Archive for February, 2022
Sub Saharan Vibes — Feb 28, 2022
- Oliver Mtukudzi — Dzoka Uyamwe
- Sam Fan Thomas — Mohe
- Angélique Kidjo — Tatchédogbé
- Lucky Dube — War & Crime
- Papa Wemba — Destinya Moto
- Ahehehinnou Vincent & Orchestre-Poly-Rythmo de Contou Dahomey & Egni Miton — Nin Mi Na Wa Gbin
- Soweto Gospel Choir — Shosholoza
- Verckys et L’Orchestre Veve — Sisa Motema
- Tonga Boys — Ndipatali
- Lucky Dube — Peace – Perfect Peace
Album Club #1 – Cocoro
This week was the first week of WREK’s newest initiative, ‘Album Club‘! Every week we pick a new album to listen to together in the station. More information can be found at the #album-club channel in our slack!
For our first pick, we chose ‘Cocoro‘ by Plastic Girl in Closet! The album is described as dream-pop/shoegaze.
Our Thoughts:
- A lot lighter and playful take on shoegaze, not as grimy and condensed compared to western shoegaze
- Closer to My Bloody Valentine than other shoegaze bands, specifically Loveless with its glide-guitar
- Melodies seem to have a J-Pop influence
- Clear vocals contrast it against other typical shoegaze albums.
- Lots of abrasive guitar with contrasting breezy vocals
- ‘Best of both worlds’: pop songwriting and heavy instrumentation tamed by good mixing.
- Album started out more accessible, slowly evolved and added dissonance and resolutions.
Our Rating: 3.73/5
Feb. 15 – 2月15日
Overnight Seaside Hotel - Schoolgirl Byebye
《海邊旅館一夜》Schoolgirl Byebye
《海边旅馆一夜》Schoolgirl Byebye
Died in the 90s - Silly Function
《Died in the 90s》肆意方式
The Train is Heading Out of the Clouds, the Dream Rests in Jiuxiao - Hedgehog
《火車駛向雲外, 夢安魂於九霄》刺猬樂隊
《火車駛向雲外, 夢安魂於九霄》刺猬乐队
Nanhai girl - Man Jiang
《南海姑娘》满江
Noble - The Old Mog Detective Agency
《高尚》老貓偵探社
《高尚》老猫侦探社
Last Dance - Sexy Hand
《夕陽戀人》赛西翰乐队
《夕阳恋人》赛西翰乐队
Music My Ass - PigHeadSkin
《屁音樂》PigHeadSkin
《屁音乐》PigHeadSkin
Half a Heart - Silent Speech
《半顆心臟》沉默演講
《半颗心脏》沉默演讲
Dedicator - Pliades
《奉獻者》昴宿
《奉献者》昴宿
Fake Monk - Cui Jian
假行僧 - 崔健
Crush #184 x 100 wreks #11 – Bitcrush
thanks for joining us at the intersection of shoegaze and hyperpop, brought to you by Crush and 100 wreks! soundcloud playlist and tracklist: Reality/Dreams (feat. ALIEN DAYS) - Fax Gang what does this room look like - quannnic mr. what's-it-to-ya flip - fnafboi48 (Remix of search party by dltzk) 3rd Crush [Crush Resist] - Ecco2k Strawberry - DOSS Trouble Making Friends (feat. MINTTT) - Astrophysics Something I Said? - SKOVAZ juventa-hyperforms-web EDIT - grrid i thought i saw (yuurusu.mix) - slowdive can you tell? - dltzk Kinko's field trip 2006 - underscores t gap mind film - TAGABOW All New Edition - reserv The Lantern Sways (feat. Digiaches + Tuchscreen) (bean boy Remix) - L.cie earth (feat. Lucy Lohan) - emotegi :,) - lilac I Don't Like U Anymore - FANTASYLUV
Live at WREK – 2/22/22 – Dee Belvedere
Here’s the setlist from tonight’s performance:
- Farron – “In QSub”
- Roberta Fleck – “Injury Time”
- Unknown – “Giralda 003”
- Bambounou- “Mass”
- Sedgwick- “Belief System”
- 95Bones – “Bayonet Cap”
- Ollie Rant & Takjacob- “Wheel And Kick Up”
- Sawheadz – “Gimme That Bass”
- Dee Belvedere – “Skin 2 Skin”
- Ole Mic Odd – Crystal Drip
- Kuzma – “smut agenda”
- MODIG – “Latissimus” (Blawan Remix)
- Schwefelgelb – “Wie Viel Hault”
- Animalistic Beliefs – “Toque Mortal”
- Stemlines-“Feel Like”(Dee Belvedere Remix)
- Dee Belvedere- “UnEarth”
- D.Dan – “Covert Operation”
- 7uka – “MYBIG9”
- Slim Guerrilla – “DUI”
- Kamus – “Wallace” (Nikki Nair Remix)
- Hyroglifics & Sinistarr – “BS6”
- Zuli – “Tany”
- Metafloor – “Slob”
- Katatonic Silentio – “Prisoner Of The Self” (Stenny Remix)
- Joy Orbison – “rraine”
- Deftones – “Digital Bath” (Telefon Tel Aviv Version)
Feel free to check out their music below!
Bandcamp: VLSC Records
Soundcloud: VLSC Records
Instagrams: @hooch_boi_steez (Dee Belvedere) and @vlscrecords
Links: VLSC Records
Will be posting the recorded set on YouTube soon!