Experimental, Post-Punk, Noise, Drone & Beauty.
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Posthumous Wally Shoup brilliance, new Bill Horist, new RLLRBLL, classic This Heat and so much more expunkimental music for Freeform Portland! PLAYLIST: Wally ShoupRe-Viewing Influences2X4tet2024Right Brain RecordsKo Shin MoonGasba78 Fragments2019Total TotemBill HoristAgents of the Lazarus TaxaSUBSTRATUM2024Right Brain RecordsRLLRBLLGolden SmokeGil…
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Psyching out from inner space. New RLLRBLL, New Bob Bucko Jr., New Tape Hiss, and a whole lot MORE! PLAYLIST: ArtistSongReleaseReleasedLabelRavi ShankarDhun Kafi (Spring Season)Into the Sixties Towards a Cosmic Music2024Cherry RedDr. Strangely StrangeRoy RogersLes Cousins2024Cherry RedRLLRBLLIrish NodIrish Nod – Single2024NillacatDaphne OramUrsa Ma…
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The great DJ Victrola needed a last minute substitute for Guitar Shop Radio on Freeform Portland and Team What’s This Called? jumped up to help! PLAYLIST: ArtistSongReleaseLabelThurston MooreThe Great TranslatorLuminous Mind (Four for Naropa)Ecstatic PeaceWilcoRadio Cure (2022 Remaster)Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2022 Remaster)NonesuchPSANCKClouds HouseP…
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13 #ExpunkimentalMusic Leopards to Nektar PLAYLIST: Leopards Ghost Cracked GlassLeopards2002Kill Pop TartsTim BuckleyI Never Asked to Be Your MountainGoodbye and Hello1967Rhino/ElektraBrandee YoungerSoul AwakeningSoul Awakening2019Brandee Younger Sun City GirlsFuneral MariachiFuneral Mariachi2012AbductionExpo 70Journey to the SunSonic Messenger2009…
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DJ Victrola is out and graciously asked Ricardo Wang to fill in for Guitar Shop Radio on Freeform Portland! Heaviness ensued. Slaylist: “All The World’s A Lounge” by Dandelion Adventure on John Peel Session – released by 1990 in Pumf Records & Tapes “Notre Dame (Mothership) – Edit” by Guru Freakout on Space Rock: an Interstellar Traveler’s Guide – …
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Season of the Shark… PLAYLIST: “عالم تاني Other World” by Maya Al Khaldi on Other World عالم تاني – released by Tawleef in 2022-03-16 “Redundance 5” by Porter Ricks on Porter Ricks – released by Mille Plateaux in 2021-09-24 “Global Warning” by Malcolm Jiyane Tree-O on TRUE STORY – released by New Soil in 2024-06-14 “Season of the Shark” by Yo La Te…
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Calm descends into chaos. PLAYLIST: “Lazy Calm” by Cocteau Twins on Victorialand – released by 4AD in 1986-04-14 “monsoon (edit)” by William Hooker, Roger Miller, Lee Ranaldo on monsoon – released by Atavistic in 2002 “Under God” by Clang Quartet on The Separation Of Church & Hate – released by Silber Records in 2003 “Unexpected Lodestar” by Time R…
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Asa, Lennon, and Ricardo all chime in with a plea to help support Freeform Porltand! If you are able, please consider becoming a Friend of Freeform. PLAYLIST: “The House of Eternal Being” by Sun Ra & His Arkestra on Live at Montreux – released by Inner City Records in 1976 “Metal Fingers in My Body” by Add N To (X) on Avant Hard – released by Mute …
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Lennon takes the lead on this extra show for Freeform Portland! PLAYLIST: Stray “All In Your Mind” [Stray (Expanded Edition)] Xiu Xiu “Hives Hives” [Knife Play] Chrome “Zero Time” [Half Machine Lip Moves / Alien Soundtracks] Aphex Twin “Xtal” [Selected Ambient Works 85-92] Shirley Kent “Butterfly On The Shore” [Sumer Is Icumen In: The Pagan Sound O…
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emergent radio for Freeform Portland. PLAYLIST: Eric Hausmann “Prowl” [Invisible Films] Hakarl “Nieomowienym (Damping Wells – Slack City Radio)” [radio business] Vivian Girls (Amy Denio,, Martin Hayes) “Big Dance” [Pat Graney Dance Company] Kevin Ayers “Eleanor’s Cake (Which Ate Her) – 2003 Remaster” [Joy Of A Toy] Naima “Chocolate Pixie ” [Clariti…
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The last flowers of May are blooming. PLAYLIST: Explosions In The Sky “It’s Never Going To Stop” [End] Whistling Jack Smith “I Was Kaiser Bill’s Batman” [Instrumental Classics] Forrest Friends “untitled (excerpt)” [untitled] Tom Jones “Chills And Fever” [The Best Of … Tom Jones] Big Black “Bad Houses” [Atomizer] Sonic Youth “I’m Insane” [Bad Moon R…
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Step out in the sunshine for the swinging sounds of expunkimental music on Freeform Portland! PLAYLIST: Ken Woodman & His Piccadilly Brass “Town Talk” [You Can Walk Across It On The Grass: The Boutique Sounds Of Swinging London] Domenica Diovaleria “Friendship Chain” [Orange Clearing] The London Studio Group “Viva La Tamla Motown” [You Can Walk Acr…
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Ricardo Wang sits in as guest host for Guitar Shop Radio on Freeform Portland Saturday May the Fourth from 4-6 PM Pacific Standard Time. Space rock ensues. PLAYLIST: John Trubee and the Ugly Janitors of America “Space Time Continuum” [My Hope Is a Broken Dog Fading Beneath the Evening Tide] Sonic Youth “Silver Rocket (Album Version)” [Daydream Nati…
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16 year old Lennon tag teams with your host for two of the free-est hours of freeform music! PLAYLIST: Sex Funeral “Apple of My Third Eye” [Brokedown Palace Zones] The Sonics “You Got Your Head On Backwards” [Introducing The Sonics] Helium “Skeleton” [The Dirt of Luck] Somesurprises “Perseids” [Perseids] Béla Bartók “An Evening in the Village – Arr…
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DJ Victrola is off on a field trip for the Holiday, so she called in Ricardo Wang to fly the 420 Guitar Flag for this week’s Guitar Shop Radio program. Saturday, 4-6 PM PDT on Freeform Portland! Shop as normal, and avoid panic buying. PLAYLIST: Bob Dylan “Rainy Day Women #12 & 35” [Blonde On Blonde] Butthole Surfers “Sweat Loaf” [Locust Abortion Te…
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the vibration of infinitesimal breaths. PLAYLIST: Amenra “Song to the Siren” [Skunk (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)] Eyeless in Gaza “Antipathy Whisper” [Summer Salt & Subway Sun] Windsor for the Derby “exposito,” [Windsor for the Derby] Violet “HARD” [HEART/BREAK HARD/CORE] Mouse On Mars “Pinwheel Herman” [Niun Niggung] Sangwon Lee “Torturing…
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An extra show for Freeform Portland that will air when there is an opening that needs coverage. PLAYLIST: Viv Corringham “June (Havens Beach, NY)” [Soundwalkscapes] The Sun Also Rises “Death” [The Sun Also Rises] SLIFT “Confluence” [ILION] Kim Hiorthey “The Woods” [Dogs] Kim Krans “Dead Stars” [MIRRORMIRROR] Comus “The Bite” [First Utterance] Cayos…
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Spring sprung. PLAYLIST: BRYZ “Purple Spring” [Purple Spring] Scott Walker “Come Next Spring” [Scott 2] Al Wootton “Callers Spring” [Forest Trilogy] Gil Evans “The Pan Piper” [Sketches of Spain] Tara Clerkin Trio “In Spring” [In Spring] Sonic Youth “Making the Nature Scene” [Confusion Is Sex (Plus Kill Yr. Idols)] Omer “Spring” [Spring] David Åhlén…
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From the newest Mythological Horses to the oldest from Matmos and relics from Bugskull and Blowhole and Year of the Lips… …and More. Always More. PLAYLIST: Mythological Horses “Sky King” [Sky King] Year of the Lips “Unlucky Coin” [Year of the Lips] Splitter Orchestra “Diagram 1” [Shine On You Crazy Diagram] Domenica Diovaleria “a fen insignia” [a f…
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An “evergreen show” for Freeform Portland that may air at any time as needed, but YOU can listen RIGHT NOW: PLAYLIST: Sun Ra “Blithe Spirit Dance” [God Is More Than Love Can Ever Be (Remastered)] Driftmachine “Dogov Godov” [Colliding Contours] Najma Akhtar “Ghoom Charakhana – Talvin Singh ‘Future Sound Of India’ mix” [It’s A Triple Earth] Paul McCa…
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The hot coals of selection. PLAYLIST: Soft Machine “Other Doors” [Other Doors] Neil Young & Crazy Horse “Slip Away ” [Broken Arrow] Yirinda “Galangoor Baya (Welcome)” [Yirinda] The Orb “Tin Kan” [Okie Dokie It’s The Orb On Kompakt] Sonic Youth “Making the Nature Scene” [Confusion Is Sex (Plus Kill Yr. Idols)] Orbit Service “A Calm Note” [A Calm Not…
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Bullet train to tranquility. PLAYLIST: Yoko Ono, Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore “Running The Risk” [YOKOKIMTHURSTON] Sonic Youth “Expressway to Yr. Skull” [Walls Have Ears] Sun City Girls “Spook” [Mister Lonely – Music from a Film by Harmony Korine] Okapi “The Ferryman” [Carousel, Pt. II] Leo Okagawa “cleanup of fallen leaves” [just another day] Johnny…
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Sounds of illumination. PLAYLIST: Slowfoam “Soft Montage of Hypotactic Logic” [Worlding With Earth] Sun Ra & His Arkestra “Lights on a Satellite” [Live at Montreux] Ruins “Infect” [Symphonica] Dominique “Aquarium” [European Primitive Guitar (1974-1987)] Nihiloxica “Source of Denial” [Source of Denial] The Need “Mona Tinsley” [The Need Is Dead] GUHT…
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Asa joins Ricardo on a mission to unleash the Epicness. To air on Freeform Portland when you least expect it… PLAYLIST: Toby Fox “Battle Against a True Hero” [Undertale Soundtrack] DJ Shadow “The Mountain Will Fall” [The Mountain Will Fall] Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds “From Her to Eternity” [From Her to Eternity (2009 – Remaster)] Toby Fox “Hopes and…
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Lets melt together. PLAYLIST: Les Phones “La Dance des Fourmis excerpt and Megalithe” [Orbitones Spoon Harps & Bellowphones, Experimental Musical Instruments] Kingsuk Biswas “Currents” [The Center of the World] David Kauffman “One More Day (You’ll Fly Again)” [Songs from Suicide Bridge] Soft Machine “Kayoo” [Further Perspectives & Distortion: An En…
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An orbital transmission that will pass through Freeform Portland as needed but in the meantime can help make you cozier in defense of the Arctic front. COZY PLAYLIST: Lucia Dlugoszewski “Angels of the Inmost Heaven – For Brass Quintet” [Lucia Dlugoszewski: Abyss and Caress] The Orb “Komplikation” [Okie Dokie It´s The Orb On Kompakt] Cheb i Sabbah “…
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phantom soundtracks amidst cautionary reverb PLAYLIST: Uger-Khan (Enrique Ugalde) “Meng Belek” [Songs of the Masters] Melt “On the Prowl” [Pure Melt] Emily Robb “Rolling Electric Ball” [If I Am Misery Then Give Me Affection] Muslimgauze “Nommos’ Ghosts” [Classic Selection] Mong Tong “Ghost Island” [Tao Fire 道火] Steve Fisk “She Walks” [448 Deathless…
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The most expunkimental music of last year goes head to head with songs from 50 years ago! PLAYLIST: Feist “Calling All The Gods” [Multitudes] Black Sabbath “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath – 2014 Remaster” [Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (2014 Remaster)] Lila Tirando a Violeta “Talking Trees” [Accela] Lou Reed “How Do You Think It Feels” [Berlin] Angel Bat Dawid “T…
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Anti-Seasonal Proto-Metal, Heavy Psych, Blackened Doom and Kings of Speed and Post Drone Hesh. If you haven’t heard it by now, you’re already def. SLAYLIST: Iron Butterfly “Iron Butterfly Theme” [Heavy] VÉHÉMENCE “Par le glaive” [Ordalies] Red Fang “Every Little Twist” [Whales and Leeches (Deluxe Version)] The Who “Shakin’ All Over – Live” [Live At…
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As the year winds down WTC provides an annual refuge from “holiday music”. PLAYLIST: André 3000 “Ninety Three ‘Til Infinity And Beyoncé” [New Blue Sun] Sun Ra Arkestra “Infinity / I’ll Wait for You” [Swirling] Killing Joke “We Have Joy – 2005 Digital Remaster” [Revelations] Dizzy Gillespie “Confirmation” [The Complete Live Performances On Savoy] Th…
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Travelling through space and rain. PLAYLIST: Bill Laswell “Outland Exploration – Outland Five” [Outland] Ornette Coleman “Change of the Century” [Change Of The Century] Hanging Freud “Falling tooth” [Falling Tooth] Van Der Graaf Generator “Man-Erg – 2005 Digital Remaster” [Pawn Hearts] Rose Mercie “Raindrops” [Rose Mercie] B.J. Thomas “Raindrops Ke…
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The cobweb covered walls begin to shake, there is a clanging of chains, a murmuring of voices from the other side, you hear a call between the screams of terror, you go to the old half forgotten phone in the wall, but the line is DEAD. SLAYLIST: Psionic Asylum “The Hall” [Music For Haunted Asylums] The Incredible String Band “October Song – 2010 Re…
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The stars are inside out. PLAYLIST: Smegma “World of My Own” [Mirage] Pere Ubu “Modern Dance (Live)” [June 1977 – PERE UBU IN The Shadow Of The Aeronautical Shot Peening Co.] Chrome “All Data Lost” [Chrome Box (Collector’s Edition) [Bonus Track Version]] Inigo Vontier, Thomas Jackson “It’s Right Here Man!” [Limbo Tracks III ] Fennesz “A Year In A M…
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As the Autumn Moon leads us… The new Pere Ubu and new Explosions in the Sky, the instrumental Negativland, and so much more! PLAYLIST: Pere Ubu “Crocodile Smile” [Trouble On Big Beat Street] Pauline Oliveros “The Beauty Of Sorrow (Excerpt)” [The Harmonic Series: A Compilation of Musical Works in Just Intonation] Explosions In The Sky “It’s Never Go…
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A special Friday Night 10 PM to Midnight What’s This Called? covers for The Tape Escape on Freeform Portland! PLAYLIST: Fenn O’ Berg “Part VI” [In Stereo] Lungfish “Shapes In Space” [Necrophones] The Dream Syndicate “Straight Lines” [Ultraviolet Battle Hymns and True Confessions] The Orb “Close Encounters” [U.F.Orb] Hidden Orchestra “to dream is to…
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Words vs. walls. PLAYLIST: The Legendary Pink Dots “Postcards From Home” [The Museum of Human Happiness] Mecca Normal “When I Build a House Without Doors” [The Eagle & the Poodle] Portland Vows “Pink Noise” [The Witches of Hopwas Woods (circa 1984)] Material “Deliver” [Seven Souls] Lalalar “Serüven 101” [En Kötü İyi Olur] The For Carnation “Get and…
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An undated show for Freeform Portland that will broadcast when the need arises. Like a chill in the air. PLAYLIST: Virus2020 “Sufi” [Khushue] The Drood “Flies” [The Drood] Remora “Built to Destroy ” [Built to Destroy] Soft Machine “D.I.S.” [Seven] Au “Satellite (Live)” [AU and the Camas High School Choir: Live at Yale Union] Alien Sex Fiend “E.S.T.…
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Never was a cloudy day… PLAYLIST: Big Star “September Gurls” [Live on WLIR] Mission Of Burma “Nancy Reagan’s Head” [The Obliterati] Left Hand Cuts off the Right “Struggle Against Boredom” [Free Time/Dead Time] The Comet Is Coming “The Universe Wakes Up” [Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery] Kashimir “Camouflaged” [Camouflaged] Nadja “Green &…
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After the heatwave. PLAYLIST: Andrea Parker “The Swamp” [Here’s One I Made Earlier!] Forbes Graham “Conversations in an Ancient Forest” [I Continue] Earthmonkey “Ten of Your Earth Minutes” [Pharmacy Fields] Kasra Faridi & Aida Hormozian “The Fall Mov. II” [9th Annual Report (Mid Year Edition)] The Fall “Tempo House” [Perverted By Language (Expanded…
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Another free floating show for Freeform Portland that could air anytime the need exists with Lennon joining Ricardo in the Elusive Hangar to spin the Expunkimental Hits! Engineered with love by Ryan A. Ray. PLAYLIST: Cat Power “Colors And The Kids” [Moon Pix] Blue Öyster Cult “Flaming Telepaths” [Secret Treaties] Hoover “Electrolux” [The Lurid Trav…
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Pattern recognition may be fatal in rare cases. PLAYLIST: El Kontessa “Ghaltet Meen” [Nos Habet Caramel] Reg Bloor “Devil Without a God” [Viewer Discretion Is Not Advised] Arvo Zylo “Plasthma” [333] Melvins “Hammering” [Bad Mood Rising (Standard)] Far Corner “Creature Council” [Endangered] Mecca Normal “Man Thinks Woman / Strong White Male / I Walk…
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A bi-weekly escape from time and space. PLAYLIST: Mark Hilliard Wilson “Out of Time Tango” [Pilgrimages] Domenica Diovaleria “Scalloped Vallance” [Forever Your Salesgirl] Deep Purple “Into the Fire” [Deep Purple in Rock] Elliott Sharp “Tundra” [Steppe] Bruce Friedman & Motoko Honda “Bits and Pieces” [Edge Study] The Tara Experiment “Resistance of T…
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An “evergreen show” of sizzling summer tunes for Freeform Portland that could air at anytime based upon station need. Or listen #RightNow! PLAYLIST: Sonic Youth “Death Valley ’69 (Live in Brooklyn, Ny)” [Death Valley ’69 (Live in Brooklyn, Ny)] Sifir “I Want to Be a Suicide Bomber” [An Anthology of Turkish Experimental Music] Brad Anderson “Torque”…
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Be free. PLAYLIST: Desire Marea “Be Free” [On the Romance of Being] Tuna Pase “Nefes” [An Anthology of Turkish Experimental Music] Small Life Form “Dome Override” [Dome Override] Second Hand “Death May Be Your Santa Claus” [Lullabies For Catatonics: A Journey Through The British Avant-Pop/Art Rock Scene 1967-74] Christian Bouchard “UHF-Complex” [IV…
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Bang that head that doesn’t bang and stuff. THEE PLAYLIST: Rainbow “Man On The Silver Mountain” [Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow] Slough Feg “Coming of Age in the Milky Way” [New Organon] Godflesh “LAND LORD” [PURGE] Metallica “The Thing That Should Not Be (Remastered)” [Master of Puppets (Remastered Deluxe Box Set)] Motörhead “Enter Sandman” [Enter Sa…
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From the fog of Instanbul to the frogs of Wisconsin, this show has got it all! (Please note the third piece by Daniel Menche contains long passages of extreme low frequency sound that may lead some to think stereo equipment is not functioning properly). PLAYLIST: lhan Mimaroğlu “Prelude No.17 – Istanbul Fog” [An Anthology of Turkish Experimental Mu…
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PLAYLIST: Jonathan Horne & Joshua Thomson “Lost Beacon ” [Clandestine Flower] Brad Anderson “Triptych” [GL1TCHKR13G] Slough Feg “Uncanny” [New Organon] K7SS “Hands Across the Sea (Pt 2)” [Third Noise Principle: formative north american electronica 1975-1984] Aarniseppa “The Swan Cult” [Anthology of Electroacoustic Music from Finland] Mick Karn “Ash…
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An extra show for Freeform Portland that might land at any moment. Or you may listen right now! PLAYLIST: Daniel Johnston “Happy Time” [Fun] Nadja “SUN2windstorm” [Under the Jaguar Sun] The KG “Untitled 3” [Nature Morte] Nash The Slash “Womble (45 RPM) – 2017 Remaster” [Decomposing (2017 Remaster)] The Pop Group “Amnesty International Report” [We A…
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It’s said the West is nice this time of year, that’s what they say PLAYLIST: Blue Öyster Cult “Then Came the Last Days of May” [Blue Oyster Cult] Boards of Canada “The Devil Is In The Details” [Geogaddi] Tone Set “The Devil Makes the Loudest Noise” [Third Noise Principle: formative north american electronica 1975-1984] Nonconnah “Heaven Becomes Ape…
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Space is eep. PLAYLIST: Xynn “Lost in Space” [Space Rock: an Interstellar Traveler’s Guide] Ellen Fullman “Blue Tunnel Fields” [The Harmonic Series: A Compilation of Musical Works in Just Intonation] Daniel Menche & Mamiffer “Calyx” [Crater] Brainticket “To Another Universe” [Celestial Ocean] Kloob “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” [Mysterium, Incubu…
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