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Tomorrow is an Octopus

Jul 17, 2023 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Music

With Dan Ruccia

Cephalopod dance parties for the apocalypse.

Wisp-words slim as thistles

10:01 AM		Delta 5 You Singles and Sessions 1979-1981 Kill Rock Stars 2006
10:04 AM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- Background: Harriet Tubman - Araminta
10:07 AM		Jane Birkin Lolita Go Home Lolita Go Home Fontana 1975 RIP
10:10 AM		I-F Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass - EP Interdimensional Transmissions 1998
10:16 AM		John Ssempeke & Sebuufu Steven Osiibye otyano Buganda Royal Music Revival V/A Nyege Nyege Tapes 2021
10:20 AM		Marisa Anderson & Tara Jane O'Neil Wishing Well N For All We Know - Single Jealous Butcher 2023 Bert Jansch cover
10:27 AM		PJ Harvey Seem an I N I Inside the Old Year Dying Partisan 2023
10:30 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:33 AM		Hot Snakes Kreative Kontrol Audit in Progress Swami 2004
10:36 AM		Hot Snakes Light Up the Stars Automatic Midnight Swami 2000
10:39 AM		Oromet Diluvium N Oromet Transylvanian Recordings 2023
10:50 AM		Sweeping Promises Good Living Is Coming for You N Good Living Is Coming For You Feel It Records 2023
10:54 AM		High Risk Group Daddy Rolex Seconds Away Harriet Records 2021
10:57 AM		Wolfmanhattan Project Summer Forever Summer Forever and Ever In The Red 2022
11:00 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
11:07 AM		Galina Ustvolskaya Sonata No 6 3 - Piano Sonatas 1-6 Hat Art 1995
11:13 AM		Galina Ustvolskaya Symphony Nr 3: Jesus Messiah, Save Us! Symphonies 2, 3, 4, and 5 Megadisc 2000
11:26 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
11:31 AM		Galina Ustvolskaya Sonata for Violin and Piano Trio, Sonata & Octet Megadisc 1994
11:50 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
11:53 AM		Arthur Russell In the Light of a Miracle N Picture of Bunny Rabbit Audika Records 2023

Chat is archived.

Hiya everyone! Chat is open.

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Morning Dan!

Morning Parr and TAndy!

YO TEAM! Just got word that we will be going off the air shortly for a brief inspection of all the tower work that was done over the last few weeks. Should be the last time, assuming all goes well. Fingers X'd!

Thanks Mike! My fingers and crossed and good luck!

Off air as of 10:18 AM

Inspection pass LETS GOOOOO

I wouldn't want to be one of those workers or inspectors who has to climb however many hundreds/thousands of feet to get up that tower....

Can confirm: Tower climbers are NUTS.

FM is back on

Huzzah!

Good opportunity for a Station ID

yes! As of 10:45 AM

Thanks for the reminder, Dave!

Video now

Heights like that scare me but the job pays pretty well from when I heard.

I imagine it has to given how scary/risky it is

I've probably posted this before, but this video makes me feel like my knees are about to give out. Bookmark now, watch after Dan's show because this Sweeping Promises record is great. https://youtu.be/2A_h2AjJaMw

Oh that video rules! I've watched it so much that it's like sleep ASMR now.

Can't ever find it but I once saw a video of a helicopter tethering some giant chainsaw to decimate some massive branches hanging between some power lines.

Oh, I've seen that video! It's wild and terrifying

This piece goes out to all the helicopter saw operators out there 😤

Don't give Stockhausen any ideas!

Can you imagine a helicopter chainsaw string quartet???

Totally random aside, but this Galina Ustvolskaya piece is reminding me (a LOT) of that bonkers 1968 Charles Wilp commercial soundtrack for Afri Cola.

I don't think I've ever heard Galina Ustvolskaya before, but this is pretty intense!

Yeah, her music is really unrelenting in the best of ways

And Mike, I'm gonna have to track that down

At risk of becoming That Guy Who Keeps Posting YouTube Links On Someone's Live Playlist And Thereby Possibly Driving Listeners Away From An Excellent In-Progress Radio show... uhhh... here's a link to that Charles Welp track. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjFTm4sQBh0

*Wilp not Welp

The sudden cuts, low video quality, music, and the watermark make that looks like an AI geenrated commercial

Thanks for listening, everyone!

Thanks, Dan!