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The Freeform Pathogen

Jul 12, 2023 12:00 PM – 3:00 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.

Power to the Peasants

So remember, your day could be much worse.

Howdy team. As usual, I'm thrilled to be here in order to carry your lazy asses across the midday slump. Refresh this page to see the most recently-played songs, and be sure to check in and say hello in the chat. I forgot to mention it last week, but I met up with Tom and Eva (proprietors of our Spinitron playlist system) at the NFCB conference and had a long talk with them about the playlist chat function. I expressed my concern about Facebook or Google logins being required for chat entry, especially since so many people are fleeing the former and have increasing distrust of the latter. As such, they are taking it under consideration and hope to implement an authentication system for the chat that uses some other, non-privacy-stealing means (such as a one-time code sent to your mobile phone, or something else along those lines.) Updates will be passed along to you as I receive them, and hopefully a solution will ignite more interest in the chat.

In the meantime, there's lots of great new records to spin for you today before I beat it out of here and drive into NYC for the annual dinner meeting of WPRB oldsters. Hopefully the bar's bathrooms aren't in the basement a la the Erfurt example cited above.

12:01 PM		False Front Victor Vortex Dude Shimmy Disc 1991
12:05 PM		Tony Allen and Adrian Younge Don't Believe The Dancers N Don't Believe The Dancers single Jazz is Dead 2023
12:08 PM		Bobby Lee The HR Manager's Beautiful Daughter N Endless Skyways Tompkins Square 2023
12:11 PM		NoMeansNo The Tower Wrong Alternative Tentacles 1989
12:16 PM		Peter Jefferies Closed Circuit Closed Circuit Grapefruit Records 2022 Orig. 2001
12:20 PM		Vorsicht Kinder Verschluck Dich Nicht N Verschluck Dich Nicht Table Leg Records 2023
12:23 PM		Alicja-Pop I'm Here I'm There N (Digital Single) 2023
12:26 PM		100 Flowers California's Falling Into the Ocean 100 Flowers Happy Squid Records 1983 Re-upped by Superior Viaduct in 2013
12:31 PM		Bettie Serveert Under the Surface N Palomine Matador Records 2023 Re-issue, orig. 1993
12:33 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
12:39 PM		Sparks You Were Meant For Me N The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte Universal-Island Records Ltd. 2023
12:43 PM		The Dirty Dozen Brass Band The Flintstones Meets the President (Meets the Dirty Dozen) [Live] Live: Mardi Gras in Montreux Rounder 1986
12:46 PM		Wobbly Entanglement (feat. Shatter Pattern) N Additional Kids Hausu Mountain 2023
12:49 PM		African Head Charge Accra Electronica N A Trip to Bolgatanga On-U Sound 2023
12:52 PM		Polyphonic Size Mother's Little Helper Mother's Little Helper EP Enigma 1982 Rolling Stones cover (duh)
12:55 PM		Geese 3D Country N 3D Country Partisan 2023
1:01 PM		Strongboi Fool Around N Strongboi [Self-released] 2023
1:05 PM		Volcano Suns Magic Sky Bumper Crop Homestead 1987
1:09 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
1:14 PM		Fleshtones Cold, Cold Shoes 7" IRS 1980
1:16 PM		Willie Henderson Dance Master 7" Playboy 1974
1:19 PM		Hot Chocolate Every 1's a Winner 7" Infinity 1978
1:22 PM		Paul Jones Sheena is a Punk Rocker 7" RSO 1978 Ramones cover
1:27 PM		The Human League Being Boiled 7" Fast 1980
1:30 PM		Guns N' Roses Shadow of Your Love 7" Geffen 2018
1:33 PM		Jawbreaker Busy 7" Shredder 1989
1:38 PM		Jacobites Shame for the Angels 7" Pawn Hearts 1984
1:41 PM		Leslie Gore She's a Fool 7" Mercury 1963
1:43 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
1:49 PM		Sweeping Promises Walk in Place N Good Living Is Coming For You Feel It Records 2023
1:52 PM		The Monks I Hate You Black Monk Time Infinite Zero 1997 Orig. 1966
1:55 PM		Les Lullies Animal N Mauvaise Foi Slovenly Recordings 2023
1:58 PM		Olivia Jean Spider N Raving Ghost Third Man Records LLC 2023
2:03 PM		Rocket 808 Long Stretch of Desert N House of Jackpots 12XU 2023
2:07 PM		GracieHorse Hollow Head N L.A. Shit Wharf Cat Records 2023
2:11 PM		Big Blood Ring Telephone Ring N First Aid Kit Ba Da Bing! 2023 Barbara Lynn cover
2:15 PM		PJ Harvey Autumn Term N I Inside the Old Year Dying Partisan 2023
2:18 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:22 PM		U Roy The Tide Is High Version Galore Treasure Isle 1971
2:25 PM		Roxy Gordon An Open Letter to Illegal Aliens N Crazy Horse Never Died Paradise of Bachelors 2023 Orig. 1988
2:28 PM		Zomes At Husking Time N Love's Lesson Feeding Tube 2023
2:32 PM		Herb Schoenbohm's Quintet Ipanema Cinco Sin Titula N Some Skin: A Modern Harmonic Bongo & Percussion Party V/A Modern Harmonic 2023
2:38 PM		The Velvet Underground The Gift White Light/White Heat Verve 1968
2:44 PM		Ivan The Tolerable and his Elastic Band Lantern Song N Toft House Session Stolen Body Records 2023
2:50 PM		The Shangri-Las Dressed in Black 7" Red Bird 1966
2:53 PM		Moon Bros. Fine Time N The Wheel 2023

Chat is archived.

happy noon on hump day. is this the crest of the 9 to 5 work week? is it all downhill from here?

I HAVE ONLY MIXED MESSAGES AT THIS TIME.

lol, mission accomplished

I have to dig out my False Front CD. I forgot how much I like that song.

one of the last shows I played in the before times (2019) was opening for False Front, the guys are still ati it!

I re-discover this record every few years or so. Glad I'm not the only one who digs it.

re-discovering albums is fun! especially if it still holds up. it's reaffirming to say I did get it 30 years ago!

Yes, where is the 30th anniversary expanded edition on 180g multicolor vinyl with digital download coupon? KRAMER, I'M LOOKIN' AT YOU.

Solid start! especially loved the Bobby Lee and Peter Jefferies. A different chat login method would be great!

Thanks Richard! Yes, my thinking (as very well articulated by WPRB's Freddie) is that WPRB and Spinitron are both mom and pop businesses with shared goals and values. So why come we gotta involve Zuck in what should be a very simple handshake?

Erfurt re-make of this song, "the noblemen are falling into the poo-pit"

I don't know about any of you, but I'm going to be thinking about the Erfurt Latrine Disaster for the rest of my life.

anytime now when i walk into a crowded room, tests floor stability, asks, what's below us right now.

Good ol False Front and good ol Shimmy Disc. Rev B Il (Bill Fowler)of Sound of Urchin. Guy Heller aka Dickie Moist et al. I think they reunite occasionally... Guy curated a fest at various bars in New Hope years back. NxNH. Saw Joe Jack Talcum of Dead Milkmen play in the stark (indoor) sunlight of mid afternoon during that once. Great time

Bettie Serveert!!🖤

Erfurt Latrine Disaster missed song opportunity. Bee Gees and Gordon Lightfoot collab that never happened. They would have done it justice.

It's a very 1991 apropes lp title

Ack, ack, ack.... Sorry, I had a coughing fit when I started to dictate this text.

Three-pointer, Marcus! (I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE.)

Bowie also re synths. He said something like how when they first started getting into synths they'd throw out the instruction manual and just go hog wild and the synth would emit these farting noises etc

I've always called in The Big Brown Line. (A term which I believe was coined eons ago by Jen from Running Redlights.)

Brown is a state of mind. Speaking of Shimmy Disc and their associated bands etc

This is Awesome!!!!

whoa, this melodic mash up!

Square waves and saw tooths (sic)

the sine wave = the well behaved kid of the wave family

The hits just keep comin'. Lots of new bookmarks

Mentioned in last show chat... if in an alternate universe there existed another NJ radio station said station might have Big Blood play at their venue that sounds like a game show host....

LOL. I bought my tix last night, Brian.

Here's link for Big Blood show if it falls within compliance regulations to post it here (if not Erase) : https://www.eventbrite.com/e/big-blood-tickets-672099767497?aff=erelexpmlt

Totally fine to promote here! I think it's the only area gig they're playing, unless there's been some word on a Philly date?

Shit, they could play in my backyard.

All 45 set comin' up next!

SO WANNA GO. Yeah, no other gigs this year showing. Big Blood do not have much current postings on their website but... maybe that means I'm just way old school innerwebs and don't ever look for those social meeeja sites... i got work to do and all

Volcano Suns 🖤🔥

I mean... they are a band that has a po box on their site that encourages good ol paper mail correspondence so that's way cool. Been meaning to drop them a line. Big Blood really strikes my inner ear well. Looks like a fun live show from pics I see online

🌋☀️☀️

Accidentally cued up the instrumental side of this Willie Henderson single. Just imagine him singing in high falsetto: "GET ON DOWN, WITH THE DANCE MASTER, WONTCHA GET ON DOWN, WITH THE DANCE MASTER."

Also love that this is on Playboy's record label.

Also, this is the most "old school at noon" the all-45 set has gotten yet this summer.

I have subscribed to the newsletter of this set

Octave divider stomp box on the guitar. Sounds like. Much fun

Yes, such a wicked sound on that track. That's why that song still starts FIRES on a dance floor.

Enjoyed hearing some Volcano Suns, Dance Master.

YOU, sir, are the Dance Master of which Willie Henderson spake.

Just not on that version because I accidentally cued up the instrumental.

I'm calling you Dance Master the rest of the day, Dance Master.

Maestro di danza

Let's leave Tony out of this.

SO. MANY. RANDOM. KEY. CHANGES.

Love the 7" set

Oh my ...Agnostic Front coming to Sherman theater

Of course they are.

In a chaotic and infinite universe, anything that can happen WILL happen. Eventually.

No surprise Mark E. loved this one.

Did the Fall cover this?

Dead Milkmen show on Friday was 🤘 ..in the Laurel Hill Cemetery 🪦

New album is old school Milkmen

Extricate, I think.

@Marcus, I don't have enough room in my brain to remember #FallFacts anymore.

Hi, JM. Big Milkmen fan. I saw them open for the Replacements at the Tower on their first tour with Slim.

Aug 11

Just read Steve Hanley's book "The Big Midweek: Life Inside The Fall". Bass man tells most. Great stories

I think title of his book refers to how the Fall would climb the charts during the middle of the week thanks to diehard fans buying up the singles /lps as soon as they were released and requesting songs etc. Then when weekend rolled around.. the bigger bands on big labels would eclipse them. Buried in the midst of the book somewhere he mentions that

Dan Buskirk has two free movies tomorrow night. First is the Ian Dury bio pic. I forget the second. Check The Rotunda for details.

Thanks for the tunes! Great show!

#5 Untitled. They don't make song titles like that no mo

OH! I see. Never mind!

My Spanish has gotten pretty shite.

And so have my segues, apparently.

Waldo Jeffries tale in BOTH CHANNELS! Bonus. Stereo 103.3 indeed.

Jeffers that is

Haha. A cautionary tale for the ages.

To all of you who are listening while trying to work and are feeling your body tense up while listening to this story, I APPLAUD YOU.

Sorry, Mike. Most versions of The Gift have more audible John Cale renditions.

Getting the FedEx economy rates vs expedited... brb... how much does Waldo weigh btw? Any idea on the dims?

Waldo Jeffers. Whatever happened to him?

Hitchcock would be proud of that little "bonk" sound effect right at the climactic moment there. IT'S ART!

Marcus, I heard he got into shipping containers. (Rimshot)

Even better in the headphones. The Murder Mystery even betterer. Loved seeing that in the Lou Reed lyrics book all laid out side by side (Murder Mystery that is)

Image search results of Waldo Jeffers show some people having fun posing in cardboard boxes

Haha, that's fantastic!

Well we certainly GOT INTO A MOOD for this last set.

I was listening to you play "The Gift" in my car. It didn't occur to me to play with the balance/fader so I could discern the story.

Let's hear it for stereo separation!

Did anyone here besides me see the Monks at the Westbeth Theatre Center in 1999?

What was that outro song in the background just now?