CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies

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...

Nicolas Jaar's alternative soundtrack to the 1969 Armenian film The Colour of Pomegranates anchors this goofy little episode, ranging from the recently rejigged Levitation Vancouver festival, a wide array of French songs and other weirdness for a very loose experience. 1. Bobby Curtola: Fortune Teller (Mr. Personality, 1962) Tartan 2. Omega: Kérgeskezű Favágok/Callous-handed Woodcutters (10 000 Lé...

May was originally going to be primarily video game month but news cycles happened so this straggler of a profile on the weird game Flywrench will tackle a selection of the vital Los Angeles underground bass scene. 1. The Avalanches: Frankie Sinatra [w. Danny Brown & MF Doom, extended mix] (Wildflower, 2016) Modular/Astralwerks/XL/EMI 2. Olin: People Fix (From Iceland 12", 2016) Giegling 3. Projec...

Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet play Vancouver for the first time in decades this week, so we play tribute to the instrumental trio with music from The Kids in the Hall, along with rarities, covers and other odd material. 1. Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet: Unwatchable (Sport Fishin': The Lure of the Bait, The Luck of the Hook, 2016) Yep Roc 2. The Cure: Lovesong (Disintegration, 1989) Elektra 3....

From the relaxation vault to the enrichment centre, for Victoria Day, we have music from the Portal video game series direct from the Aperture Science Psychoacoustics Laboratory. Hold your Weighted Companion Cube tightly as you listen. This is a triumph. 1. Savages: TIWYG (Adore Life, 2016) Matador 2. Teen Daze: Another Night (A World Away EP, 2015) Plancha 3. Breakbot: Shades of Black (By Your Si...

We pause our video game soundtrack month to commemorate the life of the Japanese composer and synth pioneer Isao Tomita with a panoply of his orchestral and moogy music from film, TV and space. Ichi, ni, san, shi, go. 1. Isao Tomita: Premiere Arabesque (Snowflakes are Dancing, 1974) RCA 2. Teen Daze: Tokyo Winter (Paradiso EP, 2014) self-released 3. Andy Stott: New Romantic (Too Many Voices, 2016)...

Car 11-K, advise dispatch that video game month continues by profiling 1940s era music and Andrew Hale's score to the 2011 video game LA Noire. 1. Sparks: Beat the Clock (No.1 in Heaven, 1979) Virgin/Elektra 2. Babel: Beg (Alphabeta 3: Organizm, 2015) Arachnidiscs 3. Radiohead: Burn the Witch (A Moon Shaped Pool, 2016) XL 4. Owen Pallett: The Riverbed (In Conflict, 2014) Domino/Secret City 5. Isao...

If anyone died this week, perhaps they sought guidance to the 9th Underworld, which is where this week's soundtrack profile bases itself as we look at the remastered score to the video game Grim Fandango, which itself was rereleased recently. 1. Wolf Parade: Little Golden Age (Expo 86, 2010) Sub Pop 2. Strangling Fruit: Raft Without Paddle (Strangling Fruit EP, 2015) self-released 3. Preoccupation...

The hits keep on coming, though not the way we expect. Prince (1958-2016) has left us here, so we have covers, early songs, B-sides and soundtracks, particularly the lesser known songs from 1984's Purple Rain. 1. Prince & The Revolution: Let's Go Crazy (Purple Rain OST, 1984) Warner Bros 2. Guidewire: The Churn (Surges EP, 2015) self-released 3. Catholic Girls: Berlin (Psychic Woman, 2015) Shake!...

Travel back in time to the time of cyborg invasions. Brad Fiedel's scores to 1984's The Terminator & 1991's sequel Terminator 2: Judgment Day are given their due, along with plenty of touring acts that drift towards more machine-driven mayhem. 1. Guns'n Roses: You Could Be Mine (Use Your Illusion II, 1991) Geffen 2. Arturo Sandoval: Blackbird (I Got No Kick Against Modern Jazz - A GRP Artists'...

Set the butter aside and slide a bottle down the table -- we profile Gato Barbieri (1932-2016) & his score to the controversial 1972 film Last Tango in Paris. Also a tip of the hat and a pour of wine for Merle Haggard (1937-2016). Qu'est-ce qui passe? 1. Leon Haywood: I Want'a Do Something Freaky to You (Come and Get Yourself Some, 1975) 20th Century 2. Gotan Project: Last Tango in Paris (La Revan...

gak's back from India; along with a weird sonic tour of the sub-continent, there are tributes to Garry Shandling, Phife Dawg & Keith Emerson. There's a weird metal break halfway through that wasn't intentional but kinda fun as a departure. 1. Kalyanji Anandji & Dan the Automator: Theme from Don (Bombay the Hard Way: Guns, Cars & Sitars, 1998) Motel 2. Les Fontaines: Canandaa (Magic Touch, 2013) Pa...

gak's on business in India so along with longer pieces, let's mark his travel with some of the Bollywood selections from Wes Anderson's 2007 film The Darjeeling Limited. 1. Sapna Mukherjee: Pyar Do Pyar Lo from Janbaaz (The Best of Bollywood: 15 Classic Hits from the Indian Cinema, 2003) Hip-O/Universal 2. Heartbeat(s): Eastside (Forever Violet EP, 2016) Loveless 3. Sinfonieorchester Basel: Moveme...

Time for some B-movie stoner rock as we profile the 2014 Canuxploitation film Wolfcop and its score by Saskatoon's Shooting Guns. Any howling you may hear did not originate from this programming so watch your back, bush party attendee. 1. TV on the Radio: Wolf Like Me (Return to Cookie Mountain, 2006) 4AD 2. Shooting Guns: Doomlight Desires (Barn Burner 7", 2015) RidingEasy 3. Fuck Buttons: Brainf...