Nov 27

Nov 27 12 Songs: Pirate Radio #1

Welcome back to our little pirate radio station. Last week we highlighted musicians who place emphasis on surrealism, or whatever the audio-equivalent term is. We wouldn’t call it ambient - at least not in the synthetic, computer-body, Tangerine Dream sense of the word - but somewhere along the fringes of the genre, that eerie, uncanny space where man and machine coexist in fragile harmony.

The songs we’ve chosen for this week’s playlist are a bit more organic, both in terms of instrumentation and production quality. We start things off a track from Nico, taken from her Jackson Browne era. Up next is a cover of Johnny Cash’s “The Singer” by Nick Cave, which - at least to us - is surprisingly better than the original. Country Teasers are up next, followed by a pair of Spacemen 3 easy-listening gems. A bedroom recording from OCS is weird as we’ll get this time around. And later, Dungen does an acoustic take on Aphex Twin’s dungeon-ambient masterpiece “Alberto Basalm.”