Brian LeBarton

GENERATOR RADIO Update

Sorry for not posting GENERATOR RADIO playlists for the past 2 weeks. This Friday’s show, May 9th, will be a live broadcast from Marfa, TX. Call-in number is 800-903-KRTS to haggle, prank or arouse. Tune in at 7pm PST/10pm EST at 93.5 KRTS and www.marfapublicradio.org. The Public Radio Player iPhone app also works seamlessly and is as free as you wanna be.

GENERATOR RADIO is a free-form music program produced and hosted by Brian LeBarton every Friday night at 7pm PST/10pm EST for Marfa Public Radio.

Live Score of “Berlin: Symphony Of A Great City”

Few funs shows this month, first one being a live score at my favorite Silent Theater on Fairfax aka CINEFAMILY! More info and ticket link belooowwwww.

4/20 @ 8:00pm

An Evening Of City Symphonies
featuring
Berlin: Symphony Of A Great City
(W/ Live Scores By Brian LeBarton!)

Brian LeBarton returns to the Cinefamily to bring his unique aural vision to classic films from the silent era! For April’s visit, Brian scores a whirlwind tour of the 1920s “city symphony”, that poetic avant-garde genre focusing on the excitement and head-spinning newness of modern urban living. After a program of excerpts from rare and obscure examples of the form, the evening’s main attraction is the greatest city symphony of all: Walter Ruttman’s 1927 masterpiece Berlin: Symphony of a Great City, a vast, restless celebration of the Weimar Republic’s thriving epicenter. Unfolding in five acts, Berlin‘s documentary depictions of work, transportation, relaxation, and nightlife teem with energy and photographic creativity. Ruttman’s graceful editing — which feels like it was accomplished with a glass of wine and a notebook, rather than a flatbed and a pair of scissors — reveals endless layers of wide-eyed passion for what was its decade’s most fascinating hubs of human activity. It’s as much as a love song as a symphony.

Watch a clip of Berlin’s 1920s rush hour from “Berlin: Symphony Of A Great City”!

Performance at USC Arts Center

Generator Radio playlist – April 1st 2011

Happy April Fool’s! Here is tonight’s playlist. Generator Radio broadcasts every Friday night at 7pm PST/10pm/EST and re-broadcasts every Saturday at 4pm PST/7pm EST. Tune in LIVE at www.marfapublicradio.org and at 93.5 KRTS all over West Texas.

1. Peter Bjorn And John – Breaker Breaker
2. Matthew Dear – You Put A Smell On Me (Breakbot Remix)
3. The Chimes – Zindy Lou
4. Ja Prawn – Gearworm
5. MC5 – Poison
6. Bruce Haack – National Anthem To the Moon
7. Mutsumi – Jealous Kids
8. Los Lobos – Anselma
9. Liquid Liquid – Bell Head
10. The Residents – The Electrocutioner
11. Charles MIngus – Boogie Stop Shuffle
12. Witch – Introduction
13. Charles Lloyd – Sorcery [Live At Monterey]
14. Charlotte Gainsbourg – AF607105 (Live Instrumental Bootleg)

Here’s a visual blast from one of tonight’s flagellations:

Generator Radio playlist March 25th, 2011

1. Adios Gringo
2. Silicon Teens – State Of Shock (Part Two)
3. Love – My Little Red Book
4. Vanity 6 – Make-Up
5. Vanity 6 – Bite The Beat
6. Da Coconut Hut Club – MEXICO LINDO
7. Pluto – Ram Goat Liver
8. The Starlets – Hold My Hand (Feelin’ High Compilation)
9. Howlin’ Wolf – Do The Do
10. The Sweet Chariot Singers – The 10 Commandments
11. Jose Afonso – Cantares Do Andarilho
12. Dark Dark Dark – Junk Bones (Odd Nosdam Remix)
13. Lio – La petite amazone
14. Serge Gainsbourg – Le Rock De Nerval
15. The Regents – Runaround
16. Boney M. – Daddy Cool
17. Omar Khorshid – Sidi Mansour

Holy moves.

Generator Radio playlist March 11 2011

1. Jean Claude Vannier- Interprete Les Musiq
2. Tangerine Dream – The Big Sleep In Search Of Hades
3. King Tubby – A Closer Dub
4. Rolling Stones – Coming Down Again
5. Cannonball Adderley – Sabbath Prayer
6. A Tribe Called Quest – Description Of A Fool
7. Sonic Youth – Cosmopolitan Girl
8. Black Sabbath – Electric Funeral
9. Das Oath – Tour EP
10. Aksak Maboul – Glympz
11. Amon Duul – Eye Shaking King
12. Front 242 – Geography I
13. Ian And Sylvia – The Jealous Lover
14. Karen Dalton – Same Old Man
15. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Hold On To Yourself

Live footage of Front 242, a highlight from tonight’s playlist

Generator Radio playlist Feb 11th 2011

UPDATE: February 4th’s playlist didn’t exactly make it due to a technical mishap at the mother ship station in Marfa, TX. The full playlist will air tonight, February 11th. You can listen live to my radio show every Friday night at 7pm PST/10pm EST on 93.5 KRTS and www.marfapublicradio.org

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1. Luis Bacalov (cover) – Django
2. Nico Fidenco (cover) – For the Taste of Killing
3. Irene Cara – Breakdance
4. Ice T – Rhyme Pays
5. LL Cool J – I’m Bad
6. Plasmatics – Squirm
7. Fugazi – Unreleased demo
8. Sing Along With the Oldies – Do You Wanna Dance
9. Anika – Terry
10. Kill Me Tomorrow – I Require Chocolate
11. J Dilla – Donuts
12. Lady June’s Linguistic Leprosy – To Whom It May Not Concern
13. La Femme – Sur La Planche
14. Miles Davis – So What

Some amazing footage of The Plasmatics

Next week I’ll be broadcasting from Big Sur with some talented and hopefully engaging guests..

Generator Radio playlist January 28th 2011

1. Anika – No One’s There
2. Bruce Haack – Rita
3. J Dilla – The Factory
4. Jean-Claude Vannier – Le 22 Septembre
5. Miles Davis – Paraphernalia
6. Thee More Shallows (Odd Nosdam Remix)
7. New Order – Vanishing Point
8. Cream – We’re Going Wrong
9. The Stooges – Down The Street
10. D.N.A. – Egomaniac’s Kiss
11. Marvin Gaye – Let’s Get in On (Live at London Palladium)
12. Peter Bjorn and John – Breaker, Breaker
13. La Femme – Sur La Planche

Here’s a little bit about Bruce Haack:

Generator Radio playlist January 21st 2011

Tonight’s show is special to you, listen live at www.marfapublicradio.org at 7pm PST/10pm EST every Friday night for the rest of your life. Only 21 days ago we were born into the two thousand tweens. It still feels fresh, here is tonight’s playlist:

1. La Femme – La Femme Ressort
2. Peanuts Wilson – Cast Iron Arm
3. St. Vincent – The Apocalypse Song
4. Lady June’s Linguistic Leprosy – Tunion
5. Matthew Dear – You Put A Smell on Me (Breakbot Remix)
6. The Meters – Doodle-Oop
7. Ja Prawn – Porche Rap
8. Aphex Twin – Nanou 2
9. Black Sabbath – Solitude
10. Cydney Robinson – Shiny Happy People
11. The Minutemen – History Lesson Part 2
12. The Books – Beautiful People
13. Los Lobos - La Feria De La Flores
14. Carlos Puebla – Mata Siguaraya
15. Flying Lotus – German Haircut
16. Stereolab – The Groop Play Chord X
17. Brian Eno – Taking Tiger Mountain

A personal favorite from tonight’s show

Generator Radio playlist January 14 2011

Last Friday’s playlist. Tune in always and forever every Friday night at 7pm PST for my live radio show on www.marfapublidcradio.org

1. Anika – Yang Yang
2. Sun Ra – Enlightenment
3. Bavon Marie Marie & Negros Succès - Lucie Tozongana
4. Jose Afonso – Resineiro Engracado
5. Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee – The Chariot is Coming
6. Stevie Wonder – All Day Sucker
7. Orchestre Regional de Kayes – Sanjina
8. Charles Lloyd – Forest Flower
9. Sun Ra – That’s How I Feel
10. Robert Mitchum – Ballad of Thunder Road
11. Randy Alvey – Green Fuzz
12. Tobacco – Super Gum
13. Gang Green – Rabies
14. Latin Playboys – Crayon Sun
15. The Meters – I Need More Time

The highlight from the show comes courtesy of The Meters. Here is a clip I found for the uneducated – if there are any of you left.