Freeform music from beautiful Williamstown, Massachusetts, with your host, Dan O. Williams

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Playlist: February 3, 2010

The Go-Betweens — That Way
Real Estate — Basement
Owen Pallett — Lewis Takes Off His Shirt
The Fauns — Understand

Here We Go Magic — I Just Wanna See You Underwater
Best Coast — Make You Mine
New Buffalo — Recovery
Apparat — Arcadia
Glass Rock — Blue Spider
Ninca Leece — On Top of the World
Barbara Morgenstern — Dr. Mr.
Mesak — Sly Filmfestival (Sotchi Montage)

Hush Arbors — Lisbon
Lali Puna — Toca-Discos
Charlie Alex March — Fransisca’s Theme
Steffen Basho-Junghans — Azure No. 3

Beck — Harry Partch

Girls in the Eighties — Burn Your Riches
Pepepe — Jacinto Cenobio
Autechre — Known(1)
Inara George — Dirty White
God Help the Girl — I Think I’ll Have to Dance with Cassie
The Girls at Dawn — Tomorrow Will Be Yesterday
Beach House — Walk in the Park

Playlist: January 27, 2010

8:30pm: looks like the stream is down. can I salvage it??
8:40: looks like it’s back up…
8:45: ugh.

The Go-Betweens — That Way

Hot Chip — One Life Stand
Lucky Dragons — We Made Our Own Government
The Bilinda Butchers — This Love is Fucking Right
Laura Veirs — Sleeper in the Valley
Wells/Whitehead/Schneider/Morgenstern — The Hermitage Braid

Montag — We Have Sound
Monade — Elle Topo
Monade — Messe Joyeuse
Elephant9 — Dodovoodoo
Jaga Jazzist — Touch of Evil

Playlist: January 20, 2010

Argh! I left my dumb ipod at home tonight! Let’s see how I do without it.

The Go-Betweens — That Way
Phoenix — Victim of the Crime
Steely Dan — Babylon Sisters

Hey! I Found it!

Alexander Tucker and Decomposition — Algae Age
Tahiti 80 — Wallpaper for the Soul
Orange Juice — Wan Light

Devendra Banhart — 16th & Valencia Roxy Music
Sebadoh — The Freed Pig
The Sea and Cake — Showboat Angel
Joni Mitchell — Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter
Mojave 3 — BillOddity
Low — Starfire
Master Musicians of Bukkake — Schism Prism / Adamantos
Charles Atlas — Miniature Lifeboat
Robert Wyatt — Sonia

Keith Fullerton Whitman — Untitled track 8 from “Multiples”
Neokarma Jooklu Trio — Strange Land
Future Bible Heroes — Real Summer
Animal Hospital — And Ever…
Nosaj Thing — 1685/Bach
Loveletter — Barbarella
Black Moth Super Rainbow — Born a Day, A Day the Sun Didn’t Rise

Espers — Trollslandia

Playlist: January 6, 2010

The Go-Betweens — That Way
Young Marble Giants — The Man Amplifier

crazy show … too much mixing to keep track of what was played. Mostly noises/drones/bits of jazz/art music. I don’t know if anyone heard this one.

Playlist: December 30,2009

My 2000s: Twenty Albums that Meant More to Me than Others

The Go Betweens — That Way

Radiohead — Kid A (2000)
Everything in It’s Right Place

Jenny Toomey — Antidote (2001)
Patsy Cline

The Aluminum Group — Happyness (2001)
Pop

Bjork — Vespertine (2001)
Crabcraft

Rafael Toral — Violence of Discovery and Calm of Acceptance (2001)
Optical Flow

Fennesz — Endless Summer (2001)
Shisheido

Jonas Bering — Bienfait (2000)
track 3

Boards of Canada — Geogaddi (2002)
Music Is Math

Cornelius — Point (2002)
Bug / Point of View Point

Hecker — Sun Pandamonium (2003)
Bsf Tyk 5

Stephen Malkmus — Pig Lib (2003)
Animal Midnight

Archer Prewitt — Wilderness (2005)
O, KY

Field Music — Field Music (2005)
You Can Decide

Nathan Michel — The Beast (2005)
Status Dive

The Mountain Goats — The Sunset Tree (2005)
You or Your Memory

Fovea Hex — Bloom (2005)
We Sleep You Bloom

Paul Motian / Joe Lovano / Bil Frisell — I Have the Room Above Her (2005)
I Have the Room Above Her

Flying Lotus — Reset EP (2007)
Tea Leaf Dancers

Destroyer — Trouble In Dreams (2008)
Foam Hands

David Sylvian — Manafon (2009)
Small Metal Gods

Playlist: December 23, 2009

My favorites from 2009, counting down from 20 to 1.
Fun City!

The Go-Betweens — That Way

20. Crayon Fields — All The Pleasures of the World (Chapter Music)
Disappear
19. Mark McGuire — VDSQ–Solo Acoustic Volume Two (Gneiss Things)
Front Porch Breeze
18. Tortoise — Beacons of Ancestorship (Thrill Jockey)
High Class Slim Came Floatin’ In
17. Slow Club — Yeah So (Moshi Moshi)
It Doesn’t Have to Be Beautiful
16. BJ Nilsen & Stilluppsteypa — Man From Deep River (Editions Mego)
Man From Deep River Part II [fragment]
15. Grizzly Bear — Veckatimest (Warp)
Two Weeks
14. Simon Joyner — Out Into the Snow (Team Love)
The Arsonist
13. Bill Callahan — Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle (Drag City)
Eid Ma Clack Shaw
12. Masha Qrella — Speak Low (Morr Music)
I Talk to the Trees
11. Giuseppe Ielasi — Aix (12k)
[untitled track 3]
10. Generationals — Con Law (Park the Van)
Nobody Could Change Your Mind
9. Kevin Drumm — Imperial Horizon (Hospital Productions)
Just Lay Down and Forget It [fragment]
8. Espers — III (Drag City)
Caroline
7. Jim O’Rourke — The Visitor (Drag City)
The Visitor [fragment]
6. Hermit Thrushes — Slight Fountain (Joyful Noise)
Snowflake Heart
5. Burning Hearts — Alboa Sleeping (Shelflife)
Sea Birds
4. Heather Woods Broderick — From the Ground (Preservation)
Wounded Bird
3. Grand Salvo — Soil Creatures (Preservation)
Sea
2. James Blackshaw — The Glass Bead Game (Young God)
Bled
1. David Sylvian — Manafon (Samadhi Sound)
Emily Dickinson

Playlist: December 9, 2009

The Go-Betweens — That Way
Grand Salvo — Strung Along and Dumped
Gravenhurst — The Ice Tree
Gregor Samsa — The Adolescent
Seely — Sandy

Patience and Prudence — Tonight You Belong to Me

Jack Rose — Now That I’m A Man Full Grown II
James Blackshaw — Key
John Fahey — Poor Boy
Jack Rose — Cathedral et Chartres

Lawrence English — Relocated (UTC)

Bjork — Frosti / Aurora
High Places — Banana Slugs / Cosmonaut
The Hylozoists — Bubbles & Wheezy
Jamie Long — Pool House

John Foxx and Robin Guthrie — My Life as an Echo

Minimum Chips — Snow Peas
Oscar Peterson Trio — Come Sunday
Paul Wirkus — View Finder
Polwechsel — Core Cut
Ryan Teague — Tableau I
Shearwater — On the Death of the Waters
Tortoise — Salt the Skies

Playlist: December 2, 2009

DJ Battle format.
O = Dan O.
A = Dan A.

The Go-Betweens — That Way
O: Summer Cats — Let’s Go!
A: The Units — The Mission is Bitchin
O: The Chap — Carlos Walter Wendy Stanley
A: Atlas Sound — Walkabout
O: Grizzly Bear — Cheerleader (Neon Indian Studio 6669 remix)
A: Gang Gang Dance — House Jam
O: Incredibad — Just 2 Guyz

O: Ike and Tina Turner — River Deep Mountain High
A: Jack Penate — Everything Is New
O: Saint Etienne — Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Richard X “Foxbase Beta” Extended Remix)
A: tUnE-yArDs — Fiya
O: Will Stratton — Vile Bodies
A: Volcano Choir — Island, IS

A: The Love Language — Lalita
O: Hot Chip — Take It In
A: fun. — All The Pretty Girls
O: Pas/Cal — Little Radio
A: Spoon — Written In Reverse
O: Wetdog — Women’s Final
A: St Vincent — Save Me From What I Want
O: Citay — Careful With That Hat
A: Built to Spill — Hindsight

O: The Fall — F-Oldin’ Money
A: Dr. Dog — Hang On
A: Psychedelic Furs — Until She Comes

Playlist: November 25, 2009

Solange Knowles — Stillness Is The Move
The High Llamas — Harpers Romo
The Octopus Project — Wet Gold
Razorcuts — I Heard You the First Time
Peter Bjorn and John — Seaside Rock
Saint Etienne — Goodnight Jack
Glorytellers — Hawaiian Sunshine
Alison Statton & Spike — Alternations
Nomo — Three Shades
Felt — On Weegee’s Sidewalk
Throw Me The Statue — Hi-Fi Goon
Point Juncture, WA — Once Tasted Ever Wanted
Quasi — All the Same
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band — A Child’s Guide to Good and Evil
The Byrds — Hickory Wind
Brightblack Morning Light — Black Feather Wishes Rise
Tindersticks — Black Smoke
Stu Phillips — Love at the Marina
Worst Friends — I Wish I Don’t Drop Dead
Lukas Nystrand and the Ageema Blues — Knivar
Paul White — Highlife
Bossanova — Rare Brazil
Oneohtrix Point Never — Russian Mind
My Bloody Valentine — Thorn
Talulah Gosh — Break Your Face
Teenage Filmstars — Kiss Me
Real Estate — Suburban Beverage

Playlist: November 18, 2009

The Go-Betweens — That Way
Robert Wyatt — Free Will and Testament
His Name is Alive — Beech Boys
Popol Vuh — Morgengruss II
Trembling Blue Stars — A Slender Wrist
Acid House Kings — A Long Term Plan
Action Painting! — These Things Happen
#Poundsign# — Ayso
Laura Veirs — I Can See Your Tracks
Laura Veirs — July Flame
The Sight Below — Murmur
Euphone — Needle and Crate
Subway — Crystalline
Youthanasia — Mondo Cane
The Monochrome Set — Eine Symphonie des Grauens
Belbury Poly — Designated Wizard Practice Area
Luke Vibert — Silver Snorse Hotel
Super Madrigal Brothers — Say, Dear, Will You Not Have
A — My memory is like a film. That is why
The Rational Academy — Teen Diethylamide 25
The Pop Project — Hearts and Flowers
Boston Spaceships — How Wrong You Are
Boston Spaceships — Radical Amazement
Songs:Ohia — Blue Factory Flame
Rome — Radiolucence
The Ropers — Blue Sunday