Ruin Radio 6: Night Busing (12/15/2014)

 smoking's our only friend tonight
--"sleeping city," by intelligence dept.

this episode's named after something i find myself doing often, as well as a track from burial's first album. following the clamor of recent weeks, what you'll find will be the least noisy edition of ruin radio yet -- all breathy ambiance, cold rain, warm interiors.

Ruin Radio 3: Journey Through a Body (11/24/2014)

this third episode underwent a lot of changes while i was pulling it together. it started as a kind of "dungeon" mix (that's a concept i'd revisit the following week). however, i realized a lot of songs i wanted to include focused on physical bodies -- their functions, boundaries, and statuses within medicine and other systems. physical desire also comes up in a way that felt relevant. so i cribbed the title from throbbing gristle's last studio album and fashioned this as an installment in which the listener moves through a body while they listen. it may not be a linear path from outside to in, but i felt a change here from experiencing explicitly physical manifestations of bodies to something more metaphysical and existential. there's a darkness lurking throughout this mix, and this week's show moves into some noisier territory. i think there's also a dash of real beauty here and there. simultaneously, maybe.