Which song do you listen to when...
you try to stay up for more than 24 hours?
Fripp & Eno - Swastika Girls
TW: This was on the last time it happened.
you come home from the club?
Roy Orbison - In Dreams
you relax on a beach?
Richie Havens - Run, Shaker Life
TW: «Run Shaker Life». Or the version by Royal Trux.
you ride a bicycle?
David Hausdorf - Illumination
JST: Off the Styrax Records compilation. Total pedal musik.
you camp in the desert?
BT: The desert silence is perfect.
you go to a club?
Iggy Pop - Nightclubbing
you prepare for an important date?
Depeche Mode - Lie To Me
you destroy a hotel room?
Man - Spunk Box
you drive a car late at night?
Conrad Schnitzler - Bis die Blaue Blume Blüht
BT: Great for the highway – steady and hypnotizing. The car drives itself. The effect is not unlike a Bach fugue or one of Satie's Gymnopédies, though Schnitzler's technique is less academic and far more organic in design and execution. Because Schnitzler originally intended «Bis die Blaue Blume Blüht» to be played at both 33 and 45 rpm on the initial LP release, the 45 version is also included as a bonus track. The whole LP «Grün» is quite simply an amazing tour-de-force of the possibilities of the architecture of electronic sound and is a must for anyone interested in the development of electronica.
you are love sick?
Ghost - Waiting For You
you make breakfast?
Ustad Bismillah Khan - Raga-Gunkali-Tritaal
BT: Khan was perhaps single handedly responsible for making the shehnai ( a tube-like instrument) a famous classical instrument. He brought the shehnai to the center stage of Indian music with his concert in the Calcutta All India Music Conference in 1937. He was credited with having almost monopoly over the instrument as he and the shehnai are almost synonyms. You can alos hear a shehnai on The Rolling Stones’ «Street Fighting Man».
you paint your apartment?
Vangelis - The Dragon
you jump out of a plane with a parachute?
Richard Strauss - Till Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche
you sit in a plane?
Bill Fay - Omega Day
BT: There’s a melancholy hope in his melodies that’s analogous to how I feel in airplanes/airports.
you are in the sauna?
The Gyuto Monks - Melody For Mahakala
you have to spend a night in a spooky hotel?
Tony Allen - OLÉ (Moritz von Oswald Remix)
you sit in the subway?
Time Machine - 7-Methoxy-?-Carboline: (Telepathine)
TW: It’s the first track off Coil’s album under the alias Time Machine. It consists of 4 tracks which are composed of a single tone, called a drone. Each tone represents a certain hallucinogenic chemical (see track titles). It is similar to Brian Eno's early ambient albums, but more functional in that, instead of creating an atmosphere of calm, it facilitates time travel, according to band founder John Balance. Each tone was tested and retested in the studio for maximum narcotic potency. John Balance described the album as an attempt to «dissolve time»
you wake up?
Tibetian Ritual Music - Offering To The Saviour Gompo
TW: «Offering To The Saviour Gompo» off «Tibetian Ritual Music» on Lyrichord, performed by Buddhist Lamas and Monks of the Four Great Orders. It’s featured in the movie «Pillow Book» by Peter Greenaway.
you walk in the rain?
Rhythm & Sound - No Partial
you wash your hair?
The Pretty Things - Grass
you work in the garden?
Sunny Murray - Suns Of Africa
BT: Off his album «Hommage To Africa».
Questions answered by: Tres Warren (TW), Brian Tamborello (BT), Jimy Sei Tang (JST) and Elizabeth Hart (EH)