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The Freeform Pathogen

Jul 21, 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.

Hope Springs Isothermal

8:03 PM		Yoshinori Sunahara PTvsYS Warp Back to Earth 66/99 2xLP V/A Bungalow 1998
8:07 PM		Qlowski The Wanderer N Quale Futuro? Maple Death Records 2021
8:11 PM		Sunshine Insomnia Necromance Gold Standard Laboratories 2003
8:16 PM		Neu! Hallogallo Neu! Groenland Records
8:22 PM		Rock Master Scott & The Dynamic Three Request Line 12" Reality 1984
8:31 PM		Inside Out American Gypsy Slurped Too! V/A 2001
8:34 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
8:40 PM		The Styrenes Anything We Care So You Don't Have To LP Scat 1998
8:42 PM		Cosmic Panthers Streets Gonna Get Ya N Life and Death at the Red Wall 2021
8:47 PM		Chris Knox I Wanna Look Like Darcy Clay Beat Thirsty Ear Recordings 2000
8:50 PM		The Linda Lindas Oh! N Digital Single Epitaph 2021
8:53 PM		Sault Fear N Nine Forever Living Originals 2021
8:56 PM		Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band Dirt Off Your Shoulder N Expansions Big Crown Records 2021
8:59 PM		Biz Markie Alone Again Copyright Infringement: Illegal Art V/A Stay Free 2002 RIP Biz.
9:02 PM		Biz Markie Nobody Beats the Biz 12" Prism 1987
9:06 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
9:18 PM		Stahhr the F.E.M.C.E.E. Beautiful Experience 12" Sub Verse 2002
9:21 PM		Bruce McCulloch Grade 8 Shame-Based Man Rhino Atlantic 1995
9:24 PM		Les Filles de Illighadad Surbajo N At Pioneer Works Sahel Sounds 2021
9:29 PM		Getatchew Mekurya Shellèla Éthiopiques, Vol. 14: Getachèw Mèkurya V/A Buda musique 2005
9:34 PM		Exek Four Stomachs N Good Thing They Ripped Up the Carpet Lulus Sonic Disc Club 2021
9:38 PM		Jesu Old Year Conqueror Hydra Head 2007
9:43 PM		La Dame Blanche Veneno N Digital single 2021
9:46 PM		The Fall Theme from Sparta F.C. Country On the Click Action Records 2003
9:53 PM		Various WPRB DJs The Fall Battle on Stage at The Trocadero April 1998 WPRB Aircheck
9:58 PM		Archigram Doggystyle 12" Crydamoure 2003
10:06 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:13 PM		Curse Ov Dialect Saturday Night Wooden Tongues Mush 2006
10:15 PM		The Comsat Angels Eye of the Lens 7" Polydor 1981
10:21 PM		Eartha Kitt Hurdy Gurdy Man N Hurdy Gurdy Songs V/A Ace 2021 Donovan cover
10:23 PM		Edward Rogers Button Box N Catch a Cloud 2021
10:27 PM		Cary Ann Hearst Hell's Bells Lions and Lambs Shrimp Records 2011
10:30 PM		Robin Johnson Damn Dog Times Square RSO 1980
10:33 PM		Malcom McLaren You Need Hands The Sex Pistols: The Great Rock & Roll Swindle
10:36 PM		Bruce Springsteen Girls In Their Summer Clothes Magic Columbia 2007
10:40 PM		Jack Cooper Gynn Square Sandgrown Trouble In Mind Records 2017
10:43 PM		The Suntanama Brambler The Suntanama Drag City Records 2002
10:48 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:52 PM		Daniel Higgs Hoofprints On the Ceiling of Your Mind Say God Thrill Jockey 2010

Chat is archived.

This is music. MY MUSIC!

It has been too long DJ Mike!!

Hallo MrM and Mike and everybody

Hiya Mr. M

Hi, DJ MikeLupica!!

Mike, are you back home?

Hiya, aliagrace

Hallooo, RobFromMaryland

I ❤️ OBNOXIOUS

the plane has crashed into the mountain, or the radio

S'up pitcrew, good to see y'all here! And yes, I am back. I had to come back. I *hate* Florida.

Bring it on, Mike. Like they did in that movie Bring It On!

good evening to the yakbox crew

giant UGH @Florida

Jon that transition was *chef's kiss*

kiiiiiiiiiiiissssssss

i have never actually been to florida--south carolina is as far south as I have been

Agree, @Commie.

Aliagrace, that's far enough.

Unless you skip right to Miami.

There was just a 5 second interruption

I have to go plug my phone in so I can stream so won't be in the chat much, but happy you made it out of florida @Mike

And another

No longer streaming

Hm no interruptions on the radio

fm signal is out too

s it a DJ edit, or Comcast issues?

Totally broken

Oh weird! I didn't notice anything

whomp. whomp.... no longer streaming

U fancy, DJ CommieFrancis with a radio 📻

The player on the website won't play, neither will Apple Music on my laptop

Shit... looks like an interwebs problem at the transmitter. Can anyone confirm reception on FM?

Picking up the radio A-OK, though.

is the DJ in-studio or WFH?

Confirming on 103.3.

@Charlie, at home

I’m cry

Yeah radio signal is still fine, didn't notice any pauses

*shakes fist at interweb*

You picked up a FL curse!

there should be a leftover/pre-taped show that starts to play after 5 minutes of radio silence or something, like automatically

@MrM 💀, now this really is a time to cry. No streaming Freeform Pathogen? 😭

I'm crying too...

Engineer has been contacted. FWIW, I'm still sitting here playing records.

i shouldn't have moved somewhere out of the radio wave distance. what was i thinking?

Getting Eno cover on free-quencee mod.

Anyone hearing Neu?

I just tried the player and it's working now

We can hear you on the terrestrial airwaves. Sorry everyone who is streaming; don't hate us.

Mike, yes, wait, no, wait, yes

YES

Welcome back from thee Starfish Lounge.

I think you might be back!

Hello Friends! Yeah, my stream isn't working either. Whenever I try to press the little triangle to change it to an equals sign, it recalcitrantly remains a little triangle.😢😭

Wait, here's Neu! Hallo Gallo

Dry your eye sockets, MrM! 💀

Effin' hell, I think we're good now. Looks like it was a temporary internet screwup at the transmitter. Jon, are there storms rippin' shit up in Trenton?

airwaves are back

HALLO GALLO is streaming now!!

NEU!

Neu now

The storms passed by our house, so I don't believe so.

Can confirm, the PRB pop-up player is working now.

Skies clear on the radio. We have you going at 103.3 fm and WPRB.com presently (that will change for sanity's sake).

It's back! HURRAYYYYYYY!!!!

People starting to get shaky & sweaty for a couple minutes there. Withdrawal!

I had the player and Music/iTunes going at the same time. That made Neu a little shaky

Sometimes i enjoy the half second delay when I have the dial and streaming going at once

OK. Just got off the horn with the engineer. We have decided it was ferrets.

Ya better feed the ferrets something or they'll bring the station down again

Probably Florida ferrets.

For those of you following the long narrative, I suspect the ferrets were there to start a fight with Horace, the gerbil who powers WPRB's transmitter.

Fortunately, Horace takes no shit.

I'm activating the Gerbil Protection Service for Horace

Rob, I think he's out of network.

I have a slush fund, Mike

Amazing how catty I can be when there's a 10 minute Neu song playing, eh?

I'll send the ferrets after your cat

maybe the "ferrets" did not approve of the songs in that portion of the playlist

Luvin it @DJ MikeLupica

It was possibly BathBoy and he wants his song played or NoMusic for Nobody

BATH BOYYYYYYY

ferret want bath boy

it's a utility company thing

“I swear to Gawd” 😆

BATH BOOY

Hello Mike!

Bo Scaggs 👋

Hey Bo! Congrats on showing up fashionably late and missing the tech problems.

Hi Christine! :-)

@Mike, you're welcome! ;-)

this sounds like a song that a young Puff Daddy could've experimented with back in the day

City of Brotherly Love represent!

or a leftover Human League production

@Charlie, the Rock Master music reminded me of the Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" at one point

Warning: Implicit Lyrics

MISSY MISDEMEANOR ELLIOT 💟

@Mike, next time, Lady Cab Driver would be perfect to play during the next snafu.

Haha

Slo-mo JBs under mic is swanky.

It's the only way to appreciate the majesty of Average White Band.

I was hoping the scandal could be swept under the rug...they let Cosby free!

Oh yeah...that's IT!

Mike, if you want a long sont, The Orb's "A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From the Centre of the Ultraworld" is about 19 minutes long and iirc correctly (it's been a long time) kind of swirly

*song

Oh, I gots no shortage of long songs. Was texting with DJ Peppermint Pig (who's filling in for Flex after me tonight at 11) about Half Japanese's epic ONE HOUR song just a little while ago...

I sometimes wonder if a "scandal" occurs so that the celebrity/famous person can change their identity, move somewhere new, and just live a regular life amongst the crowd

That's exactly what I did.

I once had the good people of Bandcamp look up their longest song for me. It was a 2.5 hour+ guitar solo. Sadly, no longer on their platform!

I also have 90+ minutes of isolated Thin Lizzy guitar solos on standby for REAL emergencies.

I wish the Thin Lizzy solos wasn't be reserved specifically for REAL emergencies! If it helps, I'll pull a fire alarm...

I've only played it once and I got a call from a guy who claimed it was "disrespectful".

A one hour Half Japanese song? Um...

Not that I really want to fool the fire department -- I remember how badly that worked out for Curious George

supposedly the Smashing Pumpkins (as recently as 20072/008) played lengthy 20-minute solos on some songs live...just because

Curious George got a sweet book/film deal out of that move!

I hate spoilers as much as the next carbon-based life form, but there's Coupla Biz tracks coming up, for those who are waiting.

Rest in Peace, Biz. 💔

That caller was so off-base! What says RESPECT better than 90+ minutes of Thin Lizzy guitar solos?! @jimbeaux -- you know, that's true! It did work out quite nicely, at least for The Man With The Yellow Hat (who I assume pocketed all the royalties)

I tried to be polite and reasonable, but I believe he called me a bad word and hung up in a huff.

it seems like there are so many bands that have this golden era that spans the first 2-5 albums (Weezer, Smashing Pumpkins, Genesis from the 70s/80s) before the formula changes

@Teresa, I do not trust the Man With the Yellow Hat. He was the one who abducted George in the first place.

is there one completely consistent band, album-for-album? Nadasurf?

Thin Lizzy.

is that the band with the guy who wears a KFC bucket on his head?

Man With The Yellow Hat, AKA Jamie Spears

@jimbeaux, Accurate!

Buckethead/Thin Lizzy...mashup made in heaven!

Yeah, Man With The Yellow Hat be duplicitous!

guy with bucket>guy with marshmallow head

Charlie Rose> Kid Rock?

I learned about Biz Markie's debut ('Pickin' Boogers') from the New York Times obit. That feels/sounds somewhat confessional, huh?

Pickin' Boogers (the song) is better than the title implies.

Hi, DJ Daughter

WHAT FLAVOR ICE CREAM?!

I honestly luv to eat ice cream

Rowan radio takeover 📻

Mike, you're such a good dad

Mike, don't spill wine on that air conditioner...

Good to have some AC in the Starlight Lounge that isn't fronted by Seth Putnam.

what a dream job, hangout with family, eat ice cream late at night, play your favorite tunes: America

Yay air conditioning

+ A/C

Rowan steals the show!!!!

So CUTE 😊

"love you, now GET yr ice cream off my REKKIDS!"

Great to hear Rowan give a book report 📚 💯

for people in the know, is Princeton doing any in-person classes this Fall, or is it all remote?

For people in the know, when is the next Lockdown??

Charlie, yes, in-person is in effect, at least as of now.

@MrM, true

Kids In the Hall!

Always wondered what a Kid in the Hall fronting Endless Boogie would sound like!

I heard Apple has delayed their "return to office" timeline, but that Banner Health is requiring all employees to get the vaccine if they want to keep their job

TAMMY GORGENCHUK

@MrM, the next will be the first.

💜💜💜 Les Filles

@Bo, 😳🤔😵‍💫

@Christine, for real!

Allegedly the first all-female Tuareg band.

does anyone have trouble telling Amazon Alexa to play WPRB? I used to just say "play WPRB 103.3 FM" or something and it would work, but as of maybe 6 months ago, it started playing some station from another country

There was a known / reported issue with telling Alexa to play WPRB but that did not involve "some station from another country."

Charlie, that's a longstanding problem. We've tried contacting Amazon, but apparently the boss is space.

But for real, we're working on a fix.

thanks for the info, figured I'd let you know in case if there was a "routing" issue of sorts, someone didn't pay for Prime membership, etc.

the local "Amazon tax"

all these nice selections!

I feel like ethiopiques is a wprb rite of passage

Hard agree, Peppa.

@Peppa, that's interesting. I agree!

Still missing three Ethiopiques in my collection. Almost there!

@charlie, your device is prob picking up 103.3 HD2 station, Radio Mirchi, South Asian music. Fun to tune in to now & then!

@Jon, you can do it!

I knew that sounded a bit familiar, nice

@jim, yep, it was definitely something like that

Nothing makes me prouder than (most likely) being the only person with a jukebox in his home in New Jersey in which there are several Ethiopiques singles.

jealous! they did some box set singles of those, right?

Yep. They're all reissues, not originals. That's more money than I spent on my last three cars.

I hope your Yugo, Gremlin, and Subaru Brat each gave you as much pleasure.

MORE SPOILERS: Deepdive into 90s WPRB aircheck cultcha coming up shortly.

LOL Jimbeaux.

Subaru Brat just isn't legit w/o the pissing Calvin sticker.

In NJ, I mean.

Every car, everywhere

THIS

YESSSSSSS THIS MrM.

Dang. And a recorder?!? OoohWeee!

Where’s me Jumper?! Where’s me Jumper?!

LOL

Where's me gran playing bongos?

This weather has me loopy

g2g, thanks WPRB and co

I don’t think the air conditioner is noticeable

this is awesome

What was the name of this radio show???

https://thefall.org/news/980410.html

“Guess The Name Of This Radio Show” with With DJs Jen and Mike

This is quite a story, and it's not even finished!

From the set list on a Fall site:

Cheetham Hill (Mark and Julia only after rest walk off in disgust)

My old blog post on this incident: https://hiptran.typepad.com/blog/2008/04/mark-e-smith-ra.html

Wow. Thanks Mike and Jon

And I'm heading out shortly. Stay cool everyone

@Jon & Mike, thanks for the info & links.

Everything got quiet.

Nevermind! Radio shut off.

Yikes!

"I can't take any more scares" -Martin Mull (Col. Mustard, Clue.)

I heart CLUE

Hall of fame movie, MrM. I can probably recite the whole thing back to front. (Note: I am not proud of this.)

I am so proud of that, DJ MikeLupica! The flames! The flames going up the side of my face…!

🎶 I, am. your Singing Telegram! 🎵 💥🔫

(Bang)

RIp Jane Wiedlin

😝😂🤣

Didn't mean to scare anyone. Horace the gerbil is doing a bang-up job! 🐹

Horace toils for Eartha Kitt's glory.

Christine, my audio dropped at roughly the same moment and then came back. I thought it was my EnterWebs.

everything about that Kitt/Donovan tune‼️

I'll never get tired of hurdy gurdy man

I blame the hurry gurdys

HAD I NOT PLAYED THE BUTTHOLE SURFERS *LAST* WEEK....

you still coulda done it

more buttholes are a good thang

wow this weather is making me loopy

This Cary Ann Hearst may be the only lasting (good) legacy of HBO's "True Blood" TV series.

"Cocaine make you grind your teeth all night"

@MrM, I'm loving the weather outside tonight.

@MrM 💀, how's your weather?

well hell’s bells I like this song

The weather is some kinda weird stifling hot at a high of 97° We don’t have the crazy fire haze here. The weather is messing with my allergies though. Feel dizzy. Ugh.

Still sorta pretty though. Nearly Perfect. 😎

@MrM, so sorry to hear that, we had that "fire haze" here in PA all day yesterday, hopefully you won't have to deal with it for much longer, I feel also for the poor unfortunates in Oregon :(

So many fires in North America. An area in Russia too. Stunning that the haze is on the east coast. Awful for everyone! Stay safe and healthy, Bo and everyone! Thanks @Bo!!

@MrM, stay healthy. The world is burning, unfortunately.

I’m cry

@Mike, are these "love crackles" on this record? Sounding good.

Absolutely!

Haven't listened to this Suntanama record in eons. Forgot that it's kinda perfect in a late night / last call kinda way.

this playlist is rocking my world and making me type slooooow 🤩🤩🤩

Almost time to turn off the Christmas lights in the Starlite Lounge. 😞

Cheers to all the Dears!!

Fun show!! Many thanks and kind regards to you, DJ MikeLupica!!

Thanks everyone! Please get vaccinated!

great show again! thanks for the Fall story

Please get booster shots! And flu shots! Pneumonia shots!

Thx, Mike 🙏 Good night all!

Stay tuned for Peppermint Pig!

Slan abhaile Mike, excellent show as always, Horace mind yer back, night pitsters!

Of. YourAH. MindAH!