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The Freeform Pathogen

Apr 12, 2023 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM

Music

With Mike Lupica

Freeform radio for creative weirdos and deskbound dreamers. A sonic one-stop for Acid Dub, Beardo Bhangra, Micro-Folk Turntablism, Krautdrone, Cambodian Synthwave, Glam Pop, Art-Damaged Metal, Electro-Stoner Jazz, Proto Soul-Punk, DIY Hip-Hop, Psychedelic EDM, Minimalist Power Violence, Pre-Hipster NYC Weirdcore, and Afro-Hillbilly Futurism. Up and down this goddam dial since 1992.

Starlite Lounge Closing Party

It's our last night in the Starlite Lounge! Barge studio testing has been incredibly successful, so training all the other displaced WPRB hosts who are still broadcasting from home begins tomorrow. Thanks for hanging with us during these crazy years -- I hope you'll stick around for one final night beneath the twinkling lights!

8:01 PM		Circus Lupus Unrequited Super Genius Dischord 1992
8:08 PM		Ibex Clone There is No Light N All Channels Clear Goner 2023
8:11 PM		The Mad Express Life Support N Hope for Her Future: A Compilation for Girls in Afghanistan V/A Afghan Women's Association 2023
8:15 PM		Magazine Definitive Gaze Play I.R.S. Records 1980
8:18 PM		Luscious Jackson CIty Song Natural Ingredients Capitol 1994
8:22 PM		Luscious Jackson Let Yourself Get Down In Search of Manny GR Entertainment 1992
8:26 PM		Luscious Jackson Naked Eye Fever In Fever Out Capitol Records 1996
8:30 PM		Kostars Red Umbrella Klassics With a "K" Grand Royale 1995
8:34 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
8:41 PM		Hildegard Knef Holiday Time The In-Kraut Vol. 2: Hip-Shaking German Grooves Marina 2006
8:45 PM		Gwenno N.Y.C.A.W. N Tresor Heavenly Recordings 2023
8:50 PM		The Storm Bugs European Coffee Lounge N Best Before 2027 Snatch Tapes 2023
8:55 PM		The Clash Police & Thieves The Clash CBS Records 1977 Junior Murvin cover
9:00 PM		Death Valley Girls Islands in the Sky N Islands in the Sky Suicide Squeeze Records 2023
9:03 PM		Purling Hiss Yer in All My Dreams N Drag on Girard Drag City 2023
9:08 PM		23 More Minutes Don't Call Me Split LP w/ Logical Nonsense Very Small Records 1991
9:10 PM		Special Interest Concerning Peace N Endure Rough Trade 2022
9:15 PM		Bunny Michael Crystal Children N Angels Everywhere 4689598 Records DK2 2023
9:18 PM		Judas Iscariot Crucifixion Jesus Christ Superstar OST MCA 1973
9:21 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
9:29 PM		Richard Dawson The Tip of an Arrow N The Ruby Cord Weird World 2022
9:39 PM		Big Blood She Sells Sanctuary Already Gone I Don't Trust the Ruin 2009 A cover of the Cult.
9:43 PM		Sven Wunder Harmonica and.... Harmonica and.... - Single Piano Piano 2023
9:47 PM		Ivan the Tolerable Seaweed N Black Water/Brown Earth 2023
9:50 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
9:54 PM		Half Japanese Heaven Sent Heaven Sent Emperor Jones 1997
11:00 PM		Bhajan Bhoy Van Cleef Dub N Shanti Shanti Shanti 2023

Chat is archived.

Where the webcam link?!?

I'm afraid you're gonna have to go by muscle memory tonight, MrM. Too much other ish to tend to, forgot to charge up the auxiliary laptop.

Okay, fine 🥺

Hello, DJ MikeLupica!

U talk bout my Vienna sausage fingers????

here comes H3N8 Bird Flu ⚠️☢️ hear ya next week from the Starlight Lounge! MerpDerp

Holding out for an full-on alien invasion.

Howdy Mike! Chat!

Hi, Ambrose Hughes!

...you did say alien!👽

Hey Ambrose, welcome back!

Very enjoyable start to the show!

Why yes I *am* having a good time!

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

Very enjoyable indeed! "Definitive Gaze" was very popular on WPRB back when I was a neophyte listener. One of the tunes that kept me coming back.

RIP Vivian Trimble of Luscious Jackson/Kostars. So sad. These records are awesome.

That's awesome, Chris!

My first "real" boss (at a record store in Trenton) turned me on to Magazine.

LUSCIOUS JACKSON 💔❤️♥️

That effing cancer 🤬😭😭

Aye.

Had not heard that news. She was fifty damn nine

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2023-04-07/vivian-trimble-luscious-jackson-dies

I know. It's awful. There's a great story by Cory Doctorow in his "Radicaized" book of short stories (highly recommended) that popularized the phrase (in my mind, anyway) FUCK CANCER RIGHT IN ITS FUCKING FACE.

Starlight night yeah 🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣

Welcome Ossy!

Wow, driving home listening to the next DJ’s super show is as great as I had forgotten it was!

EYES ON THE ROAD, SOLOMON

Awww Hellz Yeeaahh! Nice tribute, DJ MikeLupica!

I’m home! Eyes on the fridge, me!

Vivian Trimble! Damn :(

Oh yeah!

what?

DJ JonSolomon had another TopNotch Show and a great first installment from DaaaaaBarge! Cheers!

SHITE!!!😥 R.I.P. Vivien Trimble.

Thank you, Mr.M!

Aww, more from VIVIAN TRIMBLE❣️🌹

howdy friends

Hi Cap Ahab!

Ay ay.

Aw man.

The kids don't like Killdozer smdh.

lol

Go to sleep, DJ Captain Ahab!

it is not even 9pm!!!

you might be farther from your snacks at the Barge

hey Hey H3Y!

You said you were sleep deprived! It’s so bad fer your body! And eyes! L0LZ

@DJ Captain Ahab!

yes yes, but I gottta finish editing this article or im in big trouble, that's it then I can go to bed

Also, great show! @DJ Captain Ahab!

thank you <3

Will the Starlite Lounge be dismantled?

Nah, just going into low power mode.

THIS RN AF

Maybe I'll try to drag all of this shit out to a park over the summer and have a Freeform Pathogen / Wednesday Night pitcrew meetup.

I’m busy that day

SNOOOOOOZE. I love that.

Hopped in car and much to my GenX delight heard Luscious Jackson. Xoxo 💖💖💖

do it at the board meeting so we can join!

I can’t tell if this show is a vibe or a mood.

Right on, Pink!

My daughter just said it was a MOOD!

mibe or vood?

Jon, I'll shatter it, just wait.

Cap'n, LOL

PURE MOODS 💞

We saw that Mr M…

Would definitely Pitcrew in a park, I'm good for a pizza.

did not think this was a track out of 2023!

I'm sure the Mercer County Parks Department would be receptive to my permit application for the "First Annual Pitcrew in the Park" event.

@DSM, she's Welsh. I assume that explains everything.

Well I heard something similar or ??? L0LZ

I think I am a percentage Welsh, among like 7 other things

You're also part James Hetfield.

DJ StitchingPink 🖤

HA! True.

That's still one of my favorite stories ever to emerge in the chat.

I am honored for real!

oh yeah~

Junior Murvin!

THIS😍

My first favorite Clash song! Only it took me a year to find out it was them because I'd taped it off the radio when I was in 5th grade.

Took me another 15 years to find out it was a cover. #slowlearner

@Mike, great stuff, kinda how I learned myself.

🤍

As covers go, this is up there.

Selecta!

@Mike, 12" version???

Ha! Nah, regular old LP version. Unless you're counting the part where I did a station ID over the break. 😊

NEW HISS

woooooooo!

Sounding weirdly like J. Mascis, which isn't something I've ever thought when listening to them in the past.

The Hiss!!!

lol does anyone call them that?

Hahaha, I hope they do now.

(There should be a hand signal that means "The Hiss")

LISSEN TO THE HISS!

this one does have a j mascis vibe, and agree, never before thought that

Loving the weekly Hiss !

I second that!

Will and DSM

Hey Richard!

good evening!

Hey hey hey!

Hello! D S M!

Howdy gang, enjoying the show!

This is a new band?

Pup! Welcome!

Jim, I know -- sounds like Crass, don't they?

Digging it.

That one surprised me too

bookmarked

Superstar!

Hi Pup

SING IT YOU BASTARDS

lettuce pray

Hey Ossy!

Ah, not the Murray Head version, then.

Guud Stuffs 🎶🎵 all nooiigghhttt‼️

Doncha get me wrong, DJ Mike.

*prey

Wouldn't dream of it, Chris

Is it that time of year again!?!

😆👍🙏

Had a brief Andrew Lloyd Weber phase as a early teen. Only scratch that itch w/ power metal now tbh.

oldies

lol retired language!

Lost?

legacy language

no im laughing at you calling it a retired language

No sad endings like in series anime finales like Yugioh, indeed, Mike

Sleepy language.

I mean, it's not like ancient Arameic or anything.

I just found out about Richard Dawson over the weekend. Watched/listened to the last 30 minutes of The Hermit on YT. Extraordinary.

Unfashionable language?

Endangered perhaps.

Chris, totally! I love him. And this song goes total vintage Judas Priest at the end. \m/

Jim, I can live with that.

saw Richard D on my 50th birthday a couple of weeks ago. best solo show I've ever seen. he had a couple of new songs too

I miss the Starlight Ballroom, the Philly venue. That was a great place.

sign on with us because we offer a wonderful linguistic retirement package.

Andrew, that sounds kingly!

HERE WE GOOOOOO!!! \m/ \m/

Not to be confused w the Starland Ballroom.

THROW THE GOATS. (To the middle aged English folk singer.)

🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐

Richard Dawson was the opener for Pigs x7 here a couple weeks ago, but that was the sold out show I missed

Saw Gaylord Fields at a Boredoms show at the Starlight Ballroom but didn't get to talk to him.

i was a bit confused by the pairing lol

Awww, bummer. Cap'n, check out his album w/ (Finnish metal band) Circle if you haven't yet. IT ROOOOLZ.

will do!

"I Saw Gaylord Fields At A Boredoms Show But Didn't Get to Talk To Him" is a bumpersticker just waiting to happen.

i admit, a week ago i was like, who is this richard dawson everybody is hopped up on right now? tonight is the night my brain allowed me to get it

WELCOME TO THE OTHER SIDE, COLIN.

it's nice to out from under this rock

This song so wants to go prog.

Not sure what he was doing there, it was definitely him.

We salute you DJ Mike \m/ \m/

Could be prog adjacent?

Gotta get off the night shift, later.

Retired Prog.

Did someone say “prog”?

Walker prog. :)

DTO ON THE GRID!

ha! DTO!

🫡

👀Ian Asbury be like😲

Isn't Ian in whatever state fair reunion circuit bullshit is passing for the Doors now?

That 4 letter word that wakes The Obscure One

Ian is here, maybe https://www.labroots.com/virtual-event/cannabis-sciences-2023?campaign=lremail5

@Mike, last I heard yes!

😊

Here's another that looks like fun https://www.acs.org/acs-webinars/library/cannabinoids-rebroadcast.html

BTT - better than tolerable

Would have shared these during Desert Cruising, but couldn't listen today

lol

ammon bundy?

glad you survived mike

sasquatch

is listening right now ssshhhhh

Ian Asbury?

*looks out my window and yells, not this time space aliens!!

👽

The Starlite Lounge is gone forever?

mike, going into low power mode for a bit

are there any foodstuffs still in the lounge that were there during the before times

Yes, totally. I have tomato paste from when Clinton was in office.

I think you should eat it on air

dog bless

out with the old

HAHAHAHA

L0LZ

Let me see if I can find the oldest food in here.

Vietnamese rice paper. I think this has been around since before I was married. (2006.)

You'll starve in Da Barge

Star Trek always had an auxiliary/battle Bridge. I wouldn't write off the starlite just yet. :).

Can V-8 juice go bad?

Fending off creeping dead...stay in the Lounge.

not with vodka

What if the ingredients are written in a retired language?

At least only leave during daylight and wear garlic wreaths

mike can repurpose the starlite lounge to begin scribe his memoirs on the rice paper

@Mike, it may have dropped a cylinder or 3!😆

V-8 turns into straight 6.

This Manischewitz matzoh ball mix has fermented, gonna be best soup ever.

The Pathogen will survive.

HELLO, FIENDS 🧟

that soup may lead you to the 11th commandment

Manischewitz is scary.

jimboooooooooooooooo

I remember bumping into Wilbo at ShopRite in the early day of Covid panic buying. No one knew WTF to do and I saw Wilbo in line with, like, a skid of beans and some dog food and in my cart was soup, tuna, and bleach and we were both just like... Aye.

Extinct language!!! Dead language!!! ☠️

mmm probiotics

LOL Colin

"skid o' beans"

Tomato Bisque

FWIW, I do think we eventually ate the Listener Christine banana peppers, the Commie Francis flax seeds, and whatever else you freaks got naming rights to.

@Mike, might make a better Molotov cocktail!

Hahhaa

Ever tried chocolate covered matzo? Glorious!

Oh HELLS yes.

My name was on dietary fiber bars 🙃🤪🤓😎

What drugs was I on when I bought red lentil rotini?

Shrooms

Digging deeper into the Doom Pantry stash... I have salsa made from vegetables that are no longer grown on this planet.

Retired vegetables.

Chocolate covered matzo balls? I don't know if that is the end of the world, but I bet you can see it from there.

Shrooms indeed

Atarean pomegranates

NOT BALLS, JUST MATZOH FLATS

😲😝🤣

this song rules

I still have like ten pounds of vital wheat gluten from when I was making my own seitan.

Yes, it's like heroin.

I believe the Tahini was Me/Me was the Tahini

....mmmm...

@TAndy, glad you like it because it still has 50 minutes to go!

Flat earth then? Okay.

Yes Jimbo! We ate that long ago.

Choc smothered gefilte fish

hell yeah

I had **outstanding** homemade gefilte fish at seder dinner last weekend. 10/10

We're having a Jon Solomon moment playing a long song >:)

OMG homemade gefilte fish! I am having a strange moment.now... lol

But this song is so cool it lands on the right side of the planet.

HOLD UP. I have discovered a bad of dried mangoes which have become home for a developing civilization which is currently experiencing an iron age.

*bag, not bad

Anchovy fillets have a pricetag on them that says: "NON-FOOD ITEM". I also have some 70s reggae records with the same pricetag.

Zomg L0LZ

Import restrictions should apply!

don't be like this guy: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/12idqp5/after_eating_two_of_these_blueberry_waffles_i/?ref=share&ref_source=link

Could there be anchovy in gefilte fish? Bubbe?

An internet friend got some Return of the Jedi candy from 1983 at Star Wars Celebration last week and she ate some live on Instagram. Spoiler alert: it tasted bad.

The custom cursor for that subreddit is cursed

Talk about getting the blues

What if the waffles were made from rye fluor?

Hahaha, Nice one, Cap'n. I think the closest I ever came to that was the time I ate a deli tuna fish sandwich during an afternoon radio show. I'd eaten most of it before realizing I hadn't unwrapped all of the paper it came wrapped in (and had, in fact, eaten a considerable amount of said paper.)

Lotsa fiber in that sammich.

Still 35 minutes to go in this Half Japanese song.

Can you drive here and back before the song ends? One way to find out!

how the hell did I miss this song/band all these years?

I once drove from New Brunswick to Brooklyn in less than 30 minutes. It was 4:30 in the morning, but I feel like I can do anything after that.

DSM, I am not a huge Half Japanese fan, but this song is very very special to me.

It hits all the right buttons.

This is the song to play if you did eat those waffles right before the show.

😊

Pancakes and waffles to have

I'm a narcissist MrM?

Omg

Cross Bronx exppressway at 3AM is the only way to go.

We have cleared -27 minutes to go. Less time than it takes to watch a re-run of Laverne & Shirley.

Epic fill though.

(As a child, I measured very long car trips in LaverneAndShirleys, which are 30 minute measurements of time.)

With commercials?

The six hour hell drive to my Aunt and Uncle's house in New Hampshire every summer was 12 LaverneAndShirleys, for instance.

That’s funny 😁

Watching Laverne and Shirley without commercials is unAmerican.

hahahaha

This stacks nicely in the measure of time along with Bath Boy and Dopesmoker

I used to go up to Vermont. It was a day of it.

Dopesmoker is for quitters.

Schlemiel Schlimazel Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!

jad and daniel!

Anyway, now that I've got you all here I'd like to tell you about my personal relationship with Jesus.

This will only take 22 minutes and 8 seconds.

amen

Hallelujah

lol

Are you of the body?

If you mean Jesus Christ as played by Ian Gillen of Deep Purple in the original double LP of JC Superstar, go for it, DJ Mike.

Superstar!

I had a personal relationship with The Jesus Lizard, but am now unreformed.

I just went inside and ate two melatonin gummies which are old enough to taste like cardboard. Gotta start winding down for the 5:30 AM alarm to take the kiddo to orchestra rehearsal. And then, FULL DAY OF BARGE TRAINING.

My god, these taste like ass.

unreformed

Mebbe I'm preformed or malformed...dunno.

perfect flavor then! lol

barge training rocks!

JImbo, I read a great quote a few years from Travis of the Dismemberment Plan. I can't recite it exactly, but it was something like: "These days, young people talk about the need for indie artists to diversify their revenue streams in order to support themselves. When I was a young person, I supported David Yow's crotch with my face. Twice."

training comes with gummies

Orchestral Barge Docking Maneuvers in the Dark

16 minutes. We are in launch mode.

I really hope they did this song in one take.

🖤💎💥

Been there with the Yow...had some normal conversations, too.

Just imagine Jad Fair saying 47 minutes in: "Sorry boys, something's just not right. Let's take it from the top."

Stand down for now Starlight Lounge, you saved us from robo dj's in dark times! Hussah!!

Yee har Elton!

I second that

Director's cut is 6.5 hrs

haha

Jodorowsky's "Heaven Sent"

the right song at the right time

In fairness, I feel like we're cutting the audience participation version of the LP right now. Someone get Jad Fair on the phone.

Ladies and Gentlemen, we are floating in ... 11 minutes to go. Someone break that out into LaverneAndShirley fractions.

Jad is talking to MrM

pretty much a third of a LaverneAndShirley

SINGLE DIGITS.

bongos have entered the chat

“We’ve got one more song. Thanks for coming out!”

😈

lolz Jon

I don't know if this was ever the longest pop song on record. To my knowledge, that's "Devil Gllitch" by Chris Butler.

Six minutes and change.

I did google that earlier, and it says Apparente Libertà' by Giancarlo Ferrari, which is 76:44

Jesus I hope that was melatonin.

IMO, this isn't a jam band song.

but i sampled it and there is definitely less effort involved than there is here

T-Minus 9

Geez, Thay was Laverne and Shirley the directors cut!

Looks like that bests Devil Glitch by a few minutes.

We are gonna get withdrawal symptoms when this ends.

DJ MikeLupica! A great celebration of the Starlite Lounge! Thanks Jesus it existed! Many thanks for all the fun times! Big cheers for making it a big success! Kind regards to you!

@DSM, I didn't think a Ferrari could be that slow!😳

My pleasure, MrM!

Thank you (all of you) for always showing up.

To brighter days at sea.

Two minutes.

Our pleasure! 🖤💀

MrM speaks for the Wednesday Night Pitcrew! Huzzah, DJ Mike! Farewell until next global crisis, Starlite Lounge!

Ha! @Ambrose

Cheers, ChrisMohr!

Wow, 90 seconds to go and my lava lamp JUST died. How poetic.

Unplug it! 🧯

lavalove

30 seconds

Thank you for the show, MrMike!

Thanks Mike, many fun nights in the Starlite Lounge. Thanks for all the hard work figuring it out these past years and currently and futurely!

cheers all! Loved the show, ML!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's a real sign.

twilight zone music

Happy that I spent the evening slacking from work to enjoy the celebration of the end of an era.

Good ride Mike. Thanks.

dang 11 already, im like 5 minutes away from finshing these edits so i can go to bed, what a great soundtrack to help me get through it

Twilight Dimension music 🖤💜💛

Thanks Mike!

W I L B O !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

🌋 💡 ⚰️

Let's get Wilbo and Mike in the Barge for a drive show!

Farewell lava lamp. Thanks for a great show Mike and an incredible final hour

PETHIE!!!!! <3

great show and good night mike

Continued thanks! Keep on keepin on.

DaaaaaaaBARGE!

P E T H I E !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Le Barjay

>:)

Mike, it's been real, onwards and upwards, stay cool!🙏

big yyallll

farewell to the starlite lounge 💚

PEAS OUT, Y'ALL

nighty night!

goodnight stars 😭

THIS IS NOT AN EXIT