the Analogue Hour no. 53
December 17, 2009 by Brendan McGuirk
Filed under Anablog

The Analogue Hour on 2XM
Wed 7 - 8pm, repeated Sunday 12 - 1pm
16/12/09 Show no. 53 Playlist
1. Norway - Beach House - Teen Dream
2. Islands - The XX - The XX
3. Chase the Tear - Portishead
4. Cryptograms - Deerhunter - Cryptograms
5. Left For Dead - Hunter-Gatherer - I dreamed I was a footstep in the trail of a murderer
6. Fostercare - Burial - 5:5 years of Hyperdub
7. The Splendour - Pantha Du Prince - Black Noise
8. Down is Up - Moondog - The Viking of Sixth Avenue
9. Stick to my side (ft. Panda Bear) - Pantha Du Prince - Black Noise
10. Love Cry - Four Tet - There is Love in You
11. Hyph Mngo - Joy Orbison
Analogue Hour no. 42
October 1, 2009 by Brendan McGuirk
Filed under Anablog, Radio

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’?
September 29, 2009 by Brendan McGuirk
Filed under Anablog

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
June 28, 2009 by Brendan McGuirk
Filed under Anablog, Radio

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
May 17, 2009 by Brendan McGuirk
Filed under Anablog, Radio

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
March 26, 2009 by Brendan McGuirk
Filed under Anablog

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
March 5, 2009 by Brendan McGuirk
Filed under Anablog, Radio, news

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 tonight
February 11, 2009 by Brendan McGuirk
Filed under Anablog

The Analogue Hour on 2XM has been moved to Wednesdays from 7-8pm. Tune in on DAB or online here. On tonight’s show I’ll be playing new music from Jeremy Jay, Pens and Dent May. The show will also feature an interview I did with Barry and Ger from Children Under Hoof plus a live version of a new song by them called Bonefire.
Patrick Kelleher
January 21, 2009 by Brendan McGuirk
Filed under Featured, Interviews

I interviewed Patrick Kelleher before Christmas for a pilot of the Analogue Hour. I ended up going back to a party in his house on Saturday night after the Skinny Wolves brilliant dj set in Anseo. At the party, I realised I should probably post up the interview for more people to hear. Patrick will be releasing an album later this year on Irish label Osaka Recordings.
The Analogue Hour Show 2
December 22, 2008 by Brendan McGuirk
Filed under Radio
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)


