Swoon 028 - December 29, 2003

Aphex Twin - Donkey Rhubarb (Warp)
Beaumont Hannant - Teqtoniq (GPR)
Radioactive Man - Gone Forever (Rotters Golf Club)
Dexter Doolittle - And His Words Resounded (Cognition)
Amon Tobin - Triple Science (Ninja Tune)
The Black Dog - Erb (GPR)
Freq Nasty - SE15 (Botchit & Scarper)
Voice Stealer - Evaluation (Obsessive)
Brass Monkey - Big Ride
Medway and Sean Cusick - Stray Cuts (SAW)
Akufen - 3e Tournee (Musique Risquee)
Gene Farris - Go Bump In The Night (Static Records)
Dr. Kucho - Forbidden Planet (Disc Doctor Records)
Motorfunk - This Time (Obsessive)
Zoot Woman - Grey Day (Paper Faces mix) (Wall of Sound)
C & M Productions - True House (Lexicon Avenue Hard mix) (Forensic)
Box Boy - Doob Moon (Big Hair mix) (U-freqs)
Kelis - Milkshake (DJ Zinc mix) (Virgin UK)
Speedy J - Ping Pong (remix) (CDR)
Bent - An Ordinary Day (Guidance)   ¶ 1:16 PM 0 Comments Links to this post

  Here's a list of (almost) every track I've played this year on Swoon.   ¶ 4:07 PM 0 Comments Links to this post

  I was out observing with my telescope on Boxing Day and the 28th.

On the 26th Mars still had a bright yellow spot, which is a dust storm that has now mostly gone away. Other things I observed were M31, M32, and even a hint of M110, which is rare for my St. Kitts backyard. NGC 404 and 1023 were nice galaxies. Then the double cluster. A few first time finds were galaxy NGC 936, the Eskimo Nebula (great!), and NGC 2022, a small planetary nebula. M42 and M43 were typically good. Then I went into Auriga for a starhop from Alan Macrobert's book. This included NGC 1907, M38, Struve 698, Stock 8, Struve 687, NGC 1893, NGC 1931, M36, and M37. And of course Saturn, which was great on such a steady night.

Last night was my family's Christmas, so all the relatives were over. They all got to see Saturn and the Moon. The seeing wasn't the greatest. The two central crater peaks of the craters Cyrillus and Theophilus were very interesting. After my relatives left I repeated some of the objects listed above. I concentrated more on Orion, this time checking out the nebula with a UHC filter. Also found a lot of interesting triple stars in the lower half of that constellation.
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  Swoon 027 - December 22, 2003

Plaid - Upona (Warp)
Arovane - Auben Vor (DIN)
Jackmate - Mink (Resopal)
LFO - Mokeylips (Warp)
Chris Jongkind - Sumiyoshi (CDR)
Air Liquide - Ek-Stasis (Sm:)e)
Slam - Lifetimes (Soma)
Matthew Dear - (Spectral Sound)
Plaid - Tan Sau (Warp)
Dimas presents D-Formation - Signs and Portents (Tribal mix) (Beatfreak Recordings)
Momu - The Dive (Jondi and Spesh mix) (Looq)
Echofalls - Shiver (Blue Haze mix) (Cuba Recordings)
Delirium - Truly (Infusion mix) (Nettwerk)
Future Acoustics - Keep Keepin On (Plastic Fantastic)
Francesco Farfa - Kings of Dirty Gold (Phunk Investigation mix)
Bomb the Bass - Beat Dis
Static - Resistance (City Centre Offices)
B. Fleischmann - Guided By Beats (Morr)
Mannheim Steamroller - We Three Kings (American Gramaphone)

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  The Beagle 2 spacecraft is almost at Mars. Today it detached the lander, which will land on Mars on Christmas Eve, if you live in the Northern Hemisphere. Full details are here.   ¶ 3:45 PM 0 Comments Links to this post

  Here's a guy who made a lot of stuff out of Lego. The Escher designs are the best.   ¶ 11:49 AM 0 Comments Links to this post

  Swoon 026 - December 15, 2003

Squarepusher - Do You Know Squarepusher? (Warp)
LFO - Mum - man (Warp)
Blacker - Youth (Cognition)
Plaid - Zeal (Warp) video link
Autechre - Vose In (Warp)
Graham Flett - Baroquen Down Beat Box (Independent)
Rechenzentrum - 35mm (Mille Plateaux)
Legion of Green Men - Logarythm One Point Two (Plus8)
Boards of Canada - Nlogax (Skam)
B. Fleischmann - Pass By (Morr)
Unkle - Panic Attack (Mowax)
Matthew Herbert - Suddenly (K7)
Secret Knowledge - Sugar Daddy (MFS)
Brass Monkey - Big Ride
Seroya - Only Your Love (Shinichi)
Smight - Trains Potting
Indigo Child - Take A Breath Of You (Silver Planet)
Matthew Dear - Irreparably Dented (David Alvarado Reconstruction) (Spectral Sound)
Mathew Jonson - Typerope (Itiswhatitis)
Circulation - Tangerine (Circulation)
Valentino - Flying (Sultan & Greek mix) (Shinichi)
The Rapture - Olio (DFA)  ¶ 10:32 AM 0 Comments Links to this post

  If it was April 1st, I would never believe this story. It's not, so I am forced to accept the possibility that it's true.   ¶ 3:00 PM 0 Comments Links to this post

  Swoon 025 - December 8, 2003

The first hour of the show was a new mix cd I have made.

B. Fleischmann - 02/00 (Morr)
Rechenzentrum - Norden (KittyYo)
Dynamo - 18 degrees (DIN)
LFO - Blown (Warp)
Murcof - Memoria (Context)
T. Raumschmiere - Substrom (Hefty)
Agent 001 - Stinger (Opek)
Teapot - Question of Life
Medway and Sean Cusick - Neutrix (SAW)
Spincycle - Flashlight (HDS)
Cerebral Dub - Blowfish (Seed vs. Teapot mix) (Numeric/System)
King of Spin - Flare and an Anorak (Bleepy mix) (Ronster)
James Holden - The Wheel
Rozzo - Blue (Trackdown)

after the mix came:

Future Sound of London - My Kingdom (Part 4) (Virgin)
Plaid - Cedar City (Warp)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Suite from Restless
DJ Shine - Radio (Nice+smooth)
Bola - Forcasa 1 (Skam)
LFO - Sleepy Chicken (Warp)
Willie Bobo - Fried Neckbones And Home Fries (Dan the Automator mix) (Verve)
DJ Frane - Toad (Tuff City Massive)
Anthony Rother - Justitia (Psi49net)
Rechenzentrum - Tiefenscharfe (Mille Plateaux)
UNKLE - Reign (Mowax)

If you are curious about CFBU, here's a story about the building we broadcast from.   ¶ 10:13 AM 0 Comments Links to this post

  The Grammy nominations were announced yesterday. There's always some bizarre nominations. I think they could rename this category Best Remix Of A Very Popular Pop Track.

Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical
(A Remixer's Award. (Artists names appear in parenthesis for identification.) Singles or Tracks only.)

Beautiful (Peter Rauhofer Mix)
Peter Rauhofer, remixer (Christina Aguilera)
[RCA Records]


Crazy In Love (Maurice's Soul Mix)
Maurice Joshua, remixer (Beyoncé Featuring Jay-Z)
[Columbia Records/Music World Music]


Don't Make Me Come To Vegas (Timo On Tori)
Martin Buttrich & Timo Maas, remixers (Tori Amos)
[Epic Records]


Get It Together (Bill Hamel Vocal Mix)
Bill Hamel, remixer (Seal)
[Warner Bros. Records]


Lei Lo Lai (MAW Mix)
Masters At Work, remixers (The Latin Project)
[Electric Monkey Records]  ¶ 11:59 AM 0 Comments Links to this post

  There probably aren't many funny record store commercials in this world, but I like this one.   ¶ 8:05 PM 0 Comments Links to this post

  Swoon 024 - December 1, 2003
Tricky - Excess (Hollywood)
SCSI-9 - Just Married (Force Tracks)
Jackmate - Dehydeated (Resopal)
B. Fleischmann - 02/00 (Morr)
Rechenzentrum - Synchron (Mille Plateaux)
Vincent Gallo - No More Mama Papa (Warp)
Matthew Dear - The Crush (Spectral Sound)
Plaid - Marry (Warp)
Amen Andrews - Fast and Bulbous (Rephlex)
LFO - Mum, I've Had An Accident (Warp)
Ellen Allien - Erdbeermund (Bpitchcontrol)
King of Spin - Flake And An Anorak (Bleepy mix)
Dub Taylor - Your Soul (Force Tracks)
Rolasoul - Desire (Main mix) (Plastic Fantastic)
Sly Fidelity and Clubfoot - Hurt Me (Painkiller mix) (10 Kilo)
Jewel - Stand (Scumfrog's Hooker and Hash mix) (Atlantic Records)
The Hives vs. Slide - I Wanna (CDR)
Jay-J and Chris Lum - Freaks LIke Us (Mojolator's Tec mix) (Fluential)
Carl Craig and Laurent Garnier - Demented (Or Just Crazy) (Planet E)
Fuse - Mantrax (Plus8)
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