Analogue Hour on RTE 2XM 02Mar2011

Analogue Hour 02-Mar-2011 by The Analogue Hour

The Analogue Hour
Wednesdays 7-8pm on RTE 2XM

Playlist:
Probably – Ginnels – Ginnels
Herdwick Bonez – Ginnels – Ginnels
For Real – Okkervil River – Black Sheep Boy
The Mending of the Gown – Sunset Rubdown – Random Spirit Lover
New Beat – Toro Y Moi – Underneath the Pines
Excuse Me (Memory Tapes remix) – Gucci Mane – Diplo presents: Free Gucci Mane
Yonkers – Tyler the creator – Goblin
Rolling in the Deep (Jamie XX shuffle remix) – Adele – 21
Desire Lines – Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest
Try to Sleep – Low – C’Mon
French Navy – Camera Obscura- My Maudlin Career
Arthur’s Bird – Teebs – Ardour

Analogue Hour no. 42

Here’s the playlist from last night’s show on 2XM. If you missed it you can tune in to the repeat on Sunday at noon. Heading off to Health now in the Village, should be earbleedingly good.

The Analogue Hour no. 42
Rain (live) – Woods – Play the Live Woods
Society Jam – Lovvers – Society Jam 7″
You’re a Target mp3 – No Age – Losing Feeling EP
Swords – Leftfield – Rhythm and Stealth
Die Slow – Health - Get Color
Deadbeat Summer – Neon Indian – Psychic Chasms
Psychic City (classixx remix) – YACHT – See Mystery Lights
Let the Right One in – Becoming Real
Saga (ft. Santigold) – Basement Jaxx – Scars
This New Technology – Midnight Juggernauts
Black & Blue – Miike Snow – Miike Snow
Ghostwriter - RJD2 - Dead Ringer
Rome (Neighbours ft. Devandra Banhart remix ) – Phoenix
Where is my mind – Pixies – Surfer Rosa

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Where you been darlin’?

Couldn’t think of a title to kick back into the blogging with so I just lifted a lyric from Yacht whose funky sounds are currently keeping the autumnal blues at bay, for now. So what’s been going on in the Analogue world over the last while I hear you ask?

Well to begin with the Analogue Hour is still going strong each week on RTE 2XM, I’m about to broadcast my 42nd show (It goes out tomorrow night – Wed the 30th of Sept) which is mad. To think almost a year ago I sent a cheeky email to the head of New Media in RTE asking for a show and here I am now a veteran DAB broadcaster with what I can only imagine to be several thousand loyal listeners hanging on my every word and recommendation…

Analogue reincarnate as an online music tv show is also plodding along very nicely. It’s a fairly challenging project for myself and the two directors involved as we attempt to develop a format that works but that also stays fresh and interesting. Coming from a print background to video has been a learning curve to say the least. Luckily the directors Graham and Tim are new to the concept too, as their past work was generally short films. All going well Episode 1 (that’s the first after the pilot) will be going online in the next two weeks or so.

All that leaves in terms of Analogue shenanigans is the website. Yep it’s been a little inactive over the last while, what with the radio / video taking up most of my time and most of the Analogue writers of yesteryear moving on to bigger and better things. Hopefully though over the next few weeks I’ll gradually get blogging a bit more and do a few interviews.

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Anyways here’s some things I’m digging right now:

Another Likely Story (Neon Indian Remix) – Au Revoir Simone

I love Neon Indian, great pop tunes brimming with synths and psychedelic leanings (‘Should have taken acid with you’ is the title of one song, go figure). Above, Au Revoir Simone’s track ‘Another Likely Story’ gets a ethereal reworking with beats and synth rolls that remind me of the soundtracks commom to many 80′s action movies.

Animal – Miike Snow

Miike Snow are amazing. Paul Lester in the Guardian has Miike Snow in a nutshell when he refers to them as “coolly emotional Scandinavian pop with unobtrusive experimental flourishes”. On their myspace, it’s says they’re playing in Carlow in November which I suspect may be as part of the Heineken Green Energy gig with Digitalism and Marina & the Diamonds.

photo by Dagny Piasecki

the Analogue Hour 24/6/09

Here’s the playlist for last week’s show which repeated at noon today. I’ve been waiting for the right time to play a track by Moondog and this show seemed perfect as I always get a sense of Moondog when listening to some Oneida tracks.

The Analogue Hour
7-8pm on 2XM (listen on DAB or online)
Wednesday, 24/5/2009

Psychic City
YACHT
See Mystery Lights

15 to 20
The Phenomenal Handclap Band
The Phenomenal Handclap Band

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The Misfit
Oneida
Happy New Year

Down Is Up
Moondog
The Viking Of Sixth Avenue

Bobbie Joe Wilson
Yppah
They Know What Ghost Know

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I Start To Run
White Denim
Fits

Over It
Dinosaur Jr.
Farm

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Milk Man
Deerhoof
Milk Man

Silver Moons
Sunset Rubdown
Dragonslayer

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Black & Blue
Miike Snow
Miike Snow

Clark Gable
The Postal Service
Give Up

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Kid gloves
Angkorwat

Twin Of Myself
Black Moth Super Rainbow
Eating Us

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Autumn Beds
Modest Mouse

October (Jackson C. Frank cover)
Patrick Kelleher

the Analogue Hour 13/5/09

I really should be putting this up more often but every week I seem to get distracted by something else. Anyway, here’s last weeks show. It’s slightly more electronic than usual…

The Analogue Hour
7-8pm on 2XM
Wednesday, 13/5/2009

You’re Safe Now
Letter From Belgium
LFB001

Twilight Galaxy
Metric
Fantasies

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Seamonkey
Moderat
Moderat

Keman Rhythm
Two Fingers
Two Fingers

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The Birds
Telefon Tel Aviv
Immolate Yourself

The More That I Do
The Field
Yesterday and Today

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I Feel Cream
Peaches
I Feel Cream

Window Licker
Aphex Twin
Window Licker EP

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Little Acorns
Leila
Blood, Looms & Blooms

Little Lost Bear
porn.exe
porn.rar.exe

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Put A Word On It
Storkboy Choons And Colours Move
Maple Drive

The Analogue Hour – 25/3/09

Here’s the playlist for last night’s show. I’m really digging the new St Vincent song ‘The Strangers’, I can’t wait until I get my hands on the full album ‘Actor’ – out May 5th on 4AD. Cryptacize are pretty funky too, a collaborative project between Chris Cohen (The Curtains, ex-Deerhoof) and Nedelle Torrisi. To be honest, a couple of the tracks that far away from Deerhoof’s sound. Overall Cryptacize are a lot more relaxed than Deerhoof. Cryptacize’s second album is out on Asthmatic Kitty on the 21st of April. You can download a few tracks over on the Asthmatic Kitty site.

The Analogue Hour
25/3/2009

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Cymbals Eat Guitars
Why there are mountains

The CN tower belongs to the dead
Final Fantasy
Has a good home

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Love will tear us apart
Nouvelle Vague
Nouvelle Vague

Kicked it in the sun
Built to spill
Perfect from now on

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Cheerleader
Grizzly Bear
Veckatimest

Mythical Creatures
Groom
At the Natural History Museum

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Blue Tears
Cryptacize
Mythomania

The Strangers
St. Vincent
Actor

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Vancouver
Jeff Buckley
Sketches For My Sweetheart the Drunk

Six Pack
Dirty Projectors
Rise Above

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Happy Up Here
Royksopp
Junior

Woof Woof
Dan Deacon
Bromst

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Brothersport
Animal Collective
Merriweather Post Pavilion

The Analogue Hour goes out 7-8pm every Wednesday on RTE’s new DAB alternative music station 2XM. You can listen on a DAB radio and online here. The show is repeated on Sundays 12-1pm.

The Analogue Hour – 4/3/09

Here’s the playlist for last night’s show… My favourite new track is by Bell pictured above. Born in Moscow, raised in Alaska and currently churning out brilliant downbeat electronic pop in Brooklyn.

The Analogue Hour
4/3/2009
Wednesday 7-8pm, repeats Friday 12-1pm on 2XM

Hands – Four Tet
Rounds

The Reluctant Aviator – Si Schroeder
Coping Mechanisms

Devil’s Trident – Telepathe
Dance Mother

Magic Tape – Bell
7”

Build Voice – Dan Deacon
Bromst

Canned Food – Surf City
Surf City Ep

Snoopy Waves – Deerhoof
Offend Maggie

Networking – Pens

The Package Is Wrapped – Marnie Stern
This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That

One Of These Things First – Nick Drake
Bryter Layter

Lille – Lisa Hannigan
Sea Sew

To Build A Home – The Cinematic Orchestra
Ma Fleur

Emotion 98.6 – Mylo
Destroy Rock & Roll

The Analogue Hour Show 2

The Analogue Hour on 2XM
Tues 7 – 8pm, repeated Sunday 8-9pm

Presented by Brendan McGuirk and produced by Ben Milling.
9/12/08 Show no. 2 Playlist

1.The Courtesan Has Sung
Sunset Rubdown
Random Spirit Lover

2.What’s A Girl To Do
Bat For Lashes
Fur and Gold

3.Binkle
Percolator

4.Golden
Bear Hands
Golden Ep

5.Summersend
Misha
Teardrop Sweetheart

6.Yo Yo Bye Bye (Why? cover)
Xiu Xiu

7.The Hollows
Why?
Alopecia

8.Family of Others
Deerhoof
Offend Maggie

9.Foam Hands
Destroyer
Trouble In Dreams

10.Capogg
Supernova Scotia
Peek! An Earful of Irish Underground

11.Shempi
RATATAT
LP3

12. Princes
Gang Gang Dance
Saint Dymphna

13. Déboutonner (Feat. Siriusmo)
Modeselektor
Happy Birthday!

14. My Moon My Man (Boys Noize Remix)
Feist
Oi Oi Oi

Tune in on DAB or online.

Destroyer – Foam Hands (Live Sled Island Fest 2007)

The Analogue Hour Show 1

During the summer, I sent a cheeky email to RTE asking could I have a show on their new digital alternative music station, 2XM. I was pretty surprised when two weeks later I got an email from none other than Mark ‘Maniac 2000′ McCabe saying I had a weekly show. At the moment, it’s an hour long but that could expand to two hours in the new year. The great thing about our show is that it’s not playlisted unlike many other radio stations, it’s brilliant I have complete freedom in what I pick to play. We recorded what we hope to be the first of many live 2XM sessions about two weeks ago. Porn On Vinyl recorded three really simple yet beautiful songs(think Elliot Smith meets Neutral Milk Hotel), they’ll be played on a show in the middle of January.

The Analogue Hour on 2XM
Tues 7 – 8pm, repeated Sunday 8-9pm

Presented by Brendan McGuirk and produced by Ben Milling.
2/12/08 Show no. 1 Playlist

1. Nothing ever happened / Deerhunter / Microcastle
2. I Woke Up Today / Port O’Brien / All We Could Do Was Sing
3. An Animal In Your Case / Wolf Parade / At Mount Zoomer
4. Valley Hi! / Stereolab / Chemical Chords
5. Fair Weather Friends / Daedelus / Love To Make Music To
6 . Curs In The Weeds / Horse Feathers / House With No Home
7. The Birthday Wars / Oxford Collapse / Bits
8. Center Of The Universe / Built To Spill / Keep It Like A Secret
9. Black Albino Bones / Fucked Up / The Chemistry Of Common Life
10. radio / katie kim / 12
11. to where is alright / Nouveau Noise / Peek! An earful of Irish Underground
12. Fireworks / Animal Collective / Strawberry Jam
13. Peach, Plum, Pear / Final Fantasy / Young Canadian Mothers EP
14. Angeles / Elliott Smith / Either/Or

Tune in on DAB or online.

More playlists to come soon, just need to get them together…

Elliott Smith – Angeles