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A combination of collage, new experimental records and other bits and bobs, Mid-Valley Mutations is a tour through the mind of Austin Rich, who has been broadcasting in some form since 1998. Heavily influenced by Dr Demento, Don Joyce and old...

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Jersey City, NJ

Description:

A combination of collage, new experimental records and other bits and bobs, Mid-Valley Mutations is a tour through the mind of Austin Rich, who has been broadcasting in some form since 1998. Heavily influenced by Dr Demento, Don Joyce and old fashioned College Radio, Austin creates Audio Essays on a variety of subjects, and even just plays records, from time to time. Sometimes Live music and Interviews will grace the program, helping create a situation where you don't really know what you're going to hear, when you tune in. What you need to know is when you enter the Mid-Valley region, be prepared for the Musical Mutations... in whatever form they take.

Language:

English


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Fumblin' With The Blues Part 2: Mean, Low Blues from Apr 28, 2026

4/29/2026
Set: Hour 1 Blues Birdhead - "Mean Low Blues" - American Primitive Vol. II: Pre-War Revenants (1897-1939) [0:00:14] Shadows In Blue - "Mid-Valley Mutations Opening Theme" - Mid-Valley Mutations Opening Theme [0:03:22] Music behind DJ: Sir Isaac and the Do-Dads - "Blue Groove" - Stax/Volt: The Complete Singles 1959-1968 [0:06:54] Point Line Plane - "Crystal Graveyard" - Point Line Plane (2026 Remaster) [0:10:49] The Mississippi Moaner - "It's Cold in China Blues" - American Primitive Vol. II: Pre-War Revenants (1897-1939) [0:13:22] Robert Nighthawk - "Black Angel Blues (Sweet Black Angel)" - The Chess Story: 1947 - 1975 [0:15:59] Red Nichols & His Five Pennies - "Haunting Blues" - Halloween Stomp [0:19:01] Langston Hughes - "As I Grew Older" - The Voice of Langston Hughes [0:21:08] Fats Waller - "B Flat Blues" - Performance [0:21:58] Doretha Throwbridge - "Bad Luck Blues" - Barrelhouse Mamas: Born In the Alley, Raised Up In the Slum [0:25:02] Delmore Brothers - "Brown's Ferry Blues" - East Virginia Blues (When the Sun Goes Down Series) [0:28:04] Music behind DJ: Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith - "Memphis Blues" - "Memphis Blues" b/w "South" [0:31:09] Langston Hughes - "The Dream Keeper" - The Voice of Langston Hughes [0:36:03] The Maddox Brothers - "Hangover Blues" - Go Honky Tonkin! [0:36:55] Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys - "Basin Street Blues" - Tiffany Transcriptions Vol. 3 [0:39:21] Power of County - "Nashville Blues" - Dirty Western [0:42:58] Roy Harvey - "John Hardy Blues" - The Stuff Dreams are Made Of: Super Rarities & Unissued Gems of the 1920's and 30's [0:45:03] Johnny Cash - "Folsom Prison Blues" - The Sun Story [0:48:19] Hank Williams - "Weary Blues From Waitin'" - The Complete Hank Williams [0:51:03] Bill Monroe - "Blue Moon of Kentucky" - Columbia Country Classics [0:53:34] Violent Femmes - "Sweet Misery Blues" - Hallowed Ground [0:56:37] Beastie Boys - "Railroad Blues" - The Sounds Of Science [0:59:15] Set: Hour 2 Music behind DJ: Terry Snyder - "Blue Tango" - Persuasive Percussion Volume 2 [1:01:52] Langston Hughes - "Genius Child" - The Voice of Langston Hughes [1:09:48] Point Line Plane - "Descender" - Smoke Signals [1:10:25] Albert Ayler - "Untitled Blues [New York, 1968]" - Holy Ghost [1:12:59] Sun Ra and the Arkestra - "Reflections In Blue [Excerpt]" - Sound of Joy [1:18:50] Ken Nordine - "Blue" - Colors: A Sensuous Listening Experience [1:22:40] Tony Williams Lifetime - "A Famous Blues" - Turn It Over [1:24:14] John Coltrane - "Mary's Blues [Excerpt]" - Dakar [1:28:23] Music behind DJ: Willie Dixon - "Walking the Blues (Instrumental)" - The Willie Dixon Collection 20 Golden Greats [1:31:19] Langston Hughes - "Morning After" - The Voice of Langston Hughes [1:36:21] Cherry Wolf - "New Skin Blues" - Fronds (Compilation) [1:37:16] The Flaming Lips - "Talkin' 'Bout The Smiling Deathporn Immortality Blues (Everyone Wants To Live Forever)" - Hit To Death In The Future Head [1:39:34] Grinderman - "No Pussy Blues" - Grinderman [1:43:11] Arab on Radar - "Birth Control Blues" - Yahweh or the Highway [1:47:36] The Giant Worm - "Blue Beach" - Can of Worms (Selected Cuts 1991 - 2013) [1:51:21] Tom “T-Bone” Stankus - "Existential Blues" - Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection: The Greatest Novelty Records Of All Time [1:56:16] Set: Hour 3 Music behind DJ: Woody Herman - "Blue Flame" - Woody Herman's Greatest Hits [2:02:31] Langston Hughes - "Border Line" - The Voice of Langston Hughes [2:08:23] Point Line Plane - "8-Bit Graveyard" - Point Line Plane (2026 Remaster) [2:08:45] The Spits - "Black And Blue" - The Spits [2:12:46] The Wobblies - "Billy Stick Blues" - Flames of Discontent [2:15:36] xbxrx - "Pigs Wear Blue" - Sixth in Sixes [2:17:04] Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band - "My Human Gets Me Blues" - Grow Fins: Rarities 1965-1982 [2:18:32] Music behind DJ: Esquivel and His Orchestra - "Bye Bye Blues" - The Best of Esquivel [2:21:22] Langston...

Duration:03:06:40

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Fumblin' With The Blues Part I: Weird & Blue from Apr 21, 2026

4/22/2026
Set: Hour 1 Jabbo Smith's Rhythm Aces - "Weird And Blue" - The Ultimate Jazz Archive Shadows In Blue - "Mid-Valley Mutations Opening Theme" - Mid-Valley Mutations Opening Theme [0:03:14] Music behind DJ: Jimmy Forrest - "Bolo Blues" [0:04:39] Langston Hughes - "The Story of the Blues" - The Voice of Langston Hughes [0:08:45] Laura Rucker - "Crying The Blues" - The Chess Story: 1947-1975 [0:10:09] Son House - "Mississippi County Farm Blues" - The Stuff Dreams are Made Of: Super Rarities & Unissued Gems of the 1920's and 30's [0:12:52] Pigmeat Terry - "Moaning The Blues" - American Primitive: Pre-War Revenants 1897-1939, Vol. 2 [0:15:33] St. Louis Bessie - "Meat Cutter Blues" - Barrelhouse Mamas: Born In the Alley, Raised Up In the Slum [0:18:11] Jack Gowdlock - "Rollin' Dough Blues" - The Stuff Dreams are Made Of: Super Rarities & Unissued Gems of the 1920's and 30's [0:21:09] Jelly Roll Morton - "Dead Man Blues" - The Complete Library of Congress Recordings By Alan Lomax [0:23:57] Three Stripped Gears - "Alabama Blues" - The Stuff Dreams are Made Of: Super Rarities & Unissued Gems of the 1920's and 30's [0:27:16] Music behind DJ: George Gershwin - "Rhapsody in Blue" - Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue & Concerto en fa [0:30:50] Langston Hughes - "Midnight Raffle" - The Voice of Langston Hughes [0:37:39] Tom Waits - "A Sweet Little Bullet From A Pretty Blue Gun" - Blue Valentine [0:38:22] T. Rex - "Lean Woman Blues" - Electric Warrior [0:43:21] The Cramps - "Muleskinner Blues" - Stay Sick! [0:46:12] Harry Dean Stanton - "Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain" - Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain [0:48:56] the Halo Benders - "Mercury Blues" - Don't Tell Me Now [0:51:06] Flat Duo Jets - "Blues Wrapped Around My Head" - Lucky Eye [0:54:14] Blue Cheer - "Summertime Blues" - Vincebus Eruptum [0:57:23] Set: Hour 2 Music behind DJ: John Frusiante - "Skin Blues" [1:01:07] - "Miss Blue's Child" [1:07:14] The KPSU Pledge Band - "Improv Blues Song" - 16 May 2006 [1:07:43] The Gun Club - "Preaching The Blues" - Fire of Love [1:11:01] Eat Your Heart Out - "Betty Blue Face (Live)" - 28 February 2007 [1:14:59] T.S.O.L. - "Code Blue" - Dance With Me [1:16:50] Manual Sex Drive - "21 Yr. Blues" - Illumiphobia [1:19:00] Howlin' Houndog - "Lowdown, Dirty, Middle Aged Blues" - Goin' To The Country [1:21:38] Dead Moon - "Out In The Blue (Live)" - Hard Wired In Ljubljana [1:25:12] Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - "Blues X Man" - Orange [1:28:02] Music behind DJ: Eddie Lang & Joe Venuti - "The Blue Room" - 1920's And 1930's Sides Remastered [1:33:02] Langston Hughes - "Too Blue" - The Voice of Langston Hughes [1:38:57] Hairspray Blues - "Live Performance on "Songs The Lord Taught Us" Part I" - 04 April 2007 [1:39:45] Set: Hour 3 Hairspray Blues - "Live Performance on "Songs The Lord Taught Us" Part II" - 04 April 2007 [2:01:25] Music behind DJ: Kentucky Ramblers - "Ginseng Blues" - The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of: Super Rarities [2:06:01] Langston Hughes - "Homesick Blues" - The Voice of Langston Hughes [2:11:32] Henry Spaulding - "Cairo Blues" - American Primitive Vol 2: Pre-War Revenants 1897-1939 [2:12:04] Geeshie Wiley - "Skinny Leg Blues" - The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of: Super Rarities [2:14:32] Robert Johnson - "Traveling Riverside Blues" - King Of The Delta Blues [2:17:41] Dock Boggs - "Old Rub Alcohol Blues" - Country Blues: Complete Early Recordings (1927-1929) [2:20:19] Bayless Rose - "Black Dog Blues" - American Primitive Vol. II: Pre-War Revenants (1897-1939) [2:23:31] The Mills Brothers - "Big Boy Blue" - Chronological Vol.4 (1935-1937) [2:26:23] Hank Williams - "Long Gone Lonesome Blues" - The Original Singles Collection [2:29:08] Buddy Guy - "First Time I Met The Blues" - The Chess Story: 1947-1975 [2:31:42] Daniel Johnston - "Chord Organ Blues" - Yip/Jump Music [2:34:11] The Velvet Underground - "Pale Blue Eyes" - The Velvet Underground [2:38:07] Music behind DJ: Louis Armstrong - "Black &...

Duration:03:07:13

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By The Seat of Our Pants II (28th Anniversary Show) from Apr 14, 2026

4/14/2026
Set: AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION! During the live mixes and talk breaks, you can "Call-In" to the show using the link below. When you hear that the "lines are open," you can send in your voice, music, noise... any sound you can make will be picked up and added to the mix. It may also be cut out of the mix, when the show demands it... just like any other call-in sort of situation. BE A PART OF THE SHOW... call in tonight! Set: meet.google.com/hns-viwi-qhh Set: bit.ly/MVMAudienceParticipation Set: Ask Me Anything - Make Requests - It's Your Show Set: Hour 1 ALTO! - "Piece 7 (Excerpt)" - ALTO! [0:00:04] Shadows In Blue - "Mid-Valley Mutations Opening Theme" - Mid-Valley Mutations Opening Theme [0:06:12] Smoke 'N' Mirrors - "Ocean 2" - April 2007 [0:15:51] Brian Eno - "Late Anthropocene" - Small Craft on a Milk Sea [0:23:24] Vortex Remover - "88888888888888" - Rockward Phase [0:31:32] Fragile X - "The Air Below The Earth" - End Without World [0:33:29] Edgard Varèse - "Poem Electronique, 1958" - OHM: The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music (1948-1980) [0:50:27] Set: Hour 2 Austin Rich - "Reads, "Steve Wynn's System for Rating Classic Records"" - From, "Alt Rock-A-Rama" [1:40:56] Andrew Liles & Daniel Menche - "Eggs" - The Progeny of Flies [1:29:55] Dream Syndicate - "Then She Remembers" - Days Of Wine And Roses [1:45:59] Moth Hunter - "Ringer" - Dust [1:49:48] Set: Hour 3 Death Worth Living - "Live" - 4 April 2009 [2:09:20] Santiago Latorre - "Live (04)" - 31 May 2009 [2:50:36] Shadows In Blue - "Mid-Valley Mutations Closing Theme" - Mid-Valley Mutations Closing Theme [2:58:05] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/163234

Duration:03:06:34

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Episode from Apr 13, 2026

4/13/2026
Ken Nordine - "Word Jazz" [0:00:00] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/163193
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By The Seat of Our Pants from Apr 7, 2026

4/8/2026
Set: AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION! During the live mixes and talk breaks, you can "Call-In" to the show using the link below. When you hear that the "lines are open," you can send in your voice, music, noise... any sound you can make will be picked up and added to the mix. It may also be cut out of the mix, when the show demands it... just like any other call-in sort of situation. BE A PART OF THE SHOW... call in tonight! Set: meet.google.com/hns-viwi-qhh Set: bit.ly/MVMAudienceParticipation Set: Hour 1 Mini-Mutations - "Intro" [0:05:37] Shadows In Blue - "Mid-Valley Mutations Opening Theme" - Mid-Valley Mutations Opening Theme [0:05:26] Can - "Animal Waves" [0:14:12] Green Milk From the Planet Orange - "Live" - 14 October 2006 [0:21:01] Moodring - "05 (Live)" - 20 March 2010 [0:45:23] New Red Sun - "02 (Live)" - 2 October 2009 [0:49:45] Set: Hour 2 Mini-Mutations - "Learns How To Play The univac "One Hand Jam" Circuit Bent Toy" - Live On This Show! [1:30:30] Toiletooth - "Live" - 13 March 2010 [1:31:19] Set: Hour 3 George & Caplin - "01 (Live)" - 4 August 2006 [2:11:30] Cornelius F. Van Stafrin III - "Live [Excerpt]" - 5 November 2011 [2:17:22] Dr. Mix & The Remix - "Sister Ray" - Wall of Noise (w. bonus tracks) [2:36:52] Mini-Mutations - "Final Mix" [2:58:27] Shadows In Blue - "Mid-Valley Mutations Closing Theme" - Mid-Valley Mutations Closing Theme [2:58:54] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/162985

Duration:03:06:06

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BCO Takes Over Mid-Valley Mutations from Mar 31, 2026

4/1/2026

Duration:03:07:13