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Cloud 5

babarm87 — Tue, 21 May 2013 04:26:44 +0000

A chill hip-hop mix for a lazy summer day.

Episode 187: Remembrance of Things Past

babarm87 — Tue, 14 May 2013 03:35:57 +0000

Today’s episode is a nostalgic look at youth.

To listen to or download the podcast, you can subscribe to our itunes podcast feed or listen to and download the podcast below:

Episode 187 on Archive.org

Tracklist:

Eluvium – Don’t Get Any Closer
Loscil featuring Kelly Wyse – Rhye Fields
Illuha – Saika
Pawn – We Are Alone Until The End Of The World (With Cuushe And Danny Norbury)
Rhian Sheehan – La Boite a Musique
The Narrows – Some Will Fall, Some Will Fly
Need a Name – To You
Seas of Years – Lighthouse
Casilofi – Awake (ft. Will James)
North Atlantic Drift – Sun Dial
Arafura – Humores II: Haima
Qualia – Seven
Eluvium – Happiness

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Episode 186: A Night at the Opera

babarm87 — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 03:44:07 +0000

This mix is based off a playlist I created for PRPS prior to ending it as a weekly podcast but never got around to posting.

The intention was to create a post-rock opera (or something close to it), thus most of the tracks here are quite dramatic and over the top.

To listen to or download the podcast, you can subscribe to our itunes podcast feed or listen to and download the podcast below:

Episode 186 on Archive.org

Tracklist:

The Pax Cecilia – The Tragedy
Sufjan Stevens – The Seer’s Tower
Guillemots – Sao Paolo
Jaga Jazzist – Stardust Hotel
Her Name Is Calla – Pour More Oil
The Ascent of Everest – Return to Us
Magyar Posse – Whirlpool Of Terror And Tension
Lis Er Stille – Spurven
Lis Er Stille – Fyri Framman
Sigur Ros – Ára Bátur

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Episode 185: This Digital Horizon

babarm87 — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 05:50:32 +0000

Been meaning to make an ambient/glitch mix for a while now, so here we go.

Title taken from Ben Woods’ latest album.

To listen to or download the podcast, you can subscribe to our itunes podcast feed or listen to and download the podcast below:

Episode 185 on Archive.org

Tracklist:

Leandro Fresco – Cuando El Sol Grita La Manana
afarOne – Naked icon
Anton Kubikov – Ambianopolis
Marsen Jules – Once In A Moment
Jacaszek – Zal
Murcof – Remembranza
Olafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm – a1
Christina Vantzou – Super Interlude Pt. 2
Ben Woods – This Digital Horizon Pt. 1
Bersarin Quartett – Nichts Ist Wie Vorher

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Episode 184: Moon Ate the Dark

babarm87 — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 03:40:18 +0000

Today’s episode is a mix brought to you by Moon Ate the Dark.

Who is Moon Ate the Dark?
Anna Rose Carter and Christopher Brett Bailey.

Where does the name come from?
Our name is half stolen from something Alfred Jarry wrote in his book ‘Exploits and Opinions of Dr Faustroll’. It isn’t the perfect book but it’s close.

How did you come up with the playlist?
It came to us in a dream, a collective dream.

What’s next for Moon Ate the Dark?
A brand new EP called ‘Molt and Grow’ is out soon on Brian Records and is now available for pre-order. Our next concert will be at Vortex Jazz Club, London on March 22nd. Also playing are Black Elk and Olan Mill. If you live in London you should come. After the show we can drink wine together and throw things at Clem Leek. After that, we’ll be harvesting new material for a second record.

If Moon Ate the Dark was a fruit, what fruit would it be?
A honey melon. Like the moon.

To listen to or download the podcast, you can subscribe to our itunes podcast feed or listen to and download the podcast below:

Episode 184 on Archive.org

Tracklist:

Alvaret Ensemble – Eac
John Cage – Sonata 1
Benoit Pioulard – Nod
Stars of the lid – Requiem for dying mothers part 2
Kaboom Karavan – Not Gone is Seen
Jan Johansson – Visa Från Utanmyra
A Silver Mt. Zion – 13 Angels Standing Guard ‘Round the Side of Your Bed
Taylor Deupree – Negative Snow
Harmonia – Veterano
Julianna Barwick – Bob in your gait.
Billie Holiday – Don’t Explain

Footnotes:

Updated Links

babarm87 — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:17:40 +0000

Folks, I’ve updated the Links page on our website for the first time in three years. It contains a bunch of music-related links that you might find useful along with some blogs/videos/podcasts that I enjoy. Please let me know if you think I forgot something.

Top 25 Albums of 2012

babarm87 — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 05:44:42 +0000

1. Greg Haines – Digressions

2. Bersarin Quartett – II

3. Holy Other – Held

4. Hammock – Departure Songs

5. Olafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm – Stare

6. Grimes – Visions

7. Olan Mill – Paths

8. afarOne – Lucen

9. Portico Quartet – Portico Quartet

10. 36 – Lithea

11. Max Richter – Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi – The Four Seasons

12. Beach House – Bloom

13. Orcas – Orcas

14. Black Elk – Sparks

15. The Samuel Jackson Five – The Samuel Jackson Five

16. Burial – Kindred

17. All India Radio – Red Shadow Landing

18. Moon Ate the Dark – Moon Ate the Dark

19. XXYYXX – XXYYXX

20. Sigur Ros – Valtari

21. Memoryhouse – The Slideshow Effect

22. Joy Wants Eternity – The Fog is Rising

23. Caspian – Waking Season

24. Port St. Willow – Holiday

25. Anoice – The Black Rain

Top 50 Tracks of 2012 Pt. 2

babarm87 — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 05:19:24 +0000

In case you missed it here’s the link to Part 1.

25. Moon Ate the Dark – Explosions In A Four Chambered Heart

24. Max Richter – Summer 3

23. Bersarin Quartett – Perlen Honig Oder Untergang

22. Martin Eden – Return Life

21. Orcas – Carrion

20. Beach House – Lazuli

19. Holy Other – Tense Past

18. XXYYXX – About You

17. Portico Quartet – Ruins

16. Mister Lies – Cleam

15. bvdub – Serenity

14. Caspian – Halls of the Summer

13. James Murray – Greenlands

12. 36 – Seance

11. Shlohmo – wen uuu

10. Fabrizio Paterlini – Week #11

9. Andy Stott – Numb

8. Anoice – Ripple

7. Hammock – Frailty (For the Dearly Departed)

6. afarOne – Naked Icon

5. Burial – Kindred

4. Olan Mill – Eyes Closed (for Rube)

3. Olafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm – a1

2. Port St. Willow – Amawalk

1. Greg Haines – 183 Times

Top 50 Tracks of 2012 Pt. 1

babarm87 — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 03:07:06 +0000

50. Julia Holter – In the Same Room

49. Sophie Hutchings – Between Earth and Sky

48. Zombie Western – Wasteland

47. Silent Whale Becomes a Dream – As Walking On Canopy

46. Kyle Bobby Dunn – La Chanson de Beurrage

45. Richard Skelton – Of the Sea

44. You May Die in the Desert – Six Horses

43. From the Mouth of the Sun – Pools of Rust

42. Oren Ambarchi – Salt

41. The Samuel Jackson Five – Never-Ending Now

40. Slow Magic – ☾

39. All India Radio – Golden

38. Errors – Pleasure Palaces

37. John Talabot – Depak Ine

36. Simple is Good – Доброе утро

35. Memoryhouse – Walk With Me

34. Sigur Ros – Ekki Mukk

33. The New Law – Get Your Gun

32. Black Elk – Aphotic Widow

31. pg.lost – Terrain

30. Joy Wants Eternity – Dark Heart of the King

29. Darius – Maliblue

28. Makeup and Vanity Set – A Glowing Light, A Promise

27. BADBADNOTGOOD – UWM (Feat. Leland Whitty)

26. Stumbleine – Be Tru

Top 15 Pop Songs of 2012 + Cloud 4

babarm87 — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 21:13:36 +0000

Let’s face it guys, you all come to PRPS to get my opinion on pop music. Don’t deny it! Embrace it.

So below are the 15 pop tracks I enjoyed the most in 2012 along with a mix of all the tracks together. Well ok, there’s 16 tracks, but number 16 is actually from 2013 so whatever.

16. Foals – My Number

15. Kitty Pryde – JUSTIN BIEBER!!!!!

14. Crystal Castles – Violent Youth

13. Cinnamon Girl – FRIENDS

12. Young L – Automated Oceans ft. Sea of Bees

11. Chairlift – I Belong in Your Arms

10. Schoolboy Q – Hands on the Wheel ft. A$AP Rocky

9. How to Dress Well – Cold Nites

8. Purity Ring – Fineshrine

7. Icona Pop – I Love It

6. Solange – Losing You

5. Chromatics – Back from the Grave

4. Mariah Carey – Touch My Body (Cyril Hahn remix)

3. Destiny’s Child – Say My Name (Cyril Hahn remix)

2. Grimes – Oblivion

1. Sky Ferreira – Everything is Embarassing

Episode 183: A Retrospective Pt. 2

babarm87 — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 04:22:02 +0000

Today’s show is the final episode of PRPS. Thanks guys for all the years of support.

To listen to or download the podcast, you can subscribe to our itunes podcast feed or listen to and download the podcast below:

Episode 183 on Archive.org

If you enjoyed this episode, please feel free to download the mix-only version

Footnotes:

Episode 182: A Retrospective Pt. 1

babarm87 — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 04:29:01 +0000

Folks, I regret to inform you all that today’s episode of PRPS is going to be the second-to-last episode I will ever release. After next week, PRPS will no longer be releasing any new episodes. There may be mixes released sporadically in the future, but they will be few and far between.

I know this may come as a surprise, but it is something I have thought about doing for a long time. I tried to explain this in the episode, but it was pretty difficult so I’m not sure I did a great job at it. I’ll try to explain it again here.

So PRPS started in 2006. I was brand new to post-rock at the time and wanted everyone to know about it. I started the show at UCLAradio.com my sophomore year and kept doing it quarter after quarter despite the lack of any discernible listernship. When it came to my senior year, every quarter I did the show was “the last quarter I’m going to do the show.” For some reason I kept on going.

In 2009 I graduated and after a little bit of convincing I decided to turn PRPS into a podcast. For about the first 30 episodes, I would only get around 40 listeners each week. At that rate, I felt that there was no reason to continue and even made a post saying that I was going to end the show at episode 30.

However, at around episode 30 I found an Arvo Pärt mix put out by Fluid Radio on a site I had never heard of at the time called Mixcloud. It looked great so I decided to start uploading my show there. Suddenly, PRPS began to pick up some steam and with every episode came more and more listeners.

And so I kept chugging along. I reached a point where it felt like “whoa, we have something here.” But more listeners meant more pressure to keep doing the show. When you have over a thousand people listening to each episode, how do you just stop?

And I’ve realized that you just do.

I am a dude in his mid 20s with many hopes and aspirations. There is a lot I want to accomplish with my life. At this point, I feel like I have maximized what I personally can get out of PRPS. I’ve created something that I am very happy with and proud of. It is time for me to let it go and start something anew.

I’m sorry to let all of you down. I just want you all to know that I am super appreciative of every one of you who has ever listened to a PRPS episode and I just want to take the time to say Thank You. Without you guys the show would have gone nowhere.

I’d also like to thank every artist and guest that has ever curated an episode for us, Mixcloud, Jordan Volz and The Silent Ballet, UCLAradio.com, and every artist I have ever played on the show for not suing me for sharing their music illegally.

Thanks everyone. Hope you enjoy the last two episodes.

To listen to or download the podcast, you can subscribe to our itunes podcast feed or listen to and download the podcast below:

Episode 182 on Archive.org

If you enjoyed this episode, please feel free to download the mix-only version

Footnotes:

Episode 181: The Fields Remember My Father Pt. 2

babarm87 — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 05:32:52 +0000

On today’s episode we come to terms with all that we have lost.

To listen to or download the podcast, you can subscribe to our itunes podcast feed or listen to and download the podcast below:

Episode 181 on Archive.org

If you enjoyed this episode, please feel free to download the mix-only version

Photo by @ravivora on instagram.

Footnotes:

Vote for PRPS as Cloudcaster of the year!

babarm87 — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:20:38 +0000

Folks, please help us out by voting for PRPS as Cloudcaster of the year on mixcloud. All you have to do is go to our mixcloud page and click on the Share to Vote button.

You don’t need to have a mixcloud account to vote, but you must be on Facebook.

Any and all votes are much appreciated. Thanks!

Episode 180: The Fields Remember My Father Pt. 1

babarm87 — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 06:43:25 +0000

On today’s episode we reminisce in our childhood, knowing very well that a piece of it has been lost forever.

To listen to or download the podcast, you can subscribe to our itunes podcast feed or listen to and download the podcast below:

Episode 180 on Archive.org

If you enjoyed this episode, please feel free to download the mix-only version

Photo by @jaredchambers on instagram.

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