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The Sonic Bloom

Nov 9, 2023 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Music

With Esoterica

folky, punky, poppy, jangly, post-punky, and psychedelic goodness of the musical variety coming out of your speakers courtesy of moi. oh yeah, and occasional show tunes.

Spooky Synth part two

lots of synth and spooky guitars, too

12:12 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
12:12 PM		Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 1971
12:20 PM		Aboriginal Voices Le Jour L'Ennuie Aboriginal Voices N Instant Music Billbrook Records 2022 Also on Senza Decoro: Liebe + Anarchia/Switzerland found on bandcamp by me today.
12:24 PM		Christine Schaller L’ombre Dorée Du Scarabée Bleu Christine Schaller N Senza Decoro: Liebe + Anarchia / Switzerland 1980 - 1990 V/A Strut 2023
12:28 PM		Steve Moore Fever Dream Steve Moore Fever Dream B/W 30,000 Feet Deep - Single Mexican Summer 2009
12:34 PM		Clock DVA The Hacker Clock DVA Buried Dreams Interfisch Records 1989
12:41 PM		AUTUMN Behind You Autumn Synthesize Minimal Wave 2011
12:46 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
12:51 PM		Victrola Maritime Tatami Victrola Maritime Tatami - Single Dark Entries Records 2014 From Dark Entries bandcamp presence: For our 55th release we are launching a special series called Dark Entries Editions, dedicated to 12" singles made for the dance floor. The first release in this series is Victrola, the duo of Antonio "Eze" Cuscinà and Carlo Smeriglio from Italy. The band formed in Messina, but later relocated to Florence to join the rich musical scene there with Neon, Pankow, Alexander Robotnick and Diaframma. Beginning as a 4-piece combo (two guitarists, bassist, drummer) in 1979, they slimmed down to a synthesizer and guitar-based duo a few years later. Their sole release was the "Maritime Tatami"/"A Game Of Despair" EP, from 1983.
12:59 PM		Trance Wax Northern Sky Trance Wax Northern Sky (Dusky Remix) - Single Anjunabeats 2021
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1:06 PM		Hard Corps Dirty Hard Corps Clean Tables Have to Be Burnt Minimal Wave 2012 This song was first released as a single in 1984: "Dirty" b/w "Respirer" (Survival Records). From Brixton, UK. In 1985, the band supported The Cure in the UK and Europe and in 1988 supported Depeche Mode in the UK.
1:09 PM		Nurse With Wound Two Mock Projections Nurse With Wound Chance Meeting United Jnana 2010 Originally released in 1979 on Chance Meeting On A Dissecting Table Of A Sewing Machine And An Umbrella. Nurse with Wound (abbreviated NWW) is the main recording name for British musician Steven Stapleton. Nurse with Wound was originally a band, formed in 1978 by Stapleton, John Fothergill and Heman Pathak. The band's work has explored genres such as industrial, noise, dark ambient, and drone.
1:15 PM		Swans Like a Drug (Sha La La La) Swans Children of God Mute 1987
1:21 PM		Virgin Prunes Pagan Lovesong (Vibeakimbo) [2022 Remaster] Virgin Prunes N ...If I Die, I Die (40th Anniversary Edition) BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd 2022 Released in 1982 on the album Heresie. Virgin Prunes were an Irish rock band formed in 1977 in Dublin, Ireland. They disbanded in 1986 after the departure of singer Gavin Friday. The other members continued under the name The Prunes until they split up in 1991.
1:25 PM		Ruth Polaroïd Roman Photo Ruth BIPPP: French Synth Wave 1979-85 V/A Everloving 2008 From Minimal Wave Records site: It’s the early ‘80s, and Thierry Müller, a graphic artist and krautrock fan from Paris, has decided to put his experimental rock group Ilitch on hold and make something, as he puts it, “that people could dance to”. The result is Ruth, a conceptual project that exists for just one album, 1985’s Polaroïd/Roman/Photo. Seven tracks long, it is a remarkable piece of experimental but danceable new-wave, and nowhere more remarkable than the title track – an icy-cold cut of flickering synthesiser, taut guitar and jagged saxophone featuring disconsolate boy-girl vocals and the mechanical click-spool sound of a Polaroid camera.
1:29 PM		Raydar Trick R Treat Raydar Evil Squad - EP NRW Records, under exclusive license to NewRetroWave, LLC 2015 Also known as Lawrence King [birth name]. Out of Toronto.
1:41 PM		Staccato Du Mal En Sueños Staccato Du Mal Sin Destino Wierd Records 2011
1:42 PM		Deux Golden Dreams Deux Golden Dreams - EP Minimal Wave 2013 Deux was formed in 1981 by Gérard Pelletier and Cati Tête. Gérard says, "I was in Germany when I heard Kraftwerk for the first time. It was a revelation for me… and I thought, ' want to make electronic music!'. A month later, I took the train to Strasbourg with the intention of buying a synthesizer and I found my first electronic machine, a Kawai made of metal and wood. It was a sound research machine, not very easy to use but I found it very powerful to create my own sounds. I began to sing with other friends of mine every Saturday night and so started the beginning of what would become Deux. In 1979, I decided to leave Germany and return to France. I found a work place in Lyon (the 2nd largest city in France). I was also working on my music every weekend but I was alone. Then one day, I met Cati and I spoke with that magical girl about music the entire night. Deux was born."
1:49 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
1:59 PM		Dalis Car His Box Dalis Car The Waking Hour Beggars Banquet 1984
2:04 PM		Vijay Benedict, Bappi Lahiri & Anjaan I Am A Disco Dancer Vijay Benedict N I Am a Disco Dancer (Jhankar Beats) - Single Saregama 2023
2:10 PM		Broadcast Black Cat Broadcast Tender Buttons Warp Records 2005
2:15 PM		Zeigeist Cuffs Zeigeist The Jade Motel Spegel 2008 From Stockholm.
2:18 PM		Kleenex Boatsong Liliput Kill Rock Stars 1983
2:22 PM		UnknownmiX Nightmare UnknownmiX Dominadea Independent 1991 Founded in 1983 by singer Magda Vogel, electronic musician Ernst Thoma and visual designer Hans-Rudolf Lutz, UnknownmiX toured Europe for 10 years as one of the 1st multimedia avant-garde rock bands. From Zurich.
2:25 PM		Die Welttraumforscher Mondfolklore Die Welttraumforscher Die Rückkehr der echten Menschheit (1981 - 1990) Bureau B 2021 https://diewelttraumforscher.bandcamp.com/album/liederbuch
2:28 PM		Eleven Pond Changing Face Eleven Pond Bas Relief Game Hen Records 1986 Eleven Pond was James Tabbi (vocals, acoustic guitar), Jeff Gallea (drum programs, synthesizer, vocals), Jack Schaeffer (electric guitar) and Dan Brumley (synthesizer, samples, vocoder, melodica) from Rochester, NY, USA, who met in art school with a shared interest in 4AD and Factory Records.
2:32 PM		Sad Lovers & Giants Lost In a Moment Sad Lovers & Giants Epic Garden Music Midnight Music Records 1981 Sad Lovers and Giants are an English rock band from Watford, Hertfordshire, England, which formed in 1980
2:40 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:44 PM		Vita Noctis Pitch-Dark Vita Noctis Against the Rule Dark Entries Records 2011 Vita Noctis were a trio from Vilvoorde, Belgium in the Flemish Region. Inspired by the post-punk movement twin brothers Kris and Jos Kips convinced Kris' girlfriend Martine Genijn to start a band in 1981.
2:47 PM		Bette Davis I'm Writing a Letter to Daddy Miss Bette Davis From the 1962 film, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
2:51 PM		Depeche Mode Black Celebration Depeche Mode Black Celebration Venusnote Ltd. 1986
2:55 PM		Peter Murphy Cuts You Up Peter Murphy Deep Beggars Banquet 1989

Chat is archived.

i am here, thx to jon for hokding down the fort for a few

holding that is

HELLO

G'morning all

the main WPRB page still links to the previous show.

@ Esoterica (host) Present and accounted for, Miss Esoterica. Synth & spook away!

oh no! uno and hi

try again, unoclay

i see my okaylist nbow tho

playlist

hi richard!

if anyone wanted to grab presale Giz tickets the password yesterday was spacesick. Not sure if its still open.

OkayList is 👌

hi DJE & my PRB Pals

🎹👻👻🎸

Boo!

hi rob

I can't believe it's already been a week since synth part 1

hope you enjoy the synthy tunes plus spooky guitar

Hi Esoterica, Mr M, stevie, uno, Richard, Francis, Travis

yo, travis, its true!

hi francis, too!

Hellow Esoterica host and all fello chatterboxes! Spook and Synth away!

sweet, glad you are on board!

Very enjoyable start to the show! Cheers, DJ Esoterica!

thx, mr. m:)

and cheers to you as well!

🖤💀

some kind of Vinyl flea market at Bok building on Saturday in philly

Ooohhh, I like this very much

huh cool, uno clay. not philly punk rock flea?

yeah just discovered steve moore this am on mexican summer (the label)

might be run by the same people, Captains Vintage

many thanks for sharing all these Gems with us, DJ Esoterica! 👻💎🎶🎵

this is a little menacing. i'm scared

lol

you are welcome! mr. m

I’m levitating 🕴️

oh okay, uno clay, thx for letting me know

Hello !

howdy tom!

i don't think the faraway guys do this number, huh tom? lol

Good Morning/Afternoon!

this playlist is so good so far

thanks unoclay:)

good morning, kim!

Kinda Krafty. Some old school vo-corder.

I am doing the Schprokets dance

howdy, brian, for sure:)

ha, uno clay!

TOUCH MY MONKEY. LOVE HIM

Based on a real person

what, shprockets?

Yeah the character that Mike Myers did on SNL. Based on a German Restaurant waiter.

I never knew that but makes total sense. Just found out that the rift between Carvey and Meyers is finally resolved---tough working on films together, and Meyers sort of stole his Dr Evil from Carvey

cool, brian! ha

"Fever Dream" is my favorite Ray Bradbury story.

oh i need to read it, david, i like bradbury

Howso did Dana originate Dr. Evil, uno clay?

Dieter was the name of the Schprokets guy

yup, brian, i recall

so fun

When I worked of Macy's Parade studio I designed a float for the Austin Powers movie

sweet, brian, was it fun?

Oh yeah! it was for the video purchase. Very MOD!

wow, brian

Hello NURSE WITH WOUND❣️

Hello!? mr. m

These sure are some deep "cuts", DJE!

yes, IP and all spooky! There is a thread! haha

SWANS 🤎

Swans were so F'ing loud back in the 80's

hell yeah

Thread/ tourniquet/ cauterizer... spooky soundtrack, indeed!

Maybe Rio Kawasaki might have had some spooky stuff

maybe, brian i will see:)

Didn't one of the guitarists join up in that metal band Prong?

drummer ted parsons was in both band prong and swans, but maybe a guitarist too?

was tommy victor?

according to recent comments, apparently Dana did a Lorne Michaels type of impression with the pinky and the voice and everything. And Myers grabbed it and used it in the (highly successful) film without acknowledgement or discussion. Compounded with Dana's post-Waynes career fails, and the apparent on-set Wayes animosity/vibes, its been a long time where there was a coolness between them. Apparently reconciled it now.

Ahhh - that was it the drummer

I think the main guy from Prong did sound at CBs some nights. My no name bands played there a bunch of times, and the console mixes/recordings were always fantastic

cool, yeah i think thta was tommy victor

francis

must've been fun playing in that milieu, francis

It was....interesting. Lower east side was alwways chaos and a little dangerous. Playing at 2AM to 100 people got old fast lol

yeah i could see that, mid-80s?

Yep. Stopped playing when I got into Med school in 94

got it

Hi Esoterica!

hi parrscream!

Francis ever play at a place called A1?

Don't think so - Mostly played at Continental, CBGBs, Pyramid club 2x. I'm forgetting a lot of places as it was so long ago

A1 - avenue A and 1st St. My band played there in the 80's. Was like playing in someone's basement. Audience was burnt out on something. No energy to even clap.

LOL - there were a lot of places like that A7 bar?, ABC NoRio (well - that place was fun), the place across from Max Fish

Lots of heroin at that time was probably why so many people were.....relaxed. I remember seeing advertising stickers for some brands

I did No Se No one night

Kraftwerk recorded their 1st album on 8 track reel to reel. When the finally finished

Loving your show today DJE!

con't from before - by the time they had done digital was being used so they had to transfer.

thanks, stevie!

a little departure! DISCO!

Kinda like Dancin Fool

haha yes, now back to synth and darkwave, and postpunk

but this is pretty fun

and very Euro

totally

absolutely amazing show. I could listen to this entire playlist again and again

oh thanks., colin. appreciate!

work has me unavailable for chat fun, but I had to chime in at least once.

sweet, colin!

Tangerine Dream has some synth type stuff

true!

maybe i will get soe one next week. good idea

*some

can't edit on this

Joining in the chorus here... Really Lovin' this 2nd edition of Synth Awesomeness... Thanx!

sweet, michael!

Is this all from your library or PRB's?

Tuned In!!

Loving some of this

Can’t really chat, swamped with work, but loving the show.

Mechanic over in southeast Pa me and my friends love the station and are more often than not all listening

i love that spang!

hi, mary, thx for listening

ugh, I can't believe the show is almost over. I caught the beginning and end, again. This work stuff has got to stop!

well thx for listening, travis!

Is this Betty Davis singing?

yes great cult film

must see!

What ever happened to Baby Jane?

Maybe once I get the windbreaker, I can use it to block all this hot air coming at me in the office.

ha travis

DM has so many great songs. I wish I wasn't so cool/snobby to like them back in the day when I was all harcore

yeah they do, francis

and i was also more obscure punk, but i love them. violator is such a great album

TY - great show as always, except for that one time last spring

tanks so much for stopping by everyone:)

Tanks, ha thanks!

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bye now:)