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The Freeform Pathogen

Jun 2, 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.

Making a Case for Discharge

Welcome back, Wednesday Night Pitcrew (the t-shirts are in development, I swear!) Lots of killer new sounds tonight, with guest MC Cecada du Plenty working support and busting periodic powermoves. Refresh this page to see the most recently-played songs, and drop into the chat to say hello.

8:03 PM		Squid Narrator N Bright Green Field Warp Records 2021
8:11 PM		Bryan Ferry What Goes On N What Goes On: The Songs of Lou Reed V/A Ace Records 2021
8:15 PM		Sauveur Mallia Double Polygone N Space Oddities (1979-1984) Born Bad 2021 French library music
8:17 PM		Smirk Violent Game N LP Drunken Sailor 2021
8:20 PM		The Muckers That's All I Want N Endeavor Greenway 2021
8:24 PM		Billy Squier My Kinda Lover Don't Say No Capitol 1981
8:28 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
8:33 PM		The Equals I Can See but You Don't Know 7" President
8:35 PM		New Bomb Turks Slung Jury The Big Combo LP Dropkick 1999
8:38 PM		The Linda Lindas Racist Sexist Boy Live at the L.A. Public Library
8:40 PM		Nappy Nina Is Me a Star N Double Down LucidHaus 2021
8:42 PM		Oliver Koletzki Copal N Made of Wood 2021
8:48 PM		Sun City Girls Radar 1941 Torch of the Mystics Majora 1990
8:50 PM		John Fogerty The Old Man Down the Road 7" Warner 1984
8:54 PM		Waste Man Wishful Thinking N One Day It'll All Be You Feel It Records 2021
8:57 PM		The Replacements Little Mascara Tim Sire 1985
9:00 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
9:12 PM		The Lame Drivers Slow Detective Chosen Era LP Bleeding Gold 2015
9:16 PM		Emory Swank Center City 7" Watermark 1996
9:19 PM		Linda Smith A Crumb of Your Affection N Till Another Time: 1988-1996 Captured Tracks 2021
9:23 PM		Frank & the Hurricanes Devil's Looking Glass N Love Ya Love Ya Sophomore Lounge, Feeding Tube 2021
9:26 PM		Rosali Pour Over Ice N No Medium Spinster Records 2021
9:35 PM		Discharge Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing Protest and Survive : The Anthology 2xLP BMG 2020
9:36 PM		Discharge Ignorance Protest and Survive : The Anthology BMG 2020
9:41 PM		Discharge Tomorrow Belongs to Us (2020: Remaster) Protest and Survive: The Anthology (2020: Remaster) Sanctuary Records 2020
9:43 PM		Discharge The Blood Runs Red Protest and Survive: The Anthology (2020: Remaster) BMG 2020
9:45 PM		Discharge Protest and Survive Protest & Survive: The Anthology BMG 2020
9:47 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
9:54 PM		X-Ray Spex Let's Submerge Germ Free Adolescents EMI 1978
9:57 PM		Dima Pantyushin Time N Peshekhod Beats in Space 2021
10:02 PM		Tiziano Popoli Svelf N Burn the Night / Bruciare la Notte: Original Recordings, 1983–1989 RVNG Intl. / Freedom To Spend 2021
10:06 PM		Sylvie Simmons Waiting for the Shadows to Fall Blue On Blue Compass 2020
10:10 PM		Fleetwood Mac Albatross 7" Blue Horizon 1968
10:13 PM		Sanisidro No Hacen Uno A Lo Pesau, A Lo Bajo y a Lo Llano - EP Slovenly Recordings 2020
10:17 PM		Little Feat Easy to Slip N Jon Savage's 1972-1976: All Our Times Have Come 2xCD V/A Ace 2021
10:20 PM		Guided By Voices The Great Blake Street Canoe Race Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia Halo 1989
10:24 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:31 PM		PJ Harvey This Wicked Tongue N The Peel Sessions 1991 - 2004 BBC Recordings 2021
10:35 PM		KeiyaA Do Yourself a Favor N Forever, Ya Girl Quik Language 2021
10:39 PM		Kass Richards Diving N The Language Shadow Feeding Tube 2021
10:42 PM		The Breakways Your Kind of Love N She Wants You! (Pye Records' Feminine Side 1964-1970) V/A 2021
10:45 PM		Pieces of a Dream Fo-Fi-Fo Imagine This Elektra 1983
10:49 PM		The Rolling Stones Let It Loose Exile On Main St. 2xLP Rolling Stones Records 1972
10:55 PM		Sun Ra God Is More Than Love Can Ever Be God Is More Than Love Can Ever Be Cosmic Myth 2018 Orig. 1979

Chat is archived.

This station id is wonderful.

I hear 15,000 cicadas right now, Mike

WHAT HAVE I DONE.

Hey, are you playing https://scottsmallwood.bandcamp.com/album/brood-x

I can grok the songs

Jon, you have done something wonderful

i really want to try to rope in a 10,000 homo djs/cicadas pride month reference ala COMING OUT but i'm not able to get it quite right

Jetty, you go right on working towards that and feel free to promote a signupgenius link to recruit help from the Wednesday night pitcrew.

Also, hi everybody!

Hi!

hi y'alls

disappointingly there r none in the philadelphia woodlands i roam is Princeton that loaded w them ?

0 cicadas at the navy yard

Was in Princeton yesterday. It is LOUSY with the beasties.

Today was the loudest they've been in my neighborhood, and that's saying something

Thanks for that link Rob, I can now fill the home with the soothing song all year long.

DJ Mike, can you please play Lou Reed's Metal Cicada Music?

DSM sure thing :-D

I may not be here for dbeat o'clock

There's a song by the band La Luz called "Cicada" which does mention the insects. The video is an homage/whatever to telenovela intros, from what I understand. Official video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVaZuX5FRDA

Commie, D-Beat o'clock will probably be sometime in hour two.

@DSM I found out about the Scott Smallwood effort from this article https://paw.princeton.edu/article/cicada-reunion that a retired Princeton University employee sent me

Rob excellent! Look forward to reading that!

Oh man, I still need to hear the new Squid in full (sorry, was helping someone set up her new phone in the other room).

I'm at a drive in movie that starts at 9!

The Squid record is pretty great, but I especially like that song. (I often like the slowest song on an album of mostly fast songs, so maybe that's why.)

Commie, I shall do my best!

That Sauveur Mallia track was a tasty treat, will have to find that comp.

What movie?!

Female trouble!

You don't need to rearrange your whole show for me mike!

Dang, it’s Billy Squire!

DSM, it is well worth it!

Pethie, it is ALWAYS Billy Squiertime here!

I approve!

@commie much of a crowd there to see female trouble? quite the cult movie

Yeah seems like a bunch, i think it might have sold out

BEST EQUALS SONG

and let me tell you they had a ton of great songs

The video for this song is like the most punk rock thing on the internet.

Agree

I have had a LOT OF COLD BREW and am apparently still coming down from the energy of a very fun radio show but I'd like you all to know that I love you.

Jon, misinterpreted, that could be read as you having just had a ton of beer and you are drunk-i-love-you-man-ing us.

@Mike, it must be. I can't find it on YouTube

Linda lindasssss

No, just delicious delicious delicious coffee all day long. If I break edge, you'll be the first to know.

Linda Lindas ROCK

Abba-solutely.

Oh man, yes, the Linda Lindas. Feels so right here.

Rob: https://youtu.be/NXIORSJQ99E

I need to rip that whole library show cause their EP is too produced for me

The linda lindas that is

Thanks Commie!! I didn't realize that was the song Mike was referring to, I thought it was the New Bomb Turks song.

Coffee=love

Topic: ________ = love. (Fill in the blank.)

Cicadas = love = coffee?

And it is a great video (the Equals one). I'm watching it with the sound off in another window

Are we still a Pit Crew if this is a Lounge now? Just wondering

This song = love

Cicadas > coffee. And cicadas = love

The Starlite Pit

"Lounge crew" has a weirder connotation, I think.

Lounge Rats?

The Starlite Pit

That I could do!

Oops, Commie beat me to it

"Lounge crew" is a type of very specific GAP sweater cut.

Hahaha!

Gack

I heard that cicadas LOVE coffee.

Starlite = Love = whatever you call us

Isn't their life intense enough without caffeine?

17 years underground is pretty chill though!

Imagine a cicada flying into you after consuming coffee

Was that a cover of the theme to The Equalizer?

@Commie: It calms them down, strangely enough

Well that was cool

do skunks like coffee ?

Thank you for reminding me of this melty song

You may have to Google that Mark

Skunks can go pound sand.

Skunks enjoy a good latte, yes

❤ = 🦗

Hi Mike!

but imagine it's a cicadamoji vs grasshopper

What's wrong with skunks, they are cute and just defending themselves

there r home remedies out there to rid of skunks they don’t like lemon rinds :)

They are wreaking havoc on my mosses.

Moss=Love

@Mike, love this song and Video!

How old do cicadas get? Like, how many cycles underground, just 1 or more than 1?

Yo Bo and everyone else I've missed saying "yo" to!

Yes, this song is totally great. Sleeper MTV hit, but I am a big JF fan anyway.

This is the song that John fogerty got sued over cause it sounded too much like credence, right?

And ok i do feel sorry for the moss

But I agree skunks are adorable and I do not mind their odors.

really enjoying the show Mike. playing it loud.

They just have to stay off my lawn

Awesome, thanks Kristin! "Use as directed!"

This has been great hanging in the drive in music but it's almost time to watch people from Baltimore yelling a lot!

CHA CHA HEELS

Cha cha heels!

Hi Commie!

Hah!

Twinz

I owe you a beer, Commie

People from Baltimore yelling a lot? Is Double Dagger playing?!

This may be of interest to some, I think it’s horror fiction? https://m.barnesandnoble.com/w/brood-x-michael-ohillip-cash/1115182890

Hi No/bye Bo!

@Commie, Bye :(

Bye Commie!

DSM it does look horror-ible ;-)

Ha!

Commit some crimes, Commie!

@Chris Mohr, these periodical cicadas hatched in 2004, lived underground the whole time feeding on tree roots, and have emerged all at once to mate. They will all die within a month. As adults, these cicadas don't feed.

I didn’t know Double Dagger were from Baltimore. I saw them play in New Brunswick with Hunchback a couple of times back in the 2000’s.

@Chris Mohr, there are other cicadas that emerge every year, in mid and late summer. They live underground for maybe 4 years, can and do feed on tree twigs above ground. They are nowhere near as many as the periodical cicadas.

I would like to have seen Double Dagger. Their records are terrific.

STATEN ISLAND

that's way it's done!

Long Broom Island.

More recently, I’ve twice seen the Double Dagger frontman Nato Coles play with his “Blue Diamond Band”.

so bummed i have to duck out before dbeat o'clock , i implore you to make it a weekly occurence

@Mike, the apple didn't fall very far from the tree ;))

whoa! dbeat o'clock? I seem to tuned in at the right moment.

she is great on every show appearance ! I’ve leafed thru that book before - very nice impromptu review

Lame Drivers will be one of those bands with an exhaustive "how did people not appreciate them at the time?" retrospective in 2041.

@Jon, totally. Randomly listened to their album this week and forgot how good they are.

D-BEAT O'CLOCK WILL HAPPEN THIS HOUR.

Movie still hasn't started so MAYBE I'll hear it?

Sorry, I think I erred. Nato Coles was actually the frontman for Modern Machines, who I’ve seen back in the 2000’s.

What is D-Beat O'clock?

Discharge time!

@Rob, you'll know it when you hear it!

@Mike, ok. I suspect it often happens after 10 pm? I usually head off to bed around that time

Can you hear the sound/of an enormous door/slamming in the depths of hell

The possibility of life's destruction

That's the working title for everything right now.

Ok starting. Everyone is clapping by beeping! Bye!!!!

Protest and survive!

Thanks Commie! Enjoy the movie! (I'll send you an MP3 of D-Beat o'clock.)

soyuned good in the car - good driving music with the window down - but I did hear some garage rock form the equaks- careful that's a slipperslip next thing ya know your playing the Scott Bedford four - the young rascalls and the

sonics and the standells

Now I understand!

YES!

This energy. YESSS

☢☢💣💣💥💥💥🌎🌏🌎

It does have energy

I am thrilled to be present for this. even tho, I too have a way too large discharge collection. I feel a need for this anthology.

*cicada moshing intensifies*

Hello, Fine People. Happy to hear the most un-sun-city-girls Sun City Girls track in the car!

Jimbeaux! You're just in time for... for... something.

yo jimbeaux!

Here for Cicada Moshing.

Hi Christine! Jimbeaux! :))

Have anybody got wind of the brood that are appearing in Oregon ?

Hey, Bo! What's the craic?

Hi Bo, do you have link?

And hi Christine and Jimbeaux

Mighty craic tonight Christine! %-)

Cicada moshing, love it!

Thanks, Mike, D-Beat O'Clock was fun

I'm super lucky to have been here for this. Thanks WPRB! home of new Jersey's only dbeat o'clock.

Hi Rob, I don't sorry, but, apparently they are covered in a fungus that is the same/similar to that of magic mushrooms

@Rob, are you wearing a beard of cicadas right now? I gather there's quite the density in Maryland right now.

@Bo, thanks, I'll research tomorrow

@Rob, good look!

@Christine, I am. We were at a park on Monday and one part of the forest had so many cicadas it was almost like being at a Discharge show without earplugs

@Rob, it sounds simultaneously fascinating and horrifying.

Rob, my drink just came out of my nose.

@Mike, thank YOU for playing X-Ray Spex, one of my all time fav bands from my teen years and, still are today!

@Mike, what a set! I'm glad I was able to catch that!

Happy to oblige, Bo. That is a *perfect* record!

Awesome, Christine! Glad you are into it!

Need some synthy chill sounds to shake off the Discharge vibez.... UNTIL NEXT D-BEAT O'CLOCK, ANYWAY.

Greetings and Salutations!

Hello, DJ MikeLupica!

MrM! Glad you could make it, pal

@Mike, you are familiar with Messr Chips?

TIZIANO POPOLI ❤️‍🔥 (just bought this album!)

*Chup

Bo, I'm a *huge* Messer Chups fan!

@Mike, I knew I liked you for a reason ;-))

Hahaha, sexy Russian surf music is the great equalizer.

The cicadas weren't quite as D-Beat as Discharge. But they were as loud as

And, I'm toddling off in a bit, goodnight everyone

Albatross :)

Rob, henceforth, I think all cicada volume proclamations should be relational to the volume of Discharge records.

@Rob, goodnight. Keep one step ahead of the horde.

Hell yea, Bo.

Night Rob!

@Hey, MrM 💀

@Mike, the only Number One they ever had BTW!

Mike, hell yeah

Bo, for real? That's insane!

Wow! at that FLEETWOOD MAC❣️ Spin that one again! What’s on the other side??

@Mike, this true, Peter Green baby! ;-))

MrM: "Jigsaw Puzzle Blues"

Oh. I’m not familiar. Thanks!

Is BO typing about FLEETWOOD MAC??

@MrM. I was!

My brainz done melted.

Mr M. I highly doubt it!

My EnterWebs said “Dreams” 🧐

I like your Number One pick!

I just dropped in to say i look forward to your show and style of commentary every week.

Thanks Uno! Don't be a stranger around these parts!

this sounds like early 90's PJ

PJ HARVEY 💟

@Colin, I think the studio version of this song is on Stories From the City, Stories from the Sea, which is like 2000? But agree, this is totally 90s zone in terms of delivery.

just looked it up recorded nov 10 2000

Also, just letting everyone know that DJ Flex Luthor is visiting his home planet this week, so at 11 you get a surprise live edition of Clowntronics with Ameena!

day after my birthday!

Nice!

that's two vinyls i'm gonna have to add to my collection. The discharge and now this PJ peel session.

#worthyadditions

@Mike, this is beautiful!

Right on, Bo. Going full shmaltz in the closing moments of tonight's show!

@Mike, every dog has his day!

Believe it or not, the video for this Pieces of a Dream song was critical Video Music Box viewing for me. It's kind of awesome.

I believe it man, great stuff!

@Jimbeaux, you still here? LOVE CRACKLES ARE ON THE GAME GRID.

@Mike, I never saw the video; I'll have to check it out.

@Christine, it's so charmingly lo-budget. I saw it sanwiched inbetween all the early 80s hip-hop that Video Music Box played. Routine after-school altar worshipping for me in the 8Ts.

*sandwiched

Hi Mike! Please check your messenger. This is Poly Styrene related.

@Mike, LOVED that Breakaways song!

DJ MikeLupica, many thanks and kind regards to you, Sir! Fun times!

Cheers Dears!!

💜 Sun Ra

Thx, Mike! See you, Pit Crew 👋

Fantastic show DJ Mike!

Thanks everybody! Miss you already!

good night WNPC

Later Pitsters!