Catching up

Well, here we are at the end of my first school year at Middlebury and the beginning of summer! I for one am certainly enjoying the much-needed break and relaxation. I figured that this would be the best time to catch up on everything you've missed the past few weeks. Sorry for not keeping this blog updated; as you could imagine, things got busy toward the end of the semester and I simply forgot. So without further ado, here were the playlists from the last two shows of the semester.

4/24/2008:
1. Don Caballero - Dick Suffers Is Furious With You
2. This Will Destroy You - A Three-Legged Workhorse
3. A Sunny Day in Glasgow - C'mon
4. Efterklang - Polygene
5. Do Make Say Think - Bound To Be That Way
6. Boris - Farewell
7. Explosions In the Sky - First Breath After Coma
8. My Bloody Valentine - Loomer
9. Mum - The Ballad of Broken Birdie Records
10. A Silver Mt. Zion - 1,000,000 Died to Make This Sound
11. Efterklang - Frida Found a Friend
12. Cocteau Twins - Ivo
13. Menomena - Wet and Rusting

5/8/2008:
1. Venetian Snares - Szerencsetlen
2. Grails - Stoned At the Taj Again
3. Can - Outside My Door
4. Aphex Twin - Girl/Boy
5. Talk Talk - Taphead
6. My Bloody Valentine - When You Sleep
7. Yoshihisa Hirano & Hideki Taniuchi - Kitai
8. Sigur Ros - Staralfur
9. Venetian Snares - Bonivital
10. Year Of No Light - Selenite
11. Mogwai - We're No Here
12. Six Parts Seven - Stolen Moments
13. Autechre - Arch Carrier
14. Boris feat. Michiko Kurihara - Rafflesia
15. Red Sparowes - The Great Leap Forward poured down upon us one day like a mighty storm suddenly and furiously blinding our senses.
16. Explosions In the Sky - Song For Our Fathers
17. Mogwai - Summer (Priority Version)

No polls or iMixes this time around, sorry; they're becoming a bit time-consuming, so unless people want them back, I'll stop doing them for the time being. But I'll be posting some concert reviews from the past year very soon, as well as some other things to keep this blog going over the summer. So please check back in soon! Anyway, take care, and hope you have a great summer!

Sorry about the delay in the weekly playlist post; I've gotten sick and probably won't get around to doing it until later this weekend. In the meantime, hope you guys have a great one!

Spring is here!

...And that means more great music from your one and only Organized Chaos host, including some bands never before played! Here's this week's playlist:

1. 65daysofstatic - Antique Hyper Mall
2. Four Tet - A Joy
3. Efterklang - Doppelganger
4. Don Caballero - Fire Back About Your New Baby's Sex
5. Stars of the Lid - Dungtitled (in A Minor)
6. Susumu Yokota - Blue Sky and Yellow Sunflower
7. Kraftwerk - Mitternacht (Midnight)
8. Neu! - Isi
9. Efterklang - Chapter 6
10. Four Tet - Smile Around the Face
11. Dntel - Roll On
12. Worm Is Green - You're Too Late Satan
13. To Rococo Rot - Cosimo
14. Broadcast - America's Boy
15. Aphex Twin - Alberto Balsam
16. God Is an Astronaut - Route 666
17. Erik Enocksson - The Joy of D.H. Lawrence

The iMix should be up later today. In the meantime, enjoy the great weather! And remember:

--WRMC's annual Semi-Normal Semi-Formal, this Friday from 10 PM to 2 AM @ the Bunker, with music by WRMC DJs!
--Cake is coming to Middlebury this Saturday! 9 PM @ Kenyon Arena, with the doors opening at 8. Tickets start at $10, and are going fast! Opening act is Mates of State.

Take care everyone!

A day late and a dollar short...maybe

Sorry about the delay. Here was yesterday's playlist:

1. M83 - Graveyard Girl
2. Up+C Down+C Left+C Right+C ABC+Start - Not of the Fallen
3. The Twilight Sad - That Summer, At Home I Had Become the Invisible Boy
4. Talk Talk - The Rainbow
5. Bark Psychosis - Eyes & Smiles
6. The Besnard Lakes - Disaster
7. Mogwai - Auto Rock
8. Flying Saucer Attack - Whole Day Song
9. Saxon Shore - This Shameless Moment
10. M83 - Don't Save Us From the Flames
11. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Storm
12. Jesu - You Wear These Masks
13. Low & Dirty Three - I Hear ... Goodnight

And here's this week's iMix. Enjoy, and see you all next week!

Back from spring break, and special prods!

Sorry for being so late with this week's show playlist, but after a week-long vacation of not doing anything whatsoever (including updating this blog -- oops), things get somewhat hectic around here. Hey, it's only our first week back -- gimme a break! Anyway, we're back in our main studio now that the soundboard has been fixed, so no more problems in the special productions studio. So if you missed today's show, well, too bad you missed out! Maybe next week will be just as good...

1. Mogwai - Friend of the Night
2. 65daysofstatic - Radio Protector
3. Tortoise - Ry Cooder
4. Saxon Shore - With a Red Suit You Will Become a Man
5. Múm - Awake On a Train
6. Four Tet - Hands
7. Phon°noir - My Paperhouse on Fire
8. Do Make Say Think - Auberge Le Mouton Noir
9. Caribou - Melody Day
10. Cocteau Twins - Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops
11. This Will Destroy You - Quiet
12. Can - Father Cannot Yell
13. Bark Psychosis - Absent Friend
14. Blonde Redhead - Misery Is a Butterfly
15. Odd Nosdam - The Kill Tone Two
16. Maserati - The World Outside

This sure was a good show, for one planned at the very last minute! XD

And here's the iMix, per usual. Check it out, and hope you hear from you all next week!

Last show before break!!

Well, it's the last show before spring break, and what a great show it was! If you didn't listen, you missed out big time!

1. Dirty Three - Two AM
2. Jesu - Storm Comin' In
3. Susumu Yokota - Glass, Tree and Stone
4. Boards of Canada - Julie and Candy
5. Talk Talk - After the Flood
6. Fridge - Cassette
7. Hideki Taniuchi and Yoshihisa Hirano - Tokusou Kira Han
8. Portishead - We Carry On
9. The Field - Silent
10. Four Tet - Spirit Fingers
11. Can - Mother Sky
12. Flying Saucer Attack - Past
13. Dirty Three - A Strange Holiday
14. Dead Can Dance - Sanvean
15. The Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again (special request!!!)
16. Low - Transmission (bonus song; sorry it wasn't announced before!)

The iMix should be up shortly. In the meantime, vote in the polls to the right, and stick around all next week, as I post videos to get your spring break fix! Take care, and see you in two weeks!

EDIT: Here's the iMix! Hope you enjoy it!

Delayed weekly entry -- Oops!

Sorry about the delay in putting this up! I've been meaning to do it for a while, but kept getting distracted. Such is the life of a college student. ;-)

Before I continue with the usual playlist and iMix, I would like to tell you all that I've been told that I couldn't be heard while doing today's broadcast. Instead of hearing my voice, all that seemed to be transmitted was dead air. Firstly, I would like to know if anyone else experienced the same problem. This most likely happened because we are currently operating temporarily out of the special productions room in the WRMC studios, as the soundboard in the main DJ booth was fried after last Sunday's campus-wide power outage and parts need to be shipped from England. This means trying to get used to new equipment very quickly. I firmly believe I was doing everything correctly on my end, but I'm told the situation will be checked out, and I will try my best not to let this happen again.

OK! On to the playlist!

1. Apparat - Useless Information
2. Portishead - Machine Gun
3. Add N to (X) - Metal Fingers In My Body
4. A.M. Architect - Unspoken
5. 65daysofstatic - Await Rescue
6. Slint - Good Morning, Captain
7. The Field - Over the Ice
8. Theory of Everything - Taking It Back to Edo
9. Can - Moonshake
10. Four Tet - Unspoken
11. Slowdive - Souvlaki Space Station
12. Bark Psychosis - A Street Scene
13. Disco Inferno - Emigre
14. Ui - Sunny Nights
15. Jesu - Conqueror
16. From Monument to Masses - To Z (Repeat)

I was also responsible for the music for the first 45 minutes after the show. I basically played Cul de Sac's magnificent 2003 album, Death of the Sun, in its entirety, followed by "23" by Blonde Redhead. This was because there were some issues with one of the DJs showing up for the show following mine, and I didn't want to leave the station broadcasting dead air.

Instead addition to asking people what songs they liked this week in the poll on the right, I'll also be asking whether or not you feel there is enough variety in the show. Lately I feel like I've been playing songs by the same artists and from the same albums, and I don't know if you listeners out there don't mind, or would like to see me shake things up once in a while. There's a whole world of this kind of music out there, and I hate to be closing people off from most of it because I play the same things. Please tell me what you think! Also, feel free to e-mail me (jhexter@middlebury.edu) or drop a comment here.

Finally, here's the iMix! Hope you enjoyed today's show; see you next week!

Episode 12!!!

Without further ado, here was today's playlist:

1. To Rococo Rot (feat. I-Sound) - From Dream to Daylight
2. The Notwist - Good Lies
3. Bark Psychosis - The Loom
4. Jesu - Star
5. Phaser - Sway
6. Up+C Down+C Left+C Right+C ABC+Start - Shallows
7. My Bloody Valentine - Slow
8. El Ten Eleven - Limits on Credit Blues
9. Battles - Leyendecker
10. Four Tet - My Angel Rocks Back and Forth
11. Cocteau Twins - Seekers Who Are Lovers [Otherness version]
12. Apparat - Not A Number
13. The Field - Everday
14. Aphex Twin - Next Heap Width
15. Mouse on Mars - Papa, Antoine
16. Add N to (X) - Revenge of the Black Regent

The iMix should be up sometime later today, as well as the poll. In the meantime, don't be afraid to leave feedback! Post a comment here, or e-mail me at jhexter@middlebury.edu. Take care everyone!

EDIT: And here's the iMix! Enjoy!

BEST SHOW EVER!!!!

Well, at least that's what I think how this show turned out. Even if it wasn't the best, it's still up there. Check out this week's playlist:

1. Four Tet - She Moves She
2. Aphex Twin - 4
3. Burial - Archangel
4. Neu! - Hero
5. Kraftwerk - Kometenmelodie 1 (Comet Melody 1)
6. God Is an Astronaut - Suicide By Star
7. Battles - Tonto
8. Maserati - Synchronicity IV
9. Laura - Every Light
10. Mogwai - Glasgow Mega-Snake
11. God Is an Astronaut - Coda
12. Talk Talk - Ascension Day
13. Catherine Wheel - Black Metallic
14. Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
15. Asobi Seksu - New Years

And here's this week's iMix:

In other big news, it's been officially announced that Cake will be performing at Middlebury's Kenyon Arena on April 19th! Not exactly something I'd play on this show, but I still like the band very much, and it's great to have them here for their first East Coast concert in two years! Find out more here. And if you want to know more about these guys, check out some videos:

"The Distance":



"Never There":



And "I Will Survive":



Well, that's it for this week. Take care, and hear it again next week, same time, same place!

Episode 10 and iMix

Well, it was a great show this afternoon, and it's great to be back! Some minor technical difficulties, too, but nothing that can't be fixed. So, without further ado, here's today's playlist:

1. The Octopus Project feat. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Spiracle
2. Autechre - Gnit
3. Neu! - Negativland
4. Matthew Dear - Deserter
5. Aphex Twin - Tha
6. Boards of Canada - Hi Scores
7. Flying Saucer Attack - Land Beyond the Sun
8. Explosions in the Sky - The Birth and Death of the Day
9. Disco Inferno - Freethought
10. Mogwai - Small Children in the Background
11. Kriedler - La Capital
12. El Ten Eleven - My Only Swerving
13. Slowdive - When the Sun Hits
14. My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes

What did you think of the songs? Liked some of them? Hated some of them? Leave a comment here, or vote in the poll on the right!

And here' the iMix. You may notice some songs on here that I didn't play; I tend to plan these playlists out beforehand, but I decided to make some last minute adjustments. Anyway, hope you enjoy it!

I'd also like to plug a friend of mine's show. Nick Bujalski is starting a show called "Nihilists With Good Intentions," every Sunday morning from 6-8 AM only on WRMC! Be sure to listen in, even though it's way too early! And Jared Pomerance, who DJ'ed last semester for "Mildly Interesting," is now the new DJ of his own show, "Rooster Rock," which airs Thursday nights/Friday morning from 1:30-3 AM -- check that out as well, please! Anyway, take care, and have a good week, and a great Winter Carnival!

12 hours and counting...

...before the first show of the semester! Are you excited? 'Cuz I am!!

(By the way, how was that lunar eclipse tonight, huh? It definitely was something, that's for sure. Did anyone notice the UFO? ;-) )

Update

Good news: Organized Chaos will be back on the air TOMORROW!! That's right, I'll be back tomorrow on WRMC from 12:30-2 PM. Listen in on 91.1 FM in the Champlain valley, and on WRMC's website everywhere else. I've also created a Facebook group for fans, and to help promote the show. You can check it out here! If you're a fan, be sure to join! That's all for now, and I'd be glad to hear from you tomorrow!

YAY!!! I'M BACK!!!! (And at a new, better time!)

So after weeks of not having a show, I'm glad to say that WRMC has renewed Organized Chaos for the spring semester!! And guess what? The show has been moved to Thursdays, from 12:30 to 2 PM EST. Which means that you can be able to listen in without having to stay up ridiculously late! And I will be awake when I DJ and not jumble my words every other second! Very exciting news, folks.

As for when the show will start up again...this I haven't decided. It will either be this Thursday, 2/21, or next Thursday, 2/28, depending on when I get retrained to be a WRMC DJ. And since this is a new semester, there will be two things I will promise you:

1) Less show cancellations. It's in the early afternoon, when I'm not usually working and am more flexible with my schedule, so no longer will "I have too much work" be an excuse. This will definitely be what it was meant to be: a weekly event where you can hear the best experimental rock has to offer.

2) More posts on this blog. This will include music videos, even for bands I won't play on my show at all, and anything else I find interesting (which is quite a bit!).

So, in short: I'm back! And better than ever! And remember, if you have any questions, comments, concerns, or hate mail, here's how you can contact me:

E-mail: jhexter@middlebury.edu
Facebook: Right here!
Phone: When the show's on, feel free to call me in the studio! It's x6323 on campus, and (802) 443-6323 everywhere else.

And lest we forget WRMC's official website, the show's official webpage, and WRMC's blog!!!

So! I'm really excited for this new time, and I hope you are too! Take care, and I look forward to hearing from you on the first show of the semester!

Sorry guys...

...but it looks as if I'll have to forego tonight's show yet again; schoolwork does, after all, come first, and there's no way I can do it in the studio. I really hate having to do this, but nobody listens to the radio at 1:30 in the morning anyway, especially since most people have to wake up early tomorrow morning. I perfectly understand, guys. If and when I get a slightly better time starting in February, perhaps your weekly post-rock fix won't be so, well, not-as-weekly. I should probably stick to this, but this is college, after all. Hopefully I'll post something (anything, really) sometime this week, and there WILL be a show next week at the promised time. Sorry once again, and hope you guys have a good week!

Organized Chaos: So cool, it celebrates New Year's two weeks late.

Happy new year 2008, everyone! Hope the past few weeks without the show have been going well. Though I can only promise you it'll get better now that it's back!

Sorry for the belated post; life sometimes gets in the way of doing what you really want. Anyway, here's this week's playlist:

1. Dirty Three -- Hope
2. My Bloody Valentine -- Don't Ask Why
3. Phaser -- Life and Illusion
4. Fridge -- Semaphore
5. Maserati -- Show Me the Season
6. God Is an Astronaut -- From Dust To the Beyond
7. 65daysofstatic -- Drove Through Ghosts To Get Here
8. Laurie Anderson -- O Superman (For Massenet)
9. Autechre -- Rotar
10. Battles -- Atlas
11. LCD Soundsystem -- Someone Great
12. Talk Talk -- New Grass
13. Saxon Shore -- The Revolution Will Be Streaming

And as always, this week's iMix:

CORRECTION: I mentioned that the song "Don't Ask Why" by My Bloody Valentine was from their last EP, Tremolo, from 1991. In fact, it's from their second-to-last EP, 1990's Glider. Here's to getting music facts wrong. :-(

Anyway, the last part of the Dirty Three retrospective is on the YAM/Questionable Content blog; you can check it out here! Take care everyone, and see you next week!

Notice

There will be no show tonight, 1/7. The first show of 2008 will be next Monday morning, 1/14, at the usual time of 1:30 AM.