WFMU: Transmissions from Echo Beach with Derek Westerholm and DJ Babs: Playlist from February 9, 2023

Transmissions from Echo Beach with Derek Westerholm and DJ Babs: Playlist from February 9, 2023

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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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Sounds of the Ocean	Beach Sounds "Beach Sounds" by "Sounds of the Ocean"	Ocean Sounds	Sounds Of The Ocean	2016			0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Seks Bomba	Do You Know The Way To San Jose?	That's New Pussycat - Surf Tribute To Burt Bacharach (various artists)	Ruggeri	2006	Burt Freeman Bacharach was an American composer, songwriter, record producer, and pianist who composed hundreds of pop songs from the late 1950s through the 1980s, many in collaboration with lyricist Hal David.		0:00:17 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Cosmonauti	The Look Of Love "The Look Of Love" by "Cosmonauti"	That's New Pussycat - Surf Tribute To Burt Bacharach (various artists)	Ruggeri	2006	Bacharach's music is characterized by unusual chord progressions, influenced by his background in jazz harmony, and uncommon selections of instruments for small orchestras. Bacharach went on to write hits for Gene Pitney, Cilla Black, Dusty Springfield, Jackie DeShannon, Bobbie Gentry, Tom Jones, Herb Alpert, B. J. Thomas, and the Carpenters and Dionne Warwick. "I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American Music Students"		0:03:16 (Pop-up)
R. Stevie Moore	Cool Daddio "Cool Daddio" by "R. Stevie Moore"	Cool Daddio	HP Music	1979	Since 1968, R. Stevie Moore has self-released approximately 400 albums. Often called the "godfather of home recording", he is one of the most recognized artists of the cassette underground, and his influence is particularly felt in the bedroom and hypnagogic pop artists of the post-millennium. From 1978 until 2010, Moore lived and recorded in his apartment studios in northern New Jersey. He was also, for those who know...or don't...a WFMU staff member for a number of years. A 2019 doc "Cool Daddio" chronicles his output and ongoing influence...		0:05:26 (Pop-up)
Scab Baby	Space Drag "Space Drag" by "Scab Baby"	Space Drag Single	793742 DK	2022	Scab Baby hail from Wollongong Australia, they are a two piece formed in 2018 by two chaps, one named Tombo - Guitar/Vocals the other named Tommo - Drums/Backups. They have since expanded their lineup to a 4 piece. They describe themselves as alt/synth/punk.		0:08:08 (Pop-up)
Ghoulies	No More Bands "No More Bands" by "Ghoulies"	Reprogram EP	Ghoulies	2021	Ghoulies hail from Perth, Australia, and boasts members of Aborted Tortoise and Kitchen People. This EP is chock a block full of fucking ripping good punk. The are; Alec (bass, vocals, guitar), Indigo (synthesizer), Chuck (guitar), Alex (drums, vocals), Kevin Parker (bongos)		0:11:09 (Pop-up)
2Mums	Psycholist "Psycholist" by "2Mums"	Bushmaster: Side B	Counter Clockwise	2022	2MUMS were formed in 2017 when a bunch of local potato farmers from the backwaters of the far south coast of NSW joined forces to voice concerns over the influx of jar drinking hipsters, yogies, christian rock groups, retired public servants, eco-friendly vegans and social media influencers moving into the local area. This worrying demographic shift prompted a musical response as an outlet for built up frustration and resentment to boil over. The spud farmers were being pushed further out as their lands were being replaced by eco retreats and vegan pie shops. With spud farmers throughout the area disappearing off into the landscape, music became the medium for a chosen few spudding activists still remaining. 2mums has led the charge their music is as you would expect shit house but their message is clear – fuck off. I cannot tell you how much I fucking love this song. I fucking love this song. Bushnmaster: Side B is the only logical followup from their 2021 release Bushmaster (Side A) I love this band.		0:12:42 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Booker T & the MGs	This Guy's In Love With You	The Booker T Set	Stax	1969	As documented in an A&E Biography episode featuring Bacharach, the recording originated when Alpert, while visiting at Bacharach's office, asked, "Say, Burt, do you happen to have any old compositions lying around that you and Hal never recorded; maybe one I might be able to use?" Alpert said he made it his practice to ask songwriters that particular question: often a "lost pearl" was revealed. As it happened, Bacharach recalled one, found the lyrics and score sheet in his office filing cabinet, and offered it to Alpert: "Here, Herb ... you might like this one."		0:14:33 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Charles Earland	Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head	Black Drops	Fantasy	1970	The song, initially when it came out, I believe it was October of 69, the movie didn't come out until December, it did get some bad reviews. It was a very unique and different sounding song, Bacharach and David never had any qualms about trying to do anything different, or push the envelope so to speak. So nowadays, it sounds pretty tame, but back then, radio resisted it to some degree. But, when the movie came out it hit hugely and sold about 200,000 to 300,000 records a day [and continued selling] for about three years.		0:17:41 (Pop-up)
Inspiral Carpets	This Is How It Feels - Go! Team Remix	This Is How It Feels - Got Team Remix Single	Mute Records	2023	The Complete Singles, an album compiling all of the Manchester band’s 24 singles to date. ‘The Complete Singles’ will be available on double vinyl, and as a 3CD set with an exclusive remix bonus disc via Mute / BMG on 17 March 2023. Clint Boon, talking about the remix said, “This is one of my favourite Inspirals remixes. Relatively faithful to the original but with lashings of all the magical elements we love about The Go! Team. I reckon the spirit of Joe Meek was in the studio when The Go! Team did this remix!” This makes us so happy. It's perfect Beach music. Utterly charming. I want this song in my head 24/7.	*	0:20:06 (Pop-up)
YACHT	Finger In Your Eye "Finger In Your Eye" by "YACHT"	Finger In Your Eye Single	Paris By Night	2023	YACHT lives in Los Angeles, California. YACHT was founded in 2002. YACHT’s members are Jona Bechtolt, Claire L. Evans, and Rob Kieswetter.There must be a new YACHT ( Young Americans Challenging High Technology.) album coming. We hope... This is the followup to the 2022 release "See Mystery Lights: Remixes and B sides". If so, we are very excited about this. Also, If you get poked in the eye, with like a finger, there's a good chance that your eye's going to be okay. The first thing that you should do is look in the mirror and examine your eye. If there's blood where the eye's usually white, that's one thing to keep in mind. If your eye is painful as you move it around from side to side or up and down, that's another thing that may be a cause for concern. If you cover the good eye and you look out of the eye that's injured and your vision is blurry, that may be another thing to alert you to actually go to the emergency room. Just so you know.	*	0:23:35 (Pop-up)
Tombeau	Never Mean "Never Mean" by "Tombeau"	Idiot Rock	72961 Records DK	2023	Another wonderful band from Wollogong Australia! They are self described as "Egg punk and pretty much anything else I guess"....They have 6 members in their photo. Which is many more than the solo act they started as. Tombeau live promises "dumb performance in encouragement of all idiot behaviour". Released in Jan 2023, this is the followup to 2022's EP "Sooky" which is also excellent!!! Vocals on this track contributed by Jasmine Melinz		0:26:31 (Pop-up)
We Have Band	You Came Out "You Came Out" by "We Have Band"	WHB	We Have Band Recorsa	2010	We Have Band, also known as "WHB", is a three-piece electronic music group from Manchester and London consisting of Darren Bancroft and the husband-and-wife duo Thomas Wegg-Prosser and Dede Wegg-Prosser. We Have Band have remixed many artists including Gorillaz, Bloc Party, Micachu, Peter Bjorn and John and M83. They were very lauded and well reviewed in the press...but whahhappened? After 2014...radio silence...or so it seems. Such a shame. The world needs more indie/dance/punk/funk/newwave....		0:28:25 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Aqualads	The Blob "The Blob" by "Aqualads"	That's New Pussycat - Surf Tribute To Burt Bacharach (various artists)	Ruggeri	2009	This was written by Burt Bacharach and Mack David for the 1958 horror movie The Blob, which was the first big role for Steve McQueen. The movie was about a blog of goo that lands on earth and starts consuming people, growing larger and larger as it threatens the town. The Blob was a legitimate horror movie, at least by 1950s standards, but the song is a bouncy number that seemed to poke fun at the movie, almost anticipating the cult status it would attain many years later.		0:32:01 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Burt Bacharach	I Say A Little Prayer	Reach Out	A & M	1967	Intended by lyricist Hal David to convey a woman's concern for her man who's serving in the Vietnam War, "I Say a Little Prayer" was recorded by Dionne Warwick in a 9 April 1966 session. Although Bacharach's recordings with Warwick typically took no more than three takes (often only taking one), Bacharach did ten takes on "I Say a Little Prayer" and still disliked the completed track, feeling it rushed.		0:34:35 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Burt Bacharach	What's New Pussycat?	Bacharach! The Instrumental Side	Varese Sarabande	1999	Tom Jones sang the hell out of this. Love it or hate it, it's a classic.		0:37:05 (Pop-up)
Squid	Swing (In A Dream) "Swing (In A Dream)" by "Squid"	O Monolith	Warp Records	2023	Released Feb 8, 2023. New full-length album out June 9. ""Swing (In A Dream)" follows the band's 2021 cover of Bill Callahan's "America!", and is the first taster of their forthcoming second album. The new track is teamed with a Yoonha Park-directed video. //// Singer and drummer Ollie Judge says of the single, "This was inspired by a dream I had about a painting called The Swing by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. In my dream I was in the painting but it was flooded and everything was floating away." //// O Monolith will follow Squid's 2021 debut album Bright Green Field, and was produced by longtime collaborator Dan Carey, and mixed by John McEntire of Tortoise. The band started working on their second album only two weeks after the release of their debut, while they were on tour. //// Judge says, "Without that tour we wouldn’t have any of these tracks. People were so looking forward to seeing live music that we thought we could just play anything, even if it was unfinished. In some form or another we played about 80% of O Monolith, mostly without lyrics."" Squid - Swing (In a Dream) (Official Video)	*	0:39:13 (Pop-up)
WITCH	Waile "Waile" by "WITCH"	Waile (Single)	Desert Daze Sound	2023	Released January 27, 2023. "“Waile” is WITCH’s first original material since 1984, as well as the band’s first release with co-founder and vocalist Emmanuel “Jagari” Chanda since 1977. /// "Waile" is built on a xylophone groove, with feverish bass, storm-cloud fuzz and funk guitars conjured around it. The track marauds through percussive rhythms into guitar solos and heavy snare fills, with powerful female choral refrains shifting the mood from triumph to anguish. Jagari’s lyrics touch on the struggles entwined in the histories of migrants in Zambia, Angola, the Congo and other nearby countries: “there’s a lot of death, sickness, poverty, and misery,” he says. “The song is lamenting that pitiful situation, that’s the Waile — it’s a word in the Lunda and Luvale language.” //// “'Waile' was one of the songs that I brought to the WITCH when I joined in 1978,” continues keys genius Patrick Mwondela. “While it was played live often back in the day, it was never recorded until the new formation of the band picked it up 43 years later during a rehearsal on an island in Kenya, where the band embraced it and made it their own. A few months after that, they gave it a new lease of life by recording it in Lusaka’s legendary dB Studios (site of the original WITCH 70s recordings). Sang in my native language Luvale, the subject matter is a nostalgic wailing for home of ancient African tribes that would eventually settle in Zambia." / WITCH: Jagari Chanda – Vocals / Patrick Mwondela – Keys & Synths / Jacco Gardner – Bass & Synths / Nico Mauskoviç – Drums & Percussion / Stefan Lilov – Guitar / JJ Whitefield – Guitar / Written and Arranged by Patrick Mwondela & Emmanuel Jagari Chanda / Lyrics by Patrick Mwondela & Emmanuel Jagari Chanda / Featuring: Theresa N'Gambi - Backing vocals / Hanna Tembo - Backing vocals //// Recorded live to tape at DB Studios which was equipped with the same machinery that recorded Lazy Bones in 1975 and brought back to life for the occasion for the first time in decades by Zamrock Engineer Peter Musungilo and his trusted partner Michael Linyama." WITCH (Bandcamp)	*	0:43:43 (Pop-up)
BC Camplight	The Last Rotation Of Earth	The Last Rotation Of Earth	Bella Union	2023	Releases May 12, 2023. "Is there a curse that says Brian ‘BC Camplight’ Christinzio cannot move forward without being knocked back? That the greatest material is born out of emotional trauma? Whilst making his new album, The Last Rotation Of Earth, Christinzio’s relationship with his fiancé crumbled after nine inseparable years. The album follows this break-up amid long-term struggles with addiction and mental health. The outcome is an extraordinary record, with Christinzio describing it as “more cinematic, sophisticated and nuanced than anything I’ve done before.” He goes on to describe how the separation altered his creative focus and caused him to “scrap 95% of what I’d already recorded”, finishing The Last Rotation Of Earth in two months and making what he believes is his most vital album. //// Still, Christinzio doesn’t see any of this as a story of redemption. “This is not a story of victory,” he says. “It is a document created in the shadow of incredible darkness. One from which the creator hadn't planned on escaping, and still doesn't. Hence the title of the album. It is the result of an illness that I've battled my whole life. It isn't something that the world has done to me. It's the world I live in and it's no one's fault.” //// There is no better entry to the Camplight school of sound and vision than the opening title track and lead single. “For the first time since I arrived in Manchester,” he says, “I thought, why am I here? I came to find my music, and to find her, and she’s gone. I do everything in my power not to be dramatic, but I didn’t want to be alive anymore. So, I imagined what your last day on earth would be like. Though the lyrics are often quite sweet, like appreciating the looks that strangers give each other, from the perspective of a guy soaking up every last bit of life.”" BC Camplight (Bandcamp)	*	0:49:11 (Pop-up)
Bomb Sniffing Dogs	PILLS'N'THRILLS AND ENERGY BILLS	PILLS'N'THRILLS AND ENERGY BILLS		2022	Released December 21, 2022. Salford band featuring ex-Fall member (and former wife of Mark E Smith) Eleni Poulou. Current lineup: Austin Collings / Liam Power / Eleni Poulou / Tom Fish / Simmy / L. Scott. "This is an unfriendly reminder that your outstanding balance was due to be paid yesterday. We look forward to hearing from you by yesterday and value your continued business. Are those Xmas lights on your tree or distress flares?" Tags = Spoken Word / Bills / Salford Bomb Sniffing Dogs (Bandcamp)	*	0:53:10 (Pop-up)
Sleaford Mods	Force 10 From Navarone	UK GRIM	Rough Trade	2023	This song was released yesterday. After announcing UK GRIM with the title-track last month, Sleaford Mods have shared a second preview of their new full-length titled "Force 10 From Navarone", which features Dry Cleaning vocalist Florence Shaw and lands with a Eddie Whelan-directed video. //// Jason Williamson says of the new release, "The track is a conversation with myself coming to terms with happiness and whether it is in fact a darker space than my negativity and depression. Coupled with that it explores the myth of activism and inaction of the majority in the UK in the presence of a corrupt government." //// He adds, "We’re big fans of Dry Cleaning and knew Flo would be perfect for the track. She’s the real deal and conjures the inspiration I get from the likes of Wu-Tang in the way she uses one word to convey a whole story." //// The duo's forthcoming album will follow 2021's Spare Ribs album. Williamson says, "Maybe we are proud of the country. Maybe we are proud to be English. Maybe I’m proud of the horrible grey streets and the shit weather and the stupid fashions I find myself investing in. It’s just that the English we’re proud of being is absolutely nothing like the English the authorities want to try and promote."" Sleaford Mods (Bandcamp) ++++++ Force 10 From Navarone (Official Video)	*	0:59:01 (Pop-up)
HOUSE Of ALL	Harlequin Duke "Harlequin Duke" by "HOUSE Of ALL"	HOUSE Of ALL	Tiny Global Productions	2023	Newest alignment of ex-members of The Fall. "Martin Bramah, The Fall's singer until Mark E Smith's lesser guitar skills caused them to swap places, was, per Daryl Easlea, "possibly the last true equal to Smith in the group" and likewise the longest survivor of the original line-up. //// Yet while The Fall become famed in part for their legendary productivity, Bramah often went great spans of time between releases, releasing fewer albums in thirty-five years (under any guise) than he has in the last seven with Blue Orchids - who already have a fantastic new album in the can. //// What caused HOUSE Of ALL to come together is something of a mystery. Bramah has joined forces with four other mighty Fall alumni: Steve Hanley, The Fall's longest-serving bassist, as well as his brother Paul Hanley, who drummed on what may be the best run of Fall records, from "Grotesque" to "Bend Sinister". The three has also played together as Factory Star, for a brief period. Joining them are two surprise members - drummer Simon Wolstencroft, who joined the Fall around the time Paul left, and more surprisingly, guitarist Pete Greenway, The Fall's long- serving and final guitarist who has, to our knowledge, never played with any of the other four before." HOUSE Of ALL (Bandcamp)	*	1:02:29 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: WITCH	Waile (Midnight Version) "Waile (Midnight Version)" by "WITCH"	Waile (Single)	Desert Daze Sound	2023	Released January 27, 2023. “Waile (Midnight Version)” //// Jagari Chanda - Vocals / Patrick Mwondela - Lead synth /Jacco Gardner - Bass synth, bass guitar, and FX / Nico Mauskoviç - Drums + Percussion / Stefan Lilov - Electric Guitar / Theresa N’Gambi - Backing Vocals / Hanna Tembo - Backing Vocals / Recorded by Jasper Geluk and Jacco Gardner / Produced by Jacco Gardner / Mastered by World Of Paint Studios" WITCH (Bandcamp)	*	1:07:14 (Pop-up)
Theoretical Girls	Theoretical Girls (Studio)	Theoretical Record '78-'81	Acute Records	2002	Studio version otherwise unreleased until this 2002 collection of mostly unreleased material by the short-lived Theoretical Girls. "Theoretical Girls were a New York-based no wave band formed by Glenn Branca and Jeff Lohn (a conceptual artist and composer) that existed from 1977 to 1981. Theoretical Girls played only about 20 shows (three of which took place in Paris). It released one single ("U.S. Millie"/"You Got Me"), which had some attention in England where it sold a few thousand copies. The band was never signed by a record company, but is well regarded as an early leading no wave group that mixed classical modern ideas of composition with punk rock. This experimental music was mostly supported by the New York art world and minimal art music audience."		1:19:11 (Pop-up)
Girls In Sythesis	Screaming "Screaming" by "Girls In Sythesis"	The Rest Is Distraction	Own It Records	2022	Released Oct 14, 2022. This is an "experimental punk / no wave band from London, UK formed in late 2016." From a Louder Than War Review: "As always with a Girls In Synthesis (GIS) record there is the unavoidable, unadulterated appreciation for the band as being built bigger than the intricate sum of its parts... The Rest Is Distraction no exception. It is the sonic embodiment of all that heart, head, and hostility are pitted against it in the daily idiot-pits. Released via their Own It imprint, featuring familiar friends funkcutter, Stanley Bad on violin and horns plus some keyboards provided by ex-Fall recruit Eleni Poulou; the new album rights all wrongs, corrects certain errors, picks up and pushes against where the last laugh left off... John Linger talks about life during lockdown as being a disguised blessing for the band. It enabled them to initiate the album properly, in turn enabling them to present this sonic document, this raucous portrayal of where they are right now in the best way possible. ‘It felt like we were harnessing darker moments in our personal lives, and putting it back into the music’" Girls In Synthesis are: Jim Cubitt, John Linger, Nicole Pinto Girls In Synthesis (Bandcamp)	*	1:22:00 (Pop-up)
Girls At Our Best!	Warm Girls "Warm Girls" by "Girls At Our Best!"	Pleasure	Record Records	1980	English post-punk band, formed in Leeds in 1979, evolving from The Butterflies (14) (1978-1979). They broke up in 1982. The line-up for this song was: Judy Evans (née Gaffney) vocals / James Alan (né Pritchatt) guitar / Gerard Swift bass / Chris Oldroyd drums ////////// "Possibly the finest early eighties band never to have a chart single. Practically ever present in the Indie Charts for a brief, but magnificent, 2 years. Their first single was the much beloved Getting Nowhere Fast but it was the ‘B’ side Warm Girls which, as well as supplying the name for the band, had so many ideas and motifs packed into one song that really pointed to the direction the band would take. It was inevitable that the final riff would resurface on Fast Boyfriends – it was too good for just the one song. After the debut indie hit, the follow up singles Politics and Go For Gold resulted in them recording Richard Skinner and John Peel Sessions. Their only album, Pleasure, was an album so different from the rest of the post-punk indie pack that you can still play it now and completely baffle new listeners."		1:24:24 (Pop-up)
Death Valley Girls	Magic Powers "Magic Powers" by "Death Valley Girls"	Islands in the Sky	Suicide Squeeze Records	2023	Full album releases February 24, 2023 // All songs written by Death Valley Girls. // “Magic Powers” lyrics by Sammy Westervelt and Bonnie Bloomgarden. // All other lyrics channeled by Bonnie Bloomgarden. //// --- Magic Powers --- Sammy Westervelt - Vocals - Bass / Bonnie Bloomgarden - Organ - Vocals / Larry Schemel - Guitar / Rikki Styxx - Drums - Vocals / Gregg Foreman - Synth - Wurlitzer - Hammond Organ / Mark Rains - Percussion //// "For the better part of a decade, LA’s scrappy rock n’ roll mystics Death Valley Girls have used their music as a means of tapping into a communal cosmic energy. On albums like Glow In The Dark (2016), Darkness Rains (2018), and Under the Spell of Joy (2020) the band challenged the soul-crushing banality of modern society and celebrated “true magical infinite potential” through a collage of scorching proto-punk riffs, earworm melodies, far-out lyrics, and lysergic auxiliary instrumentation. But on their latest album Islands in the Sky, Death Valley Girls’ songwriting mastermind Bonnie Bloomgarden uses the band’s anthemic revelries as a guidebook to spiritual healing and a roadmap for future incarnations of the self. And while these may be the loftiest aims of Death Valley Girls to date, the resulting music is also by far their most infectious and celebratory." Death Valley Girls (Bandcamp)	*	1:28:29 (Pop-up)
U.S. Girls	Futures Bet "Futures Bet" by "U.S. Girls"	Bless This Mess	4AD	2023	Releases February 24, 2023. "The highly anticipated eighth album by U.S. Girls, the nom de plume of North American multi-disciplinary and experimental pop artist Meg Remy, will be released on 24 February entitled Bless This Mess. A dynamic suite of dexterous melodies and a nuanced artistic response to the complexities of motherhood, Bless This Mess was crafted in tandem with the conception and birth of Remy’s twin boys. It expands the sonic and thematic palette of U.S. Girls, fusing the muses of funk, mythology, and the radical disorientation of joy into an electric tapestry of anthems, aches, and awakenings. To celebrate the announcement, today U.S. Girls releases the slow jam gem, ‘Futures Bet’ alongside a music video directed by Alex Kingsmill that explores the visual wonder and resiliency of trash. A combination of traditional 3D animation & composited live action footage was fed into various Stable Diffusion deep learning models. Some images in the video have up to 6 passes of the artificial intelligence reinterpretations at various strengths to create the effect. It co-stars Remy and Carlyn Bezic, who also sings on the track and will open for U.S. Girls’ 2023 tour dates under her moniker Jane Inc. As Remy’s body changed so did her voice; her diaphragm lost breathing room, adjusting to the growing lives inside. Many takes on Bless This Mess were tracked with the babies in utero, or in her arms. (She even samples her breast pump on the album’s poetic closing cut, “Pump”). The resulting performances are suffused by the physicality of this journey: more blood, more feelings, the interwoven wonders, and wounds of procreation." U.S. Girls (Bandcamp)	*	1:31:33 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Girls In Airports	Curtain Of Life	Curtain Of Life (Digital Single)	Kaja Records	2023	Released on Jan 13, 2023. This project formed in 2009 and is Based in Copenhagen. "Girls in Airports’ captivating soundscape crosses musical genres and geographical borders. Combining jazz, indie and urban folk into a unique expression of heart stirring melody-laden elegiac hooks and dance-friendly globally-influenced rhythms." Girls In AIrports (Bandcamp)	*	1:36:24 (Pop-up)
Future Utopia, Kae Tempest	We Were We Still Are	We Were We Still Are Single	70Hz Recordings	2023	"We Were We Still Are" featuring Kae Tempest is Fraser T Smith's first outing as Future Utopia in 2023, and is also the lead outing from a new EP of the same name, due in a few months. ""We Were We Still Are" is about progression through time and space - what we keep hold of and what we leave behind," Fraser T Smith says. "I wanted my next body of work to encapsulate a lot of the elements of my first album, the experimental chords, the warm 70’s aesthetic and the collaborations but also to show some progress as an artist. This has been a huge turning point for me creatively. I’ve wanted to work with Kae Tempest for years and finally got the opportunity on the title track. Kae’s lyrical dexterity and flow knocked me sideways on this track and the subsequent interlude. It sets up the EP in a hugely confident, uplifting way."	*	1:41:04 (Pop-up)
PVA	Hero Man "Hero Man" by "PVA"	Blush	Ninja Tune	2022	"South London trio PVA’s stunning debut BLUSH consolidates the beating pulse of electronic music with the raw energy of a life-affirming gig and reveals more than they’ve ever shared before. Ella Harris & Josh Baxter (who share vocals, synths, guitars & production) and drummer Louis Satchell, create 11 blistering tracks from a formula of acid, disco, synths, the dancefloor & queer-coded post-punk." This tune does throb in a pleasant, yet unsettling manner.		1:43:59 (Pop-up)
Class Actress	Journal Of Ardency "Journal Of Ardency" by "Class Actress"	Journal of Ardency	Terrible Records	2010	Ahh 2010...when chilly, sexy 2nd wave synthpop reigned supreme. This coolly seductive song's spell lies in the way it gracefully finesses the gulf between someone's glamorous image of big-city nightlife and the narrator's lonely, wounded reality. while the track's moodily retro aesthetic suggests the nocturnal shadows of Glass Candy or Chromatics, its warm heart and bright hooks bring it closer to the communicative synth-pop of Annie, Little Boots, or stated influence Madonna. Confessions on a dance floor, for real.		1:47:51 (Pop-up)
The WAEVE	Someone Up There "Someone Up There" by "The WAEVE"	The WAEVE	Transgressive Records	2023	This album is poised to be one of my favourites of 2023. We've played a few singles to date, and the full release is now out for your ears to enjoy, The WAEVE is Blur's Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall. With this release, combining modular synth, saxophone, and a medieval lute, the WAEVE create an album of pastoral disquiet and itchy post-punk edge. It’s not the record you might imagine from the pen of a Britpop guitar hero and a onetime ’50s girl-group revivalist. Basically. Do you like saxophones, psych, Broadcast, brooding synth and some distopian post punk clattering? Then the WAEVE is for you.	*	1:51:41 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Burt Bacharach	Close To You "Close To You" by "Burt Bacharach"	Bacharach! The Instrumental Side	Varese Sarabande	1999	All I hear is Karen Carpenter's voice on this and it makes me cry.		1:54:21 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Burt Bacharach	What The World Needs Now Is Love	Bacharach! The Instrumental Side	Varese Sarabande	1999	Co-songwriter Burt Bacharach revealed in his 2014 autobiography that this song had among the most difficult lyrics Hal David ever wrote, despite being deceptively simple as a pop hit. He explained that they had the main melody and chorus written back in 1962, centering on a waltz tempo, but it took another two years for David to finally come up with the lyric, "Lord, we don't need another mountain." Once David worked out the verses, Bacharach said the song essentially "wrote itself" and they finished it in a day or two. It was as several other songs, inspired by his dismay over the Vietnam war. Dionne Warwick initially turned down recording this gem, but she eventually...figured it out.		1:57:35 (Pop-up)
Clinic	Ferryboat Of The Mind "Ferryboat Of The Mind" by "Clinic"	Wheeltappers and Shunters	Domino	2019	Clinic are at their best when they choose to explore out of the tried and true "Clinic Mode" of psych dron-y stompers. Not that there's anything wrong with the aforementioned...Wheeltappers is, in Blackburn’s words, “a satirical take on British culture, high and low.” Its songs evoke a seedy British era of traveling circuses, seaside resorts, and smoke-filled nightclubs, and its title references a long-forgotten 1970s variety show. I like this Clinic. Sandwiched in between 2019's Free Reign and 2021's delightfully wonky Fantasy Island...Wheeltappers and this song in particular is a band continuing to chart its ways into more and more creative waters...this is a good thing.		2:00:13 (Pop-up)

Listener comments!
	♥ 7:54pm DJ Babs: Hello and welcome Frens! Show will be starting shortly...looking forward to a lovely evening with you all on the Beach!
	8:00pm Robm: Hello fellow echo beach listeners
	🏝 ♥ 8:00pm Scott_Oz: G'day Babs, Derek & Dune Dwellers! Time to go where the Jungle meets the Beach. 🌏☀️🍻😎🤙💨🍺🍺🌊🏖️🦥🌴🌳
	🏝 ♥ 8:00pm Derek Westerholm: Hello Hello!
	🏝 ♥ 8:00pm Derek Westerholm: Hi Robm, Hi Scott_Oz!
	🏝 ♥ 8:00pm ultradamno: Babs! Derek! Beach Bums!
	8:01pm Robm: Hi babs scott and Derek
	8:01pm Robm: Hey ultradamno
	🏝 ♥ 8:01pm Derek Westerholm: Ultra, hello!
	🏝 ♥ 8:02pm ultradamno: Hiya Robm
	♥ 8:02pm Rich in Washington: Aloha, Babs N' Derek! Hiya everyone!
	🏝 ♥ 8:02pm Scott_Oz: G'day Robm!🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	🏝 ♥ 8:02pm gsdoubleu: hello beachers!
	🏝 ♥ 8:02pm Scott_Oz: Friday midday here!
	🏝 ♥ 8:03pm Scott_Oz: ↳ Rich in Washington @8:02 G'day Rich! How are ya mate!? 🍻😎🤙💨🍹
	8:03pm TroyD8: Hey 👋
	8:04pm Robm: Hey rich
	8:04pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: I’m back, baby!!! How the heck is everyone? What did I miss?
	8:05pm Robm: ↳ Your Pretend Boyfriend @8:04 YPB howdy
	8:06pm DJ Blush: 💙
	8:06pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: ↳ Robm @8:05 Hey Robm.
	🏝 ♥ 8:07pm ultradamno: What? Was Burt canceled by someone for something? The man worked with Dietrich. who could hate him?
	🏝 ♥ 8:07pm Alli B: Hiiiiii
	8:07pm DJ Blush: heeeeey!!
	🏝 ♥ 8:07pm Derek Westerholm: Aloha, Rich! Hello GSdoublingEUs, Hey TroyD8, Hello YourPB, Hello Blush, Hello AlliB... Hi everyone!!!
	8:08pm Robm: ↳ ultradamno @8:07 He died at 94
	♥ 8:08pm DJ Babs: Hi Scott! Hi Rob! Hi GS! Hi Troy! Heya YPB! Bluuuuuuuuush! Aliiiiiiiiiii! And UD....great to see yas all! Happy Thursday!!!
	♥ 8:08pm DJ Babs: And GSdoubleu!!! ;-)
	♥ 8:10pm DJ Babs: How y'all doin tonight! Well I hope!!
	8:11pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: Loving this scabby track.
	8:11pm Robm: ↳ DJ Babs @8:10 Doing pretty good, can’t complain, nobody would listen:)
	♥ 8:11pm DJ Babs: Yes, a bit of egg punk to start us off...two bands from australia!
	♥ 8:12pm DJ Babs: ↳ Robm @8:11 haha Rob I hear ya! right now nothing is on fire so that's a good thing!
	♥ 8:12pm DJ Babs: thought we'd get our yas out fast tonite!
	🏝 ♥ 8:13pm WR: ↳ ultradamno @8:07 Yes, imagine that, the man who told Dietrich, "I want to be alone". And it all pretty much turned out well.
	🏝 ♥ 8:13pm gsdoubleu: fast is good!
	8:13pm Robm: ↳ DJ Babs @8:12 Yeah just don’t watch cable news
	🏝 ♥ 8:15pm Scott_Oz: ↳ Song: "Psycholist" by "2Mums" Reminds me of Mighty Boosh. Hubba Bubba Nightmare dong.
	♥ 8:15pm DJ Babs: Agreed Rob! Unless you're into ballloons!!!
	🏝 ♥ 8:15pm Scott_Oz: song* Freudian slip?
	♥ 8:15pm DJ Babs: Hi WR!
	🏝 ♥ 8:15pm ultradamno: ↳ Robm @8:08 Oh, I knew he was dead (mentioned on KS's playlist, in fact) I was talking about Bab's comments that some don't like him at such a moment.
	8:16pm Robm: ↳ ultradamno @8:15 Some people have no taste
	♥ 8:18pm Roberto: Um, vegan pie shops are a good thing.
	🏝 ♥ 8:21pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" by "Charles Ea... It has been raining here, appropriately. Though not so much on my head, as I'm avoiding the high winds outside...
	🏝 ♥ 8:21pm gsdoubleu: this is fantastic! haha!
	8:22pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: Inspirals!!! Remmmeeexxx!!!
	♥ 8:22pm DJ Babs: RIGHT!? I love it!!!! So cute!
	🏝 ♥ 8:22pm Derek Westerholm: Hello Roberto! Vegan pie shops, huh? I would not say no.
	🏝 ♥ 8:22pm gsdoubleu: the Carpets always meant this to be happy right?
	🏝 ♥ 8:23pm Alli B: We’re back to listening on the front porch. In February. In Toronto
	♥ 8:23pm DJ Babs: hahah! It does take the edge off it somewhat
	🏝 ♥ 8:23pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ gsdoubleu @8:22 Happy Carpets!
	♥ 8:23pm DJ Babs: ↳ Alli B @8:23 That's crazy! It's gonna be 8 degrees tomorow. I hope my crocuses start blooming!
	♥ 8:23pm Roberto: ↳ Derek Westerholm @8:22 Yeah not sure what their issue is with eco-friendliness. But I see their point as far as the rest of the list.
	🏝 ♥ 8:24pm Alli B: It was 14c in WINDSOR today
	♥ 8:24pm DJ Babs: I feel the plants moving aroound under the earth....
	🏝 ♥ 8:24pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Alli B @8:23 Yeah, this Toronto winter has been a bit all over the place this year... Polar vortex one week, rain the next, sunny days interspersed randomly...
	🏝 ♥ 8:24pm Alli B: Gotta start playing Plantasia for them!
	♥ 8:25pm DJ Babs: Yes! I always sing to my plants. I think it works. My neighbors probably think I'm nuts lol
	🏝 ♥ 8:26pm Alli B: I’m going to get Plantasia on vinyl and take my crappy portable record player outside for the plants. I can’t wait.
	🏝 ♥ 8:26pm Alli B: I love that you do that! I'm sure the plants do too. There are so many interesting experiments with plants responding to love.
	♥ 8:27pm DJ Babs: yaaaaasssss here's to good gardens this year!!!
	♥ 8:27pm DJ Babs: the spring flower catalogue came yesterday. Derek calls it my "flower porn" lol
	8:27pm DJ Blush: Here's to me trying not to kill every single house plant this year
	8:27pm DJ Blush: ↳ DJ Babs @8:27 LOL
	🏝 ♥ 8:29pm Alli B: Yeah, I learned my lesson last summer when I killed every plant I had raised by bringing them all outside like a “Good “ plant Mom. Sunburned them all dead. Haha fuuuuu
	♥ 8:29pm DJ Babs: we are gonna have to do another plant show I think.
	♥ 8:30pm Roberto: ↳ Song: "You Came Out" by "We Have Band" Definite ESG influence here.
	♥ 8:31pm DJ Babs: aha you are right that's why I like it so much I do think!!!
	🏝 ♥ 8:31pm Alli B: Great song
	🏝 ♥ 8:32pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Roberto @8:30 Roberto, nicely observed... I definitely hear it now that you mention it!
	♥ 8:38pm Roberto: Ooh I love the Go! Team.
	🏝 ♥ 8:38pm gsdoubleu: ↳ Roberto @8:38 saw them in TO some years back. ton o fun
	🏝 ♥ 8:39pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "What's New Pussycat?" by "Burt Bacharach" The maddening thing about this song is we never get the answer
	🏝 ♥ 8:40pm gsdoubleu: ↳ ultradamno @8:39 So true! check out John Mulaney's bit on this to see how maddening it can really get!
	🏝 ♥ 8:41pm ultradamno: ↳ gsdoubleu @8:40 I was actually thinking about that too...I can honestly say that at most places I've been with jukeboxes, WNP? on repeat would be GREAT
	♥ 8:42pm DJ Babs: ↳ ultradamno @8:39 WHAT IS THE ANSWER?!?!? lol I had never noticed that and now I shall be tormented by it
	♥ 8:42pm DJ Babs: ↳ ultradamno @8:41 oh that is a devilish prospect!!!!
	♥ 8:45pm DJ Babs: Derek that Squid was great! When it kicked in? YEAH
	🏝 ♥ 8:46pm Derek Westerholm: Yeah, it gets pretty gritty at the end there...
	8:47pm Dj Nico: Hello hello!
	🏝 ♥ 8:48pm gsdoubleu: Hello Nico!
	🏝 ♥ 8:48pm Derek Westerholm: Hello Nico!!!
	8:49pm DJ Blush: WoooOo!
	8:49pm egould: Tuned into Squid and blam! That was a bit of alright.
	♥ 8:50pm DJ Babs: Hi Nico! Hi Egould!!!
	♥ 8:51pm DJ Babs: ↳ egould @8:49 Blam! For sure! I can't wait to see the vid for it!
	8:51pm egould: Hi Babs! Hi Derek! Hi listeners!
	🏝 ♥ 8:51pm Derek Westerholm: Hey there egould! Glad you tuned in!!!
	♥ 8:52pm DJ Babs: Also enjoyed that W.I.T.C.H track Derek played. he's been hiding things on the playlist from me lately so Im just as surprised as you all lol
	♥ 8:52pm DJ Babs: MeepMoop is with us in the studio tonight...he is chilling haaard
	🏝 ♥ 8:52pm Derek Westerholm: I've listened to this BC Camplight song 6 or 7 times the past few days, and now it loops in my head.
	♥ 8:54pm DJ Babs: there's a blam!
	🏝 ♥ 8:56pm Derek Westerholm: Had a bit of playlist queue disorder there...
	🏝 ♥ 8:57pm Derek Westerholm: The last one was BC Camplight
	🏝 ♥ 8:57pm Derek Westerholm: This one is Bomb Sniffing Dogs
	🏝 ♥ 8:58pm Derek Westerholm: It's all fixed now, but it would have been showing the wrong song for you at one point, live...
	🏝 ♥ 8:59pm ultradamno: You can't get cats to do that. They don't snitch.
	🏝 ♥ 8:59pm Scott_Oz: ↳ Song: "PILLS'N'THRILLS AND ENERGY BILLS" by "Bomb Sniffi... Brilliant!
	🏝 ♥ 9:00pm Alli B: 💃💃💃
	9:00pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: Love this new SM x DC track. So good.
	🏝 ♥ 9:01pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Scott_Oz @8:59 Scott, it's a pretty fantastic track!
	♥ 9:01pm Roberto: ↳ ultradamno @8:59 Haha yeah the cat'd be like, it's coo bro, I ain't gonna narc.
	🏝 ♥ 9:01pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "Force 10 From Navarone" by "Sleaford Mods" They all look glad to see you www.yahoo.com...
	🏝 ♥ 9:02pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Your Pretend Boyfriend @9:00 YPB, totally excellent... The video is a fun watch, too.
	🏝 ♥ 9:02pm Will thee Sound Guy: Hi Babs, Derek, and all!!!
	🏝 ♥ 9:02pm ultradamno: The other guy in Sleaford Mods has the best onstage job, press a button, drink a beer...
	🏝 ♥ 9:02pm Derek Westerholm: Hello Will Thee! How goes?
	♥ 9:04pm Roberto: ↳ Roberto @9:01 And then follow up with, "would you happen to have any 'nip in there?"
	♥ 9:04pm DJ Babs: oh man, that Sleaford Mods was soooo goood I'm excited for this new record...
	🏝 ♥ 9:04pm Will thee Sound Guy: It goes, happy the weekend is nearing closer...
	♥ 9:05pm DJ Babs: Hi Will! Welcome!
	🏝 ♥ 9:06pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ ultradamno @9:02 Ultra, we saw SM last year in TO, and they were more animated than expected.
	🏝 ♥ 9:08pm ultradamno: And Boris has Fade vinyl coming sacredbonesrecords.bandcamp.com...
	♥ 9:13pm DJ Babs: ↳ ultradamno @9:08 ooooooooooooooo
	🏝 ♥ 9:15pm Scott_Oz: anyone else getting frequent dropouts?
	🏝 ♥ 9:15pm ultradamno: ↳ Scott_Oz @9:15 I am not
	🏝 ♥ 9:16pm Scott_Oz: Must be my feed.
	🏝 ♥ 9:18pm ultradamno: Yeah...anyone who says they're not trying to be dramatic is about to hit you with something very theatrical
	♥ 9:20pm DJ Babs: omg it must be spring because a skunk just walked by our front window and he might as well be in the studio with us! My eyes are watering.
	9:21pm DJ Blush: fuuuuuuck
	🏝 ♥ 9:21pm ultradamno: Would give my nod to Girls (Boston group, not The Girls) for the top spot over Theoretical and Poison
	♥ 9:21pm DJ Babs: it could be the skunk fumes scott!
	🏝 ♥ 9:22pm ultradamno: ↳ ultradamno @9:21 ...or even ...At Their Best, who one would think would have the top spot on lockdown
	🏝 ♥ 9:23pm Scott_Oz: ↳ DJ Babs @9:21 This Punk don't get Skunked mate! 🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	9:23pm shellioh: hey guys!
	🏝 ♥ 9:23pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ ultradamno @9:22 ..."At Their Best" on their way into this set for the very next song... Ha... Wavelengths converge!
	🏝 ♥ 9:23pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ shellioh @9:23 Hello Shellioh!!!!
	9:24pm shellioh: salut!!!
	♥ 9:25pm DJ Babs: Hello hellooo Shelli
	♥ 9:25pm DJ Babs: ↳ DJ Blush @9:21 Blush I was like damn that’s some dank weed LOL
	🏝 ♥ 9:27pm Derek Westerholm: I did not know about "Girls At Our Best!" until this week, though I knew Wedding Present's cover of "Getting Nowhere Fast". This is the B-Side. This song is wild! Also getting stuck in my head this week.
	9:29pm DJ Blush: hahah daaaank hey shelli!
	♥ 9:29pm DJ Babs: Wait what? I've played Girls At Our Best before derek! I think the skunk fumes are gettin to ya!
	🏝 ♥ 9:30pm ultradamno: Marine Girls are another one that probably get past a lot of people...
	9:30pm Dj Nico: What year was that warm girls?
	🏝 ♥ 9:30pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Dj Nico @9:30 1980!
	🏝 ♥ 9:32pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ DJ Babs @9:29 Oops, sorry Babs. I guess I don't listen to our show. Sigh.
	🏝 ♥ 9:34pm ultradamno: www.discogs.com... www.discogs.com...
	♥ 9:35pm DJ Babs: Thia is very 80's/90's Derek.
	🏝 ♥ 9:40pm ultradamno: Were Girlschool disqualified for referring to an institution for girls rather than the girls themselves?
	♥ 9:41pm DJ Babs: hahah! I am not sure why they didn't make it...aren't they hair metal? I always think they were...
	♥ 9:42pm DJ Babs: I loooooovem thiiiis songgggg
	🏝 ♥ 9:42pm ultradamno: They made a record with Motörhead, I think that clarifies their bona fides.
	🏝 ♥ 9:43pm gsdoubleu: this is really good
	♥ 9:43pm DJ Babs: Yes this song is definitely a keeper!!!
	🏝 ♥ 9:43pm Derek Westerholm: Agreed, Babs, this is fantastic!
	♥ 9:45pm DJ Babs: I really thought I'd played this but I checked and I had...not
	🏝 ♥ 9:47pm Alli B: I keep screenshotting songs ❤️😂
	♥ 9:48pm DJ Babs: ha! awesome! you can clicky star them too and they save to your profile I think!
	🏝 ♥ 9:48pm Derek Westerholm: Alli B, you can also click on the star icon in the playlist, and it will save it in your profile.
	🏝 ♥ 9:48pm gsdoubleu: ↳ Alli B @9:47 yes so many outstanding trax!
	♥ 9:50pm DJ Babs: got a couple more to cram in!
	♥ 9:51pm DJ Babs: Thanks guys! I enjoy the Chromatics vibez on this one!
	🏝 ♥ 9:56pm Scott_Oz: Thanks Babs & Derek, bloody bonza as always my mates! 🌏☀️🍻😎🤙💨🍺🍺🌻
	🏝 ♥ 9:57pm ultradamno: Those angels were up to something pervy all getting together and deciding to create a dream come true....
	10:00pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: Great set!!! Thank you.
	🏝 ♥ 10:00pm Will thee Sound Guy: Thank you Babs and Derek!!!
	🏝 ♥ 10:00pm gsdoubleu: thank you for another great night! skunks be damned!
	🏝 ♥ 10:01pm Derek Westerholm: Thanks for being here with us!
	🏝 ♥ 10:02pm Derek Westerholm: It's always special to spend this time with you!
	♥ 10:02pm DJ Babs: Thank you friends! So glad to have you here with us each and every week! Beware of skunks! lol
	🏝 ♥ 10:03pm ultradamno: There was a Clinic track in Infinity Pool.
	♥ 10:04pm DJ Babs: goodnight all! Be well!
	🏝 ♥ 10:04pm WR: Thank you!
	🏝 ♥ 10:06pm WR: PS: Amazing work adjusting to thread so much Bacharach in the episode with such short notice.

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Sounds of the Ocean	Beach Sounds "Beach Sounds" by "Sounds of the Ocean"	Ocean Sounds	Sounds Of The Ocean	2016			0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Seks Bomba	Do You Know The Way To San Jose?	That's New Pussycat - Surf Tribute To Burt Bacharach (various artists)	Ruggeri	2006	Burt Freeman Bacharach was an American composer, songwriter, record producer, and pianist who composed hundreds of pop songs from the late 1950s through the 1980s, many in collaboration with lyricist Hal David.		0:00:17 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Cosmonauti	The Look Of Love "The Look Of Love" by "Cosmonauti"	That's New Pussycat - Surf Tribute To Burt Bacharach (various artists)	Ruggeri	2006	Bacharach's music is characterized by unusual chord progressions, influenced by his background in jazz harmony, and uncommon selections of instruments for small orchestras. Bacharach went on to write hits for Gene Pitney, Cilla Black, Dusty Springfield, Jackie DeShannon, Bobbie Gentry, Tom Jones, Herb Alpert, B. J. Thomas, and the Carpenters and Dionne Warwick. "I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American Music Students"		0:03:16 (Pop-up)
R. Stevie Moore	Cool Daddio "Cool Daddio" by "R. Stevie Moore"	Cool Daddio	HP Music	1979	Since 1968, R. Stevie Moore has self-released approximately 400 albums. Often called the "godfather of home recording", he is one of the most recognized artists of the cassette underground, and his influence is particularly felt in the bedroom and hypnagogic pop artists of the post-millennium. From 1978 until 2010, Moore lived and recorded in his apartment studios in northern New Jersey. He was also, for those who know...or don't...a WFMU staff member for a number of years. A 2019 doc "Cool Daddio" chronicles his output and ongoing influence...		0:05:26 (Pop-up)
Scab Baby	Space Drag "Space Drag" by "Scab Baby"	Space Drag Single	793742 DK	2022	Scab Baby hail from Wollongong Australia, they are a two piece formed in 2018 by two chaps, one named Tombo - Guitar/Vocals the other named Tommo - Drums/Backups. They have since expanded their lineup to a 4 piece. They describe themselves as alt/synth/punk.		0:08:08 (Pop-up)
Ghoulies	No More Bands "No More Bands" by "Ghoulies"	Reprogram EP	Ghoulies	2021	Ghoulies hail from Perth, Australia, and boasts members of Aborted Tortoise and Kitchen People. This EP is chock a block full of fucking ripping good punk. The are; Alec (bass, vocals, guitar), Indigo (synthesizer), Chuck (guitar), Alex (drums, vocals), Kevin Parker (bongos)		0:11:09 (Pop-up)
2Mums	Psycholist "Psycholist" by "2Mums"	Bushmaster: Side B	Counter Clockwise	2022	2MUMS were formed in 2017 when a bunch of local potato farmers from the backwaters of the far south coast of NSW joined forces to voice concerns over the influx of jar drinking hipsters, yogies, christian rock groups, retired public servants, eco-friendly vegans and social media influencers moving into the local area. This worrying demographic shift prompted a musical response as an outlet for built up frustration and resentment to boil over. The spud farmers were being pushed further out as their lands were being replaced by eco retreats and vegan pie shops. With spud farmers throughout the area disappearing off into the landscape, music became the medium for a chosen few spudding activists still remaining. 2mums has led the charge their music is as you would expect shit house but their message is clear – fuck off. I cannot tell you how much I fucking love this song. I fucking love this song. Bushnmaster: Side B is the only logical followup from their 2021 release Bushmaster (Side A) I love this band.		0:12:42 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Booker T & the MGs	This Guy's In Love With You	The Booker T Set	Stax	1969	As documented in an A&E Biography episode featuring Bacharach, the recording originated when Alpert, while visiting at Bacharach's office, asked, "Say, Burt, do you happen to have any old compositions lying around that you and Hal never recorded; maybe one I might be able to use?" Alpert said he made it his practice to ask songwriters that particular question: often a "lost pearl" was revealed. As it happened, Bacharach recalled one, found the lyrics and score sheet in his office filing cabinet, and offered it to Alpert: "Here, Herb ... you might like this one."		0:14:33 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Charles Earland	Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head	Black Drops	Fantasy	1970	The song, initially when it came out, I believe it was October of 69, the movie didn't come out until December, it did get some bad reviews. It was a very unique and different sounding song, Bacharach and David never had any qualms about trying to do anything different, or push the envelope so to speak. So nowadays, it sounds pretty tame, but back then, radio resisted it to some degree. But, when the movie came out it hit hugely and sold about 200,000 to 300,000 records a day [and continued selling] for about three years.		0:17:41 (Pop-up)
Inspiral Carpets	This Is How It Feels - Go! Team Remix	This Is How It Feels - Got Team Remix Single	Mute Records	2023	The Complete Singles, an album compiling all of the Manchester band’s 24 singles to date. ‘The Complete Singles’ will be available on double vinyl, and as a 3CD set with an exclusive remix bonus disc via Mute / BMG on 17 March 2023. Clint Boon, talking about the remix said, “This is one of my favourite Inspirals remixes. Relatively faithful to the original but with lashings of all the magical elements we love about The Go! Team. I reckon the spirit of Joe Meek was in the studio when The Go! Team did this remix!” This makes us so happy. It's perfect Beach music. Utterly charming. I want this song in my head 24/7.	*	0:20:06 (Pop-up)
YACHT	Finger In Your Eye "Finger In Your Eye" by "YACHT"	Finger In Your Eye Single	Paris By Night	2023	YACHT lives in Los Angeles, California. YACHT was founded in 2002. YACHT’s members are Jona Bechtolt, Claire L. Evans, and Rob Kieswetter.There must be a new YACHT ( Young Americans Challenging High Technology.) album coming. We hope... This is the followup to the 2022 release "See Mystery Lights: Remixes and B sides". If so, we are very excited about this. Also, If you get poked in the eye, with like a finger, there's a good chance that your eye's going to be okay. The first thing that you should do is look in the mirror and examine your eye. If there's blood where the eye's usually white, that's one thing to keep in mind. If your eye is painful as you move it around from side to side or up and down, that's another thing that may be a cause for concern. If you cover the good eye and you look out of the eye that's injured and your vision is blurry, that may be another thing to alert you to actually go to the emergency room. Just so you know.	*	0:23:35 (Pop-up)
Tombeau	Never Mean "Never Mean" by "Tombeau"	Idiot Rock	72961 Records DK	2023	Another wonderful band from Wollogong Australia! They are self described as "Egg punk and pretty much anything else I guess"....They have 6 members in their photo. Which is many more than the solo act they started as. Tombeau live promises "dumb performance in encouragement of all idiot behaviour". Released in Jan 2023, this is the followup to 2022's EP "Sooky" which is also excellent!!! Vocals on this track contributed by Jasmine Melinz		0:26:31 (Pop-up)
We Have Band	You Came Out "You Came Out" by "We Have Band"	WHB	We Have Band Recorsa	2010	We Have Band, also known as "WHB", is a three-piece electronic music group from Manchester and London consisting of Darren Bancroft and the husband-and-wife duo Thomas Wegg-Prosser and Dede Wegg-Prosser. We Have Band have remixed many artists including Gorillaz, Bloc Party, Micachu, Peter Bjorn and John and M83. They were very lauded and well reviewed in the press...but whahhappened? After 2014...radio silence...or so it seems. Such a shame. The world needs more indie/dance/punk/funk/newwave....		0:28:25 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Aqualads	The Blob "The Blob" by "Aqualads"	That's New Pussycat - Surf Tribute To Burt Bacharach (various artists)	Ruggeri	2009	This was written by Burt Bacharach and Mack David for the 1958 horror movie The Blob, which was the first big role for Steve McQueen. The movie was about a blog of goo that lands on earth and starts consuming people, growing larger and larger as it threatens the town. The Blob was a legitimate horror movie, at least by 1950s standards, but the song is a bouncy number that seemed to poke fun at the movie, almost anticipating the cult status it would attain many years later.		0:32:01 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Burt Bacharach	I Say A Little Prayer	Reach Out	A & M	1967	Intended by lyricist Hal David to convey a woman's concern for her man who's serving in the Vietnam War, "I Say a Little Prayer" was recorded by Dionne Warwick in a 9 April 1966 session. Although Bacharach's recordings with Warwick typically took no more than three takes (often only taking one), Bacharach did ten takes on "I Say a Little Prayer" and still disliked the completed track, feeling it rushed.		0:34:35 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Burt Bacharach	What's New Pussycat?	Bacharach! The Instrumental Side	Varese Sarabande	1999	Tom Jones sang the hell out of this. Love it or hate it, it's a classic.		0:37:05 (Pop-up)
Squid	Swing (In A Dream) "Swing (In A Dream)" by "Squid"	O Monolith	Warp Records	2023	Released Feb 8, 2023. New full-length album out June 9. ""Swing (In A Dream)" follows the band's 2021 cover of Bill Callahan's "America!", and is the first taster of their forthcoming second album. The new track is teamed with a Yoonha Park-directed video. //// Singer and drummer Ollie Judge says of the single, "This was inspired by a dream I had about a painting called The Swing by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. In my dream I was in the painting but it was flooded and everything was floating away." //// O Monolith will follow Squid's 2021 debut album Bright Green Field, and was produced by longtime collaborator Dan Carey, and mixed by John McEntire of Tortoise. The band started working on their second album only two weeks after the release of their debut, while they were on tour. //// Judge says, "Without that tour we wouldn’t have any of these tracks. People were so looking forward to seeing live music that we thought we could just play anything, even if it was unfinished. In some form or another we played about 80% of O Monolith, mostly without lyrics."" Squid - Swing (In a Dream) (Official Video)	*	0:39:13 (Pop-up)
WITCH	Waile "Waile" by "WITCH"	Waile (Single)	Desert Daze Sound	2023	Released January 27, 2023. "“Waile” is WITCH’s first original material since 1984, as well as the band’s first release with co-founder and vocalist Emmanuel “Jagari” Chanda since 1977. /// "Waile" is built on a xylophone groove, with feverish bass, storm-cloud fuzz and funk guitars conjured around it. The track marauds through percussive rhythms into guitar solos and heavy snare fills, with powerful female choral refrains shifting the mood from triumph to anguish. Jagari’s lyrics touch on the struggles entwined in the histories of migrants in Zambia, Angola, the Congo and other nearby countries: “there’s a lot of death, sickness, poverty, and misery,” he says. “The song is lamenting that pitiful situation, that’s the Waile — it’s a word in the Lunda and Luvale language.” //// “'Waile' was one of the songs that I brought to the WITCH when I joined in 1978,” continues keys genius Patrick Mwondela. “While it was played live often back in the day, it was never recorded until the new formation of the band picked it up 43 years later during a rehearsal on an island in Kenya, where the band embraced it and made it their own. A few months after that, they gave it a new lease of life by recording it in Lusaka’s legendary dB Studios (site of the original WITCH 70s recordings). Sang in my native language Luvale, the subject matter is a nostalgic wailing for home of ancient African tribes that would eventually settle in Zambia." / WITCH: Jagari Chanda – Vocals / Patrick Mwondela – Keys & Synths / Jacco Gardner – Bass & Synths / Nico Mauskoviç – Drums & Percussion / Stefan Lilov – Guitar / JJ Whitefield – Guitar / Written and Arranged by Patrick Mwondela & Emmanuel Jagari Chanda / Lyrics by Patrick Mwondela & Emmanuel Jagari Chanda / Featuring: Theresa N'Gambi - Backing vocals / Hanna Tembo - Backing vocals //// Recorded live to tape at DB Studios which was equipped with the same machinery that recorded Lazy Bones in 1975 and brought back to life for the occasion for the first time in decades by Zamrock Engineer Peter Musungilo and his trusted partner Michael Linyama." WITCH (Bandcamp)	*	0:43:43 (Pop-up)
BC Camplight	The Last Rotation Of Earth	The Last Rotation Of Earth	Bella Union	2023	Releases May 12, 2023. "Is there a curse that says Brian ‘BC Camplight’ Christinzio cannot move forward without being knocked back? That the greatest material is born out of emotional trauma? Whilst making his new album, The Last Rotation Of Earth, Christinzio’s relationship with his fiancé crumbled after nine inseparable years. The album follows this break-up amid long-term struggles with addiction and mental health. The outcome is an extraordinary record, with Christinzio describing it as “more cinematic, sophisticated and nuanced than anything I’ve done before.” He goes on to describe how the separation altered his creative focus and caused him to “scrap 95% of what I’d already recorded”, finishing The Last Rotation Of Earth in two months and making what he believes is his most vital album. //// Still, Christinzio doesn’t see any of this as a story of redemption. “This is not a story of victory,” he says. “It is a document created in the shadow of incredible darkness. One from which the creator hadn't planned on escaping, and still doesn't. Hence the title of the album. It is the result of an illness that I've battled my whole life. It isn't something that the world has done to me. It's the world I live in and it's no one's fault.” //// There is no better entry to the Camplight school of sound and vision than the opening title track and lead single. “For the first time since I arrived in Manchester,” he says, “I thought, why am I here? I came to find my music, and to find her, and she’s gone. I do everything in my power not to be dramatic, but I didn’t want to be alive anymore. So, I imagined what your last day on earth would be like. Though the lyrics are often quite sweet, like appreciating the looks that strangers give each other, from the perspective of a guy soaking up every last bit of life.”" BC Camplight (Bandcamp)	*	0:49:11 (Pop-up)
Bomb Sniffing Dogs	PILLS'N'THRILLS AND ENERGY BILLS	PILLS'N'THRILLS AND ENERGY BILLS		2022	Released December 21, 2022. Salford band featuring ex-Fall member (and former wife of Mark E Smith) Eleni Poulou. Current lineup: Austin Collings / Liam Power / Eleni Poulou / Tom Fish / Simmy / L. Scott. "This is an unfriendly reminder that your outstanding balance was due to be paid yesterday. We look forward to hearing from you by yesterday and value your continued business. Are those Xmas lights on your tree or distress flares?" Tags = Spoken Word / Bills / Salford Bomb Sniffing Dogs (Bandcamp)	*	0:53:10 (Pop-up)
Sleaford Mods	Force 10 From Navarone	UK GRIM	Rough Trade	2023	This song was released yesterday. After announcing UK GRIM with the title-track last month, Sleaford Mods have shared a second preview of their new full-length titled "Force 10 From Navarone", which features Dry Cleaning vocalist Florence Shaw and lands with a Eddie Whelan-directed video. //// Jason Williamson says of the new release, "The track is a conversation with myself coming to terms with happiness and whether it is in fact a darker space than my negativity and depression. Coupled with that it explores the myth of activism and inaction of the majority in the UK in the presence of a corrupt government." //// He adds, "We’re big fans of Dry Cleaning and knew Flo would be perfect for the track. She’s the real deal and conjures the inspiration I get from the likes of Wu-Tang in the way she uses one word to convey a whole story." //// The duo's forthcoming album will follow 2021's Spare Ribs album. Williamson says, "Maybe we are proud of the country. Maybe we are proud to be English. Maybe I’m proud of the horrible grey streets and the shit weather and the stupid fashions I find myself investing in. It’s just that the English we’re proud of being is absolutely nothing like the English the authorities want to try and promote."" Sleaford Mods (Bandcamp) ++++++ Force 10 From Navarone (Official Video)	*	0:59:01 (Pop-up)
HOUSE Of ALL	Harlequin Duke "Harlequin Duke" by "HOUSE Of ALL"	HOUSE Of ALL	Tiny Global Productions	2023	Newest alignment of ex-members of The Fall. "Martin Bramah, The Fall's singer until Mark E Smith's lesser guitar skills caused them to swap places, was, per Daryl Easlea, "possibly the last true equal to Smith in the group" and likewise the longest survivor of the original line-up. //// Yet while The Fall become famed in part for their legendary productivity, Bramah often went great spans of time between releases, releasing fewer albums in thirty-five years (under any guise) than he has in the last seven with Blue Orchids - who already have a fantastic new album in the can. //// What caused HOUSE Of ALL to come together is something of a mystery. Bramah has joined forces with four other mighty Fall alumni: Steve Hanley, The Fall's longest-serving bassist, as well as his brother Paul Hanley, who drummed on what may be the best run of Fall records, from "Grotesque" to "Bend Sinister". The three has also played together as Factory Star, for a brief period. Joining them are two surprise members - drummer Simon Wolstencroft, who joined the Fall around the time Paul left, and more surprisingly, guitarist Pete Greenway, The Fall's long- serving and final guitarist who has, to our knowledge, never played with any of the other four before." HOUSE Of ALL (Bandcamp)	*	1:02:29 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: WITCH	Waile (Midnight Version) "Waile (Midnight Version)" by "WITCH"	Waile (Single)	Desert Daze Sound	2023	Released January 27, 2023. “Waile (Midnight Version)” //// Jagari Chanda - Vocals / Patrick Mwondela - Lead synth /Jacco Gardner - Bass synth, bass guitar, and FX / Nico Mauskoviç - Drums + Percussion / Stefan Lilov - Electric Guitar / Theresa N’Gambi - Backing Vocals / Hanna Tembo - Backing Vocals / Recorded by Jasper Geluk and Jacco Gardner / Produced by Jacco Gardner / Mastered by World Of Paint Studios" WITCH (Bandcamp)	*	1:07:14 (Pop-up)
Theoretical Girls	Theoretical Girls (Studio)	Theoretical Record '78-'81	Acute Records	2002	Studio version otherwise unreleased until this 2002 collection of mostly unreleased material by the short-lived Theoretical Girls. "Theoretical Girls were a New York-based no wave band formed by Glenn Branca and Jeff Lohn (a conceptual artist and composer) that existed from 1977 to 1981. Theoretical Girls played only about 20 shows (three of which took place in Paris). It released one single ("U.S. Millie"/"You Got Me"), which had some attention in England where it sold a few thousand copies. The band was never signed by a record company, but is well regarded as an early leading no wave group that mixed classical modern ideas of composition with punk rock. This experimental music was mostly supported by the New York art world and minimal art music audience."		1:19:11 (Pop-up)
Girls In Sythesis	Screaming "Screaming" by "Girls In Sythesis"	The Rest Is Distraction	Own It Records	2022	Released Oct 14, 2022. This is an "experimental punk / no wave band from London, UK formed in late 2016." From a Louder Than War Review: "As always with a Girls In Synthesis (GIS) record there is the unavoidable, unadulterated appreciation for the band as being built bigger than the intricate sum of its parts... The Rest Is Distraction no exception. It is the sonic embodiment of all that heart, head, and hostility are pitted against it in the daily idiot-pits. Released via their Own It imprint, featuring familiar friends funkcutter, Stanley Bad on violin and horns plus some keyboards provided by ex-Fall recruit Eleni Poulou; the new album rights all wrongs, corrects certain errors, picks up and pushes against where the last laugh left off... John Linger talks about life during lockdown as being a disguised blessing for the band. It enabled them to initiate the album properly, in turn enabling them to present this sonic document, this raucous portrayal of where they are right now in the best way possible. ‘It felt like we were harnessing darker moments in our personal lives, and putting it back into the music’" Girls In Synthesis are: Jim Cubitt, John Linger, Nicole Pinto Girls In Synthesis (Bandcamp)	*	1:22:00 (Pop-up)
Girls At Our Best!	Warm Girls "Warm Girls" by "Girls At Our Best!"	Pleasure	Record Records	1980	English post-punk band, formed in Leeds in 1979, evolving from The Butterflies (14) (1978-1979). They broke up in 1982. The line-up for this song was: Judy Evans (née Gaffney) vocals / James Alan (né Pritchatt) guitar / Gerard Swift bass / Chris Oldroyd drums ////////// "Possibly the finest early eighties band never to have a chart single. Practically ever present in the Indie Charts for a brief, but magnificent, 2 years. Their first single was the much beloved Getting Nowhere Fast but it was the ‘B’ side Warm Girls which, as well as supplying the name for the band, had so many ideas and motifs packed into one song that really pointed to the direction the band would take. It was inevitable that the final riff would resurface on Fast Boyfriends – it was too good for just the one song. After the debut indie hit, the follow up singles Politics and Go For Gold resulted in them recording Richard Skinner and John Peel Sessions. Their only album, Pleasure, was an album so different from the rest of the post-punk indie pack that you can still play it now and completely baffle new listeners."		1:24:24 (Pop-up)
Death Valley Girls	Magic Powers "Magic Powers" by "Death Valley Girls"	Islands in the Sky	Suicide Squeeze Records	2023	Full album releases February 24, 2023 // All songs written by Death Valley Girls. // “Magic Powers” lyrics by Sammy Westervelt and Bonnie Bloomgarden. // All other lyrics channeled by Bonnie Bloomgarden. //// --- Magic Powers --- Sammy Westervelt - Vocals - Bass / Bonnie Bloomgarden - Organ - Vocals / Larry Schemel - Guitar / Rikki Styxx - Drums - Vocals / Gregg Foreman - Synth - Wurlitzer - Hammond Organ / Mark Rains - Percussion //// "For the better part of a decade, LA’s scrappy rock n’ roll mystics Death Valley Girls have used their music as a means of tapping into a communal cosmic energy. On albums like Glow In The Dark (2016), Darkness Rains (2018), and Under the Spell of Joy (2020) the band challenged the soul-crushing banality of modern society and celebrated “true magical infinite potential” through a collage of scorching proto-punk riffs, earworm melodies, far-out lyrics, and lysergic auxiliary instrumentation. But on their latest album Islands in the Sky, Death Valley Girls’ songwriting mastermind Bonnie Bloomgarden uses the band’s anthemic revelries as a guidebook to spiritual healing and a roadmap for future incarnations of the self. And while these may be the loftiest aims of Death Valley Girls to date, the resulting music is also by far their most infectious and celebratory." Death Valley Girls (Bandcamp)	*	1:28:29 (Pop-up)
U.S. Girls	Futures Bet "Futures Bet" by "U.S. Girls"	Bless This Mess	4AD	2023	Releases February 24, 2023. "The highly anticipated eighth album by U.S. Girls, the nom de plume of North American multi-disciplinary and experimental pop artist Meg Remy, will be released on 24 February entitled Bless This Mess. A dynamic suite of dexterous melodies and a nuanced artistic response to the complexities of motherhood, Bless This Mess was crafted in tandem with the conception and birth of Remy’s twin boys. It expands the sonic and thematic palette of U.S. Girls, fusing the muses of funk, mythology, and the radical disorientation of joy into an electric tapestry of anthems, aches, and awakenings. To celebrate the announcement, today U.S. Girls releases the slow jam gem, ‘Futures Bet’ alongside a music video directed by Alex Kingsmill that explores the visual wonder and resiliency of trash. A combination of traditional 3D animation & composited live action footage was fed into various Stable Diffusion deep learning models. Some images in the video have up to 6 passes of the artificial intelligence reinterpretations at various strengths to create the effect. It co-stars Remy and Carlyn Bezic, who also sings on the track and will open for U.S. Girls’ 2023 tour dates under her moniker Jane Inc. As Remy’s body changed so did her voice; her diaphragm lost breathing room, adjusting to the growing lives inside. Many takes on Bless This Mess were tracked with the babies in utero, or in her arms. (She even samples her breast pump on the album’s poetic closing cut, “Pump”). The resulting performances are suffused by the physicality of this journey: more blood, more feelings, the interwoven wonders, and wounds of procreation." U.S. Girls (Bandcamp)	*	1:31:33 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Girls In Airports	Curtain Of Life	Curtain Of Life (Digital Single)	Kaja Records	2023	Released on Jan 13, 2023. This project formed in 2009 and is Based in Copenhagen. "Girls in Airports’ captivating soundscape crosses musical genres and geographical borders. Combining jazz, indie and urban folk into a unique expression of heart stirring melody-laden elegiac hooks and dance-friendly globally-influenced rhythms." Girls In AIrports (Bandcamp)	*	1:36:24 (Pop-up)
Future Utopia, Kae Tempest	We Were We Still Are	We Were We Still Are Single	70Hz Recordings	2023	"We Were We Still Are" featuring Kae Tempest is Fraser T Smith's first outing as Future Utopia in 2023, and is also the lead outing from a new EP of the same name, due in a few months. ""We Were We Still Are" is about progression through time and space - what we keep hold of and what we leave behind," Fraser T Smith says. "I wanted my next body of work to encapsulate a lot of the elements of my first album, the experimental chords, the warm 70’s aesthetic and the collaborations but also to show some progress as an artist. This has been a huge turning point for me creatively. I’ve wanted to work with Kae Tempest for years and finally got the opportunity on the title track. Kae’s lyrical dexterity and flow knocked me sideways on this track and the subsequent interlude. It sets up the EP in a hugely confident, uplifting way."	*	1:41:04 (Pop-up)
PVA	Hero Man "Hero Man" by "PVA"	Blush	Ninja Tune	2022	"South London trio PVA’s stunning debut BLUSH consolidates the beating pulse of electronic music with the raw energy of a life-affirming gig and reveals more than they’ve ever shared before. Ella Harris & Josh Baxter (who share vocals, synths, guitars & production) and drummer Louis Satchell, create 11 blistering tracks from a formula of acid, disco, synths, the dancefloor & queer-coded post-punk." This tune does throb in a pleasant, yet unsettling manner.		1:43:59 (Pop-up)
Class Actress	Journal Of Ardency "Journal Of Ardency" by "Class Actress"	Journal of Ardency	Terrible Records	2010	Ahh 2010...when chilly, sexy 2nd wave synthpop reigned supreme. This coolly seductive song's spell lies in the way it gracefully finesses the gulf between someone's glamorous image of big-city nightlife and the narrator's lonely, wounded reality. while the track's moodily retro aesthetic suggests the nocturnal shadows of Glass Candy or Chromatics, its warm heart and bright hooks bring it closer to the communicative synth-pop of Annie, Little Boots, or stated influence Madonna. Confessions on a dance floor, for real.		1:47:51 (Pop-up)
The WAEVE	Someone Up There "Someone Up There" by "The WAEVE"	The WAEVE	Transgressive Records	2023	This album is poised to be one of my favourites of 2023. We've played a few singles to date, and the full release is now out for your ears to enjoy, The WAEVE is Blur's Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall. With this release, combining modular synth, saxophone, and a medieval lute, the WAEVE create an album of pastoral disquiet and itchy post-punk edge. It’s not the record you might imagine from the pen of a Britpop guitar hero and a onetime ’50s girl-group revivalist. Basically. Do you like saxophones, psych, Broadcast, brooding synth and some distopian post punk clattering? Then the WAEVE is for you.	*	1:51:41 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Burt Bacharach	Close To You "Close To You" by "Burt Bacharach"	Bacharach! The Instrumental Side	Varese Sarabande	1999	All I hear is Karen Carpenter's voice on this and it makes me cry.		1:54:21 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Burt Bacharach	What The World Needs Now Is Love	Bacharach! The Instrumental Side	Varese Sarabande	1999	Co-songwriter Burt Bacharach revealed in his 2014 autobiography that this song had among the most difficult lyrics Hal David ever wrote, despite being deceptively simple as a pop hit. He explained that they had the main melody and chorus written back in 1962, centering on a waltz tempo, but it took another two years for David to finally come up with the lyric, "Lord, we don't need another mountain." Once David worked out the verses, Bacharach said the song essentially "wrote itself" and they finished it in a day or two. It was as several other songs, inspired by his dismay over the Vietnam war. Dionne Warwick initially turned down recording this gem, but she eventually...figured it out.		1:57:35 (Pop-up)
Clinic	Ferryboat Of The Mind "Ferryboat Of The Mind" by "Clinic"	Wheeltappers and Shunters	Domino	2019	Clinic are at their best when they choose to explore out of the tried and true "Clinic Mode" of psych dron-y stompers. Not that there's anything wrong with the aforementioned...Wheeltappers is, in Blackburn’s words, “a satirical take on British culture, high and low.” Its songs evoke a seedy British era of traveling circuses, seaside resorts, and smoke-filled nightclubs, and its title references a long-forgotten 1970s variety show. I like this Clinic. Sandwiched in between 2019's Free Reign and 2021's delightfully wonky Fantasy Island...Wheeltappers and this song in particular is a band continuing to chart its ways into more and more creative waters...this is a good thing.		2:00:13 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	♥ 7:54pm DJ Babs: Hello and welcome Frens! Show will be starting shortly...looking forward to a lovely evening with you all on the Beach!
	8:00pm Robm: Hello fellow echo beach listeners
	🏝 ♥ 8:00pm Scott_Oz: G'day Babs, Derek & Dune Dwellers! Time to go where the Jungle meets the Beach. 🌏☀️🍻😎🤙💨🍺🍺🌊🏖️🦥🌴🌳
	🏝 ♥ 8:00pm Derek Westerholm: Hello Hello!
	🏝 ♥ 8:00pm Derek Westerholm: Hi Robm, Hi Scott_Oz!
	🏝 ♥ 8:00pm ultradamno: Babs! Derek! Beach Bums!
	8:01pm Robm: Hi babs scott and Derek
	8:01pm Robm: Hey ultradamno
	🏝 ♥ 8:01pm Derek Westerholm: Ultra, hello!
	🏝 ♥ 8:02pm ultradamno: Hiya Robm
	♥ 8:02pm Rich in Washington: Aloha, Babs N' Derek! Hiya everyone!
	🏝 ♥ 8:02pm Scott_Oz: G'day Robm!🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	🏝 ♥ 8:02pm gsdoubleu: hello beachers!
	🏝 ♥ 8:02pm Scott_Oz: Friday midday here!
	🏝 ♥ 8:03pm Scott_Oz: ↳ Rich in Washington @8:02 G'day Rich! How are ya mate!? 🍻😎🤙💨🍹
	8:03pm TroyD8: Hey 👋
	8:04pm Robm: Hey rich
	8:04pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: I’m back, baby!!! How the heck is everyone? What did I miss?
	8:05pm Robm: ↳ Your Pretend Boyfriend @8:04 YPB howdy
	8:06pm DJ Blush: 💙
	8:06pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: ↳ Robm @8:05 Hey Robm.
	🏝 ♥ 8:07pm ultradamno: What? Was Burt canceled by someone for something? The man worked with Dietrich. who could hate him?
	🏝 ♥ 8:07pm Alli B: Hiiiiii
	8:07pm DJ Blush: heeeeey!!
	🏝 ♥ 8:07pm Derek Westerholm: Aloha, Rich! Hello GSdoublingEUs, Hey TroyD8, Hello YourPB, Hello Blush, Hello AlliB... Hi everyone!!!
	8:08pm Robm: ↳ ultradamno @8:07 He died at 94
	♥ 8:08pm DJ Babs: Hi Scott! Hi Rob! Hi GS! Hi Troy! Heya YPB! Bluuuuuuuuush! Aliiiiiiiiiii! And UD....great to see yas all! Happy Thursday!!!
	♥ 8:08pm DJ Babs: And GSdoubleu!!! ;-)
	♥ 8:10pm DJ Babs: How y'all doin tonight! Well I hope!!
	8:11pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: Loving this scabby track.
	8:11pm Robm: ↳ DJ Babs @8:10 Doing pretty good, can’t complain, nobody would listen:)
	♥ 8:11pm DJ Babs: Yes, a bit of egg punk to start us off...two bands from australia!
	♥ 8:12pm DJ Babs: ↳ Robm @8:11 haha Rob I hear ya! right now nothing is on fire so that's a good thing!
	♥ 8:12pm DJ Babs: thought we'd get our yas out fast tonite!
	🏝 ♥ 8:13pm WR: ↳ ultradamno @8:07 Yes, imagine that, the man who told Dietrich, "I want to be alone". And it all pretty much turned out well.
	🏝 ♥ 8:13pm gsdoubleu: fast is good!
	8:13pm Robm: ↳ DJ Babs @8:12 Yeah just don’t watch cable news
	🏝 ♥ 8:15pm Scott_Oz: ↳ Song: "Psycholist" by "2Mums" Reminds me of Mighty Boosh. Hubba Bubba Nightmare dong.
	♥ 8:15pm DJ Babs: Agreed Rob! Unless you're into ballloons!!!
	🏝 ♥ 8:15pm Scott_Oz: song* Freudian slip?
	♥ 8:15pm DJ Babs: Hi WR!
	🏝 ♥ 8:15pm ultradamno: ↳ Robm @8:08 Oh, I knew he was dead (mentioned on KS's playlist, in fact) I was talking about Bab's comments that some don't like him at such a moment.
	8:16pm Robm: ↳ ultradamno @8:15 Some people have no taste
	♥ 8:18pm Roberto: Um, vegan pie shops are a good thing.
	🏝 ♥ 8:21pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" by "Charles Ea... It has been raining here, appropriately. Though not so much on my head, as I'm avoiding the high winds outside...
	🏝 ♥ 8:21pm gsdoubleu: this is fantastic! haha!
	8:22pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: Inspirals!!! Remmmeeexxx!!!
	♥ 8:22pm DJ Babs: RIGHT!? I love it!!!! So cute!
	🏝 ♥ 8:22pm Derek Westerholm: Hello Roberto! Vegan pie shops, huh? I would not say no.
	🏝 ♥ 8:22pm gsdoubleu: the Carpets always meant this to be happy right?
	🏝 ♥ 8:23pm Alli B: We’re back to listening on the front porch. In February. In Toronto
	♥ 8:23pm DJ Babs: hahah! It does take the edge off it somewhat
	🏝 ♥ 8:23pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ gsdoubleu @8:22 Happy Carpets!
	♥ 8:23pm DJ Babs: ↳ Alli B @8:23 That's crazy! It's gonna be 8 degrees tomorow. I hope my crocuses start blooming!
	♥ 8:23pm Roberto: ↳ Derek Westerholm @8:22 Yeah not sure what their issue is with eco-friendliness. But I see their point as far as the rest of the list.
	🏝 ♥ 8:24pm Alli B: It was 14c in WINDSOR today
	♥ 8:24pm DJ Babs: I feel the plants moving aroound under the earth....
	🏝 ♥ 8:24pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Alli B @8:23 Yeah, this Toronto winter has been a bit all over the place this year... Polar vortex one week, rain the next, sunny days interspersed randomly...
	🏝 ♥ 8:24pm Alli B: Gotta start playing Plantasia for them!
	♥ 8:25pm DJ Babs: Yes! I always sing to my plants. I think it works. My neighbors probably think I'm nuts lol
	🏝 ♥ 8:26pm Alli B: I’m going to get Plantasia on vinyl and take my crappy portable record player outside for the plants. I can’t wait.
	🏝 ♥ 8:26pm Alli B: I love that you do that! I'm sure the plants do too. There are so many interesting experiments with plants responding to love.
	♥ 8:27pm DJ Babs: yaaaaasssss here's to good gardens this year!!!
	♥ 8:27pm DJ Babs: the spring flower catalogue came yesterday. Derek calls it my "flower porn" lol
	8:27pm DJ Blush: Here's to me trying not to kill every single house plant this year
	8:27pm DJ Blush: ↳ DJ Babs @8:27 LOL
	🏝 ♥ 8:29pm Alli B: Yeah, I learned my lesson last summer when I killed every plant I had raised by bringing them all outside like a “Good “ plant Mom. Sunburned them all dead. Haha fuuuuu
	♥ 8:29pm DJ Babs: we are gonna have to do another plant show I think.
	♥ 8:30pm Roberto: ↳ Song: "You Came Out" by "We Have Band" Definite ESG influence here.
	♥ 8:31pm DJ Babs: aha you are right that's why I like it so much I do think!!!
	🏝 ♥ 8:31pm Alli B: Great song
	🏝 ♥ 8:32pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Roberto @8:30 Roberto, nicely observed... I definitely hear it now that you mention it!
	♥ 8:38pm Roberto: Ooh I love the Go! Team.
	🏝 ♥ 8:38pm gsdoubleu: ↳ Roberto @8:38 saw them in TO some years back. ton o fun
	🏝 ♥ 8:39pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "What's New Pussycat?" by "Burt Bacharach" The maddening thing about this song is we never get the answer
	🏝 ♥ 8:40pm gsdoubleu: ↳ ultradamno @8:39 So true! check out John Mulaney's bit on this to see how maddening it can really get!
	🏝 ♥ 8:41pm ultradamno: ↳ gsdoubleu @8:40 I was actually thinking about that too...I can honestly say that at most places I've been with jukeboxes, WNP? on repeat would be GREAT
	♥ 8:42pm DJ Babs: ↳ ultradamno @8:39 WHAT IS THE ANSWER?!?!? lol I had never noticed that and now I shall be tormented by it
	♥ 8:42pm DJ Babs: ↳ ultradamno @8:41 oh that is a devilish prospect!!!!
	♥ 8:45pm DJ Babs: Derek that Squid was great! When it kicked in? YEAH
	🏝 ♥ 8:46pm Derek Westerholm: Yeah, it gets pretty gritty at the end there...
	8:47pm Dj Nico: Hello hello!
	🏝 ♥ 8:48pm gsdoubleu: Hello Nico!
	🏝 ♥ 8:48pm Derek Westerholm: Hello Nico!!!
	8:49pm DJ Blush: WoooOo!
	8:49pm egould: Tuned into Squid and blam! That was a bit of alright.
	♥ 8:50pm DJ Babs: Hi Nico! Hi Egould!!!
	♥ 8:51pm DJ Babs: ↳ egould @8:49 Blam! For sure! I can't wait to see the vid for it!
	8:51pm egould: Hi Babs! Hi Derek! Hi listeners!
	🏝 ♥ 8:51pm Derek Westerholm: Hey there egould! Glad you tuned in!!!
	♥ 8:52pm DJ Babs: Also enjoyed that W.I.T.C.H track Derek played. he's been hiding things on the playlist from me lately so Im just as surprised as you all lol
	♥ 8:52pm DJ Babs: MeepMoop is with us in the studio tonight...he is chilling haaard
	🏝 ♥ 8:52pm Derek Westerholm: I've listened to this BC Camplight song 6 or 7 times the past few days, and now it loops in my head.
	♥ 8:54pm DJ Babs: there's a blam!
	🏝 ♥ 8:56pm Derek Westerholm: Had a bit of playlist queue disorder there...
	🏝 ♥ 8:57pm Derek Westerholm: The last one was BC Camplight
	🏝 ♥ 8:57pm Derek Westerholm: This one is Bomb Sniffing Dogs
	🏝 ♥ 8:58pm Derek Westerholm: It's all fixed now, but it would have been showing the wrong song for you at one point, live...
	🏝 ♥ 8:59pm ultradamno: You can't get cats to do that. They don't snitch.
	🏝 ♥ 8:59pm Scott_Oz: ↳ Song: "PILLS'N'THRILLS AND ENERGY BILLS" by "Bomb Sniffi... Brilliant!
	🏝 ♥ 9:00pm Alli B: 💃💃💃
	9:00pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: Love this new SM x DC track. So good.
	🏝 ♥ 9:01pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Scott_Oz @8:59 Scott, it's a pretty fantastic track!
	♥ 9:01pm Roberto: ↳ ultradamno @8:59 Haha yeah the cat'd be like, it's coo bro, I ain't gonna narc.
	🏝 ♥ 9:01pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "Force 10 From Navarone" by "Sleaford Mods" They all look glad to see you www.yahoo.com...
	🏝 ♥ 9:02pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Your Pretend Boyfriend @9:00 YPB, totally excellent... The video is a fun watch, too.
	🏝 ♥ 9:02pm Will thee Sound Guy: Hi Babs, Derek, and all!!!
	🏝 ♥ 9:02pm ultradamno: The other guy in Sleaford Mods has the best onstage job, press a button, drink a beer...
	🏝 ♥ 9:02pm Derek Westerholm: Hello Will Thee! How goes?
	♥ 9:04pm Roberto: ↳ Roberto @9:01 And then follow up with, "would you happen to have any 'nip in there?"
	♥ 9:04pm DJ Babs: oh man, that Sleaford Mods was soooo goood I'm excited for this new record...
	🏝 ♥ 9:04pm Will thee Sound Guy: It goes, happy the weekend is nearing closer...
	♥ 9:05pm DJ Babs: Hi Will! Welcome!
	🏝 ♥ 9:06pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ ultradamno @9:02 Ultra, we saw SM last year in TO, and they were more animated than expected.
	🏝 ♥ 9:08pm ultradamno: And Boris has Fade vinyl coming sacredbonesrecords.bandcamp.com...
	♥ 9:13pm DJ Babs: ↳ ultradamno @9:08 ooooooooooooooo
	🏝 ♥ 9:15pm Scott_Oz: anyone else getting frequent dropouts?
	🏝 ♥ 9:15pm ultradamno: ↳ Scott_Oz @9:15 I am not
	🏝 ♥ 9:16pm Scott_Oz: Must be my feed.
	🏝 ♥ 9:18pm ultradamno: Yeah...anyone who says they're not trying to be dramatic is about to hit you with something very theatrical
	♥ 9:20pm DJ Babs: omg it must be spring because a skunk just walked by our front window and he might as well be in the studio with us! My eyes are watering.
	9:21pm DJ Blush: fuuuuuuck
	🏝 ♥ 9:21pm ultradamno: Would give my nod to Girls (Boston group, not The Girls) for the top spot over Theoretical and Poison
	♥ 9:21pm DJ Babs: it could be the skunk fumes scott!
	🏝 ♥ 9:22pm ultradamno: ↳ ultradamno @9:21 ...or even ...At Their Best, who one would think would have the top spot on lockdown
	🏝 ♥ 9:23pm Scott_Oz: ↳ DJ Babs @9:21 This Punk don't get Skunked mate! 🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	9:23pm shellioh: hey guys!
	🏝 ♥ 9:23pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ ultradamno @9:22 ..."At Their Best" on their way into this set for the very next song... Ha... Wavelengths converge!
	🏝 ♥ 9:23pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ shellioh @9:23 Hello Shellioh!!!!
	9:24pm shellioh: salut!!!
	♥ 9:25pm DJ Babs: Hello hellooo Shelli
	♥ 9:25pm DJ Babs: ↳ DJ Blush @9:21 Blush I was like damn that’s some dank weed LOL
	🏝 ♥ 9:27pm Derek Westerholm: I did not know about "Girls At Our Best!" until this week, though I knew Wedding Present's cover of "Getting Nowhere Fast". This is the B-Side. This song is wild! Also getting stuck in my head this week.
	9:29pm DJ Blush: hahah daaaank hey shelli!
	♥ 9:29pm DJ Babs: Wait what? I've played Girls At Our Best before derek! I think the skunk fumes are gettin to ya!
	🏝 ♥ 9:30pm ultradamno: Marine Girls are another one that probably get past a lot of people...
	9:30pm Dj Nico: What year was that warm girls?
	🏝 ♥ 9:30pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Dj Nico @9:30 1980!
	🏝 ♥ 9:32pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ DJ Babs @9:29 Oops, sorry Babs. I guess I don't listen to our show. Sigh.
	🏝 ♥ 9:34pm ultradamno: www.discogs.com... www.discogs.com...
	♥ 9:35pm DJ Babs: Thia is very 80's/90's Derek.
	🏝 ♥ 9:40pm ultradamno: Were Girlschool disqualified for referring to an institution for girls rather than the girls themselves?
	♥ 9:41pm DJ Babs: hahah! I am not sure why they didn't make it...aren't they hair metal? I always think they were...
	♥ 9:42pm DJ Babs: I loooooovem thiiiis songgggg
	🏝 ♥ 9:42pm ultradamno: They made a record with Motörhead, I think that clarifies their bona fides.
	🏝 ♥ 9:43pm gsdoubleu: this is really good
	♥ 9:43pm DJ Babs: Yes this song is definitely a keeper!!!
	🏝 ♥ 9:43pm Derek Westerholm: Agreed, Babs, this is fantastic!
	♥ 9:45pm DJ Babs: I really thought I'd played this but I checked and I had...not
	🏝 ♥ 9:47pm Alli B: I keep screenshotting songs ❤️😂
	♥ 9:48pm DJ Babs: ha! awesome! you can clicky star them too and they save to your profile I think!
	🏝 ♥ 9:48pm Derek Westerholm: Alli B, you can also click on the star icon in the playlist, and it will save it in your profile.
	🏝 ♥ 9:48pm gsdoubleu: ↳ Alli B @9:47 yes so many outstanding trax!
	♥ 9:50pm DJ Babs: got a couple more to cram in!
	♥ 9:51pm DJ Babs: Thanks guys! I enjoy the Chromatics vibez on this one!
	🏝 ♥ 9:56pm Scott_Oz: Thanks Babs & Derek, bloody bonza as always my mates! 🌏☀️🍻😎🤙💨🍺🍺🌻
	🏝 ♥ 9:57pm ultradamno: Those angels were up to something pervy all getting together and deciding to create a dream come true....
	10:00pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: Great set!!! Thank you.
	🏝 ♥ 10:00pm Will thee Sound Guy: Thank you Babs and Derek!!!
	🏝 ♥ 10:00pm gsdoubleu: thank you for another great night! skunks be damned!
	🏝 ♥ 10:01pm Derek Westerholm: Thanks for being here with us!
	🏝 ♥ 10:02pm Derek Westerholm: It's always special to spend this time with you!
	♥ 10:02pm DJ Babs: Thank you friends! So glad to have you here with us each and every week! Beware of skunks! lol
	🏝 ♥ 10:03pm ultradamno: There was a Clinic track in Infinity Pool.
	♥ 10:04pm DJ Babs: goodnight all! Be well!
	🏝 ♥ 10:04pm WR: Thank you!
	🏝 ♥ 10:06pm WR: PS: Amazing work adjusting to thread so much Bacharach in the episode with such short notice.

Transmissions from Echo Beach with Derek Westerholm and DJ Babs: Playlist from February 9, 2023

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