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CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies
Join gak as he explores music from the movies, tunes from television and any other cinematic source, along with atmospheric pieces, cutting edge new tracks and strange old goodies that could be used in a soundtrack to be. The spotlight swings widely to encompass composers, genres and other categories, but all in the name of discovery and ironclad whimsy.
Episodes
- CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies
XHM #754 - "Broadcast from the living oceans" (2025 September 08)
As gak rushed back from the ocean, we explore life underwater as we freely associate the fact that the new Wes Anderson film The Phoenician Scheme has a short…
- CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies
XHM #753 - "I deal in dreams for electric sheep" (2025 September 01)
For your Labour Day enjoyment, we go mostly electronic though naturally so as we profile Lawrence Lek's 2020 AI-musical Aidol. Kneel before gak! Where do we…
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XHM #752 - "Reading the magazines in God's waiting room" (2025 August 25)
It's been a while since we've dug into the film score work of David Holmes so we'll skip across some recent soundtracks from the Northern Irish DJ. We also…
- CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies
XHM #751 - "Heroes & thieves, hand in hand, together each week" (2025 August 18)
With some recent Ennio Morricone reissues, we go with a slightly older film score with a mix of the new: 1970's Compañeros. We also touch upon Tom Lehrer, Ozzy…
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XHM #750 - "Mushroom clouds remain a Gen-X sigil" (2025 August 11)
gak's back from being afar so he's jetlagged & overheated. That said, it was this month that 80 years ago, two atomic bombs were detonated over Japan during…
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XHM #179 [REDUX] - "Since the dawn of time, man has yearned to destroy the sun" (2013 August
Since gak's still far far away, enjoy this repeat broadcast featuring sunny themes in honour of the 2007 film Sunshine, which is a space horror. Original…
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XHM #749 - "The cosmic recliner" (2025 July 28)
gak's on the road again, this time to bury his dad in Finland, so this will be Part 17 of our all-ambient series. 01. Emissive: Losing Control (Ontario Space…
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XHM #748 - "Chased by sad horns" (2025 July 21)
Though our main profile will be on the Argentine-American pianist & composer Lalo Schifrin (1932-2025) and a tribute to just some of his film & TV work, CITR…
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XHM #747 - "Spruce up your goose" (2025 July 14)
This action-packed episode profiles music from Martin Scorsese's 2004 biopic about Howard Hughes, with a score by Howard Shore: The Aviator. Amongst some 1940s…
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XHM #746 - "To the dearly departed" (2025 July 07)
This past Sunday would've been gak's dad's 80th birthday but as noted, he died back in May. Themes around fatherhood abound with odes to Finland, with…
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XHM #215 [REDUX] - "Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Garson Ltd" (2014 May 26)
gak's on the road so he dug up a fun episode from 2014 devoted to Mort Garson, well before a great reissue campaign by Sacred Bones. Check out…
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XHM #745 - "The struggles of being too smart in the sixties" (2025 June 23)
Two icons of American music from the 1960s left us this month: Sly Stone of the Family Stone (1943-2025) & Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys (1942-2025). We pay…
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XHM #744 - "The preppiest little brothel in the suburbs" (2025 June 16)
The dream is always the same. Long in the hopper, we finally properly profile Tangerine Dream's score to Tom Cruise's breakout film: 1983's Risky Business…
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XHM #743 - "Creativity, contemplation & cups of coffee" (2025 June 09)
gak's back from recent business so as he catches up, consider this Part 3 of our tribute to David Lynch, focusing on his own music mostly separate from film &…
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XHM #742 - "Little depression revivals" (2025 May 26)
Charles Strouse (1928-2025) wrote music for many a project so this week's profile touches upon two disparate works: his score to 1967's gangster film Bonnie &…
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XHM #741 - "Refuse to permit, offer to thrive" (2025 May 19)
gak's back and in a soft start to eulogizing his father (1945-2025), we touch upon some Finnish themes and then Carmine Coppola's music from his son Francis…
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XHM #740 - "Toutes les émotions d'aujourd'hui" (2025 April 28)
gak's back, harkening to prior travels where a Sapporo hotel kept looping Yann Tiersen's score to the 2001 film Amélie so this episode goes a bit French…
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XHM #739 - "Rumbo al cielo en un bote de remos" (2025 April 21)
As gak hits the road again, it's time for Part 16 of our all-ambient series for your Easter Monday meditation. 01. E Dulanowsky: Time to Go Outside (Anthology…
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XHM #738 - "He was a self-realized laser" (2025 April 14)
In honour of the actor Val Kilmer (1959-2025), we aim for as diverse a profile as his œuvre. Although the main profile is on Bruce Broughton's score from the…
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XHM #737 - "That gumshoe you like is coming back in style" (2025 April 07)
35 years ago this week, Twin Peaks debuted on television and a cult phenomenon was born. In our 2nd tribute to David Lynch (1946-2025) this year, we combine…
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XHM #736 - "Put the pimpmobile in neutral" (2025 March 31)
We're behind on doing some funk so let's dig up some James Brown and his work for the 1973 blaxploitation film Slaughter's Big Rip-Off. As a bonus, you'll get…
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XHM #735 - "The muddled middle fields" (2025 March 24)
With Ramadan partly in mind, we primarily dig into sounds from the Middle East, focusing on Syria, a country that after over a decade of civil war, entered a…
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XHM #734 - "Níor chóir go mbeadh aon duine ag ól beoir glas" (2025 March 17)
Happy St Patrick's Day! For this rare occasion, we dabble across multiple films dear to the Irish heart, including Michael Collins, The Wind That Shakes the…
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XHM #733 - "The absurd worlds we should build" (2025 March 10)
This will be Part I of our look at the music associated with the works of David Lynch (1946-2025). We'll first listen to some of the music tied & inspired by…
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XHM #732 - "A perfect waste of a few hours" (2025 March 03)
The 97th Academy Awards were handed out on Sunday so gak rushes to recap the winners and sort through all the latest news as a lot of folks have passed away…
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XHM #731 - "Harsh cuts (I'm so sorry)" (2025 February 24)
For our fourth episode tied to nominees for the upcoming 97th Academy Awards, we listen to the final two nominated songs and the nom'd score to the 2024 film…
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XHM #730 - "Good droid, emeraaald city" (2025 February 17)
For your Family Day programming, we continue on with our Oscars profiles with a nominated song from Elton John: Never Too Late and 2 nom'd scores: Kris Bowers'…
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XHM #729 - "Magazines on fire!" (2025 February 10)
Along with it being week 2 of our annual Oscars profile, it's Fundrive time again! Discorder Magazine, the print cousin of CITR 101.9FM, is reaching out in new…
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XHM #728 - "Flabberghastronomy" (2025 February 03)
gak's back from Japan and he's back in the thick of things as it's time for our annual Oscars profile series! The nominees for the 97th Academy Awards were…
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XHM #727 - "Memories from a gaijin" (2025 January 27)
gak remains on the road and he lacks the future vision to anticipate what, let alone when, the Oscar nominations will be, so you're getting an outsider Japan…
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XHM #726 - "The past is moonlit & the future is heard" (2025 January 20)
gak's on the road or in the air again so for the 15th episode in our all-ambient series, he recaps some of the music that fits under the ambiguous genre…
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2025: 24 Hours of Radio Art [Hours 16 & 17 + 28 & 29] - "Y swyn rhyfedd o chwe blas" (2025 January 17)
25 shy of your standard BR selection, in celebration of the subatomic particle the quark, we offer six channels in six directions so make you listen to this…
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XHM #725 - "No matter where I go, there I am" (2025 January 13)
In honour of gak's 17th anniversary on CITR 101.9FM Vancouver BC, we dive into a favourite film: 1984's The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th…
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XHM #724 - "Kaiju preparation kit" (2025 January 06)
It is now 2025 and as we scan for fiction set in this once futuristic year, we'll profile bits from Ramin Djawadi's score to the 2013 kaiju film Pacific Rim…
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XHM #723 - "Reporting live from divided fields" (2024 December 30)
As this confounding year draws to a close, we'll do our annual recap of the past 12 months in review. Along with some of the artists & songs that defined 2024…
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XHM #722 - "Angels who heard us while high" (2024 December 16)
For our 17th annual counter-Christmas carol episode, we plunge deep into some of Dimitri Tiomkin's score that was cut from the 1946 holiday classic It's a…
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XHM #721 - "Throwing gooey shapes" (2024 December 09)
The drawing to the close a year allows us to look back a bit to the past 12 months but also ahead to the coming new calendar. We'll juggle mostly Canadian…
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XHM #720 - "We're all chum now in the ocean" (2024 December 02)
Stepping out of our 20th century rut a bit, we profile Mark Jenkin's score to the 2019 film Bait. We also start looking at 2024 in review and preview your…
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XHM #719 - "Charms & schwanzstuckers a-plenty" (2024 November 25)
Actor Teri Garr (1944-2024) was a very funny person, so this episode will tread lightly amongst some of her famous film roles amidst some TV fare associated…
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XHM #718 - "Thank you Q" (2024 November 18)
Quincy Jones (1933-2024) had a massive impact on pop culture in the service of music. We've been overdue on a profile on Q for ages so we'll skim across his…
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XHM #717 [LOST] - "We must remember this" (2024 November 11)
Whether it's Remembrance Day, Armistice Day or Veterans' Day where you are, it's a time to think of wars. We're overdue on some Max Steiner and his music from…
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XHM #716 - "Semi-tropical shampoos" (2024 November 04)
With Hallowe'en over, we turn to lighter though somber topics. In honour of singer/actress/dancer Mitzi Gaynor (1931-2024), we breeze across some of her…
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XHM #715 - "Boo, 600 count terror" (2024 October 28)
Hallowe'en Horror Month closes with a profile of Daniel Hart's score to the 2017 film A Ghost Story. There'll also be songs about gggghosts, wolfmen, bad…
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XHM #714 - "Porcine prom pyre" (2024 October 21)
As Hallowe'en Horror Month continues, we'll double dip with selections from Pino Donaggio's score to the 1st ever Stephen King film adaptation, 1976's Carrie…
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XHM #713 - "No more sales in hell so the dead have come back to shop" (2024 October 14)
Zombies are the menu for Canadian Thanksgiving as we listen to selections of both European & North American soundtracks to George A Romero's 1978 satire Dawn…
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XHM #712 - "Violent rentals in unholy homes" (2024 October 07)
October is at last here so it's time for our annual horror month in the countdown to Hallowe'en! We being with a profile on the odd prog rock soundtrack to the…
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XHM #711 - "Hear their voices & heal their spirits" (2024 September 30)
Every year, Canada marks a National Day of Truth & Reconciliation based on the mistreatment of indigenous peoples, particularly with their children placed into…
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XHM #710 - "Handsome bastards abound" (2024 September 23)
After one complicated yet fun trip to Los Angeles, gak profiles music associated with actor Alain Delon (1935-2024). The Vancouver International Film Festival…
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XHM #709 - "The finest lethal headgear" (2024 September 16)
In the wake of more recent reissues from the vast discography of new wave icon Nash the Slash, this profile mostly dips into his post-FM days. On the…
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XHM #708 - "2nd & long, 3rd & inches or 4th & across the border" (2024 September 09)
On any given Monday, gak presents an eclectic mix of music and boy howdy, we've got a doozy for you. In honour of Richard Horowitz (1949-2024), we profile his…
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XHM #707 - "Get confident, stupid" (2024 September 02)
School is almost back in session so this week's lesson looks at recent music from Thom Yorke, ranging from new projects, Radiohead covers and his score to…
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XHM #706 - "Escape to paradise & prosperity" (2024 August 26)
Appropriate for the end of summer, gak finally tackles a long-promised episode devoted to the 1980s Japanese genre known as city pop. The entire playlist…
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XHM #705 - "Kun kaikki toivo on mennyt" (2024 August 19)
Tying back to ancestral lands, gak's back and he found a compilation of songs from the films of the Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki so you've got a dry pan…
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XHM #704 - "The life and times in which we all burn" (2024 August 12)
For your belated British Columbia Day enjoyment, we pay tribute to music associated with the films of Canadian actor Donald Sutherland (1935-2024) & Shelly…
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XHM #703 - "From housewives to alien heroines" (2024 July 29)
It's Pride Week in Vancouver so amidst mostly LGBTQ+ programming, we'll profile the 1982 indie scifi film Liquid Sky. 01. Richard Simmons: Live It (Reach…
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XHM #702 - "40-30-15-love-love-love" (2024 July 22)
One of the widely consumed scores this year is Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross' industrial dance music from Challengers. Though tennis themes were thought of for…
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XHM #701 - "Pastels for a new plane of being" (2024 July 15)
Ryan Faulconer (1976-2024) was a key friend all these years. We lost him too soon in January so in a celebration of his life, we feature some of his favourite…
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XHM #173 [REDUX] - "A most satisfying prairie pit party" (2013 July 01)
Going back to Canada Day 2013, this repeat broadcast gets all rural with the headbanger FUBAR film series, eh. Original details & episode…
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XHM #217 [REDUX] - “A loquacious stranger came to our town” (2014 June 09)
gak's in Utah for work & fun so this episode way off the active podcast feed from 10 years ago dives into spoken word with a spotlight on Ken Nordine…
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XHM N°700! LOAD "*", 8, 1 (2024 June 17)
Actress Cindy Morgan (1954-2023) provided a partial impetus to look at the world of Tron again and we'll combine Wendy Carlos' score from the 1982 original…