Soundtracks for Imaginary Films (The Sequel): A Compass to Get Lost

Featuring the music of Remate, Bowerbirds, Lavender Diamond, Ultra Vivid Scene, Lords of Acid, and others.

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Join a young Spanish troubadour by the name of R — whose soon-to-expire visa is the least of his problems — as he roams the American frontier in search of love and his missing guitar. Along the way he is brutalized by aassorted post-punks and freak folks (or is that folk freaks?), kidnapped by ravers, and forced to sign a particular onerous contract by despicable industry types who plan to exploit his apparent naivité; finally young R is swept up into a Head-trip finale that makes Liquid Skylook like Romper Room. Now about that guitar....

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Playlist for Episode 44

"Rise In the Springtime" (excerpt) by Lavender Diamond, from The Cavalry of Light (Matador, 2006)

"A Compass To Get Lost" by Remate, from No Land Recordings (Acuarela, 2007)

"Bedazzled" by Bongwater, The Power of Pussy (Shimmy Disc, 1991)

"Hooves" by Bowerbirds, from Hymns for a Dark Horse (Burly Time, 2007)

"Nag Nag Nag" by Cabaret Voltaire, from The Original Sound of Sheffield '78/'82 (Mute, 2002)

"I Sit On Acid" (12-inch mix) by Lords of Acid, from This Is The New Beat(PolyGram, 1989)

"Chances Are" by Remate, from No Land Recordings (Acuarela, 2007)

"I Know" by the Beta Band, from The Three EPs (EMI, 1991)

"In Our Talons" by Bowerbirds, from Hymns for a Dark Horse (Burly Time, 2007)

"Fall" by Remate, from No Land Recordings (Acuarela, 2007)