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Sounds ripped from cassettes & CDs found in immigrant-run mom & pop stores. Deconstructed icons. Field recordings. Sonic mayhem from the far corners of the internet.

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Favoriting February 16, 2022: What I Listen to When You're Not Around
Tracks on vinyl from Algeria, Angola, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Korea, Mauritania, Mongolia, Morocco, New Zealand, Nigeria, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, United Kingdom, Uruguay, USA, and Zambia

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Artist Track Album Year Comments Approx. start time

Music behind DJ:
Bodega Pop 

Intro   Favoriting

Bodega pop 

2022 

 

0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The "Bayan Mongol" Variety Group Эстрадын "Баян Монгол" Чуулга  A Black Horse Жалам Хар   Favoriting The "Bayan Mongol" Variety Group Эстрадын "Баян Монгол" Чуулга  1979  Mongolia  0:04:36 (Pop-up)
Lena Platonos Λένα Πλάτωνος  Bloody Shadows from a Distance Αιμάτινες Σκιές Από Απόσταση   Favoriting Gallop Γκάλοπ  1985  Greece  0:09:22 (Pop-up)
IXNA  Flashlight   Favoriting Knotpop  2019  USA, recorded in 1981  0:12:32 (Pop-up)
Klamm  Eish Anta   Favoriting Domestic Sampler UMYU  1982  Spain  0:19:20 (Pop-up)
Les Frères Mégri  Galouli Ensha   Favoriting Mahmoud Hassan Younès  1974  Morocco  0:25:54 (Pop-up)
Drissi El-Abbassi  Drissi El-Abbassi   Favoriting Drissi El-Abbassi  2020  Algeria  0:30:38 (Pop-up)
Areksi  Bali   Favoriting Un Beau Matin  1971  France  0:36:54 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Areksi 

80 A   Favoriting

Un Beau Matin 

1971 

France 

0:40:48 (Pop-up)
Sherifa Fadel شريفة فاضل  Mual Al Eshaq موال العشاق   Favoriting Night with the Stars    Egypt  0:46:58 (Pop-up)
Selda  Altın Kafes   Favoriting Altın Kafes / Gesi Bağları  1973  Turkey  0:54:23 (Pop-up)
Googoosh گوگوش  Mirage (Sarab) سراب   Favoriting Green and White / Mirage (Sarab) سبزه و سفید / سراب  1971  Iran  0:56:35 (Pop-up)
Kim Choo-ja 김추자  Rumored 소문났네   Favoriting Comeback Recital 컴백 리싸이틀  1972  Korea  1:01:22 (Pop-up)
Teruko Akatsuki 暁テル子  Tokyo Shoe-Shine Boy 東京シューシャイン・ボーイ   Favoriting Hit Songs of Japan 銀座カンカン娘 / 東京シューシャイン・ボーイ / 夜来香 / 東京夜曲  1951  Japan  1:03:57 (Pop-up)
Orchestre Odemba Spray  Mbonda ya Bankoko   Favoriting Mbonda Ya Bankoko  1977  Angola  1:06:52 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Rüstəm Quliyev 

Aman Tello   Favoriting

Azerbaijani Gitara 

2020 

Azerbaijan 

1:16:40 (Pop-up)
Kebrou  Banjey "Boogie"   Favoriting Wallahi Le Zein!! - Wezin, Jakwar and Guitar Boogie from the Islamic Republic of Mauritania  2021  Mauritania  1:21:18 (Pop-up)
George Brigman  Jungle Rot   Favoriting Jungle Rot  1975  USA  1:24:57 (Pop-up)
Jokers  Tears + Tumbling Down   Favoriting Jokers  2011  Iran, recorded in 1972  1:28:37 (Pop-up)
Damned  Neat Neat Neat   Favoriting Damned Damned Damned  1977  UK  1:36:49 (Pop-up)
Kousokuya 光束夜  Akatsuki No Owari (End of Dawn)   Favoriting Tokyo Flashback  2017  Japan  1:39:25 (Pop-up)
The Offset: Spectacles 憬觀:像同叠  Binary March (for Lee Chi-Leung) (給李智良的)二進制進行曲   Favoriting The Offset: Spectacles 憬觀:像同叠  2011  Hong Kong  1:46:51 (Pop-up)
Naked Spots Dance  Crescendo/Circle Moon   Favoriting Four Stars (****)  1980  New Zealand  1:54:18 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Vin Gordon 

Tribute to Don Drummond   Favoriting

Do the Reggay Dance 

2020 

Jamaica 

1:57:52 (Pop-up)
Agitation Free  You Play for Us Today + Sahara City + Ala Tul   Favoriting Malesch معليش  1972  Germany  2:04:41 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Ship of Fools 

Metal Box   Favoriting

Tracce Magnetiche 

2020 

Italy 

2:23:54 (Pop-up)
Ngozi Family  Timwenge   Favoriting 45,000 Volts  1977  Zambia  2:29:20 (Pop-up)
The Apostles  Enyim (My Friend)   Favoriting Black Is Beautiful  1977  Nigeria  2:33:34 (Pop-up)
Lady Grace Atim  Adoko Gwok   Favoriting Electro Acholi Kaboom from Northern Uganda  2019  Uganda  2:38:37 (Pop-up)
Raja Kirik  Dor + Raja Edan   Favoriting Rampokan  2021  Indonesia  2:43:40 (Pop-up)
Tito Puente & La Lupe  Adios   Favoriting Tito Puente Swings, the Exciting Lupe Sings  1965  USA / Cuba  2:54:46 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Catrina Peslaru 

Hei La Bodega   Favoriting

Hei La Bodega - Carnaval! 

2000 

 

2:58:55 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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LambdaCalculus:

Heya Gary!
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Gary:

Evening, LambdaC!
  7:00pm
RetroHawk:

evening folks
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Gary:

RetroHawk, nice to see you!
Avatar 7:01pm
LambdaCalculus:

Evening RetroHawk!
  7:01pm
peter:

hello Gary & co.!
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chresti:

Hi Gary bodega show!
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Gary:

Peter!
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Gary:

Chresti!
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StringOFperils:

Hello, good evening, Gary 'n' all!
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listener james from westwood:

Evening, Gary and all!
  7:03pm
RetroHawk:

evening Gary and Lambda
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Gary:

Welcome, James and StringOFperils!
Avatar 7:08pm
TDK60:

Hi Gary and B-popsters!
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Gary:

TDK60!
  7:11pm
headcleaner:

I love the way Greek always leaves me guessing (wrong) as to what language is being spoken
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coelacanth∅:

Greetings Gary & Bodegatrons
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Gary:

Headcleaner, I live in a Greek neighborhood and I'm never sure what language they're speaking!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:13pm
Gary:

coelacanth∅! headcleaner! Happy to see you both!
  7:14pm
peter:

Gary how would we word your version of "chill beats to study/relax to"?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:14pm
Gary:

Music to weep like a big dork to?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:16pm
doctorjazz:

Hello, Gary and listeners!
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Gary:

Doctorjazz!
  7:22pm
Akiva:

Roxy music?!
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Gary:

Akiva!
  7:29pm
Akiva:

Loving the show
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Gary:

So glad you're enjoying it!
Avatar 7:43pm
TDK60:

Great set. That Algerian song sounded familiar. Rai music?
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Gary:

Yes! And I do think a bit of it (or something else by that guy) was definitely on one of the Sublime Frequencies Algerian releases, probably Radio Algeria
  7:55pm
headcleaner:

If I could only sing along
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Good Wotan'sday Bodega Evening !!
Oh it's good to be here...
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Gary:

Good to have you here, RevRab!
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tim abdellah:

Howdy y'all
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Gary:

Timmm!
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WR:

Hi Gary, listening from a Peruvian chicken place in Elmhurst.
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Gary:

Oh, wow, jealous, WR!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:12pm
doctorjazz:

Just love this Orchestre Odemba Spray (had to break from work to say...)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:12pm
doctorjazz:

Those African Guitars just KILL me!
Avatar 8:13pm
tim abdellah:

@doctorjazz: Same - this is so groovy!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:14pm
doctorjazz:

We had a really good Peruvian chicken place near us in Central Joisey-COVID took it away,
; (
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:15pm
Gary:

I am guessing it's from Angola, based on the song author, who I looked up, and seems to have been from Angola. The record is listed on Discogs but it doesn't say where the band is from
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:17pm
doctorjazz:

(The bass counterpoint to the guitar parts shouldn't be overlooked either...)
  8:21pm
Doug Schulkind:

Never enough Selda.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:23pm
Gary:

Very true, Doug. Douggg!!!
  8:25pm
rw:

Woooo!!
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Gary:

rw!!!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Right there with you on the African Gittarz.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:27pm
doctorjazz:

(I thought this show, "what I listen to when you're not all around, would feature The Archies, 1910 Fruitgum Company, maybe Lou Reeds Metal Machine Music (nah, that would be approved listening on FMU), maybe Abba, You Take My Breath Away, Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes), or similar. Very disappointed...)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:28pm
doctorjazz:

(You play good stuff at home, Gary)
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coelacanth∅:

...or ac/dc, led zeppelin, the outlaws...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:30pm
doctorjazz:

So many good possibilities, not this fakakta great stuff you're playing, Bah!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:30pm
Gary:

Haha, yeah, I kind of had hoped I would've gone further into my Absolute Crap Collection, but that's all on CD
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:31pm
coelacanth∅:

my absolute crap spans all formats
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member 8:31pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...why you hate EdisonLighthouse hahah...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:32pm
coelacanth∅:

(for the record, i do listen to led zeppelin occasionally!
- not the other 2)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:32pm
coelacanth∅:

i have the 45 RR
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:32pm
Gary:

I don't think I've heard the Outlaws but I was a very VERY big AC/DC fan as a kid
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:33pm
doctorjazz:

I liked The Outlaws for a minute, when they had their minute of FM play...(didn't hear their other material)
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coelacanth∅:

outlaws were kind of a hard rock/southern rock blend, not being either well
  8:33pm
Doug Schulkind:

This is great!
Avatar 8:34pm
TDK60:

What was the last record listeners played at home (not radio)?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:35pm
coelacanth∅:

last record: Bessie Smith, a few hours ago.
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doctorjazz:

The Outlaws came along following The Allman Brothers, Marshall Tucker Band, doing the Southern Rock thing.
I think this was the song that got FM radio play.
www.youtube.com...
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Yay Damned ! (Damned Damned)
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coelacanth∅:

the outlaws were part of the popular kids' fare in high school. my downstairs neighbor, who was opposite of popular, went to a concert and bought me a t-shirt. it was black with a kind of cool logo so i wore it; then one day i heard the outlaws and said to myself, you have to stop wearing this!
Avatar 8:38pm
TDK60:

Mine this evening was the Wooden Wand "Clipper Ship" album, 2017. Kentucky psych-folk. A public library CD.
  8:39pm
rw:

I’ve got it LOUD over here.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

I never play Analog anymore - cause I only wanna rip it to Lossless Digital - so it doesn't wear out - & - so I can listen to it as I listen to things now. BUT - I'm not even set up to rip A to D yet... So it was probly an old copy of 'Are You Experienced?' & I said - wow, old LPs sound real good...
However - just now I'm getting out of like a lifetime's of Storage !! So I got the copies of Beatle LPs I grew up with & everything right here with me...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:41pm
doctorjazz:

CD: Dollar Brand Plays Sphere (earlier today)
LP:Gideon Plays-Gideon Nxumalo (South African Pianist)
Someone's Friday South African music focuses has had a bit of an effect (though I have loved Abdullah Ibrahim/Dollar Brand since I first heard him back in the late 70's)
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Gary:

That sounds thrilling, RevRab -- how long has stuff been in storage?
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chresti:

Enjoying your private selections, Gary.
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Gary:

Last thing I listened to was at lunch, a side from Yoko's Fly. As I watched the grapefruit go around and around I was reminded of how excited I would get looking at the Apple label knowing what an awesome adventure that stuff was about to take me on
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member 8:44pm
chresti:

I just ordered some "jack the ripper"
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coelacanth∅:

doctor (@837) they were, but i always thought it a shame that a Brilliant band like the Allman brothers (while there were brothers in it, and barely beyond) were lumped into that category, just because they were southern.
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doctorjazz:

True, Coela, Southern Rock bands did have wide variation (Marshall Tucker Band didn't sound like Little Feat, Allmans didn't sound like either). But from my reading, (I could be remembering incorrectly), The Allmans would have lumped themselves into the category.
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coelacanth∅:

last cd: in my car yesterday, bad brains, i against i.
last cassette: in my car maybe a week ago, a yo la tengo compilation i made, entitled "the feedbacky"
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Gary:

The Feedbacky!
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doctorjazz:

I still thought the Allmans post Duane were a fine band (saw them live only after he passed, unfortunately), but it's true that the band with BOTH brothers was transcendent much of the time.
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doctorjazz:

Speaking of fine bands, this The Offset is Crazy/good!
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coelacanth∅:

sure, instrumentally...i personally didn't like the addition of keyboards, and i don't think there are any standout songs from Dicky or Gregg after brothers and sisters.
just my opinion. i know they still had great shows. (which i never saw)
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coelacanth∅:

i like that you use the term "transcendent". i think Duane was the soul of the band, and Berry Oakley was the heart. and their absence was palpable to me.
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doctorjazz:

I liked Eat a Peach (which was hybrid, with and without Duane), but didn't pay much attention to the albums after that (I saw them with The Dead in RFK stadium, great show by the Post-Duane band)
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coelacanth∅:

(i say "was"...i was very young so it was a bit after the fact. in fact only learned of them after Duane died, when my brother brought home eat a peach)
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coelacanth∅:

yes even the 3 tracks with no Duane are excellent.
and the next album i think still had some of what Duane had infused lingering.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Of course the term 'Southern Rock' is technically redundant...
@Gary: I don't even know ! I coulda been paying U-Haul a 'second rent' for fully 18 years or something - pure lunacy...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:03pm
doctorjazz:

You'll get no argument from me, Coela, Duane was a one of a kind player, not replaceable.
Duane DID put the band together, if I remember correctly-there was a good documentary I saw a while back on them.
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TDK60:

I had a thought that NRBQ was the first southern rock band, though not part of that; their 1st LP: 1969. Yes, Revrab I had that thought once. Rock is from the south, not Maine.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:05pm
doctorjazz:

I believe this was that Doc:
www.youtube.com...
  9:06pm
peter:

one vote for All Absolute Crap next week?
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doctorjazz:

OK, gotta go for a while, Gary, you just HAVE to work on better listening at home hehehehe...
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Gary:

Haha, we'll see, Peter. How about a Bappi Lahiri tribute? (RIP)
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coelacanth∅:

oh. "buy or rent". i might even consider that if it were youboob/gobble.
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Gary:

Happy Trails, DoctorJazz!
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coelacanth∅:

later on doc
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coelacanth∅:

(if it were NOT gooble, that is)
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tim abdellah:

Well this does seem interesting!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:09pm
doctorjazz:

It's on other streaming sites, but not sure about free or not...
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coelacanth∅:

this is a lot like popol vu (sp?)
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Gary:

I think they wrote and recorded this album after a trip through Morocco, is probably what you've figured out by now, Tim
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:10pm
coelacanth∅:

Thanks dr j. i poke around. i love documentaries but hardly ever watch them
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:11pm
coelacanth∅:

(popol vuh? - why am i blanking out?)
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coelacanth∅:

hahaha
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tim abdellah:

Discogs sez they went to Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan
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tim abdellah:

Not Morocco. I had to take a phone call, so will check out the track later
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:30pm
Gary:

Ah, thank you, Tim!
Avatar 9:31pm
tim abdellah:

Now what in the world is this? That bassline melody sounds like a Gnawa guinbri!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:32pm
Gary:

The Ngozi Family?
Avatar 9:33pm
tim abdellah:

Yeah - the beginning of that track was giving me some Gnawa feelings.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:35pm
Gary:

That drumming too kind of, like the clacky clack things they use in gnawa.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:35pm
Gary:

[Google image searches "clacky clacky" + "gnawa"
Avatar 9:38pm
tim abdellah:

HAHA - qarqabas
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_Ike_:

Meow!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:38pm
Gary:

Ike!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:39pm
Gary:

Even their name sounds like they're clacking
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:42pm
Gary:

Like good music? Like the comforting sound of a guy you kind of "know" because you've heard his voice before in between "sets" of songs (or "tracks")? Then you'll love the always-already terrific Sam Segal's If You Lose Your Horse! Starting at 10 pm EST, tonight's episode is "The Superior Landscape of His Horse" wfmu.org...
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member 9:49pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Ooo. There's a sound in there like a Godzilla moan. Makes me a fan...
Avatar 9:49pm
northguineahills:

This Raja Kirk kills!
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TDK60:

This is a wild track.
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Gary:

NGH!!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Gamelan inna Babylon baby...
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chresti:

Wow gun sounds!
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member 9:54pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Would you classify this as Techno ?
Avatar 9:55pm
TDK60:

Thanks for another sonics feast, See you, Gary, Bpops.
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Gary:

Mmm, it's kind of protest/industrial, mebbe?
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LambdaCalculus:

Thanks for a great show tonight, Gary!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

It was so bumpin' I was thinking Industrial - but it wasn't really Mechanical like that - more Electronic with of course Regional elements...
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WR:

Indonesian shamanic trance dance reissued by a label from Kampala, Uganda. Yep, a typical day at home for Gary. Thank you Gary!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:57pm
StringOFperils:

Love this. What a way to say Adios. Thanks Gary!!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Indeed !
~ TY Always DJ GaryS ~
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chresti:

Thanks Gary!
Full moon tonight.
  9:57pm
headcleaner:

Nice incendiary finish, Gary
Avatar 9:58pm
tim abdellah:

Thanks Gary! Catch all you groovers again soon!
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Gary:

La Lupe's the only person who could follow Raja Kirik haha
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member 9:58pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Moon already Waning a bit :
www.planetwatcher.com
- was Festival of Lanterns, the culmination of Chinese New Year celebrations.
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WR:

Aaah Ieeee!
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coelacanth∅:

Stellar program Thanks Gary!
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Gary:

Night, everyone!
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_Ike_:

Thanks Gary, I may not have been commenting much but I listened to the whole thang!
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