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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 #411 - "Put Captain Cargo in the solo hold" (2018 June 04)
The latest film tied to the Star Wars Anthology series came out recently, so we'll listen to John Powell's score to Solo. Amongst some space-related tunes, we…
- CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies
XHM #410 - "Absence is my kryptonite" (2018 May 28)
gak's back! We pay tribute to the Canadian actress Margot Kidder (1948-2018) and music from her breakout role: 1978's Superman. 1. Fever Ray: To the Moon and…
- CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies
XHM #409 - "No time for renewal" (2018 May 14)
Time to evade the carousel and find the sanctuary as we profile Jerry Goldsmith's bloopy score to 1976's Logan's Run. Apostrophes will be flung. 1. Deadbeat…
- CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies
XHM #408 - "Wardialing for dollars" (2018 May 07)
There's been another recent death in the film score world, so we pay tribute to Arthur B Rubinstein (1938-2018) and music from two of his soundtracks, both…
- CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies
XHM #407 - "Repeating & hoping for a different result" (2018 April 30)
In tribute to the Czech-American director Miloš Forman (1932-2018), we'll have selections of music from two of his films: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and…
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XHM #406 - "Don't bite the hand that takes" (2018 April 23)
The year of the dog continues as we profile Laurie Anderson's music from her 2015 documentary Heart of a Dog as she visits Vancouver this week. This feels like…
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XHM #405 - "And you'll love dogs too" (2018 April 16)
Time to join the pack as we listen to selections from Alexandre Desplat's jauntily brooding score to Wes Anderson's latest film Isle of Dogs. 1. Toho Symphony…
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XHM #404 - "Thor, oh Thor!" (2018 April 09)
Not that there's been an intentional Icelandic thread as of late, but hey, it's Mark Mothersbaugh's score to the recent Marvel film Thor: Ragnarok. We also pay…
- CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies
XHM #403 - "What is hidden from you, she will proclaim to you" (2018 April 02)
With Easter & Passover this past weekend, along with the recent death of Jóhann Jóhannsson, we'll mix up prior plans with his collaborative score with fellow…
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XHM #402 - "Cuddling with amoebae & teddy bears" (2018 March 26)
Neo Tokyo is set to explode anew. With a recent new vinyl edition of the score to the 1988 anime classic Akira, it's time to look again at Geinoh…
- CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies
XHM #401 - "The ache of lost potential" (2018 March 19)
Our belated profile on the Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson (1969-2018), featuring some of his scorework along with other neoclassical pieces and…
- CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies
XHM N° 400! "Bugatti spaceships" (2018 March 12)
Black Panther has been massive in 2018 so we'll have selections from Kendrick Lamar's soundtrack and Ludwig Göransson's score to the Marvel film. We kick off…
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XHM #399 - "Where flowers bloom, roll out of the moving car" (2018 March 05)
The 90th Academy Awards were handed out on Sunday, so we'll recap the winners and profile a score to a film shut out by all the Oscar proceedings: Jon Brion's…
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XHM #398 - "Back to the boats" (2018 February 26)
Our fifth Oscar profile this year as we do another take on Hans Zimmer's nominated score from Dunkirk plus a song from Marshall, ending our listen of all the…
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XHM #397 - "Sign on, sign in & sign off" (2018 February 19)
Part IV of our annual Oscar profile charges on as we hear selections from Carter Burwell's nominated score to Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and a…
- CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies
XHM #396 - "The spark that will keep the porgs flying" (2018 February 12)
Part III of our annual Oscar profile as we dive into John Williams' nominated score from Star Wars: The Last Jedi along with a nominated song from Coco. We…
- CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies
XHM #395 - "Creature from the love lagoon" (2018 February 05)
Part II of our annual Oscar profile listens to Alexandre Desplat's nominated score from The Shape of Water, this year's leading film. There's also a nominated…
- CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies
XHM #394 - "The needle though couture's eye" (2018 January 29)
The nominees for the 90th Academy Awards were announced last week, so our annual profile on the nominated best song & scores starts this week. We'll begin with…
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XHM #393 - "Basic rescue operation" (2018 January 22)
Back to Hawkins Indiana we go with Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein's score to the 2nd series of the Netflix hit Stranger Things. 1. Shaun Frank: Upsidedown (2017)…
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24 Hours of Radio Art: Hours 17 & 18 - "Arty peoples blast thick vase" (2018 January 17)
The Fluxist Robert Filliou declared in 1963 that one million years beforehand on January 17th, a person dropped a dry sponge into a bucket of water, thus…
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X!HM #392 - "A decade in the Haçienda" (2018 January 15)
gak marks 10 years at CITR with an appropriate episode tied to a great movie about the Manchester music scene and Factory Records: 2002's 24 Hour Party People…
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XHM #391 - "What year was that" (2018 January 08)
Though a new year is upon us, we need to take one last look at 2017 before kicking its sorry keister to the curb. Along with selections from some of the best…
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XHM #390 - "Yippee-ki-yay, Merry Christmas!" (2017 December 18)
Our annual tradition continues as we dig up all manners of rogue carols that aren't typically heard anywhere else. Along with some new gems and tributes to the…
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XHM #389 - "All we have to do is follow the damn train" (2017 December 11)
20 years ago, the first game in the Grand Theft Auto video game series came out. From a simple sandbox permise, the series has ballooned into one of the…
- CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies
XHM #388 - "Räjähtäviä pääelokuvia" (2017 December 04)
To honour Finland on its 100th Centennial this week, this show is primarily Finnish. We'll span multiple genres and include songs from recent films like The…
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XHM #387 - "My feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping" (2017 November 27)
There have been several deaths in the music world recently, so we'll primarily focus on the Italian-Argentine composer Luis Bacalov (1933-2017) and his…
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XHM #386 - "Living in dread and promise" (2017 November 20)
With Mogwai playing in Vancouver this week, we listen to some of the Scottish post-rock act's music, including selections from their score to the 2016…
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XHM #385 - "Dreadfully distinct against the dark" (2017 November 13)
Part 2 of our Blade Runner profile, jumping ahead to 2049 with this year's sequel to the 1982 original. Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch provide the…
- CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies
XHM #384 - "Fiery the angels fell" (2017 November 06)
A new life awaits you with part 1 of a Blade Runner profile series: going back to 1982 with Vangelis' outstanding score to the Ridley Scott adaptation. We'll…
- CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies
XHM #383 - "It's all for you" (2017 October 30)
It's Devil's Night, so as you prepare your candy dishes and repair your costumes from Hallowe'en proper, we have all forms of eerie music, including Jerry…
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XHM #382 - "Songs of the insufficiency of human struggling" (2017 October 23)
Hallowe'en's horror month continues but in an arch way as we look at Kurt Weill's music and Bertolt Brecht's & Elisabeth Hauptmann's text for The Threepenny…
- CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies
XHM #381 - "From whispers to screams" (2017 October 16)
As Hallowe'en Horror Month continues, with the 40th anniversary of Dario Argento's Italian giallo film Suspiria, we'll listen to some cuts of Goblin's score…
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XHM #380 - "Pennies for a string of pearls" (2017 October 09)
Happy Thanksgiving! As we wrap up our VIFF profiles, we dive into our regular October series on horror films. However, we'll start on the Broadway side with…
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XHM #379 - "The true horror within" (2017 October 02)
Normally for October, we switch over exclusively to horror-related music in the lead up towards Hallowe'en. Based on this weekend's current events, we'll…
- CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies
XHM #378 [DAMAGED] - "il Maestro, sezione tre" (2017 September 25)
gak's back from a whirlwind week in Europe, so he's got music tied to most of his time in Finland, along with one memorable night in Dublin where he finally…
- CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies
XHM #377 - "Run & find the money" (2017 September 11)
Along with profiles on Steely Dan's Walter Becker (1950-2017) and CAN's Holger Czukay (1938-2017), we listen to selections from Oneohtrix Point Never's score…
- CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies
XHM #376 - "Little ship dynamo" (2017 September 04)
Happy Labour Day! With a new school year set to start, we profile Hans Zimmer's score to Christopher Nolan's latest film Dunkirk and pay tribute to Glen…
- CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies
XHM #375 - "Shown what we're made of" (2017 August 28)
gak's back from watching the solar eclipse in Tennessee, so he has a bit of country, leading towards the diverse soundtrack from Robert Altman's 1975 satire…
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XHM #374 - "Open Channel R" (2017 August 14)
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. has had a playful effect on pop culture, so this summery episode takes on the themes from the original 1960s series, the 2015 film…
- CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies
XHM #373 - "National disco hours" (2017 August 07)
Originally intended to celebrate Canada's 150th birthday but lined up nicely with both BC Day and the end to Pride Week in Vancouver, this episode goes into…
- CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies
XHM #372 - "Ronin with pram" (2017 July 31)
Let's dip into the vinyl vault with the 2015 Record Store Day treat that is the synth soundtrack to 1980's Shogun Assassin, the weird mish-mash of the first…
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XHM #371 - "Tolerating this gift of flight" (2017 July 24)
Atmospheres galore as we profile A Winged Victory for the Sullen, a project that features two talents big in the ambient world: Dustin O'Halloran and Adam…
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XHM #370 - "We all cuss for asparagus" (2017 July 17)
Admist some folky and hardcore vibes, this highly loopy episode looks at some of the scorework from American jazz guitarist Bill Frisell. The main focus will…
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XHM #369 - "Our future undersea community" (2017 July 10)
With new material being teased by Nine Inch Nails, it's time to catch up on recent scorework by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross: Patriots Day and Before the Flood…
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XHM #368 - "Can you reconcile?" (2017 June 26)
In the wake of the recent National Indigenous Day and leading towards the 150th anniversary of Canadian confederation, it's high time to tune our ears to the…
- CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies
XHM #367 - "Farewell, old chum" (2017 June 19)
In honour of our chum Adam West (1928-2017), we enter the 1960s world of Batman with music from Neal Hefti & a disguised Sun Ra. We also talk about the…
- CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies
XHM #366 - "Graven imagery" (2017 June 12)
With Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds coming to Vancouver soon, we look at some of the recent scores that Cave and fellow Seed Warren Ellis have worked on. We also…
- CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies
XHM #366 - "Graven imagery" (2017 June 12)
With Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds coming to Vancouver soon, we look at some of the recent scores that Cave and fellow Seed Warren Ellis have worked on. We also…
- CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies
XHM #366 - "Graven imagery" (2017 June 12)
With Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds coming to Vancouver soon, we look at some of the recent scores that Cave and fellow Seed Warren Ellis have worked on. We also…
- CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies
XHM #366 - "Graven imagery" (2017 June 12)
With Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds coming to Vancouver soon, we look at some of the recent scores that Cave and fellow Seed Warren Ellis have worked on. We also…
- CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies
XHM #366 - "Graven imagery" (2017 June 12)
With Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds coming to Vancouver soon, we look at some of the recent scores that Cave and fellow Seed Warren Ellis have worked on. We also…
- CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies
XHM #366 - "Graven imagery" (2017 June 12)
With Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds coming to Vancouver soon, we look at some of the recent scores that Cave and fellow Seed Warren Ellis have worked on. We also…
- CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies
XHM #366 - "Graven imagery" (2017 June 12)
With Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds coming to Vancouver soon, we look at some of the recent scores that Cave and fellow Seed Warren Ellis have worked on. We also…
- CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies
XHM #366 - "Graven imagery" (2017 June 12)
With Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds coming to Vancouver soon, we look at some of the recent scores that Cave and fellow Seed Warren Ellis have worked on. We also…
- CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies
XHM #366 - "Graven imagery" (2017 June 12)
With Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds coming to Vancouver soon, we look at some of the recent scores that Cave and fellow Seed Warren Ellis have worked on. We also…
- CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies
XHM #366 - "Graven imagery" (2017 June 12)
With Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds coming to Vancouver soon, we look at some of the recent scores that Cave and fellow Seed Warren Ellis have worked on. We also…
- CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies
XHM #366 - "Graven imagery" (2017 June 12)
With Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds coming to Vancouver soon, we look at some of the recent scores that Cave and fellow Seed Warren Ellis have worked on. We also…
- CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies
XHM #366 - "Graven imagery" (2017 June 12)
With Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds coming to Vancouver soon, we look at some of the recent scores that Cave and fellow Seed Warren Ellis have worked on. We also…
- CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies
XHM #365 - "Not a creature was stirring, for they were shaken" (2017 June 05)
A tribute to Sir Roger Moore (1927-2017), the stylish British actor and humanitarian who most famously played James Bond through the 1970s and 1980s. Along…
- CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies
XHM #364 - "Bathe me in rivers of noise" (2017 May 29)
A long overdue memorial to two greats in the Finnish avantgarde music scene: Erkki Kurenniemi (1941-2017) ja Mika Vainio (1963-2017). Both relied on homemade…