CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies

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' Cel...

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...

Sir George Martin (1926-2016) had a profound influence on music due to his time producing the Beatles, so in honour of his life, we profile some of his novelty releases, instrumental themes, his score to the James Bond film Live and Let Die plus some Yellow Submarine. 1. CITR: I've Suffered for My Music (S.U.B. Pop Compilation, 1993) CITR 2. Duffy: Live and Let Die (War Child presents Heroes, 2009...

Celebrating 40 years breathing air, gak takes some time to catch up on Black History Month (February, he's late) whilst anticipating International Women's Day with music from Pam Grier's blaxploitation films Foxy Brown, Coffy & Friday Foster. 1. Jimmy Carter: Political Campaign for President (Politicking: Volume 1, 2011) Funky Frolic 2. Silver Dapple: I Hate My Birthday (I Hate My Birthday EP, 201...

It's Leap Day for CITR's 2016 edition of the Fundrive! As part of our Oscar recap, we put the spotlight on Howard Shore's score to the winner of the Best Picture: Spotlight. http://citr.ca/donate 1. Tom Holkenborg [aka Junkie XL]: Claw Trucks [extended version] (Mad Max: Fury Road OST, 2015) Watertower 2. Lnrdcroy: Terragem (UNTHANK008 10", 2015) Firecracker 3. Ennio Morricone & the Czech National...

The 88th Academy Awards are handed out this Sunday (February 28) so since we heard all the nominated scores, it's time for all the original songs that were nominated. Along with representing films like Spectre, 50 Shades of Grey, The Hunting Ground, Racing Extinction and Youth, it's also time for our belated tribute to David Bowie (1947-2016) with his connection to film. 1. A Tribe Called Quest: A...

Not only do we have the 5th and final nominee for Best Original Score, Carter Burwell's Carol, Vancouver band Milk stops by and plays a live set. There's a rambolic interview with them (and Soft Serve head Kyle), poor jokes, sports & a contention about a Discorder review. 1. Les Paul & Mary Ford: Smoke Rings (Bye Bye Blues!, 1952) Capitol 2. Scuba: Solitary Confinement (Phenix 2 12", 2014) Hotflus...

Oscar season continues with the 4th nominated soundtrack nominated for Best Original Score: Thomas Newman's music for Steven Spielberg's Bridge of Spies. We'll also dance about comedy, celebrate the Year of the Monkey and put blips and bloops in your magnetic mind. 1. Casey Mecija: Gonna Gun (Psychic Materials, 2016) self-released 2. Marie Davidson: Insomnie (Un Autre Voyage, 2015) Holodeck 3. Jes...

Our 3rd Oscar profile on this extended episode looks at Jóhann Jóhannsson's music from Sicaro, up for a Best Score Award amongst others. We also have Vancouver/Olympia band Underpass live in the show amidst tributes to the recently deceased. Jefferson Starship: Jane (Freedom at Point Zero, 1979) Grunt/RCA Sidewinder: Quest (Dnepr_Vancouver 1.0, 2015) Reclaim Your City Jefferson Airplane: Today (Su...

Oscar season continues with a profile on John Williams' latest addition to the Star Wars saga: The Force Awakens. As a bonus, there's also his score from the original Star Wars sequel, The Empire Strikes Back; Holst's big classical influence on George Lucas' series; some spacy David Bowie and a couple acts associated with the Vancouver Push International Performing Arts Festival. 1. John Williams...

Nicely timed for my 8th anniversary on air here at CITR, it's Oscar season! So here's the Oscar-nominated (and Golden Globe-winning) score from Ennio Morricone to Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight. So much love to go around and then hide. 1. The Clash: Hateful (London Calling, 1979) CBS/Epic 2. Ron Hardly: Plus Hate (Worth It, 2014) Aural Sects 3. The BB Guns: Baby, I Hate You (Baby I Hate You...

Bonus episode: I couldn't come up with anything for this year's celebration of art's birthday, but I did appear on Sara Lapsley's adaptation of H.G. Wells "War of the Worlds", most famously made into a radio play by Orson Welles. Along with me, there are appearances from Jon Wurster, Kaj Korvela and Jane Turner.

The film won 3 Golden Globes this past Sunday but its score is ineligible for an Oscar due to "too many composers". We look at The Revenant and some music from Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto. This supersized episode also dissects New Order's Blue Monday and mourns David Bowie (1947-2016) -- expect a longer profile later once I get more sleep than this long show. 1. David Bowie: The Man Who Sold the...

To kick off a new year, it's time to listen to Disasterpeace. Along with his music from the recent indie horror film It Follows, there will be his chiptune score from the 2012 indie video game FEZ. Hello 2016, goodbye Lemmy (& Scott & JB). 1. CITR: A Date That Will Live in Infamy (SUB Pop, 1963) CITR 2. Radiohead: Spectre (2015) unreleased 3. AT/NU: Subsurface [extended mix] (PSI Grove, 2014) 1080...

Our annual year-in-review episode, taking songs that defined the past twelve months, along with the score to the key film of 2015 -- Mad Max: Fury Road, as composed by Junkie XL. What a lovely year. 1. The Chemical Brothers: Go [w. Q-Tip] (Born in the Echoes, 2015) Virgin EMI/Astralwerks 2. Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld: The Rest of Us (Never Were the Way She Was, 2015) Constellation 3. Beck: Drea...