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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 #707 - "Get confident, stupid" (2024 September 02)

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2024/09/03

School is almost back in session so this week's lesson looks at recent music from Thom Yorke, ranging from new projects, Radiohead covers and his score to 2024's Confidenza. We waltz around other academic subjects, Polaris Prize nominees, acts playing in Vancouver this week and another CITR's host's 25th anniversary on air. Books open, pencils out, devices away, laptops charged. 01. Soulwax: Teachers (Nite Versions, 2005) PIAS 02. Yu Su: Avanvera (2024) Music from Memory 03. Maurice Williams

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XHM #705 - "Kun kaikki toivo on mennyt" (2024 August 19)

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2024/08/20

Tying back to ancestral lands, gak's back and he found a compilation of songs from the films of the Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki so you've got a dry pan, rollicking episode coming up. 01. The Chills: I Love My Leather Jacket (Kaleidoscope World, 1986) Flying Nun/Creation 02. Yoo Doo Right: SMB (A Murmur, Boundless to the East, 2022) Mothland 03. John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers: Crawling Up a Hill (1964) Decca 04. Kinky Friedman & the Texas Jewboys: Asshole from El Paso [live] (Old

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120:57

XHM #704 - "The life and times in which we all burn"...

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2024/08/13

For your belated British Columbia Day enjoyment, we pay tribute to music associated with the films of Canadian actor Donald Sutherland (1935-2024) & Shelly Duvall (1949-2024) amidst other mourning material in this pre-recorded episode. 01. Harvey Keitel & Tim Roth: Let's Get a Taco (Reservoir Dogs OST, 1992) MCA 02. DVTR: Les Olympiques (2024) Lisbon Lux 03. Kilometre Club: Jasper AB (Let Us Compare Geographies, 2024) Élan Vital 04. Louise Burns: Jasper (The Midnight Mass, 2009) Light

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XHM #702 - "40-30-15-love-love-love" (2024 July 22)

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2024/07/23

One of the widely consume scores this year is Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross' industrial dance music from Challengers. Though tennis themes were thought of for this episode, amidst plenty of techno, gak's behind on some club classics from 2024 and it's time to prep the Polaris nominee profiles so we've got light summer vibes. 01. Rasputina: Saline the Salt Lake Queen (Frustration Plantation, 2004) Instinct 02. John Noseda: Our Time Will Come Again [Cinematic Sunset Trip] (Late Summer Compilation

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124:02

XHM #701 - "Pastels for a new plane of being" (2024...

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2024/07/16

Ryan Faulconer (1976-2024) was a key friend all these years. We lost him too soon in January so in a celebration of his life, we feature some of his favourite songs and then Jeff Beal's score to 2001's Pollock, a film that spoke dearly to him. 01. Hayden: Trees Lounge (Trees Lounge OST, 1996) MCA 02. Phill Niblock: Two Lips 1 (Touch Five, 2013) Touch 03. Jonathan Richman: Government Centre (Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers, 1976) Beserkley 04. Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins: Melt

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119:49

XHM #217 [REDUX] - “A loquacious stranger came to our...

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2024/06/25

gak's in Utah for work & fun so this episode way off the active podcast feed from 10 years ago dives into spoken word with a spotlight on Ken Nordine (1920-2019) back when he was alive and still doing radio beat poetry. 00. gak & Gregory Gan yak it up 01. Potatohead People: Pete Sakes (Mellowtunes EP, 2012) Jellyfish 02. Calamalka: Auterzonik (Shredders Dub, 2006) Plug Research 03. Tom Waits: What's He Building in There? (Mule Variations, 1999) Anti- 04. E-men: In the Movie Now

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XHM N°700! LOAD "*", 8, 1 (2024 June 17)

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2024/06/18

Actress Cindy Morgan (1954-2023) provided a partial impetus to look at the world of Tron again and we'll combine Wendy Carlos' score from the 1982 original with Daft Punk's 2010 sequel Tron: Legacy as we project the future of this cult series. RUN * 10 Chaka Khan: Fate (What Cha' Gonna Do for Me, 1981) Warner Bros 20 Canadian Electronic Ensemble: Whale Oil (Canadian Electronic Ensemble, 2019) Artoffact 30 Françoise Hardy: Comment Te Dire Adieu (Comment Te Dire Adieu, 1968) Vogue 40 The Pack

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122:43

XHM #699 - "The monster bigger than any leading lady"...

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2024/06/11

Roger Corman (1926-2024) was a trailblazer in producing & occasionally directing American independent cinema, so we'll touch upon only a handful of cues from films that came from his studios. 01. Ramones: Rock'n Roll High School (Rock'n Roll High School OST, 1979) Sire/Warner Bros 02. Yoo Doo Right: The Failure of Stiff, Tired Friends (A Murmur, Boundless to the East, 2022) Mothland 03. The Sherman Brothers: One Man Band (Mary Poppins OST: Special Edition, 2014) Disney 04. Richard M

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XHM #697 - "Pnévma, órama, profítis" (2024 May 27)

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2024/05/28

This pre-recorded episode goes more new age than ambient, so consider this Part 14.5 of our sorta soothing & serene sounding series, mostly in a Greek vein as we profile some of the soundtrack work of Yanni. 0.1 Nathan Shubert: Maybe Borealis (2024) self-released 0.2 Terre Thaemlitz: Tranquilizer [excerpt] (Tranquilizer: 30th Anniversary Restored & Expanded Edition, 2024) Comatonse 0.3 Richard Bégin: Lavrador (Lavrador, 2024) Reverse Alignment 0.4 Greg Andersen: Open Skies (Another

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122:02

XHM #696 - "Immortal jones" (2024 May 20)

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2024/05/21

For your Victoria Day (or Whit Monday) enjoyment, we profile Montreal's CFCF and his score to the 2022 Canadian queer indie film You Can Live Forever. 01. Thundercat: Thousand Knives (A Tribute to Ryuichi Sakamoto: To the Moon and Back, 2022) Milan 02. Ryuichi Sakamoto: 20220214 (12, 2023) Commmons/Milan 03. Yellow Magic Orchestra: Behind the Mask (Solid State Survivor, 1980) Alfa 04. Juicy Fruits: Jenny wa Gokigen Naname (Drink!, 1980) Blow Up 05. Peter Berring & Brian Griffiths: Goku's

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XHM #695 - "Receive the holy serum" (2024 May 13)

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2024/05/14

Amidst a profile on some of Steve Albini's (1962-2024) recording work and tributes to other recently deceased folks, we profile an interesting collaboration between Cypress Hill's DJ Muggs & experimental musician Dean Hurley for the 2023 sci-fi film Divinity. 01. Shellac: Canada (Live at Cat's Cradle, Carrboro: August 30, 2006) self-released 02. Sunn O))): Novæ (Life Metal, 2019) Southern Lord 03. Pixies: Cactus (Surfer Rosa, 1988) 4AD 04. PJ Harvey: 50ft Queenie (Rid of Me, 1993) Island

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XHM #694 - "If we saw him, we got the message" (2024...

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2024/05/07

In honour of the character actor M. Emmet Walsh (1935-2024), we profile Carter Burwell's score from perhaps Walsh's largest role (and the Coen Brothers' debut): 1984's Blood Simple in this deceptively neo-noir styled episode. 01. Clarence "Frogman" Henry & Paul Gayten: Ain't Got No Home (Ain't Got No Home 7", 1956) Argo 02. Bell Orchestre: Making Time (House Music, 2021) Erased Tapes 03. The Spinners: Ghetto Child (Spinners, 1973) Atlantic 04. David Soul: Silver Lady (Playing to an

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119:01

XHM #693 - "You may be entitled to comprehension"...

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2024/04/30

gak's back after a fortnight in a swamp with a profile on the Toronto band Absolutely Free and their score to the 2016 independent film Two Cares Due None. 01. Count Floyd: The Gory Story of Duane & Debbie (Count Floyd 12", 1982) RCA 02. Ian William Craig: Blue Suit Glitch (Music for Magnesium_173 OST, 2022) FatCat 03. Pierre Kwenders: No No No [w.Vanyfox] (No No No Remixes, 2023) Arts & Crafts 04. mk.gee: Candy (Two Star & the Dream Police, 2024) R&R 05. Blank Banshee: Trojan

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XHM #692 - "Lo, an alchemy of fungus & folly" (2024...

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2024/04/16

gak's back from staring at things blocking the sun so the genres shift to mostly folk as we profile Jim Williams' songs from the soundtrack to the 2013 film A Field in England. 01. Waxahatchee: Right Back to It (Tigers Blood, 2024) Anti- 02. Amanda Whiting: Facing the Sun (The Liminality of Her, 2024) First Word 03. Rhiannon Giddens: Wrong Kind of Right (You're the One, 2023) Nonesuch 04. Rhiannon Giddens: Mountain Hymn (The Music of Red Dead Redemption 2 OST, 2019) Lakeshore/Rockstar Games

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XHM #691 - "Floating in the moonshadow" (2024 April 08)

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2024/04/09

It's Part 14 of our all-ambient series and we circle back to some of the noteworthy releases from 2023 aside from some astronomical business. Astronomical business meant hopes to have this in time for the solar eclipse so you have to schedule your own sun blocker for maximum enjoyment. 01 - Transponder: Totality (Empire of the Eclipse, 2024) Synphaera 02 - Talk West: Abode (Black Coral Sprig, 2023) Scissor Tail 03 - Wata Igarashi: Subterranean Life (Agartha, 2023) Kompakt 04 - Midden:

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124:02

XHM #689 - "Arrakis boogaloo" (2024 March 25)

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2024/03/26

24It's time to return to the spice as we listen to Hans Zimmer's score to Dune: Part Two from director Denis Villeneuve. Along with other sonic inspirations from Frank Herbert's novels, we also profile a documentary about a failed adaptation: 2013's Jodorowsky's Dune with music by Kurt Stenzel. 01. Hot Chip: Freakout/Release (Freakout/Release, 2022) Domino 02. Klaus Schulze: Frank Herbert (X: Sechs Musikalische Biographien, 1990) Brain 03. Shubostar & Terr: Brave New World (2024) DGTL 04

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120:23

XHM #687 - "Dreams take flight [with crazy teeth]"...

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2024/03/12

Our 7th & final part of our our annual Oscars profiles as award season draws to a close as we talk about who won! The 96th Academy Awards were handed out last night and amongst the winners, we hear selections from Joe Hisaishi's score from the Best Animated Feature from Studio Ghibli: The Boy and the Heron. 01. Benny Sings: Movie Star (Young Hearts, 2023) Stones Throw 02. Richard Bégin: Mouvements Cycloniques des Regions Temperees (IDIL Music Award 2024, 2024) Unexplained Sounds Group 03

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XHM #685 - "Oklahoma ain't always OK" (2024 February 26)

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2024/02/27

The 1st of our two repeat profiles is in the cards for the 5th part of our annual Oscar profile as we hear different cues from the late Robbie Robertson's nominated score to Killers of the Flower Moon. We hear additional indigenous voices too amongst others who have recently left us. The time has come. 1. A.S.O: My Baby's Got It Out for Me (A.S.O, 2023) Low Lying 2. Anthony Davis, James Newton & Abdul Wadud: After You Said Yes (I've Known Rivers, 1982) Gramavision 3. Mojo Nixon & Skid

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XHM #684 - "Five generations of snakes" (2024...

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2024/02/20

It's Family Day in parts of Canada, so for our 4th part of our annual Oscars profile, we not only hear selections from John Williams' nominated score to Indiana Jones & The Dial of Destiny, but we also circle back through the rest of his music from the adventure film series. gak is jet lagged from all the red lines that pop up on the map as he flew a lot last week. 0.1 Ray Anthony: Holiday (Programming Aids 7", 1964) Capitol 0.2 Lol Tolhurst, Budgie & Jacknife Lee: Los Angeles [w.James

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XHM #683 - "The word & the page" (2024 February 12)

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2024/02/13

For the 3rd part of our annual Oscars profile, we listen to selections from Laura Karpman's nominated score to American Fiction. We also touch upon the lunar new year, acts playing in Vancouver and actor/director Carl Weathers (1948-2024). Thanks again to everyone who donated to 2024 Fundrive! 01. Beth Gibbons: Floating on a Moment (Lives Outgrown, 2024) Domino 02. Matty: Yessss (Arkive, 2021) Voice Recordings 03. Joseph Koo: The Way of the Dragon [w.Mike Remedios] (Way of the Dragon OST,

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