Sunday, April 22, 2012

1, 2, Free, Form (#112)

A happy Earth Day to our audience. This week's show source file found here. Originally broadcast on June 11th, 1998.

A grubby and unthemed little show. It starts off vocal and voice-based, gets progressively harsher and muddier, ends abruptly, and then starts again. It is well-worn, and thick with dense, chewy layers.

My cohort of helpers always preferred to have a thematic guide for the shows, but I tended to not plan very far in advance, so more often than not, this kind of thing is what we got. In my opinion, this is a good example of when it worked.

I also can't tell if the two sides of the tape got swapped, or this is a combination recording of a couple of different shows. The break near the middle where our show ends and the hip-hop deejay is baffled by the wall of noise he is following comes at exactly the right time. But that's free form college radio for you—a kind of audio whiplash that is an acquired taste, but can be oh-so-tasty.
  1. WHANH WHANH!/Wash ray
  2. Abracadabra to you, boss
  3. Bells and frothing
  4. Epic kung fu battle in crystal bamboo forest
  5. Wailing and foam
  6. A trick ending
  7. Appliance-percussion jazz
  8. One big fat hoax
  9. Machine breathing/feeling so good
  10. Wake up now, the satellite's singing
  11. A glitch-beat with tacky synth
  12. Japanese Vader
  13. Mandarin disco Strauss/abrupt end