Radio Kurtodrome 93
Thirty minutes of downloads and streams (all files are legal, the downloads are marked 'D'), that is Radio Kurtodrome. A short odyssey of nonsense and bands you may or may not know.

CASUAL DOTS - Clocks (D)
Casual Dots released an album in 2004 (on Kill Rock Stars) and for some reason they never made it to Radio Kurtodrome (despite being played here in the Kurtodrome HQ). Incidently, one band member is Kathi Wilcox (ex-Bikini Kill).

TRISTEZA - Casio (D)
Another older track. Mixed Signals was a remix album where others were creative with Tristeza songs. Casio was remixed by Styrofoam.

MASHA QRELLA - Everything Shows (D)
We really plugged Masha when her first album was released, but it was extremely difficult to find a legal MP3 (or stream) from her new album, Unsolved Remained. Finally, in the last week of 2005, we were successful.

COLDER - Wrong Baby
Marc Nguyen Tan calls himself Colder, which turns his album title (Heat) into a joke. Colder is a French video director and graphic designer, but in his spare time he seems to enjoy a bit of Joy Division. For one of the colder albums of the year: check out Heat.

WAX AUDIO - Imagine This (D)
And now for something completely different... Imagine the world's most powerful baby boomer getting sentimental with the world's most revered peace anthem. Wax Audio compiled lots of soundbites from George W. Bush to create a cover of the well-known John Lennon song. We heard it first on the Festive Fifty...

THE PARTY PARTY - Imagine (D)
... which is interesting, because at first we thought it was this song by The Party Party. Turns out The Party Party also remixed Bush... only this time it was combined with "Walk on the Wild Side". We'll leave it to them to figure out who was first and to you which version you like better.

ORENDA FINK - Bloodline (D)
"One of the reasons that I chose to make a solo record," Orenda Fink writes, "was that I was ready to take a different approach to songwriting than I had used previously with Azure Ray." Invisible Ones is the title of Orenda Fink's debut solo album.

XIU XIU - Bog People (D)
La Foret is the title of the latest Xiu Xiu, the band that named them after "the most depressing movie ever". Which only means that they probably never saw "Ebola Syndrome". Once again it's a Kill Rock Stars release (we swear we didn't know) and honestly, we would've chosen "Pox" as a downloadable track and not "Bog People", but then again we're not the record company, are we? We will however see you in 2006 for a new edition. Au revoir!

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