ESB PLAYLIST 12/2/05

Here we are in December. Last month saw another great 30 days of live music in Toronto. While there's a lot of shit bands out there, you'd almost never know it with all the talent you can see from night to night in this city and elsewhere. Two weeks ago, LCD Soundsystem dropped my jaw for the second time this year as a drunk James Murphy and his fellow disco infiltrators took over the Koolhaus for a night, bringing their friends The Juan MacLean with them to impress the hell out of us. I'm kicking myself in the arse for missing the DJ set Murphy and MacLean played the night before at The Queenshead, but I'm proud to say that I missed it for a chance to see the best high school band in Toronto, Spiral Beach. They continue to grow stronger with every show, and their popularity is about to explode as of Monday morning, when everyone who will see them at Wavelength this weekend will spreading the news about these incredibly skilled and professional musicians. No Dynamics continue to thrill local crowds with their ability to play harder than anyone else in this town, having appeared at the Vice Sport Pig Party this past weekend to make people dance alongside MSTRKRFT.



SPIRAL BEACH - New Clouds, Hot Clouds
SPIRAL BEACH - Voodoo
SPIRAL BEACH - Day Ok
* From their latest self-produced, self released album. You can pick it up at any opf their live shows for only a few bux.

As things slow down a bit towards the holidays, so will this blog, but the radio show is still on in full force. Apologies to everyone who tuned in last week expecting free CDs. The broadcast was a replay from August and those CDs are no longer available BUT when I go away for a couple of weeks later on this month and next, we'll be prerecording some more specials and we'll try to make those programs available in the same manner as the Best Of series from the summer.

And now, playlists that have yet be logged on this here blog...

ESB PLAYLIST 12/2/05

WE ARE WOLVES - We Multiply
BURN ROME IN A DREAM - The Better G
BURN ROME IN A DREAM - City of Millions
AIDS WOLF - We Multiply
PANICO - Transpiralo
PANICO -Lupita (Zongamin Remix)
THE GRIS GRIS - Down With Jesus
THE BAD PLUS - Flim (Aphex Twin cover, Live in Tokyo)
FEIST + THE GROOVEBLASTER - The Gatekeeper
SPIRAL BEACH - Gregory's Birthday Box
TIGA - Far From Home
TIGA - Burnin Down the House
MELNYK - Strut
YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA - Day Tripper

ESB PLAYLIST 11/18/05
SERGE GAINSBOURG + BRIGITTE BARDOT - Harley Davidson
SEAHORSE LIBERATION ARMY - We Set Paris on Fire (Radio Edit)
LIDSTROM + PRINS THOMAS - Boney M Down
I AM A ROBOT AND PROUD - A Proposal to Tune the World to F
THE BLOODS - Button Up
THE BUSH TETRAS - Can't Be Funky
JAMES CHANCE & THE CONTORTIONS - Contort Yourself
SPIRAL BEACH - New Clouds, Hot Clouds
SPIRAL BEACH - Matches
SPIRAL BEACH - Voodoo
SPIRAL BEACH - Day OK
ESCAPE GOATS - Father of Kool
CROUCHED HEAD - Harps of Montreal
THE WINKS - Boxes
THE WINKS - House the Sun
TONY WILSON - Arpeggio / Lonesome Valley