Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Adam Christou, Golden Apples of the Sun Radio Show, rtrfm, The Director
‘THE DIRECTOR’ is a limited edition series of The Golden Apples of the Sun. This Sunday Edition 1 is hosted by Adam Christou, Music Director at RTRFM 92.1. Adam loves music and wrote these words on the RTRFM website to help listeners understand what the Golden Apples is about…”Through blissful reverie and sun-dappled hallucinogenic soundscapes, find yourself transported to a world beyond time, where both past and future intermingle, and where sound rules supreme”.
LISTEN
Listen Here (Select 21/2/2016)
Mixcloud Version of full show Here
PLAYLIST
Ju Ca – Facing Forward – Misplaced Futures
Russell St Bombings – Homicide Squad – Self Titled
Atlas Sound – Strange Parade – Bedroom Databank Vol 2.
Pikelet – Interface Dystopia – Unreleased
Nico Niquo – Virgo Landscape – Supermarket Music
Tourist Kid – Dedication to Ellis B – A circulation
White Poppy – Joyride – self titled
DIIV – Blue Boredom (with Sky Ferreira) – Is The Is Are
Good Morning – Give Me Something To Do – Glory EP
Andrew Tuttle – Activation – Fantasy League
Mei Saraswati – O Sea Of Bestowals – Devotions
Seiho – Peach & Pomeganate – collapse
Dellity – walk out of the game, walk back in it (innit) – single
Coup d’etat – Safety In Numbers – CDT01
Naps – Lover’s Coral – EarthSea CD-R
Lehmann B Smith – There Goes My Baby – Roominations
The Backstabbers – Internet Friends & Internet Friends (Reprise) – s/t
Lower Plenty – White Walls – Hard Rubbish
Weyes Blood – Maybe Love – Cardamom Times
Tourist Kid – Recollection & return inn (Hyatt lobby) – A Circulation
Kirkis – cold Crush (mndsgn remix)
wu15 – the Anthem – wu15 EP
Gora Sou – Kaimai – Ramifications
Benedek – Untitled Untitled
Soda Lite – Desire Liquid Earth
Kedr Livanskly – April – January Sun
Mistress Mary – And I Didn’t Want You – Wayfaring Strangers: Cosmic American Music
Charlie Hilton – Funny Anyway – Palana
Mac Demarco – Young Coconut – Some Other Ones
totally mild – go home
Sonny & The Sunsets – Stranded
Magic Eye = (haze pop + shoegaze + indie-pop) x lo-fi
Magic Eye’s latest cassette, Babylon on Not Not Fun was almost scrapped as the hazy gazer pop sound synonymous with the Edinburgh four piece was compromised when the group attempted to record in a professional studio. So the band took their belongings back to the bedroom, piecing together the Babylon cassette on their own
You can get the track Golden Eye as performed live in the video on the 2013 sampler from the Song, By Toad Record Label/Blog from Edinburgh Scotland.
Check outa very cool mixtape they did for Impose Magazine here
“…This mix is made from songs that we were into around the time of recording the album. We stitched them together and ran them through our effects. The Robert Fripp tune is a song I wish I could have listened to properly, but it’s from pieces of his youtube interview in the reverb chamber with interview clips in between…”
Tracklisting:
01 XTC – Functions On The Low
02 Fatima Al Qadiri – Hip Hop Spa
03 Robert Fripp – Frippertronics
04 Art Of Noise – Moments of Love
05 Magic Eye – Sad Disco
06 Magic Eye – Never
07 Brian Eno – Discreet Music(excerpt)
Love the Unloved sixties girl group meets David Lynch sound
Love this new Julian House directed video with its trademark Julian House look
See the last equally as atmospheric ‘Guilty of Love’ video here
Still finding little souvenirs left behind from the Golden Apples Valentines Day date with Indie Pop mixtape
This track is from 2013’s Slow Summits, the first proper LP since 1997. The film clip has a nice almost hauntological feel.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: femme folk funk, folk, folk funk, folk funk and trippy troubadors, Golden Apples of the Sun Radio Show, paul hillery, ph, psych folk
Over here at the Golden Apples of the Sun we have been long time fans of Paul Hillery’s Folk Funk and Trippy Troubadors project. Check it out here and here.
Its an incredible archive of classic folk funk psych and other trippy things. Possibly our favorite mixes here at The Golden Apples are the Five Volume epic Femme Folk Funk series….listen below
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: c86, Golden Apples of the Sun Radio Show, How Does It Feel To Be Loved, indie pop, indiepop, twee
Claude Mono hosts a very special Valentine’s Day edition – a musical date with the sound of Indie-Pop – after all Indie-Pop IS the music of L.O.V.E so I’d say enjoy today’s show with someone you love…
How Does It Feel To Be Loved is the show theme stolen from the legendary Indie Pop club night How Does It Feel To Be Loved (or HDIF) hosted at The Canterbury Arms in Brixton. See Claude’s HDIF post here as well as grabbing Claude’s 2009 indie pop mixtape.
LISTEN
Re-stream the show Here – Select 14 Feb = Valentines Day
Mixcloud HQ audio Here – extra tracks – no chit chat just the music
PLAYLIST
The Sundowners – Always You – Captain Nemo
Everything is Everything – Witchi Tai To – Everything Is Everything featuring Chris Hills
The Free Design featuring Tony Mottola – Kites Are Fun – Kites Are Fun
The Passions – I’m in Love with a German Film Star
Young Marble Giants – Colossal Youth – Colossal Youth
Stereolab – Changer – Switched On
California Snow Story – Suddenly Everything Happens – Close to the Ocean
Hong Kong in the 60s – Footsteps – Willow Pattern Songs
Acid House Kings – Sunday Morning – Mondays Are Like Tuesdays
Aberdeen – Sink or Float – It Was The Rain Lost Recordings
My Favourite – Burning Hearts – The Happiest Days Of My Life
The Dentists – I Had an Excellent Dream – Some People Are On The Pitch They Think It’s All Over It Is Now
Tallulah Gosh – Tallulah Gosh
Blueboy – So Catch Him – So Catch Him
Blink – Happy Days – Map of The Universe
Camera Obscura – Intro – Desire Lines
Camera Obscura – Razzle Dazzle Rose – Let’s Get Out of This Country
Alpaca Sports – I Was Running – Sealed With A Kiss
The Fresh & Onlys – Presence Of Mind – Long Slow Dance
Jane – It’s a Fine Day – Pillows and Prayers Vol 2
Quentin Crisp – Stop The Music For A Minute – Pillows and Prayers Vol 1
The Tomatometers – Into The Blue – EP
The Pastels – Check My Heart – Slow Summits
Artist Unknown – The Girl From Katong (Serenaide Cover) – Lush 99.5FM
Steve Buscemi and Thora Birch – Record Collector – Ghost World OST
Orange Juice – Rip It Up – Rip It Up
Weekend feat Alison Stratton – Drum Beat for Baby – Nostalgia
Benni Hemm Hemm – Ku Ui Po – Benni Hemm Hemm
Jens Lekman – Maple Leaves – Oh Your So Silent Lens
Rocketship – I Love You Like The Way I Used To Do – A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness (Mixcloud Only)
Stereolab – Brakhage – Peel Session (Mixcloud Only)
Franny and Zooey – Otto y Ana
Elephant Parade – For You – Bedroom Recordings (Mixcloud Only)
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Golden Apples of the Sun Radio Show, How Does It Feel To Be Loved, indie pop, indiepop, twee
How Does It Feel To Be Loved…
The Golden Apples of the Sun Radio Show presents a special Valentines Day musical date with the sound of Indie-Pop – listen to the show with someone you love…
How Does It Feel To Be Loved (also known as HDIF) is a legendary intimate and DIY London club night playing indie pop and a number of other genres including, soul, girl groups, and sixties heartbreak sounds. HDIF has been going since 2002 and is genuinely adored: “Legendary indie club,” – NME. “Much-loved indie pop institution,” – The Quietus. “With a decade of great nights under its belt How Does it Feel to Be Loved? is one of London’s most enduring and influential underground indie get-togethers,” – Flavorpill. “A speakeasy for anyone who suspects that their life is one big Smiths song,”…etc whatthe punters who have been say is equally wonderfful (here)
In 2006 the club released its compilation ‘The Kids at the Club’ celebrating the 20th anniversary of the legendary NME’s C-86 compilation. The Kids At The Club is now itself regarded as a classic. As Pitchfork said in their review ”Indeed, another difference between The Kids at the Club and the indie pop canon is the very nostalgia entailed by such an endeavor. The Pastels, Talulah Gosh, and the Field Mice all had obvious influences, (but here these new bands) carved out identifiable sounds of their own…Both longtime followers of the scene and curious newbies will all likely find their own tracks to love…”
2015 saw the last night of HDIF at one of its longer residencies and almost spiritual home The Canterbury Arms in Brixton. Like a mini-tragedy that could inherit the finest indie-pop The Canterbury Arms was being (and now has been) demolished.
Check out Claude Mono’s original HDIF inspired mixtape from 2009 here
Here are some photos of Indie kids having fun at How Does It Feel at the tragically now demolished Canterbury Arms in Brixton
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: acid folk, folk, Golden Apples of the Sun Radio Show, psych folk, rtrfm
Its an Em Burrows folk explosion as she hosts The Golden Apples
Listen Here (Select 7 Feb 2016)
PLAYLIST
June Tabor and the Oysterband – Judas
Jack Sharp – Adieu to Old England
Fairport Convention – She Moves Through the Fair
Smoke Fairies – The Three of Us
Unicorn – Country Road
Sarah Jarosz – Annabelle Lee
The Incredible String Band – All Writ Down
Trees – Murdoch
Steeleye Span – All Things Are Quite Silent
Wolf People – One By One From Dorney Reach
Marlinspike – Elevator Fever
Colosseum – The Kettle
Magnetic Mind – Thinking About It
Magnetic Mind – The Mumbai Firefly
Jefferson Airplane – It’s No Secret
Life on Earth – There and Then
Pond – Sunlight Cardigan
Led Zeppelin – Battle of Evermore
GOASTT – Animals
Jethro Tull – Aqualung
Marlinspike – Sway
Richard in Your Mind – Ponderosa
Pentangle – Jack Orion
Wolf People – Silbury Sands
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: boost hero man, diger rokwell, Golden Apples of the Sun Radio Show, rtrfm
Diger Rokwell hosts The Golden Apples of the Sun and features an exclusive in-studio performance by The Boost Hero Man – From out of this world to inside your head…on RTRFM 92.1
Listen Here (Select 31 Jan 2016)
PLAYLIST
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