Favoriting Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza: Playlist from July 5, 2021 Favoriting

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A live, improvised sound collage experiment, going back 28 years, weaving mesmerizing new soundscapes from found and collected materials right in the present moment.
Pop music, speeches, live phone calls and spontaneous monologues become ambient loopy layered threads riding the liminal spaces between waking and dreaming. [On hiatus.] (Visit homepage.)

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Favoriting July 5, 2021: A Carousel Ride after Too Much Soup + Pure Imagination (inaugural) | Download MP3


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Artist Track Album Year Comments Images Approx. start time
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza  A Carousel Ride after Too Much Soup   Favoriting Show #336, from Oct. 5, 2004  2004  A long-lost episode from the Austin years. 2021 talk near end 
too much soup
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too much soup
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Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza  Pure Imagination (Inaugural)   Favoriting Show #350, from Jan. 18, 2005  2005  God wants us to be free (and to maintain full productivity). Also from the Austin years. 
Pure Imagination
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Pure Imagination
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Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza  New live mixing 2021   Favoriting   2021      1:53:43 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Fridge  Cut Up Piano and Xylophone   Favoriting Happiness  2001      1:55:02 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Tony Shaloub, voice; Joel & Ethan Coen, writers  Reasonable doubt (uncertainty principle)   Favoriting The Man Who Wasn't There  2001      1:55:04 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Gene Wilder, Donald Sutherland, voices; Fred Freeman, Lawrence J. Cohen, writers  My business is your pleasure   Favoriting Start the Revolution Without Me  1970      1:56:40 (MP3 | Pop-up)


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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Oh hi
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Bas NL:

Hi Kenzo! Eerie empty board..
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Yeah the cleaners finally showed up
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Bas NL:

Does that mean i'm listening NOW?
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Until 7 o'clock!
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Bas NL:

Honored! :)
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

(so he said, without timezone mooring)
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

The playlist for this one is also lost
Avatar 3:08pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Looks like my hard drive crashed a few days after this show, so maybe that's why
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Oh and I broke my foot
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Oh and I was about to move across the country
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Bas NL:

I've been grating my brain of the opening tune.. it was so familiar. And ouch! Not too bad, i hope?
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Uh oh, my internet is flaky. I assume I've been dropping out?
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Bas NL:

Short drops only.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

By opening tune, do you mean the one that's still underneath everything? Sounds like Moby to me
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Bas NL:

Right! Moby! But i think he borrowed it from Klaus Schulze.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Ahhh
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

In the background off mic, a young child is taking the first academic exam of her life
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Bas NL:

Best of luck on the exam to her!
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Bas NL:

(I won't go to the breaking legs area..)
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Bas NL:

Great mix, this.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Really glad you like! I asked her what the test was like and she made an interesting growling gurgle
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Bas NL:

Growling gurgle sounds gruelling.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

This show was an hour. I like that length. There can be one extended theme, with these subthemes in different zones, and often the second half would open up to phone calls
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

But that's an after-the-fact observation. I never come in with a plan or structure. Sometimes I come in with a semi-plan but then it gets abandoned 1 minute before showtime
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I guess "Better Off Dead (Ronald Reagan)" is an exception - came in with Ronald Reagan theme, executed it
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Bas NL:

Would it be possible to phone in on Give the Drummer Radio?
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I could set something up but just haven't
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Wow I can't believe this had been lost for so long (first unearthed in 2018), it's so good
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Bas NL:

*nod*, it's fantastic!
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I think I'll pair it with Pure Imagination
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this is โคโคโค!
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Bas NL:

Only way to go.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Now I shall ambitiously attempt to remaster Pure Imagination in a hurry. I have 10 minutes to get it done.
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Bas NL:

Time for a growling gurgle for sure.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Remastering without being able to listen to what I'm doing, this'll be good.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

ganza gonza, how do you say it?
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Bas NL:

You got my ears.
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Bas NL:

Granulized vinyl loop?
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my radio wont turn inside out!!!! help!!
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Bas NL:

Ahhh! A Wonka reference!
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

? I will turn you inside out
  4:04pm
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๐Ÿ’ฅ๐Ÿ’ฅ!
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Yeah I wonder what that clickety pop was
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Whoa it's music from the mid-80's 8-bit videogame Psi 5 Trading Company
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Ultima III?
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Another lost-playlist one
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very cool!!
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Bas NL:

Again a great pick. Fantastic sounds. I'm afraid i don't know too many video game sounds..
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Bright Eyes loops, Ronald Reagan, C64 games, Willy Wonka, and that's all I know
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Oh it's Chut
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Oh an accidental timely ode to Rumsfeld
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lol nice
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

BTW I'm glad you're here, ?
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

No real relation between videogames of today and the brief period in the early 80's when there was a massive largely-uncontrolled burst of creativity, which also generated a lot of interesting music
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Another hard drive failure followed this show, too
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aww ty ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿงก im glad to be here!! hope that drive had a backup!
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Yeah, stacks of backups everywhere, but recovery was never quick.
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ah goody, very tru tho
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Bas NL:

I've done some hard drive recovery over the years. Greatest feat was restoring half a million dollars worth of NOAA satellite imagery data.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Niiiiiiiiice
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๐Ÿ˜ฒ๐Ÿ˜ฒ๐Ÿ˜ฒ!!! jesus
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Bas NL:

There was no backup... go figure..
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I lost the source recordings of a couple of years of radio shows, but got them all back after collaborating with a drive recovery tool author to improve the tool and get me my files back, whew
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

And I remember back in Commodore 64 days having to flip sector by sector through my floppy disks to piece things back together. Directories frequently got corrupted
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

oh yeah and overriding bad checksums
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Bas NL:

Floppies where a sign of worse to come. :|
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Zip disks! But yeah nothing beats "cloud storage" for sudden and complete loss of massive amounts of data, yay modern society
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Bas NL:

On old gear nowadays programmable chips start to fail..
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wonkaaa โค
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Write once Read a few times
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i got a 5.25" HDD that gave up the ghosts a year ago, now just makes clicking sounds and wont boot. i was thinking of just trying the silly "put it in the freezer" trick for the heck of it. ๐Ÿ˜‚ either of u every try that?
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Bas NL:

Cloud services are run by commercial companies.. that can be taken over.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I just watched a Gene Wilder scene that was very amusing. Maybe I'll play it now.
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Bas NL:

Give it a bump, ?. It's nearly always something got stuck in place.
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Bas NL:

Yeay Gene Wilder!
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

5.25", that's big, isn't it?
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ooh meant 3.5" haha, was thinking of the tray size
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I'll go bump my old failed drive I've been putting off trying to recover for uhhhh it's probably been 9 years now
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

It's like, I'd rather keep the ambiguous possibility that I didn't lose all the data so I haven't had the heart to try recovering it
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lmao yea, my couple dead ones im just like waiting for future technology to be able to save them, if i were to try now i feel i'd just wreck it permanently
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๐Ÿ‘‚๐Ÿ’ฅ
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Exactly
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Bas NL:

In a way a crashed hard drive is a Heisenberg time capsule. It might yield the past.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

If you wait long enough, it mutates and starts yielding the future
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

But yeah, the idea of stored data you can't look at because looking at it destroys it...
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frustrating indeed!
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Let's sell a Heisendrive. Guaranteed 100% reliable writes. No reads.
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Bas NL:

Very helpful is to have a same brand/type drive for spares. (I always buy HDs in two's)
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@Kenzo lol perfect. then we just need one with 100% reliable reads but u cant write to it
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

@Bas I used to do that, good practice
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Bas NL:

I'd like a Heisendrive! The ultimate archive.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

16 years in the future, I was close
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@Bas yeah ive currently got a 2TB WD drive as my main and a nearly identical model 2TB WD as my encrypted copy. they're the crappy "green" drives that have a history of fails tho. $25 on ebay for 2TB cant be beat tho! lol
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Bas NL:

Hard drives are a gamble these days. But running a copy is the way to go!
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

OK, hi everyone, here goes now
  4:55pm
chresti:

Hi Kenzo and everlastings!
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๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘
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Bas NL:

Thanks Kenzo! Great show(s)!
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

hi hi chresti
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business is business!
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Bas NL:

Great, this!
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

The more you look, the less you really know.
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bybye!!!!! was really nice. ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿงก
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Audio archive of some sort has appeared, and an even better quality one will appear sometime later. Bye friends. Back next Monday 3-5pm ET. lastever.org
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thanks again! see u then :)
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