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Tomorrow is an Octopus

Dec 28, 2022 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Music

With Dan Ruccia

Cephalopod dance parties for the apocalypse.

A Cephalopod with 2022 Legs, part 1

12:02 PM		Cheer-Accident Dream Police Here Comes the Sunset SKiN GRAFT Records 2022 Cheap Trick cover
12:09 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- Background music: Oren Ambarchi / Johan Berthling / Andreas Werliin "Ghosted"
12:12 PM		Straw Man Army State of the Art Sos La Vida Es Un Mus Discos 2022
12:15 PM		The Cool Greenhouse Sod's Toastie Sod's Toastie Melodic 2022
12:19 PM		Otoboke Beaver I Checked Your Cellphone Super Champon Damnably 2022
12:21 PM		Tanya Tagaq Colonizer Tongues Six Shooter Records Inc. 2022
12:25 PM		Danger Mouse & Black Thought Belize (feat. MF DOOM) Cheat Codes BMG 2022
12:29 PM		Say She She & Piya Malik Blow My Mind Blow My Mind - Single Karma Chief Records 2022
12:33 PM		Altin Gün Leylim Ley Leylim Ley - Single ATO 2022
12:37 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
12:43 PM		Ernesto Djédjé Ziglibitien R Le Roi du Ziglibithy Analog Africa 2022
12:51 PM		ROSALÍA BULERÍAS MOTOMAMI + Columbia 2022
12:53 PM		Combo Chimbita Babalawo IRE Anti/Epitaph 2022
1:00 PM		Medicine Singers Sunrise (Rumble) Medicine Singers Joyful Noise Recordings 2022
1:04 PM		The Soundcarriers Waves Wilds Phosphonic 2022
1:07 PM		Phairin Phonphibun Lam Tanwait Phairin Classic Productions by Surin Phaksiri 2: Molam Gems V/A Em Records 2022
1:10 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
1:15 PM		Fred Moten, Brandon López & Gerald Cleaver james baldwin Moten/López/Cleaver Relative Pitch Record 2022
1:18 PM		Mary Halvorson Amaryllis Amaryllis Nonesuch 2022
1:23 PM		Anteloper Earthlings Pink Dolphins International Anthem Recording Co. 2022
1:32 PM		The Center for Understanding New Trigonometries Common Shapes and Uncommon Shapes Shapes, for Experts Strategic Tape Reserve 2022
1:39 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
1:46 PM		Dewa Alit & Gamelan Salukat Likad Chasing the Phantom - EP Black Truffle 2022
2:02 PM		Björk Fungal City (feat. serpentwithfeet) R Fossora One Little Independent 2022
2:07 PM		Lucrecia Dalt Atemporal ¡Ay! RVNG Intl. 2022
2:10 PM		Bill Orcutt Barely Visible Music for Four Guitars Palilalia 2022
2:12 PM		black midi Welcome To Hell Hellfire Rough Trade 2022
2:16 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:21 PM		Hurry Up American Weirdos Dismal Nitch Comedy Minus One 2022
2:24 PM		Cookie Brooklyn and the Crumbs Is There Logic in Pop? Singles 2013-19 Burning Log 2022
2:28 PM		Sprints Delia Smith A Modern Job EP Nice Swan Recordings 2022
2:31 PM		The Mountain Goats Wage Wars Get Rich Die Handsome Bleed Out Merge Records 2022
2:34 PM		Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul Ceci n'est pas un cliché Topical Dancer DEEWEE 2022
2:37 PM		Sudan Archives Selfish Soul Natural Brown Prom Queen Stones Throw Records 2022
2:40 PM		Goat Do the Dance Oh Death Rocket Recordings 2022
2:43 PM		Darkthrone Caravan of Broken Ghosts Astral Fortress Peaceville Records 2022
2:51 PM		Hammers of Misfortune Outside Our Minds Overtaker 2022
2:56 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:56 PM		Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling & Andreas Werliin II Ghosted Drag City 2022

Chat is archived.

Hey everyone! Let's party like it's almost not 2022 anymore!

Heya Dan! Almost gone...

Cheated. Peeked. DREAM POLICE YEEHAW!

I do like this version.

Hi, Dan!

I'm here for the final Octopodiformes-Eve of the year!

Bridge extravaganza! Climb climb climb.... !

IKR Brian, Quick trip to prog land. :)

Tap it out on table

.... with the Surrey mystic...

9 for sure

.... safely landed

And after all that prog, back to the chorus one last time!

Clap-clap

Such a fun version of the song

Just right

Hello, DJ DanRuccia!

Hey MrM and gboss and Roffle and Brian and everyone else!

Sounding good, Dan...! ⚠️ Cheer-Accident

CHEER•ACCIDENT❣️ Fun timez!

Great segue into the bass bed music Dan! Seamless

¡Me Encanta!

I forget how much that Straw Man Army track feels like a Philip K Dick book condensed into a song

Perfect description

What was the name of that great JAM from Circuit des Yeux??? That got in my ears this year!

Is this Christopher Walken?!?

Hmm. I think that was from last year, actually? The one from "-io" which I loved was "Vanishing"

Philip K Dick! I just started reading Valis, and just wow! Brillient so far.

The Cool Greenhouse are totally channeling Christopher Walken

"Ziglibitiens" reissue Ernesto Djedje definitely. Sault lps onslaught.. especially that song "Money "that is catchy as all git. The Smile. Wet Leg. "Black And Loud " reimagined/reconstructed James Brown songs by Stro Elliot from The Roots. 'Excess" by Automatic. In/ Out/ In by sonic tooth. Bola Sete "Samba in Seattle". "Warm Chris " by Aldous Harding... so many more... King Ghizz.. Vince Guaraldi reissues..

Yes, from -io! I bet it’s that tune! Thanks! And.. 2021? Darn. Need to get to 2022 memories. BRB L0LZ

Djedje is coming a little later, Brian. Automatic is already on the list for next week. And I know I need to spend some time with all those Sault albums....

Same with the Sonik Tooth, which I think I only listened to in passing

What about the rest of you? What are your 2022 standouts?

The sonic youth thing is very accessible on many tracks ya. Hmmm I see that Freaky People by Al Doum and the Faryds was 2021... Oh yeah definitely Dry Cleaning latest. Yard Act. TV Priest. In that vein....

Whoa! THIS!!

👂🪱 ❣️

Albat Alawi "El Khat". Africa Negra "Antologia Vol 1" (Sao Tome / Principe African guitar beautiful sounds). Dungen latest. French Dispatch may not count but i didn't get the soundtrack until early this year

I unlocked one from the brainz out of 2022! MATMOS Regards/Ukłony dla Bogusław Schaeffer! And BJÖRK and MELVINS had new albums. SOFT PINK TRUTH too right? And I’ll co-sign on the Vince Guaraldi reissues❗️

this playlist is rockin’ mah world! CHEERS, DJ DanRuccia!

Well, since you asked. There was a Miley Cyrus tune that babbled on inanely that sorta stood out, but not because it was good, and I don't remember it's name. Meh, just pick one I guess. Not worth playing on this venue as far as I'm concerned though anyway.

Ooo Altin Gün ! excellent

Bjork is coming today. Got Matmos and SPT for next week. I don't think I knew there was a Melvins album!

For realz?? Rofflestomp??

It’s had some plays here, me thinks. MELVINS ❤️‍🔥

@WPRB ❤️‍🔥

I'm also gonna invite my not assistant DJ to make a choice or two next week, so I expect there will be some Taylor Swift. So not too far removed from Miley

Nah-ᎷяM, just goofing around.

Darn it. I wanted it to be real.

Maybe there’s a good Failure Twits cover by a cool artist/band ???

If I was younger and suffering from moral turpitude, I would troll her concerts though. lol

omg

O yah that Ebi Soda lp was wild

This song is pure sunshine

Standing Desk dance party woo hoo!

African guitar style to my ears.

I’d buy this. Right now. As fudge.

What a horns & guitars arrangement. All talking to each other. Call & response... wow

DJ DanRuccia 🏆 @45Mins!

I think I've decided that it's the organ that really makes it gleam. It's a subtle little touch, but it's the glue

Pre ordered this as soon as I heard the advance single on wprb back in the summer. Looked up some of his other stuff too. Shame did not live too long Ernesto

Call & response is so very in there for sure. Love that about Africa chorus.

Good call Dan. Over across to Jamaica, we've often commented on Sel Jerry's show how the keyboard is often the secret ingredient. If they don't get the keys just right...

Close enough for jazz though. :)

Check out this Bandcamp find.. "Flow" by KEDA. Soundtrack to modern dance co w Korean instrument. https://kedamusic.bandcamp.com/album/flow

That sounds kinda cool Brian. Starts out electronic and seems to go navitive fast. Will give a bigger listen later. Thanks.

this is nifty. And I didn’t enjoy other stuff from ROSALÍA

That album is so all over the place, it's wild. I think my favorite moments are when she goes full flamenco

💃 🔥

This one too... wow. Fantastic performance

It has the same energy as that Juana Molina live album from...2020?

Station I.D.!

Rumble? LOL

That "Rumble" documentary is really cool. Native musicians and their influence over the decades. Link of course represented and many others

I remember driving across northern Montana, and the only radio stations you could get were from the reservations and this was a whole lot of what it sounded like.

Whoa Roffle. That sounds like a really cool kind of radio

It was!

College radio sorta format. Just folks.

Here's another song where the organ fuels everything

But with 25 minutes war dances too.

LinkWray was Shawnee or something, so it's entirely possible hi borrowed from his herritage, just like Dick Dale did from all the Armenian folk songs

In any case - sounds awesome to listen too. So far removed from our Western style music

Which DJs have fill-in DJs today?

Link definitely used native rhythms yes. Hence the title of the docu

@Francis, curious. I think we all have nurons tuned to where we came from or got our attention for sure.

this background noise❣️

Jesse Ed Davis gets a good chapter in the Rumble docu as well. Session player and touring musician who played w everyone

Clearly I recorded this before today or I would have obviously remembered Link Wray

@ -𐁕Ʀ ᮋ₳𖼘𐐣𐤈ꛘ₮ⵟᜬ𐠙-☠️. Commie Franncis subbing for Jon Solomon today (5-8 pm EST), so Jon can sleep.

Yes! MikeLupica is on?

DJ DaveTheObscure! Hello! Thanks! 💟

@Francis: There was another great experimental pow-wow record from this year that I can't remember the artist for. Will try to track it down

💜

Here it is. Joe Rainey! https://joe-rainey.bandcamp.com/album/niineta

Gonna have to play something from it next week

Aha... that Rainey sounds familiar from wprb listening in '22. Maybe your show

Pretty sure I played something from it over the summer (?)

awesome!! - thanks for the link. There's a weird intersection between tribal music like that and bands like Sunn O))). I'm grappling with seeing them, but it's a fight between desire and my tinnitus.

Definitely worth seeing. I bet the interactions between their rumbles and the frequencies of your tinnitus might be interesting? When I saw them, I remember it being insanely loud but in a very particular frequency range

I'm sure our speech and language patterns/grammar constructs influence our ways of thinking. . For example - many famous mathematicians are Russian or Indian

Contort yourselves!

Y’all use ear plugs at concerts or???

If only we had shape experts on call at all times

transitory, even.

I keep earplugs in my wallet and use them regularly for music, machines, scutoid shapes

I'm definitely team earplugs, MrM (except on some rare occasions where I treat myself to a little ear damage for full spectrum listening)

earplug advocate here

Good good good. I would definitely use ear plugs especially at notoriously loud noises. I do not want *more* hearing impairments.

Bravo for the earplug enthusiasts! I keep them handy at all times. I have the head phone style right next to my desk on the wall for immediate action..

Halvorson is so nice to listen too. She just can play so well, and technically it's a joy to also watch..

Best gamelan ever.

Pretty sure this record invokes some wild extended range of existence

Yeah - been using earplugs for 20+ years, but too many bands I've been in have extracted their toll

This is amazingggggggggggggggg

@Francis, yup, that's why the in ear moniter plugs are so in use. The high range hearing loss is just not worth it at an open venue on stage or off.

I never go to concerts without earplugs. Or even the movies sometimes.

The wild extended range of existence is unwritten on all birth certificates.

But clearly implied.

This part is maybe secretly the sickest groove of the year

Just WoWWWwwwwwwww

ikr

This is fab

This is a keyboard vibe thing? This is pedal magic if not.

It's all gamelan, Roffle!

I am the new guy to this Dan. But I like it.

Sorry, didn't mean for that to come off as dismissive. It's a totally magical sound

And no shame in not knowing it!

BJÖRK 💙💗💚

I am a fan of Bali Bells, but thanks Dan. I love avenues to go explore. So cool!

The whole point to ever be here!

Young bjork bopping https://youtu.be/NAuP1JDesJs

Ed Wynne released a superb new album this year: https://kscopemusic.bandcamp.com/album/tumbling-through-the-floativerse

That bowl haircut!

The cover art on that one is fantastic, Rob. Will have to give it a listen!

I like Bjork in a Lady Gaga kinda way. I don't think I could hang in that world for long, but love it in passing.

Nice jimboo! I like her explanation of the inside of a TV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75WFTHpOw8Y

Loving this Bill Orcutt track.

Don’t forget to refresh page for playlist updates

I’m listening via internet streaming. How is everyone else tuned in today???

Was in the car, now home listening online

Oh swell!

Dirty, decades-old one-speaker boombox / tape deck in my garage.

I use the term "boom" box generously.

You WIN

8Track in the car...

silly 😜

DJ MikeLupica, hi! Are you on air today?!?

I'm doing the streaming, "working," while the assistant DJ is building lego dragons

I want lego dragons!

She now has 3 of them, so come on over and we can have a big ole lego dragon fight

Nice roll in the tunes. Lego Dragon DJ's with a format that are fire retardant. I wish I was retardant, but just wind up retard.

So much fun! I’m busy that day tho. L0LZ

MrM, yes, Starlite Lounge opens at 8.

ACES!

Also: Hi Dan and everyone else!

Hey Mike!

Also, how will shows follow this one?!? Good luck! Good on ya, DJ DanRuccia!! 🎖🏆🥇

Looking forward to your show, Mike :)

Hi MIke. Ablaze the stars in the lounge as usualt. The New Year is ready.

Anyone "going a Delia" this evening? She got herself in the English dictionary because her recipes are legendary.

Love this Sprints EP! Going on my list

sprints!

I’m dehd ☠️

⛰ 🐐🐐 ❣️

THIS

keep your nose clean

I love when TMG go full-on anthemic

And yeah, Sprints! After I first heard it, I think I sent Mike an email more or less to that effect

sweet stereo finger snaps

If you haven't seen the video for this, do yourselves a favor and watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37eaA3aWYtM

2022 favorite for sure!!

CAN CONFIRM RECEIPT OF ENTHUSIASTIC SPRINTS RELATED EMAIL FROM DAN.

🚨 someone @WPRB send DJ Dana K positive vibes and kind regards from the chat! 🚨

OMG, It start out like a just bass and vocal and then goe full on Community College Year photo band!

The Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul is a total #jamalert for 2022.

It and the Say She She single from the summer

Since we're listening to Goat, a Gavle Goat update: still hasn't burned

Goats gots to go Toast! 🐐🔥

The driving rhythm groove set

Slight change of tone and tempo :) Loving it all.

Strong beats for sure. No quarter given, Stought beat kicks.

Important question: has anyone seen the lead singer from Darkthrone and stellan skarsgard in the same room?

Not without a security team I would think.

doppelgängers

this SONG Rn aF!

Excellent Selections! 🎶🎵

Excellent lead in to Ahab Dan. Well done!

Thank you, Dashing Dan Ruccia!

DJ DanRuccia! Grand Show! Many thanks! Happy New Year to you and NonAssistantDJ! Kind regards!

Thanks y'all! We'll do this again next week with a completely different set of 2022 releases!

Ahem. Sprints are from Ireland.

Loving the 2022 reviews Dan. Last show as well. Thanks for this,

You're absolutely right, Rob. I think I was thinking Ireland and said Scotland

Great show, Dan. Thanks!!

The English filled Northern Ireland with Scots, so not surprised

I forgot: BLACK STAR (w/ MOS DEF!) have a new album out!

Whaaa? Listening project for next week!

Great show Dan!