This Week’s Theme: Electronic Music

This is the last of the old Faux Show’s left to migrate over to this blog. If this was a new show, I would provide a lot more information than I am going to present here, especially since this is such a rich topic and this show is the first to really sound like what the shows have now become. The songs presented provide a two-hour journey through the history of electronic music, and as such this is the first show to really attempt any sort of musical education. One can never cover the entire realm of a musical topic in just two hours, but that was at least the attempt when I curated this show in June of 2021. It is also a leap forward in the shows in that it covers one major theme across all of the songs, but also presents those songs in a variety of mini-themes.

If you are new to the Radio Faux Show, I hope you will check out the newer shows. However, this one is a good place to start for simply listening to how the show sounds. Either way, I am just happy to have finally caught up on these old shows so that I can now just focus on the new ones. Huzzah!

Theme Highlights

I’ll keep it simple and say that there are a lot of highlights in this show, but listening to it now all these months later I especially enjoy the more experimental selections (El-Dabh, Silver Apples, Stockhausen, Le Group, Wiggen, and Grossi) which provide a broad sample of the development of different electronic compositional techniques. Delia Derbyshire is the Artist of the Week, and you would be wise to watch one of the short YouTube documentaries about her work and influence on the evolution of electronic music. Listening to “Popcorn” and “Syncopated Clock” is really amusing. The MTV set (Faltermeyer, Eurythmics, and New Order) is a great example of how electronic music took hold of the world in the ’80s. The Get Down set (Bambaataa, Newcleus, and Warp 9) is old school hip hop at its finest. The three tracks from the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest (Dadi Freyr, Go_A, and The Roop) are really fun. Most of all, I love how much this whole set is a non-stop groovefest.

Thanks for listening (and reading)!

Track List

Track	Artist	Song Title
1	Halim El-Dabh	Leila Visitations Eleven
2	Beatles	Tomorrow Never Knows
3	Silver Apples	Oscillations
4	Delia Darbyshire	Doctor Who Opening Theme
5	Gershon Kingsley	Popcorn
6	Isao Tomita	Syncopated Clock
7	Harold Faltermeyer	Axel F
8	Eurythmics	Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
9	New Order	True Faith
10	Karlheinz Stockhausen	Beton-Studie
11	Afrika Bambaataa	Planet Rock
12	Newcleus	Jam on Revenge (The Wikki Wikki Song)
13	Warp 9	Nunk (New Wave Funk)
14	Brad Mehldau	Proverb of Ashes
15	Thundercat	Funny Thing
16	Le Group de recherches musicales de la R.T.F.	Reflects
17	King Tubby	King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown
18	Yellow Magic Orchestra	Behind the Mask
19	Kraftwerk	The Model
20	Dadi Freyr	10 Years
21	Go_A	SHUM
22	Roop, The	Discoteque
23	Fatboy Slim	The Rockafeller Skank
24	Madonna	Ray of Light
25	Coldcut	Doctorin’ the House
26	deadmau5	Ghosts ‘n’ Stuff
27	Daft Punk	Harder, Better, Faster
28	Weezer	Happy Hour
29	Knut Wiggen	Sommarmorgon
30	Pietro Grossi	Preludio II (J.S. Bach)
31	Devo	That’s Good
32	Gary Numan	Metal
33	Depeche Mode	Dreaming of Me
34	OMD	Electricity
35	Brian Eno	Kurt’s Rejoinder
36	Brian Eno	St Elmo’s Fire

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