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The Freeform Pathogen

Sep 29, 2021 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM

With Mike Lupica

Freeform radio for creative weirdos and deskbound dreamers. A sonic one-stop for Acid Dub, Beardo Bhangra, Micro-Folk Turntablism, Krautdrone, Cambodian Synthwave, Glam Pop, Art-Damaged Metal, Electro-Stoner Jazz, Proto Soul-Punk, DIY Hip-Hop, Psychedelic EDM, Minimalist Power Violence, Pre-Hipster NYC Weirdcore, and Afro-Hillbilly Futurism. Up and down this goddam dial since 1992.

Call Me Swampy No-Good

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Welcome back, pitcrew! Refresh this page to see the most recently-played songs, and be sure to say hello in the Listener Chat. Killer jams on deck all night long!

8:10 PM		Matthew E. White Nested N K Bay Domino Recording Co 2021
8:15 PM		Homeboy Sandman FYI N Anjelitu Mello Music Group 2021
8:18 PM		Gap Dream Chill Spot Shine Your Light Burger 2013
8:22 PM		The Nightingales The Chorus Is the Title Out of True Iron Man Records 2006
8:26 PM		Acid Baby Jesus Vegetable Selected Recordings Slovenly Recordings 2014
8:29 PM		Nirvana On a Plain Nevermind Geffen 1991
8:32 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
8:38 PM		Amyl and The Sniffers Maggot N Comfort To Me ATO Records 2021
8:41 PM		Ultrasónicas Quiero Ser Tu Perra N Yo Fui una Adolescente Terrosatánica Munster Records 2021 Re-issued again? Stooges cover, obvs.
8:44 PM		Shannon & The Clams MIdnight Wine N Year Of The Spider Easy Eye Sound 2021
8:48 PM		Exnovios Vuela Jambo N Un Nuevo Día LP Ground Control 2021
8:52 PM		The Fall Jerusalem I Am Kurious Oranj Beggars Banquet 1988
8:57 PM		Colleen Green Highway N Cool Hardly Art 2021
9:01 PM		The Darkness Love Is Only a Feeling Permission to Land EastWest 2003
9:05 PM		U.S. Girls Born to Lose Heavy Light 4AD 2020
9:15 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
9:15 PM		Abner Jay Woke Up This Morning True Story of Abner Jay Mississippi Records 2009
9:18 PM		The Soul Patrol Take Back the Night N 7" Feel It Records 2021 Orig. 1979
9:21 PM		Buddy Larrisson You Drive Me Out of my Mind Desperate Rock & Roll Vol. 10 V/A Flame
9:24 PM		Galaxie 500 Leave the Planet On Fire Rough Trade 1989
9:27 PM		Clan Caimán Avalancha Asoma EM Records 2021
9:30 PM		Mouth Painter A Yardin' I Once Went N Tropicale Moon Arrowhawk Records 2021
9:36 PM		Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers Give Paris One More Chance Jonathan Sings! Sire 1983
9:38 PM		The Stranglers This Song N Dark Matters Coursegood Limited 2021
9:42 PM		T La Rock Breaking Bells Big Fun in the Big Town LP V/A Five Day Weekend 2012 Soundtrack to the Dutch documentary on NYC hip-hop and... Iggy Pop.
9:47 PM		Yeshua da poED Directions 12" Raw Shack 1998
9:52 PM		Space Afrika Preparing the Perfect Response ~ N Honest Labour Dais Records 2021
9:54 PM		Alan Vega Hi Speed Roller N After Dark In The Red 2021
10:00 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:08 PM		Roberta Flack Reverend Lee Chapter Two Atlantic Records 1970
10:12 PM		Cosyne Phone Sex Lexoleum V/A Lex 2003
10:16 PM		Wicked Witch Vera's Back Chaos 1978-86 EM Records 2008 Washing DC "machine gun funk"
10:29 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:32 PM		Wipers Potential Suicide Is This Real? Park Ave 1979
10:36 PM		Debashis Sinha rig_veda000_03 Anthology Of Exploratory Music From India Unexplained Sounds 2021
10:41 PM		Brigitte Fontaine Marcelle Brigitte Fontaine コアポート 1972
10:45 PM		Plasmodium Clive Buckledown Clairaudience Electric Cowbell Records 2014
10:57 PM		Spike The Golden Eye Orange Cloud Nine Golf Channel Recordings

Chat is archived.

Oh, look who’s here on time

Firs-oh no wait-second!

At least we’re not Turd

Third!

Oops

Hallo MrM

Uh, why is this station ID on its third iteration?

Phew

Speaking of third..

Ooohhhh

UH IT'S THE OH SH*T MUSIC

Please Stand By

A rebroadcast?! Uh oh

Have texted ML.

I’m sure it’s temporary

Thanks Jon!

What in the Whut

Who's on Third...anyone remember that bar? 3rd & Bainbridge

Hey this is Dante's voice, and the 5th or 6th iteration of the same station ID

Kind of enjoying the randomness of it

After these repeated messages we’ll be right back!

This is my fave new BOP

Everybody Dance NOW!

Sorry folks, working on the tech issues right now.

Maybe in the end, Mike's radio show was just the station IDs we heard repeatedly along the way

@Chris, lol

@Chris, lol!!

Real Charlie Brown Xmas

Chris Mohr wins the chatroom tonight 🏆

(That’s not a diss)

WAIT. I think we got it.

I'm telling my kids that was all Negativland.

The "spackling the internet" appears to be over!

SwampyNoGood

The night is young, @Christine! Chat on!

@Jon, LOL

@jon ditto lol

"9:46" by Mike Lupica, an instant classic!

I blame Mercury in retrograde

@Christine, I see you too checked Sky and Telescope's Planetary Influence on Radio Shows column

My Merc got repoed by Harry Dean Stanton....

@Rob, HA!!!

@jimbeaux, LOL! The wit is top-shelf here tonight.

I hope to join in with the zingers as soon as my pulse gets back to normal.

Whoa, camphor and campfire in the same verse ♨️♨️♨️

I-i-i-information!

i had to cancel a large public meeting online tonight because of tech difficulties, so i share your nausea...

Next Wednesday, let's all just have a Zoom meeting on my show.

"Share Screen" = the ultimate radio sight gag.

Hello Mike & Pit Crew!!! A short-ish story: Late on Monday night -- 11-ish -- I was returning home having admitted my doggie Nicholas in a nearby vet hospital (he ate something that blocked him up), there was a radio show on our local PBS station (GBH -- isn't that a date-rape drug?) called 'Sound Opinions'. It's kind of like a Siskel & Ebert type mostly mainstream new music review show. The two reviewer guys reviewed the newest Li'l Nazz (sp?) and some country-flavored singer who'd just won

Off topic, but any song that has the word "catarrh" in the lyrics is an automatic like from me.

Grammys, etc. Then, they turned their critical listening ears to ... AMYL & THE SNIFFERS! Which they both LOVED!!

@Christine -- Agreed!

Hi Mike and all the pitcrew!

Screw the haters, love On a Plane.

DJ Mike, when will you bring back the Starlite Lounge YouTube cam? In case you don't have enough tech to manage

@Teresa, wow! Does this mean Amyl & The Sniffers are mainstream now? 😉

NIRVONA ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

Teavana 🍵

Neverminda

@Teresa, I know that show, listened to it for years, hope the dog makes a full recovery!

@Teresa, that's an amusing story

I have Nevermind on mass market cassette tape, too

Why ARE we here?

I would make a case for Drain You, but On a Plane is a good argument for best.

Hey all. Had the show in the background for an on line focus group. Can't imagine what these chats would look like on Zoom/Skype, etc.

@Andy, probably bonkers. In a good way 🎉

@Mike, I like the idea of a Zoom meeting next week

I’m busy that day

It's a gerbil! Horace!

Nevermind came out 9/24/91 but didn't go to #1 until January 1992. Was a wild time watching it rise weekly.

No worries with just 10 minutes of station IDs. WKNH got their stream stuck on a 4 second loop for HOURS a few weeks ago.

@Christine, I agree re "catarrh"

Horace! 🐹 💕

Speaking of station ID themes, do you have that old WIOQ background theme that Jere Sullivan would always cue up for station breaks?

This track has some serious soul-debriding power

Me gusta mucho esta canción por las Ultrasonicas

Actual barking. That is excellent.

OK -- I think I've medicated myself off the cliff from tonight's start-of-show tech woes. HI EVERYBODY!

@Mary and that wasn't even the best part for me

HI MIKE!

Yeah, that cover ranks up pretty high in the list of blazin' Iggy covers!

Hi Mike Lupica!

Hi, DJ MikeLupica!! As always, enjoying the show!!

Also, this next song should be A HIT.

Please make it so.

Turn it up so your neighbors have to hear it too.

Thanks MrM!

In a way the singer reminds me of Michael Stipe

@Christine, there's a band called Catarrh, death metal/grindcore.

I love the Ultrasonicas' version! And thank you so much for asking after Nicholas the Wonder Beagle💖💖💖! I got word tonight that doggie's been unblocked and I can pick him up tomorrow! YAY!!! @DSM - I was thinking Michael Stipe too!

@Bo, cool! I guess I have to become a fan now.

Yay for Nicholas!

@Christine, yep, prob!

🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶

OOOO Ambrose -- I've got to check out Catarrh the band! Has our buddy Flex aired them on his show yet?

@Teresa, I hope Nicholas the WonderBeagle makes a speedy recovery.

Good news for a good pup

@Teresa, hmm, entirely possible.

DJ Mike, the parents of the kindergartener & preschooler in the twin house next door might not appreciate a high-volume Free-form Pathogen through the shared wall at this time. I have no further comment and ask that you respect our privacy at this sensitive time

Fall time!

Jerusalem!!!

Might have to crank up the volume anyway

He's old, but he bounces back really well -- Thank God! Aw, thanks all of youz!!!💖💥💖💥💖💥💖

F 🍊 A 🍊 L 🍊 L

@Chris, might as well get 'em started early...

Teresa, cheers for Nicholas!

IT WAS THE FAULT. OF THE GOVERNMENT.

Darn tootin'!

@Mike, shock horror.

Nice segue! Seems like you've got your groove back

Aww, shucks...

It could have been Sleep's "Jerusalem", lol.

Mike, I'm not naming names but someone in this room is doing a very stupid dance now because you played The Darkness.

JON I AM DO(INSG THE ASAME THINSG HER E IN THE STARLIGFHT LPOIUNGE.

SHE DANCED OUT OF THE ROOM TO GET THE REMOTE SPEAKER.

Hahahaha!

There is an air guitar component I did not see coming.

The best part of this is deciding if this is your wife or daughter you're talking about.

It was not my daughter.

hello, it's nice to have an evening where I can park in the chat.

I think The Darkness recently put out a new record actually!

Umm yuck 🤢

mmmmm, old standing water in the mouth.

brackish. Ew

bacteria upgrade achieved!!!

Oh no.

GO TO HOSPITAL

Probiotics?

🚑

covid booster!

Siphon Man!

That was like listening to someone explain how they became Spider-Man's nemesis.

@Mike, there's a lesson to be learned in that😷

Spiderman's new nemesis, Drainage!

😂

@Mike, I mean Swampy No Good.

Ambrose, EXACTLY.

GALAXIE 5,000,000,000,000,000,000!

My copy of that record looks like something Gandalf dug out of the basement library in Mordor.

Perfect 3 minutes of controlled feedback and atmosphere

Sorry, I meant Gondor, not Mordor. For the Tolkien nerds in the back.

@Mike, this is rather nice.

For all the crispy books in Mordor🔥

Ambrose, agree! Struck me immediately as such.

Speaking of crispy, the love crackles on this JR & the Young Lovers record are ✨

Hahaha, I've never been one to take particularly good care of my records. Love crackles are GO.

Awww, PARIS 🇫🇷 💔❤️

Je suis parisienne [sic] 💖💖

Mais oui

Snap, crackle & Iggy Pop

It's funny because in 1986 I was *very* interested in NYC hip-hop, but only dimly aware of who Iggy Pop was. (Thanks to local access cable video shows.) What year did "Real Wild Child" come out?

1986?

Aha! Well, I saw Iggy play live in 1988, and needless to say, he was back on the heavy rock/Stooges thing by then.

On this week's The Walking Dead (why am I still watching it?) there were a group of cannibals who looked like a pack of Iggy Pops.

“pack of IGGY POPS”. that’s BRILLIANT! Hahaha! @DJ JonSolomon!!

Now see, I would've called them Iggy's Pop.

What is the proper collective noun for multiple Iggys?

"An exaltation of Iggys"?

🤣😂🤣

Plus, IGGY POP 💟

"A vest of Iggys"

A prattle of Pops.

"A varicose of Iggys"

I love collective nouns.

And Alan Vega! 💚 Tonight just keeps getting better.

Ye Olde Snootful O' Pops

Christine, I will keep playing this Alan Vega record until someone tells me to stop. And then I will play it again, just to piss them off.

A epidermis of Iggys.

a wriggle of Iggys

epidermis for miles...

A pectoralis of Pops

Hahaha, love all of these!

🎃

Pop slop?

Happy birthday Madeline Kahn.

Hey Mike, there's another song you could play until someone tells you to stop 😉 🛀

YES BUT NO ONE WOULD TELL ME THAT

Not a one of us!

Oh, Maeline Kahn! I am convinced that her spirit is inhabiting the body of my kitten.

DJ MikeLupica, don’t you dare play BATH BOY next!

Oh, right, what was I thinking 😇

My wife was listening to Spiritual Mafia this morning while driving to work. She was singing along to Al Fresco

petnoodle!!

Indeed!

And just think: Right now, the members of Spiritual Mafia are probably just sitting around sucking on their one-hitters, totally unaware that there is a devoted cult for them centered around the metro-Philly area.

And goodnight all. Thanks Mike for all the songs!

They're no one-hitter wonders!

@Mike, yup!

Happy Dreams, RobFromMaryland!

I even had other Spiritual Mafia songs in rotation this week!

Delayed Reaction: ROBERTA FLACK 💝

killer show, as always

Thank Uno!

Err, rather: ThankS, Uno.

G'night, Rob 🌛

lol, I was not pronouncing that co-sine in my head.

If it were illegal to be an accomplice of DJ Mike, would there be enough evidence to convict you?

Kids next door, get ready to learn about The Wipers!

Man, I wish I'd been that kid!

My name is written on a box of MikeLupica dietary biscuits and pics went viral on my phone! #Evidence #L&O #DunDun

recently I was stopped at a light with cretin hop blasting, windows down. I looked over to see a kid in the car next to me with the look on their face of a kid who just heard anything ramones like at all.

@MrM, if you get arrested, we will bail you out. 🚔

wow this TRACK rn af ❣️

Mike Lupica dietary biscuits are know to us as dumplings

Nice! Thanks, Christine!

Free MrM!!

MrM: Yeah, this one messed me up good and plenty!

#dumplinglife

Dumplings for dinner tonight!!

now when I see dumplings I'm gonna hear dietary biscuits in my head.

and may be bath b

🥟💗 🥟 💗 🥟

Truly, a mind and heart and soul and ear opening show tonight, Mike. Cheers, and huzzah for dietary biscuits!

Thanks Chris! Got a killer closer for ya.

Hope I can stay awake that long. I'm old, y'know!

Electric CowBell!?⚡️🐄 🔔 more cowbell baby!

Final Ten Mins?!? Will ChrisMohr make it?? 💤💤

Inquiring minds...

...GOTS TO KNOW.

It's a long spell, 10 minutes...

I'm not asleep yet

What about now???

It's almost exactly one Bath Boy.

I think Christine has cracked the code of life and time.

Does Plasmonium have an Xmas record? Would fit in nicely on the Marathon

😝🤣 @Colin for a bunch of posts tonight! Cheers!

ChrisMohr was on fire all night!

Top shelf wit.

Thank you, DJ Mike 🙏 Thanks, PRB fam!

Christine, stay Super Swell! 🖤💀

Aw, thanks, Mr. Malcontent. It's the group energy of all y'all + the music!

AMEN

amen!

@MrMalcontent, stay outta trouble & stay outta jail.

goodnight listeners and lurkers!

DJ MikeLupica, many thanks for another GEM OF A SHOW!! Stay BRILLIANT!! Kind regards to you, Sir!!

Cheers to all the Dears especially those with Big Ears!! 🖤💀

Amen, thanks Mike for a great show, night pitsters!

See y'all next week! Stay tuned for FLEX!

G'night Mike & all! 💤💤