DNTTA Playlist for May 21, 2021

Artist - Song - Album (Label)  * indicates Canadian Content 

Listen to Do Not Touch This Amp every Friday 8-9 PM Pacific at www.thex.ca 

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Federico Balducci - Walk in the Park* - Clowder ov Death (Independent)
Steve Bug - The Clock is Ticking - Never Ending Winding Roads (Poker Flat)
KMFDM - No News - Don't Blow Your Top (Wax Trax)
Ploho - Kind People - Fantom Feelings (Artoffact)
Girlfriends and Boyfriends - Your Touch* - Fallacy of Fairness (Independent)
Leanna Betasamoake Simpson - Surface Tension* - Theory of Ice (You've Changed)
Whoop-Szo - Warrior Down (Zoon remix)* - Warrior Down Remix (You've Changed)
Aphasia - Rainy Season - Crocodile Society of Aphasia (Aporia)
Iceage - Catch It - Beyondless (Matador)
Nels Cline Singers - Segunda - Share the Wealth (Blue Note)
Hiroki Tanaka - Blue Eyed Doll* - Kaijo Kioku Kyoku (Independent)

DNTTA Playlist for July 14, 2021

Artist - Song - Album (Label)  * indicates Canadian Content 

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Lederhosen Lucil - Anarchavid* - Tales from the Pantry (Hypo)
Kele Fleming - Lullaby for Gutenberg* - The Song I'll Write My Whole Life (Independent)
Dey Rose - Puzzle Piece* - Panting Heart (Independent)
Makiisma - Briar Rose* - Lady Misery (Independent)
Jordana - Far Away from You - Something to Say to You (Grand Jury)
Sophia Bel - No More* - Princess of the Dead, Part II (Bonsound)
Fiona Gurney and Murray Peterson - Ghost Will* - The Holographic Medium (Independent)
Kim Gordon - Don’t Play it Back - No Home Record (Matador)
Siouxsee and the Banshees - Swimming Horses - Best of: Once Upon a Time (Beggars Banquet)
Elura - Less Gravity* - Ending Songs (Independent)
Electrelane - Tram 21 - The Power Out (Too Pure)
Golden Boy and Miss Kittin - Autopilot - Or (Emperor Norton)

DNTTA Playlist for May 7, 2021

Artist - Song - Album (Label)  * indicates Canadian Content 

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Lung - Sweet Bejesus* - Magnum Opiate (Zulu)
Rapoon - Fixated - Cold War: Drum and Bass (Caciocavallo)
The Avalanches - Music Makes Me High
AXXA - Drifter* - AXXA (Independent)
Mogwai - Drunk and Crazy - Earth Division EP (Sub Pop)
FM Einheit and Caspar Brontzmann - Park der Lowen - Merry Christmas (Our Choice)
Phleg Camp - Easy Star* - Brave New Waves Sessions (Artoffact)
Future Islands - Aladdin - The Far Field (Domino)
Odd Limbs - Blame it on the Supernatural* - Walking on Light (Independent)
Joe Nora and Yuutsu - Above Our Heads* - Inner Oceans Sessions Vol. 3 (Independent)
Hot Little Rocket - Let’s Play in Traffic* - How to Lose Everything (Saved by Radio)
Montag - New Found Land* - Phases (Carpark)

Best of 2020 #8: Protomartyr - Ultimate Success Today (Domino)

Detroit's post-punk masters Protomartyr have long been a favourite of mine. I picked Relatives in Descent for my best of in 2017. This years album, Ultimate Success Today, has the band in familiar brooding post punk territory, but also sees them pushing in new directions. Some of the punchy, blue-collar noise punk of Idles has begun creeping into their songs. And this album has a decidely freejazz feel to it, with blaring saxophone somewhere in every song. Bandleader Joe Casey's howling and obscured vocals echo Ian Curtis and Mark E. Smith most of the time. This is angry, despondent and defeated inner city post punk at it's best.