WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

New Jersey's Only Radio Station

WPRB is a community-supported, freeform radio station. Our FM signal (103.3) serves central New Jersey, Philadelphia, eastern PA and the northern tip of Delaware. We reach a global audience at wprb.com.

The New Abnormal

Aug 7, 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		Ship Says Om & Emma Lucia Water Prayer N Djuphjärtad - EP Native Cat 2026 Ship Says Om is the ambient/vocal project of Jenny Gillespie Mason. https://shipsaysom.bandcamp.com/album/djuphj-rtad-ep Djuphjärtad (deep-hearted)
7:05 AM		Set Break: 𓆣 𓆣 𓆣 𓆣 𓆣 𓆣 𓆣 𓆣 𓆣
7:06 AM		Bear Bones, Lay Low & Lazlo Umbreit Star N Tales From The Source Discrepant 2026
7:11 AM		Laurie Anderson Looking for you, Walking and Falling United States Live Rhino/Warner Records 1984 Laurie Anderson (born in 1947, Glen Ellyn, Illinois, USA) is an American performance artist and composer.
7:14 AM		Laurie Anderson Private Property United States Live Rhino/Warner Records 1984
7:17 AM		Bhajan Bhoy Eliane's Conch To Love is to Love (Vol. 2) Feeding Tube 2023 Bhajan Bhoy is Ajay Saggar, a multi-instrumentalist based in the Netherlands. https://bhajanbhoy.bandcamp.com/
7:25 AM		Set Break: ʚĭɞ ʚĭɞ ʚĭɞ ʚĭɞ ʚĭɞ ʚĭɞ ʚĭɞ
7:28 AM		Baldruin Was Ist Das ¿ N Experimentelle Welt 1 V/A Billo 2026 "Experimentelle Welt 1" is the first one in a series of experimental music compilations on Billo. German artists are featured. https://billotontraeger.bandcamp.com/album/experimentelle-welt-1
7:31 AM		Peter Michael Hamel Dorian Dervishes Hamel: Bardo Kuckuck Schallplatten 1981 German composer and musician (primarily keyboards), born in 1947 in Munich, Germany. Was part of the group Between in the 1970's. Then he kind of fell between the cracks in the minimalist scene, never getting the same attention as Terry Riley or Steve Reich.
7:52 AM		Hoavi After a Day of Silence N Architectonics Peak Oil 2026 Hoavi is Russian producer Kirill Vasin. On 'architectonics', he draws from his lifelong appreciation of Indonesian gamelan music. https://peakoil.bandcamp.com/album/architectonics
7:57 AM		Set Break: 𓇼 𓇼 𓇼 𓇼 𓇼 𓇼 𓇼 𓇼
8:00 AM		Gong A P.H.P.'s Advice (Remastered 2018) You (Deluxe Edition) UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 1974 Psychedelic rock band formed by Daevid Allen and Gilli Smyth in France in 1969. Gong became pioneers of a new brand of psychedelia/space-rock/trip-rock - with a conceptual ethos involving aliens and alternative realities. Wikipedia
8:02 AM		Gentle Giant Cogs in Cogs The Power and the Glory Alucard 1974 Gentle Giant was an eclectic progressive rock band formed in 1970 in London, UK- Disbanded in 1980.
8:05 AM		Et Cetera Newton avait raison Et cetera UNIDISC MUSIC INC. 1976 Formed in 1976 in Montreal, Quebec, disbanded also in 1976. Favorably compared to Gentle Giant. Just one LP released.
8:10 AM		Happy the Man Partly the State Beginnings Cuneiform Records 1990 Happy The Man was a symphonic prog band that came out of rural Virginia and moved to Washington D.C. where they signed to Arista and released two classic albums, eventually breaking up at the very end of the 70's. "Beginnings" collects previously unreleased material recorded 1974-75 before their 1st LP. https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/beginnings
8:19 AM		Latte E Miele Aquile e scoiattoli Aquile e scoiattoli AkarmaRecords 1976 Italian progressive rock/symphonic rock band from Genoa that was originally formed as a trio in 1971 and expanded to four members in 1976.
8:22 AM		Echolyn A Little Nonsense Suffocating the Bloom Velveteen Records 1992 Symphonic progressive rock band founded in 1989 in the Philadelphia area. https://echolyn.bandcamp.com/
8:28 AM		Set Break: ↹ ↹ ↹ ↹ ↹ ↹ ↹ ↹ ↹ ↹ ↹
8:30 AM		Toshida Tatsuya + Eiko Ishibashi As Long As He Lies Perfectly Still Slip Beneath the Distant Tree 2007 Ishibashi Eiko is a Japanese singer-songwriter, and improvising drummer and pianist.Yoshida Tatsuya is a prominent Japanese avant-garde/jazz/experimental drummer, composer, producer & sound engineer, associated with Zeuhl bands like Ruins and Koenjihyakkei. (This is a cover of song by early Soft Machine while Robert Wyatt was still a member.)
8:33 AM		Jakko M. Jakszyk Nirvana For Mice The Bruised Romantic Glee Club Panegyric 2009 Jakko M. Jakszyk is a guitarist and vocalist, and lead singer for King Crimson since 2013. He also has strong connections with the Canterbury scene. This is a cover of a song by Henry Cow.
8:38 AM		Camel Unevensong Rain Dances (Expanded Edition) UMC-Decca 1976 English progressive rock group formed in 1971. "Raindances", with Richard Sinclair, is their most 'Canterbury' sounding of their otherwise symphonic prog releases.
8:44 AM		Zopp Zero Zopp 3928125 Records DK 2020 Zopp is modern Canterbury music played mainly by multi instrumentalist Ryan Stevenson. 🫖 🦂 https://zopp.bandcamp.com/album/zopp-2
8:48 AM		Tom PENAGUIN Aborted Long Piece No2 Tom Penaguin àMARXE 2024 Tom Penaguin is a multi-instrumentalist from Brittany, France. He started doing song covers on YouTube before moving on the playing guitar with psychedelic and metal bands. This self titled debut was recorded on vintage equipment and is solidly in the Canterbury tradition, with influences from Egg and National Health. https://amarxe.bandcamp.com/album/tom-penaguin
8:52 AM		Bruford If You Can't Stand The Heat... Feels Good to Me Winterfold 1978 Jazzrock band led by prog drummer Bill Bruford. With Allan Holdsworth on guitar, Dave Stewart on keyboards, and Jeff Berlin on bass.
8:55 AM		Set Break: 𒁏 𒁏 𒁏 𒁏 Dᶦffiᶜuₗt Lᵢsᵗeₙiⁿg Hᵒuᵣ
9:00 AM		VAK Periscopy Aedividea s/r 2014 VAK is a modern Zeuhl group from France. https://vak-prog.bandcamp.com/album/aedividea
9:10 AM		Eskaton Eskaton 4 Visions Soleil Zeuhl 2010 Eskaton is a French progressive rock/Zeuhl band. Founded in 1970, disbanded in 1985. Eskaton took Magma "Kohntarkosz" influences, mixed in prog, lots of electronics and increasingly elements of cold wave. This unique concoction, fronted by two female vocalists, made for a distinctive Zeuhl sound. https://soleilzeuhl.bandcamp.com/album/4-visions
9:20 AM		Vojdi Skopski Merak Kompost Zemiačky records 2024 Vojdi is from Slovakia. https://vojdi.bandcamp.com/
9:24 AM		Droid Eat Everything (feat. Amir Ziv, Jordan McLean, Adam Holzman & Tim Lefebvre) N CHARGE (feat. Amir Ziv, Tim Lefebvre, Jordan McLean & Adam Holzman) System Dialing Records 2026 Avant-jazzy dubstep.
9:27 AM		MERMORT デマゴゴスの絶滅 2nd demo s/r 2012 Mermort is an experimental prog hardcore band from Tokyo. "The album is made mainly in varying tempos because the capitalistic world has become overly rational, and the album is attempting to refute society's turn toward pragmatism." The title means "extinction of the demagogues"
9:36 AM		WYXZ Tilted Acre YIY 2019 Wyxz is a project that plays demanding, through-composed math rock combined with avant-garde progressive rock, sound collage, and free improvisation, with self-taught composer/drummer/guitarist Ben Coniguliaro and his brother Quinn and the virtuosic guitarist Matt Hollenberg. https://wyxz.bandcamp.com/
9:39 AM		Utopianisti Zwaáakh Brutopianisti Utopianisti 2017 While Finish band Utopiainisti's style can range from mostly instrumental, energetic jazz-rock / eclectic prog with occasional leaps towards Balkan gypsy music, tango, avant-garde, or latin, this "Brutopianisti" is math-infused speed metal. https://utopianisti.bandcamp.com/album/brutopianisti
9:40 AM		Trioscapes From the Earth to the Moon Digital Dream Sequence Metal Blade Records 2014 Progressive metal / jazz fusion group based in Greensboro, North Carolina. https://trioscapes.bandcamp.com/album/digital-dream-sequence
9:49 AM		The Sick Boy Method No News is Good News For Karyn Sauna Suit Recordings 2021 The Sick Boy Method describe their music as "entry-level prog". They mix progressive rock, metal, punk, hardcore, math and ambient sounds. I think they are from the USA. https://thesickboymethod.bandcamp.com/
9:52 AM		Set Break: ͡◉ ͡◉ ͡◉ ͡◉ ͡◉ ͡◉ ͡◉ ͡◉
9:58 AM		The Z3 Absolutely Free Zappanale 24 Bad Doberan Germany Muffin Records Productions 2014 The Z3 is a Zappa cover band from New Haven, CT. The "Zappnale" is an annual festival in the eastern German city of Bad Doberan. First held in 1990, the year after the Berlin Wall fell. Zappa's music was regarded with suspicion by the Stasi. They were also sued by the Zappa Family Trust. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zappanale 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⅁

Grease & Slime, gents. Good morning and ahoy to you both! Loving the bed music lol

good morning.

lips incorporated at a wavering 16 rpm's is not too bad.

F0NKY T0WN to 0ne & All

good morning, TAndy

good morning, Dale. Warped Funky

The funk so strong it warped the record! Good thing we don't use those here

I'm away next week. So there will be a sub. It has yet to be determined who will take it. Perhaps a cage fight will settle it.

Gotta love some Laurie in the morning

good morning, Zach

Morning!

Woah early difficult listening voice

that's the one. Audio drag

I vote for a Friday morning Deirdre or Commie Francis show!

I love her musical anecdotes

good morning ǝʌɐꓷ and my PRB Pals!

hello Stevie P

Love the warped Funky Town! Almost too good to interrupt

That'll be my next sub show - 2 hours of warped Funky Town. Good morning, Brian

Mornin everyone! Loving the minimal experimental music block going on

digging this float through the cosmos.

glad you are enjoying

this rhythm is crazy

Gamelan infused

Good morning DtO and everyone. We just tuned in a few minutes ago, and have been enjoying the dervishes and the day of silence

thanks, Rob

THIS Rn aF

GONG!!!!!!

yessirs

This track sounds like it's mocking me.

so rude of them

Good morning Dave and listeners

good morning, Lizardbytes

i'm liking this track

glad you like

Gene Wilder 💙💙💙💙

Just loving what I’m hearing

welcome, Kate G. I'm glad you are able to listen and appreciate

TopNotch First Half of Show! #Cheers,DJ•DaveTheObscure💟

Thank ye kindly, MrM 💜

Oh sweet a Camel!!

sometimes, I sneak in a camel through the eye of a needle

Nice soundtrack to a not quite too hot morning

Yet.

thanks, jim haku. Temperatures rising for sure

humidity like 95%

Here for my ration of zeuhl gruel, Sir 🥣

comin' up at 9:00, jimbooo

I'm famished...hope I can make it

some Canterbury served as appetizer

An Egg AND gruel? Such luxury!!

And some Camel jerky

Do Not dehydrate the Camel

One Hump 🐪 or Two 🐫⁉️ @YaHumps‼️

oh boy

Oh BOY

Sorry MrM, just one!

Oh my god they are different emojis

Ha! 😂

One hump, two phones, 2 chainz🐪📱📱⛓️

👈💀👉

👉💀👈

2 ears!

☠️☞

🙉

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Fancy 🐒

Guud Stuffs 📻🎶🎵❤️

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Jetsons' monkey

Mucho Fancy! JetsonsL0LZ

this is a Gem 💎🎶🎵🩵

There is only Zeuhl!

Dammit you always play that anti drug ID when I'm higher than the Jetsons 🫠

🤣😶‍🌫️😵‍💫😵🤠

Noooo, it's anti 'music of your own'. Trust WPRB

Oh yeah

dayum

just tryin' to keep it difficult

Mermort has a new one on bandcamp, but not the demo

thanks for the tip, JH

I don't know if 'the demo was better' applies to prog bands, they seem to be able to get better.

it happens

To a point, maybe.

This is some real serious shit right here. Primo top shelf material right here man

I try to select all my shit from the top shelf

DJ DaveTheObscure 💟 Many thanks for another TopTier Show! Very well done! Big cheers! Kind regards to you, Sir! 🖤💀

Great show!

another excellent show Dave! Thanks!

This sounds like funky town but it's out of breath

It's been a delight to the ears, as usual, Dave!

Thanks so much Dave!

thanks for dropping by, everyone. I'll be off next week. Who knows who will sub?

You take a sub show too, DJ DaveTheObscure!

That camel with two humps

WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

New Jersey's Only Radio Station

WPRB is a community-supported, freeform radio station. Our FM signal (103.3) serves central New Jersey, Philadelphia, eastern PA and the northern tip of Delaware. We reach a global audience at wprb.com.

The New Abnormal

⨳ x 𓃼 = ᵺ𐊤 𐱆ꑿꪡ ꚈႦꍷᚱꠈㅻ

𓃼

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