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.
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”
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.
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)
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.
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)
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.
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
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.
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!
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!
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!
The release of People Like Us‘ new album The Mirrorgot 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)
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.
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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The 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?
You 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.)
Vic “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”
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!
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
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
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
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)
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.
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.
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)
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.
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)
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 #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)
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
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.”
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 #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)
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.
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.
This combines two broadcasts from my KPSU years, in 2005. The Mayonnaise Vs. Venn performed live on my show on 26 April 2005, and Rise Over Run performed on Live Friday on 22 July 2005.
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.
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.
Written & Performed by Heather from The Sound of Tomorrow & Austin Rich, featuring a conversation with Heather, Brian Frankish, Steve Roberts & Michael Cassutt.
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
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.
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
Written & Performed by Heather from The Sound of Tomorrow & Austin Rich, featuring a conversation with Heather, Brian Frankish, Steve Roberts & Michael Cassutt.
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.
Written & Performed by Heather from The Sound of Tomorrow & Austin Rich, featuring a conversation with Heather, Brian Frankish, Steve Roberts & Michael Cassutt.
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
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
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)
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)
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.
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
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
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]
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
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)
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)
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.)
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 AboutWhen 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 * Songsof 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) (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.)
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
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
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
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.”
All the Forever Dog drag content: Race Chaser with Alaska and Willam, The Chop with Latrice and Manila, as well as LGBT Nation and whoa a lot more LGBTQIA+ and POC content.
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)
(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
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)
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
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 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
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.
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, 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
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
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)
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
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 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, 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)
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
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
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 AboutWhen 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 * Songsof Resistance 1942 – 2018 * ANTI- Records (2018)
Bricks* Crimpshrine *Sleep, What’s That? * Lookout Records (1988)
Bella Ciao * Obadiah Baird * Performing Live, October 2019.
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
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
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)
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)
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
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, 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 #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)
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
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
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
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)
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
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, 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)
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, 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)
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
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)
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)
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
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 #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
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 #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)
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
Here is some promotional material regarding this program, and what you can expect, regarding our new Friday Time Slot, at 10:30 AM, starting October 2nd!
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 AboutWhen 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 * Songsof Resistance 1942 – 2018 * ANTI- Records (2018)
Bricks* Crimpshrine *Sleep, What’s That? * Lookout Records (1988)
Bella Ciao * Obadiah Baird * Performing Live, October 2019.
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)
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)
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)
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 #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)
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.”
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)
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)
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)
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
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)
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 AboutWhen 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 * Songsof Resistance 1942 – 2018 * ANTI- Records (2018)
Bricks* Crimpshrine *Sleep, What’s That? * Lookout Records (1988)
Bella Ciao * Obadiah Baird * Performing Live, October 2019.
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 TheNoise * 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.) theworld for what it is * Thollem* MachineIn 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 * 12December 1948
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)
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)
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)
01.) Sinfonietta * Henry Cowell
02.) Common Tones In Simple Time * John Adams
03.) Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ * Steve Reich
04.) Suite from “No exit” * Vladimir Ussachevsky
HOUR 2
05.) To Kill a Sunrise * İlhan Mimaroğlu
06.) Mnemonics III * Pauline Oliveros
07.) Ballad ‘Erlkönig’ * Dick Raaijmakers
Coming June 15th, 2020 on KMUZ.
After the news, enjoy something new.
Like all ‘zines, we have an open-submission policy. What do you want to hear on the show? Do you want to submit something? Drop us a line: austinrich@gmail.com
Almost two years in the making, this special radio event is in conjunction with a new film, Phylum Sipuncula, by Matt Orefice & Austin Rich, brought to you by Pecho Grande Films.
So, I’m on vacation. I wish I could have brought you a full show this week, but instead, I have a bunch of tiki music. I hope that’s okay.
Enjoy!
On Vacation
(This show uses samples throughout the broadcast taken from a series of YouTube videos that can be found here, here and here.)
HOUR 1
Part I: Safari
01.) Polovetsian Dances * The Trans-World Symphony Orchestra * Edmond De Luca’s ‘Safari’ * Somerset Records (1958)
02.) Ritual Fire Dance * The Trans-World Symphony Orchestra * Edmond De Luca’s ‘Safari’ * Somerset Records (1972)
Part II: Lure of The Unknown Love
03.) The Breeze And I * Ferrante & Teicher * Pianos In Paradise * United Artists (1962)
04.) April In Portugal * Perez Prado * Mambo Mania * RCA Victor Records (1955)
05.) One Note Samba * Enoch Light * Big Band Bossa Nova * Command Records (1962)
06.) Samba De Uma Nota Só * Sylvia Telles * “Hits” Da Bossa Nova * Philips Records (1962)
07.) Lure of The Unknown Love * Yma Sumac * Voice of The Xtabay * Capitol Records (1952)
08.) Improviso Em Bossa Nova * Baden Powell * “Hits” Da Bossa Nova * Philips Records (1962)
09.) My Bossa Nova * Marco Rizo * The Sounds of Marco Rizo Bossa Nova * Somerset Records (1964)
Part III: Deep Night
10.) Mambo Buda * Tito Puente * Cuban Carnival * RCA Victor Records (1956)
11.) Samba Triste * Lucio Alves * “Hits” Da Bossa Nova * Philips Records (1962)
12.) Andalucia * Percy Faith & His Orchestra * Malaguena (Music of Cuba) * Columbia Records (1958)
13.) Jamaica Farewell * Harry Belafonte * Calypso * RCA Victor Records (1956)
14.) Nós E O Mar * Tamba Trio * “Hits” Da Bossa Nova * Philips Records (1962)
15.) Deep Night * Les Baxter * Caribbean Moonlight * Capitol Records (1956)
16.) Song of The Islands * George Cates * Polynesian Percussion * Dot Records (1961)
HOUR 2
Part IV: Lotus Land
17.) Twelfth Street Rag * Sol Hoopii * Master of The Hawaiian Guitar Volume One * Rounder Records (1977)
18.) Bali Ha’i * The Surfmen * The Sounds of Exotic Island * Somerset Records (1960)
19.) Bangkok Cockfight * Martin Denny * Primitiva * Liberty Records (1958)
20.) On Silver Waves * 101 Strings Orchestra * In A Hawaiian Paradise * Somerset Records (1966)
21.) Lotus Land * Andre Kostelanetz * Lure of Paradise * Columbia Records (1959)
Part V: Way Beyond Today
22.) Rupe Rupe * Terorotua And His Orchestra * Lure of Tahiti * ABC Paramount Records
23.) Aloha Paradise * The Waikikis * Hawaii Tattoo * KAPP Records (1964)
24.) Way Beyond Today * Jimmy Davis & Normal Lee * The Girl From Ipanema * Wyncote Records (1964)
25.) What Aloha Means * Alfred Apaka And His Hawaiian Village Serenaders * South Sea Island Magic * Decca Records (1957)
26.) Whispering Reef Lullaby * Arthur Lyman * Hawaiian Sunset * HiFi Records (1959)
Part VI: When I Wake Up In The Morning.
27.) Quiet Village Re-Mix * Mini-Mutations * 30 March 2020 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2020)
…using…
28.) Quiet Village * Les Baxter * Les Baxter’s Original Quiet Village * Capitol Records (1964)
29.) Quiet Village * Martin Denny * Exotica: The Exciting Sounds of Martin Denny * Liberty Records (1957)
30.) Quiet Village * The Surfmen * The Sounds of Exotic Island * Somerset Records (1960)
31.) Quiet Village * Henry Mancini & His Orchestra And Chorus * Music of Hawaii * RCA Victor Records (1966)
32.) Aloha Oe * The Surfmen * The Romantic Lure of Hawaii * Somerset Records (1960)
Hour 3:
Part VII: Get This And Get It Straight
19.) The Cloak of Kamehameha * The Adventures of Phillip Marlowe * 23 April 1949 * CBS Radio (1949)
Discovering a cache of classical records here in the Lava Lamp Lounge, we decided to have A Classical Gas, and mix up a. bunch of classical records you may (not) recognize.
Part I: Nonesuch In Blue by Mini-Mutations (20 Minutes)
01.) Rhapsody In Blue * Eugene Ormandy & The Philadelphia Orchestra * The Gershwin Album *Columbia Masterworks (1973)
02.) Side A & B [Excerpts] * Harvey Shapiro & Earl Wild * Sergei Rachmaninoff & Zoltán Kodály * Nonesuch Records (1967)
03.) Sid A & B [Excerpts] * The London Brass Players * Baroque Fanfares and Sonatas for Brass * Nonesuch Records (1966)
Part II: A Mutation of Mini Classical Musics (Festival Edition) (40 Minutes)
04.) Side A & B [Excerpts] * Reader’s Digest * Festival of Light Classical Music * Reader’s Digest (1960) [Disc 3]
05.) Side A & B [Excerpts] * Reader’s Digest * Festival of Light Classical Music * Reader’s Digest (1960) [Disc 6]
06.) Side A & B [Excerpts] * Reader’s Digest * Festival of Light Classical Music * Reader’s Digest (1960) [Disc 7]
07.) Side A & B [Excerpts] * George Robert At the Organ of St. Merry Church, Paris * Master World For Organ Volume 4 * Nonesuch Records (1967)
Hour 2:
Part III: Stravinsky vs. Stranvinsky vs. Bartok vs. Wagner vs. Wagner vs. Wanger
08.) The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre Du Printemps) * Pierre Boulez conducting The Orchestre National De La R.T.F. * Igor Stravinsky * Nonesuch Records (1966)
09.) The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre Du Printemps) * Stravinsky conducts Columbia Symphony Orchestra * Stravinsky Conducts Le Sacre du Printemps * Columbia Records (1960)
10.) Introduzione * Stokowski conducting the Houston Symphony Orchestra * Bartok: Concerto For Orchestra * Everest Records (1998)
11.) Side 1, 2, 3, 8, 9 & 10 [Excerpts] * Georg Solti conducting Birgit Nilsson, Régine Crespin, Christa Ludwig, James King, Hans Hotter, Gottlob Frick & The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra,* Richard Wagner: Die Walküre * London Records (1966)
Hour 3:
12.) A Song In The Night * Rocky Jordan * 28 May 1950 * CBS Radio (1950)
Marc and I have done a few shows like this, and it’s always a lot of fun to join him. But this time, it was just the two of us, and we decided to zero in on something that is near and dear to both of our hearts: synthesizer music! We play some records, talk about our favorite acts, and then we jam out in the second hour to an ELP song!
All that, and more, in this two-hour block of radio that must be heard to be believed.
Enjoy!
Playlist:
10:01 AM Suicide Ghost Rider Suicide Mute, a BMG Company
10:07 AM Pere Ubu Non-Alignment Pact The Modern Dance Fire Records
10:10 AM Silver Apples You and I Contact 2011 Start Entertainments Limited
10:14 AM Devo Snowball (backing track) Freedom of Choice
10:17 AM Devo Uncontrollable Urge Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
10:17 AM Kraftwerk Spacelab Die Mensch-Maschine
10:22 AM Neil Young Computer Age Trans 1983 Geffen
10:26 AM The Stranglers Waltzinblack (The Gospel According To) The Meninblack
10:29 AM Space Ponch Barefoot In Baltimore World Shopping With Space Ponch Flavour of Sound
10:34 AM A Flock of Seagulls Iran Best
10:36 AM Gary Numan Cars The Pleasure Principle 1979 Beggars Banquet
10:46 AM George Harrison Under the Mersey Wall Electronic Sound UMC
10:47 AM Röyksopp Eple Melody A.M. 2006 PIAS/Wall Of Sound Electronic
10:50 AM Roger Powell Ictus: The Primordial Pulse Cosmic Furnace 1973 Warner Music Group – X5 Music Group Electronic
10:53 AM Tonto’s Expanding Head Band Cybernaut Zero Time 2012 ODL
10:56 AM Dick Hyman The Minotaur What is a Synthesizer?
11:03 AM Belle and Sebastian Electronic Renaissance Tigermilk MatadorUS
11:10 AM The Moog Cookbook Black Hole Sun The Moog Cookbook
11:19 AM Emerson Lake and Palmer Lucky Man Marc Time Mix
11:19 AM Pilot 55 Degrees North 3 Degrees West Second Flight Parlophone
11:19 AM Cluster Rote Riki Zuckerzeit 1974 Vertigo Berlin
11:21 AM Ralph Lundsten Robbie Is Dancing the Waltz – Heaven By Night In Ralph Lundsten’s Universe Andromeda Music
11:25 AM Morton Subotnick The Wild Bull, Pt. B Morton Subotnick: Silver Apples of the Moon – The Wild Bull 2011 wergo Electronic
11:31 AM Terry Riley A Rainbow in Curved Air, Riley: A Rainbow in Curved Air 1969 Sony Classical
11:31 AM Bruce Haack and Miss Nelson Abracadabra Listen Compute
11:33 AM Grimes Genesis Visions 2012 Electronic
11:39 AM Imogen Heap Between Sheets Ellipse 2009 RCA Records Label
11:42 AM Lucifer Rite of Aida Black Mass
11:47 AM Bonzo Dog Band Noises for the Leg A Dog’s Life – The Albums 1967- 1972 EMI UKUK
11:47 AM Walter Carlos Timesteps Clockwork Orange OST
11:54 AM Robert Fripp & Brian Eno Evening Star 2019 Discipline Global
11:56AM Gong Master Bulder You 1974 Virgin Records Electronic
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
With so many people jumping on the “streaming” bandwagon, there’s a lot of mis-information out there about how to go about airing your musical laundry. So here’s more useful information about how you can entertain listeners, and, possibly, yourself?
Enjoy!
How To Become A Radio DJ (Part 3)
(This show uses samples throughout the broadcast taken from a series of YouTube videos featuring Eric Nash discussing the proper way to be a DJ at his radio station.)
HOUR 1
Part I: Radio Prison
01.) Side B [Excerpt] * The Firesign Theater * Not Insane * CBS Records (1972)
Part II: For Your Entertainment
02.) Vexation [Mini-Mutations Re-Mix] * Front Line Assembly * Digital Tension Dementia 12” Single * Wax Trax (1989)
03.) American Woman * The Butthole Surfers * Rembrandt Pussyhorse * Touch And Go Records (1986)
04.) Song Of The Tiger * John Trubee And The Ugly Janitors of America * A Blind Man’s Penis And Other Smash Hits * Trubee Records (2015)
05.) For Your Entertainment * Unwound * Repetition * Kill Rock Stars (1996)
Part III: Go To Work Drunk
06.) I’m Out Of Control * The Milkshakes * Punk Rock Its Nicht Tot!: The Billy Childish Story (1977 – 2018) * Damaged Goods Records (2019)
07.) She’s A Hunchback * The Dickies * Stukas Over Disneyland * Jem Records (1983)
08.) Shut Down (never ending version) (wrong speed) * Germs * Cat’s Clause * Munster Records (1993)
09.) Thorns * BadXMouth * PCC Grindviolence: The Early Years * Gobrie Lathe Cuts (2019)
10.) Go To Work Drunk * Men’s Recovery Project * Grappling With The Hominids * Vermiform Records (1998)
11.) Linda Wants To Be Alone * Gary Wilson * Mary Had Brown Hair * Stones Throw Records (2004)
HOUR 2
Part IV: Music For Harp
12.) Tarashanti [Excerpt] * Georgia Kelly * Tarashanti: Music For Harp * Heru Records (1979)
Part V: Maxing Out At Vertical
13.) Let’s Take A Look At The Board * Mini-Mutations * 27 March 2020 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2020)
using…
14.) Side A & B * Blood Rhythms * Assembly * NO PART OF IT (2015)
15.) Roaratorio * John Cage * Roaratorio * WDR Radio
16.) Side A & B * Brown * Lepidoptera * Anarchymoon Records (2011)
Part VI: When I Wake Up In The Morning.
17.) I Heard Her Call My Name * Puttin On The Ritz * Hot Cup Records (2010)
18.) Side B [Excerpt] * Morton Subotnick * Silver Apples of The Moon * Nonesuch Records (1967)
Hour 3:
Part VII: Get This And Get It Straight
19.) The Collector’s Item * The Adventures of Phillip Marlowe * 25 August 1950 * CBS Radio (1950)
Continuing a theme I started many moons ago, here’s some information for all the new web-streamers and online DJs, about what it takes to be a radio DJ.
Enjoy!
How To Become A Radio DJ (Part 2)
(This show uses samples throughout the broadcast taken from a series of YouTube videos featuring Eric Nash discussing the proper way to be a DJ at his radio station.)
HOUR 1
Part I: Voodoo Suite
01.) Introduction * Mini-Mutations * 26 March 2020 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2020)
02.) Concerto No. 1 in E Major, La Primavera (“Spring”), P.241, F.22 * Antonio Vivaldi * The Four Seasons * Nonesuch Records (1962)
03.) Voodoo Suite * Perez Prado and His Orchestra featuring Shorty Rogers * Voodoo Suite plus Six All-Time Greats * RCA Victor (1955)
Part II: A Fierce Pancake
04.) Jimi * Butthole Surfers * Hairway to Steven * Touch & Go Records (1988)
05.) Transition * Mini-Mutations * 26 March 2020 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2020)
06.) Candle * Sonic Youth * Daydream Nation * Blast First Records (1988)
07.) A Fierce Pancake * Stump * A Fierce Pancake * Chrysalis Records (1988)
HOUR 2
Part III: ENJOY LIFE!
08.) White Wind * Peter Walker * Rainy Day Raga * Vanguard Records (1967)
09.) Just Like Heaven * Dinosaur Jr. * Just Like Heaven 12″ * SST Records (1989)
10.) Draggin’ You Down Into Mediocrity * John Trubee And The Ugly Janitors of America * Nude Woman Exdocrius * Trubee Records (2015)
11.) Enjoy Live * Men’s Recovery Project * Make A Baby * Vermiform Records (1994)
12.) Rock And Roll, Man * Tit Wrench * Everyone Knows There’s A God * Mordam Records (1994)
13.) Hollow Life * False Figure * False Figure *Near Dark Records (2018)
14.) UFO * Nina Hagen * Nunsexmonkrock * CBS Records (1982)
Part IV:
15.) You Can Play This Backwards * Mini-Mutations * 26 March 2020 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2020)
16.) We Invent You [Excerpt] * Unwound * Leaves Turn Inside You * Kill Rock Stars (2001)
17.) [Excerpts] * Tarr / Cornelius F. Van Stafrin III * Split LP * oms-b Records (2010)
Part V: Clair de lune
18.) Clair de lune * Isao Tomita * The Newest Sound of Debussy * RCA Records (1874)
HOLY FUCKING SHIT! As we are all loosing our minds and trying to figure out what the future holds, I do my best to figure out what the future of Mid-Valley Mutations holds. Fortunately for you, that means almost THREE HOURS of radio, coming at you HOT!
After a 45 Minute warm-up DJ set, I bring you three Mini-Mutations jams, and lots of new music, mangled and re-mixed for your enjoyment. Top it off with a little Dead Moon, and it’s the perfect recipe for your radio relief.
After you are done screaming profanities at the sky, why not join us, as we make a stab at Getting Through.
Enjoy!
Getting Through
(This show uses samples throughout the broadcast taken from the LP “Getting Through: A Guide To Better Understanding of The Hard of Hearing” produced by Zenith Radio Corporation in 1971.)
HOUR 1-ish (43 Minutes)
Part I: Getting Set-Up
(Some straight-up DJing, with some minor Mini-Mutations along the way.)
01.) Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams * Pee Wee Russell * Giants of Jazz * Time / Life Records (1981)
02.) Riverboat Shuffle * Pee Wee Russell * Giants of Jazz * Time / Life Records (1981)
03.) Roadrunner * The Modern Lovers * The Modern Lovers * Get Back Records (2000)
04.) Spikes To You * Drive Like Jehu * Drive Like Jehu * Headhunter Records (1991)
05.) Electric Love Nudity Supreme * Gloop Now and the Stick People * Continuing Where The Beatles Left Off… * Trubee Records (2015)
06.) The Redundancy Is Intentional * Drats!!! * Too Entertaining??? * Who The Hell Is Jim? Records (2009)
07.) Eniwetok * The Eyes * Dangerhouse Volume Two * Frontier Records (1992)
08.) Rainbow * Battles * Mirrored * WARP Records (2007)
09.) Piece 1 – 3 [Excerpt] * ALTO! * ALTO! * This Is Raheem Records (2012)
HOUR 2
Part II: Welcome To A New Kind of Listening Experience
(A Mini-Mutations joint, using:)
09.) The Often Re-Entry Forming An Exit Strategy [Mangled / Remixed] * Expo ’70 * Expo ’70 / Plankton Wat Split LP * Debacle Records (2013)
10.) January 26, 2019 at Patrick Hughes’ 50th birthday party, The Backyard in Gainesville, FL [Excerpt] * Ironing * Living * Self-Released (2019)
11.) Thee Handbag Joint / Thee Little Turtle / Sunday Gloom Afternoon Breakfast Cartoon Noise Balloon / Instacabra 777 [Exceprt] * Instagon * Instagon / Briaan D’vil Split * Self-Released (2019)
Part III: As We Grow Older, The Looses Usually Increase
(Another Mini-Mutations joint, using:)
12.) The Hanged Man / Breathing In [Excerpt] * Verhalten * Forgiveness * Modern Tapes (2017)
13.) [untitled] * Petit Sac * Pig Candy / Petit Sac Split Tape * Sweat band Records (2019)
14.) Sonarchy: March 17, 2007 * Seattle Phonographers Union * Seattle Phonographers Union * Mimeomeme / SPU / and/OAR Split Release (2009)
15.) Demogorgon2BC [Mangled / Excerpt] * Chopstick * TONS: Kompripiotr / Chopstick Split LP * LaGrind Noire (2004)
HOUR 3
Part IV: This Is An Unfair Hearing Test
16.) A La Bonheur [Excerpt] * Heinz Kiessling * Heinz Kiessling’s Coloured Strings * Meteor Records (1963)
(Yet Another Mini-Mutations joint, using:)
17.) The Media Shifter [Mangled / Remixed / Excerpt] * Negativland * Over The Edge Vol. 7: Time Zones Exchange Project * Seeland Records (1994)
18.) Sonarchy: March 17, 2007 * Seattle Phonographers Union * Seattle Phonographers Union * Mimeomeme / SPU / and/OAR Split Release (2009)
19.) Abyss [Excerpt] * Don Haugen * Abyss / Fucker Tape * Self-Released (2019)
Part V: Paranoia
20.) Paranoia (Iridium) * Richard Pinhas * Metal / Crystal * Cuneform Records (2010)
21.) Soapbox Cutter [Cassette Mix] * Porest * Modern Journal of Popular Savagery * Nashazphone Records (2016)
22.) No Words / No Thoughts [Excerpt / Remix] * Swans * My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky * Young God Records (2010)
23.) Outro * Mini-Mutations…
24.) It’s OK * Dead Moon * Crack In The System * Tombstone Records (1994)
Somewhere between a noir tone poem and a modern day drone, we present the first Psychedelic Noir Drone: In A Lonely Place.
Old Time Radio meets Modern Existential Musical Bliss.
Enjoy!
In A Lonely Place: A Psychedelic Noir Drone
Cut-ups by Mini-Mutations, containing excerpts from a variety of episodes from, “The Adventures of Phillip Marlowe,” from the late 40’s.
HOUR 1
01.) Intro * Judy Jansen & Travis Wagner
02.) Epilogus [Excerpt] * Aume * Agere Urendum Mentis Epode * Self-Released (2016)
03.) Cedar Lodge Session – Live [Excerpt] * Don Haugen * Dronesmuir: an evening of ethereal drone music * Silent Records (2019)
04.) Impossible Don’t Belong to French Language [Excerpt] * Richard Pinhas * Dark Indicator: a collection of guitar drones *
05.) [track 1] * Rain Lucien Matheke * Autumn Document * Purr Purr Rawr Productions (2019)
06.) The Compound As A Ranch * Doug Haire * The Crawford Opera * Bang Kung Assn (2004)
07.) The Professor * The Social Stomach * The Social Stomach / Body Shame Split Tape * Self-Released
08.) [untitled] * Juice Machine * [3″ Peach Sticker] * Self-Released
Hour 2
09.) [untitled] [Excerpt] * Formaldehydra * February 2020 Music Exchange * Self-Released (2020)
10.) January 26, 2019 at Patrick Hughes’ 50th birthday party, The Backyard in Gainesville, FL [Excerpt] * Ironing * Living * Self-Released (2019)
11.) [Track 2] * Le Petit Sac * 1/2020 * Self-Released (2020)
12.) Brain On A Plate * Four Dimensional Nightmare * Crystallized Carbon * Self-Released (2018)
13.) in the know * Hal McGee * up close and personal (July 2019) * Self-Released (2019)
14.) The Idunno Law * The Ex * Turn * Touch & Go Records (2004)
15.) Dauteg * Jared Sagar * Vornths * Silent Records (2019)
As we continue our tour through the media of the past, we flash-back to this often overlooked moment from the past, when Mini-Mutations was asked to be the musical guest for the Artificial Intelligence Conference, 1984. Listen, as words spoken 40 years ago sound eerily relevant, here and now.
Enjoy!
Art-I Con ’84!
Live Performances by Mini-Mutations on 16 February and 17 February, with excerpt from a mysterious cassette, “Artificial-Intelligence Technologies.”
Love Can’t Buy You Money (Retrocast) (Featuring a variety of audio media centering around a bullshit capitalist symbol. Originally aired 10 September 2010.)
(Here’s a Valentine’s Day Retrocast. Happy Holidays.)
We have to deal with it every day: the capitalist backbone of our culture. It infiltrates nearly every aspect of our lives, and is the focus of some much energy in this world that it is on par with an addiction for some. We spend our days and nights toiling in jobs just to acquire a small amount of it, and spend the rest of the time pouring it into everything that matters: family, relationships, hobbies, and most strangely, survival. We are so concerned with it as a culture that it has become one of the ultimate rock and roll cliches: Gimme Some Money.
For this show, I decided to present all media about money. Rich, poor, new and old, everything in this show centers around cash in one form or another. At first I was initially concerned with taking on this theme, as I wasn’t quite sure if I could fill up a whole show. However, when all was said and done, I had to cut quite a few tracks, and found myself considering how I can probably stretch this out to a multi-part epic. While this might be all I can handle for the time being, it was good to know that this will be an inexhaustible well for ideas.
This show has a couple of firsts working for it. This was the first show that fully utilized the new, two-hour format that will be the usual presentation for Blasphuphmus Radio from here on out. While the show has been “officially” two hours for a number of weeks now, I have been out of town for most of that time, and when I was in town, had to catch up on shows I had fallen behind on. (Hence, the five hour radio event last week, with three new shows in a row.) With all the confusion and weirdness out of the way, this was the first time I could sit down and do a two-hour show that wasn’t an exception. It was just like old times, and while I won’t be using all two hours every week (I will occasionally fill that time with retrocasts), it is fun to have that time available for my use.
It is also one of the first shows that I fully utilized the new equipment that was installed at KPSU. While many DJs are very particular about what they can and can’t use on the air, I have found myself really enjoying the new digital toys that are available to make my show with. While I will never give up using turntables, or even cassettes, it is cool to have computers, iPods, and high-tech CD players at my disposal, too. This show has brought together a number of media sources, all on the fly, to present a pretty awesome show, and I was happy to see what the new equipment can do. Hopefully this will start to make my show even better, as time goes one.
But mostly, I was happy to fit Ray Charles and The Android Sisters into the same radio show. Hell yeah.
Enjoy!
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Love Can’t Buy You Money
# Track * Artist * Album * Label
01.) Selections From “A Fistful of Dollars” [Excerpt I] * Thinking Fellers Loclal 282 * Porcelain Entertainments * Normal Records
02.) Money Money * Avengers * Avengers * CD Presents Records
03.) Big Money * Big Black * Atomizer * Homestead Records
04.) Way of The Money * Gouka * Chaos of Destruction * Dan Doh Records
05.) Money * Terrible Headache * Dewa Comp Tape * Dewa Records
06.) Greed, Money, Useless Children * Jay Retard * Blood Visions * In The Red Records
07.) Big Money * Village Pistols * Killed By Death #7 * Red Rum Records
08.) Big Money * Aunt Helen * Killed By Death #18 * Red Rum Records
09.) Money * Dead Person * Order of The Kite Vol. #2 * ???? (Cholera Records)
10.) Money Orgy * Ennio Morricone * The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to “Diabolik” * Pallottola Foro Records
11.) Love Can’t Buy You Money * Motörhead * Overnight Sensation * Steamhammer Records
12.) Money Makes The More Go * Conga Fury * Terror-Rhythm Vol. 3 * Terror-Rhythm Records
13.) Cashing In * Minor Threat * Complete Discography * Discord Records
14.) Five Dollars An Hour * Born Against * The Rebel Sound Of Shit And Failure * Vermiform Records
15.) I Spent The Rent * The Queers * A Day Late And A Dollar Short * Lookout! Reocrds
16.) Kill The Rich * Anti-Flag * Kill Kill Kill!!! Kill Kill Kill!!! EP * Ripe Records
17.) “Gimme The Cash” * Bruce Willis & Matthieu Kassovitz * The Fifth Element * Columbia Pictures
18.) I Hate The Rich * The Dils * “I Hate The Rich” b/w “You’re Not Blank” * What? Records
19.) Selections From “A Fistful of Dollars” [Excerpt II] * Thinking Fellers Loclal 282 * Porcelain Entertainments * Normal Records
20.) Rich Man’s Dream * Neoboys * History of Portland Punk Vol. 1 * Zeno Records
21.) Rich Bastards ($5 Show) * Steak Knife! * Steak Knife! * Self-Released
22.) “Where’s The Money Lebowski?” * Jeff Bridges & Mark Pellegrino * The Big Lebowski * Working Title Films
23.) Money * The Causey Way * Causey vs. Everything * Alternative Tentacles
24.) Government Money * Bonemen of Barumba * Homework #9 * Hyped To Death Records
25.) Money Money Money * 9th Life * 9th Life * Self-Released
26.) Money Is All I Need * The Kids * The Kids * Philips Records
27.) The Money Programme * Monty Python * Episode 29 * BBC Television
28.) Money Orgy * Ennio Morricone * The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to “Diabolik” * Pallottola Foro Records
29.) Money Rocks * The Scruffs * Angst: The Early Recordings 1974 – 1976 * Dominic Sciscente Records
30.) Stripping For Cash * Half Japanese * Greatest Hits * Safe House Records
31.) Dollar Signs In Her Eyes * The Dead Milkmen * Metaphysical Graffiti * Restless Records
32.) Feisty Millionaire Fills Potholes With Hundred-Dollar Bills * Jad Fair & Yo La Tengo * Strange But True * Matador Records
33.) If I Were A Rich Man * Chaim Topol * Fiddler On The Roof * United Artists
34.) Selections From “A Fistful of Dollars” [Excerpt III] * Thinking Fellers Loclal 282 * Porcelain Entertainments * Normal Records
35.) For The Love Of Money [Remix] * The O’Jays * The Funk Box * Hip-O Records
36.) How To Become Rich Immediately * Loren Howe * The Real Story of Money, Health, and Religion * YouTube.com
37.) Money Honey * Clyde McPhatter & the Drifters * Atlantic Rhythm & Blues: 1947-1974 * Atlantic Records
38.) Money In My Pockets * The Mills Brothers * Chronological Vol. 2 (1932 – 1934) * JSP Records
39.) It’s Only Money * Groucho Marx & Frank Sinatra * Double Dynamite * RKO Radio Pictures
40.) I’ve Got Money * James Brown * Roots Of A Revolution * Polydor Records
41.) Money * Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings * I Learned the Hard Way * Daptone Records
42.) Greenbacks * Ray Charles * Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection * Rhino / Wea Records
43.) “Your Money Or Your Life?” * Jack Benny * The Stolen Oscar (28 March, 1948) * CBS Radio
44.) Get Rich Quick * Little Richard * The Formative Years 1951-1953 * Bear Family Records
45.) Money Orgy * Ennio Morricone * The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to “Diabolik” * Pallottola Foro Records
46.) Alienation’s For The Rich * They Might Be Giants * They Might Be Giants * Restless / Bar/None Records
47.) Treasury Wizards * The Android Sisters * Ruby 1: The Adventures of a Galactic Gumshoe * ZBS Records
This Pilot Episode, produced in February of 2020, features some samples of what this program might be like. Stories include, “It Becomes What You Do,” with Scot Jenerik, “Do Not Cross The Hayfield,” by Joshua Plague & “The DAW vs. The Studio,” with Kelly Taylor.
Join me for a Pledge Drive Program with Mick Hickman! Three times makes it a habit, and that’s certainly the case with Mick and I doing Pledge Drive shows.
In this one, we talk about The Olsen Twins Ghostlight Ensemble, the newest zine I made – The Ghost In You – and of course, Mini-Mutations chimes in with some Pledge Drive messages for you.
Thanks for listening!
Enjoy!
Playlist:
HOUR 1
01.) Vortex Remover * NW Notes * NWN Promo * vortex remover (2017)
02.) Postrich Bear * Runner * Words That Make Me Feel Alone * Postrich Bear (2020)
03.) Aldo Calrissian * It’s Yours * It’s Yours * Aldo Calrissian (2020)
04.) Leiyu * Fairweather * Mother Earth, Heaven’s Only A Dream * Leiyu (2019)
05.) Barry Brusseau * Autumn * A Night Goes Through * Gorbie International Records (2010)
06.) Erin Westfall * Light * Light – EP * Sapphire Shields (2019)
07.) The Ferenjis * 2 Am * The Ferenjis * The Ferenjis, LLC (2019)
08.) Chromatic Colors * Everyone’s Uglier in Person * Nature / Nurture * Chromatic Colors (2019)
09.) The New Dawn * Tears * Garland Records: Pacific Northwest * Stash Box * Modern Harmonic (2019)
10.) The Olsen Twins Ghostlight Ensemble * Session 4 * Live From The Lava Lamp Lounge * The Olsen Twins Ghostlight Ensemble (2019)
11.) Axolotl Daydream * I Know Where Temptation Lies * Enjoy The VU * Time King (2019)
12.) Ace Chemicals * Leroy * Get Strange * Ace Chemicals (2019)
13.) DPRST * the fall * Single * dprst (2018)(
14.) Isaac King * Dysfunction.exe * Exp Pts * Isaac King (2019)
Hour 2
15.) Showtigers * Gibson Girl * Showtigers * Smoke & Mirrors EP * 679367 Records DK2 (2017)
16.) Mini-Mutations * Only You * Only You * Austin Rich (2020)
17.) Acting Captain * Day Drunk * On the Rocks * Acting Captain (2019)
18.) SPEED PIGS * GREASE * ALL HAIL * Crime WAve (2019)
19.) No Me Gusta * Heidi Kielbasa * Bad Wave – EP * 782004 Records DK (2019)
20.) CITY OF PIECES * Status Quo * IslandSalem * Sharrow (2019)
21.) Mandark * Doomsday Clock * Failed Experiments * Mandark (2018)
22.) The Whirlees * Big Guitar * The Whirlees * Schizophonic (1989)
23.) Dharma Bums * Givin In * Givin In * Frontier Records (1991)
24.) M69’s * I’m an American * Ready to Sin * M69’s (2017)
25.) V/V * Chasing the Sun * Chasing the Sun * V/V (2019)
26.) M.A.R.C. and the Horsejerks * Jacuzzi-A-Poozie (feat. Danielle Meyer) * Hu$Bandry * Nadine Records (2019)
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.”
This Pilot Episode, produced in January of 2019, features some samples of what this program might be like. Stories include, “New Reading Resolution,” “DIY Planner,” & “An Excerpt From ‘Waama, etc.’ by Flann O’Brien.”
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29 February: Wally Shoup/Doug Theriault/Don Ciavereni/AlanCook, The Olsen Twins Ghostlight Ensemble & Halfbird at No Fun (facebook.com/events/1322173954657596/)
25 April: The Olsen Twins Ghostlight Ensemble at Interzone
The only tradition we really have on this show is very simple: we invite the gentlemen of Sadgasm over to offer relationship advice. It’s a fun tradition that has led to some excellent outcomes, and with that in mind, we offer a down-home version of that same idea, Live from the Lava Lamp Lounge.
We offer an advance peek at two tracks from the upcoming Ramen 2.0 (out in February), and we talk about what the band has been up to. Then, we answer questions, and do our best to avoid turning the show into a Star Wars podcast.
Enjoy!
A Sadgasm New Year’s / New Tears Special!
Featuring two songs from Ramen 2.0, not yet available to fans!
What? It’s already the 10th? Holy crap! I’m so far behind on my shopping, and there’s still decorating to do. I don’t think the travel plans are final yet, either. Damn. Do we have the Holiday Playlist ready? Ahhhhhhh! How are we gonna finish everything in time?
Fortunately, we have a couple hours at our disposal to focus on getting ready, and today’s show is all about preparing for the holidays: getting the house ready, preparing that meal, making wreathes, and all the other things that we need to get ready for an excellent holiday season. There’s a few live mash-up mixes, a long traditional DJ set, and all sorts of Holiday Goodies that I can’t wait for you to hear!
Our next MVM is on Christmas Eve, and I’m not quite sure what we’re doing yet. I may read some holiday ghost stories… who knows?
Regardless, I’m quite proud of this one I hope you like it, too.
Enjoy!
‘Tis The Season To Be Merry
(Contains Excerpts from a variety of Martha Stewart Holiday Specials.)
HOUR 1:
Part I: Lunch
01. ) Sweat * Airport * Sweat/Pleasure * Motor Records (2013)
02.) Mars * Holst * The Planets, Op. 32 * London Records (1997)
03. ) 01 – 02 Mash-Up * Austin Rich * 10 December 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
04.) Lunch (Live at The ProjektHaus, Pittsburgh, PA, 31 May 1997) * Operation Re-Information * Variable Dump * M-Pire Recordings (1998)
08.) Side A Excerpts (Structures In Stasis / Fluidity / Subtle Sleep / Escape) * Hobo Cubes * Apex Ideals * Debacles Records (2013)
09.) The Celestial Din * Garek Jon Druss * The Celestial Din * Debacles Records (2013)
10.) Fractured Light * Hypnogogue * Adrift * Self-Released (2018)
11.) 08 – 10 Mash-Up * Austin Rich * 10 December 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
HOUR 2:
Part IV: Beautiful Feeling
12.) “wreathe” (Side A) * Formaldehydra * “wreathe” * Gorbie Lathe Cuts (2019)
13.) People * Bren’t Lewiis Ensemble * Refreshing Hemorrhage * Butte County Free Music Society (2011)
14.) Gonzo * Instagon * Gonzo 7” * Love Earth Music (2013)
15.) Santa & The Satellite Part 1 * The Original Flying Saucers * Watergrate Superfly Meets Shaft Convention ’72 * IX Chains Records (1973)
16.) No Place in Space * The Scanners * The Scanners * Self-Released (2018)
17.) Action Woman * The Litter * Pebbles Volume One * BFD Records (1979)
18.) Beautiful Feeling * Rich Kids On LSD * The Best of… * Mystic Records (1989)
19.) Hostage * BadXMouth * PCC Grindviolence: The Early Years / BXM Self-Titled * Gorbie Lathe Cuts (2019)
Part V: The Party
20.) I Luv U… Nicorns * godheadSilo * The Scientific Supercake L.P. * Kill Rock Stars Records (1994)
21.) Phoenix * Green Milk From The Planet Orange * Third * Inferior Records (2019)
22.) The Party * John S. Hall & Kramer * “Real Men” * Shimmy Disc Records (1991)
Part VI: Hark! Satanic Santas Sing!
23.) Hark! Satanic Santas Sing! * Babushka, Little Fyodor & The Inactivists * Babushka’s Naughty XXXmas! * Self-Released (2005)
24.) “wreathe” (Side B) * Formaldehydra * “wreathe” * Gorbie Lathe Cuts (2019)
25.) Santa & The Satellite Part 2 * The Original Flying Saucers * Watergrate Superfly Meets Shaft Convention ’72 * IX Chains Records (1973)
This Pilot Episode, produced in December of 2019, features some samples of what this program might be like. Stories include, “The Passenger Side,” “Hipster PDA,” & “1692 Cotton Mather News Reel by Richard Brautigan.”
It’s the week of Thanksgiving, and of course, I’m busy and hell, trying to get everything ready for the next few months. There’s tons going on, and we always feel like we’re behind. Are we ready for all of this? I hope so.
To that end: I break in the new home-studio, and play a bunch of new ./ old stuff that has been on my mind. There’s a drone mash-up, a noise mash-up, and an old-fashioned DJ set, plus all sorts of Mini-Mutations, too. It’s a fun show, and I hope you enjoy it too.
Don’t let the family get to you too much. Enjoy this podcast for a spell, and get your mind off the holiday season.
Enjoy!
Preparing For The Holidays
(Tonight’s program features samples from the films, “How To Be Well Groomed,” from 1949 and, “Control Your Emotions,” from 1950.)
HOUR 1:
Part I: Run, Turkey, Run!
01. ) Stand Up Lazarus * Bruce Haack * Farad: The Electric Voice * Stone’s Throw (2010)
02.) Side A * LA Lungs * Rrest * Debacle Recors (2014)
03.) Last Instar * Brown * Leipodtera * Anarchy Moon Records (2010)
04.) Ectoplasm * Sir Richard Bishop * Gravitron Polarity Generator * Social Music Record And Tape Club of Portland, OR (2010)
05.) Who Is Tyler Durden? * The Dust Brothers * Fight Club: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack * Restless Records (1994)
06.) Five Turkeys * Kay Lande & Wade Denning * Fun In The Fall * Golden Records (1969)
Part II: Normal Man
07.) Hallo Gallo * Neu! * Neu! * Grönland Records (1972)
08.) Recorded Syntax * June of 44 * Anahata * Quarterstick Records (1999)
09.) Relics * False Figure * False Figure EP * Last Hour / Near Dark Records (2018)
10.) Atmosphere * Puppies * Mechanical Beat b/w Atmosphere 7″ * Stiff Records (1981)
11.) Normal Man * Men’s Recovery Project * Normal Man EP * Gravity Records (1995)
12.) Paranoimia * The Art of Noise w/ Max Headroom * Paranoimia b/w Why Me? 7″ * Chrysalis Records (1986)
HOUR 2:
Part III: Food
13.) Buffalo Hump * Guyve * Delaying The Inevitable * Guyve Records (2012)
14.) The Dust Blows Forward ‘n The Dust Blows Back… * Walls of Genius * Crazed To The Core * Walls of Genius (1984)
15.) Standing Above The Copulated * Blood of Chhinnamastika * Unholy Visions of The Divine * The Pet Goat (2019)
16.) As The Legions March Along The Wide Easy Path I Try For and Yearn For The Light * Parousia * Parousia * Parousia (2019)
17.) Mic That She On The Fla * Petit Sac * Petit Sac / Wastelands Split * Sweat Band / Rah-Rah Records (2015)
18.) Food * Nicole Panter * The Story Lady * Kill Rock Stars (1996)
19.) Hatchling (Leg Birth In Bright Yellow And Green) * Endometrium Cuntplow * With Feathers Made From Flesh, She Floated Away Gently * Blistered Mind (2019)
Part IV: Ramblin’
20.) Ramblin’ * Ornette Coleman * The Best of Ornette Coleman * Atlantic Records (1970)
21.) The Calamityville Horror * The Ether Creeps * The Ether Creeps / Petit Sac Split Tape * Sweat Band Records (2018)
22.) Thanksgiving Song * Kay Lande & Wade Denning * Fun In The Fall * Golden Records (1969)
As the season (and my own life) changes, so does Mid-Valley Mutations. It is with this program that we announce a new direction, new ideas, and a new future, while simultaneously, beginning our journey through a dark period in our annual cycle: when rain, clouds, and short days dominate our every moment.
First, the changes: Mid-Valley Mutations will now take on the form of a podcast-only show. We are leaving KMUZ on good terms; in fact, a new show hosted by me will launch on KMUZ soon. But this show is becoming different, finding a new voice, and featuring different kinds of content that need more production and looser rules than I have at KMUZ, and for the time being, the world of podcasting fits the show much better. The Lava Lamp Lounge now has a whole slew of new gear, and will be re-builidng over the winter. We hope to offer you the same show you’ve always enjoyed, but in a new home that fits us much, much better.
We are moving the show to Tuesdays as a result of the change, and we are launching Season 2 of WTBC Radio, where a lot of the live and interview content that wound up on this show will now live. These programs will alternate, every other week, with a few exceptions throughout the year, giving me a chance to breath a little, and return to work that I miss and really love. So, please, re-subscribe to WTBC, and watch for new shows there, soon.
I should mention that, while I have your attention, that if you want to make a donation to help out Heather of Juice Machine, here is the link. Juice Machine are dear friends of the show, and really could use your help. Please, donate as much as you can. Thank you.
For now, here’s a show about wallowing in the desolation that is around us, here on this planet. It would be great if travelers from a distant star could come and save us, as the rats swarm and try to destroy what is left of our world. But sadly, that is just a dream, right?
This one has a live Mini-Mutations jam at the end, so please, stay tuned for that.
Are you ready to enter the Land of The Lost?
The Land of The Lost
(Tonight’s program features samples from the story, “North of Polaris,” from the Escape radio program. It originally aired on 17 May, 1953.
HOUR 1:
Part I: The Impossible Mission
01. ) The Impossible Mission * Alien Sex Fiend * Here Cum Germs * Passport Records (1987)
02.) Mad Monster Party (Instrumental) * Maury Laws * Mad Monster Party Original Motion Picture Soundtrack * Retrograde Records (1998)
03.) Land of The Lost * The Wipers * Land of The Lost * Restless Records (1986)
04.) Ides * Codine * The White Birch * Sub Pop (1994)
05.) Abstraktions * Unwound * New Plastic Ideas * Kill Rock Stars (1994)
Part II: The Old Man
05.) Old Man * Cold Pizza * Cold Pizza * Cold Pizza (2006)
06.) Some Blockheads * Dylan Houser * Diamond Dust * Dylan Houser (2018)
Part III: The Hymnal
07.) Hard-Boil * Juice Machine * Chris Reierson / Juice Machine Split Cassette * Self-Released (2019)
08.) Side A * Cloaca Sisters * Cloaca Sisters * Sweat Band Records *
09.) Hymnal * Black Artiodactyls * A Bird In The Hand * Obfusated Records (2019)
HOUR 2:
Part IV: The Devestation
10.) Land of The Lost * Mini-Mutations * 15 November 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
Part V: The Aftermath
11.) Gay Republican * Major Hex * Major Hex * Self-Released (2018)
On the 8th of November, 2019, Mid-Valley Mutations was supposed to do an over-the phone interview with The Ether Creeps, an experimental act of which your host has become a bit of a fan. But what was supposed to be a simple phone call turned into… something else.
What was aired on KMUZ that evening is what you can hear in place of this show. But what it is, and if you should listen to it, is not for me to say. Some people thing something was unleashed that evening.
We’ll let you be the judge.
Radio KREP (w/ The Ether Creeps)
HOUR 1:
01.) Calm Before The Storm * The Ether Creeps
02.) Untitled * Flesh Produce
03.) Buon Giorno, Nicola * Qui
04.) DemonNSkuLL * Action Friend
05.) Dickless * VVOLF MASK * Dickless
06.) Easter Bar * Umlaut
07.) Truck Stop * Bletch * Red Tide
08.) Back Towards * Oort Smog * Smeared Pulse Transfers
09.) Murdered Over A Selfie * Dental Work * The Demon of Revenge
10.) Enough * Brain Fragment
11.) Curveless Crookedness * Convivial Cannibal Clan * Death Dubitabilis
12.) Broken Backs * Sex Golem *
13.) Finger My Fire Man * Chum Out!
14.) House Party In Hell * The Ether Creeps * A Beginner’s Guide To Ethereal Creeping, Volume Two
15.) T-Shirts For Sale * Major Entertainer Mike H *
16.) Voyage In Bad Taste * The Manx * Plasma Rib Tanks
HOUR 2:
17.) Is This What You Wanted? * Ritual Chair
18.) Cut Yourself Thin * Qui
19.) Prodigy Milkshake * Dani Lam * Amphibious Transmissions From Plastic Island.
20.) The Possession of Annabelle Lee * The J. Hexx Project * Pray
21.) Autopsy Turvy * Dick Van Troglodyte
22.) Irony Bored Shorter * Umlaut
23.) Evil Was Born And Followed The Boy * Terrible Crayon
24.) Prison Shit * Chum Out! * Crystal Dicks
25.) Reznor’s Revenge * The Brockly Tacos * Child Mayonnaise
26.) Sharkweek * Flesh Produce
27.) Dumpster of Love * Sex Golem
28.) On Your Own * Brain Fragment
29.) Of Tongue and Tentacle * The Ether Creeps
30.) Business Class To Valhalla * Needless Dog Surgery
31.) Night Brunch * Action Friend
It’s always nice to visit with friends when you’re having a party like this, at to wrap up our Holiday broadcasts this month, we have the incomparable DJ Victrola, joining us to help clean up the studio, and catch up regrading all things spooky.
We play lots of music and stories relating to ghosts and All Soul’s Day, and we check in with her about her program, and how you can hear it now. I love spending time with DJ Victrola, and this is an excellent and casual show that was a ton of fun.
We close with the timely, “Nov. 1st,” by Crackerbash, a song I listen to every year on Nov. 1st, for as long as I’ve known about this song.
We’re getting ready for that OTHER holiday season, so stay tuned.
Join us for a very cool and rare treat: a re-creation of an electronic music radio program from the late ’80s and early ’90s, which was infamous for their Halloween Shows! Brian Magill is no stranger to our show, and has been making electronic music since the early ’80’s. As part of this work, Brian eventually hosted a radio program at KLCC, Another Green World, as part of their attempt to cater to the interests of electronic music fans and artists, that was on the rise.
However, once a year – on or near Halloween – Another Green World would get… weird. Long sound collages and other forms of musique concrete would take over their broadcasts, often the last things that would air on the station before it would go off the air for the night. The show quickly became infamous, and casual listeners would think something was wrong with the radio. Instead, they were merely catching a glimpse into the musical work that Brian and his co-host, Nathan Griffith, would create, in the moment, on the air.
Tonight’s show is an effort to recreate Another Green World as best as we can, just in time for the show to offer a typical Halloween show, as you might have heard almost 30 years ago. Brian brought in records from his collection, stuff that he would have played on the show then. I actually took a step back, and let him run the board; aside from an interview setting up the concept at the beginning, this is all Brian, and you get to hear something that no one else has heard in three decades.
In Hour 1, settle in for hearing what a typical episode of Another Green World might have been like 30 years ago. Then, strap in for Hour 2, where Brian takes us on a sound collage journey through his favorite artists, and what radio used to sound like.
Along the way, we get heavy doses of Fervent Torpor, AND a number of unreleased, unavailable, and previously unheard recordings by Brian from over the years. If you ever thought to yourself, “I bet that artist has a ton of other recordings I haven’t heard yet,” This is just the tip of the iceberg. Brian could have done two hours of his own unreleased material, which would have been as good as the stuff on his record, “1000 Years of Solitude.” Instead, you get to hear it in this show, tonight.
Shows like this are something special, and you cannot (and will not) hear stuff like this anywhere else. This is a very unique Halloween Performance / Broadcast, and it’s this kind of show that makes me excited to keep bringing you radio like this.
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!
This time of year is a lot of fun when you can get some guests in the studio, and with that in mind, we got none other than Kylie Burbank, and her friend Elder Valik Grey of the local Vampire Council..
The Holiday season sneaks up on us sooner and sooner every year, and I almost forgot to get into the mood before October got here. Fortunately I was reminded at just the last minute, and so we have an excellent program for you this evening!
Two phone calls with spooky stories to make you shiver! Artist Jody Kat calls in to talk about a family tradition she used to participate in. And in hour two, comedian Emily Rivera calls with a couple of songs and a story about something that happened, at a certain bridge…
There’s a ton of excellent holiday fun this year, that’s just getting underway. So please, keep listening all month long. There’s plenty more Ghost Stories coming your way.
Join me for a Pledge Drive Program with Mick! He had me sit in with him on his Northwest Notes program, and to help get in the mood, I produced four original pledge drive spots by Mini-Mutations.
We made our goal, so thank you everyone who listened! Here’s the podcast version!
Enjoy!
Playlist:
HOUR 1
01.) Pledge Drive Spot 1 * Mini-Mutations * Pledge Drivers * WTBC Radio (2019)
02.) Vortex Remover * NW Notes * NWN Promo * vortex remover * 2017
03.) The Widgets * First Grade * how come the kids don’t dance * The Widgets * 2002
04.) Acting Captain * Borderline * On the Rocks * Acting Captain * 2019
05.) The Whirlees * Big Guitar * The Whirlees * Schizophonic * 1989
06.) Eric Lovre Band * Poison Green * Bring The Rain * Eric Lovre * 2017
07.) Axolotl * Daydream * She’s My Best Friend * Enjoy The VU * Tim King * 2019
08.) Easterly * Happiness II * Pieces * Bric-a-Brac Records * 2012
09.) Ace Chemicals * Leroy * Get Strange * Ace Chemicals * 2019
10.) Brides * Local.Dads * For Charles – EP * Hex Tapes * 2017
11.) Pledge Drive Spot 2 * Mini-Mutations * Pledge Drivers * WTBC Radio (2019)
12.) DPRST * the fall * Single * dprst * 2018
13.) No Me Gusta * Heidi * Kielbasa * Bad Wave – EP * 782004 Records DK * 2019
14.) CITY OF PIECES * Gumption * IslandSalem * Sharrow * 2019
15.) Hot Sheets * Come On * Hot Sheets * Hot Sheets * 2018
HOUR 2
16.) Pledge Drive Spot 3 * Mini-Mutations * Pledge Drivers * WTBC Radio (2019)
17.) Orchards * haunted * Hurry Wait * Orchards * 2016
18.) Sleep Millennium * Pixelated * Pixelated – Single * Granfalloon Records * 2019
19.) Kalaloch * The Crow and the Eagle * Pacific Shores * Heather House Records * 2018
20.) Mill Race * Asteroid * Westerns * subsun usa * 2005
Jon Fro * When You Come * When You Come – Single * Room Four * 2019
21.) Leiyu * Fairweather * Mother Earth, Heaven’s Only A Dream * Leiyu * 2019
22.) Election Year * Down in the Jaw * Demo * Election Year 2012
23.) Erin Westfall * Light * Light – EP * Sapphire Shields * 2019
24.) Chromatic Colors * Fear / Plans * Nature / Nurture * Chromatic Colors * 2019
25.) The Ferenjis * 2 Am * 2 Am – Single * The Ferenjis, LLC * 2019
26.) Pledge Drive Spot 4 * Mini-Mutations * Pledge Drivers * WTBC Radio (2019)
Certainly no stranger to his show, I was exited to pull out my 7″s and play a bunch of stuff that is all from the Northwest Region. Last time I tried to break the rules a little, but this time I kept my focus entirely to the area, and since I grew up in Eugene, there were a few selections that had to make their way into the playlist.
Only two of my choices were not from vinyl: a request for Snakepit, of which I do not own any original tapes or records, and our Oswald 5-0 selection, which comes from a CD that I tell a little story about.
And, if you want to make your own record and live in the Northwest, I recommend Barry here in Oregon. You can find his work at: gorbielathecuts.com. The records sound great, and Barry is a very nice guy.
This was a lot of fun, and I love hanging out with Mick. Hopefully you have a good time, too.
Enjoy!
Playlist:
01.) Vortex Remover * NW Notes * NWN Promo * vortex remover * 2017
02.) The Maroons * Medium Grey * I Am To Blame * slo-mo * 1996
03.) The Crabs * Swallow the Sea * Jackpot * K Records * 1995
04.) Eyelids * 23 (Years) * Or * Jealous Butcher Records * 2017
05.) Pond * Young Splendor * Pond * Sub Pop * 1993
06.) Nirvana * School * Bleach * Sub Pop Records * 2009
07.) Snakepit * It Still Haunts Me * Soul Like A Goat * DungHill Records * 1985
08.) Holiday * Crimson and Clover * Mike’s Family Room * unreleased * 1996
09.) Crackerbash * Jasper * empty 160 * Empty Records * 1991
10.) MxPx * Set The Record Straight * Slowly Going The Way Of The Buffalo * A&M * 1998
11.) Oswald Five-O * My Head Hurts * For Losers Only * 1993
12.) The Spinanes * Halloween Candy * Suffice * Imp * 1992
13.) Whiskey Priest * Here Hungry * Bric-a-brac Records * 2007
14.) Dragging an Ox through Water * Blue Vessel * Rebukes! * Smells Delicious Records * 2006
15.) Black Prairie * Let Me Know Your Heart * Fortune Concord * Sugar Hill * 2014
16.) Kalaloch * pacific shores * Corridor/Pacific Shores * Kalaloch * 2008
17.) His Name Shall Breathe * Roberta Street * We Have So Much in Common * his name shall breathe * 2014
18.) Redmond Shooting Stars * When I Was * Down in Front * No Idea Records * 2000
19.) Beat Happening * Indian Summer * Jamboree 7e.p. * 2004
20.) Appendixes * Neon Green Fear * Neon Green Fear – Single * Appendixes * 2013
21.) Typhoon * Belly of the Cavern * Hunger and Thirst * Tender Loving Empire * 2012
22.) Hazel * King Twist * King Twist * Cavity Search Records * 1995
Salem Oregon thunderstorm, recorded live from the Lava Lamp Lounge patio. The storm began at roughly 4:30 PM. This is a raw audio recording, made with a ZOOM H2n Recorder.
Marc and I have done a few shows like this, and it’s always a lot of fun to join him. But this time, it was just the two of us, and we decided to zero in on something that is near and dear to both of our hearts: synthesizer music! We play some records, talk about our favorite acts, and then we jam out in the second hour to an ELP song!
All that, and more, in this two-hour block of radio that must be heard to be believed.
Enjoy!
Playlist:
10:01 AM Suicide Ghost Rider Suicide Mute, a BMG Company
10:07 AM Pere Ubu Non-Alignment Pact The Modern Dance Fire Records
10:10 AM Silver Apples You and I Contact 2011 Start Entertainments Limited
10:14 AM Devo Snowball (backing track) Freedom of Choice
10:17 AM Devo Uncontrollable Urge Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
10:17 AM Kraftwerk Spacelab Die Mensch-Maschine
10:22 AM Neil Young Computer Age Trans 1983 Geffen
10:26 AM The Stranglers Waltzinblack (The Gospel According To) The Meninblack
10:29 AM Space Ponch Barefoot In Baltimore World Shopping With Space Ponch Flavour of Sound
10:34 AM A Flock of Seagulls Iran Best
10:36 AM Gary Numan Cars The Pleasure Principle 1979 Beggars Banquet
10:46 AM George Harrison Under the Mersey Wall Electronic Sound UMC
10:47 AM Röyksopp Eple Melody A.M. 2006 PIAS/Wall Of Sound Electronic
10:50 AM Roger Powell Ictus: The Primordial Pulse Cosmic Furnace 1973 Warner Music Group – X5 Music Group Electronic
10:53 AM Tonto’s Expanding Head Band Cybernaut Zero Time 2012 ODL
10:56 AM Dick Hyman The Minotaur What is a Synthesizer?
11:03 AM Belle and Sebastian Electronic Renaissance Tigermilk MatadorUS
11:10 AM The Moog Cookbook Black Hole Sun The Moog Cookbook
11:19 AM Emerson Lake and Palmer Lucky Man Marc Time Mix
11:19 AM Pilot 55 Degrees North 3 Degrees West Second Flight Parlophone
11:19 AM Cluster Rote Riki Zuckerzeit 1974 Vertigo Berlin
11:21 AM Ralph Lundsten Robbie Is Dancing the Waltz – Heaven By Night In Ralph Lundsten’s Universe Andromeda Music
11:25 AM Morton Subotnick The Wild Bull, Pt. B Morton Subotnick: Silver Apples of the Moon – The Wild Bull 2011 wergo Electronic
11:31 AM Terry Riley A Rainbow in Curved Air, Riley: A Rainbow in Curved Air 1969 Sony Classical
11:31 AM Bruce Haack and Miss Nelson Abracadabra Listen Compute
11:33 AM Grimes Genesis Visions 2012 Electronic
11:39 AM Imogen Heap Between Sheets Ellipse 2009 RCA Records Label
11:42 AM Lucifer Rite of Aida Black Mass
11:47 AM Bonzo Dog Band Noises for the Leg A Dog’s Life – The Albums 1967- 1972 EMI UKUK
11:47 AM Walter Carlos Timesteps Clockwork Orange OST
11:54 AM Robert Fripp & Brian Eno Evening Star 2019 Discipline Global
11:56AM Gong Master Bulder You 1974 Virgin Records Electronic
Join myself and A Moment’s Sound (Scott Eave / Zen Guitar), as we day Derrida’s 101 Course on the history of America’s roads.
We also enjoy some new music, and jam out live for all of the second hour. It’s an incredibly excellent show of new and fun performances and music, and we hope that you can sit back and follow along with the our guest lecturer.
Enjoy!
Derrida’s Plea To America About It’s Highway System (w/ A Moment’s Sound, LIVE!)
HOUR 1:
Part I: Chase Scene
01.) Meat March * Mr. Bacon and The Meat Parade * Come Join The Meat Parade * Archie McPhee Recordings (2013)
02.) Floating Landscape (including Chase Scene) * Derryl Parsons * Switched-On Eugene * Numero Group (2018)
03.) Live * Whirlynn * We Grind People Up and Put Them in the Radio * Forever Escaping Boredom (2019)
Part II: Thunk
04.) Thunk * Dylan Houser * Thunk * Inner Deamons Sausageification (2017)
05.) [Black Ashes \ Beyond Time] * Don Haugen * Black Ashes \ Beyond Time * humanmonster.com (2016)
Part III: Sonic Meditations
06.) Realm of Chance * Chris Phinney & Jim Barker * Electronic Cottage Compilation 5 — Chance Encounters * Electronic Cottage (2019)
07.) Sleep * Tim Maloney * Bad Star * Naked Rabbit (2001)
08.) Celestial Realms * Drunjus * Celestial Realms * Sonic Meditations (2010)
HOUR 2:
Part IV:
09.) LIVE Performance * A Moment’s Sound & Mini Mutations * 19 August 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
Part V:
10.) Transition * Mini-Mutations * 23 August 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
11.) LIVE Performance 2 * A Moment’s Sound & Mini Mutations * 19 August 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
It’s always a pleasure to have Four Dimensional Nightmare on the program. We usually don’t talk. We usually get straight to business. And while we can talk about shows and bands for hours, we are often all business, which is cool. But this time we did something new, something we’ve never done in the almost 10+ years that we’ve known each other: this time, we played together!
Hour 1 is a long DJ set and we get things going, but in hour two, join us for a full blows Four Dimensional Nightmare, with Mini-Mutations lending support! Podcasting listeners will enjoy a rare Mini-Mutations jam that just goes on and on… as we listen to nature drone.
This one is a lot of fun. We hope you spend as much time with it as we did.
Enjoy!
Another Four Dimensional Nightmare, LIVE!
HOUR 1:
Part I: …And A Half
01.) Intro * Mini-Mutations * 20 August 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
02.) Limbadji Toko * Fatala * The Big Bang * Ellipsis Arts… (1994)
03.) White Web * Daona * The Secret Assembly * Faustus Records (2019)
04.) Beta Dollhouse * Four Dimensional Nightmare * Crystallized Carbon * Four Dimensional Nightmare Music (2018)
05.) [track 4] * Tim Maloney * Kometka * Naked Rabbit (2014)
06.) Thirteen Billion Years And A Half * Thollem and Andy Kaufman * Always Put On Your Sincere Face * Personal Archives (2016)
07.) Walking Through The Jungle * Fate vs. Free Will Turn Signals * Gug * Fate Signals Records (1989)
Part II: Future-Vision
08.) Crawl Inside My Puch * Bren’t Lewiis Ensemble * Taxidermy Frogs Copulating * Butte County Free Music Society (2018)
08.) Chance Encounter In Colorado * Dan Jackson & Josh Boutwell * Electronic Cottage Compilation 5 — Chance Encounters * Electronic Cottage (2019)
10.) N.O.U. Future-Vision Hypothesis * The Nation of Ulysses * Plays Pretty For Baby * Dischord Records (1992)
11.) Id Ego * Bishop of Battle * Prequel Plus * Know Wave Records (1998)
12.) We’re An American Band * MX-80 * We’re An American Band * Family Vineyard (2005)
Part III: Everything’s Impossible
13.) The Awakening * Steamshovel Monkey * the tape hiss sessions 1986-1988 * epeapteroenta.com (2003)
14.) Summertime Blues * The Outsiders * Back From The Grave Part One * Crypt Records (1993)
15.) Dancing Mood * Delroy Wilson * Club Ska ’67 * Mango Records (1980)
16.) Everything’s Impossible * Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 * Bob Dinners and Larry Noodles present Tubby Turdner’s Celebrity Avalance * The Communion Label (2001)
17.) owlZ * Four Dimensional Nightmare * Transcending Radio * Four Dimensional Nightmare Music (2018)
HOUR 2:
Part IV:
18.) Transition 1 * Mini-Mutations * 20 August 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
19.) LIVE Performance * Four Dimensional Nightmare * 18 August 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
Part V:
20.) Transition 2 * Mini-Mutations * 20 August 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
21.) LIVE Performance * Four Dimensional Nightmare w/ Mini-Mutations * 18 August 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
This week on the program, we become both very Eugene-centric and Ellen-centric, as we feature a number of cool people and projects all born out of Eugene, OR, as well as connected to Ellen Klowden, the mastermind behind this particular broadcast. In many ways, I just came in and watched. She arranged everything, and I could certainly use more of that in my life.
We kick things off with a fantastic Set by DJ Refugium, the primary force behind the Ghost House events that happen in Eugene. Refugium provides a bit of the phenomenal decade of history of nurturing the Ghost House community, and embodies its sweet and welcoming flavor. Be sure to hop by Old Nick’s Sept 13-14 for Goth Weekend, which Refugium curates. Fri: Live performances by Xploding Boys (Cure cover band) and Devoured by Flowers. Sat: Dark Arts Market & Ghost House.
We follow that up with a full live performance by Dryad Drone, the brain-child of DJ Refugium & Ellen. Dryad Drone, as a musical entity and as a concept album, is entirely devoted to protection of forest ecosystems, which has also been lifework for both its members, Ellen via direct action and radical media, and Refugium via academic research and field work.
Then, in hour two, we offer the very first live performance by Bast Awakening, the combination of Ellen & I Died, also making his first visit to the KMUZ studios. Then, we close things out with the newly-named DEATH MUTATIONS, which, if I Died agrees, might be an entirely capitalized band name. We’re still deciding.
We conclude the program with a live set by Pavlovian Response, the combination of Ellen and Patrick Haenelt (of Ganesha Column, Electrosect, and Tubbs & Oates), recorded last week at the memorial for our fallen friend and centerpoint of experimentalia at Icky’s, the Merkin, and 7th & Washington House, Monty Ray Davis (of Neteru, Uncle Pinkeye, and Ventriloquist).
In many ways, this is a sequel to two previous episodes: our program with nOiZepHyZiX earlier in the year, with whom Ellen is in Psithurism, who will debut at a house party 9/21/19; and our program with I Died & Esperik Glare from even earlier. Sequels often make sense, as there are so many things that are not yet said; so, it was our hope that we were able to get to a little more than we did last time. Hopefully, with a little substance.
This one comes from the heart, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
For additional information on various events and non-profits:
Sat., 9/14, show at Wandering Goat: Lidless Eye (homemade electronics vs. composted tapes by Knox Mitchell of Port Huron, MI); The Fearing Crumpet (musique drone concrit; first show in 17 years); Don; Heart Therapy (debut collab of Ellen and Arlan); Mini-Mutations.
Sat., 9/21, private house show: Debut of Psithurism (nOiZepHyZiX + Ellen); Don; Elijah; [view]; Bast Awakening.
Tues., 9/24, show at Wandering Goat: Icky’s/Merkin/7th & Wash family reunion for Ellen’s birthday: Intended line-up, awaiting confirmation: Pavlovian Response; Blood Red; Ramen Blood Clot; solo vocal / electronic set by Patrick Haenelt; Arlan (possibly with Steamshovel Monkey, possibly Heart Therapy).
Sat., 9/28, show by Corvallis Experiments in Noise at Interzone will feature Dryad Drone.
Summertime seems reminiscent to me of US History. Forth of July. All that America being decided 200+ years ago in the most intense heat imaginable. And with the environment trending the way it does, our summer’s will only be worse, so we have books about history to turn to – or, in some cases, records – to help us pass the time.
“The Making of A Nation” is a record from 1963, part of a Time / Life series, and occasionally you see them in thrift stores. What I put them on, what fascinated me is that it is a Whistle-Stop tour of US History, as I remember it being taught to me in the ’80’s. I guess it isn’t surprising that this story didn’t really change for decades. Certain things do not change. But if we compare the social change that has occurred in the last 20 years – since I graduated from High School – the story of our own history is so problematic that it would not be told in this same way again.
Listening to a history lesson from almost 60 years ago is, in many ways, not surprising. But what is surprising is how fabricated it really is. The story I grew up with – one that many of us know – was carefully edited, and manipulated to present a tale that sold one idea, and oppressed many others. While my particular re-presentation doesn’t actually re-contextualize any of this – that would be a project for another day – it offers a glimpse into our racist and sexist past that, here and now, seems far closer than the 60 years by which now and then are separated.
To accompany this, I have more excellent music from the infamous “Banker’s Box.” There’s so much new stuff that this will probably be the format of the show for a while, at least until I catch up and get a few more projects off my desk.
Enjoy!
The Making of A Nation
HOUR 1:
Part I: Interlude
01.) Interlude * S Hacek * S. Hacek * S. Hacek Music (2004)
02.) Chambers * Nova Scotian Arms * Sacred Drift * Sonic Meditations (2011)
Part II: Chambers
02.) Chambers (cont.)
Part III: The Energy Crisis Blues
03.) 3 AM at the Border of the Marsh from Okefenokee * Tangerine Dream * Stratosfear * Virgin Records (1976)
04.) Butterfuly Bones * Four Dimensional Nightmare * Crystallized Carbon * Four Dimensional Nightmare Music (2018)
05.) N-ER-GEE (Crisis Blues) * The Residents * Meet The Residents * Ralph Records (1974)
HOUR 2:
Part IV: Become Legion
06.) [track 1] * Chemotroph * VIII * Chemotroph Music (2017)
07.) One Become Two Become Legion * The Ether Creeps * Skin Beetles x Dental Work x Ether Creeps x The Petit Sac – 4 Way Split * Placenta Recordings (2019)
08.) G.Z. * Arvo Zylo * Sequencer Works Volume Three * Personal Archives (2017)
Part V: Unwanted
09.) Unwanted * Tim Maloney * Natsuko * Naked Rabbit Records (1997)
10.) 3 Judit, 4 Zsuzsa * Európa Kiadó * Love ’82 * Bahia Music (1997)
11.) [untitled] * Forrest Friends * [untitled] * Town Hall Deth (2018)
Part VI: San Antonio Desert
12.) San Antonio Desert * The Memphis Goons * While Elvis Slept * Shangri-La Records (1998)
13.) Kopp Out * The Quaint * Political Songs * The Quaint Music (2019)
14.) Lonely Brunch In Perpetuity For The Man With No Personality * Bren’t Lewiis Ensemble * Being Happy All The Time Would Be Extremely Depressing * Butte County Free Music Society (2018)
15.) [track 2] * Хапчык * Sand Witch Hunt * Хапчык Music (2019)
I first met Hugo a couple years ago, when he played a show at The Space to a fairly packed crowd, offering dance jams and soundscapes that really felt personal, and unique. But it’s been a while, and where he used to perform under a pseudonym – Lavender – Hugo had grown and matured with time, and as such, has embraced his own name. It only made sense that when he wanted to debut some new songs, in preparation for his upcoming tour, that we would try to get him back in at The Space, and on Mid-Valley Mutations, to show off what he’s done.
Joining him was his friend and labelmate, Derek Hunter Wilson, a pianist, composer, and performer who is often aligned with the experimental while playing some of the most beautiful pieces I’ve ever heard. He ALSO has a new album out, and both of these new albums were released TODAY, so we let Derek run wild, playing his pieces in hour two.
There’s a little of this and that filling in the spaces, and I gab away with my guests about their projects and the current state of music. But stick around until the very end, because all three of us jam together, improvising a little something new about the storm of comets that was plaguing Salem and KMUZ last night.
Three Live Performances! Interviews! Two In-Person Guests! This show has everything, and I’m very excited to bring it to you now.
Enjoy!
Hugo R. A. Paris & Derek Hunter Wilson, LIVE!
HOUR 1:
Part I: Beyond Pluto’s Orbit
01.) Sagan’s Comets * Mini-Mutations * 2 August 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
02.) Springtime Linn * Clark * Flame Rave * Warp Records (2015)
03.) Blood Moon * Choir Boy * Passive With Desire * Dias Records (2016)
Part II: Paris
04.) LIVE * Hugo R. A. Paris * 2 August 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
Part III: Majesty
04.) Interview * Hugo R. A. Paris * 2 August 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
05.) Dolls In The Dark * Drab Majesty * [Mutations Mix]
HOUR 2:
Part IV: Hunter
05.) Sagan’s Comets 2 * Mini-Mutations * 2 August 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
06.) LIVE * Derek Hunter Wilson * 2 August 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
Part V: Hunt
07.) Interview * Derek Hunter Wilson * 2 August 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
Part VI: Jam
08.) LIVE * Hugo R. A. Paris, Derek Hunter Wilson & Austin Rich * 2 August 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
It is no secret that my friends and I usually get together and… listen to music. It’s a nice chance of pace from going on the radio and listening to music, or going to a show to see some live music. What I’m getting at is: would you like to listen to some music? Because we have two hours of a new show for you this week, where my friend Obadiah and I get together and enjoy some of the finer selections from our collections.
Aside from about three selections that we included in this program – and excluding the commercials and voice-overs – every bit of this program came from 7″ records. Doing a show like this is a bit of an endurance challenge; you don’t really get to take a break, and the whole show is spent on your feet, flipping records and cueing up the next thing. No time to chat. No time to check if you have the speed set right. No time to get everything set at the right level. These are loud and fast rock and roll records, and we need to go go go!
Technical issues aside, we blast through a massive slice of our record collections, bringing you choice records with our favorite tunes. The weather computer chimes in a few times with notes about his taste, and on the whole, we have an excellent time.
You don’t really get to know either of us outside of our selections during this show. We talk a little, but we usually just get to the next song. This is about rocking out, and hopefully it comes through. Who says you have to be overly strange in everything you do? There’s plenty of strange lyrics and odd bits and bobs as we wend are way through the vinyl stacks.
Hopefully you find the path we took pretty excellent,, too.
Enjoy!
Obadiah & The Grumpy Punk
HOUR 1:
Part I:
01.) Love Song * The Damned
02.) Pathos * Moral Crux
03.) Ralph Reed * Brother Inferior
04.) Life of Crime * The Weirdos *
05.) I’m A Confused Man * The Headcoats *
06.) Out of Sight * Teengenerate
Part II:
07.) Sad Girl Por Vida * Pretty Girls Make Graves
08.) You Won’t See Me Anymore * The Nice Boys *
09.) Androgynous * The Replacements
10.) Good Sculptures * The Rezillos
11.) Turnaround * Devo
12.) Bricks * Crimpshrine
Part III:
13.) Frequency Sequence * Man… Or Astro-Man?
14.) Fire In The Western World * Dead Moon
15.) Boodstains * Agent Orange
16.) Do The Crash! Crash! * The Agenda
17.) Have You Heard The Music? * Behead The Prophet No Lord Shall Live *
18.) Trunkload of Satanized Luggage * Arcweld
19.) Jesus Was A Vato * Chicano-Christ
HOUR 2:
Part IV:
20.) Ciao Bella * Marc Ribot & Tom Waits
21.) Rebel Girl * Bikini Kill
22.) Left Out Now * The Gossip
23.) Kick Out The Jams * MC5
24.) No Time To Be 21 * The Adverts
25.) Automatic * Scared of Chaka
Part V:
26.) Dramatic History of a Boring Town * J Church
27.) Dumb Radio * Dimestore Haloes
28.) Shield Your Eyes * Jawbreaker
29.) The Sound of Jazz to Come / N.O.U.S.P.T.D.A. * The Nation of Ulysses
30.) Johnny Thunders * Murder City Devils
31.) Question And Answer Session * The Miss
32.) On The Avenue * The Potatomen
33.) 65 Miles * The Jimmies *
34.) Dutch Courage * The Armitage Shanks *
Having trouble sleeping? Are the other brands just not working out for you? Certainly, you have tried everything. What else could possibly do the trick?
We suggest taking two hours of Mid-Valley Mutations, the new sleep companion that follows your sleep patters throughout the night. We help you drift off initially… doze temporarily… then wake up suddenly with no hope of falling back again for hours at a time. An then… maybe… a glimmer of hope…
All the while, I mine my Banker’s Box of “new material” I’ve been getting, from bands and friends and salvaged from my own collection, hoping to find that perfect tape that will just… help us get… some… sleep.
Just keep taking these pills, all night if you have to, for 100% Safe Sleep, with Mid-Valley Mutations. The safe alternative to natural, restful sleep.
Enjoy!
100% Safe Sleep
HOUR 1:
Part I: Submerged
01.) No. 3 * Tom Furgas * 23 July 2012 * Tom Furgas Editions (2012)
02.) Protection * Onomatopoeia * Ethnic Utopia * 13 Records (1993)
03.) Submerged * Hypnagogue * Adrift * Hypnagogue Records (2018)
Part II: Landing In A Cemetery
04.) Molting Riviera * Dylan Houser * Dismal King / Dreary Split * Dylan Houser Music (2019)
05.) Resonant * Brad Anderson * Krackwerk * Brad Anderson Music (2018)
06.) Machinery of the Sea * John Shirley & Jerry King * Spaceship Landing In A Cemetery * Jupiterworks Music (2018)
Part III: The Unconscious Soul
07.) Minor Damage To The Unconscious Soul * I Died * Quantum Mines * Phage Tapes (2008)
08.) 542 * chefkirk * 50¢ * chefkirk Music (2019)
09.) (untitled) * Boar * Boar / Petit Sac Split * Sweatband Records (2015)
HOUR 2:
Part IV: The Spice
10.) Halloween * MX-80 * Das Love Boat * Atavistic Records (1995)
11.) Jungle Jim * Rodan * Rusty * Quarterstick Records (1994)
12.) The Spice * Don Gero * Weirding * Ewe of Now Recordings (2016)
13.) Mahalsala * Black Artiodactyls * A Bird In Hand * Obfuscated Records (2019)
Part V: I Am Cursed
14.) Side A (Untited 1) * Forrest Friends * (untitled) * Town Hall Deth (2019)
15.) Lord of the Ringworm * The Ether Creeps * The Ether Creeps / Petit Sac Split * Sweatband Records (2015)
16.) Morpz / Kruzly Kurmdgon * Modal Zork * Oba Gooba of Gort Nork * Bumpy Records (2018)
17.) Grave Digging * Deadly Discs * Bury Me Deep, For I Am Cursed * Deadly Discs Music (2017)
Part VI: Ascension
18.) Human vs. Mechanical Turtle * Le Petit Sac * DJ Embryonic Petit Sac + Tinklepotty Split * Sweatband Records (2015)
19.) Morning Exercise In The Coded Ether [Excerpt 1] * Radio Vietnam * Radio Vietnam * Sublime Frequencies (2015)
20.) Deseret * The Cosmos Group * Fried Robot Boogie & Ascension * Shuffle Ball Records (2002)
21.) Morning Exercise In The Coded Ether [Excerpt 2] * Radio Vietnam * Radio Vietnam * Sublime Frequencies (2015)
01.) Lover Please * Clyde McPhatter * Cruisin’ 1969
02.) He Will Break Your Heart * The Groovers * Cruisin’ 1969
03.) Tequila * The Champs * Cruisin’ 1969
04.) Working On A Groovy Thing * The Fifth Dimension * Cruisin’ 1969
05.) Talk To Me * Sunny & The Sunglows * Cruisin’ 1969
06.) Abraham, Martin & John * Smokey Robinson And The Miracles * Cruisin’ 1969
07.) My Boyfriend’s Back * The Angels * Cruisin’ 1969
08.) The Israelies * Desmond Dekker * Cruisin’ 1969
09.) Pushin’ Too Hard * The Seeds * Cruisin’ 1969
10.) My Cherie Amour * Stevie Wonder * Cruisin’ 1969
11.) Sugar Sugar * The Archies * Everything’s Archie * RCA Records (1969)
12.) I Can’t Get Next To You * The Temptations * Puzzle People * Gordie Records (1969)
13.) Everyday People * Sly & The Family Stone * “Everyday People” b/w “Sing A Simple Song” * Epic Records (1968)
14.) Dizzy * Tommy Roe * Dizzy * ABC Records (1969)
15.) Crimson & Clover * Tommy James & The Shondells * Crimson & Clover * Roulette Records (1969)
16.) Too Busy Thinking ‘Bout My Baby * Marvin Gaye * M.P.G. * Tamla (1969)
17.) Get Together * The Youngbloods * The Youngbloods * RCA (1969)
HOUR 2:
18.) Spirit In The Sky * Norman Greenbaum * Cruisin’ 1970
19.) Drowning In The Sea Of Love * Joe Simon * Cruisin’ 1970
20.) Green-Eyed Lady * Sugarloaf * Cruisin’ 1970
21.) Gypsy Woman * Brian Hyland * Cruisin’ 1970
22.) Vehicle * The Ides Of March * Cruisin’ 1970
23.) One Less Bell To Answer * The Fifth Dimension * Cruisin’ 1970
24.) Don’t Let The Green Grass Fool You * Wilson Pickett * Cruisin’ 1970
25.) Will You Love Me Tomorrow * The Shirelles * Cruisin’ 1970
26.) Sunshine * Jonathan Edwards * Cruisin’ 1970
27.) Celebrate * Three Dog Night * Cruisin’ 1970
28.) New World Coming * Mama Cass * Cruisin’ 1970
29.) Venus * Shocking Blue * At Home * Pink Elephant (1969)
30.) I Want You Back * Jackson Five * Diana Ross Presents The Jackson Five * Motown Records (1969)
31.) Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) * Sly & The Family Stone * “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)” b/w “Everybody Is A Star” * Epic Records (1969)
32.) Yellow River * Christie * Christie * CBS Records (1970)
33.) Summertime * Mungo Jerry * In The Summertime * Repertoire Records (1970)
01.) Wipe Out * The Surfaris * Cruisin’ 1966
02.) Soul & Inspiration * The Righteous Brothers * Cruisin’ 1966
03.) Psychotic Reaction * The Count Five * Cruisin’ 1966
04.) Born A Woman * Sandy Posey * Cruisin’ 1966
05.) Hanky Panky * Tommy James & The Shondells * Cruisin’ 1966
06.) Walk Away, Renee * The Left Banke * Cruisin’ 1966
07.) Lil’ Red Riding Hood * Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs * Cruisin’ 1966
08.) See You In September * The Happenings * Cruisin’ 1966
09.) California Dreamin’ * The Mamas & The Papas * Cruisin’ 1966
10.) Sweet Pea * Tommy Roe * Cruisin’ 1966
11.) Judy In Disguise (With Glasses) * John Fred & His Playboy Band * Cruisin’ 1967
12.) Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie * Jay & The Techniques * Cruisin’ 1967
13.) Happy Together * The Turtles * Cruisin’ 1967
14.) Society’s Child * Janis Ian * Cruisin’ 1967
15.) Gimme Little Sign * Brenton Wood * Cruisin’ 1967
HOUR 2:
16.) (We Ain’t Got) Nothin’ Yet * The Blues Magoos * Cruisin’ 1967
17.) Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron * The Royal Guardsmen * Cruisin’ 1967
18.) Little Bit O’ Soul * Music Explosion * Cruisin’ 1967
19.) The Rain, The Park And Other Things * The Cowsills * Cruisin’ 1967
20.) Incense And Peppermints * Strawberry Alarm Clock * Cruisin’ 1967
21.) Magic Carpet Ride * Steppenwolf * Cruisin’ 1968
22.) I Wish It Would Rain * The Temptations * Cruisin’ 1968
23.) Spooky * The Classics * Cruisin’ 1968
24.) Cry Like A Baby * Box Tops * Cruisin’ 1968
25.) Honey * Bobby Goldsboro * Cruisin’ 1968
26.) Angel Of The Morning * Merrilee Rush * Cruisin’ 1968
27.) Girl Watcher * The O’Kaysions * Cruisin’ 1968
28.) Midnight Confession * The Grass Roots * Cruisin’ 1968
29.) Love Child * The Supremes * Cruisin’ 1968
30.) I Heard It Through The Grapevine * Marvin Gaye * Cruisin’ 1968
31.) Tighten Up * Archie Bell & The Drells * Tighten Up * Atlantic Records (1968)
32.) Dance To The Music * Sly & The Family Stone * Dance To The Music * Epic Records(1968)
It’s been 21 years since I started in radio, this might be the strangest night I have ever participated in. After a tremendous amount of negotiating with Sweatband Records, which now mostly covers what I can’t say in exchange for some of their product, this podcast and video — in this highly edited and altered form — marks the only remaining document of the night Le Petit Sac visited Mid-Valley Mutations. Be thankful even this much still exists.
Here’s what I can say: after playing a show with Sac back in March (itself a very long story), I was contacted about him making an appearance on Mid-Valley Mutations. After a long negotiation period, we settled on the 29th of June. Once we settled on the date, I received a series of weird messages, trying to confirm rumors these people were hearing about the show. (These rumors revolved around he and I switching identities, that he was performing in Olympia as me, and that I wasn’t even in touch with the real Sac.) I didn’t think anything of this, and instead, prepared like I do normally.
On the night three people arrived at KMUZ: two men in suits who claimed to be representatives of Sweatband Records, and a third who was dressed as The Sac I’d come to know. Immediately I was handed this card: “DJ Embryonic Petit Sac will not talk for the first hour. He will select music for you to play. During the second hour he will take phone calls and perform some short sets. Do not talk directly to the Sac before or after the show. After the Vanity Fair fiasco, there will be no interview either. No requests. The Sac will not play anything from his records. No photography. If the Sac nods at you, you will be allowed to perform with him. Failure to comply with these rules will result in immediate legal action. No exceptions.”
The two representatives from Sweatband said very little the entire time, but did accept the complementary Red Licorice in the lobby.
While I was preparing for the show in the DJ booth, I overheard a number of phone calls that The Sac took, where he said over and over that he, “didn’t want to do this.” These calls contained a lot of profanity, and he used a voice I’ve never heard him use before.
I decided to film him anyway, in spite of the warning, and while the Sweatband representatives did nothing to stop me, afterwards they confiscated everything I brought to the radio station — CDs, gear, recordings, my phone, EVERYTHING — and held me for hours in the station lobby while the reps reviewed every inch of the footage and went over every piece of my gear. The Sac left immediately after the show, once the person at the door had been “dealt with.” (I was never told what that meant.) Finally, a lawyer arrived, and after another hour of discussions, I was allowed to leave, with my gear in hand, and was given a second angle that I was unaware of, that was very strangely edited. The video on my phone was mangled too.
I wanted to post this show immediately, as I felt like this story needed to get out. However, I was informed I couldn’t publish until my post, the audio, and the video was reviewed by Sweatband, again. I can only hope that they kept all 100,000 words of this incredible story in the final version that gets out to the world, but I’ll be happy if ANY of this show actually makes it out, period.
So, sit back, and enjoy Sweatband Records and Mid-Valley Mutations presenting: Le Petit Sac. I think?
Enjoy!
Le Petit Sac, LIVE!
HOUR 1: DJ Embryonic Petit Sac spins Sweatband Records hits.
Part I: Ordinary Everyday Conversation
01.) Simulate The Sound of Speech * Mini-Mutations * Live, 29 June 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
02.) Live At Axolotl Insemination Ranch, Dec 2010 Portland OR * DJ Embryonic Petit Sac * 3 Way Banana Split * Sweatband Records (2011)
03.) Epic Snacks * Razzle Blaster * 3 Way Banana Split * Sweatband Records (2011)
04.) Sacred Thistles (side a) * The Manx * 3 Way Banana Split * Sweatband Records (2011)
Part II: These Hearing Difficulties
05.) Good Hello * Mini-Mutations * Live, 29 June 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
06.) Sacred Thistles (side b) * The Manx * 3 Way Banana Split * Sweatband Records (2011)
07.) Sexy Quest * Razzle Blaster * 3 Way Banana Split * Sweatband Records (2011)
08.) Live At Golden Trapper Keeper Lodge, Aug 2010 San Francisco CA * DJ Embryonic Petit Sac * 3 Way Banana Split * Sweatband Records (2011)
09.) These Hearing Difficulties * Mini-Mutations * Live, 29 June 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
10.) Spokesman * Tinklepotty * When We Were Whole Split Cassette * Sweatband Records (2015)
11.) Sleep: The Seductive Minion of The Enemy * Tinklepotty * When We Were Whole Split Cassette * Sweatband Records (2015)
12.) Delayed To Humanize * Tinklepotty * When We Were Whole Split Cassette * Sweatband Records (2015)
13.) Gurge Reaction * Oort Smog * Smeared Pulse Transfers * Sweatband Records (2019)
14.) Loam Yourself And Die Trying * Oort Smog * Smeared Pulse Transfers * Sweatband Records (2019)
Part III: It’s Difficult To Tell One Instrument From Another
15.) Weather Computer, Are You There? * Mini-Mutations * Live, 29 June 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
16.) The Weather * The Weather Computer w/ Mini-Mutations * Live, 29 June 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
17.) Roadkill Carousel * The Ether Creeps * Split * Sweatband Records (2018)
18.) Calm Before The Swarm (Excerpt) * The Ether Creeps * Split * Sweatband Records (2018)
19.) Blood Gold * The Manx * Blood Chronicles 7” * Sweatband Records (2013)
20.) Interlude * Mini-Mutations * Live, 29 June 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
21.) [untitled] * Arlo Brooks * Split * Sweatband Records (2016)
22.) More Limited Than The Most Antiquated Recordings * Mini-Mutations * Live, 29 June 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
HOUR 2: Live Sac Taking Calls w/ Mini-Mutations.
Part IV: Typical Hearing Loss
23.) Questions? Hello? * Le Petit Sac w/ Mini-Mutations * Live, 29 June 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
24.) Caller 1: “I live beneath the lighthouse by the cove.” * Le Petit Sac w/ Mini-Mutations * Live, 29 June 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
25.) More Live Sac * Le Petit Sac * Live, 29 June 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
26.) Caller 2: “They found me, actually.” * Le Petit Sac w/ Mini-Mutations * Live, 29 June 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
Part V: Sensitivity To High Frequencies
27.) As We Grow Older, The Losses Usually Increase * Mini-Mutations * Live, 29 June 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
28.) Even More Live Sac * Le Petit Sac * Live, 29 June 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
29.) Caller 3: “He’s taken my bunny guy thing.” * Le Petit Sac w/ Mini-Mutations * Live, 29 June 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
Part VI: Sound Alike
30.) The Weather * Le Petit Sac w/ The Weather Computer * Live, 29 June 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
31.) Caller 4: “I’m calling from you.” * Le Petit Sac w/ Mini-Mutations * Live, 29 June 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
32.) That Was Hard To Follow, Wasn’t It? * Le Petit Sac w/ Mini-Mutations * Live, 29 June 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
33.) Au Revoir * Mini-Mutations * Live, 29 June 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
01.) It’s My Party * Lesley Gore * Cruisin’ 1963
02.) Walk Right In * Rooftop Singers * Cruisin’ 1963
03.) Hey, Girl * Freddie Scott * Cruisin’ 1963
04.) Denise * Randy & The Rainbows * Cruisin’ 1963
05.) Mama Don’t Lie * Jan Bradley * Cruisin’ 1963
06.) Hey Paula * Paul & Paula * Cruisin’ 1963
07.) Louie, Louie * Kingsmen * Cruisin’ 1963
08.) Harlem Shuffle * Bob And Earl * Cruisin’ 1964
09.) Nitty Gritty * Shirley Ellis * Cruisin’ 1964
10.) Dang Me * Roger Miller * Cruisin’ 1964
11.) Chapel Of Love * Dixie Cups * Cruisin’ 1964
12.) Since I Fell For You * Lenny Welch * Cruisin’ 1964
13.) The Girl From Ipanema * Stan Getz And Astrud Gilberto * Cruisin’ 1964
14.) The Shoop Shoop Song * Betty Everett * Cruisin’ 1964
15.) Talk Back Trembling Lips * Johnny Tillotson * Cruisin’ 1964
16.) It’s All Right * The Impressions * Cruisin’ 1964
17.) Funny * Joe Hinton * Cruisin’ 1964
HOUR 2:
18.) (Remember) Walking In The Sand * The Shangrilas * Cruisin’ 1964
19.) Suspicion * Terry Stafford * Cruisin’ 1964
20.) Hang On Sloopy * The McCoys * Cruisin’ 1965
21.) Wooly Bully * Sam The Sham & The Pharoahs * Cruisin’ 1965
22.) You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ * The Righteous Brothers * Cruisin’ 1965
23.) The Birds & The Bees * Jewel Akens * Cruisin’ 1965
24.) King Of The Road * Roger Miller * Cruisin’ 1965
25.) Sweet Little Sixteen * Chuck Berry * Cruisin’ 1965
26.) The Name Game * Shirley Ellis * Cruisin’ 1965
27.) The “In” Crowd * Ramsey Lewis Trio * Cruisin’ 1965
28.) It Ain’t Me Babe * The Turtles * Cruisin’ 1965
29.) Downtown * Petula Clark * Cruisin’ 1965
30.) Eve Of Destruction * Barry McGuire * Cruisin’ 1965
31.) Lover’s Concerto * The Toys * Cruisin’ 1965
32.) Devil With A Blue Dress On / Good Golly Miss Molly * Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels * Cruisin’ 1966
33.) Sunny * Bobby Hebb * Cruisin’ 1966
01.) Alley Oop * The Hollywood Argyles * Cruisin’ 1960
02.) Stay * Maurice Williams And The Zodiacs * Cruisin’ 1960
03.) Running Bear * Johnny Preston * Cruisin’ 1960
04.) The Big Hurt * Toni Fisher * Cruisin’ 1960
05.) Because They’re Young * Duane Eddy * Cruisin’ 1960
06.) Fannie Mae * Buster Brown * Cruisin’ 1960
07.) Blue Moon * The Marcels * Cruisin’ 1961
08.) My True Story * The Jive Five * Cruisin’ 1961
09.) Nadine * Chuck Berry * Cruisin’ 1961
10.) Wooden Heart * Joe Dowell * Cruisin’ 1961
11.) But I Do * Clarence “Frogman” Henry * Cruisin’ 1961
12.) Beep Beep * The Playmates * Cruisin’ 1961
13.) Tossin’ & Turnin’ * Bobby Lewis * Cruisin’ 1961
14.) Daddy’s Home * Shep And The Limelites * Cruisin’ 1961
15.) Runaway * Del Shannon * Cruisin’ 1961
16.) Barbara Ann * The Regents * Cruisin’ 1961
17.) Ya Ya * Lee Dorsey * Cruisin’ 1961
18.) Hideaway * Freddie King * Cruisin’ 1961
HOUR 2:
19.) Peppermint Twist * Joey Dee & The Starliters * Cruisin’ 1962
20.) Soldier Boy * The Shirelles * Cruisin’ 1962
21.) I Need Your Lovin’ * Don Gardner & Dee Dee Ford * Cruisin’ 1962
22.) Hey Baby * Bruce Channel * Cruisin’ 1962
23.) Let Me In * The Sensations * Cruisin’ 1962
24.) Johnny Angel * Shelley Fabares * Cruisin’ 1962
25.) Duke Of Earl * Gene Chandler * Cruisin’ 1962
26.) You’ll Lose A Good Thing * Barbara Lynn * Cruisin’ 1962
27.) The Wanderer * Dion * Cruisin’ 1962
28.) Goodbye Cruel World * James Darren * Cruisin’ 1962
29.) Sealed With A Kiss * Brian Hyland * Cruisin’ 1962
30.) Locomotion * Little Eva * Cruisin’ 1962
31.) Easier Said Than Done * Essex * Cruisin’ 1963
32.) Sally Go ‘Round The Roses * Jaynettes * Cruisin’ 1963
33.) He’s So Fine * Chiffons * Cruisin’ 1963
34.) Twist And Shout * Isley Brothers * Cruisin’ 1963
35.) Baby It’s You * Shirelles * Cruisin’ 1963
01.) Honeycomb * Jimmie Rodgers * Cruisin’ 1957
02.) Long Lonely Nights * Lee Andrews & The Hearts * Cruisin’ 1957
03.) At The Hop * Danny And The Juniors * Cruisin’ 1958
04.) Tequila * The Champs * Cruisin’ 1958
05.) Book Of Love * The Monotones * Cruisin’ 1958
06.) Rock And Roll Music * Chuck Berry * Cruisin’ 1958
07.) Kisses Sweeter Than Wine * Jimmie Rodgers * Cruisin’ 1958
08.) Short Shorts * The Royal Teens * Cruisin’ 1958
09.) Chantilly Lace * The Big Bopper * Cruisin’ 1958
10.) Do You Wanna Dance? * Bobby Freeman * Cruisin’ 1958
11.) Rockin’ Robin * Bobby Day * Cruisin’ 1958
12.) Get A Job * The Silhouettes * Cruisin’ 1958
13.) Ten Commandments Of Love * Harvey & The Moonglows * Cruisin’ 1958
14.) Rebel Rouser * Duane Eddy * Cruisin’ 1958
15.) (Baby) Hully Gully * The Olympics * Cruisin’ 1959
16.) There’s Something On Your Mind * Big Jay McNeely * Cruisin’ 1959
HOUR 2:
17.) Since I Don’t Have You * The Skyliners * Cruisin’ 1959
18.) Almost Grown * Chuck Berry * Cruisin’ 1959
19.) What A Diff’rence A Day Makes * Dinah Washington * Cruisin’ 1959
20.) Say Man * Bo Diddley * Cruisin’ 1959
21.) 16 Candles * The Crests * Cruisin’ 1959
22.) Personality * Lloyd Price * Cruisin’ 1959
23.) It’s Just A Matter Of Time * Brook Benton * Cruisin’ 1959
24.) Sea Of Love * Phil Phillips * Cruisin’ 1959
25.) I Only Have Eyes For You * The Flamingos * Cruisin’ 1959
26.) Kansas City * Wilbert Harrison * Cruisin’ 1959
27.) You Talk Too Much * Joe Jones * Cruisin’ 1960
28.) Tears On My Pillow * Little Anthony & The Imperials * Cruisin’ 1960
29.) Baby, You’ve Got What It Takes * Brook Benton & Dinah Washington * Cruisin’ 1960
30.) What In The World’s Come Over You * Jack Scott * Cruisin’ 1960
31.) Finger Poppin’ Time * Hank Ballard & The Midnighters * Cruisin’ 1960
32.) See You In September * The Tempos * Cruisin’ 1960
01.) Rock & Roll * Buddy Morrow * Cruisin’ 1955
02.) I Got A Woman * Ray Charles * Cruisin’ 1955
03.) Annie Had A Baby * Hank Ballard & The Midnighters * Cruisin’ 1955
04.) Sincerely * Moonglows * Cruisin’ 1955
05.) Hearts Of Stone * Charms * Cruisin’ 1955
06.) My Babe * Little Walter * Cruisin’ 1955
07.) Earth Angel * Penguins * Cruisin’ 1955
08.) Maybelline * Chuck Berry * Cruisin’ 1955
09.) Only You * Platters * Cruisin’ 1955
10.) Ain’t It A Shame * Fats Domino * Cruisin’ 1955
11.) Story Untold * Nutmegs * Cruisin’ 1955
12.) Bo Diddley * Bo Diddley * Cruisin’ 1955
13.) Pledging My Love * Johnny Ace * Cruisin’ 1955
14.) Robin Seymour Theme * The Four Lads * Cruisin’ 1956
15.) Roll Over Beethoven * Chuck Berry * Cruisin’ 1956
16.) Eddie My Love * The Teen Queens * Cruisin’ 1956
17.) Why Do Fools Fall In Love? * Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers * Cruisin’ 1956
18.) Tonite Tonite * The Mello Kings * Cruisin’ 1956
19.) Fever * Little Willie John * Cruisin’ 1956
HOUR 2:
20.) The Great Pretender * The Platters * Cruisin’ 1956
21.) Tutti Frutti * Little Richard * Cruisin’ 1956
22.) Stranded In The Jungle * The Cadets * Cruisin’ 1956
23.) Speedoo * The Cadillacs * Cruisin’ 1956
24.) Gee * The Crows * Cruisin’ 1956
25.) In The Still Of The Night * The Five Satins * Cruisin’ 1956
26.) Honky Tonk * Bill Doggett * Cruisin’ 1956
27.) Susie Q * Dale Hawkins * Cruisin’ 1957
28.) Happy, Happy Birthday Baby * The Tuneweavers * Cruisin’ 1957
29.) School Day * Chuck Berry * Cruisin’ 1957
30.) A Thousand Miles Away * The Heartbeats * Cruisin’ 1957
31.) Party Doll * Buddy Knox * Cruisin’ 1957
32.) Goodnight Sweetheart * The Spaniels * Cruisin’ 1957
33.) Little Darlin’ * The Diamonds * Cruisin’ 1957
34.) Over The Mountain, Across The See * Johnny And Joe * Cruisin’ 1957
35.) Bony Moronie * Larry Williams * Cruisin’ 1957
36.) To The Aisle * The Five Satins * Cruisin’ 1957
01.) Hyperion (DimensioniIII / Aria 1964) * Bruno Maderna * Hyperion * Disques Montaigne (1993)
02.) Ballad ‘Erlkönig’ (1966) * Dick Raaijmakers * Ballad ‘Erlkönig’ / 5 Canons * Composers’ Voice (1981)
03.) Inferno (1967) * Victor Grauer * Electronic Music * Folkways Records (1967)
HOUR 2:
04.) L’Île Re-Sonante * Éliane Radigue * L’Île Re-Sonante * Shiin Records (2005)
05.) Suite from “No Exit” (1962) * Vladimir Ussachevsky * Film Music * New World Records (1990)
I first saw the Dead Air Fresheners in 2006, and since then have maintained a loose association with them, as they played on KPSU a number of times, and usually, on one of my shows, or with my engineering their sound somehow. Not only did I get to understand their particular brand of chance-determinist music, but as I got to know them better, it was only a matter of time before I started playing with them, too. (In April of 2013, to be exact, first as a featured vocalist, and then as one of those “behind the masks.”
While I was an “unofficial” member of the group for a few years (if one – even one who isn’t anonymous – can even be an official member), as time (and distance) has grown between us, I only get to meet them when we play a show together. Which, fortunately, has been more often, recently. While we had long-discussed the idea of getting them on the I-5 and on the radio here in Salem, the stars finally aligned, and it all worked out for this fantastic performance .
This show has it all. I jam away with some Mini-Mutations throughout the show, occasionally including samples of previous Dead Air releases, and other recordings, throughout. Then, the Dead Air Fresheners unleash a live jam, and a rare interview, talking about what they do, how they do it, and other bits and bobs here and there. Then, we close things out with a Mini-Dead-Air-Mutation, which was unlike almost all the other jams we’ve done before.
This was was a lot of fun, and it’s always good to see these guys in action. Now, it’s available for you, too.
Enjoy!
Dead Air Fresheners, LIVE!
HOUR 1
Part I: Living Stereo
01.) Stereophonic Tape * Mini-Mutations * 17 May 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
02.) More Data * Negativland * More Data * Seeland Records (2019)
03.) Abyss [slooooo rmx] * Don Haugen / Mini-Mutations * 17 May 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
04.) Evidence of Superstructures II [Class Bully rmx] * Dead Air Fresheners / Mini-Mutations * 17 May 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
Part II: Live
05.) LIVE * Dead Air Fresheners * 17 May 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
Part III: The Commodification of Play
06.) The Weather Computer * Mini-Mutations * 17 May 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
07.) Apogey [mshp] * Chopstick / Mini-Mutations * 17 May 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
08.) The Commodification of Play * Dead Air Fresheners * The Commodification of Play * Dead Air Music (2019)
HOUR 2
Part IV: The Set Behind The Set
09.) Interview * Dead Air Fresheners * 17 May 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
New and old albums, Bob Bucko Jr. & Personal Archives, masks & lineups, chance determinism, noise vs. improv labels, instrumentation, release formats, having a sense of humor and, inevitably, Jandek.
Part V: The New Tape Cartridge Is At All Times Ready For Play.
10.) Brother Wind * Dead Air Fresheners * Brother Wind * Dead Air Music (2019)
11.) Side B [wthr rmx] * Le Petit Sac / Mini-Mutations * 17 May 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
Part VI: This Is What To Do / Not To Do
12.) LIVE * Dead Air Fresheners w/ Mini-Mutations * 17 May 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
13.) Wrap-Up * Dead Air Fresheners / Mini-Mutations * 17 May 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
14.) Han Valen [Hgh Fdlty rmx] * Ryan A. Ray / Mini-Mutations * 17 May 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
15.) Soul Finger * The Bar-Kays * Soul Finger * Volt Records (1967)
I’ve had a long relationship with Ricardo Wang and his program, “What’s This Called?” and it always feels good to be involved with his show. But this is the very first time that I’ve “performed” on his show like this. I mean, we did one collaboration which you can hear here, but that was well before things began to Mutate as they do these days. But playing a double-header like this – with Office Products, live on the radio – was pretty cool, and felt like a big accomplishment. Here’s the entire show, with both of our performances and other DJ bit in-between.
Tune in for a live appearance on Rich Lindsay’s “Radio Lost & Found.” There’s a live Mini-Mutations performance, some interspersed interview bits, and both The Ramen City Kid & Rich Lindsay perform with me throughout the show. This was a ton of fun, and now you can enjoy it, too!
Tune in for a script that I wrote at the beginning and end of this episode, and for an interview by phone after the half-way mark, where we talk about ‘zines, mail art… and music!
During a recent trip to Eugene, I had the pleasure of joining I Died & Esperik Glare in the I Died Batcave to record some live jams We all tried to approach this as if it were a radio session, but there were some obvious limitations. Still, we managed to create a make-shift radio studio rather quickly, and pretty soon we were all three able to perform and jam, just like at KMUZ.
Which is fortunate, because this week I’m actually in Corvallis. So, please adjust your signal to this wonderful performance by I Died, Esperik Glare and… Mini-Mutations, from… the past?
Enjoy!
I Died vs. Esperik Glare
HOUR 1:
Part I:
01.) Live * I Died * 16 February 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
HOUR 2:
Part II:
02.) Live * Esperik Glare * 16 February 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
A little publicity never hurt anyone. “Radio Lost & Found” featured a track off of the new “On-Air” release, as well as an extended plug for or upcoming radio jam on April 11th. This gives you a perfect taste of the kind of radio that Rich Lindsay does, and hopefully, will give you a sense of how Mini-Mutations could fit into it.
Check us out, on KBOO, April 11th at 10 PM. It should be pretty excellent.
01.) Trigger In Trigger Out / They’re Coming From The Cosmic Inferno * Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno * Just Another Band from The Cosmic Inferno * Important Records (2005)
This show originally aired on WCSB, a Cleveland based radio station, hosted by Lisa. Thanks Lisa, for saying nice things about Mini-Mutations, and playing one of our tracks!
Enjoy!
Playlist:
*Jethro Tull – Ring Out, Solstice Bells – “March, The Mad Scientist”
*Prince Rama of Ayodhya – Zetland – “Golden Glow”
*Prince Rama of Ayodhya – Architecture Of Utopia – “Aeolian Divine”
*FROM – Pussification: A Compilation of Experimental Cat Music –
-Mini Mutations – “Meow Meow Black”
-Dooley & All Extinct Animals – “Four Whiskus”
-RUBBISH – “Pussy Fighters”
-Mean Flow – “Cat-mare Song”
-Mystery Track – untitled
*Neckline (Akron) – Neckline IV – “Dreaming of Summertime”
Event Calendar
*Mdou Moctar – Illana: The Creator – “Kamane Tarhanin”
It is often difficult to explain to those who are not actively seeking out all of the various musical corner of our fair state, but the current experimental scene in Oregon is probably better now than it has ever been, and that is in part due to the efforts of a few key folks in the area who are constantly working to book shows, give new acts a chance, and in the end, who are willing to carve out places for this kind of art for those of us who really crave it.
Chris Durnin has been a tireless supporter of the Corvallis scene, something that if you haven’t been there, you really should check it out. The “Corvallis Experiments in Noise” group – which he organizes – has been assembling DIY shows and events where money is not a factor, people are not on their phones, and the incredible work that people do is finally on display. A two-day celebration of this is happening on March 29th at The Majestic Theater & March 30th at Whiteside Theater, where an ABSURD number of performers are gathering to put on a show the likes of which you have NEVER seen.
And we really need to emphasize the “seen” part of this event. While radio is a purely audio world, experimental music often takes the form of costumes, dances, and visual elements that cannot be captured in just one dimension. That is why there is streaming live video of the performers for this event, which you can watch over on the Mid-Valley Mutations MyFacester+ Twinstgramblr Page, or in our A/V Gallery of stuff shot during the show. (This may expand as more material comes my way… most everyone had a camera running at one point.)
So sit back as we feature six of the performers that will be doing their thing at the What Is Noise Fest? event at the end of March. (Six if you include Mini-Mutations.) And, stick around for a bonus performance at the end, where most of us get together for a while noise jam that is out of this world!
It’s been a bit of a week, as it often is, and Xeres and I decided that we needed to get away from it all, for a while. With that in mind, we decided to venture out into The Great Outdoors, where we set up camp, make some food, go for a hike, explore, make a little music, lament a painful tooth, and try to have a little fun in a much less urban environment.
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
HOUR 1:
Part I: Apemen on Big Rock Candy Mountain
01.) Driving Out * Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich * 22 February 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
02.) Apeman * The Kinks * Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One * Pye Records (1970)
03.) Arriving at The Campsite * Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich * 22 February 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
04.) Big Rock Candy Mountain * Harry McClintock * Haywire Mac * Folkways Records (1972)
05.) Setting Up Camp * Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich * 22 February 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
06.) Let’s Go Camping * Coleman Camping Gear * Let’s Go Camping * Coleman (1970)
07.) Cooking Hoedown * Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich * 22 February 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
08.) Results * Xeres * Radio Jam (1991)
Part II: Where Are We?
09.) Down By The River * Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich * 22 February 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
10.) Nature Sounds on the Nature Hike * Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich * 22 February 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
11.) An Encounter with Gentle Ben and… * Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich * 22 February 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
12.) Smokey The Bear * Gene Autry * Smokey The Bear b/w Back In The Saddle * Columbia Records (1960)
13.) Jew’s Harp * Eric Haenn * Good Vibrations (2010)
14.) Smokey Bear “Think” PSA * Ad Council * Smokey Bear “Think” PSA * Ad Council (1972)
15.) The Weather Computer Calls In * Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich * 22 February 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
Part III: It’s Gettin’ Dark Mighty Fast
16.) The Beach & The Whales * Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich * 22 February 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
17.) A Plague of Frogs * Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich * 22 February 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
18.) Back to the Shadows * Firesign Theatre * I Think We’re All Bozos On This Bus * Columbia Records (1971)
19.) The Littlest Tompt * Fern Zimmerman * The Littlest Tompt * Fern Zimmerman (2010)
Hour 2
Part IV: Where Are We Again?
20.) Reading Pulp Fiction * Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich * 22 February 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
21.) Shortwave Radio Jam In A Cave (w/ Re-Started Nature) * Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich * 22 February 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
[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)]
22.) Trying To Escape Jellystone Park [Excerpt] * Yogi Bear * Trying To Escape Jellystone Park * Hanna-Barbera (1968)
23.) Rod Serling “Careless Killers” PSA * Ad Council * Rod Serling “Careless Killers” PSA * Ad Council (1962)
Part V: “He left the next day for The Mountains.”
24.) Racoons * Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich * 22 February 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
25.) untitled * Eric Haenn w/ Jim Richards * Good Vibrations (2010)
26.) True Night * Gary Snyder w/ Paul Winter Consort * live at Zellerbach Auditorium, Berkely, CA, 3/25/1979 * Gary Snyder (1979)
27.) Off Commercial * Off * Off Commercial * Off (1970)
28.) A Note On The Camping Craze That is Currently Sweeping America * Richard Brautigan (read by Austin Rich) * Trout Fishing In America * Four Seasons (1961)
29.) Wolf Jam * Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich * 22 February 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
30.) Bullwinkle PSA * Ad Council * Bullwinkle PSA * Ad Council (1969)
31.) Alvin & the Chipmunks PSA * Ad Council * Alvin & the Chipmunks PSA * Ad Council (1968)
32.) Clementine * Ken Carson * America’s Favorite Campfire Songs Featuring Ken Carson * Longines Symphonette Society (1966)
33.) The Weather Computer Calls In Again * Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich * 22 February 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
Part VI: Is it raining?
34.) Making S’mores * Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich * 22 February 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
[w/ Ta Da * Xeres * Radio Jam (1991)]
35.) A Sad Little Song * Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich * 22 February 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
36.) Austin Falls Asleep * Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich * 22 February 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
37.) The Storm * Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich * 22 February 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
Here is my appearance on The Sunday Morning Hangover, w/ Reverend Marc Time & Semi-Colin of /root_DIR.
During my whirlwind visit to Eugene recently, I managed to squeeze in a visit to KWVA, and The Sunday Morning Hangover. Marc Time and I have become good friends recently, and it’s always fun to catch up. But this time I brought Semi-Colin and we regaled Marc with stories of Cathead, /root_DIR, Mini-Mutations, and everything in-between.
Frog calls in with a joke, for fuck’s sake. This is the most Eugene show we could think of, to the point where we go and shop at Moon Rock Records afterwards. But we also engage in some who-ripped-off-who, I introduce Marc to The Masque Live compilations (and the Switched-On Eugene) comp, as well as recorded four original Mini-Mutations tunes for Marc’s show. (One of which is a a new Theme Song, and one of which was not included in the broadcast version.) All the while Semi-Colin and I are there to offer color commentary, ticket give-away assistance, and plenty of WOWs for the listeners to enjoy.
This one is quite personal to me. As Colin and I spent some many years listening to KWVA and driving around Eugene, it was funny to be in a situation where we were on KWVA, the subject of the show broadcasting to this fair city. It was not lost on me how cool that was. Cathead was, if anything, a first stop on the way to other things (for both of us), but Marc is a reverent about our group as he is about everything, and that was very sweet of him. It’s nice to try and get a word in edge-wise as Marc does his show around us, and that’s certainly plenty of fun for me.
Enjoy!
Playlist:
10:08AM The Peddlers “On a clear day you can see Forever” from Breaking Bad
10:08AM Telly Savalas “If” from Telly
10:10AM Austin Rich “Hangover Intro” from Mini Mutations
10:11AM Percy “Thills” Thrillington “Uncle Albert” from Thrillington (Remastered) (Digital (laptop, mp3 player, et, Album, Private)
10:12AM Ken Nordine meet’s Mini Mutations “Everyone’s An Amateur” from Best of World Jazz (1958) on DOT
10:20AM Ken Nordine “You Do Somthing To Me” from Love Album
10:20AM The Moog Cookbook “Black Hole Sun” from Ye Olde Space Bande Plays the Classic Rock Hits (LiveEventBroadcast, Other, Other, 1997) on Ryko/Rhino (USA)
10:21AM Pancho the Parrot “I Left My Heart In San Francisco.” from Pancho Sings! on Internet
10:23AM Bonzo Dog Band “Mr. Slater’s Parrot from Cornology
10:25AM Caninus “Brindle Is As Brindle Does” from Split EP (CD, Album, LoudRock/Metal, 2007) on War Torn Records
10:30AM Ramones (with accordion instead of guitar) “I Don’t Wanna Go Down To the Basement” from Ramones
10:40AM Brian Williams “Rappers Delight” from NBC News
10:40AM Steinski “The Motorcade Sped On” from What Does It All Mean? – 1983-2006 Retrospective (2008) on Illegal Art
10:41AM Bukowski meets Mini Mutations “Simple Little Things” from 110 in the Shade – The 2007 Broadway Revival
10:41AM Erik Satie “Gymnopèdie No. 1 (Eric Satie)” from Night and Novelties – a Piano Recital
10:48AM Shocking Blue “Venus” from Greatest Hits
10:48AM The Big Three “Banjo Blues” from The Big 3 (feat. Mama Cass) on Rhino (US)
10:56AM Santana “Everybody’s everything” from Santana (III)
11:01AM The Emporor’s “Karate” from Karate (Single)
11:02AM Bobby Parker “Watch your Step” from Bent Out of Shape on P-VINE
11:02AM Humprey Littleton “Bad Penny Blues” from Early Productions ’55-’58
11:11AM The Jars “Electric 3rd Rail” from The Jars on Subtarranean Records
11:13AM Hawkwind “We Took the Wrong Step Years Ago” from Road to Utopia on Cherry Red Records
11:18AM The Dickies “You Drive Me Ape (You Big Gorilla) [Live 1982]” from 1977 / 1982 – A Night That Will Live in Infamy & Live When They Were Five on Cleopatra Records
11:18AM The Zeros “Cosmetic Couple” from 4-3-2-1…Zeros on Ryko/Rhino (USA)
11:20AM William Shatner “silver machine” from Seeking Major Tom (CD, Album, Private, 2011) on Cleopatra
11:25AM Ray Allen and the Embers “Space Monkey” from Space Monkey
11:32AM Derryl Parsons “Floating Landscape (including Chase Scene)” from Switched-On Eugene (Vinyl, Comp, Private, 2018) on Numero Group (USA)
11:34AM Gong “Glad Stoned Buried Fielding Flash and Fresh Fest” from Live At Glastonbury (1971)
11:38AM Neu! “Isi” from ’75 (CD, Album, 1975) on United Artists (US)
11:39AM Roxy Music “Pajamarama” from Roxy Music (Digital (laptop, mp3 player, et, Album, Private, 1972) on Virgin UK (UK)
11:51AM Eno “Third Uncle” from Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
11:58AM Neil “Hole in My Shoe” from Neil’s Heavy Concept LP
11:59AM Spinal Tap “Tonight I’m Gonna Roclk You Tonight from Spinal Tap the Movie OST
Goodbye, Ken Nordine. Your word Jazz was exquisite, and you were a radio maverick, starting in the early 40s. Astonishing what you can do when you try to be yourself, all the time. Here’s a show I did remixing a Ken Nordine themed show from 2009, and a bunch of other spoken word radio and podcasts. We’ll miss you, and all of your fliberty jib.
Loosing Opportunity feels way too symbolic these days, but it reminded me of the tribute to Curiosity I did in 2012, which now feels like our last hope, in some strangely other symbolic way. So here’s a little retrocast about Mars and Curiosity as we mourn the loss of Opportunity.
I have always been a fan of space exploration, and as a young kid I even wanted to be an astronaut. But as time went on, and it became clear that I would not be the first man to Mars, I started to let my mind wander toward the stars instead, and soon became extremely interested in music, writing, and art. Now, in honor of the successful Curiosity Rover landing on Mars on the 6th of August, I present an audio essay dedicated to that success, filled with music about Mars, and information about exactly how hard it was to get there from here.
There is no shortage of music about our neighbor in the sky, and it was very easy…
On February 8th, 2019, the world was in the grip of the Polar Vortex. But in Salem Oregon, we were in the grip on “Winter Weather Fever,” a condition that only exists when everyone assumes that we will have frozen streets and layers on snow, only to become incredibly disappointed.
With all signs pointing to YES, we decided to reschedule our lives guests (clownfisher and Ark Noelle), and instead offer a Winter Storm Watch 2019, where I could broadcast from the comfort of the Lava Lamp Lounge, monitor the weather, and see if all the hubbub was actually anything to sneeze at.
In the end, we all know the answer: it just rained. But, in a turn of events that I was somewhat thankful for, it did get incredibly cold and slippery, with roads at freezing conditions, so I felt justified in not making the journey to the station, and was very happy I didn’t ask a band to travel in weather like that, either.
There will always be other shows to do, and this gave me a chance to dream (for a while, anyway) that we would get getting massive snowdrifts, piles of white falling from the sky, and an army of snowmen as I look down the street to see how my neighbors were doing. None of that came to pass, but during this show, maybe you can hear some of my excitement, as I stroll through some recently acquired synth records from the past.
Enjoy!
Winter Storm Watch 2019 (TBD)
HOUR 1:
01.) Synth LPs
HOUR 2:
16.) Synth Jam (Live) * Mini-Mutations * 8 February 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
17.) More Synth LPs
To complement our Northwest Quatrain, please enjoy this Commentary Track with Xeres Furd and myself, recorded immediately after our Northwest Quatrain.
As we tried to keep the chatting to a minimum, and just play music, this is a chance for us to casually discuss the material Xeres played, why he played it, and other significant things that are worth mentioning, that were not in the regular broadcast.
Continuing our four-hour journey into Northwest Music that doesn’t get nearly enough play these days, Xeres of Xeron and I have returned to KMUZ and Northwest Notes to bring you more selections from his personal collection of rare and rarely-heard recordings and performances by artists from right here, where you are from.
This show also happens to be a Pledge Drive show, but don’t let that fool you. We do our best to bring you a huge helping of music, in spite of all of that, and this one gets very personal, in the best possible way. We focus on a handful of artists this show, and dig into their back-catalog with songs from demo tapes and poorly-distributed home-recordings, by artists who have become incredibly popular since their time in the area. And, finally, we delve more into the recorded works of Xeres himself, which is always a wonderful treat.
This one is something I’m quite proud of, and I could never have done it without the hard work and thoughtfulness of Xeres of Xeron himself. So dig in, and enjoy our Northwest Quatrain.
Amy Denio (rhymes with Ohio) has been a prolific stalwart of the Seattle avant-garde jazz scene since the mid-1980s, with a penchant for quirky compositions influenced by international folk idioms and saxophone experimentalists such as Roland Kirk and Pharoah Sanders. In addition to the sax, she also plays accordion, bass, guitar, and whatever else suits her fancy – all of it self-taught. She also sings beautifully and does humorous spoken word bits. Her world travels and collaborative spirit have combined her talents with the likes of Chris Cutler, Derek Bailey, Chuck D, and Fred Frith. She is credited as a performer on a vast diversity of albums by groups such as Curlew, Pale Nudes, Kultur Shock, The Science Group, FoMoFlo, Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet, and of course Tone Dogs.
Tone Dogs was a project Amy did with bassist Fred Chalenor, along with Soundgarden drummer Matt Cameron (later replaced by drummer Will Dowd.) Perhaps best described as a prog band with whimsical leanings, Tone Dogs released two albums in 1990 and 1991.
41.) Vomit Comet * Amy Denio * Never Too Old to Pop a Hole * Spoot Music (1988)
42.) Marshall’s Whitey Wipes * Amy Denio * Never Too Old to Pop a Hole * Spoot Music (1988)
Fred Chalenor and Amy Denio, Tone Dogs reunion, Olympia, WA, 2013
43.) Czechered Pyiamas * Tone Dogs * 27 July 1991 * Tone Dogs (1991)
Fred Chalenor then went on to found his band Caveman Shoestore, which later evolved into Caveman Hughscore when Fred hooked up with Hugh Hopper of Soft Machine fame. After a struggle with early-onset Alzheimer’s, Fred passed away just last summer (2018).
44.) Surfing and Dreaming * Fred Chalenor * Caveman Shoestore demo * Fred Chalenor (1990)
Prior to starting Caveman Shoestore, Fred passed out this proof-of-concept demo tape to interested musical comrades. It’s unobtainable, but you heard it here.
45.) A Better Mousetrap * Fred Chalenor w/ Pete da Fraser * Ask the Mice * bandcamp.com (2016)
In 2016, spoken word vocalist Pete da Fraser of The Giant Worm visited Fred at his La Center, Washington home to record a series of improvised duets which feature Chalenor on the stand-up acoustic bass. A collection of Fred’s collaborations with Pete and with The Giant Worm can be found at this link.
46.) Disgruntled Postal Worker * Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet * Box * New World Records (1996)
47.) Dubya & His Pa * Amy Denio * Prodigal Light * Spoot Music (2013)
48.) Maybe I Don’t Care * Amy Denio * No Bones * Spoot Music (1986)
Part V: Trey Treasures
Trey Gunn was a member of King Crimson between 1994 and 2003. But in the ’80s he went to college in Eugene, Oregon and got his degree in classical music composition at the U of O School of Music. During this period in Eugene, he had a band called Punishment Farm, and he also produced cassette releases of his solo work. His friends recall that Trey stated his intention to meet Robert Fripp some day, and get some guitar lessons out of him, even though Fripp was not teaching at the time. Yet this is exactly what happened after Trey left Eugene. Fripp founded his League of Crafty Guitarists, with Trey Gunn as one of his prize pupils. Trey is also known as a proponent of the Chapman stick, sort of a combination of a guitar and bass on a single fretboard. Prior to performing in King Crimson with the stick, he toured on his own to demonstrate its virtues and his virtuosity on the instrument. Another cassette-only release documents this phase of his career.
49.) Mighty Joe Young’s Yoga School * Trey Gunn * Food for Thought * Trey Gunn (1983)
50.) Bed Bugs * Punishment Farm * Greatest Hits * Punishment Farm (1983)
51.) XOXXOXO * Trey Gunn * Magic If * Trey Gunn (1986)
52.) Fifth Spin of the Sun * Trey Gunn * I’ll Tell What I Saw * 7d Media (2010)
53.) Shimmering * Trey Gunn * Raw Power * Trey Gunn (1989)
54.) Nicole * Trey Gunn * Food for Thought * Trey Gunn (1983)
55.) Magnificent Jinn * Trey Gunn * I’ll Tell What I Saw * 7d Media (2010)
56.) Togaku Ritsu * Trey Gunn * Playing with Borrowed Time * Trey Gunn (1985)
HOUR 4:
Part VI: Home Recordings
Just some amateur stuff recorded by me and some friends of mine.
57.) Curse of the Devils * Daniel Ramirez * Solo Spam * Daniel Ramirez (1987)
Dan was guitarist for Stick Against Stone during their Eugene and San Francisco years. Eugenians may also remember him as the guy who drove the Genesis Juice delivery van.
58.) Oven Door * Keven Dow * Oven Door * Keven Dow (1991)
That’s spelled Keven with two E’s. Keven was enrolled in the LCC electronic music workshop when he created this piece as a class project. Although he was a friend of Derryl Parsons, he was not a member of the EEMC. He also played guitar in Fate vs. Free Will Turn Signals. This piece was composed on a Yamaha DX7 using samples of a squeaky oven door.
59.) AIDS Quilt * Xeres Furd & Rob Dowling * Radio Jam * Xeres Furd & Rob Dowling (1987)
At the height of the HIV epidemic, this somber dirge was recorded as an experiment using samples from a CNN news report run through a rack-mount digital delay.
60.) The Plains of Girg * Fate vs. Free Will Turn Signals * Klepto and Other Manias * Fate vs. Free Will Turn Signals (1988)
The percussion for this piece was provided by soda cans, beer bottles, and a toy drum set.
61.) Singin’ Acapello * Blue Light Studio * Bluelight ’88 * Blue Light Studio (1988)
Several musicians from the Salem vicinity gathered at Blue Light Studio, which was originally located in the Falls City bedroom of my friend Lee Ballard. Lee played bass and founded a number of Salem bands, including a bar band called Triple Thret. Lee, sorry man, I lost your email address several years ago. Get back in touch with me through this blog if you’re out there!
62.) Circle K * Paul Sturtz & Elizabeth Rieman * Circle K * Paul Sturtz & Elizabeth Rieman (1988)
Paul Sturtz was a DJ at KRVM Eugene in the mid-80s. Later in life he served as a member of the Columbia, Missouri city council, and he founded the True/False Film Festival there. Elizabeth Rieman was working at the U of O Bookstore at the time. She is now a massage therapist, coincidentally also in Columbia, Missouri.
63.) Mousey Centauri * The Giant Worm * Mousey Centauri * The Giant Worm (2018)
Our first time in a professional studio. Recorded in July of 2018 at dB Nation in Multnomah Village in Portland.
64.) She Heard the Screams of Charles * Daniel Ramirez * Solo Spam * Daniel Ramirez (1987)
Part VII: Remember Valsetz
Valsetz was a mill town in Polk County, west of Falls City, which was shut down by Boise Cascade in 1983, and was subsequently abandoned and completely torn down. The band Remember Valsetz made logging issues the focus of its lyrical content, with sympathy for both environmental concerns and timber workers alike. They were known for performing at the remote locations of timber sale protests, as well as the steps of the state capitol building. Helmed by lead vocalist and lyricist John Dorbolo, nothing could be more Northwest than Remember Valsetz.
26 November 1989 at the Butte Tavern in Eugene, Oregon. Here’s an entire live performance:
65.) Poetrees * Remember Valsetz * Live 26 November 1989 * Remember Valsetz (1989)
66.) Woodchuck * Remember Valsetz * Live 26 November 1989 * Remember Valsetz (1989)
67.) Big Paul * Remember Valsetz * Live 26 November 1989 * Remember Valsetz (1989)
68.) Percussion / Log Jam * Remember Valsetz * Live 26 November 1989 * Remember Valsetz (1989)
69.) Spotted Owl * Remember Valsetz * Live 26 November 1989 * Remember Valsetz (1989)
70.) Momento Mori * Remember Valsetz * Live 26 November 1989 * Remember Valsetz (1989)
71.) The Diff * Remember Valsetz * Live 26 November 1989 * Remember Valsetz (1989)
01.) Klangfiguren II * Gottfried Michael Koenig * Klangfiguren II / Essay / Terminus I – II / Output / Funktionen * BV Haast Records (1990)
02.) Syntaxis * Bruno Maderna * Electronic Music * Stradivarius Records (1994)
Part II:
03.) Etude aux objets Part 1 – 5 * Pierre Schaefer * L’Œuvre Musicale * INA-GRM (2010)
Part III:
04.) Mittsu No Sekai * Joji Yuasa * Music For Theatrical Drama * Edition Omega Point (2006)
HOUR 2:
Part IV:
05.) Fragment 1 (Op. 4) * Rune Lindblad * Death of the Moon: Electronic & Concrète Music * Pogus Productions (1997)
Part V:
06.) Sechs Studien * Herbert Eimert * Epitaph Für Aikichi Kuboyama / Sechs Studien * WERGO (1966)
07.) Silver Apples Of The Moon (Side 2) * Morton Subotnick * Nonesuch Records (1967)
Part VI:
08.) I Of IV * Pauline Oliveros * New Sounds In Electronic Music * Odyssey Records (1967)
Xeres of Xeron is no stranger to KMUZ, and he and I have done some great radio together. But when Mick asked me to cover for Northwest Notes, and Xeres and I had already been bonding on some of the secret gems of the Northwest that are only available on poorly distributed physical media, we felt like it was a good idea to bring you four hours of rarities and gems from Xeres’ collection of tapes and records, and from a few other sources here and there.
This show contains rare recordings by artists you have heard of that you can’t hear anywhere else… mostly because they were only released on tapes that have never made it to other formats. We don’t talk about these tunes much, but below are some extensive show notes by Xeres himself, that address some of the more interesting (and lesser-known) elements of this very amazing scene.
This show also contains special weather reports by The Ramen City Kid.
We hope our walk through the music of the Northwest adds to the work that Mick does on this show, but offers a flavor that is 100% Xeres of Xeron.
01.) Oregon (I Can’t Go Home) * Blackhawk County * “Oregon” b/w “Helplessly” * Seagull Records (1974)
This was a hit single in 1974, #16 on Billboard, and #1 in the NW for 9 weeks. It’s about U of O student Joann McDaniels from Coos Bay, who was in a Turkish prison at the time. The band Blackhawk County is from Monmouth, Oregon. The whole story can be found using this link.
02.) Ol’ Coos Bay [Live] * Christopher Todd Davis * Live * Christopher Todd Davis (2014)
Seattle based country folk-rock artist, originally from Coos Bay.
03.) Goin’ Huntin’ * Griffin, Fard & Furd * End of the World in D-Minor * Griffin, Fard & Furd (1978)
Home recording done in Coos Bay, 1978.
04.) Ford Fairlane 500 * Billy Dwayne & the Creepers * Billy Dwayne & the Creepers * Billy Dwayne & the Creepers (2000)
Seattle based rockabilly performer, originally from Coos Bay. He’s currently looking for a new stand-up bass player!
05.) Beer Run * Todd Snider * New Connection * Oh Boy Records (2002)
Country & folk singer, born in Portland. At 15 he ran away from home in Houston back to Portland.
06.) Small Still Voice * Ben Bochner * Heartland * Ben Bochner (2012)
Ben Bochner (1956-2018), Eugene based singer-songwriter, was just beginning to get known in the Austin, TX circuit – perhaps on the brink of national recognition – when he died last spring. In 1987 Ben took part in Ken Kesey’s novel writing class at U of O, which resulted in the collaboratively written 1990 novel Caverns by O. U. Levon (which is backwards for Novel U of O.) The whole story of Ben’s role in that process can be found at this link.
07.) Birth of a Stream * Michael Harrison * Collected Recordings * Michael Harrison (1980)
Michael Harrison grew up in Eugene, studied composition at U of O, and could often be heard improvising on the piano in the student union hall. He went on to release recordings on the Windham Hill label. He became known for tuning his piano using Just Intonation (as opposed to Equal Temperment.) However, this piece was recorded prior to Harrison’s interest in just intonation.
08.) Naiads * Oregon * Music of Another Present Era * Vanguard (1972)
Two of this jazz fusion group’s founders had first met and collaborated as students at U of O in the early 60s.
Part II: Panic Favorites
This segment is intended to expand upon a recent interview of Jeff Cellers, founder and curator of the Panic on 13th blog, which is devoted to archiving Eugene’s music scene from 1980 to 1995. The interview was conducted by Austin Rich, and can be found at this link.
Most of these tunes were downloaded from the Panic on 13th blog, along with some related material from my own collection. This playlist does not necessarily highlight the best or most representative selections from the Panic blog, which deserves much more exploration. These are just a few of my personal favorite tunes and bands. The Panic on 13th blog can be found at this link
09.) Anorexia * Headhunters * Tioga Studio tape * Panic On 13th (1985)
This delightfully politically incorrect tune was a local favorite, and got some airplay on KRVM, Eugene around 1985. When this band relocated to Austin, Texas in 1985, they re-named themselves Voice of Reason.
10.) New World Babies * Moose Lodge * New World Babies * Moose Lodge (1984)
11.) Liberals * White Liberals * Cat Behavior * Solid Citizens Records (1985)
12.) Short Narrative * Snakepit * Panic on 13th * Dunghill Records (1986)
13.) Treasure in the Pity City * Moment’s Notice w/ Elizabeth Rieman * Moment’s Notice * Moment’s Notice (1990)
A song about Robert Christie of Snakepit.
14.) Bad Boy (Live) * Los Xploreres * Live * Los Xploreres (1981)
Featuring another Coos Bay homey, the incomparable Marlin Reiber on vocals.
15.) Work * Stick Against Stone w/ HR * HR Sessions * Stick Against Stone (1986)
Stick Against Stone was founded in Pittsburg, PA, but moved around a lot. While in New York, they established a friendship with the band Bad Brains. In 1984 and ’85, Stick Against Stone settled in Eugene for a spell. In 1986, in San Francisco, Stick Against Stone began to make some recordings with Bad Brains vocalist HR. Due to personal disagreements, these recordings were never completed or released.
16.) Life on the Farm * Michael Billings * Old Shorteyes Is Back * Dunghill (1988)
17.) Old Shirt * Bunny Summer * Failure… An Instructional Tape * Disgraceland (1996)
The host of the Panic blog is Jeff Cellers, and he was in this band called Bunny Summer.
18.) Spaztech Culture * Sow Belly * Sow Belly * Sow Belly (1990)
19.) Hard and Heavy * Stick Against Stone w/ HR * HR Sessions * Stick Against Stone (1986)
Another unobtainable piece featuring HR of the Bad Brains, combined with ex-Eugenians, Stick Against Stone.
20.) Someone Else * A Few Chairs * demo * A Few Chairs (1986)
21.) Pollution in Disguise * Insidious Menace * Get Paid Somewhere Else * Insidious Menace (1991)
22.) Every Band Sucks (But the Drills) * the Drills * Every Band Sucks (But the Drills) * Every Band Sucks (But the Drills) (1983)
23.) Ode to a Motorhome * E-13 * No Mercy for Swine * Fatal Erection (1986)
24.) Misguided Missile Youth * E-13 * No Mercy for Swine * Fatal Erection (1986)
25.) Eddie * E-13 * No Mercy for Swine * Fatal Erection (1986)
26.) Sport Pack * E-13 * No Mercy for Swine * Fatal Erection (1986)
27.) Humor Demons * E-13 * No Mercy for Swine * Fatal Erection (1986)
28.) Free the Cheese * E-13 * No Mercy for Swine * Fatal Erection (1986)
29.) Swizzle Stick * E-13 * No Mercy for Swine * Fatal Erection (1986)
30.) Clowns Are Experts at Making Us Laugh * E-13 * No Mercy for Swine * Fatal Erection (1986)
31.) Pankreatitis * E-13 * Drinking Is Great * Fatal Erection (1985)
32.) Quest for Gilligan * E-13 * Quest for Gilligan * Fatal Erection (1984)
33.) Cheesehead Alert * E-13 * Quest for Gilligan * Fatal Erection (1984)
E-13 was Eugene’s most legendary punk band. This is a collection of their material from the No Mercy for Swine EP, the Quest for Gilligan 7″, and the Drinking Is Great compilation. Tracks 27 – 31 Above are “podcast only” inclusions, that were not aired on KMUZ due to FCC Regulations.
The K is silent. This is the only selection in this show that was selected by Austin, as it is one of his favorite bands from Eugene, and he quite enjoys this rendition of a Johnathan Richman tune.
Part III: Switched Off Eugene
This segment is intended to expand upon recent interviews of Brian Magill (aka Phyllyp Vernacular) and Peter Thomas, co-founders of the Eugene Electronic Music Collective, and both featured on the new compilation album Switched-On Eugene released by Numero Group. These interviews were conducted by Austin Rich.
These are some tunes that were not included on the Switched-On Eugene compilation. But some of these could have been, while others are included as an update on the more current electronic music scene in Eugene and the Northwest.
35.) Self-Regulation I * Carl Juarez * Confessions of a Mobile Intelligence Unit * Glass Onion (1985)
The compilation album features Self-Regulation II. So I wanted to complete the picture here by playing Self-Regulation I.
36.) Soil Count * David Stuart * The Laundry * David Stuart (1988)
David worked at an industrial laundry, and sonically emulated his experience using broken guitars and stacks of effects boxes. A scant few copies of this cassette were released in 1988 and put on consignment at House of Records. While perhaps not among the earliest pioneers of industrial music, the genre was not yet well known or well liked, so David was gutsy to put this out at that time. Not to be confused with the guy from the Eurythmics, David Stewart (different spelling!)
37.) Lost City * Derryl Parsons * Free Fall * Eugene Electronic Music Collective (1984)
The inspiration for the Switched-On Eugene compilation was a prior self-released cassette compilation by the Eugene Electronic Music Collective called Free Fall. This is a selection by the late Derryl Parsons, taken from the Free Fall album.
38.) Shadow * Onomatopoiea * Womb * 13 Records (1996)
Electro-industrial wizards of trance dance ritual Onomatopoiea were not involved in the EEMC, but clearly influenced and were influenced by them.
39.) Saragosso * Heather Perkins * Little Humans * Land-O-Newts Records (2008)
Heather’s early work is featured on the Switched-On Eugene album. This is an example of her somewhat more recent work.
40.) As Our Bodies Die * Entrail * 100 Years Remaining * Flossless Audio (2017)
Experimental violinist, vocalist, and electronic noise-maker Entrail was not around in the days of EEMC, but is included here to represent the current (2017) evolution of Northwest electronica. Entrail originated in Eugene, but is currently living and performing in Olympia, WA.
Going back to the beginning of my radio career in 1998, The Ramen City Kid has been appearing as a guest on some version of this program. But our history together even goes back further than that. He’s one of those people in my life who has consistently revealed musical joys at the perfect moment, and has shared so much of my non-radio life with me that it seems a shame to mention that it has been over 10 Years since his last appearance.
Part of that has to do with his own incredible life. A master of many languages, a musician and writer, who is well traveled and well read, The Ramen City Kid is a busy gent. So it was refreshing to get him back on the radio. It was, in some ways, a reflection of the show he used to do (and I used to listen to), and while I think none of those shows were recorded, someone remembers them fondly, and this is as close as we can get to it these days.
This show is obviously a bit of a departure from what we usually do, but as you listen, I think you’ll notice that while the show initially seems like a standard DJ set, there is certainly something happening here that is… different.
Key lighting, cue music. Our new sponsor, Bendix, seems a little sinister, don’t you think? Something ain’t right. It looks like there’s a case to look into, and as the night wears on, we are certainly gonna need something to eat. Can we can get the recipe — and the case — in a mere two hours?
It may take all the international new wave we can find to get us through the night.
Enjoy!
The Return of The Ramen City Kid!
HOUR 1:
01.) Čudna šuma * Disciplina Kičme * Ove ruke nisu male 2 * Tom Tom Music (2004) 02.) Treći vavilon * Darkwood Dub * U nedogled * B92 (1996)
03.) Ulice su noćas * Beograd * Remek depo * PGP RTB (1983)
04.) Mace and Grenades * Hugh Masekela * “Mace And Grenades” b/w “Riot” * UNI Records (1969)
05.) Experimental Music is Consumer Fraud * Men’s Recovery Project * Today the Planet… Tomorrow the World 7” * Thin The Herd (1996)
06.) Asphixiation * Asphixiation * What Is This Thing Called ‘Disco?’ * Innocent Records (1981)
07.) Echophilia * Nocturnal Habits * New Skin for Old Children * Glacial Pace Records (2016)
08.) Graham St. Massacre * Hungry Ghost * Hungry Ghost * Hungry Ghost Records (2012)
09.) I Was More Of a Mess Then… * Comet Gain * “If Not Tomorrow” b/w “I Was More Of A Mess Then…” * Tapete Records (2018)
10.) Everybody Has a Dream * The Servants * Small Time / Hey Hey We’re The Manqués * Cherry Red Records (2012)
11.) Summer in a Small Town * Cleaners from Venus * Under Wartime Conditions * Captured Tracks (2013)
12.) A Girl With Cars In Her Eyes * Cleaners from Venus * On Any Normal Monday * Captured Tracks (2012)
13.) Ilya Kuryakin Looked At Me * Cleaners from Venus * Living With Victoria Grey * Captured Tracks (2014)
14.) Az égboltsapkájú * Tamás Cseh * Jóslat * Krém Records (1984)
15.) Cape of Good Hope * Half Eye * So You’re the Idiot Who Lives in That Stupid House * Pecho Grande (2017)
HOUR 2:
16.) Westward Ho! Massive Letdown * Half Man Half Biscuit * Urge for Offal * Probe Plus (2014)
17.) Harsh Times in Umberstone Covert * Half Man Half Biscuit * No-one Cares About Your Creative Hub So Get Your Fuckin’ Hedge Cut * Probe Plus (2018)
18.) M-6-ster * Half Man Half Biscuit * This Leaden Pall * Probe Plus (1993)
19.) Bottleneck At Capel Curig * Half Man Half Biscuit * Trouble over Bridgwater * Probe Plus (2000)
20.) Housework * Carol Channing * Free to Be… You and Me * Bell Records (1972)
21.) Barnabas Collins * Lone Ranger * Barnabas Collins 7” * GG’s Records (1977)
22.) Crazy to Exist * Josef K * The Only Fun in Town * Postcard Records (1981)
23.) Hunger Food Nausea * Asphixiation * What Is This Thing Called ‘Disco?’ * Innocent Records (1981)
24.) El Tírili * Don Ramon y su orquesta * Pachuco Boogie * Arhoolie Records (2002)
25.) Yesterday’s Misery * Jackie Johnson & the Wheels “Yesterday’s misery” b/w “A million heartaches” * Satin Records (1971)
26.) U nedogled * Darkwood Dub * U nedogled * B92 (1996)
27.) Everybody Has a Dream (encore) * The Servants * Small Time / Hey Hey We’re The Manqués * Cherry Red Records (2012)
28.) Complete Works * The Servants * Small Time / Hey Hey We’re The Manqués * Cherry Red Records (2012)
29.) Sounds & Pressure * Hopeton Lewis * “Take It Easy” With The “Rock Steady” Beat * Merritone Records (1967)
I have always taken for granted the holiday that we take in January to honor Martin Luther King Jr. It was not that I didn’t care, but that the day usually came when papers were due, or when I worked a job that already required me to work that day. But in light of my new job, getting the day off – paid – felt a little weird. I had to be honest with myself that I had never really listened to any of his speeches all the way through, and that I knew very little about the work he did other than the most general, basic sense.
So today’s radio blast is a bunch of stuff culled from my collection of audio that relates to MLK Jr. I have an edited cut-up of his last speech, and a radio broadcast from just after his assassination, as a way of presenting some of what I discovered in actually doing some research of this amazing and incredible man.
I do not have any great epiphanies to share with you, and there is no great revelation at work in this show. It seems very clear that, as he delivered this speech, he knew his days were numbered, but this seems to be the case in most of the time leading up to his assassination. I think the arrangement in this little mini-cast works to reveal why he was considered to be one of the best orators of our day, but also to illuminate much of what his work was about in the most basic and general sense possible.
For those who stay to the end: there’s a little joke to ease the tension of such a serious subject.
I urge all of you to listen to his speechs, read up on this man, and let yourself actually understand the value of this holiday. So much of what happens to us seems so passive, and we let days pass without reflecting on them too often. This time, stop for a moment to consider who this man was, and what effect he had on the world around us.
And: let’s hope you MLK Day was full of the promise and wonder that every new days brings us.
Be seeing you
I’ve Been to the Bemsha Mountaintop
01.) (What Did I Do To Be So) Black & Blue [Excerpt]* Louis Armstrong * Say It Loud: Celebrate Black History Month & Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
02.) “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” [Excerpts] * Martin Luther King Jr. * 3 April 1968
02.) Bemsha Swing * Thelonious Monk * Say It Loud: Celebrate Black History Month & Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
03.) Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated * Bill Kurtis * We Interrupt This Broadcast * 4 April 1968
With politics as it is, artists passing away, and the entertainment world completely flipped on its head, sometimes there is nothing left to do but hop a train with a new friend, and play music well into the night, jamming along with the sound of the clack of the tracks.
Fortunately, A Moment’s Sound — Scott Eave to his just-met friends — is always game for a musical adventure. He’s been playing guitar for ages, exploring sounds in an improvised manner, and searching for ways to connect with other artists, and we immediately clicked when we met.
Strangely, this is the only time we’ve played together, which speaks to the free-and-easy sound that we both enjoy exploring. There’s something about hopping trains with someone where all of the stresses of the everyday world are no longer weighing upon us. Strangely, we approached this one quite differently than when I normally have a guest. We just jumped right into this one. We go live just after the top of the hour, A Moment’s Sound kicks in by the end of the first quarter of an hour, and we go all the way to Midnight. We do sort of stop around 11 to chat for a while, but it fit the mood of where we were going, and I think you’ll enjoy the way this all turns out.
So gather round the Hobo Jungle, and let me and Scott tell you a story about what it really is like to live in the world today… which begs the questions, why aren’t we all Riding The Rails?
Hither & Yon w/ A Moment’s Sound
HOUR 1:
Part I:
01.) Hither * A Moment’s Sound & Mini-Mutations * 18 January 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
HOUR 2:
Part II:
02.) Yon * A Moment’s Sound & Mini-Mutations * 18 January 2019 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2019)
It’s funny how traditions get started. I caught Sadgasm at an Open Mic they showed up at, and they had instantly catchy hooks that not only betrayed the normal fare on this program, but immediately spoke to me. (Their tunes just got stuck in my head.) So we circled a few dates on the calendar, bounced a few ideas around, and 2017’s “New Year’s / New Tears Special” was born.
Well, a year has come and gone, and now were are here at the end of another year, trying and difficult as it has been, with even more questions about our relationships and romantic entanglements, the exact kind of problems that Sadgasm feature in their songs. Sort of like the ones in their new EP – I Don’t Like To Cry – which you can enjoy on Bandcamp or on this program, where we play tracks and they play LIVE! It’s pretty exciting.
On top of all of that, the majority of this show is dedicated to your calls. We do our best to get to the heart of the matter, and make genuine suggestions to help you in your romantic woes. And that is the majority of the show; the entire first hour, and the last 40 minutes or so, are dedicated to helping you in the relationship department, and we hope that it shows. Special thanks to Kylie Burbank, who kept the band hydrated and helped behind the scenes so we could pull off a show with a number of engineering challenges. You are incredible.
This is our last show of the year, and what a year it has been. I don’t have much else to say that I haven’t been for the last year, so I’ll end by saying: thank you. Doing this show means everything to me, and I can’t believe how lucky I am that I get to do it every week.
Enjoy.
Spinitron Playlist
A Sadgasm New Year’s / New Tears Special! (2018 Edition) (TBD)
HOUR 1
Part I: “Try To Cure Insomnia.”
The Software Are Fighting Again / Introduction & Setup / Where’s Austin?
Caller #1: Anonymous 1. “What are some good techniques to date the members of Sadgasm?”
Caller #2: Austin Antrican. “A lonely kind of sad.”
01.) Surf Rock America * Sadgasm * I Don’t Like To Cry * Self-Released (2018)
Part II: “I Take ’em Crabbing.”
Caller #3: Donald. “Update: Less than a month later, Donald found himself a Honey. What should we do for our 1 Year Anniversary?” KBVR
Caller #4: Anonymous 2. “What if your partner hasn’t ‘taken you crabbing’ after a year and a half?”
Caller #5: Anonymous 3. “What if my cat likes my partner more than me?”
Part III: The Mullet is The Bullet… To Love
Caller #6: Alec. “I cut my hair into a mullet. How can I utilize that to enhance my love life?”
Caller #7: Anonymous 4. “My husband and my roommate’s partner spend a lot of time together. (They host a podcast together, etc.) How do I take all of this in?”
Caller #8: Anonymous 5. “I feel strong emotions toward someone. How do I spark up a conversation?”
HOUR 2
Part IV: LIVE
02.) Eating Ash * Sadgasm * I Don’t Like To Cry * Self-Released (2018)
03.) It’s Better With Johnny Around (Live) * Sadgasm * 28 December 2018 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2018)
03.) Interview Snippet 1 * Austin & Sadgasm * 28 December 2018 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2018)
Topics Include: Home recorded, a more mature release, mono recording & one mic recording techniques.
04.) XX PainWarrior XX (Live) * Sadgasm * 28 December 2018 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2018)
Topics Include: Physical spaces in songs, the Sadgasm fun energy, making each other laugh.
Part V: Friend with a Capital F
Caller #9: Maddi. “I’m stuck in a love triangle. One is attractive and mean. One likes me and is nice but is a human red flag. What should I do?”
Caller #10: Anonymous 6. “My love life has run dry. Should I join ChristianMingle.com?”
Caller #11: Hubert. “I asked my partner, ‘Who had the ‘Greatest Hands’ (would win in a fight): Einstein or Da Vinci?’ and we didn’t agree. Now they haven’t responded to my messages in a few days. What should I do?”
Part VI: “I’m Gonna Tell You Something Right Now”
Caller #12: Anonymous 7. “After a year and a half of a relationship, I haven’t said ‘I love you.’ I feel comfortable with this, but my partner wants to take it to the next level. What should I do?”
Upcoming Sadgasm Shows: Jan 5th At The Speakeasy. Jan 23rd at Nearly Normal’s. Feb. 8th at The Space.
In The Studio: Austin. “I’ve blown through all my good date ideas after many years of marriage. Any suggestions for new date ideas?”
Silent Night * Bren’t Lewiis Ensemble * from the early 1980s, recorded at KCSC, Chico.
Its Beginning To Look A Lot Like Xmess * Termite With Guest No. 66
Jingle Bells * This Is Yvonne Lovejoy
Join Mid-Valley Mutations as we Channel Surf during our Christmas break. It’s like watching an old Dead Martin holiday special, but you’ve had a bit to drink, so you start channel surfing to see what else is on. I know we did.
Enjoy!
Christmas TV Special!
HOUR 1:
Part I: Santa’s Workshop
01.) Christmas In The Playhouse * Pee-Wee Herman * Pee-Wee’s Playhouse * CBS Television (1988)
02.) Santa’s Workshop * Wilfred Jackson * Silly Symphonies * Walt Disney Productions (1932)
03.) Snow! * Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney & Vera-Ellen * White Christmas * Paramount Pictures (1954)
04.) Christmas In The Congo * The Marquees * Jeezus Fuck, It’s Christmas!!! * Kogar The Swinging Ape (2017)
05.) We’re A Couple of Misfits * Billie Mae Richards & Paul Soles * Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer * NBC Television (1964)
06.) Let’s Have A Patrick Swayze Christmas * Crow, Tom Servo * Joel * Mystery Science Theater 3000 * Best Brains (1991)
Part II: Cool Yule
07.) The Bathing Suit That Grandma Wore * Paul Williams, Jerry Nelson & Marilyn Sokol * Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas * CBC Television (1977)
08.) The 12 Days of Christmas * Bob & Doug McKenzie * The Great White North * Anthem Records (1981)
09.) Cool Yule * Louis Armstrong * Jeezus Fuck, It’s Christmas!!! * Kogar The Swinging Ape (2017)
10.) (Isn’t It A Shame That) Christmas Comes But Once A Year * Jimmy Durante * Christmas Is For Children * Lion Records (1958)
11.) Christmas Comes But Once A Year * Dave Fleischer * Color Classics * Fleischer Studios (1936)
Part III: Scrooge
12.) Where Would You Be Without Me? * Bing Crosby, Ron Moody & Twiggy * Bing Crosby’s Merrie Olde Christmas * CBS Television (1977)
13.) I Hate People * Albert Finney * Scrooge * National General Pictures (1970)
HOUR 2:
Part IV: Santa Done Got Hip
14.) Tom Peterson’s Christmas Sale 2 * Tom Peterson * Tom Peterson’s Commercials * Tom Peterson’s (1988)
15.) The Night Before Christmas * Wilfred Jackson * Silly Symphonies * Walt Disney Productions (1933)
16.) The Hot Choc-late Soldiers * Walt Disney * Hollywood Party * MGM (1934)
17.) A Surfer’s Christmas List * The Surfaris * Jeezus Fuck, It’s Christmas!!! * Kogar The Swinging Ape (2017)
18.) Santa Done Got Hip * The Marquees * Jeezus Fuck, It’s Christmas!!! * Kogar The Swinging Ape (2017)
Part V: The Nightmare
19.) Tom Peterson’s Christmas Sale 1 * Tom Peterson * Tom Peterson’s Commercials * Tom Peterson’s (1987)
20.) Christmas Night In Harlem * Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra * Jeezus Fuck, It’s Christmas!!! * Kogar The Swinging Ape (2017)
21.) Little Drummer Boy * Grace Jones * Pee-Wee’s Playhouse * CBS Television (1988)
22.) Riverbottom Nightmare Band * The Nightmare (Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Richard Hunt, Jim Henson, Dave Goelz & Paul Williams) * Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas * CBC Television (1977)
23.) The Gremlin Rag * Jerry Goldsmith * Gremlins * Warner Bros. (1984)
24.) Silent Night * Lustmord * A Mutated Christmas * Illegal Art (2001)
Part VI: What Are You Going To Do With 390 Photographs of Christmas Trees?
25.) Tom Peterson’s Christmas Sale 3 * Tom Peterson * Tom Peterson’s Commercials * Tom Peterson’s (1988)
26.) “What Are You Going To Do With 390 Photographs of Christmas Trees?” by Richard Brautigan * Austin Rich * Seasons Greetings * WTBC Radio (2018)
27.) Good Night, But Not Goodbye * Bea Arthur * The Star Wars Holiday Special * CBS Television (1978)
No home is complete without a full complement of modern appliances that will aid you as you navigate the holiday season. It is likely you’ll have to prepare a number of last-minute meals for 17 guests, or be required to suddenly prepare six dozen batches of cookies for a “required” office party.
That is why we are offering you a new Juice Machine, and just in time for the holiday season. This Juice Machine comes with everything you see here, and includes three different settings: “LIVE,” “INTERVIEW,” and the newest setting, only available on this program: “MUTATED.” One of these settings comes complete with A/V one-way interface, and with an item like this, each lovingly sculpted glitch is as much a part of the appliance as it is THE appliance itself.
You will not want to fill your future mind with thoughts of the holiday season where you turned down this incredibly rare (and essential) kitchen item, and even worse, with new realizations with each successive year that you can only find it on eBay at very costly prices. That is why we are offering this LIVE Juice Machine performance… for free.
“FREE?!” you scream at your device, and yes, the answer is, “Yes.” FREE. But I think you must act now. This Juice Machine is something that only helps you when you have it in your home today, and that is why this incredible deal will, probably, as far as you know, go away… SOON, unless you take advantage of this incredible offer within the hour! (Or the next one… just make it SOON.)
So, to recap: you get the full two-hour show. You get the LIVE Juice Machine Performance. You get an interview with both Roger and Heather, PLUS selections from various recordings that are chopped and screwed in a fashion you cannot find anywhere else! And then, a collaborative Juice Machine product featuring a Mini-Mutations EXCLUSIVE to this free purchase.
It’s the way we like to celebrate the holiday season on the Mid-Valley Mutations Home Shopping Network.
Enjoy!
How Much Is That Juice Machine In The Window? (Playlist TBD)
HOUR 1:
Part I: Soundcheck
01.) Introduction (Live) * Mini-Mutations * 14 December 2018 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2018)
02.) Recorded in Jan 2018 * Juice Machine * Some Things * Self-Released (2018)
03.) 1 * Hoodie Battle * FU * Hoodie Battle (2018)
Part II: Live Performance
04.) Live * Juice Machine * 14 December 2018 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2018)
05.) 3 * Chefkirk * Big Disk * Self-Released (2018)
Part III: Interview
06.) Juice Machine Interview 1 * Mini-Mutations * 14 December 2018 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2018)
Topics Include: Gear Talk, finding sounds, started in 2012, relocated from the East Coast, Heather joins the noise scene, the creative freedom of Noise music, 17 years as Chefkirk, started in metal bands in Virginia, the scene in Florida, Squelch TV, (their Squelch TV Performance), Rat Bastard & Andrew Chadwick, the secret origin of Chefkirk.
HOUR 2:
Part IV: CQ CQ
07.) Mutation (Part I & II) * Aume * GQ CQ * Mobilization Records (2018)
Part V: JAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMM
07.) Mutation (Part I & II) * Aume * GQ CQ * Mobilization Records (2018)
Part VI: Interview 2
08.) Juice Machine Interview 2 * Mini-Mutations * 14 December 2018 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2018)
Here is Mini-Mutations appearing on “Analog Love Letter,” a program on KDVS. This program includes an interview, some musical selections, as well as a live, holiday performance to close out the show.
Two holiday stories, with Vincent Price and a visitor from Outer Space. Plus: Two Hours of Great Music, and a live holiday jam by Mini-Mutations.
Enjoy!
Season’s Greetings
HOUR 1: Nineteen Santa Clauses
Part I: Third Eye
01.) Transmission (Parts 1 – 3) * Aume * CQ CQ * Mobilization Records (2018)
02.) Third Eye, Inc. * Nathan Derr * Music From The Film ‘Acide Noire’ * Nathan Derr (2017)
03.) Space Crawl * Brad Anderson * Krackwerk * Brad Anderson (2018)
Part II: Along the Breakwater
04.) Shimmer * Peter Thomas * Switched-On Eugene * Numero Group Records (2018)
05.) Along the Breakwater * Leonard, Skrowaczewski, Zappa * Visions * Metamorphosis Music (2003)
06.) The Best of The Mesozoic * Birdsongs of the Mesozoic * Sonic Geology * Rykodisc (1984)
07.) Excarnation / Chopsticks Fail * Bren’t Lewiis Ensemble * Dreamhouse Prison of The Pastel Mafia * Butte County Free Music Society (2018)
Part III: Escape of The Madman
08.) Escape of The Madman * Walls Of Genius * Electronic Cottage Compilation 004 * Electronic Cottage (2018)
09.) Luxurious Foam * Eavil * Les Fleurs Du Mal * No Part of It (2018)
10.) 2 * Juice Machine * Because It’s Invisible * Falt (2018)
HOUR 2: Dog Star
Part IV: Seasons Greetings
11.) Dog Star * Mini-Mutations * 7 December 2018 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2018)
With the eating feast behind us, we are well and truly into the holiday season. You’re probably sick of turkey and celebrating. You want something else.
This show was supposed to be dedicated to a live CHEFKIRK performance, just in time for the holiday. But car problems prevented this from being so.
Instead, I performed a last minute “radio broadcast” from The Lava Lamp Lounge. You can see and hear the results of this here.
Lots of great music, a couple hours of live music, and you get to see how the sausage is made.
Enjoy.
The CHEFKIRK Thanksgiving Special
Pre-Game Show
01.) Enviornments Set-Up * Mini-Mutations * Live * 16 November 2018 (0:45:53)
Part I: Ouija Board
02.) Introduction * Mini-Mutations * Live * 16 November 2018 (0:12:31)
03.) Ouija Board * Bren’t Lewiis Ensemble * Taxidermy Frogs Copulating * Butte County Free Music Society (0:07:51)
04.) ILB’AL * John M. Bennett * Electronic Cottage Compilation 004 * ElectronicCottage.org (0:01:38)
05.) The Ride * Talvé * Switched-On Eugene * The Numero Group (0:03:14)
06.) Ehecatl * Brad Anderson * Krackwerk * Self-Released (0:04:17)
Part II: No Such Thing As A Party
07.) Segue * Mini-Mutations * Live * 16 November 2018 (0:05:09)
08.) Live * CHEFKIRK * Live At The Eugene Noisefest * 18 August 2018 (0:14:35)
09.) Segue * Mini-Mutations * Live * 16 November 2018 (0:01:52)
10.) Analytic on the Unit Disc * Jocko Homomorphism * A Notational Distinction + Soundcloud Goodies * Self-Released (0:03:02)
11.) No Such Thing As A Party * Ryan A. Ray & The Blue Faces * Ryan A. Ray & The Blue Faces * Self-Released (0:04:12)
12.) It’s A Drab * Thollem / Clouser / Chase * Dub Narcotic Session Vol. II * Personal Archives (0:12:46)
Part III: Live DIVA
13.) Segue * Mini-Mutations * Live * 16 November 2018 (0:05:18)
14.) Live * CHEFKIRK * Live At The DIVA * 29 September 2010 (0:07:35)
Part IV: Jammmmmmmmmmmmmmm
15.) Improvised Jam * Mini-Mutations * Live * 16 November 2018 (0:23:10)
16.) Enviornments Tear-Down * Mini-Mutations * Live * 16 November 2018 (0:32:01)
01.) 1 * Juice Machine * Because It’s Invisible * Falt (2018)
02.) Playing In The Rain * Dead Air Fresheners * Fast Radio Bursts * Personal Archives (2016)
03.) secandarytrauma * r33k * illprepared/underslept * hangedman tape (2018)
04.) Stained Glass Condom * Too Fat To Die * No One’s Ark * Wbgrain Records (2018)
05.) Another Hellacious Angel * Alchemical Burn * ARQ = / = LAX 7″ * Hype Machine / Anarchymoon / Sicksicksick / Ohm Records
06.) Assassination Raga (words by Lawrence Ferlinghetti) * Bren’t Lewis * The Inevitable Typo On Sheila Ostrich’s Tombstone * Butte Country Free Music Socienty (2017)
07.) Gonzo * Instagon * Gonzo 7″ * Love Earth Music (2013)
08.) Other Playgrounds * Peter Kardas * Switched-On Eugene * Numero Group (2018)
09.) Magnetosphere * Brad Anderson * Krackwerk * Self-Released (2018)
10.) The Way We Know Things * Negativland * It’s All In Your Head * Seeland Records (2014)
HOUR 2
Part IV:
11.) Performance [Live] * Forrest Friends * 28 October 2018 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2018)
12.) A Seance [Live] * Mini-Mutations * 28 October 2018 * Mid-Valley Mutations (2018)
13.) Ghosts (First Variation) * The Albert Ayler Trio * Spiritual Unity * ESP Records (1964)
14.) Professional Dr. * Doug Haire * Myrtle Beach Professional Park * Vibration Art Disc (2007)
As the Halloween Season comes to a close, join us as we bust on vintage LPs and scary stories, told by guests to our very program!
Karen Holman (Hot Sheets, Cool Sheets & City of Pieces) and Denise Chelini (Holiday Special) each share their own incredible stories! This is one show you do not what to miss!
Enjoy!
Ghost Stories 2018
HOUR 1
01.) Halloween Horror * J. Robert Elliot * Halloween Horrors * A&M Records (1977)
02.) The Ghostly Hand of Spital House * Vincent Price * A Graveyard of Ghost Tales * Caedmon Records (1974)
03.) The Jogger * Karen Holman & Austin Rich * The Jogger * Live Broadcast (2018)
HOUR 2
Part IV:
04.) Intro / The Empty House on Haunted Hill * Ball Records Staff * Ghost Stories * Ball Records (1963)
Tune in for a live Mini-Mutations performance on KPSU’s Live Friday.
There are three performances, and an interview mixed in. The sound is a little distorted here and there, and there may be a better recording floating around. But until then, you can enjoy the full show.
We can no longer deny it: the year is coming to an end. It’s true, there’s not much we can do, and because of that, we’re diving headlong into The End of All Things.
It’s a Phillip Bradbury, Raymond K Dick mash-up as we explore the possibilities that the future – and our inevitable end – has in store for us. But what it is and end for, exactly, is something only time will be able to tell.
Old time radio, new and old records, and a live jam by Mini-Mutations. It’s everything you could ask for, and more.
Enjoy!
The End of All Things
This episode contains excerpts from the broadcasts “The Defenders” (X MInus 1 NBC Radio 22 May 1956) and “August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury” (Malcolm Clarke, BBC Radio 4 11 May 1977) .
HOUR 1
Part I:
01.) Austin FM Theme * Paco Jones * Austin FM Theme * Self-Released (2016)
02.) Ma Meilluere * Minimal Monuments * Live At The Kenton Club * Previously Unreleased (2018)
03.) Ringer * Moth Hunter * Dust * Self-Released (2006)
Part II:
04.) Improv One * ALTO! * Tour Cassette * Self-Released (2013)
05.) twilightmovingmeditation * Elizabeth Joan Kelly * Music For The DMV * Self Released (2018)
06.) Feel It, Steal It * People Like Us * The Mirror * Self-Released (2018)
Part III:
07.) arch carrier * Autechre * LP5 * Warp Records (1998)
08.) Superman * Dr. Mix & The Remix * Wall of Noise * Acute Records (2004)
09.) Shitfaced Reynolds * Guyve * Delaying The Inevitable * Self-Released (2012)
HOUR 2
Part IV:
07.) The End of All Things [Live] * Mini-Mutations
The centerpiece of hour one is something from a new discovery I’m enjoying, the “Environments” LPs, which was very much the inspiration for this show. The recording of the Be-In from 1969 is not only a wonderful time-capsule of a different era, but it paints a wonderful picture through sound of an era that feels so long ago. This recording gives it weight and presence that is worth hearing all the way through.
In hour two, Mini-Mutations takes over, to deliver an hour of field recordings that are mixed and remixed to create a continuous hour or sounds.
And, of course, the podcast version has almost 25 minutes of bonus material. So you know you wanna check that out.
01.) Austin FM Theme * Paco Jones * Austin FM Theme * Self-Released (2016)
02.) Sonarchy (Live 17 March 2007) * Seattle Phonographers Union *Seattle Phonographers Union * and/OAR / Mimeomeme Records (2009)
Part II:
03.) [track 1] * Hal McGee * Halzine #11 * Self-Released
04.) Be-In (A Psychoacoustic Experience 6 April 1969) [Part 1] * Irv Teibel * Enviornments 3 * Atlantic Records (1971)
Part III:
05.) Be-In (A Psychoacoustic Experience 6 April 1969) [Part 2] * Irv Teibel * Enviornments 3 * Atlantic Records (1971)
06.) Azalea Woods Office Complex * Doug Haire * Myrtle Beach Professional Park * Self-Released (2009)
The release of People Like Us‘ new album The Mirrorgot 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)
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.
As we continue our journey though Beatles tunes, it’s time to dust off our series Midnight Melodies For Nina, a chance to celebrate the music that she loved so much, and a live that was cut far too short.
Selections for this episode were made by Marti & Brandy, who loved her so, with some input by me. There are duplicates and flubs, and the records are scratchy and skip occasionally. And I wouldn’t have it any other way. This is from the personal vinyl collection of the Little Dork, and these selections are not done to be complete or overly indexed, but instead come from the heart.
We miss you Nina. I love you, so much.
Enjoy
Midnight Melodies For Nina Part II: The Beat Goes On
HOUR 1
Part I: Baby’s In Black
01.) Austin FM Theme * Paco Jones * Austin FM Theme * Self-Released (2016)
02.) Chains * The Beatles * Introducing The Beatles * Vee Jay Records (1963)
03.) All I Gotta Do * The Beatles * Meet The Beatles! * Capital Records (1964)
04.) Money * The Beatles * The Beatles’ Second Album * Capital Records (1964)
05.) Matchbox * The Beatles * Something New * Capital Records (1964)
06.) I Should Have Known Better * The Beatles * A Hard Day’s Night * United Artists (1964)
07.) Baby’s In Black * The Beatles * Beatles ‘65 * Capital Records (1964)
Part II: Getting Better
08.) Dizzy Miss Lizzy * The Beatles * IV * Capital Records (1965)
09.) The Night Before * The Beatles * Help! * Capital Records (1965)
10.) I’ve Just Seen A Face * The Beatles * Rubber Soul * Capital Records (1965)
11.) Taxman * The Beatles * Revolver * Capital Records (1966)
12.) Getting Better * The Beatles * Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band * Capital Records (1967)
13.) I Am The Walrus * The Beatles * Magical Mystery Tour * Capital Records (1967)
14.) Honey Pie * The Beatles * The Beatles * Apple Records (1968)
15.) Savoy Truffle * The Beatles * The Beatles * Apple Records (1968)
Part III: Yesterday
16.) Hey Bulldog * The Beatles * Yellow Submarine * Capital Records (1969)
17.) Oh, Darling! * The Beatles * Abby Road * Apple Records (1969)
18.) Don’t Let Me Down * The Beatles * Hey Jude * Apple Records (1969)
19.) I’ve Got A Feeling * The Beatles * Let It Be * Apple Records (1970)
20.) When I’m 64 * The Beatles * Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band * Capital Records (1967)
21.) Yesterday * The Beatles * 20 Greatest Hits * Capital Records (1982)
HOUR 2
Part IV: There’s A Places
22.) Little Queenie (Live) * The Beatles * Live! At The Star-Club In Hamburg, Germany, 1962 * Lingasong Records (1977)
23.) It Won’t Be Long * The Beatles * Meet The Beatles! * Capital Records (1964)
24.) Love Me Do * The Beatles * 20 Greatest Hits * Capital Records (1982)
25.) There’s A Place * The Beatles * Introducing The Beatles * Vee Jay Records (1963)
26.) Roll Over Beethoven * The Beatles * The Beatles’ Second Album * Capital Records (1964)
27.) Can’t Buy Me Love * The Beatles * A Hard Day’s Night * United Artists (1964)
28.) Tell Me Why * The Beatles * Something New * Capital Records (1964)
Part V: Because
29.) Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) * The Beatles * Rubber Soul * Capital Records (1965)
30.) She Said She Said * The Beatles * Revolver * Capital Records (1966)
31.) With A Little Help From My Friends * The Beatles * Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band * Capital Records (1967)
32.) Blue Jay Way * The Beatles * Magical Mystery Tour * Capital Records (1967)
33.) Rocky Raccoon * The Beatles * The Beatles * Apple Records (1968)
34.) All Together Now * The Beatles * Yellow Submarine * Capital Records (1969)
35.) Because * The Beatles * Abby Road * Apple Records (1969)
Part VI: In My Life
36.) Be-Bop-A-Lula (Live) * The Beatles * Live! At The Star-Club In Hamburg, Germany, 1962 * Lingasong Records (1977)
37.) Hold Me Tight * The Beatles * Meet The Beatles! * Capital Records (1964)
38.) Money (That’s What I Want) * The Beatles * The Beatles’ Second Album * Capital Records (1964)
39.) I’ll Cry Instead * The Beatles * A Hard Day’s Night * United Artists (1964)
40.) Any Time At All * The Beatles * Something New * Capital Records (1964)
41.) While My Guitar Gently Weeps * The Beatles * The Beatles * Apple Records (1968)
42.) In My Life * The Beatles * Rubber Soul * Capital Records (1965)
Started in 2005 by Don Haugen, the Eugene Noise Fest has been the place where the local experimental artists can get together and show off their stuff. In some ways modeled after the NorCal NoiseFest in Sacramento, the Eugene Noise Fest has made an effort to feature artists of every kind, sonically and culturally, keeping the event all ages, and out of bars. This year, it is being held at The WOW Hall for the first time ever, bringing this event to a bigger audience, and featuring an incredible line-up of amazing artists.
For more information about the show, I recommend checking out:
Advance Tickets ($8 in advance, or $10 on the day at the door)
In this show, I feature a number of performances by artists that will be playing at this show tomorrow, and in the second hour, stick around for a conversation with Don Haugen, as he calls in via Skype, to tells us about the event history, what to expect, and a little about the incredible artists, too.
And, if you like what you hear, meet us at The WOW Hall tomorrow. I’m actually playing as part of the line-up, too.
04.) It’s Not All That Bad (Live on KFJC Radio) [Excerpt] * Microwave Windows * It’s Not All That Bad * Self-Released (2016)
05.) World * Chefkirk * Make Post * Self-Released (2018)
History Lesson, started in 2005, on-again-off-again status, the venue dance, wanting it All Ages and not at a bar, The WOW Hall & Joshua Finch, The Line Up and assembling the groups, the age range and the sonic pallet, Eugene is an “older” scene with a lot of outsiders, putting the experiment in experimental music, and the benefits of limitations of DIY.
07.) FOUR FEET [Excerpt] * Deadly Discs * Bury Me Deep, For I Am Cursed * Self-Released (2017)
08.) Sangre-Katadesmos-No! (Live rehearsal) [Excerpt] * Sleeping With The Earth * Sangre * Self-Released (2008)
09.) Phalanx * Acre * New EP * Self-Released (2004)
Part V: Don & John
10.) Live Performance * Don Haugen & Klowd * Live Performance * Mid-Valley Mutations (2018)
Part VI: Depleted Your Live-ium
11.) Tarnish * Entresol * Tender Need(s) Tour Split * Self-Released (2018)
12.) Live Performance * Depleted Your Cranium * Live Performance * Mid-Valley Mutations (2017)
It’s time for a vacation. A little get-away. You know? Everything is weird lately, and we just need a break from our lives, our jobs, and our everything.
It’s time to get out of town. And get Lost In Space.
Pack up the spaceship. Let’s ride.
Enjoy!
Lost In Space
HOUR 1
Part I: Spaceman
01.) Austin FM Theme * Paco Jones * Austin FM Theme * Self-Released (2016)
02.) Performance [Tracks 1 – 5] * Joy Wants Eternity * Live 7 April 2007
03.) Interstellar Overdrive * Pink Floyd * Piper At The Gates Of Dawn * Tower / Capital Records
04.) Spaceman * Harry Nilsson * Son of Schmilsso * RCA Records
05.) Mayonnaise vs. Venn * Rocketman * Demo CD * Unreleased
Part II: Rocketship
06.) Space Odyssey * 101 Strings Orchestra * Astro Sounds From Beyond the Year 2000 * Scamp Records
07.) Galaxie 500 * Leave The Planet * On Fire * Rough Trade Records
08.) Rocket Machine * Opal * Happy Nightmare Baby * SST Records
09.) Rocket 88 * Jackie Brenston
10.) Rocketship * Dead Milkmen * Bucky Felini
11.) I’m This Rocket * The Gun Club
12.) Music To Watch Space Girls By * Leonard Nimoy
Part III: Time Flies By
13.) Spacecraft, 1967 [Excerpt] * MEV
14.) A Glorious Dawn * Carl Sagan ft Stephen Hawking
15.) Interplanet Janet * Man… Or Astro-Man? * School House Rock! Rocks
16.) Vixens In Space * The Dirtbombs
17.) Between Planets * The Jesus And Mary Chain
HOUR 2
Part IV: Cosmic Serenade
18.) Space Monkeys * The Dust Brothers * The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack “Fight Club”
19.) Cosmic Serenade * King Khan And The Shrines * What Is?!
20.) Silver Rocket * Sonic Youth * Daydream Nation
21.) Bird Dream of the Olympus Mons * The Pixies * Trompe Le Monde * 4AD Records
22.) Planet * Ken Nordine
23.) Space Junk * Devo
24.) Interstellar Overdrive / Ming’s Theme * C Average
Part V: Voices In My Spacesuit
25.) Space II * The Butthole Surfers
26.) Lost In Space * Faction * Collection 1982 – 1985
27.) Voices In My Spacesuit * Last of the Juanitas * Hawaii
28.) Rocket To Nowhere * Webb Wilder
29.) Interstellar Hardrive * Man… Or Astro-Man?
30.) Spacelab * Kraftwerk
Part VI: Space Lonliness
31.) Space Prophet Dogon * Sun City Girls
32.) Space Lonliness * Sun Ra
33.) Starless * Jandek * Interstellar Discussion * Corwood Industries Records
34.) Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun * Pink Floyd
35.) Space Suit * They Might Be Giants
In the ’50’s, amid the din and clatter that was dramatic theater on the radio, the show that blew almost all the others away was undoubtedly X Minus One. They had an amazing crew of writers who went on to do a number of outstanding things, among them Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Robert Heinlein and Frederik Pohl, just to name a few. It was the kind of show that could not be missed, and is a big influence on my entire aesthetic.
As part of our Traveling Through Time series, we present A Gun For Dinosaur, written by L. Sprague de Camp, originally bro
adcast on NBC on 7 March 1956. I’m proud of this audio essay. I like to think we attempt to deliver a new interpretation of those fantastic radio stories. With music.
Time Travel has always been my favorite Sci-Fi subject, and I’ve toyed with the subject myself on this very program a few times before. But it is not always a subject that easily translates to music. For some reason, there are just not that many songs about the Grandfather Paradox. Abstractly at times, yes. But you know how it goes.
I want to give a special shout out to kiisu d’salyss, who performed much of the backing music that is throughout this episode. kiisu and I have been friends for years, and he’s appeared on this show in a few of the different bands that he’s been in, and as a solo artist. For the music in this particular episode, the music was performed on a Kitara, a computer / keytar / guitar hybrid, manufactured by Misa Digital. If you hear something that sounds spacey in this show, it’s him. The other stuff is by Mortal Engines.
Enjoy!
Gun For Dinosaur
This episode features samples of “Gun For Dinosaur,” written by L. Sprague de Camp, originally broadcast on NBC on 7 March 1956.
HOUR 1
Part I: Let’s Go Back In Time
01.) Austin FM Theme * Paco Jones * Austin FM Theme * Self-Released (2016)
02.) Terremoto * Amao Quartet * Improcreations
03.) Vanishing of Time * The Vivian Girls * Share The Joy
04.) Live Performance * Mortal Engines * Blasphuphmus Radio * 11 April 2009
05.) Have Another Drink * MX-80 * Alway’s Leave ‘Em Wanting Less * Atavistic Records
06.) Is Time Travel Possible? * Michio Kaku * YouTube.com
07.) Kitara Composition (Live) * kissu d’salyss * March 2012
08.) Time * The Heartaches * Too Cool For School
Part II: Slide Machine
09.) Tell ‘Em * Sleigh Bells * Treats
10.) Introductory Physics of Time Travel [Excerpt I] * Lost University * YouTube.com
11.) Kitara Composition 2 (Live) * kissu d’salyss * March 2012
12.) Slide Machine * 13th Floor Elevators * Easter Everywhere
13.) Headhunter * Thee Headhunters * Jungle Law EP
14.) Introductory Physics of Time Travel [Excerpt II] * Lost University * YouTube.com
15.) Kitara Composition 3 (Live) * kissu d’salyss * March 2012
16.) Complication * The Monks * Black Monk Time
17.) The Small Stuff * The Dismemberment Plan * !
18.) Introductory Physics of Time Travel [Excerpt III] * Lost University * YouTube.com
19.) Kitara Composition 4 (Live) * kissu d’salyss * March 2012
20.) Time Has Come Today * The Ramones * Subterranean Jungle
Part III: Time Flies By
21.) Open Up Your Door * Richard & The Young Lions
22.) The Conversation We’re Having Right Now * Hurley & Miles * Lost * ABC Television
23.) Kitara Composition 5 (Live) * kissu d’salyss * March 2012
24.) Time Flies By * Quasi * Early Recordings * Touch & Go 1996
25.) “My name is Peabody.” * Mr. Peabody * Jay Ward
26.) Time (Live) * Clifford Brown & Max Roach * At Basin Street * Verve 1956
27.) Raw Meat * The Black Lips * Arabia Mountain
HOUR 2
Part IV: Time Theory
28.) How Long Do I Have To Wait For You? * Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings * Naturally
29.) Time Theory 11:11 * Miss Murgatroid * Through Alien Empires * Japan Overseas 1995
30.) “Don’t touch it!” * Time Bandits * HandMade Films / Janus Films 1981
31.) Where Did He Go? * The Briefs * Hit After Hit
Part V: Dinosaur Rock
32.) I Don’t See You * Camper Van Beethoven * Telephone Free Landslide Victory
33.) Dinosaur Rock * Narthex * Duo-Phonic Sounds System: 1980 – 1983
34.) Bad News * The Trashmen * Tube City! The Best of The Trashmen
35.) All Tied Up * The Shakers * Teenline Vol. 3
36.) Paid In Cigarettes * Hot Snakes * Suicide Invoice
Part VI: Tell Me When It’s Over
37.) Introductory Physics of Time Travel [Excerpt IV] * Lost University * YouTube.com
38.) Kitara Composition 5 (Live) * kissu d’salyss * March 2012
39.) Slow Down Time [Excerpt] * Sky Cries Mary * This Timeless Turning * World Domination Music Group 1994
40.) Prevenge * The Might Be Giants * The Spine
41.) Tell Me When It’s Over * The Dream Syndicate * The Days Of Wine & Roses
42.) No Doubt About It * The Wipers * Follow Blind
Here’s an audio essay centering around two selections from The Strange Doctor Weird, a radio program from the 1940’s featuring the voice of Maurice Tarplin as the titular character, written by Robert A. Arthur and directed by Jock McGregor. The program is, in many ways, a sequel to The Mysterious Traveler, a program from which many of the Doctor Weird stories were culled from. These versions, told in 15 minute segments, appeared on a number of stations as material that could easily fill out an hour or programming, and was most well known as being sponsored by Adam Hats, who could afford their own radio program in those days.
Accompanying these stories is a live performance by me, as I mix and apply effects to sounds made in the studio, as well as the sounds of recorded music by The Black Noise Orchestra and Yellow Crystal Star.
The recent thunder and lightning – very atypical this time of year – has filled our town with lights and sounds that are not usually part of the typical makeup of our fair city. In many ways it reminded me of nothing less that The New Gods themselves traversing the threshold of a Boom Tube, a sound so dramatic that is insists that you listen, above all other things. It was with that in mind that I decided to let The King by my guide, and put together some spacey wonder, ambient landscapes, and droning rock music that would make the man himself proud.
I didn’t get to mention it during the show, but I always like to draw attention to Sailboats whenever I can. Little known, and even less seen, they manage to capture some of the eeriest and most beautiful strangeness every time I listen. They are on the Pecho Grande label, and while their site says that much of their catalog is out of print, I bet if you asked nicely you could locate a copy or two. I highly recommend checking out Sailboats, as well as the other incredible things they have to offer.
During this show, Miss Rikki & Tunacan Jones was lurking around in the studio, and they helped influence the direction of this audio essay, obviously. But between Mr. Tarplin & Kirby guiding the way, it’ll be hard to resist this broadcast.
Enjoy!
The Strange Dr. Weird
This episode features samples of “Journey Into The Unknown” and “The Man Who Knew Everything” by The Strange Doctor Weird!, originally aired on 21 November 1944 and 20 March 1945.
HOUR 1
Part I: Improvisation
01.) Austin FM Theme * Paco Jones * Austin FM Theme * Self-Released (2016)
02.) Excerpt * The Black Noise Orchestra * 20 September 2006
03.) Yeti (Improvisation) * Amon Düül II * Yeti
Part II: Journey Into The Unknown 1
04.) Excerpt 1 * Obe’ Skupla * 8 April 2006
05.) Journey Into The Unknown [pt 1] * Austin Rich * 19 May 2013
06.) Nine Thousand And Second Amaranth Shower [Excerpt] * Yellow Crystal Star * Rainbow Bridge To Nonlocality: Myriad Forms of You
Part III: Journey Into The Unknown 1
07.) Journey Into The Unknown [pt 2] * Austin Rich * 19 May 2013
08.) Excerpt 2 * Obe’ Skupla * 8 April 2006
HOUR 2
Part IV: Trigger In
09.) Excerpt 3 * Obe’ Skupla * 8 April 2006
10.) Trigger In, Trigger Out * Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno * Just Another Band From The Cosmic Inferno
14.) Excerpt 5 * Obe’ Skupla * 8 April 2006
15.) The Man Who Knew Everything * Austin Rich * 19 May 2013
16.) Up Under: Triumph, The Mask Melted Away To Reveal The Way * Yellow Crystal Star * Rainbow Bridge To Nonlocality: Myriad Forms of You
This is probably my favorite Sci-Fi story from the Golden Age, and this story always manages to bring a tear to my eye. It is heartfelt, funny, honest, and speaks to something that we all suffer from, and that we all must face. There is something in the struggle of Rhysling that is not only romantic and speaks of something long since gone, but it pulls forward within me something that is hard to pin down, but means all of the world to me.
Presented in this format is a mash-up of three different versions of Rhysling’s story, with music and accompaniment that only makes sense of a space hobo like him. Stay tuned for hour three on the podcast-only, as I feature a number of other songs that should have, but didn’t, make the cut.
Enjoy!
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
Part I: Super Rocket Rumble
01.) Austin FM Theme * Paco Jones * Austin FM Theme * Self-Released (2016)
02.) 0002 * Amao Quartet * Improcreations
03.) Men Into Space * Buddy Morrow * Brain In A Box
04.) Astrononmie Domine * Pink Floyd
05.) Super Rocket Rumble * Man… Or Astro-Man? * Deluxe men in space
Part II: The Spaceman
06.) Out to launch * Sonny Sharrock * Space Ghost
07.) The Spaceman * Charles Manson * 60 Birthday
08.) Cosmic Ballad * Perrey And Kingsley
Part III: Hard Travelin’
09.) Yes! I Am A Long Way From Home * Mogwai
10.) Follow Blind * Wipers
11.) Dirty Joke From Outer Space pt I * Sunroof!
12.) Hard Travelin’ * Woody Guthrie
HOUR 2
Part IV: Space Loneliness
13.) Spaceball Ricochet * T. Rex
14.) Space Loneliness * Sun Ra
15.) Clink, Clink, Another Drink * Spike Jones
Part V: Headed Home
16.) Talking Hard Work * Woody Guthrie
17.) Dirty Joke From Outer Space pt II * Sunroof!
18.) Headed Home * George & Caplan
Part VI: Homecoming
19.) Keep On The Sunny Side * The Carter Family
20.) Homecoming * Replikants
21.) Spaceship Landing * Kyuss
22.) The Intergalactic Laxative * Donavan
HOUR 3
Part VII: Starship
23.) Space Station # 5 * Fastbacks * new mansions in sound
24.) Get Outta That Spaceship And Fight Like A Man * The Grifters
25.) Starship * Spaceman 3
26.) Revenge * Black Flag
Part VIII: Death Is Not The End
27.) 2000 Light Years From Home * The Rolling Stones
28.) Space Age Ballad * Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.
29.) A Long Way From Home * The Kinks
30.) Dirty Joke From Outer Space pt IiI * Sunroof!
31.) Up The Wooden Hills To Bedfordshire * Small Faces
32.) Spaceship Landing * Kyuss
33.) Death Is Not The End * Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Sometimes broadcasting is very confusing (and complicated). Case in point: there are some shows that exist in four time periods at once. Join me, for a romp through 1950, 2011, 2018 and 2155, as we try to hide from The Searchers and fumble our way through time, as we move, horribly and inextricably toward The Future
Enjoy!
To The Future
Throughout this program there are samples of the Dimension X radio program, “To The Future,” originally aired 27 May 1950 on NBC.
HOUR 1
Part I: Time Was
01.) Austin FM Theme * Paco Jones * Austin FM Theme * Self-Released (2016)
02.) Time Stands Still * Lee Ranaldo * East Jesus: Some Recordings 1981-1991
03.) Time Was * John Coltrane * Coltrane * Impulse Records
04.) The Time Machine Main Title / Credits * Russel Garcia * Brain In A Box: The Science Fiction Collection * Rhino Records
Part II: Once Upon A Time
05.) Sentimental Journey * Esquivel * Space Age Bachelor Pad Music
06.) Dan vs. Time * godheadSilo * Skyward in Triumph * Sub Pop Records
07.) We Can See Through Time * Le Ton Mite * Tickets to Real Imaginary Places * Zicmuse Records
08.) Once Upon A Time * Sonny Sharrock * Ask the Ages * Axiom Records
09.) Tomorrow Afternoon * Tony Williams * Life Time
Part III: There Will Never Be A Better Time
10.) There’s Nothing Sexy About Time * Kinski * Don’t Climb On And Take The Holy Water
11.) Abandoned Mine Shaft In The Corridors Of Time * Sinking Body * Grappling With The Homonids * Vermiform Records
12.) Take Time * The Books * The Lemon of Pink * Tomlab Records
13.) There Will Never Be A Better Time * Desert Sessions * Volume 9 & 10
HOUR 2
Part IV: Time Flies
14.) Universal Time II * Zip Code Rapists * Zip Code Rapists
15.) Time Flies * The Ex * Dizzy Spells * Touch And Go Records
16.) A Stitch In Spacetimes * Nil Admirari * Togetherness With Battlesnakes
17.) Time Stands Still [Excerpt] * Lee Ranaldo * East Jesus: Some Recordings 1981-1991
18.) Just In Time * Sun Ra And His Myth Science Arkestra * We Travel The Spaceways Bad And Beautiful
Part V: Now Is The Time
19.) If Not This Time * Fifty Foot Hose * Cauldron * Phoenix Records 39.) Running Out Of Time * Dead Moon * Hard Wired in Ljubljana * Empty Records
20.) Time Funnel * Jan Davis * Lux And Ivy’s Favorites Volume 04
21.) I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times * The Beach Boys * Pet Sounds
22.) Stranded In Time * The United States Of America * The United States Of America
23.) Now Is The Time * The Wipers * Over The Edge
Part VI: As Time Goes By
24.) As Time Goes By * Rudy Vallee
25.) Time Is Tight * Booker T. & the M.G.’s * The Complete Stax-Volt Singles 1968-1971
26.) Check Out Time * Ornette Coleman * Love Call * Blue Note Records
HOUR 3
Part VII: Time And Space
27.) Time And Space * Jandek * You Walk Alone
28.) All The Time In The World * Roger Miller * The Benevolent Disruptive Ray
29.) Rewind The Time * Oliver Squash * 30 Piece
30.) Time * The Residents * God In Three Persons
31.) Time Stands Still * Lee Ranaldo * East Jesus: Some Recordings 1981-1991
32.) She Makes Me Want To Build A Time Machine * Aristeia * You Give Me Strength, You Give Me Patience!
Part VIII: Retrovertigo
33.) A Spoon Taught Me The Secret Of Time Travel * The Jezebel Spirit * Turtles All The Way Down * (Self-Released)
34.) Retrovertigo * Mr. Bungle * California * Warner Bros. Records
35.) What Time Is It? * Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 * Tangle
37.) A Second Of Time * Half Eye * Broken Rope
43.) She Lives (In A Time Of Her Own) * 13th Floor Elevators * Easter Everywhere * Decal Records
36.) Times Encounter * Nigel Simpkins * Messthetics Vol. 1
37.) One Day At A Time * Thee Headliners * Rain & Blood
Join us for a presentation that is only available to listeners of The Executive Version of or program. Other listeners do not get to hear a show of this caliber normally, so this week, we are offering something special to listeners who have made it clear they want to invest in a higher quality product. And with that in mind, we bring you The Executive Version. For those special clientele.
There’s a bit of a party going on during this show. This is the kind of special atmosphere we create when we are assembling this program, a feature that is only available to those listeners who subscribe to The Executive Version of program. And where else would you get these kinds of corrections to the patent lies that were said on broadcast radio? For example:
The song was by Tärr, not Cornelius F. Van Stafrin III.
And:
While O-Type was was essentially MX-80 performing under a different name, this record was actually MX-80 performing a song called O-Type.
Not Forgetting:
Some jokes from 2013 – about a certain social media platform – may have aged a little poorly in the last few years, considering a tendency toward claiming things are “fake news.” With that in mind, consider this selection a snapshot of a simpler time in the past, when such a joke wasn’t horrifying and the beginning of the end times, as it were.
And lastly:
Not all of the material in this show came from a record, as stated in several times throughout. I have added * asterisks to the tracks that were not from Vinyl Records. Two (2) asterisks such as ** have been added to indicate bonus content not available during the live broadcast.
These kinds of inaccuracies are usually included in most broadcasts you hear on the radio, but for listeners of The Executive Version, you get these corrections, free of charge. It’s just one of the many ways that this program is better than the one being heard by everyone else.
So much so that there are bonus moments to The Executive Version that are only available on the podcast. Because the only thing more exclusive than something only a special audience can hear is having added bonuses for those who pay a little more.
Enjoy!
The Executive Version
HOUR 1
Part I: Headlines
* 01.) Austin FM Theme * Paco Jones * Austin FM Theme * Self-Released (2016)
02.) The Executive Version * Monty Python * The Album Of The Trailer of the Film of Monty Python and the Holy Grail * Charisma / Arista Records
03.) My Prayer * Lionel Hampton * Golden Vibes
04.) I Yam What I Yam * Robin Williams & Harry Nillson * The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack for Popeye
05.) Erie Canal * Oscar Brand * Bawdy Songs & Backroom Ballads Vol. 2 * Audio Fidelity Records
06.) Headlines * George Carlin * On The Road * Atlantic Records
* 07.) The Facebook Fiction Initiative * Austin Rich * The Facebook Fiction Initiative * 21 June 2013
Part II: Leisurely Waiting
08.) The Blob * The Five Blobs * “The Blob” b/w “Saturday Night in Tiajuana” * Columbia Records
09.) Martian Melody * The Martian Band * “Flying Saucer The 2nd” b/w “Martian Melody” * L’Universe Records
* 10.) Leisurely Waiting * Debris * Static Disposal * Anopheles Records
11.) Linda Wants To Be Alone * Gary Wilson * Mary Had Brown Hair * Stone’s Throw Records
* 12.) I Been Refused * Devo * Hardcore Devo Vol. 2 * Warner Bros. Records
13.) Springtime For Hitler * Henry Mancini * The Big Latin Band of Henry Mancini * RCA Victor Records
* 14.) “Baseball” Excerpt: Barbershop Quartet Warning * Jesse Thorn * The Sound Of Young America * maximumfun.org
* 15.) Phonograph Records * Mars Production * Mars Production Library CK-713 * Mars Records
16.) Space/Time Continuum: “Heaven And Hell, Part I” * Vangelis * The Music of Cosmos * RCA Records
* 17.) Smile Awhile * Michael Yonkers Band * Microminiature Love * Sub Pop Records
Part III: In 3-D!
* 18.) Pacific Radio Fire * Austin Rich * Senior Citizens * 27 March 2006
19.) The Announcement * Monty Python * The Album Of The Trailer of the Film of Monty Python and the Holy Grail * Charisma / Arista Records
20.) Them From “Helen Of Troy” * Les Baxter * 7″
21.) I Hate The 90’s * Rodney And The Tube Tops * 7″
22.) U-Stink-But-I-(Heart)-U * Billy And The Boingers * “I’m A Boinger” b/w “U-Stink-But-I-(Heart)-U” 7″
23.) Nature Trail To Hell (In 3-D) * “Weird A” Yankovic * In 3-D
** 24.) Elmira * Austin Rich * Senior Citizens * 27 March 2006
HOUR 2
Part IV: Signal Processor Failure
25.) Let’s Do The Pretzel * Mad “Twists” Rock ‘n’ Roll * Big Top Records
26.) Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron * The Royal Guardsmen * 7″
27.) Tiptoe Through The Tuplips * Tiny Tim * 7″
28.) Signal Processor Failure / Why We Are Lazy * Men’s Recovery Project * Make A Baby EP * Vermiform Records
* 29.) Mole Machine * Simply Saucer * Cyborgs Revisited * Get Back Records
* 30.) Embraceable You * Ornette Coleman * The Best of Ornette Coleman * Atlantic Records
Part V: Hurricane
* 31.) Barber Shop * Mars Production * Mars Production Library CK-713 * Mars Records
32.) metalized excitements of our shared dreams of technology [Excerpt] * Tärr * Tärr / Cornelius F. Van Stafrin III Split 12″ * oms-b Records
33.) Wild Thing * Senator Bobby & The Hardly-Worthit Players Featuring Bill Minkin * Wild Thing 7″ * Parkway Records
* 34.) Fish Dance * John Lurie * Fishing With John
35.) Hurricane * Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 * Admonishing The Bishops * Matador Records
* 36.) Talk Show * Austin Rich * Senior Citizens * 27 March 2006
* 37.) L’Agonie * Jacky Chalard * Je Sus Vivant, Mais J’ai Peur De Gilbert Deflez * Finders Keepers Records
38.) O-Type Part Two * MX-80 Sound * O-Type: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 7″ * Ralph Records
Part VI: The End of The World
39.) This Is Side Two! * Monty Python * The Album Of The Trailer of the Film of Monty Python and the Holy Grail * Charisma / Arista Records
40.) Voodoo Suite [Excerpt Part I] * Pérez Prado * Voodoo Suite
41.) Bright College Days * Tom Lehrer * An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer
42.) How Much Is That Doggy In The Window? * Patti Page
43.) Beep Beep * The Playmates
44.) Voodoo Suite [Excerpt Part II] * Pérez Prado * Voodoo Suite
45.) The End Of The World * Beyond The Fringe
** 46.) Coffee * Austin Rich * Senior Citizens * 27 March 2006
Ever since I first got a copy of Fat Wreck Chords Short Music For Short People, I’ve always wanted to do an all Short Songs show, not only because they managed to achieve something pretty amazing by cramming songs by 101 artists onto one CD, but because, to be honest, they left out a lot of stuff. (Ahem, Dead Kennedys, cough cough.) I knew that, with my affinity for shortness of the musical variety, they hadn’t yet had the final word on short songs, and with that in mind, I compiled 290 tracks that I shoved into two hours.
While I can’t say that every band imaginable is represented, I can say that just about every genre IS, along with quite a few genres you didn’t know existed, and some others that you might have been trying to forget. We can’t please everyone. But you know what they say in the midwestern realm of college radio: “If you don’t like the music, just wait 30 seconds.” I managed to keep most of the stuff in this show under that scant length, and only a few exceptions trickled over. I also keep myself limited to one song per artist per hour. On a show where the average length is around 10 seconds long, some of those 30 second songs from Short Music feel like dirges.
This show includes music taken from records (7″, 10″ and 12″), cassette tapes, CDs & .mp3s, and might be the single most diverse show I’ve ever assembled, media-wise. Obviously, a show like this couldn’t possible happen without digital technology; it’s just too hard to switch media twice a minute for an entire hour. (I did consider it, but backed out once I realized how long my playlist was.)
There is something already ambitious about writing a pop song. It’s a claim that, in about four minutes, you’ll be able to write something that carries the same kind of weight and power that more cultured artists can in an average composition. The irony, of course, being that Pop Music took over the music world in a way that compositional artists could not. Now, anyone with access to the internet can send their Pop Songs around the world, conveying in a few minutes something that used to take a whole record.
The idea that you can compress these ideas even further – into the realm of a few seconds, in some cases – is just as ambitious as a concept record. Can you compress the strength of a complete song into something that only takes a few seconds to convey? Like some sort of Sci-Fi gimmick that seems futuristic, artists have been trying for years to create compact versions of their usual fare, and often with impressive results. To say that The Ramones set the blueprint when they recorded “Judy Is A Punk” (clocking in at no more than 1:30), the bar was already set so tremendously low that the world has been working on faster, more compact, and even shorter songs.
In making this show, I made a conscious effort to present something unique. Songs in this show appear from records, cassettes, CDs, digital files, and all manner of mix-matched media. To have assembled it all in one room in a pre-digital age would have taken a lot of work; to fit it into a show would have taken ages. While the computer made this show much easier for me to do, even that work made me appreciate the kinds of work radio personas went through in the old days to deliver shows like this. Think about it when you digest this one.
I want to give a huge thanks to Ratskin Records for their fantastic release, Triskaidekaphobia, which contains 13 Second songs by over 200 artists. I used this disc to assemble the Five Minute “Bathroom Break” I took in before the second commercial break. I received a copy of this disc after one of their artists heard that I had done a short songs show, and was hoping that I could use this one for future installments. Thanks again for this great disc; I barely even scratched the surface of what it offers, and still played 23 cuts from it. The future is now.
With hindsight, I realized that this show could only be a Grumpy Punk show, which is why these shows are labeled as such, now. He would find perverse interest in this much short music.
001.) Paco Theme
002.) Short Attention Span * Fizzy Bangers * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
003.) Exotica [Excerpt] * Martin Denny * Forbidden Island * Scamp Records
Part I:
004.) Quit Your Job * Chixdiggit * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
005.) Porch * Pinhead Gunpowder * Compulsive Disclosure * Lookout! Records
006.) The Nail That Sticks Up Gets Hammered Down * Born Against * The Rebel Sound Of Shit And Failure
007.) We Skate * Screeching Weasel * Boogadaboogadaboogada * Lookout! Records
008.) You Stupid Jerk * Angry Samoans * The Unboxed Set * Triple X Records
009.) I Like Food * Descendents * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
010.) Doin’ Fine * The Groovie Ghoulies * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
011.) Long Enough To Forget You * Samiam * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
012.) Rock ‘n’ Roll * Ice And The Iced * Killed By Death Vol. 77 * Redrum Records
013.) Ketchup Soup * Teen Idols * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
014.) Tiny Pink Noise [Live] * The Avengers * Died For Your Sins * Lookout! Records
015.) I Hate Menudo * Chicano-Christ * Come’ CaCa EP * Nemesis Records
016.) Rage Against The Machine Are Capitalist Phonies * White Flag * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
017.) Don’t Lick My Leg * Stikky * The Thing That Ate Floyd * Lookout! Records
018.) Alienation * Citizen Fish * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
019.) Big Fat Skinhead * Snuff * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
020.) I Spent The Rent * The Queers * A Day Late And A Dollar Short * Lookout! Records
021.) Stake Fin * Black Dice * Troubleman Mix-Tape * Troubleman Records
022.) Hei-Hei * GLO * Killed By Death Vol. 77 * Redrum Records
023.) Overcoming Learned Behavior * Good Riddance * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
024.) Deny Everything * Circle Jerks * Group Sex * Frontier Records
025.) Ack Ack Ack * Minutemen * 3-Way Tie For Last * SST Records
026.) You Don’t Know The 1/2 Of It * Steak Knife! * Steak Knife!
027.) Everyone In The Underground Music Scene Is Stupid * Anal Cunt * 40 More Reasons To Hate Us * Earache Records
028.) I Object * Youth Brigade * 20 Years Of Dischord * Dischord Records
029.) The Psycho Squat * Rudimentary Peni * Death Church * Corpus Christi Records
030.) Warren’s Song Part 8 * Bracket * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
031.) Spray Paint * Black Flag * Damaged * SST Records
032.) Your Kung-Fu Is Old… And Now You Must Die!! * Adrenalin OD * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
033.) Stud * Fitz Of Depression * Crank Shaft EP * Mumble Something Records
034.) Hearts Frozen Soil Sod Once More By The Spring Of Rage, Despair, And Hopelessness * A.F.I. * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
035.) Foreign Lawns * Meat Puppets * In A Car EP * SST Records
036.) Saturday Night * Kill Switch * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
037.) Freegan * Big Wig * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
038.) No Fkuicgn * Nomeansno * You Kill Me * Alternative Tentacles Records
039.) Supermarket Forces * Subhumans * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
040.) I Hate Puck Rock * D.O.A. * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
Alternative Tentacles Records
041.) 13. [value zero is not a valid name] * Vortex Remover * Rawkward Phase
042.) Worms * Bloodfart * Gastric Juices
043.) Why Me? * The Automatics * 20 Golden Greats
Part II:
044.) Short Songs [Live] * Dead Kennedys * Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death
045.) March of The Siamese Children [Excerpt] * Martin Denny * Forbidden Island * Scamp Records
046.) Whimpers From The Jello * The Fugs * It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest * Reprise Records
047.) Ride Ride Ride * Half Japanese * Greatest Hits * Safe House Records
048.) S.O.I.G. * Man Is The Bastard * D.I.Y.C.D.* Slap-A-Ham Records
049.) Page 20 * Fantômas * Book 1 * Ipecac Records
050.) Wrangler Brutes * Wrangler Brutes * Zulu * Kill Rock Stars Records
051.) Euphoria * xbxrx * Sixth In Sixes * Polyvinyl Records
052.) Priest With The Sexually Transmitted Diseases Get Out Of My Bed * The Locust * Plague Soundscapes * ANTI- Records
053.) Alan Licked Has Ruined Music For An Entire Generation * Free Kitten * Nice Ass * Kill Rock Stars Records
054.) A Finger To Hackle * Melt-Banana * Scratch Or Stitch * Skin Graft Records
055.) Ujaku * John Zorn * Naked City * Nonesuch Records
056.) Individual Suture * Sinking Body * Grappling With The Homonids * Vermiform Records
057.) Chiapas! I MUST GO THERE! * Jackie-O-Motherfucker * Fig. 5 * Road Cone Records
058.) Can’t Find My Car * Thomas Hendrix * Kill The Moonlight Original Motion Picture Soundtrack * Sympathy For The Record Industry Records
059.) Variable Dump * Operation Re-Information * M-Pire Records
060.) Wuxiapian Fantastique * Mike Patton * Adult Themes For Voice * Tzadik Records
061.) Voice Piece For Soprano * Sonic Youth * SYR 4: Goodbye 20th Century * SY Records
062.) Skitter * Cornflake Mandala * A Boy And His Dog * Self-Released
063.) The Dripping Wire In The Lab Down The Street * Oliver Squash * 30 Piece * Self-Released
064.) Closed Coffins And Curtains * Zach Hill And Mick Barr * Shred Earthship * 5 Rue Christine Records
065.) Hotel One * Zip Code Rapists * Zip Code Rapists * Eabla Records
066.) Dr. Schwitters Intro * Faust * Tapes * Recommended Records
067.) Track 6 * Buck Rothy * Buck Rothy * unreleased
068.) Bass Gnm2 * Forcefield * Roggaboggas * Load Records
069.) Why Is He On The Television? * Hunger Artists * Cruisin’ In Zargon
070.) I Had A Crummy Shift * The Hospitals * I’ve Visited The Island Of Jocks And Jazz * Load Records
071.) Transdimensional Soldier * Behead The Prophet No Lord Shall Live * Making Craters Where Buildings Stood EP * Sound Polution Records
072.) Thaw Walt * Men’s Recovery Project * Thank You For Killing Me EP * Paralogy Records
073.) Push * Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 * Lovelyville * Matador Records
074.) Iced-Off Broccoli * Sun City Girls * Static From The Outside Set: Carnival Folklore Resurrection Vol. 14 * Abduction Records
075.) The Ambassador’s Report * Le Ton Mite * Tickets To Real Imaginary Places * K Records
076.) Untitled #10 * John Frusciante * Niandra Lades And Usually Just A T-Shirt * American Recordings
077.) Drums/Effects D * Yoshida Tatsuya * Drums, Voices, Keyboards & Guitar * Magaibutsu Records
078.) Some Hammering… * Lee Ranaldo * East Jesus: Some Recordings 1981 – 1991 * Atavistic Records
079.) Metamorphosis (Organ Freak Out 2) * Ennio Morricone * Diabolik Original Motion Picture Soundtrack * Pallottola Foro Records
080.) 12 * Negativland * Negativland * Seeland Records
081.) Blue Zircon * Yuma Nora * Jewels In The Snakepit * Not Not Fun Records
082.) (Interlude) * Trans Am * Trans Am * Thrill Jockey
083.) Waste No Time * The Fartz * Because This Fuckin’ World Still Stinks…
084.) Whupping Crowd * Suetsu & Underwood * Psychogeographic Y
085.) Zagubilem sie w Miescie * Kazik * 12 Groszy
086.) Whiter Teeth, Free Shipping * Brainwarmer * Elliott Smith’s Guitar
087.) WILSONCORE * /root_DIR * WILSONCORE * Self-Released
088.) What We Do Is Secret * Germs * (GI)
089.) We Are Not Your Entertainers * Mukilteo Fairies * Rock Stars Kill
090.) Narcissus * Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band * Gorilla * BGO Records
Part III:
091.) Hey Sweetheart * Richard Hell * Time * Matador Records
092.) Narcissus Queen [Excerpt] * Martin Denny * Forbidden Island * Scamp Records
093.) Lullaboo * Cathead * The Album * Self-Released
094.) ( ) * Piglet * Not Ralphing At Your First Keg Party * Self-Released
095.) Introduction To The Mummies * The Mummies * Death By Unga Bunga!! * Estrus Records
096.) Hello, It Is I, Thee Intolerable Bastard, Child Genius * The Ne’er Do Wells * Hello, It Is I, Thee Intolerable Bastard Child Genius EP * Lookout! Records
097.) Fossils * The Iran-Contra Affair * Under Oath * Battlesnakes Now Records
098.) Malfunction * Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet * Savvy Show Stoppers * Cargo Records
099.) To All The Kids * The Vandals * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
100.) The Ballad of Wilhelm Fink * Green Day * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
101.) Hey! The Return! * The Flying Saucers * Weird Ancient Religious Rites * Self-Released
102.) Ludwiggin’ * Flat Duo Jets * Lucky Eye * Outpost Records
103.) It’s Getting Late * They Might Be Giants * McSweeney’s #6* McSweeney’s
104.) Do You Think It’s Alright? * The Who * Tommy * Polydor Records
105.) Dan Vs. Time * godheadSilo * Skyward In Triumph * Sub Pop Records
106.) Ahh * White Rainbow * Box * Marriage Records
107.) Interlude * Tom Waits * The Black Rider * Island Records
108.) Fanfare * Charles Gocher * Pint Sized Spartacus * Gravelvoice Records
109.) Statsministern * International Harvester * Sov Gott Rose-Marie * Silence Recordings
110.) Turnin’ To A Bug * Brendon Smalls * Home Movies Official TV Soundtrack * Shout! Factory Records
111.) High And Low * The Homosexuals * Astral Glamour * Hyped To Death Records
112.) Old Man Thunder * Ween * God Ween Satan: The Oneness * Twin / Tone Records
113.) Do Wot John * Monty Python * The Final Rip Off * Virgin Records
114.) Look At That Old Grizzly Bear * Mark Mothersbaugh * The Royal Tenenbaums Official Movie Soundtrack * Hollywood Records
115.) No One Is Watching * DeVotchka * How It Ends * Cicero Recordings, Ltd.
116.) Haiku A * God Is My Co-Pilot * Puss 02 * Dark Beloved Cloud Records
117.) Embryo * Black Sabbath * Master Of Reality * Warner Brothers Records
118.) Man Enough * Enemy Mine * The Ice In Me * Up Records
119.) Sarspirillsa * Man Man * The Man In A Blue Turban With A Face * Ace Fu Records
120.) More Sack * Witchy Poo * Salutes The Space Program EP * Vermiform Records
121.) I’ve Got Egg On My Face * Little Fyodor * The Very Best Of Little Fyodor’s Greatest Hits! * Discriminate Audio Records
122.) Tack Ska Ni Ha * Dungen * Ta Det Lugnt * Kemado Records
123.) Bubble Bobble – Shark Skeleton * The Advantage * The Advantage * 5 Rue Christine Records
124.) Bow Tie Daddy * The Mothers Of Invention * We’re Only In It For The Money * Verve / Bizarre Records
125.) Backwards Flute * John Lurie * Fishing With John Official TV Soundtrack * Strange And Beautiful Records
126.) Pimmel * The Muffs * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
127.) Take Me * Elton & Betty White * Sex Beyond The Door * Self-Released
128.) Lonesome Bulldog III * The Butthole Surfers * Piouhgd * Rough Trade Records
129.) Vern’s Answer To The Masses * Unwound * The Future of What * Kill Rock Stars.
130.) Velchatronix * Velchatronix * Case of Psionic Awareness
131.) Interlude (Ritchie’s Intro) * Drats!!! * Welcome To New Granada
132.) Forbidden Island [Excerpt] * Martin Denny * Forbidden Island * Scamp Records
133.) ( ) * Dead Milkmen * Bucky Fellini * Enigma Records
Hour 2
Part IV:
134.) All * Descendents * Somery * SST Records
135.) Fanatics * Minutemen * The Punch Line * SST Records
136.) All Comic Heroes Are Facist Pigs * Terrorgruppe * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
137.) A Small One * Scissor Fits * Messthetics Vol. 1 * Hyped 2 Death Records
138.) Farts Are Jazz To Assholes * Dillinger 4 * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
139.) Punch Drunk * Hüsker Dü * Everything Falls Apart * Reflex Records
140.) Tribute To The Mammal * Buck Wild * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
141.) Crypted Control * Behead The Prophet No Lord Shall Live * I Am That Great And Fiery Force * K Records
142.) Get A Grip * No Fun At All * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
143.) Cocaine Dave * REO Speedealer * REO Speedealer * Royalty Records
144.) Waste Away * Fury 66 * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
145.) Where You From Eh? * Chicano-Christ * Come’ CaCa EP * Nemesis Records
146.) Asian Pride * Hi-STANDARD * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
147.) Human Of Stupids * S.O.B. * Japanese Hardcore Comp Tape * Broken Tapes
148.) Staggering * Hot Box * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
149.) Field Day For The Sundays * Wire * Pink Flag * Harvest / EMI Records
150.) Doin’ Laundry * Nerf Herder * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
151.) Hot Cars * Angry Samoans * The Unboxed Set * Triple X Records
152.) Anchor * Less Than Jake * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
153.) I Want Cunt * The Queers * A Day Late And A Dollar Short * Lookout! Records
154.) Told You Once * The Mr. T Experience * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
155.) You Don’t Know The 1/2 Of It (Reprise) * Steak Knife! * Steak Knife! * Self-Released
156.) John For The Working Man * Tilt * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
157.) Exhibit Self-Control * The Iran-Contra Affair * Under Oath * Battlesnakes.com
158.) Surf City * SPREAD * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
159.) ?? * Cringer * Greatest Hits Vol. 1 * Vinyl Communication Records
160.) Blatty (Human Egg) * Sick Of It All * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
161.) Secret Surgery * Man Is The Bastard * D.I.Y.C.D. * Slap-A-Ham Records
162.) No Intellect * Senseless Apocalypse * Japanese Assault * Relapse Records
163.) Mirror, Signal, Wheelspin * Goober Patrol * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
164.) Pasktamning (Protes Bengt) * Life * Chaos Of Destruction * Dan-Doh Records
165.) Hard World * Uniq * Snarl Out Vol. 3 *
166.) No, We Don’t Want To Do A Split Seven Inch With Your Stupid Fucking Band * Anal Cunt * I Like It When You Die * Earache Records
167.) Fishfuck * Gwar * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
168.) Your Hand Is In Your Crotch * Deep Wound * Almost Complete * Baked Goods Records
169.) Red Alert * Teenage Jesus & The Jerks * Everything * Atavistic Records
170.) Bring It To An End * Anti-Flag * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
171.) All The Colours In The Rainbow * Hunger Artists * Cruisin’ In Zargon * ookworld.com
172.) Hairdude * Boss Pitt * Answer Compilation * Answer Records
173.) Count * JFA * Blatant Localism * Placebo Records
174.) Garbage Can * Wrangler Brutes * Zulu * Kill Rock Stars Records
175.) Panic * Screeching Weasel * Anthem For A New Tomorrow * Lookout! Records
176.) Pop * Syu-Cream * Sound Or Music * Okayama City Hardcore Records
177.) 1980 * GLO * Killed By Death Vol. 77 * Killed By Death Records
178.) A Prayer for the Complete and Utter Eradication of All Generic Pop-Punk * Spazz * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
179.) Solar Panel Asses * The Locust * Plague Soundscapes * ANTI- Records
180.) F.O.F.O.D. * 7 Seconds * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
181.) * Guyve * Live Straight Outta KPSU 06/27/2009 * Blasphuphmus Radio
Part V:
182.) * King Missile * Happy Hour * Atlantic Records
183.) Hope For No Cougars * Le Ton Mité * Tickets To Real Imaginary Places * K Records
184.) You Will Be Eliminated * Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 * Bob Dinners And Larry Noodles Present Tubby Turdner’s Celebrity Avalanche * Communion Records
185.) Midnight Sun Pt. 2 (Real Short) * Cornflake Mandala * A Boy And His Dog * Self-Released
186.) Heckler’s Chant * Miss Murgatroid * Myoclyonic Melodies * Win Records
187.) * Little Fyodor * The Very Best Of Little Fyodor’s Greatest Hits! * Discriminate Audio
188.) * The Residents * Demons Dance Alone * Ralph Records
189.) Hot Poop * Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention * We’re Only In It For The Money * Verve Records
190.) (ZAP) * Forcefield * Roggaboggas * Load Records
191.) Sean Pool * Lamborghini * The New Lamborghini * Battlesnakes.com
192.) Track 08 * Cold Pizza * Now Buying Souls By Appointment Only * Bipolar Bear Records
193.) Explanation Mark * The Books * The Lemon Of Pink * Tomlab Records
194.) Life Is Funny * The Fugs * It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest * Reprise Records
195.) Physical Constants * Alpha Protist * Glass Animals EP * Battlesnakes.com
196.) Oh Jonas * Rivers Cuomo * Alone II: The Home Recordings Of Rivers Cuomo * DGC Records
197.) Franz Kafka! Finale * Brendon Small * Home Movies Bonus CD * Shout! Factory
198.) Ghosts ‘n’ Goblins – Intro * The Advantage * The Advantage * 5 Rue Christine Records
199.) Toothless Baby * Pez Abacus * December 11 2009 * Unreleased
200.) Grassroots Internet Revolution * They Might Be Giants * McSweeney’s Music CD – Issue #6 * McSweeney’s
201.) Track 07 * View Of A Burning City * Tales Told Before The Waking Hour * Self-Released
202.) TYPe B for Me * Melt-Banana * Scratch Or Stitch * Skin Graft Records
203.) Afterbirth Pancake * Bloodfart * Gastric Jucies *
204.) “Hurry Up And Kill Me…I’m Cold” * Mike Patton * Adult Themes For Voice * Tzadik Records
205.) Paradosis * xbxrx * Sixth In Sixes * Polyvinyl Record Company
206.) Hammerhead * John Zorn * Naked City * Elektra / Nonesuch Records
207.) Track 45 * Aural Resuscitation Unit * Dub Plate Volume One * Dubuque Strange Music Society
208.) Ski Meat Funky Rectal Anarchy * Merzbow / Gore Beyond Necropsy * Rectal Anarchy * Release Entertainment Records
209.) Making Babies * God Is My Co-Pilot * Puss O2 * Dark Beloved Cloud, The Making Of Americans Records
210.) Don Camero Lost His Mind * Guttermouth * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
211.) Mono * Half Japanese * Greatest Hits * Safe House Records
212.) Pigs * Coachwhips * Double Death * Narnack Records
213.) My Disciples * Icky Boyfriends * A Love Obscene * Menlo Park Records
214.) Untitled : VI * Faust * Tapes * Virgin Records
215.) M * Enemy Mine * The Ice In Me * Up Records
216.) [Untitled] * Scratch Acid * The Greatest Gift * Touch And Go Records
217.) Dosed Tea (Excerpt) * kiisu d’salyss * Cabin Fever * Unreleased
218.) Albertos * Manic Hispanic * The Recline Of Mexican Civilization * Better Youth Organization Records
219.) Encounter * Men’s Recovery Project * Normal Man EP * Gravity Records
220.) Dinosaur Was A Dinosaur Pt. 1 * Mayonnaise vs. Venn * Search For The Past + Epic Saga * Self-Released
221.) Slash Kick Wrist * Sun City Girls * Box Of Chameleons * Abduction Records
222.) ( ) * The Butthole Surfers * Humpty Dumpty LSD * Latino Bugger veil Records
223.) Page 30 * Fantômas * Book 1 * Ipecac Records
224.) Last Laff * Ennio Morricone * The Original Motin Picture Soundtrack to “Diabolik” * Pallottola Foro Records
225.) Tears * This Mortal Coil * Filigree & Shadow * 4AD Records
226.) Outer Spaceways Incorporated * Sun Ra * Nothing Is… * ESP-Disk
227.) Graduation Rap * Vanilla, Jade & Ebony * Ghost World * Shanachie Records
228.) Pleasure Cruz * Supergenius * Star Wars Breakbeats * Suckadellic Records
229.) Michael, Time To Wake Up * The Flaming Lips * Telepathic Surgery * Restless REcords
230.) Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea: Main Title * Orchestra * Brain In A Box: The Science Fiction Collection * Rhino Records
Part VI: 13
231.) Prelude To The Revolution Song * The Paranoids * Triskaidekaphobia: 13,000.00 MilliSeconds * Ratskin Records
232.) Landing Face First * Voice On Tape * Triskaidekaphobia: 13,000.00 MilliSeconds * Ratskin Records
233.) Hulder Maiden * Thrones * Triskaidekaphobia: 13,000.00 MilliSeconds * Ratskin Records
234.) 20th of Jan. * Testicular Manslaughter * Triskaidekaphobia: 13,000.00 MilliSeconds * Ratskin Records
235.) Pater Noster * Microwaves * Triskaidekaphobia: 13,000.00 MilliSeconds * Ratskin Records
236.) Peep My Dirt Lip (1990) * My First Step Toward Failure * Triskaidekaphobia: 13,000.00 MilliSeconds * Ratskin Records
237.) Balls Of Jolly * The White Mice * Triskaidekaphobia: 13,000.00 MilliSeconds * Ratskin Records
238.) Dancin’ In My Bad * Cop Warmth * Triskaidekaphobia: 13,000.00 MilliSeconds * Ratskin Records
239.) Soiled, So Temporary * AIDS Wolf * Triskaidekaphobia: 13,000.00 MilliSeconds * Ratskin Records
240.) 13 * Torturing Nurse * Triskaidekaphobia: 13,000.00 MilliSeconds * Ratskin Records
241.) Scooter Boy cut * Ol’ Cheeky Bastards feat. Dave Dalton * Triskaidekaphobia: 13,000.00 MilliSeconds * Ratskin Records
242.) Moonlight Serenade * Low Fat * Triskaidekaphobia: 13,000.00 MilliSeconds * Ratskin Records
243.) Mensch Oder Deutscher * Slapendehonden * Triskaidekaphobia: 13,000.00 MilliSeconds * Ratskin Records
244.) Is Not Thy Weirdness Great? * Stronghold Crusader * Triskaidekaphobia: 13,000.00 MilliSeconds * Ratskin Records
245.) Konsumiert * Corrosive * Triskaidekaphobia: 13,000.00 MilliSeconds * Ratskin Records
246.) 13 Second Blowjob * Intestinal Spewage * Triskaidekaphobia: 13,000.00 MilliSeconds * Ratskin Records
247.) What His Soul Desires * The Upsidedown Stars * Triskaidekaphobia: 13,000.00 MilliSeconds * Ratskin Records
248.) Duck (Chicken) Clay Pot * Say Bok Gwai * Triskaidekaphobia: 13,000.00 MilliSeconds * Ratskin Records
249.) FTA * Scarab * Triskaidekaphobia: 13,000.00 MilliSeconds * Ratskin Records
250.) Smoke and Fears * Selbst Morder * Triskaidekaphobia: 13,000.00 MilliSeconds * Ratskin Records
251.) Spines and Sneakoscopes * The Atomic Bomb Audition * Triskaidekaphobia: 13,000.00 MilliSeconds * Ratskin Records
252.) Song of Peace (13 Seconds) * GlamGoreGlitterSlut * Triskaidekaphobia: 13,000.00 MilliSeconds * Ratskin Records
253.) Maritiza Morning Doves * Matthew Crowe * Triskaidekaphobia: 13,000.00 MilliSeconds * Ratskin Records
Part VII:
254.) Her Majesty * Beatles * Abbey Road * Apple Records
255.) Miracle Cure * The Who * Tommy * Polydor Records
256.) 19 * Curious Hands * In-Studio Recording 11/15/06 * KPSU
257.) Roses * The Magnetic Fields * 69 Love Songs * Merge Records
258.) Afterlife * The Scruffs * Angst: The Early Recordings 1974 – 1976 * Ardent Music
259.) It’s A Real Time Thing * The Damned * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
260.) 5-Piece Chicken Dinner * The Beastie Boys * Paul’s Boutique * Capitol Records
261.) Astral Lady * Captain Beyond * Captain Beyond * Fontana Island Records
262.) Wake Up * Bodyjar * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
263.) Steamroller Blues * Aerobitch * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
264.) Not Again * Undeclinable Ambuscade * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
265.) Bedroom Windows * Enemy You * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
266.) Sara Fisher * No Use For A Name * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
267.) Delraiser Part III, Del On Earth * Consumed * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
268.) Randal Gets Drunk * Lagwagon * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
269.) Howdy Doody In The Woodshed * The Dickies * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
270.) Erik Sandin’s Stand-In * Dogpiss * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
271.) Triple * Dance Hall Crashers * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
272.) Klawsterfobia * Strung Out * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
273.) Fun * Pully * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
274.) 30-Seconds Till The End Of The World * Pennywise * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
275.) I Got None * All * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
276.) See Her Pee * NoFX * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
277.) Traitor * Agnostic Front * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
278.) Life Rules 101 * Down By Law * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
279.) Pretty Houses * Lunachicks * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
280.) Turn It Up * Happy Trigger * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
281.) Mr. Brett Please Put Down Your Gun * H20 * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
282.) We Want The Kids * 59 Times The Pain * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
283.) Faust * Jughead’s Revenge * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
284.) All My Friends Are In Popular Bands * 88 Fingers Louie * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
285.) Chandeliers And Souvenirs * Diesel Boy * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
286.) My Pants Keep Falling Down * Frenzal Rhomb * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
287.) Comin’ To Your Town * D.I. * Short Music For Short People * Fat Wreck Chords
288.) Hobo Sandwhich * /root_DIR * EP * Self Released
289.) Exit * The Bats From The Pyrimids From Egypt * Zombiance * The Bats From The Pyrimids From Eqypt Records
Outro
290.) No! All! * Descendents * Somery * SST Records
Join us for a kaleidoscopic journey through layers and layers of time-traveling wonder, as we follow the earliest days of this program from the late ’90’s, through the lens of the early 2000s, as re-interpreted in 2007, and again in 2012. With Negativland with us to help us make sense of the journey, we make the simple observation that, yes, it does look like Thousands of Stars. But what does that mean?
I keep bouncing around through time and space, from radio station to radio station, and offer a mish-mash of what my show was like in the olden days, 20 years ago. While this doesn’t represent what the show was actually like to hear in the ’90’s, it comes close, and in many ways, it mimics the kinds of the shows I started doing in 2007, and ever since then.
In the ’90’s, I only had CDs and LPs. There was no pre-editing for presentation on the air. I just mixed those elements, live, without much thought as to what I was doing. I would make up themes and ideas on the spot, have friends join me, and just say whatever I wanted on the air, for fun. And it was. It got me hooked on DJing, on Radio, and on sticking with this hobby for 20 years. In many ways this is a 20th Anniversary Broadcast, but really, it only covers the first few years, a poorly documented era that only exists in poorly archived cassettes, transferred digitally. But the mixes are pure and un-edited, and remind me of a time when the computer wasn’t even something I considered an audio tool.
The time-travel schtick is all Negativland’s influence. But they’ve always been an influence, as I’m sure you can tell from listening. Perhaps, if I get really ambitious, I’ll do a similar overview of other periods in the show’s history, but the mix stuff is usually what I find the most interesting. This show has taken many, many forms, and it’s good to know that, as it changes in many ways, in other’s it stays exactly the same.
Enjoy!
It Looks Like Thousands of Stars
This episode contains a number of samples and edits from Negativland‘s Time Zones Exchange Project, along with a number of other Negativland & OTE samples.
HOUR 1
Part I: Intro(s)
01.) Austin FM Theme * Paco Jones * Austin FM Theme * Self-Released (2016)
02.) Dance of the Cosmo Aliens * Sun Ra * Disco 3000 * Kindred Spirits (2009)
03.) The James Bond Theme Intro * 29 April 1998 * KWVA Radio
04.) 14th Anniversary Intro * 17 April 2012 * Blasphuphmus Radio
05.) Man… Or Astro-Man? Intro * 21 April 1999 * KWVA Radio
06.) Połykacz Węży / Ewabaun / Sea Sea / Antena Krzyku * 18 July 2007 * KPSU Radio
Part II: Excuse Me Put Pardon My Re-Mix
02.) Have A Cigar Re-Mix * 05 August 1998 * KWVA Radio
03.) Back In The Days Of Canadian Sport Fishing w/ The Ramen City Kid * 08 July 1998 * KWVA Radio
04.) Dub Narcotic Sound Re-Mix * 02 September 1998 * KWVA Radio
05.) Burnsome / The Ex / Dizzy Spells * 18 July 2007 * KPSU Radio
06.) Beastie Boys “License To Ill” Backwards * 02 September 1998 * KWVA Radio
07.) Excuse Me Put Pardon My Re-Mix * 19 August 1998 * KWVA Radio
08.) Grateful Dead Backwards * 14 April 1999 * KWVA Radio
09.) April Stevens, The Weathergirl * 14 April 1999 * KWVA Radio
10.) A Minute With The Pope * 13 January 1999 * KWVA Radio
11.) Nirvana “Incesticide” Backwards * 02 September 1998 * KWVA Radio
Part III: This Fabled Island
12.) Butthole Surfers Re-Mix * 19 August 1998 * KWVA Radio
13.) This Fabled Island [Edit] / Negativland / Time Zones Exchange Project * 18 July 2007 * KPSU Radio
14.) Unwound Voice Over * 15 April 1998 * KWVA Radio
15.) Jazz Horse / Replikants * 18 July 2007 * KPSU Radio
Hour 2
Part IV: Henry Rollins, Frankie Carle and Walter Carlos Get A Drink Late At Night
16.) Henry Rollins, Frankie Carle and Walter Carlos Get A Drink Late At Night * 27 January 1999 * KWVA Radio
17.) Praise The Lord Jesus * 28 April 1999 * KWVA Radio
18.) The Quantum Edge [Edit] / Negativland / Time Zones Exchange Project * 18 July 2007 * KPSU Radio
23.) Mertz Commercial * 29 April 1998 * KWVA Radio
24.) The Cremation Of Sam McGee * 23 December 1998 * KWVA Radio
25.) The Passing Of Dick Clark w/ Holden Craft & The Pope * 13 January 1999 * KWVA Radio
26.) Hovercraft Outro * 27 May 1998 * KWVA Radio
27.) Vanity Fair / Mr. Bungle / California * 18 July 2007 * KPSU Radio
28.) Unwound Outro * 13 May 1998 * KWVA Radio
29.) 14th Anniversary Outro * 17 April 2012 * Blasphuphmus Radio
For our second Pledge Drive show of the season, I thought it would be a good idea to explore two subjects that are both related to hygiene you take care of with a brush: Teeth & Hair.
I have been fascinated by media relating to teeth and dentists since I first wrote about dentists in 2007, but as with anything you become interested in, interest ebbs and flows over time. But, a recent set of trips to the dentist – with at least two more appointments on the horizon – has caused me to start thinking about teeth more than I’m usually doing so. So with that in mind, I decided to dig up an hour of Dental Jams, to help ease my nerves as I prepare me for another visit to have sharp implements put into my mouth for the soul benefit of fixing my already broken teeth.
We offer plenty of rock, noise, punk, drone, and other such incredible musical offerings to track down what, exactly, is under our hats. Armando Iannucci helps explain it all to us, as do Peter & Raymond. All while Tara J. Merritt, of the Tara J. Merritt foundation, gives me my regular trim.But that’s not all. Immediately after my cleaning, I actually scheduled a haircut during my show. Of course, there’s little I can do about it, so instead I just go with a hairy theme, and pursue music that is not only dense with follicles, but provides all the vitamins and nutrients of an actual treatment with a name brand product.
This is, of course, a long way of saying: please donate to the KMUZ Pledge Drive, and keep our show on the air. Donations are essential to keeping radio like this on the air, and we cannot do it without the excellent support of listeners like you. Each Mid-Valley Mutations listener who donates to KMUZ will receive a piece of media from my personal collection, as a thank you for listening to our program. It’s just one way that we like to thank our listeners for being such excellent members of our community.
Now, let’s get to the show.
Enjoy!
Teeth & Hair
HOUR 1: Dental Jams
Part I: Teething
01.) Austin FM Theme * Paco Jones * Austin FM Theme * Self-Released (2016)
02.) Red In Tooth & Claw * Architeuthis Dux * Submergence * No Part of It Records (2016)
03.) Dentist! * Steve Martin, Michelle Weeks, Tichina Arnold, Tisha Campbell * Little Shop Of Horrors: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
04.) Performance [Excerpt] * Toiletooth * What’s This Called? Broadcast 13 March 2010
05.) Strawberries Are Growing In My Garden (And It’s Wintertime) * The Dentists * Children Of Nuggets: Original Artyfacts of the 2nd Psychedelic Era 1976-1996
06.) 13 * Teeth Collection * Triskaidekaphobia: 13,000.00 MilliSeconds
07.) Painted My Teeth * Jandek * Modern Dances
08.) Spolier * Different Dentist * Triskaidekaphobia: 13,000.00 MilliSeconds
Part II: The Tooth Fairy Isn’t Real, Is She?
09.) The Mad Dentist * Cold Pizza * I’m More Like I Am Then, Than I Was Now
10.) Tooth Fairy Retribution Manifesto * Rodan * Rusty
11.) 13 * Teeth Mountain * Triskaidekaphobia: 13,000.00 MilliSeconds
12.) Can God Fill Teeth? * Lard
Part III: They’ve All Gotta Be Pulled Sooner Or Later
13.) The Dentist [Live] * The Action Zone * 18 April 2007
14.) Dedicated Thespian Has Teeth Pulled To Play Newborn Baby In High School Play * Jad Fair & Yo La Tengo * Strange But True
15.) The Braces on Your Teeth * Mad Magazine * Fink Along With Mad!
16.) Toothless Baby * Pez Abacus * December 11 2009
17.) The Tooth Fairy And The Princess * Hüsker Dü * Zen Arcade
18.) With Teeth * Melvins * Lysol
HOUR 2: The Mop Top Review
Part IV: The Beauty Salon
19.) ZRMFXL * Bull of Heaven * 333REDUX * No Part of It Records
20.) Cut My Hair * The Who * Quadrophenia
21.) The Long Hair Of Death [Excerpt] * Stereolab * Aluminum Tunes
22.) My Barber 1 * Armando Iannucci * The Armando Iannucci Shows * BBC Television
23.) Hair Pie: Bake 1 * Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band * Trout Mask Replica
24.) Robbie’s Hair Cut * Artless Motives * Everything But The Kitchen Sink
25.) Wind Blows Your Hair * The Seeds * Travel With Your Mind
Part V: Hairpiece Lullaby
26.) His Hair * Mad Magazine * Fink Along With Mad!
27.) Beauty Salon * Mars Production Library * Mars Production Library CK-713
28.) Longhair Stomp * Professor Longhair * The Mercury New Orleans Sessions 1950 & 1953
29.) My Barber 2 * Armando Iannucci * The Armando Iannucci Shows * BBC Television
30.) Hairpiece Lullaby 1 & 2 * Sonic Youth * Made In USA
31.) Hair Waves * Mars * Mars LP: The Complete Studio Recordings NYC 1977-1978
32.) Curly Hair * Doo Rag * Chuncked And Muddled
Part VI: Sunset On Hair Mountain
33.) Hair Raising Excitement * Hunger Artists * Cruisin’ In Zargon
34.) Hairgrowth Speed * Zach Hill And Mick Barr * Shred Earthship
35.) Theme From “Sunset On Hair Mountain” * Hugh Swarts * Duck, Duck, Chimp (Rarities 1987-2001)
36.) Golden Hair * Syd Barrett * The Madcap Laughs
37.) We’ll Set Your Hair On Fire * Raymond And Peter * Shut Up Little Man
38.) New York Mood (A New Haircut And A Busted Lip) * Tom Waits * Night On Earth Original Soundtrack Recording
39.) Hair Pie: Bake 2 * Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band * Trout Mask Replica
40.) Widen Your Horizons: How To Brush Your Hair * Bob & Ray * The Lost Episodes, Vol. 2
HOUR 3: Teeth & Hair
Part VII: Carry Stress In The Jaw
41.) Scotch Teeth * Half Eye * The Rose Mary Murders
42.) Sleep (Part II): Carry Stress In The Jaw * Mr. Bungle * Disco Volante
43.) Free Haircut * Dead Fucking Last * Proud To Be DFL
44.) Hairy * The Vaselines * The Way Of The Vaselines: A Complete History
45.) Sharp Teeth * Ax * Our Queen of Dirt
46.) Teeth * Royal Trux * Cats And Dogs
Part VIII: Hairdryer Peace
47.) By Hairs On My Chinny Chin Chin * Thee Headcoats * Knights Of The Baskervilles
48.) Star Of Hairs * Robyn Hitchcock * Invisible Hitchcock
49.) Teeth * The Mekons * Punk Rock
50.) Brush Your Teeth * The Queers * Don’t Back Down
51.) Sweet Tooth * King Khan & The Shrines * The Supreme Genious Of…
52.) Hairdryer Peace * The Hospitals * Hairdryer Peace
53.) Tooth Decay Dramatization * Coyle And Sharpe * Coyle and Sharpe: The Imposters Podcast Ep. 83 * MaximumFun.org