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The New Abnormal

Jun 19, 2026 7:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Music

Exploring multiple facets of jazz-adjacent prog-rock, edgy fusion, Canterbury, Zeuhl, Rock-In-Opposition, avant-prog, Rock Progressivo Italiano, world music, ambient, anything virtuosic.

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7:02 AM		Boards of Canada Memory Death N Inferno Warp Records 2026 Electronic music duo from Edinburgh, Scotland. https://boardsofcanada.bandcamp.com/album/inferno
7:04 AM		Set Break: ⚀⚀⚀⚀⚀⚀⚀⚀⚀⚀⚀⚀⚀⚀⚀⚀⚀⚀
7:07 AM		emer & Ugnė Uma Perfect Strangers N you and me Stroom 2026 Marija Rasa aka emer and Ugnė Uma are originally from Lithuania. New LP to be released July 7th. https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/you-and-me
7:09 AM		Jon Hassell Moons of Titan Seeing Through Sound (Pentimento Volume Two) Ndeya 2020 Jon Hassell (1937-2021) was the creator of a style of music he described as Fourth World, a mysterious, unique hybrid of music both ancient and digital, composed and improvised, Eastern and Western. This was his final release.
7:14 AM		Vespero Crabs Ashore Rito VMS 2007 "Веспер" is a Russian psychedelic/space rock band formed in early 2003 in Astrakhan, South Russia. https://vespero.bandcamp.com/music
7:20 AM		Markus Reuter Melomania Truce 2 Markus Reuter 2022 Markus Reuter is a prolific German guitarist born in 1972. Besides his collaborations, he creates loop-based ambient/abstract works using his touch-guitar. https://markus-reuter-moonjune.bandcamp.com/album/truce-2
7:30 AM		Set Break: ⚁⚁⚁⚁⚁⚁⚁⚁⚁⚁⚁⚁⚁⚁⚁⚁⚁⚁ Juneteenth National Independence Day is celebrated annually on June 19th to commemorate the ending of slavery in the United States. It was on June 19th 1865 that Major General Gordon Granger ordered the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation (signed January 1863!) in Texas at the end of the Civil War.
7:34 AM		Gil Scott-Heron The Needle's Eye Pieces of a Man Ace Records 1971 US singer, spoken-word, activist and author (1949-2011)
7:39 AM		Herbie Hancock You'll Know When You Get There Mwandishi Rhino/Warner Records 1970 Jazz pianist born in Chicago in 1940.
7:49 AM		Gregory Porter Wisdom Water Universal Music Division Decca Records France 2010 Jazz vocalist Gregory Porter was born in Sacramento CA on 4 November 1971.this is his debut release. https://gregoryporter.bandcamp.com/album/water
7:58 AM		Flying Lotus The Protest You're Dead! Warp Records 2014 Flying Lotus is an experimental multi-genre music producer, DJ, and laptop musician from Winnetka, California. His great aunt is Alice Coltrane. https://flyinglotus.bandcamp.com/album/youre-dead
8:00 AM		Set Break: ⚂⚂⚂⚂⚂⚂⚂⚂⚂⚂⚂⚂⚂⚂⚂⚂⚂⚂⚂
8:03 AM		Julian Priester Pepo Mtoto Eternal Worlds - Epilogue Love, Love ECM Records 1974 Julian Priester, born in Chicago in 1935, is a trombonist that has played with Sun Ra, Max Roach, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane and Herbie Hancock among others. An in-demand session musician, he spent most of his career touring and recording with other artists.
8:13 AM		McCoy Tyner Fly With the Wind Fly With the Wind Milestone 1976 McCoy Tyner (1938-2020) was a pianist, composer, and band leader, born in Philadelphia.
8:21 AM		L'Rain What's That Song? I Killed Your Dog Mexican Summer 2023 Taja Cheek, known professionally as L'Rain, is an experimentalist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, vocalist and songwriter. Born in Brooklyn, she attended Yale and worked as music director of radio station WYBC. https://lrain.bandcamp.com/album/i-killed-your-dog
8:22 AM		Miles Davis Water Babies Water Babies Columbia/Legacy 1976 Recorded during 1967-68, but not released until 1976.
8:28 AM		Set Break: ⚃⚃⚃⚃⚃⚃⚃⚃⚃⚃⚃⚃⚃⚃⚃⚃⚃⚃⚃⚃
8:31 AM		Earth, Wind & Fire Ain't No Harm to Moan (Slave Song) [Bonus Track] Open Our Eyes (Bonus Tracks Edition) Columbia/Legacy 1974 American soul & funk band, founded in Chicago, Illinois, in 1970
8:36 AM		Flying Lotus Thank U Malcolm Flamagra Warp Records 2019 Flying Lotus is Steven Ellison, an experimental multi-genre music producer, DJ, and laptop musician from Winnetka, California.
8:38 AM		James Brown Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud Foundations of Funk: A Brand New Bag: 1964-1969 Universal Records 1996 singer, songwriter, and musician (1933-2006)
8:40 AM		Funkadelic Funk Gets Stronger, Pt. 1 The Electric Spanking of War Babies Warner Bros. 1981 Psychedelic funk band from the 1970s, led by George Clinton
8:47 AM		Parliament Chocolate City Chocolate City Def Jam West 1975 Funkadelic's sister band, also led by George Clinton
8:53 AM		Ohio Players O-H-I-O Angel Mercury Records 1977 formed in Dayton Ohio in 1959
8:55 AM		Earth, Wind & Fire Shining Star (Alternate Version) The Eternal Dance Columbia/Legacy 1992
9:00 AM		Set Break: ⚄⚄⚄⚄⚄⚄ Lᴰiͥsᶠtᶠeͥnͨiͧnˡgͭ ᴴᵒᵘʳ
9:02 AM		The Mars Volta Goliath The Bedlam In Goliath Motown 2008 The Mars Volta formed in 2001 by Cedric Bixler and Omar Rodriguez of "At the Drive-In", https://themarsvoltaofficial.bandcamp.com/
9:09 AM		Magister Dixit Les pôtits archers Eldorado ré mi fa sol la si do s/r 2000 Magister Dixit is a sextet from Toulouse, France, founded in 1990. They are a Zeuhl-inspired chamber rock group.
9:15 AM		Polymorphie OW4 Cellule Grolektif 2015 A group from Lyon, France formed by Romain Dugelay and comprising members of the collective Grolektif playing in free jazz / experimental / mathrock styles. https://polymorphie.bandcamp.com/
9:20 AM		Vazytouille Masay Christo (Pt. 2) Vazytouille Atypeek Diffusion / Circum-Disc 2021 14-piece band from France https://circum-disc.bandcamp.com/album/vazytouille
9:28 AM		Present The Sense of Life Certitudes Cuneiform Records 1998 Belgian RIO/avant-progressive rock band formed in 1979 as a side project from Univers Zero, when guitarist Roger Trigaux left that band. Disbanded in 1985 and reformed in 1993. Similar to Universe Zero, but more intense and electrified.
9:39 AM		Vaults of Zin Mons Atanua Kadath Vaults of Zin 2016 From Denton, Texas, their music is heavily influenced by Magma but blending in experimental metal. https://vaultsofzin.bandcamp.com/album/kadath
9:46 AM		Unit Wail Pumapunku Retort Soleil Mutant 2013 Unit Wail is Zeuhl fusion band fronted by former Shub Niggurath guitarist Franck-William Fromy. https://unitwail.bandcamp.com/album/retort-remaster-2019
9:51 AM		Jean Louis 1234 Uranus Coax Records 2013 Jean Louis are from Paris France. An unusual trio: trumpet, bass & drums.https://jeanlouis.bandcamp.com/album/uranus
9:55 AM		Set Break: ⚅⚅⚅⚅⚅⚅⚅⚅⚅⚅⚅⚅⚅⚅⚅⚅⚅⚅
9:57 AM		The Z3 Hungry Freaks Daddy Zappanale 24 Bad Doberan Germany Muffin Records Productions USA 2014 Zappa cover band from New Haven, CT. https://thez3.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-zappanale-24-bad-doberan-germany

Chat is archived.

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Good day, DJ DaveTheObscure 💟

💜 ¡ ʇuǝʇuoɔɭɐꓪ ɹꓪ noʎ oʇ sᵷuᴉʇǝǝɹ⅁

Ahoy there gentz

good morning, TAndy

Boards!!

yeah!

OF!!

CANADA ❤️

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

from Scotland

TAllyH0, TAndy!

Woot! 🎉 Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 💙

Now it doesn’t look like the City of Woot.

Is that Woot, Califormia, or Woot, Romania?

Woah. Please don’t tell us those are real cities. 🙊

they are not

Ahaha 😹

Excellent start to the show! 💟

forreal

Thanks, MrM. I hope you enjoy the rest 💜

Changing things up quite a bit in 5 minutes

🌽💀👂 listening with both earz

good morning.

Mornin Dale

Good morning, Dale

Name That WorbleWarp⁉️

whatchoo talkin' bout, MrM?

The song in the background of MicBreaks⁉️

I was trying to figure it out

good morning ꓳꓕǝʌɐꓷ and my PRB Pals!

Geary Faggett Ensemble "Someone's Watching You" (1976)

this song, nothing has changed in 50 plus years.

Good morning Stevie P

Morning homies

I was never gonna get that 🙃

@Dale, sad but true

good morning, goots

Greetings & Salutations, Everyone

sup goots and stevie

HERBIE HANCOCK❣️

Good morning y'all

such an amazing talent

good morning, Rob from MD. I hope the storms yesterday did no damage in MD

Good morning Dave, others…when HH toured with Chick Corea, two grand pianos, I got to meet, photograph Herbie’s Mom, intermission, Auditorium Theater. Thrilling

That’s amazing Dan!

Wow, dan! That must have been quite a performance. They both have the strength of 10

It really was, Chicago really turned out for both that night.

I’m headed to Chicago for the first time tomorrow morning. Any recommendations for live music venue etc?

Good morning@Dave! Thx for your kind thoughts. My part of Maryland barely had any rain at all. So, no storms :-)

Of course, I don't know what happened in other parts of the state

the weather radar looked frightening

Yikes! Ignorance is bliss, as they say

Dave, yesterday I first heard the term Library Music, which isn’t literal. Are you familiar with it?

I am not, dan

Which is sampled frequently in Hip Hop.

is it like stock music clips in the public domain?

Funky Fanfare, the old music for coming attractions at movies one example. The tracks are all under 3 minutes.

Yes!

keeps the attorneys away, smart

Turns out to be widely influential in many genres.

Mostly based, created in Europe, UK.

quite a nice float downstream with this one.

It really is

Mornin Rob and Dan. Dave, I love this album from Flylo. I was kinda obsessed when it came out lol

This is not dying…

Imagine Aunt Alice’s home made cookies

🍪🤯

Trilling to my ears.

Good morning!

Sup Roff!

Glad to hear it, Roffle. Good morning

this music so good, I have to eat ice cream 🍨

do you honestly luv to eat this ice cream?

Who’s drumming on this?

For Realz 🍦

this is pretty damn fine!

Billy Cobham on drums

Figures

This feels rushed on purpose. It's very cool.

Everywhere All At Once

Sheer brilliance…in spite of that album cover, yikes

Wrong century I think

Blame the record label for their poor taste

Bicentennial was quite a year

I think Miles had one other similar

I gotta go ǝʌɐꓷ. Excellent show, as per usual! Thanks!

thanks, Stevie P, have a good day

Take care, StevieP!

Thanks MrM!

On The Corner LP cover

Tony Williams on that Water Babies title track... so tasteful on the drums. What a player. Yeah that Billy Cobham, Ron Carter rhythm section on the McCoy lp is powerful. They have played together before here and there over the decades. Spectrum especially good.

Great show going on Dave!

All music guide gave Tyner 4 out of 5 stars. Ok…

Hey BD!

Thanks, Brian D. Good to see you again in this space

The Miles Davis piece pre-dated DJ Horsewater's / Mud's all 1880s set by a few years I see. Time travelin Miles

The way back machine

MILES DAVIS ❤️

Can't slip anything past you, Brian D

1867-68 💗

whatchoo talkin' bout, MrM?

EARTH, WIND & FIRE ❤️

Stephen Foster produced

I saw it before the update 🤓🥸😎

Sorry, he died in ‘64, 1864

I gotta play some Eisley Brothers today

Funk me

More WestSiiidddeee❣️

comin' up

Sotheby’s was auctioning off his hairspray cans, hair nets! I kid you not

nutsy kookoo

JAMES BROWN ❤️

Should be in cases next to Enola Gay, Smithsonian.

Oh this F0NKY 💖 📻🎶🎵💝

Love Funk Gets Stronger and love Electric Spanking of War Babies lp! George and Sly collaborate... what a pair there.

Bernie Worrell here?

not sure

Bootsy!

Both Sly and Cynthia from Family Stone guest on this particular track. Album has some great guests

Bernie Worrell up next tho

Dangbabydang

George Clinton's autobio with the perfect title "Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain't That Funkin' Kinda Hard on You?", has some bits on the wild times George and Sly had together about this time. Good read. George is a musical expert, historically especially, really knows his stuff. Could be a professor.

Clinton is a pretty colorful guy.

Great buildup on this title track.

Monster Juneteenth Set Dave

glad you're appreciating the selections

Like the Nicks fans, if I had a school bus to burn, I’d…

had to do something for Juneteenth

George, Bootsy and maybe a stray few left of the OG PFunk vets. RIP to all the Mothership Crew that took the early ride

Dave’s Disc Closure Day

Sorry should mention Michael Hampton, Maceo Parker, Fred Wesley are still with us as well. I forget about other the James Brown vets besides Bootsy that did a spell in the PFunk universe. And Michael Kid Funkadelic. Shredder there.

Home of the Wright Brothers as well

Yessss

Ohio is quite the Rock n Roll / Funk state of players.

THIS ✨🌟💫

Fonk yeah!!

hey, Guelo!

Verdine on that BASS!

where did i put my elephant bell bottoms?

What a band whew. I gotta see that Questlove helmed documentary on EWF soon.

Hmmm wonder who may pop up here in the 9am slot. Vegas odds on Anthony Braxton?

SuperDuper Celebration 🎉❣️ Cheers, DJ DaveTheObscure 💟

THE MARS VOLTA 🖤🖤🖤

I just got home but that last hour was mad chill man. What a great day to stay home and relax (after chores)

Also, oh BOY and MARS VOLTA 🔥🔥🔥

The funkiest MV track ever!

Sorry, Brian D. I dId not think things through enough

Oh no complaints here

Difficult Listening Hour starts after this track!

Right?!?

there is no Difficult Listening Hour, nor will there ever be

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Also, 👉💀👈

👈☠︎👉

Yes yes, good morning good morning

oh hello, jim haku

Tish! You're speaking French!

oui, lizardbytes

Something very Zappa-esk about this cut

probably the vibraphone, and otherwise Zappa's outsized influence on all of avant-prog

agreed! Revisted Make A Jazz Noise Here last night, what a superb live performance

for sure, Zappa at his best

@lizardbytes, I did a themed show of Zappa clones - check the playlist from November 8, 2024.

TopNotch Selections! Very enjoyable! Big cheers to you, DJ DaveTheObscure!

Thanks I will!

Thanks, MrM

Final Fifteen Mins?! I’m stifle 😢

keep yourself together, man!

I'm sniffling too. Only cos I'm outside about to cut the grass... Allegra please save me

Wait Fourteen Mins, TAndy!

unless “cut the Grass” means 💨 something else? then get to it!

don't cut it with oregano

Naw not yet, gotta do some actual chores first! Then the weekend starts :)

Oh alright 👍

🔢 🎺🎸🥁❣️

wow that's quite a collection of Zappa cover bands. I did see The Ed Palermo Big Band last month at a venue they play at frequently The Falcon in Marlboro, NY

DJ DaveTheObscure 💟 Many thanks for another TopTier Special Show! Appreciate the attention to detail! Kind regards to you, Sir! 🖤💀

Great show Dave thanks

Thanks Dave!!

Thanks for the tunes Dave, great job as always!

Joe was a nice boy, he used to cut the grass, played in the garage with his friends but they didn't know any nice songs.

thanks for listening, folks, and keeping me company in the chat.

happy Juneteenth!

Cheers to all the Dears, especially those with Big Earz! 🖤💀