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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 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.

Location:

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.

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English


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... FROM HELL (A Hellraiser Installment) from Oct 7, 2025

10/8/2025
Set: AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION! You can "Call-In" to the show using the link below. Voice, music, noise... any sound you can make will be picked up and added to the mix. There are a handful of times this evening where the lines will be open, and we'll be asking for calls. BE A PART OF THE SHOW. Set: meet.google.com/hns-viwi-qhh Set: bit.ly/MVMAudienceParticipation A Spooktacular Radio Presentation, with: Alan Cook as Merv Angsrom, The Lawyer From Hell. Curtis as Howard The Demon! das of Big City Orchestra as The Headphone Salesperson! The Incomparable DJ Victrola, of Guitar Shop Radio, as The Head Demon! Brandon Dumais as the owner of Lucifer’s Lunchbox! Mitch Headroom as Themselves! Rob Marvin as that lovable Intern. Miss Rikki of the legendary hit show, Closet Radio, as themselves! univac as The Rival Headphone Salesperson! and Heather Zajkowski as Elliot The Demon. Set: Hour 1 Set: Rock And Roll Hell Mid-Valley Mutations - "...IN HELL Part 1" - 7 October 2025 [0:00:40] Napalm Beach - "Rock & Roll Hell" - History Of Portland Punk Vol. 1 [0:04:42] Shadows In Blue - "Mid-Valley Mutations Opening Theme" - Mid-Valley Mutations Opening Theme [0:09:28] Mid-Valley Mutations - "...IN HELL Part 2" - 7 October 2025 [0:10:58] Set: Going To Hell Iggy & the Stooges - "Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell (Iggy Mix)" - Raw Power [0:16:16] Murder City Devils - "Demon Brother" - In Name and Blood [0:21:02] Misfits - "Green Hell" - Misfits [0:23:34] Hazel - "J. Hell" - Toreador of Love [0:25:22] Mid-Valley Mutations - "...IN HELL Part 3" - 7 October 2025 [0:28:07] Set: Life Is A Hell Roky Erickson & the Aliens - "Stand for the Fire Demon" - The Evil One [0:34:02] Railbirds - "Go To Hell (2015 "Creeping Terror" Edit by Austin Rich)" - Killed by Death #14 [0:39:11] Suburban Lawns - "Gidget Goes To Hell" - "Gidget Goes To Hell" b/w "My Boyfriend" [0:41:26] The Kids - "Life Is A Hell (Live 1978)" - The Kids / Naughty Kids 30th Anniversary [0:43:28] Butthole Surfers - "Go To Hell And Die" - Demos '82 [0:45:54] X - "Real Child of Hell" - Under the Big Black Sun [0:47:40] Mid-Valley Mutations - "...IN HELL Part 4" - 7 October 2025 [0:50:33] Set: Hour 2 Set: Demons Sing unwound - "Demons Sing Love Songs" - Leaves Turn Inside You [1:03:43] Tom Waits - "Hell Broke Luce" - Bad As Me [1:07:36] Scott Campbell - "The Gates (of Hell)" - Homework #8 [1:11:24] Steven Jesse Bernstein - "Morning In The Sub-Basement Of Hell" - Prison [1:14:25] MX-80 - "Hell" - We're An American Band [1:18:19] Mid-Valley Mutations - "...IN HELL Part 5" - 7 October 2025 [1:21:48] Set: Little Demon The Clash - "Straight to Hell" - Combat Rock [1:36:13] Messer Chups - "Satan Jeans" - Crazy Price [1:41:23] The Sawyer Family - "Satan in High Heels" - Scary As Hell [1:44:49] Screamin' Jay Hawkins - "Little Demon" - "I Put A Spell On You" b/w "Little Demon" [1:48:16] Robert Johnson - "Hellhound On My Trail" - The Complete Recordings [1:50:36] Mid-Valley Mutations - "...IN HELL Part 6" - 7 October 2025 [1:53:13] Set: Hour 3 Set: Life In Hell plunderphonics - "O'Hell" - ELEKTRAX [2:03:43] The Residents - "Demons Dance Alone" - Demons Dance Alone [2:07:27] John Zorn - "Demon Sanctuary" - Naked City [2:11:04] Chicano-Christ - "Brujeria Goes To Hell" - Chicano-Christ [2:11:46] Mid-Valley Mutations - "...IN HELL Part 7" - 7 October 2025 [2:13:06] Set: Shaking Hell Sonic Youth - "Shaking Hell" - Confusion is Sex [2:25:48] Nomeansno - "Life In Hell" - Wrong [2:29:47] Sun City Girls - "Demon On the Beach" - God Is My Solar System / Superpower [2:33:35] Bad Religion - "Fuck Armaggedon...This is Hell" - How Could Hell Be Any Worse? [2:37:42] Mid-Valley Mutations - "...IN HELL Part 8" - 7 October 2025 [2:40:26] They Might Be Giants - "Snowball In Hell" - Lincoln [2:55:53] Shadows In Blue - "Mid-Valley Mutations Opening Theme" - Mid-Valley Mutations Opening Theme [2:58:46] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/156088

Duration:03:07:10

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Stereogram #13: Reigning CattyWampus Hell In A Hand Made Basket Case of Unread Mixed Bag Messages From A Passive-Aggressive God Throwing Lamp Shade Graven Image Death Rattle Snake Splatterhouse Earthling Unearthing Mean Human Beans ... (w/ Arvo Zylo) from Sep 30, 2025

10/1/2025
Set: Hour 1 Shadows In Blue - "Mid-Valley Mutations Opening Theme" - Mid-Valley Mutations Opening Theme [0:02:31] Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra - "When The Lights Go On Again (All Over The World)" - "When The Lights Go On Again (All Over The World)" b/w "Hip Hip Hooray" [0:04:06] The Weirdos - "A Life of Crime" - Destroy All Music [0:07:08] ALF - "Long Road" - The Demo [The back cover has a band photo with the vocalist in a wheelchair. Not sure if it (the disability) is authentic or not.] [0:09:32] Teengenerate - "Don't Leave Me" - Get Action! [0:11:32] Otoboke Beaver おとぼけビ~バ~ - "Don't Light My Fire ハートに火をつけたならばちゃんと消して帰って" - Itekoma Hits – いてこまヒッツ [0:13:47] Paraf - "Ružan San" - Izleti [Former Yugoslavia, thanks to my friend Kruno for the recommendation.] [0:16:02] Alien Sex Fiend - "Buggin' Me" - "It" The Album [0:19:30] Haunted George - "All Black and Hairy" - Desert Dweller (Unreleased Songs & Verses) [Steve Pallow AKA Haunted George AKA Uncle Yah Yah passed on in 2022. This is a cover of a song by Screaming Lord Sutch. “Desert Dweller” was a posthumous digital release collecting unreleased material. As Uncle Yah Yah, Pallow did a podcast called Haunted Shack that combined spooky sound collage and horror host stylings with informative tidbits about obscure music and film history.] [0:23:10] Music behind DJ: Haunted George - "Panther Howl 19" - Desert Dweller (Unreleased Songs & Verses) [0:26:01] Generation X - "Heavens Inside" - Kiss Me Deadly [British band featuring Steve Jones (ex-Sex Pistols), Tony James (future Sigue Sigue Sputnik), not to mention a precocious Billy Idol. This album includes an early version of “Dancing With Myself” before Billy Idol took it solo.] [0:32:32] Love & Rockets - "Holiday on the Moon" - Express [0:35:32] White Zombie - "Blood, Milk & Sky" - Astro-Creep 2000 (Songs Of Love, Destruction And Other Synthetic Delusions Of The Electric Head) [0:41:47] Schwein - "World's Junk" - Schweinstein [An international collaboration between Hisashi Imai and Sakurai Atsushi of Buck Tick (Japan), Raymond Watts of PIG, and Sascha Konietzko of KMFDM.] [0:47:27] Czarface - "Lumberjack Match" - Every Hero Needs A Villain [0:51:43] Roy Brown & His Mighty Mighty Men - "Butcher Pete Pt. 1" - Lux & Ivy's Favorites Volume 3 [0:54:31] Music behind DJ: Hank Levine and The Blazers - "Midnight" - The Incredibly Strange Record Club [0:57:02] Set: Hour 2 Janet Kay - "Silly Games" - Now That's What I Call 70s Pop [British reggae singer, born in London, who was 21 years old when her single Silly Games rocketed to No. 2 on the UK chart in the summer of 1979. It was one of Britain's biggest ever reggae hits, and was a perfect example of the genre's tender soulful category known as Lovers Rock.... ...Silly Games had a quirky distinguishing feature, that of Janet's thin voice straining to reach the ultra-high notes of the song's climax.It remained her only pop crossover hit...] [1:01:54] Patty Duke - "One Kiss Away" - Patty [1:05:55] Julie London - "Yummy Yummy Yummy" - Yummy, Yummy, Yummy [1:09:06] Kurt Russell - "Sugar Sugar" - Kurt Russell [1:12:00] Nancy Sit - "Dizzy" - Obladi Oblada [From China.] [1:14:54] Naomi & the Boys - "As Tears Go By" - Girls In The Garage Volume 9 [From Singapore] [1:17:46] Lesley Gore - "I'm Going Out (The Same Way I Came In)" - "California Nights" b/w "I'm Going Out (The Same Way I Came In)" [1:20:10] Zouzou - "Mes Convenances" - L'Integrale [“Mes Convenances” is a track by the band “Calcium” featuring Zouzou AKA Danièle Ciarlet on vocals. Calcium did a single in 1969, but their full length self-titled album was shelved due to poor sales from the single (lack of promotion), until 2017, when it was unearthed on vinyl by Monster Melodies.] [1:22:41] Music behind DJ: The Moog Machine - "Yummy Yummy Yummy" - Switched On Rock [1:26:01] Diabolicum - "The Grandeur Of Hell (Moloch) / Serenade Of The Imperial Darkness" - The Grandeur Of Hell (Soli...

Duration:03:06:11

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Hangin' On The Telephone Part Five from Sep 23, 2025

9/24/2025
Set: AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION! You can "Call-In" to the show using the link below. Voice, music, noise... any sound you can make will be picked up and added to the mix. BE A PART OF THE SHOW. Set: meet.google.com/hns-viwi-qhh Set: bit.ly/MVMAudienceParticipation Mini-Mutations - "Tonight's Setup" Set: Hour 1 Men's Recovery Project feat. Mojo Nixon - "Domestic Phone Call (Wankle-Rotary Engine Remix)" - Frank Talk About Humans [0:00:07] Shadows In Blue - "Mid-Valley Mutations Opening Theme" - Mid-Valley Mutations Opening Theme [0:00:34] Music behind DJ: The Nerves - "Hangin' On The Telephone (Instrumental)" - The Nerves [0:02:00] The Time - "777-9311" - What Time Is It? [0:07:56] Mini-Mutations - "Mix 1" - 23 September 2025 [0:16:58] Stevie & The Secrets - "Gimme A Call (When You Know Something About Rock 'n' Roll)" - Gimme A Call (When You Know Something About Rock 'n' Roll) [0:36:33] Mini-Mutations - "Mix 2" - 23 September 2025 [0:57:26] Loretta Lynn - "Lonesome 7-7203" - Loretta Lynn Sings [0:56:59] Set: Hour 2 Mini-Mutations - "Mix 3" - 23 September 2025 [1:15:02] The B-52's - "6060-842" - The B-52's [1:21:39] Mini-Mutations - "Mix 4" - 23 September 2025 [1:30:49] Imaginos Desdinova and Suno Al - "Detective Collective" [1:58:04] Set: Hour 3 Mini-Mutations - "Mix 5" - 23 September 2025 [2:18:00] The Mothers - "Billy The Mountain" - Just Another Band from L.A. [2:18:30] Tommy Tutone - "867-5309/Jenny" - 2 [2:55:00] Shadows In Blue - "Mid-Valley Mutations Ending Theme" - Mid-Valley Mutations Ending Theme [2:58:55] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/156086

Duration:03:06:33

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Found In The Demento Dimension III: Janitor's Jubilee from Sep 16, 2025

9/17/2025
Set: Hour 1 Set: Introduction Xeres & Austin - "Found In The Demento Dimension I" - Found In The Demento Dimension [0:00:20] Shadows In Blue - "Mid-Valley Mutations Opening Theme" - Mid-Valley Mutations Opening Theme [0:03:01] Set: Cosmic Questions Xeres & Austin - "Found In The Demento Dimension II" - Found In The Demento Dimension [0:04:31] King Missile - "Socks" - King Missile [0:07:14] Ken Nordine - "Cracks in the Ceiling" - Stare With Your Ears [0:09:29] The Space Lady - "Humdinger" - The Space Lady's Greatest Hits [0:14:00] Ivor Cutler - "Beautiful Cosmos" - Jammy Smears [0:16:36] The Rutles - "Questionnaire" - Archaeology [0:18:39] Allan Sherman - "Harvey and Shiela" - My Son, The Celebrity [0:21:23] Music behind DJ: Flipper - "Brainwash" - "Sexbomb" b/w "Brainwash" [0:24:54] Set: Food & Drink Xeres & Austin - "Found In The Demento Dimension III" - Found In The Demento Dimension [0:27:35] Neil (Nigel Planer) - "Neil the Barbarian / Lentin Nightmare" - Neil's Heavy Concept Album [0:30:08] Arrogant Worms - "Carrot Juice Is Murder" - Russell's Shorts [0:37:05] Negativland - "Nesbitt's Lime Soda Song" - Escape From Noise [0:40:30] Larry Groce - "Junk Food Junkie" - "Junk Food Junkie" b/w "Muddy Boggy Banjo Man" [0:43:36] Wesley Willis - "Rock 'N Roll McDonald's" - Greatest Hits [0:46:45] Splodgenessabounds - "Two Pints of Lager & A Packet of Crisps Please" - Simon Templar [0:49:07] The Rutles - "Cheese And Onions" - I Must Be In Love / Cheese & Onions / With A Girl Like You [0:51:04] Music behind DJ: John Morris - "The French Chef Theme" - Television's Greatest Hits Vol. 4: Black & White Classics [0:53:40] Set: Flights of Fancy Xeres & Austin - "Found In The Demento Dimension IV" - Found In The Demento Dimension [0:59:15] Set: Hour 2 Spike Jones & His City Slickers - "My Old Flame" - Spike Jones Favorites [1:03:04] Tom Lehrer - "The Masochism Tango" - More of Tom Lehrer [1:06:37] Flight of the Conchords - "Fashion is Danger" - I Told You I Was Freaky [1:09:38] Ivor Cutler - "Everybody Got" - Jammy Smears [1:12:13] Shel Silverstein - "Jimmy Jet and His TV Set" - Where The Sidewalk Ends [1:13:59] The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - "My Brother Makes the Noises For the Talkies" - Gorilla [1:14:59] Spike Jones - "The Man on The Flying Trapeeze" - "William Tell Overture" b/w "The Man On The Flying Trapeze" [1:18:00] The Royal Guardsmen - "Snoopy vs. The Red Baron" - Snoopy And His Friends [1:20:58] Ron Goodwin and the John McCarthy Chorus - "Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines" - Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines [1:23:40] Allan Sherman - "Crazy Downtown" - "Crazy Downtown" b/w "The Drop-Outs March" [1:26:43] Music behind DJ: Piero Umiliani - "Mah Na' Mah Na'" - Svezia, Inferno e Paradiso (Sweden Heaven and Hell) [1:29:36] Set: Creatures Xeres & Austin - "Found In The Demento Dimension V" - Found In The Demento Dimension [1:34:43] Stan Freberg - "St. George & The Dragonet" - "St. George And The Dragonet" b/w "Little Blue Riding Hood" [1:36:03] Trout Fishing in America - "When I Was a Dinosaur" - Big Trouble [1:39:35] Wolfman Jack - "Moose Violinist" - Greatest Radio Bits [1:42:05] Nervous Norvus - "I Wish I Was a Monkey" - More Tales From The Land Of.. ZORCH [1:42:52] The Ivy Three - "Yogi" - "Yogi" b/w "Was Judy There" [1:44:16] Nation Lampoon / Paul Jacobs - "Lemmings Lament" - Lemmings [1:46:27] Music behind DJ: Tim Wright & Brian Johnston - "Lemmings Theme Music" - Lemmings [1:49:46] Set: Famous People Xeres & Austin - "Found In The Demento Dimension VI" - Found In The Demento Dimension [1:51:10] Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper - "Elvis Is Everywhere" - Bo-Day-Shus!!! [1:54:44] Set: Hour 3 Flight of the Conchords - "Bowie" - Flight of the Conchords [1:59:42] Splodgenessabounds - "I've Got Lots of Famous People Living Under the Floorboards of My Humble Abode" - Splodgenessabounds [2:02:46] Lemon Demon - "The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny" -...

Duration:03:06:38