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EPISODE 8 - Sich Mang (December, 2011. 60 minutes.)I Hear A New Radio is a free, underground music podcast made by Tyson Torstensen, a music teacher, current member of the bands Ga'an, Magical Beautiful and Night Terror, engineer/producer at Hear A New World Recording Studio and owner/operator of I Hear A New World Records, Tapes & CDRs. Each episode features exclusive performances and interviews from mostly Chicago-based musicians, as well as stories from your host, the occasional DJ mix and remixes.*** Stream or download episodes direct below ***
Live set and interview with the world's one-and-only Wurkstep group, SICH MANG. Influenced by Chicago's footwork and juke scenes, but coming from an underground psych/art/noise background, Sich Mang make a uniquely psychedelic electronic music with focus on high BPMs, repetitive vocal samples & rolling sub-bass. Making their live debut only six months ago, I expect plenty of people to be singing their praises in 2012.---- PLAYLIST:
[talking]
DJ Rashad and DJ Spinn - go crazy
[talking]
Sich Mang - live set (16:00-36:00)
[Sich Mang interview]
[talking]
Magical Beautiful - christmastime is here (V Guaraldi)
(BED MUSIC: DJ Elmoe - whea yo ghost at; Lungfish - free state)
EPISODE 7 - Tim Kinsella (November, 2011. 159 minutes.)
2.5 hours of music and conversation with Tim Kinsella of Joan of Arc; Cap'n Jazz; Owls; Friend/Enemy; Everyoned; Sky Corvair and Make Believe. Tim plays ten songs that have been influential to him in one way or another, around which we frame a conversation that covers everything from his recently published novel, "The Karaoke Singers Guide To Self-Defense", the Cap'n Jazz reunion, his love of Voivod, his intense work ethic and how, despite spending most of his life in touring bands, he really doesn't like tour. At the front, Tyson reflects on the Whipple house.---- TIM'S PLAYLIST (except the songs in [brackets]:
[Joan of Arc - MC/BB (intro background)]
01 Bauhaus - exquisite corpse
[Joan of Arc - I saw the messed binds of my generation (EXCERPT)]
02 Voivod - tribal convictions
03 Azita - should I be?
[Joan of Arc - zelda (EXCERPT)] 04 Pierrot Lunaire - giovane madre
[Make Believe - temping as a shaman (EXCERPT)]
05 Jean Claude Vannier - l'enfant au royaume des mouches
06 Brigitte Bardot - contact
[Cap'n Jazz - puddle splashers]
[Owls - what whorse you rode id on]
07 Need New Body - show me your heart
08 Karen dalton - something on your mind
09 Link Wray - falling rain
10 Big Star - the ballad of el goodo
[Lungfish - free state (coda background)]
EPISODE 6 - Concern / Gordon Wilson Ashworth (October, 2011. 70 minutes.)
Exclusive, live set and interview with heavy drone artist Concern, of Portland, Oregon. Concern is Gordon Wilson Ashworth, a close friend of the host and the dude behind the legendary Oscillating Innards, member of Knelt Rote and proprietor of Iatrogenesis Records. Using only acoustic sources and field recordings, Concern creates massive, emotionally-resonant drone pieces magnified by the fragility of magnetic tape. Your host taped a late-summer Concern set in a Chicago loft direct from Gordon’s mixer, then conducted an interview a few weeks later as Gordon prepared to open for The Rapture, playing keys and autoharp for his brother Owen’s project, Advance Base (see: episode 2). We discuss Gordon’s creative process, maturing out of harsh noise fetishism, traveling, poverty and his various projects, including the very well-respected Oscillating Innards and grind/hc band Knelt Rote.---- PLAYLIST:EPISODE 5 - Larry "Fuzz-o" Dolman / Jamaican Deejays (September, 2011. 60 minutes.)
[intro]
Oscillating Innards - "nadir emergence" (excerpt)
[talking]
Gordon Wilson Ashworth - "when I get home / beggar's summer" (excerpt)
[talking]
Concern - "live at Ball Hall"
[interview]
Concern - "live at Ball hall"
[interview]
Concern - "live at Ball Hall"
[interview]
Knelt Rote - "just humiliation"
[interview]
Concern - "live at Ball Hall"
[talking]
(BED MUSIC: DJ Screw - "3 in the morning" / Prince Jammy - "immigrant dub" / Lungfish - "free state")
Larry "Fuzz-o" Dolman is the founder, editor and head writer of Blastitude, one of the world's first online music fanzines. Through his writing, he has also acted as something of an unofficial musical mentor for your host. He is an excellent musician from the mostly obscure, broken up and Nebraskan bands Opium Taylor, Head of Femur, Think (recently reformed), TV City and some solo stuff. In this episode (part one of two), we talk in depth about the art of Jamaican toasting, (the direct precursor to hip hop), and Mr. Dolman shares a mix of his favorite deejays from the 70's. Enjoy.---- PLAYLIST:EPISODE 4 - Magical Beautiful / Bummer Rock (August, 2011. 63 minutes)
[intro / interview]
Burning Spear "Rocking Time"
U Roy “Train To The West”
U Roy "Ain't That Loving You?"
[interview]
Welton Irie & Sound Dimension “Chase Them (Ver.)”
Dillinger "Stop The War"
Lone Ranger "Barnabas Collins"
Rapper Robert & Jim Brown "Minister For Ganja"
Jim Brown & Devon Russell "Ragga Muffin"
[interview]
Ward 21 - "Petrol"
A rather introspective episode with some music from and talk about the new Magical Beautiful LP, Here Come The Wild Waves, (which you can listen to and purchase HERE). No guest, but a lot of sad music from other artists is played and then talked about at length.---- PLAYLIST:EPISODE 3 - Ga'an Pre-Tour Music Extravaganza (May, 2011. 55 minutes)
Torstensen - I Hear A New Radio theme
[talking]
Magical Beautiful - on the shore today
Magical Beautiful - flaming home (Mount Eerie cover)
Magical Beautiful - white whale song (excerpt)
Big Star - kangaroo
The Microphones - the breeze
[talking]
Mount Eerie - flaming home
[talking]
Robert Wyatt - just as you are
Cass McCombs - you saved my life
Galaxie 500 - flowers
Chris Bell - I am the cosmos
[talking]
Lungfish - free state (background; artificial horizon) [talking]
Magical Beautiful - ghetto tourist
Arthur Russell - our last night together
Ga'an is a dark, minimal prog band in which I play synthesizer and bass. We're going on tour in a couple of days, so in order to promote that, your host premiers selections from a forthcoming album which no one has heard - UNTIL NOW!!! There is also music from related acts like Fielded and Psychic Steel. The usual talking occurs in between, (including a passive-defensive riff about how my still-new-and-developing radio persona is a character, and not the real dude), although things are starting to get a bit more streamlined. Also, debut of an IHANR theme song! I'll be gone for a few weeks, so no new episodes until mid-June.---- PLAYLIST:
Torstensen - I hear a new radio (theme)
Ga'an - arms they speak (unreleased)
Enslaved - frost (background; frost)
Ga'an - servant eye (s/t LP; excerpt)
Ga'an - servant eye (2011; excerpt)
Can - father, can I yell? (monster movie)
Fielded - white death (white death EP)
Psychic Steel - unknown live track (unreleased)
Lungfish - free state (background; artificial horizon) Ga'an - call of the black equus (unreleased)
EPISODE 2 - Serengeti & Advance Base (April, 2011. 71 minutes)
Several performances from the Chicago-based, Anticon-signed Serengeti and his new writing partner, Advance Base (aka Owen Ashworth of Casiotone For The Painfully Alone). Long interview, covering both dudes' many projects; four live, exclusive performances from the guests; lots of rambling; music from Serengeti, Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, Friday Night, Yoome & The Grimm Teachaz.---- PLAYLIST: Serengeti & Advance Base - A.R.P. instrumental (exclusive live performance)
Dam Funk - gold (background)
Serengeti & Advance Base - flutes (exclusive live performance)
[interview]
Serengeti & Advance Base - cubes (exclusive live performance)
[interview]
Casiotone For The Painfully Alone - white on white
[interview]
Serengeti & Advance Base - the whip (exclusive live performance)
[interview]
The Grimm Teachaz - snap ya neck
[interview]
Serengeti & Advance Base - kenny vs. spring (exclusive live performance) [interview]
Friday Night - memphis
[interview]
Yoome - blueberry breath
Lungfish - free state (background)
Torstensen - live melodica improvisation
EPISODE 1B - Ken Camden (April, 2011. 49 minutes)
Interview with Kranky Records solo guitarist and member of Implodes. He plays songs that influenced him by the likes of Tonto's Expanding Head Band, La Dusseldorf, and more.---- PLAYLIST: Joe Meek - I hear a new radio
[talking]
[interview]
Implodes - marker
[interview]
Slava Ranko - arctic hysteria
[interview]
Tonto's Expanding Head Band - the river song
[interview]
Conrad Schnitzler - con 1
[interview]
La Dusseldorf - viva
[interview]
Raymond Scott - little miss echo
[interview] Raymond Scott - lightworks (background)
Kool Keith - blue flowers (background)
Magical Beautiful - I hear a new world (Joe Meek cover)
EPISODE 1A - Ken Camden/Torstensen duo; mini DJ set; podcast introduction (April, 2011. 63 minutes)
Your host, Tyson Torstensen, introduces the idea behind I Hear A New Radio. Features exclusive, improvisational performance by Ken Camden, with Tyson joining him halfway through on keyboards. Also crams in a short DJ set.---- PLAYLIST:
Joe Meek - I hear a new world
[talking]
Ken Camden - birthday (background)
[talking]
Keith Hudson - instrumental dub track can't remember name of (background)
Horace Andy - why oh why?
Keith Hudson - junior delahaye
Anika - masters of war
For Against - purgatory salesman
Future Islands - the tin man
[talking]
Ken Camden & Tyson Torstensen - exclusive live improvisation
[talking]
Lungfish - free state (background)
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c&p Tyson Torstensen 2011
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