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!
    

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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

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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
    

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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
    

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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.