Storybook Wonderland (#110)

Source here. Originally recoded on May 28rd, 1998.

Another one of my favorite shows, where we collected a bunch of story book records / tapes / CDs (a majority of records, little 45 rpm 7" discs that children would pop into their close-n-play). The thick layers of comforting, encouraging voices telling simple, wholesome stories sends one into a particular kind of madness where your entire childhood can be lived over in the span of 90 minutes and everyone learns a valuable lesson at the end: never do this again.

1. So, we'll just get started here
2. Christmas time, again
   
3. Everything takes practice
   
4. Too much Tammy Faye already
5. This is the story of...
6. It means, "Turn the page."
7. Peter Pan Cotton Tail Pumpkin Eater
8. Read you a story
9. Somewhere
10. You can make believe it happens
11. Get the donkey!
12. Do you notice any difference?
13. Soon, she was lost again
    

Mysterious Beeping and Static (#105)

Source here. Originally recorded on April 23rd, 1998.

One of the more minimalist versions of the show, this one features an almost ethereal avoidance of anything resembling music. The 10 second delay is looped into the main feed, giving a deep deep deep layered background of the previous few minutes.

1. Morse code test
2. Frequency sweep
3. Most people prefer touch-tone
4. Sonar Tube
5. A murmur of voices is barely distinguishable
6. Whispers in the plenum
7. Ping pong ping pong ping pong
8. Telegrammatic Feedback
9. Very low background radiation
10. Radar dish singing bowl
11. A chorus of chaos
12. A little light grinding
13. Finally, a stringed instrument
    

JAPAN (#103)

Source here. Originally recorded on April 9th, 1998.

Part hyperbole, part hubris, part hysteria, part hagiography, part hectoring. I'm sort of torn between the bizarre thought that one could capture all of Japan in a 90 minute tape, and the uneasy suspicion that we captured none of it. This tape is full of interwoven words and music and samples and fiction of what other people think of when they think of Japan. Some of us got in there, too.

1. Chipmunk Geisha
2. Country music melodic lope loop
3. Single String Final Battle
4. I'm afraid we played the Vapors
5. Garbage Percussion
6. Mecha-Elvis has returned
7. A Challenger Appears!
8. Up From the Depths
9. Pearls created by Swine
10. The reluctant warrior awakes
11. So, you think you can defeat me?
12. A perception of no true value
13. Return from whence you came
    

Added by IanF-R:We probably should have titled this show "Naïve Westerners' Japan: A Cultural Mis-mapping Odyssey".

Tac-Tics (#102)

Source here. Originally recorded on April 2nd, 1998.

All the source material here (and this is of course something that you'll hear my voice and then Lisa's voice go over at the beginning of the show) was taken from an Tennessee collage artist known as "Tac". I can't find anything about Tac (or the tiny label that released him, Atlanta's Suitcase Records) on the internets. We had a box of tapes we worked over rather rigorously for this show. The results are here.

It's quite possible we made everything up except the source material. It might have been given to us on golden tablets by lizard people, for all I can remember. This is unbelievably dense and rewards the repeat listener with unparalleled insight.

1. Can the intro be more awkward?
2. The elephants are eating cats at the diner.
3. Elven belt sander sharpens mushrooms.
4. Car wash of the dammed.
5. Trans-dimensional communications channel.
6. Cement mixer hurdy gurdy.
7. Searching online for "media-blaster" yielded something else.
8. My reverb was stuck in the spin cycle.
9. Wartime British Childrens' Radio Programme.
10. Emergency in the Funkoplex.
11. Auto Body Shop Session.
12. SlowRoboDisco.
13. Let's Try a Noisy Song.
    

added by IanF-r:
I wonder if it was this guy. I seem to remember the name (hard to forget), and he's certainly been going at it long enough.

Night of the Vacuum Cleaners (#95)

Source here. Originally recorded on February 12, 1998.

This is one of my favorite episodes. Like, my most favorite of all, possibly.

We had a herd of vacuum cleaners, microphones of all sorts, and (of course) earplugs. We made a din that was never equaled. We tested the limits of sanity and the WXDU carpet. We alienated the last two people who listened on a regular basis.

God, it was fun. What's amazing (to me) is that it still sounds fun after over ten years.

This sounds like a solid hour of (prepared) vacuum cleaners, with incidental music.

1. Vacuumaquatsi
2. Howling Reverb
3. Stick the Microphone ALL THE WAY IN
4. The Layers Get Pretty Deep
5. Sort of a Solo
6. Not the Chamber Music I'd Imagined
7. We stop Sucking
8. More Air and Strings
9. Flowbee?
10. Analog Synth Counterpoint
11. Spin Down
12. Silence
13. Final Metal Action

Of course, you might as well just say:

1. Vacuum Cleaners
2. Vacuum Cleaners
3. Vacuum Cleaners
4. Vacuum Cleaners
5. Vacuum Cleaners
6. Vacuum Cleaners
7. Vacuum Cleaners
8. Vacuum Cleaners
9. Vacuum Cleaners
10. Vacuum Cleaners
11. Vacuum Cleaners
12. Vacuum Cleaners (reprise)
13. Vacuum Cleaners

added by IanF-r: FWIW, here's an image of the show's abbreviated playlist.

Microphone/Macronoise (#93)

Source here. Originally recorded January 29th, 1998.

I spent the last two weekends going to live shows, one of which was Moogfest. I beg your forgiveness.

More than once we had an actual theme, the theme being a limitation on the usual kind of no-holds-barred, free-form mayhem that often took place. This particular show was a show where we started everything with microphones and handheld recording equipment. A genuine din captured live. There are toilet noises, which might be all you need to know.

1. A Pennywhistle for your thoughts.
2. I Fail at Sitar Hero
3. We finally shut off the alarm
4. Background Murmurs and an Organ Recital
5. We built a hurdy gurdy in the junkyard
6. A trek in the parking lot
7. Stuck in the feedback closet
   
8. Distant Weather Report
9. Aetheric Carpentry
10. A slight relenting/recording
11. More Static et.al.
12. Toys and more toys
13. Steel Pot Cathedral

Acoustic Sound (#92)

Source here. Originally recorded on January 22, 1998.

This one is mislabeled as (#22). Since I pulled these off of tapes in more or less random order, the inconsistencies didn't stick out as much as they do when I'm parsing through them in chronological order. I make changes where I can, but I haven't re-uploaded the changes, so you'll have to suffer through the occasional misstep. If you're reading this in the year 4000, I've probably made the changes before I died, or left instructions in my will about doing so.

My coffeemaker broke this morning, which isn't an issue for me so much as it is for my partner (who as near as I can tell simply doesn't exist before the first cup). I could link this to the show, which always served to perk me up, but the truth of the matter lies in the previous phrase. Collage is made of everything, and can be made into anything.

This anything features long long long stretches of record manipulation, medium to spare record layering, and nice looping. This compressed astonishingly well.

1. Psychedelic Punk Hayride
2. Queasy Hippie Merry Go Round
3. Metropolis Dub
4. Polyrhythmic Bhangra Dub
5. Squishy Analog Sound Effect Storytime
6. Transit Station for Headless Horsemen
7. Kitchen Tantrums of Distinction
8. Endless Disco Break
9. Not a Banjo Solo at All
10. I Meant Something Different When I Asked For "Electronic Music"
11. Let's Have Some Dope Beats
12. Ok, More Dope Beats
13. Sudden Silence
    

Please, sir, I would like some pizza.

In the realm of things we like, this is one of the things we like.

Back to ASCIIs (#86)

Source here. Originally recorded on December 11th, 1997.

I'm not sure why ASCII is pluralized here, but that's what was on the tape. I'm not sure what it means in this context (and I know I've said that many times before). There's nothing remotely computer related on this track, although there's a lot of interweaving vocal and speech parts. Tight loops, and crafty hooks. There's a certain constant throb to the thing that sort of oozes and jostles you all the way.

1. Honk and Clank
2. Churn Churn Churn Churn Churn
3. THX
4. Hiccup Carnival
5. Tuvan Hiccup
6. A moment to groove
7. Diving mask
8. For His Coming
9. One Long Raspberry
10. Sharpen
11. The tiniest whale
12. Bad horror and worse music
13. Hand-cranked piano

Added by IanF-R:

Okay, I give. I thought I was being clever by making a half-pun on "Basics", as in "Back-to-Basics", "Back-to-BASIC (computer language)", etc. Obviously, it was too far-fetched to translate beyond the day I wrote it down.
But really it doesn't make sense with that explanation, either. I had an infatuation in my early computer-years (circa 1984-1987) with ASCII art like you'd find on the BBS art galleries (didn't we all), and my ignorance of the details behind ASCII/ANSI/etc led me to mythologize its importance to everyday life to some extent, that well, still lurks in my memory, I suppose, being I can talk about it today. Grr. Here's the playlist

(Unnumbered) "Humor is Everywhere"

Source here. Originally recorded on December 6th, 1997.

Occasionally the intrepid actors in the show were called in to substitute for other specialty shows on our fair station. This was usually never done more than once, as we'd bring our disease to to their show. This sort of cross-pollination (or contamination) was a favorite thing (of ours) to do.

This was a show Ian subbed for the comedy show on Sunday. All comedic samples were used and no humor was harmed in the making of this show.

1. First in Flight
2. Whoops a profanity
3. Groucho tells a story
4. Banks and Opera
5. Who Governs This Country?
6. PDQ
7. A Lehrer Moment
8. His remarks will be translated into English
9. B.L.O.N.D.E.
10. Stump the Band
11. Three-Part Invention
12. Moog Tigers
13. We Saved All The Laughter to the End

(#84) A visit from Craig

Source here. Originally recorded on November 27th, 1997.

Thanksgiving happens at or around the same time each year. Relatives come to visit, overindulgence goes from mortal sin to sacrament. This is almost what happened here. I think Ian's brother is the Craig mentioned on this tape, and Lisa and I are absent. However, instead of overindulgence, this set seems almost subdued and restrained, focusing mainly on groovy beats with the occasional intentional background clutter. A delicious diversion. An aperitif. A sorbet.

1. Lozenge
2. Shopping List
3. Exuberationess
4. 1950s Drum and Bass
5. The neighbors are driving me crazy
6. 1-800-mumble-mumble
7. AIR Interlude
8. AM feedback dance party
9. I have amnesia, help me
10. Bass instincts
11. Eat that chicken
12. Devolve into Skronk
13. I tripped over the orchestra.

Added by Ian F-r:
This show's flowsheet.

(#83) WILD WEST

Source here. Originally recorded November 20th, 1997.

Back on Track?

Roundin' them up in this show, our intrepid artists collected a variety of clips/tunes/effects that represented a particular view of the as-reported Wild West. It's not a unique mythos, but America - as always - buys into this mythos wholesale. Collectivisim be dammed, we're going to Manifest Destiny ourselves all the way to the other ocean using entitlement and guns.

To a certain extent, this mythos lives on today (until you get to the actual West Coast). Landlocked America welcomes you back with open arms and 24-hour Adult Superstores lining the freeway; as long as you're not too funny lookin'.

1. Faintly "Hey Pa!"
2. Citizens' Band and Guns
3. Appalachia Background
4. Crosstalk Hoedown
5. Capture and Display it
6. Dropping Open Plains Science
7. The Carter Family votes Republican
8. Big Sky Country
9. There Were More Gypsy Circuses than One Might Expect
10. Trucker Dirge and Requiem for Rail
    
11. IT'S A TWISTER
12. On Command, Zombie Reagan
13. Dead-End Gulch, pre-Ambush
    

Added by Ian F-r:
Flowsheet is here.

They're Here (#80) Halloween #1

Source here. Originally recorded on October 30th, 1997.

I suppose I could spin a yarn about trying to wait until Halloween and simply NOT HAVING THE PATIENCE, but in reality I've been a little slack. I'll place the blame squarely where it belongs: the awesome weather.

This is one of the first Halloween shows I did with TKDF, and I think it's in fact one of the first ones recorded, if not the FIRST ACTUAL HALLOWEEN SHOW EVER. There's plenty of spooky fun to be had here, so download and play in the background when the little ones come to visit and ensure you always have a wealth of candy leftover forever and ever again.

1. Someone's at the door
2. Cackling and moaning
3. A Dismemberment Plan
4. That Piano Music
5. INFERNAL MACHINES
6. There's something about an 80's horror movie analog synthesizer
7. Singing around the campfire, hopefully
   
8. Vincent Price grooving with the pict's small furry animals
9. In the bowels of the gypsy calliope
   
10. The chanting the chanting the chanting the chanting
11. GET OUT
12. I can hear the traffic just above the sewer grate
13. Love theme from Halloween #1
    

Added by Ian F-r:
Flowsheet here.

A small milestone barely worth mention.

We've had over 100 downloads from our Internet Archive page. That's kind of neat. Thanks to all you folks checking us out.

Animal Farm (#78)

Source is here. Originally recorded on October 16, 1997.

Still buried deep in the heat of the summer (at least right now), I arrive at a fall recording from 1997. Fall around here means the State Fair, and while rides and deep fryers and sham-wows are pretty good, the State Fair is an agricultural event, full of living examples of edible critters from around the state. I was fairly certain that was the intent of this show, until I heard the dog barking.

It's probably still the intent of this show. This show is thick with animal sounds of all shapes, sizes, and demeanors. A cacophony from start to finish, with touches of appropriate music in various places.

1. We fall fubftitute the f for the s
2. I heard the best dogs of my generation baying at the moon
3. Cats, big and small
4. Monkey Business
5. Robot cow flyby unsettles the dogs
6. The scientists converse about birdcalls
7. Grotto
8. Grotto to Beerhall transition
9. Beerhall or Farmhouse Hoedown?
10. Hyenas and Cows
11. Cows and Elephants
12. Birds in the Night
13. The Steel Guitar Carries Me Home

Added by Ian F-r:
This show's flowsheet.

Much To Do / Mush TuTu (#71)

Source also here. Recorded on August 28th, 1997.

This one's a shorty, so I should have done long before this. Oh well.

There are fewer elements in a shorter time in this, so the descriptions while accurate, are a little repetitive (heh). I don't know why "Baby Driver" was so popular with us, I can only plead inebriation. I have two favorite loops in this track, and they should be pretty obvious. Some good points happen in the middle and near the end, with the school-house-rocky kind of loops.

1. Hello, this is Ricardo Montalban
2. Bumping the Electric Orchestra
3. Carsick Guitar Tuning
4. Low Rent Counterpoint
5. Ricardo Returns
6. Secret Arpeggio
7. One Car Traffic Jam
8. We might - in fact - take it, after all
9. A fine mess, indeed
10. Cartesian Duality Refuted
11. Ziddy Bop
12. Classic Computer Music Sound Collection
13. Everything we wanted to do crowded in at the end

Added by IanF-r:
Flowsheet? Here.

Tape Loop Marxist (#67)

Should be “Tape Loop Archaeologist”. What the hell were we doing here? It's as if the tape's been buried thirteen years in damp peat. There's certainly no Marxism present, except perhaps the reduction of all sounds to an equal level of recognizance, which is kind of the aural equivalent of blurry.

I vaguely remember attempting twice to make an entire show out of one long tape loop which was jury-rigged to stretch off of the station's reel-to-reel tape machine, and I think that's what this is. It's a shorter show, a mere 37-odd minutes of unintelligible swamp and blowing air. I've listed notes for imaginary sources, as I've no clue what was actually used to make these sounds.

Direct link to file here. Originally heaved into the airwaves on July 31, 1997. Unhelpful playlist sheet here.

1. Ross ice shelf cracking apart under the weight of tourists
2. Thousands of timbered trees floating past over slow rapids on their way to the port of Gdańsk
3. Static on an analog telephone line as you listen to the asthmatic breathing of a tubercular wooly mammoth
4. Dream you had once of an out-of-control party where the host unexpectedly turned into a werewolf
5. Rummaging in your pocket for the perfect styrofoam peanut
6. Hiccuping belt sander in its last few minutes of functional life
7. Dragging a small tree over twelve lattice fences piled flat on top of each other
8. World’s largest thunder sheet, 400 yards long but only 1/8 inch thick
9. Furious drum circle in a hurricane, heard from inside a quonset hut filled with chainsaw sculptures
10. Being hit in the face with a wave of mud on a riverbank in the Amazon
11. Riding inside a aluminum-sided bus being driven sideways in gale force winds
12. Killing flies on a hardwood floor with a pennyloafer while vacuuming the drapes
13. 5-minute re-enactment of The Matrix on an enormous moving walkway which is slipping its bearings

Purty (#65)

Source here. Original airdate July 17, 1997.

The "pretty sounds" show. This post has the unusual and perhaps unimportant distinction of having the airdate (aside from the year) closest to the posting date. One measly day off. This show, far from our usually relentless grating cacophony, is an honest attempt at smoothness, harmony, and a mellow vibe. One thing that really stands out about this track is how much we tried to slow things down and let them develop in a more unforced way.

You are free to come hunt me down for using the phrase "mellow vibe".

1. Bass loving fungus
2. Zen gong pong
3. World's largest glass organ
4. At the car wash
5. Car wash, windows rolled down
6. A brief, rocking interlude
7. Stereo Separation Blues
8. Double time
9. Hork
10. MASTER OF THE PAN FLUTE
11. Ken Nordine loves you
12. Serious violins
13. Who wants the hip-hop?

Added by Ian F-r:
This show's flowsheet.

Moods of TKDF (#63)

Source available here, and the show was originally broadcast on July 3rd, 1997 (thirteen years ago today).

Mood music? Aside from the Space Invaders disco near the beginning of the show, most of the sounds in this episode fall on a mood scale between "Zen-like/Lethargic/Asleep" and "Spacey/Dreamy/Artificially Stimulated". A quiet, or at least sitting/lying down show, for most.

An orchestral record of the smooth, mood music type seems to linger throughout the show in various echo and flange-effect chambers, which to me gives the whole show a happy-sappy feel. Other recognizable sounds are yours truly trying in vain to put a caller on the air, clipped phone messages, and a recording of fireworks mailed to us from another radio show in Minnesota of *their* Fourth of July show.

1. Kosmische Orkester
2. Vague Difficulties
3. Sardonic Warfare
4. Crumbly Snow
5. Blue Flowers
6. Limping Acid
7. Swooping Absence
8. Speedtape Burbles
9. Reverbed Cowbell
10. Misirlou Jazz
11. Gymnasium Pianos
12. Kosmische Kindergarten
13. Churchill's Funeral

Added by Ian F-r:
This show's flowsheet.

Insanity Sounds (#60)

Source available here. The show was originally broadcast on June 15th, 1997.

This show might have been a planned theme show or just named after the theme appeared spontaneously. It seems to hover around/jab at/scurry under the topic of mental health & illness, and it employs delicate as well as blunt instruments. The overall feel is harried, and you can hear a lot of frantic voices, some heavy effects, and an occasionally violent instability, as well as deja vu à la Catch-22 and excerpts from a psychology radio program.

This is a good example of a long-format show which sticks to the collage-mix with little to no break until the end. It's quite difficult to be so frenzied and confused for a straight 90 minutes. Often times the shows drop into musical interludes, but with this one, you get no such breathers.

1. Fuzz For Junk/Extended Cyborg Death Scene
2. A World Insane
3. A Slide Whistle Sneaks Up & Blows in Your Ear
4. Cheering Man Takes His Date to a John Zorn Show
5. Did He Say Dr. Tiger?
6. Strangled or Strangling
7. It's the Bomb-ardier, & He's Still All Right
8. Recipe: Waco Funk-Rock Puree
9. Happy Place Soundtrack
10. Twinkling Spasms in Turtle Soup
11. Talkin' World War Baby Telephone Call Blues
12. Time Travel in the Seventies/Sound of Blood
13. Black Belt Coming Down

Upcoming Holiday, 2-for-1 Sale

In light of the national holiday and my own 8th wedding anniversary, I am preparing to post the next two shows this weekend. One reason is that I am really enjoying revisiting the shows.

Second, this will mean that the bonus post will be a show originally from July 3, 1997, almost exactly thirteen (13) years ago to the day. Seems to me like a coincidence worth celebrating.

Here's hoping your plans to grill your food over flames and explode small, controlled incendiary devices go well and with only minor injuries.

The Clumsy Attempt (#58)

Source here. Originally aired May 29th, 1997.

Once again, I'm stumped for a Theme. This may be the reason this particular tape is called "The Clumsy Attempt". It does have a lot of experiments with negative space, though. One problem you get with a collage show (especially a college collage show), is the urge to throw everything at the broadcast antenna you can in the space of the hour or so you have allotted.

This is a mistake.

The value of "less" cannot be overstated. I could go into lots of music theory about why this is the case, but this is something to hear more than write about. Listen to pop music all this week, and if you find yourself confused and disoriented, consider what the music would be like if producers followed a maxim of "less".

1. Crazy Birds are the new Crazy Dinosaurs
2. Zoo Gymnastic Meet
3. Carly Simon / Mr T. / Tammy Faye
4. Field Mice and Bad Jokes
5. Smugglers and Marriage
6. Somebody Else's Problem
7. Fish
8. And Mice Jesus
9. French Dressing
10. Oh My God It's Amway
11. Twitchy Violins
12. Z-Man Speaks
13. Americana

Added by Ian F-r:
This show's flowsheet, with Stern comments added.

Black Boxes (#57)

Source here. Originally recorded on May 22nd, 1997.

I hesitate to say this is a completely muddled mess, because sometimes it just worked out that way. However, in this case we were working with a particular CD and everything just snowballed on itself. The CD was Des Incurables, by Disque 9. And it seemed to infect everything in the show with its off kilter chewy distorted craziness.

I mean, the whole thing is sort of nuts, even the perverse hip-hop stuff at the end.

1. Maybe actually too much stuff going on at once
2. Non-ICP Dark Carnival
3. Jazz Fusion with occasional bursts of Metal
4. Hand Cranked Distortion Pedal
5. Guitar Meets Angle Grinder
6. Brian Eno has a Clumsy Intern
7. Crosstown Moped Muppet Traffic
8. Mushroom Disco
9. Tammy Faye Break
10. Twitchy Creepy Talking Moment
11. Put up the oars and get with the Lord
12. Can't ford the Fjord in a Ford
13. Rocking out with the Chorus

Added by Ian F-R:
I'm so glad to hear this show (and the Disque 9 itself) again. This is one of those records that haunts you for years as a lost unknown classic.
This show's sparse flowsheet.

Fuller Brush Man (#55)

Source here. Originally recorded on May 15, 1997

Yes, I skipped a week.

Sometimes, things get a little busy.

I've made it up to you, though, because this one is EXTRA LONG. Initially, when I was ripping these tapes, when I got to a show that took up two tapes, I'd paste them together. That turned out to be much more of a pain than I thought it would be, so I stopped. This is a show from before that.

Lots of interesting voice samples again, from speeches, stories, and radio plays. More use of reverb, and much more French House music than is necessary.

1. Rubber Band Reverb Speech
2. Round and Round
3. Now you are Scratching
4. Make French House Sound Even More Like Space Disco
5. (#4 Reprise)
6. Piano Prepared by Aliens
7. Tight Loop Kung Fu Battle
8. Do Not Argue with the Cops
9. Coyotes signify wilderness
10. Redneck Rave-Up
11. Excuse Me, Sir
12. Focus! Man!
13. There is No Exemption for Home Taping
    

Added by IanF-R:
This show's flowsheet.

Cheering Man (#54) Happy Memorial Day

Source here. Originally recorded on May 8th, 1997.

May 8th is my brother's birthday. Apropos of nothing, really.

The Title "Cheering Man" refers to... well... that guy you keep hearing the the background all the way through the piece. This is full of the human voice, instructional tapes, singing, chanting, murmurs, conversation. It's like four radio plays at once; constantly upstaging each other and taking the narrative somewhere crazy and awesome. Near the end, we should call it "Typing Man"

1. Outtakes from Mars Attacks!
2. Sounds like Vincent Price.
   
3. We didn't start the fire.
4. Strain.
5. The Clowns are not Made Less Frightening.
   
6. Speed Learning.
7. Reading is Fundamental
8. Proper Home Keys
9. WWW Space
10. Twitchcore
11. Very Mellow Breakfast
12. Wild West Techno
13. Fire! Fire! Fire!
    

Added by IanF-R:
This show's flowsheet.

Homemade Secrets (#51)

Source here. Originally broadcast on April 17th, 1997.

Careful observers will note that I skipped a day. That's because the skipped day has a "p1" on the recording, indicating there might be another tape out there waiting to be "ripped" into the computer. We shall see.

More careful observers will note that I misspelled "Homemade" in the metadata. That will be fixed.

This one is airy, expansive, reverberant. The sound stretches out across unknown expanses of space, bouncing back and forth, increasing before dying away. Lots of reverb / echo / delay on this one. We are floating in space. Murmurs of half heard conversations envelop us.

1. Chewy Crunchy Metal Warping
2. Feedback and Violence (Violins?)
3. Bird Filtering
4. Adventures in Surprise Dentistry
5. Overtones and Rocks and Bones
6. Foghorn Film Noir
7. All Static, All The Time
8. Lunar Jazz Broadcast
9. Original Reverberation Nation
10. Whispered Accusations
11. Prelude To The Final Leather Battle
12. Keep Your Heart In Tune
13. Random Musical Outro

Added by IanF-R:
This show's flowsheet.

Demonophone/Infernophone (#46)

Source here. Originally aired on March 13, 1997.

The title of this track gives us the sense of some possessed audio source, and further listening does not give us any reason to believe otherwise. My main question is (as always): "Is the spirit evil, or mischievous?" My vote stays with the latter (although the former shows up more and more as the show progresses) as this recording doesn't shy away from the silly, puerile, juvenile, and just plain fun mayhem.

1. Bronx Cheer Lullaby
2. Bronx Cheer Punk. Hook comes shortly
   
3. Remote Robot Races
4. Live Organ Recital
5. Gimme a Kiss
6. Funny Baby Transmission
7. Worst Lawrence Welk Episode Ever
8. Quiet Grooves Follows
9. Nauseous Gamelan
10. Tripping over Turntables
11. Electronic Singing Bowl
12. Cyberpunk Tropical Forest
13. More Dub Than We Know What To Do With
    

Added by IanF-R:
Flowsheet here.

A Review (#45)

Source here. Originally broadcast on March 6th, 1997.

Next week will happen on a Sunday. I'll not make you wait this long again.

This is a saucy, sparkley number, bright, balanced with order and chaos and well mixed of intent and content. I think the idea behind this one was an overview of the best of the previous shows gone before, without actually playing recordings of those shows but rather taking the best ideas had in the past and going over them again for the benefit of the busy listener.

There's a lot of 60's and 70's groove and samples in here with snippets of electronic, salsa, jazz, and rock. Something fun for everyone, guaranteed.

1. Large, Magnificent, Mammals
2. Sanding the Strings
3. The Minutemen appeared in a 60's SciFi Movie
4. Medieval Robots
5. Soft Rock Incursion
   
6. That Strange British Cadence
7. An Interlude
8. This Majestic Fanfare!
9. Secret Jazz Corner
10. Brave As You Are, Beautiful As You Are
11. That's What It's All About
12. "Network" can't be made more spooky
13. All In The Hips
    

Added by IanF-R:
This show's flowsheet. I forgot about Kapotte Muziek until I heard this show again (the quiet bits that sound like mousetraps being stepped on).

How to Produce Triskaidekaphobia (#43)

This show's manic first half is laced with squeals and voices which sometimes creep out into the foreground. It then settles a bit into some spatial studies and musical interludes before returning to a whirling vortex noise finale. It makes me wonder whether the show title referred to generating superstitions or simulating them. Overall, it is an entropic exposition, with a reverb-y, dubby feel throughout, meandering through several dark or stormy dub-places before emerging--fairly gently--in the dub-Andes where it began.

1. Eno's Machu Picchu Summer Breeze
2. We Medical Men Call It Paranoia
3. Parrot Fear Dub
4. Fidgeting, Flailing
5. Ricky Nelson's Fav-o-rite Fade-out
6. Negative Space / Celtic Interluding
7. Down in The Hole, Gleaming Edges Visible
8. The Saxophone Debacle
9. Dong Reverb
10. "Light Fuse, Get Away"
11. Spirit Animal Petting Zoo
12. Out of the Lawnmower & Into the Singularity
13. Gentle Flautro Dub

This show's flowsheet. Originally broadcast and recorded on February 20, 1997. Show also available to stream or download here.

Uncharted Waters (#37)

Source here. Originally recorded on January 11, 1997.

Yes, I know, I'm late this week. I plead vacation, and then vacation recovery, and then vacation recovery recovery, for the delay. My body was in revolt (and revolting it was), due to the medley of maladies I visited upon it.

Enough about me, this is about you. This track begins like a maelstrom across a tundra of metal garbage, and the title suggests a journey with unknown destination. After listening to it twice and then three times, I'm still not exactly sure what kind of trip it is (man). Time and distance are compressed and expanded at whim, and sense of place is nebulous at best.

Draw your own conclusions.

1. The Howling Abyss
2. It Was the Beat that Drove them On
3. Martin Denny is not good for a Hangover
4. The Dogs did not Approve
5. Leviathan: 1; Musical Theater: 0
6. Four Documentaries and a Parade
7. Seeing-Eye Lion
8. Cafeteria on Fire
9. Wait, what kind of Mushroom?
10. No Parking in the White Zone
11. Theme from a Parisian Picnic
12. Distant Techno
13. Wunnerful Wunnerful
    

The Salutatorian Weeps (#36)

Source here. Originally recoded on January 4th, 1997.

I'm not entirely certain what this one "means", and - apropos of nothing- I've filled four boxes of tapes for storage. This could be a rejection of all things related to Pachelbel's Canon in D (which figures greatly in this), or perhaps a meditation on the movie "Ordinary People". A full picture may reveal itself later upon relistening, although I might skip past all the violins.

1. Wow and clatter
2. Aliens and violins (Pachelbel's laser cannon)
   
3. More sax and violins
4. We are not done with that cannon yet
5. Children merrily skipping
6. Alpert and Esquivel fight it out
7. Burroughs struggles to be heard
8. That would be fine
9. Kleztistic
10. The Little Fishes are in Bed
11. Take a breath
12. The floor is about to give
13. Oversize linotype

Added by IanF-R:
After hearing this one all the way through a few times, I think this show has long been one of my favorites in its evolving, un-themed, sporadic and organic development. The long continuum from W. S. Burroughs' appearance to the questionable "wake up!" shriek is one I remember well. Hearing it again, I can also name some of the sources long forgotten even though I don't have the flowsheet to share:

• Dr. Fiorella Terenzi (space sounds)
• Nonsense Verse, album of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear
• Del Wood, queen of honky tonk piano
• K. K. Null and Jim O'Rourke, A New Kind of Water (garbage guitars)
• Smegma, unknown album (loops, horns, and car alarms)
• De La Guarda
• Music to Grow Plants By (the cheesy "Alpert/Esquivel" music masking a weird high-pitched tone heard between tracks)

Xmas Substitute Attempt of Radio (#32)

Original source here. Recorded on December 21, 1996.

Christmas in July I understand, but April? We're only a quarter of the way through the year, barely done with Easter. Even with me being late a day and everything. That's just the luck of the draw, I guess. I grab tapes, put them into the computer, upload them and post them in order.

Christmas, at least as known by the people who won't go within 10 miles of a mall during that time, is rich with various media tools. Even though we select only sound, we have nearly three quarters of a century of recorded media to draw from.

This selection may lead to feelings of vertigo, slight nausea, disorientation, and tidings of comfort and joy.

1. Super Creepy Santa
2. Hip Hop Ren Stimpy
3. Xmasoqatsi
4. Mallocalypse Now
5. Swingin' with Santa
6. Dance of the Eightball Fairies
7. Weaving Towards Bethlehem
8. The Hardest Working Santa
9. Santa's Delight
10. It doesn't get Whiter Than This
11. Chuckle
12. Yuletide Stringing
13. Inexplicable Outro
    

Added by IanF-R:
When Jason says above "It doesn't get whiter than this", he's referring to a featureless & foreign-pressed Pat Boone record of Christmas songs that had the most garish and grotesque cover art imaginable (Boone's teeth were whitened by scratching the printing plates). Sadly I no longer have this monster.

"May Contain Some of the Following Ingredients..."

I wanted to chime in and mention that I've added flowsheet links to all currently posted shows, and I'll continue this as new shows get updated. Since Jason is posting the show itself, I'll add the flowsheet links to his posts as they appear. They are also collected into a Flickr set.

Flowsheets were the station's method of tracking which songs get aired when. This included "playlist" or recommended tracks as well as local artists and some genre variations. In earlier shows, I was solo and required to include playlist songs. Later, the show was designated specialty (exempt from playlist requirements), we sometimes had show themes, and I recruited friends into helping me. This meant I couldn't know what musics other people were adding, sometimes from another room, and I was just busier throughout the show.

From the early flowsheets, you can see these music and collage segments pretty clearly. I'd play a cluster of playlist tracks (marked in the margin with "I", "II", or "G"), and then I'd switch to audio-collage with various and random collected materials. Six playlist tracks were required each hour. I liked the playlist music, but for solo collage I often used thrift-store finds or non-musical audio to layer into "figure vs. ground" or "conversation" mixes. Of course, I was never able to write down every piece of sound that made it to the air. Some shows have only the barest notes on the corresponding flowsheet, due to the difficulty in reporting what we had specifically played.

The earlier shows are also "Excerpts" tapes, which means I was only stopping and starting the tape to record the collages as well as music I particularly liked. This means (almost) everything in the recording would be on the flowsheet, but not everything on the sheet was recorded.

In any case, between Jason's subjective "Notes" lists and the (more?) objective flowsheet documents, you might get a textual sense of what is contained in each show's audio. We were usually laughing out loud at the juxtapositions which occurred during the shows; for me, the point was to enjoy the absurdity and un-realism. Hopefully you the reader might also find the audio enjoyable to hear now, as time removes the recordings further and further from the current musical sound culture.

Another slight diversion.

This is what archiving looks like.... (Flickr page here)

Thanksgiving Break (#29)

Original Source here. Recorded on November 30th, 1996.

Given the date, there's really no overarching theme here, but the fact that Thanksgiving and Ostara are two holidays for overindulgence could lend a certain thematic tone to at least this post above and beyond what we were reaching for on that particular night.

Thanksgiving (and, by extension, Easter I guess), are lonely times at college radio stations. Most of the main DJs are gone, and the second stringers are in full force. Being perennial second-stringers we generally had all the time we could claim (not necessarily a good thing). Like the Grateful Dead, and extended remix might give way to distended sessions of noodling.

Sometimes this worked out just fine.

1. Come On, Every Beat Box
2. Back in the 20s, we only had wood burning Industrial Music
3. Not the First Song From Our New Album
4. 80's Horror Movie
5. We're Going to Take a Bath on This One.
6. Strings or Hinges
7. Story Chant Time
8. Where is it Hiding?
9. Alvin, Simon, Theodore
   
10. The Man Who Killed Carlos Santana
11. I Ended up Barfing on Bing Crosby
12. Will You? Won't You?
13. I Tripped Over Can

Added by IanF-R:
This show's flowsheet is a little more informational than others due to the show's less thematic, more ad hoc format.

Spies & Conspiracy (#25) Late in the Evening.

Original source here. Recorded on November 9, 1996

This one enters the murky, misunderstood world of international espionage. The jets screaming through the sky in this track mirror the heavy winds currently outside my window, the errant cool breeze carrying an imaginary whiff of JPTS.

This is heavy on the 50's and 60's. The height of the sexy Cold War antics. The later decades, while still dangerous (look it up?) were decidedly less sexy as the budgets shrank and the glamor faded. Perhaps, too, do the Russians and Eastern Bloc countries pine for the early years, where Leon Theremin himself was designing bugs for his country.

The toys got too small, the nerds took over, it became a war of blue jeans and bean counters. It's over, of course. We no longer hide under our desks as practice. Such is the way of the future.

1. Secret Flyover
2. Psychedelic Transatlantic
3. Join the smaller, slower Air Force
4. Torture Swing
5. Mission Ricochet
6. Here comes the rain again
7. Yet another Bond theme
8. Can we make Mancini smoother? No.
9. Damn you, Samuel Morse
10. The phone call came from the next hotel room
11. Mistaken Identity
12. Salute the Flag
13. Woosh and we're gone
    

Added by IanF-R:
Flowsheet for this show.

Religion and its Predecessor, Feedback (#24)

Original source here. Recorded on November 2, 1996.

This is a pretty good bit of synchronization, seeing as how Easter is just around the corner (although maybe the indulgent nature of this is more suited to Fat Tuesday. It's possible). There's not as much traditional feedback in this one as you might expect, but the fact that I'm currently suffering under a head cold and consuming quite a bit of NyQuil means that it's all sounding a bit more transcendent than usual.

I would say "Take this with a dose of cough syrup", but I am not a doctor or a reverend.

1. To the four corners of the Earth
2. Stomp. Clap. Shout.
3. Speeding up and Slowing down
4. Sweating to the Great Old Ones
5. Religion Blurs the Line Between Country and Gospel.
6. If it's not true for you. It's not true.
7. Which Delta are We Talking About?
8. If the Spirit Moves You
9. Shortwave Message to the Lord
10. Trying to Watch the Game
11. Looking for a Snake to Handle
12. Call to Prayer
13. Greater Than One

Added by IanF-R:
Link to this show's flowsheet

Loopy Lupi Loops (#22) Alcohol May Have Been A Factor

Original source here. Recorded October 19, 1996.

Drinking is strictly verboten while on the air, but when I'm going over a show that's been recorded in the past, it might happen. I blame brunch, and yes I know it's almost eight in the evening.

This particular show was all about the looping; something which we were able to achieve in a billion different ways: One could put tape on a record, causing the needle to skip. An audio tape could be looped on a reel-to-reel or even inside of a cassette. We had a 10 second delay that was used more than once as a really really long loop. Eventually, there were these computers that came in and did all of it. Always, though, the loop (whether beat-matched funk or simply repetitive non-groove) reigned supreme.

1. 1812 Ukelele Overture
2. Vague Led Zeppelin Wannabee
3. Alien Flyby
4. Orchestral Maneuvers, etc.
5. Swoopy Groove Thing
6. Incessant Ringing
7. Statics and Sermons
8. Koo Koo Koo Koo
9. Hidden Metal Ghost
10. Prog Rock with Mallets
11. Meet the Folkers
12. Attack of the Funk Lords
13. Mmm Bop, except not (It's just a thriller)
    

Added by IanF-R:
Link to this show's flowsheet.

This show is quite a murky one, owing probably to poor tape handling during recording process. I think it adds nicely to the atmospheric miasma-tone.
Update:
Actually, I think this was a show where we utilized the reel-to-reel tape loop (see purple/orange photo in sidebar), and (some of) the grain comes from the oxide being slowly ground off the loop of tape as it gets played and recorded and played over and over again.

USATKDFSPACE (#21)

Original source here. Recorded October 12, 1996.

A week of diligent uploading has gotten me well ahead of the game. I'm pleased with this particular development. The breathing room enabled me to play outside in some wonderful weather this afternoon. On a clear day, you can see forever.

On a clear night, which is when we usually performed the show, the sky can open up with stars. During this show, the eyes of the performers - often focused on the tack of a needle in a record groove, the spin of a tape spool, or a cursor tracking a waveform slowly across a screen - were drawn up there into the æther in a cacophony of pop/fringe culture.

Lurching into the stars.

1. Space is the Place
2. Don't forget one in the Command Module
3. 38 Year-Old Americans
4. Now, a New World is Open
5. Spirit in the Sky
6. Barely Able to Penetrate
7. Dune, Sweet
8. Adverb, Verb Noun
9. Apollo 13 Wars
10. IMPORTANT TRANSMISSION
11. John Williams? This Late in the Show?
12. Walk Walk Walk Walk
13. And I Love You
    

Added by IanF-R:
This show's flowsheet is particularly sparse, but the back has a diagram that I must have drawn but don't remember.


What I recognize and remember, content-wise:

• many movie soundtracks
• Sun Ra
• Star Wars storybook record
• Lucia Pamela
• Juno Reactor
• lots of Man...Or Astroman? samples
• Dr. Fiorella Terenzi's recordings from radio telescopes
• DJ Spooky

This show was the collaborative theme-show that really turned out well and inspired others to come. The credit and responsibility for these shows done with friends rests equally across multiple people, and I was usually not organized enough to give much instruction or guidance when themes shows were planned. Nevertheless, they were highlights of my stay at the station. I'll refrain from calling out names, but I do offer my sincere thanks to those souls who braved the studio and put up with my madness-methods for these projects.

Monsters v. Everyone (#19)

Original source here. Recorded on September 28th, 1996.

More logistical notes. I finally managed to get the uploading to the Internet Archive working again, and the buffer between what's available and what's been posted is once again on the increase. The feeling of well-being the creates is indescribable except to those similarly afflicted.

The afflictions available in this show are numerous and varied. Monsters v. Everyone stretches the description of "monster" (and, in fact, "everyone" as well) to give you a creeping dread not normally found outside of October. Plenty of chewy backwards masking and airy atmospherics.

1. Trapped in Snow
2. Gasp
3. Bat Power Dive
4. Bell Haven
5. Marco Polo
6. Speaking in Tongues
7. Mammal Attack
8. Sing us a song, you're the Piano Monster
9. Chinese Water Tenure
10. Deep Inside the Haunted Ship
11. Aviary
12. Example 22
13. Bell Haven (reprise)
    

Added by IanF-R:
Link to this show's flowsheet. At some point I might try to OCR these...

Music & Noise (#18)

Source also found here. Recorded September 14th, 1996.

The first one with a title! This is a momentous occasion, best left unmarked although remarked upon.

Or maybe not. I will say that this is the first one I've posted with a title, and hence a theme to the show. This is also a bit short. There are probably others in my ever growing back catalog that have names that were recorded before this.

There's been a question as to what to _do_ with the tapes once I've finished this endeavor. I'm boxing them up and probably will include a printout of the documentation as a guide, but they're too fragile to put in an attic/basement, and yet not worth keeping around for close perusal. The debate rages on! (I've been told disposal is an option, though one I'm going to choose not to exercise)

All this is more logistics than art, and perhaps inherently uninteresting.

1. The Best Meat Tenderizer Ever
2. This one was hard to start
3. Permanent damage to hearing
4. Shaking their whole body
5. Utilitarian music
6. Quiet Products
7. I wear black on the outside
8. Castanets / Pianos
9. Outside, looking in
10. Whoa, dude
11. A Rhodes Piano Was a Bad Choice Here
12. Belt Sander
13. Hamsters

Added by IanF-R:
I wish I had a flowsheet for this show, but it's gone with the tornadoes of time. I know that the pleasant chug-chug-chug machine drone throughout this show is a slowed down tape of myself beating on an aluminum foil take-out pan. Other music incidentally recognizable includes:

• Negativland's Escape From Noise
• Perry & the Redd Foxxe
• Daniel Johnston
• Beck (loser)
• Herbie Hancock's Rockit
• Fudge Tunnel
• Meat Beat Manifesto
• Laurie Anderson's For Electronic Dogs
• Scratch Acid
• Space Streakings

Excerpts #13 HVD

Original source here. Recorded on August 2nd, 1996.

I just went back and corrected a mistake. It's not a serious one, but a minor detail only the dedicated will pick up. I'm not as rigorous about the process as I might lead you to believe, after all. For instance, some of these recordings outro with regular, unadulterated music. Sometimes I catch it, and trim the ends (as it were). Sometimes I miss it and leave it on. The amount of silence at the beginning and end, and in the space where I flip the tape, varies somewhat.

These might uncharitably be called "mistakes", or very charitably be described as "Honor thy error as a hidden intention" The truth is murky and in the interstitials.

1. The neverending riff
2. Someone's at the door, it's harmony robot
3. Not quite the slits, or maybe it is
4. Those darn monkeys
5. Quit messing with the printer
6. BLUES HAMMER
7. More Pounding
8. The crowd goes wild
9. Digesting an analog synthesizer
10. Rain
11. Can't stop the rock
12. Rock has been stopped
13. Inside the TKDF modem
    

Added by IanF-R:
Link the the flowsheet for this show. I have particularly enjoyed hearing this one again--it seems to flow and develop pretty well--and because the flowsheet says "FUN FUN FUN", I have to assume that I enjoyed it then, too.

A brief interlude.

We used to stuff like this all the time on the show, on purpose. You'll hear some of it, once in a while.

Excerpts #12 Stuporbowl Funday

Original source here. Show was performed on July 26, 1996.

A few weeks I'd gotten the rest of the tapes and a big spreadsheet detailing all the audio mayhem that had gone on. This weekend I started bringing them into the computer. CDs are cool because you can pull one in in like 1/8th the time it tales to play it, but tapes and records are real time. It's meditative.

I'm still posting stuff I had little to no part in, but eventually we'll get to stuff with my voice on it, and that's always a shock, to hear me speaking from a decade in the past, trying to sound "cool" on the radio, much like I'm doing here. All is vanity!

1. Clang and Challenge
2. Momentary Latin Jazz Break
3. Wipe out the whole world five times over
4. Sample and Hold
5. Speedbilly
6. 1234123412341234
7. Watch out for the pavement
8. Encounter with space sickness
9. Man, do I hate Zydeco
10. Oonst Oonst Oonst Oonst
11. R2D2 is in the can
    
12. Chewbacca and Han vs. the noise monster
13. John Wms. vs Robt. Wms.
    

Added by IanF-R:
Link to this show's flowsheet

Excerpts #10 Snow Day

Original source here.

Up early on a snow day due to the exquisite quality of the sunlight. We don't get snow here often, and when we do the whole area shuts down. I realize that other places don't have the same experience, so their quality of snow is different; merely a muted version of the usual hustle and bustle. Here it is quiet. Very very quiet. Foot traffic only. Like all the cars got on the mothership and left.

Wildly unlike this track. All crunch and bombast.

1. Full Range Dynamic Sound.
2. Gothic Test Tones
3. We can learn to spell.
4. 240 Flapjacks.
5. Brief Industrial Interlude
6. Metal Metal Metal Metal Poof.
7. Broadcast from the Factory Floor.
8. We're now going live.
9. Can we be like the aliens?
10. On the fringe of our range.
11. We're not U2
12. Punch and Judy and Primus.
13. Deep Dub Outro.
    

Added by IanF-R:
Link to this show's flowsheet

Excerpts #9 - Striding a Hit.

Source accessible here.

This show took place in 1996 on July 5th or 6th. What's funny is that the spreadsheet-as-database I have of the tapes list different dates than are on the tapes themselves. Since the show took place usually at midnight to 2am, or eleven to 1am, or ten until midnight; most of the tapes are dated as if the show took place in the late evening. The info sheet is marked as if the show took place in the early morning. For a minute, I thought I had the wrong tapes, or sheet, or both.

This leaves the sound in a sort of liminal temporal no-space, and makes me wonder that if but for the artifacts that now for you only exist as bits - and therefore completely imaginary anyway - none of this ever really happened. Treat this, then, as an unexpected gift.

1. Skronk traffic jam. Garbage collection
2. Letter of Complaint
   
3. Unauthorized Pyrotechnic Displays
4. Celtic fiddle REAL ART
5. Strauss and Strauss and Strauss and Strauss
6. Mallets and Malice
7. (unintelligible)
8. We Love the Tuvans
9. WE ARE RIGHT INSIDE THE PIANO
10. R2D2 Tuvan Disco
11. Nothing Succeeds like Excess
12. Reverse Attack Percussion
13. Slow Groove Coda
    

Added by IanF-R:
Link to this show's flowsheet. And we still do love the Tuvans.

Excerpts #7

I just got the last stash of tapes this week. I've yet to sort through them, of course, but the latent archivist in me is pleased. I can catalog them all and store them away, maybe burn them all to DVD or store them on a spare hard drive? The possibilities are endless.

The winter season brings a regular heating and cooling cycle to my house, and the differences in air pressure that occur around 66 degrees (I am a cheap bastard), are enough to make a metal tin somewhere in my home office "ping" as the lid flexes back and forth. I don't know which tin, or where it is, mainly because I like the sound and the reason so much that I'm loathe to disturb it.

This tape was recorded in 1996 on June 21st. I only just now realized that I had thirteen description points in the last two entries (really, just now), so I may just keep going with that. Original source here, though the podcast seems to work so maybe that's redundant.

1. Jim was a great sportsman.
2. High speed metal bit. Japanese design.
   
3. A Western Tale.
4. No. Yeah. Whoa. Yes.
5. Push instead of Drag. Some Silence.
6. Space Grind. Space Throb.
7. A Real Country Song.
8. Disco Loop.
9. Electro-Swing with scattered indigestible crunchy bits.
10. Ding Dong.
11. Disassembly is the reverse of these steps.
12. Film Noir.
13. Techno outro.
    

Added by IanF-R:
Link to this show's flowsheet.

Excerpts #6

I just got through a three-day festival (festival? At what point does a series of days of music become a "festival", does it have to do with the number of bands, or days, or both? More research must be done on this) of bands covering other bands, so my perception is rather skewed at the moment. Also I'm tired.

Carry on! This tape was made on 6/14/1996. Also labeled "Excerpts", and while there is no clear theme, I do not consider that to be a detriment. Podcast appears to be working, original source also here.

1. Grateful Dead Industrial Deconstruction
2. Free Jazz with Turntable Manipulation
3. No, I really am a Truck
4. Alvin has trouble with obstinate cellists.
5. Lock groove groove.
6. Music from the ominous part.
7. 80's hip hop diversion.
8. Chuckles and Cowbells
9. Vincent Price: Poetry Fan
10. Swing, interrupted.
11. Wings, fixed and flapping.
12. We are not turntablists.
13. We can't stop the 80's; somebody help us.
    

Added by Ian F-R:
Link to this show's flowsheet. From this one you can get a sense of my musical tastes at the time: noisy, electronic, and varied (Murphy's Law? Shamen? Anthony Braxton?).

Happy New Ear.

It's a new year, but during the old year, I spent a little time with the back catalog of tapes from what seems like eons ago and my trusty antique computer and made these things all computery-file-like. Ian granted me blog access to post them (they are, after all, more than partly his work), so I'll be doing that once a week for the next year (and beyond, until I run out of tapes).

Chronological order, as this prevents discussions of quality, appropriateness, or any other pigeonholing words that occlude more than reveal. I decided on AAC since it's probably a "free enough" format. Uncompressed audio is available upon request.

This tape was made on 5/31/1996, quite possibly before I even became involved. Vague, unconvincing descriptions of possible cuepoints follow.

1. Words that are spoken
   
2. 80's cop show background music
3. More rolling clicks and non-tubular bells
4. Russian murmuring
5. Scottish shoegaze feedback
6. Roughly handled babbling
7. A strident loop
8. Sound affect
9. Rubber spaghetti western
10. Typewriters and bongos
11. Saxophone balloon art
12. Prepared monastery
    
13. Somewhat of a recap

Blog post should also be a podcast, but just in case you want something to press on, the track is also here. All tracks should be available on the Internet Archive here, if you're antsy for stuff before I post it.

Added by IanF-R:
Link to the flowsheet for this show.

Flowsheets were required by the programming department to track what songs, albums, and artists were played from the preferred playlists (weekly recommendations). But the value here may be to identify what sounds or songs were used in each show.

Some shows with stricter themes or more intense mix sessions unfortunately don't have much filled in--it was hard to keep track of what we played when we were constantly changing discs or starting and stopping things. Whereas when we took a break and played a straight musical interlude, it was easier to write that down. Nevertheless I'll add them a) when I have them and b) when they seem to me to add something to the listening experience.