Thanks so much for the kind words you three! I've had an absolute blast pushing my favorites sounds onto the airwaves, so I'm super pleased & grateful that y'all are listening and enjoying what you hear.
jcnporter wrote:The standout tracks for me, that I hadn't heard before, were Pattern Diver, Coil and your own Sweet Boys tune, which easily sits among the best of the set ... oh and Talk Talk should be on every show - you know it.
Glad to hear those tracks stood out to you! I'm a Coil newbie myself, the track I played is pretty much the only one I know by them, but what an intense song! Rest assured that there will be whole lot more Talk Talk to be heard on my upcoming shows
The best thing about the format of Under The Floorboards and KGNU in general is that they really urge the DJs to play music that's as under the radar as possible -- as a result I end up looking at my music libraries and realizing that the songs I've got from my friends end up being the most underground tracks I've got! Very stoked that you were digging the sweet boys, I was happy with how 'theme for life on earth' fit into the set. Since you mentioned pattern diver, I suppose now is as good a time as any for my PD plug:
Pattern Diver completely blew my mind back in '08 when he turned up to play a super modest show at my town's local 'teen venue' (there were probably ~20 folks in attendance which was pretty good for this spot). At that period of time I was just barely starting to listen to instrumental electronic music, and the experience he brought was equal parts album and film. Ultimately, this show truly blew my mind to shreds at the time, and if it wasn't for this one-off show that blended organic electronic sounds with visuals from his personal past/synthesized natural fractals, I may have never gotten serious about making heartfelt electronic music on my own. That night I gave him all the money in my wallet to purchase a DVD version of his album (including both visuals + music) plus an O.G. PD t-shirt which was vital to rep at the only 'a decent man' live show I ever played!
anyway, the album that i witnessed on that night is called 'Echoes From Orion', and you can check out a live recording of the whole thing here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyCEzvPtT6w&list=PL1Ozi8pU3CdC4HgSn19FvIwEh7xIO93As'Echoes...' was essentially his college thesis and came out a while ago so I don't think he's even selling it anymore -- I've hosted a download mirror of it on mediafire since 2009 so if anyone's interested, they can download the audio here:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/eyn2tyzmju0/Echoes+From+Orion.zipThere's something about the sonics of this album that really hits home with the childhood nostalgia vibe, but it manages to have its own sound palette and melodicism that's very different from the BoC world. Of course since it was 2008 there's some cheesy ableton beat-repeating and filtering going on, but even listening back these days theres something kinda pure & naive about it that allows it to still feel beautiful on my end. Anyway, there's my Pattern Diver plug! Thanks for changing my life man...
Anyway, I had a pretty fun 3-hour set on Wednesday morning that you can listen to here:
http://www.afterfm.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/shows.byDJ/djID/513/djName/Mikey%20HolmesI was definitely feeling pretty playful with this one and took more than a few liberties -- by the end of it i was about to fall asleep at the mixing board! Again, thanks a ton for listening! I remember from the 3rd annual twoism meetup that very few people had been listening to Odd Nosdam, The Books, or the ISB, so if I can get their songs into your heads I'll consider this all a huge success! I'll update y'all when the next show is coming up, should be April 22nd. Talk soon!