WFMU: Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from August 23, 2022

Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 11:42am Austin Rich: Good Hello
	🎸 ♥ 8:58pm Krys O.: Hello! Looking forward to OuttaSpace.
	🎸 ♥ 8:59pm austinrich: This should be fun. At least, it should be fairly spacey...
	🎸 ♥ 9:00pm Krys O.: I'm generally a space cadet.
	9:00pm Mr. X: Klaatu barada nikto
	♥ 9:00pm Scott67: Meanwhile!!
	🎸 ♥ 9:00pm austinrich: There's no fooling Mr. X. He can recognize my samples immediately.
	9:00pm Mr Fab: Robots, apes...and now another awesome concept for a show. We should call you Awesome Austin.
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Austin Rich: Howdy, Scott67! Good to see you. And Mr. Fab, too! Strap it! We're going for a ride!
	♥ 9:01pm Scott67: G'day Austin & Alien Overlords! 🍻😎🤙💨🍺🖖👽🛸
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Austin Rich: I was working on my Back To School Special the other day, so you win some, you loose some.
	♥ 9:02pm postconsumer: Oh! I was just about to log off for the evening, and I remembered wanting to stick around for this... :)
	9:03pm Mr. X: Actually it was a coincidence, Austin. I had "Klaatu barada nikto" prepared in my clipboard 5 minutes before the show began!
	🎸 ♥ 9:03pm Austin Rich: Stick around, postconsumer. We could use someone like you to fight off the invaders!
	9:03pm Charles: I hope they'll bring space candies or cupcakes.
	9:03pm Feldy: Hello fellow travelers
	♥ 9:04pm postconsumer: mmm cupcakes
	9:05pm Feldy: I’m into this idea Austin
	🎸 ♥ 9:05pm Krys O.: I could go for some astronaut ice cream.
	🎸 ♥ 9:07pm Austin Rich: I hope ya'll enjoy where I'm taking you. This one should be fun.
	🎸 ♥ 9:08pm Austin Rich: My only regret: I forgot to go to the liquor store today. My show is sans cocktail. <frowny face>
	9:08pm Geoff-U: I made blackberry ice cream yesterday from the berries in our yard, or as we Oregonians call them, nuisanceberries :)
	9:09pm Heather: Oh, no! Austin, I'll raise an extra Space Kitty IPA in your honor! Tuned in! Hi everyone!
	🎸 ♥ 9:09pm Austin Rich: Now I'm jealous of the treats Geoff-U has!
	🎸 ♥ 9:09pm Aitch: Mutate or pupate? Decisions
	🎸 ♥ 9:09pm Austin Rich: I might have to steal that, Aitch! That's good!
	9:10pm Mr Fab: So sorry to hear about your cocktail situation, Austin. Where's Robby The Robot to create some 'genuine rocket bourbon' on the spot like he did in "Forbidden Planet"?
	🎸 ♥ 9:10pm Aitch: All yours Austin
	🎸 ♥ 9:11pm Krys O.: Right, he did that for Earl Holliman.
	🎸 ♥ 9:11pm Austin Rich: It was a matter of poor timing on my part. I got into prepping radio stuff, looking up, and I was on in two hours! The day gets away from me sometimes.
	🎸 ♥ 9:12pm Krys O.: Fun fact: Earl Holliman is still alive at 93 yo.
	🎸 ♥ 9:12pm Austin Rich: I love this period of Roky's career, where he's getting a lot darker, and has a pretty stellar band to back him up. Wish I could have seen an Aliens show back in the day.
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm Aitch: Peak feelings of alienation
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm Krys O.: I liked the Alien Nation series.
	9:13pm Mr Fab: Supposedly Roky Erickson and Daniel Johnston wrote a film called "The Damned Thing." Now that they're both gone, i wonder if the script has ever surfaced...
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm Austin Rich: I was just thinking about re-watching Alien Nation
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm Krys O.: That was Richard Herd's voice, right?
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm Austin Rich: Mr. Fab: if that script surfaces, I'll do a reading of it on my show!
	9:15pm ramencity: Otter space!
	🎸 ♥ 9:15pm Aitch: I've been tentatively going through Daniel Johnson of late, didn't know much, a funny wired trip that is
	🎸 ♥ 9:15pm Aitch: weird
	🎸 ♥ 9:15pm Krys O.: Cool, Austin. That makes me think of the table read that was done for Plan 9 from Outer Space on TCM with Dana Gould and others. I think it was last year.
	9:16pm Mr. X: It's kind of amazing how much thought and art has gone into thee alien invasion theme, as thought it is universally familiar within everyone's subconscious, even though an actual alien invasion hasn't happened (yet.)
	♥ 9:16pm Scott67: Gotta make a Beer Run, but taking ya with me, to monitor the 'situation'! 🍻😎🤙💨🍺🖖👽
	🎸 ♥ 9:17pm Aitch: I need some They Live sunglasses
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm Aitch: Also some Peril Sensitive sunglasses, but that's a different trip
	🎸 ♥ 9:19pm Krys O.: My parents were resident aliens for many years before they were naturalized.
	9:20pm Feldy: Excuse me… ‘antenna people’??
	🎸 ♥ 9:20pm Austin Rich: I used to have some of those Peril Sensitive Sunglasses when I had that Hitchhiker's Text Adventure game. That was many hours spent guessing things that were never right.
	9:21pm Mr. X: We prefer to go by "alter-planetary" if you please.
	🎸 ♥ 9:21pm Austin Rich: It's there a better word now, Feldy? I have to say, some of the language I use to refer to aliens makes me sound like I'm 20 years older than I am. I need to get with the times.
	🎸 ♥ 9:23pm Aitch: Zolar-X! Should be more of it
	🎸 ♥ 9:23pm Austin Rich: I saw Zolar-X on one of their reunion shows, and they were fantastic! They were all in costume... made fun of our human ways. It was really great.
	🎸 ♥ 9:24pm Austin Rich: Mr. X: I will work on using better language.
	🎸 ♥ 9:26pm coelacanth🔴))): greetings Rich. take me to your earthlings
	9:27pm Mr. X: It's all right. On Xeron, we call you guys "hoo-mons," like the Ferengi do.
	🎸 ♥ 9:27pm Austin Rich: coelacanthO))): Not so fast. You and the leader just met.
	🎸 ♥ 9:28pm Austin Rich: We deserve that... and more, Mr. X.
	♥ 9:28pm postconsumer: Awesome, as always.
	🎸 ♥ 9:28pm coelacanth🔴))): oh. then, take me to your pizza.
	9:29pm Mr. X: Old school electronica. Very nice.
	9:29pm Feldy: Austin having an updated vernacular is highly overrated
	9:30pm Feldy: I think you could’ve made it to the liquor store and back during the
	9:30pm Feldy: During this
	🎸 ♥ 9:31pm Aitch: ohm my god
	9:32pm ramencity: Ohm is where the art is
	🎸 ♥ 9:32pm Aitch: no place like ohm
	9:32pm Mr Fab: I was thinking that Morricone was in this band, but just looked it up, and apparently not. Wasn't he in some noise group, tho?
	9:33pm ramencity: That is a serious ohm-mission, if he isn't! :0
	🎸 ♥ 9:34pm coelacanth🔴))): hey why's that who album upside-down?
	🎸 ♥ 9:36pm Austin Rich: I love this "It Came From Outer Space" song. I have no idea what the lyrics are on about.
	9:36pm Mr Fab: That's funny, coelacanth. Imagine a mischievous record store clerk who placed that album upside down in "The Who" section.
	🎸 ♥ 9:36pm Aitch: well-spotted coel
	🎸 ♥ 9:37pm coelacanth🔴))): Mr Fab i'd do that!
	9:37pm ramencity: @Austin - just grabbed the Tračeri cd, the second verse is the best: "I had a green lizard on my head, I have a hyena, he will eat everything, my buddy is Bela Lugosi, so come on, go ahead and attack me..."
	🎸 ♥ 9:37pm Krys O.: GINC was the name of the group, Mr. Fab: From 1964 up to their eventual disbandment in 1980, Morricone was part of Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza (G.I.N.C.), a group of composers who performed and recorded avant-garde free improvisations. The Rome-based avant-garde ensemble was dedicated to the development of improvisation and new music methods. The ensemble functioned as a laboratory of sorts, working with anti-musical systems and sound techniques in an attempt to redefine the new music ensemble and explore "New Consonance".[31] Known as "The Group" or "Il Gruppo", they released seven albums across the Deutsche Grammophon, RCA, and Cramps labels: Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza (1966), The Private Sea of Dreams (1967), Improvisationen (1968), The Feedback (1970), Improvvisazioni a Formazioni Variate (1973), Nuova Consonanza (1975), and Musica su Schemi (1976). Perhaps the most famous of these is their album entitled The Feed-back, which combines free jazz and avant-garde classical music with funk; the album frequently is sampled by hip hop DJs and is considered to be one of the most collectable records in existence, often fetching more than $1,000 at auction.[32]
	9:39pm ramencity: :0 "T.B. Tracheri" -- stands for "Terrorist Band of Gossipers"
	🎸 ♥ 9:40pm coelacanth🔴))): alien invaders couldn't be worse than politicians
	9:40pm ramencity: "Don't blame me - I voted for Kodos!"
	9:40pm Mr Fab: Thanks, Krys! No wonder I get MEV mixed up with GINC - both based in Rome, named with initials, founded around the same time, playing free improv. Wonder how those two groups got along with each other..?
	🎸 ♥ 9:42pm Krys O.: Is that Alistair Cooke?
	🎸 ♥ 9:43pm Austin Rich: It's all samples from "The Day The Earth Stood Still." I can't remember who that actor is offhand.
	9:44pm Mr. X: Only 250,000,000 miles away?
	🎸 ♥ 9:44pm Aitch: Klaatu (Michael Rennie)
	🎸 ♥ 9:44pm Austin Rich: I know Michael Rennie played Klattu. But I don't know who he's playing against.
	🎸 ♥ 9:45pm Austin Rich: (Aitch: Jinx!)
	🎸 ♥ 9:45pm Krys O.: I have the volume low to avoid disturbing my downstairs neighbors.
	🎸 ♥ 9:46pm Austin Rich: I think I got the timing of these last two tracks in the set off. Whoops!
	🎸 ♥ 9:49pm Austin Rich: I should be back on time, now.
	9:49pm Geoff-U: That was a fun journey!
	🎸 ♥ 9:49pm coelacanth🔴))): Trane's in the station now
	🎸 ♥ 9:53pm Krys O.: I guess that was Sam Jaffe's voice, but it sounded so much like Alistair Cooke.
	9:53pm Mr. X: I am ready to join the Church of Coltrane.
	🎸 ♥ 9:55pm Austin Rich: That's a good church to join, Mr. X!
	9:55pm Mr. X: Halleluiah!
	🎸 ♥ 9:55pm Aitch: Reminds me of Jackson Jeffrey Jackson on Fast Show Jazz Club. I know zilch about jazz. This link to amuse not to offend www.youtube.com...
	🎸 ♥ 9:56pm Austin Rich: Instagon is a band that always improvises all their material. They've been active since the late 90's. Instagon have released over 180 recordings.
	9:57pm Mr Fab: 'Trane - Reminds me of the Great Free Jazz Revival of the '90s: public/college radio playing Ornette, Pharoah Sanders, all the Sun Ra reissues, Greg Ginn and SST getting all jazzy/noisy, cheerleading by Sonic Youth. I think it had to do with that fact that a lot of us went from punk to hardcore, rap to gangsta, and it was like: where can we go now? What's beyond hardcore? I know I was all in.
	🎸 ♥ 9:57pm Austin Rich: There is a "planet" release by Instagon, for every planet in the solar system. And then a final disc, that's only available in a boxed set, that is called "The Planets," with material not on the other discs. A good set to get, if you like this kind of thing.
	🎸 ♥ 9:58pm Austin Rich: I was pretty into that Freejazz revival, but I feel like I was the perfect age for it.
	🎸 ♥ 10:02pm Austin Rich: I think I jumped the gun on this Pink Mountain song, too. Whoops!
	🎸 ♥ 10:05pm Austin Rich: Brown Supper is a Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 spin-off project.
	🎸 ♥ 10:09pm coelacanth🔴))): i didn't quite get it. i got a few Trane and Cecil records long before -in the 80s. i liked 'em but didn't love 'em. then i became friendly with David Ware. got his third ear recitation album; but embarrassingly i didn't get his music. but one day i just wanted to put it on - and it immediately clicked. like an epiphany. Splashed right into the deep end. mid-90s i guess it was. ...i didn't know until tonight that there was a "free jazz revival"
	🎸 ♥ 10:09pm Krys O.: Toodles, all! It's been fun. Take care.
	🎸 ♥ 10:10pm coelacanth🔴))): 'night Krys
	10:10pm ramencity: "The first jazz is free, but the rest is gonna cost ya..."
	🎸 ♥ 10:11pm coelacanth🔴))): haha
	10:15pm Mr Fab: see coel, for some reason we needed it in the '90s.
	🎸 ♥ 10:16pm Austin Rich: We all needed something a little different, to each their own taste.
	10:17pm Mr. X: Only 130?
	🎸 ♥ 10:18pm Austin Rich: You would think if they were serious about interstellar travel, they would need to live longer than 130 years.
	10:18pm Heather: Heck yeah now this is my (space) jam!!
	♥ 10:18pm Scott67: Back from the Beer Run, no sky signs of invasion, yet!? Lucky I stocked up on Beer & Fuel anyway! 🍻😎🤙💨🍺🖖👽🛸
	🎸 ♥ 10:19pm Austin Rich: You did the smart thing, Scott67!
	10:19pm Mr. X: Exactly @Austin
	10:19pm Heather: Lucia Pamela made the cut!!!
	🎸 ♥ 10:19pm Austin Rich: Thanks for stickin' it out, Heather. Like the weather in the midwest, if you don't like the show now, just wait five minutes!
	🎸 ♥ 10:19pm Austin Rich: Lucia Pamela always makes the cut.
	10:21pm Heather: I've been here the whole time, or, listening, that is! Just popped my head in to say hi, usual Heather style!
	10:21pm Mr. X: If there are cats on the moon, I would be more inclined to move there.
	🎸 ♥ 10:21pm coelacanth🔴))): Mr Fab @1015 apparently so
	🎸 ♥ 10:21pm Austin Rich: In fact: ramencitykid gave me this exact album that I'm playing, for my birthday one year, in the early 2000s.
	🎸 ♥ 10:23pm coelacanth🔴))): funny 'cuz before i imagined i heard walking on the surface of the moon by Wreckless Eric, when i hadn't
	10:24pm Mr. X: Getting drunk and giving up the practice are not mutually exclusive.
	10:25pm Mr. X: I had a feeling Brain in a Box would be involved tonight.
	🎸 ♥ 10:26pm Austin Rich: It's hard not to break out that Brain In A Box. It's just SO GOOD.
	10:31pm Mr. X: You're covering all the musical bases tonight, Austin.
	🎸 ♥ 10:32pm Austin Rich: I usually cover a lot of ground. Or, at least, try to.
	10:33pm Mr. X: Johnn Lennon's drinking buddy.
	10:33pm Heather: You're scratching all the space itches which... is there a vaccine for that yet? Asking for a friend.
	🎸 ♥ 10:34pm Austin Rich: It's funny, I'm a bit of a nerd for Nilsson, but Lennon never quite does it for me. I think Lennon seemed like he was trying too hard, sometimes.
	🎸 ♥ 10:38pm Austin Rich: Heather: I'm not sure about that, but I found out that this season's flu vaccine is already out, so I'm scheduling my appointment soon. I'm sure you can get a space itch salve, then.
	🎸 ♥ 10:39pm Austin Rich: I really love all the Joe Meek studio stuff. He really captured a sound that is pretty magical.
	10:40pm Heather: Oo, that's great news!! But, yeah, like, not for me. For my friend. Not space itch shaming at all but me? I certainly don't have space itch. How would I? No way. Also!!! I was wondering if Joe Meek would show up!! I was texting a friend before your show and mentioned Telstar might be on the playlist!
	🎸 ♥ 10:44pm Austin Rich: That is an incredibly good guess, Heather. But I think even I have played Telstar too many times on this show. I'm usually going for a deeper cut with Mr. Meek, anymore. Just so I don't fatigue the listeners. (I used to have a promo that was with Telestar in the back.)
	10:46pm Geoff-U: I need to listen to more MoAM stuff
	10:46pm Geoff-U: I’m woefully late to that space party
	10:46pm Heather: I used to have very decent Meek collection but no longer. He was a troubled man but did have an innovative ear for music, absolutely!
	♥ 10:47pm HyperDose: That mini-mutation was sweeeet
	🎸 ♥ 10:47pm coelacanth🔴))): i can only assume that a flying saucer is responsible for the corelleware shards i found on the back deck
	10:48pm Mr Fab: our own DJ Shangri-La just DJed an event that featured Man Or AstoMan live, so I guess they're still around and out there touring.
	10:50pm ramencity: Because of this album art, when I was a kiddo I used to think the full song title was "Telstar the Lonely Bull" -- I didn't realize it was two hits for the price of one! https://www.discogs.com/master/112742-The-Ventures-The-Ventures-Play-TelstarLonely-Bull/image/SW1hZ2U6MTc0MTA5OTM=
	10:51pm Geoff-U: Thanks for the great show!
	10:51pm Heather: Mr. Fab, goofy kids that we were decades ago, we'd call them Man or Astroturf which, sadly, has stuck with me to this day. Thanks for the great show, Austin, and the great chat, everyone! Good night!
	🎸 ♥ 10:54pm coelacanth🔴))): Thanks Rich! tchau aliens
	♥ 10:54pm Scott67: Thanks Austin! I feel well prepared for the inevitable Alien Invasion. Though it won't come from Outer Space, but the Ultra Right, right here on Earth. 🌏🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	10:54pm Mr. X: Thanks Austin, I really enjoyed it.
	🎸 ♥ 10:55pm Austin Rich: Take care, everyone! I had a lovely time.
	♥ 10:55pm HyperDose: Thanks A-man!
	♥ 10:56pm Scott67: As I predicted! American Psycho!
	10:57pm Mr Fab: As a space-case, i appreciated this show. Thanks, astro-Austin!

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from August 23, 2022

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A combination of collage, new experimental records and other bits and bobs, Mid-Valley Mutations is a tour through the mind of Austin Rich, who has been broadcasting in some form since 1998. Heavily influenced by Dr Demento, Don Joyce and old fashioned College Radio, Austin creates Audio Essays on a variety of subjects, and even just plays records, from time to time. Sometimes Live music and Interviews will grace the program, helping create a situation where you don't really know what you're going to hear, when you tune in. What you need to know is when you enter the Mid-Valley region, be prepared for the Musical Mutations... in whatever form they take.

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August 23, 2022: It Came From Outer Space

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
(Audio Samples Throughout: Edmund H. North / Harry Bates, "The Day The Earth Stood Still," 20th Century Fox.)
Attack! "Attack!"
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.	Attack From Planet Hattifatteners	Have You Seen The Other Side Of The Sky?	Ace Fu Records	2006	0:02:11 (Pop-up)
Roky Erickson & the Aliens	Sputnik	The Evil One	415 Records	1981	0:08:28 (Pop-up)
The Fucking Champs	Aliens Of Gold	V	Drag City Records	2002	0:12:50 (Pop-up)

Watching The Planets "Watching The Planets"
Chrome	SS Cygni "SS Cygni" by "Chrome"	Alien Soundtracks	Siren Records	1977	0:15:04 (Pop-up)
Zolar-X	Space Age Love "Space Age Love" by "Zolar-X"	Timeless	Alternative Tentacles Records	2004	0:19:48 (Pop-up)
The Flaming Lips	Watching the Planets	Embryonic	Warner Bros. Records	2009	0:23:09 (Pop-up)
MEV (Musica Elettronica Viva)	Spacecraft, 1967	OHM: The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music (1948-1980)	Ellipsis Arts Records	2000	0:28:11 (Pop-up)
T.B. TPAЧEPN	It Came From Outer Space	KУПИ Me	Self-Released	2004?	0:33:34 (Pop-up)

Dribs & Drugz "Dribs & Drugz"
Alan R. Splet	Space travel w/ changing choral textures (1983)	An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music: Second A-Chronology 1936-2003	Sub Rosa Records	2003	0:41:04 (Pop-up)
Lamborghini	Space Drugz "Space Drugz" by "Lamborghini"	The New Lamborghini	Battlesnakesnow.com	2008	0:45:28 (Pop-up)
Forcefield	Space Dribs "Space Dribs" by "Forcefield"	Roggaboggas	Load Records	2003	0:46:12 (Pop-up)

Quarantine The Aliens "Quarantine The Aliens"
John Coltrane	Jupiter "Jupiter" by "John Coltrane"	Interstellar Space	ABC Impulse!	1974	0:48:24 (Pop-up)
Instagon	My Little Red Planet "My Little Red Planet" by "Instagon"	Mars	The Instagon Foundation	2019	0:53:44 (Pop-up)
Brown Supper	Quarantine The Aliens	Duck, Duck, Chimp (Rarities 1987-2001)	Self-Released	2002	1:01:24 (Pop-up)
Pink Mountain	Circling the 7th Planet	Pink Mountain	Frenetic Records	2006	1:05:53 (Pop-up)

Astrosonic "Astrosonic"
Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra	Interplanetary Music	Sun Ra Visits Planet Earth / Interstellar Low Ways	Saturn Records	1992	1:08:20 (Pop-up)
Half Japanese	Deadly Alien Spawn "Deadly Alien Spawn" by "Half Japanese"	Greatest Hits	Safe House Records	1995	1:12:49 (Pop-up)
Jimmie Haskell And His Orchestra	Astrosonic	Lux and Ivy’s Favorites Volume Twelve: The Lux Interior Memorial Edition (Journey into Outer Space)	wfmu.org	2009	1:15:34 (Pop-up)
Sam Space and the Cadets	Take Me to Your Leader	The Purple Knif Show	Munster Records	1999	1:17:14 (Pop-up)
Lucia Pamela	Walking on the Moon "Walking on the Moon" by "Lucia Pamela"	Into Outer Space with Lucia Pamela	Arf! Arf! Records	1992	1:19:05 (Pop-up)
Rick McGuire	Space Craze "Space Craze" by "Rick McGuire"	Lux and Ivy’s Favorites Volume Eight	wfmu.org	2008	1:22:10 (Pop-up)

Mr. Spaceman "Mr. Spaceman"
Louis and Bebe Barron	Forbidden Planet: Main Titles – Overture	Brain In A Box: The Science Fiction Collection	Rhino Records	2000	1:23:39 (Pop-up)
Zach Hill and Mick Barr	Lakes In Space	Shred Earthship	5 Rue Christine Records	2006	1:25:52 (Pop-up)
Holy Modal Rounders	Mister Spaceman	Brain In A Box: The Science Fiction Collection	Rhino Records	2000	1:29:51 (Pop-up)
Harry Nilsson	Spaceman "Spaceman" by "Harry Nilsson"	Brain In A Box: The Science Fiction Collection	Rhino Records	2000	1:31:47 (Pop-up)
Baskerville Hounds	Space Rock Part 2	Ghoulardi Music	kogarsjunglejuice. blogspot.com	2009	1:35:04 (Pop-up)
The Thunderbolts	Lost Planet "Lost Planet" by "The Thunderbolts"	It’s Hard To Believe It: The Amazing World Of Joe Meek	Razor & Tie Records	1995	1:37:32 (Pop-up)
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282	I Hope It Lands	Rampaging Fuckers Of Anything On The Crazy Shitting Planet Of The Vomit Atmosphere	Communion Records	1996	1:40:28 (Pop-up)
Merzbow and Bastard Noise	Leaving Another Dead Planet	Voice Pie / Brave New World	Relapse Records	1996	1:41:39 (Pop-up)
Alien Visitors "Alien Visitors"
Mini-Mutations	Synth Jam "Synth Jam" by "Mini-Mutations"		Self-Released	2021	1:42:15 (Pop-up)
Man… Or Astro-Man?	Alien Visitors	Is It…	Estrus Records	1993	1:43:56 (Pop-up)
Mini-Mutations	Synth Jam "Synth Jam" by "Mini-Mutations"		Self-Released	2021	1:51:04 (Pop-up)
They Might Be Giants	Space Suit "Space Suit" by "They Might Be Giants"	Apollo 18	Elektra Records	1992	1:54:10 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 11:42am Austin Rich: Good Hello
	🎸 ♥ 8:58pm Krys O.: Hello! Looking forward to OuttaSpace.
	🎸 ♥ 8:59pm austinrich: This should be fun. At least, it should be fairly spacey...
	🎸 ♥ 9:00pm Krys O.: I'm generally a space cadet.
	9:00pm Mr. X: Klaatu barada nikto
	♥ 9:00pm Scott67: Meanwhile!!
	🎸 ♥ 9:00pm austinrich: There's no fooling Mr. X. He can recognize my samples immediately.
	9:00pm Mr Fab: Robots, apes...and now another awesome concept for a show. We should call you Awesome Austin.
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Austin Rich: Howdy, Scott67! Good to see you. And Mr. Fab, too! Strap it! We're going for a ride!
	♥ 9:01pm Scott67: G'day Austin & Alien Overlords! 🍻😎🤙💨🍺🖖👽🛸
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Austin Rich: I was working on my Back To School Special the other day, so you win some, you loose some.
	♥ 9:02pm postconsumer: Oh! I was just about to log off for the evening, and I remembered wanting to stick around for this... :)
	9:03pm Mr. X: Actually it was a coincidence, Austin. I had "Klaatu barada nikto" prepared in my clipboard 5 minutes before the show began!
	🎸 ♥ 9:03pm Austin Rich: Stick around, postconsumer. We could use someone like you to fight off the invaders!
	9:03pm Charles: I hope they'll bring space candies or cupcakes.
	9:03pm Feldy: Hello fellow travelers
	♥ 9:04pm postconsumer: mmm cupcakes
	9:05pm Feldy: I’m into this idea Austin
	🎸 ♥ 9:05pm Krys O.: I could go for some astronaut ice cream.
	🎸 ♥ 9:07pm Austin Rich: I hope ya'll enjoy where I'm taking you. This one should be fun.
	🎸 ♥ 9:08pm Austin Rich: My only regret: I forgot to go to the liquor store today. My show is sans cocktail. <frowny face>
	9:08pm Geoff-U: I made blackberry ice cream yesterday from the berries in our yard, or as we Oregonians call them, nuisanceberries :)
	9:09pm Heather: Oh, no! Austin, I'll raise an extra Space Kitty IPA in your honor! Tuned in! Hi everyone!
	🎸 ♥ 9:09pm Austin Rich: Now I'm jealous of the treats Geoff-U has!
	🎸 ♥ 9:09pm Aitch: Mutate or pupate? Decisions
	🎸 ♥ 9:09pm Austin Rich: I might have to steal that, Aitch! That's good!
	9:10pm Mr Fab: So sorry to hear about your cocktail situation, Austin. Where's Robby The Robot to create some 'genuine rocket bourbon' on the spot like he did in "Forbidden Planet"?
	🎸 ♥ 9:10pm Aitch: All yours Austin
	🎸 ♥ 9:11pm Krys O.: Right, he did that for Earl Holliman.
	🎸 ♥ 9:11pm Austin Rich: It was a matter of poor timing on my part. I got into prepping radio stuff, looking up, and I was on in two hours! The day gets away from me sometimes.
	🎸 ♥ 9:12pm Krys O.: Fun fact: Earl Holliman is still alive at 93 yo.
	🎸 ♥ 9:12pm Austin Rich: I love this period of Roky's career, where he's getting a lot darker, and has a pretty stellar band to back him up. Wish I could have seen an Aliens show back in the day.
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm Aitch: Peak feelings of alienation
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm Krys O.: I liked the Alien Nation series.
	9:13pm Mr Fab: Supposedly Roky Erickson and Daniel Johnston wrote a film called "The Damned Thing." Now that they're both gone, i wonder if the script has ever surfaced...
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm Austin Rich: I was just thinking about re-watching Alien Nation
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm Krys O.: That was Richard Herd's voice, right?
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm Austin Rich: Mr. Fab: if that script surfaces, I'll do a reading of it on my show!
	9:15pm ramencity: Otter space!
	🎸 ♥ 9:15pm Aitch: I've been tentatively going through Daniel Johnson of late, didn't know much, a funny wired trip that is
	🎸 ♥ 9:15pm Aitch: weird
	🎸 ♥ 9:15pm Krys O.: Cool, Austin. That makes me think of the table read that was done for Plan 9 from Outer Space on TCM with Dana Gould and others. I think it was last year.
	9:16pm Mr. X: It's kind of amazing how much thought and art has gone into thee alien invasion theme, as thought it is universally familiar within everyone's subconscious, even though an actual alien invasion hasn't happened (yet.)
	♥ 9:16pm Scott67: Gotta make a Beer Run, but taking ya with me, to monitor the 'situation'! 🍻😎🤙💨🍺🖖👽
	🎸 ♥ 9:17pm Aitch: I need some They Live sunglasses
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm Aitch: Also some Peril Sensitive sunglasses, but that's a different trip
	🎸 ♥ 9:19pm Krys O.: My parents were resident aliens for many years before they were naturalized.
	9:20pm Feldy: Excuse me… ‘antenna people’??
	🎸 ♥ 9:20pm Austin Rich: I used to have some of those Peril Sensitive Sunglasses when I had that Hitchhiker's Text Adventure game. That was many hours spent guessing things that were never right.
	9:21pm Mr. X: We prefer to go by "alter-planetary" if you please.
	🎸 ♥ 9:21pm Austin Rich: It's there a better word now, Feldy? I have to say, some of the language I use to refer to aliens makes me sound like I'm 20 years older than I am. I need to get with the times.
	🎸 ♥ 9:23pm Aitch: Zolar-X! Should be more of it
	🎸 ♥ 9:23pm Austin Rich: I saw Zolar-X on one of their reunion shows, and they were fantastic! They were all in costume... made fun of our human ways. It was really great.
	🎸 ♥ 9:24pm Austin Rich: Mr. X: I will work on using better language.
	🎸 ♥ 9:26pm coelacanth🔴))): greetings Rich. take me to your earthlings
	9:27pm Mr. X: It's all right. On Xeron, we call you guys "hoo-mons," like the Ferengi do.
	🎸 ♥ 9:27pm Austin Rich: coelacanthO))): Not so fast. You and the leader just met.
	🎸 ♥ 9:28pm Austin Rich: We deserve that... and more, Mr. X.
	♥ 9:28pm postconsumer: Awesome, as always.
	🎸 ♥ 9:28pm coelacanth🔴))): oh. then, take me to your pizza.
	9:29pm Mr. X: Old school electronica. Very nice.
	9:29pm Feldy: Austin having an updated vernacular is highly overrated
	9:30pm Feldy: I think you could’ve made it to the liquor store and back during the
	9:30pm Feldy: During this
	🎸 ♥ 9:31pm Aitch: ohm my god
	9:32pm ramencity: Ohm is where the art is
	🎸 ♥ 9:32pm Aitch: no place like ohm
	9:32pm Mr Fab: I was thinking that Morricone was in this band, but just looked it up, and apparently not. Wasn't he in some noise group, tho?
	9:33pm ramencity: That is a serious ohm-mission, if he isn't! :0
	🎸 ♥ 9:34pm coelacanth🔴))): hey why's that who album upside-down?
	🎸 ♥ 9:36pm Austin Rich: I love this "It Came From Outer Space" song. I have no idea what the lyrics are on about.
	9:36pm Mr Fab: That's funny, coelacanth. Imagine a mischievous record store clerk who placed that album upside down in "The Who" section.
	🎸 ♥ 9:36pm Aitch: well-spotted coel
	🎸 ♥ 9:37pm coelacanth🔴))): Mr Fab i'd do that!
	9:37pm ramencity: @Austin - just grabbed the Tračeri cd, the second verse is the best: "I had a green lizard on my head, I have a hyena, he will eat everything, my buddy is Bela Lugosi, so come on, go ahead and attack me..."
	🎸 ♥ 9:37pm Krys O.: GINC was the name of the group, Mr. Fab: From 1964 up to their eventual disbandment in 1980, Morricone was part of Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza (G.I.N.C.), a group of composers who performed and recorded avant-garde free improvisations. The Rome-based avant-garde ensemble was dedicated to the development of improvisation and new music methods. The ensemble functioned as a laboratory of sorts, working with anti-musical systems and sound techniques in an attempt to redefine the new music ensemble and explore "New Consonance".[31] Known as "The Group" or "Il Gruppo", they released seven albums across the Deutsche Grammophon, RCA, and Cramps labels: Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza (1966), The Private Sea of Dreams (1967), Improvisationen (1968), The Feedback (1970), Improvvisazioni a Formazioni Variate (1973), Nuova Consonanza (1975), and Musica su Schemi (1976). Perhaps the most famous of these is their album entitled The Feed-back, which combines free jazz and avant-garde classical music with funk; the album frequently is sampled by hip hop DJs and is considered to be one of the most collectable records in existence, often fetching more than $1,000 at auction.[32]
	9:39pm ramencity: :0 "T.B. Tracheri" -- stands for "Terrorist Band of Gossipers"
	🎸 ♥ 9:40pm coelacanth🔴))): alien invaders couldn't be worse than politicians
	9:40pm ramencity: "Don't blame me - I voted for Kodos!"
	9:40pm Mr Fab: Thanks, Krys! No wonder I get MEV mixed up with GINC - both based in Rome, named with initials, founded around the same time, playing free improv. Wonder how those two groups got along with each other..?
	🎸 ♥ 9:42pm Krys O.: Is that Alistair Cooke?
	🎸 ♥ 9:43pm Austin Rich: It's all samples from "The Day The Earth Stood Still." I can't remember who that actor is offhand.
	9:44pm Mr. X: Only 250,000,000 miles away?
	🎸 ♥ 9:44pm Aitch: Klaatu (Michael Rennie)
	🎸 ♥ 9:44pm Austin Rich: I know Michael Rennie played Klattu. But I don't know who he's playing against.
	🎸 ♥ 9:45pm Austin Rich: (Aitch: Jinx!)
	🎸 ♥ 9:45pm Krys O.: I have the volume low to avoid disturbing my downstairs neighbors.
	🎸 ♥ 9:46pm Austin Rich: I think I got the timing of these last two tracks in the set off. Whoops!
	🎸 ♥ 9:49pm Austin Rich: I should be back on time, now.
	9:49pm Geoff-U: That was a fun journey!
	🎸 ♥ 9:49pm coelacanth🔴))): Trane's in the station now
	🎸 ♥ 9:53pm Krys O.: I guess that was Sam Jaffe's voice, but it sounded so much like Alistair Cooke.
	9:53pm Mr. X: I am ready to join the Church of Coltrane.
	🎸 ♥ 9:55pm Austin Rich: That's a good church to join, Mr. X!
	9:55pm Mr. X: Halleluiah!
	🎸 ♥ 9:55pm Aitch: Reminds me of Jackson Jeffrey Jackson on Fast Show Jazz Club. I know zilch about jazz. This link to amuse not to offend www.youtube.com...
	🎸 ♥ 9:56pm Austin Rich: Instagon is a band that always improvises all their material. They've been active since the late 90's. Instagon have released over 180 recordings.
	9:57pm Mr Fab: 'Trane - Reminds me of the Great Free Jazz Revival of the '90s: public/college radio playing Ornette, Pharoah Sanders, all the Sun Ra reissues, Greg Ginn and SST getting all jazzy/noisy, cheerleading by Sonic Youth. I think it had to do with that fact that a lot of us went from punk to hardcore, rap to gangsta, and it was like: where can we go now? What's beyond hardcore? I know I was all in.
	🎸 ♥ 9:57pm Austin Rich: There is a "planet" release by Instagon, for every planet in the solar system. And then a final disc, that's only available in a boxed set, that is called "The Planets," with material not on the other discs. A good set to get, if you like this kind of thing.
	🎸 ♥ 9:58pm Austin Rich: I was pretty into that Freejazz revival, but I feel like I was the perfect age for it.
	🎸 ♥ 10:02pm Austin Rich: I think I jumped the gun on this Pink Mountain song, too. Whoops!
	🎸 ♥ 10:05pm Austin Rich: Brown Supper is a Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 spin-off project.
	🎸 ♥ 10:09pm coelacanth🔴))): i didn't quite get it. i got a few Trane and Cecil records long before -in the 80s. i liked 'em but didn't love 'em. then i became friendly with David Ware. got his third ear recitation album; but embarrassingly i didn't get his music. but one day i just wanted to put it on - and it immediately clicked. like an epiphany. Splashed right into the deep end. mid-90s i guess it was. ...i didn't know until tonight that there was a "free jazz revival"
	🎸 ♥ 10:09pm Krys O.: Toodles, all! It's been fun. Take care.
	🎸 ♥ 10:10pm coelacanth🔴))): 'night Krys
	10:10pm ramencity: "The first jazz is free, but the rest is gonna cost ya..."
	🎸 ♥ 10:11pm coelacanth🔴))): haha
	10:15pm Mr Fab: see coel, for some reason we needed it in the '90s.
	🎸 ♥ 10:16pm Austin Rich: We all needed something a little different, to each their own taste.
	10:17pm Mr. X: Only 130?
	🎸 ♥ 10:18pm Austin Rich: You would think if they were serious about interstellar travel, they would need to live longer than 130 years.
	10:18pm Heather: Heck yeah now this is my (space) jam!!
	♥ 10:18pm Scott67: Back from the Beer Run, no sky signs of invasion, yet!? Lucky I stocked up on Beer & Fuel anyway! 🍻😎🤙💨🍺🖖👽🛸
	🎸 ♥ 10:19pm Austin Rich: You did the smart thing, Scott67!
	10:19pm Mr. X: Exactly @Austin
	10:19pm Heather: Lucia Pamela made the cut!!!
	🎸 ♥ 10:19pm Austin Rich: Thanks for stickin' it out, Heather. Like the weather in the midwest, if you don't like the show now, just wait five minutes!
	🎸 ♥ 10:19pm Austin Rich: Lucia Pamela always makes the cut.
	10:21pm Heather: I've been here the whole time, or, listening, that is! Just popped my head in to say hi, usual Heather style!
	10:21pm Mr. X: If there are cats on the moon, I would be more inclined to move there.
	🎸 ♥ 10:21pm coelacanth🔴))): Mr Fab @1015 apparently so
	🎸 ♥ 10:21pm Austin Rich: In fact: ramencitykid gave me this exact album that I'm playing, for my birthday one year, in the early 2000s.
	🎸 ♥ 10:23pm coelacanth🔴))): funny 'cuz before i imagined i heard walking on the surface of the moon by Wreckless Eric, when i hadn't
	10:24pm Mr. X: Getting drunk and giving up the practice are not mutually exclusive.
	10:25pm Mr. X: I had a feeling Brain in a Box would be involved tonight.
	🎸 ♥ 10:26pm Austin Rich: It's hard not to break out that Brain In A Box. It's just SO GOOD.
	10:31pm Mr. X: You're covering all the musical bases tonight, Austin.
	🎸 ♥ 10:32pm Austin Rich: I usually cover a lot of ground. Or, at least, try to.
	10:33pm Mr. X: Johnn Lennon's drinking buddy.
	10:33pm Heather: You're scratching all the space itches which... is there a vaccine for that yet? Asking for a friend.
	🎸 ♥ 10:34pm Austin Rich: It's funny, I'm a bit of a nerd for Nilsson, but Lennon never quite does it for me. I think Lennon seemed like he was trying too hard, sometimes.
	🎸 ♥ 10:38pm Austin Rich: Heather: I'm not sure about that, but I found out that this season's flu vaccine is already out, so I'm scheduling my appointment soon. I'm sure you can get a space itch salve, then.
	🎸 ♥ 10:39pm Austin Rich: I really love all the Joe Meek studio stuff. He really captured a sound that is pretty magical.
	10:40pm Heather: Oo, that's great news!! But, yeah, like, not for me. For my friend. Not space itch shaming at all but me? I certainly don't have space itch. How would I? No way. Also!!! I was wondering if Joe Meek would show up!! I was texting a friend before your show and mentioned Telstar might be on the playlist!
	🎸 ♥ 10:44pm Austin Rich: That is an incredibly good guess, Heather. But I think even I have played Telstar too many times on this show. I'm usually going for a deeper cut with Mr. Meek, anymore. Just so I don't fatigue the listeners. (I used to have a promo that was with Telestar in the back.)
	10:46pm Geoff-U: I need to listen to more MoAM stuff
	10:46pm Geoff-U: I’m woefully late to that space party
	10:46pm Heather: I used to have very decent Meek collection but no longer. He was a troubled man but did have an innovative ear for music, absolutely!
	♥ 10:47pm HyperDose: That mini-mutation was sweeeet
	🎸 ♥ 10:47pm coelacanth🔴))): i can only assume that a flying saucer is responsible for the corelleware shards i found on the back deck
	10:48pm Mr Fab: our own DJ Shangri-La just DJed an event that featured Man Or AstoMan live, so I guess they're still around and out there touring.
	10:50pm ramencity: Because of this album art, when I was a kiddo I used to think the full song title was "Telstar the Lonely Bull" -- I didn't realize it was two hits for the price of one! https://www.discogs.com/master/112742-The-Ventures-The-Ventures-Play-TelstarLonely-Bull/image/SW1hZ2U6MTc0MTA5OTM=
	10:51pm Geoff-U: Thanks for the great show!
	10:51pm Heather: Mr. Fab, goofy kids that we were decades ago, we'd call them Man or Astroturf which, sadly, has stuck with me to this day. Thanks for the great show, Austin, and the great chat, everyone! Good night!
	🎸 ♥ 10:54pm coelacanth🔴))): Thanks Rich! tchau aliens
	♥ 10:54pm Scott67: Thanks Austin! I feel well prepared for the inevitable Alien Invasion. Though it won't come from Outer Space, but the Ultra Right, right here on Earth. 🌏🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	10:54pm Mr. X: Thanks Austin, I really enjoyed it.
	🎸 ♥ 10:55pm Austin Rich: Take care, everyone! I had a lovely time.
	♥ 10:55pm HyperDose: Thanks A-man!
	♥ 10:56pm Scott67: As I predicted! American Psycho!
	10:57pm Mr Fab: As a space-case, i appreciated this show. Thanks, astro-Austin!

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from August 23, 2022

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