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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.

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East Orange, NJ

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WFMU

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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.

Language:

English


Episodes
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An Unequal Struggle With Destiny--LIVE Set by Eliot Krimsky--print by Josef Albers "Formulations - Articulations I & II" from Sep 28, 2025

9/28/2025
N/A - "Absolutely Real/Adult Entertainment/Transmission Begins" Anne Waldman - "I Sing the Anthropocene Deathwish" - Your Devotee in Rags [https://annewaldman.bandcamp.com/album/your-devotee-in-rags] Christer Bothén - "Reh Chergi" - Christer Bothén Donso n’goni [https://blacktruffle.bandcamp.com/album/christer-both-n-donso-n-goni] [0:03:49] Valentina Goncharova - "The Constant" - Zen Experience in Music [0:11:15] LÉO LA NUIT - "LA MER PLEURE ft. Oliver Foster" - LE DON DES LARMES [https://leolanuit.bandcamp.com/album/le-don-des-larmes] [0:13:20] Manoir Molle - "Un Jour" - Accords [https://pylone-editions.bandcamp.com/album/accords] [0:16:42] Ak'chamel - "I Call You Into Being From Nothing" - Rawskulled [https://akuphone.bandcamp.com/album/rawskulled] [0:21:06] Music behind DJ: Gas - "Gas 1" - Nah und Fern [0:24:15] Cate Le Bon - "Ride feat. John Cale" - Michelangelo Dying [https://catelebon.bandcamp.com/album/michelangelo-dying] [0:31:11] Rueben F Scarf - "Drugging" - The Best of The Night Air Vol 1 [https://www.abc.net.au/listen/radionational The Night Air was a weekly ABC Radio National program that remixed a variety of media around different themes. The show was broadcast nationally across Australia from 2002 to 2013 and is partly available as a podcast.] [0:34:52] Las Barbas Indómitas - "Claro Jhonny, así es" - Vol.1 [https://mascarponediscos.bandcamp.com] [0:38:47] Sir Richard Bishop - "Infernale con Bravura" - Theme For An Imaginary SM Session [0:41:33] Lawrence Ferlinghetti - "Pity The Nation" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKCblAJtzgE] [0:43:22] Ppaulus & Frere - "Binomisé" - Double album [https://larepubliquedesgranges.bandcamp.com/album/] [0:44:25] PicoFarad - "Ephemerons" - survival techniques from the old world vol. 1 [https://picofarad.bandcamp.com/album/survival-techniques-from-the-old-world-vol-1] [0:48:44] Nat Birchall - "The Black Ark" - World Without Form volume 1 Special Edition [https://natbirchallmusic.bandcamp.com/album/world-without-form-volume-1-special-edition] [0:49:56] Music behind DJ: Gas - "Gas" - Nah und Fern [0:59:35] Eliot Krimsky - "Feel I'm Getting Closer/Chasing My Shadow/Through The Feeling/Time Weaver/ Long Way/In The Field Of Memory/My Heart Snaps Out To You/Ghost In The Garden/Breathing Love" - Live In Studio B 9-28-25 [1:04:39] Eliot Krimsky - "Silhouettes Rising" - Blurred Words 2025 [1:40:25] Music behind DJ: Gas - "gas 1" - Nah und Fern [1:43:13] FM Orchester - "Schlendrian" - FM Orchester [https://cosimapitz.bandcamp.com/album/fm-orchester] [1:46:07] NCRTYP - "HRD" - POWER [https://ncrtyp.bandcamp.com/album/power] [1:48:59] Albumen - "No Wine Before It's Time" - Albumen [Greg Kelley/Mike Watt https://eiderdownrecords.bandcamp.com/album/albumen] [1:50:45] Matana Roberts, Josh Abrams & Chad Taylor - "Equally Strong" - Sticks and Stones [1:56:37] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/156518

Duration:02:09:44

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Collective Myth, Reality and Conscience-LIVE set by Organs Obsolete——painting “Cleaning Brushes” by Kendar Brock from Sep 21, 2025

9/21/2025
- "Absolutely Real/Adult Entertainment/Transmission Begins" [0:00:00] Raymond Antrobus & Evelyn Glennie - "The Noise (featuring Precious Perez)" - Another Noise [0:01:10] Surface Of The Earth - "Shadow Report" - In Colour [https://knotwilg.bandcamp.com/album/in-colour] [0:02:05] Robert Lax - "One moment passes, another comes on - Part 1" - Living in the present [https://robertlax.bandcamp.com] [0:06:29] Nÿland - "Soil Worship" - Contingent Overlay [https://kringloopkassettes.bandcamp.com/album/contingent-overlay] [0:12:18] Soccer Committee - "Unrequited Love" - EYE [0:19:09] Roda - "Everglades" - On Exploding Views [Ross Scott-Buccleuch and Daniel Vujanić https://cosmicwinnetou.bandcamp.com/album/on-exploding-views-cw71] [0:20:27] Julien Ash & Christophe Petchanatz - "Deep Avatar" - Ciel de Mouches [https://lotophagusrecords.bandcamp.com] [0:23:59] Music behind DJ: Gas - "Gas 1" - Nah und Fern [0:28:50] Organs Obsolete - "Camel Lung" [A rare vocal track Submitted to the 2025 "Blurred Words" Project..] [0:35:41] Organs Obsolete - "Opening Credits/Seasonal Fruits/Day's Dissertation/Common Cause/Highway Scene" - Live In Studio B 9-21-25 [0:37:34] Music behind DJ: Gas - "Gas 1" - Nah und Fern [1:04:36] Human Adult Band - "Aentenna Solutions" - Sour Flashback Fleas [https://budtapes.bandcamp.com/album/sour-flashback-fleas] [1:07:50] Overmacht - "Noli Me Tangere" - Magonia [https://abstrakce.bandcamp.com] [1:08:53] Anna Nacher & Marek Styczynski - "Matka Ryb/Fish Mother" - Barycz [1:11:45] Paddy Steer - "Mechanical Advantage" - D'une oreille à l'autre [1:19:11] The Dwarfs Of East Agouza - "Titular" - Sasquatch Landslide [https://constellation.bandcamp.com/album/sasquatch-landslide] [1:20:38] The Holy Mountain Orchestra, OM, Six Organs of Admittance - "Song for JW" - Song For Jw [The Holy Mountain Orchestra is Al Cisneros, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Ben Chasny and Matthew Tobias. They play in honor of the late John Whitson, who founded and operated one of the world's greatest independently-run record labels.] [1:27:27] Music behind DJ: Gas - "Gas 1" - Nah und Fern [1:33:39] George Carlin - "The FCC" - What am I Doing in New Jersey? [1:38:27] Günter Schlienz - "wolkersdorf (excerpt)" - Mikrofonie [https://cosmicwinnetou.bandcamp.com] [1:39:55] Jonny Thomson - "The Evil Of Stupid" - Mini Philosophy [1:48:39] Razen - "sao truc mirage" - Mirages [https://kraak.bandcamp.com/album/mirages] [1:49:59] Will Veeder - "Those On Staff" - Exit Interview [https://carbon-records.bandcamp.com/album/exit-interview] [1:54:03] Use Knife - "A Reckoning" - État Coupable [https://useknife.bandcamp.com/album/tat-coupable] [1:57:31] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/156249

Duration:02:08:28

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Emotional, Cognitive, And Behavioral -Painting "Untiled F" by Estaban Vicente from Sep 14, 2025

9/14/2025
- "Absolutely Real/Adult Entertainment/Transmission Begins" [0:00:00] Mark Strand - "Keeping Things Whole" - In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poetry [0:01:02] Cecyl Ruehlen - "B" - Sferics [https://cecylruehlen.bandcamp.com/album/sferics] [0:03:02] Portland Vows - "Little Yellow Box" - The Witches Of Hopwas Woods (circa. 1984) [https://portland-vows.bandcamp.com/album/the-witches-of-hopwas-woods-circa-1984 "Inspired by the events of Halloween 1984, when a number of local witches were arrested for dancing naked in Hopwas Woods (Staffordshire), not far from where I grew up. The story, printed in a local newspaper, prompted me and a few friends to visit the woods a couple of days later. There we found remnants of fires and what looked to us like occult symbols fashioned from branches, twigs and grass. We were terrified and thrilled in equal measure."] [0:19:50] Music behind DJ: Gas - "Gas 1" - Nah Und Fern [0:25:06] Silence Collapses - "SC.01" - Silence Collapses [https://dirkwachtelaer.bandcamp.com/album/silence-collapse gert de meester: bass and electronics jean-jaques duerinckx: saxophone dirk wachtelaer: drums] [0:31:55] Albumen - "Paradise Or The Sea" - Albumen [https://eiderdownrecords.bandcamp.com/album/albumen] [0:34:32] The Cosmic Tones Research Trio - "Sankofa" - The Cosmic Tones Research Trio [https://mississippirecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-cosmic-tones-research-trio] [0:39:41] S.O.S. (John Surman, Mike Osborne, Alan Skidmore) - "The Mountain Road" - Looking For The Next One [0:44:28] Abdullah Miniawy - "Poem of the poems قصيدة القصائد" - Peacock dreams أَحْلَامُ الطَّاوُوسِ [https://abdullahminiawy.bandcamp.com/album/peacock-dreams] [0:49:16] DJ Female Convict Scorpion - "Heather Leigh / Franco Micalizzi" - Clash Ups VI [https://joshpollock.bandcamp.com/album/clash-ups-vi] [0:52:10] Elsa Hewitt - "Snow White Lily" - Camera From Mars [https://elsahewitt.bandcamp.com/album/cameras-from-mars-4] [0:57:17] Music behind DJ: Gas - "Gas 1" - Nah Und Fern [1:01:55] Sebastiano Carghini - "Cheesey Art" - Ramble [https://sebastianocarghini.bandcamp.com/album/ramble] [1:07:34] - "Tape Loop Mastery" [The dialogue in this clip is taken from the introduction to a pre-Radiophonic Workshop broadcast on the BBC of “Private Dreams and Public Nightmares”] [1:10:20] Paula Rebellato - "The Second Season" - Tape Loops Vol.1 [Visit https://paularebellato.bandcamp.com] [1:11:03] William Burroughs - "Drug Hysteria" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZszbqdOq7g] [1:15:58] Normifacation - "047-NUPG-SR" - Normification [https://normification.bandcamp.com/album/normification-diag071] [1:16:40] RG - "Simples Amis" - Premier rapport [François Galland: modular synth Quentin Rollet: alto & sopranino saxophones, Korg Monotron Delay] [1:17:33] C-Section 8 - "0:00-8:00 = Entry/ hall of dinosaurs/ world of change" - Sonic Accompaniment To The Yale Peabody Museum [https://csection8.bandcamp.com/album/sonic-accompaniment-to-the-yale-peabody-museumThe Yale Peabody Museum in New Haven, CT is a 150+ year old museum of natural history and science that is free and open to the public. This piece of music is intended to guide the visitor through curated sound in their headphones and allow them to further engage with the exhibits by isolating into their aural environment. Take a map on your way in. When traversing between floors I suggest taking the main staircase to the left of the entrance if possible.] [1:24:14] Music behind DJ: Gas - "Gas 1" - Nah Und [1:32:17] Steve Pepe - "Arabia per Delfina" - Arabia per Delfina [https://randomnumbers.bandcamp.com/album/arabia-per-delfina] [1:37:18] Coni - "Bleaching Colors" - Bleaching Colors [https://firecampmusic.bandcamp.com/album/bleaching-colors] [1:42:18] Valentino Mora - "III1IIIIIIIIII5IIIIIIIII" - Biotope [https://valentinomora.bandcamp.com/album/biotope] [1:48:45] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/156114

Duration:02:08:47

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The Love You Didn't Learn-Pianting by Reijer Stolk from Sep 7, 2025

9/7/2025
- "Absolutely Real/Adult Entertainment/Transmission Begins" [0:00:00] Simone Weil - "Excerpt from "Attention and Pure Silence"" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKyf-TdJ9gk] [0:00:47] American Cream Band - "Désir d'Etat" - Embrace You Millions [https://realamericancream.bandcamp.com/album/embrace-you-millions] [0:00:48] Mads Emil Nielsen + Chromacolor - "Heartbeats" - Heartbeats [https://madsemilnielsenchromacolor.bandcamp.com/album/heartbeats] [0:03:47] Simone Weil - "The Stars Enter Into One Song" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKyf-TdJ9gk] [0:11:39] Gwenifer Raymond - "Jack Parsons Blues" - Last Night I Heard The Dog Star Bark [https://gweniferraymond.bandcamp.com] [0:12:04] Anastasia Coope - "Mattered And Sworn" - Seemeely [0:15:45] Helena Espvall/Ernesto Diaz-Infante/Marjorie Sturm - "there is Appearance, from which they ramify" - a shadowed fulguration [https://paxrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/a-shadowed-fulguration] [0:17:48] Music behind DJ: Gas - "Gas 1" - Nah Und Fern [0:26:40] La Chooma - "Praise" - Local Spirits [https://lachooma.bandcamp.com/album/local-spirits] [0:35:41] Earth Sounds Now - "lll" - Convergence [https://otherpeople.bandcamp.com/album/convergence] [0:38:27] Piotr Kurek - "Try To Be True" - Songs and Bodies [https://piotrkurek.bandcamp.com] [0:43:43] Larum - "Treatise 3 (Live at Public Records)" - Treatise by Cornelius Cardew [https://12kmusic.bandcamp.com/album/treatise-by-cornelius-cardew Micah Frank: Modular Synthesizer Chet Doxas: Woodwinds and Foley Taylor Deupree: Looping and Processing] [0:47:35] Music behind DJ: Gas - "Gas 1" - Nah Und Fern [0:58:44] Elvis Costello - "Weird Nightmare [Album Version]" - Hal Willner Presents Weird Nightmare: Meditations On Mingus [1:03:25] Hainbach & Simon Spiess - "Inside the String" - We Collide, We Shatter, We Grow [https://hainbach.bandcamp.com/album/we-collide-we-shatter-we-grow] [1:06:30] Mountain Movers - "Sun Is Coming Up" - Song Above The Land: A Compilation For Palestine [https://halfamillion.bandcamp.com/album/song-above-the-land-a-compilation-for-palestine] [1:08:39] Dale Cornish - "Bring Out Your Dead" - Altruism [1:13:17] Anthony Aguilar and Josephine Guilbeau - "Complicit n Genocide!" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7_Wb7DgzWk] [1:14:11] Mondo Lava - "Vulva Dei" - Utereo Dei [https://mondolava.bandcamp.com/album/utero-dei] [1:16:15] Simone Weil - "Attention Is The Purest Form Of Generosity" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKyf-TdJ9gk] [1:20:46] Gerauschhersteller - "Transmission 2B" - Transmissions [https://gerauschhersteller.bandcamp.com/album/transmissions This is a collection of live improvised electronic music. Last winter, we were rehearsing and exploring Stockhausen’s indeterminate scores – particularly those using short wave radio as source material. We had also been studying the legacy of Hugh Davies. Following our usual methodology, this was a purposeful and recursive meander, involving research, discussion, experiment and rehearsal.] [1:21:45] - "The Hideous Truth" [1:24:59] Ivan the Tolerable - "Twelfth Night" - House of the Hidden Light [https://ivanthetolerable.bandcamp.com/album/house-of-the-hidden-light-2lp-dl-stolen-body-records-2025] [1:25:32] Music behind DJ: Gas - "Gas 1" - Nah und Fern [1:32:05] Raphael Rogiński - "Spirituals" - Plays John Coltrane and Langston Hughes [Bonus Track https://raphaelroginski.bandcamp.com/album/plays-john-coltrane-and-langston-hughes] [1:37:57] Lea Bertucci - "Sister of Sleep" - The Oracle [https://leabertucci.bandcamp.com/album/the-oracle] [1:44:31] Okyung Lee - "Let's Walk Down To Thw Swamp Together" - just like any other day (어느날): background music for your mundane activities [1:55:48] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/155833

Duration:02:08:36