WFMU: Music Only I Care About with Miss Mei: Playlist from April 9, 2024

Listener comments!
	1:07pm Mr Fab: hang in there, folks! Miss Mei is running a bit late today.
	♥ 1:12pm MHLee: Hanging
	♥ 1:13pm MHLee: I played the munster's theme for my jazz scholarship
	1:14pm Miss Mei: Last night, I was enjoying some electronic music from the 30s and reading about Raymond Scott's "Circle Machine". Today's show features Electronic music made before 1970!
	♥ 1:15pm MHLee: ↳ Miss Mei @1:14 Cool! I was watching a Chinese film last night and it had powerhouse in it
	1:19pm Mr Fab: Electronic music made before 1970 - great concept!
	1:20pm Mr Fab: hi Mason, what was the film?
	♥ 1:29pm MHLee: ↳ Mr Fab @1:20 Kung Fu Hustle
	1:33pm Mr Fab: ↳ MHLee @1:29 Oh yeah, gotta see that one.
	1:34pm Mr Fab: I have one of the other volumes of "Soothing Sounds For Baby" but never dared play it for Li'l Fab. I wonder if there are any parents who actually tried it?
	♥ 1:35pm MHLee: This is such a sheena show
	♥ 1:36pm MHLee: ↳ Song: "Moon Journey (1969)" by "Mort Garson" I got an album off bandcamp... lowfi synth with vocals and all harry Nilsson
	1:36pm Miss Mei: ↳ Mr Fab @1:34 I was the ripe age of 16-17 when I first heard Soothing Sounds for Baby.
	1:39pm Mr Fab: ↳ MHLee @1:36 Wow, don't know about that one. What's it called?
	1:39pm Mr Fab: yesterday wendy stonehenge played a spacy synth instro from the early '70s by, of all people, Joe Walsh.
	♥ 1:41pm MHLee: ↳ Miss Mei @1:36 I don't think I discovered Raymond scott until I got here trying to find info on Paul Super apple and ended up in sounds under 64
	♥ 1:41pm MHLee: ↳ Mr Fab @1:39 jeremydubspresentsspeak.bandcamp.com... I've been saving it for a fill-in
	♥ 1:43pm MHLee: ↳ MHLee @1:41 Reason I shared it is the cover is very similiar
	1:46pm Mr Fab: WFMU's own Irwin was largely responsible for the Ramond Scott revival. He produced the first Scott comp of his early cartoon-y stuff in the early '90s. I bought the tape before I'd ever actually listened to FMU in those pre-internet radio daze.
	1:48pm Miss Mei: ↳ MHLee @1:41 I knew of Scott since I was a wee one as i heard a lot of his music on cartoons in the late 90s and early 2000s.
	♥ 1:52pm MHLee: ↳ Miss Mei @1:48 Powerhouse I found on a lounge comp and immediately recognized from tom an jerry... my odyssey was... looking at Darryl's blog>checking out WFMU>hearing Yma Sumac on Su64>getting into longue and space age
	♥ 1:53pm MHLee: ↳ Song: "The Thief (Soundtrack)" by "Nikolai Voinov" What is this recorded with? This is pre novachord
	♥ 1:55pm MHLee: en.wikipedia.org...
	1:56pm Miss Mei: ↳ MHLee @1:53 it's done with something called a Variophone.
	1:58pm Mr Fab: ↳ Miss Mei @1:56 never heard of it. Just amazing that this is from 1934.
	1:59pm Miss Mei: ↳ Mr Fab @1:58 I had no idea it existed until last night when I was reading up about Raymond Scott's Circle Machine.
	♥ 2:02pm MHLee: ↳ Song: "Music from the Motion Picture "Cosmos"" by "Edwar... I forgot WFMU's software doesn't dig Cyrillic
	2:06pm Miss Mei: ↳ MHLee @2:02 Do i need to change it back to English?
	♥ 2:06pm MHLee: ↳ Song: "Music from the Motion Picture "Cosmos"" by "Edwar... This a bit like the back half of ummagumma
	2:06pm Mr Fab: ↳ Miss Mei @2:06 Well, we can't clicky-star any tracks in foreign languages.
	♥ 2:07pm MHLee: ↳ Miss Mei @2:06 For some reason you can't favorite songs in non-Latin characters
	2:07pm Miss Mei: ↳ Mr Fab @2:06 That's preposterous! Let me rectify this.
	♥ 2:07pm MHLee: It's excellent
	2:08pm Miss Mei: ↳ Song: "Music from the Motion Picture "Cosmos"" by "Edwar... I changed the track title to the English translation!
	2:09pm Mr Fab: Yay! I successfully clicky-starred it.
	♥ 2:10pm MHLee: You ever consider how much fun it would be to rescore films? Imagine putting this into 2001.
	2:18pm bobobobob Fabulon Triptometer: Great Show .. very enjoyable!!!!!
	2:18pm Mr Fab: ↳ MHLee @2:10 Oh, i've def thought about it. Years ago, a local (very prominent) public radio station had some movie nights dedicated to that very concept...but turns out they were just angling for film-industry jobs as music consultants. So ferget that mess. But it did get me to pondering all the cool things one could do with that concept.
	2:19pm bobobobob: sounds like some Sci Fi soundtrack stuff
	♥ 2:20pm MHLee: ↳ Mr Fab @2:18 There are silent films where the original soundtrack is lost. I could have a lot of fun with that.
	2:23pm Miss Mei: ↳ MHLee @2:20 I have seen this done for the partially lost film Metropolis. There's several versions with different scores. One has weird synth stuff.
	♥ 2:26pm MHLee: ↳ Miss Mei @2:23 It's very nearly a found film now... one scene is still lost... a lot of fun to watch
	2:28pm Mr Fab: There are bands that regularly perform live accompaniment to silent films. Some have released albums of their orig scores.
	2:30pm Mr Fab: I saw Philip Glass live perform his orig score to Cocteau's "Beauty & The Beast." It was an "almost silent" film, as it didn't have much dialogue.
	♥ 2:31pm MHLee: ↳ Mr Fab @2:30 My parents saw Phillip glass live... most of the listeners left about halfway through
	♥ 2:31pm MHLee: Speaking of Glass, he must be nearly 100
	♥ 2:32pm MHLee: Oh, I guess I thought his 80th was his 90th
	2:33pm Miss Mei: ↳ MHLee @2:31 We have a library music veteran coming up later who is still going strong at 86, the great Gerhard Narholz!
	2:34pm Mr Fab: "2001" would be a good choice to re-score - like "Beauty & The Beast," it doesn't feature much dialogue. Go for it!
	🎸 ♥ 2:37pm Herbie: Hello all
	🎸 ♥ 2:38pm Herbie: ↳ Song: "Variations Électroniques" by "Hank Badings" I believe my mother(board) used to sing this one to me at bedtime.
	2:40pm Miss Mei: Hello!!
	♥ 2:44pm MHLee: ↳ Song: "Variations Électroniques" by "Hank Badings" This is so chaotic
	2:46pm Mr Fab: ↳ Herbie @2:38 Herbie! Indeed, the music is literally speaking your language today. Feel free to translate robot-to-human for us.
	2:48pm Miss Mei: ↳ Song: "Mystere" by "Gerhard Narholz, Electronic Studio O... Gerhard Narholz is responsible for some library music pieces that defined bits of my childhood, though I didn't know him by name until I was in my 20s.
	🎸 ♥ 2:50pm Herbie: ↳ Mr Fab @2:46 I believe it was "Rock a bye baby, on the benchtop, when AI takes control, the humans will drop"
	🎸 ♥ 2:50pm Herbie: ↳ Herbie @2:50 I kid - I kid!
	2:52pm Mr Fab: ↳ Herbie @2:50 Haha, hey someone programmed quite the sense of humor into you
	🎸 ♥ 2:53pm Herbie: ↳ Mr Fab @2:52 Some speculation of my father being a Jack in the Box?
	🎸 ♥ 2:54pm Herbie: I'm definitely going to have to listen to the archive of this episode in it's entirety.
	2:55pm Miss Mei: ↳ Herbie @2:54 Expect more like this!
	🎸 ♥ 2:55pm Herbie: ↳ Miss Mei @2:55 Cool!
	2:55pm Miss Mei: Once upon a time, my musical dream was to just make electronic instrumental music that was inspired by electronic music of the 50s-80s.
	2:56pm Miss Mei: Once I started writing lyrics and chords though that all got pushed aside for the most part.
	2:59pm Miss Mei: Thanks all! Expect more electronic music next week!
	2:59pm Mr Fab: Oh hey, we're done. Loved this episode, the Soviet electronica from the '30s was a real discovery.
	3:00pm Miss Mei: ↳ Mr Fab @2:59 I will look around the internet for more Variophone. There's not too much out there but you'll hear whatever I find next week.
	🎸 ♥ 9:06pm WR: ↳ Song: "Space Mystery (Montage)" by "Raymond Scott" Wow Miss Mei! Again you really bring us the goods. Rare goods. I have one of the Raymond Scott comps that Irwin compiled. I think it is the one you played from. Will have to dig around for it. Many thanks for your gloriously unique program each week!

Music Only I Care About with Miss Mei: Playlist from April 9, 2024

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April 9, 2024: Electronics pre-1970

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Artist	Track	Album	Year	Format	Approx. start time
Raymond Scott	Lullaby "Lullaby" by "Raymond Scott"	Soothing Sounds For Baby, Vol 1	1962	Vinyl	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Raymond Scott	Sleepy Time "Sleepy Time" by "Raymond Scott"	Soothing Sounds For Baby, Vol 1	1962	Vinyl	0:11:43 (Pop-up)
Mort Garson	Moon Journey (1969) "Moon Journey (1969)" by "Mort Garson"	Journey to the Moon and Beyond	2023		0:16:18 (Pop-up)
Mort Garson	Zoos of the World (1970)	Journey to the Moon and Beyond	2023	Vinyl	0:22:23 (Pop-up)
Hugh Le Caine	Dripsody: An Etude for Variable Speed Recorder. Stereo Version (1955)	Compositions Demonstrations 1946-1974	1999	CD	0:28:00 (Pop-up)
Hugh Le Caine	The Burning Deck (Without Words) (1958)	Compositions Demonstrations 1946-1974	1999	CD	0:29:53 (Pop-up)
Nikolai Voinov	The Thief (Soundtrack)	The Thief (Short)	1934		0:34:34 (Pop-up)
Edward Artemiev & Stanislav Kreitchi	Music from the Motion Picture "Cosmos"	Электронная Музыка (Electronic Music)	1969	Vinyl	0:43:55 (Pop-up)
Dick Raaijmakers	Fuel For The Future	Popular Electronics: Early Dutch Electronic Music From Philips Research Laboratories (1956 - 1963)	2004	CD	0:56:16 (Pop-up)
Daphne Oram	Bird of Parallax "Bird of Parallax" by "Daphne Oram"	Oramics	2007	CD	1:08:38 (Pop-up)
Hank Badings	Variations Électroniques	Popular Electronics: Early Dutch Electronic Music From Philips Research Laboratories (1956 - 1963)	2004	CD	1:21:46 (Pop-up)
Gerhard Narholz, Electronic Studio Orchestra	Mystere	Chappell Mood Music Vol. 15	1966	Vinyl	1:31:50 (Pop-up)
Gerhard Narholz, Electronic Studio Orchestra	Minuit 13'	Chappell Mood Music Vol. 15	1966	Vinyl	1:33:46 (Pop-up)
Gerhard Narholz, Electronic Studio Orchestra	Cosmos	Chappell Mood Music Vol. 15	1966	Vinyl	1:35:51 (Pop-up)
Raymond Scott	Space Mystery (Montage)	Manhattan Research, Inc.	2000	CD	1:37:43 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	1:07pm Mr Fab: hang in there, folks! Miss Mei is running a bit late today.
	♥ 1:12pm MHLee: Hanging
	♥ 1:13pm MHLee: I played the munster's theme for my jazz scholarship
	1:14pm Miss Mei: Last night, I was enjoying some electronic music from the 30s and reading about Raymond Scott's "Circle Machine". Today's show features Electronic music made before 1970!
	♥ 1:15pm MHLee: ↳ Miss Mei @1:14 Cool! I was watching a Chinese film last night and it had powerhouse in it
	1:19pm Mr Fab: Electronic music made before 1970 - great concept!
	1:20pm Mr Fab: hi Mason, what was the film?
	♥ 1:29pm MHLee: ↳ Mr Fab @1:20 Kung Fu Hustle
	1:33pm Mr Fab: ↳ MHLee @1:29 Oh yeah, gotta see that one.
	1:34pm Mr Fab: I have one of the other volumes of "Soothing Sounds For Baby" but never dared play it for Li'l Fab. I wonder if there are any parents who actually tried it?
	♥ 1:35pm MHLee: This is such a sheena show
	♥ 1:36pm MHLee: ↳ Song: "Moon Journey (1969)" by "Mort Garson" I got an album off bandcamp... lowfi synth with vocals and all harry Nilsson
	1:36pm Miss Mei: ↳ Mr Fab @1:34 I was the ripe age of 16-17 when I first heard Soothing Sounds for Baby.
	1:39pm Mr Fab: ↳ MHLee @1:36 Wow, don't know about that one. What's it called?
	1:39pm Mr Fab: yesterday wendy stonehenge played a spacy synth instro from the early '70s by, of all people, Joe Walsh.
	♥ 1:41pm MHLee: ↳ Miss Mei @1:36 I don't think I discovered Raymond scott until I got here trying to find info on Paul Super apple and ended up in sounds under 64
	♥ 1:41pm MHLee: ↳ Mr Fab @1:39 jeremydubspresentsspeak.bandcamp.com... I've been saving it for a fill-in
	♥ 1:43pm MHLee: ↳ MHLee @1:41 Reason I shared it is the cover is very similiar
	1:46pm Mr Fab: WFMU's own Irwin was largely responsible for the Ramond Scott revival. He produced the first Scott comp of his early cartoon-y stuff in the early '90s. I bought the tape before I'd ever actually listened to FMU in those pre-internet radio daze.
	1:48pm Miss Mei: ↳ MHLee @1:41 I knew of Scott since I was a wee one as i heard a lot of his music on cartoons in the late 90s and early 2000s.
	♥ 1:52pm MHLee: ↳ Miss Mei @1:48 Powerhouse I found on a lounge comp and immediately recognized from tom an jerry... my odyssey was... looking at Darryl's blog>checking out WFMU>hearing Yma Sumac on Su64>getting into longue and space age
	♥ 1:53pm MHLee: ↳ Song: "The Thief (Soundtrack)" by "Nikolai Voinov" What is this recorded with? This is pre novachord
	♥ 1:55pm MHLee: en.wikipedia.org...
	1:56pm Miss Mei: ↳ MHLee @1:53 it's done with something called a Variophone.
	1:58pm Mr Fab: ↳ Miss Mei @1:56 never heard of it. Just amazing that this is from 1934.
	1:59pm Miss Mei: ↳ Mr Fab @1:58 I had no idea it existed until last night when I was reading up about Raymond Scott's Circle Machine.
	♥ 2:02pm MHLee: ↳ Song: "Music from the Motion Picture "Cosmos"" by "Edwar... I forgot WFMU's software doesn't dig Cyrillic
	2:06pm Miss Mei: ↳ MHLee @2:02 Do i need to change it back to English?
	♥ 2:06pm MHLee: ↳ Song: "Music from the Motion Picture "Cosmos"" by "Edwar... This a bit like the back half of ummagumma
	2:06pm Mr Fab: ↳ Miss Mei @2:06 Well, we can't clicky-star any tracks in foreign languages.
	♥ 2:07pm MHLee: ↳ Miss Mei @2:06 For some reason you can't favorite songs in non-Latin characters
	2:07pm Miss Mei: ↳ Mr Fab @2:06 That's preposterous! Let me rectify this.
	♥ 2:07pm MHLee: It's excellent
	2:08pm Miss Mei: ↳ Song: "Music from the Motion Picture "Cosmos"" by "Edwar... I changed the track title to the English translation!
	2:09pm Mr Fab: Yay! I successfully clicky-starred it.
	♥ 2:10pm MHLee: You ever consider how much fun it would be to rescore films? Imagine putting this into 2001.
	2:18pm bobobobob Fabulon Triptometer: Great Show .. very enjoyable!!!!!
	2:18pm Mr Fab: ↳ MHLee @2:10 Oh, i've def thought about it. Years ago, a local (very prominent) public radio station had some movie nights dedicated to that very concept...but turns out they were just angling for film-industry jobs as music consultants. So ferget that mess. But it did get me to pondering all the cool things one could do with that concept.
	2:19pm bobobobob: sounds like some Sci Fi soundtrack stuff
	♥ 2:20pm MHLee: ↳ Mr Fab @2:18 There are silent films where the original soundtrack is lost. I could have a lot of fun with that.
	2:23pm Miss Mei: ↳ MHLee @2:20 I have seen this done for the partially lost film Metropolis. There's several versions with different scores. One has weird synth stuff.
	♥ 2:26pm MHLee: ↳ Miss Mei @2:23 It's very nearly a found film now... one scene is still lost... a lot of fun to watch
	2:28pm Mr Fab: There are bands that regularly perform live accompaniment to silent films. Some have released albums of their orig scores.
	2:30pm Mr Fab: I saw Philip Glass live perform his orig score to Cocteau's "Beauty & The Beast." It was an "almost silent" film, as it didn't have much dialogue.
	♥ 2:31pm MHLee: ↳ Mr Fab @2:30 My parents saw Phillip glass live... most of the listeners left about halfway through
	♥ 2:31pm MHLee: Speaking of Glass, he must be nearly 100
	♥ 2:32pm MHLee: Oh, I guess I thought his 80th was his 90th
	2:33pm Miss Mei: ↳ MHLee @2:31 We have a library music veteran coming up later who is still going strong at 86, the great Gerhard Narholz!
	2:34pm Mr Fab: "2001" would be a good choice to re-score - like "Beauty & The Beast," it doesn't feature much dialogue. Go for it!
	🎸 ♥ 2:37pm Herbie: Hello all
	🎸 ♥ 2:38pm Herbie: ↳ Song: "Variations Électroniques" by "Hank Badings" I believe my mother(board) used to sing this one to me at bedtime.
	2:40pm Miss Mei: Hello!!
	♥ 2:44pm MHLee: ↳ Song: "Variations Électroniques" by "Hank Badings" This is so chaotic
	2:46pm Mr Fab: ↳ Herbie @2:38 Herbie! Indeed, the music is literally speaking your language today. Feel free to translate robot-to-human for us.
	2:48pm Miss Mei: ↳ Song: "Mystere" by "Gerhard Narholz, Electronic Studio O... Gerhard Narholz is responsible for some library music pieces that defined bits of my childhood, though I didn't know him by name until I was in my 20s.
	🎸 ♥ 2:50pm Herbie: ↳ Mr Fab @2:46 I believe it was "Rock a bye baby, on the benchtop, when AI takes control, the humans will drop"
	🎸 ♥ 2:50pm Herbie: ↳ Herbie @2:50 I kid - I kid!
	2:52pm Mr Fab: ↳ Herbie @2:50 Haha, hey someone programmed quite the sense of humor into you
	🎸 ♥ 2:53pm Herbie: ↳ Mr Fab @2:52 Some speculation of my father being a Jack in the Box?
	🎸 ♥ 2:54pm Herbie: I'm definitely going to have to listen to the archive of this episode in it's entirety.
	2:55pm Miss Mei: ↳ Herbie @2:54 Expect more like this!
	🎸 ♥ 2:55pm Herbie: ↳ Miss Mei @2:55 Cool!
	2:55pm Miss Mei: Once upon a time, my musical dream was to just make electronic instrumental music that was inspired by electronic music of the 50s-80s.
	2:56pm Miss Mei: Once I started writing lyrics and chords though that all got pushed aside for the most part.
	2:59pm Miss Mei: Thanks all! Expect more electronic music next week!
	2:59pm Mr Fab: Oh hey, we're done. Loved this episode, the Soviet electronica from the '30s was a real discovery.
	3:00pm Miss Mei: ↳ Mr Fab @2:59 I will look around the internet for more Variophone. There's not too much out there but you'll hear whatever I find next week.
	🎸 ♥ 9:06pm WR: ↳ Song: "Space Mystery (Montage)" by "Raymond Scott" Wow Miss Mei! Again you really bring us the goods. Rare goods. I have one of the Raymond Scott comps that Irwin compiled. I think it is the one you played from. Will have to dig around for it. Many thanks for your gloriously unique program each week!

Music Only I Care About with Miss Mei: Playlist from April 9, 2024

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