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Description: Exuberance/Ebullience, banter, possibly an interview, context and connection, the familiar, the strange.



Find: Symphonies of Treble, Words Of Expectation, stab, skronk, shimmer, sheen, The New Sound of Now, Ideas for Walls, pleasure, pith, Flutter and Wow, Motorik, cowbells, disco akimbo, at least one Cantankerous Singer, The German Language, shards of glass, Ethiopian Punk, organic, synthetic, sawtooths & squarewaves, Library Riffage, yesterday's recipes, the wrong speed, intentional static, floating, ethereal, time and timelessness.

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Favoriting March 31, 2022: Electricities; Eccentricities; anything that powers the grid

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Sounds of the Ocean  Beach Sounds   Favoriting Ocean Sounds  Sounds Of The Ocean  2016        0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Eccentronic Research Council ft Maxine Peake  Where have all the wayward pop art eccentrics gone   Favoriting music merch community The Eccentronic Research Council presents: Wayward Freaks From A Synthetic Street Volume 1  Desolate Spools  2021  "Desolate Spools - is the DIY record label of critically acclaimed pioneering electronic art collective the ECCENTRONIC RESEARCH COUNCIL from where they have released over the years bespoke limited edition vinyl & tapes direct to fans. Over the past few months ERC producers Dean Honer (all seeing I/I monster) & Adrian Flanagan (The Moonlandingz/ERC/Adult Entertainment) have invited a handful of new eccentric electronic pop artists to their analog lair in Sheffield to produce up some tracks for them - and to answer the question on every serious music fans lips - where have all the Pop art eccentrics gone?" eccentronicresearchcouncil.bandcamp.com      0:00:21 (Pop-up)
Wet Man  Take A Look At My Car   Favoriting The Eccentronic Research Council presents: Wayward Freaks From A Synthetic Street Volume 1  Desolate Spools  2021  Jack Clayton (the man behind Wet Man) is an exceptional songwriter and performer. Like a strange vocal mix of Mark E Smith, Jarvis Cocker and Stooges-era Iggy Pop, yet Wet Man is a truly unique with smart, funny lyrics and some filthy electronica.      0:02:01 (Pop-up)

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Shit and Shine 

Malibu Liquor Store   Favoriting

Malibu Liquor Store 

Rocket Recordings 

2020 

Shit and Shine is an experimental music project based in Austin, Texas. Formed in 2004 by bandleader Craig Clouse, its percussion-driven sound mixes noise with electronics. Clouse is the only consistent member, with an ever-rotating line-up of musicians. 

 

 

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Blue Orchids  No Ghosts No Answers   Favoriting Angus Tempus Memoir    2022  Released literally an hour before this show, this track is the first available from the forthcoming album "Angus Tempus Memoir" which releases on June 28. "Continuing the mystical thread and acid explorations which were a hallmark of The Fall's initial line-up, Martin Bramah has quietly crafted a trove of psychedelic visions unparalleled among musicians of his generation. Despite never quite cracking mainstream public consciousness, Blue Orchids endure as a living treasures of head music for post-punks, with a series of deeply-magical recordings." Blue Orchids: Angus Tempus Memoir (Bandcamp)    *   0:11:33 (Pop-up)
Mdou Moctar  Nakanegh Dich   Favoriting Afrique Victime (Deluxe Edition)  Matador Records  2022  One of the bonus tracks from February's expanded version of this album. -- "Mdou Moctar immediately stands out as one of the most innovative artists in contemporary Saharan music. His unconventional interpretations of Tuareg guitar and have pushed him to the forefront of a crowded scene. Mdou shreds with a relentless and frenetic energy that puts his contemporaries to shame." Mdou Moctar (Bandcamp)    *   0:14:34 (Pop-up)
Zea  Exploding Head Syndrome   Favoriting The Swimming City  Makkum Records  2014  Arnold De Boer is currently the lead singer of one of our favourite bands, The Ex. His ongoing and prolific project Zea are described thusly: "minimal, full-on, electric, acoustic, eclectic, strange-edge. Deploying guitar and sampler for intense and high energy songs. Urgent lysrics in English and in Frisian (his first language). Sometimes intimate, heart felt, poetic, at other times driven on roughshod beats and grimy bass lines. Joyfully obstinate, wonderfully bonkers." Zea Music (Bandcamp)      0:18:46 (Pop-up)
The Nightingales  I ❤️ CCTV   Favoriting I ❤️ CCTV . . . free digital single!  Tiny Global Productions / Fire Records  2022  Released yesterday! As implied, this 2 song single (this song the first) can be yours for $ zero. Released yesterday on Bandcamp. "CHECK OUT our April / May 2022 tour dates! With fantabulous guests TED CHIPPINGTON and RATS ON RAFTS. We'll be celebrating the release of the "King Rocker" soundtrack on LP / CD / DVD courtesy of Fire Records." The Nightingales I ❤️ CCTV . . . free digital single! (Bandcamp)    *   0:23:04 (Pop-up)
TV Priest  One Easy Thing   Favoriting One Easy Thing (Digital Single)  Sub Pop Records  2022  From their forthcoming album "My Other People" (out June 17) "Charlie says “Writing ‘One Easy Thing’ was key to unlocking a more direct and personal approach to our songwriting. It’s about dealing with the small things of everyday life; the anxiety, pressures, and battles inside your own headspace – and not being afraid to show this in our songs.”"    *   0:27:11 (Pop-up)

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The Brodie West Quintet 

Entertainment   Favoriting

Meadow Of Dreams 

Ansible Editions / Astral Spirits 

2022 

New release from Toronto's Brodie West. "Brodie West draws upon a vast array of experience to formulate his unique take on jazz. West was a member of Dutch avant-punks the Ex during their collaboration with Ethiopian saxophone legend Getatchew Mekurya, recording and touring worldwide. He's also worked extensively with drummer Han Bennink, appeared alongside the likes of Hamid Drake, Achim Kaufmann, and Sandro Perri while fronting the octet Eucalyptus and collaborating in the duo Ways with drummer Evan Cartwright (who's heard here on drum kit, vibraphone and acoustic guitar). The quintet's remaining members include pianist Tania Gill, Josh Cole on bass, and drummer Nick Fraser who weaves a rhythmic lattice with Cartwright." The Brodie West Quintet: Meadow Of Dreams (Bandcamp) 

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Music behind DJ:
The Brodie West Quintet 

Fortress   Favoriting

Meadow Of Dreams 

Ansible Editions / Astral Spirits 

2022 

Evan Cartwright: drums, vibraphone and guitar. Josh Cole: bass. Nick Fraser: drums. Tania Gill: piano. Brodie West: alto saxophone. Recorded by Jeremy Darby and Julian Decorte at Canterbury Music Company on February 29, March 1 and March 2, 2020. Mixed by Matt Smith. Mastered by Jeff McMurrich. Produced by The Brodie West Quintet. Co-produced by Matt Smith. Photograph by Alex Durlak. All compositions © B. West. The Brodie West Quintet: Meadow Of Dreams (Bandcamp) 

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The Diagram Brothers  Bricks   Favoriting Bricks 7"  New Hormones  1981  The Diagram Brothers were a post-punk band from Manchester, England active between 1979 and 1982. The band comprised Andy Diagram (bass guitar), Fraser Diagram (vocals, guitar), Lawrence Diagram (guitar), Jason Diagram (bass), and Simon Diagram (drums) (not actually brothers).[Andy Diagram was also a member of Dislocation Dance from 1978 to 1982, and in 1985, and was a member of The Pale Fountains and James. Andy Diagram explained the band's approach: "We called the music 'Discordo'. The music was made to a strict formula or set of rules. All the guitar chords were based on discordant notes, all the beats were very simple rock or disco, and all the words were very very straightforward and down to earth."Music journalist, Stuart Maconie, described them as "funny, slightly scary and like no one else in the world". The band's first release was a 7" EP on the Construct label in 1980. They were then signed by Buzzcocks' New Hormones label, who issued a single, "Bricks", an album, Some Marvels of Modern Science, and a 10" EP, Discordo, before the band split up. They have been compared to The Residents and XTC.      0:40:00 (Pop-up)
Workfriends  Stunt Doubles   Favoriting Stunt Doubles Single  Workfriends  2021  Sheffield's workfriends emerged last year at the start of lockdown with their excellent single 'Man On The Run' and then promptly disappeared for the rest of the year. Before you could say the words 'one off wonder' though, they appeared again in February of this year with another belter in 'Sick And Tired' and then to top it all, released 'Stunt Doubles' last month, an absolute TUNE. "The reasoning behind the name ‘workfriends’ is now a bit of a mystery; some of us think that we chose it simply because it’s easy to say and remember, but some of us think that we chose it because we wanted to take something that most people encounter everyday and transform it so that every time people met or thought about their real life work friends they would subliminally think about us too. This way we would stay in the heads of people constantly."      0:42:42 (Pop-up)
Snõõper  Powerball   Favoriting Powerball Single  Electric Outlet  2022  Blair Tramel and Connor Cummins (of Spodee Boy) are the tape and glue that make up the auditory collage and Nashville band, Snooper. Unrestrained by the flatness that sound alone can sometimes pose Blair uses her handmade props and visual animations as propulsion for the songwriting process. It’s an experiment gone right as much as it a song. There’s a lived-in sort of feeling to the sound of the songs. Smudges on the walls from the people living within them, salt on the counter where dinner was made. Tape hisses, songs start and stop when they want them to, and each song lives in its own world of audio production. Drums sound roomy and a bit far off. Vocals undulate beautiful and pissed patterns. Extra bits of sound sizzle in one ear and out the other. Then the song’s over.    *   0:45:30 (Pop-up)
The Mystery Lights  I'm So Tired (Of Living In The City)   Favoriting Too Much Tension!  Wick Records  2019  The Mystery Lights's sophomore album on Daptone's rock subsidiary, Wick Records, finds the group digging deeper into their well of eclectic influences, enriching their sound without echoing the past. It mixes the eerie, insistent synth sounds of groups like The Normal and Suicide, the energy and swagger of punk’s golden age, the pop sensibility of The Kinks, and the stark, deliberate execution of Television. The Mystery Lights are taking their idiosyncratic brand of rock and roll to dizzying new heights...      0:46:50 (Pop-up)
Majid Soula  Win Terram   Favoriting Massinissa  Majid Soula  1982  Majid Soula is an Amazigh artist, singer, and activist who has lived in Paris since the 1990s. Emblematic of a new wave of Algerian artists emerging in the 1980s, he brings together the best of Arab-disco, highlife, and funk in his captivating productions. Born in Algeria, in the Kabylie region – an anchorage that has remained fundamental throughout his career – Soula is a self taught musician. He began his career in the early 1970s in Algiers, where he made a name for himself with his synthesizers, drum beats, guitar, and powerful lyrics. However, it soon became clear to him that staying in Algeria would not only limit his development as an artist, but would also mean a real risk of being prosecuted for his political views. Thus, around 1978 or 1979, Majid decided to move to Paris. It was in France that Majid Soula published half a dozen albums in the 1980s, most of them entirely self-produced and self-published. The artist considers himself a true activist, a “committed singer”, as he says himself: “I am not a politician. I am above all an artist whose main concern is to present quality work, to contribute modestly to the development and enrichment of our Amazigh cultural heritage. I am inspired by the daily life of my people and I share their aspirations, mainly the recognition of Tamazight as an official language, a real culture and an identity as such”.      0:49:24 (Pop-up)
Slow Children  Spring In Fialta   Favoriting Slow Children  Ensign Records  1981  Slow Children was a New Wave band from the early 1980's. Their three most popular songs were "President Am I", "Spring in Fialta" and "Vanessa Vacillating". The two primary performers were Pal Shazar and Andrew Chinich. They released two albums on Ensign Records: "Slow Children" (1981) & "Mad About Town" (1982). Pal Shazar went on to a solo recording career and has released nine CDs between 1991 & 2006. There was a release in the U.K with an album cover art concept that was adapted from Jean Cocteau's "The Blood of a Poet". There was also a U.S. release with a different cover featuring photos by Robert Mapplethorpe and a different track listing. The track "Staring At The Ceiling" was released as a single in the UK the same year, but didn't chart.      0:53:26 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Animal Magic 

Get It Right   Favoriting

Animal Magic 

Recreational Records 

1982 

I saw ANIMAL MAGIC play a number of times around the end of 1981 start of 1982. They were much of the post POP GROUP put the funk back into punk variety. I liked the singer’s desperate squeal, which was very much a la POP GROUP. They had a girl trumpet player that looked everything like the librarian lost when wandering on to the stage but her cheeks would puff up dizzily-gillepsie like when the band started bouncing around the stage. I had a friend at Bristol University. I went to visit him as THE FALL were playing at the Uni. I remember nearly breaking my neck hacking down 3 flights of stairs to go from ANIMAL MAGIC to THE FALL.. Only to repeat the exercise 35 minutes later hacking up the stairs to catch BLACK ROOTS & THE THOMPSON TWINS (from the music blog "Fruitier Than Thou" 

 

 

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Music behind DJ:
Ghost Power 

Asteroid Witch   Favoriting

Asteroid Witch 

Duophonic Super 45s 

2020 

Jeremy Novak (Dymaxion) and Timothy Gane (Stereolab) are Ghost Power. Their debut full length release is promised as soon as...next week? 

 

 

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MISZCZYK  The Leaves (feat. Marker Starling)   Favoriting Chandra Mixtape Vol. 2 by We Are Time  We Are Time  2022  "Last year, legendary downtown New York musician and artist Chandra Oppenheim joined Vancouver, BC-based musician and journalist Jesse Locke to give a home to some of their favorite noisemakers with their collaborative record label, We Are Time. To introduce their roster to the world, they released the playful and adventurous Chandra Mixtape Vol. 1. This sampler featured projects from members of the CHANDRA band including Motorists, New Chance, Body Breaks, Blonde Elvis and Chandra’s dub-influenced electronic project GNDN..." [To follow up] We Are Time released the Chandra Mixtape Vol. 2. on March 4th. "...The new nine-song mixtape collects unreleased collaborations, remixes and hard to find nuggets from the extended Chandra-verse. The release will be available digitally and as a limited edition cassette and will feature contributions by bedroom freak folk hero Chad VanGaalen in collaboration with UncleBibby, a remix of New Chance by the minimalist techno party-starters Pelada, and so much more." <- Write up from Ears To Feed... Check out the article/premier on their site: earstofeed.com - Premier Miszyck: The Leaves ft. Marker Starling    *   1:06:32 (Pop-up)
Body Double  Dot Dot Dot   Favoriting Chandra Mixtape Vol. 2 by We Are Time  We Are Time  2022  "We Are Time is an artist-focused initiative from Jesse Locke and Chandra Oppenheim, documenting contemporary music with an emphasis on intergenerational collaboration... ...The mixtape begins on a mesmerizing note with MISZCZYK’s collaboration with Marker Starling. Other team-ups include Pelada’s radical New Chance remix, Chad VanGaalen joined by electronic artist UncleBibby, and Bile Sister featuring Chandra Oppenheim. Jangular power-pop trio Motorists and microtonal indie-rock duo Body Breaks return with unreleased material, alongside the debut of Body Double, a new project from New Chance and Bile Sister. Side two concludes with the dreamy flute-folk of Catholic Wilt and the icy trip-hop experiments of GNDN. Chandra Mixtape Vol. 2 by We Are Time    *   1:08:35 (Pop-up)
CHANDRA  Kate   Favoriting Part Time Punks Session      Newly released early in March 2022, it is a recording from 2019 of a 1980 song Chandra Oppenheim (also co-partner in the "We Are Time" label) released in her band "Chandra" when she was 12. This version includes some Toronto collaborators. "In June 2019, the CHANDRA band traveled to Los Angeles for a performance at the long-running Part Time Punks club night series. As part of our trip, the wonderful DJ and promoter Michael Stock invited the band to record four of our classic songs from the early 1980s. This session marks guitarist Penny Clark's final recorded performance with CHANDRA, and Issa Oppenheim-Pressman's recorded debut with the band." Chandra Oppenheim - Vocals/Melodica -- Victoria Cheong - Vocals/Melodica -- Julie Reich - Vocals/Melodica -- Penny Clark - Guitar -- Kristina Koski - Keyboard More background - "Born in 1968, Chandra Oppenheim grew up in New York City with parents actively involved in the arts." "Her father was conceptual artist, Dennis Oppenheim, who caroused with the artists and musicians of the late '70s Lower East Side. Dennis was friends with Eugenie Diserio and Steven Alexander, who had been playing the NYC post-punk circuit with the Model Citizens." "Early exposure to experimental sounds and conceptual art came with Talking Heads and Patti Smith records playing around the house, and parties and events that included artists, musicians and other players in a vibrant creative scene. By age seven, Chandra was creating her own performance art pieces, and graduated to music when friends of her father (and members of no wave group the Dance), Eugenie Diserio and Steven Alexander, approached her about starting a new project. Taking the name Chandra, the new group grew around Oppenheim's otherworldly lyrics and vocals, with Diserio and Alexander providing guitar and bass and Fred Maher playing drums. The band played around noted '70s NYC punk hubs like Mudd Club and CBGB's, and in 1980 they the recorded four-song 12" Transportation." Chandra Bandcamp      1:11:51 (Pop-up)
Bauhaus  Drink The New Wine   Favoriting Drink The New Wine (digital single)  Digital Single  2022  2022 means new... Bauhaus? Yes, it does. "Recorded during lockdown, Bauhaus used the Surrealists’ “exquisite corpse” method to create the song, with each member coming up with a section without seeing what the other’s had done. The band set up some additional rules: Each member was given only one minute to fill, and only eight tracks to lay down whatever instrumentals and vocals they wanted; the band also allotted themselves a shared 60 seconds to create a composite at the end. In a statement, Bauhaus noted that they’ve used the “exquisite corpse” technique in the past, and that the title of their new song, “Drink the New Wine,” takes its title from a phrase that came out of the first time Surrealist artists André Breton, Marcel Duchamp, Jacques Prévert, and Yves Tanguy combined for a “Cadavre exquis“: “[It] included words which when strung together make up the sentence, ‘Le cadaver exquisite boar le vin nouveau’ (‘The exquisite corpse will drink the new wine’),” the band said."    *   1:17:37 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
The Brodie West Quintet 

Inhabit I   Favoriting

Meadow Of Dreams 

Ansible Editions / Astral Spirits 

2022 

Alto saxophonist Brodie West of Eucalyptus, Ways, The Brodie West Quintet, The Ex and Getatchew Mekuria, The Lina Allemano 4 and The Ryan Driver Sextet. West studied composition in Amsterdam with Misha Mengelberg. The Brodie West Quintet: Meadow Of Dreams (Bandcamp) 

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Music behind DJ:
The Brodie West Quintet 

Grotto   Favoriting

Meadow Of Dreams 

Ansible Editions / Astral Spirits 

2022 

Originally hailing from Nanaimo, British Columbia, jazz studies at Humber College brought Brodie to Toronto. Emerging as a member of Zebradonk, Deep Dark United and Drumheller, he was soon in demand as a featured guest, adding his spirit to recordings ranging from Broken Social Scene's seminal You Forgot It in People to more recent appearances with Jennifer Castle, Snowblink and Tasseomancy. Studies at the Amsterdam Music Conservatory with Misha Mengelberg lead to musical encounters with percussionist Han Bennink as well as The Ex, culminating in two tours to Ethiopia and the group's collaborative recordings with Getatchew Mekuria. The Brodie West Quintet: Meadow Of Dreams (Bandcamp) 

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Ibibio Sound Machine  Protection From Evil   Favoriting 17 18 19  Merge Records  2022  From a newly minted album "17 18 19" --- "Ibibio Sound Machine’s new single “Protection From Evil” has frontwoman Eno Williams wielding a massive synth line from Hot Chip’s Al Doyle like a spiritual shield against unspecified, malign forces—unspecified because Williams is speaking in tongues. Her lyrics are onomatopoeic, their meaning defined in her energetic delivery. The explosive track opens the London group’s fourth and most progressive album Electricity, produced by Hot Chip"    *   1:29:09 (Pop-up)
Mhaol  No One Ever Talks To Us   Favoriting No One Ever Talks To Us  Tulle  2021  Taken from the band’s debut EP ‘Gender Studies’, set to drop this Friday (29th October), the track addresses the value of being in a mainly female band in a genre known for bands made up of mainly men. Singer Róisín Nic Ghearailt explains: “’No One Ever Talks To Us’ is an amalgamation of our own personal experiences of being in a predominantly female band in a predominantly male genre, but also a synthesis of the autobiographical experiences of Carrie Brownstein, Kim Gordon, Kathleen Hanna etc, and how so often your value in this industry is based on whether the (men) around you find you attractive. I wanted the vocals to sound in parts like I was bored, which is true. We’ve been having this conversation for decades. It’s time to move it on.”      1:33:44 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Claude Dupras 

The Spring   Favoriting

Interface Yamaha FX-1 

Yamaha Canada Music 

1983 

Also talk to Stevie Wonder, because he appparently owned one. 

 

 

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Music behind DJ:
Claude Dupras 

endless love   Favoriting

Interface Yamaha FX-1 

Yamaha Canada Music 

1983 

The FX1 was a three manual FM based synthesizer under the Electone organ moniker, similar in look but not synthesis as the coveted analog GX1. GX1, FX1 From the SOS article: "Lest you think that (other than the DX1) all FM synthesizers were small, neat affairs, let me tell you about the FX1. This was a huge three-manual beast very much in the mould of the GX1, but based entirely on FM synthesis. If you've never heard of it, I'm not surprised. Costing £36,000 in 1986, there's only one working example in the UK, and not many more elsewhere." One of the contributing factors is that There was a train wreck where all but a couple of them were destroyed. It was shipping organs from California to New York. 

 

 

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Madeleine Chartrand  Ani-Kuni - 45 version   Favoriting Ani Kuni 7"  Extra  1973  Despite the attitude in its title, Madeleine Chartrand's first record, 1971's 'Ah! Comme on s'ennuie', was a rather feeble attempt at chanson that ended up sounding more boring than bored. But Quebec pop svengali Tony Roman, the man behind it, had a few more ideas up his sleeve. Roman dressed up Chartrand, the daughter of the firebrand union activist Michel Chartrand, in pig-tails and native gear, and recorded her anthemic take on the Iroquoian folk song 'Ani Couni Chaouani', a children's sing-along more associated with camp counsellors and kindergarten teachers than pounding glam-rock and electric sitar. This requires conirmation but it's believed the song's origing is also a song of lament sung when Indigenous Iroquois were relocated from their lands. That 'Ani-Kuni' was such a hit in the summer of 1973 should come as no surprise in a province so enamoured of prog and disco. But credit also has to go to producer/arranger Roman, whose decision to unlock the potent intensity of First Nations music was a brilliant one. As for Chartrand, a string of forty-fives on the Deram label failed to repeat the success of 'Ani-Kuni, and by 1980 she had more or less called it a career.      1:40:23 (Pop-up)
Meridian Brothers  Cumbia De La Fuente   Favoriting Cumbia Siglo XXI  Les Disques Bongo Joe  2020  Meridian Brothers evolved from a conceptual band where Eblis Alvarez, one of Colombia's most innovative experimental musicians, played all the instruments. A classical and jazz guitarist and graduate in composition from the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, Alvarez had moved on to explore tropical sounds in an electronic context at a time when he was also being influenced by artists such as Björk, Kraftwerk and Radiohead.      1:43:49 (Pop-up)
Topo  Ba Ba Go, Go   Favoriting Ba Ba Go, Go  Topo  1983  This 100 BPM banger melts faces as the sun comes up over Argentine disco floors. This was Topo the robot's side project before he hooked up with Roby. ‘Ba Ba Go Go’ is. an incredibly rare early 80’s italo electro cut. This was Topo’s first and seemingly last output on DR records, a division of Il Discotto in 1983. You’ll be hard pushed to hear anything like this ever again… truly capturing the times, this is an epic out there crisp electronic production that’s one of a kind. In the same vibe (and era) as the great early works of Alexander Robotnick.      1:48:23 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Ramsey Lewis 

Up Tight   Favoriting

Wade In The Water 

Cadet 

1966 

By 1966, Lewis was one of the nation's most successful jazz pianists, topping the charts with "The In Crowd", "Hang On Sloopy", and "Wade in the Water". All three singles each sold over one million copies and were awarded gold discs.[5] Many of his recordings attracted a large non-jazz audience. In the 1970s, Lewis often played electric piano, although by later in the decade he was sticking to acoustic and using an additional keyboardist in his groups. 

 

 

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Mira Calix  The Abandoned Colony Collapsed My World   Favoriting a̶b̶s̶e̶n̶t̶ origin  Warp Records  2021  Sadly, Mira Calix (born Chantal Passamonte in Durban in South Africa) passed away on Monday. We had played the opening track from her most recent album as soon as it was available, & se messaged us once we tagged her. She was the first female artist signed to Warp Records, and they wrote of her: "Mira was not only a hugely talented artist and composer, she was also a beautiful, caring human who touched the lives of everyone who had the honour of working with her.... ...[she] pushed the boundaries between electronic music, classical music and art in a truly unique way. We are so proud of her immense creative output; her artwork, videos, and music were a true reflection of what an innovative, pioneering, and wonderful soul she was... She will be terribly missed by everyone at the label, staff and artists alike.” She touched our lives, too, in the all too brief moments we got to message w/ her. May she rest in peace. 
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Listener comments!

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DJ Babs:

Hello and welcome dear beachers!!! The show wiull start at 8pm sharp----ish....
Avatar 🏝 Swag For Life Member 8:01pm
Derek Westerholm:

Hello everyone! Excited for tonight!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:02pm
Rich in Washington:

hello! I'll be listening while driving/shopping/driving/cooking/eating!
Avatar 8:03pm
Otis Fodder:

Throwing the beach towel down and cooler, bonjour friends!
Avatar 8:04pm
Mr Fab:

"Where have all the wayward pop art eccentrics gone?" Been asking that for a few years now!
Avatar 8:04pm
DJ Blush:

So happy to be back at the beach!
Avatar 🏝 8:04pm
Alli B:

Hi y’all!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:06pm
DJ Babs:

Hi Rich, Hello Otis and Mr. Fab and Blush and Alli!!!!!
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laurapanic:

hope to not have boring interruptions while I work and listen to show
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:07pm
DJ Babs:

hi Laura!
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Your Pretend Boyfriend:

Hello world…ermmm…fabulous people out there.
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DJ Blush:

Hi everyone, a pleasure to be here
  8:11pm
DJ Nico:

You're a trooper Babs ❤️
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Your Pretend Boyfriend:

@dj blush - hope you’re feeling better.
Avatar 🏝 Swag For Life Member 8:12pm
Feldy:

Are you guys talkin' bout waffles??
Avatar 8:12pm
DJ Blush:

@yourpretendboyfriend thank you so much ❤️
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Your Pretend Boyfriend:

@babs I hope you’re feeling better too.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:15pm
DJ Babs:

Hi Cameron! Hi Feldy! And yes we love waffles! And yeah, pushing through. I HAVE THE POWER OF MUSIC IN ME! LOL
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Your Pretend Boyfriend:

I ain’t afraid of no ghosts…I ain’t afraid of no answers either.
  8:15pm
DJ Nico:

This tracks sounds a little like The Stranglers
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DJ Babs:

yes it is..I super love the organ!
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Feldy:

I love waffles. And waffle cones. And waffle fries.
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laurapanic:

ugh so much clicky starrrrrrrrr
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DJ Babs:

oh I do miss waffle fries! LOL And yay clicky star!!!!
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Derek Westerholm:

Yay! Hello Rich, Otis, Fab, Blush, Alli, Laura, Cam, Blush, Nico, Feldy... Hello hello!! Yes, Waffles!
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DJ Blush:

Hi Babs and Derek, our musical Mom & Dad
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DJ Blush:

so happy to be here with you guys! ❤️
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DJ Blush:

i'm tripping balls on covid deliriousness and this is the perfect soundtrack
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Your Pretend Boyfriend:

@babs Use music to exorcise those demons.
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DJ Babs:

awesome...and same here LOL! I am loving this tune. Derek and I are surprising each other tonight so I'm along for the ride with you all. Gosh it is SO NICE TO HAVE YOU ALL HERE! ❤️
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Mr Fab:

who needs 3 chords when you got ONE?
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Derek Westerholm:

Aww Laura... So happy to hear the stars are beckoning
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DJ Babs:

One chord is all you need when it's the right chord!!!
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DJ Blush:

No joke!
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DJ Babs:

I like any song that mentions eating yogurt.
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laurapanic:

one chord songs are LIFE
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DJ Babs:

As a musician with limited practical instrumental skills I can get behind that, lol.
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DJ Babs:

oh this part is unexpecteed!
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Mr Fab:

i like the Beeheart feel to this one.
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Otis Fodder:

Groovin' and Gettin' stuff done here. Soundtrackin' the pad mighty nice tonight you two!!
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DJ Babs:

love it thank you otis! And yes it is very beefheart mr fab. I do like TV priest very much.
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Your Pretend Boyfriend:

New TV Priest. ❤️❤️❤️
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DJ Babs:

yuppers we got all the new shizz!
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Otis Fodder:

Nightingales = Fav!
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Derek Westerholm:

Yes, songs that mention yogurt are excellent. Do you know a lot of songs that mention yogurt Blush?
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DJ Blush:

This song is awesome.
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DJ Blush:

Hmm let me think about that one Derek
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DJ Babs:

Lol that Bricks tune truly did make my week
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george westerholm:

this is wicked
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DJ Blush:

Apparently William Shatner released an album in 2004 with a song called "Ideal Woman" that includes these lyrics:

"I love what you eat
You want yogurt? you got yogurt!
Papaya? it's yours!"
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DJ Babs:

Oh my goodness! And hello George!
  8:49pm
george westerholm:

hello babs!
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Derek Westerholm:

Hi brother!
  8:51pm
george westerholm:

@derek tv priest is a great name for sure but 'workfriends' is outstanding
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DJ Babs:

welcone welcome!!!!!! We got two westerholms in the chat tonite!!!
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Derek Westerholm:

William Shatner sounds like a very giving person
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DJ Babs:

yes, workfriends is definitely a great name/title, lol
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Derek Westerholm:

Yes, agreed!
  8:52pm
george westerholm:

holy shit this song
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DJ Babs:

this tune is banans
  8:53pm
george westerholm:

@babs it might be changing my life right now
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DJ Babs:

that's what we are here for! I love researching music for this show because I get my life changed every goddamn week! lol
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DJ Babs:

I'm glad you enjoy it!!!
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DJ Blush:

woooo
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DJ Blush:

Jesse is really digging this and so am I
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laurapanic:

OK. Ok. Ummmm, I just need you guys to do a 24hr stream. Sorry. I know that will impact upon your life, but I don't care.
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laurapanic:

In fact, I just clicky starred a song I didn't hear, because I made a coffee , but everyone said it was good.
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DJ Babs:

lol I have been known for some very epic sets. I would TOTES do a 24 hour stream LOL
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DJ Babs:

hello to Jesse!
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Your Pretend Boyfriend:

I love this and the swooshy noise.
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Derek Westerholm:

Laura, your post coffee break click story, lol
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Derek Westerholm:

Swooshy noise!
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laurapanic:

Derek, its cuz I believe y'all
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Derek Westerholm:

haha. Honoured!
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Scott67:

G'day Babs, Derek & Beached
Sorry I'm late, got a phone call from Mum which threw my timing out.
👍😎☎🎶📻🌞🌏🍁❤❤
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DJ Babs:

hey scott!
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Sonderangebot:

Hello B, D and all people! Hope you're all having a great evening!
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Otis Fodder:

Scott ... Sondy!
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Scott67:

G'day Otis!👍😎🍁❤
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Scott67:

G'day Sondy 👍😎🍁❤
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DJ Babs:

hello Sondy!
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DJ Babs:

lol the lyrics!
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laurapanic:

I love Chandra
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Your Pretend Boyfriend:

😂
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Mr Fab:

great song, but dang - teenage girls are the meanest people in the world!
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DJ Blush:

are they ever
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DJ Babs:

they really are. I'm scard of teenagers. I'm officially old, lol.
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DJ Babs:

LOL derek is torturing me, lol
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DJ Babs:

oh there he is...the ruiner of songs! Peter Murphy!
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laurapanic:

building a wall....BRICKS
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DJ Babs:

it all comesback to bricks
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Mr Fab:

wanna see Bauhaus in a football stadium? On a bill with Devo, Blondie, lots more. We can leave before Morrissey. Unless we wanna stick around and throw stuff at him.
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Mr Fab:

cruelworldfest.com
  9:32pm
DJ Nico:

Babs you deserve a warm bath and cup of tea getting through the show ❤️
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DJ Babs:

lol soon! Soon will be warm bath and back to couch and blanket, but I love doing the show it helps a lot!!!
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DJ Blush:

Babs you are a boss
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DJ Babs:

hahah like I said, fueled by the music!
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Scott67:

Likey!! 👍😎🎶
  9:39pm
Val Oliveira:

Pô, Babs ... muito bom ! pleasent to met you.
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DJ Blush:

this is sick
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Derek Westerholm:

Fab, nothing says "live performers of your favourite artists in the flesh" like watching from a great distance in a football stadium, huh?
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Derek Westerholm:

Scott, hello! Val welcome to Echo Beach!
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Otis Fodder:

Sweet Sets with little coffee and cookies here.
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laurapanic:

click star click star click star
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laurapanic:

oh god, Mhaol track is my gig lyfe
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Otis Fodder:

Classic Kebec!
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DJ Babs:

this tune is BANANS
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DJ Blush:

❤️
  9:47pm
datafreq:

sorry I’m late, was watching Picard ep 5 and couldn’t pull away
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DJ Babs:

this has been my other obsession this week. This record is so freakin' cool.
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DJ Babs:

hi datafreq!
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shellioh:

i’m so sorry i’m late! i’ve been out cold!
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DJ Babs:

heeey shelli so good to see you hun!
  9:50pm
shellioh:

❤️❤️❤️
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Derek Westerholm:

Hey there Dave & Shelli! Any time is fine... The Beach doesn't mind.
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DJ Babs:

meep moop picked this song.
  9:52pm
shellioh:

this track makes me smile
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Scott67:

Thanks Babs & Derek! Great bit of beach time!
✌😎🌊🍁❤❤🌻
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laurapanic:

please do not go
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Otis Fodder:

Thanks you crazy kids, see ya on the flipside!
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?:

Thank you so much! ❤️
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Derek Westerholm:

Thank-you everyone! Laura, we'd love to stay... Another time to come... We'll miss you all until then
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DJ Babs:

thank you all fo rjoining us tonight! It was such a pleasure to be with you all! ❤️
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DJ Babs:

we'll be back again next week laura, ya can't stop us!!!
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