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Jugular Jone's and the Westside Warlock's have returned from their south pole expedition and have just dropped some wicked vaportrap hypnagogic dreampunk

Current Mood: weird
Current Location: McMurdo Station

It's beginning to smell a lot like Krampus

Everywhere you go

Just look in the abandoned mall, aging boomers are starting to squall

Armed with credit cards and silver smiles all aglow

It's beginning to smell a lot like Krampus

Spoiled boomers raiding every store

But the prettiest sight to see, is the birch switches that will be

Making your behind sore!

What’s that beneath the trees?

I thought hoarding was a disease

Outlined in the DSM-IV!

Screens that will talk and robots that will walk

Is the hope of Janice and Jen.

With all the screaming from videos gleaming

Mom and Dad can hardly wait for school to start again

It's beginning to smell a lot like Krampus

Everywhere you go

There's a drunk in the Grand Hotel, and one in the park as well

The sturdy kind of wino that sleeps in his own yellow snow

It's beginning to look a lot like Krampus

Soon the hell will start

And the thing that will make it rise, comes from all the stuff you buy

To fill up your empty heart

It's beginning to smell a lot like Krampus

Soon the rot will start

And the thing that will make it mold, is the greed that you all hold

Right within your rotten heart

It's beginning to look a lot like Krampus, Krampus, Krampus, Krampus, Krampus

The December online edition of Free Radio Skybird is now available for listening. But always remember you can still tune in Sunday 8th December at 1700 UTC will be a new transmission from DJ Frederick’s Free Radio Skybird on 6070 kHz shortwave via Channel 292. As for now you can listen to Sunday early Today.

Next Sunday 8th December at 1700 UTC will be a new transmission from DJ Frederick’s Free Radio Skybird on 6070 kHz shortwave via Channel 292. If you still haven’t got yourself a radio setup to where you can hear the show with a wire in a tree, it can also be heard on the SDR link on their site here. The show will be rebroadcast the week after on Sunday 15th December at 1100 UTC also on 6070 kHz.

This month’s programme will feature: One Deck Pete presenting the Skybird Mailbag, Justin Patrick Moore’s Radiophonic Laboratory (feat. William Orbit, Tomita, & Wendy Carlos) , Steve with Indie Science Radio. Also there’ll be an airing of Pete’s bad ass “Bouncing off the ionosphere” mix that has new tunes from: UK DD, Koko, Maxime Tisne-Versailles, Amy Root and Ernest Freeman.

The programme will be available on DJ Frederick’s Soundcloud page a day or so before transmission date if you want to hear it in true stereo. We here at Sothis Medias however prefer the noise remix of the show provided courtesy of the ionosphere. Tune in and turn on! #shortwavesnotdead #madtone #freeradioskybird

Kid Krusty came into the WAIF studios on November 30th for his comeback special. He had just train hopped into Cincinnati from Louisville where he had been meeting with some railroad union organizers where they were trying to set up a local node for the Arachnist Netweb. He brought in a nice mix of albums and records to play for the episode of Trash Flow Radio. Here is a link for the file:
https://my.pcloud.com/publink/show?code=XZSx2mkZ5iJUNfzaUHhP7v5QTlR2M4YxfOd7

And here is the set list:

1. End Result - Jeffrey Lewis - 12 Crass Songs
2. Dissimilarity Index - Defiance, Ohio - Midwestern Minutes
3. The Abliss - Days 'n Daze - Crustfall
4. Burnin Down the Landlords House -Rail Yard Ghosts - Hiraeth
5. Good Things Come to Those Who Wait - Company of Ghosts - Flophouse Ghosts
6. City Rat - Deaf Chonky - Silence is Violence
7. Shaved Woman - Crass
8. Silly Love Songs -Chumbawamba- Jesus H. Christ
9. Certain Men - Negativland
10. ABC's of Anarchism (excerpt) - Negativland/Chumbawamba
11. Where Next Columbus? - Jeffrey Lewis - 12 Crass Songs
12. A Lot to Do - Defiance, Ohio - Midwestern Minutes
13. Sacrifice Sin Evolution -Jason Eklund- Steamliners Duet
14. Severance - The Suburbanists- Drag it Through the Garden
15. The Middle Garden -The Hills and the Rivers - The Fool and the Magician
16. O Pennsyltucky - Mischief Brew
17. For an Old Kentucky Anarchist - The Orphans
18. Ferlinghetti Poem as read by Utah Phillips
19. Big A Little A - Jeffrey Lewis - 12 Crass Songs
20. ABC's of Anarchism (excerpt) - Negativland/Chumbawamba
21. The Competition - Kimya Dawson - Remember That I Love You
22. I Hate the Capitalist System - John "Catfish" Paul Wright
23. Speed or Greed? -Crass - Yes Sir, I Will
24. ABCs of Anarchism (excerpt) - Negativland/Chumbawamba
25. International Criminal -Deaf Chonky- Farsh
26. Witches - Blackbird Raum
27. Wooden Gun -Dirt
28. Punk Is Dead - Jeffrey Lewis-12 Crass Songs

This episode is dedicated to the long memory of Utah Phillips.

I was delighted to help produce the legendary K.C. Cuss'em in the WAIF 88.3 FM studios this past weekend on Saturday, November 16 2019. He was there to celebrate the past 40 years of the media collective Negativland and the release of their new album Truefalse. A few of Negativland's friends and fellow travelers also showed up in the mix including: People Like Us, John Oswald, Splice of Life and the Evolution Control Committee as songs were played from across their long and storied career as a cultural sampling service.

You can find the two hour mp3 of the show that aired on the Trash Flow Radio Negativland Top 40 HERE. It contain's one bonus track added on at the end. Set list is below. All songs are by Negativland except as noted.

Negativland - Neu!
Snuggles -from Fair Use
Mounting the Puppy -from Truefalse
Please Don't Sue Us -from Fair Use (the first Negativland song K. C. Cuss'em ever heard!)
Michael Jackson -from Escape from Noise
Dab - John Oswald -from Plunderphonics
A Most Successful Formula - from Dispepsi
Keep Rollin' - from No Business
City Man - from Free
Caddillac - from Truefalse
We are Driven - from Free
Car Bomb -from 180 G's to the Future
The Perfect Cut (Rooty Poops) -from Helter Stupid / The Perfect Cut
Spliceway to Heaven - Splice of Life
The End of the Sound of Music -People Like Us, from Welcome Abroad
My Favorite Things - from No Business
Either Or - from Truefalse
More Data -Negativland single (?)
Helter Stupid excerpt
Rocked by Rape - Evolution Control Committee
This is Not Normal - from Truefalse
Crumpled Farm - from Free
Time Zones - from Escape from Noise
Bendix Crosley Gets Bent and Jammed on Culture (K.C. Cuss'em's Over The Edge edit)
Stairway to Britney - Evolution Control Committee
Aluminum or Glass - from Dispepsi
A Nice Place to Live -from A Big 10-8 Place
Gimmee the Mermaid -from Fair Use
No Business -from No Business
A White Dog Named Gidget -from Perfect Cut
Seeland - Neu!
Bonus track: The Letter U and the Numeral 2

Current Location: Contra Costa County
Current Music: Some guys from England

Hey kids, wanna get Hooked on Radiophonics? Now you have a chance! Put an end to dithering diction once and for all with our proprietary blend of fricative frequencies!

This edition of the Radiophonic Laboratory was part of the Free Radio Skybird transmission that took place on November 17th 2019 on Channel 292 on 6070 khz. You can grab an air check of the file HERE ... or listen below.

And of course, please do listen to the entire show of Free Radio Skybird (the produced recording,not a shortwave aircheck) produced by DJ Frederick, embeded here for your convenience.

Current Mood: quixotic
Current Location: E-Layer
Current Music: Hooked on Radiophonics

"On Saturday 5th October at 2200 UTC (6 PM EST) there’s a new transmission from DJ Frederick’s Free Radio Skybird on 6070 khz on shortwave. The later time which will help propagation hopefully is broadcast by Channel 292 ( http://www.channel292.de/ ) and if you haven’t a shortwave set can also be heard on the SDR link on their site here ( http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/?tune=6070am ).

This month’s programme will feature: Justin Patrick Moore’s Radiophonic Laboratory, Steve with Mini-indie radio and our very own One Deck Pete presenting the Skybird Mailbag. They will also play his “Solar minimum but the music’s maximum” mix that has tunes from: Froth Whitlam, Dasya, Andre J Kwenda and a worldwide exclusive from Madtone.

The programme will be available on DJ Frederick’s Soundcloud page ( https://soundcloud.com/djfrederick ) the day before, if you want to hear the show in quality stereo. We here prefer it intermingled with the sounds of the ionosphere. Tune in and turn on whichever way you fancy!"

This was originally posted on my friend One Deck Pete's gardening & music blog, Weeds Up to Me Knees:
https://weedsuptomeknees.wordpress.com/

An mp3 of a Trash Flow Radio show episode featuring Jugular Jones and the Westside Warlock is available for download. Two hours of #summertime #punkrock , #indie, dustbin #oldies + Madtone & Jazzmin! Keep it trashy!
https://my.pcloud.com/publink/show?code=XZV4p37ZzBG3iNAxSahRJoX0COprUkGLIRAy

Two hours of Ambient Music broadcast on August 31st, 2019 on WAIF 88.3 FM 3-5 PM. Hosted by Lugh the Harvester.

Get the mp3 here: https://my.pcloud.com/publink/show?code=XZDsCVkZMCTp58W5DCB1g4qY4oSy9XX8N46V

Set list:

Brian Eno -An ascent
John Hopkins - Feel first life
Tim Hecker - Step away from Knonoyo
Mimir - 03 - mixed with more Mimir, Brainwashed 7"
mixed with Astor Piazolla, Coral Tangata, mixed with Ryuchi Sakomoto
Scanner- Underwater, from the Great Crater
Nigel Ayers -The Living Stones from Omega Earth Electrode ( https://nocturnalemissions.bandcamp.com/album/omega-earth-electrode )
Bobby Previte: Human Shriek from Bought & Sold
Autechre, See on see, mixed with Future Sound of London, Eggshell
Tim Hecker, In Mother Earth Phase
Dave Holland Quartet w/ Anthony Braxton - Conference of the Birds
...mixed with Fripp & Eno, Index of Metals
Tyondai Braxton, Outpost
Stuart Dempster, Melodic Communion, mixed with Deep Listening Band, Cave Water
Nocturnal Emissions, Tharmun Crape 'an Goo, mixed with Rapoon, Calling the Rain
Hainbach feat. Madtone, Decaying Tides -half-speed-is-best-speed version ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdPcxizDoec )
Hainbach feat. Madtone, Decaying Tides - regular speed version (https://hainbach.bandcamp.com/album/old-suns)
Madtone - Pete's Ambient Breakfast (remix of Pink Floyd's Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast) mixed with Echoes by Pink Floyd
Future Sound of London, Egypt, from ISDN
Heavenly Music Corporation, Anechoic, from Anechoic (https://silentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/anechoic)
Amy Shulman plays Lou Harrison's Jahla
Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society, St. Tropez 1966
Delia Derbyshire - Time on Our Hands
Hainbach feat. Windphone, OPTML, Backspin - Tropical Gothic - from Old Suns
Nigel Ayers - Cornwalls Industrial Heritage - from Omega Earth Electrode

(Please note: the constant dithering is not intentional. There is something wrong with the transmitter at the station. --[which is why WAIF can always use your donations: waif883.org] but since it was an ambient show, it kind of works in a lo-fi way.)

Current Music: End of August Ambient

This past Saturday, August 17 2019, there was a flying saucer attack at the WAIF 88.3 FM studios. Monster Syd prepared the mix, but it was subverted by alien intelligences from beyond the terrestrial sphere.

You can listen to the archived recording here:
https://my.pcloud.com/publink/show?code=XZG3Bc7ZKN6W8NdaEbj46FuWmKUKaueVNmek

Here is my new #hardplaza track. Hardplaza is distinct from its cousin Mallsoft by using punk noise and trap music that is very easily looped as ‘sinister sizurp’ music. The genius of hardplaza is that it’s meant to control your mind and make you shop more, even though it’s not distinct. It’s meant to be left on repeat while the ‘listener’ eats at the food court. The repetition of the music eventually forces its way into the listener’s mind subconsciously, to be recalled at later date as a memory of something that may or may not have happened. Hardplaza is the ultimate commentary on our post-industrial, dead mall landscape littered with failing infrastructure and suped up hoopties.

As distinct as hardplaza is argued by listeners, the concept of post-ambient commentary about consumer culture is not new and hardplaza fits easily within the spectrum of trapwave fracking vapor music.

Here is a recording captured by One Deck Pete of the Radiophonic Laboratory as it bounced across the ionosphere on August 4 2019 on 6070 khz. Special thanks to DJ Frederick.

The entirety of the broadcast is also here in a clean version.

DJ Frederick’s Free Radio Skybird returns to the shortwaves on Sunday August 4th 2019 via http://www.channel292.de/ on 6070 kHz at 1900 UTC (8pm UK time).

With a mixture of features and music, the hour transmission will include One Deck Pete’s “Soul on shortwave” and Justin Patrick Moore from with the first episode of the Radiophonic Laboratory. Pencil it in on your WH Smith wallplanner! #freeradioskybird

I'm super stoked as this will be the first time I've had some radio work transmitted on the shortwaves!