. Like I said, the record actually does bounce around a lot. Cool. That particular song had more of a,

like you said, bedroom pop kind of sound to it. But I also had like, I feel like I was getting, this is going to sound weird, but you know, whatever, I'm just going to say it.

Some like Temptations vibe or something like that. So like classic. Yeah, like, yeah, classic kind of 60s. Do up. Yeah. do what else to say other than that's just what I'm feeling right now, dude. That's what I'm feeling it too, dude. I'm getting those vibes. And I have got the perfect song to queue up, dude. Keep us in these same vibes. Okay, perfect, perfect.

So I'm actually going to switch up a song here, dude, at the very last minute, all thanks to your first song choice, man, just to keep it flowing nicely. It's going to be the same artist I was going to play just a different song. So I actually shared this picture with you, Trev. A couple weeks ago, this is another gift provided to me by our final. One of my favorite subredits, I'm always hopping on here to get music suggestions. So this person shared a selection of UK post-punk from their collection. Some new, mostly old. There is a duo by the name of Strawberry Switchblade.

that shows up on here. Oh, dude, I've heard about them. They're kind of in the shoe gaze camp, right? New Wave, Pop. Okay. Well, then what am I thinking of? I don't know, dude. I wouldn't call them Shugays at all.

Okay. Well, then I'm thinking of something else. This album is awesome, dude. They only have one studio album. It came out in 1985. It's a self-titled. And they were only active for about five years. I'm interested to hear how, like, a new wave band is going to play off of

a bedroom pop indie rock band. This is going to be perfect, man. All right. So, we're going to play track 7 on the record. This song is called Who Knows What Love is. I would love to have that on vinyl, man. Love it.

So like, is that all they did? Is that the only record they put out? Yeah. That's cool. That's it, man. On Spotify, there is also a 1982 four-piece demo,

and then there is a platinum collection, like a best of. Yeah, I would put them in the flip side of the shoe gaze coin, you know, the dream pop kind of vibe. You know, they kind of have, you know, I feel like Mr. Twin Sister, probably when they went by twin sister, kind of called back to this kind of sound quite a bit. Bands like tennis kind of kind of nod to this too, you know? Yeah, and what's so, you know, I thought that would go great with that, with that Stove song because, and out of all the songs on this record, that track has like,

one of those, you know, just classics kind of sound to it, you know, just a classic love song. Yeah. And it follows that formula that songwriters have been using since the 50s, probably. Yeah, I can hear that. I can hear that being, being take away the synths and stuff, and that could be a, be a 50s song, you know? Yeah. I kind of feel like I want to play another song, dude, just real quick. Just real quick, dude.

Okay. Okay. So this one is actually on a Japanese edition. So I don't know when this song came into play as far as when they were recording it and everything, but it's like a bonus track. So this one's track 18. It's called Michael who walks by night. Spooky. That record could have came out this year and it would have been.

Or maybe more appropriate would be like the 2010s when all the Dream Pop bands were making music, right? Yeah. Yeah, that's got a timeless sound, man. I love it, man. Because that's the thing, like, it's very clearly, like when you hear, oh, that was me in the 80s, you can hear that. But it also doesn't sound dated in that way. No. It's that classic, like, guitar.

Well, I just like their synth sound. The tone, like the guitar tone, yeah, in the sense. Their synth sound sounds not cliche enough to be, like, shoehorned into the 80s. Like I said, that could, a dream pop band could have put that out, you know, within the last decade. and it would sound right alongside the rest of him, you know. I think that's a good way to put it, dude. The synthesizer aspects are not cheesy. Well, it's not the cliche.

Not corny, not cliche. 80 sound that you think of, right? So here's what I'm reading here on Wikipedia, dude. Apparently, they were extremely popular in Japan. So that is why they issued that bonus track edition in Japan. That kind of stuff always fascinates me, dude, you know? Like bands being massive in other countries and never finding that success elsewhere. Yeah, it happened with Kings of Leon.

I think we talked about that, didn't we? They were much bigger in England before. In England, yeah. Yeah, dude. It is interesting. Especially when it's a band like Kings of Leon in the early stuff was very much Southern rock. Southern. Well, you know what, dude?

That's more of like a, it's more of like a, not like a fantasy, but like that's. Like a gimmick or something? Not a gimmick, but it's like, you know, in England, that's something that you're... Romanticize? Yes, there you go, dude. Thank you. Here, for you, bro. That, like, you know, Western cowboy, like, southern culture.

That's not a thing in England. Sure, right. And they had the look, man. They had the bell bottoms and shit. Oh, yeah, dude. The beards and stuff back in the day. Oh, yeah. I miss those days, man.

Those were good days. So that was Strawberry Switchplate. I want to give a quick shout out to the user on Reddit. shout out to Fantastic Mr. Fox and you have to figure out how to spell that out yourself because I'm not going to spell it out for you. It's not spelled like you would think it's spelled out?

It sure isn't, dude. So yes, thank you. Like Guy Fox maybe? Is that what he's trying to do? Yes. Yes. So yeah, again, the vinyl subreddit. One of my favorites, if you are a music fan,

even if you're not into record collecting, hop on there and I guarantee you you will find an album from an artist that you've never heard and you're going to fall in love with it. That's my guarantee, dude. I will guarantee that for you. At the very least, you'll get to look at people's really badass setups and stuff. A lot of people post their record set up, their turntable setup and stuff.

A lot of turntable envy happens on that subreddit. Almost daily, dude. Yeah. All right, dude, I'll pass it back to you, what you've been heard lately. All right, Q. I do have a great flow. A great transition. Awesome.

We're just going to keep the good vibes rolling here. So, you know, of course, Q, we can't go of what you heard without playing some suitcase, right? I almost brought one, dude, but I decided not to. Well, don't worry. Don't worry. I got you covered. So this is a brand new record by this band called Lucid Express.

So this is a their self-titled debut record. This came out around July 16th of this year. So I'm going to read a little description here, Q. Lucid Express is five young dreamers who create a stunning, airy blend of shoegaze and indie pop amongst the skyscrapers mountains and packed alleyways of Hong Kong. I've, what more I need to say, right? So here we go. We're going to play a track off of their self-titled record here. I feel like the huge cityscape of Hong Kong and like Tokyo just lends itself well to Shugays or like vapor wave.

I think you're right, dude. It's the concrete jungle. Yeah. You know, and the massive cities that have been around for decades. Yeah. Yeah, dude. A little Blade Runner type of stuff, right? Absolutely.

Let's do it, dude. I'm stoked. This song's great, man. That smile that you've had this entire episode is going to stay in place. Awesome. This song is called Prime of Pride. Classic juxtaposition of tone, you know, getting that from that glide guitar. Kevin Shields signature move.

The Wall of Sound. The Wall of Sound. It was there. It was ever present. They did it really well, man. I like how they had this kind of like off-key tones in there that kind of made you feel uneasy. Uh-huh. Kind of like a tilt-wirl or something like that.

You love it, dude. That's your favorite. thing to compare it to you. And you're right, dude. Yeah, Delta World, dude. But yeah, like, I feel like with newer shoegaze bands, which, you know, some people would call that new gaze, that is actually a term, new gaze bands, right? They really, what I love about newer shoe gaze bands is they take, they take the template that My Lady Valentine's load I've created, you know what I mean, but they, they sprinkle in dream pop and bedroom pop and synth pop and stuff like that into the mix, you know what I mean? So they're, you know, that's what's great about music, right?

Is it like, you know, when we borrow from the past, a lot of times it's just used as one piece of the puzzle, you know what I mean? Right. Versus my bloody Valentine was was forging that and like making this, the sound, right? They were inventing it. So many shoegaze bands pull from. that loveless sound. And I'm all about it, dude.

Yeah. And a lot of them, like you said, like they're, they're really doing it right as far as because we're so far removed from it. What they're, what they're picking, what parts they're picking from different eras of Shugays and Dream Pop. Kind of reminds me of that, that band letting up despite great faults that I brought up on our random Shugays episode. Right.

Yeah, dude. It's, it's that great combination of Dream Pop and Shoe Gays. which again is funny dude because which are interchangeable right it's the same thing but they're not they're not they're not i think everyone knows what we mean yeah yeah they're not they're not they're different they're different branches on the same tree i guess um there we go or at these different twigs on the same branch maybe you want to go more granular yeah dude even better let's take a quick break all right cue um i'm gonna throw it back to you so let's see what happens here cue because i'm starting to run out of sounds that, or songs that sound similar here.

So I don't know if I should pull a 180 yet, dude. Well, I was going to say, I've got one, I've got some 180s coming up. Okay. But it's just a matter of like, what am I going to be 180ing off of, you know? And are you going to keep it in the same vein as the shoegaze here? It's not shoe gaze, but I would say it's same era that shoegaze started. So same decade? I mean, not loveless decade, not early 90s.

So this is a band called Cleaners from Venus. Now, dude, I found out about this band. I'm sure you remember, dude. I texted you with such glee. You did. I was so excited when I heard this stuff, I said it was my favorite discovery so far of the year. And I think that holds true, dude. Discovery.

Discovery. Okay. Yeah. So this is a band that, so it's mostly one dude, main guy behind it. His name's Martin Newell, or Newell, and within, with that project and other projects he's done, he's dropped like over, over 20 records since 1980. Most of them are under cleaners from Venus, and a lot of it was recorded DIY bedroom style on like cassette tapes.

It's kind of all over the place, dude. A lot of it kind of feels like, like Sergeant Pepper's kind of stuff. There's some David Bowie vibes. There's some, like, Thinley. Izzy vibes all over the place. And I've only listened to two albums, and this was tough, dude, to pick a song. But I got one that's going to flow really well with our overall vibes so far. And I think you're going to like it, dude.

So again, this is a band called The Cleaners from Venus. It's an album called On Any Normal Monday that came out in 1982. This song is called A Girl with Cars in Her Eyes. Yeah, I love that the little synth sound. Yeah. It kind of came out of nowhere. I wasn't expecting it. Yeah. And that was way ahead, I feel like.

Yeah. Well, when did this record come out? Early 80s or? 82, I believe. 82, okay. Yeah. Yeah. I love, these are the kind of discoveries I love, man.

That's what I'm saying, dude. I love it. But, Ann, you know what, dude? That's just another name for me to keep in the back of my head. As I'm flipping through records at a record store. Absolutely. I would pick up anything from these guys. Well, here's the thing, man.

I'm looking more into this, dude. So like I mentioned before, they self-produced their records and distributed them on cassette tapes. That's why they didn't really find a wider audience is because of that unconventional method of distribution. Apparently, there was a whole cassette tape underground distribution network back in the 80s. musicians that went this route were too eccentric and at times experimental to withstand the homogenizing influence of record companies. How cool is that, dude? So there were actually quite a few bands like this that were more like avant-garde and just kind of too weird to be picked up by major labels. So they just distributed their own records or their own cassette tapes through the mail.

And that's how it got around. but there are re-issues on LP. So you might be able to find something from there, dude. That's cool. Yeah, great stuff, man. So I've listened to that album all the way through, and then I listened to an album that came out right, same year, actually, called Midnight Cleaners.

That is also fantastic. All right, dude. So that was, again, the cleaners from Venus. That song was called A Girl with Cars in Her Eyes. I'm going to pass it back to you, brother. What you got? All right, Q. It's time for the, it's time for the 180.

And this is the, so this is the song that I messaged you about maybe a month ago, about a month ago. And I said that I've got a doozy for you. Mm-hmm. And I, and I accompanied that message with two dancing Bart Simpson gifts or Jifs. Q. I don't want to offend anybody. You know what, dude, it's fine. I'm over it.

You mean like the good vibe and, the good vibes? Good vibe and Bart. Good vibe and Bart. Now, I don't know if that's going to hold true, Q. Oh, let me take that back. You don't think I'm going to be swam back and forth like Bart? You are going to be swinging back and forth. But I feel like Good Vives Bart is really perfect for like,

shoe gaze and vapor wave and stuff like that, or at least in my mind. Good vibes, Bart is washed out a new theory. Yeah, exactly. All right, Q, so this band here, this, I got to give credit to Josie Records. basically every Friday they post the new releases right so anyway um this is a band a jazz funk and soul band from the 70s oh god damn it dude what you're gonna make me change up change it up again man I'm gonna have to bring something totally different now you know if it works out you do whatever feels right to you but this is a this is going to be a song from the 70s now it was reissued

and released on vinyl about a month ago. So the story is with this record. So the band is called the Southern Energy Ensemble. Apparently this record was recorded in the 70s on this record label called Blackfire Records. It came out in 77. I'm sorry, it didn't come out in 77. It was recorded in 77,

but it was kind of one of those things where it sounds like the band kind of went off and they all kind of did their own thing back then it was never officially released so it's kind of one of those like lost classics as kind of what they referred to it as it was put out on CD in the 90s but aside from that it was never pressed or anything like didn't really have a major release or anything like that right anyway um let's just listen to it man so let me let me just say this cue the vocals I think are what really drew me into this record because they sound imperfect at times, and I think that actually makes it better. I love that in music, dude.

I love that. Let me just leave it at that then. So again, the band is called Southern Energy Ensemble, and this is the very last track on this record, and this is called The Best Part of Me. Imagine seeing that life? If you ever had the chance. Who knows if they ever played live together? So accompanying this reissue is like this sort of these liner notes, this letter kind of thing that the producer wrote.

And he's talking about how, and he also played like some of the other instruments on the record. And he's talking about how like, you know, after the session, we didn't ever get a chance to listen through to the album. And we all moved on to other things. The album was canned and only received a release on CD and LP much later. In 93, I remember Plunky, which I guess is one of the other members, giving me copies and some of the band members and I got together to hear it. It was funny to hear it back with everyone. We were reflecting that we were all young when we recorded it, but we all agreed that

it actually sounded better than we had originally remembered. I thought it was interesting that, like, they didn't even if. even listened to it really. Like nobody heard this stuff. That's weird, man. For, you know, almost 20 years. And then they hear it for the first time. And then for the most part, nobody heard it really until the 90s.

But it just sounds like one of those really obscure records that was just put out. But yeah, it's interesting because I'm reminded of this. There's this really great documentary that Questlove put out this year. You can watch it on Hulu. Let me see if I can get the exact name of it because it's, I think it's called like Summer of Love or something like that. Summer of Soul, sorry. It's called the Summer of Soul, and it's about this soul music festival that happened the same week the Woodstock happened. And so it was just completely forgotten about it. Nobody covered it. Nobody talked about it.

And it was just kind of brushed aside. But it was this amazing week of music from all these soul, you know, very well-known, iconic musicians like Nina Simone, Sly and the Family Stone. Gladys Knight, it looks like, Stevie Wonder. Right. But like, it just kind of makes you think, like, you know, how much amazing, great soul music like this has just been lost or just forgotten about? This festival was like this huge deal. And like, oh, also the Moonland. happened the same. So the moon landing and then Woodstock. Yeah. So it had no chance, right?

That's the one to punch, dude. Exactly. But anyway, it just kind of makes you think about that kind of stuff, right? That's crazy. Anyway, I highly recommend watching that documentary for anybody out there. It's on Hulu, if you're a Hulu subscriber. Again, it's called Summer of Soul. Anyway, all right, Q, so now where do we go from here? 70s, Jazz, and Soul.

What are we going to do next? I'm going to let you decide, dude. Do you want to pull a 180? I'm all about 180s, man. Okay. I've got another 180 because I don't think it's going to... We'll see. But I think it's just nothing but 180s from here on now, dude.

Damn it, I'm so conflicted, dude. There's no way you've got a jazz soul record from the 70s. I do. I'll play it, man. It's not from the 70s. Okay. But I wasn't going to play this today, dude. I had it queued up like a few days ago.

You got to go with your gut, you know? I'm going with it, man. Go with your gut. All right. So, and I don't know if you want to spill beans right now, dude. The spill. But I've been reading this awesome book by David Brown. He's also a senior writer at Rolling Stone Magazine.

And he wrote a definitive, I'm going to say definitive, biography on Sonic Youth called Goodbye 20th Century. And they, and this is, dude, this is something I'm learning about bands. they recycled through quite a few drummers in their early days, dude. And it's funny how often that happens. I mean, we talked about it with Block Party and, you know, other examples that I can't think of. But one of their drummers that appears on their first record, his name's Richard Edson.

And he was in another band at the time that he decided to stick around with instead because he was having more fun in this Afrobeat, jazz and funk group called K-O-N-K. And they were all playing music together in the same clubs in New York City back in the early 80s. This was part of the post-punk new wave, just kind of anti-everything kind of movement. And part of that, which is blowing my mind right now, was there was like a dance scene in the post-punk world, almost like a anti-disco scene. okay yeah and this i i'm there's so much that i want to that i am discovering about the post-punk scene in new york in the early 80s that it's just kind of blown my mind dude so conk just a

really fun like heavy on the horns afro beat funk group uh they have an album that was actually released as like an eight song digital release in 2009 it's a live at cbgb record and the show is from November 6th, 1981. And I'm going to play a song off of it, dude. This song is called Cool Out Gar. Part of that post-punk scene in New York going to CBGB and seeing a band like that, dude. Must have been crazy times, man.

Crazy times. Especially if it's CBGB and like the band that comes out after them, the play plays after them or, you know, some punk band or something like that, you know. Yeah, I wonder if they, tried to keep similar vibes on the bill each night, you know, if it was just like... I hope not. I hope you got to hear it. I hope you got to hear it all, you know. I mean, it's very possible that Sonic Youth shared a stage with them, dude. Right. Very possible. And that's cool. More than likely they did. I feel like that was kind of

put me in like a trance if I can call back to last week. Really? I could see some vapor wave artists sort of sampling those horns for some reason. Oh yeah. Yeah, dude. Anyways, man, so that's conk. and you threw me for a loop, dude. So I'm going to have to nix one of my other picks now. Nix one of your picks. Nick's one of my picks, dude. All right. I think it's whiplash time, dude.

It's time now. I wouldn't say this is another 180, but maybe it's a 90. Okay. So the, dude, I don't, you're going to have to help me here, Q. Okay. I'm trying to figure out if this is a good song or not. Because I listen to it and it's great. And I'm really into it.

And it's amazing. and then I listen to it another time I'm like, God, I don't know if I'm into this right now. Are we doing this on as part of the show here? Yes. All right, man. So if it really sucks, this might be a first for us. Let me just put it this way. It doesn't suck.

This is a great song, but you got to be in the right mood for it. Okay. But it's an art rock song, art rock sort of like experimental, I would say. I hate comparing bands to talk. talking hands because I feel like I do it all the time. This, I swear, this is a, this is relevant to, to compare, um, this singer to David Byrne. So I'm talking about a group called Gorilla Toss. They have the no wave label on them queue, which is amazing because they are actually,

they've formed in 2012. So no wave art rock. So this is a perfect segue from that, from that clip you just played. Totally. Anyway, I'm going to play a song off of their 2017 record. G-T-Ulra. And you know what? I take back everything I just said, Q.

This is a solid track. You might not like it out there, listeners, but I think it's pretty solid. It's going to have your toes tapping for sure. Well, we usually dig the same tunes, dude, so I'm sure I'll like it. And it's true. I think you'll like it.

All right, so here we go. This song is called Betty Dreams of Green Men. You're second of that, man. Yeah, you know what? It's hard not to like it. Wow, dude. I think I've listened to it like 10 times in the last like three days. Yeah.

And sometimes it's a little bit grading. But like I said, you got to be in it or you're not going to be in it. I'm in it now, dude. Yeah, it's great. It's a great tune, man. The first time I heard it, I was blown away. That is Talking Heads meets the B-52s. Yeah, that's good.

I like that. But yeah, her vocal delivery is fucking amazing, right? Yeah. I love all the synth stuff happening in the background. It's a really good. I can see how it gets the no-wave. genre on it, you know, that label, and definitely art rock, right? That's where the talking heads comes in.

Oh, yeah. But, yeah, Q, the Rolling Stone put them on their top 10 great modern punk bands list. So these guys are, I've never heard of them before, but they're, there's something, man. You imagine seeing that live. Oh, hell, yeah. It'd be fucking amazing. It'd be fucking amazing. Yeah.

Anyway. Awesome. So, yeah, that song was called, again, that was called Betty Dreams of Green Men. by a band called Gorillitas. They're a blast, man, to listen to, obviously. All right, Q, we're coming down here. We got, I got one track left. You got two tracks left.

So where do we go from here? Well, believe it or not, dude, have got something that pairs real nice with that. We do not compare notes before we do this. I just want to put that out there. I don't remember where I came across this band. They are called Simon Spines. Simon is spelled P-S-Y-M-O-N

Kind of all over the place, dude. They've got a lot of like lo-fi almost I'm going to say Dream Pop, dude. I'm going to say it. It's not the first time that that's been said on this episode. Dream Pop. Maybe like, I don't know. More dancey.

I mean, I could see some talking heads influence with this group. They have two main singers, and they kind of. go back and forth. So one song's going to sound a little bit different as far as the vibes go, because it's a totally different singer. One is Noah Prebish, Prebish, and he is joined by Sabine or Sabine Holler. They're the two main singers. So this song I'm bringing is all Sabine. God, I hope I'm pronouncing that right, dude. Sabine, Sabine. This is an album of theirs that just came out this year. It's called Charismatic Megafauna.

This is track four on the record. A song is called Jump Rope. Dude, I've been smiling a lot this episode, man. These tunes are great. I confess I wasn't paying attention. When did this come out? This is a brand new album. So I'm saying, dude.

This is strawberry, what were they called? Strawberry Switchblade. Strawberry Switchblade. This is their influence, man. You can still hear it. Totally. that's great man i love that song a lot of great music coming out right now yeah i feel like there is a movement happening i feel and you you've brought it and i've brought it up before dude this movement

yeah yeah 100% i love it i'm all about it yeah dude all right man last pick for you brother last pick for me and this is a brand spanking new song uh well at least it is now by the time this episode comes out it'll be a week or so old but this is a band that i would put in the same can as narrowhead or gleamer or some of these other bands that I've actually brought to the table before. But it's grunge and shoegaze kind of combined, right? I mean, how could you get any better than that, dude? You can't. I don't think you can. You can't get any better than that. So this song, this band is called Modern Color. And this is a brand new single from these guys. And this song

is called Dread. I'm loving it. I'm loving it. I'm loving the two different, like camps of like resurgence that are happening right now, man. Yeah, it's a lot of young artists. It's a great time to be a music fan. Yeah, dude. It always is. It's the dream pop. It's the shoegaze. It's the grunge. Yeah.

And so many great renditions of that and mixes of those genres, dude. Good stuff. Totally. So again, that was dread by a band called Modern Color. All right, Q, how are you going to close us out? How are you going to bring us home here? I'm going to bring a dark, a dark vibe, dude.

That I think goes well with that Chew Gays Grunge stuff. All right. So I don't know much about this band. It's a duo. They're from Chile called The Holy Drug Couple. And they just released an album that was initially, so it's kind of confusing. These songs, I believe, were initially commissioned. And I think the majority of the songs show up as music score.

for a short horror film called Cursed Forever. And then they decided to release it as a completely separate record called Soundtrack for Evil Doll. It says it proposes a parallel narrative line in which listeners can make its own lectures and imagine diverse timelines of the film. So I guess it's the way they piece it together and everything. Interesting. So it's really well thought out, kind of like a sidetrack to the score for a short film. I'm all about it.

And, dude, I'm telling this right now, man. I know 100% for sure. You're going to really, really like this song, dude. Okay. It's instrumental. I know how you feel about instrumentals, dude. And I have feelings about it. It's essentially, you know, score-type music for a film, which I know you also love, dude.

So this is the opening track. This song is called Aurora. All day, every day. So this is or is not a soundtrack for a movie? Okay. so it says here we got to a final approximately 25 songs of music of which on most 18 minutes of it were actually used in the film the final set of songs named soundtrack for evil doll presents a logical compilation of music in an EP short album format okay there's 25 so there's

seven minutes on this EP that did not make it into the film okay that's awesome yeah didn't take me long before I added this to my my favorites to listen to later on Spotify. Yeah, dude. It's all the same vibes. It's great. I love the drums, man. Drums are killer.

Me too. And I love that underlying just... The consistency of that thing in the background. It's just relentless, yeah. Yeah, dude, just keeps going the whole time. I love that kind of stuff. It kind of makes you feel uneasy. The funny thing about this song is it kind of reminding me of, bear with me on this

cue. Maybe like a Tyco song. No, bear with me. But do you hear what I'm saying? Like, Tyco is obviously in a different camp as far as like, you know, IDM down tempo type of music, but I mean, it had a similar vibe. Scott Henson of Tycho does a lot of great stuff with like drums and stuff. Yeah.

And guitar elements and stuff like that. Similar like synth, kind of like, what is that the name of that? One of your favorite genres of electronic music. Hypnagogic? The night drive stuff. Okay. That's like a synth wave. The drive soundtrack kind of introduced that kind of stuff.

Yeah, yeah. You know, with Ryan Gassing in it. Outrun, is that what you meant? Outrun, yeah, those kind of vibes. So I'm going to read this a little snippet from the band camp real quick, too, to wrap it up. So that song Aurora that I just played contains all the motives presented in the album. Heavy presence of drums and percussion, repetitive and pulsating bass lines, and saturated soundscapes reminiscent to an urban horror dystopia. So yeah, dude, that's what you're in for if you want to press play on this album. It's great. Yeah, it's great, man. Love it.

So that's it, dude. Last month, I started us off in a dark vibe. This month I'm in this on one. Yeah, and you know, I wouldn't call that very dark at all, honestly. It spooked me out, dude. Really? No, your bar is low for getting scared. Yeah, man.

Great. I think there's a really great collection of songs, dude. We did it. We did it, dude. And now, you know what? In another month, we're going to be just up to the very last minute trying to figure out another five songs each to bring. And I've already started. Well, I've got leftovers, man, hangovers on this list.

All the way back to our first one back in January. If I bring a song that was on this hangover list next month, that tells you how great it was because it stuck around for a full month. Yeah, dude. We could do a whole episode on leftovers. On your hangovers, yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, that's it, man.

That's our mixtape for the month. Really eclectic mix there, I think. But you know what? I think it all kind of worked really well together, actually. Yeah. Surprisingly. That was not planned, but that typically is how it goes. Like we said, you know, we listen to a lot of the same kind of music.

But, yeah, we went from like a Hong Kong shoe gaze band to 70s, soul and jazz to 80s. I don't know what you call those guys. conk. Not conk the other band. But yeah, conk too. Strawberry switch blade? See, I can't even keep up with it at all.

The cleaners from Venus? Cleaners from Venus, yeah. Yeah, dude. I was bringing a lot of oldies today. Good stuff. Good stuff, man. Yeah. All right.

So as we've been talking about, just when you thought we were done with down tempo, we got one more episode in store for you. Next week is going to be a similar format to this episode. But it's going to be a down tempo mixed. So basically, you know, we decided on four records to talk about, which was worksop, Theory Corporation, Quantic and Underworld. And then, you know, the both of us decided like, you know what, there's just so many great

down-tempo artists out there and songs that we love and have been listening to you for years. Let's have one more episode where we can kind of sprinkle in this sort of, you know, miscellaneous artist here that don't really need a full episode necessarily. but yeah so that's going to be next week again it's going to be five tracks from each of us so it's going to be what you're heard format dude two weeks in a row man watch your head format but nothing but down tempo yeah it's going to be great that's going to be good and then we'll be done with down tempo we'll have gotten it out of

our system definitively at that point and then we're going to transition back into more of our wheelhouse for the foreseeable future we're going to do some post-punk new wave that's what we're going to be hanging out in for a while. For a little bit, yeah. All right, so that's that. I'm ready to wrap this up so I can go eat some den-den. Well, why don't you rapid fire?

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If you don't like the mixtape that you've heard on the show, odds are you're going to like at least a one track out of 10 because I'm trying to bring a good mix of down-tempo sounds and vibes, right? I think it's reproved last week for Underworld, like, you know, there's a lot of different sounds under the down-tempo umbrella, you know. Yeah, I'm going to bring a pretty wide range of sound next. week, dude, with my down-tipo jams. Awesome. All right, Q, you got an outro track for us?

I do, man. So this is an artist that goes by Little Annie. She also goes by Annie Anxiety. She's been dropping albums since 1984. I think she showed up on one of my lists on Spotify because I recently got into this band called Dry Cleaning. I've mentioned them to you before, dude. They are this, like, post-punk new eight band,

but the lead singer does nothing but spoken word. That's the whole thing, dude. She never sings, really? It's just all-spoken word. It sounds very much like the stuff we were bringing last week with Underworld. Okay, cool. Really interesting stuff. And so this song from Little Annie showed up on my radar

from an album of hers that came out in 1992 called Short and Sweet. I haven't listened to all of her music, but I believe, based on just the other few songs of hers that I listen to from this album, this is the only one on there that has this spoken word vibe, but man, is it great, dude? She's kind of like R&B, hip-hop. She's kind of all over their place. It's got that classic 92 hip-hip-hop vibe.

Okay, love it, love it, man. Okay, here we go. She's got a unique hybrid of post-punk, jungle, dub, hip-hop, and avant-garde. Okay, wow. This song is so awesome, dude, and it's going to be a great way to send us off for today. So, again, this is a song from Little Annie off of her album, short and sweet from 1992. The song is called, I Think of You, and that's going to do it for us this week. Thank you, as always for listening. My name's Quentin.

My name is Travis. Y'all take care. You know,