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Blurred and Obscured with Jonathan Herweg | 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.

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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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

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Coded Secret Whispers-Painting by Katy Moran from Mar 29, 2026

3/30/2026
- "Absolutely Real/Adult Entertainment/Transmission Begins" [0:00:00] George Orwell - "Imagine A Boot Stamping On A Human Face Forver" [Excerpt from the documentary Orwell: A Life in Pictures (BBC, 2003). IN the scene, actor Chris Langham plays Orwell in an imaginary interview, merging the author's documented statements with excerpts from 1984] [0:00:40] Gen Ken Montgomery - "What Did You Say?" - Greatest Hits [0:01:09] Vladislav Delay Quintet - "Two" - VD5 [https://vladislavdelay.bandcamp.com] [0:01:42] Corum - "The Mirroracle" - Web Of Midnight [https://psychicsounds.bandcamp.com/album/web-of-midnight] [0:04:58] Papir - "A10''" - 10'' [https://papir.bandcamp.com/album/1] [0:12:11] Music behind DJ: Gas - "Gas 1" - Nah Und Fern [0:24:35] Don Bajema - "Tributaries" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeSkP5gdSro] [0:33:07] Nathan Bowels - "Left Three" - Seven Lefts [https://nathanbowles.bandcamp.com/album/seven-lefts] [0:35:50] Kelby Clark - "Lacy's Blues" - Living Memory [https://kelbyclark.bandcamp.com/album/living-memory] [0:45:16] The Sun Also Rises - "Death" - The Sun Also Rises [0:50:22] Bonner Kramer/Thurston Moore - "Urn Burial" - They Came Like Swallows [https://bonnerkramerthurstonmoore.bandcamp.com/album/they-came-like-swallows] [0:54:59] Music behind DJ: Gas - "Gas 1" - Nah Und Fern [1:02:47] Dennis Callaci and L. Eugene Methe - "Cherry Red Blues" - The Last Chance Lottery [https://thegertrudetapes.bandcamp.com/album/the-last-chance-lottery] [1:03:58] Tyler Holmes - "Campanulate" - Patience [https://ratskinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/patience] [1:05:17] Marta Forsberg - "Dreamers (feat. Rupert Enticknap)" - Archaeology of Intimacy [https://martaforsberg.bandcamp.com/album/archaeology-of-intimacy] [1:07:02] Julien Ash & Philippe Neau - "Le Puits aux Sons" - Notes de saisons [https://lotophagusrecords.bandcamp.com] [1:13:58] Elko Blijweert & Anla Courtis - "BA (Buenos Antwerp)" - Buenos Antwerp [https://ultraeczema.bandcamp.com] [1:19:11] Édition d’Art - "Caravane en pleurs" - Déploiement de l’immuable [https://kashual.bandcamp.com/album/d-ploiement-de-l-immuable] [1:28:54] Gas - "Gas 1" - Nah und Fern [1:31:44] Colleen - "Mis armas se habían caído al suelo" - Libres antes del final [https://colleencolleen.bandcamp.com/album/libres-antes-del-final] [1:36:42] TOMO - "vielle-electronica (lp version)" - Wheel of Life [https://knotwilg.bandcamp.com/album/wheel-of-life] [1:38:52] Sam Harris - "Revenge Of The Humanites" [https://www.facebook.com/reel/1161415442649586] [1:45:59] KVATHORY - "Parafunction" - Ardis [https://mediteranos.bandcamp.com/album/ardis Label est. 2019 Independent label From the vaults ov 𝔓𝔞𝔩𝔢𝔰𝔱𝔦𝔫𝔢] [1:46:51] Ivo Perelman - "Ivo/Sharp-Seven" - Trifecta [Ivo Perelman - Tenor Saxophone Elliott Sharp - Guitar] [1:48:29] Misha Panfilov - "Movement # 1" - Music For The Film "Who I Am" [https://mpsc.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-the-film-who-i-am] [1:50:47] Whitney Johnson, Lia Kohl, Macie Stewart - "burning | counting (sleeping)" - Body Sound [https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/body-sound] [1:51:58] Hedvig Mollestad Weejuns - "Bitches Blues" - Digital Single'' [https://hedvigmollestadweejuns.bandcamp.com] [1:54:25] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/162584

Duration:02:07:40

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Surmise Conjecture and Hypothesis- drawing by Megan Wolfkill from Mar 22, 2026

3/23/2026
- "Absolutely Real/Adult Entertainment/Transmission Begins" [0:00:00] Parenthetical Girls - "The Best Thing" - The Scottish Play: Wherein the Group Parenthetical Girls Pay Well-intentioned (if Occasionally Misguided) Tribute To the Works of Ivor Cutler [https://parentheticalgirls.bandcamp.com/album/the-scottish-play-wherein-the-group-parenthetical-girls-pay-well-intentioned-if-occasionally-misguided-tribute-to-the-works-of-ivor-cutler] [0:01:27] Ken Montgomery - "Killing The Time" - Blurred Words 2026 [0:01:29] Phillip Roth - "Sula Morte (Death It Stuns Me)" [0:01:45] Heith & Tarawangsawelas - "Blue Kembang" - Duori [https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/duori] [0:01:53] Ak’chamel, The Givers of Illness - "We Sleep in the Self" - Spiritually Unemployed [https://akuphone.bandcamp.com/album/spiritually-unemployed] [0:04:30] Michael Page, Rob Williams, Nik Turner - "Rorrim II" - Page/Williams/Turner [https://oppositerecords.bandcamp.com/album/page-williams-turner] [0:06:41] Gas - "Gas 1" - Nah Und Fern [0:26:59] Richard Burton - "In Tenebris 1 - The Souls Of The Slain" - The Poetry Of Thomas Hardy Read By Richard Burton [0:35:43] Million Brazilians - "Wet Dry Jungala Pt. 6" - Wet Dry Jungle [https://moonglyph.bandcamp.com/album/wet-dry-jungala] [0:36:51] NICOLAS LEIRTRØ'S ACTION NOW! - "Entrance" - Entrance [https://nicolasleirtro.bandcamp.com/album/entrance] [0:41:53] Parenthetical Girls - "A Nuance" - The Scottish Play: Wherein the Group Parenthetical Girls Pay Well-intentioned (if Occasionally Misguided) Tribute To the Works of Ivor Cutler [0:46:44] Schatterau - "Tausend Jahre" - Wir gingen durch leere Stunden [https://schatterau.bandcamp.com/album/wir-gingen-durch-leere-stunden] [0:47:17] Hans Reichel - "Unidentified Dancing Object" - Dalbergia Retusa [https://blacktruffle.bandcamp.com/album/dalbergia-retusa] [0:49:23] Earth Jerks - "The White Rose" - File #19 [https://computertapes.bandcamp.com/album/file-19] [0:51:02] Bill Orcutt - "Unexpectedly Heavy" - Music In Continuous Motion [0:54:22] Bill Orcutt - "Because Sharp Also Smooth" - Music In Continuous Motion [0:56:53] Music behind DJ: Gas - "Gas 1" - Nah und Fern [0:58:47] Harriet Tubman - "Five Points" - The Terror End of Beauty [https://harriettubman.bandcamp.com/album/the-terror-end-of-beauty] [1:05:09] Miles Davis - "Konda" - Star Gazer Cosmic Fusion And Interstellar Jazz [1:08:32] ANDY BOAY - "I Want More" - You Took That Walk For The Two Of Us [https://andyboay.bandcamp.com] [1:22:15] Arp - "Orpheus & E (with Patrick Belaga)" - Drifts [Arp is the alias of New York-based artist composer / producer Alexis Georgopoulos https://arpetc.bandcamp.com/album/drifts] [1:26:54] Illat - "Hangulat03" - Hangulat [https://ujbala.bandcamp.com/album/hangulat] [1:30:51] Bellbird - "If You Can't Swim, Dance" - Root In Tandem [https://arpetc.bandcamp.com/album/drifts] [1:33:25] Music behind DJ: Gas - "Gas 1" - Nah Und Fern [1:39:05] Rolf Gehlhaar - "Harmonics" - Wege / Ways [https://metaphon2.bandcamp.com] [1:44:29] Elori Saxl & Henry Solomon - "Dream" - Seeing Is Forgetting [https://elorisaxl.bandcamp.com/album/seeing-is-forgetting] [1:50:00] The Glass Key - "Raining In Reverse" - Memoria [https://echodelickrecords.bandcamp.com/album/memoria] [1:51:50] Old Saw - "Pearlash" - The Wringing Cloth [https://oldsawtownandcountry.bandcamp.com/album/the-wringing-cloth] [1:56:43] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/162307

Duration:02:07:41