CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies

Now time for a personal favourite: Vince Guaraldi and his music from not just A Charlie Brown Christmas, celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, but other Peanuts media, including other TV specials and film. Plenty of melodic jazz for the young at heart, whether you were a Snoopy fan or not. There are other Christmas songs to counterprogram against your usual mainstream selection. "Who cares a...

It is a time of impatience. Years of waiting for a profile on the legendary JOHN WILLIAMS and his music from the 1977 film STAR WARS is finally rescued from the clutches of obscurity by the rogue music dealer KORGA IKTHU aboard the scrappy starship C.I.T.R. However, after some distracting asteroids and related audio material, the ship overheats as Korga plots a controlled crash into an uncharted s...

Let's go on about the mechanism and touch upon Bonds new (Spectre) and Bonds old (From Russia with Love). Plus the Big Joy Festival and Mint Records' Ridiculously Early Christmas Party this weekend. Let me be the author of all your pain and then scribble some happy doodles in the margins. 1. David Arnold & Natacha Atlas: From Russia with Love (Shaken & Stirred: The David Arnold James Bond Project,...

Do I look like I sailed through space on a synthi-biscuit? Judge Dredd is our theme, as we dish out bits from released scores from Alan Silvestri and Paul Leonard-Morgan and unreleased ones from Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow. gak also plays a bad ukulele badly; he should feel bad. These are your new laws: 1. Fink Bros: Mutants in Mega City One [Mutie mix] (Mutants In Mega-City One 12", 1985) Zarjaz...

There have been better weeks. As unplanned go, along with what has happened in Paris, Baghdad, Lebanon, Egypt & Kenya this week, this partially improvised show looks at Allen Toussaint (1938-2015) and a score half-done earlier this week: Fumio Hayasaka's music from The Seven Samurai. 1. Panda Bear: Untying the Knot (Mr Noah EP, 2014) Domino 2. Suuns & Jerusalem in My Heart: 2amoutu I7tirakan (Suun...

FLASH! AH AH! Queen's bombastic score to the 1980 cheesy cult adaptation of Flash Gordon finally gets its due. Prepare the rocket sleds! Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé: Barcelona (Barcelona, 1988) Polydor/Hollywood Project Pablo: Always (I Want to Believe 12", 2015) 1080p Barcelona: Pasion (Extremo Nihilismo en Barcelona 12", 2015) La Vida Es Un Mus Hinds: Chili Town (Leave Me Alone, 2016)...

gak's back and he has Vancouver band Failing playing live along with an interview. Some of his European travels come to the fray, primarily Portugal. Not much soundtrack work this time, I'm afraid but picture this as its score to a film-to-be. Failing: https://failing.bandcamp.com/ 1. Watermelon: Fog (Cassette, 2013) Green Burrito 2. Brian Eno & Harold Budd: Failing Light (Ambient 2: The Plateaux...

A prerecorded episode originally for a Seattle trip, but aired two weeks later once I headed to Europe. However, most of the timing is preserved for Hallowe'en, looking at the music from the films of Wes Craven (1939-2015) - Charles Bernstein's synth work for A Nightmare on Elm Street and an early Marco Beltrami orchestral score for the original Scream. More or Les: Time & Space (Bigger on the Ins...

gak's back, though briefly, with a profile on John Carpenter, including his music from his 1976 film Assault on Precinct 13 and his collaboration with Alan Howarth for 1981's Escape from New York. Sinister synthesizers synchronize. Destroyer: Midnight Meet the Rain (Poison Season, 2015) Merge/Dead Oceans Dirty Beaches: Landscapes in the Mist (Drifters/Love is the Devil, 2013) Zoo Music Gang of Fou...

gak dips into the vinyl vault to share Ryuichi Sakamoto's half to the score to the 1987 film The Last Emperor. There's also some songs from Sakamoto's original band Yellow Magic Orchestra and references to the 34th annual Vancouver International Film Festival. If you haven't visited CITR's website recently, it's been updated massively. www.citr.ca - this show even has its own page now! www.citr.ca...

Back in full force and somewhat well-rested. 1. DJ Raff: Latino & Proud (Latino & Proud, 2011) Nacional 2. The Horace Silver Quintet: Sighin' and Cryin' (Song for My Father [reissue], 1989) Blue Note 3. Neon Indian: Annie (VEGA INTL. Night School, 2015) Mom + Pop/Transgressive 4. Onra: We Ridin' (Fundamentals, 2015) All City 5. Onra: I Wanna Go Back (Chinoiseries, 2007) Favourite 6. Pure Bathing C...

Maybe too many Fernet & Cokes at the Devils Point for stripper karaoke? Pardon all the technological problems at the beginning; looks like a cable died and some inputs settings are overzealous. Sounded cool but highly unintended. 1. Loretta Lynn: Portland Oregon [w. Jack White] (Van Lear Rose, 2004) Interscope 2. Blues Control: Tangiers (Local Flavour, 2009) Siltbreeze 3. Hermetic: Portlandish [Ja...

There was a Brazilian dude watching the show, occasionally sharing baseball score updates. 1. Beach House: Sparks (Depression Cherry, 2015) Sub Pop 2. Infamous Boogieman: Systeme (Boogieman, 2015) ASL Singles Club 3. Braids: Sore Eyes (Deep in the Iris, 2015) Arbutus/Flemish Eye 4. Ladyfrnd: Strange Days (Farewell EP, 2015) Hybridity 5. Napoleon: Moogie Wonderland (Moogie Wonderland EP, 2015) Secr...

It was a sin not to play "It's a Sin", ironically. 1. CITR Promo: Sounds New in '62 (S.U.B. Pop, 2015) CITR 2. Action Bronson: Terry (Mr Wonderful, 2015) Atlantic/Vice 3. Herbie Hancock: Death Wish [Main Title] (Death Wish OST, 1974) Columbia 4. FKA twigs: Figure 8 (M3LL155X EP, 2015) Young Turks 5. Teen Daze: Than (A World Away, 2015) Plancha 6. Nancy Leticia: Ur Pocket Mirror is Too Big (Love Dr...

Studio A is undergoing some modest renovations to spruce it up after ironing out some inaugural kinks. My work in Studio B is more proof of concept for newer types of show transitions or different types of shows. I have no idea how my voice sounds. YOU'RE ALIVE! I'M ALIVE! 1. Death from Above 1979: Right On, Frankenstein! (The Physical World, 2014) Last Gang/Warner Bros 2. Ando Laj: Croyance Fauss...

Many tweets from Detroit techno fans. I will approach this genre from another angle soon, folks. 1. George Fenton & Ken Freeman: Fanfare for Tomorrow (Handplayed by Robots, 1980) KPM 2. Electric Youth: Tomorrow (Innerworld, 2014) Secretly Canadian 3. Auk: Tomorrow Morning (Absolution EP, 2014) Thoughtless 4. Vials: Slow Season (Chrysalis EP, 2015) self-released 5. Waxlimbs: Yourself Open [w. Isabe...

1. The Walker Brothers: Once Upon a Summertime (Images, 1967) Philips 2. Arcade Fire & Owen Pallett: Dimensions (Her OST, 2013) unreleased 3. The Ballantynes: Argent (Dark Drives Life Signs, 2015) La-Ti-Da 4. The Lad Mags: Hypnotized (The Lad Mags 7", 2014) Shake 5. Pick a Piper: South to Polynesia [Little People remix] (Pick a Piper Remixes, 2015) Abandon Building 6. AM Static: Sirens (A Life Wel...

Whither Car2go... 1. Negativland: Time Zones (Escape from Noise, 1987) Seeland/SST 2. White Moustache Talk: A (White Moustache Talk, 2010) E-Tron 3. Cluster: Hollywood (Zuckerzeit, 1974) Brain 4. Cluster & Eno: The Belldog (After the Heat, 1978) Sky 5. Harmonia: Gollum (Deluxe, 1975) Brain 6. Charanjit Singh: Leka Ham Diwana Dil (Instrumental Film Tunes, 1974) Odeon 7. Charanjit Singh: Raga - Todi...

Synths galore. 1. Jamie XX: Stranger in a Room [w. Oliver Sim] (In Colour, 2015) Young Turks/XL 2. Plastikman: Explore (EX: Performed live at the Guggenheim NYC, 2014) Mute/M_nus 3. Samo Sound Boy: Save Wait Time (Begging Please, 2015) Body High 4. James Deen: Tonight (Her EP, 2014) self-released 5. Giorgio Moroder: From Here to Eternity [Pour le Plaisir remix] (2013) self-released 6. Landyn & Jue...

I'm so tired but I did OK, maybe. Figuring out the new studio still but what fun. 1. Sparks: The No. 1 Song in Heaven (No. 1 in Heaven, 1979) Elektra/Virgin 2. Alex Killing Time: Outerspace (2015) self-released 3. FFS: Police Encounters (FFS, 2015) Domino 4. Franz Ferdinand: Twilight Omens (Tonight, 2009) Domino 5. Mort Garson: Music to Soothe the Savage Snake Plant (Mother Earth's Plantasia, 1976...

Jim Burnett is one of the rotating hosts for CITR's Code Blue, airing Saturdays from 3-5pm Pacific. One day, I will play the blues for an entire show. Email: codeblue@paulnorton.ca Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Code. Blue. CiTR columbia pictures orchestra - luau dance (diamond head soundtrack) elmer bernstein - faber college theme (animal house) john belushi - louie louie (animal house) hans...

Through this episode, you can smell the drywall dust and our smoggy summer. The new concrete smell is kinda gone but the paint fumes are long done thankfully. Pardon the bumpiness as I get settled in our new home. 1. Jerry Goldsmith: New Home (Seconds OST, 1966) La-La Land 2. Dirty Beaches: Displaced (Stateless, 2014) Zoo Music 3. LCD Soundsystem: Movement (LCD Soundsystem, 2005) DFA/EMI/Capitol 4...

Marking the end of an era as CITR leaves its home in SUB. So many things already packed and placed into boxes; so many other things finally exposed to the eyes after decades in storage. 1. Bomb the Bass: Bug Powder Dust [w. Justin Warfield, La Funk Mob remix] (Bug Powder Dust single, 1994) 4th & Broadway/Island 2. Ben Frost: Killshot (By the Throat, 2009) Bedroom Community 3. Ben Frost: Secant (Au...

Along with a birthday shout out to my bro, there's another memorial for a family cat and all manners of disturbing music. 1. Radio Promo for Together Brothers (Super Bad, Super Black: Radio Spots from Blaxploitation, 2003) Waste Management 2. Tom Lehrer: National Brotherhood Week (That Was the Year That Was, 1965) Reprise/Warner Bros 3. Sarah Neufeld: Hero Brother (Hero Brother, 2013) Constellatio...