TRAPPO's Mail Bag #13!
It's that time, dear listener! TRAPPO's Mail Bag is back for its unlucky 13th installment! And to celebrate this momentous occasion, we're keeping things light with a shorter episode. I know that's not terribly exciting for you, but we weren't exactly keeping track of the numbers here. And honestly, is the 13th installment of anything really that big a deal? Anyway, this time around we're talking about legendary avant-garde jazz musician Miles Davis, deranged indie rock band Starcrawler, the possibility of a potential TRAPPO's Book Club, a deep dive into Chrystabell's transcendent Midnight Star (again), the blog is visited by infernal royalty, and some other stuff, I guess. Happy 13th mail bag! You can find the episode below, or listen on Apple, Google, Pocket Casts, RadioPublic, Spotify and Anchor, so let the good times roll, trappers!
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Thanks for listening!
Make the official logo a hard cartoon dick with a creepy clown head. I dare you. I fucking dare you.
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ReplyDeleteA book club would be interesting. I'd be into it. I've got a library card. Let's fucking do this, friends. Let's promote literacy!
ReplyDeleteAnd Bjork's new record is almost upon us! I think that means it's time for some Bjork representation on the show. Honestly, you guys. It's time. I'm not saying you need to discuss Fossora necessarily, but Bjork's music should have at least several episodes by now. You're really lagging behind. It's embarrassing.
I hereby recommend Pop Music For Normal Women by June Jones for discussion on the world-famous internet radio programme TRAPPO. It is, as it says on the tin, "pop music for normal women", but that doesn't mean normal (or even abnormal) men and non-binary folk can't enjoy it as well. And I believe the TRAPS would enjoy listening to and discussing this perfectly normal pop music on their well-known series. I also wouldn't mind a little Baseball Greg love. Their record Pastimes is out now, and it's a cracking good time. Cracking, like the cracking of your bones as I suck out the delicious marrow if you choose to ignore my friendly recommendations.
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I know you’ve covered Midnight Star and I certainly appreciate that, but have you given any thought to discussing some of her other music? Her album with David Lynch, This Train, perhaps?
ReplyDeleteStrap yourselves in for some spacey goodness with Gone Cosmic's new release, "Send For A Warning, The Future's Calling". With an epic title like that, it's got to be good. I think this stuff is cool as hell, and it's perfect fodder for a TRAPPO talk, so talk, TRAPPO, talk!
ReplyDeleteI tried to get into Miles Davis during my "let's get high in the dorm every night" college days, and I could never connect to that music. It's like some boring asshole just erected a wall in my brain and put up a sign that rad "FUCK JAZZ" and that was it. A few of my friends still talk about Miles Davis sometimes, and whenever they do my eyes just glaze over and I usually just start thinking about how cute I thought Fairuza Balk was in The Craft, which came out when I was in college and I saw it ten times because a friend worked in the theater and could get me in for free. My college was in one of those nowhere towns where there was nothing to do after sunset except drink booze or go to the movies. Since I always preferred smoking weed, I would get baked and see a movie. Fairuza Balk in The Craft was my ideal woman for years and I just couldn't get her out of my head. Not her character, mind you. Nancy was a dangerous lunatic with scary magic powers. I was never about that shit. Ok, maybe I was about that a little bit, but the wiccan girl I dated for a few months just liked to burn sage and try to convert me to veganism. She HATED The Craft because she felt it completely misrepresented her religion, and to be fair I'm pretty sure it did, but it was a different time, and also she was an asshole and we broke up pretty soon after that because she was just A LOT. I watched The Craft again recently, the first time in a long time, and it wasn't as good as I remembered. Fairuza Balk still looked great.
ReplyDeleteSo I'm not the biggest fan of Miles Davis. I guess that's really all I had to say. Nothing of substance, really. Sorry about that. Maybe you guys could talk about some Witch House bands? That's all I got. Keep up the good work, motherfuckers!
I want your show to acknowledge the superiority of Martina Topley-Bird’s 2008 album THE BLUE GOD. People say it never got better than Quixotic, and some pedantic assholes insist her best work was back in the 90’s when she was working with Tricky, but those fuckers are wrong. THE BLUE GOD is pure trip-hop soul glory and it deserves recognition, dammit! Danger Mouse’s production is impeccable and the Gorillaz collab Soldier Boy isn’t fucking around. TRAPPO must join the cult of THE BLUE GOD. Please. I’m not above begging. Please listen to THE BLUE GOD and tell me I’m right. I beseech thee, TRAPS! No false idols in the house of THE BLUE GOD!
ReplyDeleteNeon-drenched streets filled with all sorts of lowlifes and degenerates, the dregs of post-humanity. Pulsing beats, throbbing in time to the flashing lights on a crowded dance floor. Tarnished heroes and seductive villains creeping through labyrinthine back alleys. A tech-noir playground, a brave new world where life is cheap and everything else costs too much. Hackers and revolutionaries trying to change a corrupt system... or destroy it from within. Cyberpunk fantasia, motherfuckers! Let's get into this alluring dystopian nightmare! What better way to do that than with some killer cyberwave grooves? A perfect entry point, at least as far as I can see, would be HERO, a collaboration between veteran video game composer Megan McDuffee and prolific synthwave maestro ALEX. This stuff is smooth and sexy, cool and luscious. Just press "play", close your eyes, and you're somewhere else, a dangerous and beautiful place, getting chased by splatter punks on the motorway, gunning down the slick streets at 200MPH as you ride for your life in this computerized inferno. It's fucking tight, TRAPS. HERO is the gateway drug to cyberwave euphoria.
ReplyDeleteBuy the ticket. Take the ride.
Cyberwave is a genre now? What’s the difference between it and synth wave? The artist read a William Gibson book?I give up. There are too many genres. It’s too much. This one guy said “Witch House” like that’s a real thing. This is crazy. Everybody has to have their own musical genre. I’m not doing this anymore. Horny wave! I’m sure that’s a thing. Garbage wave! Hell yeah! Music made with whatever crap you find in a dumpster! Why not? Landscape punk! We make all our groovy tunes with lawnmowers and weed whacked and leaf blowers! And a modular synthesizer, of course! My favorite band, The Grass Clippings, are Landscape punk pioneers! Fuck this.
DeleteI’m not sure if you’re being serious, but if you are then you really need to get a grip. I can understand the proliferation of new musical genres being overwhelming, but that’s no reason to lash out. The musical family tree is vast and always growing.Trying to keep artists trapped in one genre to prevent squares from losing their heads when they have to learn a new term is asinine.
DeleteCyberwave is a distinct sub genre of synthwave that deals specifically in conjuring a cyberpunk vibe within the listener. It’s music made by huge nerds who want to create sprawling soundtracks to the cyberpunk stories in our huge nerd brains. All cyberwave is synthwave, but not all synthwave is cyberwave.
And Witch House is a real thing, I’m happy to inform you, a thriving genre with deep roots in the 90’s club and alternative scenes. Some notable Witch House bands include White Ring, Holy Other, Purity Ring and Salem. They’re all making worthwhile Witch House music, and so are dozens of other artists, including Grimes, who is far from unknown in musical spheres. I encourage you to dip your toes in the genre pool. You might like what you find.
And I know you were joking about “garbage wave” and “landscape punk”, but I could imagine some fascinating music coming out of those genres. Garbage wave in particular has A LOT of potential. Hell, you may have just inadvertently created a brand-new genre of music! Congrats!
Keep TRAPPO weird!
Ok, garbage punk might have some potential. I could get into that.
DeleteI'm glad you're seeing things my way.
DeleteScarlet Dorn’s third album, Queen Of Broken Dreams, is out now if you’re interested. And you SHOULD be interested. It’s time for Scarlet Dorn to grab everybody’s interest. Thrilling, epic symphonic metal that gets your blood pumping and your head banging. I think your show should get more active regarding the whole metal scene in general. You won’t regret it!
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