FMN040: The Freedom Fifteen

Free Music Now! Vol. 40:

Our second ever "countdown" show -- we made it through another year!

Here are 15 songs from 2010 that made us glad to be alive.

December 29, 2010 (Wed)

10.30pm-12mn (+8 GMT)

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Playlist:

Honourable mentions of 2010 (alphabetical order):

* I\D - Skin Homage (extract) (5:00) (myspace / mail order)

* Lunarin - The Sky (Algiers) (6:46) (official /bandcamp /mail order)

* Sharesprings - I Love to See You (Daydreaming Me) (1:51) (myspace / mail order)

The Freedom Fifteen 2010:

15. Salem - King Night (3:52)

14. Azmyl Yunor - Let it Come (3:13) (myspace)

13. Fire Witch - Kritta (10:31) (myspace)

12. Max Lane - Wohub (4:25) (myspace / bandcamp / mail order)

11. Belle and Sebastian - I Didn't See it Coming (5:00)

10. Best Coast - Something in the Way (2:10)

9. James Blake - CMYK (3:40)

8. Magus - Bastard Son (4:23) (myspace)

7. Bill Orcutt - Way Down South 1 (4:01)

6. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Round and Round (5:08)

5. Oneohtrix Point Never - Returnal (4:44)

4. Gonjasufi - Sheep (4:03)

3. Sun City Girls - Ben's Radio (3:00)

2. Avey Tare - Laughing Hieroglyphic (6:49)

1. ARCN TEMPL - Four Rivers of Melancholy (8:22) (mail order)

Post-script:

This was such a difficult list to come up with! I recall last year's selection being much more straightforward -- but it's hard to complain when the reason is that there was just an overload of so much great music this year. Anyway feeling oddly nostalgic after tonight's show and here're a few more songs that meant a lot to me this year but which just wouldn't have fit into the programme. Thanks once again all for listening!

7 more honourable mentions of 2010:

* Blonde Redhead - Spain (4:56)

* ceo - Come with Me (3:51)

* Ikonika - Fish (4:37)

* Shining - The Madness and the Damage Done (5:20)

* Sun Araw - Deep Temple (11:30)

* Sun Kil Moon - Alesund (6:27)

* Women - Heat Distraction (4:05)

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FMN038

Free Music Now! Vol. 38

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=167395693297403

December 15, 2010 (Wed)

10.30pm-12mn (+8 GMT)

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Playlist

1. Darkstar - Gold (4:19)

2. Skream - Metamorphosis (5:17)

3. Burial - You Hurt Me (5:22)

4. James Blake - CMYK (3:40)

5. Shystie - Pull It (Ill Blue Remix) (5:45)

6. Four Tet - Angel Echoes (4:00)

7. Max Lane - Wohub (4:25) (Download the Syndicate EP here)

8. Magnetic Man - Anthemic (6:09)

9. Salem - King Night (3:52)

10. oOoOO - Sedsumting (5:29)

11. Shackleton - (No More) Negative Thoughts (8:58)

12. Jack Sparrow - Red Sand (5:28)

13. Max Richter - Infra 2 (4:27)

14. Pantha du Prince - Stick to My Side (7:51)

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FMN024: Dub Mo' Bass with My Head Man

Free Music Now! Vol. 24:

Dub Mo' Bass with My Head Man

May 19, 2010 (Wed)

10.30pm-12mn (+8 GMT)

... in Which Thyne Host attemptes A Life Mix of some of his Most Favorite Dance Choons of A Bass Perswayshun, as We Alle be Gettin' into the Dub Grooveey Be-falle the Second Coming of Kode9 This Saturn's Day...

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Live playlist:

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1. YT - England Story

2. The Bug - Killer

3. La Roux - In for the Kill (Skream Remix - High Contrast Re-Edit)

4. Shizuo - The Man

5. Lynx feat. Kemo - Carnivale

6. Radiohead - Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors

7. Izaak Stern - Moon Palace

8. Kiat & Cherry - Sphinx's Prism

9. Lady Sovereign - Cha Ching (Cheque 1, 2 remix)

10. Burial - Unite

11. Max Lane - Wohub

12. Bat for Lashes - Pearl's Dream (Skream's Pour Another Glass of Champers remix)

13. Massive Music - Find My Way (Kode9 Rmx)

14. Chase & Status - Eastern Jam

15. Wiley - 50/50

16. Kode9 - 9 Samurai (Quarta 330 Rmx)

17. King Midas Sound - Earth A Killya

18. Kode9 + the Spaceape - Curious

19. Max Lane - Preamble

20. Milanese - Caramel Cognac

21. Dizzee Rascal - Fix Up, Look Sharp

22. M.I.A. - Bamboo Banga

23. Burial - Raver

24. Ikonika - Video Delays

25. Ellen Allien & Apparat - Turbo Dreams

26. Burial - Near Dark

27. Burial - Southern Comfort

28. D'Cruze - Lonely

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FMN018: The Gospel According to Zai

Free Music Now! Vol. 18: The Gospel According to Zai

March 31, 2010 (Wed)

10.30pm-12mn (+8 GMT)

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=106912949339592

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Live playlist:

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1. Zai Kuning - Nightingale of the Tropic 8 (2:44)

2. Patrick Chng - Thirteen (Big Star cover) (3:03)

3. Livonia - Bill and Ben (Catherine Wheel cover) (3:47) (download mp3 here)

4. Zai Kuning - Asakusa (4:00)

5. Morphy - Preparation (4:33) (preview & purchase Morphy's album here)

6. Jo Jordan - Free Falling Sigh (7:24)

7. Under the Velvet Sky - Live from CHOPPA 2010 (excerpt) (10:55)

8. Zai Kuning & George Chua - Fhazal (5:25)

9. Stellarium - Punkcit (2:46)

10. Swirling Light - Hate Me (4:09)

11. EpikMotion - Instuff (3:23) (download UPP001 here)

12. Max Lane - Wohub (4:25)

13. Pocahaunted - Touch You (4:47)

14. Zai Kuning - w/ Otomo Yoshihide (6:14)

15. Zai Kuning & George Chua - Send Off (3:32)

Notes: details on Zai's new and old work may be found at http://onisstudio.blogspot.com/

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FMN012: The Replacement

Free Music Now! Vol. 12: The Replacement
Original broadcast: February 10, 2010 (Wed), 2230-0000h (GMT +8)

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Live playlist:
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1. The Replacements - Bastards of Young (3:38)
2. Patrick Chng - Radio Station (Padres cover) (3:50)
3. Kamaliah Latiff - Dollah Kassim (3:25)
4. Couple - Hey Kawan-Kawan (3:03)
5. Suicide - Frankie Teardrop (10:26)
6. Gil-Scott Heron - New York is Killing Me (4:29)
7. Flaming Lips & Stardeath White Dwarfs - Borderline (Madonna cover) (6:03)
8. Of Montreal - Jimmy (Disco Dancer cover) (3:50)
9. Soiree - The Very Things Hidden (6:36)
10. Kiat & Cherry - Sphinx's Prism (3:40)
11. Max Lane - Wohub (4:25)
12. Darkstar - Automating (4:12) (free download here or here courtesy of Darkstar)
13. Magma - Hortz Fur Dehn Stekehn West (9:23)
14. Mayday - 志明与春娇 (4:39)

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FMN008: The Freedom Fifteen

Free Music Now! Vol. 8: The Freedom Fifteen
Original broadcast: January 6, 2010 (Wed), 2230-0000h (GMT +8)

Facebook Event Page

Presented by Mark Wong

Not since 9/11 had we experienced such a jolt to global consciousness as on June 25, 2009: the day MJ died. I'd woken up early that morning, seen the BBC tweet, then promptly posted the news on my Facebook wall. The air seemed to hang a little heavier that day, and I turned in a little late for work because I really had to re-watch that 1983 Motown performance of Billie Jean on YouTube.

For the next days and weeks, emotional tributes poured freely alongside more cynical commentaries. A cottage industry of conspiracy theorists was spawned, with news articles and blogs poring over "evidence" of his murder or "conversion" to Islam, even as Michael's "ghost" was spotted revisiting its old Neverland haunts.

If you're finding this all a little suspicious, don't worry, this week's show won't be about MJ. But as I was preparing for this relook at the year in music in 2009, I couldn't ignore the fact that MJ's death marked the significant passing of an entire cultural era; Michael may well have been the last truly global superstar with a multi-generational audience base to (moon)walk the planet.

MJ's universal appeal was the result of a number of factors, not least being the consolidation of media power amassed in the music industry of the eighties and nineties. This control of the channels of information lay the groundwork for a monolithic superstar to emerge. Simon Reynold's recent observations about the "musically fragmented" age we live in is precisely the result of the dismantling of the traditional music industry, the ascendancy of the internet and the gradually unfolding revolution in music production, distribution and consumption--hey, this is why unpopular.radio and Free Music Now! even exist!

So anyway, FMN008 presents the Freedom Fifteen: 15 songs of 2009 that made us feel a little better to be alive.

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Honourable mentions:
* Animal Collective - My Girls (5:42)
* Burial - Fostercare (5:32)
* Dinosaur Jr. - Plans (6:42)
* Eswandy Sarip/Muliana - Darkness in Our Light (10:23)
* Patrick Wolf - Hard Times (3:33)

And the Freedom Fifteen...
15. X'Ho - Substation 1992 (3:46)
14. NAO - Movement (3:48)
13. Arrington de Dionyso - Rasa Sentuh (Sense of Touch) (2:42)
12. Killeur Calculateur - Tigers Gone Ape (2:13)
11. Stellarium - Fader (6:14)
10. Gnaw - Vacant (5:03)
9. I, Noiseferatu - In the City (4:43)
8. Max Lane - Preamble (3:29)
7. aspidistrafly - Endless Dreamless (3:05)
6. Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo (5:38)
5. Tortoise - Prepare Your Coffin (3:37)
4. Mellonyellow - The Longest Yard (2:29)
3. Dirty Projectors - Stillness is the Move (5:14)
2. Sunn O))) - Big Church (9:42)
1. The Observatory - Mind Roots (5:35)

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FMN007: Electronic Renaissance

Free Music Now! Vol. 7
Original broadcast: December 17, 2009 (THU), 2230-0000h (GMT +8)

Presented by Mark Wong

Broadcast "live" from a cluttered bedroom on Balestier Road, Singapore, FMN! is an internet radio programme hosted on unpopular.radio. We pay special focus to music developments in Singapore and Southeast Asia.

"Free music" refers as much to the ideas of information flow and cultural dissemination as it does to musical forms which refuse to be shackled to genre orthodoxy. Inevitably, "Free Music NOW!" becomes clarion call for open ears and unfettered minds.

Vol. 7 is all about the bits (beats optional). This will also be our last show of the year. We'll be back in Jan to do a round-up of 2009. Thanks everyone for your support and Happy New Ears!

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Live playlist:
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1. Mux/Iskandar - Our Prompter is Spiked (4:21)
2. Izaak Stern - Magical Half Dozen (3:44)
3. Kiat & Cherry - Samurai Waltz (4:12)
4. 3Goddess - OK When You're Not (4:04)
5. Max Lane - Preamble (3:29)
6. Darkstar - Need You (6:10)
7. Ikuma - Jealous (dub) (3:23)
8. Club Ecstasy - Morning Glory (4:45)
9. DIR - Techincolor Rubbish (4:41)
10. iRa - Pubi (6:17)
11. Circadian - Perhaps (5:31)
12. Kulturkampf - Metal and Steel Make the Heart Real (6:05)
13. Floating Points - K&G Beat (6:34)
14. Four Tet - Love Cry (9:00)

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