A millennial's flashback to the '80s, when keyboards were king and disco crossed borders. Not a cellphone in sight... just people living in the moment, and playing synths.

Babylon Generation

The first in a series of boombastic, reggae fantastic podcasts from pop-bricolage blog Rain Cymbals. This month find new tracks from Boards of Canada, Rustie and Hookworms, mixed in with some oldies and a variety of audio montage spanning Thunderbirds, Frankie Knuckles and Alan Partridge, as well as a sneak preview of our interview with Drenge. YESS IT'S AN EXTENDER!

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Tracklist:

00.24 sneak preview of Rain Cymbals interview with Drenge
00.38 [Drenge recommendation] Hookworms - Radio Tokyo
04.20 The Big Sleep - Horseplay
04.59 Nia Keturah - Control (p/ Wino Willy)
08.27 Pharrell on Daft Punk - Get Lucky
08.36 Alan Partridge's hot topic
08.46 Thunderbirds are go
09.05 Lindstrøm - Rà-àkõ-st
15.30 Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest 
15.38 David Firth - Sock 2: ptikobj
18.39 David Firth - Spoilsbury Toast Boy -2
19.17 Dutch Rhythm, Steel & Show Band - Down By The River
19.21 madwhitejamaican - Slap Chop Jamaican
24.24 Frankie Knuckles 'poor man's paradise'
24.45 Source Direct 'we just used to like do our own thing'
24.59 Leon Vynehall - Sister (from Will Saul's Essential Mix)
28.52 The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
29.01 Rustie - Triadzz
32.26 Serenity: Wash - 'I'm a leaf on the wind'
32.31 Jaga Jazzist & The Britten Sinfonia - One-Armed Bandit


Cymbalism 1 - May 2013

Rain Cymbals collates musical highlights from May and beyond into a sonic journey from San Fran through LA, Turkey, Armenia and back to New York, all via an intricately and inexplicably (un)related collage of soundbites. This time find Drive squaring off with Ali G, Worms and documentary clips about the Ottoman diaspora in early 20thC NY. Yeah.

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Tracklist/Samples: (FREE DOWNLOADS marked *)

00:00 Steve Reich - It's Gonna Rain
00:13 Aphex Twin - IZ-US
00:24 Ian Nagoski - To What Strange Place: The Music of the Ottoman-American Diaspora, 1916-1929 
00:40 John Singleton 
00:52 Getaway scene from Drive
01:30 *G/L/A/S/S/C/A/N/D/Y - The Possessed (Runway Edit)
06:30 Ruth Wilson rehearsing Ingmar Bergman's Through A Glass Darkly
07:10 MØ in interview
07:22 MØ - Waste Of Time
11:03 X-Ray Spex - Oh Bondage Up Yours!
11:14 Wildlife! - Oh Bondage Up Yours! (ft. Terry Lynn)
15:18 Fight Club "Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy"
15:22 Da Ali G Show with Travis
15:26 Sid Vicious interview Hyde Park 1977
15:34 *Wildlife! - Oh Bondage Up Yours! (Ital Tek Remix) 
19:22 Kid A - BB Bleu
19:25 Steinksi's Intro - The Xen To One Ratio [Xen Cuts, Ninja Tune 2000]
19:30 Fink - Ninjah (We Are Ninja) [Xen Cuts, Ninja Tune 2000]
22:14 These New Puritans - We Want War
22:19 Worms
22:21 Jack Barnett from These New Puritans with Paul Morley
22:52 War Games (1983) finale + Worms (1995) theme tune
23:47 These New Puritans - Fragment Two
28:15 *Four Tet - Unspoken (Promotional version ft. Tori Amos) [around 10th anniversary re-issue of 2000 album Rounds]
34:22 (Four Tet's) Kieran Hebden on collaborating with Steve Reid
34:28 Steve Reid on callaborating with Kieran Hebden
34:52 Kazim Koyuncu & Sevval Sam - Ben Seni Sevdugumi [from 'The Edge of Heaven']
35:02 Director Fatih Akin on 'The Edge of Heaven' (2007)
36:00 Shantel vs Kazim Koyuncu - Beni Seni in Dub [from 'The Edge of Heaven']
38:25 Ian Nagoski - To What Strange Place: The Music of the Ottoman-American Diaspora, 1916-1929 
38:49 Zabelle Panosian - Groung [taken from To What Strange Place: The Music of the Ottoman-American Diaspora, 1916-1929]

 

Cymbalism 2 - June 2013

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