Tonite! Wednesday, November 03, 2010; 8-10 PM
R-n-R Exhibition [mini version]: STIRLING SILLIPHANT
The Nostarwhere Tapes
:: Introduction, playlist and photos, written and handpicked by Stirling Himself ::
What I originally intended as a curatorial focus on a very specific genre (early-to-mid-’90s American Underground) has morphed into a retrospective on the music I was listening to from 2001-2006, a time when I was the heart, soul and scrambled brains of the nostarwhere collective. We (I, most of the time) booked DIY gigs for bands from all over the region (with a heavy Singapore and KL emphasis, though we got some takers from Oz, the States and Japan) in Bangkok, where I also played in my own band, Eastbound Downers.
Growing up between Asia and the States in the pre-web days, I had a lopsided exposure to music. I’d tend to binge in the former (on live shows, records, ‘zines, books) and hibernate in the latter. Say what you will about social networking, but without it, there were few avenues for an international school brat like me to stay simultaneously informed about global and local underground scenes. A couple years after I moved back to Southeast Asia in ’99, I started to make up for lost time: Once I got hip to the incredibly diverse, talented regional scene, I started inviting bands up to play in Asia’s crossroads city, my home at the time, Bangkok. The friendships forged in the course of doing so last to this day (and will far beyond), but another fortunate knock-on effect was the amount of music I was exposed to. The amount of ‘what… you haven’t heard of so-and-so?!,’ and, ‘you’re from California and you’ve never seen such and such??’ was dizzying. Like a good student, I took notes, I read up on stuff… and sure, I downloaded a few tunes on p2ps—but mostly I kept buying records. What follows is a cross-section of jams (some completely new, others ‘rediscovered’) that I either got turned onto over those years. Jams that were blasted out over the PAs of the dive bars where we set up shows (all closed now; if they were naïve enough to hand the keys to us for even a night, there was an operative lack of business acumen), late, late night and through the morning at the ‘Stirling’s house after-party’, or the follow-on afternoon, when the slowing music would tease my thoughts to ask if this was really what I wanted to be doing for the rest of my life.
The Playlist:
01. In Like Flynn – Girls Against Boys
02. No One Knows – Queens of the Stone Age
03. Only Shallow – My Bloody Valentine
04. Doom Town – Wipers
05. Tired of Sex – Weezer
06. Envelope – Unwound
07. The Lung – Dinosaur Jr.
08. Lover & The Sea – Astreal
09. Invalid Litter Department – At the Drive In
10. Une Anee Sans Lumiere – The Arcade Fire
11. Gold Soundz – Pavement
12. Noise – M83
13. From the Cold – MUON
14. Drought – Pelican
15. Dawn Chorus – Boards of Canada
16. So Did We – Isis
17. Symptom of the Universe – Black Sabbath
18. Black Sabbath Medley Reversible – Ruins
19. Good Morning Captain – Slint
20. Waltz for Aidan – Mogwai
21. Ditchdigger – Rocket from the Crypt
22-25. D.E.A.D./Love You Till Friday/Raised in the City/Shut Up – The Replacements
26. Broken Hearts & Paper Cuts – Eastbound Downers
27. Sleeping Aids & Razor Blades – Exploding Hearts
28. Rendezvous With Anus – Turbonegro
29. Love Hungry Man – AC/DC
Full story and complete descriptions coming soon!
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