The New Abnormal Fri Dec 12 with ǝɹnɔsqꓳ ǝɥꓕ ǝʌɐꓷ on WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

good morning

Good day, DJ DaveTheObscure 💟

Good day, Mister Malcontent 💜

Glucose & Sugar, gents.

good morning, TAndy

good morning dave and mrm

Gingerbread & Speculoos, TAndy.

Greetings & Salutations to Erybody Ewlse!

Ahoy!

good morning. like the mother wolfkey protects her young, you too can protect your family with mutual of omaha.

ahaha

Origin Story! 👻

yes, Dale, good morning. We're in good hands

Mornin Dale

mother earth had a really nice vibe to it.

hey now TAndy...

that's why I selected that track, Dale

it has quite an ensemble of musicians

Excellent start to the show! 🎵🎶🎼🎶🎵

thanks, MrM!

Good morning all

good morning, Rob F

Good Morning. Feel like I'm arriving at Philip Glasse's country house listening to this. :).

I have just clicked in. Happy to have you in my digiteria. I hope you have a great show.

Hey, Roffle. Yes, maybe with a little Close to the Edge riffing

Good morning everyone

welcome, Richard M

good morning, Rob from MD

I am “from the north” as I am just started commuting into NYC again

Nice, didn't notice that. :)

@ Rob F, that commute can be draining

This is quite lovely. Good morning Rob, Rob, Richard, and Roff.

minimalist math jazz fusion

New math

in old textbooks

Yeah, I did it for years and have been working local to Princeton for years. But, unfortunately had to find something new

The monks had a vision

@RobF, I was wanting to work over on the Forrestal Campus, but the PHD's always win those gigs. That was why I came back east. So it goes...

☠️💀🏴‍☠️

@Roff what kind of gigs?

Instrumental experimental post/math rock/metal band.

lol

This is rad

that's the best kind of post, Roffle

@Rob F, Working on the Interferometers at the tokamak fusion reactor experiments.

Sounds like fun

Just tech work really, not super physics. But people gotta write them papers.

i like the possessed vocals.

probably Zeuhl inspired

being from France, it's almost required

Sounds like the Green Tea and honey was really kicking in for the band too.

Would the Yolk monkey-thing fight the Yonin Bayashi sloth-thing? Who would win? 5,000 words or more.

welcome, jim haku

Mornin Jim. Already loving this Zohar.

Mayhaps

nusrat ali cohen.

catchy

good morning all!

Heya Stevie

good morning, stevie p

Yeah that zohar was cool

they've got some good stuff

rovo etc is excellent. i turned it up to 11.

this is phonky af

glad you are enjoying

OZRIC YEAH

yes yes always

i introduced a friend to them from another track of theirs you played a few weeks ago and he really liked it

Thanks, Dave!

HE BETTER LIKE IT

(￣_,￣ )

Pssssssst

yeoooooooooooooooooooooo

YeeeeoEOOöe333e0000

oh hello, Jimboooooooo

Howdeeeee DTO

Looking at that Ozric pic, I think there's only person there born before 1983

I am not sure if that pic represents the band that recorded the song I played. Their lineup changes a lot

but their music remains remarkably consistent

TopNotch First Half of the SHOW! Cheers, DJ DaveTheObscure 💟

Well look what the cat dragged in 💀♥️💀♥️💀

I see you jimboooo! Meoow.

me ow 🩹

thanks, MrM

great tunes. Good morning.

thanks, Mok. Glad you like 'em

loving the cover art as well. Mind-boggling.

not so much Apoteosi, but the others, yeah

Cool tunes to awake to, thanks Dave

Thanks, WRED TV, happy to hear you are enjoying

Not a student, live up in the Catskills but have gf near Princetown and started listening in the car so found WPBR on the web and listen often

The Record Exchange is beyond awesome and visit it whenever I'm in Joisey

there is really no other reasonable option

some of the CDs from today were obtaned at PREX

Enjoying your this morning's pick so will explore the playlist later to see what I've missed

have fun exploring

A lot of the music I hear is not my cuppa tea but your stuff is right up my alley so far

yeah, that's the nature of WPRB. But I'm here for those that like this sort of stuff

👉💀👈

oh boy

Awwwww yeah

woo woo

Sun Diago, TX

Put the CA on it! 😂

👈💀👉

Prog beach bums! What's not to love?

okay okay, MrM, the playlist at least has been modified to be more accurate

"a distinctly unpleasant experience" indeed lol

I admit the Difficult Listening Hour can be challenging. It's an acquired taste. Apparently

But here it's a top notch unpleasant experience, unlike other radio stations that under-perform in it.

Woot! WestSiiidddeee! 😎

The other lack direction and focus.:)

others

this can be the BEST Hour! 🏆

for some of us

many others are happy when it's over

BOOF @Them 👎

Difficult means many things to many people.

they are entitled to have their personal tastes and preferences

for some it’s a Cult

it is quite challenging, like pulling off your own fingernails

LMAO •ᎷяM

🙃🧐🥳

ǝʌɐꓷ, I gotta go in the car now. eXcellent show, as per usual!

we supposed to keep them?! 💅⁉️

thanks, Stevie P

This band worked so hard on this piece, to achieve such accolades as top spot on the Uneasy list. :)

BelgianBerzerk!

nobody does berserk like the Belgians

dang

what

soooo guuuud

oh

ERYTHANG! 🏅🏆🎖️

Sounds very Zappa but on steroids

Zappa Sushi

exactly, WRED TV. Zappa has an outsized influence on avant-prog music

i did a whole show last year of Zappa clones

Edgard Varèse was a big influence for FZ

Yes. Zappa took those dissonant elements and incorporated them into the rock format, probably the first to do so

Rick Springfield Format

Oh

too slow

Ahaha

You the one that typed RICK

you can't prove it

😇🤓

Just picked up a new pressing of Freak Out!, the original album my brother bought back in 1966 has seen its day

screenshots sent to your lawyer

AI deep fake

Your lawyer?!

your alleged screenshot

L0LZ 💟🖤💀

The forensics team is on it. :)

🧑‍🔬👩‍💻👨‍🔬👨‍💻

never happened.. all lies

fake outrage

that vowel s broken on my keyboard, so...

couldn't have

hope everyone is enjoying Chat Theatre today 🎭

Lock the doors! Let’s have Two Difficult Listening Hours!!

Chat lottery

I had to roll the chat back to see how this foolishness started 🤣🤕

we was RickRolled

There is AI in the chat too...lol

DJ DaveTheObscure 💟 Seriously, another Gem of a Show! Many thanks and kind regards to you, Sir! 🖤💀

Thanks for the show!!

Thanks much ǝʌɐꓷ! Be well all.

thanks for the good music and the racket too.

thanks, folks

Toni Carboni was legend.

Great Stuffs! 💟🖤💀

💜

7:02 AM		Oneohtrix Point Never Modern Lust N Tranquilizer Warp Records 2025 Main recording alias of Brooklyn-based experimental musician, composer and producer Daniel Lopatin. https://oneohtrixpointnever.bandcamp.com/album/tranquilizer
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7:09 AM		Shungu Last Time N Faith In The Unknown Lex Records 2025 Louis Shungu Mahungu Senga is based in Brussels Belgium. https://shungujazz.bandcamp.com/album/faith-in-the-unknown
7:11 AM		Black Jesus Experience Mother Earth Migration Independent 2014 Based in Melbourne Australia. https://blackjesusexperience.bandcamp.com/album/migration
7:16 AM		Mata Atlantica Quando Como Aranhas (feat. Aralee Dorough & Colin Gatwood) Retiro e Ritmo iapetus distribution 2022 This is a project led by German instrumentalist Markus Reuter, inspired by Bahia, the coastal rainforest of Brazil, the Mata Atlântica,. https://iapetus.bandcamp.com/album/retiro-e-ritmo
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7:29 AM		Philharmonie From the North North Cuneiform Records 1994 French instrumental prog rock and fusion band formed by Frederic Lepée formerly of Shylock. https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/nord-north
7:38 AM		The Orchestra (For Now) Amsterdam N Plan 76 - EP The Orchestra (For Now) 2025 London based 7 piece band. https://theorchestrafornow.bandcamp.com/
7:42 AM		Town Portal Plowshare N Grindwork Dream Bureau 2025 Town Portal is an instrumental experimental post/math rock/metal band from Copenhagen, Denmark, formed in 2009 https://townportal.bandcamp.com/album/grindwork
7:46 AM		Yolk Sepulchre Solar Love Mazout 2017 Avant-prog / RIO band from France. https://yolkmusic.bandcamp.com/album/solar
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8:00 AM		zohar Sketches of Egypt Onethreeseven Mondo Melodia 2001 Chillout music from the UK, founded by Erran Baron Cohen.
8:06 AM		Rovo & System 7 Love for the Phoenix (feat. Steve Hillage) Phoenix Rising (feat. Steve Hillage) Purple Pyramid Records 2013 Rovo is a space rock supergroup from Kansai, Japan, formed in 1995.
8:15 AM		Ozric Tentacles Plowm Paper Monkeys Madfish Music 2011 English progressive/space/psychedelic rock band founded in 1983 in Somerset. They fuse jazz rock, hard rock and acid rock with influences from world music. https://kscopemusic.bandcamp.com/album/paper-monkeys
8:23 AM		Vespero The Tower (XVI) Surpassing All Kings VMS 2009 "Веспер" is a Russian psychedelic/space rock band formed in early 2003 in Astrakhan, South Russia. https://vespero.bandcamp.com/music
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8:34 AM		Apoteosi Il grande disumano Apoteosi AMS 1994 Formed in 1974 by the Idà family from Palmi, Calabria, the southernmost part of Italy. One of the few RPI bands to feature a female vocalist, Sylvana Idà. Her 14-year old brother Massimo is on keyboards, and brother Frederico is on bass. (Originally issued in 1975.)
8:39 AM		Apoteosi Oratorio (Corale) Apoteosi AMS 1994 The introduction of a person into the rank of the Gods is called an apotheosis.
8:41 AM		Apoteosi Attesa Apoteosi AMS 1994 In addition to the three Idà siblings, their father Salvatore Ida also played a pivotal role behind the scenes. He produced the album for his own small folk / rock / prog label, Said Records in 1975.
8:43 AM		Pazop M.M.M. Psychillis of a Lunatic Genius Musea 1972 Belgian group Pazop was heavily influenced by Zappa and modern classical composers.
8:49 AM		Homunculus Res Tetraktys Andiamo in giro di notte e ci consumiamo nel fuoco AMS 2020 Progressive rock band from Palermo, Italy. Their style is closer to Canterbury than Rock Progressivo Italiano. https://homunculusres.bandcamp.com/album/andiamo-in-giro-di-notte-e-ci-consumiamo-nel-fuoco
8:53 AM		Hatfield & The North The Crest Hattitude Hatfield and the North 2005 Canterbury supergroup formed in October 1972, disbanded June 1975, turning into National Health. Canterbury at its best.
8:56 AM		Hatfield & The North Pink and Green Machine Hattitude Hatfield & The North 2006 These two songs were recorded for radio broadcast on "Top Gear" on 19 March 1974. The names "The Crest" and "Pink and Green Machine" were given for legal reasons. They were originally called "Aigrette" and "Rifferama" on their self-titled debut LP.
8:57 AM		Set Break: 𐌃ἷꯝἴʗᱢᶅᜎ ᮄǐꮥ𐠙𐐩ᥢi̩𐡀ǥ ⴼᲢ𐌵Ԅ 🙉
9:02 AM		Upsilon Acrux Old Dusk Seas: Odyssey Sun Square Dialect New Atlantis Records 2015 Upsilon Acrux was founded in San Diego California in 1997. Their music can be described as brutal-prog, noise-rock, nervous avant-rock, splatter prog.. Some consider their music "a distinctly unpleasant experience". https://newatlantisrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sun-square-dialect
9:18 AM		Present Delusions A Great Inhumane Adventure Cuneiform Records 2005 Present is a Belgian R.I.O./avant-prog rock band formed in 1979 led by guitarist/composer Roger Trigaux (1951 – 2021). Disbanded in 1985 and reformed in 1993. It spun off of the Belgian R.I.O. chamber rock group Univers Zero. https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-great-inhumane-adventure
9:31 AM		Tipographica Hadaka no Lunch (Gogo Version) The Man Who Does Not Nod ポニーキャニオン 1994 Japanese progressive avant-garde / free-jazz / RIO ensemble founded in 1986 and disbanded in 1998.
9:39 AM		Strange Changes Baby's First Coffin single s/r 2013 Boston-area avant-prog group, inspired by Frank Zappa and Mr. Bungle, and blending classic jazz, free jazz, math rock, metal, etc. This is a cover of the song by The Dillinger Escape Plan. Recorded live at Barefoot Studios in Brighton in 2013
9:45 AM		Miriodor Gallinule d'Amérique Signal 9 Cuneiform Records 2017 Avant-prog band from Quebec City, founded in 1980. https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/signal-9
9:47 AM		Yowie Hot Water Heater N Taking Umbrage SKiN GRAFT Records 2025 Harsh math rock band founded in St. Louis in 2000. https://yowie.bandcamp.com/
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9:57 AM		Kontra Mökö ja Luru Kontran Toinen Puoli Love Records 1978 Finnish band from the 1970's known mainly for making Finnish covers of rock-n-roll hits. This is Zappa's "Let's Make the Water Turn Black".

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