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The New Abnormal

Aug 20, 2021 7:00 AM – 10:00 AM

With ǝɹnɔsqꓳ ǝɥꓕ ǝʌɐꓷ

🌌 Galactic grooves 🎶 🔭

7:01 AM		Hilliard Ensemble Primo tempore Officium ECM New Series 1994 With Jan Garbarek on saxophones. 🎷 This is the only track in which Garbarek blends with the Hilliard Ensemble. In all other tracks, Garbarek's volume is boosted waaaaay up (as is his habit).
7:09 AM		Set Break: over "Yangchen (santoor) Fast” from Bhutan Temple & Traditional Music 🛕
7:11 AM		Mako Sica / Hamid Drake Gasping For Breath N Ourania Feeding Tube 2021 Chicago based collaboration. Mako Sica: Psychedelic Rock/Avantgarde trio hailing from Chicago Hamid Drake: American Jazz drummer and percussionist, born 3 August 1955 in Monroe, Louisiana, now based in Chicago.
7:23 AM		Terje Rypdal Whenever I Seem to Be Far Away Whenever I Seem to Be Far Away ECM Records 1974 with members of the Sὔdfunk Symphony Orchestra
7:41 AM		Univers Zéro Xenantaya The Hard Quest Cuneiform 1999 Founders of 'chamber rock', and core member of Rock In Opposition.
7:52 AM		The Myrrors Eyes of Copper N Invocaciones: Singles & Strays (2014-2016) Feeding Tube 2021 The Myrrors is an experimental/psychedelic folk-rock band from the Arizona desert.
7:59 AM		Set Break: ❄ over “Avalon” by Sigur Rós ❄
8:03 AM		Richard Pinhas & Barry Cleveland I Wish I Could Talk In Technicolor Mu Cuneiform 2016 Barry Cleveland Richard Pinhas Mu
8:28 AM		David Torn Miss Place, the Mist... Prezens ECM Records 2007 Born 26 May 1953 in Amityville NY.
8:33 AM		MIDIval PunditZ Ab ke Baras Asian Massive V/A Six Degrees 2002 Gaurav Raina & Tapan Raj, from Delhi, mixing south Asian music with electronica.
8:39 AM		Set Break: over “Foel’d Again” by Gilgamesh
8:40 AM		Robert Rich Buoyant On Motionless Deluge A Troubled Resting Place Hearts of Space Records 1996 droning underneath Orchid Spangiafora...
8:41 AM		Orchid Spangiafora + Glands of External Secretion Four-Eyed Baldies N Couscous Bizarre Feeding Tube 2021 spoken word collage
8:47 AM		Léa Sen Golden Years N Modern Love V/A BBE Music 2021 https://leasen.bandcamp.com "Modern Love" is a compilation of some interesting covers of David Bowie songs.
8:50 AM		L'Rain I V Fatigue Mexican Summer 2021 Taja Cheek, known professionally as L'Rain, is an American experimentalist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, curator and tape manipulator from Crown Heights, Brooklyn. While studying at Yale she worked as music director of radio station WYBC. "I V" is a dig at Ivy (as in League). "Give me all your time and I'll try to make you some money Or maybe not because the pigs will chew me ’cause art won’t pay." L'Rain
8:52 AM		Bill Nelson Infernal Regions Map of Dreams Cocteau 1987
8:55 AM		Hoenig Michael Voices of Where Departure from the Northern Wasteland Kuckuck Schallplatten 1978 Michael Hoenig is from the Berlin school of electronic music (Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze). This LP was his debut solo recording. Apart from a few solo albums, he is far better known for his film-music and for the music for the popular Baldur's Gate PC games series.
9:01 AM		Set Break: over ⛰“Mountainscape 2” by Barre Phillips⛰
9:03 AM		Karsh Kale Instinct Liberation Six Degrees Travel Series 2003 Karsh Kale (born 1 November 1974) is a British musician, record producer, singer, songwriter, film composer and DJ. He is one of the pioneering figures in defining the Asian Underground genre by mixing disparate genres of music such as Indian classical and folk with electronica, rock, pop and ambient music.
9:09 AM		Jon Hassell Timeless Seeing Through Sound (Pentimento Volume Two) Ndeya 2020
9:17 AM		Jef Stott Blissmi'lah SoukSonik - EP Six Degrees Emerging Artist 2006
9:25 AM		Dhafer Youssef Seventh Heaven Suite Digital Prophecy Enja 2003 Tunisian jazz singer and oud player. This CD features Eivind Aarset and Nils Petter Molvaer among others.
9:32 AM		Set Break: over “Sunday Boys” by Brian Blade
9:34 AM		Soft Machine Out-Bloody Rageous Third SONY BMG Catalog 1970 Soft Machine are an English rock and jazz band from Canterbury formed in mid-1966, named after the novel The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs. From left: Elton Dean, Hugh Hopper, Mike Ratledge, Robert Wyatt
9:51 AM		Patrick Gauthier The Last Seven Minutes Hur! (Hommage À La Musique De Christian Vander) V/A Soleil Zeuhl 2009 Keyboard virtuoso from France, member of Heldon, Weidorje and Magma. Hur! is a 2-CD compilation of covers of Magma songs.
9:56 AM		Set Break: over “Find Your Own Way Home” by Flying Lotus How likely are you to recommend WPRB to a friend, family member or colleague based on your most recent experience?
9:57 AM		Frank Zappa T'Mershi Duween Make a Jazz Noise Here (Live) Frank Zappa Catalog 2012

Chat is archived.

We begin our broadcast day.

It’s “ኻᶒ ᚻєឃ Ⱑᛔᚥፀ𐌓ᛗⲀᶅ” on uoʇǝɔui̩ɹꓒ ꓭꓤꓒꓟ

YES to THIS 🎶🎵🖤💀

I'm glad we approve.

And good morning to you, Mr. M. 🐼

We always appreciated this track

This is an anonymous 14th century Czech composition.

Oh, good morning to you, DJ DaveTheObscure!

How are things on the west side this morning?

Still nearly perfect. And yet, annoying. How are things on the EastSiiidddeee?!?

Acceptable.

Jealous.

What is that instrument featured in the current picture??

🎸Just an ordinary electric guitar, but being bowed.

It appears also to be a hollow body electric guitar.

Extraordinary

Thanks Sir

Excellent tracks to start your very fine show!

I'm glad we approve.

Ha! Wait. Am I just chatting with myself?? Is this my show?!? How the, what the, who the!?!

I thought that today, for a change, I wouldn't play awful music.

I like awful music. 🥺

I'm sure some will be coming up soon.

What kind of mood are we in today??

The same.

I don’t know. 🤹‍♂️

I want to join in and share my appreciation for awful music but I kind of just want to see you two talk to yourselves too

Unacceptable.

Ha! Good morning, dude! I'm sure I can fit in some awful music for youse.

No “awful” music today!

WPRB stands for We Play Really Bad music.

Hahaha now it all makes sense

I want to join in also, but want the exclusive repartee between DJ Dave The Obscure and MrMalcontent 💀 to continue...

Hilarious.

Greetings and Salutations, ChristineTheFox!

Good Early AM to you, MrMalcontent the Vampire Skull 💀!

¡ ǝui̩ʇsi̩ɹɥꓛ `ᵷui̩uɹoɯ poo⅁

Good Morning, Dave L'Oscuro! ⛅

Great start. Always like hearing you play Rypdal. Univers 0 sounded cool too

Good morning, Brian D. Somebody has to play Rypdal - might as well be me.

He has a great tone

SIGUR RÓS 💟

I'm glad we approve, Mr. M. 🐼 💜

🇮🇸 💙❄❤ ♨️

Are we aware one of us is using the panda 🐼 emoji whilst the other is using the vampire skull 💀??

I see no difference. ☠️

Except maybe the adorable furry ears.

I may switch to the panda emoji. It's just adorable.

OH LAWD 🐩

Exactly!

Clearly, a panda skull emoji is required.

why is there no red panda emoji? like a genetic mashup of panda and fox!

🍤 here it is, jimbeeaauuxx!!

¡ xnɐǝqɯi̩ꓩ xnɐǝ⅄

Yo jimbeaux 🍅

that crustacean is NOT cuddly, MrM.

MrM 💀, that there is a fried shrimp.

I thought we were vegetarian.

yeoooDTO, christine, MrM, dude, bri!

OooOo000ooohhhhhH yeeaahh!?!

fried shrimp even less cuddly than raw

I don’t believe I’ve ever eaten shrimp.

I know I haven't. 🐼

That settles it! Neither have WE!

We APPROVE of this one too! 🎶🖤🎵

thank you for your support

Hey, there, Shrimp. Good morning.

ShrimpGhost!!

🧛🏼‍♂️

🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸

🦇🐺

🧛🏻‍♂️🧛🏻‍♀️🧛🏻🧛🏻‍♂️🧛🏻‍♀️🧛🏻🧛🏻‍♂️🧛🏻‍♀️🧛🏻🧛🏻‍♂️🧛🏻‍♀️🧛🏻

Sounds like 1 of the voices is Maiken Scott

Just now

I thought I heard some Morgan Freeman, too.

This is like Negativland if they decided to be cute '. cuddly, and not at all apocalyptic. This track is🧛🏻‍♀️ so much 🧛🏽‍♂️ fun.

They make eggs... comments. I bet it's her

I trust your ears, Brian D.

Was that Casey Kasem ???

MY ENTIRE VAMPIRE IS A MICROPHONE HAHA! I love David the Weatherman

vampiric goat-suckers

Fun Timez with Vampires 🧛🏻‍♂️🧛🏻‍♀️🧛🏻

A breath of fresh blood.

Ha.. i searched the title and see a spinitron result. Dan Occtopus played the vampire collage on Sunday past. Great minds...

★🖤 DAVID BOWIE 🖤★

Good use of black stars there

So I mixed in some ambient music with the vampire collage.

I heart DAVID ★ BOWIE

An lp title that sometimes comes up with that star character in the meta data

The FUTURE! IT HAS ARRIVED!

BE VERY AFRAID

❤👨‍🎤💙

☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆

𓀿

We is BoNkErS

Fear not.

We're Proudly, Ridiculously Bonkers = WPRB

Good acronym!

We approve!!

@Christine 🦊!

KARSH KALE 🔥‼️

He has a well developed sense of rhythm.

I said that with emoji 🙄

😞

🤗

🧟‍♂️

🐻‍❄️

Loving todays mix!

Good morning, Andy. Glad you are able to tune in.

That Hoenig track gets played a lot on Stars End over the decades.

Yup. That's where I heard it first.

Thanks to Chuck van Zyl for keeping the good music flowing on Stars End, when all the other shows got crushed.

Yes, I remember the 1989 "massacre" on XPN

I'm still carrying a lot of pain from that format change.

On the bright side, WPRB is better than ever.

really liking this Hassell, Stott, Youssef progression here... Great flow

Programming Note: Tomorrow is an Octopus with DJ DanRuccia is now on SATURDAYS 6pm-8pm! Right here on WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM!

And the Youssef track features trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer, a Jon Hassell clone.

Does this show ever get repeated after Music With Space like Slop does from time to time? I'm not up at 7, but do time shift MWS and record a few hours afterwards.

That happened once, but I am not on the regular rebroadcast schedule.

I think this show would sound better during late night though.

Spinitron is offering a digital archive of two weeks for each show! Get WPRB to add the feature!

Bring that up with Mike and Dante. I think there are some reasons we don't do that.

You got it DUDE!

Oud-rageous.

I wonder why??

Which person will have the answers???

Just speculation, but it could be the added cost, or certain copyright laws. Mike or Dante would probably know for sure.

Harrumph.

Probably the same reason WPRB does not systematically archive all shows. That is left to individual DJs to do privately.

Some of the copyright issues only allow for the two week archive. So maybe it’s *other* related.

Something to add to the budget!!

Great sounds today! Just catching up on the chat and glad to see I'm not the only one carrying a 30 year old grudge against WXPN for ruining a once-great station.

Final Fifteen Mins!?! I’m cry.

😖

Good morning, Bud! Thanks for checking in!

I’m cry… myself to sleeeeep. 😴💤💤

Time to get back in the coffin, MrM. ⚰️

@ Christine, I just noticed that "oud-rageous". A very cunning pun!

DJ DaveTheObscure, many thanks for sharing all these great selections with US! Thoroughly enjoyed the nice show! Kind regards to you, Sir!

Thanks, DTO. Your music selections are like brain espresso. ☕

Cheers Christine 🦊❣️

Thank you Mr. M 🐼

MAGMA lounge.

Cheers to all the Dears!! 🖤💀

Fortunately there are shows out there that cover what the old XPN used to do. Marvin Rosen's Classical Discoveries is a good example.

And WPRB boasts many outstanding DJs that I think make us better than XPN ever was.

Yeah, WPRB has proven to be a more-than-worthy substitute!

Lol, lounge -y magma for sure and it's great! Also, regarding spinitron features, can we no longer click the album art to hear a sample? Anyone else lose this?

Man that new wee hour Robo Head DJ is really bringing the fire. Almost seems random!

Yes, dude. That has happened in the past, but was restored after a few days. Not sure why.

Thanks you for the galactic grooves, Dave the Obscure 🙏

fridays are always better with this show. they are even better when frank begins playing

Thanks, uno clay.

Thanks for listening, and participating in the chat. Stay tuned to ‘PRB for Summer Connection with Anika.

I always think this voice is eddy vedder.

Gday all