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The Freeform Pathogen

Nov 23, 2020 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.

Noodles on Parade

8:04 PM		Hawkwind Spirit of the Age Quark, Strangeness and Charm Sire 1977
8:11 PM		Obnox How to Build a Bum N Savage Raygun Ever/Never Records 2020
8:14 PM		Death Valley Girls The Universe N Under the Spell of Joy Suicide Squeeze Records 2020
8:19 PM		Big Blood Providence N Do You Wanna Have a Skeleton Dream? Feeding Tube Records 2020
8:23 PM		Atomic Forest Locomotive Breath Obsession Now Again Records 2011
8:27 PM		Gray Matter Drain Thog Dischord Records 1992
8:30 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
8:37 PM		Crushed Butler Factory Grime UNCRUSHED Madstar Records 2005
8:40 PM		Population II Introspection N À La Ô Terre Castle Face 2020
8:45 PM		Judas Priest The Ripper/Green Manalishi w/ the Two-Pronged Crown Unleashed in the East CBS 1979
8:51 PM		The Boston Typewriter Orchestra Power Space Jam N Workstation to Workstation FONT 2020
8:56 PM		Ka Baird The Orion Arm Respires RVNG Intl. 2019
9:00 PM		Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings TAje N With YIy N Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Rendition Was In) Daptone Records 2020
9:03 PM		Lady B To the Beat Y'all 12" TEC Records 1979
9:08 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
9:16 PM		Madness Night Boat to Cairo One Step Beyond Sire 1979
9:19 PM		Hasil Adkins Big Red Satellite The Wild Man Norton Records 1987
9:22 PM		Endless Boogie Smoking Figs In the Yard Focus Level No Quarter 2008
9:29 PM		Silver Synthetic Making Time N Out of the Darkness - EP Third Man Records LLC 2020
9:32 PM		Surfer Blood In the Tempest's Eye N Carefree Theatre Kanine 2020
9:36 PM		The Lorries All the Same Crawling Mantra EP Homestead 1987
9:39 PM		VH$DEATH Hawkmoth (Death Head) N Love & All the Hate Cacophonous Revival 2020
9:46 PM		Spectre Osiris Rising The Last Shall be First LP Small But Hard 2016
9:50 PM		The Ex Huriyet Turn The Ex 2004
9:55 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:05 PM		The Fluid Cop a Plea Roadmouth Sub Pop 1989
10:09 PM		The Starlite Desperation Why So Heavy ?!? Take It Personally Infrasonic Sound Recordings 2008
10:13 PM		EPMD Brothers From Brentwood Long Island 12" Def Jam 1992
10:16 PM		Krononaut Leaving Alhambra N Krononaut tak:til 2020
10:21 PM		Amen Dunes White Child Love Sacred Bones Records 2014
10:26 PM		H.C. McEntire Final Bow N Eno Axis Merge Records 2020
10:29 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:33 PM		Joe Frank Pilgrim In the Dark 1999

Chat is archived.

Parade o' NOODLES!

Hey DJ Mike 👋 Hello, MrM

How are things in the Doom Pantry this evening?

Hawkwind?! The bane of ur dj existence ? This opens the request floodgates right ;) !!

Hello, Christine Duffy

tuned in with white wine and the dredges of my math hw due at midnight, let's roll

math and rock and roll a bad combo - possible f looming

Wine and Math?!? I wanna check yer werk.

and rock and roll ... oopfh

S'up team! Good to have you all back! The Doom Pantry is feeling weirdly hot thanks to the space heater I heisted from my otherwise abandoned office this morning. Otherwise, the ratty string of Christmas lights are illuminated, my leftover incense from summer is burning, and I ate way too much Chinese food for dinner. In other words: WELCOME.

@Hanna, we could crowdsource your math homework. A bunch of goofs listening to rock & roll and drinking booze. What could go wrong?

heat noodles incense - the path to utopia

S P A C E (rock) I S T H E P L A C E

does hawkwind have the depth to pull this off?

Hi Hanna beware the eigen value wrong turns ! Esp combined w white wine

Too right, Jimbeaux. Space *is* the place.

I like the Facebook pic with my name on the digestive biscuits in front of the Elton John album! Win Win Win Cheers to you, DJ MikeLupica!

@Christine, I support this crowdsourced math homework idea.

Hi Mike, nice start, hey all you good peeps!

Hey Bo, MrM, Hanna, Mark, & Space Cowboy! Welcome back!

Mr. DJ already screwed it, as I meant to play a different Obnox song. ALAS, you get what you pay for on Monday nights.

Screwed it UP, that is.

It's the heat.

Re hawkwind just found this nugget about them recently; marc bolan lent them his rolls Royce on the night of his fatal car crash that he was a passenger

No worriesr DJ.

Pay? this is FREE form...everyone crawls out of the woodwork for FREE!

No! Mark! No! We must not TALK about Hawkwind! You know the rules!!! (wink)

Then Zappa requests r allowed :) ?!

... and irony butterfly

Irony Butterfly...the cover band!

how about a 20 minute mike lupica spoken word YEAH!!

fortunately, i wrote my math sober. time is ripe to double check, and send it in. with an epic show to boost my morale

Zappa requests, yes. Conversations about? NEIN!

Also Marc Bolan did not drive was afraid that he would be in a car crash / terrible tragic irony

? how about THAT

@hanna : advanced algebra ?

those death valley girls are pretty dam good

Maybe mike L reads from the alchemist tonite too ?

@Space Cowboy, agree. First I've really listened to 'em, and it quickly became obvious that I've been asleep at the wheel. (Insert Bolan punchline ----> here.)

@Mark, if you're lucky I'll do a dramatic reading from the Big Blood lyric sheet.

Good one Mark, though I'd thought all these years that Marc Bolan was the driver of the Mini Cooper S that fateful day, it hardly matters at this juncture.

Bolan ironically did not know how to drive : driver girlfriend escaped injured but ok : just learned this recently

Haha spoken word is the new radio thing at PRB: ask Hanna !

must ,,,,, resist urge .... to slam dance..

yes let's have spoken word - banter prophesies- allegations all in one tirade filled with personal revelations

or backward

read the captain logs of spaceships, obv

@mark, linear algebra. a toughie

Noodlecore.

yup everyone in Brooklyn is listening to noodlecore and the irony butterfly

Haha kinda guessed from ur chat the other day / my college roommate a math major so I kinda get it

He took toughies like that but also took sitar I and II to offset math course

CRUSHED BUTLER?! <>>

You may not have noticed that I love this band. dearly.

Trust me only Hanna comprehends this level of math I only know a tiny amount to b dangerous

@Teresa, as usual, your taste is ON POINT.

your college offered sitar courses?! AMAZING

@mike: blunt force trauma helps me get through these complex eigenvalues, like nothing else would at 8.40 on a monday night

Yes they did, care to guess which one / rival of urs ?

Thanks, Mike! <3 The first time I ever heard Crushed Butler was on WPRB; specifically, on Brian F.'s legendary 'Idiot Control' show. Golly, was it ever love at first listen <>

brown?

No ! Roll the dice 🎲 again !

i have instantly converted to Crushed Butler! is gooooooooooooood!

hello I've been lurking, also joining the chorus to tell hanna to ditch the Eigen values

Or she oughta take up sitar :)

Everybody be crushin' on Crushed Butler.

@Teresa, ahh, the saintly Brian Farmer and Idiot Control! I followed him on the air for years, what a great guy. Wish I hadn't lost touch with him.

CRUSHED BUTLER AM ME BOYFRIEND.

Yo, Kat -- welcome!

thank you thank you! ps mike you played big blood on one of your first remote shows and turned me onto them

@Kat, great! They are totally swoon-worthy!

So when u gonna give out this weeks naming rights : last week winners can not compete!

That was LAST WEEK'S gimmick, Mark. This week, we're apparently just headbanging for vengeance.

I love Big Blood too! And Feeding Tube Records is headquartered about a mile up the road from my mom's house in Northampton, MA.

🤘🤘🤘 more flange, please

@Teresa, please go give them a handshake and 20 bucks for me. I will pay u back.

No need, Mike, no need

\m/\m/\m/\m/

*freeform flailing*

RIP Peter Green fleet wood Mac does not exist without him !

@Mark, hells yes.

happy to report, the hw is DONE

Math or Sitar ?

YAY, Hanna!

@Hanna, now you can throw the goats with the rest of us.

is this, is this, is this, JUDAS PRIEST, like heavy metal parking lot Judas Priest?

Yepp!

king!

Where is this heavy metal parking lot? What do they have in valet parking?

no valets, no masters

"Drugs are practically legal in this parking lot, anyway."

The speed that this freeform pathogen is moving at A 4th hour maybe necessary:)

Question for the floor: Who is your Heavy Metal Parking Lot spirit animal? I have always imagined myself most closely aligned with the girl in the last scene who says: "Oh my god, get away from me"

HaHa HaHa HaHa

< judas priest Rules! >

Does she say it in death metal growl voice ?

I somehow missed that bit of culture; though I do like documentaries

And as beavis might say ; Lemmie Rules !

ok i admit it i saw judia preost open for kiss in 1978 real heavy meta parking lot

hell yeah girl

is my heavy metal parking lot spirit animal

Anyone here who has not seen HMPL is now excused. YouTube is just down the hall, we'll be here when you're done.

I drive a Judia Preost

@Kat, haha!

I’m giving myself detention / haven’t seen so now i got homework

damn that's a hot double-ticket space cowboy!

oh my god ther is a where are they now heavy metal parking lot

@Space Cowboy, yes. It is HORRIFYING.

this rocks!!!

'where they are now', is not /nearly/ as wild/funny/freaky as the original

how about t= the decline of western civilization - the metal years

But while we're here, let's pour some out for Graham of Dope, who died last year.

appreciate the Lady B

revenge

now we need to hear Sharon do Kenny Rogers' turned-on pre-country classic...don't leave us hangin!

mr. zebra man

Wife is 80s metal head ? When does she get a dj segment

or the mourners group

there are too many good options, golly

Is there a *Gary? I would be: Gary.

yup

oh it's LITTER BOX Kat!

shhhh don't blow my cover!

oops, my bad Katherine

All the cool kids are here!

when did it become doomsday pantry? that's so finite. thought it was plain ol' cuddly DOOM PANTRY?

Heard there was a party in the chat...

oh no its the Shoegaze Guy

LOL, Dante is also the tech genius!

He wears many hats.

@Jimbeaux, I know, it just sort of happened....

true true

everyday is doomsday this year

fyi decline of western civilization --metal years -- worse then heavy metal parking lot

#habba kinda true

There's a poignant sadness to The Metal Years. Especially the drunk dude in the pool scene.

And Ozzy cooking that weak-ass bacon in his too-short kimono for, like, 45 minutes.

Stop ur spoiling it for us losers who haven’t watched yet ;(

yeah = but geez what a bunch of d bags - thank god for Seattle

wtf, y'all are making me glad to be born post-metal years

Dunno if I have the wifi bandwidth for it, but since the Doom(sday) Pantry seems to inspire such intrigue, I'm gonna check out the idea of a YouTube livestream for a future show. So you can see precisely how janky this shit really is.

@Hanna, you have horrors all your own.

if anything happens you ll be the last survivor radio show

Thanks for the Basil Atkins track DJ Mike, miss that guy.

Hasil

Heck yeah, Bo. Hasil was KING.

Damn Skippy!

looks like a party up here

hell yeah

@Ameena, it is NOW THAT YOU'RE HERE.

(Quick, everyone delete their comments about Ameena before she scrolls down and read them.)

WAT

it's a smiley face with cool sunglasses on

clowntronics is fire, fire, fire! it's past y'alls bedtime, tho

o_o

i sleep during the daytime

at least my mom doesn't know I'm awake and listening to WPRB

should be on a tshirt

or a too-short kimono (see earlier ozzy comment)

I’m to the point of knowing the PRB rebroadcast schedule- the real Night owl test

And if you are not listening to WPRB you are not awake.

@Jimbeaux, the preferred kimono style for metalheads.

yeah, mark shows up late! i love catching the re-broadcasts that end shortly before 6am. then the robot kicks back in.

Yes! Only 1 hour of robot 🤖 per day !

heavy metal kimono: robert pollard's next band

Mike L am i wrong u not on rebroadcast?!

Nope, no rebroadcast for me. You gotta show up on Monday nights for this ish.

LOL Jimbeaux, that sounds entirely legit.

Haha yolo for freeform each week

Amerna crazy playlist at middle of night is sublime insomniac experience

Mike, the Headstone pic, I love it, where is this cemetery?

Bo, it's right outside of Princeton in a little town called Kingston. Lots of old headstones there, all the way back to late 1700s.

this song must be about the illustrious tomato hornworm, which morphs into a hawkmoth. electro-cool garden-nerd-core?

Ah, thank you good sir.

All of a sudden I've got Silence Of The Lambs flashback's.

@Jimbeaux, all I know is that I dig this VHSDEATH record yet I am certain I would be shit-scared of her IRL.

@Mike, I'm certain I would be too.

i will be careful...

This is so cool. We need more call-and-response punk in this world.

@Christine, COULD NOT AGREE MORE.

Especially when it's a cover of an Ethiopian folk song.

AMEN to that Christine!

I just love it. Thanks for playing it!

The EX RULE!

hahahaha that Mecca normal story is so funny

and also that effects is indeed awesome

Aww. I missed Night Boat to Cairo. Grew up listening to a lot of Madness

is mike going to do his extended spoken word?

Great psa to celebrate an isolated thanksgiving/ plus great idea to order Indian 🇮🇳 Takeout

was this the cause of the effect

Lord I do love me a sleazy guitar lick.

(Referencing the Starlite Desperation track)

Nice 'n sleazy does it!

...every time

They were so great. Once followed them around for three gigs in three days -- Philly, Hoboken, NYC -- Never done that for any other band.

You're a fan then? JK!

Closer to "groupie", I think.

Every band needs one!

been a real fun time, great to hang with everyone in the chat

peace B)

Hanna, don't crash yet! You're gonna miss critical Thanksgiving hater audio!

Thanks Hanna :-)

Gonna race through this next back announce so I can get the epic closing track in before the live connection cuts off at 11 PM sharp. Apologies for the brevity.

mike what do you play over your mic breaks??

or over the last one

still tuned into the broadcast Mike, my eyeballs cant handle screen any longer tho, so must say farewell

@Kat, that last mic break had Zero 7 in the background. @Hanna, this Joe Frank piece is the best possible audio to vibe out to as you fade out for the night.

"Bilious sense of over-the-horizon nausea" is one of the best collections of words ever.

This is a friggin' piss DJ Mike!

genius!

Joe Frank rules.

"There was mass hysteria. And pandemonium."

=-o

great show. peace out y'all!

Thank you, DJ Mike! Happy week everybody!

I enjoyed that ultimately, thanks DJ Mike, Happy Thanksgiving.

See y'all! Thanks for hanging out!

Same to you CD!