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The Freeform Pathogen

Oct 6, 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.

F is for Fire

8:05 PM		The Cure Fascination Street (Extended Mix) 12" Elektra 1989
8:15 PM		Breeze Ecstasy On Keele Street N Only Up Hand Drawn Dracula 2021
8:20 PM		Stevie Wonder Love Having You Around Music Of My Mind UNI/MOTOWN 1972
8:27 PM		Exnovios Un Nuevo Sitio N Un Nuevo Día Ground Control 2021
8:30 PM		Grauzone Eisbär 12" Off Course 1981
8:34 PM		Richard & Linda Thompson I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight Island 1974
8:37 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
8:42 PM		The Bug Pressure (feat. Flowdan) N Fire 2xLP Ninja Tune 2021
8:45 PM		Sault Fear N Nine Forever Living Originals 2021
8:49 PM		Motrik Silver Twin N MOON: The Cosmic Electrics of MOTRIK Jealous Butcher Records 2021
8:54 PM		Anika Naysayer N Change Sacred Bones Records 2021
9:00 PM		Gorilla Aktiv 1983 Umsonst Ohne Risiko WSDP 2005
9:03 PM		Big Black Bad Penny Songs About Fucking Touch & Go Records 1987
9:06 PM		Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band She's Not There Starting Salary $22,275.00 LP Embo 1979
9:08 PM		Howard & Tim's Paid Vacation That Won't Make You Love Me Hangin' Out at Midnight LP V/A Midnight 1986
9:13 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
9:21 PM		Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood Jackson Nancy & Lee LP Reprise 1968
9:23 PM		Leroy Dobson I Wann Make Love Country Hicks Vol. 2 Barklog 1991
9:26 PM		Ultrasónicas Dulce Hoja N Yo Fui una Adolescente Terrosatánica Munster Records 2021 Orig. 1999. Mutant cover of Black Sabbath's "Sweet Leaf"
9:30 PM		Mudhoney Good Enough N Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge (30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) Sub Pop Records 2021
9:34 PM		Colleen Green Highway N Cool Hardly Art 2021
9:37 PM		EXUM Portabella Mushroom N Xardinal Coffee LP ücke 2021
9:40 PM		Ty Segall Ride N Harmonizer LP Drag City Records 2021
9:43 PM		Huggy Bear Her Jazz 7" Wiija 1993
9:46 PM		The Ruts It Was Cold The Crack Virgin Records 1979 Only on the re-up, I think.
9:52 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
9:57 PM		Neil Young After the Gold Rush After the Gold Rush LP Reprise 1970
10:01 PM		Clan Caiman Yaguareté Asoma EM Records 2021
10:06 PM		Acid Dad She Only Eats Organic N Take It From The Dead RAS / Greenway 2021
10:10 PM		Dom & The Wizards Heavenly Sweet Little Skin Wrapped Skeleton N The Australian Cyclone Intensity Scale Tenth Court 2021
10:12 PM		Ziad Rahbani Variation2 Bennesbeh Labokra... Chou? Wewantsounds 2021 Orig. 1978
10:15 PM		Carl Sagan A Glorious Dawn 7" Third Man Records 2009
10:18 PM		Czarface & MF DOOM Break in the Action N Super What? Silver Age 2021
10:21 PM		Clipping Shooter N Wriggle (Expanded) Sub Pop Records 2021
10:24 PM		Space Afrika U (feat. kinseyLloyd) N Honest Labour Dais Records 2021
10:28 PM		Scrawl Please Have Everything Bloodsucker EP Simple Machines 1991
10:35 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:35 PM		Keith Christmas Hamlin Fable of the WIngs LP
10:41 PM		The Replacements Androgynous Let It Be Twin/Tone Records 1984
10:44 PM		Jesu Give Up Terminus Avalanche Recordings 2020
10:50 PM		Maureen Tucker Pale Blue Eyes Life in Exile After Abdiaction LP 50,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Watts Records 1989
10:56 PM		Ralph Myerz and the Jack Herren Band Think Twice A Special Album Emperor Norton 2003

Chat is archived.

OK, seriously: There better not be any tech problems tonight, or else another moose dies.

Run, BULLWINKLE!

Haha, well played MrM!

Sounds awesome so far! Kinda miss hearing the same ID 8 times in a row tho

OK, wiseguy...

Pathogenic, perhaps?

49 seconds to the transition. Everybody hold hands and pray to whichever god you tremble before.

As a Quaker, I resemble that...

DAMNIT

Oh no!

BULLWINKLE RUN!!

It's the OH SH*T music

followed by the 3rd iteration of the same station ID

Look what ChrisMohr has done!! 🤬

Or is Mike just playing with us?

Ugh, it's all my fault 😫

Feels like Groundhog Day in here

Still working on it

Feels like Groundhog Day in here

ExPeRi-MENTAL!!!

@DSM with the emPHASIS on the last two syllABLES

@Rob 😆😆😆

Hi Mike, how are you this evening?

This new single of theirs SLAYS!

Check the coli Mike!

*coil

@Ambrose, E coli?

Can't wait to see them live...

OK, I think we got it.

@Rob, ain't touchin' that!

It's for realz!

DJ MikeLupica!! Awww Yeeaahh!!

You got this, DJ Mike! (Can Bullwinkle come back?)

Horace, it's ok now

that was insane

Mike, this new gimmick of yours is really stressful.

i wonder what wrestlers think about wprb

...and my porch.

@Mike, my wife just ran SCREAMING from the room when you said Sw**t Carolin*

play that bubbly sound effect again

Hi Mike! Great to hear your voice, have you a fire lit tonight?

Hey everybody, sorry for the drama. Thanks for coming by!

THE CURE❣️

Ambrose, you don't know the half of it.

Uh oh.

Oh jeez!😷

Hello from Wilmington Delaware

Who’s the Twisted FIRESTARTER?!?

Hello Jude! Welcome!

Hey, Jude

Thx ppl

Jello Jude.

yo jude

Hello, Jude

STEVIE WONDER 💟

From one of his weirdest records!

Jude's the dude. But, is my use of apostriphe S approved? And how do you spell apostrophy

If this playlist program had autocorrect... I think we'd all be in pretty rough shape.

not to be confused with *the_dude* that’s a different person altogether

Now we need the_dude to show up in the chat.

If it works for Selecta Jerry, it can work for The Dude.

the_dude, if you can hear us, enter the chat

SelectaJerry!

I would like to talk about a TV program I have been watching with the_dude. That's three summonings, should work.

Hey Mike & pit crew! Freeform Pathogen started out a little more...freeform tonight.

Hi, Christine!!

MrMalcontent 💀! How's your skull?

If The_Dude isn't here by 9, can we schedule a wellness check?

I dream of an hour of Eisbar covers on WPRB.

🐻‍❄️

I thought I recognized Ice Bear!!

I am much more familiar with the version by Melenas though

Pretty good, today. Thanks, Christine. How’s you? I’m stuffing my skull with Thai yummies.

@Jon, how soon will you doing that?

Eisbär FM

FM Eisbär

Rob, I'm putting a folder together presently.

Jon, awesome!

Jon, 24 hours or it doesn't count

Just kidding. 25.

Haha.

TOO SOON.

D’OH

Now we are rocking and rolling.

<— (admiring bold & creative juxtaposition of current & last song)

Though not neccesarily in that order, Jimbeaux.

And Mariachi-ing

I want to see the Starlite Lounge tonight

Five Eisbars collected. A celebration of Eisbars.

A clutch of eisbars.

Sing it, Mike!

Love this song sooo much!

Singing = good.

Transitions are tough, but they're made better by singing. And dancing!

Selecta may pop in here and tell us about the bad language in Jamaican patois...

It is one of his many essential services at WPRB!

Selecta Jerry is truly indispensable.

That was a really great track in any event. Made me want to groan along

After the membership drive shipping party we staged in my back yard this summer, I can say with absolute confidence that he folds t-shirts like a CHAMP.

***Airhorn sound***

@Mike, got Bug but have you heard The Bug Club?

PEW 📢 PEW 📢 PEW 📢

Ambrose, I have not!

Zactly, MrMalcontent!

I rest my case🔨

I have never heard air horn being used so profusely and hilariously as during Dana K's New Year Eve show. She was layering airhorn over Enya to fantastic effect. 📢

Outstanding!

Motrik does the "trick".

This record is seriously great. Gotta hit up chat semi-regular Kristin (who's friends with them) to see if we can get a copy of the record for the station library.

@Mike, hear that Kristen?!

Also, Sonny Boy Williamson III likes air horn for his show! 🥸🤯

@Mike, local band?

I don't think she can appear until the_dude does.

Motrik's songs each need to be 4-5x longer than they currently are.

Ambrose, I believe they are Pacific NW-based.

Is that former WPRB DJ Kristen B?

@Jon, see to it will ya!😉

Chris, yes!

@Mike, oh, Okay!

I found one very long track of theirs that's now in my virtual preview pile...

DJ Mike, this set is tremendous

@Jon, good work, next week's dinner disc perhaps...?

wow funky, im loving the set

Come for the electronic music version of Black Sabbath... and STAY for teutonik proto-industrial cassette sounds!

Ja ja ja!

Right on, glad to hear it Rhys!

Very nice first hour! Cheers, DJ MikeLupica!

This first hour flew! All those driving beats in the second set...

WOAH! Big Black😳😊

MrM, don’t make a comment about that album title and cover.

This is wonderful.

Former WPRB DJ Marc Fagel's kid was a drummer in this band for 4 years. Recently. Not in 1979!

41 miles of barbed wire fences!

@MrM💀 nearly as good as Never Mind The Bollocks.

I hope they still cover "White Punks on Dope"!

Plus or minus six miles, apparently.

Metal prices fluctuate...

A rounding error.

Last six miles had to be split rail.

...and electrified fence (Johnny Horton).

@Mike, think it's a keeper!

Midnight record store hahaha

@Mike, price doubles after midnight, that guy was a dick!

"You should keep listening to WPRB, Mike!" - me, in 1986, if unknowingly

Slap a that upright bass!

(Jackson!) (Jackson!) (Jackson!) (Jackson!) (Jackson!) (Jackson!) (Jackson!) (Jackson!) (Jackson!)

Aw, darn, thought it was a cover of BH Surfers take on "Sweet Leaf"

Ambrose, totally! I have a couple friends who worked there, all of whom confirm your statement.

I Wanta Make Love is that Big Black album title.

Very high concept, Jon.

Ultrasónicas✨

I kind of feel bad playing covers by them two weeks in a row... but their covers are pretty amazing.

Come for the Teutonic proto-industrial cassette sounds, stay for the Spanish language mutant Black Sabbath covers!

Never feel bad about that! This is so good.

The eternal return

The human dog-barking sound FX in their Stooges cover last week would be hard to beat, but this... this is a worthy effort.

In other news, I feel like this Mudhoney song was used in a WPRB promo like, 30 years ago. Jon? Can you confirm or deny?

I feel like it has, but I'm only coming up on my 30th PRB-versary next year. 🎂

#lifer

MUDHONEY 💝

Hellz yeah!

I am not 100% and also very tired but I think it might have been a similar Mudhoney instrumental...?

(I don't remember such an ID but was probably living in NYC and listening not to WPRB but to a station in East Orange at the time, pre-internet)

EGBDF reissue sounds great, the bonus stuff is real interesting.

HUGGY BEAR‼️ 🐻🤎

Oh my god I still love that song so much.

Of course, 1993 ❤️‍🔥

@Mike, The Ruts?! 😍😀😍

Love me some Ruts! "Demolition Dancing" and "West One" are eternal faves, but this one only recently wormed its way into my cranium.

They didn't get their just dues imo.

@Mike, that Colleen Green song is my favorite from her new record

snap crackle pop

@Mike, quick search resulted in Anyone Exum Jr. Ex 49er turned musician this year.

*Antone

Yah, that's it! Thanks for the reference check!

The group Prelude recorded an acapella version of "After The Gold Rush" back in the 1970s, which I adore

Nice, Rob. Just wanna say how glad I am to have gotten all of my Neil Young records in the early 90s for a buck a pop when classic rock jagoffs were dumping their LPs for CDs.

Haha

Throwing it out there that I'd like to find a copy of On The Beach on vinyl, please and thank you.

Jon, you can get it on 8-track on Discogs for 29 bucks. You're welcome.

dang, this playlist 🔥🧡 Don’t make me listen again in the Small Hours of Sunday A.M.

@Jon, I hope the Powers that occasionally visit the chat hear your request & respond accordingly. ✨

Capital "P" powers!

Could be Bath Boy...

Alright, I'm old, much as this show is great as always, DJ Mike, I gotta shuffle off. Until next week's transition from Jon to you, be well and stay freeform!

Cheers, ChrisMohr!

Thanks Chris. And don't worry, you're not old, you're just sleepy.

Although I must warn you that you are ABOUT TO MISS A GREAT SONG.

Goodnight Chris! It's also time for me to shuffle off

@MrM💀 did you request that last song?

@Mike, does this great song start with a B, end with a Y, and contain two words? ;-)

G'night Chris!

Ha! @BO!

Carl 💚

Nope, but it's Carl Sagan so that's almost as good, right?

It's even better!! After it's over, then I'm shuffling off

Goodnight Chris & Rob 🌛

Stellar choice, DJ Mike. G'night!

Goodnight, RobFromMaryland and petnoodle too!

👨‍🍳👨‍🍳👨‍🍳👨‍🍳👨‍🍳👨‍🍳 DESSERT TIME

This is awesome

THIRD MAN RECORDS ❤️‍🔥

BIG LOVE FOR DOOM

DOOM

D 🅾🅾♏

OMG CLIPPING YES

This song slaps. Can't believe I missed in 2016 when it first came out!

Have you heard their double live album? One of my favorite live albums I've ever heard

Have not, but hope to!

"This is not a standard live album. All the audio was recorded during Clipping’s 2017 tour, but the microphones weren’t pointed at the band. Instead they were in toilets, taped to ceiling pipes, tied to trees, worn by roadies—hidden all over venues. The results were then synchronized and edited over more than a year. Double Live is an impossible performance heard by hundreds of disembodied ears—part live album, part tour document, part musique concrète piece."

Wow!

Absolutely nuts

That's insane, I love that

Nice transition into U!

That’s bErZeRk! Gimmie 2 copies!!

Haha, thanks Andrew! Any evidence of actual skill is purely accidental, I swear!

oh, SCRAWL❣️

Little late, but since Acid Dad was in the set: Acid Dad will be at PhilaMOCA on 10/18, opening for Frankie and the Witch Fingers.

Oh now THAT is a bill! Thanks for the tip, Christine!

@Christine, what kind of venue is that?

@Bo, it's a small but interesting venue; a former mausoleum showroom. It's an art space for live music, films, and other gatherings. http://www.philamoca.org/

@Mike, real nice call man!😍

@Christine. awe, thank you. that sounds so great!

Final Ten Mins?! I’m cry.

MrMalcontent, it will be OK...

Will this show be back next week?!? What about BULLWINKLE!?!

Will be in the Starlite Lounge as usual next Weds, Malc! Up to the Internet if I get a hand stamp or not...

Bullwinkle?!

Ambrose, scroll ALL THE WAY to the top of the chat for context.

Catch y’all here next week!! Cheers Dears!!

DJ MikeLupica, great show again this week! Good on ya! Kindest regards to you, Sir!

@Mike, my thumbs are tired, I'll stay right here and "linger on"

Thanks for another truly freeform Pathogen. 🙏 Thanks, Mike! Nice chatting with all the pit crew...

One more after this Mo Tucker song to lead y'alls into Flex. Thanks for hanging out! See ya next week!

Adios MrM💀

@Christine, later on!

@Bo, take care!

@Christine, trying me damndest!🤧😉

Free BULLWINKLE!!

Can I just say how much I love that everyone here says good night to one another at the end of the show?

Everyone is very NICE and one MALCONTENT

It's like the Waltons... 📺 (dating myself)

G'night DJ Mike, TOP Show tonight!

Hahaha WALTONS reference!

Goodnight, DJ MikeLupica!

Thanks Ambrose! G'night Malc!