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SUMMER SCHOOL
Slow Down
This week Claude Mono and special guest Robin Thomas close out The Golden Apples Summer School presenting ‘Slow Down’. Its all beautiful sounds for relaxation with intensity.
Running from December 2023 through to February 2024, The Golden Apples of the Sun presents ’Summer School’. The show’s regular presenters, guests and friends present a curated season of weekly 2-hour explorations to different musical places.
LISTEN
Show re-stream here
HQ Mixcloud Version here – with all the chit chat
PLAYLIST
Theme feat Aimee Ringle Song of Wandering Aengus
Kammerflimmer Kollektief – In Transition (Version) – Wilding (Staubgold – 2010)
Midori Takada – Mr Henri Rousseau’s Dream – Through The Looking Glass (RCA Red Seal, 1983)
Ryuichi Sakamoto – Opus – BTTB (WEA, 1999)
Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto – Vrioon 1 and 2 – Vrioon (Raster Noton – 2002)
Terry Riley – Poppy Nogood – A Rainbow In Curved Air (Columbia 1969)
Hans Joachim Roedelius – Adieu Quichotte – Geschenk Des Augenblicks (Editions EG, 1984)
Mike Midnight – Smiling In Slow Motion – Angel Hours (Southern Exposure Records – 2022)
23 Skidoo – Calypso – Beyond Time (Les Disques Du Crepuscule – 2015)
Nils Frahm – #2 – Tripping with Nils Frahm (Erased tapes 2021)
Steve Hillage – Garden of Paradise – Rainbow Dome Musick (Virgin 1979)
Erasers – Easy To See – Constant Connection (Fire Talks, Night School, 2022)
Windy and Carl – The Sun – Consciousness (Kranky, 2001)
The Durutti Column (feat Eley Rudge) – Future Perfect – Fidelity (Les Disques Du Crepuscule, 1996)
Jonny Nash and Suzanne Kraft – Refractory Cafe – Passive Aggressive (Melody as Truth, 2017)
Mary Lattimore – Pine Trees – Silver Ladders (Ghostly International, 2020)
Wim Mertens – Struggle for Pleasure – Struggle for Pleasure – Les Disques Du Crépuscule
Wim Mertens Ensemble – Struggle for Pleasure (Live at Ancienne Brussels 25_09_2015)
Brian Eno – Fullness of Wind – Discreet Music (Virgin 1988)
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Robin and Claude return for music nerd chit chat – from Gamelan Voices to 23 Skidoo via Caret Voltaire and Cocteau Twins and of course a track or two on Les Disques Du Crepuscule
LISTEN
Show re-stream here
Mixcloud HQ Mixtape <coming soon>
PLAYLIST
Ryuichi Sakamoto – Distant Echo – BTTB (1999)
Keith Jarrett – Part II b (excerpt) – The Koln Concert (1975)
Qluster – Perpetuum – Element (2018)
Jim Wallis – Europa Pt3 (Vanishing Twin Remix) – Europa Reworked (2020)
Jim Wallis – Europa Pt3 – Europa (2020)
23 Skidoo – Ayu (ambient) – Beyond Time (2015)
Gamelan Voices – Crack In The Frame – Ritu-Ual (2016)
Original Past Life – Times of Ceylon (2016)
Found Quantity of Sheep – Lapsang – Monkey + Valve (2005)
Cabaret Voltaire – Gut Level (1983)
23 Skidoo – Calypso – Beyond Time (2015)
Popol Vuh – Aguirre (excerpt remixed) – In The Gardens of Pharao/Aguirre (1983)
Checkpoint 303 – Morning Star – The Iqrit Files (2015)
Durutti Column – Wheels Turning – Amigos Em Portugal/Dedications For Jacqueline (1983)
Gwenno – Tonnow – Tresor (2022)
Gwenno – Porth Ia – Tresor (2022)
Robert Fripp and Brian Eno – Swastika Girls(live) – Even Spaces (1975)
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Claude and Robin present The Golden Apples of The Sun
Show restream here
PLAYLIST
Kammerflimmer Kollektief – In Transition (Version) – Wilding
The Durutti Column & Caoilfhionn Rose – Free From All The Chaos
Cocteau Twins – Lorelei – Treasure
This Mortal Coil – Song To The Siren – It’ll End In Tears
Massive Attack – Teardrop – Mezzanine
Demdike Stare – Falling Off The Edge – Elemental
Pauline Anna Strom (Trans-millenia Consort) – Spacial Spectre – Spectre
Nils Frahm – All Armed – Encores 3
Talvin Singh – Light – OK
Demdike Stare – Bardo Thodol – Tryptych
The Kumba Mela Experiment – Interstellar Hiss (Sky Is On Fire Dub) – East Of The River Gange
Amon Tobin – Encounter On Io (Lee Gamble Reshape) – interlude – Dark Jovian
Mary Lattimore & Mac McCaughan – IV – New Rain Duets
Amon Tobin – Encounter On Io (Lee Gamble Reshape) – Dark Jovian
The Glove feat Robert Smith – Holiday 80 (Original Instrumental Mix) – Blue Sunshine Deluxe Edition
The Glove feat Robert Smith – The Man From Nowhere (Original Instrumental Mix) – Blue Sunshine Deluxe Edition
Tangerine Dream – Ricochet Part One – Ricochet
Popul Vuh – In THe Garden of the Pharoahs
David Byrne Brian Eno – Quran – My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
Ryuichi Sakamoto – Bachata – BTTB
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Its been a while. Excited to have guest curator Robin Thomas back in the studio for this week’s Golden Apples of the Sun. Robin’s musical taste and in-studio banter has always been on point just like this unedited photo of Robin from back in the 70s…
Restream the show here
Mixcloud Edition HQ Here <COMING SOON>
PLAYLIIST
Mei Saraswati – Movements
Hans-Joachim Roedelius – Geschenk Des Augenblicks (Gift Of The Moment)
Hans-Joachim Roedelius – Im Revier Des Tigers
Brian Eno and Bang On A Can – Music For Airports 1/1
Phillip Glass – Primacy of Numbers – Naqoyqatsi
David Sylvian and Robert Fripp – Darshan (The Road To Graceland)
Jah Wobble and Bill Laswell – Orion – Radioaxiom A Dub Transmission
Gaudi & Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan – Jab Teri Dhun Main Raha Karte They (Remix) – Rough Guide To Sufi Music
Diger Rokwell – Darfur- Sprouts
The Templates – Daylight
Diger Rokwell – Take Flight – Seeds
The Durutti Column – Tomorrow (Live in Japan)
Wim Merten Silver Lining – Shot and Echo
Spirit Level – Storied Water – Spirit Level EP
Trent Humpheys – Where The Sky Meets The See
Spirit Level – Fly Fall – Spirit Level EP
Midori Takada – Mr. Henri Rousseau’s Dream – Through The Looking Glass
Erasers – By Your Side – Stem Together
Want More…
You can also still listen to Claude and Robin exploring the legendary label Les Disques du Crépuscule earlier this year – Its a HQ Mixcloud edition here
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Music, art and literature combine on the Golden Apples of the Sun as Robin Thomas joins Claude in the studio to explore the legendary Les Disques du Crépuscule and Factory Benelux labels. Robin is surely the only one in Perth with an original copy of the ‘From Brussels with Love’ cassette…
Re-stream the show here (select 28 Jan)
Mixcloud edition here (slightly edited to remove the mis-cues but still featuring Robin and Claude talking way too much)
PLAYLIST
Gavin Bryars – White’s S.S. – From Brussells With Love (TWI-007)
The Durutti Column – Lips That Could Kiss (FAC BN2-005)
Tunnelvision – Watching the Hydroplanes (A-side FAC-39)
Soft Verdict (Wim Mertens) – Struggle for Pleasure featured in Belly of an Architect OST (TWI-18)
A Certain Ratio – Fever 103 – Greetings Four (Materiali Sonori MASO 70004)
A Certain Ratio – Flight (FAC 22)
Crispy Ambulance – The Presence – The Plateau Phase (FBN-12)
The Durutti Column – Bordeaux Sequence (FBN-24)
Tuxedomoon – Egypt – Holy Wars (Sordide Sentimental 000637)
Psychic T.V. & The Temple Of Psychick Youth – Neurology – double groove 1 (Sordide Sentimental SS 33009
A Certain Ratio – Fletch – From Brussells With Love (TWI-007)
Psychic T.V. & The Temple Of Psychick Youth – Neurology – double groove 2 (Sordide Sentimental SS 33009
Martin Hannett – The Music Room – From Brussells With Love (TWI-007)
Alan Rankine – Love in Adversity – The World Begins to Look Her Age (TWI-672)
Tunnel Vision – Morbid Fear (B-side FAC-39)
The Durutti Column – Florence Sunset – Greetings Three (Materiali Sonori MASO 70003)
The Stockholm Monsters – Dumbstruck – Greetings Two (Materiali Sonori MASO 70002)
Section 25 – Dirty Disco – From The Hip LTMCD 2314 Reissue of FACT90)
Crispy Ambulance – We Move Through The Plateau – The Plateau Phase (FBN-12)
The Durutti Column – Piece for Out of Tune Grande Piano – Deux Triangles (FBN-10)
Want more….
Get a From Brussels with Love T-shirt here
Get one of the From Brussels with Love 40th anniversary editions. The most ambitious of these is a deluxe 2xCD edition (TWI 007 CD) presented as a 10-inch square hardback book (60 pages), with two full length audio CDs. The book includes rare images, posters, sleeve designs and period ephemera, plus a detailed history of the Crépuscule label between 1979 and 1984. here
Start exploring here les disques du crepuscule here
Start exploring Factory Benelux here
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