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Don't Back the Front

Aug 5, 2026 11:00 PM – 1:00 AM

Music

Xerox music is here at last! Don't Back the Front brings you DIY weird waves from the classic punk era through today. All with extra saxophone!

(Your DJ reserves the right to play indie pop)

filling in for DJ turshu playing mutant disco and electro!

11:01 PM		Loose Joints Tell You (Today) (12" Vocal) 12" 4th & Broadway 1983
11:11 PM		Material with Nona Hendryx Busting Out (feat. Nona Hendryx, Fred Maher, Bill Laswell, Michael Beinhorn) One Down Celluloid New York 1981
11:17 PM		Dominatrix The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight Streetwise 1984
11:22 PM		Ēbn-Ōzn Aeiou Sometimes Y Feeling Cavalier Rhino/Elektra 1983
11:28 PM		Was (Not Was) Wheel Me Out Wheel Me Out - Single Celluloid 1980
11:38 PM		Peech Boys Don't Make Me Wait Life Is Something Special Island Records 1983
11:43 PM		Konk Baby Dee Yo! Les Disques Du Crépuscule 1983
11:49 PM		Garçons French Boy Divorce ZE Records 1978
11:52 PM		Laid Back White Horse White Horse Polydor 1983
12:02 AM		Mantronix Bassline The Album Sleeping Bag Records 1985
12:08 AM		Hashim Al-Naafiysh (The Soul) 12" Cutting Records 1983
12:14 AM		Man Parrish Six Simple Synthesizers Hip Hop, Be Bop Unidisc Music Inc. 1982
12:19 AM		A Number Of Names Sharevari 12" Cappricio 1981
12:25 AM		Model 500 No Ufo's (Vocal) No Ufo's (Original Version) - EP Metroplex Records 1985
12:33 AM		The Egyptian Lover Egypt Egypt On the Nile Egyptian Empire Records 1984
12:39 AM		Lex Fourteen Days 12" Flip Records 1983
12:45 AM		Debbie Deb Lookout Weekend 12" Jam Packed 1984
12:53 AM		Midnight Star No Parking (On the Dance Floor) [12" Version] No Parking On the Dance Floor Unidisc Music Inc. 1983

Chat is archived.

late nite! time to party!

wow I love party

it's the party hour

I am eating tuna salad

It's a party

thanks arthur

Hi dana bash the metronome front, in another!

hi ossy! i think you'll like tonight's show!

I will text you the second he says that at Kyler's wedding, don't fret

totally with playing Mario Galaxy 2 with this!

oooh i used to play that

especially after seeing the illumination movie version months back!

last time i played this song i think it was the 2022 spring drive!

This rules

Celluloid put out such cool shit

everything i'm playing during this first set is from NYC.

Cab Volt, Heptones, Gong, King Tubby

The Bridge came out on Celluloid in France

Snakefinger

Robert Rental/Thomas Leer?

Oui

I made it in

I think this is the first time you've made it to my chat

Welcome DONDI

AHOY HOY

dana - speaking more metronome subbing, met turshu in this year's spring drive, she's so down to earth sunny!

i haven't met them but they seem lovely! i think they're away for the next month.

oooo, nice

This is wild

it was a minor hit!

dana - The other new djs met at prex (k train, aneek, ceres, jali) and listeners (richard rocky Hill and chef emeril)

this was the first charting single to use a fairlight CMI sampler

It's hard for me to imagine Emeril as a real person

i wish i could have met the new DJs! we're having an event at records forever (my job) in philly with robin and mike lupica DJing in two weeks and i'm hoping some listeners can make it out

Is there another "AEIOU Sometimes Y" song that's more dancy? I am confused

yes

by Freez

just called AEIOU

Ahhh! Okay, yes. I was thinking of that. Have heard it at dance nights, almost certainly with you.

How did I miss "The Dominatrix Sleeps" tonight?

hey marcus! you slept on it!

Now you want to play to old school NYC hits I grew up with

are you from NYC, marcus?

My High School years were spent going to clubs in NYC

Oh duh. Celluloid sticks out cause of all the Golden Palominos records we were talking about.

that checks out!

Drinking age and ID were suggestions at best

"'Wheel Me Out' on the a side ends in a high pitched sine wave beep which is cut to a loop in the runout groove."

c.f. Avenue B - "Major Thinkers"

I love a locked groove

But also that trumpet rules

this song is so much weirder than walk the dinosaur

that's an irish band, right?

I kinda wish they hadn't walked the dino. No offense to whatever money they made off of it. Like most one hit wonders, people don't know anything but that and it's hard to bring 'em up cause the immediate response is the hit.

Major Thinkers first, Black 47 later

dana - awesomeness, sounds like a blasting upcoming party at your job in the city of brotherly-sisterly love where Jill Scott and Patti Labelle are from! Speaking prex, was hoping to meet the veteran djs this year like rosasolis, readie, lizbot, debby webby etc

Junior Vasquez "If Madonna calls, tell her I'm not home"

Its cat beer

ooo HELLO DANA K !!!

hi Dana K and chat!

hi drezner! hi richard!

🎶📻🔥

👍👍

my favorite was (not was) track is definitely HELLO DAD, I'M IN JAIL

They played that video on MTV

on liquid television, right?

I think it came on regular rotation a couple of times

They had The Cutting Edge with Peter Zaremba and 120 Minutes

The Fleshtones were the house band at the Lone Star Cafe famous for the iguana statue on the roof

Konk - "Your Life" was everywhere

And another band I haven't heard on WPRB that I used to hear - When People Were Shorter and Lived Near the Water

i don't know that one! but the last thing you recommended to me i really liked, so i'm going to have to hear it

i'm seeing that they shared members with king missile and bongwater

Former WKDU DJ Aida requested this Garcons track when I DJ'd her wedding a few years ago

Sorry, WPRB! not WKDU

The Fleshtones are playing Friday at the Bowery Ballroom. The Minus 5 and Goons will warm up. WFMU's Todd and Gaylord will DJ.

Was trying to look up Konk and Mofungo to see if there was any crossover there and of course google thought I was looking up soup with mollusk

Oh. Conch.

Leaving NYC for Denmark with this next one

I haven't seen the Fleshtones since Keith Streng moved to Sweden and joined Stupidity. Though when Stupidity played in NJ recently, Keith wasn't with them.

Err. Not soup but stew. Ish. STILL!

DK! Danceteria 3rd floor. This song

I knew it was Ride the White Horse that was playing, a classic philly fave!

Todd Terry - "A Day in the Life" - played at every club

yay! dana k!

hey andrew!

Mantronix!

One of the first and best electrofunkers

Also one of the first hispanic bands in that space

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Only the greatest hits: it's the DK way

The video is inside the London tubes

ONLY the hits

two hour shows go by so fast!

DK show = all killer no filler

I've never heard this song but I'm already trying to figure out who copied who between this and "I'm a Vocoder

Those would go so great in a set together

Man Parrish's big song was "Hip Hop, Be Bop"

like classix philly station classic spins x basement party, every friday evening

I listened to a lot of music in the 80's but obviously couldn't hear everything which is why I love hearing new old things on your show

that's a huge compliment and absolutely my goal!

now we're in detroit

Chicago House and Detroit Techno and NYC Freestyle/Acid House

💖🔥🌟🔥🌟🔥🌟💖

Time out for Fun is a Devo song

which is what is played I just realized

yup. i always play tracks from the DEVO EZ listening disc.

I hope you're not still working on those enchiladas

🔥🔊🎶

oh no, the enchiladas are long gone. what i wouldn't do for more, though.

You could have DJ's at Chocolate City - the MIT dorm parties in the 80's

I've been known to kill a man for enchiladas

Murder ... chiladas

This rules ⚱️🐫🏺🐪🛕📜

You know Strafe - "Set it Off" right? Not asking you to play just so you know

yes. that's actually a better final song than i had planned.

This song made me remember "Two white girls on a minibus"

Yeeeah, look out weekend!!

This is a lie - the best parties were Tue-Thu

i do enjoy playing this song on a wednesday

though technically i suppose it's thursday

Fri-Sat = Bridge and Tunnel crowd e.g. Jersey and Lawn Guyland

Midnight Star!

Sadly wasn't able to fit Jonzun Crew in

Like their songs - Wet My Whistle and Midas Touch!

Midnight Star speaking

I like Freak-A-Zoid a lot oto

*too

i just love a vocoder

Apu from the Simpsons dances to Freakazoid

https://youtu.be/dY5O_3_C9oM

Thanks for the dance party!

Killed it again Dana! Always excellent tunes when you're on the air

and sweet socks party dreams dana!!

thank you! this was a fun little thing to do!

have a good night, guys!