WFMU: Transmissions from Echo Beach with Derek Westerholm and DJ Babs: Playlist from June 6, 2024

Transmissions from Echo Beach with Derek Westerholm and DJ Babs: Playlist from June 6, 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.

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June 6, 2024: ep153 - w/ an interview w/ Declan Martens from Amyl And The Sniffers

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Declan Martens (of Amyl And The Sniffers)	ID for Transmissions From Echo Beach	Transmissions From Echo Beach interviewing Declan Martens	Transmissions From Echo Beach	2024	Declan Martens!		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Amyl and the Sniffers	Facts "Facts" by "Amyl and the Sniffers"	U Should Not Be Doing That / Facts	B2B Records / Virgin Music	2024	Newest from Amyl and the Sniffers... "“Facts”... is a fast-paced Stooges-esque romp with a Blondie-infused chorus. Prior to these two songs, Amyl and The Sniffers last released new music with their 2021 sophomore album, Comfort to Me.Amyl & The Sniffers – 2024 Tour Dates: JUL 13, 2024 Day In Day Out Seattle, WA //// JUL 19, 2024 Citi Field New York, NY with Foo Fighters //// JUL 20, 2024 White Eagle Hall Jersey City, NJ //// JUL 21, 2024 Fenway Park Boston, MA with Foo Fighters //// JUL 23, 2024 Hersheypark Stadium Hershey, PA with Foo Fighters //// JUL 25, 2024 The Majestic Theatre Detroit, MI //// JUL 28, 2024 Underground Music Showcase Denver, CO //// JUL 30, 2024 Granada Theater Lawrence, KS //// JUL 31, 2024 Mercury Ballroom Louisville, KY //// AUG 1, 2024 HI-FI Annex Indianapolis, IN //// AUG 3, 2024 Asbury Hall Buffalo, NY //// AUG 4, 2024 Osheaga Montreal, QC //// AUG 5, 2024 Higher Ground South Burlington, VT //// AUG 7, 2024 Pioneer Courthouse Square Portland, OR //// AUG 9, 2024 BMO Stadium Los Angeles, CA with Foo Fighters //// AUG 13, 2024 The Sound at Del Mar, CA //// AUG 14, 2024 The Fonda Theatre Los Angeles, CA //// AUG 15, 2024 The Fonda Theatre Los Angeles, CA	*	0:00:21 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: CAN	Aston 77 Zwei "Aston 77 Zwei" by "CAN"	Live In Aston 1977	SPOON	1977 / 2024	The soothing sounds of an instrumental "Vitamin C" for you... "Can Live in Aston 1977, the latest in an ongoing series of Can album releases focusing on the band’s live performances, released on vinyl, CD and digitally on 31 May 2024 via Mute and Future Days. //// Live in Aston 1977 is a whole new lens through which we can view a unique band with seemingly inexhaustible energy for live performance. It comes at a difficult period for Can; their recently released eighth studio album, Saw Delight, had been badly received and although posterity has been kinder, the reviews on release were savage. It might be expected that the live performances from this time would reflect some of the criticisms of the album, that they were slowing down, perhaps even feeling a little jaded, but it cements the notion that Can live, at any period, was mercurial. //// Within the Can Live series, this is the first to feature bassist Rosko Gee (Traffic) who had recently joined Irmin Schmidt, Jaki Liebezeit, Michael Karoli, and Holger Czukay (who, relieved of bass duties is credited with “waveform radio and spec. sounds” on the album), and would perform with them until the band’s split in 1979." https://canofficial.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-aston-1977	*	0:02:55 (Pop-up)
Motorists	L.O.W. "L.O.W." by "Motorists"	Touched by the Stuff	We Are Time / Bobo Integral	2024	"Motorists’ second album had a lengthy gestation period, written in the year following their 2021 self-produced debut, Surrounded, which Allmusic described as “an abundance of thoughtfully arranged hooks.” In the six months leading to their recording sessions for Touched By The Stuff, the band picked up the pace, with both Learoyd and Fahner barely sneaking songs under the wire. Instrumentals were recorded live off the floor, before the trio ran wild with overdubs, weaving organs, vibraphones, and handclaps into their mellifluous harmonies. //// Inspired by the big shiny tunes flooding FM radio airwaves in the 1990s, Toronto trio Motorists go full throttle on their sophomore album. Now propelled by powerhouse drummer Nick Mckinlay, guitarist Craig Fahner and bassist Matt Learoyd channel stadium-sized power-pop through the gauzy fuzz of ‘90s alt rock, like Big Star swerving into Hotline TNT. //// This is a co-release with Bobo Integral an independent pop label from Madrid (Spain) & We Are Time (Canada): Motorists - Touched By The Stuff (via We Are Time Records) //// Released May 24, 2024 //// Matt Learoyd - Vocals, Bass // Craig Fahner - Vocals, Guitars, Keys // Nick MicKinlay - Drums //// Recorded at Taurus Recording in Toronto, Ontario //// Engineered and mixed by Jesse Turnbull //// Mastered by Mikey Young"	*	0:07:02 (Pop-up)
not a band	Argue "Argue" by "not a band"	Argue (digital single)	Bandcamp Self Release	2024	Toronto's cryptic quintet return! Released May 23, 2024. not a band are: Danny A, Kalina N, Marilyn Y, Mitch L, Roya B, and Victor O. //// Engineered by Tasker Hull and Kaleb Shelton //// Mixing and tape fluff by Kaleb Shelton //// Mastered by Josh Korody. https://hiwerenotaband.bandcamp.com/	*	0:09:48 (Pop-up)
Habibi	Losing Control "Losing Control" by "Habibi"	Dreamachine	Kill Rock Stars	2024	Released May 31, 2024. "Co-founded by Detroit natives Rahill Jamalifard and Lenny Lynch, Habibi got its start in Brooklyn in 2011, earning early raves everywhere. //// Dreamachine, Habibi’s mesmerizing new record releasing on Kill Rock Stars, marks a major sonic evolution for the band, rising beyond the critically acclaimed five-piece’s garage rock roots to arrive at a singular swirl of analog and digital elements that underpin their search for spiritual and physical transcendence. //// Produced by Tyler Love and longtime collaborator Jay Heiselmann and featuring MGMT multi-instrumentalist James Richardson, the collection draws on a mix of post-punk, experimental pop, and vintage disco, calling to mind Tom Verlaine, Diana Ross, Kate Bush, and Kim Deal, all filtered through the band’s shared love of Middle Eastern psych music. The songs here are their own distinct worlds, each an immersive quest in pursuit of something greater, and the band’s performances are relentless and hypnotic to match, driven by lush synthesizers, sinewy guitars, and a muscular rhythm section. //// The result is a record as fearless as it is enthralling, an alternatingly fierce and joyous work that ascends to new heights as it reckons with desire and escape, love and surrender, rebellion and reality." https://habibitheband.bandcamp.com/	*	0:14:46 (Pop-up)
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds	Frogs "Frogs" by "Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds"	Wild God	Bad Seed Ltd. / Play It Again Sam	2024	2nd track from forthcoming full-length, this track released May 29 2024. The new Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds album ‘Wild God’ will be released on 30 August. "The journey to creating ‘Wild God’ began with sweeping epic ‘Frogs’. The first lines Nick Cave penned for the album were powerfully evocative, referencing the first murder in the Bible, Cain’s slaying of Abel. He wrote, “Ushering in the week he knelt down and crushed his brother’s head in with a bone/It’s my great privilege to walk you home.” This striking couplet became the opening lines to the song, and set the tone for the imagery and themes that followed. Nick Cave says, “The sheer exuberance of a song like ‘Frogs’, it just puts a big fucking smile on my face.”" https://www.nickcave.com/	*	0:20:18 (Pop-up)
Luka Kuplowsky & The Ryōkan Band	The Frog that Wants to Make Itself as Big as an Ox (Jean De La Fontaine)	How Can I Possibly Sleep When There is Music	Next Door Records	2024	New 2xLP "How Can I Possibly Sleep When There is Music" Out May 31st 2024 on Next Door Records //// Luka Kuplowsky: “Announcing HOW CAN I POSSIBLY SLEEP WHEN THERE IS MUSIC. A double LP of singing-poems! This record is the culmination of a process of poetic response/adaptation and musical collaboration that started in 2017 from a meeting with Beverly Glenn-Copeland and soon after, my introduction to the Zen Buddhist poetry of Ryōkan Taigu. Out of this inspiration a band formed that is lightning and ocean wave, hot and cool, a band of overwhelm and flow. Together we are The Ryōkan Band, but individually we are Alex Lukashevsky, Anh Phung, Evan Cartwright, Felicity Williams Josh Cole, Phillipe Melanson and myself. The record was engineered by Jeremy Darby & Julian Decorte at Canterbury Sound. The brilliant Sandro Perri guided us in our three day session and mixed the record. Phillip Shaw Bova mastered it." Luka Kuplowsky (Bandcamp)	*	0:24:49 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: CAN	Aston 77 Drei "Aston 77 Drei" by "CAN"	Live In Aston 1977	SPOON	1977 / 2024	"The acclaimed CAN live series continues with the release of LIVE IN ASTON 1977, available via Mute and Future Days (the new EU label created by Spoon Records). //// The series was overseen by founding member Irmin Schmidt and producer/engineer René Tinner, who delicately worked on restoring the archival recordings to the best quality for current modern technology. This record captures the band’s 1977 performance in Aston and features Schmidt (keyboard & synths), Jaki Liebezeit (drums), Michael Karoli (guitars), Holger Czukay (wave receiver & spec.sounds), plus Rosko Gee (bass), who appears for the first time in the series. This release features sleeve notes by former Sex Pistol, Glen Matlock, sharing his first-hand experience of witnessing CAN's live show." //////// "Aston proves once again, as this series of albums no doubt intends to demonstrate, that Can remained a vital and adventurous band beyond the Damo era – in fact, throughout their entire existence as a live act, with the group playing their last show in May 1977. Damo may have been irreplaceable (and will always be in the ‘classic line-up’ in many people’s minds), but the spark that initially ignited Can still burned brightly on stage right up until the end." https://canofficial.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-aston-1977	*	0:27:43 (Pop-up)
Velvetgut Parry	No Plans "No Plans" by "Velvetgut Parry"	Social Distancing	Velvetgut Parry	2020	Velvetgut Parry is an artist from Tennessee. There is not much to tell, except that this is very clearly a pandemic album and that this guy has definitely heard a Death From Above record. And that's fine, because it's a great sound.		0:34:01 (Pop-up)
Agender	Whoa Life Wow "Whoa Life Wow" by "Agender"	No Nostalgia	CLIMAX!	2022	EXISTENTIAL TERROR HURRAH, SNAPPY SYNTHY PUNCHY POST-PUNK! from four humans in LA. oday's fast-evolving world. The album reads as a newspaper or a collage. It’s a political, spiritual, philosophical look at modern society- the information age. It’s an anthropological look at the absurd current state of affairs. It’s focused yet unhinged, self reflective, observant, brash, tongue in cheek, serious yet playful. Excavations and observations of the mind of an anxiously attached, overthinking, spiritual human.		0:36:44 (Pop-up)
Mt Fog	Slowly Morphing "Slowly Morphing" by "Mt Fog"	Slowly Morphing Single	Save The Forest For The Trees	2024	A creation of love & a response to the world's absurdity, Mt Fog began in an art-filled house without an internet connection in Olympia in 2019. Mt Fog (Carolyn B.) is a singer, producer and classically-trained multi-instrumentalist who layers electronic sounds and haunting vocals to evoke magical spaces, real and imagined. She's performed alongside artists like Anika and Tim Hecker and played a KEXP studio session, hosted by DJ Cheryl Waters, in November 2022. Her sophomore album Spells of Silence was featured as a Bandcamp Daily Album of the Day and in the Seattle Times as a Washington music critics' Album of the Year. It is out on vinyl via Ghost Mountain Records. In 2023, Mt Fog debuted as a trio consisting of Carolyn, Andy Sells (Select Level, Afrocop, FCS North) and Casey Rosebridge (Crazy Eyes). Mt Fog's next album ultraviolet heart machine is slated for release in September 2024.	*	0:39:34 (Pop-up)
Torn Palk	Tantra For The Masses "Tantra For The Masses" by "Torn Palk"	The Hectic Into The Beautiful	NOT MY WORLD	2024	Award for best band name and best song name goes to.....Long a secret, now a band. After four albums since 2017, the journey has only just begun for Torn Palk . Torn Palk unite what is normally impossible to unite. Post punk with ambient, grunge with psychedelic and noise with silence – you never know what will happen. As exciting as the journey to Atlantis. You are very welcome. They are from Berlin, of course.	*	0:43:04 (Pop-up)
Jung Analysts	Punishment Is Art "Punishment Is Art" by "Jung Analysts"	The Wishing Balloons	Onoma Research	2015	"The Jung Analysts releases (two cassettes and two-and-a-half LPs) were very much a case of me fumbling along figuring out what I needed to be able to do as a musician in order to make my own music. And they reflect quite well something I’ve never been able to reconcile fully – the desire to have a go at creating ANY kind of music that I happened to find interesting. I was a classically trained pianist from the age of five, and by the time I was 17 I was also more than proficient on bass, guitar and a few other instruments. My interests were also diverse and I was always on the lookout for new music – often things I’d never heard from many decades earlier – that would excite and inspire me. This was a period when I didn’t know if I wanted to be Keith Jarrett, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, New Order, Jaco Pastorius, Frank Zappa, Henry Rollins, Holger Czukay, Robert Smith or Grandmaster Flash! They’re all in there somewhere!"		0:45:04 (Pop-up)
Ricky Hell & The Voidboys	The Feeling Is Alright	Ricky Hell & The Voidboys	Dirty Water Records	2018	A most clever take on Richard Hall and the Voidods...Ricky Hell & The Voidboys were formed in Cleveland, Ohio by Quality Time Records founder Ricky Hamilton in 2017. The group features Adam Spektor on clarinet, longtime collaborator Carter Luckfield on bass & microbrute synthesizer, as well as recent addition John Alberty. Prior to John’s arrival the group used a simple yet effective drum machine that ran on batteries. In 2018 Ricky relocated to Los Angeles which has driven their already pop centric brand of punk further in the direction of groups like The Primitives & cited influences of Sarah Records and Postcard Records, albeit, they more accurately sound like St. Valentine Records dug up some tapes of The Reactions with drum machine.		0:46:39 (Pop-up)
Sean Downey	Pairing Predicaments "Pairing Predicaments" by "Sean Downey"	Permanent	Sprix Records	2020	Sean Downey is from Seattle, WA. This is twee Devo at its finest. Many secrets this artist holds, as there is little about them on the internet. But the synth noise is fine and fun, the songs are peppy and frankly, that's all that's required.		0:49:37 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Les Robots	Camel Toe A Go Go! "Camel Toe A Go Go!" by "Les Robots"	The Sound of the Middle East 7"	Soundflat Records	2020	There was a guy in France in the early 50's who toured with a robot band of his creation that worked via punchcards and played authentic instruments. This is not that Les Robots.		0:52:04 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Les Robots	Invasion of the Ara-Bots	The Sound of the Middle East 7"	Soundflat Records	2020	This is instead a mysterious collective that make fantastic space rock in a vintage style.		0:57:42 (Pop-up)
Amyl and the Sniffers	U Should Not Be Doing That	U Should Not Be Doing That / Facts	B2B Records / Virgin Music	2024	Newest from Amyl and the Sniffers... "Amyl & The Sniffers last released music with their 2021 sophomore album Comfort To Me... The Australian punks are back with the disorderly anthems “U Should Not Be Doing That” and “Facts.”... The two tracks were recorded with Nick Launay and are out via B2B Records / Virgin Music. The band is also gearing up for a tour this summer... “Lyrically they’re both pretty self-explanatory,” bandleader Amy Taylor said. She continued: “U Should Not Be Doing That” makes me laugh, but it’s also in a way poking fun at the shock that people still feel at a little bit of skimpy clothing, and the bitchy high school way that the music community still is (yes I’m talking to you random 40 year old metalheads sitting around a table doing lines and bitching about a 28 year old chick in a band for wearing shorts and ‘selling out’) but it mainly makes me laugh. It’s unconscious and meant nothing at the time of writing it but now I think it’s a comedic way of rubbing the dog’s nose in its own dog piss after it wee’d on your favorite rug or something." "In going with the theme Taylor just described, the comedic music video features the singer engaged in a nonstop aggressive dance-off with 50-year-old actor Steven Ogg (The Walking Dead, Better Call Saul)." Amyl and The Sniffers - "U Should Not Be Doing That" (Official Music Video)	*	0:59:44 (Pop-up)
Declan Martens (of Amyl And The Sniffers)	Interview: Declan Martens (of Amyl And The Sniffers) w/ Transmissions From Echo Beach	Transmissions From Echo Beach interviewing Declan Martens	Transmissions From Echo Beach	2024	Declan Martens (AKA Declan Mehrtens) of Amyl And The Sniffers was ambushed in 2022 by Transmissions From Echo Beach. He generously offered up his time to answer some questions prior to their Toronto gig. This little Q & A has been unbroadcast until now. We bring it to you now as they release two new songs. Thanks Declan!	*	1:03:12 (Pop-up)
Amyl and the Sniffers	Snakes "Snakes" by "Amyl and the Sniffers"	Comfort To Me	Amyl and the Sniffers / ATO Records	2021	Amy re: Snakes: "A bit of autobiography, an ode to my childhood. I grew up in a small town near the coast—kind of bogan, kind of hippy. I grew up on three acres, and I grew up in a shed with my sister, mom and dad until I was about nine or 10, and we all shared a bedroom and would use the bath water to wash our clothes and then that same water to water the plants. Dad used to bring us toys home from the tip and we’d go swimming in the storms and there was snakes everywhere. There was snakes, literally, in the bedroom and the chick pens, and there’d be snakes killing the cats and snakes at school—and this song’s about that."		1:11:36 (Pop-up)
C.O.F.F.I.N.	Cecelia "Cecelia" by "C.O.F.F.I.N."	Children Of Finland Fighting in Norway	Legless Records / Erste Theke Tonträger	2020	Featuring guitar by our interviewee tonight, Amyl & The Sniffers' Declan Martens. C.O.F.F.I.N. was touring w/ Amyl & The Sniffers when we caught up w/ them. "Children of Finland Fighting in Norway (C.O.F.F.I.N) are a four piece hard rock & roll band hailing from the ocean shores of Sydney, Australia featuring a lead vocalist on drums. Forming in 2005 as schoolmates influenced by a huge love for music, skateboarding and a good-times-all-the-time attitude. Since playing their first show at the age of 12 opening for The Hard-Ons at Manly Youth Centre the band have meticulously carved out their own corner of hard biting Australian Rock n Roll. //// C.O.F.F.I.N have gained a passionate following for their unique take on punk and rock music, gathering widespread acclaim for their energetic and addictive live shows combined with their lyrical activism and howling guitars. It has delivered them hundreds of gigs over the years, headline tours, and numerous festival appearances. They’ve toured and shared the stage with many world renown bands such as Rose Tattoo, TSOL, Celibate Rifles, Dead Kennedys, Cosmic Psychos, Parkway Drive, Frenzal Rhomb, Misfits, Amyl and the Sniffers and the Hard Ons." https://www.coffinband.com/		1:14:39 (Pop-up)
Radio Birdman	What Gives "What Gives" by "Radio Birdman"	Radios Appear (1978 version)	Sire	1978	Radios Appear was released in 1977, but in 1978 a new version included this song & was released once again in Australia, but also overseas. Radio Birdman are an Australian proto-punk/garage rock band based in Sydney, New South Wales. The original lineup was composed of Chris Masuak (guitar), Deniz Tek (guitar), Pip Hoyle (keyboards), Rob Younger (vocals), Ron Keeley (drums), and Warwick Gilbert (bass). In 2006, the band reformed with its original members, except for Jim Dickson (bass) and Russell Hopkinson (drums), who replaced their counterparts. "Deniz Tek and Rob Younger formed Radio Birdman in mid-1974 in Sydney, having recently left their bands TV Jones and the Rats, respectively. The pair sought to begin a band that would challenge the commercial mainstream and be completely uncompromising. They recruited classical keyboard player Philip "Pip" Hoyle, drummer Ron Keeley and bassist Carl Rorke. The band took their name from a misheard lyric from the Stooges' song "1970" (the actual lyric is "radio burning"). //// After being rejected many times from various venues and having resorted to putting on its own concerts in rented garages and tiny community halls, by mid-1975 Radio Birdman found an upstairs room at the Oxford Tavern in Taylor Square, Sydney. They eventually took over its management, renaming it The Funhouse. Under their management the Funhouse became a home to other outsider groups. Prior to the opening of this venue, Carl Rorke had left the band and was replaced by longtime friend of Rob Younger, Warwick Gilbert (also a former Rats member). Also, to leave the band would be Philip Hoyle, though his departure was short-lived. Guitarist Chris Masuak was initially hired to replace Hoyle. //// Soon a small subculture grew around Radio Birdman. This coincided with the beginnings of the Sydney punk scene."		1:18:46 (Pop-up)
Saints	No, Your Product "No, Your Product" by "Saints"	Eternally Yours	Harvest	1978	After opening with "Know Your Product", the album later offers "No, Your Product" as a callback. Both are easily high points of an excellent album. "Eternally Yours is the second album by Australian punk rock band the Saints, released in 1978. Produced by band members Chris Bailey and Ed Kuepper, the album saw the band pursue a bigger, more R&B-driven sound, augmented by a horn section. The album also saw the introduction of bass guitarist Algy Ward, who replaced the band's previous bass player, Kym Bradshaw in mid-1977. //// The album was originally titled International Robots, and recording initially commenced at Wessex Studios. The tapes from these sessions (which have since been released as bonus tracks on the 2007 reissue of the album) reveal the songs in a stripped-down form more similar to the band's previous recordings. The sessions also include "Champagne Misery", which was not released until 2000's Wild About You compilation. //// Chris Bailey later said, "For me, it's our first proper release because (I'm) Stranded was just a load of demos. Although we still had the same energy as the first album, the added horn section seemed to confuse people and the record sort of disappeared." In another interview, Bailey stated, "When people talk to me about the early Saints in hallowed terms, I find it a little bit amusing, because when I think about something like 'Lost & Found' or 'Misunderstood', I kind of think that's crap.""		1:21:10 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: CAN	Aston 77 Eins "Aston 77 Eins" by "CAN"	Live In Aston 1977	SPOON	1977 / 2024	"Aston doesn’t actually bear that much resemblance to Saw Delight, released just a few days before this performance at Birmingham’s second university on 4 March 1977. Baah is absent and Gee is relatively low in the mix for the most part. But what it does share with Can’s later live sets – for instance, Live in Cuxhaven 1976 from the same series – is a feeling of spaciousness. Whereas the previous Live In Paris 1973, recorded at the end of Damo’s tenure with the band, features a performance veering between ritualistic frenzy and brain-pummelling monotony, Aston is ultimately a more inviting and easier to enjoy proposition. // As with all of these releases, the live pieces aren’t associated with studio songs, but simply numbered. ‘Eins’ begins with a nebula of Rick Wight-esque Farfisa organ from Irmin Schmidt and some exotic, vaguely funky vamping from Michael Karoli – in fact, this could be Pink Floyd just after the exit of Syd Barrett, psychedelic abstraction transforming into something darker. And when Jaki Liebezeit makes his entry, it’s not with a skittering polyrhythm, but a thumping, no-messing-around mid-tempo beat. // There’s the sense of a voyage beginning, the band channelling that aqueous sound they perfected on Future Days, but moving through colder, darker waters. Karoli’s guitar rises from the depths, half growling, half roaring, then spins and dips in the icy surf. There’s some horrorshow keys from Schmidt, and in the background, what sounds like a chorus of radiophonic cats – the first evidence of Holger Czukay, who, having given up his position as bass player, now experiments with shortwave radio and tapes in a proto-sampling role. // The track morphs into what can only be described as industrial reggae, leaner and meaner than the maximalist headjams of a few years before. Karoli returns to the foreground again, his guitar wrangling verging on the atonal, howling like a robot in distress as Liebezeit picks up the beat. It ends in a flourish of prog ska, which is much better than that sounds." https://canofficial.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-aston-1977	*	1:25:29 (Pop-up)
Tele Novella	Eggs In One Basket "Eggs In One Basket" by "Tele Novella"	Poet's Tooth	Kill Rock Stars	2023	Tele Novella is a project out of Lockhart, Texas--a small town lost in time---where their classic and sincere pop songwriting is slowly processed through a loner medieval-tonk machine and then captured on cassette 8-track. This song is complete and utter perfection.		1:31:58 (Pop-up)
Water Gun Water Gun Sky Attack	Eager	Total Swarm For Young Men	Self Released	2022	The more you listen, the more you love. Clangy tins and chains of love, angst that gives Nick Cave a run for his money + Golden Era Metronomy vibes. Yes. Total Swarm is Montreal's Tim de Reuse at his best yet. Eclectic, engaging, lyrically compelling, and musically complete. The lyrics swing between dubiously euphoric highs and deeply anxious lows, revealing a bitter indictment of the precarity of existing within queer spaces. Every track is dripping with intent - no moment's charms are accidental.		1:35:23 (Pop-up)
Higamos Hogamos	Something's Got a Hold On Me	Higamos Hogamos	DC Recordings	2009	Higamos Hogamos hail from Hackney. Named after a seemingly nonsensical word that philosopher William James coined as "the meaning of life" while experimenting with nitrous oxide, Higamos Hogamos, like James, is a stoney and experimental electro duo that blends modern electronic sounds with '70s glam, psychedelia, and Krautrock -- especially Krautrock. Heavily influenced by the driving electro-rhythms of Motorik German groups Neu!, Kraftwerk, and Harmonia, Webster and Jenkins recorded a few songs together before DC Recordings' Saul Kane realized the group's potential, and signed them to DC, who released their first album in March of 2009. Jarvis Cocker does Krautrock. Two thumbs up.		1:38:47 (Pop-up)
Hi Cowboy	Extra Ball "Extra Ball" by "Hi Cowboy"	Extra Ball	Les Disques Carabine	2015	You could have told me that this was a Vive Le Fete song...but it is not. It IS, like VLF...fine french pop sung by a sassy gravel voiced femme fatal. If you like sexy minimal french pop that harkens back to the earlier days of the 2000's this is for you!		1:41:04 (Pop-up)
Fleur	Laisse Moi Faire! "Laisse Moi Faire!" by "Fleur"	Tu Es Un Être Parfait 7"	Soundflat Records	2024	The B side to her recently released single has just as much sass, perhaps even a little more stomp and fuzz. Of all the revivalists, stays true to the classic ye-ye and garage song format, but with impeccably crisp production that is definitely forward thinking. I freaking love it.		1:45:15 (Pop-up)
Dreamwave	Mindcave "Mindcave" by "Dreamwave"	Dreamwave and the Mindcave	Velvet Echoes Records	2024	I cannot get enough of this! Dream Wave are a Post Punk Psych Junk band based in Bristol, UK. They bring the synths, and trade off vocals between members.	*	1:47:14 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Hawkwind	Opa-Loka "Opa-Loka" by "Hawkwind"	Warrior On The Edge of Time	United Artists	1975	Warrior on the Edge of Time is the fifth studio album by the English rock band Hawkwind. Many of the lyrics are by Michael Moorcock, and the album is loosely based on the concept of Moorcock's novel The Eternal Champion. It was the band's highest-charting studio album on the UK Albums Chart, where it peaked at number 13, and was their third and last album to make the U.S. Billboard chart...and Lemmy's last with the band...		1:50:04 (Pop-up)
La Luz	Strange World "Strange World" by "La Luz"	News of the Universe	Sub Pop	2024	La Luz are back with a new album! It should also be noted that the powerful sense of openness that permeates the new La Luz record is at least partially due to the fact that it’s an album entirely made by women. Female musicians handled performing, writing, producing, recording, engineering, and mastering, giving the album a twist of fierce feminine boldness. La Luz is a rarity in that it’s a psych-rock band comprised of all women of color forging a unique path. “There is something inherently and simultaneously sweet and brutal about womanhood,” says Cleveland. “That is something I hear on this record.”	*	1:56:01 (Pop-up)

Listener comments!
	7:44pm ultradamno: Babs! Derek! Beach Bums!
	7:49pm DJ Babs: Heya UD! We'll be getting started shortly!
	7:49pm DJ Babs: Welcome to all early beachers!!!!
	7:59pm ultradamno: I just finished the first season of The Bear...and I have to say, jerks in kitchens yelling is one of my least favorite genres
	🏝 7:59pm Scott_Oz: G'day Babs, Derek & Beachcombers! Let's get a whiff of some Amyl! 🌏🌞🍻😎🤙💨🍺🍺🌊⛱️🌴
	8:00pm Derek Westerholm: Hurrah! Hello UD & Scott OZ
	8:00pm Alli B: Omg I tried so hard to be the first here 😂😂😂
	8:01pm DJ Babs: Hi Alli! Hello Scott! Oh yeah, this show's gonna be a rocker!
	8:02pm DJ Babs: ↳ ultradamno @7:59 I have not seen it yet and I'm not fully compelled...
	8:02pm DJ Babs: ↳ Alli B @8:00 Haha you gotta get here early if you're gonna beat Ultradamno!
	8:02pm ultradamno: Damn. This is jarring after all that Stockhausen...but also good for a hot dog eating contest
	8:02pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Alli B @8:00 Hello Alli...! We'll count you as an honorary first... After Ultra and Scott, of course... Haha.
	8:03pm DJ Babs: I've got my wine and weed at the ready!
	8:03pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ ultradamno @8:02 We'll unjar you a bit later...
	8:03pm Alli B: I don’t play that way, Derek! I SHALL be true first sometime, Ultra….muhahahaha
	8:03pm ultradamno: ↳ DJ Babs @8:02 I posted this earlier, which is a joke...but not wrong bsky.app...
	8:03pm Mr Fab: working overtime, so thanks in advance for the wakeup music!
	🏝 8:04pm Scott_Oz: ↳ ultradamno @7:59 Matty Matheson yelling & swearing in his own kitchen I like. Dunno about a dramatized series though?
	8:06pm Bob Barth: It's a NEW TO YOU, Interview! Hey Derek & Babs. Keep me company during my mad scramble!
	8:07pm ultradamno: There's some twelve stepper stuff in it too, which is a pet peeve of mine. Every show has to have a room with fold out chairs and table of donuts scene in it
	8:08pm gsdoubleu: hello everyone! tonight sitting out on the back patio listening to the sounds of the beach
	8:09pm Alli B: I’m out FRONT on the patio! Cheers!
	8:09pm gsdoubleu: ↳ Alli B @8:09 we got it covered tonight!
	8:09pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Mr Fab @8:03 Hello Mr. Fab... You are most welcome! Hopefully the overtime flies by fast, so you can get to your own time soon.
	8:10pm DJ Babs: Heya GS!
	8:11pm DJ Babs: ↳ Alli B @8:03 Challenge is on! LOL
	8:12pm DJ Babs: It’s like when you’re in a vaycay beach and have to beat out all the Germans for the best lounge chairs at 5am
	8:12pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ gsdoubleu @8:09 Hello there GSuu
	8:13pm DJ Babs: ↳ ultradamno @8:07 A 12 stepper scene is such lazy character development in writing.
	8:13pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "Argue" by "not a band" Ooh, Beefheart-y!
	8:13pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Bob Barth @8:06 Hi Bob... Yes, I can relate to the mad scramble... Whatcha working on, for all us Sheena's JR folks at 10pmEST on your venerable "One Night Stand"?
	8:13pm DJ Babs: ↳ Bob Barth @8:06 Also hello and greetings Bob!
	8:14pm ultradamno: ↳ DJ Babs @8:13 I think it's because all the writers go to them for networking purposes, so it's what they have to draw on
	8:15pm DJ Babs: ↳ Mr Fab @8:13 Yeah these young folx are greaaaaaaaaat. Their live shows are bananas.
	8:16pm ultradamno: And it's always is the character going to open up about something awful in an artificial way or be a dick to everyone else...in an artificial way
	8:19pm DJ Babs: The stoners in this room are very happy right now
	8:21pm DJ Babs: ↳ ultradamno @8:16 Exactly.
	8:21pm Mr Fab: yesterday, one of my daughter's classmates was saying how glad he was to get away from his old home, dark, depressing Toronto! (Do Canadian schools really go for 8 hours a day?)
	8:22pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "Frogs" by "Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds" I insist this song is about this movie media-cache.cinematerial.com...
	8:23pm DJ Babs: HAHAHA! Compared to California yes I suppose one could say that! And I’m not sure about the schools but like yeah…8:30-3:30? Plus then extracurriculars
	8:24pm Mr Fab: Well yeah, we're 8:30-3:30, too. So not really sure what he was going on about, haha.
	8:24pm DJ Babs: Of course the kids do get a poutine break at noon for lunch. And 15 minute breaks for maple syrup shots morning and afternoon. Mandatory.
	8:25pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ DJ Babs @8:24 It gets quite sticky.
	8:25pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "Frogs" by "Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds" So lush! So orchestrated! Singing in a high register! Is this the new Bryan Ferry?!?
	8:25pm shellioh: i made! hey guys!!!
	8:26pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ shellioh @8:25 Hello Shellioh! Yay!
	8:27pm DJ Babs: Shelli!!!! Hey lady!
	8:27pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Mr Fab @8:25 Technically, every day he wakes up, Bryan Ferry is the new Bryan Ferry... You can never step into the same Bryan Ferry twice, as they say...
	8:34pm ultradamno: You could be Taylor Momsen and have gotten attacked by a bat this week www.msn.com...
	8:36pm ultradamno: ...maybe this will end the plague of outdoor music events
	8:36pm DJ Babs: ↳ ultradamno @8:34 I saw video of that it was crazy! And she was singing her witchy song!
	🏝 8:36pm Scott_Oz: Australian Magpies will fuck you up in nesting season. They swoop like Spitfires from behind, sometimes slicing scalps with scimitar beaks.
	8:37pm ultradamno: And it appears to be daylight...that's how serious that bat was, it got up early!
	8:37pm laurapanic: I'm late, but here for the first time in WEEEEEEKS
	8:37pm DJ Babs: This was a red winged blackbird
	8:37pm DJ Babs: They are very grumpy lol
	🏝 8:38pm Scott_Oz: ↳ laurapanic @8:37 Get to the corner this instant!!
	8:38pm laurapanic: ↳ Scott_Oz @8:36 most terrified I've been in my life is of magpie swoops. Give me most of our snakes or spiders, any day of the week.
	8:38pm DJ Babs: Lauraaaaaaaa heyooo!
	8:38pm laurapanic: ↳ DJ Babs @8:38 hey hey Babs!
	8:38pm Bob Barth: ↳ Derek Westerholm @8:13 Tonight we have screenwriter Jeff Nathanson on his new film YOUNG WOMAN & THE SEA and then I'm going to tell you all about the last stop on Natalie Merchants latest tour!
	8:39pm laurapanic: ↳ Derek Westerholm @8:27 this is science
	8:39pm DJ Babs: It was like a gentle slap behind the head lol. Then he circled for a second go! We made a deal for me to vacate and all was well
	8:39pm ultradamno: If she was going for witchy, she should have had a cat...it would have made quick work of that bat
	8:39pm DJ Babs: Meep Moop would lose his shit with a bat
	🏝 8:41pm Scott_Oz: ↳ laurapanic @8:38 They make an amazing noise as they cut the air over ya head don't they. I haven't been swooped for decades, my local Maggies know me & I always say g'day to them, but never feed them.
	8:42pm DJ Babs: ↳ Bob Barth @8:38 Ohhh that sounds fantastic Bob!
	8:42pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ laurapanic @8:37 Laura, Hellllooooo!!!!!!!!
	8:44pm laurapanic: ↳ Scott_Oz @8:41 I remember running through a paddock as a child, I was exploring the creek etc on my own, as one does as a country kid. I was maybe 7. Worst everrrrrr. I have been swooped once or twice, but it doesn't worry me too much. Its been mostly performative swooping on their part. Meanwhile, how silly are plovers? I feel sorry for them. Ground nesting. Such an evolutionary shafting.
	8:47pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Scott_Oz @8:41 Crazy about the magpies... I love these stories & words of warnings, etc. Scott, good on you for making friends with them & saying hello... Birds can be very smart. Magpies seem like they would be on the Crow-smart spectrum, but really I'm just completely surmising that, here... based on no gathered facts, at this point.
	🏝 8:48pm Scott_Oz: ↳ laurapanic @8:44 Yeah, poor Plovers. Especially on sports grounds or lawns to be mowed. They sound haunting at night when they fly about calling. To lure a fox or cat away from their nest.
	8:49pm Derek Westerholm: Ah, there we are... My wild guesswork came through with a pretty good degree of accuracy, it seems... en.wikipedia.org...
	8:50pm Alli B: I’ve officially reached a new level in adulthood! Was sitting on the porch wearing my overalls and said “feels like it’s gonna rain” I burst out laughing at myself 😂😂
	🏝 8:50pm Scott_Oz: ↳ Derek Westerholm @8:47 Studies show they recognize individual Humans, & respond accordingly to each one they know.
	8:51pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Scott_Oz @8:50 Yes, like crows! Crazy smart!
	8:51pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Scott_Oz @8:50 And I think they pass that info on to others in their flock...
	8:52pm Derek Westerholm: I think rats do this too?
	8:53pm ultradamno: I've heard that about octopusses, though in a lab setting it knew who it didn't like for no real reason and splash that person at every opportunity
	🏝 8:53pm Scott_Oz: ↳ Derek Westerholm @8:51 Yet we're hard pressed to distinguish who's who with them.
	🏝 8:54pm Scott_Oz: ↳ Derek Westerholm @8:52 Animals recognize other known Animals, so not surprising if we think about it.
	8:55pm laurapanic: ↳ Alli B @8:50 my favourite is to review the skies, and proclaim, like my dear grandmother "there's no rain in that"
	8:59pm ultradamno: ↳ ultradamno @8:53 That article is behind a paywall now, but it's here www.scientificamerican.com...
	9:00pm Bob Barth: I did many a prisoner's voice in GT4.
	9:00pm Mr Fab: “microbrute synthesizer” - huh? Is that a real thing?
	9:02pm DJ Babs: It is!
	9:02pm laurapanic: ↳ Bob Barth @9:00 soooo telling my kids "hey, I know a guy who....."
	9:03pm DJ Babs: This tune is even better with the saxes. At least I think I hear saxes!
	9:04pm laurapanic: ↳ Bob Barth @9:00 love that game, and others like it (ed Dead springs to mind) because the kids play it in ways it isn't always intended. Weird side quests and stuff. Its also been good for teachable moments around some of the behaviours in there.
	9:04pm DJ Nico: Hello hello!
	9:05pm DJ Babs: Hi Nico!!! How are ya gal!?
	9:05pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ DJ Nico @9:04 Hello there Nico... Lovely to see you?
	9:05pm DJ Babs: ↳ Bob Barth @9:00 NO WAY!
	9:05pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Derek Westerholm @9:05 That was supposed to be "Lovely to see you!"
	9:05pm DJ Babs: I’m in a chatroom with greatness!
	9:06pm DJ Nico: Almost the weekend!
	9:06pm Derek Westerholm: It wasn't a question, haha.
	9:06pm DJ Babs: I love thatcDerek’s gettin in there with the tough personal questions
	9:06pm DJ Babs: Oh man I do love the weekends!
	9:10pm DJ Babs: I love that they love Jersey!!!
	9:11pm DJ Babs: I clearly love a few things LOL
	9:13pm DJ Nico: That was a great interview
	9:13pm laurapanic: ↳ Song: "Snakes" by "Amyl and the Sniffers" a! see my previous comment about preferring snakes to magpies. I feel this!
	9:13pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ DJ Nico @9:13 Aww, thanks Nico!
	🏝 9:13pm Will thee SG OCNY: Hi DJ babs, Derek, and all!!!
	9:13pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ laurapanic @9:13 Full circle!
	9:14pm laurapanic: you can generally avoid snakes when you see them. Magpies, they COME AT YOU.
	9:14pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Will thee SG OCNY @9:13 Hello WtSGOCNY!
	9:14pm DJ Babs: Haha! Thanks Nico…that’s all Derek. He snuck out and we thought he was getting a beer!
	9:14pm DJ Babs: Heyooo Will!!!
	9:17pm DJ Babs: ↳ laurapanic @9:14 Oh this blackbird totally came from behind! I’m surprised I didn’t panic more. In fact I was super calm lol
	🏝 9:18pm Scott_Oz: ↳ Song: "Cecelia" by "C.O.F.F.I.N." FUCKEN OATH!! 🍻😎🤙
	🏝 9:18pm Will thee SG OCNY: Just got here, Amyl and the Sniffers setting the nails in the C.O.F.F.I.N. 🪃 🪃🪃💥💥💥 🔨⚰️
	9:18pm ultradamno: Build your own neural synth spectrum.ieee.org...
	🏝 9:19pm Scott_Oz: ↳ Will thee SG OCNY @9:18 Get it in ya mate! 🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	🏝 9:19pm Will thee SG OCNY: I'm going to have to check the archive for the first part of the show, killin it
	🏝 9:20pm Scott_Oz: ↳ DJ Babs @9:17 Hitchcock woulda mate ya do another take!
	🏝 9:20pm Will thee SG OCNY: ↳ Scott_Oz @9:19 Cheers mate 🍺💨🍺🍻
	🏝 9:20pm Scott_Oz: ↳ Song: "What Gives" by "Radio Birdman" Too much Aussie Rock is never enough!
	9:20pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Will thee SG OCNY @9:19 Thanks Will thee!!! Yeah, the WFMU archives are one of earth's greatest achievements!
	9:21pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Scott_Oz @9:20 And I'm pretty sure we haven't played them yet. I quite love lots of that early RB stuff!
	🏝 9:22pm Will thee SG OCNY: ↳ Derek Westerholm @9:20 The archives and the bandwidth costs are why I don't have any real retirement money 😭💰💰💰💯🔥📻
	9:22pm laurapanic: ↳ Derek Westerholm @9:20 should be provided to invading aliens or some shit. Shot into space or whatever.
	9:22pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "What Gives" by "Radio Birdman" P38 and clip external-content.duckduckgo.com...
	9:23pm DJ Babs: ↳ Will thee SG OCNY @9:22 I’m going to spend my golden years plugged into this station in the nursing home lol
	9:24pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ laurapanic @9:22 Not against this plan...
	9:25pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Song: "No, Your Product" by "Saints" This song just gets better and better as it goes along!
	9:26pm DJ Babs: Yeah that’s epic. EPPPPPPIIIIIICCCC
	9:28pm Mr Fab: ↳ Derek Westerholm @9:25 it does! I was very slow to come around to The Saints. All I knew for a long time was "(I'm) Stranded". Silly me.
	9:28pm laurapanic: ↳ DJ Babs @9:23 thats a great idea
	9:28pm ultradamno: It's the Paint It Black of Radios Appear
	🏝 9:29pm Kristine: Hi all!
	9:29pm laurapanic: ↳ DJ Babs @9:23 if there is a matrix it better just be WFMU archives from start to finish. Should equal around 80yrs of listening or more
	9:32pm northguineahills: derek, babs, fellow hosers.... hallows!
	9:33pm ultradamno: OK, how many damn baskets are you supposed to take out to the coop?
	9:35pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "Eggs In One Basket" by "Tele Novella" Lots of graduation speeches going on now, preparing kids for the future. They could just play this song.
	9:35pm ultradamno: ↳ Mr Fab @9:28 That wasn't enough? 😮
	9:36pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Kristine @9:29 Kristine! Hello!
	9:36pm DJ Babs: Hello Hello Kristine!!! Hi NGH!!!!
	9:37pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ northguineahills @9:32 Hello Hallows NGH!!!
	9:42pm DJ Babs: Has anyone ever heard the band Vive La Fete...because I swear this is THAT band...but it's not!
	9:43pm northguineahills: ↳ DJ Babs @9:42 drawing a blank here /see, i don't know everything!
	9:44pm ultradamno: Not ringing any bells for me either, now I live in fear of Quentin Tarantino starting a band called Viva La Feet
	9:44pm DJ Babs: I loved VLF back in the early 2000's they were perfect electroclash!
	9:46pm northguineahills: feeling (verbially) stabby. back in march a bartender 'lost' my bank card. I thought I changed everything, but I forgot paypal. a certain wfmuer in abu dhabi sent me some coin and I thought it went through. well, my walgreens purchase didn't go through....(it took me the last 10 mins to make sure paypal is working [doesn't help i've changed addresses thrice in the last 6 months])
	9:47pm northguineahills: ↳ DJ Babs @9:44 electroclash was one of the parties i used to dish out back than (and yet, I don't know viva la fete). to the googles!
	9:47pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ northguineahills @9:46 NGH, that sounds like all kinds of unfun. I hope it all ends up in the clear for you.
	9:48pm northguineahills: ↳ ultradamno @9:44 i snarfled!
	9:49pm northguineahills: ↳ Derek Westerholm @9:47 started a temp job today, so i have that going for me (helping a friend refurbish a house)
	🏝 9:49pm Kristine: almost thought this was Oh Sees!
	9:50pm DJ Babs: ↳ northguineahills @9:47 Oh they were FANTAASSSSTIC! Their lead singer was a gal named Els Pynoo. She wore duct tape and chanel couture...karl lagerfeld LOVED her (not that that's a ringing endorsement) but she had SASS
	9:50pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Mindcave" by "Dreamwave" when vaporwave doesn't lead to an oneric state...
	9:51pm northguineahills: ↳ DJ Babs @9:50 i was djing in williamsburg, you'd think that would cross my ears. /my cat back then was named, 'lagerfeld' (since i was so stylishly unhip)
	9:52pm Alli B: I love that they trade off!
	9:52pm Alli B: Holy crap! Instant storm!!!
	9:52pm Bob Barth: Amazing show as always you two! Follow me this way gang into the next hour ... wfmu.org...
	9:53pm northguineahills: ↳ northguineahills @9:51 tbh, it was b/c i should name said cat after a field of lager....
	🏝 9:56pm Kristine: better than lagerlout!
	🏝 9:56pm Scott_Oz: Thanks B&D for a fucken fine beach party my friends! 🌏🌞🍻😎🤙💨🍺🍺🌊⛱🛺
	9:57pm northguineahills: ↳ Kristine @9:56 🤣😂🤣
	9:57pm DJ Babs: Thank you all for joining us on this magical journey! Have an amazing weekend and week ahead....❤️
	9:58pm northguineahills: danks a doodle, babs and derek!
	9:58pm Mr Fab: Thank YOOOO!
	🏝 9:58pm Will thee SG OCNY: Thank you DJ Babs, Derek, and the Accu peeps!!!
	9:58pm Alli B: Thank you! ❤️
	9:59pm Derek Westerholm: Thank-you. all, always... Go where you will & be there always...
	10:00pm ultradamno: Wait, I'm going to the grocery...I have to stay there?
	10:01pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ ultradamno @10:00 No, it's ok to come back, too...
	10:01pm Derek Westerholm: ...Haha.
	10:01pm ultradamno: Phew!
	10:01pm Derek Westerholm: lol

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Declan Martens (of Amyl And The Sniffers)	ID for Transmissions From Echo Beach	Transmissions From Echo Beach interviewing Declan Martens	Transmissions From Echo Beach	2024	Declan Martens!		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Amyl and the Sniffers	Facts "Facts" by "Amyl and the Sniffers"	U Should Not Be Doing That / Facts	B2B Records / Virgin Music	2024	Newest from Amyl and the Sniffers... "“Facts”... is a fast-paced Stooges-esque romp with a Blondie-infused chorus. Prior to these two songs, Amyl and The Sniffers last released new music with their 2021 sophomore album, Comfort to Me.Amyl & The Sniffers – 2024 Tour Dates: JUL 13, 2024 Day In Day Out Seattle, WA //// JUL 19, 2024 Citi Field New York, NY with Foo Fighters //// JUL 20, 2024 White Eagle Hall Jersey City, NJ //// JUL 21, 2024 Fenway Park Boston, MA with Foo Fighters //// JUL 23, 2024 Hersheypark Stadium Hershey, PA with Foo Fighters //// JUL 25, 2024 The Majestic Theatre Detroit, MI //// JUL 28, 2024 Underground Music Showcase Denver, CO //// JUL 30, 2024 Granada Theater Lawrence, KS //// JUL 31, 2024 Mercury Ballroom Louisville, KY //// AUG 1, 2024 HI-FI Annex Indianapolis, IN //// AUG 3, 2024 Asbury Hall Buffalo, NY //// AUG 4, 2024 Osheaga Montreal, QC //// AUG 5, 2024 Higher Ground South Burlington, VT //// AUG 7, 2024 Pioneer Courthouse Square Portland, OR //// AUG 9, 2024 BMO Stadium Los Angeles, CA with Foo Fighters //// AUG 13, 2024 The Sound at Del Mar, CA //// AUG 14, 2024 The Fonda Theatre Los Angeles, CA //// AUG 15, 2024 The Fonda Theatre Los Angeles, CA	*	0:00:21 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: CAN	Aston 77 Zwei "Aston 77 Zwei" by "CAN"	Live In Aston 1977	SPOON	1977 / 2024	The soothing sounds of an instrumental "Vitamin C" for you... "Can Live in Aston 1977, the latest in an ongoing series of Can album releases focusing on the band’s live performances, released on vinyl, CD and digitally on 31 May 2024 via Mute and Future Days. //// Live in Aston 1977 is a whole new lens through which we can view a unique band with seemingly inexhaustible energy for live performance. It comes at a difficult period for Can; their recently released eighth studio album, Saw Delight, had been badly received and although posterity has been kinder, the reviews on release were savage. It might be expected that the live performances from this time would reflect some of the criticisms of the album, that they were slowing down, perhaps even feeling a little jaded, but it cements the notion that Can live, at any period, was mercurial. //// Within the Can Live series, this is the first to feature bassist Rosko Gee (Traffic) who had recently joined Irmin Schmidt, Jaki Liebezeit, Michael Karoli, and Holger Czukay (who, relieved of bass duties is credited with “waveform radio and spec. sounds” on the album), and would perform with them until the band’s split in 1979." https://canofficial.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-aston-1977	*	0:02:55 (Pop-up)
Motorists	L.O.W. "L.O.W." by "Motorists"	Touched by the Stuff	We Are Time / Bobo Integral	2024	"Motorists’ second album had a lengthy gestation period, written in the year following their 2021 self-produced debut, Surrounded, which Allmusic described as “an abundance of thoughtfully arranged hooks.” In the six months leading to their recording sessions for Touched By The Stuff, the band picked up the pace, with both Learoyd and Fahner barely sneaking songs under the wire. Instrumentals were recorded live off the floor, before the trio ran wild with overdubs, weaving organs, vibraphones, and handclaps into their mellifluous harmonies. //// Inspired by the big shiny tunes flooding FM radio airwaves in the 1990s, Toronto trio Motorists go full throttle on their sophomore album. Now propelled by powerhouse drummer Nick Mckinlay, guitarist Craig Fahner and bassist Matt Learoyd channel stadium-sized power-pop through the gauzy fuzz of ‘90s alt rock, like Big Star swerving into Hotline TNT. //// This is a co-release with Bobo Integral an independent pop label from Madrid (Spain) & We Are Time (Canada): Motorists - Touched By The Stuff (via We Are Time Records) //// Released May 24, 2024 //// Matt Learoyd - Vocals, Bass // Craig Fahner - Vocals, Guitars, Keys // Nick MicKinlay - Drums //// Recorded at Taurus Recording in Toronto, Ontario //// Engineered and mixed by Jesse Turnbull //// Mastered by Mikey Young"	*	0:07:02 (Pop-up)
not a band	Argue "Argue" by "not a band"	Argue (digital single)	Bandcamp Self Release	2024	Toronto's cryptic quintet return! Released May 23, 2024. not a band are: Danny A, Kalina N, Marilyn Y, Mitch L, Roya B, and Victor O. //// Engineered by Tasker Hull and Kaleb Shelton //// Mixing and tape fluff by Kaleb Shelton //// Mastered by Josh Korody. https://hiwerenotaband.bandcamp.com/	*	0:09:48 (Pop-up)
Habibi	Losing Control "Losing Control" by "Habibi"	Dreamachine	Kill Rock Stars	2024	Released May 31, 2024. "Co-founded by Detroit natives Rahill Jamalifard and Lenny Lynch, Habibi got its start in Brooklyn in 2011, earning early raves everywhere. //// Dreamachine, Habibi’s mesmerizing new record releasing on Kill Rock Stars, marks a major sonic evolution for the band, rising beyond the critically acclaimed five-piece’s garage rock roots to arrive at a singular swirl of analog and digital elements that underpin their search for spiritual and physical transcendence. //// Produced by Tyler Love and longtime collaborator Jay Heiselmann and featuring MGMT multi-instrumentalist James Richardson, the collection draws on a mix of post-punk, experimental pop, and vintage disco, calling to mind Tom Verlaine, Diana Ross, Kate Bush, and Kim Deal, all filtered through the band’s shared love of Middle Eastern psych music. The songs here are their own distinct worlds, each an immersive quest in pursuit of something greater, and the band’s performances are relentless and hypnotic to match, driven by lush synthesizers, sinewy guitars, and a muscular rhythm section. //// The result is a record as fearless as it is enthralling, an alternatingly fierce and joyous work that ascends to new heights as it reckons with desire and escape, love and surrender, rebellion and reality." https://habibitheband.bandcamp.com/	*	0:14:46 (Pop-up)
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds	Frogs "Frogs" by "Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds"	Wild God	Bad Seed Ltd. / Play It Again Sam	2024	2nd track from forthcoming full-length, this track released May 29 2024. The new Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds album ‘Wild God’ will be released on 30 August. "The journey to creating ‘Wild God’ began with sweeping epic ‘Frogs’. The first lines Nick Cave penned for the album were powerfully evocative, referencing the first murder in the Bible, Cain’s slaying of Abel. He wrote, “Ushering in the week he knelt down and crushed his brother’s head in with a bone/It’s my great privilege to walk you home.” This striking couplet became the opening lines to the song, and set the tone for the imagery and themes that followed. Nick Cave says, “The sheer exuberance of a song like ‘Frogs’, it just puts a big fucking smile on my face.”" https://www.nickcave.com/	*	0:20:18 (Pop-up)
Luka Kuplowsky & The Ryōkan Band	The Frog that Wants to Make Itself as Big as an Ox (Jean De La Fontaine)	How Can I Possibly Sleep When There is Music	Next Door Records	2024	New 2xLP "How Can I Possibly Sleep When There is Music" Out May 31st 2024 on Next Door Records //// Luka Kuplowsky: “Announcing HOW CAN I POSSIBLY SLEEP WHEN THERE IS MUSIC. A double LP of singing-poems! This record is the culmination of a process of poetic response/adaptation and musical collaboration that started in 2017 from a meeting with Beverly Glenn-Copeland and soon after, my introduction to the Zen Buddhist poetry of Ryōkan Taigu. Out of this inspiration a band formed that is lightning and ocean wave, hot and cool, a band of overwhelm and flow. Together we are The Ryōkan Band, but individually we are Alex Lukashevsky, Anh Phung, Evan Cartwright, Felicity Williams Josh Cole, Phillipe Melanson and myself. The record was engineered by Jeremy Darby & Julian Decorte at Canterbury Sound. The brilliant Sandro Perri guided us in our three day session and mixed the record. Phillip Shaw Bova mastered it." Luka Kuplowsky (Bandcamp)	*	0:24:49 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: CAN	Aston 77 Drei "Aston 77 Drei" by "CAN"	Live In Aston 1977	SPOON	1977 / 2024	"The acclaimed CAN live series continues with the release of LIVE IN ASTON 1977, available via Mute and Future Days (the new EU label created by Spoon Records). //// The series was overseen by founding member Irmin Schmidt and producer/engineer René Tinner, who delicately worked on restoring the archival recordings to the best quality for current modern technology. This record captures the band’s 1977 performance in Aston and features Schmidt (keyboard & synths), Jaki Liebezeit (drums), Michael Karoli (guitars), Holger Czukay (wave receiver & spec.sounds), plus Rosko Gee (bass), who appears for the first time in the series. This release features sleeve notes by former Sex Pistol, Glen Matlock, sharing his first-hand experience of witnessing CAN's live show." //////// "Aston proves once again, as this series of albums no doubt intends to demonstrate, that Can remained a vital and adventurous band beyond the Damo era – in fact, throughout their entire existence as a live act, with the group playing their last show in May 1977. Damo may have been irreplaceable (and will always be in the ‘classic line-up’ in many people’s minds), but the spark that initially ignited Can still burned brightly on stage right up until the end." https://canofficial.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-aston-1977	*	0:27:43 (Pop-up)
Velvetgut Parry	No Plans "No Plans" by "Velvetgut Parry"	Social Distancing	Velvetgut Parry	2020	Velvetgut Parry is an artist from Tennessee. There is not much to tell, except that this is very clearly a pandemic album and that this guy has definitely heard a Death From Above record. And that's fine, because it's a great sound.		0:34:01 (Pop-up)
Agender	Whoa Life Wow "Whoa Life Wow" by "Agender"	No Nostalgia	CLIMAX!	2022	EXISTENTIAL TERROR HURRAH, SNAPPY SYNTHY PUNCHY POST-PUNK! from four humans in LA. oday's fast-evolving world. The album reads as a newspaper or a collage. It’s a political, spiritual, philosophical look at modern society- the information age. It’s an anthropological look at the absurd current state of affairs. It’s focused yet unhinged, self reflective, observant, brash, tongue in cheek, serious yet playful. Excavations and observations of the mind of an anxiously attached, overthinking, spiritual human.		0:36:44 (Pop-up)
Mt Fog	Slowly Morphing "Slowly Morphing" by "Mt Fog"	Slowly Morphing Single	Save The Forest For The Trees	2024	A creation of love & a response to the world's absurdity, Mt Fog began in an art-filled house without an internet connection in Olympia in 2019. Mt Fog (Carolyn B.) is a singer, producer and classically-trained multi-instrumentalist who layers electronic sounds and haunting vocals to evoke magical spaces, real and imagined. She's performed alongside artists like Anika and Tim Hecker and played a KEXP studio session, hosted by DJ Cheryl Waters, in November 2022. Her sophomore album Spells of Silence was featured as a Bandcamp Daily Album of the Day and in the Seattle Times as a Washington music critics' Album of the Year. It is out on vinyl via Ghost Mountain Records. In 2023, Mt Fog debuted as a trio consisting of Carolyn, Andy Sells (Select Level, Afrocop, FCS North) and Casey Rosebridge (Crazy Eyes). Mt Fog's next album ultraviolet heart machine is slated for release in September 2024.	*	0:39:34 (Pop-up)
Torn Palk	Tantra For The Masses "Tantra For The Masses" by "Torn Palk"	The Hectic Into The Beautiful	NOT MY WORLD	2024	Award for best band name and best song name goes to.....Long a secret, now a band. After four albums since 2017, the journey has only just begun for Torn Palk . Torn Palk unite what is normally impossible to unite. Post punk with ambient, grunge with psychedelic and noise with silence – you never know what will happen. As exciting as the journey to Atlantis. You are very welcome. They are from Berlin, of course.	*	0:43:04 (Pop-up)
Jung Analysts	Punishment Is Art "Punishment Is Art" by "Jung Analysts"	The Wishing Balloons	Onoma Research	2015	"The Jung Analysts releases (two cassettes and two-and-a-half LPs) were very much a case of me fumbling along figuring out what I needed to be able to do as a musician in order to make my own music. And they reflect quite well something I’ve never been able to reconcile fully – the desire to have a go at creating ANY kind of music that I happened to find interesting. I was a classically trained pianist from the age of five, and by the time I was 17 I was also more than proficient on bass, guitar and a few other instruments. My interests were also diverse and I was always on the lookout for new music – often things I’d never heard from many decades earlier – that would excite and inspire me. This was a period when I didn’t know if I wanted to be Keith Jarrett, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, New Order, Jaco Pastorius, Frank Zappa, Henry Rollins, Holger Czukay, Robert Smith or Grandmaster Flash! They’re all in there somewhere!"		0:45:04 (Pop-up)
Ricky Hell & The Voidboys	The Feeling Is Alright	Ricky Hell & The Voidboys	Dirty Water Records	2018	A most clever take on Richard Hall and the Voidods...Ricky Hell & The Voidboys were formed in Cleveland, Ohio by Quality Time Records founder Ricky Hamilton in 2017. The group features Adam Spektor on clarinet, longtime collaborator Carter Luckfield on bass & microbrute synthesizer, as well as recent addition John Alberty. Prior to John’s arrival the group used a simple yet effective drum machine that ran on batteries. In 2018 Ricky relocated to Los Angeles which has driven their already pop centric brand of punk further in the direction of groups like The Primitives & cited influences of Sarah Records and Postcard Records, albeit, they more accurately sound like St. Valentine Records dug up some tapes of The Reactions with drum machine.		0:46:39 (Pop-up)
Sean Downey	Pairing Predicaments "Pairing Predicaments" by "Sean Downey"	Permanent	Sprix Records	2020	Sean Downey is from Seattle, WA. This is twee Devo at its finest. Many secrets this artist holds, as there is little about them on the internet. But the synth noise is fine and fun, the songs are peppy and frankly, that's all that's required.		0:49:37 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Les Robots	Camel Toe A Go Go! "Camel Toe A Go Go!" by "Les Robots"	The Sound of the Middle East 7"	Soundflat Records	2020	There was a guy in France in the early 50's who toured with a robot band of his creation that worked via punchcards and played authentic instruments. This is not that Les Robots.		0:52:04 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Les Robots	Invasion of the Ara-Bots	The Sound of the Middle East 7"	Soundflat Records	2020	This is instead a mysterious collective that make fantastic space rock in a vintage style.		0:57:42 (Pop-up)
Amyl and the Sniffers	U Should Not Be Doing That	U Should Not Be Doing That / Facts	B2B Records / Virgin Music	2024	Newest from Amyl and the Sniffers... "Amyl & The Sniffers last released music with their 2021 sophomore album Comfort To Me... The Australian punks are back with the disorderly anthems “U Should Not Be Doing That” and “Facts.”... The two tracks were recorded with Nick Launay and are out via B2B Records / Virgin Music. The band is also gearing up for a tour this summer... “Lyrically they’re both pretty self-explanatory,” bandleader Amy Taylor said. She continued: “U Should Not Be Doing That” makes me laugh, but it’s also in a way poking fun at the shock that people still feel at a little bit of skimpy clothing, and the bitchy high school way that the music community still is (yes I’m talking to you random 40 year old metalheads sitting around a table doing lines and bitching about a 28 year old chick in a band for wearing shorts and ‘selling out’) but it mainly makes me laugh. It’s unconscious and meant nothing at the time of writing it but now I think it’s a comedic way of rubbing the dog’s nose in its own dog piss after it wee’d on your favorite rug or something." "In going with the theme Taylor just described, the comedic music video features the singer engaged in a nonstop aggressive dance-off with 50-year-old actor Steven Ogg (The Walking Dead, Better Call Saul)." Amyl and The Sniffers - "U Should Not Be Doing That" (Official Music Video)	*	0:59:44 (Pop-up)
Declan Martens (of Amyl And The Sniffers)	Interview: Declan Martens (of Amyl And The Sniffers) w/ Transmissions From Echo Beach	Transmissions From Echo Beach interviewing Declan Martens	Transmissions From Echo Beach	2024	Declan Martens (AKA Declan Mehrtens) of Amyl And The Sniffers was ambushed in 2022 by Transmissions From Echo Beach. He generously offered up his time to answer some questions prior to their Toronto gig. This little Q & A has been unbroadcast until now. We bring it to you now as they release two new songs. Thanks Declan!	*	1:03:12 (Pop-up)
Amyl and the Sniffers	Snakes "Snakes" by "Amyl and the Sniffers"	Comfort To Me	Amyl and the Sniffers / ATO Records	2021	Amy re: Snakes: "A bit of autobiography, an ode to my childhood. I grew up in a small town near the coast—kind of bogan, kind of hippy. I grew up on three acres, and I grew up in a shed with my sister, mom and dad until I was about nine or 10, and we all shared a bedroom and would use the bath water to wash our clothes and then that same water to water the plants. Dad used to bring us toys home from the tip and we’d go swimming in the storms and there was snakes everywhere. There was snakes, literally, in the bedroom and the chick pens, and there’d be snakes killing the cats and snakes at school—and this song’s about that."		1:11:36 (Pop-up)
C.O.F.F.I.N.	Cecelia "Cecelia" by "C.O.F.F.I.N."	Children Of Finland Fighting in Norway	Legless Records / Erste Theke Tonträger	2020	Featuring guitar by our interviewee tonight, Amyl & The Sniffers' Declan Martens. C.O.F.F.I.N. was touring w/ Amyl & The Sniffers when we caught up w/ them. "Children of Finland Fighting in Norway (C.O.F.F.I.N) are a four piece hard rock & roll band hailing from the ocean shores of Sydney, Australia featuring a lead vocalist on drums. Forming in 2005 as schoolmates influenced by a huge love for music, skateboarding and a good-times-all-the-time attitude. Since playing their first show at the age of 12 opening for The Hard-Ons at Manly Youth Centre the band have meticulously carved out their own corner of hard biting Australian Rock n Roll. //// C.O.F.F.I.N have gained a passionate following for their unique take on punk and rock music, gathering widespread acclaim for their energetic and addictive live shows combined with their lyrical activism and howling guitars. It has delivered them hundreds of gigs over the years, headline tours, and numerous festival appearances. They’ve toured and shared the stage with many world renown bands such as Rose Tattoo, TSOL, Celibate Rifles, Dead Kennedys, Cosmic Psychos, Parkway Drive, Frenzal Rhomb, Misfits, Amyl and the Sniffers and the Hard Ons." https://www.coffinband.com/		1:14:39 (Pop-up)
Radio Birdman	What Gives "What Gives" by "Radio Birdman"	Radios Appear (1978 version)	Sire	1978	Radios Appear was released in 1977, but in 1978 a new version included this song & was released once again in Australia, but also overseas. Radio Birdman are an Australian proto-punk/garage rock band based in Sydney, New South Wales. The original lineup was composed of Chris Masuak (guitar), Deniz Tek (guitar), Pip Hoyle (keyboards), Rob Younger (vocals), Ron Keeley (drums), and Warwick Gilbert (bass). In 2006, the band reformed with its original members, except for Jim Dickson (bass) and Russell Hopkinson (drums), who replaced their counterparts. "Deniz Tek and Rob Younger formed Radio Birdman in mid-1974 in Sydney, having recently left their bands TV Jones and the Rats, respectively. The pair sought to begin a band that would challenge the commercial mainstream and be completely uncompromising. They recruited classical keyboard player Philip "Pip" Hoyle, drummer Ron Keeley and bassist Carl Rorke. The band took their name from a misheard lyric from the Stooges' song "1970" (the actual lyric is "radio burning"). //// After being rejected many times from various venues and having resorted to putting on its own concerts in rented garages and tiny community halls, by mid-1975 Radio Birdman found an upstairs room at the Oxford Tavern in Taylor Square, Sydney. They eventually took over its management, renaming it The Funhouse. Under their management the Funhouse became a home to other outsider groups. Prior to the opening of this venue, Carl Rorke had left the band and was replaced by longtime friend of Rob Younger, Warwick Gilbert (also a former Rats member). Also, to leave the band would be Philip Hoyle, though his departure was short-lived. Guitarist Chris Masuak was initially hired to replace Hoyle. //// Soon a small subculture grew around Radio Birdman. This coincided with the beginnings of the Sydney punk scene."		1:18:46 (Pop-up)
Saints	No, Your Product "No, Your Product" by "Saints"	Eternally Yours	Harvest	1978	After opening with "Know Your Product", the album later offers "No, Your Product" as a callback. Both are easily high points of an excellent album. "Eternally Yours is the second album by Australian punk rock band the Saints, released in 1978. Produced by band members Chris Bailey and Ed Kuepper, the album saw the band pursue a bigger, more R&B-driven sound, augmented by a horn section. The album also saw the introduction of bass guitarist Algy Ward, who replaced the band's previous bass player, Kym Bradshaw in mid-1977. //// The album was originally titled International Robots, and recording initially commenced at Wessex Studios. The tapes from these sessions (which have since been released as bonus tracks on the 2007 reissue of the album) reveal the songs in a stripped-down form more similar to the band's previous recordings. The sessions also include "Champagne Misery", which was not released until 2000's Wild About You compilation. //// Chris Bailey later said, "For me, it's our first proper release because (I'm) Stranded was just a load of demos. Although we still had the same energy as the first album, the added horn section seemed to confuse people and the record sort of disappeared." In another interview, Bailey stated, "When people talk to me about the early Saints in hallowed terms, I find it a little bit amusing, because when I think about something like 'Lost & Found' or 'Misunderstood', I kind of think that's crap.""		1:21:10 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: CAN	Aston 77 Eins "Aston 77 Eins" by "CAN"	Live In Aston 1977	SPOON	1977 / 2024	"Aston doesn’t actually bear that much resemblance to Saw Delight, released just a few days before this performance at Birmingham’s second university on 4 March 1977. Baah is absent and Gee is relatively low in the mix for the most part. But what it does share with Can’s later live sets – for instance, Live in Cuxhaven 1976 from the same series – is a feeling of spaciousness. Whereas the previous Live In Paris 1973, recorded at the end of Damo’s tenure with the band, features a performance veering between ritualistic frenzy and brain-pummelling monotony, Aston is ultimately a more inviting and easier to enjoy proposition. // As with all of these releases, the live pieces aren’t associated with studio songs, but simply numbered. ‘Eins’ begins with a nebula of Rick Wight-esque Farfisa organ from Irmin Schmidt and some exotic, vaguely funky vamping from Michael Karoli – in fact, this could be Pink Floyd just after the exit of Syd Barrett, psychedelic abstraction transforming into something darker. And when Jaki Liebezeit makes his entry, it’s not with a skittering polyrhythm, but a thumping, no-messing-around mid-tempo beat. // There’s the sense of a voyage beginning, the band channelling that aqueous sound they perfected on Future Days, but moving through colder, darker waters. Karoli’s guitar rises from the depths, half growling, half roaring, then spins and dips in the icy surf. There’s some horrorshow keys from Schmidt, and in the background, what sounds like a chorus of radiophonic cats – the first evidence of Holger Czukay, who, having given up his position as bass player, now experiments with shortwave radio and tapes in a proto-sampling role. // The track morphs into what can only be described as industrial reggae, leaner and meaner than the maximalist headjams of a few years before. Karoli returns to the foreground again, his guitar wrangling verging on the atonal, howling like a robot in distress as Liebezeit picks up the beat. It ends in a flourish of prog ska, which is much better than that sounds." https://canofficial.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-aston-1977	*	1:25:29 (Pop-up)
Tele Novella	Eggs In One Basket "Eggs In One Basket" by "Tele Novella"	Poet's Tooth	Kill Rock Stars	2023	Tele Novella is a project out of Lockhart, Texas--a small town lost in time---where their classic and sincere pop songwriting is slowly processed through a loner medieval-tonk machine and then captured on cassette 8-track. This song is complete and utter perfection.		1:31:58 (Pop-up)
Water Gun Water Gun Sky Attack	Eager	Total Swarm For Young Men	Self Released	2022	The more you listen, the more you love. Clangy tins and chains of love, angst that gives Nick Cave a run for his money + Golden Era Metronomy vibes. Yes. Total Swarm is Montreal's Tim de Reuse at his best yet. Eclectic, engaging, lyrically compelling, and musically complete. The lyrics swing between dubiously euphoric highs and deeply anxious lows, revealing a bitter indictment of the precarity of existing within queer spaces. Every track is dripping with intent - no moment's charms are accidental.		1:35:23 (Pop-up)
Higamos Hogamos	Something's Got a Hold On Me	Higamos Hogamos	DC Recordings	2009	Higamos Hogamos hail from Hackney. Named after a seemingly nonsensical word that philosopher William James coined as "the meaning of life" while experimenting with nitrous oxide, Higamos Hogamos, like James, is a stoney and experimental electro duo that blends modern electronic sounds with '70s glam, psychedelia, and Krautrock -- especially Krautrock. Heavily influenced by the driving electro-rhythms of Motorik German groups Neu!, Kraftwerk, and Harmonia, Webster and Jenkins recorded a few songs together before DC Recordings' Saul Kane realized the group's potential, and signed them to DC, who released their first album in March of 2009. Jarvis Cocker does Krautrock. Two thumbs up.		1:38:47 (Pop-up)
Hi Cowboy	Extra Ball "Extra Ball" by "Hi Cowboy"	Extra Ball	Les Disques Carabine	2015	You could have told me that this was a Vive Le Fete song...but it is not. It IS, like VLF...fine french pop sung by a sassy gravel voiced femme fatal. If you like sexy minimal french pop that harkens back to the earlier days of the 2000's this is for you!		1:41:04 (Pop-up)
Fleur	Laisse Moi Faire! "Laisse Moi Faire!" by "Fleur"	Tu Es Un Être Parfait 7"	Soundflat Records	2024	The B side to her recently released single has just as much sass, perhaps even a little more stomp and fuzz. Of all the revivalists, stays true to the classic ye-ye and garage song format, but with impeccably crisp production that is definitely forward thinking. I freaking love it.		1:45:15 (Pop-up)
Dreamwave	Mindcave "Mindcave" by "Dreamwave"	Dreamwave and the Mindcave	Velvet Echoes Records	2024	I cannot get enough of this! Dream Wave are a Post Punk Psych Junk band based in Bristol, UK. They bring the synths, and trade off vocals between members.	*	1:47:14 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Hawkwind	Opa-Loka "Opa-Loka" by "Hawkwind"	Warrior On The Edge of Time	United Artists	1975	Warrior on the Edge of Time is the fifth studio album by the English rock band Hawkwind. Many of the lyrics are by Michael Moorcock, and the album is loosely based on the concept of Moorcock's novel The Eternal Champion. It was the band's highest-charting studio album on the UK Albums Chart, where it peaked at number 13, and was their third and last album to make the U.S. Billboard chart...and Lemmy's last with the band...		1:50:04 (Pop-up)
La Luz	Strange World "Strange World" by "La Luz"	News of the Universe	Sub Pop	2024	La Luz are back with a new album! It should also be noted that the powerful sense of openness that permeates the new La Luz record is at least partially due to the fact that it’s an album entirely made by women. Female musicians handled performing, writing, producing, recording, engineering, and mastering, giving the album a twist of fierce feminine boldness. La Luz is a rarity in that it’s a psych-rock band comprised of all women of color forging a unique path. “There is something inherently and simultaneously sweet and brutal about womanhood,” says Cleveland. “That is something I hear on this record.”	*	1:56:01 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	7:44pm ultradamno: Babs! Derek! Beach Bums!
	7:49pm DJ Babs: Heya UD! We'll be getting started shortly!
	7:49pm DJ Babs: Welcome to all early beachers!!!!
	7:59pm ultradamno: I just finished the first season of The Bear...and I have to say, jerks in kitchens yelling is one of my least favorite genres
	🏝 7:59pm Scott_Oz: G'day Babs, Derek & Beachcombers! Let's get a whiff of some Amyl! 🌏🌞🍻😎🤙💨🍺🍺🌊⛱️🌴
	8:00pm Derek Westerholm: Hurrah! Hello UD & Scott OZ
	8:00pm Alli B: Omg I tried so hard to be the first here 😂😂😂
	8:01pm DJ Babs: Hi Alli! Hello Scott! Oh yeah, this show's gonna be a rocker!
	8:02pm DJ Babs: ↳ ultradamno @7:59 I have not seen it yet and I'm not fully compelled...
	8:02pm DJ Babs: ↳ Alli B @8:00 Haha you gotta get here early if you're gonna beat Ultradamno!
	8:02pm ultradamno: Damn. This is jarring after all that Stockhausen...but also good for a hot dog eating contest
	8:02pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Alli B @8:00 Hello Alli...! We'll count you as an honorary first... After Ultra and Scott, of course... Haha.
	8:03pm DJ Babs: I've got my wine and weed at the ready!
	8:03pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ ultradamno @8:02 We'll unjar you a bit later...
	8:03pm Alli B: I don’t play that way, Derek! I SHALL be true first sometime, Ultra….muhahahaha
	8:03pm ultradamno: ↳ DJ Babs @8:02 I posted this earlier, which is a joke...but not wrong bsky.app...
	8:03pm Mr Fab: working overtime, so thanks in advance for the wakeup music!
	🏝 8:04pm Scott_Oz: ↳ ultradamno @7:59 Matty Matheson yelling & swearing in his own kitchen I like. Dunno about a dramatized series though?
	8:06pm Bob Barth: It's a NEW TO YOU, Interview! Hey Derek & Babs. Keep me company during my mad scramble!
	8:07pm ultradamno: There's some twelve stepper stuff in it too, which is a pet peeve of mine. Every show has to have a room with fold out chairs and table of donuts scene in it
	8:08pm gsdoubleu: hello everyone! tonight sitting out on the back patio listening to the sounds of the beach
	8:09pm Alli B: I’m out FRONT on the patio! Cheers!
	8:09pm gsdoubleu: ↳ Alli B @8:09 we got it covered tonight!
	8:09pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Mr Fab @8:03 Hello Mr. Fab... You are most welcome! Hopefully the overtime flies by fast, so you can get to your own time soon.
	8:10pm DJ Babs: Heya GS!
	8:11pm DJ Babs: ↳ Alli B @8:03 Challenge is on! LOL
	8:12pm DJ Babs: It’s like when you’re in a vaycay beach and have to beat out all the Germans for the best lounge chairs at 5am
	8:12pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ gsdoubleu @8:09 Hello there GSuu
	8:13pm DJ Babs: ↳ ultradamno @8:07 A 12 stepper scene is such lazy character development in writing.
	8:13pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "Argue" by "not a band" Ooh, Beefheart-y!
	8:13pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Bob Barth @8:06 Hi Bob... Yes, I can relate to the mad scramble... Whatcha working on, for all us Sheena's JR folks at 10pmEST on your venerable "One Night Stand"?
	8:13pm DJ Babs: ↳ Bob Barth @8:06 Also hello and greetings Bob!
	8:14pm ultradamno: ↳ DJ Babs @8:13 I think it's because all the writers go to them for networking purposes, so it's what they have to draw on
	8:15pm DJ Babs: ↳ Mr Fab @8:13 Yeah these young folx are greaaaaaaaaat. Their live shows are bananas.
	8:16pm ultradamno: And it's always is the character going to open up about something awful in an artificial way or be a dick to everyone else...in an artificial way
	8:19pm DJ Babs: The stoners in this room are very happy right now
	8:21pm DJ Babs: ↳ ultradamno @8:16 Exactly.
	8:21pm Mr Fab: yesterday, one of my daughter's classmates was saying how glad he was to get away from his old home, dark, depressing Toronto! (Do Canadian schools really go for 8 hours a day?)
	8:22pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "Frogs" by "Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds" I insist this song is about this movie media-cache.cinematerial.com...
	8:23pm DJ Babs: HAHAHA! Compared to California yes I suppose one could say that! And I’m not sure about the schools but like yeah…8:30-3:30? Plus then extracurriculars
	8:24pm Mr Fab: Well yeah, we're 8:30-3:30, too. So not really sure what he was going on about, haha.
	8:24pm DJ Babs: Of course the kids do get a poutine break at noon for lunch. And 15 minute breaks for maple syrup shots morning and afternoon. Mandatory.
	8:25pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ DJ Babs @8:24 It gets quite sticky.
	8:25pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "Frogs" by "Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds" So lush! So orchestrated! Singing in a high register! Is this the new Bryan Ferry?!?
	8:25pm shellioh: i made! hey guys!!!
	8:26pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ shellioh @8:25 Hello Shellioh! Yay!
	8:27pm DJ Babs: Shelli!!!! Hey lady!
	8:27pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Mr Fab @8:25 Technically, every day he wakes up, Bryan Ferry is the new Bryan Ferry... You can never step into the same Bryan Ferry twice, as they say...
	8:34pm ultradamno: You could be Taylor Momsen and have gotten attacked by a bat this week www.msn.com...
	8:36pm ultradamno: ...maybe this will end the plague of outdoor music events
	8:36pm DJ Babs: ↳ ultradamno @8:34 I saw video of that it was crazy! And she was singing her witchy song!
	🏝 8:36pm Scott_Oz: Australian Magpies will fuck you up in nesting season. They swoop like Spitfires from behind, sometimes slicing scalps with scimitar beaks.
	8:37pm ultradamno: And it appears to be daylight...that's how serious that bat was, it got up early!
	8:37pm laurapanic: I'm late, but here for the first time in WEEEEEEKS
	8:37pm DJ Babs: This was a red winged blackbird
	8:37pm DJ Babs: They are very grumpy lol
	🏝 8:38pm Scott_Oz: ↳ laurapanic @8:37 Get to the corner this instant!!
	8:38pm laurapanic: ↳ Scott_Oz @8:36 most terrified I've been in my life is of magpie swoops. Give me most of our snakes or spiders, any day of the week.
	8:38pm DJ Babs: Lauraaaaaaaa heyooo!
	8:38pm laurapanic: ↳ DJ Babs @8:38 hey hey Babs!
	8:38pm Bob Barth: ↳ Derek Westerholm @8:13 Tonight we have screenwriter Jeff Nathanson on his new film YOUNG WOMAN & THE SEA and then I'm going to tell you all about the last stop on Natalie Merchants latest tour!
	8:39pm laurapanic: ↳ Derek Westerholm @8:27 this is science
	8:39pm DJ Babs: It was like a gentle slap behind the head lol. Then he circled for a second go! We made a deal for me to vacate and all was well
	8:39pm ultradamno: If she was going for witchy, she should have had a cat...it would have made quick work of that bat
	8:39pm DJ Babs: Meep Moop would lose his shit with a bat
	🏝 8:41pm Scott_Oz: ↳ laurapanic @8:38 They make an amazing noise as they cut the air over ya head don't they. I haven't been swooped for decades, my local Maggies know me & I always say g'day to them, but never feed them.
	8:42pm DJ Babs: ↳ Bob Barth @8:38 Ohhh that sounds fantastic Bob!
	8:42pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ laurapanic @8:37 Laura, Hellllooooo!!!!!!!!
	8:44pm laurapanic: ↳ Scott_Oz @8:41 I remember running through a paddock as a child, I was exploring the creek etc on my own, as one does as a country kid. I was maybe 7. Worst everrrrrr. I have been swooped once or twice, but it doesn't worry me too much. Its been mostly performative swooping on their part. Meanwhile, how silly are plovers? I feel sorry for them. Ground nesting. Such an evolutionary shafting.
	8:47pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Scott_Oz @8:41 Crazy about the magpies... I love these stories & words of warnings, etc. Scott, good on you for making friends with them & saying hello... Birds can be very smart. Magpies seem like they would be on the Crow-smart spectrum, but really I'm just completely surmising that, here... based on no gathered facts, at this point.
	🏝 8:48pm Scott_Oz: ↳ laurapanic @8:44 Yeah, poor Plovers. Especially on sports grounds or lawns to be mowed. They sound haunting at night when they fly about calling. To lure a fox or cat away from their nest.
	8:49pm Derek Westerholm: Ah, there we are... My wild guesswork came through with a pretty good degree of accuracy, it seems... en.wikipedia.org...
	8:50pm Alli B: I’ve officially reached a new level in adulthood! Was sitting on the porch wearing my overalls and said “feels like it’s gonna rain” I burst out laughing at myself 😂😂
	🏝 8:50pm Scott_Oz: ↳ Derek Westerholm @8:47 Studies show they recognize individual Humans, & respond accordingly to each one they know.
	8:51pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Scott_Oz @8:50 Yes, like crows! Crazy smart!
	8:51pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Scott_Oz @8:50 And I think they pass that info on to others in their flock...
	8:52pm Derek Westerholm: I think rats do this too?
	8:53pm ultradamno: I've heard that about octopusses, though in a lab setting it knew who it didn't like for no real reason and splash that person at every opportunity
	🏝 8:53pm Scott_Oz: ↳ Derek Westerholm @8:51 Yet we're hard pressed to distinguish who's who with them.
	🏝 8:54pm Scott_Oz: ↳ Derek Westerholm @8:52 Animals recognize other known Animals, so not surprising if we think about it.
	8:55pm laurapanic: ↳ Alli B @8:50 my favourite is to review the skies, and proclaim, like my dear grandmother "there's no rain in that"
	8:59pm ultradamno: ↳ ultradamno @8:53 That article is behind a paywall now, but it's here www.scientificamerican.com...
	9:00pm Bob Barth: I did many a prisoner's voice in GT4.
	9:00pm Mr Fab: “microbrute synthesizer” - huh? Is that a real thing?
	9:02pm DJ Babs: It is!
	9:02pm laurapanic: ↳ Bob Barth @9:00 soooo telling my kids "hey, I know a guy who....."
	9:03pm DJ Babs: This tune is even better with the saxes. At least I think I hear saxes!
	9:04pm laurapanic: ↳ Bob Barth @9:00 love that game, and others like it (ed Dead springs to mind) because the kids play it in ways it isn't always intended. Weird side quests and stuff. Its also been good for teachable moments around some of the behaviours in there.
	9:04pm DJ Nico: Hello hello!
	9:05pm DJ Babs: Hi Nico!!! How are ya gal!?
	9:05pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ DJ Nico @9:04 Hello there Nico... Lovely to see you?
	9:05pm DJ Babs: ↳ Bob Barth @9:00 NO WAY!
	9:05pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Derek Westerholm @9:05 That was supposed to be "Lovely to see you!"
	9:05pm DJ Babs: I’m in a chatroom with greatness!
	9:06pm DJ Nico: Almost the weekend!
	9:06pm Derek Westerholm: It wasn't a question, haha.
	9:06pm DJ Babs: I love thatcDerek’s gettin in there with the tough personal questions
	9:06pm DJ Babs: Oh man I do love the weekends!
	9:10pm DJ Babs: I love that they love Jersey!!!
	9:11pm DJ Babs: I clearly love a few things LOL
	9:13pm DJ Nico: That was a great interview
	9:13pm laurapanic: ↳ Song: "Snakes" by "Amyl and the Sniffers" a! see my previous comment about preferring snakes to magpies. I feel this!
	9:13pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ DJ Nico @9:13 Aww, thanks Nico!
	🏝 9:13pm Will thee SG OCNY: Hi DJ babs, Derek, and all!!!
	9:13pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ laurapanic @9:13 Full circle!
	9:14pm laurapanic: you can generally avoid snakes when you see them. Magpies, they COME AT YOU.
	9:14pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Will thee SG OCNY @9:13 Hello WtSGOCNY!
	9:14pm DJ Babs: Haha! Thanks Nico…that’s all Derek. He snuck out and we thought he was getting a beer!
	9:14pm DJ Babs: Heyooo Will!!!
	9:17pm DJ Babs: ↳ laurapanic @9:14 Oh this blackbird totally came from behind! I’m surprised I didn’t panic more. In fact I was super calm lol
	🏝 9:18pm Scott_Oz: ↳ Song: "Cecelia" by "C.O.F.F.I.N." FUCKEN OATH!! 🍻😎🤙
	🏝 9:18pm Will thee SG OCNY: Just got here, Amyl and the Sniffers setting the nails in the C.O.F.F.I.N. 🪃 🪃🪃💥💥💥 🔨⚰️
	9:18pm ultradamno: Build your own neural synth spectrum.ieee.org...
	🏝 9:19pm Scott_Oz: ↳ Will thee SG OCNY @9:18 Get it in ya mate! 🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	🏝 9:19pm Will thee SG OCNY: I'm going to have to check the archive for the first part of the show, killin it
	🏝 9:20pm Scott_Oz: ↳ DJ Babs @9:17 Hitchcock woulda mate ya do another take!
	🏝 9:20pm Will thee SG OCNY: ↳ Scott_Oz @9:19 Cheers mate 🍺💨🍺🍻
	🏝 9:20pm Scott_Oz: ↳ Song: "What Gives" by "Radio Birdman" Too much Aussie Rock is never enough!
	9:20pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Will thee SG OCNY @9:19 Thanks Will thee!!! Yeah, the WFMU archives are one of earth's greatest achievements!
	9:21pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Scott_Oz @9:20 And I'm pretty sure we haven't played them yet. I quite love lots of that early RB stuff!
	🏝 9:22pm Will thee SG OCNY: ↳ Derek Westerholm @9:20 The archives and the bandwidth costs are why I don't have any real retirement money 😭💰💰💰💯🔥📻
	9:22pm laurapanic: ↳ Derek Westerholm @9:20 should be provided to invading aliens or some shit. Shot into space or whatever.
	9:22pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "What Gives" by "Radio Birdman" P38 and clip external-content.duckduckgo.com...
	9:23pm DJ Babs: ↳ Will thee SG OCNY @9:22 I’m going to spend my golden years plugged into this station in the nursing home lol
	9:24pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ laurapanic @9:22 Not against this plan...
	9:25pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Song: "No, Your Product" by "Saints" This song just gets better and better as it goes along!
	9:26pm DJ Babs: Yeah that’s epic. EPPPPPPIIIIIICCCC
	9:28pm Mr Fab: ↳ Derek Westerholm @9:25 it does! I was very slow to come around to The Saints. All I knew for a long time was "(I'm) Stranded". Silly me.
	9:28pm laurapanic: ↳ DJ Babs @9:23 thats a great idea
	9:28pm ultradamno: It's the Paint It Black of Radios Appear
	🏝 9:29pm Kristine: Hi all!
	9:29pm laurapanic: ↳ DJ Babs @9:23 if there is a matrix it better just be WFMU archives from start to finish. Should equal around 80yrs of listening or more
	9:32pm northguineahills: derek, babs, fellow hosers.... hallows!
	9:33pm ultradamno: OK, how many damn baskets are you supposed to take out to the coop?
	9:35pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "Eggs In One Basket" by "Tele Novella" Lots of graduation speeches going on now, preparing kids for the future. They could just play this song.
	9:35pm ultradamno: ↳ Mr Fab @9:28 That wasn't enough? 😮
	9:36pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Kristine @9:29 Kristine! Hello!
	9:36pm DJ Babs: Hello Hello Kristine!!! Hi NGH!!!!
	9:37pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ northguineahills @9:32 Hello Hallows NGH!!!
	9:42pm DJ Babs: Has anyone ever heard the band Vive La Fete...because I swear this is THAT band...but it's not!
	9:43pm northguineahills: ↳ DJ Babs @9:42 drawing a blank here /see, i don't know everything!
	9:44pm ultradamno: Not ringing any bells for me either, now I live in fear of Quentin Tarantino starting a band called Viva La Feet
	9:44pm DJ Babs: I loved VLF back in the early 2000's they were perfect electroclash!
	9:46pm northguineahills: feeling (verbially) stabby. back in march a bartender 'lost' my bank card. I thought I changed everything, but I forgot paypal. a certain wfmuer in abu dhabi sent me some coin and I thought it went through. well, my walgreens purchase didn't go through....(it took me the last 10 mins to make sure paypal is working [doesn't help i've changed addresses thrice in the last 6 months])
	9:47pm northguineahills: ↳ DJ Babs @9:44 electroclash was one of the parties i used to dish out back than (and yet, I don't know viva la fete). to the googles!
	9:47pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ northguineahills @9:46 NGH, that sounds like all kinds of unfun. I hope it all ends up in the clear for you.
	9:48pm northguineahills: ↳ ultradamno @9:44 i snarfled!
	9:49pm northguineahills: ↳ Derek Westerholm @9:47 started a temp job today, so i have that going for me (helping a friend refurbish a house)
	🏝 9:49pm Kristine: almost thought this was Oh Sees!
	9:50pm DJ Babs: ↳ northguineahills @9:47 Oh they were FANTAASSSSTIC! Their lead singer was a gal named Els Pynoo. She wore duct tape and chanel couture...karl lagerfeld LOVED her (not that that's a ringing endorsement) but she had SASS
	9:50pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Mindcave" by "Dreamwave" when vaporwave doesn't lead to an oneric state...
	9:51pm northguineahills: ↳ DJ Babs @9:50 i was djing in williamsburg, you'd think that would cross my ears. /my cat back then was named, 'lagerfeld' (since i was so stylishly unhip)
	9:52pm Alli B: I love that they trade off!
	9:52pm Alli B: Holy crap! Instant storm!!!
	9:52pm Bob Barth: Amazing show as always you two! Follow me this way gang into the next hour ... wfmu.org...
	9:53pm northguineahills: ↳ northguineahills @9:51 tbh, it was b/c i should name said cat after a field of lager....
	🏝 9:56pm Kristine: better than lagerlout!
	🏝 9:56pm Scott_Oz: Thanks B&D for a fucken fine beach party my friends! 🌏🌞🍻😎🤙💨🍺🍺🌊⛱🛺
	9:57pm northguineahills: ↳ Kristine @9:56 🤣😂🤣
	9:57pm DJ Babs: Thank you all for joining us on this magical journey! Have an amazing weekend and week ahead....❤️
	9:58pm northguineahills: danks a doodle, babs and derek!
	9:58pm Mr Fab: Thank YOOOO!
	🏝 9:58pm Will thee SG OCNY: Thank you DJ Babs, Derek, and the Accu peeps!!!
	9:58pm Alli B: Thank you! ❤️
	9:59pm Derek Westerholm: Thank-you. all, always... Go where you will & be there always...
	10:00pm ultradamno: Wait, I'm going to the grocery...I have to stay there?
	10:01pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ ultradamno @10:00 No, it's ok to come back, too...
	10:01pm Derek Westerholm: ...Haha.
	10:01pm ultradamno: Phew!
	10:01pm Derek Westerholm: lol

Transmissions from Echo Beach with Derek Westerholm and DJ Babs: Playlist from June 6, 2024

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