Episode 164: 2013 Retrospective

Another year in the can. Thanks for listening and feeding back.

"Purple+" from the self titled CD from White+. Courtesy of the artist.Episode 153.

"The Post Office" by Et Kin from Resonant Operator. Freely Available. Episode 163.

"Summit Expedition" from the self-titled album by Arp Navigators. Courtesy of Moon Glyph. Episode 154.

"Cant" by Ekin Fil from Language. Freely available. Episode 159.

"Crystals" by Clams Casino from the Grand Theft Audio V soundtrack. Clams Casino has made the track freely available. Episode 161.

"Long Pictures of Action" by Alex from Quickdraw. Freely available. Episode 160.

"Used to be a Time" by Treehouse from Past Athena Court. Courtesy of Forever South. Episode 157.

"Sultan of the Grid Plane (Saturday Swordz Part 2)" by RADicule from Humanoide. Courtesy of the artist. Episode 158.

"Maximum Big Surprise" by Saint Pepsi from New Generation. Courtesy of the artist. Episode 156.

"I Love You" by Ghasper from We Could Change. Available as name your price. Episode 162.

"Abaxial Masks With Sockets Closed To Hide The Face When The Destroyer Comes Alive" by Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement from The Plant With Many Faces. Courtesy of Hospital Productions. Episode 155.

Thanks for listening.

Episode 163: Lucky, Fortunate and Strong

This may be the last original episode of the year, tradition being that the final episode of the year is a retrospective. But maybe we can squeeze out a new episode on NYE.

"All Human Is Error" by Teeth of the Sea from Master. Courtesy of Rocket Recordings.

"Silktails for Isabel" by Holly Waxwing from Goldleaf Acrobatics. Courtesy of Noumenal Loom.

"Rising" by Wooden Shjips from West. Courtesy of Thrill Jockey.

"Movement VI" by L. Pierre from Surface Noise. Courtesy of Melodic.

"Meteor" by Sapphire Slows from Allegoria. Courtesy of Not Not Fun.

"Garage Rehearsal" by PK Jazz Collective from 4x4. Freely available.

"North" by Jastreb from Mother Europe. Courtesy of the artist.

"Midnight Love" by Greg from Dating Game. Freely available.

"The Post Office" by Et Kin from Resonant Operator. Freely Available.

"To Forget" by Secret Pyramid from Movements of the Night. Courtesy of Students of Decay.

"Ancaster Heights" from the self-titled album by Zacht Automaat. Courtesy of Calico Corp.

The Spartacus Classic album of the month is Stereolab's Transient Random Noise Bursts with Announcements.

Episode 162: Sunday Morning

So it is almost cliche to mourn the passing of Lou Reed, and he probably would scoff at the outpouring I witnessed on social networks Sunday.

But he was awesome, both an icon and iconoclastic.

On with the show.

"I Love You" by Ghasper from We Could Change. Available as name your price.

"Beyond Life" by CFCF from Outside. Courtesy of Brille.

"Tonight Saddam Walks Amidst Ruins" by Vatican Shadow from Remember Your Black Day. Courtesy of Hospital.

The title track from Razed to the Ground by Pinkish Black. Courtesy of the artist.

"Olet Maailman Syli" by Paavoharju from Joko Sinä Tulet Tänne Alas Tai Minä Nousen Sinne. Courtesy of Svart.

"Too Young for Tragedy, Pt. II" by Griz from Rebel Era. Freely available.

"Stab Variation" by Tim Hecker from Virgins. Courtesy of Kranky.

The title track from Give In To Live by Wildildlife. Free Download.

"Choreia" by Midday Veil from The Current. Courtesy of Translinguistic Other.

"Shema Koli" by Barbez from Bella Ciao. Courtesy of the artist.

"Rock Kid" by Foodman from IROIRO. Courtesy of Digitalis.

"Silver Headband" by Cave from Threace. Courtesy of Drag City.

To remember the master, the Spartacus Classic Album is The Velvet Underground and Nico.

Episode 161: Bleep, Sweeps and Arps

As I recover from outpatient procedures, I enjoy this show very much.

"L a d d e r s" by Odd Nosdam from Trish. Courtesy of the artist.

"Boring Angel" by Oneohtrix Point Never from R Plus Seven. Courtesy of Warp.

The title track from The Art of Memory by Brandon Nickell. Courtesy of Tundra Dubs.

"Crystals" by Clams Casino from the Grand Theft Audio V soundtrack. Clams Casino has made the track freely available.

"We Failed" by t y l e r e t t e r s & the northern information movement from senescence. Courtesy of the artist.

"Radom" by Raining Leaf from Gemini. Freely available.

"Plucked from the Ground, Towards the Sun" by Huerco S from Colonial Powers. Courtesy of Mexican Summer.

"SSP" by Drew Price's Bermuda Triangle from Friends and Family. Courtesy of Happenin Records.

"Reconsider" by WMD from Melancholy. Courtesy of the artist.

"The Fence" by Mind Over Mirrors from When the Rest Are Up At Four. Courtesy of the artist.

"Mirrored Palms" by Helm from Silencer. Courtesy of Alter.

"Orlok" by Anna Meredith from Jet Black Raider. Courtesy of Moshi Moshi.

The Spartacus Classic album this month is the debut album by Gary Numan's early band Tubeway Army, a protopunk/proto-new-wave masterpiece.

Episode 160: Semi Truck as Preferred Medium

Another month, another hosting bill.

"Mist (Winter)" by White Hills from So You Are... So You'll Be. Courtesy of Thrill Jockey.

"A Farewell Bouquet" by Recycle Culture from Intrinsicity. Courtesy of the artist.

"Long Pictures of Action" by Alex from Quickdraw. Freely available.

"Simba" by Total Normal from Tales of the Expected. Courtesy of the artist.

"Night Drive" by Architecture in Tokyo from their split release with Drip 133 Lilac '97. Freely available.

"Thor's Stone" by Forest Swords from Engravings. Courtesy of the artist.

"Sleep Deep (Jel and Odd Nosdam Remix)" by Mwahaha from the freely availble Jel remix compilation Jel Mix Mice Elf.

"Stay with Me" by Warm Thighs from their self titled album. Freely available.

"Vaporware 5" by Donato Dozzy from Plays Bee Mask. Courtesy of Spectrum Spools.

"Myriads Rise (Gift Culture Mix)" by Libations and Oscillations from Myriads Revisited. Freely available.

"Alvarado" by High Wolf from Kairos Chronos. Courtesy of Not Not Fun.

The Spartacus Album of the month is the last Bauhaus classic studio album Burning from the Inside.

Episode 159: Stirrups

Summertime and the living is hectic....

"Pyramid Kosmos" by The Octopus Project from Fever Forms. Courtesy of Peek-a-Boo Records.

"Chicago" by Old Apparatus from Compendium. Courtesy of the artist.

"Protogenesis" by Grumbling Fur from Glynnaestra. Courtesy of Thrill Jockey.

"Skylla" by Camera from System Solaire. Courtesy of Bureau B.

"Tree" by Follakzoid from II. Courtesy of Sacred Bones.

"Demon" by Dean Blunt from The Redeemer. Courtesy of Hippos in Tanks.

"Preservation" by Hookworms from Pearl Mystic. Courtesy of the artist.

"Cant" by Ekin Fil from Language. Freely available.

"Water Temple" by Modern Ritual from Perception is the Echo. Freely available.

"Przeswit" by Stara Rzeka from Cien Chmury nad Ukrytym Polem. Courtesy of the artist.

"White Desert Cedar" by Aidan Baker with Richard Baker from Smudging. Courtesy of the artist.

This episodes Spartacus Classic Album of the month is a newer album. Foetus mastermind JG Thirlwell does his bombastic score work for the Venture Brothers cartoon, available in this amazing soundtrack album.

Episode 158: Dr. Spartacus Roosevelt Hour

In June 2005, the first episode of the Spartacus Roosevelt Hour went online and stayed for two weeks. There are only about 500 downloads as an episode eight years later, but three times that every month of the back issues. The first year is not available, because at that time I just played what I wanted to play and didn't clear things. Now I only play things where I have talked to someone with the artist, band or label and they have given me the go-ahead to play one or all of their music. But thank you for sticking with me for 8 years and as a gift, here is the rebel and uncleared show number 1. (Apparently two years ago I had this same bright idea. Here is 2 and 3 also.)

Now onto this week's show.

"Kirsten" by Lust for Youth from Perfect View. Courtesy of Sacred Bones.

"Evermore" by Black Swan from Redemption. Courtesy of the artist.

"Dexedream" by Food Pyramid from Ecstasy and Refreshment. Courtesy Intercoastal Artists.

"Sultan of the Grid Plane (Saturday Swordz Part 2)" by RADicule from Humanoide. Courtesy of the artist.

"Electronic Sighs" by Bodyline from Electronic Broadcasts. Courtesy of Fortune 500.

"Machu Piccu" by Aavikko from Planet Fun-fun. Courtesy of the artist.

"Le Grand" by Lilacs and Champagne from Danish and Blue. Courtesy of Mexican Summer.

"Mondo Narcotico" by Lussuria from American Babylon. Courtesy of Hospital Productions.

"Social Studies" by ADR from Chunky Monkey. Courtesy of Hippos in Tanks.

"16" by Paco Sala from The Fog. Courtesy of Digitalis.

"Covered in Writing" by Eluvium from Nightmare Ending. Courtesy of Temporary Residence.

This month's Spartacus Roosevelt Classic album is Bill Laswell's City of Light. In the mid-90s, producer of every style of music went to Benares India and made field recordings. Coming back he kept some of the recordings and passed others to Coil, Tetsu Inoue and tabla artist Trilok Gurtu. They all remixed the found sounds and used to underscore verse read by Lori Carson, making one of my favorite albums of the mid 90s and Bill Laswell's entire catalog.

Episode 157: Started Thinking

Welcome to summer. Next month will be the eighth anniversary of the show and hopefully there are another few years ahead of us.

The title track from This is a Warning by Slugabed. Courtesy of Activia Benz.

"Hibachi" by Japanese from the self titled album. Freely available from Fortune 500.

"Used to be a Time" by Treehouse from Past Athena Court. Courtesy of Forever South.

"Average Guy" by TV Girl and Monster Rally. Available from here.

"Voices Came Crackling Across A Motorola Hand-Held Radio" by Vatican Shadow from It Stands to Conceal. Courtesy of Hospital Productions.

"Crawling on Bruised Knees" by Pharmakon from Abandon. Courtesy of Sacred Bones.

"Brood And Talk Rot" by Jonas Reinhardt from Mask Of The Maker. Courtesy of Not Not Fun.

"Hare Tarot Lies" by No Joy from Wait to Pleasure. Courtesy of Mexican Summer.

"Strobes" by Locust from You'll be Safe Forever. Courtesy of Editions Mego.

"An Overture Might Help Me Stop Thinking About You" by Ryan Hemsworth from the Friends of Friends Compilation Show me the Future.

"Ryan Gosling" by Mensa Group International from the album Mini LP. Freely available.

"Onit" by Philip Grass from the compilation Gem Drops Three. Courtesy of Dropping Gems.

"Lamru" by Mammane Sani et son Orgue from La Musique Electronique du Niger. Courtesy of Sahelsounds.

The Spartacus Classic Album of the month is Kraftwerk's Trans Europe Express.

Episode 156: Sonic Swirlies

The summer is almost here, so finishing spring with some swirling tracks.

"Little Lucid Dreamer" by Zomes from Time Was. Courtesy of Thrill Jockey.

"Wrecking Ball" by the Heliocentrics from 13 Degrees of Reality. Freely available.

"Ex Mass" by Implodes from Recurring Dream. Courtesy of Kranky.

"Les Infantils" by the Toblerones from Keki Oski. Courtesy of the artist.

"Maximum Big Surprise" by Saint Pepsi from New Generation. Courtesy of the artist.

"Polluted Seas" by FLAOFEI from Hammer Head. Courtesy of the artist.

The title track from Trigger Warning by Evil Robot Ted. Freely available.

"Blueen"by BTU from Without Armour. Courtesy of the arist.

"Oil Free Acne Scrub (Hey Jeremy)" by Miguel Baptista Benedict from Super(b)-Child-Ran. Courtesy of Ninja Tune.

"Water Park Theme" by Dirty Beaches from the Water Park Soundtrack. Courtesy of the artist.

"Somnambulist" by Brute Heart from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Courtesy of Moon Glyph.

The Spartacus Roosevelt Classic Album of the month is Sonic Youth's Bad Moon Rising, the album that destroyed my concept of song structure.

Episode 155: End of the Dance

This show is a throwback to some of the more psychedelic ones. It has some really spectacular tracks and artists.

"Late Flowering Dub" by the Asphodells from Ruled By Passion, Destroyed By Lust. Courtesy of Rotters Golf Club.

"Children, Pets, & Sassy Women" by RADicule from Waltz to Ganymede. Courtesy of the artist.

"Joining the Fire" by Nihiti from For Ostland. Courtesy of Lo Bit Landscapes.

"Garden Grove" by FWY! from Any Exit. Courtesy of Moon Glyph.

"Drift" from the self titled album from Stygian Stride. Courtesy of Thrill Jockey.

"Ko7l El-3ein, 3emian El-3ein" by Jerusalem in my Heart from Mo7it Al-Mo7it. Courtesy of Constellation Records.

"Alléluiá" by Ghedalia Tazartes from Coda Lunga. Courtesy of Julie Tippex.

"Agave Sticks" by Cankun from Culture of Pink. Courtesy of Hands in the Dark.

"Warmth, Ever So Pleasant" by Bear Bones, Lay Low from his split Gnod. Courtesy of the artist.

"MoonSide TRK 1" by Moon B from the self titled 12". Courtesy of the artist.

"Abaxial Masks With Sockets Closed To Hide The Face When The Destroyer Comes Alive" by Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement from The Plant With Many Faces. Courtesy of Hospital Productions.

The classic album of the month is Scorn's remix collection from the mid 90s, Ellipsis.

Episode 154: Broken and Tragic

Getting so much feedback makes me giddy. Hopefully planning some more travel in the summer, this time to the Balkans. I know I have listeners there so get in touch.

"Valedictorian" by Dan Friel from Total Folklore. Courtesy of Thrill Jockey.

"Sugar Tots" by Karen Gwyer from Needs Continuum. Courtesy of No Pain in Pop.

"Precession" from Anthroprophh's self-titled album. Courtesy of Rocket Recordings.

"Escopolamina" by Lucrecia Dalt from Commotus. Courtesy of HEM Berlin.

"Neu Weld" by Staingrass Agaric from his self-titled album. Courtesy of the artist.

"You Don't Need a Weatherman" by Darkstar from News from Nowhere. Courtesy of Warp.

"Summit Expedition" from the self-titled album by Arp Navigators. Courtesy of Moon Glyph.

"Civivic" by Hav Lyfe from the self-titled CD. Courtesy of Sonic Router.

"Towers" by Grouper from The Man Who Died In His Boat. Courtesy of Kranky.

"The Immortal Mr. Tease" by LA Vampires with Maria Minerva from The Integration. Courtesy of Not Not Fun.

"Dimming the Gas Lights" by Kevin Drumm from Tannenbaum. Courtesy of Hospital.

The Classic CD of the Month this week belongs to Dan the Automator, remixing the Bollywood scores of the Shah Brothers on Bombay the Hard Way: Guns, Cars and Sitars.

Episode 153: Opened the Window and in Flew Enza

A big ninth calendar year of the Spartacus Roosevelt Hour, starting the year with some exotica and psychedelia.

"Counting Sailboats" by The Holydrug Couple from Noctuary. Courtesy of Sacred Bones.

"Part 2" by Recycle Culture from In Transit. Courtesy of the artist.

"Shades of Eternal Night" by Bleeding Rainbow from Yeah Right. Courtesy of Kanine.

"Circle Music 2" by Eugene Carchesio from Circle Music. Courtesy of Room 40.

"Chapel Perilous" by Belbury Poly from The Belbury Tales. Courtesy of Ghost Box.

"Tilt" by Mountains from Centralia. Courtesy of Thrill Jockey.

"Purple+" from the self titled CD from White+. Courtesy of the artist.

"Unripe Pears" by Bee Mask from When We Were Eating Unripe Pears. Courtesy of Editions Mego.

"Gease" by Agor from his free web release.

"Lions Peonies" by Black Sun Roof from Feral. Courtesy of VHF.

The Spartacus Roosevelt Classic album of the week is from Brian Eno, the enduring Ambient 1/Music for Airports.