In honor of May Day, I made a Faerie Folk mix. Here is the tracklisting:
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Akron/Family – I’ll Be On The Water
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Angels Of Light – Sunflower’s Here To Stay
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DANIELLE DAX – Here Come the Harvest Buns
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The Rolling Stones – In Another Land
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Dolly Parton – Love Is Like A Butterfly
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KATE BUSH – Cloudbusting
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LOCUST – Summer Rain
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DAME DARCY – Honey Time
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Cibelle – Dedans Le Lapin
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Coco Rosie – By Your Side
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Animal Collective – The Softest Voice
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RASPUTINA – Sister Sleep
While searching for images of Fairies I found these gorgeous painting by Josephine Wall. Take a look at her site, her work is very intricate and lush. www.josephinewall.co.uk
My Lady Unicorn, by Josephine Wall
Heart and Soul, by Josephine Wall
Love and Anger by Kate Bush
It lay buried here. It lay deep inside me.
It’s so deep I don’t think that I can speak about it.
It could take me all of my life,
But it would only take a moment to
Tell you what I’m feeling,
But I don’t know if I’m ready yet.
You come walking into this room
Like you’re walking into my arms.
What would I do without you?
Take away the love and the anger,
And a little piece of hope holding us together.
Looking for a moment that’ll never happen,
Living in the gap between past and future.
Take away the stone and the timber,
And a little piece of rope won’t hold it together.
If you can’t tell your sister,
If you can’t tell a priest,
‘Cause it’s so deep you don’t think that you can speak about it
To anyone,
Can you tell it to your heart?
Can you find it in your heart
To let go of these feelings
Like a bell to a Southerly wind?
We could be like two strings beating,
Speaking in sympathy…
What would we do without you?
Two strings speak in sympathy.
Take away the love and the anger,
And a little piece of hope holding us together.
Looking for a moment that’ll never happen,
Living in the gap between past and future.
Take away the stone and the timber,
And a little piece of rope won’t hold it together.
We’re building a house of the future together.
(What would we do without you?)
Well, if it’s so deep you don’t think that you can speak about it,
Just remember to reach out and touch the past and the future.
Well, if it’s so deep you don’t think you can speak about it,
Don’t ever think that you can’t change the past and the future.
You might not, not think so now,
But just you wait and see–someone will come to help you.
The flowing mane of pain swells on Trelawny Lawn
Stark handsome eyes decide the unicorn
Is a beast of borrowed wisdom
Like a thrush in the yielding harvest field
The prophet deems snow.
The silent stork of sadness scans Trelawny Lawn
The lion, the unicorn it’s horn in the lap of Beth
Laments the dawn
Beguiled, the scribish jacket-man his cap a skull-of-rat
Is but a pawn.
0 sky, your eyes embrace is to vicious for my wheat
The foaming Earthguard whinneys to his leaden feet
The bullfinch rumbles
The lavish lion aslanically scythes the hay
The unicorn bids you stay.
My buddy Kevin McHugh sometimes lets me babysit his totally awesome radio show when he has better things to do, like DJ for thousands of people at The Natural History Museum with Matt Dear. Bruno Pronsato was in town to play at my boyfriend’s party and I was lucky enough to interview him on air. Here is what I played:
Muzlimgauze – Cairopractor, Dome of the Rock Ant Zen, 2003
Coil – Babylero Horse Rotorvator, 2003
Coil – Where Even the Darkness is Something to See, Love’s Secret Domain, 1991
Coil – Theme from Blue, Unnatural History II, 1995
Coil – Neither His nor Yours, Unnatural History II, 1995
Brood – Brood XIII
Cristian Vogel – remixed by Herbert La Isla Piscola Herbert’s Harbour Dub, Novamute, 2001
Cristian Vogel – Sarcastically Tempered Powers, Busca Invisibles Tresor, 1999
Einzelkind – Spam Bot, Playhouse, 2007
Audion – A Noiser Noiser / Fred’s Bells (12″) Spectral Sound, 2007
Dethlab’s funny Mash Up Perrey & Kingsley Vs. Ambivalent unreleased mp3
Soylent Green – La Forza Destino (Radio Slave Remix), Playhouse 2007
Alex Smoke – Meany
[a]pendics Shuffle – Saw Saw Soup
Kate Simko – She Said She Said Spectral
Bruno Pronsato – Open Your Eyes
Bruno Pronsato – At Home I am a Tourist, Why Can’t We Be Like Us, 2008
Bruno Pronsato – Nobody Calls, Where Did You Learn To Kiss That Way, Hello? Repeat
Bruno Pronsato – Why Can’t We Be Like Us, Why Can’t We Be Like Us, 2008
I finally scored a copy of Coil’s Black Antlers and I was not disappointed. They truly are one of my favorite bands and I am so impressed with their decades of creativity (since 1983) that have inspired me. Words can even describe how important their music is to me.
Watch the awesome Bollywood inspired video for Jimmy here
And here is
the original video which is equally as awesome in its psychedelic disco fabulousness!
What drug is poor “dumb faced” Jimmy on?
One of my oldest and dearest friends (and long time pen pal from LA) Damion Romero makes beautiful minimal noise music. He used one of my watercolor paintings for the entire gatefold image in his new double LP “Twins.” The original record looks amazing and it is my eleventh record cover collaboration with a musician and my first gatefold image ever.
Damion Romero – Twins
Inside watercolor painting by Seze Devres
PTapes/Tone Filth Records & Tapes, 2007
LP, edition of 500
Here is another release we have collaborated on:
Romero, Damion – Medium
(CD, edition of 500, each with a unique cover photogram)
P Tapes, 1996.
and other CD & Record covers I have worked on.
I met Kate Simko last year at the Detroit Electronic Music Festival. After playing an amazing live set she was supposed to leave on a flight back to Chicago. But she had some really really bad flight luck and could not leave town. So she returned back to the festival in complete desperation, and we were the first people she ran into. Poor Kate was in the worst mood and I immediately adopted her as my own and made sure she had a good time for the remainder of the festival. Now we have become close friends and I am so excited for her and her budding career. She is one of the few women I personally know who is making her own electronic music. Yeah Kate!
Kate Simko, She Said (Spectral)
The Bunker Podcast 10: Kate Simko
Recorded live at The Bunker on March 7, 2008.
KATE SIMKO’S TOP TEN WOMEN COMPOSERS
Kate, photo by Seze
Neu! is some of the very earliest electronic music I ever heard. Their unique sound came way earlier than most of the ambient and minimal music we have come to love today. Read this awesome article on Neu here
My stepdad just gave me this cd randomly. I guess because he knows I like strange obscure music by women. The GTO’s are an all girl groupies group produced by Frank Zappa in the late 1960s. One of the group’s members Pamela Des Barres, wrote the memoir I’m with the Band. Their cd Permanent Damage is a weird mixture of strange theatrical songs and random interviews. It is very rough music but it does precede some later girl bands like Liliput, The Raincoats, Rasputina, CocoRosie, and they even remind me of my friend Dame Darcy’s music.
It is as if you gave the mischievous turn of the century girls from Picnic at Hanging Rock a recording studio in 1968.
One of my favorite films ever:
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
Directed by Peter Weir
Picnic at Hanging Rock
A NYTIMES article on Pamela Des Barres
The_GTOs on Wikipedia
This is one of the most creative things I have ever heard and the music is pretty good. The remix album is coming out soon and I am super excited to hear it.
The Vegetable Orchestra performs music solely on instruments made of vegetables. Using carrot flutes, pumpkin basses, leek violins, leek-zucchini-vibrators, cucumberophones and celery bongos, the orchestra creates its own extraordinary and vegetabile sound universe. The ensemble overcomes preserved and marinated sound conceptions or tirelessly re-stewed listening habits, putting its focus on expanding the variety of vegetable instruments, developing novel musical ideas and exploring fresh vegetable sound gardens.
Watch their process in an amazing video, here
Official site: www.gemueseorchester.org
RobotRadio guest hosted by Seze
Danielle Dax – E.V.I.L. T. Timber Tongue EP (1995)
Danielle Dax – Timber Tongue Timber Tongue EP (1995)
Danielle Dax Cutting the Last Sheaf Pop Eyes (1983)
Colleen – What is Componium? Colleen Et Les Boties A Musique (2006)
Cibelle – Dans Le Lapin Green Grass EP (2007)
Chloe – Around the Clock The Waiting Room (2007)
Stereolab – [untitled] Root (1999)
Sir Alice – La Maitresse No 2
Miskate – And or Shuffle Indian Shuffle EP (2006)
Cocorosie – Rainbowarriors
Miss Kittin – Professional Distortion I Com
Magda – 48 hour Crack in Your Bass Stop Ep (2005)
Bloody Mary – Daily Crisis
Camea – Voiding the Fill Voiding the Fill (2007) Clink
Inhale – Stefny
Kate Simko – Osci3
Dinky – Acid in My Fridge (2004)
Mia – Dark Deeds
Sebo K & Anja Schneider Rancho Relaxo – Jennifer Cardini & Shonky Remix (2006)
Akiko Kiyma – Juniper (2007)
I finally heard Bob Dylan’s Radio show and I was not disappointed.
He picks a wide variety of vintage songs and his buttery voice is so pleasant to listen to.
Thanks to my stepdad Guy for helping me catch up on episodes.
www.xmradio.com/bobdylan
on wikipedia.org
Release info and you can download the hypnotic wallpaper and screensaver here:
www.suckfish.org
“On the fly” guest for Valentine’s Day East Village Radio presents a special Valentine’s Day “on the fly” from 2-4 PM hosted by Seze bringing you Kiss and Tell Radio with a special lover’s day set.
I was so excited to host the first edition of Kiss & Tell Radio on Valentine’s day. I played only what I consider Love Songs. It was so much fun and most f my friends and family listened in live! Here is the track listing:
Liz Phair – Flower
Dapayk & Padberg – Doerti
Goldfrapp – Deep Honey
Kate Bush – Hounds of Love
INXS – Never Tear Us Apart
Bloc Party – This Modern Love
Depeche Mode – I Feel Loved
Natacha Atlas – I Put a Spell on You
NIN – Eraser (Polite remix by Coil)
Diana Ross & The Supremes – You are no body till somebody loves you (live)
Blondie – I’m Gonna Love You Too
Unrest – Cherry Cream On
Diana Ross & The Supremes – Buttered Popcorn
lb (Atom Heart) – Jealous Guy
Dolly Parton – Love is Like a Butterfly
Jane’s Addiction – Summertime Rolls
Elvis – Love Me Tender
Nouvelle Vague – Just Can’t Get Enough
The Cure – Close To Me
The Pixies – La La Love You
Khuddar (a 1994 Hindi Movie) – Sexy Sexy Mujhe Log Bole
Siouxsie and the Banshees – Kiss Them For Me
The Cure – Love Cats
Kids of The Kingdom – Everybody Need to Be Someone
Flaming Fire – Your Love Belongs To Me
The Rolling Stones – We Love You
Cheap Trick – Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Sinead O’ Connor – I Want Your Hands on Me
Rose Melberg – I Love How You Love Me
Wolfsheim – Love Is Strange
…and our ears had never before, heard anything this beautiful.
Rocket’s Tail
by Kate Bush
That November night, looking up into the sky,
You said,
“Hey, wish that was me up there–
It’s the biggest rocket I could find,
And it’s holding the night in its arms
If only for a moment.
I can’t see the look in its eyes,
But I’m sure it must be laughing.”
But it seemed to me the saddest thing I’d ever seen,
And I thought you were crazy, wishing such a thing.
I saw only a stick on fire,
Alone on its journey
Home to the quickening ground,
With no one there to catch it.
I put on my pointed hat
And my black and silver suit,
And I check my gunpowder pack
And I strap the stick on my back.
And, dressed as a rocket on Waterloo Bridge–
Nobody seems to see me.
Then, with the fuse in my hand,
And now shooting into the night
And still as a rocket,
I land in the river.
Was it me said you were crazy?
I put on my cloudiest suit,
Size 5 lightning boots, too.
‘Cause I am a rocket
On fire.
Look at me go, with my tail on fire,
With my tail on fire,
On fire.
Hey, look at me go, look at me…
Sunshine Superman
Donovan
Sunshine came softly through my a-window today
Could’ve tripped out easy a-but I’ve a-changed my ways
It’ll take time, I know it but in a while
You’re gonna be mine, I know it, we’ll do it in style
‘Cause I made my mind up you’re going to be mine
I’ll tell you right now
Any trick in the book now, baby, all that I can find
Everybody’s hustlin’ just to have a little scene
When I say we’ll be cool I think that you know what I mean
We stood on a beach at sunset, do you remember when?
I know a beach where, baby, a-it never ends
When you’ve made your mind up forever to be mine
Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm
I’ll pick up your hand and slowly blow your little mind
‘Cause I made my mind up you’re going to be mine
I’ll tell you right now
Any trick in the book now, baby, all that I can find
Superman or Green Lantern ain’t got a-nothin’ on me
I can make like a turtle and dive for your pearls in the sea, yeah!
A you-you-you can just sit there a-thinking on your velvet throne
’bout all the rainbows a-you can a-have for your own
When you’ve made your mind up forever to be mine
I’ll pick up your hand and slowly blow your little mind
When you’ve made your mind up forever to be mine
I’ll pick up your hand
I’ll pick up your hand
Friendship
by Cole Porter
If you’re ever in a jam, here I am
If you ever need a pal, I’m your gal
If you ever feel so happy you land in jail; I’m your bail
It’s friendship, friendship
Just a perfect blendship
When other friendships have been forgot
Ours will still be hot.
If you ever lose your way, came to May
If you ever make a flop, call for Pop
If you ever take a boat and get last at sea; Write to me
It’s friendship, friendship
Just a perfect blendship
When other friendships have been forgit
Ours will still be it.
If you ever catch on fire, send a wire
If you ever lose your teeth and you’re out to dine; Borrow mine
It’s friendship, friendship
Just a perfect blendship
When other friendships have ceased to jell
Ours will still be swell.
If they ever black your eyes, put me wise
lf they ever cook your goose, turn me loose
If they ever put a bullet through your brr-ain; I’ll complain
It’s friendship, friendship
Just a perfect blendship
When other friendships go up in smoke
Ours will still be oke.
If you ever lose your mind, I’ll be kind
If you ever lose your shirt, l’Il be hurt
If you’re ever in a mill and get sawed in half; I won’t laugh
It’s friendship, friendship
Just a perfect blendship
When other friendships have been forgate
Ours will still be great.
If they ever hang you, pard, send a card
If they ever cut your throat, write a note
If they ever make a cannibaI stew of you; Invite me too
It’s friendship, friendship
Just a perfect blendship
When other friendships are up the crick
Ours will still be slick.
Copyright Cole Porter, 1939
I started a project for my 33 birthday documenting all my favorite records since the year I was born. Ideally I wanted to dj a set by picking one song from each year, but the task proved to be impossible. You can see I am still working on the list and I plan to make it a lifelong project. It is a fun project to do. You should give it a try.
1975
Another Green World – Brian Eno
Deluxe – Harmonia
Neu! ’75 – Neu!
Landed – Can
Young Americans – David Bowie
1976
Modern Lovers – Modern Lovers
The Ramones – The Ramones
1977
Heroes – David Bowie
Talking Heads: 77 – Talking Heads
Trans Europe Express – Kraftwerk
1978
The Cars – The Cars
Germ Free Adolescents – X-Ray Spex
The Man Machine – Kraftwerk
Parallel Lines – Blondie
Some Girls – The Rolling Stones
This Heat – This Heat
1979
The B-52s – The B-52s
Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an
Umbrella – Nurse With Wound
Entertainment! – Gang Of Four
Fear of Music – Talking Heads
The Pleasure Principle – Gary Numan
The Raincoats – The Raincoats
Unknown Pleasures – Joy Division
Eat to the Beat – Blondie
1980
Freedom of Choice – Devo
Double Fantasy – John Lennon & Yoko Ono
Sandinista! – The Clash
Kings of the Wild Frontier – Adam and the Ants
Autoamerican – Blondie
1981
The Beauty and the Beat – The Go-Go’s
Computer World – Kraftwerk
Deceit – This Heat
Duran Duran – Duran Duran
Freeze Frame – J. Geils Band
Non-stop Erotic Cabaret – Soft Cell
1982
Thriller – Michael Jackson
Avalon – Roxy Music
Complete Madness – Madness (greatest hits)
Rio – Duran Duran
1999 – Prince
Vacation – The Go Gos
Dexys Midnight Runners Come On Eileen
1983
Let’s Dance – David Bowie
War – U2
1984
Heartbeat City – The Cars
She’s So Unusual – Cyndi Lauper
Like a Virgin – Madonna
Stop Making Sense – Talking Heads
1985
Hounds of Love – Kate Bush
Hunting High and Low – a-ha
Psychocandy – The Jesus and Mary Chain
This Is Big Audio Dynamite – Big Audio Dynamite
1986
Atomizer – Big Black
Control – Janet Jackson
Licensed to Ill – The Beastie Boys
1987
Locust Abortion Technician – Butthole Surfers
Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me – The Cure
Kick – INXS
Bad – Michael Jackson
Jane’s Addiction – Jane’s Addiction
Escape From Noise – Negativland
Substance – New Order
Come On Pilgrim – Pixies
The Young Gods – The Young Gods
The Joshua Tree – U2
1988
Across the Universe – Laibach
Daydream Nation – Sonic Youth
Surfer Rosa – Pixies
The Lion and the Cobra – Sinéad O’Connor
The Land of Rape and Honey – Ministry
Kylie – Kylie
Nothing’s Shocking – Jane’s Addiction
101 – Depeche Mode
1989
Cosmic Thing – The B-52’s
Disintegration – The Cure
Technique – New Order
Like a Prayer – Madonna
Pretty Hate Machine – Nine Inch Nails
Bleach – Nirvana
Energy – Operation Ivy
Full Moon Fever – Tom Petty
Doolittle – Pixies
Mother’s Milk – Red Hot Chili Peppers
Tweez – Slint
The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses
Mind Bomb – The The
1990
Violator – Depeche Mode
Repeater – Fugazi
This Is Our Music – Galaxie 500
Confessions Of A Knife – My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult
I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got – Sinéad O’Connor
Nowhere – Ride
Taking Drugs to Make Music to Take Drugs To – Spacemen 3
Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic – The Sundays
Pod – The Breeders
1991
White Light From The Mouth Of Infinity – Swans
The Real Ramona        Throwing Muses
Spiderland     Slint
Gish   The Smashing Pumpkins
Whirlpool – Chapterhouse
Steady Diet of Nothing Fugazi
To Mother      Babes in Toyland
Blood Sugar Sex Magik  Red Hot Chili Peppers
Nevermind      Nirvana
Screamadelica  Primal Scream
Love’s Secret Domain – Coil
Unsane – Unsane
Goat – Jesus Lizard
1992
Swans – Love of Life
Selected Ambient Works 85-92 – Aphex Twin
Little Earthquakes -Â Tori Amos
Doppelgänger   Curve
Honey’s Dead   The Jesus and Mary Chain
Slanted and Enchanted  Pavement
Dry    PJ Harvey
Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs  Ministry
Broken (EP)Â Â Â Â Nine Inch Nails
Fixed (EP)     Nine Inch Nails        Remix EP
1993
Tabula Rasa  - Einstürzende Neubauten
Extra Width – Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements – Stereolab
1994
Fracture / Tied (10) – Seefeel
Exile in Guyville   –    Liz Phair
Debut –  Björk
In Utero – Nirvana
So Tonight That I Might See – Mazzy Star
Angst – KMFDM
4-Track Demos – PJ Harvey
Muslimgauze (too many to mention)
Rid of Me – PJ Harvey
There Is No-One What Will Take Care Of You – Palace Brothers
1994
Selected Ambient Works Volume II – Aphex Twin
Live Through This – Hole
Evanescence – Scorn
1995
The Great Annihilator – Swans
Truth Is Born Of Arguments – Locust
To Bring You My Love – PJ Harvey
Further Down the Spiral – Nine Inch Nails
Post РBj̦rk
Disco Volante – Mr. Bungle
1996
Soundtracks for the Blind – Swans
Ende Neu – Einstürzende Neubauten
Richard D. James – Aphex Twin
Endtroducing….. – DJ Shadow
1997
Telegram – Bjork
Dig Your Own Hole – Chemical Brothers
Ultra - Depeche Mode
Halim -  Natacha Atlas
Symbols - KMFDM
Come to Daddy  - Aphex Twin
All Music Has Come to and End – Cristian Vogel
1998
Mezzanine – Massive Attack
Is this Desire? – PJ Harvey
1999
To Venus and Back -Â Tori Amos
2000
Silence Is Sexy – Einstürzende Neubauten
2001
Ayeshteni – Natacha Atlas
2002
2003
100th Window – Massive Attack
2004
The Greater Wrong of the Right – Skinny Puppy
Scissor Sisters – Scissor Sisters
Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned- The Prodigy
I Com – Miss Kittin
R̻ves M̩caniques РThe Hacker
Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand
Wet From Birth – The Faint
Flora & Fauna – Dominik Eulberg
76/77 – Cobra Killer
Plays Love Songs – Burnt Friedman
Casting Shadows – Wolfsheim
2005
Shadows and Dust – Lene Lovich
Supernature – Goldfrapp
Spirituals – Flanger
Odyssey – Fischerspooner
New World Observer – Deadbeat
Push the Button – The Chemical Brothers
Silent Alarm – Bloc Party
Nouvelle Vague – Nouvelle Vague
2006
Someone To Drive You Home – The Long Blondes
Colleen Et Les Boîtes À Musique – Colleen
2007
And Their Refinement Of The Decline – Stars of the Lid
