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The Freeform Pathogen

Aug 11, 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.

VERY THIN ICE

Yo Pitcrew,

Verizon has done me dirty tonight and I am hanging on by a thread of an internet connection from here in Ye Olde Starlite Lounge. As of 7:15 PM, I was ready to bag on tonight's event and just rack up a repeat episode from a few weeks ago. But you know what? I feel like tempting the beast tonight. So we're gonna see exactly what kind of damage we can dish out despite the shoddy circumstances. And besides, Dana K is already filling in for me next week -- I don't wanna be a bad boyfriend and miss TWO DATES IN A ROW. (More importantly, I don't want to re-file all these records I pulled without at least trying to spin 'em for ya.) So it is with some hesitancy that I bid you welcome this evening, but nonetheless, I exist at your service in the hopes of remaining in your good graces. Thanks for hanging out tonight.

8:06 PM		John Miles Stranger In the City (Pilooski Edit) 12" Dark & Lovely 2007
8:12 PM		Sparks So May We Start N Annette (Cannes Edition - Selections from the Motion Picture Soundtrack) Milan 2021
8:15 PM		The Fall New Big Prinz I Am Kurious Oranj Beggars Banquet 1988
8:19 PM		Chubby and the Gang Coming Up Tough N The Mutt's Nuts Partisan Records / Liberator Music 2021
8:22 PM		Cheap Trick I Love You Honey But I Hate Your Friends All Shook Up Epic 1980
8:26 PM		Durand Jones & The Indications Witchoo N Private Space Dead Oceans 2021
8:29 PM		Nickodemus Give the Drummer Some Endangered Species Shock Records 2006
8:34 PM		Peter Schilling Major Tom (Coming Home) Major Tom (Völlig losgelöst) [All Versions] 1982
8:38 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
8:46 PM		Dahlia Seed Punch and Get Out Survived By 1318766 Records DK 1996
8:49 PM		Dummy Punk Product #9 N Mandatory Enjoyment
8:51 PM		Serengeti Tickled Pink Kenny Dennis III Joyful Noise Recordings 2014
8:55 PM		Sole Salt On Everything Selling Live Water Anticon 2003
8:59 PM		Gang Starr Mass Appeal Hard to Earn Virgin Records 1993
9:02 PM		Gang Starr Take It Personal Daily Operation Chrysalis 1992
9:05 PM		Dead Moon Dead Moon Night Unknown Passage Tombstone Records 1989
9:10 PM		Government Issue Teenager In a Box Make an Effort 7" Fountain of Youth 1983
9:11 PM		Guns N' Wankers Nervous Hardcore 7" Rugger Bugger 1994
9:14 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
9:22 PM		The Mekons Where Were You? Mutant Pop 78/79
9:25 PM		Loose Come Through Gently 7" Complex 1991
9:29 PM		A.J. Kaufmann Crown of Things N Stoned Gypsy Wanderer 2021
9:32 PM		Guardian Singles Midnight Swim N Guardian Singles Moral Support 2021
9:37 PM		Echo & The Bunnymen Do It Clean Korova 1983
9:39 PM		Jonny Kosmo Figure It Out N Pastry Dinosaur City Records 2021
9:43 PM		Bryan's Magic Tears Sad Toys N Vacuum Sealed 2021
9:47 PM		The Geraldine Fibbers Dragon Lady 7" Sympathy for the Record Industry 1995
9:52 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:01 PM		Kelley Stoltz Double Exposure Double Exposure Third Man Records 2013
10:03 PM		BLYTH When You Find Yourself Falling N Confessions of a Justified Sinner Clouds Hill 2021
10:05 PM		(with) Ethyl Eichelberger Jocasta The Uproar Tapes Vol. 1 Antilles 1986
10:11 PM		Red Rider Lunatic Fringe 7" Capitol 1981
10:16 PM		Peter Laughner Cinderella Backstreet 7" Forced Exposure 1987
10:21 PM		Raul Seixas Metamorfose Ambulante City of God Milan 2003
10:23 PM		Joe Gibbs & The Professionals Drwadlocks Affair 7" Belmont 1978
10:28 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:32 PM		The Scientists Frantic Romantic Where Birdmen Flew V/A Taz Devil 1987
10:35 PM		Jad Fair Psychodelic Holiday N The Boy Who Paints Rainbows V/A Paisley Shirt 2021 TV Personalities tribute/cover
10:38 PM		Moritz Von Oswald Trio Chapter 4 (feat. Heinrich Köbberling & Laurel Halo) N Dissent: Chapter 1 - 10 Modern Recordings 2021
10:45 PM		Native Soul Letter To Kabza De Small N Teenage Dreams 2021
10:49 PM		Zero 7 Destiny 12" Giant Step 2001
10:54 PM		The Bellamy Brothers Let Your Love Flow 7"

Chat is archived.

Wow, am I in A MOOD TONIGHT. Here goes nothin'.

Hi! Good luck with your connection and with the weather, Mike!

DJ MikeLupica, I am sorry to inform you that I will always hold you in high regard and ye shall always remain in my good graces!! Wherever the show goes tonight you have our full support! We appreciate all you do to keep the station cranking out the tunes! Biggest cheers to you, Sir!

Let's hope the weather titans avoid smiting the Starlite Lounge with whatever are in those terrifying clouds...

I hope Hector is doing OK. 🐹 Can we get a welfare check on Hector?

Someone needs more “MrMalcontent” fiber biscuits

I KNOW WHAT SONG YOU CAN PLAY MIKE (and Christine, and MrM)

Would prefer 180 min, but will gladly take 18 min of FFP.

It's 10 minutes long ... and comes from Australia ...

Rob, I just might do that. Like I said: I'M IN A MOOD.

I am Mood Boy ...

I'm outta tahini, so I may need to come collect my namesake sesame paste.

Though this John Miles song could be on repeat for an hour, that would be good too

@jimbeaux, we have some down here ...

Rob, you gotta stick with the Pilooski edit. The orig. version has a fat, boring chorus that totally kills the vibe.

Christine, you mean Horace, right?

Pilooski Edit, thumbs up!

How is poor Horace doing?

Horace is a CHAMP.

Oh crap, I thought he was named Hector. Sorry, Horace.

Horace is #1

He is also very difficult to offend.

Hector is the official WPRB goldfish.

Which I have just decided to invent.

Be right down, Rob. Prob 11pm. 🏍

We love Horace. 💗 🐹 💯 🏆

Have also been up since 330 am, morning went terribly but it’s smoothed out since then. This track is smooth!

Please note that IF this show goes to hell due to connectivity, WPRB's CJ is on standby to rack up a replacement show. Hopefully it won't come to that.

💜 SPARKS✨

Still haven't seen (either) movie. (Annette or the doc.) Which I guess you could say is an indication that my day started going badly last night.

good evening!

Hey Andrew, welcome!

Mike, speaking of movies...

A listener (Nathan) earlier tonight pointed out you played People Who Died and asked if young people today know that song...

Fast forward two weeks or so and that tune plays at the start of The Suicide Squad!

Jon, if there's one thing I can be sure of it's this: Whenever you see a gaggle of young people out on the street, it is almost certain that they are all talking about Jim Carroll's "Catholic Boy" LP. Take it to the bank, man.

I tried to engage them and then hit me repeatedly the copies of The Basketball Diaries they were carrying. These were VHS tapes, not books!

You have no idea how badly I needed that laugh. Thanks, man.

@jimbeaux, I'll put it in a cooler out front

The Fall were great!

SWELL selections to start the show!!

Wait, DJ Mike played The Fall and I missed it? 😳😭

Chris, are your Spidey Senses failing you?!?

Must be the lightning ⚡⚡⛈

At least your Cheap Trick shivers still know when to kick in...

Hey, nice segue

I didn't really go back to sleep after 3:45 this morning. I mean I did, dozing off for a few minutes at a time. I ended up taking a 45 minute nap just before lunchtime though. (Working from home is great)

Hi Mike! Sounding all kinda good man! 😁

Well, this rules.

Rob, I feel that. #napsrule

Hey Ambrose!

Jon, boy howdy!

4, 3, 2, 1 ...

this song rn af

Classic. 🚀 🌏

A once-a-decade-on-the-radio no-guilt pleasure.

What is this, WPST in 1985? I guess you get a pass for this decade.

NICE!!!

DJ Mel Toxic, at your service. Scott Lowe on the Go?

Abbie ... Abbiee ...

Come in, Abbie... 🛰

Hey, 1985 is I mean was a fine year

Abbbiiiieeeeee

Abbie and Scott Lowe arrive, hand-in-hand.

Awesome sauce

Darn it, Mike beat me to a Scott Lowe reference.

Scott is EXACTLY who I was thinking of (with all due affection)

Hi Wednesday Pitsters one and all!😊

Howdy Ambrose

hello there!

S'up Rob!

Hi Andrew!

I have no favorite Cheap Trick record

Greetings Fellow Earthlings! Every time I hear Schilling's 'Major Tom (Coming Home)', I associate it with the great German mini-series about a young man who is basically coerced into becoming a GDR spy.

@Teresa, that sounds like an interesting, memorable mfilm

Oh, so "docker's armpit" is OK but "mutt's nuts" isn't?! Keep drawing those imaginary lines, Lupica!

'Deutschland 83'. Here's the trailer courtesy of the YouTubes: https://youtu.be/m4WIfrO0aig

"the aisle seat of the country" :-DD

👍🏽

Thx Teresa

@Mike, interesting analogy.

How many ounces??

The Peter Schilling number is the mini-series theme song...

Diabeetus.🥤

But aren't beets one of those "superfoods"? Hand me that cup so I can take a swig!

DJ Mike, quality rant! Just get to the next pit stop, your pit crew is here for youuuu

@Teresa, lol!

..with our pick-axes and shovels slung over our shoulders!

Hi Teresa! How totally Deutschland - ish!

Hi Teresa and everyone else I missed!

If the show survives the night, it is a blessed show

Well thanks, Nathan!

After the day I've had, kicking back with the Gang Starr records in the candle-lit Starlite Lounge is EXACTLY what I need.

Missing the StarliteCam rn tbh

A cleansing vibe 💯

Just like the seashore, you're calm.

Chris, given the tech probs, I didn't wanna push it. Maybe next week!

I figured!

Blessings upon your house... and your Verizon connection!

I THINK WE SHALL DO ANOTHER

You go, DJ Mike!

Verizon tried to play you like an indoor sport.

Gonna show 'em my powermoves.

I heard "Dead Moon Night" on Terre T's show just a couple of hours ago. Coincidence?

Yes, total coincidence David! Wasn't listening to Terre today... must be... THE MOON.

I keep swearing "well, during the *next* song I'll go make sure my kid is getting ready for bed."

@Jon Sounds like Good Enough parenting to me! It's a cracking show tonight, after all.

Apropos of nothing, Earth Bread & Brewery in Mt. Airy/Philly has a beer named "At the Wholeness It's Way Too Big."

I had to buy it just because it was from my favorite Minutemen song.

Is this the NRA's theme song?

LOL, Ambrose.

I mean, not really LOL. Maybe more SMDH.

@Ambrose, lol

YODA 💚

Oh man I missed Government Issue!!

I don't know about SMDH Mike.

I love that G.I. song!!

@Chris Mohr. There's a chain of NJ coffee shops called Booskerdoo. I asked a cashier if it intentionally rhymed with the Minneapolis group, but I don't think she understood me.

@ Christine, HELLO there and thank you!

@David That made me LOL

@Chris Mohr, EB&B Rules!

@Ambrose Yes! So glad they started back up a few weeks ago. We ordered takeout from there almost every Friday since the pandemic started

Balled fists or bald fists, DJ Mike?

Epicenter Records. I was thinking as you mentioned them that I used to see guns n wankers records there all the time… guess you bought one of em!

Dig the mekons!

THIS!

#alltimefave

Anthemic Mekons!

Mutant Pop might be my favorite compilation. Bought every reasonably-priced copy I've encountered over the years to give to like-minded friends.

this is the best song from 70s uk punk

@jon You are the best

That record is seriously like always TWO DOLLARS.

Not anymore it appears, sadly.

The first listing on Discogs makes me wonder how many copies passed through Princeton alone...

"Vinyl: One light, superficial scratch. Cover: Princton Record Exchange price sticker at top left."

@Jon Solomon, you are a good egg!

YOU BOUGHT ALL OF THEM AND DROVE THE PRICE UP

I hope I didn't do the same with F.O.D.'s "Shatter Your Day"!!

But for realz, I used to do the same thing for Jeffrey Lee Pierce's "Wildweed" LP. I think I'm the reason most of the people I know who have that record, ummm, have that record.

Hahhaha

@Chris Mohr, "started back up"?!

@Ambrose Yeah, they stopped serving anything for a few weeks because they had no kitchen staff. Now they're open W, Th and F only, I think.

I'm not familiar with Loose, thought they sounded like Squirrel Bait, so googled them and found them referred to on this resource on the Rutgers website: http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/ead/snjc/nbmsab.html

Chris, not sure if you remember the late Paul Decolator (Pleased Youth) but he was in Loose.

@Jon No, not sure I knew (of) him.

Chris, I leave you in Jon's capable hands for this one!

Cool title on that linked web page: "Inventory to the New Brunswick Music Scene Archive."

Part of the [New Brunswick] music scene, envy of the [New Brunswick] music scene." - The [Central New Jersey] Fall

@Chris Mohr, awe man that's so very sad but glad to hear they are back open again albeit limited, Tom and Peggy are two of my favorite peeps ever!

ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN❣️ Fun Timez!

@Mike, where the he'll did you dig this up?!

There is an acetate listed in the New Brunswick collection I'd like to know more about

Ambrose: High school?

@Mike, that's what I thought! 😉

I confess to being a poseur when it comes to Echo and the Bunnymen. Never dug much deeper than their most well-known songs, though I still probably ought to.

I almost fell asleep during Echo's set at the Mann in ~1987 when they were on a double bill with New Order, FWIW

DJ Mike, can your internet make it to 10 pm? Lookin' and soundin' good so far!

Chris, I will see your falling asleep during Echo and the Bunnymen story and raise you one ACTUALLY falling asleep while standing up watching Helios Creed at CBGBs in 1990-something.

DON'T JINX ME, MAN!

Standing up takes the cake!

ooh, no, wouldn't want to do that. I'll hold you in the Light. (Quakerese for, "I'll pray for you.")

Oh, THE GERALDINE FIBBERS❣️❣️

well done!

This song is EVERYTHING. Even better with the cussin.

Shoo!

so ummm i was sittin on a train back fiorm the worst vist to ny ever last week and i had the phone and i saw bath biy come up on the playlist and i couldbnt listen cause i didnt have ear buds !! the horrror!!!

Wow, this one is hitting tonight.

but mike played somne mellow jams on the carride home and everything alright

@Space Cowboy, oh no! Horror indeed.

@Mike, what was the word that wasn't Air worthy?

"Fuckin'" followed by "shit".

yeah that was pretty good

This song just got up & wrecked the place...

1995 natrually

Oh 💩

Awe shit, fuckin' Shiite 😜

angst loud quiet loud

This might be worth tracking down - https://carlabozulichofficial.bandcamp.com/album/lost-somewhere-between-the-earth-and-my-home

That Bryan's Magic Tears song also has this timelessness to it where it doesn't seem like a 2021 release at all.

whoa jonny kosmo is a funk disco hit Fer sure !

last three songs were the shizz

i had to make my way over to the compy so I can chime in on .dammit! lol

.anything else just sounds so yawn now.

You have to buy ".dammit" from the desprate country that wants to sell its unalienable rights to its domain. Like the fabled land of Damnitstan.

anytime i look at a web adress that is .whatever, My mind will quietly say, unimportant

@jim, you know some country is selling cheap.

Didn't the US already bomb the shit out of Damnitstan?

Too soon?

Too bad, Too FUNNY ?!?

We didn't want to bomb damnitstan, their web servers are too important.

well lets be honest they had it coming

For a second, I thought this was you declaiming poetry, DJ Mike...

Oh wow, I will take that as a compliment!

Time for me to head out. Mike, we enjoyed this show. You and your internet did good tonight!

Thanks Rob!

Goodnight, Rob 🌒

They already ceded most of their coastline to North Fuckthisshitlandia.

Ethyl Eichelberger, another 💎 I was introduced to tgrough PRB.

I see that Ann Magnuson is on The Uproar Tapes Vol. 1 ... I am not surprised, listening to the Ethyl E piece. This is a wonderful way to end listening to the station tonight.

LIGHTERS OUT

good night, rob fm

uh oh high school....

1981

ah lea next!

er whatever it was called

I'm still here. My wife remembers this song, I don't. (Lunatic Fringe)

i think those two went together perfectly ethyl y and red rider

@Space Cowboy, I agree

some adult that was present during my childhood loved this song and played it a lot.

It is a life goal to someday memorize that Ethyl Eichelberger piece the same way I can recite the Venom stage banter thing.

Colin: perhaps your gym teacher?

For real, I do really like this song.

omg...

suddenly having flashbacks to my 6th grade miami vice obsession

Ok, good night for real!

G"night Rob!

there is a pretty tight phillies game a foot. I bet it holds Jerry's attention.

Could be. Phils are hot! 🔥 I'll be at tomorrow afternoon's game.

hot humid days carry the ball. Hopefully a home run fest for ya.

@Mike, VERY NICE!😊

Summer love songs all night long on wprb!

I have one more *impossibly* cheesy AM Gold summer love song in the record pile. Should I play it before 11?

Yup

@Mike, humour us!

Or put another way: DO YOU WANT MORE AM GOLD OR DO YOU WANT THE TRUTH?

I can handle the TRUTH

and I luv AM Gold so good thing you’re the DJ!

MrM, tonight, you speak for the crowd. SO LET IT BE WRITTEN. SO LET IT BE DONE.

OhMyGawd

Eyes crossed

@Mr.M, you have vision?

All these tracks are GEMS today! Glad the internet cooperated for DJ MikeLupica and this awesome show!

Yes: GEMS!

Plus my third eye 👁 works right nice @AmbroseHughes

💎 💎 💎 📻

ZERO 7 ❤️

Oh my God, Zero 7

#1 baby-makin record of 2001!

TMI MikeLupica

But don't go gettin' all randy now, since we still have some AM gold business to attend to before 11 and that is, like, totally gonna shatter the mood.

Agreed MrM!

new sounds for the new millennium!

Naughty Aughties

Aye

Haha 😛

@All Y’alls

I never owned the actual release of this song but I do have it on a dan the automator mix tape.

Final Five Mins?!? I’m cry.

THIS IS AWESOME

CLASSIC!!! 😁

this kinda fits the mood 100%

I wanna hear the flip side too!

Gonna be a funny lookin' baby coming out of Zero 7, but ok!

Always liked this song, glad I stayed up for it .

This is akin to playing Sweet Caroline as the bar closes.

BUT BETTER. WAY BETTER.

Well done, DJ MikeLupica!!

Thank you 🙏 Mike, thanks Pit Crew

AMen!

Top notch job DJ Mike, amEN

AMEN BROTHER

Thanks for the complete GEM of a show, DJ MikeLupica! Kindest regards to you, Sir!

Good night all!

It is a blessed show

G'night!

Cheers Dears!!

Peas out everyone! We made it! Dana K subs for me next week, see you in TWO WEEKS.