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The Radio Is Broken is a three-hour spelunk through the canyons and fissures of humanity's collective unconscious. It sounds as if a field recording of the Culture Industry were a sonic juggernaut barreling down a rickety track—except that tunnel ahead is just painted onto a sheer cliff wall. With occasional forays into what might pass for "normal" music. Prerequisite journey: Cratedigger's Lung
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January 24, 2025: Someone must have left it underneath the carpet
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Slacktory |
Twin Peaks: All The Coffee and Pie
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YouTube | 0:00:00 (Pop-up) | |||||||
Captain Sensible |
Happy Talk
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A Day In The Life Of... Captain Sensible | A&M Records | 1982 | Bronwyn made me think of this song tonight | 0:04:11 (Pop-up) | ||||
Melvins |
Lovely Butterflies
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Honky | Amphetamine Reptile Records | 1997 | 0:07:35 (Pop-up) | |||||
Eno |
The True Wheel
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Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) | Island Records | 1974 | 0:09:48 (Pop-up) | |||||
Magnus Blucher |
Yodeling Instructions
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Anyone Can Yodel | Bucher's Yodeling School | 196? | It's Otis Fodder's fault | 0:14:57 (Pop-up) | ||||
Princess Ramona |
Then I Start to Yodel
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Yodeling Praises Unto the Lord | Award Records | 1970-something | 0:18:28 (Pop-up) | |||||
Stahlgren & Ferguson |
Barium X-Ray, Obstruction Of The Small Intestine
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The Unruly Guts (Peristaltic Sounds In Gastrointestinal Obstruction: A Self Diagnosis Tool) | Hot Air | 2000 | 0:20:57 (Pop-up) | |||||
Gilbert O'Sullivan |
Alone Again, Naturally
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Alone Again, Naturally b/w Matrimony | MAM | 1972 | 45 played at 33 1/3, naturally. | 0:22:59 (Pop-up) | ||||
Ass And Hammer |
Too Late To Turn Back Now
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Sunshine Supershits Vol. 2 | Self | 2025 |
The Rudy Schwartz Project's other project. Bandcamp link |
0:27:15 (Pop-up) | ||||
Richard Harris |
Mac Arthur Park
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Macarthur Park b/w Didn't We | Dunhill | 1968 | 0:31:01 (Pop-up) | |||||
Ass And Hammer |
Temptation Eyes
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Sunshine Supershits Vol. 2 | Self | 2025 | 0:33:21 (Pop-up) | |||||
Barry Manilow |
I Made It Through the Rain
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I Made It Through the Rain b/w Only In Chicago | Arista | 1980 | two copies played simultaneously and one of them is really scratched up and has a crack through it. I do it for you | 0:36:05 (Pop-up) | ||||
Ass And Hammer |
Mama Mia
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Sunshine Supershits Vol. 2 | Self | 2025 | 0:40:21 (Pop-up) | |||||
Melvins |
Lovely Butterflies
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The Bulls & the Bees | Ipecac | 2001 | 0:44:33 (Pop-up) | |||||
Cramps |
Lonesome Town
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Gravest Hits | Illegal Records | 1979 | 0:50:33 (Pop-up) | |||||
Music behind DJ: Syd Dale |
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Dub Syndicate |
Roots Commandment
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Echomania | On-U Sound | 2025 | Originally issued in 1993 | 1:00:40 (Pop-up) | ||||
Dub Syndicate |
The Corporation
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Ital Breakfast | On-U Sound | 2025 | Originally issued in 1996 | 1:06:12 (Pop-up) | ||||
Dub Syndicate |
Intercommunications
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Obscured By Version | On-U Sound | 2025 |
A new album of remixed versions of Dub Syndicate tracks from their back catalogue. To be released on February 28. Available for pre-order (as are the above tracks) Link |
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銀色の波 | Whispers Of Chikurin | V/A - Ambientale Compiled by Charles Bals | Bureau B | 2025 | Written-By – Gin No Nami | 1:16:46 (Pop-up) | ||||
Gil Mellé |
Mindscape
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V/A - Ambientale Compiled by Charles Bals | Bureau B | 2025 | 1:19:08 (Pop-up) | |||||
Jan Jelinek |
Universal Band Silhouette
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Komischer Pitch | Faitiche | 2025 | Reissue of this 2005 release. | 1:22:37 (Pop-up) | ||||
Chrystabell & David Lynch |
The Answers to the Questions
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Cellophane Memories | Sacred Bones Records | 2024 | Bandcamp link | 1:29:45 (Pop-up) | ||||
The The |
Cognitive Dissident
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Ensoulment | Cinéola / Ear Music | 2024 |
One of my favorite releases of 2024. The The were just on KEXP in Seattle. |
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Music behind DJ: Daniel Pemberton |
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Yugo, Gûrl! |
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Electric Fish |
Untitled V
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V/A - Ex Yu Electronica Vol I: Hometaping In Self-Management | Monofonika | 2010 | Industrial music duo from Žalec (Slovenia), active between 1983 and 1986. | 1:41:51 (Pop-up) | ||||
Abbildingen Variete |
Live II @ Studio Aljaževa
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V/A - Ex Yu Electronica Vol II: Industrijski Elektro Obvodi Na Severu | Monofonika | 2011 | Multimedial experimental collective from Maribor, Slovenia, active from 1983 to 1984. | 1:44:55 (Pop-up) | ||||
Metropolie Trans |
Žito
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V/A - Ex Yu Electronica Vol I: Hometaping In Self-Management | Monofonika | 2010 | Croatian group founded in 1985. | 1:48:45 (Pop-up) | ||||
Mario Marzidovšek |
Bio-Industrial 4
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V/A - Ex-Yu Electronica, Vol III / Diktatura, Humor, Agresija | Monofonika | 2012 |
"Mario Marzidovšek was one of the pioneers of the Yugoslavian/Slovenian oldschool industrial/noise scene. He started releasing tapes in 1984 (but had already recorded some music a bit earlier), previously being a productive member of the mail art network" - Discogs |
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PP Nikt |
Dunavski Talasi
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V/A - Ex Yu Electronica Vol I: Hometaping In Self-Management | Monofonika | 2010 | P.P. Nikt = Plastično Pozorište Nikt (Plastic Theatre Nikt) | 1:55:26 (Pop-up) | ||||
Gino De Gagi I Nivnite Strasti |
Kambanite
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V/A - Ex-Yu Electronica, Vol IV: Bilo Jednom Na Balkanu | Monofonika | 2013 | 1:57:51 (Pop-up) | |||||
Laibach |
Sveti Urh / Zmagoslavje Volje
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We Forge The Future. Live At Reina Sofía | God Records | 2021 | A reenactment of one of their earliest performances held in Zagreb that led to them being banned in Slovenia & Yugoslavia until 1987, performed here in Spain in 2019. | 2:00:36 (Pop-up) | ||||
Laibach |
Smrt za Smrt
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We Forge The Future. Live At Reina Sofía | God Records | 2021 | 2:09:56 (Pop-up) | |||||
Music behind DJ: Sun City Girls |
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Beirut Slump |
Try Me
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Hysterie (1976-1986) | CD Presents | 1986 | Featuring Bobby 'Berkowitz' Swope on vocals. | 2:18:25 (Pop-up) | ||||
Beirut Slump |
Staircase
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Hysterie (1976-1986) | CD Presents | 1986 | 2:20:19 (Pop-up) | |||||
Beirut Slump |
I Am Lord Jesus
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Hysterie (1976-1986) | CD Presents | 1986 | 2:22:57 (Pop-up) | |||||
8-Eyed Spy |
Swamp
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Hysterie (1976-1986) | CD Presents | 1986 | Lydia Lunch, Jim Sclavunos (both ex-Teenage Jesus and Beirut Slump), Michael Paumgardhen, Pat Irwin and George Scott. | 2:24:44 (Pop-up) | ||||
8-Eyed Spy |
Run Through The Jungle
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Hysterie (1976-1986) | CD Presents | 1986 | 2:26:06 (Pop-up) | |||||
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks |
Red Alert
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Hysterie (1976-1986) | Cd Presents | 1986 | 2:31:03 (Pop-up) | |||||
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks |
Orphans
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Hysterie (1976-1986) | CD Presents | 1986 | 2:31:20 (Pop-up) | |||||
Nash The Slash |
Un Chien Andalou
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Dreams and Nightmares | Cutthroat Records | 1979 | 2:33:58 (Pop-up) | |||||
Tuxedomoon |
Seeding The Clouds
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Half Mute | Celluloid | 1980 | 2:41:58 (Pop-up) | |||||
The Residents |
Boo Who?
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Fingerprince | Ralph Records | 1977 | 2:48:51 (Pop-up) | |||||
Music behind DJ: Melvins |
Dry Drunk ![]() |
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Dead Kennedys |
Stars and Stripes of Corrupution
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Frankenchrist | Alternative Tentacles | 1985 | 2:55:33 (Pop-up) |
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BeeGees Tragedy was nice at 33
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"alone again..." with "those were the days" from around the same time...why was england so maudlin?
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if i ever join this wonderful stream as a dj i wanna do a sgs where i play them at every speed imaginable and do all sorts of christian marclay shit
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it's like the polar opposite of listening to the dead while stoned (and i say this as someone who loves free jazz)
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I do dig their more experimentals stuff that harkens back to their earliest roots, though.
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(even having the balls to turn down DAVID GILMOUR because he wanted to add a guitar solo)
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