WFMU: Music Only I Care About with Miss Mei: Playlist from November 1, 2022

Listener comments!
	12:57pm Mr Fab: first!
	♥ 12:59pm WR: On the Sheena stream, you will always be first Mr Fab.
	♥ 1:02pm Jan Turkenburg: Hi MM and friends! I'm totally in the mood for this!
	1:03pm Miss Mei: Today we have some bits from ambient/electronic/new age music from the 80s! Most of it comes from private press cassettes released by the Malibu, CA label Valley Of The Sun Publishing, a company started by the late Dick Sutphen who was a hypnotist, author and more
	1:03pm Jamie Jazz: Loving this while I send my emails!! Perfect. Hi all!
	1:04pm MHLee: This is pleasant
	1:05pm Miss Mei: I have been having some voice problems, which is why the last bit of episodes have no voiceovers in them - I will go back to doing voiceovers when I can. It can be a bit difficult since I am insecure about my voice.
	1:07pm Mr Fab: I like your voice! it's cute. So don't worry.
	1:08pm Miss Mei: Some of it is executive dysfunction - I put this entire show together this morning
	1:14pm Mr Fab: This is pretty up beat for New Age. More like low-budget '80s film soundtrack music. Even a bit porno-y.
	1:16pm Miss Mei: Hold on, lemme pull up info on this release...
	1:17pm Miss Mei: "Originally commissioned for an industrial film, this 22-minute bubbling seaside stroll was ultimately rejected by the producers. Hustling to make some cash, Steven Cooper submitted it to Valley of the Sun. Having just returned from a vacation in the Florida Keys, Dick Sutphen was more than happy to release it under a topical theme and ordered another side. The 1986 album stands as one of the more unique titles in the label’s repertoire with it’s prophetic, lo-fi synth humidity foretelling the rise of chillwave."
	1:17pm Mr Fab: I can totally imagine a guy with way too much hair mousse and makeup singing over this.
	1:25pm Charles: Soothing ~
	♥ 1:32pm Rich in Washington: I'm loving this set. It's bringing back memories of a super early morning radio program I used to listen to called The Witching Hour where this Wiccan dude would play soothing New Age-y music and occasionally read from obscure spiritual books.
	1:33pm MHLee: @Miss Mei I agree with Fab, I like your voice too, but if you want you can always text to speech. I've done that when live because my setup doesn't let me stream and speak.
	♥ 1:35pm Rich in Washington: <reading up in comments> I got to meet Dick Sutphen! When I was like ten or eleven my mom ran a bookstore, which the absentee owner slowly turned into a New Age bookstore, and they would often have in-store events with all kinds of authors.
	1:36pm MHLee: My other show is ambient should be my bumper sticker
	♥ 1:36pm Rich in Washington: I also remember there being a spin rack with lots of cassettes like these for sale. Wouldn't be surprised if it was some of these various tapes.
	1:37pm MHLee: This all flows so well together
	1:40pm Mr Fab: is there Old Age music? (insert Rolling Stones joke here)
	1:41pm MHLee: Stone Age music
	♥ 1:52pm WR: You term these as "private press" and these are certainly not labels getting mainstream attention, but the production values in recording and cassette manufacturing appears to be tops.
	1:53pm Miss Mei: I suppose you're right. Only one of the tapes on here is a "True" private press release not put out on any small labels.
	1:56pm BTN: Hello everyone! Enjoying the show so far!
	♥ 1:58pm MHLee: Someone should right a guide to these new age albums
	♥ 2:01pm MHLee: *write
	♥ 2:07pm MHLee: Tbh this is perfect music to sample for vaporwave
	2:10pm Miss Mei: I was in a rush getting this show together - These are not private press - just small labels with lesser known artists. I should've said rare or obscure. There is one private press recording on this show that I found at a friend's house, some new age stuff made by a social worker.
	2:11pm Miss Mei: (well Great American Audio wasn't really a small thing, they did music, toys and more and had 2 locations)
	♥ 2:13pm Rich in Washington: I think these are great. I totally understand where they're coming from, because of my experiences growing up in a bookstore. They were like specialty press items. It's neat to hear these now, because at that age, I wasn't really curious about the cassettes or weird music in general.
	♥ 2:15pm Rich in Washington: of course, I'm talking about '75 to around 1980, until the store in question went out of business (killed by big box retail bookstores nearby).
	♥ 2:15pm MHLee: Specialty Press
	♥ 2:16pm Rich in Washington: the store also sold role playing games, which were just about to explode on the scene.
	♥ 2:17pm MHLee: I know the ECK folks have some ambient meditation albums. I wonder if Transcendental Meditation or anyone in that niche have these.
	♥ 2:18pm Rich in Washington: I remember Otis playing some Eckenkar (sp?) albums, the Darwin Gross ones but they're spoken word.
	♥ 2:18pm MHLee: Table rpgs have gone mainstream since I started playing them around 2006
	♥ 2:19pm Rich in Washington: There are also a number of New Age-y records around the orbit of Bagwan Shri Rashneesh.
	♥ 2:19pm MHLee: @Rich I sent one to Daryll that's been described as Bing Crosby on Acid at an Ashram... there's also a jazz album out there somewhere
	♥ 2:21pm Rich in Washington: There's also some Krautrock figure who's sort of marginally involved with the Rajneeshis but I cannot recall which one ATM. I think Morgan Fisher was/is a Sanyasin but he's pretty well grounded.
	♥ 2:23pm MHLee: Musical cults fascinate me. I have a bunch of recordings of Jesus Freak communes (All Saved Together Freak Band, anyone)... the Source Family etc.
	♥ 2:23pm MHLee: Though I've gotta to admit I'm not sure I think the Source Family particularly good. The Farm Commune however...
	♥ 2:25pm Barno in Akron: MHLee, Does your collection include the bands of Jesus People USA?
	♥ 2:28pm Rich in Washington: I am sure we're all familiar with Mica's Music of Mind Control on the mothership.
	♥ 2:29pm MHLee: Those are those dudes in Chicago right? I don't know if they have a specific band in my list.
	♥ 2:29pm Rich in Washington: Gawd. I actually really love all this music. I need to find a 24/7 stream of it rather than what I usually (try to) sleep to: The Drone Zone on Soma FM.
	♥ 2:31pm Barno in Akron: Yeah, MHLee. It's the Chicago-based commune. They were punks and rockers. Rez Band (Resurrection Band) and Crash Dog were two bands that I remember.
	♥ 2:31pm MHLee: You can catch my dungeonsynth show on Wednesday right after Beneath the Under Ground, Rich
	♥ 2:33pm Rich in Washington: Wha? That's news to me! Cool!
	2:35pm Mr Fab: but NOT on WFMU - on MHLee's other station
	♥ 2:35pm MHLee: It's on the college station. I originally was considering bringing it over here.
	2:37pm Mr Fab: remember that guy Kitaro? I had a co worker who was a collaborator with him in some way. I met him at a party at said co-workers house. I had just read an article about virtual reality, then a very new concept, and I was telling Kitaro about it. Which seemed pretty New Age. Co-worker's family member kept calling him "Guitar-o."
	♥ 2:40pm Rich in Washington: Jade Warrior was another big New Age-y group.
	2:41pm zivilars: Just tuned in, this sounds nice and relaxing ... Thanks for the show, Miss Mei!
	♥ 2:41pm MHLee: new age in virtual reality sounds great
	2:43pm Mr Fab: gawd all the mumbo-jumbo they wrote in these descriptions. e.g.: under the Awakened Dreaming tape cover. Guess they didn't want to just call it "guy noodling around on synths," eh?
	2:44pm Miss Mei: That's the charm of it!
	♥ 2:47pm MHLee: A little militaristic and a little Star Trek
	♥ 2:54pm Jan Turkenburg: super show, MM, thanks!
	2:55pm Miss Mei: Glad it went well! Wasn't sure if this would
	♥ 2:57pm Rich in Washington: Wonderful episode! Thanks so much!
	2:57pm BTN: I have very much enjoyed today's show!
	♥ 2:57pm MHLee: Thanks Miss Mei
	♥ 2:57pm Barno in Akron: Thanks Miss Mei
	2:58pm Mr Fab: Much thx! Guess this really had me zoned out - can't believe it's over already.
	♥ 3:02pm WR: LOL. I thought that might happen, the high volume for ambient meditation resulted in me being startled when a post ambient track came on. What I didn't expect was that it would be a jingle for the ambient publisher, rather than whatever the Sheena stream would bring. But should have learned by now to expect the unexpected. Thank you for another unique exploration around the edges of recorded recordings. Laters all y'all.

Music Only I Care About with Miss Mei: Playlist from November 1, 2022

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November 1, 2022: Private press ambient cassettes!

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Approx. start time
Robert Slap/David Naegele	Valley Of The Sun	Sedona: The Psychic Vortex Experience	Valley Of The Sun Publishing	1986	Cassette		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Robert Slap/David Naegele	Aquamarine [Side A, excerpt]	Musical Sounds Of Relaxation: Aquamarine	Great American Audio Corp	1989	Cassette		0:00:26 (Pop-up)
Steven Cooper	Key West Afternoon [Side B, excerpt]	Key West Afternoon	Valley OF The Sun Publishing	1986	Cassette	(sourced from the original master tape burned onto a CDR)	0:10:01 (Pop-up)
Upper Astral	Entrance To The Secret Lagoon [Side A, excerpt]		Valley Of The Sun Publishing		Cassette		0:19:34 (Pop-up)
Gentle Wind & Rain	Astral Dreams "Astral Dreams" by "Gentle Wind & Rain"	Inner Vistas	Valley Of The Sun Publishing		Cassette		0:26:11 (Pop-up)
Karl Schaffner	Being There "Being There" by "Karl Schaffner"	Many Lives Ago	Valley Of The Sun Publishing	1987	Cassette		0:29:42 (Pop-up)
Robert Slap/David Naegele	Winds Of Change [excerpt]	Musical Sounds Of Relaxation: Nightwinds	Great American Audio Corp	1989	Cassette		0:38:20 (Pop-up)
David Naegele	Dreams Of Atlantis [excerpt]	Dreams Of Atlantis	Valley Of The Sun Publishing	1982	Cassette		0:49:03 (Pop-up)
Natopus	Transition [excerpt] "Transition [excerpt]" by "Natopus"	Transition	Valley Of The Sun Publishing		Cassette	(taken from the re-release, did some cleaning up of the audio)	0:52:38 (Pop-up)
Carol Emmanuel	Harps 1 [excerpt] "Harps 1 [excerpt]" by "Carol Emmanuel"	Musical Sounds Of Relaxation: Mystic Harp	Great American Audio Corp	1989	Cassette		1:05:44 (Pop-up)
David Storrs	Channel For The Light [Side B, excerpt]	Channel For The Light	Valley Of The Sun Publishing	1984	Cassette		1:11:32 (Pop-up)
Robert Martin	Great Peace [Flute/Vocal]	Great Peace	Valley Of The Sun Publishing	1981	Cassette		1:16:41 (Pop-up)
Celestial Oddysseys	Daystar [excerpt]	Galactic Oddyssey	Valley Of The Sun Publishing	1983	Cassette		1:25:14 (Pop-up)
Paradox	Afternoon [excerpt] "Afternoon [excerpt]" by "Paradox"	A Day At The Beach, Plus...	Paraplus Productions	1990	Cassette		1:32:43 (Pop-up)
Dick Sutphen	Sound Vibration [excerpt]	Awakened Dreaming	Valley Of The Sun Publishing	1986	Cassette		1:35:53 (Pop-up)
Upper Astral	Celestial Harmonies [excerpt	Journey To The Edge Of The Universe	Valley Of The Sun Publishing	1983	Cassette		1:38:14 (Pop-up)
Robert Slap	Utopian Sunrise "Utopian Sunrise" by "Robert Slap"	Search For Utopia	Valley Of The Sun Publishing	1988	Cassette		1:43:30 (Pop-up)
Sherri Huffman/Steve Gruskin	Twinkle Twinkle (Instrumental)	Lullaby Cradle #1	Great American Audio Corp	1989	Cassette		1:48:57 (Pop-up)
Robert Slap/Suzanne Ghiglia	Mediation	Shared Blessings	Valley Of The Sun Publishing	1988	Cassette		1:51:58 (Pop-up)
Great American Audio Corp	GAA Jingle						1:56:06 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	12:57pm Mr Fab: first!
	♥ 12:59pm WR: On the Sheena stream, you will always be first Mr Fab.
	♥ 1:02pm Jan Turkenburg: Hi MM and friends! I'm totally in the mood for this!
	1:03pm Miss Mei: Today we have some bits from ambient/electronic/new age music from the 80s! Most of it comes from private press cassettes released by the Malibu, CA label Valley Of The Sun Publishing, a company started by the late Dick Sutphen who was a hypnotist, author and more
	1:03pm Jamie Jazz: Loving this while I send my emails!! Perfect. Hi all!
	1:04pm MHLee: This is pleasant
	1:05pm Miss Mei: I have been having some voice problems, which is why the last bit of episodes have no voiceovers in them - I will go back to doing voiceovers when I can. It can be a bit difficult since I am insecure about my voice.
	1:07pm Mr Fab: I like your voice! it's cute. So don't worry.
	1:08pm Miss Mei: Some of it is executive dysfunction - I put this entire show together this morning
	1:14pm Mr Fab: This is pretty up beat for New Age. More like low-budget '80s film soundtrack music. Even a bit porno-y.
	1:16pm Miss Mei: Hold on, lemme pull up info on this release...
	1:17pm Miss Mei: "Originally commissioned for an industrial film, this 22-minute bubbling seaside stroll was ultimately rejected by the producers. Hustling to make some cash, Steven Cooper submitted it to Valley of the Sun. Having just returned from a vacation in the Florida Keys, Dick Sutphen was more than happy to release it under a topical theme and ordered another side. The 1986 album stands as one of the more unique titles in the label’s repertoire with it’s prophetic, lo-fi synth humidity foretelling the rise of chillwave."
	1:17pm Mr Fab: I can totally imagine a guy with way too much hair mousse and makeup singing over this.
	1:25pm Charles: Soothing ~
	♥ 1:32pm Rich in Washington: I'm loving this set. It's bringing back memories of a super early morning radio program I used to listen to called The Witching Hour where this Wiccan dude would play soothing New Age-y music and occasionally read from obscure spiritual books.
	1:33pm MHLee: @Miss Mei I agree with Fab, I like your voice too, but if you want you can always text to speech. I've done that when live because my setup doesn't let me stream and speak.
	♥ 1:35pm Rich in Washington: <reading up in comments> I got to meet Dick Sutphen! When I was like ten or eleven my mom ran a bookstore, which the absentee owner slowly turned into a New Age bookstore, and they would often have in-store events with all kinds of authors.
	1:36pm MHLee: My other show is ambient should be my bumper sticker
	♥ 1:36pm Rich in Washington: I also remember there being a spin rack with lots of cassettes like these for sale. Wouldn't be surprised if it was some of these various tapes.
	1:37pm MHLee: This all flows so well together
	1:40pm Mr Fab: is there Old Age music? (insert Rolling Stones joke here)
	1:41pm MHLee: Stone Age music
	♥ 1:52pm WR: You term these as "private press" and these are certainly not labels getting mainstream attention, but the production values in recording and cassette manufacturing appears to be tops.
	1:53pm Miss Mei: I suppose you're right. Only one of the tapes on here is a "True" private press release not put out on any small labels.
	1:56pm BTN: Hello everyone! Enjoying the show so far!
	♥ 1:58pm MHLee: Someone should right a guide to these new age albums
	♥ 2:01pm MHLee: *write
	♥ 2:07pm MHLee: Tbh this is perfect music to sample for vaporwave
	2:10pm Miss Mei: I was in a rush getting this show together - These are not private press - just small labels with lesser known artists. I should've said rare or obscure. There is one private press recording on this show that I found at a friend's house, some new age stuff made by a social worker.
	2:11pm Miss Mei: (well Great American Audio wasn't really a small thing, they did music, toys and more and had 2 locations)
	♥ 2:13pm Rich in Washington: I think these are great. I totally understand where they're coming from, because of my experiences growing up in a bookstore. They were like specialty press items. It's neat to hear these now, because at that age, I wasn't really curious about the cassettes or weird music in general.
	♥ 2:15pm Rich in Washington: of course, I'm talking about '75 to around 1980, until the store in question went out of business (killed by big box retail bookstores nearby).
	♥ 2:15pm MHLee: Specialty Press
	♥ 2:16pm Rich in Washington: the store also sold role playing games, which were just about to explode on the scene.
	♥ 2:17pm MHLee: I know the ECK folks have some ambient meditation albums. I wonder if Transcendental Meditation or anyone in that niche have these.
	♥ 2:18pm Rich in Washington: I remember Otis playing some Eckenkar (sp?) albums, the Darwin Gross ones but they're spoken word.
	♥ 2:18pm MHLee: Table rpgs have gone mainstream since I started playing them around 2006
	♥ 2:19pm Rich in Washington: There are also a number of New Age-y records around the orbit of Bagwan Shri Rashneesh.
	♥ 2:19pm MHLee: @Rich I sent one to Daryll that's been described as Bing Crosby on Acid at an Ashram... there's also a jazz album out there somewhere
	♥ 2:21pm Rich in Washington: There's also some Krautrock figure who's sort of marginally involved with the Rajneeshis but I cannot recall which one ATM. I think Morgan Fisher was/is a Sanyasin but he's pretty well grounded.
	♥ 2:23pm MHLee: Musical cults fascinate me. I have a bunch of recordings of Jesus Freak communes (All Saved Together Freak Band, anyone)... the Source Family etc.
	♥ 2:23pm MHLee: Though I've gotta to admit I'm not sure I think the Source Family particularly good. The Farm Commune however...
	♥ 2:25pm Barno in Akron: MHLee, Does your collection include the bands of Jesus People USA?
	♥ 2:28pm Rich in Washington: I am sure we're all familiar with Mica's Music of Mind Control on the mothership.
	♥ 2:29pm MHLee: Those are those dudes in Chicago right? I don't know if they have a specific band in my list.
	♥ 2:29pm Rich in Washington: Gawd. I actually really love all this music. I need to find a 24/7 stream of it rather than what I usually (try to) sleep to: The Drone Zone on Soma FM.
	♥ 2:31pm Barno in Akron: Yeah, MHLee. It's the Chicago-based commune. They were punks and rockers. Rez Band (Resurrection Band) and Crash Dog were two bands that I remember.
	♥ 2:31pm MHLee: You can catch my dungeonsynth show on Wednesday right after Beneath the Under Ground, Rich
	♥ 2:33pm Rich in Washington: Wha? That's news to me! Cool!
	2:35pm Mr Fab: but NOT on WFMU - on MHLee's other station
	♥ 2:35pm MHLee: It's on the college station. I originally was considering bringing it over here.
	2:37pm Mr Fab: remember that guy Kitaro? I had a co worker who was a collaborator with him in some way. I met him at a party at said co-workers house. I had just read an article about virtual reality, then a very new concept, and I was telling Kitaro about it. Which seemed pretty New Age. Co-worker's family member kept calling him "Guitar-o."
	♥ 2:40pm Rich in Washington: Jade Warrior was another big New Age-y group.
	2:41pm zivilars: Just tuned in, this sounds nice and relaxing ... Thanks for the show, Miss Mei!
	♥ 2:41pm MHLee: new age in virtual reality sounds great
	2:43pm Mr Fab: gawd all the mumbo-jumbo they wrote in these descriptions. e.g.: under the Awakened Dreaming tape cover. Guess they didn't want to just call it "guy noodling around on synths," eh?
	2:44pm Miss Mei: That's the charm of it!
	♥ 2:47pm MHLee: A little militaristic and a little Star Trek
	♥ 2:54pm Jan Turkenburg: super show, MM, thanks!
	2:55pm Miss Mei: Glad it went well! Wasn't sure if this would
	♥ 2:57pm Rich in Washington: Wonderful episode! Thanks so much!
	2:57pm BTN: I have very much enjoyed today's show!
	♥ 2:57pm MHLee: Thanks Miss Mei
	♥ 2:57pm Barno in Akron: Thanks Miss Mei
	2:58pm Mr Fab: Much thx! Guess this really had me zoned out - can't believe it's over already.
	♥ 3:02pm WR: LOL. I thought that might happen, the high volume for ambient meditation resulted in me being startled when a post ambient track came on. What I didn't expect was that it would be a jingle for the ambient publisher, rather than whatever the Sheena stream would bring. But should have learned by now to expect the unexpected. Thank you for another unique exploration around the edges of recorded recordings. Laters all y'all.

Music Only I Care About with Miss Mei: Playlist from November 1, 2022

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