Covers Month!

 

Every track on this month’s radio show is a cover version of someone else’s song. I could easily have filled many more hours with the covers in my music library, but I’ve made a playlist of some of the ones I feel like hearing right now The playlist is as follows, with the original performing artist in brackets:

• The Church – Hiroshima Mon Amour (Ultravox)
• Icon Of Coil – Headhunter (Front 242)
• John Foxx And The Maths – Have A Cigar (Pink Floyd)
• Tweaker – Movement Of Fear (Tones On Tail)
• Marilyn Manson – Down In The Park (Gary Numan)
• Gene Loves Jezebel – Red Skies (The Fixx)
• The Polyphonic Spree – Love My Way (Psychedelic Furs)
• God Lives Underwater – Fame (David Bowie)
• Gun – Word Up (Cameo)
• The Jesus And Mary Chain – My Girl (The Temptations)
• Manic Street Preachers – This Is The Day (The The)
• Kasabian – Heroes (David Bowie)
• Devo – Satisfaction (Rolling Stones)
• Cassandra’s Myth – At Night (The Cure)
• Ned’s Atomic Dustbin – I’ve Never Been To Me (Charlene)
• Caligula – Tears Of A Clown (Smokey Robinson & The Miracles)
• The Wonder Stuff – Inside You (Pop Will Eat Itself)
• The Electric Hellfire Club – Bela Lugosi’s Dead (Bauhaus)
• The Cassandra Complex – Frankie Teardrop (Suicide)

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Alternate Parallel Radio – Chilled

• The Mountain Goats – You Or Your Memory
• Filter – Can’t Stop This
• Johnny Hollow – This Hollow World
• Cassandra’s Myth – Puppy Knows
• The Postal Service – This Place Is A Prison
• Greenhaus – Another Life
• The Wreckery – Fall In Love With A Victim
• Smashing Pumpkins – Landslide
• Bridezilla – Shipping Man
• Film School – Sick Of The Shame
• The Church – To Be In Your Eyes
• Love And Rockets – Waiting For The Flood
• Sarcophony – I Wouldn’t
• Psychedelic Furs – Get A Room
• Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Mercy
• The Jesus And Mary Chain – Between Us
• Alternate Parallel Reality – Ite Missa Est
• 30 Seconds To Mars – 100 Suns

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Alternate Parallel Radio – Industrialized

Normally, Alternate Parallel Radio sets can be pretty eclectic. Not so this time, as I unleash the EBM and industrial rock. Cubanate, Celldweller, Dogmachine and Iron Lung Corp, are accompanied by my good friends Alabaster Scars, Cassandra’s Myth, BasticH and Cold Divide. Not for the faint hearted. Embrace the darkness! (oh, and there’s new music from Adam Ant too… after a 20 year break!)

• Cubanate – Junky
• Front 242 – Melt
• Santa Hates You – Scum
• Alabaster Scars – Godbotherer
• Iron Lung Corp. – The Great Nothing
• The Clay People – Awake
• Pitchshifter – What’s In It For Me?
• Celldweller – Louder Than Words
• Cold Divide – Weaponized
• Die Sektor – Breaking The Balance
• Flesh Field – Allegiance
• Sister Machine Gun – Iron Sun
• Sulpher – Fear Me
• Y-Luk-O – The Day After (She Left)
• Cassandra’s Myth – Low The Afterglow
• Acumen Nation – Liquid Hater
• The Cassandra Complex – Devil’s Advocate
• Dogmachine – Dragging Me Under
• Alien Skull Paint – Vulture Poem
• BasticH – 0×00000003
• Killing Joke – Are You Receiving?
• Adam Ant – Cradle Your Hatred

Listen or download the industrial Alternate Parallel Radio cast by clicking HERE

Not The End Of The World

Presenting a particularly eclectic playlist, assembled in the days after the world was supposed to end.  There’s lots of interesting textures here and some philosophical musings to enjoy the apocalypse with, featuring Shackleton, Alien Skull Paint, Male Or Female, and Meat Beat Manifesto – as well as wonderful offerings from my good friends Dada Davros and Mystral Tide… and yours truly.

• Dada Davros – Apple Roach
• Male Or Female – Could I Love A Pair Of Wings?
• Front 242 – Starcandy
• LCD Soundsystem – North American Scum
• Sister Machine Gun – Everything
• Shackleton – Tin Foil Sky
• Kasabian – Days Are Forgotten
• Hayzee Fantazee – Here Comes The Beast
• Alien Skull Paint – No Return
• Mystral Tide – Return Of THe Distance
• Coldcut – Mr Nichols
• Meat Beat Manifesto – We Done
• Deadmau5 – Take Care Of The Proper Paperwork
• Alternate Parallel Reality – The High Cost Of Living
• Clark – Ghosted
• Brian Eno – Multimedia
• Chemical Brothers – Dream On
• Celldweller – Welcome To The End

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The Return Of Alternate Parallel Radio!

If you only listen to one Alternate Parallel Radio program this year… you’re doing it wrong. But this might be the one to pick. After a brief hiatus, the show is back and features a crazy amount of sonic goodness. New Smashing Pumpkins! New Sarcophony! New Muse! New Bloc Party! New Dada Davros! Do I need to continue? Of course not. Here’s the playlist:

• Alternate Parallel Reality – Take A Number
• Hybrid – Know Your Enemy
• Muse – Liquid State
• Kasabian – Reason Is Treason
• Terence Fixmer – Breathless
• Sarcophony – Ashes
• Celldweller – Switchback
• Bloc Party – We Are Not Good People
• Smashing Pumpkins – Panopticon
• Freak XXI – Mean Machinery
• Pound System – You Know It Makes Sense
• Front 242 – Fuel
• God Lives Underwater – 1% (The Long Way Down)
• Die Sektor – Inverted Structure
• Dada Davros – Some Quality Time With The Family
• Chemical Brothers – Wonders Of The Deep

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Rock Of Ages? Alternate Parallel Radio – rock style 

Rock is the theme for this playlist and I’ve managed to showcase tracks from friends like Feeel, Sarcophony, Red Pyramid and Minorarc. They’re joined by Stabbing Westward, new Killing Joke, Filter, Chevelle and Drowning Pool.

Pitchshifter – Genius
30 Seconds To Mars – Buddha For Mary
Gravity Kills – Fifteen Minutes
Feeel – Rabid
Filter – So I Quit
The Cult – Dirty Little Rockstar
Stabbing Westward – Shame
Sarcophony – With Us Or Against Us
Killing Joke – Rapture
Chevelle – Ruse
16 Volt – Everyday Everything
Regurgitator – Nothing To Say
Fucked Up – No Epiphany
Red Pyramid – Twenty:Thirteen
Celldweller – I Believe You
Drowning Pool – I Am
Acumen Nation – Black Son Hole
Minorarc – Carbon Remains
Nefilim – Xodus
Pop Will Eat Itself – Chaos & Mayhem

Get ready to rock out by  by clicking HERE to listen or download the file

Alternate Parallel Radio – the eighties edition

This edition of the Alternate Parallel Radio show is a bit different. Instead of the usual eclectic mix, I’ve put together an eighties playlist… though it’s not all the same eighties you might remember. Ordinarily, I’d feature some local tracks or work of my own in there somewhere… but the closest inclusion is Boxcar, who I used to kick around with. It all goes a little something like this:

• The Primitives – Crash
• The Church – Shadow Cabinet
• Age Of Chance – Don’t Get Mad… Get Even!
• Psychedelic Furs – Run And Run
• The Clash – Atom Tan
• A Flock Of Seagulls – Space Age Love Song
• Boxcar – Freemason
• Heaven 17 – Temptation
• Bauhaus – Spirit
• The Fixx – I’m Life
• The Cure – Push
• Positive Noise – A Million Miles Away
• Laurie Anderson – O Superman
• Boom Crash Opera – Great Wall
• Joy Division – Atmosphere
• Duran Duran – New Religion
• Fun Boy Three – Our Lips Are Sealed
• A Certain Ratio – And Then She Smiles
• Models – Our Atmosphere
• Cabaret Voltaire – Thank You America
• Japan – Still Life In Mobile Homes
• Devo – Freedom Of Choice
• John Foxx – Underpass
• Sigue Sigue Sputnik – Is This The Future?

I personally find this session a lot of fun. You can judge for yourself by clicking HERE to listen or download the file

Alternate Parallel Radio – March 2012, Part 2

Compensating for the January no-show, here’s a second listening session for March. While I don’t really do themes (is “eclectic” a theme?), the tracks here tend to lean towards gothic sounds. This means material from the vaults, like Sex Gang Children,  Clan Of Xymox and Rosetta Stone… but there’s sounds from indies like Mystral Tide and the brand new offering from Cold Divide. And I’m proud to present a preview of a brand new project named Alabaster Scars (featuring Brett of Sarcophony fame).

• V.A.S.T – Pretty When You Cry
• Positive Noise – Refugees
• Cold Divide – Bloodwork
• A Certain Ratio – Flight
• Cobalt 60 – Before
• Rosetta Stone – Adrenaline
• Razed In Black – Just Let It Go
• Cassandra Complex – Mouth Of Heaven
• Alabaster Scars – Godbotherer
• Modern English – Move In Light
• Roses And EXile – The Nothing Lullaby
• Sulpher – Fear Me
• Sex Gang Children – The Crack Up
• Sister Machine Gun – I Don’t Believe
• Mystral Tide – One Cold Day
• Project Pitchfork – I Live Your Dream
• The Beauty Of Gemina – Last Night Home
• Clan Of Xymox – Jasmine And Rose
• Prick – I Got It Bad

Stream or download the second March 2012 Alternate Parallel Radio Show by clicking HERE 

Alternate Parallel Radio – March 2012

This show features Milkrun’s genius “Optic Nerve Pinch” remix of a Minorarc track, new material from Porcelain Raft and Pterodactyl, another gem from the new Cassandra’s Myth album, one of the remixes from Sarcophony’s 2011 release, classic Bauhaus,  an intriguing piece from the cleverly named The Other Two (who are Stephen and Gillian from New Order) and something fun from Kasabian. Enjoy!

• Flowers – Icehouse
• Acumen Nation – Stone Farm
• Sarcophony – Godless Beautiful Things
• Bauhaus – All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
• Kasabian – Last Trip (In Flight)
• A Flock Of Seagulls – Telecommunication
• Junkie XL (featuring Robert Smith) – Perfect Blue Sky
• Porcelain Raft – Put Me To Sleep
• The Other Two – The Grave
• Minorarc – Optic Nerve Pinch (Milkrun Mix)
• Combichrist – Red
• Male Or Female – Eyelid Surgery
• Celldweller – Switchback
• Pterodactyl – Aphasia
• Cassandra’s Myth – Still Not
• Psychedlic Furs – In My Head
• Sasha – Bloodlock

Stream or download the March 2012 Alternate Parallel Radio Show by clicking HERE

Alternate Parallel Radio – February 2012

Welcome to a trippy new playlist featuring a fantastic slice from the new Cassandra’s Myth album,  recent Devo (you didn’t know they were still making music, did you?) , Spoiled Egg, a classic track from Stabbing Westward, some gothic goodness from The Beauty Of Gemina, and a new one from me.

• Mindless Faith – The Thirst
• Timo Maas – Hash Driven
• Gretchen Peters – Hello Cruel World
• Cassandra’s Myth – Abracadabra
• Spoiled Egg – X-Mas Anarchy
• Stabbing Westward – Nothing
• Ultravox! – Can’t Stay Long
• Kayla Scintilla – Bone And Stone
• Devo – Don’t Shoot (I’m A Man)
• Aesthetic Perfection – A Nice Place To Visit
• Alternate Parallel Reality – Sparkle Motion
• Tweaker – Susan
• The Beauty Of Gemina- Haddon Hall
• BasticH – Coalescence
• Emma Ruth Rundle – The Ecstasy In Thinking Of Final Exits; We Drive Fast As It Rains
• Mr Floppy – Birdie Num Num
• Loqiemean – Dexter Morgan
• Ed Sheeran – Drunk
• Aesthesys – I Am Free, That’s Why I’m Lost

You can stream or download the February 2012 Alternate Parallel Radio show HERE

 

We have some classic Cassandra’s Myth (new material will be available next month… the new album came out the day after I recorded this), a reggae version of a classic Radiohead track, new Angelspit, Manic Street Preachers, one of my own tracks from the vaults (2005… seems like just yesterday), early Caligula and – even though I’m not big on pandering to seasonal soundtracks – something extremely rare and beautiful: The Cocteau Twins giving us their rendition of Frosty The Snowman(!!!)

 

• Caligula – Young Girls
• Pitchshifter – Hidden Agenda
• Alternate Parallel Reality – Post Modern Monster
• British India – God Is Dead, Meet The Kids
• Manic Street Preachers – This Is Yesterday
• Angelspit – Violence
• Easy Star All-Stars – Karma Police
• Maximo Park – Going Missing
• Milkrun – Concrete
• Cabaret Voltaire – Golden Halos
• Acretongue – These Soft Machines
• Starkey – Open The Pod Bay Doors
• Zomby – Trapdoor
• Utah Saints – Massive
• Cocteau Twins – Frosty The Snowman
• Cassandra’s Myth – Stagnant
• Tom Vek – That Can Be Arranged
• Chandeen – Citylights
• Good Weather For An Airstrike – Light Shines Through The Cracked Window

Link is available for streaming or download. ID3 Tagged and playlist in Lyrics for those who download it (and forget the fact that it says it was made in the future.,… my mistake)

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 Alternate Parallel Radio, November 2011

This was also a month where I got to catch up and hang out with my good friend Ivan of Minorarc, so I’ve featured one of my favourite tracks from his eponymous album, and it sits very nicely in a gritty and, in places, bluesy-oriented set.

We’ve also got Hugh Laurie (you might know him better as Dr House MD) from his fantastic new blues album and the wonderful New Orleans Bingo Show, a treat from the Balam Acab debut, and Tweaker doing an amazing cover of Tones On Tails‘ brilliant “Movement Of Fear”. Add some brand new Kirlian Camera and one of my all-time favourite audio nasties from BasticH and you’ve got november’s Alternate Parallel Radio show!

• The The : Good Morning Beautiful
• Recoil : The Killing Ground
• Minorarc : Black Well
• Black Rebel Motorcycle Club : 666 Conducer
• Hugh Laurie : The Whale Has Swallowed Me
• Nine Inch Nails : The Mark Has Been Made
• The New Orleans Bingo Show : Something In Her Shows
• Tweaker : Movement Of Fear
• Sister Machine Gun : Overload
• BasticH : Secret
• Love And Rockets : Bound For Hell
• The Jesus And Mary Chain : Snakedriver
• Death In Vegas : Soul Auctioneer
• The Church : Bordello
• Balam Acab : Now Time
• Elite Gymnastics : Omamori
• Kirlian Camera : Quicksand City

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