CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies

Delayed three days and filling in for Thunderbird Radio Hell, this episode profiles Clint Mansell's score to the 2015 film adaptation of JG Ballard's High-Rise and pauses to remember a few acts associated with the LA label 100% Silk who died in the Oakland warehouse fire. 1. Golden Donna: Secrets (Seedy Approach EP, 2015) CGI 2. Cherushii: No Doubt in My Mind (2014) 100% Silk 3. Cherushii: Sunburs...

2016 has kept busy as we commemorate the profound influences of Leonard Cohen (1938-2016) and Sharon Jones (1956-2016). We also touch upon some upcoming events, like the Vancouver Big Joy Music Festival and some film screenings. 1. Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows (I'm Your Man, 1988) Columbia 2. Gran Am: Anima (2016) self-released 3. Gran Am: Exercise H8 (2016) self-released 4. Kensington Gore: De...

gak spent 10 days in Maui as the world changed substantially. He couldn't predict the future so bear with some Hawaiian influences as travel themes abound. Alfred Newman's score to 1970's Airport & Elmer Bernstein's silly music from 1980's Airport! 1. Cartoon Planet Band: Brak's Hawaiian Vacation (Space Ghost's Surf & Turf, 1998) Rhino 2. Anthony Child: The Chief (Electronic Recordings from Maui J...

With the new world order underway, somehow turning Monday into Thursday, gak takes a little vacation, leaving a Boogie Nights profile for you, prerecorded before the earth died screaming. Disco on! 1. Lovage: Ladies Love Chest Rockwell (Lovage: Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By, 2001) 75 Ark 2. Count Floyd: Treat Her Like a Lady (Count Floyd, 1982) RCA 3. Sound Experience: JP Walk (Boogie Nig...

October's over, so we break from horror mayhem to the minimal menacing sounds of Nick Cave & Warren Ellis. Those bad seeds get a double dip profile: 2014's Far From Men and 2016's Hell or High Water. 1. Tanya Tagaq: Aorta (Retribution, 2016) Six Shooter 2. Gaps & Spaces: Oration (Synoptic Optiks, 2015) self-released 3. Charles Bradley: Ain't It a Sin (Changes, 2016) Dunham/Daptone 4. Sturgill Simp...

WOLFMAN GAK guesthosts this All Hallowed Eve episode as regular host gak is asleep somewhere. All manners of spooky sounds from this raspy-voiced legend of radio as he overpowers all procedures, though he ran low on whiskey and throat lozenges. Boo! 1. Howard Hallis: Haunted Bela (2007) self-released 2. Secret Pyramid: Move Through Night (Movements of Night, 2013) Students Of Decay 3. L'Anthologie...

Our annual Hallowe'en theme for the month of October continues with one of the creepiest films of all time: 1982's The Thing, directed by John Carpenter and scored by Ennio Morricone. This episode features all instrumental tracks to be that much more unnerving, so beware of your neighbhours as the temperature plunges. 1. Pan Sonic: -25 (Kulma, 1996) Mute/Blast First 2. Pan Sonic: Mutaattori/Mutato...

Hallowe'en month continues as we get gothic with the songs and score from 1994's The Crow. We remain both arch and subliminal. 1. Chromatics: Ceremony [w. Ida No] (Cherry, 2016) Italians Do It Better 2. Connect_icut: Fading Twice (Crows & Kittiwakes Wheel & Come Again, 2013) Aagoo/REV. Labs 3. The Gothic Archies: Crows (The Tragic Treasury: Songs from A Series of Unfortunate Events, 2006) Nonesuch...

As the Vancouver International Film Festival winds down on this Thanksgiving day, October continues with our horror theme by focusing on the ever creepy atonal sounds from the 1974 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Perfect music for carving your harvest meal. 1. John Larroquette: Opening Narration (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre OST, 1974) Assaultmyears 2. Buffalo Daughter: What's the Trouble with My Silv...

Our annual month of Hallowe'en-inspired music starts up with the black comic musical Little Shop of Horrors, primarily from its 1986 film adaptation. We also continue talking about the Vancouver International Film Festival along with touching upon the return of New Forms Festival. 1. Dead Ghosts: Girl Across the Street (Dead Ghosts, 2010) Burger 2. V Vecker Ensemble: In the Tower [Side A] (In the...

The 2016 Vancouver International Film Festival starts this Thursday so along with some descriptors of the films in the 35th edition, we profile Jerry Goldsmith's score to the 1997 film LA Confidential, directed and co-written by Curtis Hanson (1945-2016). Let's see what you got, boyo. 1. Dean Martin: Powder Your Face with Sunshine (Powder Your Face With Sunshine 10", 1948) Capitol 2. Force Fields:...

Along with the recent Mercury and Polaris Prize winners, there's news of Wawa Ontario, inventor Don Buchla (1937-2016) and the comic actor Gene Wilder (1933-2016). For the latter, we profile music from two of the films he appeared in: 1971's Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory and 1974's Young Frankenstein. gak also hopes for fencing carnage but is sorely disappointed (but not sore). 1. John Morri...

The story of a grieving couple retreating into a forest to mourn a loss and being consumed by nature. 2015's Couple in a Hole is profiled, featuring a score by Bristol's BEAK>. We also talk Victoria's Rifflandia Festival this weekend, the end of summer and plenty of new(ish) music. 1. Prince Buster: One Step Beyond (Al Capone 7", 1964) Blue Beat 2. Donato Dozzy: Techtresor (That Fab, 2016) Spazio...

He floated like a butterfly and stung like a bee. Muhammad Ali (1942-2016) fought in the ring and fought in real life against many misdeeds, so we'll do a simple profile on that complex man, with material from the 1996' documentary When We Were Kings amongst other stuff. 1. Sam Spence & John Facenda: A Season Awaits (The Power and the Glory: Music & Voices of NFL Films, 1998) Tommy Boy 2. Cee Lo G...

Time for the queen of the galaxy as we profile the soundtrack to 1968's scifi romp Barbarella. Along with some influences from the film, there's a look at the forthcoming Victory Square Block Party, presented in part by CITR. 1. Radio Spot 2 (Barbarella OST, 1968) Dynovoice/Stateside 2. Project Pablo & Wolfey: Duatang (Jervis Pump Station 12", 2016) Church 3. Brian Protheroe: Fly Now (Pinball, 197...

The Department of Energy would like a word with you in private. Netflix's first season of Stranger Things truly struck a nerve this summer with 1980's nostalgia, so we'll profile Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein's synth-heavy score from the series, along with other sinister sounds from the show. Get your waffles ready. 1. Wooden Wives: Gone with the Wind (Workers! Strike Down These Enemies of Victory, 2...

Hop aboard the X-1 as we profile JG Thirlwell, some of his work from Foetus along with his score to the Cartoon Network series The Venture Brothers, including music off the recently released 2nd volume. Go Team Venture! 1. Grimes: Medieval Warfare (Suicide Squad OST, 2016) Atlantic/Warner Bros 2. Loner: Crab Park (Chapel Sound Compilation: Volume 1, 2015) Chapel Sound 3. Eli Muro: Orphan's Son [w....

A weirder episode than usual as we pay tribute to creator/director Garry Marshall (1934-2016), focusing on his sitcoms from the 1970s: Happy Days and one of its spinoffs, Laverne & Shirley. 1. Jim Haas: Theme from Happy Days (Happy Days OST, 1975) ABC 2. Memoryhouse: Knife in the Water (Soft Hate, 2016) Beko/self-released 3. Project Pablo: Beaubien Dream (Beaubien Dream, 2016) SOBO 4. Zomby x Buri...

With the Rio Olympics starting in a few days, it's time for a biannual tradition with Brazilian music, profiling Luis Bonfa & Antonio Carlos Jobim's groundbreaking score to the 1959 film Black Orpheus. 1. Funk 'n Lata & Ivo Meirelles: Sambadrone (Red Hot & Rio, 1996) Antilles/Verve 2. Tor: Let Me Down (Drum Therapy, 2012) Loci 3. Tim Hecker: Violet Monumental I (Love Streams, 2016) 4AD/Paper Bag 4...

This episode is to be played at maximum volume. With Pride Week in effect, we got our act together and stitched together a long-overdue profile on Todd Hayne's 1998 glam rock ode Velvet Goldmine, a little late to honour David Bowie but this is for the fans. We also look at the life of Alan Vega (1938-2016) as we don feather boas. 1. Prince: Controversy [single version] (Controversy, 1981) Warner B...

Mondkopf and Karsten Fundal scored the Welsh/Danish 2015 film Bridgend, so we'll have a moody electronic/orchestral profile. Otherwise, Vancouver band Kubla Khan swung by the station and made their live radio debut with songs off their new self-titled EP. 1. Tom Anthony: Theme from 3-2-1 Contact [2nd version] (3-2-1 Contact, 1983) Children's Television Workshop 2. Kim Fowley: The Trip (The Trip si...

For the benefit of several listeners, we go into some of the music from the first 2 games from the Katamari video game series. gak's back from vacation and is partially aware of all the things that need to be rolled up on earth. 1. Electric Youth: Final Girl (Innerworld [deluxe edition], 2014) Secretly Canadian/Last Gang 2. Lnrdcroy: Freedom for Antboy II (UNTHANK008 10", 2015) Unthank 3. Kaytrana...

A pre-recorded episode tied to Daniel Pemberton's score to the Danny Boyle's biopic about the Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. 1. Teen Girl Scientist Monthly: Summer Skin (Modern Dances, 2013) self-released 2. Project Pablo: Closer (Beaubien Dream, 2016) SOBO 3. Jolin Ras: Something About You (2015) self-released 4. Shaunic: Mo $ (Chapel Sound Compilation: Volume 1, 2015) Chapel Sound 5. Pearson Sound...

We turn our clocks back to 1998 as we go electronic before diving into Clint Mansell's first score for Darren Aronfsky's 1998 debut Pi. These are the numbers in a certain order: 1. Montag: Set Adrift on a Memory of You (Des Cassettes et un Walkman Jaune, 2009) self-released 2. Paulo J Ferreira Lopes: Norte (Feeze, 2013) Atrito-Afeito THREE POINT Odonis Odonis: Nervous (Post Plague, 2016) Telephone...

For your summer solstice needs (or winter for you antipodeans), we enter the wastelands to listen to music from Mad Max, The Road Warrior & Beyond Thunderdome. Your Ayatollahs of Rock and Rollas: 1. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: Brenda (Orange, 1994) Matador 2. Marie Davidson: Kidnap You in the Desert (Un Autre Voyage, 2015) Holodeck 3. Jessy Lanza: VV Violence (Oh No, 2016) Hyperdub 4. The Bes...