WFMU: Transmissions from Echo Beach with Derek Westerholm and DJ Babs: Playlist from April 4, 2024

Transmissions from Echo Beach with Derek Westerholm and DJ Babs: Playlist from April 4, 2024

Description: Exuberance/Ebullience, banter, possibly an interview, context and connection, the familiar, the strange.

Find: Symphonies of Treble, Words Of Expectation, stab, skronk, shimmer, sheen, The New Sound of Now, Ideas for Walls, pleasure, pith, Flutter and Wow, Motorik, cowbells, disco akimbo, at least one Cantankerous Singer, The German Language, shards of glass, Ethiopian Punk, organic, synthetic, sawtooths & squarewaves, Library Riffage, yesterday's recipes, the wrong speed, intentional static, floating, ethereal, time and timelessness.

Thursday 8 - 10pm (EST) | On WFMU's Sheena's Jungle Room
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April 4, 2024: Surreal/Good/Fun/Exciting

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Heather The Jerk	Sureal/Good/Fun/Exciting	Sureal/Good/Fun/Exciting Tape	Goodbye Boozy	2024	This l'il gem was released just a few months ago. Heather says "I am a big nerd" After what could have been a great Adult Swim album, “Cable Access TV” from 2021, Heather The Jerk (The Hussy & Proud Parents) is back with 4 new garage rock/punk super fun tracks. Heather the jerk is the solo project of Heather Sawyer based out of Madison, WI. After playing a few shows HTJ released a 4 song ep titled “The Rick Shitty Sessions” recorded by Rick Freuhling of local bands Fire Heads & Dumb Vision. In between now and then Heather played in a couple touring bands and was pretty busy with that. Now she is back with “Surreal Good Fun Exciting Tape”. The tape is comprised of her and her BF Josh and out now (if physical is still sold out – the digital is not) from Italy’s Goodbye Boozy Records.		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Ira Newborn	SCTV Theme 1981 "SCTV Theme 1981" by "Ira Newborn"	SCTV	N/A	1981	Joseph Flaherty was an American actor, writer, and comedian. He is best known for his work on the Canadian sketch comedy SCTV from 1976 to 1984, his role as Harold Weir on Freaks and Geeks, and starring as Donald the heckler in Happy Gilmore. Flaherty passed on April 1st...and will be remembered fondly for his amazing characters such as Count Floyd, Guy Caballero, The Drunk Neat Guy from 5 Neat Guys, Sammy Maudlin, and Floyd Robertson...RIP funny man and thank you for the laughs!		0:01:48 (Pop-up)
Mother Of Mars	Harmonium Detector	Harmonium Detector EP	Ransom Note Records	2023	OOOH! AHHH! Released about a year ago, this delightful track comes from Mother of Mars...the latest musical incarnation of New Yorkers Vito Roccoforte & Gabriel Andruzzi. Vito and Gabe are best known as members of era-defining NY post punkers The Rapture and continue their tradition of angular yet danceable, hooky yet challenging musical output. Title track, Harmonium Detector, is based on the concept of breaking up with your cellphone - something Vito has attempted in the past, with limited success! It showcases guest vocalist Satomi Matsuzaki's lush vocals, transporting the listener to a world of rapturous electronic elation. Its intricate layers of rhythm create a unique and mesmerising listening experience		0:05:18 (Pop-up)
Beige Banquet	People "People" by "Beige Banquet"	Ornamental Hermit	Swish Swash Records	2024	TFEB favourites Beige Banquet are back with a new album "Ormanental Hermit". From Tom Brierley’s DIY bedroom studio to the pulsing heart of London’s punk scene, Beige Banquet has morphed from a solo project into a powerful five-piece force, carving their own niche with a distinctive blend of post-punk fury and Devo-esque quirkiness. Gone are the lo-fi whispers of their past, replaced by a cathedral of sound. Guitars writhe and hiss, sculpted by studio precision, while drums pound like the obsidian heart of a leviathan. But amidst the polished fury, the barbed wire melody of their signature bite remains. Brierley’s vocals, laced with poetic venom and urban grit, weave tapestries of introspective ache and caustic wit. “Ornamental Hermit” isn’t a rejection of their roots; it’s a defiant expansion, a sonic DNA test revealing both raw beginnings and studio savvy. This isn’t just a new album; it’s a manifesto on vinyl, a battle cry etched in grooves, a declaration that Beige Banquet are ready to carve their names into the granite face of post-punk.	*	0:08:19 (Pop-up)
Frustration	Catching Your Eye "Catching Your Eye" by "Frustration"	Our Decisions	Born Bad Records	2024	Hailing from Paris, France, Frustrations' powerful, potent songs yield a brutal post-punk sound. Just imagine WARSAW meet WIRE meet the FALL and you will already have a good idea of their musical universe. Bad news is : Frustration is an increasingly misnamed band. You know where it’s going from the first few bars : the Parisian gang isn’t about old dogs learning new tricks, and manages to give precisely what we were hoping for. Hence : sa-tis-fac-tion, sorry. The relative classicism of their sixth album, ‘Our Decisions’, will quench the thirst of their fans, whose reputation is well established (we’re not talking about their very real record for bar takings). Their music is driven by a primitive desire that proves sufficiently complex for its expression never to get redundant. Frustration doesn’t teach music history, but definitely know where they came from : Born Bad pillars proudly bear the banner of our bastard french post-punk, bred in the wild, crests slicked back and spurs ready to claw.	*	0:10:42 (Pop-up)
LOBSTERBOMB	Nur In Deinen Träumen	Nur In Deinen Träumen Single	Duchess Box Records	2023	Formed in Berlin in 2020, LOBSTERBOMB approaches themes of personal introspection, desire for systemic change and individual growth through a lens of frenetic, loud and catchy indie-garage rock.		0:14:17 (Pop-up)
WALL	Last Date "Last Date" by "WALL"	WALL EP	Wharf Cat Records	2016	WITH EACH SONIC MOVEMENT ON THE INTRODUCTORY SELF-TITLED EP FROM NEW YORK’S WALL THERE'S A COMMITMENT TO DEFEND A PUNCTUATED DUALITY BETWEEN CURIOSITY AND TRIUMPH. AFTER ALL, WHAT’S A BAND WORTH BUT ITS MESSAGE? A CERTAIN SELF-AWARENESS OF THE VERY QUESTION IS AT THE HEART OF THE WALL APPARATUS AND LISTENING ALONG AS THEY DISCOVER THEMSELVES THROUGHOUT THIS EP IS INVIGORATING AND SCARY. TONE AND RHYTHM WHIRL TOGETHER, LIKE AN EMERGENCY EXIT DOOR CHOREOGRAPHED TO SWING FLAWLESSLY IN TIME TO ITS DAMNED AND CHAOTIC PAVLOVIAN ALARM BELL. FROM THE FIRST RIGID AND CAUTIOUS SECONDS OF THEIR EP, WALL UNLEASHES AN UNCANNY SELF-AWARENESS THAT METHODICALLY SLIPS PAGES RIPPED FROM DEMENTED NO WAVE LEGACIES THROUGH A SHREDDER OF THEIR OWN DESIGN....A TOXIC-NEW TEMPESTUOUS BLOODWAVE OF POST-PUNK, EXACTLY THE TRANSFUSION THE SCENE NEEDS TO STAY ALIVE.		0:17:36 (Pop-up)
Wet Dip	Stray "Stray" by "Wet Dip"	Smell of Money	Feel It Records	2023	From deep in the heart of Texas - the trio known as Wet Dip are that jarring, lightning strike of sound like nothing before them. Sisters Sylvia and Erica Rodriguez grew up in the arid, isolated Panhandle region of Texas before making their way to Austin and forming Wet Dip with Daniel Doyle. This album was recorded with Sweeping Promises’ Caufield Schnug, this music has more in common with original 80s no-wave than its modern-day post-punk scions: Wet Dip put forward dissonant, caustic songs only occasionally, even accidentally, ending up with some danceable, bass-driven funky moments. Guitarist Daniel Doyle struggles to tame his unbroken guitar, just barely winning the fight, while drummer Erica Rodriguez displays the right kind of amateurism, slightly behind the beat, holding the band together with scotch tape – but punching above her paygrade. Bassist and vocalist Sylvia Rodriguez embodies the band’s unpredictability, as she code switches between English and Spanish, haunting whispers and vein-popping screams. These tracks linger with you as much for the music as for the heavy lyrics. Some songs explore themes of our modern capitalist hellscape, others center on specifically female pain, angst, and anger at exploitation and sexual abuse. The music is challenging and rewarding and extremely singular in the current landscape...		0:19:12 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Sean Kosa	Out Of Body "Out Of Body" by "Sean Kosa"	Escapism Single	Facecontrol Audio Industries	2024	Mined from the depths of another seemingly endless Montreal winter comes our latest release, Escapism, by label owner Sean Kosa. Out Of Body' Utilizes polyrhythmic percussion floating atop of 2600 synth bass. Hi-hats seemingly crafted from sub-zero ice floes splintering their millennia old chemical histories into swollen arctic seascapes. A bubbling synth lead line appears from the horizon and flies skyward into low altitude orbit before disappearing into cosmic infinity.	*	0:21:57 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Sean Kosa	Out Of Mind "Out Of Mind" by "Sean Kosa"	Escapism Single	Facecontrol Audio Industries	2024	'Out Of Mind' Kick drums-as-heartbeats nervously jitter beneath industrial dub echoes, as hi hats creep in, templar lattices appear temporarily giving a fleeting illusion of order as headlights flash through rain on the windshield. Low sub bass drones align with strobe light percussion and propel the grinding echoes of a burnt out cobalt star. Gasoline rain falls on patchwork gardens made of oxidized steel cuttings from a lathe in the music factory. Love this? Go find it on Bandcamp!!!	*	0:27:29 (Pop-up)
Data Animal	Bad M.F. "Bad M.F." by "Data Animal"	Future Primitive	Dedstrange	2022	Future Primitive is the debut album from Auckland / Berlin Techno Punks, Data Animal, on Oliver Ackermann’s newly formed label, Dedstrange. Future Primitive follows highly regarded early singles, Bad M.F & Death Racer, and is a full-blown sonic weapon from the streets. Songs address the decay and breakdown of modern life and the approaching apocalyptic fall out of human behavior. Taking influence from NYC no-wave, British post-punk, and Detroit techno, Future Primitive gives rock n roll a much-needed facelift. The future is simultaneously technological and primordial and Future Primitive is the soundtrack to a species with no future. If the future is fuzzed out nods to Suicide...I'm down.		0:31:29 (Pop-up)
Furrowed Brow	Outdoors Man "Outdoors Man" by "Furrowed Brow"	Outdoors Man Single	Notes From Underground	2023	This band is making a return because a) they make me chuckle b) they are hella Fall adjacent, in spirit if nothing else. The track is an off-the-wall prog-post-punk paean to the great stones and valleys of England, and their first self-produced and self released effort. An avant-garde ode to nature and their homeland, the track was designed to be shouted loud and proud. Radiating a sense of nostalgia that’s almost impossible to place, it’s as if the band have taken core-memory melodies from your childhood and reinvented them into a gothic anthem to guide you into later life.The beauty of this track is that you won’t fully understand it, yet it will bring you a fascinating sense of comfort and will grant your mind the opportunity to let loose for four whole minutes.		0:34:18 (Pop-up)
Neutrals	Gary Borthwick Says "Gary Borthwick Says" by "Neutrals"	Bus Stop Nights EP	Static Shock Records	2022	I love this because it reminds me of the past. Who is Gary Borthwick?: Well, there are 11 LinkedIn profiles with that name. A Gary Borthwick passed away near Limerick last year (our sincere condolences to friends and family) Otherwise, Gary Borthwick and his tall tales remain an enigma. Neutrals are not to be confused with Neutral...a Russian neofolk band. Neutrals return with a stunning new 4 track EP on Static Shock, after an album on Emotional Response in 2019 and two 7”s on Slumberland and Domestic Departure in 2020. Each song on this EP is a golden nugget of DIY indie pop with clean and jagged guitar work, tunes at every corner and a joyous naivety. Go straight to "Gary Borthwick Says" - a song about a full time bullshitter with lyrics akin to to I, Ludicrous’ "Preposterous Tales" with music which has the charm of prime The Television Personalties and The Times. New Town Dream is another gem and if it had come out in 1979 as an obscure DIY/post punk 7", the kids would be paying £200 for it. Honestly, it’s love at first listem and pure infatuation after repeated plays. This EP will not leave your turntable.		0:38:20 (Pop-up)
Luxury Apartments	Wire "Wire" by "Luxury Apartments"	Wire Single	Eeasy Records	2023	A series of feral, intense live shows around London have created startling word of mouth hype, with the three-piece displaying untamed, unrivalled energy. Barbed wire riffs set against furious, D-Beat level drumming, the band match hardcore's uncompromising stance to a sense of sonic austerity. It's a thrilling, pulse-quickening racket, with the three-piece laying absolute waste...		0:41:04 (Pop-up)
Dion Lunadon	Reduction Agent "Reduction Agent" by "Dion Lunadon"	Dion Lunadon	Agitated Records	2017	Dion Lunadon might best be known as the powerful, enigmatic bass player of noise-rock trio A Place to Bury Strangers, but this title alone fails to accurately define a musician as dynamic and expressive as Lunadon, as his first solo effort clearly shows us. Originally hailing from Auckland, New Zealand, Lunadon was formerly a member of Kiwi garage rockers The D4. Lunadon eventually relocated to New York City, joining Brooklyn’s finest noise-rocking shoegaze outfit A Place to Bury Strangers in 2010, eventually heading into the studio with the band to record APTBS’ 2012 album, Worship. Lunadon’s stage presence and bass prowess is revered, and it’s interesting to see these qualities transfer over to his debut solo effort. Organs are complemented by quick snare-blasts and blown-speaker bass fuzz...this is honest, frantic rock n' roll....never underwhelming, predictable or boring, instead coming across as a great example of how rock and roll should be executed, coupled with a good example of proto-punk minimalism. Lunadon’s music is relentless and charged and will never sound dated or uninspired.		0:43:49 (Pop-up)
The Lovely Eggs	Memory Man "Memory Man" by "The Lovely Eggs"	Memory Man Single	The Lovely Eggs	2024	The Lovely Eggs are back in fine form!! Charged with a hypnotic, robotic Can-like beat and propelled by a fuzzy, mangled guitar tone, Holly's vocals hang ethereally over the song's swirling, mezmerising psychedelia. “I wrote the lyrics and melody to ‘Memory Man' while driving,” remembers Holly. “It was a bit of a subconscious thought stream connected to what I'd been going through personally at the time. The original melody was slightly different to what it eventually became. It was much slower and had more of a Syd Barrett vibe. Then one day when we were in the studio, David was playing a riff and beat he had recorded but didn't know what to do with. So, we wondered what would happen if we mixed my melody and lyrics with this kind of really relentless Kraut beat that David had created and that's how the song came about. Once we knew it would work, we just knew we needed a big robot voice on there, so we put that on and sent it over to Dave Fridmann and he just really liked it and that was that. ‘Memory Man' was born."	*	0:46:09 (Pop-up)
Fleur	Tu Es Un Être Parfait "Tu Es Un Être Parfait" by "Fleur"	Tu Es Un Être Parfait 7"	Soundflat Records	2024	Dutch yé-yé revivalist Fleur returns with two amazing fuzz-driven garage beat tunes in which her appealing vocals are more irresistible than ever. Both A-side You Are a Perfect Being and Let Me Do It! on the flipside are infectious floor fillers that are new highlights in her oeuvre. Thanks to the dream team – Mark ten Hoor (guitar), Peter Kroes (bass) and Arjan Spies (drums, guitar), you know them from The Kryng – who bring their best game as rhythm section and mood makers. Tu Es Un être parfait translates as 'you are a perfect being', and that is actually a quite appropriate description for this 45.	*	0:50:23 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Alan Hackshaw	Beat Me 'til I'm Blue	KPM 1000 Series: The Big Beat	KPM Music	1969	William Alan Hawkshaw BEM (27 March 1937 – 16 October 2021) was a British composer and performer, particularly of library music used as themes for movies and television programs. Hawkshaw worked extensively for the KPM production music company in the 1950s to the 1970s, composing and recording many stock tracks that have been used extensively in film and TV.		0:52:36 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Alan Hackshaw	Girl In A Sportscar	KPM 1000 Series: The Big Beat	KPM	1969	Born in Leeds, Hawkshaw worked as a printer for several years before becoming a professional musician, first joining the pop group The Crescendos. In the early 1960s, he was a member of rock and roll group Emile Ford and the Checkmates. He also formed the Mohawks band and Rumplestiltskin with some session musicians. At that time, Hawkshaw was an exponent of the Hammond organ, heard in the Mohawks' music, and also on the UK recording of the musical Hair. Hawkshaw was also featured playing with David Bowie on the Bowie at the Beeb album, in a performance recorded for the "John Peel in Top Gear" show on 13 May 1968, in which he played a longer than expected solo on "In The Heat of the Morning".		0:58:12 (Pop-up)
Dr. Sure's Unusual Practice	Keeps Ya Head Up	Keeps Ya Head Up Single	Dougal Shaw	2024	Another new track from a TFEB fave! "JWe've been touring a lot and got a bunch more coming up with the new album out soon. Been learning new songs for upcoming shows, spending a bunch of time in a room together figuring out new sounds, new toys, new instruments to bring this album to life. I've been reading a lot about the genocide that's happening in Palestine, showing up to rallies when I'm home, and generally trying to operate in solidarity with the movement for the liberation of the Palestinian people...The track "Keeps Ya Head Up" stands out for me, it feels really different to anything we've released before and it's been heaps of fun playing it live."	*	1:02:01 (Pop-up)
puni.	Roter Panda "Roter Panda" by "puni."	Roter Panda EP	Wasted Talent Records	2024	I love this track to death. It is everything I love about german chicks talking hard over a slick minimal track. Roter Panda means "red panda" I'm not sure what the significance is, but she also mentions a girl with red hair, bleached by the sun...it's intense, it's German, it's everything...I wish I could find more about her on the internet. :-(	*	1:05:03 (Pop-up)
Mag	Riot On Your Own "Riot On Your Own" by "Mag"	Magnitude	Magdelena Agren	2016	MAG, is a solo project of Magdalena Ågren. She works in the field in between music and performance art and using trombone, megaphone, voice, homemade electronics, loops, and drum machine all at once to build her music from scratch. From the smallest simple element, it grows into a gigantic dystopian lo-fi orchestra. Sometimes restrained and suggestive, sometimes chaotic and wild. Mag’s music is an act of resistance to the perfect and controlling in society. It is music that is written out of frustration and sadness. It strives for deep introspection and expressive power, seeking both confrontation and commonality but doesn’t care at all about codes of conduct. You will experience a powerful pop attack direct from the heart. Magdalena Ågren is based in Gothenburg, Sweden and part of the Gothenburg underground scene. She is also playing in three other bands, like the band BADA (with Anna von Houswolf), SORK and Trapped in a Loop. ”one of the best live acts I’ve ever seen. You could call it cabaret wave. Just one solo performer with a trombone, samplers and a great voice. Think like Dresden Dolls meets Bikini Kill, produced by Thurston Moore."		1:07:25 (Pop-up)
Karl Kave, Oblik	Du Fährst Nicht In Den Urlaub	Du Fährst Nicht In Den Urlaub Single	Karl Kave	2024	Swiss electronic producer and serial perfectionist is back with a new track and collab with Oblik. For you non German speakers, it is of course a sad song about a boy taking his girlfriend to the train station as she leaves him behind for someone else... It's tragic, poignant and hits all the right notes. I can see the rainy gray Swiss sky and mountains obscured on an unnaturally tidy and clean train station, and smell the grass of the nearby valleys and cow pastures...ahh Sad Switzerland...	*	1:12:39 (Pop-up)
Taugadeildin	Her Longing "Her Longing" by "Taugadeildin"	Taugadeildin EP	Alda Records	1981	Taugadeildin was founded in Rekyevik 1980 by Óskar Þórisson and Árni Daníel Júlíusson. Both had started out in the first punk bands of Iceland, Fræbbblarnir and Snillingarnir. Óskar became the singer and Árni Daníel the bass player. Together they wrote a few songs, bought a drum machine and recruited Arnór Snorrason on guitar. The band was was heavily influenced by British post-punk bands such as Joy Division , Gang of Four and Pop Group. They disbanded after this one recording, with Árni Daníel then joined Q4U , while Óskar founded Mogo Homo together with Óðn Guðbrandsson, only briefly reuniting in 2004 for a one-off show.		1:16:05 (Pop-up)
Air In The Lungs	19 "19" by "Air In The Lungs"	Air In The Lungs	Last Night From Glasgow	2023	Once in a while, you just want a song that reminds you of your youth. This is 19 in a bottle. Joyous, uplifting, let's go to the disco! Air In The Lungs is the new project from Edinburgh-based musician Deborah Arnott, also of the band Blueflint. The album is an atmospheric exploration into bereavement and nostalgia, covering subjects such as worker’s rights, adversity and hope. Upbeat, downbeat, with swelling synths, jagged guitars and atmospheric percussion, it is unafraid to be stark and bare, yet vivid and uplifting...this is a GREAT ALBUM.		1:19:52 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Michel Legrand	Di-Gue-Ding-Ding "Di-Gue-Ding-Ding" by "Michel Legrand"	Archi-cordes	Decca	1964	Legrand composed more than two hundred film and television scores. He won three Oscars and five Grammys. He studied music at the Conservatoire de Paris from age 11, working with, among others, Nadia Boulanger and graduated with top honors as both a composer and a pianist.		1:22:31 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Michel Legrand	Alcatraz "Alcatraz" by "Michel Legrand"	Archi-cordes	Decca	1964	Legrand composed music for Jacques Demy's films The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967) He also composed music for Joseph Losey's Eva (1962), The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) (which features "The Windmills of Your Mind"), Ice Station Zebra (1968), The Picasso Summer (1969), The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun (1970), The Go-Between (1971), Summer of '42 (1971)....		1:28:02 (Pop-up)
P.E.	The Reason For My Love "The Reason For My Love" by "P.E."	The Leather Lemon	Wharf Cat Records	2022	Digging into mystery, romance, and sex appeal with The Leather Lemon, the group — composed of members of Pill (Mexican Summer/Dull Tools) and Eaters (Dull Tools/Driftless) — centers its sound within a Bermuda Triangle of dance music, electronic composition, and experimental rock. he Leather Lemon is a reckoning record for the times; an album of psychedelic resurfacing, real-time response to world events, and soft, sympathetic magic. This is a collection of songs shaped by five individuals who embrace music-making as a way to center themselves in times of uncertainty; it’s resilience and imagination given shape. The Leather Lemon is a true sweet-and-sour listening experience, an album as bright and clear as it is fractured and fun.		1:30:17 (Pop-up)
Wah Together	Sayonara "Sayonara" by "Wah Together"	Let's Wah Together	Dedstrange	2022	On their debut LP, Let’s Wah Together, the NYC-based quartet of bassist Phil Mossman (ex-LCD Soundsystem), drummer Vito Roccoforte (the Rapture), producer/guitarist Steve Schiltz (Longwave), and vocalist Jaiko Suzuki revel in the communal delight that happens when happy accidents are caught on tape. Tracked principally live and in close quarters, Let’s Wah Together captures the immediacy and spontaneity of a group of musicians listening to—and playing off— one another with genuine affection, curiosity, and joy. From the skronk n’ stomp of “I’m A Swimmer” to the Japanese Yé Yé beat inflected “Sayonara,” the dense ear-busting wistfulness of “Teen Vito” and the storming acidic drive of “Out! Out! Out!,” Let’s Wah Together is a loud and commanding recommitment to the cooperative spirit and familial love that always marks New York’s most vital eras...		1:35:53 (Pop-up)
Fat White Family	What's That You Say	What's That You Say Single	Domino Recording	2024	Another forthcoming single from the cupcoming "Forgiveness Is Yours"...and what could likely be their last album for a while. Out on the 26th of April, Domino records says "Fat White Family are back with the most sophisticated, vital and flamboyant creation of their career. The cult south-London band’s resplendent fourth album Forgiveness Is Yours, like everything they’ve done, has pushed them to the limits not only of their creative talent, but of their health, their sanity, their very existence."	*	1:40:26 (Pop-up)
Booker T & The MG’s	Comin' Home Baby	Green Onions		1969	What's better than Booker T doing a song og'd by the Velvet Fog Mel Torme? NOTHING.		1:44:18 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Herbie Mann	Comin' Home Baby "Comin' Home Baby" by "Herbie Mann"	Doin' Our Thing	Atlantic Records	1970	Herbie Mann flutin' his flute on this amazing tune made famous by the Velvet Fog...Mel Torme.		1:47:29 (Pop-up)
Talking Flowers	Storytelling "Storytelling" by "Talking Flowers"	Storytelling Single	Rama Lama Records	2023	Playful and multilayered psychedelic synthesizers meets Astrid’s dreamy and mesmerising voice and creates an equally haunting and captivating soundscape that gives the listener a feeling of entering a Twin Peaks-esque world that is both frightening and alluring at the same time. The world of Malmö, Sweden's Talking Flowers is a world one often wishes that the real one would be a bit more like, a world of mystery and excitement and a lot less grey and beige colours. Astrid “draws inspiration from the 60s, both when it comes to songwriting and recording techniques”, something that is obvious both on the debut release and the new Storytelling double single. She describes the new release this way: “When we recorded Storytelling and Bedroom Wall I was listening a lot to Margo Guryan, and we were aiming for that kind of sound in the production. Although as usual I couldn’t keep away from the synths, so it might have ended up in a more futuristic version of the 1960’s.”		1:54:41 (Pop-up)

Listener comments!
	7:53pm DJ Babs: Hi Beach Buddies! We'll be kicking off the show in short order. Grab yer towel, pull up a lounge chair...you know the drill! 💕
	7:55pm ultradamno: Babs! Derek! Beach Bums!
	7:56pm DJ Babs: I'm flying solo tonight...Derek is working late but I have a super fun playlist all ready to go!!!
	7:56pm DJ Babs: UD you always get the best seat under the palapa!! LOL How ya doin?
	7:57pm ultradamno: I am well, thank you. How are you?
	🏝 7:57pm Scott_Oz: G'day Babs sans Derek & Sandy Surrealists! 🌏☀️🍻😎🤙💨🍺🍺🌊🏖️⛱️🌴
	7:58pm DJ Babs: very very good! Hello hello Scott! Right on time, mate!
	7:58pm DJ Babs: I just ate a bunch of pasta so I started singing "a-Carba-coma" to the strains of Karmacoa and now that's in my brain so yeah. Wierd Al, gimme a call.
	7:59pm DJ Babs: @Karmacoma
	7:59pm DJ Babs: And that will be my only Massive Attack joke for the day LOL
	8:00pm Tom P: Hey everyone! I am in my seat and ready!
	8:00pm Derek Westerholm: Welcome Beachers to Babs' Beach! (The peachiest beach there is!)
	8:01pm ultradamno: Bandcamp Friday tomorrow, I have one early announced sale in my inbox, Precious Recordings of London who have been putting out all those Peel Sessions on 10"ers (including Essential Logic, The Flaming Stars, BMX Bandits, Soup Dragons, etc) are offering 10% off everything with the code TENPERCENT preciousrecordingsoflondon.bandcamp.com
	8:01pm Tome: Hey Derek & BaBs great to be here !<>!
	🏝 8:03pm Scott_Oz: ↳ DJ Babs @7:58 I feel like having a Korma Coma mate! 🍗🍲
	8:04pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "SCTV Theme 1981" by "Ira Newborn" RIP Count Floyd...
	8:05pm ultradamno: mastodon.social...
	8:06pm Wendy del Formaggio: Oh hi, Babs and Derek and everyone! Yay for the tribute to Joe Flaherty, RIP. I'm a long-time fan of SCTV. I'm gonna go clean the kitchen, so I'll be lurking. But, I wanted to say hi. :-)
	8:06pm DJ Babs: Hello Hello Wendy! Welcome to the beach!
	8:07pm DJ Babs: Beach music is great cleaning music! Juuuuust sayin! LOL
	8:07pm Derek Westerholm: Hello Babs & all, yes, I'm listening! R.I.P. Joe Flaherty
	8:07pm DJ Babs: Hello hello greetings Tome! And of course hellooo Derek!!!
	8:07pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ DJ Babs @8:06 Thank you! My own show broadcasts live from the Bellows Falls Yacht Club, so I'm always happy to park the yacht and swim to the beach.
	8:08pm ultradamno: Also, you may recall I mentioned actress/model Devon Ross (who had a notable role in the Irma Vep ltd series) being on Ecstatic Peace now...well, she will be a guest on the show following this one tonight.
	8:08pm DJ Babs: Oh and Tom! Hiya great to see yas!!!
	8:08pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ DJ Babs @8:07 Haha, nice! I'm about to go downstairs and find out... Don't worry. I'll bring my radio.
	8:09pm DJ Babs: Amazing! A good scrub can be oh so therapeutic!!!
	8:10pm DJ Babs: This one is going out to Derek who is definitely working a lot right now!
	8:12pm ultradamno: You don't have MDC's I Hate Work or Culturcide's One Day At My Job?
	🏝 8:12pm Kristine: guten tag!
	8:12pm DJ Babs: I wanted to do a whole I hate my job set...but I was aiming to keep things upbeat tonite LOL! Hellooooooo Kristine! Oh I have lots of Krauty goodness for you tonight!
	8:12pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Song: "People" by "Beige Banquet" This is a pretty thinky song for a song telling me ppl think too much...
	8:13pm DJ Babs: LOL. It is a very thinky song...or maybe it's not thinky because it's so repetitive?
	🏝 8:13pm Kristine: i love frustration!
	8:13pm DJ Babs: They are super solid!!! Speaking of which are you walking on solid ground yet? how's the ankle?
	8:14pm ultradamno: Maybe Redskins' Unionize, that's kind of upbeat about it, in a way.
	🏝 8:14pm Kristine: i have one of Frustrations albums lying around somewhere...one of the better things out of france these days
	8:14pm Tom P: ↳ Derek Westerholm @8:12 Hey Derek! Please don't work too much!
	8:15pm DJ Babs: ↳ Kristine @8:14 Yes! They are from Paris right?
	🏝 8:15pm Kristine: yes, ankle is getting better, cancelled the mailorder ankle from china. Honestly sometimes i just dont know how to care for myself. Like, wearing blundstones when you have a sprain is just a stupid move, and set me back, but my foot has been set right again! thanks for asking.
	🏝 8:16pm Kristine: LOL, what a funny band name here!
	🏝 8:17pm Kristine: dunno about paris, cannot confirm or deny, but its a very expensive place to live, so i wouldnt be surprised if they didnt.
	8:18pm DJ Babs: I know...I was trying to figure out where and how they came to Lobsterbomb....also I am very very very happy to hear you're finally on the mend!!!
	8:18pm ultradamno: It's kind of scary, crustaceans could give off good shrapnel
	8:19pm DJ Babs: Crustaceans in general freak me the fuck out.
	8:20pm Mr Fab: Babs! Derek! Yeah, was really bummed about Joe Flaherty. Gotta play his Count Floyd EP! "Reggae Christmas Eve In Transylvania" is a seasonal standard around our house,.
	8:20pm DJ Babs: For someone who loves the beach, crabs I do not like.
	8:20pm wendy del formaggio: Ok. So far, EXCELLENT music for putting away leftovers and tidying up the kitchen. Yay!
	🏝 8:20pm Kristine: ↳ DJ Babs @8:18 thank you! me tooo
	8:20pm DJ Babs: Helloo Hellooo Fab! Great to have you here with us tonight! Poor Count Floyd! I love that he passed on April 1 tho!
	8:20pm ultradamno: Speaking of great bandnames involving creatures that creep Cuntroaches and Guttersnipe UK tour dates guttersnipe.bandcamp.com...
	8:22pm DJ Babs: Guttersnipe are great!
	8:24pm ultradamno: Yeah, glad to see them re-emerge, seems like it's been a minute...Cuntroaches album is incredible mastodon.social...
	8:25pm ultradamno: ↳ ultradamno @8:24 Three years since that split single, in fact
	8:26pm laurapanic: Just got here and LOVE SWEEPING PROMISES
	🏝 8:28pm Kat in the chat: Hello Babs and all! Derek, sorry you couldn't make it. My job has been trying to kill me for the last month so I sympathize with overwork
	8:30pm VinylVillainSean: Ello Ello!
	8:33pm DJ Babs: Heeeyyy KAT!!! SEAN!!! Helloo hellooooo
	8:34pm DJ Babs: So great to see you both!
	8:34pm Bob Barth: Go Babs!!! Sisters are doing it for themselves!!!
	🏝 8:34pm Kat in the chat: Nice to be here!
	8:34pm DJ Babs: Thanks Bob!
	8:35pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "Bad M.F." by "Data Animal" Mr. Farley wasn't bad...just made that seesaw gesture a lot to indicate homosexuality. OK, that's not good, exactly, but...
	8:35pm DJ Babs: Helloooo Laura! Yes Sweeping Promises are even better live than on record!
	8:35pm Bob Barth: ↳ Song: "Bad M.F." by "Data Animal" This goes great with "Hey Motherfucker" by Escape Artist Lovers
	8:35pm ultradamno: You could follow this with Prince's Sexy MF...
	8:36pm DJ Babs: @Laura this is my fall adjacent pick of the week LOL
	8:36pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Song: "Bad M.F." by "Data Animal" I love the sounds in this one... Cool choices
	8:36pm ultradamno: You don't hear many people trying to sound like late era MES' vocals
	8:36pm Roberto: The Meep to your Moop!
	8:37pm DJ Babs: I am positively besotted with this band. Helloooo Roberto!!!!
	8:37pm DJ Babs: I also like this part because I feel like he's taking the piss outta Nick Cave
	8:37pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ ultradamno @8:36 lol
	8:37pm laurapanic: ↳ DJ Babs @8:36 I'm loving both tracks in this set so far. Top stuff!
	8:37pm VinylVillainSean: Hey Babs, Derek and Meep Moop!
	8:38pm DJ Babs: Hows Gizmo Sean?
	8:38pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ VinylVillainSean @8:37 Hey VVS and all!!!!!!!!!!!
	🏝 8:38pm Kat in the chat: ↳ DJ Babs @8:37 Someone's gotta do it
	8:38pm VinylVillainSean: ↳ DJ Babs @8:38 Oh he’s great. Just being a brat all the time.
	8:39pm DJ Babs: Awww not our sweet Gizmo!!!!
	8:41pm VinylVillainSean: Ya I’m trying to put together a Golden Girls puzzle I found at a thrift store and he keeps stealing pieces
	8:41pm DJ Babs: HAHAHA That's amazing.
	8:42pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "Gary Borthwick Says" by "Neutrals" Noting the TVPs makes me think of Geoffrey Ingram, he and Gary may be friends
	8:42pm DJ Babs: If you all are not following us yet on the insta....there's extra meepmoop content there! This week's picture is pretty hilarious. www.instagram.com...
	8:43pm DJ Babs: ↳ ultradamno @8:42 Possibly........
	8:43pm ultradamno: No Zuck platforms for me...
	8:44pm ultradamno: ↳ ultradamno @8:43 ...but cute
	8:44pm wendy del formaggio: I like all this punk rock yer playin’, Babs. Totally what I need to hear tonight. ❤️
	8:44pm DJ Babs: Yaaas! It's good for scrubbin' drinkin' sittin' around' and kickin' things!
	🏝 8:48pm Kat in the chat: It's hitting the spot for sure
	8:48pm DJ Babs: ↳ wendy del formaggio @8:44 YAY VOCODERS!
	8:48pm DJ Babs: ↳ Kat in the chat @8:48 I aim to please!!!! I hope you are all having a good week! We're almost at the weekend Beachers!!!
	8:49pm DJ Babs: Kat are you working on extra projects or is it just the general crush of capitalism got you working so much?
	🏝 8:49pm Kat in the chat: I took Monday off in hopes of actually viewing some eclipse action, but the forecast is cloudy :(
	8:49pm ultradamno: Is this for Eostre? (with the eggs all painted up like tarts?)
	8:50pm Mr Fab: i'm at the office as we speak - crazy amounts of overtime lately.
	8:50pm DJ Babs: TWELVE MILLION PPL are coming to Niagara falls...which is insane!
	8:50pm DJ Babs: I guarantee mother nature is gonna nope this eclipse for most with cloud cover lol
	8:50pm Bob Barth: ↳ Song: "Memory Man" by "The Lovely Eggs" LOOVE THIS!!!
	8:50pm DJ Babs: Ugh! Fab..that's no good.
	8:51pm Mr Fab: ↳ DJ Babs @8:50 yeah...but time-and-a-half OT is OK.
	8:51pm ultradamno: They have eclipse glasses at Kroger where the fidget spinners used to be...
	8:51pm DJ Babs: ↳ Bob Barth @8:50 It's gettin lots of play! this song is great!
	8:52pm Mr Fab: When the eclipse starts, everyone in the world needs to play Klaus Nomi's "Total Eclipse" real loud.
	🏝 8:53pm Kat in the chat: ↳ DJ Babs @8:49 One person on my team quit (the most valuable player in terms of what i work on) and another one's on extended medical leave, we are perennially understaffed to begin with and there has been an increase in the work as well. It's so bad they are actually paying me OT bonus despite my being on salary and having been denied that for the three years I've been with them, during which there have been other stretches of many extra hours worked
	8:53pm Aitch: ↳ Mr Fab @8:52 Not Bonnie Tyler's??
	8:53pm DJ Babs: YAAS. Or Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the Heart. But Nomi is better.
	8:53pm ultradamno: ↳ DJ Babs @8:53 There's got to be an appropriate Chrome or Voivod tune...
	8:53pm DJ Babs: ↳ Kat in the chat @8:53 oooooof. that is awful...awwwwwfull...I hate this age of "we don't need to backfill" UGH.
	8:53pm Mr Fab: ↳ Aitch @8:53 Not on my watch!
	🏝 8:54pm Kat in the chat: ↳ DJ Babs @8:53 Also no one applies for the job openings we have haha
	8:55pm ultradamno: Not touching big organ moment.
	8:55pm Mr Fab: ↳ Kat in the chat @8:54 Are we working for the same firm, Kat?!
	8:55pm Bob Barth: ↳ ultradamno @8:55 aww you're no fun
	🏝 8:56pm Kat in the chat: I kinda doubt that. This is actually my old Chicago job, I'm 100% remote now which is one of the few upsides
	8:56pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Mr Fab @8:52 Hahaha YES.
	🏝 8:57pm Kat in the chat: (above was for Fab) Time to update the resume, I ain't living long like ithis.
	8:57pm VinylVillainSean: Such an organ grinder
	8:59pm ultradamno: Also no comment m.media-amazon.com...
	🏝 9:00pm Will thee SG OCNY: Hi DJ Babs, Derek, and all!!!
	🏝 9:01pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Song: "Girl In A Sportscar" by "Alan Hackshaw" Someone on 'FMU uses this on their show and of course I can't remember who it is
	9:01pm VinylVillainSean: This song playing in the background is so rad!
	🏝 9:02pm Kristine: HAVE NOT LOST INTEREST!
	🏝 9:02pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Kat in the chat @9:01 might be Fabio
	9:04pm DJ Babs: ↳ Will thee SG OCNY @9:00 Willlll helloooooooo!!!!! Grab a bevvie and get cozy!
	9:05pm DJ Babs: ↳ VinylVillainSean @9:01 Yes! Check yourself out some Alan Hackshaw you won't be sorry!!!
	9:10pm DJ Babs: oh meep moop has a lot to say about this song.
	9:11pm Derek Westerholm: So much amazing stuff tonight... Maybe I should stay out of the way more often!
	9:11pm DJ Babs: Haha oh Derek I dunno this is a LOT of work! I do terribly miss you with me on the mic!
	9:12pm DJ Babs: MeepMoop is a terrible co host he is far more concentrated on grooming.
	9:14pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ DJ Babs @9:12 Yes, you never have worry about me overgrooming
	9:15pm DJ Babs: HAHAHA! WAY TO MAKE THE CHAT WEIRD DEREK. LOL.
	🏝 9:15pm Kristine: WAS IST DAS DENN?
	9:15pm DJ Babs: KRISTINE IS THIS SONG NOT THE BEST
	🏝 9:16pm Kristine: this is great, he sounds like DJ Hell!
	9:16pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ DJ Babs @9:15 I just meant I'm generally unkempt. Jeez.
	🏝 9:17pm Kristine: i will be seeing the swiss mountains soooon!
	9:17pm ultradamno: Neubauten should have sang Eine Katze Is Ein Dandy
	🏝 9:17pm Kristine: derek, for what its worth i always found you decently well kempt and always decent smelling
	🏝 9:18pm Kristine: blixa looks like a cat dandy. in the last 10 years.
	9:18pm ultradamno: *ist, rather
	9:19pm Mr Fab: Georgygirl plays Alan Hackshaw all the time on her show “high waisted modernists” here on Sheena’s. I think she said she even saw him live once.
	9:19pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Kristine @9:17 haha, thanks Kristine... I guess I get by.
	9:19pm DJ Babs: ↳ Derek Westerholm @9:16 I will vouch for your kemptness. You're very kempt.
	9:19pm DJ Babs: kemptnitude? Kempnocity?
	9:20pm ultradamno: Dapperness
	9:20pm DJ Babs: ↳ Mr Fab @9:19 I'd lose my mind to see that show Fab. I'll have to ask her!
	🏝 9:20pm Kristine: his kemptness from kemptville.
	🏝 9:20pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Mr Fab @9:19 She did an all-Hawkshaw hour not too long ago.
	9:20pm DJ Babs: ↳ ultradamno @9:17 TRUE TRUE
	🏝 9:20pm Kristine: i think neubauten are touring this year? or did i dream that?
	🏝 9:21pm Kat in the chat: I think they might be?
	9:21pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Kristine @9:20 Maybe both?
	9:21pm ultradamno: ↳ Kristine @9:20 They have a new album and will be on the mothership Sunday morning on the 14th (well, Blixa) www.wfmu.org...
	9:22pm DJ Babs: I am also in love with this tune because I love a good little pop ditty.
	9:22pm laurapanic: ↳ Song: "19" by "Air In The Lungs" Like!
	9:22pm DJ Babs: ↳ Kat in the chat @9:20 That's my girl!
	9:23pm DJ Babs: I gotta get this on vinyl for Juicebox.
	🏝 9:24pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Song: "Di-Gue-Ding-Ding" by "Michel Legrand" oh this is a hoot, I'm surprised I've never heard it before
	9:26pm Roberto: ↳ Song: "19" by "Air In The Lungs" Erin Thalungs?
	🏝 9:26pm Kristine: been watching the Bardot docu series, speaking of french 60s loveliness. Its worth watching, although i dont agree with Bardot's politics
	9:28pm Derek Westerholm: I actually do like trying to pronounce different languages, I just hate (always) butchering them... But I enjoy trying.
	9:28pm Roberto: Wait, she dumped him and he still drove her to the train station?
	9:30pm ultradamno: The SNL update bit on Deneuve and Bardot www.youtube.com...
	🏝 9:31pm Kristine: oooooooh i will check this out NOW!
	9:33pm laurapanic: ↳ Song: "The Reason For My Love" by "P.E." nothing says no wave like a freaking out sax
	9:33pm DJ Babs: ↳ Kristine @9:26 oh no does she have janky politics?
	9:34pm DJ Babs: ↳ Derek Westerholm @9:28 I love your attempts!
	9:34pm DJ Babs: ↳ Roberto @9:28 I guess so!
	🏝 9:35pm Kristine: ↳ ultradamno @9:30 Oh that was hilarious!
	9:36pm ultradamno: ↳ DJ Babs @9:33 Not compared to Roseanne, but yes.
	🏝 9:37pm Kristine: ↳ DJ Babs @9:33 oh she sure does! married to an advisor of Le Pen. xenophobic, homophobic, only animals love her.
	9:39pm DJ Babs: NOOOOOOOOOOO
	9:40pm DJ Babs: This tune makes me want to run through a field or something....
	9:41pm laurapanic: ↳ Song: "Sayonara" by "Wah Together" delicious 'gaze
	🏝 9:41pm Kristine: this is a NYC supergroup right here!
	9:41pm ultradamno: By the way, Roseanne's new comments, which are something else (she does have a drink in her hand) www.msn.com...
	9:43pm DJ Babs: ohhhh jebus...Why can't that woman just not go away.
	9:43pm DJ Babs: ↳ Kristine @9:41 And they share members with Mother of Mars who I played earlier! Ha see IT ALL COMES AROUND
	9:43pm DJ Babs: ↳ laurapanic @9:41 That's the gaze I super love!
	🏝 9:44pm Kristine: yeah, and Longwave! i love that band, and the guy who is the mastermind behind it is great. he played wavelength once,
	9:46pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Song: "What's That You Say" by "Fat White Family" I like this song. I'm just not sure about the band's name. Hmm. Still deciding if their name is not/as bad as another band I like a lot, The Police. :-D
	9:46pm DJ Babs: Derek pack up your stuff it's time to come home!!!
	9:46pm DJ Babs: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @9:46 Fat Whites are probably the most...strange and frightening and intense bands I've come across in a long time. I love them but I am afraid of them LOL. This will likely be their last album...they are...brilliant.
	9:49pm laurapanic: ↳ DJ Babs @9:46 from where I sit, the show has been seamless and great. Stay where you are Derek!!
	9:50pm laurapanic: Can't wait for the Bob's One Night Stand. Bob! I;ll be late, but I'll be there.
	9:52pm Wendy del Formaggio: This show has been awesome. Thanks, Babs! I sent you another email. It's sweet to make your acquaintance.
	🏝 9:53pm Scott_Oz: Thanks for a fun show Babs! 🌏☀️🍻😎🤙💨🍷🌻
	9:53pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ laurapanic @9:49 Exactly
	9:53pm Derek Westerholm: Fantastic show, Babs!!!
	🏝 9:54pm Kat in the chat: Excellent show, Babs! Thanks!
	9:54pm VinylVillainSean: Solid show tonight!
	9:54pm Bob Barth: Babs you're so Sweet!!
	🏝 9:54pm Kristine: Babs, you rock! great show!
	9:54pm Derek Westerholm: mmmmm
	9:54pm Derek Westerholm: Yay!
	🏝 9:55pm Kristine: whats for dinner?
	9:55pm Bob Barth: Follow me this way gang... wfmu.org...
	9:57pm DJ Babs: Thank you thank you everyone! And yes, please follow along to Bob's show!
	9:57pm DJ Babs: I made a marinara, some pasta, and broiled rapini with herbs.
	🏝 9:58pm WR: Many thanks Babs for a great episode. Have been preoccupied with getting my new work laptop ready for use, so not in the comments, just a listener. Thank you!
	9:58pm DJ Babs: Thank you thank you everyone! We'll be back to our regular nonsense next week! :-)
	9:58pm DJ Babs: Thank you WR! Oh no not you too with the work stuff! Yeesh! Glad I could offer some respite!
	🏝 9:59pm Will thee SG OCNY: Thank you DJ Babs and Derek!!!
	10:01pm DJ Babs: GNITE ALL! Thank you all for joining me on this journey. YOU ARE THEEE BEEEEEESTTTTT! ❤️
	10:01pm DJ Babs: Stay safe and well all! ❤️

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Heather The Jerk	Sureal/Good/Fun/Exciting	Sureal/Good/Fun/Exciting Tape	Goodbye Boozy	2024	This l'il gem was released just a few months ago. Heather says "I am a big nerd" After what could have been a great Adult Swim album, “Cable Access TV” from 2021, Heather The Jerk (The Hussy & Proud Parents) is back with 4 new garage rock/punk super fun tracks. Heather the jerk is the solo project of Heather Sawyer based out of Madison, WI. After playing a few shows HTJ released a 4 song ep titled “The Rick Shitty Sessions” recorded by Rick Freuhling of local bands Fire Heads & Dumb Vision. In between now and then Heather played in a couple touring bands and was pretty busy with that. Now she is back with “Surreal Good Fun Exciting Tape”. The tape is comprised of her and her BF Josh and out now (if physical is still sold out – the digital is not) from Italy’s Goodbye Boozy Records.		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Ira Newborn	SCTV Theme 1981 "SCTV Theme 1981" by "Ira Newborn"	SCTV	N/A	1981	Joseph Flaherty was an American actor, writer, and comedian. He is best known for his work on the Canadian sketch comedy SCTV from 1976 to 1984, his role as Harold Weir on Freaks and Geeks, and starring as Donald the heckler in Happy Gilmore. Flaherty passed on April 1st...and will be remembered fondly for his amazing characters such as Count Floyd, Guy Caballero, The Drunk Neat Guy from 5 Neat Guys, Sammy Maudlin, and Floyd Robertson...RIP funny man and thank you for the laughs!		0:01:48 (Pop-up)
Mother Of Mars	Harmonium Detector	Harmonium Detector EP	Ransom Note Records	2023	OOOH! AHHH! Released about a year ago, this delightful track comes from Mother of Mars...the latest musical incarnation of New Yorkers Vito Roccoforte & Gabriel Andruzzi. Vito and Gabe are best known as members of era-defining NY post punkers The Rapture and continue their tradition of angular yet danceable, hooky yet challenging musical output. Title track, Harmonium Detector, is based on the concept of breaking up with your cellphone - something Vito has attempted in the past, with limited success! It showcases guest vocalist Satomi Matsuzaki's lush vocals, transporting the listener to a world of rapturous electronic elation. Its intricate layers of rhythm create a unique and mesmerising listening experience		0:05:18 (Pop-up)
Beige Banquet	People "People" by "Beige Banquet"	Ornamental Hermit	Swish Swash Records	2024	TFEB favourites Beige Banquet are back with a new album "Ormanental Hermit". From Tom Brierley’s DIY bedroom studio to the pulsing heart of London’s punk scene, Beige Banquet has morphed from a solo project into a powerful five-piece force, carving their own niche with a distinctive blend of post-punk fury and Devo-esque quirkiness. Gone are the lo-fi whispers of their past, replaced by a cathedral of sound. Guitars writhe and hiss, sculpted by studio precision, while drums pound like the obsidian heart of a leviathan. But amidst the polished fury, the barbed wire melody of their signature bite remains. Brierley’s vocals, laced with poetic venom and urban grit, weave tapestries of introspective ache and caustic wit. “Ornamental Hermit” isn’t a rejection of their roots; it’s a defiant expansion, a sonic DNA test revealing both raw beginnings and studio savvy. This isn’t just a new album; it’s a manifesto on vinyl, a battle cry etched in grooves, a declaration that Beige Banquet are ready to carve their names into the granite face of post-punk.	*	0:08:19 (Pop-up)
Frustration	Catching Your Eye "Catching Your Eye" by "Frustration"	Our Decisions	Born Bad Records	2024	Hailing from Paris, France, Frustrations' powerful, potent songs yield a brutal post-punk sound. Just imagine WARSAW meet WIRE meet the FALL and you will already have a good idea of their musical universe. Bad news is : Frustration is an increasingly misnamed band. You know where it’s going from the first few bars : the Parisian gang isn’t about old dogs learning new tricks, and manages to give precisely what we were hoping for. Hence : sa-tis-fac-tion, sorry. The relative classicism of their sixth album, ‘Our Decisions’, will quench the thirst of their fans, whose reputation is well established (we’re not talking about their very real record for bar takings). Their music is driven by a primitive desire that proves sufficiently complex for its expression never to get redundant. Frustration doesn’t teach music history, but definitely know where they came from : Born Bad pillars proudly bear the banner of our bastard french post-punk, bred in the wild, crests slicked back and spurs ready to claw.	*	0:10:42 (Pop-up)
LOBSTERBOMB	Nur In Deinen Träumen	Nur In Deinen Träumen Single	Duchess Box Records	2023	Formed in Berlin in 2020, LOBSTERBOMB approaches themes of personal introspection, desire for systemic change and individual growth through a lens of frenetic, loud and catchy indie-garage rock.		0:14:17 (Pop-up)
WALL	Last Date "Last Date" by "WALL"	WALL EP	Wharf Cat Records	2016	WITH EACH SONIC MOVEMENT ON THE INTRODUCTORY SELF-TITLED EP FROM NEW YORK’S WALL THERE'S A COMMITMENT TO DEFEND A PUNCTUATED DUALITY BETWEEN CURIOSITY AND TRIUMPH. AFTER ALL, WHAT’S A BAND WORTH BUT ITS MESSAGE? A CERTAIN SELF-AWARENESS OF THE VERY QUESTION IS AT THE HEART OF THE WALL APPARATUS AND LISTENING ALONG AS THEY DISCOVER THEMSELVES THROUGHOUT THIS EP IS INVIGORATING AND SCARY. TONE AND RHYTHM WHIRL TOGETHER, LIKE AN EMERGENCY EXIT DOOR CHOREOGRAPHED TO SWING FLAWLESSLY IN TIME TO ITS DAMNED AND CHAOTIC PAVLOVIAN ALARM BELL. FROM THE FIRST RIGID AND CAUTIOUS SECONDS OF THEIR EP, WALL UNLEASHES AN UNCANNY SELF-AWARENESS THAT METHODICALLY SLIPS PAGES RIPPED FROM DEMENTED NO WAVE LEGACIES THROUGH A SHREDDER OF THEIR OWN DESIGN....A TOXIC-NEW TEMPESTUOUS BLOODWAVE OF POST-PUNK, EXACTLY THE TRANSFUSION THE SCENE NEEDS TO STAY ALIVE.		0:17:36 (Pop-up)
Wet Dip	Stray "Stray" by "Wet Dip"	Smell of Money	Feel It Records	2023	From deep in the heart of Texas - the trio known as Wet Dip are that jarring, lightning strike of sound like nothing before them. Sisters Sylvia and Erica Rodriguez grew up in the arid, isolated Panhandle region of Texas before making their way to Austin and forming Wet Dip with Daniel Doyle. This album was recorded with Sweeping Promises’ Caufield Schnug, this music has more in common with original 80s no-wave than its modern-day post-punk scions: Wet Dip put forward dissonant, caustic songs only occasionally, even accidentally, ending up with some danceable, bass-driven funky moments. Guitarist Daniel Doyle struggles to tame his unbroken guitar, just barely winning the fight, while drummer Erica Rodriguez displays the right kind of amateurism, slightly behind the beat, holding the band together with scotch tape – but punching above her paygrade. Bassist and vocalist Sylvia Rodriguez embodies the band’s unpredictability, as she code switches between English and Spanish, haunting whispers and vein-popping screams. These tracks linger with you as much for the music as for the heavy lyrics. Some songs explore themes of our modern capitalist hellscape, others center on specifically female pain, angst, and anger at exploitation and sexual abuse. The music is challenging and rewarding and extremely singular in the current landscape...		0:19:12 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Sean Kosa	Out Of Body "Out Of Body" by "Sean Kosa"	Escapism Single	Facecontrol Audio Industries	2024	Mined from the depths of another seemingly endless Montreal winter comes our latest release, Escapism, by label owner Sean Kosa. Out Of Body' Utilizes polyrhythmic percussion floating atop of 2600 synth bass. Hi-hats seemingly crafted from sub-zero ice floes splintering their millennia old chemical histories into swollen arctic seascapes. A bubbling synth lead line appears from the horizon and flies skyward into low altitude orbit before disappearing into cosmic infinity.	*	0:21:57 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Sean Kosa	Out Of Mind "Out Of Mind" by "Sean Kosa"	Escapism Single	Facecontrol Audio Industries	2024	'Out Of Mind' Kick drums-as-heartbeats nervously jitter beneath industrial dub echoes, as hi hats creep in, templar lattices appear temporarily giving a fleeting illusion of order as headlights flash through rain on the windshield. Low sub bass drones align with strobe light percussion and propel the grinding echoes of a burnt out cobalt star. Gasoline rain falls on patchwork gardens made of oxidized steel cuttings from a lathe in the music factory. Love this? Go find it on Bandcamp!!!	*	0:27:29 (Pop-up)
Data Animal	Bad M.F. "Bad M.F." by "Data Animal"	Future Primitive	Dedstrange	2022	Future Primitive is the debut album from Auckland / Berlin Techno Punks, Data Animal, on Oliver Ackermann’s newly formed label, Dedstrange. Future Primitive follows highly regarded early singles, Bad M.F & Death Racer, and is a full-blown sonic weapon from the streets. Songs address the decay and breakdown of modern life and the approaching apocalyptic fall out of human behavior. Taking influence from NYC no-wave, British post-punk, and Detroit techno, Future Primitive gives rock n roll a much-needed facelift. The future is simultaneously technological and primordial and Future Primitive is the soundtrack to a species with no future. If the future is fuzzed out nods to Suicide...I'm down.		0:31:29 (Pop-up)
Furrowed Brow	Outdoors Man "Outdoors Man" by "Furrowed Brow"	Outdoors Man Single	Notes From Underground	2023	This band is making a return because a) they make me chuckle b) they are hella Fall adjacent, in spirit if nothing else. The track is an off-the-wall prog-post-punk paean to the great stones and valleys of England, and their first self-produced and self released effort. An avant-garde ode to nature and their homeland, the track was designed to be shouted loud and proud. Radiating a sense of nostalgia that’s almost impossible to place, it’s as if the band have taken core-memory melodies from your childhood and reinvented them into a gothic anthem to guide you into later life.The beauty of this track is that you won’t fully understand it, yet it will bring you a fascinating sense of comfort and will grant your mind the opportunity to let loose for four whole minutes.		0:34:18 (Pop-up)
Neutrals	Gary Borthwick Says "Gary Borthwick Says" by "Neutrals"	Bus Stop Nights EP	Static Shock Records	2022	I love this because it reminds me of the past. Who is Gary Borthwick?: Well, there are 11 LinkedIn profiles with that name. A Gary Borthwick passed away near Limerick last year (our sincere condolences to friends and family) Otherwise, Gary Borthwick and his tall tales remain an enigma. Neutrals are not to be confused with Neutral...a Russian neofolk band. Neutrals return with a stunning new 4 track EP on Static Shock, after an album on Emotional Response in 2019 and two 7”s on Slumberland and Domestic Departure in 2020. Each song on this EP is a golden nugget of DIY indie pop with clean and jagged guitar work, tunes at every corner and a joyous naivety. Go straight to "Gary Borthwick Says" - a song about a full time bullshitter with lyrics akin to to I, Ludicrous’ "Preposterous Tales" with music which has the charm of prime The Television Personalties and The Times. New Town Dream is another gem and if it had come out in 1979 as an obscure DIY/post punk 7", the kids would be paying £200 for it. Honestly, it’s love at first listem and pure infatuation after repeated plays. This EP will not leave your turntable.		0:38:20 (Pop-up)
Luxury Apartments	Wire "Wire" by "Luxury Apartments"	Wire Single	Eeasy Records	2023	A series of feral, intense live shows around London have created startling word of mouth hype, with the three-piece displaying untamed, unrivalled energy. Barbed wire riffs set against furious, D-Beat level drumming, the band match hardcore's uncompromising stance to a sense of sonic austerity. It's a thrilling, pulse-quickening racket, with the three-piece laying absolute waste...		0:41:04 (Pop-up)
Dion Lunadon	Reduction Agent "Reduction Agent" by "Dion Lunadon"	Dion Lunadon	Agitated Records	2017	Dion Lunadon might best be known as the powerful, enigmatic bass player of noise-rock trio A Place to Bury Strangers, but this title alone fails to accurately define a musician as dynamic and expressive as Lunadon, as his first solo effort clearly shows us. Originally hailing from Auckland, New Zealand, Lunadon was formerly a member of Kiwi garage rockers The D4. Lunadon eventually relocated to New York City, joining Brooklyn’s finest noise-rocking shoegaze outfit A Place to Bury Strangers in 2010, eventually heading into the studio with the band to record APTBS’ 2012 album, Worship. Lunadon’s stage presence and bass prowess is revered, and it’s interesting to see these qualities transfer over to his debut solo effort. Organs are complemented by quick snare-blasts and blown-speaker bass fuzz...this is honest, frantic rock n' roll....never underwhelming, predictable or boring, instead coming across as a great example of how rock and roll should be executed, coupled with a good example of proto-punk minimalism. Lunadon’s music is relentless and charged and will never sound dated or uninspired.		0:43:49 (Pop-up)
The Lovely Eggs	Memory Man "Memory Man" by "The Lovely Eggs"	Memory Man Single	The Lovely Eggs	2024	The Lovely Eggs are back in fine form!! Charged with a hypnotic, robotic Can-like beat and propelled by a fuzzy, mangled guitar tone, Holly's vocals hang ethereally over the song's swirling, mezmerising psychedelia. “I wrote the lyrics and melody to ‘Memory Man' while driving,” remembers Holly. “It was a bit of a subconscious thought stream connected to what I'd been going through personally at the time. The original melody was slightly different to what it eventually became. It was much slower and had more of a Syd Barrett vibe. Then one day when we were in the studio, David was playing a riff and beat he had recorded but didn't know what to do with. So, we wondered what would happen if we mixed my melody and lyrics with this kind of really relentless Kraut beat that David had created and that's how the song came about. Once we knew it would work, we just knew we needed a big robot voice on there, so we put that on and sent it over to Dave Fridmann and he just really liked it and that was that. ‘Memory Man' was born."	*	0:46:09 (Pop-up)
Fleur	Tu Es Un Être Parfait "Tu Es Un Être Parfait" by "Fleur"	Tu Es Un Être Parfait 7"	Soundflat Records	2024	Dutch yé-yé revivalist Fleur returns with two amazing fuzz-driven garage beat tunes in which her appealing vocals are more irresistible than ever. Both A-side You Are a Perfect Being and Let Me Do It! on the flipside are infectious floor fillers that are new highlights in her oeuvre. Thanks to the dream team – Mark ten Hoor (guitar), Peter Kroes (bass) and Arjan Spies (drums, guitar), you know them from The Kryng – who bring their best game as rhythm section and mood makers. Tu Es Un être parfait translates as 'you are a perfect being', and that is actually a quite appropriate description for this 45.	*	0:50:23 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Alan Hackshaw	Beat Me 'til I'm Blue	KPM 1000 Series: The Big Beat	KPM Music	1969	William Alan Hawkshaw BEM (27 March 1937 – 16 October 2021) was a British composer and performer, particularly of library music used as themes for movies and television programs. Hawkshaw worked extensively for the KPM production music company in the 1950s to the 1970s, composing and recording many stock tracks that have been used extensively in film and TV.		0:52:36 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Alan Hackshaw	Girl In A Sportscar	KPM 1000 Series: The Big Beat	KPM	1969	Born in Leeds, Hawkshaw worked as a printer for several years before becoming a professional musician, first joining the pop group The Crescendos. In the early 1960s, he was a member of rock and roll group Emile Ford and the Checkmates. He also formed the Mohawks band and Rumplestiltskin with some session musicians. At that time, Hawkshaw was an exponent of the Hammond organ, heard in the Mohawks' music, and also on the UK recording of the musical Hair. Hawkshaw was also featured playing with David Bowie on the Bowie at the Beeb album, in a performance recorded for the "John Peel in Top Gear" show on 13 May 1968, in which he played a longer than expected solo on "In The Heat of the Morning".		0:58:12 (Pop-up)
Dr. Sure's Unusual Practice	Keeps Ya Head Up	Keeps Ya Head Up Single	Dougal Shaw	2024	Another new track from a TFEB fave! "JWe've been touring a lot and got a bunch more coming up with the new album out soon. Been learning new songs for upcoming shows, spending a bunch of time in a room together figuring out new sounds, new toys, new instruments to bring this album to life. I've been reading a lot about the genocide that's happening in Palestine, showing up to rallies when I'm home, and generally trying to operate in solidarity with the movement for the liberation of the Palestinian people...The track "Keeps Ya Head Up" stands out for me, it feels really different to anything we've released before and it's been heaps of fun playing it live."	*	1:02:01 (Pop-up)
puni.	Roter Panda "Roter Panda" by "puni."	Roter Panda EP	Wasted Talent Records	2024	I love this track to death. It is everything I love about german chicks talking hard over a slick minimal track. Roter Panda means "red panda" I'm not sure what the significance is, but she also mentions a girl with red hair, bleached by the sun...it's intense, it's German, it's everything...I wish I could find more about her on the internet. :-(	*	1:05:03 (Pop-up)
Mag	Riot On Your Own "Riot On Your Own" by "Mag"	Magnitude	Magdelena Agren	2016	MAG, is a solo project of Magdalena Ågren. She works in the field in between music and performance art and using trombone, megaphone, voice, homemade electronics, loops, and drum machine all at once to build her music from scratch. From the smallest simple element, it grows into a gigantic dystopian lo-fi orchestra. Sometimes restrained and suggestive, sometimes chaotic and wild. Mag’s music is an act of resistance to the perfect and controlling in society. It is music that is written out of frustration and sadness. It strives for deep introspection and expressive power, seeking both confrontation and commonality but doesn’t care at all about codes of conduct. You will experience a powerful pop attack direct from the heart. Magdalena Ågren is based in Gothenburg, Sweden and part of the Gothenburg underground scene. She is also playing in three other bands, like the band BADA (with Anna von Houswolf), SORK and Trapped in a Loop. ”one of the best live acts I’ve ever seen. You could call it cabaret wave. Just one solo performer with a trombone, samplers and a great voice. Think like Dresden Dolls meets Bikini Kill, produced by Thurston Moore."		1:07:25 (Pop-up)
Karl Kave, Oblik	Du Fährst Nicht In Den Urlaub	Du Fährst Nicht In Den Urlaub Single	Karl Kave	2024	Swiss electronic producer and serial perfectionist is back with a new track and collab with Oblik. For you non German speakers, it is of course a sad song about a boy taking his girlfriend to the train station as she leaves him behind for someone else... It's tragic, poignant and hits all the right notes. I can see the rainy gray Swiss sky and mountains obscured on an unnaturally tidy and clean train station, and smell the grass of the nearby valleys and cow pastures...ahh Sad Switzerland...	*	1:12:39 (Pop-up)
Taugadeildin	Her Longing "Her Longing" by "Taugadeildin"	Taugadeildin EP	Alda Records	1981	Taugadeildin was founded in Rekyevik 1980 by Óskar Þórisson and Árni Daníel Júlíusson. Both had started out in the first punk bands of Iceland, Fræbbblarnir and Snillingarnir. Óskar became the singer and Árni Daníel the bass player. Together they wrote a few songs, bought a drum machine and recruited Arnór Snorrason on guitar. The band was was heavily influenced by British post-punk bands such as Joy Division , Gang of Four and Pop Group. They disbanded after this one recording, with Árni Daníel then joined Q4U , while Óskar founded Mogo Homo together with Óðn Guðbrandsson, only briefly reuniting in 2004 for a one-off show.		1:16:05 (Pop-up)
Air In The Lungs	19 "19" by "Air In The Lungs"	Air In The Lungs	Last Night From Glasgow	2023	Once in a while, you just want a song that reminds you of your youth. This is 19 in a bottle. Joyous, uplifting, let's go to the disco! Air In The Lungs is the new project from Edinburgh-based musician Deborah Arnott, also of the band Blueflint. The album is an atmospheric exploration into bereavement and nostalgia, covering subjects such as worker’s rights, adversity and hope. Upbeat, downbeat, with swelling synths, jagged guitars and atmospheric percussion, it is unafraid to be stark and bare, yet vivid and uplifting...this is a GREAT ALBUM.		1:19:52 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Michel Legrand	Di-Gue-Ding-Ding "Di-Gue-Ding-Ding" by "Michel Legrand"	Archi-cordes	Decca	1964	Legrand composed more than two hundred film and television scores. He won three Oscars and five Grammys. He studied music at the Conservatoire de Paris from age 11, working with, among others, Nadia Boulanger and graduated with top honors as both a composer and a pianist.		1:22:31 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Michel Legrand	Alcatraz "Alcatraz" by "Michel Legrand"	Archi-cordes	Decca	1964	Legrand composed music for Jacques Demy's films The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967) He also composed music for Joseph Losey's Eva (1962), The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) (which features "The Windmills of Your Mind"), Ice Station Zebra (1968), The Picasso Summer (1969), The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun (1970), The Go-Between (1971), Summer of '42 (1971)....		1:28:02 (Pop-up)
P.E.	The Reason For My Love "The Reason For My Love" by "P.E."	The Leather Lemon	Wharf Cat Records	2022	Digging into mystery, romance, and sex appeal with The Leather Lemon, the group — composed of members of Pill (Mexican Summer/Dull Tools) and Eaters (Dull Tools/Driftless) — centers its sound within a Bermuda Triangle of dance music, electronic composition, and experimental rock. he Leather Lemon is a reckoning record for the times; an album of psychedelic resurfacing, real-time response to world events, and soft, sympathetic magic. This is a collection of songs shaped by five individuals who embrace music-making as a way to center themselves in times of uncertainty; it’s resilience and imagination given shape. The Leather Lemon is a true sweet-and-sour listening experience, an album as bright and clear as it is fractured and fun.		1:30:17 (Pop-up)
Wah Together	Sayonara "Sayonara" by "Wah Together"	Let's Wah Together	Dedstrange	2022	On their debut LP, Let’s Wah Together, the NYC-based quartet of bassist Phil Mossman (ex-LCD Soundsystem), drummer Vito Roccoforte (the Rapture), producer/guitarist Steve Schiltz (Longwave), and vocalist Jaiko Suzuki revel in the communal delight that happens when happy accidents are caught on tape. Tracked principally live and in close quarters, Let’s Wah Together captures the immediacy and spontaneity of a group of musicians listening to—and playing off— one another with genuine affection, curiosity, and joy. From the skronk n’ stomp of “I’m A Swimmer” to the Japanese Yé Yé beat inflected “Sayonara,” the dense ear-busting wistfulness of “Teen Vito” and the storming acidic drive of “Out! Out! Out!,” Let’s Wah Together is a loud and commanding recommitment to the cooperative spirit and familial love that always marks New York’s most vital eras...		1:35:53 (Pop-up)
Fat White Family	What's That You Say	What's That You Say Single	Domino Recording	2024	Another forthcoming single from the cupcoming "Forgiveness Is Yours"...and what could likely be their last album for a while. Out on the 26th of April, Domino records says "Fat White Family are back with the most sophisticated, vital and flamboyant creation of their career. The cult south-London band’s resplendent fourth album Forgiveness Is Yours, like everything they’ve done, has pushed them to the limits not only of their creative talent, but of their health, their sanity, their very existence."	*	1:40:26 (Pop-up)
Booker T & The MG’s	Comin' Home Baby	Green Onions		1969	What's better than Booker T doing a song og'd by the Velvet Fog Mel Torme? NOTHING.		1:44:18 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Herbie Mann	Comin' Home Baby "Comin' Home Baby" by "Herbie Mann"	Doin' Our Thing	Atlantic Records	1970	Herbie Mann flutin' his flute on this amazing tune made famous by the Velvet Fog...Mel Torme.		1:47:29 (Pop-up)
Talking Flowers	Storytelling "Storytelling" by "Talking Flowers"	Storytelling Single	Rama Lama Records	2023	Playful and multilayered psychedelic synthesizers meets Astrid’s dreamy and mesmerising voice and creates an equally haunting and captivating soundscape that gives the listener a feeling of entering a Twin Peaks-esque world that is both frightening and alluring at the same time. The world of Malmö, Sweden's Talking Flowers is a world one often wishes that the real one would be a bit more like, a world of mystery and excitement and a lot less grey and beige colours. Astrid “draws inspiration from the 60s, both when it comes to songwriting and recording techniques”, something that is obvious both on the debut release and the new Storytelling double single. She describes the new release this way: “When we recorded Storytelling and Bedroom Wall I was listening a lot to Margo Guryan, and we were aiming for that kind of sound in the production. Although as usual I couldn’t keep away from the synths, so it might have ended up in a more futuristic version of the 1960’s.”		1:54:41 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	7:53pm DJ Babs: Hi Beach Buddies! We'll be kicking off the show in short order. Grab yer towel, pull up a lounge chair...you know the drill! 💕
	7:55pm ultradamno: Babs! Derek! Beach Bums!
	7:56pm DJ Babs: I'm flying solo tonight...Derek is working late but I have a super fun playlist all ready to go!!!
	7:56pm DJ Babs: UD you always get the best seat under the palapa!! LOL How ya doin?
	7:57pm ultradamno: I am well, thank you. How are you?
	🏝 7:57pm Scott_Oz: G'day Babs sans Derek & Sandy Surrealists! 🌏☀️🍻😎🤙💨🍺🍺🌊🏖️⛱️🌴
	7:58pm DJ Babs: very very good! Hello hello Scott! Right on time, mate!
	7:58pm DJ Babs: I just ate a bunch of pasta so I started singing "a-Carba-coma" to the strains of Karmacoa and now that's in my brain so yeah. Wierd Al, gimme a call.
	7:59pm DJ Babs: @Karmacoma
	7:59pm DJ Babs: And that will be my only Massive Attack joke for the day LOL
	8:00pm Tom P: Hey everyone! I am in my seat and ready!
	8:00pm Derek Westerholm: Welcome Beachers to Babs' Beach! (The peachiest beach there is!)
	8:01pm ultradamno: Bandcamp Friday tomorrow, I have one early announced sale in my inbox, Precious Recordings of London who have been putting out all those Peel Sessions on 10"ers (including Essential Logic, The Flaming Stars, BMX Bandits, Soup Dragons, etc) are offering 10% off everything with the code TENPERCENT preciousrecordingsoflondon.bandcamp.com
	8:01pm Tome: Hey Derek & BaBs great to be here !<>!
	🏝 8:03pm Scott_Oz: ↳ DJ Babs @7:58 I feel like having a Korma Coma mate! 🍗🍲
	8:04pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "SCTV Theme 1981" by "Ira Newborn" RIP Count Floyd...
	8:05pm ultradamno: mastodon.social...
	8:06pm Wendy del Formaggio: Oh hi, Babs and Derek and everyone! Yay for the tribute to Joe Flaherty, RIP. I'm a long-time fan of SCTV. I'm gonna go clean the kitchen, so I'll be lurking. But, I wanted to say hi. :-)
	8:06pm DJ Babs: Hello Hello Wendy! Welcome to the beach!
	8:07pm DJ Babs: Beach music is great cleaning music! Juuuuust sayin! LOL
	8:07pm Derek Westerholm: Hello Babs & all, yes, I'm listening! R.I.P. Joe Flaherty
	8:07pm DJ Babs: Hello hello greetings Tome! And of course hellooo Derek!!!
	8:07pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ DJ Babs @8:06 Thank you! My own show broadcasts live from the Bellows Falls Yacht Club, so I'm always happy to park the yacht and swim to the beach.
	8:08pm ultradamno: Also, you may recall I mentioned actress/model Devon Ross (who had a notable role in the Irma Vep ltd series) being on Ecstatic Peace now...well, she will be a guest on the show following this one tonight.
	8:08pm DJ Babs: Oh and Tom! Hiya great to see yas!!!
	8:08pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ DJ Babs @8:07 Haha, nice! I'm about to go downstairs and find out... Don't worry. I'll bring my radio.
	8:09pm DJ Babs: Amazing! A good scrub can be oh so therapeutic!!!
	8:10pm DJ Babs: This one is going out to Derek who is definitely working a lot right now!
	8:12pm ultradamno: You don't have MDC's I Hate Work or Culturcide's One Day At My Job?
	🏝 8:12pm Kristine: guten tag!
	8:12pm DJ Babs: I wanted to do a whole I hate my job set...but I was aiming to keep things upbeat tonite LOL! Hellooooooo Kristine! Oh I have lots of Krauty goodness for you tonight!
	8:12pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Song: "People" by "Beige Banquet" This is a pretty thinky song for a song telling me ppl think too much...
	8:13pm DJ Babs: LOL. It is a very thinky song...or maybe it's not thinky because it's so repetitive?
	🏝 8:13pm Kristine: i love frustration!
	8:13pm DJ Babs: They are super solid!!! Speaking of which are you walking on solid ground yet? how's the ankle?
	8:14pm ultradamno: Maybe Redskins' Unionize, that's kind of upbeat about it, in a way.
	🏝 8:14pm Kristine: i have one of Frustrations albums lying around somewhere...one of the better things out of france these days
	8:14pm Tom P: ↳ Derek Westerholm @8:12 Hey Derek! Please don't work too much!
	8:15pm DJ Babs: ↳ Kristine @8:14 Yes! They are from Paris right?
	🏝 8:15pm Kristine: yes, ankle is getting better, cancelled the mailorder ankle from china. Honestly sometimes i just dont know how to care for myself. Like, wearing blundstones when you have a sprain is just a stupid move, and set me back, but my foot has been set right again! thanks for asking.
	🏝 8:16pm Kristine: LOL, what a funny band name here!
	🏝 8:17pm Kristine: dunno about paris, cannot confirm or deny, but its a very expensive place to live, so i wouldnt be surprised if they didnt.
	8:18pm DJ Babs: I know...I was trying to figure out where and how they came to Lobsterbomb....also I am very very very happy to hear you're finally on the mend!!!
	8:18pm ultradamno: It's kind of scary, crustaceans could give off good shrapnel
	8:19pm DJ Babs: Crustaceans in general freak me the fuck out.
	8:20pm Mr Fab: Babs! Derek! Yeah, was really bummed about Joe Flaherty. Gotta play his Count Floyd EP! "Reggae Christmas Eve In Transylvania" is a seasonal standard around our house,.
	8:20pm DJ Babs: For someone who loves the beach, crabs I do not like.
	8:20pm wendy del formaggio: Ok. So far, EXCELLENT music for putting away leftovers and tidying up the kitchen. Yay!
	🏝 8:20pm Kristine: ↳ DJ Babs @8:18 thank you! me tooo
	8:20pm DJ Babs: Helloo Hellooo Fab! Great to have you here with us tonight! Poor Count Floyd! I love that he passed on April 1 tho!
	8:20pm ultradamno: Speaking of great bandnames involving creatures that creep Cuntroaches and Guttersnipe UK tour dates guttersnipe.bandcamp.com...
	8:22pm DJ Babs: Guttersnipe are great!
	8:24pm ultradamno: Yeah, glad to see them re-emerge, seems like it's been a minute...Cuntroaches album is incredible mastodon.social...
	8:25pm ultradamno: ↳ ultradamno @8:24 Three years since that split single, in fact
	8:26pm laurapanic: Just got here and LOVE SWEEPING PROMISES
	🏝 8:28pm Kat in the chat: Hello Babs and all! Derek, sorry you couldn't make it. My job has been trying to kill me for the last month so I sympathize with overwork
	8:30pm VinylVillainSean: Ello Ello!
	8:33pm DJ Babs: Heeeyyy KAT!!! SEAN!!! Helloo hellooooo
	8:34pm DJ Babs: So great to see you both!
	8:34pm Bob Barth: Go Babs!!! Sisters are doing it for themselves!!!
	🏝 8:34pm Kat in the chat: Nice to be here!
	8:34pm DJ Babs: Thanks Bob!
	8:35pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "Bad M.F." by "Data Animal" Mr. Farley wasn't bad...just made that seesaw gesture a lot to indicate homosexuality. OK, that's not good, exactly, but...
	8:35pm DJ Babs: Helloooo Laura! Yes Sweeping Promises are even better live than on record!
	8:35pm Bob Barth: ↳ Song: "Bad M.F." by "Data Animal" This goes great with "Hey Motherfucker" by Escape Artist Lovers
	8:35pm ultradamno: You could follow this with Prince's Sexy MF...
	8:36pm DJ Babs: @Laura this is my fall adjacent pick of the week LOL
	8:36pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Song: "Bad M.F." by "Data Animal" I love the sounds in this one... Cool choices
	8:36pm ultradamno: You don't hear many people trying to sound like late era MES' vocals
	8:36pm Roberto: The Meep to your Moop!
	8:37pm DJ Babs: I am positively besotted with this band. Helloooo Roberto!!!!
	8:37pm DJ Babs: I also like this part because I feel like he's taking the piss outta Nick Cave
	8:37pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ ultradamno @8:36 lol
	8:37pm laurapanic: ↳ DJ Babs @8:36 I'm loving both tracks in this set so far. Top stuff!
	8:37pm VinylVillainSean: Hey Babs, Derek and Meep Moop!
	8:38pm DJ Babs: Hows Gizmo Sean?
	8:38pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ VinylVillainSean @8:37 Hey VVS and all!!!!!!!!!!!
	🏝 8:38pm Kat in the chat: ↳ DJ Babs @8:37 Someone's gotta do it
	8:38pm VinylVillainSean: ↳ DJ Babs @8:38 Oh he’s great. Just being a brat all the time.
	8:39pm DJ Babs: Awww not our sweet Gizmo!!!!
	8:41pm VinylVillainSean: Ya I’m trying to put together a Golden Girls puzzle I found at a thrift store and he keeps stealing pieces
	8:41pm DJ Babs: HAHAHA That's amazing.
	8:42pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "Gary Borthwick Says" by "Neutrals" Noting the TVPs makes me think of Geoffrey Ingram, he and Gary may be friends
	8:42pm DJ Babs: If you all are not following us yet on the insta....there's extra meepmoop content there! This week's picture is pretty hilarious. www.instagram.com...
	8:43pm DJ Babs: ↳ ultradamno @8:42 Possibly........
	8:43pm ultradamno: No Zuck platforms for me...
	8:44pm ultradamno: ↳ ultradamno @8:43 ...but cute
	8:44pm wendy del formaggio: I like all this punk rock yer playin’, Babs. Totally what I need to hear tonight. ❤️
	8:44pm DJ Babs: Yaaas! It's good for scrubbin' drinkin' sittin' around' and kickin' things!
	🏝 8:48pm Kat in the chat: It's hitting the spot for sure
	8:48pm DJ Babs: ↳ wendy del formaggio @8:44 YAY VOCODERS!
	8:48pm DJ Babs: ↳ Kat in the chat @8:48 I aim to please!!!! I hope you are all having a good week! We're almost at the weekend Beachers!!!
	8:49pm DJ Babs: Kat are you working on extra projects or is it just the general crush of capitalism got you working so much?
	🏝 8:49pm Kat in the chat: I took Monday off in hopes of actually viewing some eclipse action, but the forecast is cloudy :(
	8:49pm ultradamno: Is this for Eostre? (with the eggs all painted up like tarts?)
	8:50pm Mr Fab: i'm at the office as we speak - crazy amounts of overtime lately.
	8:50pm DJ Babs: TWELVE MILLION PPL are coming to Niagara falls...which is insane!
	8:50pm DJ Babs: I guarantee mother nature is gonna nope this eclipse for most with cloud cover lol
	8:50pm Bob Barth: ↳ Song: "Memory Man" by "The Lovely Eggs" LOOVE THIS!!!
	8:50pm DJ Babs: Ugh! Fab..that's no good.
	8:51pm Mr Fab: ↳ DJ Babs @8:50 yeah...but time-and-a-half OT is OK.
	8:51pm ultradamno: They have eclipse glasses at Kroger where the fidget spinners used to be...
	8:51pm DJ Babs: ↳ Bob Barth @8:50 It's gettin lots of play! this song is great!
	8:52pm Mr Fab: When the eclipse starts, everyone in the world needs to play Klaus Nomi's "Total Eclipse" real loud.
	🏝 8:53pm Kat in the chat: ↳ DJ Babs @8:49 One person on my team quit (the most valuable player in terms of what i work on) and another one's on extended medical leave, we are perennially understaffed to begin with and there has been an increase in the work as well. It's so bad they are actually paying me OT bonus despite my being on salary and having been denied that for the three years I've been with them, during which there have been other stretches of many extra hours worked
	8:53pm Aitch: ↳ Mr Fab @8:52 Not Bonnie Tyler's??
	8:53pm DJ Babs: YAAS. Or Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the Heart. But Nomi is better.
	8:53pm ultradamno: ↳ DJ Babs @8:53 There's got to be an appropriate Chrome or Voivod tune...
	8:53pm DJ Babs: ↳ Kat in the chat @8:53 oooooof. that is awful...awwwwwfull...I hate this age of "we don't need to backfill" UGH.
	8:53pm Mr Fab: ↳ Aitch @8:53 Not on my watch!
	🏝 8:54pm Kat in the chat: ↳ DJ Babs @8:53 Also no one applies for the job openings we have haha
	8:55pm ultradamno: Not touching big organ moment.
	8:55pm Mr Fab: ↳ Kat in the chat @8:54 Are we working for the same firm, Kat?!
	8:55pm Bob Barth: ↳ ultradamno @8:55 aww you're no fun
	🏝 8:56pm Kat in the chat: I kinda doubt that. This is actually my old Chicago job, I'm 100% remote now which is one of the few upsides
	8:56pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Mr Fab @8:52 Hahaha YES.
	🏝 8:57pm Kat in the chat: (above was for Fab) Time to update the resume, I ain't living long like ithis.
	8:57pm VinylVillainSean: Such an organ grinder
	8:59pm ultradamno: Also no comment m.media-amazon.com...
	🏝 9:00pm Will thee SG OCNY: Hi DJ Babs, Derek, and all!!!
	🏝 9:01pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Song: "Girl In A Sportscar" by "Alan Hackshaw" Someone on 'FMU uses this on their show and of course I can't remember who it is
	9:01pm VinylVillainSean: This song playing in the background is so rad!
	🏝 9:02pm Kristine: HAVE NOT LOST INTEREST!
	🏝 9:02pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Kat in the chat @9:01 might be Fabio
	9:04pm DJ Babs: ↳ Will thee SG OCNY @9:00 Willlll helloooooooo!!!!! Grab a bevvie and get cozy!
	9:05pm DJ Babs: ↳ VinylVillainSean @9:01 Yes! Check yourself out some Alan Hackshaw you won't be sorry!!!
	9:10pm DJ Babs: oh meep moop has a lot to say about this song.
	9:11pm Derek Westerholm: So much amazing stuff tonight... Maybe I should stay out of the way more often!
	9:11pm DJ Babs: Haha oh Derek I dunno this is a LOT of work! I do terribly miss you with me on the mic!
	9:12pm DJ Babs: MeepMoop is a terrible co host he is far more concentrated on grooming.
	9:14pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ DJ Babs @9:12 Yes, you never have worry about me overgrooming
	9:15pm DJ Babs: HAHAHA! WAY TO MAKE THE CHAT WEIRD DEREK. LOL.
	🏝 9:15pm Kristine: WAS IST DAS DENN?
	9:15pm DJ Babs: KRISTINE IS THIS SONG NOT THE BEST
	🏝 9:16pm Kristine: this is great, he sounds like DJ Hell!
	9:16pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ DJ Babs @9:15 I just meant I'm generally unkempt. Jeez.
	🏝 9:17pm Kristine: i will be seeing the swiss mountains soooon!
	9:17pm ultradamno: Neubauten should have sang Eine Katze Is Ein Dandy
	🏝 9:17pm Kristine: derek, for what its worth i always found you decently well kempt and always decent smelling
	🏝 9:18pm Kristine: blixa looks like a cat dandy. in the last 10 years.
	9:18pm ultradamno: *ist, rather
	9:19pm Mr Fab: Georgygirl plays Alan Hackshaw all the time on her show “high waisted modernists” here on Sheena’s. I think she said she even saw him live once.
	9:19pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Kristine @9:17 haha, thanks Kristine... I guess I get by.
	9:19pm DJ Babs: ↳ Derek Westerholm @9:16 I will vouch for your kemptness. You're very kempt.
	9:19pm DJ Babs: kemptnitude? Kempnocity?
	9:20pm ultradamno: Dapperness
	9:20pm DJ Babs: ↳ Mr Fab @9:19 I'd lose my mind to see that show Fab. I'll have to ask her!
	🏝 9:20pm Kristine: his kemptness from kemptville.
	🏝 9:20pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Mr Fab @9:19 She did an all-Hawkshaw hour not too long ago.
	9:20pm DJ Babs: ↳ ultradamno @9:17 TRUE TRUE
	🏝 9:20pm Kristine: i think neubauten are touring this year? or did i dream that?
	🏝 9:21pm Kat in the chat: I think they might be?
	9:21pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Kristine @9:20 Maybe both?
	9:21pm ultradamno: ↳ Kristine @9:20 They have a new album and will be on the mothership Sunday morning on the 14th (well, Blixa) www.wfmu.org...
	9:22pm DJ Babs: I am also in love with this tune because I love a good little pop ditty.
	9:22pm laurapanic: ↳ Song: "19" by "Air In The Lungs" Like!
	9:22pm DJ Babs: ↳ Kat in the chat @9:20 That's my girl!
	9:23pm DJ Babs: I gotta get this on vinyl for Juicebox.
	🏝 9:24pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Song: "Di-Gue-Ding-Ding" by "Michel Legrand" oh this is a hoot, I'm surprised I've never heard it before
	9:26pm Roberto: ↳ Song: "19" by "Air In The Lungs" Erin Thalungs?
	🏝 9:26pm Kristine: been watching the Bardot docu series, speaking of french 60s loveliness. Its worth watching, although i dont agree with Bardot's politics
	9:28pm Derek Westerholm: I actually do like trying to pronounce different languages, I just hate (always) butchering them... But I enjoy trying.
	9:28pm Roberto: Wait, she dumped him and he still drove her to the train station?
	9:30pm ultradamno: The SNL update bit on Deneuve and Bardot www.youtube.com...
	🏝 9:31pm Kristine: oooooooh i will check this out NOW!
	9:33pm laurapanic: ↳ Song: "The Reason For My Love" by "P.E." nothing says no wave like a freaking out sax
	9:33pm DJ Babs: ↳ Kristine @9:26 oh no does she have janky politics?
	9:34pm DJ Babs: ↳ Derek Westerholm @9:28 I love your attempts!
	9:34pm DJ Babs: ↳ Roberto @9:28 I guess so!
	🏝 9:35pm Kristine: ↳ ultradamno @9:30 Oh that was hilarious!
	9:36pm ultradamno: ↳ DJ Babs @9:33 Not compared to Roseanne, but yes.
	🏝 9:37pm Kristine: ↳ DJ Babs @9:33 oh she sure does! married to an advisor of Le Pen. xenophobic, homophobic, only animals love her.
	9:39pm DJ Babs: NOOOOOOOOOOO
	9:40pm DJ Babs: This tune makes me want to run through a field or something....
	9:41pm laurapanic: ↳ Song: "Sayonara" by "Wah Together" delicious 'gaze
	🏝 9:41pm Kristine: this is a NYC supergroup right here!
	9:41pm ultradamno: By the way, Roseanne's new comments, which are something else (she does have a drink in her hand) www.msn.com...
	9:43pm DJ Babs: ohhhh jebus...Why can't that woman just not go away.
	9:43pm DJ Babs: ↳ Kristine @9:41 And they share members with Mother of Mars who I played earlier! Ha see IT ALL COMES AROUND
	9:43pm DJ Babs: ↳ laurapanic @9:41 That's the gaze I super love!
	🏝 9:44pm Kristine: yeah, and Longwave! i love that band, and the guy who is the mastermind behind it is great. he played wavelength once,
	9:46pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Song: "What's That You Say" by "Fat White Family" I like this song. I'm just not sure about the band's name. Hmm. Still deciding if their name is not/as bad as another band I like a lot, The Police. :-D
	9:46pm DJ Babs: Derek pack up your stuff it's time to come home!!!
	9:46pm DJ Babs: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @9:46 Fat Whites are probably the most...strange and frightening and intense bands I've come across in a long time. I love them but I am afraid of them LOL. This will likely be their last album...they are...brilliant.
	9:49pm laurapanic: ↳ DJ Babs @9:46 from where I sit, the show has been seamless and great. Stay where you are Derek!!
	9:50pm laurapanic: Can't wait for the Bob's One Night Stand. Bob! I;ll be late, but I'll be there.
	9:52pm Wendy del Formaggio: This show has been awesome. Thanks, Babs! I sent you another email. It's sweet to make your acquaintance.
	🏝 9:53pm Scott_Oz: Thanks for a fun show Babs! 🌏☀️🍻😎🤙💨🍷🌻
	9:53pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ laurapanic @9:49 Exactly
	9:53pm Derek Westerholm: Fantastic show, Babs!!!
	🏝 9:54pm Kat in the chat: Excellent show, Babs! Thanks!
	9:54pm VinylVillainSean: Solid show tonight!
	9:54pm Bob Barth: Babs you're so Sweet!!
	🏝 9:54pm Kristine: Babs, you rock! great show!
	9:54pm Derek Westerholm: mmmmm
	9:54pm Derek Westerholm: Yay!
	🏝 9:55pm Kristine: whats for dinner?
	9:55pm Bob Barth: Follow me this way gang... wfmu.org...
	9:57pm DJ Babs: Thank you thank you everyone! And yes, please follow along to Bob's show!
	9:57pm DJ Babs: I made a marinara, some pasta, and broiled rapini with herbs.
	🏝 9:58pm WR: Many thanks Babs for a great episode. Have been preoccupied with getting my new work laptop ready for use, so not in the comments, just a listener. Thank you!
	9:58pm DJ Babs: Thank you thank you everyone! We'll be back to our regular nonsense next week! :-)
	9:58pm DJ Babs: Thank you WR! Oh no not you too with the work stuff! Yeesh! Glad I could offer some respite!
	🏝 9:59pm Will thee SG OCNY: Thank you DJ Babs and Derek!!!
	10:01pm DJ Babs: GNITE ALL! Thank you all for joining me on this journey. YOU ARE THEEE BEEEEEESTTTTT! ❤️
	10:01pm DJ Babs: Stay safe and well all! ❤️

Transmissions from Echo Beach with Derek Westerholm and DJ Babs: Playlist from April 4, 2024

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