Hello, and happy New Year! We’re starting off 2009 with a look back at our favorite songs of the year. Many of the tracks come from 12” singles, EPs, and albums that we couldn’t fit into our last show. Have a dance, and enjoy!
We’re also excited to announce that the show will now be streaming live every Thursday night, 9-11 PM (Eastern) on WCRS.
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01/01/2009
After our endless laboring, debating and reflecting on a year’s worth of music, it all comes to this. We’re closing out the year with a collection of tracks from some of our favorite albums of 2008. It’s been a great year back on the air, and many thanks to WCRS and all of our listeners in Columbus, elsewhere, and beyond. Below you’ll find our consensus “10 Beat Oracle Approved: 08 Edition,” as well as our individual recommendations and favorites. We’ll return on New Year’s Day with an intense mix of our favorite singles (12”, Remix, and non-favorite album tracks) from the year. So stay tuned for more “future music” in 09.
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12/18/2008
10 BEAT ORACLE APPROVED: 08 EDITION (in no order)
Honorable mentions: Fennesz - Black Sea, Miwon - A to B, Spiritualized - Songs in A&E, TV On The Radio - Dear Science, Why? - Alopecia, Autechre - Quaristice, Max Tundra - Parallax Error Beheads You, DJ/Rupture - Uproot
Michael says “listen to these, good people”
01. Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree
02. Why? - Alopecia
03. Portishead - Third
04. Spiritualized - Songs in A&E
05. Q-Tip - The Renaissance
06. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
07. The Ruby Suns - Sea Lion
08. Byteone - Death of Typeographer
09. The Orb - The Dream
10. Miwon - A to B
11. Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
12. Beach House - Devotion
Tracks:
Goldfrapp - Monster Love (Goldfrapp vs. Spiritualized)
Portishead - The Rip
Pop Levi - Dita Dimone
Neon Neon - Dream Cars
The Others - Kinda Blue
Luomo _ Love You All (ft. Sasha Funke)
Osborn - 16th Stage
Beach House - Gila
The Orb - Vuja De
Gang Gang Dance - House Jam
Conquest - Forever (D1 Remix)
Shed - Another Wedged Chicken
Joseph’s a jerk
13. Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
12. Shed – Shedding the Past
11. Aus – Antwarps
10. Dungen – 4
09. Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours
08. 2562 – Aerial
07. Gang Gang Dance – Saint Dymphna
06. Sun Kil Moon – April
05. Fennesz – Black Sea
04. Beach House – Devotion
03. Portishead – Third
02. Various Artists – Dubstep Allstars Vol. 6 (mixed by Appleblim).
01. Deerhunter – Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.
song machine:
Deerhunter - Agoraphobia
Sun Kil Moon - Lost Verses
Conquest - forever (d1 remix)
2562 - moog dub
GGD - House Jam
Fennesz - black sea
beach house - turtle island
Grouper - heavy water/ i’d rather be sleeping
Shed - another wedged chicken
forgetting something…
Kenny’s Hair Transistor Radio From Arcturus
01. Neon Neon - Stainless Style
02. Crystal Castles - S/T
03. Michna - Magic Monday
04. Kelpe - Ex-Aquarium
05. Max Tundra - Parallax Error Beheads You
06. Radioactive Man - Growl
07. Hadouken! - Music for an Accelerated Culture
08. Tobacco - Fucked Up Friends
09. Hatchback - Colors of the Sun
10. Kelley Polar - I need you to hold on while the sky is falling
11. Leila - Blood, Looms & Brooms
12. iTAL tEK - cYCLICAL
13. Golden Bug - Hot Robot
TRAX:
MGMT - Kids (Soulwax Remix)
Neon Neon - Dream Cars
Junc Ops - 2013
iTAL tEK - Wind Tunnel
Of Montreal - Mingusings
Golden Bug - looklookloook
Crystal Castles VS HEALTH - Crimewave
The Dirtbombs - Leopardman at C&A
James Pants - We’re Through
Max Tundra - Which Song
Miss Kittin - Play Me A Tape
Sally Shapiro - I Know (SLL Remix)
Various - Deadman (Milanese Remix) & Hater (Zomby Remix)
Love,
The Beat Oracle
The year is coming to a close and we’re still buried in records. The first hour brings some stark electronic cuts, and features essential dubstep releases from Darkstar, Zomby, and The Others. The second half is highlighted with stellar new tracks from Dntel, Flying Lotus, Vibert/Simmons, The Sight Below, and Fennesz.
Stay tuned next week as we run through the best of 2008, and reveal our favorite albums and singles. Not to be missed!
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12/11/2008
We returned to the Sells Studio this week, cheerful and bloated with holiday pies. The first hour moves from the abstract and psychedelic to classic reggae and soul. Hour two turns up the tempo with hip-hop, while Kenny and Michael serve up their usual helping of colorful future music. Among the classics, we dropped new tracks from Gang Gang Dance, Deerhunter, Q-Tip, Black Milk, and Ital Tek.
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12/04/2008
We celebrated Thanksgiving here at the Beat Oracle by airing one of our favorite shows we’ve ever recorded, our 2-hour summer 2008 ambient special. You can click below to get the original podcast from last July, which did not include any of our talking. If you are new to the show, please be sure to check it out (as we won’t be re-podcasting it).
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Seven-thousand, two-hundred and six seconds towards the M100
Apologies are in order (again). A web update has been long overdue . We’ve been asleep at the wheel, busy with graduate studies, jobs, and the routine scratching of bums. However, we’ve managed to piece together the usual weekly program, and those listeners that subscribe to our podcast should be up to speed. For everyone else, here is a ten-hour glimpse of the past month:
Despite winter’s early arrival making us a little grumpy, this latest episode has lifted our spirits. The set features our usual blend of diverse future-music, including brand new cuts from Q-Tip, Murs, Ladyhawke, The Tough Alliance, Thom Yorke, and Benga. Stay inside and dance along.
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11/20/2008
All modesty aside, last week’s show might be one of the best. Homemade banana bread inspires hour one, and reveals new tracks from Black Milk, TV On The Radio, Luomo and SCSI-9. Dubstep and ambient dominate the second half, featuring new singles from D1 and Martyn. Listen and lounge.
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11/13/2008
History is celebrated, as Barack Obama is elected President! The entire set is dedicated to dancing, shaking, and cathartic nonsense! (Hey, we’ve earned it) President-elect Obama also mails in, sharing a few of his favorite songs with our listeners. As if you needed an excuse to pop open a few bottles…
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11/06/2008
For this episode Michael grew an ironic mustache and dusted off his skinny jeans for a first hour wrought with excessive indieness. Things become sensible in hour two, with dubstep and experimental tracks leading the way. Loads of new cuts from the likes of The Sea and Cake, Of Montreal, El Guincho, Bjork, Conquest, Helios, Deerhunter, and more!
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10/30/2008
The release season continues to be kind with stellar new tracks from Murs, Madlib, Panda Bear, MGMT, Jonas Bering, Shed, and Bomb the Bass (!). This comes highly recommended by the Sells Studio office staff, as well as Michael’s dog, Mia.
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10/23/2008
Autumn is here and the release season continues to heat up with new music from Max Tundra, The Herbaliser, Roots Manuva, Windy & Carl, Jim O’Rourke and more. In hour one Michael brings the beats as Kenny returns from CA with an arsenal of records and drops some must-listen finds. Hour two winds down and things turn ambient. Screw in your red light bulbs and ponder the cosmos, indeed.
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10/16/2008
Last week our friend Micah joined us in the studio and dropped some mindbending material. He raised the stakes, and the proof is here. The two-hours features fresh tracks from Mogwai, TV on the Radio, Aidan Baker & Tim Hecker, Benoit Pioulard, Luomo, and more. Enjoy!
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10/09/2008
Last week the show officially moved to its new 2-hour time slot (Thursdays 9-11 PM on WCRS 98.3/102.1 LPFM Columbus). In the first half, Michael and I dropped fresh tracks from Osborne, Koushik, Ruckus Roboticus, and Gang Gang Dance. The midway/second half features a great mega-mix courtesy of Kenny and his electric hair. Highly recommended…by (ahem) us.
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10/02/2008
Deepest apologies for the lack of web updates. Podcast subscribers should be caught up with the most recent edition, but for the rest of you, there is some news. As of October 2nd, the show will be expanding to two hours, and will broadcast on Thursdays from 9-11pm on WCRS in Columbus. Thanks for all of your positive feedback. We’re fortunate to be bringing you the additional music. Here’s a brief summary of the past three weeks (We can’t promise our malaise won’t get the best of us again, but we’ll try):
Last week we brought fresh tracks from Roots Manuva, Michna, Dungen, Amon Tobin, Ulrich Schnauss and more.
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09/23/2008
Two weeks ago we featured brand new music from Nightmares On Wax, Mr. Scruff, Annie, Clark and a ton of great older tunes.
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09/16/2008
And finally, three weeks ago we debuted shiny new songs from Alias, Shigeto, Common Market, The Notwist, and a usual dose of future music.
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09/09/2008
Stay tuned in the coming days for our first expanded 2-hour set. Cheers!
As summer starts winding down, we continue setting fires! Last week we dropped a ton of new gems including stuff from The Bug, Minotaur Shock, Murs, The Rice Twins and Madvillain.
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08/26/2008
We continued the mix this week with more electronic, dub, hip-hop and ambient featuring the likes of Christ., Global Goon, J Dilla, Lewis Parker, and The Flashbulb.
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09/02/2008
