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CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies

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 #706 - "Escape to paradise & prosperity" (2024...

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2024/08/27

Appropriate for the end of summer, gak finally tackles a long-promised episode devoted to the 1980s Japanese genre known as city pop. The entire playlist should be considered ultrasmooth with acts clearly inspired by this resurrected & imported style. Perfect for driving away from the city and to the beach. Ichi, ni, san, yon, go! 00. BGM 01. Miki Matsubara: Mayonaka no Door/Stay with Me (Paradise Beach, 1983) See-Saw/Pony Canyon 02. Joseph Shabason: 15-19 (The Fellowship, 2021) Western

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XHM #703 - "From housewives to alien heroines" (2024...

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2024/07/30

It's Pride Week in Vancouver so amidst mostly LGBTQ+ programming, we'll profile the 1982 indie scifi film Liquid Sky. 01. Richard Simmons: Live It (Reach, 1982) Elektra 02. B Trust: I Hate My Body [extended instrumental] (2017) self-released 03. Honey Dijon: Le Femme Fantastique [w.Josh Caffe] (Black Girl Magic, 2022) Classic 04. Elkka: Right Here (Prism of Pleasure, 2024) Ninja Tune 05. Boney M: Silly Bones [edit] (Horse Meat Disco Pt II 12", 2009) Horse Meat Disco 06. Gina X Performance:

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XHM #173 [REDUX] - "A most satisfying prairie pit...

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2024/07/02

Going back to Canada Day 2013, this repeat broadcast gets all rural with the headbanger FUBAR film series, eh. Original details & episode: https://www.citr.ca/radio/exploding-head-movies/episode/20130701/ This one has been tightened up a bit and some birds got into it. Give'r! 1. Stompin' Tom Connors: Roll On Saskatchewan (Meets Big Joe Mufferaw, 1970) Dominion 2. Wayne Henderson & Freedom Sounds: Soul Sound System (Soul Sound System, 1968) Atlantic 3. Slim Whitman: By the Waters of the

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XHM #698 - "No city for big hearts" (2024 June 03)

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2024/06/04

gak's back from New York so as he dug through films set in the Big Apple, he opted for a Puerto Rican flair with the 1993 film Carlito's Way. For Vancouverites, Music Waste is this weekend so we also spotlight some of the local acts performing in this long-running festival. 01. Eli Escobar: NY So Hi (Up All Night 12", 2014) Night People NYC 02. Shabason & Gunning: Measures of Fog (Ample Habitat, 2024) Séance Centre 03. David Sanborn: Anything You Want (Hideaway, 1979) Warner Bros 04. David

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XHM #690 - "Excruciating shred mucus" (2024 April 01)

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2024/04/02

Based on recent legislation from the governments of North Karelia (Finland) & Northwestern Ontario (Canada), we've had to viciously & suddenly change formats, so it's mostly blistering guitars with a metal focus going forward now. Who'd've thought the first of the month would've wrought this? 01! Tenacious D: The Metal (The Pick of Destiny, 2006) Epic 02! Dhidalah: Jovian Sky (Threshold, 2019) Guruguru 03! Fucked Up: Quality Second [Orbital] (Cops 7", 2023) self-released 04! Palm Oil: Garden

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XHM #688 - "Lunar lancing" (2024 March 18)

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2024/03/19

Award season is over so we play catch up with recent news as look at the Canadian director Norman Jewison (1926-2024) and cues from his groundbreaking films, focusing mostly on 1987's Moonstruck with music by Dick Hyman. 01. John Cale: Moonstruck [Nico's Song] (Mercy, 2023) Domino 02. Gerald Fried: The Discotheque Affair (The Man from U.N.C.L.E. TV Series: Volume 1, 2002) Film Score Monthly 03. Apollo Ghosts: Karaoke (Local Delivery Only, 2020) self-released 04. Molly Sarlé: Human (Karaoke

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XHM #686 - "Downwind from the fallout of history"...

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2024/03/05

Our 6th part of our annual Oscars profiles does another check-in on Ludwig Göransson's Academy Award nominated score to Oppenheimer. 01. Oppenheimer Analysis: Men in White Coats (New Mexico, 1982) Minimal Waves 02. Osmanthus: Bloom (Between Seasons, 2024) self-released 03. Parliament: I Call My Baby Pussycat (Osmium, 1970) Invictus 04. Marlena Shaw: Liberation Conversation (The Spice of Life, 1969) Cadet 05. Chronotype Project: Arctic Spring (Free Ambient Electronic Sampler 37, 2024) Spotted

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XHM #616 [LOST] - "We'll go under the swamp and...

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2022/08/30

In honour of director Wolfgang Petersen (1941-2022), we'll profile music from two of his best known films: 1981's Das Boot and 1984's The Neverending Story. We also survey what's left of August as school starts to return. [The podcast logger had run out of memory so this episode is lost to the æther. I may attempt to reconstruct in the future upon demand.] 1. Gaten Matarazzo: Never Ending Story (Stranger Things 3: Soundtrack from the Netflix Original Series, 2019) Lakeshore/Invada 2. Kuma:

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XHM #615 [LOST] - "Man må hyle med de ulve man er...

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2022/08/23

This week, we profile Robin Carolan & Sebastian Gainsborough's score to Robert Egger's Viking-inspired 2022 film The Northman. [The podcast logger had run out of memory so this episode is lost to the æther. I may attempt to reconstruct in the future upon demand.] 1. Folklore ensemble of the village of Krivonosovka: Picking Berries in the Forest [Summer Berry Picking song] (Ukrainian Music: Anthology of Folk Music, 2011) Melodiya 2. Biosphere: Transfigured Express (Shortwave Memories, 2022)

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