POW! is a selection of music keen to experiment with explosive sounds. This is music that transports the listener to different states of mind. The music is mainly rock by bands that use exploration, improvisation and rawness in their material.
The selection includes legendary experimentalist German bands Can and Neu! Two essential bands from Manchester that emerged from the punk and post punk era, The Fall and A Certain Ratio. The American band from the current alternative scene of San Francisco Thee Oh Sees. Atom Rhumba is a band from Bilbao influenced by the powerful sounds of James Brown and the Stooges. The garage raw sound of the Australian punk band The Celibate Rifles. The Gainsbourg-Birkin inspired duo from France, The Limiñanas. The Cameroonian Afro funk-rock singer Joseph Kamga. The Swedish psychedelic and progressive group Dungen and their fellow compatriots Goat, a trailblazer music collective producing crossover world music with a punk attitude. Lucifer Rising is a lysergic hell of a tune of the early days of The Flaming Lips.
Punk is one of the common denominators of most of the bands included. If not part of the punk scene, some artists here were punk influencers like the German bands mentioned above.
But not all is rock. Brazilian current new Tropicalista sensation Sessa adds a more intimate and mellow tone to the mix. Finally, you will find a beguiling pop song at the end by one of the early pioneers of electronic music. She is the acclaimed BBC recording engineer Delia Derbyshire performing under the artist's name White Noise with fellow BBC sound engineer Brian Hodgson and American electronic student David Vorhaus in their eponymous album from 1969.
Playlist
1- Millionenspiel - CAN
2- Dead Man’s gun - THEE OH SEES
3- Je ne suis pas tres drogue - THE LIMIÑANAS
4- Sie Scheu - JOSEPH KAMGA
5- Relax - GOAT
6- Ingenting är sig likt - DUNGEN
7- Candace da Cura - SESSA
8- Hallo Gallo - NEU!
9- Gone (PICCO Mix) - ATOM RHUMBA
10- Last chance to turn around - THE FALL
11- Bill Boney regrets - THE CELIBATE RIFFLES
12- Mind made up - A CERTAIN RATIO
13- Lucifer rising - THE FLAMING LIPS
14- Firebird - WHITE NOISE
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It began life in May 2021 as NuDirections, a weekly radio show on a London community station. That spirit of discovery still runs through everything I do.
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