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An underground journey through the history of psychedelic rock, modern music, shimmering noise, free jazz, punk, funk, children's records played at the wrong speed, tape cut-up, static, the composition of decomposition, and subversive spoken word.

Location:

East Orange, NJ

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WFMU

Description:

An underground journey through the history of psychedelic rock, modern music, shimmering noise, free jazz, punk, funk, children's records played at the wrong speed, tape cut-up, static, the composition of decomposition, and subversive spoken word.

Language:

English


Episodes
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Drowsy In The Ashen Light-Painting 'Composition In Blue" by Sam Francis from Apr 26, 2026

4/27/2026
n/a - "Absolutely Real/Adult Entertainment/Transmission Begins" - n/a [0:00:00] Russell Geoffrey Banks - "The Curse Of Awareness" - N\A [https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXJwo9FD-WQ/ Written By The Fallen Poet, from the book Between Heaven And Earth] [0:00:52] German Army - "Boarders And A Pass" - Lost Congregation [https://skrotup.bandcamp.com/album/lost-congregation] [0:01:50] Swingsets - "All Get Out" - FIXIN' [https://swingsets.bandcamp.com/album/fixin] [0:04:43] Ayal Renoir - "All The Streets Are Silent" - Crypt Of The Necrodancer [https://unionpoletapes.bandcamp.com/album/crypt-of-the-necrodancer] [0:08:27] Manoir Molle - "Remédium" - Accords [https://mistralph0ne.bandcamp.com/album/accords] [0:10:10] 破地獄/Scattered Purgatory - "魂轎 Limbo Litter" - 稗海遺考 / Lost Ethnography of the Miscanthus Ocean [https://scatteredpurgatorygggb.bandcamp.com/album/lost-ethnography-of-the-miscanthus-ocean-2] [0:13:07] Kelby Clark - "Nataraja" - Continuum [https://thecrystalcabinet.bandcamp.com/album/continuum] [0:16:35] Mac Blackout - "Cycle 1" - Cycling Vol. 1 [https://macblackout.bandcamp.com/album/cycling-vol-1] [0:19:24] Music behind DJ: Gas - "Gas 1" - Nah und Fern [0:25:17] Alvarius B. - "Rock N' Roll" - Malarial Dream [https://suncitygirls.bandcamp.com/album/malarial-dream] [0:31:00] Father Dionysios Tabakis - "ΗΛΕΚΤΡΙΚΕΣ ΨΑΛΜΩΔΙΕΣ-Θείας πίστεως- ήχος γ" - Paradise Metal [Fr. Dionysios Tabakis is a priest of the Orthodox Church. He serves at the Church of Panagitsa in Nafplio, the Nativity of the Theotokos, and records alone, at home.] [0:33:33] Jamie Green & John Krausbauer - "PARADE 1" - Parade [https://carbon-records.bandcamp.com/album/parade] [0:34:36] ??? - "Shelley's "Ozymandias"" - N/A [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMUP7iJ_z8E From the youtube page Dangerously Talented] [0:38:16] Decimus - "Side B (Excerpt)" - Decimus 12 [https://decimus.bandcamp.com/album/decimus-12] [0:39:34] Hafız Sadettin Kaynak - "Falling into the Flames of Heartbreak" - The Pain of Separation: Turkish Gazels, 1926-1935 [https://deathisnot.bandcamp.com/album/the-pain-of-separation-turkish-gazels-1926-1935] [0:45:55] Pint Sized Spartacus - "Flying On Scissored Wings" - Gocher and Colburn Present Pint Sized Spartacus [0:48:55] Dolly Dolly & Fogroom - "Clock Tower" - EXTRACELLULAR [https://buriedtreasure.bandcamp.com/album/extracellular] [0:51:39] Landon Caldwell - "Becoming Music" - More Unity [https://landoncaldwell.bandcamp.com/album/more-unity] [0:54:03] Carl Segan - "Critical Thinking" - N/A [0:58:41] Music behind DJ: Gas - "Gas 1" - Nah Und Fern [0:59:09] Kosmos Cowboys - "Side A (Excerpt)" - Kosmos Cowboys [https://decimus.bandcamp.com/album/komos-cowboys] [1:04:41] TAMARIN - "Intersection" - HELL™ [https://lostfrog.bandcamp.com] [1:09:09] Master/Slave Relationship - "Enjoy Yourself" - The Desire to Castrate Father [https://masterslaverelationship.bandcamp.com/album/the-desire-to-castrate-father **This was originally released on cassette in the USA by the infamous cassette-only label owned by myself and Hal McGee, Cause And Effect, in 1985. It has been out-of-print for more than a decade.] [1:12:01] Ville Lähteenmäki Trio - "Commencement" - Second Sight [https://rrgems-records.bandcamp.com/album/second-sight] [1:17:55] Apostolis Tziogkidis - "αχέρων" - Sonic Impressions [https://adventurousmusic.bandcamp.com/album/sonic-impressions] [1:27:34] Jeff Parker ETA IVtet - "Like Swimwear (part one)" - Happy Today [https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/happy-today] [1:32:56] Dog Plug [Mazen Kerbaj, Maurice Louca & Tony Elieh] - "Dakkerha دكّرها" - Dog Plug كلاب البطّاريّة [https://annihayarecords.bandcamp.com/album/dog-plug] [1:42:23] Concrete Fantasies - "MISERERE II" - MISERERE [https://drownedbylocals.bandcamp.com/album/miserere] [1:48:04] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/163509

Duration:02:08:39

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Dialectic Audio Sifter-Painting by Christina Rosa from Apr 12, 2026

4/13/2026
- "Absolutely Real/Adult Entertainment/Transmission Begins" [0:00:00] Virginia Satir - "Death--Cope With It" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW3KShRdKMo excerpt From Jeffrey Mishlove's "Thnking Allowed"] [0:00:46] Underground Spiritual Game - "Above Ground" - Of Time [https://vibromonk.bandcamp.com/album/of-time] [0:01:03] BLINK - "Rub" - BLINK [https://jorritdijkstra.bandcamp.com/album/blink-2] [0:04:27] Alvarius B - "Well Known Stranger" - Baroque Primitiva [https://suncitygirls.bandcamp.com/album/baroque-primitiva] [0:11:19] Juho Toivonen - "Enne" - Sisarusten Toistuva Uni [https://discreetmusicgbg.bandcamp.com/album/sisarusten-toistuva-uni] [0:15:26] Tusen År Under Jord - "Sorgsendömet Fobos pt. 2" - Sorgsendömet Fobos [https://tusenarunderjord.bandcamp.com] [0:20:54] Billy Bultheel - "Empire of the Senseless - Snow Cycle" - Two Cycles [https://billybultheel.bandcamp.com/album/two-cycles] [0:25:53] Music behind DJ: Gas - "Gas 1" - Nah und Fern [0:27:30] Asher Tuli - "Chronicles xxi" - Chronicles [0:35:28] Zyggurat - "Edge Of Map" - Sphere To Sphere [https://old-technology.bandcamp.com/album/sphere-to-sphere] [0:36:14] Cinecenta - "Fly" - Cementality [https://monotime.bandcamp.com/album/cementality] [0:43:04] William S. Burroughs - "Untitled" - Häxan: Witchcraft Through The Ages [https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/h-xan-witchcraft-through-the-ages] [0:44:32] No Artist - "Assisted Living" - "The Dweller" [https://norentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-dweller-nrr218] [0:47:01] Animals Within Animals - "true believers (brain warshing) Excerpt" - We Fail For A Living [0:54:40] Jac Berrocal, Vincent Epplay, Timo van Luijk, (Anne Gillis) - "Avec les Oiseaux" - "Si()six" [https://annegillisjacberrocalvincentepplaytimovanluijk.bandcamp.com/album/si-six] [0:57:36] Music behind DJ: Gas - "Gas 1" - Nah Und Fern [1:00:59] Gordan - "The Bell Is Buzzing" - Gordan [https://gordanband.bandcamp.com/album/gordan] [1:08:19] Dogs Versus Shadows & Nicholas Langley - "One Magic Camera" - 16mm [https://strategictapereserve.bandcamp.com/album/16mm] [1:13:12] The Space Lady - "On The Street Of Dreams" - On The Street of Dreams [https://spacelady.bandcamp.com/album/on-the-street-of-dreams] [1:16:52] Ginger Wizard - "Styrax" [https://gingerwizard.bandcamp.com/album/curious-flora-fauna-of-the-ancient-world] [1:20:27] Olexiy Mikryukov, ZAÄAR - "Cathartics" - Absurd Animal [https://zaaar.bandcamp.com/album/absurd-animal] [1:24:52] Sun City Girls - "Holy Ground" - Funeral Mariachi [https://suncitygirls.bandcamp.com/album/funeral-mariachi] [1:31:15] Lau Nau - "Kosmospyörät" - Friends & Neighbors Vol. 1–3 [https://wejazzrecords.bandcamp.com/album/friends-neighbors-vol-1-3] [1:35:31] Music behind DJ: Gas - "Gas 1" - Nah Und Fern [1:42:05] Hypotherm Associates - "Open Cut Gas Logger" - Hypotherm Associates [https://digitalregress.bandcamp.com/album/s-t-4] [1:47:15] Ivan The Tolerable - "Under Newport Bridge" - Nothing Is New In This Room Except The Dust [1:51:10] Orcutt Shelley Miller Yow - "A Man Needs A Maid" - Hot Head 7' [=https://orcuttshelleymiller.bandcamp.com/album/hot-head] [1:53:23] Eva Novoa - "Stilte Cabine" - Solo (I) [https://577records.bandcamp.com] [1:57:54] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/163083

Duration:02:08:33

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No Easy Analogue-Painting "A Poet In The Studio" by Jim Watt from Apr 5, 2026

4/6/2026
- "Absolutely Real/Adult Entertainment/Transmission Begins" [0:00:00] Beam Weapons - "Godzilla Is My Roman Empire" - Potlatch [https://beamweapons.bandcamp.com/album/potlatch] [0:00:26] Leila Bordreuil + Kali Malone - "Endless Dance of Eternal Joy" - Music for Intersecting Planes [https://kalimalone.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-intersecting-planes] [0:02:25] Art Lessing - "Train" - Hook Echo [Artlessing.com] [0:05:25] Société Étrange - "Coquet" - Heat [https://societeetrange.bandcamp.com/album/heat] [0:07:32] PC Worship - "Basement Hysteria" - Basement Hysteria [https://pcworship.bandcamp.com/album/basement-hysteria-2] [0:10:15] Geins’t Naït + LØ & Robin Rimbaud - Scanner - "X-Idiot" - Behind The Door [https://offen.bandcamp.com/album/behind-the-door Behind the Door is the second Offen album by the unique French experimentalist Geins’t Naït and highly influential British electronic musician Scanner, here joined by LØ. Decades upon decades of experience, research and development result in a fascinating post-industrial melancholia.] [0:18:29] Music behind DJ: Gas - "Gas 1" - Nah Und Fern [0:22:11] Félicia Atkinson & Christina Vantzou - "Shines for Eternity" - Reflections Vol. 3: Water Poems [https://feliciaatkinson.bandcamp.com] [0:30:46] Acid Twilight - "Dreams Of Agnes" - Trippo Nova [https://acidtwilight.bandcamp.com/album/trippo-nova] [0:34:16] Christina Kubisch - "Gaming in silence (2024)" - TUNING [https://christinakubisch-faitiche.bandcamp.com/album/tuning] [0:40:10] GAUTE GRANLI - "Wampir" - Rosacea [https://nashazphone.bandcamp.com] [0:49:52] KVATHORY - "Ghosbalko" - Ardis [https://mediteranos.bandcamp.com] [0:54:08] Bill Orcutt - "Reflective Silent" - Music In Continuous Motion [0:58:13] Music behind DJ: Gas - "Gas 1" - Nah und Fern [0:58:17] Sir Richard Bishop - "Revisionary Tacttics" - Intermezzo [1:04:03] Sun City Girls - "Uncle Jim Knows Where You Glue Jawed Weaseles Parked" - Myths and Legends of the Blue West [Audio from Myths and Legends of the Blue West VHS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1BFzJ8y3IE&t=828s] [1:06:20] Sun City Girls - "100 Pounds Of Black Olives" - You're Never Alone With A Cigarette - Singles Vol 1 [1:08:17] Sir Richard Bishop - "Canned Good and Firearms" - Polytheistic Fragments [https://sirrichardbishop.bandcamp.com/album/polytheistic-fragments] [1:13:22] Sir Richard Bishop - "Event Horizons" - GRAVITON POLARITY GENERATOR [1:18:42] Roy Montgomery - "Imperfect Intense" - Audiotherapy [1:21:01] Paddy Steer - "Somerset: Swerving Coach" - Ceremonial County Tapes Vol.XXII: Tyne and Wear | Somerset [Visit https://folkloretapes.bandcamp.com] [1:27:18] Moonrises - "Rare Flight" - Moonrises [1:41:39] Loy Fontescue - "Portuguese Man-of-War Bloom" - Profiteroles [1:45:55] Nathan Bowels - "Left One" - Seven Lefts [1:50:40] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/162863

Duration:02:07:58