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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 #363 - "Nowhere near your neighbourhood" (2017 May 22)
For your Victoria Day episode, we get some rocks out as we tackle the recent news about Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell (1964-2017) with a profile on some of…
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XHM #362 - "A blue rose case" (2017 May 15)
With the return of David Lynch's seminal TV series next Sunday, we have so much music tied to Twin Peaks. Amidst covers, influences & news about associated…
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XHM #361 - "Haunted bathhouses & endless meals" (2017 May 08)
Recent travels through Prague allowed me a chance to experience legendary Japanese composer Joe Hisaishi in concert, so in honour of that and Asian Heritage…
- CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies
XHM #360 - "A breakdancing robot caught on fire" (2017 May 01)
gak's back, direct into your earholes, with a long-awaited profile on songwriter/game show producer/host/spy(?) Chuck Barris (1929-2017), subject of George…
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XHM #359 - "This bunny does hop" (2017 April 27)
gak had a last minute business trip to Europe arise, so he's mixed and matched a few plans together and opted for a profile on British/German composer Max…
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XHM #358 - "No problemo, carry on Houston" (2017 April 10)
Lining up almost nicely with the 37th anniversary of the launch of NASA's Apollo 13 mission, we listen to selections from James Horner's score to the 1995 film…
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XHM #357 - "Whistling to the afterlife" (2017 April 03)
In light of recent news, we preempt previous plans and give a long tribute to composer Alessandro Alessandroni (1925-2017). We'll cover a lot of his scores for…
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XHM #356 - "I'mma set straight this" (2017 March 27)
Continuing with a recent political thread, I finally found a copy of David Shire's minimalist score to the 1976 political film All the President's Men, which…
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XHM #355 - "Before the clocks strike thirteen" (2017 March 20)
With our present dystopia slowly unfolding, it's high time to look into the film adaptation of George Orwell's 1984, which features 2 scores - one by the…
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XHM #354 - "Shape your medium; throw a coin in our fountain" (2017 March 13)
Fundrive 2017! Shape your media -- fund our project to train the next generation of broadcasters, journalists and other media specialists! Along with some…
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XHM #353 - "Help the aged" (2017 March 06)
Award season is done for another year so it's back to semi-regular anticking as we get into some more Ennio Morricone. gak ages audibly during this episode…
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XHM #352 - "Mass concern" (2017 February 27)
The 89th Academy Awards definitely ended memorably, so as I sort out the envelopes given to me, we'll hear selections from winners Moonlight and La La Land…
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XHM #351 - "The pallbearers of Camelot" (2017 February 20)
Fortuitiously timed for America's Presidents' Day, the final of our Oscar nominee profiles conclused with selections from Mica Levi's score to the biopic…
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XHM #350 - "Whistling with human freight" (2017 February 13)
Happy family day, at least here in British Columbia. This episode is stacked with material, ranging from 2 Oscar-nominated scores - Thomas Newman's Passengers…
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XHM #349 - "The colours of earthshine" (2017 February 06)
Our annual Oscar profile continues, leading up to the 89th Academy Awards at the end of February 2017. As Black History Month kicks off, we look at Nicholas…
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XHM #348 - "Hiding in your imagination" (2017 January 30)
The countdown to the 89th Academy Awards starts, so to kick off our annual profile on nominated scores & songs, we focus on Justin Hurwitz's music from the…
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XHM #347 - "Recognize the weapons offered to you" (2017 January 23)
Welcome to the occupation. Our primary profile will be on Jóhann Jóhannsson's score to the 2016 science fiction film Arrival, though we also wrap our heads…
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XHM #346 - "To be insulted by these fascists, it's so degrading" (2017 January 16)
It's been a little over a year since David Bowie (1947-2016) left us but the soundtrack to his 1976 Hollywood debut, The Man Who Fell to Earth, only came out a…
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XHM #345 - "Serialized star signs" (2017 January 09)
Expanding upon a score that appeared several years ago as part of a composer profile, we've got David Shire's music from 2007's Zodiac. Along with some of the…
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EPISODE 344: "FATES OF OUR FATHERS" (2017 January 02)
2016 was a dark time for the listening republic. As we look back at the force spirits created in the final weeks of that year, we primarily profile two Star…
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XHM #343 - "Increasingly so, heaven is a place far from earth" (2016 December 19)
Hineni, hineni. For the final episode of 2016, we look back at the year in music with some of the representative songs. Fitting for the weird year, we also…
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XHM #342 - "Shuffling down the chimney" (2016 December 12)
Our annual counter-carol episode, devoted to (mostly) lesser known holiday music to yuletide your way through the very overplayed tunes you hear elsewhere…
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XHM #341 - "Architecture as memorial" (2016 December 08)
Delayed three days and filling in for Thunderbird Radio Hell, this episode profiles Clint Mansell's score to the 2015 film adaptation of JG Ballard's High-Rise…
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XHM #340 - "The good guys lost" (2016 November 28)
2016 has kept busy as we commemorate the profound influences of Leonard Cohen (1938-2016) and Sharon Jones (1956-2016). We also touch upon some upcoming…
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XHM #339 - "You are now free to move about the stratosphere" (2016 November 21)
gak spent 10 days in Maui as the world changed substantially. He couldn't predict the future so bear with some Hawaiian influences as travel themes abound…
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XHM #338 - "Do angels live in our town?" (2016 November 17)
With the new world order underway, somehow turning Monday into Thursday, gak takes a little vacation, leaving a Boogie Nights profile for you, prerecorded…
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XHM #337 - "Don't mess with Western Sahara & Eastern New Mexico" (2016 November 07)
October's over, so we break from horror mayhem to the minimal menacing sounds of Nick Cave & Warren Ellis. Those bad seeds get a double dip profile: 2014's Far…
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XHM #336 - "Lupine hominoid" (2016 October 31)
WOLFMAN GAK guesthosts this All Hallowed Eve episode as regular host gak is asleep somewhere. All manners of spooky sounds from this raspy-voiced legend of…
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XHM #335 - "Antarctic changelings" (2016 October 24)
Our annual Hallowe'en theme for the month of October continues with one of the creepiest films of all time: 1982's The Thing, directed by John Carpenter and…
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XHM #334 - "Buildings burn like true love" (2016 October 17)
Hallowe'en month continues as we get gothic with the songs and score from 1994's The Crow. We remain both arch and subliminal. 1. Chromatics: Ceremony [w.Ida…
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XHM #333 - "Over the hill to terror's house" (2016 October 10)
As the Vancouver International Film Festival winds down on this Thanksgiving day, October continues with our horror theme by focusing on the ever creepy atonal…
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XHM #332 - "Bloody horticulture" (2016 October 03)
Our annual month of Hallowe'en-inspired music starts up with the black comic musical Little Shop of Horrors, primarily from its 1986 film adaptation. We also…
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XHM #331 - "Off the record, on the QT & very hush-hush" (2016 September 26)
The 2016 Vancouver International Film Festival starts this Thursday so along with some descriptors of the films in the 35th edition, we profile Jerry…
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XHM #330 - "With wonderful deathless ditties" (2016 September 19)
Along with the recent Mercury and Polaris Prize winners, there's news of Wawa Ontario, inventor Don Buchla (1937-2016) and the comic actor Gene Wilder…
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XHM #329 - "No talking foxes" (2016 September 12)
The story of a grieving couple retreating into a forest to mourn a loss and being consumed by nature. 2015's Couple in a Hole is profiled, featuring a score by…
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XHM #328 - "An astronaut of boxing" (2016 September 05)
He floated like a butterfly and stung like a bee. Muhammad Ali (1942-2016) fought in the ring and fought in real life against many misdeeds, so we'll do a…
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XHM #327 - "Astronavigatrix" (2016 August 29)
Time for the queen of the galaxy as we profile the soundtrack to 1968's scifi romp Barbarella. Along with some influences from the film, there's a look at the…
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XHM #326 - "Monsters are for coffee & contemplation" (2016 August 22)
The Department of Energy would like a word with you in private. Netflix's first season of Stranger Things truly struck a nerve this summer with 1980's…
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XHM #325 - "Pleasantries and hot panda milk" (2016 August 15)
Hop aboard the X-1 as we profile JG Thirlwell, some of his work from Foetus along with his score to the Cartoon Network series The Venture Brothers, including…
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XHM #324 - "Please call him Mister Marshall" (2016 August 08)
A weirder episode than usual as we pay tribute to creator/director Garry Marshall (1934-2016), focusing on his sitcoms from the 1970s: Happy Days and one of…
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XHM #323 - "Rise above the raw sewage" (2016 August 01)
With the Rio Olympics starting in a few days, it's time for a biannual tradition with Brazilian music, profiling Luis Bonfa & Antonio Carlos Jobim's…
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XHM #322 - "Ensconced in glamour" (2016 July 25)
This episode is to be played at maximum volume. With Pride Week in effect, we got our act together and stitched together a long-overdue profile on Todd Hayne's…
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XHM #321 - "Augmented restraint" (2016 July 18)
Mondkopf and Karsten Fundal scored the Welsh/Danish 2015 film Bridgend, so we'll have a moody electronic/orchestral profile. Otherwise, Vancouver band Kubla…
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XHM #320 - "Follow the royal rainbow" (2016 July 11)
For the benefit of several listeners, we go into some of the music from the first 2 games from the Katamari video game series. gak's back from vacation and is…
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XHM #319 - "Control option command" (2016 July 04)
A pre-recorded episode tied to Daniel Pemberton's score to the Danny Boyle's biopic about the Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. 1. Teen Girl Scientist Monthly…
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XHM #318 - "Faith in chaos theory" (2016 June 27)
We turn our clocks back to 1998 as we go electronic before diving into Clint Mansell's first score for Darren Aronfsky's 1998 debut Pi. These are the numbers…
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XHM #317 - "Fuel-injected juice-inside machine" (2016 June 20)
For your summer solstice needs (or winter for you antipodeans), we enter the wastelands to listen to music from Mad Max, The Road Warrior & Beyond Thunderdome…
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XHM #316 - "Granite poems" (2016 June 13)
Nicolas Jaar's alternative soundtrack to the 1969 Armenian film The Colour of Pomegranates anchors this goofy little episode, ranging from the recently…
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XHM #315 - "Asteroids taunt me" (2016 June 06)
May was originally going to be primarily video game month but news cycles happened so this straggler of a profile on the weird game Flywrench will tackle a…
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XHM #314 - "Perry Mason's Hawaiian shirt collection" (2016 May 30)
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet play Vancouver for the first time in decades this week, so we play tribute to the instrumental trio with music from The Kids in…
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XHM #313 - "Music is our vital apparatus" (2016 May 23)
From the relaxation vault to the enrichment centre, for Victoria Day, we have music from the Portal video game series direct from the Aperture Science…
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XHM #312 - "Home in the clouds of sound" (2016 May 16)
We pause our video game soundtrack month to commemorate the life of the Japanese composer and synth pioneer Isao Tomita with a panoply of his orchestral and…
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XHM #311 - "Each man kills the screen he loves" (2016 May 09)
Car 11-K, advise dispatch that video game month continues by profiling 1940s era music and Andrew Hale's score to the 2011 video game LA Noire. 1. Sparks: Beat…
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XHM #310 - "The lost souls alliance beckons" (2016 May 02)
If anyone died this week, perhaps they sought guidance to the 9th Underworld, which is where this week's soundtrack profile bases itself as we look at the…
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XHM #309 - "May we all live to see the dawn" (2016 April 25)
The hits keep on coming, though not the way we expect. Prince (1958-2016) has left us here, so we have covers, early songs, B-sides and soundtracks…
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XHM #308 - "Have you seen this boy at Tech Noir?" (2016 April 18)
Travel back in time to the time of cyborg invasions. Brad Fiedel's scores to 1984's The Terminator & 1991's sequel Terminator 2: Judgment Day are given their…
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XHM #307 - "If only the dairy council knew" (2016 April 11)
Set the butter aside and slide a bottle down the table -- we profile Gato Barbieri (1932-2016) & his score to the controversial 1972 film Last Tango in Paris…
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XHM #306 - "Find me by dirigible" (2016 April 04)
gak's back from India; along with a weird sonic tour of the sub-continent, there are tributes to Garry Shandling, Phife Dawg & Keith Emerson. There's a weird…
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XHM #305 - "What a way to paint a railroad " (2016 March 28)
gak's on business in India so along with longer pieces, let's mark his travel with some of the Bollywood selections from Wes Anderson's 2007 film The…
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XHM #304 - "Combining the crimefighting power of Turner & Hooch into one!" (2016 March 21)
Time for some B-movie stoner rock as we profile the 2014 Canuxploitation film Wolfcop and its score by Saskatoon's Shooting Guns. Any howling you may hear did…