Unknown Origins Podcast

Unknown Origins #35

admin — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 18:50:11 +0000

Zen Render, Jonny Vancouver, and Duncan Shields pile into the Meat Market Studio for another show. #35 in a series of 12. If this were TV, we’d be coming up to the end of the third season. Or, we’d have been banned from ever being on the air again, due to swearing, and that thing with the unlicensed use of a time machine in the Northern Hemisphere after March 16th. Last show in Vancouver (well, at least, last show when we’re ALL in Vancouver, as you’ll hear in the Talkybits of this show). Another random collection of things that have been making us ask ourselves “who is this?” and “have I already played it for a previous episode?” and “what day is it, anyway?”

Answers to all these questions and more will be summarily ignored in this episode of UNKNOWN…. ORIGINS…

Song choice order is Zen, Jonny, and Duncan wrapping up each set.

Here’s the show (right-click and SaveAs to download or use the FlashBased player below)

Talkybit 1
Tightrope (f. Big Boi) – Janelle Monae
The Ghost Inside – Broken Bells
Mike Doughty – Thank You Lord for Sending Me the F-Train (busking version)
Talkybit 2
Girl Of the Well – Adventure Time
Daniel – Bat For Lashes
You’ll Never Surf Again – Dan Reeder
Talkybit 3
Sing – Four Tet
Groovy Train – The Farm
Jazz Thing / In Honor of Guru – Gang Starr
Talkybit 4
The Way I Feel – Fotheringay
The Twilite Kid – Twilight Singers
Cotton – The Mountain Goats
Talkybit 5
Home – Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
Everybody Knows This Is Now – Rheostatics & Bourbon Tabernacle Choir
The Blob – The Five Blobs
Outtakes, SoundChecks, and General Asshattery.

The background music during the talkybits is conducted, arranged, and performed by nobody, ’cause Zen forgot to do that part before rendering the whole thing out to MP3. So… Yeah. Maybe when we re-release the digitally-remastered DVD editions of the shows, with the extra scenes added back in, the way Ridley Scott would have wanted (if he’d had anything to do with us, which he doesn’t*).

* at all

Unknown Origins #34

admin — Mon, 24 May 2010 04:06:53 +0000

Once again back is the incredible, ungrammable, the podcastable WE.
Unknown Origins 34, On The Drive Studio: 2nd Floor.

(Okay, no more Public Enemy satire songs, I promise).

Recorded on a Wednesday evening, and we all have to work the next day, so no drinking this time, thank goodness. Still, we crack ourselves up pretty good, and there’s even the occasional song or three thrown in to shut us up for a bit.

We’re not organized, but we all have very good excuses. Globetrotting and whatnot. You know how it is an all…

The show can be downloaded HERE or via the grey play button flash player on the site. It’s a LONG show, ’cause we talk a LOT, but the music’s still worth the trip.

So there’s the show, and the playlist will be posted soon (OR, some good Samaritan could start commenting the track names for your poor hosts, who don’t even have the time to listen to our OWN shows any more).

01)Talkybit 1

02)How High The Moon – Les Paul and Mary Ford

03)Look Out There’s a Monster Coming – Bonzo Dog Band

04)Jet 13 – Guitar Wolf

05)Talkybit 2

06)Be My Girl and Let’s Get Away – Lenny Kravitz, Daft Punk, and Jet by mashup germany

07)Hard Times – Baby Huey and the Babysitters

08)Help I’m Alive – Metric (Twelves remix)

09)Talkybit 3

10)Red Nebula – Fingathing

11)Kiara – Bonobo

12)Deep Shag – Lucious Jackson

13)Talkybit 4

14)This Land is Your Land – Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings

15)New York is Killing Me – Gil Scott Heron

16)Tighten Up – Black Keys

17)Talkybit 5

18)Mbira Beat – Goldfish

19)Let’s Go Away for a While – J-Dilla vs Beach Boys

20)Speak Though You Only Say Farewell – Mike Oldfield

21)I’ll be Home For Fishnuts

Unknown Origins #33

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:55:07 +0000

The SECOND drunk show, in a ROW, because after the first one was done, we didn’t realize that maybe we should pull back and get a little perspective, and think about what we just did. Be prepared for us to be not QUITE as smooth and non-microphone-chomping as we usually are. I (Zen) am pretty sure I don’t remember much of the last half of this show. I might finish a smallish bottle of something in an evening if/when I’m getting my swerve on, but not usually in the course or two hours, WHILE drinking other things.

The music is fine though, it’s just us that’s messed up.

Show can be downloaded or directly played from here and downloaded from our DropBox here.

01)Talkybit 1
02)Paradise Circus (F. Hope Sandoval) – Massive Attack
03)Japanese Hip-Hop – Special Force
04)It’s Raining Clouds – Blockhead
05)Talkybit 2
06)Wavin’ Flag – K’Naan
07)Dear Lily – Dan Bull
08)Kill All A’ Dem (VIP Mix) – Scratcha DVA
09)Talkybit 3
10)Ponta De Lanca Africano – Jorge Ben
11)Idaho State Fair – Johnny Granger
12)Easy – Barenaked Ladies
13)Talkybit 4
14)Phantom Anthills – Chad VanGaalen
15)The House Of Apples And Eyeballs – The Octopus Project With Black Moth Super Rainbow
16)Massage Situation – Flying Lotus
17)Talkybit 5
18)There Is XXXX Within My Heart – You Say Party, We Say Die!
19)Lasso – Phoenix
20)Satellite Skin – Modest Mouse
21)Endrunkabibble

Background music for Episode #33 was taken from Ekova’s album “Soft Breeze & Tsunami Breaks”.

Unknown Origins Episode 33 – final talkybit from Helianthus Photography on Vimeo.

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Unknown Origins #32

admin — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:40:07 +0000

Against our better judgment and the advice of our friends and families, we decided to celebrate the new studio (in the HEART of the East Siyeeed), the new decade, and the new photographic evidence that is coming to light, and do shows 32 and 33 while having the merest whiff of an alcoholic beverage, in order to loosen our tongues and our minds, that we may bestow upon our listening audience the wisdom that we have acquired over the ages.

Translation: We got drunk during these two shows, couldn’t shut up, and there pictures AND video of the event, thanks to the mighty eye and steady hand of Frank Julian Roberts.

Duncan Shields, Johnny Vancouver, and Zen Render bring the noise, and whatever happens from here on in, remember, we were drunk. Maybe it’s the best idea we’ve ever had, maybe it’s the worst show we’ve ever done, but hey, it was the FIRST show of 2010, and it was only a month late.

Oh, and if you thought we liked to drop the odd f-bomb ? You’re in for a bit of a shock.

You can download the show directly from here by right-clicking (or something similar if you’re using a Mac – weirdo).

01) Talkybit 1
02) DS: I Want Candy/Who Do You Love – Howe Gelb And Scout Niblett
03) JV: Sick Muse – Metric
04) ZR: Cosmic Love – Florence And The Machine
05) Talkybit 2
06) DS: Smack My Orinoco Flow – Prodigy/Enya (Mashup)
07) JV: Stylo – Gorillaz
08) ZR: Robo Tussin (Instr.) – Flying Lotus
09) Talkybit 3
10) DS: Fucken Awesome – Spiderbait
11) JV: Love Vigilantes – New Order
12) ZR: Ain’t Nobody – Smooth Moose Laboratories F. Becca Stevens
13) Talkybit 4
14) DS: The Partridge Family – Horace Pin
15) JV: Boys Who Rape (Should All Be Destroyed) – Raveonettes
16) ZR: Renoise Demosong – Jong Belegen
17) Talkybit 5
18) DS: You Look Familiar – Team William
19) JV: One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) – Frank Sinatra
20) ZR: All Covered In Darkness – DJ Food

Background music for ep#32 was taken from the Fuck Buttons album “Tarot Sport”.

Unknown Origins podcast session – drunken antics & grumping from Helianthus Photography on Vimeo.

Unknown Origins Episode 32 – final talkybit from Helianthus Photography on Vimeo.

Unknown Origins #31

admin — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:39:39 +0000

Here we are once again. Jonny Vancouver, Zen Render, and Duncan Shields once again bring you the new, the old, the weird, and the wonderful. We also bring you music in between the bouts of silliness.

Get some headphones on if you’re at work, or make the sure the kids are outta the room, or you’re going to spend half of Xmas dinner explaining where little Timmy learned the f-word, (and why he says it with a Jonny Vancouver Irish accent).

You can download or link the 80-something minute show here, or use the various nefarious links and podcast downloaders and I don’t know what you kids use these days with your tartanglers and hornswagglers made by the iPoms or whatever they are.

And get off my lawn.

01) Talkybit 1
02) Oasis – Amanda Palmer
03) For Pity’s Sake – Ellen Taylor
04) You Rascal You – Louis Armstrong F. Louis Jordan and His Timpani Five
05) Talkybit 2
06) Can’t Stand Me Now – The Libertines
07) Ain’t Easy – Ill Boding
08) I’ll Believe In Anything – Wolf Parade
09) Talkybit 3
10) I Cut Like A Buffalo – The Dead Weather
11) The Lie – Zomby
12) Midnight – Uncut F. Jenna G
13) Talkybit 4
14) The Sweetest Thing – Camera Obscura
15) Coffee Song – ?
16) Two Weeks – Grizzly Bear
17) Talkybit 5
18) Pale Blue Eyes – Velevet Underground
19) Quiet Storm – Life’s Addiction
20) You – Vast

The background music for Unknown Origins #31 was taken from KnifeHandChop’s album “Rockstopper”.