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001. reSEARCH – this big program

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Installment #1 of what we’re calling The Research Series aired Sunday, March-10-2018.

The plan is for forty-nine movies, each forty-nine minutes long, featuring no particular artist, working no particular theme, pursuing no particular agenda beyond boldly going … who knows? Or as Werner Von Braun once put it, “Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.” And we definitely have no idea where all this will take us.

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001. reSEARCH – This Big Program

Mike Figgis – future strings
Eno + Byrne – the carrier
Jean-Michel Jarre – diva [excerpt]
Kraftwerk – radioland
Nitin Sawhney – Voices
Orb + Lee Scratch Perry – Congo
Brand X – Isis mourning
Windy + Carl – program
Harmonia – trace
OMD – Stanlow
Shriekback – this big hush

Further installments of the Research Stuff will air most Sundays at approximately 1am (Pacific time) c/o CiTR.FM.101.9, with streaming and download options usually available within twenty-four hours via our Facebook page.

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550. ethnicolor

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“In which Jean-Michel Jarre offers up an epic smorgasbord of what were then very “now” techno-possibilities. I personally had little time for his earlier stuff (cosmic lite, to put it bluntly, though millions seemed to disagree with me). But with hip names like Laurie Anderson and Adrian Belew on board for Zoolook, it was hard to ignore, and a darned good thing, because the whole album really goes places, lead off track Ethnicolor in particular. Samples before we called them that, great crescendos and unearthly howls. The future definitely sounded cool, and ambitious.” (Philip Random)

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965. zoolookologie

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Before 1984’s Zoolook, Jean-Michel Jarre was known mainly for his proto new age synth doodlings (appropriate as they may have been if the drugs and mood were right). But give a man a sampler (in those days profoundly expensive and generally known as either a Fairlight or a Synclavier) and groovy things start to happen.

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