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.
- 1812 Ukelele Overture
- Vague Led Zeppelin Wannabee
- Alien Flyby
- Orchestral Maneuvers, etc.
- Swoopy Groove Thing
- Incessant Ringing
- Statics and Sermons
- Koo Koo Koo Koo
- Hidden Metal Ghost
- Prog Rock with Mallets
- Meet the Folkers
- Attack of the Funk Lords
- 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.
