Motte and Bailey

This week, a grab bag of some new gems and some older deep cuts. The Motte is a deep dive into the world of folktronica, and the Bailey is non-stop gritty and wild noise rock.Playlist: Leo Seligo - Away WaitingFrench Paddleboat - Signal That Opens GatesOMB - Unconscious wwworld새눈도둑 Bird's Eye Thief - TriarpBatfinks - Ort To GopNeo Geodesia - Médiatrix of Brévie Lineconnect_icut - 74 GuitarsGroomble - speeedLeafcutter John - MelimëlonCG tears - Blue Wall of EctoplasmThose Who Walk Away - Memorial Environment #4Still There - Weatheringven y mira - absortohalfmass - consequencen.u.do - d3ad l3tt3rsHangedup & Tony Conrad - Flying Fast N FuriousSly and the Family Drone - In The OilsBlemishes - I Want To Be Water

This week, an episode that originally was going to be themed around summer ending, but the setlist was made while I was sick, so it ended up a lot wonkier than I expected. You could probably find all seasons in here for all I know. The Motte goes from psychedelic ambient to plunderphonic EDM, and the Bailey has a bunch of new avant-garde jazz!Playlist: Animal Collective - #1Cindy Lee - Til Polarity's EndDealers of God - It's Too Easyeternity god - sensation wholeLuke Requena - Tale of the Dead MonkWKWP - In The RangeHaunted Ghost, Plains Apparition - Holding On (Try)dotnds - Tuning / GirlfriendsThe Lampreys - Object-PermanentJewelry-AlwaysEnraile - Tw40 I'm InsideDream as One - First LightPicastro - Chance StrikerHaHarry Bartlett and Kurtis Perrie - BanyaFriesen / Hume / Waters - PastoralRaymond Roussel - Multi-WattAhmed - Bye-Ya / EpistrophySHAAANE - Coma Wars

Showfill by Miguel Venexen (@soleo333/@bazbombers_cjsw) starts with the dusty, psychedelic, stoner rock energy to feed off The Nocturntable, then gradually moves into stranger, more experimental territory. The middle becomes the electronic heart of the set... hypnotic vibes, more abstract, less dancefloor for electronic. From there, guitars and organic sounds slowly return, leading into a darker, heavier stretch before the set emerges back into psychedelic/prog to make way for Megawatt Mayhem.Playlist: Bobby Hawk - Cowboy ThrillerDead Meadow - Good Moanin'Dead Meadow - Tomorrow Never KnowsVanishing Twin - ZuumTrees Speak - Wave HealerTrees Speak - MinotaurThe Comet Is Coming - Astral FlyingKishi Bashi, Tall Tall Trees & The Sound Sanctuary - NyctinastyGrandbrothers - BloodflowAir - RadianRone - Bye Bye MacadamRone - NaktAir - Dirty TripJohannes Motschmann - Wurlitzer EncoderJon Hopkins - Emerald Rush (Edit)Beat - Without StoppingHawksmoor - ParallelogramsMesonox - My Thunder CollectionMesonox - In/AroundCarlton Melton - Hidden LightsTrees Speak - Blame ShifterThe Black Dog - Béton-BrutOffworld Narcotics - Chained (The Descent)Bondo - While My Guitar Gently PeaksMondo Drag - Incendiary Procession

A (mostly) relaxed and chill episode of Motte and Bailey? Say it ain't so! The Motte has folky and ethereal ambient, and the Bailey has all sorts of experimental rock.Playlist: Yo La Tengo - Green ArrowAl Helperin - There Were Lights in the SkySlinky - through endless plainsRoy Montgomery, Martha Skye Murphy - At DawnSea Oleena - UntetheringArid Landscapes - SegwayHABIIIBIJI - حبيـــبيجي - looking at people's faces in the street hoping it's yoursHana Stretton - as it was before thisRodney Guitarsplat - Behind One of the TombstonesPalimpsusurrus - TranscedentalBill Orcutt & Mabe Fratti - The Heaven of our MiseryTara Clerkin Trio - Ups & DownsSome Become Hollow Tubes - Killing A Dead EagleL'Rain - borderlineThe Discretes - Blue Hour PendingOOIOO / Lightning Bolt - THE HORIZONEl Café Atómico - ¿Con quién vamos?

Motte & Bailey Showfill by Miguel Venexen "Calgary Experimental Electronics" ~Bandcamp Friday got us~ After picking up a stack of new albums from Zeptosecond Records, City of Fire Records and 30/30, we figured there was no better way to show them off than to dedicate an entire Motte & Bailey show to some of the incredible experimental electronic music coming out of Calgary. Special thanks to Milan for helping give music like this a home. All local and formerly local artists!! From ambient, downtempo, experimental and electronic music... from hazy and atmospheric to strange, beautiful and occasionally/often unsettling. Featuring music from Stelar Door, Doughnut Skin, Swan Void, Nyxothera, Masked Opponent, Ghost Cartridge and Blair Sveinson (my accountant! Radio Debut!) Basically, we went shopping on Bandcamp and came home with enough music to justify an entire episode. Enjoy!Playlist: Blair Sveinson - Meteor ShowerStelar Door - Seeking AnswersGhost Cartridge - resetNyxothera - CorvidaeDoughnut Skin - Box Cutter BluesGhost Cartridge - alone in the forest at nightStelar Door - Outer LimitsNyxothera - Hazel SkiesDoughnut Skin - Dark Brown Dodge Shadow Abandoned On DeerfootStelar Door - ForzandoNyxothera - The Whitest DoveGhost Cartridge - as the clay driesStelar Door - Wood DripNyxothera - Butterfly VinesGhost Cartridge - bugs all over meNyxothera - Concrete PathGhost Cartridge - a youngish man is riddled with self doubtDoughnut Skin - Man Arriving Home On Xmas EveStelar Door - Between UsBlair Sveinson - InfluenceGhost Cartridge - family dinnerStelar Door - GiantsMasked Opponent - RaftersSwan Void - It Was Always HollowGhost Cartridge - ocean in the darkSwan Void - Deeply InsideGhost Cartridge - please please please please pleaseSwan Void - Soon, The Night ComesGhost Cartridge - reading next to a lampSwan Void - A Brief MomentGhost Cartridge - she looks in the mirrorSwan Void - To Feel EverythingGhost Cartridge - thirty thirty visionSwan Void - Star CollapseGhost Cartridge - watching tv alone in the darkMasked Opponent - Merch StandNyxothera - Oh Baby

This week, we're going back to basics with some folk and jazz. The Motte has a psychedelic blend between ambient, pop and folky tunes, and the Bailey has straight experimental jazz with a monolithic live performance in the middle.Playlist: Shabason & Krgovich - Field MousePume Orenge - HeadedLiam Aldous - Bright Times (From The Future)OVXX - oh 'tistic galvanistic one!Chad Vangaalen - Earth Peopleamy rose mills - 222Heith & Tarawangsawelas - Dua Jadi HijiPotions - SatShearling - Believe Me (Dust)many tiny boxes - A Sky In Our EyeFinn Baird McConnell - DroughtArthur King - It Doesn't MoveSteph Richards - October to JulyNick Fraser - Mimicparenthesisi - poor man imitates the sound of the countrysideOdun - Airegin RhapsodyPhillip Golub - blue-orange reflections

This week, more recent noisy goodness with a darker and moodier spin throughout. The Motte has experimental EDM and ambient, and the Bailey has some gargantuan rock and metal tracks.Playlist: Chandramathi - ColdPJS - Metamorphic 2Madeleine Pyramids - EXTENDED TEMPLATEupsammy, Valentina Magaletti - Thickness of Signsporcelaein - Setting son / How far can you imagine yourself in its glow鍋一楠 (Guo Yinan), 猿 (Yuan) - 雪原 (Snowfield)ScrapeMaxxing - Commanding Wind and Rainblunt morphage - global hardcoreSEXCORP., featuring catzin - ANARCO-NIILISMOMythmaking - Dance of the ValleyHesse Kassel - Pornomiseriareal friend - You Don't Want The BumpersSpiral Staircase - medusa fawnMy House Walkthrough - Century of HumiliationTrelldom - Folding the Mind

This week, a rootin-tootin country and folk episode to celebrate the Stampede spirit, running from ambient country to mind-bending bluegrass folk jams. Yeehaw!Playlist: Townes Van Zandt - Dead FlowersGhost Cartridge - as the clay driesJaymie Silk - Dreams of PeaceCédric Dind-Lavoie - LignesPhil Geraldi - Taos HumDaniel Lanois - At The Foot of The Skyway BridgePotions - Scottsdalewhait, featuring Jules Reidy - Suffer MoreSuss - Sunset IVSkunk Hotel - Darkness Surrounding a FlameCharlie Tweddle - Untitled 6Matmos, People Like Us, Wobbly - ShenandoahLightdreams - Follow The StreamSun City Girls - Holy GroundCaroliner - Huge GunsetEugene Chadbourne - Swingin' DoorsThe Phanerozoic Eon - Space

This week, an all metal festival, featuring a live performance from Calgary power / death metal band Balrogath!!! The Motte and Bailey has fun metal, weird metal, chaotic metal, and everything in between. Don't miss out on this one!Playlist: BIG|BRAVE - a shape of shameKaatayra - Rio sem NomeWarning - Night Comes DownMilkmaid - Aileen's HeadshotBalrogath - On Dragons We RideBalrogath - CarnifexBalrogath - Great Curse Made FleshBalrogath - Endless Lifetime of HateOnchocerciasis Esophagogastroduodenoscopy - Heaven's Empty HallsJUNON - Unterm GlutmondSaaga - DottirAr'lyxkq'wr - Yth-RLVkogha'naqlTrichomoniasis - Oceanic Pole of InaccessibilityGuttersnipe - Threads Of Radical Unaliveness

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A chill (mostly) summer episode this week while I'm out of the booth.Playlist: Michael Scott Dawson, anthene - asleep insidefeldmark - SnowkissedTaSheri Foster - Dogs on the MoonNervous Operator - First Ritual CompanyPriori, featuring Jesse Osborne-Lanthier - Basalt TonesIntertoto - Condor LaunchFlaccid Mojo - Bang Your ChainIbrahim Alfa Jnr. - Drum Slinger (Other Version)Nahash - All the Flowers are Dead0xGRLF00D - SP LP EPmu tate, featuring Ben Bondy - memory of a memoryLa Scie - OmbrelleMighty Old Redwood - WitchesEast of the Valley Blues - The Spider UnderneathQuiet Winter - whoa damUlaan Passerine - A Calvary of CloudsGloios, featuring Vítor Marsula - Meio homem, meio bolo de cimento e tijolo baianoN.S.S.I.C.T.W - I

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Another Long Song Special for these trying times, keeping it simple with dark ambient to jazz rock.Playlist: Alan & Jan - Déjà VuMeredith Bates - Book 1: 3rd Incantation (love)Hechicera Guadalupe Santamaría Negrete - S.N. Guadalupe, hechiceraLA Timpa - BondDoughnut Skin - Stretch Until Limbs Come OffGigi Masin - UMICroz Boyce - Steven’s Sunshine RejectedThis Is The Glasshouse - Old GeorgeEnsemble Infini - Requiem & Fanfare (pour Peter B.)Backengrillen - Socialism or BarbarismBurro - Enbalmed Indulgence

This week, some unbridled upbeat fun for this warm summer evening! The Motte has a combination of DnB and IDM (with an X-tra special set in the middle!), and the Bailey has free improvisation, some of it stripped back and some of it absolutely chaotic.Playlist: Huerco S. - Plonk VIIIT.Power - Postcards from Plutohaiipara - you (how does it feel)Masked Opponent - Merch StandXylitol - MelancholiaXingu Hill - The Conquistador Closes His Eyesx.nte - undocumented supplexN O Moore - side 2_2Picastro - Fell The Family Treeaudry - forever to bring men's minds back to the painful detailIvo Perelman and Damon Smith - EightQuit Music - Sometimes I doNolan Hildebrand - DATA BENDERBob Bell - Track 4

This week, a heavier and darker episode in celebration of the new Boards of Canada album! The Motte has beat-driven and experimental ambient, and the Bailey is chock full of wild and heavy free jazz.Playlist: Boards of Canada - All Reason DepartsIsolated Showers - Time Lag HumidifierKhôra, Mas Aya - The BornlessGrumm Trencher - HuntedMonopoly Child Star Searchers, featuring Sun Araw - Lava Solos on HorsebackElementals' Orrery - Desert Court of Whale, New Coral CityCoil - The Snowflrst - 141 days from todayBellbird - Blowing on EmbersPhillip Golub - utopian micronationWebber/Morris Big Band - Mist/MissedQuit Music - Sometimes i don'tFact - with a bit of assisstance from my palsEarth Ball - Where I Come From

This week, and All-Canadian long classics episode, with some new music mixed into the bunch! The Motte has grainy and noisy ambient, and the Bailey is a collection of some fine experimental / post rock.Playlist: Unknown Mobile, featuring Rob Dickson - GalteröOssements - Suite I - Die GeisterglockeNPNP, Jairus Sharif - Crows Vision of a Flat PlaneTim Hecker - Virginal IMoss Harvest - Glass Into SandDeath Kneel - Maybe Some Other TimeLiam Aldous - Genie Apparition & Water is MagicHermitess - The Birds Never LeftPolmo Polpo - Farewelljordaan mason - stop walking start swimmingi.o - with vital force they feed meLucid 44 - slow down panicGodspeed You Black Emperor! - Piss Crowns Are TrebledNadja, Pyramids - An Angel Was Heard to Cry Over the City of Rome

This week, part two of the NCRA award celebration! This time, a look at some of my favorite artists that shaped the sound of the early days of this show. On the Motte: Ambient with a hint of electronica at the end. On the Bailey: Calming jazz that slowly gets warped into wild free improvisation and metal.Playlist: 1958-2009 - A2Ariel Ulysses - 1:19:10 + 1:22:56 (original concept)Desolatum - spiralConcrete Cedars - For Those Who Live In ApartmentsEine Kleine China - Zugzwangsub lumen - Fireflies OilA Pact Between Strangers - Sowbuddywudd - DJ Tomand RenallAline's étoile magique - SegmentYlang Ylang - DamageKalia Vandever - Hubbard RoadEsbjorn Svensson Trio - Premonition II. ContortedColin Stetson - BloodrestTantric Bile - Familial Blood GuiltImperial Triumphant - Gomorrah Nouveauxわたしのココ (Watashi No Koko) - kj

Part 1 of the Motte and Bailey NCRA award celebration special, looking at some of my favourite artists I've learned about these last three years. Easily the most chaotic episode I've had in awhile.Playlist: Fishmans - LONG SEASONJairus Sharif - Water & ToolsQuit Music - others i wontEstrogen Estrogen Estrogen - 12-2:00 AM Wednesday 90.9fmArts&Crafts - Footprints in the SandSwan Void - AscensionThe Sleep Dealers - hold on to your heartTelematic Visions - moratoriumDJ Bamberino - Magical Girls With Long JohnsAsleep Country - Comedy of Hand SleightsDeprivationn, featuring Hennerson Hendryx - an end to a mire caught in the razorblades of realityPyrrhon - Last Gasp

This week, a classic pairing of wild electronic music and free jazz! The Motte has a bunch of glitchy tunes ranging from ambient to psytrance monoliths, and the Bailey has a wide variety of avant-garde jazz.Playlist: Madeleine Pyramids - BENEATHDaniel Majer - Divided Heartestle, featuring Ari Lilola - Life in SuperpositionOnline Threat - Life After LifeIHP - Deliver Us From EvilDittofused - AnzySlikback - TIDALcrasse et paillettes - marguerite elle est maladeThe Plastic Waste Band - Bear Awarenesseel - Load BearingNick Fraser - There Are Other WaysPink Flamingo - A New Way To Say HelloFact - white out springPet Retina - Untitled 5

This week, an energetic episode to complement last week's toned down sounds (and also a sort of birthday episode too). The Motte has ambient and IDM with some new releases from classic artists, and the Bailey has metal galore.Playlist: ka lok - cairo_space_stationmoonhasteeth - In bocca al lupo (in the wolf's mouth)Actress, Suzanne Ciani - London B2Hadd_ - adriftNondi_ - Tree FestivalFlying Lotus - CAPTAIN KERNALSquarepusher - K4 FairlandsAlbum - GenreApollo Bitrate - two bewildering threshoutsAutechre - Gantz GrafSwan Void - LamentSUNN O))) - Butch's GunsFawn Limbs & Nadja - Cascading EntropyBeannachd Leibh - Allegiance To TheiaVoidstar Nocturnal - 1/137Kovtun - Lost Epiphanies

This week, an episode dedicated to the flu I caught a couple days ago. The Motte is nothing but calming ambient, and the Bailey is a throwback to the early days of the show with some post rock and math rock.Playlist: Boards of Canada - Tape 05Ghosts of Dead Structures - You Can't Stay Here ForeverSiimoya - 0.9Corporation - Sa dent douce à la mortBitter Fictions - Amethyst & EmeraldKruseR - Hustle To FlowMadeleine Pyramids - BLANKPan American - Entrance to AfterlifePopulation II - Liaisons (450)Panda Rosa, Johnathan Citizen - System is Down, Swing the WeaponRoy Montgomery - Pyromantic Ideationteodioteodio - CatástrofeHypercollider - how wonderfulAngine De Poitrine - Mata ZyklekMicrowaves - Bedtime for Treats

This week, some more heavy stuff for everyone pummelling through final assignments! The Motte has a little ambient and a lot of wild electronica, and the Bailey has a mix of long free jazz and metal pieces.Playlist: feldmark - Wandering GibsonNoémi Büchi, featuring Anushka Chkheidze - dislocated bodiesEvent Cloak - False PositiveOklou, Casey MQ - DAWNTwelfty - Exxon My Chestsix impala - HATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEGuinneissik 기나이직 - Rules of SummerGoreshit - banfield's crazy fingersReizoko Cj - Svensk Super Kung-FuNyxothera - BabyNick Fraser - AreaRapid Zen - Clockwork Predictibilitymandelbrat - what muscle is thatNathan Corder, Tom Weeks - ErnstBekor Qilish - Where Horror Fadeth, Error TranscendethSymbolicance - Symbolicance

This week, some more atmospheric music inspired by my current reading kick. The Motte has ambient moving into sound collage, and the Bailey has a wide range of free jazz and noise to end the day off.Playlist: WKWP - New York CityBeach Vicodin, Thoughts on Air - Beautifully Fucked UpMark Templeton - Highway/HypnosisBitter Fictions - AquamarineKXSSEAGGOINE - rapture, part 1shelby obzut - curses are workingKyle Cahill, featuring mulch - Xerox (Crack the Glass)anarchrrow - MATCHBOXLos Thuthanaka - Wara Wara (capo-kullawada)Nathan Yell - reverberatesinonó - siento y sigoIshmael Ali - Stars In My PocketEnsemble Infini - Table PlusFACT , featuring Quiet Winter - FORTIFIED.Vivian Raine - A Canvas, An Exit / Porcelain BloodObelix - Right Key, Wrong Door

This week, straight chaos across the board, dedicated to all students pushing through the last few weeks of school right now. The Motte has wild electronic music, and the Bailey has some heavy and menacing rock and metal.Playlist: moonhasteeth - May the wolf die (crepi il lupo)b.michaael - Midi ChaseCares - Dataset I Trustdotnds - Arm Gen 7GAN!GAN!GAO! - ganganganBlood of Aza - IN VAINApollo Bitrate - making sandcastles out of oblivionDJ Bamberino - AutostimmerzzzzzSwan Void - Bourke Street SaturdayUnwound - Below the Saltheavensouls - shed a tear for meDungeon Eye/ Post Cog/ Quit Music - The SpoilsNomad War Machine, Susan Alcorn - Those Who Do Not DanceAborted Defecated Whale, featuring Snotnoze Saleem - Untitled 1Codex Crudelitas - Luminescing Faintly Through Unsightly Tissue Amalgam

This week, a heavy atmospheric episode heavily inspired by the TV adaptation of Hirohiro Araki's masterpiece "Steel Ball Run". The Motte is full of ambient and psychedelic rock, and the Bailey has hypnotic music around the world, ending with raw unbridled rage. Truly a very long roundabout path...Playlist: Hank and Slim - Thumbs In BeltloopsBordeleau - Dead FriendsDaniel Lanois - The Deadly NightshadeFKCH - IHayden Pedigo - SmokedShane Parish - BikePullman - WeightlessBitter Fictions - GarnetOeXaOxEe - The Meatlet / Terminator's FamilyToninato & Thiessen - Hot Blood FlowAsleep Country - Golden Goose of Rock Bottom ↘ Fauxberge by CommitteeTanya Tagaq - Black BootPraed - Assarab السرابAntropoceno - Ayaba OxumNeurosis - In the Waiting Hours