WFMU: Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from January 16, 2024

Listener comments!
	👻 7:29pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	👻 8:53pm Austin Rich: We are having Ice Storm issues here in the Lava Lamp Lounge. I'm gonna try to deliver the show, but I'm prepared for the worst. I'll go long if I have to, since the service comes and goes...
	9:00pm Imaginos: Ahoy and batten down the hatches and look out for St Elmo's fire
	9:01pm Krys O.: Hello! We had a winter storm here too. Glad you made it.
	9:01pm Imaginos: Sounds like Cthulhu chewing
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: Okay... it seems to be stable, for now...
	9:03pm Imaginos: Shh... Don't jinx it
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: Thanks for joining, Imaginos, Krys O, and all the lurkers out there! Let's give a big hand for Dr. Sarcofiguy, for a great show!
	9:03pm Imaginos: Loving this selection
	9:05pm Krys O.: I'm wiped out from shoveling and clearing away ice. Sending my goodnight wishes to all!
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "It's Not Easy Being Me (Demo)" by "Harry Nilsson" This is probably one of my single favorite songs, from one of my favorite movies.
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:05 Sleep well, Krys!
	9:05pm Imaginos: ↳ Krys O. @9:05 Sleep well
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: "And I hates responskibility..."
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: "Sometimes somethings happen, I don't know why anymore..."
	9:07pm Charles: helo
	👻 9:08pm ramencity: watch out for ice-9
	9:08pm Imaginos: Excellent so far
	9:10pm coelacanth∅: hello
	9:11pm Imaginos: Hoping the weather doesn't endanger or inconvenience people too much
	9:12pm Imaginos: I hate light pollution
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:12 I enjoy stars quite a bit myself. It's probably time to go camping again.
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "When Her Breath Cools Caressing Your Bones With A... Rain Matheke goes by many names, but I am very fond of her work, in any form. It's hard to tell from the photo, but the image is printed on semi-translucent paper.
	9:15pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:13 I wish I could go out on the Sea and watch the stars
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:15 I think about sailing, and getting away from cities for a while. But in reality: I don't think I would be a very good sailor. Dreaming about them is more my speed.
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: I hope I said a Good Hello to everyone, but in case I missed Charles, The Ramen City Kid, or coelacanthø: Welcome! Get ready to dream about sailing!
	9:20pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:16 Ah, but to plan the plan of dreams is the ultimate goal
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: I worry that myself, in my dreams, has to dream about me in this life... and how sad those dream are.
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Oh, Sailor" by "Blue Light Curtain" I really enjoy this group, and recently they mailed me their long-lost LP, because I kept playing them on my show, years later. I have a live recording I made, when they appeared on "What's This Called?" and I was the engineer, and I have been a fan ever since.
	9:24pm JM in Texas: All the best with that ice storm, Austin. This time last night we were blanketed with sleet and freeing rain, it caused all sorts of chaos and everything was closed today. Another hard freeze tonight, but at least we were done with the precipitation. Cheers to a new year here in the Jungle Room 🥂
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Oh, Sailor" by "Blue Light Curtain" They had a drum machine, a live drummer, a few guitar players, someone with a looping pedal, and everything drenched in reverb. It was / is pretty excellent.
	9:25pm Imaginos: Peeking at FB, someone posted a GIF of Tempest so I replied "DMK"/
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ JM in Texas @9:24 Thanks for tuning in JM in Texas! Always a pleasure to have you in the chat.
	9:29pm Imaginos: My favorite ship is Plutonia
	9:31pm Imaginos: Not much happening in chat, but the sound is clear and fine
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:29 I'm not familiar with that one.
	9:32pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:32 Its Imaginos' ship
	👻 9:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:32 Ahhhh! Of course!
	9:34pm Imaginos: Finished my latest Imaginos fanfic
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:34 You have been very productive! Very cool.
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Darker Travels" by "Eric Hausmann" Eric Hausmann lives in Portland, and I've had the opportunity to record him a number of times. He's a great performer, and he's even played at a few of my birthday bashes, that I used to throw, pre-pandemic. He's got a ton of albums, so if you don't like one, try another! Many of them are very different from each other, in very dramatic ways.
	👻 9:45pm Heather Z: Popping in with a belated Three Cheers for Marla!! I've been tuned in and, knock wood, the service is holding fine!
	9:45pm JM in Texas: Imaginos……is your name anyway related to the Blue Ouster Cult album released back in 88?
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @9:45 Thanks for popping in! It's been a strange night.
	9:45pm Imaginos: My fic took place mostly at sea
	9:46pm JM in Texas: *Oyster
	9:46pm Imaginos: ↳ JM in Texas @9:45 Yes and to the Albert Bouchard trilogy
	👻 9:47pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @9:45 I can only imagine. But you know Tech Issues is my middle name! Prescient choice made by my folks, really.
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Pirate Love" by "The Heartbreakers" I cannot believe, after all these years - and even having other reasons to play "pirate" songs - that I never got around to playing this one until now. This is why I haven't stopped doing the show yet.
	👻 9:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "North, South, East and West" by "The Church" I am at that age now where I just wanna listen to The Church and read back issues of "Animal Man." Is that so wrong?
	👻 9:52pm ramencity: ↳ Song: "North, South, East and West" by "The Church" I haven't listened to this album for ages - I was pretty into it when it came out!
	👻 9:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @9:52 This is like that Winter where I got obsessed with Joy Division and the like... this year it's The Church and Oingo Boingo.
	9:53pm JM in Texas: Imaginos was the last “new” BOC album I purchased. I knew it was Albert Bouchard’s last with the band, but I’m totally unaware of the trilogy ? ? ?
	9:57pm Imaginos: ↳ JM in Texas @9:53 Re Imaginos Imaginos II Bombs Over Germany Imaginos III Mutant Reformation
	9:58pm Imaginos: ↳ JM in Texas @9:53 You can listen on Amazon or get them there or on Deko.
	9:58pm JM in Texas: Thx Imaginos, I’ll search them out!
	👻 9:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ JM in Texas @9:58 Imaginos just went and saw Bouchard perform. How was it?
	10:01pm Imaginos: Incredible. Albert and Susie both sang incredibly well. I had a great time
	10:02pm Imaginos: Most welcome
	10:10pm Mr Fab: Ahoy, Cap'n Austin! You do sail the Good Ship Mid-Valley Mutations. As long as the weather gods allow (and they've been ok so far?)
	👻 10:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:10 Yes, so far! (Fingers crossed.) After a very tense conversation with our internet service provider, thanks to my wife, we seem to be right as freezing rain. Which is what we are getting here in the Mid-Valley, tonight.
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "It's a Magnet" by "Dorothy Collins" This was the best discovery while I was doing research for this episode.
	10:15pm Mr Fab: Believe it or not, we've been getting some below freezing temps here in sunny LA. SO not prepared. We live in a typical San Fernando Valley ranch house with big windows that just does NOT heat in this kind of weather. We sometimes have to cram ourselves in one room, close the door, and crank up the space heater. of course you still see guys in shorts. Old habits die hard.
	10:17pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "It's a Magnet" by "Dorothy Collins" Oh, right on! Classic series of science records for kids. You know Tom Glazer's "Space Songs"? A boyhood fave.
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:15 While driving to work today, frozen roads, we're driving slow, using 4WD, I'm bundled up, and I still saw a guy in shorts walking around. (He had a hoodie on, so he must have been warm.)
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:17 I do know that Space Songs Record! It's pretty good.
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "This Is Me (Excerpt 1)" by "The Happy Shrimp Show" "The Happy Shrimp Show" is Tim Maloney. I think this was his college radio show, if I'm not mistaken. He sent me a CD of it a few years back.
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "24 Hour Party People (Jon Carter's Main Vocal)" b... The Church, and this soundtrack, have been in heavy rotation in the Lava Lamp Lounge. If that tells you anything about my winter.
	10:22pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:18 aaaaand, we just cut to the stream. shakes fist darn you, weather!
	👻 10:23pm ramencity: curses!
	10:23pm Imaginos: Aww...
	👻 10:23pm Austin Rich: Sorry about that...
	10:23pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:23 At least we can still chat
	10:25pm Imaginos: St Elmo is playing with the connections
	10:25pm Mr Fab: if a show has to be interrupted by anything, at least it was Brigitte Bardot.
	👻 10:26pm univac: Hey all! Jumping in for the staccato madness.
	10:27pm Imaginos: I'm going to turn in. Have a great night
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: Fingers Crossed?
	10:30pm Mr Fab: We're back!
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: I paused, so hopefully we haven't "missed" anything. So I will go late...
	10:31pm Mr Fab: no-one's after you, so that's fine.
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: Our service is just SUPER spotty during ice storms, apparently...
	👻 10:32pm univac: Agh!
	👻 10:32pm univac: Yay! Tim Maloney!
	👻 10:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:32 I do love Tim! He and I have a project that I need to finish...
	10:34pm Mr Fab: I know a bit about Tim maloney's Naked Rabbit stuff, and his Negativland/Weatherman collabs, but would really like to delve in much deeper.
	10:34pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:32 Whoah! Yes, please do!
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:34 He sent me a bundle of CDs, which included original music, his radio shows, and some videos he made for Negativland. I did an interview with him, somewhere...
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Vacuum in My Head" by "Pere Ubu" I never listened to this album much when it came out, even though this would have been perfect for me at the time it came out. I'm always finding things late...
	👻 10:37pm univac: Tim's a really great guy. He mentioned to me that project you're working on with him, Austin. I think you need to finish it.
	10:37pm Mr Fab: If you ever need more vacuum songs, I have an album of songs by vacuum cleaner salesmen.
	👻 10:38pm univac: ↳ Mr Fab @10:37 Wow!
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:37 Oooooo! Yeah, I might need that someday.
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "We Invent You" by "Unwound" I strapped on a mask and saw only a handful of shows last year. Unwound on their reunion tour was one of them, and damn, they were great! I mean, I really loved their shows back in the day, and The Ramen City Kid and I saw them a bunch. But it was still very, very cool to see them again.
	👻 10:42pm ramencity: Hopefully they'll come back in 2024~
	👻 10:43pm univac: I am, sadly, not familiar with Unwound. Is it un-wound like un-wind, or un-wound like an injury? English is so weird.
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @10:42 They should just pull a Mission of Burma, and come back to release a few great albums during their comeback phase.
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:43 Ooooooo! I should make you a mix tape. They were pretty great, and I do think their albums hold up VERY well. (Some stuff I used to love from then didn't age well. But they did, I think.)
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "K [Excerpt 1]" by "Sister Iodine" This was one of my favorite albums of 2009.
	10:48pm Mr Fab: YES! Beefheart +theremin = heaven
	👻 10:49pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @10:44 Yes, please do! I'd love to hear more!
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:48 One of my all time fave songs, hands down! There's always room for Beefheart!
	10:51pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:49 One of my all-time faves, too. Incredibly, I found this album in a thrift store in Watts, looking for funk, soul, jazz, etc.
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:51 Oh, damn! I only have a CD, but I have faith I'll find an affordable copy someday.
	10:53pm Mr Fab: Electricity? I'm thinking OMD. Too obvious?
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Electricity" by "Negativland" I do miss Don quite a bit. Listening to old OTE episodes is a great way to remember how absolutely weird he could be... and how wonderful he could be.
	👻 10:53pm univac: Love this Beefheart track. I think, Austin, you need to collaborate with our MusicNerds Mixtape project. Every month we did all the years from 1960 (a few did pre-1960) up to 2023, now themed Mixtapes. You'd have a lot of catching up to do... In the meantime, I need one from you.
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:53 I ran out of time! But there's always "Connections 4."
	👻 10:54pm ramencity: "electricity comes from other planets"
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:53 I have been thinking about getting involved in those Mixtapes...
	👻 10:54pm univac: Don was unique.
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:54 Listening to old shows, I realize how much I still have to learn from him.
	👻 10:55pm univac: SO good.
	10:56pm Mr Fab: Sheena's hijacking the stream again.
	👻 10:56pm univac: Don has been silenced by the Man (weather)
	👻 10:57pm univac: Or, I guess, Don has been silenced by the weather, man.
	10:57pm Mr Fab: for future electricity-themed entertainment: www.discogs.com...
	👻 10:58pm univac: Wow! That looks like a great comp.
	👻 11:01pm univac: Gotta run! Good luck Austin wrestling with Mister Freeze. He hates electricity.
	11:11pm Mr Fab: Still with us, Austin? Or are you throwing in the towel?
	👻 11:28pm Austin Rich: Aurg.
	👻 11:29pm Austin Rich: God fucking damn it.
	👻 11:29pm Austin Rich: Sorry about all of that. The ice storm is pretty bad, apparently...
	11:32pm Mr Fab: Can't stop ol' Crosley
	👻 11:32pm Austin Rich: Damn! What a night.
	11:34pm Mr Fab: Not a prob. The nice version will live in eternity in the archives. Thanks for sticking with it, Austin!
	👻 11:38pm Austin Rich: Whew... limping across the finish line...

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from January 16, 2024

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A combination of collage, new experimental records and other bits and bobs, Mid-Valley Mutations is a tour through the mind of Austin Rich, who has been broadcasting in some form since 1998. Heavily influenced by Dr Demento, Don Joyce and old fashioned College Radio, Austin creates Audio Essays on a variety of subjects, and even just plays records, from time to time. Sometimes Live music and Interviews will grace the program, helping create a situation where you don't really know what you're going to hear, when you tune in. What you need to know is when you enter the Mid-Valley region, be prepared for the Musical Mutations... in whatever form they take.

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
This episode contains sample from James Burke's, "Connections," TV Program, S1E2.
Dreaming... "Dreaming..."
Noisegasm	Lucid Dreaming "Lucid Dreaming" by "Noisegasm"	Bad Trips & Chromosome Damage	Self-Released	2016	0:01:52 (Pop-up)
Harry Nilsson	It's Not Easy Being Me (Demo)	Popeye Deluxe Edition: Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack	Varèse Sarabande	2017	0:05:05 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Mini-Mutations	Connections Three, First Variation	16 January 2024	MId-Valley Mutations	2024	0:07:12 (Pop-up)
Sailing... "Sailing..."
Rain Lucien Matheke	When Her Breath Cools Caressing Your Bones With A Soothing Chill (Excerpt 1)	Autumn Document	Purr Purr Rawr Productions	2019	0:12:18 (Pop-up)
Liars	Sailing to Byzantium "Sailing to Byzantium" by "Liars"	Liars	Mute Records	2007	0:15:39 (Pop-up)
Rain Lucien Matheke	When Her Breath Cools Caressing Your Bones With A Soothing Chill (Excerpt 2)	Autumn Document	Purr Purr Rawr Productions	2019	0:19:23 (Pop-up)
Blue Light Curtain	Oh, Sailor "Oh, Sailor" by "Blue Light Curtain"	EP	Self-Released	2006	0:23:06 (Pop-up)
Darker Travels "Darker Travels"
Rain Lucien Matheke	When Her Breath Cools Caressing Your Bones With A Soothing Chill (Excerpt 3)	Autumn Document	Purr Purr Rawr Productions	2019	0:29:09 (Pop-up)
The Seeds	Travel With Your Mind "Travel With Your Mind" by "The Seeds"	Travel With Your Mind	GNP Crescendo	1993	0:33:05 (Pop-up)
Rain Lucien Matheke	When Her Breath Cools Caressing Your Bones With A Soothing Chill (Excerpt 4)	Autumn Document	Purr Purr Rawr Productions	2019	0:36:16 (Pop-up)
Eric Hausmann	Darker Travels "Darker Travels" by "Eric Hausmann"	Soaked	Self-Released	2017	0:37:15 (Pop-up)
Shellac	The Idea of North "The Idea of North" by "Shellac"	At Action Park	Touch And Go	1994	0:41:18 (Pop-up)
Privateering Seadogs "Privateering Seadogs"
Jeff Morris & Eric KM Clark	Three Improvisations with Violin: Echo (Excerpt 1)	With Strings (Live Sampling In Counterpoint)	Ravello Records	2019	0:44:11 (Pop-up)
The Heartbreakers	Pirate Love "Pirate Love" by "The Heartbreakers"	L.A.M.F.	Track Record	1977	0:46:53 (Pop-up)
Jeff Morris & Eric KM Clark	Three Improvisations with Violin: Echo (Excerpt 2)	With Strings (Live Sampling In Counterpoint)	Ravello Records	2019	0:50:43 (Pop-up)
The Church	North, South, East and West	Starfish	Arista Records	1988	0:51:20 (Pop-up)
Jeff Morris & Eric KM Clark	Three Improvisations with Violin: Echo (Excerpt 3)	With Strings (Live Sampling In Counterpoint)	Ravello Records	2019	0:55:45 (Pop-up)
This episode contains sample from James Burke's, "Connections," TV Program, S1E2.
#CompassLife "#CompassLife"
Music behind DJ: Mini-Mutations	Connections Three, Second Variation	16 January 2024	Mid-Valley Mutations	2024	1:00:10 (Pop-up)
Jeff Morris & Eric KM Clark	Three Improvisations with Violin: Echo (Excerpt 4)	With Strings (Live Sampling In Counterpoint)	Ravello Records	2019	1:09:01 (Pop-up)
Zs	Magnet [Excerpt 1] "Magnet [Excerpt 1]" by "Zs"	Score: The Complete Sextet Works 2002-2007	Northern Spy	2012	1:09:54 (Pop-up)
Dorothy Collins	It's a Magnet "It's a Magnet" by "Dorothy Collins"	Experiment Songs (From Ballads For The Age Of Science)	Motivation Records	1961	1:14:12 (Pop-up)
Zs	Magnet [Excerpt 2] "Magnet [Excerpt 2]" by "Zs"	Score: The Complete Sextet Works 2002-2007	Northern Spy	2012	1:16:21 (Pop-up)
The Happy Shrimp Show	This Is Me (Excerpt 1)	This Is Me	Naked Rabbit Records	1988	1:17:55 (Pop-up)
Happy Mondays	24 Hour Party People (Jon Carter's Main Vocal)	24 Hour Party People (OST)	London Records	2002	1:20:12 (Pop-up)
"...In Vacuum" ""...In Vacuum""
The Happy Shrimp Show	This Is Me (Excerpt 2)	This Is Me	Naked Rabbit Records	1988	1:30:12 (Pop-up)
Pere Ubu	Vacuum in My Head "Vacuum in My Head" by "Pere Ubu"	Ray Gun Suitcase	Tim/Kerr Records	1995	1:33:05 (Pop-up)
Sinking Body	In Vacuum "In Vacuum" by "Sinking Body"	Grappling with the Homonids	Vermiform Records	1998	1:37:16 (Pop-up)
Blood Rhythms	A Vacuum Inside A Void (Excerpt 1)	Rote	No Part Of It	2020	1:37:48 (Pop-up)
Unwound	We Invent You "We Invent You" by "Unwound"	Leaves Turn Inside You	Kill Rock Stars	2001	1:39:13 (Pop-up)
Blood Rhythms	A Vacuum Inside A Void (Excerpt 2)	Rote	No Part Of It	2020	1:44:51 (Pop-up)
Sister Iodine	K [Excerpt 1] "K [Excerpt 1]" by "Sister Iodine"	Flame Desastre	Editions Mego	2009	1:46:27 (Pop-up)
Singin' Through You To Me... "Singin' Through You To Me..."
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band	Electricity	Safe As Milk	Buddah Records	1967	1:47:58 (Pop-up)
Sister Iodine	K [Excerpt 2] "K [Excerpt 2]" by "Sister Iodine"	Flame Desastre	Editions Mego	2009	1:51:00 (Pop-up)
Negativland	Electricity "Electricity" by "Negativland"	Presents Over The Edge Vol. 5: Crosley Bendix - The Radio Reviews	Seeland Records	1993	1:52:21 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Mini-Mutations	Connections Three, Third Variation	16 January 2024	MId-Valley Mutations	2024
Space Gambus Experiment	The Cure for Pain Is in the Pain	Into The Light	Self-Released	2014

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Listener comments!
	👻 7:29pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	👻 8:53pm Austin Rich: We are having Ice Storm issues here in the Lava Lamp Lounge. I'm gonna try to deliver the show, but I'm prepared for the worst. I'll go long if I have to, since the service comes and goes...
	9:00pm Imaginos: Ahoy and batten down the hatches and look out for St Elmo's fire
	9:01pm Krys O.: Hello! We had a winter storm here too. Glad you made it.
	9:01pm Imaginos: Sounds like Cthulhu chewing
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: Okay... it seems to be stable, for now...
	9:03pm Imaginos: Shh... Don't jinx it
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: Thanks for joining, Imaginos, Krys O, and all the lurkers out there! Let's give a big hand for Dr. Sarcofiguy, for a great show!
	9:03pm Imaginos: Loving this selection
	9:05pm Krys O.: I'm wiped out from shoveling and clearing away ice. Sending my goodnight wishes to all!
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "It's Not Easy Being Me (Demo)" by "Harry Nilsson" This is probably one of my single favorite songs, from one of my favorite movies.
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:05 Sleep well, Krys!
	9:05pm Imaginos: ↳ Krys O. @9:05 Sleep well
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: "And I hates responskibility..."
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: "Sometimes somethings happen, I don't know why anymore..."
	9:07pm Charles: helo
	👻 9:08pm ramencity: watch out for ice-9
	9:08pm Imaginos: Excellent so far
	9:10pm coelacanth∅: hello
	9:11pm Imaginos: Hoping the weather doesn't endanger or inconvenience people too much
	9:12pm Imaginos: I hate light pollution
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:12 I enjoy stars quite a bit myself. It's probably time to go camping again.
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "When Her Breath Cools Caressing Your Bones With A... Rain Matheke goes by many names, but I am very fond of her work, in any form. It's hard to tell from the photo, but the image is printed on semi-translucent paper.
	9:15pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:13 I wish I could go out on the Sea and watch the stars
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:15 I think about sailing, and getting away from cities for a while. But in reality: I don't think I would be a very good sailor. Dreaming about them is more my speed.
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: I hope I said a Good Hello to everyone, but in case I missed Charles, The Ramen City Kid, or coelacanthø: Welcome! Get ready to dream about sailing!
	9:20pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:16 Ah, but to plan the plan of dreams is the ultimate goal
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: I worry that myself, in my dreams, has to dream about me in this life... and how sad those dream are.
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Oh, Sailor" by "Blue Light Curtain" I really enjoy this group, and recently they mailed me their long-lost LP, because I kept playing them on my show, years later. I have a live recording I made, when they appeared on "What's This Called?" and I was the engineer, and I have been a fan ever since.
	9:24pm JM in Texas: All the best with that ice storm, Austin. This time last night we were blanketed with sleet and freeing rain, it caused all sorts of chaos and everything was closed today. Another hard freeze tonight, but at least we were done with the precipitation. Cheers to a new year here in the Jungle Room 🥂
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Oh, Sailor" by "Blue Light Curtain" They had a drum machine, a live drummer, a few guitar players, someone with a looping pedal, and everything drenched in reverb. It was / is pretty excellent.
	9:25pm Imaginos: Peeking at FB, someone posted a GIF of Tempest so I replied "DMK"/
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ JM in Texas @9:24 Thanks for tuning in JM in Texas! Always a pleasure to have you in the chat.
	9:29pm Imaginos: My favorite ship is Plutonia
	9:31pm Imaginos: Not much happening in chat, but the sound is clear and fine
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:29 I'm not familiar with that one.
	9:32pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:32 Its Imaginos' ship
	👻 9:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:32 Ahhhh! Of course!
	9:34pm Imaginos: Finished my latest Imaginos fanfic
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:34 You have been very productive! Very cool.
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Darker Travels" by "Eric Hausmann" Eric Hausmann lives in Portland, and I've had the opportunity to record him a number of times. He's a great performer, and he's even played at a few of my birthday bashes, that I used to throw, pre-pandemic. He's got a ton of albums, so if you don't like one, try another! Many of them are very different from each other, in very dramatic ways.
	👻 9:45pm Heather Z: Popping in with a belated Three Cheers for Marla!! I've been tuned in and, knock wood, the service is holding fine!
	9:45pm JM in Texas: Imaginos……is your name anyway related to the Blue Ouster Cult album released back in 88?
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @9:45 Thanks for popping in! It's been a strange night.
	9:45pm Imaginos: My fic took place mostly at sea
	9:46pm JM in Texas: *Oyster
	9:46pm Imaginos: ↳ JM in Texas @9:45 Yes and to the Albert Bouchard trilogy
	👻 9:47pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @9:45 I can only imagine. But you know Tech Issues is my middle name! Prescient choice made by my folks, really.
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Pirate Love" by "The Heartbreakers" I cannot believe, after all these years - and even having other reasons to play "pirate" songs - that I never got around to playing this one until now. This is why I haven't stopped doing the show yet.
	👻 9:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "North, South, East and West" by "The Church" I am at that age now where I just wanna listen to The Church and read back issues of "Animal Man." Is that so wrong?
	👻 9:52pm ramencity: ↳ Song: "North, South, East and West" by "The Church" I haven't listened to this album for ages - I was pretty into it when it came out!
	👻 9:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @9:52 This is like that Winter where I got obsessed with Joy Division and the like... this year it's The Church and Oingo Boingo.
	9:53pm JM in Texas: Imaginos was the last “new” BOC album I purchased. I knew it was Albert Bouchard’s last with the band, but I’m totally unaware of the trilogy ? ? ?
	9:57pm Imaginos: ↳ JM in Texas @9:53 Re Imaginos Imaginos II Bombs Over Germany Imaginos III Mutant Reformation
	9:58pm Imaginos: ↳ JM in Texas @9:53 You can listen on Amazon or get them there or on Deko.
	9:58pm JM in Texas: Thx Imaginos, I’ll search them out!
	👻 9:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ JM in Texas @9:58 Imaginos just went and saw Bouchard perform. How was it?
	10:01pm Imaginos: Incredible. Albert and Susie both sang incredibly well. I had a great time
	10:02pm Imaginos: Most welcome
	10:10pm Mr Fab: Ahoy, Cap'n Austin! You do sail the Good Ship Mid-Valley Mutations. As long as the weather gods allow (and they've been ok so far?)
	👻 10:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:10 Yes, so far! (Fingers crossed.) After a very tense conversation with our internet service provider, thanks to my wife, we seem to be right as freezing rain. Which is what we are getting here in the Mid-Valley, tonight.
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "It's a Magnet" by "Dorothy Collins" This was the best discovery while I was doing research for this episode.
	10:15pm Mr Fab: Believe it or not, we've been getting some below freezing temps here in sunny LA. SO not prepared. We live in a typical San Fernando Valley ranch house with big windows that just does NOT heat in this kind of weather. We sometimes have to cram ourselves in one room, close the door, and crank up the space heater. of course you still see guys in shorts. Old habits die hard.
	10:17pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "It's a Magnet" by "Dorothy Collins" Oh, right on! Classic series of science records for kids. You know Tom Glazer's "Space Songs"? A boyhood fave.
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:15 While driving to work today, frozen roads, we're driving slow, using 4WD, I'm bundled up, and I still saw a guy in shorts walking around. (He had a hoodie on, so he must have been warm.)
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:17 I do know that Space Songs Record! It's pretty good.
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "This Is Me (Excerpt 1)" by "The Happy Shrimp Show" "The Happy Shrimp Show" is Tim Maloney. I think this was his college radio show, if I'm not mistaken. He sent me a CD of it a few years back.
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "24 Hour Party People (Jon Carter's Main Vocal)" b... The Church, and this soundtrack, have been in heavy rotation in the Lava Lamp Lounge. If that tells you anything about my winter.
	10:22pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:18 aaaaand, we just cut to the stream. shakes fist darn you, weather!
	👻 10:23pm ramencity: curses!
	10:23pm Imaginos: Aww...
	👻 10:23pm Austin Rich: Sorry about that...
	10:23pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:23 At least we can still chat
	10:25pm Imaginos: St Elmo is playing with the connections
	10:25pm Mr Fab: if a show has to be interrupted by anything, at least it was Brigitte Bardot.
	👻 10:26pm univac: Hey all! Jumping in for the staccato madness.
	10:27pm Imaginos: I'm going to turn in. Have a great night
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: Fingers Crossed?
	10:30pm Mr Fab: We're back!
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: I paused, so hopefully we haven't "missed" anything. So I will go late...
	10:31pm Mr Fab: no-one's after you, so that's fine.
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: Our service is just SUPER spotty during ice storms, apparently...
	👻 10:32pm univac: Agh!
	👻 10:32pm univac: Yay! Tim Maloney!
	👻 10:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:32 I do love Tim! He and I have a project that I need to finish...
	10:34pm Mr Fab: I know a bit about Tim maloney's Naked Rabbit stuff, and his Negativland/Weatherman collabs, but would really like to delve in much deeper.
	10:34pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:32 Whoah! Yes, please do!
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:34 He sent me a bundle of CDs, which included original music, his radio shows, and some videos he made for Negativland. I did an interview with him, somewhere...
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Vacuum in My Head" by "Pere Ubu" I never listened to this album much when it came out, even though this would have been perfect for me at the time it came out. I'm always finding things late...
	👻 10:37pm univac: Tim's a really great guy. He mentioned to me that project you're working on with him, Austin. I think you need to finish it.
	10:37pm Mr Fab: If you ever need more vacuum songs, I have an album of songs by vacuum cleaner salesmen.
	👻 10:38pm univac: ↳ Mr Fab @10:37 Wow!
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:37 Oooooo! Yeah, I might need that someday.
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "We Invent You" by "Unwound" I strapped on a mask and saw only a handful of shows last year. Unwound on their reunion tour was one of them, and damn, they were great! I mean, I really loved their shows back in the day, and The Ramen City Kid and I saw them a bunch. But it was still very, very cool to see them again.
	👻 10:42pm ramencity: Hopefully they'll come back in 2024~
	👻 10:43pm univac: I am, sadly, not familiar with Unwound. Is it un-wound like un-wind, or un-wound like an injury? English is so weird.
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @10:42 They should just pull a Mission of Burma, and come back to release a few great albums during their comeback phase.
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:43 Ooooooo! I should make you a mix tape. They were pretty great, and I do think their albums hold up VERY well. (Some stuff I used to love from then didn't age well. But they did, I think.)
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "K [Excerpt 1]" by "Sister Iodine" This was one of my favorite albums of 2009.
	10:48pm Mr Fab: YES! Beefheart +theremin = heaven
	👻 10:49pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @10:44 Yes, please do! I'd love to hear more!
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:48 One of my all time fave songs, hands down! There's always room for Beefheart!
	10:51pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:49 One of my all-time faves, too. Incredibly, I found this album in a thrift store in Watts, looking for funk, soul, jazz, etc.
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:51 Oh, damn! I only have a CD, but I have faith I'll find an affordable copy someday.
	10:53pm Mr Fab: Electricity? I'm thinking OMD. Too obvious?
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Electricity" by "Negativland" I do miss Don quite a bit. Listening to old OTE episodes is a great way to remember how absolutely weird he could be... and how wonderful he could be.
	👻 10:53pm univac: Love this Beefheart track. I think, Austin, you need to collaborate with our MusicNerds Mixtape project. Every month we did all the years from 1960 (a few did pre-1960) up to 2023, now themed Mixtapes. You'd have a lot of catching up to do... In the meantime, I need one from you.
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:53 I ran out of time! But there's always "Connections 4."
	👻 10:54pm ramencity: "electricity comes from other planets"
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:53 I have been thinking about getting involved in those Mixtapes...
	👻 10:54pm univac: Don was unique.
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:54 Listening to old shows, I realize how much I still have to learn from him.
	👻 10:55pm univac: SO good.
	10:56pm Mr Fab: Sheena's hijacking the stream again.
	👻 10:56pm univac: Don has been silenced by the Man (weather)
	👻 10:57pm univac: Or, I guess, Don has been silenced by the weather, man.
	10:57pm Mr Fab: for future electricity-themed entertainment: www.discogs.com...
	👻 10:58pm univac: Wow! That looks like a great comp.
	👻 11:01pm univac: Gotta run! Good luck Austin wrestling with Mister Freeze. He hates electricity.
	11:11pm Mr Fab: Still with us, Austin? Or are you throwing in the towel?
	👻 11:28pm Austin Rich: Aurg.
	👻 11:29pm Austin Rich: God fucking damn it.
	👻 11:29pm Austin Rich: Sorry about all of that. The ice storm is pretty bad, apparently...
	11:32pm Mr Fab: Can't stop ol' Crosley
	👻 11:32pm Austin Rich: Damn! What a night.
	11:34pm Mr Fab: Not a prob. The nice version will live in eternity in the archives. Thanks for sticking with it, Austin!
	👻 11:38pm Austin Rich: Whew... limping across the finish line...

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from January 16, 2024

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