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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 #760 - "The latest designer diseases" (2025...

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2025/10/21

Hallowe'en Horror Month continues in earnest as we explore the human body & celebrity skin via EC Woodley's score to the 2012 film Antiviral. 01. Ace Frehley: Rip It Out (Ace Frehley, 1978) Casablanca 02. Lea Bertucci: Warp & Weft (Resonant Field, 2019) NNA Tapes 03. D'Angelo: Unshaken (Red Dead Redemption 2 OST, 2019) Lakeshore 04. Garbage: Afterglow (I Think I'm Paranoid single, 1998) Mushroom 05. Chxmeras: Formline (Second Sight EP, 2025) Apparatus 06. Ada Lea: Somebody is Walking Into the

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XHM #756 - "Smash the flood lights, wonder boy" (2025...

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2025/09/23

Robert Redford (1936-2025) had a profound influence on the world, be it through acting, directing, producing & activism. As we pivot to pay tribute to him, we'll focus on baseball and Randy Newman's iconic score from 1984's The Natural. Seasons change and so do we, though the Exploding Head Sports Desk got kinda itchy here. Your starting lineup with the best that ever was: .001 Tame Impala: End of Summer (Deadbeat, 2025) Columbia .002 Milt Jackson: I'm Not So Sure (Olinga, 1974) CTI .003 Yves

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XHM #755 - "Display case for all my tiny wings" (2025...

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2025/09/16

As we attempt to recap the recent Emmy awards, we profile the violinist/composer Alexander Balanescu and his score to the 1995 film Angels & Insects. We also wrap up all the Polaris lead-up by listening to 2 of the nominated songs for the inaugural Polaris Song Prize from albums that are in the short list for Polaris Album Prize. Fly away with me and these numbers. 01. Malibu: So Sweet & Willing (Vanities, 2025) Year0001 02. The Field: Monte Veritá (The Follower, 2016) Kompakt 03. Sophia Stel:

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XHM #754 - "Broadcast from the living oceans" (2025...

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2025/09/09

As gak rushed back from the ocean, we explore life underwater as we freely associate the fact that the new Wes Anderson film The Phoenician Scheme has a short score so we can dig up some 2004 gems off The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou to dive into our main theme: music from various documentary series with Jacques Cousteau. Let me tell you about my playlist. 01. Thundercat: The Life Aquatic (Apocalypse, 2013) Brainfeeder 02. Nick Joliat: Underwater Garden of Forking Paths (Casio Music 2, 2023)

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XHM #753 - "I deal in dreams for electric sheep"...

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2025/09/02

For your Labour Day enjoyment, we go mostly electronic though naturally so as we profile Lawrence Lek's 2020 AI-musical Aidol. Kneel before gak! Where do we begin? 000001. Jenny Hval: I Want to Start at the Beginning (Iris Silver Mist, 2025) 4AD 000010. CHYPS: Soundtracks for Mutants During Labour Disruption (Soundtracks for Mutants During Labour Disruption EP, 2015) self-released 000011. Badbadnotgood: Juan's World (Mid Spiral, 2024) Innovative Leisure/XL 000100. Neil Young: Sail Away

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XHM #752 - "Reading the magazines in God's waiting...

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2025/08/26

It's been a while since we've dug into the film score work of David Holmes so we'll skip across some recent soundtracks from the Northern Irish DJ. We also talk about Slarta John, JD Twitch and Jim Lovell. 01. Kaytranada: Space Invader (Ain't No Damn Way! 2025) RCA 02. David Holmes: Gone [Kruder & Dorfmeister session] (K&D Sessions, 1998) Studio !K7 03. Slarta John & Hatiras: Spaced Invader [Olav Basoski radio edit] (The Many Moods of Slarta John, 2001) Atlantic Jaxx 04. Slarta John: So Life Go

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XHM #751 - "Heroes & thieves, hand in hand, together...

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2025/08/19

With some recent Ennio Morricone reissues, we go with a slightly older film score with a mix of the new: 1970's Compañeros. We also touch upon Tom Lehrer, Ozzy Osbourne, Eddie Palmieri & other news as we juggle Spanish themes, BIPOC country & acts playing in Vancouver before summer ends. 01. Tom Lehrer: New Math (That Was the Year That Was, 1965) Reprise/Warner Bros 02. Jazz Sabbath: Paranoid (Volume 2, 2022) Blacklake 03. Black Sabbath: The Wizard (Black Sabbath, 1970) Vertigo 04. Ozzy

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XHM #748 - "Chased by sad horns" (2025 July 21)

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2025/07/22

Though our main profile will be on the Argentine-American pianist & composer Lalo Schifrin (1932-2025) and a tribute to just some of his film & TV work, CITR also processes the death of The Jazz Show host Gavin Walker amongst other themes as the shock persists. 01. Nine Inch Nails: As Alive as You Need Me to Be (Tron: Ares OST, 2025) Interscope 02. Bennie Green: Soul Stirrin' [mono take] (Soul Stirrin', 1958) Blue Note 03. Connie Francis: It's Gonna Take Me Some Time (Vacation 7", 1962) MGM

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XHM #746 - "To the dearly departed" (2025 July 07)

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2025/07/08

This past Sunday would've been gak's dad's 80th birthday but as noted, he died back in May. Themes around fatherhood abound with odes to Finland, with selections from the playlist intended for use at his memorial celebration. 01. Gregory Mann: Ciao Papa (Guillermo del Toro's Pinochhio OST, 2022) Columbia 02. Sarah Pagé: Relucesco I (2025) Backward Music 03. Taina Elg: Nine (Nine: Original Broadway Soundtrack, 1982) CBS Masterworks 04. Taina Elg: Ça, C'est L'amour (Les Girls OST, 1957) MGM 05

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XHM #745 - "The struggles of being too smart in the...

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2025/06/24

Two icons of American music from the 1960s left us this month: Sly Stone of the Family Stone (1943-2025) & Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys (1942-2025). We pay tribute to them via recent films. We also touch upon the 2025 Vancouver International Jazz Festival that's underway. 01. Lynn Ahrens: No More Kings (Schoolhouse Rock! America Rock, 1975) ABC 02. Anthéne & Simon McCorry: Summer's Glow (Wellspring, 2025) Home Normal 03. Alf Clausen & Dan Castellaneta: Cool (Songs in the Key of Springfield,

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XHM #743 - "Creativity, contemplation & cups of...

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2025/06/10

gak's back from recent business so as he catches up, consider this Part 3 of our tribute to David Lynch, focusing on his own music mostly separate from film & TV. 01. Jerry Goldsmith: Logo (Tombstone OST, 2006) Intrada 02. Marty Robbins: The Red Hills of Utah (Return of the Gunfighter, 1963) Columbia 03. Loscil: Ash Clouds (Lake Fire, 2025) Kranky 04. Ramen Fog: Head in the Clouds [Fromage] (Ramen Bog EP, 2025) self-released 05. Badbadnotgood & VCR: Found a Light [Beale Street] (2025) XL 06

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XHM #740 - "Toutes les émotions d'aujourd'hui" (2025...

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2025/04/29

gak's back, harkening to prior travels where a Sapporo hotel kept looping Yann Tiersen's score to the 2001 film Amélie so this episode goes a bit French, though there's plenty of sad news in the world, including Vancouver, to touch upon. 01. Fred Ho, Kulintang Arts & the Asian American Art Ensemble: Lapu Lapu's Battle Preparation/Jihad (Kulintang Kultura: Danongan Kalanduyan & Gong Music of the Philippine Diaspora, 2021) Smithsonian Folkways 02. Danongan Kalanduyan, Hafez Modirzadeh, Conrad

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XHM #736 - "Put the pimpmobile in neutral" (2025...

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2025/04/01

We're behind on doing some funk so let's dig up some James Brown and his work for the 1973 blaxploitation film Slaughter's Big Rip-Off. As a bonus, you'll get some rare Mort Garson with music from the 1974 film Black Eye as gak becomes the 2nd hardest working man in the radio business. Star time! 01. Radio Trailer: Slaughter (Super Bad, Super Black: Radio Spots from Blaxploitation, 1972) Waste Management 02. Billy Preston: Slaughter (Slaughter OST, 1972) unreleased 03. Quincy Jones: Manteca

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XHM #735 - "The muddled middle fields" (2025 March 24)

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2025/03/25

With Ramadan partly in mind, we primarily dig into sounds from the Middle East, focusing on Syria, a country that after over a decade of civil war, entered a period of relief. Alexandre Desplat's score to the 2005 film Syriana gives some Western context but we also hear some film music from Lebanon amongst other inspirations. 01. Radio Damascus: 7 Oct 2010 [2133UTC] 9330 kHz (ShortWaveMusic 2011: United Arab Emirates, 2010) Myke Weiskopf 02. Benjamin Clementine: Phantom of Aleppoville (I Tell a

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XHM #731 - "Harsh cuts (I'm so sorry)" (2025 February...

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2025/02/25

For our fourth episode tied to nominees for the upcoming 97th Academy Awards, we listen to the final two nominated songs and the nom'd score to the 2024 film Emilia Pérez with music by Camille & Clément Ducol. 01. Kyle MacLachlan & Angelo Badalamenti: Agent Cooper's February 24th Opening Monologue/Laura Palmer's Theme [Letter from Harold] (Diane...the Twin Peaks Tapes of Agent Cooper x Twin Peaks Archives, 1989) David Lynch 02. The Shapeshifters: Lola's Theme [w.Cookie, radio edit amongst other

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XHM #730 - "Good droid, emeraaald city" (2025...

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2025/02/18

For your Family Day programming, we continue on with our Oscars profiles with a nominated song from Elton John: Never Too Late and 2 nom'd scores: Kris Bowers' music from The Wild Robot along with John Powell & Stephen Schwartz and their score to the film adaptation of the musical Wicked. 01. Magazine: The Light Pours out of Me (Real Life, 1978) Virgin 02. Sebastiaan Hooft: Magazine (Modern Times, 2024) Taktschleife 03. Jex Opolis: This Ain't No Disco (Digital Magic, 2025) Bad Timin' 04. Let's

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XHM #728 - "Flabberghastronomy" (2025 February 03)

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2025/02/04

gak's back from Japan and he's back in the thick of things as it's time for our annual Oscars profile series! The nominees for the 97th Academy Awards were announced belatedly whilst he was away so with 4 weeks to tackle the nominees, our 1st profile looks at Volker Bertelmann's score from Conclave & Daniel Blumberg's music from The Brutalist, both up for best original score. We also talk about the Los Angeles fires that impacted the usual awards schedule as many artists have lost homes this

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XHM #724 - "Kaiju preparation kit" (2025 January 06)

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2025/01/07

It is now 2025 and as we scan for fiction set in this once futuristic year, we'll profile bits from Ramin Djawadi's score to the 2013 kaiju film Pacific Rim. We also catch up on the recently deceased and some work that has now entered the public domain in some parts of the world. It was a matter of time we had to learn to fight monsters so lasso up your robots! 01. Dramatis: Oh! 2025 (For Future Reference [expanded edition], 2022) Rocket Record Co. 02. Contaqt/Bell Dreams: Red (Terroirs, 2024)

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XHM #723 - "Reporting live from divided fields" (2024...

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2024/12/31

As this confounding year draws to a close, we'll do our annual recap of the past 12 months in review. Along with some of the artists & songs that defined 2024, we'll profile Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow's score to that year's film Civil War. 01. Jessica Pratt: The Last Year (Here in the Pitch, 2024) City Slang 02. Kristen Roos: Nova (Universal Synthesizer Interface: Volume III, 2024) Hotham Sound 03. Cindy Lee: Diamond Jubilee (Diamond Jubilee, 2024) Realistik Studios 04. Apollo Ghosts: No One

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XHM #722 - "Angels who heard us while high" (2024...

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2024/12/17

For our 17th annual counter-Christmas carol episode, we plunge deep into some of Dimitri Tiomkin's score that was cut from the 1946 holiday classic It's a Wonderful Life as we mark the festive season with our usual mix of snark, candour, grief & joy. 01. Tito Jackson: Season's Greetings (Season's Greetings from Motown Records 7", 1973) Motown 02. En Attendant Ana: Close Your Mouth Because Christmas is the Day! (En Attendant Ana Sings Christmas, 2024) self-released 03. Fflwcs: Let Nothing You

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