The Twisted Groove is a weekly radio show on KSFR fm 101.1 Santa Fe airing Saturday eves 10pm to midnight (MT). Spinifex plays a groove-based exploration of the past, present and future of Electronic, Indie, Rare Groove, Funk, Soul, Experimental, and Afro Funk propelling your music pleasures into futurity!

I don’t often do holiday themed shows but this year, prompted by my girlfriend, we created a Lounge, Indie, Soulful Twisted Groove show. Dana loves Christmas music and collects all sorts of quality releases. We play tracks from Grandaddy, Esquivel, Cocteau Twins, Claudine Longet, Jimmy McGriff, Fountains of Wayne, Staples Singers, Rilo Kiley, Nick Lowe and more…

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Hour 1

ARTIST : TRACK : ALBUM

Grandaddy : Alan Parsons In A Winter Wonderland : The Windfall Varietal

Esquivel : Jingle Bells Greetings From the Space-Age Bachelor Pad : ¡Esquivel!* – Merry Xmas From The Space-Age Bachelor Pad

Sergio Mendes and Brasil ’66 : Christmas Songs : B.F.Goodrich Limited Edition EP ¡Something Festive!

Staples Singers : Who Took The Mary Out of Christmas : Christmas Souls Stax

Margo Guryan : I Don’t Intend To Spend Christmas Without You : 25 Demos

Tracey Thorn : Hard Candy Christmas : Tinsel + Lights

Nick Lowe : Children Go Where I Send Thee : Quality Street

Phoenix w/ Bill Murray : Alone on Christmas Day : Single (A Very Murray Christmas)

Rilo Kiley : Christmas Cake : Maybe This Christmas Too?

Ray Anthony & His Bookends : Christmas Kisses : Single

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Fountains of Wayne : The Man In The Santa Suit : Out-of-State Plates

The Kinks : Father Christmas : Misfits

Pogues : Fairytale of New York : If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Chieftans feat. Elvis Costello : St. Stephan’s Day Murders : The Bells of Dublin

Alex Chilton : The Christmas Song : Clichés

Jimmy McGriff : Santa Claus is Coming To Town/White Christmas : Christmas With McGriff

Albert King : Christmas Comes But Once A Year : Single Stax

Herb Alpert : Jingle Bell Rock : B.F.Goodrich Limited Edition ¡Something Festive!

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Hour 2

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ARTIST : TRACK : ALBUM

Claudine Longet : Snow : B.F.Goodrich Limited Edition ¡Something Festive!

Cocteau Twins : Winter Wonderland : Snow EP

Esquivel : Frosty the Snowman : ¡Esquivel!* – Merry Xmas From The Space-Age Bachelor Pad

Lisa Mychols :X–Mass = Tyme² : Lost Winter’s Dream

Al Caiola & Riz Ortolani : Holiday on Skis : A Nostalgic Christmas – Chestnuts Roasting

Pretenders : 2000 Miles : Learning To Crawl

Ron Sexsmith : Maybe This Christmas : Maybe This Christmas

Queen : Thank God It’s Christmas : Single

Mel Torme : Glow Worm Christmas : Christmas Songs

Esquivel : White Christmas : ¡Esquivel!* – Merry Xmas From The Space-Age Bachelor Pad

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Lou Barlow : Glittery : Single

Polyphonic Spree : Happy Christmas (War Is Over) : Holidaydream: Sounds of the Holidays, Vol. One

Mack Rice : Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin’ : Single

Graham Parker and Nona Hendryx : Soul Christmas : Christmas Cracker

Little Johnny Taylor : Please Come Home For Christmas : Single

Darlene Love : Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home) : A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Khruangbin : Christmas Time Is Here : Single

Carpenters : Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas : Christmas Portrait

Esquivel : Auld Lang Syne (Adios From Esquivel!) : Auld Lang Syne (Adios From Esquivel!)

This week’s Twisted Groove I play some random tracks released in 2020. For the most part I don’t do favorite lists so these are just tracks that were in my queue recently. I pepper that with some older gems. I finish off the show with some tracks from the recently departed Harold Budd.

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Hour 1

ARTIST       TRACK        ALBUM

Mick Harvey : Come Into My Sleep: One Man’s Treasure

Mark Lanegan : Brompton Oratory : Imitations

Sufjan Stevens : America : The Ascension

Blake Mills : Vanishing Twin : Mutable Set

Black Keys : Gold On The Ceiling : Electro-Vox Version

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Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds : Jubilee Street : Distant Sky Live EP

Paul Weller : Brushed : The Black Barn Sessions

Japandroid : Jack The Ripper : single

Phoebe Bridger : Chinese Satellite : Punisher

Sharon Van Etten : People Ain’t No Good : Triple J Like A

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Hour 2

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Bright Eyes : Mariana Trench : Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was

Lambchop : Golden Lady: Trip

James Elkington : Ever-Roving Eye : Ever-Roving Eye

My Morning Jacket : New Morning : Does Xmas Fiasco Style

Alex Izenberg : Requiem : Cavern Chateau

Fontaines D.C. : Dublin City Sky : Brixton Academy

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Lemonheads : Straight To You: Varshons 2

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds : Henry Lee : Murder Ballads

PJ Harvey : We Float : Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

Harold Budd/Cocteau Twins : She Will Destroy You : The Moon And The Melodies

Harold Budd/Cocteau Twins : Why Do You Love Me : The Moon And The Melodies

Harold Budd/Brian Eno : An Arc Of Doves : Ambient 2/The Plateaux Of Mirror

This week’s Twisted Groove we play all Ambient music. We start with Brian Eno’s track from 2015 The Ship. A very cool spoken word Ambient piece. That track is 21+ minutes long and I continue that trend of long tracks throughout the show. We play a total of 9 tracks in 2 hours.

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Hour 1

ARTIST TRACK ALBUM

Brian Eno : The Ship: The Ship

Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto : Mur : Revep

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Fred Frith : Part VII : Rivers and Tides

Pete Namlook and Atom : Outer Rotation : Jet Chamber II

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Hour 2

ARTIST       TRACK        ALBUM

Aphex Twin : Spots : Selected Ambient Works Volume II

LFO : Lost World: Peel Session

The Orb : The Weekend It Rained Forever : Abolition of the Royal Familia

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Moby : LA1 : Long Ambients1:, Sleep

Thomas Fehlmann : Scheiben : Gute Luft