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Favoriting April 16, 2018: The Armor of Inscrutability

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments New Approx. start time
Bill Aitken  Xpanse   Favoriting SynthAxe / Guitar player Magazine demo flexi  Guitar Player  1985       
Francis X. And The Bushmen  "Trouble At Madame Dong's" (The Case of the Missing Aphex Aural Exciter)   Favoriting Guitar Player Magazine demo flexi  Guitar Player  1986       
T Cells  You Are In View   Favoriting T Cells 10" EP  SPS International  2001      0:08:59 (Pop-up)
Tater Totz  Rock On   Favoriting Sgt. Shonen's Exploding Plastic Eastman Band Request  Giant Records  1989  cover: David Essex    0:11:25 (Pop-up)
Rabanada's  Fundo Infinito   Favoriting (eyeballs emoji EP)  Chupa Manga  2017      0:15:20 (Pop-up)
Karen Dalton  Something On Your Mind   Favoriting In My Own Time  Light in the Attic  1971/2006      0:18:02 (Pop-up)
Dick Chiclet  It's Raining Frogs   Favoriting Melman Igba - I Fear A New World  Double Crown      *   0:21:27 (Pop-up)
The Illusion  Medley: Why, Tell Me Why / The Real Thing   Favoriting The Illusion  Steed  1969      0:25:38 (Pop-up)
Bonny Doon  Part of Me   Favoriting Longwave  Woodsist      *   0:31:49 (Pop-up)
 
Brazilian Girls  Pirates   Favoriting Let's Make Love  Six Degrees      *   0:46:08 (Pop-up)
Moebius & Beerbohm  Subito   Favoriting Strange Music  Sky  1982      0:49:26 (Pop-up)
D.N.A.  Lionel   Favoriting No New York (V/A)  Antilles  1978      0:52:11 (Pop-up)
Mind Over Mirrors  Feeding On The Flats   Favoriting Bellowing Sun  Paradise of Bachelors      *   0:57:34 (Pop-up)
CCCL  Cernibicua   Favoriting Volume 1  Mute    Chris Carter's Chemistry Lessons  *   0:58:45 (Pop-up)
Spreaders  Indiglo Watch R   Favoriting Rise William Rise - Tribute to William Berger (V/A)  Opposite  2018      1:02:07 (Pop-up)
Olli Aarni  Hehkuva Tuuli (exc)   Favoriting Nielu  Florabelle      *   1:06:19 (Pop-up)
Tor Lundvall  Negative Moon   Favoriting A Dark Place  Dais      *   1:14:32 (Pop-up)
Space Needle  Love Left us Strangers   Favoriting The Moray Eels Eat the Space Needle  Zero Hour  1997      1:19:13 (Pop-up)
 
Unknown Mortal Orchestra  Hunnybee   Favoriting Sex & Food  Jagjaguwar      *   1:31:21 (Pop-up)
Techno Animal vs. Dalek  Classical Homicide (Remix)   Favoriting Megaton 12" single  Matador  2000      1:35:32 (Pop-up)
Telex  Haven't We Met Somewhere Before?   Favoriting Sex  PVC  1981      1:40:45 (Pop-up)
Isley Brothers  Hello It's Me   Favoriting Soul Train (TV)      cover: Todd R    1:44:54 (Pop-up)
Byron Westbrook  Drifting Well / Perception Depth   Favoriting Confluence Patterns  Umor Rex      *   1:49:09 (Pop-up)
International Harvester  Dies Irae / The Runcorn Report on Western Progress   Favoriting Remains  Silence        1:53:16 (Pop-up)
Théâtre du Chêne Noir d'Avignon  Arrivée de la Terre et de Ses Énfants: L'Aurore   Favoriting Aurora  Mellow  1971      2:03:45 (Pop-up)
Christina Vantzou  Lava   Favoriting No 4  Kranky      *   2:06:15 (Pop-up)
Jack Tamul  Lament For Gettysburg   Favoriting Electro/Acoustic  Spectrum  1980      2:08:38 (Pop-up)
Tangerine Dream  Main Title   Favoriting sdtk, "Sorcerer"  MCA  1977      2:16:28 (Pop-up)
Buck Curran  Improvisation 1   Favoriting Morning Haikus, Afternoon Ragas  ESP-Disk` / Obsolete Recordings      *   2:21:54 (Pop-up)
 
Horace Tapscott & the Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra  Desert Fairy Princess   Favoriting Live at IUCC  Nimbus  1979      2:29:41 (Pop-up)
Tarotplane  Trance / Retourner au Soleil   Favoriting First  Aguirre  2015      2:40:46 (Pop-up)
Harry Taussig / Kid Millions  Clash Through a Wall   Favoriting Beyond The Confession: Kid Millions Reworks Harry Taussig  Tompkins Square  2016      2:44:56 (Pop-up)
Al DiMeola  Alternate Chordal Picking   Favoriting Guitar Player Magazine demo flexi  Guitar Player  1985      2:52:43 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:02pm
steveo:

Hi Scott W.! I'd like to apologize for calling you Scotty M. a couple of weeks ago. That was someone I used to work with. also an M looks like an upside-down W. Looking forward to the show!
  3:03pm
bill:

1986 would make a great subject for a show, or segment. So much changed!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:03pm
blee:

DRAMAHHHHH
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:04pm
ThuddNugget:

Ha! This is awesome!
  3:05pm
Pas Musique:

What's up peoples!!!???
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:05pm
Michael 98145:

just think. this flexi may outlast CD technology.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:08pm
Michael 98145:

I saw X at Madame Wong's back in the day.
Avatar 3:08pm
Jeff Moore:

Dunno about no Exciters, but all you stream listeners are listening to Scott through an Aphex Compellor.
Avatar 3:08pm
northguineahills:

Is there a doppelganger for the Aphex Aural Exciter, a genetic identical one by chance?
  3:09pm
JakeGould:

1986 was great year to be an audio equipmnent ad creative who discovered “aural” and “oral” sound the same.
  3:09pm
JakeGould:

WHAT DOES LIFE MEAN WITHOUT AN AURAL EXCITER!?!?!?!
  3:10pm
McGreivey:

Gosh. I guess I need an Aural Exciter. Sold.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:10pm
mrdonutsu:

The first Aural Exciter units were available in the mid-1970s, exclusively on the rental basis of $30 per minute of finished recorded time
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:10pm
Rob (Jerzcity):

@northguineahills: I think there is...my buddy Richard D knows a little more
Avatar 3:10pm
thedunkel:

hot man - real hot
  3:10pm
JakeGould:

1986 was a magical year… Not everything was completely lunkheaded yet…
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:10pm
mrdonutsu:

That would be $135/minute in today's $$!!
  3:11pm
McGreivey:

BACK DOOR! Ahem.
Way far cool!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:11pm
steveo:

$3000 an hour?
  3:11pm
JakeGould:

$135 a minute for aural excitement?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:12pm
mrdonutsu:

$8100/hour to crack the charts!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:12pm
Michael 98145:

those are lawyer wages
Avatar 3:12pm
Jeff Moore:

Ooh, Big Bottom!

"The original Aphex Aural Exciter, first offered in 1975, came without the Big Bottom circuit, which was added in 1992."
Avatar 3:13pm
northguineahills:

Lultz, Rob; (why do I know his middle name is David, not so Cornish).
Avatar 3:13pm
Yair Yona:

always great to be back :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:13pm
Parq:

What would happen if I ran my computer keyboard through that thing. Would it improve my writing? I mean, like, exponentially?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:14pm
listener james from westwood:

Marijuana is the flame, heroin is the fuse, the Aphex Aural Exciter is the bomb!
Avatar 3:14pm
Wild Neil||Peace All:

@Micheal 98145: I read on the internet that CDs may last between 7 and 200 years. So who is really right?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:14pm
mrdonutsu:

Damn, just read that someone left KEXP $10 million in their will. Won't some rich weirdo hurry up and croak for the sake of WFMU?
Avatar 3:15pm
Chris from DC:

What would happen if you ran Aphex Twin through that thing?
Avatar 🧩 Swag For Life Member 3:16pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Imagine the surprise if a person ordered an Anal Exciter by mistake.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:16pm
Parq:

The T Cells track sounded like my mind on most Mondays.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:17pm
steveo:

KEXP: "Initial investments planned for the funds include “education programs aimed at inspiring younger audiences to engage their curiosity around music, services and programming for emerging artists, media creation experiences for aspiring DJs and music journalists, and outreach activities aimed at deepening KEXP’s connections to local communities.”"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:17pm
Bas NL:

Scott! Everybody!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:17pm
Rob (Jerzcity):

holy crap. this song.
  3:17pm
Philip:

I've never said this before, but the original recording was perfect, and it would be impossible to do anything better or worthy.
  3:18pm
McGreivey:

I haven't had any CDs fail yet, unless they were scratched. I do have some 15-year-old CDRs that I haven't played in 15 years, though.
  3:18pm
J:

You get this stuff out of Utopia studios in Woodstock?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:18pm
steveo:

if you invest that and get 5%, that's $500,000, which is 1/3 of WFMU's main marathon goal...
Avatar 3:18pm
northguineahills:

@Wild Neil: I have cdrs from 20 years ago that still play in my car cd player but not on any other, so, yeah, who know?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:20pm
pinholga:

The colossal waste of potential that is KEXP never ceases to enrage me.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:20pm
Michael 98145:

will i still want to hear my CDs 200 years from now?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:22pm
хтinа:

hey scott, tater totz just sent my coworker spinning back to another world lol
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:24pm
Parq:

What a haunting voice Karen Dalton has.
Avatar 3:25pm
βrian:

Yep, she always makes me stop what I'm doing.
Avatar 3:25pm
northguineahills:

Karen Dalton!!!! (a fave of mine!)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:27pm
steveo:

this song goes well with this gif a.disquscdn.com...
Avatar 3:28pm
northguineahills:

@Wild Neil (and everyone else): I know you're Hank Williams fan, here's a recording of a fan recording of a live performance in Western PA in 1952: youtu.be...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:31pm
mrdonutsu:

Here ya' go kids! reverb.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:32pm
Uncle Michael:

Or you can buy a used Type C for $60.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:34pm
Scott Williams:

Hello friends! Mega distracted, short songs & stuff, sorry. HELLO! Very happy to be back - sure hope you enjoyed Monica's fill-in last week!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:35pm
Michael 98145:

Monica always excels !
  3:44pm
Joe:

Reds Kris’s
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:46pm
Uncle Michael:

Serious question, Scott: Is the Aphex in the chain before or after compression?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:47pm
Rob (Jerzcity):

Was that Joe's original, or did he cover Bryce's EAS test from Friday?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:47pm
steveo:

ain't
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:47pm
Webhamster Henry:

Madame Dong's was also featured on the 365 Days project. I used to have a big pile of Keyboard Mag flexis, all gone now.
www.wfmu.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:49pm
Rob (Jerzcity):

knew it. youse guys are all masters of your craft
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:49pm
Bas NL:

Nah... Heisenberg compensator failure..
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:49pm
steveo:

just check the eas log to find a working eas test in the archives and then use the pop-up player to play it over the air?
Avatar 🧩 Swag For Life Member 3:50pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

I think the only flexi I ever had was one from a box of Sugar Crisp cereal from the 70s. (Or maybe it was from Honey Combs?)
Avatar 🧩 Swag For Life Member 3:53pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

People should call 201-209-9368 and leave a substitute EAS announcement.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:53pm
Webhamster Henry:

Fans of Flexis can check out the venerable Internet Flexi Museum, curated by DJ MAC: www.wfmu.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:53pm
Rob (Jerzcity):

I remember having a McDonald's flexi.
Gross.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:54pm
Rob (Jerzcity):

it was probably just a big mac patty with grooves cut into it
Avatar 3:56pm
Chris from DC:

Yes!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:57pm
Rob (Jerzcity):

Uh-huh!
Avatar 3:58pm
βrian:

Gotta love a track named Lionel. Choo-choo.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:04pm
Parq:

Speaking of MAC (see W/M Harry @ 3;53), he was in the papers this past weekend:
www.nytimes.com...
Avatar 4:14pm
βrian:

This reminds me of a certain second-grade field trip. That was an odd day.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:16pm
fred:

This Olli Aarni track would be a fit for a Twin Peaks soundtrack
Also, hello Scott and all
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:17pm
Scott Williams:

wait'll ya hear the next track, fred!
  4:18pm
Pas Musique:

Spreaders!
Avatar 4:18pm
northguineahills:

What fred said....

I'm going out on a limb and say they're Finnish....
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:19pm
Rob (Jerzcity):

reminds me of that Lenny Cohen True Detective beat
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:19pm
Rob (Jerzcity):

nevermind
Avatar 🧩 4:20pm
Rev. Turnip Druid:

Day off today, can't tune in, but felt a tickle in the cortex... must've been the Moebius/Beerbohm. Lovely LP, that. Cheers, lovely lizards.
Avatar 4:21pm
Chris from DC:

Yay, Tor Lundvall
Avatar 4:28pm
northguineahills:

I was in the other room.... I love Space Needle!
Avatar 4:29pm
northguineahills:

and what Chris said...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:31pm
joe:

It's so bright
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:33pm
joe:

Did you try turning it off and on again?
  4:35pm
Tom from Maplewood:

What is the genre of “easy listening” music so difficult to listen to?
  4:35pm
medson:

Hola Scott
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:35pm
Scott Williams:

@joe, I'm scared to! they might find out, and then what...?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:39pm
Scott Williams:

Hey Medson! See you Wednesday
  4:39pm
medson:

Yes Sir
Avatar 4:46pm
northguineahills:

huh, I have that Techno Animal vs Dalek....
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:49pm
Michael 98145:

Hello, World
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:49pm
Uncle Michael:

Who sings better than Ronald Isley?
  4:52pm
Kudubundu:

Isley Bros sounding cool tonight ( in the UK). Perfect!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:52pm
Parq:

Check out that turn-on-a-dime octave change.
Avatar 4:53pm
Carmichael:

Heya Scotty and Isley Brothers.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:55pm
common:

good day Scott, all!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:55pm
Rob (Jerzcity):

ahhhhhhh
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:00pm
coelacanth∅:

greetings Scott and others
  5:00pm
listener monica:

hello scott!
  5:02pm
listener monica:

and hello coelacanth!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:03pm
coelacanth∅:

hey you following me?!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:06pm
Scott Williams:

Hello Monica!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:10pm
fred:

My dad told me I once attended a Théâtre du Chêne Noir performance, sleeping through it. I was 5 or 6 at the time
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:11pm
Scott Williams:

I'm jealous, Fred!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:13pm
Michael 98145:

( learned something new : Chêne Noir == Black Oak )
Avatar 5:16pm
northguineahills:

Ok, I have a story. I found this Jack Tamul LP in a thrift store, when I was an undergrad. My friend found that he lived outside of Jacksonville, so we looked him up and called him. He said he no longer composed music and discounted this album as rubbish, and only djed weddings (this was about '96).
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:17pm
Scott Williams:

Good story, ngh! He's wrong, of course, this record's fantastic
  5:17pm
Irene:

Amazing show today, Scott! I have been transported...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:18pm
Michael 98145:

- that would be some downbeat wedding -
  5:18pm
brycepunk1:

Thus Jack Tamul track is awesome!
Avatar 5:19pm
northguineahills:

Yeah, I love it!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:19pm
Scott Williams:

Hi Irene! Thank you!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:19pm
fred:

Yeah, that's a great one. Though I get how that wouldn't get him many wedding gigs
Avatar 5:21pm
northguineahills:

I imagine living in FL, one probably got ridiculed for doing electro-acoustic music in the 80s, and one has to make a living. My friend and just wanted to tell him how much we liked the album and if he had any more and/or played live.
Avatar 5:22pm
northguineahills:

I'm still trying to find a copy of the film Sorcerer (never seen it), still a fave sndtrk of mine!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:28pm
Michael 98145:

@ngh, Sorcerer is well-worth seeing
Avatar 5:30pm
northguineahills:

Jack Tamul originally composed that LP for a planetarium show.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:31pm
fred:

@NGH: You and your friend did a cool thing there. If he believed it wasn't a prank, he was probably pleased someone remembered that record. I'll try to see Lea Bertucci this Sunday. Venue not confirmed yet, so it might not happen
  5:33pm
?:

Somebody claiming to be Jack shows up here in the comments in 2011 and doesn't sound negative, so maybe he got over his self=loathing phase: https://continuo.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/jack-tamul-electroacoustic/
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:34pm
listener james from westwood:

Desert Fairy Princess!!
Avatar 5:35pm
northguineahills:

@fred: still jealous. She told me if she ventured south this direction, she be up for a gig. (miss my NYC friends).
Avatar 5:40pm
northguineahills:

@?: Well, it was 19 years old in said comment, and I was 19 and the time, and we just cold called him, so, I'm happy he finally embraced it. I was hoping he was in a suspicious/bad mood when we called him. He wasn't rude, just surprised anyone was interested. I suppose the internet opened him up to the true appreciation of his work.
  5:41pm
ami ad:

Hello D.J Scott,hello all.Hope every one is doing well.Thanks for the music.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:41pm
Scott Williams:

Hey Ami!
Avatar 5:43pm
northguineahills:

Apparently he was doing composition into the early 90s, and then quit until right before 2010. So, the internet must him be made aware that we weren't pranksters, and genuine.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:44pm
Michael 98145:

- and who doesn't like dancing with a Desert Fairy Princess now and then ? ♫♪ -
  5:46pm
ami ad:

Allo Allo.Godt times Saturday.Thanks for the art too.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:46pm
fred:

I probably won't get a chance to do it, but I'll remind her of that promise if I get a chance to talk with her
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thedunkel:

sounding good scott! going to GBV?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:47pm
fred:

My previous comment was @NGH
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:48pm
Scott Williams:

Ahoy Dunkel! Alas, no - you?
  5:51pm
JakeGould:

Hey Scott! This show kept me on a relatively even keel on what is a *cough* sick day for me. That is an actual cough. Not some subtweet.
Avatar 5:52pm
βrian:

I missed the last hour sadly, but this has been great. Thanks.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:53pm
common:

this is good shit.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:55pm
fred:

@Scott: My dad was very surprised I had heard about Théâtre du Chêne Noir, and even more when I told him I heard about it from an American radio station
Avatar 5:56pm
northguineahills:

Get better Kid Millions! Healing vibes your way!
Avatar 5:57pm
northguineahills:

GBV is coming to Gainesville. It's not often a musician I already worship comes here.
Avatar 5:57pm
thedunkel:

yes - GBV on wednesday - it's a must - i'm chalking it up to a religious experience or if ruth asked me to do something …
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:58pm
I am the Upsetter:

These Flexi discs are something. Where is the surface noise?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:59pm
Michael 98145:

yes, thank you, Scott W !
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:59pm
Bas NL:

Thanks for the three hours of ear glue Scott!
Avatar 5:59pm
northguineahills:

Danke, Scott!
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