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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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Music behind DJ:
Sounds Of The Ocean 

Beach Sounds   Favoriting

Ocean Sounds 

Sounds Of The Ocean 

2016 

 

 

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Shelf Lives  Fighting That Bitch   Favoriting 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   Favoriting 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   Favoriting 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   Favoriting 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)   Favoriting 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   Favoriting

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. 

 

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Music behind DJ:
Charles Stepney 

That's the Way Of The World   Favoriting

Step On Step 

International Anthem 

2022 

 

 

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Music behind DJ:
Charles Stepney 

Around The House   Favoriting

Step On Step 

International Anthem 

2022 

 

 

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The Prodigy, Sleaford Mods  Ibiza   Favoriting 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   Favoriting 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   Favoriting 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   Favoriting 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   Favoriting 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   Favoriting 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   Favoriting 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   Favoriting

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) 

 

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Music behind DJ:
Afrorack 

Osc   Favoriting

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) 

 

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Music behind DJ:
Afrorack 

Inspired   Favoriting

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) 

 

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GENN  Rohmeresse   Favoriting 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   Favoriting 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)   Favoriting 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   Favoriting 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.   Favoriting 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   Favoriting 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   Favoriting

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. 

 

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Jac Berrocalo, Vincent Epplay, David Fenech & Jah Wobble  Chapelle Ganache   Favoriting 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   Favoriting 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   Favoriting 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)   Favoriting 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   Favoriting

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. 

 

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Total Control  Flesh War   Favoriting 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   Favoriting 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   Favoriting 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   Favoriting

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." 

 

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Music behind DJ:
Claude Dupras 

Isn't She Lovely   Favoriting

Claude Dupras 

Yamaha – PH 91079 

1977 

 

 

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Music behind DJ:
Claude Dupras 

Southern Nights   Favoriting

Claude Dupras 

Yamaha – PH 91079 

1977 

 

 

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Legendary Pink Dots  The Eternal Optimist   Favoriting 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!

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DJ Babs:

Hello Dear Beachers! Ready for the last TFEB of 2022!? We are! :-)
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Derek Westerholm:

Hello all!
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ultradamno:

Babs! Derek! Beach Bums!
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Feldy:

Hello Babs and Derek!
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Krys O.:

Hiya!
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TroyD8:

Hey all!
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ultradamno:

Better than slurpee seconds, you don't want those used...
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Derek Westerholm:

Ultra, Feldy, Krys O, Troy, hello hello hello!!!
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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.
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DJ Babs:

Hi UD! Hi Troy, Feldy! Krys!! How are you all doin' tonight?!
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Derek Westerholm:

↳ ultradamno @8:03
MMM... Slurpee seconds.
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Derek Westerholm:

↳ WR @8:04
Leftovers are never a sad thing in my world.
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DJ Babs:

Hi WR!
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DJ Babs:

We are almost done all the leftovers! I made turkey stew last night.
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DJ Babs:

We are coming in with a bang tonight lol
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Derek Westerholm:

So what's on everyone's menu tonight... We had Tofu, Veggies (Kale/Beettops), Rice, Sesame seeds & oil, Soy Sauce.
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Your Pretend Boyfriend:

Hey Babs…Derek…Beachers…
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DJ Babs:

Heya YPB!!! Great to see ya here tonight!!
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TroyD8:

Sounds delicious Derek! We are having leftover shrimp 🦐 pasta
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Derek Westerholm:

Hello YPB, WR, lovely to see more ppl on the beach before it closes for the year.
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DJ Babs:

Nice! Yes after three days of turkey and turkey related things I needed some tofu and steamed greens lol,
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DJ Babs:

I have not given up my wine tho!
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Your Pretend Boyfriend:

How could I miss the last visit to the beach before 2023 hits?
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DJ Babs:

'Tis true! I hope everyone had a great christmas/holiday/celebration/non celebration!
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Derek Westerholm:

↳ TroyD8 @8:10
Mmm... Shrimp Pasta! Sounds divine! (Deveined?) Yes, the tofu/veggie mix was delightful.
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TroyD8:

↳ Song: "Marihuana" by "Prettiest Eyes"
This has a bit of an Atari Teenage Riot vibe. Love it.
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Your Pretend Boyfriend:

Whoa!!! This is so good.
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DJ Babs:

Yes that Prettiest Eyes is quite something else! I must get that whole record!
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DJ Babs:

I have come to accept that everything on Castle Face is worth owning
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Kristine:

Hi frenz!
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DJ Babs:

Hi Kristine!!!! Nice to see ya! I have programmed something special for yas tonight!!! ;-)
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DJ Babs:

Did Santa bring anyone any great new music?
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Tome:

hiya Derek and Babs great show , bangin' !<>!
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Kristine:

↳ Derek Westerholm @8:05
awww niiiiccee! lemme guess, falco?
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DJ Babs:

Hi tome welcome welcome! Thank you!!
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gsdoubleu:

Yes! Keith Levene Search For Absolute Zero ;)
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Your Pretend Boyfriend:

↳ DJ Babs @8:16
If by Santa, you mean me, yes indeed. 😂
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Kristine:

i didnt get any music, but looking forward to a couple of good shows in the next month!
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ultradamno:

Jesus Claus twitter.com...
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Kristine:

i get sweaty palms only when i see movies with climbing. like Cliffhanger
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Derek Westerholm:

Hello Kristine! Hello Tome! Hello GSuu!
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TroyD8:

↳ Derek Westerholm @8:12
Always deveined 🤟🏻
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ultradamno:

So this isn't a Flipper cover?
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DJ Babs:

↳ ultradamno @8:22
It could be!?
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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!!!
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DJ Babs:

↳ ultradamno @8:19
lol
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TroyD8:

↳ Song: "Ibiza" by "The Prodigy, Sleaford Mods"
Bam!💥
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DJ Babs:

Kristine what shows are you going to? We have tickets to Ride/Charlatans and Viagra Boys coming up!!!
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ultradamno:

↳ DJ Babs @8:24
Dreams left empty and blank and legs that that have ceased to walk...
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DJ Babs:

Troy that tune was a bnager!!!
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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.
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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
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TroyD8:

↳ DJ Babs @8:27
Fan of both groups but never heard this banger!
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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
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DJ Babs:

↳ ultradamno @8:29
I very much enjoyed that selection!
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Your Pretend Boyfriend:

↳ DJ Babs @8:28
😊
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DJ Babs:

↳ Kristine @8:28
oooh Dry Cleaning! I finally figured out Dry Cleaning this year!!!
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Derek Westerholm:

↳ Your Pretend Boyfriend @8:30
Studio much brighter!
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Kristine:

yes. Jan 11!
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Your Pretend Boyfriend:

↳ Derek Westerholm @8:31
Can’t wait to see!!! 🔆🔅
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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.
🌏☀️🍻😎🤙💨🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺
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DJ Babs:

Where are they playing?
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Derek Westerholm:

↳ ultradamno @8:29
Haha... Nicely observed!
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DJ Babs:

Hello Hello Scott! Welcome welcome! Yes, please be fire ready!
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Derek Westerholm:

Hello Scott! Yes, take refuge! Here's some guit. feedback fer ya.
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Kristine:

The Phoenix!
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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.
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Derek Westerholm:

↳ Mr Fab @8:34
And rightfully so! Hello Fab!
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Kristine:

ohh boy this taraka track!
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Derek Westerholm:

↳ Kristine @8:35
Crazy, huh?! Did you like Prince Rama? Wild stuff.
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DJ Babs:

Haha Mr Fab ...Silence is Golden at times to be sure!!!
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Alli B:

Hi kiddos!
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gsdoubleu:

Yes this is a great track!
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Derek Westerholm:

Hello AlliB!!!!
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gsdoubleu:

Hi Alli!
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ultradamno:

↳ Derek Westerholm @8:36
Raccoons didn't like them, as I recall.
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Derek Westerholm:

↳ gsdoubleu @8:36
Just goes to show what happens when you start living with snakes...
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Kristine:

aw yeah blonde elvis!! i think he is playing a show soon?
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Rich in Washington:

Hi Babs N' Derek! I'm on vacay, so can listen and comment freely this week!
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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!
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Derek Westerholm:

↳ Rich in Washington @8:38
Hello Rich! So great to have so much chat-time w. you this wk!
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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!
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Kristine:

yes, catholic wilt is playing with craig dunsmuirs dun dun band on jan 10 at the tranzac.
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ultradamno:

↳ ultradamno @8:37
Of course, those were NYC procyonids, tough critics.
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DJ Babs:

oh we should go to that!!!!
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Derek Westerholm:

I've been meaning to see Craig's DunDun band for forever now... Should be a great show!
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DJ Babs:

I also hear that a very funny comedian by the name of gsdoubleu is playing tomorrow night!!!
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shellioh:

hey guys!!! ❤️❤️❤️
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Derek Westerholm:

Shelli! Hello!
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DJ Babs:

Shellliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii yay!!!!
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shellioh:

so excited to catch it tonight!!!
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Your Pretend Boyfriend:

I enjoy WN. 🖤
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DJ Babs:

lovely to have your with us!!!!!
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Derek Westerholm:

↳ ultradamno @8:40
Looks up "Procyonidae"... Appreciates the specificity
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shellioh:

❤️❤️❤️
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DJ Babs:

sooo everyone feeling good about leaving 2022 behind and jumping into 2023?
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Derek Westerholm:

↳ DJ Babs @8:44
YES!!!!!
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DJ Babs:

lol thanks Derek.
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Your Pretend Boyfriend:

↳ DJ Babs @8:44
Yesssss! Later 2022…
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ultradamno:

I am excited to see how much worse it can get.
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Kristine:

hahah
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Derek Westerholm:

↳ ultradamno @8:45
lol
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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)
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DJ Babs:

hahaha! It certainly had its ups and downs let's say...but overall better than 2021?
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ultradamno:

The image I chose for the question of what my energy going into the new year is twitter.com...
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Derek Westerholm:

↳ Mr Fab @8:45
B-o-o-k-???
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DJ Babs:

↳ Mr Fab @8:45
Fab that sounds delightful! And yes we missed you! and yes...BOOKS. Actual BOOKS
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DJ Babs:

↳ ultradamno @8:46
Mine energy is BRING ON THE BULLSHIT! LOL
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DJ Babs:

My company announced we're going into a merger in 2023...that will be...uhhh...fun?
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DJ Babs:

But my 2023 energy is also FUCK WORK IT'S JUST A JOB
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Barno in Akron:

Hi Mr Fab, I hope you're having a wonderful vacation
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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.
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Kristine:

ack babs!
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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
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TroyD8:

↳ Song: "African Drum Machine" by "Afrorack"
Hakuna Kulala Rules!
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RohanSJ:

Hello everyone! (I just arrived.)
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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...
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Kristine:

not really sure what to expect after the spring...so it will be an interesting year!
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DJ Babs:

Hi Rohan! Welcome Welcome!!!
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DJ Babs:

Andyes UD, that Italia 90 album should be greeaaaaat! I have not heard the Huxley Boon...maybe Derek can comment on that!
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Kristine:

arent teenanger from hamilton?
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DJ Babs:

I think they may have been part of the Toronto exodus to Hamilton crew...
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ultradamno:

↳ ultradamno @8:50
And speaking of books, another Sauna Youth alum Jen Calleja has a novel coming out. prototypepublishing.co.uk...
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RohanSJ:

Hi Babs! And hi Derek!
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RohanSJ:

I am part of "the Toronto exodus to Hamilton crew", but I'm not a musician, to help balance things out
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DJ Babs:

So lovely to have you with us Rohan!!
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ultradamno:

I didn't realize, or forgot, that the raccoons specifically targeted Takata. I expect she knows why. pitchfork.com...
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RohanSJ:

"Primordial electricty" sounds a lot nicer than "primordial ooze"
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Your Pretend Boyfriend:

Great sets tonight!!! ❤️❤️❤️
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DJ Babs:

Well thank you! We're only halfway there! This is definitely not a sloppy seconds show LOL
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Your Pretend Boyfriend:

↳ DJ Babs @9:00
😂
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Derek Westerholm:

↳ RohanSJ @8:57
Rohan, agreed re: "Primordial electricity"... And hello!
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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.
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Your Pretend Boyfriend:

Btw, this reply feature is 😎
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DJ Babs:

I quite enjoy it too! Now we just need a like and heart react!! LOL
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RohanSJ:

"Mandrake Handshake"? Potential theme idea: songs by bands who have rhyming names
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Your Pretend Boyfriend:

↳ Derek Westerholm @9:03
I quite like the rejects pile .
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Derek Westerholm:

↳ Kristine @8:52
Kristine, so far as I know, Teenanger have always been in Toronto. At least, they always rehearse/rehearsed here.
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DJ Babs:

Ohhh Rohan I like it!!!! I also love how this band seamlessly transitions from King Gizzard to Stereolab!!!
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DJ Babs:

Mandrake Handshake is SUCH a great band name!
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ultradamno:

↳ DJ Babs @9:06
Well, compared to King Gizzard & The Lizard Blizzard or whatever that is. Yeah.
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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.
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ultradamno:

Just awful. Not since Captain Condoms has a band name so successfully put me off...
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DJ Babs:

ha! Yes, I think we definitely need to put that idea on the show list. Thank you Rohan!
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DJ Babs:

Lol the Gizz is not for everyone. Ihate to be that person but I tend to prefer their earlier output only...
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Alli B:

That Mandrake Handshake song was 🔥🔥🔥 Seriously good band name!
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DJ Babs:

Hi ALLI!!! whee! Nice to have you with us tonite!!!
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RohanSJ:

Hi Alli!
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DJ Babs:

Sooo what's everyone got planned for NYE? Quiet evening at home? Raging in the club? Anarchy?
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ultradamno:

Is it a rhyming band name if it's the same thing twice, like Rema Rema?
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RohanSJ:

↳ ultradamno @9:13
Ooh, that could be another theme, but perhaps for a short show?
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DJ Babs:

That could also work. I would play all the Duran Duran then lol,.
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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
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Kristine:

no plans! just relaxing watching a movie probs.
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Derek Westerholm:

↳ RohanSJ @9:16
The Casbah is a great venue/club!
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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!
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DJ Babs:

Kristine that sounds lovely!!!
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DJ Babs:

If I weren't DJing it would be a fondue and wine night!!!
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RohanSJ:

↳ DJ Babs @9:17
7 hours!?! Very impressive!
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DJ Babs:

Kristine this one is for you!!
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Kristine:

oh riiiiiiiight! that would be amazing too. nice idea.
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Your Pretend Boyfriend:

↳ DJ Babs @9:18
Mhmmm fondue!!!
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Derek Westerholm:

↳ ultradamno @9:09
Ultra, agreed, "Captain Condoms" is a terrible name.
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ultradamno:

Santa Gamelan!
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Kristine:

love the gamelan!!!! ever since i went to Bali over ten years ago. fell in love!
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RohanSJ:

I'm fond of fondue
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Derek Westerholm:

↳ Kristine @9:19
Oooo... You went to Bali?
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Kristine:

trying to imagine residents playing gamelan
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Kristine:

yup!!
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Derek Westerholm:

↳ Kristine @9:19
Think eyeballs and tuxedos, I guess.
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Kristine:

Thank you that was lovely!
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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)
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ultradamno:

Homer Flynn art johanssonprojects.com...
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Scott67:

I thpught you said, "he loves boobies...!
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Scott67:

& the Beatles".
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DJ Babs:

↳ RohanSJ @9:19
Rohan what's your fondue favourite? Cheese or Meats?
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DJ Babs:

Personally
I CANNOT CHOOSE ONE
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ultradamno:

That's why they make frozen hamburger patties with the cheese inside.
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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
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Kristine:

it is on sale, not just for sale
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Derek Westerholm:

Must go to St. Lawrence Market soon... Been too long...
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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
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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.
🍻😎🤙🫕
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DJ Babs:

ahh scott you must share some of your recipes!!!!
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Kristine:

i go every year at xmas to buy fancy cheese and smoked salmon from the caviar guy in the basement.
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DJ Babs:

Kristine does your family make the crazy whipped cream ketchup rum sauce for meat fondue?
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DJ Babs:

I have to avoid the caviar guy otherwise I'm walking away with 100$ worth of Caviar.
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DJ Babs:

I have a caviar problem. Ask Derek.
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Kristine:

oh boy! that sounds like a hotmess combo babs! there were several, but not so sure about that one.
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Derek Westerholm:

↳ DJ Babs @9:35
Salty fish bubbles.
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Kristine:

yeah i think caviar is ...not for me.. but i spent about that on smoked salmon and trout!
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Kristine:

awwwwwwwww prolapse!
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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
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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
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Derek Westerholm:

↳ Kristine @9:38
Rare Prolapse! Peel-session only. Never officially released until this year.
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Kristine:

bought so much cheese!!!
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RohanSJ:

↳ DJ Babs @9:28
Same: I cannot choose between the two fondues as a favourite.
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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
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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!
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DJ Babs:

I finally got an electric fondue pot last year...LIFE CHANGING
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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.
☕😎🤙🫕
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Kristine:

babs where did you get it?
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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.
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Scott67:

I'm eating chunks of cheese on sour dough bread right now! & beer!
🍻😎🤙🧀🥖🍞
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Derek Westerholm:

Scott, that sounds like a combo that can't be beaten
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DJ Babs:

↳ Kristine @9:42
I ordered it from The Bay! It was very reasonably priced!!!
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DJ Babs:

No way Scott! I must try to do more things with mine!!!
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Scott67:

↳ DJ Babs @9:41
I like the off grid spirit burner Fondue sets. Great for blackouts, camping/ traveling, zombie apocalypse etc.🫕
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DJ Babs:

agreed. I was taught to respect the fondue fuel from an early age!!!
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DJ Babs:

also yes to all the chunks of bread. I love bread so much. just bread and butter is all I need.
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Derek Westerholm:

↳ Scott67 @9:48
Scott, just be sure not to bbq brains during the Zombie Apocalypse.
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RohanSJ:

Is fondue fuel the same as Sterno, or different?
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Scott67:

↳ Derek Westerholm @9:50
Unless they're minced into the sausages mate.
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Alli B:

This song tho 🔥🤌
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Scott67:

Mentholated Spirits.
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DJ Babs:

I think it's the same.
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DJ Babs:

oh yeah...great story behind this band too!!!
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DJ Babs:

"ruhig" means "quiet"
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DJ Babs:

I called this set "Tryptophan Coma" LOL
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Scott67:

*Methylated..
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ultradamno:

OK, you really need to hear Bleak Engineers
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Kristine:

Derek found an interview with Mick and Linda, referencing bernard butler as shite and stealing his wine, imitating calvin johnson,
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DJ Babs:

We'd have to play Methyl Ethyl for the rhyming band name show!
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Kristine:

ink19.com...
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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."
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DJ Babs:

honestly I fucking love where these chats go LOL
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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.
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Derek Westerholm:

Our last song is going to spill over into your evening a bit if you hang in... but not too much longer...
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DJ Babs:

YES! And one should not drink Sterno...unless one is in the Andromeda Strain....
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Scott67:

You use Denatured Alcohol, we call in Oz Methylated Spirits. & I call a crime against alcohol.
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Derek Westerholm:

↳ RohanSJ @9:57
Will be keeping Sterno drinking as a life preservation measure in mind for the future...
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RohanSJ:

I think Babs and Derek should now sing in perfect harmony
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Derek Westerholm:

↳ RohanSJ @9:59
Apparently not as easy as you would think...
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Scott67:

Shit ! Over already! Thanks B & D!! Love you guys!
🌏☀️🍻😎🤙💨🍺🍺🫕🌻❤️❤️
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Kristine:

Thanks for the Gamelan Babs! Happy New Year!!
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Rich in Washington:

Thanks, Babs N' Derek! Wonderful show tonight!
See you next year!
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Kristine:

happy transition transmissions!!
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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!
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WR:

What? Echo Beach party ending, 10PM ET already? THANK YOU!
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DJ Babs:

Thank you thank you all!!! Take care and we'll see you all in 2023!!! WHOOT WHOOT!!!
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Mr Fab:

Adieu to you too!
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DJ Babs:

Goodnight all! And THANK YOU! Thank you for being the most fun chat crew ever! <3
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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.
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Derek Westerholm:

↳ WR @10:04
Hang in there for another 10mins WR, haha.
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Kristine:

ultradammo LOL, I am with you!
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northguineahills:

↳ ultradamno @10:05
what about an eddie izzard in king lizard blizzard?
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Derek Westerholm:

↳ ultradamno @10:05
Ultra, Kristine; +3
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Derek Westerholm:

↳ northguineahills @10:06
Northguineahills, hello! Nice entrance!!!
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ultradamno:

Eddie doing an endorsement would work
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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....
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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...
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northguineahills:

↳ Derek Westerholm @10:08
"interview edward ka-spel"

oh please, oh please, oh please!!!
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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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Derek Westerholm:

Thanks everyone, for being optimists w/ us, here, on the beach, into 2023. xo
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Scott67:

✌️😎🤙🌏🌻❤️
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