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CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies

CiTR & Discorder Magazine

Join gak as he explores music from the movies, tunes from television and any other cinematic source, along with atmospheric pieces, cutting edge new tracks and strange old goodies that could be used in a soundtrack to be. The spotlight swings widely to encompass composers, genres and other categories, but all in the name of discovery and ironclad whimsy.

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XHM #732 - "A perfect waste of a few hours" (2025...

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2025/03/04

The 97th Academy Awards were handed out on Sunday so gak rushes to recap the winners and sort through all the latest news as a lot of folks have passed away recently. 01. Electropoint: Razor Blades (2024) self-released 02. Daniel Blumberg: Intermission (The Brutalist OST, 2024) Milan 03. Daniel Blumberg: Overture [Bus] (The Brutalist OST, 2024) Milan 04. Daniel Blumberg: Construction (The Brutalist OST, 2024) Milan 05. Daniel Blumberg: Monologue [w.Adrien Brody] (The Brutalist OST, 2024) Milan

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121:43

XHM #729 - "Magazines on fire!" (2025 February 10)

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2025/02/11

Along with it being week 2 of our annual Oscars profile, it's Fundrive time again! Discorder Magazine, the print cousin of CITR 101.9FM, is reaching out in new ways and with whatever donation you can provide, you can help expand our physical archives & distribution throughout the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. It'll be a disco inferno, hence why amidst two of the best original song nominees and two surprise snubs, we have lots of fiery disco songs. 01. [trailer] Disco 9000 (Super Bad,

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XHM #727 - "Memories from a gaijin" (2025 January 27)

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2025/01/28

gak remains on the road and he lacks the future vision to anticipate what, let alone when, the Oscar nominations will be, so you're getting an outsider Japan experience via John Williams' score to 2005's Memoirs of a Geisha amidst some older gems that never it to air despite years in waiting. For those unfamiliar with geisha, these are Japanese women trained in performing arts to entertain people with music, conversation & other skills. There's a misinterpretation that they also tackle less

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119:34

XHM #726 - "The past is moonlit & the future is...

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2025/01/21

gak's on the road or in the air again so for the 15th episode in our all-ambient series, he recaps some of the music that fits under the ambiguous genre banner. 01. Voice of Hearing: Breathespace (Breathespace, 2024) self-released 02. Tsrono: Shift 01 (Shift, 2024) Not Yet Remembered 03. Deborah Martin & Erik Wøllo: Voices of Nature (Kinishba, 2024) Spotted Peccary 04. Fhae: 2001 (2024) self-released 05. Adam Wiltzie: Tissue of Lies (Eleven Fugues for Sodium Pentothal, 2024) Kranky 06

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120:01

2025: 24 Hours of Radio Art [Hours 16 & 17 + 28 & 29]...

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2025/01/17

25 shy of your standard BR selection, in celebration of the subatomic particle the quark, we offer six channels in six directions so make you listen to this with a couple friends and each of your ears can focus on different elements on this the 1 000 072nd birthday of art. TOP FLAVOUR t1. Au Vol: The Garden of Forking Paths (The Garden of Forking Paths, 2022) self-released t2. Bill Nace: Les Echos [Piece for Tuba] (Through a Room, 2022) Drag City t3. Body/Dilloway/Head: Body/Erase

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123:22

XHM #725 - "No matter where I go, there I am" (2025...

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2025/01/14

In honour of gak's 17th anniversary on CITR 101.9FM Vancouver BC, we dive into a favourite film: 1984's The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension with a score by Michael Boddicker. 01. Mitzi Gaynor: Happy Anniversary (Happy Anniversary OST, 1959) Top Rank 02. Botany Bay: Winter Wolfpack Serenade (Thanksgiver, 2024) Submarine Broadcasting Co. 03. Abigail Lapell: Anniversary Song (Anniversary, 2024) Outside Music 04. Elephant Stone: The Spark (Back into the Dream, 2024) Fuzz

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XHM #721 - "Throwing gooey shapes" (2024 December 09)

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2024/12/10

The drawing to the close a year allows us to look back a bit to the past 12 months but also ahead to the coming new calendar. We'll juggle mostly Canadian songs amidst all this reflection with a profile on Seth A Smith's scores from The Crescent and Tin Can. 01. Freak Heat Waves: Music Has an Interesting Power (Mondo Tempo, 2023) Mood Hut 02. Stillwaves: I'm Haunted (Undiagnosed, 2023) Safe Sounds 03. Kristen Roos: Feight (Universal Synthesizer Interface: Volume III, 2024) Hotham Sound 04. Jody

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120:17

XHM #720 - "We're all chum now in the ocean" (2024...

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2024/12/03

Stepping out of our 20th century rut a bit, we profile Mark Jenkin's score to the 2019 film Bait. We also start looking at 2024 in review and preview your Shindig finalists as part of CITR's annual battle of the bands competition here in Vancouver. 01. Taylor Swift: 'tis the Damn Season (Evermore, 2020) Republic 02. Kohellus: Kalanvihreä (Anthology of Electroacoustic Music from Finland, 2023) Unexplained Sounds Group 03. Kendrick Lamar: Squabble Up (GNX, 2024) PGLang/Interscope 04. Schoolboy Q:

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122:38

XHM #719 - "Charms & schwanzstuckers a-plenty" (2024...

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2024/11/26

Actor Teri Garr (1944-2024) was a very funny person, so this episode will tread lightly amongst some of her famous film roles amidst some TV fare associated with some other recently departed folks. 01. Sade Adu: Young Lion (Transa, 2024) Red Hot 02. Christine Jensen: Here's That Rainy Day (Day Moon, 2023) Justin Time 03. James Darren: Gidget (Album N°1, 1959) Colpix 04. Jack Jones: The Love Boat Theme (TV's Greatest Hits, Volume 3: 70s & 80s, 1979) TVT 05. Charles Dumont: La Course D'Auto

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XHM #718 - "" (2024 November 18)

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2024/11/19

Quincy Jones (1933-2024) had a massive impact on pop culture in the service of music. We've been overdue on a profile on Q for ages so we'll skim across his various film scores, jazz sessions & other production work. Q0. Dream Warriors: My Definition of a Boombastic Jazz Style (And Now the Legacy Begins, 1991) 4th & B'way/Island/Polygram Q1. Loscil: Dusk Gale (Umbel, 2024) Frond Q2. Kathleen Edwards: Fools Ride (Total Freedom, 2020) Dualtone Q3. Nia Nadurata: Practice (Still Living with

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119:43

XHM #717 - "We must remember this" (2024 November 11)

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2024/11/12

Whether it's Remembrance Day, Armistice Day or Veterans' Day where you are, it's a time to think of wars. We're overdue on some Max Steiner and his music from the 1941 classic Casablanca as people seem to keep fleeing right wing extremists over the years. 01. Kay Starr: Holiday (Programming Aids from Capitol 7", 1964) Capitol 02. Speaker Music: African American Disillusionment with Northern Democracy Continues to Smolder in Every Negro who has Settled Up North after Knowing Life in the South

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XHM #716 - "Semi-tropical shampoos" (2024 November 04)

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2024/11/05

With Hallowe'en over, we turn to lighter though somber topics. In honour of singer/actress/dancer Mitzi Gaynor (1931-2024), we breeze across some of her musicals, mostly focusing on her songs from the Rodgers/Hammerstein 1957 film adaptation of South Pacific. 01. Caterina Valente: Ol'Man River (Sweet Beat, 1968) Decca/London 02. Gohj-ji & Simple Machines: Seen (2020) self-released 03. Barbara Dane: Insubordination (FTA! Songs of the GI Resistance, 1970) Paredon/Smithsonian Folkways 04

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XHM #715 - "Boo, 600 count terror" (2024 October 28)

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2024/10/29

Hallowe'en Horror Month closes with a profile of Daniel Hart's score to the 2017 film A Ghost Story. There'll also be songs about gggghosts, wolfmen, bad vampires & what originally was ggggoing to be campiness but there was a backlogggg of dark music so you're ggggetting actual spookiness. 01. Ken Nordine & the Jacksons: Can You Feel It [w.video spoken intro] (Can You Feel It, 1980) Epic/CBS 02. The Jacksons: Can You Feel It (Triumph, 1980) Epic/CBS 03. Mount Shrine: Ghostly (Lost Loops

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XHM #714 - "Porcine prom pyre" (2024 October 21)

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2024/10/22

As Hallowe'en Horror Month continues, we'll double dip with selections from Pino Donaggio's score to the 1st ever Stephen King film adaptation, 1976's Carrie, then getting more recent, 2024's Longlegs by Zilgi. Twice the creepiness! 01. Paul Zaza & Carl Zittrer: Tonight is Prom Night (Prom Night OST, 1980) RCA 02. Sarah Davachi: The Crier's Choir (The Head as Form'd in the Crier's Choir, 2024) Late Music 03. Kris Kristofferson: The Kelly's Keep Comin' (Ned Kelly OST, 1970) United Artists

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126:02

XHM #713 - "No more sales in hell so the dead have...

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2024/10/15

Zombies are the menu for Canadian Thanksgiving as we listen to selections of both European & North American soundtracks to George A Romero's 1978 satire Dawn of the Dead. 01. Pulp: Turkey Mambo Momma [1981] (The Peel Sessions, 2006) Island/Universal 02. George Thomson: Bold Turkey (Phood/Stay EP, 1998) Stickman 03. Contact Tetherball: Cold Turkey (The Real Songs were the Friends We Made Along the Way, 2023) self-released 04. Annie Anxiety: Turkey Girl (Soul Possession, 1984) Corpus

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123:04

XHM #712 - "Violent rentals in unholy homes" (2024...

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2024/10/08

October is at last here so it's time for our annual horror month in the countdown to Hallowe'en! We being with a profile on the odd prog rock soundtrack to the wonderfully bizarre 1977 Japanese film Hausu (House), originally intended for last year so amidst numerous acts performing in Vancouver this week, we start spooky season in a wild fashion. 01. Justice: One Night/All Night [w.Tame Impala] (Hyperdrama, 2024) Because Music 02. Clark: Autumn Linn (Body Double, 2022) Warp/Throttle 03. Sunset

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121:59

XHM #711 - "Hear their voices & heal their spirits"...

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2024/10/01

Every year, Canada marks a National Day of Truth & Reconciliation based on the mistreatment of indigenous peoples, particularly with their children placed into settlers' residential schools to remove their culture. This episode features artists & themes associated with Turtle Island's inhabitants, with music from the films Black Robe & Killers of the Flower Moon. 01. Snotty Nose Rez Kids: Red Future [w.Electric Fields] (Red Future, 2024) Savage Mob/Sony 02. Joseph Fire Crew: Legend of

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124:01

XHM #710 - "Hot dudes in heaps of trouble" (2024...

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2024/09/24

After one complicated yet fun trip to Los Angeles, gak profiles music associated with actor Alain Delon (1935-2024). The Vancouver International Film Festival starts on Thursday but there's a large live performance component this year so we profile musicians from film. There are other concerts happening and a swath of AOR/yacht rock/city pop here too in a very loose episode. 01. Dalida & Alain Delon: Paroles Paroles (Julien, 1973) Orlando/Sonopresse 02. Louis de Mieulle: Soundfrieze (Defense

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XHM #709 - "The finest lethal headgear" (2024...

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2024/09/17

In the wake of more recent reissues from the vast discography of new wave icon Nash the Slash, this profile mostly dips into his post-FM days. On the soundtrack front, we recap the recent Emmy winners plus pay tribute to actor James Earl Jones (1931-2024) & kora player Toumani Diabaté (1965-2024). 01/ Jeff Bennett: The Morning Report [w.Rowan Atkinson, James Earl Jones & Evan Saucedo] (The Lion King Collection [deluxe edition], 2011) Walt Disney 02/ Nash the Slash: Blind

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124:02

XHM #708 - "It's either 2nd & long, 3rd & inches or...

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2024/09/10

On any given Monday, gak presents an eclectic mix of music and boy howdy, we've got a doozy for you. In honour of Richard Horowitz (1949-2024), we profile his score to the 1999 film Any Given Sunday, so we're blending 4th world music with sports themes. Are you ready for some adventure? 01. André Mathieu & Victor Vogel: Olympic Chimes (Games of the XXI Olympiad - Montréal, 1976) Polydor 02. Sam Spence & John Facenda: Get the Man (The Power & The Glory: Original Music & Voices of

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