Dead and Alive Soundcloud

Recordings of Dead and Alive programs originally aired between 2005-08 are now being hosted on Soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/djtropicalbreeze/sets/dead-and-alive. Here we will endeavour to keep all the episodes that were recorded and that we were provided mp3 copies of via CDR from back in the day. Strange to remember this process. I am manually uploading the contents of the CDR to my harddrive and then posting from there. Somewhat time consuming but then the volume is large. An absurd process. Does anyone ever read these pages? How would one find them? Well, if you are rreading this, you may have some interest in these old recordings. Find them here.

Dead and Alive - Mixcloud

Dead and Alive, while now permanently dead, has a mixcloud page, where I'll endeavour to post all the old shows for anyone who cares to listen. It's here: https://www.mixcloud.com/deadandalive/

So far I've uploaded, from 14 October 2005, our very first program, a rusty hour of stuttering amateur nervousness, featuring Berio, Puccini and D&A favourites Ives and Mazulis, among others. Plenty more to come, 3 years worth!



Here's episode #2 from 21 October 2005.

As Though The Shame Would Outlive Him

Due to the paucity of blogging inspiration all future activity will go to As Though The Shame Would Outlive Him, with Retro Futurism and Dead and Alive existing as archives. Facebook remains too, for what its worth.

Lynchian Psychodrama

Forthcoming radio broadcast on the music of, about and around David Lynch. Airing Thursday 14 February - Valentine's Day - 7-8pm in Max Headroom on Melbourne's 3 Triple R 102.7 FM. Here's the blurb:

Since the cavernous industrial noise of Eraserhead, music has occupied a prominent place in the work of David Lynch. Blue Velvet re-imagined Roy Orbison as an echo-drenched psycho-delic operatic crooner, Twin Peaks introduced the world to Julee Cruise and created an influential version of jazz noir, Inland Empire revealed the horrors lurking amidst the massed strings of Mantovani while Lynch himself has devoted increasingly more of his energies towards pop and rock production.

Featuring music from his TV and films, by influences and influenced, and from Lynch himself, Lynchian Psychodrama presents an hour of bipolar sonic merriment. Let's Rock!

This ought to set the mood:

Retro Futurism: New Blog, New Show

Retro Futurism airs Fridays midnight - 2am on Melbourne's Triple R 102.7FM www.rrr.org.au during November 2012.

Retro Futurism looks backward to look forward, celebrating musical modernists working on the edges of composition, improvisation, quantisation, from Schoenberg to Sun Ra, from Darmstadt to Detroit, from violin to VST, from yesterday to tomorrow...

From the harmonic revolutions of Vienna, the Impressionist mists of Paris, through the serial, aleatoric, stochastic, concrete, electro-acoustic and electronic experiments made throughout the twentieth and twenty first centuries.

Retro Futurism explores sonic adventurers in composition, performance and production, through improvisation, electronics and recording. From the minimalist jigs of the Appalachians, the stasis music of Bali, exotic visions of the easy listeners, the electricity of 1970s jazz, the fabricated worlds of the mixing console, through the neon discos of Chicago and Detroit.

Retro Futurism takes the view that all recorded music is always already old, always already retro. Retro Futurism is futurist music, regardless of heritage.

http://retrofuturismradio.blogspot.com.au/

O'Tomorrow

On Monday 4th July I sat in for Downpat for 'O-Tomorrow'. The playlist was an attempt to respond vaguely to his programming with more guitars than usual (Sun City Girls pictured). Thanks to the caller who phoned in to complain as soon as I started, much appreciated.

Thomas Brinkmann - Mexico
Charles Ives - Orchestral Set #2
Dick Justice - Cocaine info
Floyd Ming & His Pep Steppers - Indian War Whoop
Baby Dodds - Spooky Drums
Kronos Quartet - El Sinaloense
Memphis Tugband - Cocaine Habit Blues
Emeralds - Summerdata
Francis Poulenc - Honolulu
Caetano Veloso - Tropicalia
John Fahey - Hawaiian 2 Step
Martin Denny - Enchanted Isle
Sun City Girls - Ben's Radio
Sun Ra - Springtime Again
Erik Griswold - Wallpaper Music Part 1
Pierre Boulez - Repons 1
Toru Takemitsu - Ai
Conlon Nancarrow - Study #19
Wolfgang Voight - Schweres Wasser
Philip Glass - Two Pages (excerpt)
Oneohtrix Point Never - Radiation
Tropical Contact High - We Danced Forever
Michael Hurley - Long Journey
Porter Wagoner - Waldo the Weirdo
Tom Verlaine - Untitled Instrumental
Serge Gainsbourgh - Rock Around the Bunker
Joe Meek - Orbit Around the Moon
Yvone Archer - Ain't Nobody
Toro Y Moi - Faux Shadow
Games - Midi Drift
Pachanga Boys - Fiesta Forever

Max Headroom: Rytis Mazulis 3 May 2012

Rytis Mazulis was a firm favourite at Dead and Alive and it was pleasure to devote a whole program to his music. Link and playlist below:

Download: Rytis Mazulis, 3 May 2012

Rytis Mazulis: 'Twittering Machine', Twittering Machine (Megadisc Classics)
Conlon Nancarrow: 'Study 21', Player Piano Volume 3, (MDG)
Sarunas Nakas: 'Merz Machine', unreleased
Rytis Mazulis: 'Sans Pause', Form is Emptiness (Megadisc Classics)
Rytis Mazulis: 'Canon Solus', Cum Essum Parvulus (Megadisc Classics)
Rytis Mazulis: 'Talita Cumi', Talita Cumi (Music Export Lithuania)
Rytis Mazulis: 'Sybilla', Cum Essum Parvulus Megadisc Classics)
Rytis Mazulis: 'ajapajapam', Cum Essum Parvulus Megadisc Classics)
Rytis Mazulis: 'Ex Una Voce', Twittering Machine (Megadisc Classics)

Thanks for listening. Special thanks to Patrick at Megadisc Classics and Linas at Music Export Lithuania. The latter's website offers a great resource on Mazulis and other Lithuanian composers and musicians - www.mxl.lt/mazulis

My next Max Headroom will hopefully be before too long, and look at dirt and deliberate obfuscation in contemporary music. Stay tuned...