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Back due to unpopular demand, it’s horror host Michael Bleeds and another spooky extravaganza of local spooky songs. As past year’s rituals have demonstrated, our journey begins creepy and delightful but we descend into proper creepy, full-on. This edition of the show has many favorites from past years and plenty of brand new classics. Michael Bleeds keeps it well balanced. When you’re done with this one, be sure to revisit the archives from 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018 and the first from 2017. Click here for full episode notes Follow us on Instagram or shoot us a DM with your music submission: @weownthistown . Brandy McMaxwell — “Evil The Song” The Spirit League — “Scare Easy” Iven — “The Reaper Is A Scary Guy” Bad Luck Mattress — “Mayhem Dong” Boo Dudes — “Skeleton Dog” DARK DAZE MVSIC — “Cycle of the Wolf” The Phantoms Of Saturn — “The Black Cat” MALCO — “Boo Dudes – Shes So Skeletal MALCO Remix” Blavery — “Vampire Slayer Stakes and Crosses” Shaboi — “Dr Jekyll and Ms Hideous” Eric Slick — “Dig Through The Ditches Burn Through The Witches” Coley Kennedy — “Just Like Kiss Halloween 83” Joe Zempel — “Cedar Womb” Bats — “I Put A Spell On You” Fetching Pails — “The Witching Hour” Petty — “Dracula ” B L O O P R — “halloween party” V To Z — “The Darkness Of Us All” Sean Parrott — “They Were Hunted” Makeup And Vanity Set — “Black Phillip The Witch” Haze Anderson — “The Thing” Stuffed Spider — “Monster Makeup” MALCO — “Castle Arachnid” Children Of The Night — “Adrift At Dark” The Spirit League — “One Last Dance” Black Moon Mother — “Watch It Burn” Soot — “Fire Ants” Total Wife — “Not” German Error Message — “Lilt” SONGS OF LLORE — “Cicadas Frogs Racing Cars” Stuffed Spider — “Enfield Pattern” (excerpt)

We Own This Town: Music strives to be a podcast showcasing new and notable music from Nashville and surrounding areas. For this episode, we focus more on the notable moreso than on the new. Having personally curated this show for eighteen years, these songs have left an impression. They span the musical gamut and, even at over 2 hours, this barely scratches the surface. If anything, I hope this can stand as an introductory primer for anyone curious about what made the Nashville music scene so special and what actively makes it so special today and onward. That’s total wife on our cover; an absolutely unbelievable talent. “Main Theme” by Upright T-Rex Music and other songs by Test Kitchen. Click here for full episode notes Follow us on Instagram or shoot us a DM with your music submission: @weownthistown . Self — “Cannon” The Features — “Armani Suede” And The Relatives — “Cowboy Jazz” Apollo Up! — “Walking The Plank” Meemaw — “Blue In The Blacklight” Kindercastle — “Beddie Bye” The Non-Commissioned Officers — “Ellie” Character — “Theme From ‘Starkweather’” B L O O P R — “Hold the F Up” Negro Justice (feat. Corduroy Clemons) — “Work in the Morning” Ron Obasi — “Dem Crackas” DeRobert The Half-Truths — “We Party” Houston Kendrick — “Ugly Vybes” Jensen Sportag — “2×2” Uncle Skeleton — “Renfro” Dewey Decibel — “Ice Farmer” Hotpipes — “The Future is Where We Belong” Peachy — “Waiting” How I Became The Bomb — “Secret Identity” German Error Message — “Murmuring” Volunteer Department — “Old Friend” $avvy (Feat. Mike Floss) — “BagPurse feat Mike Floss ” Namir Blade — “Patlabor” Jonesiii From The Moon — “One Love” Forget Cassettes — “Instruments of Action” HR Lexy — “Get on with it” Body Electric — “Plastic Arrows” Eardrummer — “Ultra” The Weird Sisters — “WAITING SO LONG” D Watusi — “Brother & Sister” Styrofoam Winos — “Stuck In A Museum” Glossary — “Trouble Won’t Last Always” Total Wife — “still asleep” Make Yourself At Home — “Blue Apollo” Thomas Luminoso — “Speed Bug” Zook — “Evergreen”

It may have been six weeks since our last episode but there’s been no shortage of fantastic new local music to check out. My apologies for the silence but I will make up for it with nearly two hours of wall-to-wall goodness. This playlist was meticulously curated and then I let the Randomizer Machine shuffle it all up. The results are great no matter how you hear it. Enjoy! That’s Purser on our cover with a photo by Emily April Allen. “Main Theme” by Upright T-Rex Music and other songs by Test Kitchen. Click here for full episode notes Follow us on Instagram or shoot us a DM with your music submission: @weownthistown . Phoneswithchords — “Bitter Blink” Tristen — “New Punching Bag” Hands Down Eugene — “Saros Painting” LUNAR Clayhead — “Ramen Noodles” Cyborg9K — “Advent of the ICBM” Wesley The Boys — “Full-Time Asshole” Tom Spiker And Matt Glassmeyer — “El Batcho” The Medium — “Feel The Dream” Sean Thompsons Weird Ears — “Storms Comin Tonight” Jo Schornikow — “Upstream” Rig B — “i stay up until 3am every night” RAP Ferreira — “reciting the alphas bet” Purser — “Dust” Quinn Hills — “Lipstick Lace” Rube — “where were coming from” Phoneswithchords — “The Speed of Time” RIFFT — “An Unforgiving Sky” ShvdowBoy — “Tiger Lilly” John Davis — “Please Be My Love” Through — “Shadow Box” Username — “grip w auntie” Blaqspace — “hands” TB8S — “Wave of the Wand” Candynavia — “superbowl” Book NOT Brooke Zina — “IV THATS OK” Belly Full Of Stars — “hissandmisses” Eve Maret — “origin of evergreen” Make Yourself At Home — “0000”

Whoops, almost a month between episodes. Hate it when that happens but, hey, life has its varying priorities. What I love is that I was able to put together 2 hours of local music without batting an eye. The backlog is deep – a mile deep you might say – but that means that sharing local goodness with you is easy! It may not all be brand new but, as the saying goes, if you’ve never heard it before, it’s new to you! Fingers crossed Episode 398 won’t take near as long (it won’t). That’s Downasaur on our cover. “Main Theme” by Upright T-Rex Music and other songs by Test Kitchen. Click here for full episode notes Follow us on Instagram or shoot us a DM with your music submission: @weownthistown . Crave On — “Orange Light in a Dark Room” Janella Rosa — “Gentle Soul” Slow Salvation — “Call A Friend” Ben Garnett — “Open Your Books” John Condit — “Craving Connection” Repeat Repeat — “Assholes” Make Yourself At Home — “Spinning Plates” Palm Ghosts — “Last Chance Kid” General Trust — “Apologia” Rich Ruth — “No Muscle No Memory” Digyphus — “Among Verticals” GeoVoc — “its over kid” Pallet — “draft 1” Levi J Miller — “WHENEVER IM READY” Birdy On The Moon — “Bluebells” Meade Forsythe — “Please Respond” Downasaur — “St Francis Kickflip” Magic In Threes — “Its Good to be the King” The Broken Tree — “The Weary Muse” BROKE — “Dont Hold Back” Nate Nakshian — “Million Miles From U” Carmen Canedo — “next time around” Thayer Sarrano — “Bells” Sun Seeker — “A Dirty Bath Of Everything” Molly Parden — “Eagle Rock feat John Canada” Hands Down Eugene — “Barry Shorts Campaign” Spodee Boy — “Moonshine Canyon” MAANTA RAAY — “MAANTA RAAY Theme” Jerry Roe — “Mind the Sea Wall”

Ending the year on a holiday compilation just didn’t feel right so this episode came together with the quickness! The upside to the wealth of Nashville music is that it doesn’t take much to put together something superbly enjoyable. Here’s around 90 minutes of local tunes to take you outta 2024 and into 2025. See you on the other side. That’s Heru Heru on our cover. “Main Theme” by Upright T-Rex Music. Click here for full episode notes Follow us on Instagram or shoot us a DM with your music submission: @weownthistown . Zook — “Disappear” Styrofoam Winos — “Rollin With You” The Angels Of Death — “Build An Altar” Mouth Reader — “Trees” Lawfulgoof — “Solar Punk” Heru Heru — “Hip-Hop Is On The Way” Heres Johnny LUNAR — “SINGIN ASS BOY (feat Dot-Com Intelligence)” Nodark — “the craft” Matt The Watt Gives — “Cutting Ties” Harper Mayo — “Hey Ollie” Casters — “Memory” Tom Barrett — “Two Places at Once” Erin Rae — “On Her Side” Suck Face — “Exit” Thayer Sarrano — “Carried Away” Jejune Jr — “Happy” Jejune Jr — “Happy Outro” Cassette Stress — “Hand of Benediction” Quiet Oaks — “I’m Over It (I Guess)” The F-use — “Pretty” Vera Bloom — “Bohemian Junk” Suck Face — “Golden Eye (feat Volunteer Department)” Zook — “Absolute Misery” Nativity Dog — “Part I”

NPR Edition! Happy Holidays! Believe it or not, we missed last year’s holiday celebrations (in podcast form)! Such a shame! But that just means we get to double down this year. Strap in for the sleigh ride of your lives with over two hours of local music perfect for your holiday season! Click here for full episode notes Follow us or submit your music: Instagram: @weownthistown Twitter: @weownthistown Facebook: /weownthistown “Main Theme” by Upright T-Rex Music. DeRobert The Half-Truths — “Peace on Earth” Alanna Royale — “Little Christmas Tree” JD McPherson — “Holly Carol Candy Joy” Jessica Breanne — “Christmas Day” Matt The Watt Gives — “No Child Wants Their Picture Made with Santa” Lawndry — “Krautsmas” Mr Talkbox — “This Christmas” Wallis Allen — “All I Want For Christmas” Petty — “All I Want For Christmas prod By Evan Blocker” Ahmadmusic — “Holiday Robbery” 2live Bre — “Home For The Holidays” Spoken Nerd — “Krampus The Dark Side of St Nicholas” Reno Bo — “Christmas Time Is Coming” New Man — “Christmas is a Mirror of the Mind” Katy Kirby — “Red Christmas 2017 Remaster” SONATORE — “Catching Snowflakes” The Sewing Club — “Hard Candy Christmas” Kyle Hamlett Uno Duo — “I Saw 3 Ships” Slow Salvation — “The Ghost of Last Christmas” Mike Good — “A Caroler Passed” Okey Dokey Kansas Bible Company — “Blue Christmas” Steelism — “Christmas Around the World” Moral Support — “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” The Human Uniform Choir — “Wonderful Christmastime ft tinkers Zook” Taylor Noelle — “Last Christmas” Slush — “Last Christmas” Sugar Sk-lls — “Last Christmas” Tower Defense — “What Do You Want For Christmas” Sad Baxter — “LIL SAINT NICK” Trash Man — “Wire Christmas Tree” Magic In Threes — “We Three Kings” Reno Bo — “The Snowsuit” Uncle Ellen — “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear” Lucky Halfspeed — “sunburned santa ft Mike Fuller” Michael Marsh — “Christmas in Murfreesboro” Cassette Riot — “Sleigh Ride chillwave version” Lawndry — “The Day Has Almost Come” Black Bra — “Just Like Christmas Ode to Mimi” Petty — “Not The Same Ole Christmas” Roger Moutenot — “Letter to Santa”

As the end of the year approaches, I can’t help but scramble to showcase even more local music. Forget the “Best Of” lists, just turn on the firehose of music and guzzle as much as you can. Savor every drop. There’s so much more to hear but here’s two hours of it to satiate you for a short while. Let this be your salve for holiday tunes, should you find yourself in need. That’s Demiatrix on our cover. “Main Theme” by Upright T-Rex Music. Click here for full episode notes Follow us on Instagram or shoot us a DM with your music submission: @weownthistown . The Robe — “Destroyer” Demiatrix — “how it thinks” Candynavia — “coffees getting warm” The Sewing Club — “Strange” Veaux — “Come Through” Jack Vinoy — “BATON PASS FEAT RON OBASI CHUCK INDIGO AND DIMESTATE DON” LUNAR — “LUNARS BIG BASS FISHING XTREME” Make Yourself At Home — “Blue Apollo” Eric Slick — “Ratboy Two” The Dogs Body — “Salt Pile” Nate Nakshian — “Shaurma Cigarettes ” Cassette Stress — “Technology” Soot — “Headtruck” Arioch — “Cry For Thou Art Weak” Brassville — “Sketches of Wade ” Levi J Miller — “GREENCOAT ANTHEM” The Dreaded Laramie — “Wheres My Crystal Ball” Crumbsnatchers — “All Mine” Palm Ghosts — “Quit Kidding Yourself” Cold Equations — “State of Mind” High Plains Ripper — “Falling Down” Kentucky Derby Con Man — “DREAD” Slow Salvation — “Call A Friend” Your Gaze — “Headlights” Dan Burns And Fly Golden Eagle — “Waterfall” Occhio — “Eukalypse” LZR — “Lazer” Sitcom Moments — “Little Heavens” SONGS OF LLORE — “Always” German Error Message — “Reground the Garden” Jules Belmont — “Palomino” Picture Rather Muted — “Statues”

In this installment of our show we put together 58 minutes of music across 18 tracks (plus some extra padding for babbling about the tracks). It is, yet again, a wildly enjoyable romp through pop/rock, indie rock, hip-hop, some brutal metal and a few other styles along the way. Not quite breakneck speed but a delicious variety awaits. That’s Ronni Raxx on our cover. “Main Theme” by Upright T-Rex Music, other music beds by Test Kitchen. Click here for full episode notes Follow us on Instagram or shoot us a DM with your music submission: @weownthistown . Self — “Love You Less” Richie Kirkpatrick — “Chinese Pills” Total Wife — “naoisa” Bifff — “aydame” Dialup Ghost — “Disc Golfing” Wayne Mosh — “Dynasty Riser V to Z Version” Book NOT Brooke Zina — “Everything I Wanna Know” DHad — “Not Grounded” Nineteen98 — “But What if Were Alright” Kyle Hamlett Uno Duo — “ithell without you” Revival Season Shamon Cassette — “White House Black” Ronni Raxx — “Venom ” Blvck Wizzle — “Indecisive” $avvy — “JESUS BBQ” My Wall — “Evolve” Flummox — “Southern Progress” Soot — “Fire Ants” Thirdface — “Meander”

Host Michael Bleeds returns for our annual Halloween spooktacular. This episode is the longest undertaking yet, clocking in at two and a half hours (with minimal talking). Come along for a soundtrack to Halloweeeen, perfect for October but enjoyable year round. Music beds by Test Kitchen. Click here for full episode notes Follow us on Instagram or shoot us a DM with your music submission: @weownthistown . Stuffed Spider — “Haunted Bridges” The Spirit League — “Scare Easy” Shaboi — “Dr Jekyll and Ms Hideous” Petty — “Dead Silence ” Girl Dudes — “Salem Bitch Trials” Work — “Vampires of Shelby Park” Sayryn — “The Mortician” The Golden Sounds — “Dark Dreams” Viva Babe Curry — “Dark Dreams” Fetching Pails — “The Witching Hour” The Robe — “Im a Nightmare” General Trust — “Hearses” Pressure Heaven — “Midnight” Transylvania Stud — “Burn the Witch feat The By Gods” The Phantoms Of Saturn — “The Cemetery” The Ghoulz — “X-Panorama” Sound&Shape — “How to Talk to Ghosts” The Spirit League — “Forever Yours” Invitation Worldwide — “Monster Mash” Tristen — “Dream Within a Dream” V To Z — “The Winds Of Death” GREG POPE — “Fistful of Horrors Theme” Shaboi — “Gozers Boombox” Boo Dudes — “The Listener” Haze Anderson — “Deep Red” MALCO — “Castle Arachnid” Makeup And Vanity Set — “The House of the Devil” Stuffed Spider — “Monster Makeup” Spectral Body — “Trauma Ward” Gothic Sasquatch — “Anguish” New Bang — “Nightmarez” Black Dudes — “Blackulas DUI” Soot — “Fire Ants” Thetan — “Gutted” Vampiric Baptism — “Blood Sucker” Images In Silence — “Hunting After Dark” Work — “Xororsho (Horror Show)” The Brain — “Stuck” My Wall — “Guts” Children Of The Night — “Axiom of an Unsound Mind” GeoVoc — “something is off” German Error Message — “Lilt” Z — “Moon” Glisster — “Dying In The City” SONGS OF LLORE — “Year of the Cicada”

The double length duration of the last episode was so pleasing, we’re doing it again! Maybe that makes Episode 390 less special because now it’s becoming the norm but let’s not think about that right now. We’ve got approximately 2 hours of local music queued up (and one minute of fun coffee shop ambience) and not a single track on here is bad. That’s Volunteer Department on our cover. “Main Theme” by Upright T-Rex Music, other music beds by Test Kitchen. Click here for full episode notes Follow us on Instagram or shoot us a DM with your music submission: @weownthistown . Volunteer Department — “Act Happy” Thad Kopec — “Passing Out Zines” Thomas Luminoso — “Speed Bug” The Robe — “Fred Benoit 1” Chance — “Time” Spider Virus — “Wise Guys” Very Ape — “Burning Dinosaurs” Palm Ghosts — “Up The Down Escalator” Shrine Of The Most Blessed Sacrament — “Garth” Slender Dan — “Every Morning The World Is Created” Angel Ltd — “Theme” Budge — “Breathe” Son Of The Challenger — “Kick Your Ass ” The Weird Sisters — “COME ON SPACESHIP” Blaqspace — “nosignal” DTL JAMS — “HEART ACHE BREAK” Taylor Narain — “Aint Shit Sweet Lemonade Freestyle” Eric Slick — “New Age Rage” Caroline Cronin — “Softening” Baby Wave — “The Story of Nashville” 2’live Bre — “To The Head” The New Respects — “YBA” Sweet Poison — “CBFW ” Slush — “Start” Badhippy — “I Cant Sleep” The Dogs Body — “Kiss the Mic” Wesley The Boys — “THE BALLAD OF SUPER WEENIE HUT JR” DEVANDO — “Dont Trust a Man With No Vices Pt 1” Magic In Threes — “Cutting Class” Boys Her Age — “dead fish go left” Work — “Passing Signals” Celltower — “a flower burning season”

For episodes ending in a zero or five, we try to do something a little different. Given that this is Episode 390, we’re sticking to that tradition by offering up a double episode. All told, there’s 27 tracks here and about 2 hours of runtime. Does that sound overwhelming? Too much? Well, trust me, it’s not! Just treat it like radio, turn it on, let it ride and enjoy passively. We even throw in an intermission to keep it interesting. That’s Son of the Challenger on our cover. “Main Theme” by Upright T-Rex Music, other music beds by Test Kitchen. Click here for full episode notes Follow us on Instagram or shoot us a DM with your music submission: @weownthistown . Son Of The Challenger — “the machine” Candynavia — “perfect wife” Caroline Red — “TENNESSEE” Hushhh — “Gleaming Light” Lips Speak Louder — “Hype” Slow Shiv — “Avalanche of Hate” High Plains Ripper — “Wells Run Dry” Flyco — “Ordinary Magic Powers” Rebeka DiPaolo — “Run Away With You” Weston — “My Bad” MiaReona — “Off the Liquor” JAKEWITHSPACES BBOY ZERO — “DONT CALL IT TRAGIC” Total Wife — “Heat Wave pt 1” Patrick Sansone — “Phosphenes” SPKN — “The Sun And Moon” LB Beistad — “Honeys Gone Bad” Brennan Wedl — “Fake Cowboy” Blackpool Mecca — “Pavement” Downasaur — “St Francis Kickflip” Bifff — “RED 2” Jerseybird — “My God My Son” COWBOYKILLER — “SELF DESTRUCT” The Absurd — “Told Ya So” Arioch — “Brick By Brick” Jack Vinoy — “LEMON HONEY FEAT BRIAN BROWN” Fogged — “Goodside” Thunder Lily — “Do It On Your Own Time (feat Tyler Summers)”

Last episode we jumped the queue to get to some newer music from the local area. This is the queue that was jumped! More great local music that might actually be more relevant to share this episode than it was last episode. Kismet. I mention DRKMTTR Fest in this episode. Be sure to mark your calendars for Oct 19th & 20th and go ahead and get those presale tickets. That’s Ronin Black & Walt Flames on our cover – their collab album as PIECES drops on Aug 30th. Due to a clerical error, this is not mentioned in the episode. Those responsible have been sacked. “Main Theme” by Upright T-Rex Music, other music beds by Test Kitchen. Click here for full episode notes Follow us on Instagram or shoot us a DM with your music submission: @weownthistown . Heaven Honey — “Moan” Budge — “Say Less” SCREEN STAR — “EYES WIDE SHIT” The Criminal Kind — “Rosalita” Dillon Watson — “Up to Me” Maanta Raay — “Night Rider” Ronin Black & Walt Flames (Pieces0 — “Break Back” Jxdece — “falling in your skies” JORDAN Xx — “Skydive” Sayryn — “Little Does She Know” Sydnee Conley — “Listen to My Songs” The Brain — “Cloud Dunes” Soot — “Turned to Stone” Hydras — “MONEY” Vampiric Baptism — “Not In My F*****g Name”

There’s been a wealth of great new releases lately and we’re itching for you to hear them; so we’re jumping our own queue and getting them out there. Here’s another hour of local releases that span the gamut of genres but they’re all a downright pleasure. We recommend you get yourself to the DEFY Film Festival this weekend (Aug 16 + 17) and get yourself to the DRKMTTR Tape Swap next weekend (Aug 24, 2pm – 5pm). Also, you’re already following @defyfilmfest, @drkmttrcollective and @nashvilleshowtogo, right? That’s Qualls on our cover. “Main Theme” by Upright T-Rex Music, other music beds by Test Kitchen. Click here for full episode notes Follow us on Instagram or shoot us a DM with your music submission: @weownthistown . Zook — “Conversations” Make Yourself At Home — “High” Total Wife — “still asleep” Teddy The Rough Riders — “Catfish Summer” The Robe — “Lights” Lawndry — “Oranges” God In Rehab — “Obsession” Soot — “Mr Tennessee” Vampiric Baptism — “Blood Sucker” BeHoward — “Da Rozes feat FU Stan” Qualls — “Hardbody feat Chuck Indigo” Starlito — “Frosted Sugar Cookies” Gloom Girl MFG — “Batshitlorette” Anchor Thieves — “Monterey” Makeup And Vanity Set — “Beam Weapon”

Far Out Fest 777 starts on Thursday, Aug 1st and runs through Saturday, Aug 3rd. It’s free this year! We have a quick chat with founder, curator, team leader Bunny Nunn about the history of the festival and what to expect at this year’s iteration. After our chat, I spend some time previewing each of the artists playing over the weekend. Listening back to all it, it’s like a good playlist – plenty of variety but also thematically cohesive. Thursday, August 1st is Far Out Film Fest at The Backlot, it’s sold out but maybe you got a ticket! Friday, August 2 – Saturday, August 3 kicks off every evening at Vinyl Tap Nashville with a marketplace and lots of bands. Keep up with Bunny: Instagram: @bunny_archmage Podcast: Dizzy Spell Stained Glass: Lady Shatterweb Collectible Shop: Wyrd Wife “Main Theme” by Upright T-Rex Music, other music beds by Test Kitchen. Click here for full episode notes Follow us on Instagram or shoot us a DM with your music submission: @weownthistown . The Borderlander — “DRS 008” Makeup And Vanity Set — “People and Places” Infanta Silhouette — “no comment” Gray Worry — “Beg for Borrow” Crystal Shrine — “Born To Be (The Bad Guy)” The Immaculate Beings — “P.S. I’d Miss You If You Were Gone” Mouth Reader — “So Fucked” J Childers — “First Encounter” Soft Bodies — “Decompose” In Place Quartet — Queen Ave Presents HR Lexy — “Get on with it” N Mangos — “No More Tears” Hans Predator — “8/9” Dead Feathers — “Full Circle”

After the two hour extravaganza of the last episode, this one has been parred down a bit. Not in quality but in quantity. We got lots of genre hopping and everything’s from Nashville locals. That’s Hushhh on our cover. “Main Theme” by Upright T-Rex Music, other music beds by Test Kitchen. Click here for full episode notes Follow us on Instagram or shoot us a DM with your music submission: @weownthistown . Gears — “Intro” Stone Deep — “All In Your Head” Century Club — “Black Hand” 95COROLLA — “ONE MORE BEER” Hushhh — “Summer Medication” Magic In Threes — “Perp Walk” Bats — “thanks to u” Lawfulgoof — “suburban cowboy” CAREGIVER — “Dolls Eye” The Robe — “Its So Easy” Roger Moutenot — “Art Electro” Slow Salvation — “Japan”