Favoriting Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza: Playlist from August 16, 2021 Favoriting

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A live, improvised sound collage experiment, going back 28 years, weaving mesmerizing new soundscapes from found and collected materials right in the present moment.
Pop music, speeches, live phone calls and spontaneous monologues become ambient loopy layered threads riding the liminal spaces between waking and dreaming. [On hiatus.] (Visit homepage.)

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Favoriting August 16, 2021: Light (a polyphonic spree) + This Mess is True (Show #281/283) | Download full MP3

Classic light-drift-collages from the Austin years, now back in remastered form:

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Artist Track Album Year Comments Images Approx. start time
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza  Light (a polyphonic spree)   Favoriting Show #281, from Dec. 9, 2003  2003  (with 2021 intro)
Uses layered loops from:
Polyphonic Spree - Light and Day 
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Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza  This Mess Is True   Favoriting Show #283, from Dec. 20, 2003  2003  (with 2021 overlapping intro)
Collages and layers sources:
Hans Zimmer - You're So Cool
Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
Ken's Last Ever - NYC field recordings made April 29, 2001
Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me
Spandau Ballet - True
Björk - New World
Al Bowlly - Guilty
Yann Tiersen - La Valse d'Amelie
George W. Bush - Fool Me Once
Four Tet - First Thing
Four Tet - Parks
Kohn - Dahndilion
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - Clips from Mommy?, Karen's Dead, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8, Rainbow Dementia, Back and Forth, Doin' It Our Way, Cranes Clocks Ghosts, Realaudio Looping, Light (a polyphonic spree), Polyphonic Potato Head (A speech irony plop) 
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fred:

Hello Kenzo and listeners
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Warmup
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fleep:

Assuming extravaganza position
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8/28/19 5:09pm
chresti:

Hello, pretty warm already
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Posed
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8/28/19 5:18pm
Ike:

Dig.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Life simple is
Avatar 8/28/19 5:27pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

And that's just about that.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Welcome, fred, fleep, chresti, and Ike!
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I had an edited version without the legal stuff, but I went back to lossless source for today and left all that in place for posterity.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Also went to back to lossless source for this one. 99% sure I excised all the underwriting announcements but advance apologies if irrelevant outdated commercial bit sneaks in.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

RIP the person I was filling in for 16 years ago
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Also RIP Don Joyce who sat on a stage playing carts while a disco ball came as Spandau Ballet's This Much is True started playing near the end of a Negativland concert I attended in the early 2000's, and I knew one day I'd loop that on a show.
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fleep:

Time running in at least two directions
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8/28/19 5:46pm
Franco Twinkie:

Hi Ken. When I was in junior high. I had a school notebook with that spinning rainbow design on the front. It did not do a thing to promote good study habits.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Franco You are getting sleeeeepy
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8/28/19 5:50pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Feeling loopy today.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8/28/19 5:51pm
Franco Twinkie:

Come to think of it, it was a paper text book cover that came in a multi-pak. Covering my school books was the only time I ever opened them.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8/28/19 5:52pm
Ike:

AIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE SOMEBODY CALL 311! ...oh wait NM, it's the radio.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Kensloopoolsnek
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8/28/19 5:58pm
Franco Twinkie:

AoxomoxoA
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8/28/19 5:59pm
Franco Twinkie:

StarratS
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8/28/19 6:00pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

wow
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

The new subway turnstiles, but still using tokens.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8/28/19 6:10pm
chresti:

I aye
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8/28/19 6:18pm
chresti:

December 20, 2003 was a Saturday
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Indeed! I was subbing for a Saturday afternoon show.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8/28/19 6:21pm
chresti:

sounds like, "look at dat", the phrase for never
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8/28/19 6:23pm
fred:

A proof of the good taste evident in this show is that I don't think it ever used a Felder loop. The mere thought would send Ike screaming
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8/28/19 6:24pm
chresti:

haha fred
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I'm not following the Felder thing. I've used a lot of ridiculous pop artists, haven't I?
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Carmichael:

i am indeed listening, although I'm working harder than a one-legged man in a butt kicking contest.
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fleep:

The Felder thing is an atrocious song played every single week on Tuesday at 11 am, causing much distress among the delicate eared
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Carmichael:

And a twisted sadistic grin on the faces of others.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8/28/19 6:32pm
chresti:

Garbage Time torture segment?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8/28/19 6:34pm
chresti:

I've heard about the Felder thing
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fleep:

And we all thought W was the worst it could get. Ha ha on us.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8/28/19 6:38pm
chresti:

The fooled got fooled again.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8/28/19 6:40pm
fred:

@fleep: makes me wonder how worse it will get
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Carmichael:

The party on the Left,
Is now the party on the Right.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

This show started so simply
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northguineahills:

Thanks, Ken!
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Oh, you're welcome, you're welcome!
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Threemoons:

Heyo.
  3:04pm
ifny en route:

yayyyyyyyyyyyy
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

ifnyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Threeeeeeeeeeeeeeeemooooons
  3:05pm
Utop:

Good evening (in my timezone at least)
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

U! Top.
  3:08pm
ifny en route:

Good evening to your time zone!
  3:09pm
Kenzo:

It is good in every timezone. It is good in the unzoned places.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:12pm
Webhamster Henry:

It's always dawn and sunset somewhere. Usually not the poles though.
  3:12pm
Kenzo:

It was good before anybody called it good.
  3:13pm
Kenzo:

I always appreciate your polarizing comments, Henry.
  3:17pm
ifny en route:

Let us drink to unzoned places and wily spaces.
  3:20pm
ifny en route:

Trains gone unscheduled
  3:21pm
ifny en route:

Trains beyond schedules.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Retraining ourselves
  3:24pm
ifny en route:

It's raining on the Pacific, suddenly. Just when we were growing accustomed to the new orange sun.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

In The Lathe of Heaven, it's always raining.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:25pm
Webhamster Henry:

Based on the current WMM model, the 2020 location of the north magnetic pole is 86.50°N and 164.04°E and the south magnetic pole is 64.07°S and 135.88°E. We'll be back with more magnetic news after these messages.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I can't wait to explore my old magnetic tapes and disks then.
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geoff:

evening
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

geoff m.q.!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:32pm
geoff:

very happy to be here
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Constantly Choking:

Hey good day!
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Constantly Choking, happy in every time zone!
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Hans Zimmer should've credited Carl Orff's Gassenhauer
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geoff:

It’s amazing that he didn’t
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

RIP Don Joyce who sat on a stage in NYC playing carts despite his dislike of travel while a disco ball appeared as Spandau Ballet's This Much is True started playing near the end of a Negativland concert I attended in the early 2000's, and I knew one day I'd loop that on a show.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Recently I was listening to the Ode to Joy yodelling/banjo fun theme from Coen brothers' Raising Arizona, credited to Carter Burwell, and went digging to figure out what the other part of it is that isn't from Beethoven's 9th, and discovered that the entire thing was directly lifted from a Pete Seeger piece from 1963.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

And then I dug further and realized that one was lifted from a 1937 piece by Sons of the Pioneers with Roy Rogers.
  3:40pm
Listener Robert:

Negativland had concerts? I thought they existed only in analog tape space.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

They toured through my lands twice - once in the 90's bringing toasters burning toast during the show.
  3:42pm
Listener Robert:

Oh, yeah, I heard about the toast. So they existed in toasterspace.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I also toured through their studio once during an OTE broadcast and joined in a bit. Very analog, just rang the doorbell while I was driving by across country in the middle of the night.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

which makes me think fondly of when I got my station's middle-of-the-night doorbell fixed, although I never got any cross-country drive-bys as a result. I did dangle a mic on a long cord out the window by said doorbell, though, which did get used sometimes.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Do I miss the horrid ice cream truck music loops outside my window? I did like when the knife sharpening truck would drive by ringing its bell. It always drove by too quickly for me to get out there with my dull knives. Too many stairs.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Now I'm marveling at how long earlier my 2001 field recordings felt to me when I first did this in 2003.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

which makes me think of the field recordings I made around then walking through the world trade center concourse (prob. on my way home from client work) which turned out to be marred by static because of what turned out to be a bit of aluminum foil lingering in the mic port of the recorder I'd borrowed from someone who'd done a stage show involving lots of foil in his costume. For future field recording sessions, I kept headphones on.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Portable DAT recorder. Still good after the poles shift?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:58pm
geoff:

Yes, but only in hand-to-hand combat
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

It wasn't a binaural mic worn like headphones, but a two-headed mic I held out in front of me as I walked through all my favorite NYC places.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Wow I just smelled that foul smell that era of subway trains had.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Timothy Hutton, Judd Hirsch, in Ordinary People, via Karen's Dead
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geoff:

I admire your bold field recording technique.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Tony Robbins
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Yay for economic expansion. See show from 2 weeks ago, "The Intolerability of Masters" (wfmu.org...)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:03pm
Webhamster Henry:

The creamiest, dreamiest soft Ice Cream is brought by Mr. Softee. Also, Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Hot and cold brainwashing, the dog days of summer
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Would you be able to bring me to there?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:20pm
Webhamster Henry:

Никогда
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Nevermore?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:21pm
Webhamster Henry:

Никто не знает.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I've been long meaning to rewatch Nobody Knows, from the directory of After Life
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ifny:

I've been meaning to remind myself that nobody knows.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

There are things we know that we don't know
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

The choice is yours. We now know. Please be advised.
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ifny:

Good point Ken. For example, with regards to the trouble I've seen.
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ifny:

My interests keenly feel appealed to.
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ifny:

I'm so glad Bob probably did the right thing.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

For your protection. Don't suspect a friend - report him. www.movingimagesource.us...
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

(Everybody knows)
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ifny:

Hmm, what an unexpected alternative to suspecting a friend.
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ifny:

Seems counterintuitive somehow.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Let nothing make sense until everything makes nonsense.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:43pm
Bas NL:

Hello Kenzo! I'm a bit late tuning in..
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Bas, you're a fine collection of tuned bits.
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ifny:

Everything is just starting now.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Hello Robert.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:44pm
Bas NL:

:)
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

And timeless nods to fred, fleep, chresti, Ike, Franco Twinkie, Ken From Hyde Park, Carmichael, and northguineahills.
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ifny:

I put a baby skunk in a box a few weeks ago. But I had to make friends with it first. We are all unprecedented. Stay smelly and hell-raise-worthy all!
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Constantly Choking:

Thanks for the show!
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Oddly I was just reading about a baby squirrel in a box
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ifny:

Boxes are all the rage in the baby animal kingdom right now.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:56pm
Bas NL:

Thanks for the archives (to come), Kenzo!
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ifny:

Thoroughly enjoyed this bonus infill show Ken. Thank you for it all, and all the rest. So sad this is the last show.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Thanks m'loves in whatever order we live our shared times in. Boxes are the walls of the future.
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ifny:

My favourite box says 'flap your way to freedom'
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

flutter
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:59pm
Bas NL:

Last ever?!
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