Citr -- Exploding Head Movies

From the relaxation vault to the enrichment centre, for Victoria Day, we have music from the Portal video game series direct from the Aperture Science Psychoacoustics Laboratory. Hold your Weighted Companion Cube tightly as you listen. This is a triumph. 1. Savages: TIWYG (Adore Life, 2016) Matador 2. Teen Daze: Another Night (A World Away EP, 2015) Plancha 3. Breakbot: Shades of Black (By Your Side, 2012) Ed Banger 4. Yeasayer: Henrietta (Fragrant World, 2012) Secretly Canadian 5. Padded Cell: Signal Failure [GTA version] (Night Must Fall, 2008) DC Recordings 6. Mac DeMarco: The Way You'd Love Her (Another One EP, 2015) Captured Tracks 7. Adrian Teacher & The Subs: Let's Call In Sick (Sorta Hafta EP, 2015) self-released 8. William Tyler: Attics of My Life (Songs to Fill the Air, 2016) WFMU 9. Ace Martens: On to Me (Palm Springs EP, 2016) self-released 10. Needles//Pins: Pulse (12:34, 2014) Mammoth Cave/La-Ti-Da 11. Betonkust & Palmbomen II: 24x33 (Center Parcs EP, 2016) 1080p 12. Waxlimbs: Epli [w.Isabella

We pause our video game soundtrack month to commemorate the life of the Japanese composer and synth pioneer Isao Tomita with a panoply of his orchestral and moogy music from film, TV and space. Ichi, ni, san, shi, go. 1. Isao Tomita: Premiere Arabesque (Snowflakes are Dancing, 1974) RCA 2. Teen Daze: Tokyo Winter (Paradiso EP, 2014) self-released 3. Andy Stott: New Romantic (Too Many Voices, 2016) Modern Love 4. Anohni: 4 Degrees (Hopelessness, 2016) Rough Trade/Secretly Canadian 5. Moderat: Rusty Nails [Booka Shade remix] (Rusty Nails 12", 2009) BPitch Control 6. James Blake: Radio Silence (The Colour in Anything, 2016) Polydor 7. Tim Hecker: Obsidian Counterpart (Love Streams, 2016) 4AD/Paper Bag 8. Val Stephen: Fireworks (Electronic Music, 1967) Smithsonian Folkways 9. Los Echo: Druthers (Bold Fire EP, 2014) self-released 10. Charles Bradley: Good to Be Back Home (Changes, 2016) Dunham/Daptone 11. Babel: A Faded Cage (Alphabeta 2: Outskirts, 2015) Arachnidiscs 12. Black Mountain: Constellations (IV, 2016

Car 11-K, advise dispatch that video game month continues by profiling 1940s era music and Andrew Hale's score to the 2011 video game LA Noire. 1. Sparks: Beat the Clock (No.1 in Heaven, 1979) Virgin/Elektra 2. Babel: Beg (Alphabeta 3: Organizm, 2015) Arachnidiscs 3. Radiohead: Burn the Witch (A Moon Shaped Pool, 2016) XL 4. Owen Pallett: The Riverbed (In Conflict, 2014) Domino/Secret City 5. Isao Tomita: Golliwog's Cakewalk [Children's Corner, No. 6] (Clair de Lune, 1974) RCA 6. Arcade Fire: Soft Power (Reflektor [bonus disk], 2015) Merge 7. Anatole: LA/Tu es des Nôtres (LA/Tu es des notres, 2016) Pantoum/La Palette 8. Ash Walker: Only Got Hash (2016) Deep Heads 9. Honey Ltd: Silk N'Honey (Honey Ltd, 1968) LHI 10. Hundred Waters: Forgive Me for Giving Up (2016) self-released 11. Jaga Jazzist: Book of Glass (One Armed Bandit, 2010) Ninja Tune 12. Benji Hughes: Freaky Feedback Blues (Songs in the Key of Animals, 2016) Merge 13. Leon Bridges: Lisa Sawyer (Coming Home, 2015) Columbia 14. Alphabethead: In Front

If anyone died this week, perhaps they sought guidance to the 9th Underworld, which is where this week's soundtrack profile bases itself as we look at the remastered score to the video game Grim Fandango, which itself was rereleased recently. 1. Wolf Parade: Little Golden Age (Expo 86, 2010) Sub Pop 2. Strangling Fruit: Raft Without Paddle (Strangling Fruit EP, 2015) self-released 3. Preoccupations: March of Progress (Viet Cong, 2015) Sub Pop 4. She-Devils: Where There's No One (She-Devils EP, 2015) self-released 5. Four Tet: And Then Patterns (Everything Ecstatic, 2005) Domino 6. Bed Rugs: Drift (Cycle, 2015) Waste My Records 7. Said the Whale: I Love You (Hawaiii, 2013) Hidden Pony 8. Social Disco Club & Maia: The Way You Move [Greg Wilson version] (2009) Bear Funk 9. The Ballantynes: Us (Dark Drives Life Signs, 2015) La-Ti-Da 10. The Death of Pop: Locomotive (2016) self-released 11. Kemialliset Ystävät: Roiske Ruudukolla (Alas Rattoisaa Virtaa, 2014) Dekorder 12. Bend Sinister: Fancy Pants (Animals, 2014)

The hits keep on coming, though not the way we expect. Prince (1958-2016) has left us here, so we have covers, early songs, B-sides and soundtracks, particularly the lesser known songs from 1984's Purple Rain. 1. Prince & The Revolution: Let's Go Crazy (Purple Rain OST, 1984) Warner Bros 2. Guidewire: The Churn (Surges EP, 2015) self-released 3. Catholic Girls: Berlin (Psychic Woman, 2015) Shake! 4. Alvvays: Atop a Cake (Alvvays, 2014) Royal Mountain/Polyvinyl 5. Monty Alexander: Chameleon (Monty Strikes Again, 1976) MPS 6. Destroyer: Dream Lover (Poison Season, 2015) Merge/Dead Oceans 7. Tough Age: Walk! (I Get the Feeling Central, 2015) Mint 8. Badbadnotgood: Timewave Zero (Here & Now single, 2016) Innovative Leisure 9. Eagles of Death Metal: Silverlake [KSOFM] (Zipper Down, 2015) Downtown Recordings 10. Death from Above 1979: Crystal Ball (The Physical World, 2014) Last Gang/Warner Bros 11. Beastie Boys: The Melee (The Mix-Up, 2007) Capitol 12. Basia Bulat: Long Goodbye (Good Advice, 2016) Secret City 13.

Travel back in time to the time of cyborg invasions. Brad Fiedel's scores to 1984's The Terminator & 1991's sequel Terminator 2: Judgment Day are given their due, along with plenty of touring acts that drift towards more machine-driven mayhem. 1. Guns'n Roses: You Could Be Mine (Use Your Illusion II, 1991) Geffen 2. Arturo Sandoval: Blackbird (I Got No Kick Against Modern Jazz - A GRP Artists' Celebration of The Beatles, 1995) GRP 3. The Beatles: Hey Bulldog (Yellow Submarine OST, 1969) Apple 4. Paul McCartney: Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Postive (Kisses on the Bottom, 2012) MPL/Hear Music 5. Paul McCartney: Lunch Box/Odd Sox (Coming Up single, 1980) Parlophone/MPL 6. Sloan: A Side Wins (One Chord to Another, 1997) Murderecords/The Enclave 7. Courtney Barnett: Aqua Profunda! (Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit, 2015) Milk!/Mom + Pop 8. Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet: Underground Sounds (Soft Polished Separates, 2016) Yep Roc 9. Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet: 3 Piece Suit (Sport Fishin': The Lure

Set the butter aside and slide a bottle down the table -- we profile Gato Barbieri (1932-2016) & his score to the controversial 1972 film Last Tango in Paris. Also a tip of the hat and a pour of wine for Merle Haggard (1937-2016). Qu'est-ce qui passe? 1. Leon Haywood: I Want'a Do Something Freaky to You (Come and Get Yourself Some, 1975) 20th Century 2. Gotan Project: Last Tango in Paris (La Revancha del Tango, 2001) Ya Basta/XL 3. Merle Haggard: Mama Tried (Mama Tried, 1968) Capitol 4. Merle Haggard & The Strangers: It's All in the Movies (It's All in the Movies, 1975) Capitol 5. Keith Mansfield: Paris Love [Jimmy Michaels mix] (Bon Appetit OST, 1980) Bruton 6. Merle Haggard & Clint Eastwood: Bar Room Buddies (Bronco Billy OST, 1980) Elektra 7. Merle Haggard: Misery and Gin (Bronco Billy OST, 1980) Elektra 8. The Hylozoists: Parisian Eyes (La Nouvelle Gauche, 2001) Brobdingnagian 9. John Doe & The Sadies: Are the Good Times Really Over for Good? (Country Club, 2009) Yep Roc/Outside Music 10. Merle Haggard:

gak's back from India; along with a weird sonic tour of the sub-continent, there are tributes to Garry Shandling, Phife Dawg & Keith Emerson. There's a weird metal break halfway through that wasn't intentional but kinda fun as a departure. 1. Kalyanji Anandji & Dan the Automator: Theme from Don (Bombay the Hard Way: Guns, Cars & Sitars, 1998) Motel 2. Les Fontaines: Canandaa (Magic Touch, 2013) Paper + Sound 3. Anoushka Shankar: Boat to Nowhere (Land of Gold, 2016) Deutsche Grammophon 4. Mychael Danna: Leaving India (The Life of Pi OST, 2012) Sony Classical 5. Cornershop: It's Indian Tobacco My Friend (When I Was Born for the 7th Time, 1997) Wiiija 6. Cornershop: What is Happening (When I Was Born for the 7th Time, 1997) Wiiija 7. Cyrus: Indian Stomp (Children of Men OST, 2006) Hip-O 8. Future Soundz of India: Shang High (Anokha: Soundz of the Asian Underground, 1997) Island 9. Nicola Conte: Missione a Bombay (Bossa Per Due, 2001) Eighteenth Street Lounge 10. Madlib: Dark Alley Incidental Music (Beat Konduct

gak's on business in India so along with longer pieces, let's mark his travel with some of the Bollywood selections from Wes Anderson's 2007 film The Darjeeling Limited. 1. Sapna Mukherjee: Pyar Do Pyar Lo from Janbaaz (The Best of Bollywood: 15 Classic Hits from the Indian Cinema, 2003) Hip-O/Universal 2. Heartbeat(s): Eastside (Forever Violet EP, 2016) Loveless 3. Sinfonieorchester Basel: Movement VI - V2 Schneider [Dennis Russell Davies: conductor] (Philip Glass' Symphony No. 4: Heroes, 2012) Orange Mountain 4. Philip Glass: Heroes [w.David Bowie, Aphex Twin remix] (26 Mixes for Cash, 2003) Warp 5. David Bowie: Abdulmajid (Heroes: Ryko Edition, 1991) Rykodisc 6. David Bowie: Love is Lost [Hello Steve Reich mix by James Murphy] (The Next Day: Extra EP, 2013) ISO/Columbia 7. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark: Swiss Radio International (Dazzle Ships, 1983) Telegraph/Virgin 8. Bitchin Bajas: Marimba (Transporteur EP, 2015) Hands in the Dark 9. The Nice: Intermezzo from Karelia Suite (Five Bridges, 1970) Char

Time for some B-movie stoner rock as we profile the 2014 Canuxploitation film Wolfcop and its score by Saskatoon's Shooting Guns. Any howling you may hear did not originate from this programming so watch your back, bush party attendee. 1. TV on the Radio: Wolf Like Me (Return to Cookie Mountain, 2006) 4AD 2. Shooting Guns: Doomlight Desires (Barn Burner 7", 2015) RidingEasy 3. Fuck Buttons: Brainfreeze (Slow Focus, 2013) ATP 4. Wooden Shjips: Other Stars (Back to Land, 2013) Thrill Jockey 5. Malcom Catto: Scorpio Rising (Popcorn Bubble Fish, 2001) Mo'Wax 6. Sleep: The Clarity (Adult Swim Singles Program, 2014) Williams Street 7. The Bad Nerves: Alienate (Alienate EP, 2013) self-released 8. Brownout: Planet Caravan [w.David Jimenez] (Brown Sabbath, 2014) Ubiquity 9. Twin Crystals: Criminal (Child Life, 2015) Shake! 10. TV Ugly: Slow Thighs (UCLA Yankee Cola EP, 2015) Alarum 11. Huevos Rancheros: What a Way to Run a Railroad (Get Outta Dodge, 1996) Mint 12. Broken Social Scene: Do the 95 (Stars and Sons EP, 2

Sir George Martin (1926-2016) had a profound influence on music due to his time producing the Beatles, so in honour of his life, we profile some of his novelty releases, instrumental themes, his score to the James Bond film Live and Let Die plus some Yellow Submarine. 1. CITR: I've Suffered for My Music (S.U.B. Pop Compilation, 1993) CITR 2. Duffy: Live and Let Die (War Child presents Heroes, 2009) Parlophone 3. Common Vernacular: 32 Rue de Navarin (2014) self-released 4. Dead Moon: Dead Moon Night (Unknown Passage, 1989) Tombstone 5. The Silver Skeleton Band: Isolation (Snake Highs, 2013) self-released 6. John Ward: Psychotronic Techniques (Electric Séance: Volume 1, 2013) self-released 7. Petunia: The One Thing (Inside of You, 2014) Trapline 8. Blind Horses: M51 (Avail, 2013) self-released 9. Keith Mansfield: Disco Dynamite (Light My Fire, 1978) Bruton 10. Microbunny: Gravity and Air (49 Swans, 2010) Static Clang 11. Francesca Belcourt: Senses (Hush Hush EP, 2013) self-released 12. Physical Therapy: Chillw

Celebrating 40 years breathing air, gak takes some time to catch up on Black History Month (February, he's late) whilst anticipating International Women's Day with music from Pam Grier's blaxploitation films Foxy Brown, Coffy & Friday Foster. 1. Jimmy Carter: Political Campaign for President (Politicking: Volume 1, 2011) Funky Frolic 2. Silver Dapple: I Hate My Birthday (I Hate My Birthday EP, 2014) FORCHRISTSAKE 3. James Murphy for IBM: Match 140 [remix] (Remixes Made with Tennis Data, 2014) IBM 4. DJ Koze: 40 Love (Kompakt Total 10, 2009) Kompakt 5. RJD2: 1976 (Since We Last Spoke, 2004) Definitive Jux 6. Christian Fennesz: AUN40 (AUN: The Beginning and End of All Things, 2012) Ash International 7. Bruce McCulloch & Brian Connelly: 40 Housewives (Shame-Based Man, 1995) Atlantic 8. Wilco: I Got You [at the End of the Century] (This is 40 OST, 2012) Capitol 9. Jon Brion: Theme 1 - Debbie & Oliver (This is 40 OST, 2012) Capitol 10. Junior Boys: You Say That (Big Black Coat, 2016) City Slang 11. Grimes: Venus

It's Leap Day for CITR's 2016 edition of the Fundrive! As part of our Oscar recap, we put the spotlight on Howard Shore's score to the winner of the Best Picture: Spotlight. http://citr.ca/donate 1. Tom Holkenborg [aka Junkie XL]: Claw Trucks [extended version] (Mad Max: Fury Road OST, 2015) Watertower 2. Lnrdcroy: Terragem (UNTHANK008 10", 2015) Firecracker 3. Ennio Morricone & the Czech National Symphony Orchestra: Neve (Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight OST, 2015) Third Man/Decca 4. Ryuichi Sakamoto: Killing Hawk (The Revenant OST, 2015) Milan 5. Sam Smith: Writing's on the Wall (Writing's on the Wall single, 2015) Capitol 6. Amy Winehouse: You Know I'm No Good (Back to Black, 2006) Island 7. Common Vernacular: Proto-void a Vacuum (2014) self-released 8. Soft Serve: Take It Easy (Soft Serve, 2015) self-released 9. Actors: Let It Grow (2015) self-released 10. David Bowie: Crystal Japan (Up the Hill Backwards 7", 1981) RCA 11. David Bowie: DJ (Lodger, 1979) RCA 12. Animal Collective: Floridada (Paintin

The 88th Academy Awards are handed out this Sunday (February 28) so since we heard all the nominated scores, it's time for all the original songs that were nominated. Along with representing films like Spectre, 50 Shades of Grey, The Hunting Ground, Racing Extinction and Youth, it's also time for our belated tribute to David Bowie (1947-2016) with his connection to film. 1. A Tribe Called Quest: Award Tour (Midnight Marauders, 1993) Jive 2. Pour le Plasir: The Movie (Tin Machine EP, 2015) Blue Tapes/X-Ray 3. Rae Spoon: I Hear Them Calling (Armour, 2016) Coax 4. Receivers: Ships & Lanterns (The Air on the Set, 2015) self-released 5. Gravity's Rainbow: Take Me On to the Otherside [instrumental ambient version] (Yesterday's Horizon, 2015) self-released 6. The Ballantynes: Matchbook (2016) self-released 7. Leon Bridges: So Long (So Long from Concussion single, 2015) Columbia 8. Nancy Leticia: One Afternoon Nap (Love Dream EP, 2015) Noise Collector 9. Alice Olivia: Writing's on the Wall (2015) self-released 10. T

Not only do we have the 5th and final nominee for Best Original Score, Carter Burwell's Carol, Vancouver band Milk stops by and plays a live set. There's a rambolic interview with them (and Soft Serve head Kyle), poor jokes, sports & a contention about a Discorder review. 1. Les Paul & Mary Ford: Smoke Rings (Bye Bye Blues!, 1952) Capitol 2. Scuba: Solitary Confinement (Phenix 2 12", 2014) Hotflush 3. Boats: Movie Scores We Hummed (Cannonballs Cannonballs! 2010) Kill Rock Stars 4. Neil Richardson: Prestige Production (Impact and Action: Volume 2, 1970) KPM 5. Milk: LIVE SET & INTERVIEW (Live @ CITR, 2016) CITR 6. Parquet Courts: Ducking and Dodging (Sunbathing Animal, 2014) What's Your Rupture?/Mom & Pop 7. Soft Serve: The Hike (Sink Deep EP, 2013) self-released 8. Jade Statues: She Don't Evn Smoke (Chapel Sound Compilation: Volume 1, 2015) Chapel Sound 9. FFS: Johnny Delusional (FFS, 2015) Domino 10. Franz Ferdinand: Ulysses (Tonight, 2009) Domino 11. Richard Reed Parry, yMusic, Bryce & Aaron Dessner: Inter

Oscar season continues with the 4th nominated soundtrack nominated for Best Original Score: Thomas Newman's music for Steven Spielberg's Bridge of Spies. We'll also dance about comedy, celebrate the Year of the Monkey and put blips and bloops in your magnetic mind. 1. Casey Mecija: Gonna Gun (Psychic Materials, 2016) self-released 2. Marie Davidson: Insomnie (Un Autre Voyage, 2015) Holodeck 3. Jessy Lanza: It Means I Love You (Oh No, 2016) Hyperdub 4. Tiyiselani Vomaseve: Vanghoma (Shangaan Electro: New Wave Dance Music from South Africa, 2010) Honest Jon's 5. Kode9: Just Inside ([unclassified], 2011) Williams Street 6. Junior Boys: And It's Forever (Big Black Coat, 2016) City Slang 7. Maylee Todd: Lonely (Lonely/Poetry, 2015) Do Right! Music 8. Ben Frost: The Teeth Behind Kisses (Aurora, 2014) Bedroom Community 9. Massive Attack: Voodoo in My Blood [w.Young Fathers] (Ritual Spirit EP, 2016) Virgin/EMI 10. Homo Duplex: February (05 EP, 2015) self-released 11. Howard Shore & the Kronos Quartet: Hieroglyphics

Our 3rd Oscar profile on this extended episode looks at Jóhann Jóhannsson's music from Sicaro, up for a Best Score Award amongst others. We also have Vancouver/Olympia band Underpass live in the show amidst tributes to the recently deceased. Jefferson Starship: Jane (Freedom at Point Zero, 1979) Grunt/RCA Sidewinder: Quest (Dnepr_Vancouver 1.0, 2015) Reclaim Your City Jefferson Airplane: Today (Surrealistic Pillow, 1967) RCA Victor Crosby, Stills & Nash: Wooden Ships (Crosby Stills & Nash, 1969) Atlantic Jefferson Airplane: Embryonic Journey (Surrealistic Pillow, 1967) RCA Victor Alan Rickman: Intelligence (Help! I'm a Fish OST, 2003) Medley Spinn: Abe Vigoda's Dead [Premortem mix] (Send Lawyers Guns and Pickles, 2002) Spinnwebe Saint Samuel: Beyond the Dead Mountain (Carrousel, 2015) self-released Jack Elliott & Allyn Ferguson: Theme from Barney Miller (Television's Greatest Hits: Volume 3 - 70s & 80s, 1987) TVT Abe Vigoda: Crush (Crush, 2010) Bella Union Arca: Wound (Xen, 2014) Mute Elfin Saddle: The Wind

Oscar season continues with a profile on John Williams' latest addition to the Star Wars saga: The Force Awakens. As a bonus, there's also his score from the original Star Wars sequel, The Empire Strikes Back; Holst's big classical influence on George Lucas' series; some spacy David Bowie and a couple acts associated with the Vancouver Push International Performing Arts Festival. 1. John Williams & The London Symphony Orchestra: Twentieth Century Fox Fanfare With CinemaScope Extension (Star Wars Trilogy: The Original Soundtrack Anthology, 1993) 20th Century Fox Film Scores 2. David Bowie: Life on Mars? (Hunky Dory, 1971) RCA Victor 3. Caribou: Mars [DJ Tennis rework] (2015) self-released 4. Wolf Saga: You Are Here Now (Waves EP, 2015) self-released 5. Le Roi Crocodile: Wander (JPN2006, 2015) self-released 6. Pepe Deluxé: The Secrets Forces in the Mountain (Queen of the Wave, 2012) Catskills/Asthmatic Kitty 7. Eli Muro: Cassiopeia (The 12 Days of Bass Coast, 2015) Bass Coast 8. Akoko: Front to the Back [Pump

Nicely timed for my 8th anniversary on air here at CITR, it's Oscar season! So here's the Oscar-nominated (and Golden Globe-winning) score from Ennio Morricone to Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight. So much love to go around and then hide. 1. The Clash: Hateful (London Calling, 1979) CBS/Epic 2. Ron Hardly: Plus Hate (Worth It, 2014) Aural Sects 3. The BB Guns: Baby, I Hate You (Baby I Hate You EP, 2013) Marineville 4. The Hives: Hate to Say I Told You So (Veni Vidi Vicious, 2000) Burning Heart/Sire/Reprise 5. Cécil Leuter: Raving Waves (Altitude 3000, 1985) Crea Sound 6. Merle Haggard: What I Hate (Working in Tennessee, 2011) Vanguard 7. Kris Kristofferson: I Hate Your Ugly Face (Closer to the Bone, 2009) New West EIGHT Crystal Syphon: Elephant Ball (Elephant Ball, 2015) Roaratorio 9. Sebastien Grainger & The Mountains: I Hate My Friends (Sebastien Grainger & The Mountains, 2008) Saddle Creek/Outside 10. Shimmering Stars: Dancing to Music I Hate (Violent Hearts, 2011) Hardly Art 11. Alessandro Cortini: L

Bonus episode: I couldn't come up with anything for this year's celebration of art's birthday, but I did appear on Sara Lapsley's adaptation of H.G. Wells "War of the Worlds", most famously made into a radio play by Orson Welles. Along with me, there are appearances from Jon Wurster, Kaj Korvela and Jane Turner.