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Favoriting February 9, 2014

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Foetus  Danger Global Warming   Favoriting Soak  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Machinedrum  SeeSea   Favoriting Vapor City  0:05:40 (Pop-up)
Jessica Pavone  Jump to the Thunder   Favoriting Hope Dawson Is Missing  0:09:28 (Pop-up)
Longineu Parsons  Funkin' Around   Favoriting Spaced: Collected Works 1980-1999  0:14:21 (Pop-up)
 
Lord Echo  Endless Dawn   Favoriting Curiosities  0:24:53 (Pop-up)
Pataphonie  Le Matin Blanc   Favoriting Le Matin Blanc  0:27:58 (Pop-up)
Willie Colón  I Feel Campesino (Theme Realidades)   Favoriting The Good, the Bad, the Ugly  0:30:47 (Pop-up)
Stray  Houdini   Favoriting Time Machine: Anthology 1970-77  0:33:35 (Pop-up)
Kaleidoscope  Dive into Yesterday   Favoriting Tangerine Dream  0:37:22 (Pop-up)
 
Octopus  Orchard Bloom   Favoriting Restless Night  0:46:53 (Pop-up)
Decopus  Catapult   Favoriting Decopus  0:50:13 (Pop-up)
Paul Panhuysen  Heavy Duty on Frozen Rocks   Favoriting Engines in Power and Love  0:52:55 (Pop-up)
Pascal Comelade  Green Eyes   Favoriting The Slang of Noise  0:57:53 (Pop-up)
 
Nicola Ratti  Doom Set   Favoriting 220 Tones  1:08:40 (Pop-up)
McGinty & White  Wichita Lineman   Favoriting McGinty & White Sing Selections from the McGinty & White Songbook  1:14:49 (Pop-up)
P:ano  Worry   Favoriting When It's Dark and It's Summer  1:18:33 (Pop-up)
Isengrind  To Ride with Hölle   Favoriting The Snowbringer Cult  1:23:13 (Pop-up)
Shelley Hirsch/Simon Ho  Julius   Favoriting Where Were You Then?  1:26:42 (Pop-up)
 
B. J. Cole  Cold Mountain Mariner   Favoriting The New Hovering Dog  1:36:03 (Pop-up)
Ambrosia  Nice, Nice, Very Nice   Favoriting Ambrosia  1:40:01 (Pop-up)
Xenia Pestova  An Wem: Notes From Underground   Favoriting Shadow Piano  1:46:26 (Pop-up)
Ornette Coleman  Humpty Dumpty   Favoriting This Is Our Music  1:52:43 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 10:02pm
Dave Mandl:

Evening, friends.
  10:03pm
P-90:

And a foetal good evening to you, Dave M.
Avatar 10:04pm
Dave Mandl:

Hey, @P-90.
Avatar 10:06pm
fleep:

Hey, Dave!

@P-90 Glad you like the 'tar. Been a dolphin on the Internet for 20+ years. You should have a 'tar, too, unless there are security concerns.
Avatar 10:06pm
Mdurek:

danger is right!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:07pm
pacific standard simon:

And a "trapped in my home by ~2 inches of snow" good evening to you.
Avatar 10:08pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Hullo !
Avatar 10:09pm
fleep:

Around here, any wet is good wet.
Avatar 10:10pm
Dave Mandl:

Welcome, @fleep, @Mdurek, @pss, RRN63.
Avatar 10:11pm
Dave Mandl:

@pss: Wow. Where do you live again?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:11pm
pacific standard simon:

While awaiting rescue, I am researching the possibility of adopting a certain "Dave M." during the upcoming Marathon.
Avatar 10:12pm
Mdurek:

Danke, This one is right up me alley, as the pirates say
Avatar 10:12pm
Dave Mandl:

@Mdurek: Happy to help, matey.
  10:13pm
JakeGould:

Hello all! Found a cool hasp! My night is doneronnie!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:13pm
pacific standard simon:

Off the coast of Seattle, Dave.
Avatar 10:15pm
Mdurek:

Seattle, love it out there. It's been snowing a tad here in Jersey
Avatar 10:15pm
fleep:

Humans require a lot of upkeep and attention, and some are difficult to train, but you're doing the right thing, pss.
Avatar 10:16pm
Droll:

pss, Yours didn't slushify today? Seems mostly melted here in town.
Avatar 10:16pm
Dave Mandl:

@JakeGould: Evening.
Yeah, some snow here in J.C., but nothing too hard to deal with.
Avatar 10:17pm
Mdurek:

We're getting an old school winter though. Snow background, nice change
Avatar 10:18pm
Dave Mandl:

Evening, Mr. Droll.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:18pm
pacific standard simon:

Actually, Droll, a lot of it did. Fun while it lasted, though.
  10:19pm
P-90:

@pss: If you caught 2" in Seattle, you got more than NY-NJ did.
For a change.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:20pm
pacific standard simon:

One of the hardest things about caring for humans is finding room to house their music; they seldom carry it inside themselves as dolphins do.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:27pm
Ike:

The Port Authority is the worst.
  10:27pm
P-90:

pss: now wait a sec -- you say "off the coast of Seattle?"

Q: (optional of course) You're not by any chance on Whidbey Island, home of 1/2 of the Firesign Theater (unfortunately down to 1/4 now)?
Avatar 10:28pm
Droll:

2" is more likely to shut down Seattle than Fantasy Island, where pss lives. I'm amazed when people interpret "SUV" to mean "goes up hills like a bulldozer". Good YT videos, though!

The PATH station is being closed for all of 2014?!
Avatar 10:28pm
Dave Mandl:

@Ike: But still getting even worse!
Avatar 10:29pm
Droll:

Complain all you like, but at least you have a rapid transit system to hate. Many cities (including Seattle) are doomed to in-traffic transit systems. Not even a crappy monorail to complain about.
Avatar 10:32pm
fleep:

@Droll Is Bertha moving again or stuck? We recall using the coastline blight she's replacing on many trips.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:32pm
pacific standard simon:

Bainbridge Island, actually. Also, I believe that Phil Austin lives on Fox Island, which means that until Bergman died, 3/4 of the Firesigns lived on Puget Sound islands. Proctor still lives and works somewhere around L.A.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:37pm
pacific standard simon:

Bertha seems to have run aground on some scrap iron used in the land fill around Seattle. Chipped some teeth and needs to see the dentist.
Avatar 10:37pm
glenn:

this could easily be late era guess who.
Avatar 10:38pm
Droll:

fleep, I read they have now determined it's "clogged with dirt", which I think should have been one of the original engineering considerations.

pss, You're neighbors with Bill Frisell! Having lived there, I assure everyone everywhere that Bainbridge Island is (was?) one of the great hidden world-city secrets. pss is very lucky!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:39pm
pacific standard simon:

True, Glenn.
Also true, Droll.
Avatar 10:40pm
Dave Mandl:

@glenn: I wish.
  10:41pm
P-90:

pss: been to Seattle but not the islands, heard from Pete (and David) how beautiful it is. I've heard you refer to Seattle, but when I hear you're "off the coast" my ears prick up...
heard one beauty part about the Sound is that it's sheltered from storms incoming from the Pacific, it's like being inland, or am I wrong
Avatar 10:41pm
amEdeo:

pliplipliplipliplipliplip.
Avatar 10:42pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Kaleidoscope prefiguring Television in some odd way...
Avatar 10:42pm
glenn:

i pretty much heart the guess who. just sayin'.
Avatar 10:42pm
Dave Mandl:

Hey, AmEdeo! How you feeling?
  10:42pm
P-90:

@amEdeo: tighten your valve, Dude, you're dripping
Avatar 10:43pm
fleep:

We spent about 25 years commuting to Sequim, where the in-laws retired, never stopped in Bainbridge. I assure you Sequim is not one of the hidden gems of the region.
  10:44pm
P-90:

@glen: I heart Guess Who too! I guess most folks do
Avatar 10:44pm
amEdeo:

sicksicksicksicksicksicksicksick.
  10:45pm
tom:

sky children; another good song off of tangerine dream
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:45pm
pacific standard simon:

@P-90 - Sort of. We're in the weather shadow of the Olympic Mountain range, which means that cities further down the coast often gets worse weather than we do. But Alaskan winds still visit.
  10:46pm
JakeGould:

Tighten your valve? Apparently you lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking.
Avatar 10:47pm
Droll:

. o O ( Not prog )
  10:47pm
JakeGould:

Shut up with the prog hate.
  10:47pm
P-90:

pss: "weather shadow" sounds so cool somehow

Droll: agreed, not prog
Avatar 10:48pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- only knew 'Flight from Ashiya' by Kaleidoscope from a Mojo magazine comp. - so Thx !!
  10:49pm
JakeGould:

Amadeo’s got pink eye! Amadeo’s got pink eye! Amadeo’s got pink eye! Ha! Ha! Ha! (Seriously, be cool.)
Avatar 10:50pm
fleep:

@P-90 The rain shadow in Sequim is so acute that settlers had to build irrigation ditches from the mountains, they have an annual Irrigation Festival to celebrate their heritage.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:51pm
pacific standard simon:

As long as he's not passing around the mono to the other Sunday night/Monday morning DJs -- if you know what I mean.
Avatar 10:51pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- get well amEdeo. I am drinking Amedeo Chianti - cheap & cheerful. It is not pink, but red.
  10:51pm
P-90:

@RevRab: I guess you're right, somehow remembered that as "Flight from Yeshiva", but that was something else

@amEdeo: get well soon, don't let the haters wear you down
Avatar 10:52pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

@P-90: Websearching, apparently it's the name of some early 60s film too...
  10:54pm
tom:

tangerine dream by kaleidoscope is on youtube
Avatar 10:54pm
amEdeo:

Thanks RRN63, drink that up!!!!
  10:54pm
P-90:

documentary about the Air Force base at the Japanese island of Ashiya?
Avatar 10:54pm
Droll:

It's a very poor society indeed that doesn't have enough for an annual Irrigation Festival.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:55pm
pacific standard simon:

But agreed -- amEdeo should conserve his energies for the Hoof'N'Mouth..
Avatar 10:55pm
Dave Mandl:

Amedeo will pull through. He's very sturdy.
Avatar 10:58pm
Droll:

You make him sound like a truck.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:58pm
pacific standard simon:

Wait... Octopus, Decopus... Where's the Dodecapus?!
Avatar 10:59pm
Dave Mandl:

@Droll: He's sturdier than a truck.
  10:59pm
P-90:

@fleep: fascinating, "rain shadow", Irrigation Festival
Is there still much of a Native American presence in your area?
Avatar 10:59pm
amEdeo:

I'm TRUCKULES.
Avatar 10:59pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...actually it might be the 'Room of Percussion' track on that Mojo comp. - I really like it - Thx for YT tip...
  11:03pm
P-90:

@amEdeo: Take heart, my friend, and look at the positive side:
In an alternate universe, right now, there's an alternate amEdeo fighting to overcome Hoof'n'Mouth disease in time for a Pink Eye Sinfonia performance, an altogether more daunting task
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:04pm
pacific standard simon:

"TRUCKULES" makes you sound like a rejected character in one of those CARS movies.
Avatar 11:04pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- shades of PJ Harvey here - which is a-okay by me.
...Often say even a toy piano could be a good instrument in the right context - so here's the track to prove it.
  11:04pm
JakeGould:

@Droll, “You make him sound like a truck.” That’s how reviewers are no writing reviews. But comparing people to vehicles instead of saying things are “satisfying.”
Avatar 11:05pm
fleep:

@P-90 In Sequim, the S'Klallam tribe owned the casino. The in-laws are both gone, we live totally in L.A. now.
Avatar 11:06pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

..full shade of PJ - urm -yeah...
  11:07pm
HollyT:

Hi Dave! Sorry I'm so late tuning in.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:08pm
pacific standard simon:

Heavy Native American presence on the Kitsap peninsula (and Seattle area in general) -- there's a reason for all those goofy-sounding place names.
  11:09pm
P-90:

@RevRab: yeah, "Flight from Yeshiva" was on a different Mojo compilation, Ithink the Beastie Boys and Disturbed were included on that one. And Moe (band not stooge)
Avatar 11:10pm
ADM:

Who you callin' Highly Evolved MANDL?!
Avatar 11:10pm
ADM:

Ooh and now you're throwing eDisses!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:11pm
pacific standard simon:

And if you want to follow Dave on Tumblr AS ALL HIGHLY EVOLVED HUMANS DO...
Avatar 11:11pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...a highly-evolved *what* ?...
Avatar 11:11pm
Dave Mandl:

Hey there, Holly.
Avatar 11:11pm
ADM:

FYI this is my favorite printer song: www.youtube.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:11pm
pacific standard simon:

...and slumming dolphins...
Avatar 11:12pm
Dave Mandl:

@ADM: Sorry. Partially evolved?
  11:13pm
P-90:

@TRUCKULES: wait: "Truckles" sounds like the rejected "Cars" character. Truckules sounds like some disease that trucks get...
like "motor pox" or something
Avatar 11:14pm
Droll:

I've been to Sequim and LA... Once you've seen one Wal-Mart you've seen 'em all. At least traffic is good in Sequim and fireworks are readily available.

Is e-mail really so passe?
Avatar 11:14pm
ADM:

Where I come from callin' someone highly evolved is gruntin' words.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:16pm
pacific standard simon:

It's true that I often feel "put in my place" by photos of chimps with pet kittens.
  11:16pm
P-90:

"modestly evolved"?
Avatar 11:17pm
ADM:

We prefer 'naturally selected.'
  11:17pm
P-90:

pss: those photos are the WORST, make me feel so inadequate and inferior and there's no escaping them, they're every-goddamn-where
Avatar 11:18pm
ADM:

or "The Naturally Select" or "Select and Natural."
Avatar 11:18pm
ADM:

or "Selectively Natural."
  11:19pm
P-90:

The FreshSelect? -strike that, it's taken
Avatar 11:19pm
Droll:

...more like "Sample and Hold".
Lots of miniature keyboard music tonight.
Avatar 11:20pm
Dave Mandl:

@Droll: Synthesizer joke!
  11:20pm
P-90:

"The Somewhat Selected"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:20pm
pacific standard simon:

Sorry, I was enjoying this cover of "Wichita Lineman" -- what were you saying?
  11:21pm
P-90:

@Dave M: Thumb's-up for "Witchita Lineman"
  11:22pm
tahomajohn:

Hey all. Best wishes from out here in the NW to all those over there out east and from there out there everywhere! How cool:)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:23pm
pacific standard simon:

Ah b'lieve we wuz all picked by the ol' Pea Picker! Tennessee Ernie Ford Forever!
Avatar 11:23pm
Dave Mandl:

@P-90: I had McGinty & White on my show a couple of years ago. The set was magnificent (and they did that song). Look for it in the archives.
Avatar 11:23pm
Dave Mandl:

Hey, @tahoma. Thanks.
Avatar 11:23pm
Whooda:

All these perfectly good and expensive electronics and recording devices ant this KMcGinty & White sing to a music box? Good God the world has fallen off the cliff. This abomination will never fly on America's Got Talent.
  11:24pm
P-90:

@Dave: missed it. Will locate. Thnx.
wondering what time slot that was
  11:25pm
tahomajohn:

Wow. I missed a Wichita Lineman cover? DAMN! I love the MotoGators version. And I love the Glen Campbell version. heh.
Avatar 11:26pm
Droll:

Whooda, Add autotune, 4 on the floor beat, and wall-to-wall limiting, and they'd have a shot!
Avatar 11:26pm
Dave Mandl:

@P-90: I think I was on 9-midnight at the time. I guess two years ago, maybe three?
Avatar 11:27pm
Dave Mandl:

@Whooda: Let a thousand musical gadgets bloom.
  11:27pm
P-90:

Oh, 2010, not that long ago. Eager to check it out, thinking mebbe now I heard it, we'll see
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:27pm
pacific standard simon:

Wouldn't It Be Nice to hear Brian Wilson cover "Witchita Lineman"?
Avatar 11:27pm
Whooda:

I think that Glenn Campbell's post-dementia recordings are better in that they seem to have more honest "soul" invested in them, or at least the one I've heard, Rhinestone Cowboy.
  11:27pm
P-90:

pss: inspired!
Avatar 11:28pm
Dave Mandl:

Seriously, it was such a good show. I was thrilled to have M & W on.
Avatar 11:29pm
Dave Mandl:

One for Holly, if we haven't lost her...
  11:29pm
tahomajohn:

August 8, 2010 McGinty & White LIVE PERFORMANCE
Avatar 11:30pm
Whooda:

Thanks tahomajohn!
  11:31pm
tahomajohn:

Now on my playlist:)
Avatar 11:32pm
Droll:

. o O ( New musical career goal: People to refer to me in the past-tense using the phrase "post-dementia". )
  11:32pm
P-90:

@Whooda: That just might have been expertly assembled from SAMPLED music-box sounds, therefore deceptively high tech in disguise, like The Transformers
  11:32pm
HollyT:

Love this piece.
  11:33pm
P-90:

Holly! there you be
Avatar 11:35pm
Whooda:

Yeah, Droll, I really hate to pigeonhole GC in that post-mental-decline category, but how ya' gonna' market this niche without a handle? :)

@P-90 Ah! like a double-agent electronic musical artist...yea, I get it, subtrafuge melodies.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:38pm
pacific standard simon:

BJ Cole had his own records?
Avatar 11:38pm
Droll:

Whooda, No, really, I was referring to myself. Dementia music is a genre, I think I have what it takes.
Avatar 11:39pm
Droll:

Apology accepted.
Avatar 11:39pm
Whooda:

Hey TRUCKULES, sorry to hear your're parked in the garage. Get betters soon and only accept genuine original equipment replacement parts.
Avatar 11:41pm
Whooda:

haha Droll, what with the baby boomers crowding the market, you better find yourself a gimmick to set yourself apart from the 'mad'ning crowd.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:42pm
pacific standard simon:

Huh, it's true. I remember the name from Kevin Ayers albums, which the Wikipedia entry doesn't mention.
  11:43pm
HollyT:

Wow, I dug that.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:43pm
pacific standard simon:

Whoops, prog intro, cover your ears Droll.
Avatar 11:43pm
Droll:

What's wrong with the gimmick that got me to the point where dementia seemed like commercially viable alternative?
Avatar 11:44pm
Dave Mandl:

Don't cover your ears. This is great.
Avatar 11:45pm
fleep:

Kurt Vonnegut. Oh yes.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:45pm
pacific standard simon:

Lotsa bands have William Burroughs reference names, but these guys have Kurt Vonnegut lyrics.
Avatar 11:46pm
Dave Mandl:

Yup.
  11:46pm
P-90:

@Whoo: That was a slightly, er, stray(?) reference to good ol' Glen C. Also might be a little raw, this idea that an artist w/some degree of cognitive decline is gonna sing with more "soul". Not criticizing, just bandying ideas about....hrmph
re: "Music-box Wichita"; yeah the idea of 21st century musicians using computerized technology and sophisticated technique to make records that sound like toy insrtuments, or little kids playing tin-and plastic xylophones or kazoos etc.: W.S.Burroughs would love that
Avatar 11:47pm
Droll:

This *IS* great -- I totally forgot about Ambrosia! Thanks DM, I'm fixin' to get reacquainted this week.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:48pm
pacific standard simon:

Didn't Al Stewart do something Vonnegut-based, too? I think my mind is going as well.
  11:48pm
P-90:

pss: Meta-Jinx! you posted w/Burroughs' name just as I was typing it....it WAS his birthday this week, wasn't it
Avatar 11:48pm
Whooda:

Droll, planning for that coming competition from aging baby boomer crowd. Could be a whole new music cottage industry good that your're getting in on the ground floor.

P-90, I am serious. I heard him sing WL from a recent recording, stripped down (acoustic?) and it was better IMHO than the original. You can hear the vulnerability in his voice that was missing in the original.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:49pm
pacific standard simon:

His centenary!
  11:49pm
HollyT:

Wow. Ambrosia? Of "How Much I Feel"? fame? Interesting
  11:51pm
P-90:

pss: Al Stewart did "Year of the Chronosynclasticinundibulum".
No, sorry that was "Year of the Cat." It was "Sirens of Titan" on Modern times that referred to Kurt V.
Avatar 11:52pm
Dave Mandl:

There used to be a show here on FMU called Chronosynclastic Infundibulum. Early '90s?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:53pm
pacific standard simon:

Come to think of it, I don't recall ever hearing about whether Burroughs ever heard Steely Dan's cover of "East St. Louis Toodle-oo" or not.

Ah, thanks, P-90 -- the half-forgotten memory was itching me.
  11:53pm
P-90:

take 2: Chrono-synclastic-infundibulum"
  11:53pm
tomB:

The singles of the later Ambrosia are one of my guilty pleasures from driving around South Dakota. I was relieved to discover their early 70s chops.
Avatar 11:54pm
Dave Mandl:

I don't remember much of theirs beside that song, TBH. But what a great song.
  11:55pm
LovecraftDude888:

that's nice, I missed the whole show here...was watching various films...Talented Mr. Ripley being primary one. Sorry Dave will catch next week....
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:56pm
pacific standard simon:

Oh, this is making me happy.
Avatar 11:56pm
Dave Mandl:

@LCD888: That's OK!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:57pm
Tome:

listening all along just online now great set Dave as always! interesting nostalgia here if one would look > bit.ly...
  11:57pm
P-90:

Now you mention it, i vaguely remember that here was a show by that name...Whatever it was, I didn't listen to it much or I'd remember it better...
Avatar 11:58pm
Droll:

I say it every week, but it's like getting pick-pocketed every time: 2 hours ain't enough time for Ambrosia and Kaleidoscope.
'Till next week, pot your bed down!
  11:58pm
P-90:

@Dave M. It IS a little piercing on the left channel, isn't it

@Dave Mandl: Thanks for another great show, flew by....again.
Avatar 11:59pm
fleep:

Thanks, Dave.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:59pm
pacific standard simon:

And now, a chorus by Dave!
Avatar 11:59pm
Dave Mandl:

Thanks, all. Have a great week!
Avatar 11:59pm
Whooda:

Thanks for making another pleasurable situation DJ Dave Mandl
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:01am
Ike:

GREAT show.
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