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Genetic Memory

About Me

Genetic Memory is KTRU's radio show dedicated to a wide variety of experimental music.
We're on the air every Monday night from 10pm-1am (U.S. Central Time). Hear us on KTRU 91.7 FM in Houston, Texas, or on the web at www.ktru.org .
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The current confused, rotating crew of GM DJs:
1st Monday: JAMES TALLIS
2nd Monday: NAN and/or HK
3rd Monday: AUSTIN CAUSTIC
4th Monday: DAVID or LANCE
5th Monday (when it occurs): LANCE or DAVID
Shouts out to our GM subs and to the mighty Chuck Roast, who we're all hoping may come out of retirement someday soon...
See the Genetic Memory blog (above) for recent playlists.
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Some Current Top 5 Spins:
AUSTIN CAUSTIC:
    Peter Hammill - "Singularity" CD (Fie!) Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock / Mlehst - Split LP (b0nd0g0d h0nd pr0d0c0) Whitehouse - "Asceticists 2006" CD (Susan Lawly) Roman Torrent - "Masculine Failure" CD (Hospital) Goat / Vargr - "Goatvargr" CD (Cold Spring)
JAMES TALLIS:
    Moha! - "Raus aus Stavanger" CD (Rune Grammofon) Evan Parker - "Time Lapse" CD (Tzadik) Tim Hecker - "Harmony in Ultraviolet" CD (Kranky) Harvester - "Hemåt" CD (Silence) Soft Machine - "Grides" CD (Cuneiform)
NAN:
    Alex Neilson & Richard Youngs - "Road is Open Life" CD (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon) Daniel Padden - "The Isaac Storm" LP (Ultra Eczema) Gravity Adjusters Expansion Band - "One" CD [Reissue] (Paradigm Discs) Olivia Block - "Heave To" CD (Sedimental) Seht & Stelzer - "Exactly What You Lost" CD (Intransitive)
DAVID:
    X-Communication - "X-Communication" CD (Free Music Production) Uncle Woody Sullender & Kevin Davis - "The Tempest is Over" CD (Dead CEO) Andromelos - "Andromelos" CD (Ektro) Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - "Myth of the Love Electrique" CD (Riot Season) Khanate - "Things Viral" CD (Southern Lord)
LANCE:
    Razor X Productions (The Bug vs. The Rootsman) - "Killing Sound" 2CD (Rephlex) Rhys Chatham - "An Angel Moves Too Fast To See" CD (Radium) Merzbow - "Merzbuddha" CD (Important) One Umbrella - "Solve" CD (Tell-All) Jandek - "Glasgow Sunday" CD (Corwood)
HK:
    Hermann Nitsch - "Island" 4xCD (Cortical Foundation) KTL - "KTL" CD (Editions Mego) Der Blutharsch - "The Pleasures Received In Pain" CD (Tesco) Christoph Heemann & Andreas Martin - "DOM BW ZX 3" CD-R (DOM) Volcano The Bear - "Five Hundred Boy Piano" CD (United Dairies)

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DAVID - Playlist, 1/22/07

joanna newsom / only skin [ys] on the drag city label. diamanda galas & peter kowald / throat 1 [duos: europa, america & japan] on the free music production label. nick marlor / barbara allen...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:09:00 GMT

DAVID - Playlist, 1/15/07

alice coltrane / om supreme [eternity] on the warner bros. label. maggie nichols, caroline kraabel & charlotte hug / lullaby for clement [transitions] on the emanem label. cotton casino / driftin...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:05:00 GMT

MARK F. (sub for HK/NAN) - Playlist 1/08/07

bernard parmegiani / immer/sound [split with phillip samartzis] on the synasthaesia label. k salvatore / the floating oasis [ashmadai] on the fusetron label. peter kowald and diamanda galas / throat ...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:01:00 GMT

AUSTIN CAUSTIC - Playlist, 12/18/06

peter hammill / white dot [singularity CD] on the fie label. haino/null / [mamono CD] on the blossoming noise label. bill horist & kk. null / go, no-go astronaut [interstellar chemistry CD] on th...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 20:30:00 GMT

JAMES TALLIS - Playlist, 1/1/07

KTL / Estranged [KTL] on the Editions Mego label. Zeena Parkins / This Velvet Annihilation [No Way Back] on the Atavistic label. Musique Concret / Wreath Pose at Sacrifice [Bringing Up Baby] on the F...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 19:47:00 GMT

DAVID - Playlist, 12/25/06

david sedaris / dinah the christmas whore [holidays on ice] on the time warner audiobooks label. jana hunter / christmas [blank unstaring heirs of doom] on the gnomonsong label. jandek / twelfth apos...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 19:44:00 GMT

NAN - Playlist, 12/11/06

volcano the bear / the tallest people in the world [five hundred boy piano] on the united dairies label. irr. app. (ext.) / knit, semble, straighten and mend [irreplaceable hand: a dax pierson benefi...
Posted by on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:25:00 GMT

NATE S. (sub for JAMES TALLIS) - Playlist, 12/4/06

the user / track 4 [abandon] on the asphodel label. pipe / brown to black [international cement] on the jesus christ label. elliott sharp / twenty below [k!l!a!v!] on the newport classic label. skull...
Posted by on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:40:00 GMT

HK (swapping weeks with DAVID) - Playlist, 11/27/06

oren ambarchi / wednesday [suspension] on the touch label. mz 412 / satan jugend ii: global konqeri [nordik battle signs] on the cold meat industry label. sunn o))) and boris / etna [altar] on the so...
Posted by on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 07:55:00 GMT

AUSTIN CAUSTIC - Playlist, 11/20/06

flipper / hard cold world [public flipper ltd 2xLP] on the subterranian label. sunn0))) / sin nanna [black one 2xLP] on the southern lord label. sunn0))) & boris / akuma no kumo [altar 2xCD] on t...
Posted by on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 07:53:00 GMT