WFMU: Transmissions from Echo Beach with Derek Westerholm and DJ Babs: Playlist from December 29, 2022

Transmissions from Echo Beach with Derek Westerholm and DJ Babs: Playlist from December 29, 2022

Description: Exuberance/Ebullience, banter, possibly an interview, context and connection, the familiar, the strange.

Find: Symphonies of Treble, Words Of Expectation, stab, skronk, shimmer, sheen, The New Sound of Now, Ideas for Walls, pleasure, pith, Flutter and Wow, Motorik, cowbells, disco akimbo, at least one Cantankerous Singer, The German Language, shards of glass, Ethiopian Punk, organic, synthetic, sawtooths & squarewaves, Library Riffage, yesterday's recipes, the wrong speed, intentional static, floating, ethereal, time and timelessness.

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Music behind DJ: Sounds Of The Ocean	Beach Sounds "Beach Sounds" by "Sounds Of The Ocean"	Ocean Sounds	Sounds Of The Ocean	2016			0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Shelf Lives	Fighting That Bitch "Fighting That Bitch" by "Shelf Lives"	Yes, Offence	Not Sorry Mom Records	2022	Clench your fists and raise them to the sky! We played Shelf Lives two episodes ago but this song needs to be played. Loudly. Shelf Lives are vocalist Sabrina and guitarist/producer Jonny, originating from Toronto, Canada and Northampton in the UK. They describe the album as 'a reflection of a broken society verging on the edge of cultureless, all while wearing a party hat' THEY ARE FROM MY HOMETOWN AND THIS MAKES ME VERY HAPPY.		0:02:33 (Pop-up)
Chalk	Velodrome "Velodrome" by "Chalk"	Velodrome Single	Dutch Tilt	2022	Gushing with angst and the thrilling musicianship of Chalk, ‘Velodrome’ is a mammoth-sounding blast to the ears. The tune spirals in an intoxicating soundscape of shrilling guitars pummeling drums and acid-baked fury. Chalk are from Ireland. They remind us of Gilla Band...a bit. They are furious and relentless, all the things we like.		0:05:29 (Pop-up)
Prettiest Eyes	Marihuana "Marihuana" by "Prettiest Eyes"	Vol 3.	Castle Face	2019	once you’ve become accustomed to their clanging synthetic orbit, it’s hard to find other tunes that truly scratch the same itch. Volume 3 bursts at the seams with chrome-dipped timbres and surprise sharp edges, alien klaxon-calls and wailing dissonance offsetting the ziplock’d grease of their insistent drum and bass grooves. Prettiest Eyes are one of the most exciting live bands going on right now...I would love to see them.		0:08:38 (Pop-up)
Sweaty Palms	Wading In The Mud "Wading In The Mud" by "Sweaty Palms"	The Pursuit Of Novelty	Sweaty Palms	2022	Sweaty Palms are an energetic four-piece post-punk band from the Southside of Glasgow who admit their music is inspired by drug-fuelled anxiety. “It's probably because we're all very anxious people. I've got sweaty palms right now,” confides band member Robbie. “I wrote a song called Sweaty Palms, but we were known as The Sweats first. We were in between the two names until last week or something, until we were forced to choose...We all came together with a mutual interest in inciting anger, fear and any other complex emotions in a nation of empty vessels, staring into an endless void on their iPhones,” There is shockingly little hype on the interweb about a band that's this fucking good!		0:10:50 (Pop-up)
WOOZE	Witch Slap (IOU) "Witch Slap (IOU)" by "WOOZE"	Witch Slap (IOU) Single	Young Poet Records	2021	One of our favourite discoveries of this year...WOOZE bring a gothic, harder edge with Bowie-esque glammy goth vibes. They love the colour yellow. They have a singing drummer. They are British/Korean. Wooze is named after a phonetic translation of 'space' in Korean - 우주 They are excellent.		0:13:39 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Charles Stepney	Daddy's Diddies "Daddy's Diddies" by "Charles Stepney"	Step On Step	International Anthem	2022	Charles Stepney was an American record producer, arranger, songwriter and musician. Stepney is noted for his work with artists such as The Dells, Ramsey Lewis, Rotary Connection and Earth, Wind & Fire. He started his musical career as a jazz piano and vibraphone player, and began work for Chess Records as a musician and arranger. He was a goddamn genius.		0:16:03 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Charles Stepney	That's the Way Of The World	Step On Step	International Anthem	2022			0:17:55 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Charles Stepney	Around The House "Around The House" by "Charles Stepney"	Step On Step	International Anthem	2022			0:22:23 (Pop-up)
The Prodigy, Sleaford Mods	Ibiza "Ibiza" by "The Prodigy, Sleaford Mods"	The Day Is My Enemy	Cooking Vinyl	2015	Prodigy & Sleaford Mods together? This happened??!! 7 years ago???!!! Jason Williamson is quietly (loudly?) becoming a prolific collaborator. This is good for the world, in my estimation.		0:22:52 (Pop-up)
Here Are The Young Men & Uncle Peanut	Mark E Smith's Still Doing The Fall	This Is the Standard Life	Musical Bear Records	2017	Seems this was first in the world as early as Nov 23, 2015; when Mark E. Smith was, indeed, still doing The Fall. HERE ARE THE YOUNG MEN & UNCLE PEANUT - MARK E. SMITH'S STILL DOING THE FALL (YouTube)		0:25:38 (Pop-up)
Lewsberg	Six Hills "Six Hills" by "Lewsberg"	Six Hills	Speedy Wunderground	2022	"“Rotterdam’s Lewsberg are one of the more interesting bands to come out of a city currently enjoying something of an alternative musical renaissance. Lewsberg are exponents of a measured, arty-but-inquisitive sound that is slightly at odds with the brazen racket made by the likes of their city peers. Those who dig ‘The Gift’ by the Velvet Underground or that very early Modern Lovers sound will surely be drawn to this.” — Louder Than War"		0:27:10 (Pop-up)
Taraka	Psychocastle "Psychocastle" by "Taraka"	Welcome to Paradise Lost	Rage Peace Records	2021	"Since the breakup of the legendary underground cult duo Prince Rama, former front-woman Taraka has thrown herself headlong into the dark existential world of her “inner teenager," merging bastard elements of outsider-psych, post-edenic grunge, kaleidoscopic punk and post-adolescent angst to create her debut solo album. A departure from Prince Rama’s sparkly dance-pop sound, WELCOME TO PARADISE LOST is a primal, electrifying, dirty and unapologetically life-affirming celebration of ennui and disillusion. Taraka's disheveled anthems fuse a combination of lo-fi opulence with ecstatic punk ritual, like the vivid visions of the disturbed daughter of Kate Bush and Johnny Rotten who drank ayahuasca at the gates of Warped Tour ’02. Welcome to Paradise Lost was conceived while Taraka (pronounced like maraca) was living in solitary confinement in a hot Texas gallery with a live serpent in an attempt to return to a pre-internet Eden. She was without a band, without a label, without a future, and had vowed never to make music again. Disenchanted with the world, she sat in her trashed simulated Garden of Eden smoking mapacho and listening to old school punk, grunge, and obscure psych records that excited her as a teenager in a small redneck town, learning to skateboard and discovering her first power chord. One night she picked up an electric guitar and hit record. The songs started pouring out-- pep rallies for total failure, hymns to binary code, love songs to walls-- most recorded in one take, sometimes as she was channeling them in order to capture that primordial electricity of creation, a feeling of “making out under the bleachers with infinity.” Her pals Ryan Sciaino (Spank Rock, Prince Rama, Win Win) and Tim Koh (Gang Gang Dance, Conan Mockasin, Haunted Graffiti) later helped flesh them out, pimp them up, and eventually Welcome to Paradise Lost took form like the intricate layers of a fucked up Bosch painting, or collaged jingles for a lost 1970s cult children’s TV show that split off via the mandela effect. Taraka realized perhaps paradise is nothing but another empty societal construction-- a mirage-like prison of perfection-- and the moment it is lost, we are left with the glow of some inner forgotten freedom. The kind of freedom once found in the piss puddles of a Beatles concert or the face of Buddha winking inside the mud of a fossilized Dr. Martens footprint in an abandoned mosh pit. There is a playfulness here, but a lurking poetry as well. Some of the first lines of the album begin with the fall of humankind: “I ate forbidden fruits and with their seeds I grew a silhouette…” and maybe this is where the magic of Welcome to Paradise Lost truly begins; not some shallow resurrection of past nostalgia, but a dangerous and sometimes absurd spiritual quest for freedom, rebellion, and that awkwardly honest place within us all that defies logic and authority so urgently needed right now."		0:32:57 (Pop-up)
Blonde Elvis	The Gardener "The Gardener" by "Blonde Elvis"	On Humility (Unreleased)	Unreleased	Unreleased	Also of various projects such as: Body Rot, Catholic Wilt, Young Mother, etc. In addition to this, "Jesse started volunteering at drop-in centers in his free time by cooking vegetarian meals for people in need. Once the pandemic hit, he had more time to get the word out and collect donations to fund meals. Now, he’s created an entire network to arrange donations with drop-in centers and encampments across the city, and coordinate drivers to deliver meals that have been cooked at Vit Beo, a Vietnamese restaurant owned by his friend David Hyunh." Quote from Jesse: "I started doing it because of the increasing precariousness of housing and the rising expense of living in Toronto. It came to my attention that much of the food being donated to drop-in centers was of very low quality and contained very little in the way of nutrients in the form of vegetables. Initially, I was cooking the food out of my own kitchen, which was difficult. Once I got involved with Dave at Vit Beo, we expanded into cooking some meat dishes at the request of the places we were donating to. The goal is still to always make a healthy, full meal. But we also make comfort food, because everyone deserves that once in a while as well." As for his music: Blonde Elvis (Bandcamp)	*	0:36:24 (Pop-up)
Weird Nightmare	Nibs "Nibs" by "Weird Nightmare"	Weird Nightmare	Sub Pop	2022	"“So Far Gone,” the latest track from Weird Nightmare, the electrifying new project from METZ guitarist and singer Alex Edkins is now available for your listening pleasure on all digital service providers. The single is an exuberant blast of fun-as-hell, melodic indie rock that mixes equal parts Replacements, Teenage Fanclub, and Edkins’ own METZ-ian snarl." Weird Nightmare (Bandcamp)		0:38:30 (Pop-up)
Uh Huh	Somewhere Beyond "Somewhere Beyond" by "Uh Huh"	Somewhere Beyond (Single)	Telephone Explosion	2022	Released Dec 5, 2022. Toronto's Teenanger swap instruments, reshape themselves, rename themselves & offer up a new single with more to come. UH HUH: Melissa Ball, Jonathon Schouten, Steve Sidoli, Chris Swimmings LIVE PERCUSSION: Blake Howard RECORDED & MIXED: Studio Z, Toronto, Canada, 2022 RECORDED & PRODUCED: Steve Sidoli and Jonathon Schouten MIXED: David Plowman MASTERED: East End Mastering, Toronto, Canada Uh Huh (Bandcamp)	*	0:41:28 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Afrorack	African Drum Machine "African Drum Machine" by "Afrorack"	The Afrorack	Hakuna Kulala	2022	""For a human being to be fully functional, it has to have a brain that's working and eyes and ears and arms," says Ugandan synth builder and producer Brian Bamanya, aka Afrorack. "Which is the same with the modular synthesizer: you have an oscillator, a VCA and all these envelopes. For it to create something meaningful, everything has to work together to create harmony." //// Bamanya is responsible for building Africa's first DIY modular synthesizer, a huge wall of home-made modules and FX units that he dubbed, fittingly, The Afrorack. His reason for embarking on this difficult project was simple: as he began to investigate the world of modular synthesizers, he realized it would be difficult to acquire the technology in Uganda. Not only were there relatively few retailers across the whole of Africa, but the modules were often prohibitively expensive. After quick search online, Bamanya realized he could easily download circuit diagrams and buy the required parts locally, so he taught himself electronics and constructed a CV-controlled system that's been evolving ever since. //// "The Afrorack" is Bamanya's debut album and displays the producer's untethered creativity and restless energy. He's all too aware that these modules were developed with European and American musical styles in mind, so developed his own musical methodology and language to coax the system into suiting his needs. His starting points are often abstractions of acid and techno, but Bamanya curves East African rhythms and different scales into these familiar structures, splintering them into fractal shards. "I believe Africa is at that point where people are getting new tools which were not available to them, and then experimenting with them in a different context, because Africa has its own traditional music," he told Pan African Music back in 2019. //// This attitude is most evident on 'African Drum Machine', where Bamanya uses a Euclidean rhythm sequencer to divide his CV signals into complex algorithmic patterns that mimic the polyrhythmic structures that exist in many East African musical forms. If you're not listening closely it might sound like 4/4 techno, but focus your attention and you'll hear different layers of drums and jagged oscillators bouncing between each other creating hypnotic new rhythms. Bamanya takes a similar approach on 'Why Serious', fuzzing dubby basslines and plasticky percussive sounds into a frenetic hybrid of abstract electronics and fwd-thinking East African club sounds." The Afrorack (Bandcamp)		0:46:34 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Afrorack	Osc "Osc" by "Afrorack"	The Afrorack	Hakuna Kulala	2022	"At times, Bamanya's meditative, bass-heavy compositions echo the psychedelic sounds of Shackleton or Adrian Sherwood's African Head Charge, particularly on tracks like 'Inspired' and 'Last Modular'. With lysergic tonal shifts and precision-engineered drums, both tracks sound defiantly metallic, but sculpted by a producer who's always completely in control as he introduces risky eccentricities like feline groans and videogame blips. And on less beat-heavy tracks like 'Osc' and 'Rev', Bamanya makes a conscious nod to the history of modular music, approaching the kosmische universe of Popol Vuh, Klaus Schulze and Emeralds, augmenting it with East Africa's idiosyncratic rhythmic intensity. "The Afrorack" is the beginning of a conversation that's been long overdue." The Afrorack (Bandcamp)		0:49:08 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Afrorack	Inspired "Inspired" by "Afrorack"	The Afrorack	Hakuna Kulala	2022	Label: HAKUNA KULALA Kampala, Ugand "Club explorations from the East African and Congolese Electronic Underground and beyond." The Afrorack (Bandcamp)		0:56:47 (Pop-up)
GENN	Rohmeresse "Rohmeresse" by "GENN"	Rohmeresse Single	GENN	2022	When one is in the netherworld between Christmas and New Year...one must give one's self over to the ending of one trip around the sun to the new beginning. Fuck it. I don't want to go anywhere. I want to stay in all day. I don't want to wear pants. It's all a psychedelic meat, cheese and chocolate sweats for 7 days. Genn are a A sisterhood of psychadelic (sic) textures based in Brighton. t’s a shape-shifting track that moves through the influences and locations of their collective upbringing. With the band’s mixed heritage, they’ve always had a collection of influences running through their veins and ‘Rohmeresse’ sets a scene for ĠENN’s ability to weave comfortably through an ever-moving cinematic landscape. On the song, vocalist Leona Farrugia said, “I’ve often felt a pressure running through everyday life: a pressure to be productive whilst being true to oneself. Modern life can be very dissociative and small tasks become a real burden to uphold. I wanted to capture these thoughts through the track, whereby these emotions gradually build to a point of ecstasy.” The track’s title nods to French new wave director Éric Rohmer,		0:58:20 (Pop-up)
Mandrake Handshake	Emonzaemon "Emonzaemon" by "Mandrake Handshake"	Emonzaemon Single	Glasshouse Records	2022	Is it KGATLZ? Is it Stereolab? No! It's Mandrake Handshake! “An expansive, ramshackle collective with a fine line in hypnotic slowburns...They ride gloriously sleek, machine-oiled psych grooves into the sunset.” They are from Oxford. They have many members. They cite alternative and psych music from the 90s, but in two differing forms. One pillar is the extremely high production and art-poppy style of British bands like Stereolab and Broadcast for their super intelligent and deliberate use of harmonies and rhythms. The other is the psych revival side of the 90s with BJM and the Spacemen 3 - their energy and live shows just seemed to have the perfect blend of druggy blurriness and total empowerment. They also like CAN.		1:03:14 (Pop-up)
The Nightingales	Sunlit Uplands (Turn That Frown Upside Down)	The Last Laugh	Tiny Global Productions	2022	Derek told me that they are the darlings of BBC 6 and Marc Riley,. Apparently Fall fans really like them and I can see why. They are "The misfits misfits" and enjoyed cult status in the early 1980s as darlings of the credible music scene and were championed by John Peel, who said of them – "Their performances will serve to confirm their excellence when we are far enough distanced from the 1980s to look at the period rationally and other, infinitely better known, bands stand revealed as charlatans". I fucking love that a band still makes music 40 years on as great as the day they started, even better, There is hope for us all.		1:07:18 (Pop-up)
NOT THE TWOS	HAHA "HAHA" by "NOT THE TWOS"	HAHA (Single)	Fire Pink	2022	They are Kendrick Lamar's new favourite artist and producer. I don't care much for Kendrick Lamar but I sure love this band. NOT THE TWOS is Chicago's Tim Maxey. He is a one man band, motivated by "releasing songs that I don't want to see die on my computer". He loves movies ad the Beatles.		1:10:31 (Pop-up)
The Shifters	Work, Life, Gym, Etc.	Have A Cunning Plan	Trouble In Mind	2018	Recorded at (Australian legend) Al Montfort of Total ControlTerry’s home studio, “Have A Cunning Plan” ups the fidelity a bit, tempering the up-front crunch of their previous demoLP. The sonic space suits the band, allowing the unpretentious complexity of the songs & lyrics to generate the “oomph” rather than bludgeoning the listener with treble and feedback. Lyrics simultaneously celebrate and decry the banality of life, while also tackling larger issues of colonialism conservatism’s effects on society at large. On the surface, there’s no denying the band owe a heavy debt to The Fall, but whatever seeds were planted by the late, great Mark E. Smith, have gestated into an animal all their own.		1:12:50 (Pop-up)
Rearranged Face	Chin Brute "Chin Brute" by "Rearranged Face"	A Rare Caged Fern	Tomothy Records	2021	While Rearranged Face has some of the superficial trappings of egg punk (like jittery rhythms and mutated rock and roll riffing), A Rare Caged Fern is too unique to sum up with a simple genre description. Rearranged Face builds songs around catchy, repetitive riffs, but spice things up with weird sci-fi noises, a yelpy vocalist, and jammed-out parts that edge into Can territory. DEVO, Suburban Lawns, Uranium Club fans will also find something to grab your ears....		1:15:20 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Residents	Santa Dog For Gamelan Orchestra	Dot.Com RE	Klangalerie	2017	Dot.Com is an album released by avant rock musicians, The Residents, in 2000. It was released in a limited edition of 1200 copies. In 2000, Ralph America collected all of the MP3s they had released on the Buy Or Die website on a CD entitled dot.com. Each MP3 is a never-before-released track from The Residents' history, dating from 1969 to 2000.		1:17:17 (Pop-up)
Jac Berrocalo, Vincent Epplay, David Fenech & Jah Wobble	Chapelle Ganache	Transcodex	Akuphone	2022	Feat. Jah Wobble on Electric Bass. +++ //// Bass, Rhythm Section, Electric Guitar, Bodhrán, Electric Bass, Sampler, Editor, Turntables, Mixed By, Recorded By – David Fenech //// Synthesizer, Sampler, Electric Bass, Rhythm Section, Electronics, Drum Machine, Flute, Field Recording, Editor, Percussion, Tape, Mixed By, Recorded By, Cover – Vincent Epplay //// Trumpet, Voice, Lyrics By, Harmonica – Jac Berrocal. --- "Jacques "Jac" Berrocal (born 22 October 1946, Saint-Jean d'Angély) is a French trumpeter, singer and composer. He has been active since the 1970s in the independent and avant-garde music scene, and has released many albums. He also founded and performed in the group Catalogue, and has collaborated with Ron Anderson. Berrocal has appeared in several films."		1:26:44 (Pop-up)
Hitomi Moriwaki	Song For My English Lesson	Subtropic Cosmos	Guruguru Brain	2022	"Hitomi Moriwaki is a multidisciplinary artist working with a wide range of mediums besides music, including: magazines, ceramics, digital art, and animation." -- "Subtropic Cosmos is the international debut album by Japanese artist Hitomi Moriwaki. Composed and recorded at her Fukuoka home during the worldwide pandemic between 2020-2022, the album was produced by Hideki Urawa, who has also worked with Kikagaku Moyo and other musical acts on Guruguru Brain. "Subtropic Cosmos" in particular is a wonderful work that conveys the "joy of making things" to listeners, as it is filled with various influences from her diverse activities. As suggested by the album title, most of the songs were created under the unprecedented conditions of corona--and as a result, were inspired by the consciousness of traveling through imaginary foreign lands and nature. As if adventuring through the universe inside of her own mind, Moriwaki's versatility is best experienced through her fearless fusion of hip-hop, pop and experimental music. Through a lens of psychedelic production by Hideki Urawa, this album is a truly special, one-of-a-kind space experience for listeners to enjoy and embark upon. Released September 2, 2022. All songs written by Hitomi Moriwaki .Recorded in my room, Fukouka, Japan (2020 November - 2021 March)""		1:30:14 (Pop-up)
Jane Weaver	Oblique Fantasy "Oblique Fantasy" by "Jane Weaver"	Oblique Fantasy	Speedy Wunderground	2022	"Jane Louise Weaver (born 28 February 1972) is an English singer, songwriter, and guitarist. She runs the label Bird Records, an offshoot of Twisted Nerve Records. Weaver has performed as part of the Britpop group Kill Laura, the folktronica project Misty Dixon, and as a solo artist. She was brought up in the town of Widnes, Cheshire."		1:31:02 (Pop-up)
Prolapse	Broken Cormorant (Peel Session)	Prolapse - John Peel Session 20.08.94	Precious Recordings	1994 / 2022	"On vinyl for the fist time, this is Prolapse's spectacular debut session for John Peel, featuring divergent versions of a couple of classics and the previously unreleased 'Broken Cormorant', the subject of much debate among devotees down the years." Further to this point, you can find an excellent blog post (apparently the author joined Tumblr specifically to talk about this song alone) about this song here: Tumblr Post about this song You can also find Prolapse's page here: Prolapse Bandcamp -- ""Me and Scottish Mick were going out for some of the time, not going out for the rest of the time. If we hadn’t been in a relationship we might have sounded exactly the same but I suspect not." —Linda Steelyard, interviewed about Prolapse in 2007. //// (Mick Derrick adds later in the interview, “The lyrics were by and large improvised, to the point where if we did live radio we would make up a song from scratch.”)" -- Lastly, good news, they have been touring and playing again after decades away! We're hoping for a new album...		1:36:32 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Colin Newman	Fish 12 "Fish 12" by "Colin Newman"	Provisionally Entitled The Singing Fish (Deluxe)	Sentient Sonics	1981 / 2016	From the desk of Meep Moop: "A DOZEN FISHES!!!!!" From the desk of Derek: Last fish of the album.		1:41:39 (Pop-up)
Total Control	Flesh War "Flesh War" by "Total Control"	Typical System	Iron Lung Records	2014	Total Control are five Melbourne men dead-set on pumping life into the spiritual tradition of post-punk exploration with little regard for sonic congruity. Ghosts of new wave's past audibly haunt these songs, and "Flesh War" is Typical System's most straightforward take on that sound. It's the widescreen, mechanical-sounding focal point, with synths soaring soft enough to rest your head on without worrying about getting clawed in the face. But it's not mere retro-styling. "Flesh War" looks for what's left in the endless possibilities of post-punk and says something real through it. "Flesh War" sounds like commentary on life under the relentless watch of overlords—further proof that electronic pop can be just as subversive as throat-shredding rock and roll.		1:45:28 (Pop-up)
19 Gadi Pirms Sākuma	Ruhig "Ruhig" by "19 Gadi Pirms Sākuma"	19 Gadi Pirms Sākuma	Approximate Art Agency	1989	"Sometimes our own creations surprised us," says Inguna Rubene, flute player, guitarist, bassoonist, and songwriter for 19 Gadi Pirms Sākuma (19 Years Before the Beginning). Created with the idea of lasting for a single performance, 19 Gadi Pirms Sākuma developed into one of the most delicate, intriguing groups in Latvia's 1980s and early 1990s music scene. Formed in 1988, the band arrived at a time when the Soviet Union was showing the first signs of unravelling. "19 Gadi Pirms Sākuma started because we wanted to prepare a musical program for an exhibition organized by Hardijs Lediņs, Juris Boiko [both from the band/performance collective NSRD] and other avant-garde artists at the Aizrobezu Art Museum [now the Art Museum of Riga Bourse]. It could have remained as a one-time musical project if it were not for two journalists from West Berlin who were at the exhibition," Rubene reveals. The band quickly recorded an album in their apartment, Listening to it now, the frantic synths, percussion and Rubene's vocal reveal the urgency of the time. Seemingly disparate acoustic and synthetic sounds orchestrated into swooning, surreal songs. Elements of minimalism combined with synth pop and echoes of folk melodicism.		1:50:07 (Pop-up)
Sweet Baboo	Hopeless "Hopeless" by "Sweet Baboo"	Horticulture EP	Amazing Tapes From Canton	2022	Stephen Black, better known by his stage name Sweet Baboo, is a Welsh musician. Before becoming a solo artist, he played with the band JT MOuse. e is close friends with fellow musicians Cate Le Bon and H. Hawkline and often performs in their accompanying bands, and has also performed with and produced Euros Childs, The Pictish Trail, The Voluntary Butler Scheme and Islet, and collaborated with Gruff Rhys. This song is amazing and it's such an earworm in a most pleasant Stereolab way and he totally admits it gleefully.		1:53:51 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Claude Dupras	I''d Like To Teach The World To Sing	Claude Dupras	Yamaha – PH 91079	1977	This is a demonstration album for the Yamaha Electone Organ. In their promotional material, Yamaha advertises this as "The Electone allows you to create and enjoy those moments when music resonates with your emotions, and then to share the inspiration with your friends."		1:57:10 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Claude Dupras	Isn't She Lovely "Isn't She Lovely" by "Claude Dupras"	Claude Dupras	Yamaha – PH 91079	1977			1:58:26 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Claude Dupras	Southern Nights "Southern Nights" by "Claude Dupras"	Claude Dupras	Yamaha – PH 91079	1977			2:00:28 (Pop-up)
Legendary Pink Dots	The Eternal Optimist	The Legendary Pink Dots' Christmas Special 2022	Self Released (Bandcamp)	2022	"Ice on the road, snow on the grass, Slade on the radio, red and white hats at the supermarket. Yup, everybody is doing his or her best to look cheerful despite it all... "The Eternal Optimist" was actually performed live on the final day of The Dots' Post Pandemic Tour of North America but It seemed fitting to create a studio interpretation of a piece about hope regardless of the circumstances at the end of such a dark year. 2022 has but a few days left...I reckon it has long outstayed its welcome." Legendary Pink Dots (Bandcamp)	*	2:02:55 (Pop-up)

Listener comments!
	♥ 7:50pm DJ Babs: Hello Dear Beachers! Ready for the last TFEB of 2022!? We are! :-)
	🏝 ♥ 8:00pm Derek Westerholm: Hello all!
	🏝 ♥ 8:00pm ultradamno: Babs! Derek! Beach Bums!
	🏝 ♥ 8:01pm Feldy: Hello Babs and Derek!
	♥ 8:02pm Krys O.: Hiya!
	8:02pm TroyD8: Hey all!
	🏝 ♥ 8:03pm ultradamno: Better than slurpee seconds, you don't want those used...
	🏝 ♥ 8:04pm Derek Westerholm: Ultra, Feldy, Krys O, Troy, hello hello hello!!!
	🏝 ♥ 8:04pm WR: I had left overs for dinner tonight. I was better the 2nd tine around because, ya know, always gotta add something extra to it.
	♥ 8:04pm DJ Babs: Hi UD! Hi Troy, Feldy! Krys!! How are you all doin' tonight?!
	🏝 ♥ 8:05pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ ultradamno @8:03 MMM... Slurpee seconds.
	🏝 ♥ 8:05pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ WR @8:04 Leftovers are never a sad thing in my world.
	♥ 8:05pm DJ Babs: Hi WR!
	♥ 8:06pm DJ Babs: We are almost done all the leftovers! I made turkey stew last night.
	♥ 8:06pm DJ Babs: We are coming in with a bang tonight lol
	🏝 ♥ 8:08pm Derek Westerholm: So what's on everyone's menu tonight... We had Tofu, Veggies (Kale/Beettops), Rice, Sesame seeds & oil, Soy Sauce.
	8:09pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: Hey Babs…Derek…Beachers…
	♥ 8:10pm DJ Babs: Heya YPB!!! Great to see ya here tonight!!
	8:10pm TroyD8: Sounds delicious Derek! We are having leftover shrimp 🦐 pasta
	🏝 ♥ 8:10pm Derek Westerholm: Hello YPB, WR, lovely to see more ppl on the beach before it closes for the year.
	♥ 8:10pm DJ Babs: Nice! Yes after three days of turkey and turkey related things I needed some tofu and steamed greens lol,
	♥ 8:11pm DJ Babs: I have not given up my wine tho!
	8:11pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: How could I miss the last visit to the beach before 2023 hits?
	♥ 8:12pm DJ Babs: 'Tis true! I hope everyone had a great christmas/holiday/celebration/non celebration!
	🏝 ♥ 8:12pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ TroyD8 @8:10 Mmm... Shrimp Pasta! Sounds divine! (Deveined?) Yes, the tofu/veggie mix was delightful.
	8:13pm TroyD8: ↳ Song: "Marihuana" by "Prettiest Eyes" This has a bit of an Atari Teenage Riot vibe. Love it.
	8:13pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: Whoa!!! This is so good.
	♥ 8:13pm DJ Babs: Yes that Prettiest Eyes is quite something else! I must get that whole record!
	♥ 8:14pm DJ Babs: I have come to accept that everything on Castle Face is worth owning
	♥ 8:15pm Kristine: Hi frenz!
	♥ 8:15pm DJ Babs: Hi Kristine!!!! Nice to see ya! I have programmed something special for yas tonight!!! ;-)
	♥ 8:16pm DJ Babs: Did Santa bring anyone any great new music?
	♥ 8:16pm Tome: hiya Derek and Babs great show , bangin' !<>!
	♥ 8:16pm Kristine: ↳ Derek Westerholm @8:05 awww niiiiccee! lemme guess, falco?
	♥ 8:17pm DJ Babs: Hi tome welcome welcome! Thank you!!
	🏝 ♥ 8:17pm gsdoubleu: Yes! Keith Levene Search For Absolute Zero ;)
	8:17pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: ↳ DJ Babs @8:16 If by Santa, you mean me, yes indeed. 😂
	♥ 8:17pm Kristine: i didnt get any music, but looking forward to a couple of good shows in the next month!
	🏝 ♥ 8:19pm ultradamno: Jesus Claus twitter.com...
	♥ 8:20pm Kristine: i get sweaty palms only when i see movies with climbing. like Cliffhanger
	🏝 ♥ 8:20pm Derek Westerholm: Hello Kristine! Hello Tome! Hello GSuu!
	8:21pm TroyD8: ↳ Derek Westerholm @8:12 Always deveined 🤟🏻
	🏝 ♥ 8:22pm ultradamno: So this isn't a Flipper cover?
	♥ 8:24pm DJ Babs: ↳ ultradamno @8:22 It could be!?
	♥ 8:25pm DJ Babs: ↳ gsdoubleu @8:17 Ha! GS! I also got some great Yamaha Organ music aaand a killer 90's comp from a lovely person in my life!!!
	♥ 8:26pm DJ Babs: ↳ ultradamno @8:19 lol
	8:26pm TroyD8: ↳ Song: "Ibiza" by "The Prodigy, Sleaford Mods" Bam!💥
	♥ 8:26pm DJ Babs: Kristine what shows are you going to? We have tickets to Ride/Charlatans and Viagra Boys coming up!!!
	🏝 ♥ 8:26pm ultradamno: ↳ DJ Babs @8:24 Dreams left empty and blank and legs that that have ceased to walk...
	♥ 8:27pm DJ Babs: Troy that tune was a bnager!!!
	♥ 8:28pm Kristine: ahhh i wanted a ticket to viagra but they sold out...found out too late! I am going to Dry Cleaning and to Charlotte Cornfield.
	♥ 8:28pm DJ Babs: I also got a lovely lovely painting from Derek done by none other than Your Pretend Boyfriend! And an amaaazing holiday decoration that is a glass snowman filled with glitter that lights up and is sooooo trippy and awesome. I've spent the last three night watching it for hours lol
	8:28pm TroyD8: ↳ DJ Babs @8:27 Fan of both groups but never heard this banger!
	🏝 ♥ 8:29pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "Mark E Smith's Still Doing The Fall" by "Here Are... This is kind of like Monster Mash but with punks instead of all the monsters
	♥ 8:30pm DJ Babs: ↳ ultradamno @8:29 I very much enjoyed that selection!
	8:30pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: ↳ DJ Babs @8:28 😊
	♥ 8:30pm DJ Babs: ↳ Kristine @8:28 oooh Dry Cleaning! I finally figured out Dry Cleaning this year!!!
	🏝 ♥ 8:31pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Your Pretend Boyfriend @8:30 Studio much brighter!
	♥ 8:31pm Kristine: yes. Jan 11!
	8:32pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: ↳ Derek Westerholm @8:31 Can’t wait to see!!! 🔆🔅
	🏝 ♥ 8:32pm Scott67: G'day Babs, Derek & Beached! Just been out dealing with my overgrown front yard, to meet fire season regulations. But too fucken hot out there now. Time for cool tunes & cold beer with mates. 🌏☀️🍻😎🤙💨🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺
	♥ 8:32pm DJ Babs: Where are they playing?
	🏝 ♥ 8:32pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ ultradamno @8:29 Haha... Nicely observed!
	♥ 8:32pm DJ Babs: Hello Hello Scott! Welcome welcome! Yes, please be fire ready!
	🏝 ♥ 8:33pm Derek Westerholm: Hello Scott! Yes, take refuge! Here's some guit. feedback fer ya.
	♥ 8:33pm Kristine: The Phoenix!
	8:34pm Mr Fab: Yo, BabsDerek! I’m back and I’m proud. No music gifts but a long-overdue pair of noise-cancelling headphones. Trains, planes, shop muzak: you have been defeated.
	🏝 ♥ 8:34pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Mr Fab @8:34 And rightfully so! Hello Fab!
	♥ 8:35pm Kristine: ohh boy this taraka track!
	🏝 ♥ 8:36pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Kristine @8:35 Crazy, huh?! Did you like Prince Rama? Wild stuff.
	♥ 8:36pm DJ Babs: Haha Mr Fab ...Silence is Golden at times to be sure!!!
	🏝 ♥ 8:36pm Alli B: Hi kiddos!
	🏝 ♥ 8:36pm gsdoubleu: Yes this is a great track!
	🏝 ♥ 8:36pm Derek Westerholm: Hello AlliB!!!!
	🏝 ♥ 8:37pm gsdoubleu: Hi Alli!
	🏝 ♥ 8:37pm ultradamno: ↳ Derek Westerholm @8:36 Raccoons didn't like them, as I recall.
	🏝 ♥ 8:37pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ gsdoubleu @8:36 Just goes to show what happens when you start living with snakes...
	♥ 8:38pm Kristine: aw yeah blonde elvis!! i think he is playing a show soon?
	♥ 8:38pm Rich in Washington: Hi Babs N' Derek! I'm on vacay, so can listen and comment freely this week!
	🏝 ♥ 8:38pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Kristine @8:38 I hope so! He's been touring w/ another band lately. Happy to see him busy & doing so much. Jesse is a sweetheart!
	🏝 ♥ 8:39pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Rich in Washington @8:38 Hello Rich! So great to have so much chat-time w. you this wk!
	♥ 8:39pm DJ Babs: Hello Hello Rich! So lovely to see you! Vacation is SO SO nice! It's been great to be able to catch up on the streams!
	♥ 8:39pm Kristine: yes, catholic wilt is playing with craig dunsmuirs dun dun band on jan 10 at the tranzac.
	🏝 ♥ 8:40pm ultradamno: ↳ ultradamno @8:37 Of course, those were NYC procyonids, tough critics.
	♥ 8:40pm DJ Babs: oh we should go to that!!!!
	🏝 ♥ 8:40pm Derek Westerholm: I've been meaning to see Craig's DunDun band for forever now... Should be a great show!
	♥ 8:40pm DJ Babs: I also hear that a very funny comedian by the name of gsdoubleu is playing tomorrow night!!!
	8:41pm shellioh: hey guys!!! ❤️❤️❤️
	🏝 ♥ 8:41pm Derek Westerholm: Shelli! Hello!
	♥ 8:41pm DJ Babs: Shellliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii yay!!!!
	8:41pm shellioh: so excited to catch it tonight!!!
	8:41pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: I enjoy WN. 🖤
	♥ 8:42pm DJ Babs: lovely to have your with us!!!!!
	🏝 ♥ 8:42pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ ultradamno @8:40 Looks up "Procyonidae"... Appreciates the specificity
	8:42pm shellioh: ❤️❤️❤️
	♥ 8:44pm DJ Babs: sooo everyone feeling good about leaving 2022 behind and jumping into 2023?
	🏝 ♥ 8:44pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ DJ Babs @8:44 YES!!!!!
	♥ 8:44pm DJ Babs: lol thanks Derek.
	8:45pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: ↳ DJ Babs @8:44 Yesssss! Later 2022…
	🏝 ♥ 8:45pm ultradamno: I am excited to see how much worse it can get.
	♥ 8:45pm Kristine: hahah
	🏝 ♥ 8:45pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ ultradamno @8:45 lol
	8:45pm Mr Fab: ↳ Rich in Washington @8:38 Ha, complete opposite for me, cut off from internet service on my sea voyage. And I was quite ok with it. I worry a bit about Sheena’s in these situations like a parent who’s left their kids with a sitter, but otherwise I was quite ok with going on an internet fast. (I read an actual BOOK. Highly recommended, btw, everyone should try it)
	♥ 8:45pm DJ Babs: hahaha! It certainly had its ups and downs let's say...but overall better than 2021?
	🏝 ♥ 8:46pm ultradamno: The image I chose for the question of what my energy going into the new year is twitter.com...
	🏝 ♥ 8:46pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Mr Fab @8:45 B-o-o-k-???
	♥ 8:46pm DJ Babs: ↳ Mr Fab @8:45 Fab that sounds delightful! And yes we missed you! and yes...BOOKS. Actual BOOKS
	♥ 8:46pm DJ Babs: ↳ ultradamno @8:46 Mine energy is BRING ON THE BULLSHIT! LOL
	♥ 8:47pm DJ Babs: My company announced we're going into a merger in 2023...that will be...uhhh...fun?
	♥ 8:47pm DJ Babs: But my 2023 energy is also FUCK WORK IT'S JUST A JOB
	♥ 8:47pm Barno in Akron: Hi Mr Fab, I hope you're having a wonderful vacation
	8:47pm Mr Fab: ↳ DJ Babs @8:45 Oh HECK yeah, anytime was better than that unholy year. Not too much to complain about this past year. Back to (ab)normal.
	♥ 8:47pm Kristine: ack babs!
	🏝 ♥ 8:48pm ultradamno: I have to assume the Italia 90 album will be released at some point, so there's that to look forward to...and M3gan
	8:48pm TroyD8: ↳ Song: "African Drum Machine" by "Afrorack" Hakuna Kulala Rules!
	8:50pm RohanSJ: Hello everyone! (I just arrived.)
	🏝 ♥ 8:50pm ultradamno: Have you heard Huxley Boon's record from this year? He's also known as Richard Phoenix and was in Sauna Youth and Child's Pose and this stuff would have fit into that set nicely twinlakesburntbrain.bandcamp.com...
	♥ 8:50pm Kristine: not really sure what to expect after the spring...so it will be an interesting year!
	♥ 8:51pm DJ Babs: Hi Rohan! Welcome Welcome!!!
	♥ 8:52pm DJ Babs: Andyes UD, that Italia 90 album should be greeaaaaat! I have not heard the Huxley Boon...maybe Derek can comment on that!
	♥ 8:52pm Kristine: arent teenanger from hamilton?
	♥ 8:52pm DJ Babs: I think they may have been part of the Toronto exodus to Hamilton crew...
	🏝 ♥ 8:52pm ultradamno: ↳ ultradamno @8:50 And speaking of books, another Sauna Youth alum Jen Calleja has a novel coming out. prototypepublishing.co.uk...
	8:53pm RohanSJ: Hi Babs! And hi Derek!
	8:53pm RohanSJ: I am part of "the Toronto exodus to Hamilton crew", but I'm not a musician, to help balance things out
	♥ 8:54pm DJ Babs: So lovely to have you with us Rohan!!
	🏝 ♥ 8:57pm ultradamno: I didn't realize, or forgot, that the raccoons specifically targeted Takata. I expect she knows why. pitchfork.com...
	8:57pm RohanSJ: "Primordial electricty" sounds a lot nicer than "primordial ooze"
	8:58pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: Great sets tonight!!! ❤️❤️❤️
	♥ 9:00pm DJ Babs: Well thank you! We're only halfway there! This is definitely not a sloppy seconds show LOL
	9:00pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: ↳ DJ Babs @9:00 😂
	🏝 ♥ 9:02pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ RohanSJ @8:57 Rohan, agreed re: "Primordial electricity"... And hello!
	🏝 ♥ 9:03pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Your Pretend Boyfriend @8:58 Thanks YPB, glad you're enjoying! Maybe we should play the things we aren't getting around to playing more often, haha.
	9:04pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: Btw, this reply feature is 😎
	♥ 9:04pm DJ Babs: I quite enjoy it too! Now we just need a like and heart react!! LOL
	9:05pm RohanSJ: "Mandrake Handshake"? Potential theme idea: songs by bands who have rhyming names
	9:05pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: ↳ Derek Westerholm @9:03 I quite like the rejects pile .
	🏝 ♥ 9:06pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Kristine @8:52 Kristine, so far as I know, Teenanger have always been in Toronto. At least, they always rehearse/rehearsed here.
	♥ 9:06pm DJ Babs: Ohhh Rohan I like it!!!! I also love how this band seamlessly transitions from King Gizzard to Stereolab!!!
	♥ 9:06pm DJ Babs: Mandrake Handshake is SUCH a great band name!
	🏝 ♥ 9:07pm ultradamno: ↳ DJ Babs @9:06 Well, compared to King Gizzard & The Lizard Blizzard or whatever that is. Yeah.
	🏝 ♥ 9:08pm Derek Westerholm: "King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard" is the perfect example of a rhyming band, Babs... Nicely done to reference them after Rohan's suggested show focus.
	🏝 ♥ 9:09pm ultradamno: Just awful. Not since Captain Condoms has a band name so successfully put me off...
	♥ 9:09pm DJ Babs: ha! Yes, I think we definitely need to put that idea on the show list. Thank you Rohan!
	♥ 9:09pm DJ Babs: Lol the Gizz is not for everyone. Ihate to be that person but I tend to prefer their earlier output only...
	🏝 ♥ 9:09pm Alli B: That Mandrake Handshake song was 🔥🔥🔥 Seriously good band name!
	♥ 9:11pm DJ Babs: Hi ALLI!!! whee! Nice to have you with us tonite!!!
	9:12pm RohanSJ: Hi Alli!
	♥ 9:12pm DJ Babs: Sooo what's everyone got planned for NYE? Quiet evening at home? Raging in the club? Anarchy?
	🏝 ♥ 9:13pm ultradamno: Is it a rhyming band name if it's the same thing twice, like Rema Rema?
	9:13pm RohanSJ: ↳ ultradamno @9:13 Ooh, that could be another theme, but perhaps for a short show?
	♥ 9:15pm DJ Babs: That could also work. I would play all the Duran Duran then lol,.
	9:16pm RohanSJ: ↳ DJ Babs @9:12 My NYE will be at The Casbah here in Hamilton, Ontario, where the monthly "Risky Business" 80s dance party will be doing the NYE event
	♥ 9:16pm Kristine: no plans! just relaxing watching a movie probs.
	🏝 ♥ 9:17pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ RohanSJ @9:16 The Casbah is a great venue/club!
	♥ 9:17pm DJ Babs: Nice! I am also all 80's at the Piston...it will be a marathon 7 hour set but I'm ready for it!
	♥ 9:17pm DJ Babs: Kristine that sounds lovely!!!
	♥ 9:18pm DJ Babs: If I weren't DJing it would be a fondue and wine night!!!
	9:18pm RohanSJ: ↳ DJ Babs @9:17 7 hours!?! Very impressive!
	♥ 9:18pm DJ Babs: Kristine this one is for you!!
	♥ 9:18pm Kristine: oh riiiiiiiight! that would be amazing too. nice idea.
	9:18pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: ↳ DJ Babs @9:18 Mhmmm fondue!!!
	🏝 ♥ 9:18pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ ultradamno @9:09 Ultra, agreed, "Captain Condoms" is a terrible name.
	🏝 ♥ 9:18pm ultradamno: Santa Gamelan!
	♥ 9:19pm Kristine: love the gamelan!!!! ever since i went to Bali over ten years ago. fell in love!
	9:19pm RohanSJ: I'm fond of fondue
	🏝 ♥ 9:19pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Kristine @9:19 Oooo... You went to Bali?
	♥ 9:19pm Kristine: trying to imagine residents playing gamelan
	♥ 9:20pm Kristine: yup!!
	🏝 ♥ 9:20pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Kristine @9:19 Think eyeballs and tuxedos, I guess.
	♥ 9:20pm Kristine: Thank you that was lovely!
	🏝 ♥ 9:21pm ultradamno: I kind of think of Smelly Tongues as related to Fire in the word play ('has no presents in the future" "looked just as they felt" time and senses)
	🏝 ♥ 9:23pm ultradamno: Homer Flynn art johanssonprojects.com...
	🏝 ♥ 9:23pm Scott67: I thpught you said, "he loves boobies...!
	🏝 ♥ 9:26pm Scott67: & the Beatles".
	♥ 9:28pm DJ Babs: ↳ RohanSJ @9:19 Rohan what's your fondue favourite? Cheese or Meats?
	♥ 9:29pm DJ Babs: Personally I CANNOT CHOOSE ONE
	🏝 ♥ 9:30pm ultradamno: That's why they make frozen hamburger patties with the cheese inside.
	♥ 9:30pm Kristine: i used to do meat with fam all the time, then i turned vegetarian. cheese only for me. alex cheese at st. lawrence mkt has a good sounding fondue for sale. appenzeller mostly. might try it
	♥ 9:31pm Kristine: it is on sale, not just for sale
	🏝 ♥ 9:33pm Derek Westerholm: Must go to St. Lawrence Market soon... Been too long...
	♥ 9:33pm DJ Babs: oooh nice! Yeah, I do love both. I love the psychedelic cheese fondue dreams..that stuff always sends me on a trip LOL
	🏝 ♥ 9:34pm Scott67: I have more of a Fondue Fetish! At least a dozen of them from Thrift Stores over the years. I make all manner of meals in them, & never cheese. 🍻😎🤙🫕
	♥ 9:34pm DJ Babs: ahh scott you must share some of your recipes!!!!
	♥ 9:34pm Kristine: i go every year at xmas to buy fancy cheese and smoked salmon from the caviar guy in the basement.
	♥ 9:34pm DJ Babs: Kristine does your family make the crazy whipped cream ketchup rum sauce for meat fondue?
	♥ 9:35pm DJ Babs: I have to avoid the caviar guy otherwise I'm walking away with 100$ worth of Caviar.
	♥ 9:35pm DJ Babs: I have a caviar problem. Ask Derek.
	♥ 9:35pm Kristine: oh boy! that sounds like a hotmess combo babs! there were several, but not so sure about that one.
	🏝 ♥ 9:36pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ DJ Babs @9:35 Salty fish bubbles.
	♥ 9:36pm Kristine: yeah i think caviar is ...not for me.. but i spent about that on smoked salmon and trout!
	♥ 9:38pm Kristine: awwwwwwwww prolapse!
	🏝 ♥ 9:38pm ultradamno: It was... the cheese. The cheese was my undoing. This is the miracle of life melted over these chili fries. A bacterial flirtation with enzymes. The comingling of friendly microorganisms giving birth to curds and whey. "And from dust, he created the universe." - Wonderfalls
	♥ 9:38pm DJ Babs: oh god I love the little fish bubbles. A soft boiled egg and some caviar and I am IN HEAVEN. also St Lawrence market is super dangerous because I will eat ALL THE CHEESE. ALLLLLL THEEEE CHEEEEESE
	🏝 ♥ 9:39pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Kristine @9:38 Rare Prolapse! Peel-session only. Never officially released until this year.
	♥ 9:39pm Kristine: bought so much cheese!!!
	9:39pm RohanSJ: ↳ DJ Babs @9:28 Same: I cannot choose between the two fondues as a favourite.
	🏝 ♥ 9:39pm ultradamno: ↳ Kristine @9:36 I don't know that I've had cavier, I've had roe on sushi and didn't think much one way or the other
	♥ 9:41pm DJ Babs: It's true. Fondue is such a huge thing for me for the holidays and I've had NONE this year! Hopefully New Years Day we can do one!
	♥ 9:41pm DJ Babs: I finally got an electric fondue pot last year...LIFE CHANGING
	🏝 ♥ 9:42pm Scott67: I just cook anything you would cook in a one pot meal mate. From Curry Laksa to Cassoulet to Chilli....& on. Great for camping too, even make my espresso with the Moka Pot on the burner. ☕😎🤙🫕
	♥ 9:42pm Kristine: babs where did you get it?
	🏝 ♥ 9:42pm Derek Westerholm: Ah, a breakup song. But one that is actually happening live in real-time. Prolapse were fantastic. No one really made music like them.
	🏝 ♥ 9:45pm Scott67: I'm eating chunks of cheese on sour dough bread right now! & beer! 🍻😎🤙🧀🥖🍞
	🏝 ♥ 9:47pm Derek Westerholm: Scott, that sounds like a combo that can't be beaten
	♥ 9:47pm DJ Babs: ↳ Kristine @9:42 I ordered it from The Bay! It was very reasonably priced!!!
	♥ 9:48pm DJ Babs: No way Scott! I must try to do more things with mine!!!
	🏝 ♥ 9:48pm Scott67: ↳ DJ Babs @9:41 I like the off grid spirit burner Fondue sets. Great for blackouts, camping/ traveling, zombie apocalypse etc.🫕
	♥ 9:49pm DJ Babs: agreed. I was taught to respect the fondue fuel from an early age!!!
	♥ 9:49pm DJ Babs: also yes to all the chunks of bread. I love bread so much. just bread and butter is all I need.
	🏝 ♥ 9:50pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Scott67 @9:48 Scott, just be sure not to bbq brains during the Zombie Apocalypse.
	9:50pm RohanSJ: Is fondue fuel the same as Sterno, or different?
	🏝 ♥ 9:51pm Scott67: ↳ Derek Westerholm @9:50 Unless they're minced into the sausages mate.
	🏝 ♥ 9:51pm Alli B: This song tho 🔥🤌
	🏝 ♥ 9:52pm Scott67: Mentholated Spirits.
	♥ 9:52pm DJ Babs: I think it's the same.
	♥ 9:52pm DJ Babs: oh yeah...great story behind this band too!!!
	♥ 9:52pm DJ Babs: "ruhig" means "quiet"
	♥ 9:52pm DJ Babs: I called this set "Tryptophan Coma" LOL
	🏝 ♥ 9:53pm Scott67: *Methylated..
	🏝 ♥ 9:53pm ultradamno: OK, you really need to hear Bleak Engineers
	♥ 9:53pm Kristine: Derek found an interview with Mick and Linda, referencing bernard butler as shite and stealing his wine, imitating calvin johnson,
	♥ 9:53pm DJ Babs: We'd have to play Methyl Ethyl for the rhyming band name show!
	♥ 9:54pm Kristine: ink19.com...
	🏝 ♥ 9:55pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ RohanSJ @9:50 "Sterno is a brand of jellied, denatured alcohol sold in a can and meant to be burned directly in its can. Its primary uses are in food service for buffet heating, in the home for fondue, and as a chafing fuel for heating chafing dishes. Other uses are for portable stoves and as an emergency heat source."
	♥ 9:56pm DJ Babs: honestly I fucking love where these chats go LOL
	9:57pm RohanSJ: Thank you to the knowlegeable people here for the answers to my question of whether fondue fuel and Sterno are the same. An additional "other use" was demonstrated in the book + movie The Andromeda Strain, where being a Sterno drinker (some people do that) protected someone from death.
	🏝 ♥ 9:57pm Derek Westerholm: Our last song is going to spill over into your evening a bit if you hang in... but not too much longer...
	♥ 9:57pm DJ Babs: YES! And one should not drink Sterno...unless one is in the Andromeda Strain....
	🏝 ♥ 9:58pm Scott67: You use Denatured Alcohol, we call in Oz Methylated Spirits. & I call a crime against alcohol.
	🏝 ♥ 9:58pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ RohanSJ @9:57 Will be keeping Sterno drinking as a life preservation measure in mind for the future...
	9:59pm RohanSJ: I think Babs and Derek should now sing in perfect harmony
	🏝 ♥ 9:59pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ RohanSJ @9:59 Apparently not as easy as you would think...
	🏝 ♥ 10:00pm Scott67: Shit ! Over already! Thanks B & D!! Love you guys! 🌏☀️🍻😎🤙💨🍺🍺🫕🌻❤️❤️
	♥ 10:01pm Kristine: Thanks for the Gamelan Babs! Happy New Year!!
	♥ 10:02pm Rich in Washington: Thanks, Babs N' Derek! Wonderful show tonight! See you next year!
	♥ 10:02pm Kristine: happy transition transmissions!!
	10:03pm RohanSJ: Thank you Babs and Derek!! May the marathon 7-hour NYE DJ set go well (of course it will), and may you have an enjoyable New Year's Day!
	🏝 ♥ 10:04pm WR: What? Echo Beach party ending, 10PM ET already? THANK YOU!
	♥ 10:04pm DJ Babs: Thank you thank you all!!! Take care and we'll see you all in 2023!!! WHOOT WHOOT!!!
	10:05pm Mr Fab: Adieu to you too!
	♥ 10:05pm DJ Babs: Goodnight all! And THANK YOU! Thank you for being the most fun chat crew ever! <3
	🏝 ♥ 10:05pm ultradamno: I have said it before, but if Dairy Queen comes up with a King Lizard Blizzard to compete with the shamrock shake, I will buy it.
	🏝 ♥ 10:05pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ WR @10:04 Hang in there for another 10mins WR, haha.
	♥ 10:05pm Kristine: ultradammo LOL, I am with you!
	🏝 ♥ 10:06pm northguineahills: ↳ ultradamno @10:05 what about an eddie izzard in king lizard blizzard?
	🏝 ♥ 10:06pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ ultradamno @10:05 Ultra, Kristine; +3
	🏝 ♥ 10:06pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ northguineahills @10:06 Northguineahills, hello! Nice entrance!!!
	🏝 ♥ 10:07pm ultradamno: Eddie doing an endorsement would work
	🏝 ♥ 10:07pm northguineahills: last month, the Legendary Pink Dots came to Orlando, and I had no idea. I've never seen them live. I'm still inconsolable....
	🏝 ♥ 10:08pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ northguineahills @10:07 Oh, NGH... I've seen them twice, 1999-ish & this year on my 50th birthday! Both excellent (though very different) shows. We're hoping to interview Edward Ka-Spel in 2023...
	🏝 ♥ 10:09pm northguineahills: ↳ Derek Westerholm @10:08 "interview edward ka-spel" oh please, oh please, oh please!!!
	🏝 ♥ 10:10pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ northguineahills @10:09 He has agreed, we just need to find a time & make it happen. I hope you see him/them soon!
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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Music behind DJ: Sounds Of The Ocean	Beach Sounds "Beach Sounds" by "Sounds Of The Ocean"	Ocean Sounds	Sounds Of The Ocean	2016			0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Shelf Lives	Fighting That Bitch "Fighting That Bitch" by "Shelf Lives"	Yes, Offence	Not Sorry Mom Records	2022	Clench your fists and raise them to the sky! We played Shelf Lives two episodes ago but this song needs to be played. Loudly. Shelf Lives are vocalist Sabrina and guitarist/producer Jonny, originating from Toronto, Canada and Northampton in the UK. They describe the album as 'a reflection of a broken society verging on the edge of cultureless, all while wearing a party hat' THEY ARE FROM MY HOMETOWN AND THIS MAKES ME VERY HAPPY.		0:02:33 (Pop-up)
Chalk	Velodrome "Velodrome" by "Chalk"	Velodrome Single	Dutch Tilt	2022	Gushing with angst and the thrilling musicianship of Chalk, ‘Velodrome’ is a mammoth-sounding blast to the ears. The tune spirals in an intoxicating soundscape of shrilling guitars pummeling drums and acid-baked fury. Chalk are from Ireland. They remind us of Gilla Band...a bit. They are furious and relentless, all the things we like.		0:05:29 (Pop-up)
Prettiest Eyes	Marihuana "Marihuana" by "Prettiest Eyes"	Vol 3.	Castle Face	2019	once you’ve become accustomed to their clanging synthetic orbit, it’s hard to find other tunes that truly scratch the same itch. Volume 3 bursts at the seams with chrome-dipped timbres and surprise sharp edges, alien klaxon-calls and wailing dissonance offsetting the ziplock’d grease of their insistent drum and bass grooves. Prettiest Eyes are one of the most exciting live bands going on right now...I would love to see them.		0:08:38 (Pop-up)
Sweaty Palms	Wading In The Mud "Wading In The Mud" by "Sweaty Palms"	The Pursuit Of Novelty	Sweaty Palms	2022	Sweaty Palms are an energetic four-piece post-punk band from the Southside of Glasgow who admit their music is inspired by drug-fuelled anxiety. “It's probably because we're all very anxious people. I've got sweaty palms right now,” confides band member Robbie. “I wrote a song called Sweaty Palms, but we were known as The Sweats first. We were in between the two names until last week or something, until we were forced to choose...We all came together with a mutual interest in inciting anger, fear and any other complex emotions in a nation of empty vessels, staring into an endless void on their iPhones,” There is shockingly little hype on the interweb about a band that's this fucking good!		0:10:50 (Pop-up)
WOOZE	Witch Slap (IOU) "Witch Slap (IOU)" by "WOOZE"	Witch Slap (IOU) Single	Young Poet Records	2021	One of our favourite discoveries of this year...WOOZE bring a gothic, harder edge with Bowie-esque glammy goth vibes. They love the colour yellow. They have a singing drummer. They are British/Korean. Wooze is named after a phonetic translation of 'space' in Korean - 우주 They are excellent.		0:13:39 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Charles Stepney	Daddy's Diddies "Daddy's Diddies" by "Charles Stepney"	Step On Step	International Anthem	2022	Charles Stepney was an American record producer, arranger, songwriter and musician. Stepney is noted for his work with artists such as The Dells, Ramsey Lewis, Rotary Connection and Earth, Wind & Fire. He started his musical career as a jazz piano and vibraphone player, and began work for Chess Records as a musician and arranger. He was a goddamn genius.		0:16:03 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Charles Stepney	That's the Way Of The World	Step On Step	International Anthem	2022			0:17:55 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Charles Stepney	Around The House "Around The House" by "Charles Stepney"	Step On Step	International Anthem	2022			0:22:23 (Pop-up)
The Prodigy, Sleaford Mods	Ibiza "Ibiza" by "The Prodigy, Sleaford Mods"	The Day Is My Enemy	Cooking Vinyl	2015	Prodigy & Sleaford Mods together? This happened??!! 7 years ago???!!! Jason Williamson is quietly (loudly?) becoming a prolific collaborator. This is good for the world, in my estimation.		0:22:52 (Pop-up)
Here Are The Young Men & Uncle Peanut	Mark E Smith's Still Doing The Fall	This Is the Standard Life	Musical Bear Records	2017	Seems this was first in the world as early as Nov 23, 2015; when Mark E. Smith was, indeed, still doing The Fall. HERE ARE THE YOUNG MEN & UNCLE PEANUT - MARK E. SMITH'S STILL DOING THE FALL (YouTube)		0:25:38 (Pop-up)
Lewsberg	Six Hills "Six Hills" by "Lewsberg"	Six Hills	Speedy Wunderground	2022	"“Rotterdam’s Lewsberg are one of the more interesting bands to come out of a city currently enjoying something of an alternative musical renaissance. Lewsberg are exponents of a measured, arty-but-inquisitive sound that is slightly at odds with the brazen racket made by the likes of their city peers. Those who dig ‘The Gift’ by the Velvet Underground or that very early Modern Lovers sound will surely be drawn to this.” — Louder Than War"		0:27:10 (Pop-up)
Taraka	Psychocastle "Psychocastle" by "Taraka"	Welcome to Paradise Lost	Rage Peace Records	2021	"Since the breakup of the legendary underground cult duo Prince Rama, former front-woman Taraka has thrown herself headlong into the dark existential world of her “inner teenager," merging bastard elements of outsider-psych, post-edenic grunge, kaleidoscopic punk and post-adolescent angst to create her debut solo album. A departure from Prince Rama’s sparkly dance-pop sound, WELCOME TO PARADISE LOST is a primal, electrifying, dirty and unapologetically life-affirming celebration of ennui and disillusion. Taraka's disheveled anthems fuse a combination of lo-fi opulence with ecstatic punk ritual, like the vivid visions of the disturbed daughter of Kate Bush and Johnny Rotten who drank ayahuasca at the gates of Warped Tour ’02. Welcome to Paradise Lost was conceived while Taraka (pronounced like maraca) was living in solitary confinement in a hot Texas gallery with a live serpent in an attempt to return to a pre-internet Eden. She was without a band, without a label, without a future, and had vowed never to make music again. Disenchanted with the world, she sat in her trashed simulated Garden of Eden smoking mapacho and listening to old school punk, grunge, and obscure psych records that excited her as a teenager in a small redneck town, learning to skateboard and discovering her first power chord. One night she picked up an electric guitar and hit record. The songs started pouring out-- pep rallies for total failure, hymns to binary code, love songs to walls-- most recorded in one take, sometimes as she was channeling them in order to capture that primordial electricity of creation, a feeling of “making out under the bleachers with infinity.” Her pals Ryan Sciaino (Spank Rock, Prince Rama, Win Win) and Tim Koh (Gang Gang Dance, Conan Mockasin, Haunted Graffiti) later helped flesh them out, pimp them up, and eventually Welcome to Paradise Lost took form like the intricate layers of a fucked up Bosch painting, or collaged jingles for a lost 1970s cult children’s TV show that split off via the mandela effect. Taraka realized perhaps paradise is nothing but another empty societal construction-- a mirage-like prison of perfection-- and the moment it is lost, we are left with the glow of some inner forgotten freedom. The kind of freedom once found in the piss puddles of a Beatles concert or the face of Buddha winking inside the mud of a fossilized Dr. Martens footprint in an abandoned mosh pit. There is a playfulness here, but a lurking poetry as well. Some of the first lines of the album begin with the fall of humankind: “I ate forbidden fruits and with their seeds I grew a silhouette…” and maybe this is where the magic of Welcome to Paradise Lost truly begins; not some shallow resurrection of past nostalgia, but a dangerous and sometimes absurd spiritual quest for freedom, rebellion, and that awkwardly honest place within us all that defies logic and authority so urgently needed right now."		0:32:57 (Pop-up)
Blonde Elvis	The Gardener "The Gardener" by "Blonde Elvis"	On Humility (Unreleased)	Unreleased	Unreleased	Also of various projects such as: Body Rot, Catholic Wilt, Young Mother, etc. In addition to this, "Jesse started volunteering at drop-in centers in his free time by cooking vegetarian meals for people in need. Once the pandemic hit, he had more time to get the word out and collect donations to fund meals. Now, he’s created an entire network to arrange donations with drop-in centers and encampments across the city, and coordinate drivers to deliver meals that have been cooked at Vit Beo, a Vietnamese restaurant owned by his friend David Hyunh." Quote from Jesse: "I started doing it because of the increasing precariousness of housing and the rising expense of living in Toronto. It came to my attention that much of the food being donated to drop-in centers was of very low quality and contained very little in the way of nutrients in the form of vegetables. Initially, I was cooking the food out of my own kitchen, which was difficult. Once I got involved with Dave at Vit Beo, we expanded into cooking some meat dishes at the request of the places we were donating to. The goal is still to always make a healthy, full meal. But we also make comfort food, because everyone deserves that once in a while as well." As for his music: Blonde Elvis (Bandcamp)	*	0:36:24 (Pop-up)
Weird Nightmare	Nibs "Nibs" by "Weird Nightmare"	Weird Nightmare	Sub Pop	2022	"“So Far Gone,” the latest track from Weird Nightmare, the electrifying new project from METZ guitarist and singer Alex Edkins is now available for your listening pleasure on all digital service providers. The single is an exuberant blast of fun-as-hell, melodic indie rock that mixes equal parts Replacements, Teenage Fanclub, and Edkins’ own METZ-ian snarl." Weird Nightmare (Bandcamp)		0:38:30 (Pop-up)
Uh Huh	Somewhere Beyond "Somewhere Beyond" by "Uh Huh"	Somewhere Beyond (Single)	Telephone Explosion	2022	Released Dec 5, 2022. Toronto's Teenanger swap instruments, reshape themselves, rename themselves & offer up a new single with more to come. UH HUH: Melissa Ball, Jonathon Schouten, Steve Sidoli, Chris Swimmings LIVE PERCUSSION: Blake Howard RECORDED & MIXED: Studio Z, Toronto, Canada, 2022 RECORDED & PRODUCED: Steve Sidoli and Jonathon Schouten MIXED: David Plowman MASTERED: East End Mastering, Toronto, Canada Uh Huh (Bandcamp)	*	0:41:28 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Afrorack	African Drum Machine "African Drum Machine" by "Afrorack"	The Afrorack	Hakuna Kulala	2022	""For a human being to be fully functional, it has to have a brain that's working and eyes and ears and arms," says Ugandan synth builder and producer Brian Bamanya, aka Afrorack. "Which is the same with the modular synthesizer: you have an oscillator, a VCA and all these envelopes. For it to create something meaningful, everything has to work together to create harmony." //// Bamanya is responsible for building Africa's first DIY modular synthesizer, a huge wall of home-made modules and FX units that he dubbed, fittingly, The Afrorack. His reason for embarking on this difficult project was simple: as he began to investigate the world of modular synthesizers, he realized it would be difficult to acquire the technology in Uganda. Not only were there relatively few retailers across the whole of Africa, but the modules were often prohibitively expensive. After quick search online, Bamanya realized he could easily download circuit diagrams and buy the required parts locally, so he taught himself electronics and constructed a CV-controlled system that's been evolving ever since. //// "The Afrorack" is Bamanya's debut album and displays the producer's untethered creativity and restless energy. He's all too aware that these modules were developed with European and American musical styles in mind, so developed his own musical methodology and language to coax the system into suiting his needs. His starting points are often abstractions of acid and techno, but Bamanya curves East African rhythms and different scales into these familiar structures, splintering them into fractal shards. "I believe Africa is at that point where people are getting new tools which were not available to them, and then experimenting with them in a different context, because Africa has its own traditional music," he told Pan African Music back in 2019. //// This attitude is most evident on 'African Drum Machine', where Bamanya uses a Euclidean rhythm sequencer to divide his CV signals into complex algorithmic patterns that mimic the polyrhythmic structures that exist in many East African musical forms. If you're not listening closely it might sound like 4/4 techno, but focus your attention and you'll hear different layers of drums and jagged oscillators bouncing between each other creating hypnotic new rhythms. Bamanya takes a similar approach on 'Why Serious', fuzzing dubby basslines and plasticky percussive sounds into a frenetic hybrid of abstract electronics and fwd-thinking East African club sounds." The Afrorack (Bandcamp)		0:46:34 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Afrorack	Osc "Osc" by "Afrorack"	The Afrorack	Hakuna Kulala	2022	"At times, Bamanya's meditative, bass-heavy compositions echo the psychedelic sounds of Shackleton or Adrian Sherwood's African Head Charge, particularly on tracks like 'Inspired' and 'Last Modular'. With lysergic tonal shifts and precision-engineered drums, both tracks sound defiantly metallic, but sculpted by a producer who's always completely in control as he introduces risky eccentricities like feline groans and videogame blips. And on less beat-heavy tracks like 'Osc' and 'Rev', Bamanya makes a conscious nod to the history of modular music, approaching the kosmische universe of Popol Vuh, Klaus Schulze and Emeralds, augmenting it with East Africa's idiosyncratic rhythmic intensity. "The Afrorack" is the beginning of a conversation that's been long overdue." The Afrorack (Bandcamp)		0:49:08 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Afrorack	Inspired "Inspired" by "Afrorack"	The Afrorack	Hakuna Kulala	2022	Label: HAKUNA KULALA Kampala, Ugand "Club explorations from the East African and Congolese Electronic Underground and beyond." The Afrorack (Bandcamp)		0:56:47 (Pop-up)
GENN	Rohmeresse "Rohmeresse" by "GENN"	Rohmeresse Single	GENN	2022	When one is in the netherworld between Christmas and New Year...one must give one's self over to the ending of one trip around the sun to the new beginning. Fuck it. I don't want to go anywhere. I want to stay in all day. I don't want to wear pants. It's all a psychedelic meat, cheese and chocolate sweats for 7 days. Genn are a A sisterhood of psychadelic (sic) textures based in Brighton. t’s a shape-shifting track that moves through the influences and locations of their collective upbringing. With the band’s mixed heritage, they’ve always had a collection of influences running through their veins and ‘Rohmeresse’ sets a scene for ĠENN’s ability to weave comfortably through an ever-moving cinematic landscape. On the song, vocalist Leona Farrugia said, “I’ve often felt a pressure running through everyday life: a pressure to be productive whilst being true to oneself. Modern life can be very dissociative and small tasks become a real burden to uphold. I wanted to capture these thoughts through the track, whereby these emotions gradually build to a point of ecstasy.” The track’s title nods to French new wave director Éric Rohmer,		0:58:20 (Pop-up)
Mandrake Handshake	Emonzaemon "Emonzaemon" by "Mandrake Handshake"	Emonzaemon Single	Glasshouse Records	2022	Is it KGATLZ? Is it Stereolab? No! It's Mandrake Handshake! “An expansive, ramshackle collective with a fine line in hypnotic slowburns...They ride gloriously sleek, machine-oiled psych grooves into the sunset.” They are from Oxford. They have many members. They cite alternative and psych music from the 90s, but in two differing forms. One pillar is the extremely high production and art-poppy style of British bands like Stereolab and Broadcast for their super intelligent and deliberate use of harmonies and rhythms. The other is the psych revival side of the 90s with BJM and the Spacemen 3 - their energy and live shows just seemed to have the perfect blend of druggy blurriness and total empowerment. They also like CAN.		1:03:14 (Pop-up)
The Nightingales	Sunlit Uplands (Turn That Frown Upside Down)	The Last Laugh	Tiny Global Productions	2022	Derek told me that they are the darlings of BBC 6 and Marc Riley,. Apparently Fall fans really like them and I can see why. They are "The misfits misfits" and enjoyed cult status in the early 1980s as darlings of the credible music scene and were championed by John Peel, who said of them – "Their performances will serve to confirm their excellence when we are far enough distanced from the 1980s to look at the period rationally and other, infinitely better known, bands stand revealed as charlatans". I fucking love that a band still makes music 40 years on as great as the day they started, even better, There is hope for us all.		1:07:18 (Pop-up)
NOT THE TWOS	HAHA "HAHA" by "NOT THE TWOS"	HAHA (Single)	Fire Pink	2022	They are Kendrick Lamar's new favourite artist and producer. I don't care much for Kendrick Lamar but I sure love this band. NOT THE TWOS is Chicago's Tim Maxey. He is a one man band, motivated by "releasing songs that I don't want to see die on my computer". He loves movies ad the Beatles.		1:10:31 (Pop-up)
The Shifters	Work, Life, Gym, Etc.	Have A Cunning Plan	Trouble In Mind	2018	Recorded at (Australian legend) Al Montfort of Total ControlTerry’s home studio, “Have A Cunning Plan” ups the fidelity a bit, tempering the up-front crunch of their previous demoLP. The sonic space suits the band, allowing the unpretentious complexity of the songs & lyrics to generate the “oomph” rather than bludgeoning the listener with treble and feedback. Lyrics simultaneously celebrate and decry the banality of life, while also tackling larger issues of colonialism conservatism’s effects on society at large. On the surface, there’s no denying the band owe a heavy debt to The Fall, but whatever seeds were planted by the late, great Mark E. Smith, have gestated into an animal all their own.		1:12:50 (Pop-up)
Rearranged Face	Chin Brute "Chin Brute" by "Rearranged Face"	A Rare Caged Fern	Tomothy Records	2021	While Rearranged Face has some of the superficial trappings of egg punk (like jittery rhythms and mutated rock and roll riffing), A Rare Caged Fern is too unique to sum up with a simple genre description. Rearranged Face builds songs around catchy, repetitive riffs, but spice things up with weird sci-fi noises, a yelpy vocalist, and jammed-out parts that edge into Can territory. DEVO, Suburban Lawns, Uranium Club fans will also find something to grab your ears....		1:15:20 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Residents	Santa Dog For Gamelan Orchestra	Dot.Com RE	Klangalerie	2017	Dot.Com is an album released by avant rock musicians, The Residents, in 2000. It was released in a limited edition of 1200 copies. In 2000, Ralph America collected all of the MP3s they had released on the Buy Or Die website on a CD entitled dot.com. Each MP3 is a never-before-released track from The Residents' history, dating from 1969 to 2000.		1:17:17 (Pop-up)
Jac Berrocalo, Vincent Epplay, David Fenech & Jah Wobble	Chapelle Ganache	Transcodex	Akuphone	2022	Feat. Jah Wobble on Electric Bass. +++ //// Bass, Rhythm Section, Electric Guitar, Bodhrán, Electric Bass, Sampler, Editor, Turntables, Mixed By, Recorded By – David Fenech //// Synthesizer, Sampler, Electric Bass, Rhythm Section, Electronics, Drum Machine, Flute, Field Recording, Editor, Percussion, Tape, Mixed By, Recorded By, Cover – Vincent Epplay //// Trumpet, Voice, Lyrics By, Harmonica – Jac Berrocal. --- "Jacques "Jac" Berrocal (born 22 October 1946, Saint-Jean d'Angély) is a French trumpeter, singer and composer. He has been active since the 1970s in the independent and avant-garde music scene, and has released many albums. He also founded and performed in the group Catalogue, and has collaborated with Ron Anderson. Berrocal has appeared in several films."		1:26:44 (Pop-up)
Hitomi Moriwaki	Song For My English Lesson	Subtropic Cosmos	Guruguru Brain	2022	"Hitomi Moriwaki is a multidisciplinary artist working with a wide range of mediums besides music, including: magazines, ceramics, digital art, and animation." -- "Subtropic Cosmos is the international debut album by Japanese artist Hitomi Moriwaki. Composed and recorded at her Fukuoka home during the worldwide pandemic between 2020-2022, the album was produced by Hideki Urawa, who has also worked with Kikagaku Moyo and other musical acts on Guruguru Brain. "Subtropic Cosmos" in particular is a wonderful work that conveys the "joy of making things" to listeners, as it is filled with various influences from her diverse activities. As suggested by the album title, most of the songs were created under the unprecedented conditions of corona--and as a result, were inspired by the consciousness of traveling through imaginary foreign lands and nature. As if adventuring through the universe inside of her own mind, Moriwaki's versatility is best experienced through her fearless fusion of hip-hop, pop and experimental music. Through a lens of psychedelic production by Hideki Urawa, this album is a truly special, one-of-a-kind space experience for listeners to enjoy and embark upon. Released September 2, 2022. All songs written by Hitomi Moriwaki .Recorded in my room, Fukouka, Japan (2020 November - 2021 March)""		1:30:14 (Pop-up)
Jane Weaver	Oblique Fantasy "Oblique Fantasy" by "Jane Weaver"	Oblique Fantasy	Speedy Wunderground	2022	"Jane Louise Weaver (born 28 February 1972) is an English singer, songwriter, and guitarist. She runs the label Bird Records, an offshoot of Twisted Nerve Records. Weaver has performed as part of the Britpop group Kill Laura, the folktronica project Misty Dixon, and as a solo artist. She was brought up in the town of Widnes, Cheshire."		1:31:02 (Pop-up)
Prolapse	Broken Cormorant (Peel Session)	Prolapse - John Peel Session 20.08.94	Precious Recordings	1994 / 2022	"On vinyl for the fist time, this is Prolapse's spectacular debut session for John Peel, featuring divergent versions of a couple of classics and the previously unreleased 'Broken Cormorant', the subject of much debate among devotees down the years." Further to this point, you can find an excellent blog post (apparently the author joined Tumblr specifically to talk about this song alone) about this song here: Tumblr Post about this song You can also find Prolapse's page here: Prolapse Bandcamp -- ""Me and Scottish Mick were going out for some of the time, not going out for the rest of the time. If we hadn’t been in a relationship we might have sounded exactly the same but I suspect not." —Linda Steelyard, interviewed about Prolapse in 2007. //// (Mick Derrick adds later in the interview, “The lyrics were by and large improvised, to the point where if we did live radio we would make up a song from scratch.”)" -- Lastly, good news, they have been touring and playing again after decades away! We're hoping for a new album...		1:36:32 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Colin Newman	Fish 12 "Fish 12" by "Colin Newman"	Provisionally Entitled The Singing Fish (Deluxe)	Sentient Sonics	1981 / 2016	From the desk of Meep Moop: "A DOZEN FISHES!!!!!" From the desk of Derek: Last fish of the album.		1:41:39 (Pop-up)
Total Control	Flesh War "Flesh War" by "Total Control"	Typical System	Iron Lung Records	2014	Total Control are five Melbourne men dead-set on pumping life into the spiritual tradition of post-punk exploration with little regard for sonic congruity. Ghosts of new wave's past audibly haunt these songs, and "Flesh War" is Typical System's most straightforward take on that sound. It's the widescreen, mechanical-sounding focal point, with synths soaring soft enough to rest your head on without worrying about getting clawed in the face. But it's not mere retro-styling. "Flesh War" looks for what's left in the endless possibilities of post-punk and says something real through it. "Flesh War" sounds like commentary on life under the relentless watch of overlords—further proof that electronic pop can be just as subversive as throat-shredding rock and roll.		1:45:28 (Pop-up)
19 Gadi Pirms Sākuma	Ruhig "Ruhig" by "19 Gadi Pirms Sākuma"	19 Gadi Pirms Sākuma	Approximate Art Agency	1989	"Sometimes our own creations surprised us," says Inguna Rubene, flute player, guitarist, bassoonist, and songwriter for 19 Gadi Pirms Sākuma (19 Years Before the Beginning). Created with the idea of lasting for a single performance, 19 Gadi Pirms Sākuma developed into one of the most delicate, intriguing groups in Latvia's 1980s and early 1990s music scene. Formed in 1988, the band arrived at a time when the Soviet Union was showing the first signs of unravelling. "19 Gadi Pirms Sākuma started because we wanted to prepare a musical program for an exhibition organized by Hardijs Lediņs, Juris Boiko [both from the band/performance collective NSRD] and other avant-garde artists at the Aizrobezu Art Museum [now the Art Museum of Riga Bourse]. It could have remained as a one-time musical project if it were not for two journalists from West Berlin who were at the exhibition," Rubene reveals. The band quickly recorded an album in their apartment, Listening to it now, the frantic synths, percussion and Rubene's vocal reveal the urgency of the time. Seemingly disparate acoustic and synthetic sounds orchestrated into swooning, surreal songs. Elements of minimalism combined with synth pop and echoes of folk melodicism.		1:50:07 (Pop-up)
Sweet Baboo	Hopeless "Hopeless" by "Sweet Baboo"	Horticulture EP	Amazing Tapes From Canton	2022	Stephen Black, better known by his stage name Sweet Baboo, is a Welsh musician. Before becoming a solo artist, he played with the band JT MOuse. e is close friends with fellow musicians Cate Le Bon and H. Hawkline and often performs in their accompanying bands, and has also performed with and produced Euros Childs, The Pictish Trail, The Voluntary Butler Scheme and Islet, and collaborated with Gruff Rhys. This song is amazing and it's such an earworm in a most pleasant Stereolab way and he totally admits it gleefully.		1:53:51 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Claude Dupras	I''d Like To Teach The World To Sing	Claude Dupras	Yamaha – PH 91079	1977	This is a demonstration album for the Yamaha Electone Organ. In their promotional material, Yamaha advertises this as "The Electone allows you to create and enjoy those moments when music resonates with your emotions, and then to share the inspiration with your friends."		1:57:10 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Claude Dupras	Isn't She Lovely "Isn't She Lovely" by "Claude Dupras"	Claude Dupras	Yamaha – PH 91079	1977			1:58:26 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Claude Dupras	Southern Nights "Southern Nights" by "Claude Dupras"	Claude Dupras	Yamaha – PH 91079	1977			2:00:28 (Pop-up)
Legendary Pink Dots	The Eternal Optimist	The Legendary Pink Dots' Christmas Special 2022	Self Released (Bandcamp)	2022	"Ice on the road, snow on the grass, Slade on the radio, red and white hats at the supermarket. Yup, everybody is doing his or her best to look cheerful despite it all... "The Eternal Optimist" was actually performed live on the final day of The Dots' Post Pandemic Tour of North America but It seemed fitting to create a studio interpretation of a piece about hope regardless of the circumstances at the end of such a dark year. 2022 has but a few days left...I reckon it has long outstayed its welcome." Legendary Pink Dots (Bandcamp)	*	2:02:55 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	♥ 7:50pm DJ Babs: Hello Dear Beachers! Ready for the last TFEB of 2022!? We are! :-)
	🏝 ♥ 8:00pm Derek Westerholm: Hello all!
	🏝 ♥ 8:00pm ultradamno: Babs! Derek! Beach Bums!
	🏝 ♥ 8:01pm Feldy: Hello Babs and Derek!
	♥ 8:02pm Krys O.: Hiya!
	8:02pm TroyD8: Hey all!
	🏝 ♥ 8:03pm ultradamno: Better than slurpee seconds, you don't want those used...
	🏝 ♥ 8:04pm Derek Westerholm: Ultra, Feldy, Krys O, Troy, hello hello hello!!!
	🏝 ♥ 8:04pm WR: I had left overs for dinner tonight. I was better the 2nd tine around because, ya know, always gotta add something extra to it.
	♥ 8:04pm DJ Babs: Hi UD! Hi Troy, Feldy! Krys!! How are you all doin' tonight?!
	🏝 ♥ 8:05pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ ultradamno @8:03 MMM... Slurpee seconds.
	🏝 ♥ 8:05pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ WR @8:04 Leftovers are never a sad thing in my world.
	♥ 8:05pm DJ Babs: Hi WR!
	♥ 8:06pm DJ Babs: We are almost done all the leftovers! I made turkey stew last night.
	♥ 8:06pm DJ Babs: We are coming in with a bang tonight lol
	🏝 ♥ 8:08pm Derek Westerholm: So what's on everyone's menu tonight... We had Tofu, Veggies (Kale/Beettops), Rice, Sesame seeds & oil, Soy Sauce.
	8:09pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: Hey Babs…Derek…Beachers…
	♥ 8:10pm DJ Babs: Heya YPB!!! Great to see ya here tonight!!
	8:10pm TroyD8: Sounds delicious Derek! We are having leftover shrimp 🦐 pasta
	🏝 ♥ 8:10pm Derek Westerholm: Hello YPB, WR, lovely to see more ppl on the beach before it closes for the year.
	♥ 8:10pm DJ Babs: Nice! Yes after three days of turkey and turkey related things I needed some tofu and steamed greens lol,
	♥ 8:11pm DJ Babs: I have not given up my wine tho!
	8:11pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: How could I miss the last visit to the beach before 2023 hits?
	♥ 8:12pm DJ Babs: 'Tis true! I hope everyone had a great christmas/holiday/celebration/non celebration!
	🏝 ♥ 8:12pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ TroyD8 @8:10 Mmm... Shrimp Pasta! Sounds divine! (Deveined?) Yes, the tofu/veggie mix was delightful.
	8:13pm TroyD8: ↳ Song: "Marihuana" by "Prettiest Eyes" This has a bit of an Atari Teenage Riot vibe. Love it.
	8:13pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: Whoa!!! This is so good.
	♥ 8:13pm DJ Babs: Yes that Prettiest Eyes is quite something else! I must get that whole record!
	♥ 8:14pm DJ Babs: I have come to accept that everything on Castle Face is worth owning
	♥ 8:15pm Kristine: Hi frenz!
	♥ 8:15pm DJ Babs: Hi Kristine!!!! Nice to see ya! I have programmed something special for yas tonight!!! ;-)
	♥ 8:16pm DJ Babs: Did Santa bring anyone any great new music?
	♥ 8:16pm Tome: hiya Derek and Babs great show , bangin' !<>!
	♥ 8:16pm Kristine: ↳ Derek Westerholm @8:05 awww niiiiccee! lemme guess, falco?
	♥ 8:17pm DJ Babs: Hi tome welcome welcome! Thank you!!
	🏝 ♥ 8:17pm gsdoubleu: Yes! Keith Levene Search For Absolute Zero ;)
	8:17pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: ↳ DJ Babs @8:16 If by Santa, you mean me, yes indeed. 😂
	♥ 8:17pm Kristine: i didnt get any music, but looking forward to a couple of good shows in the next month!
	🏝 ♥ 8:19pm ultradamno: Jesus Claus twitter.com...
	♥ 8:20pm Kristine: i get sweaty palms only when i see movies with climbing. like Cliffhanger
	🏝 ♥ 8:20pm Derek Westerholm: Hello Kristine! Hello Tome! Hello GSuu!
	8:21pm TroyD8: ↳ Derek Westerholm @8:12 Always deveined 🤟🏻
	🏝 ♥ 8:22pm ultradamno: So this isn't a Flipper cover?
	♥ 8:24pm DJ Babs: ↳ ultradamno @8:22 It could be!?
	♥ 8:25pm DJ Babs: ↳ gsdoubleu @8:17 Ha! GS! I also got some great Yamaha Organ music aaand a killer 90's comp from a lovely person in my life!!!
	♥ 8:26pm DJ Babs: ↳ ultradamno @8:19 lol
	8:26pm TroyD8: ↳ Song: "Ibiza" by "The Prodigy, Sleaford Mods" Bam!💥
	♥ 8:26pm DJ Babs: Kristine what shows are you going to? We have tickets to Ride/Charlatans and Viagra Boys coming up!!!
	🏝 ♥ 8:26pm ultradamno: ↳ DJ Babs @8:24 Dreams left empty and blank and legs that that have ceased to walk...
	♥ 8:27pm DJ Babs: Troy that tune was a bnager!!!
	♥ 8:28pm Kristine: ahhh i wanted a ticket to viagra but they sold out...found out too late! I am going to Dry Cleaning and to Charlotte Cornfield.
	♥ 8:28pm DJ Babs: I also got a lovely lovely painting from Derek done by none other than Your Pretend Boyfriend! And an amaaazing holiday decoration that is a glass snowman filled with glitter that lights up and is sooooo trippy and awesome. I've spent the last three night watching it for hours lol
	8:28pm TroyD8: ↳ DJ Babs @8:27 Fan of both groups but never heard this banger!
	🏝 ♥ 8:29pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "Mark E Smith's Still Doing The Fall" by "Here Are... This is kind of like Monster Mash but with punks instead of all the monsters
	♥ 8:30pm DJ Babs: ↳ ultradamno @8:29 I very much enjoyed that selection!
	8:30pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: ↳ DJ Babs @8:28 😊
	♥ 8:30pm DJ Babs: ↳ Kristine @8:28 oooh Dry Cleaning! I finally figured out Dry Cleaning this year!!!
	🏝 ♥ 8:31pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Your Pretend Boyfriend @8:30 Studio much brighter!
	♥ 8:31pm Kristine: yes. Jan 11!
	8:32pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: ↳ Derek Westerholm @8:31 Can’t wait to see!!! 🔆🔅
	🏝 ♥ 8:32pm Scott67: G'day Babs, Derek & Beached! Just been out dealing with my overgrown front yard, to meet fire season regulations. But too fucken hot out there now. Time for cool tunes & cold beer with mates. 🌏☀️🍻😎🤙💨🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺
	♥ 8:32pm DJ Babs: Where are they playing?
	🏝 ♥ 8:32pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ ultradamno @8:29 Haha... Nicely observed!
	♥ 8:32pm DJ Babs: Hello Hello Scott! Welcome welcome! Yes, please be fire ready!
	🏝 ♥ 8:33pm Derek Westerholm: Hello Scott! Yes, take refuge! Here's some guit. feedback fer ya.
	♥ 8:33pm Kristine: The Phoenix!
	8:34pm Mr Fab: Yo, BabsDerek! I’m back and I’m proud. No music gifts but a long-overdue pair of noise-cancelling headphones. Trains, planes, shop muzak: you have been defeated.
	🏝 ♥ 8:34pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Mr Fab @8:34 And rightfully so! Hello Fab!
	♥ 8:35pm Kristine: ohh boy this taraka track!
	🏝 ♥ 8:36pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Kristine @8:35 Crazy, huh?! Did you like Prince Rama? Wild stuff.
	♥ 8:36pm DJ Babs: Haha Mr Fab ...Silence is Golden at times to be sure!!!
	🏝 ♥ 8:36pm Alli B: Hi kiddos!
	🏝 ♥ 8:36pm gsdoubleu: Yes this is a great track!
	🏝 ♥ 8:36pm Derek Westerholm: Hello AlliB!!!!
	🏝 ♥ 8:37pm gsdoubleu: Hi Alli!
	🏝 ♥ 8:37pm ultradamno: ↳ Derek Westerholm @8:36 Raccoons didn't like them, as I recall.
	🏝 ♥ 8:37pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ gsdoubleu @8:36 Just goes to show what happens when you start living with snakes...
	♥ 8:38pm Kristine: aw yeah blonde elvis!! i think he is playing a show soon?
	♥ 8:38pm Rich in Washington: Hi Babs N' Derek! I'm on vacay, so can listen and comment freely this week!
	🏝 ♥ 8:38pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Kristine @8:38 I hope so! He's been touring w/ another band lately. Happy to see him busy & doing so much. Jesse is a sweetheart!
	🏝 ♥ 8:39pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Rich in Washington @8:38 Hello Rich! So great to have so much chat-time w. you this wk!
	♥ 8:39pm DJ Babs: Hello Hello Rich! So lovely to see you! Vacation is SO SO nice! It's been great to be able to catch up on the streams!
	♥ 8:39pm Kristine: yes, catholic wilt is playing with craig dunsmuirs dun dun band on jan 10 at the tranzac.
	🏝 ♥ 8:40pm ultradamno: ↳ ultradamno @8:37 Of course, those were NYC procyonids, tough critics.
	♥ 8:40pm DJ Babs: oh we should go to that!!!!
	🏝 ♥ 8:40pm Derek Westerholm: I've been meaning to see Craig's DunDun band for forever now... Should be a great show!
	♥ 8:40pm DJ Babs: I also hear that a very funny comedian by the name of gsdoubleu is playing tomorrow night!!!
	8:41pm shellioh: hey guys!!! ❤️❤️❤️
	🏝 ♥ 8:41pm Derek Westerholm: Shelli! Hello!
	♥ 8:41pm DJ Babs: Shellliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii yay!!!!
	8:41pm shellioh: so excited to catch it tonight!!!
	8:41pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: I enjoy WN. 🖤
	♥ 8:42pm DJ Babs: lovely to have your with us!!!!!
	🏝 ♥ 8:42pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ ultradamno @8:40 Looks up "Procyonidae"... Appreciates the specificity
	8:42pm shellioh: ❤️❤️❤️
	♥ 8:44pm DJ Babs: sooo everyone feeling good about leaving 2022 behind and jumping into 2023?
	🏝 ♥ 8:44pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ DJ Babs @8:44 YES!!!!!
	♥ 8:44pm DJ Babs: lol thanks Derek.
	8:45pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: ↳ DJ Babs @8:44 Yesssss! Later 2022…
	🏝 ♥ 8:45pm ultradamno: I am excited to see how much worse it can get.
	♥ 8:45pm Kristine: hahah
	🏝 ♥ 8:45pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ ultradamno @8:45 lol
	8:45pm Mr Fab: ↳ Rich in Washington @8:38 Ha, complete opposite for me, cut off from internet service on my sea voyage. And I was quite ok with it. I worry a bit about Sheena’s in these situations like a parent who’s left their kids with a sitter, but otherwise I was quite ok with going on an internet fast. (I read an actual BOOK. Highly recommended, btw, everyone should try it)
	♥ 8:45pm DJ Babs: hahaha! It certainly had its ups and downs let's say...but overall better than 2021?
	🏝 ♥ 8:46pm ultradamno: The image I chose for the question of what my energy going into the new year is twitter.com...
	🏝 ♥ 8:46pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Mr Fab @8:45 B-o-o-k-???
	♥ 8:46pm DJ Babs: ↳ Mr Fab @8:45 Fab that sounds delightful! And yes we missed you! and yes...BOOKS. Actual BOOKS
	♥ 8:46pm DJ Babs: ↳ ultradamno @8:46 Mine energy is BRING ON THE BULLSHIT! LOL
	♥ 8:47pm DJ Babs: My company announced we're going into a merger in 2023...that will be...uhhh...fun?
	♥ 8:47pm DJ Babs: But my 2023 energy is also FUCK WORK IT'S JUST A JOB
	♥ 8:47pm Barno in Akron: Hi Mr Fab, I hope you're having a wonderful vacation
	8:47pm Mr Fab: ↳ DJ Babs @8:45 Oh HECK yeah, anytime was better than that unholy year. Not too much to complain about this past year. Back to (ab)normal.
	♥ 8:47pm Kristine: ack babs!
	🏝 ♥ 8:48pm ultradamno: I have to assume the Italia 90 album will be released at some point, so there's that to look forward to...and M3gan
	8:48pm TroyD8: ↳ Song: "African Drum Machine" by "Afrorack" Hakuna Kulala Rules!
	8:50pm RohanSJ: Hello everyone! (I just arrived.)
	🏝 ♥ 8:50pm ultradamno: Have you heard Huxley Boon's record from this year? He's also known as Richard Phoenix and was in Sauna Youth and Child's Pose and this stuff would have fit into that set nicely twinlakesburntbrain.bandcamp.com...
	♥ 8:50pm Kristine: not really sure what to expect after the spring...so it will be an interesting year!
	♥ 8:51pm DJ Babs: Hi Rohan! Welcome Welcome!!!
	♥ 8:52pm DJ Babs: Andyes UD, that Italia 90 album should be greeaaaaat! I have not heard the Huxley Boon...maybe Derek can comment on that!
	♥ 8:52pm Kristine: arent teenanger from hamilton?
	♥ 8:52pm DJ Babs: I think they may have been part of the Toronto exodus to Hamilton crew...
	🏝 ♥ 8:52pm ultradamno: ↳ ultradamno @8:50 And speaking of books, another Sauna Youth alum Jen Calleja has a novel coming out. prototypepublishing.co.uk...
	8:53pm RohanSJ: Hi Babs! And hi Derek!
	8:53pm RohanSJ: I am part of "the Toronto exodus to Hamilton crew", but I'm not a musician, to help balance things out
	♥ 8:54pm DJ Babs: So lovely to have you with us Rohan!!
	🏝 ♥ 8:57pm ultradamno: I didn't realize, or forgot, that the raccoons specifically targeted Takata. I expect she knows why. pitchfork.com...
	8:57pm RohanSJ: "Primordial electricty" sounds a lot nicer than "primordial ooze"
	8:58pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: Great sets tonight!!! ❤️❤️❤️
	♥ 9:00pm DJ Babs: Well thank you! We're only halfway there! This is definitely not a sloppy seconds show LOL
	9:00pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: ↳ DJ Babs @9:00 😂
	🏝 ♥ 9:02pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ RohanSJ @8:57 Rohan, agreed re: "Primordial electricity"... And hello!
	🏝 ♥ 9:03pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Your Pretend Boyfriend @8:58 Thanks YPB, glad you're enjoying! Maybe we should play the things we aren't getting around to playing more often, haha.
	9:04pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: Btw, this reply feature is 😎
	♥ 9:04pm DJ Babs: I quite enjoy it too! Now we just need a like and heart react!! LOL
	9:05pm RohanSJ: "Mandrake Handshake"? Potential theme idea: songs by bands who have rhyming names
	9:05pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: ↳ Derek Westerholm @9:03 I quite like the rejects pile .
	🏝 ♥ 9:06pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Kristine @8:52 Kristine, so far as I know, Teenanger have always been in Toronto. At least, they always rehearse/rehearsed here.
	♥ 9:06pm DJ Babs: Ohhh Rohan I like it!!!! I also love how this band seamlessly transitions from King Gizzard to Stereolab!!!
	♥ 9:06pm DJ Babs: Mandrake Handshake is SUCH a great band name!
	🏝 ♥ 9:07pm ultradamno: ↳ DJ Babs @9:06 Well, compared to King Gizzard & The Lizard Blizzard or whatever that is. Yeah.
	🏝 ♥ 9:08pm Derek Westerholm: "King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard" is the perfect example of a rhyming band, Babs... Nicely done to reference them after Rohan's suggested show focus.
	🏝 ♥ 9:09pm ultradamno: Just awful. Not since Captain Condoms has a band name so successfully put me off...
	♥ 9:09pm DJ Babs: ha! Yes, I think we definitely need to put that idea on the show list. Thank you Rohan!
	♥ 9:09pm DJ Babs: Lol the Gizz is not for everyone. Ihate to be that person but I tend to prefer their earlier output only...
	🏝 ♥ 9:09pm Alli B: That Mandrake Handshake song was 🔥🔥🔥 Seriously good band name!
	♥ 9:11pm DJ Babs: Hi ALLI!!! whee! Nice to have you with us tonite!!!
	9:12pm RohanSJ: Hi Alli!
	♥ 9:12pm DJ Babs: Sooo what's everyone got planned for NYE? Quiet evening at home? Raging in the club? Anarchy?
	🏝 ♥ 9:13pm ultradamno: Is it a rhyming band name if it's the same thing twice, like Rema Rema?
	9:13pm RohanSJ: ↳ ultradamno @9:13 Ooh, that could be another theme, but perhaps for a short show?
	♥ 9:15pm DJ Babs: That could also work. I would play all the Duran Duran then lol,.
	9:16pm RohanSJ: ↳ DJ Babs @9:12 My NYE will be at The Casbah here in Hamilton, Ontario, where the monthly "Risky Business" 80s dance party will be doing the NYE event
	♥ 9:16pm Kristine: no plans! just relaxing watching a movie probs.
	🏝 ♥ 9:17pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ RohanSJ @9:16 The Casbah is a great venue/club!
	♥ 9:17pm DJ Babs: Nice! I am also all 80's at the Piston...it will be a marathon 7 hour set but I'm ready for it!
	♥ 9:17pm DJ Babs: Kristine that sounds lovely!!!
	♥ 9:18pm DJ Babs: If I weren't DJing it would be a fondue and wine night!!!
	9:18pm RohanSJ: ↳ DJ Babs @9:17 7 hours!?! Very impressive!
	♥ 9:18pm DJ Babs: Kristine this one is for you!!
	♥ 9:18pm Kristine: oh riiiiiiiight! that would be amazing too. nice idea.
	9:18pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: ↳ DJ Babs @9:18 Mhmmm fondue!!!
	🏝 ♥ 9:18pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ ultradamno @9:09 Ultra, agreed, "Captain Condoms" is a terrible name.
	🏝 ♥ 9:18pm ultradamno: Santa Gamelan!
	♥ 9:19pm Kristine: love the gamelan!!!! ever since i went to Bali over ten years ago. fell in love!
	9:19pm RohanSJ: I'm fond of fondue
	🏝 ♥ 9:19pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Kristine @9:19 Oooo... You went to Bali?
	♥ 9:19pm Kristine: trying to imagine residents playing gamelan
	♥ 9:20pm Kristine: yup!!
	🏝 ♥ 9:20pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Kristine @9:19 Think eyeballs and tuxedos, I guess.
	♥ 9:20pm Kristine: Thank you that was lovely!
	🏝 ♥ 9:21pm ultradamno: I kind of think of Smelly Tongues as related to Fire in the word play ('has no presents in the future" "looked just as they felt" time and senses)
	🏝 ♥ 9:23pm ultradamno: Homer Flynn art johanssonprojects.com...
	🏝 ♥ 9:23pm Scott67: I thpught you said, "he loves boobies...!
	🏝 ♥ 9:26pm Scott67: & the Beatles".
	♥ 9:28pm DJ Babs: ↳ RohanSJ @9:19 Rohan what's your fondue favourite? Cheese or Meats?
	♥ 9:29pm DJ Babs: Personally I CANNOT CHOOSE ONE
	🏝 ♥ 9:30pm ultradamno: That's why they make frozen hamburger patties with the cheese inside.
	♥ 9:30pm Kristine: i used to do meat with fam all the time, then i turned vegetarian. cheese only for me. alex cheese at st. lawrence mkt has a good sounding fondue for sale. appenzeller mostly. might try it
	♥ 9:31pm Kristine: it is on sale, not just for sale
	🏝 ♥ 9:33pm Derek Westerholm: Must go to St. Lawrence Market soon... Been too long...
	♥ 9:33pm DJ Babs: oooh nice! Yeah, I do love both. I love the psychedelic cheese fondue dreams..that stuff always sends me on a trip LOL
	🏝 ♥ 9:34pm Scott67: I have more of a Fondue Fetish! At least a dozen of them from Thrift Stores over the years. I make all manner of meals in them, & never cheese. 🍻😎🤙🫕
	♥ 9:34pm DJ Babs: ahh scott you must share some of your recipes!!!!
	♥ 9:34pm Kristine: i go every year at xmas to buy fancy cheese and smoked salmon from the caviar guy in the basement.
	♥ 9:34pm DJ Babs: Kristine does your family make the crazy whipped cream ketchup rum sauce for meat fondue?
	♥ 9:35pm DJ Babs: I have to avoid the caviar guy otherwise I'm walking away with 100$ worth of Caviar.
	♥ 9:35pm DJ Babs: I have a caviar problem. Ask Derek.
	♥ 9:35pm Kristine: oh boy! that sounds like a hotmess combo babs! there were several, but not so sure about that one.
	🏝 ♥ 9:36pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ DJ Babs @9:35 Salty fish bubbles.
	♥ 9:36pm Kristine: yeah i think caviar is ...not for me.. but i spent about that on smoked salmon and trout!
	♥ 9:38pm Kristine: awwwwwwwww prolapse!
	🏝 ♥ 9:38pm ultradamno: It was... the cheese. The cheese was my undoing. This is the miracle of life melted over these chili fries. A bacterial flirtation with enzymes. The comingling of friendly microorganisms giving birth to curds and whey. "And from dust, he created the universe." - Wonderfalls
	♥ 9:38pm DJ Babs: oh god I love the little fish bubbles. A soft boiled egg and some caviar and I am IN HEAVEN. also St Lawrence market is super dangerous because I will eat ALL THE CHEESE. ALLLLLL THEEEE CHEEEEESE
	🏝 ♥ 9:39pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Kristine @9:38 Rare Prolapse! Peel-session only. Never officially released until this year.
	♥ 9:39pm Kristine: bought so much cheese!!!
	9:39pm RohanSJ: ↳ DJ Babs @9:28 Same: I cannot choose between the two fondues as a favourite.
	🏝 ♥ 9:39pm ultradamno: ↳ Kristine @9:36 I don't know that I've had cavier, I've had roe on sushi and didn't think much one way or the other
	♥ 9:41pm DJ Babs: It's true. Fondue is such a huge thing for me for the holidays and I've had NONE this year! Hopefully New Years Day we can do one!
	♥ 9:41pm DJ Babs: I finally got an electric fondue pot last year...LIFE CHANGING
	🏝 ♥ 9:42pm Scott67: I just cook anything you would cook in a one pot meal mate. From Curry Laksa to Cassoulet to Chilli....& on. Great for camping too, even make my espresso with the Moka Pot on the burner. ☕😎🤙🫕
	♥ 9:42pm Kristine: babs where did you get it?
	🏝 ♥ 9:42pm Derek Westerholm: Ah, a breakup song. But one that is actually happening live in real-time. Prolapse were fantastic. No one really made music like them.
	🏝 ♥ 9:45pm Scott67: I'm eating chunks of cheese on sour dough bread right now! & beer! 🍻😎🤙🧀🥖🍞
	🏝 ♥ 9:47pm Derek Westerholm: Scott, that sounds like a combo that can't be beaten
	♥ 9:47pm DJ Babs: ↳ Kristine @9:42 I ordered it from The Bay! It was very reasonably priced!!!
	♥ 9:48pm DJ Babs: No way Scott! I must try to do more things with mine!!!
	🏝 ♥ 9:48pm Scott67: ↳ DJ Babs @9:41 I like the off grid spirit burner Fondue sets. Great for blackouts, camping/ traveling, zombie apocalypse etc.🫕
	♥ 9:49pm DJ Babs: agreed. I was taught to respect the fondue fuel from an early age!!!
	♥ 9:49pm DJ Babs: also yes to all the chunks of bread. I love bread so much. just bread and butter is all I need.
	🏝 ♥ 9:50pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Scott67 @9:48 Scott, just be sure not to bbq brains during the Zombie Apocalypse.
	9:50pm RohanSJ: Is fondue fuel the same as Sterno, or different?
	🏝 ♥ 9:51pm Scott67: ↳ Derek Westerholm @9:50 Unless they're minced into the sausages mate.
	🏝 ♥ 9:51pm Alli B: This song tho 🔥🤌
	🏝 ♥ 9:52pm Scott67: Mentholated Spirits.
	♥ 9:52pm DJ Babs: I think it's the same.
	♥ 9:52pm DJ Babs: oh yeah...great story behind this band too!!!
	♥ 9:52pm DJ Babs: "ruhig" means "quiet"
	♥ 9:52pm DJ Babs: I called this set "Tryptophan Coma" LOL
	🏝 ♥ 9:53pm Scott67: *Methylated..
	🏝 ♥ 9:53pm ultradamno: OK, you really need to hear Bleak Engineers
	♥ 9:53pm Kristine: Derek found an interview with Mick and Linda, referencing bernard butler as shite and stealing his wine, imitating calvin johnson,
	♥ 9:53pm DJ Babs: We'd have to play Methyl Ethyl for the rhyming band name show!
	♥ 9:54pm Kristine: ink19.com...
	🏝 ♥ 9:55pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ RohanSJ @9:50 "Sterno is a brand of jellied, denatured alcohol sold in a can and meant to be burned directly in its can. Its primary uses are in food service for buffet heating, in the home for fondue, and as a chafing fuel for heating chafing dishes. Other uses are for portable stoves and as an emergency heat source."
	♥ 9:56pm DJ Babs: honestly I fucking love where these chats go LOL
	9:57pm RohanSJ: Thank you to the knowlegeable people here for the answers to my question of whether fondue fuel and Sterno are the same. An additional "other use" was demonstrated in the book + movie The Andromeda Strain, where being a Sterno drinker (some people do that) protected someone from death.
	🏝 ♥ 9:57pm Derek Westerholm: Our last song is going to spill over into your evening a bit if you hang in... but not too much longer...
	♥ 9:57pm DJ Babs: YES! And one should not drink Sterno...unless one is in the Andromeda Strain....
	🏝 ♥ 9:58pm Scott67: You use Denatured Alcohol, we call in Oz Methylated Spirits. & I call a crime against alcohol.
	🏝 ♥ 9:58pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ RohanSJ @9:57 Will be keeping Sterno drinking as a life preservation measure in mind for the future...
	9:59pm RohanSJ: I think Babs and Derek should now sing in perfect harmony
	🏝 ♥ 9:59pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ RohanSJ @9:59 Apparently not as easy as you would think...
	🏝 ♥ 10:00pm Scott67: Shit ! Over already! Thanks B & D!! Love you guys! 🌏☀️🍻😎🤙💨🍺🍺🫕🌻❤️❤️
	♥ 10:01pm Kristine: Thanks for the Gamelan Babs! Happy New Year!!
	♥ 10:02pm Rich in Washington: Thanks, Babs N' Derek! Wonderful show tonight! See you next year!
	♥ 10:02pm Kristine: happy transition transmissions!!
	10:03pm RohanSJ: Thank you Babs and Derek!! May the marathon 7-hour NYE DJ set go well (of course it will), and may you have an enjoyable New Year's Day!
	🏝 ♥ 10:04pm WR: What? Echo Beach party ending, 10PM ET already? THANK YOU!
	♥ 10:04pm DJ Babs: Thank you thank you all!!! Take care and we'll see you all in 2023!!! WHOOT WHOOT!!!
	10:05pm Mr Fab: Adieu to you too!
	♥ 10:05pm DJ Babs: Goodnight all! And THANK YOU! Thank you for being the most fun chat crew ever! <3
	🏝 ♥ 10:05pm ultradamno: I have said it before, but if Dairy Queen comes up with a King Lizard Blizzard to compete with the shamrock shake, I will buy it.
	🏝 ♥ 10:05pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ WR @10:04 Hang in there for another 10mins WR, haha.
	♥ 10:05pm Kristine: ultradammo LOL, I am with you!
	🏝 ♥ 10:06pm northguineahills: ↳ ultradamno @10:05 what about an eddie izzard in king lizard blizzard?
	🏝 ♥ 10:06pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ ultradamno @10:05 Ultra, Kristine; +3
	🏝 ♥ 10:06pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ northguineahills @10:06 Northguineahills, hello! Nice entrance!!!
	🏝 ♥ 10:07pm ultradamno: Eddie doing an endorsement would work
	🏝 ♥ 10:07pm northguineahills: last month, the Legendary Pink Dots came to Orlando, and I had no idea. I've never seen them live. I'm still inconsolable....
	🏝 ♥ 10:08pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ northguineahills @10:07 Oh, NGH... I've seen them twice, 1999-ish & this year on my 50th birthday! Both excellent (though very different) shows. We're hoping to interview Edward Ka-Spel in 2023...
	🏝 ♥ 10:09pm northguineahills: ↳ Derek Westerholm @10:08 "interview edward ka-spel" oh please, oh please, oh please!!!
	🏝 ♥ 10:10pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ northguineahills @10:09 He has agreed, we just need to find a time & make it happen. I hope you see him/them soon!
	🏝 ♥ 10:14pm Derek Westerholm: Thanks everyone, for being optimists w/ us, here, on the beach, into 2023. xo
	🏝 ♥ 10:17pm Scott67: ✌️😎🤙🌏🌻❤️

Transmissions from Echo Beach with Derek Westerholm and DJ Babs: Playlist from December 29, 2022

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