NB: I started writing this last week on my phone. Unfortunately, my phone tumblr and my web tumblr don’t talk to each other. They are like cold exes.

This week, the show was an experiment in a term that I had come up with earlier in the day: microprogramming. I have a two-hour radio show as most people can probably ascertain from past playlists. The idea of microprogramming is to do a series of smaller shows within the space of the larger show format. I don’t mean different sets or something of that nature. I mean, radically different shows with the span of my regular radio show. While this idea originally developed out of necessity, I think it will be an interesting way to program future radio show. Also, I really enjoyed the shift from one part to the next; I found it to be rather enjoyable.

For the first excursion into this realm, I did two genres that would other otherwise never been seen together: country/folk and early-ish synth dance music. The country stemmed from my want to play some Emmylou Harris on my radio show. The synth stuff: I’ve had it stuck in my head for a couple of weeks because it’s really good actually. Linear Movement’s album is in heavy rotation with Broadcast in my house right now. But that is actually immaterial.

When planning the show, I wanted sad contemplation for the first half then straight up rocking as coldly as possible for the second half. If you don’t know what cold rocking is, it’s when you put your hand in the pocket of your members only jacket and just rock your body as hard as you could. These were not songs that you could freak out to; they were too cold for that. If you don’t know what I mean by cold, you need to get a copy of “So Young But So Cold” and you will understand what I mean. Darkwave, coldwave, minimal synth: that’s being cold.

This week’s show did have a name bizarrely enough. It’s Country on the Click. Named after The Fall record, but there’s not a single Fall song played this week. You figure that out while you’re eating yourself fitter.

Country:

Loretta Lynn - Don’t Come Home A Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ on Your Mind) - The Lady, The Legend

Dolly Parton - We Used To - Jolene

Ernest Tubb - Driftwood on the River - Les Triomphes De Country Music 5

Hank Williams - You Win Again - 40 Greatest Hits

Patsy Cline - Walking After Midnight - Let The Teardrops Fall

Emmylou Harris - Tennessee Rose - Cimarron

Emma Tricca - Weatherman - Minor White

Francoise Hardy - Rendez-vous D’Automne - The Vogue Years

Vashti Bunyan - I’d Like To Walk Around in Your Mind - Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind

Nick Drake - Which Will - Pink Moon

George Strait - I Just Want To Dance With You - 50 Number Ones

The Kendalls - Heart of the Matter - 20 Greatest Hits & More

Conway Twitty - Touch The Hand - Gold

Hank Snow - The Broken Wedding Band - Early Hank Snow

Ian & Sylvia - The Ghost Lover - The Complete Vanguard Studio Recordings

George Jones - The War of the Roses - The Spirit of Country

Charlie Pride - Kaw-Liga - In Person (Black Country)

On The Click:

Linear Movement - Way Out of Living - On The Screen

Chromatics - Glass Slipper - 2006 Tour CD-R

Artefact - Mae - So Young But So Cold (V/A)

Turquoise Days - Blurred - The Minimal Wave Tapes Vol. 1 (V/A)

Charlie - Spacer Woman - ZYX Italo Disco Collection 7 (V/A)

Au Revoir Simone - Organized Scenery - Still Light, Still Night

Suicide - Shadazz - Suicide (Second Album)

Mathematiques Modernes - TV Night - Les Visiteurs Du Soir

Glass Candy - Geto Boys - Deep Gems

Cyber People - Polaris (Club Mix) - ZYX Italo Disco Collection 1 (V/A)

Charles De Goal - Synchro - So Young But So Cold (V/A)

Broadcast - Corporeal - Tender Buttons