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2025 (updated regularly)

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Category 4 is a monthly broadcast concept from Michael Brunner [ @four4 ] for Great Circles Radio.

Each episode is broken into four segments, which are connected in some fashion, but routinely unique in many others. This allows for the drawing of comparisons between otherwise disparate concepts, while simultaneously creating enough creative restrictions to focus the musical selections.

The 22nd episode comes to us from SF-based purveyor of musical oddities, Matt Holland! [ @mattholland].

We invite our listeners to guess these categories during the show.
As an added incentive for participation, the first person to guess the categories during the broadcast will be eligible to win a prize. Each month brings new categories and prizes.

The theme for episode 22 was -- Haruomi Hosono Tribute

More info at www.greatcircles.net

~~Tracklist~~
第一部 
Session / Guest appearances

1) 西岡恭蔵 (Kyouzou Nishioka) - 春一番 (Haru Ichiban / Spring #1) 1974 
2) 小坂忠 (Chu Kosaka) - からす (Karasu / not sure on translation) 1971
3) 喜多嶋修 (Osamu Kitajima) - Benzaiten (God Of Music And Water) 1976
4) 高田みどり & 佐藤允彦 (Midori Takada & Masahiko Satoh) - Madorone 1990
5) 大貫妙子 (Taeko Ohnuki) - Sargasso Sea 1977 
6) 佐藤博 (Hiroshi Sato) - 空飛ぶじゅうたん (Soratobu Juutan / Flying Carpet) 1979
7) 大貫妙子 (Taeko Ohnuki) - くすりをたくさん (Kusuri wo takusan / Too much medicine) 1977
8) 山下達郎 (Tatsu Yamashita) - Rainy Walk 1979

第二部 
Production

9) Testpattern - Sea Breeze 1982
10) イノヤマランド (Inoyamaland) - Mizue 1983
11) Sheena & The Rokkets - Rocket Factory 1979
12) Chakra - Myun Myun 1981
13) アポジー＆ペリジー (Apogee & Perigee) - 月世界旅行  (Gessekai Ryokou / Trip to the moon) 1984
14) 少女隊 (Shohjo-Tai) - Siam Paradise 1986
15) 小池玉緒 (Tamao Koike) - 鏡の中の十月 (Kazami no naka no juugatsu / October looking in the mirror) 1983
16) 越美晴 (Miharu Koshi) - パラレリズム (Parallelisme) 1984

第三部 
Groups

17) Apryl Fool - The Lost Mother Land (Part 2) 1969
18) HIS - 日本の人 (Nihon no hito / Japanese people) 1991
19) Swing Slow - Good Morning, Mr. Echo
20) Tin Pan Alley - Yellow Magic Carnival
21) 細野晴臣, 石川鷹彦 & 松任谷正隆 (Haruomi Hosono, Takahiko Ishikawa, Masataka Matsutohya) - ミコノスの花嫁 (Mykonos no hanayome / Mykonos Bride) 1979
22) You An' Me Orgasmus Orchestra - 咲坂と桃内のごきげんいかが ワン・ツゥ・スリー (sakisaka to momonai no gokigen ikaga 123 / sakisaka and mononai's how are you 123) 1981
23) Haruomi Hosono, Shigeru Suzuki, Tatsuro Yamashita - パッション・フラワー (Passion Flower) 1978
24) HAT - Shinjuku Photoshop 1998
25) Sketch Show - Turn Turn 2002
26) Happy End - 風来坊 (Fuuraibou / Wanderer) 1973

第四部
Solo

27) Haruomi Hosono - 薔薇と野獣 (bara to yajuu / rose and beast) 1973
28) Haruomi "Hosono" - ハリケーン・ドロシー (Hurricane Dorothy) 1975 
29) Harry Hosono and The Yellow Magic Band - 四面道歌 (shimendoka / four way path? not sure on this one?) 1978
30) 横尾忠則* と 細野晴臣 (Tadanori Yokoo & Hosono Haruomi) - Hotel Malabar Upper Floor …Moving Triangle… 1978
31) Haruomi Hosono - Lichtenstein's 1985
32) Haruomi Hosono - The First One In Heaven 1985
33) Haruomi Hosono - Going To The Sea 2018
34) Haruomi Hosono - 大地へ (daichi e / Down To The Earth) 1985
35) 細野晴臣 (Hosono Haruomi) - 夢見る約束 (Yumemiru Yakusoku / Promise to dream) 1982
36) Haruomi Hosono = スポーツマン (Sports Man) 1982 
37) Haruomi Hosono - Xevious 1984
38) Haruomi Hosono - 自転車２ (Bicycle 2) 2005
39) Haruomi Hosono - 恋は桃色 (koi wa momoiro / Love Is Pink) 2019
40) Haruomi Hosono - Sayonara America, Sayonara Nippon 2021

Category 4 w/ Matt Holland - Episode 22: Haruomi Hosono Tribute

(The Airfix Tape is a 2nd gen bootleg from a demo tape given initially to Ian Harrison by Richard James that was later dubbed for Kevin Foakes on this TDK D90)

Additional thanks and addition main credits to @toffo (cultofoil) for being the ears and brain of this operation from tracklisting and helping with mastering.


Tracklisting & Notes

Testosterone (A):
1. Cylob and AFX 1 (Tidflume) (1993-1994) - has DAT glitches. dirty head/damaged tape?
2. Cylob and AFX 2 (1993-1994), Joyrex Tape 11
3. Unreleased jungle AFX (1993) - Joyrex Tape 10
3.5. unknown AFX track intro?
- three tracks bellow ripped from an unknown demo tape below -
4. Epic Breakbeat (1991) - CW reject, possible name is "sonic engineer 91"
4.5. ghost track residue on originating tape of Doc Scott - Surgery (Ordinary Mix) (1991)
5. Humanoid Must Not Escape (1991)
6. a micro part of .0180871L (1991) - name unknown.
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7. Noises interlude
8. Bob Morgan Interlude (diff pitch)
9. Giant Deflating Football (1994)
10. Phlangebeat (with noise intro) (1993-1994)
11. NgaiModu (with extra postfx on LPF not found on released vinyl, alt mix?)
12. Phone Pranks (smooth transition)

Oestrogen (B):
1. Utopia (1993-1994) - longer than SC upload, has a proper ending
1.5. DAT Rewind
2. Cylob and AFX 3 (Hodgesplodge) (1993-1994) - uses percs from my teapot/phlid
2.5 - nav katze - ziggy (afx rmx 1) intro
3. dulcimer dub  (1993-1994) - not full
4. ab5 trk5 - 1994 - has vinyl scratches on top, shortened mix (no tail)
5. consta-lume (1993-1994)
6. Dance2TheBeat (1989-1991) - original master tape speed
7. Fresher And Cleaner And Very Smooth And Not At All Dry (1990)
8. AFX + Wagon Christ (Luke Vibert) (Difhifadafi Hissy Mix) (1993-1994)
9. unknown bell snippet (?)

Airfix Remastered - Testosterone Side

collab w shdwtek (https://soundcloud.com/shdwtek)
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we all are creatures 
mostly of anxiety and lust
asked to set the children straight
well, tell it to 'em well:
it's good

sell it to the messanger
rise of nation sepulcher
a fish'll tell a tale
i'm livin' ocean 
but i'll tell you bout
the planet while i'm fallin'

(i only spin)

i'm only spinnin' round the risin' 
of the land in this world
this sobject comin'
to the writers of the letters
frownin' boredem 
by the zen of 
"i don't gotta metaphor 
"if i don't wanna"

voting for another day
just live it like you love

(but) 

dont want to live a life 
one crisis to another:
"s'why so sunny, brah?"
right? while we're all 
violent femme horizon
cameraman ephemera

man, fuck your man immortal
cuz he ain't no friend of mine
then you'll find you're
gonna tell it to another
when you dyin'

1 crisis 2 another

this is a description of the song that i wrote

a fanfare, a goof (feat. Daoyan 导演)

this was kind of inspired by really enjoying the polish national ballet's production of dracula recently.

fun fact: the two synth lines, the low one and the brighter keys that come in are the same music in a kind of round structure and just happen to go together.

dracula double date

there may not be a good vox mix :O


wisdom
blown away
(all of it)
on some holiday
(some part of me)
so-so

it doesn't really even matter
something's always coming
and all of this comedy,
a quasi-sensible reality

all this sun,
all this on a day
all this will blow away
like wind on a holiday

(going, gone
and on and on
all the days)

even if i could see you
when i'm gone
i probably still would not

Quasi-Sensible Realities (bad vox mix)

i wrote this over a year ago but a constellation of songs and words have grown out around it in the year since and they're coming together now for the next album 
last one, still free, is here: https://cloudsforsale.bandcamp.com/album/people-as-backgrounds

this new one will be called WIDE VIEW and is somewhat of a departure from the last one and for me at least more akin to what i was doing before i started this journey over 20 years ago.  i found some of these old tracks and may share some of them soon. 
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said he got philosophy
from that time he caught gnosis
tamagotchi all day,
and they all bae

someone gonna talk to himself
by a vowel
heard it'd be insane
if he won't

go well down, tempo
some of us are too scared
to even count

evidence lies compound
won't call you on it
always got a sob story
all-sorry, are we?

probably

tell that bitch,
'to each his own'
everybody's somebody's
number one ghost

(singing:)

everyone's gone today!
nobody saw the way!
storm comin, darlin!
whoa! awe!
we're all going down,
so very far!
oh, get out!
they all done
gone away!
...

so i got what i wanted,
all the horses
haunted ever after all
all i wanted,
all the voices
haunted, combined:
"never ever have i..."

Number One Ghost

just rings (snippet)

weird you can't wear
new tracks by 5 Rocket World artists winkYface, AGLA, Clouds for Sale, and Banana Bones

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