Author: Austin Rich

20.) Possible Futures, Past & Present (w/ Steve Roberts)

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20.) Possible Futures, Past & Present (w/ Steve Roberts)
(Recorded on 28 February 2022 and 25 August 2022.)

We have a wealth of conversational nuggets, not just between the many chats that Heather and I have had, but with friends of the show, too. In this Maxi, Steve reacts to the news of the new Max shows that was announced last year, and discusses his own attempts to relaunch the program with Matt Frewer, several years ago.

Heather is surprised the beach idea wasn’t new.

Austin loves to talk about the Max Headroom’s that could have been.

 

 

We encourage you to help with our Patreon Fundraiser, where we are working with Michael Cassutt to create an audio-drama version of his lost vintage Max Headroom script, “Families.” So if you help support Austin Rich so he doesn’t have to punch a clock, then we can get more of this kind of material to you, quickly.

In our next episode, we will be offering either some additional Maxis, or our promised conversation about the film Network, which seems to currently be streaming on HBO Max, though who can say how long that will be? There are a number of other places to find it, too, so check it out, and we’ll get out next episode out, ASAP.

 

19.) The Max Headroom Initiative

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19.) The Max Headroom Initiative
(Recorded on 18 May. 2023.)

In our continuing efforts to get back on track with our every-other-week release schedule, we are rolling out some Max Headroom Mini’s – in other words, some Maxis – that offer some of the bite-sized bits that have come our way, and don’t precisely have a home in a full episode. This week, we discuss Austin’s appearance on The Incomparable Episode #667, and why our listeners might want to tune in. (If they aren’t already.)

Heather has some questions for her co-host that was suddenly on a different podcast talking about THEIR topic.

Austin offers sausage making tips and a new song about the experience.

 

We encourage you to help with our Patreon Fundraiser, where we are working with Michael Cassutt to create an audio-drama version of his lost vintage Max Headroom script, “Families.” So if you help support Austin Rich so he doesn’t have to punch a clock, then we can get more of this kind of material to you, quickly.

In our next episode, we will be offering either some additional Maxis, or our promised conversation about the film Network, which seems to currently be streaming on HBO Max, though who can say how long that will be? There are a number of other places to find it, too, so check it out, and we’ll get out next episode out, ASAP.

 

18.) The Steve Roberts Interview: “Hollywood Is A Weird Place”

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18.) The Steve Roberts Interview: “Hollywood Is A Weird Place”
(Recorded on 31 Mar. 2021,  28 February 2022 and 25 August 2022.)

In this jam-packed, special episode of 20 Minutes Into The Future, we get the story of the various kinds of work Steve Roberts has done, going back to the early 70’s, and covering some of the work he’s done since Max Headroom. There are so many stories and incredible moments from his past that we couldn’t possibly fit it all into one episode, but instead, consider this a 90 minute introduction to a fascinating man, who just so happened to have written Max Headroom, too. This episode pairs very well with our interview featuring the life of Michael Cassutt, and as mentioned in the body of this show, a lot more detail appears in our panel discussion, featuring three of the key players in the US Show Creative team: Brian Frankish, Michael Cassutt & Steve Roberts. All three of them paint a much more complete picture of the US Show and how it came to be, and I think you can read between the lines just enough to get a sense of the story behind the story, too.

Heather is very excited to meet Steve’s dog.

Austin has far too many questions for Mr. Roberts that he’s been wanting to ask for years.

 

In our next episode, we are not entirely sure what we will be talking about yet. We are still sorting out our upcoming schedule, but one of our next episodes will feature a conversation about the film Network, which seems to currently be streaming on HBO Max, though who can say how long that will be? There are a number of other places to find it, too, so check it out, and we’ll get out next episode out, ASAP.

We encourage you to help with our Patreon Fundraiser, where we are working with Michael Cassutt to create an audio-drama version of his lost vintage Max Headroom script, “Families.” So if you help support Austin Rich so he doesn’t have to punch a clock, then we can get more of this kind of material to you, quickly.

17.) Circle Takes The Square (Netflix S2E7, “Friend Zoned…”)

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17.) Circle Takes The Square (Netflix S2E7, “Friend Zoned…”)
(Recorded on 15 Mar. 2022)

In this episode we discuss the Netflix reality TV program, The Circle, this time, a show that Heather knows very well, and Austin has never seen before. Everything’s backwards this time, but these two manage to still find some way of engaging the content, just like they would otherwise.

Heather introduces Austin to one of her favorite Reality TV Show.

Austin manages to still bring it all back to Max Headroom in the end.

 

In our next episode, we are not entire sure what we will be talking about yet. We have a number of episodes recorded that could well be next. However, from here on out, we won’t be doing any previewing of next week’s show, until we get a better sense of how to deploy our upcoming shows.

We encourage you to help with our Patreon Fundraiser, where we are working with Michael Cassutt to create an audio-drama version of his lost vintage Max Headroom script, “Families.”

16.) Babies: How Children Are Represented In, “Max Headroom.” (A Discussion Regarding The Supreme Court’s Decision To Strike Down, ‘Row v. Wade.’)

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16.) Babies: How Children Are Represented In, “Max Headroom.” (A Discussion Regarding The Supreme Court’s Decision To Strike Down, ‘Row v. Wade.’) 
(Recorded on 14 July 2022.)

In this episode we have a conversation framed by the way that babies are represented in “Rakers” and in “Baby Grobags.” Specifically: how these two episodes speak volumes about the actual future we face now that Row v. Wade has been rescinded. This is a serious political conversation, and the funny editing during the serious sections has been reduced because of this. While the conversation does reference Max occasionally, it is largely about our new political reality, which happens to resemble the horrors we see in this fictional TV show.

Heather cannot separate the issue from the art.

Austin talks more than he should.

In our next episode, we will be discussing S2E7 of the US TV Program, “The Circle,” originally dropped on 21 April 2021. The episode is titled “Friend Zoned…” it is currently available on Netflix.com. Yes, we are finally getting to it. For real.

We encourage you to help with our Patreon Fundraiser, where we are working with Michael Cassutt to create an audio-drama version of his lost vintage Max Headroom script, “Families.”

15.) A Breaking News Story!

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15.) A Breaking News Story!
(Recorded on 4 Aug. 2022.)

In this episode we discuss the incredible news that broke on deadline.com on 29 July 2022. We offer a complete breakdown of the actual news, infer what we can from ancillary sources, and then offer a few tid-bits of our own news, from friends-of-the-show Steve Roberts and Michael Cassutt. (And it’s not exactly the kind of news you’re thinking it might be, either.) Lastly, we offer some conjecture as to what we want from this new show, and some ideas for how to pursue it.

Heather pitches a few new Max-related sitcoms.

Austin has done his homework.

In our next episode, we will be discussing the way that childbirth is presented on Max Headroom, and how we can look at recent Supreme Court Rulings in the United States, and how they could lead to a world like the one we see in “Rakers” and “Baby Grobags.” It’s a general conversation, but we do reference those two episodes.

We encourage you to help with our Patreon Fundraiser, where we are working with Michael Cassutt to create an audio-drama version of his lost vintage Max Headroom script, “Families.”

The Great Outdoors

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The Great Outdoors (#243) (852)

Xeres and I decided that we needed to get away from it all, for a while. We arrive at Big Rock Candy Mountain, a fantastic campground with a number of odd features, including a creek near an ocean beach with lots of hiking in tropical and pine forests. Occasional guests wander in, we read some poetry and short stories, offer some PSAs about camping, and we have our Short Wave Radio to tune in music and The Weather Computer.

It’s The Great Outdoors. Sit around the campfire, and stay a spell.

Enjoy!

 

The Great Outdoors

 

Artist Track Album Label Year Comments

Apemen On Big Rock Candy Mountain
Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich Driving Out The Great Outdoors      
The Kinks Apeman Lola Versus Powerman And The Moneygoround, Part One Pye Records 1970  
Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich The Campsite The Great Outdoors      
Harry McClintock Big Rock Candy Mountain Haywire Mac Folkways Records 1972  
Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich Setting Up Camp The Great Outdoors      
Coleman Camping Gear Let’s Go Camping Let’s Go Camping Coleman 1970  
Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich Cooking Hoedown The Great Outdoors      
Xeres of Xeron Results Radio Jam   1991  

Where Are We?
Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich Down By The River The Great Outdoors      
Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich Nature Sounds on the Nature Hike The Great Outdoors      
Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich An Encounter with Gentle Ben and… The Great Outdoors      
Gene Autry Smokey The Bear “Smokey The Bear” b/w “Back In The Saddle” Columbia Records 1960  
Eric Haenn Jew’s Harp Eric Haenn      
Ad Council Smokey Bear “Think” PSA Smokey Bear “Think” PSA   1972  
Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich The Weather Computer Calls In The Great Outdoors      

It’s Gettin’ Dark Mighty Fast
Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich The Beach & The Whales The Great Outdoors      
Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich A Plague of Frogs The Great Outdoors      
The Firesign Theater Back to the Shadows, Again! I Think We’re All Bozos On This Bus Columbia Records 1971  
Fern Zimmerman The Littlest Trompt     2010  

Where Are We, Again?
Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich Reading Pulp Fiction The Great Outdoors      
Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich Shortwave Radio Jam In A Cave (w/ Re-Started Nature) The Great Outdoors     [w/ “Ode,” “All Right,” “All Baby,” & “All Out” * Xeres * Radio Jam (1991); “Later Than We Think (w/ Woody Guthrie samples)” * Trey Gunn w/ Will Kreth * unreleased (1984)]
Yogi Bear Trying To Escape Jellystone Park [Excerpt]   Hanna-Barbera 1968  
Ad Council Rod Serling “Careless Killers” PSA     1962  

“He left the next day for The Mountains.”
Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich Racoons The Great Outdoors      
Eric Haenn w/ Jim Richards untitled Eric Haenn      
Gary Snyder w/ Paul Winter Consort True Night Live at Zellerbach Auditorium, Berkely, CA (25 March 1979)   1979  
OFF! OFF! Commercial     1970  
Richard Brautigan (read by Austin Rich) A Note On The Camping Craze That is Currently Sweeping America Trout Fishing In America Four Seasons 1961  
Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich Wolf Jam The Great Outdoors      
Ken Carson Clementine American’s Favorite Campfire Songs featuring Ken Carson Longines Symphonette Society 1966  
Ad Council Bullwinkle PSA     1969  
Ad Council Alvin & The Chipmunks PSA     1968  

Is It Raining?
Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich The Weather Computer Calls In The Great Outdoors      
Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich Making S’mores The Great Outdoors     [w/ Ta Da * Xeres * Radio Jam (1991)]
Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich A Sad Little Song The Great Outdoors      
Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich Austin Falls Asleep The Great Outdoors      
Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich The Storm The Great Outdoors      

 

Issue #42: Writing And Producing The Future Part 3

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Issue #42: Writing And Producing The Future Part 3

Written & Performed by Heather from The Sound of Tomorrow & Austin Rich, featuring a conversation with Heather, Brian Frankish, Steve Roberts & Michael Cassutt.

Recorded 14 April, 2021.

Issue #42, produced in May of 2021.

 

 

Prizes & Premiums Galore! (Pledge Drive 2022 Part 2)

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Prizes & Premiums Galore! (Pledge Drive 2022 Part 2) (#242) (851)

For my this particular Pledge Drive show, I play a bunch of cuts from prizes and premiums that you can get if you donate to WFMU! I’m joined by the lovely Ironybread, to help spread the word.

Enjoy!

 

Live Playlist & Comments

 

Artist Track Album
Beyond The Fringe Civil War [Excerpt] At The Fortune Theatre & On Broadway
Music behind DJ:

Sun Ra

 Untitled Keyboard Solo 5 John Cage Meets Sun Ra The Complete Concert June 8, 1986 Coney Island, NY
Doris Wishman Nude On The Moon – Trailer The Best of Doris Wishman
DJ GeorgyGirl Two Sheena’s Jungle Room – The Album!
The Wuffy Dogs Things Dogs Do Sheena’s Jungle Room – The Album!
Dr. Demento Segment II Dr. Demento Covered in Punk
William Shatner Garbageman Dr. Demento Covered in Punk
Music behind DJ:

Sun Ra

 Untitled Keyboard Solo 1 John Cage Meets Sun Ra The Complete Concert June 8, 1986 Coney Island, NY
Music behind DJ:

Sun Ra

 Untitled Keyboard Solo 2 John Cage Meets Sun Ra The Complete Concert June 8, 1986 Coney Island, NY
Negativland Incomprehensible Solution The World Will Decide
DJ GeorgyGirl Five Sheena’s Jungle Room – The Album!
Krys O 88 Lines about 26 Sheena’s Shows Sheena’s Jungle Room – The Album!
Doris Wishman Bad Girls Go to Hell The Best of Doris Wishman
Music behind DJ:

Sun Ra

 Untitled Keyboard Solo 3 John Cage Meets Sun Ra The Complete Concert June 8, 1986 Coney Island, NY
Music behind DJ:

Sun Ra

 Untitled Keyboard Solo 4 John Cage Meets Sun Ra The Complete Concert June 8, 1986 Coney Island, NY
Dr. Demento Segment VII Dr. Demento Covered in Punk
Mr. Quintron Creature with The Atom Brain Dr. Demento Covered in Punk
DJ GeorgyGirl Eight Sheena’s Jungle Room – The Album!
Ursula 1000 Hernando’s Hideaway (Ursula 1000 Remix) Sheena’s Jungle Room – The Album!
Sun Ra Enlightenment (feat. June Tyson) John Cage Meets Sun Ra The Complete Concert June 8, 1986 Coney Island, NY
Doris Wishman The Amazing Transplant – Trailer The Best of Doris Wishman
Music behind DJ:

Fragile X

 The Air Below The Earth [Excerpt] End Without World
Adam West The Thing Dr. Demento Covered in Punk
Adam West ID Dr. Demento Covered in Punk
Joan Jett Science Fiction Double Feature Dr. Demento Covered in Punk
Dr. Demento Segment X Dr. Demento Covered in Punk
Doris Wishman Hard-Selling Woman The Best of Doris Wishman
DJ GeorgyGirl Eleven Sheena’s Jungle Room – The Album!
Otis Fodder 15 Second Pop Song Sheena’s Jungle Room – The Album!
Music behind DJ:

Fragile X

 Heavy Bones Hollow [Excerpt] End Without World
Negativland More Data The World Will Decide
Los Straitjackets It’s A Gas Dr. Demento Covered in Punk
Dr. Demento Segment VIII Dr. Demento Covered in Punk
Doris Wishman Gentlemen Prefer Nature Girls – Trailer The Best of Doris Wishman
Music behind DJ:

Fragile X

 The Town On The Other Side [Excerpt] End Without World
DJ GeorgyGirl Nineteen Sheena’s Jungle Room – The Album!
Rich In Washington Radon PSA Sheena’s Jungle Room – The Album!
Elvira Mistress of the Dark intro Dr. Demento Covered in Punk
The Misfits The Cockroach That Ate Cincinnati Dr. Demento Covered in Punk
Dr. Demento Segment XIX Dr. Demento Covered in Punk
DJ GeorgyGirl Thirty Two Sheena’s Jungle Room – The Album!
45 Grave Black Cross (Live) Sheena’s Jungle Room – The Album!
Philly Boy Roy Punk Rock Girl Dr. Demento Covered in Punk

Issue #41: Writing And Producing The Future Part 2

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Issue #41: Writing And Producing The Future Part 2

Written & Performed by Heather from The Sound of Tomorrow & Austin Rich, featuring a conversation with Heather, Brian Frankish, Steve Roberts & Michael Cassutt.

Recorded 14 April, 2021.

Issue #41, produced in May of 2021.

 

 

The Animalympics Marathon (Pledge Drive 2022 Part 1)

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The Animalympics Marathon (Pledge Drive 2022 Part 1) (#241) (850)

For my first ever Marathon show for WFMU, I’m joined by the station manager, Mr. Fab! We offer live coverage of the first “Animalympics” in the Mid-Valley, AND ask you to help donate money to keep WFMU going for another year. Hilarity and fun ensue! Join us!

Enjoy!

 

Live Playlist & Comments

 

Artist Track Album
Steven Lisberger Marathon Part 1 Animalympics
Music behind DJ:

Ornette Coleman

 Proof Readers Ornette!
The Necessaries Runaway Child “You Can Borrow My Car” b/w “Runaway Child”
Speed, Glue & Shinki Run And Hide Speed, Glue & Shinki
Steven Lisberger Marathon Part 2 Animalympics
Music behind DJ:

Ornette Coleman

 Check Up Ornette!
Lotek Running Dog (Live) History of Portland Punk Vol. 1
The Neo Boys Running In The Shadows (Live) History of Portland Punk Vol. 1
The Cheepskates Run Better Run Run Better Run
Steven Lisberger Marathon Part 3 Animalympics
Music behind DJ:

Ornette Coleman

 The Alchemy of Scott LaFaro Ornette!
Wrong Kind of Stone Age Run Amok A Reference Of Female-Fronted Punk Rock: 1977-89 [Disc 8]
The Stimulators Run Run Run Killed By Death #17
??? Whoops, what is this?
Steven Lisberger Marathon Part 4 Animalympics
Music behind DJ:

Ornette Coleman

 Cross Breeding Ornette on Tenor
Groovie Ghoulies Running With Bigfoot World Contact Day
Secret Mamals She Likes to Run Mammals Royale
Steven Lisberger Marathon Part 5 Animalympics
Music behind DJ:

Ornette Coleman

 Airborne Love Call
Steven Lisberger Marathon Part 6 Animalympics
The Kids Run Away The Kids
Steven Lisberger Marathon Part 7 Animalympics
The Donnas Teenage Runaway The Donnas
Steven Lisberger Marathon Part 8 Animalympics
The Briefs Run the Other Way Hit After Hit
Steven Lisberger Marathon Part 9 Animalympics
Music behind DJ:

Ornette Coleman

 R.P.P.D. Ornette!
Brian Eno I’ll Come Running Another Green World
Steven Lisberger Marathon Part 10 Animalympics

 

Issue #40: Writing And Producing The Future Part 1

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Issue #40: Writing And Producing The Future Part 1

Written & Performed by Heather from The Sound of Tomorrow & Austin Rich, featuring a conversation with Heather, Brian Frankish, Steve Roberts & Michael Cassutt.

Recorded 14 April, 2021.

Issue #40, produced in May of 2021.

 

 

 

The Horror of Haunted Houses

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The Horror of Haunted Houses (#240) (849)

After getting lost in the Mid-Valley on my way home from a show, I stumble upon a pair of “Haunted Houses,” and have to endure these ridiculous experiences.

Fortunately, I was allowed to crack wise to help me get through the night. Radio Riffing on two ridiculous horror classics, for those who enjoy a little comedy with their weirdness.

Enjoy!

 

Live Playlist & Comments

 

Artist

 Track

Album

 (This episode written by Austin Rich)
William Castle House on Haunted Hill William Castle Productions
Mini-Mutations Various Improvised Organ Bits Throughout Hour One
George Waggner Horror Island Universal Pictures

 

Issue #34: The Martin Newell Interview

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Issue #34: The Martin Newell Interview

Written & Performed Heather from The Sound of Tomorrow & Austin Rich, featuring a conversation with Heather, Austin & Martin Newell.

Issue #34, produced in March of 2021, containing some spacey musical stories, Namely: “The Martin Newell Interview.” 

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Statues * Martin Newell * Penny Novelettes (To be released sometime this year.)

Goodnight Andromeda * Martin Newell * Penny Novelettes (To be released sometime this year.)

The Language & Music of The Wolves: A Momentary Lapse of Reason Retrospective

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The Language & Music of The Wolves: A Momentary Lapse of Reason Retrospective (#239) (848)

Miss Rikki joins me for a trip through nostalgia and great mixes, as we replay some choice selections from a few of our finest radio moments together. We also catch up with Miss Rikki, to talk about all the things that she is involved in now.

Enjoy!

 

 

Live Playlist & Comments

Artist

Track

Album

Label

Our Lasting, Erroneous Impression
Robert Redford The Wolf You Never Knew [Excerpts] The Language and Music of The Wolves
Music behind DJ:

Paco Jones

 A Momentary Lapse of Reason (Theme Song) Written For This Program in 2014.
The Thelonious Monk Quartet And Pee Wee Russell Blue Monk Miles & Monk At Newport
Peter Sellers [Excerpts] Hoffman
Salvador Dali [Excerpts] … on Paranoic Critical Method 1963
Orson Welles … discusses the effect of violent films Talk Collection BBC 4
splitting headache
[unidentified sample]
Patrick McGoohan [Excerpts] … interviewed by Warner Troyer for Ontario Educational Communications Authority, March 1977
Frank Zappa [Excerpt] On The Record Industry and MTV
The Mirror Scene Wings of Desire
Miles Davis Straight, No Chaser Miles & Monk At Newport
Katherine Hepburn [Excerpts] 60 Mins Interview with Morly Safer
Patrick McGoohan [Excerpts] … interviewed by Warner Troyer for Ontario Educational Communications Authority, March 1977
Peter Falk Scene Wings of Desire

On The Flip Side
Music behind DJ:

Martin Denny

 Voodoo Dreams Hypnotique
Flip Wilson Twenty Minutes of Silence You Devil You
Vanilla Fudge Break Song Near the Beginning
Flip Wilson & Redd Foxx The Church of What’s Happening Now
The Firesign Theater 40 Great Unclaimed Melodies! Dear Friends
Albert Brooks “Real Life” Trailer
Richard Nixon Checkers Speech
George Carlin w/ Flip Wilson What’s Happening News
Lilly Tomlin Alexander Graham Bell This Is A Recording
Telephone Courtesy Educational Film
George Carlin w/ Flip Wilson WINO Radio

How To Win At Conversation With Mom
Music behind DJ:

Martin Denny

 St. Louis Blues Hypnotique
Daniel Kibblesmith How To Win At Conversations With Mom
The Wayne Mason Trio [Most of A Side] LIVE! at the La Pesada
Kermit Schafer [Excerpts] All Time Great Bloopers (6 Record Set)
The Relaxed Wife Stress Relief With Tranquilizers
Etiquette Lessons Cindy Goes To A Party
Anita Bryant Drugs Are Like That
Man… Or Astro-Man? Evert 1 Pipkin Made From Technitium
Music behind DJ:

Man… Or Astro-Man?

 Weightless In Zero Return Made From Technitium

All Of The Drugs My Parents Did Not Do
Glozell Green I Hate Cilantro, It’s Gross
[Excerpts From One Of Miss Rikki’s Musical LPs]
Pan Am Films Traveling Through Time
[Excerpts From One Of Miss Rikki’s LPs] Learn How To Touch Type
Etiquette Lessons Cindy Goes To A Party
Anita Bryant Drugs Are Like That
Frank Capra Excerpts Our Mr. Sun
Educational Film Act Your Age
Coronet Films You And Your Parents

There Is Not A Rhinoceros In This Room
Music behind DJ:

Jackie Davis

 Glow Worm Cha-Cha-Cha Mondo Exotica: Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 1
Lionel Hampton with Rhythm and Reeds ‘Round Midnight Golden Vibes
Bertrand Russell There Is Not A Rhinoceros In This Room Lecture – Wesley Cecil
Charlie Parker, Tadd Dameron & Curley Russell Move Live Sessions
Robert Redford The Wolf You Never Knew [Excerpts] The Language and Music of The Wolves
Salvador Dali [Excerpts] … on Paranoic Critical Method 1963
Carlie Parker, Kenny Dorham, Al Haig, Nelson Boyd & Max Roach Hot House Live Sessions
Fannie Flagg Sylvia Miller UFO Abduction Fernwood Tonight
Bette Davis Excerpts The Dick Cavett Show
“What Ever Happened To Baby Jayne?” [Excerpt]
Katherine Hepburn Excerpts The Dick Cavett Show

Epilogue
Music behind DJ:

X

 I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts Beyond & Back: The X Anthology
Glozell Green I Hate Cilantro, It’s Gross
Bruce Springsteen Open All Night Nebraska
Henry Miller Excerpts The Henry Miller Odyssey 1969
Phillip Seymour Hoffman Excerpts Almost Famous
Jeffrey Lee Pierce on What’s Wrong With Everything 1989 Interview
The Dead Milkmen I Hear Your Name Eat Your Paisley
Robert Redford The Wolf You Never Knew [Excerpts] The Language and Music of The Wolves

 

Issue #30: The Distance Between Things

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Issue #30: The Distance Between Things

Written by Flann O’Brien & Austin Rich, and Performed by Austin Rich.

Issue #30, produced in January of 2021, featuring some sport shoe and sweat pants clad stories, including, “Cycling,” “Pulling Away From Social Media,” and more selections from “Waama, Etc.” 

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Bennett Cerf * Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet * Savvy Show Stoppers * Glass Records (1988)

Our Weapons Are Useless * Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet * Savvy Show Stoppers * Glass Records (1988)

The People Who Died: 2022 Edition

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The People Who Died: 2022 Edition (#238) (847)

2022 has been hard on all of us already, and we’ve lost a number of excellent artists and performers that touched all of us quite a bit. With that in mind, here’s two hours of songs in tribute to those we have lost and loved, just in time for Valentine’s Day.

Enjoy!

 

Live Playlist & Comments

 

Artist Track Album

The People Who Progged
The Ventures He Never Came Back Ventures In Space
Steven Sondheim No More Into The Woods
Budgie Make Me Happy Squawk
King Crimson I Talk To The Wind In the Court of the Crimson King
Procol Harum Cerdes Outside the Gates Of Procol Harum

Electronique Fantastique
Peanuts Briefcase A Charlie Brown Valentine
The Ventures Journey To The Stars Ventures In Space
Dr. Johnny Fever Drunk Test WKRP in Cincinnati
Garry Bradbury Memory Lane Panspermia Plus
Vangelis Main Titles Blade Runner Soundtrack
Michaelangelo Antonioni Opening Title Sequence La Notta Film

Land of Broken Hearts
Peanuts I Haven’t Seen Your Name Yet A Charlie Brown Valentine
The Ventures Lullaby of The Leaves “Ginchy” b/w “Lullaby of The Leaves”
Erik Muller First Poem Live At A Reading
Erik Muller Second Poem Live At A Reading
The Five Satins Land of Broken Hearts
The Dixie Cups Iko Iko Chapel of Love
Dr. Johnny Fever Pink Floyd WKRP in Cincinnati
Betty Davis They Say I’m Different They Say I’m Different
Peanuts Refreshments Will Be Served In The Back A Charlie Brown Valentine
MX-80 Halloween Theme Das Love Boat

A Phone Call From Pete da Fraser
Pete da Fraser Phone Interview 11 February 2022
The Long Division Trio House Live at Sprout, Springfield, Oregon, 9-11-2015
Remember Valsetz Percussion/Log Jam Live at the Butte Tavern, Nov 21, 1989
The Long Division Trio Fifty-Nine Live at Sprout, Springfield, Oregon, 9-11-2015

Pure, Unprocessed Worm
The Giant Worm Moment Paging Dr. Pavlov
Pete Remembers
The Giant Worm Off The Shelf Soundcloud Selections
Xeres Bit
The Giant Worm Do Not Panic Soundcloud Selections
Xeres Bit
The Giant Worm Invisible Paging Dr. Pavlov
The Giant Worm The Goldfish Goes Hungry protoWorm
Xeres Bit
The Giant Worm Cheese / Abandon Ship Live at the Space, 5/28/17

Elegy For Those We Lost
Xeres Bit
Brian Eno Prophecy Theme The Dune Soundtrack (1984)

Issue #28: The Tools of The Trade

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Issue #28: The Tools of The Trade

Written by Flann O’Brien & Austin Rich, and Performed by Austin Rich.

Issue #28, produced in January of 2021, featuring some clipped and scribbled on stories, including, “Quarantine hobbies,” “Planners,” “Postcards,” and more selections from “Waama, Etc.” 

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Zombie Compromise * Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet * Savvy Show Stoppers * Glass Records (1988)

Customized * Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet * Savvy Show Stoppers * Glass Records (1988)

Before ’75 Part II: Blank Generation

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Before ’75 Part II: Blank Generation (#237) (846)

In this History Lesson (originally aired on 10 September 2011), we offer some clips from some music documentaries, that focus on how all this wonderful music got started. This version is a little re-vamped from the original broadcast, for Jungle Room Listeners.

This began last week! Feel free to listen to them as a four hour “documentary.”

Enjoy!

 

Live Playlist & Comments

Artist Track Album Label

Ghost Riders in New York
Narrator Part 9 Punk: Introduction Rock & Roll Documentary PBS
Richard Hell & The Voidoids Blank Generation Blank Generation
Music behind DJ:

The Flamin’ Groovies

 Slow Death (San Francisco, California, 72)
Suicide Frankie Teardrop [Edit] Suicide
Suicide Interview Kill Your Idols Documentary
Suicide Interview Punk Attitude
Suicide Ghost Rider Suicide

The Ohio Scene
Music behind DJ:

Killer Kane Band

 Longhaired Woman
David Thomas Interview Toronto TV
Rocket From The Tombs 30 Seconds Over Tokyo The Day the Earth Met the Rocket from the Tombs
The Dead Boys Punk Roots In Ohio Punk Rock Diary 1970 – 1979
Frankenstein Down In Flames (Cleveland, Ohio, 75) Eve Of The Dead Boys (October, 1975)
Cheetah Chrome Cleveland Scene Interviews From The Edge
Mirrors She Smiled Wild
Cheetah Chrome Cleveland Scene Interviews From The Edge
Mike Rep & The Quotas Rocket To Nowhere (Columbus, Ohio, 75) Rocket to Nowhere 7″
Cheetah Chrome Cleveland Scene Interviews From The Edge
Bizarros Lady Doubonette (Akron, Ohio, 76) “Lady Doubonette” b/w “I Bizzaro”

We’re All Devo!
Music behind DJ:

Nervous Eaters

 Loretta (Boston, Massachusetts, 76) Loretta
Devo We’re All Devo! Pioneers Who Got Scalped: The Anthology
Devo De-Evolution In Akron Punk Rock Diary 1970 – 1979
Devo Jocko Homo (Booji Boy Version) Pioneers Who Got Scalped: The Anthology
Devo De-Evolution In Akron Punk Rock Diary 1970 – 1979
Devo Clockout Hardcore Devo Vol. 2 1974 – 1977
Devo De-Evolution In Akron Punk Rock Diary 1970 – 1979
Patti Smith Free Money (NYC, 75) Horses

The Modern World
The Punks Drop Dead (Detroit, 75) The Punks
Music behind DJ:

Wayne Kramer

 Ramblin’ Rose (Detroit, Michigan, 74) (Edit) Ramblin’ Rose
Narrator Part 9 Punk: The Modern Lovers Rock & Roll Documentary PBS
The Modern Lovers Roadrunner The Modern Lovers
Narrator Part 9 Punk: The Modern Lovers Rock & Roll Documentary PBS
The Modern Lovers Girl Friend The Modern Lovers
Narrator Part 9 Punk: The Modern Lovers Rock & Roll Documentary PBS
Neon Boys That’s All I Know (Right Now) (NYC, 73) That’s All I Know (Right Now)/ Love Comes In Spurts/ High Heeled Wheels

But Where Can We Play?
Music behind DJ:

Electric Eels

 Agitated (Cleveland, Ohio, 75) Agitated / Cyclotron
CGBGs & Max’s Punk Attitude
Wayne County & The Backstreet Boys Max’s Kansas City ’76 (NYC, 76) Max’s Kansas City
What I Remember CGBG’s: The Roots of Punk Documentary
George Brigman Jungle Rot (Baltimore, Maryland, 75) Jungle Rot: I Can Hear The Ants Dancin’
What I Remember CGBG’s: The Roots of Punk Documentary
The Dogs John Rock (Lansing, Michigan, 76) Tough Enough / John Rock

Garage Revival
Music behind DJ:

The Suicide Commandos

 Monster Au Go-Go (Minneapolis, Minnesota, 76) The Suicide Commandos
The Environment CGBG’s: The Roots of Punk Documentary
The Gizmos Chicken Queen (Bloomington, Indiana, 76) The Gizmos
The Environment CGBG’s: The Roots of Punk Documentary
Blondie In The Sun (NYC, 76) X Offender Single
DMZ Boy From Nowhere (Boston, Massachusetts, 76) Live At The Rat ’76
Narrator Part 9 Punk: Garage History Rock & Roll Documentary PBS
Music behind DJ:

The Flamin’ Groovies

 Slow Death (San Francisco, California, 72)
Television Little Johnny Jewel (NYC, 75) Little Johnny Jewel
CGBGs & Max’s Punk Attitude

 

Before ’75 Part I: Ain’t It Fun?

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Before ’75 Part I: Ain’t It Fun? (#236) (845)

In this History Lesson (originally aired on 3 September 2011), we offer some clips from the unfortunately titled, “Punk Attitude,” documentary, and focus on the music a little more than the interviews. This version is a little re-vamped from the original broadcast, for Jungle Room Listeners.

This show continues next week! Tune in to follow the story!

Enjoy!

 

Live Playlist & Comments

Artist

Track

Album

Label

Part 01

Punk Attitude

Shout! Factory

Pere Ubu

Final Solution (Cleveland, Ohio, 76)

Terminal Tower: An Archival Collection

Rough Trade Records

Music behind DJ:

The Kingsmen

Louie Louie

“Louie Louie” b/w “Haunted Castle”

Wand Records

Part 02

Punk Attitude

Shout! Factory

Marlon Brando

“What Have You Got?”

The Wild Ones

Columbia Pictures

Iggy & The Stooges

Search & Destroy (Ann Arbor, Michigan, 73)

Raw Power

Columbia Records

Part 03

Punk Attitude

Shout! Factory

Chuck Berry

Maybellene

The Chess Story: 1947 – 1975

Chess Records

Part 04

Punk Attitude

Shout! Factory

Strawberry Alarm Clock

Incense And Peppermints

Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965–1968

Rhino Records

Part 05

Punk Attitude

Shout! Factory

Music behind DJ:

? & The Mysterians

96 Tears

“96 Tears” b/w “Midnight Hour”

Pa Go Go Records

Part 06

Punk Attitude

Shout! Factory

The Sonics

Strychnine

Here Are The Sonics!!!

Norton Records

Part 07

Punk Attitude

Shout! Factory

The Standells

Riot on Sunset Strip

The Best of the Standells

Rhino Records

Part 08

Punk Attitude

Shout! Factory

The Count Five

Psychotic Reaction

“Psychotic Reaction” b/w “They’re Gonna Get You”

Double Shot Records

The Velvet Underground

The Gift (Edit)

Peel Slowly And See

Polydor Records

Lou Reed

Lou Reed on Andy Warhol

Part 09

Punk Attitude

Shout! Factory

The Velvet Underground

All Tomorrow’s Parties (1965)

Peel Slowly And See

Polydor Records

Music behind DJ:

The Seeds

Pushin’ Too Hard

The Seeds

GNP Crescendo

Part 10

Punk Attitude

Shout! Factory

Michael Yonkers Band

Boy In The Sandbox (1968)

Microminiature Love

Sub Pop Records

Part 11

Punk Attitude

Shout! Factory

Huey Newton

White Responsibility

It’s All Meat

Feel It (1970)

It’s All Meat

New Music Records

Part 12

Punk Attitude

Shout! Factory

MC5

Kick Out the Jams (1969)

Kick Out the Jams

Elektra Records

Part 13

Punk Attitude

Shout! Factory

Sir Lord Baltimore

Helium Head (I Got A Love) (1970)

Kingdom Come

Anthology Recordings

Music behind DJ:

Kim Fowley

Queen Of Stars (Loop)

Part 14

Punk Attitude

Shout! Factory

The Doors

Light My Fire (Edit) (Live)

Alive, She Cried

Elektra Records

Part 15

Punk Attitude

Shout! Factory

Alice Cooper

Long Way To Go (71)

Love It To Death

Warner Bros. Records

Part 16

Punk Attitude

Shout! Factory

The Stooges

Not Right (1969)

The Stooges

Elektra Records

Part 17

Punk Attitude

Shout! Factory

Marc Bolan & T.Rex

Buick Mackane (72)

The Slider

Reprise Records

Music behind DJ:

Death

Politicians In My Eyes (Loop)

Part 18

Punk Attitude

Shout! Factory

David Bowie

Hang On To Yourself (72)

The Rise And Fall of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars

RCA Records

Part 19

Punk Attitude

Shout! Factory

Zolar-X

Space Age Love (LA 74)

Timeless

Alternative Tentacles Records

Part 20

Punk Attitude

Shout! Factory

The New York Dolls

Vietnamese Baby (NYC, 73)

The New York Dolls

Island Records

Part 21

Punk Attitude

Shout! Factory

Debris

One Way Spit (Chickasha, Oklahoma, 75)

Static Disposal

Anopheles Records

Music behind DJ:

The Punks

Drop Dead

The Punks

Part 22

Punk Attitude

Shout! Factory

Death

You’re A Prisoner (Detroit, Michigan, 75)

…For The Whole World To See

Drag City

Part 23

Punk Attitude

Shout! Factory

The Dictators

Master Race (NYC, 75)

The Dictators Go Girl Crazy!

Epic Records

The Mumps

We Ended Up

How I Saved The World

Sympathy For The Record Industry

Part 24

Punk Attitude

Shout! Factory

Music behind DJ:

Link Wray and The Wraymen

Raw-Hide

Peter Laughner

Ain’t It Fun (Cleveland, Ohio, 75)

Take The Guitar Player For A Ride

Tim Kerr Records

Blood of Chhinnamastika, LIVE!

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Blood of Chhinnamastika, LIVE! (#235) (844)

Join me and Blood of Chhinnamastika for a live performance on the show! I connect their studio, to mine… to WFMU! And then the fun really begins.

Enjoy!

 

Live Playlist & Comments

Artist

Track

Album

Blood of Chhinnamastika

Soundcheck

24 January 2022 (For This Show)

Blood of Chhinnamastika

Chhinnamastika Mantra

The Black Album

Music behind DJ:

Don Haugen

WIRE III [Excerpt]

WIRE

Blood of Chhinnamastika

Vajrayogini

The Black Album

Music behind DJ:

Don Haugen

WIRE III [Excerpt]

WIRE

Blood of Chhinnamastika

LIVE

25 January 2022 For This Show

Blood of Chhinnamastika

Trauma-Based Mind Control

Blood of Chhinnamastika

Interview

25 January 2022 For This Show

Cindytalk

Troubled Aria

The Crackle of My Soul

Belketre

Hate

Aural Resuscitation Unit

Tracks Four Through Ten

Dub Plate Volume One

Belketre

Last Sigh of God

Sickness

kuranke tamashii

Music behind DJ:

JUICE MACHINE

Wu Wei [Excerpt]

deep as a depthless pond

Formaldehydra

200112_0404

Volume Five

Peace Doctrine

Satisfied with Failure

SBTDOH

Scabs On Top of Scars

Developer

dvlpr1

Music behind DJ:

JUICE MACHINE

Wu Wei [Excerpt]

deep as a depthless pond

Blood of Chhinnamastika

Soundcheck

24 January 2022 (For This Show)

The Demento Dimension! (w/ Xeres of Xeron)

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The Demento Dimension! (w/ Xeres of Xeron) (#234) (843)

In this episode, I’m joined by Xeres of Xeron, who wrote and programmed this show, too. (With a little help from me, too.) Two hours of novelty music! Help us raise money for the Parade of Pennies, before we both find out it is a scam. And enjoy some excellent tunes, too.

Enjoy!

 

Live Playlist & Comments

Artist

Track

Album

Music behind DJ:

Mini-Mutations

Show Intro

Unique For This Show

Music behind DJ:

Jörgen Ingmann

Apache [Excerpt]

“Apache” b/w “Echo Boogie”

Music behind DJ:

Crispin Hellion Glover

Overture

The Big Problem ≠ The Solution. The Solution = Let It Be.

David Seville

Witch Doctor

“Witch Doctor” b/w “Don’t Whistle At Me, Baby”

Music behind DJ:

Vince Guaraldi

Blues For Peanuts [Excerpt]

The Definitive Vince Guaraldi

The Hollywood Argyles

Alley Oop

“Alley Oop” b/w “Sho’ Know a Lot About Love”

Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs

Li’l Red Riding Hood

“Li’l Red Riding Hood” b/w “Love Me Like Before”

Napoleon XIV

They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!

“They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!” b/w “!aaaH-aH ,yawA eM ekaT oT gnimoC er’yehT”

Sheb Wooley

The Purple People Eater

“The Purple People Eater” b/w “I Can’t Believer You’re Mine”

The Five Blobs

The Blob

“The Blob” b/w “Saturday Night in Tiajuana”

Music behind DJ:

Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass

Spanish Flea

Going Places

Allan Sherman

Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh! (A Letter From Camp)

My Son, The Nut

Shel Silverstein

Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out

Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection: The Greatest Novelty Records Of All Time

Ken Nordine

Fliberty Jib

Word Jazz

Tom Lehrer

The Elements

An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer

Monty Python

The Galaxy Song

Monty Python’s “Meaning of Life”

Allan Sherman

Back At Camp Granada (Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah revisited)

Nutty But Nice

Music behind DJ:

Henry Mancini

Baby Elephant Walk

The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to, “Hatari!”

Barnes & Barnes

Fish Heads

Voobaha

The Playmates

Beep Beep

“Your Love” b/w “Beep Beep”

Dana Lyons

Cows With Guns

Cows With Guns

Larry Verne

Mr. Custer

“Mr. Custer” b/w “Okeefenokee Two Step”

Steve Martin

King Tut (Live)

A Wild and Crazy Guy

Music behind DJ:

The Raymond Scott Quintette

Powerhouse

“Powerhouse” b/w “The Toy Trumpet”

Billy Murray

Hinky Dinky Parlay Voo

“Hinky Dinky Parlay Voo” b/w “We Don’t Get Much Money, But We Have A Lot Of Fun”

Paul Wynn

Shaving Cream

Cocktail Party Songs

Spike Jones and His City Slickers

William Tell Overture

“William Tell Overture” b/w “By The Beautiful Sea”

Groucho Marx

Lydia The Tattooed Lady

From the film “At The Circus”

The Coasters

Shoppin’ For Clothes

“Shoppin’ For Clothes” b/w “The Snake and the Book Worm”

Red Ingle

Serutan Yob (A Song For Backward Boys And Girls Under 40)

“Oh! Nick-O-Deemo” b/w “Serutan Yob (A Song For Backward Boys And Girls Under 40)”

Music behind DJ:

Orkestar Vyacheslav Mescherin

Vozdushnaya Kukuruza (Popcorn!)

Orkestar Vyacheslav Mescherin

King Missle

Cheesecake Truck

Mystical Shit

Mr. Bungle

Platypus

Disco Volante

Bongwater

David Bowie Wants Ideas

Double Bummer

Schlong

I Feel Pretty

Punk Side Story: The Original Drunk Punk Play

Flight of the Conchords

Robots

Flight Of The Conchords

The Rutles

The Knicker Elastic King

Archaeology

Music behind DJ:

Danny Elfman

The Breakfast Machine

The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to, “Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure”

Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan

Tennessee Bird Walk

Birds Of A Feather

Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn

You’re the Reason Our Kids are Ugly

Honky Tonk Heroes

The Fugs

Nothing

The Fugs First Album

Music behind DJ:

Blain Morris

I Left My Heart In San Francisco

The Trailer Park Boys

Negativland

The Piddle Diddle Report: A Future Confronting The Past Which Is Our Future, Last Call From Howland Island, Eaten By A Black Hole, Returned To Your Rightful Channel [Excerpt]

Over The Edge Vol. 7: Time Zones Exchange Project

Buchanan & Goodman

The Flying Saucer (Part 1)

“The Flying Saucer (Part 1)” b/w “The Flying Saucer (Part 2)”

VIX NOELOPAN

!aaaH-aH ,yawA eM ekaT oT gnimoC er’yehT

“They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!” b/w “!aaaH-aH ,yawA eM ekaT oT gnimoC er’yehT”

A Sound Salvation (Retrocast)

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A Sound Salvation (Retrocast) (#233) (842)

Using some documentaries, music about radio, and a pile of Edison Cylinder recordings, we take you to the beginning of recorded sound, to the early days of Radio Broadcasting, in this two-hour Audio Essay that you will have to hear to believe.

Enjoy!

 

Live Playlist & Comments

Artist

Track

Album

Label

Mini-Mutations

Opening Music

Jowi Taylor, Paoblo Pietropaolo & Chris Brookes

Hallo, Hallo! [Excerpt]

The Wire

CBC Radio (2005)

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

Electricity

Safe As Milk

Buddah Records (1967)

Music behind DJ:

Sonic Youth

Tremens [Excerpt]

SYR 1: Anagrama

SYR (1997)

Jowi Taylor, Paoblo Pietropaolo & Chris Brookes

Hallo, Hallo! [Excerpt]

The Wire

CBC Radio (2005)

Nurse With Wound

Two Golden Microphones [Excerpt]

Second Pirate Session

United Diaries (1998)

Bing Crosby & George Stoll Orchestra

The Very Thought Of You

Forever Bing

UCJ Music (2003)

Jowi Taylor, Paoblo Pietropaolo & Chris Brookes

Hallo, Hallo! [Excerpt]

The Wire

CBC Radio (2005)

Beethoven (Kathllen Parlow – violin; George Falkensten – piano)

Menuett G flat major & Valse bleat

Menuett G flat major & Valse bleat

Edison Amberol 4M-28026 (1912)

Enrico Caruso

Aria from Massanet’s “Le Cid”: O Souverain, O Juge, O Pere

O Souverain, O Juge, O Pere

Victor Talking Machine Company (1916)

Arthur Sullivan

After Dinner Toast at Little Menlo

ENHS E-2439-7

Edison Records (5 October 1888)

(performers unknown) / composted by Arthur Sulivan

The Lost Chord

ENHS E-2440-3

Edison Records (August 1888)

Music behind DJ:

Heinrich Tellam (composer) and Quinteto Instrumental Jordá-Rocabruna

En sourdine

Edison Gold Moulded Record: 18779.

Edison Records (1905)

Jowi Taylor, Paoblo Pietropaolo & Chris Brookes

Hallo, Hallo! [Excerpt]

The Wire

CBC Radio (2005)

Edison Grand Concert Band

Mr. Thomas Cat

EDIS-SRP-0204-09

Edison Records (1900)

Harry Lauder

Stop Yer Tickling Jock

Edison Gold Moulded Records – 19179

Edison Records (1908)

Billy Murray

Alexander’s Ragtime Band

EDIS 36065

Edison Records (1911)

Jowi Taylor, Paoblo Pietropaolo & Chris Brookes

Hallo, Hallo! [Excerpt]

The Wire

CBC Radio (2005)

Bing Crosby

Paradise

The Bing Crosby Story Volume I: The Early Jazz Years (1928 – 1932)

Columbia Special Products (1967)

Rudy Vallee

You Outta Be In Pictures

You Outta Be In Pictures

Victor Talking Machine (1934)

Music behind DJ:

Nurse With Wound

Two Golden Microphones [Excerpt]

Second Pirate Session

United Diaries (1998)

Ken Burns

Empire Of The Air [Excerpt]

Empire Of The Air: The Men Who Made Radio

PBS (1992)

Jimmy Vigtone

When The Radio’s On

Teen Line No. 5: Powerpop & Pop-Rock 45s V-Z

Hyped To Death Records (2004)

Ken Burns

Empire Of The Air [Excerpt]

Empire Of The Air: The Men Who Made Radio

PBS (1992)

CAN

Shikaku Maru Ten (Radio Waves)

Cannibalism 2

Spoon Records (1992)

Ken Burns

Empire Of The Air [Excerpt]

Empire Of The Air: The Men Who Made Radio

PBS (1992)

Rush

Spirit Of The Radio

Permanent Waves

Anthem Records (1980)

Ken Burns

Empire Of The Air [Excerpt]

Empire Of The Air: The Men Who Made Radio

PBS (1992)

Music behind DJ:

Nurse With Wound

Two Golden Microphones [Excerpt]

Second Pirate Session

United Diaries (1998)

Ben Brooks

[Excerpt]

The First 50 Years of Radio Part One

KDKA Radio (1970)

The Flaming Lips

Turn It On (2009 Austin Rich Edit)

Transmissions From The Satellite Heart

Warner Bros. (1993)

Mike Staff

The Mindset of Successful DJs

How To Become A Radio DJ

Self-Released (1998)

Alvin Lucier

Music On A Long Thin Wire (1979)

OHM: The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music (1948-1980)

Ellipsis Arts (2000)

Don Joyce

How Radio Was Done Part I (Excerpt)

Over The Edge Radio (27 April 2006)

KPFA Radio (2006)

Don Woody

Morse Code

MCA Rockabillies

Big Tone Records (1993)

Don Joyce

How Radio Was Done Part I (Excerpt)

Over The Edge Radio (27 April 2006)

KPFA Radio (2006)

Music behind DJ:

Alvin Lucier

Music On A Long Thin Wire (1979)

OHM: The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music (1948-1980)

Ellipsis Arts (2000)

Crime

Hot Wire My Heart

“Hot Wire My Heart” b/w “Baby You’re So Repulsive”

Crime Music (1976)

Don Joyce

How Radio Was Done Part I (Excerpt)

Over The Edge Radio (27 April 2006)

KPFA Radio (2006)

Little Harvey Hull / Long “Cleve” Reed

The Down Home Boys / Original Stack O’ Lee Blues

The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of

Yazoo Records (2006)

Ken Burns

Empire Of The Air [Excerpt]

Empire Of The Air: The Men Who Made Radio

PBS (1992)

Buddy Rich / Charlie Parker / Curley Russell / Dizzy Gillespie / Thelonious Monk

Relaxing With Lee

Bird: Complete Charlie Parker

Verve Records (1990)

Don Joyce

How Radio Was Done Part I (Excerpt)

Over The Edge Radio (27 April 2006)

KPFA Radio (2006)

Ken Burns

Empire Of The Air [Excerpt]

Empire Of The Air: The Men Who Made Radio

PBS (1992)

Don Joyce

How Radio Was Done Part I (Excerpt)

Over The Edge Radio (27 April 2006)

KPFA Radio (2006)

Music behind DJ:

Vladimir Vussachevsky

Wireless Fantasy (1960) [Excerpt]

OHM: The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music (1948-1980)

Ellipsis Arts (2000)

X

Blue Spark

Beyond & Back: The X Anthology

Elektra Records (1997)

Don Joyce

How Radio Was Done Part I (Excerpt)

Over The Edge Radio (27 April 2006)

KPFA Radio (2006)

Leb Laze

Static Radiates (Underwater Meditation)

Music For Troubled Machinery

Library Catalog Music Series (2011)

Don Joyce

How Radio Was Done Part I (Excerpt)

Over The Edge Radio (27 April 2006)

KPFA Radio (2006)

The Estranged

The Message

Static Thoughts

Dirtnap Records (2008)

We The People

In The Past

“In The Past” b/w “St. John’s Shop”

Challenge Records (1966)

Music behind DJ:

Vladimir Vussachevsky

Wireless Fantasy (1960) [Excerpt]

OHM: The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music (1948-1980)

Ellipsis Arts (2000)

Elvis Costello

Radio Radio

This Year’s Model

Issue #26: What Are You Going To Do With 390 Photographs of Christmas Trees?

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Issue #26: What Are You Going To Do With 390 Photographs of Christmas Trees?

Written by Richard Brautigan. Performed by Austin Rich.

Issue #26, produced in December of 2020, featuring a large collection of described visual treats, “What Are You Going To Do With 390 Photographs of Christmas Trees?” by Richard Brautigan, read by Austin Rich.

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

New Year * The Breeders * Last Splash * 4AD/Electra (1993)

New Year’s Eve In A Haunted House * Raymond Scott * Reckless Nights & Turkish Twilights * Columbia Legacy Records (1999)

New Year’s Resolution * Donovan * Open Road * Epic Records (1970)

A Television Binge

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A Television Binge (#232) (841)

I’m driving the Big Time Television bus through the Mid-Valley, and I’m broadcasting two hours of punk and post-punk tunes, all about that box we just can’t stare at enough.

Enjoy!

 

 

Live Playlist & Comments

 

Artist

Track

Album

Bach

Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major [Excerpt]

Baroque Selections

Brain In A Box

Changing Channels… [Excerpt]

Brain In A Box: The Science Fiction Collection

Harry Nilsson

Jump Into The Fire [Excerpt]

Nilsson Schmilsson

The Eleven-SixtyFours

Big Time Television

Smothered, Covered, Chunked & Capped EP

Max Headroom

“It’s A Non-Volatile Storage Medium”

Max Headroom: “Body Banks”

Radiators from Space

Television Screen

Once Upon A Time Vol. 03: U.K. March 1976 – April 1977

Music behind DJ:

The Eleven-SixtyFours

Big Time Television [Extended]

Unique For This Show

Big Boys

TV

Homework #9

The Tenants

T.V. Pharmaceuticals

Homework #2

Ripchords

Television Television

Messthetics Vol. 1

Max Headroom

“What Do I Owe You?”

Max Headroom: “Body Banks”

Vacants

Television Viewer

Messthetics #102: DIY ’78-’81 London II

Killer Bees

TV Violence

Killed By Death #19

The Rickets

Television

The Rickets

Max Headroom

“All Day And Every Day”

Max Headroom: “Body Banks”

Music behind DJ:

The Eleven-SixtyFours

Big Time Television [Extended]

Unique For This Show

Repo Man

Otto’s “TV Party”

Repo Man

Trans Am

Television Eyes

Future World

Ex Models

It’s On Television

Other Mathematics

Max Headroom

“Remember When We Said There Was No Future?”

Max Headroom: “Body Banks”

The Pink Snowflakes

It’s Snowing On TV Again (Live)

Live on KPSU’s Live Friday 3 June 2005

Minutemen

There Ain’t Shit On T.V.

Double Nickels on the Dime

Max Headroom

“You Smoke Too Much”

Max Headroom: “Body Banks”

Music behind DJ:

The Eleven-SixtyFours

Big Time Television [Extended]

Unique For This Show

The Juanita Family & Friends

Let’s Get Drunk And Watch TV

Live on KPSU’s Live Friday 3 June 2005

Ned’s Atomic Dustbin

Kill Your Television

God Fodder

Max Headroom

“Fang”

Max Headroom: “Body Banks”

Silicon Teens

T.V. Playtime

Music for Parties

Max Headroom

“Talk About The Buyback”

Max Headroom: “Body Banks”

Bow Wow Wow

(I’m A) TV Savage

The Best Of Bow Wow Wow

Neutered Prunes

My TV

Rock ‘n’ Roll & Sauerkraut

Max Headroom

“You Volunteered, I Was Drafted”

Max Headroom: “Security Systems”

Music behind DJ:

The Eleven-SixtyFours

Big Time Television [Extended]

Unique For This Show

The Rickets

TV Set

The Rickets

Kamikatze

I Love Television

Kamikatze / Disco Volante Split CD

Sista Sivilsationnens Dod

TV CONTROL

Chaos Of Destruction Vol.2

Max Headroom

“I Need An Icebreaker”

Max Headroom: “Security Systems”

Oswald Five-0

Blue T.V.

Nothing To Prove

Max Headroom

“What Sort of Outputs Do You Have Here?”

Max Headroom: “Security Systems”

The Misfits

TV Casualty

Legacy of Brutality

[??]

[I Wish I Could Live On TV] (Live)?

[??]

Max Headroom

“We Have Guests”

Max Headroom: “Security Systems”

Music behind DJ:

The Eleven-SixtyFours

Big Time Television [Extended]

Unique For This Show

Ticks

TV’s On

Killed By 7″ Vol. 1 – 5

The Rickets

I Watch TV

The Rickets

Max Headroom

“You Liked It Before, So We’ll Play It Again”

Max Headroom: “Security Systems”

Bomb The Music Industry!

Blow Your Brains Out On Live TV!!!

Album Minus Band

Hunger Artists

Why Is He On The Television?

Cruisin’ In Zargon

Gaznevada

Blue TV Set

Killed By 7″ Vol. 1 – 5

Max Headroom

“Do You Think Anyone’s Noticed We’re Off The Air?”

Max Headroom: “Security Systems”

Sods

Television Sect

Killed by Death #3: Raw Rare Punk Rock 77-82

Eat

Doctor TV

Killed by Death #3: Raw Rare Punk Rock 77-82

The Action

TV’s On The Blink

Killed By Death Vol. 26: 77-82 Canadian Punk

Max Headroom

“Linking w/ Network 23”

Max Headroom: “Security Systems”

Music behind DJ:

The Eleven-SixtyFours

Big Time Television [Extended]

Unique For This Show

Snot Puppies

TV Tantrum

Killed By Death #13 (V/A)

The Kursaal Flyers

Television Generation (10/77)

Once Upon A Time Vol. 07: U.K. October to November ’77

Max Headroom

“What Are You Doing Here?”

Max Headroom: “Security Systems”

Victims

TV Freak

Killed by Death #4: Raw Rare Punk Rock 77-82

The Victims

Television Addict

Do The Pop! The Australian Garage-Rock Sound 1976-’87

Max Headroom

“Are You Trying To Teach Your Stomach To Read?”

Max Headroom: “The Blanks”

The Cortinas

Television Families (06/77)

Once Upon A Time Vol. 04: U.K. April to July ’77

Max Headroom

“That Man’s A Genius”

Max Headroom: “Security Systems”

The Eleven-SixtyFours

Big Time Television [Extended]

Unique For This Show

The Short Pockets

The Haven’t Scene

II

Max Headroom

“That Moment Of Silence”

Max Headroom: “Security Systems”

The Epoxies

Everything Looks Beautiful On Video

Stop The Future

Max Headroom

Big Time Television Theme

Max Headroom: “The Blanks”

 

Issue #55: Happy New Year!

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Issue #55: Happy New Year!

Written, Performed & Assembled by Austin Rich, with help from Lance Geiger, The History Guy.

Issue #55, produced in December of 2021, contained “January 1 and the forgotten history of the New Year,” and, “Dick Clark’s Rockin’ Impact On New Year’s.”

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

New Year’s Eve * The Short Pockets * II * Self-Released (2021)
Auld Lang Syne * Me First & The Gimmie Gimmies * Ruin Jonny’s Bar Mitzvah (2004)

The Cave of Night

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The Cave of Night (#231) (840)

Are we feeling isolated, stuck in places we’d rather not be… or, at least, we want everyone to believe that? Both a metaphor and something very real, we’ve all entered the Cave of Night, and the music around us is starting to reflect our state of mind.

It’s a New Year’s Eve story (sort of), about having to spend this time alone, wanting to get away, and reflecting on strange occurrences around us. We close with a Cookie Recipe and some Richard Brautigan, of course.

Enjoy!

 

 

Live Playlist & Comments

Artist

Track

Album

Dimuzio / Wobbly

Mirrored Cell For Chameleon [Excerpt]

Mirrored Cell For Chameleon

X-Minus One

The Cave of Night [Excerpt]

1 February 1956 Broadcast

The Eyes

The The Night Falls

Arrival Of The Eyes

Mini-Mutations

VO Music

28 December 2021

X-Minus One

The Cave of Night [Excerpt]

1 February 1956 Broadcast

The Gories

Stranded

I Know You Fine, But How You Doin?

X-Minus One

The Cave of Night [Excerpt]

1 February 1956 Broadcast

Last of the Juanitas

Voices In My Spacesuit

Hawaii

X-Minus One

The Cave of Night [Excerpt]

1 February 1956 Broadcast

Eleventh Dream Day

I Could Be Lost

Lived To Tell

Mini-Mutations

VO Music

28 December 2021

X-Minus One

The Cave of Night [Excerpt]

1 February 1956 Broadcast

The 13th Floor Elevators

Kingdom of Heaven

The Psychedelic Sounds Of The 13th Floor Elevators

X-Minus One

The Cave of Night [Excerpt]

1 February 1956 Broadcast

The Wipers

Rocket

The Power in One

X-Minus One

The Cave of Night [Excerpt]

1 February 1956 Broadcast

Bishop of Battle

Id Ego

Prequel Plus

Mini-Mutations

VO Music

28 December 2021

X-Minus One

The Cave of Night [Excerpt]

1 February 1956 Broadcast

Black Sabbath

Solitude

Master of Reality

X-Minus One

The Cave of Night [Excerpt]

1 February 1956 Broadcast

Sun Ra and his Myth Science Arkestra

Space Loneliness

Interstellar Low Ways

X-Minus One

The Cave of Night [Excerpt]

1 February 1956 Broadcast

Debris

Leisurely Waiting

Static Disposal

Mini-Mutations

VO Music

28 December 2021

X-Minus One

The Cave of Night [Excerpt]

1 February 1956 Broadcast

Dead Moon

Rescue

Destination X

X-Minus One

The Cave of Night [Excerpt]

1 February 1956 Broadcast

Kevin Shields

Goodbye

Lost in Translation: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack

X-Minus One

The Cave of Night [Excerpt]

1 February 1956 Broadcast

Shot Reverse Shot

Time Tunnel

Dimension X… Minus One!

Mini-Mutations

VO Music

28 December 2021

X-Minus One

The Cave of Night [Excerpt]

1 February 1956 Broadcast

Jandek

Away

Staring at the Cellophane

X-Minus One

The Cave of Night [Excerpt]

1 February 1956 Broadcast

Low

I Started A Joke

Jabberjaw: Pure Sweet Hell

X-Minus One

The Cave of Night [Excerpt]

1 February 1956 Broadcast

Fats Waller

After You’ve Gone

Performance

Mini-Mutations

VO Music

28 December 2021

Stella Star

Sugar Cookies White As Snow

Does It Make A Sound? (acronymic.blogpress.tree Zine Soundtrack)

Mini-Mutations

VO Music

28 December 2021

Mini-Mutations

“What Are You Going To Do With 390 Photographs of Christmas Trees?” by Richard Brautigan

Season Greetings

The Short Pockets

New Year’s Eve

II

 

 

Somewhere In-Between: A Radio Zine: Issue #54: The Kit-Bag by Algernon Blackwood

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Issue #54: The Kit-Bag by Algernon Blackwood

Performed & Assembled by Austin Rich. Merry Christmas!

Issue #54, produced in December of 2021.

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Silent Night * Elizabeth Spencer & Anthony Harrison (1912)

Issue #54: The Kit-Bag by Algernon Blackwood

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Issue #54: The Kit-Bag by Algernon Blackwood

Performed & Assembled by Austin Rich. Merry Christmas!

Issue #54, produced in December of 2021.

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Silent Night * Elizabeth Spencer & Anthony Harrison (1912)

The 2021 Holiday Special!

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The 2021 Holiday Special! (#230) (839)

Sit back with something in your Egg Nog, and enjoy this collection of holiday tunes, selected by Josh of Major Hex and Xeres of Xeron!

Enjoy!

 

Live Playlist & Comments

Artist

Track

Album

Mini-Mutations

Holiday Intro Stuff

21 December 2021

The Jingle Cats

Ode to Joy

Meowy Christmas

Odyssey Productions

Christmas Disco VO

The Descendents

Christmas Vacation

I Don’t Wanna Grow Up

Ramones

Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want To Fight Tonight)

Brain Drain

Steel Leg v The Electric Dread

Steel Leg

Steel Leg V The Electric Dread

The Sonics

Don’t Believe in Christmas

Merry Christmas

Pearl Bailey

Five Pound box of Money

“Jingle Bells Cha Cha Cha” b/w “Five Pound Box of Money”

Electric Jungle

Funky Funky Christmas

“Funky Funky Christmas” b/w “Soul Santa”

Odyssey Productions

Christmas Disco VO

Rotary Connection

Peace At Least

Peace

Chuck Berry

Run Rudolph Run

“Run Rudolph Run” b/w “Merry Christmas Baby”

The Go-Go’s (Brittish)

I’m Gonna Spend My Christmas With a Dalek

“I’m Gonna Spend My Christmas With a Dalek” b/w “Big Boss Man”

Spinal Tap

Christmas With The Devil

Spinal Tap

MX-80

Christmas With The Devil

We’re An American Band

Odyssey Productions

Christmas Disco VO

Devo

Merry Something To You

Gift Wrapped Vol. 2

Thore Skogman

Klappa på

Klappa på

Krunoslav Kićo Slabinac

Zvoncici (Jingle Bells)

Božić U Hrvata

Tiny Tim

White Christmas

Tiny Tim’s Christmas Album

Lenny Dee

Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town

Happy Holi-Dee

The Surfers

Here Comes Santa Claus In A Red Canoe

Christmas From Hawaii

Odyssey Productions

Christmas Disco VO

Spike Jones & His City Slickers

Nutcracker Suite

Spike Jones Is Murdering the Classics!

Odyssey Productions

Christmas Disco VO

Sy Mann

My Favorite Things

Switched on Santa

The Moog Machine

Carol of the Bells

Christmas Becomes Electric

The Moog Cookbook

Winter Wonderland

Bartell

The Floppotron

Last Christmas

(The Internet?)

The Jingle Cats

The Christmas Song

Meowy Christmas

Max Headroom

Merry Christmas Santa Claus (You’re A Lovely Guy)

“Merry Christmas Santa Claus (You’re A Lovely Guy)” b/w “Gimme Shades”

Odyssey Productions

Christmas Disco VO

the Cranial Fishers

Have Yourself A Noisy Little Christmas

thecranialfishers.com

CAN

Silent Night

“Silent Night” b/w “Cascade Waltz”

Robert Fripp

Silent Night

Silent Night

Odyssey Productions

Christmas Disco VO

Ray I/Jacob Miller

Deck The Halls

Natty Christmas

Fate vs. Free Will Turn Signals

Santa Claus Is Fat

Gug

 

 

 

Issue #53: The Adventures of Marcus Little Part 6 of 6

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Issue #53: The Adventures of Marcus Little Part 6 of 6

Written, Performed & Assembled by Austin Rich, which includes “The Adventures of Marcus Little,” as it was originally podcast in 2020.

Issue #53, produced in October of 2021, containing this mystery, “The Adventures of Marcus Little Part 6.”

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Who Framed Roger Rabbit? * Alan Silvestri * Who Framed Roger Rabbit? * Walt Disney Records (1988)

Four Dimensional Nightmare & Brad Anderson, LIVE!

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Four Dimensional Nightmare & Brad Anderson, LIVE! (#229)

It’s a live, double-feature, with music by Four Dimensional Nightmare and Brad Anderson, live on the show, in the Lava Lamp Lounge! We also have an interview with both gents, and a performance where they are collaborating. It’s a ton of excellent radio, all for you!

Below you’ll find links for video, in the event you’d like to watch those while you listen

Enjoy!

 

Live Playlist & Comments

 

Artist

Track

Album

Label

Mini-Mutations

Introduction

14 December 2021

On The Air

Earth Brained

Ritual

Satanic Panic

Self-Released

Dylan Houser

fuzz fountain

drone salon

Self-Released

Sagan

Self-Described

Anti-Ark

Seeland Records

Peter Nothnagle

New Snow

Switched-On Eugene

Numero Group

Mini-Mutations

VO Music

14 December 2021

On The Air

Four Dimensional Nightmare

Live!

In The Lava Lamp Lounge 4 December 2021

On The Air

Mini-Mutations

VO Music

14 December 2021

On The Air

Brad Anderson

Live!

In The Lava Lamp Lounge 4 December 2021

On The Air

Mini-Mutations

VO Music

14 December 2021

On The Air

Interview w/ Four Dimensional Nightmare & Brad Anderson

Live!

In The Lava Lamp Lounge 4 December 2021

On The Air

Mini-Mutations

VO Music

14 December 2021

On The Air

Time Dilations (Four Dimensional Nightmare & Brad Anderson)

Live!

In The Lava Lamp Lounge 4 December 2021

On The Air

Mini-Mutations

VO Music

14 December 2021

On The Air

 

 

 

 

Issue #52: The Adventures of Marcus Little Part 5 of 6

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Issue #52: The Adventures of Marcus Little Part 5 of 6

Written, Performed & Assembled by Austin Rich, which includes “The Adventures of Marcus Little,” as it was originally podcast in 2020.

Issue #52, produced in November of 2021, containing this mystery, “The Adventures of Marcus Little Part 5.”

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Who Framed Roger Rabbit? * Alan Silvestri * Who Framed Roger Rabbit? * Walt Disney Records (1988)

The War Years w/ MKUltramegaphone (Retrocast)

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The War Years w/ MKUltramegaphone (Retrocast) (#228)

This week, we review two shows from 2017, where the then-house band – MKUltramegaphone – presented two long-form cut-ups and live jams, all centering around how, exactly, we got into WWII. This was our “Pearl Harbor Day” broadcast, and only at the end did I remember: we didn’t get to Pearl Harbor Day in our original broadcasts! Oh well.

Here’s the original shows:

The War Years Part I (w/ MKUltramegaphone)

The War Years Part II (w/ MKUltramegaphone & Uneasy Chairs)

Enjoy!

 

Live Playlist & Comments

Artist

Track

Album

Paco Jones

Mid-Valley Mutations Theme

Self-Released

Mini-Mutations

VO Music

Today’s Show

MKUltramegaphone

The War Years Part I: You Will Remember

11 August 2017 (Live on KMUZ)

Mini-Mutations

VO Music

Today’s Show

MKUltramegaphone

The War Years Part II: I Think That Story Might Interest You

11 August 2017 (Live on KMUZ)

Mini-Mutations

VO Music

Today’s Show

MKUltramegaphone

The War Years Part III: They Clearly Wanted A Victory

11 August 2017 (Live on KMUZ)

Mini-Mutations

VO Music

Today’s Show

MKUltramegaphone

The War Years Part IV: The Rising Tide of Military Strength

8 September 2017 (Live on KMUZ)

Mini-Mutations

VO Music

Today’s Show

MKUltramegaphone

The War Years Part V: Yesterday’s Football Game

8 September 2017 (Live on KMUZ)

Mini-Mutations

VO Music

Today’s Show

MKUltramegaphone

The War Years Part VI: We Shall Never Surrender!

8 September 2017 (Live on KMUZ)

Mini-Mutations

VO Music

Today’s Show

MKUltramegaphone

The War Years Part VII: That Hard, Stoney Sound

8 September 2017 (Live on KMUZ)

Issue #51: The Adventures of Marcus Little Part 4 of 6

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Issue #51: The Adventures of Marcus Little Part 4 of 6

Written, Performed & Assembled by Austin Rich, which includes “The Adventures of Marcus Little,” as it was originally podcast in 2020.

Issue #50, produced in October of 2021, containing this mystery, “The Adventures of Marcus Little Part 4.”

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Who Framed Roger Rabbit? * Alan Silvestri * Who Framed Roger Rabbit? * Walt Disney Records (1988)

A Visit To Ramen City, USA!

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A Visit To Ramen City, USA! (#227)

This week I make a visit to Ramen City, USA, to visit my oldest and dearest friend, The Ramen City Kid! He’s been appearing on my program since the late 90’s, and he always brings a bag full of amazing records and CDs. Join us as we take a trip through the Ramen City Record Collection, here or Mid-Valley Mutations!

Enjoy!

 

Live Playlist & Comments

Artist

Track

Album

Mini-Mutations

Intro Bits

People Like Us

Country Drives

Beware The Whim Reaper

Sein Sah Thin

Really Strange And Weird Things

Princess Nicotine: Folk And Pop Music Of Myanmar (Burma) Vol. 1

Mini-Mutations

VO

Conformity Contortion

Anarchy + Molecules

Impulsive Machinations

Peter Zinovieff

Tarantella

Electronic Calendar – The EMS Tapes

Bell Labs

Fantasia

Music From Mathematics (played by IBM 7090 Computer and Digital to Sound Transducer in 1962)

A. Rodionov

Barokko

Pulse #1

Mini-Mutations

VO

Padot na Vizantija

Istata sostojba

Početok i kraj

Rex Illusivi

Plavobradi

Selected Works

Lola V. Stain

Makova Polja I

Ikona

Marno Union

Trumpety

Studio Marno

Manželé

Obraz vojny a moru

Manželé I

Dzeltenie Pastnieki

Rudens pastaiga

Depresīvā pilsēta

Mini-Mutations

VO

ML

My Xmas Tree and Me

Everyone Looks Like Somebody Else

Peter Zinovieff

Agnus Dei

Electronic Calendar – The EMS Tapes

Mbuti Pygmies of the Ituri Rainforest

Elephant Hunting Song

Nochnoi Prospekt

Nastolnye knigi

Kisloty

Televizor

S vami govorit televizor

Šestvie ryb

B. Tikhomirov

Elektronnyi budilnik

Pulse #1

Mini-Mutations

VO

Jonathon B. Savoie

Snow!

Winter’s Songs Sung

Jonathon B. Savoie

Holiday Craft Book

Winter’s Songs Sung

Janelle Monae

Many Moons

Chase Suite EP

The Jam

Start!

Sound Effects

Steve Fisk

Taxman

Over And Thru The Night: A 10-Year Retrospective 1980-1987

Steve Fisk

L’estancia

999 Levels of Undo

Autechre

esli 0

Plus

Peter Zinovieff

Raasay Digitised

Electronic Calendar – The EMS Tapes

Mini-Mutations

VO

Sun Ra

Exotic Two [Excerpt]

We Travel The Spaceways / Bad & Beautiful

The Breeders

Drivin’ On 9

Last Splash

Mini-Mutations

VO

The Short Pockets

Only Dads

II

Mini-Mutations

VO

The Short Pockets

The IKEA Fights

2:12

Mini-Mutations

VO

The Short Pockets

The IKEA Fights

2:12

Issue #50: The Adventures of Marcus Little Part 3 of 6

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Issue #50: The Adventures of Marcus Little Part 3 of 6

Written, Performed & Assembled by Austin Rich, which includes “The Adventures of Marcus Little,” as it was originally podcast in 2020.

Issue #50, produced in October of 2021, containing this mystery, “The Adventures of Marcus Little Part 3.”

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Who Framed Roger Rabbit? * Alan Silvestri * Who Framed Roger Rabbit? * Walt Disney Records (1988)

Let’s Have A Party Tonight!

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Let’s Have A Party Tonight! (#226)

With the holidays upon us, it seems like there’s too many family and social obligations already upon us. So, before we have to do the family thing, and drive for too long to visit family that we might not be excited about, let’s instead have a party, to celebrate with friends before we have to do the holiday thing.

Wanda Jackson punctuates this celebration. Let’s party!

Enjoy!

 

Live Playlist & Comments

Artist Track Album Label Year Format
Wanda Jackson Let’s Have A Party Tonight  Options Queen of Rockabilly
8 Bit Louie Louie
Martin Denny Hypnotique  Options The Exotic Sounds of Martin Denny
Les Baxter Voodoo Dreams  Options
Arthur Lyman Hawaiian War Chant  Options
Andrews Sisters Civilization  Options
Harry McClintock Big Rock Candy Mountain  Options
8 Bit Louie Louie
45 Grave Party Time  Options
Gyromatics Party Zombie  Options
The Donnas Party Action  Options Get Skintight
Coachwhips Your Party Will Be A Success  Options Peanut Butter and Jelly Live At The Ming Lounge
The Ether Creeps House Party In Hell (A Beginner’s Guide To Ethereal Creeping, Volume Two)  Options
Bill Doggett Monster Party  Options
Bob McFadden & Dor Frankie And Igor At A Rock ‘n’ Roll Party  Options
Tony’s Monstrosities Igor’s Party  Options
The Swingin’ Phillies Frankenstein’s Party  Options
Tabby Thomas Hoodoo Party  Options
Wanda Jackson There’s A Party Going On  Options
8 Bit Louie Louie
George Washington & The Cherrybombs Crisco Party  Options
The Dead Milkmen Beach Party Vietnam  Options Eat Your Paisley!
Happy Mondays 24 Hour Party People (Jon Carter’s Main Vocal)  Options
Black Flag TV Party  Options Repo Man (Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
The Eleven-SixtyFours An Open Grave  Options Sack The Sacklers EP
Minutemen Maybe Partying Will Help  Options Double Nickels On The Dime
The Riverdales I Don’t Wanna Go To The Party Tonight  Options
8 Bit Louie Louie
JUICE MACHINE [Excerpt]  Options Charnel Ground Self-Released 2021 Cassette
univac [Excerpt]  Options univac Self-Released Cassette
Mini-Mutations Party Hard (14 October 2018)  Options Live on KMUZ
Wanda Jackson Man We Had A Party  Options Queen of Rockabilly
Wobbly Limited Party 1 & 2  Options Limited Party

Issue #49: The Adventures of Marcus Little Part 2 of 6

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Issue #49: The Adventures of Marcus Little Part 2 of 6

Written, Performed & Assembled by Austin Rich, which includes “The Adventures of Marcus Little,” as it was originally podcast in 2020.

Issue #49, produced in October of 2021, containing this mystery, “The Adventures of Marcus Little Part 2.”

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Who Framed Roger Rabbit? * Alan Silvestri * Who Framed Roger Rabbit? * Walt Disney Records (1988)

Blast Off!: A Journey Through The Mid-Valley

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Blast Off!: A Journey Through The Mid-Valley (#225)

Our debut via “Sheena’s Jungle Room on WFMU.” For this program, we offer an overview of what our show is like for new listeners! This includes: technical difficulties! A visit to hang out with The Grumpy Punk. I engage my vintage tour guides to help us trek through the wilds of The Mid-Valley.

And then: some live Mini-Mutations along the way.

Listen as I stumble through a new incarnations of Mid-Valley Mutations!

Enjoy!

 

Live Playlist & Comments

Artist

Track

Album

Label

Year

Format

Jimmie Haskell And His Orchestra

Blast Off!

Lux and Ivy’s Favorites Volume 12 – The Lux Interior Memorial Edition – Journey into Outer Space

MP3

Mini-Mutations

VO Music

Live

Negativland

We Can Really Feel Like We’re Here

The World Will Decide

Seeland Records

2020

Instagon

Another Trip Around The Sun

Planets Boxed Set: Neptune

Thee Instagon Foundation

2019

CD box set

Birdsongs of the Mesozoic

Waterwheel

Sonic Geology

Rykodisc

1988

CD

Clodewerks

Four

Numberwerks

Self-Released

2021

CD-R

Mini-Mutations

VO Music

Live

The Wipers

Land of The Lost

Land of the Lost

Restless Records

1986

Dabney Coleman Knifefight

operetta

demo

moi apollo records

2003

CD-R

They Might Be Giants

I Can’t Remember The Dream

Book

Idlewild Recordings

2021

The Jesus and Mary Chain

Coast to Coast

Automatic

Warner Bros.

1989

CD

Európa Kiadó

Nincs Sok Idõd

Love ’82

Bahia Music

1982

CD

Santiago Latorre

Despedida

Órbita

Accretions

2008

CD

Mini-Mutations

VO Music

Live

Ewa Braun

Kamyki

Sea Sea

Antena Krzyku

1998

CD

Appendixes

Four Leaf Clover

Neon Green Fear

2013

Sailboats

Bend Sinister

Dylan Houser

Perfume Wagon

February 2021 Music Exchange

Self-Released

2021

CD

Mini-Mutations

VO Music

Live

targodie (Scot Jenerik / Larnie Fox)

Sort of Shivering

Against The Sky

Mobilization

1999

CD

Eric Hausmann

Benzaiten Effect

Invisible Films

Spilling Audio

2012

CD

Richard Pinhas

Legend

Metal / Crystal

Cuneiform Records

2010

CD

Don Haugen

Wire 2

Wire

Self-Released

2020

CD-R

Brad Anderson

Vast

Darwinian Playground

Brad Anderson

2020

CD

Mini-Mutations

VO Music

Live

Bren’t Lewiis Ensemble

Tiny Cheesemen Of Shütfa Nuunisch

Unable to Suppress the Twitching

Butte County Free Music Society

CD

Issue #48: The Adventures of Marcus Little Part 1 of 6

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Issue #48: The Adventures of Marcus Little Part 1 of 6

Written, Performed & Assembled by Austin Rich, which includes “The Adventures of Marcus Little,” as it was originally podcast in 2020.

Issue #48, produced in October of 2021, containing this mystery, “The Adventures of Marcus Little Part 1.”

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Who Framed Roger Rabbit? * Alan Silvestri * Who Framed Roger Rabbit? * Walt Disney Records (1988)

Reflection

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Reflection

The release of People Like Us‘ new album The Mirror got me thinking about reflections, and what the do and do not say about us and our state of mind. As I begin to prepare for an incredible voyage to make new friends and travel far, I am compelled to take a similar trip through music and sound, hoping to stumble upon something that works.

In hour one, I continue to mine the joy that comes from new music that I have come across recently. This is a great mix, with a lot of cool stuff that I do not announce during the show, so please, read the notes below.

Then, in hour two, Mini-Mutations sort of busts open the idea of reflection with an hour-long jam on the subject itself. Samples (manipulated with a MicroGranny & a pair of Numark CDJs), bass, and a delay pedal.

And you were there!

Enjoy!

Reflection

The Unbearable Reflections by CBS Radio Mystery Theater (15 August 1975) and The Man In The Mirror by The Macabre (27 November 1961).

HOUR 1

Part I: 

01.) Austin FM Theme * Paco Jones * Austin FM Theme * Self-Released (2016)
02.) Flake * Inspector 22 * Friendship Cemetery Revisited (1997 – 2003) * Therapy Tapes (2014)
03.) Most Big * Chefkirk * Big Disc * Self-Released

Part II: 

04.) We Bask In The Radiance of Dear Leader’s Omnipotent Excellence * Bren’t Lewiis Ensemble * Taxidermy Frogs Copulating * Butte County Free Music Society (2018)
05.) Ego Death * The Viper * Art For Pain’s Sake * Self-Released (2016)
06.) Polydactyly * The Conduits * Descending Order * Chair Chair Tapes (2016)
07.) Not Who I Was * Lawrence Crane * Craniostomy 1981 – 1987 Vol One * Butte County Free Music Society (2016)

Part III: 

08.) False Memories * Jen Sandwich * Electronic Cottage 004 * ElectronicCottage.org (2018)
09.) I Don’t Believe In Color * Idler Arms * Kubelik Unbugged * Self-Released (2012)
10.) [track 3] * Hal McGee * Halzine #11 * Self-Released (2018)
11.) Do You See What I Hear * People Like Us * The Mirror * Self-Released (2018)

HOUR 2

Part IV: 

18.) Reflection [Live Performance] * Mini-Mutations

Issue #47: The Gunpowder Plot

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Issue #47: The Gunpowder Plot

Written, Performed & Assembled by Austin Rich.

Issue #47, produced in October of 2021, containing the piece of propaganda, “The Gunpowder Plot”

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party) * Beastie Boys * License To Ill * Def Jam Records (1986)

Vanished!

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Vanished!

Sometimes, radio can seem different when you’ve vanished. Hopefully, this is a good way of meeting everyone much more directly – with live mixing and a performance – to cause the notion that I’ve vanished to disappear.

Hour one is all jams I’ve been into lately. Hour two is a mix of samples (manipulated with a MicroGranny & a pair of Numark CDJs), bass, a delay pedal.

Vanished!

This program features samples throughout from The Case of the Vanished Detective (1955) and “The Man Who Vanished” by The Mysterious Traveler (06 July 1948)

HOUR 1

Part I: 

01.) Austin FM Theme * Paco Jones * Austin FM Theme * Self-Released (2016)
02.) Disappearer * Sonic Youth * Goo
03.) Merlin’s Gesture * Phillip Klampe * Electronic Cottage 004
04.) Anywhere Driving * Eric Hausmann * Invisible films
05.) It’s not the light, it’s the silence * Don Haugen

Part II: 

06.) [track 4] * Jocko Homomorphism * A Notational Distinction + SoundCloud Goodies
07.) Vanishing Cliffs of Tilden, Nebraska * Bren’t Lewiis Ensemble * The Armless Marvel
08.) Endless Highways * Leonard, Skrowaczewski, Zappa * Visions
09.) Obituary of The Unknown * Thollem / Clauser / Chase * Dub Narcotic Session Vol II

Part III: 

10.) Feb 2018 * Juice Machine * Some Things
11.) Panoptikon * Nathan Derr * Music From The Film Acide Noire

HOUR 2

Part IV: 

18.) VANISHED! [Live Performance] * Mini-Mutations

“Nov. 1” by Crackerbash

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“Nov 1” b/w “Halloween Candy”

“Nov. 1” by Crackerbash

I listen to this song every November 1st.  It’s by Crackerbash, a little known Portland band that I only got to see twice.

 

But they were really, really great.

There’s some stuff available if you want to start digging.  I recommend this live set from a performance in Corvallis in 1992.

 

Sean Crogan is currently the front man in The Pynnacles.  They a really, really great, too.

Enjoy.

(Aired 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, & 2020.)

HORROR DOUBLE FEATURE!

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HORROR DOUBLE FEATURE!

A Night On Horror Island

Somehow I have would up in Florida, but my good friend Bill Martin happens to own a boat there. Maybe he can help me get home, somehow, on his way to Horror Island?

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imagesThe Creeping Terror!
(We take WTBC Radio to new depths of bad horror movies with this 1964 piece of schlock-o-rama.  Originally 15 October 2015, and as “#20.1” in 2016.)

 

Here’s everything you need to know about this movie from 1964: there is no documented evidence that the film was ever shown to anyone – anywhere – until it first appeared on Television some time in 1976.  Even then, 12 years later, the film was mocked and panned relentlessly, as anyone who came into contact with the film could only speak of its shortcomings.  Something that bad begins to attract a certain kind of reputation with a certain kind of movie fan, and in spite of the terrible reviews, the inexcusable acting, the cheapness of the monster(s), and the spareness and near-incoherence of the plot (even without the long musical interludes where nothing happens, the film clocks in at 75 minutes), it would not die!  Rather, The Creeping Terror – miraculously! – accrued a reputation that could not be forgotten, canonized as being so bad it must be seen to be believed.  As tapes of The Creeping Terror circulated to TV stations running Shock Theater! type fare, this piece of cinematic trash not only found an audience among those dedicated to the rejects of film culture, but eventually found its way to the hallowed halls of Mystery Science Theater 3000, not only keeping it forever in the public’s mind, but forever preserving it for future generations to look at and puzzle through.

Just what did they have in mind when they made this thing?

creepingterrorYou can thank the twisted mind of Vic Savage for that.  “Director” does fully cover Vic’s role in this film, who also starred in, produced, edited, paid for, scammed other’s to participate in, and – essentially – made the movie what it is, in every sense of the word, at the age of 28.  As the story goes, Vic paid Allan Silliphant to be the writer for the film, but it was clear once production began that Vic was in over his head, and had a “unique” vision for the film that was not what Allan was prepared for.  Vic had a number of excuses time and again: the location “fell through” at the last minute, most likely something that was never secure in the first place.  An impressive monster had been made for the production, so Vic claimed, but “disappeared” before filming could take place, so Vic and a few others created the “carpet remnants” monster you see in the picture.  Supposedly the film was going to be a well-funded horror film, as Vic had sold it to everyone, but as the filming date got closer, more and more of the cast were made up of people who paid to be in the film, “funding” the production from within.  Vic’s sound crew “never showed up,” so the majority of the audio was to be recorded in post-production.  As the production went on, more and more people backed out, delaying time it was taking Vic to put the thing together.

The stories about this film don’t end there.  Vic had to use another name (for “Union Purposes,”) and “Directed” (among other things) under the name “A.J. Nelson,” which led to some confusion moments on set when a financial backer was trying to figure out who had just ripped him off.  (A mystique that Vic was hoping to maintain.)  Vic had secured a location for the film eventually – a pond that a friend of his by the name of Randy Starr – yes, THE Randy Starr that provided Charles Manson with the gun used in the Tate-LaBianca murders – had found, which stood in for Lake Tahoe in the film, and was near where the Manson Family lived at the time.  When all the footage was shot, Vic rented a motel room, “borrowed” a 30 year old movola to cut the film.  As the movola was from the silent era, the soundtrack was essentially destroyed by this move, something that Vic had not anticipated.  Some of it could be made out, but large chunks were gone now, and the edits were noticeable.  To help cover for this, Vic turned to his friend Frederick Kopp, a teacher at Los Angeles State College, who taught music composition and worked occasionally in television, though not in a “credited” capacity.  Kopp scored the entire film, his first and only composition where he was credited, and was even conned into dropping a few dollars to help the production, on the promise that his son, Pierre, could get a role in the picture.  Vic then asked Larry Burrell, then working as voice talent in radio, to narrate the film.  (Larry might be the most famous person associated with the film outside of Randy Starr, who worked on Batman, Columbo and the amazing TV movie, They Saved Hitler’s Brain.)  When Vic mixed these with what remained of the original audio bits that were worth saving, and added a few stock sound effects to pad out the sound of the monster and other bits here and there.  (Sound effects that also appeared in in Battle Beyond the Sun and Jack the Giant Killer, as well as Rosemary’s Baby, though it should be added, not intentionally.)

Creeping-Terror-Gold-Pants-Lady-1Vic “completed” (or, as some would say, “stopped adding to”) the film in 1964, but before he could try do anything with The Creeping Terror, everything began to fall apart.  True, Vic had a working “print” to try and sell, but actors began to demand compensation for the money they had put into the picture.  Allan Siilliphant, angry over the changes Vic made to the story, sued Vic successfully, over clear breach of contract.  Vic actually disappeared completely rather than face the financial consequences of the lawsuit, and Allan was awarded the rights to do with the film as he wished.  Allan washed his hands of it, giving it to his agent, and through a series of hand-offs that have yet to be tracked down, was eventually shelved by a TV exec who pawned the problem off on the future.  Vic spent the rest of his live in a drunken stupor, and died of liver failure in 1975.  He never attempted to return to film in the time since the disaster that was The Creeping Terror, and he died knowing that he was the only person who had seen it, and thus, know the vision he had for the film.

In this rare instance, time was a friend to Vic Savage.  Even when you fail at something so spectacularly, that failure can open up a whole world of possibility in the future.  Sure, the camp value of it is the only thing recommending The Creeping Terror to modern audiences, and even on MST3K, the film is hard to get through.  But I think that people see an artist trying to make their voice heard when they see a failure like this.  They see themselves, barely an adult at age 28, wanting to express themselves in film the way so many others have before.  Vic was willing to go out on a limb, and pay the price of that taken chance, to see his vision completed.  Sure, it was a dumb vision, but who hasn’t put all their eggs in a basket, if only to learn that lesson up close and personal?

To accompany the film, I’ve selected a sort of stream-of-consciousness set of tunes to complement this narrative mess.  The Creeping Terror barely makes any sense, so really, just absorb the ambience and the musical accompaniment, and try to imagine yourself watching late night TV in the mid-70’s, and then, suddenly, this comes on.

Enjoy!

The Creeping Terror!

Side A.

The Glowing Rocket / “Must Be An Accident Or Something.” / “Get In, Honey.” / At The Location Of The Crash / They Looked At The Rocket In Utter Amazement / “It’s No Airplane” / The Monster Attacks / “Car One, Calling In.” / A Temporary Military Headquarters / When, As, And If They Were Contacted / The First In A Series Of Tragedies / Maintaining Secrecy / If The Truth Were Known / “I’ve Heard A Lot About You.”  “Nothing Bad, I Hope?” / A Magnificent Opportunity For Mankind / In Advance Of Anything On Earth / Bachelor Buddies For Years / Dating All The Girls In Town / Married Life / Life Has It’s Way of Making Boys Grow Up / “Poor Baby.” / Come From Beyond Our Solar System 

01.) Crash! Crash! * The Agenda * Start The Panic
02.) Drug Fueled Accident * The Punks * The Punks
03.) Rocketship * The Dead Milkmen * Bucky Fellini
04.) Creeping Crawling * Guyve * Delaying The Inevitable
05.) Negative Creep * Nirvana * Bleach
06.) Truth * The Dead C * Vain, Erudite And Stupid
07.) Experiment In Terror * Fantômas * The Director’s Cut
08.) Creep In The Cellar * The Butthole Surfers * Rembrandt Pussyhorse
09.) 102 Creep [Excerpt I] * Eric Hausmann * Invisible Films

Side B.

The Trials Of Re-Entry & Impact / Failing To Establish Communication / A Frightening Theory / A Product Of Engineering / Humanity Might Be In Grave Danger / “You Stay There.  Stay Calm.” / The Remains Of A Guitar / There Must Be Another Monster / The Monster Was Moving Toward The Community Dance Hall / The Monster Next Appeared In Lover’s Lane / Enough Lives Were Being Endangered / Highly Specialized Test Animals / “Get Out Of My Way.” / The Transmitter Stopped / What Was In Store For Humanity / The Vastness of The Universe Was Incredible / Only God Knows For Sure

10.) 102 Creep [Excerpt II] * Eric Hausmann * Invisible Films
11.) Communication Breakdown * The Dickies * Stukas Over Disneyland
12.) The Creep (Twist) * Frankie Stein And His Ghouls * Monster Sounds And Dance Music
13.) The Creep * Bob Luman * Lux And Ivy’s Favorites Volume 15
14.) Exploration In Terror * The Ventures * The Ventures In Space
15.) A Fistful Of Terror * The Bomboras * Head Shrinkin’ Fun
16.) Terror * Les Baxter * RE/Search: Incredibly Strange Music Vol II
17.) Go To Hell * Railbirds * Killed By Dead Vol. 14
18.) Gotta Get Away * The Blues Magoos * Kaleidoscopic Compendium: The Best Of The Blues Magoos
19.) The Creeper * Quintron * “These Hands Of Mine”

Something Written This Way Comes

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Something Written This Way Comes

This week we continue our Ghost Story program with special guest, Obadiah Baird, who talks about editing The Audient Void, his favorite free horror movies, and then we read some poetry that is perfect for this time of year.

In hour two, Nathan Carson and Erin Jane Laroue provide an excellent rendition of an Ambrose Bierce short story, and so much more. This is a good one!

Enjoy!

 

 

 

To Haunt or To Haunt Not?

HOUR 1

01.) Introduction * Austin Rich * 11 October 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)

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HOUR 2

Part IV: 

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Victrola’s Tales! (or, “Cottage Street”)

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Victrola’s Tales! (or, “Cottage Street”)

While we haven’t done all that many of these Ghost Stories shows, very few people have wanted to come into the studio and tell their stories live either. But DJ Victrola is not like other DJs, hosting her very own program – The Guitar Shop – now in its 21st year, with no signs of slowing down. When she offered to come in and tell old Philly Ghost Stories, I knew we had to do this one live. And you, dear listener, get to reap the rewards.

While I don’t want to spoil too much about her stories, I will say that you should stay tuned, as she not only features appropriate tunes to complement her stories, but sets a mood that is perfect for strange happenings in a haunted house. And: Cyclopsycho composed a bespoke Ghost Tune for this broadcast, which we get into almost immediately during the show. (You should visit cyclopsychosite.com for more music, or check out the live performance on Ricardo Wang’s What’s This Called?)   Plus: we get to hear one of the all time best Lord Buckley recordings that is not only about ghosts, but spans two holidays in one.

Stay tuned to the very very end, and hear a very special treat: The Professor & Miss Rikki from Closet Radio call in. Miss Rikki, DJ Victrola and I all go back to KPSU, when we were on after each other for a spell in the days when Rikki & I hosted A Momentary Lapse of Reason. We had an excellent radio reunion on the air, and Rikki spills the beans about normal childhood happenings that absolutely count as ghost stories, even though she just shook them off.

This one has a personal touch that is well worth a listen, and we’re not even finished with the holiday season. (BTW: Shoutouts to Steve & Lisa, from Vicky.) This is a Friday The 13th that you must hear to believe.

Enjoy.

 

Victrola’s Tales!

HOUR 1

Part I: The Ghost of Lost Mind

01.) Austin FM Theme * Paco Jones * Austin FM Theme * Self-Released (2016)
02.) Halloween Ambience * Austin Rich / Old Records * Mid-Valley Mutations.
03.) The Ghost of Lost Mind * Cyclopsycho * The Ghost of Lost Mind * Mid-Valley Mutations (2017)

Part II: Cottage Street Parts 1 & 2.

History of The House, Disappearing Steak Sauce, The Misplaced Wallet

04.) Carol Ann’s Theme * Jerry Goldsmith * Poltergeist Original Motion Picture Soundtrack * MGM Records (1982)
05.) Wakey Wakey * Alejandro Amenábar * The Others (Music From The Dimension Motion Picture) * Sony Classical (2001)
06.) Ghost of A Texas Ladies Man * Concrete Blonde * Recollection: The Best of Concrete Blonde * I.R.S. Records (1996)
07.) Ghostwind * Steve Morse * High Tension Wires * MCA Records (1989)

Part III: Chatting With Victrola 

Part IV: Cottage Street Part 3

08.) I Do Believe It / Sheets and Chains * Alejandro Amenábar * The Others (Music From The Dimension Motion Picture) * Sony Classical (2001)
09.) Tam Lin * Fairport Convention * Liege & Lief * Island Records (1969)

Part V: Cottage Street Part 4

10.) Laugh * Danny Elfman * Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to ‘Beetlejuice’ * Geffen Records (1988)
11.) Old Times * Alejandro Amenábar * The Others (Music From The Dimension Motion Picture) * Sony Classical (2001)

HOUR 2

Part VI: Chatting With Victrola Again

Part VII: The Lady in the Hatboro House & The Bucks County Hitchhiker 

12.) They Are Everywhere * Alejandro Amenábar * The Others (Music From The Dimension Motion Picture) * Sony Classical (2001)
13.) “I Do Believe In Spooks” * The Cowardly Lion * The Wizard Of Oz * MGM Studios (1939)
14.) Scrooge * Lord Buckley * Blowing His Mind (And Yours) * World Pacific (1966)
15.) Big Joe & Phantom 309 * Tom Waits * Nighthawks At The Diner * Asylum Records (1975)

Part VIII: Victrola’s Moving Chair & Chatting With Victrola Even Yet Still

Part IX: The Professor & Miss Rikki Call-In

Issue #14: October Everywhere

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Issue #14: October Everywhere

Written by Austin Rich & Richard Brautigan. Performed by Austin Rich.

Issue #14, produced in October of 2020, featuring spooky current commentary like, “Wildfires,” “Rain,” and, ”1692 Cotton Mather Newsreel.”

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Eating Ash * Sadgasm

The Scream * Ralph Nielsen & The Chancellors

The Black Cat & Other Frightening Tales

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The Black Cat

The Black Cat & Other Frightening Tales
(Featuring a four hour Halloween presentation of Diamanda Galás reading Edgar Allen Poe’s The Black Cat!  Originally broadcast on 30 October 2010 on KPSU, and re-aired in 2015 and 2021.)

Playlist & Footnotes:

Join me for a special extended edition of Blasphuphmus Radio, just in time for the Holidays!  That’s right, tune in for a special re-telling of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Black Cat” (read by Diamanda Galás), mixed with Ed Wood samples, Vampires, Bob & Ray, Werewolfs, Lux & Ivy’s Favorite Hits, Ghosts, a Mad Monster Party, a handful of Zombies, a trip to the Graveyard, and four hours of Halloween madness. It’s everything you need to set your mood for the Halloween soiree in your future!

That’s a Halloween Spook-tacular, only on Blasphuphmus Radio.

 

The Black Cat & Other Frightening Tales

001.) Halloween Hootenanny * Zacherle
002.) KPSU Halloween
003.) A Night In A Haunted House
004.) Haunted House * Sam The Sham & The Pharoahs
005.) The Baron * Maury Laws * Mad Monster Party * Retrograde Records
006.) Dead Moon Night * Dead Moon
007.) The Black Cat 1
008.) A Night In A Haunted House
009.) Haunted House Blues * Bessie Smith
010.) Monster Surfing Time * Deadly Ones * Lux and Ivy’s Favorites Volume 05
011.) Now I Will Talk To The Wolfman And Mummy 1
012.) The Haunted House Sounds
013.) The Haunted House * Vic Crume
014.) Strolling Spooks * Ken Nordine
015.) The Haunted House Sounds
016.) The Black Cat 2
017.) Mad Monster Party * Maury Laws w/ Ethel Ennis * Mad Monster Party * Retrograde Records
018.) It’s Halloween! * The Shaggs * Philosophy Of The World * Third World Records
019.) Now I Will Talk To The Wolfman And Mummy 2
020.) Monster Mash * Bobby “Boris” Picket & The Crypt-Kickers
021.) The Headless Horseman * Bing Crosby
022.) A Night In A Haunted House
023.) The Black Cat
024.) Scream * Ralph Neilsen & The Chancellors * Back From The Grave Part 1
025.) The Boogie Monster * Gnarls Barkley * St. Elsewhere * Downtown Records
026.) The Haunted House Sounds
027.) Anxiety!: Poison Coffee * Bob & Ray * The Lost Episodes, Vol. 3
028.) A Night In A Haunted House
029.) The Black Cat 4
030.) Waltz For A Witch * Maury Laws * Mad Monster Party * Retrograde Records
031.) El Monstruo * Los Shains
032.) Jack The Ripper * The One Way Streets * Back From The Grave Part 1
033.) Now I Will Talk To The Wolfman And Mummy 3
034.) Ghost Hop * The Surfmen * Wild Surf!
035.) The Haunted House Sounds
036.) Mr. Ghost Goes To Town * The Five Jones Boys * Lux and Ivy’s Favorites Volume 04
037.) Ghost Wanted * The Carl Stalling Project * The Carl Stalling Project Volume 2
038.) Ghost Train * Electro-Tones * Lux and Ivy’s Favorites Volume 04
039.) A Night In A Haunted House
040.) The Black Cat 5
041.) The Spook * The Tomkos
042.) Sir Roderic’s Song * William Schwenck Gilbert
043.) Grim, Grinning Ghosts – The Haunted Mansion * Disneyland
044.) The Haunted House Sounds
045.) The Black Cat 6
046.) Dark Shadows Main Title Theme
047.) Now I Will Talk To The Wolfman And Mummy 4
048.) The Mummy’s Bracelet * Lee Ross * Lux and Ivy’s Favorites Volume 10
049.) The Mummy * Bob Mcfadden * Lux and Ivy’s Favorites Volume One
050.) The Way Out Mummy * Bob Ridgley * Lost Treasures
051.) The Mummy * Maury Laws * Mad Monster Party * Retrograde Records
052.) Anxiety!: Commander Nelville Putney * Bob & Ray * The Lost Episodes, Vol. 2
053.) A Night In A Haunted House
054.) The Black Cat 7
055.) The Wolf Wobble * Eddie Lang and Joe Venuti * 1920’s And 1930’s Sides Remastered * JSP Records
056.) Now I Will Talk To The Wolfman And Mummy 5
057.) Frankenstein Walk * Gene “Bowlegs” Miller
058.) Over At The Frankenstein Place * The Cast * The Rocky Horror Picture Show
059.) The Haunted House Sounds
060.) Werewolf Watusi * Don Hinson And The Rigamorticians
061.) The Haunted House Sounds
062.) The Black Cat 8
063.) Night Of The Vampire * The Moontrekkers * It’s Hard To Believe It: The Amazing World Of Joe Meek
064.) Raving Vampire Pt. I * Souls Unlimited
065.) Dinner With Dracula * Zacherle * Lux and Ivy’s Favorites Volume 02
066.) Dracula’s Daughter * Screamin’ Lord Sutch * I Hear A New World
067.) Now I Will Talk To The Wolfman And Mummy 6
068.) A Night In A Haunted House
069.) The Black Cat 9
070.) Do the Zombie * The Symbols * Lux and Ivy’s Favorites Volume 03
071.) Zombi * Los Sleepers * Mas Rock and Roll – 26 Rare 60’s Teen-Punk
072.) Zombie Lou * Johnson Bros.
073.) Zombie Jamboree * Kingston Trio
074.) Watusi Zombie * Jan Davis * Lux and Ivy’s Favorites Volume 11
075.) The Thing Strikes [Excerpt] * Henry Mancini
076.) The Haunted House Sounds
077.) The Twilight Zone Main Title Theme
078.) The Midnight Zone * Bob & Ray * The Lost Episodes, Vol. 2
079.) A Night In A Haunted House
080.) The Black Cat 10
081.) Mad Monster Party Instrumental * Maury Laws * Mad Monster Party * Retrograde Records
082.) Sinister Purpose * Zacherle with Southern Culture On The Skids
083.) Graveyard Shift * Bobby “Boris” Picket & The Crypt-Kickers
084.) Now I Will Talk To The Wolfman And Mummy 7
085.) Morgus The Magnificent
086.) Jungle Madness * Maury Laws * Mad Monster Party * Retrograde Records
087.) The Haunted House Sounds
088.) The Black Cat 11
089.) The Night Of The Phantom
090.) Graveyard * Dead Moon
091.) Rockin’ In The Graveyard * Jackie Morningstar * Lux and Ivy’s Favorites Volume 02
092.) Now I Will Talk To The Wolfman And Mummy 8
093.) Graveyard * Blenders
094.) Cementario * Los Saicos
095.) Cemetery Blues * Bessie Smith
096.) A Night In A Haunted House
097.) The Black Cat 12
098.) Till The Following Night * Screamin’ Lord Sutch
099.) Finale * Maury Laws * Mad Monster Party * Retrograde Records
100.) The Great Pumpkin Waltz * Vince Guaraldi
101.) Happy Halloween * Zacherle

Senior Citizens, Expanded Edition (KPSU Years)

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Senior Citizens, Expanded Edition (KPSU Years)

This combines two broadcasts from my KPSU years, both from 2006. In the first, I join another KPSU DJ, Tim, where we read many selections from Richard Brautigan’s “Revenge of The Lawn.” In the second show, I’m joined by kiisu d’salyss, who performs a tune as “Neutered Prunes,” then together we improvise two pieces under the name “The Black Noise Orchestra.” Further shenanigans ensue. The dates: 27 March and 26 July.

 

Hour 1: Revenge of The Lawn

Hour 2: w/ kiisu d’salyss

01.) La Cucaracha (Long Version) * Eastside Connection * La Cucaracha 12″
02.) By The Mark * Danava * Invaders

03.) Hank * Neutered Prunes * Performed Live
04.) (piece 1) * The Black Noise Orchestra * Performed Live
05.) (piece 2) * The Black Noise Orchestra * Performed Live

06.) Buffalo Gas Works * The Hataway Family Plot * MySpace

Issue #12: I Want To Travel On

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Issue #12: I Want To Travel On

Written & Performed by Austin Rich & Charles Bukowski, containing interviews with Brian Hart, Karen Holman & Jason Ramey.

Issue #11, produced in August of 2020, featuring a season-changing stories, which includes, “Summer’s End,” “New Interests,” and “Cold Summer.”  

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Summer’s End * Gordon Taylor * The Gordon Taylor EP * Gordon Taylor Music (2011)
Done Laid Around * Pete Seeger * Hootenanny at Carnegie Hall * Folkways Records (1960)

Dr. Frank & Jesse Ransom, LIVE! (KPSU Years)

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Dr. Frank & Jesse Ransom, LIVE! (KPSU Years)

This combines two live performance broadcasts from my KPSU years, both from 2006. The first is when Dr. Frank hung out on May 24th, to read and play a couple songs. The other is from June 6th, when Jesse Ransom played a few tunes live, and the we DJed his favorite cuts the rest of the time. Both of these were very fun shows.

 

 

14.) Our Cup Runneth Over

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14.) Our Cup Runneth Over
(Recorded on 26 Aug. 2021, 10 Jun. 2021, 7 Apr. 2021 and 14 Apr. 2021)

In this episode we present selections from a variety of past episodes, each segment cut for time but each interesting segments on their own, and are now edited together for your convenience. We also announce our Patreon Fundraiser, where we are working with Michael Cassutt to create an audio-drama version of his lost script, “Families.” Read All About It. Here’s a break-down of today’s episode, in case you want to skip straight to your favorite section:

Introduction             0:00:00 - 0:07:09: (07:08 Total)
More Bowie Talk          0:07:09 - 0:19:43: (12:34 Total)
More Season One Talk     0:19:43 - 0:40:46: (21:03 Total)
Bumper / Transition      0:40:46 - 0:43:35: (02:49 Total)
Michael Cassutt Snippets 0:43:35 - 1:15:00: (31:25 Total)
Let’s Build A Family     1:15:00 - 1:22:07: (07:07 Total)
RuPaul Outro / Next Time 1:22:07 - 1:28:46: (06:37 Total)

Heather reveals that she thought Max Headroom was a real AI.

Austin reveals who is favorite character from Season 1 is, and it’s fairly obvious.

 

In our next episode, we will be discussing S2E7 of the US TV Program, “The Circle,” originally dropped on Netflix on 21 April 2021. Titled “Friend Zoned…” it is currently available on Netflix.com. Yes, I’m sort of shocked myself. What can I say? It was Heather’s pick…

Issue #11: #CatDadLife

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Issue #11: #CatDadLife

Written & Performed by Austin Rich, containing interviews with Brian Hart, Karen Holman & Jason Ramey.

Issue #11, produced in August of 2020, featuring a wet and dry selection of stories, which includes, “#CatDadLife,” and “Brian & Karen’s New Hobbies.”   

 

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Time Zones * Negativland * Escape From Noise * SST Records (1987)
Love Cats * The Cure * Japanese Whispers * Fiction Records  (1983)

Book of Maps & The Prids, LIVE! (KPSU Years)

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Book of Maps & The Prids, LIVE! (KPSU Years)

This combines two live performance broadcasts from my KPSU years hosting Live Friday, from 2005 and 2006. The first is Book of Maps, performing on  11 November 2005. The other is The Prids, performing on 7 July 2006. Both bands were / are Portland legends, but The Prids are the only of the two who are still together.

 

 

Issue #10: Controlling Connectivity

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Issue #10: Controlling Connectivity

Written & Performed by Austin Rich, with additional writing by Flann O’Brienn.

Issue #10, produced in July of 2020, featuring a number of wireless options, including, “Returning From Getting Away From Complete Connectivity,” “Managing Your Connectivity,” and more excerpts from “Wamma, Etc.”   

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Summertime Blues [Excerpt] * Blue Cheer * Vincebus Eruptum * Phillips Records (1967)

Krandroid The Friendly Robot AND George & Caplin, LIVE! (KPSU Years)

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Krandroid The Friendly Robot AND George & Caplin, LIVE! (KPSU Years)

This combines two live performance broadcasts from my KPSU years, from 2005 and 2006. The first is Krandroid The Friendly Robot, performing on Live Friday on  1 July 2005. The other is a show where I engineered the sound for George & Caplin, perfoming on “What’s This Called?” on 5 August 2006.) Both excellent electronic / sequenced hybrid performers.

 

 

 

 

13.) Big Time Television #2

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13.) Big Time Television #2
(Recorded on 10 June 2021)

In this episode we discuss six songs from the ’70s and ’80s, and do our best to summarize the first season of Max Headroom. This turns into a free-ranging conversation about the world of Max, these six videos, and a little-known artist that Heather seems to know quite a bit about.

Heather finds three more ways to talk about her biggest obsession.

Austin gets to relive a moment from one of his favorite Savage Steve Holland films.

 

In our next episode, we will be splicing together a number of leftover bits from a handful of previous episodes. We have a lot more Bowie / music talk that we couldn’t fit into this episode, and we include two sections of conversation with Michael Cassutt that we couldn’t fit into the panel discussion or the solo interview.

We also have a VERY BIG ANNOUNCEMENT that we will be revealing at the end of that episode so you won’t want to miss it!

Issue #09: Modernity Stew

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Issue #09: Modernity Stew

Written & Performed by Austin Rich, Ellen Klowden & neveryman, containing interviews with Brian Hart, Karen Holman & Jason Ramey.

Issue #9, produced in July of 2020, featuring a potpourri of stories, which includes, “Relentless Pursuit,” “Jason’s New Hobbies,” “applewipe5,” and “A few thoughts on decoding Fake News through the work or artists.”   

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Misty * Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet * Savvy Show Stoppers * Glass Records (1988)
Chloe [Excerpt] * Spike Jones & His City Slickers * Thank You, Music Lovers * RCA Victor (1960)
Venus * Television * Marquee Moon * Elektra Records (1977)

Straitjacket & The-Front, LIVE! (KPSU Years)

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Straitjacket & The-Front, LIVE! (KPSU Years)

This combines two live punk performance broadcasts from my KPSU years, from 2005 and 2006. The first is Straitjacket (from 14 October 2005), and the second is The-Front (from 21 March 2006). I’m a sucker for DIY punk nonsense, and both of these bands deliver in spades.

 

 

 

 

Issue #08: Oh, Ay! Broken UI!

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Issue #08: Oh, Ay! Broken UI!

Written & Performed by Austin Rich.

 

Issue #8, produced in July of 2020, featuring an Andy Rooney style rant, “Oh, Ay! Broken UI!”

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

The Pit * Dead Milkmen * Bucky Fellini * Enigma Records 
Institutionalized * Suicidal Tendencies * 
Side A * Negativland * U2 * 
57 Channels And Nothing On * Bruce Springsteen * Tunnel of Love
Night Flight Theme 
Shake Some Evil * Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet * Savvy Show Stoppers * Glass Records (1988)

 

“Brought To You by The Letter M” b/w “The Baron” (KPSU Years)

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“Brought To You by The Letter M” b/w “The Baron” (KPSU Years)

This combines two broadcasts from my KPSU years, one from 2005 and 2006 each. Sort of theme shows, the first only features artists that begin with the letter M, while in the second, it charts and much more emotional and libidinal frame of mind. The dates: 30 August 2005 and 12 July 2006.

 

Hour 1: Today’s Show Was Brought To You By The Letter M.

01.) 10 lb. Moustache * Man Man
02.) Carry Stress In The Jaw * Mr. Bungle
03.) Ten Dollars A Pile * Melt Banana
04.) Never Ending Math Equation * Modest Mouse
05.) Walking Through Forever * Charles Manson
06.) Reverb 1000 * Man… Or Astro-Man?
07.) This Is Not A Photograph * Mission Of Burma
08.) Free Arthur Lee * The Make Up
09.) 1 2 X U * Minor Threat
10.) Anyone Else But You * The Moldy Peaches
11.) Maximum Radiation Level * Man… Or Astro-Man?
12.) Come In Alone * My Bloody Valentine
13.) Motorbreath * Metallica
14.) Sweet Willy Rollbar * Melvins
15.) Where Is Our Reason? * My Dad Is Dead
16.) Sferic Waves * Man… Or Astro-Man?
17.) Burn It Clean * Mudhoney
18.) Dumb Little Band * The Mr. T Experience
19.) Maybe Partying Will Help * Minutemen
20.) Stanley Kubrick * Mogwai

Hour 2: The Baron

01.) The Baron * Maury Laws * Mad Monster Party
02.) Track 04 * Voltage * Building The Bass Castle Vol. I
03.) Forever * Yuma Nora * Red Train Graphing The Sunset Of All
04.) Macbeth * Ciccone Youth * The Whitey Album

05.) Lakes In Space * Zach Hill And Mick Barr * Shred Earthship
06.) Progressive Rock Medley * Ruins * Pallaschtom
07.) Hands On… * Coachwhips * Double Death
08.) I Want An Ugly Girl * Little Fyodor * The Very Best Of Little Fyodor’s Greatest Hits
09.) Phantom Fire Ball * Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno * “Another Band From The Cosmic Inferno European Tour 2005” Cosmic Funeral Route 666

10.) Antigravity * Pink Mountain * Pink Mountain
11.) I Ain’t Got None * Jandek * Interstellar Discussion
12.) Heel Toe * Dance Card * Waterlogged
13.) This Time * The Wipers * Over The Edge

14.) New Years Eve In A Haunted House * Raymond Scott * Reckless Nights And Turkish Twilights
15.) Hit It And Quit It * Funkadelic * Maggot Brain
16.) Fun House * The Stooges * Fun House

12.) Blank Life (ABC S1E6, “The Blanks”)

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12.) Blank Life (ABC S1E6, “The Blanks”)
(Recorded on 9 Mar. 2021)

In this episode we discuss the ABC TV Transmission from 5 May 1987, “The Blanks,” Star Trek ZOOM Parties, the show’s continued interest in coffee gags, and how Bryce models the kinds of complements you should deliver to your coworkers.

Heather invents a new drink: Green Coke.

Austin drop’s the Dre / Blank Reg collaboration we didn’t know we all needed to hear.

 

 

In our next episode, we will be discussing six songs that connect to (or remind us) of Max Headroom, selected by our hosts. You can watch the music videos for these songs in this playlist:

Issue #07: Gettin’ Geeky With It

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Issue #07: Gettin’ Geeky With It

Written & Performed by Austin Rich, containing interviews with Brian Hart, Karen Holman & Jason Ramey.

 

Issue #7, produced in July of 2020, featuring local geeky tales, which includes, “What ever happened to the Geekly Update Team,” and, “Reading Rabbits.”

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Japanese Bamboo Flute Music.

The Best of Live Friday, Expanded Edition (KPSU Years)

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The Best of Live Friday, Expanded Edition (KPSU Years)

This combines two broadcasts from my KPSU years, in 2005 and 2006, both from my stint on Live Friday, and both “best of” shows, where I featured Live Performances from either of my shows. The dates are: 24 June 2005 and 3 March 2006. Here’s a rough idea of what the “songs” were.

 

Hour 1.

01.) What Have You Done * The Mayonnaise vs. Venn Demonstrational
02.) I Never Said * Bugs Of Lightning
03.) Girls On Bikes * Miraflores
04.) It’s Snowling On TV Again * The Pink Snowflakes
05.) 51 / 7 * Camper Van Beethoven
06.) Ballad Of The Space Chimp * Tijuana Homers
07.) Straight Out Of Clackamas * Courage
08.) One Hand * Dance Card
09.) Kitty * The Human Genome Project
10.) Apocalyptic Girl * Empty Room
11.) The Oblivion * Devotchka
12.) Gut Feeling / Slap Your Mammy Down * Radicchio & Tet Soy

Hour 2.

01.) Sleeper (Rise Over Run recorded on 07/22/05)
02.) A New Disaster (Straitjacket recorded on 10/14/05)
03.) Hot Lava (Courage recorded on 12/10/04)
04.) Stooge (Dance Card recorded on 12/16/05)
05.) Dangerous Degree (The Mayonaise vs. Venn recorded on 04/26/05)
06.) [untitled] (If If, Was Was… recorded on 12/20/05)
07.) I’m On Nine (The Bugs Of Lightning recorded on 08/05/05)
08.) Doorway (Empty Room recorded on 07/15/05)
09.) Triforce Of Boom (Krandroid The Friendly Robot recorded on 07/01/05)
10.) Robot Affliction (The Human Genome Project recorded on 09/17/04)
11.) Lose The Noose While It’s Loose (The Undoing of David Wright recorded on 08/16/05)
12.) [untitled] (Avery Bell recorded on 02/25/05)
13.) Exhibit A Burns A Hole In The Sky With Her Death Stare (Book Of Maps recorded on 11/11/05)
14.) Let’s Get Drunk And Watch TV (The Juanita Family & Friends recorded on 06/10/05)
15.) With A One (The Headliners recorded on 11/18/05)
16.) I Was Bowling Through The End Of The World (Tijuana Homers recorded on 11/30/04)
17.) Summer’s End (Gordon Taylor recorded on 12/17/05)

Issue #06: A Sound Salvation

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Issue #06: A Sound Salvation

Written & Performed by Austin Rich.

 

Issue #6, produced in July of 2020, featuring some stories from the dial, which includes, “Now, Let’s Go Over The Edge.”

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

[untitled] * Over The Edge * July 1981 * KPFA Radio (1981)
The Tale of the Blue Light * Lillian Cunningham & The Washington Post * Moonrise * The Washington Post (19 July 2019)

The Juanita Family & Friends, & Thee Headliners, LIVE! (KPSU Years)

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The Juanita Family & Friends, & Thee Headliners, LIVE! (KPSU Years)

This combines two broadcasts from my KPSU years, in 2005. The first is a live performance by The Juanita Family & Friends (from 10 June 2005). The second is a live performance by Thee Headliners (from 18 November 2005). Both performances have a sort of country vibe to them, but of course, with their own particular perspectives. I really enjoy both of these shows.

 

 

 

11.) We’re Watching Screens of Them Watching Screens (Watch Party 1 – Channel 4 Telefilm Commentary Track)

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11.) We’re Watching Screens of Them Watching Screens (Watch Party 1 – Channel 4 Telefilm Commentary Track)
(Recorded on 3 Apr. 2021)

In this episode, we present recordings from the evening of our first watch party, where you can listen along like it is a commentary track for the Channel 4 Telefilm, “Max Headroom.” Essentially: 20 Minutes Into The Future does RiffTrax, and YOU ARE THERE.

Heather added just a tiny-bit too much fernet branca to her cocktail.

Austin has – OH NO! – written jokes! (Gasp!)

 

If you would like to watch along, you might want to use this link, as we cannot include more than samples from the original telefilm in this presentation. With that in mind, you will want to use the three “beeps” that are included in this episode, to synch your video and audio. As you are listening to this podcast, enjoy the opening, as we spend about seven minutes setting the stage for what you will hear.

After that, you will hear two short beeps and one, longer beep. (Sort of like a filmstrip, from when we were kids.) At the end of the longer beep, press “play” on the device you are using to watch the video. The two should synch up, and there are four moments during the video that our podcast audio and the audio from the video will match. If they do; congratulations. You can enjoy the presentation. Three more times during the show, samples from the video will give you a chance to monitor how well the video is synching. If they don’t line-up, then something went wrong. Try to re-align using the sample to guide you.

In our next episode, we will (hopefully) be discussing S1E6 of the US TV Program, “Max Headroom,” originally aired 5 May 1987. Titled “The Blanks,” it is currently available on DVD through Shout Factory, and comes with a number of excellent bonus features. As it happens, this link doesn’t actually exist, which is a bonus for  you.

Sub-Basement Psyche, Expanded Edition! (KPSU Years)

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Sub-Basement Psyche, Expanded Edition! (KPSU Years)

This combines two broadcasts from my KPSU years, in 2005. The first is one of my “Nuggets” shows, which was a common form my show took at KPSU in the early days (from 26 July 2005). The second is a show from the day that I first met Ricardo Wang, where he and I DJ’d for an hour (2 August 2005). Both are very much full of 60’s Psyche-Rock that goes down well, all these years later.

 

 

10.) Janie’s Got A [Camera] Gun (ABC S1E5, “War”)

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10.) Janie’s Got A [Camera] Gun (ABC S1E5, “War”)
(Recorded on 23 Feb. 2021)

In this episode we discuss the ABC TV Transmission from 28 April 1987, “War,” new office slang, how easy it is to figure out that Phil is the weak link at your office, and this episode’s obsession with Italian art film.

Heather discovers she is related to the lead character in this episode.

Austin introduces Heather to a new idea for a podcast: The Firmcast.

 

In our next episode, we will be discussing S1E6 of the US TV Program, “Max Headroom,” originally aired 5 May 1987. Titled “The Blanks,” it is currently available on DVD through Shout Factory, and comes with a number of excellent bonus features. As it happens, this link doesn’t actually exist, which is a bonus for  you.

The Roxy Epoxy Show & The Lana Rebel Show (KPSU Years)

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The Roxy Epoxy Show & The Lana Rebel Show (KPSU Years)

This combines two broadcasts from my KPSU years, in 2005. Roxy Epoxy joined me for a DJ Show, to discuss an upcoming Album Release party for The Epoxies (10 May 2005). The Lana Rebel joined me, for another DJ show, and to talk about her career making music.

 

John Rambo & The Pink Snowflakes, LIVE! (KPSU Years)

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John Rambo & The Pink Snowflakes, LIVE! (KPSU Years)

This combines two broadcasts from my KPSU years, in 2005, from the Live Friday program. John Rambo (28 January 2005) was a local instru-metal band, where The Pink Snowflakes (3 June 2005) are a heavy psyche-rock group a la The Flaming Lips.

 

 

 

09.) The Michael Cassutt Interview: “Follow Your Interests”

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The Michael Cassutt Interview: “Follow Your Interests”
(Recorded on 7 Apr. 2021)

Join us for a conversation with Michael Cassutt, a television producer and writer who has pursued a very unique career path, largely so he can keep writing science fiction and fantasy stories of one variety or another. In this show, we get the full dirt on breaking into writing, how he got on at The Twilight Zone, how that led to working on Max Headroom, and where his career led him after that.

Still active, still writing, and most recently working as a novelist and non-fiction writer, Michael is a wonderful person to chat with, and we had a delight getting to know him.

Heather is curious about Michael’s radio career.

Austin demands to know what it was like to work with Joe Dante.

 

 

(We encourage you to enjoy the video version, which has us speaking with Michael in a fairly casual setting. The video is a more “raw” representation of the conversation, and does not contain all the audio editing and production that you will find in the podcast. There are elements in this presentation that are NOT a part of the podcast – and vice versa – so they are both worth checking out.)

In our next episode, we will be discussing S1E5 of the US TV Program, “Max Headroom,” originally aired 28 April 1987. Titled “War,” it is currently available on DVD through Shout Factory, and comes with a number of excellent bonus features. If you think you are willing to move toward the enemy lines for this exclusive, you might need this link to survive these combat conditions.

Interviews w/ Murph (of Dinosaur Jr.) & The Minibosses (KPSU Years)

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Interviews w/ Murph (of Dinosaur Jr.) & The Minibosses (KPSU Years)

This combines two broadcasts from my KPSU years, in 2005. In one case, we arranged for Murph of Dinosaur Jr. help promote the reunion show / reissues that had just come out. In another, the band The Minibosses dropped into the studio, to talk about touring, and to debut a new recording that had not been heard yet… at that time.

Murph / Dinosaur Jr. tribute was on 23 August 2005

The Minibosses were interviewed on 26 August 2005

 

 

The Pledge Drive Special! (Week 2)

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The Pledge Drive Special! (Week 2)

Written & Performed by Austin Rich.

While we just heard this last week, our Pledge Drive was extended a week, so here is is again, as the message is still relevant.

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

I Can Only Give You Everything * The Ambertones * Garage Punk Unknowns

No Time Like The Right Time * The Blues Project * The Blues Project

I Need You * The Rationals * Nuggets Vol. 1

Camper Van Beethoven & Devotchka, LIVE! (KPSU Years)

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Camper Van Beethoven & Devotchka, LIVE! (KPSU Years)

This combines two broadcasts from my KPSU years, in 2005. In one case, we arranged for Camper Van Beethoven to play in the studio, and I helped host. In the second case, Devotchka came to play on my show, and our music director joined me for the interview.

Camper Van Beethoven played on 4 November 2004

Devotchka played on 9 November 2004

 

08.) Sparks FX (ABC S1E4, “Security Systems”)

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08.) Sparks FX (ABC S1E4, “Security Systems”)
(Recorded on 21 Jan. 2021)

In this episode we discuss the ABC TV Transmission from 21 April 1987, “Security Systems,” how artificial intelligences seem to like working blue, and how this particular storyline hits a little too close to home.

Heather noticed some… interesting… lobby decor.

Austin seems to enjoy Max’s music selections this episode.

 

In our next episode, we will be interviewing writer Michael Cassutt, who was one of two primary writers that worked on the program, and helped shape it into what it became. You won’t want to miss this one, and don’t forget to check out our YouTube Channel, as it will have a video version of the episode, that you can watch along with the show.

The Human Genome Project & Empty Room, LIVE! (KPSU Years)

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The Human Genome Project & Empty Room, LIVE! (KPSU Years)

This combines two episodes of “Live Friday,” a show I started hosting in 2004. This was a weekly, live radio show that featured local and touring bands.

The Human Genome Project played on 17 September 2004

Empty Room played on 24 September 2004

 

 

Issue #41: Writing And Producing The Future Part 2

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Issue #41: Writing And Producing The Future Part 2

Written & Performed by Heather from The Sound of Tomorrow & Austin Rich, featuring a conversation with Heather, Brian Frankish, Steve Roberts & Michael Cassutt.

Recorded 14 April, 2021.

Issue #41, produced in May of 2021.

 

 

Bit Players In The College Radio Drama That Is Blasphuphmus Radio II (KWVA Years)

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More Blitzhäus Kith: Kyle, Geni, Chris & Pat!
More Blitzhäus Kith: Kyle, Geni, Chris & Pat!

Bit Players In The College Radio Drama That Is Blasphuphmus Radio Part II
(Featuring edited highlights from five early episodes, where friends and family join me in what has now become known as college radio, assembled 9 years ago.)

Relive college radio from the late 90’s as it actually happened! Experience five edited presentations from the earliest days of this very program, as they were originally heard on KWVA in Eugene Oregon, broadcast at 88.1 FM. For the fist time since their original air dates these programs are being heard again, and at the correct speed in most cases!  Join a clumsy and youthful Austin Rich as he stumbles through the act of playing College Radio DJ, and listen to some authentic late 90’s rock as we journey through the decades.

This is part of our 14th Anniversary Explosion that’s been happening all throughout the year, and to a smaller extent, part of an on-going attempt to accurately archive the history of this program in a way that’s accessible to listeners.  As many of the programs from the early days are not complete, and in many cases missing entirely, I’ve been creating these shortened “edited” versions of these shows, to give you a taste of what it was like in these early days.  As there are still a few shows to come in this series – and still many others for you to enjoy – you may want to slap this feed into your podcast-catching device of choice, as it will keep you up to date with all the appropriate episodes, and give you a good cross-section of the entire history of the program.

Of these particular episodes, it is fascinating to attempt to recreate the circumstances that these programs were recorded under.  When Kyle would visit, he would often join me when I would go to the radio station.  Both Geni and Pat were roommates at one point or another, and Chris was a near-permanent fixture in the legendary Blitzhäus where we used to live and party in the olden days.  These shows evoke a lot of memories, not just of the music that we played, but the parties, shows, girlfriends, boyfriends, arguments, D&D games, and the hundreds of other things that went down in the late 90’s.  In an era before cell phones, .mp3s, regular internet access, or very much money to speak of, we still created culture, built mythologies, and had a great time doing in.  If only some of that nostalgia can seep through these tape-hiss-infused recordings, then I will feel as if my work here is done.

A request to listeners: if anyone can identify the Man Is The Bastard song that I play during the “Track Night” segment, please let me know!  I’ve been trying to identify that one for a while now.

Many apologies for the lateness of the program.  Hopefully this is a fluke occurrence, but you know how it goes.

See you in seven!

 

Introduction: The More Things Continue To Blah Blah Etc.
01.) Adventures Through Inner Space * The Bomboras

Part I: “Senses Shattering” w/ Kyle Rich (06 May 1998)
02.) Jessica * They Might Be Giants
03.) Baby Puts Out Old Flames * Rye Coalition
04.) Beastie Boys * Beastie Boys
05.) There Ain’t No Sanity Clause * The Damned
06.) 13 Ways To A Cavity * KARP
07.) Battle of the Planets * godheadSilo

Part II: “Feet Together, Buttocks Tight” w/ Kyle Rich (14 July 1998)
08.) Imperial Dance * Supergenius
09.) Can You Feel It? * The Jacksons * Jane Fonda Workout
10.) Die Eier Von Satan * Tool
11.) Delirium & Disorder * Bad Religion
12.) Rock & Roll McDonalds * Wesley Willis
13.) Nuts To You * godheadSilo

Part III: “Track Night” w/ Geni (09 September 1998)
14.) Peter Gunn Theme * Poison Ivy
15.) ?? * Man Is The Bastard
16.) The Creeps * Social Distortion
17.) Paul Revere * The Beastie Boys
18.) Degobah * Monkey
19.) Two Little Boys * Splodgenessabounds
20.) Stayin’ Alive * Anal Cunt
21.) “You fuckin’ die.” * The Pixies

Part IV: “Rock And Roll” w/ Chris Brooks (16 December 1998)
22.) Sidewalk City * The Phantom Surfers
23.) Iron Fist * Motörhead
24.) Drag Strip Race * The Rondelles
25.) Ace Of Spades * Motorhead
26.) Take You Higher * Tight Bros. From Way Back When
27.) Clockwork Orange * Walter Carlos
28.) Is It Wicked Not To Care? * Belle & Sebastian
29.) Dad Why Did My Friends Explode? * Deadbolt
30.) Smokin’ Banana Peels (Re-Mix) * The Dead Milkmen

Part V: “A Geosynchronous Orbit” w/ Pat The Pirate (24 March 1999)
31.) Ghoulash * Satan’s Pilgrims
32.) Love Story * Lagwagon
33.) Self Cleanin’ Lovin’ * Royal Grand Prix
34.) Fake Fake Eyes * …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
35.) High School Shop Class Constructs Bicycle Built For Twenty-Six * Jad Fair & Yo La Tengo
36.) No Brains * Eater
37.) Stranger Than Fiction * Bad Religion
38.) Escape Through The Air Vents * Man… Or Astro-Man?
39.) Freak Scene * Dinosaur Jr.

07.) Big Into Blankets (ABC S1E3, “Body Banks”)

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07.) Big Into Blankets (ABC S1E3, “Body Banks”)
(Recorded on 6 Jan. 2021)

In this episode we discuss the ABC TV Transmission from 14 April 1987, “Body Banks,” why it’s not cool to make people work after you start a party (at work), why the point of view of this show is still not very considerate of non-cis-male viewers, and how so many characters in this episode have got, “The Look.”

Heather is very concerned about the appearance of Fang in this episode.

Austin has quite a bit of evidence for why this one is out of order.

 

In our next episode, we will be discussing S1E4 of the US TV Program, “Max Headroom,” originally aired 21 April 1987. Titled “Security Systems,” it is currently available on DVD through Shout Factory, and comes with a number of excellent bonus features. If you are a l33t hax0r, then this link will serve your needs. 

Issue #40: Writing And Producing The Future Part 1

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Issue #40: Writing And Producing The Future Part 1

Written & Performed by Heather from The Sound of Tomorrow & Austin Rich, featuring a conversation with Heather, Brian Frankish, Steve Roberts & Michael Cassutt.

Recorded 14 April, 2021.

Issue #40, produced in May of 2021.

 

 

Bit Players In The College Radio Drama That Is Blasphuphmus Radio I (KWVA Years)

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The Blitzhäus Kith
The Blitzhäus Kith: Josephus, Brandy, Josh, Toby, Kelly & Tia.

Bit Players In The College Radio Drama That Is Blasphuphmus Radio I (KWVA Years)
(Featuring edited highlights from four early episodes, where my roommates joined me in the studio for silly, late night, college radio fun, assembled nine years ago.)

In the earliest days of the program, my notion of having guests on my program was to invite my roommates into the studio, while we were all drunk, to listen to some college radio.  Now, in the distant future, I’m asking you to join us on a similar journey.  Highlighting four episodes from 1998, here are my roommates, my friends, and my guests, from the embryonic era that is so near to this programs beginning.

I have to say, with the complete perspective that hindsight so acutely offers, it is interesting to comb through the airchecks, and revisit these programs.  I’m friends with nearly all of these people to this very day, and each of them have moved on to pursue their own lives and interests in amazing ways.  These programs are small cross-sections, a blip on the radar from their perspective.  But to me, these were important evenings, fun times that I happen to have a documented record of, and that is so rare for anyone who considers their youth.  Hopefully, some of the joy I get out of these seeps through as you listen to these recordings today.

For the first time since I recorded these shows, they are hearing the light of day, and at the proper speed!  The tape recordings were often too slow – or too fast – to make much sense, but modern technology has allowed me to fix these errors.  To my knowledge, only these people have ever heard these recordings before, as this program began in a time before podcasts, and before digital distribution.  My hope is that this functions as a record of those times, and a sampling of the various formats this show had in the early days.

Many apologies for the delay getting this episode posted.  There were a number of personal and production delays, mostly because I wanted these episodes to be presented at their proper speeds, and other recording opportunities popped up at the last minute.  Fortunately, these opportunities have manifested in shows that you can download now, and one that you will hear in the future.  These opportunities involve live music, and also some cool Sci-Fi remixes.  I’m hoping to get back on track, and there may well be another episode this week to make up for this, at least a Mini-Cast.  So, stay tuned.

That’s all for this Memorial Day.  Thanks again for indulging me.

See you real soon.

 

Bit Players In The College Radio Drama That Is Blasphuphmus Radio

Introduction: The More Things Stay The Same

01.) Updated Theme From Supercar * Man… Or Astro-Man? * All Punk Rods!: A Gearhead Magazine Collection * Lookout! Records

Part I: Josephus of Sinkhole (22 April 1998)

02.) Sonata For Loudspeakers * Unwound * Challenge For A Civilized Society * Kill Rock Stars Records
03.) The Trials of Being A Jedi * Supergenius * Star Wars Breakbeats * Suckadellic Records
04.) Some Hits * Anal Cunt * Top 40 Hits * Earache Records
05.) Driver Down * Trent Reznor * Lost Highway Soundtrack * Interscope Records
06.) Dragnet Theme * Ray Anthony And His Orchestra *
07.) Fame * Irena Cara * Fame Soundtrack * RSO Records
08.) Satan’s Little Lamb * Ethel Merman * I Get A Kick Out Of You * Pavillion Records
09.) Raw Meat Torn By Saxophone Blasts * Mike Patton * ‪Pranzo Oltranzista‬

Part II: “Girl Power” w/ Brandy (29 July 1998)

10.) Frank Talk About Mutants, Also * Men’s Recovery Project * Frank Talk About Humans
11.) Rebel Girl * Bikini Kill * “New Radio” b/w “Rebel Girl” 7″
12.) Hard Knock Life * “Annie” Original Cast Recording
13.) ?? * ??
14.) I Love Livin’ In The City * Fear * Fear The Record
15.) Let’s Have A Party * The 5.6.7.8’s * Can’t Help It! * Rockville Records

Part III: “Never Before Has The Beauty Of The Sexual Act Been So Grossly Exploited” (19 August 1998)

16.) El Perversio * Deadbolt * Tijuana Hit Squad
17.) Adventures Through Inner Space * The Bomboras * Head Shrinkin’ Fun * Zombie A Go-Go Records
18.) Eugene OR * The Varicoasters *
19.) Istanbul (Not Constantinople) * They Might Be Giants * Flood * Elekra Records
20.) My Mind’s Got A Mind Of It’s Own * ?? *
21.) When It’s Over * The Wipers * Youth Of America

Part IV: “The Kelly Experience” w/ Tia (11 November 1998)

22.) Come Out And Play * The Moog Cookbook * The Moog Cookbook
23.) Handsome Traveller * KARP * Moustache’s Wild * Kill Rock Stars Records
24.) ?? * ??
25.) Fuck Shit Up * Dub Narcotic Sound System * “Fuck Shit Up” b/w “Version” * K Records
26.) Scream * Kemikal Religion * Self-Released
27.) Coffee Mug * The Descendants *
28.) Estrogen * The Supermodels
29.) Manic * Kemikal Religion

Smart Sewers

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Smart Sewers
(Recorded on 3 June 2021) 

In a recent episode of 99 Percent Invisible, there was a discussion of Smart Sewers. (Taking our old, ancient, non-networked and non-electrical sewer systems, and adding modern upgrades to them, so we can use technology to diagnose and interact with sewers in ways that were never possible before.) Since this actually offers a real-world example of how Max Headroom came true, we discuss this new technology. Plus, we announce our next Zoom Party, review some recent mail, remind people to sign up for the Lemonade Stand, and encourage people to attend the Rich Treasures DIY Pop-Up, coming later this month.

Heather sends a wonderful, wide-eyed gift to Austin.

Austin pushes his musical postcards with an obscure Headroom reference.

The Hobbit (KWVA Years)

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The Greatest Adventure
The Greatest Adventure

The Hobbit (KWVA Years)
(Featuring a nearly-complete retrocast from 12 August 1998, recreated nine years ago, wherein I present an audio version of the story of 1977 animated feature film, The Hobbit.)

In preparation for the impending new film version, join us for a special retrocast of this rare Audio Essay from 1998, where we present the story of the 1977 animated classic, The Hobbit, contrasted against Mike Patton’s Adult Themes For Voice, Mel Brooks & Marlo Thomas, and a host of other College Radio classics. This episode has not been heard since it was originally broadcast on KWVA, and offers listeners another glimpse into the development of our Audio Essay format that has come to dominate much of what we do now. A nearly complete show – only missing 13 minutes of content – this program has been reconstructed using the surviving recordings and documented playlist, offering a close approximation of the kind of show we began doing all those years ago.

Originally scheduled to be a Holden Craft collaboration, circumstances prevented him from showing up until the very end of the show. I had originally planned on just playing “The Greatest Adventure,” among other things, but with time on my hands, Orson Bean and friends got a little more air time than anticipated. It was very much like an Unexpected Party. In the end, I think the results weren’t bad, and it set the tone for a future format that has since become a big part of the show. Heavily influenced by Over The Edge and the usual musical format of KWVA, I had always wanted to bring more sampling and oddness to the program. This, along with the previously presented Flight F-I-N-A-L episode, were probably as close to that vision for the show as I ever got. Fortunately, I’m easily distractable, and had many other visions for the program, too.

A note about the recording: the source tape is a little distorted, and the overall sound clips a little throughout the program. The record of The Hobbit itself, that I used to make the recording, was salvaged from my then-girlfriend’s garage, where it had languished in a filthy box (along with the Marlo Thomas record) for some time. I cleaned it up the best I could, but there is a fair amount of surface noise, or at least, more than normal. Additionally: at some point after the initial recording of the show, for some reason, I excised all the commercials and two or three songs (the names and artist of which completely escape me now). Originally, I also cut out a number of other (yet left them on the playlist), and furthermore removed The Hobbit segments to put them on another tape. So, this show has been reconstructed as best as could be, using my own memory and the surviving record to produce this show. Keep in mind that all of these things happened years ago, before podcasts or digital archiving (on the scale that its available now) was not possible. I never imagined that anyone else would ever hear this, or that there would be some value (or some way) to present this show in a “complete” form. So, all of this is a cicuitous way of saying: this is as good as this one gets. At least it makes me happy.

As with the Flight F-I-N-A-L show, the musical selections used in this one are somewhat curious and confusing at times. Unlike the vast archive I’ve accumulated over the years since this show, my collection was quite small in the late ’90’s, and much of my radio show was dependent on what the station had to offer. This meant that planning a show was sort of a crapshoot, and I often just played something I wanted to hear, over something that made sense, storywise. Some of the song choices are quite inspired: “Where The Hell Is Bill?,” “Ride of the Valykries,” etc. Some song choices are just confusing. At this time in the show’s history, a running “gag” was to play a handful of Mike Patton songs every show, and while that seems to make sense to me at the time (when you listen to the shows over time), they seem like odd selections now. I debated redoing this show entirely at one point, but I like the naive charm and rough, learning-curve qualities this one illustrates. If I only ever did rad shows, right from the beginning, then where’s the fun in that?

Special Thanks to my amazing girlfriend, who is on vacation and who I miss dearly; Lyra Cyst, houseguest and tolerant friend who did not mind that I spent a lot of time while she was visiting recording and editing this episode, Holden Craft, for giving me a ride home after I originally broadcast this program in 1998, and kiisu d’salyss, for, well… you know.

I know that I’ve been, essentially, in re-runs lately, as I re-present all of these old episodes. While most of the material I’m posting now has never been publicly available (at least, not since the original broadcast), there is a certain amount of, “Yes, but…” when it comes to repackaging old-as-new, etc. I have tried to balance this a bit, with new shows mixed with the old shows. My hope is that I can soon wrap up the trip down memory lane shows – of which I believe there will be three or four more – so that a good cross section of the best segments from those early shows are available again. It’s a project with a definite end, and I’m exited about wrapping it up and moving on to something new. I’ve really enjoyed the work I’ve done this year on this program, and I think that with this in the can, the other ideas I have yet to get to will be next.

As you may have noticed, various life obligations have completely destroyed our production schedule as of late. For this I apologize, but as the “we” here at Blasphuphmus Radio is actually a “me,” little can be done to avoid this. However, if all goes well today, we should be able to get back on track with Episode 169. I make no promises, except that someday, we’ll either get back on track, or I will officially take a week off and pretend that we’re back on track. You know how it goes.

In the meantime: In a hole in a ground lived A Hobbit…

 

The Hobbit Playlist

Introduction: “The Bravest Little Hobbit Of Them All”
01.) Bilbo Baggins * Leonard Nimoy
02.) Gollum’s Riddle [Excerpt] * The Hobbit Animated Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Part I: “The Greatest Adventure”
03.) The Hobbit Part I
04.) For Your Entertainment * Unwound *
05.) The Hobbit Part II
06.) Brown Eyed Girl * Lagwagon *
07.) The Hobbit Part III
08.) Pajama Party Horror * Mike Patton * Adult Themes For Voice
09.) The Hobbit Part IV
10.) Get Me Back * Teengenerate * Smash Hits!
11.) The Hobbit Part V
12.) Joco Homo * Devo * Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! * Warner Bros. Records
13.) Boy Meets Girl * Mel Brooks & Marlo Thomas *
14.) Dick * King Missile [Dog Fly Religion] * Fluting On The Hump

Part II: “Burglar, Do Your Burgling!”
15.) Roads (Instrumental) * The Hobbit Animated Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
16.) The Hobbit Part VI
17.) Round And Round * Germs * (MIA)
18.) The Hobbit Part VII
19.) Anti-Pleasure Dissertation * Bikini Kill * The Anti-Pleasure Dissertation 7″
20.) The Hobbit Part VIII
21.) Return Of The Knucklehead * DFL * Proud To Be
22.) The Hobbit Part IX
23.) A Leper With The Face Of A Baby Girl * Mike Patton * Adult Themes For Voice
24.) The Hobbit Part X
25.) Cuts And Bolts * Man… Or Astro-Man? *
26.) The Hobbit Part XI
27.) When You’re Fat And Lonely * Bruce McCullouch *
28.) The Hobbit Part XII
29.) Cooky Puss * Beastie Boys *

Part III: “My Precious”
30.) The Greatest Adventure (Instrumental) * The Hobbit Animated Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
31.) The Hobbit Part XIII
32.) Danimal [Excerpt] * Deathstar * Deathstar 10″
33.) The Hobbit Part XIV
34.) Another Day * Crimpshrine *
35.) The Hobbit Part XV
36.) Where The Hell Is Bill? * Camper Van Beethoven *
37.) The Hobbit Part XVI
38.) The One Armed vs. 9 Killers * Mike Patton *
39.) The Hobbit Part XVII
40.) Let’s Have A Party Tonight * 5.6.7.8′s *
41.) The Hobbit Part XVIII
42.) Funeral Home * Daniel Johnston *
43.) The Hobbit Part XIX
44.) Pillow Biter * Mike Patton *
45.) The Hobbit Part XX
46.) Desert Search (Supergenius) *
47.) The Hobbit Part XXI
48.) Jackals of Botswanna * Deadbolt *

Part IV: “Oh Smog The Magnificent”
49.) Down, Down To Goblin Town * The Hobbit Animated Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
50.) The Hobbit Part XXII
51.) Queerbait * The Queers *
52.) The Hobbit Part XXIII
53.) Rocketman * The Red Elvises *
54.) The Hobbit Part XXIV
55.) Twisted * Zeke *
56.) The Hobbit Part XXV
57.) Swingin’ On Pier 13 * Bomboras *
58.) The Hobbit Part XXVI
59.) Ride Of The Valkyries * Woody Phillips * Toolbox Classics
60.) The Hobbit Part XXVII
61.) Me Big Mouth * KARP *
62.) The Hobbit Part XXVIII
63.) No Fair * Wipers

06.) Big Time Television #1

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06.) Big Time Television #1
(Recorded on 17 Dec. 2020)

In this episode we discuss six songs from the ’80s, our continued interest in the developing Max Headroom Sitcom, and we delve a little more into Heather’s impressions, as she continues to be exposed to a 30 year old TV show that she knows little about.

Heather reveals that she was a pre-teen proto-goth.

Austin gets predictably academic with his music selections.

 

In our next episode, we will be discussing S1E3 of the US TV Program, “Max Headroom,” originally aired 14 April 1987. Titled “Body Banks,” it is currently available on DVD through Shout Factory, and comes with a number of excellent bonus features. You can make a withdrawal from this link, at this point.

 

Issue #28: The Tools of The Trade

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Issue #28: The Tools of The Trade

Written by Flann O’Brien & Austin Rich, and Performed by Austin Rich.

Issue #28, produced in January of 2021, featuring some clipped and scribbled on stories, including, “Quarantine hobbies,” “Planners,” “Postcards,” and more selections from “Waama, Etc.” 

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Zombie Compromise * Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet * Savvy Show Stoppers * Glass Records (1988)

Customized * Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet * Savvy Show Stoppers * Glass Records (1988)

Flight F-I-N-A-L (KWVA Years)

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Inter-World Airlines
Inter-World Airlines

Flight F-I-N-A-L (KWVA Years)
(Featuring a retrocast of a program from 20 January 1999, as part of our 14th Anniversary Explosion!)

(Originally broadcast 9 years ago.)

Join us for a special 14th Anniversary Retrocast of a program from 1999, where we present the fascinating audio-drama that dares to create, “…a dramatic comparison to death.”  Presented in this episode: three quarters of the original broadcast (recreated from cassette recordings and partial playlists that have survived into the modern era), PLUS!: A brand new A Minute With The Pope, a feature that comes and goes with the whims of The Pope Himself, and a confused phone call from DJ Really Sloppy, who has recently become unstuck in time and seems to be having trouble figuring out exactly what that means for a person as confused as him.  Plus a couple of Phantom Surfers tracks for good measure.

As you can tell from this show – which approximates what it was like to hear us when we first started – our murky origins have many of the elements that came to dominate our format now.  I knew I wanted to play music I liked, and as a huge Over The Edge fan, I knew I wanted to do some form of re-mix on the air.  But as a novice, just getting started, my first forays into this realm were not as skilled as they have become.  That’s not to say that they were bad, but that they were of an amateur level.  The ideas were in place, but the execution was not what it would become.

I remember finding a copy of this record – one that I had heard sampled and began to wonder exactly what it could be – and knew instantly that sooner or later it would appear on the show.  In what form, I wasn’t quite sure.  But one night I showed up to do the program solo, noticed that I had packed it along with a bunch of other stuff, and it was then that I went to work.  The results – or, at least, most of them – are audible in the show you’re hearing today.

Note: If anyone can identify the Satan’s Pilgrim’s song included in this playlist, please let me know.  Thanks!

See you in seven.

 

Flight F-I-N-A-L Playlist

Part I: “One Of The Passengers Appears To Be Singing…”

01.) Holiday Harbor * The Phantom Surfers * The Great Surf Crash of ’97
02.) Revenge * Black Flag *
03.) Land Of Treason * Germs * (MIA) * Slash Records
04.) Flight F-I-N-A-L Part I *
05.) Be Good (The Frumpies) *
06.) All My Drugs * Royal Grand Prix *  High Performance
07.) Flight F-I-N-A-L Part II *
08.) Pacific Coast Highway * Sonic Youth * Sister
09.) Embarrassed Teen Accidentally Uses Valuable Rare Postage Stamp * Jad Fair & Yo La Tengo * Strange But True
10.) High School Witch * The 5.6.7.8’s * The 5.6.7.8’s
11.) Flight F-I-N-A-L Part III *
12.) Indication * The Rondelles * Fiction Romance, Fast Machines * Smells Like Records
13.) I’m Gonna Make Him Mine (Tonight) * The Donnas * The Donnas

Part II: “Inter-World Airlines, Flight FINAL.”

14.) Know It Alls * The Fartz * Because This Fuckin’ World Still Stinks * Alternative Tentacles Records
15.) Flight F-I-N-A-L Part IV *
16.) The End Of A Skater * The Phantom Surfers featuring Davie Allen * Skaterhater * Lookout! Records
17.) ?? (Satan’s Pilgrims) *
18.) Flight F-I-N-A-L Part V *
19.) Brother Rat / What Slayde Says * NOMEANSNO * The Day Everything Became Nothing * Alternative Tentacles Records
20.) Flight F-I-N-A-L Part VI *
21.) Here’s To The Losers * Frank Sinatra * Softly As I Leave You * Universal Records

Part III: DJ Really Sloppy Calls In!

22.) Out Of The Window * The Phantom Surfers * The Great Surf Crash of ’97

DJ Really Sloppy, who has become unstuck in time, calls into the show from a darkened room containing a cat, and is not entirely sure what name he knows me by, or what time he is currently a part of.  Thinking it is 1999, the time period of my show, he briefly flirts with changing the time stream, then gets confused.

Part IV: “I Am Your Captain, The Lord Jesus Christ.”

22.) Flight F-I-N-A-L Part VII
23.) Here Comes The Martian Martians * Jonathan Richman * The Beserkley Years: The Best Of Jonathan Richman And The Modern Lovers * Rhino Records
24.) Flight F-I-N-A-L Part VIII *
25.) The Old Man Blues * Cathead * Greatest sHits * Self-Released
26.) Flight F-I-N-A-L Part IX
27.) Title Track * King Missile * Mystical Shit * Shimmy-Disc Records
28.) Flight F-I-N-A-L Part X
29.) Mongoloid * Devo * Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! * Warner Bros. Records
30.) Flight F-I-N-A-L Part XI *
31.) Don’t Know What I Am * The Wipers * Is This Real?
32.) Flight F-I-N-A-L Part XII
33.) Old Queen Cole * Ween * God Ween Satan: The Oneness

A Minute With The Pope 06: Bob Is Dead All That’s Left Is Earl * The Pope * Recorded on a Handheld Cassette Recorder & an iPhone.

Part V: The Gate Of Death

34.) Flight F-I-N-A-L Part XIII *
35.) Bleach Boys * The Dead Milkmen * Beelzebubba * Enigma Records
36.) Lousy Weekend * Daniel Johnston * Fun * Atlantic Records
37.) Flight F-I-N-A-L Part XIV *
38.) Pie * KARP * Suplex * Kill Rock Stars Records
39.) Cowboy Love * The Reverand Horton Heat * Holy Roller * Sub Pop Records
40.) Flight F-I-N-A-L Part XV *
41.) The Halo Benders * The Halo Benders * Don’t Tell Me Now * K Records
42.) Hair * Adickdid * Stars Kill Rock
43.) Brainwashed * The Crabs * Brainwashed * K Records
44.) Reason To Live * The Oblivians * Soul Food * Crypt Record

Part VI: Pure Darkness (17 February 1999)

01.) Funeral Girl (Daniel Johnston) *
02.) Pablo Picasso (Jonathan Richman) *
03.) Hate & War (The Clash) *
04.) RCs Mom (Dead Milkmen) *
05.) Suck (Kicking Giant) *
06.) ?? (The Crabs) *
07.) The Way Of The World (Flipper)

A Peek Behind The Curtain

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A Peek Behind The Curtain
(Recorded on 13 May 2021) 

With another Zoom Party on the way, and the Patreon up and running (what Austin affectionately refers to as, “The Lemonade Stand,”), we take this opportunity to thank our supporters, discuss some of the cool gifts that listeners have sent in, and have a bit of a casual “hang” before we move on to the next episode.

Heather is fairly confident she doesn’t need to retake any lines.

Austin remixes a stone cold classic about the MaxHeads in your life.

 

 

 

Issue #11: #CatDadLife

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Issue #11: #CatDadLife

Written & Performed by Austin Rich, containing interviews with Brian Hart, Karen Holman & Jason Ramey.

Issue #11, produced in August of 2020, featuring a wet and dry selection of stories, which includes, “#CatDadLife,” and “Brian & Karen’s New Hobbies.”   

 

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Time Zones * Negativland * Escape From Noise * SST Records (1987)
Love Cats * The Cure * Japanese Whispers * Fiction Records  (1983)

Ramen City Radio (KWVA Years)

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Ramen City Radio (KWVA Years)
(Featuring excerpts from the earliest days of our program featuring one of the most important figures in college radio history: The Ramen City Kid.)

(This show was originally assembled 9 years ago.)

As we continue our journey through the nostalgic origins of this program for our 14th Anniversary, we cannot overlook the influence of none other than The Ramen City Kid. Roommate, zinester, bread baker, and much much more, I met him in 1994, and we’ve been friends (and often roommates) ever since. His taste has affected my interest in film, music, radio, people, books, and everything in between, and without him, I would not be the person (or DJ) I am today. It is to him that this episode is dedicated, as we listen to edited highlights from five of his recorded appearances on this program in 1998, and one additional section of a show I did with Captain Morgain in 1999.

There were others, of course, but time has not been kind, and many of these programs went un-recorded, or lost in the years since. Still, these excerpts serve to give you a sense of what the program was like in those days, with and ear for emphasizing his voice and musical selections as best as possible. None of these shows exist in their complete forms, but I’ve done my best to present the spirit of these shows for a modern audience. I hope you enjoy the results.

As a point of order: aside from the spots, and voice overs, all the music heard in this program were taken from the original broadcasts as listed below. Those songs were actually played that night. I’ve created loops for the voice overs, but those songs really were heard in those days.

This one is a concentrated blast of nostalgic radio, without any of the bells and whistles. Hopefully there will be more bells and whistles in future shows.

See you in seven!

 

Ramen City Radio

Part I: Introducing The Ramen City Kid (17 June 1998)

01.) The Dr. Who Theme Music
02.) High School Is A Prison * Mojo Nixon
03.) Sunday [Excerpt] * Sonic Youth
04.) Start! * The Jam
05.) Vampire Girl * KPANTS
06.) DIY * Screeching Weasel
07.) The Dreams Of A Working Girl * Comet Gain
08.) godheadSilo [Excerpt]
09.) Polish Cabaret Record

Part II: Skate Rock (01 July 1998)

10.) The World Wasn’t Built In A Day [Excerpt] * Nomeansno
11.) Rendezvous Service * Hungaria
12.) The Kids At The Club * Comet Gain
13.) Save The Children! * Sam & Joe
14.) Let’s Go Get Cokes! * The Faction
15.) In The Kingdom #19 * Sonic Youth

Part III: Emo (08 July 1998)

16.) Frankie Carle [Excerpt I]
17.) Creep In The Celar * The Butthole Surfers
18.) Another Weekend * Comet Gain
19.) The Switch Is Down * Universal Order Of Armageddon
20.) Fake Fake Eyes * …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
21.) Frankie Carle [Excerpt II]

Part IV: The Naked Show (22 July 1998)

22.) In The Air Tonight [Excerpt] * godheadSilo
23.) Rah Rah Replica * Bikini Kill
24.) Kill All The White Man [Live] * NOFX
25.) Oregon * The Western Front
26.) D&D Fantasy * KARP
27.) Talent, OR * Fuck
28.) Anatomically Correct * God Is My Co-Pilot

Part V: The Crazy Show (16 September 1998)

29.) Teenagers Are Boring [Excerpt] * Red Monkey
30.) 49er Stomp * 9th Life
31.) “There’s Always Time To Heal” * Batman Animated Series
32.) “Sinner” * Kult
33.) The Love Theme From Kiss * Adam Woodrow
34.) Beers, Steers & Queers [Excerpt] * Revolting Cocks
35.) Tighten Up * Comet Gain
36.) Carousel of Madonnas * Eva Demarcheck
37.) Rearranged * Crimpshrine

Part VI: A Little Bit Of The Dork Rock w/ Captain Morgain (28 April 1999)

01.) Page 2 (Fantomas) *
02.) Theme (Los Mex Pistols) *
03.) ?? (Deep Wound) *
04.) I’m A Headhunter (The Headhunters) *
05.) Fascist Pig (Suicidal Tendencies) *
06.) ?? (The Twitz) *
07.) ?? (??) *
08.) Sugar Sugar [Live] (Germs) *
09.) Open Your Eyes (The Avengers)
10.) ?? (The Avengers) *
11.) Outdone (Uncle Tupelo) *
12.) ?? (Jad Fair & Yo La Tengo) *
13.) Suck A Caribou’s Ass (Wesley Willis) *
14.) Goodbye Everybody (The Cartoon Planet Band)

 

05.) A Raking Session (ABC S1E2, “Rakers”)

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05.) A Raking Session (ABC S1E2, “Rakers”)
(Recorded on 27 Oct. 2020)

In this episode we discuss the ABC TV Transmission from 7 April 1987, “Rakers,” the future of underground sports, David Bowie’s continued connection with the program, and why it’s not cool to order a drink for someone who has turned it down three times.

Heather purchases some friends for Mitch.

Austin’s dog-like behavior eventually becomes infectious.

 

In our next episode, we will be discussing six songs that were popular during the era that “Max Headroom” was on television, selected by the hosts. You can watch the music videos for these songs in this playlist:

Issue #06: A Sound Salvation

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Issue #06: A Sound Salvation

Written & Performed by Austin Rich.

 

Issue #6, produced in July of 2020, featuring some stories from the dial, which includes, “Now, Let’s Go Over The Edge.”

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

[untitled] * Over The Edge * July 1981 * KPFA Radio (1981)
The Tale of the Blue Light * Lillian Cunningham & The Washington Post * Moonrise * The Washington Post (19 July 2019)

It Looks Like Thousands of Stars – Expanded Edition (KWVA Years)

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It Looks Like Thousands of Stars – Expanded Edition (KWVA Years)
(Featuring two shows, one aired on 18 July 2007, and another aired on 17 April 2012, reviewing some classic KWVA material.)

Here’s a pair of episodes from 9 and 14 years ago, which themselves were offering edited versions of material from the late 90’s, and both with the theme of the program becoming unstuck in time… somehow. In the first hour, the dial keeps spinning through time, landing on different moments from my program, past, present, and future. (All with a Negativland radio show at the center of this cut-up.) Then, in hour two, I keep bouncing around throughout the 90’s era shows that I have recordings off, delivering an overview of the stranger moments that show offered.

 

Playlist & Footnotes:

HOUR 1

“It Looks Like Thousands of Stars” (Originally broadcast on KPSU on 18 July 2007.)

HOUR 2

“14th Anniversary Explosion” (Originally broadcast on blasphuphmusradio.com on 20 September 2009.)

The Return of SipComs w/ Luc Thiers

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The Return of SipComs w/ Luc Thiers
(Recorded on 25 March 2021) 

Heather is starting to take this Sitcom idea with “It’s Max!” very seriously, and we decided that there was no better way to get some real advice than to speak with Sitcom expert (and the host of SipComs), Luc Thiers. (Whom you can find online by visiting: @thiersofaclown on Instagram.) Luc joins us to talk about what it is that they find appealing about the format, their particular road into comedy, and some of the shows that they think are good examples of the modern changes that has happened with Sitcoms.

Heather is very curious about Pops.

Austin demands that Luc pitch an idea, NOW!

 

 

Issue #02: Our Silence Has Been Deafening

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Issue #02: Our Silence Has Been Deafening

Written & Performed by Austin Rich, with additional writing by Sean Derrick Cooper  Marquardt & Ellen Klowden, including an interview Obadiah Baird.

Issue #2, produced in June of 2020, features some stories from the streets, which includes, “Silence Is Saying A Lot More Than You Think,” “One Night In Downtown Salem,” “Short Poem About  When the Spirit Leaves the Body,” and “Arisen.”

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Good Cop Bad Cop * DFL  * Proud To Be * Epitaph Records (1995)

Bella Ciao (Goodbye Beautiful) * Marc Ribot & Tom Waits * Songs  of Resistance 1942 – 2018 * ANTI- Records (2018)

Bricks  * Crimpshrine *  Sleep, What’s That? * Lookout Records (1988)

Bella Ciao * Obadiah Baird * Performing Live, October 2019.

The Legendary Holden Craft (KWVA Years)

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The Legendary Holden Craft (KWVA Years)
(Featuring a one hour edit of a show originally broadcast on 18 November 1998, and an hour of selected edits from shows broadcast in 1998 and 1999.)

Here’s a pair of episodes from 13 years ago, which themselves were offering edited version of shows from 10 years prior to that, which cover the various appearances that Holden Craft made on my early shows. Holden was a hilarious and strange feature of the program in those early days, and those shows offer a kind of comedy that only he and I can perform together. This photo is of us in 2007, which might have been the last time that we got to see each other in person.

 

Playlist & Footnotes:

HOUR 1

“The Taco Bell Chihuahua.” (A one-hour edit of a four-hour broadcast. This edited version was originally broadcast on KPSU on 25 April 2009.)

HOUR 2

“The Legendary Holden Craft” (A one-hour edit of many KWVA era shows that featured Holden Craft. This edit was originally broadcast on KPSU on 20 September 2009.)

04.) Writing & Producing The Future: “THAT’S What They Want To Do?” (A Conversation With Brian Frankish, Steve Roberts & Michael Cassutt)

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04.) Writing & Producing The Future: “THAT’S What They Want To Do?” (A Conversation With Brian Frankish, Steve Roberts & Michael Cassutt)
(Recorded on 14 Apr. 2021)

In this episode we are given some rare insight into the making of our favorite program, when Brian Frankish, Steve Roberts & Michael Cassutt offer to convert their own visages into Headroom-style presentations, and share an hour of stories, memories, and other bits and bobs about what it was like to make this show. As we discovered: this was a bit of a reunion for these three, and it was a pleasure to have made it happen, while also getting a little Hollywood gossip on what happened behind the scenes. (We’ll give you a hint: it was a lot of drinking.)

Heather needs to know about the car in Theora’s bedroom.

Austin probably gushes a little too much toward our guests.

 

(We encourage you to enjoy the video version, as there are charming details that don’t translate quite as well to an audio podcast, namely Brian producing props at various times. The video is a more “raw” representation of the conversation, and does not contain all the audio editing and production that you will find in the podcast. This is the “meat & potatoes” version, as they as; just as good as the audio version, but a little rougher around the edges, and without all the filigree.)

In our next episode, we will be discussing S1E2 of the US TV Program, “Max Headroom,” originally aired 7 April 1987. Titled “Rakers,” it is currently available on DVD through Shout Factory, and comes with a number of excellent bonus features. This link could help you skate through to the next show.

Issue #38: The First Inauguration (3 of 3)

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Issue #38: The First Inauguration (3 of 3)

Written & Performed by Austin Rich.

Issue #38, produced in April of 2021, contains an origin story for our country… PART 3!

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

George Washington (Part 3) * Biography In Sound * 5 July 1955.

Summer Wind * Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet * Savvy Show Stoppers * Glass Records (1988)

The Day Before My Birthday (KWVA Episode 003)

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Crispin Hellion Glover

The Day Before My Birthday (KWVA Episode 003)
(Originally broadcast on 29 April 1998 on KWVA.)

Playlist & Footnotes:

An early solo show.  I distinctly remember this being the night I discovered Crispin Glover’s solo album.  This is a recreation of what that show might have sounded like.  4 – 6 A.M.

 

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The Day Before My Birthday Playlist

HOUR 1

01.) Rat Catching * Crispin Hellion Glover
02.) The James Bond Theme * Leroy Holmes
03.) Selector Pt. 2 * Dub Narcotic Sound System
04.) Sanctuary * Avail
05.) Prison Shake * KARP
06.) Midnight In The Jungle * Red Aunts
07.) Defiled * New Bomb Turks
08.) O.J. And His Personal Trainer Kill Ron And Nicole * Negativland * Happy Heroes EP * Seeland Records

09.) Jet Boy, Jet Girl * The Damned
10.) Saturday Night At The Book Store * The Dicks
10.) Knights of The Baskervilles * Thee Headcoats
11.) Good Cop, Bad Cop * DFL
12.) Brand New * Beastie Boys
13.) Rowdy * KARP
14.) The Black Hole Tube * Negativland * Happy Heroes EP * Seeland Records
15.) Sounds of Seduction * Strychnine
16.) Mr. Pushup * godheadSilo

HOUR 2

17.) No Depression * Uncle Tupelo * No Depression * Rockville Records
18.) John Doe * Testament

19.) Rock And Roll McDonalds * Wesley Willis
20.) Steak Knife * Angry Samoans
21.) Mertz #1 * Negativland * Happy Heroes EP * Seeland Records
22.) Orion (Star Gazer) * Crackerbash
23.) Homemade Speed * Blatz
24.) She * Misfits
25.) Never Squeal * Ween
26.) Beach Party Vietnam * The Dead Milkmen
27.) Sloppy (I Saw My Baby Gettin’) * Devo
28.) I Got A Bad Feeling About This * Supergenius
29.) The New Clean Song * Crispin Hellion Glover
30.) Fake Fake Eyes * …Any You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead

31.) We Can * The Readymen
32.) Lifetime Achievement Award * Unwound
33.) Mertz #2 * Negativland * Happy Heroes EP * Seeland Records
34.) Once Over Twice * X
35.) Oh Bondage, Up Yours * X-Ray Spex
36.) Destination Venus * Man… Or Astro-Man?
37.) Dissect * The John Spencer Blues Explosion

38.) Austin’s Mertz Commercial
39.) Someone To Watch Over Me * Susan Lucci
40.) Chewin’ George Lucas’ Chocolate / Goofy’s Concern * Butthole Surfers
41.) Nixon’s The One * Mono Puff

Issue #37: The First Inauguration (2 of 3)

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Issue #37: The First Inauguration (2 of 3)

Written & Performed by Austin Rich.

Issue #37, produced in April of 2021, contains an origin story for our country… PART 2!

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

George Washington (Part 2) * Biography In Sound * 5 July 1955.

Summer Wind * Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet * Savvy Show Stoppers * Glass Records (1988)

Josephus of Sinkhole (KWVA Episode 002)

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Josephus of Sinkhole (Johnathan Christ)

Josephus of Sinkhole (KWVA Episode 002)
(Originally broadcast on 22 April 1998 on KWVA.)

Playlist & Footnotes:

My first show with a guest!  Josephus of Sinkhole made a few appearances on the Eugene incarnation of this show, and would later appear on Live Friday, with his band !go-yo!.  This show was on from 4 – 6 AM.  Some of this show was included in an episode from 28 May 2012, in a highly edited form.

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Josephus of Sinkhole 

HOUR 1

01.) Sonata For Loudspeakers * Unwound * Challenge for a Civilized Society * Kill Rock Stars Records
02.) Updated Theme From Supercar * Man… Or Astro-Man? * All Punk Rods!: A Gearhead Magazine Collection * Lookout! Records
03.) They Saved Hitler’s Cock * Angry Samoans * Back From Samoa * Triple X Records
04.) Health Surface * Crass
05.) The Wooden Song * The Butthole Surfers
06.) Michelle’s Farm * Beastie Boys
07.) Rich Daddy * Dicks
08.) Birdman Kicked My Ass * Wesley Willis
09.) A Most Successful Formula * Negativland
10.) I Luv U… nicorns * godheadSilo

11.) Steamroller [Mix by Skatenigs] * Pigface
12.) The Trials Of Being A Jedi * Supergenius * Star Wars Breakbeats * Suckadellic Records
13.) Where Are The Children That Hitler Kissed? * Thee Headcoats
14.) New #2 * Avail
15.) Exene * Red Aunts
16.) Selector Dub Narcotic Pt. 1 * Dub Narcotic Sound System * Selector Dub Narcotic * K Records
17.) Obstacle Corpse * KARP * KARP/Rye Split * Troubleman Unlimited Records
18.) Freezing Water * ??
19.) Reggaejunkiejew * Ween
20.) Goo Goo Muck * The Cramps
21.) White Riot * The Clash
22.) Come’ CaCa * Chicano-Christ

HOUR 2

13.) Down To The River * The Cartoon Planet Band * Space Ghost’s Musical Bar-B-Que * Kid Rhino Records
14.) Last Caress * Misfits * Collection * Caroline Records
15.) Strychnine * Strychnine
16.) Some Hits * Anal Cunt * Top 40 Hits * Earache Records

16.) Driver Down * Trent Reznor * Lost Highway Soundtrack * Interscope Records
17.) John Hardy * Uncle Tupelo * No Depression * Rockville Records
18.) (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction * Devo
19.) Love Is… * King Missile

20.) Dragnet * Ray Anthony
21.) Fame * Irene Cara * Fame Soundtrack * RSO Records
20.) Algebra Of Need * Rye Coalition
21.) Dr. Rock * Ween * The Pod * Shimmy Disc Records
22.) Violent Pacification * Slayer * Undisputed Attitude * American Recordings
23.) Dudsville * The Asthma Hounds * Unreleased Radio Promo Tape

24.) Christine * The Con Men * Live In-Studio * KWVA Radio
25.) Lend Me Your Comb * Carl Perkins
26.) This Time * The Wipers
27.) We Must Beed * Germs
28.) In My Room * Deep Wound

25.) Satan’s Little Lamb * Ethel Merman * I Get a Kick Out of You * Pavillion Records
26.) DNI * Man… Or Astro-Man? * Experiment Zero * Touch & Go Records

27.) Raw Meat Torn By Saxophone Blasts * Mike Patton * Adult Themes For Voice * Tzadik Records

03.) [keyboarding] (ABC S1E1, “Blipverts”)

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03.) [keyboarding] (ABC S1E1, “Blipverts”)
(Recorded on 15 Oct. 2020)

In this episode we discuss the ABC TV Transmission from 31 March 1987, “Blipverts,” hiring children to work in tech offices, and how the few diverse and progressive elements in the show still managed to avoid naming characters, giving them dialog, or passing the Bechtel Test.

Heather experiences a strange sense of déjà vu… again.

Austin posits that cyberpunk is secretly a Christmas genre.

 

Next Episode: We take a break from reviewing Max, and would ask that you Join us for a conversation with Brian Frankish, Steve Roberts and Michael Cassutt, as they discuss what it was like to be “Writing & Producing The Future: THAT’S What They Want To Do?”

Only on: 20minutesintothefuture.org

 

 

Issue #36: The First Inauguration (1 of 3)

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Issue #36: The First Inauguration (1 of 3)

Written & Performed by Austin Rich.

Issue #36, produced in April of 2021, contains an origin story for our country… PART 1!

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

George Washington (Part 1) * Biography In Sound * 5 July 1955.

Summer Wind * Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet * Savvy Show Stoppers * Glass Records (1988)

The Beginning (KWVA Episode 001)

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KWVA Studio
KWVA Studio

The Beginning (KWVA Episode 001)
(Originally broadcast on 15 April 1998 on KWVA.)

This was my first ever radio broadcast.   4 A.M. – 7 A.M. on KWVA.  What follows is a recreation, based on playlists, recordings, and memories from that evening.  This is an approximation of what it was like to listen to my show this evening.

 

The Beginning

HOUR 1

01.) Strychnine * Strychnine * Born to Loose * Industrial Strength Records
02.) Millionaire * ?? * ?? * ??
03.) Teenagers From Mars * Misfits * Collection * Caroline Records
04.) Christine * The Con Men * Live In-Studio * KWVA Radio
05.) Dicks Hate The Police * The Dicks * 1980-1986 * Alternative Tentacles Records
06.) Stereo Phasing Test / Television * Man… Or Astro-Man? * Experiment Zero * Touch & Go Records
07.) Cramp Stomp * The Cramps * Big Beat from Badsville * Epitaph Records
08.) Selector Pt. 2 * Dub Narcotic Sound System
09.) Buenos Tardes Amigos * Ween
10.) Fade In / Fade Out * Red Aunts

11.) Forest Fire * Dead Kennedys * Plastic Surgery Disasters * Alternative Tentacles Records
12.) BluBlud * KARP
13.) KWVA In-Studio Performance * The Outclass
14.) My Novel * Oswald 5-0
15.) Let’s Go Away * The Wipers
16.) Neat Neat Neat * The Damned * Damned Damned Damned * Stiff Records
17.) Justification * Against All Authority
18.) Streamline Yr Skull * New Bomb Turks

HOUR 2

19.) Embryodead (Aghast View Remix) * :wampscut:
20.) Shaved Women * Crass
21.) Praying Hands * Devo
22.) Caught In My Eye * Germs
23.) Smokin’ Banana Peels * Dead Milkmen
24.) Hexenzsene * Unwound
25.) Metanoia * King Missile
26.) The Way Of The World * Flipper

27.) Happy Hero * Negativland * Dispepsi * Seeland Records

28.) Kill All The White Man (Live) * NOFX * I Heard They Suck Live!! * Fat Wreck Chords
29.) Germfree Adolescents * X-Ray Spex
30.) Universal Corner * X
31.) Hustler * Blatz
32.) Gargoyle Waiting * …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
33.) Persistent Vision * Rites of Spring
34.) Whirling Hall Of Knives * Butthole Surfers
35.) Treat Me Right * The Con Men * Live In-Studio * KWVA Radio

HOUR 3

36.) Titanium Expose * Sonic Youth * Goo * DGC Records
37.) Birthday Sandwhich * godheadSilo
38.) Theme * Los Mex Pistols * Unreleased Radio Promo Tape

39.) Runnin’ Through My Bones * Tight Bros. From Way Back When
40.) Ain’t No Woman Gonna Make A George Jones Outta Me * Daniel Johnston *
41.) This Is Radio Clash * The Clash * The Story of The Clash, Volume I * Epic Records
42.) Egg Raid On Mojo * Beastie Boys

43.) Excuse Me, But Pardon My French * Unwound * The Future of What * Kill Rock Stars Records
44.) Balalaika Gap * Camper Van Beethoven
45.) Born To Do Dishes * The Queers
46.) Sidewalk Warrior * Screeching Weasle
45.) Jello Biafra * Wesley Willis
46.) Hangin’ Tough * New Kids On The Block * Hangin’ Tough * Columbia Records

47.) False Start * Bikini Kill
48.) In My Mind * Crimpshrine
49.) Kasimir S. Pulaski Day * Big Black

04.) Tennessee Stud * Jimmie Driftwood * The Wilderness Road * RCA / Victor Records

Join us for: Writing & Producing The Future!

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We’ll cut to the chase: we are announcing a special episode of our podcast, where we get to speak with Steve Roberts, Brian Frankish and Michael Cassutt, three of the creators behind a little show that is near and dear to the hosts of this podcast.

“Writing And Producing The Future: A Conversation With Steve Roberts, Brian Frankish & Michael Cassutt.”

There is so much talent crammed into this panel of Hollywood Luminaries that it is a shame, really, that we only get them for an hour, and even worse, that they are only discussing the program that they all have in common: something that lived, and still does, at some point 20 Minutes Into The Future…

“Max Headroom” was a short-lived science fiction program with a dark sense of humor and a wicked take on what the future might be like. And, in a very strange turn of events, much of this future happened to become the world we now live in. This ironic twist has not only led to making the dark comedy of this program even darker, but has led to a new podcast, “20 Minutes Into The Future,” where Heather & Austin (two radio nerds) review and discuss these ironies. Now, they get to aim this conversation directly at the creators of the program. 

Writer, Director and Producer Steve Roberts, best known for writing “Max Headroom,” and “Hercules,” as well as developing the Canadian program, “Redwall,” is a charming English gentleman with a wonderful laugh and a very sardonic view of the horrors that technology can offer.  

Novelist, writer and producer Michael Cassutt produced shows like “Z-Nation,” “Strange Luck,” “Eerie, Indiana” and “The Twilight Zone,” as well a having written dozens of scripts for a number of shows. He also worked closely with Steve Roberts on “Max Headroom,” and is a bit of a NASA nerd in his spare time.  

Producer and Director Brian Frankish, who worked on films like “Strange Brew,” “The Last Starfighter,” “The Fugitive,” and “The Crazies,” and relevant to this particular conversation, was the producer on “Max Headroom,” that helped bring Steve & Michael’s stories to the small screen. 

In this panel conversation facilitated via digital communication tools, three of the people who envisioned the future that we all now live in will reminisce, and discuss what it was like to develop this vision. Join us for an hour-long discussion about what it was like to work in the television trenches of the late ’80’s, and listen in to stories about bucking the system and working within it.

“Max Headroom,” was anti-television, anti-corporate power, anti-advertising, and anti-globalism, and yet, was produced by some insightful and adept members of the Hollywood community, who were not afraid to thumb their noses at the establishment. Now, this is our chance to introduce this brand of nose-thumbing to a new generation.

“Writing And Producing The Future: A Conversation With Steve Roberts, Brian Frankish & Michael Cassutt.”

Only on: 20minutesintothefuture.org

Memories of Max w/ Blank Brian

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Memories of Max w/ Blank Brian
(Recorded on 6 April 2021) 

In a short bonus episode (by our standards), Blank Brian joins us to share his Memories of Max. We also address some correspondence, announce our upcoming ZOOM WATCH PARTY for the ABC TV program, “Blipverts,” which will take place on 17 April 2021, 6 PM PST or 9 PM EST! See Below for full details, or Follow This Link to go STRAIGHT TO THE PARTY, NOW.

Heather is very excited about our new guest.

Austin finds a new remix for our show.

This link might work for you if you want to take the risk that watching it might cause you to explode. You would still need to log into the Zoom Party to watch along with us.

 

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Heather is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Watch Party: Max Headroom S1 EI – Blipverts
Time: Apr 17, 2021 09:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting:

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Issue #35: The Daona Interview

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Issue #35: The Daona Interview

Written & Performed Austin Rich, featuring a conversation with Daona (Fiona McAlister & David Solomons).

Issue #35, produced in April of 2021, containing the journey that is The Daona Interview. 

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Badger by Owl Light * Daona * The Secret Assembly * Faustus Records (2019)

Lush Life * Daona * The Secret Assembly * Faustus Records (2019)

Nosferatu (Excerpt) * Daona * The Secret Assembly * Faustus Records (2019)

02.) Music Video Logic (Channel 4 Telefilm, “Max Headroom”)

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02.) Music Video Logic (Channel 4 Telefilm, “Max Headroom”)
(Recorded on 26 Sept. 2020)

Exactly 36 years after the initial broadcast of “Max Headroom” on Channel 4, we discus this telefilm, sexual harassment on your first day at work, and if it really is cost-efficient to compress commercials to 1/10th their original length.

Heather wonders if David Bowie was a Max Headroom fan.

Austin wonders if the writer’s of “Freejack,” might have seen Bruegel’s wardrobe.

 

In our next episode, we will be discussing S1E1 of the US TV Program, “Max Headroom,” originally aired 31 March 1987. Titled “Blipverts,” it is currently available on DVD through Shout Factory, and comes with a number of excellent bonus features. This link might work for you, at least, for now.

Issue #34: The Martin Newell Interview

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Issue #34: The Martin Newell Interview

Written & Performed Heather from The Sound of Tomorrow & Austin Rich, featuring a conversation with Heather, Austin & Martin Newell.

Issue #34, produced in March of 2021, containing some spacey musical stories, Namely: “The Martin Newell Interview.” 

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Statues * Martin Newell * Penny Novelettes (To be released sometime this year.)

Goodnight Andromeda * Martin Newell * Penny Novelettes (To be released sometime this year.)

It’s A Blank Revolution! (ZOOM Party Announcement And WAYO Promos!)

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It’s A Blank Revolution! (ZOOM Party Announcement And WAYO Promos!)
(Recorded on 22 March 2021 & 25 March, 2021. “The Sound of Tomorrow” and “Teen Set Radio” original aired on WAYO-FM in Rochester, NY) 

(If you noticed the edits in your audio being “off,” delete the file on your device and reload the episode. You will find that a corrected version has been loaded.)

In this bonus episode, we announce our ZOOM WATCH PARTY for the UK Telefilm, “Max Headroom,” which will take place 3 April 2021, 6 PM PST or 9 PM EST! See below for the full details, or Follow This Link to go STRAIGHT TO THE PARTY, NOW.

Heather has researched actual apartments where you can park your car indoors.

Austin has some mail he wants to read.

This link might work for you if you want to watch the video at home. You would still need to log into the Zoom Party to watch along with us.

* * * * * *

Heather is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: “Watch Party: UK telefilm Max Headroom: 20 Minutes Into the Future”
Time: Apr 3, 2021 09:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting

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Heather & Austin Interview Martin Newell!

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On 24 March, 2021, we had the distinct pleasure of speaking with Martin Newell, legendary home-taper, a big figure in the Cassette Trading Network in the ’80’s, and The Greatest Living Englishman, with a staggering amount of poetry and published, literary work, in addition to his Weekly Podcast, the Oddcaste.

Martin is the driving force behind The Cleaners From Venus, but his solo albums are just as inventive and whimsical, attracting the likes of Andy Partridge to work on producing for him.

capturedtracks.com has reissued Martin’s solo albums, and a new edition of “The Off White Album” hit stores YESTERDAY.

In this conversation, we discuss this reissue, the impending documentary about his life, and plenty of other bits and bobs throughout the half-hour.

This is actually a 30 minute edit of an 80 minute conversation, that will come out on the show this summer. But for now, you can enjoy this version, where you get to watch Martin Go-Go Dance for the camera, as well as get pumped while you wait for your copy of “The Off White Album” to land on your doorstep.

It was a really honor to speak with Martin, and he is as wonderful as his albums and songs. As a tease, you can hear a sample of one song from an album that has not yet been released yet, at the end of this video. So stay tuned! The album is coming out this summer… but you can hear this sample, NOW!

Issue #33: The Voices In My Head

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Issue #33: The Voices In My Head

Written & Performed by Austin Rich, featuring a conversation with Heather from The Sound of Tomorrow.

Issue #33, produced in March of 2021, containing some unique sounding stories, including, “Unwanted Voices,” “Heather’s Recommendations,” and, “A Quick Plug For Drag Race.” 

Heather’s Recommendations:

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Musical Interlude * Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet * Savvy Show Stoppers * Glass Records (1988)

Our Weapons Are Useless * Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet * Savvy Show Stoppers * Glass Records (1988)

01.) We Can Title ’em, Too (Our Pilot)

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01.) We Can Title ’em, Too (Our Pilot)
(Recorded on 7 Sept. 2020 AND 4 Feb. 2021) 

In our Pilot episode, we introduce our listeners to our show, how we will be viewing the show / character, how often we’ll be on, and what our relationship with Max Headroom is. A cascading series of meta-talks about our future talks ensues. In a meta way.

Heather reveals that she thinks Max Headroom is a sitcom.

Austin spends a fair amount of time discussing lawn care.

In our next episode, we will be discussing the UK telefilm, “Max Headroom,” originally aired 4 April 1985. It was briefly available in Japan on Laserdisc, but is currently unavailable, to our knowledge. YouTube, archive.org, and a number of other sites have it available for you to enjoy in the meantime.

This link might work for you, for now.

Issue #31: I’m Not The Same Person I Once Was

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Issue #31: I’m Not The Same Person I Once Was

Written by Flann O’Brien & Austin Rich, and Performed by Austin Rich.

Issue #31, produced in January of 2021, featuring some changed and much different stories, including, “Hand Lotion,” “The Mandalorian Season Two,” and more selections from “Waama, Etc.” 

 

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Our Weapons Are Useless * Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet * Savvy Show Stoppers * Glass Records (1988)

The Green Hills of Earth (St. Patrick’s Day Retrocast)

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The Green Hills of Earth (St. Patrick’s Day Retrocast)

(Featuring a re-mixed presentation of three different broadcast version of Robert Heinlein’s The Green Hills of Earth!)

This episode features samples of Dimension X from June 10th 1950, X-Minus 1 from July 7th 1955, and the CBS Radio Workshop from 21 July 1957.

 

HOUR 1

01.) The Green Hills of Earth Edit 1
02.) Men Into Space * Buddy Morrow * Brain In A Box
03.)The Green Hills of Earth Edit 2
04.) Astrononmie Domine * Pink Floyd
05.) The Green Hills of Earth Edit 3
06.) Super Rocket Rumble * Man… Or Astro-Man? * Deluxe men in space
07.) The Green Hills of Earth Edit 4

08.) Out to launch * Sonny Sharrock * Space Ghost
09.) The Green Hills of Earth Edit 5
10.) The Spaceman * Charles Manson * 60 Birthday
11.) The Green Hills of Earth Edit 6
12.) Space Station # 5 * Fastbacks * new mansions in sound
13.) The Green Hills of Earth Edit 7
14.) Get Outta That Spaceship And Fight Like A Man * The Grifters

15.) Cosmic Ballad * Perrey And Kingsley
16.) The Green Hills of Earth Edit 8
17.) Starship * Spaceman 3

HOUR 2

18.) The Green Hills of Earth Edit 9
19.) Yes! I Am A Long Way From Home * Mogwai
20.) The Green Hills of Earth Edit 10
21.) Revenge * Black Flag
22.) The Green Hills of Earth Edit 11
23.) Follow Blind * Wipers

24.) Dirty Joke From Outer Space pt I * Sunroof!
25.) The Green Hills of Earth Edit 12
26.) Hard Travelin’ * Woody Guthrie
27.) The Green Hills of Earth Edit 13
28.) Spaceball Ricochet * T. Rex

29.) Space Loneliness * Sun Ra
30.) The Green Hills of Earth Edit 14
31.) Clink, Clink, Another Drink * Spike Jones
32.) The Green Hills of Earth Edit 15
33.) 2000 Light Years From Home * The Rolling Stones
34.) The Green Hills of Earth Edit 16
35.) Talking Hard Work * Woody Guthrie

HOUR 3

36.) The Green Hills of Earth Edit 17
37.) Dirty Joke From Outer Space pt II * Sunroof!
38.) The Green Hills of Earth Edit 18
39.) Space Age Ballad * Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.
40.) The Green Hills of Earth Edit 19
41.) A Long Way From Home * The Kinks
42.) The Green Hills of Earth Edit 20

43.) Headed Home * George & Caplan
44.) The Green Hills of Earth Edit 21
45.) Dirty Joke From Outer Space pt IiI * Sunroof!
46.) The Green Hills of Earth Edit 22
47.) Keep On The Sunny Side * The Carter Family

48.) Homecoming * Replikants
49.) The Green Hills of Earth Edit 23
50.) Up The Wooden Hills To Bedfordshire * Small Faces
51.) The Green Hills of Earth Edit 24
52.) Spaceship Landing * Kyuss
53.) The Green Hills of Earth Edit 25
54.) Death Is Not The End * Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
55.) The Intergalactic Laxative * Donavan

Issue #32: The Cost of Free Expression

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Issue #32: The Cost of Free Expression

Written by Flann O’Brien & Austin Rich, and Performed by Austin Rich.

Issue #32, produced in January of 2021, containing some █████ and █████ stories, including, “World Day Against Cyber Censorship,” “You Can Make Anything / What Will It Say?,” and more selections from “Waama, Etc.” 

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Musical Interlude * Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet * Savvy Show Stoppers * Glass Records (1988)

Zombie Compromise * Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet * Savvy Show Stoppers * Glass Records (1988)

The People Who Died Part VII (#224)

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The People Who Died Part VII (#224)

After a long diversion of playing nothin but Ken Nordine, we continue our journey through the people who we lost in the last few years.

Enjoy!

 

The People Who Died

Part I:

01.) Nut Rocker * B. Bumble & The Stingers

Part II:

02.) Any Other Way * Jackie Shane
03.) Just Want A Little Lovin’ * Andre Williams
04.) Hey Baby (Live on KRVS) * Lil’ Buck Sinegal

Part III:

05.) I’m Not Your Stepping Stone * The Monkees
06.) Dignified And Old * The Modern Lovers
07.) Waters Part * Let’s Active
08.) Gotta Keep A Runnin’ * The Godz

Part IV:

09.) Who Do You Love? * Juicy Lucy
10.) Up Against The Wall * Tom Robinson Band
11.) Two Swords * The Beat
12.) Eye of The Tiger * Survivor
13.) Twix Commercial
14.) Nightmare * Viper * The Killera Sword (1985)
15.) Perfect Murder * The Glove

Part V:

25.) Madame Dulac’s Daughter * The Adventures of Rocky Jordan * 12 February 1950

Issue #30: The Distance Between Things

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Issue #30: The Distance Between Things

Written by Flann O’Brien & Austin Rich, and Performed by Austin Rich.

Issue #30, produced in January of 2021, featuring some sport shoe and sweat pants clad stories, including, “Cycling,” “Pulling Away From Social Media,” and more selections from “Waama, Etc.” 

 

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Bennett Cerf * Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet * Savvy Show Stoppers * Glass Records (1988)

Our Weapons Are Useless * Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet * Savvy Show Stoppers * Glass Records (1988)

The People Who Died Part VI: Ken Northrine (#223)

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The People Who Died Part VI: Ken Northrine (#223)

The third / fifth installment dedicated to the work of Ken Nordine.

Enjoy!

 

The People Who Died:

This show contains excerpts from a documentary on Book Television (2005), on a show called “The Word This Week,” with a show the called, Stare With Your Ears.

Part I:

01.) Word Jazz Episode Three (Except 3 & 4)

Part II:

02.) Word Jazz Episode Three (Except 5)
03.) Amber * Ken Nordine * Colors
04.) Bathtub * Ken Nordine * Ken Nordine Does Robert Shure
05.) Word Jazz Episode Three (Except 6)
06.) Turquoise * Ken Nordine * Colors
07.) Envelope * Ken Nordine * Ken Nordine Does Robert Shure
08.) Word Jazz Episode Three (Except 7)
09.) Fuscia * Ken Nordine * Colors
10.) Cracks In The Sidewalks * Ken Nordine * Ken Nordine Does Robert Shure
11.) Word Jazz Episode Three (Except 8)

Part III:

12.) Green * Ken Nordine * Colors
13.) Cellophane Shoes * Ken Nordine * Ken Nordine Does Robert Shure
14.) Word Jazz Episode Three (Except 9)
15.) Crimson * Ken Nordine * Colors
16.) Lampshades * Ken Nordine * Ken Nordine Does Robert Shure
17.) Word Jazz Episode Four (Except 1)
18.) Russet * Ken Nordine * Colors
19.) Pea * Ken Nordine * Ken Nordine Does Robert Shure
20.) Word Jazz Episode Four (Except 2)

Part IV:

21.) Azure * Ken Nordine * Colors
22.) When You’re Born * Ken Nordine * Ken Nordine Does Robert Shure
23.) Word Jazz Episode Four (Except 3)

24.) Word Jazz Episode Three (Except 10)

Part VI:

25.) An Air of Death * The Adventures of Rocky Jordan * 5 February 1950

Programming Note

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Good Hello.

The KMUZ Pledge Drive was extended by a week, due to inclement weather, and power outages, that made broadcasting impossible. So, today (February 26th), the Pledge Drive Show from last week is finally airing on KMUZ. We will take a week off, and resume our regular broadcasts next week.

Due to the change in scheduling, the next three shows will be out of order.

Afterwards, we will return to our normal broadcast routine.

Thanks!

Getting Back In The Groove (Retrocast)

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Getting Back In The Groove (Retrocast)

It’s a new year, and we are giving you a new performance my Mini-Mutations. And, we’re back on KLFM.org! How exciting! Hopefully we can get the hang of this new schedule.

Enjoy!

 

Getting Back In The Groove

Live Performances by Mini-Mutations on 23 January and 28 January, with excerpt from Ken Nordine’s “Word Jazz.”

 

Issue #29: The Pledge Drive Special!

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Issue #29: The Pledge Drive Special!

Written & Performed by Austin Rich.

Issue #29, produced in February of 2021, featuring some fund-raising stories, including, “The Pledge Drive Special Part 1,” “The Passenger Side ” and, ”The Pledge Drive Special Part 2.”

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

I Can Only Give You Everything * The Ambertones * Garage Punk Unknowns

The Future of Love: Lulu! (Valentine’s Retrocast)

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il_340x270.307488975The Future of Love: Lulu! (Valentine’s Retrocast)
(Featuring the NBC classic X Minus 1, with the episode “Lulu,” originally broadcast on 31 October 1957.)

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, we bring you a special presentation of an X Minus 1broadcast from 1957! It’s all part of that little piece of joy we like to think of as our weekly radio show. Ob-soive:

We rarely consider Valentine’s Day a radio-friendly holiday, but this year the combination of Sci-Fi and creepy love songs was just too irresistible to pass up.

(This show originally aired on KPSU in 2011.)

 

Track * Artist * Album * Label

01.) Part I * X Minus 1 * Lulu (31 October 1957) * NBC Radio
02.) Love Dance * Martin Denny
03.) Part II * X Minus 1 * Lulu (31 October 1957) * NBC Radio
04.) Interplanetary Love * Acid Mother’s Temple
05.) Modern Love Waltz * Philip Glass
06.) Love In (December) * Hal Blaine
07.) Part III * X Minus 1 * Lulu (31 October 1957) * NBC Radio
08.) A Disappointing Love * 101 Strings Orchestra * Astro Sounds From Beyond the Year 2000 * Scamp Records
09.) Satelite of Love * Lou Reed
10.) Love Song of the Saroo * Joe Meek & The Blue Men
11.) Love Cry * Albert Ayler
12.) Love Call (Alternate Version) * Ornette Coleman

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Issue #28: The Tools of The Trade

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Issue #28: The Tools of The Trade

Written by Flann O’Brien & Austin Rich, and Performed by Austin Rich.

Issue #28, produced in January of 2021, featuring some clipped and scribbled on stories, including, “Quarantine hobbies,” “Planners,” “Postcards,” and more selections from “Waama, Etc.” 

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Zombie Compromise * Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet * Savvy Show Stoppers * Glass Records (1988)

Customized * Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet * Savvy Show Stoppers * Glass Records (1988)

The Sound Museum (Retrocast)

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The Sound Museum (Retrocast)
(Originally aired 18 April September 2009 on KPSU, and 1 June 2013 – 10 September – 15 September – 16 September – 17 September – 19 September – 22 September – 10 October – 6 November – 12 November – 14 November – 2014 on blasphuphmusradio.wordpress.com)

Follow me and Ken Nordine as we lead you on a wonderful trip through The Sound Museum!

Enjoy.

 

 

The Sound Museum

This program contains samples for “The Sound Museum” by Ken Nordine, released on You’re Getting Better: The Word Jazz – Dot Masters.

HOUR 1

Part I: I’m Sorry

01.) Austin FM Theme * Paco Jones * Austin FM Theme * Self-Released (2016)
02.) Race: In * Battles * Mirrored
03.) Astarielle * The Oblik * Memory Fades
04.) I’m Sorry * Austin Rich
05.) Question & Answer Session * The Miss * “Question & Answer Session” b/w “Vast Deference” 7″
06.) Steak Knife! * Steak Knife! * Steak Knife!

Part II: The Moth

07.) The Moth * Austin Rich
08.) In My Brain * Pierced Arrows * “In My Brain” b/w “Caroline” 7″
09.) Reincarnation Blues * Grails * Doomsdayer’s Holiday
10.) The Walk * Austin Rich
11.) What I Must Do * Devo * Oh, No! It’s Devo
12.) Rock ’n’ Roll Victim * Death * …For The Whole World To See

Part III: It Never Stops

13.) Totally Wired Numbers Station * Austin Rich
14.) Eraser * Oswald Five-0 * “Eraser” b/w “Felony Flats” 7″
15.) 上を向いて歩こう (“Sukiyaki) * The Holry Molrys * Demo Tape
16.) Quiet * Austin Rich
17.) Again & Again * The Hospitals * The Hospitals

HOUR 2

Part IV: Their Instruments Playing

18.) Breakfast Machine * Danny Elfman * Pee Wee’s Big Adventure Soundtrack
19.) “Their Instruments Playing” [Excerpt from] In Watermelon Sugar * Richard Brautigan Read by Austin Rich
20.) All World Cowboy Romance * Mission of Burma * Signals, Calls & Marches
21.) Live From The Teen Challenge, 8 November 2014 * An Unidentified Child

Part V: The Couch

22.) The Half-Eaten Sausage Would Like To See You In His Office * The Locust
23.) Tech Talk * Austin Rich
24.) Acid Rain * Grails * Doomsdayer’s Holiday
25.) The Couch * Men’s Recovery Project * Grappling With The Hominids
26.) I Can’t Keep From Crying Sometimes * Austin Rich
27.) Does It Hurt? * The Wipers * Better Off Dead 7″

Part VI: The Message

28.) “The Message” [Excerpt from] Trout Fishing In America  * Richard Brautigan read by Austin Rich

Our Program Launches March 21st!

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Our Premier Episode will be airing at 23:00 PM, GMT, on 21 March 2021.

7 PM, EST, or 4 PM, PST.

You can hear a sample of our pilot now if you subscribe to the show:

iTunes RSS or Generic RSS. We are also on Mixcloud.

Subscribe today, and live… 20 Minutes Into The Future!

* * * * * *

36 years ago, Channel 4 in the UK took a chance on a very unusual 60 minute “telefilm,” that was to offer the backstory for their new “digital presenter,” who would be showing 13 weeks of music video programing later that Spring and Summer.

What began as an experiment in testing out “cyberpunk” on broadcast television, became “Max Headroom,” who ran rampant through our culture as he moved from mainframe to mainframe, infecting us with the same kind of digital buoyancy that we were all looking for in the late 80’s. First, Max took over in the UK, then moved on to Cinemax and then, finally, improbably, on ABC television, and from there, he went global. After three years of massive exposure in nearly every medium, and becoming one of the world’s most preeminent cola salesmen, Max suddenly vanished… and little has been seen of him since.

Almost 40 years later, it really does seem like Max’s files may have finally gone to the Purge Directory on our cultural network mainframe.

“20 Minutes Into the Future” is a podcast hosted by Heather & Austin, who plan to track and chart the history of this incredible character, and review some of the media that inspired it. The Pilot episode will air March 21st, and the second episode – where they discuss the BBC telefilm, will air exactly 36 Years after the original program aired. A fitting beginning for a show that wants to look at all the details, and figure out what they mean.

Heather is a radio veteran, who currently hosts The Sound of Tomorrow with her co-host, Ross Johnson. Heather is in the demographic for it, and yet, has never seen a lick of Max Headroom. All of this will be new, as she is introduced to this material for the first time.

Austin is a radio nerd and musician, and a big “Max Headroom” fan. Austin discovered the show in the Spring / Summer of 1987, and watched it relentlessly until the show disappeared from the airwaves in 1988. This experience has left him wanting more, and he has revisited this show several times since then. This time, Austin will be taking a more academic look at the series, using Heather’s first-time perspective to help dig deeper into the material’s social dynamics as they are presented.

Join them, every two weeks, as they discover the world of Max Headroom, and find that living 20 Minutes Into The Future is actually eerily like living today.

 

Issue #27: We Now Return You To Your Regularly Scheduled Broadcast, Already In Progress

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Issue #27: We Now Return You To Your Regularly Scheduled Broadcast, Already In Progress

Written by Flann O’Brien & Austin Rich, and Performed by Austin Rich.

Issue #27, produced in January of 2021, featuring rejuvenated and refreshed radio bits, including, “We’re Back,” “Quitting Coffee,” and more selections from “Waama, Etc.”

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Black Coffee * Black Flag * Slip It In

Customized * Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet * Savvy Show Stoppers * Glass Records (1988)

The People Who Died Part V: Ken Mordine (#222)

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The People Who Died Part V: Ken Mordine (#222)

The second installment dedicated to the work of Ken Nordine.

Enjoy!

 

The People Who Died: Ken Mordine

This show contains excerpts from a documentary on Book Television (2005), on a show called “The Word This Week,” with a show the called, Stare With Your Ears.

Part I:

01.) Word Jazz Episode Two (Except 1)

Part II:

02.) Hunger Is From * Ken Nordine * Jazz Horizons
03.) Eyelashes * Ken Nordine * Ken Nordine Does Robert Shure
04.) Gold * Ken Nordine * Colors
05.) Word Jazz Episode Two (Except 2)
06.) What Time Is It? * Ken Nordine * Jazz Horizons
07.) Ping Pong * Ken Nordine * Ken Nordine Does Robert Shure
08.) Ecru * Ken Nordine * Colors
09.) Word Jazz Episode Two (Except 3)

Part III:

11.) Looks Like It’s Going To Rain * Ken Nordine * Jazz Horizons
12.) Word Jazz Episode Two (Except 4)
13.) Chimney * Ken Nordine * Ken Nordine Does Robert Shure
14.) Muddy * Ken Nordine * Colors
15.) My Baby * Ken Nordine * Jazz Horizons
16.) Sounds In Space (The Rite of Spring) * Ken Nordine * Sounds In Space
18.) Rollerskate * Ken Nordine * Ken Nordine Does Robert Shure
19.) Maroon * Ken Nordine * Colors

Part IV:

20.) Word Jazz Episode Two Except 4
21.) Suede * Ken Nordine * Ken Nordine Does Robert Shure
22.) Yellow * Ken Nordine * Colors
23.) Word Jazz Episode Three Except 1
24.) Clock * Ken Nordine * Ken Nordine Does Robert Shure
25.) White * Ken Nordine * Colors
23.) Word Jazz Episode Three Except 2

Part VI:

18.) An Air of Death * The Adventures of Rocky Jordan * 29 January 1950

Issue #18: Getting Back To Everyday Life

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Issue #18: Getting Back To Everyday Life

Written & Performed by Austin Rich.

Issue #18, produced in November of 2020, featuring gravity-inducing tales, like, “We All Have To Go To Work,” “Going Through The Shock Theater Package,” &, “Baking Sugar Cookies.”

 

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

James K. Polk * They Might Be Giants * Factory Showroom * Electra Records (1996)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The People Who Died Part IV: Ken Nordine (#221)

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The People Who Died Part IV: Ken Nordine (#221)

This show is dedicated to the work of Ken Nordine.

Enjoy!

 

 

 

 

The People Who Died: Ken Nordine

This show contains excerpts from a studio tour that Ken offered WBEZ.

Part I:

01.) Word Jazz Episode One (Excerpt 1)

Part II:

02.) A Thousand Bing Bangs * Ken Nordine w/ Tom Waits & David Grisman
03.) The Shifting, Whispering Sands Part 1 * Billy Vaughn & Ken Nordine
04.) Roger * Ken Nordine * Jazz Horizons
05.) Puce * Ken Nordine * Colors
06.) Great * Ken Nordine * Ken Nordine Does Robert Shure
07.) Six Commercials In Search of A Client * Ken Nordine

Part III:

08.) Word Jazz Episode One (Excerpt 2)
09.) The Movie * Ken Nordine & Tom Waits
10.) The Shifting, Whispering Sands Part 2 * Billy Vaughn & Ken Nordine
11.) Flibberty Jib * Ken Nordine * Jazz Horizons
12.) Brown * Ken Nordine * Colors
13.) Dream * Ken Nordine * Ken Nordine Does Robert Shure

Part IV:

14.) Word Jazz Episode One (Excerpt 3)
15.) The Vidiot * Ken Nordine * Jazz Horizons
16.) Gabberdine * Ken Nordine * Ken Nordine Does Robert Shure
17.) Word Jazz Episode One (Excerpt 4 & 5)

Part VI:

18.) The Face of Diana * The Adventures of Rocky Jordan * 22 January 1950

Issue #11: #CatDadLife

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Issue #11: #CatDadLife

Written & Performed by Austin Rich, containing interviews with Brian Hart, Karen Holman & Jason Ramey.

Issue #11, produced in August of 2020, featuring a wet and dry selection of stories, which includes, “#CatDadLife,” and “Brian & Karen’s New Hobbies.”   

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Time Zones * Negativland * Escape From Noise * SST Records (1987)
Love Cats * The Cure * Japanese Whispers * Fiction Records  (1983)

The People Who Died Part III (#220)

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The People Who Died Part III (#220)

It is astonishing how many artists passed in the last three years. Here’s even more that deserve remembering at least one more time.

Enjoy!

 

The People Who Died

Part I:

01.) Sentimental Journey * Doris Day
02.) Air * Cecil Taylor * The World of Cecil Taylor

Part II:

03.) Oh What A Night * The Dells
04.) The Way You Look Tonight * The Lettermen
05.) Don’t Have To Shop Around * The Mad Lads
06.) I Don’t Want To Set The World On Fire * The Ink Spots
07.) Port of Call * Cecil Taylor * The World of Cecil Taylor

Part III:

08.) Ain’t That A Shame * Fats Domino
09.) Rock ‘n’ Roll Is Here To Stay * Danny & The Juniors * Live on American Bandstand
10.) C’est Pas Serieux * Les Chats Sauvages * Les Meilleur
11.) Help! (Live) * The Beatles * Blackpool Night Out, ABC Theater
12.) The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore * The Walker Brothers
13.) Ain’t Got The Time * The Charlatans

Part IV:

14.) The Wedge * Dick Dale
15.) You’re Gonna Miss Me * 13th Floor Elevators
16.) Right Place Wrong Time * Dr. John
17.) Feet Start Walking * Doris Duke
18.) Diddy Wa Diddy (Live) * Leon Redbone * Live On The Tonight Show
19.) Lazy Afternoon * Cecil Taylor * The World of Cecil Taylor

Part V:

20.) Invaders! * Hal Blaine * Have Fun!!! Play Drums!!!
21.) On The Road Again * Canned Heat
22.) Whatcha See Is What You Get * The Dramatics
23.) Oh, What A Feelling * Crowbar

24.) Revolution Blues * Neil Young

Part VI:

25.) The Loomis Affair * The Adventures of Rocky Jordan * 15 January 1950

Issue #02: Our Silence Has Been Deafening

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Issue #02: Our Silence Has Been Deafening

Written & Performed by Austin Rich, with additional writing by Sean Derrick Cooper  Marquardt & Ellen Klowden, including an interview Obadiah Baird.

 

Issue #2, produced in June of 2020, features some stories from the streets, which includes, “Silence Is Saying A Lot More Than You Think,” “One Night In Downtown Salem,” “Short Poem About  When the Spirit Leaves the Body,” and “Arisen.”

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Good Cop Bad Cop * DFL  * Proud To Be * Epitaph Records (1995)

Bella Ciao (Goodbye Beautiful) * Marc Ribot & Tom Waits * Songs  of Resistance 1942 – 2018 * ANTI- Records (2018)

Bricks  * Crimpshrine *  Sleep, What’s That? * Lookout Records (1988)

Bella Ciao * Obadiah Baird * Performing Live, October 2019.

The People Who Died Part II (#219)

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The People Who Died Part II (#219)

We are continuing our run-down of people and artists who have passed in the last three years, and play the work that they left behind.

Enjoy!

 

The People Who Died

Part I:

01.) J’entends cette musique * France Gall * Les années Philips 1963-1969
02.) Cell Walk For Celeste * Cecil Taylor * New York City R&B

Part II:

03.) Rip It Up * Billy Haley & His Comets
04.) Corrine Corrina * Sven-Ingvars
05.) Happy Without You * The Strangers
06.) Incense And Peppermints * Strawberry Alarm Clock * Strawberries Mean Love
07.) Cindy’s Main Mood * Cecil Taylor * New York City R&B

Part III:

08.) 3/5ths of A Mile In 10 Seconds * Jefferson Airplane
09.) Maiden of the Cancer Moon * Quicksilver Messenger Service
10.) Grim Reaper Of Love * The Turtles
11.) California Dreamin’ * the Mammas & The Pappas.
12.) The Old Country * Nancy Wilson & The Cannonball Adderley Quintet
13.) Cindy’s Main Mood * Cecil Taylor * New York City R&B

Part IV:

14.) He’s A Rebel * The Crystals * Twist Uptown
15.) Ain’t Too Proud To Beg * The Temptations * The Best of Motown

Part IV:

16.) Supersonic Rocket Ship * The Kinks
17.) All the Young Dudes * Mott The Hoople
18.) Dinosaurs Mambo * The Beakers
19.) Tick Tock * The Celibate Rifles
20.) Good Times Roll * The Cars
21.) Everywhere I Go * The Muffs
22.) Like Like the the the Death * Silver Jews

Part V:

23.) Smoke Screen * The Adventures of Rocky Jordan * 8 January 1950

Gathering Up The Bits (Pilot Segments)

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Gathering Up The Bits (Pilot Segments)

Written & Performed by Austin Rich.

Produced in December of 2020, featuring older things, like, “New Reading Resolution” and “DIY Planner,” by Austin Rich.

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Musical Interlude * Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet * Savvy Show Stoppers * Glass Records (1988)

Customized * Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet * Savvy Show Stoppers * Glass Records (1988)

Somewhere In-Between: A Radio Zine: Gathering Up The Bits (Pilot Segments)

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Somewhere In-Between: A Radio Zine: Gathering Up The Bits (Pilot Segments)

Written & Performed by Austin Rich.

Produced in December of 2020, featuring older things, like, “New Reading Resolution” and “DIY Planner,” by Austin Rich.

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Musical Interlude * Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet * Savvy Show Stoppers * Glass Records (1988)

Customized * Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet * Savvy Show Stoppers * Glass Records (1988)

The People Who Died (#218)

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The People Who Died (#218)

We offer a run-down of the people who died over the last three years, and play some selections of their music.

Enjoy!

 

The People Who Died

Part I:

01.) loss of a loved one * The Residents * God In Three Persons
02.) O.P. * Cecil Taylor * New York City R&B

Part II:

03.) Cheap Tragedies * Avengers * Avengers
04.) Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t Have) * Buzzcocks * Singles Going Steady

Part III:

05.) Starry Eyes * The Records * The Records
06.) Shifting Heart * The Plugz * Better Luck
07.) Iron Fist * Motorhead * Iron Fist
08.) Nightmare * Merciful Fate * Don’t Break The Oath

Part IV:

09.) Cell Walk For Celeste * Cecil Taylor * New York City R&B
10.) The Mercy Seat * Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds * Tender Prey
11.) Sparta #2 * The Fall * The Real New Fall LP
12.) Give A Damn * The Staple Singers * The Complete Stax-Volt Singles 1968-1971
13.) Take Your Heart * Betty Willis * “Take Your Heart” b/w “Someday You’ll Need My Love”
14.) He’s A Rebel * The Crystals * Twist Uptown
15.) Ain’t Too Proud To Beg * The Temptations * The Best of Motown

Part IV:

16.) Lousy Weekend * Daniel Johnston * Fun

Part V:

17.) The Man From Cairo * The Adventures of Rocky Jordan * 1 January 1950

Somewhere In-Between: A Radio ‘Zine: Issue #26: What Are You Going To Do With 390 Photographs of Christmas Trees?

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Somewhere In-Between: A Radio ‘Zine: Issue #26: What Are You Going To Do With 390 Photographs of Christmas Trees?

Written by Richard Brautigan. Performed by Austin Rich.

Issue #26, produced in December of 2020, featuring a large collection of described visual treats, “What Are You Going To Do With 390 Photographs of Christmas Trees?” by Richard Brautigan, read by Austin Rich.

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

New Year * The Breeders * Last Splash * 4AD/Electra (1993)

New Year’s Eve In A Haunted House * Raymond Scott * Reckless Nights & Turkish Twilights * Columbia Legacy Records (1999)

New Year’s Resolution * Donovan * Open Road * Epic Records (1970)

Issue #26: What Are You Going To Do With 390 Photographs of Christmas Trees?

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Issue #26: What Are You Going To Do With 390 Photographs of Christmas Trees?

Written by Richard Brautigan. Performed by Austin Rich.

Issue #26, produced in December of 2020, featuring a large collection of described visual treats, “What Are You Going To Do With 390 Photographs of Christmas Trees?” by Richard Brautigan, read by Austin Rich.

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

New Year * The Breeders * Last Splash * 4AD/Electra (1993)

New Year’s Eve In A Haunted House * Raymond Scott * Reckless Nights & Turkish Twilights * Columbia Legacy Records (1999)

New Year’s Resolution * Donovan * Open Road * Epic Records (1970)

New Year’s Nightmare (#217)

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New Year’s Nightmare (#217)

An old-fashioned New Year’s Holiday Program from me, in that it’s the way I used to do them, 10 years ago. Join us for a Supernatural, Time Traveling New Year’s story, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of drinking too much.

Enjoy!

 

 

New Year’s Nightmare

Featuring cut ups of “New Year’s Nightmare,” an episode of The Mysterious Traveler from 5 January 1947, and the KMART Christmas Tape.

Part I:

01.) Drink! * They Might Be Giants * Mink Car
02.) Look Around You * The Resistance * The Resistance
03.) Jagged Time Lapse * John’s Children * A Midsummer Night’s Scene

Part II:

04.) Another Name * The Miss * The Ride
05.) You Can’t Put Your Arms Around A Memory * Ronnie Spector * Jackson’s Jukebox
06.) I Want To Tell You * The Rockers * Teenline Vol. 1
07.) Something I’ve Got To Tell You * Glenda Collins * It’s Hard To Believe It: The Amazing World of Joe Meek
08.) Over Now * The Tools * Teenline Vol. 2

Part III:

09.) Love’s Gone Bad * Chris Clark * Girl Group Sounds Lost & Found: One Kiss Can Lead To Another
10.) I Wanna Be Free * The Rings * Once Upon A Time Vol. 04: UK April to July 1977
11.) Aba Daba Honeymoon * Debbie Reynolds & Carleton Carpenter * 50’s Love Songs
12.) Murderer’s Night * Sun City Girls * 330,003 Crossdressers From Beyond The Rig Veda Can’t Be Wrong

Part IV:

13.) Headache * Frank Black * Teenager of The Year
14.) I Can’t Help Falling In Love With You * Klaus Nomi * Eclipsed: The Best of Klaus Nomi
15.) New Year’s Eve * Tom Waits * Bad As Me

Part V:

16.) Visible Alex * Moth Hunter * Visible Alex
17.) Subterranean Waterway Barge Conveyance * Hal McGee * Battery Operated

Somewhere In-Between: A Radio ‘Zine: Issue #25: The Ghost’s Summons

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Somewhere In-Between: A Radio ‘Zine: Issue #25: The Ghost’s Summons

Performed by Austin Rich.

Issue #24, produced in December of 2020, featuring a murderous holiday treat, “The Ghost’s Summons,” by Ada Buisson, read by Austin Rich.

 

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

(Isn’t It A Shame That) Christmas Comes But Once A Year * Jimmy Durante * Christmas Is For Children * Lion Records (1958)

Auld Lang Syne * Eban Schletter * Cosmic Christmas * Oglio Records (2009)

Issue #25: The Ghost’s Summons

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Issue #25: The Ghost’s Summons

Performed by Austin Rich.

Issue #24, produced in December of 2020, featuring a murderous holiday treat, “The Ghost’s Summons,” by Ada Buisson, read by Austin Rich.

 

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

(Isn’t It A Shame That) Christmas Comes But Once A Year * Jimmy Durante * Christmas Is For Children * Lion Records (1958)

Auld Lang Syne * Eban Schletter * Cosmic Christmas * Oglio Records (2009)

Dancing Dan’s Christmas (#216)

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Dancing Dan’s Christmas (#216)

An old-fashioned Holiday Program from me, in that it’s the way I used to do them, 10 years ago.

Enjoy!

 

 

Dancing Dan’s Christmas

Featuring cut ups of “Dancing Dan’s Christmas,” and episode of The Damon Runyon Theater from 13 March 1949, and the KMART Christmas Tape.

Part I:

01.) American Story * Cult Heroes * Killed By Death Vol. 12
02.) (I Should Better Be Lookin’ For) Dangerman * The Mummies * Death By Unga Bunga!!
03.) Searchin’ * The Coasters * The Coasters

Part II:

04.) A Change At Christmas (Say It Isn’t So) * The Flaming Lips * Ego Tripping At The Gates of Hell EP
05.) One Christmas At A Time * Jonathan Coulton & John Roderick * One Christmas At A Time
06.) Mr. Santa Claus * Nathaniel Mayer * Village of Love
07.) Santa’s Beard * They Might Be Giants * Lincoln

Part III:

08.) Follow Blind * The Wipers * Follow Blind
09.) Christmas In The Congo * Marquees * Jeezus Fuck, It’s Christmas!
10.) Santa Claus Goes Straight To The Ghetto * James Brown * Jeezus Fuck, It’s Christmas!

Part IV:

11.) (It’s Gonna Be A) Punk Rock Christmas * The Ravers * Once Upon A Time Vol. 13: California & Pacific Northwest 1977
12.) It Came Upon A Midnight Clear * Eban Schletter * Eban Schletter’s Cosmic Christmas
13.) Christmas Blues * Washboard Pete * Jeezus Fuck, It’s Christmas!
14.) Christmas In Jail * The Youngsters * Black Christmas
15.) Yulesville * Edward ‘Kookie’ Byrnes * Jeezus Fuck, It’s Christmas!
16.) C’mon Santa! * Mach Bell & His Elves * Xmas Snertz: Have A Very Gulcher Christmas!

Part V:

17.) I Am A Human Recording * Hal McGee * Battery Operated

Issue #24: Holiday Music & Robert Frost

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Issue #24: Holiday Music & Robert Frost

Performed by Austin Rich.

Issue #24, produced in December of 2020, featuring a currently topical poem (in a number of ways), “Christmas Trees,” by Robert Frost, read by Austin Rich.

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

The 12 Days of Christmas * Bob & Doug McKenzie * The Great White North * Anthem Records (1981)

Let’s Have A Patrick Swayze Christmas * Crow, Tom Servo * Joel * Mystery Science Theater 3000 * Best Brains (1991)

The Bathing Suit That Grandma Wore * Paul Williams, Jerry Nelson & Marilyn Sokol * Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas * CBC Television (1977)

Snow! * Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney & Vera-Ellen * White Christmas * Paramount Pictures (1954)

 

Somewhere In-Between: A Radio ‘Zine: Issue #24: Holiday Music & Robert Frost

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Somewhere In-Between: A Radio ‘Zine: Issue #24: Holiday Music & Robert Frost

Performed by Austin Rich.

Issue #24, produced in December of 2020, featuring a currently topical poem (in a number of ways), “Christmas Trees,” by Robert Frost, read by Austin Rich.

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

The 12 Days of Christmas * Bob & Doug McKenzie * The Great White North * Anthem Records (1981)

Let’s Have A Patrick Swayze Christmas * Crow, Tom Servo * Joel * Mystery Science Theater 3000 * Best Brains (1991)

The Bathing Suit That Grandma Wore * Paul Williams, Jerry Nelson & Marilyn Sokol * Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas * CBC Television (1977)

Snow! * Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney & Vera-Ellen * White Christmas * Paramount Pictures (1954)

 

 

Issue #23: Holiday Music & The Cremation of Sam McGee

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Issue #23: Holiday Music & The Cremation of Sam McGee

Performed by Austin Rich.

Issue #23, produced in December of 2020, featuring a very cold poem indeed, “The Cremation of Sam McGee,” read by Austin Rich in 1998.

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Sleigh Ride * The Ventures * …Christmas Album * Dolton Records (1965)

Where Would You Be Without Me? * Bing Crosby, Twiggy & Ron Moody * Bing Crosby’s Merrie Olde Christmas * CBS Television (1977)

 

Somewhere In-Between: A Radio ‘Zine: Issue #23: Holiday Music & The Cremation of Sam McGee

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Somewhere In-Between: A Radio ‘Zine: Issue #23: Holiday Music & The Cremation of Sam McGee

Performed by Austin Rich.

Issue #23, produced in December of 2020, featuring a very cold poem indeed, “The Cremation of Sam McGee,” read by Austin Rich in 1998.

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Sleigh Ride * The Ventures * …Christmas Album * Dolton Records (1965)

Where Would You Be Without Me? * Bing Crosby, Twiggy & Ron Moody * Bing Crosby’s Merrie Olde Christmas * CBS Television (1977)

 

Christmas Shopping In The Future With Jerry Browning (#214)

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Christmas Shopping In The Future With Jerry Browning (#214)

This is sort of a grab-bag program, in many ways. There’s some live Mini-Mutations, what I’m calling Futuristic Christmas Carols, as I pontificate on the holiday season.

Then, there’s a quartet of Holiday Episodes from Calling All Detectives, with Jerry Browning.

Then we close with another installment of Hal McGee’s Holiday Audio Assemblage from last year, “Battery Operated,” with the second track from that disc.

Enjoy!

 

 

Christmas Shopping In The Future With Jerry Browning

Part I: 

01.) Santa Claus Is Murdered * Calling All Detectives * 7 December 1948

Part II: 

02.) Too Many Santas * Calling All Detectives * 24 December 1948

Part III: 

03.) A Case While Shopping * Calling All Detectives * 31 December 1948

Part IV: 

04.) A Christmas Ornament Is A Valuable Clue * Calling All Detectives * 5 January 1949

Part V: battery operated

05.) a dream from which I just awoke * Hal McGee * battery operated * Self-Released (2020)

Part VI: 

06.) High Pressure * The Adventures of Rocky Jordan * 27 November 1949

Somewhere In-Between: A Radio ‘Zine: Issue #22: Smee: A Holiday Ghost Story

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Somewhere In-Between: A Radio ‘Zine: Issue #22: Smee: A Holiday Ghost Story

Performed by Austin Rich.

Issue #22, produced in November of 2020, featured this story that was lost and then found, “Smee,” written by AM Barrage in 1927, and read by Austin Rich

 

I Want To Do Your Laundry (#213)

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I Want To Do Your Laundry (#213)

Here’s a jukebox show, of some stuff that is new-ish to me, but I haven’t had a chance to listen to.

Enjoy!

 

I Want To Do Your Laundry

Part I: Erratic Warrior

01.) Erratic Warrior * Dylan Houser * EC Split 3 * HalTapes (2020)
02.) Durante y después de la exposición al sol * Rafael González * EC Split 8

Part II: springs and gears

03.) Only from the Heart Can You Touch the Sky * Space Gambus Experiment * Into The Light * Self-Released (2014)
04.) 23 July 2012 No. 6 * Tom Furgas * OneOfAKind Disc 23 July 2012 * Self-Released (2012)
05.) The Watchmaker, struck a mortal blow, is surprised to find he is only springs and gears inside [Exceprt] * Tower Sisters * Tower Sisters * What is the Response Threshold and How Does it Work? * Naked Raabbit

Part III: Unproductive Thinking

06.) Strange and Unproductive Thinking * David Lynch * Crazy Clown Time * Pias America (2011)
07.) I Want to do Your Laundry * Fate vs. Free Will Turn Signals * Wolf In A Pulpit * Self-Released (1987)
08.) Sister Schizo * Walls of Genius * Before …and After * Self-Released (1984)

Part IV: battery operated

09.) My doppelgänger is naughty * Hal McGee * battery operated * Self-Released (2020)

Issue #21: Some Thanksgiving Leftovers

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Issue #21: Some Thanksgiving Leftovers

Written & Performed by Austin Rich.

Issue #21, produced in November of 2020, featuring fatting stories like, “New Traditions,” &, “#NaNoWriMo” 

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Everybody Eats When They Come To My House * Cab Calloway * Frantic In The Atlantic * Prism Leisure Corporation (1987)

Paperback Writer * The B-52s * Paperback Writer * Astralwerks (2020)

Somewhere In-Between: A Radio ‘Zine: Issue #21: Some Thanksgiving Leftovers

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Somewhere In-Between: A Radio Zine Issue #21: Some Thanksgiving Leftovers

Written & Performed by Austin Rich.

Issue #21, produced in November of 2020, featuring fatting stories like, “New Traditions,” &, “#NaNoWriMo” 

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Everybody Eats When They Come To My House * Cab Calloway * Frantic In The Atlantic * Prism Leisure Corporation (1987)

Paperback Writer * The B-52s * Paperback Writer * Astralwerks (2020)

Keeping Things Small For The Holidays: 3″ of Pure Pleasure (#212)

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Keeping Things Small For The Holidays: 3″ of Pure Pleasure (#212)

Since big things are frowned upon this Thanksgiving, we are relying on a much smaller form of entertainment to keep in step with the need this year. All 3″ discs are on the menu.

Enjoy!

 

Keeping Things Small For The Holidays: 3″ of Pure Pleasure

Part I: Blood of the Land

01.) Blood of the Land * Daniel Menche * Blood of the Land * ferns_rhizome (2010)

Part II: Childhood And Sudden Memories

02.) 1031 * endometrium cuntplow * endometrium cuntplow / dogprodz split * Love Torture Records (2009)
03.) Childhood And Sudden Memories * Boar * endometrium cuntplow / boar split * Love Torture Records (2009)
04.) unsustainable growth * Chefkirk + Carl Kruger * designer consciousness * bicephalic records (2018)
05.) 34275 * dogprodz * endometrium cuntplow / dogprodz split * Love Torture Records (2009)

Part III: Object Lesssening

06.) Human vs. Mechanical Turtle Part IV * DJ EmbryonicPetitSac * Sac + Tinklepotty * Sweat Band Records (2012)
07.) Impact Melt Pools * Styrofoam Sanchez * Crank Sturgeon / Styrofoam Sanchez Split * Lewcid Joosebox Recordings
08.) [untitled] * JUICE MACHINE * [peach dot sticker] * Self-Released
09.) Object Lessening * Crank Sturgeon * Crank Sturgeon / Styrofoam Sanchez Split * Lewcid Joosebox Recordings
10.) Mantra No.55 [Excerpt] * Durastatic * Mantra No.55 * Self-Released

Part IV: Dimestore Radio Theater

11.) The Strange Death of Van Dorn * The Adventures of Rocky Jordan * 13 November 1949

Somewhere In-Between: A Radio Zine: Issue #20: Autumnal Celebrations

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Somewhere In-Between: A Radio Zine: Issue #20: Autumnal Celebrations

Written & Performed by Austin Rich.

Issue #20, produced in November of 2020, featuring tasty audio treats, a la, “Learning To Love The Fall,” “On Thanksgiving Day,” &, “Other November Holidays.” 

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Look Around, Look Around * Kay Lande & Wade Denning * Fun In Fall * Golden Records (1969)

Fight Music Cue * CBS Paramount * Star Trek: Music From The Original Television Soundtracks * CBS Paramount International Television (1993)

Twilight In Turkey * Raymond Scott * Reckless Nights & Turkish Twilights * Columbia Records (1992)

Thanksgiving Day * Kay Lande & Wade Denning * Fun In Fall * Golden Records (1969)

Food Food Food * Harry Nillson * Popeye: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack * The Boardwalk Entertainment (1980)

Issue #20: Autumnal Celebrations

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Issue #20: Autumnal Celebrations

Written & Performed by Austin Rich.

Issue #20, produced in November of 2020, featuring tasty audio treats, a la, “Learning To Love The Fall,” “On Thanksgiving Day,” &, “Other November Holidays.” 

 

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Look Around, Look Around * Kay Lande & Wade Denning * Fun In Fall * Golden Records (1969)

Fight Music Cue * CBS Paramount * Star Trek: Music From The Original Television Soundtracks * CBS Paramount International Television (1993)

Twilight In Turkey * Raymond Scott * Reckless Nights & Turkish Twilights * Columbia Records (1992)

Thanksgiving Day * Kay Lande & Wade Denning * Fun In Fall * Golden Records (1969)

Food Food Food * Harry Nillson * Popeye: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack * The Boardwalk Entertainment (1980)

The Body & The Mind: Blood & The Fading Light (#211)

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The Body & The Mind: Blood & The Fading Light (#211)

A little DJ show to feature some of the new stuff that has come my way recently. Lots of new stuff!

Enjoy!

 

 

The Body & The Mind: Blood & The Fading Light

Part I: The Visitor

01.) Vast * Brad Anderson * Darwinian Playground * Brad Anderson Music (2020)
02.) Create The Visitor (Live in Glasgow) * Negativland * LIVE BRAIN Eurotour 2019 * Seeland Records (2020)

Part II: Exposed

03.) Blood On My Craft Table * Leporidae * Klowd / Leporidae / Audioemetic ‎– Split * Skeletonhand Records (2006)
04.) Out Kew * KR Seward * EC Split 5: bless with Boss? * HalTapes (2020)
05.) Exposed In The Fading Light * Scot Jenerik 8 * MEAT * Auscultare Research (1999)

Part III: Misdirection

06.) Side of Orca * Spiral Tanks * November Postcard * Spiral Tanks Music (2020)
07.) Models of Misdirection I I * Vasectomy Party * EC Split 6 * HalTapes (2020)
08.) Dying For Cigarettes * Greaathumor * Crowd Pleasers * Industrial Sentiment (2020)
09.) The Blood Ov (Excerpt) * Instagon * Thee Most Creative Thing I’ve Ever Seen In A Slight English Accent * Thee Instagon Foundation (1994)

Part IV: Dimestore Radio Theater

10.) The Black Ball * The Adventures of Rocky Jordan * 6 November 1949

Issue #19: At Elevens And Thirteens

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Issue #19: At Elevens And Thirteens

Written & Performed by Austin Rich.

Issue #19, produced in November of 2020, featuring numerically relevant tales, like, “This All Seems Familiar,” “Friday The Thirteenth,” &, “Looney Tune Review.” 

 

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Zydeco Party * Travis Matte and the Zydeco Kingpins * Zydeco Train * Travis Matte Music (2005)

Won’t Get Fooled Again * The Who * Who’s Next * Decca Records (1971)

A Horse With No Name * Michelle Branch * BoJack Horseman: Music From the Netflix Original Series * Lakeshore Records (2017)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Broken Hell Is A Functional Hell (#210)

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A Broken Hell Is A Functional Hell (#210)

Our good friend Arvo Zylo, of No Part of It, comes in to host almost two hours of our program, and give us a taste of what has been entertaining him this year. This is an excellent mix, so sit back for some fun.

Enjoy!

 

A Broken Hell Is A Functional Hell

Strangelove – Running Backward https://badcakerecords.bandcamp.com/album/strangelove
Blood of Chhinnamastika – Wronged Animal (excerpt from Side A)
AGOG – Magnetic Phenomena of All Kinds (excerpt from Side A)
Pink Narcissus (film excerpt) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067580/
Inbreeder – Garbage Dump (from Helter Skelter: Noise Interpretations of Charles Manson’s Music)

(behind DJ: William Basinski – Evening Scars – Shortwavemusic)

Yuji Toriyama – Maze / A Taste of Paradise (1985)
Mariya Takeuchi – Plastic Love / Variety (1984)
Shiny Horse – Bye Bye My Baby (from Hard To Be A Killer: A Tribute To Ralph Gean)
Sorrow – Let There Be Thorns – Let There Be Thorns
Hawthonn – Misandrist – Red Goddess (Of This Men Shall Know Nothing)

(behind DJ – John Zorn – The Extreme Point of Mysticism / The Hermetic Organ Vol 8)

Frans Zwartjes – Masterpiece – Masterpiece/Spectator

(behind DJ- more from Zwartjes, Spectator)

John Zorn – Alienation and Black Magic (excerpt) – The Hermetic Organ Vol. 8 – for Antonin Artaud
Sarah Davachi – Diaphonia Basilica – Cantus, Descant
J.G. Thirlwell, Simon Steensland – Crystal Night – Oscillospira
Frank Garvey – Eropoc (excerpt) – Omnicircus (1979)

(behind DJ: more from Frank Garvey)

The Shadows – It’s Been A Blue Day (Unissued Alternative Un-Dubbed Version) – At Abbey Road
Cliff Bennett – Use Me – At Abbey Road
The Nocturnes – Mr. Carpet Man – Psychedelia At Abbey Road
Locomotive – Mr. Armageddon – Psychedelia At Abbey Road

(behind DJ: The Shadows – Slaughter on 10th Avenue)

Kris Jenson – Torture
The Viceroys – I’m Toiling On – Dub Landing Vol. 2
Lana Del Rey – Bare Feet On Linoleum – Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass

(behind dj) ‘kirchenkamf’ – nightrealm – Set The Controls

Compest – Abseits – Leitern Und Pfade

Issue #18: Getting Back To Everyday Life

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Issue #18: Getting Back To Everyday Life

Written & Performed by Austin Rich.

Issue #18, produced in November of 2020, featuring gravity-inducing tales, like, “We All Have To Go To Work,” “Going Through The Shock Theater Package,” &, “Baking Sugar Cookies.”

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

James K. Polk * They Might Be Giants * Factory Showroom * Electra Records (1996)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Nov. 1” by Crackerbash

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“Nov 1” b/w “Halloween Candy”

“Nov. 1” by Crackerbash

I listen to this song every November 1st.  It’s by Crackerbash, a little known Portland band that I only got to see twice.

Playlist & Footnotes:

*

But they were really, really great.

There’s some stuff available if you want to start digging.  I recommend this live set from a performance in Corvallis in 1992.

Sean Crogan is currently the front man in The Pynnacles.  They a really, really great, too.

Enjoy.

(Aired 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, & 2020.)

Somewhere In-Between: A Radio Zine: Issue #17: Ghost Houses

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Somewhere In-Between: A Radio Zine: Issue #17: Ghost Houses.

Written by Robert Frost and O. Henry. Performed by Austin Rich.

Issue #17, produced in October of 2020, featuring the future apparitions of stories, like, “Ghost House,” &, “The Furnished Room.”

 

At The Movies w/ DJ Victrola! (Halloween Spook-tacular 2020!) (#208)

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At The Movies w/ DJ Victrola! (Halloween Spook-tacular 2020!) (#208)

Continuing our annual tradition, DJ Victrola and I put up a piece of plexiglass between us in the radio station lobby, and watch a bunch of old horror movies, talking about some of our favorite films.

Then, keep listening, as Victrola offers up a reading of a wonderful Lovecraft story, and then in hour two, I read the chilling story, “Lost Hearts.”

Enjoy!

 

 

At The Movies w/ DJ Victrola! (Halloween Spook-tacular 2020!)

Hour 1:

01. ) The Mummy Theme (1932)
02.) The Creature From The Black Lagoon Theme (1954)
03.) The Wolf Man Theme (1941)
04.) King Kong Theme (1933)

05.) The Cats of Ulthar by H. P. Lovecraft (read by DJ Victrola)
06.) Cat People (Putting Out Fire) * David Bowie * Cat People * Backstreet Records (1982)

07.) River Hill Sheepsquatch * TerrorVision * WNUF TV28 Presents Frank Stewart Investigates * TerrorVision (2015)

08.) The Invisible Man Theme (1933)

Hour 2:

09.) The Terminator Theme (1984)
10.) Alien Theme (1979)

11.) Lost Hearts by M.R. James (read by Austin Rich)

12.) Videodrome Theme (1983)
13.) Invasion of The Body Snatchers Theme (1978)
14.) The Blob Closing Theme * The Five Blobs

15.) Tubular Bells (The Exorcist Theme) * Mike Oldfield * Tubular Bells * Virgin Records (1973)

Somewhere In-Between: A Radio Zine: Issue #16: Haunted Houses

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Somewhere In-Between: A Radio Zine: Issue #16: Haunted Houses

Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Mark Twain. Performed by Austin Rich.

Issue #16, produced in October of 2020, featuring eerie structures, “Haunted Houses,” &, “A Ghost Story.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Night On Horror Island (#207)

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A Night On Horror Island (#207)

Somehow I have would up in Florida, but my good friend Bill Martin happens to own a boat there. Maybe he can help me get home, somehow, on his way to Horror Island?

Enjoy!

 

A Night On Horror Island

01. ) Horror Island * George Waggner

02.) Quest For The Traneeneh * The Adventures of Rocky Jordan * 16 October 1949

 

A Night On Haunted Hill (#206)

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A Night On Haunted Hill (#206)

I continue my way home, through an awfully creepy forest, I stumble upon a very strange house on a Haunted Hill, where some unusual characters are having what they call a “party.”

Enjoy!

 

A Night On Haunted Hill

01. ) A Night On Haunted Hill * William Castle

02.) Occasional Organ * Mini-Mutations

03.) The Man With No Name * The Adventures of Rocky Jordan * 9 October 1949

Issue #14: October Everywhere

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Issue #14: October Everywhere

Written by Austin Rich & Richard Brautigan. Performed by Austin Rich.

Issue #14, produced in October of 2020, featuring spooky current commentary like, “Wildfires,” “Rain,” and, ”1692 Cotton Mather Newsreel.”

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Eating Ash * Sadgasm

The Scream * Ralph Nielsen & The Chancellors

Somewhere In-Between: A Radio Zine. Issue #14: October Everywhere

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Issue #14: October Everywhere

Written by Austin Rich & Richard Brautigan. Performed by Austin Rich.

Issue #14, produced in October of 2020, featuring spooky current commentary like, “Wildfires,” “Rain,” and, ”1692 Cotton Mather Newsreel.”

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Eating Ash * Sadgasm

The Scream * Ralph Nielsen & The Chancellors

The Nightside of Eden (#205)

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The Nightside of Eden (#205)

I wander through a creepy forest to the Nightside of Eden, where Daona offer a unique studio session for our program.

Enjoy!

The Nightside of Eden

HOUR 1

Part I: 

01. ) A Creepy Forest * Mini-Mutations

HOUR 2

Part II: 

02.) Nightside of Eden * Daona

Part III: Dimestore Radio Theater

03.) Pattern for Revenge * The Adventures of Rocky Jordan * 2 October 1949

Issue #13: The Pledge Drive Special

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Issue #13: The Pledge Drive Special

Written & Performed by Austin Rich.

Issue #13, produced in September of 2020, featuring an earnest plea in the form of, “The Pledge Drive Special Part 1,” “Hipster PDA” and, ”The Pledge Drive Special Part 2.”

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

I Can Only Give You Everything * The Ambertones * Garage Punk Unknowns

Memories of NoiseFests Past (#204)

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Memories of NoiseFests Past (#204)

Some performances from previous NoiseFests.

Enjoy!


Memories of NoiseFests Past

HOUR 1

Part I: 

01. ) Juice Machine (2019)

Part II: 

02.) Chopstick (2019)

Part III: 

03.) MKUltramegaphone (2017)
04.) Holiday Special (2019)

HOUR 2

Part IV: 

05.) Mini-Mutations (2018))

Part V: 

06.) John Frank & Don Haugen (2019)

Part VI: Dimestore Radio Theater

07.) Memento From Adelaide * The Adventures of Rocky Jordan * 25 September 1949

Issue #09: Modernity Stew

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Issue #09: Modernity Stew

Written & Performed by Austin Rich, Ellen Klowden & neveryman, containing interviews with Brian Hart, Karen Holman & Jason Ramey.

Issue #9, produced in July of 2020, featuring a potpourri of stories, which includes, “Relentless Pursuit,” “Jason’s New Hobbies,” “applewipe5,” and “A few thoughts on decoding Fake News through the work or artists.”   

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Misty * Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet * Savvy Show Stoppers * Glass Records (1988)
Chloe [Excerpt] * Spike Jones & His City Slickers * Thank You, Music Lovers * RCA Victor (1960)
Venus * Television * Marquee Moon * Elektra Records (1977)

Dreams Dissolve (#203)

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Dreams Dissolve (#203)

Trying to catch up one life, with a DJ show where Dreams dissolve before your very ears.

Enjoy!

 

Dreams Dissolve

HOUR 1

Part I: Flashbacks

01. ) Transparent Radiation * Spacemen 3 * Translucent Flashbacks (The Glass Singles) * Fire Records (1995)
02.) Dreams Dissolve * AUME * Elemental * AUME Music (2017)

Part II: Pittsburg, 2018

03.) Rendaku 37 Hary Bones Pittsburg 2018 * Plutonium Burrito * Mail Art Package * Self-Rebased (2020)

Part III: Vape Plague

04.) ID * R33k * Vape Plague * R33k Music (2020)
05.) channel 4 * Pigeonhole * channels * Grain of Salt Records (1999)

HOUR 2

Part IV: Sounds & Looks Like Life

06.) The Fungus Among Us [ Excerpt] * Electronic Cottage * Sounds And Looks Like Life: Audio Folk Art Assemblage * Electronic Cottage (2020)

Part V: Dimestore Radio Theater

07.) The Nile Runs High * The Adventures of Rocky Jordan * 18 September 1949

Issue #06: A Sound Salvation

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Issue #06: A Sound Salvation

Written & Performed by Austin Rich.

 

Issue #6, produced in July of 2020, featuring some stories from the dial, which includes, “Now, Let’s Go Over The Edge.”

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

[untitled] * Over The Edge * July 1981 * KPFA Radio (1981)
The Tale of the Blue Light * Lillian Cunningham & The Washington Post * Moonrise * The Washington Post (19 July 2019)

Happy When It Rains (#202)

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Happy When It Rains (#202)

As at the smokey chokey Pacific Northwest continues to experience the worst from fires, my mind turns to rain and the healing effects it can have on us.. if it will only come.

Enjoy!

 

Happy When It Rains

HOUR 1

Part I: He Begins

01. ) He Begins * Jeremy Hight / Read by Austin Rich * 15 September 2020

Part II: Happy When It Rains

02.) Rainbirds * Tom Waits * Swordfishtrombones * Island Records
03.) Rain * Charles Bukowski
04.) Happy When It Rains * The Jesus & Mary Chain * Darklands (1987)

Part III: Acid Rain

05.) Acid Rain * Grails * Doomsdayer’s Holiday (2008)
06.) Rain * Sailboats * Adrift
07.) Rain * Guyve * Live 9-27-06 Valentines
08.) Sandoz in the Rain * Amon Duul I * Yeti
09.) Rain Roots * King Tubby * King Tubby Meets The Upsetter

HOUR 2

Part IV: Windowpane Rain

10.) Didn’t It Rain * The Golden Gate Quartet * Radio Transcriptions 1941 – 1944
11.) Windowpane Rain * George & Caplin * Things Past (2006)
12.) Rainforest Version 1, 1968, performed 1990 * David Tudor * OHM: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music (2000)
13.) Brown Rain * Christian Marclay * Records (1982)

Part V: Singin’ In The Rain

14.) aleanRainsong * devilsclub
15.) Jade Planet Rain * Knuckle Children
16.) We Ain’t Got No Money, Honey, But We Got Rain * Charles Bukowski
17.) Singin’ In The Rain * Gene Kelly

Part VI: Dimestore Radio Theater

18.) Adventure With Andrea * The Adventures of Rocky Jordan * 11 September 1949

Issue #02: Our Silence Has Been Deafening

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Issue #02: Our Silence Has Been Deafening

Written & Performed by Austin Rich, with additional writing by Sean Derrick Cooper  Marquardt & Ellen Klowden, including an interview Obadiah Baird.

Issue #2, produced in June of 2020, features some stories from the streets, which includes, “Silence Is Saying A Lot More Than You Think,” “One Night In Downtown Salem,” “Short Poem About  When the Spirit Leaves the Body,” and “Arisen.”

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Good Cop Bad Cop * DFL  * Proud To Be * Epitaph Records (1995)

Bella Ciao (Goodbye Beautiful) * Marc Ribot & Tom Waits * Songs  of Resistance 1942 – 2018 * ANTI- Records (2018)

Bricks  * Crimpshrine *  Sleep, What’s That? * Lookout Records (1988)

Bella Ciao * Obadiah Baird * Performing Live, October 2019.

Looking At Exploration Into Deep Space (#201)

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Looking At Exploration Into Deep Space (#201)

An exploration of new music, and some of the ways that we can eventually get to deep space.

Enjoy!

 

Looking At Exploration Into Deep Space

01. ) Wind And Clouds * Phinney / McGee * Cooperative Principle * Harsh Reality (2020)
02. ) Am Trafo * P16. D4 * Three Projects * RRRecords (1993)
03. ) My Little Red Planet * Instagon * Planets * TIF (2019)
04. ) The Circle / The Serpent * Arvo Zylo * Children of The Stones * Ballast Records (2019)
05. ) soften the blow * brunk * Forgotten Memories of a Harsh Future: Electronic Cottage Compilation 7 * Haltapes (2020)
06. ) Darling, I Love You * Girls On Fire * EC Split 1 * Haltapes (2020)
07. ) inerrant * dylan houser * Musical Postcards * Self-Released (2020)
08. ) We’ve Really Not Gone Very Far (Live) * Mini-Mutations * Live 8 September 2020 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2020)
09. ) Mother Nature * M.NOMIZED * Forgotten Memories of a Harsh Future: Electronic Cottage Compilation 7 * Haltapes (2020)

10.) A Stranger To The Desert * The Adventures of Rocky Jordan * 4 September 1949

Issue #0.3: More Reports From The Creative Process

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Issue #0.3: More Reports From The Creative Process

Written & Performed by Austin Rich, including interviews with Scot Jenerik, Joshua Plague & Kelly Taylor.

This Pilot Episode, produced  in February of 2020, features some interview-based stories including, “It Becomes What You Do,” “Do Not Cross The Hayfield,” & “The DAW vs. The Studio.”

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Musical Interlude * Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet * Savvy Show Stoppers * Glass Records (1988)

Someium * AUME * The Tremblings of The Atmosphere * AUME Music (2019)
Jupiter * Klaxsun * Klaxsun Songs * Klaxsun Music (2013)

 

Ribbon Radio Capsule II (#200)

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Ribbon Radio Capsule II (#200)

All cassette tapes.

Enjoy!

 

Ribbon Radio Capsule II

1. ) Cowboys In Cuba * Chris & Cosy * Trance * Rough Trade (1982)
2. ) Trickle Down Economics * Fivepaw * Fivepaw * FPNP Tapes (2016)
3. ) Shed No Tears (Live) * Flipper * Blow’n Chunks * ROIR (1984)
4. ) áváцvпólç [Excerpt] * cyveiliog * áváцvпóІç * Self-Released (2020)
5. ) Things Evolve in Swamps (Live) * Tomokie’s Cup * The Worst Five Live * Self-Released (2019)
6. ) (1 – A) * Black Magic Cyborg * Black Magic Cyborg * Self-Released (2019)
7. ) Full Explanation of Answer * Unwound * The Future of What * Kill Rock Stars (1995)

8.) The Lady from Istanbul * The Adventures of Rocky Jordan * 28 August 1949

Issue #12: I Want To Travel On

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Issue #12: I Want To Travel On

Written & Performed by Austin Rich & Charles Bukowski, containing interviews with Brian Hart, Karen Holman & Jason Ramey.

Issue #11, produced in August of 2020, featuring a season-changing stories, which includes, “Summer’s End,” “New Interests,” and “Cold Summer.”  

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Summer’s End * Gordon Taylor * The Gordon Taylor EP * Gordon Taylor Music (2011)
Done Laid Around * Pete Seeger * Hootenanny at Carnegie Hall * Folkways Records (1960)

Issue #11: #CatDadLife

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Issue #11: #CatDadLife

Written & Performed by Austin Rich, containing interviews with Brian Hart, Karen Holman & Jason Ramey.

Issue #11, produced in August of 2020, featuring a wet and dry selection of stories, which includes, “#CatDadLife,” and “Brian & Karen’s New Hobbies.”   

 

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Time Zones * Negativland * Escape From Noise * SST Records (1987)
Love Cats * The Cure * Japanese Whispers * Fiction Records  (1983)

Issue #10: Controlling Connectivity

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Issue #10: Controlling Connectivity

Written & Performed by Austin Rich, with additional writing by Flann O’Brienn.

Issue #10, produced in July of 2020, featuring a number of wireless options, including, “Returning From Getting Away From Complete Connectivity,” “Managing Your Connectivity,” and more excerpts from “Wamma, Etc.”   

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Summertime Blues [Excerpt] * Blue Cheer * Vincebus Eruptum * Phillips Records (1967)

The Formaldemutations, Mini-Hydra Digital Fourth of July BBQ! (#197)

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The Formaldemutations, Mini-Hydra Digital Fourth of July BBQ! (#197)

Live performances in the Formaldehydra digital backyard.

Peppered throughout, we talk about Hell Garbage, making music, house shows, and lots of stuff about music.

Enjoy!

 

The Formaldemutations, Mini-Hydra Digital Fourth of July BBQ! 

Gold Fever * The Adventures of Rocky Jordan * 7 August 1949

Issue #09: Modernity Stew

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Issue #09: Modernity Stew

Written & Performed by Austin Rich, Ellen Klowden & neveryman, containing interviews with Brian Hart, Karen Holman & Jason Ramey.

Issue #9, produced in July of 2020, featuring a potpourri of stories, which includes, “Relentless Pursuit,” “Jason’s New Hobbies,” “applewipe5,” and “A few thoughts on decoding Fake News through the work or artists.”   

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Misty * Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet * Savvy Show Stoppers * Glass Records (1988)
Chloe [Excerpt] * Spike Jones & His City Slickers * Thank You, Music Lovers * RCA Victor (1960)
Venus * Television * Marquee Moon * Elektra Records (1977)

Issue #08: Oh, Ay! Broken UI!

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Issue #08: Oh, Ay! Broken UI!

Written & Performed by Austin Rich.

 

Issue #8, produced in July of 2020, featuring an Andy Rooney style rant, “Oh, Ay! Broken UI!”

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

The Pit * Dead Milkmen * Bucky Fellini * Enigma Records 
Institutionalized * Suicidal Tendencies * 
Side A * Negativland * U2 * 
57 Channels And Nothing On * Bruce Springsteen * Tunnel of Love
Night Flight Theme 
Shake Some Evil * Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet * Savvy Show Stoppers * Glass Records (1988)

 

Issue #07: Gettin’ Geeky With It

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Issue #07: Gettin’ Geeky With It

Written & Performed by Austin Rich, containing interviews with Brian Hart, Karen Holman & Jason Ramey.

 

Issue #7, produced in July of 2020, featuring local geeky tales, which includes, “What ever happened to the Geekly Update Team,” and, “Reading Rabbits.”

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Japanese Bamboo Flute Music.

The Great Outdoors Part II (Retrocast)

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The Great Outdoors Part II (Retrocast)

Join me and Xeres of Xeron as we explore The Great Outdoors .

Enjoy!

 

The Great Outdoors Part II (Retrocast)

HOUR 1

Part I: 

01.) The Great Outdoors Part II * Xeres & Austin * 22 February 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)

Hour 2:

Part II: 

10.) The Coward of Mouth Kahn * The Adventures of Rocky Jordan * 24 July 1949

 

Issue #06: A Sound Salvation

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Issue #06: A Sound Salvation

Written & Performed by Austin Rich.

 

Issue #6, produced in July of 2020, featuring some stories from the dial, which includes, “Now, Let’s Go Over The Edge.”

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

[untitled] * Over The Edge * July 1981 * KPFA Radio (1981)
The Tale of the Blue Light * Lillian Cunningham & The Washington Post * Moonrise * The Washington Post (19 July 2019)

The Great Outdoors Part I (Retrocast)

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The Great Outdoors Part I (Retrocast)

Join me and Xeres of Xeron as we explore The Great Outdoors .

Enjoy!

 

The Great Outdoors Part I (Retrocast)

HOUR 1

Part I: 

01.) The Great Outdoors Part I * Xeres & Austin * 22 February 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)

Hour 2:

Part II: 

10.) The Race * The Adventures of Rocky Jordan * 17 July 1949

 

Issue #05: Gone Trout Fishin’ In America

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Issue #05: Gone Trout Fishin’ In America

Written & Performed by Austin Rich, with additional writing by Richard Brautigan.

 

Issue #5, produced in July of 2020, featuring some stories best suited to the out-of-doors, which includes, “Don’t Want No Bright Lights False Teeth Doorbells Landlords,” and “The Message” (Originally aired on 1 June 2013.)

 

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Apeman * The Kinks * Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One * Reprise Records (1970)
Big Rock Candy Mountain * Harry McClintock * “The Bum Song – No. 2” b/w “The Big Rock Candy Mountains” * Victor Records (1928)
Civilization (Bongo, Bongo, Bongo) * The Andrews Sisters & Danny Kaye * “Civilization” b/w “Bread And Butter Woman” * Decca Records (1947)

The Study of The Universe: The Most Remote Objects In Space (#195)

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The Study of The Universe: The Most Remote Objects In Space (#195)

A continued guide to the  old Universe.  .

Enjoy!

 

The Study of The Universe: The Most Remote Objects In Space

HOUR 1

Part I: 

01.) My Long Ago Encounter of The Far Away Kind * Mini-Mutations * 8 July 2020 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2020) Mini-Mutations

Part II: 

02.) The Universe * Mini-Mutations * 8 July 2020 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2020) Mini-Mutations

Part III: 

06.) The What’s This Called? Noise-A-Que * Mini-Mutations * 8 July 2020 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2020) Mini-Mutation

Hour 2:

Part IV: 

10.) The Broken Wing * The Adventures of Rocky Jordan * 10 July 1949

 

Issue #04: Holidays In The Time of Fascism

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Issue #04: Holidays In The Time of Fascism

Written & Performed by Austin Rich, with additional writing by Ellen Klowden.

 

Issue #4, produced in June of 2020, features some bright burning and quickly fading stories for your enjoyment, which includes, “What About The Fourth of July?,” “Get It Done,” “Considering Walking The Wire,” and “Brautigan vs. The State of Oregon.”

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

The Fourth of July * X * See How We Are * Elektra Records (1987)
Dicks Hate The Police * The Dicks * 1980 – 1986 * Alternative Tentacles (1997)
Peter Gunn * The Art of Noise * In Visible Silence * Chrysalis Records (1986)
Way Down In The Hole * Tom Waits * Franks Wild Years * Island Records (1987)
Good Cop Bad Cop * Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet * Savvy Show Stoppers * Glass Records (1988)
Big Baby * Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet * Savvy Show Stoppers * Glass Records (1988)

The Study of The Universe (#194)

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The Study of The Universe (#194)

A new guide to the  old Universe.  .

Enjoy!

 

The Study of The Universe 

HOUR 1

Part I: 

01.) The Study of  The Universe Part 1 * Mini-Mutations * 1 July 2020 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2020) Mini-Mutations
02.) Todo Ess Luminoso * Rafael González & Hal McGee * February 2020 Report * HalTapes.com (2020)

Part II: 

03.) The Study of  The Universe Part 2 * Mini-Mutations * 1 July 2020 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2020) Mini-Mutations
04.) “David Stuff” (1981) * Negativland * Over The Edge Radio * Seeland Records (2020)
05.) The Study of  The Universe Part 3 * Mini-Mutations * 1 July 2020 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2020) Mini-Mutations

Part III: 

06.) Sensory Stimulus * Tree * Quarantine Diaries * joshboutwell.bandcamp.com (2020)
07.) The Study of  The Universe Part 4 * Mini-Mutations * 1 July 2020 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2020) Mini-Mutations
08.) Why Don’t We Eat Carrots? * Big City Orchestra * Cockamame * UBUIBI.org (2010)
09.) The Study of  The Universe Part 5 * Mini-Mutations * 1 July 2020 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2020) Mini-Mutations

Hour 2:

Part IV: 

10.) The Map of Murder * The Adventures of Rocky Jordan * 3 July 1949

 

Issue #03: Getting Over Getting On

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Issue #03: Getting Over Getting On

Written & Performed by Austin Rich, with additional writing by Ellen Klowden & Flann O’Brien.

 

Issue #2, produced in May of 2020, features some old and moldy stories for your enjoyment, which includes, “I Don’t Wanna Be Filled With Doubt,” “Combatting the Sameness of The Daily Routine,” “The Stakes,” by Ellen Klowden, “Backing Up Memories: As You Are Getting On, So is Your Data,” and “More Ecerpts from Wamma, Inc.” by Flann O’Brien

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Older * They Might Be Giants * Long Tall Weekend * eMusic Records (1999)
Kids * Paul Lynde & Dick Van Dyke * Bye Bye Birdie * Columbia Pictures (1963)
I Don’t Want To Grow Up * The Ramones * ¡Adios Amigos! * Chrysalis Records (1995)
Our Weapons Are Useless * Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet * Savvy Show Stoppers * Glass Records (1988)
Older Men * Men’s Recovery Project * Frank Talk About Humans * Vinyl Communications (1995)

Present In This Moment (#193)

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Present In This Moment (#193)

A guide to remaining present in this moment..

Enjoy!

 

Present In This Moment

HOUR 1

Part I: 

01.) Present In This Moment * Mini-Mutations * 22 June 2020 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2020)

Part II: 

02.) Present In This Moment * Mini-Mutations * 22 June 2020 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2020)

Part III: 

03.) Present In This Moment * Mini-Mutations * 22 June 2020 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2020)

HOUR 2

Part IV: Serenity Lane

04.) The Big Ditch * The Adventures of Rocky Jordan * 19 June 1949

Issue #02: Our Silence Has Been Deafening

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Issue #02: Our Silence Has Been Deafening

Written & Performed by Austin Rich, with additional writing by Sean Derrick Cooper  Marquardt & Ellen Klowden, including an interview Obadiah Baird.

Issue #2, produced in June of 2020, features some stories from the streets, which includes, “Silence Is Saying A Lot More Than You Think,” “One Night In Downtown Salem,” “Short Poem About  When the Spirit Leaves the Body,” and “Arisen.”

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

Good Cop Bad Cop * DFL  * Proud To Be * Epitaph Records (1995)

Bella Ciao (Goodbye Beautiful) * Marc Ribot & Tom Waits * Songs  of Resistance 1942 – 2018 * ANTI- Records (2018)

Bricks  * Crimpshrine *  Sleep, What’s That? * Lookout Records (1988)

Bella Ciao * Obadiah Baird * Performing Live, October 2019.

the world for what it is (#192)

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the world for what it is (#192)

A Jukebox presentation.

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the world for what it is

HOUR 1

Part I: The Builder Of The Temple, The Secret Shelter, And The Perception Chamber 

01.) Track 1 *  Хапчык * Хапчык * Хапчык Records (2017)
02.) Big City Stomp * Big City Orchestra’s Women’s Auxiliary * Women Take Back The  Noise * UBUIBI (2006)
03.) The Builder Of The Temple, The Secret Shelter, And The Perception Chamber * oms-b023  * oms-b.org (2009)

Part II: Alto!

04.) Hassalo * Alto! * SadoDaMascus Winter Copulation 2015 * SadoDaMascus Records (2015)
05.) the world for what it is * Thollem  * Machine In The Ghost * Personal Archives (2016)

Part III: Pillars

06.) Rite Cycle * Thomas Park * Electronic Cottage Compilation 004 * Electronic Cottage (2018)
07.) [1] * Formaldehydra * Recorded Live On Lumpytunes Definitely Difficult Listening! * Forever Escaping Boredom (2019)
08.) Needles And Pillars * Bob Bucko Jr. * 333Redux * No Part of It Records (2016)
09.) Hanon Remix * Brad Anderson * Krackwerk * Brad Anderson Music (2018)

HOUR 2

Part IV: Serenity Lane

10.) Finale From “A Walk Down Serenity Lane” * Joel Horwitz * Switched-On Eugene * Numero Group (2018)
11.) Ace High Straight! * The Adventures of Rocky Jordan * 12  December 1948

Issue #01: Summer’s Ready When You Are

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Issue #01: Summer’s Ready When You Are

Written & Performed by Austin Rich, with addition writing by Flann O’Brien.

 

Issue #1, produced in May of 2020, features some bright and warm stories for your enjoyment, which includes, “Theme From Summer’s Ready,” “The Perfect Mix Tape,” “Commuting To Work,” and, “Excerpts from, ‘Waama, etc.’ by Flann O’Brien.”

Musical Selections (usually in excerpt):

School’s Out * Alice Cooper * School’s Out * Warner Bros. Records (1972)
Saints * The Breeders * Last Splash * 4AD Records (1993)
Customized * Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet * Savvy Show Stoppers * Glass Records (1988)
Reverb 10,000. * Man… Or Astro-Man? * Destroy All Astromen! (1994)
Stupid Day Job * Wally Pleasant * Houses of the Holy Moly * Miranda Records (1994)
Bicycle Race * Queen * Jazz * EMI Records (1978)

The Hunt of the Unicorn (#191)

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The Hunt of the Unicorn (#191)

A Jukebox presentation.

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The Hunt of the Unicorn

HOUR 1

Part I: The Outer Edge

01.) Thee Outer Edge * Instagon * Neptune (Planets) * Thee Instagon Foundation (2019)
02.) Throckmorton * Fate vs. Free Will Turn Signals * Gug * Self-Released (1989)
03.) Fardray’n Akopf * Godzik Pink * Es Em, Ekel Em * 5 Rue Christine (2000)
04.) Rest Aria * The Residents * Meet The… * Ralph Records (1974)
05.) The Hunt of the Unicorn * Daona * The Secret Assembly * Faustus Records (2019)

Part II: Classical Form

06.) A Tuesday With Rodney: Classical Form * Jeff Morris * Hearing Voices * Ravello Records (2020)
07.) TVs In The Courtroom * On The Media * 13 May 2020 * WNYC Radio (2020)
08.) septets1.5.wrk * tom forges * septets1.wrk * Tom Furgas Editions (2009)
09.) Hanon Remix * Brad Anderson * Krackwerk * Brad Anderson Music (2018)

Part III: Drain The Swamp

10.) Benzaiten Effect * Eric Hausmann * Invisible Films * Spilling Audio (2012)
11.) Colony Collapse * eet * Danger Barn * eet Music (2008)
12.) Shock Corridor * Vanessa Skantze * Pariah * Hija del Fuego Records (1997)
13.) Drain The Swamp * Porest * Mood Noose * Resipiscent Records (2005)

HOUR 2

Part IV: …With Its Wings Spread

14.) Philip Glass is Ugly, I’ll Bet * The Sensory Homunculus * Destruktionsangst * Naked Rabbit (1997)
15.) Oog * Four Dimensional Nightmare * The Raven Stands Tall With Its Wings Spread * 4DN Music (2020)
16.) (lower code) * dylan houser * february 2020 * dylan houser music (2020)

Part V:  Aim

17.) Chromata Vein * Sister Iodine * Flame Desastre * Editions Mego ‎(2009)
18.) Aim * Blood of Chhinnamastika * 2019 Music Exchange * Self-Released (2019)

Part VI: Poolside

19.) (track 2) * Chefkirk, Hal McGee & Ironing * Chefkirk, Hal McGee & Ironing * Hymns Records (2019)
20.) 5 Shots Please * S. Hacek * S. Hacek * S. Hacek Music (2004)