WSUM Experimental Chart 6/11/01-7/1/01 WSUM-Madison Student Radio PO Box 260020, Madison, WI 53726-0020 Tel: (608) 262-1206 * Fax: (608) 265-3549 Experimental Music Director: Jacob Heule WSUM is currently netcasting at: http://WSUM.wisc.edu We are licensed for 5,600 watts (directional) at 91.7 FM. Our tower is currently under construction and should be ready by November. This list consists of recently released recordings that are getting attention from selected "new music" DJs at WSUM. Many of them do not show up in our overall "top-40" even though they get played on a regular basis by those DJs. This list is sent out biweekly, except when WSUM is not operating on its normal schedule because of winter or spring break, or other such things. If receipt of this list is an unwanted nuisance to you, please reply and we'll take you off the recipients' list. Archives of this chart can be found at the Breakthrough in Grey Room website: http://www.sit.wisc.edu/~jfheule/breakthrough/. Discs at the top of the list were played the most often. The shows most likely to play this music are on Mondays from 6 PM to Midnight and Wednesday from 10 PM to 1 AM (all CST). Listen live over the internet at http://wsum.wisc.edu. (If you use a fixed-width font like Courier, the columns will line up) Artist Recording Label ---------------------- ---------------------------------- ------------------- Slicker Remixes Hefty U.S. Maple Acre Thrills Drag City Jazzkammer Rolex Smalltown Supersound Low + Dirty Three In the Fishtank Knokurrent Califone Roomsound Perishable Butcher with Bailey Vortices and Angels Emanem and Davies Techno Animal Dead Man's Curse Matador Chicago Underground Chicago Underground Quartet Thrill Jockey Quartet To Rococo Rot and Music is a Hungry Ghost Mute I-Sound The Album Leaf One Day I'll Be On Time Tiger Style Various Bip Hop Generation Bleep Low Things We Lost in the Fire Kranky Mice Parade Mokoondi Bubble Core The Flying Selections from the First Nine ugEXPLODE Luttenbachers Albums Frown Wallghost Stateless Matmos A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Matador Cure Safety Scissors Parts Water Plug Research Reynols Minecxio Freedom From Carlos Actis Dato The Moonwalker Leo Das Kombinat Haushalt und Technik Block4 Fennesz Endless Summer Mego/Touch Gravitar Edifier Manifold Joan of Arc How can anything so little be Jade Tree anymore? Lloop Bulbbs The Agriculture Various House of Distraction Schematic Sightings 7" Freedom From Sigur Ros Agaetis Byrjun Fat Cat Fontanelle F Kranky Glen Hall and The Roswell Incident Leo Outsource Nobukazu Takemura Hoshi No Koe Thrill Jockey Tortoise Standards Thrill Jockey Adult. Resuscitation Ersatz Audio Ruins Pallaschtom Magaibutsu Sub Dub EP's Original Masters 1993-1995 The Agriculture Persona Uptight Simulated Radiohead College EP EMI/Capitol Alan Licht Plays Well Crank Automotive Adds: Butcher/Bailey/Davies [Emanem]; Lol Coxhill [Emanem]; Diaz-Infante/ Forsyth [Evolving Ear/Pax Recordings]; Jason Lescalleet [Freedom From]; The Vibracathedral String Band/Drum Troupe [Freedom From]; Reynols [Freedom From]; Sightings [Freedom From]; Das Kombinat [Block4]; Lens Cleaner Trio [The Ceiling]; Jazzkammer [Smalltown Supersound]; Tennis [Bip Hop]; Gravitar [Enterruption]; Gravitar [Manifold]; Quatuor Accorde [Emanem]; Hotel Stadt Berlin [Handle With Care]; Eno/Schwalm [Astralwerks]; Rafeal Toral [Touch]; Fennesz [Mego/Touch]; Spaceheads and Max Eastley [Bip Hop]; Biosphere [Touch]; Lungs and Paper Compilation [Lungs and Paper]; Techno Animal [Matador]; Fontanelle [Kranky]; Kaffe Matthews [Annetteworks]; Safety Scissors [Plug Research]; Soulo [Plug Research]; London Improvisors Orchestra [Emanem]; Iskra 1903 [Emanem]; Phonophani [Rune Grammafon]; Supersilent [Rune Grammafon]; Archetti/Wiget [Rune Grammafon]; Tore Elagroy [Rune Grammafon] WSUM's most recent overall top-10: Herbert [Studio K7]; Greyboy [Ubiquity]; The Underwolves [JCR]; Fantastic Plastic Machine [Emperor Norton]; Antibalas [Ninja Tune]; Compost 100 [Compost]; OM Lounge 5 [OM]; Tortoise [Thrill Jockey]; Autechre [WARP]; Radiohead [Capitol] DJ Picks: Jacob Heule (Monday 9pm-12am): Jazzkammer - "Rolex" [Smalltown Supersound]: Last fall I was somewhat mystified to receive "Le Jazz Non: A Compilation of Norwegian Noise". Though I didn't expect Norway to have much to offer the world of noise, it took me about 5 seconds of Lasse Marhaug's "Light Silence" to realize that this was one of my favorites of the year. Also featured on the CD is Jazzkammer, Marhaug's collaboration John Hegre. Their track stood out as my favorite on the disc, so I was certainly excited to receive their newest album, "Rolex", a collection of remixes of songs from their first two albums by artists such as Merzbow, Thurston Moore and Reynols. It does not disappoint. The album is very harsh, containing a wide variety of sounds from chunky Atari noises to white noise. Usually looped and always quite distorted. Very good. Matt Goins (Monday 6pm-9pm): Casino Versus Japan - "Via" [Wobblyhead]: This 10" has one track per side, and has some excellent packaging. Wobblyhead do some excellent work, and this is no exception. Noisy washes of sound are the overpowering feature of this record. There are beats and implied melodies, but they are slow and sparse. The info that came with the record claims they communicate with this artist by way of throwing bricks through windows. Gravitar - "Edifier" [Manifold]: This is loud loud rock in the tradition of the Melvins, but with Sonic Youth- like fast-strumming walls of sound. It rocks. Jennifer Pfafflin (Wednesday 10pm-1am): Peter Brotzmann Group - "Fuck de Boere" [Unheard Music Series/Atavistic]: From jazz journalist John Corbett's re-issue label, Unheard Music Series, comes a fiercely-titled --- and fiercely executed --- live performance from the German reedist Peter Brotzmann. The shorter of the two pieces (the most "radio-friendly" one, I suppose), "Machine Gun," is especially exciting to listen to --- from the dynamic interplay between the octet's members, to the final minutes of the piece, which takes on a funky, swinging personality. Featuring Evan Parker and Derek Bailey, among others. David Parisi (on hiatus): Serge Gainsbourg - "L'Homme À Tête Chou": Not very new, but it is the first entire Serge Gainsbourg record that this writer has ever heard. He once heard a strange love song with a two french people singing and talking to each other on the beginning of an old hardcore mixtape, "Angel of Death." That is the name of the tape, not the song. Then, the same thing was disovered to be a theme for a porno movie, but what the song really was still remained unknown. Finally, a crappy 101 strings-like interpretation of the song was found on a crappier piece of easy-listening vinyl. I can't remember that title exactly, but it translates to something like "I love you neither." The source was Serge Gainsbourg. His albums have been rereleased in contemporary reissue style, sometime this year. I got "L'Homme À Tête Chou" recently, which is what this pick is about. I can't understand the French language at all, but this is still a goodie even with that drawback,. I wish I would've heard as much Serge Gainsbourg as I did Pink Floyd. I'm making up for it a little bit now, because this record is great. Hopefully I'll hear more soon... Comments: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The rock continues. --Jacob Heule (Program Director / Experimental Music Director)