Brendan Landis’ Super Awesome Radio Show Wins Again, Awesome
Willkommen du BLSARSWAA Industries, Ltd. - delivering experimental and avant-garde music, from Osaka to Oakland*, every Thursday, from approximately four o’clock in the afternoon until six o’clock in the evening, eastern standard time.
Recent playlists:
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7/10/08 (View playlist.)
- Matmos - Sun on 5 at 152 (from The West)
- Kangding Ray - Interrompu Court (from Stabil)
- YMCK - Sabita Tobira no Dai 8 Tengoku (from Family Genesis)
- Merzbow - 1930 (from 1930)
- Manual - Celebration (from Bajamar)
- Otomo Yoshihide’s New Jazz Quintet - Orange Was the Color of Her Dress, Then Blue Silk, Tails Out (from Tails Out)
- Ayuo - Taiyo (from Izutsu)
- King Crimson - Indiscipline (from Discipline)
- Khonnor - Man from the Anthill, Screen Love, Space, and the Time Man (from Handwriting)
- Mogwai - 2 Rights Make 1 Wrong, Secret Pint (from Rock Action)
- King Crimson - Matte Kudasai (from Discipline)
- Chieko Mori - Charm Music Box (from Jumping Rabbit)
- Laurie Spiegel - Short Visits to Different Worlds: A Garden (from Obsolete Systems)
- Chieko Mori - Dreams (from Jumping Rabbit)
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7/03/08 (View playlist.)
- Tortoise - It’s All Around You (from It’s All Around You)
- Treewave - Same (from Cabana EP+)
- Rovo - Numa (from Imago)
- Thom Yorke - Analyse (from The Eraser)
- Radiohead - Trans-Atlantic Drawl (from Pyramid Song)
- Sigur Ros - O Fridur (from Saeglopur)
- Otomo Yoshihide’s New Jazz Quintet & Tatsuya Oe - Double Density (from ONJQ + OE)
- Soundgarden - Switch Opens (from Down on the Upside)
- Soundgarden - Head Down, Fresh Tendrils (from Superunknown)
- The Flying Luttenbachers - Assault on Apathy (from Incarceration by Abstraction)
- Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - The Donkey-Headed Adversary of Humanity Opens the Discussion (from Of Natural History)
- Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - The Ossuary (from In Glorious Times)
- Steve Reich - Proverb (from Proverb, City Life)
- Venetian Snares - Suffocate, January (from Winter in the Belly of a Snake)
- Ryuko Mizutani - Dance, Bare (from Vista)
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6/26/08 (View playlist.)
- YMCK - Panic Racer 005 (from Family Racing)
- Furious Pig - I Don’t Like Your Face (from I Don’t Like Your Face)
- Forss - Soulhack (from Soulhack)
- Venetian Snares - Huge Chrome Peach (from Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding)
- Neptune - Donkeyskin (from Patterns)
- Khonnor - Executioner the Rat (from Lost Pets)
- Kangding Ray - nn/peaks (from Stabil)
- Venetian Snares - XIII’s Dub (from Cavalcade of Glee and Dadaist Happy Hardcore Pom Poms)
- Karera Musication - 1, Whity White (from the soundtrack to Koroshiya Ichi)
- Kayo Dot - A Pitcher of Summer (from Choirs of the Eye)
- Alec Empire - Jailhouse C*ck Rocks the Most (from Alec Empire Vs. Elvis Presley)
- Melt-Banana - Blank Page of the Blind (from Bambi’s Dilemma)
- Furious Pig - Jonny’s So Long (from I Don’t Like Your Face)
- Melt-Banana - A Dreamer Who is Too Weak to Face Up (from Cell-Scape)
- Yuka Honda - Humming Song (Alone Together) (from Eucademix)
- Dat Politics - 13 (from Tracto Flirt)
- Nobukazu Takemura - Conical Flask (from Assembler / Assembler2)
- Soundgarden - Half (from Superunknown)
- The Bad Plus - Iron Man (from Give)
- Thom Yorke - The Drunkk Machine (from Spitting Feathers)
- Tortoise - Dot/Eyes (from It’s All Around You)
- Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Phthisis (from Of Natural History)
- Tomahawk - Mescal Rite 1 (from Anonymous)
- Manual - Midnight is Where the Day Begins (from Ascend)
- Khonnor - Burning Palace (from Burning Palace)
- Mono - Halcyon (from Peel Session 8/14/04)
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6/19/08 (View playlist.)
- Deerhoof - Believe E.S.P. (from Friend Opportunity)
- Deerhoof - Come See the Duck (from Green Cosmos)
- Faun Fables - Sleepwalker (from Mother Twilight)
- Matmos - Zealous Order of Candied Knights (from The Civil War)
- OOIOO - Grow Sound Tree (from Gold & Green)
- Boredoms - (Circle) (from Vision Creation Newsun)
- Kayo Dot - The Manifold Curiosity (from Choirs of the Eye)
- Christian Fennesz - Chateau Rouge (from Venice)
- .Tape. - Movement 1: Making Waves (from Sea-Scraping Monthly in Four or Five Movements)
- edIT - Laundry (from Crying Over Pros for No Reason)
- Aus - Halo (from Lang)
- Eli C-P - The Sun Will Shine For You (from The Sun Will Shine For You)
- Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Berlin (from Insen)
- Aphex Twin - 4 (from The Richard D. James Album)
- Cornelius - Cue (from Gum EP)
- Boards of Canada - Music is Math (from Geogaddi)
- Boards of Canada - Roygbiv (from Music Has the Right to Children)
- Chris Clark - Indigo Optimus (from Empty the Bones of You)
- Alice Coltrane - Ptah, the El Daoud (from Ptah, the El Daoud)
- Erik Satie - Vexations (excerpt) (from Riri Shimada’s Pianoworks)
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6/12/08 (View playlist.)
- Mike Patton - Wuxiapian (from Adult Themes for Voice)
- Alva Noto - 10-22-38 Astoria, Halioid Xerrox Copy 4 (from Xerrox Vol. 1)
- Ikue Mori - Day of the Locusts (from Labyrinth)
- Aphex Twin - Vordhosbn (from Drukqs)
- The Books - Take Time, That Right Ain’t Sh*t (from The Lemon of Pink)
- Melt-Banana - Introduction for Charlie (from Charlie)
- Hella - Biblical Violence (from Hold Your Horse Is)
- Nuclear Rabbit - Miss Dimples (from Intestinal Fortitude)
- Battles - Ddiamondd (from Mirrored)
- Electric Masada - Tekufah (from 50th Birthday Celebration, Vol. 4)
- Cecil Taylor - Taht (from Winged Serpent)
- Daughters - The F*uck Whisperer (from Hell Songs)
- Deerhoof - This Magnificent Bird Will Rise (from Reveille)
- Deerhoof - Scream Team, Spirit Ditties of No Tone (from The Runners Four)
- John Oswald - Urge-Marianne Faith No Morrisey (from Plexure)
- Chieko Mori - Sky Travel (from Katyou Fuugetsu)
- Aus - Clocks (from Lang)
- Aoki Takamasa - SF_Variation (from Parabolica)
- Chris Clark - Holiday as Brutality (from Empty the Bones of You)
- edIT - Certified Air Raid Material (from Certified Air Raid Material)
Playlists from last season (is that what you call these things?):
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7/27/07 (View playlist.) - Long-Form Heavy Metal
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7/20/07 (View playlist.) - Pop Music
- Junior Senior - Rhythm Bandits
- Blur - Girls & Boys
- Presidents of the United States of America - Some Postman
- Beck - Elevator Music
- Outkast - Happy Valentine’s Day
- M.I.A. - Pull Up the People
- Deerhoof - This Magnificent Bird Will Rise
- Deerhoof - Scream Team
- Deerhoof - Delieve E.S.P.
- Gorillaz - Re-Hash
- Cibo Matto - The Candy Man
- Brazilian Girls - Sweatshop
- Stone Temple Pilots - Ride the Cliché
- Foo Fighters - Monkey Wrench
- Dinosaur Jr. - Grab It
- Melt-Banana - Shield Your Eyes, a Beast in the Well of Your Hand
- Gomez - Army Dub
- Butthole Surfers - Pepper
- The Boom Boom Satellites - Spine
- David Byrne - Neighborhood
- Cornelius - Gum
- Soul Coughing - Casiotone Nation
- Radiohead - Palo Alto
- They Might Be Giants - Upside Down Frown
- The Notwist - One with the Freaks
- Björk - Who Is It?
- Brian Eno - Just Another Day
- Paul Anka - Smells Like Teen Spirit
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6/01/07 (View playlist.) - No Input
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5/25/07 (View playlist.) - Experimental Music from Japan
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5/18/07 (View playlist.) - Jazz
- Trevor Dunn’s Trio Convulsant - Liver-Colored Dew
- Otomo Yoshihide’s New Jazz Quintet - Spin
- Electric Masada - Takefuh
- Trilok Gurtu - I Once Wished a Tree Upside Down
- Vijay Iyer Quartet - Because of Guns
- And People And Crocodiles - Sharptooth
- Dave Holland - Juggler’s Parade
- John Coltrane - Africa
- Fred Frith - Blue
- Mal Waldron - A Flower
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5/11/07 (View playlist.) - Rock and Roll
- Deerhoof - Spirit Ditties of No Tone
- The Bad Plus - Tom Sawyer
- Hella - Biblical Violence
- Nuclear Rabbit - The Pimp, the Bitch, and the Magic Beans
- King Crimson - Indiscipline
- Need New Body - Beach
- Gomez - Bring Your Lovin’ Back Here
- XTC - When You’re Near Me I Have Difficulty
- The Presidents of the United States of America
- Mirthkon - Zhagunk
- Tinklepotty - The Public Servant, # of the Beast
- They Might Be Giants - Dr. Worm
- Boredoms - Acid Police
- The Melvins - Blood Witch
- The Jesus Lizard - Goat
- Melt-Banana - Section Eight
- Boom Boom Satellites - Dress Like an Angel
- Soundgarden - Fresh Tendrils
- Kayo Dot - The Manifold Curiosity
- The Darkness - Growing on Me
- The Smashing Pumpkins - Bury Me
- Stone Temple Pilots - Interstate Love Song
- Pearl Jam - Dissident
- The Flaming Lips - It’s Summertime
- Polaris - Coronado II
- Sonic Youth - Hey Joni
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5/04/07 (View playlist.) - Intensely Pleasant Music
- Cinematic Orchestra - Burn Out
- Cinematic Orchestra - As the Stars Fall
- The Bad Plus - Flim
- Buckethead - Whitewash
- Boards of Canada - Kid for Today
- Yo La Tengo - Sea Urchins
- Christian Fennesz - City of Light
- Centaur - Thimbles
- Rovo - N’Dam
- Mr. Projectile - Pocky Wetty
- Gomez - Drench
- I, Cactus - Green Cactus
- The Books - Smells Like Content
- Tin Hat Trio - Bill
- Antonio Carlos Jobim - Brazil
- Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy - Star-Crossed Lovers
- DJ Shadow - What Does Your Soul Look Like, Part 1 (Blue Sky Revisit)
- Four Tet - Slow Jam
- King Crimson - Matte Kudasai
- Shakti - Peace of Mind
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4/27/07 (View playlist.) - Undanceable Electronic Music
- Venetian Snares - Huge Chrome Peach
- Matmos - Rose and Teeth for Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Boom Boom Satellites - Echo Tail
- Autechre - Fold4, Wrap5
- Tree Wave - Sleep
- Boards of Canada - Left Side Drive
- The Books - Be Good to Them Always
- Christian Fennesz - Chateau Rouge
- Four Tet - You Were There With Me
- Alec Empire - Jailhouse Cock Rocks the Most
- Agata - The Cable Has No Name
- YMCK - Sokopogogo
- Merzbow - Munchen
- Cornelius - Brazil
- Frank Zappa - Jazz From Hell
- Nobukazu Takemura - Lost Treasure (4th Version)
- John Zorn & Yamataka Eye - F*ckzotica
- John Oswald - Massive Ozzy-Osmond
- William Basinski - D|P 2.1
- U.N.K.L.E. - Rabbit in Your Headlights
- Yano Yoshihito - Lonely Rolling Star
- Bell Labs - Numerology
- Aoki Takamasa & Tujiko Noriko - Nolocom
- Radiohead - Trans-Atlantic Drawl
- Bill Frisell - Open Ocean
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4/20/07 (View playlist.) - Dance Music That Doesn’t Suck
- Slavic Soul Party - Sisko’s Blues
- Fanfare Ciocarlia - Tu Romnie
- Kocani Orkestar - Siki, Siki Baba
- Kool Kieth - Ants
- Ratatat - 9 Beats, Track 01
- Daft Punk - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
- Charming Hostess - Klezsex
- Secret Chiefs 3 - The 4
- Need New Body - Hot Shot
- Jean-Jacques Perrey - Gossipo Perpetuo
- The B-52’s - Private Idaho
- Beck - Pressure Zone
- Nomo - Nu Tones
- Milton Banana Trio - ??
- OOIOO - Uma
- Junior Senior - Rhythm Bandits
- DJ Shadow - The Numbers Song
- M.I.A. - Galang
- Boom Boom Satellites - Push Eject
- Aphex Twin - Cock Ver. 10
- Rovo - Kmara
- Edmundo Ross - Brazil
- Brazilian Girls - All About Us
- Outkast - Behold a Lady
- Zapp & Roger - More Bounce to the Ounce
- Parliament - Mothership Connection (Starchild)
- Richard Devine - Sigstop
- Autechre - 61e.CR
- Blur - Girls & Boys
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4/13/07 (View playlist.) - Evil Music, in Celebration of Friday the 13th
- Kayo Dot - Kandu vs. Corky (Horrorca)
- Faun Fables - Beautiful Blade
- Ikue Mori - Day of the Locusts
- Steve Reich - Proverb
- Fantomas - Rosemary’s Baby
- Ministry - Jesus Built My Hotrod
- Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - The Creature
- Slayer - Angel of Death
- Meshuggah - Stengah
- Venetian Snares - Öngyilkos Vasárnap
- Merzbow - Woodpecker No. 2
- Alexander Scriabin - Piano Sonata #9
- Charles Manson - Dead Grass Growing in the Garden
- Hemophiliac - /////\///\/
- Idiot Flesh - Teen Devil Worshipper
- The Melvins - The Lovely Butterflies
- Romprpropormoprmp - Lullabye Sexual Andrea 666
- Bobby Joe Ebola & the Children MacNuggits - Childkiller
- Mike Patton - “I Killed Him Like a Dog… and He Still Laughed”
- Scott Walker - Jolson & Jones
- John Fahey - Fanfare
- Death Ambient - Agony & Desire
- John Zorn - Dead Man, Part 1
- Dave Van Ronk - Stackerlee
- Diamanda Galas - Dark End of the Street
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4/06/07 (View playlist.) - Ambient Music
- Bill Frisell - White
- Keith Fullerton Whitman - Stereo Music for Acoustic Guitar, Buchla Music Box 100, Hewlett Packard Model 236 Oscillator, Electric Guitar and Computer - Part One
- Buckethead - Colma
- Brian Eno - 2/2 (Performed by Bang on a Can)
- Khonnor - Tattletalent
- Sigur Ros - Sigur 9
- Death Ambient - Pink Jewel Anenome Cluster
- Matmos - For Felix (and All the Rats)
- Maldoror - Lullaby (She Who Must Be Obeyed)
- Otomo Yoshihide’s New Jazz Quintet - Tails Out
- Mori Chieko - Dreams
- Christian Fennesz - Shiseido
- Boards of Canada - Over the Horizon Radar
- John Cage - 4′33″
- Erik Satie - Vexations (excerpt)
- The Carmelite Nun of Lucon - Dawn
- Sonic Youth - Providence
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3/30/07 (View playlist.) - Singer-Songwriters That Don’t Make You Want to Change the Station.
- Joni Mitchell - Coyote
- Nick Drake - Hazey Jane 1
- Dave Van Ronk - Stackerlee
- Hank Williams - I Can’t Get You Off My Mind
- Mississippi John Hurt - I’m Satisfied
- Beck - Cyanide Breath Mint
- Geoff Muldaur - Brazil
- M.I.A. - Galang
- Spy - Won’t You Come Down
- Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
- Cornelius - Fit Song
- Big Dumb Face - Space Adventure
- Thom Yorke - The Drunkk Machine
- Kenna - Vexed and Glorious
- Jimi Hendrix - Power of Love
- David Bowie - Oh! You Pretty Things
- Outkast - Prototype
- David Byrne - Neighborhood
- The Magnetic Fields - In My Secret Place
- Tom Waits - 9th & Hennepin
- Faun Fables - Sleepwalker
- Nina Simone - Black is the Color of My True Love’s Hair
- Joanna Newsom - Sawdust & Diamonds
- Brian Eno - Just Another Day
- Juana Molina - Salvese Quien Pueda
- Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek
- Sparklehorse - Don’t Take My Sunshine Away
- Mori Chieko - Moon Park
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3/23/07 (View playlist.) - Early and Mid-90’s Rock and Roll.
- Pearl Jam - Even Flow
- The Flaming Lips - Turn It On
- Soul Coughing - Soft Serve
- The Rentals - Friends of P
- Butthole Surfers - Pepper
- The Toadies - Possum Kingdom
- Temple of the Dog - Say Hello 2 Heaven
- Spacehog - In the Meantime
- Primitive Radio Gods - Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand
- Alice in Chains - Grind
- The Jesus Lizard - Then Comes Dudley
- Primus - My Name is Mud
- The Presidents of the USA - Peaches
- They Might Be Giants - Fingertips
- Reel Big Fish - Sell Out
- Polaris - Hey Sandy
- The Smashing Pumpkins - Drown
- Blind Melon - No Rain
- Mad Season - River of Deceit
- Soundgarden - The Day I Tried to Live
- Foo Fighters - I’ll Stick Around
- Dinosaur Jr. - Feel the Pain
- Radiohead - The Bends
- Hum - Stars
- Stone Temple Pilots - Plush (acoustic)
- Weezer - El Scorcho
*The implication being that musics originating from places to the east of Oakland and to the west of Osaka are to be delivered - not the other way around! Hoo boy, wouldn’t that be a funny thing! Ha ha!